There's one gene on Y that determines sex, SRY, and it's active during development. Changing it in an adult would have no effect at all. Changing it germline would give you anatomically perfectly normal male or female offspring, just with reduced fertility.
There are very few Americans who think abortion should be legal in all circumstances, and very few who think it should be illegal in all circumstances. The majority adopt compromise positions, usually either of 'It should be legal up until x point' coupled with 'it should always be illegal if these circumstances apply.' It is just a consequence of the polarized nature of American politics that the extremes on both ends dominate the debate.
Even the moderates have to defend abortion-on-demand, because they know that without the Roe v Wade decision many states would instantly run to the opposite extreme, which would result in women dying needlessly.
Almost: It actually took me about three minutes (estimate) to realise my mistake, when I saw Snowden's name in another comment and thought 'oh... that's the other guy.'
Being fair to me, it is easy to them up, as they are both well-known for somewhat similar acts, and both have fled their home countries to escape arrest.
It's supposed to be all DNC, but people do misuse email - they use their personal account for work, their work account for personal, and in politicians case their office account for politics and vice versa. Hillary has been the latest scandal of that nature, conducting government business using a personal email account, but she isn't the first politician to be caught doing that - and she escaped prosecution because it's something so commonplace that any prosecution of her would only be driven for political reasons. Everyone does it.
Given that Assange's freedom is dependent upon maintaining Putin's good will, it's hardly surprising he is pro-Putin. He risked everything to expose one corrupt government, do you think he'd support another? It's just an act to keep his host appeased.
There must be a reason - probably one of the things not released as this is an ongoing investigation. Maybe they don't have the body, or they have but it was disposed of in a way that destroyed the prints, or it wasn't found for some weeks and is to decayed to read.
Host a mirror with the entire database available as a torrent.
Let everyone who wants to take the legal risk launch their own copycat site, with the KAT database as a launchpad so that they can go on to achieve even more. It took a few years to arrest one man in Poland - lets see them arrest twenty, spread over China, Russia, a server in a dorm room that no-one will claim ownership for, and wherever that Tor tunnel terminates.
Not all 'high quality cultural work' is created to sell as a source of income. There are some forms of media that cost too much to be produced any other way, like movies or TV series. But the cost of producing music is so low that many amateurs now produce material just as good as any professional purely as a hobby or for the recognition. Open-source software also thrives, and most of the developers for that are either enthusiasts, or working on behalf of corporate users of the software that need to improve it for their own purposes.
It could even be argued that for-profit does not produce very good cultural works, because it leads to compromising artistic values in the interests of mass appeal. Hollywood might be taking in the money, but their films are all starting to look very similar now - and how many pop songs are love odes to an unnamed person?
It depends on the sensor. There are sensors available that can look for a pulse, appropriate temperature, even the presence of subcutaneous blood vessels imaged in the infrared. But those are expensive and bulky sensors, and not the sort you find on phones, which are comparatively crude devices.
If any superpower goes to open war with any superpower, it doesn't matter who has the bigger army: Whichever side looks like they might lose would make use of their nuclear weapons, and then everyone loses.
What's so great about immunity of directors? As we see here, it encourages violation of the law. If they get caught, they don't suffer any consequences, so why not take risks to maximise profits?
Someone needs to do a study on this. Bird do weird things - will they recognise 'not food' on the first attempted bite, or swallow a bundle of wires and snapped-off plastic bits? If birdlike drones become commonplace (as toys, I'd imagine) then it might have some ecological impact.
The Surface was an attempt to imitate the business success of the iPad. The OS may be different, but the business model is a clone: Don't just sell the hardware, run the ecosystem as well. That way every sale becomes a continuing revenue stream. It's something that Microsoft wants desperately, because their revenue has always been tied to the upgrade process and customers are getting increasingly fed up of replacing their OS every three years - just look how long killing off XP took!
I suspect it might be deliberate. They need the connection to be good enough to lure in customers - but if it's too good then those customers will sit around for an hour slowly sipping their drink and taking up a table.
I experimented with this myself. I actually managed to get 50mV out of my setup! It helps that I used a slightly cleverer rectifier and a great deal of wire strung all around the room as an antenna.
Then I turned off the light.
Turns out the reason I got so much power was the presence of a nearby radio transmitter: The switching power supply in my CFL light bulb was putting out a ton of noise at 200KHz and all the harmonics thereof. Turn it off and the device output drops to practically too small to measure.
I designed an improved circuit that would have gotten to half a volt, but only if you share the room with a poorly-designed switching power supply.
Some of those emotiocons also served as subcultural identifiers.
The 'bird ones' are only ever seen within the furry community. :> Maps to:-) /:> Headtilt, indicating questioning or examination :>- Tongue out, indicating silly
The SJW issue is simply people taking a good idea, and running with it to an often-ridiculous extreme.
Equality? Good idea. Diversity? Sure. Bending over backwards to recognise and celebrate every difference in race, gender, gender identity, cultural background, language and religion? Not so good.
Transsexuals are an excellent target class for people to hate upon. They are few in number, and violate social norms in a somewhat creepy way. People need an Other to oppress: Right now, it's your turn. If trans acceptance ever becomes universal within a culture, someone else shall take that place.
We've been here before. JPEG2000, webp, BPG, JPEG XR. There are many formats that are superior to JPEG. And look - none of them caught on!
Why? Because JPEG, though far from the best modern algorithms could offer, is still 'good enough' for most purposes. It's also supported by every web browser, photo viewer, image editor, mobile phone, camera, digital picture frame, slideshow maker and every other thing that might need to process an image. A new format, no matter how superior, cannot offer the same ubiquitous support - and without that support it will never become widely used enough for developers to spend time including support for it.
We can't even get rid of MP3, and there are more formats than I can count both open and proprietary that could so everything MP3 does but better.
PvP will be introduced very cautiously. There's a super-child-friendly brand to protect, and a mixed-age audience. When 14-year-old player goes out to battle and meets up with 42-year-old player, even with purely innocent intent, the creep-factor will be off the charts.
He was very familiar with the design of the plane - knowing about the door that could open in flight, flap configuration and minimum speed. This suggests that he had ties to aviation - so it's possible he was in contact with a skilled navigator. Might even be an insider, someone working at ATC.
Yes, he probably died from the jump. Probably. But not certainly. He might have had associates on the ground ready to search for him. So it's possible he escaped, and people do love a story of a daring criminal who beat the man and got away with the money. That's why heist movies are so popular.
If I were in his place, and the FBI handed me non-matching parachutes, I'd assume that they assumed I'd want to use the best parachute of the bunch - so that one is quite possibly sabotaged and will fail to open. So I'd not use that one. I'd use one of the others.
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Very little.
There's one gene on Y that determines sex, SRY, and it's active during development. Changing it in an adult would have no effect at all. Changing it germline would give you anatomically perfectly normal male or female offspring, just with reduced fertility.
You may continue to idolise the natural state of humans if you want.
But when your descents are dying slowly from cancer, they might want to ask you why you didn't get the cancer-resistance fix installed.
There are very few Americans who think abortion should be legal in all circumstances, and very few who think it should be illegal in all circumstances. The majority adopt compromise positions, usually either of 'It should be legal up until x point' coupled with 'it should always be illegal if these circumstances apply.' It is just a consequence of the polarized nature of American politics that the extremes on both ends dominate the debate.
Even the moderates have to defend abortion-on-demand, because they know that without the Roe v Wade decision many states would instantly run to the opposite extreme, which would result in women dying needlessly.
Almost: It actually took me about three minutes (estimate) to realise my mistake, when I saw Snowden's name in another comment and thought 'oh... that's the other guy.'
Being fair to me, it is easy to them up, as they are both well-known for somewhat similar acts, and both have fled their home countries to escape arrest.
It's supposed to be all DNC, but people do misuse email - they use their personal account for work, their work account for personal, and in politicians case their office account for politics and vice versa. Hillary has been the latest scandal of that nature, conducting government business using a personal email account, but she isn't the first politician to be caught doing that - and she escaped prosecution because it's something so commonplace that any prosecution of her would only be driven for political reasons. Everyone does it.
Given that Assange's freedom is dependent upon maintaining Putin's good will, it's hardly surprising he is pro-Putin. He risked everything to expose one corrupt government, do you think he'd support another? It's just an act to keep his host appeased.
There must be a reason - probably one of the things not released as this is an ongoing investigation. Maybe they don't have the body, or they have but it was disposed of in a way that destroyed the prints, or it wasn't found for some weeks and is to decayed to read.
Don't host a mirror.
Host a mirror with the entire database available as a torrent.
Let everyone who wants to take the legal risk launch their own copycat site, with the KAT database as a launchpad so that they can go on to achieve even more. It took a few years to arrest one man in Poland - lets see them arrest twenty, spread over China, Russia, a server in a dorm room that no-one will claim ownership for, and wherever that Tor tunnel terminates.
Not all 'high quality cultural work' is created to sell as a source of income. There are some forms of media that cost too much to be produced any other way, like movies or TV series. But the cost of producing music is so low that many amateurs now produce material just as good as any professional purely as a hobby or for the recognition. Open-source software also thrives, and most of the developers for that are either enthusiasts, or working on behalf of corporate users of the software that need to improve it for their own purposes.
It could even be argued that for-profit does not produce very good cultural works, because it leads to compromising artistic values in the interests of mass appeal. Hollywood might be taking in the money, but their films are all starting to look very similar now - and how many pop songs are love odes to an unnamed person?
It depends on the sensor. There are sensors available that can look for a pulse, appropriate temperature, even the presence of subcutaneous blood vessels imaged in the infrared. But those are expensive and bulky sensors, and not the sort you find on phones, which are comparatively crude devices.
If any superpower goes to open war with any superpower, it doesn't matter who has the bigger army: Whichever side looks like they might lose would make use of their nuclear weapons, and then everyone loses.
I've not used edge much, but in its defence, it is better than the previous IE.
In the same way that the common cold is better than norovirus.
What's so great about immunity of directors? As we see here, it encourages violation of the law. If they get caught, they don't suffer any consequences, so why not take risks to maximise profits?
We are going to see some very confused hawks.
Someone needs to do a study on this. Bird do weird things - will they recognise 'not food' on the first attempted bite, or swallow a bundle of wires and snapped-off plastic bits? If birdlike drones become commonplace (as toys, I'd imagine) then it might have some ecological impact.
Kestrel.
The Surface was an attempt to imitate the business success of the iPad. The OS may be different, but the business model is a clone: Don't just sell the hardware, run the ecosystem as well. That way every sale becomes a continuing revenue stream. It's something that Microsoft wants desperately, because their revenue has always been tied to the upgrade process and customers are getting increasingly fed up of replacing their OS every three years - just look how long killing off XP took!
I suspect it might be deliberate. They need the connection to be good enough to lure in customers - but if it's too good then those customers will sit around for an hour slowly sipping their drink and taking up a table.
I experimented with this myself. I actually managed to get 50mV out of my setup! It helps that I used a slightly cleverer rectifier and a great deal of wire strung all around the room as an antenna.
Then I turned off the light.
Turns out the reason I got so much power was the presence of a nearby radio transmitter: The switching power supply in my CFL light bulb was putting out a ton of noise at 200KHz and all the harmonics thereof. Turn it off and the device output drops to practically too small to measure.
I designed an improved circuit that would have gotten to half a volt, but only if you share the room with a poorly-designed switching power supply.
Some of those emotiocons also served as subcultural identifiers.
The 'bird ones' are only ever seen within the furry community.
:> Maps to :-)
/:> Headtilt, indicating questioning or examination
:>- Tongue out, indicating silly
The SJW issue is simply people taking a good idea, and running with it to an often-ridiculous extreme.
Equality? Good idea. Diversity? Sure. Bending over backwards to recognise and celebrate every difference in race, gender, gender identity, cultural background, language and religion? Not so good.
Transsexuals are an excellent target class for people to hate upon. They are few in number, and violate social norms in a somewhat creepy way. People need an Other to oppress: Right now, it's your turn. If trans acceptance ever becomes universal within a culture, someone else shall take that place.
We've been here before. JPEG2000, webp, BPG, JPEG XR. There are many formats that are superior to JPEG. And look - none of them caught on!
Why? Because JPEG, though far from the best modern algorithms could offer, is still 'good enough' for most purposes. It's also supported by every web browser, photo viewer, image editor, mobile phone, camera, digital picture frame, slideshow maker and every other thing that might need to process an image. A new format, no matter how superior, cannot offer the same ubiquitous support - and without that support it will never become widely used enough for developers to spend time including support for it.
We can't even get rid of MP3, and there are more formats than I can count both open and proprietary that could so everything MP3 does but better.
PvP will be introduced very cautiously. There's a super-child-friendly brand to protect, and a mixed-age audience. When 14-year-old player goes out to battle and meets up with 42-year-old player, even with purely innocent intent, the creep-factor will be off the charts.
He was very familiar with the design of the plane - knowing about the door that could open in flight, flap configuration and minimum speed. This suggests that he had ties to aviation - so it's possible he was in contact with a skilled navigator. Might even be an insider, someone working at ATC.
Yes, he probably died from the jump. Probably. But not certainly. He might have had associates on the ground ready to search for him. So it's possible he escaped, and people do love a story of a daring criminal who beat the man and got away with the money. That's why heist movies are so popular.
If I were in his place, and the FBI handed me non-matching parachutes, I'd assume that they assumed I'd want to use the best parachute of the bunch - so that one is quite possibly sabotaged and will fail to open. So I'd not use that one. I'd use one of the others.