Looked at the pdf linked at the botton of TFA - It seems fishy that there is a 6 per cent change in the questions on the left and right since 2010, but only a one per cent change in the center question.
Why not discuss something really controversial, like text editors?
+1 funny
There are sure a lot of comments along those lines. The 'gnome researchers' unlike the biology people have the option of ignoring any data that does not agree with their hypotheses.
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Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can
frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
They are starting to use whole genome analysis clinically. http://www.completegenomics.com/
That data might be from a patient with cancer, not an experiment in a lab. Comparing samples over time might provide valuable information, like what changed after the last round of treatment.
Trust data that is manually manipulated, incomplete, inaccurate, disparate, and only goes back a blink of the eye in terms of the planet's history.
800,000 years may be a blink of an eye compared to the life of the planet, but the changes on C02 since the industrial revolution, are certainly more than has been seen in a long time. This video does a nice job of visualizing the recent changes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roa73Q8qZtA
higher temperatures are when life flourished
Plant life, insects, microorganisms, and dinosaurs flourished, although they also had higher concentrations of oxygen. With the huge numbers of people who live within a few feet of sea level, an increasing warming trend, resulting in rising sea levels, will kill many people, and seriously f*ck up the lives of those above the high water mark. Sea ports underwater, huge numbers of refugees, major pollution caused when low lying industrial areas are flooded, will certainly not cause life to flourish, at least not human life.
The bottom line is that acting as if the changes were brought about by humans and may result in bad things happening, will have good effects in the long run, even if the predictions are all wrong. Ignoring them until it may be too late could cost millions of lives. I prefer the idea of erring on the side of the issue that will have good effects either way.
The technology could be used to liven up those big balloons they use in parades. Those things are tethered anyway, some hoses could be added to a few of the lines. It could also be used to making a silly version of a loch ness style critter that could be connected to a neutrally buoyant sled with compressed air tanks to power movement. Or you could make fun house critters that could grab people without hurting them.
"Because if what we've found so far is at least a somewhat representative sample, the overwhelming majority of planets tend to be either gas giants, frozen balls of rock and ice, or roasted balls of rock and lava. You have to be terribly imaginative to see life coming up on worlds like that."
There are plenty of life forms that live in unusual environments right here on this planet. Geothermal vent ecosystems for example:
Deep-sea bacteria form the base of a varied food chain that includes shrimp, tubeworms, clams, fish, crabs, and octopi. All of these animals must be adapted to endure the extreme environment of the vents -- complete darkness; water temperatures ranging from 2C (in ambient seawater) to about 400C (at the vent openings); pressures hundreds of times that at sea level; and high concentrations of sulfides and other noxious chemicals.
We need a "National Record the Police in Public Day". I think that a public event like this would enforce the point far more strongly that the police losing an occasional lawsuit.
This sounds like a very good idea! It would be good to pick a day with some historical significance. None springs to mind at the moment, but something that would make it very ironic (and maybe newsworthy) if someone got bothered by the police for taping them.
>It has no camera and no sensors...
Watch the video, it *does* have a camera. One of the potential uses is searching damaged buildings for survivors, it wouldn't be much good for that without a camera.
> Like the knight with no arms telling King Arthur "I'll bite you to death!" in the Knights of the Round Table.
The knight actually said, "I'll bite your legs off" and the line is from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690
They knowingly allowed people to suffer permanent neurological damage and did nothing to try to warn anyone. The woman who filed the suit has had her life ruined, she cannot work, the drugs she needs to treat the problem caused cost thousands of dollar per month. The fucking company should pay. They could have stopped this and did nothing. They are morally responsible.
"Actavis ignored scientific and medical literature establishing a higher risk of developing tardive dyskinesia, failed to request a labeling revision from the FDA, failed to change the label itself even though no prior FDA approval was required, and failed to report safety information directly to the medical community."
THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Case No. 08-31204
Anyone who can produce more electricity than they need should be able to easily sell it. It makes no sense at all to allow utility companies to put barriers in the way of this happening or for them to not pay a fair price for the power. The smart grid should abide by basic common sense.
"With this flight, we would like to encourage politicians to opt for more ambitious energy policies,"
The point of the project is to attract attention to solar power and they seem to be doing a good job of that.
The guy in the article describes it a little differently. He ended up losing his family, becoming addicted to various substances and had a price on his head when he finally left.
"Montoya quit the business in 2001 and wrote a tell-all book (Yesterday a Doctor, Today a Narco-Trafficker)."
I suspect the reason he had a price on his head was because they weren't too happy about the book he wrote.
My first programming lesson was with an acoustic coupler and a hard copy terminal connected to a DEC PDP 11 system. The first piece of computer hardware I owned was a VT-100 terminal, and the DEC 20 they had at Wesleyan was like HAL from 2001 to me at the time. The pacsal compiler was a nightmare, though.
Ken Olsen and DEC taking on IBM was an inspiration. Cheers to Ken Olsen!
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If they can insert religious views into science texts, to be fair, we should be able to insert scientific views into religious texts.
Looked at the pdf linked at the botton of TFA - It seems fishy that there is a 6 per cent change in the questions on the left and right since 2010, but only a one per cent change in the center question. Why not discuss something really controversial, like text editors?
+1 funny There are sure a lot of comments along those lines. The 'gnome researchers' unlike the biology people have the option of ignoring any data that does not agree with their hypotheses.
--
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
piss off
They are starting to use whole genome analysis clinically. http://www.completegenomics.com/
That data might be from a patient with cancer, not an experiment in a lab. Comparing samples over time might provide valuable information, like what changed after the last round of treatment.
Although, I do look forward to the day that IE falls to 2nd, then 3rd, and then to 4th place. Just doesn't matter who is in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd!
+1 It is nice to see IE dropping, no matter what happens with the rest of the browser world.
Yawn, this story isn't even worth reading, at the least the summary is good warning. Totally agree with parent post.
Been meaning to do some recreational reading, think I'll re-read some of her work.
RIP Anne McCaffrey and thank you
Trust data that is manually manipulated, incomplete, inaccurate, disparate, and only goes back a blink of the eye in terms of the planet's history.
800,000 years may be a blink of an eye compared to the life of the planet, but the changes on C02 since the industrial revolution, are certainly more than has been seen in a long time. This video does a nice job of visualizing the recent changes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roa73Q8qZtA
higher temperatures are when life flourished
Plant life, insects, microorganisms, and dinosaurs flourished, although they also had higher concentrations of oxygen. With the huge numbers of people who live within a few feet of sea level, an increasing warming trend, resulting in rising sea levels, will kill many people, and seriously f*ck up the lives of those above the high water mark. Sea ports underwater, huge numbers of refugees, major pollution caused when low lying industrial areas are flooded, will certainly not cause life to flourish, at least not human life.
The bottom line is that acting as if the changes were brought about by humans and may result in bad things happening, will have good effects in the long run, even if the predictions are all wrong. Ignoring them until it may be too late could cost millions of lives. I prefer the idea of erring on the side of the issue that will have good effects either way.
They could make a blow up doll that could morph into an armchair or something else innocuous to disguise itself.
The technology could be used to liven up those big balloons they use in parades. Those things are tethered anyway, some hoses could be added to a few of the lines. It could also be used to making a silly version of a loch ness style critter that could be connected to a neutrally buoyant sled with compressed air tanks to power movement. Or you could make fun house critters that could grab people without hurting them.
"Because if what we've found so far is at least a somewhat representative sample, the overwhelming majority of planets tend to be either gas giants, frozen balls of rock and ice, or roasted balls of rock and lava. You have to be terribly imaginative to see life coming up on worlds like that."
There are plenty of life forms that live in unusual environments right here on this planet. Geothermal vent ecosystems for example:
Deep-sea bacteria form the base of a varied food chain that includes shrimp, tubeworms, clams, fish, crabs, and octopi. All of these animals must be adapted to endure the extreme environment of the vents -- complete darkness; water temperatures ranging from 2C (in ambient seawater) to about 400C (at the vent openings); pressures hundreds of times that at sea level; and high concentrations of sulfides and other noxious chemicals.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast13apr_1/
There are also bacteria that live in sulphuric acid in caves.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planet-earth/guide/caves.html
It isn't unreasonable to think that life may have evolved in unusual environments elsewhere.
Your diff doesn't have an option to ignore white space when comparing versions? That's lame.
We need a "National Record the Police in Public Day". I think that a public event like this would enforce the point far more strongly that the police losing an occasional lawsuit.
This sounds like a very good idea! It would be good to pick a day with some historical significance. None springs to mind at the moment, but something that would make it very ironic (and maybe newsworthy) if someone got bothered by the police for taping them.
>It has no camera and no sensors...
Watch the video, it *does* have a camera. One of the potential uses is searching damaged buildings for survivors, it wouldn't be much good for that without a camera.
> Like the knight with no arms telling King Arthur "I'll bite you to death!" in the Knights of the Round Table.
The knight actually said, "I'll bite your legs off" and the line is from the movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690
They knowingly allowed people to suffer permanent neurological damage and did nothing to try to warn anyone. The woman who filed the suit has had her life ruined, she cannot work, the drugs she needs to treat the problem caused cost thousands of dollar per month. The fucking company should pay. They could have stopped this and did nothing. They are morally responsible. "Actavis ignored scientific and medical literature establishing a higher risk of developing tardive dyskinesia, failed to request a labeling revision from the FDA, failed to change the label itself even though no prior FDA approval was required, and failed to report safety information directly to the medical community." THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Case No. 08-31204
Ironic that they call it free speech when it was bought and paid for by the drug companies. SCOTUS also ruled this week that makers of generic drugs cannot be sued, even in cases where there was a known problem they did nothing about[1]. They also upheld a limit on medical malpractice damages set by a West Virginia law[2]. See a pattern here?
1. http://www.wwltv.com/news/northshore/Local-shocked-US-Supreme-Court-ruled-against-her-124458214.html
2. http://www.wvmetronews.com/news.cfm?func=displayfullstory&storyid=46230
== the golden rule - those that have the gold make the rules
Anyone who can produce more electricity than they need should be able to easily sell it. It makes no sense at all to allow utility companies to put barriers in the way of this happening or for them to not pay a fair price for the power. The smart grid should abide by basic common sense.
If you really have prior art, let EFF know: https://w2.eff.org/patent/
"With this flight, we would like to encourage politicians to opt for more ambitious energy policies,"
The point of the project is to attract attention to solar power and they seem to be doing a good job of that.
If they combine this with rastafarianism, I'm in.
The guy in the article describes it a little differently. He ended up losing his family, becoming addicted to various substances and had a price on his head when he finally left.
"Montoya quit the business in 2001 and wrote a tell-all book (Yesterday a Doctor, Today a Narco-Trafficker)."
I suspect the reason he had a price on his head was because they weren't too happy about the book he wrote.
The big question I see with this is just how clean does the water going in have to be?
The article said they'd been running it on water from the Charles River, so it doesn't have to be very clean.
My first programming lesson was with an acoustic coupler and a hard copy terminal connected to a DEC PDP 11 system. The first piece of computer hardware I owned was a VT-100 terminal, and the DEC 20 they had at Wesleyan was like HAL from 2001 to me at the time. The pacsal compiler was a nightmare, though. Ken Olsen and DEC taking on IBM was an inspiration. Cheers to Ken Olsen!