I mean, I would have been up for being a game tester when I was younger. Now I have a real job though.;)
But I'm not into Tomb Raider. I tried one of them once, and I thought the controls were horrible. I couldn't get past the first few screens because it made me nuts. I'd rather play something that didn't make me crazy.
And there are plenty of chicks out there who like "boy" games. My husband got tons of adoration from me for getting me Unreal Tournament for christmas last year... and we spent our anniversary taking turns playing Warcraft III.:D
It's been around a lot longer than people seem to think. I flirted in my first chatroom in 1984 or so.;) Of course it was on my dad's account, so it was a little odd...
Then I met my husband on a local BBS in 1991. Started dating about 2 years later in 1993. Been happy ever since.
The beauty of online dating is that the stupid things don't get in the way when you're first learning about each other. You don't have to figure out who's going to pay for dinner, or agree on a good movie with someone you don't know. You can meet someone who shares some weird, twisted hobby with you. You get to share everything about yourself without wondering if they're staring at a piece of spinach in your teeth.
Actually, I wait until the even newer system comes out and get a computer for a really incredible price.
The newest of *anything* costs too much. I just got a digital camera that's nearly a year old, so the price came down. (Actually, normally I'd wait until spring until the new line came out, but in this case I just really needed a camera...)
If the system won't hold up to waiting that long -- then I'm not going to buy it, expensive or not.
Sorry. I'm not an "early-adopter". I'm the wait-and-pay-a-reasonable-price-for-it.
I have to say, I totally agree. The reason the interview reads as a bit boring is just because the questions really weren't that great.
It's no bash to the readers, just that we're not trained interviewers. We ask the questions we think will be interesting but they aren't -- because we aren't trained to ask good ones.
It is pretty depressing though, since they rank up there as one of my absolute favorite bands. I was hoping to hear something interesting from them, but hey -- the reason I like them is ecause they're open and honest and share a lot.:)
Cancer can happen when a DNA strand is damaged in one of a few particular locations, turning off the growth-regulation in a cell. The cell starts to divide uncontrolled, eventually making millions of copies of itself and forming a tumor.
Actually, as far as I know they still haven't found a case of cancer where there was only one damaged bit of DNA. It takes at least 2 (very rare) and generally more like 3-8 mistakes to cause cancer. Humans, animals, etc. are very, very redundant systems with lots of mechanisms to help in the case of mistakes.
DNA isn't the only sensitive molecule in our bodies. There are many important proteins and ions that can be badly damaged by a stray photon at the right energy.
Thankfully most proteins only last for a few minutes.
This case is frequently brought up in cases like the DeCSS case, where nonspeech elements are important considerations and in the early commercial speech cases. This is the reason why flipping over someone's car because you were "expressing" your happiness that the Bulls won the championship game is still illegal.
I think there's still a difference here. The actual "illegal" action is copying and decrypting the movie, correct? Not downloading DeCSS or reading about DeCSS.
No one's managed to make the Anarchist's Cookbook illegal yet, have they? And anytime a building blows up, the media gets to report about how they made the bombs, yes? This is only differnet because it doesn't even cause physical damage to people.
Well, what if aliens aren't carbon based? And how can you prove that water and oxygen are required for carbon-based life? We only have an example of one -- this planet. Others could be different.
True, these may be valid conditions for life on a planet, but what is the probability of life spawning on a planet?
Doesn't matter what the probability is.;) That's like saying "I've gotten heads the last 100 times I flipped it! There's no way I'll get another!" -- the next time you flip it, your chances of getting a head is still 50-50.:)
Anyway, I find it very reassuring that life on this planet pretty much popped up as soon as the world cooled enough for things to live here.
They've found fossils from 3.8 billion years ago...
If I recall right, though, it takes an electric discharge, not merely a field to start life. Being under the surface, getting this discharge could be pretty hard.
That's just one theory, which so far is lacking a lot of evidence. It became pretty popular, but as Carl Sagan pointed out, the only way there could have been enough RNA made by this sort of a thing to make life, it should have resulted in huge RNA deposits all over the ocean. No one's found those yet.
It's an interesting idea, but not proven to be the way it happened on earth.
Also, just because something happened here (if it did) doesn't mean life *has* to happen that way.
I've been watching NASA's attempt to find life ever since they went bonkers over that meteor that they claimed had bacteria in it.
Well guess what folks -- because NASA is so close-minded about what "alien life" could be, I'm guessing they're never going to find it.
People, they're looking for amino acids and nucleotides. What makes them so freaking sure that aliens would have them? Personally, it would *really* freak me out if aliens did use the same building blocks we do. It's just not likely.
So while they're looking for amino acids and nucleotides and water (who says you need water for life, anyway?) they're gong to miss the real thing.
They're basing everything on just ONE single planet -- sure everything here has DNA and proteins, but that's because we all came from the same little single-celled blob.
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If the facimile is good enough does it matter?
The thing that bothers me is that scientists claim they want to do this in order to study a real, wild population. Sort of hte "Holy Grail" of people who study fossils -- the chance to really do an experiment for a change.
They will try to draw conclusions, make and prove hypotheses and all sorts of things. But it won't be based on a real mammoth, just some wannabe mammoth.
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Actually, 99% of the species that ever lived went extinct before humans even existed.
Oddly enough, I don't feel too much guilt about them.
I lamented when they started the American version of "Whose line is it anyway".
Well, it would help if it wasn't on a Disney-owned station. They have to keep everything way too clean. Though they're getting away with more than I would have expected, especially so early in the evening.
And Mad Cow disease is a spongiforum of which there are plenty. It is basically a string of proteins outside of a viral shell that can get through the filters that blood goes through on its way to your brain. In order to get mad cow disease you must eat a cow that has eaten another cows brain.
And without transplanting anything, it easily spreads from sheep to cow to human to squirrel to whatever. Though there is evidence that people can also be genetically pre-disposed towards having it, as well as being genetically more susceptible.
It's basically a regular brain protein gone amok. It runs about re-folding the proper proteins and making them go "bad", too.
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Not at all -- where I work, there are quite a few women who QA and test our software.
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I mean, I would have been up for being a game tester when I was younger. Now I have a real job though. ;)
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But I'm not into Tomb Raider. I tried one of them once, and I thought the controls were horrible. I couldn't get past the first few screens because it made me nuts. I'd rather play something that didn't make me crazy.
And there are plenty of chicks out there who like "boy" games. My husband got tons of adoration from me for getting me Unreal Tournament for christmas last year... and we spent our anniversary taking turns playing Warcraft III.
-A. Aria
Then I met my husband on a local BBS in 1991. Started dating about 2 years later in 1993. Been happy ever since.
The beauty of online dating is that the stupid things don't get in the way when you're first learning about each other. You don't have to figure out who's going to pay for dinner, or agree on a good movie with someone you don't know. You can meet someone who shares some weird, twisted hobby with you. You get to share everything about yourself without wondering if they're staring at a piece of spinach in your teeth.
-Aria
PS -- yes, I still use my BBSing handle. ;D
The newest of *anything* costs too much. I just got a digital camera that's nearly a year old, so the price came down. (Actually, normally I'd wait until spring until the new line came out, but in this case I just really needed a camera...)
If the system won't hold up to waiting that long -- then I'm not going to buy it, expensive or not.
Sorry. I'm not an "early-adopter". I'm the wait-and-pay-a-reasonable-price-for-it.
-AA
It's no bash to the readers, just that we're not trained interviewers. We ask the questions we think will be interesting but they aren't -- because we aren't trained to ask good ones.
It is pretty depressing though, since they rank up there as one of my absolute favorite bands. I was hoping to hear something interesting from them, but hey -- the reason I like them is ecause they're open and honest and share a lot. :)
-A Aria
Actually, as far as I know they still haven't found a case of cancer where there was only one damaged bit of DNA. It takes at least 2 (very rare) and generally more like 3-8 mistakes to cause cancer. Humans, animals, etc. are very, very redundant systems with lots of mechanisms to help in the case of mistakes.
DNA isn't the only sensitive molecule in our bodies. There are many important proteins and ions that can be badly damaged by a stray photon at the right energy.
Thankfully most proteins only last for a few minutes.
-A. Aria
I think there's still a difference here. The actual "illegal" action is copying and decrypting the movie, correct? Not downloading DeCSS or reading about DeCSS.
No one's managed to make the Anarchist's Cookbook illegal yet, have they? And anytime a building blows up, the media gets to report about how they made the bombs, yes? This is only differnet because it doesn't even cause physical damage to people.
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Then I saw the one with the big robot powerpuff girl. I laughed. I cried. I nearly peed on myself. I had bad Voltron flashbacks.
I'm now a big, giant fan. ;)
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Open your minds...
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I think Carl Sagan said it best (I'm paraphrasing here -- call me lazy):
"There exist two possibilities -- there is life besides us in the universe or there is not. Both possibilities frighten me."
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Doesn't matter what the probability is. ;) That's like saying "I've gotten heads the last 100 times I flipped it! There's no way I'll get another!" -- the next time you flip it, your chances of getting a head is still 50-50. :)
Anyway, I find it very reassuring that life on this planet pretty much popped up as soon as the world cooled enough for things to live here.
They've found fossils from 3.8 billion years ago...
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That's just one theory, which so far is lacking a lot of evidence. It became pretty popular, but as Carl Sagan pointed out, the only way there could have been enough RNA made by this sort of a thing to make life, it should have resulted in huge RNA deposits all over the ocean. No one's found those yet.
It's an interesting idea, but not proven to be the way it happened on earth.
Also, just because something happened here (if it did) doesn't mean life *has* to happen that way.
-A. Aria
Well guess what folks -- because NASA is so close-minded about what "alien life" could be, I'm guessing they're never going to find it.
People, they're looking for amino acids and nucleotides. What makes them so freaking sure that aliens would have them? Personally, it would *really* freak me out if aliens did use the same building blocks we do. It's just not likely.
So while they're looking for amino acids and nucleotides and water (who says you need water for life, anyway?) they're gong to miss the real thing.
They're basing everything on just ONE single planet -- sure everything here has DNA and proteins, but that's because we all came from the same little single-celled blob.
-A. Aria
The thing that bothers me is that scientists claim they want to do this in order to study a real, wild population. Sort of hte "Holy Grail" of people who study fossils -- the chance to really do an experiment for a change.
They will try to draw conclusions, make and prove hypotheses and all sorts of things. But it won't be based on a real mammoth, just some wannabe mammoth.
-A. Aria
Oddly enough, I don't feel too much guilt about them.
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Um... you do realize that's just a movie, right?
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Well, it would help if it wasn't on a Disney-owned station. They have to keep everything way too clean. Though they're getting away with more than I would have expected, especially so early in the evening.
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Is it wrong of me to still use my old handle? ;)
And without transplanting anything, it easily spreads from sheep to cow to human to squirrel to whatever. Though there is evidence that people can also be genetically pre-disposed towards having it, as well as being genetically more susceptible.
It's basically a regular brain protein gone amok. It runs about re-folding the proper proteins and making them go "bad", too.
-A. Aria
So its true -- people really do buy porn from the airport book stores.
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I know people who have actually not purchased an Apple product just because they knew there was a better one coming along.
I also know people who have not purchased an Apple product until after the new one was announced, because they knew the price would go down.
Therefore, Apple lost money. Therefore they want it to stop happening.
-A. Aria