The thing produces free radicals, which are molecules with unpaired electrons. Since electron really prefer to be paired, a free radical will catch an electron from any nearby molecule, turning the later into another free radical. Each time a molecule from a cell is touched by this chain reactions, it is damaged and will need repair. This is true for microbes, but for human cells as well
Cells have defenses. Molecules such as Vitamin C and E, Glutathione, or the SuperOxyde Dismutase enzyme, will be able to extinct the radical chain reactions, by pairing two free radicals together. Of course if there are too many free radicals, defenses can be overwhelmed and the cell will be destroyed. Another way to get destroyed is when free radical alter DNA and cause a mutation. If this is detected, the cell will self destruct in a process known as apoptosis.
If mutation is undetected, the cell may exhibit original behavior. If you are unlucky, mutations reactivate enzyme telomerase, which will allow the cell to divide without limits. If you are even more unlucky, the p53 gene, which controls how fast cell divides is also affected. And it you do not have any luckl, this happens without making the cell strange enough to be detected and attacked by the immune system. You got a cancer.
Now the question for which I do not have an answer is: does this thing cause more harm to bacteria than to human cells. It seems to be the case, but I assume this is because bacteria sit on the skin and are on first line when you light up this toy : they are the first to get the damage.
I know this is not the white house point, but calories is almost a useless information for people looking to loose weight.
For instance, paper has a lot of calories, but nobody will get fat at eating paper. For a more edible example, walnuts have more calories than soda. Does anyone really think that walnuts increase obesity better than soda?
The right information we should have on label is the glycemic index
As I understand, the issue with proline is that its has a cycle linking nitrogen and carbon. That cause its amine function to be spatially constrained, hence the difficulty of cleaving it.
And caseomorphines and gliadomorphines are short peptides with one proline every two amino acid, which suggests why they are a hell to handle
does diet make things such as autism worse? I'm not aware of any studies
There are many. I don't have time to copy/paste tens of links to academic papers, but here is the big picture.
Some (but not all) autism cases have been related to milk and gluten digestion issues. Milk's casein and wheat gluten have proline rich peptides. Cleaving proline bonds is not easy, and there is a dedicated enzyme for that, called dipeptyl-peptidase IV (DDP4 for short). People genetically weak at producing DDP4 do not completely digest casein and gluten. They leave some proline rich sequences untouched, and they are always the same. Some are called caseomorphines and gliadomorphines, and are able to trigger morphine receptors in the brain.
When did the UE gain authority on criminal offences? I thought this was a member states prerogative. This un-democratic monster is getting uglier every day.
What about if the cloud operator goes bankrupt? Or is purchased by another company that decides this service is worthless? Or is taken down by some legal action?
Sarkozy is just throwing nonsense in order to collect far right votes in the upcoming elections.There is no way he can pass a law now, as the parliament is on vacations until the election.
The Lisbon Treaty is just a variant of the rejected european constitution, according the the people that wrote it. The european constitution was rejected by referendum in France and Netherland. There were a lot of reasons to reject it, for instance the fact that the treaty hardcodes economical policy beyond what elections can change. Was that addressed in Libson Treaty? No it was not, and things are getting even more ugly with the latest treaties.
At some time we will have to destroy UE and restart something sane.
Current France's president is quite unlikely to support that kind of investigation, given
how close it got with Ghadaffi. We can be confident that french authorities validated the sell of this software. Fortunately, president Sarkozy is about to be shown the door on upcoming elections.
The problem is that UE is so undemocratic that the European Court of Justice can easily trump the European parliament. This happened with the directive of service trade. The commission proposed that a worker could be employed in a country A with the labor rights of country B. That kind of rule tend to lower all labor rights to the lower of UE, therefore the European Parliament removed that part of the directive.
Then companies tried to employ workers in country A with labor rights of country B. There were lawsuits, and they reached the European Court of Justice, which ruled that it since no rule was in the directive about that, then it would be okay.
Members of European Parliament were outraged. They removed that point, and the court decided that since nothing was said it was okay. European Parliament voted a resolution asking to the commission for a new directive so that the point could be clarified. The commission said it had no interest into working further on the issue. And since only the unelected bureaucrats of the commission can start a directive proposal, things ended there.
As Henri Lacordaire said "Entre le fort et le faible, entre le riche et le pauvre, entre le maître et le serviteur, c'est la liberté qui opprime et la loi qui affranchit." Google translates this into "Between the high and low, between rich and poor, between master and servant, it is freedom which oppresses and the law that liberates."
"The government officials involve either worked for the very businesses they are now prosecuting prior to their government jobs, or will soon after retirement. You can't stop that, it's always going to happen."
Of course you can. You just need laws that limit political funding to reasonable amount given by individuals. Also forbid industrial ownership of medias, and things will be in a better shape. There is also room for far much radical change, for instance you could dump elections and randomly select the government, just like they did in Athens in the antiquity.
Why is it said here that ACTA needs to be signed by 6 countries to apply worldwide? Sovereign nations are usualy not bound by international treaties they have not signed. There are a few exceptions but it would be surprising that they include ACTA.
ping/ping6 are network diagnosis tools. You want to be able to check IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. explicitely. I agree that this could have been done with a single command with -4 and -6 options, though.
On my keyboard live my own bacteria. They came here from my body, which means I am able to cope with them. And while living on my keyboard, they hold the place against other bacteria that are alien to me.
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I have the feeling these new rules are not compatible with Berne convention, which China signed. Did I miss something?
Too bad it require java support. I removed it since it's security risk overweight its benefit
The thing produces free radicals, which are molecules with unpaired electrons. Since electron really prefer to be paired, a free radical will catch an electron from any nearby molecule, turning the later into another free radical. Each time a molecule from a cell is touched by this chain reactions, it is damaged and will need repair. This is true for microbes, but for human cells as well
Cells have defenses. Molecules such as Vitamin C and E, Glutathione, or the SuperOxyde Dismutase enzyme, will be able to extinct the radical chain reactions, by pairing two free radicals together. Of course if there are too many free radicals, defenses can be overwhelmed and the cell will be destroyed. Another way to get destroyed is when free radical alter DNA and cause a mutation. If this is detected, the cell will self destruct in a process known as apoptosis.
If mutation is undetected, the cell may exhibit original behavior. If you are unlucky, mutations reactivate enzyme telomerase, which will allow the cell to divide without limits. If you are even more unlucky, the p53 gene, which controls how fast cell divides is also affected. And it you do not have any luckl, this happens without making the cell strange enough to be detected and attacked by the immune system. You got a cancer.
Now the question for which I do not have an answer is: does this thing cause more harm to bacteria than to human cells. It seems to be the case, but I assume this is because bacteria sit on the skin and are on first line when you light up this toy : they are the first to get the damage.
Right, that judge will take 2 seconds to smell out Bell as someone whose abusing the system
I am confused, isn't it Steel that abused the system, and Bell was the victim?
I know this is not the white house point, but calories is almost a useless information for people looking to loose weight.
For instance, paper has a lot of calories, but nobody will get fat at eating paper. For a more edible example, walnuts have more calories than soda. Does anyone really think that walnuts increase obesity better than soda?
The right information we should have on label is the glycemic index
As I understand, the issue with proline is that its has a cycle linking nitrogen and carbon. That cause its amine function to be spatially constrained, hence the difficulty of cleaving it.
And caseomorphines and gliadomorphines are short peptides with one proline every two amino acid, which suggests why they are a hell to handle
does diet make things such as autism worse? I'm not aware of any studies
There are many. I don't have time to copy/paste tens of links to academic papers, but here is the big picture.
Some (but not all) autism cases have been related to milk and gluten digestion issues. Milk's casein and wheat gluten have proline rich peptides. Cleaving proline bonds is not easy, and there is a dedicated enzyme for that, called dipeptyl-peptidase IV (DDP4 for short). People genetically weak at producing DDP4 do not completely digest casein and gluten. They leave some proline rich sequences untouched, and they are always the same. Some are called caseomorphines and gliadomorphines, and are able to trigger morphine receptors in the brain.
Yes, you people can mod me up.
When did the UE gain authority on criminal offences? I thought this was a member states prerogative. This un-democratic monster is getting uglier every day.
What about if the cloud operator goes bankrupt? Or is purchased by another company that decides this service is worthless? Or is taken down by some legal action?
Sarkozy is just throwing nonsense in order to collect far right votes in the upcoming elections.There is no way he can pass a law now, as the parliament is on vacations until the election.
That seems a clever idea to help mice-specific diseases to cross the species barrier and infect humans.
"designer babies"? "The fabric of reality"? Where do you people get this stuff?
The Bodganov brothers used to be an excellent source for that kind of stuff
The Lisbon Treaty is just a variant of the rejected european constitution, according the the people that wrote it. The european constitution was rejected by referendum in France and Netherland. There were a lot of reasons to reject it, for instance the fact that the treaty hardcodes economical policy beyond what elections can change. Was that addressed in Libson Treaty? No it was not, and things are getting even more ugly with the latest treaties. At some time we will have to destroy UE and restart something sane.
I hope you will agree that there are some international issues that can be handled without bombs, this is why UN is useful.
Current France's president is quite unlikely to support that kind of investigation, given how close it got with Ghadaffi. We can be confident that french authorities validated the sell of this software. Fortunately, president Sarkozy is about to be shown the door on upcoming elections.
But it is so slow after a few hours of use that it is barely usable. TenFourFox is a viable alternative, but lacks plugins support.
On another note, I wonder why the Minix guys chose the NetBSD userland, since NetBSD is the least used BSD among the big 3
This is probably because NetBSD emphasis on portability often makes its code the cleanest one.
The problem is that UE is so undemocratic that the European Court of Justice can easily trump the European parliament. This happened with the directive of service trade. The commission proposed that a worker could be employed in a country A with the labor rights of country B. That kind of rule tend to lower all labor rights to the lower of UE, therefore the European Parliament removed that part of the directive.
Then companies tried to employ workers in country A with labor rights of country B. There were lawsuits, and they reached the European Court of Justice, which ruled that it since no rule was in the directive about that, then it would be okay.
Members of European Parliament were outraged. They removed that point, and the court decided that since nothing was said it was okay. European Parliament voted a resolution asking to the commission for a new directive so that the point could be clarified. The commission said it had no interest into working further on the issue. And since only the unelected bureaucrats of the commission can start a directive proposal, things ended there.
You do adapt. Have a restrictive diet and your metabolism will burn less.
This is not that simple, as you body adapts what it burns to various parameters, including what you eat.
As Henri Lacordaire said "Entre le fort et le faible, entre le riche et le pauvre, entre le maître et le serviteur, c'est la liberté qui opprime et la loi qui affranchit." Google translates this into "Between the high and low, between rich and poor, between master and servant, it is freedom which oppresses and the law that liberates."
"The government officials involve either worked for the very businesses they are now prosecuting prior to their government jobs, or will soon after retirement. You can't stop that, it's always going to happen." Of course you can. You just need laws that limit political funding to reasonable amount given by individuals. Also forbid industrial ownership of medias, and things will be in a better shape. There is also room for far much radical change, for instance you could dump elections and randomly select the government, just like they did in Athens in the antiquity.
Why is it said here that ACTA needs to be signed by 6 countries to apply worldwide? Sovereign nations are usualy not bound by international treaties they have not signed. There are a few exceptions but it would be surprising that they include ACTA.
ping/ping6 are network diagnosis tools. You want to be able to check IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. explicitely. I agree that this could have been done with a single command with -4 and -6 options, though.
On my keyboard live my own bacteria. They came here from my body, which means I am able to cope with them. And while living on my keyboard, they hold the place against other bacteria that are alien to me.