Canada didn't scrap Defence Scheme No. 1 (plans to defend against US invasion) until May 31, 1931.
The US scrapped Army Plan Red (plans to invade Canada) in 1937.
These were, of course, military plans that you keep in file folders "just in case". (Somewhere there's a file folder for just about anywhere. Wattalottaland? Right here sir!)
Now if only someone had a file folder with how to defend against US patent law, DMCA, the RIAA and MPAA, etc, that we are being pressured to swing into line on.
Old news. Remember the kid who built reactor a few years out of material from smoke detectors and radium paint from old clocks? He managed to irradiate a shed in the backyard pretty badly.
You know, get these cyclotron people together with that kid, and maybe the guy from a few months ago who wanted to power an accelerator with lots and lots disposable camera batteries, and they'd probably all get along like a house on fire. (Screams, flames, people running for safety...) - pterry
Yeah, once we're past historical breeding age, evolution doesn't give a damn. (Unless having experienced elders around helped their relatives [fellow gene containers] survive.) Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene is a Good Read. It makes you think even if you don't agree with everything in it.
Completely harmful is also tricky to judge. As I've said, there are genes that are beneficial in a half-dose. It would be interesting to see if there were social customs of marrying outside the local area where there were genes like that around. (Probably impossible to research that now.)
Hey, notice how many doubled-up bad genes only kill males? Who do I sue?
The ultimate in trade-off genes has to be our skulls. Mother Nature: "Yeah, I'll give their kids Big Heads. HUGE Bowling Ball Heads stuffed with brains -- it'll kill a lot of the mothers in childbirth, but what the hey! They'll select for wider pelvises. And I'd better make their kids cute for at least 11 years so that the parents don't kill the young smart-asses."
I worry about the unnatural selection of the Fashion Model Famine Victim look (FMFV syndrome). These are not women who should be having children. (Bad diet if nothing else.) And in my personal opinion, I like some padding on the bones of a partner. "You break it, you bought it" is a fine policy for a shop that sells china and ceramics, but in bed...?:^P
I can bet. Frequently the first indication of MH in a family is an attack in what should have been a simple operation -- and then it's brown trousers/think fast time. The last estimates I heard were a while ago, but I think it was one in 10,000?
My brother had his operation in the '70's when MH wasn't as widely known, so it was lucky that the surgeon just happened to be very well informed. I'm glad that anesthesiologists are informed. Now if only that would filter out to the GPs and dentists. Ah well. (There are web sites with good info that are easy to find.)
Oddly enough, I did have my tonsils out in the '60's before we knew this. I got through it, but my muscles were sore for days afterwards, so I wonder if maybe the hospital forgot to mention a little reaction...?
Tell their anesthesiologist before any surgery And wear a Medic-Alert bracelet, And keep a card in my wallet. I wouldn't want to ruin an anesthesiologist's day.:^)
Interesting. Is it possible that with AOL's partnerships with ISPs that provide dial-up ports, the accesses don't don't show up as AOL IPs even though it's an AOL user?
I was wondering why I got Yet Another AOL Coaster in the mail last week for "AOL Titanium Improved Version 7.0" with three months free. My bank (RBC) sold them my address -- some of their advertising is inside.
"Bad" genes is funny things. If they had no benefit and only harm, they'd remove themselves from the pool eventually. (Like Queen Victoria's genetic time-bomb to her in-bred descendants.)
Some, like Sickle Cell as I said above, have a benefit if you don't get the double reenforcement. (Trivia: There's a different gene from Africa that also gives resistance to malaria, and has the same problem when reenforced.) The games theory math for these genes must be very tricky -- on the one hand, they provide a benefit in half-dose and so tend to spread. On the other hand, if they spread too much, they reenforce and tend to kill the host. (Perhaps there are no bad genes, just genes that are misunderstood?)
Mother Nature is the ultimate kludge-artist: "Okay, if I hack this gene, it'll increase blood-flow. It'll cause problems later, but that's tommorow's problem, sucks to be you." I mean, she wired the eye receptor cells with the I/O coming out of the front of the cell! Hopefully all that "unused" genetic information will turn out to be code comments (as well as version control).
Scotland in my case. I could see the Maritimes having just a bit of a Scottish background.:^P
Dr. Britt has since retired back to Britain or Ireland. Do you know of any current experts in the Toronto area? It's mainly for dental work -- all the current pain-killers are supposed to be safe, but some dentists freak when you tell them and want some expert to pass the blame to. (One dental surgeon's assistant backed up and said "Is it ongoing?" [Subtext: Can I catch it?] Yeah, ongoing all my life lady, come closer and I'll give you some MHS luvin' and cooties!)
My father has his teeth done at a hospital clinic but that's expensive. Email me or post if you know: androidcat99@hotmail.com.
There might be some bonus to the MHS genes -- Like how the genes for Sickle Cell give you resistance to Malaria if you don't get the full dose. It's hard for me to judge how other people's bodies work, but adrenaline does hit me like a pile-driver, so perhaps some ancestors made fine berserks? (As always, the pay-back is a bitch afterwards.) Bonus: I don't have to drink as much coffee to get completely jazzed!
The large calves might be due to the equivalent of a constant electro-stim "workout". Again, hard for me to judge, but another possible bonus is that during certain acts when muscles clench, they most certainly do, oh yeah!
disease? disorder? Condition, allergy? There is a blood test that can find 100% negative, but if you fail that, you only might have it. Sorry to hear about your girlfriend's family loss. As I said, we were damned lucky when my brother found out the hard way.
Basic genetics is the simplied version. It's a little more complex than that. Sometimes you need a few genes to switch something on, and some genes tend to hang around in gangs.
For a good book on that, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene is my recommendation. I'm sure that there's better technical books, but it's a Good Read. Keep the salt handy for the intra-evolutionist cat-fights.
Note, however, that in real life, things are not quite that simple. Hair color is determined by the interaction of a number of genes. Thus, people don't have either pure black, pure blond, or pure red hair. There are many subtle variations.
True enough, and there's variation depending on sunlight, diet, pool chlorine, etc. My hair morphs between blond, brunette, and red. (Not wildly, just the tint.) My moustache and.. bits tend to stay copper-tinted.
I never could figure out all those blonds with black eyebrows. There's something unnatural about that! (Karla Homulka, I rest my case.)
And if you have the gene for Malignant Hyperthemia Susceptibility, certain anaesthetics cause every muscle in your body to spasm, your core temperature skyrockets and you die. Don't talk to me about surprises!
Luckily, when my brother was having his appendix out, it was by the chief surgeon of Toronto General, who just happened to be a friend of Dr. Britt, who at the time was one of the foremost researchers into MHS. He knew exactly what to do. (Ice bath, keep the heart going...)
I almost certainly have the gene too, but the 100% test involves sampling a chunk of muscle tissue from a leg. I'll pass!
Do some more research and you'll see! Plus, it's fun!
I haven't tried that line before. "It's not for me, you understand. This is for Science!" Hmm, it just might work.
Or in role-playing: Today I'll be the mad scientist and you be the sweet young innocent trapped in his experiments to measure pleasure thresholds. Now where's that lab coat?
From the picture in the article, it doesn't exactly look very sturdy -- certainly not for a dusty, gritty environment. Maybe they want it fail in order to learn?:^)
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The US scrapped Army Plan Red (plans to invade Canada) in 1937.
These were, of course, military plans that you keep in file folders "just in case". (Somewhere there's a file folder for just about anywhere. Wattalottaland? Right here sir!)
Now if only someone had a file folder with how to defend against US patent law, DMCA, the RIAA and MPAA, etc, that we are being pressured to swing into line on.
You know, get these cyclotron people together with that kid, and maybe the guy from a few months ago who wanted to power an accelerator with lots and lots disposable camera batteries, and they'd probably all get along like a house on fire. (Screams, flames, people running for safety...) - pterry
They discovered it made one elliptical revolution every 15.2 years, during which it came as close as 17 light hours from the centre.
Can you hear me now? Good!
See the "picture" at Yeah right Besides being (possibly) bogus, that picture is obviously of a Star Trek planet-eater.
Completely harmful is also tricky to judge. As I've said, there are genes that are beneficial in a half-dose. It would be interesting to see if there were social customs of marrying outside the local area where there were genes like that around. (Probably impossible to research that now.)
Hey, notice how many doubled-up bad genes only kill males? Who do I sue?
The ultimate in trade-off genes has to be our skulls. Mother Nature: "Yeah, I'll give their kids Big Heads. HUGE Bowling Ball Heads stuffed with brains -- it'll kill a lot of the mothers in childbirth, but what the hey! They'll select for wider pelvises. And I'd better make their kids cute for at least 11 years so that the parents don't kill the young smart-asses."
I worry about the unnatural selection of the Fashion Model Famine Victim look (FMFV syndrome). These are not women who should be having children. (Bad diet if nothing else.) And in my personal opinion, I like some padding on the bones of a partner. "You break it, you bought it" is a fine policy for a shop that sells china and ceramics, but in bed...? :^P
I sort of figured that: Unnatural Blonds. Imagine subjecting yourself to a pre-frontal la-bottle-me and being too wuss to do the eyebrows as well...
Yeah, it's a troll post. Any Beowulf post is a troll post by definition. Beowulf? Grendel? Trolls? Read a book! Read a book! *sheesh*!
Maybe AOL users are becoming more sophisticated in their net use and surfing less, and ... *Toss*! :^)
I can bet. Frequently the first indication of MH in a family is an attack in what should have been a simple operation -- and then it's brown trousers/think fast time. The last estimates I heard were a while ago, but I think it was one in 10,000?
My brother had his operation in the '70's when MH wasn't as widely known, so it was lucky that the surgeon just happened to be very well informed. I'm glad that anesthesiologists are informed. Now if only that would filter out to the GPs and dentists. Ah well. (There are web sites with good info that are easy to find.)
Oddly enough, I did have my tonsils out in the '60's before we knew this. I got through it, but my muscles were sore for days afterwards, so I wonder if maybe the hospital forgot to mention a little reaction...?
Tell their anesthesiologist before any surgery And wear a Medic-Alert bracelet, And keep a card in my wallet. I wouldn't want to ruin an anesthesiologist's day. :^)
Maybe it's really all because I'm part red-head?
They can be detected by their sticky-out pinkies, and a good splash with coffee will kill them. (No decaf, that's part of their plan too.)
What? Why yes, I would like some dried frog pills. Thank you!
Imagine, a group that AOL users can look down at! :^)
Interesting. Is it possible that with AOL's partnerships with ISPs that provide dial-up ports, the accesses don't don't show up as AOL IPs even though it's an AOL user?
I was wondering why I got Yet Another AOL Coaster in the mail last week for "AOL Titanium Improved Version 7.0" with three months free. My bank (RBC) sold them my address -- some of their advertising is inside.
"Bad" genes is funny things. If they had no benefit and only harm, they'd remove themselves from the pool eventually. (Like Queen Victoria's genetic time-bomb to her in-bred descendants.)
Some, like Sickle Cell as I said above, have a benefit if you don't get the double reenforcement. (Trivia: There's a different gene from Africa that also gives resistance to malaria, and has the same problem when reenforced.) The games theory math for these genes must be very tricky -- on the one hand, they provide a benefit in half-dose and so tend to spread. On the other hand, if they spread too much, they reenforce and tend to kill the host. (Perhaps there are no bad genes, just genes that are misunderstood?)
Mother Nature is the ultimate kludge-artist: "Okay, if I hack this gene, it'll increase blood-flow. It'll cause problems later, but that's tommorow's problem, sucks to be you." I mean, she wired the eye receptor cells with the I/O coming out of the front of the cell! Hopefully all that "unused" genetic information will turn out to be code comments (as well as version control).
Dr. Britt has since retired back to Britain or Ireland. Do you know of any current experts in the Toronto area? It's mainly for dental work -- all the current pain-killers are supposed to be safe, but some dentists freak when you tell them and want some expert to pass the blame to. (One dental surgeon's assistant backed up and said "Is it ongoing?" [Subtext: Can I catch it?] Yeah, ongoing all my life lady, come closer and I'll give you some MHS luvin' and cooties!)
My father has his teeth done at a hospital clinic but that's expensive. Email me or post if you know: androidcat99@hotmail.com.
There might be some bonus to the MHS genes -- Like how the genes for Sickle Cell give you resistance to Malaria if you don't get the full dose. It's hard for me to judge how other people's bodies work, but adrenaline does hit me like a pile-driver, so perhaps some ancestors made fine berserks? (As always, the pay-back is a bitch afterwards.) Bonus: I don't have to drink as much coffee to get completely jazzed!
The large calves might be due to the equivalent of a constant electro-stim "workout". Again, hard for me to judge, but another possible bonus is that during certain acts when muscles clench, they most certainly do, oh yeah!
disease? disorder? Condition, allergy? There is a blood test that can find 100% negative, but if you fail that, you only might have it. Sorry to hear about your girlfriend's family loss. As I said, we were damned lucky when my brother found out the hard way.
For a good book on that, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene is my recommendation. I'm sure that there's better technical books, but it's a Good Read. Keep the salt handy for the intra-evolutionist cat-fights.
I never could figure out all those blonds with black eyebrows. There's something unnatural about that! (Karla Homulka, I rest my case.)
It seems to occur in a large number of black women, but I think we could be dealing with artificially constructed hairforms here. :^)
Luckily, when my brother was having his appendix out, it was by the chief surgeon of Toronto General, who just happened to be a friend of Dr. Britt, who at the time was one of the foremost researchers into MHS. He knew exactly what to do. (Ice bath, keep the heart going...)
I almost certainly have the gene too, but the 100% test involves sampling a chunk of muscle tissue from a leg. I'll pass!
I haven't tried that line before. "It's not for me, you understand. This is for Science!" Hmm, it just might work.
Or in role-playing: Today I'll be the mad scientist and you be the sweet young innocent trapped in his experiments to measure pleasure thresholds. Now where's that lab coat?
I hear that baby fed ones are relatively tender.
From the picture in the article, it doesn't exactly look very sturdy -- certainly not for a dusty, gritty environment. Maybe they want it fail in order to learn? :^)
(Sorry, it's just that I've seen this one too often recently.)
On Mars mission, it's hell trying to get a repairman in, especially on weekends! (And the rates they charge!)
Great until some Jawas jump out and capture it and it gets sold to a moisture farmer...