Shouldn't said electron be routed around astronauts if they are in a metallic space station, and what satellites have exposed circuitry? And how can electrons kill without current?
Is any HD movie worth a 50% premium over SD? $2 more (to rent, $3.99 SD, $5.99HD)?
When I first saw the Matrix on a very low-quality rip, it was not substantially changed by the DVD version, or even my current Blu-Ray version (thanks WB for the HD/BluRay swap!) . It is rather appalling when Netflix is on the same system and you get streaming movies for $8/mo. That's what, 2 SD rentals? If Sony priced the HD rentals at SD rates, they might actually compete with the value proposition of Netflix.
Ocean acidification is not a threat. Its been exaggerated by global warming alarmists.
The facts are our oceans have been far more acidic in the past, and we still have corals and shellfish. In fact, these are some of the oldest multi-cellular organisms on the planet, and they have survived.
The recent cold-snap in FL has shown that just a few weeks ago a few days of extreme cold (~59deg F) was enough to kill off millions of corals.
Meanwhile, shellfish are doing fine in higher CO2 lets not forget that the oceans have a pH of 8.1 (alkaline). It needs to be at 7.0 to be neutral, and less than that to be acidic.
As you have noticed, I straddle the party lines, leaning conservative on some and liberal on the other. Thank you for noticing that and not writing me off.
I would like to clarify my 2nd ph, "social agenda" comment. It is not a scare phrase, and I definitely did not mean it as such. I do object to the government making it easier for one class of people to be advantaged over another. This is "social agenda". With it, they motivate people to conform, be it smokers, or Prius drivers. As to how this applies to medial treatment, the obvious issues like abortion, and the smaller ones like minimally invasive heart surgery (as opposed to open heart surgery) create problems. Now our government has to balance health care spending when they can't even balance the budget they have! This makes me (and I am certain others) scared, that health care rationing will be used. Also, I predict that they will look for ways to exclude people from the government coverage because its cheaper that way. Just like criminals can't vote or own guns (both 'rights' according to the Constitution) how long before we use coverage as a carrot?
While the "death panel" thing is a ridiculous exaggeration that angered even me, it is based on an iota of truth. That is the "cost effectiveness" of procedures. In general cost effectiveness is a good thing, but now that the government pays, it gets a say (financially, at least) of what is "cost effective" and thus what is covered and thus what your grandma gets. Now, this is already done by your health care company to some degree. But at least if they don't provide value you can go elsewhere. As grotesque as [health] insurance companies are, they still need to compete. The government hates competition.
If you want confidence in government, then we need a Constitutional Amendment that says: It is the right of the people and the responsibility of the government to have the government provide insurance for the optimum health of its people, as decided between a physician and the patient. Congress can enforce this through appropriate legislation, though this right cannot be denied to anyone.
First you say "by 30%". This is often misunderstood. While accurate, it makes it seem that what is being increased in relation to the total. This is not the case as there is no fixed number of molecules in the atmosphere. What you have to realize is CO2 makes up 338 out of every 1,000,000 molecules (today). A 30% increase adds ~100 more molecules for 438 out of 1,000,000 molecules. It still remains a trace element.
Another problem is you assume CO2 is well-mixed, as the IPCC does. The data from the NASA AIRS satellite and subsequent validation by plane measurements, shows it is not well-mixed and that the northern and southern hemispheres have separate carbon cycles. (Due to land mass vs ocean, and land mass distribution)
Another problem is that you assume the forcing is linear, or worse. There is quite a bit of data that suggests it is logarithmic. The observation that CO2 "warms" is done in a closed laboratory environment. (a 1L bottle of 100% CO2)
Another problem is that while you concede temperature rises first, you fail to account for water vapor forcings, which is a much worse GHG, which we can't control. What if we could dehumidify the atmosphere at a fraction of the cost of controlling CO2? Why would that not be a more appropriate avenue?
Well, do you realize there are hundreds of private ambulance companies? Police is slightly different, because they are operating on behalf of the government. Fire could be privatized, if there was a way to charge for fire-putting-out and rescue services. (A simple fee schedule by the local gov't)
The more people like you and I argue, I think there is merit to some governmental coverage. There is plenty that should not be covered. So what I would actually propose is a hybrid system, where the government regulation provides the bare essentials, then through private insurance you get more coverage. For instance, abortions, viagra, and stuff like restless leg syndrome would be on your private policy. Your public policy would cover genetic diseases, emergencies (including reattachment surgery) and annual physicals. Then the government with its coverage plan, shops it out to private companies to underwrite the coverage for its portion. Of course, here, the government gets to dictate the terms of coverage. The private company is used only to process the billing and paperwork, as they do today.
This separation combines the best of both approaches - the people get basic coverage, the free market is used to execute it, and the free market also provides the extended, non-politically controversial coverage.
But putting the government in charge is asking for trouble. Emergency care is one thing, and we all need it from time to time. I'm even for re-attachment surgery. But should we cover elective abortions, Viagra, restless leg syndrome? Such areas are not where government should be treading.
I never want anyone to die. But your entitlements should be proportional to your contribution to society. Basic emergency care is already free so much as you'll get life-saving treatment regardless. What is being argued for is more than emergency care. Its abortions and Viagra coverage, and on-going medical care. But people do get sick and die, that is life. If you want to mobilize the modern medical complex against your ailments, then you have to provide some value back to the team who you are employing for your treatment. We cannot make those people work for free, however you can't steal money for your treatment either, except by proxy through the government.
In the US, your life is your own and you are responsible for it, including your quality of life decisions.
Well, you see, we don't trust our government. We never have. We might have national pride, but we don't trust Bush, Obama, or whomever. Our nation is no longer run by the people, but special interest, with the biggest special interest being the government, mainly because of it large assumed debt. In Canada, they seem to have a fair amount of disdain for individuals in politics, but what they do have is a mutual trust that we don't have.
In the USA, we are supposed to be free, but the government continues to advance social agendas, and that plays right into health care. Once the government gets our health care, they can start using it to control us. Look at our - taxes. No longer are Americans paying a "fair share" of government costs according to uniformity, rather they pay less when they are in compliance with government agendas.(Energy tax credits, owners of corporations, etc.) the whole system has become a farce. Just look at the recent plane attack on the IRS - why? because of some 170x (4, 6? I forget) statute where technology workers are singled out. Equal protection - my ass!
The productive people of society want our money to buy the health care we need. The under productive still want the health care, but don't want to pay for it. The conservatives don't see the government as the body to be providing health care because it does not employ free-market principals, so our dollar is not maximized. The liberals see the government as the body to provide health care because they are the only ones who can legally confiscate the funds from those who have them to care for those who don't.
Whereas in Canada, as far as I can tell, people see their government as an asset and not a liability. Lets face it, the confidence in the US's federal government is shot. And I think that's the real problem.
The idea isn't that it has to be lab-created, you could take the blood of people who have the antibodies, for whatever immunities you want (and match your blood type) then release them in your own system.
Less precise, and more risky, but its the same deal.
As someone who is allergic to nearly everything, I've taken a keen interest in the immune system.
I read something a while ago that said allergies and even things like nervous tics could be inherited from a blood transfusion. The idea is that along with the blood cells, you get the donor's white blood cells and antibodies, which then teach your own white blood cells how to make the antibodies, so you wind up with their allergies. It also said that some nervous system things like tics could also be inherited the same way. So it would seem we already have what the article is talking about.
As a huge Ubuntu fan (which to adopted while KDE was getting over the 4.0 fiasco) I looked to Kbuntu for the same quality as regular Ubuntu. Its just not there. If you want a "quality" KDE4 release, you really need to try OpenSUSE.
I don't know much about the #chans, but I don't think 4chan is the kiddie one. Infact the little #chan research I've done (after someone said to me:"You DONT piss off 4chan!", me:"WTF is 4chan?") was that 4chan expelled the kiddie porn people a while back, proving, that 4chan does have limits, which was news to me.
Yes, but evolution doesn't happen unless they evolve around the kill switch. It would be completely possible that a radiation exposure or virus could attack the cell and inadvertently alter the kill switch genes. Then if you flip the kill switch, the main population implodes while the kill-switch-free ones fill a nice empty niche. Then you're left with a population that you don't know how to kill off.
If one thing life has given us evidence of, is that it is pervasive and persistent. Of course, if it wasn't it wouldn't be here right now.
Note that using a Linux VM on a Windows host is *not* the fix. Using a Windows VM on Linux is *not* a fix either. Your passwords can be gathered in either case*.
as WOPR said: "The only way to win is not it play [with windows.]"
* I am realizing there is a way to semi-secure things. If you use a proxy to provide passwords to sites, you never have to type a password in. The accounts could be gathered according to a database, and once you got prompted for a password, the proxy could present an on-screen keyboard for you to enter the password, saving it if you wish. However, do note that using the standard windows keyboard is not advantages because i still sends key events (which the loggers log). The proxy has to take clicks, translate to letters, then put them in the TCP/IP stream, never generating a key board event.
Android is not a "phone" OS. that's like saying Linux is for servers.
Phone development resembles embedded development of 10 years ago. Constrained resources, specialized hardware. Android was needed because every vendor had their flavor of OS. This was market fragmentation, developers and users suffered a like because there were 10+ platforms. By putting out a common platform of right characteristics, it opened up developers to wide audiences, and t hose audiences to wide app libraries while at the same time advancing the common platform. Android is only those things such that a device needs to accomplish common function.
Don't think of it as a "phone" platform. Think of it as a minimal GUI computing platform, because that's all it is. Its nothing more than a stripped-down linux distro at heart.
Zip it. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, ex-zip-it A. Look! I'm "Zippy" Longstocking! When a problem comes along, you must zip it! Zip it good! Zip! Would you like to have a suckle of my "zipple"?
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Shouldn't said electron be routed around astronauts if they are in a metallic space station, and what satellites have exposed circuitry? And how can electrons kill without current?
If they ever come up with a material that only conducts heat in one direction (a thermal "diode", if you will) then that solves our energy woes.
Well they would have invented a Maxwell demon at the same time.
I friended most of my high school classmates, whom are all morons. I'm not. I just didn't want to be rude.
Is any HD movie worth a 50% premium over SD? $2 more (to rent, $3.99 SD, $5.99HD)?
When I first saw the Matrix on a very low-quality rip, it was not substantially changed by the DVD version, or even my current Blu-Ray version (thanks WB for the HD/BluRay swap!) . It is rather appalling when Netflix is on the same system and you get streaming movies for $8/mo. That's what, 2 SD rentals? If Sony priced the HD rentals at SD rates, they might actually compete with the value proposition of Netflix.
I'll finally be able to clone a Shakey's, and have one for myself!
Now porn is a fuel source.
Nokia: comes with music, powered by porn.
Ocean acidification is not a threat. Its been exaggerated by global warming alarmists.
The facts are our oceans have been far more acidic in the past, and we still have corals and shellfish. In fact, these are some of the oldest multi-cellular organisms on the planet, and they have survived.
The recent cold-snap in FL has shown that just a few weeks ago a few days of extreme cold (~59deg F) was enough to kill off millions of corals.
Meanwhile, shellfish are doing fine in higher CO2
lets not forget that the oceans have a pH of 8.1 (alkaline). It needs to be at 7.0 to be neutral, and less than that to be acidic.
As you have noticed, I straddle the party lines, leaning conservative on some and liberal on the other. Thank you for noticing that and not writing me off.
I would like to clarify my 2nd ph, "social agenda" comment. It is not a scare phrase, and I definitely did not mean it as such. I do object to the government making it easier for one class of people to be advantaged over another. This is "social agenda". With it, they motivate people to conform, be it smokers, or Prius drivers. As to how this applies to medial treatment, the obvious issues like abortion, and the smaller ones like minimally invasive heart surgery (as opposed to open heart surgery) create problems. Now our government has to balance health care spending when they can't even balance the budget they have! This makes me (and I am certain others) scared, that health care rationing will be used. Also, I predict that they will look for ways to exclude people from the government coverage because its cheaper that way. Just like criminals can't vote or own guns (both 'rights' according to the Constitution) how long before we use coverage as a carrot?
While the "death panel" thing is a ridiculous exaggeration that angered even me, it is based on an iota of truth. That is the "cost effectiveness" of procedures. In general cost effectiveness is a good thing, but now that the government pays, it gets a say (financially, at least) of what is "cost effective" and thus what is covered and thus what your grandma gets. Now, this is already done by your health care company to some degree. But at least if they don't provide value you can go elsewhere. As grotesque as [health] insurance companies are, they still need to compete. The government hates competition.
If you want confidence in government, then we need a Constitutional Amendment that says: It is the right of the people and the responsibility of the government to have the government provide insurance for the optimum health of its people, as decided between a physician and the patient. Congress can enforce this through appropriate legislation, though this right cannot be denied to anyone.
There are several flaws in your argument.
First you say "by 30%". This is often misunderstood. While accurate, it makes it seem that what is being increased in relation to the total. This is not the case as there is no fixed number of molecules in the atmosphere. What you have to realize is CO2 makes up 338 out of every 1,000,000 molecules (today). A 30% increase adds ~100 more molecules for 438 out of 1,000,000 molecules. It still remains a trace element.
Another problem is you assume CO2 is well-mixed, as the IPCC does. The data from the NASA AIRS satellite and subsequent validation by plane measurements, shows it is not well-mixed and that the northern and southern hemispheres have separate carbon cycles. (Due to land mass vs ocean, and land mass distribution)
Another problem is that you assume the forcing is linear, or worse. There is quite a bit of data that suggests it is logarithmic. The observation that CO2 "warms" is done in a closed laboratory environment. (a 1L bottle of 100% CO2)
Another problem is that while you concede temperature rises first, you fail to account for water vapor forcings, which is a much worse GHG, which we can't control. What if we could dehumidify the atmosphere at a fraction of the cost of controlling CO2? Why would that not be a more appropriate avenue?
Well, do you realize there are hundreds of private ambulance companies? Police is slightly different, because they are operating on behalf of the government. Fire could be privatized, if there was a way to charge for fire-putting-out and rescue services. (A simple fee schedule by the local gov't)
The more people like you and I argue, I think there is merit to some governmental coverage. There is plenty that should not be covered. So what I would actually propose is a hybrid system, where the government regulation provides the bare essentials, then through private insurance you get more coverage. For instance, abortions, viagra, and stuff like restless leg syndrome would be on your private policy. Your public policy would cover genetic diseases, emergencies (including reattachment surgery) and annual physicals. Then the government with its coverage plan, shops it out to private companies to underwrite the coverage for its portion. Of course, here, the government gets to dictate the terms of coverage. The private company is used only to process the billing and paperwork, as they do today.
This separation combines the best of both approaches - the people get basic coverage, the free market is used to execute it, and the free market also provides the extended, non-politically controversial coverage.
Completely true and realized. And I'm for it.
But putting the government in charge is asking for trouble. Emergency care is one thing, and we all need it from time to time. I'm even for re-attachment surgery. But should we cover elective abortions, Viagra, restless leg syndrome? Such areas are not where government should be treading.
And liberals should be wary too!
No, just get a job.
I never want anyone to die. But your entitlements should be proportional to your contribution to society. Basic emergency care is already free so much as you'll get life-saving treatment regardless. What is being argued for is more than emergency care. Its abortions and Viagra coverage, and on-going medical care. But people do get sick and die, that is life. If you want to mobilize the modern medical complex against your ailments, then you have to provide some value back to the team who you are employing for your treatment. We cannot make those people work for free, however you can't steal money for your treatment either, except by proxy through the government.
In the US, your life is your own and you are responsible for it, including your quality of life decisions.
This post at Faux News (with statute text) actually goes into why the IRS was recently attacked, and is of material concern to you and your question.
Well, you see, we don't trust our government. We never have. We might have national pride, but we don't trust Bush, Obama, or whomever. Our nation is no longer run by the people, but special interest, with the biggest special interest being the government, mainly because of it large assumed debt. In Canada, they seem to have a fair amount of disdain for individuals in politics, but what they do have is a mutual trust that we don't have.
In the USA, we are supposed to be free, but the government continues to advance social agendas, and that plays right into health care. Once the government gets our health care, they can start using it to control us. Look at our - taxes. No longer are Americans paying a "fair share" of government costs according to uniformity, rather they pay less when they are in compliance with government agendas.(Energy tax credits, owners of corporations, etc.) the whole system has become a farce. Just look at the recent plane attack on the IRS - why? because of some 170x (4, 6? I forget) statute where technology workers are singled out. Equal protection - my ass!
The productive people of society want our money to buy the health care we need. The under productive still want the health care, but don't want to pay for it. The conservatives don't see the government as the body to be providing health care because it does not employ free-market principals, so our dollar is not maximized. The liberals see the government as the body to provide health care because they are the only ones who can legally confiscate the funds from those who have them to care for those who don't.
Whereas in Canada, as far as I can tell, people see their government as an asset and not a liability. Lets face it, the confidence in the US's federal government is shot. And I think that's the real problem.
The idea isn't that it has to be lab-created, you could take the blood of people who have the antibodies, for whatever immunities you want (and match your blood type) then release them in your own system.
Less precise, and more risky, but its the same deal.
http://www.archivesofpathology.org/doi/full/10.1043/0003-9985%282003%29127%3C0316%3AATR%3E2.0.CO%3B2
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As someone who is allergic to nearly everything, I've taken a keen interest in the immune system.
I read something a while ago that said allergies and even things like nervous tics could be inherited from a blood transfusion. The idea is that along with the blood cells, you get the donor's white blood cells and antibodies, which then teach your own white blood cells how to make the antibodies, so you wind up with their allergies. It also said that some nervous system things like tics could also be inherited the same way. So it would seem we already have what the article is talking about.
If someone has mod points, mod parent up.
As a huge Ubuntu fan (which to adopted while KDE was getting over the 4.0 fiasco) I looked to Kbuntu for the same quality as regular Ubuntu. Its just not there. If you want a "quality" KDE4 release, you really need to try OpenSUSE.
I don't know much about the #chans, but I don't think 4chan is the kiddie one. Infact the little #chan research I've done (after someone said to me:"You DONT piss off 4chan!", me:"WTF is 4chan?") was that 4chan expelled the kiddie porn people a while back, proving, that 4chan does have limits, which was news to me.
Yes, but evolution doesn't happen unless they evolve around the kill switch. It would be completely possible that a radiation exposure or virus could attack the cell and inadvertently alter the kill switch genes. Then if you flip the kill switch, the main population implodes while the kill-switch-free ones fill a nice empty niche. Then you're left with a population that you don't know how to kill off.
If one thing life has given us evidence of, is that it is pervasive and persistent. Of course, if it wasn't it wouldn't be here right now.
This could also be done as a FireFox extension.
Note that using a Linux VM on a Windows host is *not* the fix. Using a Windows VM on Linux is *not* a fix either. Your passwords can be gathered in either case*.
as WOPR said: "The only way to win is not it play [with windows.]"
* I am realizing there is a way to semi-secure things. If you use a proxy to provide passwords to sites, you never have to type a password in. The accounts could be gathered according to a database, and once you got prompted for a password, the proxy could present an on-screen keyboard for you to enter the password, saving it if you wish. However, do note that using the standard windows keyboard is not advantages because i still sends key events (which the loggers log). The proxy has to take clicks, translate to letters, then put them in the TCP/IP stream, never generating a key board event.
Android is not a "phone" OS. that's like saying Linux is for servers.
Phone development resembles embedded development of 10 years ago. Constrained resources, specialized hardware. Android was needed because every vendor had their flavor of OS. This was market fragmentation, developers and users suffered a like because there were 10+ platforms. By putting out a common platform of right characteristics, it opened up developers to wide audiences, and t hose audiences to wide app libraries while at the same time advancing the common platform. Android is only those things such that a device needs to accomplish common function.
Don't think of it as a "phone" platform. Think of it as a minimal GUI computing platform, because that's all it is. Its nothing more than a stripped-down linux distro at heart.
Zip it. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, ex-zip-it A. Look! I'm "Zippy" Longstocking! When a problem comes along, you must zip it! Zip it good! Zip! Would you like to have a suckle of my "zipple"?