Blu-Ray looks like another videodisc-style flop. DVDs are probably the last shiny spinning disks most people will ever buy; after this it's going to be Flash.
My parents had both VHS and Beta. Except for the tapes being shorter (oops), Beta was a better format; we were surprised by how crappy VHS looked. The porn industry wanted the longer play time though, so my dad had to get the other player.
Well that's a song in Pirates of the Caribbean... If you extend it to "why is your", apparently a lot of people are seeing funny colors before they flush.
Keep in mind that most CO2 in solution is actually still in the form of neutral CO2, not H+/HCO3-. Each molecule spends only a few percent of the time hydrated/deprotonated as a carbonate before reacquiring the proton and popping off the water. So as the deprotonated carbonate gets consumed and precipitates as salts, more will keep appearing from the reserve of dissolved gas (at whatever partial pressure we're currently jacking it up to). So keep in mind that you're interested in the steady state, because the partial pressure will mostly remain constant until we reach our final goal with all the carbon on the earth existing in fully oxidized form as the dioxide and carbonates.
It's a shame this planet has an oxidizing and not a reducing atmosphere. Maybe the Arabs would be buying oxygen from us.
I ascribe to a more Knuth-y self descriptive code and prefer the Pythagorean theorem to look more like:
sideAdjacentToRightAngle^2 + otherSideAdjacentToRightAngle^2 = sideOppositeRightAngle^2
Or maybe I'm just being a smartass? It's so hard to tell with developers these days...
Would you want to stare at a wall of code with otherSideAdjacentToRightAngles and sideOppositeRightAngles and sideAdjacentToRightAngles all over the place?
You could just go all the way and call them II11011I, I1IIOI1I, and II110I1I. At least call one of them "hypotenuse", christ.
They also are oiled in front of properties to control dust (often something like Dustlock [soybean oil soapstock], since crude oil spraying is banned in many states).
Better not hire Russell Bliss to do this if you live in one of those other states.
Dioxin-contaminated oil he sprayed on the roads in Times Beach, MO gave a bunch of people in town cancer although to be fair it did do a good job of keeping the dust down for four years.
Well yeah that's my point. It's not as if the person who issued the original certificate is necessarily even alive anyway. But a certified copy is apparently not good enough for some people.
Eh... I shouldn't be surprised at that troll mod I guess, just because the motor vehicle laws of Hawaii have become a trollish topic in general, even if they're germane to a Real ID story.
A lot of people, it seems, would be surprised that the State of Hawaii does not release birth certificates, only certified copies. Neither does Boston. People from either of those places can only present a certified copy when they eventually get their RealID. That might have federal implications but IANAL.
I wonder if Obama would have trouble getting a California driver's license since the state he was born in (Hawaii) only releases copies of birth certificates.
I don't understand why a current owner would be angry. I can save $200 now. Why not just feel happy for me instead?
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Well, during the week and a half when everyone else is on Twitter, it *is* quite annoying. Waiting for trends to die out is usually tiresome, especially if you don't participate. But by the time the airhead gossip shows are all talking about who's twittering who, you know it won't be much longer.
I don't use Facebook either. Two of my friends died there.
When I see such hyperbole being used in an argument, I assume the author knows he's lost and is just blowing smoke to try to cover up the fact.
Um, no you don't. I will still sometimes phrase a sentence that way when I feel I might be speaking to people with limited capacity (not you of course; the thread is stale and it's probably just us here now). But I have some friends at work who had to put up with this at a major university, in a lab that was comparing embryological gene expression across various species. While adult stem cells can be included in those studies, they aren't as useful as the embryonic cells. And they can't be compared to embryonic cells in realistic stages of early development either. It's not as if stem cells stop changing over the years once somebody sanctions them.
I just mapped the "non-human life" from "embryo" to "Jew", because at the time it was being done, they weren't considered valid human life. Those who call for harvesting embryonic stem cells call the embryos "non-human".
This strikes me as very sloppy thinking. And it's offensive to Jews (I asked one). I see no basis for a "mapping" between *who* is called "non-human" and *what* is. Even if we restrict ourselves to people (and not "human beings" made of 16 cells), you can make that mapping between many pairs of ethnicities, not just Nazis/Jews. People call each other non-human all the time. Your argument is basically "well we called Jews non-humans and that was wrong, so we'd better not label microscopic clumps of cells as being non-human." There are some pretty compelling reasons to label the microscopic as "non-human" that obviously don't apply to ethnicities at all, and the rationale is practically incomparable.
I don't really consider myself a scientist but I've had to write parallel systems twice now. It goes much better when you either don't need internode communication, or you're allowed to implement it that way (when nobody's around to complain they might have to configure something).
Threading I agree is not the same thing... with a decent threading API available you can fan out a loop across all your CPU cores with a small paragraph of code, if the iterations are independent of one other. Setting up that independence (if you have to) is most of the work. But that's a trick you can also use in a UI to speed up animations etc.
Of course there are standard libraries now to handle this stuff, so some of the fun is gone.
Just look at how YOU are treating him for offering something that the previous president didn't offer. So even though it was more than what you had before, it wasn't everything you wanted, so you bash him like a spoiled child who throws a tantrum when she gets a new car on her 16th birthday in the wrong color.
You're one of those who claims funding is cut if the amount of funding doesn't get increased as much as you want, aren't you?
Bush did fund research directly on a limited number of cell lines which he specified. But the actual funding to embryonic stem cell research itself isn't the issue.
What Bush did which was new, was to threaten to withdraw all federal funding for a research institution if anyone there touches something that touched something that was in a lab where something might have touched an unsanctioned embryonic stem cell. The funding is cut off for anything else they may be doing however unrelated... viruses, autism, whatever. Most research institutions in this country have traditionally been dependent on federal funding, and know full well they would have to shut down if this were to happen. It isn't a question of funding the damn research, it's about de-facto banning it except at privately funded labs.
Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research goes on, there are just limits on the use of new cell lines. It's an ethics thing.
So you feel that we can ethically use what we obtained unethically. That's certainly a convenient position to take, but it's ethically bankrupt.
It would at least be more consistent if we were to go full-troglodyte and ban all embryonic stem cell research on these sanctioned lines as well. If you seriously think we have murdered a bunch of people whom we are now growing on Petri dishes, I can't understand why you wouldn't.
There is another ethically consistent approach: just rethink whether a clump of cells is a human being or not, and then cut out this nonsense of banning what natural phenomena science is allowed to look at so we can stop embarrassing ourselves before the rest of the world.
We already have some embryonic lines to work with, we don't need to continue what some people feel are highly unethical actions to get more, but the ones we have can be used and duplicated forever.
According to the people who actually use the sanctioned cell lines, they have already deteriorated to the point of uselessness, and there is little more to find out about them at this point that doesn't involve creating additional lines.
It's like, do we use the information that Mengele developed
As soon as I hear German names in these discussions, I usually head for the door. That was a real Holocaust, not merely an arguable one.
George W. Bush was the FIRST ever US President to fund ANY embryonic stem cell research EVER!
Lots of former presidents have funded embryonic stem cell research over the past century. Teddy Roosevelt funded embryonic stem cell research, and Thomas Jefferson wrote several treatises on the subject. "Woe be to the Republic that advocates ignorance of our most embryonic of cells, for therein lies madness."
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I never actually said he watched porn. Everyone else did.
Blu-Ray looks like another videodisc-style flop. DVDs are probably the last shiny spinning disks most people will ever buy; after this it's going to be Flash.
My parents had both VHS and Beta. Except for the tapes being shorter (oops), Beta was a better format; we were surprised by how crappy VHS looked. The porn industry wanted the longer play time though, so my dad had to get the other player.
Well that's a song in Pirates of the Caribbean... If you extend it to "why is your", apparently a lot of people are seeing funny colors before they flush.
why is everything
Try typing that in.
Keep in mind that most CO2 in solution is actually still in the form of neutral CO2, not H+/HCO3-. Each molecule spends only a few percent of the time hydrated/deprotonated as a carbonate before reacquiring the proton and popping off the water. So as the deprotonated carbonate gets consumed and precipitates as salts, more will keep appearing from the reserve of dissolved gas (at whatever partial pressure we're currently jacking it up to). So keep in mind that you're interested in the steady state, because the partial pressure will mostly remain constant until we reach our final goal with all the carbon on the earth existing in fully oxidized form as the dioxide and carbonates.
It's a shame this planet has an oxidizing and not a reducing atmosphere. Maybe the Arabs would be buying oxygen from us.
I ascribe to a more Knuth-y self descriptive code and prefer the Pythagorean theorem to look more like: sideAdjacentToRightAngle^2 + otherSideAdjacentToRightAngle^2 = sideOppositeRightAngle^2 Or maybe I'm just being a smartass? It's so hard to tell with developers these days ...
Would you want to stare at a wall of code with otherSideAdjacentToRightAngles and sideOppositeRightAngles and sideAdjacentToRightAngles all over the place?
You could just go all the way and call them II11011I, I1IIOI1I, and II110I1I. At least call one of them "hypotenuse", christ.
Especially somebody with a lot of hydroxide... there are a lot of nutcases out there.
... a few hundred billion metric tons of calcium hydroxide would be a really nice thing to have right about now.
They also are oiled in front of properties to control dust (often something like Dustlock [soybean oil soapstock], since crude oil spraying is banned in many states).
Better not hire Russell Bliss to do this if you live in one of those other states.
Dioxin-contaminated oil he sprayed on the roads in Times Beach, MO gave a bunch of people in town cancer although to be fair it did do a good job of keeping the dust down for four years.
Toss the one you downloaded and get a new one by rerunning Software Update.
They bungled some file permission thing inside the update package... [insert Mac vs PC joke here]
Rich also chided Apple for leaving such a major hole unpatched for so long.
Yeah, Apple, a meager market share (not accounting for cost per unit of course) isn't an excuse to leave stuff like this busted. I hereby CHIDE you!
Well yeah that's my point. It's not as if the person who issued the original certificate is necessarily even alive anyway. But a certified copy is apparently not good enough for some people.
Eh... I shouldn't be surprised at that troll mod I guess, just because the motor vehicle laws of Hawaii have become a trollish topic in general, even if they're germane to a Real ID story. A lot of people, it seems, would be surprised that the State of Hawaii does not release birth certificates, only certified copies. Neither does Boston. People from either of those places can only present a certified copy when they eventually get their RealID. That might have federal implications but IANAL.
I wonder if Obama would have trouble getting a California driver's license since the state he was born in (Hawaii) only releases copies of birth certificates.
Yeah, one for each kid!
iPhone owners have been known to eat their young.
There's an app for that!
I don't understand why a current owner would be angry. I can save $200 now. Why not just feel happy for me instead?
Well, during the week and a half when everyone else is on Twitter, it *is* quite annoying. Waiting for trends to die out is usually tiresome, especially if you don't participate. But by the time the airhead gossip shows are all talking about who's twittering who, you know it won't be much longer.
I don't use Facebook either. Two of my friends died there.
When I see such hyperbole being used in an argument, I assume the author knows he's lost and is just blowing smoke to try to cover up the fact.
Um, no you don't. I will still sometimes phrase a sentence that way when I feel I might be speaking to people with limited capacity (not you of course; the thread is stale and it's probably just us here now). But I have some friends at work who had to put up with this at a major university, in a lab that was comparing embryological gene expression across various species. While adult stem cells can be included in those studies, they aren't as useful as the embryonic cells. And they can't be compared to embryonic cells in realistic stages of early development either. It's not as if stem cells stop changing over the years once somebody sanctions them.
I just mapped the "non-human life" from "embryo" to "Jew", because at the time it was being done, they weren't considered valid human life. Those who call for harvesting embryonic stem cells call the embryos "non-human".
This strikes me as very sloppy thinking. And it's offensive to Jews (I asked one). I see no basis for a "mapping" between *who* is called "non-human" and *what* is. Even if we restrict ourselves to people (and not "human beings" made of 16 cells), you can make that mapping between many pairs of ethnicities, not just Nazis/Jews. People call each other non-human all the time. Your argument is basically "well we called Jews non-humans and that was wrong, so we'd better not label microscopic clumps of cells as being non-human." There are some pretty compelling reasons to label the microscopic as "non-human" that obviously don't apply to ethnicities at all, and the rationale is practically incomparable.
Australia is on the underside of the world. He should have fallen up, right?
except scientists who use supercomputers
I don't really consider myself a scientist but I've had to write parallel systems twice now. It goes much better when you either don't need internode communication, or you're allowed to implement it that way (when nobody's around to complain they might have to configure something).
Threading I agree is not the same thing... with a decent threading API available you can fan out a loop across all your CPU cores with a small paragraph of code, if the iterations are independent of one other. Setting up that independence (if you have to) is most of the work. But that's a trick you can also use in a UI to speed up animations etc.
Of course there are standard libraries now to handle this stuff, so some of the fun is gone.
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It works great in the U.S.
Just look at how YOU are treating him for offering something that the previous president didn't offer. So even though it was more than what you had before, it wasn't everything you wanted, so you bash him like a spoiled child who throws a tantrum when she gets a new car on her 16th birthday in the wrong color.
You should read posts before responding to them.
You're one of those who claims funding is cut if the amount of funding doesn't get increased as much as you want, aren't you?
Bush did fund research directly on a limited number of cell lines which he specified. But the actual funding to embryonic stem cell research itself isn't the issue.
What Bush did which was new, was to threaten to withdraw all federal funding for a research institution if anyone there touches something that touched something that was in a lab where something might have touched an unsanctioned embryonic stem cell. The funding is cut off for anything else they may be doing however unrelated... viruses, autism, whatever. Most research institutions in this country have traditionally been dependent on federal funding, and know full well they would have to shut down if this were to happen. It isn't a question of funding the damn research, it's about de-facto banning it except at privately funded labs.
Federal funding of embryonic stem cell research goes on, there are just limits on the use of new cell lines. It's an ethics thing.
So you feel that we can ethically use what we obtained unethically. That's certainly a convenient position to take, but it's ethically bankrupt.
It would at least be more consistent if we were to go full-troglodyte and ban all embryonic stem cell research on these sanctioned lines as well. If you seriously think we have murdered a bunch of people whom we are now growing on Petri dishes, I can't understand why you wouldn't.
There is another ethically consistent approach: just rethink whether a clump of cells is a human being or not, and then cut out this nonsense of banning what natural phenomena science is allowed to look at so we can stop embarrassing ourselves before the rest of the world.
We already have some embryonic lines to work with, we don't need to continue what some people feel are highly unethical actions to get more, but the ones we have can be used and duplicated forever.
According to the people who actually use the sanctioned cell lines, they have already deteriorated to the point of uselessness, and there is little more to find out about them at this point that doesn't involve creating additional lines.
It's like, do we use the information that Mengele developed
As soon as I hear German names in these discussions, I usually head for the door. That was a real Holocaust, not merely an arguable one.
George W. Bush was the FIRST ever US President to fund ANY embryonic stem cell research EVER!
Lots of former presidents have funded embryonic stem cell research over the past century. Teddy Roosevelt funded embryonic stem cell research, and Thomas Jefferson wrote several treatises on the subject. "Woe be to the Republic that advocates ignorance of our most embryonic of cells, for therein lies madness."