When did the word "fail" acquire its new usages as a noun and an adjective? I'm going to use the word "failure" and sound like an old person because you damn kids keep saying "fail".
Clearly that would boost the bicycle industry, but I doubt that you would get your fresh tomatoes in time and your taxes would stay the same.
To be brutally honest I don't think you know what would happen. There will be other effects you are not considering. For example, think of all the lardasses who might stop posting on Slashdot all the time and start riding bikes to work.
An idiot with a car is vastly more dangerous than an idiot with a gun... Just because people ignore car deathes and react with great emotion to gun deaths doesn't make guns more dangerous than cars, or even worth considering as dangerous when there are also cars.
But this is all apples to oranges. Cars are more useful than guns. There is simply no parity between the two. Of course we're willing to put up with more risk from cars than guns. Cars improve our lives in ways that guns do not. We would have more deaths from all kinds of causes if we didn't have cars. Guns carry less bang for the buck.
They are basically "massacre zone" signs, where someone who wants to kill people is pretty sure of getting the fewest number of people legally carrying guns.
Oh no, this type of argument again! "If only everyone there were armed, tsk tsk!" Because there are no unarmed psycho killers.
Would you rather hang out in a crowd of armed citizens who can't even punch holes in ballots correctly? What makes you think they can punch holes in anything else?
Your argument is simply not compelling; nobody is seriously going to worry about about being shot by a mentally-challenged psycho killer who is emboldened by the absence of a "NO GUNS" sign. You're probably more likely to get killed by a meteorite than a psycho killer standing near that sign. It might behoove you to keep the sign there; if a rock comes hurtling in from outer space you can rip the sign off the wall and hold it over your head for a little shielding.
The Iran market is big enough to justify plenty of risk. It's about a quarter the size of the U.S. market.
This doesn't look like a case of "getting caught" so much as just doing something out in the open, hoping the law won't get enforced. It's not like they were "busted" by e.g. a test page coming out with praises for Allah.
> Isn't wasting time the whole point of playing a computer game?
With Ahriman the God of Darkness about to plunge the entire world into eternal darkness? I don't think so. The Prince has to battle Ahriman's corrupted lieutenants to heal the land from the dark Corruption and restore the light. What do you mean "wasting time"???
"No, he's not. Without a working visual cortex, nothing from the eyes enters the brain. At all. Most likely, he is using sound or air pressure."
The signal from the optic nerve doesn't go exclusively to the primary area of the visual cortex- it forks at the lateral geniculate nucleus before it gets there and some also goes to subcortical targets which provide functions like the flinching reflex. These are older pathways and modern vision evolved by eavesdropping on the signal.
Dark matter couples to regular matter only gravitationally, so we know next to nothing about it. For all we know dark matter might couple to itself with its own forces analogous to electromagnetism etc. so that it can "see" itself in ways we cannot. If that were the case and "dark matter life" were possible, it would be on a separate channel of sorts and we wouldn't be able to observe it.
Or maybe these guys are thinking of "organisms" millions of light years across based on gravitational interactions between galaxies or black holes instead of atoms and molecules. My imagination is getting taxed at this point; I'm sure someone can think of something even more bonkers.
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) has been hypothesized as an alternative to RNA for abiogenesis. Personally I don't buy it; the RNA world hypothesis looks more plausible. We don't find PNA in any living thing anywhere.
You can surmise a lot about what's possible elsewhere by what's possible here. Unless there's some other periodic table when you get far enough away, there's not much you can do without carbon. No other element has its propensity to share electrons instead of stealing them; molecules composed of other atoms (like silicon, the most plausible replacement) don't get very complex before they start falling apart. And we see interstellar spectra of complex molecules with C-C and C=C bonds everywhere.
Water may or may not be essential but its ubiquity probably renders the question moot. Its only real competitor is ammonia, but ammonia is a liquid at such low temperatures that biochemical reactions would be reduced to an absolute crawl.
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Because Ben Stein is an idiot?
When did the word "fail" acquire its new usages as a noun and an adjective? I'm going to use the word "failure" and sound like an old person because you damn kids keep saying "fail".
Because it's on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRc37D2ZZY
WTF? Racist? What the hell am I reposting? Are you on acid or did you reply to the wrong post?
I don't see any fives on your list, BTW.
Clearly that would boost the bicycle industry, but I doubt that you would get your fresh tomatoes in time and your taxes would stay the same.
To be brutally honest I don't think you know what would happen. There will be other effects you are not considering. For example, think of all the lardasses who might stop posting on Slashdot all the time and start riding bikes to work.
An idiot with a car is vastly more dangerous than an idiot with a gun... Just because people ignore car deathes and react with great emotion to gun deaths doesn't make guns more dangerous than cars, or even worth considering as dangerous when there are also cars.
But this is all apples to oranges. Cars are more useful than guns. There is simply no parity between the two. Of course we're willing to put up with more risk from cars than guns. Cars improve our lives in ways that guns do not. We would have more deaths from all kinds of causes if we didn't have cars. Guns carry less bang for the buck.
Oh no, this type of argument again! "If only everyone there were armed, tsk tsk!" Because there are no unarmed psycho killers.
Would you rather hang out in a crowd of armed citizens who can't even punch holes in ballots correctly? What makes you think they can punch holes in anything else?
Your argument is simply not compelling; nobody is seriously going to worry about about being shot by a mentally-challenged psycho killer who is emboldened by the absence of a "NO GUNS" sign. You're probably more likely to get killed by a meteorite than a psycho killer standing near that sign. It might behoove you to keep the sign there; if a rock comes hurtling in from outer space you can rip the sign off the wall and hold it over your head for a little shielding.
A robot to fight cancer is impressive, but I hear the Japanese are working on a robot that can give you herpes.
The Iran market is big enough to justify plenty of risk. It's about a quarter the size of the U.S. market.
This doesn't look like a case of "getting caught" so much as just doing something out in the open, hoping the law won't get enforced. It's not like they were "busted" by e.g. a test page coming out with praises for Allah.
I'm reminded of that teenage girl who sent a naked cellphone shot of herself to her friends and now has to register as a sex offender for life.
> Isn't wasting time the whole point of playing a computer game?
With Ahriman the God of Darkness about to plunge the entire world into eternal darkness? I don't think so. The Prince has to battle Ahriman's corrupted lieutenants to heal the land from the dark Corruption and restore the light. What do you mean "wasting time"???
> Books? Really? So reading The C Programming Language and Programming Perl were both complete wastes of precious time?
I wouldn't say it about The C Programming Language, but as for the Perl book, Larry Wall can't write for shit.
They should use hard drives full of these files to pack Cheney's man-sized safe.
"No, he's not. Without a working visual cortex, nothing from the eyes enters the brain. At all. Most likely, he is using sound or air pressure."
The signal from the optic nerve doesn't go exclusively to the primary area of the visual cortex- it forks at the lateral geniculate nucleus before it gets there and some also goes to subcortical targets which provide functions like the flinching reflex. These are older pathways and modern vision evolved by eavesdropping on the signal.
They wanted me to build them a neonatal incubator, so I took their plutonium and gave them a shiny casing full of used pinball machine parts!
Any baby can do that for at least a few minutes.
Why would you seek FDA compliance for a device like this? It's like seeking approval for a steak knife as an emergency tracheotomy tool.
What I need is a car made out of neonatal incubator parts. Because I definitely want good climate control.
I guess that joke was a little to subtle...
Yeah, its "raises" the question too be precise.
Dark matter couples to regular matter only gravitationally, so we know next to nothing about it. For all we know dark matter might couple to itself with its own forces analogous to electromagnetism etc. so that it can "see" itself in ways we cannot. If that were the case and "dark matter life" were possible, it would be on a separate channel of sorts and we wouldn't be able to observe it.
Or maybe these guys are thinking of "organisms" millions of light years across based on gravitational interactions between galaxies or black holes instead of atoms and molecules. My imagination is getting taxed at this point; I'm sure someone can think of something even more bonkers.
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) has been hypothesized as an alternative to RNA for abiogenesis. Personally I don't buy it; the RNA world hypothesis looks more plausible. We don't find PNA in any living thing anywhere.
An orgasm is the dopamine equivalent of two cheeseburgers, so if you apply this to both underarms, there you go.
You can surmise a lot about what's possible elsewhere by what's possible here. Unless there's some other periodic table when you get far enough away, there's not much you can do without carbon. No other element has its propensity to share electrons instead of stealing them; molecules composed of other atoms (like silicon, the most plausible replacement) don't get very complex before they start falling apart. And we see interstellar spectra of complex molecules with C-C and C=C bonds everywhere.
Water may or may not be essential but its ubiquity probably renders the question moot. Its only real competitor is ammonia, but ammonia is a liquid at such low temperatures that biochemical reactions would be reduced to an absolute crawl.
Which begs the question, are any galaxies emitting spectra characteristic of plastic wrap?