Chances are a lot better with extinct microbes. Smaller genomes would be easier to repair and get working in a cell.
And I doubt extinct microbes would be that much of a threat even if released in the wild. They'd be many generations behind in the ongoing biological arms race between infectious agents and macrobiota and quite possibly defenseless against what modern plants and animals can throw at them. Remember, we are all descended from the animals that made any resurrected bacteria extinct.
Your kid might not be satisfied with the way WoW works on an old T400 laptop. Check the graphics specs vs. the game recommendations. And for security, I'd just use Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, probably works as well as any of the subscription-based anti-virus products and how much do you really care if your kid's game platform gets a virus?
b) if a girl shows her breasts, she is a slut and a whore and should be ashamed of herself and do whatever it takes to have no one find out about it,
More generally, I'm also perplexed by the social double-standard where men who have (had) multiple sex-partners (or are sexually aggressive, for lack of a better word) are "studs", but women are "sluts". Seems like a bunch of misogynistic bullshit from insecure men to make women feel second-rate.
(I'm a guy, by the way.)
Except that other women are more prone to call them sluts than men are.
It is entirely possible that there are undiscovered planets in the habitable zone. It is the planets closest to the star with the shortest orbital periods that are the easiest to discover, either because generate frequent perturbations that can be detected in the data set, or are the most likely to cross the stellar disk (when using the brightness fluctuation method).
Then sign me up! If there's a star in the habitable zone, we'll colonize it when we get there. If there's not, we should have advanced enough technology by that time to move the planet we've already discovered anywhere we want it.
Any system of bodies is going to have a center of gravity. My guess (not having read TFA) is that this planet is many times further away from the binary stars than they are to each other.
No, that's not what TFA says. It says it is many times closer to one of the stars than it is to either of the others. The other two stars have only minor effects on its orbit.
In America, one serious illness in the family will destroy your finances unless you're very rich or have good insurance. I can see why Romney could think of having enough money saved to get him through a rough patch but for most of us, a medical problem is a financial disaster of epic proportions without insurance. Besides, where is it written that young people who have never had time enough to save up for the cost of an expensive medical problem don't get sick?
Well it's not physically challenging or technically challenging for the person to get in or out of the balloon. It's more a mental challenge to psych yourself up to it. Also the space suit and capsule you can do it in are technically challenging but really it can be done with rather old tech.
What's worse: We might have been programmed to fail to understand either the experiment or the results of the class of experiments that might reveal the universe to be a simulation.
And how big is this simulation anyway? Is the entire observable universe rendered in plank-scale detail, is it only rendered to that detail on Earth and the rest of the universe is sort of broadly painted or does it only simulate what I directly perceive?
The concept of software freedom is lost on you, isn't it?
It's your device. You should be able to have complete control of the software that runs on it. So "allowing bad stuff to happen" is what software providers SHOULD do, unless you specifically opt to have the software provider manage your device for you.
IMO, that's a legitimate option and appropriate for most users. Even Stallman might agree with that. But they shouldn't attempt to control what you have if you don't opt to have them control your machine.
Android is built on Linux, which is built on the assumption that the device's owner deserves and will get software freedom of the sort I'm talking about.
If you prefer to have somebody else manage and control what software is on your phone or tablet, that's what Apple does.
I'm not all the way in one camp or the other. My wife and daughter choose Apple devices and their walled garden. I choose Android and a little more flexibility.
Honestly, that deserves a warning. You aren't running the standard version of the app and Google has no way of knowing that whoever cracked the app didn't add some malware.
It's not immune. It's just relatively safe, to the point where a typical user can run Mac OS X with no extraneous security software. I own a Mac. The MOMENT I discover that the threat level approaches 1% of what it is on Windows, I'll start looking for some decent security software. But until then, it's not worth the trouble, expense, lost processor cycles or lost brain cycles.
Environmentalists and educators are concerned that fracking and other resource exploitation on campus could leave students directly exposed to harms like explosions, water contamination, and air pollution.
Not to mention it permanently degrades public land and the mining companies will never undo the damage they did because it's not cost-effective (for them).
Yes, but only for the duration of the refueling. Then they move off to a safer distance. Maintaining close formation with large aircraft over multi-hour-long flights simply is not done.
That would be parental involvement and the emphasis that individual Asian families put on academic success. In most of America, there aren't strong enough Asian local communities to really influence students. They just live too immersed in white, black or hispanic communities to feel much influence of Asian culture outside their home.
But I agree that the excessiv emphasis on sports and other interests that is so common in America is not helpful for the long-term success of most minority students and their families. For that matter, its not helpful for most white families.
That said, club or school team sports are a good thing for students who can participate. They teach kids that persistence pays off, that practice is important and that by working with others, you can achieve more than you can by yourself. But that you have to take those lessons into the classroom because 99.9% of the opportunities to have a career are in something other than sports and of those, 90% require a solid education. Less than 0.5% of all high school athletes will have an opportunity to even get hired in professional sports and of those, many will wash out in the first couple of years.
However, if you have pretty good talent and work very hard, there's a chance of getting a college scholarship. If you can do that, you've earned a free education, but even if you're in an NCAA division 1 college, your chances of making it to the pros are slim, so you should study something that will be your career, assuming that you will not make it to the pros even if you think you are the best guy on the field.
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Chances are a lot better with extinct microbes. Smaller genomes would be easier to repair and get working in a cell.
And I doubt extinct microbes would be that much of a threat even if released in the wild. They'd be many generations behind in the ongoing biological arms race between infectious agents and macrobiota and quite possibly defenseless against what modern plants and animals can throw at them. Remember, we are all descended from the animals that made any resurrected bacteria extinct.
Even more likely than that, Zimmerman attacked Martin.
And WHO STARTED THIS FIGHT?
They didn't see who started the fight. Doesn't the assailant deserve to be the one in the coffin?
And when did wearing a hoodie become a crime?
And even if you're a juvenile delinquent, aren't you entitled to defend yourself if a man approaches you on the street wielding a gun?
It's only tragic if the kid was completely innocent and did not attack zimmer first.
These things seem severely in doubt.
Some of us think it's tragic whenever a kid gets shot dead.
Your kid might not be satisfied with the way WoW works on an old T400 laptop. Check the graphics specs vs. the game recommendations. And for security, I'd just use Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, probably works as well as any of the subscription-based anti-virus products and how much do you really care if your kid's game platform gets a virus?
That's almost irrelevant. We have ships.
Not entirely. Virus scanners have found two viruses on machines I own. And they have built-in removal tools.
b) if a girl shows her breasts, she is a slut and a whore and should be ashamed of herself and do whatever it takes to have no one find out about it,
More generally, I'm also perplexed by the social double-standard where men who have (had) multiple sex-partners (or are sexually aggressive, for lack of a better word) are "studs", but women are "sluts". Seems like a bunch of misogynistic bullshit from insecure men to make women feel second-rate. (I'm a guy, by the way.)
Except that other women are more prone to call them sluts than men are.
It is entirely possible that there are undiscovered planets in the habitable zone. It is the planets closest to the star with the shortest orbital periods that are the easiest to discover, either because generate frequent perturbations that can be detected in the data set, or are the most likely to cross the stellar disk (when using the brightness fluctuation method).
Then sign me up! If there's a star in the habitable zone, we'll colonize it when we get there. If there's not, we should have advanced enough technology by that time to move the planet we've already discovered anywhere we want it.
Any system of bodies is going to have a center of gravity. My guess (not having read TFA) is that this planet is many times further away from the binary stars than they are to each other.
No, that's not what TFA says. It says it is many times closer to one of the stars than it is to either of the others. The other two stars have only minor effects on its orbit.
In America, one serious illness in the family will destroy your finances unless you're very rich or have good insurance. I can see why Romney could think of having enough money saved to get him through a rough patch but for most of us, a medical problem is a financial disaster of epic proportions without insurance. Besides, where is it written that young people who have never had time enough to save up for the cost of an expensive medical problem don't get sick?
Depending on your perspective they could be equally bad, but they are certainly not the same. Anybody who doesn't see a difference isn't looking.
But you would have to trust the antivirus.
Well it's not physically challenging or technically challenging for the person to get in or out of the balloon. It's more a mental challenge to psych yourself up to it. Also the space suit and capsule you can do it in are technically challenging but really it can be done with rather old tech.
What's worse: We might have been programmed to fail to understand either the experiment or the results of the class of experiments that might reveal the universe to be a simulation.
And how big is this simulation anyway? Is the entire observable universe rendered in plank-scale detail, is it only rendered to that detail on Earth and the rest of the universe is sort of broadly painted or does it only simulate what I directly perceive?
The concept of software freedom is lost on you, isn't it?
It's your device. You should be able to have complete control of the software that runs on it. So "allowing bad stuff to happen" is what software providers SHOULD do, unless you specifically opt to have the software provider manage your device for you.
IMO, that's a legitimate option and appropriate for most users. Even Stallman might agree with that. But they shouldn't attempt to control what you have if you don't opt to have them control your machine.
Android is built on Linux, which is built on the assumption that the device's owner deserves and will get software freedom of the sort I'm talking about.
If you prefer to have somebody else manage and control what software is on your phone or tablet, that's what Apple does.
I'm not all the way in one camp or the other. My wife and daughter choose Apple devices and their walled garden. I choose Android and a little more flexibility.
Honestly, that deserves a warning. You aren't running the standard version of the app and Google has no way of knowing that whoever cracked the app didn't add some malware.
It's not immune. It's just relatively safe, to the point where a typical user can run Mac OS X with no extraneous security software. I own a Mac. The MOMENT I discover that the threat level approaches 1% of what it is on Windows, I'll start looking for some decent security software. But until then, it's not worth the trouble, expense, lost processor cycles or lost brain cycles.
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It's one of several. We have one in Colorado, too.
Environmentalists and educators are concerned that fracking and other resource exploitation on campus could leave students directly exposed to harms like explosions, water contamination, and air pollution.
Not to mention it permanently degrades public land and the mining companies will never undo the damage they did because it's not cost-effective (for them).
I guess the other side of that is, "Why come up with a way to mine an asteroid if the legal semantics won't allow you to mine it anyway?"
I agree that it's probably not a huge issue that can't be ironed* out, though.
* Yeah, I did that. Deal with it.
Asteroids in space are outside any legal jurisdiction.
Very close formation flying has been standard training and practice since aerial refuelling was adopted.
Maintain your altitude and distance or you force disconnect, or even get a boom through your canopy and die.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_refueling
Yes, but only for the duration of the refueling. Then they move off to a safer distance. Maintaining close formation with large aircraft over multi-hour-long flights simply is not done.
That would be parental involvement and the emphasis that individual Asian families put on academic success. In most of America, there aren't strong enough Asian local communities to really influence students. They just live too immersed in white, black or hispanic communities to feel much influence of Asian culture outside their home.
But I agree that the excessiv emphasis on sports and other interests that is so common in America is not helpful for the long-term success of most minority students and their families. For that matter, its not helpful for most white families.
That said, club or school team sports are a good thing for students who can participate. They teach kids that persistence pays off, that practice is important and that by working with others, you can achieve more than you can by yourself. But that you have to take those lessons into the classroom because 99.9% of the opportunities to have a career are in something other than sports and of those, 90% require a solid education. Less than 0.5% of all high school athletes will have an opportunity to even get hired in professional sports and of those, many will wash out in the first couple of years.
However, if you have pretty good talent and work very hard, there's a chance of getting a college scholarship. If you can do that, you've earned a free education, but even if you're in an NCAA division 1 college, your chances of making it to the pros are slim, so you should study something that will be your career, assuming that you will not make it to the pros even if you think you are the best guy on the field.