Seems to me that the DoJ is using subpoenas as a substitiue for hiring expert witnesses. I'm not sure why a judge allows a party in a civil suit to subpoena a third party.
I suspect that Microsoft refuses if for no other reason than the USG is a BIG customer, and sooner or later the USG would realise "If MS does it for us, who else would they do it for?" which would open a can of worms MS would rather stay closed.
The problem seems to be that the human genome is about 3.2 GB of raw data. In order for the data to be useful, you have to be able to find the genes your interested in. Lets say your interested in genes involved with MS; so you take a hundred sequences of people with MS and a hundred sequences of people without. Now you have to compare them to find chunks (can't be sure how big to make the chunks either) of data the one group have in common to the exclusion of the other, in other words you have to crunch through 1.024e21 bytes of data that's got mistakes in it and random noise In the past and present Google has proven pretty good at indexing large noisey datasets, but this might be beyond them.
This is especially poignant when the research for some new drug used native knowledge in its discovery in the first place. THIS IS PRIOR ART! What normaly happens is the researchers take the native remedy, analyse it to find the active ingrediants, test the ingrediants to find the ones that are responsible for the main effect. Then they invent a way to synthesise the main active ingrediant and patent that, frequently they synthesise artificial analogs and test them to find chemicals with a stronger effects and patent these treatments. using the tribal remedy for the purpose intended is prior art; making the active ingrediant artificaly is not prior art; make new active ingrediants is not prior art!
well let's see, the human genome,chromosome 01 is 273.78 MB, 02 is 245.99 MB, 03 is 217.22 MB, 04 is 198.55 MB, 05 is 195.78 MB, 06 is 179.86 MB, 07 is 164.90 MB, 08 is 143.76 MB, 09 is 140.12 MB, 10 is 142.14 MB, 11 is 146.32 MB, 12 is 143.55 MB, 13 is 116.27 MB, 14 is 104.87 MB, 15 is 082.40 MB, 16 is 084.66 MB, 17 is 088.47 MB, 18 is 083.14 MB, 19 is 070.44 MB, 20 is 066.66 MB, 21 is 044.55 MB, 22 is 047.29 MB, X is 154.95 MB, Y is 066.91 MB, so that's about 3.2GB of data per person X 6 billion people which gives a a number of about 1.92*10^19bytes, or 153.6 exabits, or 100 google.com's of data! I'm sure we could not generate/transfer enough power to run and cool the computers to store that much data in one datacenter.
I almost bought "Bioinfomatics for Dummies", but realised there was nothing in it I couldn't get from a couple googles and google would probably point to source code and data too.
Yeah but the drug companies also come up empty a lot of times too, it's not infrequently that a remedy that the shaman makes is different because not only does it contain the main active ingrediant, but often contain analogs that potentiate the effect, not to mention the ritual effect. My shaman insists that store-bought chamomile tea is fine, but insists that the ecchinatia (cone flower) must be grown by you and is best when used fresh.
even the biopirate site seemed to be using the term very ambiguously, one set of awards are for GMing patented seeds so that they couldn't be copied, another is for merely patenting GMed seeds while Google is being villified for allegedly open-sourcing the genome and possibley establishing a "prior art" database that might raise the bar for patentability a few notches.
I'm very worried about GMed crops cross-contaminating traditional and even heirloom crops, and the appearnet ability of the big seed companies to convince the courts that any contamination is evidence of piracy; but third-world farmers also have to realise that what works good in huge and intensive North American Agri-business, might not be a good fit for a small subsistance plots.
you're definately right if all of the stress is caused by thermal stress, but I assumed that magnetic induced fields arround the filament, was the problem. when the induced field is collapsing and the filament's current is reversing which would cause it to vibrate mechanicaly. I've seen slow-motion movies of a filament doing this at start-up and assume the vibration continues to some extent during operation. One thing I've noticed is "long-life" industrial bulbs have straight filaments rather than the typical coiled filaments which would generate stronger induced fields and vibration. Even with rectified AC, the inductance and capacitance of the wires would do some smoothing, perhaps if I still had time to work in the dark-room I'd add an inductor and a couple big capacitors to even the power out even more.
How can I efficiently error check 15 choices, How about the non-partisan portion of the ballet like the a state's supreme court justices, it'll have 7 candidates, 3 of which you've even heard of (which is usualy a bad thing), and the instruction are to vote for 5 out of the 7! Our voting machines used to be mechanical and you could pull the straight ticket to vote for all republicans/democrat, the move the individual levers to make a few changes and you were done; with machine read paper ballots, it's all or nothing, a mistake means start over or your vote could be thrown out.
yea right Genisis says on the first day G_D rested. The reason christians go to church on sunday is because it was the day people went to the village to do their marketing and business. People had money on them that day so church was in the morning and the market opened in the afternoon; easter being on sunday was a good excuse for the change. Too many people confuse the excuse for something with the reason for something.
I'd be happy if they just had one or two elections a year rather than any tuesday the school board thinks that only senior citizens who don't pay the taxes being voted one are likely to turn out.
Ever swing your keys on a string to generate some doppler? How about lighting steel-wool on a stick in the beam? One time I was crawling on the shop floor looking for a dropped resistor and got shocked, nobody believed me until I got the multimeter to show them there was a 208VAC between two sections of concrete. I guess if EMF could hurt you, I'd have died a long time ago.
I suspect that the vast majority of people who think they are sensitive to EMF fields are not, of people who are truely sensitive to EMF fields, I'd guess that most have an amalgam dental filling that needs replacing, a few have some pins and plates in their bones, and one in a million have a rare magnetophore configuration in their cells. If it were anything more than that then every time there was a lightning strike within 5 miles, people would be dropping like pigeons in "The Core".
That would be the fly-back coil, it pulls the electron beam back and forth horivontaly across the crt at 15KHz in TV and 30-150KHz in computer monitors. TV flybacks are definately in the audible range, older units where the windings have loosened are very annoying.
To be interesting, I suggest that the experimenter be lied to, half of the trials the off position of the switch should turn the device on, and half the times turn it off; of course the test subjects should be "lied" to half of the time in each trial so we'd know if the experimenter's belief is more significant than the subjects belief.
Maybe it's like naturalpathy; I saw a series of experiments on TV where naturalpathic remedies always displayed objectively measured effects on human cells using automated measuring devices in single blind experiments! You'd think that because they were using automated measuring, that experimenter bias would have minimal effect and the experimenter's were biased against the effect. The weirdnest thing is when the experiment was changed to double blind, the machine detected no resonse to the remedies.
T. Edison was actualy a big proponant of DC power, posibly because incandesent light bulb fillements frequently fail due to metal fatigue cause by stresses imposed by AC electricity. My photo enlarger used a rather expensive bulb which I fed rectified AC power , increasing longevity and made getting accurate color prints much easier. I know that the Hydro-elecrtic power plants that Edison designed for Ford at Fairlane Manor, and the Ford Estate out by where I grew up all outputed DC. Edison grew up in my home town and I lived in the same neighborhood as he did; the train station he used to leae on to sell newspapers on between Port Huron and Detroit still exsists and has been turned into an Edison Museum. My grandfather was an engineer for the Detroit Edison Co. and I inhereted most of his "Cycopedia of Engineering cr. 1912 and the majority of the electrical topics are DC current orientated.
lynching might not be that farfetched for a jew in Mississippi during the '50's, especialy one who had trouble blending in with main-stream society. A neighboring state, Lousianna had a governor David Duke, who was a KKK Grand Dragon and said durring the '70's said
"It's really the Jew Marxists who see the nigger as their instrument, as their bullets, by which to destroy our society."- The Sun (Wichita, KS), April 23, 1975
If you think that's bad look at orphan drugs; the US government can literaly do all the research, and clinical trials, then hand the drug off to a company as an orphan drug, the company then sells the drug at horrendous profits, I've heard of a lady, who sometimes asks herself if "today was a $2048.00 day", because that's what her medicine costs.
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No, the internal emptiness is the problem, and people will fill it with video games, porn, crack, sex or whatever else ....
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I thought discovery was between the involved parties.
Seems to me that the DoJ is using subpoenas as a substitiue for hiring expert witnesses. I'm not sure why a judge allows a party in a civil suit to subpoena a third party.
They don't have black helicopters, just very dark blue ones that look black; have to have plausable deniability you know.
We got plans to invade every country on the face of the earth and a couple thousand that don't exsist, so don't feel special or anything.
I suspect that Microsoft refuses if for no other reason than the USG is a BIG customer, and sooner or later the USG would realise "If MS does it for us, who else would they do it for?" which would open a can of worms MS would rather stay closed.
The problem seems to be that the human genome is about 3.2 GB of raw data. In order for the data to be useful, you have to be able to find the genes your interested in. Lets say your interested in genes involved with MS; so you take a hundred sequences of people with MS and a hundred sequences of people without. Now you have to compare them to find chunks (can't be sure how big to make the chunks either) of data the one group have in common to the exclusion of the other, in other words you have to crunch through 1.024e21 bytes of data that's got mistakes in it and random noise
In the past and present Google has proven pretty good at indexing large noisey datasets, but this might be beyond them.
This is especially poignant when the research for some new drug used native knowledge in its discovery in the first place. THIS IS PRIOR ART!
What normaly happens is the researchers take the native remedy, analyse it to find the active ingrediants, test the ingrediants to find the ones that are responsible for the main effect. Then they invent a way to synthesise the main active ingrediant and patent that, frequently they synthesise artificial analogs and test them to find chemicals with a stronger effects and patent these treatments.
using the tribal remedy for the purpose intended is prior art;
making the active ingrediant artificaly is not prior art;
make new active ingrediants is not prior art!
well let's see, the human genome ,chromosome
01 is 273.78 MB, 02 is 245.99 MB, 03 is 217.22 MB, 04 is 198.55 MB, 05 is 195.78 MB,
06 is 179.86 MB, 07 is 164.90 MB, 08 is 143.76 MB, 09 is 140.12 MB, 10 is 142.14 MB,
11 is 146.32 MB, 12 is 143.55 MB, 13 is 116.27 MB, 14 is 104.87 MB, 15 is 082.40 MB,
16 is 084.66 MB, 17 is 088.47 MB, 18 is 083.14 MB, 19 is 070.44 MB, 20 is 066.66 MB,
21 is 044.55 MB, 22 is 047.29 MB, X is 154.95 MB, Y is 066.91 MB,
so that's about 3.2GB of data per person X 6 billion people which gives a a number of about 1.92*10^19bytes, or 153.6 exabits, or 100 google.com's of data! I'm sure we could not generate/transfer enough power to run and cool the computers to store that much data in one datacenter.
I almost bought "Bioinfomatics for Dummies", but realised there was nothing in it I couldn't get from a couple googles and google would probably point to source code and data too.
Yeah but the drug companies also come up empty a lot of times too, it's not infrequently that a remedy that the shaman makes is different because not only does it contain the main active ingrediant, but often contain analogs that potentiate the effect, not to mention the ritual effect.
My shaman insists that store-bought chamomile tea is fine, but insists that the ecchinatia (cone flower) must be grown by you and is best when used fresh.
even the biopirate site seemed to be using the term very ambiguously, one set of awards are for GMing patented seeds so that they couldn't be copied, another is for merely patenting GMed seeds while Google is being villified for allegedly open-sourcing the genome and possibley establishing a "prior art" database that might raise the bar for patentability a few notches.
I'm very worried about GMed crops cross-contaminating traditional and even heirloom crops, and the appearnet ability of the big seed companies to convince the courts that any contamination is evidence of piracy; but third-world farmers also have to realise that what works good in huge and intensive North American Agri-business, might not be a good fit for a small subsistance plots.
you're definately right if all of the stress is caused by thermal stress, but I assumed that magnetic induced fields arround the filament, was the problem. when the induced field is collapsing and the filament's current is reversing which would cause it to vibrate mechanicaly. I've seen slow-motion movies of a filament doing this at start-up and assume the vibration continues to some extent during operation. One thing I've noticed is "long-life" industrial bulbs have straight filaments rather than the typical coiled filaments which would generate stronger induced fields and vibration.
Even with rectified AC, the inductance and capacitance of the wires would do some smoothing, perhaps if I still had time to work in the dark-room I'd add an inductor and a couple big capacitors to even the power out even more.
c) blow jobs technicaly are not sex in a biological context of the word
but Hillary seemed to disagree.
We get the opposite, our seniors get property tax rebates, so they don't care how much I pay
How can I efficiently error check 15 choices,
How about the non-partisan portion of the ballet like the a state's supreme court justices, it'll have 7 candidates, 3 of which you've even heard of (which is usualy a bad thing), and the instruction are to vote for 5 out of the 7! Our voting machines used to be mechanical and you could pull the straight ticket to vote for all republicans/democrat, the move the individual levers to make a few changes and you were done; with machine read paper ballots, it's all or nothing, a mistake means start over or your vote could be thrown out.
yea right Genisis says on the first day G_D rested. The reason christians go to church on sunday is because it was the day people went to the village to do their marketing and business. People had money on them that day so church was in the morning and the market opened in the afternoon; easter being on sunday was a good excuse for the change. Too many people confuse the excuse for something with the reason for something.
I'd be happy if they just had one or two elections a year rather than any tuesday the school board thinks that only senior citizens who don't pay the taxes being voted one are likely to turn out.
Ever swing your keys on a string to generate some doppler? How about lighting steel-wool on a stick in the beam? One time I was crawling on the shop floor looking for a dropped resistor and got shocked, nobody believed me until I got the multimeter to show them there was a 208VAC between two sections of concrete.
I guess if EMF could hurt you, I'd have died a long time ago.
I suspect that the vast majority of people who think they are sensitive to EMF fields are not, of people who are truely sensitive to EMF fields, I'd guess that most have an amalgam dental filling that needs replacing, a few have some pins and plates in their bones, and one in a million have a rare magnetophore configuration in their cells. If it were anything more than that then every time there was a lightning strike within 5 miles, people would be dropping like pigeons in "The Core".
That would be the fly-back coil, it pulls the electron beam back and forth horivontaly across the crt at 15KHz in TV and 30-150KHz in computer monitors. TV flybacks are definately in the audible range, older units where the windings have loosened are very annoying.
To be interesting, I suggest that the experimenter be lied to, half of the trials the off position of the switch should turn the device on, and half the times turn it off; of course the test subjects should be "lied" to half of the time in each trial so we'd know if the experimenter's belief is more significant than the subjects belief.
Maybe it's like naturalpathy; I saw a series of experiments on TV where naturalpathic remedies always displayed objectively measured effects on human cells using automated measuring devices in single blind experiments! You'd think that because they were using automated measuring, that experimenter bias would have minimal effect and the experimenter's were biased against the effect. The weirdnest thing is when the experiment was changed to double blind, the machine detected no resonse to the remedies.
T. Edison was actualy a big proponant of DC power, posibly because incandesent light bulb fillements frequently fail due to metal fatigue cause by stresses imposed by AC electricity. My photo enlarger used a rather expensive bulb which I fed rectified AC power , increasing longevity and made getting accurate color prints much easier. I know that the Hydro-elecrtic power plants that Edison designed for Ford at Fairlane Manor, and the Ford Estate out by where I grew up all outputed DC.
Edison grew up in my home town and I lived in the same neighborhood as he did; the train station he used to leae on to sell newspapers on between Port Huron and Detroit still exsists and has been turned into an Edison Museum.
My grandfather was an engineer for the Detroit Edison Co. and I inhereted most of his "Cycopedia of Engineering cr. 1912 and the majority of the electrical topics are DC current orientated.
If you think that's bad look at orphan drugs; the US government can literaly do all the research, and clinical trials, then hand the drug off to a company as an orphan drug, the company then sells the drug at horrendous profits, I've heard of a lady, who sometimes asks herself if "today was a $2048.00 day", because that's what her medicine costs.