I thought that lead had four stable isotopes that WON'T transmute. If you bombard them, they just decay back to lead right away. Anyone know for sure?
Now if you could mimic a supernova, you could make any element you want! w00t!
I think this has been done before. Was it called Ringworld? . Seriously, the plot of Halo wasn't special enough to make me want to read MORE about it. There just aren't any characters that interested me. It's fun for multi-player, but the campiagn is tedious. Not near as cool / involving as system shock or marathon.
But hey, anything that gets kids to turn off the TV and READ is a GOOD THING (TM), especially if they discover the great Ringworld series
You are just the kind of ass-hat that doctors hate. If a doctor is fine with a first name basis, then whatever, but with all time, work and sacrifice that they have devoted to their profession, calling them Doctor isn't "cowering", it's just simple respect and politeness. Inferiority complex, hmm?
As for leaving if you are not seen within 15 minutes of your appointment time, who do you think you are, the Pope? If you don't get seen exactly on time, it's not because the doctor and nurses aren't working fast enough, but most likely because somebody came in with complications.
If you came in with a broken arm, how would you feel if the doctor left halfway through setting it, because he/she had a patient to see at 2:00 on the dot. Doctors prioritize their time as best they can. For you to leave them a hole in their schedule because you were to impatient is incredibly disrespectful of their time, and it costs the whole organization money which you should by all rights pay. If you're still to hot-headed to wait, only schedule the first appointment of the day or the first after lunch, then you should not have to wait.
You seem to have glossed over the previously stated fact that doctors currently work ridiculous hours for relatively little money. Many doctors just can't afford to see fewer patients. I know many doctors who have to work past lunch at feverish pace just to break even. HMOs and insurance companies are constantly pushing doctors to see even more patients. Couple that with the rising cost of malpractice insurance (currently putting many doctors out of business. Thank the lawyers), and being a doctor is becoming more like working in a sweatshop.
Two things to consider:
One: The director of Attack of the Clones is the same person who directed The Phantom Meanace, so we can assume that the directing style and quality will not change much.
Two: We should compare both scripts, and see if this script is actually better.
If the Attack of the Clones script is better than the Phantom Meanace script, then I think we have cause for exitement. If it turns out that the Phantom Meanace scrip is just as good or, God forbid, better, then we should all just form a good ol' fashioned mob and storm Lucas's ranch. I'm sure my wiffle bat could beat some sense into him...
...Species wrong. I somehow managed to mix it up between Anthrax bacilli (a descriptive term) and Bacillus Anthracis (the genus and species). My bad. point is, it's nasty, potent stuff, but not the worst out there when it comes to mass death. Back to studying.
No, the searches will not be constitutional just because they are passed into law. The supreme court gets to decide on that matter. If they are passed, which seems likely, the ACLU will probably wait until the hysterics settle, then mount a huge campaign to over turn them. Since these new laws likely violate large chunks of what some of us lovingly call "constitutional rights" they will hopefully be tossed out like the garbage that they are. It's just to bad that they will be on the books for any time at all, and that we will have to waste the good time and money to get rid of them.
At the kick-ass Whitman College (www.whitman.edu) I'm now taking microbiology as well as Islamic civ. This has provided me with some nice insight into recent events, so getting to the point:
One mL of a liquid Anthrax culture probably contains well over 30 million cells of Bacillus Anthrax (I've done counts of related bacteria). If just those cells were induced into sporulation, dried, and ground so that the clusters were of the right size to inhale (weaponized), a sandwich baggy would be over-kill. If distributed into the HVAC system, everyone in the building would likely be infected. Fortunately, while anthrax is easy to culture (most bacteria are), it is fairly difficult to
weaponize properly.
If they were to use smallpox though, things would be far uglier. If someone managed to bring a concentrated sample of smallpox virus in to a big show and stationed themselves strategically, they could probably infect half the people. The nasty bit is that those infected people would then go home and start infecting everyone they came into contact with for the next 10 days, without knowing, while the virus incubated. After 10 days, the show people would start to get REAL sick, while the people that they infected would run around for another 10 days, infecting more people. INSTANT epidemic, since vaccinations were stopped over 30 years ago
It's like a pyramid scheme, but instead of money you get a nasty, disfiguring, sometimes fatal disease.
--
"I think the best medicine for the human soul is kind words, chicken soup,
and lots of whiskey."
- Professor Ashfield
Non biased? Riiight... After a good overview, it seems that this site (while rehashing the same old Chiro-dogma that has been
refuted so many times) is nothing but a blatant advertisement for Chiropractic treatment. Just look at this:
Q: When should a child have their first chiropractic visit?
A: The earlier the better. Remember...
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has
been linked in part (according to several
European studies) to subluxations of the
Atlas/axis (the first two cervical vertebrae.)
Q: Who needs chiropractic care?
A: Everyone can benefit from modern, safe, effective, and painless chiropractic care.
Unbiased my ass. It's little more than scare tactics and hucksterism. CLASSIC quackery.
Look, scientific research doesn't support chiropractic treatment for anything other than sore back muscles (and it's a hell of a lot
more expensive than massage). Chiropractors used to take x-ray films of spines to satisfy insurance companies, but now they admit
that the very basis of chiropractic, the "subluxations", can't be detected with conventional imaging. In fact, their existence has never
even been proven. Why? because they don't exist! Quackery! Try www.quackwatch.com for the scientific evidence that proves and disproves modern methods of medicine.
A bit offtopic here: I like the junkscience.com site, but when they say Gamma radiation is what you get from an X-ray, I begin to wonder. Anyone who has taken high-school physics should know that X-rays and Gamma rays take up two separate chunks of the spectrum, just like IR and UV. Yeah, it's nitpicky,but I expect better out of a them.
Speaking as as Bio-Chem Bio-Physics student, I think this article was a bit hasty in it's conclusion. We have found 30,000 genes, some of them can make multiple protein through post-modifications, but those modifications are limited somewhat. This is beneficial because understanding of the components that make up the proteins will be advanced if we have more examples of the components working together in different ways in similar or related proteins. Also, just because the 30,000 number is the hot number now doesn't mean we wont find more genes later. Indead, some researchers claim to have found more allready, and many in the field beleive we will find more as we continue to study the genome.
This author should have heeded his own words in saying that we are a long way off from understanding the genome. It's too soon to make many firm conclusions.
I remember the good old, old, old days of Magic, because I grew up in the town where it was created, Walla Walla WA., where Garfield taught at the fine institution of Whitman College.
Growing up, I used to play games with playtesters, designers, art coordinators, people cards were modeled after, and Garfield himself all in the upstairs loft area of a downtown craft store just blocks from my house. It was fairly close-knit: at any one time I would know almost all of the people there, though it never was much bigger than 14 or 15 at the best. A family friend who worked for Wizards used to give my brother, my friend and me packs of Arabians, Alphas or Betas for doing yard work or other tasks.
My brother and I, and a few of our friends were hooked. We bought countless cards, boxes and boxes, back when they were only sold in a handful of shops, occasionally cleaning out the inventory between three or four of us. Cards were all we ever asked for. I have dozens of autographed cards; many that were signed because I won them on ante, most because the people who signed them didn't expect much to ever come out of the game. I didn't expect much either, and I have kicked my self on occasion for not capitalizing on it better by selling when the selling was good. Oh well. The point is, everyone was taken by surprise by the explosion of popularity.
Magic faded from the spotlight. Now all those cards are in boxes in my parents' house. The original crew has moved away (save for one very sketchy dude who I see at the Safeway every once in a while). The friendly old craft store... now a cold and corporate Starbucks. I am now a student (as is one of my best friends from those Magic days) at the wonderful Whitman College (Bio-physics Bio-chem combined major). I've told people here this story, kids who grew up elsewhere playing Magic, no one believes me. All the evidence has evaporated, and It isn't mentioned anywhere in the "history". One day, out of the blue, came vindication: my friend (whom I have know since those days) stumbled across one of Garfield's old tests, still on file.
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I thought that lead had four stable isotopes that WON'T transmute. If you bombard them, they just decay back to lead right away. Anyone know for sure?
Now if you could mimic a supernova, you could make any element you want! w00t!
I think this has been done before. Was it called Ringworld? . Seriously, the plot of Halo wasn't special enough to make me want to read MORE about it. There just aren't any characters that interested me. It's fun for multi-player, but the campiagn is tedious. Not near as cool / involving as system shock or marathon.
But hey, anything that gets kids to turn off the TV and READ is a GOOD THING (TM), especially if they discover the great Ringworld series
You are just the kind of ass-hat that doctors hate. If a doctor is fine with a first name basis, then whatever, but with all time, work and sacrifice that they have devoted to their profession, calling them Doctor isn't "cowering", it's just simple respect and politeness. Inferiority complex, hmm?
As for leaving if you are not seen within 15 minutes of your appointment time, who do you think you are, the Pope? If you don't get seen exactly on time, it's not because the doctor and nurses aren't working fast enough, but most likely because somebody came in with complications.
If you came in with a broken arm, how would you feel if the doctor left halfway through setting it, because he/she had a patient to see at 2:00 on the dot. Doctors prioritize their time as best they can. For you to leave them a hole in their schedule because you were to impatient is incredibly disrespectful of their time, and it costs the whole organization money which you should by all rights pay. If you're still to hot-headed to wait, only schedule the first appointment of the day or the first after lunch, then you should not have to wait.
You seem to have glossed over the previously stated fact that doctors currently work ridiculous hours for relatively little money. Many doctors just can't afford to see fewer patients. I know many doctors who have to work past lunch at feverish pace just to break even. HMOs and insurance companies are constantly pushing doctors to see even more patients. Couple that with the rising cost of malpractice insurance (currently putting many doctors out of business. Thank the lawyers), and being a doctor is becoming more like working in a sweatshop.
Two things to consider:
One: The director of Attack of the Clones is the same person who directed The Phantom Meanace, so we can assume that the directing style and quality will not change much.
Two: We should compare both scripts, and see if this script is actually better.
If the Attack of the Clones script is better than the Phantom Meanace script, then I think we have cause for exitement. If it turns out that the Phantom Meanace scrip is just as good or, God forbid, better, then we should all just form a good ol' fashioned mob and storm Lucas's ranch. I'm sure my wiffle bat could beat some sense into him...
TIMMMMMAY!!!!!
...Species wrong. I somehow managed to mix it up between Anthrax bacilli (a descriptive term) and Bacillus Anthracis (the genus and species). My bad. point is, it's nasty, potent stuff, but not the worst out there when it comes to mass death. Back to studying.
No, the searches will not be constitutional just because they are passed into law. The supreme court gets to decide on that matter. If they are passed, which seems likely, the ACLU will probably wait until the hysterics settle, then mount a huge campaign to over turn them. Since these new laws likely violate large chunks of what some of us lovingly call "constitutional rights" they will hopefully be tossed out like the garbage that they are. It's just to bad that they will be on the books for any time at all, and that we will have to waste the good time and money to get rid of them.
At the kick-ass Whitman College (www.whitman.edu) I'm now taking microbiology as well as Islamic civ. This has provided me with some nice insight into recent events, so getting to the point:
One mL of a liquid Anthrax culture probably contains well over 30 million cells of Bacillus Anthrax (I've done counts of related bacteria). If just those cells were induced into sporulation, dried, and ground so that the clusters were of the right size to inhale (weaponized), a sandwich baggy would be over-kill. If distributed into the HVAC system, everyone in the building would likely be infected. Fortunately, while anthrax is easy to culture (most bacteria are), it is fairly difficult to
weaponize properly.
If they were to use smallpox though, things would be far uglier. If someone managed to bring a concentrated sample of smallpox virus in to a big show and stationed themselves strategically, they could probably infect half the people. The nasty bit is that those infected people would then go home and start infecting everyone they came into contact with for the next 10 days, without knowing, while the virus incubated. After 10 days, the show people would start to get REAL sick, while the people that they infected would run around for another 10 days, infecting more people. INSTANT epidemic, since vaccinations were stopped over 30 years ago
It's like a pyramid scheme, but instead of money you get a nasty, disfiguring, sometimes fatal disease.
--
"I think the best medicine for the human soul is kind words, chicken soup,
and lots of whiskey."
- Professor Ashfield
Non biased? Riiight... After a good overview, it seems that this site (while rehashing the same old Chiro-dogma that has been
refuted so many times) is nothing but a blatant advertisement for Chiropractic treatment. Just look at this:
Q: When should a child have their first chiropractic visit?
A: The earlier the better. Remember...
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has
been linked in part (according to several
European studies) to subluxations of the
Atlas/axis (the first two cervical vertebrae.)
Q: Who needs chiropractic care?
A: Everyone can benefit from modern, safe, effective, and painless chiropractic care.
Unbiased my ass. It's little more than scare tactics and hucksterism. CLASSIC quackery.
Look, scientific research doesn't support chiropractic treatment for anything other than sore back muscles (and it's a hell of a lot
more expensive than massage). Chiropractors used to take x-ray films of spines to satisfy insurance companies, but now they admit
that the very basis of chiropractic, the "subluxations", can't be detected with conventional imaging. In fact, their existence has never
even been proven. Why? because they don't exist! Quackery! Try www.quackwatch.com for the scientific evidence that proves and disproves modern methods of medicine.
A bit offtopic here: I like the junkscience.com site, but when they say Gamma radiation is what you get from an X-ray, I begin to wonder. Anyone who has taken high-school physics should know that X-rays and Gamma rays take up two separate chunks of the spectrum, just like IR and UV. Yeah, it's nitpicky,but I expect better out of a them.
GC-mass spect, FTIR! RI, UV, NMR! I'm a spectroscopy whore! Yeah team!
Speaking as as Bio-Chem Bio-Physics student, I think this article was a bit hasty in it's conclusion. We have found 30,000 genes, some of them can make multiple protein through post-modifications, but those modifications are limited somewhat. This is beneficial because understanding of the components that make up the proteins will be advanced if we have more examples of the components working together in different ways in similar or related proteins. Also, just because the 30,000 number is the hot number now doesn't mean we wont find more genes later. Indead, some researchers claim to have found more allready, and many in the field beleive we will find more as we continue to study the genome.
This author should have heeded his own words in saying that we are a long way off from understanding the genome. It's too soon to make many firm conclusions.
I remember the good old, old, old days of Magic, because I grew up in the town where it was created, Walla Walla WA., where Garfield taught at the fine institution of Whitman College.
Growing up, I used to play games with playtesters, designers, art coordinators, people cards were modeled after, and Garfield himself all in the upstairs loft area of a downtown craft store just blocks from my house. It was fairly close-knit: at any one time I would know almost all of the people there, though it never was much bigger than 14 or 15 at the best. A family friend who worked for Wizards used to give my brother, my friend and me packs of Arabians, Alphas or Betas for doing yard work or other tasks.
My brother and I, and a few of our friends were hooked. We bought countless cards, boxes and boxes, back when they were only sold in a handful of shops, occasionally cleaning out the inventory between three or four of us. Cards were all we ever asked for. I have dozens of autographed cards; many that were signed because I won them on ante, most because the people who signed them didn't expect much to ever come out of the game. I didn't expect much either, and I have kicked my self on occasion for not capitalizing on it better by selling when the selling was good. Oh well. The point is, everyone was taken by surprise by the explosion of popularity.
Magic faded from the spotlight. Now all those cards are in boxes in my parents' house. The original crew has moved away (save for one very sketchy dude who I see at the Safeway every once in a while). The friendly old craft store... now a cold and corporate Starbucks. I am now a student (as is one of my best friends from those Magic days) at the wonderful Whitman College (Bio-physics Bio-chem combined major). I've told people here this story, kids who grew up elsewhere playing Magic, no one believes me. All the evidence has evaporated, and It isn't mentioned anywhere in the "history". One day, out of the blue, came vindication: my friend (whom I have know since those days) stumbled across one of Garfield's old tests, still on file.
That, and there's always WINE, which is improving as it ages..