To the Likers, a single fertilized cell has full human rights. The Choicers punt until birth, leaving the debate with a huge excluded middle.
We have put a lot of thought into determining when life ends, and what we have decided on is cessation of brain activity. Why not define the start of brain activity, about six weeks in, as when life begins?
He means molten salt. This is being used in some thermal solar plants, such as Ivanpah in California, to store power for off hours.
What plans does Dubai have to get around the low-output problem that is plaguing Ivanpah, which is located in the same desert climate zone and is a short transmission line away from large energy markets?
Meanwhile, I set an alarm on my iPhone by saying, "Wake me at 5 am." I presume the Watch has the same interface. The Watch will become more useful as its horsepower improves to the extent that Siri can do more things on it.
Because developers for the two major platforms actually care how about the usability of the GUI of their products. The layout and usability of buttons, icons, popup hints, fill-in boxes and choices all affect the degree of affection or contempt with which Windows and OS X users will treat your application. These are people who haven't used a command line in years, other than to occasionally paste in lines pasted from fix-it sites. On Linux, the only interface where you can 'support everybody' is the command line.
And yes, I'm aware that the let-them-eat-kale purists tell us that this is what real Linux users should stick to.
Why do people keep confusing single payer with all-government medicine? The two concepts are not necessarily related.
Being able to buy medicine and contract for care in bulk saves a lot of money on marketing and distribution costs. This should be available to any mass buyer, public or private.
"4) curtail the power of the FDA. The FDA does more harm than good."
The FDA performs the vital function of getting new compounds and devices tested, but I would strip it of the power to keep products off the market. Let "FDA Approved" be taken as a gold standard of quality for those who insist on it, while allowing patients to try drugs that are still in the testing process if they and their doctors want to take the risk. And for approved medications, putting an end to the FDA's ability to support the pharma monopoly would allow Americans to shop overseas for branded drugs - the real thing, not knockoffs - exactly as we shop for electronics. The effect on prices would be similar.
"3) kill all malpractice lawyers. A doctor practising in good faith should never ever be sued"
Until you come across that one flagrant case of malpractice that you really want to pursue.
Malpractice actions are civil suits, and reform of this whole area of law would be a better solution. My reform would be to eliminate the procedural advantages to the lawyer lobby that civil procedure has over the much stiffer standards of criminal procedure. Require a unanimous jury vote for the plaintiff in civil trials, rather than a majority vote, and on a 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard of evidence, rather than 'preponderance of evidence'. Eliminate all the junk forms of evidence, such as hearsay, that civil procedure permits but criminal procedure does not. These changes would place a civil plaintiff in the same position as a prosecutor in criminal trials. Junk cases are filtered out, while no one is denied access to the courts.
"Trump's nomination actually gives me some hope for the future of America. The so-called Republican Party has become a travesty of itself"
The fragmentation of the old parties into a larger number of new ones: Christians, nationalists, libertarians, identitarians, businessmen, socialists and more - is an opportunity to found a science-tech oriented new grouping of our own. If we can find a way to organize this without the taint of corporate influence, we have a new party.
This is relevant because the compute-intensive nature of the finding explains why this has not been done before. So what are the implications for reactor design, physicists?
Remember when you proudly acquired your first bigscreen? You gave the old CRT set away to a thrift. A year or tw later, you replaced the bedroom set and the guest room set. What you found then is that charities no longer take working CRTs, and neither do landfills. Neither do recycling centers, even those special electronics days they have periodically. You can't throw a CRT away.
The garages of America can supply the "bricks" for the UAE's mountain. This is a business opportunity waiting.
The article lacks detail, but I've heard this scheme expressed as being a row of large balloons holding up a fabric sheet, which hopefully wouldn't blow away in the first haboob.
I'm not making this up, but...Paris. You can be walking down a downtown thoroughfare like the Boul' Mich, and a mini tanker truck zips into a parking space and sets itself up as an instant filling station, complete with a big ESSENCE sign just like the conventional gas stations.
Unity would be a good candidate, but if you were about to put the effort into developing major new software, would you roll the dice on developing for Unity? Or would you rather go with Windows or OS X?
Choice is an essential element of any market, but 285 distributions (according to distrowatch.com) is ridiculous. It's not so much that users can't make rational choices, given the lush availability of online reviews, but that developers can't rely on there being a small number of canonical user interfaces they can write for.
Except for the fragmentation problem, the slowness of uptake is not Linux' fault. It tends to get installed on elderly PCs that "won't run Windows anymore." Small wonder that a machine so old that only XP supports all the hardware finds a lot of its hardware features unsupported by Linux either. So the geezer Linux system gets used as a file server or as an experimental machine.
What Linux adoption needs is more new PCs that come with a good Linux distribution, like Mint.
"They have realized that Smartwatches are not technology products, they are fashion accessories."
Smartwatches are not fashion accessory watches. Watch geeks pay extra for complex mechanical movements that are not as accurate as low-budget quartz because a mechanical movement is a work of art in its own right. If smartwatches are going to take off as a category, they have to do something irreplaceably useful, like being able to continuously monitor blood pressure, pulse and glucose in cooperation with iPhone apps. The sensor capability this takes is not quite here yet.
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To the Likers, a single fertilized cell has full human rights. The Choicers punt until birth, leaving the debate with a huge excluded middle.
We have put a lot of thought into determining when life ends, and what we have decided on is cessation of brain activity. Why not define the start of brain activity, about six weeks in, as when life begins?
"There's an interesting documentary on Netflix about this called All Work All Play."
I just checked NF and it shows no such title. Was that right?
He means molten salt. This is being used in some thermal solar plants, such as Ivanpah in California, to store power for off hours.
What plans does Dubai have to get around the low-output problem that is plaguing Ivanpah, which is located in the same desert climate zone and is a short transmission line away from large energy markets?
Meanwhile, I set an alarm on my iPhone by saying, "Wake me at 5 am." I presume the Watch has the same interface. The Watch will become more useful as its horsepower improves to the extent that Siri can do more things on it.
Because developers for the two major platforms actually care how about the usability of the GUI of their products. The layout and usability of buttons, icons, popup hints, fill-in boxes and choices all affect the degree of affection or contempt with which Windows and OS X users will treat your application. These are people who haven't used a command line in years, other than to occasionally paste in lines pasted from fix-it sites. On Linux, the only interface where you can 'support everybody' is the command line.
And yes, I'm aware that the let-them-eat-kale purists tell us that this is what real Linux users should stick to.
Why do people keep confusing single payer with all-government medicine? The two concepts are not necessarily related.
Being able to buy medicine and contract for care in bulk saves a lot of money on marketing and distribution costs. This should be available to any mass buyer, public or private.
"4) curtail the power of the FDA. The FDA does more harm than good."
The FDA performs the vital function of getting new compounds and devices tested, but I would strip it of the power to keep products off the market. Let "FDA Approved" be taken as a gold standard of quality for those who insist on it, while allowing patients to try drugs that are still in the testing process if they and their doctors want to take the risk. And for approved medications, putting an end to the FDA's ability to support the pharma monopoly would allow Americans to shop overseas for branded drugs - the real thing, not knockoffs - exactly as we shop for electronics. The effect on prices would be similar.
"3) kill all malpractice lawyers. A doctor practising in good faith should never ever be sued"
Until you come across that one flagrant case of malpractice that you really want to pursue.
Malpractice actions are civil suits, and reform of this whole area of law would be a better solution. My reform would be to eliminate the procedural advantages to the lawyer lobby that civil procedure has over the much stiffer standards of criminal procedure. Require a unanimous jury vote for the plaintiff in civil trials, rather than a majority vote, and on a 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard of evidence, rather than 'preponderance of evidence'. Eliminate all the junk forms of evidence, such as hearsay, that civil procedure permits but criminal procedure does not. These changes would place a civil plaintiff in the same position as a prosecutor in criminal trials. Junk cases are filtered out, while no one is denied access to the courts.
"Trump's nomination actually gives me some hope for the future of America. The so-called Republican Party has become a travesty of itself"
The fragmentation of the old parties into a larger number of new ones: Christians, nationalists, libertarians, identitarians, businessmen, socialists and more - is an opportunity to found a science-tech oriented new grouping of our own. If we can find a way to organize this without the taint of corporate influence, we have a new party.
Slap? Heck, first I'd get all the men and ugly broads to leave the room... You can imagine what happens next.
The pretty girls would still ignore you, just as they do now.
Why is this shit in every thread?
Because we still have AC posting.
"How does water flowing on Mars affect my life or anyone else's in a meaningful way?"
No, water flowing on Mars does not affect the lives of AC trolls in any meaningful way.
This is relevant because the compute-intensive nature of the finding explains why this has not been done before. So what are the implications for reactor design, physicists?
If you have a fine old Eizo monitor that still has some life left in it, but what about all those plain broadcast TV sets?
Graphene is not exactly "in prevalence" yet. All we can do is produce experimental scraps of it.
Remember when you proudly acquired your first bigscreen? You gave the old CRT set away to a thrift. A year or tw later, you replaced the bedroom set and the guest room set. What you found then is that charities no longer take working CRTs, and neither do landfills. Neither do recycling centers, even those special electronics days they have periodically. You can't throw a CRT away.
The garages of America can supply the "bricks" for the UAE's mountain. This is a business opportunity waiting.
". The structure(s) would be hollow."
The article lacks detail, but I've heard this scheme expressed as being a row of large balloons holding up a fabric sheet, which hopefully wouldn't blow away in the first haboob.
"I wonder if starting a war between the US and China really is really such a promising perspective"
What makes you think that China still cares about North Korea?
A unified, prosperous Korea would represent an expanded market for Chinese stuff. Rotting corpses do not buy many iPhones.
Actually a nut bar would be a huge social advance in North Korea. One cashew is a week's rations for the average family.
I'm not making this up, but...Paris. You can be walking down a downtown thoroughfare like the Boul' Mich, and a mini tanker truck zips into a parking space and sets itself up as an instant filling station, complete with a big ESSENCE sign just like the conventional gas stations.
Unity would be a good candidate, but if you were about to put the effort into developing major new software, would you roll the dice on developing for Unity? Or would you rather go with Windows or OS X?
Choice is an essential element of any market, but 285 distributions (according to distrowatch.com) is ridiculous. It's not so much that users can't make rational choices, given the lush availability of online reviews, but that developers can't rely on there being a small number of canonical user interfaces they can write for.
"linux on the desktop is imminent"
Except for the fragmentation problem, the slowness of uptake is not Linux' fault. It tends to get installed on elderly PCs that "won't run Windows anymore." Small wonder that a machine so old that only XP supports all the hardware finds a lot of its hardware features unsupported by Linux either. So the geezer Linux system gets used as a file server or as an experimental machine.
What Linux adoption needs is more new PCs that come with a good Linux distribution, like Mint.
...Apple Maps, which was treated as a joke when it first came out, has gotten steadily better and is now markedly preferable to Google Maps.
"They have realized that Smartwatches are not technology products, they are fashion accessories."
Smartwatches are not fashion accessory watches. Watch geeks pay extra for complex mechanical movements that are not as accurate as low-budget quartz because a mechanical movement is a work of art in its own right. If smartwatches are going to take off as a category, they have to do something irreplaceably useful, like being able to continuously monitor blood pressure, pulse and glucose in cooperation with iPhone apps. The sensor capability this takes is not quite here yet.