right. Same as in Legalese, "must" and "may" are freely interchangeable and imply choice, whereas "should" implies a mandate (what follows you have zero choice in, live with it). They have completely different meanings in English English.
"irregardless" is a double negative. Being a double neg in the same word is a logical redundancy, therefore invalidates both the ir- and the -less, leaving you the "regard". Taken in context, it literally means that whatever you're talking about has to consider what you're ostensibly trying to exclude.
uh... 1. the murder-for-hire thing isn't even in court yet, never mind proven beyond reasonable doubt, so you can't be saying that. Presumption of innocence, remember? The cornerstone of the US Constitution?
JN is a progression of Clause 61 Magna Carta. This says, basically, that a quarter of Barons may petition the King (who wrote the Law) and if they don't get satisfaction, bring him to public trial. Juries at that time (from the time of King alfred The Great) consisted of 25 men of virtue (soldiers, elders or knights), 25 because there could not be a hung vote, it was always a majority, which was reduced to 12 (majority was therefore 7) only in the latter part of the 19th Century. However you count a jury, a not guilty verdict was usually a blow for the lawmakers because juries were only called for capital crimes. When Parliament gained absolute sovereignty in 1911, they placed themselves above the Law of the Land, above Magna Carta, committed high treason against the King who could then do nothing about it because he'd just signed the country and his authority over it (via the Veto) to a gang of charlatans. As a result, no number of not guilty verdicts in jury trials is enough to get the law changed. Only direct action by the public gets the Law changed. Ref: the 1990 Poll Tax Riots.
or England where they're steering more and more toward summary findings of fact (hence of guilt) that don't need juries. You can be sen down for 25 years by ONE MAN who controls EVERY LAST LITTLE THING that goes on in "his" "court". Even to the point of closing the room to the public.
Justice? Don't make me fucking laugh. The final nail was pounded home on April 1 2006.
um... yeah.:) To answer your question, the one I pulled down was a massive torrent containing 180.ape CD images. Ran to shy of 120GB. After extraction and a bit of sorting, trimming the CPE Bach stuff out and the odd clearly_not_Bach track, I ended up with 84GB of uncompressed musical bliss. My portable (as in mp3 player I use while out) transcodings run to 5866 files, 16.7GB, and that's representative of pretty much every piece JS ever wrote that was ever committed to permanent audio recording (including the Goldberg Variations).
The thing with Bach is, he wrote pretty much for every mood. Really, unless you're a packrat there is no "One Collection" of JSB, there are Choral collections, there's Chamber, Organ, Harpsichord, Solo, String, Hymn, Duets, Dirges, Celebratories, and of course the various Variations (Goldberg, Rieu, Ohrdruf, to name three rather extensive and diverse ones) which were all written purely to entertain by using JSB's music to evoke emotion (any kind of emotion from helpless laughter, joyful dancing, to open and unashamed weeping) in the listening audience.
the placental barrier (a simple selectively perrmeable membrane but mechanically extremely complex) prevents anything the size of a DNA strand from passing to the fetus. By comparison, a molecule of D-glucose is miniscule. A surrogate mother only provides a warm wet environment and all the nutrients a fetus can absorb, the genetic makeup of the fetus is already established and fixed.
radiation resistance: the skin. Stops or inhibits most types of harmful radiation, can even utilise some part of the EM spectrum (UV to create Vitamin D3). What the skin can't take care of, usually the capsule does quite adequately. And if you inhale or ingest a radiological source, no amount of radiation hardening is going to help you.
Mineralisation: As I said, a UV source helps here. Add a calcium supplement if necessary, and an exercise regime and you can stay in a microgravity environment for MONTHS.
There is NO need for genetic manipulation that we do not know what any side effects are going to be, if we already have a perfectly adequate physical solution to the problem.
that's the one ^^ I was referring to in my other comment in this thread. It allows stem cell research for practically any kind of human genetic research but it specifically bans the creation of viable embryos using specified genetic manipulation.
there would be a commonly recognised textual clue like a ~ if I wasn't being serious. I listen to a lot of progressive (rock, dance, metal) as well, I keep going back to Bach because... well, I don't know. I just do. "Pop" doesn't do it for me at all, but then I guess that's the Aspie in me demanding more than the dreck that Cowell spooges up into the bodies of those plastic teenagers he has dancing around the stage in their underwear.
"adopt a healthy child"? Let's see, this is THE SAME SICK mentality that says "let's fuck with the genome and dump what doesn't work". NOBODY has the RIGHT to pick and choose their ideal child. No child asked to be born, all they ask is to be treated with RESPECT as HUMAN BEINGS. This goes from Johnny the Ten Second School Athlete to Billy the One-Eyed Quadriplegic Wonder. When I see these websites that peddle blue eyed, blonde haired, perfect physique kids "wanting: adoption" with a £33,000 price tag(!) I feel physically sick, because I know that 95% of these kids have living relatives (most often NATURAL PARENTS!) who DO want them in their lives, who love them and miss them and are in a state of perpetual grief because their children have been STOLEN for a SELLERS MARKET of PAEDOPHILES. I know this shit because I have been right in the middle of it, I live it EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY with grieving parents and survivors of these sick rings.
I'm going to step off now because of all the topics ever to hit slashdot, this is the one that gets me in my pit.
you don't have to match donors because mitochindria haven't mutated in about a billion years. They're functionally and structurally identical now to what they were when eukaryotes first slupped their way across the mud pools. Mitochondria either work or they don't, it's a binary condition since mitochondria have but a single function: to convert chemical potential to usable forms of energy. As such, mitichondrial DNA is exclusively passed along the maternal line - because a: it doesn't need to pool multiple genotypes, and b: it makes possible monoecious or asexual reproduction (plant cloning and bee colonies). This is part of the reason why you hear about the search for "Mitochondrial Eve", the mother of mothers of the Human species.
An entirely British invention, as reflected in the 50p commemorative stamp, exported to the US via "Family Planning", co-opted by the Nazis as "Lebensborn" and the Final Solution, now brought back into Britain via the legislative back door, circumventing the global moratorium on fucking with the human genome.
Fuck this shit, Lillian Greenwood is getting a letter from me.
"There was no change in the combined incidence of the other stages of the disease, and the overall mortality only increased from 2.16 to 2.54 cases per 100,000 per year We therefore conclude that the large increase in reported incidence is likely to be due to diagnostic drift, which classifies benign lesions as stage 1 melanoma."
Yes. A fucking mild sunburn is being reported as a full blown skin cancer, regardless of whether or not it actually develops into a cancer (the incidence of which remains UNCHANGED in the last thirty years - or certainly within sampling error range).
"Over the years, several studies have confirmed that appropriate sun exposure actually helps prevent skin cancer. In fact, melanoma occurrence has been found to decrease with greater sun exposure, and can be increased by sunscreens.
"One of the most important facts you should know is that an epidemic of the disease has in fact broken out among indoor workers. These workers get three to nine times LESS solar UV exposure than outdoor workers get, yet only indoor workers have increasing rates of melanoma — and the rates have been increasing since before 1940."
There's a lot of information in that article, that I'm not going to paste here, that you NEED to read, take on board, do your OWN research, ask questions of the experts (I am not one), and for fuck's sake do not get taken in any more by the bullshit you're being fed via the BBC/Fox/whothefuckever.
high speed impact with a fucking bus will kill you. I'm not avoiding the sun because of some unproven and frankly paranoid risk at the expense of my ability to properly metabolise an essential nutrient to satisfy the fucking pharmaceutical industry.
now my eldest son is talking about buying his parents a house.
The fuck did I do to deserve that??
(his besties have gone on from state secondary to community college, the unemployment register, dead end shelf-stacking and zero hours contracts, even jail, he's buying his mom and dad a fucking HOUSE!?)
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right. Same as in Legalese, "must" and "may" are freely interchangeable and imply choice, whereas "should" implies a mandate (what follows you have zero choice in, live with it). They have completely different meanings in English English.
you rent land or property (such as a house or barn), you hire movable objects such as cars and boats.
a twelve hour Frasier marathon?
"irregardless" is a double negative. Being a double neg in the same word is a logical redundancy, therefore invalidates both the ir- and the -less, leaving you the "regard". Taken in context, it literally means that whatever you're talking about has to consider what you're ostensibly trying to exclude.
Spank you, happy helpy.
expanding hollowpoint ammunition is illegal in war, yet US soldiers in Iraq have been caught with it.
I hope you apply the same standards of "justice" to your "heroes" as you do to "scumbags".
uh... 1. the murder-for-hire thing isn't even in court yet, never mind proven beyond reasonable doubt, so you can't be saying that. Presumption of innocence, remember? The cornerstone of the US Constitution?
2. There is no 2.
JN is a progression of Clause 61 Magna Carta. This says, basically, that a quarter of Barons may petition the King (who wrote the Law) and if they don't get satisfaction, bring him to public trial. Juries at that time (from the time of King alfred The Great) consisted of 25 men of virtue (soldiers, elders or knights), 25 because there could not be a hung vote, it was always a majority, which was reduced to 12 (majority was therefore 7) only in the latter part of the 19th Century. However you count a jury, a not guilty verdict was usually a blow for the lawmakers because juries were only called for capital crimes. When Parliament gained absolute sovereignty in 1911, they placed themselves above the Law of the Land, above Magna Carta, committed high treason against the King who could then do nothing about it because he'd just signed the country and his authority over it (via the Veto) to a gang of charlatans. As a result, no number of not guilty verdicts in jury trials is enough to get the law changed. Only direct action by the public gets the Law changed. Ref: the 1990 Poll Tax Riots.
or England where they're steering more and more toward summary findings of fact (hence of guilt) that don't need juries. You can be sen down for 25 years by ONE MAN who controls EVERY LAST LITTLE THING that goes on in "his" "court". Even to the point of closing the room to the public.
Justice? Don't make me fucking laugh. The final nail was pounded home on April 1 2006.
if all you want is casual entertaining with JSB I highly recommend the Andre Rieu concerts, it's available pretty much everywhere that sells music.
um... yeah. :) To answer your question, the one I pulled down was a massive torrent containing 180 .ape CD images. Ran to shy of 120GB. After extraction and a bit of sorting, trimming the CPE Bach stuff out and the odd clearly_not_Bach track, I ended up with 84GB of uncompressed musical bliss. My portable (as in mp3 player I use while out) transcodings run to 5866 files, 16.7GB, and that's representative of pretty much every piece JS ever wrote that was ever committed to permanent audio recording (including the Goldberg Variations).
The thing with Bach is, he wrote pretty much for every mood. Really, unless you're a packrat there is no "One Collection" of JSB, there are Choral collections, there's Chamber, Organ, Harpsichord, Solo, String, Hymn, Duets, Dirges, Celebratories, and of course the various Variations (Goldberg, Rieu, Ohrdruf, to name three rather extensive and diverse ones) which were all written purely to entertain by using JSB's music to evoke emotion (any kind of emotion from helpless laughter, joyful dancing, to open and unashamed weeping) in the listening audience.
Thalidomide's coming back - as an antidepressant for pregnant women.
Fuck.
I thought the link was going to be for Basket Case.
Never mind.
the placental barrier (a simple selectively perrmeable membrane but mechanically extremely complex) prevents anything the size of a DNA strand from passing to the fetus. By comparison, a molecule of D-glucose is miniscule. A surrogate mother only provides a warm wet environment and all the nutrients a fetus can absorb, the genetic makeup of the fetus is already established and fixed.
radiation resistance: the skin. Stops or inhibits most types of harmful radiation, can even utilise some part of the EM spectrum (UV to create Vitamin D3). What the skin can't take care of, usually the capsule does quite adequately. And if you inhale or ingest a radiological source, no amount of radiation hardening is going to help you.
Mineralisation: As I said, a UV source helps here. Add a calcium supplement if necessary, and an exercise regime and you can stay in a microgravity environment for MONTHS.
There is NO need for genetic manipulation that we do not know what any side effects are going to be, if we already have a perfectly adequate physical solution to the problem.
that's the one ^^ I was referring to in my other comment in this thread. It allows stem cell research for practically any kind of human genetic research but it specifically bans the creation of viable embryos using specified genetic manipulation.
the moratorium is on creating viable embryos through genetic manipulation and selection. Sorry, I don't have a citation for you.
there would be a commonly recognised textual clue like a ~ if I wasn't being serious. I listen to a lot of progressive (rock, dance, metal) as well, I keep going back to Bach because... well, I don't know. I just do. "Pop" doesn't do it for me at all, but then I guess that's the Aspie in me demanding more than the dreck that Cowell spooges up into the bodies of those plastic teenagers he has dancing around the stage in their underwear.
"adopt a healthy child"?
Let's see, this is THE SAME SICK mentality that says "let's fuck with the genome and dump what doesn't work". NOBODY has the RIGHT to pick and choose their ideal child. No child asked to be born, all they ask is to be treated with RESPECT as HUMAN BEINGS. This goes from Johnny the Ten Second School Athlete to Billy the One-Eyed Quadriplegic Wonder. When I see these websites that peddle blue eyed, blonde haired, perfect physique kids "wanting: adoption" with a £33,000 price tag(!) I feel physically sick, because I know that 95% of these kids have living relatives (most often NATURAL PARENTS!) who DO want them in their lives, who love them and miss them and are in a state of perpetual grief because their children have been STOLEN for a SELLERS MARKET of PAEDOPHILES. I know this shit because I have been right in the middle of it, I live it EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY with grieving parents and survivors of these sick rings.
I'm going to step off now because of all the topics ever to hit slashdot, this is the one that gets me in my pit.
you don't have to match donors because mitochindria haven't mutated in about a billion years. They're functionally and structurally identical now to what they were when eukaryotes first slupped their way across the mud pools. Mitochondria either work or they don't, it's a binary condition since mitochondria have but a single function: to convert chemical potential to usable forms of energy. As such, mitichondrial DNA is exclusively passed along the maternal line - because a: it doesn't need to pool multiple genotypes, and b: it makes possible monoecious or asexual reproduction (plant cloning and bee colonies). This is part of the reason why you hear about the search for "Mitochondrial Eve", the mother of mothers of the Human species.
you'd be fucked if your mitochondria didn't work, they're the power cell for your entire organic system.
An entirely British invention, as reflected in the 50p commemorative stamp, exported to the US via "Family Planning", co-opted by the Nazis as "Lebensborn" and the Final Solution, now brought back into Britain via the legislative back door, circumventing the global moratorium on fucking with the human genome.
Fuck this shit, Lillian Greenwood is getting a letter from me.
https://www.melanoma.org/find-...
"There was no change in the combined incidence of the other stages of the disease, and the overall mortality only increased from 2.16 to 2.54 cases per 100,000 per year We therefore conclude that the large increase in reported incidence is likely to be due to diagnostic drift, which classifies benign lesions as stage 1 melanoma."
Yes. A fucking mild sunburn is being reported as a full blown skin cancer, regardless of whether or not it actually develops into a cancer (the incidence of which remains UNCHANGED in the last thirty years - or certainly within sampling error range).
"Over the years, several studies have confirmed that appropriate sun exposure actually helps prevent skin cancer. In fact, melanoma occurrence has been found to decrease with greater sun exposure, and can be increased by sunscreens.
"One of the most important facts you should know is that an epidemic of the disease has in fact broken out among indoor workers. These workers get three to nine times LESS solar UV exposure than outdoor workers get, yet only indoor workers have increasing rates of melanoma — and the rates have been increasing since before 1940."
There's a lot of information in that article, that I'm not going to paste here, that you NEED to read, take on board, do your OWN research, ask questions of the experts (I am not one), and for fuck's sake do not get taken in any more by the bullshit you're being fed via the BBC/Fox/whothefuckever.
high speed impact with a fucking bus will kill you. I'm not avoiding the sun because of some unproven and frankly paranoid risk at the expense of my ability to properly metabolise an essential nutrient to satisfy the fucking pharmaceutical industry.
now my eldest son is talking about buying his parents a house.
The fuck did I do to deserve that??
(his besties have gone on from state secondary to community college, the unemployment register, dead end shelf-stacking and zero hours contracts, even jail, he's buying his mom and dad a fucking HOUSE!?)
how about a giraffe with GORD?