Bill Gates studied the engineering behind it? I am so reassured...
Human waste contains heaps of harmful bacteria. If I am going to drink water recycled in this manner, I'd prefer to have the engineering studied by an independant water quality professional, say, an environmental engineer? And for the output water to be studied by health professionals and microbiologists. Some long term testing on how well the product holds up as the filters degrade would be nice too. That first glass may be clean and delicious, what about the the tenth, hundredth, or thousandth glass?
The recommendation of the former CEO of a software corporation (no matter how successful) doesn't really give me that high a level of confidence in the product.
Would you rather they tested it on some poor mouse?
The ECLSS Water Recycling System (WRS), developed at the MSFC, will reclaim waste waters from the Space Shuttle's fuel cells, from urine, from oral hygiene and hand washing, and by condensing humidity from the air. Without such careful recycling 40,000 pounds per year of water from Earth would be required to resupply a minimum of four crewmembers for the life of the station.
Not even research animals are excused from the program.
"Lab animals on the ISS breath and urinate, too, and we plan to reclaim their waste products along with the crew's. A full complement of 72 rats would equal about one human in terms of water reclamation," says Layne Carter, a water-processing specialist at the MSFC.
It might sound disgusting, but water leaving the space station's purification machines will be cleaner than what most of us drink on Earth.
"The water that we generate is much cleaner than anything you'll ever get out of any tap in the United States," says Carter. "We certainly do a much more aggressive treatment process (than municipal waste water treatment plants). We have practically ultra-pure water by the time our water's finished."
Same as "Ginger", the product that was supposed to change both transportation and the way we build cities. But the Segway is pretty much a segfault to the general population, and cities have banned it on their streets.
They lost $5 million
But it's not in real bucks
It's bitcoin bullion,
Uninsurable deposits - that sucks.
They're closing next month
But don't worry they said.
Your money's safe with us
Though our company's dead.
Unregulated "money"
is no money at all,
And so bitcoin's confidence
Takes another fall.
Or maybe they should remove the legs and re-install them. They were originally installed by astronauts in the space station - maybe someone made a mistake? Or some thin flexible printed wiring (like used to connect the laptop keyboard to the motherboard) broke.
It's kind of funny that everyone keeps saying that anti-oxidants are good for you, when studies show they're not (one of many links - you can google for more).
The assumption is that they prevent DNA damage by scrubbing the body of free radicals. This ignores a few things - I1) those free radicals are caused by damage that has already happened (cosmic ray hit, mutagen damaging DNA, etc); (2) removing the free radicals removes one of the signals the body needs to trigger either attempt repairs or if it's not possible trigger cell death; (3) the mechanisms for dealing with this damage have evolved over the course of a billion years, and have been optimized to ensure cellular survival only when cellular survival is the optimal solution.
People who go whole-hog on anti-oxidants accumulate more cells with uncorrected damage. Not a good thing.
Understanding the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in apoptosis opens new approaches for controlling cancer growth, and suggests that patients with cancer may not always want to ingest extra antioxidants. Many epidemiological studies suggest that increased intake of fruits and vegetables, and of other foods that contain antioxidants can protect against the DNA damage that can initiate carcinogenesis. However, recent data indicates that cells use reactive oxygen species as part of the signaling process responsible for activating an important mechanism for eliminating cancer cells, programmed cell death (also called apoptosis). Many anti-cancer agents depend on this form of cell death for their efficacy. In this review we present an overview of the role of ROS in carcinogenesis and in apoptosis, and we raise questions about the proper dietary recommendations for individuals with cancer.
For years, the Western world has marvelled at the so-called French Paradox, which points to the low incidence of coronary heart disease in that population despite their high-cholesterol and high-saturated fat diet. This has been attributed to their regular intake of red wine, with its high levels of resveratrol and other polyphenols.
But this latest study, which assessed a large group of Italians - who consume a diet rich in resveratrol - found that they do not live longer and are just as likely to develop cardiovascular disease or cancer as individuals who consume smaller amounts of the compound.
"The story of resveratrol turns out to be another case where you get a lot of hype about health benefits that doesn't stand the test of time," says Dr. Semba. "The thinking was that certain foods are good for you because they contain resveratrol. We didn't find that at all."
There's a lot of science that looks good and logical on the surface that doesn't stand up to long-term investigation. Anti-oxidants are like cold fusion, but people want to believe, so they ignore the negative evidence.
It's no big deal to add a leap second every once in a while. Most of our devices that have a time component synchronize time from a centralized source (the cell network, the internet) so you won't even notice. For the other stuff, like my microwave and coffee maker and stove, if it goes out of sync by a second every few years I won't notice because power failures are more often than that, and time only goes to hh:mm anyway.
No, it's not an asset, it's a money sink. I've spent money on something I love, and there's no reasonable way to recover that cash. Also, I already said I don't own vinyl anymore, I either threw it out or gave it away about 20 years ago.
The money you spent on it is a sunk cost. You got the enjoyment out of it to your money's worth. However, if you own the vinyl or CD, you can sell it and recover at least some of the money spent. You can also give it to your kids or friends, or leave it in your will. You can't do that with streaming music.
There's a qualitative difference between talking quietly on your phone in an area with nobody else near enough to overhear, and shouting into it like a maniac in a crowd. There definitely IS a reasonable expectation of privacy in the first case.
Instead of just audio, they should make a more flexible product - audio and video streams, able to connect to an HDTV via hdmi or whatever, or play on an included touch-sensitive screen, and an HDTV tuner so you're not limited to the Internet when you're on the go.
Can you point out anywhere where Mars or the researchers have claimed that Mars chocolate has significant health benefits? No? Science funded by industry is still science as long as the results are repeatable as part of a valid study. If you can't actually show that the science is bogus, perhaps you should just shut the fuck up with your whining.
"We are very encouraged by the findings presented during this symposium," said Harold Schmitz, Ph.D., Group Research Manager, Mars, Incorporated. "The clinical study results, together with those of earlier in vitro research findings, are very promising, and suggest that additional research is needed to further assess the potential cardiovascular health benefits of chocolate."
This is where the whole "Chocolate may be good for you" craze started 15 years agi - studies funded by Mars Inc. and talked up by one or their own employees.
I know that they need to get successful launches, but the ability to scrub at the last moment is more important than a "balls-to-the-wall-let's-go-anyway-can-do" attitude. Unlike in Hollywood, there's no room for space cowboys in space.
And of course, now that vinyl is making a comeback, you can get some money by selling your stuff. It's an asset, not like the streaming music, which is a liability.
You forgot - They will eventually seek to make more revenue by adding ads that cut into the first few and last few seconds of the song, making it useless to record while generating revenue.
I'm pretty sure he meant that the customer isn't paying one lump sum to one company for both the delivery of goods and for the goods themselves.
One of the arguments that often comes up over cable prices is that they have to pay to put all the cables in place and maintain them. For satellite, they had to pay boatloads to put a satellite in orbit. This makes somewhat of a separation between the two.
I'm pretty confused about why Dish would be the one doing this though. Adding dish subscribers doesn't cost them anything really (past licensing fees)... why not just lower the cost of that? I know its quite different but, if anything, the steaming service is more flexible and will cost them more for the delivery. The licensing rules/laws/agreements must be super fucked up.
Building and launching a satellite is a billion-dollar capital cost, that has to be amortized over the life of the satellite. For the same money over the next few years, they can gradually roll out a streaming service without having to put up all that capital in one chunk. Plus, if they stop using satellites, they can knock out the people pirating their signal.
Except that good people CAN communicate via any medium. We do it all the time on/.
They'll have more than one aspect of a problem to work on, or one problem to work on, and they'll just fire off an email about the current impasse, and go work on the other parts. If the project is so tightly coupled that's not possible, then the design is flawed - seriously flawed. Or if you have people only working on one tiny aspect and it becomes a roadblock to their productivity, you're not giving your people enough latitude or using them to the best efficiency - nobody likes working on just one little bit to the exclusion of all else, especially when working on various parts gives a better view of the problem domain and more informed decision-making.
In other words, if they need face-to-face communications, fire the manager and the person who hired them.
any that mention a certain file used to map host names to IP addresses
But then you don't get to see APK lose it again. The only person I know who scans multiple forums repeatedly to troll his crappy HOSTS file and engages in personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with him. He's like the Titanic - a lesson in how NOT to interact with people if you want to maintain any credibility.
would I love what you're talking about for the pharmacy. Oftentimes I'll go to pick up a prescription and see the line and just turn around and leave and try again later.
Doesn't your pharmacy give you a pager when you drop off your scrip and page you when your prescription is ready so you can wander around the mall or browse the other aisles of the store?
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"Do as we say, not as we do." History repeating itself, they're trying to get more customers to run what basically will amount to an extortion racket.
And the ancient Romans figured this out, and solved it.
How did all that lead in the plumbing work out for them again?
Bill Gates studied the engineering behind it? I am so reassured...
Human waste contains heaps of harmful bacteria. If I am going to drink water recycled in this manner, I'd prefer to have the engineering studied by an independant water quality professional, say, an environmental engineer? And for the output water to be studied by health professionals and microbiologists. Some long term testing on how well the product holds up as the filters degrade would be nice too. That first glass may be clean and delicious, what about the the tenth, hundredth, or thousandth glass?
The recommendation of the former CEO of a software corporation (no matter how successful) doesn't really give me that high a level of confidence in the product.
Would you rather they tested it on some poor mouse?
And it doesn't seem to be hurting the astronauts on the ISS (from the year 2000)
The ECLSS Water Recycling System (WRS), developed at the MSFC, will reclaim waste waters from the Space Shuttle's fuel cells, from urine, from oral hygiene and hand washing, and by condensing humidity from the air. Without such careful recycling 40,000 pounds per year of water from Earth would be required to resupply a minimum of four crewmembers for the life of the station.
Not even research animals are excused from the program.
"Lab animals on the ISS breath and urinate, too, and we plan to reclaim their waste products along with the crew's. A full complement of 72 rats would equal about one human in terms of water reclamation," says Layne Carter, a water-processing specialist at the MSFC.
It might sound disgusting, but water leaving the space station's purification machines will be cleaner than what most of us drink on Earth.
"The water that we generate is much cleaner than anything you'll ever get out of any tap in the United States," says Carter. "We certainly do a much more aggressive treatment process (than municipal waste water treatment plants). We have practically ultra-pure water by the time our water's finished."
Same as "Ginger", the product that was supposed to change both transportation and the way we build cities. But the Segway is pretty much a segfault to the general population, and cities have banned it on their streets.
But it's not in real bucks
It's bitcoin bullion,
Uninsurable deposits - that sucks.
They're closing next month
But don't worry they said.
Your money's safe with us
Though our company's dead.
Unregulated "money"
is no money at all,
And so bitcoin's confidence
Takes another fall.
Burma Shave
I can't remember. Does that version have the "Kill all humans" command built-in?
Hard to tell - we can't seem to locate any of the coders who wrote it.
Or maybe they should remove the legs and re-install them. They were originally installed by astronauts in the space station - maybe someone made a mistake? Or some thin flexible printed wiring (like used to connect the laptop keyboard to the motherboard) broke.
It's kind of funny that everyone keeps saying that anti-oxidants are good for you, when studies show they're not (one of many links - you can google for more).
The assumption is that they prevent DNA damage by scrubbing the body of free radicals. This ignores a few things - I1) those free radicals are caused by damage that has already happened (cosmic ray hit, mutagen damaging DNA, etc); (2) removing the free radicals removes one of the signals the body needs to trigger either attempt repairs or if it's not possible trigger cell death; (3) the mechanisms for dealing with this damage have evolved over the course of a billion years, and have been optimized to ensure cellular survival only when cellular survival is the optimal solution.
People who go whole-hog on anti-oxidants accumulate more cells with uncorrected damage. Not a good thing.
Understanding the role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in apoptosis opens new approaches for controlling cancer growth, and suggests that patients with cancer may not always want to ingest extra antioxidants. Many epidemiological studies suggest that increased intake of fruits and vegetables, and of other foods that contain antioxidants can protect against the DNA damage that can initiate carcinogenesis. However, recent data indicates that cells use reactive oxygen species as part of the signaling process responsible for activating an important mechanism for eliminating cancer cells, programmed cell death (also called apoptosis). Many anti-cancer agents depend on this form of cell death for their efficacy. In this review we present an overview of the role of ROS in carcinogenesis and in apoptosis, and we raise questions about the proper dietary recommendations for individuals with cancer.
Also note that the beneficial claims of anti-oxidants have been widely debunked using longterm double-blind experiments and here and even red wine fails the test
For years, the Western world has marvelled at the so-called French Paradox, which points to the low incidence of coronary heart disease in that population despite their high-cholesterol and high-saturated fat diet. This has been attributed to their regular intake of red wine, with its high levels of resveratrol and other polyphenols.
But this latest study, which assessed a large group of Italians - who consume a diet rich in resveratrol - found that they do not live longer and are just as likely to develop cardiovascular disease or cancer as individuals who consume smaller amounts of the compound.
"The story of resveratrol turns out to be another case where you get a lot of hype about health benefits that doesn't stand the test of time," says Dr. Semba. "The thinking was that certain foods are good for you because they contain resveratrol. We didn't find that at all."
There's a lot of science that looks good and logical on the surface that doesn't stand up to long-term investigation. Anti-oxidants are like cold fusion, but people want to believe, so they ignore the negative evidence.
No kidding - remember when phone booths were a thing? Maybe we need to bring those back.
Hey, maybe we could re-market them as "The cone of silence" to tap into people's nostalgia for odd TV references :-)
It's no big deal to add a leap second every once in a while. Most of our devices that have a time component synchronize time from a centralized source (the cell network, the internet) so you won't even notice. For the other stuff, like my microwave and coffee maker and stove, if it goes out of sync by a second every few years I won't notice because power failures are more often than that, and time only goes to hh:mm anyway.
No, it's not an asset, it's a money sink. I've spent money on something I love, and there's no reasonable way to recover that cash. Also, I already said I don't own vinyl anymore, I either threw it out or gave it away about 20 years ago.
The money you spent on it is a sunk cost. You got the enjoyment out of it to your money's worth. However, if you own the vinyl or CD, you can sell it and recover at least some of the money spent. You can also give it to your kids or friends, or leave it in your will. You can't do that with streaming music.
There's a qualitative difference between talking quietly on your phone in an area with nobody else near enough to overhear, and shouting into it like a maniac in a crowd. There definitely IS a reasonable expectation of privacy in the first case.
Instead of just audio, they should make a more flexible product - audio and video streams, able to connect to an HDTV via hdmi or whatever, or play on an included touch-sensitive screen, and an HDTV tuner so you're not limited to the Internet when you're on the go.
Can you point out anywhere where Mars or the researchers have claimed that Mars chocolate has significant health benefits? No? Science funded by industry is still science as long as the results are repeatable as part of a valid study. If you can't actually show that the science is bogus, perhaps you should just shut the fuck up with your whining.
Not everything is a nefarious scheme.
Is this guy good enough for you:"Harold Schmitz, Ph.D., Group Research Manager, Mars, Incorporated" at an American Association for the Advancement of Science symposium, February 2000
"We are very encouraged by the findings presented during this symposium," said Harold Schmitz, Ph.D., Group Research Manager, Mars, Incorporated. "The clinical study results, together with those of earlier in vitro research findings, are very promising, and suggest that additional research is needed to further assess the potential cardiovascular health benefits of chocolate."
Their press release the same day
This is where the whole "Chocolate may be good for you" craze started 15 years agi - studies funded by Mars Inc. and talked up by one or their own employees.
I know that they need to get successful launches, but the ability to scrub at the last moment is more important than a "balls-to-the-wall-let's-go-anyway-can-do" attitude. Unlike in Hollywood, there's no room for space cowboys in space.
They'll get it right when it's the right time.
And of course, now that vinyl is making a comeback, you can get some money by selling your stuff. It's an asset, not like the streaming music, which is a liability.
You forgot - They will eventually seek to make more revenue by adding ads that cut into the first few and last few seconds of the song, making it useless to record while generating revenue.
Oh look, it's the rare and wondrous Idiom Nazi.
Next he'll be complaining that you don't really "pinch to zoom."
I'm pretty sure he meant that the customer isn't paying one lump sum to one company for both the delivery of goods and for the goods themselves.
One of the arguments that often comes up over cable prices is that they have to pay to put all the cables in place and maintain them. For satellite, they had to pay boatloads to put a satellite in orbit. This makes somewhat of a separation between the two.
I'm pretty confused about why Dish would be the one doing this though. Adding dish subscribers doesn't cost them anything really (past licensing fees)... why not just lower the cost of that? I know its quite different but, if anything, the steaming service is more flexible and will cost them more for the delivery. The licensing rules/laws/agreements must be super fucked up.
Building and launching a satellite is a billion-dollar capital cost, that has to be amortized over the life of the satellite. For the same money over the next few years, they can gradually roll out a streaming service without having to put up all that capital in one chunk. Plus, if they stop using satellites, they can knock out the people pirating their signal.
Except that good people CAN communicate via any medium. We do it all the time on /.
They'll have more than one aspect of a problem to work on, or one problem to work on, and they'll just fire off an email about the current impasse, and go work on the other parts. If the project is so tightly coupled that's not possible, then the design is flawed - seriously flawed. Or if you have people only working on one tiny aspect and it becomes a roadblock to their productivity, you're not giving your people enough latitude or using them to the best efficiency - nobody likes working on just one little bit to the exclusion of all else, especially when working on various parts gives a better view of the problem domain and more informed decision-making.
In other words, if they need face-to-face communications, fire the manager and the person who hired them.
You're no person. You're an "it". A transsexual freak.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Any other pearls of wisdom regarding transsexuals?
(poke poke poke the troll)
any that mention a certain file used to map host names to IP addresses
But then you don't get to see APK lose it again. The only person I know who scans multiple forums repeatedly to troll his crappy HOSTS file and engages in personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with him. He's like the Titanic - a lesson in how NOT to interact with people if you want to maintain any credibility.
would I love what you're talking about for the pharmacy. Oftentimes I'll go to pick up a prescription and see the line and just turn around and leave and try again later.
Doesn't your pharmacy give you a pager when you drop off your scrip and page you when your prescription is ready so you can wander around the mall or browse the other aisles of the store?
I just want a clapper app, so it listens to ambient noise, and when I clap my hands, it rings so I can find it.