My dentist is a beekeeper and sells honey at his office. He says that honey is naturally anti-bacterial and doesn't cause tooth decay because it's the acid generated by bacteria that damages tooth enamel.
Easy enough to test: eat a mouthful of honey, and then take an oral swab. Test it for bacteria.
The reason that honey is anti-bacterial is simple osmotic pressure: the sugar concentration is so high that bacteria get dehydrated. Pure sugar works exactly the same way. Dilution, no shock, cancels out the effect.
However, a dentist selling honey as a tooth preservative? Might be a good business plan.
If you're going to reboot a universe, do it like Doctor Who did it, and not like Star Trek. Respect the decades of canon, and you have a built in fan base. Change the authors, the visual style, whatever, just don't mess with canon.
Canon is the problem. Canon cruft, if you will. For instance, the hopelessly tangled canon behind Barry Allen was the main reason they killed him off in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Now, admitting that I've been following DC off and on for more than 50 years (yup), my opinion may not be remotely related to marketability but here it is:
Comics are mythology. Mythology has no continuity. The details change from year to year and audience to audience so as to address the cultural needs of the time and place. You can always make up new stories in the mythos. If anything is constant, it's character: Zeus is the perpetual playboy who can't keep it zipped, Hera is the jealous wife who can't do anything about hubby so she takes it out on the tootsies and bastards, Hermes is a trickster, etc.
Were I in charge (and we can all be thankful I'm not), the DC Universe would be much more like the perennial movie versions in that each cycle exists as a snapshot in time. To the extent that there is continuity, it ages rapidly -- the details of anything more than a year old are vague, and anything more than three years old might as well have never happened.
Oh yeah - this was also happening with eco-tomatoes. Apparently contaminated by using the cow dung from a non-biological farm.
Possibly, but not necessarily. Bacteria get around without trucks, after all. For just one example, there are these amazingly efficient biological product dispersion systems called "birds." Directly implicated in at least one widespread episode of salmonella contamination -- of peanut products, as I recall.
Every day, virii and bacteria are evolving to become immune to traditional treatment.
With a very few exceptions [1], standard treatment for viral infections is supportive care. Your own immune system is stuck with the job, possibly with a bit of advanced training via vaccines. Fortunately, none of the few post-infection treatments for viral diseases are being abused the way antibiotics are, so it's just the same old evolutionary arms race that's been going on for the last billion years or so.
[1] Notable exception: HAART for HIV. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Of course, I may be biased (says/me looking at a recent surgical scar and remembering the discussions with my surgeon of antibiotic-resistant postsurgical infections.)
Next, maybe some of our environmental guardians will do something about fracking...
Brownstein Hyatt -- apparently a firm that does a lot of business with the gaming industry. The thought of big Italian lawyers in pinstriped suits comes to mind, but to be honest my first thought was of an obscure single practitioner in California and my second was of the enormous firm of Morrison Foerstner. And yes, if you follow the link, that really is what the firm call themselves. With some justice.
No, sorry. 200 ns (flight time for 100 foot cables) is negligible. HDMI doesn't have critical round-trip timing and it's relatively insensitive to skew between conductor groups.
The only difference between cables that really matters is dispersion (frequency-dependent losses.) A difference of 1 dB/meter in loss between cables is going to make quite a difference at 30 meters. However, I wouldn't bet one way or the other on which brands have better or worse loss characteristics.
if they could apply the same reasoning to require a minimum serum testosterone level. Or maybe a maximum level of integumental melanin. After all, the same test applies to everyone.
Drive another 20 miles away from the city and you will see more stars than 90+% of the first world's population has seen in their life.
20 miles further out and I'm still in Wal-Mart territory (Cave Creek.)
Now, 90 miles further out and Phoenix is just a glow on the horizon. About like sunset, really -- you can actually see Orion on a clear night. To see the Milky Way, though, you have to be farther than that. Like Show Low or Pinetop. Once I'm on the White Mountain Apache reservation the sky starts to be really worthwhile, and it only takes a four-hour drive.
I live in Phoenix, thank you, and 20 miles from the middle of town on the opposite side of a mountain range I can see my way around the house at night without lights -- and with the blinds closed.
They can publish anything they write in the Discovery Institute's journals. If necessary, the DiscoTute will create new journals for the purpose (same as the homeopathy whackjobs do, for example.) Likewise, they'll get plenty of grant money from BillyBob's Revelation Society.
Why not President Obama? Unlike his Nobel Prize, he's actually done something to deserve this one.
After promising us the most transparent Administration ever, he's actually (hard as it is to believe) racked up a worse record on FOIA requests than the Bush43 administration, set new records in cracking down on whistleblowers, and (to top it off) actually taken to torturing a political prisoner to fudge up a case against WikiLeaks for doing the exact same thing that the New York Times did [1].
[1] No, not the whole bit about knowingly publishing Administration lies -- that's totally cool and the fact that Wiki doesn't play that kind of ball may be part of the reason that they're in the Administration black book.
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My dentist is a beekeeper and sells honey at his office. He says that honey is naturally anti-bacterial and doesn't cause tooth decay because it's the acid generated by bacteria that damages tooth enamel.
Easy enough to test: eat a mouthful of honey, and then take an oral swab. Test it for bacteria.
The reason that honey is anti-bacterial is simple osmotic pressure: the sugar concentration is so high that bacteria get dehydrated. Pure sugar works exactly the same way. Dilution, no shock, cancels out the effect.
However, a dentist selling honey as a tooth preservative? Might be a good business plan.
Well, the Egyptians certainly aren't pre-civilisation, but I doubt they had white sugar, at least.
They most certainly had honey.
Somehow this reminds your humble geezer of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik.
Green Arrow would be in his 50s or 60s.
Way off. Ollie was doing impossible archery with crazy arrows when I was a kid in the 50s, and he wasn't a kid himself. Figure late 70s, minimum.
If you're going to reboot a universe, do it like Doctor Who did it, and not like Star Trek. Respect the decades of canon, and you have a built in fan base. Change the authors, the visual style, whatever, just don't mess with canon.
Canon is the problem. Canon cruft, if you will. For instance, the hopelessly tangled canon behind Barry Allen was the main reason they killed him off in Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Now, admitting that I've been following DC off and on for more than 50 years (yup), my opinion may not be remotely related to marketability but here it is:
Comics are mythology. Mythology has no continuity. The details change from year to year and audience to audience so as to address the cultural needs of the time and place. You can always make up new stories in the mythos. If anything is constant, it's character: Zeus is the perpetual playboy who can't keep it zipped, Hera is the jealous wife who can't do anything about hubby so she takes it out on the tootsies and bastards, Hermes is a trickster, etc.
Were I in charge (and we can all be thankful I'm not), the DC Universe would be much more like the perennial movie versions in that each cycle exists as a snapshot in time. To the extent that there is continuity, it ages rapidly -- the details of anything more than a year old are vague, and anything more than three years old might as well have never happened.
Oh yeah - this was also happening with eco-tomatoes. Apparently contaminated by using the cow dung from a non-biological farm.
Possibly, but not necessarily. Bacteria get around without trucks, after all. For just one example, there are these amazingly efficient biological product dispersion systems called "birds." Directly implicated in at least one widespread episode of salmonella contamination -- of peanut products, as I recall.
Every day, virii and bacteria are evolving to become immune to traditional treatment.
With a very few exceptions [1], standard treatment for viral infections is supportive care. Your own immune system is stuck with the job, possibly with a bit of advanced training via vaccines. Fortunately, none of the few post-infection treatments for viral diseases are being abused the way antibiotics are, so it's just the same old evolutionary arms race that's been going on for the last billion years or so.
[1] Notable exception: HAART for HIV. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Next, maybe some of our environmental guardians will do something about fracking ...
Brownstein Hyatt -- apparently a firm that does a lot of business with the gaming industry. The thought of big Italian lawyers in pinstriped suits comes to mind, but to be honest my first thought was of an obscure single practitioner in California and my second was of the enormous firm of Morrison Foerstner. And yes, if you follow the link, that really is what the firm call themselves. With some justice.
The only difference between cables that really matters is dispersion (frequency-dependent losses.) A difference of 1 dB/meter in loss between cables is going to make quite a difference at 30 meters. However, I wouldn't bet one way or the other on which brands have better or worse loss characteristics.
And, yes, I speak from painful experience -- I worked on the JEDEC committees that Rambus abused.
if they could apply the same reasoning to require a minimum serum testosterone level. Or maybe a maximum level of integumental melanin. After all, the same test applies to everyone.
And, I wouldn't use anything from Arizona as a model for the rest of the nation!
Thank you SOOOO very much!
You can laugh -- I'm stuck living here. For at least a little while longer, anyway.
Although, to be fair, there's not a lot of room for manipulating his audiences.
Drive another 20 miles away from the city and you will see more stars than 90+% of the first world's population has seen in their life.
20 miles further out and I'm still in Wal-Mart territory (Cave Creek.)
Now, 90 miles further out and Phoenix is just a glow on the horizon. About like sunset, really -- you can actually see Orion on a clear night. To see the Milky Way, though, you have to be farther than that. Like Show Low or Pinetop. Once I'm on the White Mountain Apache reservation the sky starts to be really worthwhile, and it only takes a four-hour drive.
I live in Phoenix, thank you, and 20 miles from the middle of town on the opposite side of a mountain range I can see my way around the house at night without lights -- and with the blinds closed.
Which is a shame, actually, since GlamourMag bias is already a problem for academics.
The whole point is to force universities to teach creationism at the university level.
They can publish anything they write in the Discovery Institute's journals. If necessary, the DiscoTute will create new journals for the purpose (same as the homeopathy whackjobs do, for example.) Likewise, they'll get plenty of grant money from BillyBob's Revelation Society.
I give his administration a failing grade on this too, but I'd like to give Obama himself the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Bradley Manning.
If you're willing to do what it takes to get elected, you're probably not worth voting for.
And if you're not, you won't be elected.
Life's a bitch.
For a moment there I thought someone had gotten to him and we were going to have the Fourth Amendment back again.
After promising us the most transparent Administration ever, he's actually (hard as it is to believe) racked up a worse record on FOIA requests than the Bush43 administration, set new records in cracking down on whistleblowers, and (to top it off) actually taken to torturing a political prisoner to fudge up a case against WikiLeaks for doing the exact same thing that the New York Times did [1].
[1] No, not the whole bit about knowingly publishing Administration lies -- that's totally cool and the fact that Wiki doesn't play that kind of ball may be part of the reason that they're in the Administration black book.
Do you honestly believe that a handheld laser is shooting 1,000 kW?
1E6 watts times 1E-7 second is 100 mJ. A tenth of a watt-second is not exactly Hiroshima.
Pigeons don't stand a chance.