Those would be "building blocks of any organic molecule". These are adenine and guanine, molecules of a dozen or so atoms, as well as some other molecules related to them though not found in DNA.
It's a bit more active than a glass eye or plastic testicle: the leg does store and release energy. It's not just there for appearances.
But it's far from cybernetic. It has no computing power at all. And while it's very sophisticated in its design, it's ultimately a very simple device. It's no more cybernetic than a ratchet screwdriver.
That's a pretty good rule. Still, it's an unknown object, and that's mildly curious.
The fact that there's whinging about a "UFO" means that I'd be just as well off waiting until they go down and discover the perfectly ordinary object that's causing the signal. Some people enjoy the speculation beforehand, and that's fine.
Just not from the Daily Fail. Pick a less nauseating and less criminal source of unfounded speculation.
That would get you out some electricity. Building it as a continuously-operating system is somewhat trickier.
Even trickier than that is getting it into your house power grid, which means syncing up the AC and other EE-grade power issues. You can buy the device you need, but it would end up costing more than just buying power from the power company, and be less convenient. (Plus, he was doing it in an apartment, probably without direct access to the mains.)
He didn't want to generate power, just do a little tinkering. He might well have hooked it up to a junk generator at some point, just to prove he could, but it wasn't the point. And the authorities were right to get nervous about it: the materials are toxic as well as radioactive, and putting more lives at risk than his. Get yourself a shed in the middle of nowhere next time.
If I'm understanding their site correctly, it's also blocked by NoScript (or, for that matter, just turning JavaScript off).
There are many sites that are useless without Javascript, but it's hardly surprising to me that allowing a general-purpose programming language to run on your browser creates privacy problems. Many of those sites don't really need Javascript, and I block as much JS as possible. I've walked away from sites rather than turn on JS; that's both my loss and theirs.
That's right. The Higgs is necessary to explain how the electroweak carriers W and Z have mass. It also applies to strong forces (i.e. it also interacts with quarks), but it pops first out of electroweak theory.
According to a recently-published article, the actual loans were repaid. But more money was spent on it in a different form: money given in exchange for stock. That stock was finally sold at a net loss of $1.3B.
In theory, they could have continued to negotiate with Fiat to raise the price, but that would almost certainly have queered the deal. Alternatively, they could try to take the money out of the UAW's share, but that would just move the obligation to the Pension Benefit Guaranty, a different arm of the government. By ensuring pension benefits (a deal dating back to 1974), they effectively became on the hook for losses.
In theory that should have forced them to ensure that Chrysler was better managed, or at least raised the insurance rates; insurance always means moral hazard. In this case, the moral hazard tripped them up, and they effectively are simply realizing a loss that was incurred a long time ago.
Not so much an "ocean"; the water is in the form of vapor, not liquid. It doesn't even look like a cloud, which is condensed water droplets. The density is most likely lower than the best vacuum we've ever pulled on earth. It's a lot of water, but a LOT of space.
Different pot of money. And different goal: when the alternative was throwing a lot of workers out on the street all at once in the middle of a recession, the government was happy to spend a billion to keep those jobs.
Whether it is financially profitable in the long run is a different question, and it may simply delay the pain to another day. But it's not a case where ripping off the bandage all at once hurts less; confounding factors make it hurt more.
The Higgs self-interacts, like gluons do. Renormalization prevents it from becoming infinite, and it converges to a finite value, but it makes the math very ugly.
They'd have to build billions of them to have a noticeable effect. They have to be built fairly close to land; otherwise you can't get the power where you need it. The shorelines are a trivial fraction of the ocean, so even if you covered every shore with them you wouldn't absorb enough tidal energy to affect the motion of the earth.
Unlike the atmosphere, a thin layer of very non-dense air, you're talking about the motion of the entire earth, a vastly larger amount of mass, by a half-dozen orders of magnitude.
As with the atmosphere, you might be able to cause some environmental issues, but the planet as a whole doesn't much notice what we do.
Seeing its existence is an important confirmation of the Standard Model. In that sense, nothing happens when you find it, since we've been using the Standard Model for decades. It's not like we waited to confirm the whole thing before making predictions with it.
It would mean that we could STOP doing other things, i.e. looking at some alternatives to the Standard Model that don't incorporate the Higgs. (Or rather, incorporate different variations of the Higgs, including multiple Higgses.)
Once you find it, you can work on narrowing down its mass, which is something the Standard Model doesn't predict. Once you know that, you can start producing Higgs and see how it interacts with other particles. Again, when it confirms what you already suspect, it closes off some avenues of alternative research. Even better, when you find something unexpected, you start looking down that route.
Bernie Sanders seems an OK guy, but he seems to be on the Kucinich/Ron Paul conspiracy theory train. As far as I can tell, this "audit" turned up exactly the zilch expected.
Yeah, that's the way I saw it. Their streaming content is vastly better than when I first started using it. (In the early days it was just shy of useless.) I dropped my plan from 4 discs at a time to 3 because there is enough on streaming to fill in the times when I run out of discs. (Which isn't quite as often, since they started working Saturdays, another thing they didn't always do. That meant a disc watched Thursday night didn't get to them until Monday, and the next disc didn't arrive until Tuesday.)
It's still not nearly as good as it should be, and if they don't continue to improve I may yet drop the service. But for the moment I may drop to the two disc plan and still end up watching about the same amount of content as I did before.
As the other commenter and I just discovered, the interest rate was nearly 6%, and that's for a loan directly to a bank (i.e. the bulk discount). It might shave a bit off a mortgage, but it's not going to fix a deal in which you paid far too much for your house.
In return: the discount rate is very low now (.75%) but in August 2007, it was 5.75% for primary credit. (That is the lowered discounted rate; it had been 6.25% before that.)
OK, so they loaned out a truly epic amount of money. A reasonable thing to do during a crisis: you borrow money to get through the bad times, then you pay it back when times are better.
The questions are:
* Did they pay it back? * Did they pay interest? * How much?
I don't really care about the absolute dollar figure: this was an international crisis and the dollar figures are going to be proportional to the size of economies, which will measure in the trillions. As long as the net result was that the economy survived (which it did), that it didn't blow up inflation rates (which it didn't; inflation was negative for a while), and that in the end the books balance (thus my questions).
It may well be that the interest rates were so low as to be questionable, especially given that the banks have been giving nonexistent interest to depositors and have been very chary about turning that money around to investment. But I'm not going to wring my hands over the size of it. I'm more concerned about the terms.
In the West, certainly not. In China or Iran, however, I could see the government banning encrypted traffic. I'm a bit surprised they haven't already. At the very least, ban HTTPS and replace it with some other cryptosystem to which they hold the keys. It prevents them from foreign logins, but I thought they'd be OK with that.
A method of accessing applications for social networking, searching sharing and communication in a plurality of network(s), said method comprising the steps of:registering and/or integrating at least one application(s) from one or more networks at a central server by one or more application provider(s);selecting at least one registered application(s) by at least one user;installing said at least one selected application(s) at one or more networks as per predefined settings or preferences or user data; andpresenting at least one installed applications(s) and/or selective application(s) data to one or more users at one or more networks based on said predefined settings or preferences or user data or domain specific profiles.
and so on. I don't read patents for a living, but I can usually read them, and nothing in this one gets any traction at all that I can find. If you find something cogent in it, I'd love to hear it. Mostly what I see are vague, meaningless claims followed by a delusionally grandiose background (managing, I note, to misspell "kazaa" in the process).
Germs and yeasts aren't considered a problem by vegans, but you don't generally get transgenic yeasts just sitting around on food. That's the part that would concern many vegans.
Most vegans avoid transgenic food as well. This isn't really made from humans; it's a human gene expressed in yeast.
Avoiding transgenic food isn't mandatory for vegans. Many at least at margarine, made with highly processed fats, so they're not opposed to all technology. Still, I suspect this would get few takers.
Not that it matters. This isn't for food; it's for medical purposes. If they wanted vegan gelatin from transgenic yeasts they'd have made it from pig genes years ago.
In China, they can be pretty brutal at cracking down on movements they don't like, and they do it everywhere. That means that they don't have to focus on vulnerable spots, like airplanes.
Airplanes aren't the only vulnerable spots, but for some reason al Qaeda has a fetish for them, and the TSA focuses all of its efforts on that. That means that most of the time we get to ignore the TSA, but for those who do fall under their jurisdiction... well, bend over.
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Those would be "building blocks of any organic molecule". These are adenine and guanine, molecules of a dozen or so atoms, as well as some other molecules related to them though not found in DNA.
Actual press release with more science than TFA:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/dna-meteorites.html
It's a bit more active than a glass eye or plastic testicle: the leg does store and release energy. It's not just there for appearances.
But it's far from cybernetic. It has no computing power at all. And while it's very sophisticated in its design, it's ultimately a very simple device. It's no more cybernetic than a ratchet screwdriver.
That's a pretty good rule. Still, it's an unknown object, and that's mildly curious.
The fact that there's whinging about a "UFO" means that I'd be just as well off waiting until they go down and discover the perfectly ordinary object that's causing the signal. Some people enjoy the speculation beforehand, and that's fine.
Just not from the Daily Fail. Pick a less nauseating and less criminal source of unfounded speculation.
I came here to gripe about the same thing. If I'd realized that this was the Daily Fail, I wouldn't have clicked.
Here's the site of Team Ocean Explorer, who actually did the discovery:
http://www.oceanexplorer.se/videos.html
Those videos were posted on YouTube a month ago, so not only is this news-by-press-release, but it's OLDs-by-press-release.
That would get you out some electricity. Building it as a continuously-operating system is somewhat trickier.
Even trickier than that is getting it into your house power grid, which means syncing up the AC and other EE-grade power issues. You can buy the device you need, but it would end up costing more than just buying power from the power company, and be less convenient. (Plus, he was doing it in an apartment, probably without direct access to the mains.)
He didn't want to generate power, just do a little tinkering. He might well have hooked it up to a junk generator at some point, just to prove he could, but it wasn't the point. And the authorities were right to get nervous about it: the materials are toxic as well as radioactive, and putting more lives at risk than his. Get yourself a shed in the middle of nowhere next time.
If I'm understanding their site correctly, it's also blocked by NoScript (or, for that matter, just turning JavaScript off).
There are many sites that are useless without Javascript, but it's hardly surprising to me that allowing a general-purpose programming language to run on your browser creates privacy problems. Many of those sites don't really need Javascript, and I block as much JS as possible. I've walked away from sites rather than turn on JS; that's both my loss and theirs.
That's right. The Higgs is necessary to explain how the electroweak carriers W and Z have mass. It also applies to strong forces (i.e. it also interacts with quarks), but it pops first out of electroweak theory.
According to a recently-published article, the actual loans were repaid. But more money was spent on it in a different form: money given in exchange for stock. That stock was finally sold at a net loss of $1.3B.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-concludes-chrysler-rescue-with-sale-to-fiat/2011/07/21/gIQAzPDZSI_story.html
In theory, they could have continued to negotiate with Fiat to raise the price, but that would almost certainly have queered the deal. Alternatively, they could try to take the money out of the UAW's share, but that would just move the obligation to the Pension Benefit Guaranty, a different arm of the government. By ensuring pension benefits (a deal dating back to 1974), they effectively became on the hook for losses.
In theory that should have forced them to ensure that Chrysler was better managed, or at least raised the insurance rates; insurance always means moral hazard. In this case, the moral hazard tripped them up, and they effectively are simply realizing a loss that was incurred a long time ago.
Not so much an "ocean"; the water is in the form of vapor, not liquid. It doesn't even look like a cloud, which is condensed water droplets. The density is most likely lower than the best vacuum we've ever pulled on earth. It's a lot of water, but a LOT of space.
Different pot of money. And different goal: when the alternative was throwing a lot of workers out on the street all at once in the middle of a recession, the government was happy to spend a billion to keep those jobs.
Whether it is financially profitable in the long run is a different question, and it may simply delay the pain to another day. But it's not a case where ripping off the bandage all at once hurts less; confounding factors make it hurt more.
The Higgs self-interacts, like gluons do. Renormalization prevents it from becoming infinite, and it converges to a finite value, but it makes the math very ugly.
They'd have to build billions of them to have a noticeable effect. They have to be built fairly close to land; otherwise you can't get the power where you need it. The shorelines are a trivial fraction of the ocean, so even if you covered every shore with them you wouldn't absorb enough tidal energy to affect the motion of the earth.
Unlike the atmosphere, a thin layer of very non-dense air, you're talking about the motion of the entire earth, a vastly larger amount of mass, by a half-dozen orders of magnitude.
As with the atmosphere, you might be able to cause some environmental issues, but the planet as a whole doesn't much notice what we do.
Seeing its existence is an important confirmation of the Standard Model. In that sense, nothing happens when you find it, since we've been using the Standard Model for decades. It's not like we waited to confirm the whole thing before making predictions with it.
It would mean that we could STOP doing other things, i.e. looking at some alternatives to the Standard Model that don't incorporate the Higgs. (Or rather, incorporate different variations of the Higgs, including multiple Higgses.)
Once you find it, you can work on narrowing down its mass, which is something the Standard Model doesn't predict. Once you know that, you can start producing Higgs and see how it interacts with other particles. Again, when it confirms what you already suspect, it closes off some avenues of alternative research. Even better, when you find something unexpected, you start looking down that route.
Bernie Sanders seems an OK guy, but he seems to be on the Kucinich/Ron Paul conspiracy theory train. As far as I can tell, this "audit" turned up exactly the zilch expected.
Yeah, that's the way I saw it. Their streaming content is vastly better than when I first started using it. (In the early days it was just shy of useless.) I dropped my plan from 4 discs at a time to 3 because there is enough on streaming to fill in the times when I run out of discs. (Which isn't quite as often, since they started working Saturdays, another thing they didn't always do. That meant a disc watched Thursday night didn't get to them until Monday, and the next disc didn't arrive until Tuesday.)
It's still not nearly as good as it should be, and if they don't continue to improve I may yet drop the service. But for the moment I may drop to the two disc plan and still end up watching about the same amount of content as I did before.
As the other commenter and I just discovered, the interest rate was nearly 6%, and that's for a loan directly to a bank (i.e. the bulk discount). It might shave a bit off a mortgage, but it's not going to fix a deal in which you paid far too much for your house.
Thanks for actually reading a very lengthy FA.
In return: the discount rate is very low now (.75%) but in August 2007, it was 5.75% for primary credit. (That is the lowered discounted rate; it had been 6.25% before that.)
http://www.frbdiscountwindow.org/historicalrates.cfm?hdrID=20&dtlID=52
The rates proceeded to drop like a rock, so they either paid it back fast or got caught with a hell of a spread.
OK, so they loaned out a truly epic amount of money. A reasonable thing to do during a crisis: you borrow money to get through the bad times, then you pay it back when times are better.
The questions are:
* Did they pay it back?
* Did they pay interest?
* How much?
I don't really care about the absolute dollar figure: this was an international crisis and the dollar figures are going to be proportional to the size of economies, which will measure in the trillions. As long as the net result was that the economy survived (which it did), that it didn't blow up inflation rates (which it didn't; inflation was negative for a while), and that in the end the books balance (thus my questions).
It may well be that the interest rates were so low as to be questionable, especially given that the banks have been giving nonexistent interest to depositors and have been very chary about turning that money around to investment. But I'm not going to wring my hands over the size of it. I'm more concerned about the terms.
Are you sure your screen is flat?
Thank you, masked man!
In the West, certainly not. In China or Iran, however, I could see the government banning encrypted traffic. I'm a bit surprised they haven't already. At the very least, ban HTTPS and replace it with some other cryptosystem to which they hold the keys. It prevents them from foreign logins, but I thought they'd be OK with that.
This is very true. But the actual claims aren't much better:
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20110078583
A method of accessing applications for social networking, searching sharing and communication in a plurality of network(s), said method comprising the steps of:registering and/or integrating at least one application(s) from one or more networks at a central server by one or more application provider(s);selecting at least one registered application(s) by at least one user;installing said at least one selected application(s) at one or more networks as per predefined settings or preferences or user data; andpresenting at least one installed applications(s) and/or selective application(s) data to one or more users at one or more networks based on said predefined settings or preferences or user data or domain specific profiles.
and so on. I don't read patents for a living, but I can usually read them, and nothing in this one gets any traction at all that I can find. If you find something cogent in it, I'd love to hear it. Mostly what I see are vague, meaningless claims followed by a delusionally grandiose background (managing, I note, to misspell "kazaa" in the process).
Germs and yeasts aren't considered a problem by vegans, but you don't generally get transgenic yeasts just sitting around on food. That's the part that would concern many vegans.
Most vegans avoid transgenic food as well. This isn't really made from humans; it's a human gene expressed in yeast.
Avoiding transgenic food isn't mandatory for vegans. Many at least at margarine, made with highly processed fats, so they're not opposed to all technology. Still, I suspect this would get few takers.
Not that it matters. This isn't for food; it's for medical purposes. If they wanted vegan gelatin from transgenic yeasts they'd have made it from pig genes years ago.
In China, they can be pretty brutal at cracking down on movements they don't like, and they do it everywhere. That means that they don't have to focus on vulnerable spots, like airplanes.
Airplanes aren't the only vulnerable spots, but for some reason al Qaeda has a fetish for them, and the TSA focuses all of its efforts on that. That means that most of the time we get to ignore the TSA, but for those who do fall under their jurisdiction... well, bend over.