Insofar as life started by bootstrapping from inanimate complex molecules, it isn't a difficult concept, and requires discrete units of atoms and molecules with real properties.
There's nothing directly quantum required as life is all about chemistry at a very gross scale above the quantum.
I'd like to thank Californians for putting up with idiotic toilets that save a few percent off state usage so they can send 90% of their water to water a desert so we can have winter vegetables and "California" as an adjective on many prepared foods, meaning avocado.
That simple improvement would never have been invented without the regulatory push.
Except it isn't a large fraction of water use and just pushes off the need to increase water sourcing due to population growth by a few years.
It was literally admitted at the time to be largely for show, but more importantly, it got people onboard by taking pride in it after years of grumbling, making acceptance of more harsh regulations to come easier.
You would be better served by allowing unlimited water use in areas that got water some other way, e.g. from the sea, and let that make your lives better.
And it flushes when it plugs up and overflows. And you have to manually flush because it can't swallow man poop + multiple softballs of toilet paper.
You have to wipe wipe wipe flush wipe wipe wipe flush wile wipe wipe flush then stand up and it flushes again. God help you if you plugged it and it flushed once prior to standing.
And if you plugged it, now you have to figure out how to stand and pull your pants up and get out before it overflows, and without running outta the stall with your pants down into a busy bathroom.
But you do anyway, and your face flushes as your pants are down and someone looks. It is (insert your favorite starlet from GoT or Buffy or some Netflix show here, say, Jessica Jones chick).
"Why are you in the men's room?" you ask.
"This is California and I go where I want. Also, I just had a male part attached."
"Oh."
"I see you have one, too."
(You then embarrassedly start pulling your pants up.)
"No, don't."
She steps up and puts her hand in and latches on to you. "My god, that stench you just overflowed all over the floor is really turning me on!"
The real question is what's next? What terrible thing is being withheld to be released later, not because of some proper ethical reason, but because of timing to defeat the candidate for a reason that may be valid (abortion) but that has nothing to do with any of this.
Scout was destined for big things after wearing that milk bottle, which looked curiously like a bottle used to hold mini pool balls to secretly shake out to each of a bunch of players, in a game where you get knocked out when your secret ball is pocketted.
I am reminded of a scene from Dexter where Maria is trying to save Doakes, who's on the lam being accused of being the Bay Harbor Butcher.
She brings Matthers a log of her "notes from a stakeout" where she and Doakes spent the night together (and this he couldn't have done one murder known to have been done that day.)
Matthews notes the log looked overly-detailed and perfect, as if it had just been whipped together rather than written years prior.
Testimony is evidence. What other evidence than testimony did you expect after so many years?
Well, apart from the documents that show he was a drunk lying asshole at that age, and his recent behavior, which shows he is at least still a lying asshole. Two out of three ain't good in this case. By these things alone he should not be a judge, let alone a Supreme Court judge.
Not to mention that the people in power are working so hard not to hear the evidence against him that they make themselves look like lying assholes as well.
Drunk, lying asshole in youth, and lying asshole today, should disqualify from positions of power.
I am fine with that, but is that really a can of worms the Democrats wanna open?
Social ostrscism, including financial stresses of firing, was used for thousands of years to keep a lid on gay rights and so on, by hurting those who supported it. This was still happening out in the open as recently as Ellen DeGeneres going public on her show in the 1990s.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, and people are squeaking. The solution back then was to remove the shoe entirely, and not transfer it to another food.
I can't blame them, but it just shows human nature breezily picks up evil tactics when it believes itself right...on either side.
Just because you work somewhere does not mean that everything you do represents the official policy of the company.
Once you get to a certain level, EVERYTHING you do reflects on a company. Having a senior FB officer support Kavanaugh reflects badly on the company, not because he's a Republican but because of the belligerent temper tantrum he threw in front of Congress. His friend didn't know he was going to do that, but it was a risk, and a risk to the image of the company. Facebook doesn't need a lot of risks to the image of the company right now, so it was irresponsible.
On the Other hand, FB is also trying to counterbalance the narrative of tech giants as filters that prevent voices on the right from getting through, so some public Republican support isn't a bad idea, so it wasn't as irresponsible as normal.
We will assume for the sake of argument he wasn't there "as a facebook exec", or even mentioning it.
So that leaves policy, and many states include political beliefs in their anti-discrimination laws, hence facebook's policy (which is reasonable even lacking such a law as it would bring bad press by itself.)
So which would hurt facebook more? This guy appearing but not representing facebook, or facebook participating in social ostracism in favor of a particular viewpoint, when a big chunk of their current problems revolve around censorship accusations?
Athletes were useful to the dictators insofar as they showed the Glory of the Dictator's Dictatorship. So while decrying the evils of capitalism, up to and including banning professional athletes, they put their athletes on the government paycheck and then rewarded those who did well with upgraded living for their families and getting to keep goodies they brought back from the west like blue jeans and boom box radios.
Now look at the little girls in skating or gymnastics, among the most high profile of Olympic sports, and imagine ladling a better life for your family on them as motivation. And the coaches and others in the (government only) sports organizations.
I've been wondering about this kind of stuff since the week Taser was to go public, and suddenly stories started appearing how it was really very deadly.
While that could be a real concern, the timing suggested someone was trying to force the IPO valuation down.
The second of these does indeed test the toxicity of all the named sweeteners, albeit only on a model of gut bacteria (bioluminescent E.coli) in a laboratory setting.
Sucralose and neotame were found to inhibit E.coli bioluminescence. Saccharin, aspartame and ace-k induced it.
What does that mean? Your gas is as glowy as mine.
In less than 100 years, localities will auction off the rights to rip open landfills and have robots sort it all for recycling.
And we can already use bacteria to create hydrocarbons. Tailored ones are just some research away. When this happens, even oil won't be an issue, pollution from burning it aside. But that won't be for a hundred years or more anyway, and we will be well into renewable energy and genetic engineering. I doubt ground oil will ever be a problem.
Smith genetically engineered phages so that they would include a certain molecule on their outer capsule which allowed him to that encompasses out particular proteins crop up on the outer.
I can see signing up for it, perhaps twitter even turning it on by default for some misguided reason akin to emergency messages, but not that you couldn't turn off tracking of it!
Huh. Normally the right finds value in the several states experimenting with solutions, and the left high value in the interstate commerce clause to give supremacy to federal regulation, up to and including the "dormant commerce clause" rule, where if Congress considers then declines to regulate something, that implies said nothingness is the federal regulation to be imposed on the states, foreclosing any state level regulation contravening that which Congress chose not to regulate.
It's almost as if each side is touting as important a political philosophy that helps them in this case, but the opposite in most other cases, and they are all power hungry hacks.
This isn't anonymous. This is transparently scarcely-rewrapped ad copy. It's even loaded with buzzwords and talking points. Won't interrupt your "flow", whatever it is, touch screen or mouse? Competition is flailing around. "Compelling", etc.
Just as Microsoft did to IBM, so it has been having done to it by Apple and Google. It is still fat, relying on market dominance in Windows to play me too in all the latest hit products like smart phones.
People want touch screens for surfing at home and starting Netflix, and a keyboard and mouse for business use. Which doesn't need a touch screen for surfing and starting Netflix.
Worse than that, neither a printed manual, nor the search functions built into virtual manuals are any real use.
Far faster to just type your question into Google. I use Google to search for MSDN Microsoft development issues given their built in search function is an idiotic programmer's lazy wrapper around an internal string search function.
Microsoft's search jas even apparently forgotten context-sensitive search was invented 30 years ago.
No California does not. Californian citizens do, who sell around the country, pay federal taxes to the country, whence it's then spent around the country, said taxes applying to economic activity of those Californians in other states.
When these wealthy CA companies set up shell companies around the world to avoid home taxes, government supporters get bent out of shape. In both cases, the bloated, spending governments that agglomerate around the success fancy themselves the cause of the success, and they are owed, man.
People live in CA and sell to the rest of the US and the world. As with New York, bloated government builds up around it, then fancies itself the cause of the success.
I think there's a freedom of speech issue as well (more accurately freedom of the press as in mass distribution of speech.) While government may be able to regulate as in nighttime calls (not related to bots) they can't blanket ban.
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This...is technobabble.
Insofar as life started by bootstrapping from inanimate complex molecules, it isn't a difficult concept, and requires discrete units of atoms and molecules with real properties.
There's nothing directly quantum required as life is all about chemistry at a very gross scale above the quantum.
I'd like to thank Californians for putting up with idiotic toilets that save a few percent off state usage so they can send 90% of their water to water a desert so we can have winter vegetables and "California" as an adjective on many prepared foods, meaning avocado.
Thanks, put-upon Califlushers!
That simple improvement would never have been invented without the regulatory push.
Except it isn't a large fraction of water use and just pushes off the need to increase water sourcing due to population growth by a few years.
It was literally admitted at the time to be largely for show, but more importantly, it got people onboard by taking pride in it after years of grumbling, making acceptance of more harsh regulations to come easier.
You would be better served by allowing unlimited water use in areas that got water some other way, e.g. from the sea, and let that make your lives better.
And it flushes when it plugs up and overflows. And you have to manually flush because it can't swallow man poop + multiple softballs of toilet paper.
You have to wipe wipe wipe flush wipe wipe wipe flush wile wipe wipe flush then stand up and it flushes again. God help you if you plugged it and it flushed once prior to standing.
And if you plugged it, now you have to figure out how to stand and pull your pants up and get out before it overflows, and without running outta the stall with your pants down into a busy bathroom.
But you do anyway, and your face flushes as your pants are down and someone looks. It is (insert your favorite starlet from GoT or Buffy or some Netflix show here, say, Jessica Jones chick).
"Why are you in the men's room?" you ask.
"This is California and I go where I want. Also, I just had a male part attached."
"Oh."
"I see you have one, too."
(You then embarrassedly start pulling your pants up.)
"No, don't."
She steps up and puts her hand in and latches on to you. "My god, that stench you just overflowed all over the floor is really turning me on!"
The real question is what's next? What terrible thing is being withheld to be released later, not because of some proper ethical reason, but because of timing to defeat the candidate for a reason that may be valid (abortion) but that has nothing to do with any of this.
Scout was destined for big things after wearing that milk bottle, which looked curiously like a bottle used to hold mini pool balls to secretly shake out to each of a bunch of players, in a game where you get knocked out when your secret ball is pocketted.
I am reminded of a scene from Dexter where Maria is trying to save Doakes, who's on the lam being accused of being the Bay Harbor Butcher.
She brings Matthers a log of her "notes from a stakeout" where she and Doakes spent the night together (and this he couldn't have done one murder known to have been done that day.)
Matthews notes the log looked overly-detailed and perfect, as if it had just been whipped together rather than written years prior.
Testimony is evidence. What other evidence than testimony did you expect after so many years?
Well, apart from the documents that show he was a drunk lying asshole at that age, and his recent behavior, which shows he is at least still a lying asshole. Two out of three ain't good in this case. By these things alone he should not be a judge, let alone a Supreme Court judge.
Not to mention that the people in power are working so hard not to hear the evidence against him that they make themselves look like lying assholes as well.
Drunk, lying asshole in youth, and lying asshole today, should disqualify from positions of power.
I am fine with that, but is that really a can of worms the Democrats wanna open?
Social ostrscism, including financial stresses of firing, was used for thousands of years to keep a lid on gay rights and so on, by hurting those who supported it. This was still happening out in the open as recently as Ellen DeGeneres going public on her show in the 1990s.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, and people are squeaking. The solution back then was to remove the shoe entirely, and not transfer it to another food.
I can't blame them, but it just shows human nature breezily picks up evil tactics when it believes itself right...on either side.
Just because you work somewhere does not mean that everything you do represents the official policy of the company.
Once you get to a certain level, EVERYTHING you do reflects on a company. Having a senior FB officer support Kavanaugh reflects badly on the company, not because he's a Republican but because of the belligerent temper tantrum he threw in front of Congress. His friend didn't know he was going to do that, but it was a risk, and a risk to the image of the company. Facebook doesn't need a lot of risks to the image of the company right now, so it was irresponsible.
On the Other hand, FB is also trying to counterbalance the narrative of tech giants as filters that prevent voices on the right from getting through, so some public Republican support isn't a bad idea, so it wasn't as irresponsible as normal.
We will assume for the sake of argument he wasn't there "as a facebook exec", or even mentioning it.
So that leaves policy, and many states include political beliefs in their anti-discrimination laws, hence facebook's policy (which is reasonable even lacking such a law as it would bring bad press by itself.)
So which would hurt facebook more? This guy appearing but not representing facebook, or facebook participating in social ostracism in favor of a particular viewpoint, when a big chunk of their current problems revolve around censorship accusations?
Athletes were useful to the dictators insofar as they showed the Glory of the Dictator's Dictatorship. So while decrying the evils of capitalism, up to and including banning professional athletes, they put their athletes on the government paycheck and then rewarded those who did well with upgraded living for their families and getting to keep goodies they brought back from the west like blue jeans and boom box radios.
Now look at the little girls in skating or gymnastics, among the most high profile of Olympic sports, and imagine ladling a better life for your family on them as motivation. And the coaches and others in the (government only) sports organizations.
Propaganda money well spent!
I've been wondering about this kind of stuff since the week Taser was to go public, and suddenly stories started appearing how it was really very deadly.
While that could be a real concern, the timing suggested someone was trying to force the IPO valuation down.
The CNBC article confuses two studies: Neotame in mice and Artificial sweeteners on a bacterial panel.
The second of these does indeed test the toxicity of all the named sweeteners, albeit only on a model of gut bacteria (bioluminescent E.coli) in a laboratory setting.
Sucralose and neotame were found to inhibit E.coli bioluminescence. Saccharin, aspartame and ace-k induced it.
What does that mean? Your gas is as glowy as mine.
Ftfy
In less than 100 years, localities will auction off the rights to rip open landfills and have robots sort it all for recycling.
And we can already use bacteria to create hydrocarbons. Tailored ones are just some research away. When this happens, even oil won't be an issue, pollution from burning it aside. But that won't be for a hundred years or more anyway, and we will be well into renewable energy and genetic engineering. I doubt ground oil will ever be a problem.
Your fitbit motion sensor showed you were jerking off last night at home instead, and your DVR shows you were watching Dancing With The Stars.
Smith genetically engineered phages so that they would include a certain molecule on their outer capsule which allowed him to that encompasses out particular proteins crop up on the outer.
Sounds complicated indeed!
You had to read presidential tweets?
I can see signing up for it, perhaps twitter even turning it on by default for some misguided reason akin to emergency messages, but not that you couldn't turn off tracking of it!
Huh. Normally the right finds value in the several states experimenting with solutions, and the left high value in the interstate commerce clause to give supremacy to federal regulation, up to and including the "dormant commerce clause" rule, where if Congress considers then declines to regulate something, that implies said nothingness is the federal regulation to be imposed on the states, foreclosing any state level regulation contravening that which Congress chose not to regulate.
It's almost as if each side is touting as important a political philosophy that helps them in this case, but the opposite in most other cases, and they are all power hungry hacks.
Nah.
This isn't anonymous. This is transparently scarcely-rewrapped ad copy. It's even loaded with buzzwords and talking points. Won't interrupt your "flow", whatever it is, touch screen or mouse? Competition is flailing around. "Compelling", etc.
Just as Microsoft did to IBM, so it has been having done to it by Apple and Google. It is still fat, relying on market dominance in Windows to play me too in all the latest hit products like smart phones.
People want touch screens for surfing at home and starting Netflix, and a keyboard and mouse for business use. Which doesn't need a touch screen for surfing and starting Netflix.
Hence the confused ad copy in the posting.
Worse than that, neither a printed manual, nor the search functions built into virtual manuals are any real use.
Far faster to just type your question into Google. I use Google to search for MSDN Microsoft development issues given their built in search function is an idiotic programmer's lazy wrapper around an internal string search function.
Microsoft's search jas even apparently forgotten context-sensitive search was invented 30 years ago.
No California does not. Californian citizens do, who sell around the country, pay federal taxes to the country, whence it's then spent around the country, said taxes applying to economic activity of those Californians in other states.
When these wealthy CA companies set up shell companies around the world to avoid home taxes, government supporters get bent out of shape. In both cases, the bloated, spending governments that agglomerate around the success fancy themselves the cause of the success, and they are owed, man.
People live in CA and sell to the rest of the US and the world. As with New York, bloated government builds up around it, then fancies itself the cause of the success.
I think there's a freedom of speech issue as well (more accurately freedom of the press as in mass distribution of speech.) While government may be able to regulate as in nighttime calls (not related to bots) they can't blanket ban.
I feel a Total Annihilation sequel coming on, with Burger K-bots!