You're forgetting that in the phylogenetic history of man, osteogenesis imperfecta was VERY detrimental to survival and reproduction chances. So? its not now, so what is your argument?
eyesight. (from wiki)
The basic light-processing unit of the eye is the photoreceptor, a specialized cell consisting of two molecules in a membrane: the opsin, a light-sensitive protein, surrounding the chromophore, a pigment that distinguishes colors. When a photon is absorbed by the chromophore, a chemical reaction causes the photon's energy to be transduced into electrical energy and relayed to the nervous system What nervous system? How is it relayed? What is done with the information? Where is your experiment? The wiki article reads like a hopeful fairy tale.
The first blob that got a light sensitive cell on the forehead So please describe this light sensitive cell. Let me get you started http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion_cell
What is the chance of this cell (a cell is very complex) forming in the first place? randomly mutating into this functional entity. So lets say this cell 'appears'. so what? what is the 'fighting' mechanism. How does this cell suddenly have a chance of greater survival?
I think there is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning. On the surface your argument sounds solid, but you have not taken into account the devastation the 99% of flawed mutations has taken on the remaining population. Most mutations will not cause death, and will not effect reproductivity, but will cause entropy in the gene pool. The 99% overwhelms the 1%. For example, I have osteogenesisimperfecto. Inherited from my mother and a 50% chance of passing to my children. It does not effect re productivity and has negligible mortality. Yet it is a clear example of non beneficial mutation that would have started with one birth hundreds of years ago. So the 99% overwhelm the 1%.
Another is irreducible complexity. Most functions are highly complex interdependent systems. Thus how can can one random mutation produce blood clotting, eye sight, hearing which are very complex machines.
The 99% overwhelms the 1% (and in real life, I think the ratios would be much poorer)
rubbish. Evolution is the biggest scientific con ever foisted on mankind. I'm NOT talking about natural selection, which makes perfect sense, but evolution; ie beneficial mutation To say you can randomly mutate something orders of magnitude more complex than an o/s, and add globs of functionality to it over huge expanses of time without increasing functional entropy is absurd. The ratio of beneficial to non beneficial mutation is hugely in favour of increasing disorder. Thus you would expect biological systems to slowly degrade in the long term, which is exactly what we see. Genetic diseases reducing functionality but not mortality.
He's on Rogers cable, he get's threatening letters every month about him going over his bandwidth cap. Sounds like you have been rogered!
http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/ROGER
Australia has strict gun control as well, and although hardened criminals will always get guns, I now hardly ever here about - accidental shootings (kids playing with dads gun) - hot head shootings (husband wife arguing, husband/wife grabs convenient gun)
In Australia there in no culture of 'its my right' to carry a gun. I'm not saying either is right or wrong.. just an observation..
I think everyone is being a bit paranoid here. I just measured 65vAC on my Inspiron 9400, which dropped to 10v with a 200k load. Under short circuit it was about 100uA.
Now the reason for this voltage is capacative coupling between the primary and secondary windings of the plug pack. This is normal and will happen on every ungrounded switchmode power supply. I have had no name laptops where I could see sparks when connecting earthed peripherals to the laptop.
Now remember you generally need more than 30mA flowing through each arm before it is a danger to life. 1mA.. bah... Yes a three pronged adapter will fix the problem.. so will plugging in any earthered peripheral (not that there are many of those nowadays)
As for the parent... go ahead.. hookup a 1ohm resistor... you will create about 1mw of power and it will be boringly undramatic...
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Being an Austrlian I'd mod you funny, but for everyone else I'd mod you informative!
The reason lotteries aren't taxed, is because the tickets are purchased with post tax money. ie, buying a lottery ticket cannot be a tax deduction, and always purchased with tax paid personal dollars. Taxing the prize pool would be double dipping, which done away with when Oz bought in the imputation system. I don't think the USA has an imputation system, which is why most US shares don't pay big dividends, because the receiver would be double taxed.
Hmmm. I think the parent poster is correct, in that the Banks create the money out of thin air. (fractional banking) Most countries have certain ratios that a bank must have assets backing loans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Required_reserve_rati o
That's why banks are VERY paranoid about short term runs on their money, as short term they are illiquid. Long term one hopes their assets secured against loans makes their balance sheet healthy; but with the proliferion of private equity, hedge funds, etc most people acknowledge that the global financial machine is extremely complex. So complex, as to not know how fragile or robust it is. Personally, I think asset inflation (private housing mainly inmost western countries), USA's huge debt (one day bond holders around the world will want their capital as well as interest) and medicare/aid liabilities, and private equities game of musical chairs (ie who is the last one holding the debt bag) are biggest problems facing the global economy.
Have you ever tried spinning an out of ballance load in a washing machine. You won't get it past about 100rpm. Myth Busters also tried this (albiet with an Adult) and is was way busted.
Yes but the detector would also have resistive detection (and possibly temperature) to make sure human skin is touching the steering wheel. (They could even do it using AC, combine it with a weigh scale in your seat and tell you your body fat at the same time!)
There are still plenty of applications (wiring schematics, HVAC) that don't transfer well into 3D and will continue to use 2D applications. Even in applications that are based around a 3D model still need a 2D interface for creating prints Yes, but even that is easier in 3D nowadays. For example when I layout my building fitout, I do about 70% in 3D, and rest in 2D (but in the 3D environment), then just create viewports for the 2D paper space.
I gave up on time magazine years ago after their re-subscripion dept started sending these ultra gimmicky stick the 'yes' sticker on the 'YES' spot for your 'free' subscription gift. I think their demographic is heading the same place as Australian 'current affairs' programs.
Sure you can google and occasionally you will win the medical lottery, but remember specialist MDs usually have trained for 12 years before being fully qualified. I have a friend in plastics sitting his finals soon, and all he does is study. He knew 4 residents in another state sit their finals recently and they all failed, showing the standards are pretty damn high. A little bit og knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Would you like you googling about c++ and fixing a strange network card driver problem on your production servers???
Australian parties rely a lot less on private giving. If you get more than 4% of the primary vote, you are elegible for about $1.34 per vote in public funding for your party. Even Al Gore supports the public funding of parties rather than 'bribes' from corporates.
All a waste of time unless you have a printer that prints a voting that you can drop into a conventional cardboard ballot box. Thus you can still manually count per tradtional systems and verify that with the machine count.
As has been said many times here before, I still see nothing wrong with the paper system.
You can show up at any hospital for anything concerning you (from a cold to broken arm to trauma) treatment is free Generally though people will go to a local GP unless they think it is urgent. Consult is about 25USD For non life threataning treatment, you go on a waiting list which can be from a day to several years... or you can use go to a private hospital where you would generally have private insurance. Fund your own health insuance (about $600 per annum).
The medical system is subsidised by a 1.5% tax on your annual taxable income. Many drugs are also heavily subidised by the Govt.(if the net benefit outweighs the drug cost)
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eyesight. (from wiki) The basic light-processing unit of the eye is the photoreceptor, a specialized cell consisting of two molecules in a membrane: the opsin, a light-sensitive protein, surrounding the chromophore, a pigment that distinguishes colors. When a photon is absorbed by the chromophore, a chemical reaction causes the photon's energy to be transduced into electrical energy and relayed to the nervous system What nervous system? How is it relayed? What is done with the information? Where is your experiment?
The wiki article reads like a hopeful fairy tale.
Let me get you started
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion_cell
What is the chance of this cell (a cell is very complex) forming in the first place? randomly mutating into this functional entity.
So lets say this cell 'appears'. so what? what is the 'fighting' mechanism.
How does this cell suddenly have a chance of greater survival?
Thank you for your well reasoned argument.
I think there is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning. On the surface your argument sounds solid, but you have not taken into account the devastation the 99% of flawed mutations has taken on the remaining population.
Most mutations will not cause death, and will not effect reproductivity, but will cause entropy in the gene pool. The 99% overwhelms the 1%.
For example, I have osteogenesisimperfecto. Inherited from my mother and a 50% chance of passing to my children. It does not effect re productivity and has negligible mortality. Yet it is a clear example of non beneficial mutation that would have started with one birth hundreds of years ago.
So the 99% overwhelm the 1%.
Another is irreducible complexity. Most functions are highly complex interdependent systems. Thus how can can one random mutation produce blood clotting, eye sight, hearing which are very complex machines.
The 99% overwhelms the 1% (and in real life, I think the ratios would be much poorer)
rubbish.
Evolution is the biggest scientific con ever foisted on mankind.
I'm NOT talking about natural selection, which makes perfect sense, but evolution; ie beneficial mutation
To say you can randomly mutate something orders of magnitude more complex than an o/s, and add globs of functionality to it over huge expanses of time without increasing functional entropy is absurd.
The ratio of beneficial to non beneficial mutation is hugely in favour of increasing disorder. Thus you would expect biological systems to slowly degrade in the long term, which is exactly what we see. Genetic diseases reducing functionality but not mortality.
What I think is bizare, is that chaging an OS could have an impact on climate.
Imaging is vista uses 50% more energy because of flashy graphics etc.
So plucking figures.. an extra 20W x 200 million PCs = 4 GigaWatts !!
not insignificant
Microsoft just can't turn a trick these days.
Can one access this mute from the player side? (I know of the server side mute)
Australia has strict gun control as well, and although hardened criminals will always get guns, I now hardly ever here about
- accidental shootings (kids playing with dads gun)
- hot head shootings (husband wife arguing, husband/wife grabs convenient gun)
In Australia there in no culture of 'its my right' to carry a gun.
I'm not saying either is right or wrong.. just an observation..
I think everyone is being a bit paranoid here.
I just measured 65vAC on my Inspiron 9400, which dropped to 10v with a 200k load. Under short circuit it was about 100uA.
Now the reason for this voltage is capacative coupling between the primary and secondary windings of the plug pack.
This is normal and will happen on every ungrounded switchmode power supply.
I have had no name laptops where I could see sparks when connecting earthed peripherals to the laptop.
Now remember you generally need more than 30mA flowing through each arm before it is a danger to life. 1mA.. bah...
Yes a three pronged adapter will fix the problem.. so will plugging in any earthered peripheral (not that there are many of those nowadays)
As for the parent... go ahead.. hookup a 1ohm resistor... you will create about 1mw of power and it will be boringly undramatic...
Being an Austrlian I'd mod you funny, but for everyone else I'd mod you informative!
Actually I think its slightly different to that.
The reason lotteries aren't taxed, is because the tickets are purchased with post tax money. ie, buying a lottery ticket cannot be a tax deduction, and always purchased with tax paid personal dollars. Taxing the prize pool would be double dipping, which done away with when Oz bought in the imputation system.
I don't think the USA has an imputation system, which is why most US shares don't pay big dividends, because the receiver would be double taxed.
Hmmm. I think the parent poster is correct, in that the Banks create the money out of thin air. (fractional banking)i o
Most countries have certain ratios that a bank must have assets backing loans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Required_reserve_rat
That's why banks are VERY paranoid about short term runs on their money, as short term they are illiquid.
Long term one hopes their assets secured against loans makes their balance sheet healthy; but with the proliferion of private equity, hedge funds, etc most people acknowledge that the global financial machine is extremely complex. So complex, as to not know how fragile or robust it is.
Personally, I think asset inflation (private housing mainly inmost western countries), USA's huge debt (one day bond holders around the world will want their capital as well as interest) and medicare/aid liabilities, and private equities game of musical chairs (ie who is the last one holding the debt bag) are biggest problems facing the global economy.
I very much doubt this could ever happen.
Have you ever tried spinning an out of ballance load in a washing machine.
You won't get it past about 100rpm.
Myth Busters also tried this (albiet with an Adult) and is was way busted.
"just wear a pair of gloves"
Yes but the detector would also have resistive detection (and possibly temperature) to make sure human skin is touching the steering wheel. (They could even do it using AC, combine it with a weigh scale in your seat and tell you your body fat at the same time!)
For example when I layout my building fitout, I do about 70% in 3D, and rest in 2D (but in the 3D environment), then just create viewports for the 2D paper space.
I gave up on time magazine years ago after their re-subscripion dept started sending these ultra gimmicky stick the 'yes' sticker on the 'YES' spot for your 'free' subscription gift. I think their demographic is heading the same place as Australian 'current affairs' programs.
How sad for you.a ith.html
Many of the forefathers of science would disagree with you.
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencef
So which bit is the lie?
You should get a job paraphrasing the law!
Sure you can google and occasionally you will win the medical lottery, but remember specialist MDs usually have trained for 12 years before being fully qualified.
I have a friend in plastics sitting his finals soon, and all he does is study. He knew 4 residents in another state sit their finals recently and they all failed, showing the standards are pretty damn high.
A little bit og knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Would you like you googling about c++ and fixing a strange network card driver problem on your production servers???
Australian parties rely a lot less on private giving. If you get more than 4% of the primary vote, you are elegible for about $1.34 per vote in public funding for your party.
Even Al Gore supports the public funding of parties rather than 'bribes' from corporates.
All a waste of time unless you have a printer that prints a voting that you can drop into a conventional cardboard ballot box.
Thus you can still manually count per tradtional systems and verify that with the machine count.
As has been said many times here before, I still see nothing wrong with the paper system.
Wow..
Just for you information.
In Australia.
You can show up at any hospital for anything concerning you (from a cold to broken arm to trauma) treatment is free
Generally though people will go to a local GP unless they think it is urgent. Consult is about 25USD
For non life threataning treatment, you go on a waiting list which can be from a day to several years... or you can use go to a private hospital where you would generally have private insurance.
Fund your own health insuance (about $600 per annum).
The medical system is subsidised by a 1.5% tax on your annual taxable income.
Many drugs are also heavily subidised by the Govt.(if the net benefit outweighs the drug cost)
And you whent into retail to deal with less shit....?? things sure must have been bad in IT!