Another dead end project, killed by communications monopolies. Oh they'll find a reason. Not up to FCC standards. Using unlicensed frequencies. Interfering with existing communications equipment. Causes cancer. Whatever it takes. Don't you get it? They don't WANT you to have more access, unless you pay through the nose for it.
As a scientist you're not supposed to name things after yourself or have your students name them after you.
"The underground river is now named after Valiya Hamza, the scientist of Indian origin,who has been studying the Amazon region for more than 40 years. The discovery is part of the work of doctoral student Elizabeth Tavares Pimentel, under the guidance of Hamza."
Another word for this river is, of course, a "water table".
Yeah it sounds really obvious, until you realize they're figuring out the actual biochemical mechanism behind it. Stress also increases the chance of heart disease and cancer. P53 (or specifically its failure) is also involved in many cancers.
It looks like useless research on the surface, for the lay person. But when you dig into it you realize that if you can map out the biochemical pathway, you can think about designing drugs to block certain parts of it - resulting in prolonged life or decreases tumor incidence, for example. Stuff like this actually is important.
That's right. Humans abdicate responsibility and leave it to some of the most primitive organisms on the planet.
Primitive? I guess that depends on your point of view. You see, a human generation is about every 20 years or so. A dog, every 6 months or so. Bacteria reproduce anywhere between every 20 minutes and every 2 hours. So how many generations of bacteria have there been since 2001? Well it's still the same human generation, but it's been close to 260,000 generations of bacteria. Evolution isn't all about growing a third arm or changing the color of your fur. Just looking at the biochemistry that a simple bacterium is capable of will show you that they are far, far more "advanced" than we are, even if they don't vote or sit around watching sit coms.
Marketing. It's for the little kid who wants to talk mom and dad into buying him a "gaming laptop" for Christmas, or for the new college kid who wants to show off to all his friends in the dorm when really he has no idea what he needs. Laptops aren't for gaming, period. Tell me how you are going to upgrade the video card when next year's uber "must have" game comes out? How about the CPU. How hard is it to swap the motherboard in a laptop. Oh, you can't do any of those things? But a decent high end laptop for half the price so you can play whatever game on the plane or away from home, and invest in a desktop that you can keep cutting edge.
That's all I have to say. Show me a laptop that will let me run video cards in 3 or 4 way SLI. Oh, and my water cooled screaming 4 monitor system costs less than your shitty laptop. About half as much.
There is only "apple fever" and it is not going to cool down any time soon.
The only thing that will cool that down is tightening credit, which in the US is not likely to happen without destroying the US dollar first. Only then will mommy and daddy stop buying iPads and iPhones for their spoiled children. Or will spoiled grown ups who were once spoiled children stop overindulging on these little, shiny but expensive toys.
I doubt your grandmother appreciates the value of rhodium or copper, either. What does that prove? Nah, everyone who says gold is nothing special is full of shit, because if you saw a solid gold coin lying on the ground I guarantee you that you would pick it up, do a little happy dance, and sell it. Why? Because you instantly recognize the value. So does everyone else. That is what makes it valuable, the world over. Wars have been fought over gold for thousands of years. So take your "story" and shove it. History is against you.
I have traded quite a fortune of little green pieces of paper for gold, when the exchange rate was 400 pieces of paper for one troy ounce of gold. I traded another stack of green paper for silver too, when the exchange was around 20:1. Ask me again what I think of the little green pieces of paper today? The rest of them have been swapped for Canadian pieces of paper when the exchange rate was 7:10. Now the exchange rate is around 1:1. I think your little green pieces of paper are silly, they just keep losing value compared to my metal and my loonies. This is without getting into how many millions of green pieces of paper you would need to buy my land and lumber compared to how many you needed 10 years ago...
As for the federal reserve having "control" of the inflation rate, I submit that it has as much control as the government has over unemployment. It's easy to hide inflation by choosing to ignore prices that actually are inflating. It's like me doing a medical study on diabetics but first we will exclude anyone with a blood sugar over 100. Plus the CPI only looks at a "basic breadbasket" that has absolutely no reflection with the real products and services used by real people. It is more a measure of survival than standard of living. Sure, you can live with little or no inflation, but you have to adjust your standard of living downwards over time.
But ok, go ahead and believe what you want to believe. I don't have to convince you. I just have to make sure I stay wealthy for the rest of my life, and that my kids have a reasonable chance of success. I think I have managed and am managing. At the end of the day we each take care of our own.
Don't forget about the taxes you now owe on this windfall. Uncle Sam (or whichever government) worked very hard to earn his share of your luck. I figure you owe him at least half.
It's actually quite good for a few things. It never rusts, it's an excellent electrical and thermal conductor, and it's fairly non reactive chemically meaning it usually sticks around for a long time. Best of all, it's pretty rare and you can't print it. Thus it's a great store of wealth. However if you subscribe to the Ben Bernanke school of thought then yes, gold is absolutely worthless and people who think that it makes a decent store of wealth should be mocked for believing in "tradition". You need to trust these little green pieces of paper the US government is printing by the trillions instead.
Eh no, creative genius is figuring out what it is that people are willing to call a "masterpiece". At the end of the day it's all about marketing. Throwing some paint in front of a fan at a canvas is unlikely to create anything unexpected, but if the name of the artist is right, people will pay millions for it. If you or I try doing it, however, we'll just be laughed at. Marketing.
Who cares what it is, as long as someone is willing to pay for it? What's the difference between some 1's and 0's, and say the design on a Luis Vuitton handbag? People are (still) allowed to do what they want with their money and they will. Just sitting there and complaining about how stupid it is will not stop them. But if you were really smart you would be finding out what the next "pattern of 1's and 0's" is, and making money off of their "ignorance".
If? The stock is down almost 6% (about $20) in after hours trading... I'd say it's not so much a matter of "if". Of course it will bounce, and people will be caught out by the ensuing short squeeze, so it should bounce pretty high. But I think the magic is gone. Sucks to be the guy who bought it at $400/share...
Then I go back to my opening statement - people still buy things at Gamestop? I don't own a console and honestly after giving up 3 years ago because all the Gamestops in my neighborhood only stocked console games (or a very limited selection of used PC titles), I vowed never to buy a game again from a brick and mortar store. Guess what - I don't have any problems using Gamersgate or better yet buying directly from the publisher and downloading. It saves me a drive and it helps keep a useless store clerk job out of the economy.
People still buy things at Gamestop? Oh yeah wait, console people. Hahahaha, couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. What are you complaining about? This is all being done to protect you from nasty pirates, right? Enjoy the taste of someone else's distribution channel. After all, you are paying for this.
Nobody is too big to fail. As the US government will eventually find out if it keeps backing these losing horses. Delaying something is not the same as fixing something. When you try to stop the tide make sure you're standing in a high place.
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Another dead end project, killed by communications monopolies. Oh they'll find a reason. Not up to FCC standards. Using unlicensed frequencies. Interfering with existing communications equipment. Causes cancer. Whatever it takes. Don't you get it? They don't WANT you to have more access, unless you pay through the nose for it.
You're wrong. The planetoid is named after a greek God. Which of course was named after Mickey Mouse's dog.
As a scientist you're not supposed to name things after yourself or have your students name them after you.
"The underground river is now named after Valiya Hamza, the scientist of Indian origin,who has been studying the Amazon region for more than 40 years. The discovery is part of the work of doctoral student Elizabeth Tavares Pimentel, under the guidance of Hamza."
Another word for this river is, of course, a "water table".
Presumably being told the results of the latest polls saying how badly you suck tends to take its toll, no matter how many rounds of golf you play.
Yeah it sounds really obvious, until you realize they're figuring out the actual biochemical mechanism behind it. Stress also increases the chance of heart disease and cancer. P53 (or specifically its failure) is also involved in many cancers.
It looks like useless research on the surface, for the lay person. But when you dig into it you realize that if you can map out the biochemical pathway, you can think about designing drugs to block certain parts of it - resulting in prolonged life or decreases tumor incidence, for example. Stuff like this actually is important.
That's right. Humans abdicate responsibility and leave it to some of the most primitive organisms on the planet.
Primitive? I guess that depends on your point of view. You see, a human generation is about every 20 years or so. A dog, every 6 months or so. Bacteria reproduce anywhere between every 20 minutes and every 2 hours. So how many generations of bacteria have there been since 2001? Well it's still the same human generation, but it's been close to 260,000 generations of bacteria. Evolution isn't all about growing a third arm or changing the color of your fur. Just looking at the biochemistry that a simple bacterium is capable of will show you that they are far, far more "advanced" than we are, even if they don't vote or sit around watching sit coms.
Yeah, that is so last century. You've heard of the internet, right? Think of it as one big LAN....
Gamers never leave the basement. Friends? What are those? God, you really don't understand the demographic, do you?
And porn. Don't forget porn.
Marketing. It's for the little kid who wants to talk mom and dad into buying him a "gaming laptop" for Christmas, or for the new college kid who wants to show off to all his friends in the dorm when really he has no idea what he needs. Laptops aren't for gaming, period. Tell me how you are going to upgrade the video card when next year's uber "must have" game comes out? How about the CPU. How hard is it to swap the motherboard in a laptop. Oh, you can't do any of those things? But a decent high end laptop for half the price so you can play whatever game on the plane or away from home, and invest in a desktop that you can keep cutting edge.
That's all I have to say. Show me a laptop that will let me run video cards in 3 or 4 way SLI. Oh, and my water cooled screaming 4 monitor system costs less than your shitty laptop. About half as much.
u mad, u luze bro
There is only "apple fever" and it is not going to cool down any time soon.
The only thing that will cool that down is tightening credit, which in the US is not likely to happen without destroying the US dollar first. Only then will mommy and daddy stop buying iPads and iPhones for their spoiled children. Or will spoiled grown ups who were once spoiled children stop overindulging on these little, shiny but expensive toys.
Too bad, DeBeers already bought it. Gotta keep those diamonds out of the wrong hands.
I doubt your grandmother appreciates the value of rhodium or copper, either. What does that prove? Nah, everyone who says gold is nothing special is full of shit, because if you saw a solid gold coin lying on the ground I guarantee you that you would pick it up, do a little happy dance, and sell it. Why? Because you instantly recognize the value. So does everyone else. That is what makes it valuable, the world over. Wars have been fought over gold for thousands of years. So take your "story" and shove it. History is against you.
I have traded quite a fortune of little green pieces of paper for gold, when the exchange rate was 400 pieces of paper for one troy ounce of gold. I traded another stack of green paper for silver too, when the exchange was around 20:1. Ask me again what I think of the little green pieces of paper today? The rest of them have been swapped for Canadian pieces of paper when the exchange rate was 7:10. Now the exchange rate is around 1:1. I think your little green pieces of paper are silly, they just keep losing value compared to my metal and my loonies. This is without getting into how many millions of green pieces of paper you would need to buy my land and lumber compared to how many you needed 10 years ago...
As for the federal reserve having "control" of the inflation rate, I submit that it has as much control as the government has over unemployment. It's easy to hide inflation by choosing to ignore prices that actually are inflating. It's like me doing a medical study on diabetics but first we will exclude anyone with a blood sugar over 100. Plus the CPI only looks at a "basic breadbasket" that has absolutely no reflection with the real products and services used by real people. It is more a measure of survival than standard of living. Sure, you can live with little or no inflation, but you have to adjust your standard of living downwards over time.
But ok, go ahead and believe what you want to believe. I don't have to convince you. I just have to make sure I stay wealthy for the rest of my life, and that my kids have a reasonable chance of success. I think I have managed and am managing. At the end of the day we each take care of our own.
You are talking to bots. Ask them to send you a picture of them putting a shoe on their heads and see what happens.
Don't forget about the taxes you now owe on this windfall. Uncle Sam (or whichever government) worked very hard to earn his share of your luck. I figure you owe him at least half.
Its not good for anything,
It's actually quite good for a few things. It never rusts, it's an excellent electrical and thermal conductor, and it's fairly non reactive chemically meaning it usually sticks around for a long time. Best of all, it's pretty rare and you can't print it. Thus it's a great store of wealth. However if you subscribe to the Ben Bernanke school of thought then yes, gold is absolutely worthless and people who think that it makes a decent store of wealth should be mocked for believing in "tradition". You need to trust these little green pieces of paper the US government is printing by the trillions instead.
Eh no, creative genius is figuring out what it is that people are willing to call a "masterpiece". At the end of the day it's all about marketing. Throwing some paint in front of a fan at a canvas is unlikely to create anything unexpected, but if the name of the artist is right, people will pay millions for it. If you or I try doing it, however, we'll just be laughed at. Marketing.
Who cares what it is, as long as someone is willing to pay for it? What's the difference between some 1's and 0's, and say the design on a Luis Vuitton handbag? People are (still) allowed to do what they want with their money and they will. Just sitting there and complaining about how stupid it is will not stop them. But if you were really smart you would be finding out what the next "pattern of 1's and 0's" is, and making money off of their "ignorance".
If? The stock is down almost 6% (about $20) in after hours trading... I'd say it's not so much a matter of "if". Of course it will bounce, and people will be caught out by the ensuing short squeeze, so it should bounce pretty high. But I think the magic is gone. Sucks to be the guy who bought it at $400/share...
Then I go back to my opening statement - people still buy things at Gamestop? I don't own a console and honestly after giving up 3 years ago because all the Gamestops in my neighborhood only stocked console games (or a very limited selection of used PC titles), I vowed never to buy a game again from a brick and mortar store. Guess what - I don't have any problems using Gamersgate or better yet buying directly from the publisher and downloading. It saves me a drive and it helps keep a useless store clerk job out of the economy.
People still buy things at Gamestop? Oh yeah wait, console people. Hahahaha, couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. What are you complaining about? This is all being done to protect you from nasty pirates, right? Enjoy the taste of someone else's distribution channel. After all, you are paying for this.
Nobody is too big to fail. As the US government will eventually find out if it keeps backing these losing horses. Delaying something is not the same as fixing something. When you try to stop the tide make sure you're standing in a high place.