How about keeping 64 processors on a license plate sized board cool.
Ahh but that's the brilliant part, see, if you have the processors on opposite sides of the board, then the heat just cancels itself out... oh wait, nevermind!
Carbon *can* be a vehicle for toxic stuff getting into your system, but the fiber/powder itself is not.
Let me show you the chapters on asbestosis, sillicosis and other pneumoconioses. Carbon itself can be toxic. Tiny crystals (of whatever) have a habit of triggering a permanent inflammatory response which a) destroys tissue and b)increases the risk of local cancer due to the constant exposure to growth factors, etc.
If coal dust can kill you, and pointy asbestos crystals can kill you, imagine what tiny, SHARP nanotubes will do?
Not to split hairs, but the honey is actually working as an anti-septic.
We do use sugar and/or honey from time to time to treat large, difficult ulcers in our hospitals here. The idea is that the sugar is something that stimulates growth in the wound while at the same time the huge osmotic pressure prevents bacterial growth. Honey is high in fructose, but it will work with plain old sugar, too.
An antibiotic is a drug that targets specific types bacteria by inhibiting growth or cell wall synthesis, etc. Honey, on the other hand will kill ALL cells, bacteria or otherwise. Fortunately for us, however, our circulation helps minimize the osmotic gradient and the only cells that die are the ones on the fringe of the wound - which are probably injured anyway.
Another thing we use - funnily enough - is epamin - an anti-covulsant medication that somehow is very similar to certain tissue growth factors and does help heal wounds faster.
So, to make my point - yes ok, the egyptians probably used honey, wine, and even vinegar as antiseptics. However this is not as effective as say cepahlexin:)
It is reported that this lady not only had bone cancer, but probably liver cancer and diabetes.
I'm not a forensic anthropologist, but as a physician I can say there are a lot of signs to tell you that a patient has cancer even if you only recover a fragment. Especially osteosarcoma (bone cancer), which tends to produce lytic lesions (areas where the bone is less dense) in most of the bones of the body. A quick x-ray of the jaw could reveal this. Plus osteosarcoma will alter calcium and PTH levels and dramatically change bone formation and reabsorbtion. See, bone is LIVING tissue. It's constantly being absorbed and recreated.
Now I don't know where they get liver cancer from - it's very unlikely that a patient will have TWO separate types of cancer. But the liver lesions are probably just metastases of the primary osteosaarcoma.
The egyptians were rather advanced in the field of medicine - FOR THEIR DAY. There is no possible way they could approach the level of medicine we had say 200 years ago, much less today. Diabetes is a complex disease that is eventually lethal when left untreated. I doubt very much they had discovered that feeding patients pig pancreases could mitigate this disease somewhat, since this was discovered early last century. We won't talk about sulfonyl-ureas and other oral hypoglycemiants.
They were pretty good at basic surgery, they had a pretty good idea of which tumors NOT to touch (because they got worse if you touched them), and it's rumored that some were even capable of drilling burr holes in patients' skulls to treat subdural hematomas (from trauma/battle injuries) or encephalitis/meningitis (to relieve the pressure inside the skull from a swollen brain/membranes). However we MUST bear in mind that we have NO record of what their actual success rate was with these procedures. It's easy to attribute supernatural powers to a vanished culture, however reality is they had no antibiotics, precious little by way of anesthetics, and more importantly no scientific method.
Considering the fact that a lot of them were executed/assassinated, your inheritance might just consist of a short length of rope and a dangle on the gallows.
The problem with boycotts is always one of organizing everyone to go along with you. It's virtually impossible. You might as well organize a REAL revolution.
Everyone will nod their heads and say "oh yeah, I agree". But no one will actually refuse to pay their tuition because, after all, they're grateful to have gotten into the university in the first place and won't want to take the risk.
No, it's not because of just the security rules. There's a general arrogance in your typical American, a sort of "America can do no wrong" attitude. This, combined with the fact that typical Americans immediately turn a blind eye to their own failings, tends to earn resentment. Plus the fact that they are SO DAMNED LOUD AT MEALTIMES god, I hate it when Americans come into a restaurant....
See the Brits can be real snobs. But ask any Brit and he'll be the first to criticize himself and his own country. But America, no, America is perfect.
Please, enjoy your "freedom" fries. Continue to make French "surrender" jokes even in KIDS MOVIES (Flushed Away is a perfect example). But don't wonder why everyone hates you. Psst, I'm half French - so how do you like your war so far? How many years did WORLD WAR II last? How many years for Iraq? Hey is the "surge" working yet?
Nothing like getting some special attention from a "security" agency when entering the country.
Thats ok. The US dollar is sinking, the US economy is stagnating, the US government thinks it can talk tough and fight wars on concepts with no consequences. Wait. The reckoning is coming soon. All the money is leaving the US, since the real growth is happening in Russia, India and Asia.
But look on the bright side - when the US is no longer a world leader, I guess no one will want to target it anymore.
I'm a firm believer that in order to "defeat" terrorism, we need to prevent any attacks on US soil first and foremost. If that means limiting access to the US, then so be it.
Please explain how fingerprinting the entire world will prevent a terrorist attack? I'd really love to hear your reasoning.
The ONLY thing it will do is help if such fingerprints are later found on bomb fragments, or in a terrorist "house", etc. And it will tie a set of fingerprints to an "alias" (I assume terrorists don't travel under their real names). But terrorists are cheap, and especially nowadays there are a LOT of them, thanks to the US' brilliant middle east peace plan over the past few years.
If there was a carmaker that wired a lock on the gas cap that would only open when it read a coded pulse from gas pumps at Exxon stations, the carmaker would go out of business quickly.
Ahh, but if the biggest car-maker had signed an agreement with the biggest gasoline distributor(s) to do this, they'd end up putting everyone ELSE out of business. Get it?
I don't agree with it, but it's sort of the whole point of the publishers and Microsoft's DRM (and other little schemes).
At both Battelle Memorial Institute and Abbott Laboratories there are departments (groups/teams of about 30 or 40 people) where this is not only the norm but, indeed, the management in those departments will specifically direct certain employees into dead-end tasks for the express purpose of creating legitimate justification of slacking or nonproductivity
Yep. GOT to have them drug patents, because research costs billions and billions of dollars and if we can't sell you your blood pressure meds for $200 a month or antibiotics for $50 a treatment, well, we just can't turn a profit.
I'm glad I don't work there. Good to know this is going on, however. I'll make sure I don't prescribe any more Abbott products from now on. After all, there are so many alternatives nowadays.
Seriously, no one gets anything done in any job with their manager looking over their shoulder.
Ahh but this is different. They want to play on people's natural paranoia. You're right in that productivity drops when the boss is standing next to you. But what happens when the boss theoretically "could be looking at ANY TIME". When suddenly you hear that whatshisface got reprimanded/fired for goofing off 15 minutes after the "coffee break"?
Of course all the damned passive-aggressives in management are sure to lap this idea up. They can spy on you without you knowing, and suddenly hit you with reams of evidence of your "slacking" if ever they need to manipulate or fire you, without having to listen to an excuse or even a legitimate justification.
In the bible it says God created the world. However it doesn't say how he did it. For all we know he created the world through evolution.
Or for all we know, "God" is just a myth anyway. I can't believe that over 80% of the world's population still insists on believing in this "Santa Claus" for grownups.
- A millitant atheist.
Not posted AC because frankly, I don't give a shit.
And why, pray tell, would the orbit decay less, if I increased the cross sectional area by adding solar panels.
Remember, I have been told mass has nothing to do with orbital decay. So mass and increased inertia does NOT cause the station to decay less. If you're going to use an argument, at least be consistent. Inertia is a function of mass. Mass has nothing to do with orbital decay. Thus the orbital decay is the same, or MORE (since adding solar panels increases cross sectional area). Either way, you use more fuel.
So, if you're that victim... guess it just sucks to be you, eh?
Yes it does. And if you rewrite the laws and create a police state, people will STILL get killed. So please, don't use this as an excuse to "change the world".
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why would I have a problem with something that doesn't exist?
It's likely to be on the minimum specs for Windows 2012.
The header says it's 100 times faster than current desktops, so I doubt this chip will be powerful enough to run Windows 2012 anyway.
But I want those $500. Maybe I could use it to buy a board
Don't lie. You'll actually spend it on 2 computer games, lots of mountain dew and some pizzas.
How about keeping 64 processors on a license plate sized board cool.
... oh wait, nevermind!
Ahh but that's the brilliant part, see, if you have the processors on opposite sides of the board, then the heat just cancels itself out
Carbon *can* be a vehicle for toxic stuff getting into your system, but the fiber/powder itself is not.
Let me show you the chapters on asbestosis, sillicosis and other pneumoconioses. Carbon itself can be toxic. Tiny crystals (of whatever) have a habit of triggering a permanent inflammatory response which a) destroys tissue and b)increases the risk of local cancer due to the constant exposure to growth factors, etc.
If coal dust can kill you, and pointy asbestos crystals can kill you, imagine what tiny, SHARP nanotubes will do?
Not to split hairs, but the honey is actually working as an anti-septic.
:)
We do use sugar and/or honey from time to time to treat large, difficult ulcers in our hospitals here. The idea is that the sugar is something that stimulates growth in the wound while at the same time the huge osmotic pressure prevents bacterial growth. Honey is high in fructose, but it will work with plain old sugar, too.
An antibiotic is a drug that targets specific types bacteria by inhibiting growth or cell wall synthesis, etc. Honey, on the other hand will kill ALL cells, bacteria or otherwise. Fortunately for us, however, our circulation helps minimize the osmotic gradient and the only cells that die are the ones on the fringe of the wound - which are probably injured anyway.
Another thing we use - funnily enough - is epamin - an anti-covulsant medication that somehow is very similar to certain tissue growth factors and does help heal wounds faster.
So, to make my point - yes ok, the egyptians probably used honey, wine, and even vinegar as antiseptics. However this is not as effective as say cepahlexin
It is reported that this lady not only had bone cancer, but probably liver cancer and diabetes.
I'm not a forensic anthropologist, but as a physician I can say there are a lot of signs to tell you that a patient has cancer even if you only recover a fragment. Especially osteosarcoma (bone cancer), which tends to produce lytic lesions (areas where the bone is less dense) in most of the bones of the body. A quick x-ray of the jaw could reveal this. Plus osteosarcoma will alter calcium and PTH levels and dramatically change bone formation and reabsorbtion. See, bone is LIVING tissue. It's constantly being absorbed and recreated.
Now I don't know where they get liver cancer from - it's very unlikely that a patient will have TWO separate types of cancer. But the liver lesions are probably just metastases of the primary osteosaarcoma.
The egyptians were rather advanced in the field of medicine - FOR THEIR DAY. There is no possible way they could approach the level of medicine we had say 200 years ago, much less today. Diabetes is a complex disease that is eventually lethal when left untreated. I doubt very much they had discovered that feeding patients pig pancreases could mitigate this disease somewhat, since this was discovered early last century. We won't talk about sulfonyl-ureas and other oral hypoglycemiants.
They were pretty good at basic surgery, they had a pretty good idea of which tumors NOT to touch (because they got worse if you touched them), and it's rumored that some were even capable of drilling burr holes in patients' skulls to treat subdural hematomas (from trauma/battle injuries) or encephalitis/meningitis (to relieve the pressure inside the skull from a swollen brain/membranes). However we MUST bear in mind that we have NO record of what their actual success rate was with these procedures. It's easy to attribute supernatural powers to a vanished culture, however reality is they had no antibiotics, precious little by way of anesthetics, and more importantly no scientific method.
The missing pieces can be replaced by frog DNA.
Alternatively you can replace it with DNA from seven fat and seven starving cows.
Can I get my inheritance, now?
Considering the fact that a lot of them were executed/assassinated, your inheritance might just consist of a short length of rope and a dangle on the gallows.
I can hear it now from EMI - "Hey, under the DMCA
And I can hear it now from the French - ze DMCA does not apply here, mon ami. Now go away befor I am forzed to taunt you once again.
The problem with boycotts is always one of organizing everyone to go along with you. It's virtually impossible. You might as well organize a REAL revolution.
Everyone will nod their heads and say "oh yeah, I agree". But no one will actually refuse to pay their tuition because, after all, they're grateful to have gotten into the university in the first place and won't want to take the risk.
just because of our bone-headed "security" rules.
No, it's not because of just the security rules. There's a general arrogance in your typical American, a sort of "America can do no wrong" attitude. This, combined with the fact that typical Americans immediately turn a blind eye to their own failings, tends to earn resentment. Plus the fact that they are SO DAMNED LOUD AT MEALTIMES god, I hate it when Americans come into a restaurant....
See the Brits can be real snobs. But ask any Brit and he'll be the first to criticize himself and his own country. But America, no, America is perfect.
Please, enjoy your "freedom" fries. Continue to make French "surrender" jokes even in KIDS MOVIES (Flushed Away is a perfect example). But don't wonder why everyone hates you. Psst, I'm half French - so how do you like your war so far? How many years did WORLD WAR II last? How many years for Iraq? Hey is the "surge" working yet?
You just wouldn't listen, huh? LOL America.
Nothing like getting some special attention from a "security" agency when entering the country.
Thats ok. The US dollar is sinking, the US economy is stagnating, the US government thinks it can talk tough and fight wars on concepts with no consequences. Wait. The reckoning is coming soon. All the money is leaving the US, since the real growth is happening in Russia, India and Asia.
But look on the bright side - when the US is no longer a world leader, I guess no one will want to target it anymore.
I'm a firm believer that in order to "defeat" terrorism, we need to prevent any attacks on US soil first and foremost. If that means limiting access to the US, then so be it.
Please explain how fingerprinting the entire world will prevent a terrorist attack? I'd really love to hear your reasoning.
The ONLY thing it will do is help if such fingerprints are later found on bomb fragments, or in a terrorist "house", etc. And it will tie a set of fingerprints to an "alias" (I assume terrorists don't travel under their real names). But terrorists are cheap, and especially nowadays there are a LOT of them, thanks to the US' brilliant middle east peace plan over the past few years.
I forget who it was that wrote the prophetic words:
"One does not speak so much of freedom as in a place where it has ceased to exist"
it got posted on slashdot, didn't it?
General Motors
Teehee - actually, Toyota is the biggest car maker nowadays.
If there was a carmaker that wired a lock on the gas cap that would only open when it read a coded pulse from gas pumps at Exxon stations, the carmaker would go out of business quickly.
Ahh, but if the biggest car-maker had signed an agreement with the biggest gasoline distributor(s) to do this, they'd end up putting everyone ELSE out of business. Get it?
I don't agree with it, but it's sort of the whole point of the publishers and Microsoft's DRM (and other little schemes).
At both Battelle Memorial Institute and Abbott Laboratories there are departments (groups/teams of about 30 or 40 people) where this is not only the norm but, indeed, the management in those departments will specifically direct certain employees into dead-end tasks for the express purpose of creating legitimate justification of slacking or nonproductivity
Yep. GOT to have them drug patents, because research costs billions and billions of dollars and if we can't sell you your blood pressure meds for $200 a month or antibiotics for $50 a treatment, well, we just can't turn a profit.
I'm glad I don't work there. Good to know this is going on, however. I'll make sure I don't prescribe any more Abbott products from now on. After all, there are so many alternatives nowadays.
We're talking about employees here, not (necessarily) citizens.
Employees lose their citizenship when they work?
Non citizens who have valid visas/work permits are not protected by the same laws you are?
I don't get why you had to make the distinction between an employee and a "citizen".
Seriously, no one gets anything done in any job with their manager looking over their shoulder.
Ahh but this is different. They want to play on people's natural paranoia. You're right in that productivity drops when the boss is standing next to you. But what happens when the boss theoretically "could be looking at ANY TIME". When suddenly you hear that whatshisface got reprimanded/fired for goofing off 15 minutes after the "coffee break"?
Of course all the damned passive-aggressives in management are sure to lap this idea up. They can spy on you without you knowing, and suddenly hit you with reams of evidence of your "slacking" if ever they need to manipulate or fire you, without having to listen to an excuse or even a legitimate justification.
Everyone knows that video gamers are equivalent to pedophiles and terrorists anyway. Or they soon will be.
Good thing the Europa Universalis 1.3 patch just came out, I can now happily ignore the doomsayers...
In the bible it says God created the world. However it doesn't say how he did it. For all we know he created the world through evolution.
Or for all we know, "God" is just a myth anyway. I can't believe that over 80% of the world's population still insists on believing in this "Santa Claus" for grownups.
- A millitant atheist.
Not posted AC because frankly, I don't give a shit.
If your orbit decays less,
And why, pray tell, would the orbit decay less, if I increased the cross sectional area by adding solar panels.
Remember, I have been told mass has nothing to do with orbital decay. So mass and increased inertia does NOT cause the station to decay less. If you're going to use an argument, at least be consistent. Inertia is a function of mass. Mass has nothing to do with orbital decay. Thus the orbital decay is the same, or MORE (since adding solar panels increases cross sectional area). Either way, you use more fuel.
So, if you're that victim... guess it just sucks to be you, eh?
Yes it does. And if you rewrite the laws and create a police state, people will STILL get killed. So please, don't use this as an excuse to "change the world".