What's wrong with the stem cell lines we already have? Those limited stem cell lines are contaminated with mouse genes.
Why the push to create endless stem cell lines when a stem cell will reproduce to more and more stem cells forever? No cell can reproduce forever. Telomeres inside each cell dictate how many times it can reproduce.
Why are we wasting money, time and energy creating more stem cell lines when those resources could be spent on the actual research? You can't properly carry out the research if you don't have a clean supply of stem cells to work from.
What's wrong with adult stem cell research? Nothing, but why not pursue all avenues of possibility?
Reading your previous posts, I can appreciate your "pro-life" outlook with the birth of your child, but you have to temper your euphoria with reality at some point. Blastocysts and an actual living breathing baby have about as much in common as a sunflower seed and a sunflower. A sunflower seed can blossom into a sunflower, but no one could mistake the seed for the full-blown real thing.
If experimenting on microscopic cells can credibly lead to a cure for some horrific diseases, I'm all for it. When the image of babies/children are brought into the mix on pretty much any issue, common sense and logic go right out the window.
In an interview, you're selling yourself. Think of you as a box of cereal. Would you buy cereal that was wrapped up in day-old newspaper and twine or would you buy cereal that came in a well thought out, easy to open, sturdy box?
I will agree, however, that an interviewer that would look down on you for wearing a Sears suit instead of breaking the bank on a Brooks Brothers or Armani is an indicator that you probably wouldn't want to work there.
Something like this could be perverted into a horrible torture device.
Perverted? A device like this is perverted by its very nature. Unless you can make hot cocoa with it, there is no non-agressive alternate use for this.
I've had food thrown at me on my bike for daring to take up any of "their" road.
Even though a bicycle is recognized as a motor vehicle by the traffic codes of most states, common sense and reality dictate that they aren't. How a device with two wheels and a skimpy frame sold in TOY STORES for petes sake is equivalent to a two-ton machine is beyond me.
Not to slight those with pricy Cannondales and spandex who take their hobby seriously, but the motorists I see passing the cyclists on the service road of a very busy interstate aren't going to take kindly to bikes taking the lane or causing a bottleneck. This is during rushhour, mind you, and I see it all the time.
For that hour and a half every day I'm like a child, blasting Stooges or Buzzcocks or Muddy Waters or whatever in my earbuds and checking out what's actually going on in my city.
Holy crap, its a miracle you're still alive. Especially in a hostile urban environment, you need all of your senses sharp at all times if you have any hope of avoiding being a hood ornament for the crosstown bus. Not like a car where you can crank the stereo, have a cigarette and walk away from a fender bender should one occur, it doesn't take a nobel prize-winning physicist to know who wins the battle between an Escalade and a Schwinn.
He said his friend was doing a security audit, he didn't say the company actually hired him.
If he wasn't asked by the company to do this, I can understand why they weren't falling all over themselves to thank him. If you came home to some dingbat walking around your house "testing your security", you'd call the police regardless of if he was really testing or helping himself to the silverware.
He finally embarrassed so many people that they posted a picture of his face to all employees with a warning to be careful. That destroyed his effectiveness. Some solution.
So they hire your friend to pen test their security and, rather than implement his findings, they made up a "wanted poster" and did nothing else? What was the point of hiring him in the first place?
Leadership development and educational events were promoted as "dry" events; the chapter stopped at a liquor store on the way to stock up, and underage drinking was more-than-allowed.
When I was an undergrad at Plattsburgh State, I was chatting with a girl on campus (on the VAX phone function, just before AIM became popular) who was on some kind of greek oversight board where they would visit frat parties before they began to make sure that there wasn't any alcohol and that there were snacks and other non-alcoholic refreshments. Either she was seriously dense or playing along with the charade, but she adamantly denied that the Pepsi and Cheetos went out the window in favor of the army of kegs they'd bring out the second they left.
I have no doubt that some greek organizations are made up of good people who enjoy each others company and do good deeds, but many of the ones I've had contact with seem to pay lip service to the administration to keep afloat and do what they want to anyway. Ditto for the hazing. They can come out against it all they want but it'll still go on behind closed doors in secrecy. It's too much an ingrained part of the rituals and the older members will push it as "it was done to me, so now I get to give it to others".
Maybe that kid from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is free for the project.
Katz (takes long bong hit): Dude, we should totally get some pizza. I'm feeling post-Columbine munchies Juniz: Hallo esteemed friend JONKATZ, I would like to compile GNU/HURD on my amiga while watching latest hollywood blockbuster like Problem Child. Show me the money, wheres the beef?
Mod parent up. In your average metropolitan job market where you have tons of people vying for a limited pool of jobs, a company can post a job on Monster and have more resumes than they know what to do with in a matter of days.
Couple that with outsourcing to countries where your shiny new replacements can live like kings on a quarter of your salary and can race you to the bottom faster than speeding bullet. The average worker is more expendable as ever.
I invite you to look into the potentially fatal medical condition called "Argyria" before you continue to use colloidal silver.
- A concerned physician
No doubt invented by the medical industry as a scare tactic to keep the commoners from cutting into your source of income. I suggest you look up "knowitallatosis" while you're at it, Mr. Science Man.
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walked slowly with our hands in the air
Did you then wave them around like you just didn't care?
The solution is to create a passenger compartment inside a cargo container filled with water, which is a terrific absorber of energy, which in turn can house the sharks.
Water goes in cargo container, cargo container goes in rocket, shark goes in water. Our shark.
Inverters aren't hard to build. Just turn your AC into DC; then have a three-stage phase-shift oscillator with each output driving a power amplifier. There's your 3-phase AC.
I guess you could also reverse the polarity of the deflector dish to emit a low-level tachyon pulse. I'm sure Wil would be glad to elaborate.
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Good catch, AC. Mods, show the GP some love.
That particular poster writes essentially the same post every time a topic like this comes up.
No mention of the free market either. Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver.
He apparently had seen this stuff in mars rover pictures and predicted it.... guess nasa has finally came to the same conclusion.
Actually, the water is really the face on Mars crying.
Probably because of something you did.
What's wrong with the stem cell lines we already have?
Those limited stem cell lines are contaminated with mouse genes.
Why the push to create endless stem cell lines when a stem cell will reproduce to more and more stem cells forever?
No cell can reproduce forever. Telomeres inside each cell dictate how many times it can reproduce.
Why are we wasting money, time and energy creating more stem cell lines when those resources could be spent on the actual research?
You can't properly carry out the research if you don't have a clean supply of stem cells to work from.
What's wrong with adult stem cell research?
Nothing, but why not pursue all avenues of possibility?
Reading your previous posts, I can appreciate your "pro-life" outlook with the birth of your child, but you have to temper your euphoria with reality at some point. Blastocysts and an actual living breathing baby have about as much in common as a sunflower seed and a sunflower. A sunflower seed can blossom into a sunflower, but no one could mistake the seed for the full-blown real thing.
If experimenting on microscopic cells can credibly lead to a cure for some horrific diseases, I'm all for it. When the image of babies/children are brought into the mix on pretty much any issue, common sense and logic go right out the window.
Well, they'd better make room so we can see how low they can go.
In an interview, you're selling yourself. Think of you as a box of cereal. Would you buy cereal that was wrapped up in day-old newspaper and twine or would you buy cereal that came in a well thought out, easy to open, sturdy box?
I will agree, however, that an interviewer that would look down on you for wearing a Sears suit instead of breaking the bank on a Brooks Brothers or Armani is an indicator that you probably wouldn't want to work there.
Something like this could be perverted into a horrible torture device.
Perverted? A device like this is perverted by its very nature. Unless you can make hot cocoa with it, there is no non-agressive alternate use for this.
Sort of like the big to-do about "smartbombs". Like it sprouts legs and escorts innocent people away from the area before it blows up.
It proves once and for all that the Egyptians were visited by Teamsters.
That is what I call concrete evidence!
It would have been conclusively proven years ago, but the investigation was stonewalled.
I've had food thrown at me on my bike for daring to take up any of "their" road.
Even though a bicycle is recognized as a motor vehicle by the traffic codes of most states, common sense and reality dictate that they aren't. How a device with two wheels and a skimpy frame sold in TOY STORES for petes sake is equivalent to a two-ton machine is beyond me.
Not to slight those with pricy Cannondales and spandex who take their hobby seriously, but the motorists I see passing the cyclists on the service road of a very busy interstate aren't going to take kindly to bikes taking the lane or causing a bottleneck. This is during rushhour, mind you, and I see it all the time.
For that hour and a half every day I'm like a child, blasting Stooges or Buzzcocks or Muddy Waters or whatever in my earbuds and checking out what's actually going on in my city.
Holy crap, its a miracle you're still alive. Especially in a hostile urban environment, you need all of your senses sharp at all times if you have any hope of avoiding being a hood ornament for the crosstown bus. Not like a car where you can crank the stereo, have a cigarette and walk away from a fender bender should one occur, it doesn't take a nobel prize-winning physicist to know who wins the battle between an Escalade and a Schwinn.
He said his friend was doing a security audit, he didn't say the company actually hired him.
If he wasn't asked by the company to do this, I can understand why they weren't falling all over themselves to thank him. If you came home to some dingbat walking around your house "testing your security", you'd call the police regardless of if he was really testing or helping himself to the silverware.
He finally embarrassed so many people that they posted a picture of his face to all employees with a warning to be careful. That destroyed his effectiveness. Some solution.
So they hire your friend to pen test their security and, rather than implement his findings, they made up a "wanted poster" and did nothing else? What was the point of hiring him in the first place?
Leadership development and educational events were promoted as "dry" events; the chapter stopped at a liquor store on the way to stock up, and underage drinking was more-than-allowed.
When I was an undergrad at Plattsburgh State, I was chatting with a girl on campus (on the VAX phone function, just before AIM became popular) who was on some kind of greek oversight board where they would visit frat parties before they began to make sure that there wasn't any alcohol and that there were snacks and other non-alcoholic refreshments. Either she was seriously dense or playing along with the charade, but she adamantly denied that the Pepsi and Cheetos went out the window in favor of the army of kegs they'd bring out the second they left.
I have no doubt that some greek organizations are made up of good people who enjoy each others company and do good deeds, but many of the ones I've had contact with seem to pay lip service to the administration to keep afloat and do what they want to anyway. Ditto for the hazing. They can come out against it all they want but it'll still go on behind closed doors in secrecy. It's too much an ingrained part of the rituals and the older members will push it as "it was done to me, so now I get to give it to others".
Too true. It's bad enough that most "chemistry sets" are practically rock candy-making kits in disguise or do lame crap like turning water green.
Maybe that kid from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is free for the project.
Katz (takes long bong hit): Dude, we should totally get some pizza. I'm feeling post-Columbine munchies
Juniz: Hallo esteemed friend JONKATZ, I would like to compile GNU/HURD on my amiga while watching latest hollywood blockbuster like Problem Child. Show me the money, wheres the beef?
Mod parent up. In your average metropolitan job market where you have tons of people vying for a limited pool of jobs, a company can post a job on Monster and have more resumes than they know what to do with in a matter of days.
Couple that with outsourcing to countries where your shiny new replacements can live like kings on a quarter of your salary and can race you to the bottom faster than speeding bullet. The average worker is more expendable as ever.
Typically, If you mention the thought of calling the NLRB to someone in HR/accounting the problem will mysteriously go away.
In most companies, the only thing to "mysteriously go away" is you and/or your job.
I didn't even READ that ;)
:)
You may be a highly-trained physician, but you're definitely a slashdotter first.
I'll bet you tell your patients that, In Soviet Russia, cancer is dying of THEM!
*sigh* Another Natalie Portman Foundation grant down the drain.
I invite you to look into the potentially fatal medical condition called "Argyria" before you continue to use colloidal silver.
- A concerned physician
No doubt invented by the medical industry as a scare tactic to keep the commoners from cutting into your source of income. I suggest you look up "knowitallatosis" while you're at it, Mr. Science Man.
Closed captioning of this post for the sarcasm-impaired has been made possible in part by a generous grant from the Natalie Portman Foundation - committed to excellence in hot grits
walked slowly with our hands in the air
Did you then wave them around like you just didn't care?
The solution is to create a passenger compartment inside a cargo container filled with water, which is a terrific absorber of energy, which in turn can house the sharks.
Water goes in cargo container, cargo container goes in rocket, shark goes in water. Our shark.
Inverters aren't hard to build. Just turn your AC into DC; then have a three-stage phase-shift oscillator with each output driving a power amplifier. There's your 3-phase AC.
I guess you could also reverse the polarity of the deflector dish to emit a low-level tachyon pulse. I'm sure Wil would be glad to elaborate.