Are there still babies being born with Down syndrome and Spina Bifida ? I though tests of those (and others) were performed on all pregnant women, resulting in abortion in those cases.
Yup, and I call circumcision "male genital mutilation" and find it just as monstrous. And this 'health' argument reeks. Then why don't we cut tits off girls so that they won't have problems with breast cancer then ?!? And you say that FGM is absolutely intended to deny females sexual pleasure, but people forget that circumcision was started in the US over a century ago to reduce the practice of masturbation by making it less enjoyable.
The simplest explanation would be that there are sleep cycles, and during part of the cycle you are half asleep and half aware: it's easy to 'guide' dreams during those, as well as possible to remember something you heard.
I fully agree. I draw the parallel with cancer: when cells become immortal, they are called cancer and they cause the death of the hosting body. If humans turn immortal, they would cause the death of society. There simply would be no evolution anymore, either biological or societal. You would never get a promotion, simply because your boss would never die. And he would never leave for a different jobs simply because there would be no openings for the same reasons. You'd never inherit from your parents so forget about moving out of this shitting one-room apartment and buy a house, etc...
And the most obvious thing of all is that this thing would apply first to the richest. Can you imagine a society with even more wealth disparity as now, where the richest are immortals and have all the time in the world to accumulate even more. At least death allows for redistribution between heirs and taxes.
Well, not only he didn't get offtopic, but he got +4 and some pretty good answers and rebuttals. Honestly, someone who says "There's a cool thing that happens when you know this life isn't the end: You suddenly stop caring about yourself" makes my skin crawl. THIS kind of groupthink is far more damaging to humanity.
Having worked there and seen attempts at recovering energy from the wind, I can tell you it's not easy. It can blow at 250km/h on the coast, and rocks and good sized chunks of ice fly with it, destroying blades from windmills easily. I've seen specially designed prototypes (horizontal blades, self-braking, etc) destroyed before they were even turned on !
You cannot have an allergy at birth to anything. It takes at least one contact with the allergen to build up an immune response.
Are you sure about that ? I thought that in some (rare) cases there could be allergic reactions while in the womb to things that the mothers ate. Yeah [citation needed].
The best definition I've seen of intelligence is the following: "Intelligence is the ability to reach correct conclusions from incomplete information."
I don't understand how google doesn't have prior art on this. Anybody remembers google personal search or whatever it was called ? An executable for Windows that sorted through all your files, with a web interface, and that displayed results both from your computer and from the web.
Because it would work. But it would not serve the political needs of the warmers. They need action NOW. Your proposal would instantly [...]
Hold it right there. It would instantly nothing ! I thought the reason why we don't use the system I described was so obvious that I didn't feel the need to flesh it out. But apparently it went WHOOSH right over your head. So here it is: we don't change the measurement system NOW simply because we'd need to wait a long time before any trend emerges. We already have over a century of data from meteorological stations and we can't toss it off just because a better system comes along (and as another replier to my original post stated, those long term stations do exist now, so they just add to the quality of the samples).
Disclaimer: I did work in atmospheric science for 15 years.
I understand all this talk about adjusting temperature results for urban sprawl around the measuring stations, but bear in mind that those stations are weather forecast stations, never intended as climatology primary source of inputs. So why don't we simply use a better designed system, such as a thermometer a couple of feet inside the ground: depending on the depth you can average out the daily thermal cycle (a few inches) or even the yearly cycles (a few feet). And there you have your reliable long therm^Hterm trends without any supercomputers or fancy models.
A quick googling shows that about 10960 athletes from 204 countries have come together in competition within one city. If you can't find the value in that, then I feel sorry for you.
No I don't. For me sport is what I do, not what I show other people I do. If people want to run, FINE, but competitions are just as dumb as a pissing contest.
I build scientific instruments, actually I write the software for them, but since I end up being the only one who knows how to use them (unless they RTFM), I often go on the field to install them. I worked for 15 years in atmospheric science and spent 3 years running around Antarctica setting up and running various instruments. Now I do cosmology and nuclear physics, but it's the same and I end up installing cosminc ray or neutrino detectors on some nice mountains.
But like others have already suggested, the best way to stay active is probably to bike to work. I have my own tricks for that...: live high, work low, ride dirt in the morning and, err, take the bus back home in the evening...
What? You mean the dividing cell doesn't just call fork() ?
That's only the top API...
More seriously I wonder why simulations are not used more commonly in biology/medicine. One example is endocrinology. If you go to an endocrinologist for hormonal balance (for instance because you have a missing thyroid), over time (s)he adjusts the dosage of your medicine 'out of thin air' (and a lot of experience, Okay), but there are so many retro-actions that I'm sure they'd do it much faster if they just punched in the numbers (your past and current analyses and your current hormonal intakes) into a numerical model. It would also be easier to explain it to the patient.
It's really hard to put a price on the intangible work of CEOs closing huge deals versus the more tangible work of employees finishing cellphones, computers and other physical goods. It's like the science of measuring those things advanced much more on the factory floor than it did on the higher ranks.
Maybe because it doesn't ? If a company makes phones, it gets its money by selling those phones. Not by 'closing huge deals', whatever that is. There are countless stories of CEOs spending their time on the golf court or between the legs of their misstresses while the company hums along nicely. I'd bet a foreskin that most CEOs could be replaced by pimply faced MBAs and nothing would change for the involved companies.
In a different category, Tour de France race winners usually give their prize money to their teammates. They make enough in endorsement anyway, and there's no way to win if your team is not _with_ you during the race.
I don't know about the US, but in France people living in apartments move every 3 years on average. It's longer for people in houses. And I moved 19 times between the age of 18 and 40. Just couldn't get a long term job.
Exactly. I learned programming in France, at a time when there were some (rather bad) national programming languages like LSE where the words seemed too grounded and loaded with double meanings. Also there were several translated versions of Basic. Some commands were much longer to type, some others didn't translate directly and the equivalent was unintuitive at best, and finally you couldn't type listings found in programming magazines.
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Are there still babies being born with Down syndrome and Spina Bifida ? I though tests of those (and others) were performed on all pregnant women, resulting in abortion in those cases.
Where is +5 Speaks The Truth when needed...
Yup, and I call circumcision "male genital mutilation" and find it just as monstrous. And this 'health' argument reeks. Then why don't we cut tits off girls so that they won't have problems with breast cancer then ?!? And you say that FGM is absolutely intended to deny females sexual pleasure, but people forget that circumcision was started in the US over a century ago to reduce the practice of masturbation by making it less enjoyable.
"I bet the people of Gomorrah felt like they got the short end of the stick. After all, they didn't get a perversion named after them." — Mike Miles.
The simplest explanation would be that there are sleep cycles, and during part of the cycle you are half asleep and half aware: it's easy to 'guide' dreams during those, as well as possible to remember something you heard.
I fully agree. I draw the parallel with cancer: when cells become immortal, they are called cancer and they cause the death of the hosting body. If humans turn immortal, they would cause the death of society. There simply would be no evolution anymore, either biological or societal. You would never get a promotion, simply because your boss would never die. And he would never leave for a different jobs simply because there would be no openings for the same reasons. You'd never inherit from your parents so forget about moving out of this shitting one-room apartment and buy a house, etc...
And the most obvious thing of all is that this thing would apply first to the richest. Can you imagine a society with even more wealth disparity as now, where the richest are immortals and have all the time in the world to accumulate even more. At least death allows for redistribution between heirs and taxes.
Well, not only he didn't get offtopic, but he got +4 and some pretty good answers and rebuttals. Honestly, someone who says "There's a cool thing that happens when you know this life isn't the end: You suddenly stop caring about yourself" makes my skin crawl. THIS kind of groupthink is far more damaging to humanity.
I want to die at 101, shot by a jealous husband.
And in addition to graphs, here are a few terrifying numbers. Read at least the first two pages of this article.
Having worked there and seen attempts at recovering energy from the wind, I can tell you it's not easy. It can blow at 250km/h on the coast, and rocks and good sized chunks of ice fly with it, destroying blades from windmills easily. I've seen specially designed prototypes (horizontal blades, self-braking, etc) destroyed before they were even turned on !
You cannot have an allergy at birth to anything. It takes at least one contact with the allergen to build up an immune response.
Are you sure about that ? I thought that in some (rare) cases there could be allergic reactions while in the womb to things that the mothers ate. Yeah [citation needed].
The best definition I've seen of intelligence is the following: "Intelligence is the ability to reach correct conclusions from incomplete information."
I don't understand how google doesn't have prior art on this. Anybody remembers google personal search or whatever it was called ? An executable for Windows that sorted through all your files, with a web interface, and that displayed results both from your computer and from the web.
Because it would work. But it would not serve the political needs of the warmers. They need action NOW. Your proposal would instantly [...]
Hold it right there. It would instantly nothing ! I thought the reason why we don't use the system I described was so obvious that I didn't feel the need to flesh it out. But apparently it went WHOOSH right over your head. So here it is: we don't change the measurement system NOW simply because we'd need to wait a long time before any trend emerges. We already have over a century of data from meteorological stations and we can't toss it off just because a better system comes along (and as another replier to my original post stated, those long term stations do exist now, so they just add to the quality of the samples).
Disclaimer: I did work in atmospheric science for 15 years.
I understand all this talk about adjusting temperature results for urban sprawl around the measuring stations, but bear in mind that those stations are weather forecast stations, never intended as climatology primary source of inputs. So why don't we simply use a better designed system, such as a thermometer a couple of feet inside the ground: depending on the depth you can average out the daily thermal cycle (a few inches) or even the yearly cycles (a few feet). And there you have your reliable long therm^Hterm trends without any supercomputers or fancy models.
A quick googling shows that about 10960 athletes from 204 countries have come together in competition within one city. If you can't find the value in that, then I feel sorry for you.
No I don't. For me sport is what I do, not what I show other people I do. If people want to run, FINE, but competitions are just as dumb as a pissing contest.
I build scientific instruments, actually I write the software for them, but since I end up being the only one who knows how to use them (unless they RTFM), I often go on the field to install them. I worked for 15 years in atmospheric science and spent 3 years running around Antarctica setting up and running various instruments. Now I do cosmology and nuclear physics, but it's the same and I end up installing cosminc ray or neutrino detectors on some nice mountains.
But like others have already suggested, the best way to stay active is probably to bike to work. I have my own tricks for that...: live high, work low, ride dirt in the morning and, err, take the bus back home in the evening...
Dirty deeds, indeed.
Dirty deeds done with sheep... in Australia.
What? You mean the dividing cell doesn't just call fork() ?
That's only the top API...
More seriously I wonder why simulations are not used more commonly in biology/medicine. One example is endocrinology. If you go to an endocrinologist for hormonal balance (for instance because you have a missing thyroid), over time (s)he adjusts the dosage of your medicine 'out of thin air' (and a lot of experience, Okay), but there are so many retro-actions that I'm sure they'd do it much faster if they just punched in the numbers (your past and current analyses and your current hormonal intakes) into a numerical model. It would also be easier to explain it to the patient.
It's really hard to put a price on the intangible work of CEOs closing huge deals versus the more tangible work of employees finishing cellphones, computers and other physical goods. It's like the science of measuring those things advanced much more on the factory floor than it did on the higher ranks.
Maybe because it doesn't ? If a company makes phones, it gets its money by selling those phones. Not by 'closing huge deals', whatever that is. There are countless stories of CEOs spending their time on the golf court or between the legs of their misstresses while the company hums along nicely. I'd bet a foreskin that most CEOs could be replaced by pimply faced MBAs and nothing would change for the involved companies.
In a different category, Tour de France race winners usually give their prize money to their teammates. They make enough in endorsement anyway, and there's no way to win if your team is not _with_ you during the race.
Did you post this hoping for the 'Funny' moderation ? Because if not, it's the stupidest thing I've read on the internet in a long time.
Moving once every 3 years is not normal
I don't know about the US, but in France people living in apartments move every 3 years on average. It's longer for people in houses. And I moved 19 times between the age of 18 and 40. Just couldn't get a long term job.
Achilles's Choice by Larry Niven (of RingWorld's fame).
Exactly. I learned programming in France, at a time when there were some (rather bad) national programming languages like LSE where the words seemed too grounded and loaded with double meanings. Also there were several translated versions of Basic. Some commands were much longer to type, some others didn't translate directly and the equivalent was unintuitive at best, and finally you couldn't type listings found in programming magazines.