My invention uses 220V to make hydrogen which is burned to heat water which drives a turbine that generates electricity.
Have you measured how much natural gas and petroleum is used to supply you with the 220V that is required to power your "invention", and tried to factor that out?
Whatcha talkin about, man? It comes right outta the wall!!
As a scientist who has peddled screenplays, let me tell you that they are approaching this ass-backwards, as usual.
[relevant aside: Did you hear about the Polish actress? She was sleeping with the screenwriter.]
If they want more good movies about science, the way to do that is not to encourage the generation of more screenplays. Fucking Hollywood is tit-deep in screenplays. You can't swing a dead cat without knocking over a stack of them.
If the Pentagon wants more science movies, then start up a production company and buy the scripts, make the movies they want made. The train a couple of nose-mounted.50 cal Gatlings on Mirimax and get them distributed.
More screenplays? They are farting into gale-force winds.
I bought two HP iPods for my daughters at Costco for Christmas last year. They were 20 bucks cheaper each than other places, and they worked fine with an iMac and an eMac. I discovered the hidden benefit to buying them at Costoc when one got dropped and the screen cracked. It was unusable and unrepairable. It looked like I was out of luck until I called Costco. No problem, they said. Return anytime up to a year. No questions asked. So I did, and they did. I bought another iPod, same style, same Costco.
I drop several hundred bucks each month at Costco just on food. Now I look there first for all other items on my wish list.
Why can't there be some Firefox extension that puts a button somewhere so that if a web site seems to be fucked up, clicking the button sends an email to webmaster@siteyouarelookingat.com complaining about their lack of compliance to standard?
If we're ever going to have a united world government
Last time I looked, there are 4 Chinese for every American. Is this going to be an elected world government? One man, one vote? Or does each nation get a vote: Fiji vote = USA vote?
Or do we vote with money and guns - like we do now?
Discussions assume that the LP is a tiny patch of ground that can be taken and defended. Really, how large a volume of space does the usable portion of the LP occupy?
Seriously, what were you worried about before 9/11?
Before 9/11 I was worried about being one of the 30,000 killed in car crashes every year in the USA. But after that fateful day, I am now worried about the exact same thing.
One month after 9/11, I was in Logan, waiting to board a full-of-fuel 767 to London. The airport was crowded with uniformed police and troops from about five different organizations. They were packing firepower enough to defend East Boston from invasion by any nation smaller than France. And yet they stayed on the ground and I went into the air. This story gives me the same feeling: No matter how many cameras/guns there are on the ground, if it goes bad in flight, you're still fucked.
I realize there may have been air marshalls on board, still I would have felt better if one of the state troopers had lent me his Glock for the trip.
I can't believe that noone has made the obligatory joke about the old woman who spills the Wolfgang Puck coffee on herself and then sues him for millions.
Followed by the debunking replies who will supply the link to snopes.
Followed by the bashing of lawyers.
Then someone will blame it on MS/USPTO/RIAA/SCO.
By then it will have thankfully dropped to the bottom of the page and then into old news.
Back in the day, when one wrote a NSF grant proposal to fund the isolation, identification and synthesis of natural product, one always included prominently the fact that in vitro - in a Petri dish, the desired compound killed cancer cells. Hey presto - now it's an NIH grant proposal as well. The keywords antitumor, anticancer, etc. in the title were magic.
Of course, these never became actual medicines. One realized over time that a sledgehammer will kill cancer cells in a Petri dish. As will a stick of dynamite or a teaspoonful of sodium cyanide or just driving over it with a Buick.
Once you take into account that human biological system is slightly more complex than the Petri dish system, you will be less excited by the breathless prose of headline writers.
Suppose that dandelion tea was an effective cure for cancer. Would Pfizer spend millions to do a ten year trial with thousands of patients? If they proved it worked then everyone would use the dandelions in their yard, or start cultivating them, and Pfizer would never make a penny from it. Multiply this by every naturally occuring substance on the planet.
Big Pharma has no motivation to prove the medicinal value of anything they cannot patent.
Only semi-true. If dandelions cured cancer, Pfizer would have two hundred PhDs isolating the compound or compounds which are the active ingredients. True, they probably would not be able to patent the naturally-occurring compounds. But the plant-based chemicals which interact with mammilian systems are not optimized for the effect we may observe. See THC (plant intoxicant) and anandamide (endogenous intoxicant to whose receptor THC just happens to bind). Medicinal chemists would create hundreds if not thousands of synthetic compounds similar to the natual ones. Screening might find one which is more potent and has fewer side effects than the natural product. They would patent all of those.
What I want is a button at the top of Firefox that automatically sends an email to webmaster@whateversiteI'mlookingatnow.com that complains about viewability and notifies them that they just lost my business/eyeballs.
The ACS is a useless organization, and I speak as a practicing chemist of many years. Nothing - and let me repeat this for emphasis - nothing that they have done has ever had any positive impact on my job or career. I toss their monthly letter inviting me to rejoin unopened into the trash. It would be money flushed down the toilet. They could disappear tomorrow, and I would not notice. Except for less junk mail, I guess.
Can you tell that I think they are a bunch of worthless pantloads? Just checking.
ACS publishes "SCIFINDER" and "CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS" which is NOT a database of journal papers. It is a database of chemical structures and properties which is invaluable to any research chemist because a) most information on exotic compounds are not published in journals
The information in Chem Abstracts is mostly from journals. Some from meeting reports, a lot from patents. Where does the ACS get its data if not from journals? Certainly not from proprietary databases of private companies.
Sister 1: PhD in organic chemistry; university professor; moderately successful; big debts
I sympathize with your sister, but as a PhD in organic myself, I have to wonder how the debt got "big". Your post implies that the process of obtaining a doctorate in chemistry is necessarily expensive, like obtaining an MD or JD can be. But graduate students in chemistry (especially those in such a good program that the graduates would be offered faculty positions) are paid to do research. It isn't much, but it is livable. You don't have to borrow big unless maybe supporting a family at the same time. And seeing as how the maximum Stafford undergrad loan is about $15K, one should be able to leave with a PhD only in moderate debt.
I have no concerns about identifying myself and smiling for CCTV and other sorts of cameras. In fact, I'm happy that when I sit by the fountain in a European square and watch Europeans play in the sun that there is a monitoring camera that's watching over all to keep them safe. Here is what matters; in Europe I have higher trust that such information gathered won't be misused against me, and that my rights will be respected. I have greater confidence that they care about maintaining human rights and due process, and I won't find myself in a Gitmo-like situation without charge, trial, or such. I have greater comfort in knowing that the majority of the population are liberal-in-mind, respect individual differences, and that like the Swiss just voted to grant the gays further rights, they won't politically lynch the minorities or be easily agitated by expedient Machiavillians, having well learned their lesson from WWI.
Here is the bottom line: Parents want to spend eternity in Heaven sobbing on the shoulder of Jesus. They want their children to be there, too. If the children are taught evolution, then their minds may be tainted and exposed to sin. Their souls are at risk. They might end up in the fires of Hell. When it comes right down to it, any loving Christian parent should be willing to silence this threat to their loved ones' salvation. No price is too dear to pay in this temporary existence to gain eternal bliss.
What causes the force, presumably 'gravitational waves', is a theory because their existence has not been proven yet.
Ack! If they have not been proved to exist, then the existence of gravitational waves is a hypothesis. Not a theory. A theory is concrete, dented by bullets, uncracked.
But when a new PC is bought, and the buyer could choose the OS, and if he chooses MacOS X something different will happen:
1. Apple's market share grows up (percentage)
2. Microsoft's market share decreases (percentage)
3. Apple gets money for the license (Microsoft gets nothing)
If this scenario occurred the market would truly be shaken, and for 18 months whoever bought a new computer could choose between a brand new MacOS X Tiger, or a 64 bit version of plain old Windows XP (originally released in 2001).
And you, what would you choose?
I have never bought a PC. Can I go down to Comp USA and get one of those new PCs where I get to choose the operating system? You know, the ones for which Microsoft "gets nothing"?
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My invention uses 220V to make hydrogen which is burned to heat water which drives a turbine that generates electricity.
Have you measured how much natural gas and petroleum is used to supply you with the 220V that is required to power your "invention", and tried to factor that out?
Whatcha talkin about, man? It comes right outta the wall!!
My invention uses 220V to make hydrogen which is burned to heat water which drives a turbine that generates electricity.
Clean energy!
As a scientist who has peddled screenplays, let me tell you that they are approaching this ass-backwards, as usual.
.50 cal Gatlings on Mirimax and get them distributed.
[relevant aside: Did you hear about the Polish actress? She was sleeping with the screenwriter.]
If they want more good movies about science, the way to do that is not to encourage the generation of more screenplays. Fucking Hollywood is tit-deep in screenplays. You can't swing a dead cat without knocking over a stack of them.
If the Pentagon wants more science movies, then start up a production company and buy the scripts, make the movies they want made. The train a couple of nose-mounted
More screenplays? They are farting into gale-force winds.
I bought two HP iPods for my daughters at Costco for Christmas last year. They were 20 bucks cheaper each than other places, and they worked fine with an iMac and an eMac. I discovered the hidden benefit to buying them at Costoc when one got dropped and the screen cracked. It was unusable and unrepairable. It looked like I was out of luck until I called Costco. No problem, they said. Return anytime up to a year. No questions asked. So I did, and they did. I bought another iPod, same style, same Costco.
I drop several hundred bucks each month at Costco just on food. Now I look there first for all other items on my wish list.
There is a long list of PC features that you may want, but are you willing to pay for them?
How do you expect to see innovation in products which are commodities engaged in a race to the minimum price?
Why can't there be some Firefox extension that puts a button somewhere so that if a web site seems to be fucked up, clicking the button sends an email to webmaster@siteyouarelookingat.com complaining about their lack of compliance to standard?
They can take my prints off of Sleeping Beauty's voluptuous ass. Seriously, that bitch got back.
If we're ever going to have a united world government
Last time I looked, there are 4 Chinese for every American. Is this going to be an elected world government? One man, one vote? Or does each nation get a vote: Fiji vote = USA vote?
Or do we vote with money and guns - like we do now?
Discussions assume that the LP is a tiny patch of ground that can be taken and defended. Really, how large a volume of space does the usable portion of the LP occupy?
Seriously, what were you worried about before 9/11?
Before 9/11 I was worried about being one of the 30,000 killed in car crashes every year in the USA. But after that fateful day, I am now worried about the exact same thing.
One month after 9/11, I was in Logan, waiting to board a full-of-fuel 767 to London. The airport was crowded with uniformed police and troops from about five different organizations. They were packing firepower enough to defend East Boston from invasion by any nation smaller than France. And yet they stayed on the ground and I went into the air. This story gives me the same feeling: No matter how many cameras/guns there are on the ground, if it goes bad in flight, you're still fucked.
I realize there may have been air marshalls on board, still I would have felt better if one of the state troopers had lent me his Glock for the trip.
I can't believe that noone has made the obligatory joke about the old woman who spills the Wolfgang Puck coffee on herself and then sues him for millions.
Followed by the debunking replies who will supply the link to snopes.
Followed by the bashing of lawyers.
Then someone will blame it on MS/USPTO/RIAA/SCO.
By then it will have thankfully dropped to the bottom of the page and then into old news.
Back in the day, when one wrote a NSF grant proposal to fund the isolation, identification and synthesis of natural product, one always included prominently the fact that in vitro - in a Petri dish, the desired compound killed cancer cells. Hey presto - now it's an NIH grant proposal as well. The keywords antitumor, anticancer, etc. in the title were magic.
Of course, these never became actual medicines. One realized over time that a sledgehammer will kill cancer cells in a Petri dish. As will a stick of dynamite or a teaspoonful of sodium cyanide or just driving over it with a Buick.
Once you take into account that human biological system is slightly more complex than the Petri dish system, you will be less excited by the breathless prose of headline writers.
I'm pretty sure his enthusiasm for the mix culture will wane the first time his new novel gets remixed and redistributed.
Suppose that dandelion tea was an effective cure for cancer. Would Pfizer spend millions to do a ten year trial with thousands of patients? If they proved it worked then everyone would use the dandelions in their yard, or start cultivating them, and Pfizer would never make a penny from it. Multiply this by every naturally occuring substance on the planet.
Big Pharma has no motivation to prove the medicinal value of anything they cannot patent.
Only semi-true. If dandelions cured cancer, Pfizer would have two hundred PhDs isolating the compound or compounds which are the active ingredients. True, they probably would not be able to patent the naturally-occurring compounds. But the plant-based chemicals which interact with mammilian systems are not optimized for the effect we may observe. See THC (plant intoxicant) and anandamide (endogenous intoxicant to whose receptor THC just happens to bind). Medicinal chemists would create hundreds if not thousands of synthetic compounds similar to the natual ones. Screening might find one which is more potent and has fewer side effects than the natural product. They would patent all of those.
What I want is a button at the top of Firefox that automatically sends an email to webmaster@whateversiteI'mlookingatnow.com that complains about viewability and notifies them that they just lost my business/eyeballs.
The ACS is a useless organization, and I speak as a practicing chemist of many years. Nothing - and let me repeat this for emphasis - nothing that they have done has ever had any positive impact on my job or career. I toss their monthly letter inviting me to rejoin unopened into the trash. It would be money flushed down the toilet. They could disappear tomorrow, and I would not notice. Except for less junk mail, I guess.
Can you tell that I think they are a bunch of worthless pantloads? Just checking.
ACS publishes "SCIFINDER" and "CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS" which is NOT a database of journal papers. It is a database of chemical structures and properties which is invaluable to any research chemist because a) most information on exotic compounds are not published in journals
The information in Chem Abstracts is mostly from journals. Some from meeting reports, a lot from patents. Where does the ACS get its data if not from journals? Certainly not from proprietary databases of private companies.
This is a continuation of efforts to deliver drugs more specifically to the target using polymers, micelles, etc.
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http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8034/8034drugd
Sister 1: PhD in organic chemistry; university professor; moderately successful; big debts
I sympathize with your sister, but as a PhD in organic myself, I have to wonder how the debt got "big". Your post implies that the process of obtaining a doctorate in chemistry is necessarily expensive, like obtaining an MD or JD can be. But graduate students in chemistry (especially those in such a good program that the graduates would be offered faculty positions) are paid to do research. It isn't much, but it is livable. You don't have to borrow big unless maybe supporting a family at the same time. And seeing as how the maximum Stafford undergrad loan is about $15K, one should be able to leave with a PhD only in moderate debt.
I have no concerns about identifying myself and smiling for CCTV and other sorts of cameras. In fact, I'm happy that when I sit by the fountain in a European square and watch Europeans play in the sun that there is a monitoring camera that's watching over all to keep them safe. Here is what matters; in Europe I have higher trust that such information gathered won't be misused against me, and that my rights will be respected. I have greater confidence that they care about maintaining human rights and due process, and I won't find myself in a Gitmo-like situation without charge, trial, or such. I have greater comfort in knowing that the majority of the population are liberal-in-mind, respect individual differences, and that like the Swiss just voted to grant the gays further rights, they won't politically lynch the minorities or be easily agitated by expedient Machiavillians, having well learned their lesson from WWI.
Here is the bottom line: Parents want to spend eternity in Heaven sobbing on the shoulder of Jesus. They want their children to be there, too. If the children are taught evolution, then their minds may be tainted and exposed to sin. Their souls are at risk. They might end up in the fires of Hell. When it comes right down to it, any loving Christian parent should be willing to silence this threat to their loved ones' salvation. No price is too dear to pay in this temporary existence to gain eternal bliss.
You think I'm kidding?
What causes the force, presumably 'gravitational waves', is a theory because their existence has not been proven yet.
Ack! If they have not been proved to exist, then the existence of gravitational waves is a hypothesis. Not a theory. A theory is concrete, dented by bullets, uncracked.
Evolution is a theory, and not a fact. Much in the same way that 'gravity' is a theory and not a fact.
Evolution is an observed fact.
Natural selection was the hypothesis.
Observations and tests reinforced the hypothesis until it became a theory.
Gravity is an observed fact.
Gravity waves are the hypothesis.
Until they are observed and confirmed, there is no theory of gravity.
From the linked article:
But when a new PC is bought, and the buyer could choose the OS, and if he chooses MacOS X something different will happen:
1. Apple's market share grows up (percentage)
2. Microsoft's market share decreases (percentage)
3. Apple gets money for the license (Microsoft gets nothing)
If this scenario occurred the market would truly be shaken, and for 18 months whoever bought a new computer could choose between a brand new MacOS X Tiger, or a 64 bit version of plain old Windows XP (originally released in 2001).
And you, what would you choose?
I have never bought a PC. Can I go down to Comp USA and get one of those new PCs where I get to choose the operating system? You know, the ones for which Microsoft "gets nothing"?