Broken loser? Actually, I'm doing rather well and looking forward to much change in the world. Capitalism is alive and well in the world. I see that you posted as 'Anonymous Coward', why did you do that? Regarding my pit of dispair, my company matches in 401K. Yup! 'merida's over! It's sinking ship, better get off of it while I can... I am tinged a little that you are so bitter and am left wondering why, but I won't dwell on that too long either. You have my best wishes with your therapy.
IDIOT!!! You have missed everything... It flew over your head... Ever see Jeff Dunham with Peanut? Neeearroww... Many times at big companies, like big pharma and big IT like IBM, your idea and your project helps the vice president above you, especially with patent issues, but more importantly, it puts food on the table for your family, and ubers above you. And if you haven't yet gotten the hint that 'YOUR IDEA IS DONE RIGHT AND GOING TO SAVE THE COMPANY', then your not ready to leave mom and dad's dark and damp basement yet. There comes a point in one's life while working at corporate America that you assert and reassure to management that your idea for the project is the best and will assure not only profit for the company, but bonuses above you, in addition to your own annual salary increase and/or promotion. Once you've learned that, perhaps you'll father children some day. Your lesson is finished for today, study hard, and focus on the pertinent details. Oh, almost forgot, don't promise to deliver if you can't do it... That's career suicide..
Once again, I typed this from my iPod Touch and apologize for typos.
The Apple patents are good for business and the rest of the computing arena, as they will spur creativity and growth as a work around to the patent issues, assuming no one wants to license the patents. After many years of being in the Slashdot community, I am really struck by the number of members who still chant 'It should be FREE, it should OPEN, bring this GOOD to the masses...' I can see the case for intellectual property protection and for open standards. Fine, then if people like Apple's intellectual property enough to make it a standard, then pay the licensing fee until the patent expires. There's no harm done in that, and based on the number of iPhones and iPod Touches that sell, it appears that the masses approve of the device and its technology. My point is that we live in a free market economy, people, nerds especially who have developed personally enough to have familes need to make money from their ideas by working for big business. You're not going to make money writing code for free / developing a 'new human interface standard' for free by living in your dark, damp, parents' basement. We all have to grow up, developed, and become a cog in the machine. Of course, one always can be a big cog or a little cog, sometimes we can choose that too, other times the choice is made for us.
Mac OS X uses the 7 & 35-pass Gutmann method for securely deleting files. Deleting files is not wrong, that's why we delete them! Incidentally, both President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush use Apple Macintoshes for their personal and profession computers. Probably for this and other reasons.
I've been an Apple guy my entire life, except for cutting my teenage teeth on Timex/Sinclair 1000 & 2068. My first Apple was an Apple IIGS, and after that PowerBook 520c, Blue & White PowerMac G3, and finally PowerMac G5 with dually 2.7 GHz PowerPC processors. OpenOffice 2.2.1, which requires X11, is my main office suite of choice after NeoOffice fell behind last year with releases. I like using OpenOffice, and it's nice to have a word processor that actually has the 'home' and 'end' keys behave as they should. I do not understand why so many Mac people flip out when having to use X11, it's easy to install, and OpenOffice and Gimp just require a typical Mac-install process with double-clicking on the icons to lauch the applications, again, all Mac-like. Just because these programs don't use a Mac-interface doesn't mean they should be shunned. I find it nice to use non-Mac interface software on a Mac, in fact, I've even compiled with assistance, XChat, requiring the X11 environment on my Mac - it was a good experience - makes you grow a little.
Kudos to the OpenOffice.org development team for giving me a really nice office suite that I'm happy to use ON MY MACINTOSH in the X11 environment!!!
OK folks, let's get real... I'm both an Apple fanatic and an audiophile, and I can tell you, if you want audiophile-quality playback and without 'missing' anything in the music assuming you've purchased the CD, then you need to be listening to that music on a stereo system of no less than $10,000 (U.S.) purchased from a professional sound shop. Forget that $1000 Sony, Pioneer, Fisher, Bose integrated amplifier with 5-speaker surround sound. It ain't gonna matter. When you start looking at the individual components and their specs, and how they integrate together, in addition to considering Transparent Cable interconnects and speaker cables (they have band-pass filters located at the terminals), then you have the beginnings of a decent system, not even a good one. In fact, if you can afford American-made stereo components, then you can walk about with a BIG STICK! Some of the best-sounding audio equipment in the world is designed and 'Made In America' if you can afford it - and I cannot! - 'nuff said...
To make the best sounding MP3s, download iTunesLame and start making the best-sounding 320 kb/sec MP3 that the algorhythm can make. If that isn't good enough for you, you can always copy the original AIFF file off of the CD and drag it into iTunes, or use Apple's Lossless format to have the same quality at 1/2 the disk space.
My point is, make the best possible sounding MP3 file you can, because eventually, you will upgrade you MP3 player to something better and you will find that upgrading the quality of your MP3 library is a very arduous task and a waste of time. Hard drive space is cheap, and getting cheaper. Just make the best sounding MP3 you can make, and be happy with it. Actually, most people are not missing all that much from the MP3 format. Even I, an audiophile, don't analyze every nuance of a music I listen to in MP3 format - I just ENJOY IT, hell, Journey, REO Speedwagon, and Van Halen aren't going to sound any better on my iPod as opposed to the radio in a 1976 AMC Gremlin or 1981 Chevy Chevette.
MP3 format was designed for maximum music quality with music loss and compression - keep that in mind... You want to hear the 'real thing' without loss? Then go to the recording studio or the concert with no hearing loss.
I think MSFT's plan was to build an MP3 player at the lowest possible R&D costs while offering features the iPod didn't, and that includes a different user interface to the iPod's aging user interface. However, when Steve demoed the iPhone and everyone oooohed.... and ahhhhhed... over it's slick user interface and features, everyone knows that most of the iPhone's user interface and possibly some of the its features will make there way into new iPods. Apple has an established history of investing heavily in R&D and providing a consistent user interface and features spanning across its some of its products. I think this is what Apple refers to as 'it just works' in it's advertisements and the public/market at large recognizes this. This is one of many reasons for Apple's success in this arena and why Microsoft isn't.
Reiterating the comments of other Slashdotters, I've never seen a PERSON walking in public listening to or carrying a Zune. The only place I've seen a Zune was resting on a dusty display at Best Buy, and of course, with no one looking at them.
Quote: "There's no reason that if this thing were hooked up to a large display that we couldn't watch video in this environment," Mundie said.
I can already do this with my 5th generation video iPod with Apple's audio/video connection kit for $100, which includes an iPod dock & remote control!
What's new about this? Nothing! This statement is nothing more than Microsoft using Apple as it's research & development division. Move along, nothing to see here...
I use my Timex/Sinclair 1000 with a 4 MHz Zilog Z80A and 2K of RAM as a server in my home for storing portions of my iTunes music library. It's pretty cool, I retrieve the MP3's from cassette tape and then stream them to my PowerMac G5 with dually IBM 2.7 GHz PowerPC processors and 4.5 GB of RAM, however, I often get the following error codes on the TS 1000 every once in a while when I push the computer pretty hard:
4/2
4/3
4/6
For the life of me, I don't understand why this is happening.
Refer to pages 153 - 154 of the Timex/Sinclair User manual for these report codes.
Yes, we, the human race, sent humans to space many decades ago, and they experienced accelerated evolution, became hairless, grew big black eyes, had little teeth and little mouths, and of course grew big heads while their bodies became gray and shrank from the radiation exposure of space... These people are the 'aliens' who have been abducting people for they're own sexual pleasure, you know, anal probes and what not, gross experimentation, you know, anything that an advanced creative imagination can formulate in about 42 picoseconds.
This self-balancing robot resembles the Terminator in many ways, except or course, that it can't chase me, and it doesn't have any arms. I suppose that swaying arms might actually improve balancing once it can walk faster with longer steps. Interesting work...
This is good for the U.S. economy because with this 'new' military hostility by the Chinese government, the U.S. government and businesses will be less 'friendly' to the Chinese regarding outsourcing and building good relationships. China is the 'new' and rising superpower - the Soviet Union lost the race because it couldn't compete with capitalism's competition-based theories and practices - the best/more economic things work! China learned from Russia's mistakes, embraces capitalism yet remains communist. The U.S. and American businesses, in fact, all global businesses should be wary of off-shoring jobs and resources to China because of it's long held traditions of not valuing/recognizing human life, intellectual property laws, lack of concern for the environment, etc... Cheap is cheap, you get what you pay for, and in the end, China is still communist and an adversary to democracy, freedom, and true capitalism (50% of business profits in China go to the Chinese Communist Party as a tax). This act of hostility actually helps to keep my job (pharmaceutical researcher) in the U.S.A. or a democratic(-friendly) country!
Keep up the good work China! I very much appreciate my job staying around for a little while longer!
I sure as hell hope this sends a clear message to American and European businesses that China is NOT as stable and friendly as they'd like to think or hope it is.
WHACK!!! - the fruit (Apple) is the Sledge-O-Matic
Microsoft and Blackberry employees:
Sniff...sniff...I'm going to try and apply for a job at Apple, Inc., and hope there are positions available...sniff...sniff...
Really, really...I'm creative, and deserve stock options.
MSFT and RIMM just had their asses handed to them, and it wasn't chewed out by a lawn mower, but rather a large and ominous intellectual-top-talent shredder.
Vulcans were on a survey mission...
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The Vulcans were on a survey mission, they didn't detect a warp signature and therefore continued on their voyage home. Earth is still too primative.
Has anyone here ever seen Star Trek?!!! - Duh!
Until Zefram Cochrane develops his theories on warp propulsion and performs his maiden test flight, humanity is to continue on an isolated and arduous journey into the evolutionary unknown.
This company can recovery almost anything, for a price, I suppose it depends on how important your data is. For me, a year ago my LaCie 320 GB Big Disk Extreme striped RAID array failed (one drive burned-out). Normally, if the drive was one single hard drive, it would have cost a very affordable $700-$800, however, the striped RAID array required disassembling two drives, removing the platters, reading them inside a clean-room environment, splicing back together my data, and placing it on another LaCie 500 GB Big Disk Extreme for $3500.00! Of course, my thesis was on this drive and I wasn't going to graduate without it! So, as mentioned before, data recovery depends on how important your data is. If your life or future career is on the drive, then the price of data recovery may be money well spent.
Porphyrin chemistry is very interesting and has been studied for over 100 years. This news is both exciting and old news, because porphyrins and related isomers have been the subject of continued research. For very detailed information about porphyrin chemistry, refer to The Porphyrins edited by David Dolphin. Also, review the research of Martin Gouterman. In biological systems, porphyrins are found commonly in heme-type proteins used for oxygen transport and cytochrome P450 in the liver for metabolizing biological compounds including pharmaceutical products, and as chlorophyll in plants. Porphyrins have served as catalysts for organic reactions in industry, photodynamic therapy for cancer, molecular devices including sensors and switches, and model compounds for the active sites of enzymes. My thesis, which available for download through OhioLink:
details the photophysical characterization of N-Confused tetraphenylporphyrin and characterization of zinc N-Confused tetraphenylporphyrin.
Upon reading this post on Slashdot, I was pleasantly surprized that the subject of my thesis has some similarities to a related compound that could be used for further research into catalyzing an energy source. In one way I'm surprized, and in another I'm not, and I'm glad that one of the Slasdot crowd submitted the post. Porphyrin chemistry is vast, interesting, and complex.
I suspect that there may be a correlation between mobile phones and the observed decline of testosterone. Testosterone is produced in the testes (Wikipedia is your friend). Of course, I have no evidence to support my hypothesis. Where do most men wear/place a mobile phone on their bodies? Mine is in the FRONT POCKET of my jeans/shorts. I've seen other people carry them on their belts. My point is, most of us place these low amplitude microwave emitters right by our 'nads. I seem to recall many years ago that state highway patrolmen had issues with infertility from sitting by the road and waiting for law-breaking speeders, waiting with the radar gun between the legs and 'nads. Those radar guns are microwave emitters and detectors.
Let's all take a bow and accept our Darwin awards!
If you think those Escher-licious images from google maps are cool, check out the images of the buildings around the World Trade Center site in New York City. The tops of the buildings are going in all different directions.
I wouldn't mind seeing Wal-Mart suffer a little - after all, most of its merchandise comes from COMMUNIST CHINA! Is *THIS* the new American Way?!!! I think NOT!
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Broken loser? Actually, I'm doing rather well and looking forward to much change in the world. Capitalism is alive and well in the world. I see that you posted as 'Anonymous Coward', why did you do that? Regarding my pit of dispair, my company matches in 401K. Yup! 'merida's over! It's sinking ship, better get off of it while I can... I am tinged a little that you are so bitter and am left wondering why, but I won't dwell on that too long either. You have my best wishes with your therapy.
IDIOT!!! You have missed everything... It flew over your head... Ever see Jeff Dunham with Peanut? Neeearroww... Many times at big companies, like big pharma and big IT like IBM, your idea and your project helps the vice president above you, especially with patent issues, but more importantly, it puts food on the table for your family, and ubers above you. And if you haven't yet gotten the hint that 'YOUR IDEA IS DONE RIGHT AND GOING TO SAVE THE COMPANY', then your not ready to leave mom and dad's dark and damp basement yet. There comes a point in one's life while working at corporate America that you assert and reassure to management that your idea for the project is the best and will assure not only profit for the company, but bonuses above you, in addition to your own annual salary increase and/or promotion. Once you've learned that, perhaps you'll father children some day. Your lesson is finished for today, study hard, and focus on the pertinent details. Oh, almost forgot, don't promise to deliver if you can't do it... That's career suicide..
Once again, I typed this from my iPod Touch and apologize for typos.
The Apple patents are good for business and the rest of the computing arena, as they will spur creativity and growth as a work around to the patent issues, assuming no one wants to license the patents. After many years of being in the Slashdot community, I am really struck by the number of members who still chant 'It should be FREE, it should OPEN, bring this GOOD to the masses...' I can see the case for intellectual property protection and for open standards. Fine, then if people like Apple's intellectual property enough to make it a standard, then pay the licensing fee until the patent expires. There's no harm done in that, and based on the number of iPhones and iPod Touches that sell, it appears that the masses approve of the device and its technology. My point is that we live in a free market economy, people, nerds especially who have developed personally enough to have familes need to make money from their ideas by working for big business. You're not going to make money writing code for free / developing a 'new human interface standard' for free by living in your dark, damp, parents' basement. We all have to grow up, developed, and become a cog in the machine. Of course, one always can be a big cog or a little cog, sometimes we can choose that too, other times the choice is made for us.
This submission was made on an iPod Touch.
Windows XP? WTF? If there's plenty of space for tinkering, then give the 'space' to people who know what they're doing, namely, the Linux community.
All we need now is a virus or other exploit that turns these harmless 'iRobots' into killing machines...
The Terminator said 'I'll be back', apparently, so did Heathkit.
'nough said.
Mac OS X uses the 7 & 35-pass Gutmann method for securely deleting files. Deleting files is not wrong, that's why we delete them! Incidentally, both President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush use Apple Macintoshes for their personal and profession computers. Probably for this and other reasons.
Here's some lovin'!
I've been an Apple guy my entire life, except for cutting my teenage teeth on Timex/Sinclair 1000 & 2068. My first Apple was an Apple IIGS, and after that PowerBook 520c, Blue & White PowerMac G3, and finally PowerMac G5 with dually 2.7 GHz PowerPC processors. OpenOffice 2.2.1, which requires X11, is my main office suite of choice after NeoOffice fell behind last year with releases. I like using OpenOffice, and it's nice to have a word processor that actually has the 'home' and 'end' keys behave as they should. I do not understand why so many Mac people flip out when having to use X11, it's easy to install, and OpenOffice and Gimp just require a typical Mac-install process with double-clicking on the icons to lauch the applications, again, all Mac-like. Just because these programs don't use a Mac-interface doesn't mean they should be shunned. I find it nice to use non-Mac interface software on a Mac, in fact, I've even compiled with assistance, XChat, requiring the X11 environment on my Mac - it was a good experience - makes you grow a little.
Kudos to the OpenOffice.org development team for giving me a really nice office suite that I'm happy to use ON MY MACINTOSH in the X11 environment!!!
OK folks, let's get real... I'm both an Apple fanatic and an audiophile, and I can tell you, if you want audiophile-quality playback and without 'missing' anything in the music assuming you've purchased the CD, then you need to be listening to that music on a stereo system of no less than $10,000 (U.S.) purchased from a professional sound shop. Forget that $1000 Sony, Pioneer, Fisher, Bose integrated amplifier with 5-speaker surround sound. It ain't gonna matter. When you start looking at the individual components and their specs, and how they integrate together, in addition to considering Transparent Cable interconnects and speaker cables (they have band-pass filters located at the terminals), then you have the beginnings of a decent system, not even a good one. In fact, if you can afford American-made stereo components, then you can walk about with a BIG STICK! Some of the best-sounding audio equipment in the world is designed and 'Made In America' if you can afford it - and I cannot! - 'nuff said...
To make the best sounding MP3s, download iTunesLame and start making the best-sounding 320 kb/sec MP3 that the algorhythm can make. If that isn't good enough for you, you can always copy the original AIFF file off of the CD and drag it into iTunes, or use Apple's Lossless format to have the same quality at 1/2 the disk space.
My point is, make the best possible sounding MP3 file you can, because eventually, you will upgrade you MP3 player to something better and you will find that upgrading the quality of your MP3 library is a very arduous task and a waste of time. Hard drive space is cheap, and getting cheaper. Just make the best sounding MP3 you can make, and be happy with it. Actually, most people are not missing all that much from the MP3 format. Even I, an audiophile, don't analyze every nuance of a music I listen to in MP3 format - I just ENJOY IT, hell, Journey, REO Speedwagon, and Van Halen aren't going to sound any better on my iPod as opposed to the radio in a 1976 AMC Gremlin or 1981 Chevy Chevette.
MP3 format was designed for maximum music quality with music loss and compression - keep that in mind... You want to hear the 'real thing' without loss? Then go to the recording studio or the concert with no hearing loss.
I think MSFT's plan was to build an MP3 player at the lowest possible R&D costs while offering features the iPod didn't, and that includes a different user interface to the iPod's aging user interface. However, when Steve demoed the iPhone and everyone oooohed.... and ahhhhhed... over it's slick user interface and features, everyone knows that most of the iPhone's user interface and possibly some of the its features will make there way into new iPods. Apple has an established history of investing heavily in R&D and providing a consistent user interface and features spanning across its some of its products. I think this is what Apple refers to as 'it just works' in it's advertisements and the public/market at large recognizes this. This is one of many reasons for Apple's success in this arena and why Microsoft isn't.
Reiterating the comments of other Slashdotters, I've never seen a PERSON walking in public listening to or carrying a Zune. The only place I've seen a Zune was resting on a dusty display at Best Buy, and of course, with no one looking at them.
Quote: "There's no reason that if this thing were hooked up to a large display that we couldn't watch video in this environment," Mundie said.
I can already do this with my 5th generation video iPod with Apple's audio/video connection kit for $100, which includes an iPod dock & remote control!
What's new about this? Nothing! This statement is nothing more than Microsoft using Apple as it's research & development division. Move along, nothing to see here...
I use my Timex/Sinclair 1000 with a 4 MHz Zilog Z80A and 2K of RAM as a server in my home for storing portions of my iTunes music library. It's pretty cool, I retrieve the MP3's from cassette tape and then stream them to my PowerMac G5 with dually IBM 2.7 GHz PowerPC processors and 4.5 GB of RAM, however, I often get the following error codes on the TS 1000 every once in a while when I push the computer pretty hard:
4/2
4/3
4/6
For the life of me, I don't understand why this is happening.
Refer to pages 153 - 154 of the Timex/Sinclair User manual for these report codes.
Yes, we, the human race, sent humans to space many decades ago, and they experienced accelerated evolution, became hairless, grew big black eyes, had little teeth and little mouths, and of course grew big heads while their bodies became gray and shrank from the radiation exposure of space... These people are the 'aliens' who have been abducting people for they're own sexual pleasure, you know, anal probes and what not, gross experimentation, you know, anything that an advanced creative imagination can formulate in about 42 picoseconds.
Lisa Nowack
Click-click
Click-click
She's kooky and she's spooky, she's a NASA Astro-NOT!
Thank you, [bowing] Thank you
It wokked right with a lot a work!
This self-balancing robot resembles the Terminator in many ways, except or course, that it can't chase me, and it doesn't have any arms. I suppose that swaying arms might actually improve balancing once it can walk faster with longer steps. Interesting work...
This is good for the U.S. economy because with this 'new' military hostility by the Chinese government, the U.S. government and businesses will be less 'friendly' to the Chinese regarding outsourcing and building good relationships. China is the 'new' and rising superpower - the Soviet Union lost the race because it couldn't compete with capitalism's competition-based theories and practices - the best/more economic things work! China learned from Russia's mistakes, embraces capitalism yet remains communist. The U.S. and American businesses, in fact, all global businesses should be wary of off-shoring jobs and resources to China because of it's long held traditions of not valuing/recognizing human life, intellectual property laws, lack of concern for the environment, etc... Cheap is cheap, you get what you pay for, and in the end, China is still communist and an adversary to democracy, freedom, and true capitalism (50% of business profits in China go to the Chinese Communist Party as a tax). This act of hostility actually helps to keep my job (pharmaceutical researcher) in the U.S.A. or a democratic(-friendly) country!
Keep up the good work China! I very much appreciate my job staying around for a little while longer!
I sure as hell hope this sends a clear message to American and European businesses that China is NOT as stable and friendly as they'd like to think or hope it is.
All Smiles (for now)!
They're called Microsoft Windows Users, better known as... Borg Drones!
Star Trek! It's the new reality!
Oh! You own a Zune? We feel for you, and we're here to support you! Apple just handed MSFT it's ASS, fresh from the fruit shredder!
Long Live iPhone, and mobile technology done right!
WHACK!!! - the fruit (Apple) is the Sledge-O-Matic
Microsoft and Blackberry employees:
Sniff...sniff...I'm going to try and apply for a job at Apple, Inc., and hope there are positions available...sniff...sniff...
Really, really...I'm creative, and deserve stock options.
MSFT and RIMM just had their asses handed to them, and it wasn't chewed out by a lawn mower, but rather a large and ominous intellectual-top-talent shredder.
The Vulcans were on a survey mission, they didn't detect a warp signature and therefore continued on their voyage home. Earth is still too primative.
Has anyone here ever seen Star Trek?!!! - Duh!
Until Zefram Cochrane develops his theories on warp propulsion and performs his maiden test flight, humanity is to continue on an isolated and arduous journey into the evolutionary unknown.
In Soviet Russia...it's Deja-vYOU!
Get it?
YOU are the Deja-vu for someone else?
I didn't have a choice on to which drive the data was restored. OnTrack selected the drive, not me.
http://www.ontrack.com/
This company can recovery almost anything, for a price, I suppose it depends on how important your data is. For me, a year ago my LaCie 320 GB Big Disk Extreme striped RAID array failed (one drive burned-out). Normally, if the drive was one single hard drive, it would have cost a very affordable $700-$800, however, the striped RAID array required disassembling two drives, removing the platters, reading them inside a clean-room environment, splicing back together my data, and placing it on another LaCie 500 GB Big Disk Extreme for $3500.00! Of course, my thesis was on this drive and I wasn't going to graduate without it! So, as mentioned before, data recovery depends on how important your data is. If your life or future career is on the drive, then the price of data recovery may be money well spent.
Porphyrin chemistry is very interesting and has been studied for over 100 years. This news is both exciting and old news, because porphyrins and related isomers have been the subject of continued research. For very detailed information about porphyrin chemistry, refer to The Porphyrins edited by David Dolphin. Also, review the research of Martin Gouterman. In biological systems, porphyrins are found commonly in heme-type proteins used for oxygen transport and cytochrome P450 in the liver for metabolizing biological compounds including pharmaceutical products, and as chlorophyll in plants. Porphyrins have served as catalysts for organic reactions in industry, photodynamic therapy for cancer, molecular devices including sensors and switches, and model compounds for the active sites of enzymes. My thesis, which available for download through OhioLink:
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http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?akron1133950
details the photophysical characterization of N-Confused tetraphenylporphyrin and characterization of zinc N-Confused tetraphenylporphyrin.
Upon reading this post on Slashdot, I was pleasantly surprized that the subject of my thesis has some similarities to a related compound that could be used for further research into catalyzing an energy source. In one way I'm surprized, and in another I'm not, and I'm glad that one of the Slasdot crowd submitted the post. Porphyrin chemistry is vast, interesting, and complex.
Happy reading!
I suspect that there may be a correlation between mobile phones and the observed decline of testosterone. Testosterone is produced in the testes (Wikipedia is your friend). Of course, I have no evidence to support my hypothesis. Where do most men wear/place a mobile phone on their bodies? Mine is in the FRONT POCKET of my jeans/shorts. I've seen other people carry them on their belts. My point is, most of us place these low amplitude microwave emitters right by our 'nads. I seem to recall many years ago that state highway patrolmen had issues with infertility from sitting by the road and waiting for law-breaking speeders, waiting with the radar gun between the legs and 'nads. Those radar guns are microwave emitters and detectors.
Let's all take a bow and accept our Darwin awards!
If you think those Escher-licious images from google maps are cool, check out the images of the buildings around the World Trade Center site in New York City. The tops of the buildings are going in all different directions.
I wouldn't mind seeing Wal-Mart suffer a little - after all, most of its merchandise comes from COMMUNIST CHINA! Is *THIS* the new American Way?!!! I think NOT!
Boycott Wal-Mart!
Boycott Sam's Club!
Girlcotting is not the same thing!