Providing the immune system is still functioning, and we are kept alive with no permanent damage, what level of viral load can we cope with?
Re: cancer, I'm guessing, once the antibody tags the cancer cell, that cell's days are numbered?
I've heard of treatments where acancerous cell is injected into a rabbit, antibodies are extracted and then introduced back into the human patient. These antibodies attach to the tumour, the immune system attacks it immediately and the tumour disappears overnight.
Treebeard is not a tree. He is an ent, which is a race created by one of the Valar (Gods) to protect the trees of Middle Earth at the start of the First Age. It is hinted that Treebeard is really, really old, even by Elrond's standards (who is about 6500 years old). Fangorn Forest is actually named after Treebeard.
Now if ents really were as stupid as Jackson suggests, why weren't they destroyed or perverted in all those 7000+ years of existence?
I was a bit lost in the middle of FOTR because Glorfindel got replaced by some chick (AFAIK, we weren't told she was Arwen until later). It then bothered me when Elrond, the most enlightened dude in Middle Earth frowned when Merry & Pippin intruded on the Council. This was minor compared to Treebeard being easily tricked and Faramir being yet another selfish man.
I recovered in the first film, but I didn't REALLY enjoy TTT until the DVD came out.
Some of the changes are forgiveable. If there are any similar bloopers, I'd like to know about them ahead of time, so that I can be prepared.
Having said that, the films are still incredibly good and Peter Jackson deserves an Oscar.
... is the one I found more fascinating than any other in the books.
Faramir is kind and selfless whereas Boromir is brave but shortsighted, with an ego that overshadows even Dubya's.
Boromir is favoured by their father and has all the glory, but in the end, he puts his people and, indeed, the whole of Middle Earth at risk, whereas Faramir helps save them.
In life you can choose to help yourself or help others. Sometimes you can do both, but most of the time you have to make choices.
Tolkien also shows that neither choice is inherently more difficult - Faramir is born that way as much as Boromir is.
Most of you know who fares better in the end and I wonder how realistic that is.
Being English, I didn't get this reference at all. And I thought the Kool-Aid Guy might have been Jim Jones;)
Attempting to shed light on the responses you got
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The Rise of Cyber Bullying
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Remember those situations where somebody at school would say something weird or
awkward, an uncomfortable silence follows until somebody breaks it with a witty
remark.
Well, you just said something weird and awkward, dude. Nobody likes feeling
uncomfortable and will support anyone who helps them feel better, even if they
are a tosser.
liquidsin's comment wasn't funny because he put down ebh,
but because he parodied the above situation.
Bullying is part of human nature. You can't eliminate it in schools, and if
you did, you'd only be depriving kids of a chance to learn how to deal with
it in the real world.
Chronically-bullied kids need to be taught skills to deal with these situations.
Martial arts (to deal with confrontation), humour (to get everyone on your side)
& game theory (understanding the basic psychology of situations) all helped me.
Microsoft's monopoly and cash reserves are its main assets. They can afford to throw money at every market they can monopolise and be fairly sure of a big payoff eventually.
As a specialist in treating phobias, I can confirm your comments. Phobias are triggered by basic sensory input (usually sight), which is why people can be phobic of pictures of spiders.
Phobics actually have 2 simultaneous responses because there are 2 separate pathways in the brain. The faster one goes straight to the amygdala and the other via the visual/auditory cortex. It's this faster pathway which is the problem.
So a phobic will always feel fear first, and a split-second later can know that their response is irrational whilst being unable to do anything about it.
The only way to treat a phobic response is to retrain the amygdala, and can be done quickly (10 mins) and painlessly.
All of this goes out the window for anticipatory anxiety, which we can loosely define as a 'rational response to an irrational yet automatic thought.'
Eg those afraid of flying are convinced the plane is going to crash. The inside of their minds look like those airplane disaster movies. Retraining their amygdala would be akin to making them feel better about dying ie probably isn't going to work. Instead, you might edit those internal movies to make them unrealistic eg see everyone in the plane wearing bowler hats.
So, your machine gets infected, spammers install a spam trojan on your
PC, and starts spamming away (FROM YOUR PC) at a penny a pop.... Guess who's
going to get the bill.
Exactly who should get the bill - the user. And sooner or later, the
users will demand secure software. Bingo, problem solved.
Ever heard of emotional scarring? Stress is the #1 cause of cancer, heart disease, MS etc etc.
Some people get mugged and never go outside again even though they weren't physically hurt.
Think about cults. They might never use physical means to control their followers.
What about those who incite racial hatred?
Wherever you draw that line, it's going to be completely arbitrary.
I have also seen a lot of dangerous drugs advertised in spam. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody's dodgy heart gave out because of the Viagra they bought. Or that somebody committed after taking Paxil.
And, I would stake my reputation (as a clinical psychologist) on least one man has committed suicide partially due to spam reinforcing his despair at his undersized penis.
Just because you don't understand the mind/body connection, doesn't mean it isn't there.
I'm not claiming that Slashdot has MS executives quaking in their boots. I'm claiming
that Microsoft's monopolistic practices are limited solely by what (they think)
they can get away with, which is directly related to public and political opinion,
which in turn are strongly influenced by the media.
Whenever I find out about one of MS's intended monopolistic abuses, it's usually
from Slashdot. Not only that, but there's usually an indepth discussion of each
side of the argument hidden in there somewhere. Good place to start researching
an article if you're a journalist.
Furthermore, I'm guessing that many Slashdot readers are part of the vocal
minority.
No, Microsoft has regularly ignored PR issues WRT to making
decisions (at least once it has committed to a decision).
Highlighted in bold are two qualifiers which render your statement meaningless
wrt the BIOS issue. And even if it's unlikely that any of this
ever influences Microsoft (directly or indirectly), I would not pour scorn on
somebody's attempts to do so.
Nobody seems to have mentioned that DivX upped the stakes last month with a dramatically improved compression algorithm for low bitrate situations.
It's as slow as frozen molasses but I think some people are assuming that the badly encrypted DivX v3 pr0n they've downloaded is representative of the high quality that DivX 5.1 Pro now provides.
The only reason Microsoft hasn't done stuff like this is because somebody has taken the time to raise public awareness about what freedoms we were about to lose. Oh, and the fact that Microsoft were judged to be an illegal monopoly last year.
HE AAC, being a new codec, likely has a lot of room for improvement. I'd also be surprised if Ahead were using the best psychoacoustic model available.
Dr. Linda Partridge, the professor in charge of the research asked "What is killing them when they eat too much?"
(Note that "too much" is actually more than 2/3 calorific RDA)
The presupposition here is that eating "too much" is the main cause of death of these flies. Consequently, it is probably a major cause of death in human beings.
The other thing that is really noticeable in CR experiments is that the CR animals don't get ill.
Now this becomes VERY interesting.
"What is killing them when they eat too much?" might be the wrong question.
What is making us ill when we eat too much?
The only possible answer is the way our bodies respond to the excess food.
Assuming 100,000 meals in a lifetime, what if each time you overeat had a 1 in 1000 chance of making you ill? And each illness, depending on the strength of your immune system, might have had a 0.1 to 1% chance of killing you?
Of course, the telomere problem still kills off everyone eventually. And some people have found other innovative ways of dying: smoking, becoming a gang-member etc.
What most people describe as hunger (rumbling or other discomfort in the stomach/intestines) is actually indigestion. Notice that putting more food in your stomach doesn't get rid of indigestion - it just delays and exacerbates it.
Your stomach/intenstines know nothing about your nutritional requirements. For that you need to pay attention to more subtle symptoms from your whole body.
As a professional weight-loss consultant, I actually ban my clients from using the H-word unless they can actually define some positive use for those sensations.
In light of that, your option sort of works, but it doesn't avoid the inevitable
install problem.
Yes it does. I have 6 Ghost backups of my system partition, taking up
about 10GB in total. Any time I install new software, I test it, re-install
the last working backup and image it. Any time I find a problem, I go
to the last working backup.
Find a song you know really well. Ideally one with a chord or key played consistently that you can sing along with. In this way you have an auditory recording, a vocal (kinaesthetic) configuration as well as the corresponding feelings (does it feel right?) Three representations is more than enough to ensure accuracy.
Learn how to match the pitch without listening to it first (I could do this instantly). You now have perfect pitch for one note/key.
From that chord/key, you can create create perfect pitch for the entire scale by using intervals (much easier). Different songs use different intervals eg Away in a Manger has a 4th interval and Happy Birthday has a 2nd interval between the first two notes.
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Providing the immune system is still functioning, and we are kept alive with no permanent damage, what level of viral load can we cope with?
Re: cancer, I'm guessing, once the antibody tags the cancer cell, that cell's days are numbered?
I've heard of treatments where acancerous cell is injected into a rabbit, antibodies are extracted and then introduced back into the human patient. These antibodies attach to the tumour, the immune system attacks it immediately and the tumour disappears overnight.
Treebeard is not a tree. He is an ent, which is a race created by one of the Valar (Gods) to protect the trees of Middle Earth at the start of the First Age. It is hinted that Treebeard is really, really old, even by Elrond's standards (who is about 6500 years old). Fangorn Forest is actually named after Treebeard.
Now if ents really were as stupid as Jackson suggests, why weren't they destroyed or perverted in all those 7000+ years of existence?
I was a bit lost in the middle of FOTR because Glorfindel got replaced by some chick (AFAIK, we weren't told she was Arwen until later). It then bothered me when Elrond, the most enlightened dude in Middle Earth frowned when Merry & Pippin intruded on the Council.
This was minor compared to Treebeard being easily tricked and Faramir being yet another selfish man.
I recovered in the first film, but I didn't REALLY enjoy TTT until the DVD came out.
Some of the changes are forgiveable. If there are any similar bloopers, I'd like to know about them ahead of time, so that I can be prepared.
Having said that, the films are still incredibly good and Peter Jackson deserves an Oscar.
... is the one I found more fascinating than any other in the books.
Faramir is kind and selfless whereas Boromir is brave but shortsighted, with an ego that overshadows even Dubya's.
Boromir is favoured by their father and has all the glory, but in the end, he puts his people and, indeed, the whole of Middle Earth at risk, whereas Faramir helps save them.
In life you can choose to help yourself or help others. Sometimes you can do both, but most of the time you have to make choices.
Tolkien also shows that neither choice is inherently more difficult - Faramir is born that way as much as Boromir is.
Most of you know who fares better in the end and I wonder how realistic that is.
Being English, I didn't get this reference at all. ;)
And I thought the Kool-Aid Guy might have been Jim Jones
Well, you just said something weird and awkward, dude. Nobody likes feeling uncomfortable and will support anyone who helps them feel better, even if they are a tosser.
liquidsin's comment wasn't funny because he put down ebh, but because he parodied the above situation.
Bullying is part of human nature. You can't eliminate it in schools, and if you did, you'd only be depriving kids of a chance to learn how to deal with it in the real world.
Chronically-bullied kids need to be taught skills to deal with these situations. Martial arts (to deal with confrontation), humour (to get everyone on your side) & game theory (understanding the basic psychology of situations) all helped me.
Microsoft's monopoly and cash reserves are its main assets. They can afford to throw money at every market they can monopolise and be fairly sure of a big payoff eventually.
As a specialist in treating phobias, I can confirm your comments. Phobias are triggered by basic sensory input (usually sight), which is why people can be phobic of pictures of spiders.
Phobics actually have 2 simultaneous responses because there are 2 separate pathways in the brain. The faster one goes straight to the amygdala and the other via the visual/auditory cortex. It's this faster pathway which is the problem.
So a phobic will always feel fear first, and a split-second later can know that their response is irrational whilst being unable to do anything about it.
The only way to treat a phobic response is to retrain the amygdala, and can be done quickly (10 mins) and painlessly.
All of this goes out the window for anticipatory anxiety, which we can loosely define as a 'rational response to an irrational yet automatic thought.'
Eg those afraid of flying are convinced the plane is going to crash. The inside of their minds look like those airplane disaster movies. Retraining their amygdala would be akin to making them feel better about dying ie probably isn't going to work. Instead, you might edit those internal movies to make them unrealistic eg see everyone in the plane wearing bowler hats.
So, your machine gets infected, spammers install a spam trojan on your PC, and starts spamming away (FROM YOUR PC) at a penny a pop.... Guess who's going to get the bill.
Exactly who should get the bill - the user. And sooner or later, the users will demand secure software. Bingo, problem solved.
Spammers will just get together and set up an ISP to send from.
Should make them easy to block then. Anyone see anything else wrong with this idea?
Ever heard of emotional scarring? Stress is the #1 cause of cancer, heart disease, MS etc etc.
Some people get mugged and never go outside again even though they weren't physically hurt.
Think about cults. They might never use physical means to control their followers.
What about those who incite racial hatred?
Wherever you draw that line, it's going to be completely arbitrary.
I have also seen a lot of dangerous drugs advertised in spam. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody's dodgy heart gave out because of the Viagra they bought. Or that somebody committed after taking Paxil.
And, I would stake my reputation (as a clinical psychologist) on least one man has committed suicide partially due to spam reinforcing his despair at his undersized penis.
Just because you don't understand the mind/body connection, doesn't mean it isn't there.
Killing one person or maiming 10?
Maiming 10 or seriously injuring 100?
Seriously injuring 100 or mugging 1000?
Mugging 1000 or verbally abusing 10,000?
Verbally abusing 10,000 or ripping off 100,000?
Ripping off 100,000 or spamming 1,000,000?
Something to think about...
The nicer screen you have & the more memory you have, the shorter the battery life.
Psion was always a niche product - small & lightweight for those who needed a useable keyboard.
I still rely on my Revo and probably will until somebody produces a better input device.
Maybe the article proves that anti-spam legislation can work, at least when it's adopted by most countries.
If the spammers are forced off-shore, then those IPs can be blocked.
Either way, I doubt anyone is going to invest in expensive anti-spam measures until the legislation is finalised.
Whenever I find out about one of MS's intended monopolistic abuses, it's usually from Slashdot. Not only that, but there's usually an indepth discussion of each side of the argument hidden in there somewhere. Good place to start researching an article if you're a journalist.
Furthermore, I'm guessing that many Slashdot readers are part of the vocal minority.
No, Microsoft has regularly ignored PR issues WRT to making decisions (at least once it has committed to a decision).
Highlighted in bold are two qualifiers which render your statement meaningless wrt the BIOS issue. And even if it's unlikely that any of this ever influences Microsoft (directly or indirectly), I would not pour scorn on somebody's attempts to do so.
Nobody seems to have mentioned that DivX upped the stakes last month with a dramatically improved compression algorithm for low bitrate situations.
It's as slow as frozen molasses but I think some people are assuming that the badly encrypted DivX v3 pr0n they've downloaded is representative of the high quality that DivX 5.1 Pro now provides.
The only reason Microsoft hasn't done stuff like this is because somebody has taken the time to raise public awareness about what freedoms we were about to lose.
Oh, and the fact that Microsoft were judged to be an illegal monopoly last year.
HE AAC, being a new codec, likely has a lot of room for improvement. I'd also be surprised if Ahead were using the best psychoacoustic model available.
Dr. Linda Partridge, the professor in charge of the research asked "What is killing them when they eat too much?"
(Note that "too much" is actually more than 2/3 calorific RDA)
The presupposition here is that eating "too much" is the main cause of death of these flies. Consequently, it is probably a major cause of death in human beings.
The other thing that is really noticeable in CR experiments is that the CR animals don't get ill.
Now this becomes VERY interesting.
"What is killing them when they eat too much?" might be the wrong question.
What is making us ill when we eat too much?
The only possible answer is the way our bodies respond to the excess food.
Assuming 100,000 meals in a lifetime, what if each time you overeat had a 1 in 1000 chance of making you ill? And each illness, depending on the strength of your immune system, might have had a 0.1 to 1% chance of killing you?
Of course, the telomere problem still kills off everyone eventually. And some people have found other innovative ways of dying: smoking, becoming a gang-member etc.
What most people describe as hunger (rumbling or other discomfort in the stomach/intestines) is actually indigestion. Notice that putting more food in your stomach doesn't get rid of indigestion - it just delays and exacerbates it.
Your stomach/intenstines know nothing about your nutritional requirements. For that you need to pay attention to more subtle symptoms from your whole body.
As a professional weight-loss consultant, I actually ban my clients from using the H-word unless they can actually define some positive use for those sensations.
In light of that, your option sort of works, but it doesn't avoid the inevitable install problem.
Yes it does. I have 6 Ghost backups of my system partition, taking up about 10GB in total. Any time I install new software, I test it, re-install the last working backup and image it. Any time I find a problem, I go to the last working backup.
The real answer to life extension will be when we learn how to add knots back onto the Tellomeres.
Telomerase. The real question is how do we get the Telomeres back on the healthy DNA.
There's a new build which "includes a new mpeg audio decoder."
Might help.
I had an aversion to the old MS WMP look, and was surprised when it actually worked. I'll add that the whole package is only 800k.
our company's T1 is provided by a company (Lightyear) that gets their upstream from a company (UUNet), that supports spammers.
So what exactly is stopping you changing your ISP?
I learnt this today -- coincidence?
Find a song you know really well. Ideally one with a chord or key played consistently that you can sing along with. In this way you have an auditory recording, a vocal (kinaesthetic) configuration as well as the corresponding feelings (does it feel right?) Three representations is more than enough to ensure accuracy.
Learn how to match the pitch without listening to it first (I could do this instantly). You now have perfect pitch for one note/key.
From that chord/key, you can create create perfect pitch for the entire scale by using intervals (much easier). Different songs use different intervals eg Away in a Manger has a 4th interval and Happy Birthday has a 2nd interval between the first two notes.
That's it. Go away and test it.