People have been able to shift the sex ratio for years. All you need is a centrifuge and the appropriate density gradient. Since the Y chromosome is much smaller than the X, Y sperm are significantly more buoyant than X sperm (nearly a 10% difference) and can be separated from one another and used for artificial insemination.
The only difference here is that they verify sex by PCR so that it now works 100% of the time instead of only 90.
I'm no British law expert but the old method was probably perfectly legal as it would be difficult to mandate what one can do with semen (your disgusting imagination may be inserted here).
But if the soft tissue has been replaced by stone, shouldn't one see that? The stone, I mean, I only work with MRI the lab for pulmonary imaging, so I'm no expert.
As for the MRI, you're right, you do need to calibrate it somehow. Maybe the pile of bones in the American Museum of Natural History would be suitable?
You're right about the taxpayer's money - one should insist that "we paid for it, we should see it" (maybe except for some dangerous stuff). It's a shame about the NIH initiative to do just that got so watered down by the publishers (who would have lost their lucrative copyrights).
However, "taxpayer-funded" only covers about 1/2 of the biological research published - I still stand by my statement that a published account of it, regardless of who paid for it should be complete.
The following coordinates are from people at a university who used a small molecule from a company (Scios) to get their protein to crystallize. The structure of the small molecule doesn't appear anywhere in the paper (of course, a clever person could use the now-released electron density to calculate its structure).
I work for a pharma company. When we publish, we have to publish the structure of the compound used. You or a skilled chemist could cook it up and reproduce my work. That makes it science. Even if it's patented, you can do this under the freedom to research clause.
I'm of the opinion that anything that gets published should be published in its entirety, at least at some point. For example, people who publish protein structures can put the coordinates "on hold" for up to 18 months.
And to say because the research is done with "taxpayer's money" is missing the point: If you can't reproduce every step, it's voodoo, not science. And we make policy decisions based on science, not voodoo (I hope).
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply all journals do this but many well-known ones including the New England J Med, Springer and Elsevier (includes many, many journals) do:
For biology, this arcane system is a leftover from the early 70's when this was the only way to make money on biological research (Genentech, the first biotech was founded in '76). Only journals (and a few suppliers) used to earn money on biology research.
It is interesting to note that taxpayers pay for (most) research which is then published in journals. The journals then retain the copyrights to the research. As someone else pointed out, publishing in JBC costs $2000 (I can verify this personally). The best part is, the NIH paid me to do research, and then paid again for someone else to take the copyright to this taxpayer-funded research. Amazing!
There has already been an initiative from the NIH that NIH-supported research be freely accessible after 6 months.
Please note, I compile my own kernels but I never fiddled with defaults or memory limitation settings. Sounds like the default settings from kernel.org are fine but that some distributions fiddle about with things.
They're talking about drilling 20 km down through the ice till they hit water. Liquid water is, even at those pressures, a "reasonable" temperature (greater than -34 C). As for the chemistry, that's anybody's guess, however, life on earth uses both L- (the kind we use) and D-amino acids (mostly antibiotics). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid
And it doesn't have to harm us at all. Imagine what would happen if it killed all the phytoplankton in the world's oceans.
For a phase diagram of H2O see: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html
I'm not worried about a couple of kilos of plutonium - I'd be more concerned if they found an independent form of life (probably bacterial-like). Maybe somebody (in a later mission) will want to bring some back. The worst diseases are often those that recently jumped a species barrier (think SARS or AIDS) and haven't had time to coevolve with the host. That might be a good reason to attempt no landings there...
The $800 stepladders are really funding maintenance of the crashed alien spaceship as we all saw in Independence Day. You certainly don't want to cut THAT...
Since they have to collect a reasonable amount of data to determine your true skew, even the random approach without a vector make it much more difficult.
How about a second hardware clock hooked up to your computer? Or even better, a software clock that starts new with a randomly determined skew. The software clock is gets a HUP every 10 minutes to change its skew...
When I buy blank DVDs for backing up my computer at work, I have to pay a tax because I "could" be burning music or videos to them, however, since I don't have a single song or commercial video at work, I'm paying a tax for nothing.
I live in Germany and while television here would be considered tame in the Netherlands, if this passed, it would mean that you couldn't transmit German television programming in the US (even commercials show the occasional bare breast, for crying out loud). Don't some cable providers carry European channels?
You go out and purchase real estate at the higher elevations in low-lying states. For example, I grew up in Florida and recall that the highest point is near Tallahassee (something like 85 meters). Imagine owning Tallahassee island in a few years....
Sorry for not posting all the details in the original post. I was away on business and wasn't informed of her death until nearly one and half days later. By then the very efficient German bureaucracy had had time to fill out a death certificate. The e-mail provider wasn't Yahoo! but a German provider, albeit with a similar policy. When I tried to log in, I got the access blocked message. I kept LOTS of other things (there's a sketch from her hanging next to my desk here). It wasn't an easy decision to burn it, but it's the one I chose.
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that lawsuits from the FSF would pop their Cherry (ouch that hurt)
Here's a 4 year old paper about a compound that doesn't only work in cell culture but also in animals. Sorry but who's first?
A highly selective telomerase inhibitor limiting human cancer cell proliferation
As an aside, would you rather take a pill or inefficient, potentially mutagenic gene therapy?
I know what I'd choose...
People have been able to shift the sex ratio for years. All you need is a centrifuge and the appropriate density gradient. Since the Y chromosome is much smaller than the X, Y sperm are significantly more buoyant than X sperm (nearly a 10% difference) and can be separated from one another and used for artificial insemination.
The only difference here is that they verify sex by PCR so that it now works 100% of the time instead of only 90.
I'm no British law expert but the old method was probably perfectly legal as it would be difficult to mandate what one can do with semen (your disgusting imagination may be inserted here).
I can hear "Every Sperm is Sacred" now....
Except that the sane people don't always fare well when the loonies revolt ...
But if the soft tissue has been replaced by stone, shouldn't one see that? The stone, I mean, I only work with MRI the lab for pulmonary imaging, so I'm no expert.
As for the MRI, you're right, you do need to calibrate it somehow. Maybe the pile of bones in the American Museum of Natural History would be suitable?
instead of mindlessly breaking open rare fossils looking for soft tissue as suggested by Dr. Schweitzer?
You're right about the taxpayer's money - one should insist that "we paid for it, we should see it" (maybe except for some dangerous stuff). It's a shame about the NIH initiative to do just that got so watered down by the publishers (who would have lost their lucrative copyrights).
However, "taxpayer-funded" only covers about 1/2 of the biological research published - I still stand by my statement that a published account of it, regardless of who paid for it should be complete.
The following coordinates are from people at a university who used a small molecule from a company (Scios) to get their protein to crystallize. The structure of the small molecule doesn't appear anywhere in the paper (of course, a clever person could use the now-released electron density to calculate its structure).
1 11511253&page=0&pdbId=1IAS
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/cgi/explore.cgi?pid=40021
You can use the status search link at PDB
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/status.html
to find lots of things on hold (I found 211 when searching for Status "release on a certain date" AND "Release date" > 1 April 2005.
Also, I work at a pharma company, do publish and have seen lots of competitors do the sort of thing above.
Pharma companies do it all the time.
I work for a pharma company. When we publish, we have to publish the structure of the compound used. You or a skilled chemist could cook it up and reproduce my work. That makes it science. Even if it's patented, you can do this under the freedom to research clause.
I'm of the opinion that anything that gets published should be published in its entirety, at least at some point. For example, people who publish protein structures can put the coordinates "on hold" for up to 18 months.
And to say because the research is done with "taxpayer's money" is missing the point: If you can't reproduce every step, it's voodoo, not science. And we make policy decisions based on science, not voodoo (I hope).
Disgusting
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply all journals do this but many well-known ones including the New England J Med, Springer and Elsevier (includes many, many journals) do:
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, 11855,5-40007-70-1119401-detailsPage%253Djournal%2 57CcopyrightInformation%257CcopyrightInformation,0 0.html
http://authors.elsevier.com/getting_published.htm
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0
http://authors.nejm.org/Misc/MsSubInstr.asp
For biology, this arcane system is a leftover from the early 70's when this was the only way to make money on biological research (Genentech, the first biotech was founded in '76). Only journals (and a few suppliers) used to earn money on biology research.
It is interesting to note that taxpayers pay for (most) research which is then published in journals. The journals then retain the copyrights to the research. As someone else pointed out, publishing in JBC costs $2000 (I can verify this personally). The best part is, the NIH paid me to do research, and then paid again for someone else to take the copyright to this taxpayer-funded research. Amazing!
There has already been an initiative from the NIH that NIH-supported research be freely accessible after 6 months.
For a directory of Open Access journals go to: http://www.doaj.org/
RedHat 8 says
/dev/zero
grep: memory exhausted after about 10 secs
and stops the process immediately.
[1]+ Exit 1 grep foo
With grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
Please note, I compile my own kernels but I never fiddled with defaults or memory limitation settings. Sounds like the default settings from kernel.org are fine but that some distributions fiddle about with things.
Here's the Milka cow enforcing their copyright:
% 20Matrix.asf
http://fermat.ma.rhul.ac.uk/laurence/movies/Milka
They're talking about drilling 20 km down through the ice till they hit water. Liquid water is, even at those pressures, a "reasonable" temperature (greater than -34 C). As for the chemistry, that's anybody's guess, however, life on earth uses both L- (the kind we use) and D-amino acids (mostly antibiotics). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acid
And it doesn't have to harm us at all. Imagine what would happen if it killed all the phytoplankton in the world's oceans.
For a phase diagram of H2O see: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html
I'm not worried about a couple of kilos of plutonium - I'd be more concerned if they found an independent form of life (probably bacterial-like). Maybe somebody (in a later mission) will want to bring some back. The worst diseases are often those that recently jumped a species barrier (think SARS or AIDS) and haven't had time to coevolve with the host. That might be a good reason to attempt no landings there ...
The $800 stepladders are really funding maintenance of the crashed alien spaceship as we all saw in Independence Day. You certainly don't want to cut THAT ...
Since they have to collect a reasonable amount of data to determine your true skew, even the random approach without a vector make it much more difficult.
...
How about a second hardware clock hooked up to your computer? Or even better, a software clock that starts new with a randomly determined skew. The software clock is gets a HUP every 10 minutes to change its skew
When I buy blank DVDs for backing up my computer at work, I have to pay a tax because I "could" be burning music or videos to them, however, since I don't have a single song or commercial video at work, I'm paying a tax for nothing.
I live in Germany and while television here would be considered tame in the Netherlands, if this passed, it would mean that you couldn't transmit German television programming in the US (even commercials show the occasional bare breast, for crying out loud). Don't some cable providers carry European channels?
That was sarcasm ...
You go out and purchase real estate at the higher elevations in low-lying states. For example, I grew up in Florida and recall that the highest point is near Tallahassee (something like 85 meters). Imagine owning Tallahassee island in a few years ....
Sorry for not posting all the details in the original post. I was away on business and wasn't informed of her death until nearly one and half days later. By then the very efficient German bureaucracy had had time to fill out a death certificate. The e-mail provider wasn't Yahoo! but a German provider, albeit with a similar policy. When I tried to log in, I got the access blocked message. I kept LOTS of other things (there's a sketch from her hanging next to my desk here). It wasn't an easy decision to burn it, but it's the one I chose.