How do you know that a stem cell therapy treatment wouldn't have improved your child's recovery process?
The body isn't perfect.
What if the therapy can give back to your child what has been lost?
You have a very sad story but you shouldn't discount a potential good because it makes you hope again and leaves you vulnerable to serious disappointment if your child can not be helped by that good. Buck up buddy and thank whatever divinity you believe in that the rest of us haven't given up. 20 years ago the very procedures that allowed your child to live weren't available and still wouldn't be today if people didn't try new things. We learn from our failures as much as from our successes.
If OSC is listening... maybe a miniseries for sci-fi would be a better option? If it was my book and my option to move it to screen, I think I'd do something like Star Trek and Serenity ended up doing (though this would be better planned) which is to do a series on TV that starts in the beginning.... build the characters over several seasons, then plan a big blockbuster movie at the end of it all for the final shootout.
This would allow for the actors to grow physically... start them at just before puberty and hope that they get growth spurts, and as actors. In general it would let the story develop more fully and on a timeline more consistent with the novel... I don't think I sat down and read the whole thing in one night, longer stories can be more interesting because you have to stop and think about the events between reading periods, so take advantage of that.
On the business side of things, they could use the time and revenue to develop the CGI over years instead of months and would be able to reuse the models, effects, etc. and incrementally improve upon them as the CGI becomes more important in the story. The revenue from commercials could seriously offset this development and allow for a really good movie at the end instead of having to blow the whole budget on CGI they could spend more on 'getting it right'.
For the actors / kids this would really give them the time to 'become the characters' as they could start off as regular kids with a few quirks and grow into the personalities that make the book powerful.
For the audience... well how big is the audience for this movie right now? I know very few people outside of sci-fi fans who have read this book unless they were assigned it as summer reading in high school. A TV series could certainly grow the audience size and bring them up to speed on the story at the same time. I hate movies that have to tell this huge backstory because the meat of the plot is at the end but you won't understand the motivations of the characters without the back story.... spend more time in the movie on the events that unfold and let the characters just be who they are the whole time without having to explain how they got to be the way they are.
As a side note, it would be very interesting to do some web based tie in 'marketing' by creating a web community around the idea of Peters forums... where people could discuss the implications of the events in the show...
the downside to all of this is that we already know how it ends... it'd be really cool to not know and have a series that builds up the tension, with a web based extras feature for creating anticipation and a big movie at the end to wrap it all up in a final crescendo.
Actually the reason is that Gap is now using an AJAX shopping cart that does not support current Safari's javascript XMLRPC calls... at least not enough to ensure that the system works properly enough to get you to checkout with your purchase in place (great thinking Gap). So if you really need to purchase from Gap.com you'll want to get a copy of Firefox.
Everyone seems to be going on and on about why music sucks, etc... or RIAA or whatever... but here's the real reason:
Gift Certificates. People buy music as gifts during this period of time right? With the availability of Amazon GCs and iTunes GCs don't you think that maybe just maybe people are getting those instead of trying to guess what music their gift recipients really want???
Let's take a look at music sales just after Christmas... say the week after, and see how much it is up compared with 2004.
I'm betting it will be higher... probably high enough to overcome any 'slump' seen during november and december.
How about a panoramic desktop? Maybe spherical... instead of the paged desktops you get with linux where you have a grid of desktops or some such, make it as if the screen is a view of the inside of a sphere. Wouldn't that be fun??? You could pan around and place icons wherever... then zoom in on them to edit. Allow for unlimited granularity... and add big labels to sections of files you'd like to group, or draw keylines around them in some color... maybe be able to select a group of files and context menu 'group' them into either a label or a folder.. then add a sticky note about that group.
Each folder/directory could be another sphere that you'd jump into... with it's own background color, big giant watermark folder name and sticky notes to tell you what's inside... maybe you could preset a widget or two for that folder... say you've created one for doing accounting, you'd add a calculator, spreadsheet and banking widget... or you've created one for doing word processing... it's got that, plus a dictionary, thesaurus and a web browser with some preset bookmarks to research sites you've found to be useful for this project. etc. etc.
Let the task define the space.
Start with something simple and let it get complex according to the needs of the task you've assigned.
This type of UI would use 3D in the sense that you could pan between widgets and documents and generally organize how you'd like to interact rather than trying to cram it all into an arbitrary fixed dimensional space...
Like for instance, I'd love to shrink this browser window to about 75% without changing it's aspect ratio.. I could still type but I could also have room for my email, calendar and a few widgets while retaining the abillity to zoom in on it if I decided I wanted to focus on it more.
Completely untrue. If you're a Catholic you should go back to church and speak with your priest... having sex is supposed to be fun and not a guilty pleasure either. Things have changed a lot since the 50s.
All you're doing is perpetuating a myth;-p not to mention that it sounds a whole lot like YOU have guilt about sex. Maybe your mother is to blame, maybe your father... but don't blame religion for your own self-hate.
It's not taking 3 kids 3 miles... it's taking 3 kids plus a full back seat of groceries 3 miles to the store and back, while still having a good level of comfort, safety and room for accessories like jumper cables, a spare tire and a few cans of various fluids... not to mention all the gear the kids won't leave the house without. BTW these aren't tiny little 1, 3 and 5 year old kids... they are 6, 8 and 10 and take up the same functional space as adults. Try fitting all that in an economy car and you're begging for disaster or at least you'll end up taking 4 times as long to make your trip to the store - due to having to find ways to safely cram all the packages in whatever space is left in the car.
Now let's go for a trip to grandma's house who happens to live 50 miles away (not far enough to fly, just far enough to be uncomfortably long when traffic is considered) and you're bringing everything you need for a 2 day stay... with both parents in the car. This is not possible in an economy car or even a full sized 4 door sedan... not legally or safely. Of course you could take TWO cars for your trip.... ooh gettin' good gas economy now...
Instead, many families still have two cars but one is an SUV, which the wife/mother drives the bare minimum because it is a gas hog, while the husband/father drives a camry or other relatively economic vehicle to work every day on a 30 - 50 mile commute... saving the SUV for infrequent long trips, family outings or for hauling large loads when necessary.
Tell your Catholic friends (well the girls at least) that if they are in a position to get married, the ClearBlue Easy fertility monitor is a really great way to monitor their cycle and avoid pregnancy. If they use it 'religiously' in the same way secular girls have to use birth control pills, etc. then they have just as good birth control as any other method. By using the fertility monitor they can have sex 20 days a month... which is pretty good. The hardest part is to schedule the wedding and honeymoon for the 'right' time;-p
My wife uses it... I love checking it in the morning before I shower...heheh another good day;-p
I saw the movie, saw the original animated series as a teen and remember it fondly, but it looks like they reworked the screenplay from Logan's Run and fit the characters and basic premise from Aeon Flux into it.
I say this because it's what hollywood does... they take screenplays that worked and use them as the basis for anything that might have a cultural hook to it, to appeal to a younger audience.
I also say it because the interpreted premise of Chung's world (which I don't recall being quite so detailed in the backstory) has become very very similar to the premise of Logan's Run, with a few modern twists to incorporate technology that is a bit more believeable...
Regardless of this (Logan's Run was a good movie, which makes Aeon Flux pretty good too).... I hate the fact that hollywood always feels the need to overdo the explanation of the backstory on these films. Can't they just jump in to the story and characters and let the backstory reveal itself?
Let the audience figure out the fact that it's an isolated civilization in a post-biological-disaster future.... sure plant clues with cryptic dialogue and solve the mystery at the end but don't tell us everything in the prelude... it makes me feel like I already know everything there is to know about the story and all I'm watching is the characters go through the motions of predestined roles.
Not being a working musician or even a musician at all, here's what I'd do if I were. Even if I was just starting out...
It's very simple. I'd find a non-label corporate sponsor. I'd take my tracks around to Ad agencies and PR firms... talk to the people there about providing some low-cost background tracks or something... find out who their big clients are and approach someone at those companies using my Agency contact as a name drop to get in the door, then try to negotiate a direct deal with them to provide music for whatever they need.
I'd become their 'musical consultant' and 'musician of record' much like an attorney or specialist in IT or any other field would do.
I'd negotiate a 2 year contract to provide my services at a living wage with a little bonus for my special skills. For this, they would get all the loops, soundbytes, jingles, elevator music, whatever they want. In return, I'd get to practice my skills, receive a decent paycheck, spend all my free time in a studio and release my personal creations with any license i want and any distributor who I think will do a good job.
Few corporations would have any incentive to want to keep me for much more than that but if they did, so much the better when I shopped around for a new sponsor with a better contract. The better I got at providing them with a musical brand, the more valued I'd become. After a few corporate gigs, I'd hopefully have enough saved to release something that would do well on the charts and could decide to go independent.
In the meanwhile, I could supplement my income with agency work directly... seeing as how I'm good at providing corporate musical brandind now... agencies know I can perform and get the job done.
Maybe I'd never be a media superstar, but I'd probably make a lot more money in the end and have creative control of both my music and my reputation.
No I don't eat Table Salt because it's the end result of an industrial chemical process. I'll eat Salt that's been mined from deposits on land no problems... if it's from the right deposits... meaning actual ocean bed deposits, not rock salt... which is inorganic in composition, hence the rock part.
Apparently you're not crazy.... but i'm telling you I've never seen that behavior before. Still don't see it. Maybe it's the joy of using a Mac??? Don't know... sorry, I could be wrong.
Yes I've read the CDCs take on it... and I tend to take it with a grain of Salt, the kind that comes from the sea, or deposits left from sea water... much like I take the US Recommended Daily Allowance data... it's a minimum recommendation for basic health. So if you barely want to be healthy, then stick to the RDA and stick to irradiated food... then realize that to get what your body needs, you're going to end up eating way too many calories.. just to get your daily minimums of various nutrients.
CDC stands for Center for Disease Control... their primary concern is that irradiated food isn't going cause significant issues with the food supply... much like how you're allowed to have a certain number of insect particles, foeces, etc. etc. in food without worrying that it will lead to illness that the body cannot fend off with a normal immune system.
I didn't say that irradiated food would cause massive or even mild cases of radiation poisoning.. I said it (the food) is no longer a legitimate source of nutrition that you can count on for a healthy life. It's just not good for you if you have the choice of eating non-irradiated foods.
Don't try to spout off your ignorance as knowledge just because you believe that the separated parts of something equal the whole, they don't. Your individual cells don't make up a person if you've split them all up, then recombined them in some pseudo-form of yourself... it's the built up relationships between them that make up the whole, not the parts themselves in proximity to each other. This is why sodium chloride/iodide is not Salt, and why sour grapes don't equal wine. You're a fool if you believe that.
Think about this: words mean nothing without a culture to share... an apple is just a fruit unless it's also symbol of knowledge and a common placeholder for the color red and something kids bob for on halloween and a target for a stage Archer...
There's more to life than empirical data kid. I'm telling you that irradiated food is bad because it's no longer food... it's damaged goods, like a person who gets to see their parents killed at age 5, it's no longer whole.
But believe what you will... I won't take that leap of faith with you though. Enjoy your crappy food and your crappy wine, just don't complain when you end up with MS or Lupus or some other chronic and systemic illness you can't figure out how you got.
I seriously don't know what you're talking about.... you must have a plugin running for Firefox that's doing that.... I even opend firefox on my Mac (which is a default install) and can't find the links you're referring to.
Food is still alive when/if you eat it right.... irradiation does the same amount of damage to the nutrition in your food as cooking it, say microwaving it for a few minutes... and then after it's been sitting on a shelf for several days in this half-cooked form, slowly decomposing (not rotting mind you, just decomposing at a chemically level, like milk does when exposed to sunlight), then you go ahead and put it in your fridge for another day or two, then finally you'll cook the stuff, further damaging the nutritious value before you ingest it.
You know the old adage "garbage in, garbage out" well you're essentially putting 'corrupted' data into your system... yeah it looks okay at first glance... but it just won't give you the kind of results you'd hope for.
p.s.
Sodium chloride or sodium iodide is not Salt. It is a chemical that tastes salty. Salt is a misture of minerals from organic and inorganic sources, sodium chloride being one of them. It's like calling fermented grape juice Wine.... it's not, it's just fermented grape juice.
Real Salt should taste buttery and have a complex flavor both salty and sweet. If you've never tasted any, you're missing out on life buddy.
Also try a good $40 bottle of wine... let it breathe for an hour so the aldehydes and ketones will evaporate and mix correcly with the alcohol and trace juices, then drink out of a glass made for the type of wine... it's a whole different experience from the 2 buck chuck you must be drinking.
Somewhat off topic, but I think many people don't like irradiated food because it's been irreversibly turned into 'not-food', as opposed to being afraid that it's radioactive.... much like many people don't eat extremely processed 'food products' either.
I also don't eat 'table salt' since it's not really salt... just "sodium chloride combined with an iodine source"
Something can be safe and still not good for you. Eating irradiated food is like eating a bunch of fibre and starch, it will fill you up but you'll starve slowly unless you supplement your diet with those low-grade vitamins at the store... and still you'll be malnourished and end up with multiple chronic disorders due to nutritional deficiencies.
Well yes, a web app.... but it just so happens Google already has a Typed content called Review, with sub cat of Store which includes a rating attribute... so you'd only need to write one if you wanted to prettify it or display a big ol' list of em or something, maybe add a comment system.... for more immediate feedback....
It's an easy to use, shareable database.... that's very searchable and tied into the best search engine... all one need to is create an interface page or pages to add entries... including something like a rating field would let you sort based on peoples opinion of the site...
The reason I say to use googlebase instead of a hosted database is that the maintenance is taken care of by google... no worries about some guy hosting the list accidentally killing it or having to take it down for lack of funds to host it... also the data is stored at google so cease and desist actions would involve them and their legal team.
Googlebase seems the pefect solution to publishing public domain datasets, with this being a great example of the kind of data that you can't really make a lot of money off of and can potentially lead to issues if hosted privately by a small entity. Essentially this would become "Google e-Retailer Service Ratings" if they wanted to do it themselves (google that is) they could create a service around this but instead they've simply created an engine that lets all of us do it together for whatever topic we want.
If it became a dense enough set of data, Google could tie this into Froogle listings as well... and online stores could link to their listing to prove they have a good rating, etc. etc. based on a completely public system, rather than one owned and operated by a interested party.
Yes it's true. The internet is the biggest rumor mill ever. Much like the ones you used to participate in in high school... these too must be taken with a grain of salt and beware the consequences... detention in the real world is a lot worse than in high school.
Slashdot Mirror
TFA say France not Germany... so swap it out with Celine Dion and any Bad Techno, say Moby for instance...
How do you know that a stem cell therapy treatment wouldn't have improved your child's recovery process?
The body isn't perfect.
What if the therapy can give back to your child what has been lost?
You have a very sad story but you shouldn't discount a potential good because it makes you hope again and leaves you vulnerable to serious disappointment if your child can not be helped by that good. Buck up buddy and thank whatever divinity you believe in that the rest of us haven't given up. 20 years ago the very procedures that allowed your child to live weren't available and still wouldn't be today if people didn't try new things. We learn from our failures as much as from our successes.
Best regards to you and your family,
If OSC is listening... maybe a miniseries for sci-fi would be a better option? If it was my book and my option to move it to screen, I think I'd do something like Star Trek and Serenity ended up doing (though this would be better planned) which is to do a series on TV that starts in the beginning.... build the characters over several seasons, then plan a big blockbuster movie at the end of it all for the final shootout.
This would allow for the actors to grow physically... start them at just before puberty and hope that they get growth spurts, and as actors. In general it would let the story develop more fully and on a timeline more consistent with the novel... I don't think I sat down and read the whole thing in one night, longer stories can be more interesting because you have to stop and think about the events between reading periods, so take advantage of that.
On the business side of things, they could use the time and revenue to develop the CGI over years instead of months and would be able to reuse the models, effects, etc. and incrementally improve upon them as the CGI becomes more important in the story. The revenue from commercials could seriously offset this development and allow for a really good movie at the end instead of having to blow the whole budget on CGI they could spend more on 'getting it right'.
For the actors / kids this would really give them the time to 'become the characters' as they could start off as regular kids with a few quirks and grow into the personalities that make the book powerful.
For the audience... well how big is the audience for this movie right now? I know very few people outside of sci-fi fans who have read this book unless they were assigned it as summer reading in high school. A TV series could certainly grow the audience size and bring them up to speed on the story at the same time. I hate movies that have to tell this huge backstory because the meat of the plot is at the end but you won't understand the motivations of the characters without the back story.... spend more time in the movie on the events that unfold and let the characters just be who they are the whole time without having to explain how they got to be the way they are.
As a side note, it would be very interesting to do some web based tie in 'marketing' by creating a web community around the idea of Peters forums... where people could discuss the implications of the events in the show...
the downside to all of this is that we already know how it ends... it'd be really cool to not know and have a series that builds up the tension, with a web based extras feature for creating anticipation and a big movie at the end to wrap it all up in a final crescendo.
Actually the reason is that Gap is now using an AJAX shopping cart that does not support current Safari's javascript XMLRPC calls... at least not enough to ensure that the system works properly enough to get you to checkout with your purchase in place (great thinking Gap). So if you really need to purchase from Gap.com you'll want to get a copy of Firefox.
Everyone seems to be going on and on about why music sucks, etc... or RIAA or whatever... but here's the real reason:
Gift Certificates. People buy music as gifts during this period of time right? With the availability of Amazon GCs and iTunes GCs don't you think that maybe just maybe people are getting those instead of trying to guess what music their gift recipients really want???
Let's take a look at music sales just after Christmas... say the week after, and see how much it is up compared with 2004.
I'm betting it will be higher... probably high enough to overcome any 'slump' seen during november and december.
How about a panoramic desktop? Maybe spherical... instead of the paged desktops you get with linux where you have a grid of desktops or some such, make it as if the screen is a view of the inside of a sphere. Wouldn't that be fun??? You could pan around and place icons wherever... then zoom in on them to edit. Allow for unlimited granularity... and add big labels to sections of files you'd like to group, or draw keylines around them in some color... maybe be able to select a group of files and context menu 'group' them into either a label or a folder.. then add a sticky note about that group.
Each folder/directory could be another sphere that you'd jump into... with it's own background color, big giant watermark folder name and sticky notes to tell you what's inside... maybe you could preset a widget or two for that folder... say you've created one for doing accounting, you'd add a calculator, spreadsheet and banking widget... or you've created one for doing word processing... it's got that, plus a dictionary, thesaurus and a web browser with some preset bookmarks to research sites you've found to be useful for this project. etc. etc.
Let the task define the space.
Start with something simple and let it get complex according to the needs of the task you've assigned.
This type of UI would use 3D in the sense that you could pan between widgets and documents and generally organize how you'd like to interact rather than trying to cram it all into an arbitrary fixed dimensional space...
Like for instance, I'd love to shrink this browser window to about 75% without changing it's aspect ratio.. I could still type but I could also have room for my email, calendar and a few widgets while retaining the abillity to zoom in on it if I decided I wanted to focus on it more.
anyways, just some thoughts on the subject...
Completely untrue. If you're a Catholic you should go back to church and speak with your priest... having sex is supposed to be fun and not a guilty pleasure either. Things have changed a lot since the 50s.
;-p not to mention that it sounds a whole lot like YOU have guilt about sex. Maybe your mother is to blame, maybe your father... but don't blame religion for your own self-hate.
All you're doing is perpetuating a myth
Spoken like a TRUE Engineer. Do you also get to wear the hat? ;-p j/k good post...
FYI
It's not taking 3 kids 3 miles... it's taking 3 kids plus a full back seat of groceries 3 miles to the store and back, while still having a good level of comfort, safety and room for accessories like jumper cables, a spare tire and a few cans of various fluids... not to mention all the gear the kids won't leave the house without. BTW these aren't tiny little 1, 3 and 5 year old kids... they are 6, 8 and 10 and take up the same functional space as adults. Try fitting all that in an economy car and you're begging for disaster or at least you'll end up taking 4 times as long to make your trip to the store - due to having to find ways to safely cram all the packages in whatever space is left in the car.
Now let's go for a trip to grandma's house who happens to live 50 miles away (not far enough to fly, just far enough to be uncomfortably long when traffic is considered) and you're bringing everything you need for a 2 day stay... with both parents in the car. This is not possible in an economy car or even a full sized 4 door sedan... not legally or safely. Of course you could take TWO cars for your trip.... ooh gettin' good gas economy now...
Instead, many families still have two cars but one is an SUV, which the wife/mother drives the bare minimum because it is a gas hog, while the husband/father drives a camry or other relatively economic vehicle to work every day on a 30 - 50 mile commute... saving the SUV for infrequent long trips, family outings or for hauling large loads when necessary.
Tell your Catholic friends (well the girls at least) that if they are in a position to get married, the ClearBlue Easy fertility monitor is a really great way to monitor their cycle and avoid pregnancy. If they use it 'religiously' in the same way secular girls have to use birth control pills, etc. then they have just as good birth control as any other method. By using the fertility monitor they can have sex 20 days a month... which is pretty good. The hardest part is to schedule the wedding and honeymoon for the 'right' time ;-p
;-p
My wife uses it... I love checking it in the morning before I shower...heheh another good day
I saw the movie, saw the original animated series as a teen and remember it fondly, but it looks like they reworked the screenplay from Logan's Run and fit the characters and basic premise from Aeon Flux into it.
I say this because it's what hollywood does... they take screenplays that worked and use them as the basis for anything that might have a cultural hook to it, to appeal to a younger audience.
I also say it because the interpreted premise of Chung's world (which I don't recall being quite so detailed in the backstory) has become very very similar to the premise of Logan's Run, with a few modern twists to incorporate technology that is a bit more believeable...
Regardless of this (Logan's Run was a good movie, which makes Aeon Flux pretty good too).... I hate the fact that hollywood always feels the need to overdo the explanation of the backstory on these films. Can't they just jump in to the story and characters and let the backstory reveal itself?
Let the audience figure out the fact that it's an isolated civilization in a post-biological-disaster future.... sure plant clues with cryptic dialogue and solve the mystery at the end but don't tell us everything in the prelude... it makes me feel like I already know everything there is to know about the story and all I'm watching is the characters go through the motions of predestined roles.
Does this also apply to analyzing people you've never met and don't know a thing about? If so , then you're spot on.
Not being a working musician or even a musician at all, here's what I'd do if I were. Even if I was just starting out...
It's very simple. I'd find a non-label corporate sponsor. I'd take my tracks around to Ad agencies and PR firms... talk to the people there about providing some low-cost background tracks or something... find out who their big clients are and approach someone at those companies using my Agency contact as a name drop to get in the door, then try to negotiate a direct deal with them to provide music for whatever they need.
I'd become their 'musical consultant' and 'musician of record' much like an attorney or specialist in IT or any other field would do.
I'd negotiate a 2 year contract to provide my services at a living wage with a little bonus for my special skills. For this, they would get all the loops, soundbytes, jingles, elevator music, whatever they want. In return, I'd get to practice my skills, receive a decent paycheck, spend all my free time in a studio and release my personal creations with any license i want and any distributor who I think will do a good job.
Few corporations would have any incentive to want to keep me for much more than that but if they did, so much the better when I shopped around for a new sponsor with a better contract. The better I got at providing them with a musical brand, the more valued I'd become. After a few corporate gigs, I'd hopefully have enough saved to release something that would do well on the charts and could decide to go independent.
In the meanwhile, I could supplement my income with agency work directly... seeing as how I'm good at providing corporate musical brandind now... agencies know I can perform and get the job done.
Maybe I'd never be a media superstar, but I'd probably make a lot more money in the end and have creative control of both my music and my reputation.
No I don't eat Table Salt because it's the end result of an industrial chemical process. I'll eat Salt that's been mined from deposits on land no problems... if it's from the right deposits... meaning actual ocean bed deposits, not rock salt... which is inorganic in composition, hence the rock part.
Apparently you're not crazy.... but i'm telling you I've never seen that behavior before. Still don't see it. Maybe it's the joy of using a Mac??? Don't know... sorry, I could be wrong.
Yes I've read the CDCs take on it... and I tend to take it with a grain of Salt, the kind that comes from the sea, or deposits left from sea water... much like I take the US Recommended Daily Allowance data... it's a minimum recommendation for basic health. So if you barely want to be healthy, then stick to the RDA and stick to irradiated food... then realize that to get what your body needs, you're going to end up eating way too many calories.. just to get your daily minimums of various nutrients.
CDC stands for Center for Disease Control... their primary concern is that irradiated food isn't going cause significant issues with the food supply... much like how you're allowed to have a certain number of insect particles, foeces, etc. etc. in food without worrying that it will lead to illness that the body cannot fend off with a normal immune system.
I didn't say that irradiated food would cause massive or even mild cases of radiation poisoning.. I said it (the food) is no longer a legitimate source of nutrition that you can count on for a healthy life. It's just not good for you if you have the choice of eating non-irradiated foods.
Don't try to spout off your ignorance as knowledge just because you believe that the separated parts of something equal the whole, they don't. Your individual cells don't make up a person if you've split them all up, then recombined them in some pseudo-form of yourself... it's the built up relationships between them that make up the whole, not the parts themselves in proximity to each other. This is why sodium chloride/iodide is not Salt, and why sour grapes don't equal wine. You're a fool if you believe that.
Think about this: words mean nothing without a culture to share... an apple is just a fruit unless it's also symbol of knowledge and a common placeholder for the color red and something kids bob for on halloween and a target for a stage Archer...
There's more to life than empirical data kid. I'm telling you that irradiated food is bad because it's no longer food... it's damaged goods, like a person who gets to see their parents killed at age 5, it's no longer whole.
But believe what you will... I won't take that leap of faith with you though. Enjoy your crappy food and your crappy wine, just don't complain when you end up with MS or Lupus or some other chronic and systemic illness you can't figure out how you got.
I seriously don't know what you're talking about.... you must have a plugin running for Firefox that's doing that.... I even opend firefox on my Mac (which is a default install) and can't find the links you're referring to.
Food is still alive when/if you eat it right.... irradiation does the same amount of damage to the nutrition in your food as cooking it, say microwaving it for a few minutes... and then after it's been sitting on a shelf for several days in this half-cooked form, slowly decomposing (not rotting mind you, just decomposing at a chemically level, like milk does when exposed to sunlight), then you go ahead and put it in your fridge for another day or two, then finally you'll cook the stuff, further damaging the nutritious value before you ingest it.
You know the old adage "garbage in, garbage out" well you're essentially putting 'corrupted' data into your system... yeah it looks okay at first glance... but it just won't give you the kind of results you'd hope for.
p.s.
Sodium chloride or sodium iodide is not Salt. It is a chemical that tastes salty. Salt is a misture of minerals from organic and inorganic sources, sodium chloride being one of them. It's like calling fermented grape juice Wine.... it's not, it's just fermented grape juice.
Real Salt should taste buttery and have a complex flavor both salty and sweet. If you've never tasted any, you're missing out on life buddy.
Also try a good $40 bottle of wine... let it breathe for an hour so the aldehydes and ketones will evaporate and mix correcly with the alcohol and trace juices, then drink out of a glass made for the type of wine... it's a whole different experience from the 2 buck chuck you must be drinking.
This is Science Daily dude.... it's an aggregation site for university science publications...
Are you referring to the clearly marked section at the bottom of the page that says "Ads by Gooogle"???
If not then you've got your own problems with an adbot of some sort injecting ads into your browser...
Somewhat off topic, but I think many people don't like irradiated food because it's been irreversibly turned into 'not-food', as opposed to being afraid that it's radioactive.... much like many people don't eat extremely processed 'food products' either.
I also don't eat 'table salt' since it's not really salt... just "sodium chloride combined with an iodine source"
Something can be safe and still not good for you. Eating irradiated food is like eating a bunch of fibre and starch, it will fill you up but you'll starve slowly unless you supplement your diet with those low-grade vitamins at the store... and still you'll be malnourished and end up with multiple chronic disorders due to nutritional deficiencies.
Well yes, a web app.... but it just so happens Google already has a Typed content called Review, with sub cat of Store which includes a rating attribute... so you'd only need to write one if you wanted to prettify it or display a big ol' list of em or something, maybe add a comment system.... for more immediate feedback....
It's an easy to use, shareable database.... that's very searchable and tied into the best search engine... all one need to is create an interface page or pages to add entries... including something like a rating field would let you sort based on peoples opinion of the site...
The reason I say to use googlebase instead of a hosted database is that the maintenance is taken care of by google... no worries about some guy hosting the list accidentally killing it or having to take it down for lack of funds to host it... also the data is stored at google so cease and desist actions would involve them and their legal team.
Googlebase seems the pefect solution to publishing public domain datasets, with this being a great example of the kind of data that you can't really make a lot of money off of and can potentially lead to issues if hosted privately by a small entity. Essentially this would become "Google e-Retailer Service Ratings" if they wanted to do it themselves (google that is) they could create a service around this but instead they've simply created an engine that lets all of us do it together for whatever topic we want.
If it became a dense enough set of data, Google could tie this into Froogle listings as well... and online stores could link to their listing to prove they have a good rating, etc. etc. based on a completely public system, rather than one owned and operated by a interested party.
Anyone want to start up a Google Base list of crooked retailers? Much better than a wiki or a forum and a great use for the system....
Yes it's true. The internet is the biggest rumor mill ever. Much like the ones you used to participate in in high school... these too must be taken with a grain of salt and beware the consequences... detention in the real world is a lot worse than in high school.
I recently used the IHT site as THE example of the perfect news portal site for my team of designers and developers.
I concur with you....