This would most likely kill the most accessible germs first or if nothing else, just kill the ones it was used on. ("Hey Doc, I think you missed a spot"). I suppose it's also possible that germs with stronger outsides might be given an advantage but it doesn't seem quite as obvious as with drugs.
Good points.
We might want to isolate and breed super-tough bacteria -- say for use as interstellar messengers, capable of surviving indefinitely in hard vacuum. Give the little boogers photosynthetic capability, and hey presto! it's the Andromeda Strain all over again.
More often than not I've found it easier to just get some images of how they'd like it to look and do it myself.
Me too.
During the early design stages, I sit down with the end users and sketch pictures, brainstorming how the final product might look. This process usually turns up important (often unstated) requirements and restrictions. Makes my coding life a lot easier, plus I happen to enjoy design, so I get the best of both worlds.
I challenge anyone to point out a absolutely indispensable feature in word that wasn't allready present in word 2.0
I agree, but I'll raise the ante -- Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS had all the indispensable features, and was remarkably easy to use. Even today I sometimes miss it...
Reminds me of something John Brunner wrote, in Stand on Zanzibar. If memory serves me is goes something like this:
Papa Hegel teaches us that we learn nothing from history. I know people who learn nothing from what they did this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
"When an animal is infected with prions, its heart rate becomes more variable. All you have to do is take five minutes' worth of electrocardiograms and feed these into a laptop computer fitted with special software. Within seconds, it can tell you if you are dealing with an infected animal or not.'"
All the cameras will be used for is identifying the bombers after the carnage they've caused, this is not prevention!
Analogy: the King's Taster, who tastes food before the King does.
The taster does not save the King's life. The purpose of the taster is to provide post-mortem evidence of assassination: if both the King and the taster die, chances are they died of poisoned food.
Can't we solve this debate using rigorous scientific methods?
* Expose the test group to violent videogames.
* Expose the control group to non-violent videogames
* Compel both subject groups to commit a series of brutal murders
* Autopsy the brains of both subject groups.
The answer should be right there, in the brain autopies.
Even if this film is only a little better at photoelectrics than current PVs, that's over 1TW, the entire US electrical consumption. Put two up there, mount a soviet-style maser array (98% efficiency) pointed at a relay platform floating out in the Pacific.
I admire your vision. But I'm afraid that orbital maser arrays will more likely be pointed at Riyadh... or Beijing... or wherever....
I'm guessing not biodegradable... that's why we will need to manufacture tailored micro-organisms, themselves constructed of nanotubes, to digest nano-refuse.
Why are they doing this? The soldiers knew what they were getting into when they signed up, they knew the risks. If they felt they couldn't handle the stresses of war then they shouldn't have signed up.
The army needs all the soldiers it can get. Recruitment numbers are not good. Stop-loss orders are in effect. Perhaps AWOLs are up, I'm not sure.
In any case, the army has a basic interest in keeping soldiers in fighting trim. If videogame therapy helps return a soldier to the battlefield, that's a good thing for the army. Second best, returning a soldier to a non-combat support task. Failing that, finding a way to lower VA costs... such as replacing human therapists with computers.
Just a thought -- I'm not army myself, not really qualified.
I must say, too, that there are some profoundly insensitive posts in this thread. Don't talk to me about Wasting Taxpayer Money on vets. I don't happen to support the Iraq wars, but goddamit, soldiers keep getting fucked by their superiors, war after war. World War One: bonus marchers. World War Two, Korea: post-war bomb testing, irradiated vets, cancer, official denial. Vietnam... where to begin, so many horrors to choose from. So show some fucking respect for vets, okay?
I'd eat it -- if only they could first make it aware of its surroundings and then kill it.
Better yet: shape it into a homonculus based on an action hero of your choice -- e.g. Arnold Spammandegger -- which you hunt down and kill in the deadliest game.
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This would most likely kill the most accessible germs first or if nothing else, just kill the ones it was used on. ("Hey Doc, I think you missed a spot"). I suppose it's also possible that germs with stronger outsides might be given an advantage but it doesn't seem quite as obvious as with drugs.
Good points.
We might want to isolate and breed super-tough bacteria -- say for use as interstellar messengers, capable of surviving indefinitely in hard vacuum. Give the little boogers photosynthetic capability, and hey presto! it's the Andromeda Strain all over again.
-kgj
So if you're a young black person walking through a white neighborhood, will the cell phone automatically call the cops?
Tom Wolfe informs us, in Bonfire of the Vanities, that the swaggering gait affected by young black inner-city males is known as the Pimp Roll.
-kgj
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.
Made me laugh!
-kgj
... the beam is powerful enough to blast apart bacteria that's crawling on your skin.
Good news if it blasts 100% of the bacteria, 100% of the time.
Potentially bad news if it only blasts 99.999999% of the bacteria, thus selecting for super-tough microbes.
-kgj
Hookers with cell phones -- can you imagine the gait motion?
Woot!
-kgj
People verb words all the time.
Made me laugh!
-kgj
PS, this entire thread is interesting; thanks all.
More often than not I've found it easier to just get some images of how they'd like it to look and do it myself.
Me too.
During the early design stages, I sit down with the end users and sketch pictures, brainstorming how the final product might look. This process usually turns up important (often unstated) requirements and restrictions. Makes my coding life a lot easier, plus I happen to enjoy design, so I get the best of both worlds.
-kgj
Everybody was Kung-FUD fighting ...
+Funny, well-crafted parody, made me laugh.
-kgj
I fucked your mother's ass with a spike strip
Fortunately, my mother is safely dead, and cremated. And you'd better not make "cream" jokes about her ashes. (Or "ash" jokes, for that matter.)
But the really important thing is, you're not an Anonymous Coward -- hats off to you, Sir/Madam/Other.
-kgj
I challenge anyone to point out a absolutely indispensable feature in word that wasn't allready present in word 2.0
...
I agree, but I'll raise the ante -- Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS had all the indispensable features, and was remarkably easy to use. Even today I sometimes miss it
-kgj
We will either learn to choose correctly, or our choices will correct the problem, and evolution will try something different, as it should be.
Right on. I'd mod you up if I had points.
-kgj
See also this non-invasive heartbeat-analysis test:
BSE breakthrough as heartbeat test reveals first symptoms
"When an animal is infected with prions, its heart rate becomes more variable. All you have to do is take five minutes' worth of electrocardiograms and feed these into a laptop computer fitted with special software. Within seconds, it can tell you if you are dealing with an infected animal or not.'"
All the cameras will be used for is identifying the bombers after the carnage they've caused, this is not prevention!
Analogy: the King's Taster, who tastes food before the King does.
The taster does not save the King's life. The purpose of the taster is to provide post-mortem evidence of assassination: if both the King and the taster die, chances are they died of poisoned food.
-kgj
Mmmmmmm... autopies.
Like floor pie, but in a car.
-kgj
q: Does anyone know if this stuff is biodegradable?
a: Neither is your BBQ charcoal!
That's why we need bacterial phages tailored to digest charcoal briquettes.
Plus, I'd like another martini, please design bacteria tailored to excrete top-shelf liquor.
-kgj
Can't we solve this debate using rigorous scientific methods?
* Expose the test group to violent videogames.
* Expose the control group to non-violent videogames
* Compel both subject groups to commit a series of brutal murders
* Autopsy the brains of both subject groups.
The answer should be right there, in the brain autopies.
-kgj
Even if this film is only a little better at photoelectrics than current PVs, that's over 1TW, the entire US electrical consumption. Put two up there, mount a soviet-style maser array (98% efficiency) pointed at a relay platform floating out in the Pacific.
... or Beijing ... or wherever ....
I admire your vision. But I'm afraid that orbital maser arrays will more likely be pointed at Riyadh
-kgj
I have a feeling that nanotube cuts will be dramatic compared to good old paper cuts.
Sure, but you'll be able to buy a nanotube bandage for that cut -- stops the bleeding, and bulletproof too!
-kgj
Does anyone know if this stuff is biodegradable?
... that's why we will need to manufacture tailored micro-organisms, themselves constructed of nanotubes, to digest nano-refuse.
I'm guessing not biodegradable
-kgj
Why are they doing this? The soldiers knew what they were getting into when they signed up, they knew the risks. If they felt they couldn't handle the stresses of war then they shouldn't have signed up.
... such as replacing human therapists with computers.
... where to begin, so many horrors to choose from. So show some fucking respect for vets, okay?
The army needs all the soldiers it can get. Recruitment numbers are not good. Stop-loss orders are in effect. Perhaps AWOLs are up, I'm not sure.
In any case, the army has a basic interest in keeping soldiers in fighting trim. If videogame therapy helps return a soldier to the battlefield, that's a good thing for the army. Second best, returning a soldier to a non-combat support task. Failing that, finding a way to lower VA costs
Just a thought -- I'm not army myself, not really qualified.
I must say, too, that there are some profoundly insensitive posts in this thread. Don't talk to me about Wasting Taxpayer Money on vets. I don't happen to support the Iraq wars, but goddamit, soldiers keep getting fucked by their superiors, war after war. World War One: bonus marchers. World War Two, Korea: post-war bomb testing, irradiated vets, cancer, official denial. Vietnam
-kgj
I'd eat it -- if only they could first make it aware of its surroundings and then kill it.
Better yet: shape it into a homonculus based on an action hero of your choice -- e.g. Arnold Spammandegger -- which you hunt down and kill in the deadliest game.
-kgj
I'm guessing there won't be an external port on any of the machines with a label "insert server spoof machine interface cable here"
Made me laugh!
-kgj
It's time for a decentralized Open Source solution, with open standards. Let's let the FCC try to impose wire tapping requirements on this.
Right on!
-kgj
A lot of people enjoy simply driving on an open road or a winding mountain side.... They do this with flight sims, why not driving sims?
Right on.
-kgj