It's been 10 years since I looked, but by then they had already shifted from enthusiastic, friendly looking, curvy girls to stiff looking skinny ice queens exposing their crotch. A too-avid pursuit of "high quality" models results in mannequins.
Of the advances in drug testing in recent years, one is a technique to test a hundred or so substances at once. Until computational methods allow prediction of what chemicals will cure what disease, scattershot procedures are necessary. Considering that hundreds of Chinese researchers took many years to screen only 2000 things, that's not a very efficient record.
Of course, it's valid to ask if this drug's 1 in 2000 discovery is better than what would have resulted in testing thousands of plants completely at random.
Note that they "screened over 2,000 different Chinese herbs described in old texts", not that they "screened over 2,000 different Chinese herbs described in old texts as being effective for malaria." We're given no clue as to whether the old texts claimed that all the herbs were useful for malaria, it seems unlikely. For that matter, we don't know if the old texts claimed qinghaosu cured malaria. Not enough information.
Sure, there's a lot of nonsense in "traditional medicine". Researchers have to start somewhere, and assuming that everything old was written by fools or charlatans seems like an error.
Trabant (from the former communist East Germany) is legend for producing thick black smoke from its 2-cycle engine. Societies with some feedback from customers (including capitalism) are superior to societies with no feedback (including communism).
London's 1950s smog deaths cannot be honestly blamed on corporations. Back then, home heating was dominantly coal, which produces high levels of pollution, particularly in primitive furnaces, stoves, and open fireplaces. Unusually cold weather meant high heating requirements, windless conditions meant pollutants weren't swept away.
Legacy technology, high population density, and unfavorable conditions led to death. This sort of thing is sometimes unavoidable. Searching for a scapegoat is a poor substitute for fixing the problem.
Banning cars will work particularly well in the wintertime in rural areas. Each trip into town will include the delightful risk of dying in a snowstorm.
One reason is mass. Locomotives have to be heavy in order to have enough friction to move all the unpowered cars, and steel-wheel to steel-rail coefficient of friction is low. Trains, more so than trucks, run at a constant speed, so accelerating that mass is less of a penalty for trains. Diesel-electrics have high mass.
In a diesel-electric locomotive, the electric motor acts as a variable ratio transmission plus clutch and can produce high torque at 0 RPM. A diesel by itself is useless at 0 RPM. Mechanical transmissions for trains would have to be extraordinarily robust.
My expertise is not in this field, so these are estimates based on what I've read. It might be the case that diesel-electric is a good choice for trucking, but the advantages are not as stark as for locomotives.
Car advertisements routinely state "your mileage may vary", and I've even heard "your mileage will be lower". In this regard, manufacturers have been honest.
As you note, diesels have changed. Neither of the articles makes any mention of how actual diesel emissions compare to levels before restrictions became law.
What light (electromagnetic radiation in a particular frequency range) is has been known for a long time. If a college physics prof didn't know, (even worse, if he claimed "we don't know"), he was unfit to hold his job.
In which case, they'll be put on welfare, food stamps, medicare,... and encouraged to have many children.
They'll be given driver's licenses which won't be revoked after driving through crowds of pedestrians, and encouraged to vote multiple times.
The entrance standards and IQ bell curve for prisons aren't impressive. Harvard has very high standards (possibly the highest in the US, certainly in the top 4), particularly if daddy isn't an alumnus or a large $ contributor. At least on the surface, if my child were a losing Harvard debater I would question whether he was trying and whether his teachers were any good. A child not trying might not deserve the $70k investment. Incompetent professors certainly don't deserve my money, and I'd be looking for a better school.
Illegal means forbidden by law. Are you implying that illegality is determined by race? That sounds racist to me.
Alien means from another country, and does not specify race. Most aliens in the United States are Mexican or other Latin Americans, which means a Spanish (Caucasian) and/or Amerind ancestry. Racism usually means anti-negro in the U.S.
In short, your claim is nonsensical and borderline incoherent.
The Democratic Party was formed circa 1828 to preserve and advance race-based slavery. It perseveres to this very day to promote laws and practices that hurt people who identify themselves as negroid. Take a look at Al Sharpton.
The Republican Party was founded in 1828 to end slavery and to this day acts in a race-blind manner.
How many people are not within walking distance of a free public library? Any person actually interested in bettering himself can do it there.
Somebody in jail has to fill his waking hours with something. Education is an excellent choice, and the incremental burden it places on society (beyond being a prisoner) is miniscule. The cost of public schooling generally is about $10,000 / year / student, a substantial burden on society (the added costs being buildings, teachers' and administrators' wages, etc.). A prisoner who can spend 14 hours a day studying debate techniques has a substantial advantage over the average college student on a debate team, who in addition to his course load engages in debate as a hobby.
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Why not swap Hillary Clinton for Assange? They've both given secrets to enemies.
Hulu allows you to choose between ads, not choose "no ads". Obamacare allows a limited choice of options, but freedom is not one of them.
Playboy has made different magazine editions for different countries. If China is prudish, provide a separate product.
It's been 10 years since I looked, but by then they had already shifted from enthusiastic, friendly looking, curvy girls to stiff looking skinny ice queens exposing their crotch. A too-avid pursuit of "high quality" models results in mannequins.
Of the advances in drug testing in recent years, one is a technique to test a hundred or so substances at once. Until computational methods allow prediction of what chemicals will cure what disease, scattershot procedures are necessary. Considering that hundreds of Chinese researchers took many years to screen only 2000 things, that's not a very efficient record.
Of course, it's valid to ask if this drug's 1 in 2000 discovery is better than what would have resulted in testing thousands of plants completely at random.
Note that they "screened over 2,000 different Chinese herbs described in old texts", not that they "screened over 2,000 different Chinese herbs described in old texts as being effective for malaria." We're given no clue as to whether the old texts claimed that all the herbs were useful for malaria, it seems unlikely. For that matter, we don't know if the old texts claimed qinghaosu cured malaria. Not enough information.
Sure, there's a lot of nonsense in "traditional medicine". Researchers have to start somewhere, and assuming that everything old was written by fools or charlatans seems like an error.
Portion sizes on food labels are mandated by law, to provide uniformity where it's feasible.
Trabant (from the former communist East Germany) is legend for producing thick black smoke from its 2-cycle engine. Societies with some feedback from customers (including capitalism) are superior to societies with no feedback (including communism).
London's 1950s smog deaths cannot be honestly blamed on corporations. Back then, home heating was dominantly coal, which produces high levels of pollution, particularly in primitive furnaces, stoves, and open fireplaces. Unusually cold weather meant high heating requirements, windless conditions meant pollutants weren't swept away.
Legacy technology, high population density, and unfavorable conditions led to death. This sort of thing is sometimes unavoidable. Searching for a scapegoat is a poor substitute for fixing the problem.
Banning cars will work particularly well in the wintertime in rural areas. Each trip into town will include the delightful risk of dying in a snowstorm.
One reason is mass. Locomotives have to be heavy in order to have enough friction to move all the unpowered cars, and steel-wheel to steel-rail coefficient of friction is low. Trains, more so than trucks, run at a constant speed, so accelerating that mass is less of a penalty for trains. Diesel-electrics have high mass.
In a diesel-electric locomotive, the electric motor acts as a variable ratio transmission plus clutch and can produce high torque at 0 RPM. A diesel by itself is useless at 0 RPM. Mechanical transmissions for trains would have to be extraordinarily robust.
My expertise is not in this field, so these are estimates based on what I've read. It might be the case that diesel-electric is a good choice for trucking, but the advantages are not as stark as for locomotives.
Car advertisements routinely state "your mileage may vary", and I've even heard "your mileage will be lower". In this regard, manufacturers have been honest.
As you note, diesels have changed. Neither of the articles makes any mention of how actual diesel emissions compare to levels before restrictions became law.
What light (electromagnetic radiation in a particular frequency range) is has been known for a long time. If a college physics prof didn't know, (even worse, if he claimed "we don't know"), he was unfit to hold his job.
When I was at MIT, tuition was either up front or 4 payments throughout the term. It was paid whether the student passed of failed.
"Still" with respect to when? In 1970, an MIT education, room and board, was about $3600 / year. A student could pay for that with a minimum wage job.
Why bother? The sun will heat up by 10% in a billion years, and do the global warming without our help. We're doomed.
Oh, sorry, I forgot. That doesn't increase their political power.
No, it was a running gag.
Yup. Making LSD illegal sure penalized that black guy, Timothy Leary.
In which case, they'll be put on welfare, food stamps, medicare, ... and encouraged to have many children.
They'll be given driver's licenses which won't be revoked after driving through crowds of pedestrians, and encouraged to vote multiple times.
The New World was already in decline long before colonization started.
On the other hand, antibiotic-resistant staph infections have become a deadly problem in hospitals.
The entrance standards and IQ bell curve for prisons aren't impressive. Harvard has very high standards (possibly the highest in the US, certainly in the top 4), particularly if daddy isn't an alumnus or a large $ contributor. At least on the surface, if my child were a losing Harvard debater I would question whether he was trying and whether his teachers were any good. A child not trying might not deserve the $70k investment. Incompetent professors certainly don't deserve my money, and I'd be looking for a better school.
Illegal means forbidden by law. Are you implying that illegality is determined by race? That sounds racist to me.
Alien means from another country, and does not specify race. Most aliens in the United States are Mexican or other Latin Americans, which means a Spanish (Caucasian) and/or Amerind ancestry. Racism usually means anti-negro in the U.S.
In short, your claim is nonsensical and borderline incoherent.
The Democratic Party was formed circa 1828 to preserve and advance race-based slavery. It perseveres to this very day to promote laws and practices that hurt people who identify themselves as negroid. Take a look at Al Sharpton.
The Republican Party was founded in 1828 to end slavery and to this day acts in a race-blind manner.
How many people are not within walking distance of a free public library? Any person actually interested in bettering himself can do it there.
Somebody in jail has to fill his waking hours with something. Education is an excellent choice, and the incremental burden it places on society (beyond being a prisoner) is miniscule. The cost of public schooling generally is about $10,000 / year / student, a substantial burden on society (the added costs being buildings, teachers' and administrators' wages, etc.). A prisoner who can spend 14 hours a day studying debate techniques has a substantial advantage over the average college student on a debate team, who in addition to his course load engages in debate as a hobby.