Intelligence created our digestive track, not the other way around.
You start out with any of the following: omnivore, herbivore, or carnivore, that is a 'proto-sapeient". Something with an IQ about halfway between a chimp and a human.
They are just smart enough to start using fire and other tools significantly (chimps use them rarely, humans use them 100% of the time.)
The FIRST thing you use your tools for is to replace your natural digestive track. Knives and hammers replace your teeth and mechanical digestion. Fire replaces the stomach acid.
BOOM, now you can eat things that you couldn't before. Herbivore and carnivores instantly become omnivores. Sorry Mr. Niven but you can't have your herbivore puppetters without genetic engineering them. If they fire and spears, they will start to hunt before they starve when a drought/famine/overpopulation reduces the food supply.
Those that do this flourish and your natural inherent digestive track evolves to meet your new food requirements - cooking omnivore. It loses the specialty things like long, sharp, deadly teeth, and becomes capable of eating everything from rice that has been boiled (because we can't eat it without boiling), to fugi fish (poisonous fish that has had the poison gland removed.)
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1. Prices are controlled by supply AND demand, not just supply. This young ignoramus exaimed supply only and forgot to consider demand.
2. The truth is that supply side pricing is pretty consistent. He listed out the costs to deliver to a store. That is a solid $27. You need to throw in at least $5 for development and another $5 profit. OK, so the minimum price is $37 for a new game. But $5 profit out of $37 is a low margin on. Clothing is about as high as it gets at x20 cost for high end. Food goes for about profit margin about 5% at a grocery store (less than x2). But the truth is people LIKE making games. We do it for free. So they can't really raise the profit up to that high x20. They can't even get it above x2 for $74.
3. If you can wait a year, you can get the game for $20. Pretty much all games.
4. Games are priced at $60 not because of an evil conspiracy but because that is how much we budget for NEW games. It is the demand that is setting the price, not the supply. When supply sets prices, it varies more.
5. The real problem is that of difficulty in accurately measuring the pleasure provided by the new game. There is no simple way we can get an accurate worth on the product to us, in the short time that the game comes out. The best we can do is read articles, which by the time they come out, the item is already priced.
2. Claiming sale rights. Again, no sales are being done.
3. Claiming Control rights. In order to enforce this, the controlling party must first specify that they do not want that information released to the public. This has NOT been done and the DA does not have the authority to do this. Only the party that has created them has the authority to do that. The legislative body is the only party that has legal right to object, and only as a whole. I.E. If the state assembly passes a law, then only the state assembly can object to someone printing that law. The DA can NOT steal control over those laws without express command by the state assembly.
I mean really. Is it that hard to figure out? OK, so maybe you don't raise prices for six months and just eat it for that period.
People think of paper bills as a necessity, not a luxury. You charge for luxuries but offer discounts to remove a necessity.
Everyone is happy that way.
At no point did they state that Uranium IS soluble. The fact that they mentioned uraninite is insoluble almost implied that Uraninum was, but not only because they gave no further information about why uranite was better.
In addition, while I know that soluble means it will dissolve, not everyone who graduated college knows that being being soluble automatically means it will disperse throughout a non-flowing body like a lake. It depends on the saturation concentration. If it is low, then frankly, solubility is of little import. If a gram of uraninum saturates a lake, than the bacteria only protect against the first gram of uraninum put into the lake.
These are important things that needed to be stated. At the very least a competent reporter would have stated Uraninum is soluble.
Uranium is one of the HEAVIEST metals around. Heavy things sink. Uraninite is bsically Uranium + Oxygen, one of the LIGHTER elements. Uraninite is lighter than pure uraninum. Now please explain why Uraninite will sink to the bottom of the water supply, but Uraninum will not.
Insoluble may be important, but they need to clarify why and how. Right now, they got very little actual information about what the bacteria does and why it is so good. Does it form U02, U03, or some other combo of Uranium and oxygen?
IT IS GOOD THAT CRIMINALS DO NOT PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON OUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.
That basically means that the info is not all that dangerous. It means criminals are afraid of getting caught if they use it, so why spend all that much for it. If the criminals were sure they could get away with it and all they needed was the info, that information would go for a lot higher.
First, let me congratulate the woman in the picture for the article. That picture is just a 100% spot on for Mad Scientist.
The huge arms, the vials, the strange lighting, - perfect.
Second, this article is REALLY short on facts. The least it could have done is explain exactly what the difference was between the dangerous and the safe uranium. A simple molecular formula comparison would have been very helpfull. Plus they should have told us WHY it was safe. Something along the lines of 'this molecule tastes horrible to other bacteria', as opposed to just leaving us hanging.
1. I did not in any way say RLS is a fake disease. But it is DEFINITELY a designer disease. That does NOT mean it is 'made up' as you so ignorantly claimed. Instead it means that doctors took a spectrum symptom, that is totally harmless in 99.999999% of the people that exhibit it, but occasionally, 0.000001% of the people that have it, have it severe enough to be treated medically. Just as most people's hiccups are not severe enough to need medication, that doesn't mean there are a few people that do. Then the pharm. companies create a drug and market it to every single person in the world that has ever had their leg move.
2. But Placebos do work WONDERS on things. That does NOT mean they are fake disease as you so STUPIDLY implied. Instead it means that it is one of the illnesses directly related to nerves, the main thing that placebos work on. That doesn't mean it isn't real, any more than depression isn't real, or alcohol addiction isn't real.
3. One more thing, I would not advise telling anyone that your RLS medications don't work on you. Often doctors use the failure of medication to work as an indicative of a hyperchondriac who does not actually have the real disease.
If a work of art does not make any money for the author in 10 years, it will never make real money. If in ten years you have a hit, then you will have made so much more money that the next ten years is not worth all that much.
The TINY amount of cash that art makes past he 10 year mark supports the distributors, not the artists. Why because they make pennies from thousands of low level 'successes'.
Simple solution is copyrights work for ten years, plus another 10 if you have a full sized derivative work, 5 years if you make a smaller work. (The derivatives get 10 years from their own creation).
This pays the artists a fair amount of cash, keeps the publishers/distributors in business, yet allows people to do reasonable fair use.
That is, if you are measuring drugs effectiveness to cure Measels, then a placebo will not be very effective.
But if you are measuring a drug's effect to cure something like say Restless Leg Syndrome, then surprise surprise the placebos work WONDERS.
When you have idiots defining healthy active children as suffering from attention deficit disorder, surprise surprise, a sugar pill (yeah, irony) works to cure them.
This particular case, the disease was depression. Depression is a real disease, but it is exactly the kind of thing I would expect a placebo to work really well on.
The summary seems to be a description of a meta-search engine, which is rather common. (Dogpile).
The actual product seems MUCH more interesting than the silly summary. It compartamentalizes secret info, so if you are classified for level 5, you can still search and find info that is level 6, even if the file also has level 4 information. It can also tag information so that if your level 5 clearance is not enough to tell you how person A is connected to person B, you can still know that the connection exists.
A monopole would be the north end of a magnet without a south end. A positive without a negative. Such a device, if it really existed, would enable us to build perpetual motion machines (see here.
But the item described by this article is NOT a monopole. They are describing two monopoles connected by a dirac string (one dimenisional curve in space). If you connect two monopoles, that is a DIPOLE, it doesn't matter what connects them.
Actually it would, if they exist. Many of the so called perpetual motion machines would work if they had a monopole.
This is why I agree with the others that laugh at this article with it's ridiculous claim that monopoles exist. A monopole connecting to another monopole is called a dipole, no matter how long the connection or what kind of item it is.
Honestly, a patent is RARELY helpful. Good ideas are a dime a dozen - it is much harder to recognize one than to come up with one.
Truthfully, if you want to run run a business, the secret is rather simple. 1. Work hard. 2. Be flexible, 3. find and hire great employees.
The patent only comes into play AFTER you have proven yourself a success and other people start copying you. If you can, hide your success. That will do more to protect your business model than anything else.
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Note, I am not even considering ultralight aircrafts/powered parachute devices that go for around $10,000. A Powered Parachute looks a lot like a car with a giant fan on the back and a air-foil parachute to deploy that generates lift.
No. You forget that men get an X also. And they don't get a back up, so any mutation in the X is more likely to show up in men.
In other words, the X evolves faster than the Y, and as men only get one X, anything on a single X becomes FAR more important to the men then it is to the women. It is only things that are on BOTH X chromosomes that are important to women.
What is going on here is simple - the idiot takes for granted all the great inventions of the past 60 years so ignores them.
Here is a list of things that people in 1950 wished they had, and what happened to them.
1. Where is my house cleaning Robot? At Amazon, they sell for $150 (Roomba) vacuum, $300 (Scooba) floor washing.
2. Where is my robot babysitter? We call them TV. You have so many you forget about them.
3. My flying car? Anyone with a license can buy one an old helicopter for less than $50,000 What, you expect to get one without a license?
4. Where is my miraculous medical cures? Back in 1950's we did not have Lasik. We cured bad eyesight. WE CURED BAD EYESIGHT. Not to mention minimally invasive surgery and artificial hearts and pacemakers. Not to mention liver transplants. We have done so much here only an IDIOT focussed on the few things we have not cured would mention it.
5. We walked on the Moon. Yeah I know it happened before many of you were born. So what? It still happened AFTER the writer's grandmother died in 1960. We freakin walked on the MOON!
6. Computers are not simple an extension of the the 1950's version. We moved from vacuum tubes to transistors to chips. Chips are dramatically different from the tubes. As in horse to car difference. They count.
7. Those chips allowed cellphones. The interesting thing about the cellphone is NOT the radio - but the switching network behind the radio. That is dramatically different from anything they had in 1950.
8. The interenet is again another example of computer networking. That they did NOT have anything like before 1950. It is fantastic, it is remarkable, it is qualitatively DIFFERENT than the crap they had before it.
The main reasion this idiot did not recognize the differences is SIZE. Back in the first half of the 20th century we did not get 'small'. We couldn't do anything small, so we did everything huge. Bot most of the second half was doing the small things. They were just as impressive feats of technology, but they were not 'big' so the idiot ignored them. Small != unimportant.
There is no flaw in the helmet. What the article describes is simple - injuries that would normally kill people are now survivable due to superior helmets. But that leaves them alive with brain damage instead of dead.
No, you don't understand. This test will end up costing people a lot MORE.
You have signs of cancer. You run this test as part of a routine screening. If you already thought you might have cancer and the tests says negative, you still run the more expensive test because 17% of the time it is wrong.
You have no signs of cancer. You run this test and it says you are positive. SO you run the real test.
Net net, this will always always cost society more, a lot more. The false positives and false negatives are way way too high.
A test needs to always be more than accurate than the prevalence of the condition. I.E. A test for gender needs to be more than 50% accurate. A test to determine a condition that occures in less than 1% of the population needs to be accurate more than 99% of the time.
Right to look at is NOT and never has been a right to copy. Nor is it a right to take.
The amount of time it takes you to look at something in depth does not suddenly grant you the right to take it for extended periods of time. The right to look at a briefcase and check for bombs does not give you the right to take it and spend 10 days doing a DNA, chemical analysis, fingerprint check etc. Similarly you can't take a computer and do the massive search.
Not forever, not for 30 days, not for 5 days, not even for one hour. Even that hour is a strecth. Anything more requires a warrant.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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Wow, your grasp of history is ALMOST enough to make a joke. Maybe you need a couple hundred more years of evolution yourself.
You start out with any of the following: omnivore, herbivore, or carnivore, that is a 'proto-sapeient". Something with an IQ about halfway between a chimp and a human.
They are just smart enough to start using fire and other tools significantly (chimps use them rarely, humans use them 100% of the time.)
The FIRST thing you use your tools for is to replace your natural digestive track. Knives and hammers replace your teeth and mechanical digestion. Fire replaces the stomach acid.
BOOM, now you can eat things that you couldn't before. Herbivore and carnivores instantly become omnivores. Sorry Mr. Niven but you can't have your herbivore puppetters without genetic engineering them. If they fire and spears, they will start to hunt before they starve when a drought/famine/overpopulation reduces the food supply.
Those that do this flourish and your natural inherent digestive track evolves to meet your new food requirements - cooking omnivore. It loses the specialty things like long, sharp, deadly teeth, and becomes capable of eating everything from rice that has been boiled (because we can't eat it without boiling), to fugi fish (poisonous fish that has had the poison gland removed.)
2. The truth is that supply side pricing is pretty consistent. He listed out the costs to deliver to a store. That is a solid $27. You need to throw in at least $5 for development and another $5 profit. OK, so the minimum price is $37 for a new game. But $5 profit out of $37 is a low margin on. Clothing is about as high as it gets at x20 cost for high end. Food goes for about profit margin about 5% at a grocery store (less than x2). But the truth is people LIKE making games. We do it for free. So they can't really raise the profit up to that high x20. They can't even get it above x2 for $74.
3. If you can wait a year, you can get the game for $20. Pretty much all games.
4. Games are priced at $60 not because of an evil conspiracy but because that is how much we budget for NEW games. It is the demand that is setting the price, not the supply. When supply sets prices, it varies more.
5. The real problem is that of difficulty in accurately measuring the pleasure provided by the new game. There is no simple way we can get an accurate worth on the product to us, in the short time that the game comes out. The best we can do is read articles, which by the time they come out, the item is already priced.
Whoops, I misunderstood the article. Please ignore my stupidity. I did not realize that the state was claiming copyright.
2. Claiming sale rights. Again, no sales are being done.
3. Claiming Control rights. In order to enforce this, the controlling party must first specify that they do not want that information released to the public. This has NOT been done and the DA does not have the authority to do this. Only the party that has created them has the authority to do that. The legislative body is the only party that has legal right to object, and only as a whole. I.E. If the state assembly passes a law, then only the state assembly can object to someone printing that law. The DA can NOT steal control over those laws without express command by the state assembly.
I mean really. Is it that hard to figure out? OK, so maybe you don't raise prices for six months and just eat it for that period. People think of paper bills as a necessity, not a luxury. You charge for luxuries but offer discounts to remove a necessity. Everyone is happy that way.
Stop rejecting organs, stop all the Auto-Immune diseases (like say Lupus, Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Multiple Sclerosis, etc)
Sure Aids and cancer get all the big money, but the overly active immune systems are harder to fight because it is your own body you are fighting.
At no point did they state that Uranium IS soluble. The fact that they mentioned uraninite is insoluble almost implied that Uraninum was, but not only because they gave no further information about why uranite was better. In addition, while I know that soluble means it will dissolve, not everyone who graduated college knows that being being soluble automatically means it will disperse throughout a non-flowing body like a lake. It depends on the saturation concentration. If it is low, then frankly, solubility is of little import. If a gram of uraninum saturates a lake, than the bacteria only protect against the first gram of uraninum put into the lake. These are important things that needed to be stated. At the very least a competent reporter would have stated Uraninum is soluble.
Uranium is one of the HEAVIEST metals around. Heavy things sink. Uraninite is bsically Uranium + Oxygen, one of the LIGHTER elements. Uraninite is lighter than pure uraninum. Now please explain why Uraninite will sink to the bottom of the water supply, but Uraninum will not. Insoluble may be important, but they need to clarify why and how. Right now, they got very little actual information about what the bacteria does and why it is so good. Does it form U02, U03, or some other combo of Uranium and oxygen?
IT IS GOOD THAT CRIMINALS DO NOT PLACE A HIGH VALUE ON OUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION.
That basically means that the info is not all that dangerous. It means criminals are afraid of getting caught if they use it, so why spend all that much for it. If the criminals were sure they could get away with it and all they needed was the info, that information would go for a lot higher.
Second, this article is REALLY short on facts. The least it could have done is explain exactly what the difference was between the dangerous and the safe uranium. A simple molecular formula comparison would have been very helpfull. Plus they should have told us WHY it was safe. Something along the lines of 'this molecule tastes horrible to other bacteria', as opposed to just leaving us hanging.
2. But Placebos do work WONDERS on things. That does NOT mean they are fake disease as you so STUPIDLY implied. Instead it means that it is one of the illnesses directly related to nerves, the main thing that placebos work on. That doesn't mean it isn't real, any more than depression isn't real, or alcohol addiction isn't real.
3. One more thing, I would not advise telling anyone that your RLS medications don't work on you. Often doctors use the failure of medication to work as an indicative of a hyperchondriac who does not actually have the real disease.
Simple solution is copyrights work for ten years, plus another 10 if you have a full sized derivative work, 5 years if you make a smaller work. (The derivatives get 10 years from their own creation).
This pays the artists a fair amount of cash, keeps the publishers/distributors in business, yet allows people to do reasonable fair use.
But if you are measuring a drug's effect to cure something like say Restless Leg Syndrome, then surprise surprise the placebos work WONDERS.
When you have idiots defining healthy active children as suffering from attention deficit disorder, surprise surprise, a sugar pill (yeah, irony) works to cure them.
This particular case, the disease was depression. Depression is a real disease, but it is exactly the kind of thing I would expect a placebo to work really well on.
The actual product seems MUCH more interesting than the silly summary. It compartamentalizes secret info, so if you are classified for level 5, you can still search and find info that is level 6, even if the file also has level 4 information. It can also tag information so that if your level 5 clearance is not enough to tell you how person A is connected to person B, you can still know that the connection exists.
A monopole would be the north end of a magnet without a south end. A positive without a negative. Such a device, if it really existed, would enable us to build perpetual motion machines (see here. But the item described by this article is NOT a monopole. They are describing two monopoles connected by a dirac string (one dimenisional curve in space). If you connect two monopoles, that is a DIPOLE, it doesn't matter what connects them.
This is why I agree with the others that laugh at this article with it's ridiculous claim that monopoles exist. A monopole connecting to another monopole is called a dipole, no matter how long the connection or what kind of item it is.
Truthfully, if you want to run run a business, the secret is rather simple. 1. Work hard. 2. Be flexible, 3. find and hire great employees.
The patent only comes into play AFTER you have proven yourself a success and other people start copying you. If you can, hide your success. That will do more to protect your business model than anything else.
Click here Note, I am not even considering ultralight aircrafts/powered parachute devices that go for around $10,000. A Powered Parachute looks a lot like a car with a giant fan on the back and a air-foil parachute to deploy that generates lift.
In other words, the X evolves faster than the Y, and as men only get one X, anything on a single X becomes FAR more important to the men then it is to the women. It is only things that are on BOTH X chromosomes that are important to women.
1. Where is my house cleaning Robot? At Amazon, they sell for $150 (Roomba) vacuum, $300 (Scooba) floor washing.
2. Where is my robot babysitter? We call them TV. You have so many you forget about them.
3. My flying car? Anyone with a license can buy one an old helicopter for less than $50,000 What, you expect to get one without a license?
4. Where is my miraculous medical cures? Back in 1950's we did not have Lasik. We cured bad eyesight. WE CURED BAD EYESIGHT. Not to mention minimally invasive surgery and artificial hearts and pacemakers. Not to mention liver transplants. We have done so much here only an IDIOT focussed on the few things we have not cured would mention it.
5. We walked on the Moon. Yeah I know it happened before many of you were born. So what? It still happened AFTER the writer's grandmother died in 1960. We freakin walked on the MOON!
6. Computers are not simple an extension of the the 1950's version. We moved from vacuum tubes to transistors to chips. Chips are dramatically different from the tubes. As in horse to car difference. They count.
7. Those chips allowed cellphones. The interesting thing about the cellphone is NOT the radio - but the switching network behind the radio. That is dramatically different from anything they had in 1950.
8. The interenet is again another example of computer networking. That they did NOT have anything like before 1950. It is fantastic, it is remarkable, it is qualitatively DIFFERENT than the crap they had before it.
The main reasion this idiot did not recognize the differences is SIZE. Back in the first half of the 20th century we did not get 'small'. We couldn't do anything small, so we did everything huge. Bot most of the second half was doing the small things. They were just as impressive feats of technology, but they were not 'big' so the idiot ignored them. Small != unimportant.
There is no flaw in the helmet. What the article describes is simple - injuries that would normally kill people are now survivable due to superior helmets. But that leaves them alive with brain damage instead of dead.
You have signs of cancer. You run this test as part of a routine screening. If you already thought you might have cancer and the tests says negative, you still run the more expensive test because 17% of the time it is wrong.
You have no signs of cancer. You run this test and it says you are positive. SO you run the real test.
Net net, this will always always cost society more, a lot more. The false positives and false negatives are way way too high.
A test needs to always be more than accurate than the prevalence of the condition. I.E. A test for gender needs to be more than 50% accurate. A test to determine a condition that occures in less than 1% of the population needs to be accurate more than 99% of the time.
Not forever, not for 30 days, not for 5 days, not even for one hour. Even that hour is a strecth. Anything more requires a warrant.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Or will they wait for other countries to sue them? If so, who do I call in the US to ask them to sue?