Handgun because the kid doesn't understand the danger of the gun. The potential of new technologies for harm sometimes takes years to understand. Tesla use to expose himself to x-rays because he thought they had health benefits. He was argueably one of the most brilliant humans that ever lived. We are still and will always be living with the effects of a few decades of nuclear developement. What happens in that same time with genetic engineering. We are changing the nature of life itself just to see what happens. Already some genius in Russia combined ebola and smallpox. How long before they develope something our immune systems can't handle? Imagine an air borne ebloa with an antigen that can't be identified by the body. Why would some one do it? Just remember they already mixed Ebola with smallpox.
The more you learn about cloning the less afraid you become. The downside of cloning is we aren't very good at it and the percentage of birth defects is unacceptable. You are completely wrong about genetic engineering. I have read a great deal about it and went from being a supporter to some one that thinks field studies should be stopped indefinately. Forget the SciFi end of the world senerios. They are possible we just don't need them to be afraid. Genetic engineering is likely to cause in the next century, quite possibly the next ten years, the greatest famines this world has ever seen. Genetic diversity in cereal crops may already be a thing of the past. One desease can wipe out not just a harvest but an entire species of grain. Can't happen? It's going on now with banannas. Everyone is saying the current species being farmed will be extinct in less than ten years due to desease. You can live without them? Well in parts of Africa they are a staple. This is just one problem genetic engineering may casue. They have already made a number of insects immune to the most common form of insectacide. This effects non GM crops. It's been big news lately. There is a lot of potential good that can come from genetic engineering but we have to learn to be responsible. Remember all the nuclear clean up? How do you clean up genetic contamination?
Combining the genes of plants and animals was science fiction. A lot of the potential downside of genetic engineering pales what science fiction envisioned. Like handguns it's not the technology that's dangerous it's how it's used. In roughly ten years of serious effort, most of it in the last three to five years, a great deal of damage has been done. Genetic diversity in several grain crops is in serious peril. Why is this important? One desease can wipe out all the world's supply. Imagine no more corn or rice. Can't happen? When is the last time you saw an American Elm? They died out in my life time from an imported desease. The technology needs serious regulation. Unfortunately it's streading faster than nuclear technology did and it may not be possible. The 20th century was a time we feared The Bomb. In the 21st century we will fear genetic engineering.
The real problem is the irresponsible way it's being handled. Shortly after the first field tests geneticly enhanced grain is in wide spread use. Now it looks like the insects have become immune to it and the "super weed" senerio has come true. Causually throwing animal genes into plants and plant genes into animals is terrifying. The standards are so lax a generation or two of the plant or animal and it's in the ecosystem. If you look at the effect 200 years of developement has had on the lanscape, what will 200 years of genetic tinkering do to the genetic landscape?
Sugar drinks are a massive problem but they are still calories. They do raise blood sugar and make people hungry contributing to the problem. Most Americans don't realize their food intake is so high. The greasy fried, sugared food is so high in calories that most are eating 3,000 to 5,000 calories a day. Some higher. It's two to three times what they should be eating. The Japanese aren't generally heavy because the food they eat is lower calorically and the carbs are more complex and break down slower. Obesity rates world wide are going up since the fast food diet is being exported at a higher rate. There's no magic bullet cure and there's no single cause. It's life style. Eat a healthy balanced diet and get moderate exercise. High protein diets curb hunger but they don't change the life style that was the real problem.
The biggest problem with the Atkins diet is that he actually sells it as a fad diet. He devotes pages saying how you can eat as much fat as you want then slips in a line or two about keeping it below 1800 calories. Fat is very high in calories. If you lay off the carbs and keep the calories under control the weight stays off and you don't have to eat a pound of butter a day. I lost 36 pounds in less than a month and I've kept it off for six months. Most people simply go back to eating normally and complain they can't eat fries and pasta and stay thin. There's no miracle diet. Keep it below 1500 to 1800 calories, depends on whether you are a man or woman and get moderate exercise. Check out "Fit For Life". Excellent program but a bit hard to stay on if you have a busy life style. Probably the best most balanced program I ever found.
Sorry I meant LCD. There are finally some good ones on the market. The color used to be an issue.
With the Viewsonic they all used to be good. I thought this was a replacement for my old one but it did cost half what my previous monitor did. Personally I never had these kinds of problems back when I used to buy cheapie no name monitors. I'd love to invest in a pro level monitor. Sadly I'm an American in the entertainment industry. Translated starving artist, thank you runaway production. If things get better I do plan to go LCD. It's just sad to see companies like Viewsonic that worked so hard to establish a name for themselves let their quality slip to the point where I would hesitate to buy from them again. This monitor isn't half the machine I bought four years ago. Starting to regret not having my old one repaired. Usually not worth it but in this case it would have been. The tube was fine it had a bad power supply.
I used to work with a top photographer. He had a 21"pro monitor that he paid around $4,000 for about six or eight years ago. It was extremely sharp but had a cyan shift on one side and a magenta shift on the other. Even paying a fortune is no guarentee.
I used to be a big Viewsonic fan. One of the best for the money but I had to replace one recently and got what should have been the new model of my previous monitor which I loved. It's the A90f. The first one I brought home I assumed was defective. The bottom of the screen has a nasty upward curve on the sides, no way to adjust that on the monitor. The other annoying problem is the image drifts. At times the toolbar would completely disappears. I've had to shrink the size of the screen to allow for that. I returned the first one and found I had exactly the same problems on the new one. Personally the next time around I will go flat screen. The color depth is much better now and I would assume they are more problem free. Not sure who to recommend for CRT monitors. Seems like everyone got so obsessed with making them cheaper the quality has suffered.
I went from a dot matrix printer to a Panasonic laser about 12 years ago. I paid $850 for it but it worked flawlessly for five years. Since then I have averaged an inkjet printer a year. The worst being a Cannon that only worked reliably through the first set of cartridges. The thing I find most annoying is none of the inkjets have black only with a nice big cartridge. I print far more black than I do color. The color inkjets all shut down after you run out of color. I literally once was trying to print up an invoice so I could get paid. I had ironically planned to buy new ink cartridges with part of the money. I lucked out because I had saved an old cartridge that was 99% empty. My next printer is going to be a laser.
Basing your opinion of America on a handful of action films is like saying all of Australia is like Crocidile Dundee. My position stands, the next time there is trouble in the world it won't be "why don't the Americans stay out". It'll be "where are the Americans. Why don't they do something about it". It's fashionable to put down the one on top. Personally I'm still waiting for Europe to repay it's war debts from WWII. I don't agree with the US not paying the debt to the United Nations but no one mentions the vast amount of money owed to this country.
Another similar film on a different subject is "On The Beach".
As to "Americans-save-the-world propeganda ", if Canada were left to save the world about all they could manage is a giant slingshot. It's trendy to bash America but when the chips are done most of the world whines "where are the Americans". Most Americans don't really support the reasons for the current attack. Bush snuck in and we are stuck with him for a few more years. What everyone tends to forget is that when anyone needs help in the world, America is usually there first. Most of Europe may may want to look down on the US but if it wasn't for us they would all be speaking German. Historic fact. Stop whining about how successful America is. Just comes off like sour grapes.
May be a meteor impact will solve the mainframe issues. Extinction tends to lead to stronger new species.
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Not entirely true. The date for birds keeps getting pushed back. Feathered reptiles have been found that date back nearly to the point where Dinosaurs and mammals split. The evidence seems to really indicate that birds, dinosaurs and mammals all split at roughly the same time. Birds and dinosaurs may have split last but it was within tens of millions of years not hundreds of millions of years of the mammal split. The dominant theory is still tree to air not ground to air. The one major flaw in the dinosaur to bird theory always has been that there has never been found a single tree climbing dinosaur. Birds and dinosaurs are closely related but dinosaurs didn't change into birds. No one has ever explained how a T-Rex, arguably the most advanced Dinosaur turned into a parakeet.
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Historically there have been a few killed by meteors. More have been killed by ball lightning and it's extremely rare. The bigger issue are the large ones. The smaller ones tend to break up and burn up. The larger ones......Well can anyone remember the last time you saw a live dinosaur.
Hardly anyone saw Fallen when it came out but everyone I've shown it to loved it. It has one of the best twist endings ever and a solid script across the board.
The Big Hit is another one I would have mentioned. Brilliant. I've watched it a dozen times.
It's about time."
Isn't this the second year of that particular category? The impressive thing isn't that it took so long it's that it happened so fast. To have a japanese film win the second time the animation award was given is quite an accomplishment. At least it didn't end up being a tug of war between Disney and Dreamworks. Adds a lot of legitimacy to the award.
Then the info I had was bad. I have read this several times before but I'm not into engines personally. I had always heard that it was injected into the cylinders after combustion to increase the expansion rate. Like I say bad information.
I think you are talking about water injection. It's been done since at least WWII. They use to use it on I believe Mustangs for added horse power. It isn't the hydrogen burning it's the fact water steam expands at a higher rate than gas vapors. There have been a few systems for cars. The downside is it tends to over heat the engine. I WWII they just used it briefly as an emergency measure. I don't believe there was any improvement in mileage or polution, just horsepower.
Curious what a healthy jolt of electricity would do to the chips? Could be a new device to market. One designed to zap them with about 80,000 volts. Could be a new use for those self defense devices.
Could be an interesting way to address micro payments. They maintain an on-line account that builds credits for the useage. This account could be accessed for any micro charges. Newspaper articles and such. I'm loath to hand out my credit card number to every site out there but a CPU useage account would be more like found money. Not sure how viable the whole approach is but there are definate uses for any funds that it would generate even if they have not off-line cash value.
Check your facts. All this methane is currently going into the atmosphere from natural decay. With this process the majority would be burned. The only signicant by product is used as fertiler. Methane leaves far less carbon dioxide than oil or gasoline. If we converted most of the farm waste to methane we could provide 25% to 50% of our power, do the math. Agriculture made use strong. If we use our agricultural waste for fuel we could tell the Middle East to go to hell. Gee, I wonder how many power plants could be built with the 50+ billion we are going to blow on protecting our oil interests?
I just wonder how they are going to address the security issues. The one condition for using Linux involves sharing code. I find it hard to believe the military will comply with that. Curious what Linus Torvalds thinks of the military use.
Anyone who works with a Microsoft OS is quite familiar with it's primary problem. They lock up and crash at the drop of a hat. Long gone are the days when NT 3.51 was rock solid, I only had to reboot it once to clear a lock up. One of the single biggest problems is the miserable way it handles memory. The only real way to clear the garbage out of the memory is to reboot. One of the primary reasons Linux is slowly taking over for running servers. There are plenty of minor bugs but can't Microsoft at least give us a Pro level OS that doesn't have to be rebooted on a regular basis? Would you buy a new car that stalled several times each time you drove it and on a long trip had to be stopped and restarted every hundred miles.
Thanks for making the point I was about to make. Unfortunately when a baseless idea is repeated enough times it becomes fact. Given the depth oil deposits are found at I guess the first person to propose the idea assumed dinosaurs lived in burrows deep under the earth. They must have also have had amazing lungs given the fact that the richest oil deposits tend to be in areas that were under oceans at the time of the dinosaurs. Deep diving dinosaurs that dug burrows thousands of feet deep. A sound scientific theory if I ever heard one.
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Handgun because the kid doesn't understand the danger of the gun. The potential of new technologies for harm sometimes takes years to understand. Tesla use to expose himself to x-rays because he thought they had health benefits. He was argueably one of the most brilliant humans that ever lived. We are still and will always be living with the effects of a few decades of nuclear developement. What happens in that same time with genetic engineering. We are changing the nature of life itself just to see what happens. Already some genius in Russia combined ebola and smallpox. How long before they develope something our immune systems can't handle? Imagine an air borne ebloa with an antigen that can't be identified by the body. Why would some one do it? Just remember they already mixed Ebola with smallpox.
The more you learn about cloning the less afraid you become. The downside of cloning is we aren't very good at it and the percentage of birth defects is unacceptable. You are completely wrong about genetic engineering. I have read a great deal about it and went from being a supporter to some one that thinks field studies should be stopped indefinately. Forget the SciFi end of the world senerios. They are possible we just don't need them to be afraid. Genetic engineering is likely to cause in the next century, quite possibly the next ten years, the greatest famines this world has ever seen. Genetic diversity in cereal crops may already be a thing of the past. One desease can wipe out not just a harvest but an entire species of grain. Can't happen? It's going on now with banannas. Everyone is saying the current species being farmed will be extinct in less than ten years due to desease. You can live without them? Well in parts of Africa they are a staple. This is just one problem genetic engineering may casue. They have already made a number of insects immune to the most common form of insectacide. This effects non GM crops. It's been big news lately. There is a lot of potential good that can come from genetic engineering but we have to learn to be responsible. Remember all the nuclear clean up? How do you clean up genetic contamination?
Combining the genes of plants and animals was science fiction. A lot of the potential downside of genetic engineering pales what science fiction envisioned. Like handguns it's not the technology that's dangerous it's how it's used. In roughly ten years of serious effort, most of it in the last three to five years, a great deal of damage has been done. Genetic diversity in several grain crops is in serious peril. Why is this important? One desease can wipe out all the world's supply. Imagine no more corn or rice. Can't happen? When is the last time you saw an American Elm? They died out in my life time from an imported desease. The technology needs serious regulation. Unfortunately it's streading faster than nuclear technology did and it may not be possible. The 20th century was a time we feared The Bomb. In the 21st century we will fear genetic engineering.
The real problem is the irresponsible way it's being handled. Shortly after the first field tests geneticly enhanced grain is in wide spread use. Now it looks like the insects have become immune to it and the "super weed" senerio has come true. Causually throwing animal genes into plants and plant genes into animals is terrifying. The standards are so lax a generation or two of the plant or animal and it's in the ecosystem. If you look at the effect 200 years of developement has had on the lanscape, what will 200 years of genetic tinkering do to the genetic landscape?
Sugar drinks are a massive problem but they are still calories. They do raise blood sugar and make people hungry contributing to the problem. Most Americans don't realize their food intake is so high. The greasy fried, sugared food is so high in calories that most are eating 3,000 to 5,000 calories a day. Some higher. It's two to three times what they should be eating. The Japanese aren't generally heavy because the food they eat is lower calorically and the carbs are more complex and break down slower. Obesity rates world wide are going up since the fast food diet is being exported at a higher rate. There's no magic bullet cure and there's no single cause. It's life style. Eat a healthy balanced diet and get moderate exercise. High protein diets curb hunger but they don't change the life style that was the real problem.
The biggest problem with the Atkins diet is that he actually sells it as a fad diet. He devotes pages saying how you can eat as much fat as you want then slips in a line or two about keeping it below 1800 calories. Fat is very high in calories. If you lay off the carbs and keep the calories under control the weight stays off and you don't have to eat a pound of butter a day. I lost 36 pounds in less than a month and I've kept it off for six months. Most people simply go back to eating normally and complain they can't eat fries and pasta and stay thin. There's no miracle diet. Keep it below 1500 to 1800 calories, depends on whether you are a man or woman and get moderate exercise. Check out "Fit For Life". Excellent program but a bit hard to stay on if you have a busy life style. Probably the best most balanced program I ever found.
Sorry I meant LCD. There are finally some good ones on the market. The color used to be an issue. With the Viewsonic they all used to be good. I thought this was a replacement for my old one but it did cost half what my previous monitor did. Personally I never had these kinds of problems back when I used to buy cheapie no name monitors. I'd love to invest in a pro level monitor. Sadly I'm an American in the entertainment industry. Translated starving artist, thank you runaway production. If things get better I do plan to go LCD. It's just sad to see companies like Viewsonic that worked so hard to establish a name for themselves let their quality slip to the point where I would hesitate to buy from them again. This monitor isn't half the machine I bought four years ago. Starting to regret not having my old one repaired. Usually not worth it but in this case it would have been. The tube was fine it had a bad power supply.
I used to work with a top photographer. He had a 21"pro monitor that he paid around $4,000 for about six or eight years ago. It was extremely sharp but had a cyan shift on one side and a magenta shift on the other. Even paying a fortune is no guarentee.
I used to be a big Viewsonic fan. One of the best for the money but I had to replace one recently and got what should have been the new model of my previous monitor which I loved. It's the A90f. The first one I brought home I assumed was defective. The bottom of the screen has a nasty upward curve on the sides, no way to adjust that on the monitor. The other annoying problem is the image drifts. At times the toolbar would completely disappears. I've had to shrink the size of the screen to allow for that. I returned the first one and found I had exactly the same problems on the new one. Personally the next time around I will go flat screen. The color depth is much better now and I would assume they are more problem free. Not sure who to recommend for CRT monitors. Seems like everyone got so obsessed with making them cheaper the quality has suffered.
I went from a dot matrix printer to a Panasonic laser about 12 years ago. I paid $850 for it but it worked flawlessly for five years. Since then I have averaged an inkjet printer a year. The worst being a Cannon that only worked reliably through the first set of cartridges. The thing I find most annoying is none of the inkjets have black only with a nice big cartridge. I print far more black than I do color. The color inkjets all shut down after you run out of color. I literally once was trying to print up an invoice so I could get paid. I had ironically planned to buy new ink cartridges with part of the money. I lucked out because I had saved an old cartridge that was 99% empty. My next printer is going to be a laser.
Basing your opinion of America on a handful of action films is like saying all of Australia is like Crocidile Dundee. My position stands, the next time there is trouble in the world it won't be "why don't the Americans stay out". It'll be "where are the Americans. Why don't they do something about it". It's fashionable to put down the one on top. Personally I'm still waiting for Europe to repay it's war debts from WWII. I don't agree with the US not paying the debt to the United Nations but no one mentions the vast amount of money owed to this country.
Another similar film on a different subject is "On The Beach". As to "Americans-save-the-world propeganda ", if Canada were left to save the world about all they could manage is a giant slingshot. It's trendy to bash America but when the chips are done most of the world whines "where are the Americans". Most Americans don't really support the reasons for the current attack. Bush snuck in and we are stuck with him for a few more years. What everyone tends to forget is that when anyone needs help in the world, America is usually there first. Most of Europe may may want to look down on the US but if it wasn't for us they would all be speaking German. Historic fact. Stop whining about how successful America is. Just comes off like sour grapes.
May be a meteor impact will solve the mainframe issues. Extinction tends to lead to stronger new species.
Not entirely true. The date for birds keeps getting pushed back. Feathered reptiles have been found that date back nearly to the point where Dinosaurs and mammals split. The evidence seems to really indicate that birds, dinosaurs and mammals all split at roughly the same time. Birds and dinosaurs may have split last but it was within tens of millions of years not hundreds of millions of years of the mammal split. The dominant theory is still tree to air not ground to air. The one major flaw in the dinosaur to bird theory always has been that there has never been found a single tree climbing dinosaur. Birds and dinosaurs are closely related but dinosaurs didn't change into birds. No one has ever explained how a T-Rex, arguably the most advanced Dinosaur turned into a parakeet.
Historically there have been a few killed by meteors. More have been killed by ball lightning and it's extremely rare. The bigger issue are the large ones. The smaller ones tend to break up and burn up. The larger ones ......Well can anyone remember the last time you saw a live dinosaur.
Hardly anyone saw Fallen when it came out but everyone I've shown it to loved it. It has one of the best twist endings ever and a solid script across the board. The Big Hit is another one I would have mentioned. Brilliant. I've watched it a dozen times.
It's about time." Isn't this the second year of that particular category? The impressive thing isn't that it took so long it's that it happened so fast. To have a japanese film win the second time the animation award was given is quite an accomplishment. At least it didn't end up being a tug of war between Disney and Dreamworks. Adds a lot of legitimacy to the award.
Then the info I had was bad. I have read this several times before but I'm not into engines personally. I had always heard that it was injected into the cylinders after combustion to increase the expansion rate. Like I say bad information.
I think you are talking about water injection. It's been done since at least WWII. They use to use it on I believe Mustangs for added horse power. It isn't the hydrogen burning it's the fact water steam expands at a higher rate than gas vapors. There have been a few systems for cars. The downside is it tends to over heat the engine. I WWII they just used it briefly as an emergency measure. I don't believe there was any improvement in mileage or polution, just horsepower.
Curious what a healthy jolt of electricity would do to the chips? Could be a new device to market. One designed to zap them with about 80,000 volts. Could be a new use for those self defense devices.
Could be an interesting way to address micro payments. They maintain an on-line account that builds credits for the useage. This account could be accessed for any micro charges. Newspaper articles and such. I'm loath to hand out my credit card number to every site out there but a CPU useage account would be more like found money. Not sure how viable the whole approach is but there are definate uses for any funds that it would generate even if they have not off-line cash value.
Check your facts. All this methane is currently going into the atmosphere from natural decay. With this process the majority would be burned. The only signicant by product is used as fertiler. Methane leaves far less carbon dioxide than oil or gasoline. If we converted most of the farm waste to methane we could provide 25% to 50% of our power, do the math. Agriculture made use strong. If we use our agricultural waste for fuel we could tell the Middle East to go to hell. Gee, I wonder how many power plants could be built with the 50+ billion we are going to blow on protecting our oil interests?
I just wonder how they are going to address the security issues. The one condition for using Linux involves sharing code. I find it hard to believe the military will comply with that. Curious what Linus Torvalds thinks of the military use.
Anyone who works with a Microsoft OS is quite familiar with it's primary problem. They lock up and crash at the drop of a hat. Long gone are the days when NT 3.51 was rock solid, I only had to reboot it once to clear a lock up. One of the single biggest problems is the miserable way it handles memory. The only real way to clear the garbage out of the memory is to reboot. One of the primary reasons Linux is slowly taking over for running servers. There are plenty of minor bugs but can't Microsoft at least give us a Pro level OS that doesn't have to be rebooted on a regular basis? Would you buy a new car that stalled several times each time you drove it and on a long trip had to be stopped and restarted every hundred miles.
Thanks for making the point I was about to make. Unfortunately when a baseless idea is repeated enough times it becomes fact. Given the depth oil deposits are found at I guess the first person to propose the idea assumed dinosaurs lived in burrows deep under the earth. They must have also have had amazing lungs given the fact that the richest oil deposits tend to be in areas that were under oceans at the time of the dinosaurs. Deep diving dinosaurs that dug burrows thousands of feet deep. A sound scientific theory if I ever heard one.