The Open Secrets link you post deals with election contributions to public officials. ELECTION contributions. Judges are appointed... and better informed apparently.
I'll have to agree with you about the music industries war on perception though.
"On perhaps a bit more serious of a note, what does this do for us? Is this highlighting that we now know HOW the disease is created, so we can start developing a cure?"
Acording to a genetic biologist that I briefly "dated", there has been a long standing debate over whether prions are the cause of or end result of brain wasting type diseases. So I believe the answer to your question is yes.
Which is fairly ironic since her masters research was based on searching for hiden viri that could posibly be affecting protein folding in the brain.
Who mods this stuff? And just how is ignorance intersting?
>Many pros are nearly all digital, because speed matters more than quality when you want to get
If by "pro" you are refering to photo journalists, then that is a true statement. If that is not what you intended, then you are a jackass. There are many different types of professional photographers.
>The few pros that are left care about quality enough that kodak isn't good enough for them, and they will pay extra for those smaller brands like Ilford that are better.
So many opinions in one sentence, and not one of them based in fact, or even informed subjective opinion. I happen to work in a custom photo lab. I haven't noticed a shortage of "pros" since digital arrived. I also would hazzard a guess that about 70 percent of the film that goes through our lab is of the Kodak NC or VC variety. Ilford makes great black and white film, Fuji is cheap (and has crossover problems with green and magenta in skin tones), but Kodak is still the standard fifty plus years later. Having said that, about seventy percent of our business is now digital, but most of it originates as film. Digital cameras and photoshop are a poor excuse for a good understanding of different film emulsions and proper lighting.
Can we get the moderators to add a "doesn't know shit" category?
Just in case no one mentioned this yet.There's a car that runs on compressed air. Compressed air sounds like a logical storage medium to me. I would imagine that it takes less energy to compress atmosphere than it does to exctract hydrogen.
Please read the FAQ before you tell me how dumb I am. And I would love to hear any statistics or insight from the slash tards that are in the know on this subject, since I'm too lazy to do the research myself.
>Because its not easy to buy influence in SOME countries.
>Hint: Part of the world is NOT AMERICA.
So... are you saying that the rest of the world is not open to bribery? How cute and naive. *me gets warm fuzzies thinking about the comforting blanket of ignorance*
"The robot named BHR-1 passed appraisal on Saturday as a major project for the Beijing University of Science and Engineering under China's High and New Technology Research and Development Program, the official Xinhua news agency said."
I think this is the original story that was cut and pasted. I Haven't been able to find anything else on it. I can't even find a home page for the school in question, only obscure references in other not very informative articles.
such as...
this
I'd love to see a more technical description of how it balances itself without an equilibrium and thousands of years of evolution.
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The Open Secrets link you post deals with election contributions to public officials. ELECTION contributions. Judges are appointed... and better informed apparently.
I'll have to agree with you about the music industries war on perception though.
-n
"On perhaps a bit more serious of a note, what does this do for us? Is this highlighting that we now know HOW the disease is created, so we can start developing a cure?"
Acording to a genetic biologist that I briefly "dated", there has been a long standing debate over whether prions are the cause of or end result of brain wasting type diseases. So I believe the answer to your question is yes.
Which is fairly ironic since her masters research was based on searching for hiden viri that could posibly be affecting protein folding in the brain.
-n
Who mods this stuff? And just how is ignorance intersting?
>Many pros are nearly all digital, because speed matters more than quality when you want to get
If by "pro" you are refering to photo journalists, then that is a true statement. If that is not what you intended, then you are a jackass. There are many different types of professional photographers.
>The few pros that are left care about quality enough that kodak isn't good enough for them, and they will pay extra for those smaller brands like Ilford that are better.
So many opinions in one sentence, and not one of them based in fact, or even informed subjective opinion. I happen to work in a custom photo lab. I haven't noticed a shortage of "pros" since digital arrived. I also would hazzard a guess that about 70 percent of the film that goes through our lab is of the Kodak NC or VC variety. Ilford makes great black and white film, Fuji is cheap (and has crossover problems with green and magenta in skin tones), but Kodak is still the standard fifty plus years later. Having said that, about seventy percent of our business is now digital, but most of it originates as film. Digital cameras and photoshop are a poor excuse for a good understanding of different film emulsions and proper lighting.
Can we get the moderators to add a "doesn't know shit" category?
-n
Just in case no one mentioned this yet.There's a car that runs on compressed air. Compressed air sounds like a logical storage medium to me. I would imagine that it takes less energy to compress atmosphere than it does to exctract hydrogen.
Please read the FAQ before you tell me how dumb I am. And I would love to hear any statistics or insight from the slash tards that are in the know on this subject, since I'm too lazy to do the research myself.
>Because its not easy to buy influence in SOME countries.
>Hint: Part of the world is NOT AMERICA.
So... are you saying that the rest of the world is not open to bribery? How cute and naive. *me gets warm fuzzies thinking about the comforting blanket of ignorance*
"The robot named BHR-1 passed appraisal on Saturday as a major project for the Beijing University of Science and Engineering under China's High and New Technology Research and Development Program, the official Xinhua news agency said."
I think this is the original story that was cut and pasted. I Haven't been able to find anything else on it. I can't even find a home page for the school in question, only obscure references in other not very informative articles. such as... this
I'd love to see a more technical description of how it balances itself without an equilibrium and thousands of years of evolution.
-niles