The actual first instance of interpretational SCOTUS opinion, or, reading into the Constitution crap that ain't there, was Scott vs. Stanford. (Ref: Justice Antonin Scalia, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005-03-15)
Marbury vs. Madison just cemented the Court's recognized authority of judicial review; considering whether a law is Constitutional or not.
Heh...wait long enough and someone else will post exactly what you were going to. What I would like to add is the reason why there were so few deer "back in the day"(tm). The favored habitat of the deer (whitetail in this case, the kind you see most of the time east of the Rockies, bloated by the side of the road or in my freezer) is not the Disney deep dark mature forests. Deer hate that stuff, theres no food, no place to hide, etc. Deer like the nasty thick scrubby stuff where theres lots of crab apples (deer love apples) and other sorts of mast for them to feed on and lots of places to hide. The consequence is that there is alot of deer population in relatively heavily settled suburban environments where the deer can browse not only on crab apples in the scrub, but also on your landscaping. The other consequence is that its VERY hard to find suitable hunting ground in those areas since houses are so close together. Since you can't hunt those areas to cull the suburban (soccer-mom?) deer, there are no checks to the deer population, therefore you get increased property damage and automobile accidents.
Oh yeah...internet hunting of deer is a travesty in this (bow)hunter's opinion.
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Its important to point out that antibiotics cannot and do not make bacteria resistant. Due to the immense populations that bacteria like to exist in, toss in some regular Mk1 Mod0 life randomness, there is almost a certainty that a percentage of the bacteria that already exist in a population are already resistant to the antibiotic before you even apply it. So, all you do is chop off the part of the population distribution that is susceptible to the antibiotic and the resistant ones get to grow and multiply to fill the space once occupied by antibiotic-susceptible bacteria.
I am so sick of so-called medical experts screwing this up in print and TV news. Its one thing to wallow in your own ignorance, its another entirely to pass your disease onto others!
Just a further note though, very few antibiotics actually work on bacteria at a DNA level. Most instead like to hack and slash at a bacteria's cell wall or plasma membrane. Some (my personal favorites) are metabolism arresters that attack metabolic enzymes that the bacteria uses to make energy for life processes.
This is amazing. Most of the problems that we have with influenza A is that it has a high rate of mutation that allows it to be essentially a different virus every time it whips around the globe. However, a site like that that is crucial for the virus' reproductive cycle would be highly conserved. If we could design/discover drugs that would target that RNA interaction we could really put a damper on Influenza's infection rate.
I went looking at PNAS and I couldn't find the paper, so I'm not sure what his experimental procedure was.
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The actual first instance of interpretational SCOTUS opinion, or, reading into the Constitution crap that ain't there, was Scott vs. Stanford. (Ref: Justice Antonin Scalia, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005-03-15) Marbury vs. Madison just cemented the Court's recognized authority of judicial review; considering whether a law is Constitutional or not.
Who determines need? Maybe we should create a Politburo to determine how much someone "needs"...oh wait...that was tried already...hrmm..
Heh...wait long enough and someone else will post exactly what you were going to. What I would like to add is the reason why there were so few deer "back in the day"(tm). The favored habitat of the deer (whitetail in this case, the kind you see most of the time east of the Rockies, bloated by the side of the road or in my freezer) is not the Disney deep dark mature forests. Deer hate that stuff, theres no food, no place to hide, etc. Deer like the nasty thick scrubby stuff where theres lots of crab apples (deer love apples) and other sorts of mast for them to feed on and lots of places to hide. The consequence is that there is alot of deer population in relatively heavily settled suburban environments where the deer can browse not only on crab apples in the scrub, but also on your landscaping. The other consequence is that its VERY hard to find suitable hunting ground in those areas since houses are so close together. Since you can't hunt those areas to cull the suburban (soccer-mom?) deer, there are no checks to the deer population, therefore you get increased property damage and automobile accidents. Oh yeah...internet hunting of deer is a travesty in this (bow)hunter's opinion.
Its important to point out that antibiotics cannot and do not make bacteria resistant. Due to the immense populations that bacteria like to exist in, toss in some regular Mk1 Mod0 life randomness, there is almost a certainty that a percentage of the bacteria that already exist in a population are already resistant to the antibiotic before you even apply it. So, all you do is chop off the part of the population distribution that is susceptible to the antibiotic and the resistant ones get to grow and multiply to fill the space once occupied by antibiotic-susceptible bacteria. I am so sick of so-called medical experts screwing this up in print and TV news. Its one thing to wallow in your own ignorance, its another entirely to pass your disease onto others!
Just a further note though, very few antibiotics actually work on bacteria at a DNA level. Most instead like to hack and slash at a bacteria's cell wall or plasma membrane. Some (my personal favorites) are metabolism arresters that attack metabolic enzymes that the bacteria uses to make energy for life processes.
This is amazing. Most of the problems that we have with influenza A is that it has a high rate of mutation that allows it to be essentially a different virus every time it whips around the globe. However, a site like that that is crucial for the virus' reproductive cycle would be highly conserved. If we could design/discover drugs that would target that RNA interaction we could really put a damper on Influenza's infection rate. I went looking at PNAS and I couldn't find the paper, so I'm not sure what his experimental procedure was.