The liver toxicity of Acetaminophen is used to deter opioid addiction by mixing opioids with Acetaminophen. Opioids are powerfully addictive narcotics and this practice kills about 500 Americans per year.
The amount of fresh water is not fixed. The entire ecosphere is a giant solar powered water distillery, sometimes running over production and sometimes under. Delivery can be variable.
The existence of a rocky planet in the habitable zone of a star is insufficient on its own for the establishment of life as we know it. It must be large enough to retain its atmosphere, particularly early on as it accretes from multiple violent planetismal collisions. It must be formed in a region of the galaxy that is rich in heavier minerals - iron, carbon, uranium, thorium, potassium, etc. to allow for an dense iron core and radioactively driven plate tectonics. The star system probably requires large gas giants such as Jupiter to protect the inner planet from continuous bombardment from comets and asteroids, but allow sufficient comet bombardment early in its life to seed the planet with water and organic compounds. These conditions and probably more, limit the number of potential life sustaining exoplanets.
The planets large enough to retain an atmosphere are there as I said. I wasn't talking about puny planets or moons. Larger than Mars - though Mars was big enough for air and oceans for a very long time - at the same time life was being smacked off Earth in its general direction. The Sun is a brighter than average star, brighter than 85% of the stars in the Milky Way on an absolute basis, but this is less than one standard deviation above the mean. It is not a standout in this regard, nor in regard to mass. The mass of a star is determined by the mass of the cloud it formed from. The average rotational vector of the edges of that cloud determine the fraction of mass the planets are made from. Since mass and illumination are the key factors, the sun is not "odd". The majority of stars will have considerable similarities. Because of the mass distribution, Earth-sized moons around gas giants in the habitable zone of red giants are likely the commonest scenario. This is good since the gas giant supplies the tidal forces without needing our freakishly outsized moon, and the magnetosphere too. It's OK if that moon is tidally locked because its orbit around the planet ensures daylight coverage over the whole surface. The average star will have one standout advantage to life: it is twice as old. It will have flared, dimmed and brightened over twice as many billions of years, more of its planets moved into, through and out of the habitable zone over periods of billions of years, giving more abundant opportunities for the right mix of temperature, pressure, gravity and chemicals to be found, create life, and spread to other planets and stars. Some of these stars had an 8-billion year head start on the Sun, which is still a relative teen as stars go.
I believe I mentioned metal poor stars. The metal deprived (Population III) are very rare in today's universe, and you would know what they were from a long way off - if you could ever find one (which would net you some sort of prize, as we can't). They are rare for many reasons. They are composed almost exclusively of Hydrogen and Helium. They cannot form in an area that has been hit from all directions for 13 billion years by the non-hydrogen and helium debris from supernovae of other stars - which describes every place in the Milky Way. They are necessarily immense, as it takes a huge star of this composition to ignite at all, and that means the region of pure hydrogen and helium must be immense to both contain that much mass and not have collapsed into a star already. They burn quick - typically after only a few million years they explode in a pair instability supernova - contaminating all the surrounding area with all the "metallic" elements up to iron. So today they are very, very rare and their theoretical basis may require a primordial universe to exist at all. They are so rare that despite prolonged deliberate search, not one has ever been found. Perhaps you meant Population II stars - a few of these are still found around the fringes of the Milky Way. Population II stars formed from the debris of Population III stars' supernovae and the remaining gas in the interstellar medium. Though long
I have had a good experience with SquareTrade recently on a tablet for my grandson from Amazon. I have long been in the "no extended warranties" camp except for high value laptops, but have tried a few lately for the accidental damage coverage on other things. My claim was quick and easy - not at all what I expected. I may change my stance on the warranties because of this to include more products. Once upon a time these extended warranties were handled by bogus claim-prevention companies you could never get your compensation out of, had to threaten to sue, or had to wait six months and more. Some may still be. From my experience Square Trade is legit.
What AC said. Almost all stars have at least one, usually two or three, rocky bodies in the habitable zone. Sometimes they are moons, sometimes planets. But they are almost always there. The exceptions are obvious: stars with stars in that zone (tight binaries), exploded stars, stars that are too young to come steady, Population III stars poor in metals and so on. When we can see them, we will find them. Until then, studies like this that survey observations that could not see such a thing are just a waste of time.
I have all I need, and it can't be taken away, so yes I am insulated from the downside risk. Do I have to be exposed to the risk to play your game? Sorry, but my priorities are not yours. Big bets are for when you haven't yet got what you need. I'm past that.
Considering how much the current oligopoly sucks, I'm quite OK with you (alt A: retraining them for useful work)
(their own Option B) lining them all against a wall and executing them by firing squad.
The people who choose option B aren't worth saving anyway.
If you made me king of American radio spectra and gave me let to do it I could put 50Mbps broadband in 94% of US homes in under five years - and make a profit at it. It is not that hard. Latency would suck except for the wired folk, but that's the nature of wifi.
I think given our experience with AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile that spectrum, licenses, real-estate or oxygen were better let to somebody else, and that would make a public good because these have become a burden on the people. Somebody else might make a lesser or equal burden, but not a greater one.
He was an advocate. We knew that since he is the dominant evangelist / lobbyist for the Comcast / AT&T / TimeWarner Cable / Verizon for the last quarter century. He was quite a successful advocate, and those companies became an oligopoly, which is like a monopoly - but legal. See The first honest cable company.
I'm not very hopeful that this guy can shake off his roots and do the right thing, especially knowing the soft bed that awaits after he's done his public service. But reading the words he's writ in his own name and published on the Internet for all to see, I think there is hope. It is a faint hope, but it is there - that he will be a man, step up and do the Right thing. He's at least bright and well informed about the issues. I'm not sure any alternative will give us that.
Look, I'm really an Obama fan. Constitutional scholar, Harvard law review, law professor and all that. Voted for him twice. After the whole Neil Macbride thing where a US Attorney violated not only his own jurisdiction but the sovereignty of a nation half a world away I was starting to get a little worried. I'm not a fan of his solution for medicine that escapes to infinity: I'd have cross trained the unemployed and nonviolent felons to provide care, and done away with patent medicine. I'd also not have been reelected, as the medical/insurance ecoplex has more than enough money to prevent that. He did what he could. Obama doesn't have to be reelected now, but if he wants his policies to sustain and achieve long-term goals he must support a same-party platform that can be elected to replace him. He is more trapped than anybody. That is the nature of the US presidency: you have the power to push the red button that kills all the world, but no actual control.
Meh. They let it through and it was important. The extra text seems to have value-add. I'm not going to bitch about the editing of my submits any more until net/net the posted story is opposite of what I posted. I was just grumpy because they put stuff in I should have put in the first place.
BTW: it has got a lot easier to get your submits posted on the/. front page. Time was when they put one of a dozen of mine and now it's more than half. I've got better at submitting but not that much better. There must be a dearth of submits, and that's an opportunity.
Oh my. The rational hand of disciplined governance ought to guide the invisible hand of markets? You're going to get a lot of hate. You are also right.
Where you missed: "the gov't gets less revenue." You needed to put a "for now" at the end of that. As we know from Seward's Folly and the Louisiana Purchase, sometimes the people don't know the right course. Those investments are ripe now and paying huge dividends.
Sometimes the public good is not having to waste the blood of patriots for stuff that can be bought with money.
Part of the vetting process for this means taking down your blog. Fortunately the Wayback Machine is our friend. I haven't read the whole blog yet, but this article about SOPA seems to indicate Mr. Wheeler might not be entirely clueless.
He did raise half a million dollars for the President's reelection campaign. You need a million to be made ambassador. For lower tiers there has to be a bone somewhere in the executive branch to throw your boosters and the Justice Department is already full of Hollywood lackeys, so the FCC is the natural next spot for the meatpuppet of our copyright maximalist entertainment industry overlords.
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It's not the Hydrocodone in it that will kill you. It's the Tylenol.
The liver toxicity of Acetaminophen is used to deter opioid addiction by mixing opioids with Acetaminophen. Opioids are powerfully addictive narcotics and this practice kills about 500 Americans per year.
The amount of fresh water is not fixed. The entire ecosphere is a giant solar powered water distillery, sometimes running over production and sometimes under. Delivery can be variable.
Tell them that Global warming causes prostitution.
Left4dead 2 (beta) is also in there. That's a new game.
And yet here we are: discussing it.
The existence of a rocky planet in the habitable zone of a star is insufficient on its own for the establishment of life as we know it. It must be large enough to retain its atmosphere, particularly early on as it accretes from multiple violent planetismal collisions. It must be formed in a region of the galaxy that is rich in heavier minerals - iron, carbon, uranium, thorium, potassium, etc. to allow for an dense iron core and radioactively driven plate tectonics. The star system probably requires large gas giants such as Jupiter to protect the inner planet from continuous bombardment from comets and asteroids, but allow sufficient comet bombardment early in its life to seed the planet with water and organic compounds. These conditions and probably more, limit the number of potential life sustaining exoplanets.
I have had a good experience with SquareTrade recently on a tablet for my grandson from Amazon. I have long been in the "no extended warranties" camp except for high value laptops, but have tried a few lately for the accidental damage coverage on other things. My claim was quick and easy - not at all what I expected. I may change my stance on the warranties because of this to include more products. Once upon a time these extended warranties were handled by bogus claim-prevention companies you could never get your compensation out of, had to threaten to sue, or had to wait six months and more. Some may still be. From my experience Square Trade is legit.
What AC said. Almost all stars have at least one, usually two or three, rocky bodies in the habitable zone. Sometimes they are moons, sometimes planets. But they are almost always there. The exceptions are obvious: stars with stars in that zone (tight binaries), exploded stars, stars that are too young to come steady, Population III stars poor in metals and so on. When we can see them, we will find them. Until then, studies like this that survey observations that could not see such a thing are just a waste of time.
Oh, no. Once we get a good look at Ceres we're not going to be thinking of much else.
The Internet Archive slashdotted. Now that is funny stuff right there.
Does that make me wealthy already? I thought not, but your description makes me feel both wealthy and free!
I have all I need, and it can't be taken away, so yes I am insulated from the downside risk. Do I have to be exposed to the risk to play your game? Sorry, but my priorities are not yours. Big bets are for when you haven't yet got what you need. I'm past that.
Considering how much the current oligopoly sucks, I'm quite OK with you (alt A: retraining them for useful work) (their own Option B) lining them all against a wall and executing them by firing squad.
The people who choose option B aren't worth saving anyway.
With government permits in hand you bet your ass I could raise the money to make it so. That is a slam dunk.
With enough money you can incent the populace to harm themselves. This is not new. It predates Caesar.
If you made me king of American radio spectra and gave me let to do it I could put 50Mbps broadband in 94% of US homes in under five years - and make a profit at it. It is not that hard. Latency would suck except for the wired folk, but that's the nature of wifi.
I think given our experience with AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile that spectrum, licenses, real-estate or oxygen were better let to somebody else, and that would make a public good because these have become a burden on the people. Somebody else might make a lesser or equal burden, but not a greater one.
Yeah, this is starting to look like the classical problem for which the solution is "torches and pitchforks".
My first impulse was to disagree, but, no. You're right. Hork. Snort. Hack. We're good. Woohoo! Wanna play Liars Dice until it kicks in?
He was an advocate. We knew that since he is the dominant evangelist / lobbyist for the Comcast / AT&T / TimeWarner Cable / Verizon for the last quarter century. He was quite a successful advocate, and those companies became an oligopoly, which is like a monopoly - but legal. See The first honest cable company.
I'm not very hopeful that this guy can shake off his roots and do the right thing, especially knowing the soft bed that awaits after he's done his public service. But reading the words he's writ in his own name and published on the Internet for all to see, I think there is hope. It is a faint hope, but it is there - that he will be a man, step up and do the Right thing. He's at least bright and well informed about the issues. I'm not sure any alternative will give us that.
Look, I'm really an Obama fan. Constitutional scholar, Harvard law review, law professor and all that. Voted for him twice. After the whole Neil Macbride thing where a US Attorney violated not only his own jurisdiction but the sovereignty of a nation half a world away I was starting to get a little worried. I'm not a fan of his solution for medicine that escapes to infinity: I'd have cross trained the unemployed and nonviolent felons to provide care, and done away with patent medicine. I'd also not have been reelected, as the medical/insurance ecoplex has more than enough money to prevent that. He did what he could. Obama doesn't have to be reelected now, but if he wants his policies to sustain and achieve long-term goals he must support a same-party platform that can be elected to replace him. He is more trapped than anybody. That is the nature of the US presidency: you have the power to push the red button that kills all the world, but no actual control.
Meh. They let it through and it was important. The extra text seems to have value-add. I'm not going to bitch about the editing of my submits any more until net/net the posted story is opposite of what I posted. I was just grumpy because they put stuff in I should have put in the first place.
BTW: it has got a lot easier to get your submits posted on the /. front page. Time was when they put one of a dozen of mine and now it's more than half. I've got better at submitting but not that much better. There must be a dearth of submits, and that's an opportunity.
Oh my. The rational hand of disciplined governance ought to guide the invisible hand of markets? You're going to get a lot of hate. You are also right.
Where you missed: "the gov't gets less revenue." You needed to put a "for now" at the end of that. As we know from Seward's Folly and the Louisiana Purchase, sometimes the people don't know the right course. Those investments are ripe now and paying huge dividends.
Sometimes the public good is not having to waste the blood of patriots for stuff that can be bought with money.
Part of the vetting process for this means taking down your blog. Fortunately the Wayback Machine is our friend. I haven't read the whole blog yet, but this article about SOPA seems to indicate Mr. Wheeler might not be entirely clueless.
Hat tip to Slate's Emma Roller, who found it.
He did raise half a million dollars for the President's reelection campaign. You need a million to be made ambassador. For lower tiers there has to be a bone somewhere in the executive branch to throw your boosters and the Justice Department is already full of Hollywood lackeys, so the FCC is the natural next spot for the meatpuppet of our copyright maximalist entertainment industry overlords.