What YOU don't seem to understand is that ferrets are used precisely because their susceptibility to influenza is nearly identical to that of humans.
Except not. As has already been pointed out, passaging through ferrets likely reduces virulence to humans, rather than increasing it. You must know this, unless you only read some of the replies to your posts. I'm tired of responding to you, as are others. You really do deliberately misunderstand.
What they actually did was create a NEW strain of the virus, which was physically transmissible. Before they bred this transmissible virus via ferrets, it was not easily transmitted to humans.
Just no. That's totally wrong. Are you deliberately misunderstanding? A mutation found to allow binding of human tissue was developed, but not by infecting ferrets. Subsequently, aerosol transmissibility amongst FERRETS was selected for. Not transmissibility amongst humans.
Don't even bother replying with more incomprehension.
Then the copilot freaked out and pulled back on the stick. Because the plane was in alternate law, it did not have stall prevention. The airspeed dropped to as low as 68 knots. The pilot, relief pilot, and co-pilot (who were all in the cockpit at the time) ignored all the stall warnings that the system was throwing out. They stalled a properly functioning aircraft into the ocean.
Incomprehensibly, the stall alarm ceased to sound when airspeed went below some minimum limit. Pulling back on the stick dropped the airspeed below the limit, silencing the alarm. Whenever the crew attempted to correct the stall by reducing angle of attack, the stall alarm came back. Add to that the crew's belief that the aircraft would not permit a stall in the first place, and you have a coherent picture of why the aircraft descended nose-up 38,000ft into the ocean.
That is, it was pilot error, to which various Airbus inconsistencies and false assurances contributed. I wonder if pilot training included alternate law stalling and a stall alarm that only sounded when the pilot attempted to correct the stall. Presumably not, due to the typical asinine Airbus instance that "such a thing could never happen - our software prevents it!"
Hahaha! Are you serious? Thank you for proving my point!
I figured you'd write this. Gasoline with ethanol has to be shipped in sealed containers because, if exposed to the atmosphere, the ethanol in the gasoline will dissolve water from the atmosphere. Your idea is that the ethanol in the gasoline will act as a desiccant in that it will absorb free water in the gas tank. True - but it also absorbs water from the air. The net result is more water in your gas tank.
If you honestly think that the Wikipedia article on ethanol fuels is even a little bit relevant to this, you need to go take a chemistry course or two. And physics while you're at it.
Just think through the physics a bit. The ethanol in your gasoline absorbs water from the atmosphere. Think about it.
You are just plain incorrect. Alcohol works fine in the winter to dry your gas tank. As others have pointed out, though, too much of it is not good for your gas mileage.
Please read the wikipedia entry on ethanol fuel. Specifically:
"Ethanol is hygroscopic, meaning it will absorb water vapor directly from the atmosphere. Because absorbed water dilutes the fuel value of the ethanol (although it suppresses engine knock) and may cause phase separation of ethanol-gasoline blends, containers of ethanol fuels must be kept tightly sealed. This high miscibility with water means that ethanol cannot be efficiently shipped through modern pipelines, like liquid hydrocarbons, over long distances.[31] Mechanics also have seen increased cases of damage to small engines, in particular, the carburetor, attributable to the increased water retention by ethanol in fuel.[32]"
So, the exact opposite of what you wrote. All your posts are like this. What universe are you from?
Jesus christ man. Watt is a unit of Power. Power is unit Energy per unit Time. To get energy, you take Watt and multiply it with time. You don't divide by time. That would give a unit called STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM SCIENCE.
*looks up at you through nerd glasses with 1cm thick lenses*
ACTUALLY, we refer to that as rate of change of power, and it is certainly relevant. E.g. in the case of maintaining constant non-zero acceleration of a friction-lossless car.
*snorts, resumes tipping torso back and forth in chair, looks back down at stack of papers*
You know, as an American, I will always tip my hat to the Chinese. Damn, how I envy their effectiveness at dealing with drugs abusers. They put up with none of that politically correct non-sense.
What are you babbling about? The Chinese treat addiction with rehab programs, the recidivism rate for which was 80% in the 90's (Mao 1999, 151), and is documented to be over 90% in the '00s (China Daily Youth, 27/4/04). You will need access to Lexus Nexus or a similar thing to easily follow these citations, unfortunately.
Perhaps you are thinking of their trafficking penalties. It is true that being found in possession of over a kilo of cocaine or heroin in China is often punished with the death penalty. However, stepped up enforcement efforts are met by increased prices, inducing repair to the supply chain, resulting in no long term gain. As a result, China has been investing heavily in a multifaceted program of treatment, interdiction, social welfare targeting at-risk populations, education, rehabilitation, and diplomacy seeking to convert drug growers abroad to production of legal staple crops.
The Chinese government is already aware that they can't make significant progress solely by killing all addicts, or even just major drug traffickers - there is an unlimited supply of people who will accept any risk. Fear has become just one component of the Chinese strategy. Read up on what they're doing - in many ways, they are actually more progressive than the United States. Unlike you, they aren't entirely naïve.
By the way, I forgot to mention this in the last post, but Samuel Miller, the DOJ prosecutor who went after Microsoft also considers them a monopoly. So your statement about Microsoft is somewhat amusing in restrospect.
Retrospect. It's spelled retrospect.
And... a prosecutor thinks someone is guilty of something? I guess that makes them guilty. Fucktard.
In terms of preferred names of tools, groups, individuals, etc. the jailbreaking scene, whatever license they happen to release their software under, really seems to resemble the warez release guys more than OSS. The latter certainly have more than their share of ill-polished nerd jokes, and generally tend not to take marketing's advice on strategic blandness very seriously; but the former intentionally seek out and adopt directly offensive, tasteless, or vaguely threatening names for things.
Where I live, groupon only offers services at a discount of marked up price. So, the going rate for a non-X rated short massage is $25 and we'll mark it up to $100 and offer it via groupon at half off only $50. ditto car detailing at half their normal $60/hour rates, landscape services where they pay the illegal $5 cash after mowing the lawn and charging you $80 but now only half price, etc. Does anyone get actual "stuff" from groupon deals, like walk away with a physical object?
Back in September, I used a groupon to get a ham calzone that usually cost me $8 without a drink for $6 with drink included. They refused to clip my free lunch, frequent customer card, however. I still came out ahead, though I wouldn't have if I had maxed out the salad bar with my free lunch. But I didn't. With my CNBC hat on, I'd say this translates into approximately $100 of market capitalization - per American citizen.
In this context, there is no possibility of reading ISPs as being anything other than the plural of ISP. Therefore, the apostrophe is unnecessary. What's worse, every superfluous apostrophe such as this re-wires the minds of many of those who see it, permanently ablating the apostrophe regulation regulation of their brains such that they will never again in their life properly use an apostrophe.
Victims of the apostrophe plague, once infected, pluralize with apostrophes, form contractions by joining words without delineation, form possessives by trailing an apostrophe or omitting it altogether, and misuse "it's" and "its" without regard for the damage they cause.
That bacon and burning hair smell you detect was emitted by part of your mind dying. You are now one of the stupids, forever. Welcome to Slashdot'apostrophe.
well.. I can only judge by what you say, not what you think. It looks like the GP made a joke about a car, and you said, you're really going to give him a car??? that deserve a woosh.
He didn't seriously expect anyone to give anyone a car. It was a joke! Whoosh!
Microsoft has been a rather stable investment over the years, and held its value well during the recent crunch.
That said, some years ago, after Microsoft paid off my house and put my kid thru college, I jumped ship to Apple. Now I'm looking for somewhere else to jump, because I figure Apple has run its course.
On the Y! finance boards, what you just did is called "chartin' the charts" and is a known logical fallacy. You need to ask Microsoft "what have you done for me lately and what are you going to do in the future?" Charts from 3 decades ago tell you nothing. How about you get into the current century?
You supercilious punk, he "got with the current century" when he sold his MS high and bought Apple low. Now he's about to sell Apple high and buy something else low. Those charts tell us how much money he made.
In 2003, Gaddafi abandoned his WMD programs and made many other concessions to Western powers, in exchange for normal relations. The West basically turned around and disposed him, when the opportunity presented itself. Shows how trustworthy the West can be.
Deposed, you twit. Deposed.
And what the fuck did we owe Ghadaffi aside from not invading him at that particular time? It's not like we married the guy.
The sight of African Americans scares your tiny little self and you think that it's OK to have others die so that you can keep your false beliefs of being able to leach off of the healthcare of others.
Basically, you are a sorry excuse of a human being, and if you don't like Obama, then he's probably doing a good job.
I'm struggling to see the bad in that. It just looks like your run-of-the-mill speeding fine to me.
What's the difference in this case?
You pay the fine. YOU ARE NOT DONE PAYING. You then must pay additional "surcharge" amounts as a function of how many points you have on your license and the manner of your driving offenses. You must continue paying for years until the points fall off your license. Collection of the surcharges is contracted out to unscrupulous "vendors" accountable to nobody.
Again, it's tempting to stick the knife in Republicans for this, but I don't live in Texas and I never will. It's their state and their laws; fuck em.
Of course, this won't satisfy you as your dipshit A/C modus operandi is to reflexively deny things such as the Holocaust and Microsoft supporting SCOX.
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What YOU don't seem to understand is that ferrets are used precisely because their susceptibility to influenza is nearly identical to that of humans.
Except not. As has already been pointed out, passaging through ferrets likely reduces virulence to humans, rather than increasing it. You must know this, unless you only read some of the replies to your posts. I'm tired of responding to you, as are others. You really do deliberately misunderstand.
What they actually did was create a NEW strain of the virus, which was physically transmissible. Before they bred this transmissible virus via ferrets, it was not easily transmitted to humans.
Just no. That's totally wrong. Are you deliberately misunderstanding? A mutation found to allow binding of human tissue was developed, but not by infecting ferrets. Subsequently, aerosol transmissibility amongst FERRETS was selected for. Not transmissibility amongst humans.
Don't even bother replying with more incomprehension.
Then the copilot freaked out and pulled back on the stick. Because the plane was in alternate law, it did not have stall prevention. The airspeed dropped to as low as 68 knots. The pilot, relief pilot, and co-pilot (who were all in the cockpit at the time) ignored all the stall warnings that the system was throwing out. They stalled a properly functioning aircraft into the ocean.
Incomprehensibly, the stall alarm ceased to sound when airspeed went below some minimum limit. Pulling back on the stick dropped the airspeed below the limit, silencing the alarm. Whenever the crew attempted to correct the stall by reducing angle of attack, the stall alarm came back. Add to that the crew's belief that the aircraft would not permit a stall in the first place, and you have a coherent picture of why the aircraft descended nose-up 38,000ft into the ocean.
That is, it was pilot error, to which various Airbus inconsistencies and false assurances contributed. I wonder if pilot training included alternate law stalling and a stall alarm that only sounded when the pilot attempted to correct the stall. Presumably not, due to the typical asinine Airbus instance that "such a thing could never happen - our software prevents it!"
Hahaha! Are you serious? Thank you for proving my point!
I figured you'd write this. Gasoline with ethanol has to be shipped in sealed containers because, if exposed to the atmosphere, the ethanol in the gasoline will dissolve water from the atmosphere. Your idea is that the ethanol in the gasoline will act as a desiccant in that it will absorb free water in the gas tank. True - but it also absorbs water from the air. The net result is more water in your gas tank.
If you honestly think that the Wikipedia article on ethanol fuels is even a little bit relevant to this, you need to go take a chemistry course or two. And physics while you're at it.
Just think through the physics a bit. The ethanol in your gasoline absorbs water from the atmosphere. Think about it.
You are just plain incorrect. Alcohol works fine in the winter to dry your gas tank. As others have pointed out, though, too much of it is not good for your gas mileage.
Please read the wikipedia entry on ethanol fuel. Specifically:
"Ethanol is hygroscopic, meaning it will absorb water vapor directly from the atmosphere. Because absorbed water dilutes the fuel value of the ethanol (although it suppresses engine knock) and may cause phase separation of ethanol-gasoline blends, containers of ethanol fuels must be kept tightly sealed. This high miscibility with water means that ethanol cannot be efficiently shipped through modern pipelines, like liquid hydrocarbons, over long distances.[31] Mechanics also have seen increased cases of damage to small engines, in particular, the carburetor, attributable to the increased water retention by ethanol in fuel.[32]"
So, the exact opposite of what you wrote. All your posts are like this. What universe are you from?
Octane is not a chemical, or any existing material thing, not a atom, not a molecule.
Uhh yeah, how about no?
Octane is a hydrocarbon and an alkane with the chemical formula C8H18.
Please, before you spout off, make sure you're not completely fucking wrong.
Jesus christ man. Watt is a unit of Power. Power is unit Energy per unit Time. To get energy, you take Watt and multiply it with time. You don't divide by time. That would give a unit called STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM SCIENCE.
*looks up at you through nerd glasses with 1cm thick lenses*
ACTUALLY, we refer to that as rate of change of power, and it is certainly relevant. E.g. in the case of maintaining constant non-zero acceleration of a friction-lossless car.
*snorts, resumes tipping torso back and forth in chair, looks back down at stack of papers*
You know, as an American, I will always tip my hat to the Chinese. Damn, how I envy their effectiveness at dealing with drugs abusers. They put up with none of that politically correct non-sense.
What are you babbling about? The Chinese treat addiction with rehab programs, the recidivism rate for which was 80% in the 90's (Mao 1999, 151), and is documented to be over 90% in the '00s (China Daily Youth, 27/4/04). You will need access to Lexus Nexus or a similar thing to easily follow these citations, unfortunately.
Perhaps you are thinking of their trafficking penalties. It is true that being found in possession of over a kilo of cocaine or heroin in China is often punished with the death penalty. However, stepped up enforcement efforts are met by increased prices, inducing repair to the supply chain, resulting in no long term gain. As a result, China has been investing heavily in a multifaceted program of treatment, interdiction, social welfare targeting at-risk populations, education, rehabilitation, and diplomacy seeking to convert drug growers abroad to production of legal staple crops.
The Chinese government is already aware that they can't make significant progress solely by killing all addicts, or even just major drug traffickers - there is an unlimited supply of people who will accept any risk. Fear has become just one component of the Chinese strategy. Read up on what they're doing - in many ways, they are actually more progressive than the United States. Unlike you, they aren't entirely naïve.
I am sure your post on slashdot will be all it takes to make this happen, too.
You're right. We shouldn't even discuss these problems.
By the way, I forgot to mention this in the last post, but Samuel Miller, the DOJ prosecutor who went after Microsoft also considers them a monopoly. So your statement about Microsoft is somewhat amusing in restrospect.
Retrospect. It's spelled retrospect.
And... a prosecutor thinks someone is guilty of something? I guess that makes them guilty. Fucktard.
ie giving cosmonauts pencils instead of billion dollar space pens
Oh dear lord, not this again. Please become less fucking stupid.
Good Lord, could you possibly be a dumber piece of shit?
In terms of preferred names of tools, groups, individuals, etc. the jailbreaking scene, whatever license they happen to release their software under, really seems to resemble the warez release guys more than OSS. The latter certainly have more than their share of ill-polished nerd jokes, and generally tend not to take marketing's advice on strategic blandness very seriously; but the former intentionally seek out and adopt directly offensive, tasteless, or vaguely threatening names for things.
viz. Back Orifice
Where I live, groupon only offers services at a discount of marked up price. So, the going rate for a non-X rated short massage is $25 and we'll mark it up to $100 and offer it via groupon at half off only $50. ditto car detailing at half their normal $60/hour rates, landscape services where they pay the illegal $5 cash after mowing the lawn and charging you $80 but now only half price, etc. Does anyone get actual "stuff" from groupon deals, like walk away with a physical object?
Back in September, I used a groupon to get a ham calzone that usually cost me $8 without a drink for $6 with drink included. They refused to clip my free lunch, frequent customer card, however. I still came out ahead, though I wouldn't have if I had maxed out the salad bar with my free lunch. But I didn't. With my CNBC hat on, I'd say this translates into approximately $100 of market capitalization - per American citizen.
same as a Ponzi scheme
Dude, please. Not this garbage again.
In this context, there is no possibility of reading ISPs as being anything other than the plural of ISP. Therefore, the apostrophe is unnecessary. What's worse, every superfluous apostrophe such as this re-wires the minds of many of those who see it, permanently ablating the apostrophe regulation regulation of their brains such that they will never again in their life properly use an apostrophe.
Victims of the apostrophe plague, once infected, pluralize with apostrophes, form contractions by joining words without delineation, form possessives by trailing an apostrophe or omitting it altogether, and misuse "it's" and "its" without regard for the damage they cause.
That bacon and burning hair smell you detect was emitted by part of your mind dying. You are now one of the stupids, forever. Welcome to Slashdot'apostrophe.
bailing out some industries can be alright if done correctly.
You are one inconsistent motherfucker.
"Its," you fucking troglodyte.
well.. I can only judge by what you say, not what you think. It looks like the GP made a joke about a car, and you said, you're really going to give him a car??? that deserve a woosh.
He didn't seriously expect anyone to give anyone a car. It was a joke! Whoosh!
Microsoft has been a rather stable investment over the years, and held its value well during the recent
crunch.
That said, some years ago, after Microsoft paid off my house and put my kid thru college, I jumped ship to Apple.
Now I'm looking for somewhere else to jump, because I figure Apple has run its course.
On the Y! finance boards, what you just did is called "chartin' the charts" and is a known logical fallacy. You need to ask Microsoft "what have you done for me lately and what are you going to do in the future?" Charts from 3 decades ago tell you nothing. How about you get into the current century?
You supercilious punk, he "got with the current century" when he sold his MS high and bought Apple low. Now he's about to sell Apple high and buy something else low. Those charts tell us how much money he made.
In 2003, Gaddafi abandoned his WMD programs and made many other concessions to Western powers, in exchange for normal relations. The West basically turned around and disposed him, when the opportunity presented itself. Shows how trustworthy the West can be.
Deposed, you twit. Deposed.
And what the fuck did we owe Ghadaffi aside from not invading him at that particular time? It's not like we married the guy.
I was here first. So you can spread incredible lies somewhere else, instead, and I'll stay here and speak truth to power.
Wow, you really are that fucking stupid. Kill yourself.
The sight of African Americans scares your tiny little self and you think that it's OK to have others die so that you can keep your false beliefs of being able to leach off of the healthcare of others.
Basically, you are a sorry excuse of a human being, and if you don't like Obama, then he's probably doing a good job.
Amen.
I'm struggling to see the bad in that. It just looks like your run-of-the-mill speeding fine to me.
What's the difference in this case?
You pay the fine. YOU ARE NOT DONE PAYING. You then must pay additional "surcharge" amounts as a function of how many points you have on your license and the manner of your driving offenses. You must continue paying for years until the points fall off your license. Collection of the surcharges is contracted out to unscrupulous "vendors" accountable to nobody.
Again, it's tempting to stick the knife in Republicans for this, but I don't live in Texas and I never will. It's their state and their laws; fuck em.
There is a lot of speculation on many sites about Microsoft being the financier but AFAIK there is NO PROOF.
hence
Citation Needed.
and
Where's the Beef (to borrow a phrase from a US Election)
OK, dipshit. Here you go: "In early 2003, Microsoft started paying SCO what eventually grew to $16.6 million for a Unix license, according to regulatory filings."
Of course, this won't satisfy you as your dipshit A/C modus operandi is to reflexively deny things such as the Holocaust and Microsoft supporting SCOX.