With copper's known toxicity to organisms, this seems like a huge potential liability when it comes to safety in the home. What happens when children eat this paint chipping off the walls?
I would hope they would test this to see if it is harmful to people before selling it. Oh well, profits over safety...no wonder we have all these damn lead-tainted houses in the US still.
yea, but at least that's the same cat. If they let it die, cloned it and raised the new cat calling it the same as the old cat...that's more on track of this issue.
It's interesting that the woman paid $50,000 to have her beloved now-dead cat cloned. I can understand why she would want to - the idea of having the same cat live again - but, she must realize that the cloned cat is not the same cat! It's a completely separate living being that happens to share the same DNA as the cat she used to have.
People also need to remember that these cloned organisms are not the same as the original, do not have the same memories, and deserve to be respected and loved for the uniqueness and individual identity that they have. Not because they happen to look like something else.
The analogue would be to marry your wife/husband because she/he looked like J-Lo/Brad Pitt. And I think everyone, hopefully, would agree that would be an idiotic idea. Such people could rightfully be deemed 'idiots.'
Man, get with the times! How do you think all those technology companies got to China? They beamed over there, of course! Geez...and silly Americans think the Chinese are less advanced. =P
wow...I can't believe this. But I actually agree with you on the civil liberties bit. And I'm an ultra-bleeding heart liberal socialist!
However, I very much disagree with just using a blanket-statement saying all women have the right not to have sex. I would also say most women do not use abortion as normal birth control - that is just idiotic. Who really wants to go through invasive surgery every couple of weeks?!
But also, many women DO like to have sex. True, they should use a condom, but many times the woman is the one stuck with the responsibility, while the man goes off and screws some more women. If the woman is in a VERY bad position, should the child grow up with no father and a deadbeat mom?? Considering the lack of any social safety net for children (17% of US children have no health care, btw), I think this alone justified a woman in having an abortion, because having a kid at the wrong time can SERIOUSLY fuck up her life.
Considering that many of these assinine programs/budget cuts have affected myself as a college student DIRECTLY, then I sure as fucking hell am going to vote for the candidate who best represents MY interests, while reducing my chances of getting killed (boy, I bet the Army would LOVE for me to be serving in Iraq right now!).
The entire pro-environmental/build friendly alliances throughout the world thing is just a benefit to boot. After all, when I finally make enough money to travel,
1) I would like there to BE a world to see!
2) I don't want everyone in other countries ready to kill me!
Name one instance in the history of the world in which one nation invaded another nation (the nation invaded was NOT the aggressor), setup a puppet government, and everything went on happy and peacefully for the next 30 years.
I want to see some proof that this idea works - without the use of a despotic regime threatening to kill people if they don't support it.
True democracy comes FROM the people, it isn't forced onto them by an outside power!
Remind me...HOW many nuclear subs are rusting at the bottom of the world's oceans?
They have got to have far more radioactive material in them than one of these rockets would.
On top of that, the Hanford nuclear waste dump up in eastern Washington has been leaching a radioactive plume into the groundwater - and into the Columbia River - for years now. Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA are two cities that have not been affected by this.
I thought they shoot rockets out over the Atlantic especially for mitigating these kinds of dangers. Let's get some rockets up there!!
As a consultant who spends upward of 6-7 hours a day in my car driving to and from different clients, I would really like to see some of these features in cars in America. Currently, I already eat, shave, brush my teeth, change clothes, make phone calls, check email, etc on the freeway while driving at 60 mph. So I really don't see why I shouldn't have the option of watching a movie or having an auto-park option in my car.
Are people distracted while driving? Absolutely. In fact, I've heard of statistics saying that 90% of drivers on the road in America right now are unfit mentally to drive, either through emotional stress or just not paying attention. The result? We have the highest level of auto accident death rate in the entire industrialized world. 44,000 die each year. Well, that's what you have to pay for the luxury and freedom you get with a car. I fully expect one day that my mangled corpse will be pulled out of my car, electric razor still in hand with my brains splattered on my windshield. Too bad for the person I hit, but I'm sorry - this is technology that I need to use right now.
Besides, much of what they are offering can already be had in a car nowadays - albeit through laptop hook ups and stuff, which are a lot harder to use than a system that's built in. If you don't believe me, try using a laptop writing a document with the laptop in the passenger's seat while driving in stop-and-go traffic. Much easier if the car were to allow you to do this with your eyes forward on the road.
I don't want to sound like a free rights bastard, but if you don't like other drivers doing other ativities while driving...then don't drive. You can ride the bus.
To do this kind of baseline interferometry, I believe (IAMAP) that you must know the distance between the two antennas/telescopes down to either 1/4 or 1/2 of the wavelength of the radiation that you are analyzing.
Thus, it's much easier to do this with radio waves, as their wavelength is typically measured in meters, but optical telescopes are MUCH harder. You must know the distance between two points on earth to the nanometer. Good luck!
This is why they are building a baseline array in Hawaii with the Keck & KeckII telescopes on a unified foundation so they know the telescopes won't move in relation to one another by shifting soils, etc.
Very complex stuff. There was a proposal to build one of these arrays on a metal framework and launch it into orbit - a pretty good idea, IMO.
"Very rich?" There are thousands of people in the world like this! Just be glad they got those Bush tax breaks - $60,000 or so - so they can afford this kind of trip!
I can pop 4-5 buds back (ugh...the horrors!) and barely even feel anything at all.
Give me a good stout anyday, and after a few pints I'm feelin' just dandy.
I really think it's the lack of variety available, coupled with people not getting used to the wonderful taste of a REAL beer (pale ales are all pissy beer) that results in stupid mass-produced beer.
Everyone should just avoid any beverage that actually has a TV commercial to drink it. I mean, why do they actually have to put out a TV commercial to convince people to drink it?
Oh, systems like these will have a few bugs in them when they are first rolled out. Considering how many people - over 40,000 in the US alone - die from auto deaths each year, a few hundred deaths from a computer glitch ain't bad.
You just have to start worrying if someone can hack the system, or if a car crashes when all the cars are tightly packed together (a few feet front/back). Then you may end up with thousands of car crashes + car fires in a single incidence. Could get pretty gnarly.
Feed 'em to the lions. Much more productive use for people who didn't use helmets, and lion food for the zoos costs a lot of money, with all the recent budget cuts in the US and all.
And you wanna know the reason why parents pamper their kids so much these days?
Notice that the 'only child' kids are the ones who get spoiled the most?
Propagation of your genes - if you only have 1 or 2 kids instead of 10 or 12, can't leave stuff up to chance. Parents gotta make sure their genes get passed on somehow...
You know, I really have had my fill of right-wing christian fundamentalists telling me that I will go to hell because I've looked at porn and had sex before marriage, etc...
But this post is pretty over-the-top. There really is nothing wrong with people praying and doing whatever religious acts that they want to - as long as it does not harm other people, or force their views onto others.
I particularly dislike converting people to a religion and passing legislation against abortion and gay marriage. Those really irk me. But praying in school? Bible-thumping groups? Please! Go! Have fun! Knock yourselves out. I don't care if its buddhist, hindu, christian, or jews. Well, maybe they won't ALL be thumping bibles. Or just in different ways. =)
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With copper's known toxicity to organisms, this seems like a huge potential liability when it comes to safety in the home. What happens when children eat this paint chipping off the walls?
I would hope they would test this to see if it is harmful to people before selling it. Oh well, profits over safety...no wonder we have all these damn lead-tainted houses in the US still.
yea, but at least that's the same cat. If they let it die, cloned it and raised the new cat calling it the same as the old cat...that's more on track of this issue.
It's interesting that the woman paid $50,000 to have her beloved now-dead cat cloned. I can understand why she would want to - the idea of having the same cat live again - but, she must realize that the cloned cat is not the same cat! It's a completely separate living being that happens to share the same DNA as the cat she used to have.
People also need to remember that these cloned organisms are not the same as the original, do not have the same memories, and deserve to be respected and loved for the uniqueness and individual identity that they have. Not because they happen to look like something else.
The analogue would be to marry your wife/husband because she/he looked like J-Lo/Brad Pitt. And I think everyone, hopefully, would agree that would be an idiotic idea. Such people could rightfully be deemed 'idiots.'
You mean people spend OVER 2 hours per day DRIVING? In a CAR? HAHAHAHHAA...
Man, and here I thought my 15 minute tram commute/day was bad... sheesh!
Get on the train, people! No stress! The technology has been around since the 19th century! And it works!
Man, get with the times! How do you think all those technology companies got to China? They beamed over there, of course! Geez...and silly Americans think the Chinese are less advanced. =P
Hey, don't laugh. I have one of those new advanced cars!
wow...I can't believe this. But I actually agree with you on the civil liberties bit. And I'm an ultra-bleeding heart liberal socialist!
However, I very much disagree with just using a blanket-statement saying all women have the right not to have sex. I would also say most women do not use abortion as normal birth control - that is just idiotic. Who really wants to go through invasive surgery every couple of weeks?!
But also, many women DO like to have sex. True, they should use a condom, but many times the woman is the one stuck with the responsibility, while the man goes off and screws some more women. If the woman is in a VERY bad position, should the child grow up with no father and a deadbeat mom?? Considering the lack of any social safety net for children (17% of US children have no health care, btw), I think this alone justified a woman in having an abortion, because having a kid at the wrong time can SERIOUSLY fuck up her life.
That would be calld a social democracy.
Share, collectively run the nation. Help everyone.
Look up Sweden if you care to.
Considering that many of these assinine programs/budget cuts have affected myself as a college student DIRECTLY, then I sure as fucking hell am going to vote for the candidate who best represents MY interests, while reducing my chances of getting killed (boy, I bet the Army would LOVE for me to be serving in Iraq right now!).
The entire pro-environmental/build friendly alliances throughout the world thing is just a benefit to boot. After all, when I finally make enough money to travel,
1) I would like there to BE a world to see!
2) I don't want everyone in other countries ready to kill me!
Name one instance in the history of the world in which one nation invaded another nation (the nation invaded was NOT the aggressor), setup a puppet government, and everything went on happy and peacefully for the next 30 years.
I want to see some proof that this idea works - without the use of a despotic regime threatening to kill people if they don't support it.
True democracy comes FROM the people, it isn't forced onto them by an outside power!
Remind me...HOW many nuclear subs are rusting at the bottom of the world's oceans?
They have got to have far more radioactive material in them than one of these rockets would.
On top of that, the Hanford nuclear waste dump up in eastern Washington has been leaching a radioactive plume into the groundwater - and into the Columbia River - for years now. Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA are two cities that have not been affected by this.
I thought they shoot rockets out over the Atlantic especially for mitigating these kinds of dangers. Let's get some rockets up there!!
As a consultant who spends upward of 6-7 hours a day in my car driving to and from different clients, I would really like to see some of these features in cars in America. Currently, I already eat, shave, brush my teeth, change clothes, make phone calls, check email, etc on the freeway while driving at 60 mph. So I really don't see why I shouldn't have the option of watching a movie or having an auto-park option in my car.
Are people distracted while driving? Absolutely. In fact, I've heard of statistics saying that 90% of drivers on the road in America right now are unfit mentally to drive, either through emotional stress or just not paying attention. The result? We have the highest level of auto accident death rate in the entire industrialized world. 44,000 die each year. Well, that's what you have to pay for the luxury and freedom you get with a car. I fully expect one day that my mangled corpse will be pulled out of my car, electric razor still in hand with my brains splattered on my windshield. Too bad for the person I hit, but I'm sorry - this is technology that I need to use right now.
Besides, much of what they are offering can already be had in a car nowadays - albeit through laptop hook ups and stuff, which are a lot harder to use than a system that's built in. If you don't believe me, try using a laptop writing a document with the laptop in the passenger's seat while driving in stop-and-go traffic.
Much easier if the car were to allow you to do this with your eyes forward on the road.
I don't want to sound like a free rights bastard, but if you don't like other drivers doing other ativities while driving...then don't drive. You can ride the bus.
Hey, don't joke about that! I don't want to be out of a job! Unemployment is killer in N. Korea right now...
To do this kind of baseline interferometry, I believe (IAMAP) that you must know the distance between the two antennas/telescopes down to either 1/4 or 1/2 of the wavelength of the radiation that you are analyzing.
Thus, it's much easier to do this with radio waves, as their wavelength is typically measured in meters, but optical telescopes are MUCH harder. You must know the distance between two points on earth to the nanometer. Good luck!
This is why they are building a baseline array in Hawaii with the Keck & KeckII telescopes on a unified foundation so they know the telescopes won't move in relation to one another by shifting soils, etc.
Very complex stuff. There was a proposal to build one of these arrays on a metal framework and launch it into orbit - a pretty good idea, IMO.
"Very rich?" There are thousands of people in the world like this! Just be glad they got those Bush tax breaks - $60,000 or so - so they can afford this kind of trip!
I can pop 4-5 buds back (ugh...the horrors!) and barely even feel anything at all.
Give me a good stout anyday, and after a few pints I'm feelin' just dandy.
I really think it's the lack of variety available, coupled with people not getting used to the wonderful taste of a REAL beer (pale ales are all pissy beer) that results in stupid mass-produced beer.
Everyone should just avoid any beverage that actually has a TV commercial to drink it. I mean, why do they actually have to put out a TV commercial to convince people to drink it?
Try the grapevine. You can get up to 95 mph in ANY car just by coasting. Uphill, you might be able to go 40 mph.
Pretty nasty "hill"
Aaah, thank god for my manual honda civic. With a key.
I'll be laughing all the while they go to the hospital.
Oh, systems like these will have a few bugs in them when they are first rolled out. Considering how many people - over 40,000 in the US alone - die from auto deaths each year, a few hundred deaths from a computer glitch ain't bad.
You just have to start worrying if someone can hack the system, or if a car crashes when all the cars are tightly packed together (a few feet front/back). Then you may end up with thousands of car crashes + car fires in a single incidence. Could get pretty gnarly.
What's in a name?
Feed 'em to the lions. Much more productive use for people who didn't use helmets, and lion food for the zoos costs a lot of money, with all the recent budget cuts in the US and all.
so do several states in the US. Like in Oregon, where I live. But it only applies to 18 & younger.
And you wanna know the reason why parents pamper their kids so much these days?
Notice that the 'only child' kids are the ones who get spoiled the most?
Propagation of your genes - if you only have 1 or 2 kids instead of 10 or 12, can't leave stuff up to chance. Parents gotta make sure their genes get passed on somehow...
You know, I really have had my fill of right-wing christian fundamentalists telling me that I will go to hell because I've looked at porn and had sex before marriage, etc...
But this post is pretty over-the-top. There really is nothing wrong with people praying and doing whatever religious acts that they want to - as long as it does not harm other people, or force their views onto others.
I particularly dislike converting people to a religion and passing legislation against abortion and gay marriage. Those really irk me. But praying in school? Bible-thumping groups? Please! Go! Have fun! Knock yourselves out. I don't care if its buddhist, hindu, christian, or jews. Well, maybe they won't ALL be thumping bibles. Or just in different ways. =)
Since you really can't think for yourself in a modern society, please fuck off.
See? I *tried* to be nice - and asked politely!