The whistleblower (Mark Klein) who obtained the documents in the first place is not a party to the litigation, so he's not subject to the gag order. And even before the lawsuit started, Klein had passed the documents to several news organizations including the New York Times and (possibly) Wired.
The worst that can happen now is that the judge will order Wired to stop distributing the documents. But the cat's out of the bag.
A tax subsidy removes the market-distorting effects of taxes, it doesn't introduce new ones. This is because coporations are deciding how to allocate their capital, the government isn't doing it for them.
Companies are currently underinvesting in R&D (relative to recent 1950s- American history). Part of this is because the money they spend on R&D is taxable at standard rates, while there are other investment choices with lower tax cost (e.g. buying depreciable cubicles). When R&D taxes are decreased, R&D spending moves towards its natural equilibrium level.
There's also a guy who paralyzed himself while awake (and ventilated by a machine respirator) to study the effect of intended (but not actually completed) eye movements on visual perception.
But, aside from the significant risk of brain infection, this doesn't quite rise to the level of the bacteriologists who drank infectious cultures (of cholera?) to prove a scientific point.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is a very limited technology because it (1) only works on the brain surface, which excludes dozens of areas that you might want to study, and (2) works by completely disrupting electrical activity in large areas of the brain, on the order of 10s or 100s of millimeters, squared.
Newsome's own experiments are about 100x more subtle and involve microstimulation of sub-millimeter areas of cortex, maybe only a few "columns" at a time.
Intracranial electrodes can be used with fMRI, by the way; Nikos Logothetis's lab has shown that signals can be recorded using both at once. And they have no effect on EEG; in fact, you can get an EEG (ERP) from the electrode, so I'm not sure where you get your info.
The plan, as I understand it, isn't to do introspection; it's to do quantitative physiological experiments like Christof Koch does with neurosurgical patients.
Not sure what you're asking for. It would be hard to get more specific than microelectrodes (not EEG electrodes), which allow you to isolate the activity in single neurons of the brain. There are other developing techniques like 2-photon imaging of calcium dyes, but they currently have severe limitations.
If he can move the electrodes around (and they will move if he hits his head hard enough) he could conceivably record from hundreds of neurons over the life of the implant. If you already know what area of the brain it is (from fMRI studies, etc.) that's a lot of data, enough to characterize the area fairly well.
Do you really think this project would have been built if it weren't for the federal government signing up as a guaranteed customer?
Obviously not, it's not saving the feds any money on their energy bills. They are, however, achieving other benefits (like you point out) investing in clean energy infrastructure and the skilled labor force needed to build and maintain it.
Until these are in place and renewable energy costs have dropped (economies of scale), the short-sighted private companies you libertarians idolize aren't going to build anything similar anytime soon.
I have no idea whether Reid is grandstanding, and neither do you. But it's quite possible that he brought home the Defense Dept. budget item allocating money towards renewable energy
The Russians used aluminum for many local wiring applications, since it's nearly as conductive as copper, and they had a much larger domestic supply.
There's plenty of aluminum around (although it's energy-intensive to extract). If we just switched to that for normal wiring applications and saved the copper for long distance lines, the problem would be solved (or at least greatly reduced).
Mostly because of the disabled lobby. Various disability-rights groups got in bed with profiteering election-machine companies, and through lobbying encouraged the federal goverment to pass the porkfilled HAVA (Help America Vote Act of 2002).
Also, we have hundreds of permanent elections officials around who have nothing to do outside of election season, and far too much to do during elections. To fill up their time before elections, and reduce their workload during elections, they *love* the technology.
No, you're wrong about all this. The decision applies to science classes, not to history or religion classes. Also, teachers can still explain what Intelligent Design is.
The only thing a science teacher is forbidden from doing in the classroom is exactly what the decision says: presenting Intelligent Design as an alternative [explanatory framework] to evolution.
Thanks for filing Mozilla bugs, but no need to rant. You've made a lot of wrong assumptions and assertions.
David Baron is, in fact, writing enormous amounts of code. He is close to being finished with rewriting the entire reflow system of Gecko (= progressive page loading).
Mozilla Foundation is no longer developing future versions of the (1.7) suite. A different team of developers has taken it over, and renamed it SeaMonkey. So complaining about their inability to fix a Suite-only problem is fairly pointless. If it's a problem with the Core (shared between Firefox and Suite) then reproduce it in firefox and let Mozilla know. Otherwise, get in touch with the Seamonkey developers by email or IRC or whatever, it's not hard.
And if you have a problem with your bug being auto-resolved, just go ahead and reopen it again. The auto-resolver was supposed to clear up rotten bugs that weren't real or were fixed by other code changes, not actual replicable bugs.
Well, I respectfully suggest that the much larger group of people who call themselves "Christians" get a grip on the extremist, bigoted elements of their community which are currently running the country (and have always run certain states).
Until you take some proactive steps to shame and marginalize the Dobsons, Robertsons and LaHayes, mainstream Christians will inevitably be associated with aiding and abetting backwardsness and stupidity.
And it was completely appropriate for Nature to investigate Hwang.
First, when his American collaborator publicly quit the collaboration, it became a news issue, and Nature was entirely justified in sending reporters to investigate it.
And second, when you publish a medical research paper in a journal like Science or Nature, you have to specify that your research was conducted according all applicable laws and professional ethical standards (like having an institutional review board approve your research protocol, including -- in cloning -- where eggs are coming from). Hwang lied in his papers about whether his procedures met ethical standards. He's essentially guilty of scientific fraud, which is certainly newsworthy.
According to the BBC, Dr. Hwang's defense is that he did not attempt to violate the policy, he did not even know about the fact that the women donated, and it is clear that he wasn't trying to circumvent the policy either
Why would you believe him (unless you're Korean, and he's your national hero)? He's been caught in a horrible violation of ethical research standards, and has every incentive to try to lie his way out of it. Fortunately, he got burned by the coverup.
You know, it's not a complete crisis (yet). In terms of the distribution of wealth between the poor, the middle-class and the rich, Reagan's presidency was almost as bad. Clinton turned it around and the economy grew for everyone.
There are a bunch of partial solutions which, together, add up to a lot more money and security for the middle class and negligibly less for the rich.
1. Repeal corporate tax loopholes and tax deductions to reduce the incentive for corporate bosses to (1) take US profits offshore and (2) pay off their cronies in management and on the board
2. Expand Medicaid to cover the majority of 40M Americans without health insurance. Pay for it with (1) and by rolling back the Bush tax cuts on the wealth of the rich
3. Expand federal education funding at the university level. Expand research subsidies in technology (especially biotechnology).
A Democratic president with a Democratic Congress might be able to get some of these accomplished. But as long as the Republicans control any of government, the American economy is going to stay broken for everyone but the rich -- which is the way Republicans like it.
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Yet the Scion XB, which looks like a tradesman's white van, still sells...
The worst that can happen now is that the judge will order Wired to stop distributing the documents. But the cat's out of the bag.
Especially since SBC/AT&T and the bastard sons of Ma Bell have proven themselves to be Big Brother's best man and groomsmen.
If you end up with a lousy union that cripples your employer, you have only yourselves to blame.
If your employer cripples itself through ineptitude, though, you're still SOL.
Great!
Work 40 hours at your union programming job, and then spend the extra 20 hours contributing to free software!
Seriously, just imagine -- for one second -- how good Firefox, GIMP, KDE, GNOME, etc. would be if everyone in the tech world were following that plan.
Companies are currently underinvesting in R&D (relative to recent 1950s- American history). Part of this is because the money they spend on R&D is taxable at standard rates, while there are other investment choices with lower tax cost (e.g. buying depreciable cubicles). When R&D taxes are decreased, R&D spending moves towards its natural equilibrium level.
But, aside from the significant risk of brain infection, this doesn't quite rise to the level of the bacteriologists who drank infectious cultures (of cholera?) to prove a scientific point.
Newsome's own experiments are about 100x more subtle and involve microstimulation of sub-millimeter areas of cortex, maybe only a few "columns" at a time.
Intracranial electrodes can be used with fMRI, by the way; Nikos Logothetis's lab has shown that signals can be recorded using both at once. And they have no effect on EEG; in fact, you can get an EEG (ERP) from the electrode, so I'm not sure where you get your info.
The plan, as I understand it, isn't to do introspection; it's to do quantitative physiological experiments like Christof Koch does with neurosurgical patients.
If he can move the electrodes around (and they will move if he hits his head hard enough) he could conceivably record from hundreds of neurons over the life of the implant. If you already know what area of the brain it is (from fMRI studies, etc.) that's a lot of data, enough to characterize the area fairly well.
Obviously not, it's not saving the feds any money on their energy bills. They are, however, achieving other benefits (like you point out) investing in clean energy infrastructure and the skilled labor force needed to build and maintain it.
Until these are in place and renewable energy costs have dropped (economies of scale), the short-sighted private companies you libertarians idolize aren't going to build anything similar anytime soon.
I have no idea whether Reid is grandstanding, and neither do you. But it's quite possible that he brought home the Defense Dept. budget item allocating money towards renewable energy
There's plenty of aluminum around (although it's energy-intensive to extract). If we just switched to that for normal wiring applications and saved the copper for long distance lines, the problem would be solved (or at least greatly reduced).
I can convert txt, rtf, etc. in the rare cases I use them.
The older model (Librie) didn't do PDFs. The Reader does.
Also, we have hundreds of permanent elections officials around who have nothing to do outside of election season, and far too much to do during elections. To fill up their time before elections, and reduce their workload during elections, they *love* the technology.
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
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The only thing a science teacher is forbidden from doing in the classroom is exactly what the decision says: presenting Intelligent Design as an alternative [explanatory framework] to evolution.
Except there isn't any.
Don't bother to register and ask him why, you'll get banned in seconds.
But I suppose it depends on which repetitive movement you have in mind.
David Baron is, in fact, writing enormous amounts of code. He is close to being finished with rewriting the entire reflow system of Gecko (= progressive page loading).
Mozilla Foundation is no longer developing future versions of the (1.7) suite. A different team of developers has taken it over, and renamed it SeaMonkey. So complaining about their inability to fix a Suite-only problem is fairly pointless. If it's a problem with the Core (shared between Firefox and Suite) then reproduce it in firefox and let Mozilla know. Otherwise, get in touch with the Seamonkey developers by email or IRC or whatever, it's not hard.
And if you have a problem with your bug being auto-resolved, just go ahead and reopen it again. The auto-resolver was supposed to clear up rotten bugs that weren't real or were fixed by other code changes, not actual replicable bugs.
Until you take some proactive steps to shame and marginalize the Dobsons, Robertsons and LaHayes, mainstream Christians will inevitably be associated with aiding and abetting backwardsness and stupidity.
Of course, the local fundies had a stooge on the email list, and used their normal right-wing media outlets to stage a bogus controversy.
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First, when his American collaborator publicly quit the collaboration, it became a news issue, and Nature was entirely justified in sending reporters to investigate it.
And second, when you publish a medical research paper in a journal like Science or Nature, you have to specify that your research was conducted according all applicable laws and professional ethical standards (like having an institutional review board approve your research protocol, including -- in cloning -- where eggs are coming from). Hwang lied in his papers about whether his procedures met ethical standards. He's essentially guilty of scientific fraud, which is certainly newsworthy.
According to the BBC, Dr. Hwang's defense is that he did not attempt to violate the policy, he did not even know about the fact that the women donated, and it is clear that he wasn't trying to circumvent the policy either
Why would you believe him (unless you're Korean, and he's your national hero)? He's been caught in a horrible violation of ethical research standards, and has every incentive to try to lie his way out of it. Fortunately, he got burned by the coverup.
There are a bunch of partial solutions which, together, add up to a lot more money and security for the middle class and negligibly less for the rich.
1. Repeal corporate tax loopholes and tax deductions to reduce the incentive for corporate bosses to (1) take US profits offshore and (2) pay off their cronies in management and on the board
2. Expand Medicaid to cover the majority of 40M Americans without health insurance. Pay for it with (1) and by rolling back the Bush tax cuts on the wealth of the rich
3. Expand federal education funding at the university level. Expand research subsidies in technology (especially biotechnology).
A Democratic president with a Democratic Congress might be able to get some of these accomplished. But as long as the Republicans control any of government, the American economy is going to stay broken for everyone but the rich -- which is the way Republicans like it.