Corporations' prime purpose is to make money. Attack dogs prime purpose is protection. Both are legal but both need proper controls in place for the welfare of the general public. The international trade agreements (NAFTA, CAFTA, etc.) do not implement or mostly even suggest labor, environmental, or human rights standards be applied to the trans-national corporations who are the primary beneficiary of such agreements. In a globalizing economy the old libertarian business model of "let the market decide" has one final result: trans-national corporations (and Governments controlled by them) win and everybody else loses.
Please correct this if I'm wrong. The internet protocols were "invented" in Switzerland and promulgated by CERN as an instrument for sharing of academic projects. ARPNET was the US miltary net that was similar to but not the same as the CERN net. Al Gore wrote legislation that put the US portion of the early net into non-miltary/non-governmental control (that's right, as in PRIVATIZATION). US dominance is partly a historical accident and partly due to the foresight of people like Gore and those at MIT and Cal Tech able to use capitalism to jump-start the web(sorry to all you sons of Bush's out there).
Maybe not. There are all sorts of interactions between the DNA and other cellular constituents. Maybe the t-RNA ratios are off so that the translation of m-RNA is inefficient or the human mitochodrial DNA is missing a required gene or has one that represses the genomic DNA, etc.
From the Free dictionary:
Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj. 1. a billion - denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain
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2. a billion - denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States
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And neither is the $1E6 in actual dollars.
Chunks of Mars splashed into space by meteor strikes have landed on earth. Any bacteria in the chunks could have survived the trip and after landing on earth in its formative era four billion yers ago would have multiplied. Maybe we are all martians. On the other hand, the deep sea plumes of methane on earth can be created from carbon dioxide under immense pressure and heat blasting past catalytic minerals. Maybe the same happens on Mars. NASA's mission in 2010 may answer if life exisits or ever existed on Mars unless the resources for it get stolen by Bush-baby's obsession with putting a hominid on Mars first.
If everybody gets Aeron chairs you know the company just junped the shark and is going down the tube. Spiff the resume quick. And if management suggets "Herman Miller" work spaces, fight it. Futuristic looking? sure if working in a theatrical art director's vision of tomorrows' "Office Space" makes your day. There is only fabric between you and three or four others in each cluster so every phone call intrudes from the first ring to the good-bye. Your back is completely exposed to anyone to gawk at your monitor or stand in the space between the clusters and talk. Except for the "senior" people who get a reject from a windsurf sail made of cheesy thin cloth to "partition" the conferences you have with the one other person there is room for in your area, that is if they don't mind sitting on the cusioned file cabinet that serves as the other chair. Cubicle Hell? You just haven't made it to the seventh circle yet.
People at music festivals are always pulling beer coolers on wheels and then sitting on them blocking the view from my blanket. This is a perfect op to mod the cooler thereby increasing safety by moving the battery and router to an enclosed container, decreasing visibility by modifying the long handle into an antenna, and by layering in a separate insulated box you get cold brew, too. Bluetooth your mini-DV and you can narrowcast anywhere. For urban situations, mod a homeless person's shopping cart to do the same.
My older brother has been diganosed with Schizophrenia for the past 40 years and my step-son has had manic depression for 10 years. NAMI is the absolute best organization that can help families of the patients to help their loved ones. A true fount of accurate information about the primarily genetic/biochemical causes of most mental illness.
This is the best business model I've seen since the MardiGras artists that were charging women $5.00 to paint designs on their breasts. Paint with brush in one hand and hold it with the other. And try not to fall off your stool too often.
I thought when you listen on the radio only the song writer is getting paid by the station, not the performing artist. So P2P is as likely to benefit the artist as playing on the air.
Evolution of humans from non-verbal ancestors implies that we are able to think without words since it has been shown that non-verbal beings have thought processes. The structures of the brain that facilitate this ability may have been partly lost or disconnected to make way for verbal abilities in much the same way that sense of smell is down graded in animals with color vision. So when I know I am thinking without verbal constructs it may not be any more than you do but I am only more aware of the process. What do you say about that?
Part of the quoted article chastises the publication of academic research on these zoonotic pathogens. There was a consensus agreement drawn up by the biomedical Publishing organizations that put a limit on what kind of research should be published if it concerned potential bioterror research. (http://www.asm.org/Media/index.asp?bid=15031). It's not perfect but does not trash the US 1st amendment rights nor give license to terrorists.
Well, not really errors. Anaerobiosis is common to all Kingdoms of life. That is just one characteristic of the Archae. If ancient Mars had low to no oxygen it would be useful, Yes? And by dormant I mean instantaneously dormant as when the hyperthermophiles living at the bottom of our ocean get swept away from the >100 C sulphurous environment and drift into frigid water with enough oxygen that would be toxic to them if they were still metabolically active. Those that are not eaten by krill (which are eaten by some fishes, who are eaten by some fishes and swollowed by a whale) might even wind up in an oil field water flood in the Arctic where they revive in anaerobic, thermophilic, sulphurous and carbonaceous, etc conditions and churn out excreted sulphates, souring the oil giving Exxon the excuse to increase the price of gasoline to pay for the extra processing. Damn Mars!
Archeabacteria are closely related to the oldest life on earth. Many are thermophilic, acid tolerant, anaerobic, sulphur-loving microbes. Just the sort that would be happy in the acidic hot springs hypothesized on ancient Mars. And they go dormant when the conditions are not just right so the ride to Earth on some rock fragments splashed out by a meteor impact would have been in suspended animation. People who can't grasp the Out of Africa concept are really gonna have trouble with Out of Mars.
When bioprospectors search tropical areas, the more accepted practice is to partner with the indigenous people so they can benefit from any financial rewards made from the bio-findings. Since Antarctica is property held in common (like the Moon: eh, W.?) by the entire human species, shouldn't any profit sharing go to an international body?
Gore initiated the legislation that privitized DARPA's arpnet. Before that it was totally in federal control with some input from Defense labs and academia. And although corporate media did not ever fact-check the statement , it was initially made by a certain Mississippi Congressman who was later demoted for his praise of Strom Thurmond's rascism.
My brother always let his ex have the kids over Christmas. When they got back home they had a delayed celebration with all the toys, clothes, etc he got in after holiday sales. Double points.
Newsflash. The Soviet biowarfare program in years past already made more than one bioweapon that did not have a currently available vaccine. The primary mover in the Soviet program is now in the USA working for a defense contractor (i.e. CIA/NSA). This may be the first step over the brink but it is a baby step. This virus will only infect specific bacteria. In fact, natually occuring bacterial viruses have been used as an antibiotic in some infections. (The problem with silver linings is they always come attached to a cloud).
Institute for Scientific Infromation has an index that judges the relevance and current utility of publications by the number of times it is cited in other publications. But really seminal work is often not recognized for the paradigm shift it brings until later. So the apparent fall off in creativity the author sees may be due to the length of time it takes before a work is acknowledged to be great. Shakespeare (or whoever) was a prolific playwright but was not given great respect until much later. Gregor Mendel described genetic theory but the significance not realized until years later. The Western bias may be real based on the published observation that creative scientists tend to be from rather secular families. Cultures that bow to a rigid religious standard would be expected to have fewer creative types or not allow creativity to be widely encouraged or expressed.
NY Times had more than a page in Sunday Edition about replacing aging voting machines with computerized electronic voting. In spite of an entire column on the intense lobbying the several companies are doing to gain government contracts, only one part of one sentence mentioned security as a concern at all. The old media has either been co-opted or is totally clueless... probably both.
These are the same parents, no doubt, that refuse to vaccinate their kids. At least when the children die or become permanently maimed by some totally preventable disease, their parents will be sure the kids didn't have fried brains from WiFi.
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Corporations' prime purpose is to make money. Attack dogs prime purpose is protection. Both are legal but both need proper controls in place for the welfare of the general public. The international trade agreements (NAFTA, CAFTA, etc.) do not implement or mostly even suggest labor, environmental, or human rights standards be applied to the trans-national corporations who are the primary beneficiary of such agreements. In a globalizing economy the old libertarian business model of "let the market decide" has one final result: trans-national corporations (and Governments controlled by them) win and everybody else loses.
Please correct this if I'm wrong. The internet protocols were "invented" in Switzerland and promulgated by CERN as an instrument for sharing of academic projects. ARPNET was the US miltary net that was similar to but not the same as the CERN net. Al Gore wrote legislation that put the US portion of the early net into non-miltary/non-governmental control (that's right, as in PRIVATIZATION). US dominance is partly a historical accident and partly due to the foresight of people like Gore and those at MIT and Cal Tech able to use capitalism to jump-start the web(sorry to all you sons of Bush's out there).
Maybe not. There are all sorts of interactions between the DNA and other cellular constituents. Maybe the t-RNA ratios are off so that the translation of m-RNA is inefficient or the human mitochodrial DNA is missing a required gene or has one that represses the genomic DNA, etc.
From the Free dictionary: Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Adj. 1. a billion - denoting a quantity consisting of one million million items or units in Great Britain billion 2. a billion - denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States billion And neither is the $1E6 in actual dollars.
Chunks of Mars splashed into space by meteor strikes have landed on earth. Any bacteria in the chunks could have survived the trip and after landing on earth in its formative era four billion yers ago would have multiplied. Maybe we are all martians. On the other hand, the deep sea plumes of methane on earth can be created from carbon dioxide under immense pressure and heat blasting past catalytic minerals. Maybe the same happens on Mars. NASA's mission in 2010 may answer if life exisits or ever existed on Mars unless the resources for it get stolen by Bush-baby's obsession with putting a hominid on Mars first.
If everybody gets Aeron chairs you know the company just junped the shark and is going down the tube. Spiff the resume quick. And if management suggets "Herman Miller" work spaces, fight it. Futuristic looking? sure if working in a theatrical art director's vision of tomorrows' "Office Space" makes your day. There is only fabric between you and three or four others in each cluster so every phone call intrudes from the first ring to the good-bye. Your back is completely exposed to anyone to gawk at your monitor or stand in the space between the clusters and talk. Except for the "senior" people who get a reject from a windsurf sail made of cheesy thin cloth to "partition" the conferences you have with the one other person there is room for in your area, that is if they don't mind sitting on the cusioned file cabinet that serves as the other chair. Cubicle Hell? You just haven't made it to the seventh circle yet.
People at music festivals are always pulling beer coolers on wheels and then sitting on them blocking the view from my blanket. This is a perfect op to mod the cooler thereby increasing safety by moving the battery and router to an enclosed container, decreasing visibility by modifying the long handle into an antenna, and by layering in a separate insulated box you get cold brew, too. Bluetooth your mini-DV and you can narrowcast anywhere. For urban situations, mod a homeless person's shopping cart to do the same.
My older brother has been diganosed with Schizophrenia for the past 40 years and my step-son has had manic depression for 10 years. NAMI is the absolute best organization that can help families of the patients to help their loved ones. A true fount of accurate information about the primarily genetic/biochemical causes of most mental illness.
This is the best business model I've seen since the MardiGras artists that were charging women $5.00 to paint designs on their breasts. Paint with brush in one hand and hold it with the other. And try not to fall off your stool too often.
Current Administration policies have made me a yellow dog Democrat. I'll vote Democratic even if they nominate a yellow dog.
I thought when you listen on the radio only the song writer is getting paid by the station, not the performing artist. So P2P is as likely to benefit the artist as playing on the air.
Evolution of humans from non-verbal ancestors implies that we are able to think without words since it has been shown that non-verbal beings have thought processes. The structures of the brain that facilitate this ability may have been partly lost or disconnected to make way for verbal abilities in much the same way that sense of smell is down graded in animals with color vision. So when I know I am thinking without verbal constructs it may not be any more than you do but I am only more aware of the process. What do you say about that?
Part of the quoted article chastises the publication of academic research on these zoonotic pathogens. There was a consensus agreement drawn up by the biomedical Publishing organizations that put a limit on what kind of research should be published if it concerned potential bioterror research. (http://www.asm.org/Media/index.asp?bid=15031). It's not perfect but does not trash the US 1st amendment rights nor give license to terrorists.
Well, not really errors. Anaerobiosis is common to all Kingdoms of life. That is just one characteristic of the Archae. If ancient Mars had low to no oxygen it would be useful, Yes? And by dormant I mean instantaneously dormant as when the hyperthermophiles living at the bottom of our ocean get swept away from the >100 C sulphurous environment and drift into frigid water with enough oxygen that would be toxic to them if they were still metabolically active. Those that are not eaten by krill (which are eaten by some fishes, who are eaten by some fishes and swollowed by a whale) might even wind up in an oil field water flood in the Arctic where they revive in anaerobic, thermophilic, sulphurous and carbonaceous, etc conditions and churn out excreted sulphates, souring the oil giving Exxon the excuse to increase the price of gasoline to pay for the extra processing. Damn Mars!
Archeabacteria are closely related to the oldest life on earth. Many are thermophilic, acid tolerant, anaerobic, sulphur-loving microbes. Just the sort that would be happy in the acidic hot springs hypothesized on ancient Mars. And they go dormant when the conditions are not just right so the ride to Earth on some rock fragments splashed out by a meteor impact would have been in suspended animation. People who can't grasp the Out of Africa concept are really gonna have trouble with Out of Mars.
When bioprospectors search tropical areas, the more accepted practice is to partner with the indigenous people so they can benefit from any financial rewards made from the bio-findings. Since Antarctica is property held in common (like the Moon: eh, W.?) by the entire human species, shouldn't any profit sharing go to an international body?
That is probably a typo and should be -2 to -15 C (+15 C = +59 F).
I think he used the Czech word for worker (robot) in the play RUR.
Gore initiated the legislation that privitized DARPA's arpnet. Before that it was totally in federal control with some input from Defense labs and academia. And although corporate media did not ever fact-check the statement , it was initially made by a certain Mississippi Congressman who was later demoted for his praise of Strom Thurmond's rascism.
My brother always let his ex have the kids over Christmas. When they got back home they had a delayed celebration with all the toys, clothes, etc he got in after holiday sales. Double points.
Newsflash. The Soviet biowarfare program in years past already made more than one bioweapon that did not have a currently available vaccine. The primary mover in the Soviet program is now in the USA working for a defense contractor (i.e. CIA/NSA). This may be the first step over the brink but it is a baby step. This virus will only infect specific bacteria. In fact, natually occuring bacterial viruses have been used as an antibiotic in some infections. (The problem with silver linings is they always come attached to a cloud).
Institute for Scientific Infromation has an index that judges the relevance and current utility of publications by the number of times it is cited in other publications. But really seminal work is often not recognized for the paradigm shift it brings until later. So the apparent fall off in creativity the author sees may be due to the length of time it takes before a work is acknowledged to be great. Shakespeare (or whoever) was a prolific playwright but was not given great respect until much later. Gregor Mendel described genetic theory but the significance not realized until years later. The Western bias may be real based on the published observation that creative scientists tend to be from rather secular families. Cultures that bow to a rigid religious standard would be expected to have fewer creative types or not allow creativity to be widely encouraged or expressed.
NY Times had more than a page in Sunday Edition about replacing aging voting machines with computerized electronic voting. In spite of an entire column on the intense lobbying the several companies are doing to gain government contracts, only one part of one sentence mentioned security as a concern at all. The old media has either been co-opted or is totally clueless... probably both.
These are the same parents, no doubt, that refuse to vaccinate their kids. At least when the children die or become permanently maimed by some totally preventable disease, their parents will be sure the kids didn't have fried brains from WiFi.
Based on the only line worth quoting from the movie "Predator II".