What I think is that some people can process mercury from their systems better than others, those who couldn't filter it out effectively due to their genetics would not beable to get rid of it fast enough to prevent it from seeping through the blood brain narrier and thus causing neurological issues.
Since the Human brain in childhood has a far greater ability for regeneration the damage done by mercury was repaired and in cases of autism maybe the process was overzelous leading to autisim.
Also there is a big difference between how elemental mercury and mercury compounds react in the body. Maybe the kids that get autism from vaccines have an ensyme that breaks down the relatively inert mercury into a form that is more toxic to neural tissue?
The effect of the microclimates of cities on weather patterns has been ignored as CO2 is pumped up as the boogeyman.
I think while CO2 may have some effect, the affect of changing the surface albedio has a bigger effect on weather patterns than a slight increase of a trace gas in the atmosphere. The microclimates of cities create columns of rising air over cities which can divert weather fronts.
So while Global Warming may be man made, there are many factors in this equation.
Farming, Surface Albedio, water diversion, Noxious Gas Pollution (non co2) and then CO2.
Maybe painting the roads while or only using grey concrete roads vs. Black Asphault would have a bigger impact on warming than switching to hybrids. Or new housing codes requiring new shingles to be tested for albedio effect and create standard for those.
CO2 is not as bad as some of the other gasses cars spew out like Sulfuric Oxides and Nitrous Oxides. A 100% increase of CO2 won't kill plants and animals (in fact plants will grow betterr and make more food for animals). But the other crap will cause acid rain which will kill plants and give animals repritory problems.
As they say the truth lies somewhere in the middle and skewed to one side of center.
Mr. Shatner, you look the same as you did when you were 40, have you discovered the fountain of youth and if so, can you send a gallon of it's lifewater to me?
I think all this hydrogen tech is very dangerous, we will start burning hydrogen and more of it will leak and escape from the earth since it is so light and before too long we will run out of water. Oh we will have plenty of oxygen, but the oceans will dry up and all life will die except the giant sandworms... At least we will have spice.
"No, no," said Frankie, "it's the brain we want to buy."
"What!"
"Well, who would miss it?" inquired Benjy.
"I thought you said you could just read his brain electronically," protested Ford.
"Oh yes," said Frankie, "but we'd have to get it out first. It's got to be prepared."
"Treated," said Benjy.
"Diced."
"Thank you," shouted Arthur, tipping up his chair and backing away from the table in horror.
"It could always be replaced," said Benjy reasonably, "if you think it's important.
"Yes, an electronic brain," said Frankie, "a simple one would suffice."
"A simple one!" wailed Arthur.
"Yeah," said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? Who'd know the difference?"
"What?" cried Arthur, backing away still farther.
"See what I mean?" said Zaphod, and howled with pain because of something that Trillian did at that moment.
"I'd notice the difference," said Arthur.
"No, you wouldn't," said Frankie mouse, "you'd be programmed not to."
The Oak Ridge Boys (not the band) invented a power source of the future for the whole world inthe late 60's / early 70's but the DOE had a vested interest in making bombs instead and since this new tech would eat bomb parts as fuel they were dismissed and ignored because they were so "heavily vested in current tech" which was ironically invented by the same guy who came up with the new tech.....
Such is the ways of foolish government agencies and the companies that lobby them.
This will break even passwords that only allow one try as you send a msg back in time that AAAAAAAAA didn't work , try somethign else. You will always get the correct answer back.
[ Now, to understand it better, read All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein (pdf of complete story). Considered by many to be the greatest time travel short story ever. ]
And the best "self" slash fan fiction ever penned, Heinlein puts all those on fanfiction.net to shame.
The more rich people who use it the more the price will go down as the market demands it.
Look at HDTVs, I was using a tube TV and only rich people had them 10 years ago, but now even the "poor" have HDTVs.
Same with computers, poor people used to not beable to afford a new PC, now they are so cheap and laptops are so ubliquitous that the 5,000 laptop from 1990 is now 350 dollars and 100 times as powerful. And you count inflation in there and the 350 dollar laptop adjusts to around 150 dollars.
Need I even get started on smartphones. Enabling tech will always end up cheaper after it gets mass produced.
Would you be saying the same thing about LASIK eye surgery 15 yars ago? Which used to be ultra expensive, but now you can get it done in for less than 500 per eye in a strip mall?
Point is the rich will always have the new toys and it will give them an advantage, but it won'y take long for the people who sell to the rich to start marketing to the masses, because the middle/lower class is far larger and in the end more profitable.
There have been some historical studies of CO2 levels over the last 65 million years, in the last 50 million years the CO2 level has been slowly trending downward....
At the rate it was going it was going in another 100 million years the CO2 would have been so low that plants would start having a very hard time growing.
CO2 is not the issue it is the sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides that are killing the plants, and plants eat CO2. In the united states the problem has pretty much been solved in terms of how bad it was in the 60's - 80's.
However in china they don't give a rats arse about the sulfides and nitrogen gasses that they spewing and there is a bad acid rain problem and REAL plant and animal KILLING pollution. Of course dead plants and animals decompose and release CO2 as bateria break them down so that makes it even worse, plus with fewer plants there are fewer carbon sinks.
CO2 is not as big a boogey man when it comes in terms of life. We get more heating from roads and rooftops in metro areas than CO2. If the CO2 was an issue the snow in the suburbs would melt as fast inthe winter as the snow 10 miles out inthe country. We are panicing over microclimates.
[ You would have a better chance of picking up a Mr. Fusion at Walmart. ]
Any cheap appliance from Wal-Mart, ok all applicances are now made in China, will eventually they will catch fire releasing energy as their electronics and plastic burn in a breif flash producing *some* power ibnthe form of thermal energy.....
[ 2015 is right around the corner. Pepsi Throwback should have been named Pepsi Perfect. ]
That would require the Pepsi execs to basically admit that regular Pepsi wasn't "perfect" already. Notice how they call it "Pepsi Throwback" as the Term "Throwback" is generally reguarded as a negative one.
All it would take is a label change, but Pepsi probably won't do it.
Lister: Sometimes, I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once bought a pair of shoes with Artificial Intelligence. 'Smart Shoes' they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they could always get you home. But he got rattled one night in Oslo and woke up the next morning in Burma. You see, his shoes got bored going from his local to his flat. They wanted to see the world, you know. He had a hell of a job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day. He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down. Rimmer: Is this true? Lister: Yeah. The last thing I heard, they sort of... robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, you see. Rimmer: Really? Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away about it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him... he said it was alright and all that, when shoes are happy that they'd get into heaven. You see, it turns out shoes have 'soles'. Rimmer: Ah, what a sad story. Wait a minute. [Thinks for a minute] Rimmer: How did they open the car door?
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Only reason I went to windows 7 was because Xp won't recognize more than 4Gb or memory.
What I think is that some people can process mercury from their systems better than others, those who couldn't filter it out effectively due to their genetics would not beable to get rid of it fast enough to prevent it from seeping through the blood brain narrier and thus causing neurological issues.
Since the Human brain in childhood has a far greater ability for regeneration the damage done by mercury was repaired and in cases of autism maybe the process was overzelous leading to autisim.
Also there is a big difference between how elemental mercury and mercury compounds react in the body. Maybe the kids that get autism from vaccines have an ensyme that breaks down the relatively inert mercury into a form that is more toxic to neural tissue?
The effect of the microclimates of cities on weather patterns has been ignored as CO2 is pumped up as the boogeyman.
I think while CO2 may have some effect, the affect of changing the surface albedio has a bigger effect on weather patterns than a slight increase of a trace gas in the atmosphere. The microclimates of cities create columns of rising air over cities which can divert weather fronts.
So while Global Warming may be man made, there are many factors in this equation.
Farming, Surface Albedio, water diversion, Noxious Gas Pollution (non co2) and then CO2.
Maybe painting the roads while or only using grey concrete roads vs. Black Asphault would have a bigger impact on warming than switching to hybrids. Or new housing codes requiring new shingles to be tested for albedio effect and create standard for those.
CO2 is not as bad as some of the other gasses cars spew out like Sulfuric Oxides and Nitrous Oxides. A 100% increase of CO2 won't kill plants and animals (in fact plants will grow betterr and make more food for animals). But the other crap will cause acid rain which will kill plants and give animals repritory problems.
As they say the truth lies somewhere in the middle and skewed to one side of center.
I blame the ice warriors....
I will wait till Paul Elrich kicks the bucket of natural causes and then I will dance on his grave.
Mr. Shatner, you look the same as you did when you were 40, have you discovered the fountain of youth and if so, can you send a gallon of it's lifewater to me?
I think all this hydrogen tech is very dangerous, we will start burning hydrogen and more of it will leak and escape from the earth since it is so light and before too long we will run out of water. Oh we will have plenty of oxygen, but the oceans will dry up and all life will die except the giant sandworms... At least we will have spice.
A long time ago they developed software for tracking people, it was 80 years ago and that didn't work out all to well for the people being tracked.
Naw, we need a S100 version.
"No, no," said Frankie, "it's the brain we want to buy."
"What!"
"Well, who would miss it?" inquired Benjy.
"I thought you said you could just read his brain electronically," protested Ford.
"Oh yes," said Frankie, "but we'd have to get it out first. It's got to be prepared."
"Treated," said Benjy.
"Diced."
"Thank you," shouted Arthur, tipping up his chair and backing away from the table in horror.
"It could always be replaced," said Benjy reasonably, "if you think it's important.
"Yes, an electronic brain," said Frankie, "a simple one would suffice."
"A simple one!" wailed Arthur.
"Yeah," said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? Who'd know the difference?"
"What?" cried Arthur, backing away still farther.
"See what I mean?" said Zaphod, and howled with pain because of something that Trillian did at that moment.
"I'd notice the difference," said Arthur.
"No, you wouldn't," said Frankie mouse, "you'd be programmed not to."
The Oak Ridge Boys (not the band) invented a power source of the future for the whole world inthe late 60's / early 70's but the DOE had a vested interest in making bombs instead and since this new tech would eat bomb parts as fuel they were dismissed and ignored because they were so "heavily vested in current tech" which was ironically invented by the same guy who came up with the new tech.....
Such is the ways of foolish government agencies and the companies that lobby them.
This will break even passwords that only allow one try as you send a msg back in time that AAAAAAAAA didn't work , try somethign else. You will always get the correct answer back.
Just like how I cannot run a copy of windows on my windows computer....
Oh wait...
VirtualBox
Maybe we can run quantum computers but they will run very crappily and have the potential to crash the universe.....
[ Now, to understand it better, read All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein (pdf of complete story). Considered by many to be the greatest time travel short story ever. ]
And the best "self" slash fan fiction ever penned, Heinlein puts all those on fanfiction.net to shame.
Pot for the dumb sheep voters and brain enhancing chips for the ruling elite.
The dumb sheep will votes the elite into power and will be dumb but happy with their pot, while the elite will be smarter and unhappy.
Maybe the smart people will get "soma" to keep them happy too....
The more rich people who use it the more the price will go down as the market demands it.
Look at HDTVs, I was using a tube TV and only rich people had them 10 years ago, but now even the "poor" have HDTVs.
Same with computers, poor people used to not beable to afford a new PC, now they are so cheap and laptops are so ubliquitous that the 5,000 laptop from 1990 is now 350 dollars and 100 times as powerful. And you count inflation in there and the 350 dollar laptop adjusts to around 150 dollars.
Need I even get started on smartphones. Enabling tech will always end up cheaper after it gets mass produced.
Would you be saying the same thing about LASIK eye surgery 15 yars ago? Which used to be ultra expensive, but now you can get it done in for less than 500 per eye in a strip mall?
Point is the rich will always have the new toys and it will give them an advantage, but it won'y take long for the people who sell to the rich to start marketing to the masses, because the middle/lower class is far larger and in the end more profitable.
There have been some historical studies of CO2 levels over the last 65 million years, in the last 50 million years the CO2 level has been slowly trending downward....
At the rate it was going it was going in another 100 million years the CO2 would have been so low that plants would start having a very hard time growing.
CO2 is not the issue it is the sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides that are killing the plants, and plants eat CO2. In the united states the problem has pretty much been solved in terms of how bad it was in the 60's - 80's.
However in china they don't give a rats arse about the sulfides and nitrogen gasses that they spewing and there is a bad acid rain problem and REAL plant and animal KILLING pollution. Of course dead plants and animals decompose and release CO2 as bateria break them down so that makes it even worse, plus with fewer plants there are fewer carbon sinks.
CO2 is not as big a boogey man when it comes in terms of life. We get more heating from roads and rooftops in metro areas than CO2. If the CO2 was an issue the snow in the suburbs would melt as fast inthe winter as the snow 10 miles out inthe country. We are panicing over microclimates.
[ but but buttttt.... Every lightning path-to-ground has an exact 1.21GW discharge, every time, no exceptions! Fact is fact, dude. /snark ]
No, just a 1.21 GW relay so you don't burn it out.
I want a screen saver that has digital Ronal Reagan Yelling at a Screaming Ayatolya Khomeni!
[ Nuts to that! I'm in it for the double-necktie. ]
Well in the movie they portray Japan as the economic GIANT (Marty's Boss was Japanese), they didn't see China's rise.
So now Marty's boss will be Mr. Huang instead of Mr. Fujimoto.
[ You would have a better chance of picking up a Mr. Fusion at Walmart. ]
Any cheap appliance from Wal-Mart, ok all applicances are now made in China, will eventually they will catch fire releasing energy as their electronics and plastic burn in a breif flash producing *some* power ibnthe form of thermal energy.....
[ 2015 is right around the corner. Pepsi Throwback should have been named Pepsi Perfect. ]
That would require the Pepsi execs to basically admit that regular Pepsi wasn't "perfect" already. Notice how they call it "Pepsi Throwback" as the Term "Throwback" is generally reguarded as a negative one.
All it would take is a label change, but Pepsi probably won't do it.
No, Dummy......
Just put to magnets back to back so both sides are a N or a S pole, duh!
Morbo: That is NOT how Magnets work!!!!!!
Also imagine if it did and then glue holding the two magnets broke....... Ballistic Magnet basically EXPLODING!!!!
Lister: Sometimes, I think it's cruel giving machines a personality. My mate Petersen once bought a pair of shoes with Artificial Intelligence. 'Smart Shoes' they were called. It was a neat idea. No matter how blind drunk you were, they could always get you home. But he got rattled one night in Oslo and woke up the next morning in Burma. You see, his shoes got bored going from his local to his flat. They wanted to see the world, you know. He had a hell of a job getting rid of them. No matter who he sold them to, they'd show up again the next day. He tried to shut them out, but they just kicked the door down.
Rimmer: Is this true?
Lister: Yeah. The last thing I heard, they sort of... robbed a car and drove it into a canal. They couldn't steer, you see.
Rimmer: Really?
Lister: Yeah. Petersen was really, really blown away about it. He went to see a priest. The priest told him... he said it was alright and all that, when shoes are happy that they'd get into heaven. You see, it turns out shoes have 'soles'.
Rimmer: Ah, what a sad story. Wait a minute.
[Thinks for a minute]
Rimmer: How did they open the car door?