The US is one of the largest polluters on the planet, as I am sure you know. Explain that. China is instituting more strict laws now than the US because their air is unbreathable. Fracking has been exempted from clear air and water act provisions here in the US. So what is your point? The highly developed "capitalist" countries that pollute less per capita have much stricter pollution laws than in the US. But even in those countries, like Germany, you have VW going way out of its way to cheat on pollution.
Yes, what you say is utter nonsense. Free stuff? You mean like all the corporations get with all their tax breaks, corporate welfare, off shore tax havens and breaking every rule on the books, like good ol' VW cheating on poisoning the air? You mean that kind of free stuff? You are a blowhard and everything you say sounds like it is straight out of Ayn Rand's fantasy book. Free stuff? You are the one who mentioned free stuff, not me. You put words in other people's mouths because you have no argument to make. You are a typical conservative who thinks that they are better than everyone else. Well, you can't even think straight, so you aren't better than everyone else.
Corporations are the current worst actors in the world today. They are literally destroying the planet for profit. Blaming the world's problems on liberals is the stupidest thing I have heard anyone say in a long time. Conservatives and corporations control all major developed countries now except for a small handful. They are squeezing working people with austerity measures, low wages and no benefits while those in charge reap larger and larger profits for themselves. You have an extremely warped view of the world my friend. Have a great day.
You are hysterically funny. Bernie Sanders is the only person who is going to tax people? You call it stealing because you don't want to contribute to the common good. Just admit it. You don't give a crap about the common good.
I assume you are rich and paranoid of losing some of your control over others, and you fear being taxed at a more equitable rate. Otherwise, if you are a working person, you are delusional. Is Norway a slavery state? You're comment is absurd in the extreme. It is absurd statements like yours that will help those sitting on the fence to realize that the people in charge in many countries now are irrational, greedy, indifferent and belligerent.
Bernie Sanders opposes private property? You are either lying, or ignorant. Find me a quote from Senator Sanders that indicates he is not in favor of private property.
Thanks for setting Barny straight on this. As a neuroscientist I can guarantee that no one in their right mind wants a psychopath or sociopath in charge of anything. Unfortunately they are attracted to positions of power from where they can do whatever they want to the rest of us.
Like I said in the beginning, Bernie is sounding better every time one of the other candidates opens their mouth.
I love it when people advocate psychopaths running things, as opposed to rational, well intentioned people who care about other people. It it so Merican. Yee Haw!
You got that right. The solution is to stop voting for psychopaths and sociopaths because this is what they do when they are in charge. Bernie is sounding better all the time.
The mouse and human genomes are fully covered now, however, there are lots of pseudogenes, and lots of polymorphisms. Plus, there is lots of splicing that occurs to make different isoforms of many different proteins. So there are many layers of complexity, but the answer is yes, we can knock out any specific gene quite accurately now. But you often can't knock out genes for body patterning, like hind legs, because they are too important for early fetal development. So knocking many genes out turns out to be "embryonic lethal". So the answer to that question is no, we can't knock out a gene to make mice without back legs.
This is old news, CRISPR/Cas9 editing has been around for several years now. You can hire a company to make you a mouse or rat with an edited genome using this system right now.
Programming should of course be offered in schools, but it is not something that should be required simply because it is a specialty, not a general science or field of study like math. I agree that what should be required is computer literacy. A small amount of time could be spent on computer programming to get kids interested, but the main emphasis should be on safe and efficient computer use, especially safe Internet browsing techniques. Everyone uses computers, so it really is essential to keep the Internet working properly and as safely as possible for everyone. I vote for mandatory computer literacy courses somewhere in K-12.
Obamacare was based on Romneycare from MA, which was created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. So you are saying Obama is a secret Republican? If so, then I agree completely. He wages war like a Republican, he deports immigrants like a Republican, he drills for oil and gas like a Republican, even in the arctic, and he goes after whistleblowers and journalists just like a Republican. So I think you've got something there.
No broad brush condemnation of whole groups, eh? No extreme paranoia about "the other", hmm? Islamophic detector indeed. You should be embarrassed, but I am sure you are not in the slightest and will defend your paranoia and smearing of a huge swath of humanity to the hilt.
And that is a good thing? So a Timothy McVeigh could walk on the plane with an electronic thingy, and that would be OK, but not a kid with a light brown complexion? Like I said, it is a perfect Islamophobia detector. So now in the US you are lucky if you have light brown skin, and you are caught with any type of electronic device if you aren't shot dead?
Yeah, by today's standards I messed up. But I started that database when Reference Manager came out, in the early 1990s. There were not a lot of choices back then for citation software. Plus, for some time it was really the best citation software out there. Thompson Reuters bought them out to stop competition with Endnote. So I also have Endnote X7 which has a relatively simple conversion capability that takes about 10 minutes if I need to convert the whole 10K citation library, which has over 4000 associated PDF files to the original publications. I am positive that Endnote will be supported for a long time to come, so I am not worried.
Actually you can be tied to Windows by software. I have several very expensive programs, and I don't have any idea what I would do to replace those in a different OS without spending lots of money and even more time relearning different software than the programs I have used for years. Here is a partial list. Image Pro Plus by Media Cybernetics, Sigmaplot 12, MS Office Suite (2010), Adobe Creative Suite CS5 (I use photoshop, illustrator, premier pro, after effects, audition, flash and media encoder), Reference Manager with a large 20+ year database of over 10K citations and ChemBio Office 3D among others. Si while it is possible to start all over in another OS environment, but it would be very expensive in both money and time.
They are using their installed base of Windows computers as an advertising base now. Free always means the ad-filled version, and the version that tracks you and sells information about your surfing habits and preferences. I really hope that this is not the end of Windows as a basic, functional, user friendly operating system. It was never a perfect OS, but Windows 7 got many things right. Windows 10 got many, many things wrong.
An interesting take on the UI of Windows from Josh Fruhlinger at IT World, with many of today's must have's in an OS came from Windows 95, including aspects of OS X.
They have fully integrated the MS app store (that started with Windows 8), and they are would appear to be marketing user data. They are monetizing the OS in a different way that I would rather avoid. My copies of Windows 7 are paid for, and don't include the app store at least. I am aware that some have said that some of the recommended Windows 7 updates may be pushing MS data collection. We'll see how this new model, which seems to be trying to emulate Apple in many respects, works for MS. I think they are making a mistake. But then again, the Enterprise version will probably be different, and less like adware and spyware combined. They will need to do something to get businesses to upgrade from 7, which many of them just finished upgrading to in the last couple of years.
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The US is one of the largest polluters on the planet, as I am sure you know. Explain that. China is instituting more strict laws now than the US because their air is unbreathable. Fracking has been exempted from clear air and water act provisions here in the US. So what is your point? The highly developed "capitalist" countries that pollute less per capita have much stricter pollution laws than in the US. But even in those countries, like Germany, you have VW going way out of its way to cheat on pollution.
Yes, what you say is utter nonsense. Free stuff? You mean like all the corporations get with all their tax breaks, corporate welfare, off shore tax havens and breaking every rule on the books, like good ol' VW cheating on poisoning the air? You mean that kind of free stuff? You are a blowhard and everything you say sounds like it is straight out of Ayn Rand's fantasy book. Free stuff? You are the one who mentioned free stuff, not me. You put words in other people's mouths because you have no argument to make. You are a typical conservative who thinks that they are better than everyone else. Well, you can't even think straight, so you aren't better than everyone else.
Corporations are the current worst actors in the world today. They are literally destroying the planet for profit. Blaming the world's problems on liberals is the stupidest thing I have heard anyone say in a long time. Conservatives and corporations control all major developed countries now except for a small handful. They are squeezing working people with austerity measures, low wages and no benefits while those in charge reap larger and larger profits for themselves. You have an extremely warped view of the world my friend. Have a great day.
You are hysterically funny. Bernie Sanders is the only person who is going to tax people? You call it stealing because you don't want to contribute to the common good. Just admit it. You don't give a crap about the common good.
I assume you are rich and paranoid of losing some of your control over others, and you fear being taxed at a more equitable rate. Otherwise, if you are a working person, you are delusional. Is Norway a slavery state? You're comment is absurd in the extreme. It is absurd statements like yours that will help those sitting on the fence to realize that the people in charge in many countries now are irrational, greedy, indifferent and belligerent.
Bernie Sanders opposes private property? You are either lying, or ignorant. Find me a quote from Senator Sanders that indicates he is not in favor of private property.
Thanks for setting Barny straight on this. As a neuroscientist I can guarantee that no one in their right mind wants a psychopath or sociopath in charge of anything. Unfortunately they are attracted to positions of power from where they can do whatever they want to the rest of us.
Like I said in the beginning, Bernie is sounding better every time one of the other candidates opens their mouth.
I love it when people advocate psychopaths running things, as opposed to rational, well intentioned people who care about other people. It it so Merican. Yee Haw!
Yeah, but don't expect capitalists to see that simple fact through the cognitive haze of being money drunk.
Socalism? Really? How about Capitulism? That is people destroying the planet and kicking workers for fun and profit.
You got that right. The solution is to stop voting for psychopaths and sociopaths because this is what they do when they are in charge. Bernie is sounding better all the time.
The mouse and human genomes are fully covered now, however, there are lots of pseudogenes, and lots of polymorphisms. Plus, there is lots of splicing that occurs to make different isoforms of many different proteins. So there are many layers of complexity, but the answer is yes, we can knock out any specific gene quite accurately now. But you often can't knock out genes for body patterning, like hind legs, because they are too important for early fetal development. So knocking many genes out turns out to be "embryonic lethal". So the answer to that question is no, we can't knock out a gene to make mice without back legs.
This is old news, CRISPR/Cas9 editing has been around for several years now. You can hire a company to make you a mouse or rat with an edited genome using this system right now.
Programming should of course be offered in schools, but it is not something that should be required simply because it is a specialty, not a general science or field of study like math. I agree that what should be required is computer literacy. A small amount of time could be spent on computer programming to get kids interested, but the main emphasis should be on safe and efficient computer use, especially safe Internet browsing techniques. Everyone uses computers, so it really is essential to keep the Internet working properly and as safely as possible for everyone. I vote for mandatory computer literacy courses somewhere in K-12.
Yeah, Obamacare, like Romneycare, was actually Health Insurance Company Care.
Obamacare was based on Romneycare from MA, which was created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. So you are saying Obama is a secret Republican? If so, then I agree completely. He wages war like a Republican, he deports immigrants like a Republican, he drills for oil and gas like a Republican, even in the arctic, and he goes after whistleblowers and journalists just like a Republican. So I think you've got something there.
No broad brush condemnation of whole groups, eh? No extreme paranoia about "the other", hmm? Islamophic detector indeed. You should be embarrassed, but I am sure you are not in the slightest and will defend your paranoia and smearing of a huge swath of humanity to the hilt.
And that is a good thing? So a Timothy McVeigh could walk on the plane with an electronic thingy, and that would be OK, but not a kid with a light brown complexion? Like I said, it is a perfect Islamophobia detector. So now in the US you are lucky if you have light brown skin, and you are caught with any type of electronic device if you aren't shot dead?
It was half a bomb, according to some...
https://theintercept.com/2015/...
But I still agree that it was an Islamophobe detector that works with incredible accuracy, even here at /.
Child invents Islamophobia detector.
Somehow I doubt they are bracing. Maybe glancing sideways would be more appropriate.
You left out; some nerds pay attention, and even vote occasionally.
Yeah, by today's standards I messed up. But I started that database when Reference Manager came out, in the early 1990s. There were not a lot of choices back then for citation software. Plus, for some time it was really the best citation software out there. Thompson Reuters bought them out to stop competition with Endnote. So I also have Endnote X7 which has a relatively simple conversion capability that takes about 10 minutes if I need to convert the whole 10K citation library, which has over 4000 associated PDF files to the original publications. I am positive that Endnote will be supported for a long time to come, so I am not worried.
Actually you can be tied to Windows by software. I have several very expensive programs, and I don't have any idea what I would do to replace those in a different OS without spending lots of money and even more time relearning different software than the programs I have used for years. Here is a partial list. Image Pro Plus by Media Cybernetics, Sigmaplot 12, MS Office Suite (2010), Adobe Creative Suite CS5 (I use photoshop, illustrator, premier pro, after effects, audition, flash and media encoder), Reference Manager with a large 20+ year database of over 10K citations and ChemBio Office 3D among others. Si while it is possible to start all over in another OS environment, but it would be very expensive in both money and time.
They are using their installed base of Windows computers as an advertising base now. Free always means the ad-filled version, and the version that tracks you and sells information about your surfing habits and preferences. I really hope that this is not the end of Windows as a basic, functional, user friendly operating system. It was never a perfect OS, but Windows 7 got many things right. Windows 10 got many, many things wrong.
An interesting take on the UI of Windows from Josh Fruhlinger at IT World, with many of today's must have's in an OS came from Windows 95, including aspects of OS X.
Link: http://www.itworld.com/article...
They have fully integrated the MS app store (that started with Windows 8), and they are would appear to be marketing user data. They are monetizing the OS in a different way that I would rather avoid. My copies of Windows 7 are paid for, and don't include the app store at least. I am aware that some have said that some of the recommended Windows 7 updates may be pushing MS data collection. We'll see how this new model, which seems to be trying to emulate Apple in many respects, works for MS. I think they are making a mistake. But then again, the Enterprise version will probably be different, and less like adware and spyware combined. They will need to do something to get businesses to upgrade from 7, which many of them just finished upgrading to in the last couple of years.
What could be wrong?