If government runs properly (not captured by corporate or military interests) then things work out generally well. When governments become beholden to big banks, and business and war, then things tend to get good for the rich, and not so good for workers. Highly regulated capitalism works generally well for most people, but unregulated capitalism is like a cancer on society.
Maybe, but there are plenty of the voodoo economics types here, and they tend to post AC. I thought it might be sarcastic but it wasn't cleaver enough to make that call.
This is a great small start. Much more needs to be done along the lines of Google's original idea of digitizing all books. I spent a lot of time getting all my old hi 8 tapes transferred to disk, and can attest to it not being easy if the tapes are old. The metal particle hi 8 tapes were particularly bad as some of the oxide would slough off during playback and gum up the play head. Sometimes had to clean and retry multiple times just to get 5 min converted. The metal evaporated tapes were much better. I can't imagine how bad some of the older oxide tapes are faring now.
Yes dear AC, like WMD in Iraq, no anthropomorphic climate change, voodoo economics, bombing middle eastern countries will make them peaceful, pollution is good for you, nuclear power is clean as hell and produces no waste products, privatization makes things cheaper, guns make everyone safer.... hell, I could go on all day.
Your post is so amusing. No wonder it is anonymous.
This is about rich people making even more money, not about anything else. I wish people would stop the nonsense about greater efficiency. It always ends up badly for regular people, just ask the people in Flint Michigan about their water.
You must be either kidding, or an idiot. Hopefully not the latter. Check out the Dunning-Kruger effect would you please?
Currently journals charge people $30 to read a single research article. No one could afford to pay that kind of money when researching a topic, I might need to download 40, 50 or more articles in order to properly reference a manuscript.
And you are right, a typical scientific article that is in a standard journal might only get a few thousand reads. I don't see how that is relevant.
How you came up with the masturbate thing is anyone's guess, but it suggests you have sexual issues, since that was what immediately came to your mind in reference to publishing, but we will leave that aside. Only you could know why that connection came up.
Paid to protest? Oh sure. Where do I sign up? You are so full of it. Please dear AC tell us all where we can sign up to get paid to protest pipelines. Or did you mean you get paid in cheap hot dogs and bug juice?
First off, it it usually more like $2000, but you are right that it isn't right. Like I said, this is what capitalism does. It monetizes everything, including knowledge. I would greatly prefer that the NIH budget be doubled so that more high quality research can be done, and then some of that extra money used to pay for publication costs. The formatting and editing of a large scientific paper is an arduous task. They take a crappy looking Word doc file and some TiFFs and turn them into a polished looking scientific publication. They often find and fix typos, errors and grammar. It is people doing work, and they need to be paid. Maybe the best solution would be to create a publication wing at the NIH that is dedicated to publishing high quality papers as a free service for scientists. But it would take much more funding of the NIH, not less as has been proposed by the current administration.
Look, our lab has published in standard pay walled journals, and in open access journals. They both put you through the usual peer review, which can be honest and thorough, quick and uncritical, absurdly overcritical and just plain silly sometimes. Each journal is different. Some journals are so bad that their editors can put their dog on the editorial board. Many are much better than that. But the scientific review process is so fractured and disconnected that there is no way to know which publications are reliable, and which are not. Even the top tier, pay walled journals publish crap sometimes, and even they have to retract some papers after serious problems are found. Opening up the review process to the public and making reviews more inclusive, honest and accountable (no anonymous reviewers) would go a long way to improving the system.
Paying $3000 to get your work published in an honest and properly peer reviewed open access journal is a good thing, it means that everyone can read the work for free. Fixing the existing peer review and scientific publishing problems is going to take a lot of concerted effort on the part of scientists and publishers.
You fail at thinking, so I guess we are even. It''s difficult to read and understand nonsense. Clearly there is something wrong with your logic that Snowden did good but Wikileaks is bad. All I can assume is that you have a political agenda that forces you to ignore the obvious, and come to some absurd conclusion divorced from reality. If what Snowden did was good for the public's understanding, then Wikileaks is even more important because it is ongoing and continues to inform the public, something Snowden can no longer do. I assume you find Wikileaks dangerous because you have a stake in the game and will be harmed by further releases from Wikileaks. Otherwise, you are just a useful idiot for the NSA.
So you are saying that the CIA and other muck up the world agencies are really bad, so that makes Assange full of shit because he is helping whistle blowers out their dirty deeds? Your thinking on this is far beyond muddy. Indeed, you haven't made a single point about Assange that makes me think anything other than he is a hero, and you are the one who is full of shit. You have an extremely warped sense of right and wrong on this topic. Snowden good, Assange, bad, very bad as our imperious leader would say. Sorry, you haven't made a single valid point about why Assange is not a hero, with far more guts than you my friend.
No, you need a vector to do something with the DNA or RNA, such as a viral vector. These are all very specific in their targets, and they are used every day in thousands of labs around the world to shuttle DNA and RNA into cells. But it is not a good digital storage mechanism for big data.
This will never be used to store digital information. You could do it much more easily with a much simpler, man made system of chemical 1 and 0 s in any type of medium, silicon or biological. The triplet code in DNA/'RNA requires a lot of complicated enzymatic machinery to copy, store, replicate and read. It will not make a simple, reliable and robust system for humans trying to store and retrieve lots of information.
Anyone who thinks that whistle blowers that inform the public of the illegal, immoral and dangerously counterproductive acts of our government does needs to be prosecuted is clearly favoring the deep state over the people. Any free society that is not allowed to know what its government is doing, is not a free society by definition. You may think it is "nice here", and maybe you have a cushy job in the deep state, or IT. But that is not how this country is working out for the poor people, the people without health care, and the hungry. It also isn't working out well for young, unarmed black kids getting shot by police. Nationalism of your sort is very widespread among conservatives here. It is the same nationalism as overseas, but you being an American, think your version is better. Read "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari, you might learn something.
So you don't pay attention to anything going on in the rest of the world, where universal health coverage works for everyone, and the costs are about half, and the outcomes better? Now I understand.
Stalin was left wing in your dreams. Left wing is peace, protecting our environment, healthcare and education for everyone and greater equality. No progressive is an authoritarian. Trump is, Bernie isn't. .
You said it not me. I'm sure you think you made a point.
I said the least responsible people for the spying and the endless wars are the left wing progressives who don't want any spying or wars of regime change. Right wing people push for war, not the lefties. Clinton is a right wing Democrat, Obama isa right wing Democrat. Bernie Sanders is an independent for a reason. Because progressives like him are not welcome in the corporate owned DNC.
And by the way, Obama is not the left. He may be the center-right, but he has nothing to do with the Bernie Left. The spy agencies are all right wing. The military is right wing, the wars are done by right wing Democrats and Republicans colluding together. The people least responsible for the spying and the wars are all those lefty anti-war and-spying protesters. But I still maintain that just about everyone is to blame, including the public who barely pays attention to anything other than their phone.
No, everyone is responsible. All the spy agencies are involved, and corporations are clearly involved. It was done under Bush/Cheney and Obama, and so far the American public has failed to complain enough, and the media have failed their role as watchdogs. It is everybody's fault. If people don't start complaining a lot more to their representatives, and vote in more honest representatives, it will only get worse.
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If government runs properly (not captured by corporate or military interests) then things work out generally well. When governments become beholden to big banks, and business and war, then things tend to get good for the rich, and not so good for workers. Highly regulated capitalism works generally well for most people, but unregulated capitalism is like a cancer on society.
Exactly. Thanks for summing it up so nicely.
Maybe, but there are plenty of the voodoo economics types here, and they tend to post AC. I thought it might be sarcastic but it wasn't cleaver enough to make that call.
This is a great small start. Much more needs to be done along the lines of Google's original idea of digitizing all books. I spent a lot of time getting all my old hi 8 tapes transferred to disk, and can attest to it not being easy if the tapes are old. The metal particle hi 8 tapes were particularly bad as some of the oxide would slough off during playback and gum up the play head. Sometimes had to clean and retry multiple times just to get 5 min converted. The metal evaporated tapes were much better. I can't imagine how bad some of the older oxide tapes are faring now.
Yes dear AC, like WMD in Iraq, no anthropomorphic climate change, voodoo economics, bombing middle eastern countries will make them peaceful, pollution is good for you, nuclear power is clean as hell and produces no waste products, privatization makes things cheaper, guns make everyone safer.... hell, I could go on all day.
Your post is so amusing. No wonder it is anonymous.
This is about rich people making even more money, not about anything else. I wish people would stop the nonsense about greater efficiency. It always ends up badly for regular people, just ask the people in Flint Michigan about their water.
You must be either kidding, or an idiot. Hopefully not the latter. Check out the Dunning-Kruger effect would you please?
Currently journals charge people $30 to read a single research article. No one could afford to pay that kind of money when researching a topic, I might need to download 40, 50 or more articles in order to properly reference a manuscript.
And you are right, a typical scientific article that is in a standard journal might only get a few thousand reads. I don't see how that is relevant.
How you came up with the masturbate thing is anyone's guess, but it suggests you have sexual issues, since that was what immediately came to your mind in reference to publishing, but we will leave that aside. Only you could know why that connection came up.
Paid to protest? Oh sure. Where do I sign up? You are so full of it. Please dear AC tell us all where we can sign up to get paid to protest pipelines. Or did you mean you get paid in cheap hot dogs and bug juice?
First off, it it usually more like $2000, but you are right that it isn't right. Like I said, this is what capitalism does. It monetizes everything, including knowledge. I would greatly prefer that the NIH budget be doubled so that more high quality research can be done, and then some of that extra money used to pay for publication costs. The formatting and editing of a large scientific paper is an arduous task. They take a crappy looking Word doc file and some TiFFs and turn them into a polished looking scientific publication. They often find and fix typos, errors and grammar. It is people doing work, and they need to be paid. Maybe the best solution would be to create a publication wing at the NIH that is dedicated to publishing high quality papers as a free service for scientists. But it would take much more funding of the NIH, not less as has been proposed by the current administration.
Look, our lab has published in standard pay walled journals, and in open access journals. They both put you through the usual peer review, which can be honest and thorough, quick and uncritical, absurdly overcritical and just plain silly sometimes. Each journal is different. Some journals are so bad that their editors can put their dog on the editorial board. Many are much better than that. But the scientific review process is so fractured and disconnected that there is no way to know which publications are reliable, and which are not. Even the top tier, pay walled journals publish crap sometimes, and even they have to retract some papers after serious problems are found. Opening up the review process to the public and making reviews more inclusive, honest and accountable (no anonymous reviewers) would go a long way to improving the system.
Paying $3000 to get your work published in an honest and properly peer reviewed open access journal is a good thing, it means that everyone can read the work for free. Fixing the existing peer review and scientific publishing problems is going to take a lot of concerted effort on the part of scientists and publishers.
You fail at thinking, so I guess we are even. It''s difficult to read and understand nonsense. Clearly there is something wrong with your logic that Snowden did good but Wikileaks is bad. All I can assume is that you have a political agenda that forces you to ignore the obvious, and come to some absurd conclusion divorced from reality. If what Snowden did was good for the public's understanding, then Wikileaks is even more important because it is ongoing and continues to inform the public, something Snowden can no longer do. I assume you find Wikileaks dangerous because you have a stake in the game and will be harmed by further releases from Wikileaks. Otherwise, you are just a useful idiot for the NSA.
And in case you missed it:
http://www.truthdig.com/report...
So you are saying that the CIA and other muck up the world agencies are really bad, so that makes Assange full of shit because he is helping whistle blowers out their dirty deeds? Your thinking on this is far beyond muddy. Indeed, you haven't made a single point about Assange that makes me think anything other than he is a hero, and you are the one who is full of shit. You have an extremely warped sense of right and wrong on this topic. Snowden good, Assange, bad, very bad as our imperious leader would say. Sorry, you haven't made a single valid point about why Assange is not a hero, with far more guts than you my friend.
No, you need a vector to do something with the DNA or RNA, such as a viral vector. These are all very specific in their targets, and they are used every day in thousands of labs around the world to shuttle DNA and RNA into cells. But it is not a good digital storage mechanism for big data.
This will never be used to store digital information. You could do it much more easily with a much simpler, man made system of chemical 1 and 0 s in any type of medium, silicon or biological. The triplet code in DNA/'RNA requires a lot of complicated enzymatic machinery to copy, store, replicate and read. It will not make a simple, reliable and robust system for humans trying to store and retrieve lots of information.
Whistleblowers use Wikileaks to get the information to the public you moron. GFU.
Anyone who thinks that whistle blowers that inform the public of the illegal, immoral and dangerously counterproductive acts of our government does needs to be prosecuted is clearly favoring the deep state over the people. Any free society that is not allowed to know what its government is doing, is not a free society by definition. You may think it is "nice here", and maybe you have a cushy job in the deep state, or IT. But that is not how this country is working out for the poor people, the people without health care, and the hungry. It also isn't working out well for young, unarmed black kids getting shot by police. Nationalism of your sort is very widespread among conservatives here. It is the same nationalism as overseas, but you being an American, think your version is better. Read "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari, you might learn something.
So you don't pay attention to anything going on in the rest of the world, where universal health coverage works for everyone, and the costs are about half, and the outcomes better? Now I understand.
Corporations get something for nothing every day.
Your take is worthless nationalistic tripe.
Stalin was left wing in your dreams. Left wing is peace, protecting our environment, healthcare and education for everyone and greater equality. No progressive is an authoritarian. Trump is, Bernie isn't. .
Yeah, healthcare for all is such a crazy idea, only the US is smart enough to not have fallen for it.
You said it not me. I'm sure you think you made a point.
I said the least responsible people for the spying and the endless wars are the left wing progressives who don't want any spying or wars of regime change. Right wing people push for war, not the lefties. Clinton is a right wing Democrat, Obama isa right wing Democrat. Bernie Sanders is an independent for a reason. Because progressives like him are not welcome in the corporate owned DNC.
And by the way, Obama is not the left. He may be the center-right, but he has nothing to do with the Bernie Left. The spy agencies are all right wing. The military is right wing, the wars are done by right wing Democrats and Republicans colluding together. The people least responsible for the spying and the wars are all those lefty anti-war and-spying protesters. But I still maintain that just about everyone is to blame, including the public who barely pays attention to anything other than their phone.
No, everyone is responsible. All the spy agencies are involved, and corporations are clearly involved. It was done under Bush/Cheney and Obama, and so far the American public has failed to complain enough, and the media have failed their role as watchdogs. It is everybody's fault. If people don't start complaining a lot more to their representatives, and vote in more honest representatives, it will only get worse.
Inter-operative user data collection and sharing. I'm so excited.
...and sterilizing Campbell's soup cans before opening them and watching old movies over and over, and... yes.