MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- A man received a suspended two-month jail sentence Friday for feeding hash cookies to two unsuspecting Mormon missionaries.
Alexander McLean, 46, baked about 30 cookies and served some to the two Americans when they visited his house in the southern city of Melbourne on May 19. The names of the 19-year-old victims, who were hospitalized after eating the cookies, were not released.
McLean had pleaded not guilty in Dandenong Magistrates' Court to charges including recklessly causing serious injury and introducing a drug into the body of another.
Magistrate Margaret Harding dismissed the most serious charge of recklessly causing serious injury but convicted McLean of feeding the missionaries drugs.
A second man pleaded guilty to charges of cultivating, using and possessing cannabis and was fined $290. McLean plans to appeal.
McLean said the Mormons were "nice young guys. If they knock on our door again they are quite welcome to come in and have a cup of coffee and a biscuit."
Our demise as a race is inevitable. It will come either in the form of a suicide (nuclear war, man-made pandemic etc.), natural disaster (supervolcano, asteroid, getting hit by a deep-space gamma-ray burst) or evolution.
Personally, I'm waiting for the heat death of the Universe, although I'd like to meet the four horsemen at some stage.
Yes, the beer so good my uncle named his son (Cooper) after it. Luckily I'm from the home of the famous beer too, so it's nice and fresh. For those in Ann Arbor, you can get the sparkling Coopers at Ashley's.
Yes there was a link to savannah.gnu.org, but there is not a lot of information about it on the front page, except that the services provided by savannah.gnu.org are now online (except not all, or something)
There was also a link to the forums, stating that the system had been cracked. Try reading the/. frontpage to start with, next time you don't want to look like a stupid troll.
You were given a site at gnu.org (if you don't know what GNU is, why are you reading/.?), told what had happened, and what the current status of the site was. What part of that didn't you understand?
Actually it's not quite as crazy it sounds. Cygwin is basically a Linux-esque environment running on top of a Windows kernel, the BSD layer in Mac OS X runs directly on top of the Mach-based microkernel (side-by-side with Aqua, not Aqua on top of BSD as many believe).
Not quite - Cancers aren't parasites or viruses - they *are* mutations of our own cells.
They don't undergo natural selection hardly at all - in fact - they kill the *host* (if that term could be applied) - the worst of all possible mutations if they were a separate species - but that's just the point - they are not.
Cancers are our *own* cells following rules of cell division that are fundamentally detrimental to the individual and the species.
*Populations* of cancers do not exist in the same sense of separate species or even races.
You're right, in that it's not true evolution (in a Darwinian sense), hence why the parent poster used quote marks. It is like evolution at a cellular level.
The thrust of many cancer therapies right now is to use these properties to our advantage. The reovirus (previously covered), for example, is only able to infect cells with a messed up ras pathway (which only happens in tumor cells) so it will always be an effective treatment against cancer, unless the definition of cancer changes.
But p53 is also invovled in DNA repair and checkpointing during the cell cycle. Without it, mutations accumulate much faster. Targeting the Ras pathway is fine, but there are multiple pathways that will drive the cell cycle (or alternatively, lack of apoptosis will also allow the cells to proliferate), and many genes on the pathways can have mutations. Heterogeneity of tumor cell populations is routinely taken into consideration by oncologists targeting radiotherapy and chemotherapy, some cells will usually survive and these then have a selective advantage, otherwise chemotherapy (and adenovirus treatment) would always be effective, which it is clearly not.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- A man received a suspended two-month jail sentence Friday for feeding hash cookies to two unsuspecting Mormon missionaries. Alexander McLean, 46, baked about 30 cookies and served some to the two Americans when they visited his house in the southern city of Melbourne on May 19. The names of the 19-year-old victims, who were hospitalized after eating the cookies, were not released. McLean had pleaded not guilty in Dandenong Magistrates' Court to charges including recklessly causing serious injury and introducing a drug into the body of another. Magistrate Margaret Harding dismissed the most serious charge of recklessly causing serious injury but convicted McLean of feeding the missionaries drugs. A second man pleaded guilty to charges of cultivating, using and possessing cannabis and was fined $290. McLean plans to appeal. McLean said the Mormons were "nice young guys. If they knock on our door again they are quite welcome to come in and have a cup of coffee and a biscuit."
Our demise as a race is inevitable. It will come either in the form of a suicide (nuclear war, man-made pandemic etc.), natural disaster (supervolcano, asteroid, getting hit by a deep-space gamma-ray burst) or evolution.
Personally, I'm waiting for the heat death of the Universe, although I'd like to meet the four horsemen at some stage.
The company claims that their vaults are protected and safe from "any force known to man", including a nuclear blast.
But not including company employees.
And here was me thinking it was referring to the evil SCO plot to set Tux on fire...
When I first saw that headline, I thought "What the hell is a Linux Chili?"
Well, I've heard about SCO giving people the shits...
you insensitive clod! Yeah, I know SCO are talking about BSD now, thus proving they really are crazy.
Tired of reading black-on-white text on Internet history and its celebrities?
Yeah, I just switched my web browser to white-on-black text.
Yes, the beer so good my uncle named his son (Cooper) after it. Luckily I'm from the home of the famous beer too, so it's nice and fresh. For those in Ann Arbor, you can get the sparkling Coopers at Ashley's.
Well he *is* an expert at talking out of his arse. ;)
Yes there was a link to savannah.gnu.org, but there is not a lot of information about it on the front page, except that the services provided by savannah.gnu.org are now online (except not all, or something)
/. frontpage to start with, next time you don't want to look like a stupid troll.
There was also a link to the forums, stating that the system had been cracked. Try reading the
Why mod people up without actually reading the fucking link? I mean why? How can you justify giving someone mod points without seeing whats posted?
The + mod points were given before the redirection on the site was changed.
Point is TFA should be properly introduced
/.?), told what had happened, and what the current status of the site was. What part of that didn't you understand?
You were given a site at gnu.org (if you don't know what GNU is, why are you reading
What is Savahna?
Why was it not online?
Why should I care?
Why don't you RTFA?
Just lie back and think of electric sheep.
That's not news.
It's olds: telling people things they already know, in this case that SCO is a bunch of wankers.
SCO sends out Christmas cards? Does SCO stand for Santa Claus Operation?
This from an AC at (of time of writing) +4 :)
Or a beta loser.
Actually it's not quite as crazy it sounds. Cygwin is basically a Linux-esque environment running on top of a Windows kernel, the BSD layer in Mac OS X runs directly on top of the Mach-based microkernel (side-by-side with Aqua, not Aqua on top of BSD as many believe).
You bring the keg and I'll bring the magic markers
Mmmm.. magic markers. Don't think the shift key will have the same effect, though I could be wrong.
Thanks for that, I just submitted it ;)
Is there a scenario where both can lose?
Double frag!
Not quite - Cancers aren't parasites or viruses - they *are* mutations of our own cells. They don't undergo natural selection hardly at all - in fact - they kill the *host* (if that term could be applied) - the worst of all possible mutations if they were a separate species - but that's just the point - they are not. Cancers are our *own* cells following rules of cell division that are fundamentally detrimental to the individual and the species. *Populations* of cancers do not exist in the same sense of separate species or even races.
You're right, in that it's not true evolution (in a Darwinian sense), hence why the parent poster used quote marks. It is like evolution at a cellular level.
You demonstrate a lack of understanding of each and every key word. You are either 12 years old or a machine blinding splitting out words.
I'm sorry if a well referenced argument confuses the trolling AC's.
The thrust of many cancer therapies right now is to use these properties to our advantage. The reovirus (previously covered), for example, is only able to infect cells with a messed up ras pathway (which only happens in tumor cells) so it will always be an effective treatment against cancer, unless the definition of cancer changes.
But p53 is also invovled in DNA repair and checkpointing during the cell cycle. Without it, mutations accumulate much faster. Targeting the Ras pathway is fine, but there are multiple pathways that will drive the cell cycle (or alternatively, lack of apoptosis will also allow the cells to proliferate), and many genes on the pathways can have mutations. Heterogeneity of tumor cell populations is routinely taken into consideration by oncologists targeting radiotherapy and chemotherapy, some cells will usually survive and these then have a selective advantage, otherwise chemotherapy (and adenovirus treatment) would always be effective, which it is clearly not.