Jobs and Gates are humanitarian only if they pay their workers decent wages; no amount of charity can make up for injustice
At one point, Mr Rockefeller was the most hated man in america; he hired one of hte first pr people, and for a few hundred million, became loved and admired..who says the american public is neither cheap nor easy ?
One of the popes was being shown around the vatican after his installation, and the pontiff asked a gardener how thing wer going Not to well theman answered; my wages are so low, I can't afford to feed my family.
When the bishops protested that charity would suffer if the pope increased wages, he replied, Justice comes before charity.
did anyone else catch the incompetant interview with att gen gonsales on npr yesterday ? the AG said FISA authorizes wiretaps in time of war, and the idiot interviewer did not come back with FISA allows warratnless wiretaps in the 1st 14 days after a war is declared...
and yr point is ? did these errors in any way prevent u from grasping my point ? does the hypocrisy of writing an error laden screed in any way detract from the logic of the argument ?
i like writing like that cauze there is always some pedant can't c the forest for the trees...or maybe im just lazy meself
There exists the "data" that university professors are more liberal then the "average" and that as a result, students are exsposed to a bias - more liberalism then average, and that this is wrong.
There are so many logical flaws, this is, like joelonsoftware likes to say, a good test for hiring bright people
who ran these surveys that show univ profs to be moreliberal
is this because tenured ups are able to speak their mind, and company employees are not, and the situation is not that ups are more liberal, but that the rampant liberalism of the avg american is chained by corporate bosses
is the liberlism of ups based on facts, as opposed to factless consevatism (fox news viewers thinking saddam = osama)
Virutally ever major institution in our society - exec branch, congress, judiciary - is overwhelmingly more conservative then us pop (polls show most americans favor universal govt health care; both dems and gop against; therefore govt more conservative then avg)
the press is overwhelmingly conservative (eg, the supposedly liberal ny times recently said, without any source, that cheap imports and loss of jobs is a net plus for us consumers - says who what data ?)
I could go on, but the bottom line is that a vrwc (vast right wing conspiracy) does in fact exist, and it is waging war on the american people, to transform our economy into one where employment is mostly cooks and butlers to the super wealthy
as a small entity (individual) you can file a patent with about 100 bucks, to preserver your priority date, and have a year to raise the 600 dollars needed for a regular app fee
u write the patent yourself
if you cant figure out how to write patnet your self,or are to lazy, u don't deserve it
a patent is a lot of work, but any ordinary person who can write a coherent paragraph should be able to figure out how to do it
In fact, writing a patnet would be a good subsitute for a college degree - about an equiv amount of knowledge
1) for 99% of websites, worrying about the small group of people with opera and lynx and windows 95 is pointless; so, you should be replaced by someone with more judgement, or less time on their hands
2) If your website caters to that small group of users among whom lynxs is actually a significant %, then you have to support them, but you should know this already, so your org needs a more savy web master.
I mean, jeez, give me a break. No organization can afford to support all the platforms, unless you are more interested in how good your website is then in actually communicating with your users. People make wrong choices, or wrong choices get made for them (betamax, DEC rainbow,...) all the time, and that is their problem. Grow a little thicker skin, and say screw you to the wankers who use opera or lynx or whatever. Life is to short.
So far as I know, there is no reason anyone should use anything other then ie or firefox, other then their personal psycho problems about software. draw a line in the sand, and show some backbone.
reason to use = it does something important. last time i checked, opera did not do anything i or anyone else actually needed
Which is, since we are, indisuptiably, the #1 economic, technological and military power in the world, and have been #1 or close since the turn of the century (pace all those with knowledge of german technology before wwII) we have a hard time admitting that things here are not well. Coupled with the normal chauvinism generated by nationalism, and you have a situation where most americans are unable to accept facts that put us in a bad light, not to mention the people who rationalize our poor economy to make thier jobs bearable.
Since the 1970s, the upper x% of wage earners (X ~ 1 - 5) have had their real disposalbe income double; the bottom y% of wage earners have seen their real income grow modestly (y ~ 20-40%; modest ~ 15%)
So, part of the hatred to europe - and you are quite correct that it is rampant, although not perhaps a majority - is displaced anger at the poor performance of the economy. Many of the people who have bought into the myth of the american system - work hard and get rewards - are unable to accept that that is a myth, and that they have not gotten rewards, and to justify this belief, genrate hostility toward things like the superior social conditions in europe.
Based on my experinece, symantec is certainly a resource hog (scanning outgoing email with pdf takes FOOOOOrever), and each edition has a less clear interface, but is macafee any better ? the new dells at work come with macafee, and I cant even figure out how to update the stupid thing - why do people on/. claim it is better ?
These programs are also a significant cost, which suggests, finally, a way for linux to gain market share on the desktop: tell people about the 5 yr tco of anti spy ware.
That the linux community feels a need to compare itself to Ms. Comparing linux to the MS OSs is ludicrous. They are in such different markets, do ing such diff things, that it is simply not worth the effort to compare them.
I think it is a sign of the insecurity of the linux community that they feel the need to compare to MS. Either linux is good, and does things that people want, or it isnt and doesnt. People like myself, and my dad, and the cfo at the tiny company i work for don't use firefox cause they care (or even know) about open source issues and MS vs M$, they use firefox because of tabs, save all tabs to a book mark folder, adjustable font size. These are features that people want. Unless linux delivers features that people want, it is a hobby for nerds (which explains the success in the server market)
Many years ago, budding young engineers built electronic equipment from heath kits; today the play with the linux os.
I think everyone assumed that there were type I or II or III RNApol promoters tht would function in all organisms, so there was no real need to do the exp.
As to harvesting transgenic organs for transplant into humans, it is not enough to add necessary antigens, you have to remove unwanted antigens as well.
this is a little more tricky.
You also have to demonstrate that the tissue does not contain any porcine viruses that can jump to humans; proving a negative is often a little tedious
DAAAAD it only has a terbyte of memory are you trying to embarass me I hate you
OK, sugar pumpkin, what would you like
well the new laptops at CompUsa weigh 12 ounces, have a 3D screen, virtual keyboard, and a pB of ram (1 pB = 1^3 tB = 1^6 gB)but shirley jones has one with an extra 20 pB so she can have evry movie ever made, and virtual language translation
Well, you know the jones have a lot more money then us, but how much is the pB machine...
And you cn just imagine what our great grandkids will say
in the 70s, there was a 4 track system called quad, that had an even briefer life then 8 tracks..and I still use 3.5 inchfloppys once or twice a year. but there are a lot of dead media...wax cylinders, 45s, 8mm home movies, instamatic film (is minox still alive ?)
and i'll bet there are a lot of prop dictation and transcription media from the 60s that noone has heard of..surely there must be a wiki on dead media
I mean, what clueless moron takes peer rev seriously ? Even at the 'best" journals, nature and science, and phy rev and JACS etc, there is a large amt of crap, stuff put in to get people tenure, stuff put in cause its someones students, etc.
the only thing you can say, ala winston churchill, is that it is the worst system ever invented, except for all the others ( Sydney Brenner, one of the outstanding molecular biologists of our time, has some amusing thoughts in his biography, as, I believe, nobelist kornberg does to
well, my hp was bought in the spring of 2001, has gone all over the us and europe on many trips, and has not had a SINGLE problem, so I would say your ibook really kinda sucks...
How on earth can you be happy with something that has one major failure and a problem ? would you say an automobile was goood if only th transmission needed to be replaced after a year ?
I am always surprised to hear people talk about apples great design, since from what i can see (my wifes g4 laptop) their design sucks, eg, rubber keys that leave imprints on the screen (and we won't even go to ipod battery land).
I have also read a lot of posts on poor wireless connections.
not to mention slot loading optical drives, which can't take a mini disc
the day after pons and fleischman had their original press conference, my boss comes in, and says, well, they don't look like bullshitters, but I talked to some guys who know about this (my boss was an mit prof, so when he said guys who know, i think it was serious) and they said, pons and f are off by 23 orders of magnitude.....
So, the thing is, the amount of energy required to put two deuterium atoms next to each other is ENORMOUS like really big, so...
the other way to look at it is that after 16 years, we still don't have a confirmed case, whivch says a lot
The idea that water molecules can retain an image of a solute is rediculous.it flies in the face of just about everything we know about water. that is why i think that homeopathy is the part of human thought that is MOST in contradiction to science; it is far, far worse the Intelligent design or religion or belief in the free market (that thrown in just for flamebait, but true nontheless)
my understanding of hte us economy is that ~ 40% of workers (the lower two quintiles on the income distribution scale) have seen virtually no real increase in income in 20+ years
therefore, by any reasonable definition, the us economy does not work well, and has not worked well for 20 years, and most of what we call working well is a small number of people getting rich
Well, if you don't have analytical tools like DGGE (lerman and fisher) SSCP, MALDI or electrospray, you don't really know much about the chemical nature of your DNA
for instance, it is well known, except to "scientists" who post on/. that a large fraction of the oligo you get from your fav vendor (IDT/genosys/etc etc) has some form of covalent modificatin, such as non removed deprotecting groups,etc
You are simply not aware of this, as various filters (Taq, transformation) remove the junk
Similarly, when you run a gel, and see a band for you pcr or whatever, you think you have a clean frag. but you don't proprly account for the smear - it is hard to quantitate, but amounts to a lot of material.
I could go on, but i'll save this stuff for my students quals
You are changing the goalposts when you say nanotech will work; the question is more , is dna anyting other then an exotic material used only by nasa and dod
What is $$ In plastics, a buck a pound is typical for commodity PS; super $$ peek is 13 dollars a pound. I don't know what the cost of oligos is, but a hundred bucks a gram is the cheapest i have ever heard.
DNA is NOT stable lyophilized; you only think that cause you don't have good analytical tools like dggge or sscp or maldi, and your enzymes filter out the bad stuff Sure, dna may possibly be usefull for some esoteric or trace apps, but as an industrial base material - nah (and don't quote pcr barcode oligos as tracers )
many years ago, I had dinner with a fellow who had just been hired as a director of regulatory affairs by a now long gone pharma company. He mentioned that one of his first tasks had been to burn the files to dangerous to have around, and when asked for an examples, said, well, we have a Korean MD who had been taking suitcases of experimental compounds to Korea, and going up into the mountains, where people don't have any money, and injecting volunteers with large amounts of these untested chemicals (for u younguns, Korea used to be quite poor).
Now, apparently, it is legal....Thank you right wing, GOP CATO the vast right wing conspiracy including mellon,koch CATO and others
"By funding corporations with tax dollars the GOP only has reinforced the public's suspicion that this is the party of the rich, the privileged, and the well-connected." Gee, and I thought the republicans liked butlers, personal cooks and maids because they promote policys to create more jobs for them...how wrong was i !!
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Jobs and Gates are humanitarian only if they pay their workers decent wages; no amount of charity can make up for injustice
At one point, Mr Rockefeller was the most hated man in america; he hired one of hte first pr people, and for a few hundred million, became loved and admired..who says the american public is neither cheap nor easy ?
One of the popes was being shown around the vatican after his installation, and the pontiff asked a gardener how thing wer going
Not to well theman answered; my wages are so low, I can't afford to feed my family.
When the bishops protested that charity would suffer if the pope increased wages, he replied, Justice comes before charity.
did anyone else catch the incompetant interview with att gen gonsales on npr yesterday ? the AG said FISA authorizes wiretaps in time of war, and the idiot interviewer did not come back with FISA allows warratnless wiretaps in the 1st 14 days after a war is declared...
and yr point is ?
did these errors in any way prevent u from grasping my point ?
does the hypocrisy of writing an error laden screed in any way detract from the logic of the argument ?
i like writing like that cauze there is always some pedant can't c the forest for the trees...or maybe im just lazy meself
There exists the "data" that university professors are more liberal then the "average" and that as a result, students are exsposed to a bias - more liberalism then average, and that this is wrong.
There are so many logical flaws, this is, like joelonsoftware likes to say, a good test for hiring bright people
who ran these surveys that show univ profs to be moreliberal
is this because tenured ups are able to speak their mind, and company employees are not, and the situation is not that ups are more liberal, but that the rampant liberalism of the avg american is chained by corporate bosses
is the liberlism of ups based on facts, as opposed to factless consevatism (fox news viewers thinking saddam = osama)
Virutally ever major institution in our society - exec branch, congress, judiciary - is overwhelmingly more conservative then us pop (polls show most americans favor universal govt health care; both dems and gop against; therefore govt more conservative then avg)
the press is overwhelmingly conservative (eg, the supposedly liberal ny times recently said, without any source, that cheap imports and loss of jobs is a net plus for us consumers - says who what data ?)
I could go on, but the bottom line is that a vrwc (vast right wing conspiracy) does in fact exist, and it is waging war on the american people, to transform our economy into one where employment is mostly cooks and butlers to the super wealthy
as a small entity (individual) you can file a patent with about 100 bucks, to preserver your priority date, and have a year to raise the 600 dollars needed for a regular app fee
u write the patent yourself
if you cant figure out how to write patnet your self,or are to lazy, u don't deserve it
a patent is a lot of work, but any ordinary person who can write a coherent paragraph should be able to figure out how to do it
In fact, writing a patnet would be a good subsitute for a college degree - about an equiv amount of knowledge
1) for 99% of websites, worrying about the small group of people with opera and lynx and windows 95 is pointless; so, you should be replaced by someone with more judgement, or less time on their hands
...) all the time, and that is their problem.
2) If your website caters to that small group of users among whom lynxs is actually a significant %, then you have to support them, but you should know this already, so your org needs a more savy web master.
I mean, jeez, give me a break. No organization can afford to support all the platforms, unless you are more interested in how good your website is then in actually communicating with your users. People make wrong choices, or wrong choices get made for them (betamax, DEC rainbow,
Grow a little thicker skin, and say screw you to the wankers who use opera or lynx or whatever. Life is to short.
So far as I know, there is no reason anyone should use anything other then ie or firefox, other then their personal psycho problems about software. draw a line in the sand, and show some backbone.
reason to use = it does something important. last time i checked, opera did not do anything i or anyone else actually needed
Which is, since we are, indisuptiably, the #1 economic, technological and military power in the world, and have been #1 or close since the turn of the century (pace all those with knowledge of german technology before wwII) we have a hard time admitting that things here are not well. Coupled with the normal chauvinism generated by nationalism, and you have a situation where most americans are unable to accept facts that put us in a bad light, not to mention the people who rationalize our poor economy to make thier jobs bearable.
Since the 1970s, the upper x% of wage earners (X ~ 1 - 5) have had their real disposalbe income double; the bottom y% of wage earners have seen their real income grow modestly (y ~ 20-40%; modest ~ 15%)
So, part of the hatred to europe - and you are quite correct that it is rampant, although not perhaps a majority - is displaced anger at the poor performance of the economy. Many of the people who have bought into the myth of the american system - work hard and get rewards - are unable to accept that that is a myth, and that they have not gotten rewards, and to justify this belief, genrate hostility toward things like the superior social conditions in europe.
Based on my experinece, symantec is certainly a resource hog (scanning outgoing email with pdf takes FOOOOOrever), and each edition has a less clear interface, but is macafee any better ? the new dells at work come with macafee, and I cant even figure out how to update the stupid thing - why do people on /. claim it is better ?
These programs are also a significant cost, which suggests, finally, a way for linux to gain market share on the desktop: tell people about the 5 yr tco of anti spy ware.
That the linux community feels a need to compare itself to Ms. Comparing linux to the MS OSs is ludicrous. They are in such different markets, do ing such diff things, that it is simply not worth the effort to compare them.
I think it is a sign of the insecurity of the linux community that they feel the need to compare to MS. Either linux is good, and does things that people want, or it isnt and doesnt. People like myself, and my dad, and the cfo at the tiny company i work for don't use firefox cause they care (or even know) about open source issues and MS vs M$, they use firefox because of tabs, save all tabs to a book mark folder, adjustable font size. These are features that people want. Unless linux delivers features that people want, it is a hobby for nerds (which explains the success in the server market)
Many years ago, budding young engineers built electronic equipment from heath kits; today the play with the linux os.
I think everyone assumed that there were type I or II or III RNApol promoters tht would function in all organisms, so there was no real need to do the exp.
As to harvesting transgenic organs for transplant into humans, it is not enough to add necessary antigens, you have to remove unwanted antigens as well.
this is a little more tricky.
You also have to demonstrate that the tissue does not contain any porcine viruses that can jump to humans; proving a negative is often a little tedious
sure honey, you can have my old laptop
DAAAAD it only has a terbyte of memory are you trying to embarass me
I hate you
OK, sugar pumpkin, what would you like
well the new laptops at CompUsa weigh 12 ounces, have a 3D screen, virtual keyboard, and a pB of ram (1 pB = 1^3 tB = 1^6 gB)but shirley jones has one
with an extra 20 pB so she can have evry movie ever made, and virtual language translation
Well, you know the jones have a lot more money then us, but how much is the pB machine...
And you cn just imagine what our great grandkids will say
in the 70s, there was a 4 track system called quad, that had an even briefer life then 8 tracks..and I still use 3.5 inchfloppys once or twice a year.
but there are a lot of dead media...wax cylinders, 45s, 8mm home movies, instamatic film (is minox still alive ?)
and i'll bet there are a lot of prop dictation and transcription media from the 60s that noone has heard of..surely there must be a wiki on dead media
Im shocked to find problems with peer review ....
I mean, what clueless moron takes peer rev seriously ? Even at the 'best" journals, nature and science, and phy rev and JACS etc, there is a large amt of crap, stuff put in to get people tenure, stuff put in cause its someones students, etc.
the only thing you can say, ala winston churchill, is that it is the worst system ever invented, except for all the others ( Sydney Brenner, one of the outstanding molecular biologists of our time, has some amusing thoughts in his biography, as, I believe, nobelist kornberg does to
In the sixties, i heard "It's easy to understand infinity, just contemplate human stupidity" attributed (no doubt wrongly) to Blaise Pascal
sometimes in the form, it's easy to understand the concept of infinity,...
well, my hp was bought in the spring of 2001, has gone all over the us and europe on many trips, and has not had a SINGLE problem, so I would say your ibook really kinda sucks...
How on earth can you be happy with something that has one major failure and a problem ? would you say an automobile was goood if only th transmission needed to be replaced after a year ?
I am always surprised to hear people talk about apples great design, since from what i can see (my wifes g4 laptop) their design sucks, eg, rubber keys that leave imprints on the screen (and we won't even go to ipod battery land).
I have also read a lot of posts on poor wireless connections.
not to mention slot loading optical drives, which can't take a mini disc
What is the minimum number of words to use all of the elements (I realize there is some debate above ~ #109)
the day after pons and fleischman had their original press conference, my boss comes in, and says, well, they don't look like bullshitters, but I talked to some guys who know about this (my boss was an mit prof, so when he said guys who know, i think it was serious) and they said, pons and f are off by 23 orders of magnitude.....
...
So, the thing is, the amount of energy required to put two deuterium atoms next to each other is ENORMOUS like really big, so
the other way to look at it is that after 16 years, we still don't have a confirmed case, whivch says a lot
The idea that water molecules can retain an image of a solute is rediculous.it flies in the face of just about everything we know about water. that is why i think that homeopathy is the part of human thought that is MOST in contradiction to science; it is far, far worse the Intelligent design or religion or belief in the free market (that thrown in just for flamebait, but true nontheless)
my understanding of hte us economy is that ~ 40% of workers (the lower two quintiles on the income distribution scale) have seen virtually no real increase in income in 20+ years
therefore, by any reasonable definition, the us economy does not work well, and has not worked well for 20 years, and most of what we call working well is a small number of people getting rich
so much for the free market
Well, if you don't have analytical tools like DGGE (lerman and fisher) SSCP, MALDI or electrospray, you don't really know much about the chemical nature of your DNA
/. that a large fraction of the oligo you get from your fav vendor (IDT/genosys/etc etc) has some form of covalent modificatin, such as non removed deprotecting groups,etc
for instance, it is well known, except to "scientists" who post on
You are simply not aware of this, as various filters (Taq, transformation) remove the junk
Similarly, when you run a gel, and see a band for you pcr or whatever, you think you have a clean frag. but you don't proprly account for the smear - it is hard to quantitate, but amounts to a lot of material.
I could go on, but i'll save this stuff for my students quals
You are changing the goalposts when you say nanotech will work; the question is more , is dna anyting other then an exotic material used only by nasa and dod
What is $$
In plastics, a buck a pound is typical for commodity PS; super $$ peek is 13 dollars a pound. I don't know what the cost of oligos is, but a hundred bucks a gram is the cheapest i have ever heard.
DNA is NOT stable lyophilized; you only think that cause you don't have good analytical tools like dggge or sscp or maldi, and your enzymes filter out the bad stuff
Sure, dna may possibly be usefull for some esoteric or trace apps, but as an industrial base material - nah (and don't quote pcr barcode oligos as tracers )
ned seeman at nyu has been doing this for years
it has little if any practical value; dna is VERY $$, and a delicate molecule that is destroyed by normal shipping temperatures (at least in tuscon)
the idea that dna will be any sort of industrial material for anything is fantasy
many years ago, I had dinner with a fellow who had just been hired as a director of regulatory affairs by a now long gone pharma company. He mentioned that one of his first tasks had been to burn the files to dangerous to have around, and when asked for an examples, said, well, we have a Korean MD who had been taking suitcases of experimental compounds to Korea, and going up into the mountains, where people don't have any money, and injecting volunteers with large amounts of these untested chemicals (for u younguns, Korea used to be quite poor).
Now, apparently, it is legal....Thank you right wing, GOP CATO the vast right wing conspiracy including mellon,koch CATO and others
"By funding corporations with tax dollars the GOP only has reinforced the public's suspicion that this is the party of the rich, the privileged, and the well-connected."
Gee, and I thought the republicans liked butlers, personal cooks and maids because they promote policys to create more jobs for them...how wrong was i !!