The problem with your entire argument - that patents sabotage cancer (and other research) is that quite a bit of the planet doesn't give a flying fuck about patents and, if you actually developed a simple, inexpensive and reliable (but not patentable) cure, you could make money by advertising / selling it in the wide swath of the planet that doesn't care about American law.
Kind of like an experiment...
Patents are done very poorly at present, but they aren't the reason that we haven't been able to cure much in the way of cancer.
Lots of them. Not sure what you're trying to get at. Double blind studies happen all the time. Yes, they're hard to do. They often have problems (usually related to the fact that they don't include a statistician until the very end). But you can blind human studies just like you do with any other lab animal.
It also also sounds like the same asshat throws as many posts at Slashdot as what they can in a day to make themselves feel good about how pathetic they are.
Funny this. If I just put your name, "AC" in your very own post - it fits perfectly!
Yep, things change. 98% of all species are extinct. However, we're driving the car now. And heading into the cliff wall with it. No matter what happens, we probably won't be able to cause extinction of the human race, but we might get fairly close.
I'm kind of divided as to whether or not this is a good thing in the long run. The sad part about it is that we can effect a much more gradual change to the environment - one that will leave the planet more or less the same (and remember, WE like it the way it is). It just looks like we aren't going to take that road.
Finally, there is Biology 101. Shells have been used by ALL forms of aquatic life at the bottom of the food chain since shortly after the formation of multicellular life 500 million years ago. Changing such a basic ocean chemistry can have catastrophic changes for the entire biosphere. It is not when you kill off all the whales or tuna that we fuck ourselves over. It is when we manage to affect the micro cellular life, the phytoplankton, the bugs, that the real change begins
Oh quit being such a conservative panty waist. Nature by itself is too friggin boring - changes over millions of years? Where's the fun in that? We humans need instant gratification. We need to reboot the food change so things happen faster.
Otherwise, we won't be able to insert as many commercials. That would be a problem.
I think half of mod points are going to a bunch of bots that some researchers are using to try to improve artificial intelligence. It's an experiment that isn't working out all that well....
Fifty years? Read the Old Testament. Half of is about various kings tromping over one group or another. The other is licentious claptrap but that's an argument for another day.
One of the oldest structures excavated in the Middle East is at Jericho. It's a fort. It's around 8000 years old.
And France, and Belgium, and Germany and the US and pretty much any country that did in fact or tried to create an Empire.
Remarkably, when you look at that way you see that humans have been screwing over other humans (and the rest of the planet) for their own perceived benefit for thousands of years.
School RFID tags are a moot point when you realize that sometime next year you're going to be called to your doctor's office to have your ObamaCare RFID chips implanted, one in each hand. The you, your child, everyone will be trackable 24/7.
You need to keep tightening that tin foil hat of yours. Much, much tighter as you are still getting some (limited) blood supply to your brain. It would be best if you cut it off entirely.
I know the pics show the device on the bottom but seemingly that would work only for shallow water rigs and not for the deeper platforms. Still would need large amounts of power (I guess). And dealing with a 100 MW power plant (or the output of same) on the bottom of the ocean is a pretty big engineering challenge.
Nice to have some real numbers and a better diagram.....
It appears that the 'cloaking device' would create impulses in the water that would null out at least part of the big nasty surface wave. To do this, it has to be coupled to the surface - otherwise no energy would get imparted.
The physics of wave amplification and cancellation are well established. I imagine that we have the technology to look at the waves coming at the rig, figure out the waveforms and come up with 'counter' waveforms. I'm having problems, however, figuring out where he is going to get the energy to make the counter waves.
And for once, I have to agree with EF, it doesn't appear to be work like other cloaking' devices (where the waves are bent around the object), it just seems to be waveform cancellation. Of course the TFA has little in the way of useful info....
"Normal" and "dry cleaned turkey" don't logically fit, at least in my universe. In fact, I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around a dry cleaned turkey.
Please don't invite me over to your house next Thanksgiving. Nothing personal.
Actually, lots of different drugs will blunt 'nervous reactions'. Antidepressants, anti anxiety drugs, opiates, marijuana, some blood pressure meds, television.
You can drug someone to the point where nothing bothers them.
So some random 'journalists' have attempted to force an analogy and it doesn't work (ICBM defense is analogous to primitive short range surface-surface missiles). Woop de do. Iron Dome is much more closely related to the Patriot system which was designed to hit smaller, slower targets than ICBMs.
Not sure what the big deal is. Wake me up when they get the shark mounted lasers working.
We are all motivated by rewards and penalties. Money is just the convertible currency for this.
Once the insurance industry gets hold of the map, money will see the fixes are made.
Nonsense. These are parts per million leaks for the most part. Not necessarily dangerous. How many streets or buildings have mysteriously blown up over the past several decades?
Actually it should be pretty easy. Video cameras in police cars are pretty much ubiquitous. If you're wandering, going too fast / too slow or whatever and the policeman (or a citizen with the same tech) gets a video of the car with you getting out of it - you're driving impaired. It doesn't really make a difference if it's due to marijuana or benadryl - you shouldn't be driving.
Yes, the reporting sucks, as usual. If the climate were perfectly stable (never is) and human economic growth continued you would EXPECT damages from pretty much everything to increase unless people in general were rational and had enough foresight to mitigate obvious problems like putting lots of expensive things next to the ocean.
Add a changing environment (hotter, colder - it really doesn't make much difference) and you're going to have more damage - unless you get smart about where to place things.
But the climate is changing - and changing fairly quickly. Whether or not mankind is really forcing the change or not, it still is going to be a big problem because we are pushing the carrying capacity of the planet at present. If you look at the history of human kind it is apparent that climate change has forced numerous civilizations to move, adapt or collapse (or various combinations). Given close to 7 billion people, moving lots of them doesn't work well. Adapting will certainly happen - some more successful than others and collapse is definitely a possibility.
Just try to ignore the media - as usual, it's not being terribly helpful.
to show this is definitely not a naturally occurring cycle?
No but the evidence is pretty good that it is primarily forced by CO2. And, in a very real sense it makes little difference if it's anthropogenic or due to His Noodlieness eating that giant bean burrito. We will still have to deal with relatively rapid environmental changes that will cause rapid economic and political pressures which, on top of the fact that there are too many humans running around, is going to create some 'interesting times' for us all.
The new news is that we seem to be plugging along the worst case scenario trend lines. So instead of having 50 to 100 years to deal with issues we may see dramatic changes in 10 - 20. It also makes it less likely that we can reverse the process by economic or political means which means that there will be even more pressure to start tossing some Hail Mary passes.
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The problem with your entire argument - that patents sabotage cancer (and other research) is that quite a bit of the planet doesn't give a flying fuck about patents and, if you actually developed a simple, inexpensive and reliable (but not patentable) cure, you could make money by advertising / selling it in the wide swath of the planet that doesn't care about American law.
Kind of like an experiment...
Patents are done very poorly at present, but they aren't the reason that we haven't been able to cure much in the way of cancer.
Lots of them. Not sure what you're trying to get at. Double blind studies happen all the time. Yes, they're hard to do. They often have problems (usually related to the fact that they don't include a statistician until the very end). But you can blind human studies just like you do with any other lab animal.
It also also sounds like the same asshat throws as many posts at Slashdot as what they can in a day to make themselves feel good about how pathetic they are.
Funny this. If I just put your name, "AC" in your very own post - it fits perfectly!
Just STFU or login if you have any balls left.
Yep, things change. 98% of all species are extinct. However, we're driving the car now. And heading into the cliff wall with it. No matter what happens, we probably won't be able to cause extinction of the human race, but we might get fairly close.
I'm kind of divided as to whether or not this is a good thing in the long run. The sad part about it is that we can effect a much more gradual change to the environment - one that will leave the planet more or less the same (and remember, WE like it the way it is). It just looks like we aren't going to take that road.
Hang on to your butts.
Finally, there is Biology 101. Shells have been used by ALL forms of aquatic life at the bottom of the food chain since shortly after the formation of multicellular life 500 million years ago. Changing such a basic ocean chemistry can have catastrophic changes for the entire biosphere. It is not when you kill off all the whales or tuna that we fuck ourselves over. It is when we manage to affect the micro cellular life, the phytoplankton, the bugs, that the real change begins
Oh quit being such a conservative panty waist. Nature by itself is too friggin boring - changes over millions of years? Where's the fun in that? We humans need instant gratification. We need to reboot the food change so things happen faster.
Otherwise, we won't be able to insert as many commercials. That would be a problem.
You might check your server to see if we took all the magic smoke out of it....
Hamas was elected to govern Gaza.
We're big fans of democracy... so long as we get to say who gets elected.
Careful. You're getting awfully close to the truth. That can have unpleasant consequences.
I think half of mod points are going to a bunch of bots that some researchers are using to try to improve artificial intelligence. It's an experiment that isn't working out all that well....
It has continued for fifty years so far.
Fifty years? Read the Old Testament. Half of is about various kings tromping over one group or another. The other is licentious claptrap but that's an argument for another day.
One of the oldest structures excavated in the Middle East is at Jericho. It's a fort. It's around 8000 years old.
And France, and Belgium, and Germany and the US and pretty much any country that did in fact or tried to create an Empire.
Remarkably, when you look at that way you see that humans have been screwing over other humans (and the rest of the planet) for their own perceived benefit for thousands of years.
Sucks to be us, I suppose.
School RFID tags are a moot point when you realize that sometime next year you're going to be called to your doctor's office to have your ObamaCare RFID chips implanted, one in each hand. The you, your child, everyone will be trackable 24/7.
You need to keep tightening that tin foil hat of yours. Much, much tighter as you are still getting some (limited) blood supply to your brain. It would be best if you cut it off entirely.
Even easier - give AT&T the contract for all Pakistani cell phones. Nothing would get through, anytime.
I know the pics show the device on the bottom but seemingly that would work only for shallow water rigs and not for the deeper platforms. Still would need large amounts of power (I guess). And dealing with a 100 MW power plant (or the output of same) on the bottom of the ocean is a pretty big engineering challenge.
Nice to have some real numbers and a better diagram.....
It appears that the 'cloaking device' would create impulses in the water that would null out at least part of the big nasty surface wave. To do this, it has to be coupled to the surface - otherwise no energy would get imparted.
The physics of wave amplification and cancellation are well established. I imagine that we have the technology to look at the waves coming at the rig, figure out the waveforms and come up with 'counter' waveforms. I'm having problems, however, figuring out where he is going to get the energy to make the counter waves.
And for once, I have to agree with EF, it doesn't appear to be work like other cloaking' devices (where the waves are bent around the object), it just seems to be waveform cancellation. Of course the TFA has little in the way of useful info....
In your underwear, of course! "Is that a deep fryer, or are you just happy to see me?"
I suppose that puts a bit different spin on the phrase 'hot to trot'.
"Normal" and "dry cleaned turkey" don't logically fit, at least in my universe. In fact, I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around a dry cleaned turkey.
Please don't invite me over to your house next Thanksgiving. Nothing personal.
Didn't realize that you were a man of the cloth.
If this is indeed true, you know somebody is going to try it.
(Although the reverse experiment has apparently been done, a casual perusal of C-span makes that obvious.)
Actually, lots of different drugs will blunt 'nervous reactions'. Antidepressants, anti anxiety drugs, opiates, marijuana, some blood pressure meds, television.
You can drug someone to the point where nothing bothers them.
Supposedly, this is used by suicide bombers as well.
Better living (or not) through chemistry!
Look at the scale. That would be one rather large vessel.
I think the earth got Photoshopped.
So some random 'journalists' have attempted to force an analogy and it doesn't work (ICBM defense is analogous to primitive short range surface-surface missiles). Woop de do. Iron Dome is much more closely related to the Patriot system which was designed to hit smaller, slower targets than ICBMs.
Not sure what the big deal is. Wake me up when they get the shark mounted lasers working.
We are all motivated by rewards and penalties. Money is just the convertible currency for this.
Once the insurance industry gets hold of the map, money will see the fixes are made.
Nonsense. These are parts per million leaks for the most part. Not necessarily dangerous. How many streets or buildings have mysteriously blown up over the past several decades?
Actually it should be pretty easy. Video cameras in police cars are pretty much ubiquitous. If you're wandering, going too fast / too slow or whatever and the policeman (or a citizen with the same tech) gets a video of the car with you getting out of it - you're driving impaired. It doesn't really make a difference if it's due to marijuana or benadryl - you shouldn't be driving.
Yes, the reporting sucks, as usual. If the climate were perfectly stable (never is) and human economic growth continued you would EXPECT damages from pretty much everything to increase unless people in general were rational and had enough foresight to mitigate obvious problems like putting lots of expensive things next to the ocean.
Add a changing environment (hotter, colder - it really doesn't make much difference) and you're going to have more damage - unless you get smart about where to place things.
But the climate is changing - and changing fairly quickly. Whether or not mankind is really forcing the change or not, it still is going to be a big problem because we are pushing the carrying capacity of the planet at present. If you look at the history of human kind it is apparent that climate change has forced numerous civilizations to move, adapt or collapse (or various combinations). Given close to 7 billion people, moving lots of them doesn't work well. Adapting will certainly happen - some more successful than others and collapse is definitely a possibility.
Just try to ignore the media - as usual, it's not being terribly helpful.
to show this is definitely not a naturally occurring cycle?
No but the evidence is pretty good that it is primarily forced by CO2. And, in a very real sense it makes little difference if it's anthropogenic or due to His Noodlieness eating that giant bean burrito. We will still have to deal with relatively rapid environmental changes that will cause rapid economic and political pressures which, on top of the fact that there are too many humans running around, is going to create some 'interesting times' for us all.
The new news is that we seem to be plugging along the worst case scenario trend lines. So instead of having 50 to 100 years to deal with issues we may see dramatic changes in 10 - 20. It also makes it less likely that we can reverse the process by economic or political means which means that there will be even more pressure to start tossing some Hail Mary passes.
Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?