Why should in this day and age having sex result in getting children?
I mean like here last year there were on every 1000 teenagers 5 that had a baby, in the USofA it's 64 or so.
Because I'm pretty sure our teenagers have the same sex drive as in other 1st. world countries this has a lot to do with education.
Have you instructed your kids on the subject?
Blasphemer. Philistine.
I bet you live in a country that has "Social Democracy" emblazoned somewhere. We here in America trust in God**.
We really do.
** Which may explain our teenage pregnancy rate, poor health statistics, increasing financial disparities and the fact that we can pound the everloving crap out of everyone else on the planet without breaking a sweat (as long as they don't stoop to IEDs and Kalashnikovs).
But florescent dyes can be toxic, and they don't last long in the body, as they are quickly filtered out. To avoid the problem, the researchers encapsulated the sensors in red blood cells. The team next plan to inject the sensors into rats.
And, for 10 points on the quiz, what happens to red blood cells after around 90 days? Very good! They get chomped up by the body and the pieces parts recycled.
Poor rats. They should at least use lawyers, we've apparently got a glut of the things and nowhere to put them.
Flying used to be tolerable, not it's an outright hassle. If I can't walk up to a counter and plunk down a pile of cash to buy a ticket to go somewhere without being subject to the third degree, I don't fly.
Oh, you can do that these days. Takes a wee bit more work. Either go down to the General Aviation area of a larger airport and hang around and try to get a pilot to give you a lift in exchange for some cash (actually works better if your female, sadly) or hire an agent to charter an appropriate aircraft and off you go.
Not as cheap by a long shot, but charters are much more fun and much less hassle. TANSTAAFL.
You folks realize that this is very likely to result in a Council of War from the Elders. It's bad enough to litter the landscape with Earthling detritus, but offensive weaponry on innocent and passive Martian rocks cannot be tolerated!
You can't frighten us, anaerobic pig bacteria! Go and boil your cell walls, daughter cells of a silly archea. I blow my pores at you, you and your so called nitrate loving freaks!
Yeah, pretty ridiculous, we arent even near of apocalypse by population... War and weapon technology on the other hand...
Depends on your time frame. 10 years no, 50 years, perhaps (note that the slope of the rise is dropping fast - whether it's fast enough remains to be seen).
You are correct in noting that the situation was unprecedented, fluid and complicated. However, even at the time of the accident it was clear that TEPCO was out and out lying and most of the subsequent reports have shown a culture of deceit and subterfuge lasting for decades that certainly didn't improve under stress. They taped over exposure badges, they prevented third parties from entering areas (it's for their own safety, of course). They fudged measurements.
Fukashima was and is both worse and better than has been generally reported. The acute exposures were relatively benign - at least in most cases. Chronic exposure and long term fallout (so to speak) from continued, fairly high volume and intensity, leakage from the plant has been stuffed under the mattress. Of course, Fukashima was so last year - we have new disasters to get hyped about.
I don't think it's useful to discuss if Fukashima and Chernoble were 'worse' than each other. They were both very bad. They were both caused by the collusion of operators and their respective governments. They both serve as shining examples of what not to do.
The only real take home lesson is that at the current stage of development of homo industrialis, we're not quite ready for nuclear power.
Hopefully the EU will go a bit further and require user replaceable batteries. It's bad enough having to throw away a perfectly good electric toothbrush after two years because the battery is dead.
No, I hope they don't. I think manufacturers should be allowed to make battery access any way they like. You might prefer a user replaceable battery - fine, that's a perfectly reasonable design feature, but it needn't be mandated. I personally feel that the current MacBook Pro approach is fine. I can replace the battery with 10 minutes of time and a screwdriver, certain mechanically declined folks will want to send it to someone that isn't scared of screwdrivers, but it should be left to the manufacturer's discretion.
If you say Apple I will beat you silly with a chassis fan because I want to be able to have children, but anything else I'm genuinely curious to hear.
Not to worry, due to battery issues, the Reality Distortion Field is only projected upward. Your nether parts are safe. On a MacPro, given the huge PSU and excess computing power, the RFD goes in all directions. That's why people who are stuck with these old geezers are just sitting there, waiting in the corner, for Apple to upgrade the Cheese Graters.
But that is another long and sad tale for another topic.
Statement 1: Florida should not be held up as an example of anything except possibly the advantages of global warming and the subsequent rise in ocean levels.
Statement 2: Anecdote is not data. Some Police do a lousy job. So do some doctors, nurses, astronauts, politicians (well, they always do a lousy job) and pedicurists.
Statement 3: Your neighbors are not, and never have been, Stephen P. Jobs. It does make a difference.
OTOH, who in their right mind would leave diamonds and easily fenced electronic gizmos at a house that is unoccupied while undergoing extensive renovations?
Sounds, and FSM forgive me, like a sting. Nobody could be that dumb.
Fracking itself is an excellent example, none of the stuff fracking can get to was considered viable to extract not that long ago.
Fracking is a bad example. We've been able to horizontally fracture oil wells for the past 50 years. It hasn't been much utilized because it is expensive. It was only when crude oil starting hitting $90 a barrel did it start to get popular.
Same with fracking natural gas - it's an economic rather than technical decision. Most of the major 'breakthroughs' in hydrocarbon resource extraction haven't occurred because of improved technology, but instead (largely) due to price increases.
Yep, there is a lot of oil and natural gas around. Maybe not so much relatively inexpensive stuff around. 'Cost effective' is an arguable point. If energy prices increase too much, the economies tend to fall off (as noted in TFA). We'd best hope that renewables get more reasonable fairly soon.
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Why should in this day and age having sex result in getting children?
I mean like here last year there were on every 1000 teenagers 5 that had a baby, in the USofA it's 64 or so.
Because I'm pretty sure our teenagers have the same sex drive as in other 1st. world countries this has a lot to do with education.
Have you instructed your kids on the subject?
Blasphemer. Philistine.
I bet you live in a country that has "Social Democracy" emblazoned somewhere. We here in America trust in God**.
We really do.
** Which may explain our teenage pregnancy rate, poor health statistics, increasing financial disparities and the fact that we can pound the everloving crap out of everyone else on the planet without breaking a sweat (as long as they don't stoop to IEDs and Kalashnikovs).
This is not 4chan.
Occasionally.
Florescent lawyers.
I know, it's bad to reply to one's own post but I couldn't help it.
I really like the idea of fluorescent lawyers for some twisted reason or other.
But florescent dyes can be toxic, and they don't last long in the body, as they are quickly filtered out. To avoid the problem, the researchers encapsulated the sensors in red blood cells. The team next plan to inject the sensors into rats.
And, for 10 points on the quiz, what happens to red blood cells after around 90 days? Very good! They get chomped up by the body and the pieces parts recycled.
Poor rats. They should at least use lawyers, we've apparently got a glut of the things and nowhere to put them.
Funny. Your sig really works with that post ....
Flying used to be tolerable, not it's an outright hassle. If I can't walk up to a counter and plunk down a pile of cash to buy a ticket to go somewhere without being subject to the third degree, I don't fly.
Oh, you can do that these days. Takes a wee bit more work. Either go down to the General Aviation area of a larger airport and hang around and try to get a pilot to give you a lift in exchange for some cash (actually works better if your female, sadly) or hire an agent to charter an appropriate aircraft and off you go.
Not as cheap by a long shot, but charters are much more fun and much less hassle. TANSTAAFL.
You folks realize that this is very likely to result in a Council of War from the Elders. It's bad enough to litter the landscape with Earthling detritus, but offensive weaponry on innocent and passive Martian rocks cannot be tolerated!
You can't frighten us, anaerobic pig bacteria!
Go and boil your cell walls, daughter cells of a silly archea.
I blow my pores at you, you and your so called nitrate loving freaks!
Yeah, pretty ridiculous, we arent even near of apocalypse by population... War and weapon technology on the other hand...
Depends on your time frame. 10 years no, 50 years, perhaps (note that the slope of the rise is dropping fast - whether it's fast enough remains to be seen).
Sorry, but that's the oddest set of "Apocalypse" categories I've ever seen.
"Population"?
No war? No giant asteroid? No gamma ray pulse from a nearby star going nova?
Oh, if you read the TFA you'll find that the 'usual suspects' are still there.
Nobody's particular original with this end-of-world stuff.
That's great, .....
It starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes
You are correct in noting that the situation was unprecedented, fluid and complicated. However, even at the time of the accident it was clear that TEPCO was out and out lying and most of the subsequent reports have shown a culture of deceit and subterfuge lasting for decades that certainly didn't improve under stress. They taped over exposure badges, they prevented third parties from entering areas (it's for their own safety, of course). They fudged measurements.
Fukashima was and is both worse and better than has been generally reported. The acute exposures were relatively benign - at least in most cases. Chronic exposure and long term fallout (so to speak) from continued, fairly high volume and intensity, leakage from the plant has been stuffed under the mattress. Of course, Fukashima was so last year - we have new disasters to get hyped about.
I don't think it's useful to discuss if Fukashima and Chernoble were 'worse' than each other. They were both very bad. They were both caused by the collusion of operators and their respective governments. They both serve as shining examples of what not to do.
The only real take home lesson is that at the current stage of development of homo industrialis, we're not quite ready for nuclear power.
I can think of LOTS of reasons (says the guy who plonked down for a 512 GB SSD).
Photoshop. Maya. Modo.
Video.
Parallels.
and the list goes on.....
YMMW.
Your doing pretty good with this Turing test thing though....
Hopefully the EU will go a bit further and require user replaceable batteries. It's bad enough having to throw away a perfectly good electric toothbrush after two years because the battery is dead.
No, I hope they don't. I think manufacturers should be allowed to make battery access any way they like. You might prefer a user replaceable battery - fine, that's a perfectly reasonable design feature, but it needn't be mandated. I personally feel that the current MacBook Pro approach is fine. I can replace the battery with 10 minutes of time and a screwdriver, certain mechanically declined folks will want to send it to someone that isn't scared of screwdrivers, but it should be left to the manufacturer's discretion.
16:9 screens, OTOH, should be banned forever....
No. A nicely proportioned beautiful woman is "sexy". Electronic gear is most certainly not and never will be.
I'm very sorry, but you are clearly new here.
Some of us like the warmth we get from our laptops. It's not like we get it from other humans.
If you say Apple I will beat you silly with a chassis fan because I want to be able to have children, but anything else I'm genuinely curious to hear.
Not to worry, due to battery issues, the Reality Distortion Field is only projected upward. Your nether parts are safe. On a MacPro, given the huge PSU and excess computing power, the RFD goes in all directions. That's why people who are stuck with these old geezers are just sitting there, waiting in the corner, for Apple to upgrade the Cheese Graters.
But that is another long and sad tale for another topic.
You're still using OS/2 Warp 4?
Fascinating.
Can't you just pull out the key top and put it back in the right place? One used to be able to do that. Don't tell me that they're glued down....
... macho ...
Disarming honesty.
Or just hopeless optimism.
Statement 1: Florida should not be held up as an example of anything except possibly the advantages of global warming and the subsequent rise in ocean levels.
Statement 2: Anecdote is not data. Some Police do a lousy job. So do some doctors, nurses, astronauts, politicians (well, they always do a lousy job) and pedicurists.
Statement 3: Your neighbors are not, and never have been, Stephen P. Jobs. It does make a difference.
OTOH, who in their right mind would leave diamonds and easily fenced electronic gizmos at a house that is unoccupied while undergoing extensive renovations?
Sounds, and FSM forgive me, like a sting. Nobody could be that dumb.
Right?
Nothing is 100% safe and effective. Been that way for 50,000 years.
Fracking itself is an excellent example, none of the stuff fracking can get to was considered viable to extract not that long ago.
Fracking is a bad example. We've been able to horizontally fracture oil wells for the past 50 years. It hasn't been much utilized because it is expensive. It was only when crude oil starting hitting $90 a barrel did it start to get popular.
Same with fracking natural gas - it's an economic rather than technical decision. Most of the major 'breakthroughs' in hydrocarbon resource extraction haven't occurred because of improved technology, but instead (largely) due to price increases.
Yep, there is a lot of oil and natural gas around. Maybe not so much relatively inexpensive stuff around. 'Cost effective' is an arguable point. If energy prices increase too much, the economies tend to fall off (as noted in TFA). We'd best hope that renewables get more reasonable fairly soon.
Define "worse." Because, and correct me if I'm wrong here, Chernobyl is still a disaster area, NEARLY THIRTY YEARS LATER.
Fukushima will be back to normal in a couple years and we'll forget all about it.
Really? You have an rather expansive definition of normal.