You realize, of course, that will do absolutely nothing. Freshman senators and congressmen / women will be clueless noobs. Their staffs, however, will remain. The folks that have been there since, well, forever. The folks that know each other, know the lobbyists (but I repeat myself), have ties to whatever think tanks they agree with.
They steer Senator Nooby around by the nose.
It's happened before, it will happen again. But go ahead and try it. I don't think it will make things any worse...
Don't suppose this has anything to do with the removal of the Morse Code requirement in 2007
Perhaps, but that was only for General class - Technician was always (?) code free. But General class gives you access to the lower frequencies with longer range capability so perhaps that's it.
I think it's more likely that Amateur Radio is now the Boy Scouts of the 21st Century. It's big 'repurposing' has been in the field of Emergency Communications. They've had some good publicity with recent major disasters, offer a 'function' for the hobby ('Honey, I need to buy that radio to help in the event of a natural disaster' - worth a try anyway), allows you to get involved in something besides talking to someone at the end of the world.
They even have cool reflective jackets and donuts.
Or perhaps a combination of the two and other things.
If only the flight attendants would let me read the stupid thing during take-off and landing.
They want to pay attention during your last few seconds of life (as the plane careens down the runway). You'll only have a few moments left to sign up for the frequent flyer rewards program.
Oh stop. Yes, we shouldn't feed tetracycline to chickens (or corn to cows for that matter). No, it doesn't change things. Neither will nanoThis or nanoThat - you are just putting pressure on the organism to 'come up' with workarounds.
The big problem with nanoThis and nanoThat will be differentiating 'good' from 'bad'. People have been trying targeted molecules of many sorts (for cancer, mostly) for decades with little success. Past failures, of course, do not argue against future success but it's not like this approach is any different because you stuck a 'nano' in front of it.
I didn't read the DARPA stuff carefully, so there may be some bits and pieces that are indeed noteworthy, but this sounds like tossing some money down a hole and watching who chases after it.
Would have made little difference in the long run. If you use antibiotics, you will get resistant organisms. Same thing with siRNA, bacteriophages or whatnot.
It's called evolutionary pressure. It it doesn't much care about you....
I'd like to see cities use the 3rd dimension more. Have all buildings be at least 3 stories, and close enough to be connected with walkways. Pedestrians could navigate the entire city above street level. Could also have tunnels, which might be better for places with rough weather. Could add a 4th story, putting bike routes on a level of their own.
Do you realize how much that would cost? There are a whole lot of towns and cities that are avoiding fixing potholes. Nobody is going to build over or tunnel under roads for pedestrians. It's easy to come up with pie-in-the sky answers to problems. Harder to come up with ones that stand a chance of being enacted.
It has nothing to do with nutrients. The inbalance of soluted salt between the inside of cells (quite salty) and outside (no salt) causes water to migrate into the cell through the cell membrane until the solution is balanced for both sides of the membrane. Because water can freely pass through it, but salts usually can't, it means a cell that is surrounded by destilled water soaks up water until it bursts.
Obviously your body will try to enrich any water you drink with salts before it gets into your bloodstream. But if that fails, you are in trouble.
Righto. If you're a single cell organism. For the rest of us, not so much.
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As not quite being competitive with iPads. Even if it is only $115 dollars. "Allwinner Many Core"? Please.
Tell you what, lets try some baby steps first - land on an asteroid. Put a research colony on the moon. Maybe a space elevator if your daring. In the mean time, try to figure out how to stay alive on the current space ship for a couple dozen more generations.
Well, if he would just get off of his butt and work a bit harder, maybe he can figure out this gravity nonsense and come up with a way to work around it.
MOST of China is 'worthless desert' (with the occasional Alien landing beacon and bombing range). MOST of Canada is covered by mosquitos or ice (with the occasional hockey player). Doing by land (or by GPD which is a number created out of countless lies and subterfuge) or whatever you propose just won't work.
Nice idea. 5 points for efficacy. 0 points for practicality.
And remember, we can all come up with solutions - it's getting the rest of humanity to go along with it that's the problem.
But the American desert is not lifeless (far from it; I live in the desert and I've never seen a place, outside of a swamp, so filled to overflowing with both plants and critters -- all of them spiney and hungry!) What you propose is destroying large swaths of that ecosystem -- which is already rather fragile. How do you justify that? How is this any different from destroying a more-conventionally "pretty" ecosystem, like a forest, for the same purpose?
"They" don't live in that stinking desert. The closest they have been is either a Roadrunner cartoon or perhaps a cruise on the Interstate.
Sure, there is lots of methane in landfills. And coal mines. And oil deposits. Hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of natural gas are flared off from oil rigs because it's cheaper to do so then bottle / pipeline up the stuff and ship it. That should give you a hint of the problem. Until / unless petroleum products increase in price significantly, then it won't be feasible to tap this marginal feedstock.
Increase prices much and economies collapse.
We've got ourselves on a rather narrow precipice here. On false move and you're toast....
It won't balance out from our perspective for sure. Just like the climate didn't 'balance out' for the dinosaurs after the asteroid hit. Some other race will inherit the earth.
I for one, will welcome, our small, furry, obese and genetically uniform overlords.
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You realize, of course, that will do absolutely nothing. Freshman senators and congressmen / women will be clueless noobs. Their staffs, however, will remain. The folks that have been there since, well, forever. The folks that know each other, know the lobbyists (but I repeat myself), have ties to whatever think tanks they agree with.
They steer Senator Nooby around by the nose.
It's happened before, it will happen again. But go ahead and try it. I don't think it will make things any worse...
Don't suppose this has anything to do with the removal of the Morse Code requirement in 2007
Perhaps, but that was only for General class - Technician was always (?) code free. But General class gives you access to the lower frequencies with longer range capability so perhaps that's it.
I think it's more likely that Amateur Radio is now the Boy Scouts of the 21st Century. It's big 'repurposing' has been in the field of Emergency Communications. They've had some good publicity with recent major disasters, offer a 'function' for the hobby ('Honey, I need to buy that radio to help in the event of a natural disaster' - worth a try anyway), allows you to get involved in something besides talking to someone at the end of the world.
They even have cool reflective jackets and donuts.
Or perhaps a combination of the two and other things.
Psychotic laser-equipped misanthopic robots don't kill people.
People kill people.
Why am I getting a bad feeling about this?
First, Grunt-Phobus 'doesn't get out of orbit'. Now, we have rock-vaporizing lasers on another 'Mar's' satellite.
They're both large complicated machines with quite a bit of computer power.
I just don't like the vibe I'm getting from this. Not at all.
But you certainly do have a right to be informed and educated. Internet access would fall into this category.
No you don't. You have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Not to an education, a job, a car and fiber to the home.
As Bardwick points out above, Contrary to popular belief, the government is charged with promoting the common good. Not providing it.
My kindle has been on many flights.
If only the flight attendants would let me read the stupid thing during take-off and landing.
They want to pay attention during your last few seconds of life (as the plane careens down the runway). You'll only have a few moments left to sign up for the frequent flyer rewards program.
Oh stop. Yes, we shouldn't feed tetracycline to chickens (or corn to cows for that matter). No, it doesn't change things. Neither will nanoThis or nanoThat - you are just putting pressure on the organism to 'come up' with workarounds.
The big problem with nanoThis and nanoThat will be differentiating 'good' from 'bad'. People have been trying targeted molecules of many sorts (for cancer, mostly) for decades with little success. Past failures, of course, do not argue against future success but it's not like this approach is any different because you stuck a 'nano' in front of it.
I didn't read the DARPA stuff carefully, so there may be some bits and pieces that are indeed noteworthy, but this sounds like tossing some money down a hole and watching who chases after it.
Would have made little difference in the long run. If you use antibiotics, you will get resistant organisms. Same thing with siRNA, bacteriophages or whatnot.
It's called evolutionary pressure. It it doesn't much care about you....
The results so far have been quite impressive.
Really? For all the jumping up and down from the bacteriophage is great community, I've yet to see a commercial product or system.
Got any examples?
You're sending history lessons as SMS text?
You SHOULD be banned.
So,
"Aw yeah shoot your hot load all over my face" is less suggestive?
The mind boggles.
I'd like to see cities use the 3rd dimension more. Have all buildings be at least 3 stories, and close enough to be connected with walkways. Pedestrians could navigate the entire city above street level. Could also have tunnels, which might be better for places with rough weather. Could add a 4th story, putting bike routes on a level of their own.
Do you realize how much that would cost? There are a whole lot of towns and cities that are avoiding fixing potholes. Nobody is going to build over or tunnel under roads for pedestrians. It's easy to come up with pie-in-the sky answers to problems. Harder to come up with ones that stand a chance of being enacted.
You can only be young once.
But you can be immature forever.
It has nothing to do with nutrients.
The inbalance of soluted salt between the inside of cells (quite salty) and outside (no salt) causes water to migrate into the cell through the cell membrane until the solution is balanced for both sides of the membrane. Because water can freely pass through it, but salts usually can't, it means a cell that is surrounded by destilled water soaks up water until it bursts.
Obviously your body will try to enrich any water you drink with salts before it gets into your bloodstream. But if that fails, you are in trouble.
Righto. If you're a single cell organism. For the rest of us, not so much.
Next time stay awake in biology class.
You cells will explode due to osmosis if you drink pure H2O.
Only if you happen to be a petri dish.
(Which does explain a few things around here).
Pardon me if I consider a site selling
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As not quite being competitive with iPads. Even if it is only $115 dollars. "Allwinner Many Core"? Please.
I'm assuming you buy lossy music as well from Apple. I don't wanna live in this world anymore.
Well, you are a dinosaur....
Yeah, lots of resources in nearly empty space.
Tell you what, lets try some baby steps first - land on an asteroid. Put a research colony on the moon. Maybe a space elevator if your daring. In the mean time, try to figure out how to stay alive on the current space ship for a couple dozen more generations.
Well, if he would just get off of his butt and work a bit harder, maybe he can figure out this gravity nonsense and come up with a way to work around it.
Then we can talk about getting off this rock.
Ball's in your court, Stevie.
MOST of China is 'worthless desert' (with the occasional Alien landing beacon and bombing range). MOST of Canada is covered by mosquitos or ice (with the occasional hockey player). Doing by land (or by GPD which is a number created out of countless lies and subterfuge) or whatever you propose just won't work.
Nice idea. 5 points for efficacy. 0 points for practicality.
And remember, we can all come up with solutions - it's getting the rest of humanity to go along with it that's the problem.
But the American desert is not lifeless (far from it; I live in the desert and I've never seen a place, outside of a swamp, so filled to overflowing with both plants and critters -- all of them spiney and hungry!) What you propose is destroying large swaths of that ecosystem -- which is already rather fragile. How do you justify that? How is this any different from destroying a more-conventionally "pretty" ecosystem, like a forest, for the same purpose?
"They" don't live in that stinking desert. The closest they have been is either a Roadrunner cartoon or perhaps a cruise on the Interstate.
Sure, there is lots of methane in landfills. And coal mines. And oil deposits. Hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of natural gas are flared off from oil rigs because it's cheaper to do so then bottle / pipeline up the stuff and ship it. That should give you a hint of the problem. Until / unless petroleum products increase in price significantly, then it won't be feasible to tap this marginal feedstock.
Increase prices much and economies collapse.
We've got ourselves on a rather narrow precipice here. On false move and you're toast....
Go ahead an enjoy smoking your bamboo.
You first. No, really, I must insist.
You can make a nice bong out of bamboo.
And some flutes.
Peace. Love.
You are in violation of the laws forbidding the manufacture, sale and possession of chilled prawnography.
A good strong shell ought to keep him out of trouble. Don't Bash it if you've not tried it.
It won't balance out from our perspective for sure. Just like the climate didn't 'balance out' for the dinosaurs after the asteroid hit. Some other race will inherit the earth.
I for one, will welcome, our small, furry, obese and genetically uniform overlords.
that is an insult to astrologers and geomancers everywhere.
Probably a meteorologist.