If fish can do it, then it should be no problem for humans. You left wing environmentalists lose again. We Conservatives can pollute and know there is nothing wrong with it. Again, more evidence promoting the Conservative lifestyle.
Excellent. We're going to put all of you at the bottom of the Hudson river where you can munch on PCBs and other fun substances. In a couple of million years you might get back on land.
Go to your local hospital / large clinic or especially a dermatology clinic with a nice smile and a small thermos. They could probably give you enough to test out your theory.
Too bad that the 'reserves' implied are batshit insane and several orders of magnitude lower than likely recoverable. The particular puff piece you quote has absolutely no basis in reality. Yes, we can increase our petroleum product output significantly in the short term. No, it's not going to help outside of 10 - 15 years.
If we used that time wisely to traverse off of petrochemical products as much as possible, it might be a fortuitous event. However, we will most likely use this to continue Business As Usual for as long as possible, thus simply kicking the can down the road a bit.
Since the satellites are controlled from the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway which often uses the Internet to transfer and access files, it is deemed highly likely that the hackers have managed to insinuate themselves into the station's system through its Internet connection.
In most states the bar to getting a handicapped plate is pretty low. You just have to get a doctor / PA / nurse / somebody in health care with initials behind their name to sign off that you are generically handicapped.
And morbidly obese people just might have a valid reason for a handicapped permit (arthritis, heart, lung problems etc).
Technically speaking China would probably have the highest number of users or potential users based on population. However, I don't think people making $2 an hour have obtaining a smart phone at the top of their got to have list.
Oopsie (tl;dr China is Apple's second largest market, and climbing fast). Take a look at China, Inc. It's a very, very big place. It is much more complex than you seem to think.
No, it did not survive the not-very-unforeseen event. That bit has been open knowledge for months. Reactor 1 (at least) breached before the tsunami. It's in TFA.
And getting all huffy about a 'top 5 earthquake' makes little sense. It was well within modern guidelines for a likely event. It's just that TEPCO (and the Japanese regulators) didn't bother to update risk assessments, preferring to keep their heads buried sobas not to upset the balance sheets.
Now don't go calling me a Libertarian. Where I come from that's a pretty base insult. Big Pharmacy spent 11 billion on research and something like 27 billion on marketing. Furthermore, they didn't get much out from all that money in large part because they focus on 'me-to' drugs - ones similar(and often no better) than current drugs.
With the heavy marketing and few really improved products and the relentless pressure to make more money, ethical issues like 'how do we best treat a given disease' are not high priorities.
From a societal standpoint, it's hard to argue that the current method of drug / vaccine research and production resembles anything like an optimal solution.
I don't know what I should make out of these findings but couldn't it be that kids coming from a "richer" background are fed more nutritiously than maybe a "poor" kid? Couldn't that have an impact on the "appearance" of the genetic material? DNA and life style are such different things that I am not convinced that a correlation between these two are any meaningful at this point.
Certainly. TFA is pointing out a plausible (and somewhat unexpected ) mechanism for same. The 'conundrum' the authors were trying to solve was why early environmental conditions should affect health later in life. Their research shows that DNA methylation patterns are stable over time. They conclude that it is POSSIBLE that such changes are deterministic, but other explanations can, and likely do, exist.
I read somewhere that British pharma are guaranteed a flat-rate of profit by law, to both ensure that it's worth their while and to prevent gouging. Anyone know how this works, or how well?
It's scary but the US is really turning into a third-world (or third rate anyway) country. All except our military. We can flatten any two bit dictator in a desert country and don't you forget it.
Oops. Thanks for the providing the link. I really did have it in my comment but Slashdot ate it (actually, I must have misformed the linked but it's more fun to blame Slashcode).
Your mind has obviously been infected with the Slashdot Paranoid Meme Virus, but this raises an interesting point. The HPV vaccine is the most expensive one made. It is a complicated vaccine to make, took some time to create (20 years) but apparently the manufacturer had a different metric for determining price:
Gardasil took more than 20 years to develop, is complex to manufacture, and must be constantly refrigerated, but that’s not why it’s so expensive. Instead, Merck calculated the price based on the money the vaccine will save the entire health-care system—and the CDC approved the price, as it does with other vaccines. “We based the price on a number of factors, most importantly the value Gardasil brings to individuals and society,” says Jennifer Allen, a spokesperson for Merck. “HPV-related diseases cost the U.S. health-care system about $5 billion every year, and we took that into consideration.” Although Merck would not make sales projections, population data show that the vaccine would gross more than $11 billion if all women 11 to 26 in the United States were vaccinated per the CDC recommendation.
THIS to me, tells me that the system is broken. Merk (and the rest of big Pharma) has long jumped the ethical shark. Research should be brought back into the government fold (along with the patents) and manufacturers should be limited to manufacturing the drugs with reasonable, but not outrageous, profit margins.
****** insert exited Libertarian rants here *******
I am not a doctor. My guess is that urine keeps the penis cleaner than the cervix. Are there any doctors who can comment on my guess?
I will avoid making snarky comments about your elimination habits (although it is rather tempting).....
The Standard Model of cervical cancer (I made the term up, we don't call it that) goes like this:
The cervix has two different types of epithelial (skin) cells. The area where these two types intersect (called the 'transitional zone) is a region of high cell turnover - cells are dying and being replaced, lots of chemical and genetic activity. This makes it an ideal place for the HPV virus to switch cell growth from normal to abnormal. So even though you can get HPV infections in other parts of the cervix / vagina / anus / penis it is the activity in the transitional zone that cause problems.
Males don't have a cervix (no, don't go there, this is a quality, family oriented web site), no transition zone. LESS (not zero) cancers.
Most HPV induced cancers in males are found in the anal regions where again, cell division and turnover are relatively high. HPV associated cancers in the mouth and throat are rarer still, but they do happen.
The major thrust (so to speak) for immunizing males is that they are typically 50% of the sexually active couple (more or less) and decreasing the amount of viral load will lead to a decrease in infections which will lead to a decrease in HPV associated disease.
A 6m, or even a 12m sea wall would not have helped. The only thing damning about this is the summary.
From TFA
Although Tepco calculated in 2008 that tsunami higher than 10 meters could hit the nuclear plant — a height close to the actual waves seen on March 11 — it only reported its calculation to the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency on March 7, 2011.
I don't recall the wave height to have been measured with any degree of accuracy. However, if the sea wall was 12 meters high and the tsunami actually 15 meters high, the barrier would have significantly reduced the amount of over run. If you watched the video of the wave hitting Fukashima, you saw a brief leading edge slam into and overrun the sea wall, then a mass of water that was not as high. It is certainly possible that the higher wall would have significantly limited the damage.
Changing out the HD on an MBP is dead easy. If you've given up on optical media (Blu ray, while in some ways an improvement over vanilla DVDs is still very 20th century) you can ditch the SuperDrive and put in a second HD.
I'm looking at 1.5 TB on my MBP. Considering that that the first 5 Megabyte hard drive I saw was larger and more expensive that even a fully tricked out 17 inch MBP, I'm pretty happy with the state of the art.
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Fish Evolve Immunity To Toxic Sludge
If fish can do it, then it should be no problem for humans. You left wing environmentalists lose again. We Conservatives can pollute and know there is nothing wrong with it. Again, more evidence promoting the Conservative lifestyle.
Excellent. We're going to put all of you at the bottom of the Hudson river where you can munch on PCBs and other fun substances. In a couple of million years you might get back on land.
Maybe's he military - like Uterine, Intra, Device ???
Or just an old Forth programmer.
Yeah. Why didn't we get a story about the end of the world on 21/10/2011?
Because there aren't 21 months in a year.
Sheesh. People these days.
Go to your local hospital / large clinic or especially a dermatology clinic with a nice smile and a small thermos. They could probably give you enough to test out your theory.
According to TFA, they did exactly that. Whether that is actually what happened is an open conjecture (as usual, TFA was pretty weak).
Ten years is a long time. Stupid can happen pretty quickly.
Too bad that the 'reserves' implied are batshit insane and several orders of magnitude lower than likely recoverable. The particular puff piece you quote has absolutely no basis in reality. Yes, we can increase our petroleum product output significantly in the short term. No, it's not going to help outside of 10 - 15 years.
If we used that time wisely to traverse off of petrochemical products as much as possible, it might be a fortuitous event. However, we will most likely use this to continue Business As Usual for as long as possible, thus simply kicking the can down the road a bit.
Would not have helped.
FTFA:
Since the satellites are controlled from the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway which often uses the Internet to transfer and access files, it is deemed highly likely that the hackers have managed to insinuate themselves into the station's system through its Internet connection.
In other words, they were doing it wrong.
In most states the bar to getting a handicapped plate is pretty low. You just have to get a doctor / PA / nurse / somebody in health care with initials behind their name to sign off that you are generically handicapped.
And morbidly obese people just might have a valid reason for a handicapped permit (arthritis, heart, lung problems etc).
"Compact Car Only" is an excuse to stuff an extra dozen parking spots. Nothing more.
Besides, compared to an 18 wheeler, my 3/4 ton pickup is pretty compact. It's always relative.
Technically speaking China would probably have the highest number of users or potential users based on population. However, I don't think people making $2 an hour have obtaining a smart phone at the top of their got to have list.
Oopsie (tl;dr China is Apple's second largest market, and climbing fast). Take a look at China, Inc. It's a very, very big place. It is much more complex than you seem to think.
No, it did not survive the not-very-unforeseen event. That bit has been open knowledge for months. Reactor 1 (at least) breached before the tsunami. It's in TFA.
And getting all huffy about a 'top 5 earthquake' makes little sense. It was well within modern guidelines for a likely event. It's just that TEPCO (and the Japanese regulators) didn't bother to update risk assessments, preferring to keep their heads buried sobas not to upset the balance sheets.
If you're a heavy Adobe user, you don't need anyone else's pain. You have plenty of your own.
Now don't go calling me a Libertarian. Where I come from that's a pretty base insult. Big Pharmacy spent 11 billion on research and something like 27 billion on marketing. Furthermore, they didn't get much out from all that money in large part because they focus on 'me-to' drugs - ones similar(and often no better) than current drugs.
With the heavy marketing and few really improved products and the relentless pressure to make more money, ethical issues like 'how do we best treat a given disease' are not high priorities.
From a societal standpoint, it's hard to argue that the current method of drug / vaccine research and production resembles anything like an optimal solution.
I don't know what I should make out of these findings but couldn't it be that kids coming from a "richer" background are fed more nutritiously than maybe a "poor" kid? Couldn't that have an impact on the "appearance" of the genetic material? DNA and life style are such different things that I am not convinced that a correlation between these two are any meaningful at this point.
Certainly. TFA is pointing out a plausible (and somewhat unexpected ) mechanism for same. The 'conundrum' the authors were trying to solve was why early environmental conditions should affect health later in life. Their research shows that DNA methylation patterns are stable over time. They conclude that it is POSSIBLE that such changes are deterministic, but other explanations can, and likely do, exist.
I don't know anybody that would be overjoyed to get a pair of these to ONLY walk downhill ...
Yeah, my life seems like it's uphill both ways.
My only indication of a national disaster would be cars careening off the road.
How would that be any different from normal traffic?
I read somewhere that British pharma are guaranteed a flat-rate of profit by law, to both ensure that it's worth their while and to prevent gouging. Anyone know how this works, or how well?
Likely better than than the system we have in the US.
It's scary but the US is really turning into a third-world (or third rate anyway) country. All except our military. We can flatten any two bit dictator in a desert country and don't you forget it.
Oops. Thanks for the providing the link. I really did have it in my comment but Slashdot ate it (actually, I must have misformed the linked but it's more fun to blame Slashcode).
i have been using google ssl beta for a little over a year now it works just fine i can't tell a speed difference
You would if you would just switch to a proportional font. Things would flow much faster.
Your mind has obviously been infected with the Slashdot Paranoid Meme Virus, but this raises an interesting point. The HPV vaccine is the most expensive one made. It is a complicated vaccine to make, took some time to create (20 years) but apparently the manufacturer had a different metric for determining price:
Gardasil took more than 20 years to develop, is complex to manufacture, and must be constantly refrigerated, but that’s not why it’s so expensive. Instead, Merck calculated the price based on the money the vaccine will save the entire health-care system—and the CDC approved the price, as it does with other vaccines. “We based the price on a number of factors, most importantly the value Gardasil brings to individuals and society,” says Jennifer Allen, a spokesperson for Merck. “HPV-related diseases cost the U.S. health-care system about $5 billion every year, and we took that into consideration.” Although Merck would not make sales projections, population data show that the vaccine would gross more than $11 billion if all women 11 to 26 in the United States were vaccinated per the CDC recommendation.
THIS to me, tells me that the system is broken. Merk (and the rest of big Pharma) has long jumped the ethical shark. Research should be brought back into the government fold (along with the patents) and manufacturers should be limited to manufacturing the drugs with reasonable, but not outrageous, profit margins.
****** insert exited Libertarian rants here *******
I am not a doctor. My guess is that urine keeps the penis cleaner than the cervix. Are there any doctors who can comment on my guess?
I will avoid making snarky comments about your elimination habits (although it is rather tempting).....
The Standard Model of cervical cancer (I made the term up, we don't call it that) goes like this:
The cervix has two different types of epithelial (skin) cells. The area where these two types intersect (called the 'transitional zone) is a region of high cell turnover - cells are dying and being replaced, lots of chemical and genetic activity. This makes it an ideal place for the HPV virus to switch cell growth from normal to abnormal. So even though you can get HPV infections in other parts of the cervix / vagina / anus / penis it is the activity in the transitional zone that cause problems.
Males don't have a cervix (no, don't go there, this is a quality, family oriented web site), no transition zone. LESS (not zero) cancers.
Most HPV induced cancers in males are found in the anal regions where again, cell division and turnover are relatively high. HPV associated cancers in the mouth and throat are rarer still, but they do happen.
The major thrust (so to speak) for immunizing males is that they are typically 50% of the sexually active couple (more or less) and decreasing the amount of viral load will lead to a decrease in infections which will lead to a decrease in HPV associated disease.
Speaking as someone who took a couple meteorology courses in college, I can confirm the Bad Astronomer's observation: it is weird.
Obviously you didn't go on to get a meteorology degree. If you had, you would have stated that there was an 80% chance of it being weird.
The singular of lorries is lorry, Dan.
No, it's 'truck'.
A 6m, or even a 12m sea wall would not have helped. The only thing damning about this is the summary.
From TFA
Although Tepco calculated in 2008 that tsunami higher than 10 meters could hit the nuclear plant — a height close to the actual waves seen on March 11 — it only reported its calculation to the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency on March 7, 2011.
I don't recall the wave height to have been measured with any degree of accuracy. However, if the sea wall was 12 meters high and the tsunami actually 15 meters high, the barrier would have significantly reduced the amount of over run. If you watched the video of the wave hitting Fukashima, you saw a brief leading edge slam into and overrun the sea wall, then a mass of water that was not as high. It is certainly possible that the higher wall would have significantly limited the damage.
Changing out the HD on an MBP is dead easy. If you've given up on optical media (Blu ray, while in some ways an improvement over vanilla DVDs is still very 20th century) you can ditch the SuperDrive and put in a second HD.
I'm looking at 1.5 TB on my MBP. Considering that that the first 5 Megabyte hard drive I saw was larger and more expensive that even a fully tricked out 17 inch MBP, I'm pretty happy with the state of the art.