Evil is simply the corruption of good. God gave the beings he created the gift of free will so that they would not be mere automatons. Inherent in free will is the ability to choose to do something against God's will. Satan was once good, but his ambition and desire to have power separate from God's caused him to be cast out (or, some would say, cast himself out) of Heaven. We have the same free will, and we have the same choices to use our power for good or for evil.
I highly suggest you read "Mere Christianity." It explains things much better than I ever could.
One belief that C.S. Lewis espoused was that one can only go to Hell if one, in fact, chooses to. Since (to Christians) God is the source of all goodness, if you choose to isolate yourself from God you isolate yourself from all that is good and pure. He phrased it something like this: "There are two kinds of people in this world - those who tell God 'Thy will be done,' and those who God tells 'Thy will be done.' The gates of hell are locked from *the inside*." People who end up in Hell choose to consign themselves to the outer darkness of non-entity rather than submit themselves to God.
You very well *may have* gotten it outside of the hospital. In the town where I live, 60% of the community-acquired staph infections are MRSA.
The problem's not in the hospitals, it's in community physicians prescribing too many antibiotics for VIRAL infections. In communities/countries where there are strict guidelines for the prescription of antibiotics, MRSA infection rates drop significantly.
Trust me, google has thought of this:) I believe they track you via IP (or perhaps cookies?) to determine how many pages of a given book you've looked at.
I am in med school at the moment... and no, not at the bottom... I'm kind of in the middle creamy filling.
I just need to add one thing. I would hate to be the patient of some of the "top students" in our class. A few lack even basic skills in human interaction, either due to some organic brain issue or because they sacrificed their humanity to become one of "the elite." There is even a ubiquitous term for them - "gunners."
I heard it expressed to me in this way: The top third of a given med school class makes the best researchers, the middle third make the most money (private practice), and the bottom third tend to be the best patient advocates. Why? Because many of them went into medicine because they wanted to help people, not make a name for themselves.
Thus, I hereby dismiss your derision of my fellow classmates;-).
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Well, actually it's quite unlikely that the face would look like your wife's at all. The typical appearance of a face is produced by the bones and musculature beneath the skin. At most, the coloration and hair distribution of the donor's face would be preserved.
(sorry to hear about your wife, btw... unless you were speaking hypothetically)
I believe your post could be illustrating the problem the original submitter was referring to - you are probably the unfortunate victim of misinformation.
To replace the nitrogen, you would want to use a crop rotation system with legumes to fix nitrogen in the air into a usable form. Alternately, you could spread compost from decomposed yard and kitchen scraps.
Either way, you'd avoid using chemical fertilizer.
Of course, you would also want to manage your drainage system so that runoff doesn't go into your nearest river... though since I live in NC the hog farms kind of make that a bit of a moot point.
I've never heard of a plant absorbing organic material from the ground, unless you consider parasitic species such as heather and mistletoe that get glucose from their host plants (glucose, not simple carbon). I believe that a sessile organism that takes organic material from the ground as its main source of food can be described as a "fungus."
In fact, this is why carbon 14 dating works - because the organic carbon present in all known lifeforms comes from CO2, which was converted to a fuel source by autotrophic plants. And on that note, I bid you all goodnight:).
Plants do not get the majority of their carbon from the ground. I quote from Wikipedia:
"Plants are autotrophs, which means they are able to synthesize food directly from inorganic compounds, instead of eating other organisms or relying on material derived from them. Most notably, they use carbon dioxide gas and water to produce sugars and oxygen gas. The energy for these processes comes from photosynthesis. For instance, the over-all equation for the production of glucose is:
The glucose is variously used to form other organic compounds, such as the building material cellulose, or it may be used as a fuel."
Cellulose = polysaccharide that makes up the majority of a plant's structure - i.e. what you would burn.
Plants need only minerals and water from the ground - that's why you can grow them with hydroponics. Crack open that high school bio textbook before posting to avoid such future didatics from your fellow slashdotters.;-)
Assuming you're American, I think they give you another TB test (using a regular needle) if the ring turns up red, not a TB vaccination. TB vaccinations aren't given in the US-of-A, mainly because they don't really work and they make you reactive to the TB test, often requiring you to get multiple chest x-rays over the course of your life.
Many drugs that can't be administered orally could be administered in a mist to the lung epithelium, such as insulin. As any good cigarette smoker knows, absorbing a drug through one's mucosa and alveoli can be quite effective.
I'm unsure if this would work well with non-live immunization, though the lung does have a large quantity of macrophages that can act as antigen presenting cells.
That's a TB test, I believe. They use the round things on kids because they're a bit less frightening than a syringe. MMR / Polio vaccinations are injections, unless you got the live Polio vaccine (which was oral... and they don't use it anymore.... because it gave some people polio).
Yes, most of these things hurt more than needles. A thin needle irritates far fewer nerve fibers than a rather traumatic hydropneumatic blast o' vaccination.
Most of the pain from an injection comes from the injection of the fluid itself rather than the needle puncture
There are interesting efforts to use microporation (through vaporizing the top layer of skin, using ultrasound, etc) to deliver vaccines/insulin/etc which could be less traumatic.
I do not believe this is true at all. I'm pretty sure that bittorrent preferentially seeks out the least common "bits" among those downloading the file in order to ensure that there is a complete copy available, sometimes allowing a complete file to be downloaded even though there are no seeds. I've completed downloading (legal) unseeded files quite frequently. They do NOT load "from the beginning of the file to the end of the file," IIRC.
"cancerial diseases"??? That ain't a word, bro:-P.
You can only get cancer from radiation that can spoink your DNA, meaning frequencies UV and above. Microwaves have frequencies lower than visible light. They'll heat you up. That's it. Now... if being heated up causes cancer, that's news to me.
I doubt he's beaming large quantities of HV electrons at tungsten / moly targets to create x-rays.
My dad (a power engineer) has let me play with homebuilt tesla coils since I was 3 or so... no problems here.... (((twitch)))
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Evil is simply the corruption of good. God gave the beings he created the gift of free will so that they would not be mere automatons. Inherent in free will is the ability to choose to do something against God's will. Satan was once good, but his ambition and desire to have power separate from God's caused him to be cast out (or, some would say, cast himself out) of Heaven. We have the same free will, and we have the same choices to use our power for good or for evil. I highly suggest you read "Mere Christianity." It explains things much better than I ever could.
One belief that C.S. Lewis espoused was that one can only go to Hell if one, in fact, chooses to. Since (to Christians) God is the source of all goodness, if you choose to isolate yourself from God you isolate yourself from all that is good and pure. He phrased it something like this: "There are two kinds of people in this world - those who tell God 'Thy will be done,' and those who God tells 'Thy will be done.' The gates of hell are locked from *the inside*." People who end up in Hell choose to consign themselves to the outer darkness of non-entity rather than submit themselves to God.
You very well *may have* gotten it outside of the hospital. In the town where I live, 60% of the community-acquired staph infections are MRSA.
The problem's not in the hospitals, it's in community physicians prescribing too many antibiotics for VIRAL infections. In communities/countries where there are strict guidelines for the prescription of antibiotics, MRSA infection rates drop significantly.
Trust me, google has thought of this :) I believe they track you via IP (or perhaps cookies?) to determine how many pages of a given book you've looked at.
I am in med school at the moment... and no, not at the bottom... I'm kind of in the middle creamy filling.
;-).
I just need to add one thing. I would hate to be the patient of some of the "top students" in our class. A few lack even basic skills in human interaction, either due to some organic brain issue or because they sacrificed their humanity to become one of "the elite." There is even a ubiquitous term for them - "gunners."
I heard it expressed to me in this way: The top third of a given med school class makes the best researchers, the middle third make the most money (private practice), and the bottom third tend to be the best patient advocates. Why? Because many of them went into medicine because they wanted to help people, not make a name for themselves.
Thus, I hereby dismiss your derision of my fellow classmates
Well, actually it's quite unlikely that the face would look like your wife's at all. The typical appearance of a face is produced by the bones and musculature beneath the skin. At most, the coloration and hair distribution of the donor's face would be preserved.
(sorry to hear about your wife, btw... unless you were speaking hypothetically)
At least, if you believe their PR: Clickie Clickie
"HPV is actually just a predisposition to cervical cancer or prostate cancer and it hasn't been proven that it is actually an STD."
Unfortunately, this is blatantly wrong.
It's in the "sexually transmitted disease" chapter of the Merck Manual, and I challenge you to find a quorum of MDs who believe that it isn't or a well-respected paper supporting your position. ALL warts are caused by viruses, and are thus communicable!
I believe your post could be illustrating the problem the original submitter was referring to - you are probably the unfortunate victim of misinformation.
Not exactly as you described, but give The Merck Manual a try.
Perhaps the ash from the burning could be spread back on the grass fields to replace some of the nutrients lost. IIRC, ash from fireplaces is used to add phosphorus to soil, as well as to alkalinize acidic soil.
To replace the nitrogen, you would want to use a crop rotation system with legumes to fix nitrogen in the air into a usable form. Alternately, you could spread compost from decomposed yard and kitchen scraps.
Either way, you'd avoid using chemical fertilizer.
Of course, you would also want to manage your drainage system so that runoff doesn't go into your nearest river... though since I live in NC the hog farms kind of make that a bit of a moot point.
I've never heard of a plant absorbing organic material from the ground, unless you consider parasitic species such as heather and mistletoe that get glucose from their host plants (glucose, not simple carbon). I believe that a sessile organism that takes organic material from the ground as its main source of food can be described as a "fungus."
:).
In fact, this is why carbon 14 dating works - because the organic carbon present in all known lifeforms comes from CO2, which was converted to a fuel source by autotrophic plants. And on that note, I bid you all goodnight
Plants need only minerals and water from the ground - that's why you can grow them with hydroponics. Crack open that high school bio textbook before posting to avoid such future didatics from your fellow slashdotters.
Could be a bad idea... don't forget the concept of "Grey Goo".
Wouldn't it be Malacandra in this case? ;-)
Let's just make sure that the first astronaut (taikonaut?) that goes to Mars isn't named Dr. Weston.
Though Perelandra did have the cavorting naked green Eve and her little dragon pet, which argues in its favor...
(goes off to reread C.S. Lewis)
is self-replication, though it would seem awfully handy for such things as martian base construction.
Eric Drexler coined the term "Grey Goo" to describe the nightmare scenario that could ensue.
Assuming you're American, I think they give you another TB test (using a regular needle) if the ring turns up red, not a TB vaccination. TB vaccinations aren't given in the US-of-A, mainly because they don't really work and they make you reactive to the TB test, often requiring you to get multiple chest x-rays over the course of your life.
Many drugs that can't be administered orally could be administered in a mist to the lung epithelium, such as insulin. As any good cigarette smoker knows, absorbing a drug through one's mucosa and alveoli can be quite effective. I'm unsure if this would work well with non-live immunization, though the lung does have a large quantity of macrophages that can act as antigen presenting cells.
That's a TB test, I believe. They use the round things on kids because they're a bit less frightening than a syringe. MMR / Polio vaccinations are injections, unless you got the live Polio vaccine (which was oral... and they don't use it anymore.... because it gave some people polio).
Yes, most of these things hurt more than needles. A thin needle irritates far fewer nerve fibers than a rather traumatic hydropneumatic blast o' vaccination.
Most of the pain from an injection comes from the injection of the fluid itself rather than the needle puncture
There are interesting efforts to use microporation (through vaporizing the top layer of skin, using ultrasound, etc) to deliver vaccines/insulin/etc which could be less traumatic.
I do not believe this is true at all. I'm pretty sure that bittorrent preferentially seeks out the least common "bits" among those downloading the file in order to ensure that there is a complete copy available, sometimes allowing a complete file to be downloaded even though there are no seeds. I've completed downloading (legal) unseeded files quite frequently. They do NOT load "from the beginning of the file to the end of the file," IIRC.
... wherease we get no trains. Bush is planning to cut all federal funds for Amtrak, which will pretty much kill it.
I want my uber-trains with wifi, darnit!
you speak of the uncanny valley, methinks :)
It's already being done for music files by simply using zip compression. See here. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3602
Why don't they just bz2 or zip compress it to determine the content type :).
"cancerial diseases"??? That ain't a word, bro :-P.
You can only get cancer from radiation that can spoink your DNA, meaning frequencies UV and above. Microwaves have frequencies lower than visible light. They'll heat you up. That's it. Now... if being heated up causes cancer, that's news to me.
I doubt he's beaming large quantities of HV electrons at tungsten / moly targets to create x-rays.
My dad (a power engineer) has let me play with homebuilt tesla coils since I was 3 or so... no problems here.... (((twitch)))