No one is trying to prevent people from exercising their civil rights. They are, however, trying to prevent people from perverting an existing institution designed to build families.
So would you be in favour of prohibiting the marriage of heterosexual persons who do not plan on raising children?
There might be a few sure positives, but they're probably so obviously mentally ill with uncontrolled violent behavior you could spot them a mile away.
Might read the GP's posts upthread. He's wanting pre-natal testing for a hypothetical "serial killer gene".
And then the fact that you have to replace a major and expensive component of your vehicle (batteries) every 3-5 years.
Where are you pulling that figure from?
I doubt the battery lifespan is going to be that short when the Chevy Volt (for example) is coming with a 150,000 miles/10 year warranty, and Nissan seems likely to follow suite with the Leaf.
Pumped storage hydroelectric is nice, but the appropriate terrain to do that effectively isn't very common and making it is expensive. you need to move LOTS of water quite high, roughly 500,000 metre-litres of water per kilowatt-hour of storage.
So based on the fact we can cure certain forms of immunodeficiency, blindness, deafness, and colourblindness, you conclude that there is/are (a) genes that controls whether someone will become a serial killer and can be altered without substantial side effects?
That's one hell of an unfounded leap. All of those conditions have known mechanisms of action (we know exactly what doesn't work properly) and have found the gene(s) is/are responsible for them. We have neither for serial killers/violent offenders, and I highly doubt there is any gene or set of genes that gives any reasonable probability of one becoming a serial killer or violent offender.
Even if there is a genetic root, current evidence shows it is massively correlated to environmental conditions. Here in Canada, a large percentage of dangerous offenders (criminals with long, violent histories serving indeterminate sentences) have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
I did here in Canada. Theoretical classes at lunch hour for a couple weeks (20 hours) followed by a written test to get the learner permit, then followed by practical driving (6 hours) during class hours.
Depends which bridge you mean. The one to Gravina Island was pointless, but the other one (The Knik Arm Bridge) would have been useful to expand the ability to commute to Anchorage.
Using a gamma emitter (rather than an alpha emitter like Pu-238) means you need A LOT more shielding (and thus more weight and volume) to prevent it from screwing with the electronics and instruments.
1. The only efficient manner in which to make useful quantities of Pu-238 is by irradiating Neptunium-237, which is found in "spent" reactor fuel in low quantities (~0.7%). This process takes quite awhile. If we started irradiating the Neptunium right now, we wouldn't see any usable amounts of Pu-238 for at least 5 years.
2. Creating Pu-238 also results in greater quantities of Pu-239, which is the type you'd use in a nuclear weapon. This is a security concern for obvious reasons.
No, they're making plenty of money, they're just doing a good job of hiding it via accounting tricks so they don't have to pay actors, directors, etc. who are often paid a percentage of profits.
Macular degeneration results in a blank spot in the centre of your vision. This thing works by routing around that blank spot to sections of the retina which are unobstructed. It sacrifices some visual acuity to allow a full field of vision.
If you don't know what that means, you're probably not a member of the 2% or so of users who manually upgrade their kernel and thus probably don't need to worry about it. These updates to your system will be handled by the maintainers of whatever distro you use.
Though to summarize that one, it's undoing a fix (the original issue caused the kernel not to build) to some initial setup code (find the terminal, initialize additional CPU cores, etc.) for the Itamium processor which would cause genksyms (GENerate Kernel SYMbolS, which generates symbol version (checksum of all the typedefs, structs, unions, etc. in the kernel down to their base types) information) not to work properly as it fails to generate the checksum for a particular variable in a struct.
The "write protect" switch may not actually do anything. On the card, it's just a plastic slider, same as it was on floppies. It's up to the reader to detect the position of that and a bunch of cheap readers don't bother. And being as they're using windows (presumably to save money), I wouldn't put it past them to be using cheap readers.
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No one is trying to prevent people from exercising their civil rights. They are, however, trying to prevent people from perverting an existing institution designed to build families.
So would you be in favour of prohibiting the marriage of heterosexual persons who do not plan on raising children?
There might be a few sure positives, but they're probably so obviously mentally ill with uncontrolled violent behavior you could spot them a mile away.
Might read the GP's posts upthread. He's wanting pre-natal testing for a hypothetical "serial killer gene".
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1716874&cid=32879798
I'm guessing you might not have seen it as it's been kicked down to -1.
And then the fact that you have to replace a major and expensive component of your vehicle (batteries) every 3-5 years.
Where are you pulling that figure from?
I doubt the battery lifespan is going to be that short when the Chevy Volt (for example) is coming with a 150,000 miles/10 year warranty, and Nissan seems likely to follow suite with the Leaf.
Pumped storage hydroelectric is nice, but the appropriate terrain to do that effectively isn't very common and making it is expensive. you need to move LOTS of water quite high, roughly 500,000 metre-litres of water per kilowatt-hour of storage.
So based on the fact we can cure certain forms of immunodeficiency, blindness, deafness, and colourblindness, you conclude that there is/are (a) genes that controls whether someone will become a serial killer and can be altered without substantial side effects?
That's one hell of an unfounded leap. All of those conditions have known mechanisms of action (we know exactly what doesn't work properly) and have found the gene(s) is/are responsible for them. We have neither for serial killers/violent offenders, and I highly doubt there is any gene or set of genes that gives any reasonable probability of one becoming a serial killer or violent offender.
Even if there is a genetic root, current evidence shows it is massively correlated to environmental conditions. Here in Canada, a large percentage of dangerous offenders (criminals with long, violent histories serving indeterminate sentences) have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
I did here in Canada. Theoretical classes at lunch hour for a couple weeks (20 hours) followed by a written test to get the learner permit, then followed by practical driving (6 hours) during class hours.
Depends which bridge you mean. The one to Gravina Island was pointless, but the other one (The Knik Arm Bridge) would have been useful to expand the ability to commute to Anchorage.
Financial responsibility, yes, but not PR responsibility. You can blame them even if you can't sue them over it.
You're not the only one.
Using a gamma emitter (rather than an alpha emitter like Pu-238) means you need A LOT more shielding (and thus more weight and volume) to prevent it from screwing with the electronics and instruments.
There are a couple problems with that.
1. The only efficient manner in which to make useful quantities of Pu-238 is by irradiating Neptunium-237, which is found in "spent" reactor fuel in low quantities (~0.7%). This process takes quite awhile. If we started irradiating the Neptunium right now, we wouldn't see any usable amounts of Pu-238 for at least 5 years.
2. Creating Pu-238 also results in greater quantities of Pu-239, which is the type you'd use in a nuclear weapon. This is a security concern for obvious reasons.
No, they're making plenty of money, they're just doing a good job of hiding it via accounting tricks so they don't have to pay actors, directors, etc. who are often paid a percentage of profits.
It would make a normal person's vision worse.
Macular degeneration results in a blank spot in the centre of your vision. This thing works by routing around that blank spot to sections of the retina which are unobstructed. It sacrifices some visual acuity to allow a full field of vision.
4% of 0.0000000000000000000000000167 grams.
Only if you use an idiotic feedstock like corn. Sugarcane or sugar beets give a positive return.
About 2835.
If you don't know what that means, you're probably not a member of the 2% or so of users who manually upgrade their kernel and thus probably don't need to worry about it. These updates to your system will be handled by the maintainers of whatever distro you use.
Though to summarize that one, it's undoing a fix (the original issue caused the kernel not to build) to some initial setup code (find the terminal, initialize additional CPU cores, etc.) for the Itamium processor which would cause genksyms (GENerate Kernel SYMbolS, which generates symbol version (checksum of all the typedefs, structs, unions, etc. in the kernel down to their base types) information) not to work properly as it fails to generate the checksum for a particular variable in a struct.
Either the links weren't in TFA when the submitter posted this or they were too lazy to follow them.
there's a list of changes here.
The FDA disallowed "Non-GMO" and similar labels in 2001.
One privilege escalation exploit (These kiosks probably have never seen windows update) and you can laugh around all that.
The "write protect" switch may not actually do anything. On the card, it's just a plastic slider, same as it was on floppies. It's up to the reader to detect the position of that and a bunch of cheap readers don't bother. And being as they're using windows (presumably to save money), I wouldn't put it past them to be using cheap readers.
It has everything to do with religion in that religion is used as a tool to bring others to the cause, just like has been done of hundreds of years.
Though the dietary rules in Lev are overruled in the new testament. Not sure about the cloth silliness.
Though I am surprised that they use Lev rather than Romans 1 or 1 Corinthians, which are more comprehensive. Lev doesn't prohibit lesbianism.
Not completely AMD, but IBM's Roadrunner system (built in 2008) uses AMD chips in conjunction with Cell procs.
Tartan I can sort of get. There's quite a number of Americans with Irish and Scottish ancestry.
You think those don't have a ton of state stuff they spent time passing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arkansas_state_symbols
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alabama_state_symbols
Amusingly, both have a version of the bible as their state book.