Considering that viruses are essentially bundles of proteins, and this laser trashes the virus, how would the laser not trash proteins in cells potentially containing the viruses?
There is no possible frequency of light that could preferentially hit a virus and miss everything around it. For biomolecules and especially for whole conglomerations of biomolecules (say, a cell) you reach a saturation of states (or more correctly, pairs of states) across all frequencies (within a reasonable range.) In other words, conglomerations of biomolecules have spectra that are broad. So if the laser was going to be used to try and excite vibrational states in the virus and eventually cause dissociation and fragmentation, you would inevitably be doing the same to some of the material around it, again assuming that the virus was in a cell or surrounded by other biomolecules.
As a physics graduate student I had to teach loads and loads of students and their math/physics/analytical skills were a depressing sight to see.
Hello. I was a teaching assistant also, and I disagree with your assessment. I've found some very well prepared students as I've TA'd. The requirements for doing well in physics and chemistry are a strong background in high school algebra, trigonometry, two years of calculus, and maybe linear algebra. Most of your students were better at these topics than you think they were. The actual problem wasn't that your students hadn't covered these areas thoroughly, but that you were not an effective instructor. I had many fellow graduate students complain about the undergraduates, and they were all just stroking their own egos by putting others down.
more accommodating to the hard struggling american students (struggling to catch up).
Compare your conclusions to the article that the summary references:
In fact, the few countries that place higher than the U.S. are generally small nations, and few of these rank consistently high across all grades, subjects, and years tested.
You want to deny everybody else access to the wires you laid on public easements, using grants
Those wires were laid with public money or money granted by the public. The construction of great portions of the internet infrastructure has been funded by the public for years. Returning that money is what he is talking about.
He isn't talking about tax breaks; he is talking about direct infrastructure investment made on behalf of the people of the United States that is now being used for profit by private companies. That, by itself, is not problematic, so long as the the companies have equal access to the infrastructure and the profit making remains entirely competitive.
Organic doesn't mean biological! Organic chemistry, which is the bread and butter of modern chemistry, really has very little to do with life. It's the science of synthesizing new molecules which use carbon as its framework (as well as oxygen, nitrogen and other elements.) So things that are alive are always organic, but things that are organic are not always alive!
The main point about obtrusive surveillance technologies is whether or not data from them is admissible in court. Like if the FBI tapped your phone without a very good reason and a court order, any information they gather couldn't be used against you. The thing with surveillance like this is that any data it collects probably would be admissible if the court viewed it like any other camera data. In any event, I think that we can mostly agree that satellite surveillance should be used for military purposes only and not to look for the kids who broke your window playing baseball.
I think he got fired two weeks later. I guess he had it coming since several times for lunch he would go home and take a nap, coming back after 3 or 4 hours cause he had overslept during such hour lunch break.
Yeah I totally take the lunchtime siesta at my office, and that limits my oversleeping to, at most, two hours. What a complete office noob. By the way, how do you fire an unpaid intern?
Who added the tag "slashdot liberal whining"? I am asking because I don't understand why someone would tag this story with that. My guess is that the tagging system will be removed because of abuses like this.
Neocons are libertarians share views on the size of government and laissez-faire economic policies. Libertarians also want more personal freedom, but that isn't a politically feasible part of their platform. From a practical standpoint they are the same. Libertarianism is, in the end, as destructive an outlook as conservatism. We have known since the 1930's that government is not the problem, and it doesn't matter how many times Reaganites and Rush Limbaugh say that it is.
Some people, like the people who made this deal, aren't "red staters" or "blue staters"
No that isn't accurate. Conservative lawmakers in Indiana are definitely "red staters" and in fact they really define what it means to be in a red state. "Red state" means that the politics tends to be conservative and the Republicans are in power, which is exactly what you have in Indiana. The "red state" / "blue state" arguments sound trite, but there is some truth to it.
I grew up in Indiana and I have a Ph.D. I also left Indiana a long time ago for the reasons you mentioned. (Yes the 'brain drain' is real.) The state has been trashed by its own people; the urban sprawl is as bad there as anywhere else, save possibly Atlanta. I am only sorry that they can affect everyone else by polluting the Great Lakes.
You know a good lawyer will tell you that in the end the truth will prevail, as corny as it sounds. This irrational decision will stand until the paperwork is filled for higher appeal. I am not sure where the appeal process will take them and I am sure there are lawyers on this board who will tell us, but I still have faith in the process even though it seems to be falling short right now.
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Compare your conclusions to the article that the summary references:
I would really only want to hide my name if I'd bought season tickets for the Dolphins.
He isn't talking about tax breaks; he is talking about direct infrastructure investment made on behalf of the people of the United States that is now being used for profit by private companies. That, by itself, is not problematic, so long as the the companies have equal access to the infrastructure and the profit making remains entirely competitive.
The whole idea that man made lights are causing light pollution is just a hoax foisted onto you by the libural media.
Laugh. It was funny.
About half of the posts on slashdot are comments about the summary.
Organic doesn't mean biological! Organic chemistry, which is the bread and butter of modern chemistry, really has very little to do with life. It's the science of synthesizing new molecules which use carbon as its framework (as well as oxygen, nitrogen and other elements.) So things that are alive are always organic, but things that are organic are not always alive!
err intrusive, not obtrusive ... derh
The main point about obtrusive surveillance technologies is whether or not data from them is admissible in court. Like if the FBI tapped your phone without a very good reason and a court order, any information they gather couldn't be used against you. The thing with surveillance like this is that any data it collects probably would be admissible if the court viewed it like any other camera data. In any event, I think that we can mostly agree that satellite surveillance should be used for military purposes only and not to look for the kids who broke your window playing baseball.
Who added the tag "slashdot liberal whining"? I am asking because I don't understand why someone would tag this story with that. My guess is that the tagging system will be removed because of abuses like this.
I am just a lowly caveman lawyer.
Oh, good sir, I do believe you are referring to a motor car !
thanks for your hacked together diatribe. FYI, I didn't read it.
I have a suggestion that you probably didn't even want!
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I grew up in Indiana and I have a Ph.D. I also left Indiana a long time ago for the reasons you mentioned. (Yes the 'brain drain' is real.) The state has been trashed by its own people; the urban sprawl is as bad there as anywhere else, save possibly Atlanta. I am only sorry that they can affect everyone else by polluting the Great Lakes.
that is very definitely either
1. A weather balloon
OR
2. swamp marsh gas
j/k
You know a good lawyer will tell you that in the end the truth will prevail, as corny as it sounds. This irrational decision will stand until the paperwork is filled for higher appeal. I am not sure where the appeal process will take them and I am sure there are lawyers on this board who will tell us, but I still have faith in the process even though it seems to be falling short right now.
Nobody even calls me on my regular phone. :_(