60-billion-rouble (US$1.9-billion) budget and extensive property portfolio, which includes lucrative sites in Moscow and St Petersburg
So it is not about the quality or independence of science. It is about who will be collecting, hmm what's the word... "royalties"?.... on the management of the budget and the properties.
The stealerships wouldn't be able to charge Tesla drivers obscene rates for oil changes and such.
But sir you batteries will need to be waxed every three months or every 3000 miles, otherwise they will no longer hold charge you warranty will be voided. That's unless you opt for our extended service warranty which comes with free battery waxing and electricity flush ( a small monthly payment applies, but will tuck it in your financing and you will never notice it). We do recommend flushing the electricity of your car at least once every six moths. Stale electricity can get dirty and clog he coils of your electric motor.
There is no greater harm to humans as society and species than extending needlessly our life span. First it is impractical - how are you going to prevent the accumulation of somatic mutations? Second, from society point of view, what's the point of extending the life span in the context of exponentially growing population? We already have pretty heavy footprint on the environment. Imagine what would happen if we linger around for another 100 years or so along with our grand and grand-grand children. Third, from biology point of view species that have faster turn-around are more adaptable. Spawn, make sure your progeny survives and then get out of the way has always been the winning strategy. Finally, who the f*ck is Maria Konovalenko and why should anybody listen to her?
Disclaimer: Extending the life span may make sense for certain purposes like conducting deep space missions to other planets and solar systems.
The reason I go to the web is to find _new_ information. Having my browser railroad me into certain website, because of what some algorithm perceived to be my interest is defying the purpose of web browsing. What happened to discovering things you never heard of, developing new interests and broadening you horizons? Wasn't this one of the promises of the WWW? How did we even end up with the idea of using the vast sea if information at our disposal to make ourselves as narrow-minded as possible? I won't even comment on the breach of privacy that this entails. Many have already discussed it.
No that they have taken care of the celestial matters, perhaps they will find some time for actually running the country. Banal earthly matters such as the farm bill apparently requires some attention.
If it's so controversial, why not just get the mitochondrial dna from the father?
Whatever you do there will always be people that will say it is controversial, because of the proverbial slippery slope that will appear at some point in the undefined future. In this case, it is supposed top put us on the path to designer babies. Well it doesn't. This is not targeted manipulation of the genetic content. It is nuclear transfer, similar to what is already a wide spread and well accepted in vitro fertilization procedure. Sure you can isolate mitochnodria from the father and place them in the egg. However this will add complexity to the procedure without producing better outcome. In fact, is is very likely to produce significantly worse outcome. This is because you can transfer only small amount of mitochondria compared to what is already in the egg. As the egg divides the chances are that you will end up with a number of cells that don't carry enough of the father's mitochondria, because mitochondria unlike chromosomes are distributed stochastically between the daughter cells.
The Obama campaign treated voters as consumers, because the vast majority of voters treat democracy as a supermarket. Instead of being informed, listen to each other, actively voice their position in petitions and protests, and generally be involved in governance, modern voters just switch to the other brand of soap. To carry on with the metaphor, some of them abandon soap altogether and choose not to shower. This "exit" strategy has reached particularity absurd level in the United States where a number of voters (the so called "independents") bounce as ping-pong balls between the two parties every four years. These voters are never satisfied with the government they just elected, yet they cannot be bothered to actively push this government to fulfill promises or address their grievances. So, if you approach democracy as market, the politicians will treat you as shoppers. You got what you asked for, why are you complaining? (Disclosure: These are not my ideas, I stole them from a book called "In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?".)
It's too late to stop this or even do anything about it. The only actions that can be taken would be to physically destroy the facilities that handle this data gathering and store the harvest.
No dude. We just spent copious amounts of cash on building a world wide data backup facility. I want access to my files. Free and unlimited cloud backups courtesy of the US government. Now that's a government worth paying for. We should all call our congressmen and ask for one lie bill to be passed, saying that everybody should have direct access to their records at NSA. The same thing the Germans did with the Stasi records.
What a moron you are. This is not an act of war. It has no other purpose but institute fear. Random killings of Muslims is a very broad statement. Are you referring to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? As far as I can recall the general effort was to avoid random killings. I also recall couple of prosecutions of such killings. In fact most of the random killings in both places were preformed by muslims using the same terror tactics you just condoned to intimidate the local population or to eradicate the people not belonging to the same sect. If you are unhappy with the US/UK governments you are strongly encouraged to run for office or campaign for change following the low of the land. But justifying random killings is disgusting. As far as suffering of the muslim people, it is a bit single sided to accuse only US (which undoubtedly has a role in this). US and the West as a whole have been very good at defending their interest, quite unceremoniously I should say. They do it for the most part because they can. And the reason they have this ability is no small part due to their rapidly developing societies, where individuals take responsibility and participate in governance and do their best not to be encumbered by prejudice and religion. In case you are going to refer me to some extreme christian denominations, let me point out that they exist side by side with a host of other religions and their wings are quickly clipped off when they pass the line demarcating free speech from hate speech. Now in the light of this there is also other ways to defend you interest without random bombings or meat cleaver attacks. China is a good example of alternative strategy to the western world. Still even China's success is based on setting aside religious prejudice and focusing on technological advance.
The web front end and credit card transactions are in Bermuda, but the shipments are from a warehouse in the states? Is the seller obligated to collect state taxes.
No, but the customer will have fun time with US customs when the package arrives.
"Nontoxic radioactive Listeria is a highly effective therapy against metastatic pancreatic cancer"
So, we're saying that we wasted lots of tumor cells via something nontoxic?
Is that like saying nontoxic botox because we only let it get to the tissues we wanted paralyzed?
They use an attenuated strain, so it is not going to give you an infection. They can probably charge double - once for cancer treatment and a second time for your Listeria vaccination. From table 2 in the article it appears that the bacteria are cleared from the normal tissue within a week.
Another one for the "The Anarchist Cookbook?" I wasn't aware of O2F2..:-?
The formula that better describes its properties is FOOF. You can read a very entertaining description of its synthesis and properties here. Comparing FOOF to the stuff from "The Anarchist Coockbook" is like comparing Saturn 5 rocket to a firecracker. Yes they both blow up, but FOOF can make water explode at subzero temperatures. Here is a quote from Stern, AG, The Chemical Properties of Dioxygen Difluoride, JACS 1963:
It caused explosions when added to ice at 130-140K.
The app developers will not be displaying ads on glass, but this doesn't mean that Google will not make add revenue from this device. I can see at least two ways to that:
1. The information they gather on you from the device will probably be used to increase the value of the targeted ads on their other platforms: google search, Google+, Gmail.
2. They can can show on top of the search (like they do in google search) or mark more prominently on the maps paying businesses.
Some developers on android seem to do well without selling ads, so they shouldn't be affected by this rule. Others that distribute for free and rely on flashy adds, will have to drop out are make their offerings attractive enough for the users to pay fro them.
It does to an extent: Do a search or just open a journal at the table of contents page. Then click on the 'add to zotero' icon, which in this case will looks as a folder. You will be presented with a list, that you can download in bulk.
Papers was picked up by Springer and now Mendelay is becoming part of Elsevier. This may have a silver lining for zotero. Papers, Mendeley and Zotero use CSL for formatting the references in the text. This means that the publishers now will have a very strong incentive to provides the CSL files for their publication, as they have done all along with the EndNote styles. Of course they can just be redirect their users to Zotero for styles or lock the export of CSL files to their preferred reference manager, but in the first case they will hear constant wining from their users and the second case requires quite a bit of work on their side.
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60-billion-rouble (US$1.9-billion) budget and extensive property portfolio, which includes lucrative sites in Moscow and St Petersburg
So it is not about the quality or independence of science. It is about who will be collecting, hmm what's the word ... "royalties"?.... on the management of the budget and the properties.
The stealerships wouldn't be able to charge Tesla drivers obscene rates for oil changes and such.
But sir you batteries will need to be waxed every three months or every 3000 miles, otherwise they will no longer hold charge you warranty will be voided. That's unless you opt for our extended service warranty which comes with free battery waxing and electricity flush ( a small monthly payment applies, but will tuck it in your financing and you will never notice it). We do recommend flushing the electricity of your car at least once every six moths. Stale electricity can get dirty and clog he coils of your electric motor.
May be they can agree on one backdoor which they can share like big brothers.
Disclaimer: Extending the life span may make sense for certain purposes like conducting deep space missions to other planets and solar systems.
The reason I go to the web is to find _new_ information. Having my browser railroad me into certain website, because of what some algorithm perceived to be my interest is defying the purpose of web browsing. What happened to discovering things you never heard of, developing new interests and broadening you horizons? Wasn't this one of the promises of the WWW? How did we even end up with the idea of using the vast sea if information at our disposal to make ourselves as narrow-minded as possible? I won't even comment on the breach of privacy that this entails. Many have already discussed it.
No that they have taken care of the celestial matters, perhaps they will find some time for actually running the country. Banal earthly matters such as the farm bill apparently requires some attention.
This must be Robert';) DROP TABLE flights; filing his first flight plan.
If it's so controversial, why not just get the mitochondrial dna from the father?
Whatever you do there will always be people that will say it is controversial, because of the proverbial slippery slope that will appear at some point in the undefined future. In this case, it is supposed top put us on the path to designer babies. Well it doesn't. This is not targeted manipulation of the genetic content. It is nuclear transfer, similar to what is already a wide spread and well accepted in vitro fertilization procedure. Sure you can isolate mitochnodria from the father and place them in the egg. However this will add complexity to the procedure without producing better outcome. In fact, is is very likely to produce significantly worse outcome. This is because you can transfer only small amount of mitochondria compared to what is already in the egg. As the egg divides the chances are that you will end up with a number of cells that don't carry enough of the father's mitochondria, because mitochondria unlike chromosomes are distributed stochastically between the daughter cells.
The Obama campaign treated voters as consumers, because the vast majority of voters treat democracy as a supermarket. Instead of being informed, listen to each other, actively voice their position in petitions and protests, and generally be involved in governance, modern voters just switch to the other brand of soap. To carry on with the metaphor, some of them abandon soap altogether and choose not to shower. This "exit" strategy has reached particularity absurd level in the United States where a number of voters (the so called "independents") bounce as ping-pong balls between the two parties every four years. These voters are never satisfied with the government they just elected, yet they cannot be bothered to actively push this government to fulfill promises or address their grievances. So, if you approach democracy as market, the politicians will treat you as shoppers. You got what you asked for, why are you complaining? (Disclosure: These are not my ideas, I stole them from a book called "In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?".)
Jealous?
I am hermaphrodite, you insensitive clod!
It's too late to stop this or even do anything about it. The only actions that can be taken would be to physically destroy the facilities that handle this data gathering and store the harvest.
No dude. We just spent copious amounts of cash on building a world wide data backup facility. I want access to my files. Free and unlimited cloud backups courtesy of the US government. Now that's a government worth paying for. We should all call our congressmen and ask for one lie bill to be passed, saying that everybody should have direct access to their records at NSA. The same thing the Germans did with the Stasi records.
This Order does not require Verizon to produce telephony metadata for communications wholly originating and terminating in foreign countries.
Is this limitation due to the courts jurisdiction?
What a moron you are. This is not an act of war. It has no other purpose but institute fear. Random killings of Muslims is a very broad statement. Are you referring to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? As far as I can recall the general effort was to avoid random killings. I also recall couple of prosecutions of such killings. In fact most of the random killings in both places were preformed by muslims using the same terror tactics you just condoned to intimidate the local population or to eradicate the people not belonging to the same sect. If you are unhappy with the US/UK governments you are strongly encouraged to run for office or campaign for change following the low of the land. But justifying random killings is disgusting. As far as suffering of the muslim people, it is a bit single sided to accuse only US (which undoubtedly has a role in this). US and the West as a whole have been very good at defending their interest, quite unceremoniously I should say. They do it for the most part because they can. And the reason they have this ability is no small part due to their rapidly developing societies, where individuals take responsibility and participate in governance and do their best not to be encumbered by prejudice and religion. In case you are going to refer me to some extreme christian denominations, let me point out that they exist side by side with a host of other religions and their wings are quickly clipped off when they pass the line demarcating free speech from hate speech. Now in the light of this there is also other ways to defend you interest without random bombings or meat cleaver attacks. China is a good example of alternative strategy to the western world. Still even China's success is based on setting aside religious prejudice and focusing on technological advance.
The web front end and credit card transactions are in Bermuda, but the shipments are from a warehouse in the states? Is the seller obligated to collect state taxes.
No, but the customer will have fun time with US customs when the package arrives.
G.S.V. Eschatologist
My personal favorite:
R.O.U. Xenophobe
The first sci-fi novel I read was A Wrinkle in Time; the next was Dune. Why don't more people read these extraordinarily imaginative books?
They are waiting for the movie to come out
The treated mice still had metastases of pancreatic cancer.
Life unlike computers is analogue.
"Nontoxic radioactive Listeria is a highly effective therapy against metastatic pancreatic cancer"
So, we're saying that we wasted lots of tumor cells via something nontoxic?
Is that like saying nontoxic botox because we only let it get to the tissues we wanted paralyzed?
They use an attenuated strain, so it is not going to give you an infection. They can probably charge double - once for cancer treatment and a second time for your Listeria vaccination. From table 2 in the article it appears that the bacteria are cleared from the normal tissue within a week.
Another one for the "The Anarchist Cookbook?" I wasn't aware of O2F2.. :-?
The formula that better describes its properties is FOOF. You can read a very entertaining description of its synthesis and properties here. Comparing FOOF to the stuff from "The Anarchist Coockbook" is like comparing Saturn 5 rocket to a firecracker. Yes they both blow up, but FOOF can make water explode at subzero temperatures. Here is a quote from Stern, AG, The Chemical Properties of Dioxygen Difluoride, JACS 1963:
It caused explosions when added to ice at 130-140K.
BTW I strongly recommend reading Derek's "Things I Won't Work With" blog. It is a lot of fun.
The app developers will not be displaying ads on glass, but this doesn't mean that Google will not make add revenue from this device. I can see at least two ways to that: 1. The information they gather on you from the device will probably be used to increase the value of the targeted ads on their other platforms: google search, Google+, Gmail. 2. They can can show on top of the search (like they do in google search) or mark more prominently on the maps paying businesses. Some developers on android seem to do well without selling ads, so they shouldn't be affected by this rule. Others that distribute for free and rely on flashy adds, will have to drop out are make their offerings attractive enough for the users to pay fro them.
Zotero doesn't allow you to do bulk downloads.
It does to an extent: Do a search or just open a journal at the table of contents page. Then click on the 'add to zotero' icon, which in this case will looks as a folder. You will be presented with a list, that you can download in bulk.
Papers was picked up by Springer and now Mendelay is becoming part of Elsevier. This may have a silver lining for zotero. Papers, Mendeley and Zotero use CSL for formatting the references in the text. This means that the publishers now will have a very strong incentive to provides the CSL files for their publication, as they have done all along with the EndNote styles. Of course they can just be redirect their users to Zotero for styles or lock the export of CSL files to their preferred reference manager, but in the first case they will hear constant wining from their users and the second case requires quite a bit of work on their side.
Have you tried Zotero Standalone? You can use it with browsers other than FF.
It does have cloud storage.