A large amount of research we do with Adult Stem Cell research was initially perfected out of the country on ESCs, because it is easier to work with ESCs. Also from working with them we've learned how to cause cells of one type to turn into cells of another type using adenoviruses. Unfortunately those treatments are a long way off until we work out that they are completely safe and won't result in turning your entire body into one big pancreas or something.
Catholics are a bad example. They're not generally true creationists. They generally preach that God has an invisible hand in pushing evolution in some directions but is overall hands off. Some even believe that Got set everything up to go off semi randomly at the big bang and it just goes from there however he knows how it will go in the long run.
Stem cells can be made from plants. They're just near useless for human disease testing. We use mouse stem cells in our studies on Type 1 Diabetes. Fortunately my lab is not currently doing human stem cell testing or we'd be effected, atm we're only using mouse stem cells. But once we get things polished up enough using mice then we'll be switching to human, which will be several years baring a major breakthrough.
Are you sure that monk was a creationist? Would he have said that Darwin is full of crap? Or would he have said that "Hey this Darwin guy is taking my research to the next step. This is pretty cool stuff!"
It seems to me you're effectively putting words into his mouth.
There are many "creationists" by your definition that only believed in it because it was the only known thing. The difference is those that vehemently say evolution is full of crap. I can understand the ones that say God helps steer the evolution that fits in with what we know about the universe. The ones that say God made it this way and things don't evolve are limiting God's capabilities, in my opinion.
Similarly they should all be crying how the world is flat and the sun goes around the earth, because that is what they believed in the time of Jesus.
I must be really green then. I bought a used hybrid and to top it all off it's already paid itself off in gas savings since it was only $500 more than the non-hybrid.
Also, David and his family are profiting from the video. Ghyslain is not, in my opinion it would be a wiser move to sue the individuals who posted it to youtube for any profits they made off of it.
Debt wasn't a big deal in the comments that my professors made. What was the big deal was the relative income of getting a Ph.D. vs 3-6 years professional experience. In IT especially you will make more money over your lifetime without a Ph.D. than with one. In some sciences it works the other way as they'll hit a ceiling of promotabilty. BUT when a fresh grad student makes less than 40k a year with a long road of working their way to make more money it is no wonder that that may would be scientists are going to other careers.
It should be equally double edged. If they want to record us, then we should be able to record them. Otherwise get rid of all the stop light cameras, security cameras, and everything else.
I have a friend with a 19 year old daughter. She is still a virgin, know why? When she was somewhere between 10-12 she got the talk. Every time her and her boyfriend go out, her dad tells them to use a condom. Its no big deal to him, therefor it is no big deal to her. She's decided from her personal observations of her friends that it isn't worth the hassle yet and she'll wait until after college, just in case something happens.
Yes some of those areas are mismanaged. However the Postal Service does get you your mail AND is cheaper on a basic letter than the private alternatives.
Others aren't really that much worse than the real world comparisons. Is Social Security really any worse than AIG, Citi, or other investment / retirement companies. Is Medicare / Medicaid that much worse than normal insurance? Most regulatory agencies are filled with individuals who get paid off (generally indirectly) by those in the areas that they are supposed to be regulating. IMO the regulatory agencies would be better off if the people in charge of regulating them (us, senate, house) were doing a better job.
However my main choice is that we need to evaluate what are the major factors of our high health costs and work on lowering those first. After that we can evaluate a public heathcare option. Cause atm even with insurance I cannot afford to go to the doctor, although I could arguably say it is more my wife's bad practice at following our budgeting, and I've been regularly having chest pains for years (I'm only 31). Judging by an observation during a checkup at 17 it could be a heart murmur. Going by my family history it could be the beginning of heart disease. According to my general practice doctor it is likely irritated nerves in my spine registering as chest pain. Of course for a real diagnosis I'd have to have tests done. My insurance covers 95% of the cost up to their "maximum cost" Which seems to always be well below what places charge. I had to pay $750 for a biopsy after my wife had an irregular pap and I estimate my costs for tests will be over a grand.
I've never dealt with an EMP but a more realistic threat with similar effects would be planning for a hurricane or earthquake. I used to work at a international bank and we had to deal with both (offices in FL and CA). For the most part the best solution was to have an identical setup at another office and having all applications available via VPN and/or web access. We had a separate pipe that was used only for backup data transfers. The DB transaction logs were written both locally and remotely. All user files saved to the server were immediately copied to the backup server. On several occasions the systems were tested due to black/brownouts. The users were sent home where they could work just as effectively as the office.
Our general emergency plan for hurricanes (I worked at the FL office we used the CA office as our backup). Was to let the users go well in advance of the hurricane and switch CA to being our primary servers with FL as the backup. Once the users were settled then they could continue working from home. The only way we would be screwed is if a hurricane and earthquake happened simultaneously. At that point we'd have to restore VM backups on hardware located at the main corporate offices in NYC or Sydney.
Next thing you know GM will be releasing a statement about how taxis, rentals, and carpools are bad and everyone should purchase their own car to drive.
Seems to me then that they should require a warrant for anything that it wouldn't be out of place or illegal for a normal citizen to use on someone else's house, which I think would be a good place to put the line.
A good parallel technology would be binoculars or a telescope. Which is likely legal for police to use in many areas, but of questionable legality if a citizen uses it on someone else's home.
While I can definitely see some debate as to if the climate change is our fault. The existence of climate change is without doubt. Leaving out global warming numbers and chaotic weather patterns, you still have glaciers retreating, arctic melting, and increased water levels.
Various other parts of the "go green" movement have advantages as well. Recycling helps us reuse limited resources, alternate power helps us stop giving money to the supposed bad guys, and efficiency helps us easier sustain our significant population.
So at the very most if the global warming cause is fabricated it is at least encouraging you to do something you should be already doing. Its like saying kids who were properly cared for by their parents live longer. The correlation is debatable, but it is still a darn good idea to do because there are other proven advantages. Instead I see people outwardly saying something equivalent to "damn if you'll see me take care of my kids, hell I'll kick em extra tonight."
I used to work for an IT consulting / do-it all shop in a small town. One of our big things was wiring businesses.
For switch to outlet wiring we made our own cables. It was a lot easier than guessing what lengths of cable we needed to go up the wall, across the ceiling, and wherever else. At the switch we'd put a plug at the end and at the wall we'd put an outlet or plug (if it was going into a pre-wired cubical).
All walled cables were tested using a basic 6 light tester. I'd recommend that be done even if you bought a 200ft commercial cable and put it into the wall. It is a lot easier to test it now and fix it than have to come back later and fix it.
For wall - PC patch cables and switch to box patch cables we'd use basic commercial 3,6,9 ft 5e cables. Generally purchased from Greybar in bulk. If you use proper cable routing techniques (with proper cable holders) in the server room you can keep it clean. If you use custom length cables in there you end up having to make new cables every time you need to change the connections around.
Loot Lag
Mailbox Lag
Bank Lag
Equiping Gear Lag
Mob not dieing after you got him to 0%
Quest NPCs not giving you rewards for a quest but completing the quest still.
Stats setting back to their naked values
Many many many server crashes
Patches that made things worse to fix some exploit
Lots of dupe exploits
Mobs getting stuck underground where they could hit you and you couldn't hit back
Getting stuck "looting" and having to restart the game to get out of it.
Game crashes
All this complaining about WAR's release. It really was one of the smoothest. I think DAoC may have been smoother but they cut a lot of content to get there. WAR's was easily smoother than WoW's. SWG was pretty rough, Planetside wasn't bad. EQ was kinda nasty. FFXI was smooth but it had already been running for awhile in JP. For the worst release just grab anything done by Funcom.
There was some performance problems at release. I had two machines that would run WoW, but only the newer would run WAR. Out of curiosity's sake I started it up on the older machine in early January and it ran quite smoothly at moderate settings.
Probably won't have much access at sea but when you get into port you can shove off a few emails and browse the web. I'd personally recommend a Blackberry.
Got one for you. When I was in college I needed recursion to handle something in Fortran. The version of Fortran I was using didn't support recursion, the compiler rejected it. So, I wrote a function and a functionB they called each other for forced recursion.
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A large amount of research we do with Adult Stem Cell research was initially perfected out of the country on ESCs, because it is easier to work with ESCs. Also from working with them we've learned how to cause cells of one type to turn into cells of another type using adenoviruses. Unfortunately those treatments are a long way off until we work out that they are completely safe and won't result in turning your entire body into one big pancreas or something.
IVF research will be halted. However someone getting an IVF is not funded by tax payer dollars.
Catholics are a bad example. They're not generally true creationists. They generally preach that God has an invisible hand in pushing evolution in some directions but is overall hands off. Some even believe that Got set everything up to go off semi randomly at the big bang and it just goes from there however he knows how it will go in the long run.
Stem cells can be made from plants. They're just near useless for human disease testing. We use mouse stem cells in our studies on Type 1 Diabetes. Fortunately my lab is not currently doing human stem cell testing or we'd be effected, atm we're only using mouse stem cells. But once we get things polished up enough using mice then we'll be switching to human, which will be several years baring a major breakthrough.
Are you sure that monk was a creationist? Would he have said that Darwin is full of crap? Or would he have said that "Hey this Darwin guy is taking my research to the next step. This is pretty cool stuff!"
It seems to me you're effectively putting words into his mouth.
There are many "creationists" by your definition that only believed in it because it was the only known thing. The difference is those that vehemently say evolution is full of crap. I can understand the ones that say God helps steer the evolution that fits in with what we know about the universe. The ones that say God made it this way and things don't evolve are limiting God's capabilities, in my opinion.
Similarly they should all be crying how the world is flat and the sun goes around the earth, because that is what they believed in the time of Jesus.
I must be really green then. I bought a used hybrid and to top it all off it's already paid itself off in gas savings since it was only $500 more than the non-hybrid.
From TFA
"the video sites registered the domain names using US based companies."
Also, David and his family are profiting from the video. Ghyslain is not, in my opinion it would be a wiser move to sue the individuals who posted it to youtube for any profits they made off of it.
Debt wasn't a big deal in the comments that my professors made. What was the big deal was the relative income of getting a Ph.D. vs 3-6 years professional experience. In IT especially you will make more money over your lifetime without a Ph.D. than with one. In some sciences it works the other way as they'll hit a ceiling of promotabilty. BUT when a fresh grad student makes less than 40k a year with a long road of working their way to make more money it is no wonder that that may would be scientists are going to other careers.
It should be equally double edged. If they want to record us, then we should be able to record them. Otherwise get rid of all the stop light cameras, security cameras, and everything else.
I have a friend with a 19 year old daughter. She is still a virgin, know why? When she was somewhere between 10-12 she got the talk. Every time her and her boyfriend go out, her dad tells them to use a condom. Its no big deal to him, therefor it is no big deal to her. She's decided from her personal observations of her friends that it isn't worth the hassle yet and she'll wait until after college, just in case something happens.
Yes some of those areas are mismanaged. However the Postal Service does get you your mail AND is cheaper on a basic letter than the private alternatives.
Others aren't really that much worse than the real world comparisons. Is Social Security really any worse than AIG, Citi, or other investment / retirement companies. Is Medicare / Medicaid that much worse than normal insurance? Most regulatory agencies are filled with individuals who get paid off (generally indirectly) by those in the areas that they are supposed to be regulating. IMO the regulatory agencies would be better off if the people in charge of regulating them (us, senate, house) were doing a better job.
However my main choice is that we need to evaluate what are the major factors of our high health costs and work on lowering those first. After that we can evaluate a public heathcare option. Cause atm even with insurance I cannot afford to go to the doctor, although I could arguably say it is more my wife's bad practice at following our budgeting, and I've been regularly having chest pains for years (I'm only 31). Judging by an observation during a checkup at 17 it could be a heart murmur. Going by my family history it could be the beginning of heart disease. According to my general practice doctor it is likely irritated nerves in my spine registering as chest pain. Of course for a real diagnosis I'd have to have tests done. My insurance covers 95% of the cost up to their "maximum cost" Which seems to always be well below what places charge. I had to pay $750 for a biopsy after my wife had an irregular pap and I estimate my costs for tests will be over a grand.
I've never dealt with an EMP but a more realistic threat with similar effects would be planning for a hurricane or earthquake. I used to work at a international bank and we had to deal with both (offices in FL and CA). For the most part the best solution was to have an identical setup at another office and having all applications available via VPN and/or web access. We had a separate pipe that was used only for backup data transfers. The DB transaction logs were written both locally and remotely. All user files saved to the server were immediately copied to the backup server. On several occasions the systems were tested due to black/brownouts. The users were sent home where they could work just as effectively as the office.
Our general emergency plan for hurricanes (I worked at the FL office we used the CA office as our backup). Was to let the users go well in advance of the hurricane and switch CA to being our primary servers with FL as the backup. Once the users were settled then they could continue working from home. The only way we would be screwed is if a hurricane and earthquake happened simultaneously. At that point we'd have to restore VM backups on hardware located at the main corporate offices in NYC or Sydney.
Next thing you know GM will be releasing a statement about how taxis, rentals, and carpools are bad and everyone should purchase their own car to drive.
Seems to me then that they should require a warrant for anything that it wouldn't be out of place or illegal for a normal citizen to use on someone else's house, which I think would be a good place to put the line.
A good parallel technology would be binoculars or a telescope. Which is likely legal for police to use in many areas, but of questionable legality if a citizen uses it on someone else's home.
While I can definitely see some debate as to if the climate change is our fault. The existence of climate change is without doubt. Leaving out global warming numbers and chaotic weather patterns, you still have glaciers retreating, arctic melting, and increased water levels.
Various other parts of the "go green" movement have advantages as well. Recycling helps us reuse limited resources, alternate power helps us stop giving money to the supposed bad guys, and efficiency helps us easier sustain our significant population.
So at the very most if the global warming cause is fabricated it is at least encouraging you to do something you should be already doing. Its like saying kids who were properly cared for by their parents live longer. The correlation is debatable, but it is still a darn good idea to do because there are other proven advantages. Instead I see people outwardly saying something equivalent to "damn if you'll see me take care of my kids, hell I'll kick em extra tonight."
Arc Attack (the ones at DragonCon) put on a great show. The guys in the linked YouTube videos seem so boring compared to Arc Attack's personality.
Corporate taxes are paid on profits.
If companies are going broke, then they aren't going to be taxed.
I used to work for an IT consulting / do-it all shop in a small town. One of our big things was wiring businesses.
For switch to outlet wiring we made our own cables. It was a lot easier than guessing what lengths of cable we needed to go up the wall, across the ceiling, and wherever else. At the switch we'd put a plug at the end and at the wall we'd put an outlet or plug (if it was going into a pre-wired cubical).
All walled cables were tested using a basic 6 light tester. I'd recommend that be done even if you bought a 200ft commercial cable and put it into the wall. It is a lot easier to test it now and fix it than have to come back later and fix it.
For wall - PC patch cables and switch to box patch cables we'd use basic commercial 3,6,9 ft 5e cables. Generally purchased from Greybar in bulk. If you use proper cable routing techniques (with proper cable holders) in the server room you can keep it clean. If you use custom length cables in there you end up having to make new cables every time you need to change the connections around.
Original Badger Badger Badger is from Weebls, the same site that has Magical Trevor.
Biggest WoW bugs at release were
Loot Lag
Mailbox Lag
Bank Lag
Equiping Gear Lag
Mob not dieing after you got him to 0%
Quest NPCs not giving you rewards for a quest but completing the quest still.
Stats setting back to their naked values
Many many many server crashes
Patches that made things worse to fix some exploit
Lots of dupe exploits
Mobs getting stuck underground where they could hit you and you couldn't hit back
Getting stuck "looting" and having to restart the game to get out of it.
Game crashes
All this complaining about WAR's release. It really was one of the smoothest. I think DAoC may have been smoother but they cut a lot of content to get there. WAR's was easily smoother than WoW's. SWG was pretty rough, Planetside wasn't bad. EQ was kinda nasty. FFXI was smooth but it had already been running for awhile in JP. For the worst release just grab anything done by Funcom.
You can move all of the UI elements via Customize Interface. It is a menu choice when you hit escape. Just drag them around to where you like them.
There was some performance problems at release. I had two machines that would run WoW, but only the newer would run WAR. Out of curiosity's sake I started it up on the older machine in early January and it ran quite smoothly at moderate settings.
FYI older machine is:
AMD 64 2800+
2g Ram
gF 6800 512m
Probably won't have much access at sea but when you get into port you can shove off a few emails and browse the web. I'd personally recommend a Blackberry.
Got one for you. When I was in college I needed recursion to handle something in Fortran. The version of Fortran I was using didn't support recursion, the compiler rejected it. So, I wrote a function and a functionB they called each other for forced recursion.