I heard a brief report on NPR a few minutes ago. Apparently, this antibiotic works by latching onto a part of the bacteria that cannot mutate. So far, it has cured, among other things, staph and tuberculosis in mice.
It should be noted that the really important part of this story, at the moment, is the new method developed to cultivate this bacteria that could not previously be lab-cultivated - 99% of all bacteria cannot be lab-cultivated at present.
The magazine had recently published a cartoon of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and witnesses say the gunmen shouted, "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad," before leaving.
If only either The Prophet or his followers had a sense of humor or, in the latter case, intellect. I don't see how a cartoon about al-Baghdadi has anything to do with Muhammad. In any case, according to Wikipedia:
The Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad, but there are a few hadith (supplemental teachings) which have explicitly prohibited Muslims from creating visual depictions of figures. [citation needed]... The key concern is that the use of images can encourage idolatry. [5]
So, the prohibition against imagery, if it even actually exists, doesn't seem to apply to non-Muslims - who, of course, are in no danger of being subverted by idolatry.
You have that a little wrong. God *can* (in principle) be proven. If the sky breaks open, choirs of angels break forth, a 10km-long arm reaches down from the skies and an 8km golden-haired, bearded face looks down upon humanity and utters words of unshakable truth...then God is proven.
Or the existence of extra-terrestrial life (aliens) is proven. As Arthur C. Clarke pointed out:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
However being able to set the thermostat with my phone is excellent.
Seriously, how often does one fuck with their thermostat? The (programmable) one I have for my heat pump is set with low/high points and auto-switches between heat/cool to keep the house in that range. I cannot remember the last time I needed to change the setting, perhaps last year when I changed the whole-house HEPA filter and reset the counter.
It sounds like you put together a nice system. Of course, you chose to spend more on your CPU fan alone than most of these ARM SOC systems cost. Different strokes for different folks.
I'm not sure that is the actual fan w/o opening up the case, it *looks* like that though. Don't think it has a heat pipe... What ever it is, it's quiet.
Examples of the first group include media PCs / DVRs, because you don't want loud CPU, case, and power supply fans in your living room,
To be fair, there are a lot of silent PC case/psu combinations out there. I have my MythTV system in an Antec NSK2400 with (something like) a Zalman CNPS8900 CPU cooler/fan and the whole thing is dead silent.
I spray painted the front silver bezel matte black and it looks like a high-end A/V unit - scroll down to photo on the Antec link. I installed a two-row CrystalFontz (blue back-light) LCD display in the top slot and the DVD drive in the bottom.
Making a cute joke by changing the expected ending of a bit
I'm not sure I'd classify the structure of the tweet as a "cute joke" I think Tyson was drawing a parallel that Newton was *also* a great man that changed the world and should be celebrated on the day of his birth.
Personally, I would argue, given the countless wars and violence attributed to Christianity and other religious beliefs, versus the zero attributed to Issac Newton, that Newton has been better for this world than Jesus - or, more specifically, his followers.
Some conservatives seem to hate him just for being a smart black guy who is associated with science. He's not even really an outspoken liberal or anything. He's just a smart black guy and it drives them CRAZY.
You could have simply stopped with "smart", "black" or "science".
Obviously that doesn't have anything on a picture of someone's deceased daughter, but it shows how poorly conceived the feature is.
Facebook obviously assumed that pictures are posted because people want to remember, when some are posted because people don't want to forget. Seems like the same thing, but it's not. Either can be happy or sad. Context is everything.
We are not challenging our bones with enough loading,
I do. That's why I still use a Compaq Portable for my "laptop". It weighs about 28 lbs. (Joking aside, I actually had one of these - or something really, really similar - at the first company I worked for in the late 1980s.)
Ignorance and/or poor education? People, corporations, politicians trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator?
So you're saying that the various people in say...san fran which is a mecha of sjw's are ignorant and/or have bad education? These aren't folks with a lack of education, many if not all are university grads. I believe the problem stems from a lack of real world experience.
You and I actually agree... There's book learning and learning. Having a degree doesn't make one educated in all, or even many, things. One can know a lot about one or several things and not really know much at all. For the enlightened, this means: The more I know, the more I realize what I don't know. Sadly, many people are not that enlightened and many take what they hear on outlets like Fox News (to name *one* egregious source - don't get bent out of shape Fox News fanbois) as gospel w/o any further serious thought or research.
Most people on the planet range from ignorant to very ignorant (in the non-derogatory sense of simply not knowing) including myself.
Really? Could you explain then why there's a sudden up swing in said "social justice warriors" trying to ban media, video games they disagree with, speech they disagree with, and censor content. I get that "feelings" are easier to make an argument with, but I don't live in a world of feels vs reality.
Ignorance and/or poor education? People, corporations, politicians trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator?
Same as the US. Obscene is illegal. Obscene is illegal because it's offensive. So "rude" is illegal in the US, same as the UK. But it's funny to see all the Americans assert they have more rights than those in the UK, when the rights are roughly equal, but exercised slightly differently.
What this guy tweeted would, in no way, be illegal in the US. It's not obscene (no swearing, nudity, or violence); it's not threatening or even, I would argue, "offensive" (in the general sense); it's just rude and insensitive. Obviously, some with thinner skins may disagree, but it certainly should not be an arrestable act anywhere.
First they came for the rude and annoying, and I did not speak out—
Then they came for the offensive and off-color, and I did not speak out—
Then they came for the opinionated and observational, and I did not speak out—
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak (or Tweet) for me.
Frankly, I wish they would go back to the core Star Trek TV values:
1) Duplicate an earth culture on another planet.
2) Have zero contact with Earth, letting Kirk do whatever he wants.
3) Make some kind of social commentary relevant to today that will seem weird 10 years from now.
4) If possible have someone claim to be a God, or demonstrate godlike abilities. Apollo was done already, so lets go with maybe Thor?
I like what J.J Abrams and Zack Snyder (who directed "Man of Steel") have done to the franchises. They start with the established plotlines and take the stories in new directions. It's an artistic license that gives us fresh, new interpretations of the characters such as superman killing someone (General Zod) or Spock having an emotional outburst (over Kirk's death).
I anxiously await the Michael Bay version of "Hamlet" or the Justin Lin version of "Macbeth".
At this point, I'd probably more enjoy watching the Muppets do Star Trek.
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I heard a brief report on NPR a few minutes ago. Apparently, this antibiotic works by latching onto a part of the bacteria that cannot mutate. So far, it has cured, among other things, staph and tuberculosis in mice.
It should be noted that the really important part of this story, at the moment, is the new method developed to cultivate this bacteria that could not previously be lab-cultivated - 99% of all bacteria cannot be lab-cultivated at present.
Right? Since it's posted here I'm interested, yet suspicious of whether these are really good recommendations.
They are good ideas. They're just actually written by the NSA to make their lives easier...
The magazine had recently published a cartoon of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and witnesses say the gunmen shouted, "we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad," before leaving.
If only either The Prophet or his followers had a sense of humor or, in the latter case, intellect. I don't see how a cartoon about al-Baghdadi has anything to do with Muhammad. In any case, according to Wikipedia:
The Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad, but there are a few hadith (supplemental teachings) which have explicitly prohibited Muslims from creating visual depictions of figures. [citation needed] ... The key concern is that the use of images can encourage idolatry. [5]
So, the prohibition against imagery, if it even actually exists, doesn't seem to apply to non-Muslims - who, of course, are in no danger of being subverted by idolatry.
Is there a better way of dealing with the need for leap seconds?
Decrease the radius of the moon's orbit.
I think Quantum Mechanics dictates that your puppy may not actually exist when you're not watching her - don't know if that helps. :-)
God placed you on this earth to give people brand new anxieties. Well done.
You're most welcome. I'm here to help. :-)
I cannot see but fear: ... how my puppy is doing at home when I am not watching her.
I think Quantum Mechanics dictates that your puppy may not actually exist when you're not watching her - don't know if that helps. :-)
You have that a little wrong. God *can* (in principle) be proven. If the sky breaks open, choirs of angels break forth, a 10km-long arm reaches down from the skies and an 8km golden-haired, bearded face looks down upon humanity and utters words of unshakable truth...then God is proven.
Or the existence of extra-terrestrial life (aliens) is proven. As Arthur C. Clarke pointed out:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
And I would offer: s/magic/God/
However being able to set the thermostat with my phone is excellent.
Seriously, how often does one fuck with their thermostat? The (programmable) one I have for my heat pump is set with low/high points and auto-switches between heat/cool to keep the house in that range. I cannot remember the last time I needed to change the setting, perhaps last year when I changed the whole-house HEPA filter and reset the counter.
Slashdot uses a more insidious form of "soft-blocking" where rather than being outright blocked, certain users are redirected to beta.slashdot.org.
I thought that "cruel and unusual punishment" was against the Geneva Conventions.
Breathing produces no net CO2, ...
It does, however, cause death -- 100% of all dead people were habitual breathers.
It sounds like you put together a nice system. Of course, you chose to spend more on your CPU fan alone than most of these ARM SOC systems cost. Different strokes for different folks.
I'm not sure that is the actual fan w/o opening up the case, it *looks* like that though. Don't think it has a heat pipe... What ever it is, it's quiet.
Examples of the first group include media PCs / DVRs, because you don't want loud CPU, case, and power supply fans in your living room,
To be fair, there are a lot of silent PC case/psu combinations out there. I have my MythTV system in an Antec NSK2400 with (something like) a Zalman CNPS8900 CPU cooler/fan and the whole thing is dead silent.
I spray painted the front silver bezel matte black and it looks like a high-end A/V unit - scroll down to photo on the Antec link. I installed a two-row CrystalFontz (blue back-light) LCD display in the top slot and the DVD drive in the bottom.
Making a cute joke by changing the expected ending of a bit
I'm not sure I'd classify the structure of the tweet as a "cute joke" I think Tyson was drawing a parallel that Newton was *also* a great man that changed the world and should be celebrated on the day of his birth.
Personally, I would argue, given the countless wars and violence attributed to Christianity and other religious beliefs, versus the zero attributed to Issac Newton, that Newton has been better for this world than Jesus - or, more specifically, his followers.
Some conservatives seem to hate him just for being a smart black guy who is associated with science. He's not even really an outspoken liberal or anything. He's just a smart black guy and it drives them CRAZY.
You could have simply stopped with "smart", "black" or "science".
Whoever was offended apparently wants their beliefs to not only be the universal truth; but to get all the airtime, when they want it.
Christians get bent out of shape as easily as Muslims and Jews and ... - Film at 11.
Obviously that doesn't have anything on a picture of someone's deceased daughter, but it shows how poorly conceived the feature is.
Facebook obviously assumed that pictures are posted because people want to remember, when some are posted because people don't want to forget. Seems like the same thing, but it's not. Either can be happy or sad. Context is everything.
People who laugh at fart jokes go to his movies.
There's a reason why fart is an anagram of frat...
And "raft" but I'm not sure I see either your or my point, unless you're confusing coincidence with reason.
There is a set of speeds and driving conditions where we can confidently drive the Roadster 3.0 over 400 miles.
On a dry oval course at 20 MPH.
[ One caveat to the new improvements, once the car goes above 50 MPH, if it drops below that Speed, it explodes. ]
We are not challenging our bones with enough loading,
I do. That's why I still use a Compaq Portable for my "laptop". It weighs about 28 lbs. (Joking aside, I actually had one of these - or something really, really similar - at the first company I worked for in the late 1980s.)
Ignorance and/or poor education? People, corporations, politicians trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator?
So you're saying that the various people in say...san fran which is a mecha of sjw's are ignorant and/or have bad education? These aren't folks with a lack of education, many if not all are university grads. I believe the problem stems from a lack of real world experience.
You and I actually agree... There's book learning and learning. Having a degree doesn't make one educated in all, or even many, things. One can know a lot about one or several things and not really know much at all. For the enlightened, this means: The more I know, the more I realize what I don't know. Sadly, many people are not that enlightened and many take what they hear on outlets like Fox News (to name *one* egregious source - don't get bent out of shape Fox News fanbois) as gospel w/o any further serious thought or research.
Most people on the planet range from ignorant to very ignorant (in the non-derogatory sense of simply not knowing) including myself.
Really? Could you explain then why there's a sudden up swing in said "social justice warriors" trying to ban media, video games they disagree with, speech they disagree with, and censor content. I get that "feelings" are easier to make an argument with, but I don't live in a world of feels vs reality.
Ignorance and/or poor education? People, corporations, politicians trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator?
Same as the US. Obscene is illegal. Obscene is illegal because it's offensive. So "rude" is illegal in the US, same as the UK. But it's funny to see all the Americans assert they have more rights than those in the UK, when the rights are roughly equal, but exercised slightly differently.
What this guy tweeted would, in no way, be illegal in the US. It's not obscene (no swearing, nudity, or violence); it's not threatening or even, I would argue, "offensive" (in the general sense); it's just rude and insensitive. Obviously, some with thinner skins may disagree, but it certainly should not be an arrestable act anywhere.
First they came for the rude and annoying, and I did not speak out—
Then they came for the offensive and off-color, and I did not speak out—
Then they came for the opinionated and observational, and I did not speak out—
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak (or Tweet) for me.
Apologies to Martin Niemöller
And, seriously, UK, WTF? It's unlawful to simply be rude?
Thank God your Empire is over.
(He said, understanding the full irony of speaking as a citizen of the United States.)
Frankly, I wish they would go back to the core Star Trek TV values:
1) Duplicate an earth culture on another planet.
2) Have zero contact with Earth, letting Kirk do whatever he wants.
3) Make some kind of social commentary relevant to today that will seem weird 10 years from now.
4) If possible have someone claim to be a God, or demonstrate godlike abilities. Apollo was done already, so lets go with maybe Thor?
The SyFy channel just tried that w/Ascension...
I like what J.J Abrams and Zack Snyder (who directed "Man of Steel") have done to the franchises. They start with the established plotlines and take the stories in new directions. It's an artistic license that gives us fresh, new interpretations of the characters such as superman killing someone (General Zod) or Spock having an emotional outburst (over Kirk's death).
I anxiously await the Michael Bay version of "Hamlet" or the Justin Lin version of "Macbeth".
At this point, I'd probably more enjoy watching the Muppets do Star Trek.