Kirk and Spock? The future of Star Trek rests on a movie that sounds completely lame and will only interest a select few Star Trek fans? It annoys me that I've waited this long for ANOTHER movie about Kirk. When can we find out what happened after the Dominion War? I'm thoroughly disgusted.
I have to agree. Rick Berman took Gene Roddenberry's vision and went in the completely opposite direction. I know alot of people loved the last three or four seasons of DS9 with the Dominion War but I hated it. It was like Star Trek for people with ADD. It was all about destroying ships and killing. I know I may get lynched for this but I felt that Voyager was a much better series because it was more about exploration and meeting new species. Sometimes there were even character driven plots. They did over do the time travel thing and the last episode SUCKED, though. I hate time travel episodes because they make me think in neverending circles. Like if Janeway came back in time to help her younger self get home faster, she would be changing the time line so much that she would never go back in time in the future under the same circumstances, if at all.
A few years ago, before I had any idea what I was doing, I got this annoying virus that began a countdown to restart my computer every time I connected to the internet or went to Microsoft's website. I can't remember what it was called but apparently it caused some havoc. When I found out how easy it was to stop, I was so embarrassed. That was the first day I found out that Windows XP has a built in "firewall" that could be activated. Later that month Microsoft released an update that activated the "firewall". Thanks for the foresight, Microsoft!
Anyway, with that being said, a searchable database would not be used by the average computer user. It may help those of us who know what we're doing but I think we're in the minority. It surely wouldn't have helped me back then.
considering the rarity of ebola, what's the point of a vaccine? Who do you even give it to? From wikipedia: "Of the approximate 1,500 identified Ebola cases worldwide, over 80% of the patients have died." Maybe we should be working on a cure for fan death instead.
It could be used to help fight an outbreak. Right now the only thing we have is isolation. If we could send health workers a few dozen miles ahead of the outbreak to start innoculating people, that might stop the outbreak in its tracks. Of course, it may take a while for full immunity to take effect but I imagine even partial immunity is better than nothing.
If this is the case, it will most likely be added among the shots we receive when we are born. Possibly, if all goes well, we could at it to Malaria as a thing of the past.
Many people still get malaria in the poor parts of the world to this day. It's only a thing of the past in the rich western countries.
You just have to wonder though, does it have the potential to mutate and develop new/different strands?
Yes, there are already multiple strains of the virus. Their mortality rate ranges from "might survive" to "A snowballs chance in hell" and any virus has the potential to mutate.
There have been outbreaks in the US but fortunately it's been the far less virulent Ebola-Reston strain. I really don't think Ebola is a doomsday virus (yet) but for those that get it, I don't think there are many other worse ways to die. Remember, viruses can mutate under the right circumstances. If it ever became airborne, we'd be in some trouble. Another problem is that the symptoms aren't very apparent at first. They mostly look like the flu. The bleeding doesn't come along until later.
I keep hearing everybody say that prostitution is legal in Nevada and they're kind of right. Prostitution in BROTHELS is legal in Nevada. The brothels are regulated and the government makes sure the prostitutes are disease free and everything. Street walking prostitutes are NOT legal in Nevada or any other part of the country. You try to pick up a hooker in Vegas on a street corner, you may be spending some time in jail.
Okay, this article made my day. We live in a strange world when hookers complain about their work environment. If they're so scared of violence, maybe they need to consider a new career. I'm told the unemployment office offers job training. The simple fact is hookers do what they do because they like making easy money and to them, making $30,000 a year is a fate worse than death. If you don't want to work like the rest of us, then deal with the consequences of that decision. Besides, kids shouldn't be playing games that are rated mature, anyway.
Assuming that you have no experience in business at all, one possible place you could try is colleges in your area. In the US, many colleges offer help to people interested in starting businesses. The seniors (in college, not senior citizens) will help you develop a business plan and anything else you may need. They often do this as an internship. Most of the time it's free or if there is a fee, it's small.
Anyway, if you don't have a great deal of money to start out with, this is a good place to start.
Abnormalities in the blood vessels of the eye caused by hypertension and diabetes are kind of common knowledge. Often people with hypertension have broken blood vessels in the eye. I am kind of surprised that they can diagnose heart disease from the blood vessels, though. It's amazing how everything in the body is interconnected in some way.
I really don't understand why so many people, who are normally thoughtful and rational, automatically go against cloning and stem cell research. The possibilities are endless in these fields. We could help so many people.
I can understand why people are upset about embryos being aborted (kind of) but why can't we just make it so the doctor has to ask the mother before they can harvest the embryo for stem cells? In my mind, it's no different than organ donation. It may be a difficult question to ask but I'm sure many people would be willing to try to turn a negative thing into a positive. I'm sure many would be opposed to it and that's fine too. If you're truly opposed to it, then you shouldn't use any of the medical breakthroughs that science creates from stem cells but stop trying to ruin it for the rest of us. How many of us reading this right now are going to suffer from alzheimers or parkinson's or even a spinal cord injury in our lifetimes?
Cloning is another thing that I think has been villainized over the years. Obviously, in the future, I'm sure cloning could be used for evil purposes (our own government will probably be behind it) but there is also potential to help people too. Cloning can lead to other breakthroughs in genetics than could end suffering due to genetic conditions. I really wish this country would stop being so scared of science and embrace it. I don't know about anybody else but I'm sick of having the views of the ignorant shoved down my throat by this president.
I think this kind of stuff is the reason why I'm always nervous about giving out my credit card information. Honestly, I feel more secure giving out my credit card information to an online retailer than to a utility company or a pizza place. I would say that most of the time if somebody gets their information stolen online, it's because of their own stupidity. With physical retailers, it's different. Once you give your number to them, it can change hands a number of times and you never know where it ends up.
I like to order CDs from CDBaby.com because they say they don't keep your credit card number. I really wish more companies did this. Unless you're signed up for auto-renew or something, why do they even need to keep that kind of information on file? If somebody is so lazy that they want to give up security just because they don't want to have to put in their credit card number again, they deserve what they get.
Particularly compelling in that book is Dr Batmanghelidj's thorough scientific explanation on how 'diet' sodas actually substantially contribute to weight gain.
"Also, you sound jealous that these "kids" or 18 year old adults were driving cars with the tristar on the hood."
I fail to see the difference between a 16 year old and an 18 year old in terms of decision making and maturity.
"It seems like your hatred of the rich, and jealousy of the succesful has clouded your opinion of the facts of this incident. Kids shouldn't die because their parents have German cars."
Being rich doesn't automatically mean you're successful. I may drive a Toyota but I'm fairly successful, but not rich yet.:-( The car doesn't make the person.
Anyway, I don't hate the rich, I just dislike how their precious children do something stupid and it gets blamed on everything other than the cause of the problem (the parents, OH THE HORRORS!).
When my father was teaching me how to drive, he made sure that I understood that a car can be a lethal weapon and that once I lose control of a vehicle, I could kill somebody. To this day, I've never had an accident and I've never even had a speeding ticket.
Although I may have went a little far with the Ford comment, I do feel that all too often parents give their children cars that are capable of reaching great speeds and don't even bother having a discussion with them about it. I will admit that people can die in any type of car.
"In fact, a 95 Escort is a lot more dangerous around 100 (or 90 or whatever the top speed) is than a Mercedes. Also, Mercedes (newer ones) have a ton more safety features than many other cars."
OK, but what about the soccer mom driving her kids to practice? The teenagers may be in a safe car but they're not the only ones who can be affected by their reckless driving.
This sounds to me like a couple of rich kids being given access to cars that they shouldn't have been given access to. Yeah, the game may have created an interest in racing but the parents are completely at fault. I doubt this would have happened if they were driving around in a 95 Ford Escort. It amazes me that parents get cars like this for their kids then they're surprised when their kids get killed or maimed in a horrific accident.
Assuming this works, it would pave the way for other tissues to be potentially grown. If they can actually make lasting tissue for one of the hardest working organs in the body, I imagine they could easily make it for something else.
I was horrible in Geometry. The only thing that saved me in high school was always doing my homework and having a neat notebook. For some reason the class just made me space out no matter how hard I tried to concentrate. I actually got a 12% on a test once! I just can't imagine how this subject would be hard-wired into my brain.
I think the problem is that parents either underdiscipline or overdiscipline their children. I feel that spanking can be a good thing but some parents go way too far and their children are walking around with bruises and marks on them. Those are the types of parents who should not have kids and be chemically sterilized.
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Kirk and Spock? The future of Star Trek rests on a movie that sounds completely lame and will only interest a select few Star Trek fans? It annoys me that I've waited this long for ANOTHER movie about Kirk. When can we find out what happened after the Dominion War? I'm thoroughly disgusted.
I have to agree. Rick Berman took Gene Roddenberry's vision and went in the completely opposite direction. I know alot of people loved the last three or four seasons of DS9 with the Dominion War but I hated it. It was like Star Trek for people with ADD. It was all about destroying ships and killing. I know I may get lynched for this but I felt that Voyager was a much better series because it was more about exploration and meeting new species. Sometimes there were even character driven plots. They did over do the time travel thing and the last episode SUCKED, though. I hate time travel episodes because they make me think in neverending circles. Like if Janeway came back in time to help her younger self get home faster, she would be changing the time line so much that she would never go back in time in the future under the same circumstances, if at all.
I haven't had a single virus since then so I must be doing something right.
By the same token, maybe Utah should ban football, or televised sports...
and polygamy...Oh, wait.
A few years ago, before I had any idea what I was doing, I got this annoying virus that began a countdown to restart my computer every time I connected to the internet or went to Microsoft's website. I can't remember what it was called but apparently it caused some havoc. When I found out how easy it was to stop, I was so embarrassed. That was the first day I found out that Windows XP has a built in "firewall" that could be activated. Later that month Microsoft released an update that activated the "firewall". Thanks for the foresight, Microsoft!
Anyway, with that being said, a searchable database would not be used by the average computer user. It may help those of us who know what we're doing but I think we're in the minority. It surely wouldn't have helped me back then.
The subject says it all.
considering the rarity of ebola, what's the point of a vaccine? Who do you even give it to? From wikipedia: "Of the approximate 1,500 identified Ebola cases worldwide, over 80% of the patients have died." Maybe we should be working on a cure for fan death instead.
It could be used to help fight an outbreak. Right now the only thing we have is isolation. If we could send health workers a few dozen miles ahead of the outbreak to start innoculating people, that might stop the outbreak in its tracks. Of course, it may take a while for full immunity to take effect but I imagine even partial immunity is better than nothing.
If this is the case, it will most likely be added among the shots we receive when we are born. Possibly, if all goes well, we could at it to Malaria as a thing of the past.
Many people still get malaria in the poor parts of the world to this day. It's only a thing of the past in the rich western countries.
You just have to wonder though, does it have the potential to mutate and develop new/different strands?
Yes, there are already multiple strains of the virus. Their mortality rate ranges from "might survive" to "A snowballs chance in hell" and any virus has the potential to mutate.
There have been outbreaks in the US but fortunately it's been the far less virulent Ebola-Reston strain. I really don't think Ebola is a doomsday virus (yet) but for those that get it, I don't think there are many other worse ways to die. Remember, viruses can mutate under the right circumstances. If it ever became airborne, we'd be in some trouble. Another problem is that the symptoms aren't very apparent at first. They mostly look like the flu. The bleeding doesn't come along until later.
TFA says "volunteers" but I'll bet they're paid volunteers. I wonder if they're told that they're being injected with ebola?
They have to be. Otherwise it would be a serious medical ethics violation that could end their careers.
I keep hearing everybody say that prostitution is legal in Nevada and they're kind of right. Prostitution in BROTHELS is legal in Nevada. The brothels are regulated and the government makes sure the prostitutes are disease free and everything. Street walking prostitutes are NOT legal in Nevada or any other part of the country. You try to pick up a hooker in Vegas on a street corner, you may be spending some time in jail.
Okay, this article made my day. We live in a strange world when hookers complain about their work environment. If they're so scared of violence, maybe they need to consider a new career. I'm told the unemployment office offers job training. The simple fact is hookers do what they do because they like making easy money and to them, making $30,000 a year is a fate worse than death. If you don't want to work like the rest of us, then deal with the consequences of that decision. Besides, kids shouldn't be playing games that are rated mature, anyway.
Assuming that you have no experience in business at all, one possible place you could try is colleges in your area. In the US, many colleges offer help to people interested in starting businesses. The seniors (in college, not senior citizens) will help you develop a business plan and anything else you may need. They often do this as an internship. Most of the time it's free or if there is a fee, it's small. Anyway, if you don't have a great deal of money to start out with, this is a good place to start.
Abnormalities in the blood vessels of the eye caused by hypertension and diabetes are kind of common knowledge. Often people with hypertension have broken blood vessels in the eye. I am kind of surprised that they can diagnose heart disease from the blood vessels, though. It's amazing how everything in the body is interconnected in some way.
I can understand why people are upset about embryos being aborted (kind of) but why can't we just make it so the doctor has to ask the mother before they can harvest the embryo for stem cells? In my mind, it's no different than organ donation. It may be a difficult question to ask but I'm sure many people would be willing to try to turn a negative thing into a positive. I'm sure many would be opposed to it and that's fine too. If you're truly opposed to it, then you shouldn't use any of the medical breakthroughs that science creates from stem cells but stop trying to ruin it for the rest of us. How many of us reading this right now are going to suffer from alzheimers or parkinson's or even a spinal cord injury in our lifetimes?
Cloning is another thing that I think has been villainized over the years. Obviously, in the future, I'm sure cloning could be used for evil purposes (our own government will probably be behind it) but there is also potential to help people too. Cloning can lead to other breakthroughs in genetics than could end suffering due to genetic conditions. I really wish this country would stop being so scared of science and embrace it. I don't know about anybody else but I'm sick of having the views of the ignorant shoved down my throat by this president.
I like to order CDs from CDBaby.com because they say they don't keep your credit card number. I really wish more companies did this. Unless you're signed up for auto-renew or something, why do they even need to keep that kind of information on file? If somebody is so lazy that they want to give up security just because they don't want to have to put in their credit card number again, they deserve what they get.
Come on! Don't ruin diet soda on me too!
Eww. I really have to learn to hit preview before submit. Sorry!
"Also, you sound jealous that these "kids" or 18 year old adults were driving cars with the tristar on the hood." I fail to see the difference between a 16 year old and an 18 year old in terms of decision making and maturity. "It seems like your hatred of the rich, and jealousy of the succesful has clouded your opinion of the facts of this incident. Kids shouldn't die because their parents have German cars." Being rich doesn't automatically mean you're successful. I may drive a Toyota but I'm fairly successful, but not rich yet. :-( The car doesn't make the person.
Anyway, I don't hate the rich, I just dislike how their precious children do something stupid and it gets blamed on everything other than the cause of the problem (the parents, OH THE HORRORS!).
When my father was teaching me how to drive, he made sure that I understood that a car can be a lethal weapon and that once I lose control of a vehicle, I could kill somebody. To this day, I've never had an accident and I've never even had a speeding ticket.
Although I may have went a little far with the Ford comment, I do feel that all too often parents give their children cars that are capable of reaching great speeds and don't even bother having a discussion with them about it. I will admit that people can die in any type of car.
"In fact, a 95 Escort is a lot more dangerous around 100 (or 90 or whatever the top speed) is than a Mercedes. Also, Mercedes (newer ones) have a ton more safety features than many other cars."
OK, but what about the soccer mom driving her kids to practice? The teenagers may be in a safe car but they're not the only ones who can be affected by their reckless driving.
This sounds to me like a couple of rich kids being given access to cars that they shouldn't have been given access to. Yeah, the game may have created an interest in racing but the parents are completely at fault. I doubt this would have happened if they were driving around in a 95 Ford Escort. It amazes me that parents get cars like this for their kids then they're surprised when their kids get killed or maimed in a horrific accident.
Assuming this works, it would pave the way for other tissues to be potentially grown. If they can actually make lasting tissue for one of the hardest working organs in the body, I imagine they could easily make it for something else.
FINALLY, there's hope for Dick Cheney! Now if only they knew how to grow a brain for Georie.
Well I wish they were better at it!
I was horrible in Geometry. The only thing that saved me in high school was always doing my homework and having a neat notebook. For some reason the class just made me space out no matter how hard I tried to concentrate. I actually got a 12% on a test once! I just can't imagine how this subject would be hard-wired into my brain.
I think the problem is that parents either underdiscipline or overdiscipline their children. I feel that spanking can be a good thing but some parents go way too far and their children are walking around with bruises and marks on them. Those are the types of parents who should not have kids and be chemically sterilized.