How long until this triggers an epileptic seizure in some poor unfortunate - and worse still, would whoever's wielding it be able to tell the difference between the potentially life-threatening seizure and the normal reaction?
Oh, that doesn't matter. In case of epileptic seizure, the police officer can reasonably feel threatened and shoot the guy. Problem solved !
Ever ask yourself why there are SO damned many pain relievers? Aspirin still works well for a lot of people!
Um... bad example. Aspirin has some side effects that, in some cases, are highly undesirable (and other pain relivers may have different, also undesirable side effects). You may also want several pain relievers with different methods of elimination, so you can combine them without poisoning the patient.
Also, most pain relievers are old (Aspirin, paracetamol, ibuprofen). Any patents on them have long since expired.
Had I read that a month ago I wouldn't have believe it, but my fiance is a perioperative nurse (she works in the OR) and recently described tumors with hair and/or teeth inside.
This is most likely a tumor type that is called teratoma (literally: "monstrous tumor").
Using an aid like a computer to make the decision therefore is seen as a sign of weakness.
It also opens a floodgate for all kinds of interesting liability issues. No medical device manufacturer wants to be hit with an avalanche of lawsuits - which is what's going to happen when they make a device that does anything more advanced than making trivial diagnostic or therapeutic decisions (i.e. "patient has ventricular fibrillation -> administer defibrillation shock").
We need to keep developing it now because if we don't then it will never evolve into anything which might be useful to end world hunger and feed the poor.
"World hunger" is not an issue of food production.
Current farming practices are certainly doing nothing much in this regard either.
Of course. Farming practices do nothing to get rid of despots who manage their countries into poverty and starvation.
GM crops could possibly be grown in areas where other crops do not thrive thus allowing people to grow their food locally,
GM crops do not help when people cannot grow their food locally because of land mines, government thugs, gunmen, militias and other such problems.
In Third world countries, the decision to grown GM crops is made in Washington DC.
GP is probably not really up to speed on what's happening in Iraq. Re-using seeds has already been banned there.
Hasn't this bit of news been floating around for months, if not years now ? Did they just find new indications ? Or are they trying to make it sink in with even the most fact-resistant people ?
After reviewing the formula for speed of sound, it does depend more on temperature than on pressure. So the speed of sound is slower on Mars than on Earth. Mach 4 on Mars would be less than 1000 m/s.
Even if the atmosphere isn't as thick, it's still an atmosphere. Mach 4 is 1361.1 m/s.
The Mach number depends on the speed of sound in the local medium, and the speed of sound in a gas depends on the pressure. Mach 1 on Mars (or in Earth's upper atmosphere) is much faster that Mach 1 at Earths sea level.
Deploy a large enough glider, and you will glide.
Your glider will probably be ripped to shreds, and then it's a long way down.
I'd rather spend a few hours circling the runway than six seconds ramming into it.
What you propose is somewhat like aerobraking, but this is a process that takes longer than just a few hours and carries some risk.
Moreover if you think electronic and mechanical counters are unreliable a human is a disaster.
So ? If you have a paper trail, you can at least prove that there was something wrong with the election, or the counting process (if you recount and arrive at a substantially different number of votes). Then you can initiate corrective action (for example, a really, really meticulous recount), followed by making sure that it doesn't happen again (like sticking whoever tried to rig the election in jail).
Electronic voting without a paper trail ? Sure, here are your results. Doubt them ? Sucks to be you. The machine is infalliable and you have no way to prove anything else.
1. We're going to fix some bugs. If we feel like it. 2. The next version is going to be much more colorful, but will need 4x the memory and CPU power. We're also planning to make a 3D graphics card mandatory. 3. Just when you got comfortable with the present version, we'll stop supporting it. We'd also deactivate it over the internet if we could get away with it.
The corruption goes way higher than that. But THAT is a state secret.
Corruption seeps in from the top down ("The fish starts to stink at the head", as other languages might put it). If you find someone at a certain level who is corrupt, it's safe to assume that corruption is already well established at the higher levels.
If your regular street cop is corrupt... then that country is already screwed.
There is some truth to this. In many cases, victims of these snails don't realize that they've been stung. However, this has nothing to do with the poison, but with the injury being really minor.
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Oh, that doesn't matter. In case of epileptic seizure, the police officer can reasonably feel threatened and shoot the guy. Problem solved !
Um
Also, most pain relievers are old (Aspirin, paracetamol, ibuprofen). Any patents on them have long since expired.
This is most likely a tumor type that is called teratoma (literally: "monstrous tumor").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma
It also opens a floodgate for all kinds of interesting liability issues. No medical device manufacturer wants to be hit with an avalanche of lawsuits - which is what's going to happen when they make a device that does anything more advanced than making trivial diagnostic or therapeutic decisions (i.e. "patient has ventricular fibrillation -> administer defibrillation shock").
Crops are genetically engineered to tolerate a certain herbicide so that more of this herbicide can be used.
However, studies have indicated that despite the increase in usage of GM crops, herbicide usage in the US has increased.
Do you find this surprising, given the information above ?
This is due in part to increased resistances developing amongst the weed community.
Um, no. It's because herbicides can be used more generously now that the crops are immune to them.
Drug cartels have tons of money. I believe this has already happened.
Nitpick: RoundUp is a herbicide, not a pesticide. It kills plants, not animals.
"World hunger" is not an issue of food production.
Current farming practices are certainly doing nothing much in this regard either.
Of course. Farming practices do nothing to get rid of despots who manage their countries into poverty and starvation.
GM crops could possibly be grown in areas where other crops do not thrive thus allowing people to grow their food locally,
GM crops do not help when people cannot grow their food locally because of land mines, government thugs, gunmen, militias and other such problems.
In Third world countries, the decision to grown GM crops is made in Washington DC. GP is probably not really up to speed on what's happening in Iraq. Re-using seeds has already been banned there.
I think you meant to say: Food that can be sprayed a lot more liberally with herbicides because it's resistant to them.
See Round-Up (tm) and Round-Up Ready (tm) seeds. Both by Monsanto, by pure coincidence, of course.
Just take a different example, then. The history books are still full of them even if you omit Nazi Germany.
Have fun trying to breathe while under the equivalent pressure of 1000m of water.
Actually, the more that applies to a country, the more likely that country is to go down the drain. See history books for examples.
Hasn't this bit of news been floating around for months, if not years now ? Did they just find new indications ? Or are they trying to make it sink in with even the most fact-resistant people ?
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/atmosphere/q
The Mach number depends on the speed of sound in the local medium, and the speed of sound in a gas depends on the pressure. Mach 1 on Mars (or in Earth's upper atmosphere) is much faster that Mach 1 at Earths sea level.
Deploy a large enough glider, and you will glide.
Your glider will probably be ripped to shreds, and then it's a long way down.
I'd rather spend a few hours circling the runway than six seconds ramming into it.
What you propose is somewhat like aerobraking, but this is a process that takes longer than just a few hours and carries some risk.
Like any other plant, algae are a net oxygen consumer when there is no sunlight.
Also, the massive amount of algae provides organic matter (food) for non-photosynthesizing microorganisms which use up even more oxygen.
So ? If you have a paper trail, you can at least prove that there was something wrong with the election, or the counting process (if you recount and arrive at a substantially different number of votes). Then you can initiate corrective action (for example, a really, really meticulous recount), followed by making sure that it doesn't happen again (like sticking whoever tried to rig the election in jail).
Electronic voting without a paper trail ? Sure, here are your results. Doubt them ? Sucks to be you. The machine is infalliable and you have no way to prove anything else.
1. We're going to fix some bugs. If we feel like it.
2. The next version is going to be much more colorful, but will need 4x the memory and CPU power. We're also planning to make a 3D graphics card mandatory.
3. Just when you got comfortable with the present version, we'll stop supporting it. We'd also deactivate it over the internet if we could get away with it.
Afaik, they were released so they would bounce towards the dam, be stopped by hitting it, then sink to a certain depth before detonating.
31 here. Yes, my family is notorious for producing geeks and having really long generation cycles.
You read "life span", I wrote "generation span". There's a difference.
Most people tend to reproduce in their 20's to 30's,
And geeks tend to reproduce later than that (if male, or not at all due to biological limits, if female). Hence their longer generation spans.
Geeks have longer generation spans than the average population. If they reproduce at all, that is.
Corruption seeps in from the top down ("The fish starts to stink at the head", as other languages might put it). If you find someone at a certain level who is corrupt, it's safe to assume that corruption is already well established at the higher levels.
If your regular street cop is corrupt
There is some truth to this. In many cases, victims of these snails don't realize that they've been stung. However, this has nothing to do with the poison, but with the injury being really minor.