Through experiments conducted in his lab, Baker found that timing of female orgasm during or around the occurrence of vaginal intercourse further affects the likelihood of fertilization. During female orgasm the woman's cervix dips and the opening to the cervix gapes open, much like an elephant's trunk while taking in water. If a seminal pool is present in the vagina at that point, a significant number of sperm will be helped along by this "up-suck" phenomenon. So, to maximize conception, a woman should experience an orgasm immediately after a man ejaculates.
First killer aliens that are going to kill us all and now this? He is starting to sound a lot like James Lovelock - once a useful scientist now just cashing in on his reputation before he retires or kicks the bucket.
You can't just live your life in fear of what could go wrong. sure bad things will happen eventually but things like the sun burning out and nuclear warfare are not really on the agenda these days. If some ecological disaster comes along it will most likely be easier to fix than finding a whole new planet and terraforming it
We need to get off this planet for the same exact reason you don't put all your retirement money in a single investment. While you make a good point about the sun and nuclear warfare I think you are being far too simplistic. We live in a time where medical innovation, technology, and weapons are advancing at an amazing and ever increasing speed. We work on some of the most horrific viruses and diseases in history, mutating them and making them more and more potent. We are inventing bigger and faster ways to kill each other. The fact of the matter is that we have more ways than ever to wipe ourselves out. The fact is, that eventually, something horrific *will* get out, it is a fact of statistics. The question is if we can contain and handle it in time. If not, I for one would feel a lot better knowing that we have X other colonies that will survive.
This isn't a matter of *if* it is a matter of when. By setting up other colonies we are simply giving ourselves the greatest statistical probability of survival.
the problem with this sentiment is that I have (many) friends who, because they can, allot 0 dollars for entertainment and download every movie, song and game they want from the torrents. They then use that 100-200 dollars that would otherwise have been entertainment funds to buy more pot, better brands of cigarettes or a better brand of beer/beer at a more expensive bar depending on their preferred method of intoxication.
While I can understand what you are saying, there is a counter point here. Studies have shown, time and again, that those that pirate music, movies, etc are typically the ones that spend the most on them as well.
Will it continue to pulse while only attached to the placenta? For example, is it possible or beneficial for both the baby and placenta to be outside the mother for a while?
Yes, it only pulses while attached. Basically everything is still hooked in to the mothers circulatory system at that point, and the pulsing you are seeing is actually the mothers heart pumping blood through the cord.
There is something called Wharton's jelly that exists within the umbilical cord which, if left alone, will cause the cord to "clamp" itself off anywhere from 5-20 minutes after the birth.
Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical_cord#Physiological_postnatal_occlusion
The placebo effect is very real, but "Feeling better" is not "surviving incurable cancer." In fact, most real treatments for cancer will leave you feeling significantly worse, often for weeks after a treatment.
In fact there is very little medical evidence that most treatments for cancer actually *do* anything. Chemo operates on the fact that we know that cancer is caused by malignant white cells, so what do we do? We nuke all your white cells. In theory the practice is sound, in practice...who knows? What studies that have been done actually show that only around 3-5% of patients actually benefit from chemo.
I find it very telling that people will quickly call a chiropractor a "quack" but they will buy into just about anything an MD tells them. I myself have seen the benefits of going to a chiropractor, is it the placebo effect? Maybe, but even if it is why does that offend you so much?
As someone who has done quite a bit of work in the genealogy line of software development I know what a problem this can be. The best alternatives we have currently for storing digital media last
There is however a company out there that is working on a project they call the "Millenium disc" apparently it can hold roughly as much data as a CD but it has an expected life of ~1000 years. It works by meshing the ideas of hieroglyphics and a traditional CD. This was an idea that was presented at the Family History Technology conference at BYU a few years back. I am not sure where the project is now, or even if it is still alive. But either way, we need a way to come up with a long term storage solution.
When you get into a corporate environment, "cheating" is actually preferred. No reason to re-invent the wheel when there is existing code that gets the job done.
Need a report that's "like this one except for..."? Take the code for that report and add some mods and there ya go. Your manager would consider you an idiot if you started each project from scratch, re-writing all the functions and methods that already exist in other applications and have perhaps already gone through rigorous QA.
Besides, how many ways can you write a QuickSort?
While I agree with you on the corporate environment, I think we miss a fundamental point here. People who understand these concepts, and have a basic handle on the language they probably should know by now have no need to cheat. If you understand what a quicksort is and how it works can replicate it fairly easily. People who don't understand it are going to be the ones cheating by copying off a site somewhere. I saw this a lot while I was in school getting my degree, and the people who cheated were the ones who eventually dropped out, or got to a point where they just *couldn't* cheat their way through anymore.
Just so we're clear: you're renting the ability to play. When, not if, they go belly up, you've just got a hard drive full of random bits.
Don't get me wrong, I use and love Steam (it even works well through Wine on Ubuntu) but I'm under no illusions about ownership.
Let's just say that steam did go belly up tomorrow, and they didn't have the time/money/resources to release a patch to allow you to play your games without their servers. What would we do?
Answer: Pirate the games, just like I used to do. If the RIAA comes knocking at my door, I still have my digital receipts proving I *did* in fact pay for the right to play the game.
"I was awake for the "tooth extraction" which translates to the most horrific medieval hammer and fscking chisel, and horrible horrible sounds and pressures you do not want to remember."
Try tooth extraction without anesthesia someday. Now that's an experience (yes, I know it firsthand).
I know what you mean, I will never, ever forget that god awful noise as they pry a tooth out of your head (it was akin to pulling a rusty nail out of a board)
There is no reason FF couldn't use separate threads to handle the threading of separate tabs. As it is, if any tab locks up, then the whole set of tabs gets stuck. Whether you use a process to separate each tab or you simulate it with threads, the difference is merely architectural.
The shared memory and object resources is the bottleneck with threads, but there is no reason why a single process couldn't render separate tabs completely separately.
You sir, are incorrect. Multithreading has a shared memory space, and therefore is still vulnerable to the locking issue that firefox is prone to. When you spawn a separate process, you are acquiring a memory space that is separate and distinct. This makes it so that the process will only lock / kill itself.
A process can multithread, a thread exists in the context of the process that spawned it.
When I moved to where I lived I had POTS go down 3 times due to storms. The last time, a lightning strike near my house (I live in Florida) really jacked it up. Through it all my internet was available. That's what convinced me to make the jump. Since I did switch, I've never had it go down.
If my power drops, or my VOIP isn't working for any reason, the calls to my home phone are forwarded to our cell phones. And we can still call out on those until power comes back.
If our cell phones don't work - then as you have said, there are bigger problems to worry about.
But really, I don't need the VOIP either except as I mentioned, I worry about my kids reliably dialing 911 on a cell phone. Once they are old enough to do that VOIP goes too.
I've found cell phones to be dependable enough for my needs. Google Voice pretty much clears up the few shortcoming there.
There is one problem I don't think you see. The way a cell phone works is that it communicates with a cell tower, that cell tower uses phone lines at some point to route your call. If everything goes to a VOIP based phone system and the power goes out, there is a pretty good chance you will lose your cell phone as well. Currently this doesn't happen because the phone lines carry their own power, so the ones hooked into your cell tower are still up. With a VOIP network, when the power goes out, so does your cell phone.
All in all, the metric system is optimized for scientific work where conversions between units happen more often, and knowing that 100 million micrograms is.1 kilograms is useful. But it doesn't work so well for common, human scale use.
I would disagree. People will adapt to any unit system they know. Really the proof of this is the system we use in america.
It is quite possibly the worst collection of units I could think of, with there being NO consistency in conversions.
While you say that the gram is too light, I doubt that people that use it think so. Mainly because they know the system. I know I would much rather use a system where the units make sense.
It is bad enough that we pay astronomical amounts just for internet access.
$20-$25 a month is "astronomical"? Even at minimum wage, that's not even half a days pay. If you consider that to be so horrible, I can only assume that you don't have a cell phone, cable, purchase dvd's / cd's, go to the movies, etc. Entry level broadband (like 80-90 KB/s downloads) costs less than a tank of gas and about as much as the typical dvd. Hell, if you go out to eat for lunch each day during a 5 day work week, you probably spend more money than you would for internet.
In my area the absolute cheapest broadband I can get is $35/mo + $5/mo modem fee. The gotcha there is that the company will only allow their modems on the network, and they don't sell them. Also if you go over a gig of downloading in a day they cut your bandwidth to 4Mb, then if you download over another 500MB(I think that is the cap) they cut you to 768K.
Check it out http://www.ctrol.com/
Scientific ignorance from the organic produce industry? Really? That's just so shocking.
Not that I disagree with your sentiment here, but why is it always scientists just assuming they are right without doing actual studies?
I mean, yes scientifically what we know says this *shouldn't* have any effect on the crop. But how many articles do you see in a month in the format "scientists discover/observe phenomenon X that was previously thought impossible"
You would think that by now we would stop saying "that's impossible" and start saying "that's improbable"
Obviously you didn't read the article. They're talking about cascading failures due to the fact that they're connected via the electrical grid.
Basically the same thing that happened some years back on the eastern seaboard, but on the west coast and triggered on purpose.
Obviously, you have not read TFA:
News about Wang's research comes at a time when there are considerable concerns about the security of the U.S. power grid. In April, The Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous national security officials, reported that cyberspies from China, Russia and elsewhere had gained access to the U.S. electrical grid and had installed malware tools that could be used to shut down service. Though the access hasn't been used to disrupt service, the concern is that the malicious hackers could do so with relatively short notice during a time of crisis or war.
What a prawn.
Actually both you, and your parent post are correct. They are pointing out why the compromised grid is so concerning(aside from the obvious). Couple that malware with this knowledge and you can very effectively take out power for the west coast by targeting a very small subset of stations.
What they are saying is that the outage like we had several years back can be triggered fairly easy, and even scarier, since we are compromised already, someone sitting at a computer could probably just turn off power for all the west coast.
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Well, maybe not local, but fox news is almost a certainty.
I totally agree. I wasn't saying it was necessary for her to get pregnant, it just makes it more likely that she will.
From how I see it (and from what I believe to know about the mechanics involved)...
When a woman orgasms, her cervix dips into (depending on the position) pool of seed the man released, sucking it in.
Wait, this is how you think sex works? The man orgasms, sex continues, then some time later, the female orgasms and becomes pregnant?!?
If pregnancy depended on the woman orgasming after the man, the accidental pregnancy rate would be close to zero
Actually a woman having an orgasm after the man has had one makes it more likely that she will be fertilized.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2372/is_n1_v35/ai_20746731/pg_2/
From the link
Through experiments conducted in his lab, Baker found that timing of female orgasm during or around the occurrence of vaginal intercourse further affects the likelihood of fertilization. During female orgasm the woman's cervix dips and the opening to the cervix gapes open, much like an elephant's trunk while taking in water. If a seminal pool is present in the vagina at that point, a significant number of sperm will be helped along by this "up-suck" phenomenon. So, to maximize conception, a woman should experience an orgasm immediately after a man ejaculates.
"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people". - Gregory House
First killer aliens that are going to kill us all and now this? He is starting to sound a lot like James Lovelock - once a useful scientist now just cashing in on his reputation before he retires or kicks the bucket. You can't just live your life in fear of what could go wrong. sure bad things will happen eventually but things like the sun burning out and nuclear warfare are not really on the agenda these days. If some ecological disaster comes along it will most likely be easier to fix than finding a whole new planet and terraforming it
We need to get off this planet for the same exact reason you don't put all your retirement money in a single investment. While you make a good point about the sun and nuclear warfare I think you are being far too simplistic. We live in a time where medical innovation, technology, and weapons are advancing at an amazing and ever increasing speed. We work on some of the most horrific viruses and diseases in history, mutating them and making them more and more potent. We are inventing bigger and faster ways to kill each other. The fact of the matter is that we have more ways than ever to wipe ourselves out. The fact is, that eventually, something horrific *will* get out, it is a fact of statistics. The question is if we can contain and handle it in time. If not, I for one would feel a lot better knowing that we have X other colonies that will survive.
This isn't a matter of *if* it is a matter of when. By setting up other colonies we are simply giving ourselves the greatest statistical probability of survival.
This study actually correlates purchases and piracy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/21/study-finds-pirates-buy-more-music
The rest of these articles link back to the studies they quote. They are basically information that states how piracy has actually helped industries to make money.
Piracy is good:
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/internet-piracy-is-good-for-films-1
http://torrentfreak.com/why-most-artists-profit-from-piracy/
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/99958-toc-piracy-may-boost-sales-research-suggests.html
the problem with this sentiment is that I have (many) friends who, because they can, allot 0 dollars for entertainment and download every movie, song and game they want from the torrents. They then use that 100-200 dollars that would otherwise have been entertainment funds to buy more pot, better brands of cigarettes or a better brand of beer/beer at a more expensive bar depending on their preferred method of intoxication.
While I can understand what you are saying, there is a counter point here. Studies have shown, time and again, that those that pirate music, movies, etc are typically the ones that spend the most on them as well.
Will it continue to pulse while only attached to the placenta? For example, is it possible or beneficial for both the baby and placenta to be outside the mother for a while?
Yes, it only pulses while attached. Basically everything is still hooked in to the mothers circulatory system at that point, and the pulsing you are seeing is actually the mothers heart pumping blood through the cord. There is something called Wharton's jelly that exists within the umbilical cord which, if left alone, will cause the cord to "clamp" itself off anywhere from 5-20 minutes after the birth. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical_cord#Physiological_postnatal_occlusion
The placebo effect is very real, but "Feeling better" is not "surviving incurable cancer." In fact, most real treatments for cancer will leave you feeling significantly worse, often for weeks after a treatment.
In fact there is very little medical evidence that most treatments for cancer actually *do* anything. Chemo operates on the fact that we know that cancer is caused by malignant white cells, so what do we do? We nuke all your white cells. In theory the practice is sound, in practice...who knows? What studies that have been done actually show that only around 3-5% of patients actually benefit from chemo. I find it very telling that people will quickly call a chiropractor a "quack" but they will buy into just about anything an MD tells them. I myself have seen the benefits of going to a chiropractor, is it the placebo effect? Maybe, but even if it is why does that offend you so much?
I will get an LED flashlights and screw your downloads all to hell
As someone who has done quite a bit of work in the genealogy line of software development I know what a problem this can be. The best alternatives we have currently for storing digital media last
There is however a company out there that is working on a project they call the "Millenium disc" apparently it can hold roughly as much data as a CD but it has an expected life of ~1000 years. It works by meshing the ideas of hieroglyphics and a traditional CD. This was an idea that was presented at the Family History Technology conference at BYU a few years back. I am not sure where the project is now, or even if it is still alive. But either way, we need a way to come up with a long term storage solution.
When you get into a corporate environment, "cheating" is actually preferred. No reason to re-invent the wheel when there is existing code that gets the job done.
Need a report that's "like this one except for..."? Take the code for that report and add some mods and there ya go. Your manager would consider you an idiot if you started each project from scratch, re-writing all the functions and methods that already exist in other applications and have perhaps already gone through rigorous QA.
Besides, how many ways can you write a QuickSort?
While I agree with you on the corporate environment, I think we miss a fundamental point here. People who understand these concepts, and have a basic handle on the language they probably should know by now have no need to cheat. If you understand what a quicksort is and how it works can replicate it fairly easily. People who don't understand it are going to be the ones cheating by copying off a site somewhere. I saw this a lot while I was in school getting my degree, and the people who cheated were the ones who eventually dropped out, or got to a point where they just *couldn't* cheat their way through anymore.
Just so we're clear: you're renting the ability to play. When, not if, they go belly up, you've just got a hard drive full of random bits.
Don't get me wrong, I use and love Steam (it even works well through Wine on Ubuntu) but I'm under no illusions about ownership.
Let's just say that steam did go belly up tomorrow, and they didn't have the time/money/resources to release a patch to allow you to play your games without their servers. What would we do?
Answer: Pirate the games, just like I used to do. If the RIAA comes knocking at my door, I still have my digital receipts proving I *did* in fact pay for the right to play the game.
"I was awake for the "tooth extraction" which translates to the most horrific medieval hammer and fscking chisel, and horrible horrible sounds and pressures you do not want to remember."
Try tooth extraction without anesthesia someday. Now that's an experience (yes, I know it firsthand).
I know what you mean, I will never, ever forget that god awful noise as they pry a tooth out of your head (it was akin to pulling a rusty nail out of a board)
There is no reason FF couldn't use separate threads to handle the threading of separate tabs. As it is, if any tab locks up, then the whole set of tabs gets stuck. Whether you use a process to separate each tab or you simulate it with threads, the difference is merely architectural.
The shared memory and object resources is the bottleneck with threads, but there is no reason why a single process couldn't render separate tabs completely separately.
You sir, are incorrect. Multithreading has a shared memory space, and therefore is still vulnerable to the locking issue that firefox is prone to. When you spawn a separate process, you are acquiring a memory space that is separate and distinct. This makes it so that the process will only lock / kill itself. A process can multithread, a thread exists in the context of the process that spawned it.
When I moved to where I lived I had POTS go down 3 times due to storms. The last time, a lightning strike near my house (I live in Florida) really jacked it up. Through it all my internet was available. That's what convinced me to make the jump. Since I did switch, I've never had it go down.
If my power drops, or my VOIP isn't working for any reason, the calls to my home phone are forwarded to our cell phones. And we can still call out on those until power comes back.
If our cell phones don't work - then as you have said, there are bigger problems to worry about.
But really, I don't need the VOIP either except as I mentioned, I worry about my kids reliably dialing 911 on a cell phone. Once they are old enough to do that VOIP goes too.
I've found cell phones to be dependable enough for my needs. Google Voice pretty much clears up the few shortcoming there.
There is one problem I don't think you see. The way a cell phone works is that it communicates with a cell tower, that cell tower uses phone lines at some point to route your call. If everything goes to a VOIP based phone system and the power goes out, there is a pretty good chance you will lose your cell phone as well. Currently this doesn't happen because the phone lines carry their own power, so the ones hooked into your cell tower are still up. With a VOIP network, when the power goes out, so does your cell phone.
they've put in an anti-Slashdot referer rule on those images - was there an original article so we don't have to copy & paste?
If you just open it, and then refresh the page it will show the image.
All in all, the metric system is optimized for scientific work where conversions between units happen more often, and knowing that 100 million micrograms is .1 kilograms is useful. But it doesn't work so well for common, human scale use.
I would disagree. People will adapt to any unit system they know. Really the proof of this is the system we use in america. It is quite possibly the worst collection of units I could think of, with there being NO consistency in conversions. While you say that the gram is too light, I doubt that people that use it think so. Mainly because they know the system. I know I would much rather use a system where the units make sense.
Helping the Nazis is worse than insider trading.
So how bad are Nazis that take part in insider trading?
It is bad enough that we pay astronomical amounts just for internet access.
$20-$25 a month is "astronomical"? Even at minimum wage, that's not even half a days pay. If you consider that to be so horrible, I can only assume that you don't have a cell phone, cable, purchase dvd's / cd's, go to the movies, etc. Entry level broadband (like 80-90 KB/s downloads) costs less than a tank of gas and about as much as the typical dvd. Hell, if you go out to eat for lunch each day during a 5 day work week, you probably spend more money than you would for internet.
In my area the absolute cheapest broadband I can get is $35/mo + $5/mo modem fee. The gotcha there is that the company will only allow their modems on the network, and they don't sell them. Also if you go over a gig of downloading in a day they cut your bandwidth to 4Mb, then if you download over another 500MB(I think that is the cap) they cut you to 768K. Check it out http://www.ctrol.com/
Will playgirl do a centerfold for crusty the clown?
That made me think of this: http://xkcd.com/570/
Scientific ignorance from the organic produce industry? Really? That's just so shocking.
Not that I disagree with your sentiment here, but why is it always scientists just assuming they are right without doing actual studies?
I mean, yes scientifically what we know says this *shouldn't* have any effect on the crop. But how many articles do you see in a month in the format "scientists discover/observe phenomenon X that was previously thought impossible"
You would think that by now we would stop saying "that's impossible" and start saying "that's improbable"
Obviously you didn't read the article. They're talking about cascading failures due to the fact that they're connected via the electrical grid. Basically the same thing that happened some years back on the eastern seaboard, but on the west coast and triggered on purpose.
Obviously, you have not read TFA:
What a prawn.
Actually both you, and your parent post are correct. They are pointing out why the compromised grid is so concerning(aside from the obvious). Couple that malware with this knowledge and you can very effectively take out power for the west coast by targeting a very small subset of stations.
What they are saying is that the outage like we had several years back can be triggered fairly easy, and even scarier, since we are compromised already, someone sitting at a computer could probably just turn off power for all the west coast.
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