It's not just breast cancer. People with a defined mutation have higher rates of ovarian and prostate cancers. I really don't see what the problem is. There have been hundreds of mutations found in the BRCA1 gene that are associated with an increase in cancer development. So the woman's child doesn't have a detected mutation. What's with all the fear-mongering?
How do you know that "she" isn't really a "he"? We're posting on the internet after all, where that 23 year-old hot chick who's all over you in the chat rooms is really a 47 year-old obese man living in his mother's basement.
I think I liked it because it was stylized and was really like a comic book brought to life. Not sure if I will like this movie as well, but I will definitely watch it to find out.
And the nudity. Wait, did I just say that out loud?
Either you're dead or you're not--Tell that to someone who's brain dead.
The seat of consciousness is in the brain. If that goes, all other aspects that made that person who he is is gone. By that definition brain dead = dead.
Or someone who's suffered a stroke that effects their brain stem
He's alive until his breathing machine is turned off (assuming only a minor brain stem infarct).
or people that suffer from being "locked in".
Brain's still active, so not dead. Still alive.
Tell that to someone who 'died' on the operating table during heart surgery but 'came back'.
Brain is still alive. He's not dead.
What exactly constitutes being "alive" verus dead? Are self-replicating proteins "alive"? Because last I looked, prions are not alive though they can kill you (mad cow disease). And this isn't even discussing non-literal definitions of dead or alive -- such as being emotionally dead (suicidal thoughts anyone?), concepts of heaven and hell, etc.
There is indeed quite a spectrum between dead and alive; Life has never been easy to classify and put into boxes, because the curious thing about it is you never observe the same thing twice looking at it.
The rest of the post doesn't really make much sense.
Why? Because in California (and probably other states) we're allowed to talk on the phone while driving if we have a hands-free device. This is a boon to the hands-free device manufacturers, but not to safety apparently.
From the same wikipedia article that was linked to (it's even in the first paragragh!):
It is generally considered to be the last naturally occurring stable, non-radioactive element on the periodic table, although it is actually slightly radioactive, with an extremely long half-life.
Why? Because if you're hired to do something, waiting for the computer to boot is part of the time they pay you to be there. Anyway, the "article" (more like a blog post) is a little short on details.
It should. The next step, I think, would be to sequence more people with AML M1 because the genetics heterogeneous. Then we can compare genes to normal controls and within the specific types to find the genes in common, if any, and maybe direct treatments against those genes/gene products.
There's always a "but." They sequenced an FAB classification M1 AML. That's nice, but these things tend to have a heterogenous genetic makeup. It'd be nice if they sequenced more of those things and compared them as well.
Or you move to somewhere where you can afford to buy a house (if you really do want a house). This whole economic crisis of ours is/was exacerbated by people Keeping Up With The Joneses (tm) and being way over their heads debt to pay for it all.
In Chinese, it literally means "space person", which is what they call all professional space-faring people (eg astronaut, cosmonaut, etc.) no matter what their respective countries call them. So why don't we just call them all "astronauts"?
Couldn't they do something similar to what Compaq did with IBM's BIOS? Have one group look at the info, then make some notes and passing those notes to another team?
Actually, 45MPG isn't a big deal if people would just drive more slowly. For example, my 2008 Jetta with a 170 HP engine is rated at 29 MPG on the highway. I can actually get around 40 MPG by just driving 55 mph. Different driving techniques can increase that further such as "pulse and glide." (eg I can get 40mpg by pulsing to 70 mph and then putting my car in neutral and coast to 60 mph and repeat). The problem is that people are both impatient and lazy. People bitch and moan about the high cost of fuel, and yet they don't do anything about driving slower.
Because diesel has more energy per weight than gasoline so cars with diesel engines tent to get around 30% miles out of a gallon versus their gasoline equivalent. As a result, despite diesel being more expensive, you'll still do better in the long run. BTW, where I am on the west coast, diesel is about $4.20/gallon vs. 87 octane gasoline at $3.79. If you have a diesel vehicle, you're still out ahead.
They're correct in that there are business reasons.
For example, they don't want the bottom to fall out of the market of their other cars, because they know that this would be their top #1 seller, and most of their other cars would become a lot less popular.
The article states that the engines are made in Britain and would be costly to import. Making the engines in the Americas may not have a good enough ROI since they'd need to make a new factory when they currently don't have the resources to do it right now (losing billions during the fiscal year probably doesn't help).
Also, there's probably some kind of collusion going on. We could make a 45mpg car that has decent numbers back in the 80's, but we can't make anything comparable now? Bullshit. There's something behind the scenes.
Yes there are: tighter emission standards, higher safety requirements, America's penchant for higher performing engines. There's really no incentive for us here the USA to buy more fuel efficient vehicles. Over in Europe they have 2 things that drive the sales of smaller cars: 1) much higher fuel prices and, 2) more taxes to pay on larger engines.
I clicked on here hoping someone with an astrophysics or cosmology background might be able to have a stab and guessing what this thing might be, or have something interesting to say about Hubble.
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It's not just breast cancer. People with a defined mutation have higher rates of ovarian and prostate cancers. I really don't see what the problem is. There have been hundreds of mutations found in the BRCA1 gene that are associated with an increase in cancer development. So the woman's child doesn't have a detected mutation. What's with all the fear-mongering?
How do you know that "she" isn't really a "he"? We're posting on the internet after all, where that 23 year-old hot chick who's all over you in the chat rooms is really a 47 year-old obese man living in his mother's basement.
No, but there is a unix-like environment written in javascript!
I think I liked it because it was stylized and was really like a comic book brought to life. Not sure if I will like this movie as well, but I will definitely watch it to find out.
And the nudity. Wait, did I just say that out loud?
Either you're dead or you're not--Tell that to someone who's brain dead.
The seat of consciousness is in the brain. If that goes, all other aspects that made that person who he is is gone. By that definition brain dead = dead.
Or someone who's suffered a stroke that effects their brain stem
He's alive until his breathing machine is turned off (assuming only a minor brain stem infarct).
or people that suffer from being "locked in".
Brain's still active, so not dead. Still alive.
Tell that to someone who 'died' on the operating table during heart surgery but 'came back'.
Brain is still alive. He's not dead.
What exactly constitutes being "alive" verus dead? Are self-replicating proteins "alive"? Because last I looked, prions are not alive though they can kill you (mad cow disease). And this isn't even discussing non-literal definitions of dead or alive -- such as being emotionally dead (suicidal thoughts anyone?), concepts of heaven and hell, etc.
There is indeed quite a spectrum between dead and alive; Life has never been easy to classify and put into boxes, because the curious thing about it is you never observe the same thing twice looking at it.
The rest of the post doesn't really make much sense.
Why? Because in California (and probably other states) we're allowed to talk on the phone while driving if we have a hands-free device. This is a boon to the hands-free device manufacturers, but not to safety apparently.
What are you? A terror... hmmm, you just said that...
But does it get better gas mileage??
From the same wikipedia article that was linked to (it's even in the first paragragh!):
Wow! Did you see that thing flying over your head?
...bismuth is radioactive!
Why? Because if you're hired to do something, waiting for the computer to boot is part of the time they pay you to be there. Anyway, the "article" (more like a blog post) is a little short on details.
Or women...
Debian also has had SPARC, SPARC64, Itanium, Alpha, MIPS, etc. for years. What's the big deal?
It should. The next step, I think, would be to sequence more people with AML M1 because the genetics heterogeneous. Then we can compare genes to normal controls and within the specific types to find the genes in common, if any, and maybe direct treatments against those genes/gene products.
There's always a "but." They sequenced an FAB classification M1 AML. That's nice, but these things tend to have a heterogenous genetic makeup. It'd be nice if they sequenced more of those things and compared them as well.
Or you move to somewhere where you can afford to buy a house (if you really do want a house). This whole economic crisis of ours is/was exacerbated by people Keeping Up With The Joneses (tm) and being way over their heads debt to pay for it all.
You want Real Networks to win. If they win, everyone (but the MPAA) wins. If the MPAA wins, everyone else loses.
In Chinese, it literally means "space person", which is what they call all professional space-faring people (eg astronaut, cosmonaut, etc.) no matter what their respective countries call them. So why don't we just call them all "astronauts"?
Couldn't they do something similar to what Compaq did with IBM's BIOS? Have one group look at the info, then make some notes and passing those notes to another team?
Actually, 45MPG isn't a big deal if people would just drive more slowly. For example, my 2008 Jetta with a 170 HP engine is rated at 29 MPG on the highway. I can actually get around 40 MPG by just driving 55 mph. Different driving techniques can increase that further such as "pulse and glide." (eg I can get 40mpg by pulsing to 70 mph and then putting my car in neutral and coast to 60 mph and repeat). The problem is that people are both impatient and lazy. People bitch and moan about the high cost of fuel, and yet they don't do anything about driving slower.
Because diesel has more energy per weight than gasoline so cars with diesel engines tent to get around 30% miles out of a gallon versus their gasoline equivalent. As a result, despite diesel being more expensive, you'll still do better in the long run. BTW, where I am on the west coast, diesel is about $4.20/gallon vs. 87 octane gasoline at $3.79. If you have a diesel vehicle, you're still out ahead.
The truck market and car market tend to have different buyers.
The article states that the engines are made in Britain and would be costly to import. Making the engines in the Americas may not have a good enough ROI since they'd need to make a new factory when they currently don't have the resources to do it right now (losing billions during the fiscal year probably doesn't help).
Yes there are: tighter emission standards, higher safety requirements, America's penchant for higher performing engines. There's really no incentive for us here the USA to buy more fuel efficient vehicles. Over in Europe they have 2 things that drive the sales of smaller cars: 1) much higher fuel prices and, 2) more taxes to pay on larger engines.
hahahahaa!!... Oh wait, you were serious...