I am outraged at this. This editor obviously has no understanding of the colossal amount of effort that has been put into making Wikipedia a broad, diversified information source that gives everything and DEMANDS NOTHING IN RETURN. If you don't like it, don't donate to it, but don't spread FUD like this.
I normally like the Washington Post, but this editor is way out of line. Sure, people vandalizing articles is a problem. But it doesn't automatically make the whole thing a failed effort and travesty. As others have mentioned, many articles on non-controversial subjects are actually more accurate (and much more detailed) than you will find in any other encyclopedia. In fact, lots of articles compare to specialized reference volumes in detail, not encyclopedias. Try looking up MD5 hashes in World Book - maybe a passing reference, but no several pages-long overview of how it works.
This sounds a lot like FUD from the for-profit reference volumes.
Treating kids like they have no rights whatsoever is a sneakily effective way of making them obedient, "law-abiding" adults who conform to the ebbs and flows of the system. It makes them mindless consumer drones who obey the state and oligopoly forces without question.
How much does it matter that you have rights after 18, when you are conditioned so that you don't?
Of course, it is easiest for those in power to split populations into poles, with no gray area in between. Giving minors few rights while giving adults most is a typical result of this system. Were it not for people standing up for childrens' rights, they would still be treated like cattle as they were during Renaissance times.
It's the current that kills. Static electricity is high voltage (10kV+) but has very little current and so does not kill you upon discharge. On the other hand, an automobile battery shorted by electrolyte-rich urine could very quickly turn you into a blob on the driveway.
There are a bunch of spammers selling tons of things in various uncontextually related categories so they get the most bid. They have polluted ebay with noise, and it seems little is being done to stop them. It makes searching for some products (especially specialized ones) such a pain.
"Getting rich on ebay" is akin to "keyword spamming with listings."
There is a group that makes money legitimately. However, that group is not insanely rich.
That's all they are. The university does not care about the students' image, it cares about it's own image. Rather, the President making $500K/yr wants his salary and ego protected.
People who are really that worried about their image would not go through the ordeal of making themselves look "bad" on facebook now would they?
This might get modded flamebait but it's the truth; it makes me sick. They do this while raising tuition also to cover ever-increasing exorbitant sports expenditures.
Don't even get me started on organized college sports.
Reputation accounts? "Downloaded song legally from itunes" Nay sire, I do NOT need people knowing each and every "good" thing I've done. It seems more like a thing from an Orwellian science fiction movie than anything else.
Socially networked movie tickets? Leave me and my friends the hell alone.
As the first poster said. I'm hoping, though, that this gets thrown out the window faster than it came in, because I use skype a lot, and love it. It would suck to have such a great service hampered by an idiotic lawsuit.
Anyway, Bloomberg is in an odd position - supporting science and yet also supporting this administration. It's not like Bush and company are well known for thier support/funding of scientists...
on this very site for suggesting that there are people who ARE seeking to end stem cell research. Oddly enough, this very site. Let's see if that same dusche mods me troll again.
I must say that asking for folk's credit card numbers is not good, pun intended or not. Such could easily be frisked away by anyone tracking POST requests to the site. It's all funny and everything, but that's just too far.
That said, what this guy was able to do to the site and how quickly seems uneasily police-state ish. More in a corporate fascist way.
True. But it will work with one stick. And Socket 939 is the only way to go if you want dual core. So for the (rare) bunch who want dual core and only single channel, 939+one stick works.
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That would be true if it were initial growth, or if you wanted to summon the body to grow an aorta on its own. But an aorta could be made from generic stem-cell-cultured tissue, and it would be accepted by the body's other cells.
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I say this because I know that there have been efforts to block research on ALL stem cells from ideological grounds, and not just embryonic stem cells. It is the reason why the US lead in stem cell research is shrinking.
And the cardiac stem cells could be used for other purposes as well eventually. It's funny how your argument contradicts itself, because if it were true, then embryonic stem cells would HAVE to be used for the aorta, making your rebuttal to my argument invalid anyway!
> Even if I mod my case to have neon lights and a slurpee machine, all that won't matter unless it keeps everything inside working well.
When you get that done, invite me over, I need my free refill.
This would be really helpful for someone I know.
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He was born without an aorta, and has had 20+ surgeries, each time replacing the tubes connecting his heart to the rest of his body with longer ones. If a compatible aorta could be grown just with stem cells, he would have no further need for surgery.
Right now, he is set for a few more years before they have to cut him open again and make adjustments. I hope by then they can just replace the tubes with living tissue and also replace the unsightly scar tissue that has developed from being cut open so many times.
Let's pray to $DEITY that this gets off the ground. I'm pretty sure it will, mindless theologans aside.
Bleed and Soak us, bleed us of money and soak us in an ocean of debt? LOL, that's been going on since the 80s during the Reagan years.
Same thing happened to the US in the 60s and 70s, took till the 80s for growth to return.
Meteorites? Space junk? Other large flying objects? It would seem that a force field technology would be necessary in order for a space elevator to be viable without being knocked out of orbit or broken after a few months. That and the micro/macro defects in the tubes. What if the base detaches from the ground? Such a device's acceleration toward earth would be very difficult to stop with ordinary thruster motors.
That the US as a whole doesn't seem to give a shit about this. Look at the results of polls. Ranges from general aloofness to "it's good for National Security(TM)." Look at T's stock price. Huh, normally a company with such an incriminating lawsuit wielded against it would take at least somewhat of a hit in price (though the markets ARE very wierd right now).
It seems that the techie crowd are the very small minority of folks who actually care that their phone calls were tracked without ANY precedent in the first place. We're not talking warrantless tracking, we're talking completely random warrantless tracking.
What was the saying in Rome? Feed the masses and give them entertainment, and you can do anything to them.
Seriously, on average a document with the same contents is up to 50% smaller with OpenOffice. And yes, the ODT opens faster than MS office opens its word documents.
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I am outraged at this. This editor obviously has no understanding of the colossal amount of effort that has been put into making Wikipedia a broad, diversified information source that gives everything and DEMANDS NOTHING IN RETURN. If you don't like it, don't donate to it, but don't spread FUD like this.
I normally like the Washington Post, but this editor is way out of line. Sure, people vandalizing articles is a problem. But it doesn't automatically make the whole thing a failed effort and travesty. As others have mentioned, many articles on non-controversial subjects are actually more accurate (and much more detailed) than you will find in any other encyclopedia. In fact, lots of articles compare to specialized reference volumes in detail, not encyclopedias. Try looking up MD5 hashes in World Book - maybe a passing reference, but no several pages-long overview of how it works.
This sounds a lot like FUD from the for-profit reference volumes.
I wish I had mod points; you are spot on.
Treating kids like they have no rights whatsoever is a sneakily effective way of making them obedient, "law-abiding" adults who conform to the ebbs and flows of the system. It makes them mindless consumer drones who obey the state and oligopoly forces without question.
How much does it matter that you have rights after 18, when you are conditioned so that you don't?
Of course, it is easiest for those in power to split populations into poles, with no gray area in between. Giving minors few rights while giving adults most is a typical result of this system. Were it not for people standing up for childrens' rights, they would still be treated like cattle as they were during Renaissance times.
It's the current that kills. Static electricity is high voltage (10kV+) but has very little current and so does not kill you upon discharge. On the other hand, an automobile battery shorted by electrolyte-rich urine could very quickly turn you into a blob on the driveway.
There are a bunch of spammers selling tons of things in various uncontextually related categories so they get the most bid. They have polluted ebay with noise, and it seems little is being done to stop them. It makes searching for some products (especially specialized ones) such a pain.
"Getting rich on ebay" is akin to "keyword spamming with listings."
There is a group that makes money legitimately. However, that group is not insanely rich.
That's all they are. The university does not care about the students' image, it cares about it's own image. Rather, the President making $500K/yr wants his salary and ego protected.
People who are really that worried about their image would not go through the ordeal of making themselves look "bad" on facebook now would they?
This might get modded flamebait but it's the truth; it makes me sick. They do this while raising tuition also to cover ever-increasing exorbitant sports expenditures.
Don't even get me started on organized college sports.
There, you'll hit land - The French Southern and Antarctic Lands.
Reputation accounts? "Downloaded song legally from itunes" Nay sire, I do NOT need people knowing each and every "good" thing I've done. It seems more like a thing from an Orwellian science fiction movie than anything else.
Socially networked movie tickets? Leave me and my friends the hell alone.
As the first poster said. I'm hoping, though, that this gets thrown out the window faster than it came in, because I use skype a lot, and love it. It would suck to have such a great service hampered by an idiotic lawsuit.
Anyway, Bloomberg is in an odd position - supporting science and yet also supporting this administration. It's not like Bush and company are well known for thier support/funding of scientists...
on this very site for suggesting that there are people who ARE seeking to end stem cell research. Oddly enough, this very site. Let's see if that same dusche mods me troll again.
I must say that asking for folk's credit card numbers is not good, pun intended or not. Such could easily be frisked away by anyone tracking POST requests to the site. It's all funny and everything, but that's just too far.
That said, what this guy was able to do to the site and how quickly seems uneasily police-state ish. More in a corporate fascist way.
True. But it will work with one stick. And Socket 939 is the only way to go if you want dual core. So for the (rare) bunch who want dual core and only single channel, 939+one stick works.
This is a much better use of idle time:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
Man, you missed out. I was just finishing unloading some old mATX s370 boards, never used, for about 10 bucks apiece.
Namely, the cuv4x-m: http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/asus/cuv4x-m.jpg
Do you have an IRA or 401(K)? Then you're "gambling" in the stock market.
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And this is certainly a money-losing game:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EDJI&t=my&l=off
That would be true if it were initial growth, or if you wanted to summon the body to grow an aorta on its own. But an aorta could be made from generic stem-cell-cultured tissue, and it would be accepted by the body's other cells.
I say this because I know that there have been efforts to block research on ALL stem cells from ideological grounds, and not just embryonic stem cells. It is the reason why the US lead in stem cell research is shrinking.
And the cardiac stem cells could be used for other purposes as well eventually. It's funny how your argument contradicts itself, because if it were true, then embryonic stem cells would HAVE to be used for the aorta, making your rebuttal to my argument invalid anyway!
> Even if I mod my case to have neon lights and a slurpee machine, all that won't matter unless it keeps everything inside working well.
When you get that done, invite me over, I need my free refill.
He was born without an aorta, and has had 20+ surgeries, each time replacing the tubes connecting his heart to the rest of his body with longer ones. If a compatible aorta could be grown just with stem cells, he would have no further need for surgery.
Right now, he is set for a few more years before they have to cut him open again and make adjustments. I hope by then they can just replace the tubes with living tissue and also replace the unsightly scar tissue that has developed from being cut open so many times.
Let's pray to $DEITY that this gets off the ground. I'm pretty sure it will, mindless theologans aside.
Bleed and Soak us, bleed us of money and soak us in an ocean of debt? LOL, that's been going on since the 80s during the Reagan years. Same thing happened to the US in the 60s and 70s, took till the 80s for growth to return.
Yeah, I meant to say what if there was an impact sending the upper part of the station speeding toward earth?
Meteorites? Space junk? Other large flying objects? It would seem that a force field technology would be necessary in order for a space elevator to be viable without being knocked out of orbit or broken after a few months. That and the micro/macro defects in the tubes. What if the base detaches from the ground? Such a device's acceleration toward earth would be very difficult to stop with ordinary thruster motors.
That the US as a whole doesn't seem to give a shit about this. Look at the results of polls. Ranges from general aloofness to "it's good for National Security(TM)." Look at T's stock price. Huh, normally a company with such an incriminating lawsuit wielded against it would take at least somewhat of a hit in price (though the markets ARE very wierd right now). It seems that the techie crowd are the very small minority of folks who actually care that their phone calls were tracked without ANY precedent in the first place. We're not talking warrantless tracking, we're talking completely random warrantless tracking. What was the saying in Rome? Feed the masses and give them entertainment, and you can do anything to them.
Seriously, on average a document with the same contents is up to 50% smaller with OpenOffice. And yes, the ODT opens faster than MS office opens its word documents.
yes.