Didn't China try blowing up a satellite a while ago, and end up making a huge mess? And now India's doing it too, and soon everybody and their brother is gonna act like drunk rednecks at a shooting gallery! No more Google maps, no more GPS. Great.
I'll wait until I can get the rev 2.1 non-English speaking version, with the culinary-skills upgrade.
You know, call me silly, but something about a combined sexbot and food processor just doesn't sound right. I mean, I know right? What could possibly go wrong? But...
The parent was a little rude, but thanks for the helpful reply, Anon. If I was of the parent's opinion your reply would be exactly the kind I'd want to get.
Did not RTFA, but why not just use OpenID? That way you get one identity across multiple sites, and don't have to remember random numbers. There aren't that many OpenID supporting sites, and when there are a lot have not worked for me (with Google) but when they did work I found the experience to be wonderfully convenient.
Instead they'd zap your brain with voltage so high the convulsions break bones, or just give you a good ol' lobotomy. None of this new-fangled "pill" stuff. And, hell, who needs that fancy shmancy electricity business? Just stick 'em crazies in a centrifuge and let it rip!
I wouldn't be surprised. Still, since you can't really objectively/quantitatively measure "being made fun of", I wish someone would demonstrate with an example.
(Or if there's some research done on the matter that would be great too.)
Also from Turkey. Nobody likes fat chicks here either, guys who are like 200 kg might get made fun of by immature people. Isn't that the extent of the "discrimination" in US? Skinny people don't find fat people visually appealing?
Haha, good point. But still, why doesn't UN bring it up? It's not that there's need for a huge force, and the costs can be shared by many countries (rotate them or have a combined fleet or something) and since so many nations are getting hurt by this, I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it.
Or maybe in the grand scheme of things the pirates simply aren't such a big deal, sad as that may sound.
Sequencing the genome with paper... Hahaha, oh wow. Do you realize that there are, to go by your car-analogy-without-the-car, millions of Eiffel Towers and each is different in as of yet unpredicatble ways? Do you realize that the entire hierarchical structure of the Eiffel Tower was simple enough to be understood by the architects, and indeed was understood, whereas there has been a whole branch of science expressly devoted to that task for the last half century with genetics?
I'd go and bring secondary structure and "Eiffel tower hairpins" into this, but I'll spare you the mind blow.
"Dipshit", how insightful indeed. By the way, maybe no one should try to solve it at all, since it's been centuries and someone must have tried your idea, whatever it is!
Admittedly at first I thought you were insane, but you make a very good point. Animals accumulate the biomass by using energy that comes from burning glucose (well, a lot of other things actually, but yeah). Vat meat cannot graze, so I think you basically have two options:
1) Use blood/fetal serum/extract of other animals. This seems rather pointless, ultimately, because why not just eat the donor animals? However if protein from "crap" animals, ones much cheaper than prime pork or beef to grow but much worse tasting, can be used with little effect on the taste, that may be good enough. This is inefficient though, as pointed out by others- the fodder animals waste energy. This method does have the advantage of not hurting traditional ranchers: They can just start growing vat-fodder when vats get popular.
2) Develop a good medium for the task. Bacteria are often grown on dried and ground algae or yeast- and if "we're" lucky, any problems can be solved easily with transgenic algae. That would be all sorts of awesome since you get a large carbon sink, switch the entire meat industry to very efficient solar power, liberate much agricultural space and possibly make prime meat very cheap all at once. Of course, if algae/meat tanks become economically viable, that might give the already struggling 3rd world economies another nasty kick in the groin- the early vat systems in particular would probably require large investments which these countries are unable to make.
Wow, you guys are really messing up my sarcasm detector. It would make sense out of context, maybe, but... What is this, I don't even?
Is he complaining about the hippie attitude of "well gee, everyone was so much healthier back then before this evil technology thing"? Is that really relevant? As far as I understand the article is about assessing contribution of modern factors to heart disease. (Obviously they would get the combined effect of added modern risk factors minus effects of medicine) Maybe I'm confused, but I don't see any crystal-wearing vegan hippies around.
I'm not sure about that, multiplying decimals seems the most obvious problem to me although that may also be a factor (cha-ching!). "6,02.10^23" is perfectly unambiguous while "6.02-" well, you get the point (Har har). There's some crazy folks who do "6.02×10^23" or "6.02*10^23". Those look sort of lame to me among properly formatted calculations, though. That said I wouldn't mind if everyone switched to the asterisk as the primary multiplication symbol, because hey, why not?
Actually antibacterial soap is only marginally better than normal soap, except for the really serious AB soap (the water-less gel based stuff [Purell]) which turns out to have antibiotics and a 62% ethanol anyway. Since 70% ethanol is just slightly better than that why not just dip your hands in alcohol for 10 seconds and let them dry in 5-15? It's much faster and much more effective than soap, and not difficult to distribute to hospitals. (Ethanol, man! ETHANOL!)
Anyway, the experiment I did in the lab compared soap to unwashed cultures of about 300 colonies so I'm not sure if ethanol goes beyond 0.3% reduction like this new-fangled plasma whatchamacallit. Does it not damage tissue as well, however? Combined alcohol exposure times around, say, 10 minutes may be bad for your skin but I imagine superoxides (assuming they form) and other nasties are even worse.
Wow, I remember this from when was in high school, learning about polynomials.
For perspective, I have anxieties about having too little time to prepare for the GRE nowadays. (Glances at source) Oh, of course. Does anybody know a site like slashdot, you know, news for nerds stuff, only the news are actually... Umm... new?
So what you suggest is that since South Koreans like Starcraft, the Chinese will bend over backwards to buy every game out there? What does South Korea have to do with China? Oh right, they're all "asian cultures". Cuz you know, there is this one monolithic cultural identity spanning the entirety of a quarter of the world's population with no variability whatsoever.
So the CIA kills Russian civilians... We have US breaking numerous pacts, committing an action of -unannounced- war and committing a war crime (civilians!) in the process.
What's this about the "Russian antagonist"? Seems to me the Americans are the real terrorists.
What kind of nerd do you have to be to be unable to adapt to the switch from VHS tapes to DVDs? Seriously, the only point you're making is that nerds don't adapt, so don't resurrect the nerds.
What really bothers me about the UK education system is that people keep saying "maths". It sounds like a bloody lolcat pic! "im in ur vector space, doing ur maths"
Ok, so you don't often hear "Snake defeated the boss." because people don't want to say snake beat him, it's an achievement that they're proud of and hence they attribute it to themselves. They want to say I did it.
But look at what happens when the controls are buggy: People don't complain that "I accidentally pressed O too long and aimed with the gun instead of shooting", they say "snake aims instead of shooting". When the character does what the player wants, it's the player doing it, there's immersion, when the character misbehaves, the player begins to speak as if Snake has a mind of his own.
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Didn't China try blowing up a satellite a while ago, and end up making a huge mess? And now India's doing it too, and soon everybody and their brother is gonna act like drunk rednecks at a shooting gallery! No more Google maps, no more GPS. Great.
And her sig is an unfunny meme as well!
I'll wait until I can get the rev 2.1 non-English speaking version, with the culinary-skills upgrade.
You know, call me silly, but something about a combined sexbot and food processor just doesn't sound right. I mean, I know right? What could possibly go wrong? But...
It's why WW3 will be fought: The Boxxy sex-bot.
The parent was a little rude, but thanks for the helpful reply, Anon. If I was of the parent's opinion your reply would be exactly the kind I'd want to get.
Did not RTFA, but why not just use OpenID? That way you get one identity across multiple sites, and don't have to remember random numbers. There aren't that many OpenID supporting sites, and when there are a lot have not worked for me (with Google) but when they did work I found the experience to be wonderfully convenient.
Years ago, there were no fancy drugs or somesuch
Instead they'd zap your brain with voltage so high the convulsions break bones, or just give you a good ol' lobotomy. None of this new-fangled "pill" stuff. And, hell, who needs that fancy shmancy electricity business? Just stick 'em crazies in a centrifuge and let it rip!
I wouldn't be surprised. Still, since you can't really objectively/quantitatively measure "being made fun of", I wish someone would demonstrate with an example.
(Or if there's some research done on the matter that would be great too.)
Also from Turkey. Nobody likes fat chicks here either, guys who are like 200 kg might get made fun of by immature people. Isn't that the extent of the "discrimination" in US? Skinny people don't find fat people visually appealing?
Haha, good point. But still, why doesn't UN bring it up? It's not that there's need for a huge force, and the costs can be shared by many countries (rotate them or have a combined fleet or something) and since so many nations are getting hurt by this, I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it.
Or maybe in the grand scheme of things the pirates simply aren't such a big deal, sad as that may sound.
Sequencing the genome with paper... Hahaha, oh wow. Do you realize that there are, to go by your car-analogy-without-the-car, millions of Eiffel Towers and each is different in as of yet unpredicatble ways? Do you realize that the entire hierarchical structure of the Eiffel Tower was simple enough to be understood by the architects, and indeed was understood, whereas there has been a whole branch of science expressly devoted to that task for the last half century with genetics?
I'd go and bring secondary structure and "Eiffel tower hairpins" into this, but I'll spare you the mind blow.
"Dipshit", how insightful indeed. By the way, maybe no one should try to solve it at all, since it's been centuries and someone must have tried your idea, whatever it is!
Why bother? Can't you have oscillating acetyl choline levels and be done with it?
By the way, is this even shaped like actual muscles? Would you get the same effect if every cell just contracts in whatever direction it feels like?
Admittedly at first I thought you were insane, but you make a very good point. Animals accumulate the biomass by using energy that comes from burning glucose (well, a lot of other things actually, but yeah). Vat meat cannot graze, so I think you basically have two options:
1) Use blood/fetal serum/extract of other animals. This seems rather pointless, ultimately, because why not just eat the donor animals? However if protein from "crap" animals, ones much cheaper than prime pork or beef to grow but much worse tasting, can be used with little effect on the taste, that may be good enough. This is inefficient though, as pointed out by others- the fodder animals waste energy. This method does have the advantage of not hurting traditional ranchers: They can just start growing vat-fodder when vats get popular.
2) Develop a good medium for the task. Bacteria are often grown on dried and ground algae or yeast- and if "we're" lucky, any problems can be solved easily with transgenic algae. That would be all sorts of awesome since you get a large carbon sink, switch the entire meat industry to very efficient solar power, liberate much agricultural space and possibly make prime meat very cheap all at once. Of course, if algae/meat tanks become economically viable, that might give the already struggling 3rd world economies another nasty kick in the groin- the early vat systems in particular would probably require large investments which these countries are unable to make.
Anyway, thanks for bringing up the point!
Wow, you guys are really messing up my sarcasm detector. It would make sense out of context, maybe, but... What is this, I don't even?
Is he complaining about the hippie attitude of "well gee, everyone was so much healthier back then before this evil technology thing"? Is that really relevant? As far as I understand the article is about assessing contribution of modern factors to heart disease. (Obviously they would get the combined effect of added modern risk factors minus effects of medicine) Maybe I'm confused, but I don't see any crystal-wearing vegan hippies around.
I'm not sure about that, multiplying decimals seems the most obvious problem to me although that may also be a factor (cha-ching!). "6,02.10^23" is perfectly unambiguous while "6.02-" well, you get the point (Har har). There's some crazy folks who do "6.02×10^23" or "6.02*10^23". Those look sort of lame to me among properly formatted calculations, though. That said I wouldn't mind if everyone switched to the asterisk as the primary multiplication symbol, because hey, why not?
Actually antibacterial soap is only marginally better than normal soap, except for the really serious AB soap (the water-less gel based stuff [Purell]) which turns out to have antibiotics and a 62% ethanol anyway. Since 70% ethanol is just slightly better than that why not just dip your hands in alcohol for 10 seconds and let them dry in 5-15? It's much faster and much more effective than soap, and not difficult to distribute to hospitals. (Ethanol, man! ETHANOL!)
Anyway, the experiment I did in the lab compared soap to unwashed cultures of about 300 colonies so I'm not sure if ethanol goes beyond 0.3% reduction like this new-fangled plasma whatchamacallit. Does it not damage tissue as well, however? Combined alcohol exposure times around, say, 10 minutes may be bad for your skin but I imagine superoxides (assuming they form) and other nasties are even worse.
Wow, I remember this from when was in high school, learning about polynomials.
For perspective, I have anxieties about having too little time to prepare for the GRE nowadays. (Glances at source) Oh, of course. Does anybody know a site like slashdot, you know, news for nerds stuff, only the news are actually... Umm... new?
So what you suggest is that since South Koreans like Starcraft, the Chinese will bend over backwards to buy every game out there? What does South Korea have to do with China? Oh right, they're all "asian cultures". Cuz you know, there is this one monolithic cultural identity spanning the entirety of a quarter of the world's population with no variability whatsoever.
So the CIA kills Russian civilians... We have US breaking numerous pacts, committing an action of -unannounced- war and committing a war crime (civilians!) in the process. What's this about the "Russian antagonist"? Seems to me the Americans are the real terrorists.
He did say *innocent* civilians.
What kind of nerd do you have to be to be unable to adapt to the switch from VHS tapes to DVDs? Seriously, the only point you're making is that nerds don't adapt, so don't resurrect the nerds.
What really bothers me about the UK education system is that people keep saying "maths". It sounds like a bloody lolcat pic! "im in ur vector space, doing ur maths"
Ok, so you don't often hear "Snake defeated the boss." because people don't want to say snake beat him, it's an achievement that they're proud of and hence they attribute it to themselves. They want to say I did it. But look at what happens when the controls are buggy: People don't complain that "I accidentally pressed O too long and aimed with the gun instead of shooting", they say "snake aims instead of shooting". When the character does what the player wants, it's the player doing it, there's immersion, when the character misbehaves, the player begins to speak as if Snake has a mind of his own.
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