I think it's plausable that the stones at the top were built at a later time than the rest of the pyramid -- perhaps even as repair work. Naturally, those structures take a long time to build, and perhaps they just changed their minds and switched to pouring the blocks at the top (on location so to speak). Or, perhaps a later dynasty decided to repair the tops (which if we look at the pyramids today, appear to be the most fragile), and used a different method.
I would argue that Barney is a celebrity. As such, he has no right to privacy WHEN HE PUTS HIMSELF IN THE SPOTLIGHT. Thus, it is fair game to make fun of him.
UH... Microsoft isn't exactly in the literature business either, but that hasn't stopped them from producing a series of books set in the Halo universe. I like Halo, so I gave the books a shot. Let's just say the books prove Microsoft doesn't give a shit about how poorly its IP gets used in other media. Therefore, the movie will happen, for good or for bad.
Yes, we are a fairly intelligent creature, the human. BUT WE ARE WAAAAAAY MORE FRIGGIN' INTELLIGENT SINCE we started using tools available to us. First the "pen" and paper. Those are the bare essentials, but we've come a long way since then. Give them the friggin' computers and be amazed at what they can do. Tools do matter.
SO many posts here about the curse of Mars or whatever, but you have to remember Surveyer was on the 10th year of its 2 year mission!! It exceeded its specs and performed beautifully. It's sad to lose an orbiter, but at this point, it shouldn't be considered a failed mission.
There may be some reason for concern here, but not the type of fear mongering the above summary would seem to suggest. There is potential for abuse by someone entering your phone number and connecting you to the advertiser by phone. But nowhere on the Click-to-Call service page does it allow any sort of caller-ID spoofing. You can't just use it as a VOIP portal and call anyone you want. In fact, Caller ID is blocked even to the advertiser you are connecting to. Just read the details, it's all there.
It had very clear full-duplex quality, was simple to set up and use, and was largely platform independent. I was in a long distance relationship in college at the time, and my girlfriend had a mac (I had a PC). PGPfone was the only VOIP solution in 1999 that allowed us to voice chat for free (remember, this is before unlimited minute cell phones). Absolutely amazing as a voice chat program, let alone all its privacy features.
This seems like a cool idea (obvious now, in retrospect). The green house effect is valid nearly anywhere you can create an enclosed environment. It's harder on Mars, since there isn't that much light to begin with to heat up your 1km radius greenhouse. But if ya got your solar collectors, etc., it could work.
...I mean, COME ON, what's the frigging difference between inappropriate video/images and some guy flipping through his Playboy magazine? Flying in an airplane has always been about unwritten rules of conduct, in addition to the encylopediae of written rules.
...ok, that's harsh, but the reality is that, as his publicist put it, "Justin is movie star." Hmm... seems like he got way more exposure doing the mac ads. Movie star my ass.
I upgraded from the ORIGINAL G4 Titanium from 5 years ago. So ya, it's pretty nice. But to be perfectly honest, the "benchmarks" comparing my 5yr old powerbook to this new macbook pro would place the new one as being ~500-1000% faster. So... what I'm trying to say is that I don't really notice anything being that much faster:) It's nice to have the latest and greatest, but I probably wouldn't have upgraded if my old one hadn't pretty much died.
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You're pretty much right on the ball. Intel chips WERE for pussies. IBM DID have powerful, efficient chips. When they no longer did (pretty much about the time the Powerbook G4 was becoming outdated and the G5 just couldn't be made efficient enough for a laptop), Apple switched to Intel. I hope they switch again if they find something better. To me, that's way better than being any one chipmaker's bitch. IBM's doing great making chips for all the major consoles. Apples doing great with the Intel chips. Ya gotta go where the best tech is for your business.
...is that you pr0n collection is potentially safe from scrutiny. Can you just imagine if those RIAA people could tell the media how music pirating and pornaholics go hand in hand?
I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers. Perhaps chimps CAN reach 40 yo, just as humans CAN reach 125 yo, but that's rare. I'm not guessing here -- I've studied evolution before. The simplest reference I can give you is the wiki on human life expectancy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
It's well known that: "Average life expectancy before the 'health transition' of the modern era is thought to have varied between about 20 years and 35 years, depending upon particular circumstances." Indeed, life expectancy may actually have DROPPED below 30 during times when man became more capable of war on a large scale (bronze age) or possibly when the domestication of animals and plants introduced diseases. As recently as the Roman era, average life expectancy was 28. More importantly, we have a rich documented history of human diseases through time. Cancer shows up rarely until more recent times. So I'm not sure about your chimps, and infact the source I saw said chimps RARELY live past 40 in the wild, not "ROUTINELY". Who knows, I can imagine times in our history where you were more likely to live longer as a chimp than as a human.
It's really interesting you mention that, as I have often mused on the same thing myself. Since cancer cells aren't some foreign pathogen, like bacteria or viruses, but rather our own cells gone arwy, that would imply there is something fundamentally "wrong" or "imperfect" in the way we're programmed. Of course, that's not really true, it's just that with advances in biomedicine, we're living longer than our genes have evolved for us. Cancer wasn't a problem 10,000 years ago, probably because nobody lived beyond 30! So how to "fix" the "problem". Well, we have to start at the beginning. One idea is that since the p53 tumor suppressor, for example, is mutated in over 50% of cancers, couldn't every new human be engineered with an extra copy of p53, designed to be expressed only in tumor cells in response to chemical X (some drug that one could take which would induce p53 expression). This might help reduce the lethality of many tumors, as your body would have the tools it needed right from birth to heal itself, if you so wished.
That's a good question -- I should have explained better. You can only use such an off-switch (or even kill-switch) if you FIRST had a purified sample of the cells to work with in culture. Then, through common cell culture/molecular biology techniques, it is possible to introduce genetic material that can behave how you want. Imagine a cell culture of stem cells, incorporating a DNA sequence to express a proliferation-halting protein in response to some chemical que. That is quite doable. Since a cancer originates in the person's body, it's not really possible to take it out, engineer it to incorporate the kill switch, and put it back. The stem cells are a defined cell culture that you CAN manipulate before introducing to the body. Only the so-called "gene therapy" can do that to cells already in the body, and that whole field is not having much luck lately.
...working with stem cells. There at two major practical problems. The first one is maintaining them -- you look at em wrong and the differentiate (BAM, no more stem cells, just some muscle, nerve, epidermal, etc. cells). The second is that BECAUSE they are so good at proliferating, they are prone to turn into tumors when introduced into the body. That isn't a new concern, it's just interesting that the research described here has actually observed that concurrently with alleviation of the targeted disease state (neurodegeneration in this case). I suspect the "fix" to this is already being developed, since the tissue they are destined to replaced in the brain is usually non-dividing tissue, it may be possible to engineer an 'off-switch' into the cells, whereby cell division could be permenantly disrupted (the tissue created by the stem cells would function as normal). This shouldn't be to hard, but does add to the effort already necessary to even generate patient-specific stem cells. More research!
Ya know, I was going for funny... not really intending to seriously offend any boy scouts. Its enlightening to hear that the national BSA policy is not representative of all boy scouts.
...since no man accepts leadership without the challenge of combat. Try and engineer social darwinism into elementary school and we'll end up with a bunch of pussies come high school.
...so, the question is, do people *honestly* doubt this? On average? Is this really that surprising? I would say the data is totally inconclusive as it stands now, but if it were possible to do a study on twins (n > 100 if possible), separated and allowed to grow and be nurtured independently, but with comparable education, the fatter ones, on average, will be dumber. This isn't something mean, it's a very clear statement of nietzsche's philosophies. To be fat is not 'natural'. It is very much a 20th century invention, and I think we'll find more and more that it will correlate with decreased cognitive function.
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I think it's plausable that the stones at the top were built at a later time than the rest of the pyramid -- perhaps even as repair work. Naturally, those structures take a long time to build, and perhaps they just changed their minds and switched to pouring the blocks at the top (on location so to speak). Or, perhaps a later dynasty decided to repair the tops (which if we look at the pyramids today, appear to be the most fragile), and used a different method.
I would argue that Barney is a celebrity. As such, he has no right to privacy WHEN HE PUTS HIMSELF IN THE SPOTLIGHT. Thus, it is fair game to make fun of him.
UH... Microsoft isn't exactly in the literature business either, but that hasn't stopped them from producing a series of books set in the Halo universe. I like Halo, so I gave the books a shot. Let's just say the books prove Microsoft doesn't give a shit about how poorly its IP gets used in other media. Therefore, the movie will happen, for good or for bad.
Yes, we are a fairly intelligent creature, the human. BUT WE ARE WAAAAAAY MORE FRIGGIN' INTELLIGENT SINCE we started using tools available to us. First the "pen" and paper. Those are the bare essentials, but we've come a long way since then. Give them the friggin' computers and be amazed at what they can do. Tools do matter.
SO many posts here about the curse of Mars or whatever, but you have to remember Surveyer was on the 10th year of its 2 year mission!! It exceeded its specs and performed beautifully. It's sad to lose an orbiter, but at this point, it shouldn't be considered a failed mission.
There may be some reason for concern here, but not the type of fear mongering the above summary would seem to suggest. There is potential for abuse by someone entering your phone number and connecting you to the advertiser by phone. But nowhere on the Click-to-Call service page does it allow any sort of caller-ID spoofing. You can't just use it as a VOIP portal and call anyone you want. In fact, Caller ID is blocked even to the advertiser you are connecting to. Just read the details, it's all there.
It had very clear full-duplex quality, was simple to set up and use, and was largely platform independent. I was in a long distance relationship in college at the time, and my girlfriend had a mac (I had a PC). PGPfone was the only VOIP solution in 1999 that allowed us to voice chat for free (remember, this is before unlimited minute cell phones). Absolutely amazing as a voice chat program, let alone all its privacy features.
This seems like a cool idea (obvious now, in retrospect). The green house effect is valid nearly anywhere you can create an enclosed environment. It's harder on Mars, since there isn't that much light to begin with to heat up your 1km radius greenhouse. But if ya got your solar collectors, etc., it could work.
...I mean, COME ON, what's the frigging difference between inappropriate video/images and some guy flipping through his Playboy magazine? Flying in an airplane has always been about unwritten rules of conduct, in addition to the encylopediae of written rules.
Seriously, if you want to learn anything when it comes to threads like these, tune your preferences to demote posts marked "funny". You'll be amazed.
...ok, that's harsh, but the reality is that, as his publicist put it, "Justin is movie star." Hmm... seems like he got way more exposure doing the mac ads. Movie star my ass.
I upgraded from the ORIGINAL G4 Titanium from 5 years ago. So ya, it's pretty nice. But to be perfectly honest, the "benchmarks" comparing my 5yr old powerbook to this new macbook pro would place the new one as being ~500-1000% faster. So... what I'm trying to say is that I don't really notice anything being that much faster :) It's nice to have the latest and greatest, but I probably wouldn't have upgraded if my old one hadn't pretty much died.
You're pretty much right on the ball. Intel chips WERE for pussies. IBM DID have powerful, efficient chips. When they no longer did (pretty much about the time the Powerbook G4 was becoming outdated and the G5 just couldn't be made efficient enough for a laptop), Apple switched to Intel. I hope they switch again if they find something better. To me, that's way better than being any one chipmaker's bitch. IBM's doing great making chips for all the major consoles. Apples doing great with the Intel chips. Ya gotta go where the best tech is for your business.
Sounds like the guy who posted the hack can get the gui to work (and so can you), but it's not on by default for legal reasons.
...is that you pr0n collection is potentially safe from scrutiny. Can you just imagine if those RIAA people could tell the media how music pirating and pornaholics go hand in hand?
It's well known that: "Average life expectancy before the 'health transition' of the modern era is thought to have varied between about 20 years and 35 years, depending upon particular circumstances." Indeed, life expectancy may actually have DROPPED below 30 during times when man became more capable of war on a large scale (bronze age) or possibly when the domestication of animals and plants introduced diseases. As recently as the Roman era, average life expectancy was 28. More importantly, we have a rich documented history of human diseases through time. Cancer shows up rarely until more recent times. So I'm not sure about your chimps, and infact the source I saw said chimps RARELY live past 40 in the wild, not "ROUTINELY". Who knows, I can imagine times in our history where you were more likely to live longer as a chimp than as a human.
It's really interesting you mention that, as I have often mused on the same thing myself. Since cancer cells aren't some foreign pathogen, like bacteria or viruses, but rather our own cells gone arwy, that would imply there is something fundamentally "wrong" or "imperfect" in the way we're programmed. Of course, that's not really true, it's just that with advances in biomedicine, we're living longer than our genes have evolved for us. Cancer wasn't a problem 10,000 years ago, probably because nobody lived beyond 30! So how to "fix" the "problem". Well, we have to start at the beginning. One idea is that since the p53 tumor suppressor, for example, is mutated in over 50% of cancers, couldn't every new human be engineered with an extra copy of p53, designed to be expressed only in tumor cells in response to chemical X (some drug that one could take which would induce p53 expression). This might help reduce the lethality of many tumors, as your body would have the tools it needed right from birth to heal itself, if you so wished.
That's a good question -- I should have explained better. You can only use such an off-switch (or even kill-switch) if you FIRST had a purified sample of the cells to work with in culture. Then, through common cell culture/molecular biology techniques, it is possible to introduce genetic material that can behave how you want. Imagine a cell culture of stem cells, incorporating a DNA sequence to express a proliferation-halting protein in response to some chemical que. That is quite doable. Since a cancer originates in the person's body, it's not really possible to take it out, engineer it to incorporate the kill switch, and put it back. The stem cells are a defined cell culture that you CAN manipulate before introducing to the body. Only the so-called "gene therapy" can do that to cells already in the body, and that whole field is not having much luck lately.
...working with stem cells. There at two major practical problems. The first one is maintaining them -- you look at em wrong and the differentiate (BAM, no more stem cells, just some muscle, nerve, epidermal, etc. cells). The second is that BECAUSE they are so good at proliferating, they are prone to turn into tumors when introduced into the body. That isn't a new concern, it's just interesting that the research described here has actually observed that concurrently with alleviation of the targeted disease state (neurodegeneration in this case). I suspect the "fix" to this is already being developed, since the tissue they are destined to replaced in the brain is usually non-dividing tissue, it may be possible to engineer an 'off-switch' into the cells, whereby cell division could be permenantly disrupted (the tissue created by the stem cells would function as normal). This shouldn't be to hard, but does add to the effort already necessary to even generate patient-specific stem cells. More research!
Ya know, I was going for funny... not really intending to seriously offend any boy scouts. Its enlightening to hear that the national BSA policy is not representative of all boy scouts.
...is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?
...with th de facto homophobia badge they're forced to wear.
FFS! IT's PETER JACKSON for cryin out loud! Let the man WORK!
...since no man accepts leadership without the challenge of combat. Try and engineer social darwinism into elementary school and we'll end up with a bunch of pussies come high school.
...so, the question is, do people *honestly* doubt this? On average? Is this really that surprising? I would say the data is totally inconclusive as it stands now, but if it were possible to do a study on twins (n > 100 if possible), separated and allowed to grow and be nurtured independently, but with comparable education, the fatter ones, on average, will be dumber. This isn't something mean, it's a very clear statement of nietzsche's philosophies. To be fat is not 'natural'. It is very much a 20th century invention, and I think we'll find more and more that it will correlate with decreased cognitive function.