Although RBCs don't have any DNA on-board, just about every other cell does - so it's a question of quality if you want to resurrect a clone. But why? He's anatomically a modern human. If you were going to clone him why not yourself?;)
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is 392 parts per *million*. 0.00039%, if you will. If increasing that to 0.0005% will destroy the earth through global warming, the earth would have destroyed itself through seasonal variations let alone variations over millennia long ago...
Humans contribute about 3% of the CO2 output per annum, the rest of it is from living processes. Water vapour controls the majority of the global warming effect (~97%) which is why people who are sceptical about the AGW 'consensus' think that it's arse backwards CO2 affects water vapour and cloud formation. It makes more sense that changes in evaporation from solar sources lead the worlds largest reservoir of CO2, the oceans, to let more CO2 escape.
It's funny that the summary mentions solar decreases aren't matching global warming, because global temperatures have been declining recently too, supporting the idea that the sun is in control.
Similarly crappy upsampling drivers for example those found in old creative audigy cards degrade the signal, which could be a source of confusion. Has anyone also ever considered that 60 people isn't enough to confirm this; perhaps some people can detect higher freqencies than others, just like some people see TVs flickering at 60hz and others don't. The paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2332838 talks about neurons with base frequences up to 75khz, a fair bit above 24 khz that is represented by 48 khz sampling rates.
Could it be that the universe's entire playing field is just stuffed with warped areas here and there for no reason other than that there's no reason it should be smooth either, and galaxies form and move around these areas? I suppose if those underlying distortions themselves can move around then whether it's a form of matter or not might be moot. Any astrophysicists care to explain?
I think that the discussion here might get a bit two dimensional; mature slashdotters who use the internet a lot and know it's beneficial arguing against a woman who black-boxes the internet by presuming that badass teens who use the internet in ways she can't imagine are affected by it, somehow, and thus it serves as the reason for any malady she can think of since she has no causation or even much correlation in her arguments.
For those of us with partners, friends and family and not in their teens, it's pretty obvious that while us nerds delve fully into the fringes technology which has been developing rapidly, everyone else is using technology the same way. From the invention of the telephone to the mobile, the main reason people are on the net is to talk to one another - which isn't a sea change at all, since people always do it face to face too. And now people are using it as their diary, and encyclopedia. Not game changers either, for the brain. Just quicker.
I think xkcd 973 is appropriate. Teens are badass because they're teens. Not because of MTV or the Tubes.
I am an environmental scientist in Australia. A widely employed and growing trend is to take the solids from waste water treatment plants and dump them on farmland with minimal processing. Currently the theory is that although these fertilizers are high in metals, they won't become quite as bioavailable because plants won't take them up readily.
There's research into the resulting quality of food, but not as much as you might expect. We'll have to wait and see pretty much.
If in 81% of the US economy the money stays in the US, that's great, even though the rest goes overseas. Unless... there aren't enough exports within that 81% to match the 19% of cash going overseas, in which case, the amount of money in the US decreases.
So. My question is, can the US just print more money until everyone is sick of selling things in the US for monopoly money and they invert their economies and no longer sell to the US? Because then there will be no outsourcing from the ensuing market crash, since it will no longer be cheaper to outsource anymore, and the process will reverse. You can see the pie chart in TFA more clearly here http://globaleconomyfinancialmarkets.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-you-buy-made-in-china-most-of-your.html.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer. All this will do is allow chrome to compete against firefox even more and once they reach a dominant market position they will have the power to invent ads that cannot be stopped. Yes, root for the underdog, as long as it stays the underdog.
In reality, all crops are genetically engineered. The difference is the methods involved, where people artificially interfere with breeding and natural selection by means of selecting crops themselves or directly cut and paste genes to that effect. Genetic engineering has the potential to be a second green revolution, but the current regulatory climate and stigma reduce its development to multinationals with weak competition, that doesn't necessarily produce the best results. The real environmental effects are zero versus a conventional crop in any case - any farmed crop is completely unnatural and environmentally disruptive.
Why is this tagged nukem? Lots of Iranians are extremely hot, like princess Princess Jasmine from Aladdin - they are largely Persian. We have one at our lab and she says about 70% of Iranians hate their government but are being oppressed (people disappearing in the middle of the night kind of thing). They need liberating more than Iraq did (though that's not too hard) and they probably would WELCOME a liberation instead of blowing up! In fact that's what they're scared of most - not being liberated by America but being blown up by America because their government is an asshole.
I think this is a lesson in buying an extended warranty if the manufacturer warranty isn't long enough. Otherwise you're gambling - those things see a lot of use and get very hot, especially if you're buying the launch model without the refinements of newer ones. I don't know if I can blame Sony when they are offering a fair price repair alternative - repairs aren't free! It's simple economics - what does the consumer want? The risk of having to repair at cost or buying a new (perhaps improved) one, or insurance against paying for repair when they are buying a new and complex technology. When the next generation comes, people will be more likely to get one I'm sure.
LEDs die by fading over time, they don't just go kaput. Over the 19 years, the brightness is sure to fade, the question is by how much until they determine that it needs replacing?
Depending on the genetics of the neuron, which is different for neurons in functionally different parts of the brain, it will have a different output combinations to the dendrites for any given frequency and signal strength input from the axon. You can't image this because it's not entirely dependent on the connection structure, it's dependent on proteins and structures such as the cytoskelleton within the cell. These features are also moulded by experience. A brain cannot thus be copied by mere imaging. There is also an external chemistry that has an effect, though these are temporary and responsible for emotional changes and so on.
Blocking emails from non-western countries? I don't really get mail I want from outside Australia/New Zealand, other than a few friends that are easy to whitelist. So after that tracing the source of spam within our borders and shutting them down would make sense.
But this is exactly what I thought too! The rich know that eventually the USD will have to be devalued; this played a large part in destroying the Icelandic finance sector which expected that devaluation to occur in an immediate crash.
Thanks mate. I have never laughed as hard or as much as I have playing Tribes 1 Annhilation though. That was the best mod ever... proper base building, character classes, and all in a mad fast fps. Just unreal.
It means National adopted a lot of Labour's policies to get votes. I don't think National or more importantly Act would have supported something like this. But I still hope that National will do better than Labour in times to come.
It's more of an Australia run by socialists, though with the current parties recently put in power there's hope for some good change in NZ by National while you Australia will no doubt suffer more tyranny from Labour.
I think the real problem here is that NZ lacks a decent constitution, it has none. More cause for becoming a republic.
The largest unsharded MMORPG - EVE-Online, could have been a much better choice to implement a socializing system. Eve has been talking about having space stations where people can actually get out of their ships and walk around, do buisness. I would imagine a situation where "Home" is actually situated on populated planets and in addition to whatever BS sony fills home with currently there could be a system of opening businesses to trade with EVE pilots, and for those who actually have subscriptions to EVE to leave planets etc. Then it would be huge.
As a customer of iinet, I know their service rocks. I also know that the largest plan (which I have) is 65GB on peak, 65 GB offpeak at 120AUD which is a disincentive to seeding (and thats the best value, other plans are nearly as costly but have much less bandwidth). What baffels me is that they go after the ISP all Aussie nerds prefer, risking their wrath, when clearly other countries with much larger "unlimited" caps are still going strong.
No the only reason this happens is because there is a federal reserve which not only has a monopoly on money and interest rates, it can print money not backed by any value like gold. What is sinking the world economy is the fear that US dollars, created out of thin air by the government, are worth nothing. Which is true. This wouldn't happen in a true market economy because nobody would fuck themselves over with massive risks in such a way and be able to get away with it. And again, the investment banks didn't commit fraud, if there wasn't a bubble and this was real growth, their gearing would have provided them with the money in the end.
Think about it, what kicked off the housing bubble? It was democratic policy made to make housing more accessible, not the market. Bubbles like the internet happned because there was actually a huge amount of real growth in the computer industry that people expected would follow onto the internet. The housing boom was only caused because of the government making interest rates stupidly low and making it easy to give them out to low income earners by POLICY (no sane bank would do this - and they hadnt until then). This then had a feedback effect on housing construction - a market distortion - and the banks seeing that treasury money was reliably inflating the buble for years on end put themselves in high risk leveraging. The market would have run out of money to loan well before things got out of hand if it weren't for the retarded function of the treasury anyway.
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Although RBCs don't have any DNA on-board, just about every other cell does - so it's a question of quality if you want to resurrect a clone. But why? He's anatomically a modern human. If you were going to clone him why not yourself? ;)
The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is 392 parts per *million*. 0.00039%, if you will. If increasing that to 0.0005% will destroy the earth through global warming, the earth would have destroyed itself through seasonal variations let alone variations over millennia long ago...
Humans contribute about 3% of the CO2 output per annum, the rest of it is from living processes. Water vapour controls the majority of the global warming effect (~97%) which is why people who are sceptical about the AGW 'consensus' think that it's arse backwards CO2 affects water vapour and cloud formation. It makes more sense that changes in evaporation from solar sources lead the worlds largest reservoir of CO2, the oceans, to let more CO2 escape.
It's funny that the summary mentions solar decreases aren't matching global warming, because global temperatures have been declining recently too, supporting the idea that the sun is in control.
Similarly crappy upsampling drivers for example those found in old creative audigy cards degrade the signal, which could be a source of confusion. Has anyone also ever considered that 60 people isn't enough to confirm this; perhaps some people can detect higher freqencies than others, just like some people see TVs flickering at 60hz and others don't. The paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2332838 talks about neurons with base frequences up to 75khz, a fair bit above 24 khz that is represented by 48 khz sampling rates.
Could it be that the universe's entire playing field is just stuffed with warped areas here and there for no reason other than that there's no reason it should be smooth either, and galaxies form and move around these areas? I suppose if those underlying distortions themselves can move around then whether it's a form of matter or not might be moot. Any astrophysicists care to explain?
I want to believe in extreme possiblities
I think that the discussion here might get a bit two dimensional; mature slashdotters who use the internet a lot and know it's beneficial arguing against a woman who black-boxes the internet by presuming that badass teens who use the internet in ways she can't imagine are affected by it, somehow, and thus it serves as the reason for any malady she can think of since she has no causation or even much correlation in her arguments.
For those of us with partners, friends and family and not in their teens, it's pretty obvious that while us nerds delve fully into the fringes technology which has been developing rapidly, everyone else is using technology the same way. From the invention of the telephone to the mobile, the main reason people are on the net is to talk to one another - which isn't a sea change at all, since people always do it face to face too. And now people are using it as their diary, and encyclopedia. Not game changers either, for the brain. Just quicker.
I think xkcd 973 is appropriate. Teens are badass because they're teens. Not because of MTV or the Tubes.
I am an environmental scientist in Australia. A widely employed and growing trend is to take the solids from waste water treatment plants and dump them on farmland with minimal processing. Currently the theory is that although these fertilizers are high in metals, they won't become quite as bioavailable because plants won't take them up readily.
There's research into the resulting quality of food, but not as much as you might expect. We'll have to wait and see pretty much.
If in 81% of the US economy the money stays in the US, that's great, even though the rest goes overseas. Unless... there aren't enough exports within that 81% to match the 19% of cash going overseas, in which case, the amount of money in the US decreases. So. My question is, can the US just print more money until everyone is sick of selling things in the US for monopoly money and they invert their economies and no longer sell to the US? Because then there will be no outsourcing from the ensuing market crash, since it will no longer be cheaper to outsource anymore, and the process will reverse. You can see the pie chart in TFA more clearly here http://globaleconomyfinancialmarkets.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-you-buy-made-in-china-most-of-your.html.
...absurdly high water content, some protein... hmm how about we use them to fertilize the desert?
Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer. All this will do is allow chrome to compete against firefox even more and once they reach a dominant market position they will have the power to invent ads that cannot be stopped. Yes, root for the underdog, as long as it stays the underdog.
manufacturers around the world fear a race to the top!
In reality, all crops are genetically engineered. The difference is the methods involved, where people artificially interfere with breeding and natural selection by means of selecting crops themselves or directly cut and paste genes to that effect. Genetic engineering has the potential to be a second green revolution, but the current regulatory climate and stigma reduce its development to multinationals with weak competition, that doesn't necessarily produce the best results. The real environmental effects are zero versus a conventional crop in any case - any farmed crop is completely unnatural and environmentally disruptive.
Why is this tagged nukem? Lots of Iranians are extremely hot, like princess Princess Jasmine from Aladdin - they are largely Persian. We have one at our lab and she says about 70% of Iranians hate their government but are being oppressed (people disappearing in the middle of the night kind of thing). They need liberating more than Iraq did (though that's not too hard) and they probably would WELCOME a liberation instead of blowing up! In fact that's what they're scared of most - not being liberated by America but being blown up by America because their government is an asshole.
I think this is a lesson in buying an extended warranty if the manufacturer warranty isn't long enough. Otherwise you're gambling - those things see a lot of use and get very hot, especially if you're buying the launch model without the refinements of newer ones. I don't know if I can blame Sony when they are offering a fair price repair alternative - repairs aren't free! It's simple economics - what does the consumer want? The risk of having to repair at cost or buying a new (perhaps improved) one, or insurance against paying for repair when they are buying a new and complex technology. When the next generation comes, people will be more likely to get one I'm sure.
LEDs die by fading over time, they don't just go kaput. Over the 19 years, the brightness is sure to fade, the question is by how much until they determine that it needs replacing?
Depending on the genetics of the neuron, which is different for neurons in functionally different parts of the brain, it will have a different output combinations to the dendrites for any given frequency and signal strength input from the axon. You can't image this because it's not entirely dependent on the connection structure, it's dependent on proteins and structures such as the cytoskelleton within the cell. These features are also moulded by experience. A brain cannot thus be copied by mere imaging. There is also an external chemistry that has an effect, though these are temporary and responsible for emotional changes and so on.
Blocking emails from non-western countries? I don't really get mail I want from outside Australia/New Zealand, other than a few friends that are easy to whitelist. So after that tracing the source of spam within our borders and shutting them down would make sense.
But this is exactly what I thought too! The rich know that eventually the USD will have to be devalued; this played a large part in destroying the Icelandic finance sector which expected that devaluation to occur in an immediate crash.
So now is probably the best time to buy!
Thanks mate. I have never laughed as hard or as much as I have playing Tribes 1 Annhilation though. That was the best mod ever... proper base building, character classes, and all in a mad fast fps. Just unreal.
It means National adopted a lot of Labour's policies to get votes. I don't think National or more importantly Act would have supported something like this. But I still hope that National will do better than Labour in times to come.
It's more of an Australia run by socialists, though with the current parties recently put in power there's hope for some good change in NZ by National while you Australia will no doubt suffer more tyranny from Labour.
I think the real problem here is that NZ lacks a decent constitution, it has none. More cause for becoming a republic.
The largest unsharded MMORPG - EVE-Online, could have been a much better choice to implement a socializing system. Eve has been talking about having space stations where people can actually get out of their ships and walk around, do buisness. I would imagine a situation where "Home" is actually situated on populated planets and in addition to whatever BS sony fills home with currently there could be a system of opening businesses to trade with EVE pilots, and for those who actually have subscriptions to EVE to leave planets etc. Then it would be huge.
As a customer of iinet, I know their service rocks. I also know that the largest plan (which I have) is 65GB on peak, 65 GB offpeak at 120AUD which is a disincentive to seeding (and thats the best value, other plans are nearly as costly but have much less bandwidth). What baffels me is that they go after the ISP all Aussie nerds prefer, risking their wrath, when clearly other countries with much larger "unlimited" caps are still going strong.
Which raises a good point - why is Q the only character that takes up two letters to type, since you 'can't' use it without U?
No the only reason this happens is because there is a federal reserve which not only has a monopoly on money and interest rates, it can print money not backed by any value like gold. What is sinking the world economy is the fear that US dollars, created out of thin air by the government, are worth nothing. Which is true. This wouldn't happen in a true market economy because nobody would fuck themselves over with massive risks in such a way and be able to get away with it. And again, the investment banks didn't commit fraud, if there wasn't a bubble and this was real growth, their gearing would have provided them with the money in the end. Think about it, what kicked off the housing bubble? It was democratic policy made to make housing more accessible, not the market. Bubbles like the internet happned because there was actually a huge amount of real growth in the computer industry that people expected would follow onto the internet. The housing boom was only caused because of the government making interest rates stupidly low and making it easy to give them out to low income earners by POLICY (no sane bank would do this - and they hadnt until then). This then had a feedback effect on housing construction - a market distortion - and the banks seeing that treasury money was reliably inflating the buble for years on end put themselves in high risk leveraging. The market would have run out of money to loan well before things got out of hand if it weren't for the retarded function of the treasury anyway.