There is 40 percent chance that once you die after this product gives you cancer, you will turn into a zombie. So please weigh the risks.
A zombie with beautiful skin... what's not to like?
The fun question is how the mechanisms that've evolved to make this happen actually work. Figuring that out's going to keep researchers occupied for the next century or two.
This is just me speculating, but you may have answered the question already:
... the least resilient male offspring
Obviously is offspring is less resilient, no special mechanism is necessarily needed. Just the mother being under stress herself (nutrition) may cause the less resilient to "not pull through" in the womb. It is my opinion that the male is the less resilient of the two sexes in any case, illustrated by their lower life expectancy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Gender_differences).
Some of the genes we have in our bodies have copies living in other species, other genera. Some of them are 100 million years old. The genes as a whole are the selfish ones vis a vis the organisms as a whole. They survive. We don't.
Getting back to chickens and eggs, part of the chicken I ate last night is now living on inside me, where I am a different species. So I'd say it was the chicken's animal body that was the selfish one, I bet the genes are digested by now.
I noticed that the title of the summary only had two of the three names. What, Kim Jong Fun not sounding female enough for the New Improved Slashdot?
France did not give the US the Statue of Liberty just because they thought the US was a bunch of really nice guys.
As observed by someone else, hollowness of said statue says a lot about the French sense of irony.
Quip at bottom of page:
Logic is the chastity belt of the mind!
For us southern hemispherians, facing panels south won't do us much good....
On a more serious note: It looks like motorized sun-tracking mounts for panels can be quite expensive, while a fixed mount can be sub-optimal.
So how about a hybrid mount? I'm thinking of a fixed mount with a number of predetermined positions that need to be adjusted manually (e.g. fixed with a bolt/split pin/similar). Coupled with this is an algorithm that calculates the optimal position for the day (or more realistically, for the week) and sends the homeowner to the roof to make the adjustment if necessary. Factors that such an algorithm would need to take into account would differ from home to home and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so it should be customizable to each individual case - e.g.:
I think this thread is a good demonstration why I do not like the English language's deviation from how other Germanic languages write a single word for a single idea. Hint: the "science" part in "science fiction" is simply an adjective that describes the noun "fiction". It is the noun that is the important part.
OK, I won't make the mistake again of asking which part of "science fiction" don't you understand....
I want to chip in about the general topic of standards and methodologies. Please remember that one isn't (necessarily) better than the other - they are all simply tools working towards a goal and you use whatever tool works best in your circumstances. Now, your GOAL is the important thing: communicating between different members of the company (communication over space) and remembering (communication over time) - which sometimes is important even if you are one person. Using a formal standard to do this should accomplish several things:
Personally, I do favour a more hands-off approach. Let people figure out their own future, as (IMHO) it seems that western aid often brings with it a perpetual dependence on that aid.
On the other hand, from some of your previous posts I gather that you personally are an emigrant from China to a large western state. A lot of emigration from "poor countries" to western countries happens because people are not happy with the way those countries (the people in it) survive, they want to "survive" somewhat "better". "Better" being in part defined by the standard of living such aid seems to suggest. (Because there are also some "worse" aspects to western culture in comparison to what is left behind.) I guess your opinion would carry more weight if you were still living and working in China. Just saying.
Were the government a force for good, I'd be pacified, but since they have proven to be in the service of big syndicate, I'm worried.
That's the problem of this post-modernist world. Your definition of "good" does not coincide with the next guy's definition of "good".
A man has to get there and do all the hardwork himself.
Pity they didn't send Bruce Willis with. What with all his previous experience. Would have been a win-win.
Big data knows who you voted for. Big data knows what kind of hamburger you get from McDonalds. Big data knows what fragrance your girlfriend/wife wears.
THAT IS THE POINT OF BIG DATA.
Big data takes shit loads of seemingly unrelated bits of information that people foolishly air in public, cross-references it, then uses it to make correlation based predictions.
I haven't voted in quite a number of years.
I don't eat fast food.
I don't have a girlfriend/wife.
The best that Big Data (Facebook) was able to do with that last bit of information (which I explicitly filled in) was to serve up ads for 2 or 3 recurring online dating sites. I don't do online dating (any more), because big data seems to be quite inept at matching me up with someone with the same views on politics and health as me. Let's not even get started on religion, education, sense of humour.....
I want ads that I actually want to click on!
I want that perfect match as promised!
And where's my flying car?
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
