Comment Re:Violent? (Score 5, Informative) 205
Of course I only read the summary, but why use the word violent? It sounds like this has nothing to do with violence but fast paced complex spatial reaction.
Because
Of course I only read the summary, but why use the word violent? It sounds like this has nothing to do with violence but fast paced complex spatial reaction.
Because
Funny how some forms of discrimination are allowed, but not based on genetic tests.. OH WAIT, IT IS ALLOWED, they can examine your records, determine tests showed genetic predisposition, deny coverage.
No, that is not allowed, unless GINA completely fails to do what essentially every description of the law describes it as doing.
As the genome gets further and further mapped, expect more and more people to be "uninsurable at any price".
Discrimination based on genetics is already outlawed by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
The presence of this deletion in many Indian populations with varied geographical and ancestral backgrounds raises the question of how geographically widespread it is outside India. We therefore also analyzed 63 world population samples, comprising 2,085 indigenous individuals from 26 countries including all five continents. The 25-bp deletion was observed in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia, (all heterozygotes) but was absent from other samples. Thus, the deletion is a common variant in individuals from South Asia, present in Southeast Asia, but undetectable elsewhere (Fig. 3 and Supplementary Table 5 online).
The supplementary materials give the sample sizes for each of the ethnic groups that were sampled and the number of deletion carriers. Most of the individual samples are small, but in the aggregate they do strongly suggest that the deletion is practically non-existent outside of South Asia and a few neighboring areas.
This does raise the question of how the media got this 1% prevalence estimate, unless I completely missed it in the article. In general, media outlets don't report the contents of peer-reviewed articles, they report the contents of press releases that accompany (or precede) the articles.
This is why anecdotes are useless.
They are not! I always take anecdotes seriously and I'm doing quite well, thank you very much.
Oh, and use NoScript!
Another simple change is to set dom.disable_window_open_feature.location to true. That should make it pretty obvious when a popup comes from source different than what it's claiming.
What, how does this go? Infidel! Terrorist! Am not. Are so!
Is that any worse than most of the other online discussion of Israeli/Palestinian conflicts?
are kramer, george and jerry gonna come and fix the pc issues that my close circle is gonna have afterwards ?
No, Kramer will be busy filming another commercial in which he gives his opinion of the black Macbook.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.