I got to see this when I was in London. It's beyond cool to be able to see the stone in person.
Do you guys do student exchanges? My school used to do it, but the US students' German was all but non-existent.
Tarquinius? What'd he write, I don't remember him? (Ovid is the worst roman author though)
Oh god, I know that feeling! Luckily most of my friends have that problem, too.That being said, I often find it difficult to explain certain concepts in Russian in real-life conversations since I mean to use an on-point English phrase to describe it, then stumble as I realize that I can't and spends seconds trying to find the appropriate Russian phrasing, which almost always comes out odd because I apply English structure and lexical equivalents to Russian.
why is this mutiny so famous? It's a funny story (how everyone seemed to find that tiny island!), but at first glance I thought this had something to do with Darwin's ship (which for some reason I thought was the Bounty, not as I just looked up the Beagle.
There's probably a few in the east, or places that will soon be demolished for open pit coal mining. That said, all I see on wikipedia are troop exercise places.A ghost town in Germany (if there are even any; I'm just wildguessing).
Wow, this has been a perfect week. I'm basically all-around happy :)
Firefox alll the way. Well, chrome with some shady VPN for netflix, but that's kaputt now so I haven't used that a while. I'm not a fan of giving google more power than it already has - but the main draws for firefox is still the modularity of the thing.
Every guy I know is probably blasé about shooting zombies, because videogames.Wow. Jesus. Haven't seen someone as freaked out from a video game in a really long while. Oddly enough, I've only seen girls in such a state so far. Are guys too masculine/macho to show their fear and/or post it online?
Opposite of street cred - nerd cred?
Sieben, fünf, drei - Rom schlüpft aus dem Ei! [Seven, five, three, rome hatches - it's supposed to rhyme] A cutelittle rhyme we learned in latin class to remember this date by :)
It's scheduled in a few european countries. I'm in Germany. Uk, Denmark are also restricted.
Can't get it without a prescription here. Maybe I'll have one soon!
Authoritarian? The reason it's freely available in the US is because they label it as a supplement. Which, considering that it doesn't have any value as such, isn't good either. The risks of long-term usage aren't yet quite clear (as are the benefits). I'm all for legalising more stuff, and we could probably do it for melatonin, but there's a lot of things that would be less controversial :P
I want something like this as a poster now. Beautiful shot! Just saw the ISS fly over a few days ago and showed it to my flatmates, they were amazed.
The telegram wasn't written by Meursault, though.
It's my filler series! Whenever I've finished a book before choosing a new one, I'll read malazan until I find something else. Bit of a shit choice in retrospect, seeing as how it takes ages to get back into the myriad characters, but the series is pretty awesome.
I'd feed the roommate to the scorpion. No need for animal violence :PFeed the scorpion to the roommate and profit.
Crazy, though, that every school has an AED. My school didn't. Not that "newfangled" tech was ever a big priority for them.
cough kleinbl00
Which, again, nothing to do with the implant being rejected. The bones being eroded by the metal why we have metal-on-metal hip replacements now. Cool, how do you test that? The link to the paper works for me. It's basically about how a coat makes a titanium rod bond better with bone (helping it heal fast). So, very much a thing: Even after 28 days, no reaction. Bacteria becoming resistent to antibiotics faster than we create them has nothing to do with developing materials that don't trigger the immune system. You seem to think that we will never be able to develop something that makes our bodies accept implants. Apparently, the immune system is so great at sniffing out foreign substances that we will never be able to trick it. Never is a very bold claim to make. One that isn't supported by the evidence.but the bone around it had impacted and eroded so fiercely that one leg was 3/4" shorter than the other.
I built the testers to simulate ten years of normal wear on implantable shock/pace leads. And I broke them.
"All implants healed uneventfully without wound infection, implant loosening or chronic adverse reaction during the whole course of the experiment. In particular, no abundant lymphocyte or granuloclyte infiltration and no appearance of multinucleated giant cells (apart from osteoclasts) has been observed at any time."
that side is not progressive.
I was talking about wireless transmission making wires unnecessary, which means we don't need to break the skin. Today's bandwidth isn't good enough, but that in five years might be enough for, I dunno, real-time single-cell recordings or somesuch.
Eh, if we're talking implanting stupid shit into yourself, most people might be satisfied with it lasting only a few weeks. Hip replacements don't fail because the immune system kills them, though. They're worse at wear and tear than original bones. Pacemakers have to be swapped because battery. Nothing to do with their compatibility. For pacemakers, the original leads might stay in forever. Bluetooth is a bad example because that's just as non-interactive as the others. A memory brain implant that connects to actual nerves, maybe. Bluetooth would just be another box. Yeah, but I'm saying that progress is inevitable, and if we can have a 256-pixel grid, we can get up to and beyond original eyesight. Nothing to do with wishing, it already works. Example. So yeah - if you want to put in an implant that is only going to last a couple weeks, hip hip hooray.
They have a design life of about 20 years. My grandfather went through two. Atrial cardioverters? 10 years. Ventricular cardioverters? 6-8 years. That's the calculus: "Will you be dead by the time this thing fails?"
And these are simple, mechanical things. A saline sack or a titanium jack are doing a lot less than, say, bluetooth.
And so that we're absolutely lucid, that blind man would much rather have your eyes than a 256-pixel light-dark grid, but he'd rather have the grid than nothing.
Wishing doesn't make it so.
but that's why we're working on manufacturing donor organs with the recipient's own genetic code, those should in theory not be rejected, because they actually share all biomarkers (which donated kidneys never do), and they don't come with their own immune cells to sensitivize your immune system.
Obiously if you had nanotech you wouldn't go for a fucking chrome arm. It does deal with the problem of surgeries and the open wound thing, and how old implants may become out-of-date pretty fast. It replaces a surgical procedure with something more akin to upgrading your smartphone. The interesting point about the brain sensor article wasn't the melting away - it was that there was no immunoresponse. It'd probably happen if you waited a bit longer, but we do have materials that don't inflame immediately. Which shows that there's still progress to be made. I'm also surprised that you claim "any implant site is subject to opportunistic infection and everything else has a much faster evolutionary cycle.". What about hip implants? That's a fairly huge metal thing in your thigh. What about cochlear implants? (Or breast implants) They stay in your body, sometimes for your whole life. Saying that we do not have useful implants is just plain wrong, we do, and they are routinely used. And they improve people's lives. They might not make people better at something they did before (except maybe breast implants?), but I doubt it's gonna stay that way for long. In fact, runners with prosthetic legs can already be faster than normal runners (which is just a narrow employ of legs, though, so in my opinion that doesn't count). We can avoid the immune response on two ways: Suppressing the immune system, which is probably a bad idea. The other idea is, of course, to avoid drawing the immune system's response altogether. And we can already do that, by coating it with biocompatible materials like collagen or PEG. The problem is to keep the body from reacting with the implant itself.
It doesn't have 4849ß buttons. It's trash Also it doesn't even blink. pfffffft
oh, I agree about body mods. Borderline suicidal, in my view. In my eyes, not really transhumanism, as that's about "freeing" people from natural constraints, not showing off you hot new 'ware. It's not a technology that's available yet. What those guys do is basically fancy piercings.
It uses Monte Carlo tree search. That's in Monaco, so obviously Europe gets the credits. YUROP
I think I see where you're coming from. If something isn't really necessary for us to do anymore, it becomes a luxury and as such finding it immoral becomes much easier due to us not really suffering without it. I don't lose anything by giving up my slaves, we have machines for that. Right? In my opinion, that misses a crucial point: Where do innovations come from? What caused the industrial revolution? There's an argument to be made that greater freedoms in the UK after the abolition of the monarchy made the crucial inventions possible - and worthwhile. We can't just say that slavery went out of mode because of the industrial revolution, because that revolution was in turn powered by improvements in public life. People put their life on the line, and they improved their lives - and the lives of countless others. History doesn't bear this out. Societies where this begins to happen inevitably crumble long before this happens, or get abandoned, or changed. See the french revolution. See the potato famine in Ireland. People won't take shit lying down. Rather than society being shaped by progress, it is society that is shaping progress - we improve upon things we consider important. If animals don't have to die anymore because of lab-grown meat, that's because we wanted to invent that alternative! Because of societal pressure to stop killing animals. The same is true of all other moral changes. There's always a group that has been advocating it beforehand, and they work to convice other people that their view has merit, and eventually people come around. If it didn't, if we needed to be starved, worked to death, so that society could continue, our social structures and beliefs would shift until those things became commonplace, accepted, and rationalized.