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I researched the feasibility of N2O in the heavy machinery operator/transportation sector. He was doing fine until he went unconscious and hit a tree. edit - oh yeah when he woke up his bra was unhooked, something to keep in mind

I'm not sure about this but it sounds like it alters the partial pressures by adding -Cl but not the positive ion. Hence the use of the word "buffer". Or it may be that +Li and/or -Cl crosses the membrane but the other ions do not. This is more of a poisoning than a buffering though.

I hesitate to entertain this thread, but could someone please define "precum".

I'm not saying it isn't flawed. I think the author makes hypothesis that are not entirely accurate. It is a paradigm, however (the origins of scientific advancement are not evaluated at the release of each edition of a text book). It is a revelation that has had significant impact on not only science but . . . Many approaches are taken, there are several forks in mankinds progress on the issue. 1950's was the decade of the Cape Cod and the Ranch home. Virtue is outside the cities. (yeah weird, I know) Wholewheat bread, juicers, lead paint. Ever hear "If I can't pronounce it, don't want in my ____." 1960's was the decade of the Granola Hippy. This movement eventually gave rise to the "Health Food Store". Organic foods now are finding their way into grocery stores. I personally have a choice between either organic or ordinary versions of most products I buy. Ted Kaczynski, AKA The Unibomber, lived in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no electricity, and fashion bombs out of pine cones, mason jars and a piece of old mahogany. Not the best example, but there are still people out there in the woods -- we just don't ever hear from them. Freedom fighters, mountain men. He probably went crazy trying to figure out where the vitamins were in the State Park! --- The anti-paradigm (OK maybe you guys are bias a little? Don't want to kick off an old Dog?) is the Sci-Fi future concept that allowed them to slip plastics by us. Plastics would ultimately take over the 1970's. JFK and NASA are the clinchers here. Sci-Fi actually delivered on many of it's promises. --- I had this girlfriend who was a lesbian and a vegetarian. People would admire her long nails. When asked, she would say "it's because I don't eat meat". I go to the pet store. I ask the lady "do you carry any vegetarian cat food?" She says "cats can only digest meat. If they don't have it, they will die." I'm not making this up! --- It' more than just braces and a tooth brush we are talking about. Club feet and cleft lip. If I were to ask you what are the origins of these -- what causes it? Meat?

I had a bunch of gerbils some years ago. Vocally gerbils can only squeek, which they do only as juveniles. They can beat their feet on the ground and they do this to warn others of danger. When one gerbil beats his feet they all run for cover. The beat pattern and intensity is very important. Sometimes it is means something else like "let's go back out". At night they would "chatter", gnawing and beating their feet, like the Irish or the Spanish (or the Irish and the Spanish). What they were saying was not philosophical or of interdependancy (parent/child) or argumentative or all that informative -- it is more of a union of workers or a party with seporate groups, each having its own leader. It's almost as if they have a music going on in their heads.

When you say "verbalize" you are drawing a distinction distinguish between blurting out what ever is on ones mind, and statements that are logically structured -- as in linguistics. Some languages are terse; express single thought words. The more phonetic capability, the shorter expression becomes. Some animals simply lack the phonetic ability required for language as a sum of phonetics. Other animals lack the ability or desire to express themselves in an abstract mannor. Blue-jays will call their offspring when they find food. They teach their young to find food in this way. "Get over here" is abstract. Not very abstract. "Soul" is a word. It is less abstract than you think. It's you. Confuss this and it become a complication. We don't usually make note of our fleeting existence every time we express "you" or "me". So if I say "soul be comming here" that is the same thing. Combination of phonetics into words is complicated but this is a product of necessity in part.

I was reading a message-of-the-day calender: it said when a location comes up for conservation, intrest in development for the location rises even when there were no development plans. I think both development of the infrastructure and preservation are important. Planned or created habitates can serve two functions. I don't know how much I'd say I value it because there is so little of it left. What is left is not very valueable or even if it is diverse. Much of what is "preserved" is undevelopable landscape, ie mountains, very cold climates. Farmable land naturally is rich in biomass. We now have the ability to view satellite images of the earth. We have the ability to travel to remote locations within a day or two. We have the ability to communicate and distribute information globally. We have the knowledge of Science to guide our decisions. None of this was possible less than a century ago. It is incredibly frustrating to now need to "remove the plank from one's own eye before the splinter in our brothers" when this should have been done. We are saddling our children up our parents problems. The leading nations of the world are concerning themselves with corprate issues. We get by ignoring the eyesore. Politicians are clever. They cool a hot topic off through tiring out an issue. They just tie themselves in knots about something until it becomes easier to ignore. Ignorance is not bliss. Even if problems are "solved" more will be created. Why have an "internet" if it isn't going to be utilized? In this way we even discard many benefits of society we did not discard before radio, television and the internet.

My grandmother had this test for babes: place three objects in front of the child: a wrench, a silver dollar and something else, probably a book. Which ever one the child picked up first was a prediction on the personality (if he didn't choose any object, then he was "simple"). I would correlate these three to your achetypes as such: wrench - The Professional silver - The Charmer book - The Designer This test was always done in secret; the mere suggestion of predestination is heresy in the Lutheran Church. Just these three types.

It is said that what killed the American Indians was not warring with the settlers but the alteration of their natural lifestyle, living off the land, as opposed to the agrarian lifestyle imposed upon them. For instance, the corn which they grew did not have enough calcium. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price That the problem of mass degeneration constitutes one of the most alarming problems of our modernized cultures is demonstrated by the urgency of appeals that are being made by students in national and international affairs. Weston A. Price studies, firsthand, the effects of "modernization". He draw links between nutrition of the modern (the contemporary 1930's) world (ports of call) and birth defects and other growth problems. He looks for these effects in not only humans but farm animals as well. Modernized living is preventing us from "living in harmony with Nature's laws". Studies like this one are the foundations of vitamin theory. I am interested in analysis of this this work as a paradigm.

I've seen graphs that correlate sunspots to temperature. Sunspots do seem to increase the energy that the sun irradiates. That increase is seen as a temperature rise. There are a few issues. Global Warming is a trend that effects lower temperature climates more than cold ones. Conversely, because lower latitudes recieve a greater portion of the suns energy, they would be the most affected by sun spots. At night there is no sunlight. High altitudes, for instance, loose heat very rapidly at night because there is less atmosphere to retain the energy. These differences between night and day create the expected weather patterns should not be affected by sun spots. Sunspot contribute to Global Warming and to Global Cooling.

Duly noted. Impulses are impulses though, right?

There is a forum http://www.biodiversityforum.com/. This would be the appropriate forum for your inquiry. They would be better able to address your question. I would say east of the Black Sea, Hungarian to Turkish, he may have wound up in even Italy or France but not likely much more farther than Austria. Probably not Portuguese. If he was Hebrew I think the hair would wrap more around his arm. His ears are rather large and he has a rather low head, this suggests he is closer to a Turk. What is going on with his teeth, I cannot be sure. Looks an awful lot like Paul Simon on this gentlemans mouth is fuller and and his fingers are less Poland Syndrom or Huntington's, I'm not sure what causes this. Paul Simon is said to be born of Jews from Hungary. This guy looks more towards Bulgaria at least. That being said, en masse, Palestine does not cry for either of them at this time. And now that I look at them, Pauls hands may just need some lotion on them (and he could trim those nails). Nice teeth (--and gums!). It's a wonder why he doesn't smile more often. Maybe it's New Jersey but it made me think of Mario Cantone. Vas the deffrins between Hungary, Turkey and New Jersey?

Altruism is an inefficient term for a trend. There is tendency to attach purpose to a generalized goal. This is a consequence of logic. That logic can be ingrained to a predisposition. The trivial, genetic or in situ, reasoning is not a consequence of inductive logic as altruism might suppose. Nationalism is not speciesism, per se. ---- People should not steal from others. Not stealing -- is this altruism? Why don't we steal? People have a tendency to take things into their own world (sustenance). Perhaps this conflicts with another's world. Given the scenario of ones own world invaded by another, there are two contradictions to stealing: (a) social philosophy -- minor revelation, an informal contract -- prevents invasion, so it is made part of the belief system -- insurance by love of life or by confluence (b) there is empathy for the world of another, and, possibly, there is an empathy transposed, or a fondness of a teaching or some set of rules © there is a negative consequence (that is the reaction that others have) to stealing, being stolen from "b" is where altruism finds its root. Possession is a result of "c". Ownership is a human construct of "a" however. ---- Ants have colonies. In these colonies individuals work for the survival of the colony. Worker ants are incapable of sexual reproduction. Does this genetically enslave them to work for the betterment of the Queen, their only means of genetic preservation? Probably not. Sterility more likely results from the unnecessary disadvantages of schlepping an entire reproductive system around. It is, however, a colony which survives. Rather than selecting individuals in a colony -- this gene pool is considerably smaller. Successful colonies will be more able to share their genes with other colonies. Genetic variation is not as frequent -- but the traits are tested at the colony level, so evolves the ant colony. (On ant theories: there is no outward projection by which one colony f's another; the notion would be furthered by the appearance of a truly dedicated apparatus.) ---- Ants do not switch colonies or work for other species. Bees sort of "give" us honey. Cows "give" us milk. Domesticated animals are not an anomaly. Domesticated humans would not be either. So are we a product of domestication? If so, how much domestication can take place before altruism is irrelevant or we throw the whole theory (all on it's own) out of kilter? ---- Faith without works is dead. If I volunteer my time to assist disabled persons, or I donate a large some of my wealth to the local university -- what are the chances my genetic kin will benefit from this? In such a way that generosity, as trait, is bettered. People do not like to pay taxes. Bill Clinton had an idea of voluntary tax which the good citzens of Arkansas (or anyone for that matter -- all money is good money in the state of Arkansas, I don't care who you are) could pay, as a contribution. OK so it was lightly received, but if there were no mandatory taxes for Arkansans: what is the likelyhood they would pay? Perhaps stricken with guilt, or enlightened by the financial Renaissance, Arkansans would see their state, not as a municipal burden but an Institution of worthy of their pride and a projection of their will. ---- Shut down the puppy mills! C.S. Lewis is quick to tie his fellow human to his love and kindness. After all, why does another man have to suffer every time another makes a gain. Only one can wear his ring; do we all suffer? Religion is greater than you and I. So, by and by, we are given to laugh and smile. No scowls or unhappy faces. For if aggression were not a tired tribulation it would swallow us all, but today, altruism leads the way.

Irreducible Complexity JAVA Applet(you will need a browser enabled Java VM) This applet runs a "genetic selection" simulation. Basically it "homogenizes" the population. You have to run it fast (>>>) for a minute or two, or ~100 to ~2000 generations. The end result is a geneticly evolved piece that does not "evolve" anymore (that is to say, in my understanding, the removal of half the population always removes everything other than what is "IC"). Irreducible Complexity Demystified:

Fusion is not difficult to achieve. It is very effective as a weapon of mass destruction. The fallout from an H-bomb is low considering the high yield. This is the most plausible tactic for crippling a major city with minimal (human etc.) resources. Due to the wide radius of such a weapon, the construction of a bulky device in a highrise building could be accomplished without additional consideration to engineering a self-contained "bomb". Fission, of course, generates cost effective energy. The issues is not the cost effectiveness but the potential missuse of the resource. Reactor meltdown prevention is not the over-ridding cost. Almost all fussion attempts rely upon energy or fuel provided by fission. So, this is sort of paradox. The real reason they bang atoms and whatnot together is to try to produce some sort of universal void (any will do). Very strange.

Wood is relatively expensive. Cinder block and prefabricated concrete or on-site concrete molds are much more reliable and cost about the same amount. Urbanization ultimately relied on redbrick. The brick has become one of the most essential elements to modern Anglo-Saxon society. It doesn't burn, it doesn't weather and need replacing, it is a poor acoustical conductor -- this is real value. Redbrick was used in many early urban skyscrapers. The down side of brick is that is becomes ugly and monotonous. Wood structures have an airy feel. American suburbs are really like upscale trailer parks. Steal has taken the place of the wood frame. Gypsum board is a little bit more rugged than it was and no longer needs the supports. Most homes and small buildings have iron pillars and I-beams doing the weight bearing. The third world consideration is a little bit more complicated than just woods availability. Most of these resources are consumed as fuel, not as structural material. They use things like oil drums and corrugated steal for this (see Crackhouse). I would like to see someone come up with a meaningful use for the pasture grass that most American homes are surrounded with (don't say goats).

The "error", IMO, would occur when the DNA replication is not being accomplish, well, "correctly" for lack of a better word. Otherwise it really isn't a mutation. It's perhaps a morphing? There are alterations of DNA, such as methylation, that are intentional -- it has a mechanism and a purpose. It is really hard to say weather every methylation is conducive to biological life. If it isn't, this is obviously something we would be concerned about from an observational point of view but this is beside the point. If a mutation arises from a free radical then this is not an "error" but it is still a mutation. I may have confused this in my other post. Nutritional factors could result in what would be irregular cell function. Chemcal agents however could be a gray area. Mutations in the protein coding, for instance, can create a mal-sense. Frame shift is an example. This from an observational point of view, where DNA coding is defunct, would seem to be an error. There is no way for a cell to "correct" this or move around it. Cell are very unintelligent in this way. Sometimes there is a way for a cell to "recognize" and "fix" the altered DNA. This would be a proper systemic error (that happens to get corrected). Ideals are obviously subjective. There are "Medical" ideals. From a medical standpoint this could become more broad. I don't think any Doctor is going to admit to practicing something other than healing medicine. There are stasis ideals, status quo. Ideals of an unchanging population. From this standpoint we could say "unexpected changes", with regards to genetic recombination and sexual reproduction, deviate from the gene pool. We could also include population definitions etc. There ideals inferred from genetic pressures. The simple ability to survive or thrive, the susceptibility to disease, the ability to accomplish needed tasks, the discriminatory selection by predators -- even inanimate objects like doorframes have a predetermined expectation that could effectively knock out any chance of 9 foot humans. There are social pressures as well. Any of these pressures may deem mutations (and nonmutations) as nonideal or even undesirable. Pressures like medical pressures are not desirable. Usually there these pressures work in conjunction to allow advantaged individuals only to reproduce. I for one am not in favor of placing the worlds population under a culling duress -- even in the most minimal sense. Not sterilizing the city water, for instance, will make some people ill. For one thing, it doesn't kill them or make them unable to reproduce. It just causes undue misery. And wanton duress, ie poisoning the water supply, is the same with no benefit to mankind. Anything that wastes time or resources in frivolous attempts to stifle the population is non-conducive to living. Sometimes people will just act difficult. You will notice, if you are attune to it, this occurs very frequently with varying intentions. It is a major personality discrepancy. The ability to reproduce with another organism is what some concider the definition of a species. Horse crossed w/ donkey yields a mule. Mules cannot reproduce at all. If they could, say with a horse, this might result in the loss of a chromosome in all offspring. Horse lovers are not going to be happy about this. This is not evolution. This is gainsay genetics, not Mendelian. It is destructive to the population. Nobody hates mules (anymore than they already did), but they have to breed additional horses to keep up with the cross-breeding mules. The solution to that problem is not excessive horse breeding but if they don't replace the lost chromosomes by population increase, the horse population will die (especially quickly if the horse population is divided). That is when most people would say it is an error to crossbreed horse and mule -- or donkey for that matter, as there is now a way to breed a mule. Horse breeders do not use conventional breeding techniques for reasons such as these. Inbreeding is outlawed in many parts of the world. 26 state in the US have added first cousins to the relationships that are prohibited. This was done with very specific purpose. Not because it was icky. The purpose is to prevent the abuse of an arbitrary standard of human dignity -- regardless of point-of-origin-limitation and effectiveness -- in the best way they knew of at the time.

SNP are single nucleotide mutations. Spliced DNA and broken chromosomes are mutations. Triplet repeats are mutations. Mutation are Errors. It is not something that is judged and scored like a grade, calculated, or something that can be erased and simply corrected (after it is said and done). It is something that an organism has to live with. Perhaps this is a good thing but organisms will not share this mutation unless it is passed on to offspring. And it is still unique. It is a divergence. But it is the nature of the mechanism by which these things occur is widely regarded as anomalous. There are no theories for controlled mutation or adaptation. What is more the "trinucleotide repeat expansion" is termed a "missense" mutation. That is it contains nothing that can be used as genetic information. Unlike "nonsense" or randomness, triplet repeats contain what is in effect a tautology. The ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ writeback to files that are in volatile memory but are filesystem linked which occurs when the linux kernel crashes is a good analogy. Messing up you harddrive. The information that is written back is not random (monkey on a typewriter) 011010011101111010101011101110001, it is only 0000000000000000000000000000000. 011010011101111010101011101110001 might actually mean something, probably doesn't but it could. Try doing that to your harddrive. Just switch a bit somewhere -- anywhere. You might have switched the bit in an empty spot on you disk. No harm done. The computer will never know. You might have switched the bit in a JPG photo. The photo may not be readable any longer or it may look different or it may not change at all. You might have switched the bit in part of the MS Word software. Part or all of MS Word may crash. It may act differently or it may not change at all. You might have switched the bit in part of the File System. You may not be able to access certain files, file attributes may have been altered, you may not be able to access any part of the filesystem at all. You may have altered a Microsoft Windows file. Nowadays Windows checks everytime uses a file and freaks if it isn't the same. Otherwise you may not be able to start your computer or you may have limited access to certain functionality. I don't like analogies because they never fit quite right. Triplet repeats add DNA in some cases. It inserts the triplets. This breaks stuff. It is not a function of normal DNA, it is a result of defective DNA maintenance. The same function in normal cells with normal DNA does something else and it is not this. Cells will even try to make the proteins in some instances -- with the repeated aminoacid. That is something that destroys the cells function. Disease is probably a better word.

SNP are single nucleotide mutations. Spliced DNA and broken chromosomes are mutations. Triplet repeats are mutations. Mutation are Errors. It is not something that is judged and scored like a grade, calculated, or something that can be erased and simply corrected (after it is said and done). It is something that an organism has to live with. Perhaps this is a good thing but organisms will not share this mutation unless it is passed on to offspring. And it is still unique. It is a divergence. But it is the nature of the mechanism by which these things occur is widely regarded as anomalous. There are no theories for controlled mutation or adaptation. What is more the "trinucleotide repeat expansion" is termed a "missense" mutation. That is it contains nothing that can be used as genetic information. Unlike "nonsense" or randomness, triplet repeats contain what is in effect a tautology. The ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ writeback to files that are in volatile memory but are filesystem linked which occurs when the linux kernel crashes is a good analogy. Messing up you harddrive. The information that is written back is not random (monkey on a typewriter) 011010011101111010101011101110001, it is only 0000000000000000000000000000000. 011010011101111010101011101110001 might actually mean something, probably doesn't but it could. Try doing that to your harddrive. Just switch a bit somewhere -- anywhere. You might have switched the bit in an empty spot on you disk. No harm done. The computer will never know. You might have switched the bit in a JPG photo. The photo may not be readable any longer or it may look different or it may not change at all. You might have switched the bit in part of the MS Word software. Part or all of MS Word may crash. It may act differently or it may not change at all. You might have switched the bit in part of the File System. You may not be able to access certain files, file attributes may have been altered, you may not be able to access any part of the filesystem at all. You may have altered a Microsoft Windows file. Nowadays Windows checks everytime uses a file and freaks if it isn't the same. Otherwise you may not be able to start your computer or you may have limited access to certain functionality. I don't like analogies because they never fit quite right. Triplet repeats add DNA in some cases. It inserts the triplets. This breaks stuff. It is not a function of normal DNA, it is a result of defective DNA maintenance. The same function in normal cells with normal DNA does something else and it is not this. Cells will even try to make the proteins in some instances -- with the repeated aminoacid. That is something that destroys the cells function. Disease is probably a better word.

I read this in a Woman's magazine in 1998 (I have a subscription to Harper's). It is missleading. The mutations are a result of the woman's age but because of the age of the male. The age linkage exists because: Women tend to marry older men. The age difference increases as her age increases. Genetically aberrant individuals are less recognizable as they age. Anomalies can be mistakenly attributed with age. Older men tend to gain clout with age. Age may be mistaken for a similarity to a father figure. Older women are more desperate. Children of older parents are more likely to be diagnosed with a birth defect because of the increase in medical spending and care. Most 40 yo women are not going to marry 20 yo men. Unless they already have married one 20 years ago. There was a Down's risk study that was done in regards to woman's age. It has since been disproved as fact. The tests I found as far back as the sixty's up to the present date indicate that the mutation increases are in the male. Not much towards the relation: 'prior (non)mutation'/'mutation expansion or inception'. I can't say what impinges upon such a study, besides being compounded. It's just sort of a watery assumption I guess. Other perinatal complications are increased (c-section, misscarriage, etc.).

Most of the broad eugenics theory was done in the late '60's and 70's. Science, philosophy is no longer in the elementry stages in regards to this. It was years ago. Yet the world has yet to graduate this degree. Most of us have an imaginary "Big Brother". Big Brother watches over all of us, makes sure we are straight. He acts as a filter to ensure society consists of upright Professionals. He makes sure the water out of the tap is "safe enough" to drink. Part of this notion stems from the Old English Fellowship of Gentlemen who held titles of importance. The British are still rather proper. The other stems from the Biblical circumcision of the Gentiles. The Jewess expects her potential mate to have already gone through the arbiter of good taste. Get yourself into a medical emergency. What do you expect. Your bleeding and it won't stop. The medical emergency services that come to your rescue is the same sort of expectations someone who is pregnant has. Denying services because the person may be scared or in pain, psycho even. Big Brother does not do this. He already knows what it is you need even though you are a psycho bitch. Little Brother is the one who "borrows" money and winds up carrying your coffin. The rest-of-us rely upon the Brotherhood to provide police protection when we are trespassed against. --- Most of the controversy surrounding this issue is labled as "religious belief". No where in the bible does it say the things people says it says. "Freedom of Speech", "Freedom of Religion", this things too have clear meaning written in words we can understand.

Microbial pathogens do not really control the population. They do when transmition would otherwise be limited. The problem is that the AIDS (or whatever you want to call them) are not always limiting their reproduction. It is the case in parts of Africa for instance. In the non-third world the antibiotics and sanitation plus the lack of AIDS recognition is causing AIDS to *multiply*. They do this by spreading the transposons through the population by out breeding. The transposons mutate further and develop into full blown AIDS. Nothing stops that from happening as long as they reproduce. Nothing. Isolation is the cure.

Forget the immune system, try his Irreducible Complexity. It's like this: I have a Lincoln Towncar, and I show this Towncar to a native. If the Towncar doesn't start, it sucks. If the Towncar's rearview mirror falls off when the native is putting on warpaint, it sucks. If the window won't go up because a bunch of little native babies took the stereo, it sucks. If it drips oil on the natives driveway, it sucks. But when your riding shotgun in a full boat while running over the neighboring tribes mailbox, then it kicks ass. And that feeling right there, when the one side of the car is up on the sidewalk, that is Irreducibly Complex.

how-old-is-too-old.blogspot.com "The cells that create a man's sperm divide roughly once every 16 days. By the time a man is 50, that division has occurred more than 800 times. Those cells determine the genetic code that will be in the sperm- and every time they divide, there's a chance that the genetic code will be altered. With every alteration comes a greater chance of genetic deterioration that could open the door to birth defects. It takes only 24 cell divisions in a woman's body to produce her lifetime supply of eggs, and those divisions occur before the woman is even born. That may provide more genetic stability for eggs than for sperm." Paternal age linked mutations (maternal age not always contradicted): Marfan, Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer, Downs, Huntington's (only expands in males), schizophrenia, Klippel–Trenaunay–Weber. No age linkage: Treacher Collins syndrome Huntington's is known to be a progressive disease by expansion. This is the only mechanism I have found so far which was propositioned a mechanism of mutation. I have not found spontaneous mutation linkages, even though it stands to reason that all mutation would increase, both by natural decay (male and female) and ordinary copy errors (male linkage only).

OK, yeah. This is recombinant instead of from animal sources? But yeah this is the idea I was getting at. It is almost deflating to even suggest that diabetes is a necessary evil; that evolution is inevitable. I can't strap diabetes to corprate behavior, and simply wash my hands of it. On economic terms, indenturing people even by dependence "creates jobs", as the cynics mantra goes.