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Wacka

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  1. The typiucal "Bush did it too!" response.
  2. The important thing to get from the article is the cloning of the dogs, not that they glow. The dogs glow by RFP, red fluorescent protein. They must be pt under UV light to glow. I used to work at a company that utilized the firefly luciferase gene. Luciferase is the protein that acts on luciferin to produce the glow of fireflies. We put the gene into bacteria, yeast (me), tumor cells , and in transgenic mice (controlled by specific gene promoters (switches) so that it is expressed in certain tissues). We injected the mice with luciferin or added it to the growth medium (bacteria and yeast) and looked at it with very sensitive cameras in a light tight box. The advantage was that with previous methods, if you are testing antibiotics (bacteria) or chemo (tumor cells) you had to kill animals at each time point and then homogenize the tissues or dissect and weigh tumors. With the method the company had, you could look at the same animals at all time points and see the progression or regression of the disease. This saves mice and $. Eventually they laid a bunch of us off when private funding was drying up. They later went public and were bought by another company when the investors wanted to cash out. After we were let go they came out with a camera unit that could get a 3-D image of the glowing in the mouse.
  3. We're close to the Napa Valley. Even the box wines are good.
  4. Obama has his ( Ayers).
  5. Wait till the dems lose big in 2010. The uber-libs telling people what a republican should be The republican party hasn't been conservative enough since 1988. Yes, I think Bush was too moderate.
  6. Good riddance to trash (Specter). He should have been kicked out of teh party years ago.
  7. This was also probably for background video for the 2012 campaign.
  8. I don't know how even got elected in the first place. Before he was a politician, he was a lawyer. He defended Ira Einhorn one of the organizers of the first Earth Day. Einhorn murdered his girlfriend and shoved her in a footlocker. She was found 16 months later in his closet. Einhorn said that it was a plot by the CIA to frame him. Specter got him out on 40K bail (only had to put up 4K). Before the trial, Einhorn skipped to Sweden. He was found living in France in 1997 and was extradited to the US in 2002, due mainly to the efforts of John Walsh (America's Most Wanted). As part of the extradition, Pennsylvania had to retry him (he was tried and sentenced to death in abstentia) and had to not go for the death penalty. Instead of being put to death, he lived a comfortable life for almost 25 years, due to Arlen Specter. Specter has been a RINO from day one. I was so pissed at Bush for backing him during his last election. Shows that the majority of people in PA are idiots.
  9. It matters that he can't make a complete sentence without either. Much fun was made of Bush, Obama is worse.
  10. Thanks to Obama were short trillions for this.
  11. Totally missing the point. They have no idea of what science is and so do a lot of the global warmers.
  12. The global warming believers sound very much like the creationists I argue with on another board. They are convinced that Genesis explains evolution, cosmology and chemistry. When asked they won't give you any info on their science background and believe their view without any actual proof.
  13. Did you ask him where they grow those beautiful French-Canadian strippers?
  14. And 7 out of the 30 comments are threats also.
  15. Last weekend I was in Lodi and Galt, CA (between Stockton and Sacramento). Almost all of agricultural land there is vineyards. There are at least 3 or 4 dozen wineries in the area. The supermarket we bought wine at 9:30 PM Saturday night had one whole shelf with local wines. Seems that having wine sold at Safeway and other supermarkets hasn't hurt them at all. I live next to Livermore, CA and there are 40+ wineries just in that town alone. You can find wine from almost all the wineries in the supermarkets.
  16. And cops. They did kill one and had plans to kill many more.
  17. I can't remember the site off the top of my head, but I have seen web sites full of photos from anti Bush rallies with posters basically saying Kill Bush or Execute Bush. You are one bitter person. As others have said, please get professional help. Anything you or other lefties say doesn't bother me because, I could care less what you all say.
  18. When I was in biotech, our company let the employees pick which system they wanted. This was when most software was on CDs. The IT guy would install all the software on the PCs. For people with Macs, he would just hand the CD to you and say "you know how to do it". This saved a lot of time as you didn't have to wait for him to install it. Also , when there were viruses going around , he also said that " Of course the people with Macs can ignore this". I started using a Mac in 1985 and never had to take a course on anything for a Mac. The help for Macs is so much better. You can ask a regular question and find the answer with the the replies ranked by relevance. When I use the help on a Windows machine, I get a lot of non-relevant answers.
  19. You just keep answering the question I have been asking.
  20. Macs can boot up in Windows too. Not in emulation, but natively since they use Intel chips now. Can PCs boot up in OSX natively? If you can't find a Mac version, you can run the PC version.
  21. What the hell is poutine????
  22. It is part of the design. I'm not in the computer field, but I know that OSX is a version of UNIX. OSX does not allow root access without admin permission, while Windows does. I have used Macs since 1984 and have only gotten one virus, on a floppy in 1986 or 1987. I have owned Macs since 1994. My first I had for 5 years. I got another one because I could afford it and they were faster with much more memory. That second one lasted about 5 years and I think the motherboard was going. The one I have now (a G5 Mac Mini) is 4 years old and I have not had a single problem.
  23. When did anyone rule waterboarding was ILLEGAL?
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