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rest ov article: http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/17/14487713-daily-multivitamin-cuts-mens-cancer-risk-by-8-percent-large-study-finds

darren brown styage show. the guy can paint too??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS0-HkMKXBo&feature=relmfu check out the woman at 8:34, what do you think she's saying?

i actually remeber the "hitler is our hero" story from a few years back. iirc their parents were part ov some Aryan Brotherhood type fuckup.

truck driver needs meth to stay awake: the driver ov the green van does an impressive job ov getting clear

yeah it is all abit "first world problems" innit?

bought a bicycle in Melbourne, had it shipped out here. put it together & find one ov the disc brakes has leaked all it's hydraulic fluid & doesn't work anymore. Nearest bike shop is 90km away, guess i can get a local freight company to drop it off & pick it up when fixed. so fucking pissed off

my sister in law had a boyfriend from PNG for awhile. when he went back she went out to join him for a couple ov weeks. apparently he wouldn't let her out ov his sight for fear ov her being raped. she said the food was shit to. very very bland, no herbs, spices, or chilli.

October 24, 2012 | You'd think it would have been very big news in the spring of 2005 when Donald Tashkin, a professor of pulmonology at UCLA's David Geffin School of Medicine, revealed at a conference that components of marijuana smoke, although they damage cells in respiratory tissue, somehow prevent them from becoming malignant. But headlines announcing "Pot Doesn't Cause Cancer" did not ensue. Tashkin will review his findings and discuss current research this Thursday in Santa Monica, California as part of a course for doctors accredited by the University of California San Francisco. (It is open to the public; pre-registration is $95.) Tashkin has special credibility. He was the lead investigator on studies dating back to the 1970s that identified the compounds in marijuana smoke that are toxic. It was Tashkin who published photomicrographs showing that marijuana smoke damages cells lining the upper airways. It was the Tashkin lab reporting that benzpyrene -- a component of tobacco smoke that plays a role in most lung cancers -- is especially prevalent in marijuana smoke. It was Tashkin's data documenting that marijuana smokers are more likely than non-smokers to cough, wheeze and produce sputum. The National Institute on Drug Abuse supported Tashkin's marijuana-related research over the decades and gave him a grant to conduct a large, population-based, case-controlled study that would prove definitively that heavy, long-term marijuana use increases the risk of lung and upper-airways cancers. What Tashkin and his colleagues found, however, disproved their hypothesis. Tashkin's team interviewed 1,212 cancer patients from the Los Angeles County Cancer Surveillance program, matched for age, gender, and neighborhood with 1,040 cancer-free controls. Marijuana use was measured in "joint years" (number of years smoked times number of joints per day). It turned out that increased marijuana use did not result in higher rates of lung and pharyngeal cancer (whereas tobacco smokers were at greater risk the more they smoked). Tobacco smokers who also smoked marijuana were at slightly lower risk of getting lung cancer than tobacco-only smokers. rest ov article here: http://www.alternet....hool?paging=off

the disappearing rabbit......

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

yeah. this bike kind ov meant a lot to me. i've never had a brand new bike. It was always hand-me-downs or second hand, so i was excited. Also i don't drive so he bike was a way to get out & about while also getting my fitness level back up. I kind ov feel like i've turned a corner depression wise & the bike was a symbol ov that.

yeah, you're probably right. the printer incident was the last time i blew up & that was nearly 10 years ago. i did manage to hold it in this time, but 5+ hours later & i still feel pissed, frustrated & generally depressed. i was meant to see the psychologist today but had to cancel as the promised "first thing in the morning" delivery didn't arrive until 3pm. but i am seeing the psychiatrist next week, so my mental health is being catered for, but thanks for caring Max

no, it seems to be leaking from where the line meets the caliper, but the nut holding the line in place seems fine, so i guess it's coming from inside the caliper & was just collecting on the nut. i could do that, but i think i'd rather ship the whole bike & get them to put it back on so i don't have to fuck around w/the damn thing anymore. i was surprised i could even work out how to put the wheel on well judging by the limpness ov the brake lever i'd say all the fluid has now bleed out. i'll goto the local small "toys & some bikes" shop first & see if they feel confident in refilling the fluid etc. otherwise it shouldn't cost more than $30 to get it freighted to Bairnsdale. thanks for the advice peeps.

it's the front tire brake that's screwed. guess i can ride w/just the back brake but it's not very good at stopping the bike quickly.... & it's kind ov essential on the steep tracks i was intending to use it on. i really had to hold myself back from kicking the thing to death. i'm one ov those people who's pretty calm most ov the time but little annoyances can make me explode & all the rage comes out. i once smashed up a perfectly good PC & printer just because i couldn't get the printer to print on a CD like it was meant to.

it depends on what the simulation is being run for. for instance if it was a simulation ov "what happens when a low level civilization ov finite resources is attacked by a zombie making virus from space" then it would matter. also if the simulation has reached it's end, would the beings that created it turn it off (so to speak) or allow it to keep running?

Back in 2003, Oxford professor Nick Bostrom suggested that we may be living in a computer simulation. In his paper, Bostrom offered very little science to support his hypothesis — though he did calculate the computational requirements needed to pull of such a feat. And indeed, a philosophical claim is one thing, actually proving it is quite another. But now, a team of physicists say proof might be possible, and that it's a matter of finding a cosmological signature that would serve as the proverbial Red Pill from the Matrix. And they think they know what it is. According to Silas Beane and his team at the University of Bonn in Germany, a simulation of the universe should still have constraints, no matter how powerful. These limitations, they argue, would be observed by the people within the simulation as a kind of constraint on physical processes. Full size So, how could we ever hope to identify these constraints? Easy: We just need build our own simulation of the universe and find out. And in fact, this is fairly close to what the physicists are actually trying to do. To that end, they've created an ultra-small version of the universe that's down to the femto-scale (which is even smaller than the nano-scale). And to help isolate the sought-after signature, the physicists are simulating quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which is the fundamental force in nature that gives rise to the strong nuclear force among protons and neutrons, and to nuclei and their interactions. To replace the space-time continuum, they are computing tiny, tightly spaced cubic "lattices." They call this "lattice gauge theory" and it is subsequently providing new insights into the nature of matter itself. Interestingly, the researchers consider their simulation to be a forerunner to more powerful versions in which molecules, cells, and even humans themselves might someday be generated. But for now, they're interested in creating accurate models of cosmological processes — and finding out which ones might represent hard limits for simulations. To that end, they have investigated the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin limit (or GZK cut-off) as a candidate — a cut-off in the spectrum of high energy particles. The GZK cut-off is particularly promising because it behaves quite interestingly within the QCD model. According to the Physics arXiv blog, this cut-off is well known and comes about when high energy particles interact with the cosmic microwave background, thus losing energy as they travel long distances. The researchers have calculated that the lattice spacing imposes some additional features on the spectrum, namely that the angular distribution of the highest energy components should exhibit cubic symmetry in the rest of the lattice (causing it to deviate significantly from isotropy). "In other words," write the arXiv bloggers, "the cosmic rays would travel preferentially along the axes of the lattice, so we wouldn't see them equally in all directions." And that would be the kind of reveal the physicists are looking for — an indication that there is indeed a man hiding behind the curtain. And what's particularly fascinating about this is that we can make this measurement now with our current level of technology. As the researchers point out, finding this effect would be the same as 'seeing' the orientation of the lattice on which our own universe is simulated. That said, the researchers caution that future computer models may utilize completely different paradigms, ones that are outside of our comprehension. Moreover, this will only work if the lattice cut-off remains consistent with what we see in nature. At any rate, it's a remarkable suggestion — one that could serve as an important forerunner to further research and insights into this fasinating possibility. The entire study can be found at Physics arXiv. http://io9.com/59505...uter-simulation

huh? i don't understand, that abstract is so full ov stuff you could have misread i can't see what you mean. also seems like it contradicts itself? *confused*

2012.07.29 U.D. Buy Dream Now you can buy Vauveville on the online site ROBOT PILOT KURATAS is the first giant boarding-robot, which is about four meters height. Robot pilot, an occupation most man would want to be, comes true at last. THE MOST ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEM KURATAS has the AE "V-Sido", the control system of the computer technology is watched by all world with interest. Not only operating by boarding the pilot’s seat, but also enabling you to control and interact KURATAS with Kinect*. Moreover, without taking a professional training such as a combat plane, people can operate it easily. Furthermore, you can control KURATAS via the mobile 3G Internet access. CUSTOM MADE We could customize your KURATAS as what you hope; holding a squirt gun as a fire fighter, painting a body camouflage as a ranger in jungle, giving a mop and a cleaner as a home cleaning robot, so it is really up to you. EASY TO BUY Wherever you are, you can buy KURATAS on the online site, which will be opened when KURATAS Project completed. SPEC Height : about 4,000 mm / Width: about 3,000 mm / Length : about 4,000 mm / Weight : about 4,500 kg Control system : AE V-sido PHOTO GALLERY ABOUT SUIDOBASHI HEAVY INDUSTRY This is an organization which is aimed to spread human ride robots. We will mass-produce and sell prototype KURATAS by Japanese artist Kogoro Kurata. KURATAS is coming out in 2012, by SUIDOBASHI HEAVY INDUSTRY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx9U4GuAbuI 4hrs 20minutes ov stuff you probably already knew anyway.

bad time to be tripping:

Oct 19, 2012 i'd be pissed off if i was in pain & the paramedics couldn't give me strong enough pain killers, but i'd be even more pissed off if the pain killers they gave me were water.

2012 Oct 12 Abstract Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death and morbidity among women in the western world. Pomegranate juice (PJ) and three of its specific components have been shown to inhibit processes involved in prostate cancer metastasis. If this also proves to be true for breast cancer, these natural treatments will be promising agents against breast cancer that can serve as potentially effective and nontoxic alternatives or adjuncts to the use of conventional selective estrogen receptor modulators for breast cancer prevention and treatment. To test this possibility, we have used two breast cancer cell lines, MDA-MB-231 cells (ER(-)) and MCF7 (ER(+)), and the non-neoplastic cell line MCF10A. We show that, in addition to inhibiting growth of the breast cancer cells, PJ or a combination of its components luteolin (L) + ellagic acid (E) + punicic acid (P) increase cancer cell adhesion and decrease cancer cell migration but do not affect normal cells. These treatments also inhibit chemotaxis of the cancer cells to SDF1α, a chemokine that attracts breast cancer cells to the bone. We hypothesized that PJ and L + E + P stimulate expression of genes that increase adhesion and inhibit genes that stimulate cell migration and inhibit chemotaxis to SDF1α. Using qPCR, we confirmed these proposed effects on gene expression and in addition we found that a gene important in epithelial-to-meshenchymal transitions is decreased. We also found that pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines are significantly reduced by these treatments, thereby having the potential to decrease inflammation and its impact on cancer progression. Discovery that PJ and L + E + P are inhibitory of metastatic processes in breast cancer cells in addition to prostate cancer cells indicate that they are potentially a very effective treatment to prevent cancer progression in general. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23065001

normally i hate those "funny" home videos where someone slips or trips & obviously hurts themselves. this one i find funny because the guy himself ends up laughing to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfviVIe9kOo