It is binary at one stage of processing. when a neuron has enough input it fires an action potential which is a binary one or zero. that then gets "read" by the synaptic terminal and turns back into an analog signal to a "post synaptic" neuron.
As you said, how this signal is then processed by the next neuron depends on a lot of factors including the effects of other neurons. Synaptic strength refers to the amount of electricity the post synaptic neuron sees given this binary 1 or 0 and is often measured at rest. However, if other neurons are firing it can go up or down, amplifying or shrinking it by activating other voltage sensitive ion channels or by increasing the conductance across the lipid bilayer of the cell so that the electricity leaks out of the dendrite of the neuron before it is processed at the soma (the cell body where a new action potential can be generated)

I lived in many places in SF from 2001-2011, TL, SOMA, Bernal Heights, Lower-Haight and for a longer while in the Mission.

Never paid more than $550.

Been living in Oakland the last year - have a house 2 small blocks from BART, 1 stop to SF (although there is no need) 7 bedrooms, 2 roommates, 3 bathrooms, 2 living rooms, large backyard (with many fantastic substances growing), laundry room... and still do not pay over $550 and Oakland is where all the cool people are anyway these days + Quality of life in my opinion is much better especially because the cost of living is a lot lower since I'm not being nickel & dimed (One Dollared) everywhere I go. I can walk to work without any fucking stupid fucks saying a fucking word to me, I could take the bus and not sit in fucking piss & blood and it isn't crowded usually 1 or 2 people on the bus.

Been in SF a few times over the year to see Acid Mother's Temple, Meshuggah and also Panda Bear live...but Oakland even has better Mexican food so it's increasingly off my radar.

SOMA: Item #4017 - "Mockingbird" has been added as a related post - related requested by RFlagg on that post.

Oh yeah, forgot about the SoMa (lived at the corner of 6th and Market for two years, how could I forget the bawdiest balls of all?!)

No way, Eric's best event to face his fear is cumming up: September 29th in SOMA! LOL!

The irony is that now we have a new scandal to satisfy the voyeuristic thrills of the masses.

Here you go, pleebs, eat your soma and shut up.

I'd love to give Soma (from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World) a go.

Trying to figure out why you are referring us to a prescription drug site
Prescription Drug Sites are the biggest Spammers on the internet - Why are you doing it??

>> ^handmethekeysyou:

Wait, so this thing is actually a 3D camera that you put in your living room and hook up to a device built for image processing that's connected to the internet? Really?
Check out this totally awesome prescription muscle relaxer. It's called Soma.

Wait, so this thing is actually a 3D camera that you put in your living room and hook up to a device built for image processing that's connected to the internet? Really?

Check out this totally awesome prescription muscle relaxer. It's called Soma.

We're the ones to set the example - don't need anything else besides our common sense to distinguish wrong from right. We're the ones that set the example.

Visit the National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) for more information.

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Credits

The Children See Children Do campaign was developed pro bono at DDB, Sydney, by creative director Matt Eastwood with creatives Charlie Cook and Simon Johnson, and agency producer Sean Ascroft.

Filming was directed by Sean Meehan at Soma Films who host Children See Children Do as a 5.56 mb SWF video. See Soma Films’ earlier work for NAPCAN - Don’t Just Stand There.

Editing was done at Winning Post, who host Children See Children Do as an 11.9 mb quicktime video.

NAPCAN worked with DDB to raise awareness of all adult Australians that responsibility for children’s wellbeing goes beyond parents and child care professionals.

Children’s Guardian were involved in filming to ensure that children were not exposed to harm in any way. The domestic violence had adults and children filmed separately then placed together in post production. The girl with the cigarette had her cigarette and smoke added to her shot in post production.

Soundtracks

There are two songs used in the NAPCAN ad. The Soma Films online version has "Rabbit in your headlights", sung by Thom Yorke for Unkle. The NAPCAN online version has a song, written and performed for the campaign, with the lyrics, "It looks like rain again today, dark clouds gather, fill the sky. Don’t know how to talk to you, just know how to say goodbye."

Anybody ever listen to the Shoutcast stream Groove Salad from Soma.fm? This would be perfect on there.

down here in san diego, for small to midsize venues you basically have 3 kinds:

21 and up bars (the casbah, belly up, 4th & b)
all ages with bars but with legit restaurants (house of blues, cane's)
all ages with no alcohol (SOMA, epicentre)

it sounds like these places are basically all ages bars. i can see there being a problem with that. i love going to shows (almost always 21+) but i can see why they are pushing the issue... although it does seem like a bad time.

^translated: I ran out of somas and xanax yesterday....

Or maybe "world peace" could be better construed as "a generally more peaceful world." It isn't necessarily an absolute. No one is that naive.

Maybe by ending the occupation of a country that doesn't want to be occupied, the world could become more peaceful. Maybe by engaging in dialog with foreign powers, instead of stand-offs, the world could become more peaceful. Maybe by sending humanitarian forces to Darfur, instead of occupation forces to Iraq, the world could become more peaceful.

I think those who believe that the way the world is today, that this is the way the world has to be... those are the ones who are naive. Bush and the neocons have masterfully engineered the political climate that we live in.

Fear, consumption, greed, self-interest.

Don't agree? Fine, go back to your big-screen and your SUV. Listen to your iPod, talk on your iPhone. Dancing with the Stars in on later, so that should keep you busy for a little while.

Take your soma, put on your color-coded jumpsuit, and get in line.

Approximate transcription:

Miss S.C.:

I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so, because umm
soma people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that
our education such as that South Africa and the Iraq where like such as
I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US
I mean South Africa should help the Iraqi and Asian countries so we will be able
to build up our future for our...

Thank you, South Carolina.