No idea why the portuguese water dog is even mentioned.
Labs are water dogs. They are built for swimming and even have webbed feet.

This is sort of like comparing apples to apples and then being surprised they have similar characteristics.

Totally agree, labs are part dog, part fish.

I don't know anything about Portuguese water dogs... but i'm guessing they don't have too much on a Lab in water.

Cameras might be a good idea, but how many people will sit around watching the thousands of normal interactions between POs and civilians?

I agree that busting down doors for marijuana and shooting dogs is a terrible thing and should stop. Meth labs...might be a different story.

I read a book about a cop in the Rampart area of LA...they had runs involving shots fired every week. Under those circumstances you develop a different mindset.

In the book Hell in the Pacific the author talks about how they used to just bayonet the Japanese instead of shooting them..it saved bullets. I for one cannot imagine bayoneting a person, but under those circumstances, otherwise normal people did terrible things.

Anyway, you can't just tase a person because they refuse to provide identification. That is hyperbole.

Corporations and the US Government has tested many things on the American public and when people protest the answer is "Prove it hurts you." I'm sorry but that's not how it works, you have to prove that it doesn't hurt us, they onus is not on the people to bring evidence of it creating harm, the onus is on you.

So yeah because it's done in a lab by a corporation who is complicit in war crimes. Because it's done in a Lab by a government that is known for testing medicines on people without telling them. Because of these facts the onus is on you. PROVE that it is not harmful, create meaningful and effective regulation of GMOs and then THEN we might embrace all of it whole heartedly.

Until that time, these questions are valid despite what you think. It's the people in the black neighborhoods who hate cops, because the way the cops treat them. It's not an insane standpoint.

...by a factor of about 4-6 or more additional water-tweaking processes (electrodialysis, reverse-osmosis, carbon filtration, etc). They probably start the process with some insane, lab-monkey distillation...Betcha this stuff is great for washing-out wounds, eh?? Be nice to have a bottle or two for the bug-out bag...

How is this video is in the top 15 is the real mystery (congrats, esoog)

More like 75-125 lbs for arctic wolf males. 60-70lbs is not that big (labs weigh that).

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Basically yes. This was done in voluntary partnership with the lab, who will remain anonymous, just because they were done with that batch of dogs. It's not like they hatched a daring escape plan, complete with puppy sized tunnels to freedom.

It's a bit of a dilemma to me. Of course it's good to find them homes once all the science is done. But, by making a video that seems like such a happy ending it makes the practice seem not so bad. As if these dogs just had to work in a lab for a couple of years, then retire in some sort of luxury puppy villa.

Get one then. There are lots and the labs will make more.

http://www.beaglefreedomproject.org/pre_adoption_application

"We don't normally spray this stuff around the lab for obvious reasons"..
Well then what kind of fucking scientist are you then?!

I can claim to know far more than you seem to because I went to college and graduated with a degree in science, have a NASA geologist uncle, and read numerous scientific publications monthly, and because I didn't get my science training from Wikipedia, the worst place to try to learn something because it can be changed by those with an agenda and no knowledge.

Uniformitarianism as described is NOT the cornerstone of geology, that's ridiculous. Geologic forces are not uniform...erosion, for one, happens at it's own rate each time depending on uncountable factors. Differing geologic forces act in concert on differing geologic features to change the rate at which features are made/changed. That means that there is NO uniformitarianism as described...except to a quite small extent in the lab where ALL other things are equal. That's probably why they never mentioned it in any of the numerous geology classes I took, nor from my uncle, nor in Science, nat. geo., Scientific American, etc..
I imagine you know about it because you have been told it can be used as a tool to try to debunk geology, and as an anti-science guy you grabbed onto it without understanding.
Once again, there are certain processes that happen at certain rates, like the decay of radioactive materials down to their bases, usually lead. That is not the same as saying all features are created at the same rate, which you suggest uniformitarianism claims. EDIT: apparently that IS what uniformitarianism claims, and why it was discarded as a hypothesis in the early 1800's, it was wrong in it's basic assumptions.
None of it has a thing to do with a landslide, which is what the video describes. Not a whit.
I would guess you believe the earth is about 6000 years old, right?

EDIT: I hope I can be forgiven for not knowing every discredited theory from the late 1700's.

Whoa!!
Want one of those, on a lake during spring break and a healthy ampule from Sandoz labs!!

From the article:
For Barnes, the device needed to be able to take cues from the human body. The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles. By tensing his biceps, Barnes controls a small motor that changes how tightly the prosthetic arm grips the drumstick and how quickly it moves, vital skills for a drummer.

The researchers then added another layer of complexity: a second, autonomous drumstick on the robot arm (see photo). This second stick, controlled via its own motor, uses a microphone and an accelerometer to sense the rhythm Barnes is playing, as well as music from any nearby musicians. An algorithm then produces a new beat with a complementary rhythm and melody, modelled on the music of jazz greats like John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk.

With this extra artificial intelligence, human and machine combine to make Barnes a kind of "superhuman drummer", Weinberg says.