Yiuel
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Whoa. You're saying that a immunization that lasts for 1 generation is a vaccine, and when it lasts for several it's evolution? That's rather... odd.
You understood the wrong way : what I meant is that a vaccine doesn't enscrib itself in the genes, and so, will not pass on to the children. A mutation of the gene, that can lead to immunity, will pass on to the children (if lucky enough), and if useful, will endure over generations. We observe that the natural immunity is often due to a gene, and that some of one's children will hold the said gene (though not necessarly),this leading to something that crosses generations, unlike vaccination.
Do you mean evolved or actually learned?"learned" : They then have the information to deal with their foe. to biologically evolve, you need inscription onto DNA, which do not occur with vaccination (though a by-product of vaccination can be mutation, viruses are small DNA branches there to change the DNA of a cell for its own purpose of replicating).
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You had the first word right, and the pattern isn't that complicated, though it is not simple cypher.
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Try this one :
20-8-5-18-5-0-2-19-6-0-3-0-10-9-1-0-25-13-14-19-12-24-0-15-0-4-8-21-1-0-2-23-0-2-9-8-0-4-25-0-10-26-6
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I am planning to study abroad, in Japan. As of today, I might go to Souka Gakkai Daigaku in Toukyou (ok, in common English it would be Soka Gakkai Daigaku in Tokyo), but then again my goal is to study Japanese and in Japanese. I'm also planning to do my mastery there and, if possible, my doctorate (no choice, as I want to become a Japanese language teacher). (Souka Gakkai is actually a buddhist sect, but it doesn't bother me at all. It is a really pacifist one (unlike the (beep!) Aum sect...))
I could recommend Canada, and if you want to study in English, with good courses and cheap tuition fees, well, you have two English universities in Montreal : McGill and Concordia. It may sound stupid to learn English in Montreal (second French speaking city), but it gets clearer when you know that half of the city is English (those two universities are well prepared to welcome foreign students who do not understand French at all). You can also try universities in other parts of Canada (Ontario I think is in the cheapest outside Quebec). Try to live in homestay if you can : you'll have to use the local language with the family.
(It is not recommended to come learn French in Montreal, unless you are completely willing to. It is possibly the only non-officially-English city in the world where even the basic local shop will answer you with decent English (so, you will never actually need French in Montreal, if you know where to go). For French, favor Quebec City or any of the small cities of Quebec.)
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It isn't THAT bad, but I'm still waiting, bored.
Nippon ha mada desu.
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Vaccines can make us immune to certain diseases, and not because we evolved that way.
To understand why vaccination is partially effective, one must understand how those lymphocyts undergo the phagocytosis of bacteria and viri. The vaccination process is actually a dangerous one : you inocculate in one's blood a weak version of the bacteria or virus to be protected from. This weak version is like a learning book for lymphocytes : they find the said intruder and it will now and some more recognize the intruder. Some vaccines aren't effective very long, other can last for life. If the lymphocyte is trained to recognize a dangerous intruder, it will act effectively against it. The lymphocyte has learned.
But with vaccine, you don't pass it on to your children (or they wouldn't need the vaccine you had taken). This is where adaptation takes place. When you have, genetically, the needed gene to survive to some change, you will endure, not your neighbor. This has happened in America's history : when Europeans arrived in America with their diseases, a large part of the native people died : they had not survived through the diseases of Europe, yet Europeans lived with those sickness as if natural and non-threatning. The Natives will no longer die as such, because now, those who were resistent enough survived and only them endured.
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I am rather open when we come to planets. To me, a planet would be :
A celestial body that do not bear any thermonuclear reaction (as opposed to star) orbits a celestial body that bears such thermonuclear reaction (as opposed to moons), and that has enough gravity to sphericalize itself (as opposed to asteroîdes).
Ceres, Sedna and Quaoar (and Pluto) are clearly planets in this situation.
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It seems I won't be going yet, it seems they found someone before my teacher could even send my own answer... Oh well, I'm still supposed to go next year, wether to work or study.
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I have noticed something strange about my devotion to culture. It happens to be a mere luck that I settled on Japanese culture, stemming from the fact that I was interested in the language more than any other language (except, possibly, Esperanto).
For culture in a general sense, it's funny how much my favorite music style comes mainly from middle-east. I am prone to like about everything, as long as it is Joyful
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Most (at least some) kids would probably have some Ainu ancester. (As I probably have some native blood myself, as most Quebeckers) Most Ainu now speaks Japanese, even though some can still speak their native language.
(There's a linguistic theory that implies that probably all eastern Japan (east and north of Nagoya) might have Emishi (read Ainu) blood, as it seems that the eastern dialects of Japanese are reminiscent of Ainu language... )
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I have a few problems with you last post, but this should be on a more political thread.
(You seem to be one to be very touchy on taxes. I'm one who is not : if each Canadian puts one dollar in a small bank, it sums up to 10 million dollars. if each Canadian puts a hundred dollars, it sums up to a billion. With all this money gathered, you can create great projects
- You also seem very touchy about immigration. As a matter of fact, I'm quite the opposite, as I say : as long as one accepts the rules of a State, there is nothing more to ask him when he enters (no illegal immigration : only criminal actions done by newbies).) -
It seems I would be an English teacher in a small community close to Sapporo (Ebetsu). (I know, I am French, but I'll read English grammars when doing my work, so, in the process, my English language will grow better, as will my Japanese : you know, Kids in Japan generally aren't able to speak English decently...)
What is great about that place is that it is far from Tokyo (so, cheaper) and they do not have a strong dialectal speech, as Hokkaidou (the northernmost island) was settled in recent times by people from all over Japan (the effect being the same as in Quebec... a single French even if the motherland had several languages). So, I won't learn a strong dialectal Japanese (as the (in?)famous Oosaka-Kansai-Ben). (They do have a simple dialectalization, but Quebec's French as well, so, I don't bother much being Hokkaidoish)
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For those who cannot convert :
C = F
-40 = -40
-35 = -31
-30 = -22
-25 = -13
-20 = -4
-15 = 5
-10 = 14
-5 = 23
0 = 32
5 = 41
10 = 50
15 = 59
20 = 68
25 = 77
30 = 86
35 = 95
40 = 104
In Montreal, highs are of about 25 now (77), yet we had over 30 (86) for a long time in June and July. It has hotter than normally, but we will not bother, won't we. Laissez tomber la chemise et faites le party tout l'été!
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This morning, at work, I thought :
I really need some change. I need a new work. I'm bored in my bakery.
Yesterday, I was speaking with a neighbor, and I said about what I felt was Japan in my mind :
A mere map in an atlas, and a language in books
Yet, it came right tonight, i have a job offer in Ebetsu, that is, northern Japan! Mixing both thoughts. I wish I'll get the job (and it's more than probable), and moreover, I'll try to keep on sending messages from Japan if it happens.
Did such thing ever happen to you?
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(*Happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy)
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That's the weirdest question to ask me, as my beliefs are so strange about life and its worth that it lead me to think I must not have any expectation at all about life, even my own.
So, the question limits myself to "what I want to do with my life". I was given it, I may give it to some other people, now, what left to live? So, my main goal I have come to think of worthy is to learn from the world, and have fun within the world with all this knowledge. So, my main goal is epicurianist, to be happy.
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I never had problems with police officers, but there's that story, when i was like 9 years old... I was so disgusted that I hate a whole city's population now, and have bad relations with autority in general (including my parents), and to have physical contact (going as far as a mere handshaking) with anyone. (I quickly got used to show respect with a Japanese bowing, and unless it is asked, I will not shake hands)
With police though, I only have that general problem with autority, yet, one of my father's friend is a policeman (from Sureté du Québec), and I'll always remember that demonstration in Ottawa, when I was still 17 years old.
I was pissed off of being in my room, and I decided to demonstrate in Ottawa. I secretly left my room, silently (so much that my parents only noticed at night, shortly before I called them!). So, my philosophical self went on demonstrating, then, when it was close to finish and the rain had wash me too much, I left and went on walking, doing some tourism around Ottawa. Then, on the way to my lodging, I met with two French-speaking policeman, and, jokingly, we took a picture, a policeman and me. I was covered with newspaper ink (from a newspaper mixed with rain), so the picture probablywould be great. This let me the feeling that it wasn't that bad at all.
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There has been a case of observed speciation in Canada, and it may happen again. Because of Global Warming, northern Canada has grew way warmer, and some kind of ant has already speciated, and I know of a squirrel that might speciate in a few years or decades.
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Personally, [you], I have come to a conclusion: There is so little left to what the American flag used to stand for that although I would not burn the flag (waste of fabric) unless in extreme circumstances (Having nothing else to keep warm by), I would not object much to the burning of it by others. Anyway, that's my conclusion.
This is actually why some people burn it. To them, the Flag represents the United States in some way. Some people will link it with imperialism (this is, probably, the most "popular" meaning), others will link it to Christian fundamentalism. Some other people will link it to savage capitalism. When burning the flag, they probably do not oppose the mythological values behind the United States, they oppose what they think is the United States now.
(The mythological values are the fundamental wish a people has devised as the moral foundation of their community : they can be real, yet they can be not. To the French people, they are Freedom, Equality, Brotherhoodness. In Canada, I think that the Trudeallan values are now believed, as Canada shall be One (Community, Nation) yet Multiple (cultures) from coast to coast in freedom to choose. Etc...)
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As a Quebecker (and, moreover, as my self-roclamed melvillianness), I live surrounded by a "War of Flags" between Canada and Québec. I did psychologically survived it, but, in order to survive it, I taken myself out of it (creating my own national identity, (I am freak)).
I know a lot of Quebeckers whostill resent the burning of Quebec's Flag in Thunder Bay (with, it seems, the later appearance of those people in Montreal, a few days before the referendum). I once stated here that if someone ever purposely burned my own flag (the Melvillian one), I'd have a psychological stress as well, as it represents symbolically everything I was, am and will be.
A flag is not a mere chiffon, it is a symbol. It is the symbol of what? Of what it represents. So, a State's flag will represent the State. Some flags evolved to be national flags (that of nation). In this particular situation, the flag represents the nation, that is, a people. (US's, Canada's and Quebec's fall under this category). At some points, it represents the people's society, that is, up to the values defined by it.
Now, what means the "burning of flag". Though, physically, it is only the bruning of a tissue, the intended meaning is the "burning of what it represents". This is why so much people have problems with burning of (their) flag. It is the expression of some hate, it can possibly go to someone saying : "burn as this flag". This we call appeal to violence, something already forbidden by law, at least in Canada. A flag's burning is scarcely innocent, there's at least usually a link to some hate or angriness.
This is why the burning of a flag is sometimes problematic. Sometimes, it might represent the State, and the refusal of it. In other times, it will represent the people, and the hate of it. (It is often thought in Quebec that the TB event is related to the later meaning). If the meaning behind the burning is well defined, I see no much problem. (As, saying, we do not want this or that.) But, a meaningless political burning, or a burnngclearly identified as pure hatred toward a people should fall within the same law as threatening.
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The War of Flag had led to a strange situation, which was clearly identified when the Federal payed flags : Half of them were to be sent in Quebec, even though Quebec is only 20% of Canada in population and 10% of Canadian land. Quebec is probably the place in the world with the highest concentration of public-financed flags in any democratic regime.
I say that I survived that Flag war because I was always crushed between some Canadian national identity (which I was unable to stand) and a Quebecker identity (which I couldn't stand as well). It was hard on me, as I felt isolated for being who I am (despite the freedom of being who one wants to be in Canada and Quebec, in terms of beliefs and culture), and the only way I achieve some mental sanity was through the creation of my own nationality. Though it's still hard to express in public (You're what?!?), it's something I have come to embrace, though, in the process creation a third problem
Yet, this had a triple effect : I cannot stand someone who's insulting Quebeckers, Canadians and Worldites. The first two is because I mixed both citizenship I hold as those being the best I know up to now, and the last one (the whole world, or some group within it) is because I feel that being Melvillian is, ultimately, being oneself facing the world, and all can do this. This has led to my tendency to try to achieve a common living with all.
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A revolution of Internet, I wonder.
A complete renewal of computers is need. You can't load quickly if your computer cannot hold that speed, it will lag within the computer.
I'd like to see a user-friendly internet for those who want to make avaible some data (as me...
). You can have a lot of ideas for a website (and I do have), but, sometimes, you just cannot do everything you want. I'm quite limited, with my knowledge of only the basic HTML codes (yet, I'm better than all of my family in that matter , even with so "useless" knowledge). And a reform in web adresses could be an idea as well. -
Black Holes, a marvel of the world.
On thing, we cannot see a black hole. It's definition is rather the fact that we see nothing there. There are theories about what a black hole is, physically, infered from stars nearby.
A star is formed of matter. Now, let's imagine some large, very large stars, having a lot of matter. Matter deforms, according to Relativity, space (a strait line is curved). So, the more massive you are, the greater deformation you give to space. Now, you look for those large stars. Those large stars exist (Rigel is my favorite of them, it is also my self-proclamed guiding star). Now, mass is not the only thing. If the mass is scattered over a large space, the deformation is big, but scattered in a large field. This scattering, created by the fusion of elements within the star, keeps the star stable for a few million years. Then, when it has no more elements to fuse (fusion stops with iron, because its fusion is endothermic (uses more energy than it releases)), it collapses, shortning the field of distortion. This leads to the creation of a dense and massive objects. Some objects can maintain themselves with the weak nuclear force (neutron star) leading to have a strong deformation, yet, not strong enough because there is still some space between everything.
The final step is having to much matter, even for the weak nuclear force. The star collapses endlessly : it cannot sustain the pressure, so it takes for ever less and less place, leading to a deformation so strong that space itself is non-existent. The deformation leads to a self-contained point, without space. In such point, all physical law collapses as well : we cannot comprehend "no-space" and how things can "react" there, if they do (In fact, relativity tells us that where there's a strong deformation as within a black hole, time itself collapses : what would be felt as a mere second a the border of a black whole would last eons on Earth)...
This leads to something strange. Imagine that you send something in a black hole. What happens is that you never see it crossing into it. It will stay out, forever (as probably everything "within" a black hole) as an uncrossable horizon. Yet, all of this is not the black hole, but its effects.
We have "seen" black holes, because we have seen those effects.
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Something I'd wish would be....
Humm...
I don't know, actually. I think there are so many things possible in this world that we only saw the tip of the iceberg of what is.
Yet, I'd like to have a computer where I could completely build my own world. And, the first thing I'd do, is take a picture of Sevy and bring it back in our real world to show-off my first computer-trip
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知っていることならば、簡単な日々の生活の会話ができます。まだ時々ちょっと違っているけれど日本人は僕が分かります。漢字で書けます。手で書いてもできます。ひらがなとカタカナが二つも早く読めます。声で言ってる会話まだ難しいですけれど、よくなっています。日本語を使ってる一時間のあと、あたまが痛くなります。
Speaking of what I know, I can converse about easy everyday life subjects. I still make some mistakes, but I can be understood by a Japanese. (not in the text : most of the time, Gaijin can be completely incomprehensible to Japanese, seems I'm not that bad) I can write with Kanji, even with handwriting. I can quickly read katakana and hiragana. Speech conversation is still difficult, but I am getting better. After one hour using Japanese, my head begins to ache.
I would actually wonder how there could not be even one : at least, we have ties with the royal crown of Nederlands, as for being their shelter during war. (And each spring, a tulipe festival is held in their honor in Ottawa)