Posted on 04/21/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
About 200 FReepers use their computers and Playstation 3s to process proteins for medical research. Called Folding@home, it is a large distributed computing initiative that has about 250,000 systems worldwide working at the moment.
These proteins are so big and difficult to simulate that even a supercomputer couldn’t process the chemical and molecular reactions that every protein in our body does in less than a microsecond.
A Work Unit is a single snippet of a part of a protein, for a time of less than a microsecond, simulated in our computer (by the jmol protocol). Most of the proteins we simulate are between 25,000 and 50,000 atoms; occasionally we get protein snippets with over 90,000 atoms.
It is great fun to know that you are making a real contribution to science, helping to cure Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
Free Republic isn’t only about politics, ya’ know.
The current Folding@home thread is here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1817941/posts
Good riddance.
I bet $5 on it to show.
~~~~ Ronald Reagan: "A Time for Choosing"
This is another time for choosing. Reagan had it right. Its liberalism versus conservatism. Take your choice. You obviously have no problems trashing Free Republic with your wishy-washy politics. Especially this remark.
>>>>>I've got deep reservations about Rudy, but all things considered, he's really no more or less conservative or liberal than President Bush.
I have my problems with Pres Bush, but to say the politics of Dubya and Rudy are one in then same, shows you don't know what you're talking about.
>>>>>So what does banning and purging his supporters accomplish, other than to put FR out of touch, and make it look like we can't handle a reasonable debate?
What BS! Free Republic has never been a liberal debate society. Nor is FR meant to support liberal issues, causes or candidates. It focuses on advancing conservatism and conservative candidates, while defending the Constitution from every leftwing perversion known to exist.
And they’re doing the very thing they condemned us for, only worse.
ROTFLMBO!
I know you’re banned but really. NOT canceling the account is petty and vindictive, but canceling them is. How to set up a lose/lose situation. No matter what he does, it’s wrong.
Really good riddance.
If this thread is any indication of the body politic at large 2008 will be a rough year for conservatives of every flavor.
C'mon, EV. Photos of gravesites, a cemetery, and a bug-eating frog--after we were treated to the bug zapper for nine days.
Either you weren't thinking at all, or you were once again slipping the long knife into the backs of the dearly departed. Anyone with a conscience and two brain cell synapses could see the analogy. Either that, or you were posting mindlessly.
This thread is NOT indicative of the body politic at large. Thank goodness.
You're right. Jim should put an end to this now. Enough already.
I’m gonna send you a 25lb. sack of flour, ‘cause I like the cookies you’ve been posting here.
I hope Robin Hood Unbleached White is okay.
:-}
I think you’re projecting.
I wish it had stopped at elimination of Giuliani spammers (those who could not resist lying about other candidates). That was a noble cause, IMHO.
And I sure hope you'll return.
bttt
I heard similar things said on this forum, in the 11 months leading up to the 2006 election debacle. It speaks to what many conservative are thinking. Its indicative of the conservative politics at large. Conservatives in the GOP are split. There are those who want to betray their conservatism, capitulate and sell out to support a liberal as the party standard bearer. Other conservatives have chosen to fight for what we believe in.
And how are your comments about those you dislike any different than what you're condemning in those *sociopaths*?
We / they / us......
That is what is disturbing about the atmosphere that has been promoted by this thread. You are putting your "we' in the exalted place that, it seems, you now expect to be exempt from comment. I stayed out while the long knives were out. There's no turning a stampede like that was. You just have to let the cattle run themselves to exhaustion.
But, I damned well do intend to make my opinion known; and if that is a problem, guess what?
I'm not thrilled with Rudy either, and I don't think a lot of the folk who walked are thrilled with the guy.
"It's all so short sighted and tragic to see a great debating forum overrun by this backslapping, high fiving mentality. Especially since it's not going to change anything except drive good FReepers away or underground, and make outsiders think we're a torch-and-pitchfork wielding mob."
That about sums it up. I can't stand the patriotic celebrations about having driven away good conservatives.
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