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I am a scientist as well, and am less convinced than you about the inevitability of our knowledge acquisition. More to the point, your 'later date' could last a *long, long* time and would put off stem cell treatments by a similarly long time. The maturity of this field is already a good ways off, and it seems asinine to delay longer out of an illogical concern for already established biological trash.

Well, yes, excepting the scientifically backwards Italian law you cited, everywhere else in the developed world, they are. You harvest 20-some odd eggs, and implant the healthiest three while eventually discarding the rest. As for Italy, that law also illegalizes donor insemination, access to reproductive techniques for single women (Single woman?, sorry no IVF for you!), and preimplantation genetic diagnosis...truly a wonderful law.

Anything to actually back up that statement? Not to mention the fact that we could just take all to-be-discarded embryos that exist right now and develop stem cell lines from those and would be in fine shape. As a scientist, I'm sure you know that ESC research doesn't depend on using a single embryo for an experiment, rather differentiatable cell lines are established from the initial cells. If Bush hadn't made his intellectually dishonest decree, we could've simply taken all IVF embryos available on that day, and likely never had to worry about it again.

You are either ignorant, or being intentionally deceptive by implying that treatments will require brand new embryos.

-Ted

Here is a view from Alan C. Kay (Xerox PARC fame, Smalltalk, overlapping windows, etc). I have transcribed a tiny fragment of an interview. It's in something silly called a proprietary data format from RealMedia.

Alan Kay:

..., and they [people using a browser] never think about the oddity, that the web reduced them to a consumer, in spite of the fact that they are on a machine that made them into an author.

So this [the web] is an example of something done very, very badly.

It was basically an ignorance and naivete. The people who set up the web never thought about the larger issues of personal computing for people. Especially the people who did the browsers never put in provisions for symmetric authoring. So this is going to take quite a while, I think, to straighten out, but it's a perfect example of something done very poorly.

This is just a small portion. I advice you to get the big picture from the aforementioned interview. This quote was taken from the clip "What we are doing wrong with new technology."

Here is a view from Alan C. Kay (Xerox PARC fame, Smalltalk, overlapping windows, etc). I have transcribed a tiny fragment of an interview. It's in something silly called a proprietary data format from RealMedia.

Alan Kay:

..., and they [people using a browser] never think about the oddity, that the web reduced them to a consumer, in spite of the fact that they are on a machine that made them into an author.

So this [the web] is an example of something done very, very badly.

It was basically an ignorance and naivete. The people who set up the web never thought about the larger issues of personal computing for people. Especially the people who did the browsers never put in provisions for symmetric authoring. So this is going to take quite a while, I think, to straighten out, but it's a perfect example of something done very poorly.

This is just a small portion. I advice you to get the big picture from the aforementioned interview. This quote was taken from the clip "What we are doing wrong with new technology."

With regards to horses, have a look at this news item :)

yea right.. You have been paying attention the last 6 years? Or even a 5 second google?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2979076. stm

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3034 697.stm

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=5565

You know.. I really wish I could make this shit up. :(

You can't be this dumb. Learn to use Google.

Please form an orderly line... behind me.

I see... change of career, heh?

WTF? I assume you are talking about Countdown. The reason it was taken off the air was because the presenter, Richard Whiteley died. It would have been a little insensitive for Channel 4 to keep the show running regardles. Apparantly the show will be back on shortly, this time presented by Des Lynam.

WTF? I assume you are talking about Countdown. The reason it was taken off the air was because the presenter, Richard Whiteley died. It would have been a little insensitive for Channel 4 to keep the show running regardles. Apparantly the show will be back on shortly, this time presented by Des Lynam.

Its misleading in the fact that it looks like the author of the post is recalling an event that happened to him.

Not unless you are a little dim. The first words of the post are:

Keiko Ogura was eight years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She still lives in the city.

Clearly, the poster is quoting another story, rather than recounting their own experience. In fact, the story is a cut and paste of a story on the BBC website. This I discovered from 2 seconds of Googling. That you did not take this step, but instead chose to descend into histrionics about the validity of the story, suggests that you may be simply trying to discredit the story. Why that is, I don't know, but it reflects poorly on you.

Next time you make a fool of yourself in public, try having the cojones to post other than as an AC. You gutless sack of fetid shit.

Not to mention Oil Profits:
Shell2003. Shell 2004. Exxon2003. Exxon 2004.
I'm sure you can find others by googling.

But Jeopardy! is a TV show, with ratings and advertisers. Some seem to be characterizing it as the academic-intellectual Olympics, but in all reality it could very well be more like the academic-intellectual Pro Wrestling.

Ken appears to be smart, that's a fact. But being TV, and not having direct access to Ken, or any objective criteria by which to measure his wits (it would be circular to consider Jeopardy! as such under this consideration), it's not for me to determine. Ken could be a trivia master, or he could be a very clever scammer/social engineer/hacker. People have devised systems to exploit contests, and even quiz shows before. It's distinctly within the realm of possibility. Ken could also be working in league with Sony, or with Alex and the Jeopardy! crew.

When I look back at all my mistakes and regrets in life, all of them were caused by innocence and naivete. Machiavelli knew what he was writing about in The Prince. While I'll keep an open mind and consider that Ken might be genuine, without evidence beyond what is presented on a TV show, or by the vapid celebrity/meta-media, I'm not considering this anything more than bread and circuses.

"is" is a verb.

"ice" is a noun.

"licensing policy", "licensing committee".

And the BBC can't make up its mind whether it is "programme" or "program".

"Um. Shitwit, the other Afghan candidates were tribal leaders...They never even traveled to Kabul. "

Thank you for proving who the shitwit is here with the gross over simplification and kind of proving my point:) How were they supposed to stand a chance to win an election if they never made it to the largest city? Some of them are former ministers in Karzai's government until he canned them to insure his iron grip on power. I'm pretty sure they must have been to Kabul :) I think you are agreeing with me Karzai was the only one able to campaign in the whole country because he had an American supplied helicopter and body guards.

Karzai is a tribal leader too, Popolzai tribe, some 400,000 members, like everyone is in one tribe or another.
Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai - Religious and mujadeen leader
Abdul Rashid Dostum - Uzbek general, presumably a tribal leader since he is a general
Sayed Ishaq Gailani - Sufi spiritial leader(not exactly tribal), member of the religious elite
Yunus Qanuni - Former Education minister, yes he is kind of a tribal leader but he was mostly the Northern Alliance Tajik candidate.
Massouda Jalal, only woman in the race, a doctor, I'm positive she is not a tribal leader.

Here is one CNN write up on the election including the supposedly indelible ink to prevent multiple voting that washed right off and all 14 candidates, other than Karzai, pretty much boycotted because it was so unlikely to be a fair election.

Here is a BBC take on it, I like this part to prove my point:

In south-eastern Khost province, elders of the Terezay tribe threatened to burn down houses of tribe members who did not vote for Mr Karzai.

"How many stamps are on your passport, asshole? The number, right now. Tell me. How many times have you been to central Asia? How much do you know about it? Or do you get all your news from the Internet and call yourself well-informed?"

Oooooo. Look at the anonymous coward bragging about his globe trotting ways. I'm guessing this must be you Twirp, if not you are stealing his lines. Hate to break it to you but you are an anonymous a**hole posting on the Internet and your resume and passport aren't available for scrutiny any more than mine is so stop patting yourself on the back. I've lived outside the U.S. as much of my life as I've lived in it which is why I don't subscribe to American B.S.

"Yeah, right. Asshole."

Great post friend. Zero facts and non stop name calling. You really did yourself proud, Twirp or one who worships his style. (I'm guessing from the times on Twirps non anonymous posts today this must be you cowering under AC again replying to my posts as is your way since I've rhetoricly kicked your ass).