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Oh ... my ... god. Apparently, I got it wrong. It wasn't some off-the-cuff excuse. They actually wrote up the paper!

More links.

Energy costs are higher on islands. And in that spirit, islands make an ideal testing place for new energy infrastructure projects, like a fleet of all electric cars. Its a pretty interesting idea, replacing gas stations with battery swap stations. From the NYT (go to bugmenot.com to get around the stupid subscription) article: "We always knew Hawaii would be the perfect model," he said in a telephone interview. "The typical driving plan is low and leisurely, and people are smiling." On this note, what other energy projects would be ideally suited for an island test like this? Personally, I'd like to see a test of a breeder nuclear reactor, a full scale Hydrogen distribution network, a superconducting grid..... And as long as I'm wishing for things I'm not gonna get I want a pony too.

Yup, real media never have problems with reporters making stuff up, or plagiarism, or using DoD Propaganda as articles or even using altered photographs. Yup, every single person in the professional traditional media holds to the finest standards of journalism.

Perhaps this is the one you are referring to:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E2DC113DF936A35756C0A9629C8B63

Someone who has already thought of this... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/technology/24wafer.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Now that the cost of higher education is falling and endowments are growing, universities will have lots of money to spend on music taxes!

Alternatively, they could just give every student a free copy of PeerGuardian.

Whack him as crazy all you want, but the truth is that he's crazy and despotic. From TFA:

Berlusconi owns swathes of the Italian mass media.

The left-wing newspaper L'Unita wrote: "You can not say that it is not a disturbing proclamation, given that the only countries in the world where there are filters or restrictions against internet are countries ruled by dictatorial regimes: those between China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia."

And -

Any G8 move next year to "regulate the internet" led by Berlusconi is likely to attract criticism. He has often been accused of using his power to try to silence dissent. He lost a long-running libel battle against The Economist earlier this year after it said he was not "fit to run Italy" and was this week suing American critic Andrew Stille for defamation.

More on this guy - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/world/europe/02italy.html?_r=1&ref=europe

Delays and ballooning expenses: some reform at NASA is in order...

Well, your comment is undoubtedly going to be a common one.

I was almost inspired to begin "Oh, please...", but I have to admit: I'm a technocrat at heart, and it's just a knee-jerk reaction.

Regarding Stern's Op-Ed, note that he was in SMD (Science Mission Directorate), a portion of NASA that routinely suffers cutbacks that reward "...the guilty" and punish "...the innocent," to borrow his phraseology, mostly in favor of the Manned Space Program.

The issue facing MSL is, indeed, endemic within the ranks of advanced "marquee" missions; furthermore, one cannot ignore the fact that it is easily the most advanced planetary surface mission conceived to date. It's likely some mismatch of management and planning has occurred.

The action to delay MSL's launch until the 2011 window, though, is a choice between following through on a bad bet vs. saving an good investment. It must be seen in light of what it represents: a decision to maximize a return on an already large investment of spent money instead of wasting it unwisely on unnecessary risk.

Just 0.02.

Cheers,
--joe.

Delays and ballooning expenses: some reform at NASA is in order...

1. Fragmentation. Defragmentation is not built in, customers must know how to run it. Without defragmentation of files on the hard drive, computers become very slow.
2. Temporary files. A study we did showed temporary files store in more than 40 places. Temporary files on computers we analyzed showed operation enormously because Windows becomes slow when the operating system partition is slow.
3. General sloppiness. It's difficult to maintain Windows because there are so many areas of sloppiness.

The speed of light is not some magical, mystical value that can never be touched. Light is just a waveform of photons. You can slow it down and you can speed it up. Both have already been done, and when it gets sped up it does actually arrive before it leaves. One must try to avoid conflating the confusing and improbable with the impossible.

Is anyone else here tired of knee-jerk partisanship framing discussion in terms of false dichotomies? Government involvement can do a whole lot of good or a whole lot of bad. The devil is always in the details.

Good: regulate to prevent monopolization of last-mile utilities and reduce barriers to competition.

Bad: let lobbyists who supported your campaign write bills that hand out huge billion dollar tax breaks to carriers to build out the next generation "information superhighway" and sit idle while all of that money goes straight into the pockets of shareholders instead while countries like South Korea and Japani take the lead in broadband while America slowly turns into a broadband backwater.

Hopefully things will work out a little differently in the new administration.

For those who don't know what you are refering to -
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/world/europe/02iceland.html

Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Raines
or this:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

(1999) "The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans.

And: "''Fannie Mae has expanded home ownership for millions of families in the 1990's by reducing down payment requirements,'' said Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae's chairman and chief executive officer. ''Yet there remain too many borrowers whose credit is just a notch below what our underwriting has required who have been relegated to paying significantly higher mortgage rates in the so-called subprime market.''"

The Community Reinvestment Act also let unscrupulous lawyers sue companies that they thought weren't making enough bad loans. This included a certain Barrack Obama, Esquire. The CRA was heavily expanded under the Clinton Administration. That's what Card was talking about - the guy writing that letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star (which is all that was that you linked) doesn't know what he's talking about, pure and simple.

I wrote a long analysis of the politically correct roots of the subprime meltdown here:
http://shakauvm.livejournal.com/57671.html

How about the New York Times? Is that good enough?

In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's.

''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''

Note the date on the article: September 30, 1999

This article from 2004 indicates there are about 9.8m stay-at-home moms and dads. This does not appear to count households without children and a stay-at-home spouse. While not a large group, it is still a significant number that could screw up unemployment statistics.

The Finance Committee added an amendment which provides that a man will receive this annuity only if he has retired from regular employment. This was based on the belief that no person holding a regular job should retain this job after 65, receiving an annuity along with his pay check. Rather, he should retire and make it possible for others to obtain work.

It certainly doesn't cover retirement fully, but it's wrong to say that retirement wasn't part of the original intention.

A calorie by calorie study of junk food versus 'good food' was done, finding junk food is indeed cheaper. It also found that junk food will remain cheap while healthy food costs keep rising. I'd consider it one of the reasons for America's obesity rate.

The union contracts are the single biggest anchor on the Big Three.

That's right. Let's make sure that the people who actually *make* the vehicles don't get compensated for making them. I'm sure the management class are the only people actually producing anything of worth.

Workers at the big 3 are getting about 28$/hour plus pension and benefits. Want to help them out? Move them to a single payer healthcare system and socialize their pensions...

I do agree that the big 3 should have to file bankruptcy like every other business, but not because of unions, and definitely not for the explicit purposes of extracting money which would otherwise be used to pay unionized workers.

Unions are all about collective bargaining. Do you really think that automakers would pay operators a living wage if UAW wasn't involved? I'm happy that they're finally suggesting limits on executive compensation. Chumps like Wagoner haven't exactly been adding value to their employers.

I would have been really happy to see any of the financial giants who came to Washington begging on their hands and knees for some government green actually have to justify their loans or give some sort of, you know, *plan*. Automakers get to jump through hoops to explain their lousy business plans and practices, but banks and other financial firms get a pass.

You should read What if it's all been a big fat lie - first, "we" the government knew better when you were growing up, but "we" the people didn't, because the USDA, operating on completely bullshit findings from the NIH, told us to eat a lot of carbs on purpose. They knew what it would do to us, but let's face it, there's money in processed foods. Second, there is basically no difference in your body between white bread and refined sugar. So it frankly does not matter one tenth of one shit whether the sugar is refined or not. You can get diabetes from living on bologna sandwiches.

Hear,hear. And while they are at it, how about they reinstate NASA's original mission statement.

Bull shit.

Here's what happened. FDR stimulated the economy from from 1930 to 1937 just fine, growing back to the 1929 levels. Then in 1937 he was pressured to return to "orthodox" policies and prematurely balance the budget by cutting spending (i.e. stop the New Deal).

Bull shit.

Here's what happened. FDR stimulated the economy from from 1930 to 1937 just fine, growing back to the 1929 levels. Then in 1937 he was pressured to return to "orthodox" policies and prematurely balance the budget by cutting spending (i.e. stop the New Deal).

Meant to link the article in the above post: An article about a guy who republished out-of-print cocktail books. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/dining/30cocktail.html

Perhaps OeLeWaPpErKe was exaggerating to make a point, but there are many large exaggerations in the parent:

When you see an American article, in English, you always see "AP", "AFP" under it.

Many news organization reprint wire service articles, but: 1) There are many other wire services (Reuters and the AP being the largest, I think, and you can see a list at the preceeding link); 2) News organization also do their own original reporting; the wire services are usually a minority of their content and an organization like the New York Times uses almost exclusively original reporting. I doubt the BBC uses AP or AFP stories (though maybe they use some Reuters). Watch a press conference; where are all those journalists from? Just the AP and AFP?

AP stands for associated press, which is not American

I assume that's a typo, but the AP is American, if that matters. The AP is a non-profit cooperative owned by American daily newspapers. AFAIK, the idea is that it's not cost-effective or useful for every daily newspaper to send a reporter to, for example, the big football game this weekend. So they formed a cooperative and send one reporter.

The AFP is not, AFAIK, nearly as large in English-speaking markets as the AP and Reuters.

They cooperate with one another, hardly ever making double coverage, so in practice an article with AP under it might have come from AFP.

I don't know about that; I've seen plenty of overlapping coverage. AFP is, not suprisingly, much less focused on the English-speaking world than AP is, but they both cover all major stories. Here are AP and AFP headlines from Yahoo!:

http://news.yahoo.com/i/514

http://news.yahoo.com/i/1504
 

So 1/3rd (in theory, in practice more) of all the news you see has been collected by French reporters, or at least reporters paid by french people.

First, who cares. But that number is not nearly accurate. Much/most of the news you see is produced by journalists in the organization that publishes it; what do you think all those journalists on all the TV, print, and website news organizations do all day? Also, as I said above, AFP has much less presence than AP and Reuters in the English-speaking world and there are other newswires, so they produce much less than 1/3 of the content. I'd guess it's more like 3% in English publications, but that's just a guess and of course it depends on how you measure it (stories published on newswires? stories published by news organizations (e.g., CNN)? stories read?).

How about predicting how a junkyard full of car parts can spontaneously, randomly become a running Ferrari or even only a Toyota automobile.

But it could, with the help of some high school kids!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/17/eveningnews/main1329941.shtml

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/watch-out-x-prize-contestants-these-high-school-kids-are-winners/

I'm a huge fan and proponent of robotic exploration of the solar system. NASA, JPL, the aerospace contractors and their partners in universities across the world have done an amazing job with comparitively tiny sums of money. Alan Stern (the head of NASA's Space Science Directorate who resigned when his plan to make visible the pain caused by the massive cost over-runs on MSL by shutting down the Spirit MER rover was overruled by higher-ups) has recently pointed out that routine cost overruns are crippling NASA. Ares and Orion show every sign of following this trend, and for what? To keep alive the fallacious dream that seems rather too popular that Star Trek is a plan for future space exploration, rather than an entirely traditional drama turned to SF by the addition of magic impulse drive / dilithium crystal devices. When we've done a robotic Mars sample return, which although fiendishly hard to accomplish is infinitely more practical than doing a manned mission), let's talk about Moonbase Alpha or whatever. (And whilst we're at it, for god's sake abandon the ISS, the most expensive white elephant ever to wreck astronomical observations.)

The conspiracy charge resulted in a mistrial, and I believe she may still be prosecuted for that on top of what she has already been convicted of.

Better not tell Monica Lewinsky's mother that.

They have fast food call centers now

If it'll get someone a bonus you can bet that the call centers will be moved offshore. It probably has already happened.

Throw the covers off the guns and blast them into next year.

Your punishment may be a bit extreme but maybe it's just because I'm the kind of guy that likes fair justice & is concerned that the rest of the world sees my country as one that blindly kills people.

You are forgetting that these pirates are (aside from being human beings) winning people over by giving them things in a very Robin-Hood-esque type scenario--even if it's only offering the people a paying job as a pirate in an otherwise devastated and unstable economy. You would very quickly fall into disfavor with the locals ... these pirates have even alegedly defended fishing areas for locals. They claim they are more like the coast guard trying to protect the food of hungry people. I think entire cities have bought into their propaganda and are willing to harbor/help them.

True or not, it's brazen disregard for how other people see things that causes really really bad things for America. Going in there, shooting up criminals & leaving is not going to improve anyone's image. Yes, these people are kidnappers & thieves but I don't think insta-death is a good way to deal with them.

Not a whole lot in this world is purely black and white.

They are pirates, and an ancient law of the sea is that pirates can be hunted and destroyed wherever they roam.

They chose a life of piracy, and should not be surprised when others hunt them down mercilessly; which is what needs to be done to make sea lanes safe for commerce.

One need not worry about image when dealing with pirates on the high seas; other than the one in the pirates mind where they see themselves hanging from a yardarm.

Well, since you mentioned, here are, imho, the problems with each of your alternatives:

1) Pass on the money while they still live, giving gifts to family/friends under the tax limits each year for many years.

This alternative invalidates your alternative #4. In fact, it is exactly what my grandfather did before he passed away in order to avoid inheritance tax: he transfered what he had to the name of his children. Of course then the children would have to register that income and pay taxes over that. But their tax bracket would be much lower than your proposed 90% tax. What, you think you could place limits on how much he could transfer? Watch Mickey Blue Eyes.

2) Pass on the money while they still live, giving it to charity with no limits.

Well, this point is really number (3) below. Except it happens before you die.

3) Allow the money to go to charity when they die, with no limits.

How fair or efficient is that? You could be perpetuating a rich person's eccentricity. In fact, just recently there was a very interesting debate around a rich woman who donated millions of her money to a charity to support... her dog! (see Rich Bitch). Her white maltese (called "Trouble") will get her own, tax-free, trust fund.

4) Have the government take most of it.

Would be a good idea, if the government were such a perfect agent for our society's welfare. Do you really trust the government to spend that money well? Think US$700bn, think US$25bn, think of the cost of the Iraq War. Then think about how much ($20k, $100k?) you parents will be leaving for you.

If you think your parents would leave a larger sum, you may have less to worry. As Warren Buffet, the 3rd richest man in the world, told us about, the tax system tends to be lighter on the rich.... The rich often pay less taxes, have good lawyers, creative accountants, resourceful private bankers...

A favorite Murphy Law states: Hard Problems have solutions that are simple, elegant, and wrong. But I am with you: it should be discussed...

Have the pirates been killing anyone? Not to my knowledge ....

Sadly, this is incorrect:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21842522-1702,00.html
http://article.wn.com/view/2008/10/23/Pirates_to_kill_crew_on_arms_ship_if_NATO_ships_attack/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1572236/Somali-pirates-threaten-to-kill-tanker-crew.html

They can and do kill people. And if this is allowed to continue, more and more people are going to die. On both sides.

I'm merely saddened your plan doesn't involve fixing any of Somalia's real problems. Just killing offenders.

My plan only addresses the short term issue: The piracy. That has to be dealt with immediately. Unchecked piracy will only result in the loss of more lives and cause economic problems on a world-wide scale.

Dealing with the political issues in Somalia is a more complex issue that lacks an immediate solution. I wish I could venture a good plan, but I do not understand the dynamics of the situation well enough to produce one. It's not like Somalia hasn't been receiving foreign aid:

By some
reckonings, no other country save Israel has
received such high levels of military and
economic aid per capita; certainly no country
has less to show for it. Even before its collapse
into protracted civil war and anarchy in 1990,
Somalia had earned a reputation as a graveyard
of foreign aid, a land where aid projects were
notoriously unsuccessful, and where high levels
of foreign assistance helped to create an
entirely unsustainable, corrupt and repressive
state.

What do they do with our foreign aid workers? Why, they kidnap and kill them:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/world/africa/06briefs-6FOREIGNAIDW_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081105/wl_afp/somaliaunrestreliefkidnap_081105183945
http://www.patronusanalytical.com/files/Somali%20Aid%20Worker%20Murdered.php
http://www.pr-inside.com/somali-aid-worker-killed-witnesses-say-r904499.htm

What would you have us do? I'm all for finding a peaceful solution if one can be arrived at. But as of this moment, there is an immediate problem people are dying or being threatened with death.

Food for thought: Isn't it interesting how the pirates can't afford food, but can always afford assault rifles? Perhaps there is more to their Robin Hood image than meets the eye.

Throw the covers off the guns and blast them into next year.

Your punishment may be a bit extreme but maybe it's just because I'm the kind of guy that likes fair justice & is concerned that the rest of the world sees my country as one that blindly kills people.

You are forgetting that these pirates are (aside from being human beings) winning people over by giving them things in a very Robin-Hood-esque type scenario--even if it's only offering the people a paying job as a pirate in an otherwise devastated and unstable economy. You would very quickly fall into disfavor with the locals ... these pirates have even alegedly defended fishing areas for locals. They claim they are more like the coast guard trying to protect the food of hungry people. I think entire cities have bought into their propaganda and are willing to harbor/help them.

True or not, it's brazen disregard for how other people see things that causes really really bad things for America. Going in there, shooting up criminals & leaving is not going to improve anyone's image. Yes, these people are kidnappers & thieves but I don't think insta-death is a good way to deal with them.

Not a whole lot in this world is purely black and white.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html

This is why Obama won't be allowed to use normal cells and his beloved Blackberry...

don't be a teetotaler either (moderate alcohol use does NOT kill brain cells, contrary to the old story about "every drink costs you 100,000 brain cells". NO hang-over, no damage, and the other health benefits are worth it).

Not if you're a woman. From the New York Times:

Cut down on alcohol, or avoid it altogether. When it comes to breast cancer, studies have been pretty consistent: there is no safe amount of alcohol. Even one glass of wine a day can increase your risk slightly, and the risk climbs with each additional drink. "This is something you can control," said Jasmine Q. Lew, a student at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago who recently completed a National Institutes of Health study that is one of the largest on the subject. "Women can choose not to drink."

I think you meant to say "licensing the UI from Xerox PARC".

Xerox didn't seem to think so. I can't find a mention of a licensing deal, but you seem to know where I would find details.

You make it sound like when Microsoft renamed the Trash the "Recycle Bin" and put it in the opposite corner of the screen and called it "innovation'.

That doesn't even sound relevant to what I said, and it doesn't sound like I'm the one with the axe to grind.

Also stay away from A and E, it appears to do more harm than good. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/news-keeps-getting-worse-for-vitamins/

Its effects are dramatic and well-established, whereas the case for memory exercises, environmental enrichment etc. is murkier --

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/opinion/08aamodt.html

Either your diet is *terrible*, or you're taking pills you DO NOT need. Don't believe me? Do some minimal research.

I suggest you do some minimal research on vitamin absorption and aging. (hint - it doesn't get better). You are correct that most under 30's don't need vitamins, but by the time you hit 40, B12, C, and D aren't absorbed as well. For mental functioning, B12 is the big one. You can Google "vitamin absorption aging" and your favorite vitamin, or read a few of these:
B12
B12
C
D

> "I've personally been very disappointed in Obama's nominations thus far,..."

Yet David Brooks, one of the token conservative columnists at NYT, begrudgingly admires Obama's nominations:

And yet as much as I want to resent these overeducated Achievatrons (not to mention the incursion of a French-style government dominated by highly trained Enarchs), I find myself tremendously impressed by the Obama transition.

Which commentators, pundits and so on? Left wing, right wing, balanced?

Right wing, mostly. See the links below.

If you actually had evidence of this, it would be a huge story.

Indeed, it has been big news when evidence came to light concerning the programs under which the Bush Administration, including the DoD, was paying pundits and news analysts to promote administration programs, or otherwise buying the news.

But you don't.

If GP didn't (which I suspect is not the case), the web certainly does, including evidence directly from the horse's mouth at the DoD link above.

So you're nothing but a mindless droning troll.

I would be careful throwing around insults like that, especially when you clearly don't know much about the subject and are just assuming that the person to whom you are responding to is wrong because of your own ignorance.

A few of quibbles...

First, size is only very loosely correlated to position on the food chain. Consider the elephant, only one step up on the ladder, or the sequoia at the very bottom. In fact the biggest organisms on Earth are fungi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_ostoyae). This doesn't really address whether size has anything to do with ecological vulnerability though. As it happens vulnerability is more closely correlated to a species' degree of specialization and to the resiliency of its ecosystem.

Second, if nothing you've read suggests abundant water in Mars' past, you must have missed this: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/146252. Also you should not assume a thick atmosphere is a requirement for higher life forms. It's accepted that the higher life forms on Earth arose first in the oceans.

Third, although we know the surface of Mars to be cold, we also know that it has a molten core (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3D8133FF934A35750C0A9659C8B63). Somewhere between these extremes may well be a habitable zone within the rock. Mind you, I'd have to agree that any life found there would have to be of a very basic nature. Even on Earth, we only find bacteria in such niches (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10336-gold-mine-holds-life-untouched-by-the-sun.html).

Here ya go. The actual news agency was Reuters, not the AP. I think this gaff was the one that broke the camel's back, so to speak, in news agencies using doctored photos.

They need to be sequencing the Dwarf Mammoth, that would be a much more viable pet.

Nah, the work's already been done for sequencing the Woolly Mammoth. We'll just breed our own Dwarf Mammoths by crossbreeding them with inebriated potbelly pigs.

I submitted a story about this Monday, Constitutionality of P2P law "under attack" (rejected) after seeing it in an AP story in the Chicago Tribune. That story quoted NYCL, who it of course called Ray Beckerman. I wondered at the time why he hadn't submitted it himself.

But at any rate, for the corporate media spin on this, here are a few links:
Billion Dollar Charlie vs. the RIAA
Legal Jujitsu in a File-Sharing Copyright Case
Lawsuits Brought by Music Industry Are Unconstitutional, Lawyer Says
Law professor fires back at song-swapping lawsuits (AP)
Law Professor Takes on RIAA
Prof: Penalty unfair, will help with $1M download lawsuit
RIAA defendant enlists Harvard Law prof, students
Harvard Professor: File-Sharing Lawsuits Unconstitutional

Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Reached Tipping Point

How HUD Mortgage Policy Fed The Crisis

Pressured to Take More Risk, Fannie Reached Tipping Point

How HUD Mortgage Policy Fed The Crisis

They need to be sequencing the Dwarf Mammoth, that would be a much more viable pet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/science/20mammoth.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

right NOW, we can do this

apparently it would be tedious, but a number of technical hurdles have been overcome lately to the point where this is really conceivable to do, and the talk about doing it isnot theoretical, but practical

1. most recent modern genome decoders don't care that the dna is shredded into pieces
2. encapsulated in keratin (hair), the dna is not so tainted by bacterial dna like it is in bone
3. a new technique allows modifying modern elephant dna 50,000 genomic sites at a time, rather than one by one, so the proper egg can be arrived at after a few generations of reconstruction, implanted in a female elephant, and voila

this can be done, right NOW!

amazing

even more freaky: we can do the same, right now, with neanderthal!

using chimpanzee as a starting point for ethical considerations, we can also, right NOW, bring a neanderthal back to life

that's pretty freaky. these guys wouldn't be dumb. someone would have to explain to the guy that he is not the last of his species, he's an artifically reconstructed clone of a guy who died 50,000 years ago. no one of his kind exists anymore

but we revived a wooly old friend of yours too. here's a spear, happy hunting

just don't eat the dodo
or the quagga
or the irish elk
or the auroch
or the sabretooth though

really really freaky and amazing