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It may also be possible, some medical practitioners believe, to use copies to save lives on the operating table. A copy could be made of a kidney dialysis patient's good kidney, and then the copy could be inserted into the patient's body cavity, replacing the bad kidney.

Why thank you. Creepy is what I think. If you think about what facism is, and mussolini ought to know, its an dictator ship fueled by elite corporate interest, loosley justified by nationalist patriotism, that abborgates individual rights.

it's morning in america!

want to read something funny: check out the second article on page

Am I the only one seeing a new cold war coming to our home doors. First it is the nukes of us and NK then this article proclaims that NK has giant mecha leader and couple days later we hear that US is building a anti Kim Jong II device.

Have we gone too far? If this is what is the prime of civilization, I do not want to be part of it.

DISCLAIMER: Read the Onion article before thinking that I wrong about new cold war ;-)

Speaking of making perfect copies of animals Mexican Scientists Perfect Copying :).

And why don't they tax hard drives? What about microphones? How about the RCA cables used to connect recording equipment? How about taxing the air through which we propgate, because, we just MAY be hearing some pirated music running errands around town!? How about copying ones and zeroes??? I think if they're going to do their thing, they ought to do their thing! (sarcasm...)

Don't you know that God created everything in six days, the world's only 5000 years old, and dinosaurs are planted hoaxes?

Even reputable news sources agree.

P.S. First post.

I would say that instead of sewage, authors .. often produce the raw ingredients for a meal

unless it's the New York art scene, where bodily excrement is quite often juxtaposed with religious iconography for maximum media attention grabbing headlines, c.f., "Piss Christ" and others

If I've done my math right, M$ stands to gain $103,079,215,104USD in royalties every time someone buys one... according to this.

I've been wondering for a while if they'd just give up and go the way of Nike.

Huh. And I thought I was cautious waiting for my Playstation 5. Damn you, Ghost of Christmas Future!

The Sony PlayStation 5, a 2,048-bit console featuring a 45-Ghz trinary processor, CineReal graphics booster with 2-gig biotexturing, and an RSP connector for 360-degree online-immersion play. See the specs at Playstation 5

LOTR by Jim Anchower: (The Onion)

Hola, amigos. How's it hangin'? I know it's been a long time since I rapped at ya, but there been all sorts of craziness going on.

First off, I get this new job as a gardener for this middle-aged short bastard-- Frodo Baggins. The work's pretty easy, and I can grow my own weed. I don't know what it is about the dirt in Hobbiton, but that's some sweet-ass green. Farmer Maggot grows the sh** bigtime and he's always up-in-arms about a couple of local peeps stealin' in. "It's good to share." That's what I always say.

Anyway, I guess it's not fair to call Frodo (FB, as I call him) a bastard. He tokes as much as I do. I thought I might be growin' it a little too pure though. FB was all talking about this tall dude named Gandalf and how he told him to hide this one ring of his uncle Bilbo's. So, he's layin' this weed-tale on me. I'm already high and am getting a secondary-high of FB's breath and I'm thinking, "Sh**, that little ring would buy me a nice little stash," I shook that off. That was the old, out-of-work Anchower.

There's this nice piece that works down at the pub. She's been eyeing the anchower package ever since I came growing. At Bilbo Bagins 111th birthday party last week, where he disappeared -- damn, I completely forgot that -- she was all over me. I don't even think she was drunk, and I know I wasn't hallucinating. I still have the bite marks to prove it.

Anway, this Bilbo guy gets up and, I know it's his birtday and all, and give this wack-ass four word speech and vanishes. I was thinking I was a little too high but everyone else was surprised, too. He hasn't been back since. That's cool, I have a good job, weed, and he had his eye on the pub-chick anyway. Sick old bastard. I gotta give the pops props, though, I saw him sporting 111-year old wood at the pub and I know that I'm gonna be just as nasty at his age. That'll be sweet.

"kill your television" and live life to its fullest

Yeah, we know what you think, Jonathan... :)

Christian Right Lobbies to Overturn Second Law of Thermodynamics

Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs: 'Oh, Shit,' Says Humanity

Didn't you see it? It was carried by all the major news sources.

Yes, but he didn't get elected.

Dow said, in their complaint that

"The violation of Dow' s invaluable copyrights is causing and will continue to cause Dow to suffer irreparable damage as long as the website remains operational."

Put it this way: if the same material had appeared in The Onion, would it have stung Dow so badly? Would they have even cared? If not then it wouldn't have been worth doing.

Plus, of course, there are the questions: what would you think if your family had lost two or three members and been given 3000 dollars each for your trouble while the people responsible had just gone home and were living in luxury on a pension generated by the same company that killed so many of your friends and relations? What if you had had to bury children in unnamed graves because their entire families had been wiped out leaving no one that knew their names? Would you give a toss about Dow's silly little copyright?

TWW

The onion already had a story like this, here. This once again proves that the onion is america's finest news source.

Their own FAQ starts off with...

"The Onion is a satirical weekly publication published 47 times a year on Thursdays."

Also on the same page:
"The Onion uses invented names in all its stories, except in cases where public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental."

In the case of the "Yes Men" the attempt seems to be using parody and satire to effect social activism. This, in itself, is not a bad or uncommon thing. However, if one is going to do this, one has to make sure the creation is actually satire.

The main tool that they use on the web appears to be 'Reamweaver', a tool to copy a website and modify in small ways. From the Reamweaver website we have
Reamweaver has everything you need to instantly "funhouse-mirror" anyone's website, copying the real-time "look and feel" but letting you change any words, images, etc. that you choose.
and
Use Reamweaver for fun, or, if you like, for lots of fun... by obtaining speaking opportunities on behalf of your adopted organization. Here's how to that:
1. (Optional) Register a domain not too different from your target's domain - e.g. we-forum.org, world-economic-forum.com, wtoo.org, rncommittee.org .
2. Put Reamweaver on your domain.
3. Tell search engines about your domain.
4. When invitations arrive, accept them!
This does not seem to a tool conducive to satire. This appears to be a tool that is to be used to misrepresent, decieve, and ultimately allow an individual to go into the community as the perceived representative of the company under attack.

Social activism is good. Trying to create a better world is good. However, when you invite a person from Dow Chemical to your office, one would expect that the person is actually from dow chemical. Furthermore, I am not sure I would equate the Reamweaver technique to a person who registers a slightly misspelled domain name and then puts up tons of pop ups and installs viruses when some unsuspecting visitors accidently hits the site.

I understand that the intention of the Yes Men are probably just. I understand that they are probably good people,. However, copying someone else's website and representing it as your own is not good. It is one thing to rip other artists CDs for personal use. It is another thing to rip those CDs and then sell the copies. It is yet another thing to rip those CDs change a few seconds, and then represent the tracks as your own. What they are doing might be peaceful disobendience. It does not seem to be satire

I was expecting well-written and hilarious articles like this one but instead it was rather dry. I have a hard time believing this isn't really a site decrying videogame violence as opposed to a parody.

Everybody knows videogame violence never harmed anyone. It's nonsense like this that prevents highly anticipated titles from being released at their scheduled dates. Slashdotters unite!

...don't yell and scream about freedom...

Well said, good sir. I say verily, that is the last thing should want from ourselves. We shant let it be known to our noble masters that freedom is a virtue and a right that we hold dear to our hearts, and desire to proclaim it loudly from deep within our souls. Would that it be known, we should be condemned as insurgent heretics, and should rightly be burned at the stake, with the witches and basphemers.

Perhaps we would better let it be known what we desire if we lay prostrate before his excellency and humbly beg for his mercy.

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On an entirely different note...

Bush revises the Bill Of Rights.
Fact or Fiction? Hard to tell, isn't it?

We already have visitors from Christmas of the future here to taunt us with gifts from the future.
Ian

Frankly, it should've happened a lot sooner- because there are a lot of great videogame pioneers who deserved more recognition than they got, including the geniuses at Infocom, Howard Scott Warsaw (despite the travesty that was E.T. for Atari...), ID and so on.

And no offense to /. or The Onion, but the Webby Awards (recognizing "the best of the Web both in quality and quantity") is the most ridiculous and pointless awards ceremony of the last century.

If the Internet is, as is often claimed, one of the most important mediums of the last century (and perhaps even last 1000 years), doesn't it deserve a better body for the recognition of its best-and-brightest contributors than this? An awards ceremony created by a pretty actress cum filmmaker cum Good Morning America 'internet expert'?

(inserting obligatory karma-whore reply, "I dunno man- her body looks pretty good to me!")

from the article: WASHINGTON, DC--Flanked by key members of Congress and his administration, President Bush approved Monday a streamlined version of the Bill of Rights that pares its 10 original amendments down to a "tight, no-nonsense" six.

It's offtopic, but here's some more geeky Onion fun:

Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics

Video-Game Character Wondering Why Heartless God Always Chooses 'Continue'

Also, The Onion Techbeat Archives

It's offtopic, but here's some more geeky Onion fun:

Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics

Video-Game Character Wondering Why Heartless God Always Chooses 'Continue'

Also, The Onion Techbeat Archives

It's offtopic, but here's some more geeky Onion fun:

Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics

Video-Game Character Wondering Why Heartless God Always Chooses 'Continue'

Also, The Onion Techbeat Archives

What about the playstation 5!!!

(it has a trinary processor :P)

the article is gone. removed from the site. move along for more interesting news at theonion.com!

Why not? They've got the Playstation 5 on the way.

What's next, news items ripped from The Onion?

Supposing this story is true, why the hell is *consoletalk* the only rag picking it up?

Maybe we won't see the PlayStation 5 after all.

Look at http://phroggy.com/articles/monster.html, then http://www.theonion.com/onion3846/nation_afraid_to _admit.html...

Adult games huh?

I Gotta Get Back To My Roots:

After giving it a lot of thought, I finally decided to get the Nintendo Game Cube. My Super Nintendo did all right by me, so I figured a Super Super Nintendo would probably do even better. Anyway, what the Game Cube lacks in race games it more than makes up for in zombie games. Not only does it have Resident Evil, but there's also Eternal Darkness. I took a hard look at the cash I'd socked away and decided I had enough for a Game Cube plus one game. I got Eternal Darkness because, unlike Resident Evil, you can only get that for the Game Cube. You see, Jim Anchower enjoys the finer things in life, and there's not much finer than a video game that's exclusive to the very system that you happen to own.

Ya know, I want to be a Libertarian, I really do. But I'm reminded of what Berke Breathed said: "And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners."

Yes, in theory, Libertarians want govt to stay out of our lives and uphold this principle equally with regards to all the ways govt is intrusive. In reality, almost every Libertarian I've ever met is a greedy ahole who doesn't want to pay any taxes but expects all the roads to get paved anyway. If the party tried to focus more on "hey, we're the party for freedom" instead of "hey, vote for us and no income tax" then I think they might get more of a following.

First of all, how many available, attractive women actually go to the trouble of putting up their own sites or publishing their info? Unless they're in the news somehow, there aren't going to be that many references to the really desirable women because they don't need to use the internet to meet people. This is nothing new. Even if there were some questionable info on someone on the net, do you really care? Is it true or is it a satire or hoax like the onion? It's like reading a person's diary or setting up a surveillance camera inside their house. They present themselves to the world how they want to, and if you try to find out about someone online you're just asking for a skewed perspective. "Uh, honey, I found those hardcore pictures you did online 10 years ago, I wanted to let you know I still love you." Turns out it was her twin sister and she's offended that you actually *looked* for something bad about her. If you do find something online and allow that into your relationship with someone, you may find out how little you really know of yourself and each other. I mean sure, I'm as fond as the next guy of searching for news articles on women I'm interested in to see if they have any hobbies so I can ask them what they do in their spare time, but for example searching the local recorder's office to see if they own property to see if they live in a nice area is just out of line. Why don't you just ask, it will look better if they ever find out. This reminds me of that device in Japan that tells people whether there's a "match" in the immediate vicinity, like while walking on the sidewalk. Seriously, people.

That said, Google has a right to decide advertising as it sees fit. The decision to allow or disallow certain types of advertising is indeed censoring material, and Google has every right to do so.

They also have a right to block from their search engine whatever material they find objectionable. However, in that case, the censorship is indeed evil -- unless Google makes it explicity clear that the information is filtered.

In summation: filtering of advertising, not evil. Filtering of information: evil. Anybody who confuses advertising with information: needs to think about what planet they're living on.

In case y'all haven't read the news...

After reading just a few of Gail Cooke's reviews, I can to one unmistakeable conclusion: She is the real life incarnation of Jean Teasdale.

You must mean this beauty from The Onion:

Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes

"Hey guys linux look linux linux linux linux ms sucks linux linux OSX i love linux beowulf clusters."

Any 'variety' opinion wise is modded down into oblivion.

Are you masochistic, or what? If you don't like Slashdot's bias, go elsewhere for your news. (Try The Onion for unbiased reporting.) It'd be a more productive use of your time than trying to change everyone who is satisfied with what Slashdot has evolved into. Or are you just not concerned with using your time productively?

Not me. I learned my accounting on the street.

WASHINGTON, DC--Seeking to address "the number-one threat to airline security," the Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday that it will consider banning passengers on all domestic and international commercial flights.

"In every single breach of security in recent years, whether it was an act of terrorism or some other form of crime, it was a passenger who subverted the safety systems on board the aircraft or in the terminal," FAA administrator Marion Blakey said. "Even threats that came in the form of explosives inside baggage were eventually traced back to a ticketed individual. As great a revenue source as they have been, passengers simply represent too great a risk to the airline industry."

Under the proposed reforms, the FAA would institute a strict ban on adult passengers, passengers 18 and under, international travelers, and domestic customers. A battery of questions and ID checks will be used to determine whether an individual is a pilot, flight attendant, or federal security officer--the only humans who will be allowed to board an aircraft flying within or headed for the U.S.

...

Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids

Yours should be something like "In Soviet Russia, overusing death warrants joke!"

I think you have to pick two other bits, those you claim to own are already taken.