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If we're talking battery powered sets those are great to have around during hurricanes and such, at least until Congress starts telling us that only Godless Communists broadcast analog signals or try to serve their local market.

"If you're clinically dead, the soul aready departed right? Especially if it takes a few hours or days to get your body revived, then your soul's been hanging with the big man upstairs and probably won't want to return, which means the body will be revived without a soul and turn into a brain-eating zombie..."

I can't see why the *Church* (generic term for all Christian denominations) couldn't simply explain that the soul is essentially tethered to the body. When the body *dies,* the soul goes onto the next stage. If it is revived, the soul returns.

Religion seems to have survived artificial insemination 20 + years ago. Then again, there's always the possibility that religion will exhault those that choose to die and not artifically continue their human existence...declaring those that do part of the godless rich.

...and don't get me started on the issue of remixes.

Chimera zombies?

General Pet License?

You are right, this little time-shift is OK with the Creator, and it is also fine with me as far as the techique is used on the animals. On the other hand if you try to use it with people, I am not sure if you do not infringe some of my 10 patent claims (especially the one about stopping the life process). But don't worry, I can licence the technique to you - just for a little sign before you start to pump the blood out ....

Yours Belzee.

Is she over 18?

...and don't get me started on the issue of remixes.

Are you really sure about that?
Dogs are probably protected under the DMCA with the copyright holder being god...

Did they receive a written permission from god to breach copyrights??

Let's sue them!

Yes, that's exactly why I put all my releases under the GPL! ;-)

That's actually an extremely good point. If life is sacred, could one say $deity holds the copyright on our DNA? It's obviously on a pretty liberal license, but...

If so, wouldn't that sort of mandate that genetically modified organisms be released under the same license, forbidding DNA patents?

Repairing broken animals has never been an issue, it's just when you try to make copies without written authorization from the copyright holder that people get all upset.

Nothing these scientists have done defies the laws of nature. Got that? No laws were broken! The scientists have merely "time shifted" the animals, which is perfectly permissible under Fair Use.

Did you even know what Huddha was until the report of the destruction of the statues on Fox news. Or are you one of those godless non-christians who does not believe in Jesus. Or perhaps, even worse, one of these christians that do not believe in the Ten Commandments.
Exodus 20:4"You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
5"you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
6 "but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

It's just a local ordinance. If you can afford a new heart, you can afford a plane ticket to a free country. Are there any?
depends on your definition of freedom, of course. bleeding-heart, godless socialists like myself prefer to consult this organization, or this one, and even this one...
the cold, selfish libertarian capitalists prefer this one, i imagine.

Thanks for your response. I'm glad you got good karma for it. If it wasn't clear from the context, I'm talking about the freedom to install robot hearts, and generally to develop life extending new technologies so that they will be well-tested and cheap by the time I (or you) need them.
Of course a country might be free for medical research and not free in other ways that are important to both of us; perhaps I spoke too loosely. I didn't find anything specific to medical innovation at the sites you listed, and I'm not sure where to research this further.
Kudos also for listing the hungersite.org in your sig; that's an example of one small positive step a person can take.
As a cold selfish libertarian capitalist, there are reasons I have links to aclu and amnesty international on my blog. I've been tortured in jail, and I work with the aclu on issues where my freedom is at stake. E.g the hearings next week on FEC regulation of online speech.
Cordially, arbitrary aardvark.

It's just a local ordinance. If you can afford a new heart, you can afford a plane ticket to a free country. Are there any?

Well, Vega Strike is about halfway there. Its flight model is fantastic, and its trading system is functional. Its combat system is realistic and yet playable, though you'd better save money for an auto-tracking unit right off the bat. Ah, if only the universe didn't sound like it was written by a /. troll.. (By this I mean things like "Newsflash! Liberal Space Pussies at it again! Godless commies of the Socialist Faction repulsed at Rigel by the fleet of the way-cool Internet-Brain-Implant Techno-Guys Faction!")

Yeah, thanks to propaganda, "liberal" went from someone that tends to try new methods in a crisis (As opposed to someone that tends to try traditional methods in a crisis), to culture of death/evil/satan/taxation god/military/america hating tree-hugging/bleeding-heart/wacko socialist/commie/fascist terrorist/anarchist/welfare-queen (did I miss any?) sympathizers.

It doesn't help that "conservative" has been smeared as well, albiet not as elaborately, by Democrats and Republicans. (Well, rather twisted than smeared by the Republican leadership. Internally in the party one is considered conservative if they march in lockstep with the leadership. Any deviation earns one a big scarlet "L", figuratively. Although the rank and file and outsiders can generally see through this, the ranking officials seem stuck in this farce.)

You life long liberals out there have very little appreciation for exactly how well that word association technique actually works. Even many conservatives and Republican followers don't consciously pick up on it. Like when the topic of abortion comes up and the Pudits start screaming that "liberals are anti-family," you guys don't even realize that they are actually calling you godless communists, or at least that is the association.

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Liberal bias doesn't mean telling both sides of the story. Liberal Bias as reported by conservative media includes most this type of reporting. I call it unbiased -- or at least if biased, it gives the reader / viewer the chance to make up their own mind.

At this point, I don't think too many mainstream politicans could do worse than Bush...and thats what I was after -- I was using the current republican codeword for demonizing someone with Pol Pot.

But as to Christianity...Christianity definately says turn the other cheek. It doesn't say kick ass in the name of the Lord. Thats why I don't believe in gun ownership (I owned one once and got rid of it when I realized it didn't fit into my belief system...but it wasn't a simple conclusion to come to). Same with the death penalty. Personally, if faced with life in prison or death? Yeah, I'd want death if there was no way to get out.

Same with abortion...I don't like it. I think christians should be against it. I don't know, however, if it should be against the law...but don't look to me to support the right to choose either way. I think this is PURELY religious in nature...if we don't have souls, fetuses are not a full human and haven't even developed brains to be at the level of a goldfish. If we do have souls, its murder.

As for gay marriage, no there shouldn't be any. But at the same time, the gov't shouldn't be promoting marriage...I believe in civil unions vaiathe gov't and marriage by churches. Past that, its your churches decision. We should all be afforded the same rights. Married persons do have more privs than those that aren't.

I don't hate homosexuals...none of us are perfect. A good Christian...hell...even a bad one should NEVER hate a homosexual.

But all in all, the hypocrites I see on the right are the worst of the bunch. At least the godless hippies on the left don't claim to want to do anything except smoke dope all day while on welfare. I can respect someone that doesn't lie to themselves about what they are after...

denouncing Bush as a follower of Jesus

My state (not in the USA) was run for some time by a "Godless Christian", someone who paid for the setting up a religeous group called "The Logos Foundation" for the sole purpose of endorsing him during an election. He denouced both the Anglican and Catholic bishops of the time as communists and prohibited them from entering school premisies on pain of arrest. His administration ended with him on trial for a range of offences and several members of his cabinet and the police commissioner in jail.

As such I'm very suspicious of those who push their religeon on the voter - in a lot of cases they just think religeon is about smiting people and is another way of saying "I'm better than you".

Why would a bunch of religious fundamentalist nutbars care about space and science when there are godless non-Christians to kill? And dammit, they got our oil!