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Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO
Milhouse102 writes "I was just reading an article on The Register about Microsoft's offshore patent war following Ballmer's recent outburst in Asia. I came across this little nugget, it seems MS has patented BASIC's IsNot operator."
first post?
*pets white cat*
*Evil Laugh*
*gets twarted and frozen*
"ooh now I'm angry, but I have got a new piece of an unnecessarily complex plan that'll destroy the world"
*pets naked cat*
*Evil Laugh*
"Linux comes on three CDs rather than one" ...
Excuse me? Don't lump all distributions of linux into one sum. there are distributions that only take one CD, or a Floppy, or even a zip drive. There are also distributions that DO require two or three.. or even five CD's. But no two distributions are exactly the same. This SOB has clearly only used one distro.
The definition of Cancer is "Any of various malignant neoplasms characterized by the proliferation of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue and metastasize to new body sites." (Dictionary.com)
The definition of anaplastic is " Of or characterized by cells that have become less differentiated." (Also Dictionary.com)
An embryo is actually the direct antithesis of a "cancerous growth" because it is composed of cells that are actively becoming MORE differentiated, not less.
Furthermore, I did a quick PubMed search on miscarriage rates in the first trimester, but couldn't find a paper on the topic. I didn't go in depth, but I also ran a Google search and at Discovery Health, Miscarriage Facts I found that the American College of Obstetrics and Gynocologists places the miscarriage rate over all 3 trimesters at 15-20%, with most of those occuring during the first trimester.
I recommend you double check your facts, and leave out your invective.
Yes, there are women on Slashdot. Deal with it.
Conservatives: Kill murderers, save children. Liberals: Kill children, save murderers. Idiots: Think everything can be clearly and concisely tagged with a label, eat babies.
why integrating mono with gnome is a bad idea!
I never said an embryo is a cancer. I said that a conservative person would claim that a cancer is an embryo. I later later talked about embroyos regarding the liberal point of view. At no point did I state that embryos are cancerous, at worst you might claim that I implied it, but an actual reading of what I wrote indicates I used cancer them as an example. And your numbers are wrong, the 10 to 25% are what the conservatives like to pretend are facts, the recent studies have shown that most pregancy are never detected because they spontaneously abort in the first month, as such, they are never counted in those false figures you gave.
Your original statems was that Conservatives want to save children and that Liberals want to kill them. This is the ultimate, prejudiced, obnoxious point of view. It takes the thing we are arguing about, assumes that you are right and I am wrong, then tries to portray me as evil. No liberal ever things "I want to kill children"
The entire arguement is WHEN life begins. If you were actually honest instead of an arrogant person that thinks they must always be right, you would admit that. 99% of Liberals, if presented with reasonable convincing evidence that Life began at conception, would say "Ok, Abortion is murder, it should be illegal."
But the courts have legally decided that Life does NOT begin at conception, that an embryo is NOT a "child" and that kiling it is NOT murder, anymore than removing a cancerous growth is (since your reading skills have previously been demonstrated as poor, please note that I am not stating that embryos are cancers, but instead that they are more similar to a soul-less cancer than to a human being that has a soul.) Accordingly, the courts have said that Conservatives do NOT want to save children, they want to force people to have children against their will. And Liberals want to allow people to decide not to have children. That is the LEGAL definitions of their actual opionions.
P.S. Don't you just love the fact that when your post includes an off topic, offensive Sig and I get offended by it so I comment on it, I am moded down as Trolling. And then when you do a quick search on the internet for the easy answers, without taking the time do real researcy, you are moded as "informative." No body likes someone that complains, and that's what I get for complaining when I am offended.
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