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How To Grow a Head
Taco Cowboy writes "British scientists have found a mechanism within our gene sequence that allows the growing of a new head — with brains, etc. The gene is tentatively known as smed-prep, and the information contained in smed-prep also makes the new cells appear in the right place and organise themselves into working structures."
Everyone was in favor of growing Hitler's head. But the when you grow it on the body of a great white shark -- ooh, suddenly you've gone too far!
(side note if you recognize that paraphrase: mark your calendars/DVRs for June 24th!)
My work here is dung.
a smed head?
Okay, that's it, science is getting too damn strange for me now.
two heads are better than one.
"Working" as in, you pull the chord and the ear moves?
Or "working" as in, you go for the chord, but the things runs off and starts multiplying and plotting the demise of your species?
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They could make a fortune on that technology, but the problem is how to transition to the new one gracefully?
Zaphod, my buddy! Is that you?!
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So its possible to spawn 10 heads as "Rawana", the villain of the "Ramayana", tale from India!
to 'getting head'
Great way to get a head in this business
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I am impatiently waiting for the tech to get here so i can get my fingers back...
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At the moment, this only works for flatworms, whose purchasing power is rather limited, last time I checked. So I doubt they will make a fortune soon. Then again, the difference between a banker and a flatworm is probably somewhat negligible. Actually, no, I am sorry. My sincerest apologies to all the flatworms reading slashdot.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
What a smed head.
Or smed-prop? TFA says both smed-prop and smed-prep without the capital S.
TFA also says that the gene is in flatworms, while TFS says "our".
Overall, though, best slashdot summary ever.
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From what I gather, they figured out the gene sequence in flatworms for growing another head for a flatworm, and can do so consistently.
Since our genes are similar, they probably can figure out where the genes for growing a human head are, and *might* be able to use that info for regenerating damaged brain tissue
No zaphod's anytime soon.
unless you belong to Planariidae, you don't have much hope of this benefiting you.
that looks like Futurama :D
Now all we need is a Bender and a 1 eyed girl.
ah, finally, there's hope for them too :)
(and on a more serious note: and for many many more people, I would suspect)
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They just need to borrow my book called "How to get a head in Navigating"
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redneck isn't racially charged, AC. It refers to a sub-group that encompasses many racial groups (though I have not encountered Asian rednecks, I have met black and white ones).
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
"Do you have ANY idea how much that stings?!"
Those are not the body parts we seek.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
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Science always advances faster then the moral and ethics of the society.
Science Fiction tends to serve as the cursory warning of the abuses of science. Please reply with suggetsions on reading that our fellow scientists should watch when they are not busy playing God (in the figurative sense.)
The Island comes to mind but even comic books like the Micronauts foretold the warnings of Body Bank abuses. The Repo Men is a recent film that from what I can gather might also make for a good reading.
Oh how I wish that science would first think:
"Ok if this works what are the ethics" rather then "do it first, then we'll worry about the ethics later."
I'm all for science, I just have the crippling burden of being a history buff, knowing how often science gives birth to atrocities. Comparing post-1600s science has made religion look tame.
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This is actually about a flatworm's ability to regenerate from serious injuries, not specifically about growing heads.
They claim they've found the genes responsible for regeneration in flatworms.
The title is "Gene that allows growing a new head identified
Now we just need memory backup - and worm DNA"
Which says quite a bit more than the catchy but non-informative title this article on slashdot has.
This should help take care of the zombie uprising
So if someone starts to grow a new head would it be unethical to cut it off even if it got there against their will? What do the varied religious texts say about extra heads you've grown long after birth?
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"...and I'll form THE HEAD!"
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Working in the sun makes your neck tan disproportionately. It is also very funny how ignorant they become because they are too tired from working to do much else. Idiots.
Seriously, of all the body parts for scientists to figure out how to grow, the head has to be the least important one. When the head is gone, you just harvest the organs for others people to use. If a person needs a new head, then you really need a person. If you can figure out how to grow extremities or organs, then you're onto something!
Better yet, grow me a whole new body, sans brain, and transplant mine. That'd be awesome!
I know a group of cannibals that would trade you a nice banana picker for one of these!
This story probably is just hype.
Let's continue talking about more interesting stuff like iPads.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Zombies reproduce massively now a ready food supply of brains has been made available...
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Whether it's nature or nurture that's at fault, the ignorant are products of their parents/culture. If you're born in county, odds are you're going to grow up to be ignorant without any scope for choice in the matter. Certainly, some people by change have the opportunity to exercise the choice to stop being ignorant, but to do so they must have already started down that path somewhat. After all, the beginning of wisdom is to realise that you know nothing.
I don't blame the stupid and ignorant for being stupid or ignorant. I blame the smart people in charge of media and education who deny them the opportunity to be otherwise.
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Is it just me or is this the last body part we should actually care about regenerating? Once my brain is gone, I couldn't care less if you regenerated it for me to start over with a fresh, empty brain or not. I'd rather them find a way to regenerate my body on my existing head, thank you very much.
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I knew all that pr0n spam had something real behind it. Now I know the truth without having to "click here".
I think that means they accept your apology?
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"Redneck" is racially charged, as I have never met a black redneck, only white. There are other negative terms used for blacks who fit the same level of ignorance and laziness that is attributed for "rednecks". The word "redneck" does NOT have the same negative power, rightfully so, but it is still a term used to speak disparagingly about poor whites, particularly in the southeastern US, similar to "hillbilly" in more mountainous areas of the US.
Comedians have claimed the word as their own (Jeff Foxworthy in particular) but it is still a negative term. Blacks have also claimed disparaging words as their own, as a form of empowerment. In both cases, when used by someone who doesn't "belong" to the group, it is done as a racially indicative insult.
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Somewhere above Obama Supporters?
Sorry but redneck has a specific connotation to South Eastern U.S. people of the white persuasion. Generally blue collar construction or farm workers. Due to the beating of the sun their necks become sun burned (red) or tanned. Another generalization associated with rednecks are they: hunt, listen to country music, drink beer, and drive a truck.
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I think it has more to do with independently utilizing what you were born with than blindly, or through weakness, accepting culturally reinforced views and behaviors and living under those banners. It spans every race, religion, age group and culture - not just "rednecks". Basically, it's just a form of snobbery. Anyway,I am interested in when someone figures out how to enhance the qualities of brains rather than just producing a physical form of schizophrenia.
TFA mentioned possible useful things, like curing or reversing Alzheimer's as well as looking in to how to stop "rogue" cells from forming cancer.
I can see a lot of potential from this, but we're looking some 20 years out and there are, undoubtedly, many other genes in the process that need to be looked into to make sure that the body parts being regenerated form correctly and link up to the rest of the body correctly. I can see new mouse heads in 15 years based on this discovery, followed by human regeneration beginning experimentally in 20.
Of course, my Alzheimer's (assuming I have it or get it) will have progressed to the point where I would not be a candidate by then. They tend to come up for cures for stuff just after someone I know dies from the disease.
Gods don't kill people, people with gods kill people.
as is typical, lab results are promising, fascinating even, but not yet entirely practical. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v157/JackSpratts/PUFFER-SMITH-47645.jpg
You're milage will vary based on your local. Way back in the before times, I had a teacher play the racial card on me and a friend when we were talking about hillbillies. Now, to us, it wasn't a racially charged word, it was just a stereotype on cartoons. But she was from Arkansas where Billy really did live out in the hills.
But no, rednecks are white, inbred, rural, old-school republicans. Their necks are red because they spend a lot of time in the sun with t-shirts on and they get burnt. Please describe the black rednecks you encountered as you're confusing a lot of us here.
Been wondering about that, too - my planarian ain't as fluid as it used to be. It might very well be "Prepare for the revenge of your planarian overlords, insolent ape!". It's quite similar in pronounciation, you see?
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
Somewhere above Obama Supporters?
A couple of hundred feet above? Where from they can be dropped on their head and then have a new one grown on the spot?
Why save your soul when you can sell it for a profit?
its second head there?
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I doubt she would be too satisfied if you grew a flatworm down there...
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
Speak for yourself! I want one.
Okay I am reading Greg Bear's City at the End of Time, at the same time as I am rereading Charles Stross' Accelerando on my phone. And then saw the BoingBoing story about a two headed lizard that sometimes has one head attack the other. And now this! Got a real shiver of acceleration from this one, and half of it is from the wild names of the scientists. It sounds like the intro to Bunkaroo Banzai and the plot starts from here..
"Top bio-boffin Dr Aziz Aboobaker and grad student Daniel Felix, who carried out the new research, say that the discovery of "smed-prep" unlocks the mechanisms by which..."
This suggests to me that as things accelerate we will have that wierded out thing more and more. Could be low blood sugar though..
And we all know what a group of bankers is called right?
We have a flock of geese, a herd of horses, etc.
And then there's a wunch of bankers.
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Their first client would be just this guy, you know.
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Yeah, funny, get back to us when you find a flatworm that is able to play the system so well, that it first can use the fact that the government is corrupt to buy the politicians to get Free (0% interest) money from the Fed, then make sure that laws are such that it is not illegal to gamble with the money, then set up a bunch of bad debts and bet against them and to make hundreds of millions personally, then when the banks fail, get the dumb ass 'public servants' to bail out the banks and take billions more in bonuses. And they keep the money at the end while the public gets stuck with an insurmountable amount in debt...
No no no, bankers already have multiple heads, some of them work in the governments, some work in the Fed, some work as various lobbyists and some 'run' the banks. Please, give credit where credit is due, those guys are brilliant at taking the money from you.
You can't handle the truth.
Now that we can grow brain filled heads to keep the zombies satisfied we can start breeding them for use as... well, somebody will figure that part out later.
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I realize that in this room, defending the redneck is probably about as fruitless as pissing up a rope, but here goes. My next door neighbor is one of the biggest rednecks you will ever meet, and he will tell you the same. He works a blue collar Union job, loves NASCAR, drives a pickup truck, smokes dope, and swills more cheap beer than you can imagine. He also has been married to the same woman for 25+ years, put both his daughters through College, Worked for the same company for 20+ years and is now a shop foreman, isn't a racist, and is generally the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet.
I think the pejorative most of you are looking for is "White trash"
I was rather aiming at the parasitical nature both groups have in common than at the intellectual capacity. I had to learn, unfortunately, that Planariidae are actual non-parasitic flatworms, which makes the above apology to the poor creatures even more important.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
Those poor flatworms with such limited purchasing power. It's because no one will give them jobs! Sad...
sorry but only the mentally ill consider the N word as empowerment. Every single black leader has denounced the casual use of the N word as self degradation.
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Okay, that's it, science is getting too damn strange for me now.
You must be older than 35.
Around here rednecks are the idiots that drive a jacked up to the sky Pickup truck without exhaust pipes in the city. that drive like they own the road and act like they are from the cuntry' folk but were born and raised in the city or at most suburbs.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I call bullshit. Lets see some pictures.
Per the summary:
"...allows the growing of a new head — with brains"
Note the last part. I'm seeing some potential applications in politics. Imagine what the world would be like if we could regrow the heads of our elected leaders...this time *WITH* brains.
since their favorite execution tool, the guillotine, will be rendered useless.
I don't know, I can't really tell whether that was a banker or a flatworm (again, deepest apologies in the latter case)
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Those are not the body parts we seek.
Actually, I seek to get head all the time.
Zombies of the world rejoice.
Humanity is now truly fucked by the zombie apocalypse.
They've not found it "within our gene sequence." They found it in the gene sequence of worms.
I would infer that one locus of expression is in the anus of politicians?
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Scientists, please spend your time growing the little head rather than the big one. Oh, and make the little heads bigger.
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well hey, i know if someone proclaimed themselves to be a leader of people with the same skin pigmentation as me, and then told me i shouldn't say a word because it's a magical word, why i'd hop right on that bandwagon. by the way, how's that situation shaping up?
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I could say the same of the term “nigger”, but then I’d be modded flamebait. Generalizing “redneck” to include many racial groups and defining it on the basis of their lifestyle is no different from generalizing “nigger” to include white-trash punks who talk gangsta, wear bling, and blast rap from their rolled-down windows.
It is still a racist term. Demeaning someone on the basis of their culture is a form of racism.
see: Poseur
The term "redneck" was also used in The West Virginia Coal Miners March (1921) or the Battle of Blair Mountain when the coal miners wore red bandannas around their necks to identify themselves as seeking the opportunity to unionize. There was no derogatory implication.
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...and who haven't figured out they can cover their necks?
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I prefer a wanker of bankers.
I've been waiting for this news, as you might tell from my post, I need another head. As for "two heads are better than one," there is a wonderful article about a truly remarkable person(s) in Minnesota with two heads that is doing splendidly (metabolically) and may redefine our stereotypes of a 'person'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel. Actually, she/they have two heads, spinal chords, hearts, and stomachs. They raise all kinds of wonderful social issues regarding privacy, marriage, procreation, and the law. For example, what is she/they ran for President? Would we have a leader that could speak to both sides of the aisle at once? Argue both sides at once? Veto and pass a bill at the same time? Be for and against every controversial subject? My god, Ms. Hensel(s) may be the PERFECT POLITICIAN! Two head are better than one, politically speaking.
I work a technical job, but still consider myself a redneck.
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I'd much rather see a two-headed worm drive while talking on the phone than a one-headed person.
When I prayed every night, "Dear God, I wish I could get a little head", this was NOT what I meant!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
"If were born in the country..."
This Redneck just fixed your fancy, city grammar and spelling.
Whether it's nature or nurture that's at fault, the ignorant are products of their parents/culture.
Uh. If it's nature's fault then they are specifically not the products of their parents/culture. Those two factors would be "nurture". I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that both nature and nurture have an impact (or fault, if you will), but the argument is to what extent each influences people.
As for using media and education to provided opportunity, yeah I'd say that's the best way to give the lower class a leg up. Statically, people are going to be the product of their environment, so we should try to improve the environment. Wooo psychohistory. But what makes you blame the people in charge of the media and education systems? They and their actions are also, on the whole, a product of their environment. I think you're giving them too much credit when you describe them as "smart".
For your average Slashdotter, "labor" is the walk from the far ends of the parking lot to their cubicle.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Grow a head in somebody's ass, give a new meaning to the expression "butt-kisser".
Ah, sorry - markup failure. It was supposed to be brackets with 'Insert_Backward' county. And it was specifically 'county', not country.
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my god, are you religious?
please describe to me how this choose thing works?
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If I recall correctly, genetics are inherited from parents, so whether nature or nurture (or both, I agree) it all comes down to your parents.
And you're right - I am giving them too much credit. Originally I was going to use the phrase "so-called smart" but then I realised that they really are smart people, but also greedy and craven. You can be highly intelligent and also immoral.
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You probably also voted for the last three presidents and consider yourself a fiscal conservative.
You are identifying with these labels simply out of cultural inertia, or "tradition", if you want to be traditional.
Black isn't racially charges, AC. It refers to a sub-group that encompasses many people of many origins (though I have not encountered any Lunar blacks, I have met black born in England and in France and in China)
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Bloddy friscking g'dmnit!
. . . The last three REPUBLICAN presidents.
Oye...
I even seen pictures or albino blacks.
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I lost the last phalanx (joint including) of my right middle and right ring fingers. I am impatiently waiting for the tech to get here so i can get my fingers back...
Here's my old summary from Sounds like magic: Doctors try to regrow fingers:
Dude cuts off his the end of his finger (base of nail -> tip) with the help of a model airplane propeller. A doctor said to get a skin graft to cover the stub. The amputee called up his brother, who sent him some powdered pig extract, and the fingertip regrows over the next few weeks.
So the guy didn't lose the joint like you, but this is a starting point for you...
I'd bet that "surroundings" is the body's electric field, but what do I know? You may be able to chop off the scar tissue at the end of your shortened digit and apply the powder. ?
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Even though you're probably right that only whites can be rednecks, it's not therefore "racially charged". You aren't automatically a redneck just because you're from rural Arkansas, you need to fulfill certain stereotypes. Most of those are subject to choice to a larger or smaller degree (smaller: accent, larger: vehicle decoration, etc.). I bet those who fulfill the cliché most aren't exactly ashamed of it, either.
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If you were born in the country..."
But even Rednecks forget to proofread.
Every creature deserves a nice warm book-burning.
I think it would be a lot easier to transplant a head, than a brain. That would still be a major feat, and there are the issues of paralysis, (including the fact that the brain stem is not attached to the spinal cord... ie, nothing tells your new heart to beat, lungs to breathe, etc). So until the spinal cord is mended, you would need to be on a heart/lung machine.
If you were born in the country... Just sayin.
I'd be happy if they regrew my same body, so I could have a do-over on that period between 18 and 28 when I let myself go.
One of my great grandfathers was a union organiser for (Arkansas) coal miners, who were called rednecks by the local newspaper, starting in a coordinated campaign that began about six weeks before the Pinkertons came into town and beat them for daring to unionize. The Pinkertons shot a couple of them too, allegedly raped at least one woman, etc. I've read my great grandfather's letters to his brother, where he describes the night when over fifty shots were fired into his house, and they hid in the root cellar except for my grandmother, who was then a child of eight, trapped upstairs in her room with no time for them to get her. If it didn't start out as derogatory, redneck soon became derogatory from events such as those. That was way back in 1904, well before your twenties citation.
The term redneck is historically of confused origin. It may actually have something to do with the red kerchiefs worn by socialist inclined union organizers, but more probably goes back to the much more common attribution of red sunburn on fair skinned southern farmers. Best evidence is it came into existence to refer specifically to the Irish immigrant farmers of the 1870's era, who swiftly became notorious for sunburning easily. It was already a derogatory term when used by non-members of that group, and got self applied by the miners later in an ironic manner, as these people were also frequently of Irish extraction. There has thus always been a racial connotation to the word.
You may have a hard time finding anything on the internet better than Wikipedia, but there are real books that will tell you about the mine workers struggle going back way before the 1920s. Hell, Alan Pinkerton, founder of one of the worst groups of thugs in American history, was part of the Civil war era. Joe Hill was a mine worker in Utah in 1914, and supposedly wore a red bandanna when he supposedly committed the murders he was hanged for in 1915. This is why we say 'not a real source, blah, blah, blah".
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it's going to happen anyway as the lanuage spreads into the far corners.
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Oh wow, the parents fault through their genes. Yeah, wow, I completely missed that. Sorry.
Uh, okay. You could also say that 'wetback' isn't racially charged, since it could apply to anyone who swam across the Rio Grande to get here. Try it and let me know how that works out for you.
With this breakthrough, we can regrow our heads, after zombies have munched on our delicious BRAAAAIIINNNNSSS.
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Shades of Zaphod Beeblebrox! Not only can I now be twice as confused, but I can also spend all my time arguing with myself! No you wont! Yes I will! No! Yes! No! OK. I give up now... :-)
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real-time.
...makes the new cells appear in the right place...
What if you already have a head in the right place (assuming the "right place" is on top, between your shoulders)?
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I live in rural Tennessee and can confidently say that I have not met one redneck who is ashamed of being such.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Perhaps, but aside from the tanning or burning of the back of the neck, I have met blacks who fulfill all the other generalizations.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
See comment in the other sub-thread.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Sorry, but redneck is not even close to being equivalent to nigger. Grow up.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
"Love and kisses, Zaphod"
black is something you are born into and cannot change. Redneck is. BIG difference.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
If you're born in county, odds are you're going to grow up to be ignorant without any scope for choice in the matter.
It’s called cable TV, international news networks, and the internet. Welcome to the 21st century...
where if you’re born in the country you have as much chance to be informed and educated as just about anybody else, and where the truly “stupid” and “ignorant” are the people who make ignorant statements like the one you just made.
that is, redneck is something you can change.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Sure. They just don’t feed it the crap that you eat, and we’re all good.
Seriously. Did you miss the memo or something? Th causes of “migranes” are well-known and easily solved by now.
They are not, I repeat NOT caused by genetics! Which means there is only one alternative: Something in your environment. At least 90% of the time, it’s people not even knowing that what they eat should not be considered food at all.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Parent post has a slight misspelling. . . it's "Smeg head".
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What? Would you prefer to grow tits? ^^
With a second head, there’s at least a chance you can give yourself “head”. :)
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"Most Slashdotters have already figured out how to grow moobies."
There, FTFY.
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We are one step closer to that movie with Arnold, 6th day, where the clones are coming out of the woodwork, and can't wait for the previous clone to be dead before assuming it's identity. I can't wait for the day we actually do a full body with head and all, then the moral police will come knocking.
Well, once they have the human head part down instead of a planarian, shut off the brain development portion and the grow eyes, faces, etc. for those that new ones.
Nice to know we are a step closer.
Let's test this on politicians and bankers first.
having your head up your ass is not just a dream anymore.
I already have a big head ruled by a little head. I'm not sure where a third one would fit in.
Isn't there a way to submit new names to the genome sequence? Something nerd-cool like "Hydra", "Ettin", though most will probably use it to submit "Jibarish" names.
I'm not old enough to have vote for the last three :) I voted first for GWB in 2004, because Kerry was my option and I was in a swing state. In 2008, I voted for McCain, though it was tough to do that. GWB was a corporatist, Obama is a socialist. McCain was just Obama Lite. I'm a libertarian in most respects, so it was definately the lesser of evils. Badnarik is a bit of a kook though, and Barr is a Libertarian but not a libertarian.
I *did* vote for Paul in the primaries though in '08 - not because I thought he would win and would be a good president, but to hope to make the GOP realize that there are a lot of us small-government types out here. Doesn't work when your vote isn't counted though. I personally know more people who voted for Paul in the primaries in my county than were reported. Strange.
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you can change black, isn't that what the KKK were all about?
Michel Jackson, seemed to do a good job, and what about the albino blacks?
How about Jews, Being Jewish is something you are born into and ?can? change.
The Chinese are taught in schools that they are from a different branch of the human race to the rest of us, are they far game?
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Sounds more like a flatbiller (ricer of the offroad world).
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Don't blame the sheep for following the shepherd: stop eating lamb.
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Yeh,I hate stereotypes and pigeonholing, how about you?
If you got a particular problem with a particular thing, have that problem with that thing. Not the poor unfortunates that carry it out.
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and yes I do have a problem with the way the whole of the criminal justice system is run in the UK.
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I was a bit disappointed to note that the first post contained no references to Beeblebrox.
Why bother
Referring to someone in a derogatory manner because of their peculiar cultural traits is racist.
The fact that they call themselves “rednecks” and are not ashamed of it does not change the fact that you are racist if you use that to justify feelings of your own superiority. As soon as you imply that because someone is a “redneck” they are less intelligent or less cultured than you are, you’re being racist.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Reagan, H.W. and W?
Geez, you must think I am old.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
But can I grow a head that looks like Ray Milland?
Oh hey, I don't do that. Go figure. Guess you and the rest of /. really don't know me (or anyone else on here). What. A. Surprise.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
What?
Actually, MJ had a genetic disorder. A well documented one.
Jewish = Israeli and/or religious group.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Why don’t you go and learn the history of the term so you can avoid offending people in the future?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs#R
Who knows, you might even learn to keep your mouth shut and not end up saying something stupid.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Ah. So you’re just going around foolishly using derogatory ethnic slurs and honestly meaning no harm by it.
Your original claim, “redneck isn't racially charged”, is laughably incorrect, by the way.
Now, I apologise if I misunderstood your meaning, but for future reference you’ll probably find that a lot of other people will too.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
A redneck isn't a lazy or ignorant white guy. Most farmers are rednecks.. it comes from the farmer tan look.. you have a red neck from working outdoors. You can say most rednecks aren't educated though.. because obviously they would have a hard time getting as much sun from inside a college classroom.
IMO, redneck isn't racially charged. It's as bad as calling someone a soft cityboy.
http://soylentnews.org/~tibman
That was the origin of the word, but it quickly became a derogatory term for a certain ethnic / cultural group.
And Negro was originally a factual descriptor of someone with Negroid features, but it has similarly been used as a slur and most black people wouldn’t much appreciate being called that.
I can have a sense of humour about it. Redneck jokes are generally funny. Redneck repairs (i.e.: duck tape) are funny (and often impressive). But if someone honestly looks down on people who they consider “uneducated” or “uncultured”, they’re being racist.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Now I can be twice as clever. Or I will be able to go slacking with the current one, while the other studies for exams.
What, so you can screw it up again? No way buddy, we'll save the regen tech for our most fit soldiers like Dolph Lundgren. You can sit in the back of the trailers and monitor the cooling systems. But hey, upside - the trailer's refrigeration systems hold a large amount of pie and frozen pizza snacks. Everyone wins!
Maybe I should backpedal and clarify my position.
I’m not saying that you are a racist. I’m not putting words into your mouth, and I’m not saying that you did imply that “rednecks” are inferior in some way. If you didn’t, aren’t, ... well, then the shoe doesn’t fit. So don’t act indignant like I called you a racist. I’m not saying that. What I am saying is that if anyone (not you in particular) looks down on rednecks because of their culture, that is racist: it is a derogatory, racially-charged term.
Since it most definitely was used in a derogatory sense in the original comment from which this thread stemmed, jumping in to defend its use with your obviously incorrect understanding of the meaning of the word itself makes you seem at the least to be ill-informed.
You probably aren’t a racist, but this comment clearly was and would be offensive to anyone who considered himself a redneck. He did imply that because someone is a “redneck” they are less intelligent or less cultured. So consider my accusation to have been leveled at him, and you just sort of got caught in the cross-fire.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Ray Milland or Rosey Grier?
Mister Smeds had twenty-one heads and only one hat to his name. Poorly read heathens, the lot of you. =)
I think the most valid question is this:
can this technology be used to grow ONE brain in people that lacks one, like politicians?
That's hard work, the elevator at work was down last week and I almost clasped when I reached my third floor office.
"He is so stupid. And now back to the wall!" Moe Szyslak
If I asked any of the people I know of if they found the term redneck derogatory they'd laugh all the way to the bank.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
See subject. To anyone reading, clone's the biggest bullshit artist and scumbag on this forums, so get used to his crap.
Growing up would involve realizing that words are just words and not as powerful as those who wish to control thought have convinced people they are.
Because seriously, the USA could stand to grow a pair, of balls, that is.
I'll agree with that, the original comment was indeed a derogatory one, and I stand corrected on it's original meaning. That doesn't change the fact that the meaning of words evolve over of time.
To be honest, there are some aspects of being a "redneck" (as the term is now used) I like (fishing (never been hunting), formerly drinking beer (though I had expensive tastes), etc.). So to me the term has never been derogatory in intent.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Clone, per the subject above, and all the time you waste here everyday (all day)? Get a damned job, and do a little real work sometime. You'd have known the term is duct tape, not duck tape, dumbass, if you'd actually done an honest day's work in your life instead of being a welfare case like you are.
British scientists have found a mechanism within our gene sequence that allows the growing of a new head — with brains, etc.
They did not discover anything "our gene sequence". They only found the gene in flatworms and claim that it is a first step in understanding the mechanism in those worms, which is a first step in understanding it in humans.
Either the poster or the editor should at least try to focus long enough to RTFA!
Wow! this is an invention people have been waiting for years. There are quite a few that would like to be given a 2nd chance for another head! And not the kind of head that face-lifting would provide for!
Since we are tossing around anecdotes, where I live (south Florida) 2 to 3 generations ago the word redneck was the term used for anyone who was an outdoor laborer. As being bent over all day under the sun generally gives you an nice dark neck, regardless of race. Now days most people who proscribe to being a redneck do so because they are part of that culture, and for whatever motivating reason, are proud to be rednecks (I come from a long line of self proclaimed rednecks, although I do not think of myself as one). The word is more of a reference to that culture and I don't see anyone in it getting bent out of shape when called one (unless they want to fight and then it wouldn't matter what was said). Then again, these same folks take no offense to being called a cracker, which at best evokes a, "Yeah, I'm white, so what?" response, and that term is somewhat more racially charged. So if the term is racially charged, I think it would only be so for those who do not know better. I've not seen anyone get offended over being called that name.
There once was a boy who was only a head. His name was Randy.
No body, no arms, no legs, only a head.
Every day, he'd roll to school and get picked on by everybody for only being a head. "Randy, you dweeb, you don't have a body!" they'd say.
So every night, before going to bed, he'd pray and pray that someday he'd grow a body.
And wouldn't you know it, one day he woke up and... he had a body!
Randy was so overjoyed he ran around screaming, "I finally have a body! I have a body!"
He ran all throughout his neighborhood, and then ran all the way to school, all 3 miles, because he was so overjoyed.
When he finally got to school, he ran toward the front entrance, ready to show off his body to everyone.
He ran across the street, and BAM. He got hit by a school bus. He died instantly.
The moral of the story is -- quit while you're a head.
Considering 99.9% of the idiot congressmen in DC have a SEVERE case of rectal cranial inversion, perhaps growing another head would be a GOOD thing :)
"White trash" still has it's own connotations. Not all idiots are white, although in the US they are certainly in the majority.
Idiots are still idiots, and that's the term I prefer.
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
Well, it was only a matter of time.
"It turns out that this gene was easy to find, once the SEP field around it was turned off".
Ross Youngblood
That's just a brand name of an entire product line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape, you fool. That's no more the product than kleenex is tissue paper the product itself. Whatever or whoever apk is you are also barking up the wrong tree on that note too. You just can't get anything right can you clone?
Since you probably can’t see his sig, I’ll quote it for you.
An e-mail from APK - hilarious if you have time
In Soviet Russia, new second head belongs to government, and is thinking about YOU!
New head belongs to government department... is a department head!
That's not nice. I hate frozen pizza snacks! Or...wait, does the trailer have a microwave? Okay, we're cool.
If a person needs a new head, then you really need a person.
That's why you grow the new head before you need it, as a hot spare. Failover FTW!
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Now we can have Zaphod Beeblebrox!
Tracy Johnson
Old fashioned text games hosted below:
http://empire.openmpe.com/
BT
Isn't Jeremy Reimer the guy who had parts of his website removed for libelling APK by his hosting provider and Reimer was caught email harassing APK by his ISP, Shaw of Canada, when Shaw put Reimer on a tracking ticket for it (which Reimer promptly ceased his email harassment of APK once he was aware of that happening), and arstechnica strangely no longer puts up articles by the blatantly unqualified Jeremy Reimer? Jeremy Reimer and his friends Jay Little also had their websites removed entirely from CrystalTech.com and from petitiononline.com also, because of their making death threats to APK just because APK showed that Exchange Server stalls due to memory fragmentation are stopped when a memory optimization program is used (microsoft's own called clearmem.exe) after Jay Little, whom Jeremy Reimer brought in because Reimer doesn't even have a degree or years to decades of professional hands-on experience in the trenches doing computer work, failed in stating verbatim "I am an Exchange Expert" and when Jay Little saw what APK put up, he tried to harass APK by nitpicking his posts at NTCompatible.com also? Seems that was what happened at Windows IT Pro here http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html which anyone can read. So much for your libelling others Clone. You can't even get that right.
I see your signature Clone, however, isn't Jeremy Reimer the guy who had parts of his website removed for libelling APK by his hosting provider and Reimer was caught email harassing APK by his ISP, Shaw of Canada, when Shaw put Reimer on a tracking ticket for it (which Reimer promptly ceased his email harassment of APK once he was aware of that happening), and arstechnica strangely no longer puts up articles by the blatantly unqualified Jeremy Reimer? Jeremy Reimer and his friends Jay Little also had their websites removed entirely from CrystalTech.com and from petitiononline.com also, because of their making death threats to APK just because APK showed that Exchange Server stalls due to memory fragmentation are stopped when a memory optimization program is used (microsoft's own called clearmem.exe) after Jay Little, whom Jeremy Reimer brought in because Reimer doesn't even have a degree or years to decades of professional hands-on experience in the trenches doing computer work, failed in stating verbatim "I am an Exchange Expert" and when Jay Little saw what APK put up, he tried to harass APK by nitpicking his posts at NTCompatible.com also, where Little stalked APK there and failed on issues regarding ramdisks/ssd and also Windows own error codes/crash codes which got Jay Little kicked from NTCompatible.com as it did on Channel 9 at Microsoft also? Seems that was what happened at Windows IT Pro here http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html which anyone can read. So much for your libelling others Clone. You can't even get that right and you certainly like lies and libel, which are against the law in the USA and in other nations also.
One would think it's easy to figure out that you can cover your skin to prevent burns...
One that hath name thou can not otter
"But basically, I support the law http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1629374&cid=31995628" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Tuesday April 27, @02:40AM (#31995628)
Ahem: Bullshit - Clone, I noted that you also called APK, the person you refer to in your signature here, a "spyware maker" http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31736454 , but he noted that Nir Sofer and Dr. Mark Russinovich have also had many of their wares classified falsely as spywares too, and that he took CA's 21 point test and his app did not violate a single point of their test and they downrated his app to "zero threat levels" because of this. APK also put up the very first guide to securing Windows back in 1998 which was highly rated at Neowin in 2001 and grew into the most viewed and most effective guide for securing Windows NT Operating Systems out there currently at 350,000 views strong and being made a sticky pinned thread, an essential guide, or being the most viewed and being usually rated 5 of 5 stars by readers of his security guide for Windows such as here http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=f94b12f3d43b3b9446bed90155910842&showtopic=2662 . At 350,000 views strong and with great feedback too, your calling him that shows you do anything but support the law, and regularly break it with libel on your part towards others clone. You are a scumbag libelling little weasel clone, and now everyone will know how much so, after reading this reply.
"But basically, I support the law http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1629374&cid=31995628" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Tuesday April 27, @02:40AM (#31995628)
Ahem: Bullshit - Clone, I noted that you also called APK, the person you refer to in your signature here, a "spyware maker" http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31736454 , but he noted that Nir Sofer and Dr. Mark Russinovich have also had many of their wares classified falsely as spywares too, and that he took CA's 21 point test and his app did not violate a single point of their test and they downrated his app to "zero threat levels" because of this. APK also put up the very first guide to securing Windows back in 1998 which was highly rated at Neowin in 2001 and grew into the most viewed and most effective guide for securing Windows NT Operating Systems out there currently at 350,000 views strong and being made a sticky pinned thread, an essential guide, or being the most viewed and being usually rated 5 of 5 stars by readers of his security guide for Windows such as here http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=f94b12f3d43b3b9446bed90155910842&showtopic=2662 . At 350,000 views strong and with great feedback too, your calling him that shows you do anything but support the law, and regularly break it with libel on your part towards others clone. You are a scumbag libelling little weasel clone, and now everyone will know how much so, after reading this reply. Just because you're a loser that doesn't have a job and because you've never done a thing in your life that's of service to others, doesn't give you the right to libel others who have, clone.
I can resume my research on neural networks without having to kill anyone.
I want my second head NOW!
How would voting be accomplished if one head was republican and the other a democrat. You'd have to break the impasse with an independent between the two. And another for the libertarians, and another for the http://www.politics1.com/parties.htm
The solution seems worse than the problem.
OMG, that's hilarious. Pretty much confirms the entire APK = Absolutely Pitiful Kook thing.
Hey, I've an idea, why don't we post the link in response to all stalking responses to Clone?
In some ways, I would go for it, but only if my life were extended, and my wife agreed. What are the advantages-- Simple. I used to have a great memory to learn. Still do, but not as fast at it. Takes too long for my existing brain to store data. What about IQ. Well, the second brain could be smarter, after all, it would learn from me. I have almost 70 years of experience in thinking clearly and abstractly. What about multiple languages? Gee, I know 3 now, and the second brain could learn another three. The question I have is "Is there a language for thinking", or do we translate thoughts to verbal through some intermediate crainial interface? Would I be able to watch two TV shows on each set (4 shows in total).? Ahh, I think I prefer to just stay as I am.
Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1640368&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=32086288 Unbelieveable.
APK