I'm not ignoring other means. They are as useful as any other research. What I'm saying is that this topic is sensitive due to nothing but religion. Embryos aren't humans, they are the material that one day will form a human. The only thing you have in common with an embryo is some pieces of your DNA, so if we remove the bullshit factor "soul" you'd have to define what makes it human. You're a human and since your only connection to the embryo is certain parts of your DNA you can only justify the parallel by claiming that DNA resemblance to a certain extent defines a human. I don't identify myself with this. While I agree that it is a human embryo, it is however not a human being. It has no human traits. It is merely a vessel that had/has a probable potential of one day becoming a human being. Meanwhile real human beings are dying, our families and our friends. It might sound dramatic but it's still the truth. When religion began to intervene with the chances of people surviving I asked myself why I must tolerate it. Struck by logic, I couldn't find an answer. I leave it to the religious whom claim to passively believe while actively intervene with our everyday life, to justify why they should be allowed to deny life saving aid. Unfortunately the discussion always turns absurd when one side is detached from reality.
If you want to justify why humans should not be eaten you can do it perfectly well without involving made up information, such as the "soul". From a medical point of view any predator should avoid consuming any animal that has a similar genome. This is because you have a significantly higher chance of catching diseases if your DNA has many resemblances. Avoiding eating other predators also helps. Some religions, such as Islam and Judaism, strictly prohibit its followers to consume any predator. It is known that predators accumulate poisons as well, such as the sharks of the oceans that fish by fish become more and more poisoned from the small amounts of mercury that reside in almost any ocean fish today. The amount that the fishes contain aren't deadly, but you can imagine what happens if you eat 10 sharks that have each eaten 100 fish.
Religion isn't keeping humanity sane, rather on the contrary. We do what we fundamentally do because we know it's how to survive, then we adapt religion to fit that picture. With or without it we still wouldn't eat humans, for reasons that we seem to have forgotten due to the clouds of religion.
Only if you won't survive the following 20 years. You see next step is the artificial uterus, quickly followed by the artificial boob. I believe it was Joseph whom uttered the words "seven years of plenty and seven years of famine," although this is the other way around.
You're the problem sir. There is no -1 douche and there is no -1 disagree. You can have whatever personal opinion you want about me, I really don't care, but don't ruin Slashdot for the rest of us. Thanks.
Agreed, no flamewar. So which would you consider to be a Linux distro? Anything with a Linux kernel or Linux kernel + X + KDE/GNOME (or another variant, you're free to define). I'm honestly curious to know.
You take the quotes out of context. What's bad about the first sentence? I called him a troll because he was trolling. He was making up facts that weren't true, and this is called trolling. Is it wrong to call someone who's trolling troll? The second quote was supposed to be a funny response to the AC that asked who peed on my rug. Not to be taken seriously. The third quote I wrote since I noticed that someone was intentionally burning karma, instead of using mod points for what they're made for. You can disagree with me all you want, but nothing in the post was trolling. And there is no -1 disagree, for a reason.
So what's your point? Really no flamebaiting, what's your point? I stated the truth, you stated that people in general are idiots assuming things they haven't confirmed. Where do we go from here?
Sad that this idiot is abusing the system and there's nothing one can do. This person probably didn't like to hear the truth and began to burn any post I posted.
Where the hell am I trolling on this post!? Is there one single lie in there? I don't give a flying fuck about karma, but you fuckers that mod to karma burn and mod because you don't agree are ruining Slashdot. Go back to digg.
You're wrong. It is a Linux distribution. Distributions can differ from eachother as much as they please. That's the fucking beauty of it so don't even begin to undermine it, troll. And don't compare Unix variants to Linux distributions, that only shows how little you know about the subject.
You are nothing but a hypocrit. We know that at the very early stages of "life" a human embryo is almost equal to others, such as the chimp or the pig, but even a chicken embryo is almost identical. You justify this by adding a bullshit constant to the equation, the human embryo has a "soul". This complete and utter bullshit "allows" you to isolate "humans" (I put humans in citation marks because "humans" severely differ genetically, up to 12% of the genome) entirely from animals and plants. This bullshit of yours prevents important research to develop safer and more advanced medical treatment. I don't want to be forced to leave my child fatherless one day just because you're a selfish asshole. So you know what? Go fuck yourself.
Really? You're not clear on how a single molecule, consisiting of electrons, protons and neutrons, can have properties similar to a transistor, meaning it works as a simple AND operator, but you know what 1.4 K is? Where did you go to school young man?
For example, paying a deposit on each bulb (that you'd get back when the bulbs are properly disposed of) would be a more effective way.
That's a very good suggestion, and there are probably thousands more. However there is more money in production than recycling, thus the lobbyists influencing (pron. controlling) the states of our western hemisphere have another agenda.
We don't live in your hypothetical world. Truth is the pirate bay trial was one of the worst handled cases in Swedish history, but truth is also that they are no saints. They did whatever they did because they thought it was profitable. By your logic a pimp merely "helps" a whore and client to "find eachother". I'm not saying that TPB guys should be viewed as criminals, but unlike you I don't need to bullshit myself to justify what I think is right. They did whatever they did without harming anybody, as a side note I don't consider preventing fictional revenue as harming, and profited on it, for that sole purpose. Not because they're the everyday heroes fighting the evil empire for the good cause. And you know what? I'm ok with that.
Either way, this was about comparing the two cases. You yourself say that TPB didn't even share any files, but allegedly Jammie did. Without even knowing it you separated the two cases even more than I did by pointing out important differences. So back to where we were. The only thing common in these two cases is the word copyright, so don't even bother comparing them.
I agree on your cynicism towards people disposing trash properly. However I do think that governments aren't making it easy enough for people to have no excuses. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying it's a complicated equation, but in order for this to work it should be "as easy" to dispose of your light bulbs properly as it is with regular waste. In some places this is true, but that's far, far from all.
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Are you really amazed or are you just tired of idiots assuming the absurd and completely illogical?
I'm not ignoring other means. They are as useful as any other research. What I'm saying is that this topic is sensitive due to nothing but religion. Embryos aren't humans, they are the material that one day will form a human. The only thing you have in common with an embryo is some pieces of your DNA, so if we remove the bullshit factor "soul" you'd have to define what makes it human. You're a human and since your only connection to the embryo is certain parts of your DNA you can only justify the parallel by claiming that DNA resemblance to a certain extent defines a human. I don't identify myself with this. While I agree that it is a human embryo, it is however not a human being. It has no human traits. It is merely a vessel that had/has a probable potential of one day becoming a human being. Meanwhile real human beings are dying, our families and our friends. It might sound dramatic but it's still the truth. When religion began to intervene with the chances of people surviving I asked myself why I must tolerate it. Struck by logic, I couldn't find an answer. I leave it to the religious whom claim to passively believe while actively intervene with our everyday life, to justify why they should be allowed to deny life saving aid. Unfortunately the discussion always turns absurd when one side is detached from reality.
If you want to justify why humans should not be eaten you can do it perfectly well without involving made up information, such as the "soul". From a medical point of view any predator should avoid consuming any animal that has a similar genome. This is because you have a significantly higher chance of catching diseases if your DNA has many resemblances. Avoiding eating other predators also helps. Some religions, such as Islam and Judaism, strictly prohibit its followers to consume any predator. It is known that predators accumulate poisons as well, such as the sharks of the oceans that fish by fish become more and more poisoned from the small amounts of mercury that reside in almost any ocean fish today. The amount that the fishes contain aren't deadly, but you can imagine what happens if you eat 10 sharks that have each eaten 100 fish.
Religion isn't keeping humanity sane, rather on the contrary. We do what we fundamentally do because we know it's how to survive, then we adapt religion to fit that picture. With or without it we still wouldn't eat humans, for reasons that we seem to have forgotten due to the clouds of religion.
Of course I'm aware of implants, however fake boobs != artificial boobs. When you hear of scientists growing a boob from stem cells, call me.
Out of curiosity, how many of these use Linux?
Let's not start comparing a game to Blizzard's games until we actually see the game, shall we?
DotA != Blizzard
Only if you won't survive the following 20 years. You see next step is the artificial uterus, quickly followed by the artificial boob. I believe it was Joseph whom uttered the words "seven years of plenty and seven years of famine," although this is the other way around.
You're the problem sir. There is no -1 douche and there is no -1 disagree. You can have whatever personal opinion you want about me, I really don't care, but don't ruin Slashdot for the rest of us. Thanks.
Agreed, no flamewar. So which would you consider to be a Linux distro? Anything with a Linux kernel or Linux kernel + X + KDE/GNOME (or another variant, you're free to define). I'm honestly curious to know.
You take the quotes out of context. What's bad about the first sentence? I called him a troll because he was trolling. He was making up facts that weren't true, and this is called trolling. Is it wrong to call someone who's trolling troll? The second quote was supposed to be a funny response to the AC that asked who peed on my rug. Not to be taken seriously. The third quote I wrote since I noticed that someone was intentionally burning karma, instead of using mod points for what they're made for. You can disagree with me all you want, but nothing in the post was trolling. And there is no -1 disagree, for a reason.
So anything else?
So what's your point? Really no flamebaiting, what's your point? I stated the truth, you stated that people in general are idiots assuming things they haven't confirmed. Where do we go from here?
No in a matter of seconds someone modded down 4 of my posts. This isn't a coincidence. I'm sure someone is just out to burn some karma.
Sad that this idiot is abusing the system and there's nothing one can do. This person probably didn't like to hear the truth and began to burn any post I posted.
Where the hell am I trolling on this post!? Is there one single lie in there? I don't give a flying fuck about karma, but you fuckers that mod to karma burn and mod because you don't agree are ruining Slashdot. Go back to digg.
Nobody, but a lot of people opened their mouths and now there's diharrea all over it.
The summary sound rather, well, dumb.
It's a selling pitch, get over it. The logic goes: the world is full of idiots and scarce on brains. Hire the brains, sell to the idiots.
You're wrong. It is a Linux distribution. Distributions can differ from eachother as much as they please. That's the fucking beauty of it so don't even begin to undermine it, troll. And don't compare Unix variants to Linux distributions, that only shows how little you know about the subject.
That's correct.
You are nothing but a hypocrit. We know that at the very early stages of "life" a human embryo is almost equal to others, such as the chimp or the pig, but even a chicken embryo is almost identical. You justify this by adding a bullshit constant to the equation, the human embryo has a "soul". This complete and utter bullshit "allows" you to isolate "humans" (I put humans in citation marks because "humans" severely differ genetically, up to 12% of the genome) entirely from animals and plants. This bullshit of yours prevents important research to develop safer and more advanced medical treatment. I don't want to be forced to leave my child fatherless one day just because you're a selfish asshole. So you know what? Go fuck yourself.
I think electronics will be the past in less than 20 years.
I'm very curious to know what you mean by that statement.
Really? You're not clear on how a single molecule, consisiting of electrons, protons and neutrons, can have properties similar to a transistor, meaning it works as a simple AND operator, but you know what 1.4 K is? Where did you go to school young man?
For example, paying a deposit on each bulb (that you'd get back when the bulbs are properly disposed of) would be a more effective way.
That's a very good suggestion, and there are probably thousands more. However there is more money in production than recycling, thus the lobbyists influencing (pron. controlling) the states of our western hemisphere have another agenda.
We don't live in your hypothetical world. Truth is the pirate bay trial was one of the worst handled cases in Swedish history, but truth is also that they are no saints. They did whatever they did because they thought it was profitable. By your logic a pimp merely "helps" a whore and client to "find eachother". I'm not saying that TPB guys should be viewed as criminals, but unlike you I don't need to bullshit myself to justify what I think is right. They did whatever they did without harming anybody, as a side note I don't consider preventing fictional revenue as harming, and profited on it, for that sole purpose. Not because they're the everyday heroes fighting the evil empire for the good cause. And you know what? I'm ok with that.
Either way, this was about comparing the two cases. You yourself say that TPB didn't even share any files, but allegedly Jammie did. Without even knowing it you separated the two cases even more than I did by pointing out important differences. So back to where we were. The only thing common in these two cases is the word copyright, so don't even bother comparing them.
You're comparing the verdict of a person allegedly downloading and distributing ~20 songs to the verdict of the worlds biggest BitTorrent tracker?
You must be a very tiny person since you see molehills and mountains alike.
I agree on your cynicism towards people disposing trash properly. However I do think that governments aren't making it easy enough for people to have no excuses. Don't get me wrong though, I'm not saying it's a complicated equation, but in order for this to work it should be "as easy" to dispose of your light bulbs properly as it is with regular waste. In some places this is true, but that's far, far from all.