But also support Israel in attacking their neighbors, in killing civilians and suspected terrorist without a trial.
?We rightly maintain a military force in Saudi Arabia with the approval of the Saudi Arabian government.?
But Saudi Arabia has a despotic, corrupt government.
?We rightly support the embargo against Iraq, which refuses to abide by the weapons inspections it agreed to as a condition for peace after it invaded Kuwait.?
An embargo that made Saddam Hussein stronger, an embargo that includes water purification equipment and chemicals, medicines and books. An embargo that killed thousands of innocent people.
Yes, those are the right things to do.
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"To a college age budding intellectual, it must surely seem that starving and being shot at is hugely preferable to a Microsloth McWorld"
Of course not, first you need to think about shelter and food before think about democracy and political / economical stuff. But if you have shelter and food, certainly you can worry about the political/economical reasons that make other people poor, homeless, oppressed and / or killed and act on consequence. That doesn't mean to throw rocks against stores or tanks, or going to Palestine to be killed by Israeli or Palestinian extremists.
First, you aren't deniying the claim that latino workers are the ones that make the country run.
Second, "Why can't I ever see someone with a Mexican AND American flag on their car?"
Maybe because you don't want to see them. I see a lot of people everyday whearing or waving (sp?) the two flags.
"That would be great. It's OK to be into your roots and all that. It's even OK to advertise your hate for the country. But if you ain't a citizen, I don't have a problem with curtailing your rights."
Question: If an american is in Tokio, London, Moscow or Mexico City, then you don't have a problem if the police there curtails the freedom of this american, after all, he isn't a citizen in those cities, do you?
You sould remember that 2 million square miles of US territory used to be up until 1847 a part of Mexico, that welcomed US migrants at the time. Well, 20 years before.
Signing autographs as the doctor Strangelove, I suppose =))
"The US certainly did pick the job of Cop Of The World(TM)"
That's the problem, that they behaved like the cop of America and, from 1940's, like the cop of the world:( This behavior made sense before the UN, but now? Certainly, today the UN does a shitty job, but the job could be easier and/or better done if the most important country in the world backed their efforts, couldn't it be?
I completely agree that the Japanese leadership was foolish about the US oil, among many, many other things. The similitude between Tarento and Pearl Harbor was that both ports were supposed to be too strong that attacking them was impossible, but in Pearl Harbor's case, the most advanced and bigger ships like the carriers weren't there at the time of the attack, a lucky coincidence?
"The mission of any large bureaucracy is to cover its ass. They just want to avoid being blamed. A foreign power blowing anything up in the US gets people asking what the hell people paid to stop that sort of thing get paid for."
You're right again, and this NMD thing looks more like an ass covering than to be doing really something about it, but a theater defense system is not a bad idea after all. I stand corrected.
About the big political parties in the US, it's sad to see the American democracy rendered to be useless by those parties and the lack of interest by the American citizens in their own country. The freedom of expression is (was?) the true source of the United State's wealth.
Who appointed the government of the United States of America to police the world? I'm sure that U.S. citizens have better things to do at home than looking around for countries to blow up.
I would imagine that other "rogue nations" took note of Iraq mistakes, I'm looking at you North Korea. What would happen if North Korea decided to fire off a ballistic missle (sic) with a nuke to japan as payback for a lack of reperations (sic) at the end of WWII? Would the US be obligated to do a little tit for tat in defense of Japan?
You could rest assured that North Korea learned from Iraq's mistakes, not only from the military side, but also from the political and economical sides too. North Korea is already suffering a severe famine, a wrong move far less serious than a nuclear attack would only worsen their situation. Nuking Japan -again- will make the request for WWII reparations a moot point.
Imagine a show down over Taiwan. The unwillingness of the participants to go all the way to nuclear war, would protect our species. But the protection a highly reliable theater defense system would afford everyone the moment of pause and time to let diplomacy do its work.
Diplomacy will go out of the window after the first missile being shoot down "Look!! They dared to try to use nukes!! Let's crush them!"
Certainly the weapons systems to protect against theater ballistic missles are in violation of the treaty, but are probably nessecary. But what's the merit of a larger, and highly improbably "national shield" from ICBMs. Fair enough. With the swift proliferation of such weapons and technology, and the time frame crafting even a limited system requires, if its started now it might be too late. But it still has merit. While it may be easier to sneak one into the country, it is by no means certain.
Also, it's not certain that the U.S. will be attacked only by ballistic missiles.
Those problems are certainly being tackled, why the US got together with some of the other big kids on the block and tried to figure out a way to read everyone's mail. Certainly they seem concerned. While the intelligence services might not be perfect or even reliable, they are at least present.
You forget that the intelligence services are a part ot the state's bureaucracy, and a large bureaucracy has their own political agenda.
It also might serve people to remember that it wasn't that the USA thought Japan wasn't planning to attack Pearl Harbor its that everyone thought they couldn't (except the Japanese of course). The lessons the US military has put into play here have less to do with party politics than they do with old hard learned lessons coming into conflict with new ideals.
It's good that you bring this up. The proof of concept of Pearl Harbor's bombing was made by the British Royal Navy in the Italian port of Tarento, that ended with the destruction of the Italian fleet. And it's not like the U.S. government wasn't looking for a war, after selling warplanes to the British, helping to shink the Bismark, stockpiling weapons, freezing the bank accounts of Japanese citizens in the U.S., etc. Plus the contempt for the lives of the servicemen shown by Roosevelt, to let his own men die in Pearl Harbor just for his political agenda's sake, he wasn't better than Stalin or Hitler in that department.
That said, traditionally, large government programs such as this have often spured enormous engineering advancements who's ancillary benefits have greatly enriched the 1st. world countries.
A very good point, but it's dubious that the benefits will outweigh the downsides.
For the record, W's friends aren't in the military, they're in the Oil industry.
IIRC, the two places most likely to have been Aztlan was central Mexico -the states of Zacatecas and Durango- or somewhere in Nayarit, another mexican state. In Zacatecas, there's a place called Chicomoztoc (50 miles south of Zacatecas city), an ancient indian fortress on top of a mountain, and that mountain have seven caves, like the ones mentioned in the Aztlan's legend.
DISCLAIMER: English is not my first language, if you want to correct my grammar or orthography, you are welcome.
That's what I always disliked of Lego, because in my country the first Lego sets that appeared in the toystores were the new kits. Sadly, here Lego displaced the TENTE, a much better and flexible system (IMO) that have little holes in the center of the plugs, even sometimes a broken piece was more useful than its complete counterpart, and always all the pieces ad the same proportions, unlike Lego.
DISCLAIMER: English is not my first language, if you want to correct my grammar or orthography, you are welcome.
Well, I suppose that a well behaving monopolist knows that by squeezing too much it's customers will end in the invention of an alternative, sooner or later, and finish not only the monopoly, but the company too in the process. Of course, Bill Gates is too arrogant and the shareolders too greedy to stop and think about it, maybe this applies to the MPAA and RIAA also.
Anyway, since corporations only exist has social/legal constructs, they should accept the rules written by the congress, those same rules are the ones that make them exist after all.
The good thing about the Microsoft's abusing monopolist behavior is that they gave people a reason to search for alternatives; and became the common enemy for the open source/Free software movement.
After all, many people love the idea of being the little David beating Goliath just like in any RPG =]
DISCLAIMER: English is not my first language, if you want to correct my grammar or orthography, you are welcome.
And interesting quote, if Henry Rearden is on trial by having a monopoly, you are right, but if Henry Rearden is on trial by abusing monopoly power, it's another history.
IIRC, it's not illegal to have a monopoly, but it's illegal to abuse of monopoly power. Certainly, Microsoft did that. If they have beaten Netscape fairly, by offering a better product, we wouldn't have been discussing this issue, but MS Internet Explorer became a better product than Netscape much, much after they began giving it away for free, cutting one of Netscape's main revenue streams. Without research money and distribution channels, of course that Netscape's browser will fall behind, just like happened.
About EULA's, how would you refuse to use Windows or Office, if your clients, providers, etc. Require you to do so? It's like if you want to build a house, and need steel, you can only buy steel from Henry Rearden, like it or not, or would you live in a tent instead, just because you don't want to give jour money to him?
Anyway, I agree with you that it's a better remedy to educate people to think and evaluate choices, more than just being following the leader.
Easy, look his/(her) user info:
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=wu rk
1.-Posting the same accusation 5 times counts as trolling, isn't it?
2.-It's the only thing he posted. Maybe the account was made solely for the purpose of accusing Michael.
3.-All the web references come from a single, biased source.
4.-It's childish and ridiculous to be washing dirty laundry in public like this. If this is an example of they teamwork, this pitiful end is what they went after and deserved:( Sadly, because the cause was -is- noble.
5.-Yes, Michael must take his time to write a better explanation in the censorware site, and all the other guys would be better ushing their energy and time in the fight aganst censorware instead of fighting Michael, it's more whorty the former.
why it is that when anything goes wrong in society its the fault of Christians.
Easy. "Christians" are the largest, powerful group, and the most bulling one. Sadly, they not behave like true christians, nor care about the 10 commandments. If they did, we could have more tolerant society, after all, there's no commandment about everybody thinking equally.
You should value more your free speech, that's one of the reasons that make people risk their lives to emigrate to USA, along the better quality of life. You're free to choose your morals, but you can't force your morals onto others more than what they can force their own on you. On a side note, I didn't know about the existence of child pornography until the media uproar against it in 1998-1999, but now any uneducated pervert know that in "the internet" they could find child porn. That's backfire, isn't it?
About gambling, mmh... I don't think that banning it is a good idea. Instead of legal casinos, you will end with illegal casinos in the hands of the Mafia, like many other things. Making something illegal will just let it be only in the hands of the illegal, and just by being illegal makes something more attractive to some folks. I know a lot of idiots that smoke pot just because it is illegal, and by doing so they are becoming the greatest rebels on town (at least in their stupid logic -_-)
I find laughable the sexual harassment laws of the USA. I remember a documentary by John Stossel in ABC's 20/20 about it, and how you must sign special contracts in the case you wanted to date a coworker, and how the harassment comes from the impression in the demandant, not by the intention of the demanded. With this kind of barriers to start a meaningful relationship (remember that a lot of couples meet in the workplace). I doubt that should come as a surprise the high popularity of pornography; maybe Americans need a study about the (just a theory, ok?) correlation between pornography's consume and strong sexual harassment laws.
And you shouldn't forget that jails work thanks to taxpayers, do you want to pay a pervert's roof and food?
Wouldn't be an original work the offspring of GM + natural seed? After all, it's not equal to the GM plant or the natural variant. How wold stand this on court?
Not only that, looks like a lot of slashdotters cannot read. It's clearly written that you posted the story, but almost everybody blame Timothy for the mistake -_- and forget the fact that readers post the stories and the editors select wich ones get posted.
OTAN and ONU are the spanish accronims(sp?) of NATO and UN, but I agree, is easier to use only one accronim(sp?) for each organisaion, regardless of the language.
From the article:
Expanding on his reference to dealing with the Soviet Union, which he did in the 1980s as national security adviser to former President George Bush, Powell said:
"We told them what bothered us. We told them where we could engage on things. We tried to convince them of the power of our values and our system. They argued back.
"We should be realistic and keep encouraging them (russians) to move in the direction of solid democracy: don't start restricting First Amendment rights... and don't start, or continue frankly, to invest in these regimes that, at the end of the day, you will find that the investment was not worth it."
Looks like in U.S. goverment's eyes respecting the private sector is more important than respecting their own citizens or international law.
This explains everything.
It was the MS-DOS version shipped with the early Pentium systems, but it wasn't widely used because it was replaced by the version 6.22 (bug fixes, something like that). It was also the last Microsoft's consumer OS that came with a REAL manual instead of an advertisement book. A common setup was running Win 3.11 on top of it.
I'm a kid too for christ's sake, I'm only 19 (watch my reputability drop...)
It's strange that you think of yourself has a "kid" since you're consistently posting well tougth comments (still I don't agree completely with you), and that's more likely to come from an adult than from a kid.
The problem with V-chips and the likes is that parents-or more correctly: people- tend to equal age with maturity so they will end using this stuff on the younger ones regardless of the children's level of maturity.
This discrimination by age is what get a lot of people here angry, and it's more plausible that this system will be abused (just an electronic nanny) than used the way it was intended: has a tool for good parenting.
"... clones would simply provide a better control comparison... I believe that clonig stands to benefit not only genetics and biology, but other fields like psychology and sociology as well.... I believe that clonig stands to benefit not only genetics and biology, but other fields like psychology and sociology as well."
So the clone will be just a guinea pig, right? Aren't you forgetting the fact that the clone will be a human being?
The omocigotic (identical) twins share the same genes; the differences between them come from their growth inside the mother, one growing bigger than the other, etc. So your clone will not be has similar to the DNA donor than you think, since he will have a completely different mother to begin with, throwing away your "better control comparison"
I know it, My GF have a "identical" twin, but her sister is taller and wears eyeglasses, among many other differences between them.
I'm not completely against human cloning, but aside the argument that it should be done because it can be done (and a good business to do with rich, childish infertile couples =) it's useless. It's the answer to a problem that doesn't exist, and a source of many new problems. Aside the genes, what will be the difference between raising an adopted child and a cloned one? They wouldn't deserve the same love from their parents? Wouldn't you love the child just because he (she) doesn't look like you?
Looks like Timothy don't even bottered to read the story. And from a imparcial news source like MS-NBC, with a misleading header... go figure.
What have the slashdot crew against Sega, it's that difficult to check first the story, then post?/. is beccoming "rumours for nerds, rumours that matters" (driving a company out of bussines by rumours is not a small thing, and matters to all their workers, who would buy a product that is already "discontinued" and "unsupported" by the manufacturer? WHO?)
Still, I expect (wish) that Sega will be on the HW market more time than the people think.
On a side note, IIRC in Japan Pioneer built Saturn comptible hardware in 1997 or 1998 so this isn't a new move for Sega.
The last sentence should read "instead of depriving them of their intelligence. It's about what they can do to improve the situation, not about what it should be."
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?We rightly support Israel's right to exist.?
But also support Israel in attacking their neighbors, in killing civilians and suspected terrorist without a trial.
?We rightly maintain a military force in Saudi Arabia with the approval of the Saudi Arabian government.?
But Saudi Arabia has a despotic, corrupt government.
?We rightly support the embargo against Iraq, which refuses to abide by the weapons inspections it agreed to as a condition for peace after it invaded Kuwait.?
An embargo that made Saddam Hussein stronger, an embargo that includes water purification equipment and chemicals, medicines and books. An embargo that killed thousands of innocent people.
Yes, those are the right things to do.
"To a college age budding intellectual, it must surely seem that starving and being shot at is hugely preferable to a Microsloth McWorld"
/economical reasons that make other people poor, homeless, oppressed and / or killed and act on consequence. That doesn't mean to throw rocks against stores or tanks, or going to Palestine to be killed by Israeli or Palestinian extremists.
Of course not, first you need to think about shelter and food before think about democracy and political / economical stuff. But if you have shelter and food, certainly you can worry about the political
Apathy is not the answer.
First, you aren't deniying the claim that latino workers are the ones that make the country run.
Second, "Why can't I ever see someone with a Mexican AND American flag on their car?"
Maybe because you don't want to see them. I see a lot of people everyday whearing or waving (sp?) the two flags.
"That would be great. It's OK to be into your roots and all that. It's even OK to advertise your hate for the country. But if you ain't a citizen, I don't have a problem with curtailing your rights."
Question: If an american is in Tokio, London, Moscow or Mexico City, then you don't have a problem if the police there curtails the freedom of this american, after all, he isn't a citizen in those cities, do you?
You sould remember that 2 million square miles of US territory used to be up until 1847 a part of Mexico, that welcomed US migrants at the time. Well, 20 years before.
Signing autographs as the doctor Strangelove, I suppose =))
:( This behavior made sense before the UN, but now? Certainly, today the UN does a shitty job, but the job could be easier and/or better done if the most important country in the world backed their efforts, couldn't it be?
"The US certainly did pick the job of Cop Of The World(TM)"
That's the problem, that they behaved like the cop of America and, from 1940's, like the cop of the world
I completely agree that the Japanese leadership was foolish about the US oil, among many, many other things. The similitude between Tarento and Pearl Harbor was that both ports were supposed to be too strong that attacking them was impossible, but in Pearl Harbor's case, the most advanced and bigger ships like the carriers weren't there at the time of the attack, a lucky coincidence?
"The mission of any large bureaucracy is to cover its ass. They just want to avoid being blamed. A foreign power blowing anything up in the US gets people asking what the hell people paid to stop that sort of thing get paid for."
You're right again, and this NMD thing looks more like an ass covering than to be doing really something about it, but a theater defense system is not a bad idea after all. I stand corrected.
About the big political parties in the US, it's sad to see the American democracy rendered to be useless by those parties and the lack of interest by the American citizens in their own country. The freedom of expression is (was?) the true source of the United State's wealth.
If the world must be policed
Who appointed the government of the United States of America to police the world? I'm sure that U.S. citizens have better things to do at home than looking around for countries to blow up.
I would imagine that other "rogue nations" took note of Iraq mistakes, I'm looking at you North Korea. What would happen if North Korea decided to fire off a ballistic missle (sic) with a nuke to japan as payback for a lack of reperations (sic) at the end of WWII? Would the US be obligated to do a little tit for tat in defense of Japan?
You could rest assured that North Korea learned from Iraq's mistakes, not only from the military side, but also from the political and economical sides too. North Korea is already suffering a severe famine, a wrong move far less serious than a nuclear attack would only worsen their situation. Nuking Japan -again- will make the request for WWII reparations a moot point.
Imagine a show down over Taiwan. The unwillingness of the participants to go all the way to nuclear war, would protect our species. But the protection a highly reliable theater defense system would afford everyone the moment of pause and time to let diplomacy do its work.
Diplomacy will go out of the window after the first missile being shoot down "Look!! They dared to try to use nukes!! Let's crush them!"
Certainly the weapons systems to protect against theater ballistic missles are in violation of the treaty, but are probably nessecary. But what's the merit of a larger, and highly improbably "national shield" from ICBMs. Fair enough. With the swift proliferation of such weapons and technology, and the time frame crafting even a limited system requires, if its started now it might be too late. But it still has merit. While it may be easier to sneak one into the country, it is by no means certain.
Also, it's not certain that the U.S. will be attacked only by ballistic missiles.
Those problems are certainly being tackled, why the US got together with some of the other big kids on the block and tried to figure out a way to read everyone's mail. Certainly they seem concerned. While the intelligence services might not be perfect or even reliable, they are at least present.
You forget that the intelligence services are a part ot the state's bureaucracy, and a large bureaucracy has their own political agenda.
It also might serve people to remember that it wasn't that the USA thought Japan wasn't planning to attack Pearl Harbor its that everyone thought they couldn't (except the Japanese of course). The lessons the US military has put into play here have less to do with party politics than they do with old hard learned lessons coming into conflict with new ideals.
It's good that you bring this up. The proof of concept of Pearl Harbor's bombing was made by the British Royal Navy in the Italian port of Tarento, that ended with the destruction of the Italian fleet. And it's not like the U.S. government wasn't looking for a war, after selling warplanes to the British, helping to shink the Bismark, stockpiling weapons, freezing the bank accounts of Japanese citizens in the U.S., etc. Plus the contempt for the lives of the servicemen shown by Roosevelt, to let his own men die in Pearl Harbor just for his political agenda's sake, he wasn't better than Stalin or Hitler in that department.
That said, traditionally, large government programs such as this have often spured enormous engineering advancements who's ancillary benefits have greatly enriched the 1st. world countries.
A very good point, but it's dubious that the benefits will outweigh the downsides.
For the record, W's friends aren't in the military, they're in the Oil industry.
IIRC, the two places most likely to have been Aztlan was central Mexico -the states of Zacatecas and Durango- or somewhere in Nayarit, another mexican state. In Zacatecas, there's a place called Chicomoztoc (50 miles south of Zacatecas city), an ancient indian fortress on top of a mountain, and that mountain have seven caves, like the ones mentioned in the Aztlan's legend.
DISCLAIMER: English is not my first language, if you want to correct my grammar or orthography, you are welcome.
That's what I always disliked of Lego, because in my country the first Lego sets that appeared in the toystores were the new kits. Sadly, here Lego displaced the TENTE, a much better and flexible system (IMO) that have little holes in the center of the plugs, even sometimes a broken piece was more useful than its complete counterpart, and always all the pieces ad the same proportions, unlike Lego.
DISCLAIMER: English is not my first language, if you want to correct my grammar or orthography, you are welcome.
"Ditch the car, commute by bike until you're good at it"
:((
Amen, brother.
Today I came late to work because I used a taxi instead of my bike
Well, I suppose that a well behaving monopolist knows that by squeezing too much it's customers will end in the invention of an alternative, sooner or later, and finish not only the monopoly, but the company too in the process. Of course, Bill Gates is too arrogant and the shareolders too greedy to stop and think about it, maybe this applies to the MPAA and RIAA also.
Anyway, since corporations only exist has social/legal constructs, they should accept the rules written by the congress, those same rules are the ones that make them exist after all.
The good thing about the Microsoft's abusing monopolist behavior is that they gave people a reason to search for alternatives; and became the common enemy for the open source/Free software movement.
After all, many people love the idea of being the little David beating Goliath just like in any RPG =]
DISCLAIMER: English is not my first language, if you want to correct my grammar or orthography, you are welcome.
And interesting quote, if Henry Rearden is on trial by having a monopoly, you are right, but if Henry Rearden is on trial by abusing monopoly power, it's another history.
IIRC, it's not illegal to have a monopoly, but it's illegal to abuse of monopoly power. Certainly, Microsoft did that. If they have beaten Netscape fairly, by offering a better product, we wouldn't have been discussing this issue, but MS Internet Explorer became a better product than Netscape much, much after they began giving it away for free, cutting one of Netscape's main revenue streams. Without research money and distribution channels, of course that Netscape's browser will fall behind, just like happened.
About EULA's, how would you refuse to use Windows or Office, if your clients, providers, etc. Require you to do so? It's like if you want to build a house, and need steel, you can only buy steel from Henry Rearden, like it or not, or would you live in a tent instead, just because you don't want to give jour money to him?
Anyway, I agree with you that it's a better remedy to educate people to think and evaluate choices, more than just being following the leader.
Easy, look his/(her) user info:u rk
:( Sadly, because the cause was -is- noble.
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=w
1.-Posting the same accusation 5 times counts as trolling, isn't it?
2.-It's the only thing he posted. Maybe the account was made solely for the purpose of accusing Michael.
3.-All the web references come from a single, biased source.
4.-It's childish and ridiculous to be washing dirty laundry in public like this. If this is an example of they teamwork, this pitiful end is what they went after and deserved
5.-Yes, Michael must take his time to write a better explanation in the censorware site, and all the other guys would be better ushing their energy and time in the fight aganst censorware instead of fighting Michael, it's more whorty the former.
why it is that when anything goes wrong in society its the fault of Christians.
Easy. "Christians" are the largest, powerful group, and the most bulling one. Sadly, they not behave like true christians, nor care about the 10 commandments. If they did, we could have more tolerant society, after all, there's no commandment about everybody thinking equally.
You should value more your free speech, that's one of the reasons that make people risk their lives to emigrate to USA, along the better quality of life. You're free to choose your morals, but you can't force your morals onto others more than what they can force their own on you. On a side note, I didn't know about the existence of child pornography until the media uproar against it in 1998-1999, but now any uneducated pervert know that in "the internet" they could find child porn. That's backfire, isn't it?
About gambling, mmh... I don't think that banning it is a good idea. Instead of legal casinos, you will end with illegal casinos in the hands of the Mafia, like many other things. Making something illegal will just let it be only in the hands of the illegal, and just by being illegal makes something more attractive to some folks. I know a lot of idiots that smoke pot just because it is illegal, and by doing so they are becoming the greatest rebels on town (at least in their stupid logic -_-)
I find laughable the sexual harassment laws of the USA. I remember a documentary by John Stossel in ABC's 20/20 about it, and how you must sign special contracts in the case you wanted to date a coworker, and how the harassment comes from the impression in the demandant, not by the intention of the demanded. With this kind of barriers to start a meaningful relationship (remember that a lot of couples meet in the workplace). I doubt that should come as a surprise the high popularity of pornography; maybe Americans need a study about the (just a theory, ok?) correlation between pornography's consume and strong sexual harassment laws.
And you shouldn't forget that jails work thanks to taxpayers, do you want to pay a pervert's roof and food?
he it the nail in the head, a post well balanced and respectful.
/. a wort reading.
This is what makes
Some moderators have a sarcastic sense of humor... but don't worry,we metamoderators will take care of this.
Wouldn't be an original work the offspring of GM + natural seed? After all, it's not equal to the GM plant or the natural variant. How wold stand this on court?
Not only that, looks like a lot of slashdotters cannot read. It's clearly written that you posted the story, but almost everybody blame Timothy for the mistake -_- and forget the fact that readers post the stories and the editors select wich ones get posted.
sigh....
P.S. Good story =)
OTAN and ONU are the spanish accronims(sp?) of NATO and UN, but I agree, is easier to use only one accronim(sp?) for each organisaion, regardless of the language.
I can see it...
Godzilla vs. the Space Station
=]
...the First Amendment does not apply inside a private school on U.S. soil, but it should be applied in a sovereign country like Russia.
3 279.html
... and don't start, or continue frankly, to invest in these regimes that, at the end of the day, you will find that the investment was not worth it."
See U.S. says taking "realistic approach" to Russia http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20010314_
From the article:
Expanding on his reference to dealing with the Soviet Union, which he did in the 1980s as national security adviser to former President George Bush, Powell said: "We told them what bothered us. We told them where we could engage on things. We tried to convince them of the power of our values and our system. They argued back. "We should be realistic and keep encouraging them (russians) to move in the direction of solid democracy: don't start restricting First Amendment rights
Looks like in U.S. goverment's eyes respecting the private sector is more important than respecting their own citizens or international law.
This explains everything.
It was the MS-DOS version shipped with the early Pentium systems, but it wasn't widely used because it was replaced by the version 6.22 (bug fixes, something like that). It was also the last Microsoft's consumer OS that came with a REAL manual instead of an advertisement book. A common setup was running Win 3.11 on top of it.
I'm a kid too for christ's sake, I'm only 19 (watch my reputability drop...)
It's strange that you think of yourself has a "kid" since you're consistently posting well tougth comments (still I don't agree completely with you), and that's more likely to come from an adult than from a kid.
The problem with V-chips and the likes is that parents-or more correctly: people- tend to equal age with maturity so they will end using this stuff on the younger ones regardless of the children's level of maturity.
This discrimination by age is what get a lot of people here angry, and it's more plausible that this system will be abused (just an electronic nanny) than used the way it was intended: has a tool for good parenting.
"... clones would simply provide a better control comparison... I believe that clonig stands to benefit not only genetics and biology, but other fields like psychology and sociology as well.... I believe that clonig stands to benefit not only genetics and biology, but other fields like psychology and sociology as well."
So the clone will be just a guinea pig, right? Aren't you forgetting the fact that the clone will be a human being?
The omocigotic (identical) twins share the same genes; the differences between them come from their growth inside the mother, one growing bigger than the other, etc. So your clone will not be has similar to the DNA donor than you think, since he will have a completely different mother to begin with, throwing away your "better control comparison"
I know it, My GF have a "identical" twin, but her sister is taller and wears eyeglasses, among many other differences between them.
I'm not completely against human cloning, but aside the argument that it should be done because it can be done (and a good business to do with rich, childish infertile couples =) it's useless. It's the answer to a problem that doesn't exist, and a source of many new problems. Aside the genes, what will be the difference between raising an adopted child and a cloned one? They wouldn't deserve the same love from their parents? Wouldn't you love the child just because he (she) doesn't look like you?
Looks like Timothy don't even bottered to read the story. And from a imparcial news source like MS-NBC, with a misleading header... go figure.
/. is beccoming "rumours for nerds, rumours that matters" (driving a company out of bussines by rumours is not a small thing, and matters to all their workers, who would buy a product that is already "discontinued" and "unsupported" by the manufacturer? WHO?)
What have the slashdot crew against Sega, it's that difficult to check first the story, then post?
Still, I expect (wish) that Sega will be on the HW market more time than the people think.
On a side note, IIRC in Japan Pioneer built Saturn comptible hardware in 1997 or 1998 so this isn't a new move for Sega.
sigh.
The last sentence should read "instead of depriving them of their intelligence. It's about what they can do to improve the situation, not about what it should be."
Sorry