A clone of a person is a person. What's so hard to grasp about this blindingly obvious fact?
In general, I agree with you. Yet, consider the abortion debate:
- One side passionately maintains that the developing organism within the mother is a person (and thus possessing of various rights) from the moment of conception
- Another side passionately maintains that the same entity cannot be considered a person until some (varying) period of time subsequent of conception
Two different views of "personhood" with strongly divergent results as to what can be done to the thing in question.
If the quote in the summary is followed:
... in the near future people would overcome their concerns if cloning became medically useful.
Then I expect that for some "utility" could stand in as a valid justification to viewing a clone as not-a-person.
If there's life on Mars, it probably originated here
That doesn't mean it is compatible with life here - a lot changes in millions of years, under very different conditions. Just look at Australia or Madagascar to see how much things can change in just a short time span.
Nicole Kidman is from Australia and she seems pretty compatible.
Wait, that's not your point... nevermind.
You know, I might actually pay for a Mercedes, if the delivery method involved the successful deployment of rockets, parachutes and giant airbags... that would be cool.
4. The economy recovers, because all this stuff has much the same effect on the world economy as WWII had on the US economy, but without the millions of people dying.
There is at least one major drawback to this working in the same way. A significant portion of what made the US economy so powerful post-WWII was the fact that in the process of prosecuting that conflict a healthy chuck of the manufacturing capability of the rest of the world was reduced to rubble.
There's a joke out there about what would happen if structural engineers built structures the way software developers build software. I don't remember the exact punch line,
Ah, one of my favorites, Weinberg's Law: "If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization".
You and your wimpy residential ovens! A good brick pizza oven will be going well *past* 450F. More like heat to 800, then cool to 750, then cook the pizza in a minute and a half.
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A clone of a person is a person. What's so hard to grasp about this blindingly obvious fact?
In general, I agree with you. Yet, consider the abortion debate:
- One side passionately maintains that the developing organism within the mother is a person (and thus possessing of various rights) from the moment of conception
- Another side passionately maintains that the same entity cannot be considered a person until some (varying) period of time subsequent of conception
Two different views of "personhood" with strongly divergent results as to what can be done to the thing in question. If the quote in the summary is followed:
... in the near future people would overcome their concerns if cloning became medically useful.
Then I expect that for some "utility" could stand in as a valid justification to viewing a clone as not-a-person.
However, Tiberius died in 37 CE, long before the Romans got the difference between Christianity and Judaism sorted out.
Indeed, by AD 37 the Christians and the Jews themselves hadn't really gotten themselves sorted apart.
A band saw works really well.
Next the rover will find tall four-armed green men.
If it's all the same, I'd rather it find and image Dejah Thoris ...
... and the group which broke out in hives at the mention of the name, "JCL".
Holy shit, look at that drone skimming the tree tops!
"Jimmy, bet ya' a Miller Lite that you can't hit that thing with yer twenty-two."
Like this? http://www.qualcomm.com/solutions/wireless-charging/qualcomm-halo
If there's life on Mars, it probably originated here
That doesn't mean it is compatible with life here - a lot changes in millions of years, under very different conditions. Just look at Australia or Madagascar to see how much things can change in just a short time span.
Nicole Kidman is from Australia and she seems pretty compatible. Wait, that's not your point ... nevermind.
Why must there always be blame?
It's easier than thinking.
They use the tech to sterilize equipment in labs, why not use it to sterilize people?
I don't think that means what you think it means.
Reviewing your spam folder has corrupted your expectations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potomac_two-step
Ah! I had figured it was a codeword to activate the sleeper cells ...
and finally the potentially violent landing.
You know, I might actually pay for a Mercedes, if the delivery method involved the successful deployment of rockets, parachutes and giant airbags ... that would be cool.
Makes you wonder, when people say we can't do that for consumer vehicles, eh? Where's the Can-do spirit?!?
The hostile nature of a dry environment and thin atmosphere has nothing on the abuse afforded by the average consumer.
How do you mentally prepare your virginity?
The poster could have meant as in sharpening. Although that's a pucker-inducing thought ...
4. The economy recovers, because all this stuff has much the same effect on the world economy as WWII had on the US economy, but without the millions of people dying.
(Note: not entirely my idea)
There is at least one major drawback to this working in the same way. A significant portion of what made the US economy so powerful post-WWII was the fact that in the process of prosecuting that conflict a healthy chuck of the manufacturing capability of the rest of the world was reduced to rubble.
There's a joke out there about what would happen if structural engineers built structures the way software developers build software. I don't remember the exact punch line,
Ah, one of my favorites, Weinberg's Law: "If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization".
Could I induce you to run for Congress?
Presumably one would like to have the fuel and oxidizer come off in disjoint, non-connected spaces.
Yeah, that's what it meant in the Summary by "placed in a container that has a barrier to separate the two sides".
*Light bulb goes on*
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Naming rights for faculty positions! I gotta get an IP lawyer working on this
"every nation on Earth has a cellular infrastructure in place, why not just use that?"
Because you can be traced/tracked by those outside the battlefield, basically making it an intelligence coo.
And then, God help us when the pigeon Air Force attacks ...
Worms can't get service at McDonalds?
Not until the University of Paris forks the research code.
I wouldn't read too much into it.
We also share a common genetic origin with mushrooms.
Which explains our common tolerance for bull
most pizzas are cooked between 350F and 450F.
You and your wimpy residential ovens! A good brick pizza oven will be going well *past* 450F. More like heat to 800, then cool to 750, then cook the pizza in a minute and a half.