I was trying to find a glib way to express the idea that the two cats may very well behave in stunningly different manners. The "Same Owner" idea is not one I consider a decent control. For example, look at the way parents of five will change their parenting style between the first and fifth child, especially if the births are spread out over time. It's not that unusual to see a younger sibling with more privileges simply because the parents had become more permissive in what they allowed, and had never carried over that permissiveness to the older children.
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Assuming of course that the cloned cat is fertile and considered "fit" for stud purposes.
FrankenKitty breeding will not sit well with many people.
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You're missing a few very vital points.
Your advice assumes the following:
The pet owner actually had their pet as a companion, instead of as a status symbol.
The dead pet isn't a purebred that already costs close to $50k
A cloned pet won't become the SUV like status symbol of the next decade.
Said Pet owner actually loves animals instead of using them as accessories.
People understand that memories and training are NOT part of what's cloned.
People understand that any similarity in behavior between the clone and the original pet is coincidental
People have brains.
People care about shelter animals.
Now, I can understand making these assumptions. You sound like the kind of person where these assumptions apply. You clearly care about animals and want to see them cared for and happy. Good for you. I applaud you and your intentions.
Just remember, there is most likely enough wealthy people who do NOT meet the above assumptions to make cloning pets a profitable venture.
eventually cost it's upper management their careers
You appear to be unaware of how white collar crime works.
Darl and Co. were hired to try and wring what little value they could out of SCO before letting it die. They've done their job very well, using what little tendrils of IP value there were to be found and exploiting them for several times what they're worth. Even after everything is closed down and the cases settles, the various business interests involved will have made far more from the venture than was lost to lawyers.
Darl's value as an executive will skyrocket after this. He has, with what amounts to being a classic "pump and dump" made money out of fictional IP claims. He's going to be seen as a genius.
And remember, he still makes more money than any five/.ers combined. He couldn't care less what we think. Because we're not his kind of people, we're not even human to him.
And thus we learn that SCO has little to no grasp of the law, or anatomy!
I'd say we should send them some porn to help them brush up, but if there's even a single case of herpes in the collection, they'll see the Open Sores, and think they have rights to that as well.
And really, given the nature of the current US administration, the last thing the porn industry needs right now is more lawsuits.
Based on the fact that you considered that a vagina, I think we can safely conclude you have little to no experience with vaginas, even photographic ones.
Go watch some porn. Pay attention to the "beaver Shots"
You have confessed to violating DMCA and licensing requirements for the two CDs. The RIAA requires you to pay $200,000 in fines per CD by 4:30 PM this Friday. Failure to comply will result in prosecution under the law, with possible prison time of three years per track, and $50,000 Per track.
Have a nice day, and remember to buy the latest Brittany Spears CD.
Remember, we don't care if you listen, just that you buy.
If the FEAR of being punished prevents people from speaking, then freedom of speech has essentially been revoked.
There are already people who are afraid not only of speaking, but of listening as well. The culture of fear that's being encouraged is as damaging to the overall political process.
You don't need to monitor everyone and throw them in jail if you can convince them that they will be.
Even if there's no real danger of arrest, and YOU know that and act accordingly, doesn't remove the fact that other Americans are keeping silent out of fear.
You can take the narrow view of "They're cowards, and can be left out anyway," but there's a very real danger.
If most people expect to be arrested for political dissent, then there will be little to no real resistance when it really does start to happen.
It's the frog in water analogy. Put a frog in lukewarm water and slowly turn up the heat until it boils. If you go slowly enough, the frog will end up dead.
The fear of punishment for dissent is the leading edge of this process. It's whittling away at the people who might have stood up to oppression.
There is no freedom of speech if you are too afraid to speak.
I had a boss who recoiled in terror when I referred to George W. Bush as "The Shrub" He started babbling about getting into trouble with the authorities.
Mind you he was a hand wringing milquetoast incapable of standing to to or for anything, but that's beside the point. Fear of recrimination, even recrimination that had not even been hinted at, kept him from criticizing the government.
G-d locked the human brain at a specific speed to prevent over clocking. Apparently our brains are already operating at the maximum safe speed, and it's up to the user to optimize usage of the available processing cycles.
Over clocking methods shorten the usable lifespan of the entire device, impacting wetware well outside the neural system itself.
Yes, Zone Alarm can be as annoying as Hell, and it can be a pain in the neck at times, but the payoff of having application by application control over Internet access is priceless.
Although one of these days I really need to get around to configuring it so it doesn't block SMB shares. I don't need it often, but when I do it's annoying to end up turning off ZA during the copy process.
Desktop search is NEAT, but I don't need it. I keep my files organized to begin with, and since I use Mozilla at home and Thunderbird at work, none of the "tools" out there will help me search my e-mail anyway.
It's really a utility for the people who save files wherever the program defaults to, and never know where that is, who have their files scattered all over creation, and who need help organizing their data.
Personally, I just hope they make a native Linux mode available in some way to take advantage of standard apps - can't wait to run Apache, Perl and TWiki on my Treo phone!
Don't hold your breath. This is PALM we're talking about. Based on the limitations of the Palm OS (Talk to the coders who tried to port Nethack to Palm and you'll get more detail) I wouldn't be a bit surprised if all they did was use Linux as a layer between the hardware and their API.
Besides, who wants to use Graffiti with a bash prompt?
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So they've dropped their claim to be shrinking water molecules.
Of course they've already shown themselves to be full of hooey.
You say that now, but once criticizing the government is illegal and gets you an "Enemy Combatant" classification, you'll be glad your rants against the Conservative Christian Overlords are "deniable."
Until of course the USE of such technology, even having the software in your house, carries the same penalty.
I'm running Windows, and use Mailwasher and enable the Spamcop integration. It will let me select the messages that get reported to SPAMCOP as well as use some of the black hole lists to mark messages for deletion. It's a fairly complex program, and an excellent first line of defense. Even lets you bounce messages as if the mail server didn't find your address and report messages to additional SPAM databases. All in all, a useful program.
One of these days I need to get around to seeing if it will run under Wine.
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I was trying to find a glib way to express the idea that the two cats may very well behave in stunningly different manners. The "Same Owner" idea is not one I consider a decent control. For example, look at the way parents of five will change their parenting style between the first and fifth child, especially if the births are spread out over time. It's not that unusual to see a younger sibling with more privileges simply because the parents had become more permissive in what they allowed, and had never carried over that permissiveness to the older children.
Assuming of course that the cloned cat is fertile and considered "fit" for stud purposes.
FrankenKitty breeding will not sit well with many people.
You're missing a few very vital points.
Your advice assumes the following:
The pet owner actually had their pet as a companion, instead of as a status symbol.
The dead pet isn't a purebred that already costs close to $50k
A cloned pet won't become the SUV like status symbol of the next decade.
Said Pet owner actually loves animals instead of using them as accessories.
People understand that memories and training are NOT part of what's cloned.
People understand that any similarity in behavior between the clone and the original pet is coincidental
People have brains.
People care about shelter animals.
Now, I can understand making these assumptions. You sound like the kind of person where these assumptions apply. You clearly care about animals and want to see them cared for and happy. Good for you. I applaud you and your intentions.
Just remember, there is most likely enough wealthy people who do NOT meet the above assumptions to make cloning pets a profitable venture.
eventually cost it's upper management their careers
/.ers combined. He couldn't care less what we think. Because we're not his kind of people, we're not even human to him.
You appear to be unaware of how white collar crime works.
Darl and Co. were hired to try and wring what little value they could out of SCO before letting it die. They've done their job very well, using what little tendrils of IP value there were to be found and exploiting them for several times what they're worth. Even after everything is closed down and the cases settles, the various business interests involved will have made far more from the venture than was lost to lawyers.
Darl's value as an executive will skyrocket after this. He has, with what amounts to being a classic "pump and dump" made money out of fictional IP claims. He's going to be seen as a genius.
And remember, he still makes more money than any five
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Oh, I snorted coffee out my nose at that one.
No, no, SCO will get a footnote buried in the middle of the financial section, unless someone tries to spin it as somehow involving piracy.
And thus we learn that SCO has little to no grasp of the law, or anatomy!
I'd say we should send them some porn to help them brush up, but if there's even a single case of herpes in the collection, they'll see the Open Sores, and think they have rights to that as well.
And really, given the nature of the current US administration, the last thing the porn industry needs right now is more lawsuits.
Based on the fact that you considered that a vagina, I think we can safely conclude you have little to no experience with vaginas, even photographic ones.
Go watch some porn. Pay attention to the "beaver Shots"
Better yet, do what I do and get laid.
Speak for yourself.
;)
Being a married Geek has it's advantages.
By ripping those CDs and playing the resulting MP3s you have violated the "fair use" doctrine. Legal proceedings are already underway.
The RIAA.
Mr. Honest,
You have confessed to violating DMCA and licensing requirements for the two CDs. The RIAA requires you to pay $200,000 in fines per CD by 4:30 PM this Friday. Failure to comply will result in prosecution under the law, with possible prison time of three years per track, and $50,000 Per track.
Have a nice day, and remember to buy the latest Brittany Spears CD.
Remember, we don't care if you listen, just that you buy.
RIAA
You're missing my point.
If the FEAR of being punished prevents people from speaking, then freedom of speech has essentially been revoked.
There are already people who are afraid not only of speaking, but of listening as well. The culture of fear that's being encouraged is as damaging to the overall political process.
You don't need to monitor everyone and throw them in jail if you can convince them that they will be.
Even if there's no real danger of arrest, and YOU know that and act accordingly, doesn't remove the fact that other Americans are keeping silent out of fear.
You can take the narrow view of "They're cowards, and can be left out anyway," but there's a very real danger.
If most people expect to be arrested for political dissent, then there will be little to no real resistance when it really does start to happen.
It's the frog in water analogy. Put a frog in lukewarm water and slowly turn up the heat until it boils. If you go slowly enough, the frog will end up dead.
The fear of punishment for dissent is the leading edge of this process. It's whittling away at the people who might have stood up to oppression.
Damn.
They're on to us.
Oh, you mean like WAVE America?
Already in place in many schools, and spreading.
There is no freedom of speech if you are too afraid to speak.
I had a boss who recoiled in terror when I referred to George W. Bush as "The Shrub" He started babbling about getting into trouble with the authorities.
Mind you he was a hand wringing milquetoast incapable of standing to to or for anything, but that's beside the point. Fear of recrimination, even recrimination that had not even been hinted at, kept him from criticizing the government.
I always considered writing it at M$ to be an easy to shorten the full Microsoft and still keep what you're talking about separate from the disease MS
The moral of the story is simple.
G-d locked the human brain at a specific speed to prevent over clocking. Apparently our brains are already operating at the maximum safe speed, and it's up to the user to optimize usage of the available processing cycles.
Over clocking methods shorten the usable lifespan of the entire device, impacting wetware well outside the neural system itself.
well over ZA's dead body
Yes, Zone Alarm can be as annoying as Hell, and it can be a pain in the neck at times, but the payoff of having application by application control over Internet access is priceless.
Although one of these days I really need to get around to configuring it so it doesn't block SMB shares. I don't need it often, but when I do it's annoying to end up turning off ZA during the copy process.
You make a good point.
Desktop search is NEAT, but I don't need it. I keep my files organized to begin with, and since I use Mozilla at home and Thunderbird at work, none of the "tools" out there will help me search my e-mail anyway.
It's really a utility for the people who save files wherever the program defaults to, and never know where that is, who have their files scattered all over creation, and who need help organizing their data.
Kudos to you for admitting your need for p0rn.
Far too many people let shame take away their abilty to admit they like the stuff.
Damn. I was going to install that when I got home this evening.
If I install Doom 2, we should be safe.
30 minutes after upgrading to Open Office 1.1.3...
Guess I'll try and update Thunderbird so the next release hits the servers this afternoon.
Personally, I just hope they make a native Linux mode available in some way to take advantage of standard apps - can't wait to run Apache, Perl and TWiki on my Treo phone!
Don't hold your breath. This is PALM we're talking about. Based on the limitations of the Palm OS (Talk to the coders who tried to port Nethack to Palm and you'll get more detail) I wouldn't be a bit surprised if all they did was use Linux as a layer between the hardware and their API.
Besides, who wants to use Graffiti with a bash prompt?
Take a look at their web site:
Bio Ionic Professional Hair Care System utilizes technologically advanced Natural Ion Complex to deliver natural negative ions to the hair. Natural negative ion energy is powerful enough to break water molecule clusters into micro-fine particles (atomization) and penetrate the hair shaft. That means moisture balance is restored and the hair cuticle is sealed.
So they've dropped their claim to be shrinking water molecules.
Of course they've already shown themselves to be full of hooey.
You say that now, but once criticizing the government is illegal and gets you an "Enemy Combatant" classification, you'll be glad your rants against the Conservative Christian Overlords are "deniable."
Until of course the USE of such technology, even having the software in your house, carries the same penalty.
I'm running Windows, and use Mailwasher and enable the Spamcop integration. It will let me select the messages that get reported to SPAMCOP as well as use some of the black hole lists to mark messages for deletion. It's a fairly complex program, and an excellent first line of defense. Even lets you bounce messages as if the mail server didn't find your address and report messages to additional SPAM databases. All in all, a useful program.
One of these days I need to get around to seeing if it will run under Wine.
It even works for hotmail