How is this an alternative to using aborted fetuses and embryos for harvesting stem cells?
It is an alternative. No abortion needed. Also, because they demonstrated cloning, it opens up the possibility of transplanting into seriously ill people tissues that are genetically their own. No rejection. No lifetime of immuno-suppressant drugs.
This _is_ an aborted embryo (albeit in vitro, but the adults from in vitro embryos seem perfectly normal).
No, it is not an aborted embryo, as it never implanted in a uterus.
Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. The Wannsee conference, where the Nazis decided on the genocide of the Jews, was on Jan 20, 1942.
The economy was grwoing up until until early 2001. The economy has been growing since late 2001.
The U.S. economy has been losing jobs hand-over-fist; there are over 2 million fewer jobs now than there were when Bush Jr. took office. No president has managed that feat since Herbert Hoover.
In February 2002, after 9/11, after the recession, the President's crack team of economic advisors projected a budget deficit for 2005 of 15 Billion dollars. Now Bush submits a budget with a 500 Billion dollar deficit, and that's with no money for the occupation of Iraq or Afghanistan.
You've got to look at the full cycle. Jobs are outsourced to India. Indian companies and workers get American dollars. Those dollars will eventually make their way back to this country and buy American products or investments.
Mathematical reasoning is not the basis for deducing the laws of nature. The laws of nature must be induced from observations. Nature provides no axioms.
Newtonian mechanics has its axioms, and Einstein's relativistic mechanics has a different set. Nothing in mathematics will tell you which is right and which is wrong. You have to pose situations, work out predictions that follow from the two sets of axioms, and then go out and make the observations to find out which is current science and which is a has-been. Note that the two sets of axioms give indistinguishable predictions for most conditions encountered here on the surface of the earth.
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Sokal's balcony.
Ask them why they won't step off a balcony that is high up. If they do, problem solved, you win the argument. If they don't, ask them why not? Why can't they construct a reality where they don't plummet to their death?
Perceptions may be socially constructed and constrained, but reality just is.
I think of it the other way around: Math is useful because it provides results that apply to the real world. Math follows nature.
The first mathematical insight seems to be the leap from:
Two Chickens plus Three Chickens is Five Chickens. and Two Sheep plus Three Sheep is Five Sheep and Two Tribemembers plus Three Tribemembers is Five Tribemembers to Two plus Three is Five, no matter what you're counting.
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Yes, but what would we have in common with them?
The Periodic Table.
The way to start communicating with an alien species is going to start with simple numbers and arithmatic, and then an important sequence will be: (1,1) (1,2) (2,3) (2,4) (3,6) (3,7) (4,9)... the stable isotopes of Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Berylium, and so on up the periodic table.
Once two species share this information, then they can talk about stuff, literally. By adding unstable elements, they can talk about time.
The Fiero was probably essential to the creation of the whole Saturn line. They certainly carry on the "plastic panels on space frame" technology.
My sister had a Fiero back in the day (her husband worked for EDS when it was part of GM). I didn't fit into it.
I bought a 1995 red Saturn SC-2 for my (now ex-) wife. Zippy little car. After the divorce and me finishing up paying off the loan (what a sap I was), she traded it in on a Ford Explorer.
At one point in time, it was Vandenberg Air Force Base. Supposed to be used for putting the shuttle into polar orbits (launching north, IIRC). To service spy satellites.
Actually, solution #1 isn't too far out. I wish I remembered the name of the demographic transition: once a society becomes wealthy enough, birth rates plummet. Europe without immigration would be shrinking in population. USA would be close to zero population growth.
The trick it to get China, south Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), and south-east Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Phillapenes, Vietnam) wealthy. Without screwing the environmental pooch.
Towing a large asteroid into earth orbit would require an awful lot of space infrastructure we simply don't have.
Gerry O'Neill had it right: mining colonies on the moon, with solar-powered mass-drivers to launch luner materials (raw or processed into metals) into orbit.
Microsoft feels that their way of doing software is best. If they didn't, they'd be building on top of Open Source the way Apple is. Obviously, since they've got the biggest selling operating system in the world, other people think so as well.
I'm not so sure about that. Microsoft got to be the biggest software company in the world through anticompetitive policies that were challenged by the FTC and the DOJ. Politics let them get away with it. And then Microsoft illegally abused their unfairly gained monopoly in Operating Systems to crush any competition in the emerging Internet arena. They got caught, convicted, and have used their ill-gained money to manipulate the political process to get away scot-free again.
Have a heresy. American dominance of the world is destroyed, and the current terrorist groups end up in control. How do you think history would treat the suicide bombers and terrorists?
To answer your rhetorical question, if the current terrorist groups were to end up in control, the suicide bombers and the terrorists would be hailed as martyrs and liberators. The winners write the histories, after all.
I do not believe that the choices are limited to "American dominance of the world" and "the current terrorist groups end up in control". The American "victory" in Iraq may do to American dominance of the world what the victory in World War I did to British dominance of the world: significantly degrade it. It may be another 15-20 years before foreign-financed deficits put a permanent crimp in U.S. military spending, and with it U.S. military dominance of the world. The U.S. will lose friends and create rivals with unilateralist rhetoric and invasions based on false accusations.
The Wrights shopped their engine specs around to a few different engine builders. None of them thought that their requirements could be met. They had a machinist on staff (remember the bicycle business?), Charles Taylor (not the Liberian dictator), who thought he could do better. And he did.
The powered, steerable, lighter-than-air dirigible came before the Wright Flyer.
The Wright Brothers were the first with powered, controllable heavier-than-air flight. They were also the first ones to fly in a circle, in 1904. Land back where you took off.
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Borrowing to "invest in the future" makes sense if you know how to spend the money now in ways that will guarentee a return in the future.
A lot of companies have borrowed money, and spent it, and failed on the ??? step, so they didn't have the profits, so they're bankrupt.
Interest on borrowed money is an expense that Apple has eliminated. Good for them!
We have the exact same problem, today, with identical twins. So this argument is nothing new.
It is an alternative. No abortion needed. Also, because they demonstrated cloning, it opens up the possibility of transplanting into seriously ill people tissues that are genetically their own. No rejection. No lifetime of immuno-suppressant drugs.
No, it is not an aborted embryo, as it never implanted in a uterus.
Sorry, no.
Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. The Wannsee conference, where the Nazis decided on the genocide of the Jews, was on Jan 20, 1942.
The economy was grwoing up until until early 2001. The economy has been growing since late 2001.
The U.S. economy has been losing jobs hand-over-fist; there are over 2 million fewer jobs now than there were when Bush Jr. took office. No president has managed that feat since Herbert Hoover.
In February 2002, after 9/11, after the recession, the President's crack team of economic advisors projected a budget deficit for 2005 of 15 Billion dollars. Now Bush submits a budget with a 500 Billion dollar deficit, and that's with no money for the occupation of Iraq or Afghanistan.
What a job!
You've got to look at the full cycle. Jobs are outsourced to India. Indian companies and workers get American dollars. Those dollars will eventually make their way back to this country and buy American products or investments.
Mathematical reasoning is not the basis for deducing the laws of nature. The laws of nature must be induced from observations. Nature provides no axioms.
Newtonian mechanics has its axioms, and Einstein's relativistic mechanics has a different set. Nothing in mathematics will tell you which is right and which is wrong. You have to pose situations, work out predictions that follow from the two sets of axioms, and then go out and make the observations to find out which is current science and which is a has-been. Note that the two sets of axioms give indistinguishable predictions for most conditions encountered here on the surface of the earth.
Sokal's balcony.
Ask them why they won't step off a balcony that is high up. If they do, problem solved, you win the argument. If they don't, ask them why not? Why can't they construct a reality where they don't plummet to their death?
Perceptions may be socially constructed and constrained, but reality just is.
I think of it the other way around: Math is useful because it provides results that apply to the real world. Math follows nature.
The first mathematical insight seems to be the leap from:
Two Chickens plus Three Chickens is Five Chickens.
and
Two Sheep plus Three Sheep is Five Sheep
and
Two Tribemembers plus Three Tribemembers is Five Tribemembers
to
Two plus Three is Five, no matter what you're counting.
The Periodic Table.
The way to start communicating with an alien species is going to start with simple numbers and arithmatic, and then an important sequence will be:
(1,1) (1,2) (2,3) (2,4) (3,6) (3,7) (4,9)
the stable isotopes of Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Berylium, and so on up the periodic table.
Once two species share this information, then they can talk about stuff, literally. By adding unstable elements, they can talk about time.
Chris
American Brands != American Cars.
Buy a Honda, made in Ohio.
Buy a Toyota, made in Kentucky.
When I replace my 8 year old Mercury (made in KC, MO), it won't be another Ford Motor product.
The Fiero was probably essential to the creation of the whole Saturn line. They certainly carry on the "plastic panels on space frame" technology.
My sister had a Fiero back in the day (her husband worked for EDS when it was part of GM). I didn't fit into it.
I bought a 1995 red Saturn SC-2 for my (now ex-) wife. Zippy little car. After the divorce and me finishing up paying off the loan (what a sap I was), she traded it in on a Ford Explorer.
At one point in time, it was Vandenberg Air Force Base. Supposed to be used for putting the shuttle into polar orbits (launching north, IIRC). To service spy satellites.
Actually, solution #1 isn't too far out. I wish I remembered the name of the demographic transition: once a society becomes wealthy enough, birth rates plummet. Europe without immigration would be shrinking in population. USA would be close to zero population growth.
The trick it to get China, south Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), and south-east Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Phillapenes, Vietnam) wealthy. Without screwing the environmental pooch.
Towing a large asteroid into earth orbit would require an awful lot of space infrastructure we simply don't have.
Gerry O'Neill had it right: mining colonies on the moon, with solar-powered mass-drivers to launch luner materials (raw or processed into metals) into orbit.
Safire sometimes just makes things up. Like the bit about 9-11 hijackers having the transponder codes for Air Force One.
So who can tell if this one is true or made up?
I'm not so sure about that. Microsoft got to be the biggest software company in the world through anticompetitive policies that were challenged by the FTC and the DOJ. Politics let them get away with it. And then Microsoft illegally abused their unfairly gained monopoly in Operating Systems to crush any competition in the emerging Internet arena. They got caught, convicted, and have used their ill-gained money to manipulate the political process to get away scot-free again.
That's right. They stole it fair and square. Per-Processor licensing was introduced in 1988, and illegal.
To answer your rhetorical question, if the current terrorist groups were to end up in control, the suicide bombers and the terrorists would be hailed as martyrs and liberators. The winners write the histories, after all.
I do not believe that the choices are limited to "American dominance of the world" and "the current terrorist groups end up in control". The American "victory" in Iraq may do to American dominance of the world what the victory in World War I did to British dominance of the world: significantly degrade it. It may be another 15-20 years before foreign-financed deficits put a permanent crimp in U.S. military spending, and with it U.S. military dominance of the world. The U.S. will lose friends and create rivals with unilateralist rhetoric and invasions based on false accusations.
Argh! The Morris worm was 1988, not 1998. There, that's better.
The Morris worm was 1988, not 1988. A typo, I'm sure. But the previous poster became confused...
The Wrights shopped their engine specs around to a few different engine builders. None of them thought that their requirements could be met. They had a machinist on staff (remember the bicycle business?), Charles Taylor (not the Liberian dictator), who thought he could do better. And he did.
Saddam Hussein never threw out the inspectors.
Why do you think he did?
powered, heavier-than-air flight.
The powered, steerable, lighter-than-air dirigible came before the Wright Flyer.
The Wright Brothers were the first with powered, controllable heavier-than-air flight. They were also the first ones to fly in a circle, in 1904. Land back where you took off.
MCC's LDL++. Unfortunately, the price was steep the last time I (encouraged my boss to) look.