Designer children WILL happen. There's a lot of countries and at least one of them will be willing to allow people to perform the procedure and some people will come (back) to the US after getting their designer babies from [Brazil, China, Japan, Russia, Norway, wherever] implanted into their womb. When it happens it's going to further the divide between the haves and the have nots by another step (past education, nurture, resources, social networks, and natural gene advantages).
So we have a choice: We can either try and block designer babies in whatever country we live in and put it a step behind the rest of the world who will embrace the technology, or we can learn to deal with the idea. Personally, I'll be picking up a designer baby if the technology is where it needs to be when I have kids.
Ginger kids eat in the hallway! I'm pretty sure the garden didn't have hallways though, so that's the real reason God kicked her out. He was pissed that she wasn't eating in the hallway.
Sounds like a good anti-piracy ploy to me. Don't do jack to stop people from pirating on their home computers. Make them hold legit copies to play online. Win win.
the greater of two evils starts winning. If everyone always voted for the lesser of two evils instead of holding themselves politics, the evils would diminish instead of grow.
Linux has a very high barrier to entry. I've tried using it recently and got turned off from the difficulty of installing anything that isn't in the package manager. XP sucks like hell, but I can install programs more often than I can on Linux.
Seems like geeks who want to install all this weird stuff are going to want more support for easy click and install than housewives who just want to check their E-Mail.
For a housewife, once it's installed, Linux will never need another modification. Same with XP almost.
For a geek, both are going to be rife with mods, but the Linux is harder to learn to tweak.
Getting a set of robot arms like that came to mind very quickly for me. Imagine when we see construction workers using a set of those instead of some other heavy equipment for the job.
I think everyone using Eclipse as their IDE sounds reasonable. I think everyone coding in the same language is only a good idea if you only code one kind of application. If you code client-server apps, stand alone apps, web apps, big apps, small apps, stable apps, cheap apps, GUI apps, command line apps, or any other type of vareity, that choice would be stupid beyond all reason.
Truth is, programmers can already switch languages pretty easy, especially if there's another person on their team who knows the language.
I'm not sure that the claim that Obama is an 'affirmative action' president if he wins really holds up, considering Clinton would have been one as well.
Very early primary I planned on voting for McCain over Clinton if they both got their nominations, but McCain changed my mind by switching stances on almost every major issue. But the truth is, 'moderates' are going to vote for whoever talks nicer and has more charisma. The people who identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans decide who to pick on issues, the moderates pick who is taller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_United_States_Presidents_and_presidential_candidates
If your a few feet away and relatively stationary, no red shift should be occurring. The dB would drop, not the Hz. Question really is how fast the dB would drop to 0 on any given sound.
As people age they're more likely to suffer health problems. Older people are significantly more likely to die or become incapacitated due to health. There's a certain amount of unrest with people at the idea of the president becoming incapacitated.
But what's this "cult of youth" and where can I join one? Does the YMCA host a local chapter?
Free markets are about competition and rewards. Rewarding someone for making up stupid patents and trolling on them isn't really what free markets are about, that's supposed to be the dark side of regulation (a la democrat lawyers). Free market says that you can compete, (software) patents block competition. Or at least that's how I've interpreted the philosophy of free markets and the reality of (software) patents. So republicans in the interest in unfettered markets should be against (software) patents IMO.
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Heart Disease, Cancer, Drunk Drivers, Cell phone drivers, etc... Knives are VERY low on my concern list.
I once went to school without pants on. I was so lucky to be wearing a trench coat at that point in my life...
Only because if you eat a lot of fruit you fart, and no one likes the smelll of fresh methane in bed...
Designer children WILL happen. There's a lot of countries and at least one of them will be willing to allow people to perform the procedure and some people will come (back) to the US after getting their designer babies from [Brazil, China, Japan, Russia, Norway, wherever] implanted into their womb. When it happens it's going to further the divide between the haves and the have nots by another step (past education, nurture, resources, social networks, and natural gene advantages).
So we have a choice: We can either try and block designer babies in whatever country we live in and put it a step behind the rest of the world who will embrace the technology, or we can learn to deal with the idea. Personally, I'll be picking up a designer baby if the technology is where it needs to be when I have kids.
Ginger kids eat in the hallway! I'm pretty sure the garden didn't have hallways though, so that's the real reason God kicked her out. He was pissed that she wasn't eating in the hallway.
Sounds like a good anti-piracy ploy to me. Don't do jack to stop people from pirating on their home computers. Make them hold legit copies to play online. Win win.
You can however hack it if you refuse the EULA.
...themselves [above] politics...
Dur. I hold myself above grammar.
the greater of two evils starts winning. If everyone always voted for the lesser of two evils instead of holding themselves politics, the evils would diminish instead of grow.
What findings if any have you found in the area of gray matter production?
Linux has a very high barrier to entry. I've tried using it recently and got turned off from the difficulty of installing anything that isn't in the package manager. XP sucks like hell, but I can install programs more often than I can on Linux.
Seems like geeks who want to install all this weird stuff are going to want more support for easy click and install than housewives who just want to check their E-Mail.
For a housewife, once it's installed, Linux will never need another modification. Same with XP almost.
For a geek, both are going to be rife with mods, but the Linux is harder to learn to tweak.
About 5% of us Americans have the good sense to abstain. Some more sit on the fence... But yes, a lot of christians... :-/
Getting a set of robot arms like that came to mind very quickly for me. Imagine when we see construction workers using a set of those instead of some other heavy equipment for the job.
I think everyone using Eclipse as their IDE sounds reasonable. I think everyone coding in the same language is only a good idea if you only code one kind of application. If you code client-server apps, stand alone apps, web apps, big apps, small apps, stable apps, cheap apps, GUI apps, command line apps, or any other type of vareity, that choice would be stupid beyond all reason.
Truth is, programmers can already switch languages pretty easy, especially if there's another person on their team who knows the language.
I was kinda wondering about the MS Office vs Open Office choice in their myself... Also, GIMP instead of photoshop, more win.
I'm not sure that the claim that Obama is an 'affirmative action' president if he wins really holds up, considering Clinton would have been one as well.
Very early primary I planned on voting for McCain over Clinton if they both got their nominations, but McCain changed my mind by switching stances on almost every major issue. But the truth is, 'moderates' are going to vote for whoever talks nicer and has more charisma. The people who identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans decide who to pick on issues, the moderates pick who is taller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heights_of_United_States_Presidents_and_presidential_candidates
Vermont already has one. So does New York. Unfortunately the police in Vermont are not enforcing it. Jack asses.
Does he own a chevy pickup and hate Obama for not wearing a lapel pin with a flag?
Glad you're not in Iran for your sake...
I'd prefer not to see the Earth crash...
If your a few feet away and relatively stationary, no red shift should be occurring. The dB would drop, not the Hz. Question really is how fast the dB would drop to 0 on any given sound.
You elitist jerk.
As people age they're more likely to suffer health problems. Older people are significantly more likely to die or become incapacitated due to health. There's a certain amount of unrest with people at the idea of the president becoming incapacitated.
But what's this "cult of youth" and where can I join one? Does the YMCA host a local chapter?
Free markets are about competition and rewards. Rewarding someone for making up stupid patents and trolling on them isn't really what free markets are about, that's supposed to be the dark side of regulation (a la democrat lawyers). Free market says that you can compete, (software) patents block competition. Or at least that's how I've interpreted the philosophy of free markets and the reality of (software) patents. So republicans in the interest in unfettered markets should be against (software) patents IMO.