I just want the companies to be honest about what's in the food. I may well ~choose~ to eat it given the option.
Someone said that having a tomato plant with some tuna fish genes injected into it would be no worse than just eating a tomato with some tuna fish. Fine. Great. How does that work for a vegetarian? There's a moral issue. What happens if the person is horribly allergic to tuna fish? Now there's a health issue too.
I don't a company has a right to just make that decision for someone. I'm not so happy about forced water fluoridation or iodized salt either, but at least those things are usually labeled.
Meant that to be "funny" and clicked the wrong option. Now I have to post some comment to erase that moderation. I hope/. is paying attention to this feedback about feedback about feedback. @_@
I happen to prefer it when people fidget and look at their feet during a conversation. It gives me the impression that they're more emotionally involved in the conversation. It demonstrates a natural respect for my opinion.
Just because the extroverts on tv have conversations with eye contact doesn't mean it's the "correct" approach.
I could see having a country-wide holiday every year where the lights around the city would be shut off early in the evening. We have plenty of useless holidays already, why not one that actually gives city kids a chance to see the stars?
Even if the "nook is back", I wouldn't purchase another.
I debated between that and the Kindle years ago. I finally decided on the nook after reading that it had double the battery life. Ha! I turned off every wireless connection it had and the thing still wouldn't last more than a few days before begging to be recharged. This fell drastically short of their claims. There are many threads about this problem out there, I only wish I had searched for them before my purchase.
Also, if I'm allowed to eat test-tube meat, why can't I eat a test-tube baby?
A valid concern. Just my layman guess is that human tissue would provide maximum nutrition for a human to eat. How would you like to go to a lab to get a few of your tastiest cells sampled and cloned to be made into food tailored just for you? Mmm! I'm hungry now! Dinner time here. I'll have a me burger.
My father once carved a longbow out of a large piece of cedar. It looked magnificent, exactly how a longbow should look. He carefully strung it, notched an arrow, and drew it back. It snapped in half. I thus concluded that a longbow will never work and it's pointless to ever use one. I'm assuming that's the same conclusion we should make from this article. I'm glad this random Canadian could save us all so much time.
Interpreting the lawyer-fied terms of service reveals that Microsoft has been hinting at this kind of thing for a while. That's fun. http://tosdr.org/#microsoft
It's a tough crowd, a crowd she pleases more often than not. I can't make a reasonable comment at all on this. I just got a new joystick in preparation of Star Citizen coming out. Every ounce of my being screams at me to play a flight sim every time someone mentions fly-by-wire, autopilot, stick shake, autoland, or anything else plane-y. Should I have spent the extra money to get force feedback? Argh. This will possibly be one of the biggest regrets of my life.
I have pretty strong anxiety as well. Agoraphobia is my most annoying development from that. I had to abandon my original career choice as my stress ramped up and I just couldn't get to the job anymore.
First, the "we broke 20 plots" is bullshit. They have have used these tools in 20 investigations, so what? And what about the other 280 they admit to? And anyway, how many people's data was involved in each of these investigations? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands?
Also, don't forget the government tendency to declare victory. I'm reminded of how it designates "all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants". How many of these plots would have even gone anywhere? They might've broken into someone's home who ordered some waffle mix overseas, declared him a "terrorist", shipped him off to Guantanamo Bay, then chalked up another point for the Good Guys(tm).
I tend to be a pessimist about things that happen in secret.
97% of used car dealers agree this is a honey of a deal, and 97% of those would gladly take credit.
Self-interest creates a bias factor.
Scientists would become far more famous and make more money if they disproved it though. The bias is the other way. Just imagine the millions the energy companies would pay out for definitive proof that they don't needs scrubbers anymore. Ohhhhh that would be quite a bit of coin.
I was thinking more along the lines of comparing a tiny compass needle to the stars to get an idea of the shift of the Earth's rotational axis compared to magnetic North and extrapolating a movement of a few centimeters 2500 miles away. All this is while taking into account that Polaris wiggles a little bit, the seas are choppy, the chronometer is overwound, the captain is slightly drunk and suffering from scurvy, and the crew is singing about a tunafish that may or may not resemble a mermaid.
Are you sure you're not thinking about stars shifting? I have a hard time thinking about a compass from 300 years ago being accurate enough to measure this. I guess if it had a LOT of datapoints, maybe?
If you want to kill a kid's joy in something, make it a school assignment.
Can certainly be true. It certainly ended my dream of programming video games for a career.... Not everything I had to read was miserable, though. Cold Mountain and All Quiet on the Western Front were a couple forced titles I actually enjoyed.
At the risk of sounding too mushy, taking just a couple minutes every day to email someone important to you might be the most worthwhile thing to do. Just that little bit each day is something a lot of us antisocial nerds don't do.
I bought a plant on ebay. The seller shipped it to me as "media mail" to save money, something that's supposed to be used only for textbooks. I guess it could become a textbook one day so that's alright?
Later, also on ebay, I tried to sell a used game. When I typed in the upc, it told me the shipping information used by other sellers of that item, on average. The average listed weight was 6 oz. The actual weight when I measured it on my scale read 9 oz, not even close. It made a dollar difference in shipping.
I was born without my choosing. I was forced to spend nearly 18 years in an institution, giving me tests of both my physical and mental abilities. Due to my flawed genetics, I sometimes had to go see a physician, where I'd be poked and prodded, then given drugs that'd usually make me feel worse before better.
I was a typical child.
Reading through all these ethics concerns, I really don't see much difference. The kid could go to school like any other, he'd just be watched with more interest. He might look different. So what? There are only like 3 kids in a school who look like people on tv anyway. He might get sick sometimes, but a lot of people get sick. Heck, he'd probably have a better upbringing than 95% of the rest of us, with all the financial support he'd need to do whatever he wants.
If you want to prevent this from happening, you should go out and sterilize all the dregs of our society who reproduce *all the time* already. But then you're into preferred selection, and you go into another realm people balk at.
The last time I saw a Mars article on here, it was faked. I'm still feeling the troll-burn from that. And this article is on a website I've never heard of also.
Slashdot Mirror
I just want the companies to be honest about what's in the food. I may well ~choose~ to eat it given the option.
Someone said that having a tomato plant with some tuna fish genes injected into it would be no worse than just eating a tomato with some tuna fish. Fine. Great. How does that work for a vegetarian? There's a moral issue. What happens if the person is horribly allergic to tuna fish? Now there's a health issue too.
I don't a company has a right to just make that decision for someone. I'm not so happy about forced water fluoridation or iodized salt either, but at least those things are usually labeled.
Meant that to be "funny" and clicked the wrong option. Now I have to post some comment to erase that moderation. I hope /. is paying attention to this feedback about feedback about feedback. @_@
I happen to prefer it when people fidget and look at their feet during a conversation. It gives me the impression that they're more emotionally involved in the conversation. It demonstrates a natural respect for my opinion.
Just because the extroverts on tv have conversations with eye contact doesn't mean it's the "correct" approach.
I could see having a country-wide holiday every year where the lights around the city would be shut off early in the evening. We have plenty of useless holidays already, why not one that actually gives city kids a chance to see the stars?
I'm wondering how this would work for agoraphobia -- the fear of going outside.
Or what if someone with stage fright watched himself giving a speech to a crowd of people? Harder or easier? -shudders-
Does anyone else already have 3rd person nightmares involving xenomorphs?
Even if the "nook is back", I wouldn't purchase another.
I debated between that and the Kindle years ago. I finally decided on the nook after reading that it had double the battery life. Ha! I turned off every wireless connection it had and the thing still wouldn't last more than a few days before begging to be recharged. This fell drastically short of their claims. There are many threads about this problem out there, I only wish I had searched for them before my purchase.
My gosh, this is the second time I've gotten a reply on here that taught me something after years of use. Thank you, sir.
Also, if I'm allowed to eat test-tube meat, why can't I eat a test-tube baby?
A valid concern. Just my layman guess is that human tissue would provide maximum nutrition for a human to eat. How would you like to go to a lab to get a few of your tastiest cells sampled and cloned to be made into food tailored just for you? Mmm! I'm hungry now! Dinner time here. I'll have a me burger.
My father once carved a longbow out of a large piece of cedar. It looked magnificent, exactly how a longbow should look. He carefully strung it, notched an arrow, and drew it back. It snapped in half. I thus concluded that a longbow will never work and it's pointless to ever use one. I'm assuming that's the same conclusion we should make from this article. I'm glad this random Canadian could save us all so much time.
Interpreting the lawyer-fied terms of service reveals that Microsoft has been hinting at this kind of thing for a while. That's fun. http://tosdr.org/#microsoft
It's a tough crowd, a crowd she pleases more often than not. I can't make a reasonable comment at all on this. I just got a new joystick in preparation of Star Citizen coming out. Every ounce of my being screams at me to play a flight sim every time someone mentions fly-by-wire, autopilot, stick shake, autoland, or anything else plane-y. Should I have spent the extra money to get force feedback? Argh. This will possibly be one of the biggest regrets of my life.
So there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after all!
I'm starting to wonder if they're trying to confuse the terms on purpose to make the history books read a bit better. Hmm.
I can just get rid of it by thinking really hard?
Oh boy I wish I thought of that!
Heh, that Onion story was pretty good.
I have pretty strong anxiety as well. Agoraphobia is my most annoying development from that. I had to abandon my original career choice as my stress ramped up and I just couldn't get to the job anymore.
First, the "we broke 20 plots" is bullshit. They have have used these tools in 20 investigations, so what? And what about the other 280 they admit to? And anyway, how many people's data was involved in each of these investigations? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands?
Also, don't forget the government tendency to declare victory. I'm reminded of how it designates "all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants". How many of these plots would have even gone anywhere? They might've broken into someone's home who ordered some waffle mix overseas, declared him a "terrorist", shipped him off to Guantanamo Bay, then chalked up another point for the Good Guys(tm).
I tend to be a pessimist about things that happen in secret.
97% of used car dealers agree this is a honey of a deal, and 97% of those would gladly take credit.
Self-interest creates a bias factor.
Scientists would become far more famous and make more money if they disproved it though. The bias is the other way. Just imagine the millions the energy companies would pay out for definitive proof that they don't needs scrubbers anymore. Ohhhhh that would be quite a bit of coin.
I was thinking more along the lines of comparing a tiny compass needle to the stars to get an idea of the shift of the Earth's rotational axis compared to magnetic North and extrapolating a movement of a few centimeters 2500 miles away. All this is while taking into account that Polaris wiggles a little bit, the seas are choppy, the chronometer is overwound, the captain is slightly drunk and suffering from scurvy, and the crew is singing about a tunafish that may or may not resemble a mermaid.
Are you sure you're not thinking about stars shifting? I have a hard time thinking about a compass from 300 years ago being accurate enough to measure this. I guess if it had a LOT of datapoints, maybe?
If you want to kill a kid's joy in something, make it a school assignment.
Can certainly be true. It certainly ended my dream of programming video games for a career.... Not everything I had to read was miserable, though. Cold Mountain and All Quiet on the Western Front were a couple forced titles I actually enjoyed.
The Kerbals would've launched anyway. It would've been *glorious*.
At the risk of sounding too mushy, taking just a couple minutes every day to email someone important to you might be the most worthwhile thing to do. Just that little bit each day is something a lot of us antisocial nerds don't do.
I bought a plant on ebay. The seller shipped it to me as "media mail" to save money, something that's supposed to be used only for textbooks. I guess it could become a textbook one day so that's alright?
Later, also on ebay, I tried to sell a used game. When I typed in the upc, it told me the shipping information used by other sellers of that item, on average. The average listed weight was 6 oz. The actual weight when I measured it on my scale read 9 oz, not even close. It made a dollar difference in shipping.
Little things like this add up.
"omine, omine, omine"? How is that pronounced? What language is it from? What does it mean?
Sounds like the poof of smoke the physicist-magicians are using to distract you from seeing the trick.
I was born without my choosing. I was forced to spend nearly 18 years in an institution, giving me tests of both my physical and mental abilities. Due to my flawed genetics, I sometimes had to go see a physician, where I'd be poked and prodded, then given drugs that'd usually make me feel worse before better.
I was a typical child.
Reading through all these ethics concerns, I really don't see much difference. The kid could go to school like any other, he'd just be watched with more interest. He might look different. So what? There are only like 3 kids in a school who look like people on tv anyway. He might get sick sometimes, but a lot of people get sick. Heck, he'd probably have a better upbringing than 95% of the rest of us, with all the financial support he'd need to do whatever he wants.
If you want to prevent this from happening, you should go out and sterilize all the dregs of our society who reproduce *all the time* already. But then you're into preferred selection, and you go into another realm people balk at.
Here's a more trustworthy link, at least for me: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130115.html
The last time I saw a Mars article on here, it was faked. I'm still feeling the troll-burn from that. And this article is on a website I've never heard of also.