Great idea, It would require many local volunteers, but it could be made to work.
A simpler idea might be to make slashboxes for all the various linux (and other) user groups. And allow them to post regional news/events that way. Of course the slashdot staff would have to coordinate this.
Seems like a good way to get us nerds out of our houses and into our communities.
Are the gains to science from this really so large as to justify the cutting up of a living animal? I don't really find anything "laudably perverse" in taking a knife to the living tissue of another creature. You might say I'm over-reacting, and that it's "only" a lamprey.
I would say that you are, because a lamprey itself survives by cutting up a living fish and sucking out it's body fluids. A parsitic activity that often kills the fish.
I'm no fan of experimentation on animals, but I like to think we have come a long way since Louis Pasteur did his research by performing vivisections (live disections) of dogs without anasthetic. But now that I think about it, wouldn't a lion do the same thing if it encountered a dog and was sufficiently hungry?
I used to go "Science Club" at our local museum. It was a natural science museum, so they had many specimens of animals. One night they gave us a very serious and long discussion on specimen preserving methods. They made sure that we understood death was death, and it shouldn't be taken lightly, and we shouldn't forget that an animal is actually dying. Which I think most respectable researchers realize nowadays.
I have no problem with the "Ethical" (which of course is very hard to define) use of animals for scientific gain.
Freddie likes the smell of cut grass, he used to play ball on saturadys, playin in the sun. If Freddie had his way, he'd give some cut grass to everyone.
I am totally disgusted by the way the popular music is created and distributed now-adays. A big name band gets noteriety by getting their song played to death on the radio, and everyone seems to go along with this, somehow thinking that the changing songs on the radio indicate what songs we are supposed to like. Then the band makes money from millions of people buying the album, usually for the one song on the radio. (I'm not specifically referring to metallica here.)
I'm a fan of performance-oriented bands, such as Widespread Panic, Phish, the Dead, etc. Most "Jam-Band" fans recognize that the studio recording is nothing but a shadow of these bands, a mere echo of what they are capable of at a live performance. They don't try to make thier songs "radio-friendly" in order to sell albums. They just play great music, which their fans reward by attending shows, and telling their friends about the band. And these aren't garage bands either.. (nothing wrong with small bands, just making a point.)
EVERY jam-band that I know of allows live recordings of its shows, and allows free non-commercial trading of the recordings. And in the case of the Dead, this free-trading has gone on for DECADES! You don't have to listen to the exact-same song that has only been released on one album. You get to hear variations as the bands sound changes and evolves.
Sugarmegs.org has been making this kind of music freely available for many years, in many formats. The etree facilitates the cd-quality distribution of such shows.
The NAB has http://ww w.nab.org/newsroom/issues/lpfm/responsetofcc/techn icalrecord.asp as an example of "real-world" interference caused by adjacent stations. The thing that strikes me is that all of these interfering stations are said to be at least 32 times stronger. When is one of these low-power stations ever going to be 32 time stronger than an adjacent commercial station. I mean come on! a 100w (max) homebrew versus a 50,000 watt station on a huge ass tower! Thats 1/500, not even close to the 32/1 ratio of these tests.
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Great idea, It would require many local volunteers, but it could be made to work.
A simpler idea might be to make slashboxes for all the various linux (and other) user groups. And allow them to post regional news/events that way. Of course the slashdot staff would have to coordinate this.
Seems like a good way to get us nerds out of our houses and into our communities.
I mean come on, I've see enough of that damn swoosh when I simply walk outside....
'cept my glasses won't be what's really big ;)
Haven't we learned anything?
I would say that you are, because a lamprey itself survives by cutting up a living fish and sucking out it's body fluids. A parsitic activity that often kills the fish.
I'm no fan of experimentation on animals, but I like to think we have come a long way since Louis Pasteur did his research by performing vivisections (live disections) of dogs without anasthetic. But now that I think about it, wouldn't a lion do the same thing if it encountered a dog and was sufficiently hungry?
I used to go "Science Club" at our local museum. It was a natural science museum, so they had many specimens of animals. One night they gave us a very serious and long discussion on specimen preserving methods. They made sure that we understood death was death, and it shouldn't be taken lightly, and we shouldn't forget that an animal is actually dying. Which I think most respectable researchers realize nowadays.
I have no problem with the "Ethical" (which of course is very hard to define) use of animals for scientific gain.
Reminds me of a widespread panic song:
Freddie likes the smell of cut grass,
he used to play ball on saturadys, playin in the sun.
If Freddie had his way, he'd give some cut grass to everyone.
I am totally disgusted by the way the popular music is created and distributed now-adays. A big name band gets noteriety by getting their song played to death on the radio, and everyone seems to go along with this, somehow thinking that the changing songs on the radio indicate what songs we are supposed to like. Then the band makes money from millions of people buying the album, usually for the one song on the radio. (I'm not specifically referring to metallica here.)
I'm a fan of performance-oriented bands, such as Widespread Panic, Phish, the Dead, etc. Most "Jam-Band" fans recognize that the studio recording is nothing but a shadow of these bands, a mere echo of what they are capable of at a live performance. They don't try to make thier songs "radio-friendly" in order to sell albums. They just play great music, which their fans reward by attending shows, and telling their friends about the band. And these aren't garage bands either.. (nothing wrong with small bands, just making a point.)
EVERY jam-band that I know of allows live recordings of its shows, and allows free non-commercial trading of the recordings. And in the case of the Dead, this free-trading has gone on for DECADES! You don't have to listen to the exact-same song that has only been released on one album. You get to hear variations as the bands sound changes and evolves.
Sugarmegs.org has been making this kind of music freely available for many years, in many formats. The etree facilitates the cd-quality distribution of such shows.
The NAB has http://ww w.nab.org/newsroom/issues/lpfm/responsetofcc/techn icalrecord.asp as an example of "real-world" interference caused by adjacent stations. The thing that strikes me is that all of these interfering stations are said to be at least 32 times stronger. When is one of these low-power stations ever going to be 32 time stronger than an adjacent commercial station. I mean come on! a 100w (max) homebrew versus a 50,000 watt station on a huge ass tower! Thats 1/500, not even close to the 32/1 ratio of these tests.