Which, religious issues aside, is roughly equivalent to saying that your fingernails have grown some in the past hour.
Actual division of a cloned stem cell is certainly a technical achievement, and technically an embryo I suppose, but I'm not sure it's really proper to call it such until such time as it's shown that said embryo is actually capable of cellular differentiation if the division process is continued.
If all you end up with is a mass of "flesh" you have no embryo.
There are no uninhabited islands in the Caribbean really, and the place is simply crawling with people and gunboats.
No, what I'm working on is a new Polynesia in the south seas, where hundreds of perfectly nice little islands are virtually untouched and uncared for.
Kind of an anti-Polynesia really. Instead of living on the islands and voyaging for transport between them the culture will be sea based and only use the islands as supporting infrastructure for remaining at sea. Filling stations and rest stops, as it were.
The only frontier left for a free people is outside of anybody's territorial waters.
And the UN is trying to close that "loophole" as well.
This is pretty nearly correct, and we've really been pretty close to it for a long while. A good many jobs these days, if examined closely, are make work sorts of deals.
Why do we need to make work?
Because of the ties between "jobs" and income. Our entire culture is based a labor/recompense model that really no longer reflects the way things actually work.
The issue isn't protecting jobs. It's providing income.
Yes, the ultimate denouement of the current whoopdedoo ought to be the investors filing a suit against SCO executives.
I think this is exactly the sort of case where shareholders might be able to hold individuals accountable for recklessly and illegally throwing away the company's value, both dollars of it.
Given that the directors have a legal obligation to provide shareholder value. ..
Which they could do perfectly well by introducing Winux in kind.
It could be argued that introducing expensive, overly territorial lawsuits which only have a limited chance of winning is illegal in regards to increasing shareholder value.
One does not have to convert generic terms, counter to law, into propriatary ones in order to increase shareholder value. One can invent one's own trademark names, such as Quik, or Lexus.
I have a nifty little plan for increasing shareholder value. Make good products. Sell them. Have happy loyal customers. Attract investment on basis of above.
Not by weilding a legal team as a cudgel over the competition.
If I were the big cheese at Red Hat, and someone did as suggested in another post and started distributing Blue Hat I wouldn't sue. I would start and marketing campaign.
"Red is HOT! HOT! HOT! Don't go cold."
MS could very well do the same thing.
"Lindows. For those that want all the archane geeky goodness of Linux and the condescention and instability of Windows!"
Ok, that one's my take on Lindows. MS might want to try something different.
I'm sorry, but I'm getting a little sick of the "it's their legal duty to file inane lawsuits" argument. Taken to its logical extreme it means they have a legal duty to send Guido over to your house to break your kneecaps.
And they've already been convicted of like behaviour.
"Well, it's about about the rapture. It's called Apocolypse Now."
"Hot puppies! Let's go."
Fade out as our two, young adventist school girls trip blithly off to the watch a movie because they didn't need to know anything more than how many stars it got.
Well, I didn't correct the quote because that's what Cobain said and therefore it's accurate, even though it's a misquote. Nor did I attribute the origin of the quote to Woody, only Kurt's source.
Believe it or not I actually gave some thought to that portion (and rather obviously only that portion) of my post, even going so far as to google on Cobain to see if he really said that. I'm not a fan. Depressive heroin addicts tend to make me start looking for the door.
I'm rather fond of Dr. Thompson, however, just so long as I don't have to see the bats myself.
I'm sure if you search the web long enough you'll find the quote attributed to Mark Twain by an American and Oscar Wilde by a Brit.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you - Kurt Cobain quoting Woody Allen.
Any minute now SCO is going to claim that they own Woody's IP and sue Kurt. When informed that Kurt is dead they'll claim IP rights to suicide technology, double their claim and add Dr. Kevorkian to their suit.
When they hear of this exploit they'll blame it on Linux terrorists, point and shout "Look, Janet's nipple!" and then run the other way when everyone looks.
Yes, the "docking location" of a ship is commonly called a berth, and to do so is proper, although this does not alter the proper definition of dock.
The problem with berth is its wide range of definitions rendering it completely ambiguous in some situations since it means "resting place" or "place of ease."
For instance, If say "The ship's berth" you can have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about without a fairly wide context to draw meaning from.
I could be refering to its bunk, leeway or dock.
Whereas even if I missapply the word "dock" you still know exactly what I mean. Which, as it happens, is exactly why the word dock is losing its strictest meaning.
As it happens I have access to a navel dictionary.
A dock is the area of water alongside a pier or between two piers. To dock a ship is to maneuver it into this area of water. Then one may well moor it by making it fast to the pier.
Note that this defintion is rather different than that in common use even among salty types who confuse the definition of dock, pier, wharf, etc. A confusion that has now imbedded itself in the vernacular.
A Wet Dock is a dock that can be closed to open water. It becomes a dry dock if the water is then pumped out.
To put a boat out of the water is to haul it.
The docking location of a boat is the area of water a boat manuvers into when it docks, thus also the the area of water it occupies when it is moored at its docking location. A boat does not have a mooring location as it may moor itself anywhere it pleases by the simple expediant of dropping anchor.
Well, if I want to leave the joke out you can switch to octal chisenbop by simply ignoring your thumbs. Duodecimal's a bit harder though, and you look a bit funny waving your elbows about or grabbing your tits while wiggling your fingers.
I think I'll keep my calculator as well.
I'll note, however, that on my bluewater boat I may carry a handheld GPS and I'm working on my own design of nav computer, but if you think I'm going out of sight of land without a sextant, slide rule, almanac and log table you're nuts.
The electronic stuff will fail; what's more it will most likely fail under stress, i.e. when it's proper functioning is most critical to survival.
When the lights went out this summer most of the stores in my city simply had to close. One convienient store whose manager remembers the "old days" got out some notebooks and simply started making sales manually. A lot of people were greatful for the ice.
If you have business records or a datebook that are absolutely critical, the stuff where you just have to close up shop if anything happens to the data, go ahead, back them up, but also print them.
Yes, I know that's heresy in the digital age, but it's what works.
Well, I'd at least agree that that should be the only warning label that's required on ladders and hammers. Or at the very least "If you find this instrument difficult to use the people who raised you were stupid."
Well, that's what you get for stepping right into the middle of a good, old fashioned, my dick is bigger than yours flame war.:)
However, having grown up using nothing but pen and paper, electronic calculators not yet existing, I learned the tricks of doing so, and yes, using certain superior mental abilties to work in my head.
Having already put in the time to do so I find the use of a cheap scientific calculator and a small notebook to be superior to a PDA on all counts.
I'm a great fan of spreadsheets though. I put them to all sorts of uses, some of which are "improper."
When I do so I find a either a paper ledger or a laptop superior to a PDA.
This is not to say that in the future I don't think a PDA that would attract my attention couldn't be made, but I tend to doubt one will be, because my usage will not likely match the "consumer market" for such devices.
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Which, religious issues aside, is roughly equivalent to saying that your fingernails have grown some in the past hour.
Actual division of a cloned stem cell is certainly a technical achievement, and technically an embryo I suppose, but I'm not sure it's really proper to call it such until such time as it's shown that said embryo is actually capable of cellular differentiation if the division process is continued.
If all you end up with is a mass of "flesh" you have no embryo.
KFG
Oh give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With a Y chromosome changed to X
And when it is grown
My very own clone
Will be of the opposite sex
Clone, clone of my own
With a Y chromosome changed to X
And since she is my clone
Her mind is my own
And we'll both think of nothing but sex
Isaac Asimov
I hate to admit this in this crowd, but the only Neal Stephenson I've read is "In the Beginning There was the Command Line."
Does one of his books touch on this theme?
KFG
There are no uninhabited islands in the Caribbean really, and the place is simply crawling with people and gunboats.
No, what I'm working on is a new Polynesia in the south seas, where hundreds of perfectly nice little islands are virtually untouched and uncared for.
Kind of an anti-Polynesia really. Instead of living on the islands and voyaging for transport between them the culture will be sea based and only use the islands as supporting infrastructure for remaining at sea. Filling stations and rest stops, as it were.
The only frontier left for a free people is outside of anybody's territorial waters.
And the UN is trying to close that "loophole" as well.
KFG
This is pretty nearly correct, and we've really been pretty close to it for a long while. A good many jobs these days, if examined closely, are make work sorts of deals.
Why do we need to make work?
Because of the ties between "jobs" and income. Our entire culture is based a labor/recompense model that really no longer reflects the way things actually work.
The issue isn't protecting jobs. It's providing income.
KFG
That would be why they're called the fairer sex.
KFG
Yes, the ultimate denouement of the current whoopdedoo ought to be the investors filing a suit against SCO executives.
I think this is exactly the sort of case where shareholders might be able to hold individuals accountable for recklessly and illegally throwing away the company's value, both dollars of it.
KFG
Many of us already employ such a system by installing Cygnus. There's no particular reason that MS couldn't install it in Windows by default.
So long as they didn't embrace and extend it such a move might be surprisingly welcomed.
Yeah, some people would raise a mouth foaming ruckus. There are always people who will do so at nearly any provocation.
That's why God invented cricket bats.
KFG
Given that the directors have a legal obligation to provide shareholder value. . .
Which they could do perfectly well by introducing Winux in kind.
It could be argued that introducing expensive, overly territorial lawsuits which only have a limited chance of winning is illegal in regards to increasing shareholder value.
One does not have to convert generic terms, counter to law, into propriatary ones in order to increase shareholder value. One can invent one's own trademark names, such as Quik, or Lexus.
I have a nifty little plan for increasing shareholder value. Make good products. Sell them. Have happy loyal customers. Attract investment on basis of above.
Not by weilding a legal team as a cudgel over the competition.
If I were the big cheese at Red Hat, and someone did as suggested in another post and started distributing Blue Hat I wouldn't sue. I would start and marketing campaign.
"Red is HOT! HOT! HOT! Don't go cold."
MS could very well do the same thing.
"Lindows. For those that want all the archane geeky goodness of Linux and the condescention and instability of Windows!"
Ok, that one's my take on Lindows. MS might want to try something different.
I'm sorry, but I'm getting a little sick of the "it's their legal duty to file inane lawsuits" argument. Taken to its logical extreme it means they have a legal duty to send Guido over to your house to break your kneecaps.
And they've already been convicted of like behaviour.
KFG
Lindows is a tradmark.
But wait! Don't order now. It's also a tradmarkleft.
KFG
"Gee, I don't know, is it any good?"
"Well, it got four and a half stars stars."
"Wow, it must be great. What's it about?"
"Well, it's about about the rapture. It's called Apocolypse Now."
"Hot puppies! Let's go."
Fade out as our two, young adventist school girls trip blithly off to the watch a movie because they didn't need to know anything more than how many stars it got.
KFG
Yes, if you go back and read that line again you'll find that was his point. He was contrasting the laptop against the classic Ferrari.
KFG
Well, I didn't correct the quote because that's what Cobain said and therefore it's accurate, even though it's a misquote. Nor did I attribute the origin of the quote to Woody, only Kurt's source.
Believe it or not I actually gave some thought to that portion (and rather obviously only that portion) of my post, even going so far as to google on Cobain to see if he really said that. I'm not a fan. Depressive heroin addicts tend to make me start looking for the door.
I'm rather fond of Dr. Thompson, however, just so long as I don't have to see the bats myself.
I'm sure if you search the web long enough you'll find the quote attributed to Mark Twain by an American and Oscar Wilde by a Brit.
KFG
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you - Kurt Cobain quoting Woody Allen.
Any minute now SCO is going to claim that they own Woody's IP and sue Kurt. When informed that Kurt is dead they'll claim IP rights to suicide technology, double their claim and add Dr. Kevorkian to their suit.
When they hear of this exploit they'll blame it on Linux terrorists, point and shout "Look, Janet's nipple!" and then run the other way when everyone looks.
KFG
Yes, the "docking location" of a ship is commonly called a berth, and to do so is proper, although this does not alter the proper definition of dock.
The problem with berth is its wide range of definitions rendering it completely ambiguous in some situations since it means "resting place" or "place of ease."
For instance, If say "The ship's berth" you can have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about without a fairly wide context to draw meaning from.
I could be refering to its bunk, leeway or dock.
Whereas even if I missapply the word "dock" you still know exactly what I mean. Which, as it happens, is exactly why the word dock is losing its strictest meaning.
KFG
It sort of makes you think...where can I get me one of them?
KFG
Obviously I should have looked up naval. Wouldn't have been hard either, seeing as it was printed right on the bloody cover. :)
KFG
As it happens I have access to a navel dictionary.
A dock is the area of water alongside a pier or between two piers. To dock a ship is to maneuver it into this area of water. Then one may well moor it by making it fast to the pier.
Note that this defintion is rather different than that in common use even among salty types who confuse the definition of dock, pier, wharf, etc. A confusion that has now imbedded itself in the vernacular.
A Wet Dock is a dock that can be closed to open water. It becomes a dry dock if the water is then pumped out.
To put a boat out of the water is to haul it.
The docking location of a boat is the area of water a boat manuvers into when it docks, thus also the the area of water it occupies when it is moored at its docking location. A boat does not have a mooring location as it may moor itself anywhere it pleases by the simple expediant of dropping anchor.
KFG
These of course:
OrkOrkOrk
KFG
I got ABC for Baba Wawa. Not quite as heart stopping and it turned out ok in the end.
They wanted to interview me as a positive example of something.
Go figure.
KFG
Equally hard to riffle through a PDA.
KFG
Well, if I want to leave the joke out you can switch to octal chisenbop by simply ignoring your thumbs. Duodecimal's a bit harder though, and you look a bit funny waving your elbows about or grabbing your tits while wiggling your fingers.
I think I'll keep my calculator as well.
I'll note, however, that on my bluewater boat I may carry a handheld GPS and I'm working on my own design of nav computer, but if you think I'm going out of sight of land without a sextant, slide rule, almanac and log table you're nuts.
The electronic stuff will fail; what's more it will most likely fail under stress, i.e. when it's proper functioning is most critical to survival.
When the lights went out this summer most of the stores in my city simply had to close. One convienient store whose manager remembers the "old days" got out some notebooks and simply started making sales manually. A lot of people were greatful for the ice.
If you have business records or a datebook that are absolutely critical, the stuff where you just have to close up shop if anything happens to the data, go ahead, back them up, but also print them.
Yes, I know that's heresy in the digital age, but it's what works.
KFG
Well, I'd at least agree that that should be the only warning label that's required on ladders and hammers. Or at the very least "If you find this instrument difficult to use the people who raised you were stupid."
KFG
Well, that's what you get for stepping right into the middle of a good, old fashioned, my dick is bigger than yours flame war. :)
However, having grown up using nothing but pen and paper, electronic calculators not yet existing, I learned the tricks of doing so, and yes, using certain superior mental abilties to work in my head.
Having already put in the time to do so I find the use of a cheap scientific calculator and a small notebook to be superior to a PDA on all counts.
I'm a great fan of spreadsheets though. I put them to all sorts of uses, some of which are "improper."
When I do so I find a either a paper ledger or a laptop superior to a PDA.
This is not to say that in the future I don't think a PDA that would attract my attention couldn't be made, but I tend to doubt one will be, because my usage will not likely match the "consumer market" for such devices.
KFG
Instant Hacking
KFG