If Infosys willing to do everything against this guy, he sure must have something damning enough to warrant death threats.
I was going to ask, how are death threats coming into this? It was short-sighted and foolish for the company to act against him through CIVIL means, but criminal means? To me, someone who has no legal or corporate experience, that sounds like some executives saying "Hey, don't just fine the company, send ME to jail too!"
So sue away... until another Apple ends up owning you because you flatly refused to give customers what we're begging for and willing to pay for, an easy way to watch every TV ever created on every media device we own.
But they'll profit in the short term, which is a win. By the time the industry collapses into ashes, the execs making these decisions will have still made obscene amounts of money, and probably will have new industries to move onto. They don't care that they're screwing over everyone now including hindering the transition and thereby the industry itself.
The major differences are that the horse studies were conducted using scientific process, produced results, and the whole process was peer-reviewed. These "clinics" on the other hand are the complete opposite. The only similarity is that both used stem cells.
The 49-person letter was organized by Leighton Steward, chairman of Plants Need CO2, a non-profit with ties to the coal industry
Sorry for my skepticism, but I don't believe for a minute that these individuals are truly concerned with NASA making a fool of itself. NASA isn't out in left field on this one. If climate change turns out to be false, no one is going to point to NASA specifically as being wrong, when all the other scientists were saying this is going to be a problem first.
These "company men" took a paycheck in exchange for trying to shut up their former employer so that their new employer could enjoy a few more years of slightly higher profits.
You're misinformed. This is not embryonic stem cell RESEARCH, this is "therapy." As in "Hey, you've heard of stem cells? Well they're MAGIC! For $7000 us dollars, we'll inject you with ES cells and you'll get much better!"
As in 100% bullshit snake oil. You inject an embryonic stem cell into your blood, and your immune system is going to destroy those cells quickly, since they're not yours. And that's a best case scenario. Worst case scenario, you're immune system is compromised, and they start growing into tumors.
We are not to a point where ES are useful for therapies these "clinics" are hawking. No one credible disputes this. The people who would will also sell you some ground up rhino horn and various homeopathic medicines.
ES cells are useful for research. Stem cell research has not stagnated. We haven't outlawed it. There are burdensome restrictions on some types of ES research, but research is progressing. Induced pluripotent stem cells were just discovered (invented?) a few years ago as a direct result of ES research. That is, they take some of your skin cells, treat them, and they become ES like, but they're your cells so your immune system won't attack them. THAT will probably be useful for therapies if we can get the efficiencies high enough.
Anyway, while we're not spending enough on research and while some of the restrictions put on ES research are political rather than scientific, research on stem cells is progressing here. And these chinese firms are not legit, they're charlatans who should be locked up.
I can only laugh at the people who flip out because they are fired/expelled/whatever because someone found something inappropriate in a facebook or twitter post. I mean, really... what did they expect?
In every case I've heard of along those lines of, they probably expected to be judged based on behavior and performance on the job/in school. "Yes, I posted pictures of my friends and I smoking pot on facebook. At home. On the weekend. Why, exactly, am I being fired for something that doesn't affect how many TPS reports I can generate?"
If companies weren't so stupid about private details they uncover, privacy wouldn't be as necessary.
One wonders if the good judge would object to the police having sex with his wife. After all, he has sex with her. Obviously he doesn't consider her chastity to be terribly valuable.
For a while, I was frequenting some sword forum. People have very strong opinions on the lord of the rings swords. A commonly held opinion was that stainless steel swords should be outlawed.
Unfortunately, I got in too deep. I spent hundreds of dollars buying a high-carbon steel katana before I realized "Oh, right, it's 2005 AD. I have absolutely no need for a sword, regardless of how well it would hold up in cutting tests."
Could also be very interesting since they still haven't completely established THEIR religion as the state religion:
"Evolution teaches us natural selection is the origin of species. Now, to fulfill my state-mandated requirement of teaching the 'other side' of the 'controversy', we're going to read up on religious 'theories' of how life came to be.
Please pull out your Bhagavad Gita and we'll learn about how there are four stages that the cosmos will go through. The first 'Yug' was the 'Satya Yug', wherein the whole world was governed by the Gods, in absolute truth. The world was then an ideal manifestation of mankind..."
I've been wondering why no one is bringing up the security aspects of it. All these businesses are probably not treating the login data with their due dilligence: facebook login information provided to an employer is likely going to find itself printed out on paper and eventually put into a dumpster unshredded. People put their date of birth and hometown on there: that can be used to guess the all-important last 4 digits of a social security number. Why isn't anyone looking out for the individuals who are likely to get their identities stolen by...
Oh, gee, look what I did there. I started to ask a naive question.
Anyway, maybe it should also be that employers would be held liable for getting employee facebook information. If you get fired, your employer has access to your facebook profile, and knows therefore that you are gay, for example, it should be easier to sue them. Any legal experts want to tell me why this wouldn't work (aside from the obvious fact that the chamber of commerce would put a stop to it.)
I'm going to assume that the 20% that scares you is foreign policy
I would have assumed it's "do away with legislation that is flawed but still protects us from various things." The libertarian response in those cases is that if it were unregulated, something better would come up.
I do find that to be a bit of ideology trumping common sense. Many libertarians, I don't know about Ron Paul specifically, think the FDA should be abolished, that the free market would do a much better job. I suspect that's a naive position, I see no evidence that in the absence of the FDA, medicines were safer, more effective, or marketed fairly.
But my point is I think there's plenty of room to be scared by his domestic policies as well. His foreign policy, I think very few of us slashdotters disagree with.
Okay, so now will republican voters maybe start paying attention to Ron Paul? He's the guy who is ACTUALLY in favor of smaller governments and the constitution.
"Nerds" to me implies some degree of intelligence and knowledge. Thus, many nerds DO have an interest in seeing a politician who was running on a campaign of ignorance and hate go down in flames *
The second part of the statement is "News that matters," and this definitely does.
Lastly, there's nothing in the statement along the lines of "News that has not been covered everywhere else."
Thus, I'm declaring this one fair. Not that anyone was asking.
(* Though it is somewhat a shame he didn't fall much much harder. I would have preferred him to call it quits after a report that he was paying for male prostitutes and meth with a check from the Koch brothers and the Focus on the Family group, or maybe running in a general election against Neil DeGrasse and getting 0.1% of the vote, but this is better than nothing.)
When you see totalitarian operations like Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc., it's not the conservative embrace of a constitutional republic's checks and balances that come to mind.
Don't fool yourself into believing that conservatives love the constitution while liberals hate it. There are parts each side likes and parts each side thinks are overrated. Didn't hear much conservative protest when the patriot act was being passed. Checks and balances too. "Activist judges" seems to be a term invented by conservatives when judges strike down anti-abortion laws. Conservatives are maybe more in favor of states rights, but whenever California tries to limit gun rights or limit carbon emissions, conservatives are there with federal laws to smack them down.
Rude too. As a former retail worker, I always appreciated it when people didn't engage me with the required dialogue: when they just ignored me, I didn't have to follow the script and knew without wasting any more breath that a sale was not to be made. So when retail employees try to strike up a conversation with me, I usually just smile and don't respond.
Well, yeah, but that's not the point, the point is that this "work around" is making some kids out there miss out in some way, so the law should be changed.
Anyway, maybe they want to play with their friends who don't have halfway decent PCs. Happened to me. The mouse and keyboard combination, along with much better graphics and better prices is great, but playing with friends you know trumps all that.
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If Infosys willing to do everything against this guy, he sure must have something damning enough to warrant death threats.
I was going to ask, how are death threats coming into this? It was short-sighted and foolish for the company to act against him through CIVIL means, but criminal means? To me, someone who has no legal or corporate experience, that sounds like some executives saying "Hey, don't just fine the company, send ME to jail too!"
So sue away... until another Apple ends up owning you because you flatly refused to give customers what we're begging for and willing to pay for, an easy way to watch every TV ever created on every media device we own.
But they'll profit in the short term, which is a win. By the time the industry collapses into ashes, the execs making these decisions will have still made obscene amounts of money, and probably will have new industries to move onto. They don't care that they're screwing over everyone now including hindering the transition and thereby the industry itself.
The major differences are that the horse studies were conducted using scientific process, produced results, and the whole process was peer-reviewed. These "clinics" on the other hand are the complete opposite. The only similarity is that both used stem cells.
The 49-person letter was organized by Leighton Steward, chairman of Plants Need CO2, a non-profit with ties to the coal industry
Sorry for my skepticism, but I don't believe for a minute that these individuals are truly concerned with NASA making a fool of itself. NASA isn't out in left field on this one. If climate change turns out to be false, no one is going to point to NASA specifically as being wrong, when all the other scientists were saying this is going to be a problem first.
These "company men" took a paycheck in exchange for trying to shut up their former employer so that their new employer could enjoy a few more years of slightly higher profits.
Gene therapy has nothing to do with stem cell therapy, and was not the topic of conversation.
You're misinformed. This is not embryonic stem cell RESEARCH, this is "therapy." As in "Hey, you've heard of stem cells? Well they're MAGIC! For $7000 us dollars, we'll inject you with ES cells and you'll get much better!"
As in 100% bullshit snake oil. You inject an embryonic stem cell into your blood, and your immune system is going to destroy those cells quickly, since they're not yours. And that's a best case scenario. Worst case scenario, you're immune system is compromised, and they start growing into tumors.
We are not to a point where ES are useful for therapies these "clinics" are hawking. No one credible disputes this. The people who would will also sell you some ground up rhino horn and various homeopathic medicines.
ES cells are useful for research. Stem cell research has not stagnated. We haven't outlawed it. There are burdensome restrictions on some types of ES research, but research is progressing. Induced pluripotent stem cells were just discovered (invented?) a few years ago as a direct result of ES research. That is, they take some of your skin cells, treat them, and they become ES like, but they're your cells so your immune system won't attack them. THAT will probably be useful for therapies if we can get the efficiencies high enough.
Anyway, while we're not spending enough on research and while some of the restrictions put on ES research are political rather than scientific, research on stem cells is progressing here. And these chinese firms are not legit, they're charlatans who should be locked up.
I can only laugh at the people who flip out because they are fired/expelled/whatever because someone found something inappropriate in a facebook or twitter post. I mean, really... what did they expect?
In every case I've heard of along those lines of, they probably expected to be judged based on behavior and performance on the job/in school. "Yes, I posted pictures of my friends and I smoking pot on facebook. At home. On the weekend. Why, exactly, am I being fired for something that doesn't affect how many TPS reports I can generate?"
If companies weren't so stupid about private details they uncover, privacy wouldn't be as necessary.
One wonders if the good judge would object to the police having sex with his wife. After all, he has sex with her. Obviously he doesn't consider her chastity to be terribly valuable.
That's the one reason I clicked on the link. I enjoy reading rants of connoisseurs on subjects I have no real opinions on.
For a while, I was frequenting some sword forum. People have very strong opinions on the lord of the rings swords. A commonly held opinion was that stainless steel swords should be outlawed.
Unfortunately, I got in too deep. I spent hundreds of dollars buying a high-carbon steel katana before I realized "Oh, right, it's 2005 AD. I have absolutely no need for a sword, regardless of how well it would hold up in cutting tests."
Indeed. "OOoh! An ASTRONAUT is talking about the climate?!? Well I guess he's an expert, having been outside of ours!"
It's only slightly less ridiculous than people who are famous for being in movies being taken as experts on the subject.
Slashdot's firehose is sorta like the national primaries. No one takes part in them to get rid of the crap, then everyone complains about the results.
There are no "free" cell phones, they only look free if you ignore the contract component
Given that most people are going to sign a contract anyway, is that really unreasonable?
Worst. Cartographer. Ever.
Could also be very interesting since they still haven't completely established THEIR religion as the state religion:
"Evolution teaches us natural selection is the origin of species. Now, to fulfill my state-mandated requirement of teaching the 'other side' of the 'controversy', we're going to read up on religious 'theories' of how life came to be.
Please pull out your Bhagavad Gita and we'll learn about how there are four stages that the cosmos will go through. The first 'Yug' was the 'Satya Yug', wherein the whole world was governed by the Gods, in absolute truth. The world was then an ideal manifestation of mankind..."
I've been wondering why no one is bringing up the security aspects of it. All these businesses are probably not treating the login data with their due dilligence: facebook login information provided to an employer is likely going to find itself printed out on paper and eventually put into a dumpster unshredded. People put their date of birth and hometown on there: that can be used to guess the all-important last 4 digits of a social security number. Why isn't anyone looking out for the individuals who are likely to get their identities stolen by...
Oh, gee, look what I did there. I started to ask a naive question.
Anyway, maybe it should also be that employers would be held liable for getting employee facebook information. If you get fired, your employer has access to your facebook profile, and knows therefore that you are gay, for example, it should be easier to sue them. Any legal experts want to tell me why this wouldn't work (aside from the obvious fact that the chamber of commerce would put a stop to it.)
The term "Unamerican" gets misused very often, but in this case...
But compared to who they were voting for, like Santorum, Paul looks really really good.
I mean, the guy basically just wants to give the states free reign - so what?
Can't speak for everyone else, but I don't see much competence at the state level.
I'm going to assume that the 20% that scares you is foreign policy
I would have assumed it's "do away with legislation that is flawed but still protects us from various things." The libertarian response in those cases is that if it were unregulated, something better would come up.
I do find that to be a bit of ideology trumping common sense. Many libertarians, I don't know about Ron Paul specifically, think the FDA should be abolished, that the free market would do a much better job. I suspect that's a naive position, I see no evidence that in the absence of the FDA, medicines were safer, more effective, or marketed fairly.
But my point is I think there's plenty of room to be scared by his domestic policies as well. His foreign policy, I think very few of us slashdotters disagree with.
some nerds like cats
Indeed they do. Glad we're on the same page.
Okay, so now will republican voters maybe start paying attention to Ron Paul? He's the guy who is ACTUALLY in favor of smaller governments and the constitution.
You guys still claim to like those things, right?
"Nerds" to me implies some degree of intelligence and knowledge. Thus, many nerds DO have an interest in seeing a politician who was running on a campaign of ignorance and hate go down in flames *
The second part of the statement is "News that matters," and this definitely does.
Lastly, there's nothing in the statement along the lines of "News that has not been covered everywhere else."
Thus, I'm declaring this one fair. Not that anyone was asking.
(* Though it is somewhat a shame he didn't fall much much harder. I would have preferred him to call it quits after a report that he was paying for male prostitutes and meth with a check from the Koch brothers and the Focus on the Family group, or maybe running in a general election against Neil DeGrasse and getting 0.1% of the vote, but this is better than nothing.)
When you see totalitarian operations like Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc., it's not the conservative embrace of a constitutional republic's checks and balances that come to mind.
Don't fool yourself into believing that conservatives love the constitution while liberals hate it. There are parts each side likes and parts each side thinks are overrated. Didn't hear much conservative protest when the patriot act was being passed. Checks and balances too. "Activist judges" seems to be a term invented by conservatives when judges strike down anti-abortion laws. Conservatives are maybe more in favor of states rights, but whenever California tries to limit gun rights or limit carbon emissions, conservatives are there with federal laws to smack them down.
Rude too. As a former retail worker, I always appreciated it when people didn't engage me with the required dialogue: when they just ignored me, I didn't have to follow the script and knew without wasting any more breath that a sale was not to be made. So when retail employees try to strike up a conversation with me, I usually just smile and don't respond.
At best buy this gets me loud sarcastic remarks.
Well, yeah, but that's not the point, the point is that this "work around" is making some kids out there miss out in some way, so the law should be changed.
Anyway, maybe they want to play with their friends who don't have halfway decent PCs. Happened to me. The mouse and keyboard combination, along with much better graphics and better prices is great, but playing with friends you know trumps all that.