It should be illegal to name your own project, especially with acronyms. Everything should be called "the thing we're doing" until someone unrelated comes along and names it. It would save so many horrible fake acronyms.
Go to Google Maps. Try to look at the White House and the surrounding area. You'll see that a great deal of detail has been obscured, precisely because of the security concerns.
Damn. Now if I want to do evil there, I'll have to wait forty seconds for one of the Discovery channels to do a documentary that includes way closer-up pictures.
The Indian government is just looking out for its employees. It wants to make sure terrorists can't get information about the stuff they leave sitting around outside without slipping a guy that works on the loading dock twenty bucks. Those guys depend on that income, and Google's screwing them out of it.
This has nothing to do with research. There's absolutely no way we're going to run out of frozen embryos for research. There's trillions of the damn things, and more every day. The fear is for post-research harvesting for treatment.
It just means that the deals go on behind closed doors and are written into law.
Give me a scenario where someone besides an embryo shipping company makes money off this: Government makes it illegal to sell embryos for anything. Embryos collected in the usual ways are sent to local storage centers if given consent from the "parent." The rest are destroyed the usual way. Create a stem cell recipient list identical to the organ recipient lists. Continously ship, free of charge, to the top guy on the list.
Who could possibly make money by encouraging embryo creation that way? If you're really worried about corruption within, do frequent audits. If you're paranoid that the government will do something horrible and start selling them to the highest bidder despite the will of the people, then there's really no point in having a discussion about legal matters at all. They'll just do what they want.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any way for someone to make cash from death, here.
My better response is to go back to work. You're certainly not going to change anyone's mind by calling what is usually the focus of your opposition's life a "cancer."
Rants are fun, but my team gets lumped in with your team, so if you're going to solidify the opinions of the opposition that we're just the other side that hates them, at least say something funny in the process.
On behalf of the Slashdot anti-religion crowd, please stop turning every topic into an unprovoked attack on religion and Bush. It's making us look bad. Especially when the attack is as stupid as this.
The solution to that is so un-f***ing-believably simple that it can't be actual concern about it motivating anyone's opposition. You set up a government agency to take in all the aborted kids that you get parental consent for (if you want. I doubt anyone doing the aborting would care, but what the hell) and have them send the cells out with a priority program like transplant lists. No privatization means no profit and everyone wins. Of course, you'll have to pay another 8 million a year in taxes to pay for it, which means you'll have to cut down your number of wars by.002 per year, so I'm sure conservatives would never go for it. Can't possibly afford it.
The Battle Room scenes will be 40% close-ups and 60% those lame Spiderman special effects that make people look like wet GI Joes. For that reason, I'm dreading the movie (I loved the book), and I wish they'd wait a decade until we can build some realistic CG people (or have an Apollo 13 "vomit comet" about 20 times bigger than the current one[s]).
Aren't all electronic circuits three dimensional, since we live in a 3d universe?
Brilliant. You've clearly out-thunk the parent. Bravo.
My guess is that a 2d turing complete computer is the same as a 3d turing complete computer, so what's your point?
Which is why I'm still typing this on my good 'ol 386, what with all turing complete computers being equivalent and all. I don't get why people keep wasting their money on so-called "upgrades".
I guess the tax paying bloke down the street who rides a bike to work will be glad he no longer has to pay for it.
I'm sure he'll be thrilled that the exact same amount he will pay in taxes will now be used to buy a slightly better stapler, despite the cheap one being good enough, for a government pencil pusher. Either that, or go towards the salary of the guys that maintain the road's new moving parts.
I don't know about the quality, but the quantity, anecdotally, seems to suck lately. I can't think of a single new song that's come out on my regular stations in the last 4 months except for Coldplay, which makes me want to drive into a tree every time they get played. Usually it's a month or two, but the current draught has been pretty ridiculous. But that could just be because all the new ones suck and I've blocked out the memory of them.
As for the quality going down, the top 10 CDs are usually Jennifer Lopez and Brittany Spears-esque. Sales overall are only down 4.5%, which means, unless my logic pieces aren't working at the moment, sales of non-top-10's are up, which probably can only mean good things for quality.
And if that's the case, maybe they can stop using that idiotic "for every band that sells a billion records, there's 10 that lose money" line. As though we should feel bad for them because they're bad at their jobs.
And why are animals used for this testing? Isn't a main justification that they are incapable of reasoning?
While I'm not unsympathetic to your cause and wounded animals, I think the main justification is that people want to know things, and humans are prohibitively expensive.
But if you read it in Klingon, it takes a completely different meaning.
I can't read it in Greek, so I'll just quote the English version I found:
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
How is that not not-being-a-dick?
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
So there's the part where the Bible says the opposite of what the OP said. He was right about other part, but the old stuff is still good. New Testament, for the most part, says, "Be groovy," which me and him and, unless the Greek says something crazy-different, you seem to agree on. I'm not sure where you think I'm full of it.
... if I wish to hold any religious observance, it's going to be with a nativity set or something, not a Christmas tree.
Just make sure it's 2-dimensional. Wouldn't want to break any commandments. Unless you're not Catholic, in which case, even a 2-D one is going to get you in some trouble with The Big Guy.
You're very right. And I've always wondered why Christians are so intent on getting ID taught. It very clearly contradicts the Bible. And if you're willing to accept that the Bible isn't literal truth, then what the hell is the problem with thinking God made the laws of physics, hit the on-switch, and sends a Jesus or two every once in a while? You don't need gaps in the fossil record for that.
Sorry, but your understanding is that of a very casual Christian. As a reformed semi-fundamentalist, I can tell you that anyone that believes that is strictly the Christmas-and-Easter type. There's a Jesus quote in there that says the exact opposite. What the post-Jesus stuff modifies is dealings with other people. It boils down to "Old Testament: How to follow God's rules. New Testament: How not to be a dick about it."
Then they turned around burned people for being witches. The lesson is, if you absolutely must keep them around, let the Puritans do the farming and leave the governing to people with a better track record on not-being-fucking-crazy.
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It should be illegal to name your own project, especially with acronyms. Everything should be called "the thing we're doing" until someone unrelated comes along and names it. It would save so many horrible fake acronyms.
Go to Google Maps. Try to look at the White House and the surrounding area. You'll see that a great deal of detail has been obscured, precisely because of the security concerns.
Damn. Now if I want to do evil there, I'll have to wait forty seconds for one of the Discovery channels to do a documentary that includes way closer-up pictures.
The Indian government is just looking out for its employees. It wants to make sure terrorists can't get information about the stuff they leave sitting around outside without slipping a guy that works on the loading dock twenty bucks. Those guys depend on that income, and Google's screwing them out of it.
Fools! You've led us right to him!
Go get him, boys. The War on Christmas ends tonight.
-Kefka, Supreme Commander Anti-Christmas Forces, Europe.
Are ringtones, iPods and Digital Cable making us more productive?
Do flourescent lightbulbs make for better sandwiches?
Anyway, tell me exactly WHY the Government has to redistribute wealth? This isn't the 1930s where people are ready to revolt.
You answered your own question.
This has nothing to do with research. There's absolutely no way we're going to run out of frozen embryos for research. There's trillions of the damn things, and more every day. The fear is for post-research harvesting for treatment.
It just means that the deals go on behind closed doors and are written into law.
Give me a scenario where someone besides an embryo shipping company makes money off this: Government makes it illegal to sell embryos for anything. Embryos collected in the usual ways are sent to local storage centers if given consent from the "parent." The rest are destroyed the usual way. Create a stem cell recipient list identical to the organ recipient lists. Continously ship, free of charge, to the top guy on the list.
Who could possibly make money by encouraging embryo creation that way? If you're really worried about corruption within, do frequent audits. If you're paranoid that the government will do something horrible and start selling them to the highest bidder despite the will of the people, then there's really no point in having a discussion about legal matters at all. They'll just do what they want.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any way for someone to make cash from death, here.
My better response is to go back to work. You're certainly not going to change anyone's mind by calling what is usually the focus of your opposition's life a "cancer."
Rants are fun, but my team gets lumped in with your team, so if you're going to solidify the opinions of the opposition that we're just the other side that hates them, at least say something funny in the process.
On behalf of the Slashdot anti-religion crowd, please stop turning every topic into an unprovoked attack on religion and Bush. It's making us look bad. Especially when the attack is as stupid as this.
The solution to that is so un-f***ing-believably simple that it can't be actual concern about it motivating anyone's opposition. You set up a government agency to take in all the aborted kids that you get parental consent for (if you want. I doubt anyone doing the aborting would care, but what the hell) and have them send the cells out with a priority program like transplant lists. No privatization means no profit and everyone wins. Of course, you'll have to pay another 8 million a year in taxes to pay for it, which means you'll have to cut down your number of wars by .002 per year, so I'm sure conservatives would never go for it. Can't possibly afford it.
There's lots of good answers that I'm sure people will provide, but I'd just like you to explain how this is at all similar.
The Battle Room scenes will be 40% close-ups and 60% those lame Spiderman special effects that make people look like wet GI Joes. For that reason, I'm dreading the movie (I loved the book), and I wish they'd wait a decade until we can build some realistic CG people (or have an Apollo 13 "vomit comet" about 20 times bigger than the current one[s]).
but why I cannot fathom.
'Cause it was hilarious.
And the space-western thing goes down a lot easier in the proper episode order.
Aren't all electronic circuits three dimensional, since we live in a 3d universe?
Brilliant. You've clearly out-thunk the parent. Bravo.
My guess is that a 2d turing complete computer is the same as a 3d turing complete computer, so what's your point?
Which is why I'm still typing this on my good 'ol 386, what with all turing complete computers being equivalent and all. I don't get why people keep wasting their money on so-called "upgrades".
so instead of wasting peoples gas, these things would save consumers brake pads?
By adding, judging by the article picture, giant bumps to the road. What you save in brake pads, you'll pay for in shocks and ass pain.
I guess the tax paying bloke down the street who rides a bike to work will be glad he no longer has to pay for it.
I'm sure he'll be thrilled that the exact same amount he will pay in taxes will now be used to buy a slightly better stapler, despite the cheap one being good enough, for a government pencil pusher. Either that, or go towards the salary of the guys that maintain the road's new moving parts.
I don't know about the quality, but the quantity, anecdotally, seems to suck lately. I can't think of a single new song that's come out on my regular stations in the last 4 months except for Coldplay, which makes me want to drive into a tree every time they get played. Usually it's a month or two, but the current draught has been pretty ridiculous. But that could just be because all the new ones suck and I've blocked out the memory of them.
As for the quality going down, the top 10 CDs are usually Jennifer Lopez and Brittany Spears-esque. Sales overall are only down 4.5%, which means, unless my logic pieces aren't working at the moment, sales of non-top-10's are up, which probably can only mean good things for quality.
And if that's the case, maybe they can stop using that idiotic "for every band that sells a billion records, there's 10 that lose money" line. As though we should feel bad for them because they're bad at their jobs.
And why are animals used for this testing? Isn't a main justification that they are incapable of reasoning?
While I'm not unsympathetic to your cause and wounded animals, I think the main justification is that people want to know things, and humans are prohibitively expensive.
Ah, I get ya. Never heard the "replacement" thing. I'll have to look into that, because I like it better.
But this does nicely illustrate why I'm no longer a Christianity fan. The Bible hardly ever says what it says.
See John 13:34, interpret the original greek.
But if you read it in Klingon, it takes a completely different meaning.
I can't read it in Greek, so I'll just quote the English version I found:
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
How is that not not-being-a-dick?
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
So there's the part where the Bible says the opposite of what the OP said. He was right about other part, but the old stuff is still good. New Testament, for the most part, says, "Be groovy," which me and him and, unless the Greek says something crazy-different, you seem to agree on. I'm not sure where you think I'm full of it.
... if I wish to hold any religious observance, it's going to be with a nativity set or something, not a Christmas tree.
Just make sure it's 2-dimensional. Wouldn't want to break any commandments. Unless you're not Catholic, in which case, even a 2-D one is going to get you in some trouble with The Big Guy.
You're very right. And I've always wondered why Christians are so intent on getting ID taught. It very clearly contradicts the Bible. And if you're willing to accept that the Bible isn't literal truth, then what the hell is the problem with thinking God made the laws of physics, hit the on-switch, and sends a Jesus or two every once in a while? You don't need gaps in the fossil record for that.
Sorry, but your understanding is that of a very casual Christian. As a reformed semi-fundamentalist, I can tell you that anyone that believes that is strictly the Christmas-and-Easter type. There's a Jesus quote in there that says the exact opposite. What the post-Jesus stuff modifies is dealings with other people. It boils down to "Old Testament: How to follow God's rules. New Testament: How not to be a dick about it."
The guy who drew the logo for that forgot the wingalings and the beefy arm.
Then they turned around burned people for being witches. The lesson is, if you absolutely must keep them around, let the Puritans do the farming and leave the governing to people with a better track record on not-being-fucking-crazy.