If you're a Huntingdons victim you'll most likely die young... probably before fifty. If you get the gene then you get the condition sooner or later.
If you have a family history of Huntingdons - no tests, no needles, no blood samples, just history -you will find it almost impossible to get life insurance cover as things stand.
But under new legislation, if you take the test and are clear then you CAN get life insurance, when previosuly it would have been nigh-on impossible.
If you take the test and are not clear then you've got bigger problems than life insurance...
This cannot be a bad development.
> there have been far too many people on the net who don't have a fucking clue about anything
That's not a bad thing. Maybe through the 'net they'll learn.
> downloading huge fuck-off Flash animations
Actually, Flash animations are remarkably small compared to gifs.
> waste server space with crappy Geocities home pages that have pictures of themselves and their dogs - who gives a rat's arse about them?
I think that they do, and their families and friends.
The net is a magnificent thing precisely because it allows the massess access to publish to something available instantly world-wide. That is a power undreamed of even ten years ago for the overwhelming majority of the worlds populace... and is rapidly becoming a reality.
I think your elitist vision of a net only accessible to the privileged educated few would be quite horrible
Hardly hi-tech but this comes direct from BBC News : "The rough draft has been completed several years ahead of schedule thanks to the introduction of new robotic technology and the competition Celera gave the HGP when it started work in 1998."
This is widely being reported in the UK lunchtime news bulletins right now. I note that the Wellcome Trust and the Human Genome Project of which they are a member hail this breakthrough as a "great gift to humanity" and that Celera, the US corporation providing alternative research, wants to patent it all.
When I first read the book I saw Brandon Lee in the Hiro Protagonist role. I don't think he was dead at the time. I suppose casting him now might be difficult:(
What's really scary is that when they come to cast Raven Hollywood execs probably won't look any further than the WWF...
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If you're a Huntingdons victim you'll most likely die young... probably before fifty. If you get the gene then you get the condition sooner or later. If you have a family history of Huntingdons - no tests, no needles, no blood samples, just history -you will find it almost impossible to get life insurance cover as things stand. But under new legislation, if you take the test and are clear then you CAN get life insurance, when previosuly it would have been nigh-on impossible. If you take the test and are not clear then you've got bigger problems than life insurance... This cannot be a bad development.
Computer Generated Image, oui?
That's not a bad thing. Maybe through the 'net they'll learn.
Actually, Flash animations are remarkably small compared to gifs.
I think that they do, and their families and friends.
The net is a magnificent thing precisely because it allows the massess access to publish to something available instantly world-wide. That is a power undreamed of even ten years ago for the overwhelming majority of the worlds populace... and is rapidly becoming a reality.
I think your elitist vision of a net only accessible to the privileged educated few would be quite horrible
Hardly hi-tech but this comes direct from BBC News :
"The rough draft has been completed several years ahead of schedule thanks to the introduction of new robotic technology and the competition Celera gave the HGP when it started work in 1998."
http://news.bbc. co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_805000/805803.stm
This is widely being reported in the UK lunchtime news bulletins right now. I note that the Wellcome Trust and the Human Genome Project of which they are a member hail this breakthrough as a "great gift to humanity" and that Celera, the US corporation providing alternative research, wants to patent it all.
When I first read the book I saw Brandon Lee in the Hiro Protagonist role. I don't think he was dead at the time. I suppose casting him now might be difficult :(
What's really scary is that when they come to cast Raven Hollywood execs probably won't look any further than the WWF...