Incidentally, almost everyone who dies of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc etc, all made life choices that CONTRIBUTED to their likelihood of death.
Hell, if you're a soldier you're practically begging to die, right?
So I guess that means all soldiers deserve to die?
"Sony will say that because of big bad rippers they had to update the security. "
So? Everyone I know trusts me more than some lame ad on TV. If their hardware screws up do they wait for an ad to explain why? Hell no! They call me! (Dammit!)
And I say, "Screw these guys, it's their stupid broken copy protection. Download this and rip it."
Wish I had mod points, cause I don't think anyone read past that first funny line!
This point about representation being ineffective (or dominated by media) when you have a ratio of citizens to representatives of 6 million to 1 is extremely important.
Is part of the problem for the USA that it has effectively outgrown it's old boots? The states were formed when the population of the US was a tiny fraction of what it is today.
Democracy works best when it's personal and local.
Researchers say that their study "refutes the idea that sex is necessary for diversification into evolutionary species".
I have never even heard the idea (during a degree in genetics) that sex is necessary for diversification into species. Bacteria do not have sex (although they can share DNA through other means, such as plasmids) and yet that are incrediably diverse and continue to evolve rapidly (e.g. antibiotic resistance). Therefore, if sex were necessary for speciation we would only have one species of bacteria.
The term "evolutionary species" is also strange. All "species" are by definition "evolutionary", since that is the process by which individual species arise.
Ironically enough I found this in one quick Google search using "deep linking violates copyright", along with a list of alternative sources about the same topic.
rlp has pretty much nailed this whole thread, really.
How long would the USA food industry last without a stable energy (i.e. oil) supply last? You wouldn't even be able to sow crops, let alone harvest, process and distribute the food.
If you really believe that an independent secure food supply is vital to American security, then you have to believe that a secure independent energy supply is (at least) equally vital.
Of course, I think this attitude lies more in America's isolationist past (late 19th, early 20th Century). In a global economy as integrated as it is right now, the belief that by subsidising the local farming industry you can protect yourselves from negative events elsewhere is insanely naive. By extending this logic, every country should attempt to become completely independent for everything. We tried that. It's called the stone age.
"Humans tend to think that the span of our lifetimes are significant, when in the scope of Universe, our lifespans, and indeed human life on this planet are nothing but a blip, a footnote, a grain of sand on the beach."
This is true. You are fundamentally unimportant. Now go and shoot yourself in the head.
"Acting like a little bitch and running for someone else to protect you or shield you from the evils of the world isn't productive, it's how things like Columbine happen."
Sure is. Hell, if I was being pushed around at school, I'd stand up for myself. If the guy was bigger, or had more friends, I might need some sort of weapon though...
This is probably the best argument for making them available in the developed world immediately: if you could buy a $200 version (including another free laptop for someone who really needs it) that would nail ebay transfer back to the USA...
The more I think about it, the more vital I think it is that the laptop be made available here.
"Would you allow your pregnant daughter to go through this procedure of donating amniotic fluid?"
Yes. Get over it. A bunch of total strangers are already staring at her distended vagina.
"Would you allow your daughter, who suffers from a debilitating, ultimately fatal disease, to undergo curative treatment derived from stem cell research?"
Yes. I'm not a self centred insecure inhuman religious fuckwit.
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As an anti-gun person I say "Great post!"
Long post? Yes, but hey, I read books too.
Well thought out, articulate and reasoned.
I'd mod you up, but you'll be at +5 (worth reading) in no time.
"Owning a gun or talking about buying a gun is, as far as I know, does not qualify you for a protected class."
Oh yeah? I guess you feel lucky then, punk!
Vietnam, drugs, terror, Iraq... the system is the same:
1. Declare war.
2. ????
3. Defeat.
Sometimes, offending fanatically patriotic Americans is worth lost karma.
Bring it on.
Incidentally, almost everyone who dies of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc etc, all made life choices that CONTRIBUTED to their likelihood of death.
Hell, if you're a soldier you're practically begging to die, right?
So I guess that means all soldiers deserve to die?
Of course not.
Don't know what you'd change exactly, but you might consider it if characteristics useful to that environment can be reliably added/induced.
"Sony will say that because of big bad rippers they had to update the security. "
So? Everyone I know trusts me more than some lame ad on TV. If their hardware screws up do they wait for an ad to explain why? Hell no! They call me! (Dammit!)
And I say, "Screw these guys, it's their stupid broken copy protection. Download this and rip it."
End of story. Everyone wins. Except Sony.
Simple really.
...to create a full human but with a sheep's brain?
Or did I just weird everyone out?
Wish I had mod points, cause I don't think anyone read past that first funny line!
This point about representation being ineffective (or dominated by media) when you have a ratio of citizens to representatives of 6 million to 1 is extremely important.
Is part of the problem for the USA that it has effectively outgrown it's old boots? The states were formed when the population of the US was a tiny fraction of what it is today.
Democracy works best when it's personal and local.
AJZ refers to actual research paper (gasp!) and coherently explains the terminology I found confusing.
If someone's still reading and has mod points, Scooter's_dad has provided a useful link.
Absolutely! If evolution *required* sex then we probably wouldn't have much of anything at all!
Researchers say that their study "refutes the idea that sex is necessary for diversification into evolutionary species".
I have never even heard the idea (during a degree in genetics) that sex is necessary for diversification into species. Bacteria do not have sex (although they can share DNA through other means, such as plasmids) and yet that are incrediably diverse and continue to evolve rapidly (e.g. antibiotic resistance). Therefore, if sex were necessary for speciation we would only have one species of bacteria.
The term "evolutionary species" is also strange. All "species" are by definition "evolutionary", since that is the process by which individual species arise.
"I don't care about pages, I want information, answers to questions."
In a world where just linking to another site can be illegal you expect to get information out of context?
Ironically enough I found this in one quick Google search using "deep linking violates copyright", along with a list of alternative sources about the same topic.
You know what? I think that this time he *really* means it.
"Why am I the only one who has that dream?"
Because the drugs work differently for everyone.
rlp has pretty much nailed this whole thread, really.
How long would the USA food industry last without a stable energy (i.e. oil) supply last? You wouldn't even be able to sow crops, let alone harvest, process and distribute the food.
If you really believe that an independent secure food supply is vital to American security, then you have to believe that a secure independent energy supply is (at least) equally vital.
Of course, I think this attitude lies more in America's isolationist past (late 19th, early 20th Century). In a global economy as integrated as it is right now, the belief that by subsidising the local farming industry you can protect yourselves from negative events elsewhere is insanely naive. By extending this logic, every country should attempt to become completely independent for everything. We tried that. It's called the stone age.
"Loss of nation states: Name one nation that is now underwater."
Tuvalu.
New Zealand has already accepted the entire population as environmental refugees when it becomes completely uninhabitable.
"Humans tend to think that the span of our lifetimes are significant, when in the scope of Universe, our lifespans, and indeed human life on this planet are nothing but a blip, a footnote, a grain of sand on the beach."
This is true. You are fundamentally unimportant. Now go and shoot yourself in the head.
Nobody here will care.
"I'd imagine that it takes very little in the way of strange behavior to disqualify a person for astronaut duty"
Like wanting to be blasted into space in an outdated craft stuck on top of a giant fuel tank?
No, we'll be little gods.
Create, rule, exploit.
I took a poll and found that more kids thought you were being a wiseass than there are people in the USA!!!1
"Acting like a little bitch and running for someone else to protect you or shield you from the evils of the world isn't productive, it's how things like Columbine happen."
Sure is. Hell, if I was being pushed around at school, I'd stand up for myself. If the guy was bigger, or had more friends, I might need some sort of weapon though...
This is probably the best argument for making them available in the developed world immediately: if you could buy a $200 version (including another free laptop for someone who really needs it) that would nail ebay transfer back to the USA...
The more I think about it, the more vital I think it is that the laptop be made available here.
Karma burning time, but whatever...
/. worth reading. Informative, funny and real. From a geek doing something cool.
This is EXACTLY the sort of post that makes
It's good for the soul.
"Would you allow your pregnant daughter to go through this procedure of donating amniotic fluid?"
Yes. Get over it. A bunch of total strangers are already staring at her distended vagina.
"Would you allow your daughter, who suffers from a debilitating, ultimately fatal disease, to undergo curative treatment derived from stem cell research?"
Yes. I'm not a self centred insecure inhuman religious fuckwit.