This would make more sense if they hadn't found that using salt in the cooking process results in less salt consumed than if you put in no salt and hand someone a salt shaker. If your customers are salting every bite, you've hardly fixed the problem.
If he wanted to do the nanny-state properly he should ban customers from having salt shakers and leave salt levels to the experts in the kitchen.
Leaving aside the bizarre contention that there's nothing special about birth, I'm not talking about miracles.
I'm talking about a completely dependent bundle of cells proving it's viability and becoming an autonomous organism. That's not special pleading. If anything it's special pleading to say that a 9 month old fetus and a born baby are "nearly identical". They're very close to the same exact for the massive facts that the fetus is still getting all nutrition and oxygen through its mother's blood stream, floats in a sac of water and doesn't use it's digestive or respiratory system. Nearly identical, but ignoring massive differences.
So a fetus with a genetic defect that causes it to not develop a heart is not human since it is not viable?
I think it's easier to confer rights on what I call a human - a homo-sapiens who has been born and is still living. And discuss the ethics of abortion, and various cell harvesting techniques on human cells as a separate ethics issue. It's really easier and more scientific that way.
Yes. All humans that I know of do. And all the ones that I've read about through history have.
But we're debating language not science. And I'm not helping things. I'll agree with you that zygotes are humans if you'll agree with me that gametes are half-human and maybe we can agree that this has jack to do with the issue of abortion.
I am curious where your science stands on babies with down's syndrome though. Since they're not human by the "measurable" standards of humanity you set earlier in this conversation.
Listen if we're talking about the lack of arbitrariness in science, then a human being definitely does not become a human being until they're born and take their first breath. That's the most absolute measurable standard.
If you want to debate at what phase it is ethical to abort a human embryo, we can do that. But let's not confuse what a "person" is. Ethics and science are different, and just because we arrive at an ethical conclusion does not mean that it changes the scientific one.
The wikipedia entry you're looking for is "Developmental Biology"
I am impressed by the strong scientific backing for your completely arbitrary belief system. I personally couldn't call two fertilized cells that had failed to adhere to the uterine lining a person. But perhaps that's because I don't enjoy viewing sex as genocide.
"Simply to say that embryos aren't people is to apply the same logic used to pardon the continuation of slavery"
Actually it's the same logic that could lead to the outlawing of masturbation, menstruation and miscarriages. People tend to gloss over the "implanting in the uterine wall" as the moment of conception, when that's really a much more key element than fertilization.
The slavery analogy doesn't really hold. Other than the fact that in your world slave owners could sue for the rights to the stored embryos. I think. I find you comparison somewhat confusing.
It's probably more important than a sexual abuse registry, since animal abuse is a strong sign of those who will become abusers and serial killers (and if you cross-reference you're probably going to get a very good handle on who you really need to be watching).
When I think about various sexual compulsions vs. a compulsion to kill the innocent and defenseless I'm going to go with the later as being far more frightening.
I'm far less frightened of the government having a database of criminals than a government that has figured out how to lock people up even after they've served their sentence.
I think this device looks very cool, and it solves the iPad/iPod Touch conundrum. The iPad has a nice screen for reading, but you actually read the ipod touch because it fits in your pocket. If I could have the screen of an iPad and put it in my pocket you've got a killer app there.
And before your criticize the "put in your pocket" thing, I get that as the killer feature the ipod touch has from two moms who both use their ipods constantly. The ipad is not so convenient for taking a load of laundry out to the laundry room and checking facebook status updates.
Too cool. I think this might be the kitchen computer I've been waiting for! If I could prop it up in lots of different configurations based on where I need to use it (hang it on the wall over the oven, make a ^ and prop it up next to my cooking, lay it flat on the counter).
Then if I could roll it up and take it into the living room as universal remote...
You ever been to Hobby Lobby? The private sector can do it worse. And at least we can lobby or run for office to make the government use bar-code scanners.
This is about classical music. So basically they're just tuning a piano to be played exactly the same way that a dead performer played it. Classical music isn't exactly known for its originality, and there was actually a recent hoax where an amateur was passing off his own recording as new ones by famous artists.
That's a far cry from being able to somehow mimic Hendrex's style and then have a computer come up with a compelling new song for him to play. And it's another far cry to get voice synthesis that not only can model the original singers voice, but also sing new lyrics. Not saying it's not possible, but it's still a long ways off.
This isn't about an authoritarian state. The majority of your neighbors decided they like grass so the city enforces it. The proper way to fix this in a democracy is to start a movement to change the law to allow for drought tolerant lawns without grass. The incorrect way is to violate the law then bitch and moan about how unfair it is that this existing law is being applied to you.
I've actually done this exact thing with an HOA board in a subdivision. Grow up people. The government is pretty accurately reflecting your immature pettiness.
I work for a company that builds essentially really smart terminal servers, and we still highly favor serial console ports. You can dial into our device and still access all your devices via the console port. Which is pretty important when you consider that one of the most common reasons a network is unavailable is a misconfigured router (so getting onto the network isn't always that helpful).
I think that keeping the console port and having a usb port where you can attach a thumb drive to upload the os via flash if necessary is probably the best route. USB/Serial is not particularly reliable in our experience.
"In the computer world, we're all taught to install firmware updates only if there is a real problem"
No actually you're supposed to install firmware updates when they're released if you don't want your machines to become part of botnets. If a firmware update from a manufacturer bricks your device they'll generally send you a new one. If dd-wrt does that's a different matter. You're not still running IE6 are you?
I was being sarcastic. Nuclear power was all conservatives could talk about with regards to energy independence. Then Obama signed the bill for the new reactors and things have gotten very quiet.
No, skeptics are reading everything they can to understand the problem. The people in the middle saying "show me" are actually deniers who don't want to be labeled as such and who will never be convinced. What do we need to "show you"? What is the burden of proof? Can we show you research, or do you need actual water lapping at your front door?
I've heard rumors that energy prices might be volatile. Have you heard of this thing called "insurance", where you pay a set amount per month to prevent massive unexpected costs?
This is what separates the smart companies from the ones run by MBAs.
Please post links to the McCain plan to fix health care. Oh right. There is none. It's really productive to criticize an entire bill based on a competitors campaign promise.
My suggestion? Vote Democrat so that Republicans get such a small voting percentage that corporations no longer want to support them. This will allow new parties to spring up and hopefully a viable one will emerge. Voting Republican will just make you angry again when they yet again do nothing and spend a lot of money doing it. The Democrats already do the whole "conservative" thing far better than Republicans. Some of us would rather have a conservative and liberal party (and maybe one or two more), rather than a "party for people who want to get stuff done" and a "party that wants to rant and waste money".
It's time to get rid of the Republican party and get a new one that can deal with Democrats like adults. Let the Republican party become the marginal home of evangelical christians and anti-government nutjobs that it so desperately wants to be, and let us have at least two parties that are interested in coming to the table and figuring out ways to make our country work. Of course the Democrats are coming up with inelegant solutions. It's because there's no one coming up with alternatives.
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This would make more sense if they hadn't found that using salt in the cooking process results in less salt consumed than if you put in no salt and hand someone a salt shaker. If your customers are salting every bite, you've hardly fixed the problem.
If he wanted to do the nanny-state properly he should ban customers from having salt shakers and leave salt levels to the experts in the kitchen.
Exactly what I thought of. If they could merge this concept with Mylyn it would be amazingly powerful.
Leaving aside the bizarre contention that there's nothing special about birth, I'm not talking about miracles.
I'm talking about a completely dependent bundle of cells proving it's viability and becoming an autonomous organism. That's not special pleading. If anything it's special pleading to say that a 9 month old fetus and a born baby are "nearly identical". They're very close to the same exact for the massive facts that the fetus is still getting all nutrition and oxygen through its mother's blood stream, floats in a sac of water and doesn't use it's digestive or respiratory system. Nearly identical, but ignoring massive differences.
So a fetus with a genetic defect that causes it to not develop a heart is not human since it is not viable?
I think it's easier to confer rights on what I call a human - a homo-sapiens who has been born and is still living. And discuss the ethics of abortion, and various cell harvesting techniques on human cells as a separate ethics issue. It's really easier and more scientific that way.
Yes. All humans that I know of do. And all the ones that I've read about through history have.
But we're debating language not science. And I'm not helping things. I'll agree with you that zygotes are humans if you'll agree with me that gametes are half-human and maybe we can agree that this has jack to do with the issue of abortion.
I am curious where your science stands on babies with down's syndrome though. Since they're not human by the "measurable" standards of humanity you set earlier in this conversation.
Listen if we're talking about the lack of arbitrariness in science, then a human being definitely does not become a human being until they're born and take their first breath. That's the most absolute measurable standard.
If you want to debate at what phase it is ethical to abort a human embryo, we can do that. But let's not confuse what a "person" is. Ethics and science are different, and just because we arrive at an ethical conclusion does not mean that it changes the scientific one.
The wikipedia entry you're looking for is "Developmental Biology"
I am impressed by the strong scientific backing for your completely arbitrary belief system. I personally couldn't call two fertilized cells that had failed to adhere to the uterine lining a person. But perhaps that's because I don't enjoy viewing sex as genocide.
"Simply to say that embryos aren't people is to apply the same logic used to pardon the continuation of slavery"
Actually it's the same logic that could lead to the outlawing of masturbation, menstruation and miscarriages. People tend to gloss over the "implanting in the uterine wall" as the moment of conception, when that's really a much more key element than fertilization.
The slavery analogy doesn't really hold. Other than the fact that in your world slave owners could sue for the rights to the stored embryos. I think. I find you comparison somewhat confusing.
It's probably more important than a sexual abuse registry, since animal abuse is a strong sign of those who will become abusers and serial killers (and if you cross-reference you're probably going to get a very good handle on who you really need to be watching).
When I think about various sexual compulsions vs. a compulsion to kill the innocent and defenseless I'm going to go with the later as being far more frightening.
I'm far less frightened of the government having a database of criminals than a government that has figured out how to lock people up even after they've served their sentence.
Fold the screen in half and put it in my pocket. Did you look at the pictures?
I think this device looks very cool, and it solves the iPad/iPod Touch conundrum. The iPad has a nice screen for reading, but you actually read the ipod touch because it fits in your pocket. If I could have the screen of an iPad and put it in my pocket you've got a killer app there.
And before your criticize the "put in your pocket" thing, I get that as the killer feature the ipod touch has from two moms who both use their ipods constantly. The ipad is not so convenient for taking a load of laundry out to the laundry room and checking facebook status updates.
Too cool. I think this might be the kitchen computer I've been waiting for! If I could prop it up in lots of different configurations based on where I need to use it (hang it on the wall over the oven, make a ^ and prop it up next to my cooking, lay it flat on the counter).
Then if I could roll it up and take it into the living room as universal remote...
You ever been to Hobby Lobby? The private sector can do it worse. And at least we can lobby or run for office to make the government use bar-code scanners.
This is about classical music. So basically they're just tuning a piano to be played exactly the same way that a dead performer played it. Classical music isn't exactly known for its originality, and there was actually a recent hoax where an amateur was passing off his own recording as new ones by famous artists.
That's a far cry from being able to somehow mimic Hendrex's style and then have a computer come up with a compelling new song for him to play. And it's another far cry to get voice synthesis that not only can model the original singers voice, but also sing new lyrics. Not saying it's not possible, but it's still a long ways off.
This isn't about an authoritarian state. The majority of your neighbors decided they like grass so the city enforces it. The proper way to fix this in a democracy is to start a movement to change the law to allow for drought tolerant lawns without grass. The incorrect way is to violate the law then bitch and moan about how unfair it is that this existing law is being applied to you.
I've actually done this exact thing with an HOA board in a subdivision. Grow up people. The government is pretty accurately reflecting your immature pettiness.
I work for a company that builds essentially really smart terminal servers, and we still highly favor serial console ports. You can dial into our device and still access all your devices via the console port. Which is pretty important when you consider that one of the most common reasons a network is unavailable is a misconfigured router (so getting onto the network isn't always that helpful).
I think that keeping the console port and having a usb port where you can attach a thumb drive to upload the os via flash if necessary is probably the best route. USB/Serial is not particularly reliable in our experience.
Not really. Since we are the government, that kind of follows.
"In the computer world, we're all taught to install firmware updates only if there is a real problem"
No actually you're supposed to install firmware updates when they're released if you don't want your machines to become part of botnets. If a firmware update from a manufacturer bricks your device they'll generally send you a new one. If dd-wrt does that's a different matter. You're not still running IE6 are you?
No one's pointing out the smaller half of the problem. If you are displaying errors you're doing most of the hackers work for them.
I look forward to a brand new twitter that randomly doesn't display expected data and sometimes doesn't take my status updates!
I was being sarcastic. Nuclear power was all conservatives could talk about with regards to energy independence. Then Obama signed the bill for the new reactors and things have gotten very quiet.
No you forgot. Obama's a Democraat, so now we no longer want nuclear power. Try to keep up.
If he advocates drilling in Alaska they'll all become environmentalists...
No, skeptics are reading everything they can to understand the problem. The people in the middle saying "show me" are actually deniers who don't want to be labeled as such and who will never be convinced. What do we need to "show you"? What is the burden of proof? Can we show you research, or do you need actual water lapping at your front door?
I've heard rumors that energy prices might be volatile. Have you heard of this thing called "insurance", where you pay a set amount per month to prevent massive unexpected costs?
This is what separates the smart companies from the ones run by MBAs.
Please post links to the McCain plan to fix health care. Oh right. There is none. It's really productive to criticize an entire bill based on a competitors campaign promise.
My suggestion? Vote Democrat so that Republicans get such a small voting percentage that corporations no longer want to support them. This will allow new parties to spring up and hopefully a viable one will emerge. Voting Republican will just make you angry again when they yet again do nothing and spend a lot of money doing it. The Democrats already do the whole "conservative" thing far better than Republicans. Some of us would rather have a conservative and liberal party (and maybe one or two more), rather than a "party for people who want to get stuff done" and a "party that wants to rant and waste money".
It's time to get rid of the Republican party and get a new one that can deal with Democrats like adults. Let the Republican party become the marginal home of evangelical christians and anti-government nutjobs that it so desperately wants to be, and let us have at least two parties that are interested in coming to the table and figuring out ways to make our country work. Of course the Democrats are coming up with inelegant solutions. It's because there's no one coming up with alternatives.