This will continue happening, if not over this, then over Nike shoes, or who knows what's next. We read an article like this using our computers made on the backs of the third world, say "Oh that's terrible" then go back to depending on the cheap prices you pay for their sweat. The only way anything will change is for everyone to stop sitting on their hands and make a statement against this kind of activity.
Here in the US we depend on getting stuff dirt cheap even if that means hurting people in other countries. We're only willing to help people in third world countries if it will be beneficial to us (eg: Kuwait).
Everyone in the US (myself included) needs to take a step back and realize how much we are destroying the entire world in order to give ourselves comfortable lives.
I just bought a Dell laptop, but the only way to get the hardware I wanted was to pay the MS tax... They actually offered this machine with Linux installed, but not with any of the options I wanted (they all work great in Linux anyway) and not for the price I wanted to pay. It was $400 cheeper to buy a better machine with Windows installed.
Guess I should look at the bright side. I now have a set of nice hologram covered coasters, still in their shrink-wrap.
The advancement of the human species has been held back by god before, and I don't think that these scientists should let god impede their research.
It wasn't God who is wrong here! People who wrongly thought they were doing God a favor were the ones who executed Galileo. God is a loving God, not a God that executes people for discovering something. If these scientists truely discovered what they think they have, God isn't trying to hide it from them.
Now that mankind can understand what specific genes do, they can use this basic experiment to guide the evolution of life in the right direction.
What are the chances of humans allowing this to happen? Are we likely to purposely create a life form that will be better than us and overtake us, then call it "the right direction?" What would you improve in humans if you could, anyway? I think God did a pretty good job of creating us the way he did. Imagine all the problems that would ensue if we tried to change things even a little.
If anybody cares, the Windows version of Notes 4.6 seems to work quite well in the newest version of WINE. It seems to freeze up once in a great while when you try to do something fancy with it, but otherwise it runs perfectly.
My personal belief is that someone can be just as much a Christian without any of the "Religion". Christianity does not have to be a long set of rules you have to follow. Christianity is a relationship with your creator that is very personal, and very special. How you demonstrate that faith is also very personal. For some people it may be attending structured religious institutions. For others it may be coding. (Hackers for Jesus?!?) I don't think that there is any contradiction between the net, 'cyber-culture' and Christianity or many other religions for that matter. I do think that the net could pose a problem to structured religious institutions. If that is true then maybe these need to change. Christianity is flexible enough to cross cultural lines, even going into this new culture. True faith can stand the test of being questioned. -Phlip
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This will continue happening, if not over this, then over Nike shoes, or who knows what's next. We read an article like this using our computers made on the backs of the third world, say "Oh that's terrible" then go back to depending on the cheap prices you pay for their sweat. The only way anything will change is for everyone to stop sitting on their hands and make a statement against this kind of activity.
Here in the US we depend on getting stuff dirt cheap even if that means hurting people in other countries. We're only willing to help people in third world countries if it will be beneficial to us (eg: Kuwait).
Everyone in the US (myself included) needs to take a step back and realize how much we are destroying the entire world in order to give ourselves comfortable lives.
I just bought a Dell laptop, but the only way to get the hardware I wanted was to pay the MS tax... They actually offered this machine with Linux installed, but not with any of the options I wanted (they all work great in Linux anyway) and not for the price I wanted to pay. It was $400 cheeper to buy a better machine with Windows installed.
Guess I should look at the bright side. I now have a set of nice hologram covered coasters, still in their shrink-wrap.
The advancement of the human species has been held back by god before, and I don't think that these scientists should let god impede their research.
It wasn't God who is wrong here! People who wrongly thought they were doing God a favor were the ones who executed Galileo. God is a loving God, not a God that executes people for discovering something. If these scientists truely discovered what they think they have, God isn't trying to hide it from them.
Now that mankind can understand what specific genes do, they can use this basic experiment to guide the evolution of life in the right direction.
What are the chances of humans allowing this to happen? Are we likely to purposely create a life form that will be better than us and overtake us, then call it "the right direction?" What would you improve in humans if you could, anyway? I think God did a pretty good job of creating us the way he did. Imagine all the problems that would ensue if we tried to change things even a little.
If anybody cares, the Windows version of Notes 4.6 seems to work quite well in the newest version of WINE. It seems to freeze up once in a great while when you try to do something fancy with it, but otherwise it runs perfectly.
My personal belief is that someone can be just as much a Christian without any of the "Religion". Christianity does not have to be a long set of rules you have to follow. Christianity is a relationship with your creator that is very personal, and very special. How you demonstrate that faith is also very personal. For some people it may be attending structured religious institutions. For others it may be coding. (Hackers for Jesus?!?) I don't think that there is any contradiction between the net, 'cyber-culture' and Christianity or many other religions for that matter.
I do think that the net could pose a problem to structured religious institutions. If that is true then maybe these need to change. Christianity is flexible enough to cross cultural lines, even going into this new culture.
True faith can stand the test of being questioned.
-Phlip