No, they are embryos. They don't become human until they're around 18 years old. Until then, we should be allowed to terminate them.
Actually, I think, parents (not "we" — only the parents) should have the life-and-death control over their offspring forever — as was the case in the Roman Empire. ("Parental abuse" may remain wrong, but should not be illegal.)
But my point was different from and not even related to the strawman you knocked down — I do not think, the fellow Americans, who view embryos as humans fully deserving of the society's protection, as unable to express their point using well-articulated (even if still wrong) arguments and in clean English.
The only real problem [...] will be the inevitable co-opting of this imagery for a new round of weepy anti-abortion ads.
I can think of quite a few more problems — such as subjecting the newly-forming tissue to the high amounts of whatever energy is used in this particular kind of tomography. Getting close enough to the heart of a human embryo may also prove more problematic, than in the case of mice.
But hey, nothing like getting an "insightful" moderation for your off-topic frosty piss, is there?
"Oh Noes!, Lookat the wittle heart..."
Have you ever seen such language in an ad? Do you really think, no people with clean English think of embryos as humans?
What exactly does "ridiculously high" mean? Is there a definition, or is it more of "I know it, when I see it" kind of thing?
And what is there to do, if, indeed, the costs (rather than the deplorable thirst for profit) make something too expensive to buy?
Does United States get to publish a "study" describing establishing a base on the Moon as "ridiculously expensive"? Can we then shame the rest of humanity into paying for it?
The school or library own those computers. They are just allowing you to use them.
Libraries let taxpayers use the devices, that the taxpayers own. Unlike buying an iPhone, paying for the libraries' computers is not even voluntary... If any computer-use restrictions deserve scrutiny, it is those imposed by the government (including schools and libraries) on the captive populace — not those a corporation manages to impose on consumers free to choose any product they like.
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Apple's iPhone is a shining example of a computer that doesn't allow execution of anything that is not approved by authorities.
"Authorities" is government. Apple is not government.
The distinction is significant, because Apple's device was made by them — it is not attributable to a dime of taxpayer's money, and is not handed out by a government as part of any policy. Maybe, you should've used government-sponsored school and library computers for your example — those are, indeed, very limited by their government-related owners in what one is allowed to do with them.
Perhaps, bashing private corporations rather than government schools and libraries is part of a bigger fight For The Greater Good(TM), that is not immediately obvious? Or is it?
The resulting material contained clusters of nickel atoms no bigger than 10 square nanometers -- a pinhead has a diameter of 1 million nanometers
We are so close to answering the ancient question — how many angels would fit on a pinhead? The prevailing opinion is, angels are ethereal beings, and thus infinite number of them would fit anywhere. But information is not tangible either (some even refuse to accept, that it can be owned), and yet obvious — if ever shrinking — limits exist to information concentration...
...is to put them in bridge mode and use your own router (no matter who your provider is).
I was helping a day-trading friend with his home network. He is paying TimeWarner top dollars for the highest speed available. When his computer is connected to the cable modem directly speed-test was showing 15-17Mb/second. Adding even a (gigabit) switch — so that his main computer remained reachable by others on the LAN — in the middle lowered the speed down to 12-14Mb/second. If we used a NATing router instead of switch, the most speed we were able to see was 8Mb/second. (All cables were CAT6, all connections — full duplex.)
Maybe, if we went with seriously expensive router, we'd get better speed, but I doubt, it would beat the top speed of using a switch — and that too was substantially lower, than the speed of the direct connection.
Your proposal does improve security, but it impedes speed — not entirely unlike the security guards at the door, I might add... Not for everyone...
I'm shocked to discover, an emerging world power is spying on the existing world power and is trying to get its weapons technology...
Seriously, this shouldn't even be news. What countermeasures are being taken is a lot more interesting — for both us and the Chinese — but should be kept just as secret for the latter reason...
Did it find pluto back? I heard we lost Pluto a while back.
Pluto perished in the brutal and heartless planet-eat-planet world championed by Big Astronomy, where bigger planets are getting bigger and the smaller ones — smaller...
Exxon buys them out, or lobbies against the tech and throws campaign money to the folks that make the municipal decisions, as big oil does with everything else progressive that possibly endangers their energy monopoly.
Yes, we would've been completely energy-independent by now, if only Rethuglikkkans and their Big Oil pals invested in the Perpetual Motion research!..
It's an interesting gimmick, but not sure what purpose it'd have for anyone other than XML monkeys.
There are automated ways to generate HTML, PDF, PostScript, and Plain Text from the XML-resume (this, for example, is how I do it), that I use to generated mine). Yes, recruiters ask me about the Word-version once in a while, and I tell them, no, I don't use Word.
The result looks pretty good to me (although it does not attempt to cram everything into a single page the way TFA's author does). One can even comment stuff out or make inclusion of certain items conditional. You may be looking for a sysadmin or a developer position, for example. With this you can produce different flavors of your resume from the same source...
It can also make your resume easier to search some day — when the search engines recognize this particular XML-template...
There is certainly nothing "gimmicky" about it — this sort of thing is, what XML is best suited for...
Is not "worry about the content, not the presentation" the mantra around here? If we are supposed to follow that for the web-pages we produce, why should the resumes be different?
One's resume should be in XML, from which various other formats can be produced automatically (and consistently)...
The motivations are different. Whereas the Republicans are instinctively against any regulation — even if they overcome that initial reaction often, the Democrats believe, a good Government regulation is the best solution to any problem.
So Republicans were opposing "Net Neutrality" because it is a regulation. These Democrats oppose it, because it does not fit their goals.
In addition to the "concerns for minorities" (the equivalent of Republican's "think of the children"!), it should be noted, that "Net Neutrality" will also impede implementation of the "Fairness Doctrine" online. And they will come to that right after imposing the said doctrine on the airwaves — the same people, who want to shut up Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh (1st Amendment be damned), can't be happy about Drudge's selection of headlines...
Oh, and if you think, the doctrine is abandoned, think again. The above link is dated June 28, 2007. But the same text was just republished as on op-ed word-to-word by a free daily newspaper on October the 14th, 2009. The author didn't even bother adjusting the wording, which — two years later — still refers to some events as "recent". Maybe, the professor is just cheating on the newspaper to augment his Columbia salary. More likely, this is the sign, the Left are giving up on trying to establish their own talk-shows, and want to use laws against the speech they don't like...
While you are at it, please, warn everyone you know of the dangers of waking up in a tub of cold water without a kidney, and about a kid dying, but wanting to collect as many e-mail addresses as possible. Oh, and don't forget that famous Neumann-Marcus cookie recipe. The world must know at once!
You have to distinguish social policy from economic policy(hence my choice of words above).
And yet, you consider Hitler a Libertarian (even if only on economic policies). Despite his obviously Statist inclinations from that very program I quoted, and the actual implementations of government-sponsored banks, a car manufacturer (yes, the VolksWagen — or "people's wagon"), etc.
Something is very wrong with your opinion...
We don't need some other web-site to help us figure out, who of the two Presidents is more of a Fascist.
I presented over a dozen points, that Obama himself and/or the people most strongly supporting him share with NSDAP. I challenge you to find six, that can be attributed to Bush and his main supporters.
Europe has thrown off the yoke of nobility and monarchs, and enjoys relative representational government, free media, free or cheap education
We enjoy the same — and better. And we have not lost millions of people in revolutions and wars to get there...
Meanwhile in the US, our economic security is being flushed down the toilet
I posit, that America's capitalism has given enormous economic benefits even to the least successful of its participants.
Maybe the Founding Father's noble experiment has failed.
It has in the sense, that we are edging closer and closer to that rotten state, that they forewarned us against:
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
The happiness of society is the end of government.
- John Adams
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine
H.B. 2003 says a person commits a third degree felony if the person posts one or more messages on a social networking site with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate or threaten another person.
20-30% of Slashdot responses could cause prosecution in Texas, if the site qualifies as a "social networking". Note, that you don't have to actually successfully intimidate, you just have to intend to, however pathetic your attempt may be...
I know, I'm guilty on, at least, several counts...
Who pays for legal representation ? Who pays for the infrastructure necessary to hold a trial ? Who reimburses the jurors for their time ? Who pays for the dispute to be investigated?
The government, when it undertakes to prosecute an individual, has follow certain rules, even if following them costs money. It is all part of Law Enforcement, which is a solid part of the Government's constitutional mandate.
None of that is handed out to the affected citizen himself, in stark contrast to Welfare, Medicaid, "cash for clunkers" and all the other nation-destroying crap of "New Deal", "The Great Society", and whatever moniker Obama is going to pick...
Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them.
Why are you giving (unreferenced) quotes unrelated to the matter at hand?.. Did Time (here, a reference you forgot to put) allege, Palin "liked" to ban books? No — according to the article, she was just concerned, that language in some of them may be considered offensive by some of her constituents. Libraries can carry only a limited subset of what's printed, and somebody somewhere has to decide, what that subset is to contain — my mom, for example, periodically brings home some books from Brookline, MA public library — thrown out by the institution to make room for other publications... It is not at all illegitimate for a mayor to participate in that decision.
So, technically, you are correct. Sarah Palin did not actually ban any books.
That's better, thank you very much. Next time try to be more graceful about admitting your mistake, Ok?
As a penance you now have to vote for a Libertarian or Republican in the nearest elections you participate in. You can let me know, who you picked via e-mail...
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Actually, I think, parents (not "we" — only the parents) should have the life-and-death control over their offspring forever — as was the case in the Roman Empire. ("Parental abuse" may remain wrong, but should not be illegal.)
But my point was different from and not even related to the strawman you knocked down — I do not think, the fellow Americans, who view embryos as humans fully deserving of the society's protection, as unable to express their point using well-articulated (even if still wrong) arguments and in clean English.
I can think of quite a few more problems — such as subjecting the newly-forming tissue to the high amounts of whatever energy is used in this particular kind of tomography. Getting close enough to the heart of a human embryo may also prove more problematic, than in the case of mice.
But hey, nothing like getting an "insightful" moderation for your off-topic frosty piss, is there?
Have you ever seen such language in an ad? Do you really think, no people with clean English think of embryos as humans?
What exactly does "ridiculously high" mean? Is there a definition, or is it more of "I know it, when I see it" kind of thing?
And what is there to do, if, indeed, the costs (rather than the deplorable thirst for profit) make something too expensive to buy?
Does United States get to publish a "study" describing establishing a base on the Moon as "ridiculously expensive"? Can we then shame the rest of humanity into paying for it?
Libraries let taxpayers use the devices, that the taxpayers own. Unlike buying an iPhone, paying for the libraries' computers is not even voluntary... If any computer-use restrictions deserve scrutiny, it is those imposed by the government (including schools and libraries) on the captive populace — not those a corporation manages to impose on consumers free to choose any product they like.
"Authorities" is government. Apple is not government.
The distinction is significant, because Apple's device was made by them — it is not attributable to a dime of taxpayer's money, and is not handed out by a government as part of any policy. Maybe, you should've used government-sponsored school and library computers for your example — those are, indeed, very limited by their government-related owners in what one is allowed to do with them.
Perhaps, bashing private corporations rather than government schools and libraries is part of a bigger fight For The Greater Good(TM), that is not immediately obvious? Or is it?
We are so close to answering the ancient question — how many angels would fit on a pinhead? The prevailing opinion is, angels are ethereal beings, and thus infinite number of them would fit anywhere. But information is not tangible either (some even refuse to accept, that it can be owned), and yet obvious — if ever shrinking — limits exist to information concentration...
I was helping a day-trading friend with his home network. He is paying TimeWarner top dollars for the highest speed available. When his computer is connected to the cable modem directly speed-test was showing 15-17Mb/second. Adding even a (gigabit) switch — so that his main computer remained reachable by others on the LAN — in the middle lowered the speed down to 12-14Mb/second. If we used a NATing router instead of switch, the most speed we were able to see was 8Mb/second. (All cables were CAT6, all connections — full duplex.)
Maybe, if we went with seriously expensive router, we'd get better speed, but I doubt, it would beat the top speed of using a switch — and that too was substantially lower, than the speed of the direct connection.
Your proposal does improve security, but it impedes speed — not entirely unlike the security guards at the door, I might add... Not for everyone...
I'm shocked to discover, an emerging world power is spying on the existing world power and is trying to get its weapons technology...
Seriously, this shouldn't even be news. What countermeasures are being taken is a lot more interesting — for both us and the Chinese — but should be kept just as secret for the latter reason...
At least, we aren't going to have to go through the pains of upgrading to IPv6 in that case... 2^32 covers 10 million like bull covers a rabbit...
Pluto perished in the brutal and heartless planet-eat-planet world championed by Big Astronomy, where bigger planets are getting bigger and the smaller ones — smaller...
Yes, we would've been completely energy-independent by now, if only Rethuglikkkans and their Big Oil pals invested in the Perpetual Motion research!..
Libertine, do you know, what monopoly means? Hint: there can be no "many others"...
There are automated ways to generate HTML, PDF, PostScript, and Plain Text from the XML-resume (this, for example, is how I do it), that I use to generated mine). Yes, recruiters ask me about the Word-version once in a while, and I tell them, no, I don't use Word.
The result looks pretty good to me (although it does not attempt to cram everything into a single page the way TFA's author does). One can even comment stuff out or make inclusion of certain items conditional. You may be looking for a sysadmin or a developer position, for example. With this you can produce different flavors of your resume from the same source...
It can also make your resume easier to search some day — when the search engines recognize this particular XML-template...
There is certainly nothing "gimmicky" about it — this sort of thing is, what XML is best suited for...
Is not "worry about the content, not the presentation" the mantra around here? If we are supposed to follow that for the web-pages we produce, why should the resumes be different?
One's resume should be in XML, from which various other formats can be produced automatically (and consistently)...
Could it be, that in 50 years, a person not wearing his camera will be viewed with deep suspicion?
What are you up to, that you don't want recorded?..
The motivations are different. Whereas the Republicans are instinctively against any regulation — even if they overcome that initial reaction often, the Democrats believe, a good Government regulation is the best solution to any problem.
So Republicans were opposing "Net Neutrality" because it is a regulation. These Democrats oppose it, because it does not fit their goals.
In addition to the "concerns for minorities" (the equivalent of Republican's "think of the children"!), it should be noted, that "Net Neutrality" will also impede implementation of the "Fairness Doctrine" online. And they will come to that right after imposing the said doctrine on the airwaves — the same people, who want to shut up Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh (1st Amendment be damned), can't be happy about Drudge's selection of headlines...
Oh, and if you think, the doctrine is abandoned, think again. The above link is dated June 28, 2007. But the same text was just republished as on op-ed word-to-word by a free daily newspaper on October the 14th, 2009. The author didn't even bother adjusting the wording, which — two years later — still refers to some events as "recent". Maybe, the professor is just cheating on the newspaper to augment his Columbia salary. More likely, this is the sign, the Left are giving up on trying to establish their own talk-shows, and want to use laws against the speech they don't like...
From the professional coders at AT&T?
(ducks...)
While you are at it, please, warn everyone you know of the dangers of waking up in a tub of cold water without a kidney, and about a kid dying, but wanting to collect as many e-mail addresses as possible. Oh, and don't forget that famous Neumann-Marcus cookie recipe. The world must know at once!
And yet, you consider Hitler a Libertarian (even if only on economic policies). Despite his obviously Statist inclinations from that very program I quoted, and the actual implementations of government-sponsored banks, a car manufacturer (yes, the VolksWagen — or "people's wagon"), etc.
Something is very wrong with your opinion...
We don't need some other web-site to help us figure out, who of the two Presidents is more of a Fascist.
I presented over a dozen points, that Obama himself and/or the people most strongly supporting him share with NSDAP. I challenge you to find six, that can be attributed to Bush and his main supporters.
We enjoy the same — and better. And we have not lost millions of people in revolutions and wars to get there...
I posit, that America's capitalism has given enormous economic benefits even to the least successful of its participants.
It has in the sense, that we are edging closer and closer to that rotten state, that they forewarned us against:
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. - Thomas Jefferson The happiness of society is the end of government. - John Adams Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. - Thomas Paine20-30% of Slashdot responses could cause prosecution in Texas, if the site qualifies as a "social networking". Note, that you don't have to actually successfully intimidate, you just have to intend to, however pathetic your attempt may be...
I know, I'm guilty on, at least, several counts...
The government, when it undertakes to prosecute an individual, has follow certain rules, even if following them costs money. It is all part of Law Enforcement, which is a solid part of the Government's constitutional mandate.
None of that is handed out to the affected citizen himself, in stark contrast to Welfare, Medicaid, "cash for clunkers" and all the other nation-destroying crap of "New Deal", "The Great Society", and whatever moniker Obama is going to pick...
Why are you giving (unreferenced) quotes unrelated to the matter at hand?.. Did Time (here, a reference you forgot to put) allege, Palin "liked" to ban books? No — according to the article, she was just concerned, that language in some of them may be considered offensive by some of her constituents. Libraries can carry only a limited subset of what's printed, and somebody somewhere has to decide, what that subset is to contain — my mom, for example, periodically brings home some books from Brookline, MA public library — thrown out by the institution to make room for other publications... It is not at all illegitimate for a mayor to participate in that decision.
That's better, thank you very much. Next time try to be more graceful about admitting your mistake, Ok?
As a penance you now have to vote for a Libertarian or Republican in the nearest elections you participate in. You can let me know, who you picked via e-mail...
Contrary to wide-spread smears, Sarah Palin has never banned a book. Nope...
You have been lied to, believed it, and now spread the disinformation... Please, stop. Thank you.
Ok, please, provide references for exemption for such civilians in the Geneva Conventions. Put up or shut-up.
Your language reveals anger, which only further convinces me, you are wrong.