The one thing I'm surprised that more cloning advocates don't bring up is the use of cloned organisms in research. Clones should have the same DNA, the same genome. That's a given. Feed one clone a bunch of crap. Don't feed the control clone said crap. See who gets cancer if at all.
Finally be able to say you controlled the experiment fully. None of those pesky but group x got cancer and group y didn't but group x was more prone to cancer kind of issues. Both the experimental group and control have the exact same predisposition. So feeding clones crap causes cancer end of story.
Do we really want this as a trend in our society? Knowledge only for those who can afford it.
It's called college. And yes I only want knowledge clustered around the wealthy. They tend to vote republican and I intend to run for public office some day. I want the rest of the country to be dumb as a bucket of wet hammers. It makes it easier for the TV to tell them to vote for me.
Not exactly. Someone who speaks spanish might just as easily live in North America, South America or Europe. There is no region coding by printing a book in spanish. Perhaps printing the book in Navaho would be the only way to truly force North American distribution. However simply changing the language isn't much of a technical barrier.
They released American Pie 2 on DVD only. Maybe Harry Potter will force the sale of a couple million Franklen Ebook Readers.
I'm only half kidding here. Maybe it's too soon for the next Harry Potter to go Ebook only but I'd wager that maybe releasing the next one this way might not sound so funny.
And they maybe could add some region encoding so that people couldn't read a book in England that was meant for sale to Americans.
In my day we had music disks made of Polyvinyl Chloride. And I didn't hear anyone complaining. And if you scratched one too bad. And you couldn't play them in your car either.
Fox never gave this show a chance. Never in prime time and always pre-empted to finish a Nascar Race or Football game that ran over their slot. It's too bad. I really like this show.
I won't lift a finger to help save it though. I leanred my lesson trying to save Mystery Science Theator 3000.
What was really funny was that the robots were really 1930's robot stereo types. Big silver machines that looked like they weighed 500 pounds and moved really slow.
I've shaved my head and put on 40 pounds since my drivers liscence photo was taken 8 months ago. Sometimes I wear contact lenses, sometimes glasses so thick my eyes look like dots. If I wear a turtleneck jersey my head looks like a lump on my sholders. If I wear a tshirt I look like a turtle stretching it's neck.
How will this software be able to truly establish it's me if my photo in the database is 40 pounds lighter and with contact lenses if I walk around with my glasses on now.
I also wear false teeth so I can change my jawline at will.
So you spend thousands more for a wired wardrobe. Then what happens when it gets dirty or goes out of style?
Also what about when it rains or for people who fall out of boats or into fountains? Will they be electrocuted or at the very least ruin their electroclothes?
I just met a guy at MIT who will get a Ph.D. in this soon. I didn't have the heart to heckle him in person so I'm glad I get the chance to do it here.
I don't think anyone reads messages with more than a 500 in the thread but I do hope you read this phillymjs. I had the same thing happen to me this week. My wife called on the first delivery attempt. The center closes before the driver returns so you have to wait until the next day to pick it up. She told them she's a teacher and will have to pick it up after school. They gave her directions over the phone to get to the transfer station they would hold the package.
When I got home the next day and saw the second attempt notice I called and yelled at the operator. They admitted my wife called the day before and apolised for the mixup. Then told me they would try a third time the next day. I told them it was unacceptable and if it was Fedex I would have had the package in my hands the night of the first notice. They keep their centers open 2 hours after the trucks return. I demanded they return immediately with my package. The funny thing is they did. Well they returned after all other shipments were attempted but it was the same day.
This is not an isolated incident. UPS knows they get blown away on customer service by every other service. However when you call them to task they sometimes buckle and do the right thing.
Didn't the British just invent a robot that could power itself by eating garden slugs. Perhaps Aibo could use that technology or something similar and then not need the base charger at all.
Real pets can be trained to find the automatic food and water dishes. Then you only have to put out food every other day.
On the other hand feeding is an important part of the pet/owner relationship. So there's no real difference between openning a can and popping the dog into the base charger.
Real pet or robo pet, you have to feed them both. Unless you have barn cats that eat mice and drink rainwater. Then you have the ultimate in self sufficiency. But they're not very cuddly and don't live long.
Cause the TI-89 kicks all a s s. No seriously, this is probably HP's response to a market place that is dominated by Texas Instruments. For calculus class we're told to buy a "graphing caluclator". No brand names. Everyone comes in the next day with some TI-8X. No one ever buys a Casio or HP.
But I will miss Reverse Polish Notation. It's funny to see the look on peoples faces when you loan them an HP cause they forgot their calculator and there's a test in 5 minutes.
I just spent a couple of days driving into and out of Ft Detrick. That's the place where the USA's Anthrax bombs were manufactured and tested in the 1950's. Security was very tight getting onto the base for anyone with out of state plates. Trunks get opened and visually inspected but spare tire wells are not. Anyone with Maryland or Virginia plates were rushed through security (as far as I could tell in the time I waited for my Massachusetts plated car to be searched.) There was no search to leave the base.
Having spent my summer in Israel where you don't get searched but there is a constant heightened vigilance against any monkee business, I have to say the USA is going about this searching thing half assed.
What we need is better foreign intelligence, fewer foreign nationals coming here and getting treated better than we treat ourselves (Seth Greenberg in Boston can stop sucking up to any Saudi with a credit card) and a return to main street small town values.
Thumb prints don't work for everyone. People with skin problems, thalidomide babies with flipper arms, stupid shop teachers... The list is endless. You have to mark a part of the body that every living human has.
Besides there's some credible evidance being presented in court these days showing fingerprints aren't the panacea we've been tricked to believe.
"How else you gonna buy porn,smokes and lotto tickets, or go out to the bar?"
Unfortunately not every state has good laws. Massachusetts will allow the purchase of alcohol only with a Massachusetts drivers license. The non-driving state ID is actaully not valid for the purchase of alcohol. The US passport or any other foreign passport is not legal for the purchase of alcohol. A New Hampshire drivers license is not valid for the purchase of alcohol.
Places that accept these items are open to severe liability problems as well as loss of their Liquer License.
So basically any national ID will still need to be approved on a state by state basis for use as per local laws.
OK so if the law is passed that EVERYONE must carry a nationa ID card or else. What do you do about the 8 year old who looses his card when he leaves his mittens on the bus? Or do you execute the Alzheimers patient who wanders out of the house without pants to carry a wallet around.
Only barcodes tatooed on the back of the neck will solve these problems.
I was a mod last week. I wish I was Moderator right now. Finally something worth modding up. Whoever this anon coward is good for you for being the first person to make me laugh in a month.
It was the Horses not Lilliputians whose island was shared with the Yahoos.
In any event I believe you are correct that it would be Swift who has the ultimate claim to the word Yahoo. If it were coined in the last 70 years,that is. I think Swift and his heirs are just out of luck today.
At my college we don't require the (non-computer science) science majors to take any computing courses more advanced than the CSC100 Beginners Computing. This class is nothing more than a 'get aquainted with computers' style course. The kind of class that shows us how to turn on a computer. What the Web is and could be used for. How to write a Word document and get an Excel spreadsheet to show a simple graph.
We all take the course. Those of us who knew computers before the course get A's and the few who didn't get computers in high school tend to get B's. The next time we see computers will be 5 semesters later when we use the NMR or Mass Spec. Those B's have long since forgotten how computers work. If they hadn't wasted so much time on English classes to be well rounded and took a programming course they would have a much easier time using the machines.
Their lab reports do look nicely formatted though. Too bad they blead the Liquid Helium half way through the run.
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Finally be able to say you controlled the experiment fully. None of those pesky but group x got cancer and group y didn't but group x was more prone to cancer kind of issues. Both the experimental group and control have the exact same predisposition. So feeding clones crap causes cancer end of story.
It's called college. And yes I only want knowledge clustered around the wealthy. They tend to vote republican and I intend to run for public office some day. I want the rest of the country to be dumb as a bucket of wet hammers. It makes it easier for the TV to tell them to vote for me.
Not exactly. Someone who speaks spanish might just as easily live in North America, South America or Europe. There is no region coding by printing a book in spanish. Perhaps printing the book in Navaho would be the only way to truly force North American distribution. However simply changing the language isn't much of a technical barrier.
I'm only half kidding here. Maybe it's too soon for the next Harry Potter to go Ebook only but I'd wager that maybe releasing the next one this way might not sound so funny.
And they maybe could add some region encoding so that people couldn't read a book in England that was meant for sale to Americans.
In my day we had music disks made of Polyvinyl Chloride. And I didn't hear anyone complaining. And if you scratched one too bad. And you couldn't play them in your car either.
I won't lift a finger to help save it though. I leanred my lesson trying to save Mystery Science Theator 3000.
You can't fight the man.
couldn't help myself
What was really funny was that the robots were really 1930's robot stereo types. Big silver machines that looked like they weighed 500 pounds and moved really slow.
There you go. Give the program away free and charge for help. This is especially lucrative if the program is complex.
Sounds to me like this guy belongs in the "Duff Book of World Records".
How will this software be able to truly establish it's me if my photo in the database is 40 pounds lighter and with contact lenses if I walk around with my glasses on now.
I also wear false teeth so I can change my jawline at will.
Come and get me!
Also what about when it rains or for people who fall out of boats or into fountains? Will they be electrocuted or at the very least ruin their electroclothes?
I just met a guy at MIT who will get a Ph.D. in this soon. I didn't have the heart to heckle him in person so I'm glad I get the chance to do it here.
When I got home the next day and saw the second attempt notice I called and yelled at the operator. They admitted my wife called the day before and apolised for the mixup. Then told me they would try a third time the next day. I told them it was unacceptable and if it was Fedex I would have had the package in my hands the night of the first notice. They keep their centers open 2 hours after the trucks return. I demanded they return immediately with my package. The funny thing is they did. Well they returned after all other shipments were attempted but it was the same day.
This is not an isolated incident. UPS knows they get blown away on customer service by every other service. However when you call them to task they sometimes buckle and do the right thing.
Real pets can be trained to find the automatic food and water dishes. Then you only have to put out food every other day.
On the other hand feeding is an important part of the pet/owner relationship. So there's no real difference between openning a can and popping the dog into the base charger.
Real pet or robo pet, you have to feed them both. Unless you have barn cats that eat mice and drink rainwater. Then you have the ultimate in self sufficiency. But they're not very cuddly and don't live long.
But I will miss Reverse Polish Notation. It's funny to see the look on peoples faces when you loan them an HP cause they forgot their calculator and there's a test in 5 minutes.
Having spent my summer in Israel where you don't get searched but there is a constant heightened vigilance against any monkee business, I have to say the USA is going about this searching thing half assed.
What we need is better foreign intelligence, fewer foreign nationals coming here and getting treated better than we treat ourselves (Seth Greenberg in Boston can stop sucking up to any Saudi with a credit card) and a return to main street small town values.
Go ahead and flame away.
Besides there's some credible evidance being presented in court these days showing fingerprints aren't the panacea we've been tricked to believe.
Unfortunately not every state has good laws. Massachusetts will allow the purchase of alcohol only with a Massachusetts drivers license. The non-driving state ID is actaully not valid for the purchase of alcohol. The US passport or any other foreign passport is not legal for the purchase of alcohol. A New Hampshire drivers license is not valid for the purchase of alcohol.
Places that accept these items are open to severe liability problems as well as loss of their Liquer License.
So basically any national ID will still need to be approved on a state by state basis for use as per local laws.
Only barcodes tatooed on the back of the neck will solve these problems.
I was a mod last week. I wish I was Moderator right now. Finally something worth modding up. Whoever this anon coward is good for you for being the first person to make me laugh in a month.
Do you mean Kevin Costner alone is a joke? Or is it Bert and Kevin Costner. I can't decide which is funnier.
In any event I believe you are correct that it would be Swift who has the ultimate claim to the word Yahoo. If it were coined in the last 70 years,that is. I think Swift and his heirs are just out of luck today.
We all take the course. Those of us who knew computers before the course get A's and the few who didn't get computers in high school tend to get B's. The next time we see computers will be 5 semesters later when we use the NMR or Mass Spec. Those B's have long since forgotten how computers work. If they hadn't wasted so much time on English classes to be well rounded and took a programming course they would have a much easier time using the machines.
Their lab reports do look nicely formatted though. Too bad they blead the Liquid Helium half way through the run.
There's a programmable remote control program for the Palm Pilot.
But will the joke be funny when translated into other languages? Will it be funny only to english speaking peoples?
Judge not lest ye be judged... or something like that.