I really do think that Biotech should cough up some support here because they are direct beneficiaries of evolution in practice every day. That a new drug is developed on a knock out or knock in animal can only work if there were evolutionary functionality in the organism. But yes, I do also point the finger at some of the larger technology companies who own so much of their market that they can afford to say "smell ya later" to fanatics. We're all trying to stand on the sholders of giants. Maybe some day we may truly touch the face of god. I know we're not going to get to sit at the right hand of god by following 5000 year old contradictory diet rules. No matter what the fundamentalists might believe.
None of the high tech companies can belly up to the bar and pick up the tab? That's just sad. I especially think the biotech companies have a duty to pick sides here. Where would some of them be without genetic engineering, proof of evolution if I've ever seen it? Genzyme, Biogen I'm looking at you! Or a company like Intel. What are christians going to give up computers because a chip maker sponsored the right side of the debate? Not after what the Vatican just said. So a small handful of fanatics clinging to dogma are going to push us all around with threats of boycots. I believe that's part of the definition of terrorism.
Let me guess, it was a required course that loosley related to your major in a couple small areas but you had to pass the whole course for the credit. You're heart wasn't fully in it beyond what you could see would be immediately useful to your major. The rest you thought was filler and fluff. There's no shame in it. We've all had courses like that where we thought "Please let me pass out of this class so I can take the interesting class that this class is a prereq for."
No sadly, my one trip to Britain was unfortunately short. I barely made it out of London. I would have very much liked to spend a couple days "In the village".
Anyone who has fond memories of the original Galactica probably last watched it as a hyperactive 7-year-old.
True that. I loved the original because I was in the all important hyperactive prepubescent demographic that drove all of TV science fiction in the 80's. Athena on Battlestar Galactica? Wowie! Princess Ardalla on Buck Rogers? Boing! Princess Leia? Schwing! Those women on Electrowoman and Dynagirl? Sproing!!! Aaaahhhgh what's happening to my body?
What with all the spyware and adware popping up windows left and right and the random Windows Messenger popups telling me about hot porn action I thought I was using ad supported Windows. Plus all those desktop icons for AOL and Netscape and Mindspring offering free trial service. Aren't those ads?
What if it takes more then a year for an artist to produce their next album? Do they get no paycheck for the year? Artists and ahtletes know their career (athletes especially) will be short. Very Very few artists earn millions every year of their career. Many, many artists who get that record deal sell a few albums for a few years. They do make a comfortable wage for a few years but it's hard work and the moment they slip the label drops them. Look at all the big hit makers from a decade or two ago who are working stiffs like the rest of us now. Rodney Anonymous from the Dead Milkmen works for a pharmaceutical company. Billy Squire is a gardner. Axl Rose still sings when he's picking up my dry cleaning. He sounds great.
I'm willing to give a band a ton of money if we get albums like Third Stage every 7 years. I'm not willing to give them a ton of money to get crap.
It may be possible that I'm confusing the history of HL60 with that of PC12. I do know that the cells are Leukocytes. I'm not sure what kind of cancer Henrietta Lacks had. I'm not a microbiologist but am somewhat smart at science. Unless someone corrects me I think HL stands for Human Luekocycte and not Henrietta Lacks. Still, I am correct in my original hypothesis that the donor patient did not benifit in the donation.
Back in the 1970's a woman with a very rare case of leukemia donated cells that have been kept alive for decades after her death due to her ailment. They are one of the cornerstones of cancer research and countless therapies have been developed using her cell line as test material. That being said, she didn't get to benefit from her donation. It didn't save her life or make her any more comfortable as she died.
If I was that guy, knowing that drugs are a 500,000,000,000 dollar a year industry and it could be reasonably assumed that a cure to aids is wortth billions I'd want some considerable financial consideration. Say $100,000,000 down and %10 thereafter.
On the otherhand imagine Paperclip... It looks like you're trying to fight off a zombie attack. Would you like me to (A) Shoot some of them in the head (B) Open the main gates and let some more in?
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I'd do anything for an hour on the holodeck with 7 of 9.
10 Print"Slashdot sucks";
20 Goto 10
Flash cards.
I really do think that Biotech should cough up some support here because they are direct beneficiaries of evolution in practice every day. That a new drug is developed on a knock out or knock in animal can only work if there were evolutionary functionality in the organism. But yes, I do also point the finger at some of the larger technology companies who own so much of their market that they can afford to say "smell ya later" to fanatics. We're all trying to stand on the sholders of giants. Maybe some day we may truly touch the face of god. I know we're not going to get to sit at the right hand of god by following 5000 year old contradictory diet rules. No matter what the fundamentalists might believe.
None of the high tech companies can belly up to the bar and pick up the tab? That's just sad. I especially think the biotech companies have a duty to pick sides here. Where would some of them be without genetic engineering, proof of evolution if I've ever seen it? Genzyme, Biogen I'm looking at you! Or a company like Intel. What are christians going to give up computers because a chip maker sponsored the right side of the debate? Not after what the Vatican just said. So a small handful of fanatics clinging to dogma are going to push us all around with threats of boycots. I believe that's part of the definition of terrorism.
What does Flying Spaghetti Monster have to say about Atomic Fission?
Let me guess, it was a required course that loosley related to your major in a couple small areas but you had to pass the whole course for the credit. You're heart wasn't fully in it beyond what you could see would be immediately useful to your major. The rest you thought was filler and fluff. There's no shame in it. We've all had courses like that where we thought "Please let me pass out of this class so I can take the interesting class that this class is a prereq for."
There is an improvement. It's E=hv.
No sadly, my one trip to Britain was unfortunately short. I barely made it out of London. I would have very much liked to spend a couple days "In the village".
Did you ever stay in the #6 house? Were the interiors the same as portrayed (with obvious exceptions) on the TV show?
True that. I loved the original because I was in the all important hyperactive prepubescent demographic that drove all of TV science fiction in the 80's. Athena on Battlestar Galactica? Wowie! Princess Ardalla on Buck Rogers? Boing! Princess Leia? Schwing! Those women on Electrowoman and Dynagirl? Sproing!!! Aaaahhhgh what's happening to my body?
Note to self. One more reason to avoid Sony.
What with all the spyware and adware popping up windows left and right and the random Windows Messenger popups telling me about hot porn action I thought I was using ad supported Windows. Plus all those desktop icons for AOL and Netscape and Mindspring offering free trial service. Aren't those ads?
I'm willing to give a band a ton of money if we get albums like Third Stage every 7 years. I'm not willing to give them a ton of money to get crap.
I think you mean Debbie Gibson.
I wasn't planning on buying a Playstation 3 but now I'm definately not going to buy one just to boycot Sony for being dumbheaded. So there!
It may be possible that I'm confusing the history of HL60 with that of PC12. I do know that the cells are Leukocytes. I'm not sure what kind of cancer Henrietta Lacks had. I'm not a microbiologist but am somewhat smart at science. Unless someone corrects me I think HL stands for Human Luekocycte and not Henrietta Lacks. Still, I am correct in my original hypothesis that the donor patient did not benifit in the donation.
If I was that guy, knowing that drugs are a 500,000,000,000 dollar a year industry and it could be reasonably assumed that a cure to aids is wortth billions I'd want some considerable financial consideration. Say $100,000,000 down and %10 thereafter.
I'm so glad you didn't add taste to that list.
Here.
On the otherhand imagine Paperclip... It looks like you're trying to fight off a zombie attack. Would you like me to (A) Shoot some of them in the head (B) Open the main gates and let some more in?
New meaning to Blue Screen of Death.
12 meters. That would be easy to launch a satellite into geosyncronous orbit. Just make it's orbital velocity 20,000 miles per hour.
They should make the ship out of the same materials that The Champagne Room is made out of. Cause there's no sex going on in there.
Didn't Dvorak write a column for MacWorld back in 88 or 89?
And self-rightous pricks don't care to check to see if someone posted under their own name or as an AC.