Should they cease to compete with anyone, since that would be "evil"??
Come on, more competition is a good thing. More players yields more choice, lower price, etc. etc. If google wants to go into the IM business to compete with MS, more power to them! Everyone wins in the end with better products.
"Junk" in the datastream is useful (since we have made it, we use the control codes to reassemble).
"Junk" in DNA (e.g., "latent" DNA) is probably not junk, we just don't know the function (yet). No scientist worth their salt would admit that (at least not in earshot of a grant proposal review committee!)
people who major in CS are actually doing it because they like computers and want to learn about them, instead of viewing a degree as an easy ticket to big $$$$.
would never go for that strategy. How will selling Linux services enhance shareholder return on investment?
A publicly traded company exists solely to make profits for shareholders. This is accomplished by crushing competition (ideally). If you can't crush 'em though, you don't sell their products! This isn't a sound business model.
If you are still using AT&T for home phone service, you deserve what you get. This should give these folks the impetus to go out and shop around. Using AT&T for phone service is like using AOL or MSN for internet access (at least from a price perspective). There are soooo many better deals available, why would you even want to use AT&T?
The execs are just reading the tea leaves here, and they have decided that they can't compete. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say!
Are viruses alive? Researchers can customize viruses (by removing protiens, substituting amino acids, etc.) and have done so for years in labs. If a virus is alive (possibly debatable), then there is already a precdent for synthetic life.
Additionally, I would consider clones to be synthetic life. Any life arising from the hand of man is de facto synthetic, IMHO.
Let us not forget the "team-building" meeting. Nothing like hanging out with people from work that I can barely tolerate during the work day on my own time. Yay!
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Stalin's defense of the Russian front and execution of political prisoners during WWII
Pol Pot and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
Hitler and the Holocaust
China and Tiannemen Square / Falun Gong / Tibet
Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Idi Amin
Fidel Castro
etc., etc., etc.
With protection like this, who needs external terrorists!
Come on, more competition is a good thing. More players yields more choice, lower price, etc. etc. If google wants to go into the IM business to compete with MS, more power to them! Everyone wins in the end with better products.
Maybe in a few years, prisons will be even more overcrowed...
"What're ya' in for?"
"Downloading Britney, you?"
"N'Sync"
What a joke.
Looking back, what would you have done differently? Anything?
"Junk" in DNA (e.g., "latent" DNA) is probably not junk, we just don't know the function (yet). No scientist worth their salt would admit that (at least not in earshot of a grant proposal review committee!)
Work out a schedule whereby a parent is always with the child. Better for child, better for parents mental state too.
when I get a mobile phone.
Still as much of a myth as "Securitey"?
Geek it up some by controlling the shotgun trap with an old pentium running BSD.
Makes it harder to fire me for sitting here reading /. all day than simply clicking the delete key in the HRMS software.
He's a helluva lot richer than Taco too.
List for them = know who might be a "pirate" (YAAAR!)
List could be provided to "authorities" for punitive measures. Given the shabby state of the fourth amendment, it hardly seeems a stretch.
This idea is akin to changing the steering wheel in a car to a joystick; possible, but why change something that is a functional standard?
Supply and demand, no?
A publicly traded company exists solely to make profits for shareholders. This is accomplished by crushing competition (ideally). If you can't crush 'em though, you don't sell their products! This isn't a sound business model.
This can't be happening!
If you are still using AT&T for home phone service, you deserve what you get. This should give these folks the impetus to go out and shop around. Using AT&T for phone service is like using AOL or MSN for internet access (at least from a price perspective). There are soooo many better deals available, why would you even want to use AT&T?
The execs are just reading the tea leaves here, and they have decided that they can't compete. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say!
It just goes to show, no one can predict anything with any sort of accuracy. Those who rely on such predictions for action, caveat emptor!
What about the Golgi Apparatus???
Which, oh by the way, Apple actually paid to use...
Lather, rinse, repeat...
Additionally, I would consider clones to be synthetic life. Any life arising from the hand of man is de facto synthetic, IMHO.
How dare you question eugenics, TROLL!
Seems to me that there's nothing stopping you from giving it a whirl. Nothing quite like being knee deep in a malfunctioning septic tank!
Let us not forget the "team-building" meeting. Nothing like hanging out with people from work that I can barely tolerate during the work day on my own time. Yay!