The divergent views presented in the "article" and here in the ensuing discussion demonstrate once again that religious people in general, are ignorant and fail miserably to defend their positions in the face of rational argument.
This is proven by the complete lack of addressing the identical twin issue.
The primary ( and laboriously repeated ) arguments against cloning all originate from two wholly fallacious assumptions:
1- There is such thing as a soul.
2- There is a God and he disapproves.
Personal beliefs and religion have been in conflict since the dawn of human society and historically have been the cause of most of humanity's misery. It is a telling fact that 95% of humans adopt the religion imposed by their parents, as a learned behaviour in childhood. The memes are powerfully comforting to a young one lost in the immensity of the world. Those memes are consequently
quasi-impossible to root out.
Rational thought is the *only* acceptable belief system if humanity is to survive the coming unification and globalization process we have undertaken. A belief is simply that until it can be emprically proven, at which point it moves into the domain of fact. Everyone can refute a belief. No one can refute a fact.
Case in point:
There is no spirit-driven life force, no throbbing, heaving, pullulating, protoplasmic, mystic jelly. Life is just bytes and bytes and bytes of digital information.
Pardon my ingratitude towards Rusty ( I realize this must have been a herculean effort ), but I fail to see why this script should work exclusively on kernel source. This script would be of infinite use to coders everywhere if it could be rewritten to handle any source. Maybe it'll be my next project.
I am extremely disheartened at this so-called "new" email exploit that has been in existence since Javascript enabled e-mail clients crawled out of their spawning pools. Big whoop. Besides, spamalicious webmasters and bulk mailers have been using those insidious 1 pixel by 1 pixel WEB BUGS to do exactly what this "new exploit" can do, all without requiring javascript.
The Sad Truth is that the Internet is a breeding ground for malicious applications of technology brought to bear against largely ignorant masses.
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The divergent views presented in the "article" and here in the ensuing discussion demonstrate once again that religious people in general, are ignorant and fail miserably to defend their positions in the face of rational argument.
This is proven by the complete lack of addressing the identical twin issue.
The primary ( and laboriously repeated ) arguments against cloning all originate from two wholly fallacious assumptions:
1- There is such thing as a soul.
2- There is a God and he disapproves.
Personal beliefs and religion have been in conflict since the dawn of human society and historically have been the cause of most of humanity's misery. It is a telling fact that 95% of humans adopt the religion imposed by their parents, as a learned behaviour in childhood. The memes are powerfully comforting to a young one lost in the immensity of the world. Those memes are consequently quasi-impossible to root out.
Rational thought is the *only* acceptable belief system if humanity is to survive the coming unification and globalization process we have undertaken. A belief is simply that until it can be emprically proven, at which point it moves into the domain of fact. Everyone can refute a belief. No one can refute a fact.
Case in point:
There is no spirit-driven life force, no throbbing, heaving, pullulating, protoplasmic, mystic jelly. Life is just bytes and bytes and bytes of digital information.
A recipe for sticking it to the man:
Combine righteous hacker outrage with cheap amateur satellites and mix in an open sharing standard that already has the critical mass needed.
Bake for a few weeks, and voila. File sharing for all, without the overhead of legislation.
Pardon my ingratitude towards Rusty ( I realize this must have been a herculean effort ), but I fail to see why this script should work exclusively on kernel source. This script would be of infinite use to coders everywhere if it could be rewritten to handle any source. Maybe it'll be my next project.
I am extremely disheartened at this so-called "new" email exploit that has been in existence since Javascript enabled e-mail clients crawled out of their spawning pools. Big whoop. Besides, spamalicious webmasters and bulk mailers have been using those insidious 1 pixel by 1 pixel WEB BUGS to do exactly what this "new exploit" can do, all without requiring javascript.
The Sad Truth is that the Internet is a breeding ground for malicious applications of technology brought to bear against largely ignorant masses.
Hahaha, I got it! But I live in Montreal so I guess that explains it.. (Ice Storm Flashbacks...)