The equivilent of Godwin's law should apply to any arguement that uses the that term. I won't try to argue with the rest of what you said, since you contradict yourself every other sentence. Instead, I'll ask you what does Playing God mean? You said that cloning is Playing God, but helping people by "munipilating dna" is OK even though "you could also say is playing god". If we developed the ability to modify a persons's DNA so as to deactivate the genes responsible for diabetes is that Playing God? What about if we use the same technigue to make that person stronger or more intelligent? Is that Playing God? We use modify people's body chemistry with antibodics to make it more hostile to bacteria, thus allowing these people to survive dieases that would otherwise kill them. Is this Playing God? Species such as dogs, cats, horses, ect., (not to mention every type of ediable plant) have been altered to fit our needs by selective breeding for as long as recorded history. Have we been Playing God all this time?
I can't accept the statement that "it was moraly wrong to clone a human. People shouldn't be playing god" unless you can answer what Playing God is and why it is morally wrong.
Um... we don't need space probes to measure the effects of radiation on materials. We've been building nuclear reactors for over 60 years now, it's pretty well understood what happens.
Actually, a reactor with a "positive void coefficient" (a "positive temperature coefficient of reactivity" if you are in the Navy) is unstable at any power levels, not just at low powers. In fact, it is more unstable as power increases. The way the "Chernobyl Pinto" works is if you tap the gas pedal, the car will accelerate at an increasing rate! until you tap the brake to restore a constant speed. This is obviously very tricky to control. To compound the problem, usinging the "brakes" required momentarily pushing the "gas pedal". So if you needed to stop all of a sudden, you first had to speed up more before you could start slowing down...
our race is doomed unless we find some fantastic new way to utilize the resources we currently have
Or we need to develop pratical interplanetary travel so as to increase the reasources available to us.
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No, No, No... Modern crops are breed to not reprogduce in order to increase their yield. Energy a plant spends reproducing is energy not spent producing more edible portions. The fact that this requires the farmer to buy more each season and that the strains will not "get out of hand" are side effects. The only difference between genetic engineering and selective breeding is that genetic engineering is more precise. Rather than bobmarding plants with radiation, cross -breeding them and hoping that they produce a useful mutation, Genetic engineers insert the exact mutation that will get the desired result. As far as unknown long term effects, if you analyze golden rice and detirmine that it is scemically identical to normal rice, excelt that it also includes beta carotine, then we know it is exactly as safe as feeding people normal rice with beta carotine supplements mixed in. Anyone who thinks that peolpe will will all of a sudden grow a third arm from eating genetically modified food has been watching too much TV.
Can you give an example of what you mean by creating processing routines without using some external information? As for displaying information this is from the W3C's web site:
XML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for the Extensible Markup Language, a system for defining, validating, and sharing document formats on the Web
The primary use of the web has displaying information since it was invented. As far as I can tell, XML does exactly it was designed to.
You are correct that not only am I opinonated, my original post was off topic. The point I was trying to make is that I believe that the fixed-width page design philosophy goes against everything html is supposed to accomplish. I probably should have worded my posts more resonabally, Whelkman did a much better job of presenting my views than I did.
>CSS doesnt provide an easy way to accomplish
>the task of having a size-locked table
You shouldn't have to make your layout tables a fixed width. You site should fill the screen of a browser at any resolution, it shouldn't waste 75% of the screen at high resolutions. Why should I have to load two pages to read all your colocation information when it would all easily fit on one screen? Likewise, all the items in your news section would fit on one page. People on slow connections would much rather use a scrollbar occationally than have to load a new page every three paragraphs.
You have clearly missed the point of html. html is _not_ a formatting language, it is a markup language. A properly written html document should not be the same pixel width and height on every user agent. It should be written so as to display correctly for any size screen. As far as looking "tight" and "sexy", it looks like all every other all-graphics, designed for 640x480 webpages I have ever seen. Try looking at that page on a 1600x1200 screen and see how "sexy" you think it looks.
>AND it is html compliant.
Yea, about that...
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
Line 4, column 29:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
^
Error: required attribute "TYPE" not specified
Line 20, column 5:
<html>
^
Error: document type does not allow element "HTML" here
Line 89, column 8:
</html>
^
Error: "HEAD" not finished but document ended
Line 89, column 8:
</html>
^
Error: "HTML" not finished but document ended
Sorry, this document does not validate as HTML 4.0 Transitional.
In my few month of being overseas on a submarine, you see lots of curious locals in small boats sailing by to look at the ship. Most keep the required 300' distance, but a few come closer. The topside watch is supposed to make sure that none come too close, but the first instinct of most of them when they see a civilian craft is to grab the binoculars and look for topless sunbathers...
I'm sure this has changed a bit since the Cole incident, though.
Anyone who is in the military knows that Bush is right. For example, the Navy has a new policy that if any person attached to a ship has been away from home port (on the ship) for more than 250 of the last 365 days, that person gets $100 per day until the 250 day limit is satisfied. However, since no funding for this has been approved, ships are having to bend over backwards to ensure that no one goes over this limit. After our next deployment, most people on my boat be right at 250 days. That's being away from home almost 70% of the year. Don't say the military isn't over extended.
What do you think the intended purpose of the electoral college is? The people select an educated group of voters who will then choose the president. Not that it actually works as intended...
1 roentgen: the intensity of gamma radiation that will deposit 100 erg/cm2 in dry air.
this unit is really only used for X-rays. All radiation can be measured in rads. 1 roentgen of gamma radiation = 1 rad.
Rads are a measure of energy deposited.
Rem is a unit of biological damage. Different kinds of radiation will cause different ammounts of damage to a person's cells even if they deposit the same amount of energy in the body. A quality factor is used to convert rad to rem.
gamma: 1
fast neutrons/beta: 2
thermal neutrons: 10
alpha: 20
most people get 50 to 200 millirem from natural background sources every year. 30 R/hr is a very unhealthy level to be in for very long. For a comparison, the Navy considers 100 mR/hr a high radiation area.
3.0 had real mode and standard mode
3.1 added enhanced mode and removed real mode
Windows 3.11 and Windows for WOrkgroups 3.11 were different products. (Win 3.11 was an upgrade to Win 3.1 with a few minor bug fixes and new drivers WFW 3.11 had networking support)
Now, can you list all the versions in the MS-DOS 6 product line including the differences between them and any lawsuits that might be relevant?
>I don't see how it is possible to actually absorb light
What do you think the color black is? It is what we see when we look at an object that absorbs all the visible light that hits it instead of reflecting or refracting it.
That's not quite true. The only difference between a photon emitted from a cell phone (or visible light for that matter) and one emitted from the fission of U-235 is energy(frequency). In theory you could make a radio transmitter that operated at the same frequency but it would require a great deal of effort. It's true that the radiation from a cell phone is not energetic enough to cause ionizations in human tissue which pretty much eliminates any chance of it increasing cancer rates in any signifigant way.
Maybe it's just me, but I reformat my windows partition about every month and reinstall everything anyway. I find this method much more reliable than uninstall programs. As far as any programs I have know, it is the first time they have ever been installed.
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I can't accept the statement that "it was moraly wrong to clone a human. People shouldn't be playing god" unless you can answer what Playing God is and why it is morally wrong.
Um... we don't need space probes to measure the effects of radiation on materials. We've been building nuclear reactors for over 60 years now, it's pretty well understood what happens.
Actually, a reactor with a "positive void coefficient" (a "positive temperature coefficient of reactivity" if you are in the Navy) is unstable at any power levels, not just at low powers. In fact, it is more unstable as power increases. The way the "Chernobyl Pinto" works is if you tap the gas pedal, the car will accelerate at an increasing rate! until you tap the brake to restore a constant speed. This is obviously very tricky to control. To compound the problem, usinging the "brakes" required momentarily pushing the "gas pedal". So if you needed to stop all of a sudden, you first had to speed up more before you could start slowing down...
30 years!? and we complain about 2.4.0 being late...
Or we need to develop pratical interplanetary travel so as to increase the reasources available to us.
No, No, No... Modern crops are breed to not reprogduce in order to increase their yield. Energy a plant spends reproducing is energy not spent producing more edible portions. The fact that this requires the farmer to buy more each season and that the strains will not "get out of hand" are side effects. The only difference between genetic engineering and selective breeding is that genetic engineering is more precise. Rather than bobmarding plants with radiation, cross -breeding them and hoping that they produce a useful mutation, Genetic engineers insert the exact mutation that will get the desired result. As far as unknown long term effects, if you analyze golden rice and detirmine that it is scemically identical to normal rice, excelt that it also includes beta carotine, then we know it is exactly as safe as feeding people normal rice with beta carotine supplements mixed in. Anyone who thinks that peolpe will will all of a sudden grow a third arm from eating genetically modified food has been watching too much TV.
You are correct that not only am I opinonated, my original post was off topic. The point I was trying to make is that I believe that the fixed-width page design philosophy goes against everything html is supposed to accomplish. I probably should have worded my posts more resonabally, Whelkman did a much better job of presenting my views than I did.
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>CSS doesnt provide an easy way to accomplish
>the task of having a size-locked table
You shouldn't have to make your layout tables a fixed width. You site should fill the screen of a browser at any resolution, it shouldn't waste 75% of the screen at high resolutions. Why should I have to load two pages to read all your colocation information when it would all easily fit on one screen? Likewise, all the items in your news section would fit on one page. People on slow connections would much rather use a scrollbar occationally than have to load a new page every three paragraphs.
>It has the pixel size locked
You have clearly missed the point of html. html is _not_ a formatting language, it is a markup language. A properly written html document should not be the same pixel width and height on every user agent. It should be written so as to display correctly for any size screen. As far as looking "tight" and "sexy", it looks like all every other all-graphics, designed for 640x480 webpages I have ever seen. Try looking at that page on a 1600x1200 screen and see how "sexy" you think it looks.
>AND it is html compliant.
Yea, about that...
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
Line 4, column 29:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
^
Error: required attribute "TYPE" not specified
Line 20, column 5:
<html>
^
Error: document type does not allow element "HTML" here
Line 89, column 8:
</html>
^
Error: "HEAD" not finished but document ended
Line 89, column 8:
</html>
^
Error: "HTML" not finished but document ended
Sorry, this document does not validate as HTML 4.0 Transitional.
Did you try building both as a module and otherwise? I can't get the acenic driver to work in the 2.4.0-test kernels unless I build it as a module.
In my few month of being overseas on a submarine, you see lots of curious locals in small boats sailing by to look at the ship. Most keep the required 300' distance, but a few come closer. The topside watch is supposed to make sure that none come too close, but the first instinct of most of them when they see a civilian craft is to grab the binoculars and look for topless sunbathers...
I'm sure this has changed a bit since the Cole incident, though.
Anyone who is in the military knows that Bush is right. For example, the Navy has a new policy that if any person attached to a ship has been away from home port (on the ship) for more than 250 of the last 365 days, that person gets $100 per day until the 250 day limit is satisfied. However, since no funding for this has been approved, ships are having to bend over backwards to ensure that no one goes over this limit. After our next deployment, most people on my boat be right at 250 days. That's being away from home almost 70% of the year. Don't say the military isn't over extended.
Not really. Most will vote for who ever seems more likely to favor giving us a raise, which is usually republician.
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What do you think the intended purpose of the electoral college is? The people select an educated group of voters who will then choose the president. Not that it actually works as intended...
1 roentgen: the intensity of gamma radiation that will deposit 100 erg/cm2 in dry air.
this unit is really only used for X-rays. All radiation can be measured in rads. 1 roentgen of gamma radiation = 1 rad.
Rads are a measure of energy deposited.
Rem is a unit of biological damage. Different kinds of radiation will cause different ammounts of damage to a person's cells even if they deposit the same amount of energy in the body. A quality factor is used to convert rad to rem.
gamma: 1
fast neutrons/beta: 2
thermal neutrons: 10
alpha: 20
most people get 50 to 200 millirem from natural background sources every year. 30 R/hr is a very unhealthy level to be in for very long. For a comparison, the Navy considers 100 mR/hr a high radiation area.
3.0 had real mode and standard mode
3.1 added enhanced mode and removed real mode
Windows 3.11 and Windows for WOrkgroups 3.11 were different products. (Win 3.11 was an upgrade to Win 3.1 with a few minor bug fixes and new drivers WFW 3.11 had networking support)
Now, can you list all the versions in the MS-DOS 6 product line including the differences between them and any lawsuits that might be relevant?
What do you think the color black is? It is what we see when we look at an object that absorbs all the visible light that hits it instead of reflecting or refracting it.
That's not quite true. The only difference between a photon emitted from a cell phone (or visible light for that matter) and one emitted from the fission of U-235 is energy(frequency). In theory you could make a radio transmitter that operated at the same frequency but it would require a great deal of effort. It's true that the radiation from a cell phone is not energetic enough to cause ionizations in human tissue which pretty much eliminates any chance of it increasing cancer rates in any signifigant way.
Does anyone know how to convert these values (w/kg) into useful units of radiation (rad) or exposure (rem)?
Maybe it's just me, but I reformat my windows partition about every month and reinstall everything anyway. I find this method much more reliable than uninstall programs. As far as any programs I have know, it is the first time they have ever been installed.