When I was a child, I used to cry at night wishing I could be stupid and mindless like all the other kids seemed to be. My first social experiences in public school showed me quite clearly that I was not like other kids. What with all the "girls chasing boys and boys running away" and this thing about "cooties" I didn't know about at the time -- and neither did they. They did all these things and didn't actually know why. That was a huge puzzle for me -- how people can simple fall into line doing things which they don't understand. Distilling that basic understanding of human behavior was a traumatic realization because clearly I was missing something that everyone else had and it made me feel vastly inferior and distinctively unhappy.
This spurred my unending need to understand everything to compensate for my inability to just go along with the crowds of mindless drones out there following natural instinct, politics, fashion and custom and things of that nature. (So yeah, if you've got be pegged as an Asperger's it wouldn't be the first time.) It's all just compensation which I would have happily traded away to be like everyone else.
But this also goes to show that we all have different potentials in different areas which are applicable in different situations. We tend to want to over-simplify things like "oh, he's just going to be a janitor for the rest of his life" as if that were horrible. Some people are exceedingly happy when they have a sense of responsibility and duty to fulfill and can take ownership of his area. Now if that area happens to involve a lot of sanitation? So what? My areas have typically been a type of janitor work among other things... I just do it with servers and networks and stuff like that. Different tools, similar motives, purposes and needs. I definitely don't see things the way other people do, but to somehow believe that all people have to be the same??? Or to meet minimum criteria?
You know? If that was somehow achieved? That everyone had the same potential through some magical form of training? What would happen? Fight to the death over "the best jobs" while some ended up doing jobs they absolutely hate because too many people are in the "good jobs"? We've got some of that now already but that's largely for the same reasons they are pushing these ridiculous ideas right now. The discontent will actually increase more as we push for more "equality" because now we're all measuring each other. And if we're all "equal" then surely we're being discriminated against!
Yes, it's very much as if some are trying to dumb down America and literally and utterly destroy it. US business has every incentive to move intellectual jobs overseas which results in a STEM enrollment decrease in the US. We know all about that and have discussed it for at least 10 years. The odd differences between the FDA's rules and those of the rest of the modern world have been called out to a deaf public who think our health is at least as good if not better than the rest of the modern world. (It's not. We've got an amazing rate of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and more which are often linked to bad diet.) And we still have this as yet unexplained rise in ASD which is not shared by the rest of the modern world. And did anything mention fluoride in the water? What's that good for? "In case someone isn't brushing their teeth?" That's a crap argument as the same people not brushing are not drinking water either.
Common core is just another new thing in addition to all of the other things they have been doing. And have you heard about the affirmative action motions they are making in school discipline? That's right... they are lowering punishment for black kids and increasing for white kids. Isn't that special? And here I thought people should be punished for what they do, not what their race is.
I'm not making this stuff up. But I am bundling them together to form the beginnings of an idea. I can't say for certain that there is a conspiracy, but it's easy to see there is a larger effect with those and other factors combined.
The government already considers George Washington to be a terrorist and does not approve of his actions. You're about 10 years too late to bring "patriots" in to change anyone's mind there.
Now if you want to convince a judge that it's wrong and dangerous, acquire a judge's metadata and have it entered into evidence. If the judge isn't okay with it, then you've won.
I think without all of the work involved in this study, the credit card statement analogy paints a picture everyone can understand easily and accurately.
GNOME, an environment library is used by an application as well. If an older version of the environment is used, one cannot upgrade the application. Does that sound like a problem to you?
If GIMP were to do it right, it would make calls THROUGH the UI afforded by the OS and environment, not directly to libraries. But that's not what's happening. GNOME says "It's GTK, speak to the GTK people" GTK says "It's GIMP, speak to them." GIMP says "GNOME develops GTK now."
Someone is doing it wrong. And the result of that is Linux GIMP under a common distro is a second-class citizen.
Every use of GTK outside of GIMP is a problem. Try running the latest CentOS with GNOME and see if you can run a newer GIMP. You can't. You will have to do all manner of things and you still will not get 100%.
I have discussed this topic with GTK, GIMP and GNOME projects and at the end of the day it comes back to GIMP/GTK developers. They say GTK is for GIMP. So every developer out there would be well advised not to use GTK any longer.
Water is one of those resources which flow and circulate. They don't get "used up" so much. It is used in its many forms, liquid, gas and solid and its transitions from one state to the other is often useful. It is temporarily held within bodies of produce and other products and in people as well. But these are molecules which circulate all over. The water molecules which are in your body right now may have previously been in a T.Rex long ago at some point.
Now, some states and conditions and situations of water aren't "usable" at the moment and it would take some time before it gets to that state. Which leads to the main issue of water conservation. That main issue is how much is available at any one time in the appropriate state and condition at the right time and in the right place. Under circumstances when resources are presently insufficient, the next question is cost and time to achieve the desired resource levels.
I guess what I'm getting at is the understanding of not "how much is used" but "the rate of how much is available minus the rate of how much is used." When you get negative numbers, it's a problem... obviously. But for people to just say "how much is used" denies people a bigger understanding.
1. I don;t know anything about the case you speak of 2. Providing a death certificate and a will is more than proof needed in this case. There was no one to be protected.
What else is new? Human interest takes a back seat to Apple's interests. I'd suggest they have no respect for the dead, but in this case, they are respecting the will of Jobs by carrying on as he would.
(yeah yeah, troll modding here I come. He was pretty famous for being a major ass.)
I'm sorry you live in Canada. I just heard the RCMPs just made more guns illegal without much in the way of due process.
All of these rules and laws go to show that people need to become more vocal and active in government if only to make their lives better. Government imposing itself on the people so their jobs are easier or their [illegal] quotas are filled more quickly is light tyranny. (Pop quiz: Did you know most states in the US at one time or another made radar detectors illegal? Only Washington DC and Virginia currently outlaw radar detectors though some states will occasionally try to ticket people for having their windows blocked with electronic devices... that's typically local rather than state. And do you know why? Because activists pointed out that radar detector users are safer drivers because they are more aware of the road and constantly looking for cops.)
Anyway, get active in your government. Freedoms and rights are being trampled everywhere. Stop it.
I have NEVER seen or heard of laws against backing in. Cite a reference or you're making it up.
As for "rather get hit from behind than in front"? You're presuming the odds of getting hit in the front are the same as getting hit in the rear. The odds of getting hit in front are greatly reduced because, in theory, you are watching where you are going. You *DO* watch where you're going don't you?
Not true. In fact, if you cannot see the side of your car (and I only mean the very edge of the mirror space) then you are unable to accurately judge the angle of anything on that side without a basis of comparison.
1. Why not? People learn to drive in the first place. 2. It doesn't require changing mirrors at all. I drive like that all day long. I can see everything I need to see in that side-view mirror. I just don't look at the sky.
1. It's a skill like any other. You can learn to develop it. 2. Use the mirror-hack. Angle your passenger-side mirror so you can just see your passenger-side panel and angle it down so you can just see the cars behind you on the road. You don't need to see the roofs of their cars or even the sky for that matter. Seeing what's on the road is far more important and educational. By seeing the ground on the passenger side relative to the passenger side panels, you can accurately judge the distance on that side of your car as well as the parallel alignment. (It doesn't do much for knowing how far you can go backwards but still.)
Easier to pull in forward, but it leaves you much more vulnerable always.
And ask yourself why police, firemen, [ex-] military and others do it? Why doesn't it apply to you? I'll admit I am ex-military, but that's not why I do it. Frankly, I've just seen too much tragedy in other lives not to. Everything from scratched paint to dead children... fortunately none of it mine.
I know this is simply the stupidest, most trivial gripe anyone could make but I'm going to put it out just the same:
Back into parking spots ALWAYS. Do it for for safety. Do it for your car. Do it for convenience. Do it for 'the children.' And now, do it for privacy.
Many states do not require a license place in the front. I live in one of those states. For those who do, I'm sorry. Lobby for a change. Backing into your parking spots will reduce the likelihood that one of these scanners will record your car's location.
Backing in for safety is good to be sure the spot is clear when you enter it. You have to drive by the spot before backing in, so you know you aren't about to park in a spot occupied by a person, a motorcycle or one of those ridiculous smart cars. What's more, when you depart your parking spot, you will have the clearest possible view as you enter traffic because you don't have to back into a completely invisible and unknown situation. This also allows you to leave much more quickly since you can see where you are going. That's a great plus since quite often people are in a bigger hurry to leave than they are to arrive.
Backing in prevents people from hitting your car accidentally as you back out of parking spaces. Can you tell who is coming through that parking lane as you back out? I've seen too many cars hurt this way and it's tragic. And who has TIME to argue about it when you can just form a habit which prevents it all from happening in the first place?
Backing in means you get to leave going forward. It's not just safer, it's faster. The only potential inconvenience is access to one's trunk or rear storage area. That's probably the only exception to the rule I suppose. If you're planning to load something large, going in forward might be the best way, but it also leave you and your friends and family standing out in the parking lanes waiting for the next jerk-hole to come along and clip you needlessly.
And backing in means you have less risk of accidentally hurting a child. It's never a complete guarantee as kids just go everywhere, but can you say you did everything in your power if you aren't backing in and pulling out forward? It's when backing OUT kids are injured and killed more often. Those read-facing camera systems are really nice, especially for people who are unable to exercise full motion of their spine and neck. For for everyone else, there is no substitute for real eyes on the scene.
And now for privacy? Holy crap. Every day we learn there is yet another jerk-hole out there making money by recording and selling information about you. I wish for these people to die in a fire. They simply have no concept of what harm they are bringing to society. They just care about the dollars they can collect and spend on crap they don't need.
Seriously. Make a new habit if you don't do this already. BACK IN when parking. It's not hard. Just practice at it.
And here's the best mirror-hack of all time for backing in. Most cars these days have a passenger-side mirror and it's used to see cars which would otherwise be in a blind spot. But you don't need to see the sky with it -- just what's on the road. How about angling that mirror down a bit further so you can see more of the road. When backing into a parking spot, you will be able to see the lines of the parking spot on the other side and if you can still see the body panels of your car on that side, you can even achieve perfect alignment every time by checking if you are parallel to the line and how much room you have on the other side. There are thousand-dollar electronic sensors which serve this purpose but all anyone has to do is angle the passenger-side mirror down a little to get the same thing!!
Anyway. I hope someone actually reads this and gets something useful from it.
I worked for a nuclear technology company and they set up a box which did this on the guest network. I threw up all sorts of warnings why this was a bad idea but our network security guy who cared nothing about the businesses and government entities we came into contact with, insisted that this is the way it should be done. Eventually some form of it disappeared while some other aspects remained. But seriously, how do you think the various large utilities and the NRC would feel about their secure traffic being sniffed while their representatives and executives are in the office?
I guess it's okay and even amusing to do polls which demonstrate specific knowledge weakness among the people of the US. What's not funny, however, is to show people are actually becoming more stupid than ever before. The cause or the fault, I'm sure has many sources, but people are increasingly ignorant.
Saying this much is already enough for some people to become angry. But when people start throwing around suggested causes such as "no child left behind" or other "lowering the bar" measures, people start to become even more furious. I think one of our most basic areas of training is really missing which people rarely speak of -- it's how to tell the difference between emotion and fact. But in case people haven't noticed, the measures taken have more to do with feelings than ability, achievement or knowledge. Why? Because we think ignorance leads to crime? We want to believe that don't we... after all, we're smart people and we're not criminals. And "smart" is a matter of training isn't it? That's a tremendous presumption.
Nothing I say will make any difference. But maybe if enough people start saying it, it can be heard. The first thing that has to go is anything "feel good" law or policy.
The amount of fraud generated by the SPLC is evidence of their character. They wouldn't have to create incidents if any occurred naturally. And like the other race baiters, their "contributions" are usually not quite as voluntary as you might think.
As for these assassination attempts? Citations required.
Employers, especially today, have loyalty only to their money; their profit margins; their bottom lines. It doesn't actually fit that there would be institutionalized sexism if only because it is not the most profitable way to do things. All of these "-isms" are lies. Who profits from the lies? Turns out a lot of people do. Look to the budgets and pay of SPLC leadership among others. These non-profits are very expensive to run.
There is no way that artificial chicken meat, or other meat for that matter, will be inexpensive enough to displace the business of raising actual livestock. The research should be focused and funded by medical interests who would seek to grow human tissue. From there, methods can be derived and adapted to creating artificial meat. It makes no sense to attempt this PETAs way... not financially anyway.
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My question is "what's wrong with that?"
When I was a child, I used to cry at night wishing I could be stupid and mindless like all the other kids seemed to be. My first social experiences in public school showed me quite clearly that I was not like other kids. What with all the "girls chasing boys and boys running away" and this thing about "cooties" I didn't know about at the time -- and neither did they. They did all these things and didn't actually know why. That was a huge puzzle for me -- how people can simple fall into line doing things which they don't understand. Distilling that basic understanding of human behavior was a traumatic realization because clearly I was missing something that everyone else had and it made me feel vastly inferior and distinctively unhappy.
This spurred my unending need to understand everything to compensate for my inability to just go along with the crowds of mindless drones out there following natural instinct, politics, fashion and custom and things of that nature. (So yeah, if you've got be pegged as an Asperger's it wouldn't be the first time.) It's all just compensation which I would have happily traded away to be like everyone else.
But this also goes to show that we all have different potentials in different areas which are applicable in different situations. We tend to want to over-simplify things like "oh, he's just going to be a janitor for the rest of his life" as if that were horrible. Some people are exceedingly happy when they have a sense of responsibility and duty to fulfill and can take ownership of his area. Now if that area happens to involve a lot of sanitation? So what? My areas have typically been a type of janitor work among other things... I just do it with servers and networks and stuff like that. Different tools, similar motives, purposes and needs. I definitely don't see things the way other people do, but to somehow believe that all people have to be the same??? Or to meet minimum criteria?
You know? If that was somehow achieved? That everyone had the same potential through some magical form of training? What would happen? Fight to the death over "the best jobs" while some ended up doing jobs they absolutely hate because too many people are in the "good jobs"? We've got some of that now already but that's largely for the same reasons they are pushing these ridiculous ideas right now. The discontent will actually increase more as we push for more "equality" because now we're all measuring each other. And if we're all "equal" then surely we're being discriminated against!
Yes, it's very much as if some are trying to dumb down America and literally and utterly destroy it. US business has every incentive to move intellectual jobs overseas which results in a STEM enrollment decrease in the US. We know all about that and have discussed it for at least 10 years. The odd differences between the FDA's rules and those of the rest of the modern world have been called out to a deaf public who think our health is at least as good if not better than the rest of the modern world. (It's not. We've got an amazing rate of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and more which are often linked to bad diet.) And we still have this as yet unexplained rise in ASD which is not shared by the rest of the modern world. And did anything mention fluoride in the water? What's that good for? "In case someone isn't brushing their teeth?" That's a crap argument as the same people not brushing are not drinking water either.
Common core is just another new thing in addition to all of the other things they have been doing. And have you heard about the affirmative action motions they are making in school discipline? That's right... they are lowering punishment for black kids and increasing for white kids. Isn't that special? And here I thought people should be punished for what they do, not what their race is.
I'm not making this stuff up. But I am bundling them together to form the beginnings of an idea. I can't say for certain that there is a conspiracy, but it's easy to see there is a larger effect with those and other factors combined.
I just can't get past the fact that it's a lie. Anyone who can look beyond that amazes me.
The government already considers George Washington to be a terrorist and does not approve of his actions. You're about 10 years too late to bring "patriots" in to change anyone's mind there.
Now if you want to convince a judge that it's wrong and dangerous, acquire a judge's metadata and have it entered into evidence. If the judge isn't okay with it, then you've won.
I think without all of the work involved in this study, the credit card statement analogy paints a picture everyone can understand easily and accurately.
Problem:
GNOME, an environment library is used by an application as well. If an older version of the environment is used, one cannot upgrade the application. Does that sound like a problem to you?
If GIMP were to do it right, it would make calls THROUGH the UI afforded by the OS and environment, not directly to libraries. But that's not what's happening. GNOME says "It's GTK, speak to the GTK people" GTK says "It's GIMP, speak to them." GIMP says "GNOME develops GTK now."
Someone is doing it wrong. And the result of that is Linux GIMP under a common distro is a second-class citizen.
Every use of GTK outside of GIMP is a problem. Try running the latest CentOS with GNOME and see if you can run a newer GIMP. You can't. You will have to do all manner of things and you still will not get 100%.
I have discussed this topic with GTK, GIMP and GNOME projects and at the end of the day it comes back to GIMP/GTK developers. They say GTK is for GIMP. So every developer out there would be well advised not to use GTK any longer.
Water is one of those resources which flow and circulate. They don't get "used up" so much. It is used in its many forms, liquid, gas and solid and its transitions from one state to the other is often useful. It is temporarily held within bodies of produce and other products and in people as well. But these are molecules which circulate all over. The water molecules which are in your body right now may have previously been in a T.Rex long ago at some point.
Now, some states and conditions and situations of water aren't "usable" at the moment and it would take some time before it gets to that state. Which leads to the main issue of water conservation. That main issue is how much is available at any one time in the appropriate state and condition at the right time and in the right place. Under circumstances when resources are presently insufficient, the next question is cost and time to achieve the desired resource levels.
I guess what I'm getting at is the understanding of not "how much is used" but "the rate of how much is available minus the rate of how much is used." When you get negative numbers, it's a problem... obviously. But for people to just say "how much is used" denies people a bigger understanding.
1. I don;t know anything about the case you speak of
2. Providing a death certificate and a will is more than proof needed in this case. There was no one to be protected.
What else is new? Human interest takes a back seat to Apple's interests. I'd suggest they have no respect for the dead, but in this case, they are respecting the will of Jobs by carrying on as he would.
(yeah yeah, troll modding here I come. He was pretty famous for being a major ass.)
I agree with your additional benefits.
I'm sorry you live in Canada. I just heard the RCMPs just made more guns illegal without much in the way of due process.
All of these rules and laws go to show that people need to become more vocal and active in government if only to make their lives better. Government imposing itself on the people so their jobs are easier or their [illegal] quotas are filled more quickly is light tyranny. (Pop quiz: Did you know most states in the US at one time or another made radar detectors illegal? Only Washington DC and Virginia currently outlaw radar detectors though some states will occasionally try to ticket people for having their windows blocked with electronic devices... that's typically local rather than state. And do you know why? Because activists pointed out that radar detector users are safer drivers because they are more aware of the road and constantly looking for cops.)
Anyway, get active in your government. Freedoms and rights are being trampled everywhere. Stop it.
The only places that say "do not back in" are trying to prevent damage to their property. The cause of displaying reverse lights is nonsequitur.
I have NEVER seen or heard of laws against backing in. Cite a reference or you're making it up.
As for "rather get hit from behind than in front"? You're presuming the odds of getting hit in the front are the same as getting hit in the rear. The odds of getting hit in front are greatly reduced because, in theory, you are watching where you are going. You *DO* watch where you're going don't you?
Not true. In fact, if you cannot see the side of your car (and I only mean the very edge of the mirror space) then you are unable to accurately judge the angle of anything on that side without a basis of comparison.
1. Why not? People learn to drive in the first place.
2. It doesn't require changing mirrors at all. I drive like that all day long. I can see everything I need to see in that side-view mirror. I just don't look at the sky.
Either an old dog that can't move fast or it's BS. Dogs are rather capable to getting out of the way and backing in is typically done slowly.
I addressed that concern in my diatribe.
1. It's a skill like any other. You can learn to develop it.
2. Use the mirror-hack. Angle your passenger-side mirror so you can just see your passenger-side panel and angle it down so you can just see the cars behind you on the road. You don't need to see the roofs of their cars or even the sky for that matter. Seeing what's on the road is far more important and educational. By seeing the ground on the passenger side relative to the passenger side panels, you can accurately judge the distance on that side of your car as well as the parallel alignment. (It doesn't do much for knowing how far you can go backwards but still.)
Easier to pull in forward, but it leaves you much more vulnerable always.
And ask yourself why police, firemen, [ex-] military and others do it? Why doesn't it apply to you? I'll admit I am ex-military, but that's not why I do it. Frankly, I've just seen too much tragedy in other lives not to. Everything from scratched paint to dead children... fortunately none of it mine.
I know this is simply the stupidest, most trivial gripe anyone could make but I'm going to put it out just the same:
Back into parking spots ALWAYS. Do it for for safety. Do it for your car. Do it for convenience. Do it for 'the children.' And now, do it for privacy.
Many states do not require a license place in the front. I live in one of those states. For those who do, I'm sorry. Lobby for a change. Backing into your parking spots will reduce the likelihood that one of these scanners will record your car's location.
Backing in for safety is good to be sure the spot is clear when you enter it. You have to drive by the spot before backing in, so you know you aren't about to park in a spot occupied by a person, a motorcycle or one of those ridiculous smart cars. What's more, when you depart your parking spot, you will have the clearest possible view as you enter traffic because you don't have to back into a completely invisible and unknown situation. This also allows you to leave much more quickly since you can see where you are going. That's a great plus since quite often people are in a bigger hurry to leave than they are to arrive.
Backing in prevents people from hitting your car accidentally as you back out of parking spaces. Can you tell who is coming through that parking lane as you back out? I've seen too many cars hurt this way and it's tragic. And who has TIME to argue about it when you can just form a habit which prevents it all from happening in the first place?
Backing in means you get to leave going forward. It's not just safer, it's faster. The only potential inconvenience is access to one's trunk or rear storage area. That's probably the only exception to the rule I suppose. If you're planning to load something large, going in forward might be the best way, but it also leave you and your friends and family standing out in the parking lanes waiting for the next jerk-hole to come along and clip you needlessly.
And backing in means you have less risk of accidentally hurting a child. It's never a complete guarantee as kids just go everywhere, but can you say you did everything in your power if you aren't backing in and pulling out forward? It's when backing OUT kids are injured and killed more often. Those read-facing camera systems are really nice, especially for people who are unable to exercise full motion of their spine and neck. For for everyone else, there is no substitute for real eyes on the scene.
And now for privacy? Holy crap. Every day we learn there is yet another jerk-hole out there making money by recording and selling information about you. I wish for these people to die in a fire. They simply have no concept of what harm they are bringing to society. They just care about the dollars they can collect and spend on crap they don't need.
Seriously. Make a new habit if you don't do this already. BACK IN when parking. It's not hard. Just practice at it.
And here's the best mirror-hack of all time for backing in. Most cars these days have a passenger-side mirror and it's used to see cars which would otherwise be in a blind spot. But you don't need to see the sky with it -- just what's on the road. How about angling that mirror down a bit further so you can see more of the road. When backing into a parking spot, you will be able to see the lines of the parking spot on the other side and if you can still see the body panels of your car on that side, you can even achieve perfect alignment every time by checking if you are parallel to the line and how much room you have on the other side. There are thousand-dollar electronic sensors which serve this purpose but all anyone has to do is angle the passenger-side mirror down a little to get the same thing!!
Anyway. I hope someone actually reads this and gets something useful from it.
I worked for a nuclear technology company and they set up a box which did this on the guest network. I threw up all sorts of warnings why this was a bad idea but our network security guy who cared nothing about the businesses and government entities we came into contact with, insisted that this is the way it should be done. Eventually some form of it disappeared while some other aspects remained. But seriously, how do you think the various large utilities and the NRC would feel about their secure traffic being sniffed while their representatives and executives are in the office?
Kinda breaks some trust issues doesn't it?
The product names, on the other hand...?
I guess it's okay and even amusing to do polls which demonstrate specific knowledge weakness among the people of the US. What's not funny, however, is to show people are actually becoming more stupid than ever before. The cause or the fault, I'm sure has many sources, but people are increasingly ignorant.
Saying this much is already enough for some people to become angry. But when people start throwing around suggested causes such as "no child left behind" or other "lowering the bar" measures, people start to become even more furious. I think one of our most basic areas of training is really missing which people rarely speak of -- it's how to tell the difference between emotion and fact. But in case people haven't noticed, the measures taken have more to do with feelings than ability, achievement or knowledge. Why? Because we think ignorance leads to crime? We want to believe that don't we... after all, we're smart people and we're not criminals. And "smart" is a matter of training isn't it? That's a tremendous presumption.
Nothing I say will make any difference. But maybe if enough people start saying it, it can be heard. The first thing that has to go is anything "feel good" law or policy.
The amount of fraud generated by the SPLC is evidence of their character. They wouldn't have to create incidents if any occurred naturally. And like the other race baiters, their "contributions" are usually not quite as voluntary as you might think.
As for these assassination attempts? Citations required.
Now THAT is an insightful rhetorical question.
Employers, especially today, have loyalty only to their money; their profit margins; their bottom lines. It doesn't actually fit that there would be institutionalized sexism if only because it is not the most profitable way to do things. All of these "-isms" are lies. Who profits from the lies? Turns out a lot of people do. Look to the budgets and pay of SPLC leadership among others. These non-profits are very expensive to run.
I like female packages. [/dongle joke>
There is no way that artificial chicken meat, or other meat for that matter, will be inexpensive enough to displace the business of raising actual livestock. The research should be focused and funded by medical interests who would seek to grow human tissue. From there, methods can be derived and adapted to creating artificial meat. It makes no sense to attempt this PETAs way... not financially anyway.