I disagree about your target. I'd like to think that enemy against which we are united is Bad Software.
If Microsoft were to crumble and another corporation took its place, you'd have to retrain your sights. Why not look farther ahead than that one enemy?
If your left wrist and arm continue to hurt even while away from the computer, you might consider the following:
An acquaintance of mine had complaints of shooting pains in his left hand and wrist, extending sometimes up the arm, and was diagnosed as suffering from CTS. After trying all the noninvasive treatments and solutions available, he decided to get another opinion from a different doctor, as a last-ditch alternative before surgery. The second doctor determined that he was experiencing low-grade heart attacks, treated *that* problem, and the pains vanished.
If you have a family history of heart disorders, don't overlook this possibility!
I didn't see any mention of USB modems (like my USB ModemBlaster)--anybody know what the status is there? I can't determine if it's just a serial modem hanging off a USB port or a WinModem working through a USB connection.
(FWIW, the only reason I bought it is because every time I open a computer at home disaster strikes. No case-cracking to install a USB modem, and everybody's happy.)
> If we don't have a problem with those taxes, why should e-mail be so different? Its not some magical manna from the sky people.
It appears that *you* don't have a problem with those taxes--please try not to speak for me.
Property and income taxes are ridiculous. The government shouldn't have any expenditures as a direct result of my working and earning money, and thus they shouldn't get a chunk of it. Now, taxes on gasoline are different--I'm using that gas to drive on roads that are maintained by the state or the federal government (for the benefit of the community at large), so it's only fair that I pitch in a little to keep them working. E-mail, on the other hand, I've already paid my bit for. I pay my ISP, I pay my telephone company, I get to use e-mail.
Where does the government get involved there? It shouldn't be anywhere at all! I don't recall any passage in any document anywhere that says that the US government should be able to regulate or even necessarily provide for alternative mechanisms to transfer messages from one person to another. Bah!
The only problem with this logic is that those with less education reproduce faster than the others. The one lesson they tend to never learn is that more people means less resources, which means a lower quality of life.
I've got it! Kansas has decided to overrun the country, so they're encouraging ignorance to push the population up.
Of course, like other opinions given here, I have no real evidence. Keep your flames to yourself.:)
>...if they make money on this then they help the economy which helps me in the end.
This is an interesting statement. Taken out of context, it would appear that you're saying that an endeavor which makes money helps you. What if that endeavor involves releasing toxins into the groundwater? What if it has a galvanizing effect on society that compels people to have no regard for life?
The part of this world that affects you is far larger than your land, or your town, or your county... Precedents set by scientists and officials halfway around the globe affect you in ways you may not ever notice, but affect you they do.
I don't want a different example--I want a different approach and a different way to look at the problem.
Why was that man's hand chopped off? Is it because 99% of the people in his community walk around swinging scythes? If so, then reattaching the hand is one step in helping *that man*, but the solution to the problem is weaning everybody away from their scythes. If you make hand reattachment easy and commonplace they won't put away their scythes and will, some day, start slicing off heads instead.
The warming of the planet is a process, whereas the extinction of a species is an event.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't look for ways to learn to stop destroying species--we should, just as we should look for ways to slow the rate at which our activities are warming the planet. We can learn best from our mistakes regarding extinction by letting the mistakes lie where they are. Just because we (may) have the technology to bring something back to life doesn't mean that we should, and doing so may well make an act that is wrong (hunting a species to extinction because we like the feathers it grows, or because it eats our livestock) look like one that isn't (persecuting a species that acts in a way we don't like because we can always grow more).
Reviving an extinct species isn't saving it--it's creating curiousities that have no place in a world that passed them by when they vanished.
If people aren't learning 'the lesson' that we're talking about here, then why should we even begin to presume that they ever will? It's my belief that cultures learn lessons through experiencing hardships. The 'gentle' solution to this problem (preserving specimens in zoos and slow education) won't be enough because people respond to things like the Depression or the bombing of Pearl Harbor or AIDS, not easily-ignored problems like the extinction of a species that you won't find in the grocery store.
Is there some intrinsic value in keeping endangered animals locked up in unnatural surroundings? I say there isn't. Creatures become extinct because other creatures like to kill them, or because their habitat changes too drastically. Their place in this world simply went away. It pains me to be so blunt about it, but it's true. Instead of covering up our mistakes, we should try to raise the value of life in our culture.
YOU should try to raise the value of life in our culture. Go tell somebody that the animals on our planet are precious, and anything we do that hurts them unnecessarily should be stopped. That's what will turn things around.
If, as previous posters have hypothesized, this all boils down to an ethical question concerning our ability to reverse damage done, then my vote would be to leave extinct species where they are.
By saying that it's okay to clone previously-extinct creatures, we would be condoning even more widespread unnecessary slaughter of creatures. Poachers would feel even more justified in their actions because the scientists could just clone up some more. Farms of once-vanished creatures would spring up to stock hunting preserves.
We should let them lie in peace, and learn our lesson from their absence. Destroying creatures for any reason besides preservation of our own lives (either to serve as a source of nutrition or in self-defense) is an abhorrent practice. If learning that means we have a few guilt trips from time to time, then so be it.
"...it might behoove Americans to divert some War Department chump change into a mucho beefed-up PBS."
It certainly might behoove us. However, I'll be *damned* if I'll let my government take my money to do things it has no right doing without getting a little pissed off. If enough people can't get together to pay for quality television, then we don't deserve to have it available.
For what it's worth, I do my part to help PBS rely less on my tax dollar.
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Certainly you turn on the heater in your car during the winter, no? Turn on the car, let it warm up a bit (as you should do anyway in cold weather, to reduce undue engine stress and wear), and turn on the Empeg. No problem...
That's a rather short-sighted comment... The only reason that this crisis hasn't happened is that ag companies keep finding ways to produce more food in a given area. Eventually, given the current growth of our population, our ability to produce enough food will fail us. Not only will farmers have to produce enough food to feed a rampantly-gowing population, but they'll have to do it in an ever-decreasing area.
Doesn't anybody think it's odd that no mention is made in later movies of Anakin's relation to C3P0 (that of creator)--or did I just miss it altogether?
Also, was it explicitly stated that the presence of high concentrations of miti-chlorians (whatever!) indicated strength in the Force? All I picked up was that it was used as a measure of one's eligibility to be trained as a Jedi...
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I have to comment on this, if only to use my favorite word in the English language...
Does this mean that those people who dislike Katz embody the concepts of antidisestablishmentarianism?
Whoo-hoo!
I disagree about your target. I'd like to think that enemy against which we are united is Bad Software.
If Microsoft were to crumble and another corporation took its place, you'd have to retrain your sights. Why not look farther ahead than that one enemy?
If your left wrist and arm continue to hurt even while away from the computer, you might consider the following:
An acquaintance of mine had complaints of shooting pains in his left hand and wrist, extending sometimes up the arm, and was diagnosed as suffering from CTS. After trying all the noninvasive treatments and solutions available, he decided to get another opinion from a different doctor, as a last-ditch alternative before surgery. The second doctor determined that he was experiencing low-grade heart attacks, treated *that* problem, and the pains vanished.
If you have a family history of heart disorders, don't overlook this possibility!
I didn't see any mention of USB modems (like my USB ModemBlaster)--anybody know what the status is there? I can't determine if it's just a serial modem hanging off a USB port or a WinModem working through a USB connection.
(FWIW, the only reason I bought it is because every time I open a computer at home disaster strikes. No case-cracking to install a USB modem, and everybody's happy.)
--- Chris
It appears that *you* don't have a problem with those taxes--please try not to speak for me.
Property and income taxes are ridiculous. The government shouldn't have any expenditures as a direct result of my working and earning money, and thus they shouldn't get a chunk of it. Now, taxes on gasoline are different--I'm using that gas to drive on roads that are maintained by the state or the federal government (for the benefit of the community at large), so it's only fair that I pitch in a little to keep them working. E-mail, on the other hand, I've already paid my bit for. I pay my ISP, I pay my telephone company, I get to use e-mail.
Where does the government get involved there? It shouldn't be anywhere at all! I don't recall any passage in any document anywhere that says that the US government should be able to regulate or even necessarily provide for alternative mechanisms to transfer messages from one person to another. Bah!
I've got it! Kansas has decided to overrun the country, so they're encouraging ignorance to push the population up.
Of course, like other opinions given here, I have no real evidence. Keep your flames to yourself. :)
Then we shall agree to partially disagree.
> ...if they make money on this then they help the economy which helps me in the end.
This is an interesting statement. Taken out of context, it would appear that you're saying that an endeavor which makes money helps you. What if that endeavor involves releasing toxins into the groundwater? What if it has a galvanizing effect on society that compels people to have no regard for life?
The part of this world that affects you is far larger than your land, or your town, or your county... Precedents set by scientists and officials halfway around the globe affect you in ways you may not ever notice, but affect you they do.
Why was that man's hand chopped off? Is it because 99% of the people in his community walk around swinging scythes? If so, then reattaching the hand is one step in helping *that man*, but the solution to the problem is weaning everybody away from their scythes. If you make hand reattachment easy and commonplace they won't put away their scythes and will, some day, start slicing off heads instead.
The warming of the planet is a process, whereas the extinction of a species is an event.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't look for ways to learn to stop destroying species--we should, just as we should look for ways to slow the rate at which our activities are warming the planet. We can learn best from our mistakes regarding extinction by letting the mistakes lie where they are. Just because we (may) have the technology to bring something back to life doesn't mean that we should, and doing so may well make an act that is wrong (hunting a species to extinction because we like the feathers it grows, or because it eats our livestock) look like one that isn't (persecuting a species that acts in a way we don't like because we can always grow more).
Reviving an extinct species isn't saving it--it's creating curiousities that have no place in a world that passed them by when they vanished.
Is there some intrinsic value in keeping endangered animals locked up in unnatural surroundings? I say there isn't. Creatures become extinct because other creatures like to kill them, or because their habitat changes too drastically. Their place in this world simply went away. It pains me to be so blunt about it, but it's true. Instead of covering up our mistakes, we should try to raise the value of life in our culture.
YOU should try to raise the value of life in our culture. Go tell somebody that the animals on our planet are precious, and anything we do that hurts them unnecessarily should be stopped. That's what will turn things around.
Finally, read stuff by Daniel Quinn, and visit the Ishmael website.
By saying that it's okay to clone previously-extinct creatures, we would be condoning even more widespread unnecessary slaughter of creatures. Poachers would feel even more justified in their actions because the scientists could just clone up some more. Farms of once-vanished creatures would spring up to stock hunting preserves.
We should let them lie in peace, and learn our lesson from their absence. Destroying creatures for any reason besides preservation of our own lives (either to serve as a source of nutrition or in self-defense) is an abhorrent practice. If learning that means we have a few guilt trips from time to time, then so be it.
Check out Adbusters for more information on the infiltration of advertising into our daily lives...
I walked around with a sick feeling for weeks after reading this, and seeing that horrible hand... Bleah!
It certainly might behoove us. However, I'll be *damned* if I'll let my government take my money to do things it has no right doing without getting a little pissed off. If enough people can't get together to pay for quality television, then we don't deserve to have it available.
For what it's worth, I do my part to help PBS rely less on my tax dollar.
Certainly you turn on the heater in your car during the winter, no? Turn on the car, let it warm up a bit (as you should do anyway in cold weather, to reduce undue engine stress and wear), and turn on the Empeg. No problem...
Didn't they discover large deposits of ice under the surface of the moon recently? If so, there's your atmosphere.
(One down side of colonizing Mars is the incredible storms generated there... I'd rather try my luck surviving a tornado here in Texas.)
Wake up!
Doesn't anybody think it's odd that no mention is made in later movies of Anakin's relation to C3P0 (that of creator)--or did I just miss it altogether?
Also, was it explicitly stated that the presence of high concentrations of miti-chlorians (whatever!) indicated strength in the Force? All I picked up was that it was used as a measure of one's eligibility to be trained as a Jedi...
Please, prove me wrong!