"Genetic engineering is something entirely different. Clearly, genetic engineering does NOT use mother nature's tools, but rather a toolkit which isn't found anywhere in nature. "
We are in receipt of your case of 2000 (two thousand) manually operated analog cupronickel randomization discs. We admire the evident durability and domestic origin of your product, and initial testing proves that the sequence of flips is suitably random. In addition, we are confident that your training video can be developed into a course that our agents will be able to complete in about six months.
Unfortunately, your product does not meet the contracted criterion of gender neutrality. Al of the "heads" depicted are male.
Yours, Monroe Fnord, Technology Director Transportation Security Administration
When we buy a new printer or communications device, we have no need to think about that device in context with everything else we have. But in a high-security situation, it's probably easier to qualify whole integrating sets of upgraded technology at once than to go through the vetting process for each device in isolation.
"It's weird how Republicans blame their problems on liberals without even thinking about it. JFK set the path for the moonshot."
When liberals won't even build a telescope on a barren mountaintop for fear of the Stone Age volcano gods, what hope do they have of ever running a real space program? Today's left would never have let JFK do anything as risky as going to the moon, and all the giant infrastructure projects of Roosevelt's New Deal would still be tied up in court.
I wish their kind wasn't so against space travel so they'd get the hell off of this planet.
When it's privately run, we're in favor of space travel. The problem with public programs is not so much the money in comparison to other spending, but that the fear-driven lefty Luddites can prevent NASA from doing anything really adventurous. Thus we get an endless series of science fair experiments in LEO.
Here in Arizona the Africanized bees have taken over completely from the former European bees, so the plants are learning to make their nectar taste like Colt 45.
"I have absolutely no sympathy for people profiting off of other's work."
If we were to take that statement seriously, we could clean up the copyright mess by making IP a personal right of the creator of work, and for no longer than that person's lifetime. This right would be inalienable, like free speech - no more 'rights holders' who created nothing holding other people's copyrights for generations. Any studio or other business that wanted to profit from an artist's work would have to maintain a contract with that person.
We already pay more in the US to cover the cost of lower prices in other countries. That is part of how other countries can get better prices.
You just drank the overpriced prescription Kool-Aid. Pharma companies sell for profit in EVERY country they routinely market to. The US monopoly prices are because we're not allowed to shop around, and have nothing to do with lower prices in any other country.
Whenever a terrorist atrocity occurs, we are piously lectured to about not judging all Muslims by a small minority of terrorist radicals. Yet whenever some nutbar shoots up a school, the same pious lecturers claim he represents all gun owners.
And the markup is virtually all cost. If a grocery chain profits by 0.5% on sales, it's doing well. Years ago when I was in grocery retailing the markup was about 20% with the same profit margin, so in no other industry has advancing backroom technology benefitted the customer more directly.
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"Genetic engineering is something entirely different. Clearly, genetic engineering does NOT use mother nature's tools, but rather a toolkit which isn't found anywhere in nature. "
Oh look, another one who hasn't heard that transgenic processes have now been found in nature.
http://arstechnica.com/science...
I have a system that is:
- Analog
- Does not require electricity
- Durable
- Ambidextrous
- Gender neutral
- Made in the USA
Training video here: http://putlocker.is/watch-goin...
Dear Mr. Sexconker,
We are in receipt of your case of 2000 (two thousand) manually operated analog cupronickel randomization discs. We admire the evident durability and domestic origin of your product, and initial testing proves that the sequence of flips is suitably random. In addition, we are confident that your training video can be developed into a course that our agents will be able to complete in about six months.
Unfortunately, your product does not meet the contracted criterion of gender neutrality. Al of the "heads" depicted are male.
Yours,
Monroe Fnord, Technology Director
Transportation Security Administration
When we buy a new printer or communications device, we have no need to think about that device in context with everything else we have. But in a high-security situation, it's probably easier to qualify whole integrating sets of upgraded technology at once than to go through the vetting process for each device in isolation.
"Slide into oblivion?" In this case, more like firebombing their offices and making good use of our Second Amendment rights.
We have always wanted to know where to find a ransom ware operator, and now we have one who self-identifies.
"It's weird how Republicans blame their problems on liberals without even thinking about it. JFK set the path for the moonshot."
When liberals won't even build a telescope on a barren mountaintop for fear of the Stone Age volcano gods, what hope do they have of ever running a real space program? Today's left would never have let JFK do anything as risky as going to the moon, and all the giant infrastructure projects of Roosevelt's New Deal would still be tied up in court.
I wish their kind wasn't so against space travel so they'd get the hell off of this planet.
When it's privately run, we're in favor of space travel. The problem with public programs is not so much the money in comparison to other spending, but that the fear-driven lefty Luddites can prevent NASA from doing anything really adventurous. Thus we get an endless series of science fair experiments in LEO.
"Contrrol the alcohol level... "
Here in Arizona the Africanized bees have taken over completely from the former European bees, so the plants are learning to make their nectar taste like Colt 45.
After all, it has become one of the founding documents of the Green movement.
'But what they are saying is that because people abuse the language, they should too, because the abuse becomes "common usage" '
Clutching those pearls a little too tight? Here, have a kleenex while I xerox you a copy of the style guide.
"Isn't that what the whole @home thing was about? Cloud computing using everybody's spare processor cycles to solve complex problems?"
Except that all those extra processor cycles once being used for protein folding are now being used to mine Bitcoin.
OR...planning a vacation in India to have the treatment.
How efficient is Bitcoin at handling micropayments?
"I have absolutely no sympathy for people profiting off of other's work."
If we were to take that statement seriously, we could clean up the copyright mess by making IP a personal right of the creator of work, and for no longer than that person's lifetime. This right would be inalienable, like free speech - no more 'rights holders' who created nothing holding other people's copyrights for generations. Any studio or other business that wanted to profit from an artist's work would have to maintain a contract with that person.
We already pay more in the US to cover the cost of lower prices in other countries. That is part of how other countries can get better prices.
You just drank the overpriced prescription Kool-Aid. Pharma companies sell for profit in EVERY country they routinely market to. The US monopoly prices are because we're not allowed to shop around, and have nothing to do with lower prices in any other country.
What's "Whoosh" in Chinese?
"As we are the only place with no price control."
More accurately: the US is the only country with no free drug market.
Because giving people jobs is so 19th century.
This would be the first vending machine to take thousand-dollar bills.
"Unless they can show that he really is part of the political establishment?"
This year, the most constructive way that Anonymous could turn the public off any candidate is to reveal corporate funding sources.
"Why would it be? Islam isn't a race"
Whenever a terrorist atrocity occurs, we are piously lectured to about not judging all Muslims by a small minority of terrorist radicals. Yet whenever some nutbar shoots up a school, the same pious lecturers claim he represents all gun owners.
It would be filed against every tech company that practices age discrimination.
My mother still runs a business at age 94.
"Only if you're unhealthy. I am 40 years old, I eat well and I have an active life. My stomach is flat and muscular."
When I was 40, I had abs like that too. Also, Reagan was president.
"Just as a FYI, about half the people on this planet don't even have a cock."
But how many of those will you find on Slashdot?
For this time of life, there are the Three Nevers:
1. Never pass up a urinal;
2. Never trust a fart;
3. Never waste an erection.
And the markup is virtually all cost. If a grocery chain profits by 0.5% on sales, it's doing well. Years ago when I was in grocery retailing the markup was about 20% with the same profit margin, so in no other industry has advancing backroom technology benefitted the customer more directly.