Defense against what? People or animals? It seems to me that Americans are unique in thinking that a gun is a reasonable defense to be used against PEOPLE.
In Canada the primary use of guns is hunting and protection from animals, followed by target shooting. I've never heard anyone mention a gun as a defense against criminals. A gun at home should be locked up, the ammo locked seperately. If you can get your gun out fast enough for defense then it isn't stored safely.
CEO's you read about in the papers are not your typical bosses. In the USA this whole 'rock star' CEO thing is way out of hand. BUT, being a boss is a hard job - that is why you run into so many BAD bosses (project managers, etc...). If being a boss was easy we wouldn't all have these management horror stories to share.
The job of a boss is NOT to leach off others. It is to raise captital, orginize the bussiness, plan the product, hire the workers, sell the product, and make a profit.
I find the term "wage-slave" extremely offensive as it trivializes the rather more dire circumstances of real slaves. The "wage-slave" you are talking about will not be killed if they take a different job.
If being a boss is so easy, why don't you try it and stop whining? If its so easy having two profital years should be a snap. Oh? it isn't easy? It does take skill? What a surprise.
A particular recording of Ode to Joy does enjoy copyright protection. But anyone can record their version without paying royalties to Beethoven.
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No, his argument is that even though it is not clear how this research will help people, there is a long history of 'pure research' leading to discoveries that do help a large number of people.
Mouse life isn't precious because it isn't human. That is my opinion, and I don't mind if you disagree - just don't try to force your opinion on others.
Well, yes science did give us the atom bomb. But that same science also lead to PET scans, etc... which have saved many lives. Science is a double edge sword. It is important to work towards having government that won't abuse the fruits of science. We'd all still be grunting in caves, too scared to even start a fire (it might burn someone, the horror!) if everyone was as scared of progress as you are.
The problems with golden rice etc... are NOT science problems, but government problems. It is the government that allows patents on foods, and big business that takes advatange of this.
Why would clones have any different right from natural clones, ie twins?
Why would ANY rules be different for people who are clones vs 'normal'? Clones will be born, grow and learn just like any other baby. Cloning itself should be completely without controversy.
All the questions you are asking about clones should simply be applied to 'people'. The only reason I am against human cloning now is that the success rate is very low which will lead to much waste of potential life and deformed babies, and there is evidence that cloned people will suffer from health problems due to the cloning process.
Where it gets interesting is when you combine genetic engineering with cloning. Lets say you clone a person, but engineer out the brain and spinal cord. Is this modified clone a person or just a sack of organs that you can harvest?
I'm not totally sure about spiders that do the fluffly trampoline style webs, but orb weavers do a new web each day, and it takes them 2 to 3 hours to weave it. Most likely the giant web did in fact fact appear overnight.
Cable isn't worth even $30.00, out of all the chanenels available only 2 or 3 are worth watching. I canceled by cable 15 years ago and didn't miss it after 2 weeks. I might reconsider cable if I could pick the channels I wanted for a buck each a month. I can still watch Trek, the news, and Hockey (from Canda, hey) with my $6 bunny ears.
Buckeye pulled the $250,000 figure out of his ass to get the FBI on the case. I bet he pulled some strings too, especially as one of the follows arrested has a history of being a thorn in his side.
How much faster is an uncapped cable modem? At $40 bucks a month you'd have to really work at to steal $250,000 worth of bandwidth.
You Americans have given up way too much of the freedoms you are allways bragging about to the rest of the world during the War on Drugs, and now the War on Terrorism. George even had the gall to speachify about some crountries not spending enough on their military. Some of us are happy to NOT be war mongers.
Linux is an OS, not a form of government. Maybe you were trying to compare Distributed Open Source Software Development, which by the way is used for software other than Linux, to socialism. Lets list a few things to compare:
DOSSD vs Socialism
lots of volunteers, lots of volunteers
useful work accomplished, useful work only pretended to be accomplished.
People 'give' according to their talents, People pretend to 'give' according to their talents, acting mainly.
Everyone shares the end product, everyone shares the end product which in this case is vapor
Hard workers gain the admiration of their peers, hard workers soon shown the error of their ways
Ah, the tragedy of the commons - the end of many a utopia.
loose is the opposite of tight.
lose is the opposite of find.
Please, spell "lose billions of dollars" correctly - it makes my head hurt trying to figure out how you make dollars "loose".
Parents who bring babies to movies should be shot. You should expect parents and kids at KIDS movies like Harry Potter. If you don't like kids see a late show, or invest in a home theatre system.
I am a bit wierded out when I see parents bringing five year olds to see something like "The Cell". What the hell are the parents thinking?
Actually, if you read the books or watch the movies with your kids you should point out that the hard working and honest Hermione does actually do a lot of the good and heroic work in the story.
Harry might be a natural with magic, but it is Hermione who knows how to petrify a friend (and be praised for it), open locks, and charm carniverous plants. Like many "nerds", her talents are sometimes under appreciated by her peers until requried to save the day.
slashdot did a review on this series. I highly recommend the "Dark Materials" series to kids and adults that liked Harry Potter, or just like good fantasy.
Read the reviews, talk to friends who have seen the movie, then if still in doubt, go see the movie without your kids first. I did NOT let my 8 year old daughter see the LOTR's in the theater because I decided it was a bit too intense for her AFTER watching it myself. I did bring my boys to see it, but they are older. She did get to see the LOTR on the TV, but it is less intense on the small screen, and she was a bit older then.
Movie ratings are just guidelines to give parents a few clues. My daughter thinks the "Mummy Returns" is a big funny joke and isn't scared by it at all. But the first Harry Potter movie did give her a bit of a scare (a fun scare, not a bad scare). Knowing your own kids, you have to decide what is OK for them - don't depend on some government or industry agency to make these decisions for you.
BTW, her in British Columbia (that's in Canada) we have quite a few sensible movie ratings:
G - General, ok for everyone (most Disney)
PG - Parental Guidance sugested, but no age limit. (Harry Potter)
14a - must be 14, or accompanied by an adult (Scorpian King, The Ring)
18a - must be 18 or accompanied by an adult (Resident Evil, 8 mile, Red Dragon)
18r - must be 18 (Pillow Book, Requiem for a Dream)
You don't need anti-bacterial soap to cleanse yourself of bacteria. Normal soap makes your skin SLIPPERY enough that a good rinse sends all the bacteria down the drain. Most research indicates that using any anti-bacterial products in your home is unneccessary. Normal soap and detergent will keep you and your home clean.
Anti-bacterial products can produce bacteria that are resitant to the anti-bacterial ingredient.
It has also been shown that kids that grow up in sterile homes (mom or dad use lots of anti-bacterial soap everywhere, every day) tend to get more infections once they get to school age as their immune system hasn't had to develop resistance to normal environmental bacteria (like you find at school).
He didn't listen to Leibnitz beause he was an egostical maniac, as well as a genuis. Newton independantly invented much of calculus at the same time as Liebnitz, but he did his darnedest to get all the credit. Calculus was a shiny new thing, so it made sense to explain it in his book.
There isn't a strong concenus that the "dynamo" theory is correct. It is a bit of a mystery how the Earth's magnetic field is generated. There isn't a better theory currently, but the mechanism isn't fully understood.
They just taking "known" white noise and adding the signal to be encoded to it. You end up with slightly different white noise. At the other end you subtract the "known" white noise, and voila! there is your un-encoded signal.
The only trick is making an algorith for white-noise and some how syncing things up.
That nothing compared to the very numerous 'dumb amerocan' stories up here in the Great white North.
Like the America tourist who wanted to go hunting in Canada. Brought his gun up, all nice and legal, then went hunting in a bushy area in the CENTER of West Vancouver. The 'forest' was a 50 foot wide green space buffer with a railroad running down the middle that runs close to the coast right in the middle of town.
Canada customs regularly confiscates guns from visiting American (or did before 9/11) coming up to Canada for a visit and forgot about a gun in the glove box or trunk.
And we all have visited California and got the locals to believe our neighbors are Eskimo's, we are real proud of the wooden sidewalks we just got put in, and we have snow all year - even if we are a 3 hour drive north of Seatle.
How many Americans are aware that Canada is their biggest trading partner? You have to combine all of Europe to match the trade the USA does with Canada.
Not in Europe and Canada. Aid's victims have full access to healthcare, just like an accident victim, or a smoker. You must be thinking about backwards countries like the USA.
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In Canada the primary use of guns is hunting and protection from animals, followed by target shooting. I've never heard anyone mention a gun as a defense against criminals. A gun at home should be locked up, the ammo locked seperately. If you can get your gun out fast enough for defense then it isn't stored safely.
the GPl gives you extra rights when you agree to it. If you disagree it reverts to standard copyright law where you have no rights at all.
The job of a boss is NOT to leach off others. It is to raise captital, orginize the bussiness, plan the product, hire the workers, sell the product, and make a profit.
I find the term "wage-slave" extremely offensive as it trivializes the rather more dire circumstances of real slaves. The "wage-slave" you are talking about will not be killed if they take a different job.
If being a boss is so easy, why don't you try it and stop whining? If its so easy having two profital years should be a snap. Oh? it isn't easy? It does take skill? What a surprise.
A particular recording of Ode to Joy does enjoy copyright protection. But anyone can record their version without paying royalties to Beethoven.
Mouse life isn't precious because it isn't human. That is my opinion, and I don't mind if you disagree - just don't try to force your opinion on others.
Well, yes science did give us the atom bomb. But that same science also lead to PET scans, etc... which have saved many lives. Science is a double edge sword. It is important to work towards having government that won't abuse the fruits of science. We'd all still be grunting in caves, too scared to even start a fire (it might burn someone, the horror!) if everyone was as scared of progress as you are.
The problems with golden rice etc... are NOT science problems, but government problems. It is the government that allows patents on foods, and big business that takes advatange of this.
Why would ANY rules be different for people who are clones vs 'normal'? Clones will be born, grow and learn just like any other baby. Cloning itself should be completely without controversy.
All the questions you are asking about clones should simply be applied to 'people'. The only reason I am against human cloning now is that the success rate is very low which will lead to much waste of potential life and deformed babies, and there is evidence that cloned people will suffer from health problems due to the cloning process.
Where it gets interesting is when you combine genetic engineering with cloning. Lets say you clone a person, but engineer out the brain and spinal cord. Is this modified clone a person or just a sack of organs that you can harvest?
I'm not totally sure about spiders that do the fluffly trampoline style webs, but orb weavers do a new web each day, and it takes them 2 to 3 hours to weave it. Most likely the giant web did in fact fact appear overnight.
Cable isn't worth even $30.00, out of all the chanenels available only 2 or 3 are worth watching. I canceled by cable 15 years ago and didn't miss it after 2 weeks. I might reconsider cable if I could pick the channels I wanted for a buck each a month. I can still watch Trek, the news, and Hockey (from Canda, hey) with my $6 bunny ears.
How much faster is an uncapped cable modem? At $40 bucks a month you'd have to really work at to steal $250,000 worth of bandwidth.
You Americans have given up way too much of the freedoms you are allways bragging about to the rest of the world during the War on Drugs, and now the War on Terrorism. George even had the gall to speachify about some crountries not spending enough on their military. Some of us are happy to NOT be war mongers.
DOSSD vs Socialism
lots of volunteers, lots of volunteers
useful work accomplished, useful work only pretended to be accomplished.
People 'give' according to their talents, People pretend to 'give' according to their talents, acting mainly.
Everyone shares the end product, everyone shares the end product which in this case is vapor
Hard workers gain the admiration of their peers, hard workers soon shown the error of their ways
Ah, the tragedy of the commons - the end of many a utopia.
loose is the opposite of tight.
lose is the opposite of find.
Please, spell "lose billions of dollars" correctly - it makes my head hurt trying to figure out how you make dollars "loose".
I am a bit wierded out when I see parents bringing five year olds to see something like "The Cell". What the hell are the parents thinking?
Harry might be a natural with magic, but it is Hermione who knows how to petrify a friend (and be praised for it), open locks, and charm carniverous plants. Like many "nerds", her talents are sometimes under appreciated by her peers until requried to save the day.
slashdot did a review on this series. I highly recommend the "Dark Materials" series to kids and adults that liked Harry Potter, or just like good fantasy.
Movie ratings are just guidelines to give parents a few clues. My daughter thinks the "Mummy Returns" is a big funny joke and isn't scared by it at all. But the first Harry Potter movie did give her a bit of a scare (a fun scare, not a bad scare). Knowing your own kids, you have to decide what is OK for them - don't depend on some government or industry agency to make these decisions for you.
BTW, her in British Columbia (that's in Canada) we have quite a few sensible movie ratings:
Fortunately, bacteria hae real hard time growing on stainless steel. So you are likely ok. If paranoid, use a paper towel to open the door.
You don't need anti-bacterial soap to cleanse yourself of bacteria. Normal soap makes your skin SLIPPERY enough that a good rinse sends all the bacteria down the drain. Most research indicates that using any anti-bacterial products in your home is unneccessary. Normal soap and detergent will keep you and your home clean.
Anti-bacterial products can produce bacteria that are resitant to the anti-bacterial ingredient.
It has also been shown that kids that grow up in sterile homes (mom or dad use lots of anti-bacterial soap everywhere, every day) tend to get more infections once they get to school age as their immune system hasn't had to develop resistance to normal environmental bacteria (like you find at school).
More info on the Newton / Leibniz battle:
Newton vs Leibniz
He didn't listen to Leibnitz beause he was an egostical maniac, as well as a genuis. Newton independantly invented much of calculus at the same time as Liebnitz, but he did his darnedest to get all the credit. Calculus was a shiny new thing, so it made sense to explain it in his book.
Origin of mag field
You mean like this: Nasa Anti-Hoax page.
The only trick is making an algorith for white-noise and some how syncing things up.
I'm not sure how they plan on using this.
Like the America tourist who wanted to go hunting in Canada. Brought his gun up, all nice and legal, then went hunting in a bushy area in the CENTER of West Vancouver. The 'forest' was a 50 foot wide green space buffer with a railroad running down the middle that runs close to the coast right in the middle of town.
Canada customs regularly confiscates guns from visiting American (or did before 9/11) coming up to Canada for a visit and forgot about a gun in the glove box or trunk.
And we all have visited California and got the locals to believe our neighbors are Eskimo's, we are real proud of the wooden sidewalks we just got put in, and we have snow all year - even if we are a 3 hour drive north of Seatle.
How many Americans are aware that Canada is their biggest trading partner? You have to combine all of Europe to match the trade the USA does with Canada.
2001 total production
Canada 2,582,787
USA 2,636,955
Canada has lots of cheap Hydro electric power which is required to smelt aluminium. Lots more stats at www.aluminium.org and a nice overview here Aluminium industry over the last 45 years. And a real nice summary with easy to read tables, aluminuim PDF
Not in Europe and Canada. Aid's victims have full access to healthcare, just like an accident victim, or a smoker. You must be thinking about backwards countries like the USA.