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Uh, how does knowing the frontal lobe and motor cortex inside and out such that one could actually control someone via remote control not have realistic medical applications. This could bring out all new cybernetic solutions to motor fuction difficulties and, as it also demonstrates the workings of the brain, could lead to alleviation of lesions etc therein.
I think that about the time we started tweaking genes and 'playing god' as so many people like to put it, that's when it became ethical. If we're going to tweak genes and alter brain functions/chemicals (and we are, no matter how many people protest), then SOMETHING needs to be the focus of the experiments. Personally, I think we should just do the experiments on the current Whitehouse administration, but that's just me.
I think we need to get past this 'ethical' bullshit on animals. So long as they aren't screaming in absolute agony and we're sitting there laughing at it, of course... but this image of cruel scientists performing sadistic acts on animals, then doing the actual research to ensure funding remains intact is crap. Psychologists and Biologists, in most animal-testing cases, are simply trying to test hypotheses in order to improve our understanding of the world around us. Is that so fucking hard to understand??
Most people who 'write off' assets are deducting spending as business-required spending so they don't have to pay income tax on it. It seems to me that income tax encourages spending.
...huge import tariffs. Not huge, but a little less USA-influenced....they plan on taxing the hell out of property owners. Yes, to an extent, but it involves a complete income tax system revamp. It also, more importantly, means that you can reduce your taxation when you're only paying for necessities, as opposed to the luxuries for which people who can afford taxes would be willing to pay. This would reduce welfare strain, for example....and unofficially, don't worry; computer technology is considered as necessary as a phone.;)
I find your friends party interesting except for one problem. I've never heard of it.
It just started, and was hibernating for 7 months because the entire people behind it got hit by a really rough year financially. It's page is http://www.patriotparty.ca
See the National Party in 1993 Canada elections history. They got their publicity despite the crap, and failed mainly because they didn't focus their energies on certain ridings their first time around.
We have a Green Party too, but they are more 'return to grassroots' than 'move forward.' Green rather than grey.
Special interest groups can be labour parties or can simply be situations where those groups are so big that their donations allow them to give sway the same way as corporations. Many board members of such groups also have corporate interests... it's simply cutting out visible flaws.
a friend of mine just started a new political party, The Patriot Party of Canada, and the biggest thing going for it is that it does not accept donations from corporations or special interest groups. Only time will tell whether he can succeed with it or not, but it shows that many people are getting the message. The response so far has not been negative, either.
Here in Canada, it is high time that a wireless company took off with investments... OH WAIT, the CRTC, which has been taking cocks in its ass from corporations, won't let you use the airwaves. The problem is the lines. I think the best solution is just hooking your neighbourhood up on a T1.
Who cared that Clinton got a blowjob from a fat-trashy whore in the whitehouse? It wasn't illegal, and it's his own personal business so long as it doesn't interfere with his work. He lied. On the stand. Under oath. Now, his lying doesn't bother me anywhere but under oath; what else might he have lied about?
Now to correlate this with Gates, Gates has lied, under oath, repeatedly in court. It's not that he's rich; it's that he's committing purjury.
is that people can close their eyes during that part of the movie if they are so bothered by it; don't ruin a well-done part of the movie for everyone else just because you're an emotional basketcase (for whatever reason).
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Uh, how does knowing the frontal lobe and motor cortex inside and out such that one could actually control someone via remote control not have realistic medical applications. This could bring out all new cybernetic solutions to motor fuction difficulties and, as it also demonstrates the workings of the brain, could lead to alleviation of lesions etc therein.
I think that about the time we started tweaking genes and 'playing god' as so many people like to put it, that's when it became ethical. If we're going to tweak genes and alter brain functions/chemicals (and we are, no matter how many people protest), then SOMETHING needs to be the focus of the experiments. Personally, I think we should just do the experiments on the current Whitehouse administration, but that's just me.
I think we need to get past this 'ethical' bullshit on animals. So long as they aren't screaming in absolute agony and we're sitting there laughing at it, of course... but this image of cruel scientists performing sadistic acts on animals, then doing the actual research to ensure funding remains intact is crap. Psychologists and Biologists, in most animal-testing cases, are simply trying to test hypotheses in order to improve our understanding of the world around us. Is that so fucking hard to understand??
Most people who 'write off' assets are deducting spending as business-required spending so they don't have to pay income tax on it. It seems to me that income tax encourages spending.
...huge import tariffs. ...they plan on taxing the hell out of property owners. ...and unofficially, don't worry; computer technology is considered as necessary as a phone. ;)
Not huge, but a little less USA-influenced.
Yes, to an extent, but it involves a complete income tax system revamp. It also, more importantly, means that you can reduce your taxation when you're only paying for necessities, as opposed to the luxuries for which people who can afford taxes would be willing to pay.
This would reduce welfare strain, for example.
Nope, and your comments are off to the webmaster.
I find your friends party interesting except for one problem. I've never heard of it.
It just started, and was hibernating for 7 months because the entire people behind it got hit by a really rough year financially.
It's page is http://www.patriotparty.ca
See the National Party in 1993 Canada elections history. They got their publicity despite the crap, and failed mainly because they didn't focus their energies on certain ridings their first time around.
I'm not saying Bush is doing anything wrong...
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Why not? Everyone else is: http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp
Aren't corporations supposed to, in law, have the rights of an individual? Shouldn't they be subject to that limit the same as an individual?
We have a Green Party too, but they are more 'return to grassroots' than 'move forward.' Green rather than grey.
Special interest groups can be labour parties or can simply be situations where those groups are so big that their donations allow them to give sway the same way as corporations. Many board members of such groups also have corporate interests... it's simply cutting out visible flaws.
a friend of mine just started a new political party, The Patriot Party of Canada, and the biggest thing going for it is that it does not accept donations from corporations or special interest groups. Only time will tell whether he can succeed with it or not, but it shows that many people are getting the message. The response so far has not been negative, either.
Probably not so much Duck Hunt, but it sure would be sweet to get SMB3 on my GBA. Then I could go blind!
I think it's too much time spent in your room alone that's causing that one.
Here in Canada, it is high time that a wireless company took off with investments... OH WAIT, the CRTC, which has been taking cocks in its ass from corporations, won't let you use the airwaves.
The problem is the lines. I think the best solution is just hooking your neighbourhood up on a T1.
The law industry's cash flow is going to go through the roof while the RIAA's will drop over the next 50 years.
Go team.
My valuable tag has faded, I'm afraid.
I forget so much... and nobody appears interested in anything less than 5 years experience anymore.
I sympathize... I only did it for two years, but... I sympathize.
Granted, I'm trying to get back into it...
In reference to your sig, me too. We must be the only 2 in the world (Taco's just faking it)
Who cared that Clinton got a blowjob from a fat-trashy whore in the whitehouse? It wasn't illegal, and it's his own personal business so long as it doesn't interfere with his work.
He lied.
On the stand.
Under oath.
Now, his lying doesn't bother me anywhere but under oath; what else might he have lied about?
Now to correlate this with Gates, Gates has lied, under oath, repeatedly in court. It's not that he's rich; it's that he's committing purjury.
Come to Ottawa. Our busses may not always be on time, but goddamn they're not slow.
Maybe during rush hour.
My girlfriend has lived there all of her life.
For a population of 2 million, why?
I mean, they have a bus transportation system (the CAT bus, which apparently sucks, but anyway)
The world... she makes no sense!
In this growing global economy, any country of value is owned by the same oil-companies and the banking cartel in switzerland.
You seem to think we're all still separate...
is that people can close their eyes during that part of the movie if they are so bothered by it; don't ruin a well-done part of the movie for everyone else just because you're an emotional basketcase (for whatever reason).
So close your eyes during that part of the movie; don't ruin something very cool for the rest of us because you're an emotional basketcase.