Potential people? Everything is a potential person, if you go back far enough. Choosing to start the potential for human life at an embryo is completely arbitrary. What will you say if/when it becomes possible to fabricate an embryo from scratch in a lab? Are the (presumably) "non-living" ingredients potential people? How about the ingredients for the ingredients?
We're just elements combined together in a certain way, like everything else. Humans just got shitty luck and realized it.
Make all the animal-human hybrids you want, I say.
Now something that happened to my friend makes total sense.
He needed a new hard drive, so we picked one up at Circuit City (hey, he needed it fast). When we opened the box, instead of a shiny new 100GB Western Digital hard drive, it was one of those huge old Quantum Bigfoot drives, like 4GB.
Until now I had no idea how that could have happened.
Haha so to answer your question - yes, obviously some people have gotten away with it.
I don't think that concaving the keys slightly (like just the clear plastic on top of the OLED), and adding little bumps on the F and J keys would really distort the image.
Uhhh, and if you look at the heading above that list, you'll see those are all from "The Other Side", their equivalent of Yahoo's Oddly Enough, or any other news site's "weird news" section. Just because it's strange (to the general public) doesn't mean it's not true - check out the other postings with links to the Scientific American article and I believe some other peer-reviewed articles on the same subject from more reputable sources. This was just a case of using a shitty link.
What I don't understand is where all these "spare" lightsabers come from. Isn't it supposed to be a rite of passage for a Jedi to build their own lightsaber? How can there be extras lying around if somebody loses theirs? RotS made it seem like you couldn't walk around without someone handing you a lightsaber.
Well, that's not really memory enhancing, since studies show that people with PDA's have a harder time recalling dates, times, names, etc. because they don't have to anymore - they can just look it up. The more you rely on something else to supply you with information the worse your memory gets.
I don't think humans can evolve on Earth in the way that you suggest (as in, naturally) because our population is too big. If we do evolve it will be because of our tinkering with our own DNA on purpose - but is that really evolution, if we do it to ourselves? Also, I wouldn't call the work of nature "careful" at all.
Do you honestly think we'll have handheld devices for more than 50 years? I'd be really surprised if we interact physically with any "devices" (which will probably become an obsolete word) in 100 years.
At any rate, I think the future of evolution is what's going to happen when we send a few hundred (thousand? a small number, relatively speaking) people each on ships to colonize space and they're all left on their own (reproduction-wise) for a long time.
I wish you the best of luck, but one piece of advice: Do not master your CD's yourself - even if you know how. It's worth the expense of letting someone who knows what they're doing (and, more importantly, someone who hasn't heard the material before and can take an objective viewpoint of it from purely sound balance perspective) do it.
Well, Powerbook LCD's suck. The entire thing failed on me and I had to get a whole new screen - not cheap. I eventually sold that fucker and got a Rhodes piano - the Powerbook is not missed haha.
You know....you don't have to watch the little progress bar when you download stuff...you just kind of let it sit there for awhile on its own and you are free to do other things! Amazing, I know, but true.
His point was that the industry is just trying to cash in on recycling old songs, because they're fucking lazy. A better example would probably be Puff Daddy's overzealous "sampling" of entire songs. It's especially bad in mainstream rap. Now, I'm not anti-sampling, when creatively done, it's great - see: Jason Forrest, and work by the Dust Brothers, like Paul's Boutique. Many underground rap artists are more creative in their sampling as well.
If you're not mature enough to take responsibility for your actions when on mind-altering substances then you shouldn't take them. I'm not saying you're not, I'm just saying that not everybody uses them as an excuse. Drugs (this includes alcohol) are never a scapegoat for me and my friends. If we do something stupid while intoxicated, we'll probably apologize later if we hurt somebody in some way. But for the most part, if you're stupid in the first place, you'll do stupid things on drugs. If you educate yourself on how they'll affect you and what to expect, I don't think you'll have any problems.
I used to feel the same exact way as you. But then I realized I was just being a big pussy and didn't trust myself. I don't use drugs to escape into some fantasy world, I use them to gain a different perspective on things - I never lose touch with reality.
All that being said, I think I'm in the minority when it comes to this philosophy on drug use, sadly.
There's no such thing as eternal damnation in Hinduism - you live a little you die a little, etc. etc. Also, there are no "right" gods or "wrong" gods, there is only one God, people just call Him/Her/It by different names. All are valid.
You could live for a million years and prove or disprove natural selection. You can't say the same thing about creationism.
Also, what kind of god would send a caring, loving, generous, good person to hell just because they didn't believe in the Bible? Sounds like a pretty shitty god to me.
Your job would not be so frustrating if you simply treated your theory as it is - a theory.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but evolution is a fact. Well, and a theory. The fact is that evolution happened. The theory part is how that evolution happened.
A good quote: "It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a fact that the earth with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun.
The controversies about evolution lie in the realm of the relative importance of various forces in molding evolution."
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It would be cowardly if we lived in a world where people didn't get punished for what they said. In this world, it's just common sense.
Besides, it's not like if you don't sign your real name whatever it is you want to say doesn't get said.
Potential people? Everything is a potential person, if you go back far enough. Choosing to start the potential for human life at an embryo is completely arbitrary. What will you say if/when it becomes possible to fabricate an embryo from scratch in a lab? Are the (presumably) "non-living" ingredients potential people? How about the ingredients for the ingredients?
We're just elements combined together in a certain way, like everything else. Humans just got shitty luck and realized it.
Make all the animal-human hybrids you want, I say.
Now something that happened to my friend makes total sense.
He needed a new hard drive, so we picked one up at Circuit City (hey, he needed it fast). When we opened the box, instead of a shiny new 100GB Western Digital hard drive, it was one of those huge old Quantum Bigfoot drives, like 4GB.
Until now I had no idea how that could have happened.
Haha so to answer your question - yes, obviously some people have gotten away with it.
Or maybe 'Les Yeux Sans Visage' (Eyes Without a Face), which was made 30 years before either?
And the opposing forces' commanders would say stuff like, "Don't shoot until you see the whites of their...really white teeeth."
I think the test will be the last 10 minutes. If they show V's face I might wage a vendetta of my own against the Wachowskis.
I don't think that concaving the keys slightly (like just the clear plastic on top of the OLED), and adding little bumps on the F and J keys would really distort the image.
And it looks like control+semicolon, [letter] will give you umlauts. Sweet.
But as the other guy said, it doesn't work for everything, like for textboxes you'd have to put in the html code for those characters.
He said being a giant tortoise. In which case I'd go with using a digital camera.
Uhhh, and if you look at the heading above that list, you'll see those are all from "The Other Side", their equivalent of Yahoo's Oddly Enough, or any other news site's "weird news" section. Just because it's strange (to the general public) doesn't mean it's not true - check out the other postings with links to the Scientific American article and I believe some other peer-reviewed articles on the same subject from more reputable sources. This was just a case of using a shitty link.
Sidenote, what the fuck are boffins?
Yeah, Han and Chewie had plenty of adventures before they met up with Obi-Wan and Luke...the stuff that Brian Daley wrote could make a decent show.
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What I don't understand is where all these "spare" lightsabers come from. Isn't it supposed to be a rite of passage for a Jedi to build their own lightsaber? How can there be extras lying around if somebody loses theirs? RotS made it seem like you couldn't walk around without someone handing you a lightsaber.
Well, that's not really memory enhancing, since studies show that people with PDA's have a harder time recalling dates, times, names, etc. because they don't have to anymore - they can just look it up. The more you rely on something else to supply you with information the worse your memory gets.
...why does their economy suck so much ass?
I don't think humans can evolve on Earth in the way that you suggest (as in, naturally) because our population is too big. If we do evolve it will be because of our tinkering with our own DNA on purpose - but is that really evolution, if we do it to ourselves? Also, I wouldn't call the work of nature "careful" at all.
Do you honestly think we'll have handheld devices for more than 50 years? I'd be really surprised if we interact physically with any "devices" (which will probably become an obsolete word) in 100 years.
At any rate, I think the future of evolution is what's going to happen when we send a few hundred (thousand? a small number, relatively speaking) people each on ships to colonize space and they're all left on their own (reproduction-wise) for a long time.
I wish you the best of luck, but one piece of advice: Do not master your CD's yourself - even if you know how. It's worth the expense of letting someone who knows what they're doing (and, more importantly, someone who hasn't heard the material before and can take an objective viewpoint of it from purely sound balance perspective) do it.
Well, Powerbook LCD's suck. The entire thing failed on me and I had to get a whole new screen - not cheap. I eventually sold that fucker and got a Rhodes piano - the Powerbook is not missed haha.
You know....you don't have to watch the little progress bar when you download stuff...you just kind of let it sit there for awhile on its own and you are free to do other things! Amazing, I know, but true.
His point was that the industry is just trying to cash in on recycling old songs, because they're fucking lazy. A better example would probably be Puff Daddy's overzealous "sampling" of entire songs. It's especially bad in mainstream rap. Now, I'm not anti-sampling, when creatively done, it's great - see: Jason Forrest, and work by the Dust Brothers, like Paul's Boutique. Many underground rap artists are more creative in their sampling as well.
If you're not mature enough to take responsibility for your actions when on mind-altering substances then you shouldn't take them. I'm not saying you're not, I'm just saying that not everybody uses them as an excuse. Drugs (this includes alcohol) are never a scapegoat for me and my friends. If we do something stupid while intoxicated, we'll probably apologize later if we hurt somebody in some way. But for the most part, if you're stupid in the first place, you'll do stupid things on drugs. If you educate yourself on how they'll affect you and what to expect, I don't think you'll have any problems.
I used to feel the same exact way as you. But then I realized I was just being a big pussy and didn't trust myself. I don't use drugs to escape into some fantasy world, I use them to gain a different perspective on things - I never lose touch with reality.
All that being said, I think I'm in the minority when it comes to this philosophy on drug use, sadly.
No, I think it's just to get the "the real goal is to get the one posting the 'spam warning' modded up" post modded up!
There's no such thing as eternal damnation in Hinduism - you live a little you die a little, etc. etc. Also, there are no "right" gods or "wrong" gods, there is only one God, people just call Him/Her/It by different names. All are valid.
Educate yourself, fool.
You could live for a million years and prove or disprove natural selection. You can't say the same thing about creationism.
Also, what kind of god would send a caring, loving, generous, good person to hell just because they didn't believe in the Bible? Sounds like a pretty shitty god to me.
Your job would not be so frustrating if you simply treated your theory as it is - a theory.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but evolution is a fact. Well, and a theory. The fact is that evolution happened. The theory part is how that evolution happened.
A good quote:
"It is time for students of the evolutionary process, especially those who have been misquoted and used by the creationists, to state clearly that evolution is a fact, not theory, and that what is at issue within biology are questions of details of the process and the relative importance of different mechanisms of evolution. It is a fact that the earth with liquid water, is more than 3.6 billion years old. It is a fact that cellular life has been around for at least half of that period and that organized multicellular life is at least 800 million years old. It is a fact that major life forms now on earth were not at all represented in the past. There were no birds or mammals 250 million years ago. It is a fact that major life forms of the past are no longer living. There used to be dinosaurs and Pithecanthropus, and there are none now. It is a fact that all living forms come from previous living forms. Therefore, all present forms of life arose from ancestral forms that were different. Birds arose from nonbirds and humans from nonhumans. No person who pretends to any understanding of the natural world can deny these facts any more than she or he can deny that the earth is round, rotates on its axis, and revolves around the sun.
The controversies about evolution lie in the realm of the relative importance of various forces in molding evolution."
- R. C. Lewontin