It's not ironic because the/. article and VV article are about different drugs that block different things. The/. article is about a drug that blocks the euphoric feelings one gets when taking recreational drugs, so vaccinated against vices is the appropriate title. The VV article is about a drug that blocks feelings of guilt and remorse, and it's taken after an event, so it's more like a cure than a vaccine. Anyhow, the two articles are different, so no irony.
If you look at the whois, the registration date is June 14, 2004. The earliest entry on the ilovebees.blogspot.com blog is June 13, 2004. Oops, they jumped the gun a bit. Ilovebees.net does have the same June 14, 2004 creation date as the dot com address, though it is registered to NAMESDIRECT.COM, INC.
An attack against a military or government target is NOT a terrorist attack. It is an act of WAR. A terrorist attack is a deliberate attack upon civilians. So, the attack on the WTC is a terrorist attack, whereas the attack on the pentagon is an act of war. The civilians on the pentagon plane were collateral damage. What the revolutionary Americans did was an act of war against an foriegn oppressive regime.
Doesn't this sound like a much nicer solution than grandma (Whether she has a good reason or not) pushing for stupid laws (like every DVD that contains naked boobies being on shelves at least 5 feet high, etc,etc)?
What's wrong with that!?! When all the good movies are at the five foot level, I don't have to bend over to check it out or put it in my cart. I can just knock it in with a minimum of energy expenditure. So a few midgets get screwed, so what. Better to accomadate >99% of the population than a miniscule minority.
On the other hand, the medicine that makes my blood clot normally comes from paid plasma donors, some of whom donate in spite of having HIV, and the manufacturer accepting these donations accepts this.
I don't know where this company is, but my company pays donors to donate plasma, and all the donations are checked for HIV, Hep-B, and some other diseases. We then take this plasma and use it to make controls and calibrators for diagnostic equipment. If we did get some HIV positive plasma we would have to destroy it.
How would you keep the "shun" function from being abused, for example as a quick way to gain invulnerability against a certain player, or group of players?
Consider this. Player A is fighting a monster. Monster dies and drops a valuable item. Player B teleports in and grabs both items. Player A is helpless to stop him because C has A set to "shun", so he can't hurt him or talk to him.
Restraining orders? Player X can't get within fifty distance units of player Y or somthing like that. Maybe have monster's tagged so that whoever is shunned by the killer can't acquire the items of that monster.
Where I work (biotech company), I spray 70% denatured ethanol on my calculator, mouse, and phone frequently. They've never crapped out on me because of it. I imagine the results would be similar for a cell phone.
I read a different article, and in it the censor was quoted as saying that showing the architect or creator as a human with a human voice was opposed to the Islamic concept of Allah. This was especially dangerous because the majority of the people were uneducated and would what they were shown at face value. Sorry I can't provide the link.
Try looking at the bristlecone pine. The oldest known one is Methuselah at 4,767 years old. There was an older one named Prometheus, but some jackass cut it down.
I never got the playing god argument. If playing god is so wrong, why were we made in god's image. And wouldn't that make these scientists godly people? Also, if Jesus Christ is the son of God, and the whole trinity thing, ( what were they smoking? ) and being a Christian means your supposed to be like Christ, therefore like God, then wouldn't playing god be a Christ like, and therefore Christian, thing to do?
I doubt we are going to be pumping out thousands of lifeforms as big as humans just for the hell of it. Why not produce lifeforms that can (for example) consume greenhouse gasses and produce energy? That would certainly reduce the strain on the environment.
I got me some o dem dar critters in me pond. I call dem single cell algae.
Man, and I'm still squeezing the last bit of life out of my Pentium 233!"
Well, by my guidelines, it's time for you to upgrade. The way I figure it, if everything in the computer world is about an order of magnitude faster, larger, whatever, than it is time to upgrade. I went from a p166 to an amd xp2100 a couple of months ago. The hard drive went from 4 GB to 80. Likewise for other components. This means you would upgrade only once every five or six years.
I saw one once in junior high, where some guy place some newspaper sheets that were unfolded ontop of a yardstick, and made sure there were no airbubbles or anything like that. The yardstick was on top of a table sticking out about halfway, when he hit the yardstick, and it broke. Somthing about the surface area of the newspaper x psi of atmosphere > force on stick. Also, try goobleck. It's a cornstarch based substance that behaves as a solid or a liquid. Water is the other ingredient, but I don't remember the ratio. If you stick your fingers into a bowl and try to pull out quickly, your hand will get get stuck as if it were a solid.
Really, really lucky is about odds. Given a large enough universe and enough time, say, 14 billion years, just about anything could happen, even life. As for the values bit, any universe where these values, if altered by a thousandth of a percent,, would not have us to wonder why the universe, or world, fits us so well. Similar to how a puddle would wonder, if puddles could wonder, how the depression it rests in fits it so well.
Although... Isn't there a catch-22 here? The DMCA is a copyright protection device, ruling it unconstitutional would be circumventing a copyright protection device, thus illegal under the DMCA.
Well, no. The constitution is the supreme law of the land. If the DMCA is unconstitutional, than it is an illegal law, and any provisions in it are null and void. While ruling it unconstitutional would be circumventing a copyright protection device, it would be the legal thing to do.
Do some video games cause some kids to commit violent acts? Probably.
I'd say it's more a case of violent kids being attracted to violent videogames. I seriously doubt that violent videogames cause kids to act in a violent manner. Violence is an inherant part of a competitive and predatory species.
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It's not ironic because the /. article and VV article are about different drugs that block different things. The /. article is about a drug that blocks the euphoric feelings one gets when taking recreational drugs, so vaccinated against vices is the appropriate title. The VV article is about a drug that blocks feelings of guilt and remorse, and it's taken after an event, so it's more like a cure than a vaccine. Anyhow, the two articles are different, so no irony.
If you look at the whois, the registration date is June 14, 2004. The earliest entry on the ilovebees.blogspot.com blog is June 13, 2004. Oops, they jumped the gun a bit. Ilovebees.net does have the same June 14, 2004 creation date as the dot com address, though it is registered to NAMESDIRECT.COM, INC.
An attack against a military or government target is NOT a terrorist attack. It is an act of WAR. A terrorist attack is a deliberate attack upon civilians. So, the attack on the WTC is a terrorist attack, whereas the attack on the pentagon is an act of war. The civilians on the pentagon plane were collateral damage. What the revolutionary Americans did was an act of war against an foriegn oppressive regime.
(Are we a democracy?)
We're a republic. Not a democracy. There is a difference.
I checked it now and I got this:
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27250
Looks like you need some more accomplices, or time.
Doesn't this sound like a much nicer solution than grandma (Whether she has a good reason or not) pushing for stupid laws (like every DVD that contains naked boobies being on shelves at least 5 feet high, etc,etc)?
What's wrong with that!?! When all the good movies are at the five foot level, I don't have to bend over to check it out or put it in my cart. I can just knock it in with a minimum of energy expenditure. So a few midgets get screwed, so what. Better to accomadate >99% of the population than a miniscule minority.
On the other hand, the medicine that makes my blood clot normally comes from paid plasma donors, some of whom donate in spite of having HIV, and the manufacturer accepting these donations accepts this.
I don't know where this company is, but my company pays donors to donate plasma, and all the donations are checked for HIV, Hep-B, and some other diseases. We then take this plasma and use it to make controls and calibrators for diagnostic equipment. If we did get some HIV positive plasma we would have to destroy it.
http://deadbrain.co.uk/news/article_2004_01_04_542 1.php
How would you keep the "shun" function from being abused, for example as a quick way to gain invulnerability against a certain player, or group of players?
Consider this. Player A is fighting a monster. Monster dies and drops a valuable item. Player B teleports in and grabs both items. Player A is helpless to stop him because C has A set to "shun", so he can't hurt him or talk to him.
Restraining orders? Player X can't get within fifty distance units of player Y or somthing like that. Maybe have monster's tagged so that whoever is shunned by the killer can't acquire the items of that monster.
Where I work (biotech company), I spray 70% denatured ethanol on my calculator, mouse, and phone frequently. They've never crapped out on me because of it. I imagine the results would be similar for a cell phone.
Make a movie about the Boston Tea Party and it could do very well. Maybe not in England though.
I read a different article, and in it the censor was quoted as saying that showing the architect or creator as a human with a human voice was opposed to the Islamic concept of Allah. This was especially dangerous because the majority of the people were uneducated and would what they were shown at face value. Sorry I can't provide the link.
Try looking at the bristlecone pine. The oldest known one is Methuselah at 4,767 years old. There was an older one named Prometheus, but some jackass cut it down.
http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html
T A R G E T
and the people are cleaner too!
However, the noble prize is not awarded posthumorously.
Ahh crap! I've told too many jokes to get the nobel prize now.
I never got the playing god argument. If playing god is so wrong, why were we made in god's image. And wouldn't that make these scientists godly people? Also, if Jesus Christ is the son of God, and the whole trinity thing, ( what were they smoking? ) and being a Christian means your supposed to be like Christ, therefore like God, then wouldn't playing god be a Christ like, and therefore Christian, thing to do?
I doubt we are going to be pumping out thousands of lifeforms as big as humans just for the hell of it. Why not produce lifeforms that can (for example) consume greenhouse gasses and produce energy? That would certainly reduce the strain on the environment.
I got me some o dem dar critters in me pond. I call dem single cell algae.
Man, and I'm still squeezing the last bit of life out of my Pentium 233!"
Well, by my guidelines, it's time for you to upgrade. The way I figure it, if everything in the computer world is about an order of magnitude faster, larger, whatever, than it is time to upgrade. I went from a p166 to an amd xp2100 a couple of months ago. The hard drive went from 4 GB to 80. Likewise for other components. This means you would upgrade only once every five or six years.
I saw one once in junior high, where some guy place some newspaper sheets that were unfolded ontop of a yardstick, and made sure there were no airbubbles or anything like that. The yardstick was on top of a table sticking out about halfway, when he hit the yardstick, and it broke. Somthing about the surface area of the newspaper x psi of atmosphere > force on stick. Also, try goobleck. It's a cornstarch based substance that behaves as a solid or a liquid. Water is the other ingredient, but I don't remember the ratio. If you stick your fingers into a bowl and try to pull out quickly, your hand will get get stuck as if it were a solid.
Fuming HCl, at the least the stuff I use at work, is about 35% IIRC.
There is a God, or we got really, really lucky.
Really, really lucky is about odds. Given a large enough universe and enough time, say, 14 billion years, just about anything could happen, even life. As for the values bit, any universe where these values, if altered by a thousandth of a percent,, would not have us to wonder why the universe, or world, fits us so well. Similar to how a puddle would wonder, if puddles could wonder, how the depression it rests in fits it so well.
Although... Isn't there a catch-22 here? The DMCA is a copyright protection device, ruling it unconstitutional would be circumventing a copyright protection device, thus illegal under the DMCA.
Well, no. The constitution is the supreme law of the land. If the DMCA is unconstitutional, than it is an illegal law, and any provisions in it are null and void. While ruling it unconstitutional would be circumventing a copyright protection device, it would be the legal thing to do.
The usual IANAL caveat applies.
How about all beige?
Do some video games cause some kids to commit violent acts? Probably.
I'd say it's more a case of violent kids being attracted to violent videogames. I seriously doubt that violent videogames cause kids to act in a violent manner. Violence is an inherant part of a competitive and predatory species.