It's retarded to harp about "inflicting physical suffering" on a single cat, when there's horrific physical suffering being inflicted on animals on a global scale with farming and industrialized food production.
But yeah, you go ahead and rant about those easy targets despite the hypocrisy.
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I commend them for the science, but abhor the stupid commercialism of this....which could be applied to any of a billion other things daily.
look at it this way, it's a way for the public to fund cloning research, when the government refuses to.
pets were _already_ a commodity. the process of domestication made them so. go to your local "pet store" if you don't believe that pets are already a commodity.
pets are already "disposable", look at all the pets that end up in shelters.
this changes nothing. absolutely nothing at all. all these idiots are crowing that pet cloning is some completely new thing which suddenly turns the world of animal ethics upside down. it isn't. it's a continuation of business as usual.
We're going to "have to go there eventually", but Intel won't be doing it -- at least not with itanium. The itanium design is too severely flawed to benefit from anything epic could ever deliver.
I predict companies (amd, ibm, etc) will analyze the broken intel itanium design, then design an epic architecture which doesnt suck. Intel will continue to beat their dead horse in order to save face, unable to admit their design was broken.
1) The MIPS architecture dead-ended. It couldnt scale far enough to keep up with x86. 2) PC 3d hardware eventually surpassed anything SGI was capable of designing. 3) SGI had an opportunity to migrate to x86, but didn't take it seriously enoguh and blew it. Now they're paying the price. 4) For a while there, they couldn't decide if they wanted to be a server company, a workstation company, or a desktop x86 PC company. 5) They laid off most of the engineers of their proprietary hardware. A lot of it was undocumented, so nobody was left who knew how to make anything of SGI's work.
All of these spelled doom for SGI's traditional market. They've since been shoehorned into a tiny niche of supercomputers. They "still sell" workstations and servers, but nobody buys them for anything new anymore. It's simply legacy support for existing IRIX customers.
I have to agree. critics lambasted lynch's inner dialogue bits, but I thought they worked very well. lynch's dune was lightyears better than scifi's.
Not to mention lynch's visuals were amazing (and disturbing, as usual).
Not to mention that Kyle MacLachlan can act the pants off Alec Newman.
And yes, I did read the books.
fwiw scifi's 'children of dune' was much better then their first 'dune'. much better director. unlike scifi's first 'dune', it didnt come off shot like a 1960s batman episode, with screamingly obvious indoor sets with painted cloth backdrops.
Heck, make it a federal felony to be non-christian. Jews, buddhists, hindus, muslims, etc. are unwelcome in the USA. (Well, we're already there with muslims eh?)
Mandatory christian spellca^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprayer in school. Any kid caught not praying is sent to guantanamo bay.
Environmentalism is a federal offense.
Only american built automobiles are allowed. Importing foreign automobiles is a felony.
Mandatory assault rifle ownership. Grenades and C4 optional.
English is the only allowed language, anyone caught speaking a foreign language is to be shot on sight, then dragged for 10 miles tied to the bumper of a truck.
By law, employment opportunities are awarded in the following order: first to whites, then to asians, hispanics, other races. blacks are always last. Anyone caught violating this law will be publically lynched for being "un-american".
No one may get abortions for any reason whatsoever, including rape, fatal birth defect, or if it would kill the mother.
Sex for any reason other than purely procreation is strictly forbidden, anyone even suspected of the slightest enjoyment of sex shall be imprisoned for life. Also, sex in any position other than missionary is forbidden.
Any husband caught cheating on his wife is to be publically flogged. Any wife caught cheating on her husband is to be publically shot.
Homosexuality carries a mandatory death penalty.
Discussing birth control of any kind except pure abstinence is a federal crime.
Women may not get any education beyond grade school, and may not get any job other than secretarial. Preferably they stay unemployed at home, in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
Darwinism is a crime, anyone caught teaching evolution in schools is to be imprisoned for life.
you really think djb cares? given his well known history of being supreme asshole of the known universe?
fwiw this was obviously djb trying to get his students to dig up ammo for him to go on another one of his public penis-waving tantrums, acting all smug and high and mighty again (oh lookit me i wrote qmail and its all uber secure, and wooo lookit all the MISERABLE LAMERS WRITING SHIT CODE!!1!!111!)
omg gimp sux because it doesnt do everything photoshop does, everything gimp produces is amateurish and will never be as professional as anything made with photoshop, gimp is free only if your time is worthless, etc. kthxbye
omg gEDA sux because it doesnt do everything (some commercial product does), everything gEDA produces is amateurish and will never be as professional as anything made with (some commercial product), gEDA is free only if your time is worthless, etc. kthxbye
no ice will ever survive the incredible forces from the rifling. it's enough to groove metal bullets, think about what that does to ice.
ice is also very "hard", but brittle. there is no ice which will survive the extreme acceleration of your typical rifle (10,000 - 20,000 g's iirc). your ice will be completely pulverized, then vaporized in the hot exhaust gases (if it isnt' outright vaporized by the exhaust gases alone).
mythbusters showed us ice bullets which don't work. please feel free to go ahead and demonstrate an ice bullet which does work.
by the time you go ballistic, it will be too late. they will already have legislated it to be illegal to ignore advertisements. it will be illegal (max-headroom-style, or 1984-style) to not have a tv in your house, or to have a tv with an off switch.
they redid the ice bullets test using about 10 different permutations including different ice freezing speeds, different freezing methods, different liquids, etc.
basically a bunch of people complained about their first ice bullet test and suggested different ways to test, and they did them all.
in any case it's not the brittleness of ice that was the issue, it's that the ice melted. what you got out of the barrel of the gun was steam. every time. no matter what.
sorry if they challenged your sacred cow. that's what they do.
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Maybe I'm cynical, but is this a case of preying off someones emotions?
You've just described religion and millions of other emotionally exploitative things.
It's retarded to harp about "inflicting physical suffering" on a single cat, when there's horrific physical suffering being inflicted on animals on a global scale with farming and industrialized food production.
But yeah, you go ahead and rant about those easy targets despite the hypocrisy.
I commend them for the science, but abhor the stupid commercialism of this. ...which could be applied to any of a billion other things daily.
look at it this way, it's a way for the public to fund cloning research, when the government refuses to.
pets were _already_ a commodity. the process of domestication made them so. go to your local "pet store" if you don't believe that pets are already a commodity.
pets are already "disposable", look at all the pets that end up in shelters.
this changes nothing. absolutely nothing at all. all these idiots are crowing that pet cloning is some completely new thing which suddenly turns the world of animal ethics upside down. it isn't. it's a continuation of business as usual.
...why bring magic into the mess? it's a purely ethical question. we don't need no christian spellcasting involved.
...a way for the public to fund research, when the government refuses to.
as for "pathological fear of death", yeah. silly things like that make us do things like create vaccines and organ transplants and stuff.
yeah, trivial and silly. we should just accept death and not try to fight it. bah humbug!
I'm suprised erector set didn't make the list... and what about lincoln logs?
but then people would actually want to use apache 2.0, and we can't have that now can we?
Ah, this is obviously some new usage of the word 'fine' I was previously unaware of.
Interestingly, Suprnova posted torrents for Firefox, Thunderbird and other legal software. They helped share the load for legal software developers
Now you know one of the reasons SN was shut down. Certain corporations with deep pockets who feel threatened by opensource software.
The thing that affects me most is that we at TLMP get a large portion of our traffic for Linux ISO torrents from SuprNova's listings.
Now you know one of the reasons why SN was shut down.
there's no better place for offtopic rants than /. !
you can however fuckup their credit real good, so they will never ever be able to get any loans or credit or anything from ANYONE.
send a copy of the judgement to anyone doing business with them.
basically you can make it really hard for them to do business with anyone ever again, until they pay off their judgement.
keep in mind a fraction of a billion dollars is still quite a lot of money. i'm sure collection agencies will go wild over that amount.
We're going to "have to go there eventually", but Intel won't be doing it -- at least not with itanium. The itanium design is too severely flawed to benefit from anything epic could ever deliver.
I predict companies (amd, ibm, etc) will analyze the broken intel itanium design, then design an epic architecture which doesnt suck. Intel will continue to beat their dead horse in order to save face, unable to admit their design was broken.
1) The MIPS architecture dead-ended. It couldnt scale far enough to keep up with x86.
2) PC 3d hardware eventually surpassed anything SGI was capable of designing.
3) SGI had an opportunity to migrate to x86, but didn't take it seriously enoguh and blew it. Now they're paying the price.
4) For a while there, they couldn't decide if they wanted to be a server company, a workstation company, or a desktop x86 PC company.
5) They laid off most of the engineers of their proprietary hardware. A lot of it was undocumented, so nobody was left who knew how to make anything of SGI's work.
All of these spelled doom for SGI's traditional market. They've since been shoehorned into a tiny niche of supercomputers. They "still sell" workstations and servers, but nobody buys them for anything new anymore. It's simply legacy support for existing IRIX customers.
because sgi for all practical purposes has ceased to exist.
I have to agree. critics lambasted lynch's inner dialogue bits, but I thought they worked very well. lynch's dune was lightyears better than scifi's.
Not to mention lynch's visuals were amazing (and disturbing, as usual).
Not to mention that Kyle MacLachlan can act the pants off Alec Newman.
And yes, I did read the books.
fwiw scifi's 'children of dune' was much better then their first 'dune'. much better director. unlike scifi's first 'dune', it didnt come off shot like a 1960s batman episode, with screamingly obvious indoor sets with painted cloth backdrops.
No non-christian holidays at all.
Heck, make it a federal felony to be non-christian. Jews, buddhists, hindus, muslims, etc. are unwelcome in the USA. (Well, we're already there with muslims eh?)
Mandatory christian spellca^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprayer in school. Any kid caught not praying is sent to guantanamo bay.
Environmentalism is a federal offense.
Only american built automobiles are allowed. Importing foreign automobiles is a felony.
Mandatory assault rifle ownership. Grenades and C4 optional.
English is the only allowed language, anyone caught speaking a foreign language is to be shot on sight, then dragged for 10 miles tied to the bumper of a truck.
By law, employment opportunities are awarded in the following order: first to whites, then to asians, hispanics, other races. blacks are always last. Anyone caught violating this law will be publically lynched for being "un-american".
No one may get abortions for any reason whatsoever, including rape, fatal birth defect, or if it would kill the mother.
Sex for any reason other than purely procreation is strictly forbidden, anyone even suspected of the slightest enjoyment of sex shall be imprisoned for life. Also, sex in any position other than missionary is forbidden.
Any husband caught cheating on his wife is to be publically flogged. Any wife caught cheating on her husband is to be publically shot.
Homosexuality carries a mandatory death penalty.
Discussing birth control of any kind except pure abstinence is a federal crime.
Women may not get any education beyond grade school, and may not get any job other than secretarial. Preferably they stay unemployed at home, in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.
Darwinism is a crime, anyone caught teaching evolution in schools is to be imprisoned for life.
not a wise thing to do, they would have been failed immediately and expelled from the university.
you really think djb cares? given his well known history of being supreme asshole of the known universe?
fwiw this was obviously djb trying to get his students to dig up ammo for him to go on another one of his public penis-waving tantrums, acting all smug and high and mighty again (oh lookit me i wrote qmail and its all uber secure, and wooo lookit all the MISERABLE LAMERS WRITING SHIT CODE!!1!!111!)
i would have thought that was already patently obvious.
and if tdr ever teaches a class, don't take it either.
omg gimp sux because it doesnt do everything photoshop does, everything gimp produces is amateurish and will never be as professional as anything made with photoshop, gimp is free only if your time is worthless, etc. kthxbye
omg gEDA sux because it doesnt do everything (some commercial product does), everything gEDA produces is amateurish and will never be as professional as anything made with (some commercial product), gEDA is free only if your time is worthless, etc. kthxbye
no ice will ever survive the incredible forces from the rifling. it's enough to groove metal bullets, think about what that does to ice.
ice is also very "hard", but brittle. there is no ice which will survive the extreme acceleration of your typical rifle (10,000 - 20,000 g's iirc). your ice will be completely pulverized, then vaporized in the hot exhaust gases (if it isnt' outright vaporized by the exhaust gases alone).
mythbusters showed us ice bullets which don't work. please feel free to go ahead and demonstrate an ice bullet which does work.
by the time you go ballistic, it will be too late. they will already have legislated it to be illegal to ignore advertisements. it will be illegal (max-headroom-style, or 1984-style) to not have a tv in your house, or to have a tv with an off switch.
they redid the ice bullets test using about 10 different permutations including different ice freezing speeds, different freezing methods, different liquids, etc.
basically a bunch of people complained about their first ice bullet test and suggested different ways to test, and they did them all.
in any case it's not the brittleness of ice that was the issue, it's that the ice melted. what you got out of the barrel of the gun was steam. every time. no matter what.
sorry if they challenged your sacred cow. that's what they do.