All of the problems you mentioned can be solved. With the kind of computing power that we have today we could insist that such vehicles be piloted by computer only with a redundant computer system much like the shuttle,( no MS crap) 5 computers that all do the same computation and they vote on the answer.
The wireless competition has been a good thing. Verizon just lost a residential customer because their wireless division is doing so well competing with the wireless telcos. The deal we got for our cells got us two new digital phones, free nights and weekends(including long distance), more time than we'll use for less money that we were paying on the old plan and for less money than our residential line plus long distance. With the increase in phone spam we were getting it will be refreshing to have cell phones as our primary residence phone.
It is still illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones right?
To put it simply(and maybe inaccurately) Telomeres are strands of "junk" DNA that show the age of an organism. It is also thought that the length of the telomeres act as an aging trigger. As you age your telomere strands get shorter and shorter. During normal reproduction the telomeres are regenerated to full length. Dolly's shorten telomeres have been documented. Now, you could conceivable get around this problem if your donor cell was from a child.
As far as other defects are concerned, you must remember that you are moving delicate strands of DNA from one place and putting it somewhere else. There is no guarantee that the DNA you pinched is viable to begin with, though it may function well enough for that differentiated cell to work properly.
Your use of the word "Pro-abortion" gives your position away immediately. No matter how rational you try to make yourself sound, you kill your argument by using such rhetoric.
To answer your question, you are not a human being until you have a functioning brain. An embryo is not a human but rather human tissue with the potential to become a human. Potential is not actual. I have a penis therefor I am potentially a rapist. I am not a rapist, however.
But it's always the same, through all history the human has tried to become god, so now it's hte turn of the scientists, they didn't get their try, yet !
Ah yes, the fundamentalist charge, "you're trying to play god". This charge has been leveled at surgeons, doctors and scientists for centuries. Do you believe heart transplants are playing god? How about flu shots? As an aside, if we are created in god's image as many believe then isn't it our duty to play god?
It's a pitty, they sould use their brains and concentrate on more useful things, like finding methods to better preserve the nature and to the other way round, trying to control it. We're not going to manage this cloning stuff, it's only accelerating our path to an even darker future.
What's a pity is that most people have a tremendously poor understanding of science and the scientific method. You have no idea if this research will be useful or not, yet you judge it to be a waste. Often a discovery by a researcher in one field is picked up on by a researcher in another field and the findings are used in ways never thought of before(this fact spawned a few books and a TV series by James Burke which are well worth reading/watching). There is always value in scientific research because it advances our knowledge. More knowledge means we are better able to survive as a species.
I have some questions for those who freak out about the prospect of human reproductive cloning. What's wrong with human reproductive cloning? I always hear about the nebulous heavy ethical problems but the problems are never articulated or discussed. I do understand that 95% of the people in the US say they wouldn never use reproductive cloning. If that is so, then what do they have to fear from the 5% who would? It reminds me very much of the controversy surrounding in vitro fertilization. Most people were freaking out about "test tube babies!". Funny how reality is much less sensational than the fears of the uneducated masses. Human reproductive cloning can be a valuable, helpful procedure for some people, just as in vitro fertilization is.
SciFi will probably pick it up, fool with the timeslot and cancel it because it lost ratings when compared to the original timeslot. They're quickly becoming as pathetic as the USA network.
Yes, that's right they hate him. It's unlikely they would find a safe haven there. It's interesting to note that the kurds are friendly with al Qaeda according to our own CIA, which by the way does not consider Iraq a threat.
You mention nuclear weapons. That's interesting because it is often repeated by the administration and by the media that Iraq could produce nukes in 6 months if they had plutonium or uranium. Well here's a flash; so could I or any other modern day, halfway intellegent person. The hard part isn't making the nuke it's getting the fissionable material.
I'm doing the same thing. My kids share a win98 box right now and I'm going to build my son a linux box since they are both nuts over frozen bubbles and tend to tie up my laptop to play it. I read somewhere that you can download a linux version of Quake III Arena for free if you have purchased a Windows version. Do any of you know if this is true and if it is, where can I get it? They love playing Q3a and right now we only have two boxes to play from. They want to gang up on their dad.
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Forget the self cleaning shoe. This will be great for windows on skyscrapers.
I took my daughter, who will turn 6 on Tuesday, to see this film today and she loved it, scary parts and all. Of course she understand that it is, after all, just a movie.
I think it is a great movie for young children. It shows that even they can and should stand up to evil when it presents itself. I even told my kids that one of things I like most about Harry is his ability to stand up to adults when he knows he is right without showing fear.
I have a deskstar 30 Gig as well. In fact I just made the mistake yesterday of turning S.M.A.R.T. back on after I upgraded my bios. All the sudden I started getting all sorts of strange errors and sudden reboots. Luckily I realized my error and turned it off again. Wierd.
Farscape is Australian by the way. Kudos to them for making an outstanding Sci-Fi series. Is there some reason why local Australian TV doesn't pick it up?
I worked for a programmer back in the 80's who made a mistake that caused all credit card purchases to disappear from the electronic journal. This meant that their purchases were not recorded on their credit card statements. Fortunately for the company the bug did not affect the recording of the transactions on the paper journal. This bug wasn't discovered for a few days and it took quite some time to rekey all the credit transactions.
Unfortunately this was not her first or last mistake of this magnitude. Retailers often see IT as an expense rather than an asset and are as cheap as possible. This has a tendency to cause shoddy programming since they hire as few programmers as possible and overwork them and often software is put into production without being thoroughly tested. At least this was the case when I worked in retail some ten years ago--I don't think I'll do that again.
But I am finding that insurance companies have the same philosophy.
I've have often thought that once everyone, or nearly everyone is wired we should only allow communication about canidates and their positions to be posted on a government sponsored website. This way it could have the benefit of making a level playing ground and will keep campaign costs down. Each candidate would get a certain amount of webspace and that's it. If you can't get your position across with 200 Meg of space then something is wrong.
Granted this would take a constitutional amendment to pass but that does not make it impossible. Think about it, people were actually able to ratify a constitutional amendment banning alcohol, why not campaign reform? The beauty of it is that once people start really moving on such a scheme the big corporations will start a media blitz to try and convince people to not support it. Their efforts will only drive home the point that they need to be taken out of the equation.
Government is supposed to be for the people, not for the corporations.
Did you know that you are an idiot? the p4 has a 20 stage pipeline, which means the process of excecuting instructions is seperated into 20 peices, and the hardware used to do each one of those pecies works on part of a diffrent...
Most programs, of course, have more then one instruction...
No, I was talking about using floating point math for integers larger then 32 bits, rather then splitting 64 bit ints up into 32 bit chunks
You have some nerve calling someone else ignorant and stupid when you can't even tell the difference between then and than, my 8 year old son can do that.
The original SA Tivo runs on a 55Mghz PPC chip with 16 Meg of RAM. You are quite correct about bloatware. If they spent a little more energy on making a tight, light, stable OS and application perhaps they could use less expensive but suitable hardware and lower the price thus gaining market penetration.
.not that you are I have all of our boxes so powerful.
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Is the difference between are and or really that difficult? I can overlook "there's a few", but are instead of or? I hope for your sake that english is your second language. Or should I say for you're sake?
She's still pretty young but my daughter loves to play Q3A with me and my son. She basically likes to play anything we want to play. She gets very picky about the models used and wants one that is a "pretty girl" like her. At some point in her life I'm sure she'll have a boyfriend who she regularly beats in whatever FPS is around at the time.
The funny thing is that she will also play on the barbie website for hours. My son won't go near it.
So maybe someone should try and figure out why boys don't want to play barbie.
Can you really say that a telescope stares? Perhaps because it typically is fixed, but it is a tool so it doesn't really look. It just allows us to look.
You understand the appeal? Good, can you explain it to me? I have no idea why someone would want one of these( except maybe vanity). It seems to me to be a totally worthless piece of technology. But I could be wrong, that's why I'm asking.
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All of the problems you mentioned can be solved. With the kind of computing power that we have today we could insist that such vehicles be piloted by computer only with a redundant computer system much like the shuttle,( no MS crap) 5 computers that all do the same computation and they vote on the answer.
They make airplane parachutes that can actually prevent a hard crash.
As I said, these are not unsurmountable problems. The solutions to these problems are available today.
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The wireless competition has been a good thing. Verizon just lost a residential customer because their wireless division is doing so well competing with the wireless telcos. The deal we got for our cells got us two new digital phones, free nights and weekends(including long distance), more time than we'll use for less money that we were paying on the old plan and for less money than our residential line plus long distance. With the increase in phone spam we were getting it will be refreshing to have cell phones as our primary residence phone.
It is still illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones right?
To put it simply(and maybe inaccurately) Telomeres are strands of "junk" DNA that show the age of an organism. It is also thought that the length of the telomeres act as an aging trigger. As you age your telomere strands get shorter and shorter. During normal reproduction the telomeres are regenerated to full length. Dolly's shorten telomeres have been documented. Now, you could conceivable get around this problem if your donor cell was from a child.
As far as other defects are concerned, you must remember that you are moving delicate strands of DNA from one place and putting it somewhere else. There is no guarantee that the DNA you pinched is viable to begin with, though it may function well enough for that differentiated cell to work properly.
Sorry. It just hit my funny bone.
Your use of the word "Pro-abortion" gives your position away immediately. No matter how rational you try to make yourself sound, you kill your argument by using such rhetoric.
To answer your question, you are not a human being until you have a functioning brain. An embryo is not a human but rather human tissue with the potential to become a human. Potential is not actual. I have a penis therefor I am potentially a rapist. I am not a rapist, however.
The difference is not as subtle as you believe.
I have some questions for those who freak out about the prospect of human reproductive cloning. What's wrong with human reproductive cloning? I always hear about the nebulous heavy ethical problems but the problems are never articulated or discussed. I do understand that 95% of the people in the US say they wouldn never use reproductive cloning. If that is so, then what do they have to fear from the 5% who would? It reminds me very much of the controversy surrounding in vitro fertilization. Most people were freaking out about "test tube babies!". Funny how reality is much less sensational than the fears of the uneducated masses. Human reproductive cloning can be a valuable, helpful procedure for some people, just as in vitro fertilization is.
SciFi will probably pick it up, fool with the timeslot and cancel it because it lost ratings when compared to the original timeslot. They're quickly becoming as pathetic as the USA network.
Is still canceled.
Yes, that's right they hate him. It's unlikely they would find a safe haven there. It's interesting to note that the kurds are friendly with al Qaeda according to our own CIA, which by the way does not consider Iraq a threat.
You mention nuclear weapons. That's interesting because it is often repeated by the administration and by the media that Iraq could produce nukes in 6 months if they had plutonium or uranium. Well here's a flash; so could I or any other modern day, halfway intellegent person. The hard part isn't making the nuke it's getting the fissionable material.
Keep believing the propaganda.
Cat
Considering that the invasion of Iraq is estimated to cost $200 billion, I'd say $50 billion over a few decades is a bargain. You never know what good will come of research. People were screaming (and still are) bloody murder about AIDS research. Now it looks like a cure for parkinson's will use the HIV virus as a delivery mechanism for gene therapy.
You don't know what you'll find if you don't go.
Cat
"It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross... But it's not for the timid." -- Q
I'm doing the same thing. My kids share a win98 box right now and I'm going to build my son a linux box since they are both nuts over frozen bubbles and tend to tie up my laptop to play it. I read somewhere that you can download a linux version of Quake III Arena for free if you have purchased a Windows version. Do any of you know if this is true and if it is, where can I get it? They love playing Q3a and right now we only have two boxes to play from. They want to gang up on their dad.
Forget the self cleaning shoe. This will be great for windows on skyscrapers.
I took my daughter, who will turn 6 on Tuesday, to see this film today and she loved it, scary parts and all. Of course she understand that it is, after all, just a movie.
I think it is a great movie for young children. It shows that even they can and should stand up to evil when it presents itself. I even told my kids that one of things I like most about Harry is his ability to stand up to adults when he knows he is right without showing fear.
Cat
I have a deskstar 30 Gig as well. In fact I just made the mistake yesterday of turning S.M.A.R.T. back on after I upgraded my bios. All the sudden I started getting all sorts of strange errors and sudden reboots. Luckily I realized my error and turned it off again. Wierd.
Farscape is Australian by the way. Kudos to them for making an outstanding Sci-Fi series. Is there some reason why local Australian TV doesn't pick it up?
I worked for a programmer back in the 80's who made a mistake that caused all credit card purchases to disappear from the electronic journal. This meant that their purchases were not recorded on their credit card statements. Fortunately for the company the bug did not affect the recording of the transactions on the paper journal. This bug wasn't discovered for a few days and it took quite some time to rekey all the credit transactions.
Unfortunately this was not her first or last mistake of this magnitude. Retailers often see IT as an expense rather than an asset and are as cheap as possible. This has a tendency to cause shoddy programming since they hire as few programmers as possible and overwork them and often software is put into production without being thoroughly tested. At least this was the case when I worked in retail some ten years ago--I don't think I'll do that again.
But I am finding that insurance companies have the same philosophy.
I've have often thought that once everyone, or nearly everyone is wired we should only allow communication about canidates and their positions to be posted on a government sponsored website. This way it could have the benefit of making a level playing ground and will keep campaign costs down. Each candidate would get a certain amount of webspace and that's it. If you can't get your position across with 200 Meg of space then something is wrong.
Granted this would take a constitutional amendment to pass but that does not make it impossible. Think about it, people were actually able to ratify a constitutional amendment banning alcohol, why not campaign reform? The beauty of it is that once people start really moving on such a scheme the big corporations will start a media blitz to try and convince people to not support it. Their efforts will only drive home the point that they need to be taken out of the equation.
Government is supposed to be for the people, not for the corporations.
We also need a THAN_NOT_THEN! guy
Is the difference between are and or really that difficult? I can overlook "there's a few", but are instead of or? I hope for your sake that english is your second language. Or should I say for you're sake?
She's still pretty young but my daughter loves to play Q3A with me and my son. She basically likes to play anything we want to play. She gets very picky about the models used and wants one that is a "pretty girl" like her. At some point in her life I'm sure she'll have a boyfriend who she regularly beats in whatever FPS is around at the time.
The funny thing is that she will also play on the barbie website for hours. My son won't go near it.
So maybe someone should try and figure out why boys don't want to play barbie.
Can you really say that a telescope stares? Perhaps because it typically is fixed, but it is a tool so it doesn't really look. It just allows us to look.
You understand the appeal? Good, can you explain it to me? I have no idea why someone would want one of these( except maybe vanity). It seems to me to be a totally worthless piece of technology. But I could be wrong, that's why I'm asking.
Why they're modifying the structural integrity field and inertial dampeners, of course.