Yeah- when I made my original reply, I was reminded of these works I saw once in Austin by Abel Barroso, a Cuban artist. He had made a Cuban "Internet Cafe" which consisted of wooden boxes made to look like computers with images on scrolls that you could change with cranks. Aha- found them!
Just as there are lots and lots of controls on organ harvesting and donations, there needs to be a way to prevent pregnancies simply for the sake of harvesting embryos to gain such tissue
Why? They're just some cells. Sure, if they were to stay in a womb for another 7-8 months they'd grow into a human. If you can't tell the difference between a gastrula and a human being, you've got some issues. I slough off more cells from my skin on a daily basis. Why does nobody weep for my skin cells?
They're both luxuries. I could have surfed the web for free at the library, but that wasn't the fun, comfortable atmosphere of the coffee shop, and my friends didn't hang out there. Not having to pay for broadband at home meant I had more disposable income to blow on coffee. Having WiFi at the coffee shop meant I didn't have to have broadband at home, and thus I ended up blowing more of my disposable income on coffee. What's illogical about that?
or student/cheap types too cheap to pay for highspeed access themselves (and therefore, unlikely to spend $30 a month on coffee)
in my student experience, it was the other way around. i could afford to either have a high speed connection or buy coffee and hang out the coffee shop regularly. with the coffee shops offering free wifi, it was no longer either/or, so i opted to ditch the high-speed at home and just go to the coffee shop.
music melody, dawg. are drummers not musicians? besides, most rap artists do more than just speak rhythmically. there is a certain amount of tonal variation in the way they speak, and it wouldn't sound the same if it didn't have it.
you may only be familiar with mainstream hip-hop, which DOES suck. check out some Aesop Rock, Old Atmosphere, or Sole. Or for more on the spoken word end of things, Saul Williams. there's some good stuff out there that will make you think and shake yo' azz, if you bother to look for it.
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I would like to offer a descenting opinion
While I realize you may thing GP's opinion stinks, I think the word you want is dissenting.
it looks like it needs a little work in the area of color and resolution, but that's sure to come.
One thing that I think will really benefit from these reflective display technologies is classrooms and conference rooms. What I would really like to see would be a chalkboard-sized reflective display with a digitizer pen. Without dimming the lights like one would have to do with a projector (and thus lulling students to sleep), a teacher could write directly on it as well as have problems already in the computer to put up on it quickly. How much time in math classes is spent writing out problems? Word problems from all these standardized tests could be quickly thrown up on the board and the teacher could directly model how to solve them. It could really increase a teacher's efficacy as well as make their life a lot easier.
Later on, similar technologies could be built into desks (or the students could have tablets) so that the student can solve them at their desks and then the teacher could push a button and display the students' work on the board.
Hey...I'm a slashdot geek. Being a sociopath is required there.
Not all slashdot geeks are sociopaths. Being socially inept and being a sociopath are different things. You wouldn't mind living next door to someone who is socially inept, but you might be uncomfortable living next to a sociopath...
While I don't actively seek pain or suffering I don't hesitate to hurt myself or other s if I deem it neccessary
Right, like I said before- we're talking about unnecessary suffering. Nobody's going to avoid pain if it's necessary to accomplish something whose benefits outway the suffering, or if one wants to experience it for philosophical reasons. But unless you're a masochist, you don't seek unnecessary suffering.
Yes, I see people starving to death in Africa, and I don't especially like it, but that's life after all. Or to be more precise, that's our human life. And as long as there are humans nothing will change about it.
Again with the defeatism. The truth is that while suffering will always exist, there are things that can and should be done to reduce unnecessary suffering. Africa's problems are certainly ones that can be addressed and remedied if the right people act to do something about it. Many people apparently believe that, as evidenced by the recent Live 8 things. The problems would definitely never get solved if the whole world thought the way you do.
Yes, we're adapted to eat meat- it's a capability that served us well in the days before agriculture, and still serves us well in times of scarcity, but we don't NEED meat.
Clearly, we are a higher order of beings than animals by the mere fact that we are able to have this conversation. Humans are able to think about their behavior on a meta-level at which animals are not. I don't think we have souls or anything, but it's obvious we're different. It's facetious to suggest we should behave the same as animals, and you certainly wouldn't want to live in a society where that was the case.
You don't eat meat because you think it will change something for yourself (that might be, at least physically) or for the world
No, the primary reason why I don't eat meat is that I think it will change things for the animals which are being eaten. This is undisputably true.
Well, I have no grave problem with pain and suffering. Not my own, not that of anyone else or that of any animal
Give me a fucking break. So you don't mind if I say... gouge out your eye? stomp on your foot? So you see people starving to death in Africa and have no problem with that?
I think that the "Abolish all suffering" kind of morale is a most anti-life moral. Life is suffering.
That's defeatist and foolish. Sure, we'll likely never eliminate all suffering, but nobody WANTS to suffer, and everyone seeks to avoid suffering needlessly. The key thing there is needlessly. You don't want to suffer needlessly, I don't want to suffer needlessly, and from what even the most casual observer can tell, neither do animals. The same goes for dying. Otherwise, why the hell even bother living?
You can make up all the excuses or rationales you want, but there's no denying that animals, like us, are creatures capable of experiencing great suffering, that they, like us, do not wish to suffer, and that we are capable of eliminating that suffering by changing our behavior. Your decision to continue eating meat is simply stating with your behavior that you don't place any value on the suffering of other creatures, which sounds a bit sociopathic, if you ask me.
well, chances are the book is a gazillion pages long and the purchaser is in the 4th grade, so I doubt they'll be able to say much about it before the 4 days are up, and they're probably not old enough to make such ethical stands...
Amen. I'll say what I think and get fired a hundred times before I stop. I have faith that there are people and companies out there who can take it, and even appreciate it. I'm never rude about it, and I always make a concise, logical, rational argument for my opinions. If you can't handle my opinion I don't want to work for you. I walk on eggshells for nobody.
I don't think the fact that you could raise and butcher it yourself makes it any more "okay" to eat meat. You can establish all the rulesets you want for yourself to justify your behavior. Sure, it's better, I suppose, in the sense that you at least realize the blood that's on your hands or whatever, but that doesn't negate the fact that the animal you killed suffered and died unnecessarily.
The "When is it ok to eat meat?" question can be answered in many ways, sure, but if you're someone who places any value on animal life and suffering, the only morally consistent answer is "Only when it's necessary for survival". This answer is consistent with most people's stand on other questions of morality- like killing humans, or stealing food.
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Yeah- when I made my original reply, I was reminded of these works I saw once in Austin by Abel Barroso, a Cuban artist. He had made a Cuban "Internet Cafe" which consisted of wooden boxes made to look like computers with images on scrolls that you could change with cranks. Aha- found them!
how does a cuban get a hold of a computer? or does he build it out of wood? :)
Just as there are lots and lots of controls on organ harvesting and donations, there needs to be a way to prevent pregnancies simply for the sake of harvesting embryos to gain such tissue
Why? They're just some cells. Sure, if they were to stay in a womb for another 7-8 months they'd grow into a human. If you can't tell the difference between a gastrula and a human being, you've got some issues. I slough off more cells from my skin on a daily basis. Why does nobody weep for my skin cells?
exactly
They're both luxuries. I could have surfed the web for free at the library, but that wasn't the fun, comfortable atmosphere of the coffee shop, and my friends didn't hang out there. Not having to pay for broadband at home meant I had more disposable income to blow on coffee. Having WiFi at the coffee shop meant I didn't have to have broadband at home, and thus I ended up blowing more of my disposable income on coffee. What's illogical about that?
or student/cheap types too cheap to pay for highspeed access themselves (and therefore, unlikely to spend $30 a month on coffee)
in my student experience, it was the other way around. i could afford to either have a high speed connection or buy coffee and hang out the coffee shop regularly. with the coffee shops offering free wifi, it was no longer either/or, so i opted to ditch the high-speed at home and just go to the coffee shop.
lol... shoulda previewed! can't use less than/greater than for != doh!
MUSIC != MELODY! That's what I meant to say
music melody, dawg. are drummers not musicians? besides, most rap artists do more than just speak rhythmically. there is a certain amount of tonal variation in the way they speak, and it wouldn't sound the same if it didn't have it.
you may only be familiar with mainstream hip-hop, which DOES suck. check out some Aesop Rock, Old Atmosphere, or Sole. Or for more on the spoken word end of things, Saul Williams. there's some good stuff out there that will make you think and shake yo' azz, if you bother to look for it.
dammit! I hate it when I make typos while I'm being a pedant!
I would like to offer a descenting opinion
While I realize you may thing GP's opinion stinks, I think the word you want is dissenting.
Maybe I need to lay off the doobage, but if you play it backwards, I swear it says "BSD is Dead"
However, considering that shoulder bags are an acceptable accoutrement for men over there
Hey! Are you implying something? *clutches his man-purse* I got lots of shit to carry around, okay?
No grandparent poster is right.
NO grandparent poster is right? EVER? Quick- somebody reply to this post so that the parent will be wrong!
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hmm... not bad for her age... I'd hit that.... :)
j/k...
it looks like it needs a little work in the area of color and resolution, but that's sure to come.
One thing that I think will really benefit from these reflective display technologies is classrooms and conference rooms. What I would really like to see would be a chalkboard-sized reflective display with a digitizer pen. Without dimming the lights like one would have to do with a projector (and thus lulling students to sleep), a teacher could write directly on it as well as have problems already in the computer to put up on it quickly. How much time in math classes is spent writing out problems? Word problems from all these standardized tests could be quickly thrown up on the board and the teacher could directly model how to solve them. It could really increase a teacher's efficacy as well as make their life a lot easier.
Later on, similar technologies could be built into desks (or the students could have tablets) so that the student can solve them at their desks and then the teacher could push a button and display the students' work on the board.
those are actually spheres, they're just sitting down in the hull. they always use spheres (maximum volume to surface area ratio)
Hey...I'm a slashdot geek. Being a sociopath is required there.
Not all slashdot geeks are sociopaths. Being socially inept and being a sociopath are different things. You wouldn't mind living next door to someone who is socially inept, but you might be uncomfortable living next to a sociopath...
While I don't actively seek pain or suffering I don't hesitate to hurt myself or other s if I deem it neccessary
Right, like I said before- we're talking about unnecessary suffering. Nobody's going to avoid pain if it's necessary to accomplish something whose benefits outway the suffering, or if one wants to experience it for philosophical reasons. But unless you're a masochist, you don't seek unnecessary suffering.
Yes, I see people starving to death in Africa, and I don't especially like it, but that's life after all. Or to be more precise, that's our human life. And as long as there are humans nothing will change about it.
Again with the defeatism. The truth is that while suffering will always exist, there are things that can and should be done to reduce unnecessary suffering. Africa's problems are certainly ones that can be addressed and remedied if the right people act to do something about it. Many people apparently believe that, as evidenced by the recent Live 8 things. The problems would definitely never get solved if the whole world thought the way you do.
Yes, we're adapted to eat meat- it's a capability that served us well in the days before agriculture, and still serves us well in times of scarcity, but we don't NEED meat.
Clearly, we are a higher order of beings than animals by the mere fact that we are able to have this conversation. Humans are able to think about their behavior on a meta-level at which animals are not. I don't think we have souls or anything, but it's obvious we're different. It's facetious to suggest we should behave the same as animals, and you certainly wouldn't want to live in a society where that was the case.
You don't eat meat because you think it will change something for yourself (that might be, at least physically) or for the world
No, the primary reason why I don't eat meat is that I think it will change things for the animals which are being eaten. This is undisputably true.
Well, I have no grave problem with pain and suffering. Not my own, not that of anyone else or that of any animal
Give me a fucking break. So you don't mind if I say... gouge out your eye? stomp on your foot? So you see people starving to death in Africa and have no problem with that?
I think that the "Abolish all suffering" kind of morale is a most anti-life moral. Life is suffering.
That's defeatist and foolish. Sure, we'll likely never eliminate all suffering, but nobody WANTS to suffer, and everyone seeks to avoid suffering needlessly. The key thing there is needlessly. You don't want to suffer needlessly, I don't want to suffer needlessly, and from what even the most casual observer can tell, neither do animals. The same goes for dying. Otherwise, why the hell even bother living?
You can make up all the excuses or rationales you want, but there's no denying that animals, like us, are creatures capable of experiencing great suffering, that they, like us, do not wish to suffer, and that we are capable of eliminating that suffering by changing our behavior. Your decision to continue eating meat is simply stating with your behavior that you don't place any value on the suffering of other creatures, which sounds a bit sociopathic, if you ask me.
Clearly, you're unfit for today's modern workplace. You're Fired!
-Your Boss
well, chances are the book is a gazillion pages long and the purchaser is in the 4th grade, so I doubt they'll be able to say much about it before the 4 days are up, and they're probably not old enough to make such ethical stands...
Amen. I'll say what I think and get fired a hundred times before I stop. I have faith that there are people and companies out there who can take it, and even appreciate it. I'm never rude about it, and I always make a concise, logical, rational argument for my opinions. If you can't handle my opinion I don't want to work for you. I walk on eggshells for nobody.
...except that Don King isn't dead, and isn't a physicist...
I suppose Einstein, with his hairdo, will make a fitting bride of Frankenstein... :)
I don't think the fact that you could raise and butcher it yourself makes it any more "okay" to eat meat. You can establish all the rulesets you want for yourself to justify your behavior. Sure, it's better, I suppose, in the sense that you at least realize the blood that's on your hands or whatever, but that doesn't negate the fact that the animal you killed suffered and died unnecessarily.
The "When is it ok to eat meat?" question can be answered in many ways, sure, but if you're someone who places any value on animal life and suffering, the only morally consistent answer is "Only when it's necessary for survival". This answer is consistent with most people's stand on other questions of morality- like killing humans, or stealing food.