My question, if stem cells lead to a cure for cancer, will those who opposed the stem cell research boycott the treatment, and die?
They will use the treatment, because the treatment is not bad (unless the medicine is extracted from embryos), but the method to obtain the knowledge to make the treatment.
They will not come back but they might send their immense silver robot as an ambassador:
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Why CANT we do research on human enhancement? What's ethically wrong with looking for ways to make us "Better...stronger...faster...smarter" by science?
From a pure evolutionary point of view: if we would eliminate the genetic deversity, the evolution of humans would stop. Also every improvement to ourselves comes at a cost, and nature made us better balanced than we could probably do ourselves. Its also dangerous for society because it might very well lead to forms of discrimination. See "Brave New World" and the movie "Gattaca".
The problem with a seperate database is that the directory structure and the database can get out of sync. This is more or less the same problem that is plaguing RPM-databases and the windows-registry.
IANAT but maybe they had their own "apple" and if they failed the test they had a reveilation of their own. If they passed we might not be able to meet them. Or maybe Adam & Eve weren't the only people, but they just represented them.
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JOE Hits 3.0
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Hear Hear!
When I started using Linux about 7 years ago, it was the only familiar thing from the DOS world. Without Joe I might have stopped using Linux after a few days.
That are all good things. I think you can make your secretary change browsers (or operating systems) as easily as you can make your wife using another brand of antifreeze.
And a lot of people think the same. And they are right.
The benefit of a microkernel is that you can run device drivers seperated from the core of the kernel, like the vm and the sceduler. So if your buggy modem driver crashes it cannot take the whole system down with it. The price you pay is that communication and data transfer between device drivers and the core are much slower.
Sheep have been cloned in the west, why would this not be possible with humans? So we are not that far behind with that technology. And I am sure the same kind of experiments have been done on human cells (and DNA). But to create the cells to grow organs we don't need to create clones of ourselves. See this article. The argument the Christians use is that if you don't know whether its human life or not, don't take any chances.
If you survive, it will grow into a baby. Like when a fertilised cell ends up outside the womb. The chemicals needed to tell the cell to grow into a heart haven't been in your body for many years.
But to turn a stem-cell into a heart is very complex, because a heart needs all kinds of tissues: muscle, vein, nerve, binding tissue and some I forgot. They are as far as to make a piece of vein (and liver in future) from adult cells from the body.
You have a point here. Stone (or baked clay) tablets were only used to store data that should hold for a long time, like on monuments or poems/important administration. But less important or unfinished data was stored in wax, sand or wet clay. It should be possible to develop a durable efficient medium with an easy way to read it, to store the _real_ important data, like 40-year old books and technologies that are still read and used.
Any file-system can have the same funcionality. Just name a file book.txt and the formatting.book.form or something. As long as the formatting keept track of its position in the file the same way BFS does with its metadata, this should work too. I would prefer a HTML or XML like solution, so one can edit the formatting by hand.
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Kernel 2.5.3 Released
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A good pace to find this information is Kernel Traffic. It's like a summary of the mailing list.
I do not agree. When I first started using Linux I loved the freedom to upgrade the kernel. After that I was forced to learn about kernel patches and configuring and making my own patches because all kind of hardware didn't work on my laptop. I got so intrested in these processes that I upgraded X, KDE and some small things. By that time my (Redhat) installation was such a mess I started all over with LFS. I would not have learned so much so fast if I didn't start with upgrading!
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So not true! Ask the scientists who developed printed money!
They will use the treatment, because the treatment is not bad (unless the medicine is extracted from embryos), but the method to obtain the knowledge to make the treatment.
What would the penguins say if the saw March of the Humans?
Wait, don't tell, I'm going to watch the movie this evening.
They will not come back but they might send their immense silver robot as an ambassador: "I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Why CANT we do research on human enhancement? What's ethically wrong with looking for ways to make us "Better...stronger...faster...smarter" by science?
From a pure evolutionary point of view: if we would eliminate the genetic deversity, the evolution of humans would stop. Also every improvement to ourselves comes at a cost, and nature made us better balanced than we could probably do ourselves. Its also dangerous for society because it might very well lead to forms of discrimination. See "Brave New World" and the movie "Gattaca".
The problem with a seperate database is that the directory structure and the database can get out of sync. This is more or less the same problem that is plaguing RPM-databases and the windows-registry.
IANAT but maybe they had their own "apple" and if they failed the test they had a reveilation of their own. If they passed we might not be able to meet them. Or maybe Adam & Eve weren't the only people, but they just represented them.
Hear Hear!
When I started using Linux about 7 years ago, it was the only familiar thing from the DOS world. Without Joe I might have stopped using Linux after a few days.Doesn't this remind you of this article?
It has been on slashdot before: here
That are all good things. I think you can make your secretary change browsers (or operating systems) as easily as you can make your wife using another brand of antifreeze. And a lot of people think the same. And they are right.
The benefit of a microkernel is that you can run device drivers seperated from the core of the kernel, like the vm and the sceduler. So if your buggy modem driver crashes it cannot take the whole system down with it. The price you pay is that communication and data transfer between device drivers and the core are much slower.
Sheep have been cloned in the west, why would this not be possible with humans? So we are not that far behind with that technology. And I am sure the same kind of experiments have been done on human cells (and DNA). But to create the cells to grow organs we don't need to create clones of ourselves. See this article. The argument the Christians use is that if you don't know whether its human life or not, don't take any chances.
If you survive, it will grow into a baby. Like when a fertilised cell ends up outside the womb. The chemicals needed to tell the cell to grow into a heart haven't been in your body for many years. But to turn a stem-cell into a heart is very complex, because a heart needs all kinds of tissues: muscle, vein, nerve, binding tissue and some I forgot. They are as far as to make a piece of vein (and liver in future) from adult cells from the body.
You have a point here. Stone (or baked clay) tablets were only used to store data that should hold for a long time, like on monuments or poems/important administration. But less important or unfinished data was stored in wax, sand or wet clay. It should be possible to develop a durable efficient medium with an easy way to read it, to store the _real_ important data, like 40-year old books and technologies that are still read and used.
Any file-system can have the same funcionality. Just name a file book.txt and the formatting .book.form or something. As long as the formatting keept track of its position in the file the same way BFS does with its metadata, this should work too. I would prefer a HTML or XML like solution, so one can edit the formatting by hand.
A good pace to find this information is Kernel Traffic. It's like a summary of the mailing list.
I do not agree. When I first started using Linux I loved the freedom to upgrade the kernel. After that I was forced to learn about kernel patches and configuring and making my own patches because all kind of hardware didn't work on my laptop. I got so intrested in these processes that I upgraded X, KDE and some small things. By that time my (Redhat) installation was such a mess I started all over with LFS. I would not have learned so much so fast if I didn't start with upgrading!
I think they understand that suing each other doesn't result in profit. I think they will stay making compromises with each other.