One would think that this would be something that it doesn't really necessitate a study to prove. Obviously cities are going to be built on fertile ground because in order for a city to grow, it must have food. It hasn't really been until this century until people could move places where there was no abundant source of food, or especially water.
Also, no one really ever sets out to build a big city, they just grown from smaller cities that grew from smaller settlements.
My Pioneer (Premier) DEH-P730 came with an ability to hook something up to the head via a box that took two RCA jacks and turned it into their proprietary connector that they use to connect CD players to mutli-CD players and even the satellite radio service XM receiver. The connector box is the CD-RD20 and looks like it conditions the signal (although I would not know either way). I know that the newer models support MP3 and WMA discs and probably support the file name, if not the ID3 tags. The one I have supports CD Text. It's MSRP was $400 at the time, but I got it from one of those eBay stores for $200, new. I'm not exactly sure, but it looks like only the lowest level Pioneer CD player does not come with CD text. I know that this is not exactly what you wanted, but I hope it's somewhat helpful none the less.
In Biology, I learned that one life cannot transform itself into something else. Therefore if a baby comes out after 9 months, then 9 months ago, when those two different cells combined and formed a new, complete, totally different cell, therefore it is human. It is life whether or not it has a brain. The only difference between a blastula and an amoeba is that a blastula is actually a human, and then by definition a person. One cannot say that one person is not a person because he or she is not far enough along with developement. That is arbitrarily setting the boundaries. You are taking the life of another person, therefore it is murder. I understand that some people don't like this, nor do some agree. It is not the brain alone that defines someone as human, it is the whole person, and every individual part as well. You cut off the hand and it is still a human hand. The problem with your definition of a person, is exactly what you have addressed. How many cells does it take? Can it therefore be defined as less than human because for some reason it does less than other humans comparitvely? Are mentally retarded people less than human? That is a can I would rather avoid opening up. It give degress of humanity to people based on developmental levels. People are either people are they aren't.
As for your statement about forcing someone to risk their life to save another, I agree (with the notable exceptions of the Secret Service and militaries). The funny thing is that most people aren't really willing to try to save the life and would rather off the child simply because his life is inconvenient to them (using funny in an ironic sense). When you give someone such an easy out, they tend to take it. Not only that, but even sometimes, things become life threatening that aren't. In other words, if someone wants to have an abortion that they can only have if it is life threatening, its not too hard to find profiteers who will say that he monther's life is in danger just for the abortion.
Humanity scares me sometimes. Most of the time. Aw crap, where's my blankee?!
First of all, I am not anti-stem cell. Second of all, I do not read propaganda anymore than you do.
Third, I do not see it as meddling in the afairs of God. This is good research, and if it is viable, is good. So do many others. The place where the "playing God" comes into effect is stuff that is not essentially fesable yet, like genetic manipulations, or cloning. Both raise huge ethical questions that can be reasoned outside of using any theological argument.
To address the off topic portions: when I said life, I assumed that everyone could understand that it is sentient life. The two cell become something totally different than what they were. When they divide they no longer produce sperm or egg cells, they produce more and more baby cells. One of the problems I have with abortion in particular is that it does not take into account that there is a unique, complex life inside of another life, not another portion of a body. Even then we prohibit some actions on the basis of being hurtful to society. Suicide, for example, is illegal because it has ramifications on others, not just the person trying to take his or her life. All (human) life is sacred, even unborn children. Just because they cannot articulate their thoughts and desires does not give you liscence to kill them. No one ever asks what the baby would want if he could know better, or actually communicate. Slaughter of animals is meaningless when it goes to waste because they are animals. Slaughter of defenseless humans is pointless period, especially when there are other, more feasable and ethical ways of doing things. Babys do not have to die for people to get their stem cells, period. Human life is precious. Killing one for the not even established benefit of others is not acceptable, especially when that person has never had the chance to even live.
First of all, stem cells have been known to be other places than just in the destroyed "embryo" - a cute way of saying aborted baby - for quite some time now. Bone marrow, skin cells, placenta, and even body fat can produce the same stem cells that are found in developing babies in the womb. There is not feasable reason to destroy life in order to save others. Life does begin at conception, and therefore destroying on life for the benefit of another does not make much sense.
Second, the promise of stem cells is just that: a promise. No one person has actually been cured by stem cells. No one person has be successfully "repaired," for lack of a better word, by stem cells. It sounds great, but killing people on a promise that is not necessarily going to come through is not only foolish, but stupid.
This might be an ignorant question, but what happenes if you tilt it. No, granted, its sealed, but what if for some reason, you have it operating at some angle or you have it upside down. I realize this is not terribly common of a problem, but nevertheless. Probably a stupid question anyway.
Minor issue, and probably slightly off-topic, however Betas did not die. If you go into most television stations, especially the slightly smaller markets than the New Yorks or the D/FW areas, you will find a Betamax VTR. Actually, you will probably find several. Also, if you look at the older line of cameras (older by about one to two years that is) they are Betas. They are slightly different than the originals however. Their tapes move at 3 times the speed than others. But still, the Sony brand is not just a consumer brand mostly because the quality really cannot be matched for the most part. DV (not mini) and Beta cams will mostly use the Sony tapes.
Call Sony whatever you want. Restrictive of free speach etc. It doesn't change the fact that they make great products. I have a Sun Microsystems pure flat monitor sitting on my desktop. What kind of CRT does it have in it? Why, a Sony trinitron CRT. Good products slightly overpriced will insure that they stay in business for a little while longer.
Wouldn't this only apply to guns sold in NJ and therefore be easy enough to say, drive to NY and purchase one without the technology built into it (which would probably mean that its cheaper?)?
Also, like the article said, its kind of silly for NJ to legislate requireing the use of something that isn't yet out on the market (and therefore untested)?
Not only that, but he would be asked to teach in several Ivy League schools and be interviewed as an expert on everything from the War on Iraq to interior design ideas, to his ways of cooking tofu (sp?). Not only that, but he would be harrolded as an expert in all of these fields.
All of you: morons. What's not good about Dallas? It does not smell like NY City, it does not take 3 hours to move 3 miles like in LA (both of which, I have unfortunately experienced). It actually has a large base of telecoms (which in recent months is not necessarily the best thing). TI is here, Alcatel is here, hundreds of other companies are here. Not only that, but we have a University here that actually has a Telecommunications Engineering degree, one of the first in the nation.
And if nothign else, who has a better record than the Maverics? That's what I thought. And the Stars aren't doing too bad themselves. Now the Cowboys on the other hand...
Now for the topic: I think its wonderful. I'm even getting GSM signal between here and Austin and Tyler.
I can't wait for WCDMA. Its better than Wi-Fi in the fact that I can travel from one side of the metroplex to another and not loose my signal. I'm not going to buy another handset soon, but when I do, it will be a WCDMA enabled one. I probably won't use it that much, but I like my toys.
At UTD where I currently am attending, and the same with all UT system schools (including, but not limited to Tyler, El Paso, Austin, etc.) its $6 a copy for Win98SE, Win2k or WinXP Pro.
$6
I know this is not the popular opinion here, but for $6, I can have me a Legal copy of any of the preceeding OSes. I hate to say it, because I think that Micro$oft (ooo.. look at me, I'm cool becuase I used $ in stead of an 's.' I'm a clever boy) has too much sway and control over computing these days, but this is simply good business. Continuing to keep people using your products is not a sign of a monopoly, its a sign of a competitive business. All smart companies that desire to remain companies will do this.
I went out and got all three and then some other MS software because its dirt cheap, it does what I want and its what the world uses. Eventually, I will have a server running, using Linux, but not for my desktop.
But then again, I'm probably just a troll sell out or something. I can kiss my kharma good bye for this one can't because I have original ideas can't I?
It seems like this guy likes his extremes. I don't know the guy and haven't heard about him until this day, but to me he seems like he is just testing a system, and really does not care about the so called "injustices" but more about the publicitiy and looking like an innocent public servant. I don't understand why requireing ID to travel on an airplane is a bad thing. That is the way I have always flown, pre or post Sept 11. I understand that having something check out your fitness to travel on an airplane might seem bad, but in a world where even American citizens are found fighting basically against America (albiet not very many) I don't have a problem. If this guy was trying to board my airplane without proper ID, I would not want him on my flight either. I just don't understand people who try to have perfectly reasonable random checks halted. Federal cops interrogate you? OK, so then when do the black helocopters come and steal your trash?
Its your right to travel, its a privalege to travel using an airplane, just like driving.
Does anyone else see the irony here? An idea conceived to help a nation with some of the poorest people in the world recover at least somewhat financially, and the people wanting to manufacture it cannot even afford to have it produced.
You have to see a Cubs game at Wrigley. I'm a Rangers fan myself (yes, still) but I know a good piece of history when I see it. Go see Wrigley. You won't be sorry (unless you have something against baseball).
That monitoring is nice, but it cannot tell who is listening. If someone is listening the monitor will not know. Secrets transmitted over the network can be picked up without detection.
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One would think that this would be something that it doesn't really necessitate a study to prove. Obviously cities are going to be built on fertile ground because in order for a city to grow, it must have food. It hasn't really been until this century until people could move places where there was no abundant source of food, or especially water.
Also, no one really ever sets out to build a big city, they just grown from smaller cities that grew from smaller settlements.
That's why I use nothing but x.Spots to light my apartment. Nothing like a 1000w robotic light to fill the room.
-Peapod
Why would you want to? I'm not sure I understand.
-Peapod
Seems like it'd be simpler to use basic PC sequencers, but impressive nonetheless.
Not if you don't have one (a PC that is).
-Peapod
My Pioneer (Premier) DEH-P730 came with an ability to hook something up to the head via a box that took two RCA jacks and turned it into their proprietary connector that they use to connect CD players to mutli-CD players and even the satellite radio service XM receiver. The connector box is the CD-RD20 and looks like it conditions the signal (although I would not know either way). I know that the newer models support MP3 and WMA discs and probably support the file name, if not the ID3 tags. The one I have supports CD Text. It's MSRP was $400 at the time, but I got it from one of those eBay stores for $200, new. I'm not exactly sure, but it looks like only the lowest level Pioneer CD player does not come with CD text. I know that this is not exactly what you wanted, but I hope it's somewhat helpful none the less.
-Peapod
In Biology, I learned that one life cannot transform itself into something else. Therefore if a baby comes out after 9 months, then 9 months ago, when those two different cells combined and formed a new, complete, totally different cell, therefore it is human. It is life whether or not it has a brain. The only difference between a blastula and an amoeba is that a blastula is actually a human, and then by definition a person. One cannot say that one person is not a person because he or she is not far enough along with developement. That is arbitrarily setting the boundaries. You are taking the life of another person, therefore it is murder. I understand that some people don't like this, nor do some agree. It is not the brain alone that defines someone as human, it is the whole person, and every individual part as well. You cut off the hand and it is still a human hand. The problem with your definition of a person, is exactly what you have addressed. How many cells does it take? Can it therefore be defined as less than human because for some reason it does less than other humans comparitvely? Are mentally retarded people less than human? That is a can I would rather avoid opening up. It give degress of humanity to people based on developmental levels. People are either people are they aren't.
As for your statement about forcing someone to risk their life to save another, I agree (with the notable exceptions of the Secret Service and militaries). The funny thing is that most people aren't really willing to try to save the life and would rather off the child simply because his life is inconvenient to them (using funny in an ironic sense). When you give someone such an easy out, they tend to take it. Not only that, but even sometimes, things become life threatening that aren't. In other words, if someone wants to have an abortion that they can only have if it is life threatening, its not too hard to find profiteers who will say that he monther's life is in danger just for the abortion.
Humanity scares me sometimes. Most of the time. Aw crap, where's my blankee?!
First of all, I am not anti-stem cell. Second of all, I do not read propaganda anymore than you do.
Third, I do not see it as meddling in the afairs of God. This is good research, and if it is viable, is good. So do many others. The place where the "playing God" comes into effect is stuff that is not essentially fesable yet, like genetic manipulations, or cloning. Both raise huge ethical questions that can be reasoned outside of using any theological argument.
To address the off topic portions: when I said life, I assumed that everyone could understand that it is sentient life. The two cell become something totally different than what they were. When they divide they no longer produce sperm or egg cells, they produce more and more baby cells. One of the problems I have with abortion in particular is that it does not take into account that there is a unique, complex life inside of another life, not another portion of a body. Even then we prohibit some actions on the basis of being hurtful to society. Suicide, for example, is illegal because it has ramifications on others, not just the person trying to take his or her life. All (human) life is sacred, even unborn children. Just because they cannot articulate their thoughts and desires does not give you liscence to kill them. No one ever asks what the baby would want if he could know better, or actually communicate. Slaughter of animals is meaningless when it goes to waste because they are animals. Slaughter of defenseless humans is pointless period, especially when there are other, more feasable and ethical ways of doing things. Babys do not have to die for people to get their stem cells, period. Human life is precious. Killing one for the not even established benefit of others is not acceptable, especially when that person has never had the chance to even live.
One more thing I forgot: my sources.
I got all of my information from here.
My apologies.
First of all, stem cells have been known to be other places than just in the destroyed "embryo" - a cute way of saying aborted baby - for quite some time now. Bone marrow, skin cells, placenta, and even body fat can produce the same stem cells that are found in developing babies in the womb. There is not feasable reason to destroy life in order to save others. Life does begin at conception, and therefore destroying on life for the benefit of another does not make much sense.
Second, the promise of stem cells is just that: a promise. No one person has actually been cured by stem cells. No one person has be successfully "repaired," for lack of a better word, by stem cells. It sounds great, but killing people on a promise that is not necessarily going to come through is not only foolish, but stupid.
Just one man's observations.
This might be an ignorant question, but what happenes if you tilt it. No, granted, its sealed, but what if for some reason, you have it operating at some angle or you have it upside down. I realize this is not terribly common of a problem, but nevertheless. Probably a stupid question anyway.
Now all I need is a couple of these and a magnetic strip encoder with a little free time to figure out the code.
Cha-ching!
Minor issue, and probably slightly off-topic, however Betas did not die. If you go into most television stations, especially the slightly smaller markets than the New Yorks or the D/FW areas, you will find a Betamax VTR. Actually, you will probably find several. Also, if you look at the older line of cameras (older by about one to two years that is) they are Betas. They are slightly different than the originals however. Their tapes move at 3 times the speed than others. But still, the Sony brand is not just a consumer brand mostly because the quality really cannot be matched for the most part. DV (not mini) and Beta cams will mostly use the Sony tapes.
Call Sony whatever you want. Restrictive of free speach etc. It doesn't change the fact that they make great products. I have a Sun Microsystems pure flat monitor sitting on my desktop. What kind of CRT does it have in it? Why, a Sony trinitron CRT. Good products slightly overpriced will insure that they stay in business for a little while longer.
-Peapod
Wouldn't this only apply to guns sold in NJ and therefore be easy enough to say, drive to NY and purchase one without the technology built into it (which would probably mean that its cheaper?)?
Also, like the article said, its kind of silly for NJ to legislate requireing the use of something that isn't yet out on the market (and therefore untested)?
Oh well, we'll see what develpes.
moo
Not only that, but he would be asked to teach in several Ivy League schools and be interviewed as an expert on everything from the War on Iraq to interior design ideas, to his ways of cooking tofu (sp?). Not only that, but he would be harrolded as an expert in all of these fields.
Indeed.
All of you: morons. What's not good about Dallas? It does not smell like NY City, it does not take 3 hours to move 3 miles like in LA (both of which, I have unfortunately experienced). It actually has a large base of telecoms (which in recent months is not necessarily the best thing). TI is here, Alcatel is here, hundreds of other companies are here. Not only that, but we have a University here that actually has a Telecommunications Engineering degree, one of the first in the nation.
And if nothign else, who has a better record than the Maverics? That's what I thought. And the Stars aren't doing too bad themselves. Now the Cowboys on the other hand...
Now for the topic: I think its wonderful. I'm even getting GSM signal between here and Austin and Tyler.
I can't wait for WCDMA. Its better than Wi-Fi in the fact that I can travel from one side of the metroplex to another and not loose my signal. I'm not going to buy another handset soon, but when I do, it will be a WCDMA enabled one. I probably won't use it that much, but I like my toys.
How that for crappy postings? (yes I know it was)
At UTD where I currently am attending, and the same with all UT system schools (including, but not limited to Tyler, El Paso, Austin, etc.) its $6 a copy for Win98SE, Win2k or WinXP Pro.
$6
I know this is not the popular opinion here, but for $6, I can have me a Legal copy of any of the preceeding OSes. I hate to say it, because I think that Micro$oft (ooo.. look at me, I'm cool becuase I used $ in stead of an 's.' I'm a clever boy) has too much sway and control over computing these days, but this is simply good business. Continuing to keep people using your products is not a sign of a monopoly, its a sign of a competitive business. All smart companies that desire to remain companies will do this.
I went out and got all three and then some other MS software because its dirt cheap, it does what I want and its what the world uses. Eventually, I will have a server running, using Linux, but not for my desktop.
But then again, I'm probably just a troll sell out or something. I can kiss my kharma good bye for this one can't because I have original ideas can't I?
What about Windows? We could buy try and buy that one out. What do y'all think?
-Peapod
It seems like this guy likes his extremes. I don't know the guy and haven't heard about him until this day, but to me he seems like he is just testing a system, and really does not care about the so called "injustices" but more about the publicitiy and looking like an innocent public servant. I don't understand why requireing ID to travel on an airplane is a bad thing. That is the way I have always flown, pre or post Sept 11. I understand that having something check out your fitness to travel on an airplane might seem bad, but in a world where even American citizens are found fighting basically against America (albiet not very many) I don't have a problem. If this guy was trying to board my airplane without proper ID, I would not want him on my flight either. I just don't understand people who try to have perfectly reasonable random checks halted. Federal cops interrogate you? OK, so then when do the black helocopters come and steal your trash?
Its your right to travel, its a privalege to travel using an airplane, just like driving.
-Peapod
Does anyone else see the irony here? An idea conceived to help a nation with some of the poorest people in the world recover at least somewhat financially, and the people wanting to manufacture it cannot even afford to have it produced.
Wonderful.
-Peapod
You have to see a Cubs game at Wrigley. I'm a Rangers fan myself (yes, still) but I know a good piece of history when I see it. Go see Wrigley. You won't be sorry (unless you have something against baseball).
Who would want to bore a hole in your tooth for a piece of technology which, like all technology will go obsolete? Retarded.
Slow news day chrisd/scubacuda?
Such legislators exist?
You forgot a shrink wrap machine so you can seal up the boxes after you copy the CDs and the serial numbers.
That monitoring is nice, but it cannot tell who is listening. If someone is listening the monitor will not know. Secrets transmitted over the network can be picked up without detection.