Isn't it interesting that data stopped being collected at the same time the last event was "detected". I think the solution lies much closer to home than speeding nuclearites. Before I set the conspirists afire I would suggest taking a look at how expensive it actually was to collect and store data, and who was responsible for the decision to stop.
It has to make you wonder what effect it would have if you had the (mis)fortune of standing on the entry or exit point. Spontaneous combustion anyone?
The Beating represents Indie done right:
Amazing complex music
Amazing complex lyrics
Amazing complex composure
Amazing complex writing
It makes your ass shake too
www.thebeating.com
You can dance to it! You can sex to it! You can play Warcraft 3 online for hours to it! Don't take my word for it - they have a bunch of free samples on their site.
SmR
As a professional web designer, I have encountered the ADA standards head on when I had a contract with the local State School (U of A). In the publicly funded context, the ADA is necessary and makes perfect sense to be applied to the web. Absolutely.
To say that bringing a site up to ADA standards costs nothing is just wrong. Is maintaining two versions of the site a possibility? Are there possible legal ramifications for code errors? I would agree that if the site is designed with Accessibility in mind then the cost is minimalized. Otherwise, someone has to code the changes, and that person needs to be an expert in JAWS, WC3 Recommendations, and Bobby (bless his soul). Alt tags are a nice start, but navigation is much much more difficult to change after the fact.
As a parting thought, answer me this: If my target audience does not include the disabled, should I still be required to adhere to ADA accessibility standards?
conundrum11
moc.snoitcudorpnayam@rms
"You don't want to get into that kind of trouble with me."
I once threw a party in which I put signs up everywhere that read, "Party at your own risk - you accept full responsibility for your own actions." I hadn't really mitigated my own liability with those notices - they were not legally binding and would not stand up in court.
In the case of EULA's for books I think the same principle applies - I can post whatever the hell legal notices that I want, but it doesn't mean that there is any enforcability or legality to it. If this crap was to withstand a court-test then I am going to start taking out ads in my local newspaper that say, "My house is proprietary property. Looking at my property constitutes acceptance of the user license posted in the front yard." Of course, the sign on the front yard reads, "Looking at this house obligates you to a nominal 'usage' fee. Please deposit $100.00 in the cast iron box to avoid prosecution and litigation."
Just because I told you to doesn't mean your not smart enough not to.
You are confused about cloning. Cloning only makes an identical twin. There is no transfer of memories or conciousness. It's just twin. Now imagine you are the clone - born into the world as a 2nd class citizen. Worse, the person that is identical to you is probably decades older, so it's not like being born with an identical sibling.
SmR
I wrote a research paper about cloning 8 years ago. Although the techniques since then have changed, the overlying themes and ethical issues have stayed the same. I don't understand the media attempt to skew the facts on this issue, but I also understand how movies like "Multiplicity" have confused the issue. Conciousness does not trasfer to your clone. Your clone is just a poor bastard that looks like and is genetically like you.
Let's take Albert Einstein as an example. So, we take a piece of pickled DNA, and clone Mr. Einstein. What we get is some poor slob that looks just like Einstein, and PROBABLY does not have the intellectual capabilities of the original. Remember that life experiences cannot be duplicated, and we are all the sums of not only our genetic makeup, but also our life experiences.
Yes, a clone is simply an identical twin. Now please stop for a moment and think about that. Imagine being born with a face that is not your own, without real parents, automatically outcast (a new minority group actually) from society, and your twin did so with selfish and cruel intentions in mind (like organ harvesting, racial genocide, super soldier-creation).
What kills me about the scientists that undertake these kinds of "experiments" is that they have a complete and total lack of empathy for the poor souls that are going to have to live through life never having had a fair start. This my friends is the key feature of EVIL. In fact, the scientific evidence points to the fact that clones will be genitically inferior and probably have some kind of genetic mutations. Isn't this the same reason that incest is taboo?
If you can even begin to imagine the living HELL that a clone will be born into, you would understand immediately why a morotorium on cloning MUST BE PASSED AND ENFORCED BY ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
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Isn't it interesting that data stopped being collected at the same time the last event was "detected". I think the solution lies much closer to home than speeding nuclearites. Before I set the conspirists afire I would suggest taking a look at how expensive it actually was to collect and store data, and who was responsible for the decision to stop.
It has to make you wonder what effect it would have if you had the (mis)fortune of standing on the entry or exit point. Spontaneous combustion anyone?
conundrum11
The Beating represents Indie done right: Amazing complex music Amazing complex lyrics Amazing complex composure Amazing complex writing It makes your ass shake too www.thebeating.com You can dance to it! You can sex to it! You can play Warcraft 3 online for hours to it! Don't take my word for it - they have a bunch of free samples on their site. SmR
As a professional web designer, I have encountered the ADA standards head on when I had a contract with the local State School (U of A). In the publicly funded context, the ADA is necessary and makes perfect sense to be applied to the web. Absolutely.
To say that bringing a site up to ADA standards costs nothing is just wrong. Is maintaining two versions of the site a possibility? Are there possible legal ramifications for code errors? I would agree that if the site is designed with Accessibility in mind then the cost is minimalized. Otherwise, someone has to code the changes, and that person needs to be an expert in JAWS, WC3 Recommendations, and Bobby (bless his soul). Alt tags are a nice start, but navigation is much much more difficult to change after the fact.
As a parting thought, answer me this: If my target audience does not include the disabled, should I still be required to adhere to ADA accessibility standards?
conundrum11
moc.snoitcudorpnayam@rms
"You don't want to get into that kind of trouble with me."
I once threw a party in which I put signs up everywhere that read, "Party at your own risk - you accept full responsibility for your own actions." I hadn't really mitigated my own liability with those notices - they were not legally binding and would not stand up in court.
In the case of EULA's for books I think the same principle applies - I can post whatever the hell legal notices that I want, but it doesn't mean that there is any enforcability or legality to it. If this crap was to withstand a court-test then I am going to start taking out ads in my local newspaper that say, "My house is proprietary property. Looking at my property constitutes acceptance of the user license posted in the front yard." Of course, the sign on the front yard reads, "Looking at this house obligates you to a nominal 'usage' fee. Please deposit $100.00 in the cast iron box to avoid prosecution and litigation."
Just because I told you to doesn't mean your not smart enough not to.
SmR
smr@mayanproductions.com
You are confused about cloning. Cloning only makes an identical twin. There is no transfer of memories or conciousness. It's just twin. Now imagine you are the clone - born into the world as a 2nd class citizen. Worse, the person that is identical to you is probably decades older, so it's not like being born with an identical sibling. SmR
I wrote a research paper about cloning 8 years ago. Although the techniques since then have changed, the overlying themes and ethical issues have stayed the same. I don't understand the media attempt to skew the facts on this issue, but I also understand how movies like "Multiplicity" have confused the issue. Conciousness does not trasfer to your clone. Your clone is just a poor bastard that looks like and is genetically like you.
Let's take Albert Einstein as an example. So, we take a piece of pickled DNA, and clone Mr. Einstein. What we get is some poor slob that looks just like Einstein, and PROBABLY does not have the intellectual capabilities of the original. Remember that life experiences cannot be duplicated, and we are all the sums of not only our genetic makeup, but also our life experiences.
Yes, a clone is simply an identical twin. Now please stop for a moment and think about that. Imagine being born with a face that is not your own, without real parents, automatically outcast (a new minority group actually) from society, and your twin did so with selfish and cruel intentions in mind (like organ harvesting, racial genocide, super soldier-creation).
What kills me about the scientists that undertake these kinds of "experiments" is that they have a complete and total lack of empathy for the poor souls that are going to have to live through life never having had a fair start. This my friends is the key feature of EVIL. In fact, the scientific evidence points to the fact that clones will be genitically inferior and probably have some kind of genetic mutations. Isn't this the same reason that incest is taboo?
If you can even begin to imagine the living HELL that a clone will be born into, you would understand immediately why a morotorium on cloning MUST BE PASSED AND ENFORCED BY ALL NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
SmR