Your white blood cells all have unique DNA, as do any tumors you've developed (you have a few, almost certainly, although they are most likely small and benign).
Twins lack DNA uniqueness, yet they seem to be people, too.
So, your condition of DNA uniqueness is neither sufficient nor necessary for being a human being.
Conception is a process that occurs over time, not a moment. When life begins isn't really a sensical statement, anyway, as ova and sperm are alive (you can't do much with dead ones...). The pertinent question is "when does personhood begin?"
That aside, there have been indications that adult stem cells may not be as flexible. Being they are more difficult to work with, we may need to learn the ropes with the easier fetal stem cells before we can move on.
Hugh Ross? Even Answers In Genesis knows better than to listen to him... and at least they admit their bias against science, if not quite realising it.
The only reason our friend would have trouble addressing those arguments would be if he was undereducated in the sciences himself.
If all you want is Office applications looking pretty, then you can get by on integrated video or a $50 FX5200 or 9200SE right this very moment at Newegg. You can even do some games on it if you want, just not stuff like Doom very well.
Why are you complaining that the midrange is overpriced and overfeatured, when your needs are clearly low end? I can complain that a 8 cylinder engine would eat too much gas and offer unnecessary acceleration for extra cost, or I can just drive a 4 cylinder.
It is a little heftier in general, and since it doesn't support DX9, it isn't trying to generate some of the special effects the 5200 is trying to makeon less raw horsepower. If you look around on some forums, the Geforce4 TI line seems to give people a much more enjoyable experience than the low end FX cards. It is analogous to how a GeForce3 TI can outperform a GeForce4MX, while perhaps not being able to make all the eye candy.
Did you try a new set of batteries? NiMH, NiCD, and Li+ all have a limited number of recharge cycles before they start crapping out much earlier than when they were new.
You didn't make a mouse pointer analogy in the post I replied to.
The only point I was making was that AA is more realistic than Quake. It is not realistic enough to substitute for trainig, of course, but as a recruitment tool is not any worse than just having a gruff manly voice and some shots of guys climbing mountains proclaiming how you, too, can be an army of one.
As a game and recruitment tool, you can't really expect more from AA than what it is.
You don't just click and respawn like in Quake. You get killed and you are dead until the next round.
Sure, there's no round in real life, but they don't present the army as a fragfest by any means. Running willy nilly and jumping all over gets you killed, and quickly.
If you are wounded you move more slowly and shoot less accurately, and getting shot and surviving in the first place isn't terribly easy to pull off.
It is presented as realisitically as possible and still have people play it. The playstyle of Quake with circle strafing, jumping, spraying fire haphazardly, is completely ineffective. You just end up making a big target of yourself and giving away your position.
Yes, but if you have sufficient speed, then even the most inneffecient evolutionary algorithm will find the solution to the next problem in a reasonable amount of time.
That is why the Singularity results in a snowball, the scale up in speed also allows for a scale up in ability via even ineffecient trial and error techniques.
You could even have evolutionary algorithms for more effecient evolutionary algorithms...
A) Easy for bacteria that can encyst B) Harder, even if you can encyst, but howabout inside the probe? C) Still encysted D) This is the hard part. Finding a food source that will work is necessary because you can't evolve to eat martian food if you've nothing to eat in the meantime.
It is fairly unlikely that the proper conditions would arise to get the cysts to germinate, but I bet we've brought a few over there.
It is more likely you'd transfer fish or invertebrate pathogens than human pathogens.
Most microorganisms have a fairly narrow band of temperatures at which they can grow. The S. aureus on your skin will not like growing in artic temperatures and a psychrophile living in the arctic will probably not like living on your skin much, either.
Now, with fish from just outside this region and fish inside this region your concerns could be more valid, since they would be under similar environmental conditions and have different immunities.
Male chimps can get around 250 lbs. The reason you think they are smaller is because adults are not used on film or television because they are too large, strong, and intelligent to trust to be around the public, which, as you are probably aware, contains people that would somehow get a chimp to attack them.
But everyone sees the opposing team as the OpFor.
AA could be geared for training easily, and it is straightforward to see why it is not in a 'training' format in the 'recruitment' release. Who would want to play as the OpFor with inferior equipment and 4:1 against odds? In QuakeTF maybe you could pull off those odds, but not in AA.
That aside, if we made HIV nonpathogenic, the problem would not be so much what cells it infected (cells can survive while infected by certain viruses) but rather integration into the host genome might disrupt important genes, creating a cancer risk in and of itself.
HIV storing itself in memory lymphocytes is probably more important in the difficulty of clearing the virus than living in the brain.
How would an enteric bacterium effect a human retrovirus that does not infect the epithelium of the intestine? Inject E. coli into the blood to look for HIV infected cells (however you'd manage that) and now you've given a person septicemia...
More concerning would be whether or not they would induce an immune response.
Immunopathology can be as mundane as allergy symptoms or as severe as shock.
If you were treated with these computers in one instance they could cure you, but you could develop antibodies against them. Later upon receiving a second treatment you could induce large scale inflammatory responses.
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Your white blood cells all have unique DNA, as do any tumors you've developed (you have a few, almost certainly, although they are most likely small and benign).
Twins lack DNA uniqueness, yet they seem to be people, too.
So, your condition of DNA uniqueness is neither sufficient nor necessary for being a human being.
Conception is a process that occurs over time, not a moment. When life begins isn't really a sensical statement, anyway, as ova and sperm are alive (you can't do much with dead ones...). The pertinent question is "when does personhood begin?"
That aside, there have been indications that adult stem cells may not be as flexible. Being they are more difficult to work with, we may need to learn the ropes with the easier fetal stem cells before we can move on.
The best website I am aware of for a quick rebuttal to a creationist is http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/index.html
Hugh Ross? Even Answers In Genesis knows better than to listen to him... and at least they admit their bias against science, if not quite realising it. The only reason our friend would have trouble addressing those arguments would be if he was undereducated in the sciences himself.
These are the midrange gaming cards.
If all you want is Office applications looking pretty, then you can get by on integrated video or a $50 FX5200 or 9200SE right this very moment at Newegg. You can even do some games on it if you want, just not stuff like Doom very well.
Why are you complaining that the midrange is overpriced and overfeatured, when your needs are clearly low end? I can complain that a 8 cylinder engine would eat too much gas and offer unnecessary acceleration for extra cost, or I can just drive a 4 cylinder.
Yeah, but the 4200 seems to be better at Doom.
It is a little heftier in general, and since it doesn't support DX9, it isn't trying to generate some of the special effects the 5200 is trying to makeon less raw horsepower. If you look around on some forums, the Geforce4 TI line seems to give people a much more enjoyable experience than the low end FX cards. It is analogous to how a GeForce3 TI can outperform a GeForce4MX, while perhaps not being able to make all the eye candy.
Did you try a new set of batteries? NiMH, NiCD, and Li+ all have a limited number of recharge cycles before they start crapping out much earlier than when they were new.
You didn't make a mouse pointer analogy in the post I replied to.
The only point I was making was that AA is more realistic than Quake. It is not realistic enough to substitute for trainig, of course, but as a recruitment tool is not any worse than just having a gruff manly voice and some shots of guys climbing mountains proclaiming how you, too, can be an army of one.
As a game and recruitment tool, you can't really expect more from AA than what it is.
Have you played AA?
You don't just click and respawn like in Quake. You get killed and you are dead until the next round.
Sure, there's no round in real life, but they don't present the army as a fragfest by any means. Running willy nilly and jumping all over gets you killed, and quickly.
If you are wounded you move more slowly and shoot less accurately, and getting shot and surviving in the first place isn't terribly easy to pull off.
It is presented as realisitically as possible and still have people play it. The playstyle of Quake with circle strafing, jumping, spraying fire haphazardly, is completely ineffective. You just end up making a big target of yourself and giving away your position.
Nothing is living in there that didn't come from you, so there isn't much to be scared of unless you plan on eating the keyboard.
I've read that this sort of behavior is associated with video driver updates most frequently.
Did you have Windows Update update your drivers at the same time as it installed the service pack?
What happens if God has gone crazy as well?
Yes, but if you have sufficient speed, then even the most inneffecient evolutionary algorithm will find the solution to the next problem in a reasonable amount of time.
That is why the Singularity results in a snowball, the scale up in speed also allows for a scale up in ability via even ineffecient trial and error techniques.
You could even have evolutionary algorithms for more effecient evolutionary algorithms...
Wasn't the RTCW engine the Q3 engine? I would think that the game you're thinking of would have been Jedi Knight II
They already did a brown game. It was called Quake. It was also a lot of fun.
A) Easy for bacteria that can encyst
B) Harder, even if you can encyst, but howabout inside the probe?
C) Still encysted
D) This is the hard part. Finding a food source that will work is necessary because you can't evolve to eat martian food if you've nothing to eat in the meantime.
It is fairly unlikely that the proper conditions would arise to get the cysts to germinate, but I bet we've brought a few over there.
It is more likely you'd transfer fish or invertebrate pathogens than human pathogens.
Most microorganisms have a fairly narrow band of temperatures at which they can grow. The S. aureus on your skin will not like growing in artic temperatures and a psychrophile living in the arctic will probably not like living on your skin much, either.
Now, with fish from just outside this region and fish inside this region your concerns could be more valid, since they would be under similar environmental conditions and have different immunities.
Nothing can be cool unless its name ends with -ron
Male chimps can get around 250 lbs. The reason you think they are smaller is because adults are not used on film or television because they are too large, strong, and intelligent to trust to be around the public, which, as you are probably aware, contains people that would somehow get a chimp to attack them.
But everyone sees the opposing team as the OpFor. AA could be geared for training easily, and it is straightforward to see why it is not in a 'training' format in the 'recruitment' release. Who would want to play as the OpFor with inferior equipment and 4:1 against odds? In QuakeTF maybe you could pull off those odds, but not in AA.
Yeah, in a small amount you'd only have the concern of it being useless. If you inject a large amount, though, the reaction might kill you.
You can Google electron micrographs of HIV.
That aside, if we made HIV nonpathogenic, the problem would not be so much what cells it infected (cells can survive while infected by certain viruses) but rather integration into the host genome might disrupt important genes, creating a cancer risk in and of itself.
HIV storing itself in memory lymphocytes is probably more important in the difficulty of clearing the virus than living in the brain.
How would an enteric bacterium effect a human retrovirus that does not infect the epithelium of the intestine? Inject E. coli into the blood to look for HIV infected cells (however you'd manage that) and now you've given a person septicemia...
More concerning would be whether or not they would induce an immune response.
Immunopathology can be as mundane as allergy symptoms or as severe as shock.
If you were treated with these computers in one instance they could cure you, but you could develop antibodies against them. Later upon receiving a second treatment you could induce large scale inflammatory responses.
Well, reverence of video gamers isn't inherently different than reverence of athletes. It is just a matter of which skills are revered.