The gene is still altered. It gets methylated instead of having it's bases changed, but the gene is still the base unit. The differentiation between "genetics" and "epigenetics" is just a reflection of our historical biases in regarding "the genome" as a sequence of bases only.
Mod the parent up though, because it's an actual intelligent question and I'd like to see if Dr. (yes Soulskill, Dr, not Mr.) Dawkins agrees with me.
The question was whether government and law can exist without religion. Secular countries, including Ireland and Italy, don't have religion in their laws, or at least have religious references for historical purposes only. It doesn't matter what religion the people practice, when they make governmental or legal decisions their religion is checked at the door.
What you say is true for the likes of Google, who offer free services. Verizon is potentially setting themselves up for problems because the data they're mining IS from their customers: most of their profits come from people paying their phone bills.
Versions of Xcode that run on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion will compile programs that run just fine on Mountain Lion, and as far backwards as you care to go. You can't write programs that use some of the features of the OS you don't have, but how were you going to test them anyway?
If there's a killer feature in the update you absolutely must have, then you just have to pony up your $20-$30 for the OS, plus $0 for Xcode. Compare that with $0 for the OS plus $500-$2500 for Visual Studio so you can write Metro apps without being able to run them.
You know Office 2013 requires Windows 7 or greater, right?
There's one other thing lots of libertarians believe in - optional taxes. So you have a government to protect you but everybody pays for it at their own discretion.
I don't really see a problem with having to have the latest OS to run the development platform for that OS. Now, if Photoshop, Office, iLife or iWork stopped working, that would be something to complain about.
Most libertarians who aren't complete anarchists agree that a government is necessary to protect people from aggression. You can follow that to whatever conclusions you like.
In reality a government would send a warship to stop him. "Libertarian" seems to mean pretty much whatever you want it to but in many definitions you can just replace "government" with "a coalition of opposed citizens (or just one rich one)."
You have to be careful about doing things in International waters that violate international law. It SEEMS like you're home free until all the countries in the area decide to bar you from their territorial waters and ports. Or some bodies navy decides you qualify as a pirate.
The phrase "correlation does not imply causation" is usually a fairly good indicator that the person who said it doesn't understand correlation OR causation. In your case it doesn't even start to make sense.
If light travels through spider silk with four orders of magnitude more loss than through glass then light travels through spider silk 10,000 times more poorly than through glass fibre. That is, it doesn't travel through silk nearly as easily as through glass. Nobody said anything about data loss.
Yeah, that's more like it. These guys are probably nVidia employees who like Linux and probably had something to do with convincing their bosses to let them work on Linux drivers. They asked Cox if something could be done about the licensing of a little part of the kernel so the drivers they write could use a new feature. Cox told them to F off.
I really doubt nVidia cares. The only ones disappointed are these driver coders and anybody who wants to use multiple GPUs on Linux.
Seriously, theoretical physics has a LOT of "well, what if we didn't have that little problem...." Quantum mechanics has lots of awkward infinities that end up getting explained away (and lots more we hope will get explained away someday).
That's a nice story. Unfortunately it's got too many scientific errors to be science fiction but sounds too sciencey to be general fiction. I don't think you'll find a publisher willing to take it. Maybe you could write it as being mostly sex scenes and bill it as a romance?
Some laser pointers are 3R, low risk but possible injury if used incorrectly. 3B is more powerful and requires a key and safety interlock (in the US) and usually protective eyewear.
You're agreeing with the GP but splitting hairs about the words used. As he said, you can claim your rights are granted by God, the FSM, Nature or whatever you want, but they're absolutely meaningless until an organized society comes along and "recognizes" them for you. He also neglected to mention the other side of the equation, where for every right of yours that's recognized, you are saddled with the responsibility to recognize and protect that right for other members of society. If enough people shirk their responsibility, the whole thing breaks down and nobody has any rights... I mean, nobody has any recognized rights anymore.
The ninth amendment states that rights not specifically protected in the US constitution "shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." That means rights traditionally possessed by the people, generally through common law and tradition, are retained. The idea of inalienable rights is ridiculous unless you believe in a god. Even then, the major religions don't talk about their gods granting mankind rights except in a limited way, such as the Christian God's commitment not to destroy mankind again (a la the flood), until armageddon, presumably.
Rights are granted by societies (represented by governments and constitutions and courts and such), and can be taken away by societies. So yes, you very much live in a world where your rights are decided by (lots of) someones else. If you don't like it go get lost in the middle of the ocean and demand your right to life from the water.
There are already laws that restrict lasers. A class IIIR laser, which is the class of the more powerful common handheld laser pointers, is unlikely to cause injury in normal circumstances. It's like a fist - it could cause damage, but generally not fast enough or devastatingly enough to warrant more than laws against its improper use. One particular area of concern is aircraft, because they might be distracting, cause flash blindness or a sneezing fit in the pilots. NOT because they might get their eyes burned out.
Higher power lasers are restricted in various ways in various places, including sales bans, mounting and safety requirements, etc.
That sounds like an awesome idea. You can have either the car companies or Google watching where you go, how you drive, who else you see. If they're controlling the cameras they can see what you do when you stop, within sight of a car too. Better not say anything bad about HAL unless you're indoors.
The difference is that with traditional classrooms students have a) paid to be there (maybe) and b) have dragged themselves to the building to be there. The barrier to entry for an online course, particularly a free one, is considerably lower.
The OP thinks everyone should have access to a FREE education. I disagree. Everyone should have access to a free basic education, when they're children, so that they know what education is. Past the basics, education should be accessible to anyone, but should require some sacrifice. Otherwise you're just wasting lots of people's time and everyone's money.
Most people are not desperate for education, as the OP claims. Some people are, but most seem to be mildly interested in it, so long as it's not too hard.
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IIRC Dawkins explores possible evolutionary advantages of religion in "The God Delusion."
The gene is still altered. It gets methylated instead of having it's bases changed, but the gene is still the base unit. The differentiation between "genetics" and "epigenetics" is just a reflection of our historical biases in regarding "the genome" as a sequence of bases only.
Mod the parent up though, because it's an actual intelligent question and I'd like to see if Dr. (yes Soulskill, Dr, not Mr.) Dawkins agrees with me.
The question was whether government and law can exist without religion. Secular countries, including Ireland and Italy, don't have religion in their laws, or at least have religious references for historical purposes only. It doesn't matter what religion the people practice, when they make governmental or legal decisions their religion is checked at the door.
Most places with sane abortion laws limit when abortions can happen so near term fetuses aren't being aborted. Your comparison is a straw man.
What you say is true for the likes of Google, who offer free services. Verizon is potentially setting themselves up for problems because the data they're mining IS from their customers: most of their profits come from people paying their phone bills.
Versions of Xcode that run on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion will compile programs that run just fine on Mountain Lion, and as far backwards as you care to go. You can't write programs that use some of the features of the OS you don't have, but how were you going to test them anyway?
If there's a killer feature in the update you absolutely must have, then you just have to pony up your $20-$30 for the OS, plus $0 for Xcode. Compare that with $0 for the OS plus $500-$2500 for Visual Studio so you can write Metro apps without being able to run them.
You know Office 2013 requires Windows 7 or greater, right?
There's one other thing lots of libertarians believe in - optional taxes. So you have a government to protect you but everybody pays for it at their own discretion.
I don't really see a problem with having to have the latest OS to run the development platform for that OS. Now, if Photoshop, Office, iLife or iWork stopped working, that would be something to complain about.
Most libertarians who aren't complete anarchists agree that a government is necessary to protect people from aggression. You can follow that to whatever conclusions you like.
In reality a government would send a warship to stop him. "Libertarian" seems to mean pretty much whatever you want it to but in many definitions you can just replace "government" with "a coalition of opposed citizens (or just one rich one)."
A coalition of opposed citizens (or just one rich one) outfit a warship and blow him out of the ocean?
You have to be careful about doing things in International waters that violate international law. It SEEMS like you're home free until all the countries in the area decide to bar you from their territorial waters and ports. Or some bodies navy decides you qualify as a pirate.
Is it called chemistry?
That is literally the meaning of perpetual motion. What they don't claim is free energy.
The phrase "correlation does not imply causation" is usually a fairly good indicator that the person who said it doesn't understand correlation OR causation. In your case it doesn't even start to make sense.
If light travels through spider silk with four orders of magnitude more loss than through glass then light travels through spider silk 10,000 times more poorly than through glass fibre. That is, it doesn't travel through silk nearly as easily as through glass. Nobody said anything about data loss.
Yeah, that's more like it. These guys are probably nVidia employees who like Linux and probably had something to do with convincing their bosses to let them work on Linux drivers. They asked Cox if something could be done about the licensing of a little part of the kernel so the drivers they write could use a new feature. Cox told them to F off.
I really doubt nVidia cares. The only ones disappointed are these driver coders and anybody who wants to use multiple GPUs on Linux.
You'd think they were quantum theorists!
Seriously, theoretical physics has a LOT of "well, what if we didn't have that little problem...." Quantum mechanics has lots of awkward infinities that end up getting explained away (and lots more we hope will get explained away someday).
That's a nice story. Unfortunately it's got too many scientific errors to be science fiction but sounds too sciencey to be general fiction. I don't think you'll find a publisher willing to take it. Maybe you could write it as being mostly sex scenes and bill it as a romance?
Some laser pointers are 3R, low risk but possible injury if used incorrectly. 3B is more powerful and requires a key and safety interlock (in the US) and usually protective eyewear.
You're agreeing with the GP but splitting hairs about the words used. As he said, you can claim your rights are granted by God, the FSM, Nature or whatever you want, but they're absolutely meaningless until an organized society comes along and "recognizes" them for you. He also neglected to mention the other side of the equation, where for every right of yours that's recognized, you are saddled with the responsibility to recognize and protect that right for other members of society. If enough people shirk their responsibility, the whole thing breaks down and nobody has any rights... I mean, nobody has any recognized rights anymore.
The ninth amendment states that rights not specifically protected in the US constitution "shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." That means rights traditionally possessed by the people, generally through common law and tradition, are retained. The idea of inalienable rights is ridiculous unless you believe in a god. Even then, the major religions don't talk about their gods granting mankind rights except in a limited way, such as the Christian God's commitment not to destroy mankind again (a la the flood), until armageddon, presumably.
Rights are granted by societies (represented by governments and constitutions and courts and such), and can be taken away by societies. So yes, you very much live in a world where your rights are decided by (lots of) someones else. If you don't like it go get lost in the middle of the ocean and demand your right to life from the water.
There are already laws that restrict lasers. A class IIIR laser, which is the class of the more powerful common handheld laser pointers, is unlikely to cause injury in normal circumstances. It's like a fist - it could cause damage, but generally not fast enough or devastatingly enough to warrant more than laws against its improper use. One particular area of concern is aircraft, because they might be distracting, cause flash blindness or a sneezing fit in the pilots. NOT because they might get their eyes burned out.
Higher power lasers are restricted in various ways in various places, including sales bans, mounting and safety requirements, etc.
That sounds like an awesome idea. You can have either the car companies or Google watching where you go, how you drive, who else you see. If they're controlling the cameras they can see what you do when you stop, within sight of a car too. Better not say anything bad about HAL unless you're indoors.
Strangely, optical engineering, particularly in the space afforded by a cell phone, involves tradeoffs.
The difference is that with traditional classrooms students have a) paid to be there (maybe) and b) have dragged themselves to the building to be there. The barrier to entry for an online course, particularly a free one, is considerably lower.
The OP thinks everyone should have access to a FREE education. I disagree. Everyone should have access to a free basic education, when they're children, so that they know what education is. Past the basics, education should be accessible to anyone, but should require some sacrifice. Otherwise you're just wasting lots of people's time and everyone's money.
Most people are not desperate for education, as the OP claims. Some people are, but most seem to be mildly interested in it, so long as it's not too hard.