I'm a vegan and if someone offered me a delicious cloned steak, I'd eat it in a heartbeat. And yes, even if the cloned meat needed original animal tissue to start off with, I'd be OK with it. In fact as early as 2003, the Australian research group SymbioticA, made cloned frog steaks from a still living frog. So animals, theoretically, could be donors to cloned meat projects without even having to die. Here is the link to SymbioticA and a link to an article about those delicious frog steaks... mmm...
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/welcomehttp://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/02/62385?currentPage=all
Just to point out, there are plenty of men who believe in Astrology too.
I also think many of the comments have equated scientists with men. Not to be a huge liberal hippie douche, but don't assume everyone reading the comments is a dude. Women do read Slashdot, and making broad generalizations like, "Women are inundated with astrological nonsense from fashion magazines," seems a bit like a stereotype.
So let's not make this thread into a Dude's Club, but more of a Dude and Dudettes club.
I had the SAME thing happen to me. I tried to cancel my parent's account with AOL months ago and it took me no less than 3 separate calls to do it. The first AOL rep went so far as to LIE to me AFTER trying to convince her for fifteen minutes that I "truly" wanted to cancel it. She told me that she would give me two weeks just to "make sure." Then, she would "automatically" cancel the account. That was a blatant lie since I got yet another charge on my account the next month. When I called back fuming, they refused to cancel the account, even though I had the credit card it was originally purchased with and was age 19, until they got expressed consent from both me AND my parents. I suppose I can understand that, however the last call was truly absurd. My mother called telling them to cancel the account and the rep told her that "young kids like yours always lie about this sort of thing, he probably never called and want's to keep his email and account." My mom had to convince the AOL rep that I was not a hooligan.
AOL has an entire department dedicated to convincing people that they need to stay with AOL. The three separate employees all used high pressure techniques to keep us from canceling our account. These aren't the actions of individuals, but a company policy that breeds asinine and brash employees.
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I'm a vegan and if someone offered me a delicious cloned steak, I'd eat it in a heartbeat. And yes, even if the cloned meat needed original animal tissue to start off with, I'd be OK with it. In fact as early as 2003, the Australian research group SymbioticA, made cloned frog steaks from a still living frog. So animals, theoretically, could be donors to cloned meat projects without even having to die. Here is the link to SymbioticA and a link to an article about those delicious frog steaks... mmm... http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/welcome http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/02/62385?currentPage=all
Just to point out, there are plenty of men who believe in Astrology too. I also think many of the comments have equated scientists with men. Not to be a huge liberal hippie douche, but don't assume everyone reading the comments is a dude. Women do read Slashdot, and making broad generalizations like, "Women are inundated with astrological nonsense from fashion magazines," seems a bit like a stereotype. So let's not make this thread into a Dude's Club, but more of a Dude and Dudettes club.
I had the SAME thing happen to me. I tried to cancel my parent's account with AOL months ago and it took me no less than 3 separate calls to do it. The first AOL rep went so far as to LIE to me AFTER trying to convince her for fifteen minutes that I "truly" wanted to cancel it. She told me that she would give me two weeks just to "make sure." Then, she would "automatically" cancel the account. That was a blatant lie since I got yet another charge on my account the next month. When I called back fuming, they refused to cancel the account, even though I had the credit card it was originally purchased with and was age 19, until they got expressed consent from both me AND my parents. I suppose I can understand that, however the last call was truly absurd. My mother called telling them to cancel the account and the rep told her that "young kids like yours always lie about this sort of thing, he probably never called and want's to keep his email and account." My mom had to convince the AOL rep that I was not a hooligan.
AOL has an entire department dedicated to convincing people that they need to stay with AOL. The three separate employees all used high pressure techniques to keep us from canceling our account. These aren't the actions of individuals, but a company policy that breeds asinine and brash employees.
It's time for a class action law suit.