The question is: Are embryos alive and have free will.
Alive is obviously not enough. Skin cells are alive. Plants are alive. Free will, or consciousness is the issue.
Can anyone say an embryo is conscious? They have a potential for consciousness, just like eggs and sperm have the potential for consciousness given the right conditions.
I never saw the ethical issue about cloning as it is in reality. A person is defined by his memories and his moral character.
Take away either one and he is a different entity. Take away both completely and permanently, and he is not human. At best he is "vegetable" that must be cared for.
Embryos are not human. Neither are sperms or eggs.
People that want every embryo to develop into a whole person and are totally against abortion should also be against all human misery and should act accordingly. Few do this. Some even hate others that provide the service of abortion, even though the abortion doctors are just trying to relieve the misery of their patients.
Just bring me M.U.L.E. on a modern system with internet play.
The graphics sucked, but the gameplay was incredible. I remember playing with three friends for hours on my C64. The supply-and-demand market in the game was incredibly simple yet always a blast to try to optimize.
Is there anything even close to the game available now?
I haven't bought a console in over a decade. But I will by a Wii. I've been thinking about a Playstation 2, since it's a mature system by now, but Nintendo has a lot more family oriented games, or so I hear.
It depends on the country. In the United States you might want to donate to a private school in your county. In other countries in which education is more respected and the teachers unions are not as well entrenched, donating to the public school system is usually allowable.
Why not just bundle OpenOffice.org and a couple other free applications with the CD? Saying that the email client is not a full office productivity pack seems a bit bloated, doesn't it?
Saying you bundled a few other applications on the CD, on the other hand, makes it sound like you are giving extra value (The value of not having to search for and download it).
Just because you pay more for your computer doesn't mean that you are more computer-savy.
Mac users tend to be mac users because they want things to "just work". If anything, they may be less tech-savvy, since they don't need to delve into the inner working of the OS as much. And, therefore, they should be *more* prone to get viruses/trojans. Except, of course, Mac OSX is built with security in mind, as opposed to Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT/2K/XP/etc.
This is a global economy, right? Shoudln't the lowest paying jobs go to places where that money can bring up the economy? If people (en mass) somewhere in the U.S. want to work for $4.00 in a call center, I have no problem with it. Maybe highschool kids or others who are physically disabled and aren't educated well enough to do other jobs.
The cold fact of the matter is that the standard of living is too high for these jobs to all be filled in the U.S. without americans paying a lot more for software and such.
I'm 35, have a 1080p display, and watch regular broadcast TV on it. I *buy* 2-3 DVDs a month (I like having them on display). My wife and I watch about 1 a week. Over-the-air HDTV isn't for us since we have sporadic viewing habits and don't want to get a PVR.
I will *not* get either blu-ray or HD-DVD until the format war is over. I also will likely not buy either one unless there is some hope that I can rip the movies to my computer.
My daughter has already destroyed the original copies of a couple of her Walt Disney DVDs. And, remember, Disney puts it's DVDs "back in the vault" after a while, so I can't even find them at MSRP.:-(
Can ODF be compatible with the Apple office software (Pages & Keynote)?
Keynote does some pretty fantastic stuff that is probably not compatible with the ODF presentation format. Otherwise, it would be great, even if ODF has to be revised to handle keynote.
Instead of emailing the URLs requested by the DOJ, they would hand-write them on paper and send them by mail. Preferably hand-written by 50,000 different people, of course.
There is no reason to make this easy for the government.
Mostly unrelated. Mod me down if you will, but this is interesting.
1. Use firefox. 2. Search for a term on google.com/ig 3. Then go to Live.com 4. Start typing in the same search term. Live offers you the autocompletion based on what you typed in google. (This is firefox doing it, not the live.com website).
My guess is that Live.com is reusing some google cookie or code.
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The question is: Are embryos alive and have free will.
Alive is obviously not enough. Skin cells are alive. Plants are alive. Free will, or consciousness is the issue.
Can anyone say an embryo is conscious? They have a potential for consciousness, just like eggs and sperm have the potential for consciousness given the right conditions.
I never saw the ethical issue about cloning as it is in reality. A person is defined by his memories and his moral character.
Take away either one and he is a different entity. Take away both completely and permanently, and he is not human. At best he is "vegetable" that must be cared for.
Embryos are not human. Neither are sperms or eggs.
People that want every embryo to develop into a whole person and are totally against abortion should also be against all human misery and should act accordingly. Few do this. Some even hate others that provide the service of abortion, even though the abortion doctors are just trying to relieve the misery of their patients.
The page 2 nudity doesn't hurt.
This way, with microsoft "worried" about Adobe bringing a suit, Microsoft can introduce it's PDF replace technology.
The best thing Adobe can do is publically state that it would like MS Office to include an unadultered version of PDF output ability.
Just bring me M.U.L.E. on a modern system with internet play.
The graphics sucked, but the gameplay was incredible. I remember playing with three friends for hours on my C64. The supply-and-demand market in the game was incredibly simple yet always a blast to try to optimize.
Is there anything even close to the game available now?
I haven't bought a console in over a decade. But I will by a Wii. I've been thinking about a Playstation 2, since it's a mature system by now, but Nintendo has a lot more family oriented games, or so I hear.
It depends on the country. In the United States you might want to donate to a private school in your county. In other countries in which education is more respected and the teachers unions are not as well entrenched, donating to the public school system is usually allowable.
For people who don't know who this "Linus" guy is (Surprise - He's not the guy from Peanuts): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
There is a reason for defensive patents. Creative won't forget that again.
I have yet to figure out how to insert a video in a presentation.
Why not just bundle OpenOffice.org and a couple other free applications with the CD? Saying that the email client is not a full office productivity pack seems a bit bloated, doesn't it?
Saying you bundled a few other applications on the CD, on the other hand, makes it sound like you are giving extra value (The value of not having to search for and download it).
Becoming an older man is always better than the alternatives.
;-)
Happy Birthday. Your blog has was precious years of my life away.
As was mentioned in a recent /. article, they can always use word and (soon) be able to export their documents to ODF format.
Just because you pay more for your computer doesn't mean that you are more computer-savy.
Mac users tend to be mac users because they want things to "just work". If anything, they may be less tech-savvy, since they don't need to delve into the inner working of the OS as much. And, therefore, they should be *more* prone to get viruses/trojans. Except, of course, Mac OSX is built with security in mind, as opposed to Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/NT/2K/XP/etc.
This is a global economy, right? Shoudln't the lowest paying jobs go to places where that money can bring up the economy? If people (en mass) somewhere in the U.S. want to work for $4.00 in a call center, I have no problem with it. Maybe highschool kids or others who are physically disabled and aren't educated well enough to do other jobs.
The cold fact of the matter is that the standard of living is too high for these jobs to all be filled in the U.S. without americans paying a lot more for software and such.
Anyone else catch the line:
:-)
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000; Windows 95; Windows 98; Windows ME; Windows XP.
I guess there is hope for those that don't want to upgrade their Pentium/133 systems.
It's featured on their homepage now, BTW.
Same here.
:-(
I'm 35, have a 1080p display, and watch regular broadcast TV on it. I *buy* 2-3 DVDs a month (I like having them on display). My wife and I watch about 1 a week. Over-the-air HDTV isn't for us since we have sporadic viewing habits and don't want to get a PVR.
I will *not* get either blu-ray or HD-DVD until the format war is over. I also will likely not buy either one unless there is some hope that I can rip the movies to my computer.
My daughter has already destroyed the original copies of a couple of her Walt Disney DVDs. And, remember, Disney puts it's DVDs "back in the vault" after a while, so I can't even find them at MSRP.
Can ODF be compatible with the Apple office software (Pages & Keynote)?
Keynote does some pretty fantastic stuff that is probably not compatible with the ODF presentation format. Otherwise, it would be great, even if ODF has to be revised to handle keynote.
A full windows (not upgrade) liscense is expensive! This is not going to be done by the average Mac user.
One complaint about the close buttons on the tabs:
The close button itself sucks. Take the one from the Firefox 1.5 Mac theme. It's much nicer.
Also, the button should be grayed out (or invisible) unless the mouse is on the tab bar.
Instead of emailing the URLs requested by the DOJ, they would hand-write them on paper and send them by mail. Preferably hand-written by 50,000 different people, of course.
There is no reason to make this easy for the government.
Mostly unrelated. Mod me down if you will, but this is interesting.
1. Use firefox.
2. Search for a term on google.com/ig
3. Then go to Live.com
4. Start typing in the same search term. Live offers you the autocompletion based on what you typed in google. (This is firefox doing it, not the live.com website).
My guess is that Live.com is reusing some google cookie or code.
What the heck is with the funky scroll bars? They're less acurate and slower than regular slow bars.
Also, while it's nice to have a more/less info slider on the right side, it doesn't really add much at this point.
Pretty colors, though.
Maybe someone should post a coral link. Let off some of the load from MS.