Its very similar to the scene in The Thin Red Line in which Pfc Doll rejoices in his opportunity to kill another person without consequence.
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I killed a man.
DOLL
Hey Queen! Queen! You there?
V.O.
Worse thing you can do. Worse than rape.
DOLL
Queen! You see them Japs leaving out left ridge?
V.O.
I killed a man, nobody can touch me for it.
...but in case your multi-GHz processor will serve your needs just fine for several years, while your AGP card won't last you nearly as long, you'd wish you had an upgrade path, yes?
This is ridiculous, if there is a market for newer AGP cards, then a company will produce them, just as PCI cards exist in small numbers now...
Its worse than all of that. Having unprotected sex alone is abortive by percentages, think schrodinger's cat: 1) women can't really ever know when they are ovulating, in fact women can ovulate more than once a month, 2) not all fetuses implant, and assuming you have an implanted embryo, we all know not all will make it to term, miscarriges happen, and more often than even mothers know . Any person alive today was likely a result of several miscarriges or embyros that failed to implant. Any person who honestly beleives that life begins at conception acknowledges that for humans, every child born represents others that died. These are statistics, some people were undoubtedly the first conceived embyro. However, any would be parent ascribing to the "life at conception" school of thought is a murderer by their own definition, in the schrodinger's cat sense. They can never know how many embryos they conceived that for natural reasons died. Odds are not on their side that their hands are clean, and besides its the thought that counts...they took a chance at killing a "life".
Genetically embryos are not the same as an egg (normal, human), and eggs are not genetically the same as a human. An egg can not and will not ever become a "human" independently, it needs more genetic material than it has (read: sperm). Else cloning would be a lot simpler, at least for the female sex. An embryo on the other hand has enough by itself to become a "human". Basic high school biology here, haploid vs diploid. This maybe splitting hairs, but in a debate where small distinctions matter this one can't be over looked. To address the point you were trying to make, why should genetics matter as far as rights go...your toe is genetically you (mostly) and it has no rights, what makes a human seperate from its genetic sum is up for debate, not even viability is a unanimous division, as terminally ill humans have the same rights as the rest of us (mostly). Its an issue people can't seem to agree on, and you are stating it as a moral absolute. Conclusion Mod parent Down!
DNA never makes protiens, it must first go through mRNA, this is not trivial. There are more types of viruses than DNA viruses, mRNA viruses are common and important, (AIDS, etc.) The problem with the second approach, the SCARY possibility that ebola could be made from scratch relies on a known sequence from ebola before you can even start to make a "copy", and every virus known contains the same AGTC (U) as we do, not really a scary possiblity, it relies on the same technology as we would need for biotech crops.
This is blatantly not true. The cellular processes that regulate the proper division of cells are simple individually, but the effect of them is a cascade, and their interactions are so complicated they are still not properly understood, if they were so similar to regular cells, there would only be one kind of cancer in many different places. (well not exactly but this is slashdot)
As I recall the reason that simply playing something that lacked a tag was that removing the tag from "tagged" shows is relatively easy, which defeats the whole purpose of tagging
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Its very similar to the scene in The Thin Red Line in which Pfc Doll rejoices in his opportunity to kill another person without consequence. -- I killed a man. DOLL Hey Queen! Queen! You there? V.O. Worse thing you can do. Worse than rape. DOLL Queen! You see them Japs leaving out left ridge? V.O. I killed a man, nobody can touch me for it.
He really is going to understand the phrase "Federal Bang Me in the A$$ Prison"
...but in case your multi-GHz processor will serve your needs just fine for several years, while your AGP card won't last you nearly as long, you'd wish you had an upgrade path, yes? This is ridiculous, if there is a market for newer AGP cards, then a company will produce them, just as PCI cards exist in small numbers now...
Its worse than all of that. Having unprotected sex alone is abortive by percentages, think schrodinger's cat: 1) women can't really ever know when they are ovulating, in fact women can ovulate more than once a month, 2) not all fetuses implant, and assuming you have an implanted embryo, we all know not all will make it to term, miscarriges happen, and more often than even mothers know . Any person alive today was likely a result of several miscarriges or embyros that failed to implant. Any person who honestly beleives that life begins at conception acknowledges that for humans, every child born represents others that died. These are statistics, some people were undoubtedly the first conceived embyro. However, any would be parent ascribing to the "life at conception" school of thought is a murderer by their own definition, in the schrodinger's cat sense. They can never know how many embryos they conceived that for natural reasons died. Odds are not on their side that their hands are clean, and besides its the thought that counts...they took a chance at killing a "life".
Genetically embryos are not the same as an egg (normal, human), and eggs are not genetically the same as a human. An egg can not and will not ever become a "human" independently, it needs more genetic material than it has (read: sperm). Else cloning would be a lot simpler, at least for the female sex. An embryo on the other hand has enough by itself to become a "human". Basic high school biology here, haploid vs diploid. This maybe splitting hairs, but in a debate where small distinctions matter this one can't be over looked. To address the point you were trying to make, why should genetics matter as far as rights go...your toe is genetically you (mostly) and it has no rights, what makes a human seperate from its genetic sum is up for debate, not even viability is a unanimous division, as terminally ill humans have the same rights as the rest of us (mostly). Its an issue people can't seem to agree on, and you are stating it as a moral absolute. Conclusion Mod parent Down!
DNA never makes protiens, it must first go through mRNA, this is not trivial. There are more types of viruses than DNA viruses, mRNA viruses are common and important, (AIDS, etc.) The problem with the second approach, the SCARY possibility that ebola could be made from scratch relies on a known sequence from ebola before you can even start to make a "copy", and every virus known contains the same AGTC (U) as we do, not really a scary possiblity, it relies on the same technology as we would need for biotech crops.
This is blatantly not true. The cellular processes that regulate the proper division of cells are simple individually, but the effect of them is a cascade, and their interactions are so complicated they are still not properly understood, if they were so similar to regular cells, there would only be one kind of cancer in many different places. (well not exactly but this is slashdot)
As I recall the reason that simply playing something that lacked a tag was that removing the tag from "tagged" shows is relatively easy, which defeats the whole purpose of tagging