Also, the majority opinion makes a big deal about the ease with which the pictures could have been obtained by a third party because they were emailed. The judge who wrote the opinion talks about how the teens' computers could have been hacked, their ISPs could have retained copies of the email, the email could have been intercepted by hackers, and also that "Computers also allow for long-term storage of information which may then be disseminated at some later date." The majority opinion seems to have decided that since computers were involved, this is somehow more serious than using traditional photography. The minority opinion says that this rationale is stupid (paraphrased:).
In this case, I don't know that "voting with your dollars" would work. I think the MPAA would interpret declining cinema attendance as increased piracy, not as a decision by their consumers that seeing movies in the theater is no longer worth it. I don't really have any useful alternative suggestions, though. Write a letter?
Errr... Are you sure that the slimness you're talking about is due to hill-climbing and not hunger? I'm pretty sure that the poor who live in the flat portions of Brazil are also not obese.
Gutmann did talk about medical imaging in the article, which was probably the cause of the submitter's confusion. That, or they were looking for the author's name in the Inquirer article and grabbed the first name with a quote attributed to it.
I believe you mean the 21st chromosome. The 23rd chromosome is the sex chromosome, and the effects of having an extra one depend on the resulting genotype. The possibilities are XYY, XXY, and XXX (gasp!). If I remember correctly, the XYY variety typically dies very young (it may not survive to birth.) The XXY flavor results in Klinefelter's syndrome, which causes sterility (the person is male, but during puberty the testicles do not fully develop) and slight deficits in speech and motor learning (which can be overcome by playing sports and having good teachers). I can't remember what happens with the XXX variety.
So there's more than you ever wanted to know about Trisomy-23. To make this reply relevant to the post, trisomy typically happens through nondisjunction, in which two copies of a chromosome do not separate from each other during meiosis (this happens in the sex cells of on of the parents.)
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Also, the majority opinion makes a big deal about the ease with which the pictures could have been obtained by a third party because they were emailed. The judge who wrote the opinion talks about how the teens' computers could have been hacked, their ISPs could have retained copies of the email, the email could have been intercepted by hackers, and also that "Computers also allow for long-term storage of information which may then be disseminated at some later date." The majority opinion seems to have decided that since computers were involved, this is somehow more serious than using traditional photography. The minority opinion says that this rationale is stupid (paraphrased :).
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In this case, I don't know that "voting with your dollars" would work. I think the MPAA would interpret declining cinema attendance as increased piracy, not as a decision by their consumers that seeing movies in the theater is no longer worth it. I don't really have any useful alternative suggestions, though. Write a letter?
Errr... Are you sure that the slimness you're talking about is due to hill-climbing and not hunger? I'm pretty sure that the poor who live in the flat portions of Brazil are also not obese.
Oh no! Your sarcasm detector is broken! Better fix it before you read any more Internets. ;)
Gutmann did talk about medical imaging in the article, which was probably the cause of the submitter's confusion. That, or they were looking for the author's name in the Inquirer article and grabbed the first name with a quote attributed to it.
I believe you mean the 21st chromosome. The 23rd chromosome is the sex chromosome, and the effects of having an extra one depend on the resulting genotype. The possibilities are XYY, XXY, and XXX (gasp!). If I remember correctly, the XYY variety typically dies very young (it may not survive to birth.) The XXY flavor results in Klinefelter's syndrome, which causes sterility (the person is male, but during puberty the testicles do not fully develop) and slight deficits in speech and motor learning (which can be overcome by playing sports and having good teachers). I can't remember what happens with the XXX variety. So there's more than you ever wanted to know about Trisomy-23. To make this reply relevant to the post, trisomy typically happens through nondisjunction, in which two copies of a chromosome do not separate from each other during meiosis (this happens in the sex cells of on of the parents.)