>> But there are countries, or rather cultures where
Isn't it better to attack/change that mentality rather than enable it further with artificial techniques?
The state is just enforcing the status quo. You haven't been able to choose the sex up until now, eight? Blame nature not the government for that one...
It ends with two dstinct races of humans, those not genetically engineered, and those that are, super-intelligent super-fit blond blue-eyed products who won't want to mix their bloodlines with the inferior 'naturals'. It will also be an indicator of economic wealth because only rich families will be able to afford designer babies.
So the awful legacy is we now have another criteria that will be used as a weapon for racial and social discrimination, just like skin colour or religion.
The worst part is that this will be the first time there will be some scientific evidence that the physical differences are actually significant, which will make colour/religion-based predjudice look like a walk in the park.
Furthermore, if its viable to censor something just because itmay not be entirely correct, then all religious programs and movies should be the first to go. At least science has got some empirical evidence behind it.
I find it amazing that most Americans can rationalise this stuff away so it doesn't contradict their belief that they still live in the home of free speech.
How far does this have to go before someone actually does something?
I just recently saw Monsters of the Deep (Imax 3D)movie about deep-sea creatures and habitat. It was wonderful. My only complaint was that it was too short (about 45 minutes).
I've noticed that most movies I've been to within the last few years (in the US) have obvious pixellation. I just assumed this was because it was via a digital projector rather than a film projector. How can this atricle claim therefore that Ireland are first with the technology?
MS have hardly ever embraced or complied with any common standards. They always plagiarise the original idea and make an MS-specific non-compliant product.
Wow for a site mostly populated by nerds I'm surprised no-one has raised this:
There can be no distinction between uploading and downloading via P2P. There is no client-server relationship (thats what peer-to-peer means!).
Even if you don't make anything else available for sharing, chunks of the file you are currently downloading can and do get shared as you are downloading it.
There is no mechanism to prevent this, therefore you are potentially always uploading just by downloading.
But thats not really true is it? You can get the patent fairly easily, becuase the patents office don't do much if any real checking first.
Its only after you get your patent then market your thing that then real test begins.
Big corps like Microsoft have so many patents they can always find something somewhere, some abstract interpretation of the small print in one of their earlier patents that you've breached somehow. They have full-time employees just doing exactly this.
The worst part is they don't sue you straight away. They wait until your business is REALLY doing well then they can sue you for millions of lost revenue.
Unfortunaltey the whole patent system is so corrupted towards big business it needs a total overhaul to work properly. That will never happen because the big corps already own the governments. The blatantly undemocratic EU ruling only proves that fact even more.
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>> But there are countries, or rather cultures where Isn't it better to attack/change that mentality rather than enable it further with artificial techniques?
>> so if it was to come up in a ballet i would allow it
Just any old ballet or a specific one? Swan Lake perhaps?
Would you accept being ruled as an animal then? Becuase we'd all be members of the low class.
>> what right does the State have...
The state is just enforcing the status quo. You haven't been able to choose the sex up until now, eight? Blame nature not the government for that one...
This is how it starts...
It ends with two dstinct races of humans, those not genetically engineered, and those that are, super-intelligent super-fit blond blue-eyed products who won't want to mix their bloodlines with the inferior 'naturals'. It will also be an indicator of economic wealth because only rich families will be able to afford designer babies.
So the awful legacy is we now have another criteria that will be used as a weapon for racial and social discrimination, just like skin colour or religion.
The worst part is that this will be the first time there will be some scientific evidence that the physical differences are actually significant, which will make colour/religion-based predjudice look like a walk in the park.
none.
Why should I? I bought it.
Digital, at least in its current form is a step backwards. Digital images are not as near as nice as 35mm film.
I stopped going to my local cinema when they 'upgraded' to digital as the pixellation/resolution is so bad it ruins the big screen experience.
THANK YOU!!! I wish more hardware manufacturers thought like you!
If some movie about science is all it takes to get the christians feeling threatened, then no wonder islam is growing faster than christianity.
> we all have a bias ...
Sure but intelligent people realise that already.
Furthermore, if its viable to censor something just because itmay not be entirely correct, then all religious programs and movies should be the first to go. At least science has got some empirical evidence behind it.
I find it amazing that most Americans can rationalise this stuff away so it doesn't contradict their belief that they still live in the home of free speech.
How far does this have to go before someone actually does something?
I just recently saw Monsters of the Deep (Imax 3D)movie about deep-sea creatures and habitat. It was wonderful. My only complaint was that it was too short (about 45 minutes).
Orrin Hatch is in his seventies. I remenber reading an article some while ago that he'd (finally) retired, which made my whole day.
Why would anyone want to dig up this old fossil again, let alone put him in charge of anything, as he's obviously an incontin^m^mpetent fool.
I've noticed that most movies I've been to within the last few years (in the US) have obvious pixellation. I just assumed this was because it was via a digital projector rather than a film projector. How can this atricle claim therefore that Ireland are first with the technology?
Gotta love the beeb for putting lotsa stuff online for free, especially radio 4.
MS have hardly ever embraced or complied with any common standards. They always plagiarise the original idea and make an MS-specific non-compliant product.
I don't see why they would change now.
and also save trees by stop printing those hundreds of free papers that get forced on us.
I don't even read them, they go straight from my mailbox and driveway into the dumpster.
>> What would be the best way to illustrate what a software engineer does to a group of primary school kids?
Take a big grey cardboard box and sit in it.
Yes we can't have multimillion dollar companies losing any of their profit margin.
Thats surely equal to say, mass-murder, which is whats normally required to execute someone.
But that means Microsoft won't release perfectly good patches to anyone else for a whole month.
Doesn't that just add to the proof that MS treat their regular users like bitches.
Yet another justification that anyone with a choice should be running Linux.
Wow for a site mostly populated by nerds I'm surprised no-one has raised this:
There can be no distinction between uploading and downloading via P2P. There is no client-server relationship (thats what peer-to-peer means!).
Even if you don't make anything else available for sharing, chunks of the file you are currently downloading can and do get shared as you are downloading it.
There is no mechanism to prevent this, therefore you are potentially always uploading just by downloading.
P2P networks don't provide for downloading-only scenarios (i.e. client-server). Thats what peer-to-peer actually means!
P2P clients can and do upload file chunks as you are downloadiung them, even assuming you aren't sharing anything else.
How come this got modded this down as flamebait when all it is is a collection of historical FACTS?
It should have been modded UP as informative.
boiled down, your points become:
...and you wonder why employers don't pick women for tehcnical positions???
1) Women need to talk about stuff other than the job while at work. (i.e. wasting company time).
2) Women need their managers to give them special dispensation to repeatedly leave early.
3) To avoid feeling bad, women need a career path. Heh do you actually think most men get that?
4) Women are uncomfortable in situations that wouldn't bother men.
But thats not really true is it?
You can get the patent fairly easily, becuase the patents office don't do much if any real checking first.
Its only after you get your patent then market your thing that then real test begins.
Big corps like Microsoft have so many patents they can always find something somewhere, some abstract interpretation of the small print in one of their earlier patents that you've breached somehow. They have full-time employees just doing exactly this.
The worst part is they don't sue you straight away. They wait until your business is REALLY doing well then they can sue you for millions of lost revenue.
Unfortunaltey the whole patent system is so corrupted towards big business it needs a total overhaul to work properly. That will never happen because the big corps already own the governments. The blatantly undemocratic EU ruling only proves that fact even more.
Why wouldn't I just used firefox instead?