Ok, I have just a little issue to take with this troll... God's story hasn't changed at all? God used to be in the clouds. Now we know what's in the clouds, so he's moved elsewhere.
God's story has not changed, our interpretation of it has. And it is sad that you can lable someone a Troll because they believe in God.
If one believes God created us, then one can accept on faith that there are some things which we cannot understand - like how God exists in the first place. We have finite minds, our minds cannot comprehend something always existing, but I know it's true because I'm willing to accept it on faith.
While Faith might be a big deal to many, I think we can believe in God without relying on just Faith.
One of the first proofs on the exsistance of God that I read came from Rene Descarte. Descarte asked the question how can any man believe that what he perceives is truthful. He was asking, if I see a yellow sun, how can I trust my perception that the sun is really yellow. Maybe what you see is red, but we both call it yellow. His anwser was, humans are not perfect. But the thought of God is perfect. Furthermore, anywhere you look, people will have an idea that there is a God, a seed is in every human being. Descarte conclused that since we are imperfect beings, how can we concieve of a perfect God unless that knowledge was seeded in us at birth. Descarte also wrote, that God would never decieve us. God is Truth.
I also was reading Memory and Identity by Pope John Paul II this past weekend. He had a very interesting chapter in why we need God. If you believe that Adam and Eve lived in Eden, and they ate from the tree of knowledge, then there are large consequences. Before eating from the tree of knowledge, they never sinned. They lived according to Gods' Will. But after eating from the Tree of Knowledge, they knew good and evil like God knows good and evil. What that means is that they could judge like God judges, they could pick what was good and evil. And that is where all human suffering origniates from. Evil is defined as the absence of some good. And since only God knows true Good, we must live according to his definition, and not ours. Take sex for example. Pope John Paul II wrote there is something better in having mystery, rather than viewing all people as a sexual object. By having mystery, you view people more completely, not just quickly dismissing them. That is why pre-marital sex is evil- there is some good missing.
As society gets more secular and starts making judgements without God, we will become more miserable. That hole people have in their life, the suffering, it is our longing for something more satisfying and Good than the choices we have made.
I am amazed at all the scientists who think they know "facts" when their theories are not really anything more then a "best guess". And their guesses care changing all the time. God's story has not changed at all.
I believe we should teach creationism in schools, it will serve more people better. Out of a high school graduation class of 1000, how many will go on to a career in science? Say that 700 of them go on to college and that 300 go into the work force. Of the 700, 100 decide they want to major in physics or chemistry. Of them 70 get weeded out. You now have 30 people who will continue. The other 970 people will be better served with an education that focuses on creationism.
We are living in a time with relative ethics. We are living in an increasing secular society, where life means little. We all watched in horror as the Teri Shiavo in Florida was starved to death. That never should have happened, in the light that there is information that her husband might have beat her the night she collapsed, and the uncertainty of her wishes.
Even our most prized and well written scientists believe in God. Einstein believed in God, he was quoted as saying "I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are just details".
You probably are, unless that's simply a misspelling.
But hey, keep posting. With enough practice you might actually graduate from high school one day.
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I only deal with the facts, sir.
This reminds me of two people I knew in highschool. One went to an Ivy League university and then to Yale Law School. The other went to community college, then the state U, then the U of Law School. The Yale lawyer could tell you the rights and responsibilities of a banana. The U of Lawyer was a pit bull. Plus, he could hold down his beer. Wanna guess who I would hire if I needed a laywer?
But you toast your friends with your hard apple cider. Non-alcoholic of course.
With a name like Smucker's, it has to be, uh, patent pending.
ROFL. If I had mod points, I would mod that insightful. LOL.
Seriously, we need to do something about patent law. It is getting to be a joke. I remember when anyone could work on their car. I bet in 5-10 years there will be systems that GM and Ford and Toyota will patent so only they can fix it, and charge much more money. People joke about patents to blow jobs. Wait til you get a sunshine job, and the bill.
When did patent law become a way to make a monopoly?
Smucker's 2-ounce peanut butter and jelly pockets come in two flavors -- strawberry and grape -- and are enclosed without a crust using a crimping method that the Orrville, Ohio, company says is one of a kind and should be protected from duplication by federal law.
One of a kind way to make PB&J sandwiches. I hate to tell these asshats, I was making PB and Strawberry sandwiches for ages. When I was younger I used to cut the edge of the bread off, but today I need the extra fiber.
Maybe I should patent that I whipe my ass with the paper going upwards and not downwards. Who knows, maybe I am the only one who knows how to whipe an ass.
Patent examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office disagreed, saying the crimped edges are similar to making ravioli or a pie crust.
Fuck, here comes Chef Boy-R-D and his patent lawyers. Someone tell that 90 year old woman she is no longer lawfully allowed to make her family dinner.
Smucker asked Albie's Foods of Gaylord, Mich., to stop producing ready-made PB&J sandwiches for a school district, but the food manufacturer went to a federal judge in 2001 and then the patent office to invalidate Smucker's original patent.
Albie's was "caught off guard, literally, because they didn't think you could patent a peanut butter and jelly sandwich," said the company's lawyer, Kevin Heinl.
Can my girlfriend patent the blow job? She is damn good. She swirls her tounge, head down, but the eyes looking up like a puppy dog. Like "oh dear daddy, I love you". Just like that. Nobody else does it like her. I'd like to get a nickle everytime your girlfriend gives you a blow job.
The patent office received 376,810 patent applications last year. It usually takes about two-and-a-half years for a patent to be processed. About 65 percent of all patents submitted are approved, Quinn said.
There were over 200,000 patents approved last year? Sweet Jesus. I really should get around to a but whipe patent.
"Very few patents are what one would call a 'pioneer patent,' meaning that the inventor discovered something very, very new that has never been discovered before," she said. "Most patents are given to changes to existing technology."
I'll dip the toilet paper in water. That's it.
"We bought a unique idea for making an everyday item more convenient (and) made a significant investment in the idea and in developing the innovative manufacturing technology that makes Uncrustables so easy to use," the company said.
I wonder how this ruling will effect the Pop Tart corporation?
Smucker's stock price fell 30 cents on Friday to close at $49.67 on the New York Stock Exchange.
I can hear Gordon Gekko yelling "Bud FOX, Damn you!". I wish we knew how this PB&J thing really played out.
asked Albie's Foods of Gaylord, Mich., to stop producing ready-made PB&J sandwiches for a school district
I am ready to join the protesters who want to destroy corporate america. The ones who go to G7 meetings and economic forums and fight the nasty police. If some asshole wants to deprive me of the right to a PB&J sandwich because they have a patent, motherfuck them. The corporations have too much power. Too many lobbyists. And the laws are getting rediculous.
#B worked well for me. I was 19 or 20 when I learned that professors can be intimidated. I'd walk into class with a drumstick hanging from my mouth, and an attitude to match. I'd chew that bone all class. "hey, you callin' on me? i don't got my hand raised, NOW DO I?". I didn't think so. Well now, you can just take those questions down the street to the man who gives a shit.
I got the idea about the chicken from the blacks who would keep a comb in their hair all day. I figured putting a comb in my hair would show I was trying to mimic them, but the chiken in the mouth, that was all me.:)
I've met my share of elitist linux users and if I wasn't already using *nix by that point, they sure wouldn't have convinced me to switch with their condescending attitudes. But you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
We need a little L.L. Cool J. The Linux fest needs a little "Mama said knock you out".
Seriously, I have known the linux hermits. They need to be better at something, so they show off their linux skills and then are not willing to help others. They make their own misery. Woe to them, they would be happy if they shared their knowledge. It is like a guy who lived on my floor in college. He had some Quest card, some dumb game. He showed it off like it was a Don Mattingly rookie card. Except his card had a picture of a gnome on it.
Me? I try and help all. Sometimes with an anwser, sometimes with a little shadow boxing. Whatever works.;)
No. Businesses can refuse service for any reason. So you can't walk into Best Buy and sue because they won't take your two dollar bills. They don't have to take anything from you.
That is wrong. When a buisness puts a price tag on something, they are making an offer to sell. As soon as you say "i'll buy it" you have entered into a contract. You got them by the balls.
Just remember, they might have the lawyers, but you can have the gasolie. Light the motherfucker up. They wronged you.
If you read Barbara McClintock's work and modern genetics, you'll see there are three events to worry about; mutations, exchanges with external organisms (virus, etc) and cross-overs. (genes exchanged during replication). Some people working with GA's have found that you don't need mutations at all, as cross-over events will give you all the variability you could want.
To answer your question, think of sickle-cell anemia. One copy of the gene, and you're resistant to malaria (but not immune, i.e. it simply kills you more slowly). Two copies, and you have sickle-cell anemia, and die early. The benefit of the gene outweighs the risk only as long as you don't have effective treatments for malaria. If you have good control of malaria, then it's better that you don't have that gene at all, as the net effect is deleterious.
We can't be sure of all of the ramifications, so we should make backups of anything we delete (CVS for your genes, so to speak), but in the end if we can short-circuit the process of better adapting ourselves to our environment, then we should do it.
A thousand years ago, genes that helped you resist smallpox and survive poorly fed winters were essential. Now, genes that coded for better DNA repair and reduced fat synthesis/uptake would be a better adaptation. We can wait for them to arise naturally (teenagers start keeling over from hardening of the arteries due to our first-world diet before they can reproduce), or we can engineer them, and introduce them into volunteers.
That is a good post. My point was, sometimes people think about the immediate and not the long term ramifications beyond our generation and the next. Not that our cave living ancestors probably gave much thought about us. But since we know nature works, I would say lets not mess with a good thing. Not for a few extra years of life, in our 80's or 90's, when we'll probably not be able to enjoy it. I am for medicine advances, all for research, but when it comes to changing DNA, I see a red flag. I think that even our brightest people are not able to consider all the potential ramifications.
It is like a game of chess, but the rules change. And we think we have a chance to change a rule to our benifit. But can even our best see the end game? Or are we just making a good guess, forseeing the next 4 or 5 or 6 moves?
This is not suprising to me at all. I hate best buy. They screwed me once and I will NEVER shop there again. The only times I go in their store is when I want to fuck with their employees, to tie up their time pretending I want to buy stuff. I am what they classify a "Soccer Mom". Or some stupid shit like that. And I love talking with fellow shoppers in their store. I make sure and mention when something is on sale at the Circuit City next door. Then when an employee says "Hi! Can I help you". I respond "You sure can... I have three kids who are dying for a new TV, and DVD's, and a faster computer. I just don't know where to start."
Except you don't belong to PETA and you clearly don't belong to any animal care group otherwise you would have brought that up. Because you don't belong to any group you probably don't think a lot about the ethical treatment of other living beings that aren't humans. You cited PETA because of something radical they did. This made you think about animals being happy too. How much thought did you put into animals being happy before you heard about PETA?
I put more thought into animals being happy than PETA ever did. PETA puts thoughts into getting their way. They don't care about animals, they care about being right and forcing people to agree with them.
I am sorry to inform you, twenty years before I ever heard of PETA I had a dog, a family dog. And I loved that dog, we fed him what was left over from our meals.
But I will be damned if any group can make me feel bad for eating chicken. Chicken was put on the earth to make me happy, not the other way around.
Did you ever consider the kinds of people who join PETA are unstable, depressed, or otherwise messed up? They value animals above humans.
PETA is radical so that more conservative people will suport ASPCA and the like. They make you think about those sorts of things which you clearly didn't before.
I don't support the ASPCA either. They try and pass dumb laws. I knew a person who was a member, and they said having a farm dog is cruel for the dog, that they should not live outside. These people are all nuts. These are the people who break into private property and STEAL private property and then try and blame the owner because the dog does not live up to some standard they have. Hey, anyone every think about helping children in thrid world countries? How about children in our country?? Instead, these assholes care about fucking dogs not eating steak and having air conditioning.
Welcome to what it's like to be a protester in Tiananmen Square. Sometimes you have to be radical to get people to even think about the conservative stuff.
There's a new looking A&W behind the KFC! I LOVE A&W!
When I was a kid, there was an A&W off the main freeway, and I would stop there to get the BEST bacon cheseburger and ice cream float on earth. But they closed around the time I turned 11. I still remember how crispy the bacon was, how good the ice cream was, and the froth from the ice cream melting in the root beer. It is damn good food. I wish they would open one up by me, I like A&W better than McDonalds or Burger King. If their prices were not too much higher, they would make alot of money.
"And if they piss me off, I'll eat more meat to spite them"
That's a great philosphy. I would also reccomend you smoke a lot of cigarettes just because there are lots of ads telling you not to. Oh and every time you see an anti drug commercial you should shoot up some heroin.
But the difference is that the anti-cigarette people are not flicking buts at smokers and calling them enviormental-terrorists. They don't throw buckets of ash at people. They don't want to pick a fight. The anti-cigarette people just pass along the scientific facts, smoking causes cancer and other diseases. What does PETA do, they don't want to just give out truthful information and let people make up their mind, PETA wants to force everyone to live like they want to.
I am a free man, on earth to do as I wish. PETA can't tell me how to live. And if you have not noticed it, chickens are in our food line. Why doesn't PETA demonstrate next to some Wild Bears, throwing fake fish bones at them and yelling at them??
So yes, I will eat more KFC just to piss them off. I figure if KFC sales keep going up, even while PETA is using dirty tactis, KFC will just ignore them.
Science is full of ethical questions, bio-sciences especially. What we can do we will do ( as a race ), that's a proven fact. It's better to do what we will do in the open, in front of many eyes, instead of being done in a third world country for some wacked out group intent on bringing their own version of reality to pass.
Just lable the experiments as labratories making weapons of mass destruction. LOL. Bomb. Invade. Elect pro-western government. Move on to next country.
But seriously. With genetic engineering, do you think that a third world country will work on curing cancer when they can work on building roads or opening hospitals?
The true threat is some western scientists move shop to a third world country. But we can track them down and arrest them for violating international law. Plus, the possibility of being punished in the third world country, and not the USA should be a huge detterant. We don't even need a fair trial.
That is how nature changes people, that is how humans evolved to what we are today. I dunno how smart it is messing with mother nature. So far, mother nature has been able to keep things going well for thousands and thousands of years. But for some human to say, I am not happy living to 80 years old, I want to live to 90 years old, that is a risky proposition considering they are not using standard medicine, but messing with DNA. Maybe what would have happened naturally now won't.
I think there is a natural equilibrium between nature and gene mutations. When the hand of man starts changing one side of the equation, can the consequences on the otherside be foreseen? For example, who is to say that some form of cancer today won't mutate to something 1,000 years from now that will save humanity from some enviormental change?
Before the first atom bomb was detonated, there were some scientists that thought that the nuclear reaction would spread and ignite the entire atmosphere. Despite their reservations, the tests were done anyway. Screwing up has never been a risk people considered worthy enough to stop a scientific experiment.
Yeah, that made me feel good about the USA. President Truman was told, we are doing the math, and we are 35% done, and so far we have not found a spike in the graph which indicates the nuclear explosion will continue until all mass is gone.
But then again, maybe Truman had alien data not available to the scientific community.
Don't date defend yourself or counter attack though. That is RADICAL, just like those PETA people. Don't be RADICAL, just shut up, sit down and quietly do what you are told.
Or those groups could be civilized. PETA can't force me to not eat meat, or at KFC. PETA can't force me to do anything. And if they piss me off, I'll eat more meat to spite them. Hell, KFC might make money starting a terrorist animal rights organization. People will buy their food out of spite.
Also don't ever go to a linux users meeting. Everybody who is at a linux users meeting are mean and dorks. They are also ugly losers. DOn't ever go to one, they suck.
Likewise, if someone is insulting, the normal repsonce a person will have is to leave, and associate that event or product in a negative way. If, for example, a newbie came to a meeting, a windows user, and wanted help with getting Open Office working, and opening Word files in linux, and someone starts talking crap, that person might leave thinking it ain't worth the effort.
But I am kinda lucky. I knew people who really loved linux. And when they showed off linux, it was like how I might introduce my young cousin to baseball, a great time. I am not going to point to Pedro Martinez and ask him "Quick, what year did he win the Cy Young".... "Don't know?... you dipshit".
One: Time has moved on since then -- one GHz laptops are no longer top of the line, but eclipse is not any more complex. That makes it run much more smoothly.
That is true. Maybe I'll check it out again.
Three: I code for a living. How many other industries would balk at spending five percent of your gross income on your main tool? A $5000 computer is able to run eclipse without blinking as its dual 2.4GHz 64 bit processors compile classes in parallel, caching intermediate results and all the source files in 8 gigabytes of ram. My point? If eclipse makes you ten minutes more productive every day, that will pay for even an insanely powerful machine within a year.
You could say the same thing about Visual Studio. To be honest, I have not looked at any benchmarks. And I would love to have a dual 2.4Ghz 64 but processor with 8 gigs of ram. *drools*
Now, to be honest, I don't use eclipse because I'm so familiar with the editors I have been using for the past ten years that their key-bindings are second nature.
And that is what Eclipse had going for it. I finished one year of programming, and was moving out of textpad to something more useful, an IDE. Eclipse was free to download, but I could never get it to work at a useable speed, so I passed on it and got a copy of Visual Studio which worked good for me. Will I change back? Who knows when I might decide to play with Eclipse again. IBM would have done better having a stripped down version for users with low spec machines, with the basic features available. Even if it was nothing more than an over-glorified textpad. At least people would have used it, and when it came time to upgrade they would have a good opinion of it. But by making Eclispe something that only ran well on high end machines, even if it was because Eclipse was the best IDE available with every tool ever needed, what IT departments would switch? It has been my experiance that tools people use while learning, and the first few years of working, are the ones they will stick with.
You are comparing apples to oranges. The enterprise edition of Visual Studio.NET is barely usable on my P4 1.4Ghz with 512MB ram while Eclipse with all the Spring and Hibernate extensions under Linux on the same machine works just fine.
First, I like Java, and it is good for some things. Using it to code an IDE is not good. Eclipse runs with the Java VM. Visual Studio is much quicker. Anyways, that was my experiance. I knew a guy back then who had a top of the line 1.0ghz PIII with 1 gigabyte of ram, and his laptop slowed to a crawl with Eclipse. He was giving a demo to a crowd, and had his laptop running a slideshow. When he tried to click the tab to go between the slideshow and Eclipse, the time lag was very noticable.
Call me flaimbait or a troll, but it worked slow for me back then and that is what I remember. I dunno if IBM wanted to release it early or what, but they might have done better holding off til machines got a little quicker.
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God's story has not changed, our interpretation of it has. And it is sad that you can lable someone a Troll because they believe in God.
While Faith might be a big deal to many, I think we can believe in God without relying on just Faith.
One of the first proofs on the exsistance of God that I read came from Rene Descarte. Descarte asked the question how can any man believe that what he perceives is truthful. He was asking, if I see a yellow sun, how can I trust my perception that the sun is really yellow. Maybe what you see is red, but we both call it yellow. His anwser was, humans are not perfect. But the thought of God is perfect. Furthermore, anywhere you look, people will have an idea that there is a God, a seed is in every human being. Descarte conclused that since we are imperfect beings, how can we concieve of a perfect God unless that knowledge was seeded in us at birth. Descarte also wrote, that God would never decieve us. God is Truth.
I also was reading Memory and Identity by Pope John Paul II this past weekend. He had a very interesting chapter in why we need God. If you believe that Adam and Eve lived in Eden, and they ate from the tree of knowledge, then there are large consequences. Before eating from the tree of knowledge, they never sinned. They lived according to Gods' Will. But after eating from the Tree of Knowledge, they knew good and evil like God knows good and evil. What that means is that they could judge like God judges, they could pick what was good and evil. And that is where all human suffering origniates from. Evil is defined as the absence of some good. And since only God knows true Good, we must live according to his definition, and not ours. Take sex for example. Pope John Paul II wrote there is something better in having mystery, rather than viewing all people as a sexual object. By having mystery, you view people more completely, not just quickly dismissing them. That is why pre-marital sex is evil- there is some good missing.
As society gets more secular and starts making judgements without God, we will become more miserable. That hole people have in their life, the suffering, it is our longing for something more satisfying and Good than the choices we have made.
I believe we should teach creationism in schools, it will serve more people better. Out of a high school graduation class of 1000, how many will go on to a career in science? Say that 700 of them go on to college and that 300 go into the work force. Of the 700, 100 decide they want to major in physics or chemistry. Of them 70 get weeded out. You now have 30 people who will continue. The other 970 people will be better served with an education that focuses on creationism.
We are living in a time with relative ethics. We are living in an increasing secular society, where life means little. We all watched in horror as the Teri Shiavo in Florida was starved to death. That never should have happened, in the light that there is information that her husband might have beat her the night she collapsed, and the uncertainty of her wishes.
Even our most prized and well written scientists believe in God. Einstein believed in God, he was quoted as saying "I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are just details".
I hate the spelling Nazi's.
I only deal with the facts, sir.
This reminds me of two people I knew in highschool. One went to an Ivy League university and then to Yale Law School. The other went to community college, then the state U, then the U of Law School. The Yale lawyer could tell you the rights and responsibilities of a banana. The U of Lawyer was a pit bull. Plus, he could hold down his beer. Wanna guess who I would hire if I needed a laywer?
But you toast your friends with your hard apple cider. Non-alcoholic of course.
ROFL. If I had mod points, I would mod that insightful. LOL.
Seriously, we need to do something about patent law. It is getting to be a joke. I remember when anyone could work on their car. I bet in 5-10 years there will be systems that GM and Ford and Toyota will patent so only they can fix it, and charge much more money. People joke about patents to blow jobs. Wait til you get a sunshine job, and the bill.
When did patent law become a way to make a monopoly?
One of a kind way to make PB&J sandwiches. I hate to tell these asshats, I was making PB and Strawberry sandwiches for ages. When I was younger I used to cut the edge of the bread off, but today I need the extra fiber.
Maybe I should patent that I whipe my ass with the paper going upwards and not downwards. Who knows, maybe I am the only one who knows how to whipe an ass.
Patent examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office disagreed, saying the crimped edges are similar to making ravioli or a pie crust.
Fuck, here comes Chef Boy-R-D and his patent lawyers. Someone tell that 90 year old woman she is no longer lawfully allowed to make her family dinner.
Smucker asked Albie's Foods of Gaylord, Mich., to stop producing ready-made PB&J sandwiches for a school district, but the food manufacturer went to a federal judge in 2001 and then the patent office to invalidate Smucker's original patent. Albie's was "caught off guard, literally, because they didn't think you could patent a peanut butter and jelly sandwich," said the company's lawyer, Kevin Heinl.
Can my girlfriend patent the blow job? She is damn good. She swirls her tounge, head down, but the eyes looking up like a puppy dog. Like "oh dear daddy, I love you". Just like that. Nobody else does it like her. I'd like to get a nickle everytime your girlfriend gives you a blow job.
The patent office received 376,810 patent applications last year. It usually takes about two-and-a-half years for a patent to be processed. About 65 percent of all patents submitted are approved, Quinn said.
There were over 200,000 patents approved last year? Sweet Jesus. I really should get around to a but whipe patent.
"Very few patents are what one would call a 'pioneer patent,' meaning that the inventor discovered something very, very new that has never been discovered before," she said. "Most patents are given to changes to existing technology."
I'll dip the toilet paper in water. That's it.
"We bought a unique idea for making an everyday item more convenient (and) made a significant investment in the idea and in developing the innovative manufacturing technology that makes Uncrustables so easy to use," the company said.
I wonder how this ruling will effect the Pop Tart corporation?
Smucker's stock price fell 30 cents on Friday to close at $49.67 on the New York Stock Exchange.
I can hear Gordon Gekko yelling "Bud FOX, Damn you!". I wish we knew how this PB&J thing really played out.
I am ready to join the protesters who want to destroy corporate america. The ones who go to G7 meetings and economic forums and fight the nasty police. If some asshole wants to deprive me of the right to a PB&J sandwich because they have a patent, motherfuck them. The corporations have too much power. Too many lobbyists. And the laws are getting rediculous.
I got the idea about the chicken from the blacks who would keep a comb in their hair all day. I figured putting a comb in my hair would show I was trying to mimic them, but the chiken in the mouth, that was all me. :)
We need a little L.L. Cool J. The Linux fest needs a little "Mama said knock you out".
Seriously, I have known the linux hermits. They need to be better at something, so they show off their linux skills and then are not willing to help others. They make their own misery. Woe to them, they would be happy if they shared their knowledge. It is like a guy who lived on my floor in college. He had some Quest card, some dumb game. He showed it off like it was a Don Mattingly rookie card. Except his card had a picture of a gnome on it.
Me? I try and help all. Sometimes with an anwser, sometimes with a little shadow boxing. Whatever works. ;)
That is wrong. When a buisness puts a price tag on something, they are making an offer to sell. As soon as you say "i'll buy it" you have entered into a contract. You got them by the balls.
Just remember, they might have the lawyers, but you can have the gasolie. Light the motherfucker up. They wronged you.
To answer your question, think of sickle-cell anemia. One copy of the gene, and you're resistant to malaria (but not immune, i.e. it simply kills you more slowly). Two copies, and you have sickle-cell anemia, and die early. The benefit of the gene outweighs the risk only as long as you don't have effective treatments for malaria. If you have good control of malaria, then it's better that you don't have that gene at all, as the net effect is deleterious.
We can't be sure of all of the ramifications, so we should make backups of anything we delete (CVS for your genes, so to speak), but in the end if we can short-circuit the process of better adapting ourselves to our environment, then we should do it.
A thousand years ago, genes that helped you resist smallpox and survive poorly fed winters were essential. Now, genes that coded for better DNA repair and reduced fat synthesis/uptake would be a better adaptation. We can wait for them to arise naturally (teenagers start keeling over from hardening of the arteries due to our first-world diet before they can reproduce), or we can engineer them, and introduce them into volunteers.
That is a good post. My point was, sometimes people think about the immediate and not the long term ramifications beyond our generation and the next. Not that our cave living ancestors probably gave much thought about us. But since we know nature works, I would say lets not mess with a good thing. Not for a few extra years of life, in our 80's or 90's, when we'll probably not be able to enjoy it. I am for medicine advances, all for research, but when it comes to changing DNA, I see a red flag. I think that even our brightest people are not able to consider all the potential ramifications.
It is like a game of chess, but the rules change. And we think we have a chance to change a rule to our benifit. But can even our best see the end game? Or are we just making a good guess, forseeing the next 4 or 5 or 6 moves?
Look on US money. It says for all debts, public and private. If someone refuses your money, sue the son of a bitch.
This is not suprising to me at all. I hate best buy. They screwed me once and I will NEVER shop there again. The only times I go in their store is when I want to fuck with their employees, to tie up their time pretending I want to buy stuff. I am what they classify a "Soccer Mom". Or some stupid shit like that. And I love talking with fellow shoppers in their store. I make sure and mention when something is on sale at the Circuit City next door. Then when an employee says "Hi! Can I help you". I respond "You sure can... I have three kids who are dying for a new TV, and DVD's, and a faster computer. I just don't know where to start."
I put more thought into animals being happy than PETA ever did. PETA puts thoughts into getting their way. They don't care about animals, they care about being right and forcing people to agree with them.
I am sorry to inform you, twenty years before I ever heard of PETA I had a dog, a family dog. And I loved that dog, we fed him what was left over from our meals.
But I will be damned if any group can make me feel bad for eating chicken. Chicken was put on the earth to make me happy, not the other way around.
Did you ever consider the kinds of people who join PETA are unstable, depressed, or otherwise messed up? They value animals above humans.
PETA is radical so that more conservative people will suport ASPCA and the like. They make you think about those sorts of things which you clearly didn't before.
I don't support the ASPCA either. They try and pass dumb laws. I knew a person who was a member, and they said having a farm dog is cruel for the dog, that they should not live outside. These people are all nuts. These are the people who break into private property and STEAL private property and then try and blame the owner because the dog does not live up to some standard they have. Hey, anyone every think about helping children in thrid world countries? How about children in our country?? Instead, these assholes care about fucking dogs not eating steak and having air conditioning.
Welcome to what it's like to be a protester in Tiananmen Square. Sometimes you have to be radical to get people to even think about the conservative stuff.
Hey, whatever it takes to get rid of them.
When I was a kid, there was an A&W off the main freeway, and I would stop there to get the BEST bacon cheseburger and ice cream float on earth. But they closed around the time I turned 11. I still remember how crispy the bacon was, how good the ice cream was, and the froth from the ice cream melting in the root beer. It is damn good food. I wish they would open one up by me, I like A&W better than McDonalds or Burger King. If their prices were not too much higher, they would make alot of money.
That's a great philosphy. I would also reccomend you smoke a lot of cigarettes just because there are lots of ads telling you not to. Oh and every time you see an anti drug commercial you should shoot up some heroin.
But the difference is that the anti-cigarette people are not flicking buts at smokers and calling them enviormental-terrorists. They don't throw buckets of ash at people. They don't want to pick a fight. The anti-cigarette people just pass along the scientific facts, smoking causes cancer and other diseases. What does PETA do, they don't want to just give out truthful information and let people make up their mind, PETA wants to force everyone to live like they want to.
I am a free man, on earth to do as I wish. PETA can't tell me how to live. And if you have not noticed it, chickens are in our food line. Why doesn't PETA demonstrate next to some Wild Bears, throwing fake fish bones at them and yelling at them??
So yes, I will eat more KFC just to piss them off. I figure if KFC sales keep going up, even while PETA is using dirty tactis, KFC will just ignore them.
Just lable the experiments as labratories making weapons of mass destruction. LOL. Bomb. Invade. Elect pro-western government. Move on to next country.
But seriously. With genetic engineering, do you think that a third world country will work on curing cancer when they can work on building roads or opening hospitals?
The true threat is some western scientists move shop to a third world country. But we can track them down and arrest them for violating international law. Plus, the possibility of being punished in the third world country, and not the USA should be a huge detterant. We don't even need a fair trial.
I think there is a natural equilibrium between nature and gene mutations. When the hand of man starts changing one side of the equation, can the consequences on the otherside be foreseen? For example, who is to say that some form of cancer today won't mutate to something 1,000 years from now that will save humanity from some enviormental change?
Yeah, that made me feel good about the USA. President Truman was told, we are doing the math, and we are 35% done, and so far we have not found a spike in the graph which indicates the nuclear explosion will continue until all mass is gone.
But then again, maybe Truman had alien data not available to the scientific community.
Or those groups could be civilized. PETA can't force me to not eat meat, or at KFC. PETA can't force me to do anything. And if they piss me off, I'll eat more meat to spite them. Hell, KFC might make money starting a terrorist animal rights organization. People will buy their food out of spite.
Also don't ever go to a linux users meeting. Everybody who is at a linux users meeting are mean and dorks. They are also ugly losers. DOn't ever go to one, they suck.
Likewise, if someone is insulting, the normal repsonce a person will have is to leave, and associate that event or product in a negative way. If, for example, a newbie came to a meeting, a windows user, and wanted help with getting Open Office working, and opening Word files in linux, and someone starts talking crap, that person might leave thinking it ain't worth the effort.
But I am kinda lucky. I knew people who really loved linux. And when they showed off linux, it was like how I might introduce my young cousin to baseball, a great time. I am not going to point to Pedro Martinez and ask him "Quick, what year did he win the Cy Young".... "Don't know?... you dipshit".
That is true. Maybe I'll check it out again.
Three: I code for a living. How many other industries would balk at spending five percent of your gross income on your main tool? A $5000 computer is able to run eclipse without blinking as its dual 2.4GHz 64 bit processors compile classes in parallel, caching intermediate results and all the source files in 8 gigabytes of ram. My point? If eclipse makes you ten minutes more productive every day, that will pay for even an insanely powerful machine within a year.
You could say the same thing about Visual Studio. To be honest, I have not looked at any benchmarks. And I would love to have a dual 2.4Ghz 64 but processor with 8 gigs of ram. *drools*
Now, to be honest, I don't use eclipse because I'm so familiar with the editors I have been using for the past ten years that their key-bindings are second nature.
And that is what Eclipse had going for it. I finished one year of programming, and was moving out of textpad to something more useful, an IDE. Eclipse was free to download, but I could never get it to work at a useable speed, so I passed on it and got a copy of Visual Studio which worked good for me. Will I change back? Who knows when I might decide to play with Eclipse again. IBM would have done better having a stripped down version for users with low spec machines, with the basic features available. Even if it was nothing more than an over-glorified textpad. At least people would have used it, and when it came time to upgrade they would have a good opinion of it. But by making Eclispe something that only ran well on high end machines, even if it was because Eclipse was the best IDE available with every tool ever needed, what IT departments would switch? It has been my experiance that tools people use while learning, and the first few years of working, are the ones they will stick with.
And the first thing the salesperson says "It's Leather, it really is!". I bet many people who own pleather think it is leather. But whatever...
First, I like Java, and it is good for some things. Using it to code an IDE is not good. Eclipse runs with the Java VM. Visual Studio is much quicker. Anyways, that was my experiance. I knew a guy back then who had a top of the line 1.0ghz PIII with 1 gigabyte of ram, and his laptop slowed to a crawl with Eclipse. He was giving a demo to a crowd, and had his laptop running a slideshow. When he tried to click the tab to go between the slideshow and Eclipse, the time lag was very noticable.
Call me flaimbait or a troll, but it worked slow for me back then and that is what I remember. I dunno if IBM wanted to release it early or what, but they might have done better holding off til machines got a little quicker.
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