In my opinion a moral society in which people can do what they want with their money is desirable to a morally corrupt society where everything goes as long as you're paying extortion money to the liberal government.
I agree. Your username, which is an anagram for "latex", designates you as a morally corrupt deviant. Please wait while the morality police arrests you for the good of society.
Another option is to sign up for one of the zillions of plans that offer unlimited texting. Probably something like that for downloading as well, haven't checked.
When returning books: Find the UPC of the "New" edition, slap it on your old edition and return it. Do it during the highest rush when the checkers in are just trying to get through everyone. I think I would net around $100 a semester buying $5 books and returning them for $30. Screw you book store.
Don't you mean "Screw you poor student who later bought this book and didn't realize the problem until it's too late"?
If I was a fan of George Lucas, which I'm not, I'd rather have a conversation (by email, in person, whatever) instead of a signature.
Then you wouldn't care that the person you're conversing is actually a secretary who knows how the famous person in question would respond to your queries.
You have it wrong. This isn't someone tinkering with your genes and determining what you look like. If they don't like the genes of your embryo, it won't be used and there will be no "you" to be controlled. If they like the genes, it's business as usual. It's not selecting a person's eye color, it's selecting the embryo with the desired eye color.
So you won't care that the George Lucas-autographed Boba Fett do^H^Haction figure you paid $20,000 for and keep on display above your bed is a fake made (and signed) in China?
You, yourself, appeal to probability all the time in your everyday life. When you cross the road or drive a car you do this because you think the probability of being killed in an accident is low, when you fly somewhere you do so because you think that the probability of the plane crashing is low etc. etc.
If scientists had a tendency of performing experiments that have the same probability of destroying the Earth as I have of getting run over by a car, I'd be in favor of banning all scientific research.
We know very well that certain things will not happen; like destroying the earth. The experiment to be performed is performed regularly by random cosmic rays in the atmosphere.
Not quite. From what I've read, the LHC would create more-or-less stationary black holes, which if they don't evaporate, would bounce back and forth through the earth, eventually settling in the core. The cosmic ray collisions would create micro black holes traveling at high velocities, which would could go straight through the earth and out the other side, without being much affected by the planet's gravitational pull and not getting the chance to do any real damage. The article states that if this happened, then surely there'd be no old neutron stars in the universe (since, unlike the Earth, a neutron star would have enough mass to capture a high-velocity micro black hole.) I don't find that reasoning too comfortable.
For all we know there could have been far more neutron stars which have been devoured by such micro black holes. The argument seems to be similar to "I know your gun won't hurt me because I've seen old bullet proof vests not ridden with bullets). Or it may take longer for a micro black hole to devour a neutron star than we think, in which case all these "sufficiently old" neutron stars would be pretty hollow by now.
Everything that will be created at the LHC is already being created by cosmic rays.
In theory.
If a black hole created by the LHC is interactive enough to destroy the world within the lifetime of the sun, similar black holes are already being created by cosmic rays.
In theory.
Such black holes would be stopped by dense cosmic objects (neutron stars and white dwarfs). A black hole stopped in one of these objects would eventually absorb it. We see sufficiently old neutron stars in the sky, thus any black hole that could be created at the LHC, even if it is stable, would have no effect on the earth on any meaningful timescale.
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From what I hear, claim to be a Nigerian prince works just fine?
So, do plumbers need a PI license in addition to a plumbing license? After all, what if they come across a dead body stuffed under the sink!
In my opinion a moral society in which people can do what they want with their money is desirable to a morally corrupt society where everything goes as long as you're paying extortion money to the liberal government.
I agree. Your username, which is an anagram for "latex", designates you as a morally corrupt deviant. Please wait while the morality police arrests you for the good of society.
Another option is to sign up for one of the zillions of plans that offer unlimited texting. Probably something like that for downloading as well, haven't checked.
When returning books: Find the UPC of the "New" edition, slap it on your old edition and return it. Do it during the highest rush when the checkers in are just trying to get through everyone. I think I would net around $100 a semester buying $5 books and returning them for $30. Screw you book store.
Don't you mean "Screw you poor student who later bought this book and didn't realize the problem until it's too late"?
Ack, my eyes!!!!! Seriously, some warning should accompany that......
The solutions is simple then - remove the human element.
Funny... "illegal wiretapping" of an illegal activity on the phone wires. There's an irony in here somewhere.
"If you can't beat them, join them"?
Does this mean that we do not, in fact, know the atomic weight of Silicon to a precise enough degree?
If I was a fan of George Lucas, which I'm not, I'd rather have a conversation (by email, in person, whatever) instead of a signature.
Then you wouldn't care that the person you're conversing is actually a secretary who knows how the famous person in question would respond to your queries.
You have it wrong. This isn't someone tinkering with your genes and determining what you look like. If they don't like the genes of your embryo, it won't be used and there will be no "you" to be controlled. If they like the genes, it's business as usual. It's not selecting a person's eye color, it's selecting the embryo with the desired eye color.
The real dilemna will come when children with genetic problems start suing there obstetricians - or parents - for "wrongful birth" or "wrongful life".
Seems to me that righting the wrong here would be simple enough.
So you won't care that the George Lucas-autographed Boba Fett do^H^Haction figure you paid $20,000 for and keep on display above your bed is a fake made (and signed) in China?
When you die, can I play?
-Gaz
Really, copyright now is more about the accountants' abject fear that someone else is making money and not them.
Don't you mean lawyers' ajbect fear?
Or, go back and major in maths. You get all the jokes!
No, you get the binary code of the characters of the words of the jokes. Gotta do some applying to get to get it to make any sense....
From what I hear, the cretins are also cloning and feeding. And I want a TV, god dammit!
What, you mean I can't just google for "unified field theory" and get the right answer? Why does the universe have to be so hard?????
Just like you can control homosexuality?
Myself, I'd rather keep living.
You'd think they'd've been struck down a long time ago. But I guess that'd give the Supreme Court too much common sense credit....
You, yourself, appeal to probability all the time in your everyday life. When you cross the road or drive a car you do this because you think the probability of being killed in an accident is low, when you fly somewhere you do so because you think that the probability of the plane crashing is low etc. etc.
If scientists had a tendency of performing experiments that have the same probability of destroying the Earth as I have of getting run over by a car, I'd be in favor of banning all scientific research.
We know very well that certain things will not happen; like destroying the earth. The experiment to be performed is performed regularly by random cosmic rays in the atmosphere.
Not quite. From what I've read, the LHC would create more-or-less stationary black holes, which if they don't evaporate, would bounce back and forth through the earth, eventually settling in the core. The cosmic ray collisions would create micro black holes traveling at high velocities, which would could go straight through the earth and out the other side, without being much affected by the planet's gravitational pull and not getting the chance to do any real damage. The article states that if this happened, then surely there'd be no old neutron stars in the universe (since, unlike the Earth, a neutron star would have enough mass to capture a high-velocity micro black hole.) I don't find that reasoning too comfortable.
For all we know there could have been far more neutron stars which have been devoured by such micro black holes. The argument seems to be similar to "I know your gun won't hurt me because I've seen old bullet proof vests not ridden with bullets). Or it may take longer for a micro black hole to devour a neutron star than we think, in which case all these "sufficiently old" neutron stars would be pretty hollow by now.
Everything that will be created at the LHC is already being created by cosmic rays.
In theory.
If a black hole created by the LHC is interactive enough to destroy the world within the lifetime of the sun, similar black holes are already being created by cosmic rays.
In theory.
Such black holes would be stopped by dense cosmic objects (neutron stars and white dwarfs). A black hole stopped in one of these objects would eventually absorb it. We see sufficiently old neutron stars in the sky, thus any black hole that could be created at the LHC, even if it is stable, would have no effect on the earth on any meaningful timescale.
See above two "in theories".