Well, assuming for the sake of argument that EULAs are contracts (I'm not sure what/if the courts have decided), you are. The software acts as your "agent" - it's just a tool.
No. I'm a Democratic supporter, but a 3rd party sympathizer. That means that I support the Dems (with money, votes, whatever), but I like the 3rd party candidate[s] too - just not enough to take my support away from the Dems.
In thr wrong place in a claim, your dead (emphasis mine). Two misspellings, and no period? Remind me never to hire you as my patent attorney, especially if you're talking about the uniformed at the time;-)
Actually, it's not. It's a way of making our (undemocratic, Electoral-college-based) system into a more directly democratic system - and it fixes some of the errors caused by first-past-the-post (by allowing people to vote for a 3rd party in a safe state, or trading their vote with someone who will).
No, they're just doing stuff that's non-web... and the toolbar (not desktop bar, toolbar) functionality already existed.
I wouldn't be surprised if they start to do a lot of stuff in Python soon, since they use it everywhere online. That'd be nice, since it would make Python ubiquitous on windows.; I'm always telling someone, "why don't you install this", then having to walk them through installing Python, too.
There's a link in the FAQ to a place where you can vote for new features from a list of about 10, or suggest your own. Firefox, PDF, and MP3 (I assume they mean id3 tags) are listed in the first 3 or 4 slots, so I'd assume those are coming next. As far as GMail, it'd be nice, but since you have to fire up a web browser anyway, you might as well do it natively. I'd like to see image metadata... but metadata doesn't really exist for most photos (except date/time, and I can already search that with the built in Windows Find thing).
They have a page (linked to from the FAQ) where you can request features. There are also about 10 features already listed, with a button by each so you can vote for them; one is Firefox support, the other is PDF support.
It doesn't make sense to get 'em from an abortion clinic. The process of abortion (and the original implantation, as well) risks contamination. In addition, usually by the time an embryo is developed enough to be abortable, its cells are differentiated - making them useless.
While that dictionary definition defines an embryo as being implanted, it is outdated - the fertilized things that are created in IVF clinics *are* commonly referred to as embryos.
And since what they're cloning is undifferentiated, its nearly indistinguishable from culturing. Besides, there are reasons to clone the lines we have - since Bush won't let us use anything else, whether it comes from IVF clinics (useful) or abortion clinics (not useful).
I apologize for going overboard, but the types of comments you have been making are inaccurate, and exactly the kind of thing that gives ammunition to anti-stem-cell'ers. I feel rather personally connected to this issue as I, and several people I know, have illnesses that cannot feasibly be cured except possibly through stem cell research (unless we're willing to pay several hundred thousand dollars a year for the rest of our lives for niche drugs that are still in development). And lthough my disease is not terminal, I have witnessed several children die very painfully over the course of many years of closely related diseases.
You misunderstand me - I'm not arguing against, I'm arguing for. The point is, both are dead anyway (or in the case of the embryos, possibly frozen indefinitely, which amounts to the same thing) so why not make 'em useful?
First off, don't you dare say they come from abortion clinics, or that they are the results of abortion, etc., etc. - that's what causes half the problems we have in publicizing this stuff, and it's just not true. Repeat after me. FETUSES ARE NOT EMBRYOS. They come from IVF clinics, where they were created in the process of allowing a couple to have a child.
Second, they're cloning embryos because they don't have much of a choice. Bush won't let 'em use new embryos, so they have to extend the cell lines.
Finally, the description (and TFA, too) is misleading. They're not concerned with cloning embryos, but with cloning the stem cell lines. Totally different things. Read up on the fucking situation, because you obviously don't understand it.
Thank you. Not only was that correct, it's the funniest thing I've read all day (OK, it's 06:30, but still... in 24 hours). I only wish you weren't an anonymous coward so you could start at 1 or 2 rather than 0.
"Mom, your endowment's bigger than Harvard's!" "I think the award for best off-the-cuff remark goes to Lisa." "Actually, I saw them in the hallway, and I've been working on it."
Heh, it was more of a joke than anything else... I realize I'm beyond that age. And I, too remember my first exposure to animating/modeling software. Are you doing digital art and animation now? I'm thinking that's a possible career once I've graduated.
Is Salvatore Sanfilippo by any chance related to the doctor who discovered the syndrome of the same name (Sanfilippo Syndrome, a lysosomal storage disorder)?
They covered something like that in Crichton's book Sphere - that groups of 3 are inherently unstable, 'cuz someone's always left out of the alliances. That's actually true, not just something he made up.
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I think this will have a better chance of success than Biodome. First, because of funding, second because we're not worried about total internalization/sealed-in-ness, just for extended periods (500 days for now, maybe longer later) - so we're not worried about, say, jettisoning waste, or not stocking a food supply of a certain type because, "it'll run out after 2 years anyway".
That happened maybe five years ago. Don't know what the duration was, though. I'm pretty sure it was only a few months.
They could probably fund this by doing a reality TV show, heh. And if you RTFA, they say that no women will be allowed to volunteer - so it'll probably be just like a/.'ers every day life: no women, stuck in a tiny room in front of a computer screen, food in granola bar form (Oblig. Simpsons: "if you put food in bar form, you unleash it's awesome power"), no social contact, etc.
It depends on the specifics. You can't be turned down if you have had continuous coverage for a certain amount of time before the time when you're trying to sign up. I saw a speaker advising parents of children with rare disorders to, "survive in the jungle of health insurance by sliding down the COBRA and landing on the HIPPA" if they lost their jobs - i.e., take advantage of the 6 months your company/HMO is supposed to give you after you leave them, and use that time to sign up for coverage, using the protections of HIPPA as I described above".
If you read the site, they invited all the parties who met the Appleseed Citizens' Taskforce on Fair Debates' criteria. I'm not sure who that was this year, but in 2000 that was the two major party candidates plus Nader & Buchanan. This year, I would guess it was Kerry, Bush, Nader, and possibly Cobb & Badnarik.
I agree, dumb answer. But although I generally like Kerry & Nader, I thought they should have mentioned a change of heart that they themselves experienced (and no, eating hot dogs doesn't count).
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Well, assuming for the sake of argument that EULAs are contracts (I'm not sure what/if the courts have decided), you are. The software acts as your "agent" - it's just a tool.
No. I'm a Democratic supporter, but a 3rd party sympathizer. That means that I support the Dems (with money, votes, whatever), but I like the 3rd party candidate[s] too - just not enough to take my support away from the Dems.
In thr wrong place in a claim, your dead (emphasis mine). Two misspellings, and no period? Remind me never to hire you as my patent attorney, especially if you're talking about the uniformed at the time ;-)
Actually, it's not. It's a way of making our (undemocratic, Electoral-college-based) system into a more directly democratic system - and it fixes some of the errors caused by first-past-the-post (by allowing people to vote for a 3rd party in a safe state, or trading their vote with someone who will).
And if it was running at the time, it should be HVAC'd, the power should be backed up, etc., etc.
No, they're just doing stuff that's non-web ... and the toolbar (not desktop bar, toolbar) functionality already existed.
I wouldn't be surprised if they start to do a lot of stuff in Python soon, since they use it everywhere online. That'd be nice, since it would make Python ubiquitous on windows.; I'm always telling someone, "why don't you install this", then having to walk them through installing Python, too.
There's a link in the FAQ to a place where you can vote for new features from a list of about 10, or suggest your own. Firefox, PDF, and MP3 (I assume they mean id3 tags) are listed in the first 3 or 4 slots, so I'd assume those are coming next. As far as GMail, it'd be nice, but since you have to fire up a web browser anyway, you might as well do it natively. I'd like to see image metadata ... but metadata doesn't really exist for most photos (except date/time, and I can already search that with the built in Windows Find thing).
They have a page (linked to from the FAQ) where you can request features. There are also about 10 features already listed, with a button by each so you can vote for them; one is Firefox support, the other is PDF support.
It doesn't make sense to get 'em from an abortion clinic. The process of abortion (and the original implantation, as well) risks contamination. In addition, usually by the time an embryo is developed enough to be abortable, its cells are differentiated - making them useless.
While that dictionary definition defines an embryo as being implanted, it is outdated - the fertilized things that are created in IVF clinics *are* commonly referred to as embryos.
And since what they're cloning is undifferentiated, its nearly indistinguishable from culturing. Besides, there are reasons to clone the lines we have - since Bush won't let us use anything else, whether it comes from IVF clinics (useful) or abortion clinics (not useful).
I apologize for going overboard, but the types of comments you have been making are inaccurate, and exactly the kind of thing that gives ammunition to anti-stem-cell'ers. I feel rather personally connected to this issue as I, and several people I know, have illnesses that cannot feasibly be cured except possibly through stem cell research (unless we're willing to pay several hundred thousand dollars a year for the rest of our lives for niche drugs that are still in development). And lthough my disease is not terminal, I have witnessed several children die very painfully over the course of many years of closely related diseases.
You misunderstand me - I'm not arguing against, I'm arguing for. The point is, both are dead anyway (or in the case of the embryos, possibly frozen indefinitely, which amounts to the same thing) so why not make 'em useful?
First off, don't you dare say they come from abortion clinics, or that they are the results of abortion, etc., etc. - that's what causes half the problems we have in publicizing this stuff, and it's just not true. Repeat after me. FETUSES ARE NOT EMBRYOS. They come from IVF clinics, where they were created in the process of allowing a couple to have a child.
Second, they're cloning embryos because they don't have much of a choice. Bush won't let 'em use new embryos, so they have to extend the cell lines.
Finally, the description (and TFA, too) is misleading. They're not concerned with cloning embryos, but with cloning the stem cell lines. Totally different things. Read up on the fucking situation, because you obviously don't understand it.
Thank you. Not only was that correct, it's the funniest thing I've read all day (OK, it's 06:30, but still ... in 24 hours). I only wish you weren't an anonymous coward so you could start at 1 or 2 rather than 0.
I agree ... a better analogy would be, can we harvest organs from criminals who have been executed?
"Mom, your endowment's bigger than Harvard's!"
"I think the award for best off-the-cuff remark goes to Lisa."
"Actually, I saw them in the hallway, and I've been working on it."
Heh, it was more of a joke than anything else ... I realize I'm beyond that age. And I, too remember my first exposure to animating/modeling software. Are you doing digital art and animation now? I'm thinking that's a possible career once I've graduated.
Is Salvatore Sanfilippo by any chance related to the doctor who discovered the syndrome of the same name (Sanfilippo Syndrome, a lysosomal storage disorder)?
Damn, that sounds like fun. What's the upper age limit to attend? (I can't be the only one thinking that).
They covered something like that in Crichton's book Sphere - that groups of 3 are inherently unstable, 'cuz someone's always left out of the alliances. That's actually true, not just something he made up.
I think this will have a better chance of success than Biodome. First, because of funding, second because we're not worried about total internalization/sealed-in-ness, just for extended periods (500 days for now, maybe longer later) - so we're not worried about, say, jettisoning waste, or not stocking a food supply of a certain type because, "it'll run out after 2 years anyway".
That happened maybe five years ago. Don't know what the duration was, though. I'm pretty sure it was only a few months.
/.'ers every day life: no women, stuck in a tiny room in front of a computer screen, food in granola bar form (Oblig. Simpsons: "if you put food in bar form, you unleash it's awesome power"), no social contact, etc.
They could probably fund this by doing a reality TV show, heh. And if you RTFA, they say that no women will be allowed to volunteer - so it'll probably be just like a
Yes. That's the whole point of using the same runtime for all three (IIR(eadTFA)C, Ruby will also be supported).
I am in a similar situation. And that's what the COBRA/HIPPA thing is all about - making sure it doesn't lapse.
It depends on the specifics. You can't be turned down if you have had continuous coverage for a certain amount of time before the time when you're trying to sign up. I saw a speaker advising parents of children with rare disorders to, "survive in the jungle of health insurance by sliding down the COBRA and landing on the HIPPA" if they lost their jobs - i.e., take advantage of the 6 months your company/HMO is supposed to give you after you leave them, and use that time to sign up for coverage, using the protections of HIPPA as I described above".
If you read the site, they invited all the parties who met the Appleseed Citizens' Taskforce on Fair Debates' criteria. I'm not sure who that was this year, but in 2000 that was the two major party candidates plus Nader & Buchanan. This year, I would guess it was Kerry, Bush, Nader, and possibly Cobb & Badnarik.
I agree, dumb answer. But although I generally like Kerry & Nader, I thought they should have mentioned a change of heart that they themselves experienced (and no, eating hot dogs doesn't count).