How does this mock religion?
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Katz says that the discovery of the minimum number of genes neede to make a life form will mock religion because it is antiquated. However all the scientists are doing is taking pre-existing building blocks, that behave in a pre-existing way in nature and trying to make an organism that uses as few as possible. The likelyhood is that they will fail because the genes are more complex than the scientists really understand. Nature tends to eliminate unneeded genetic parts over time so it is likely that the organism is very close to having as small a genetic code as possible to allow it to survive and reproduce. Removing genetic material may allow it to only exist in special laboratory conditions, and reproduction may be less efficient. The scientists don't really know what is going to happen, which is why they carrry out the experiment, but just removing possibly unneeded genetic material from an organism is no where near creating life.
This site annoys me a little
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Dumb Laws
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Some of these laws aren't dumb like they think, they are just old and were never looked at again. Others truly are dumb, but if you tend to think about why that law would be eneacted like I do then it gets annoying.
But what about copyright? The copyright on the code still applies and it forbids the redistribution of the code without the consent of the author. The authors of GPL software usually only consent to the redistribution of their software under the GPL. Therefore to redistribute it they would have to relicense it under the GPL or face copyright infringement litigation.
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That's not true, as long as they don't use any code that is copyrighted by someone else, or violate any trademarks or patents, they can use a system that is similar to OLE. They could even implement their own version of OLE and make it compatible with Windows programs running under Wine without violating any laws.
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Katz says that the discovery of the minimum number of genes neede to make a life form will mock religion because it is antiquated. However all the scientists are doing is taking pre-existing building blocks, that behave in a pre-existing way in nature and trying to make an organism that uses as few as possible. The likelyhood is that they will fail because the genes are more complex than the scientists really understand. Nature tends to eliminate unneeded genetic parts over time so it is likely that the organism is very close to having as small a genetic code as possible to allow it to survive and reproduce. Removing genetic material may allow it to only exist in special laboratory conditions, and reproduction may be less efficient. The scientists don't really know what is going to happen, which is why they carrry out the experiment, but just removing possibly unneeded genetic material from an organism is no where near creating life.
Some of these laws aren't dumb like they think, they are just old and were never looked at again. Others truly are dumb, but if you tend to think about why that law would be eneacted like I do then it gets annoying.
But what about copyright? The copyright on the code still applies and it forbids the redistribution of the code without the consent of the author. The authors of GPL software usually only consent to the redistribution of their software under the GPL. Therefore to redistribute it they would have to relicense it under the GPL or face copyright infringement litigation.
you are good. Please make a geocities page to this unmeasurably good success and share it with us. I would love to see it.
So if Windows NT running an e-commerce server crashes causing me to lose orders and potential customers who do I sue?
mmm mmm Grits are the stuff of life. Yanks don't know that the secret to the South is grits.
What is up with this page? hmmmmmmm
That's not true, as long as they don't use any code
that is copyrighted by someone else, or violate any
trademarks or patents, they can use a system that is
similar to OLE. They could even implement their own
version of OLE and make it compatible with Windows
programs running under Wine without violating any laws.