The artists claim to be making a point about our loose and casual attitude to life, by making us aware that we casually wear dead things.
I find it extraordinarily creepy that these people would criticise our attitude to life by combining mouse skin cells and human bone cells into a living coat. I find this manipulation of living things far more disrespectful to our environment, and all things living than harvesting the hide of dead cattle.
Nonsense! Before then we'll have "victimless meat" where we take and clone cattle muscle cells into hordes of artificial steaks...
I'm sorry but killing things to eat them is natural, it's what we do. Using the left-overs as clothing is just good economic sense. I've always been impressed by the Lapps, who use virtually every part of the reindeer they slaughter. Ironically, one of the reindeer bones is used to make a lassoo, which is used to catch reindeer...:)
I think the point is this new way of thinking opens the door to medical treatments that take into account our unicellular friends. For example, as someone pointed out, when you get sick, the traditional response has been to dose you with antibiotics, which kill *all* the bacteria in your gut.
Lately researchers have discovered a link between gut bacteria and the immune system, suggesting that gut bacteria somehow "teach" the immune system to ignore things like pollen, thus preventing allergies. If you nuke these bacteria as part of a stomach bug treatment, it's important to replace them - and this is new to mecical thinking. In the future we may follow up a course of antibiotics with a course of probiotics to compensate.
As I understand this, it is necessary in the US (and now Canada) to secure the right to hold an authors' work in a database.
Where does this leave ventures like Google Print? Is it necessary for Google to secure rights to the work they store, if they are not in the public domain?
Hear hear!
Copyright laws are supposed to encourage artists, and not line the pockets of multinationals. As far as I can see, giving ninety percent of the money made from your work to blokes in suits, who then have the audacity to turn around and sue some of your fanbase for not getting the music from them is not encouraging.
I've seen some forrests completely destroyed by rhododendrons. Invasive plants are possibly more damaging than invasive animals, in that they change the ecosystem at its very base.
I find it disconcerting that all of the above comments focus on the "insulting Islam" part of the story, and not the "national security" preserving "Internal Security Act" being leveled at a political observer.
With a focus like that, and the possibilty of the administration resposible for the Patriot Act being re-elected, don't be too surprised if it's an American blogger in 4 years time.
Islam. Islam. Islam. Expose yourself to the word ten times daily until it ceases to trigger alarm bells, and images of turban-clad, gun-toting loonies.
You're one of those people who run away screaming from fires that aren't burned in 100% oxygen, screaming "THE GAS!! THE GAS!!" aren't you?
You people are really hard to hold barbeques for.
Seriously, it's a portable media player - who is going to use the speakers? This is for plugging in and spacing out of the daily commute. Oh, and it'll make you pray that the leery, deep breathing guy doesn't stand beside you on the over-crowded bus/train/metro and pretend to look at it whilst engage you in frottage http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=frottage/
Actually, the byproducts of this form of fuel are water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen. This is far preferable to the solid rocket boosters of the shuttle, which burn ammonium perchlorate and aluminum. Even kerosene, burned in jet engines, could be considered worse, producing the same pollutants as SSO, plus sulfur dioxide - a major constituent of acid rain.
I'd like to see artists selling their own mp3s from their website, getting *all* of the cut. I mean, I can buy t-shirts and even cds from my favourite indie artists at their sites, so why not mp3s also.
That way I'd get a warm fuzzy feeling for supporting my local gigging musician, rather than the unpleasant sensations associated with both of us being simultaneously shafted by a business model. Business models don't use lubricant.
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The artists claim to be making a point about our loose and casual attitude to life, by making us aware that we casually wear dead things.
I find it extraordinarily creepy that these people would criticise our attitude to life by combining mouse skin cells and human bone cells into a living coat. I find this manipulation of living things far more disrespectful to our environment, and all things living than harvesting the hide of dead cattle.
Nonsense! Before then we'll have "victimless meat" where we take and clone cattle muscle cells into hordes of artificial steaks...
:)
I'm sorry but killing things to eat them is natural, it's what we do. Using the left-overs as clothing is just good economic sense. I've always been impressed by the Lapps, who use virtually every part of the reindeer they slaughter. Ironically, one of the reindeer bones is used to make a lassoo, which is used to catch reindeer...
I think the point is this new way of thinking opens the door to medical treatments that take into account our unicellular friends. For example, as someone pointed out, when you get sick, the traditional response has been to dose you with antibiotics, which kill *all* the bacteria in your gut.
Lately researchers have discovered a link between gut bacteria and the immune system, suggesting that gut bacteria somehow "teach" the immune system to ignore things like pollen, thus preventing allergies. If you nuke these bacteria as part of a stomach bug treatment, it's important to replace them - and this is new to mecical thinking. In the future we may follow up a course of antibiotics with a course of probiotics to compensate.
As I understand this, it is necessary in the US (and now Canada) to secure the right to hold an authors' work in a database. Where does this leave ventures like Google Print? Is it necessary for Google to secure rights to the work they store, if they are not in the public domain?
I'm sorry, 95%? Where do these numbers come from? Very convenient that the RIAA has an excuse to go into panic spasms.
Hear hear! Copyright laws are supposed to encourage artists, and not line the pockets of multinationals. As far as I can see, giving ninety percent of the money made from your work to blokes in suits, who then have the audacity to turn around and sue some of your fanbase for not getting the music from them is not encouraging.
Resident Evil actually had some plot, and look what happened when they tried to make a movie inspired by that... But a doom movie...
I've seen some forrests completely destroyed by rhododendrons. Invasive plants are possibly more damaging than invasive animals, in that they change the ecosystem at its very base.
I find it disconcerting that all of the above comments focus on the "insulting Islam" part of the story, and not the "national security" preserving "Internal Security Act" being leveled at a political observer. With a focus like that, and the possibilty of the administration resposible for the Patriot Act being re-elected, don't be too surprised if it's an American blogger in 4 years time. Islam. Islam. Islam. Expose yourself to the word ten times daily until it ceases to trigger alarm bells, and images of turban-clad, gun-toting loonies.
You're one of those people who run away screaming from fires that aren't burned in 100% oxygen, screaming "THE GAS!! THE GAS!!" aren't you? You people are really hard to hold barbeques for.
... as far as Nintendo is concerned
Seriously, it's a portable media player - who is going to use the speakers? This is for plugging in and spacing out of the daily commute. Oh, and it'll make you pray that the leery, deep breathing guy doesn't stand beside you on the over-crowded bus/train/metro and pretend to look at it whilst engage you in frottage http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=frottage/
Actually, the byproducts of this form of fuel are water vapor, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen. This is far preferable to the solid rocket boosters of the shuttle, which burn ammonium perchlorate and aluminum. Even kerosene, burned in jet engines, could be considered worse, producing the same pollutants as SSO, plus sulfur dioxide - a major constituent of acid rain.
I'd like to see artists selling their own mp3s from their website, getting *all* of the cut. I mean, I can buy t-shirts and even cds from my favourite indie artists at their sites, so why not mp3s also. That way I'd get a warm fuzzy feeling for supporting my local gigging musician, rather than the unpleasant sensations associated with both of us being simultaneously shafted by a business model. Business models don't use lubricant.