People don't have a problem with organ donation (for the most part) because 1: It is a decision made by the person who's organs they are to donate them and 2: It is obvious that the donaters life was not created for the purpose of donating that organ.
Contrast this with aborted tissue and you will see there are HUGE differences, can you guarantee that if aborted tissue is OK'd by the goverment that eggs won't be fertilized for the sole purpose of aborting and harvesting them? I find it so amazing the lengths people will go to to devalue human life, blaming religion for hindering science. I'm sure some of the people reading this will think I'm a crazy prolifer too, well I'm not, in fact I have a PhD in genetics and understand better than 99.999% of the population the potential benefits of stem cell research. Stem cells ARE going to be the miracle cure they've been hyped up to be, but unlike scientific revolutions where lives are not at stake, we need to make sure to take the time to consider all the ramifications our decisions will have to ensure we don't end up doing a lot of harm just to speed things up a few years.
Sounds like he'll be having a hell of a time trying to stay up for 80 hours surviving off his Strayberry Milkshakes! I'm guessing that he'll stink like a sailor by the time he's done though.
They probably figured out that kids are smarter than they are when it comes to technology. I'm sure if I was in a school that used RFID (and 10 years younger) I would be able to do some mischief using that system by cloning other peoples RFIDs, making it seem they were in multiple places at once, or letting people skip school and have dupe RFIDs stay in the library etc. For the majority of students I'm sure things would work as expected, but some of those "troubled teens" or "geeks" would have a wickedly fun time with it.
As long as there are people using usenet to download movies, music, tv shows, games, applications, ebooks, and just about anything else that can be posted on usenet, there will be companies willing to let us pay for that access. Maybe you won't be able to get it bundled with your ISP anymore, but I for one will always have a use for it.
I've always wondered if one day everything will get swallowed up into a super massive black hole, it's nice to read an article explaining that black holes power quasars which actually push matter away from the black hole. At least temporarily (some billions of years?), I guess eventually gravity will win out over quasar wind.
How great is that picture of his insides, and yet they show him smoking a cigarette! Man those tobacco companies even managed to get the first robots hooked.
I haven't really had the time to browse all of the ideas here, but this one really stands out to me
RFID and Barcode Beer Fridge If looks aren't decieving, you can use this baby to check your beer supply, and maybe even let you check from work to see what you need to pick up on the way home for the weekend.
Just because there isn't any room in the budget for them to fix Hubble, that doesn't necessarily mean the end. Congress approval has nudged NASA's priorities before, so prehaps the little telescope that could still has a chance.
Umm... being from Wal-Mart, doesn't that mean you just need to keep your reciept and if anything goes wrong, or nothing goes wrong, you can return it? As far as I know their policy is pretty much no hassle returns on anything (software/music excepted)
I'm still waiting to see Halley's comet for the second time in my life (1986 when I was 10) and hopefully in 2061 (I'll be.... 85). Why ruin the fun by seeing this mere asteroid?
All the good stuff has already been thought of, but not everyone knows they exist. Try to find really good ideas by looking back at least 10 years for a piece of software that never took off and has been abandoned and remarket it as the next big thing. Remember: Marketing people could sell blood to a turnip.
Man, was that article read a waste of time, at least the lack of any detail in the article made it a short read. There is no explanation for anything to do with the robotic chromosomes which are supposedly some part of computer code which makes it a pretty crappy analogy if you ask me (a geneticist). What do the chromosomes have to do with giving the rbots emotions, and why are these emotions necessary from making evil robots? Such questions as these arise after reading this craptacular article.
Save your time and don't RTFA, like most of us do all the time;)
I don't know about where you live, but in Alberta your insurance is higher if you are male and under the age of 25 than any other group, so this means that by their standards a cell phone actually makes you a better driver.
Microsoft as world leader? I guess you've never witnessed such behemoths as GE, Disney and Time/Warner.
How about flying to Universal Studios, having a heart attack from all the flashing lights( do they make lights though?), getting an ECG at the hospital while watching the news story about your accident on TV?
Yes, all that and more courtesy just one might conglomorate. If only I wasn't lazy I'm sure I could have double the examples at least.
Same thing we do every night, we try to take over the world!
Seriously though, tranplanting human neurons into a developing mouse to see if can grow a human brain might make super smart mice, but the real moral dilemma is this:
What makes a human life worth more than an animal life? If a mouse has the brain of a human, the capacity to think as a human, a human consciousness, then how can the researchers just kill those mice and dissect their brains? Is it not the same as killing someone who's body is paralyzed or otherwise abnormal and dissecting their brain?
If we can figure out what proteins need to be expressed to convert short term to long term memory and somehow in the future find some sort of drug that ups the expression of that gene we will still have a problem with what do you do when every memory is a lasting one? Do ou need to know the plate# of every car you drove by on the way home or the order of the commercials when watching Oprah? I think if we mess with the number of long term memories we make we may also lose the selectivity which is so important in making sure the brain isn't cluttered with irrelevant memories and we strengthen only important ones.
Increase the signal to noise ratio of my memory, then w're in business.
Okay, I'm not a sports fan, but why can't they just make games that don't have actual player names or teams and just make a "fantasy league" and bypass any need for licencing? Is it really that much better of a game when it has the ESPN name on it?
If people get to "vote" on what the sims do, they might end up playing like me and just force feed them coffee and never let them sleep or go to the bathroom.
EMP's aren't very likely, but what happens when a police officer gets killed because his gun failed to recognize him properly, a'la THIS
Biometrics are nice in controlled environments, but when things aren't as controlled like when someone is trying to kill you, you just might not hold then gun in the exact same way you usually do.
If pilots have a laser pointed at them, the circular strongly advises pilots and air crew to avoid direct eye contact given the health and safety risks posed by some types of lasers.
Who are they getting to write these warnings, my Mom? "Don't look stray dogs in the eye or they might get mad and bite you." I would think this would be common sense, but then again, we are talking about the same people who brought you terrorist-proofing your home with duct tape.
In 2000, 79% of the US population lived in urban areas, the 2001 Canadian census lists 79.7% there is hardly any difference there and yet claims about "Oh, but Canada lives closer to the border" still persist. Urban vs Rural is NOT the big issue. The big issue is GREED by companies and COMPLACENCY of the population to bend over on issues such as this.
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People don't have a problem with organ donation (for the most part) because 1: It is a decision made by the person who's organs they are to donate them and 2: It is obvious that the donaters life was not created for the purpose of donating that organ.
Contrast this with aborted tissue and you will see there are HUGE differences, can you guarantee that if aborted tissue is OK'd by the goverment that eggs won't be fertilized for the sole purpose of aborting and harvesting them? I find it so amazing the lengths people will go to to devalue human life, blaming religion for hindering science. I'm sure some of the people reading this will think I'm a crazy prolifer too, well I'm not, in fact I have a PhD in genetics and understand better than 99.999% of the population the potential benefits of stem cell research. Stem cells ARE going to be the miracle cure they've been hyped up to be, but unlike scientific revolutions where lives are not at stake, we need to make sure to take the time to consider all the ramifications our decisions will have to ensure we don't end up doing a lot of harm just to speed things up a few years.
Sounds like he'll be having a hell of a time trying to stay up for 80 hours surviving off his Strayberry Milkshakes! I'm guessing that he'll stink like a sailor by the time he's done though.
to see if you can get the site's robots.txt as the files/directories in that file are sometimes full of goodies.
They probably figured out that kids are smarter than they are when it comes to technology. I'm sure if I was in a school that used RFID (and 10 years younger) I would be able to do some mischief using that system by cloning other peoples RFIDs, making it seem they were in multiple places at once, or letting people skip school and have dupe RFIDs stay in the library etc. For the majority of students I'm sure things would work as expected, but some of those "troubled teens" or "geeks" would have a wickedly fun time with it.
As long as there are people using usenet to download movies, music, tv shows, games, applications, ebooks, and just about anything else that can be posted on usenet, there will be companies willing to let us pay for that access. Maybe you won't be able to get it bundled with your ISP anymore, but I for one will always have a use for it.
It is GPS based, the article is just a bit vague, try This one instead.
I've always wondered if one day everything will get swallowed up into a super massive black hole, it's nice to read an article explaining that black holes power quasars which actually push matter away from the black hole. At least temporarily (some billions of years?), I guess eventually gravity will win out over quasar wind.
How great is that picture of his insides, and yet they show him smoking a cigarette! Man those tobacco companies even managed to get the first robots hooked.
I haven't really had the time to browse all of the ideas here, but this one really stands out to me
RFID and Barcode Beer Fridge
If looks aren't decieving, you can use this baby to check your beer supply, and maybe even let you check from work to see what you need to pick up on the way home for the weekend.
Just because there isn't any room in the budget for them to fix Hubble, that doesn't necessarily mean the end. Congress approval has nudged NASA's priorities before, so prehaps the little telescope that could still has a chance.
Umm... being from Wal-Mart, doesn't that mean you just need to keep your reciept and if anything goes wrong, or nothing goes wrong, you can return it? As far as I know their policy is pretty much no hassle returns on anything (software/music excepted)
I'm still waiting to see Halley's comet for the second time in my life (1986 when I was 10) and hopefully in 2061 (I'll be.... 85). Why ruin the fun by seeing this mere asteroid?
All the good stuff has already been thought of, but not everyone knows they exist. Try to find really good ideas by looking back at least 10 years for a piece of software that never took off and has been abandoned and remarket it as the next big thing. Remember: Marketing people could sell blood to a turnip.
Man, was that article read a waste of time, at least the lack of any detail in the article made it a short read. There is no explanation for anything to do with the robotic chromosomes which are supposedly some part of computer code which makes it a pretty crappy analogy if you ask me (a geneticist). What do the chromosomes have to do with giving the rbots emotions, and why are these emotions necessary from making evil robots? Such questions as these arise after reading this craptacular article.
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Save your time and don't RTFA, like most of us do all the time
I don't know about where you live, but in Alberta your insurance is higher if you are male and under the age of 25 than any other group, so this means that by their standards a cell phone actually makes you a better driver.
Microsoft as world leader? I guess you've never witnessed such behemoths as GE, Disney and Time/Warner.
How about flying to Universal Studios, having a heart attack from all the flashing lights( do they make lights though?), getting an ECG at the hospital while watching the news story about your accident on TV?
Yes, all that and more courtesy just one might conglomorate. If only I wasn't lazy I'm sure I could have double the examples at least.
Same thing we do every night, we try to take over the world!
Seriously though, tranplanting human neurons into a developing mouse to see if can grow a human brain might make super smart mice, but the real moral dilemma is this:
What makes a human life worth more than an animal life? If a mouse has the brain of a human, the capacity to think as a human, a human consciousness, then how can the researchers just kill those mice and dissect their brains? Is it not the same as killing someone who's body is paralyzed or otherwise abnormal and dissecting their brain?
If we can figure out what proteins need to be expressed to convert short term to long term memory and somehow in the future find some sort of drug that ups the expression of that gene we will still have a problem with what do you do when every memory is a lasting one? Do ou need to know the plate# of every car you drove by on the way home or the order of the commercials when watching Oprah? I think if we mess with the number of long term memories we make we may also lose the selectivity which is so important in making sure the brain isn't cluttered with irrelevant memories and we strengthen only important ones.
Increase the signal to noise ratio of my memory, then w're in business.
tractor? Because as far as I know traktor isn't actually a word, way to go Google, pander to the illiterates out there!
Okay, I'm not a sports fan, but why can't they just make games that don't have actual player names or teams and just make a "fantasy league" and bypass any need for licencing? Is it really that much better of a game when it has the ESPN name on it?
If people get to "vote" on what the sims do, they might end up playing like me and just force feed them coffee and never let them sleep or go to the bathroom.
EMP's aren't very likely, but what happens when a police officer gets killed because his gun failed to recognize him properly, a'la THIS Biometrics are nice in controlled environments, but when things aren't as controlled like when someone is trying to kill you, you just might not hold then gun in the exact same way you usually do.
Obviously you haven't considered the best method to keep from being trackedd which is described here.
Who are they getting to write these warnings, my Mom? "Don't look stray dogs in the eye or they might get mad and bite you." I would think this would be common sense, but then again, we are talking about the same people who brought you terrorist-proofing your home with duct tape.
In 2000, 79% of the US population lived in urban areas, the 2001 Canadian census lists 79.7% there is hardly any difference there and yet claims about "Oh, but Canada lives closer to the border" still persist. Urban vs Rural is NOT the big issue. The big issue is GREED by companies and COMPLACENCY of the population to bend over on issues such as this.