You're splitting hairs, and you're wrong. There are a variety of scientific, philosophical, and religious definitions of life. Biologically, a tape worm is more alive than a human fetus. If a human fetus were biologically an animal, it would have to be defined as a parasite. How's that for cold, hard truth?
First of all, a tape worm never develops into anything other than a tapeworm. Secondly, a parasite? Give me a break. Are all mammal offspring 'biologically parasites'? Not hardly, and the label that a fetus (human baby) is a parasite only tries to remove the fact that humans are quite different from the rest of the animals. DNA is not that much different between humans and earthworms, for example, and trying to use those kinds of arguments as to why it is inconsequential to abort children only makes the case for eliminating anyone/anything that you/I/society deems unnecessary.
A fetus would certainly not fit this definition. Please just admit that this is philosophical. Scientifically, a fetus is a parasite. Think about that.
Scientifically, we don't even know how exactly the brain works to fully form consciousness from simple chemical reactions, so you don't know when the brain is functioning enough to consitute the definition of life according to the dictionary. Where/when would you say that a fetus/baby/child/adult fits your definition?
Scientifically, a fetus is NOT a parasite, it is offspring formed from the reproductive process of humans. Parasites attach to/feed from hosts (to the detriment of the host) and are of different species than the host. Parasite a fetus is not.
What did the woman do to deserve forced pregnancy? The whole point of pro-choice is not "baby murder should be legal" but rather "a woman should control her body." Carrying and delivering a baby is a huge -- and dangerous -- ordeal. No one should do it without great consideration, and certainly no one should be forced into it against their will
Of course no one 'should' be forced into pregnancy, rape is a very henious crime and one of the most devastating to an individual. If it is OK to kill the baby of rape though, why can't we kill the rapist? It only follows your logic. This baby has no intrinsic value to society and the mother and apparently is a encumbrance, eliminate it. This rapist has no intrinsic value to society and causes harm, kill him. This is not about a womans right to control her body, it is about the definition of life and life's intrinsic value.
The same chauvinism is apparent in our attitudes toward sex. Men who have many sexual partners are seen as cool. Women who do the same are reviled. If I take a woman out to dinner, drinks, and a movie, and we later have sex, that's okay. If instead I simply pay her money for the sex, we can be arrested and jailed. In some U.S. states it is still illegal for two consenting adults to engage in oral sex (sodomy).
Of course there is chauvinism there, but that has nothing to do with this discussion really. It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, getting paid for sex is still illegal.
In the latter two cases we have one group of people limiting the actions of another group of people when those actions do not affect anyone else. The same is true with the war on drugs.
But abortion does affect someone else, but many people don't consider the fetus (baby) a person. At what point do they become a person? After they come out? 2 yrs? 6 yrs? When they get a job?
And here it is more bluntly. With starvation rampent world-wide (even in the U.S.), vastly surpassing abortions, why isn't more effort put into feeding people? If the anti-abortion rally cry is "We cannot lose even one precious life," they could save far more lives with less effort by addressing hunger. And it wouldn't trample women's rights at the same time.
But starvation isn't rampant in the US. We're the fattest nation in the world statistically. Also this argument has been used for everything from reducing the defence budget to reducing greenhouse gases and it still doesn't hold water. And saving far more lives (we're still talking about the US here) would be incorrect since there are about 4,000 abortions in the US every day. There may be starvation problems in other parts of the world, but I think we should save the masses we kill daily in our own backyard before we extend even more help globally. And we're still not trampling women's rights.:)
Metallica attacked the meduim, the network, instead of addressing the actual pirates themselves, the end users. That's what was so wrong with the lawsuit in the fisrt place.
This is why I stopped coming here months ago. I decided to pop in an see what was new, but I guess nothing is. "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" only applies if you're CmdrTaco.
Microsoft is the biggest software company in the world. The fact that their DNS is down *is* interesting. Esp. considering it's been down for a while now. I personally hate Microsoft for the poor quality of products that they produce, but I'm still interested when things like this happen. What if Cisco's routers when down for an extended period? Would that be "irrelevant" as well?
But of course, Slashdot is useful if you're looking for the same things as CmdrTaco: readers opinions on anime sites, readers experience with corrective laser eye surgery, generic Microsoft bashing, etc...
As with any new software or interface, there is a learning curve. Deselect makes perfect sense once you understand how it works. It just takes a little more time, but is very effecient. Besides, Debian is not trying to just have a slick appearance to woo the less technical or patient.
Radio shack was gaining back some of its credibility by changing and improving its image and the quality of their products. For many of us, it is the only electronic component source in our area. Now they are headed down that long road to desolation at the hands of Micro$oft and their strip mining techniques.
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Everybody is complaining about software modems being the bain of technologies existence. Isn't a software modem analgous to an OpenGL ICD? Is that bad? Software modems do have their place and their usage. More hardware for Linux is almost always good.
I really think you missed the point of this article. They are not saying that just because something is in use means it is better by default. They were referring to using QWERTY as an example of market failure.
It also has nothing to do with the quality of a keyboard. Quality is not a "different input" as you said, just a variation on the current method. Just because the IBM keyboard is better because of quality (not better because is more efficient, etc.) does not mean every body will use it. I think a better example is the comparison between gas and steam powered automobiles. There is a real difference here, not just a quality difference.
The fact that we are continually searching for something better is a part of human nature, not necessarily because the current method is so fundamentally flawed.
Also, ergonomic keyboards are becoming more and more popular because they are better and solve certain problems. But it has nothing to do with the QWERTY layout. Putting your hands in that position with any layout is eventually going to cause problems. --
The point is not always whether you will use it or not ever. Many classes are required for ABET certification. I'm Comp. Eng. but I have to take Engineering Materials and Statics & Dynamics. No, I don't think that I will ever design a truss with 1.2%Carbon steel. These are called cross appreciation classes. They give you an idea of what the other engineering disciplines study. It keeps you from getting too closed minded and think that your major is the toughest, best, etc. Try thinking about it from that perspective. BTW, I personally would rather have homework every night instead of cramming every week or so.
What is the big deal about asking a question here? Of course he should have RTFM, but it isn't killing anyone. I'm sure that wasn't your intent, but it comes across as an elitist attitude.
Out of disk space is the fastest way I've seen to crash a Netware server. At one place I used to work, the default mailbox location was on the system volume. Once it was full, BOOM! the server was dead.
Another example of a Big Company trying to scare the little guy. Did anyone else notice they only gave Yahooka 4 days to respond? That in itself is not right. I thought legally, they had 30 days to respond. Does anyone know?
SCSI sucks because people building servers expect to pay big bucks for storage. THAT is why SCSI prices are still WAY above IDE, not because spindle RPMS are higher, or manufacturing costs higher or anything else. The manufacturers KNOW they can charge high prices for there $hit because people will pay for it. Of course prices have gone down since the beginning of SCSI, but they are not really scale for the performance increases compared to other computing technologies.
SCSI is way overpriced and it is just waiting for something to topple it. Sure it will be around for a while just like ISA Bus, but it is on its way out, just like the ISA Bus. BTW UltraDMA is doing just that, easing the burden on the CPU, and this trend will continue in the future: IDE will get faster and more independent. This happens for really one specific reason - it is CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP.
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You're splitting hairs, and you're wrong. There are a variety of scientific, philosophical, and religious definitions of life. Biologically, a tape worm is more alive than a human fetus. If a human fetus were biologically an animal, it would have to be defined as a parasite. How's that for cold, hard truth?
First of all, a tape worm never develops into anything other than a tapeworm. Secondly, a parasite? Give me a break. Are all mammal offspring 'biologically parasites'? Not hardly, and the label that a fetus (human baby) is a parasite only tries to remove the fact that humans are quite different from the rest of the animals. DNA is not that much different between humans and earthworms, for example, and trying to use those kinds of arguments as to why it is inconsequential to abort children only makes the case for eliminating anyone/anything that you/I/society deems unnecessary.
A fetus would certainly not fit this definition. Please just admit that this is philosophical. Scientifically, a fetus is a parasite. Think about that.
Scientifically, we don't even know how exactly the brain works to fully form consciousness from simple chemical reactions, so you don't know when the brain is functioning enough to consitute the definition of life according to the dictionary. Where/when would you say that a fetus/baby/child/adult fits your definition?
Scientifically, a fetus is NOT a parasite, it is offspring formed from the reproductive process of humans. Parasites attach to/feed from hosts (to the detriment of the host) and are of different species than the host. Parasite a fetus is not.
What did the woman do to deserve forced pregnancy? The whole point of pro-choice is not "baby murder should be legal" but rather "a woman should control her body." Carrying and delivering a baby is a huge -- and dangerous -- ordeal. No one should do it without great consideration, and certainly no one should be forced into it against their will
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Of course no one 'should' be forced into pregnancy, rape is a very henious crime and one of the most devastating to an individual. If it is OK to kill the baby of rape though, why can't we kill the rapist? It only follows your logic. This baby has no intrinsic value to society and the mother and apparently is a encumbrance, eliminate it. This rapist has no intrinsic value to society and causes harm, kill him. This is not about a womans right to control her body, it is about the definition of life and life's intrinsic value.
The same chauvinism is apparent in our attitudes toward sex. Men who have many sexual partners are seen as cool. Women who do the same are reviled. If I take a woman out to dinner, drinks, and a movie, and we later have sex, that's okay. If instead I simply pay her money for the sex, we can be arrested and jailed. In some U.S. states it is still illegal for two consenting adults to engage in oral sex (sodomy).
Of course there is chauvinism there, but that has nothing to do with this discussion really. It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, getting paid for sex is still illegal.
In the latter two cases we have one group of people limiting the actions of another group of people when those actions do not affect anyone else. The same is true with the war on drugs.
But abortion does affect someone else, but many people don't consider the fetus (baby) a person. At what point do they become a person? After they come out? 2 yrs? 6 yrs? When they get a job?
And here it is more bluntly. With starvation rampent world-wide (even in the U.S.), vastly surpassing abortions, why isn't more effort put into feeding people? If the anti-abortion rally cry is "We cannot lose even one precious life," they could save far more lives with less effort by addressing hunger. And it wouldn't trample women's rights at the same time.
But starvation isn't rampant in the US. We're the fattest nation in the world statistically. Also this argument has been used for everything from reducing the defence budget to reducing greenhouse gases and it still doesn't hold water. And saving far more lives (we're still talking about the US here) would be incorrect since there are about 4,000 abortions in the US every day. There may be starvation problems in other parts of the world, but I think we should save the masses we kill daily in our own backyard before we extend even more help globally. And we're still not trampling women's rights.
Metallica attacked the meduim, the network, instead of addressing the actual pirates themselves, the end users. That's what was so wrong with the lawsuit in the fisrt place.
This is why I stopped coming here months ago. I decided to pop in an see what was new, but I guess nothing is. "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters" only applies if you're CmdrTaco.
Microsoft is the biggest software company in the world. The fact that their DNS is down *is* interesting. Esp. considering it's been down for a while now. I personally hate Microsoft for the poor quality of products that they produce, but I'm still interested when things like this happen. What if Cisco's routers when down for an extended period? Would that be "irrelevant" as well?
But of course, Slashdot is useful if you're looking for the same things as CmdrTaco: readers opinions on anime sites, readers experience with corrective laser eye surgery, generic Microsoft bashing, etc...
As with any new software or interface, there is a learning curve. Deselect makes perfect sense once you understand how it works. It just takes a little more time, but is very effecient. Besides, Debian is not trying to just have a slick appearance to woo the less technical or patient.
Radio shack was gaining back some of its credibility by changing and improving its image and the quality of their products. For many of us, it is the only electronic component source in our area. Now they are headed down that long road to desolation at the hands of Micro$oft and their strip mining techniques.
Another one bites the dust
What does this MEDICAL question have to do with 'ASK Slashdot'
Everybody is complaining about software modems being the bain of technologies existence. Isn't a software modem analgous to an OpenGL ICD? Is that bad? Software modems do have their place and their usage. More hardware for Linux is almost always good.
The people who need it the most will fail to understand this article and the whole situation.
Only flux capacitors are capable of storing the power neccessary. ;)
I really think you missed the point of this article. They are not saying that just because something is in use means it is better by default. They were referring to using QWERTY as an example of market failure.
It also has nothing to do with the quality of a keyboard. Quality is not a "different input" as you said, just a variation on the current method. Just because the IBM keyboard is better because of quality (not better because is more efficient, etc.) does not mean every body will use it. I think a better example is the comparison between gas and steam powered automobiles. There is a real difference here, not just a quality difference.
The fact that we are continually searching for something better is a part of human nature, not necessarily because the current method is so fundamentally flawed.
Also, ergonomic keyboards are becoming more and more popular because they are better and solve certain problems. But it has nothing to do with the QWERTY layout. Putting your hands in that position with any layout is eventually going to cause problems.
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The point is not always whether you will use it or not ever. Many classes are required for ABET certification. I'm Comp. Eng. but I have to take Engineering Materials and Statics & Dynamics. No, I don't think that I will ever design a truss with 1.2%Carbon steel. These are called cross appreciation classes. They give you an idea of what the other engineering disciplines study. It keeps you from getting too closed minded and think that your major is the toughest, best, etc. Try thinking about it from that perspective. BTW, I personally would rather have homework every night instead of cramming every week or so.
What is the big deal about asking a question here? Of course he should have RTFM, but it isn't killing anyone. I'm sure that wasn't your intent, but it comes across as an elitist attitude.
Try Debian. Mucho easy. Plus, it is the most committed to openness.
I wish I could return it. MORE LINUX GAMES PLEASE!
Out of disk space is the fastest way I've seen to crash a Netware server. At one place I used to work, the default mailbox location was on the system volume. Once it was full, BOOM! the server was dead.
Another example of a Big Company trying to scare the little guy. Did anyone else notice they only gave Yahooka 4 days to respond? That in itself is not right. I thought legally, they had 30 days to respond. Does anyone know?
That is what the article was saying... Socket7 by 2000 for the K7
SunOS is NOT comparable to Win98. That is like comparing Mercedes to Yugos.
I didn't say SCSI didn't have it's merits. On the contrary, it certainly does. I am talking about pure pricing scales.
Free clue to myself.
I was directly responding to the previous poster by saying that
1. IDE will not be gone that soon because it is just so darn cheap.
2. SCSI is so expensive only because people are willing to pay for it.
3. SCSI is just waiting for competition
4. SCSI will then fade out like ISA
5. I have a free clue for him (and you) because he had one for everybody else
Maybe you should pay a little more attention befor wasting your time with diatribes that really miss what the discussion was about.
SCSI sucks because people building servers expect to pay big bucks for storage. THAT is why SCSI prices are still WAY above IDE, not because spindle RPMS are higher, or manufacturing costs higher or anything else. The manufacturers KNOW they can charge high prices for there $hit because people will pay for it. Of course prices have gone down since the beginning of SCSI, but they are not really scale for the performance increases compared to other computing technologies.
SCSI is way overpriced and it is just waiting for something to topple it. Sure it will be around for a while just like ISA Bus, but it is on its way out, just like the ISA Bus. BTW UltraDMA is doing just that, easing the burden on the CPU, and this trend will continue in the future: IDE will get faster and more independent. This happens for really one specific reason - it is CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP.