The one day you speak of has occoured numerous times already, as all of my grandparents are now deceased. Do I feel like an asshole because they all contracted a terminal illness and died? No, sad tho' their parting may be, death is part of life, and life is about living, more or less, within the constraints of our life-situation. I accept that at some point I'll contract some illness and die. I won't be expecting the system to harvest embryos for my benefit.
I'm not sure how you connect heart murmurs and cretinism, but I'll forgive your ignorance this time.
My position on this issue is not supporting infanticide or euthanasia, as you would infer. Rather, I'd suggest that growing a bunch of embrios for the sake of harvesting stem cells to patch up weary old human bodies is to me much like buying a new Mercedes Benz as a source of sheetmetal for patching an old Chevvy clunker. I'm questioning the resource utilisation for keeping clapped-out humans alive. At some point you just have to let them die, not develop some lab based sub-race (the embrios) to support the fetally-developed human oligarchy.
Exactly. Compare the medical costs of pregnancy termination with medical costs of both IV fertilisation practices and supporting pre-term babies. Then think of how much is spent making old people live longer. Somehow I think western society has got it's priorities all wrong.
Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should.
As a professional Mechanical Engineer, I almost agree. Much of IT is solving real-world problems of other disciplines, thus IT is (sweeping-generalisation-alert) a support function in most organisations (that aren't IT service organisations).
I think it is possible to be both a 'real world discipline' engineer and an IT proponent.
You'd be surprised how many non-IT discipline engineers have no clue how to use computers to make their life simpler. Most don't even know how to use (horror!) MS excel to any decent effect, let alone write themselves any C code to do stuff.
If you become a pure IT specialist, you'll be forever solving other peoples problems and subsequently bitching & moaning about how they have no clue how a computer works.
The only problem with this is the frustration of having to work with someone elses kludgy spreadsheet hack (and often are not even worth the "hack" nomenclature).
I wouldn't have thought steam reforming of methane (Natural Gas) was a particularly nasty process, which is how most hydrogen is produced nowdays. More particularly so, given the context of most other petro-chemical processes.
Why the imperative to continue the human race? What would it really matter if the species homo-sapien became extinct? I'm sure other species would celebrate.
Yeah, The US's trade deficit and China's trade surplus will eventually cancel out and "poof", both the US and China will disappear. Then you won't be able to distinguish either of them
If the AMA and Bar associations are anything like Australian versions, then their MO is to artificially limit the supply of professionals, in order to keep their members' revenues high. The trade unions work against supply/demand balance, by artificially keeping members revenues high, without doing anything to limit labour supply.
High personal debt is just bringing tomorrows economy forward to today. As with everything, there are limits, which once reached, bring no further benefits. The only way from there is a correction to long term averages.
Bill must have been trained by bin Laden. Lots of indications that Bill will be prosecuted, but I don't think that he's been apprehended yet, let alone a trial date set.
What proportion of people actually upgrade their OS without upgrading hardware? I'd say that MS only has the market share because, for the majority of people, upgrading hardware results in a default of the latest version of MS OS.
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So that was one of the other identifying marks that the military used to identify Zarqawi
And since we will all die some day anyway, what would it really matter if the human race was annihilated?
So it would be better to compare it with the Sedan Nuclear test?
The one day you speak of has occoured numerous times already, as all of my grandparents are now deceased. Do I feel like an asshole because they all contracted a terminal illness and died? No, sad tho' their parting may be, death is part of life, and life is about living, more or less, within the constraints of our life-situation. I accept that at some point I'll contract some illness and die. I won't be expecting the system to harvest embryos for my benefit.
I'm not sure how you connect heart murmurs and cretinism, but I'll forgive your ignorance this time.
My position on this issue is not supporting infanticide or euthanasia, as you would infer. Rather, I'd suggest that growing a bunch of embrios for the sake of harvesting stem cells to patch up weary old human bodies is to me much like buying a new Mercedes Benz as a source of sheetmetal for patching an old Chevvy clunker. I'm questioning the resource utilisation for keeping clapped-out humans alive. At some point you just have to let them die, not develop some lab based sub-race (the embrios) to support the fetally-developed human oligarchy.
To what extent should resources be spent helping a weak individual survive. What is your definition of survival? We will all die at some point.
Why should our society permit killing some embrios and conversely spend squillions creating others? It's a selfish notion, both ways.
But then how does she cash in his life insurance? This is a pretty clear-cut moral decision.
Oh for some mod points. +5 Insightful
Exactly. Compare the medical costs of pregnancy termination with medical costs of both IV fertilisation practices and supporting pre-term babies. Then think of how much is spent making old people live longer. Somehow I think western society has got it's priorities all wrong.
Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should.
Whatever happened to survival of the fittest? Is all this technology assisting with breeding a race of second rate homo sapiens?
As a professional Mechanical Engineer, I almost agree. Much of IT is solving real-world problems of other disciplines, thus IT is (sweeping-generalisation-alert) a support function in most organisations (that aren't IT service organisations).
I think it is possible to be both a 'real world discipline' engineer and an IT proponent.
You'd be surprised how many non-IT discipline engineers have no clue how to use computers to make their life simpler. Most don't even know how to use (horror!) MS excel to any decent effect, let alone write themselves any C code to do stuff.
If you become a pure IT specialist, you'll be forever solving other peoples problems and subsequently bitching & moaning about how they have no clue how a computer works.
The only problem with this is the frustration of having to work with someone elses kludgy spreadsheet hack (and often are not even worth the "hack" nomenclature).
+6 Insightful
I wouldn't have thought steam reforming of methane (Natural Gas) was a particularly nasty process, which is how most hydrogen is produced nowdays. More particularly so, given the context of most other petro-chemical processes.
Why the imperative to continue the human race? What would it really matter if the species homo-sapien became extinct? I'm sure other species would celebrate.
Wot, toilet bowl cam too?
Yes, but they're called dividends.
Yeah, The US's trade deficit and China's trade surplus will eventually cancel out and "poof", both the US and China will disappear. Then you won't be able to distinguish either of them
If the AMA and Bar associations are anything like Australian versions, then their MO is to artificially limit the supply of professionals, in order to keep their members' revenues high. The trade unions work against supply/demand balance, by artificially keeping members revenues high, without doing anything to limit labour supply.
High personal debt is just bringing tomorrows economy forward to today. As with everything, there are limits, which once reached, bring no further benefits. The only way from there is a correction to long term averages.
And shouldn't they cue not queue
Are you posting that on /. for others to proof read?
Send the studio an invoice for your time spent watching the adverts.
Bill must have been trained by bin Laden. Lots of indications that Bill will be prosecuted, but I don't think that he's been apprehended yet, let alone a trial date set.
What proportion of people actually upgrade their OS without upgrading hardware? I'd say that MS only has the market share because, for the majority of people, upgrading hardware results in a default of the latest version of MS OS.
Isn't this just a subsidised Slashdot account?