Never mind you're more likely to be molested by your Uncle or your Mom's new boyfriend than some stranger in a van.
Or by the reasoning here it may be that you're most likely to be molested by yourself, at least prior to the age of consent. After that it's ok, since it's an act between a consenting adult and themselves.
Actually, all claims require adequate support for provisional acceptance. Differing standards for differing claims derives from the concept of canon which has more of a place in religion than science.
I agree it would have been nice if they'd included a demonstration vid.
In a "civil union" nation I can marry a mug of water if I feel like it
That might be taking it a little far, but taking this sort of contract of association out of the hands of religion and putting it more into the territory of contract law, we might require civil unions to be exclusive contracts, but not restrict the number of parties in the contract. Somewhat ironically, perhaps, this would better serve the paleomormon looking to have more than one wife.
And frankly same sex marriage is a religious issue that has proded its way into politics because of the way government deals with marriage.
Exactly. That's why the government should have nothing to do with marriage and churches should have nothing to do with legal rights associated with what we'll call a civil union. Any church of any creed, catholic, wiccan, psychodelic cyberparish of the new voudon, whatever, can perform or not perform marriages for whomever and excluding whomever they wish. But the partnership with all the legal ramifications would be the civil union, and being a secular, government thing, it would not be allowed to discriminate. If a couple wanted both then they would have to see both the priest (or priestess) and the appropriate representative of secular authority for two different ceremonies.
In addition to employing programmers, 'the savings [to consumers] in the United States alone could easily exceed the cost of supporting software development.'"
Sure, but what about Microsoft, or Adobe, or various other companies that make software? Won't this be competing directly with them? It's bad enough that they have to compete with FOSS as is, but FOSS supercharged with two billion government dollars?
Surely the sensible thing to do would be to give the money directly to Microsoft and Adobe and the like. You wouldn't bail out the auto industry by giving money to custom car builders, nor the banking industry by giving money to loan sharks.
Kidding, of course. But I'll bet there will be corporations that won't be thrilled by this.
Perhaps they're counting on the economy becoming so bad that entire families are on the street and kids have to do their homework in internet cafes paying with change they beg: "Spare a buck for a homework session, mister?"
Looks like this christmas, I get to fix a computer! YEY! Just like last christmas...
That's where your fairy god-mother is supposed to step in. Provide you with cool threads and a coach to take you to the ball. But be sure to leave by midnight, in the process losing a shoe so that the princess can scour the city looking for you (hopefully you have a very unusual shoe size).
Just for the record, I think mother's have a right to kill their babies. Infanticide is an ancient right of mothers and the modern obsession with interfering with parental duties is offensive.
Hear, hear. They're little more than parasites up until the 6th trimester. And you could take the argument beyond that even, but then you'd run the risk of parents being allowed to do away with children in their 30s still living at home.
Extortion is immoral no matter who does it. You might be able to make the case for goods and services taxes on nonessential items/services on the grounds that those who didn't want to pay them could choose to avoid nonessentials. Or, I suppose one could take the position that ends justify means, thus extortion by the government is ok since they use the money to good ends, or should do.
Fuck. We have all the problems of Case 2, and more. We just made a person that is, by definition, part of the world's smallest and loneliest minority. He or she will never be able to live a remotely normal or fulfilling life. Furthermore, he's coming into the world with ready-made enemies in those opposed to cloning.
Wasn't that a movie? Created creature demands a bride, and is opposed by enemies with torches and pitchforks?
I would suggest preserving some of his dna for later cloning but chaos theory dictates that something bad would happen if we tried that. Not sure why, I'm not an expert on chaos theory.
It's the virtual equivalent of the old punishment of cutting off a hand for theft. If they're going to return to this way of thinking, perhaps for consistency's sake they should return to to that. And, of course, reinstate the use of that classic of French justice, the guillotine.
Only science as religion has any interest in competing with other religions. Science properly understood has absolutely nothing to do with religion, no relationship, not opposed, not in harmony, not interested since its realm is the demonstrable. Science is an incredible tool whose power is derived precisely from the constraints which keep it from ever being a religion, except when misconstrued by fools.
Eugenics was quite a legit topic prior to Hitler giving it a bad name. It was even practiced in places, like the Canadian province of Alberta. They even sterilized immigrants, because it was obvious from their poor grasp of English that they were retarded. Simple people, Albertans. Not that I think they should be castrated for it;)
Stephen Hawking doesn't get a Nobel if a black hole is produced which swallows the earth. If a black hole is produced which behaves according to his theory and disappears lickety-split due to Hawking radiation, he could get a Nobel. He's not getting his hopes up though, predicting less than 1% chance of producing any kind of black hole at all.
Teaching someone English at that level would be more difficult that teaching them to recognize characters. In ancient Rome the people who engraved dies for coins weren't always literate, but they managed for the most part to get the inscriptions right. Barbarians who made copies had more trouble, but then perhaps they thought the inscription part was purely decorative allowing for artistic interpretation. Or perhaps they weren't flogged for making mistakes. Point is, you can copy without having the high level of literacy required for proof reading.
If you've ever seen a small chunk of pure sodium tossed into a sink full of water in a high school chemistry class... and then think how much this guy has...
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Those are also the initials for George W. Bush, a former president of the USA.
He dead.
Never mind you're more likely to be molested by your Uncle or your Mom's new boyfriend than some stranger in a van.
Or by the reasoning here it may be that you're most likely to be molested by yourself, at least prior to the age of consent. After that it's ok, since it's an act between a consenting adult and themselves.
Remember what we see is a 3000 year old image of the planet. It may not even exist today.
Or it might, but it's no longer ruled by space pharaohs.
Actually, all claims require adequate support for provisional acceptance. Differing standards for differing claims derives from the concept of canon which has more of a place in religion than science.
I agree it would have been nice if they'd included a demonstration vid.
In a "civil union" nation I can marry a mug of water if I feel like it
That might be taking it a little far, but taking this sort of contract of association out of the hands of religion and putting it more into the territory of contract law, we might require civil unions to be exclusive contracts, but not restrict the number of parties in the contract. Somewhat ironically, perhaps, this would better serve the paleomormon looking to have more than one wife.
And frankly same sex marriage is a religious issue that has proded its way into politics because of the way government deals with marriage.
Exactly. That's why the government should have nothing to do with marriage and churches should have nothing to do with legal rights associated with what we'll call a civil union. Any church of any creed, catholic, wiccan, psychodelic cyberparish of the new voudon, whatever, can perform or not perform marriages for whomever and excluding whomever they wish. But the partnership with all the legal ramifications would be the civil union, and being a secular, government thing, it would not be allowed to discriminate. If a couple wanted both then they would have to see both the priest (or priestess) and the appropriate representative of secular authority for two different ceremonies.
In addition to employing programmers, 'the savings [to consumers] in the United States alone could easily exceed the cost of supporting software development.'"
Sure, but what about Microsoft, or Adobe, or various other companies that make software? Won't this be competing directly with them? It's bad enough that they have to compete with FOSS as is, but FOSS supercharged with two billion government dollars?
Surely the sensible thing to do would be to give the money directly to Microsoft and Adobe and the like. You wouldn't bail out the auto industry by giving money to custom car builders, nor the banking industry by giving money to loan sharks.
Kidding, of course. But I'll bet there will be corporations that won't be thrilled by this.
Perhaps they're counting on the economy becoming so bad that entire families are on the street and kids have to do their homework in internet cafes paying with change they beg: "Spare a buck for a homework session, mister?"
Looks like this christmas, I get to fix a computer! YEY! Just like last christmas...
That's where your fairy god-mother is supposed to step in. Provide you with cool threads and a coach to take you to the ball. But be sure to leave by midnight, in the process losing a shoe so that the princess can scour the city looking for you (hopefully you have a very unusual shoe size).
Just for the record, I think mother's have a right to kill their babies. Infanticide is an ancient right of mothers and the modern obsession with interfering with parental duties is offensive.
Hear, hear. They're little more than parasites up until the 6th trimester. And you could take the argument beyond that even, but then you'd run the risk of parents being allowed to do away with children in their 30s still living at home.
So you're saying that taxation is immoral?
Extortion is immoral no matter who does it. You might be able to make the case for goods and services taxes on nonessential items/services on the grounds that those who didn't want to pay them could choose to avoid nonessentials. Or, I suppose one could take the position that ends justify means, thus extortion by the government is ok since they use the money to good ends, or should do.
The Brits just bend over and take it.
It's a tradition. Orwell wrote about it in 1984 in 1948. They even have a saying -- "Lie still and think of England".
Fuck. We have all the problems of Case 2, and more. We just made a person that is, by definition, part of the world's smallest and loneliest minority. He or she will never be able to live a remotely normal or fulfilling life. Furthermore, he's coming into the world with ready-made enemies in those opposed to cloning.
Wasn't that a movie? Created creature demands a bride, and is opposed by enemies with torches and pitchforks?
If it reaches the ground, it's called a meteorite.
Exactly. As the song says "Shooting star or meteor, whichever name you like, the minute it comes down to earth it's called a meteorite."
What Is A Shooting Star?
Look at online reviews to find one with a more intense vibration
Or get a hardware geek to "pimp your phone" to give it a beefier vibrate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbfba70lf4U
Of course, how much beer & pizza is an important factor.
Beyond a certain point you'd want to escalate to hookers and cigars. Actually, forget the cigars.
I would suggest preserving some of his dna for later cloning but chaos theory dictates that something bad would happen if we tried that. Not sure why, I'm not an expert on chaos theory.
Now we just need a viable interstellar drive, and an energy source to power it all.
Then it's all alien babes from here to the farthest star! Warp factor exosex, Scotty, all power to the engines!
It's the virtual equivalent of the old punishment of cutting off a hand for theft. If they're going to return to this way of thinking, perhaps for consistency's sake they should return to to that. And, of course, reinstate the use of that classic of French justice, the guillotine.
Only science as religion has any interest in competing with other religions. Science properly understood has absolutely nothing to do with religion, no relationship, not opposed, not in harmony, not interested since its realm is the demonstrable. Science is an incredible tool whose power is derived precisely from the constraints which keep it from ever being a religion, except when misconstrued by fools.
Eugenics was quite a legit topic prior to Hitler giving it a bad name. It was even practiced in places, like the Canadian province of Alberta. They even sterilized immigrants, because it was obvious from their poor grasp of English that they were retarded. Simple people, Albertans. Not that I think they should be castrated for it ;)
Modern medicine may SAVE people that "should have" died and not passed on their genes.
Hell, I do that all the time when I slam on the brakes for idiot pedestrians. I feel like such a traitor to Darwin. I'm screwing up the whole system.
Stephen Hawking doesn't get a Nobel if a black hole is produced which swallows the earth. If a black hole is produced which behaves according to his theory and disappears lickety-split due to Hawking radiation, he could get a Nobel. He's not getting his hopes up though, predicting less than 1% chance of producing any kind of black hole at all.
Teaching someone English at that level would be more difficult that teaching them to recognize characters. In ancient Rome the people who engraved dies for coins weren't always literate, but they managed for the most part to get the inscriptions right. Barbarians who made copies had more trouble, but then perhaps they thought the inscription part was purely decorative allowing for artistic interpretation. Or perhaps they weren't flogged for making mistakes. Point is, you can copy without having the high level of literacy required for proof reading.
If you've ever seen a small chunk of pure sodium tossed into a sink full of water in a high school chemistry class ... and then think how much this guy has ...
Here's a blog post with a couple of vids of sodium water reactions. The US military's post WWII disposal of sodium in a lake is particularly impressive.