Or perhaps sperm cells combined with ova outside of the womb?
Nope, sorry. Religious right folks usually have a problem with this one too, especially if the sole purpose of the embryo is to be destroyed. There are lots of arguments over whether or not to use existing embryos from fertility clinics, and your idea would be (if you believe using already-made embryos is wrong) even worse.
As for just sperm cells...well, if that worked, everything would be a wee bit too easy, cause we got no shortage of those.
The people who get caught by this are trusting, desperate people. People who live hand to mouth and have for years. The same people who play the lottery every week, got laid off for reason x, and are just building more and more debt in order to eat and pay their rent. Which is why this is such a problem. If Joe Millionaire loses a thousand bucks, he'll manage. If these folks do, that's a heck of a big hole to climb out of.
I very much agree with you, as I have an aunt who's a teacher. One thing I thought I'd mention about the Canadian (well, BC and NWT at least) system, teachers get paid for 12 months, but chose years ago to take paychecks only for the 10 months they're in school. (Bigger paychecks, but fewer of them.) Beats me why they did this in the first place; currently the ones that don't plan so well are hugely in debt at the end of the summer. Anyway, random Canadian fact for you.
A question for you to consider, sir: Your neighborhood is full of men like this. One of them lives in a mansion and has huge sums of gold and riches inside it. The others do not.
Do you stop him and not the others? Why, pray tell?
Question for you: if you make $100k after tax, is $2500 still a fair bit of money? I'd say so. Maybe you wouldn't. I do think it would make you think a bit the next time you were considering doing something less than moral, especially if it'd be $5k or $10k the next time.
You mean like R&D for drugs and finding new places to drill costing billions of dollars?:P
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, they gouge. But we pay it. You don't like paying for gas? Take the bus/train/bike/walk. Don't want to take the new drug? Get used to ED or high blood pressure, or whatever. Especially with the new lifestyle drugs, it's very much a choice, even a luxury.
Little off-topic, yeah, but when did "charging what people will pay" become "price fixing"?
What's wrong with defining "journalist" as anyone who publishes, or produces for publication, descriptions of real events derived from multiple corroborated specific sources"?
Well, then bloggers (some of them, anyway) would be journalists, obviously. And that's exactly what these folks don't want.
Why? There's already the fifth amendment to keep people from talking when they'd incriminate themselves. So what would this stop? People who just don't want to testify? Is that such a huge problem?
I wonder, how many actual doctors have you met? The ones I know work bloody hard for the money they make. Sure, there are some specialties where it's a joke how little they work, but most of the MDs in the world are very dedicated, very hard working people. Twelve hour shifts, working on holidays, lots of paperwork, maintaining an office as well as having hospital shifts, constant battles with the hospitals over proper patient care, etc, etc, etc.
If it's such a perfect job, why didn't you go into it?
People, if you're going to troll, do it right. That points to a pumpkin. A freakin Jack-o-lantern. Go to google, find a freaking mirror, and post an actual offensive link.
Honestly, nobody takes pride in what they do nowadays.
Dude...it's both. Watch the futurama with the giant brains. The second one. It all becomes horribly clear. Google saw the episode, and is now emulating the giant brains. Now if you'll excuse me, there's some nasty in the pasty I must attend to.
Slashdot Mirror
For any fan of zombies (or killing them) there's a great game...http://urbandead.com/
Aliens helped. Don't you watch Stargate?
along, nothing to see here.
Come to think of it, I'll be seeking PUNitive damages for the anguish you caused.
In fact, I think you deserve to be sent to the PUNitentiary.
Those were so bad, you ought to be PUNished.
Or perhaps sperm cells combined with ova outside of the womb?
Nope, sorry. Religious right folks usually have a problem with this one too, especially if the sole purpose of the embryo is to be destroyed. There are lots of arguments over whether or not to use existing embryos from fertility clinics, and your idea would be (if you believe using already-made embryos is wrong) even worse.
As for just sperm cells...well, if that worked, everything would be a wee bit too easy, cause we got no shortage of those.
you'll be stuck wearing a "costume" you made from a roll of aluminium foil you scrounged from the pantry and some duct tape.
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It's
Why would a typical movie, even with all the special features you can imagine, use up a full 30GB? Higher bitrate video? Could anyone even tell?
Batman. Fucking duh.
The people who get caught by this are trusting, desperate people. People who live hand to mouth and have for years. The same people who play the lottery every week, got laid off for reason x, and are just building more and more debt in order to eat and pay their rent. Which is why this is such a problem. If Joe Millionaire loses a thousand bucks, he'll manage. If these folks do, that's a heck of a big hole to climb out of.
If black men are stupid and lazy, how come they're getting all your money? :P
I very much agree with you, as I have an aunt who's a teacher. One thing I thought I'd mention about the Canadian (well, BC and NWT at least) system, teachers get paid for 12 months, but chose years ago to take paychecks only for the 10 months they're in school. (Bigger paychecks, but fewer of them.) Beats me why they did this in the first place; currently the ones that don't plan so well are hugely in debt at the end of the summer. Anyway, random Canadian fact for you.
A question for you to consider, sir: Your neighborhood is full of men like this. One of them lives in a mansion and has huge sums of gold and riches inside it. The others do not.
Do you stop him and not the others? Why, pray tell?
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.sht ml/
Has nearly all the ones I've seen so far, plus oodles more. Keeps me distracted for hours on end. Warning: doesn't give solutions, can be frustrating.
Question for you: if you make $100k after tax, is $2500 still a fair bit of money? I'd say so. Maybe you wouldn't. I do think it would make you think a bit the next time you were considering doing something less than moral, especially if it'd be $5k or $10k the next time.
You mean like R&D for drugs and finding new places to drill costing billions of dollars? :P
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, they gouge. But we pay it. You don't like paying for gas? Take the bus/train/bike/walk. Don't want to take the new drug? Get used to ED or high blood pressure, or whatever. Especially with the new lifestyle drugs, it's very much a choice, even a luxury.
Little off-topic, yeah, but when did "charging what people will pay" become "price fixing"?
Jeez, give him a break, he's really only 12.
What's wrong with defining "journalist" as anyone who publishes, or produces for publication, descriptions of real events derived from multiple corroborated specific sources"?
Well, then bloggers (some of them, anyway) would be journalists, obviously. And that's exactly what these folks don't want.
Why? There's already the fifth amendment to keep people from talking when they'd incriminate themselves. So what would this stop? People who just don't want to testify? Is that such a huge problem?
I wonder, how many actual doctors have you met? The ones I know work bloody hard for the money they make. Sure, there are some specialties where it's a joke how little they work, but most of the MDs in the world are very dedicated, very hard working people. Twelve hour shifts, working on holidays, lots of paperwork, maintaining an office as well as having hospital shifts, constant battles with the hospitals over proper patient care, etc, etc, etc.
If it's such a perfect job, why didn't you go into it?
It's called every other industrialized nation in the world. And yeah, it works.
People, if you're going to troll, do it right. That points to a pumpkin. A freakin Jack-o-lantern. Go to google, find a freaking mirror, and post an actual offensive link.
Honestly, nobody takes pride in what they do nowadays.
Dude...it's both. Watch the futurama with the giant brains. The second one. It all becomes horribly clear. Google saw the episode, and is now emulating the giant brains. Now if you'll excuse me, there's some nasty in the pasty I must attend to.
Off-topic slightly, but let me just say, nothing helps one program in C++ like a couple grams of shrooms. Everything just....flows...