Correct, the ban is only for federally funded stem cell research.
Problem with that is 90% of research is, in some way, federally funded.
Universities for example. If the school gets any money from the government they can't use any of that for stem cell research. And it's not as simple as some might think to separate the funds. How do you pay professors? That photocopier in the common area? If any federal funds were used to purchase it, you can't even use it to make a photocopy. The alternative is to setup a separate company. Who do you think will benefit from the discoveries to be made? The public, or pharmaceutical companies?
Personally, I'm surprised I haven't heard any conspiracy theories about pharmaceutical companies supporting the ban to stifle competition from other sectors.
I hate assholes like you. Nothing worse than being in an unfamiliar neighborhood, with dark roads, and in front of some ignorant prick who lives in area. You could navigate the roads blindfolded, I don't know where I am or where I'm going, and I have no idea if that turn up ahead is a gentle one or a 90 degree turn.
FARK YOU! I hope you force someone off the road into your grandmothers house.
I know a few of you will probably say "What's the judges email address, let's get him some spam"
It will not work. The judge probably has the best spam filter money can buy- an assistant that prints off legitimate emails for him to read, or deletes spam every morning for him.
That's true for just about anyone who is involved in legislation that can stop spam. Except for their home email account, they are probably ignorant of what the real world is like.
Which is why, whenever I get a call regarding some survey, the first words out of my mouth are "What's in it for me?"
I don't get paid to help some marketing firm or research company do surveys, so if they want my help I expect something in return. At a minimum, I expect a copy of the report.
I understood it as an annoyance of "A-list" celebs doing voice work where they sound like themselves but play the part of a character. There's an art to doing voice work and just because you can act and convey emotion with your voice does not make you a good voice actor. Some can, but not many. In my own opinion, if you can identify the voice actor before you see the credits, they failed.
Take a movie like Ice Age. Ray Romano as Manfred? I enjoyed it, but I kept expecting to see his brother Robert (Brad Garrett) show up as some giraffe like animal. John Leguizamo as Sid however, was excellent.
Then look at Billy West. Philip J. Fry/Dr. John Zoidberg/Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth/Captain Zapp Brannigan. You can watch a scene from Futurama with all four characters in it, and unless you knew Billy West did all four voices you wouldn't be able to tell./On that note, my least favorite Futurama voice is Leela. I like Katey Sagal, but everytime I hear her voice I think "Married With Children"
Not likely, will. Or at least they did to me, right after they sent an email to all my bidders accusing me of being a software pirate for trying to sell a full copy of Office I won as a door prize.
I wound up selling it to someone who recognized my email address as being for a local law firm. He rightfully assumed that someone wouldn't be so stupid as to sell pirated software from a law firms email address.
I keep reading people write "Freedom of the press" like that trumps any illegal activity. Am I missing something here? A couple reporters gets the username/password of the local coroner (with or without his knowledge is in debate right now) and proceed to access a restricted web site. How is this not illegal?
Is a reporter allowed to run red lights? Can they break into the mayors office to rummage thru his files? How is this any different???
/and on the subject of server logs... This is slashdot, I thought you guys knew better. Even if you track the IP back to the newspaper, all that says is someone connected to that IP accesssed the system, not which system behind the firewall it was (and do they have free wireless in their lobby?)
I think Dell pays Microsoft a rate for every system they sell, regardless of the OS installed. When they work out their volume deal, it's cheaper in the long run to save $10 per machine and pay for an installation for every system sold than it is to track the sales of each copy of XP.
Don't quote me on this, but I seem to recall that in some areas it's technically illegal to even buy a computer with no OS installed (on the assumption that if you aren't buying one you must be a pirate)
Don't quote me on this, but I think you can only get the exception if you are a non-profit, school, etc.
I work for a law firm and I regularly burn CD's of documents, etc. only to wind up giving Celene Dion a few more quarters every time I do.
Essentially, they only pull pirated Microsoft stuff.
Actually, all Microsoft stuff. I had an auction for a copy of MS Office that I won as a door prize pulled and eBay refused to even consider that it could be legit.
/And then they sent an email to the bidders telling them that I was a software pirate.
if Dell makes most of their money on the corporate or educational market, those markets already have licenses with Microsoft and pre-set images.
One problem with that- Last time I checked Windows XP Corporate is an upgrade to a pre-existing Windows liscence. If you buy a 100 user liscence of Windows XP Corporate, you need 100 copies of XP Home or Professional (OEM or retail)
Let me get this straight- You have a server that ran problem free for about 3 years and your conclusion is it was "Important To Somebody Who Really Liked Novell"
Shouldn't that be "Important To Somebody Who Really Likes Servers That Don't Crash Often"?
Would have been easy for PayPal to fix-
Just send an email saying "Suspicious activity has been detected on this account, please call your account representative Bill Smith at 555-555-5555. Deposits into your account will still be accepted, but no funds can be withdrawn until this matter is resolved. If no action is taken, funds will be returned to the sender."
Instead, PayPal's response was - "Your account has been closed, good luck trying to contact someone"
Where can I claim this? I've never heard of this. I go thru a couple thousand CD's a year burning documents and images and would love to recoup that money I'm giving to Celiene Dion everytime I burn a CD of DOCUMENTS!
I do IT for a law firm. It's not uncommon for a lawyer to bring in a home system for me to fix.
Sitting on my desk I have an IBM Tinkpad that a lawyers daughter got thru her university from one of those programs where every student gets a laptop. When she was done the course, the laptop was hers to keep.
So, now I have a laptop that needs the OS reinstalled and no Windows XP CD. In the past, I would have just downloaded a copy of XP, hacked it, and figured everything was fine since she had that hologram sticker on the case.
What do I do now? Tell her to go out and buy a second copy of XP?
(PS- She insists she never received the CD and the university won't make her a copy since they consider all copying to be piracy)
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Correct, the ban is only for federally funded stem cell research. Problem with that is 90% of research is, in some way, federally funded. Universities for example. If the school gets any money from the government they can't use any of that for stem cell research. And it's not as simple as some might think to separate the funds. How do you pay professors? That photocopier in the common area? If any federal funds were used to purchase it, you can't even use it to make a photocopy. The alternative is to setup a separate company. Who do you think will benefit from the discoveries to be made? The public, or pharmaceutical companies? Personally, I'm surprised I haven't heard any conspiracy theories about pharmaceutical companies supporting the ban to stifle competition from other sectors.
I hate assholes like you. Nothing worse than being in an unfamiliar neighborhood, with dark roads, and in front of some ignorant prick who lives in area. You could navigate the roads blindfolded, I don't know where I am or where I'm going, and I have no idea if that turn up ahead is a gentle one or a 90 degree turn. FARK YOU! I hope you force someone off the road into your grandmothers house.
I know a few of you will probably say "What's the judges email address, let's get him some spam"
It will not work. The judge probably has the best spam filter money can buy- an assistant that prints off legitimate emails for him to read, or deletes spam every morning for him.
That's true for just about anyone who is involved in legislation that can stop spam. Except for their home email account, they are probably ignorant of what the real world is like.
Article is wrong. They forgot about Atlantic Canada. We're -1hr from New York, our midnight was at 11:00pm in New York.
My personal favorite was having to buy a copy of Windows 2000 for our new Netware server. Dell wouldn't sell us one with no OS.
Which is why, whenever I get a call regarding some survey, the first words out of my mouth are "What's in it for me?" I don't get paid to help some marketing firm or research company do surveys, so if they want my help I expect something in return. At a minimum, I expect a copy of the report.
I understood it as an annoyance of "A-list" celebs doing voice work where they sound like themselves but play the part of a character. There's an art to doing voice work and just because you can act and convey emotion with your voice does not make you a good voice actor. Some can, but not many. In my own opinion, if you can identify the voice actor before you see the credits, they failed. Take a movie like Ice Age. Ray Romano as Manfred? I enjoyed it, but I kept expecting to see his brother Robert (Brad Garrett) show up as some giraffe like animal. John Leguizamo as Sid however, was excellent. Then look at Billy West. Philip J. Fry/Dr. John Zoidberg/Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth/Captain Zapp Brannigan. You can watch a scene from Futurama with all four characters in it, and unless you knew Billy West did all four voices you wouldn't be able to tell. /On that note, my least favorite Futurama voice is Leela. I like Katey Sagal, but everytime I hear her voice I think "Married With Children"
Not likely, will. Or at least they did to me, right after they sent an email to all my bidders accusing me of being a software pirate for trying to sell a full copy of Office I won as a door prize.
I wound up selling it to someone who recognized my email address as being for a local law firm. He rightfully assumed that someone wouldn't be so stupid as to sell pirated software from a law firms email address.
Got a TV with DVI. Unfortunatly, if the studios get their way, my DVI port won't do me any good. They are only planning on supporting HDMI.
I keep reading people write "Freedom of the press" like that trumps any illegal activity. Am I missing something here? A couple reporters gets the username/password of the local coroner (with or without his knowledge is in debate right now) and proceed to access a restricted web site. How is this not illegal?
/and on the subject of server logs... This is slashdot, I thought you guys knew better. Even if you track the IP back to the newspaper, all that says is someone connected to that IP accesssed the system, not which system behind the firewall it was (and do they have free wireless in their lobby?)
Is a reporter allowed to run red lights? Can they break into the mayors office to rummage thru his files? How is this any different???
I don't blame them because they found a way to exploit a living.
I take it you also don't have any problem with those Nigerian 419 scams then? After all, they're just trying to make a living.
Apparently you've never tried to return an opened game before......
I think Dell pays Microsoft a rate for every system they sell, regardless of the OS installed. When they work out their volume deal, it's cheaper in the long run to save $10 per machine and pay for an installation for every system sold than it is to track the sales of each copy of XP.
Don't quote me on this, but I seem to recall that in some areas it's technically illegal to even buy a computer with no OS installed (on the assumption that if you aren't buying one you must be a pirate)
Don't quote me on this, but I think you can only get the exception if you are a non-profit, school, etc. I work for a law firm and I regularly burn CD's of documents, etc. only to wind up giving Celene Dion a few more quarters every time I do.
Actually, all Microsoft stuff. I had an auction for a copy of MS Office that I won as a door prize pulled and eBay refused to even consider that it could be legit.
if Dell makes most of their money on the corporate or educational market, those markets already have licenses with Microsoft and pre-set images. One problem with that- Last time I checked Windows XP Corporate is an upgrade to a pre-existing Windows liscence. If you buy a 100 user liscence of Windows XP Corporate, you need 100 copies of XP Home or Professional (OEM or retail)
Let me get this straight- You have a server that ran problem free for about 3 years and your conclusion is it was "Important To Somebody Who Really Liked Novell" Shouldn't that be "Important To Somebody Who Really Likes Servers That Don't Crash Often"?
Would have been easy for PayPal to fix- Just send an email saying "Suspicious activity has been detected on this account, please call your account representative Bill Smith at 555-555-5555. Deposits into your account will still be accepted, but no funds can be withdrawn until this matter is resolved. If no action is taken, funds will be returned to the sender." Instead, PayPal's response was - "Your account has been closed, good luck trying to contact someone"
Where can I claim this? I've never heard of this. I go thru a couple thousand CD's a year burning documents and images and would love to recoup that money I'm giving to Celiene Dion everytime I burn a CD of DOCUMENTS!
I do IT for a law firm. It's not uncommon for a lawyer to bring in a home system for me to fix. Sitting on my desk I have an IBM Tinkpad that a lawyers daughter got thru her university from one of those programs where every student gets a laptop. When she was done the course, the laptop was hers to keep. So, now I have a laptop that needs the OS reinstalled and no Windows XP CD. In the past, I would have just downloaded a copy of XP, hacked it, and figured everything was fine since she had that hologram sticker on the case. What do I do now? Tell her to go out and buy a second copy of XP? (PS- She insists she never received the CD and the university won't make her a copy since they consider all copying to be piracy)