The point is that injecting stem cells into a live person is not the only reason to grow them.
When you have an ES-cell line you can grow any tissue type you want, knowing that it will have a particular set of genes. Then suppose you have a virus, or a drug, which you are investigating - the ES cells allow you to see how that drug interacts with different types of tissue, while eliminating genetic and environmental variation.
Basically, ES-cell technology has already accelerated our knowledge of disease and our drug technology by decades - even in the face of the bans emplaced by people like you, who think that scientists are all like Dr. Frankenstein.
Maybe you should find out some more facts before you declare people 'too stupid to live'.
I built an MCE pc, and while I admit that I did it mainly for an excuse to make a new computer, my non-techy girlfriend says it is 'the best thing we have ever owned'.
This from a lady who deliberately averts her eyes whenever a sci-fi show is on the tv. So the potential for mass appeal is there.
Cocaine doesn't actually have much in the way of withdrawal symptoms, because it doesn't interact with your opioid receptors. People get addicted to it, absolutely, but the withdrawal symptoms are not a whole lot worse than when you withdraw from coffee.
Broadly, the withdrawal symptoms have been overstated by the government agencies for almost all drugs, as a way of scaring people off them. They get cooperation from drug addicts, who also overstate the withdrawal symptoms because it gives them an excuse for continuing to use.
Heroin does interact with your opioid receptors, and does famously have a withdrawal syndrome, but it's not all you think it is. When American GIs came back from Vietnam, having spent the whole war as dependent heroin users, they came back and had withdrawal symptoms which were very slight. And when prisoners withdraw from heroin in solitary confinement, their symptoms are about on par with a bad cold.
The worst withdrawal syndrome comes from going cold turkey on alcohol addiction. That can kill you.
On the flipside, foods - and behaviours - do interact with your opioid receptors, and heroin-like withdrawal symptoms have been shown for people coming off high doses of sugar. So it's vaguely possible that you could get withdrawal symptoms from going cold turkey on games, if playing games gave you a regular intense endorphin rush.
I actually view this as a huge flaw in the Linux distros, and a minor flaw in Windows.
I want an operating system to install, by default, just those programs which are needed to run the software that I put on there. If I'm confronted with nine million icons before I even install any software, that's just clutter.
The worst thing about the linux distros is that a lot of the clutter is worthless to professionals. For 3d rendering, for example, I would estimate that maybe 1% of professionals use POV-ray. A similar percentage of graphic designers would use GIMP.
I do not want an operating system to offer me other software unless everyone else is going to have it installed - for example, a lot of windows software makes use of notepad becuase it is assumed to be installed. A lot of linux software assumes you have compilers.
Because of this dependency issue, it actually hurts Linux's usability if it comes with too many tools. Developers can assume that a user has GIMP and POV-ray on their Linux system. So some software will likely have GIMP and POV-ray as operating requirements. But the user probably doesn't want them.
The shocking thing in this case is not that Wired would leak the evidence, it's what the evidence contains, and the fact that it was kept secret. As the wired article concludes:
"This is the infrastructure for an Orwellian police state. It must be shut down!"
I'm sure that liberal and conservative nerds alike can recognize that there ought not to be a splitter on the optic fibers carrying your internet communications, that is monitorable by the NSA without a warrant or oversight.
Actually, the MPAA officers are not cops. They are the representatives of a private trade federation. That's why they have to bring a civil lawsuit against you for 'stealing' dvds.
So no matter how much probable cause they have, it would still be illegal for them to search your mail. And it would be completely illegal for fedex to allow them to do so.
Are you serious? You think your gun can protect your computer if your government decides to seize it?
What, do you think they'll just mark your house with a big 'X' on the map? 'Don't go up that way, boys. He's got a GUN!' Let's go and seize Johnson's tivo instead, he only has a knife.
If you want to give money (more or less) directly to the artists, go to their live shows. Their take usually goes straight to them and doesn't have to first pay off their marketing debts (as their recording royalties do).
But what I want to know is, could we start up a website that accepts anonymous 'guilt' donations to artists? The website would just disburse the money direct to the artists as a 'gift', once a certain amount had accrued (say, $500). The interest accrued would finance the website. And the artists would not be in breach of contract because they didn't solicit the donations.
If everyone paid $1 direct to the artists for each *album* (not song) they downloaded, it would increase the income of artists by an order of magnitude.
What would be the legal situation?
Nintendo don't need to play it safe at all. Their gamecube 'flop' was still profitable, they have outright won the last two or three hand-held generations, and they have billions in their cash 'war chest'. Also try to remember that Nintendo's hardware is typically a lot cheaper to produce relative to its sale price.
Nintendo aren't dying anytime soon. They have enough cash to completely tank at least one full hardware generation, and it would have to be a seriously loss-maker (unlike the cube).
One of the interesting things about this is that, in the 10 years since this was announced, the FPS genre has been and gone. After Duke3d, there has been quake, quake2, quake3, doom3, etc etc. The poor critical reception of doom3 is an indication that old gameplay tropes won't fly anymore. It is easy to forget sometimes, but games have developed radically in a lot of ways other than graphically.
It's a reasonable educated guess that a 10-year-old game design will be received very poorly. It's kind of like if you spent a hundred years developing a missile defence system.
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The point is that injecting stem cells into a live person is not the only reason to grow them.
When you have an ES-cell line you can grow any tissue type you want, knowing that it will have a particular set of genes. Then suppose you have a virus, or a drug, which you are investigating - the ES cells allow you to see how that drug interacts with different types of tissue, while eliminating genetic and environmental variation.
Basically, ES-cell technology has already accelerated our knowledge of disease and our drug technology by decades - even in the face of the bans emplaced by people like you, who think that scientists are all like Dr. Frankenstein.
Maybe you should find out some more facts before you declare people 'too stupid to live'.
I built an MCE pc, and while I admit that I did it mainly for an excuse to make a new computer, my non-techy girlfriend says it is 'the best thing we have ever owned'.
This from a lady who deliberately averts her eyes whenever a sci-fi show is on the tv. So the potential for mass appeal is there.
... 51% of the e-census forms will come back labeled 'Bush'.
Cocaine doesn't actually have much in the way of withdrawal symptoms, because it doesn't interact with your opioid receptors. People get addicted to it, absolutely, but the withdrawal symptoms are not a whole lot worse than when you withdraw from coffee.
Broadly, the withdrawal symptoms have been overstated by the government agencies for almost all drugs, as a way of scaring people off them. They get cooperation from drug addicts, who also overstate the withdrawal symptoms because it gives them an excuse for continuing to use.
Heroin does interact with your opioid receptors, and does famously have a withdrawal syndrome, but it's not all you think it is. When American GIs came back from Vietnam, having spent the whole war as dependent heroin users, they came back and had withdrawal symptoms which were very slight. And when prisoners withdraw from heroin in solitary confinement, their symptoms are about on par with a bad cold.
The worst withdrawal syndrome comes from going cold turkey on alcohol addiction. That can kill you.
On the flipside, foods - and behaviours - do interact with your opioid receptors, and heroin-like withdrawal symptoms have been shown for people coming off high doses of sugar. So it's vaguely possible that you could get withdrawal symptoms from going cold turkey on games, if playing games gave you a regular intense endorphin rush.
Microsoft pit crews: changing each tyre, to see which one is punctured.
Now I just want a handheld device that reads Japanese kanji characters out loud in English.
The internet has a very elegant way of dealing with huge spikes in traffic, which prevents a meltdown.
Whenever a server gets hit by too many users, it delivers the webpage either slowly, incomplete, or not at all.
Then the user becomes frustrated and goes off to visit another server, or do something else entirely.
This lightens the load on the server. It's a highly sophisticated, dynamic load balancing algorithm.
I actually view this as a huge flaw in the Linux distros, and a minor flaw in Windows.
I want an operating system to install, by default, just those programs which are needed to run the software that I put on there. If I'm confronted with nine million icons before I even install any software, that's just clutter.
The worst thing about the linux distros is that a lot of the clutter is worthless to professionals. For 3d rendering, for example, I would estimate that maybe 1% of professionals use POV-ray. A similar percentage of graphic designers would use GIMP.
I do not want an operating system to offer me other software unless everyone else is going to have it installed - for example, a lot of windows software makes use of notepad becuase it is assumed to be installed. A lot of linux software assumes you have compilers.
Because of this dependency issue, it actually hurts Linux's usability if it comes with too many tools. Developers can assume that a user has GIMP and POV-ray on their Linux system. So some software will likely have GIMP and POV-ray as operating requirements. But the user probably doesn't want them.
The shocking thing in this case is not that Wired would leak the evidence, it's what the evidence contains, and the fact that it was kept secret. As the wired article concludes:
"This is the infrastructure for an Orwellian police state. It must be shut down!"
I'm sure that liberal and conservative nerds alike can recognize that there ought not to be a splitter on the optic fibers carrying your internet communications, that is monitorable by the NSA without a warrant or oversight.
JESUS! If I see another one of these 'dupe' posts I'm gonna POP!
Perhaps you don't understand what a 'virus' is and how it differs from a 'total system failure'.
So it's no wonder that it seems like spam when these digg people post here.
Actually, the MPAA officers are not cops. They are the representatives of a private trade federation. That's why they have to bring a civil lawsuit against you for 'stealing' dvds.
So no matter how much probable cause they have, it would still be illegal for them to search your mail. And it would be completely illegal for fedex to allow them to do so.
I suggest everyone does as I did, and writes to Fedex via the website to protest.
If they are in fact allowing a private commercial interest to open up the packages of unconsenting customers, they deserve a full boycott.
There are other good alternatives to Fedex.
Dammit, just now I got to the end and discovered that there is an UNLOCKABLE pony!
So if Sims are the new dolls, what are the new ponies?
Barbie Horse Adventures, it should be pointed out, doesn't have any ponies.
Obviously neither of you have been to Australia recently.
Are you serious? You think your gun can protect your computer if your government decides to seize it?
What, do you think they'll just mark your house with a big 'X' on the map? 'Don't go up that way, boys. He's got a GUN!' Let's go and seize Johnson's tivo instead, he only has a knife.
If you want to give money (more or less) directly to the artists, go to their live shows. Their take usually goes straight to them and doesn't have to first pay off their marketing debts (as their recording royalties do). But what I want to know is, could we start up a website that accepts anonymous 'guilt' donations to artists? The website would just disburse the money direct to the artists as a 'gift', once a certain amount had accrued (say, $500). The interest accrued would finance the website. And the artists would not be in breach of contract because they didn't solicit the donations. If everyone paid $1 direct to the artists for each *album* (not song) they downloaded, it would increase the income of artists by an order of magnitude. What would be the legal situation?
Nintendo aren't dying anytime soon. They have enough cash to completely tank at least one full hardware generation, and it would have to be a seriously loss-maker (unlike the cube).
Two words: Never Delete.
That latin phrase you keep saying - I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's a reasonable educated guess that a 10-year-old game design will be received very poorly. It's kind of like if you spent a hundred years developing a missile defence system.
Hold on, did you say America is winning the war in Iraq??