RTFA. The news is that when asexual organisms normally diversify, it is at the expense of organisms with the original genetic configuration. When this organism diversifies, organisms with the original genetic configuration still exist.
... Leave it to a PC user to interpret "beige" with such brickheaded literalism....
Leave it to a Mac user to mis-interpret sarcasm.
Anyway, why would Mac users understand imagery better or take thinks less literally?
Imagery has it's place in literature, art, music etc... And, by all means, use a Mac to create videos/music/photos/artwork, whatever... but don't claim that Mac's are somehow better. PCs can do everything a Mac can.
By the way, I may be a PC user but My OS of choice is Linux (Ubuntu flavour), Not MS. Oh Wait "My OS of choice". Interesting. Well I suppose you do have a choice:
... This isn't a maybe, it's going to happen. When you leave an opportunity open for malaria to find a better host for transmission, you better bet it will evolve to fill that niche....
Evolution is directionless. It doesn't see "an oportunity". All you can say is that it might happen.
... No, killer bees aren't bad -- they were created by selective breeding, not direct genetic manipulation, which means they are "natural" and therefore not dangerous unlike these terrible GM mosquitos and GM corn abominations....
Just because the genetic manipulation is done in-vitro, rather than in-vivo doesn't make it "bad". It's still genetic manipulation.
If "natural" killer bees go round killing lots of people and "Terrible" GM mosquitos stop people catching malaria, which is good and which is bad?
... Violence you may have me on, but you don't get "or hatred". That's to close to thought crime in my book....
So you are saying it should be legal for someone to tell others to hate homosexuals or westerners or gypsies or blue-eyed people or disabled people or... ?
You quote a number of examples of intolerance from the quran, but, if I had a bible on me at the moment, I could quote just as many examples from the old testament.
How many christian or jewish women stay in the house when it's their time of the month? Very few I imagine.
So, how many muslims follow the most extreme laws in the quran? Very few I imagine.
... So communist East Germany and Czechoslovakia enjoyed majority popular support...
There were many people who welcomed the communists into East Germany and Czechoslovakia (and many that didn't, of course). And, for a while the communists held power. But they were eventually over-ridden. However, there are those in both countries who would welcome them back.
It's never as black and white as some completely evil dictator overpowering the entire population to take power. They must have at least some popular support to try and stage a coup/take-over in the first place.
What I meant was the vast majority, as in the vast majority of muslims don't want to take over the west and implement sharia law. Just as the vast majority of christians don't want to implement christian governments in other countries, but a small minority do...
... Dictatorship just don't work, it ain't the natural state of affairs...
What is interesting is that, in fact, dictators are only kept in power by the will of the people (or at least the lack of the will to get rid of them). Under Hitler, for instance, the majority of the German population were quite well off and ignored the fact that their wealth came from the belongings stolen from those in concentration camps and alot of the work was done by slave labour (ie those in the concentration camps).
It was only when Germany started loosing the war that Hitler decided to take his own life as he knew it was over and he wouldn't have the support of the people any more.
I was the same with Saddam Hussain. He was in power for so long because the majority were, in fact, ok. They had an excellent education system (the most liberal in the middle east (women were granted an equal education)) and electricity and hospitals.
I'm not condoning either of those rulers, but it is interesting that the main backbone democracy (ie the people choose those in power) is, in fact, the same reason that dictators stay in power.
p.s. don't confuse democracy and freedom.
Democracy is the process of choosing those in power.
Freedom is the ability to say what we want, however truthful, stupid, offensive, funny etc... as long as we don't incite violence or hatred (as in Voltaire's quote "I disagree with everything you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.").
... just point to one city that is actually DOING THIS...
South Korea funded a national project, not just city-wide, and now has one of the highest penetrations of Broadband in the world. I have also heard that they get 100Mbps standard connection speed.
... Really? You might not have siblings, but I do. I know some people with lots of them....
True, but once my genes are out in the environment as an offspring then they are out there. The fact that I have lived to an age to reproduce means that the chances are my one child will, just as much as your 5 children (for example). The fact that you have 5 is close to irrelevant as every generation only inherits half it's genes from the one parent.
So after 5 generations any one of my great great great great great great great great grand children will have 1/1024th of my genes as will any one of yours. What will matter is how many of them will there be and that's anybody's guess. You may have a small chance of having more as you had more immediate descendants, but who is to say that my one child doesn't have 6 children etc... .
What is more scary is that after 10 generations, the chances are we will have a great great great great great great great great grand-child in common.;-)
As far as I can see there is only one problem with this as a long term storage media. Presumably the researchers use some protocol to encode the data into the CGTA format of DNA. Where will they store this protocol so that future generations (in Millenia) can un-encode the data?
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RTFA. The news is that when asexual organisms normally diversify, it is at the expense of organisms with the original genetic configuration. When this organism diversifies, organisms with the original genetic configuration still exist.
Hey, who modded my previous entry to troll. I didn't say anything worse than the parents/grandparents, and at least I wasn't an anonymous coward.
I completely agree. Everyone has their own system. People with messy desks don't just shove stuff anywhere. They put it where they will find it again.
This has all been discussed before in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Leave it to a Mac user to mis-interpret sarcasm.
Anyway, why would Mac users understand imagery better or take thinks less literally?
Imagery has it's place in literature, art, music etc... And, by all means, use a Mac to create videos/music/photos/artwork, whatever... but don't claim that Mac's are somehow better. PCs can do everything a Mac can.
By the way, I may be a PC user but My OS of choice is Linux (Ubuntu flavour), Not MS. Oh Wait "My OS of choice". Interesting. Well I suppose you do have a choice:
We have a name for Mac users: poseurs.
But seriously, if you think the colour of a computer makes it better, then that says it all.
Evolution is directionless. It doesn't see "an oportunity". All you can say is that it might happen.
Just because the genetic manipulation is done in-vitro, rather than in-vivo doesn't make it "bad". It's still genetic manipulation.
If "natural" killer bees go round killing lots of people and "Terrible" GM mosquitos stop people catching malaria, which is good and which is bad?
I'm not sure how low a mosquito is on the food chain considering it feeds on humans? Not sure what eats mosquito's.
Not a criticism, just wondering.
The site displaying the patent must use linked lists somewhere in the code. The menu at the top says "Browse by Inventor", "Browse by Date" etc...
Presumably the patent site existed before the patent was submitted.
So you are saying it should be legal for someone to tell others to hate homosexuals or westerners or gypsies or blue-eyed people or disabled people or ... ?
You quote a number of examples of intolerance from the quran, but, if I had a bible on me at the moment, I could quote just as many examples from the old testament.
How many christian or jewish women stay in the house when it's their time of the month? Very few I imagine.
So, how many muslims follow the most extreme laws in the quran? Very few I imagine.
I wonder how many of them have actually lived under sharia law?
There were many people who welcomed the communists into East Germany and Czechoslovakia (and many that didn't, of course). And, for a while the communists held power. But they were eventually over-ridden. However, there are those in both countries who would welcome them back.
It's never as black and white as some completely evil dictator overpowering the entire population to take power. They must have at least some popular support to try and stage a coup/take-over in the first place.
Yeah, sorry, meant to reply to GP but hit wrong reply button.
What I meant was the vast majority, as in the vast majority of muslims don't want to take over the west and implement sharia law. Just as the vast majority of christians don't want to implement christian governments in other countries, but a small minority do ...
What is interesting is that, in fact, dictators are only kept in power by the will of the people (or at least the lack of the will to get rid of them). Under Hitler, for instance, the majority of the German population were quite well off and ignored the fact that their wealth came from the belongings stolen from those in concentration camps and alot of the work was done by slave labour (ie those in the concentration camps).
It was only when Germany started loosing the war that Hitler decided to take his own life as he knew it was over and he wouldn't have the support of the people any more.
I was the same with Saddam Hussain. He was in power for so long because the majority were, in fact, ok. They had an excellent education system (the most liberal in the middle east (women were granted an equal education)) and electricity and hospitals.
I'm not condoning either of those rulers, but it is interesting that the main backbone democracy (ie the people choose those in power) is, in fact, the same reason that dictators stay in power.
p.s. don't confuse democracy and freedom.
Democracy is the process of choosing those in power.
Freedom is the ability to say what we want, however truthful, stupid, offensive, funny etc... as long as we don't incite violence or hatred (as in Voltaire's quote "I disagree with everything you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.").
The Islamist goal? I suspect 99.9% of the Islamic community would disagree with you. I think you mean the Islamic terrorist's goal.
He is talking about AJAX sites that use JavaScript to dynamically load content from the server based on user actions (such as Google suggest)
Interesting that Google themselves use AJAX but don't index it.
South Korea funded a national project, not just city-wide, and now has one of the highest penetrations of Broadband in the world. I have also heard that they get 100Mbps standard connection speed.
Whereas we "*nix" users are the athiests. :-)
Sorry, I meant 10 generations.
True, but once my genes are out in the environment as an offspring then they are out there. The fact that I have lived to an age to reproduce means that the chances are my one child will, just as much as your 5 children (for example). The fact that you have 5 is close to irrelevant as every generation only inherits half it's genes from the one parent.
So after 5 generations any one of my great great great great great great great great grand children will have 1/1024th of my genes as will any one of yours. What will matter is how many of them will there be and that's anybody's guess. You may have a small chance of having more as you had more immediate descendants, but who is to say that my one child doesn't have 6 children etc... .
What is more scary is that after 10 generations, the chances are we will have a great great great great great great great great grand-child in common. ;-)
If I wrote viruses and wanted to make a living from it, subscription-model anti-virus software would do me very nicely, thankyou very much.
In evolutionary terms it is. An individual either survives to reproduce or it doesn't.
As far as I can see there is only one problem with this as a long term storage media. Presumably the researchers use some protocol to encode the data into the CGTA format of DNA. Where will they store this protocol so that future generations (in Millenia) can un-encode the data?