I'm not American (so I have quite a good understanding of the world - no troll intended). Seriously, why is hate speech so bad? If you don't like something - be it a group, minority, idea - who cares! You should be entitled to be able to tell the entire world. Of course, most of the world won't care what your petty opinions are. Free speech means you can say whatever the hell you want.
Of course, the only difference is when you use it to incite violence or make someone else's life a living hell.
If I don't like homosexuals, I don't have to. Why is it practically illegal for me to say so (many places in the world)?
When the human genome project started, everyone predicted that we had around 100 000 genes*. It was a huge shock to find out that we have only 30 000 genes! That is a whole lot less than many other organisms. Humans have, in total, about 3E+09 base pairs in their genome. Single celled Amoeba have a hundred times this amount (7E+11).
Sheer quantity is not the answer. We know now that the DNA between genes (previously called "Junk" DNA) excercises are as important as the genes themsevles, if not more so. Compare a poor programmer to an ueber one: both could do the same thing, but the ueber programmer could do it in less code.
*gene = a protein coding region
Some time soon, the rights on all the beatles songs will start to expire. Rights on songs are held for 50 years after they are first produced. So it will not matter for very long.
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Aren't they good enough? That'll stay true to geekdom.
So it can be used in South Africa to cure AIDS.
I'm not American (so I have quite a good understanding of the world - no troll intended). Seriously, why is hate speech so bad? If you don't like something - be it a group, minority, idea - who cares! You should be entitled to be able to tell the entire world. Of course, most of the world won't care what your petty opinions are. Free speech means you can say whatever the hell you want. Of course, the only difference is when you use it to incite violence or make someone else's life a living hell. If I don't like homosexuals, I don't have to. Why is it practically illegal for me to say so (many places in the world)?
Join me for one outside then? I just did a postgrad module on cancer. I wish i knew about this. That would've shown my lecturers!
I was wondering how I reached it so quickly, while downloading nothing [but the occasional update]. Yes, we in .za have 10GB caps!
When the human genome project started, everyone predicted that we had around 100 000 genes*. It was a huge shock to find out that we have only 30 000 genes! That is a whole lot less than many other organisms. Humans have, in total, about 3E+09 base pairs in their genome. Single celled Amoeba have a hundred times this amount (7E+11). Sheer quantity is not the answer. We know now that the DNA between genes (previously called "Junk" DNA) excercises are as important as the genes themsevles, if not more so. Compare a poor programmer to an ueber one: both could do the same thing, but the ueber programmer could do it in less code. *gene = a protein coding region
Some time soon, the rights on all the beatles songs will start to expire. Rights on songs are held for 50 years after they are first produced. So it will not matter for very long.