Giving up certain biometric information might be the norm for citizens of a country but until the US-VISIT program was announced I'd never heard of it for people who were only visiting. It's certainly not normal for any country I've ever been to and I've been to Canada, Mexico, the UK, Kenya, and India in my lifetime.
Beside the point. The person I was responding to seemed to be implying (alright, since apparently nothing can go unsaid, they never explicitly said it but they seemed to be reducing the opposite to absurdity so it seemed safe to assume that's their opinion for the purposes of argument) that it boiled down to species classification and whether or not the mass of cells were genetically human. I was just arguing back and saying that having human cells is not the only criterion we judge what makes a human life on because nobody calls tumors human. I'm not arguing for "extermination" I'm just pointing out that it isn't quite so simple as "it has human genetics, therefore it's human".
In the womb the kid's drawing ALL of its resources from the parent. That's all I meant. On a fundamental biological level the fetus has to draw resources off the parent to continue living. Outside the womb it's starting to take on some of its own functions. The parent can set the kid aside for a few minutes and it won't die of asphyxiation (now try that with a fetus!). That's all I meant. Sorry if I mixed a sloppy, imprecise use of the word with more technical terminology unclearly.
IIRC Vincent HAD a number of physical problems stemming from his genes. I think the grandparent's problem isn't that he had bad genes, it was his bad heart and crappy eyesight. Genes aren't the sum of a person but having ones that work certainly helps.
I think you missed something. Nobody's claiming that an embryo is inhuman, genetics-wise. But does that mean every mass of cells with a certain genome deserve to be called human? Guess we'd better arrest everybody who's ever had a tumor out, or an appendectomy. Genetics is crucial: you can't make a human without a human genome. But it certainly takes more than that to make a human. I don't know who you hang out with but all the humans I know have organs and cells which do different things and aren't parasites on a fundamental biological level.
I think google's getting higher numbers of searches for well-known services like facebook and hotmail because firefox plugs malformed URLs into google and takes you to the first result. I use this all the time (and it's not related to the awesomebar, I've been using it since 2.0) because I'm lazy and don't feel like typing TLD's sometimes.
It's not quite as simple as that. We have bigger fish to fry on Earth right now than (literally!) pie-in-the-sky schemes to amend our name to USA + the Moon. Also, have you ever considered that it might help with the whole "world hating us" thing if we didn't act like we owned the place and that if we adopted a sensible foreign policy we could save countless billions of dollars and probably many lives by not chasing pipe dreams of space empire?
I believe that as part of the Presidential Transition Act of 2000 the incoming President is allowed access to the.gov TLD to set up a "transition" web portal. Calm down.
In no way are we surprised. I just think it's cool to watch the progression from a bunch of random polygons to a pretty decent approximation of the Mona Lisa.
As an interesting aside this is also true of Indian culture (not surprisingly). I was in Jaipur back in January and remember distinctly a moment where I forgot this little rule and pissed off many a passers-by when I put my feet up on a bench- showing the bottoms of my soles to the world. I kept wondering why I got dirty looks until I remembered.
Actually, the power to prohibit drugs in general has never been in the Constitution. The 18th amendment just prohibited alcohol; federal drug policy today is built on a legal framework of "interstate commerce" (the federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce)- if it exists inside a state, it is possible that it will cross a state line, hence, interstate commerce, hence, they can regulate it.
Cartels and dealers are only as powerful as they are because there is no legal way to get these drugs. What's worse, a parent of kids who forgot to parent on drugs, or a parent of kids who forgot to parent while doing drugs who is also constantly at risk of being arrested/put away for a few years and can only feed their addiction by assorting with criminals?
Don't get me wrong, I think such parents need to have their kids taken away at least until they deal with their shit, but calling them criminals and locking them up really only exacerbates things.
Which is easily disabled with the oldbar addon. The people who care about the awesomebar are almost certainly technically-literate enough to install an add-on.
Google is going to stop supporting the version of the protocol that FF2 relies on. They could upgrade the version of the protocol 2.0 uses (they're doing it with 3.0) but it's pretty near EOL so they're not going to bother. This is all in the article.
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I already don't buy anything made in America. It's kind of hard to when you live there!
There are conditional green cards which expire after two years. They're for certain circumstances such as when you get your card through marriage to a citizen and you've been married for fewer than two years (guess they don't want people getting hitched just to earn residency status). http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=fe17e6b0eb13d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD&vgnextchannel=4f719c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD
Not necessarily but it's really not too much to ask that their basic human rights be respected, is it?
Giving up certain biometric information might be the norm for citizens of a country but until the US-VISIT program was announced I'd never heard of it for people who were only visiting. It's certainly not normal for any country I've ever been to and I've been to Canada, Mexico, the UK, Kenya, and India in my lifetime.
I would actually say it's not a statement at all. It's a predicate longing for a subject. :)
Beside the point. The person I was responding to seemed to be implying (alright, since apparently nothing can go unsaid, they never explicitly said it but they seemed to be reducing the opposite to absurdity so it seemed safe to assume that's their opinion for the purposes of argument) that it boiled down to species classification and whether or not the mass of cells were genetically human. I was just arguing back and saying that having human cells is not the only criterion we judge what makes a human life on because nobody calls tumors human. I'm not arguing for "extermination" I'm just pointing out that it isn't quite so simple as "it has human genetics, therefore it's human".
In the womb the kid's drawing ALL of its resources from the parent. That's all I meant. On a fundamental biological level the fetus has to draw resources off the parent to continue living. Outside the womb it's starting to take on some of its own functions. The parent can set the kid aside for a few minutes and it won't die of asphyxiation (now try that with a fetus!). That's all I meant. Sorry if I mixed a sloppy, imprecise use of the word with more technical terminology unclearly.
IIRC Vincent HAD a number of physical problems stemming from his genes. I think the grandparent's problem isn't that he had bad genes, it was his bad heart and crappy eyesight. Genes aren't the sum of a person but having ones that work certainly helps.
I think you missed something. Nobody's claiming that an embryo is inhuman, genetics-wise. But does that mean every mass of cells with a certain genome deserve to be called human? Guess we'd better arrest everybody who's ever had a tumor out, or an appendectomy. Genetics is crucial: you can't make a human without a human genome. But it certainly takes more than that to make a human. I don't know who you hang out with but all the humans I know have organs and cells which do different things and aren't parasites on a fundamental biological level.
I thought the point of ads was that you didn't look at them. Subliminal messages come across best when you don't notice them...
I think most of them smoke trees to get high.
I think google's getting higher numbers of searches for well-known services like facebook and hotmail because firefox plugs malformed URLs into google and takes you to the first result. I use this all the time (and it's not related to the awesomebar, I've been using it since 2.0) because I'm lazy and don't feel like typing TLD's sometimes.
It's not quite as simple as that. We have bigger fish to fry on Earth right now than (literally!) pie-in-the-sky schemes to amend our name to USA + the Moon. Also, have you ever considered that it might help with the whole "world hating us" thing if we didn't act like we owned the place and that if we adopted a sensible foreign policy we could save countless billions of dollars and probably many lives by not chasing pipe dreams of space empire?
I believe that as part of the Presidential Transition Act of 2000 the incoming President is allowed access to the .gov TLD to set up a "transition" web portal. Calm down.
In no way are we surprised. I just think it's cool to watch the progression from a bunch of random polygons to a pretty decent approximation of the Mona Lisa.
As an interesting aside this is also true of Indian culture (not surprisingly). I was in Jaipur back in January and remember distinctly a moment where I forgot this little rule and pissed off many a passers-by when I put my feet up on a bench- showing the bottoms of my soles to the world. I kept wondering why I got dirty looks until I remembered.
Sounds pretty kinky to me. What is this, Rocky Horror Hospital?
I actually didn't give any examples at all. I was just passing by this comment thread and thought it was funny.
Actually, the power to prohibit drugs in general has never been in the Constitution. The 18th amendment just prohibited alcohol; federal drug policy today is built on a legal framework of "interstate commerce" (the federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce)- if it exists inside a state, it is possible that it will cross a state line, hence, interstate commerce, hence, they can regulate it.
Cartels and dealers are only as powerful as they are because there is no legal way to get these drugs. What's worse, a parent of kids who forgot to parent on drugs, or a parent of kids who forgot to parent while doing drugs who is also constantly at risk of being arrested/put away for a few years and can only feed their addiction by assorting with criminals?
Don't get me wrong, I think such parents need to have their kids taken away at least until they deal with their shit, but calling them criminals and locking them up really only exacerbates things.
Which is easily disabled with the oldbar addon. The people who care about the awesomebar are almost certainly technically-literate enough to install an add-on.
Google is going to stop supporting the version of the protocol that FF2 relies on. They could upgrade the version of the protocol 2.0 uses (they're doing it with 3.0) but it's pretty near EOL so they're not going to bother. This is all in the article.
Er, last I checked Halo wasn't a "musical-rhythm matching game"...
Well, if they're quoting an online commentator, sure.
It's possible. So are flying spaghetti monsters, Santa Claus, and God. I can haz evidence, plz?