You are correct that embryonic stem cells are capable of becoming any tissue in the body whereas adult stemcells are limited. ESC's turn become random tissues with gusto, often growing bones and teeth inside cultures. They're extremely hard to control. Adult stems cells are much easier, and pluripotent adult stem cells have almost the same capabilities of ECS's. So ECS's really aren't needed.
Additionally, last I checked 72 successful treatments have been devloped from ACS's, and a total of, er, um, 0 from ECS's. My cousin was just one of the many people who's live have been saved by an adult stem cell treatment.
I'm just trying to lay out the facts as I see them.
You started nicely but finished poorly. The problem is that people are not paying for their own healthcare. Since they aren't paying for it, they have no incentive to do their own checking or avoid needing the care to begin with. Our insurance model is broken. A bigger insurer (ie. Uncle Sam) won't fix it.
Uh, it's not a free market. It's run by insurance and pharmaceutical companies. People have a remarkable way of managing their money better than other people's. If people were paying their own money for drugs instead of an employer's insurance or tax-funded nets, they'd make a remarkably larger effort to stay healthy and spend less on treatments.
See hospitals in India, Singapore, and Thailand staffed by American doctors that actually compete for patients from around the world. They're booming because they're mostly free of bureaucracy and are very open about their mortality, infection, and error rates. That's how healthcare should work.
too bad there is so much resistance (no pun intended) in the US toward alternative non-oil solutions. if we opened our mind and stopped keeping Big Oil on top and in power, we'd have this trivial (it is!) problem solved by now.
I'm all for nuclear, but I will not kowtow to super-subsidized schemes like ethanol that simply aren't viable. Environmentalists loose a lot of goodwill by ignoring things that work, like nuclear, and pushing things that don't, like ethanol.
I recently read an article on "geoengineering"; apparently it's gaining traction and was discussed in one of Obama's cabinet meetings as global warming emergency brake. It appears that this is real: we really could mess with our atm. cheaply and quickly. What I find most interesting about the whole concept, besides whatcouldpossiblygowrong, is what people like Pete Geddes of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) say against it:
Let's say we came up with a way to scrub carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere that works and is cheap. That would mean we could go on emitting carbon. The environmentalists' reaction, I think, would be, 'No, that's unacceptable, because what we really have to be doing is reducing our fossil fuels and use of energy.' That's just ridiculous. People would lose all sorts of faith in environmentalism.
Vouchers are the obvious answer to almost all of this mess, but we all now know what an uphill political battle that is.
No matter how hard it is, it's your responsibility as a citizen to do something about it. I'm sure you can find a zillion people like me who agree with you - so write your reps! If people in this country exercised their citizenship like they ought, we wouldn't need someone like his O'ness to come and "change" our problems. Americans are getting exactly the government they deserve. I fully believe that decades of state schools are destroying our civilization by ignoring civic history and responsibility.
I missed the self-righteousness in the GP's post. You can't even call it malicious. You're free to disagree with what he says, but don't use ad hominem.
First, I'd like to thank the GP for pointing out your hypocrisy. Second, I'd like to point out that "assault weapon" is either redundant or nonexistent. Stop using that made-up scare term.
"Yokels" like me who live in the western USA and "cling to guns and religion" are a very, very poor target for anyone hoping to "rise to power". Farmers are independent people. No Marxists, Muslims or any other -its or -isms come here make speeches. They'd be wasting their time. There's a reason people like Lenin stump in the cities.
As for your statement that guns do not protect democracy (I think you meant a republic), I think you ought to take a look at our very own Revolutionary War. Do you think the Continental Army would ever have been able to defeat a world-class army if nearly every able-bodied male didn't have a gun and know how to use it? You say I'm confusing the arena of a civil setting with outright war. In order to protect freedom, one must be able to stage an outright war (see American Revolution again).
I appreciate most of your posts and often mod you up, but you most definitely have a logical disconnect regarding self defense.
For example, if slashdot for some insane reason ran a story here and instead of using a straight link to your site, used a "digg.com" URL, you wouldn't know from the logs where all that traffic was coming from.
What if they linked to some bozo's link blog? I wouldn't know then either.
I'm a "Bible thumper", and I have never "rallied behind him", or heard of anyone else doing it. Perhaps I'm just out of the loop...
Now, while I'd appreciate laws that restrict sales of video games like the GTA series (which is plainly pornographic) to minors, I'd never approve of his rude tactics.
Interesting concept...So how do you plan on reconciling all other births?
Citizenship comes by being born to a citizen or by applying for it like an immigrant. I fail to see where that creates a problem.
So we can send the kids away without their parents because they aren't citizens by birth and their parents/grandparents/howfarbackyouwant are not citizens?
That sounds like you're talking about a retroactive law. You ought to know your Constitution better: we can't have those.
This is an excellent example of missing the point. Here's the set up:
1. People enter the country illegally. 2. Then then birth US Citizens 3. Illegal parents are packed off. 4. The baby Citizens are left behind.
Think logically. The solution isn't to quit throwing out the criminals. The solution is to delete the technicality that creates such heartbreaking situations in the first place: birth citizenship. Then you can ship them all back as a family and not have to deal with illegal residents or stranded kids. I think high-profile politicians like Pelosi are being intentionally dense on this issue, because they'd rather do something big and spectacular than a quick, boring solution that makes the problem go away with no power, fame, legacy and re-electability.
Well, if I had $185k ready cash and registered.corn or.conn, set up super-lax regulations for the benefit of phishers and charged $50 a registration, I'd get filthy rich.
Making it memorable is 100x better than making it intuitive. Case in point: I sometimes write for Game Maker Technology Magazine (small e-mag). I still have a hard time remembering if the website is gmtech.info, gamemakertech.info or a dozen other ways you can permutate it. Make it easy to remember. Forget making it something someone would type on accident.
This is a recipe for State control of news dissemination.
Why not? We already have state controlled banking and automotive, why not news? I think his O-ness would also do a great job controlling churches, the Internet, and guns. Why not even the Constitution? Pass a few more apathy pills, if you would.
If you're willing to sacrifice liberty for convenience and/or safety, you deserve neither. Let them fail.
Slashdot Mirror
Places that need really good security tend to have it provided by Marines. ;)
We don't want stopgaps. They just postpone the problem a few years. A total solution is much better.
You are correct that embryonic stem cells are capable of becoming any tissue in the body whereas adult stemcells are limited. ESC's turn become random tissues with gusto, often growing bones and teeth inside cultures. They're extremely hard to control. Adult stems cells are much easier, and pluripotent adult stem cells have almost the same capabilities of ECS's. So ECS's really aren't needed.
Additionally, last I checked 72 successful treatments have been devloped from ACS's, and a total of, er, um, 0 from ECS's. My cousin was just one of the many people who's live have been saved by an adult stem cell treatment.
I'm just trying to lay out the facts as I see them.
You started nicely but finished poorly. The problem is that people are not paying for their own healthcare. Since they aren't paying for it, they have no incentive to do their own checking or avoid needing the care to begin with. Our insurance model is broken. A bigger insurer (ie. Uncle Sam) won't fix it.
Here's a good article about it: http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2009&month=03
Uh, it's not a free market. It's run by insurance and pharmaceutical companies. People have a remarkable way of managing their money better than other people's. If people were paying their own money for drugs instead of an employer's insurance or tax-funded nets, they'd make a remarkably larger effort to stay healthy and spend less on treatments.
See hospitals in India, Singapore, and Thailand staffed by American doctors that actually compete for patients from around the world. They're booming because they're mostly free of bureaucracy and are very open about their mortality, infection, and error rates. That's how healthcare should work.
Kpdf (part of KDE 3.5) had a checkbox to ignore DRM. I don't know of Okular (KDE 4) does.
Rent electric cars out cheaply.
too bad there is so much resistance (no pun intended) in the US toward alternative non-oil solutions. if we opened our mind and stopped keeping Big Oil on top and in power, we'd have this trivial (it is!) problem solved by now.
I'm all for nuclear, but I will not kowtow to super-subsidized schemes like ethanol that simply aren't viable. Environmentalists loose a lot of goodwill by ignoring things that work, like nuclear, and pushing things that don't, like ethanol.
I recently read an article on "geoengineering"; apparently it's gaining traction and was discussed in one of Obama's cabinet meetings as global warming emergency brake. It appears that this is real: we really could mess with our atm. cheaply and quickly. What I find most interesting about the whole concept, besides whatcouldpossiblygowrong, is what people like Pete Geddes of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) say against it:
Let's say we came up with a way to scrub carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere that works and is cheap. That would mean we could go on emitting carbon. The environmentalists' reaction, I think, would be, 'No, that's unacceptable, because what we really have to be doing is reducing our fossil fuels and use of energy.' That's just ridiculous. People would lose all sorts of faith in environmentalism.
Vouchers are the obvious answer to almost all of this mess, but we all now know what an uphill political battle that is.
No matter how hard it is, it's your responsibility as a citizen to do something about it. I'm sure you can find a zillion people like me who agree with you - so write your reps! If people in this country exercised their citizenship like they ought, we wouldn't need someone like his O'ness to come and "change" our problems. Americans are getting exactly the government they deserve. I fully believe that decades of state schools are destroying our civilization by ignoring civic history and responsibility.
I missed the self-righteousness in the GP's post. You can't even call it malicious. You're free to disagree with what he says, but don't use ad hominem.
I have not watched, Red Dawn, Star Wars or Dirty Harry. Please make a more relevant argument.
Other societies never had guns in the first place. They didn't outlaw them democratically. They've been banned from them ever since monarchies.
First, I'd like to thank the GP for pointing out your hypocrisy. Second, I'd like to point out that "assault weapon" is either redundant or nonexistent. Stop using that made-up scare term.
"Yokels" like me who live in the western USA and "cling to guns and religion" are a very, very poor target for anyone hoping to "rise to power". Farmers are independent people. No Marxists, Muslims or any other -its or -isms come here make speeches. They'd be wasting their time. There's a reason people like Lenin stump in the cities.
As for your statement that guns do not protect democracy (I think you meant a republic), I think you ought to take a look at our very own Revolutionary War. Do you think the Continental Army would ever have been able to defeat a world-class army if nearly every able-bodied male didn't have a gun and know how to use it? You say I'm confusing the arena of a civil setting with outright war. In order to protect freedom, one must be able to stage an outright war (see American Revolution again).
I appreciate most of your posts and often mod you up, but you most definitely have a logical disconnect regarding self defense.
For example, if slashdot for some insane reason ran a story here and instead of using a straight link to your site, used a "digg.com" URL, you wouldn't know from the logs where all that traffic was coming from.
What if they linked to some bozo's link blog? I wouldn't know then either.
I use Flashblock. It turns a Youtube area (or any Flash) into a play button. Perfect solution.
I'm a "Bible thumper", and I have never "rallied behind him", or heard of anyone else doing it. Perhaps I'm just out of the loop...
Now, while I'd appreciate laws that restrict sales of video games like the GTA series (which is plainly pornographic) to minors, I'd never approve of his rude tactics.
I agree.
presumably your quick, boring solution would require another amendment, which doesn't seem particularly quick or boring
I'll admit I was understating the difficulty of changing the law, but it's still less dramatic than a huge government program.
Interesting concept...So how do you plan on reconciling all other births?
Citizenship comes by being born to a citizen or by applying for it like an immigrant. I fail to see where that creates a problem.
So we can send the kids away without their parents because they aren't citizens by birth and their parents/grandparents/howfarbackyouwant are not citizens?
That sounds like you're talking about a retroactive law. You ought to know your Constitution better: we can't have those.
This is an excellent example of missing the point. Here's the set up:
1. People enter the country illegally.
2. Then then birth US Citizens
3. Illegal parents are packed off.
4. The baby Citizens are left behind.
Think logically. The solution isn't to quit throwing out the criminals. The solution is to delete the technicality that creates such heartbreaking situations in the first place: birth citizenship. Then you can ship them all back as a family and not have to deal with illegal residents or stranded kids. I think high-profile politicians like Pelosi are being intentionally dense on this issue, because they'd rather do something big and spectacular than a quick, boring solution that makes the problem go away with no power, fame, legacy and re-electability.
Well, if I had $185k ready cash and registered .corn or .conn, set up super-lax regulations for the benefit of phishers and charged $50 a registration, I'd get filthy rich.
Making it memorable is 100x better than making it intuitive. Case in point: I sometimes write for Game Maker Technology Magazine (small e-mag). I still have a hard time remembering if the website is gmtech.info, gamemakertech.info or a dozen other ways you can permutate it. Make it easy to remember. Forget making it something someone would type on accident.
Low gun crime rate != low violent crime rate. Personally, I'd rather be shot to death than stabbed to death.
This is a recipe for State control of news dissemination.
Why not? We already have state controlled banking and automotive, why not news? I think his O-ness would also do a great job controlling churches, the Internet, and guns. Why not even the Constitution? Pass a few more apathy pills, if you would.
If you're willing to sacrifice liberty for convenience and/or safety, you deserve neither. Let them fail.
It sounds like you need a Bluetooth version...