No, it wouldn't be, if it contains any pig cells or any part of a pig was involved during the production of the artificial meat. Artificial meat in general would probably not be considered kosher because it involves bioengineering, which isn't particularly okay according to Judaism. (Information directly from my boyfriend, who was raised Orthodox Jewish.)

Since I haven't seen any comments on it yet (which I'm rather surprised about) and since you're an ISP, could you shed some light on Wired's article about net neutrality (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/fcc-neutrality-mistake/)? I'm just baffled by some of what the article said, such as:

I currently live in a rural area where we have one ISP option: Time Warner Cable/Roadrunner. But I'm from the San Francisco bay area, where our options are SBC/Yahoo!/AT&T or Comcast. There used to be AOL, too, for broadband, except it turned out they were using SBC's DSL network and pretty much told their broadband customers to piss off. AT&T doesn't give a rat's ass if you call and threaten to switch to Comcast, and Comcast doesn't care if you threaten to switch to AT&T (this was reinforced by my microeconomics class a few semesters ago, that there's no real competition between ISPs). So where's this crap coming from in the Wired article? Are they on something, or do they know something the rest of us don't?

That'd be hilarious! But I'd get bored while setting it up and forget about it.

Piercings are bad? Or just bad on fat emo chicks with black lipstick? 'Cause if piercings are just bad in general, I'm already all set to crush fantasies - what with having nine piercings and plans for more...

Pfft. I took every chance I got to make myself out as smarter than him. Teachers don't generally seem to like that, especially when you do it in front of the entire class. I'm surprised he tolerated my presence in his classroom, quite honestly.

And now I remember why I generally avoid mentioning the fact I'm female.

"bothering me" == "getting me to do something productive"

That probably would have turned out better than my comp sci classes...

I actually provided the comp sci teacher the curriculum and then promptly sat my ass in the back of the room and fucked around all period. I taught a class here and there when he was flailing and couldn't figure the material out (which is pretty sad... I completed it in about a week a couple years earlier). The class still degraded rather rapidly into games of Counter Strike (except for the three other girls in the class). It's really too bad I never took a picture of the teacher playing it to give to the principal (getting caught playing games on school computers automatically revoked your computer privs for the rest of the year); it could have had some hilarious results.

This was the same teacher who had been teaching ROP Network Tech (side note: ROP, Regional Occupational Programs, is California's in-high school vocational classes) and told me he hadn't put the heat sink on backwards in the computer I was working on. Three days later, when my group and I had exhausted all other possibilities for why the computer kept shutting down during boot, he told me that I'd put the heat sink on backwards. He was quite pleased with himself, until I pointed out he'd put it on backwards and had ignored me when I first pointed out it was wrong. On the upside, I was able to use reminders of this incident to shut him up when he was bothering me until I graduated.

He also wasn't a certified K12 teacher, which my mom said could have also caused problems (my mom used to be a teacher in our state).

I'm sure my high school's principal also didn't care that we had an incompetent teacher; students from my high school had a reputation for excelling at academics despite shitty/psychotic teachers.

Wait, high schools have computer engineering programs?! My high school seemed to be interested in finding the least qualified teacher possible for our computer-related classes, even though I found a professor from a prestigious university who was willing to teach the computer science classes. So not fair. :(

This probably isn't applicable to a business environment and may not be a problem anymore, but I did find that I couldn't use OO Calc a couple years ago.

For a lab I did in freshman physics a couple years ago, we recorded our data in Excel (or maybe we took it by hand, but either way, it ended up in a spreadsheet). In the write up, we had to graph the data and then plot a linear regression. At the time, I was super into using my laptop that ran SuSE (mostly because it was lighter than my Windows laptop), so off I skittered to my lab partner's room exclaiming about how Open Office could do anything MS Office could. And then I wasted two hours of our time trying to figure out how to plot a linear regression in Calc. The only information I could find on it was how to hack it into working in a previous version.

Ah, quite possible. I forgot that MySpace has special profiles for musicians.

Which quite nicely illustrates my point about how unsuited I believe MySpace is for the display of art.

Ironically, one of sheezyArt's original admins/coders has to be at least half decent, because a respectable community has since picked him up - a (not art-oriented) community started by former dA admins (some of whom were admins at the time of the first exodus of sheezyArt users, if I remember correctly).

One of my friends uses Digsby to update his Twitter.

MySpace? Good for showcasing your (art)work? How about a site that's actually meant for that, like, oh... Storm-Artists, sheezyArt, ConceptArt, deviantART, etc?

MySpace might have better networking, but I think even sheezyArt can do better at showcasing artwork. Though, if you can show me a MySpace profile that can showcase work decently, I'll revise my opinion to exclude that profile.

As said here, the sealing/wiping of records is all "theory"; the records can still be viewed by some government agencies and can prevent you from getting some government jobs (or security clearances).

Posting pictures of socializing doesn't automatically mean those pictures are going to be incriminating, but I should hope that I'm stating the obvious here.