A "human being" - hate to say this, but read Heidegger's "Being and Time" for an understanding of what the human mode of "being" is. (There are also definitions of "child" that distinguish them from "infant," and definitions of "infant" which distinguish them from neonates. We're talking about neonates here.)

The point is that a two-month old baby is more like an eight-month old fetus that it is like a four-month old baby. There is a sense of human self-hood in the latter; there is inter-relationality and inter-subjectivity, there is communication, there is an awareness of social contingencies.

Philosophical, rather than biological, definitions of humanity are necessary here, because we're talking ultimately about ethics.

It's clearly an organism, and alive, and I loved mine very much when he was newborn. But it wasn't a "child," it wasn't anymore aware and learning than most lower-order mammals, and it didn't demonstrate anything of a sense of self. The difference between a 4 month old and a newborn is an immense gap of development.

In terms of development, the first 3 months of life after birth are sometimes called "the fourth trimester."

I was about to say "oh, good to know." But then I clicked on the link...

It has, um, 15 games.

This is a really bad day to be working for Kongregate.

http://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/

"Physic" is older than "physics." A lot of British usage is actually more recent in origin than the American. The "s" added to "math" may be later in origin, though I can't find an authoritative statement one way or another.

They're very committed to supporting the enterprise. As long at that enterprise trades as AAPL.

Considering how many of those horrible time travel episodes they did, we probably already have.

"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best thing...block it out!" - Montgomery Burns

I think in the net scheme of things, it is less of an infringement on human freedom to regulate what can be sold as a toy than it is to set up an apparatus that intervenes when parents don't distinguish which things marketed as toys really are toys for kids and which ones aren't, and then removes children from the families that don't, and then raises those children elsewhere under government oversight.

A lot of kids don't have a stay-at-home parent, and are stuck in crappy day-cares run by people who don't care, but are that can be afforded on the low wages that are available for them.

I hear a lot of sanctimonious claims about "lazy parents" and "bad parents" from people who either aren't parents, or who have a partner acting as a stay-at-home parent (the stay-at-home parents themselves don't make these claims too often.) Which are you?

I think the real solution is going to be through Google+ - you already have the option to share a video on Google+, but the next step is that, by default, the comments you make on a video will only be seen by those in the Circle you shared it to, and the author of the video. "Public" comments would be invisible by default.

I actually want to use Chrome, and I'd like to use Google Now. I also understand that there are performance and stability issues that were addressed post ICS. That's my main issue. I haven't found anything more than hopeful thinking about ICS being in the queue for G2: do you have a link?

And so does Dolphin HD and thousands of other apps. But my point stands.

I think this is the case, and the best-case scenario for Google: that Nexus branding become something OEMs clamor for, and fall over themselves to get.

This will backfire if Google gets lax about control of the user experience and update cycle in order to keep OEMs happy. Google needs to crack the whip a bit here. Unsubsidized phones, by their very nature, will keep the carriers in line, when they're going to be struggling to keep customers happy month after month, instead of coasting on contracts.