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Comment Re:Bubby? Is that you? (Score 1) 859

But would you feel the same way about somebody who had committed manslaughter?

I remember meeting somebody quite some time ago who was friendly and gregarious. I didn't find out until much later that he had actually spent several years incarcerated over manslaughter due to an altercation that occurred at his housewarming party (the other guy did something that went beyond the pail, and the subject punched him once, the other guy fell badly, cracked his head on furniture and died, alcohol was a factor).

What about between 2nd and 1st degree murders (where such are defined).

Comment Re:Weird Headline (Score 1) 309

So that this means that soon we'll be able to get gene-sequenced at birth, and if our DNA gets bit-switched have some kind of treatment (retroviral DNA recombination or some other term that I pull out of my ass) and have the mutation reversed?

Also, what about false positives on the reporting leading to new mutations when they administer a treatment that was unnecessary (would such mutations actually occur)? What about them nasty black hats... I don't want to think about what you could do to somebody by hacking their genome.

Please excuse me while I fashion my tin-foil hat to protect myself from my brain. Wait. Crap.

Comment Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score 1) 294

A friend of mine called the police to inform them that there was a trespasser in her shed, looking for stuff to steal. The cops said they would be there in 20 minutes. She then told them not to worry, she had a kitchen knife and would take care of the problem herself. the police arrived 2 minutes later. And people wonder why some other people like to hate on cops?

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