I don't feel as though it would be in a country's best interest to genetically engineer children because as far as I can tell, geneticists don't know enough about the way it works to even cure some genetic problems that seem like that would be easy to cure. Take for instances Epidermolysis Bullosa. It seems as though it would be easy to cure, given that a close relative donate some of their stemcells to do some testing because it has to do with the way the layers of skin adhere to one another, but the problem is we don't know enough about the way these things work to do this yet. Should we genetically engineer children without knowing for sure if the process we use will cause more harm to a child than good, and it would not be wise to try to be like the spartans and kill the ones that come out a little different. Surprisingly enough, there are a good number of people with problems that occurred throughout their lifetimes with problems caused by genetics that have played a major role in shaping science and our society in general to be what it is today, good or bad. It sounds like a great idea, like heroin or pcp, which were originally used to treat horrible pain and to put people under anethesia. Then, later on, they were deemed to be mostly unfit for the use in humans because of long living effects afterwards. How then could we learn more about genetic engineering? Well, there have been several experiments in which a person donated their own stem cells for research for a cure for their untreatable disease. There is a difference between this and using an unborn child to get the cells or as an experiment, and yes, I agree there may be a situation where an unborn child would be born in such a condition where it would be very cruel to allow it's birth. But, I think that this is a judgement call that should have a very well informed and ethical doctor in charge. Like it may be merciful to mercy kill someone by not extending their life support for thirty years after they are brain dead. The problem is that at times people wake up from 30 year brain dead comas, and it would not be wise to turn the machine off on every brain dead person, same with an unborn child. So that's a very fine line that geneticists would be walking, and it's questionable whether or not it's a call for a person at all to make in the first place.

Darwin's theory is that, a theory, so including it in course material is hypocritical for those who say the state should not sponsor a religion. Atheism too is taken on faith in a sense. Appears to be the lack of faith, but in a lot of cases, it takes a whole lot of faith to believe that. I just saw a man resurrect, ah, perhaps it was just one of those things that are simply chemical...

I'm not an nihilist, but I'm prone to agree that a good bit of what is taught is what is collectively agreed upon by most people who write the books. At times, it's taught by teachers who say before they start teaching that they personally know it to be a lie, yet it is considered to be factual by many people. Much of it is what they want you to believe and in thirty years if the world doesn't end, it'll be another big collective mess of nonsense that is disproven time and time again and ignored.

I think that you shouldn't be so critical of something you don't understand bud. No test that is based on fact should ever include theory, unless the test is on theoretical science. So, i don't think that evolution should be on a test quoted as fact. Why not make it strictly things we know to be true. Like most humans have a heart. Not all humans do, some have mechanisms fashioned by men that replace them, both mechanical and the actual organ.

GUI's simplify things a good bit, but I prefer the command line for some things. I've never watched a music video in the command line, and I highly doubt anyone could remember every command anyone could possibly need, more like the things they use frequently or have used frequently in the past. It's like if I go to my family doctor about a strange ailment deep within my brain, he or she will more than likely refer me to the Neurologist instead of trying to treat me for something they never thoroughly studied. I prefer to use the CLI for some things that I do from day to day to free up a good bit of my system's resources.

'Tis still my favorite dish. When someone comes in behind you and "cleans up" your code, you often lose a bit of functionality... If not entirely. I agree things need to be cleaned up from time to time, but I've run into some problems like that. And nah, I don't think I'm Linus Torvalds or anything. I've done some tinkering throughout the years though.

The reason I do is because unless what I am doing is hurting someone, I should have free reign to install whatever I want on my system. It doesn't matter if it's not a Microsoft product or what. Sure, software should go through some refining to get rid of bugs, but Microsoft isn't the best at refining software either. They are good at bullying people.

Also, there's the everyday use aspect. The economy may fall into a deep depression, and people may end up having to made do with 486's at times. That sounds insane, but it happens now.

They use leaching to get some of the gold off of it. It's expensive to leach, but back in the later 1990's, I had a teacher who said never to throw the things away for a couple of reasons. 1. Arsenic and whatnot in them. 2. Gold connectors. It's probably best if you can to keep someone of them around and not tamper with them much, especially if they work. Eventually museums would probably inquire around the web looking for specific antique models that still work.

No problem with Jobs, but jobs would be nice. Not a big fan of the glittering OSX interface either. It'd work better with wmaker.

It was $99 at AT&T, and I see why Nokia is in the pot. I love Nokia. I even love Microsoft, though they may be my sworn rivaled enemy, but.... This would only be worth the silicon it was made of if it had a different OS on it. I'm gonna need to go because I need some meatloaf. Speaking of meatloaf. "...I would do anything for love... BUT I WON'T DO THAT..." AGAIN! I don't want anything one of their msdn subscriptions, another phone with their OS on it, nada.

I got one because I needed one to test a program on, which I still haven't gotten around to doing because we had to have our Central AC Unit replaced, and I"ve been a good bit of minor repairs around here by the grace of God. Anyway, I purchased it because I took two C# classes from a community college a while back, and I did a little bit of work with it. Mainly just hobbyist type activities. I'm not an expert, but I know more than some of the average bears. I was interesting in porting one of those projects to Windows Mobile and other mobile devices, but mobile first, since it would be native. Anyway, let's cut to the chase, I turn the speech recognition off, and it still comes on. It is lacking in many features, and it is a bandwidth hog. I never had any intention of playing LIVE games on here, but it has been tempting since it can be really worthless at times. It's turned into a paperweight atleast four times without installing anything on it or visiting many websites at all. Now I've learned my lesson. It would be very foolish to go boasting over which operating system is better or more cost efficient. I got stuck using GNU/Linux for quite some time, partially by choice, then by my refusal to purchase Windows licenses and not wanting to go to the slammer or pay $10 million dollars for one license, which costs them about $3 to create comparatively with the volume of licenses that are sold on the market today. So I finally end up with Windows 7 smleven and all the nicknacks and whattymadoos that microsoft usually gives upstarts and students but made me pay to get, and then I decided, it wasn't even worth it. True, I got to play with Windows 8, which for some, is probably the best thing since the first person sweetened tea or sliced bread, whatever your region may prefer(I often playfully scoff at types of vernacular, but like I said, I'm just some dude). Honestly Windows 3.11 was more exciting for me. It's all been done.

I recently purchased a Pavilion g6 series. It's not so bad, but I'd suggest turning off some of the short cuts. I've accidently triggered a function enablement feature that's supposed to make it's use easy several times, and it's a major pain because I can't type anything until I turn the feature off. Somewhat small keyboards aren't too much a bother. I always liked HP. I had an HP desktop that lasted for nearly ten years after it's manufacture date.

Facebook is too risque. I removed my page two days before the stock went public out of fear of being associated with a nasty company. It's known they monitored some SMS messages, and I figured it would be the right thing to do for various reasons. Then the cofounder denounced his American citizenship, and I knew I was right. Ya'll have a good one, I'm going to read a book instead. Sorry to troll though. I always have a lot to say.

It can be useful for things like debian ISO's, but ya know, some of that is the paranoia of the users because of the number of cases against pirates. This is a good thing, unless you own a copy of CD that's scratched to death. Then you have to repurchase it on amazon or itunes. At least most of them are only ten bucks. I purchased a good bit of music around Christmas time for myself and family from Amazon.com in digital form. It's nice because they store it for you. I'm also a prime subscriber so there is a vast number of movies available for free, plus 2 day delivery so I don't have to drive to the mall and up the gas prices for my neighbors who drive back and forth all day long for little pay. I'm not loaded, but it's come in handy in this hard time. Fix a few computers here and there, but I'm supposed to lay off the computer more because I may be having seizure activity. Surf responsibly, if you don't own the rights, down let yourself get served with a ten million dollar lawsuit for 12 songs. One thing I found somewhat comical about it was that they punish so greatly, when people are doing almost the same thing they did in the 1980's when the VCR was invented, recording movies off of HBO I see.