You're holding up accountants and lawyers as role models? Now that's funny.

What makes you think it wasn't also timed by another device?

Indirectly. I'm seeing several people arguing to let nature take it's course. I'm seeing people argue against transhumanist goals.

No. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

Should I be more afraid of the .1% who seek immortality for themselves, or the self-righteous "geeks" who seem to want to impose nature's normal expiration date me.

Yes.

Yes. As restored species they would be protected by man and then have a shot at continued existence in the event humans die off or evolve passed the necessity for a biosphere.

Your logic seems to be that it's unethical to bring them into a world that they can't survive in. But they all endured the waxing and waning of ice ages before that. The current thinking is that either humans or some sudden climate catastrophe caused the Holocene megafaunal extinctions, and not an inability to adapt to post ice age climate conditions. The only thing that seems to be preventing most of these species from thriving today is humans themselves.

There is no convincing controversy. Your ideas are "fringe" science that nobody takes seriously. It's not a conspiracy to keep theists down. It's just that your arguments are not convincing.

Eh? Teaching evolution in a *science* class is now controlling other people's thoughts? The whole reason this is an issue is because hardcore theists want to prevent it from being taught because they think it conflicts with one cultures interpretation of a creation story. Is that not attempting to control people's thoughts?

We used to say the same thing about people with cell phones...until everyone could afford them.

Which means, no cell phones. No bar owner would dare post that.

When I was a kid, I coded for fun. I met a lot of guys in highschool who did this too. In college, I met even more. How many women have I meet who coded for fun since they were kids? Zero. That's telling. I think a lot of people here will say the same thing. You say there are barriers...what barriers are there preventing girls from downloading a compiler and googling some "learn to code" websites?

He implied that illegal immigrants are NOT taking STEM jobs....not that they can't do them. Jesus....some people just see racism everywhere.

Why oh why do people lend these arguments any credence? Change is not automatically awesome because it's "change". Unity is a shitty UI...just like Win8. They changed with the menu's so it's more difficult to find and launch applications. So now making things harder is good change? And it's also somehow related to my political beliefs? Why was this post even modded up? It's ridiculous.

I thought it was the infra-red filter that prevented you from seeing through bathing suits.