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Comment Re:Weak, sentimental, nonsense. (Score 2) 172

They are loaded with the "blood" of various champion animals through recorded provenance.

If the horse is a clone, then doesn't it have the provenance of horse whose clone it is?

On the other hand does the birth mare contribute biological material to the fetus, thus meaning that there can be no such thing as a true clone?

On the third hand, I have no I idea if these breeding associations accept In vitro fertilization and surrogacy as a part of their breeding programs? - if they do, that would invalidate my second point.

Standard disclaimer: IANAGNAHB - I am not a geneticist, nor a horse breeder

Comment Re:But if you look at unemployment... EEs beat CS (Score 1) 154

This is my experience: When interviewing EEs and CS degreed employees, I'll chose the EE over CS 9 out of 10 times for a software job.

The trouble is that as a dyed-in-the wool EE with experience in lots of software, I hate working on websites and business systems. And that's my only real choice if there is no manufacturing jobs around.

Comment Re:Wow. (Score 5, Funny) 221

Indeed. Now how long before a Nigerian prince can offer me low cost penile transplants?

Funny you should say that.

Only this morning I received an email from the director of the St Peter Private hospital in Benin City, stating that I was the only surviving relative of Nigerian prince who had died in a horrendous accident. Do to the nature of that accident they only managed to save his penis, and that in order to maintain the royal line, they needed to transplant it onto me as soon as possible (something about the royal house's flag having a rampant penis - and requiring that rampant penis to be displayed on state occasions). Once this operation was performed I would be awarded all the rewards of that royal household (money, women, power - the usual stuff), but due the death of the prince causing the country to fall into paralysis, they needed me to send $5K to them so that they can fuel up the royal plane and send it out to collect me.

It all sounds legitimate, so I am off to pack my bags.

Comment Re:Why wasn't this done sooner? (Score 1) 221

Serious question:

Besides the "ick" factor why aren't there trans people walking around with donated penises?

Let me try to answer with a car analogy.

This is like asking why there aren't Toyota Camry's driving around using transmissions from a Ford Mustang. In order to do a transplant you need to have components that are fundamentally compatible in the first place.

On the other hand, my understanding is that surgeons can craft (to some extent) a penis from the tissue in a FtM patients vagina.

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