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Comment Re:Creepy (Score 1) 193

I'm not going to complain about "playing god" but this definitely approaches immoral conduct. Change this gene in something with a larger brain and you could create animals smart enough to deserve human rights

Exactly! Any day now they could make a mouse as smart as the pig I ate for breakfast!

Comment Re:All nations got their start ignoring IP rights (Score 1) 145

The early United States ignored patents issued abroad once upon a time...

India is ignoring US medical patents right now!

India's Solution To Drug Costs: Ignore Patents And Control Prices - Except For Home Grown Drugs

Technically it's compulsory licensing, I think....

Comment Re:Nobody gets to use the surprise face (Score 3, Insightful) 131

Look at this list from the same website:

Top Military Weapons Exporters Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of military weapons (excluding artillery products) during 2013:

1.United States: $277,159,000 (83.8% of total military weapons exports)
2.India: $9,668,000 (2.9%)
3.South Korea: $6,466,000 (2.0%)
4.Colombia: $5,000,000 (1.5%)
5.Norway: $4,766,000 (1.4%)
6.Croatia: $3,291,000 (1.0%)
7.Australia: $3,265,000 (1.0%)
8.Slovakia: $3,000,000 (0.9%)
9.Thailand: $2,910,000 (0.9%)
10.Canada: $2,814,000 (0.9%)
11.Poland: $2,293,000 (0.7%)
12.Russia: $2,005,000 (0.6%)
13.Netherlands: $1,962,000 (0.6%)
14.Senegal: $1,266,000 (0.4%)
15.Malaysia: $1,100,000 (0.3%)

Pretty sure weapons is a subset of machines in your list.

Comment Re:Enough (Score 1) 288

Anecdotal evidence: my two girls (10 and 12) have zero interested in learning how to code because they are not interested in it, despite having both parents that do or did that for their livelihood and have an extreme interest in it.

Children not liking what their parents like? That's completely unheard of!

Comment Re:thank god for mississippi (Score 1) 297

OK, let me get this straight. The dumb, uneducated, poor, largely minority backwoods state of Mississippi has the highest vaccination rate in the country. Sounds good so far.

Well, they are trying to loosen Measles vaccination requirements in the middle of the two biggest Measles outbreaks in the last 50 years. That doesn't scream intelligence to me....

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