"That was an important speech, sir, and it needed to be made. Might I suggest, however, that the rest of this discourse is continued by those with brains larger than a grape?"

My favorite artificial life form indeed!

Maybe if this gets more advanced. If I were a surgeon and I get stuck, perhaps some kind of implant will tell the nurses or other Dr.s working with me that I'm stuck. Which will allow someone else to jump in, or tell me to find a way to stop, so we can go over what's next. Rather than allowing me the chance to think "oh maybe this Rolex goes on this chamber like so...".

Just so we are clear, I'm not encouraging the acceptance of bad surgeons, but may like this device could be a safe guard in case to happen to have a bad surgeon. Or a surgeon having a bad day.

The right to survive. We are fitter than them. My health, and my species health means more to me than some lower creatures life. Same reason for why I eat.

I imagine it would suck for us when some higher alien species starts doing the same thing to us. ( not likely as biologically we'd probably be very different. Maybe using us for their own benefit in some other ways),. But they would have, naturally, every right too. Good thing we are capable of complicated thought, and perhaps could up-rise.

The only thing that makes me worth living in nature is my ability to keep stronger creatures from using me for their good.

I had a coworker who would point at a computer and say "beige" and shortly after, the computer would break. It was hard to get across that doing this nifty "magic" just meant more work for us.

It may not be by your nightly news. But Sharpton and Jackson are accused of being racist nutbags all the time. Read their Wiki articles, it gets mentioned. Google their names and racism, you'll find a lot of it.

Exactly my thought. Has anyone watched Doomsday Preppers? I'm willing to bet there are many people in the US with similar Zombie Crisis plans that they would put into play when needed. I know at least three houses I could go to where we'd be safe from these mercenaries, and those are just nerds...not hillbillies.

An eclipse by an asteroid...Would be both awesome....and the suck.

You bet ;)

Yeah pretty much. Sounds a lot like advertising too. If I'm given that kind of scare, I might just pay those guys a bunch of money to give me detox.
More accurately, here is a good reference of what you can expect with opiate withdrawal http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000949.ht

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Death is not a side effect of opiate withdrawals. Usually related deaths seem to be tired to a combination of the withdrawal, and a predisposition. Methadone is an opiate just like heroin, hydrocodone, etc. You'll get high with it.

There is suboxone, which is a commonly used drug thagt combines an opiate with something else that blocks the reward systems so you don't get high. Maybe that's what you were thinking of?

Just so we are clear, I'm an EMT, and I work at a medical detox/ crisis center. I deal with drug use and everything that comes with it.

Correct me I'm wrong, as I'm not in the know, but wouldn't this be a plus for rom development on motorola droid phones?

I have a great experiment! And I am being semi-serious, let's all send meaningless comments, questions, whatever to a friend, partner, coworker, or spouse, that could be trigger something like this! Here's a good one:
"This place sucks. Let's blow this joint!"

Paparazzi do this all the time. I guess the difference being they are not Government necessarily. But if paparazzi can do this without actually trespassing, than any non-government volunteer can do this. Then just pass the info along. So, what if the people operating the aircraft are third party?

Here we are owing all sorts of money, and now we are giving a whole lot of money that doesn't exist, to a program that has yielded no worth? What's to gain? I've heard all of the bad news about TSA, and all the molesting, and violations that they commit, with no reprocutions. But please, someone explain to me what is it that the Government really benefits from this.

Perhaps a bad comparison, I support owning a firearm. I have family and friends who have use their guns in defense, so I see some benefit, among all the risks. But I do not own a gun, or have one in my home. Why? Because I have never been in a situation that I required a gun.
This is like posting armed guards in my upper middle class neighborhood home!

Maybe not of the whole earth. Perhaps Noah's flood happened somewhere in the area that early humans inhabited, and Noah built the boat for that small region. That area could have been the whole world to that people.
I believe the Bible was written by man, with only some of it being inspired by God, the rest being historical.
I am a Christian, and I am one of many who see science as being the best way to understand the how. I won't limit my God to quick work and tons of diception to test my faith.