Comment: Re:Playing the race card again (Score 1) 1078
sorry, I forgot. I live in new jersey and we don't have state law classified as felony. Other states do. In new jersey, the only felony charges are federal.
Comment: Re:Playing the race card again (Score 1) 1078
Using cleaning chemicals for purpose other than cleaning can be a federal crime, in other words, a felony.
Accidental death is not is not a federal crime, not a felony.
The application of law is not out of balance.
Comment: Time (Score 0) 191
What makes you think your kids are in any extent interested in your digital media?
If you think digital media defines you as a parent, maybe you should re-calibrate, spend more time with your kids, not your media.
Comment: Re:Absurdity at its best (Score 2) 183
The pope is sort-of oughtta be elected on the basis of what the Catholic god (or maybe Jesus, it ain't clear) tells the cardinals is the right choice.
Sorry, that is not accurate. Here is an explanation: http://www.thesacredpage.com/2013/02/no-holy-spirit-doesnt-choose-pope.html
Comment: Head slap! You are using college wrong (Score 1) 347
Go to college to get an intelligence certificate. Its not a place to learn skills. At the end of college, you won't have skills; you will have a sheet of paper that says you are intelligent. That paper, called a diploma, says only that you are intelligent enough to learn new things. You want something else. You want a skill. Diplomas do not say you have any skill (see above). College is the wrong place to get a skill because college won't give you even a piece of paper that says you have said skill. If you don't even want a piece of paper that says you have a skill (these are called certifications), then don't even go to school.
You have an opportunity to get a piece of paper saying you are intelligent enough to learn things about computers, and you don't see that as anything but a waste of time. Incredible. Maybe you should be a business major.
You have an opportunity to get a piece of paper saying you are intelligent enough to learn things about computers, and you don't see that as anything but a waste of time. Incredible. Maybe you should be a business major.
+ - Geron shutttered embryonic stem cell clinical tria->
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Zecheus writes "Geron had won the first clinical trial of embryonic stem cell therapy in the United States, as previously reported in slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/01/23/1647211/first-human-embryonic-stem-cell-study-approved, but is now ending that trial and divesting entirely from any research in the technology. This is an stunning turnaround for the company that holds pioneering patents and had developed more experimental drugs from the stem cell of human embryos than any other company in the world. “I deeply believe in the promise of stem cells,” John A. Scarlett, the chief executive of Geron said. However the move is widely seen as a major setback for the technology. (Maybe he meant the 'promise of adult stem cells' in which many therapies are already approved and in use.) Perhaps Geron bailed out because the clinical trial has only demonstrated a certain level of safety, but no improvement in the small number of patients; or to meet strategic/tactical business goals (i.e., to stay in business), In any case, it looks like the promise of embyronic stem cell therapies are overhyped and false."
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+ - Copyright suit forces shut down unix timezone data->
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Zecheus writes "The founder and maintainer of The timezone database writes:
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A civil suit was filed on September 30 in federal court in Boston; I'm a defendant; the case involves the time zone database. The ftp server at elsie.nci.nih.gov has been shut down. The mailing list will be shut down after this message. Electronic mail can be sent to me at arthurdavidolson gmail.com. I hope there will be better news shortly.
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Comment: Headline: Climate Researcher Uses Real Data (Score 1) 426
That is news.
+ - Internet replaces human memory->
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Zecheus writes "Somewhere on the web, I remember, I read something about losing my memory....where did that go. No matter, I'll just google it. Oh Look, at the NYTimes"
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+ - Foursquare data published by WSJ->
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Zecheus writes "WSJ says: 'We collected every check-in on location-sharing service Foursquare for a week starting at noon Eastern on Friday, Jan. 21 until noon on Friday Jan. 28. Foursquare, which provided the data, removed all material that could identify an individual user.'
The pages have different presentations and breakdowns of the data. A comparison between NYC and SanFrancisco interests is presented."
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The pages have different presentations and breakdowns of the data. A comparison between NYC and SanFrancisco interests is presented."
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Comment: Obviously, global warming is viral (Score 1) 73
How long until 'the experts' give us another inconvenient truth?
Comment: who/what is YOUR god? (Score 2) 636
Whatever stimulates this area of your brain is your god, and it could be anything.
Relates to the Commandments: "You shall have no other gods before me." and "You shall not make for yourself an idol."
Comment: Re:brought down by RADAR? (Score 1) 481
Thanks for that explanation. For a while I had lost hope for the human race.
Comment: brought down by RADAR? (Score 1) 481
Really. We are to believe these have some level of technology that is vulnerable to RADAR?
Comment: Re:Nudity would be ok if not for Satan (Score 1) 585
I looked it up in my copy of the New Jerome's Biblical Commentary. The first association between the serpent and Satan was made by hellenist-jewish tradition, see Wisdom 2:24. Scholars date the writing of Wisdom to the last half of the 1st century BCE. So, no, its not "an assumption that Christians started to make because it made sense".