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Comment: Re:Before commenting, please remember... (Score 1) 389

by famebait (#43012271) Attached to: Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers

There are not millions of muslim terrorists.
The terrorists I mentioned all pretend (and probably claim in honesty) to be on the side of the greater good, like they all do.

As for small and unimportant, how are you counting? If you include all use of guerilla tactics ion hot conflicts, you have to do som on the other sides too. All of them, all over the world.
If you don't, there is not a clear difference in numbers, although one specific attack had an admittedly spectalular bodycount.

Comment: Re:Before commenting, please remember... (Score 5, Insightful) 389

by famebait (#43002149) Attached to: Islamists In Bangladesh Demand Murder of More Bloggers

most Terrorists are Muslims.

Troll.

This moves in waves.
Let's not forget about IRA, ETA, RAF, various other left-wing bombers in Europe, untold guerilla movements in Africa and South America.
With some exceptions it mostly follows where there are active separatist movements at any given time
Do your homework.

Comment: Re:Nature has prior art (Score 2) 134

by famebait (#42954477) Attached to: The Patents That Threaten 3-D Printing

They don't build machines to do it.
You could build stuff that way yourself too, manually using a hot glue gun or an icing bag or whatever (I won't get into the more literal or imaginative emulations) and it would probably not be patentable, and certainly not covered by current 3D printing patents.

Comment: Re:How have patents helped the world lately? (Score 1, Troll) 134

by famebait (#42954455) Attached to: The Patents That Threaten 3-D Printing

Wrong.
There is no such thing as a natural ownership of any kind of knowledge.

Patents and other intellectual rights are articifical limitations on personal freedom, devised and enforced by societies in order to acheive specififc aims. From the start of patents and until this day, "to promote progress" is the rhetoric used in order to justify the otherwise draconian measure of punishing people for using what they know.

It is not obvious that this tradeoff is a good one for all times and all societies. Similarly, a society is not bound by the self-imposed limitations of any another, unless it agrees to be.

Comment: Ethical problems? (Score 1) 233

In simple standard case, it's just a matter of an identical twin with a different age. Can't see what's ethically questionable or complex about that.

But there's a hidden snag: normally, there would be no reason to do that. Once there is a more specific motive, the questions start popping up. Most cases have parallels already, but safe, efficient cloning would make them more accessible and likely:

Clueless idiots raising a clone to be a replacement for a lost child isn't in principle any different from clueless people today raising a normal sibling to be a replacement. But it might be more *likeley*.

Conceiving with the specific aim of transplanting is already an ethical conundrum we have to handle today, but with cloning it would be a lot more promising in fulfilling its aim, and the request much more common. Hopefully w'ed be able to grow organs without a clone by then, but you never know.

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