And can't believe that an ethicist would have a problem with using cockroaches for cybernetic experimentation.

I come across a cockroach, its a race between me and the cockroach as to what's going to happen first.

It gets to escape or it gets to become a greasy smear.

And its not like it was a protected species... ITS A COCKROACH!

They aren't throwing panda or unicorn steaks on the bar-b-que here.

Good thing too. I needed the money.

In Switzerland they're compulsory.

You aren't allowed to touch a weapon unsupervised before your basic training is completed.

In the 'States, if you've got enough money to buy weapon, regardless of how you got that money, you're now armed and dangerous (to yourself and to everyone around you.)

The NRA are a bunch of profiteers, nothing else...

The amusing thing is that the increase of bullets (i.e. people owning guns) has also contributed to drops in crime rates...

The NRA is all abut perpetuating the NRA.

If they really believed their own rhetorical spew, they would insist that the US adopt the Swiss method.

Every Swiss citizen serves two years in the militia, where they are educated and trained in the use of the weapon, keep their weapon when they leave, and have them in locked gun safes.

The NRA doesn't give a crap about you, just your dues.

Hmm. I wonder if lead poisoning could explain the NRA steadfast insistence on thinking that they have a god given right to shoot weapons.

Their demanding to stick with lead shells, despite the demonstrated environmental harm that lead causes and the proof that copper jacketed bullets deliver superior stopping power at longer ranges seems a bit suspicious...

1) Nobody who posts on /. actually needs one.

2) Its from Microsoft. That's a LOT of baggage.

while the violence rate goes up. (The limbic centers for violence and sex are right next to each other, and act to produce diametrically opposite social effects.)

This will lead to an increase of "Shaken Baby" syndrome further exacerbating the problem.

Put this in your Red Book of predictions.

MIcrosoft is proving that it can't sell a thing unless it can apply some antitrust leverage.

the enterprise accountants aren't interested, so NO ONE is buying.

I maintained that the proper and fitting punishment for Microsoft's losses at their various antitrust trials was to nail their ass to the desktop.

History is proving that I was right.

Microsoft couldn't sell a damn thing to anyone NOT a PC manufacturer.

ENTERPRISE doesn't acknowledge them except as an expense, CONSUMERS have had quite enough of their shoddy products.

There are various diseases, dysmorphia, accidents and disorders that affect how one perceives one's gender and which affect how other's perceive one's gender.

If we want an accurate Object definition for Class>>Gender it has to be implemented to have a pair of small integers as attributes and presented/interacted with as a pair of Sliders.

George Carlin's take on the marketing of unreliable contraception.

I still miss that man's sense of humor...

I'm a fuckin' sadist.

What?

Did ya think I meant my 'nads?

Nah ... Yours ...

I can not imagine any greater waste of bandwidth or disk space than wasting my life with this shit.

"vi" is the thinking person's editor.

make them disappear faster.

FOSS fundamentally negates the need for a BSA.