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As I've said before, spelling and grammar is important, plus I find it takes longer for me to type something in 1337 or any other kind of webspeak. Not only that, but I find it takes longer to read it too. And camel caps take even longer because the human eye is taught to read straight and not up and down, such as when looking at camel caps.The reason for all of this?Human nature: laziness.

Very true, I know this as a fact as my upbringing was quite different than what my friends' were and they definitely do not like the same smells that I do when it comes to cooking. Because Judaism is a religion that originally orginated in the Middle East, a lot of the foods we cook at Channukkah, such as latkes, involved using oil for frying things, such as onions for example. One particular friend came over and absolutely hated the smell and asked if I could smell it as well. While the answer was yes, technically I could, I had gotten so used to it that the smell didn't even register any more. Another one of my friends was brought up less priviledged than I was and so her whole family became very modest when giving us a tour of their new house. Then again, things can go wrong, or you get an oddball of the bunch (so to speak), and then the type of upbringing they had has no particular effect on them. I do know for a fact, though, that certain traits, such as being left-handed or right-handed, are genetically related.

To be honest, many scientists do not believe viruses are alive, hence this is why they are not classified in their own kingdom in taxonomy, in fact, they don't belong in any of them at all! While bacteria are eukaryotes (meaning they don't have a nucleus) just like viruses are, viruses don't have all the things that an actual living organism does, the most evident being they don't excrete, something that all living things have to do (yes, organisms in the kingdom Moneran or Protista do excrete waste, just not in the same form animals do). Currently, scientists are at a debate on whether or not viruses should be classified as living things, but at the moment, since the majority of scientists do not, the scientific answer at the moment is that, no, viruses are not alive.

Yes, you are quite right, there, Lonebyrd. Likes and dislikes are not carried in the genetic code, but rather developed as the organsim in question grows older. For example, I am the only one in my immediate family (besides my brother) who does not like the taste of olives. Both my brother and I are from the same parents, but we don't like the same things our parents do. Again, this is what makes any particular organism unique because it develops who they are. Cloning, on the other hand, wouldn't really eliminate this. Your clone may very well like green peas while you yourself do not. It's just like how a perfectly normal couple's child turns out to be a serial killer. These things aren't genetic.

How would they know that Jake's clone would have the same likes and dislikes? These things are not in your genetic code. Instead, these and other such things are aquired tastes, not traits. It is not something that can be controlled Also, why clone Jake if they can just have another child and save money? Jake was a unique being, why clone him if you can have another unique child naturally?

Oh, god, I hated Runescape. The graphics didn't bother me, but everything was choppy and then there were some of the users. You know, the ones that try to keep you locked up in a gate, trick more inexperienced players, etc. Ugh, just ugh. So...1/5. Thank god I stopped playing it years ago.

I'm going to have to disagree with that.Why would you clone someone for that reason? Not only is it expensive, as I've said before, just because you clone someone doesn't mean that they will have the same thoughts, feelings, memories, abilities, etc. as its DNA donor does. Cloning someone is basically creating a whole new person, not an exact replica that will act exactly the same.Plus, I think breaking up with one's girlfriend is not a very good reason for cloning. Why would one even use that method in such a situation in the first place?

I fail to see what you mean here. Maybe it's because I didn't quite understand what you wrote. Anyways, the fastest way to make something dangerous is not to outlaw it, but to misuse it. While I do agree with cloning as long as the purpose is ligitimite, cloning an entire human makes me rather uncomfortable. I mean, what would it prove except that we could? Also, people get this notion in their minds that a clone will look exactly like its DNA donor and that it will be empty-minded. People have to understand that you're not creating a human being that has no personal will of its own or will be just like its donor, but a whole different entire being with its own range of emotions, thoughts, and feelings.

I agree with yellow. Every time I see a page with yellow text, my eyes are like, "it burns us, it burnssss ussss!". For me, a general rule of thumb is that if you must use some kind of yellow, stick with a goldenrod color of some sort. It's easier on the eyes than just plain, blinding yellow is, and for a black/white/grey picture background on my website I'm building, it came off as a rather nice effect. Matched my buttons and everything. ;p Another good rule of thumb is not to use funky-looking fonts. For the love of God, just don't do it! It makes your site come off as looking unprofessional and thus is not taken seriously. The only time I find this acceptable is if you are building an elegant-looking layout of sorts and you need a font title. Just don't use wedding fonts, they're hardly legible, so I usually stick to something like "Scriptina" or the like.

When I was a newbie at finding website hosts, I decided to try Bravehost. After all, it did look promising, right? Wrong! When I registered, everything was extremely hard to navigate, their FAQ wasn't helpful at all, I got no support whatsoever for some odd reason, and when I unsubscribed from their newsletter, I still kept getting it! I must have unsubscribed like, three times now! Eventually, I got fed up with it and blocked their address from my e-mail account, and yet it still manages to bypass my spam and blocked e-mail addresses filter, every single time! In the end, I didn't even get my website up because their control panel was just too confusing for me to use, not to mention that really ugly banner ad up at the top that screwed everything up. Wasn't impressed at all.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned this, but don't have a text that hurts to look at or blends in with the background. This is especially true when you have a background image of different colors. Also, when using a background image, I find it easier to have a no repeat, fixed background with scrolling text so that when you scroll down you won't see a repeat of the picture or the end of the picture and a giant white space.Also, try and make your pages eye-catching. If your page doesn't look pleasing to the eye, it tends to lead many people to the "back" button on their browser.

Just like what everyone else is saying, oil and the like for fuel is going to be main source of energy when it comes to transportation, because you can get farther on it than any other fuel source. However, besides hydrogen, ethanol, and solar power, I heard that alcohol can run pretty smoothly as a fuel source as well. Technically, you could put anything in your car, and as long as it is able to burn, your car can run off of it, but like I said before, so far, gasoline and oil are the most practical of the fuel sources because you can go farther on it. So I'm supposing this method is going to be sticking with us for quite a while, guys.

Okay, now that I have a problem with. I am going to have to agree with you with the sickness part, but the dead and keep them living is a whole different mater entirely. First off, creating a clone does not mean creating an exact duplicate of the cloned person with the same memories and reactions. It would be a whole different person, like identical twins. They look alike, but the have individual minds of their own. Also, who are we to decide who lives and who dies? Without death, we would have an over-population problem. Death is a part of nature that we just have to accept. Once someone is dead, they stay dead. End of story. With mass cloning, not just for "spare parts" like in the movie "The Island", this technique could not be used just for spare parts, but for a whole new way to get cheap labor done, and then we would have slavery all over again, which then leads back to my massive overthrowing by clones ideas again.

Geez, and I thought my post was long. Whew! Anyways, I'm going to have to yield to you there as you do have a point. But strength and speed do have a place in survival as well, as does beauty, which comes in handing when it comes to the mating game. As for controlling an animal's traits, breeding them is a completely different matter entirely than cloning. We use artifical selection on breeding, which I believe is acceptable because nature usually does this itself if given the chance. The better the genes, the better animal bred. Of course, this can cause inbreeding, which nature itself doesn't usually do, so it's a win-lose situation there.

I'm surprised nobody brought this up yet, so I thought I might as well, since it still is a rather popular topic of discussion among the news and radio. To clone, or not to clone? That is the question. As for me, if I was in charge of cloning the human race and controlling its factors as well, I'd lose my job faster than one could say "genetics". Being the person I am, I am strong-willed when it comes to expressing my opinion on what I think is right and wrong, and unless one can persuade me otherwise with hard, solid evidence, I will not back down. Nobody, and I reapeat nobody has the right to play the part of God. Picking and choosing what qualities one wants in a person is not only morally and ethically wrong, it would also create quite a lapse in one's individuality in their small part of the human race as a whole. It's just not our desicion to make. Imagine, a world full of people who have the all the qualities they want and they're absolutely perfect. Wonderful, right? Wrong! This would create a heirarchy, where people who were born through conception rather than created in a petri dish would be greatly surpassed in their perfect clone counterparts, where those that created the clones would soon be considered worthless and overthrown by the very clones that they themselves created. In general, all humans desire the same things the rest of humanity does. Beauty, intellegence, strength, speed; what are these except qualities that most people have to work for? Individuality is what makes us human; flaws are what make us human. If everyone had these traits, these traits wouldn't be so desirable anymore, would they? All in all, I really have no right to tamper in the human gene pool and eliminate undesirable traits, as it's those desirable traits that help us learn and grow; give us obstacles to overcome and conquer. I will never be in charge, nor do I really want to be, so this is my point: I do not and will not ever have a perfect human in mind, and in my opinion, neither should the rest of humanity. However, the exception I can accept is the cloning of human organs as you're not really cloning the whole human itself. This method could be used to help save lives, and thus is a huge medical breakthrough, but cloning a whole human? What point would that prove except showing that it's possible? What is your take on this guys?