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First entry: The questionaire on top
Second entry: The photograph and quote from article explaining the questionaire
Third entry: A question about Google software Pack
Forth entry: A link to some fun with pictures

NEW!!
Fifth entry: A link to some fun with e books, NO MORE KILLING OF TREES!!!

I reserve this first post.

Good, on the sheep ...

here is a photograph of the now 15 months old Cloned male sheep, living in Isfahan.



Points of View:

The program has won backing from Iran's Shiite Muslim religious leaders, who have issued religious decrees authorizing animal cloning but banning any such experiments with humans. A majority of Iran's nearly 70 million people are Shiites, which comprise about 15 percent of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims.

Many Sunni Muslim clerics, however, have spoken against cloning in any form.

Quote from http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060810/iran_cloning_060810?s_name=&no_ads=

I hate to break it to you but 'dolly' was cloned in 1996

Janetdog, perhaps you should actually read the header of this forum and the article. I did not state that the Islamic ram is the FIRST cloned sheep!!!!!

I second that!

ITEM NUMBER THREE. GOOGLE SOFTWARE PACK

GOOGLE has a software pack, with lots of things in it. Including a thing called StarOffice8, that proclaims to work with OpenOffice

The Free software pack does not (NOT!!!!) provide all the things in StarOffice8 - in fact you have to pay 70 dollars to register and use all of the content

Is it worth it? http://pack.google.com/intl/en/learn_more_frameset.html (I hope you get the language you need to read the information automaticly)


Who can comment on that?

that's actually a very unique picture....next to Dolly is "Jennifer", the first cloned bald man

they screwed up and gave Jennifer some of Dolly's eye DNA...that's why he wears glasses

Here ya go anna.

The FDA (Food and Drug administration) Is very close to approving cloned animals for public consumption here in the US.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003308396_clones17.html

Corn, Soybeans, and Wheat have been genetically altered here for quite a few years. Rumor has it that the genetic grain has all but wiped out natural strains.

The religeous right including both Bush administrations have raised hell regarding human genetic testing here. The main issue is the limitations on stem cell research allowing only four strains to be propegated. This has set us far behind other countries (mainly france) who have embraced the technology and are curing horrible diseases.

I wasn't trying to imply that your sheep was or wasn't number one. It's just that genetics have been a hobby of mine for a while.

Star office is a total rip off of open office. It's a shame that they are trying to sell Star considering they have basically put lipstick on a pig and called it their own. Besides, It goes against the spirit of linux and open source software.

That was my surprise as well. Because in the description they bost that StarOffice is doing lots of stuff in ADDITION to OpenOffice, like draw, publishing etc.

If OpenSource and OpenOffice are free, then why pay for the rest?

Or would that payment be for the flash type parts of the extras?

Nice to see somebody else interested in cloning. I did not forget about Dolly, but I was showing the difference between Christian Religious Groups and their rejection of cloning and the current Islamic thoughts on the subject.

I guess East and West both have pro's anc con's about it in equal messure. Just that many more con's still live in USA (even though American corn is mostly manipulated and such.... )

BUMP

Here is a link that allows you to create quick morfs


http://www.morphd.com/