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So who's in for the second annual Woot Fantasy Footbal league?
We're doing this again. I say that without speaking to the organizers from last year, but I figure my strong words will frighten everyone into submission.
Who's in? Who's out from last year? Who's underpants are these?
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What do you guys run this on?
Will @pemberducky make a cake for the winner??
I'll get in on it this year, and how the hell did you get my underpants?
I will throw my hat in. Afterall, I am the reigning champion from last year and Snapster never did send me my BOC.. >:(
It's probably important to call in a few of the veterans:
@bonoman @miquinn @drunkcajun @mfladd @thurgoodjenkins
I'm sure I've missed some, I'll call them in as they come to mind.
Also, we need to agree on a draft format (standard or auction).
It will be on ESPN again this year. I think we can have up to 20 teams, but we had 14 last year and things got thin after the 3-4th round in the draft.
If anyone else can think of some of the players from last year, please page them here!
I want to make sure everyone gets their butts kicked again
EDIT: @coolphilip04
Wooo! IM IN CAPUNCABOY! Let us tussle.
[edit] I think we should get some adq up in here!
@agingdragqueen show yo self
I'm a glutton for punishment.... and for fun. I'm in. If only for more of the entertaining wrap-ups.
@miquinn: YOU RANNNNG?
I would fantasy it up. I'm terrible at these things but it's funny.
@agingdragqueen: woohoo! This is gonna be the year!
Count me in!
Dibs on rodgers again :)
I am quite interested.
well even if there's no cake involved, I'll come along for the ride
The gauntlet has been thrown so I am in. It has to get better for me this year than last (doesn't it @drunkcajun?) I must have seen this coming because I actually did a community search yesterday to see if anyone had brought it up yet.
Yeah, 14 teams last year and things really did get thin. Perhaps 2 leagues of 10 depending on interest.
@capguncowboy: I must say the fact your didn't get your trophy was bad form from a certain someone (clears throat)
p.s. it's nice to see all your names again!!!!
@miquinn: whaassuuppp?!?!
p.s. how did I get a black triangle again? I have done almost nothing here for ages and was purple and now I see I am black again. Has membership or activity been dropping or something?
@mfladd: its been a while! glad to hear from ya! gotta come join us sometime over at wootchat
I've never understood fantasy football, or even real football for that matter. LOL. Sounds like it's fun though.
@mfladd: I second that!
No more than 10 teams in each league and I couldn't care less how many leagues we end up with. I had a blast last year but after week 2 when all the RBs got hurt, there were literally NONE to draft. Things got rough!
@baybei: that is exactly how I play these things. THIS GUY HAS A COOL NAME maybe I should make him quarterlinebacker or something.
@capguncowboy: We were literally adding every Tom, Dick and Harry RB from the waiver wire in hopes they would be promoted from the practice squad. Not fun.
I play fantasy football once. I had no idea what I was doing but it was fun. So I'm in if there's a place for me.
Oh, and, right now, I claim Howard Cosell, Walter Cronkite, Jackie Stewart and Dan and Casey from Sports Night as my fantasy broadcast staff.
I WANT IN! Please!
@agingdragqueen: In which case, it really sounds like fun. Can I get in on the fun too? Even if I'm clueless? You can teach me as I go, I promise to try and figure it all out! :)
BTW I managed to get a hold of @bonoman (league manager) via ESPN's site. He said he was out to dinner but would post later this evening.
@capguncowboy: Awesome! Thanks!
I would love to join said fantasy league, i say a 16 team league but thats just me.
How does it work? I'm waffling here....
I'm totally in! Our work league has fizzled out because we couldn't get enough teams together so I can go all in with this one.
For newbies, here is how it works. We hold a draft (an excuse to get drunk and trash talk) where you essentially pick an "all star" team. QB, a few RBs, a few WRs, etc. Then you pick one kicker and one total defense (no individual defensive players). You pick enough for a team and some guys to ride the bench when you need to switch out. Each weekend you decide who from your team you want to play and you play them. Each week you're teamed up against an opposing team and whomever's "all star" team has the most points wins. A team gets points by tons of various things like a qb throwing a touchdown, a running back scoring a touchdown, kicker getting a field goal etc etc. Rinse repeat for the season. You can pick up players off of the waiver wire if your guys are under performing or get hurt.
Can we get an actual roll call of who is in?
I'm in.
@bonoman: I'm in! Need my email address? Hlauren44 at aol
@bonoman: So far, here's the list:
@axphw1 said was interested
I know we will draw in more throughout this week and we probably need to plan on when to have the draft soon, so people can plan ahead. Looks like we'll have a pretty good turnout this year.
My info is same as last time, let us know if you need updated emails. Thanks for setting it up bono!
That would be 14. We need 6 more to do 2 leagues of 10 which I think would be good. Any more takers?
@jsimsace: don't waffle, embrace the experience!
@woothulhu: thanks for starting the thread :)
@capguncowboy Thanks for that!
And yeah if we can get to two 10 team leagues that would be amahzing! A 14 team league is tough, it gets real thin (as has been mentioned before). 2 10 team leagues would be pretty damn exciting!
If you need one more I'll get in on it i guess.
Ohh boy.... Two cowboys in a one-trophy town.
@drunkcajun: baseball is my sport, I rarely catch a football game, I'm sure I'll be no match for CGC
@cowboydann: few are a match for me. Most of those are only talked about in Greek Mythology
@capguncowboy: I see the trash talking has begun :)
3 more slots! what's the plan on how the leagues get split up?
[edit] with lonelypond down there, that leaves only 2 now!
Would like in if there's a spot.
I'd love to play, but I don't want to take a spot from someone who is actually serious about fantasy football or to diminish the level of play/competition for those who know what they're doing. Do we have a JV league? :)
Just like MacArthur.... I shall return
I'll bite if there's an open spot. Got my feet wet with a competitive fantasy baseball league this year, it's pretty fun.
Count me in, btw. Should have mentioned that in my first post. <_<
@neuropsychosocial: I'd be down for quartering off the noobs in their own league, We can discuss it in DWChat tomorrow and see if we can get enough of us together for a league of noobs there.
Okay here's the roster so far.
1 @bogie21
2 @capguncowboy
3 @miquinn
4 @drunkcajun
5 @agingdragqueen
6 @zarfus
7 @axphw1
8 @adam113089
9 @mfladd
10 @baybei
11 @gt0163c
12 @slacker44
13 @raremonkey
14 @bonoman
15 @cowboydann
16 @daveinsocal
17 @teenracer6
18 @lonelypond
19 @neuropsychosocial
20 @pxb006
21 @sully51
22 @squirrelhunter70
23 @jsimsace
I have @jsimsace listed as probable. If he/she decides to play we'll need one more to have two divisions of 12. If he/she decides not to play then it's just two divisions of 11.
I see some desire to have a noob league. We can just split the divisions. Noobs and Vets. Then the championship will between a vet and a noob. Could lead to some fun stuff!
Draft details. First game of the season is Sept 5th so as long as the draft is before that, I'm all good.
Any dates or times of day that people can't make it?
The draft can last from 1 to 3 hours. I personally think the draft is fun (and we can do Google Hangouts!) and a good excuse to eat, get drunk, and trash talk.
"Hurry up I've got to go do the laundry before I go to bed" is a perfect example of TERRIBLE DRAFT ETIQUETTE. Have fun. Take your time and insult everybody you can.
Once we've decided on a finalized roster and draft date, we will do a randomized draft order.
The draft order will SNAKE. Meaning it's 1 2 3 4 ... 4 3 2 1. This insures that later picks don't get totally boned.
Any questions?
@bonoman: Thanks for setting this up! It's gonna be fun. As long as a vet doesn't mind losing the championship to a noob. ;) Are you sending email invites or do you have a link to the league?
Hooray! This is exciting.
As a noob, some questions:
What site do you use (Yahoo is good, free, and has a decent app)?
What type of league (head to head, rotisserie)?
Starting positions?
Roster size?
Nights work best for me for the draft.
Is there a way to "autodraft"? The last time I played I had to go to a wedding shower during the time of the draft but the system we were using (I think it was on yahoo) auto generated a list and if you didn't do anything it automatically followed that list for the draft options. Since I had no idea what I was doing, I just stuck with the everything automatic and seemingly came out with a good team.
If I actually need to be virtually present for the draft, it's gonna have to be on a weekend/labor day, as I'm one of those crazy people who gets up before the sun and, therefore, has an insanely early bedtime (~9pm central time...maybe 10pm on a Friday).


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I have a ton of oil sitting in trade sites that aren't getting bought at the end of the month. How do I create demand so that my oil gets bought? It seems I have a chicken and egg problem, in that I can't create consumer buildings because I don't have an HQ to produce a building further down the production chain, but I can't produce the new building because my lesser tier products aren't selling.
There is no demand mechanic as everybody has said, there's simply a truck spawn timer that spawns regional trucks to either export or import goods. The more regional truck bays you put on your trade depot the more trucks will come in to export/import goods.
Anyways, that's not your problem.
If you have everything set up right and no traffic, here's more than likely your problem: There is currently (as of 03/26/2013) a regional trade truck bug which causes trucks to get stuck on the regional highway near the entrance of another city. This causes huge problems and results in excess storing up of your goods. I've seen this reported to Maxis programmers several times and a patch is incoming to fix it.
Be sure you click the "Manage Global Deliveries" (select the Trade Depot) button and select "export" for the resource you want to sell. (You need to do this separately for each Trade Depot/Port.)
The global market provides the trucks. See http://gaming.stackexchange.com/a/110069/30220
(There is no "demand" mechanic for resources.)
The demand shouldn't be a problem, just make sure you have no traffic problems between the trade sites and the regional highway

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Long time no see! :) How are you all? (That's not a rhetorical question - I'd love to hear from you - please feel free to tell me how life has been treating you lately in the comments!) Some of you know this already, but I got a job in social work at a skilled nursing facility in June. That has not only kept me busy, but also been pretty energy-draining, so it's been a long time since I've felt much like blogging. I have a ton of ideas for posts that have been stewing around in my head for months, as well as a few reviews I feel I owe to a couple of company reps who graciously sent me some product samples this summer, so hopefully this current bout of motivation will last for a while! I'm also planning to do another blog sale soon and would feel like a schmuck asking you all to buy my crap without giving you any new and interesting reading material, so... I'll write some new posts, you'll read them, then I'll ask you to buy my crap. Problem solved!
Anyway, someone posted a comment on my old post How to Salvage a Broken Eyeshadow asking how to press a mineral eyeshadow, which made me realize I promised to write a post on that and then never did. Oops! So, here goes. Please note that you can click on any picture to view it full-size!
To press mineral eyeshadows, you use a similar process as what you see in the How to Salvage a Broken Eyeshadow tutorial. However, instead of mixing the powder with only alcohol, you need to mix it with a combination of alcohol and some substance that can act as a "binder." I don't know the science behind this, but I do know that unlike with MAC pigments or previously pressed (and broken) eyeshadows, mineral eyeshadows will revert back to their loose powder form as soon as the alcohol has evaporated if you don't use a binder. I've heard of a variety of things working as a binder in this process - among them are pure glycerin (available at the drugstore), Fyrinnae Powder Modifier (though I don't think they sell it anymore), Coastal Scents EZ Prez, MAC Mixing Medium, and Biosilk Silk Therapy (yes, the hair serum!). So here's what you'll want to do (credit for most of the following goes to the lovely Lorin, a.k.a. sixxmum on Makeup Alley, who taught me everything I know about pressing mineral eyeshadows):
1. To start with, you'll need the following materials:
- isopropyl alcohol (91% is best, but if you can't find it, 70% will suffice)
- your binder product(s) of choice (see above)
- a mixing tool like a laboratory spatula (pictured) or a plastic cosmetic spatula
- a quarter
- some kind of clean, lint-free, absorbent cloth
- dropper bottles (available at craft stores)
- a mineral eyeshadow (duh)
- a pan to put the shadow in when you're finished
- a small mixing bowl (I usually use a shot glass or a larger empty sample jar)
- measuring spoon
- optional: an organza bag, an empty magnetized palette (shown is E.L.F. brand, $1), an adhesive magnet (I use these ones), sticky labels (pictured below)
How to Salvage a Broken Eyeshadow tutorial.) Optional step: once it seems you've soaked up as much alcohol as you can, you can slide the pan inside an organza bag, then lay the cloth and quarter over it and press down as you did before. This will imprint the shadow with a finer-looking hetchmark pattern.
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10 Dumbass Money Saving Tips (People Are Actually Trying)
#5. Use Your Lint
You may have noticed after a particularly robust load of pajamas, boxer shorts and bath robes that your dryer's lint trap is full to bursting with off color fuzz and a veritable forest of errant pubes. How many times have you peeled off that layer of fluffy nastiness and simply hucked it away without ever stopping to ponder just how many thousands of dollars you just tossed into the trash?
After all, why pay for things like expensive stuffed animal stuffing when you can stuff your own with lint and present little Johnny with his very own 45 percent pubic hair by volume Teddy Bear?
But wait, we're not just talking about slashing the 25 percent or more of the household income most families blow on bear stuffing. Maybe you live in an old, drafty house that has been improperly sealed against the elements, causing your heating and cooling bills to skyrocket.
A little dryer lint in the cracks and suddenly your wayward pubes and the stray pet hairs that had been clinging to your sweater are keeping you toasty all winter long!
Mattress sagging in the middle? Cram some lint in there! Need to stuff your crotch to impress the neighbors? Lint! Need fuel for your lint-powered time machine? Lint, motherfucker!
#4. Make Dog Hair Sweaters
Just look at Old Navy, getting rich while you're headed to the poorhouse, laughing all the way at you and your cotton briefs. Do you know where cotton comes from? Of course not, no one does, and that's how they trick you.
But now you can fight back against those imperialist bastards and their precious textiles by simply making your own clothing out of the hair you brush out of your mangy pets each and every day.
With only minimal shame and an excessive amount of effort, you can buy a book that will show you how to spin your dog or cat's fur into yarn which you can then knit into sweaters, purses, thongs or whatever hideous thing you choose.
No longer will you be a slave to seasonal fashion trends. Instead you'll just be a slave to how long it takes your Shih Tzu to grow in a full coat so you can finish off those pants you've been working on. And the best of all, the finished product, well, totally looks like clothing made of dog hair.
#3. Visit Mexican Dentists
Say, is that impacted wisdom tooth still bugging you? Don't fall victim to the dental industry's shenanigans with their crazy "you should see a dentist" bullshit. At least not in America. While dentists are happy to quickly and efficiently alleviate your pain, they like to tack on a hefty fee and really, what do you get for your money? The ability to eat and sleep and not be in excruciating agony? Pfft, that's clown shoes.
Why not take a road trip to Tijuana instead, if the pain doesn't make you veer off the highway, and visit a dentist who will work for about a quarter of the price? As an added bonus, you can take in a donkey show or get completely blitzed on low grade mescal and forget why you went to Mexico in the first place. How can you afford not to?
Now before we catch hell in the comments for painting Mexico as some kind of drug and taco-filled wasteland, we have nothing against the country and we're not actually questioning the credentials of Mexican dentists. But we will link to The Washington Post, who took it upon themselves to point out the occasional missed oral cancer diagnoses and rampant infections after Mexican dental work.
But hey, there were also free tacos.
#2. DIY Feminine Hygiene
Now, we're all grown-ups here. Menstruation is an actual non-comedy function of the female body and we're only grossed out in the same way we're grossed out by any of the things that come oozing out of the male body.
So when, in the interest of saving Mother Earth and your bank account, some sites start showing us how to make reusable panty liners at home, we're hoping male and female readers alike will consider this a pretty disgusting step backward for humanity. Even if we evolve to a completely sustainable future where even our very farts are harnessed to power our laptops, we'll hopefully still be throwing away the damned Maxi Pads.
But, no, these sites boast that their pads last up to eight years, and they go out of their way to give their reusable pads festive designs, so you can slough your uterine lining all over SpongeBob or the cast of High School Musical. They also note that they make nice gifts...
OK, now they're fucking with us, right?
#1. Rot
Open casket funerals are the Ponzi scheme of the death industry, without a doubt. All those morticians and funeral directors are probably taking lavish vacations to exotic places like Detroit at your expense, and all because we continue to want to have funerals in which the bereaved can view their dead loved one resting peacefully.
Embalming is the process we foolishly pay for to preserve the body after death and make open casket funerals both possible and not nightmare-inducing. But it can cost a few grand and, in many states, isn't even required!
So why not save a few bucks and let grandpa compost naturally in his casket? Just keep the lid firmly closed during the funeral and get a few Glade Plug-Ins going, and nobody'll notice the difference.
Make this a requirement in your Will and you can enter the afterlife secure in the knowledge that you've saved enough money for your kids to buy a nice television.
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What resources are available to trace the connections from the Gemara to the Halachic codifications and the reverse? For example, how can someone learning Daf Yomi find the related Halachic rulings in the Shulchan Aruch that were based on that particular page of Talmud, and how would someone studying Mishneh Torah find the source in the Gemara?
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The Be'er HaGolah (printed next to the Shulchan Aruch) gives all the sources as listed in Tur/BY. The Biur HaGra gives more thorough sources than the Be'er HaGolah, so you should probably use that one.
There is also, of course, the Ein Mishpat, if you want to go the other way around (Gemara to poskim). It's found at the top of the outer margin of each daf, and it's referenced by k'tav ashurit letters throughout the text of the Gemara.
If you want to learn the codified halachot that are based on the page of the Talmud you're learning, you should definitely check out the Gemara put out by The Halacha Brura and Birur Halacha Institute.
An idea from HaRav Kook, see here:
It is split into two parts, the Halacha Berura and the Biur Halacha. From here:
The Halacha Berura was done by Rav Kook himself, while the Berur Halacha is done by a committee of Rabbis led by Rav Kook's son (Rav Kook passed away during the editing of the first volume).
Their website has some examples of the Berur Halacha in the original and translated into English.
I have this Gemara on Berachot and love it. The only possible complaint is that it is not one of the newer prints of the Talmud (only the Rashi is re-typeset). This doesn't bother me for the Gemara itself, but I would prefer the compilation (and retyping) of the Mefarshim found in the back of the Talmud.
@ba pointed out in the comments that hebrewbooks.org has the first Halacha Brura gemara, Beitza. The Berur Halacha starts here.
b a's answer lists the standard short references from g'mara to halacha and vice versa.
Menachem's answer lists a resource for following a g'mara through to its halachic conclusion.
So I'll do the opposite: mention a resource for following a halacha back to its talmudic source. The best I've found for this is Aruch Hashulchan, who often quotes the relevant g'mara, lists how rishonim understood it l'halacha, often discusses questions on those rishonim, and so on, until the final p'sak.
The new Koren Talmud actually does a very good job at providing not only the Ein Mishpat, but it also gives you the complete Rambam and Shulchan Aruch relevant to particular sugyot.
For the Mishneh Torah, first look at the commentaries printed in the standard editions. However, the work of these commentaries didn't exhaust all the halachos of the Rambam. Some of the gaps have been filled in by R' Chaim Kanievsky's in his Kiryat Melech, which fortunately, is available online.


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How to Run a Library
Cataloging books is a good rainy day project for the bookworm in your family.
- Paper
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- Books
- Notebook, index cards and recipe box, or simple computer database
- Date stamp (optional)
- Compile a list of your family's books, starting with your child's bookshelf.
- Show your child how to write a list that includes at least the title and author of each book.
- If you like, your child might also include each book's subject, publisher, and year of publication.
- Your child can list the books alphabetically in a notebook, note each book on an index card and keep the cards in a recipe box, or enter the information into a simple computer database so it can be sorted by author, title, or subject.
- Once you've cataloged your books, open your library for loans to friends and family members.
- If you like, create a library card for each borrower and record the items you've loaned out.
- Your little librarian may enjoy using a date stamp for stamping due dates.
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It's amazing how these keep dribbling onto the market.
You Californians can also try your local Orchard Supply Hardware stores. They may have one here or there.
@sfeitler: "dribbling" ... LeakFrog ... punny
It is true. These will save your arse. I put one next to my freezer in the basement. One day the alarm went off. The washing machine had wiggled around and knocked the freezer's plug out of the socket and it started to defrost. Saved me a couple hundred $ in food.
@debbiedunlap: Sorry, couldn't resist.
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WE now have one by each sink and next to the washer/dryer. I only wish we had these before the hot water line in our kitchen blew.
It just wouldn't be the same buying it from someone other than Woot...
mine works great!
I have discovered a decent water alarm that has a remote(wired)water sensor. The thing seems well constructed, takes 9V, is loud, and is sold at Home Depot, Lowes, and Ace for around $12. Their website is basementwatchdog.com.
Here is the basement watchdog water alarm... and ships FREE with a $249.99 order! :)
The way I see it... the only true water damage comes when there is a flood...and you don't need an alarm to know when that happens..
@billyshoe: regarding true damage, not necessarily. I had a toilet leak that I didn't notice until I went into that bathroom. Leaked straight through to the floor below. I still need to patch that drywall... had it gone a bit longer, it might have damaged framing.
@billyshoe: So you've never had a pipe burst, toilet leak, washing machine transmission fail, dog piss on the floor, or anything?
@duckcake: just out of curiosity (and I think leakfrogs are great and no offense) but do you attach a leak frog to your dog or something? I know when my dog was younger he'd pee places, but he liked to choose nice rugs - places where leak frogs wouldn't have been...
@twerp02: No, I have hardwood floors, and hardly any rugs. When my dog (passed last month) pissed on the floor she used to walk while doing it, so it was everywhere, and the places I never found it sometimes (dried while I was away, or under the couches) ruined my floors that I've already replaced twice.
$19.45 with shipping for a single Leak Frog? Pah.
Not a deal.
Count me as another person saved by LeakFrogs.
Had one under the toilet. It warned us of the leaky cutoff valve before it became a major problem.
Wife keeps one under the dishwasher. Whenever it goes off it usually means it's time to clean the door seals.
Handy little things. Won't save you from major catastrophe (eg. real floods, hurricane, etc), but it will catch small things before they become much larger problems.
@billyshoe: Not to jump on the bandwagon, but I had a pipe burst in my house that the insurance adjustor estimated at $70k of damage. Not a flood, but, yes, damage. Interestingly, my house survived perfectly well a torrential downpour earlier that year (which effectively flooded my neighbors across the way).
Granted, my leakfrog didn't tell me about it, since I was away on vacation at the time -- but water damage is awful and can happen without a flood (even in less severe cases than what I had).
@drgandalf: It is if you really want one. They're pretty scarce these days.
I did a little Google search for our friend the Leak Frog, and found an addition link to Ace hardware's sold out listing.
There's a link in big red letters saying "click here for replacements." It took me to Ace's listing for the boxy Basement Watchdog kind that @druple mentioned and @billyshoe linked...only far more expensive than from Home Depot.
Is our smirking green frog being replaced by an expressionless mean dog? :(
Love these little green guys - two of them sounded off one afternoon just as we were about to leave the house for a few hours - turns out that rain had started coming in near a window we hadn't realized was open (again). Had we not been alerted, the wood floors would certainly have been damaged at the very least. I'm still grateful about that!
I had one of these save my behind just a few days ago....leak under the kitchen sink. Could NOT figure out what the beeping was at first though! LOL! If you do get them, put them close to where a leak may happen, they will go off in surprisingly little water!
You may want to put this one as RIP, when you click the link it goes to Amazon and shows a price of $89.99.
@kb3pxr: and $20 shipping, such a bargain! [end sarcasm] yikes!


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I want to make a simple, proof-of-concept application (REPL) that takes a number and then processes commands on that number.
I start with 1. Then I write "
add 2", it gives me 3. Then I write "
multiply 7", it gives me 21. Then I want to know if it is prime, so I write "
is prime" (on the current number - 21), it gives me false. "
is odd" would give me true. And so on.
Now, for a simple application with few commands, even a simple
switch would do for processing the commands. But if I want extensibility, how would I need to implement the functionality? Do I use the command pattern? Do I build a simple parser/interpreter for the language? What if I want more complex commands, like "
multiply 5 until >200" ? What would be an easy way to extend it (add new commands) without recompiling?
Edit: to clarify a few things, my end goal would not be to make something similar to WolframAlpha, but rather a list (of numbers) processor. But I want to start slowly at first (on single numbers).
I'm having in mind something similar to the way one would use Haskell to process lists, but a very simple version. I'm wondering if something like the command pattern (or equivalent) would suffice, or if I have to make a new mini-language and a parser for it to achieve my goals?
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Hi guys and gals!
I thought i'd post my very first panorama, except for one of my livingroom trying out my NN5L. It's not very good, if you zoom in on the high resolution copy you can actually see some slight seems. But zoomed out it looks kinda nice.
To tell you a little bit about it. I was out for a walk with my girlfriend a of couple days ago. I insisted on taking my camera and tripod to try to get a shot from a very nice lookout point just two miles from my apartment. The shot shows lake V?§ttern from the city of J??nk??ping in Sweden. The shot is taken in a slightly eastern angle, you can see the sun setting in the east north-east direction.
The shot is actually almost a full 180 degree but due to risk of landslide i was forced to set up my equipment about 15 feet from the edge and even raising the camera as far as the tripod allows (slightly more than 7 feet i would guess) i caught ALOT of grass, air and even more trees to the far left and right which i cropped for this export.
The full image is about 250% higher, about 15% wider and in full resolution 25,8mpix. It was stiched using the auto-create feature of ptassembler.


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I say "southern-style" because I am fairly sure that no one south of the Mason-Dixon line actually eats anything like this. This dish just kind of came together on the fly and I was happy with the result. I knew the kids would totally freak out if I made them eat greens on anything that looked like a burger, so I let them eat them on the side. They still did not thank me.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Southern-Style BBQ Tofu Burger
I say "southern-style" because I am fairly sure that no one south of the Mason-Dixon line actually eats anything like this. This dish just kind of came together on the fly and I was happy with the result. I knew the kids would totally freak out if I made them eat greens on anything that looked like a burger, so I let them eat them on the side. They still did not thank me.
15 comments:
- Paulina said...
I love putting BBQ on my tofu - it makes for a really tasty combination!
- April 26, 2009 at 9:51 PM
- Macie said...
I'm in Alabama, and I give you permission to call it a Southern Burger, 'cause I'd sure eat it! Yum!
And the greens only make it 10x better :D
- April 26, 2009 at 10:21 PM
- Gena said...
Hey Vegan Dad!
I love your blog, btw. This burger will impress many of my friends, and the quesedillas yesterday were lovely! thanks for the recipes.
- April 26, 2009 at 10:48 PM
- DJ Karma said...
Aw, what a considerate Dad- they'll appreciate it when they're older!
- April 26, 2009 at 10:49 PM
- Emily said...
Much to my dissatisfaction, I live south of the Mason Dixon, and I would definitely eat that! But I agree--that particular style of barbecue would be impossible to find around here! :-)
- April 27, 2009 at 7:14 AM
- Joi said...
I would eat this in a heartbeat! I am a southerner through and through. :)
- April 27, 2009 at 7:15 AM
- shelby said...
I've never thought to add greens to a burger (besides baby spinach and lettuce) and it sounds really good! Especially with BBQ sauce =)
- April 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM
- Melissa Crowe said...
Have you ever been to the Grit (Athen, Georgia)? They are south of the Mason Dixon and make a pretty mean bbq tofu sandwich. ;-) I hope you're having sweet tea with yours!
- April 27, 2009 at 9:23 AM
- Kelly said...
That looks delicious, especially since it is on what I presume is a homemade bun. Delicious!
- April 27, 2009 at 11:53 AM
- Mary said...
I just found this blog and I can't wait to try some of these recipes, they look great. Thanks for everything, I'll be back often!
- April 27, 2009 at 11:44 PM
- A said...
Seems like everyone in blog land is on a burger trend recently!!
Yours looks incredible. Everything is better with bar b que sauce! :)
- April 28, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- JohnP said...
that looks good! if it hasn't been eaten in the south before, it will be now. i may need to mail you a bottle or two of real TN bbq sauce, though.
- April 28, 2009 at 4:26 PM
- little bird said...
I love this blog, but I'm inclined to think maybe y'all haven't spent too much of your time exploring vegan serving restaurants in the south, or trading recipes with southerners. Though it may be a little few and far between, I swear that the food down south does beat any vegan food I've had anywhere else-- even on the west coast where veganism seems to be pretty hip. Not to mention that bbq tofu is a southern standard and almost always served with greens, cornbread and sweet tea! What I mean to say is, don't underestimate- southern vegans can really get down!
- April 30, 2009 at 3:39 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
little bird,
I mean no offense to southern vegans or their cooking. I just did not want to presume that I knew a thing about southern fare (vegan or otherwise).
- April 30, 2009 at 4:11 PM
- Wendy said...
This was delicious. I don't know that I've had chard other than once in soup, but we gave it a try and I'm glad I did! The kids (3 and 5) were NOT interested in the chard but happily ate BBQ tofu burgers, and my husband and I thoroughly enjoyed ours. Leftovers cold the next day were tasty, too!
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Here is an example I picked up from this ebook (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/riccardo/prog-smlnj/notes-011001.pdf)
-fun curry (f:'a * 'b -> 'c) = fn (x:'a) => fn (y:'b) => f (x,y);
val curry = fn : ('a * 'b -> 'c) -> 'a -> 'b -> 'c
How do I interpret this function. Curry takes as argument a function f of type 'a * 'b -> 'c. I can't understand the part after '='. What is the associativity order?
Here is another example:
fun add' (x:int) (y:int):int = x + y;
How is this parsed?
Wikipedia says "currying is the technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments (or an n-tuple of arguments) in such a way that it can be called as a chain of functions each with a single argument (partial application)". Which is the single argument: the first or the last one out of the multiple arguments?


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Maximum Ambiguity
I'm arriving very late to this argument—in online journalism, as in presidential campaigns, two weeks is an eternity—but I'd like to add something to what Matthew J. Frank and Ross Douthat have already written about this very stupid post by a very smart man. Commenting on Paul Ryan's answer to the question about abortion in the vice-presidential debate, the New Yorker's Adam Gopnik writes:
[Ryan] talked about how, looking at a first sonogram of his daughter, he was thrilled by the beating heart in the tiny bean on the image, so much that he and his wife still call that child Bean.... But Ryans moral intuition that something was indeed wonderful here was undercut, tellingly, by a failure to recognize accurately what that wonderful thing was, even as he named it: a bean is exactly what the photograph shows—a seed, a potential, a thing that might yet grow into something greater, just as a seed has the potential to become a tree. A bean is not a baby.
The fundamental condition of life is that it develops, making it tricky sometimes to say when its fully grown and when it isnt, but always easy to say that there is a difference and that that difference is, well, human life itself. It is this double knowledge that impacts any grownup thinking about abortion: that it isn't life that's sacred—the world is full of life, much of which Paul Ryan wants to cut down and exploit and eat done medium rare. It is conscious, thinking life that counts, and where and exactly how it begins (and ends) is so complex a judgment that wise men and women, including some on the Supreme Court, have decided that it is best left, at least at its moments of maximum ambiguity, to the individual conscience (and the individual consciences doctor).... Ryan talked facilely of what science says in this case. But what real science has to tell us, of course, very different; it says that life has no neat on and off, that while life may in some sense begin at conception, the moment when the formed consciousness that distinguishes human life from bean life arises is a very different question, not reducible to a dogma or a simple claim. A bean isn't a baby; a baby was once a bean, and between those two truths it is, or ought to be, every woman for herself.
In response to which, Douthat makes an obvious but important point:
Gopnik is taking the congressmans nickname for his unborn child and literalizing it.... On the one hand, calling an embryo a bean makes embryonic human life sound like a form of vegetative life—not an uncommon rhetorical move in these debates, but also one that collapses on the barest scrutiny. A bean is not remotely like a baby, certainly, but neither is a baby remotely like a full-grown bean plant, and that difference has a more obvious bearing on the debate over embryonic and fetal rights than the facile comparison between plant embryos and human ones. Outside of the world of level five veganism, neither the bean nor the plant have a strong moral claim on us, and its their essence as vegetables, rather than their level of development, that makes all the moral difference. Not even the most ardent enthusiast for the idea that ontology-recapitulates-phylogeny has ever argued that developing human life passes through a vegetable phase on its path toward full adulthood. Biologically speaking, we begin as we end up—which is one reason why any normal person would be rightly horrified to find the beans switched out for human embryos in their favorite cassoulet.
The more obvious point, though, is that Gopnik's argument entails a conclusion that he would almost certainly reject were it put to him plainly. If the difference between a life that's "fully grown" and one that isn't were, as he says, "human life itself," then children and adolescents, being not yet fully developed, would not yet count as "human life." And, in that case, why should their not-quite-human lives count for as much as those of their parents in the eyes of the law?
Gopnik might reply that this isn't exactly what he means, since he goes on to write that "life has no neat on and off...while life may in some sense begin at conception, the moment when the formed consciousness that distinguishes human life from bean life arises is a very different question." But this sentence is no less perplexing than the first. After all, a "formed" consciousness is a developed consciousness, and its development continues over many years, most of them post-natal. On the other hand, if what distinguishes human life from merely potential human life "arises" in a "moment," then it does indeed have a "neat on and off," even if it may be hard to place with satisfactory precision.
It is the impossibility of such precision that really seems to backstop Gopnik's complacency on this question: "It is conscious, thinking life that counts, and where and exactly how it begins (and ends) is so complex a judgment that wise men and women, including some on the Supreme Court, have decided that it is best left, at least at its moments of maximum ambiguity, to the individual conscience (and the individual consciences doctor)." But of course the ambiguities of "conscious, thinking life" extend well beyond birth. Infants aren't conscious the way adults or even two-year-olds are, and such consciousness as infants possess does not begin the moment they are born. If humanity is reducible to "formed consciousness," why shouldn't the law reflect these facts too?
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The nut, not the bean, of the issue, is to ask when the organic material becomes human. At one extreme is the desire to avoid killing any human person. The RCC chooses to be extremely cautious here and say that since it does not definitively know when the transition to human takes place, [God not having deigned to reveal it or place any marker discernible yet to science] to take no chance and advise against destroying any life with a separate human gene pattern acquired at fertilization/conception. Those who chose to frame a different question, as did the Supreme Court, have asked, since science does not know when human personhood begins, who should have the right to decide when that organic material becomes a human person and has answered that only the woman carrying the material has that right with the advice of her physician. Thus, those only interested in law are avoiding the nut of the problem of deciding anything about the separate genetic material in the pregnant woman and has decided instead that the woman has a right to privacy in making decisions.Legally, the issue is moot until there is some way to get the legislature or the court to address the issue all want to avoid. That is why the RC bishops are wrong to make abortion positions the litmus test for elections. There is nothing going to happen until someone can find a way to bring this matter to the courts with a focus on whether the fetus has any rights. Alternatively, a constitutional amendment could be passed to define the matter and thereby force the court to accept it as a given, entirely separate from the question of privacy.Therefore, Catholic laity and clergy should be focused instead on issues which are not moot, such as how well candidates show a preferential option for the poor.
The law does take note - that's why minors can't vote or drive or smoke or marry or drink alcohol, or make contracts.Maybe Gopnik is saying two things. One might be that an embryo is no more a person than an acorn is a tree. The second might be that for something to be a "person" it has to exhibit (or have the capacity to exhibit) a kind of consciousness that thinks, feels, can interact with others.
Fair enough, Crystal. But most people do not believe that one should be punished less severely for killing a two-year-old than for killing a twenty-one-year-old. Why is that? Our culture is generally at least as solicitous toward the welfare of small children as it is toward the welfare of adults. Why is that? To extend your vegetal analogy, we are not more solicitous toward saplings than we are toward full-grown trees.
Well, children are our offspring. If we were trees, we might be more solicitous to saplings :) I could be wrong, so sorry if I am, but I think maybe you are mixing up the two ideas - the one where an embryo is compared to a seed, and the one where an embryo is not thought to have a certain kind of consciousness. There's a difference between an embryo and an infant on both these counts.
Given the way the sbortion debate predictably goes, the "bean" anecdote was an odd one for Ryan to share-the image feeds into the acorn line of reasoning not the teeny tiny baby line.
^Well, not to mention that he kinda "borrowed" Kurt Cobain's anecdote about his own daughter.
Something is regularly overlooked in these discussions: in fact, we DO make judgments all the time as to what is and what is not a human being/person *especially* on blogsa. Everyone on this blog assumes that there are no chimpanzees typing out answers here. We all are judging that we are conversing with persons. And it's not because we know what eachh of us looks like.So just what is it that makes *you* think that the posts from "Cathy" and "Matthew" and "Eric" and "unagidon" etc., are persons? Don't tell me you don't know. If you weren't convinced you were talking to other persons you wouldn't bother answering.So let's drop this myth that we don't know at least some of the marks of personhood/rational animal.
Suppose scientists all over the world attempt to create human clones, and in every instance, no matter how much money and knowledge and effort they put into it, no clone survived past the 20th week of gestation. Would we say science could successfully clone a human being (or human person)? I don't think so.
There's an article in The New Atlantis by Robert George and Patrick Lee titled Acorns and Embryos." It deals with many of the issues here, and may be of interest to anyone who has (like me) said, "An acorn is not an oak tree." I don't agree with the article's conclusions, but it is a very good treatment of the subject nonetheless. What I found of particular interest is that at one point, the authors are grappling with the question of why so many early embryos die, and they say:
Moreover, as almost all authorities in human embryology note, many of these unsuccessful pregnancies are really due to incomplete or defective fertilizations, and so in many cases, what is lost is not actually a human embryo. (To be a complete human organism, a human being, the entity must have the epigenetic primordia for a functioning brain and nervous system, which may be lacking as a result of a severe chromosomal defect.)
Consider anencephaly. Wikipedia tells us that The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) says the following about anencephaly:
A baby born with anencephaly is usually blind, deaf, unconscious, and unable to feel pain. Although some individuals with anencephaly may be born with a main brain stem, the lack of a functioning cerebrum permanently rules out the possibility of ever gaining consciousness. Reflex actions such as breathing and responses to sound or touch may occur.
I think most who self-identify as pro-life would insist that an anencephalic baby is a human being (or human person) with a right to life. But it doesn't have a functioning brain. Does (or did) it have the "epigenetic primordia for a functioning brain"? I am not sure there is any way to know. In any case, apparently what makes a human being a human being, according to George and Lee, is "epigenetic primordia." And apparently life doesn't begin at conception, but rather begins at conception if the right "epigenetic primordia" are present. Life begins at conception . . . except when it doesn't.It seems to me George and Lee are skating on thin ice. I personally would be inclined to agree that if a human egg and sperm meet, and the "epigenetic primordia" for a brain are not present, it makes no sense to call the entity a human being even if it lives long enough to be born and linger for a few days. But it seems to me that for those who argue that life begins at conception, it makes no sense to say some embryos are human beings and some are not. What is the difference between a baby born without a brain who never had the "epigenetic primordia" for a brain and a baby born without a brain who had the "epigenetic primordia" that didn't develop? How can you tell them apart? It seems to me if you insist that life begins at conception, you have to accept as a human being any union of a human sperm and a human egg that begins to grow and divide, no matter how serious the genetic anomalies and how short the life. I don't think you can declare some embryos to be human beings and others not to be. I think the only thing you can say about the ones with serious genetic anomalies is not that they are not human beings, but they are profoundly disabled human beings. (Jonah Lehrer notice: I have written about this topic on other blogs, and I have borrowed some of the above from previous messages.)
Jonah Lehrer notice :)
A very good thing that all of us participating in this blog have successfully traversed the no (wo)man's land between conception and an arbitrary point of moral/legal protection, and can now weigh jury-like about who among our fellow embryos and fetuses deserve the same protection and, perchance, the opportunity to blog at some future point. Perhaps I'm alone in seeing hubris in the toting up of who counts as one of us.
Perhaps Im alone in seeing hubris in the toting up of who counts as one of us.william collier,The way you frame the issue assumes your own point of view. The question is not, "Who counts as one of us?" Rather, it is, "When do we have something that counts as a who?" It's not, "Which persons can we classify as non-persons for our own selfish reasons?" It's, "What makes a person a person?" You are reproaching people for asking the question, which, with all due respect, is a common reaction of "pro-life" advocates. "Oh, Lord, why can't they see the obvious truth, as I do?"It's not those who would permit abortion who are challenging conventional thought. Our legal system did criminalize abortion, but it never said a zygote or an embryo was a human person with a right to life. And as a matter of fact, although many pro-lifers adhere to the Catholic position that personhood begins at birth, it is extraordinarily unlikely that any legislation will be enacted to enshrine that position in the law. Certain the existing state "trigger laws" (laws set to go into action if Roe is overturned) do not declare that human personhood begins at conception. Very few are ready to accept the idea that a raped woman must bear her rapist's baby. That, however, seems to me inescapable if it is declared that personhood begins at conception. So it seems to me that the premise of the Catholic Church and of a great many in the pro-life movementthat personhood begins at conceptionis simply never going to be accepted as a principle of positive law. It never has beenand for very good reason. And it almost certainly never will be.
First, isn't Gopnik repeating Aristotlean biology? As I remember it, humans go through a vegetative state where they cannot move except by growing; an animal state where they can move; and finally a human state. The animating force, the soul, differs according to the nature of the state, though I do not recall if it is by transformation of te vegetative soul into an animal soul, or by addition of the rational soul to the animal. IThis is not some far out idea, as Mr Douthat would have us think, but scientific orthodoxy until 100 years ago. "formless consciousness" is not the best way of describing a "rational soul" but both are subject to the same objections, well stated in this post. Aristotle's view is probably wrong, but it is not deserving of the derision aimed at it.David Nickol gets it almost right IMO: I think the only thing you can say about the ones with serious genetic anomalies is not that they are not human beings, but they are profoundly disabled human beings. All embryos are profoundly disabled human beings; they cannot walk, or see, or think. Some will never acquire those physical abilities because of genetic anomalies, some from other causes. And some will lose abilities without losing their humanity. We all lose all of our abilities when we die. Our humanity persists throughout.
David Nickol gets it almost right IMOJim McK,I was only saying that if you believe human personhood begins at conception, it seems to me you cannot rule out as human persons embryos with severe genetic problems that will keep them from developing. That is what George and Lee do, and I think they are inconsistent.I don't think it makes sense to consider healthy embryos disabled persons any more than it makes sense to consider an acorn a disabled oak tree. Imagine a fertility doctor examining a number of fertilized eggs to pick the best candidates to introduce into the uterus of a woman undergoing IVF. Does he think, "Who of these should I select?" Fertilized eggs are potential persons, not persons. It does seem to me, however, that a spiritual soul, if it exists and is infused at some point, would make a zygote or embryo or fetus a person. An immortal, spiritual soul can't be thought of as a potential thing that needs to pass through critical stages of growth to be an actual thing. But the existence of spiritual souls is a matter of faith, not of science. You can't pass laws based on a belief on ensoulment. The idea of a soul that infused at conception or sometime afterwards and that leaves the body at death makes no sense to me and I think is rejected by theologians and philosophers, so it is difficult to justify its use in a discussion like this.
As Ladislas Orsy has said, we live on the edge of mystery. I don't think this is a question we can ever answer, and I think it should be faced with the humility of not knowing that facing mystery brings. LIfe doesn't begin at conception. The egg and the sperm are not dead and magically come alive by joining. They were both quite alive before they got together. It's a continuum. Something clearly happens at conception, that's obvious. But what? What happens is in good part mystery, a mystery that envelopes all of life, and is not amenable to binary characterization (e.g., before--no life; after--life). That doesn't mean you can't take moral stands on the question of abortion, just that those stands should be tempered by humility.
The political question, of course, is not what one's personal belief is, or how strongly one believes it, but how far one should go in imposing that particular belief on others who do not share it.
" Perhaps Im alone in seeing hubris in the toting up of who counts as one of us."Bill Collier --This assumes, of course, that you really have no opinion about the humanity of whatever it is who/that is producing this email? You're not really sure it's a I/me?C'mon, Bill. You yourself tote up the humanity of persons all day long. So what are the signs?
Taken from katholica yahoo group list, because Tom thinks that Phillip has made an important point.I would make another distinction that seems to have troubled some of us for a while. It's about a woman's right to choose and her role in the abortion debate. Whether a woman's view is equal to everybody else's, etc. etc. In the DECISION to abort, the woman is paramount. It is her opinion that rules, altogether. Nobody, male or female, must make her a prisoner of conception. We hope she would come to an agreement with the father, but absent that, her decision rules. Nobody else has a right to interfere, except to point out that in certain cases it may be a crime, or perhaps a sin, or whatever. But even then it is still her decision, solely. In the DEBATE about the ISSUES, she is not paramount. Her voice is one among many. An equal voice of course, absolutely equal, but still only one of many, which includes prelates, other pro-life women, pro-choice men, jurists, etc. etc. One would hope that a woman who decides to abort would guide herself by the debate, when it is calm and enlightened, but her voice is not paramount at that time. It is only equal. It becomes paramount when she makes her decision, which is hers alone to make. Philip.
LIfe doesnt begin at conceptionJeanne,I find comment is somewhat misleading because it mixes the general and specific concept of life. What I mean by that is a human blood cell is alive but no one thinks killing a human blood cell constitutes taking a human life. So describing life as a continuum does not really add any clarity and probably actually obfuscates the issue. We know from basic biology that cared for under the right conditions, a fertilized egg has the potential to grow into what we recognize as a human. Neither the sperm nor the egg had this ability. On the continuum of life, yours and mine became specific when the egg was fertilized.
AnnDo I tote up the humanity of persons all day long? If only I had the time to engage in such a noble enterprise! ;) Im not going to apologize for taking an inclusivist position as to who counts as persons. Though he set forth his thoughts on such inclusivity in an encyclical, most of what JPII said in the following excerpt from Evangelium Vitae applies IMO with equal force to a purely secular argument for the attachment of moral and legal protection at the time a human life form comes into existence at conception:[W]hat is at stake is so important that, from the standpoint of moral obligation, the mere probability that a human person is involved would suffice to justify an absolutely clear prohibition of any intervention aimed at killing a human embryo. Precisely for this reason, over and above all scientific debates and those philosophical affirmations to which the Magisterium has not expressly committed itself, the Church has always taught and continues to teach that the result of human procreation, from the first moment of its existence, must be guaranteed that unconditional respect which is morally due to the human being in his or her totality and unity as body and spirit: The human being is to be respected and treated as a person from the moment of conception; and therefore from that same moment his rights as a person must be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life."EV, para. 60 (quoting Donum Vitae)Mere probabaility is impetus enough to keep me totin.
We know from basic biology that cared for under the right conditions, a fertilized egg has the potential to grow into what we recognize as a human. Bruce,One possible way of looking at pregnancy, it seems to me, is as something a woman (or a woman's body) does. The womb is not analogous to a plot of soil in which seeds will germinate and grow if there is enough rain and the temperature is tolerable. There is a complex interplay between an embryo/fetus and the mother's body. One might think of a zygote as a remarkable kit that a woman's body acts on to assemble a human being. Only mammals (and not all of them) get pregnant. Pregnancy is unlike anything else in nature. A human zygote is not like a fertilized hen's egg, where all that is necessary is warmth and a new member of the species results. This does not necessarily mean that a pregnant woman is not obligated to do her part once she is pregnant. But it does mean that "cared for under the right conditions" means a lot more for a human zygote than a non-mammalian egg or a seed or spore.
Mere probabaility is impetus enough to keep me totin.william collier,When a woman's life is threatened by a pregnancy, how do you weigh the "probability" of the life of the unborn against the unquestionable reality of the life of the mother?
if you believe human personhood begins at conception, it seems to me you cannot rule out as human persons embryos with severe genetic problems that will keep them from developing.David,I agree entirely. I guess my rationale is a bit different from yours. A human does not cease to be human because she lacks a particular ability, and so lacking an ability to develop does not mean one is not human.I am taking a literal view of disabled, as meaning lacking an ability. Embryos cannot walk, or see, or think, so they are lacking abilities =disabled. We are all disabled with respect to winged flight. Lacking the ability to develop like other embryos dos not make an embryo less human.You are of course free to disagree. My thinking assumes humanity is not based on abilities, but is intrinsic. That is unacceptable to many.
David--Let's get to the point where we agree that there are two distinct and innocent human lives at issue that have equal moral status, and then we can talk about the extremely difficult, and thankfully rare, cases involving the life of the mother.
Bill C. --I don't disagree with JP II's text you offer. But my question to you is more fundamental: why is it that you *ever* think that some creature that cross your path are indeed a persons? What is it that makes you think so??? Don't tell me they look lke people. You say a zygote is a person, but it doesn't look like one, so that can't be your answer. IT seems to me that this argument about abortion goes round and round interminably because most people are unwilling to ask the hard metaphysical and epistemological and psychological questions, starting with: how does one *ever* know *what* something is? The very obvious fact of the matter is that we all make judgements about what kind of things we're dealing with *all* the time, and that includes "toting up" the human characteristics that lead us to believe we are dealing with people and not some strange primate. ( know what my answers are, and I got them from experience. So how do you tell a person when you find one? The debate really hinges on your answers.
Oops -- should be: What is it that makes you think that some creature that crosses your path must indeed be a person?(See what I get when I try to edit -- more mistakes. :-(
I may be seeing the same difficulty to which Ann refers. For current discussion purposes here, what are agreed, modestly rigorous definitions in English of the critical terms being used, identifying the specifically distinguishing properties or characteristics intended by the word "life", for example? "You know it when you see it" or "Not like a ____" tends to maximize ambiguity. Examples of words that could be usefully defined before argument and conclusion include "life", "human life", "personhood", "person", "human being", "moment", "probability", "consciousness", and "personhood in monozygotic twins".
One possible way of looking at pregnancy, it seems to me, is as something a woman (or a womans body) does.David,Unfortunately, that is not the way the biology works. The fertilized egg chemically and physically signals to the woman's body and the woman's body responds, not the other way around. And the fertilized egg directs its own development, its development is not directed by the womans body. In many ways, the mammalian uterus is exactly like soil, supplying food and water for the fertilized seed in sexually reproducing plants.
I know what my answers are, and I got them from experience. So how do you tell a person when you find one? The debate really hinges on your answers.Ann,The problem with formulating the question this way that it precludes you from learning what you can't personally observe. You may never observe a fertilized egg but that is irrelevant to the fact that your personal bodily development began as a fertilized egg. Even anacephalic babies are recognized as human. I agree that they are just severly disabled humans.
Bruece --The only reason we're interested in fertilized eggs is because we already know, however sketchily, what a person is. So first we have to establish just what is a person and the kind of evidence that let's us know one when we find ne. It's not really sensible to talk about whether or not the zygote is a person if we don't know what we're talking about when we say "person".
Oops, sorry -- Bruce.
Of course the discussion would be helped if there were an agreed definition of "person". The discussion is about defining "person", so having a conclusion would help conclude the discussion.Whatever definition is accepted, there will always be further problems. Some will use a hermeneutic of discontinuity, that sees the mother as "exactly like soil". Others will find that hermeneutic inadequate for the insignificance of the mother in it. Define the individual thing/person all you want, if you do not define its relationship to the mother at the same time you will still have disagreements. (I have often wondered if there is not a wonderful pro- choice argument against abortion, rooted in Mary's fiat and God entrusting child to mother. But pro-life seems to be the only viable position today, despite its rending of the cooperation of God and woman.)
Bruce, when you say "On the continuum of life, yours and mine became specific when the egg was fertilized," you're right, in the sense that our uniqueness was primarily defined by that initial combination of both pairs of DNA. But that is only a part of what needs to go on. A CD contains all the information you need for a piece of music but you don't get the actual music until you put the CD into a CD player, plug it in, and turn it on.
Fine analogy, Jeanne.Here's a related argument: Some claim that the presence of an individual set of DNA molecules within the first cell (the fertilized egg-plus-sperm) is what makes that cell to be an individual, human person. But if an individual set of DNA being present in a cell makes that cell to be an individual human person, it follows when the DNA is copied many times and there are many new cells, then each of those new cells is a person because each individual cell has its own DNA present within it. In other words, every time that initial cell is duplicated, a new person has been formed. From this it follows that every cell in a human body is itself an individual human person. This means that you and I are each billions of human persons at the same time -- which everyone agrees is nonsense. So the presence of the DNA in a cell is not what makes a body the body of one human person.(I say "human person" to distinguish the being from other kinds of persons, e.g., angels and God.) So that whole thing about DNA determining personhood is just a red herring -- nobody thinks that every one of the billions of cells in a human body is a person.
Ann,You don't understand the biology. The fact is that we all start our life as one cell. Then through numerous cell divisions you become what you are today. That is the basic biology. And it is what happens as a baby grows into an adult, yet you readily recognize both as human. It does not follow that each cell is a human.
Mystery was invoked above as an unqualified descriptor and requires distinction. "Mystery" refers to two entirely different categories. One is mystery due to the recognized inability of finite human capacity to comprehend fully the Infinite Divine and the Mind of God. Catholicism abounds in examples, including ensoulment. Faith, assumption, and certitude by decree become involved. Religions honestly differ on the truth. The other is mystery due to present human ignorance about aspects of us and our surroundings. Many of life's mysteries have vanished over time, along with explanations du jour, when a discovery or insight has taught something previously unknown. It enabled concepts and understanding to change fundamentally and, furthermore, to be communicated to curious skeptics. (Contrast some of the knowledge of which you are sure with some of the corresponding old mysteries Aristotle and Aquinas lived with.) Examples related to the present thread include the discoveries of human ova, of the roles of DNA, and of basics of the prenatal neural development process. Note that the first two of these eliminated earlier convictions about the female as a mere fertile pasture awaiting life and spirit to be delivered from the male. It is helpful to separate mysteries of faith from mysteries of reducible human ignorance as well as fact-based knowledge from faith-based belief.
Jeanne,There are many things that need to go one for each of us to maintain our human life: eat, breath, heartbeat etc. Regardless, we all still started our individual life as fertilized egg. Yes, many things need to happen for that fertilized egg to grow into an adult human, but that does not make the biological reality of its being the starting point of a specific human life. Some things are just what they appear. Btw, no one should claim a CD is ever music, even when it being played. But the fertilized egg is more than just DNA.
You dont understand the biology. The fact is that we all start our life as one cell. Bruce,I don't think that is accurate. Identical twins or triplets don't. In their case, two or three individual lives began with one cell. And although identical twins and triplets often look very much alike, they are separate and unique persons, often with different personalities and interests.
Bruce --You missed the point of that argument. (It's not MY argument, it's an argument that other people make, quite wrongly, I think.) Of course the whole process begins with one cell. Nobody denies that. You need to consider that the word "human" is used ambiguously sometimes. Sometimes it is used as an adjective meaning "like a human". For instance, we might say, "That chimpanzee is so funny it looks human". The other meaning is "a human person" or "a rational animal". In that sense, we say, "He is not a chimp, he's a human". In all arguments about abortion it is necessary to use those terms quite carefully and make it clear whether you're using it in the adjectival sense or the noun sense.
Ann: Regarding the argument from DNA, I don't see how the science meshes with your critique. I mean, that first set of DNA in the cell created by the egg-plus-sperm is unique and replicates in cells that come thereafter. If you're trying to distinguish when an individual human being appears on some "continuum of life," when that presence of unique blueprint material first appears seems decisive to me.
Beverly --So what if the DNA is unique? The DNA of every oak tree is unique in the first cell of the acorn, but that doesn't turn that one unique cell into billions of oak tree. In other words, the process is a lot more complex than just having unique DNA in one cell.What i'm concerned with is the simple argument that the presence of a single, particular DNA in that first cell makes that single, particular cell into a person. This is the same as saying that DNA makes the person. If that were true that would mean that *any* presence of that DNA in *any* cell (including the subsequent ones) would make each and every one of the cells in all of those stages into a person. The people who argue like that ("the presence of the DNA at the beginning is what determines personhood) have oversimplified to a truly extraordinary degree.Obviously, the DNA has something to do with the structuring of our bodies, but the *actual* minimum structure of our bodies happens latter than conception, and it is obviously only a part of what makes us a rational animal.Note the ramifications of this argument's being unsound: since we realize that the mere presence of the DNA doesn't cause personhood, we are left with the same old question: so what does make an organism (animal) to be a person (spiritual, rational)? And, at what point in that process (blastocyte-zygote-embryo-fetus) is that factor or set of factors present?
Hello Tom,That is why the RC bishops are wrong to make abortion positions the litmus test for elections. There is nothing going to happen until someone can find a way to bring this matter to the courts with a focus on whether the fetus has any rights.On this logic, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass were wasting their time agitating against slavery - especially after 1857. Likewise, it was pointless for Pius XI and the German bishops to agitate against Nazi race doctrine after it had been made part of Germany's organic law, with little prospect that it would be changed through normal political means. The current state of jurisprudence can help determine the prudence employed in specific Catholic lay efforts to change the law to reflect the natural law. But the Church isn't bound by that if it sees an intrinsic evil at work. And abortion is, always has been, and always will be, an intrinsic evil.
R. M. --Yes, of course the bishops and all the rest of us must oppose abortion. The question is: how best to reduce the number of them. Fewer abortions is the goal -- not simply imposing our will on other people. Abortion won't stop being a terrible problem until people are convinced that the fetuses actually are human persons, and the only way to change their current opinion is to persuade them. Simply changing the laws by a majority vote won't solve the basic problem, and it would only make those who disagree even *less* likely to hear what we have to say, and that would put the goal off even further.


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Given the boolean function
f(x,y,z) = xyz + xyz' + xy'z + xy'z' + x'yz + x'y'z + x'y'z' (where x' = not x)
In a three variable Karnaugh Map:
yz yz' y'z' y'z
x 1 1 1 1
x' 1 1 1
The goal is to group the adjacent units and simplifying using the distributive law since y+y' would equal one. This is all good, but when it comes to the above Karnaugh map, which one do I group together? The textbook says, it should be the biggest block but I am a bit confused in terms of what that means.
The final answer after simplification would yield:
x + y' + z


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