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>Balky Democrats, Selective Travel, Selective Signatures

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ November 22, 2006 ⋅ 2 Comments

>Three members of the Texas House State Affairs Committee have refused to sign off on the Committee’s final report on stem cell technology. The Houston Chronicle calls them Balky Democrats. I’m not surprised. None of them bothered to come to the Committee’s hearing on the charge held in Houston in September, where I was one … Continue reading →

Balky Democrats, Selective Travel, Selective Signatures

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ November 22, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

Three members of the Texas House State Affairs Committee have refused to sign off on the Committee’s final report on stem cell technology. The Houston Chronicle calls them Balky Democrats. I’m not surprised. None of them bothered to come to the Committee’s hearing on the charge held in Houston in September, where I was one … Continue reading →

>Grey Goo Grief Bombs Second Life (A Thanksgiving Lesson)

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ November 22, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

>The virtual fantasy world, Second Life, was attacked for at least the second time this weekend . Self replicating rings bogged down the servers, disrupting players on the site, giving us a short-term virtual model of Eric Drexler’s grey goo scenario wherein self-replicating nanotech machines destroy the Earth by using up the surface resources. There’s … Continue reading →

Grey Goo Grief Bombs Second Life (A Thanksgiving Lesson)

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ November 22, 2006 ⋅ Leave a comment

The virtual fantasy world, Second Life, was attacked for at least the second time this weekend . Self replicating rings bogged down the servers, disrupting players on the site, giving us a short-term virtual model of Eric Drexler’s grey goo scenario wherein self-replicating nanotech machines destroy the Earth by using up the surface resources. There’s … Continue reading →