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[MetalSlimeHunt]

It is inadvisable to store useful information on your own DNA. Your DNA holds the information for "make human", and messing with that would not end well.

Eh, the vast majority if your DNA is junk. Make sure not to include the "make a protein out of this section" sequence and you can mess around with it without too much consequence.

No it is not. The vast majority (~90%) is identical from human to human, but that is because that is the part that you need to, you know, be alive.

[penguinofhonor]

Just because it's identical doesn't mean it's necessary. That just means it doesn't get changed willy-nilly.

It's called noncoding DNA. And I was wrong, it's only half your genome.

edit: Actually, it looks more useful than I remember it being. I'm going to guess I'm wrong here.

[SalmonGod]

I don't think anyone was suggesting it, anyway.

[misko27]

In LCS I somehow managed to vindicate all of my liberals up for trial, with 4 sleeper judges, $10,000, and sleeper lawyer. Impressive given I had six people up in one go, and most of them were counts of mass-murder, terrorism, escaping jail, the whole shebang. AND former member's testified in 2 of them.
 
150 counts of murder doesn't mean as much as it used to.

[Solifuge]

Just because it's identical doesn't mean it's necessary. That just means it doesn't get changed willy-nilly.

It's called noncoding DNA. And I was wrong, it's only half your genome.

edit: Actually, it looks more useful than I remember it being. I'm going to guess I'm wrong here.

Yeah, we're discovering that a lot of non-coding genes that we thought were just junk are actually modifiers to other genes, changing how they express, defining the conditions under which they express, etc.

[alway]

Relevant. http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/

[Akura]

In LCS I somehow managed to vindicate all of my liberals up for trial, with 4 sleeper judges, $10,000, and sleeper lawyer. Impressive given I had six people up in one go, and most of them were counts of mass-murder, terrorism, escaping jail, the whole shebang. AND former member's testified in 2 of them.
 
150 counts of murder doesn't mean as much as it used to.

To be fair, "Innocent until proven guilty" apparently means a whole hell of a lot more in LCS than it means in real life. If you were convicted simply because you're accused of horrible crimes, then it would be a severe miscarriage of justice(real life or LCS)... although the practice of that in real life is a bit less than ideal.

That said, how'd you beat a jailbreak charge? I thought that was automatic guilty?

[RedKing]

SNOW. Like, real snow, not that sleety icy crap we usually get. Looks like 25F will probably be the high temp for the day, which is about ten degrees colder than was expected. Which changes accumulations considerably, since you get a lot more snow out of a given accumulation of rain.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Boone is expecting so much snow that ASU is shutting down afternoon classes preemptively.

[miauw62]

And we're expecting the snow to melt by tomorrow/day after

WICH IS FRIKKIN AWESOME, WOOO!

E:

Oh, AND MY CAT IS FINE! Yay
His gums are inflamed, but he got antibiotics now. Yay!

[Dutchling]

No snow and healthy cat.

Both are really awesome things
Happy for the Happy Throne!

[miauw62]

Here's a picture of him. I already posted it here before, but it's so cute.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Dutchling]

He's going to kill you in your sleep.

[Sirus]

He's going to kill you in your sleep.

But then he would have to get a new servant, and I assume miauw has been doing a tolerable job.

[Darvi]

He's going to kill you in your sleep.

But then he would have to get a new servant, and I assume miauw has been doing a tolerable job.

He's using the internet. I'm gonna assume he's slacking off to find the time for it.