24 Sep 2002 nymia   » (Master)

DocBook

Just started getting information on DocBook. Decided to make it a standard for documenting some of the small programs I code here. This tool is actually very handy, I wish I have known it before.

Currently reading some introductory material.

Assembler

Got some time to work on the assembler, adding two instructions into the grammar. I'll continue working on it later.

pnet

Speaking of grammar, I downloaded the latest version of pnet and made a simple code walk. Definitely a lot of things have changed.

The Rights of A Cell

Found an interesting paragraph about cloning.
A blastocyst is nothing more than a collection of undifferentiated cells with human DNA. It is not a ``human being'' by any standard. It is a collection of microscopic cells in a Petri dish. To ascribe it the moral stature of a human would be to misunderstand the very definition of humanity. These blastocysts are in fact private property, just as frozen embryos produced by a couple using in vitro fertilization are property. They cannot possess legal rights in the United States. [ 1 ]

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