Yeah, so I mentioned yesterday that I was going to make it my mission last night to find out how to get Mario on my phone… well, I succeeded. take a look at these shots I took this morning. There is a NES emulator, a SNES emulator, a Genesis emulator… tons! THIS is what I can do with that 1gb memory card! No solitaire for me when I am bored!! Mario baby!!! (you can officially praise my phone as the coolest in the land, now… now I just have to get google talk on there and we will be all set.)
Also, what FANTASTIC NEWS!!!!! Plan B is going over the counter for 18 and up! It still sucks that women under 18 will have to get a doctor’s note, but how fantastic is it that Plan B will be available without prescription! This tells me that we are at least beginning to take women’s health seriously, and hopefully, will continue on that path. Hey, let’s celebrate, it’s rare when we get a victory!!! Now, if they could only fill your birth control without judgement or the ability to opt out… back to the fight…
WOW - LOVE that phone. I think it’s great that Plan B is going OTC. If someone under 18 needs it they could have someone buy it for them…kind of like our favorite past time “drinking” while under age.
One more day before the Par-ta begins… :>)
Dude, that is freaking AWESOME!
For Full Geek Cred:
I have beat Final Fantasy 2 and 3 on my phone. Mario 3 gets a little hard to control though. You gotta get a DS Duane!
Mario Pic
Sweet! Let’s go execute a whole day care to celebrate! Woohoo!
I am SO green with envy!
how do I get it? THE GAME not the pill. Ted and I haven’t been able to concieve.
dave, WTF?!
Joe, you can search the forums and phone sites (even google) for NES and SNES emulators and the programs they run are called ROMS. Don’t ask me to explain how to install it; the people on those forums do a much better job!! It also works for pretty much all the smartphones and pda phones…
Sorry, let me clarify…
Oh the joys of murdering innocent unborn children! Yeah! Let’s go execute some living children that would have been killed had the Plan B been available for their mommies! Yeah!
Happy days are truly here once again!
dave, a fertilized egg is not a child, no matter how hard you (and others) try to will it into existence. Seriously, why is that so hard to understand?
Plan B is taken the MORNING AFTER. Not 9 months after. It PREVENTS pregnancy, it doesn’t end it.
can you use your phone to make phone calls?
Plan B does NOT kill - it prevents life just like any other birth control. An egg and sperm DO NOT equal LIFE if they never join or do NOT implant in the uterus. Come on…let’s live with truth and knowledge on this and not with our heads up our asses.
Dave, how would you like it if your mother, sister or daughter was raped and was too ashamed to go to the doctor for a week - they would then (given your views)have to kill their conceived child of hate - with this pill they could take it and then go to the doctor when they could gain the strength. Yes, a lot of women will use this as birth control - but have you seen the price on this pill?? A woman may use this once as birth control but then think ahead the next time because of the price. Insurance does not help pay for this pill like they do for monthly birth control so this will help keep it from being used as such.
I think that this pill will help prevent unwanted kids - ones who pull from soceity for years - the pill has been around for years already - just not OTC where women could get it without shame and fear.
At what point in the pregnancy does the fertilized egg become a child? Holla back Duane?
Way cool phone. And Plan B… none of my concern, really, but cool for the chicks, I guess.
Slubbage, I agree with Wendy.
Slubbage, Plan B was designed to PREVENT the fertilization and implantation of the egg - hence “the day after pill”. The egg becomes a child when it implants in the lining of the uterus - starts to divide and grow - receiving life from the mother host (not hours after sex by the way). Of course when one thinks life starts and stops is always up for debate. Plan B “should” be used to stop the fertilization not the life of the child. It is not birth control or abortion - it is prevention and safety!
If you make the argument that you are destroying the potential for life then you should take it to its logical conclusion: all contraceptives are wrong, as as is masturbation or, God forbid, gay sex. And only religious extremists believe all that, right?
Wendy, I LOVE LOVE LOVE that analogy…
Does it matter if it’s my mother, sister, or daughter? I don’t believe in shades of grey when those shades are colored in by emotional attachment. Either it’s one thing or it’s not. It’s my opinion that once emotion is thrown into the mix, that school of thought is pure ignorance.
but anyways…
I will admit that I was a little misinformed with the Plan B pill. In my Sex Ed class they said the egg was fertilized within a few minutes after the dude busting his nut. If the Plan B pill affects the egg prior to the spermy squirming his little way within the cell wall, then I’m fine with it. If he’s inside, but the egg is not attached… then I’m back to thought that Plan B is murder.
“Fertilization occurs when sexual intercourse allows sperm to travel through the female’s vagina through the cervix and the uterus to meet the mature egg 24-48 hours after sex. Although males can release 200-300 million sperm, it only takes one to penetrate the egg.
After fertilization in the female’s fallopian tube, the nuclei of the sperm and egg fuse to form a new cell (the zygote). This cell contains 46 chromosomes, 23 from each parent cell. As the zygote travels to the uterus, it divides, forming a cluster of cells (the morula) by about 3 days after fertilization.
The morula develops a cavity and is now known as a blastocyst, which will become the embryo. This blastocyst floats freely within the uterine cavity for about 48 hours before attaching itself to a site in the endometrium (uterine lining).
About 10 days following fertilization, the blastocyst is completely imbedded into the endometrium, and forms the placenta. Within the cell cover of the blastocyst’s cavity, it then develops into a fluid- filled sac covering the embryo, and the yolk sac. If the embryo does not imbed in the uterus it is absorbed by the body and shed during the menstrual cycle.”
The above came from my child development textbook. Of course everyone has their own view as to when life starts and stops. The Plan B pill makes the women’s uterus a hostile enviornment that will not accept the embryo. There are many reasons that the embryo does not imbed - sickness,endometrium not present in uterus, embryo rejected by womens body as foriegn object, Plan B pill taken…so I guess one could say that every time a women has sex (and an egg is present) and she doesn’t get pregnant she is killing a child?? The human body kills embryos that it deems unfit (miscarriage) - sometimes this occures late into pregnancy. The body also kills a fully developed fetus before birth (still born). Is this murder??
I will say one more thing - I do believe that a human life begins when fertilization takes place because it forms a mass of cells which contains all 46 chromosomes. With or without the Plan B pill - I feel that it is not murder if the embryo does not attach and start to grow - without a blood flow the mass will not live to form the embryo and grow into a child..This is my opinion only.
See? This is why gay/lesbian sex is ideal. We never get pregnant! Or, as an alternative, just have oral sex. That’s pretty much all I do anyway, though getting a girl pregnant is hardly one of my worries.
Ok - one more question - how is the email on it? Do you get email right to it or do you have to go thru pop email/web browser?
Kudos to Wendy for taking on Dave…that takes some ovaries!
I really enjoy the phone, it makes me want to play NES right now.
“It still sucks that women under 18 will have to get a doctor’s note”
Don’t worry, it’ll be just like alcohol. They’ll have an older friend to buy it for them.
You are such a nerd. But that’s why we all love you!
Trinity, it downloads it to the phone every 15 minutes. It is magical and wonderful. I love it.
Dave: by this statement,
You not only scare me with your apathetic ability to become completely emotionless and not give a rats ass about someone you love being raped, you prove that everything that is “emotionally influenced” (i.e., everything) is ignorant, and therefore wrong. That is a whole different can of worms, albeit, a scary thoughtless and hateful can of worms, that I can’t even begin to try and understand. Just wow.
I have a question, what about 18 year olds who buy the pill for 14 or 15 year olds who are having sex? Also, I don’t understand how everybody berates peoples comments on this board. People are entitled to their opinions, listen to them, form your own opinion and move on…seriously…
Just to clarify, and sorry if someone else already clarified this somewhere in the comments above, but Plan B does not prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. Scientific studies have confirmed this. It behaves exactly the same as the regular birth control pill in this regard, because ALL IT IS is a higher dosage of regular birth control. (For years women have just taken a double-dose of their regular pill as a “plan B;” the only thing that’s different now is it’s being marketed as a separate drug. It’s basically a big marketing thing for the drug companies, is all.) In case anyone is unfamiliar with how the pill works: it prevents ovulation. Hence, this is how Plan B works as well. It should be fairly obvious, but apparently some people need to be beaten over the head with the obvious: prevention of a pregnancy and termination of a pregnancy are not the same thing.
And just in case anyone is too lazy to fire up Google, I’ll go ahead and do your homework for you: here is a link to one such study about how Plan B works. There are many more out there, conducted by various medical and scientific organizations, but I’m not your personal search engine, so use the PopCouncil study as a starting point.