But that's just breeding for disease resistance...Or luck.
No, its not. It takes a lot more than luck to survive for 40 years, and it took a lot more than luck for 4 billion years of evolution and successful reproduction to produce you. Its merely adjusting the human clock which is based on breeding age. Just because you are changing the breeding age does not remove the other traits as selection factors, all the selection factors would remain, and I think also benefit from pushing back the breeding age.
Don't we want to select for things like, intelligence, athletic ability, physical attractiveness? If someone who is hugely intelligent but prone to disease is allowed to die without passing that on, then that's probably a bad decision.
Presumably only the intelligent, athletic, and physically attractive would survive and reproduce at 40. Also, importantly those who are still intelligent, athletic, and attractive at 40 have a better chance of attracting a mate. What percentage of the population is intelligent, athletic, and attractive at age 18? Whats the percentage at 40? At 60?
I started the discussion with "Eugenics works, but is of course worse than the disease."
What is Einstein or Tesla had lived 200 years? What would a longer lifespan do to the crime rate, the economy, war, and practically anything else you can think off?
Anyway, if you wait till after 40 as a woman, you're going to have a much higher risk of birth defects, and that's not anything to be encouraged.
Well thats what happens when you push the limits of human longevity and reproduction. Evolution doesn't work unless someone is prevented from breeding, in this case the mother or child that don't make it.
There are also many social, and economic consequences to instituting a system such as this.
I'm not saying it should be done, I'm just saying it would work.
There are lots of options, for instance, if no one was allowed to have kids till they were 40, over time it would weed out age related diseases (there is a reason we start falling apart after breeding age), and stupidity (to a degree, greater chance someone will earn themselves a Darwin award before having kids).
If the age limit to reproduce was pushed back every so many generations, conceivably we could be living much, much longer.
I am surprised Korea is on the list. I remember a story here on slashdot about how many websites there relied on active x code that was incompatible with Vista, so much so that very few in the country were expected to make the switch to Vista.
Maybe the RIAA will take a page out of the BSA play book and start a tip line. I can see it now "Drop the dime on your friends, family, and coworkers and get a free Brittany Spears CD!"
Has anyone here ever used the "I'm feeling lucky" button. I think I did once in 1999. Usually it's the second or third result that's the most relevant.
Never have, but if you type a phrase into the address bar in Firefox it does the same thing.
Deer esteamed Sir,
On my search for a trustworthy business partner it had leed me to u. I have in my possesion over $400,000 USd worth of Microsoft Windows system of operating discs and cereal numbers. These discs have just been declared illegal by the corrupt and evil Nigerian government, and therefar worthless in me country. I propose I send these disks to u where you will sell them in your country for $400,000, i know cents you r a trustworthy person you will have no problem giving me a meager share of $50,000. All you must do is forward me a small amount to ship the discs to you, $4,000. I await your positive response.
Captain Prince Esqire,
James Dashekee
Sounds a lot like the case when Virgin Mobile used a photo of a person from Flickr that was uploaded under "an Attribution Licence, which the Creative Commons website explains, will let others copy, distribute and display your photo and derivative works based upon it, provided they give credit the way you request."
When you consider the efficiency gains and TCO when you migrate to MS and the entire.NET framework, Microsoft practically *is* paying you to use Windows.
The last time I installed.net on my pc it wouldn't even start.
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But that's just breeding for disease resistance...Or luck.
No, its not. It takes a lot more than luck to survive for 40 years, and it took a lot more than luck for 4 billion years of evolution and successful reproduction to produce you. Its merely adjusting the human clock which is based on breeding age. Just because you are changing the breeding age does not remove the other traits as selection factors, all the selection factors would remain, and I think also benefit from pushing back the breeding age.
Don't we want to select for things like, intelligence, athletic ability, physical attractiveness? If someone who is hugely intelligent but prone to disease is allowed to die without passing that on, then that's probably a bad decision.
Presumably only the intelligent, athletic, and physically attractive would survive and reproduce at 40. Also, importantly those who are still intelligent, athletic, and attractive at 40 have a better chance of attracting a mate. What percentage of the population is intelligent, athletic, and attractive at age 18? Whats the percentage at 40? At 60?
I started the discussion with "Eugenics works, but is of course worse than the disease."
What is Einstein or Tesla had lived 200 years? What would a longer lifespan do to the crime rate, the economy, war, and practically anything else you can think off?
Anyway, if you wait till after 40 as a woman, you're going to have a much higher risk of birth defects, and that's not anything to be encouraged.
Well thats what happens when you push the limits of human longevity and reproduction. Evolution doesn't work unless someone is prevented from breeding, in this case the mother or child that don't make it.
There are also many social, and economic consequences to instituting a system such as this.
I'm not saying it should be done, I'm just saying it would work.
There are lots of options, for instance, if no one was allowed to have kids till they were 40, over time it would weed out age related diseases (there is a reason we start falling apart after breeding age), and stupidity (to a degree, greater chance someone will earn themselves a Darwin award before having kids). If the age limit to reproduce was pushed back every so many generations, conceivably we could be living much, much longer.
I have search history logging shut off in my google account, I suspect (out of paranoia) that they are still logging my data however.
Eugenics works, but is of course worse than the disease. I guess all you can do is buy some new clothes and get a car with a pussy magnet.
Small meteors hit the earth all the time, its a long shot but maybe this animal was just in the wrong place place at the wrong time.
Mirror: http://freedomsforums.com/viewtopic,p,1696.html
http://freedomsforums.com/viewtopic,p,1696.html
What if Darth Vader was the President? Oh wait..
that was supposed to be: "free" country.
Does the FCC do anything besides stifle innovation, create monopolies, and tell us what can and can't be said in a "free"?
Where can you get a prepaid phone good for 3 months for $5?
I am surprised Korea is on the list. I remember a story here on slashdot about how many websites there relied on active x code that was incompatible with Vista, so much so that very few in the country were expected to make the switch to Vista.
The team have recorded people's movements in completely new locations -- like driving a car -- previously out of reach.
Can't make a clear car out of plastic?
So a kite that provides most of the ship's power can only afford a 50% reduction in fuel consumption? Hmmm...
Would 51% make you happy?
Maybe the RIAA will take a page out of the BSA play book and start a tip line. I can see it now "Drop the dime on your friends, family, and coworkers and get a free Brittany Spears CD!"
Has anyone here ever used the "I'm feeling lucky" button. I think I did once in 1999. Usually it's the second or third result that's the most relevant.
Never have, but if you type a phrase into the address bar in Firefox it does the same thing.
On one fiber?
No "PC"s on "backbones" I think.
True, but the routers and repeaters on the backbone have buses don't they?
At that speed, full movies could be downloaded almost instantaneously in their hundreds
Not until the PC buses catch up..
Though back on topic, it will be nice to watch something on there that is still watchable at full screen.
Ya, until the tubes get clogged with all those High_Quality videos.
Deer esteamed Sir, On my search for a trustworthy business partner it had leed me to u. I have in my possesion over $400,000 USd worth of Microsoft Windows system of operating discs and cereal numbers. These discs have just been declared illegal by the corrupt and evil Nigerian government, and therefar worthless in me country. I propose I send these disks to u where you will sell them in your country for $400,000, i know cents you r a trustworthy person you will have no problem giving me a meager share of $50,000. All you must do is forward me a small amount to ship the discs to you, $4,000. I await your positive response. Captain Prince Esqire, James Dashekee
Well I think it all comes down to whatever is in the Terms of Service you agree to.
Sounds a lot like the case when Virgin Mobile used a photo of a person from Flickr that was uploaded under "an Attribution Licence, which the Creative Commons website explains, will let others copy, distribute and display your photo and derivative works based upon it, provided they give credit the way you request."
http://www.out-law.com/page-8494
When you consider the efficiency gains and TCO when you migrate to MS and the entire .NET framework, Microsoft practically *is* paying you to use Windows.
.net on my pc it wouldn't even start.
The last time I installed
I wished they pay me to use Windows...