No no, you got it wrong. The correct steps are: 1) Receive eeePC & Use eeePC when webpages were for 800x600. 2) Reverse engineer 3) Profit! 4) ??? 4) Build time machine 5) Build eeePC 6) Send eeePC back in time eight years.
It's about fricking time that the federal government realizes that this is the United States, and that it's run BY the People, FOR the People. And if the DHS doesn't like it, they can go screw themselves.
"block filth on the internet", "keep kids safe from scumbags online", "keep terrorists and bad foriegn governments from using the internet to attack America", "help me stop my kid downloading illegal stuff from the internet", "stop hackers from stealing my credit card numbers/bank details", "stop AT&T from messing with my google search results", "stop Microsoft from trying to kill free software"
in order of appearance, the jurisdiction for the solutions to these problems is: parents; parents/police; existing government agencies; parents; govt, banks, and stores; unsure; market forces.
What we need is a way to make the general public care (particularly about phishing and identity theft)
Let the problem run rampant. Voters'll start caring real fast when their bank accounts start draining.
This is, incidentally, why income taxes are deducted prior to getting your check, because if we wrote checks to pay the tax every month, you'd see how much was really being taken from you.
The more energy you add, the 'heavier' any given particle will become. If you can make the particle 'hot' enough, the particle's gravity may be able form an event horizon around the particle. So I'd say there is a maximum temperature, and it's the temperature of a particle just prior to it's collapse into a black hole. That or black hole singularities are the hottest possible objects.
I think this could be avoided, just need some rules. Base them out of the laws against slavery, extending the prohibition against owning another human to prohibiting the ownership of any part of another human.
- This stops anyone from attempting to require license fees from another human, simply for living. Trying to do that could probably be seen as unconstitutional, anyhow. Human should be expanded/replaced to encompass any sentient life-form, should we ever encounter one. Only thing left is to define human.
Follow that up with a prohibiting any claim on either natural or assisted (artificial insemination, etc.,) reproduction by any life-form.
- This should stop anyone from attempting to require license fees to reproduce, which could have murderous effects on population and food supply if it becomes economically impossible to do either. It should remain possible to have some claim on a non-human life-form that is spliced together. The original. Once you sell or lose control of a life-form, that life-form can create descendants that either belong to its new owner, or to no one.
Basically, regardless of how much money and time is spent developing a set of genetic code, 2 things should always remain true: a human being is his own, and any life-form can reproduce, regardless of patented genetics, without incurring fines. Just some ideas. I'm certain they're half-baked, and full of holes, but there you are.
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No no, you got it wrong. The correct steps are:
1) Receive eeePC & Use eeePC when webpages were for 800x600.
2) Reverse engineer
3) Profit!
4) ???
4) Build time machine
5) Build eeePC
6) Send eeePC back in time eight years.
I already had all the editors on my Foes list, you insensitive clod!
Well, I'm fine with that. It's a bit heartless, but getting people with health problems out of the gene pool is one way to better the human race.
The only problem is the manslaughter charge and the wrongful death suit.
One word: Pacemaker.
You'll probably want to stick to EM attacks that won't knock out members of the audience.
The more energy you add, the 'heavier' any given particle will become. If you can make the particle 'hot' enough, the particle's gravity may be able form an event horizon around the particle. So I'd say there is a maximum temperature, and it's the temperature of a particle just prior to it's collapse into a black hole. That or black hole singularities are the hottest possible objects.
I think this could be avoided, just need some rules.
Base them out of the laws against slavery, extending the prohibition against owning another human to prohibiting the ownership of any part of another human.
- This stops anyone from attempting to require license fees from another human, simply for living. Trying to do that could probably be seen as unconstitutional, anyhow. Human should be expanded/replaced to encompass any sentient life-form, should we ever encounter one. Only thing left is to define human.
Follow that up with a prohibiting any claim on either natural or assisted (artificial insemination, etc.,) reproduction by any life-form.
- This should stop anyone from attempting to require license fees to reproduce, which could have murderous effects on population and food supply if it becomes economically impossible to do either. It should remain possible to have some claim on a non-human life-form that is spliced together. The original. Once you sell or lose control of a life-form, that life-form can create descendants that either belong to its new owner, or to no one.
Basically, regardless of how much money and time is spent developing a set of genetic code, 2 things should always remain true: a human being is his own, and any life-form can reproduce, regardless of patented genetics, without incurring fines.
Just some ideas. I'm certain they're half-baked, and full of holes, but there you are.
Here's the problem! Microsoft is writing their code with Office!
"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." -- Mark Stanley, http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm