How to discriminate between all of the mismatched readings you get. Sure, I vacuum up some of your cells, but I also get: your dog's dander and sheddings from seeing you off in the morning, a crazy mess of sking cells you picked up brushing through the subway crush, fibres from your sweater, tiny crumbs of the beef jerky you had in your pocket.
I conclude you are: a four hundred pound bovine, with a proclivity for chasing cars, decended of asian/native-american/african/european stock with red hair, blue eyes, brown skin and XXXXXYY chromosomes.
Cripies! What are they supposed to do, analyse 1 million sepearate complete DNA chains and determine which is in the highest frequency, and hope that was you, and not the JOHNDOE(tm) bio-engineered sking flakes you applied to your shirt this morning which claims you are the only child of Mary Queen of Scots and Leonardo DaVinci?
The other problem is prior contaimination, how long do the wrong substances hang sround on clothes/skin. Would you have problems with the fact that someone might have spent the previosu night in a legal amsterdam coffee shop and be covered in THC molecules, or had spent the previous day dynamiting something, somewhere and thus a string of false positives.
The problem with this reasoning is that your not thinking on a grand enough scale. I propose a massive DNA indexed database tied into your job informtion, recreational habits, etc. That way, we can tell if your an explosives engineer and legally use dynamite, or whether you compulsively neat and should be expected to smell of ammonia cleansers.
Heck, let's go farther and rig a personal GPS-transponder system with local cell-blocks. Then, if you come in coated in chemicals, we can backtrack and figure out where you've been, and nail the bastard who was endangering my life and liberty by having a casual toke in the "privacy" of his home.
What is your "right" to privacy next to my personal safety? Who cares if the crime rate is at an all time low? Index it all! Index it all! How can I be protected if you wild anarchists are running around loose with your crypto software and pellet guns? You can put an eye out with one of those things!!!
aided the flow of pornography from red-light districts into the living rooms of decent families
That's right. The evil network executives force you at gunpoint to flip to the playboy channel. What a crock! Technology does not create the market for porn, it just eases the transaction!
society's sickest members to distribute information about the most taboo of topics: abortion, homosexuality, Islam, liberalism, etc.
I submit the sickest members are the hidebound conservatives who dismiss ideas through uninformed bigotry. What, you're not uninformed about these topics? Then you read the work of those you would silence. Why shouldn't someone else be allowed to, and form their own oppinion?
not honestly evaluating how well our choices fit into a moral and/or Scriptural worldview
The beneficial effect of the church and crown standing as independent mega-powers, from the perspective of the common folk, was that after paying ludicrously high taxes, they still had to tithe!
Checks and balances are good. Getting screwed from two sides at once is baaaad.
Dropping a really big rock from orbit could wipe out the country of china, and the logistics would be much simpler than doing a lunar harvest of hydrogen! Once your out of the gravity well, anything is a weapon. Why do you think the US and the USSR had such a pissing contest over space exploration??
At the University of Victoria, there are nearly two girls per guy on campus. They have an excellent engineering department, one of the best co-op programs in the country, and 3 girls in my engineering class. 3! In a class of more than a hundred! Does that strike you as odd in a school where the normal distribution is 60:40, or greater? That said, they tend to be much better students on average than the guys. No I'm not implying women are smarter than us (I'll say that outright!), but a large percentage of the guys are interested primarily in making a slough of money. The girls who are in engineering (in my class at least (yes, I know, the sample size is statistically invalid)) are there because they really want to be. That's always the segment of the student body that performs best. Therefore, they're among the best of our crew, compete for the best job-ops, and get them as often as their hairier peers. As for the up and comers-- I've got a little cousin being tutored in a Montessori school, who's quite the independant sort. Only 9 year old I ever met who could cogently explain to me what an engineer was, what they did, and what school she's going to for training to be one. My dad's a PEng, and all I knew at that age was his explanations of simple math problems made my head hurt... Maybe the women are more inclined to do what they actually like than as money-hungry idiots? Oh, that's right... I like my mind-destroying soul-eating enervating stultifying tendon-inflaming desk job... forgot.
But who is going to make the other shirt? Who is going to sell the "Pop Tarts Suck" shirt for those dissatisfied with the product?
If you live in a average-to-large sized city, there will be a bunch of printers who'll hapilly make you this shirt if you bring them a cd/disk of camera ready art. Cost is almost always under $20 a unit. Wish I could say as much for the branded shirts!
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How to discriminate between all of the mismatched readings you get. Sure, I vacuum up some of your cells, but I also get: your dog's dander and sheddings from seeing you off in the morning, a crazy mess of sking cells you picked up brushing through the subway crush, fibres from your sweater, tiny crumbs of the beef jerky you had in your pocket.
I conclude you are: a four hundred pound bovine, with a proclivity for chasing cars, decended of asian/native-american/african/european stock with red hair, blue eyes, brown skin and XXXXXYY chromosomes.
Cripies! What are they supposed to do, analyse 1 million sepearate complete DNA chains and determine which is in the highest frequency, and hope that was you, and not the JOHNDOE(tm) bio-engineered sking flakes you applied to your shirt this morning which claims you are the only child of Mary Queen of Scots and Leonardo DaVinci?
The problem with this reasoning is that your not thinking on a grand enough scale. I propose a massive DNA indexed database tied into your job informtion, recreational habits, etc. That way, we can tell if your an explosives engineer and legally use dynamite, or whether you compulsively neat and should be expected to smell of ammonia cleansers.
Heck, let's go farther and rig a personal GPS-transponder system with local cell-blocks. Then, if you come in coated in chemicals, we can backtrack and figure out where you've been, and nail the bastard who was endangering my life and liberty by having a casual toke in the "privacy" of his home.
What is your "right" to privacy next to my personal safety? Who cares if the crime rate is at an all time low? Index it all! Index it all! How can I be protected if you wild anarchists are running around loose with your crypto software and pellet guns? You can put an eye out with one of those things!!!
That's right. The evil network executives force you at gunpoint to flip to the playboy channel. What a crock! Technology does not create the market for porn, it just eases the transaction!
society's sickest members to distribute information about the most taboo of topics: abortion, homosexuality, Islam, liberalism, etc.
I submit the sickest members are the hidebound conservatives who dismiss ideas through uninformed bigotry. What, you're not uninformed about these topics? Then you read the work of those you would silence. Why shouldn't someone else be allowed to, and form their own oppinion?
not honestly evaluating how well our choices fit into a moral and/or Scriptural worldview
Oh? Take a moment then to consider the Scriptural Worldview!!
The beneficial effect of the church and crown standing as independent mega-powers, from the perspective of the common folk, was that after paying ludicrously high taxes, they still had to tithe!
Checks and balances are good. Getting screwed from two sides at once is baaaad.
Please!
Dropping a really big rock from orbit could wipe out the country of china, and the logistics would be much simpler than doing a lunar harvest of hydrogen!
Once your out of the gravity well, anything is a weapon. Why do you think the US and the USSR had such a pissing contest over space exploration??
We've known for some time the mooon could power the earth... we just thought it would be with Tidal Power!!
PS. not my site.
At the University of Victoria, there are nearly two girls per guy on campus. They have an excellent engineering department, one of the best co-op programs in the country, and 3 girls in my engineering class.
3! In a class of more than a hundred! Does that strike you as odd in a school where the normal distribution is 60:40, or greater?
That said, they tend to be much better students on average than the guys. No I'm not implying women are smarter than us (I'll say that outright!), but a large percentage of the guys are interested primarily in making a slough of money. The girls who are in engineering (in my class at least (yes, I know, the sample size is statistically invalid)) are there because they really want to be. That's always the segment of the student body that performs best. Therefore, they're among the best of our crew, compete for the best job-ops, and get them as often as their hairier peers.
As for the up and comers-- I've got a little cousin being tutored in a Montessori school, who's quite the independant sort. Only 9 year old I ever met who could cogently explain to me what an engineer was, what they did, and what school she's going to for training to be one. My dad's a PEng, and all I knew at that age was his explanations of simple math problems made my head hurt...
Maybe the women are more inclined to do what they actually like than as money-hungry idiots? Oh, that's right... I like my mind-destroying soul-eating enervating stultifying tendon-inflaming desk job... forgot.
If you live in a average-to-large sized city, there will be a bunch of printers who'll hapilly make you this shirt if you bring them a cd/disk of camera ready art. Cost is almost always under $20 a unit. Wish I could say as much for the branded shirts!
I didn't read Linus's opinion... I read the interview. Is it possible that others might also think the man has a point?