> Q: What do you think about American Culture? > A: I think it's a good idea. (adapted from Ghandi)
If you're going to use a quote in a.sig, at least get it right. Ghandi replied "It would be a good idea". Or is the loss of the humour to be explained by your use od the word "adapted" ?
"It was called EMPIRE. It was achieved by GENOCIDE"
Yeah, so ? Know a better way to build an Empire ?
Oh, BTW, seeing how much genocide the USA was built on, does that make the USA an empire or not ? If the USA are not an empire, could you tell me what all the genocide was for ?
"But I suspect there will be a very strong push to keep things more or less at this level, and keep the assemblers under the control of a monied elite. Yes, this worries me."
The good old Evil Corporation paranoia again and again and again. Microchips can only be produced at billion-dollar plants owned by big bad corporations. Does that worry you ? If so, why ?
If it does, you shouldn't : we can do anything we want with those chips, bad things and *GOOD* things.
All this screaming against big capitalist corporations is really childish. Corporations want to make money, they do this by selling things to people. If people didn't buy, the corporations wouldn't exist. If you think that corporations brain-wash people into buying stuff then blame the people for being dumb, not the corporations.
As usual people prefer to blame a scapegoat than to admit their responsibility for what the world is becoming. People vote with their wallets, at the ballot box, with their feet and that's precisely why the world is the way it is.
"I fear some conservatives will ultimately attempt to ban the Internet once they discover encryption and other methods make it impossible to control completely"
Why conservatives ? Who do you think invented Poltical Correctness ? Certainly not right-wingers.
There is already plenty of censure going on on the Internet. Just you try and use a few hot words like "n*gger" on AOL or Geocities and see what happens.
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"You can't use an unassisted light sail to really crank your velocity for a human crewed vessel without subjecting them to lethal accelerations"
Are you sure about this ? I had the impression that the acceleration would be quite weak, the *velocity* of 58 km/s being acheived very progressively.
> Q: What do you think about American Culture?
.sig, at least get it right. Ghandi replied "It would be a good idea". Or is the loss of the humour to be explained by your use od the word "adapted" ?
> A: I think it's a good idea. (adapted from Ghandi)
If you're going to use a quote in a
"It was called EMPIRE. It was achieved by GENOCIDE"
Yeah, so ? Know a better way to build an Empire ?
Oh, BTW, seeing how much genocide the USA was built on, does that make the USA an empire or not ? If the USA are not an empire, could you tell me what all the genocide was for ?
Thanks.
"But I suspect there will be a very strong push to keep things more or less at this level, and keep the assemblers under the control of a monied elite. Yes, this worries me."
The good old Evil Corporation paranoia again and again and again. Microchips can only be produced at billion-dollar plants owned by big bad corporations. Does that worry you ? If so, why ?
If it does, you shouldn't : we can do anything we want with those chips, bad things and *GOOD* things.
All this screaming against big capitalist corporations is really childish. Corporations want to make money, they do this by selling things to people. If people didn't buy, the corporations wouldn't exist. If you think that corporations brain-wash people into buying stuff then blame the people for being dumb, not the corporations.
As usual people prefer to blame a scapegoat than to admit their responsibility for what the world is becoming. People vote with their wallets, at the ballot box, with their feet and that's precisely why the world is the way it is.
Don't blame corporations, blame people.
"I fear some conservatives will ultimately attempt to ban the Internet once they discover encryption and other methods make it impossible to control completely"
Why conservatives ? Who do you think invented Poltical Correctness ? Certainly not right-wingers.
There is already plenty of censure going on on the Internet. Just you try and use a few hot words like "n*gger" on AOL or Geocities and see what happens.
Censorship is not the monopoly of the right wing.