I think it's still possible, even for a double-Y person like Rocky, to fit into society. Yes you get angry or frustrated, but you simply tell yourself: "I will not kill today. Tomorrow I might, but today I will not." If Rocky had a tendency to want to kill things, maybe he would have made an excellent biological scientist, carving-up rats, mice, and other cadavers. Maybe he killed the cat not just for the sake of killing, but because he was curious what made the cat move. You never know.
Final thought:
I wonder if there are any double-Y humans that have integrated into society with no apparent problems? For example maybe I'm a double-Y person and never knew it. Scientists tend to test prisoners and then conclude double-Y == evil person, but maybe if they tested non-prisoners they'd find double-Y persons who are quiet and calm.
Just as nature herself has produced nonviable mutant humans through random genetic changes, I'm sure our experiments will do the same. But the species as a whole will continue on. Nonviable mutants die off, and viable ones continue on, thereby slowly but surely evolving up the tree.
Nature is the enemy, constantly trying to kill us and all other organisms. Look at the temperature right now. 20 degrees farhenheit (below freezing). If nature had its way, we'd freeze to death and go extinct, replaced with a "better" organism that has some protective covering - like fur.
Fortunately for homo sapiens, even though we lack fur, we do have intelligence. We use that to fight nature's unfriendly environment and postpone death one more day.
Except the "degene-erate" protagonist did not cheat. He earned his way onto that mission just the same as all the other candidates - by doing all the required exercises, solving the required equations on his computer, and so on. The point of the story was that, even though he had inferior genes, he still was able to pass all the tests.
And at its foundational level, it's about prejudice. You should not prejudge someone's ability or disability. Instead you should test each individual on their own merits.
No I had it right the first time. "Science fiction" implies that the science is not real, but the fact that we CAN screen babies for good versus bad genes means it's a story based on actual fact and/or science theorems (like F=ma).
Also "science fiction story" is redundant. "Science story" gives the reader the same information - i.e. it's just a piece of entertainment, not a textbook.
Me neither, but later games (after 1985) included boot programs that acted as fast loaders. For example MicroProse's Red Storm Rising could load in less than a minute - a huge improvement over the standard 5-8 minutes it would normally take.
Due to a hardware engineering mistake, the 1541 drive was a very slow machine - not much faster than a 4.8 kbit/s modem. With software boot programs, it could get upto 56 kbit/s.
* *A movie about children being screened for superior genes - and also the children who become "rejects" in society because they were naturally born with inferior genes. If you haven't seen this movie, I highly recommend it. A great science story.
Maybe it works similar to Metroid Prime on the Gamecube where the "next" room is preloaded as you approach it, thereby eliminating the need for loading screens.
In the 80s it sometimes took my Commodore 5 minutes to load Activision's Mindshadow. Then you flipped the disk. And it took another 3 minutes of more waiting.* I hope this service works better than that!
* * This was before the fast-loaders were invented.
Spelink is for wooses. The great auteur Chaucer not never nor cared aboot spellink! Gaze thine eyes on dis:
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open eye- (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
"Do you promise to honor, cherish, and love?" --- Multilingual English since it has influences from Rome (Latin), Norman (French), and Anglo-Saxon (Germanic).
>>>So the only reason you expect it to be English, is that you are arrogant.
I would have labeled your message insightful, informative, and even entertaining. Then you had to go ruin it with this. No I did pick English because of arrogance, but because it is the "lingua franca" of the present time. If this was the year 300, I'd probably say a national European TV network should use LATIN, because that was the common language of the Roman-European provinces. And in the year 500 B.C., some form of Celtic. I'm not biased.
>>>She agreed with me that the networks didn't take the show seriously
That's because it wasn't on a network. It was sold individually to each station, and the station was free to air the show anytime they felt like it. Most stations tend to view these shows as "filler" to air whenever football is not on, rather than provide a faithful schedule.
Both EFC and Andromeda were bad by Tribune Entertainment, and Tribune has a long history of wanting "dumb" entertainment because they believe aiming lower on the IQ results in better ratings. JMS of Babylon 5 was invited to work on EFC, but declined when he discovered Tribune was the backer.
Yeah but are they quoting gross profits, or net profits? If they are quoting gross, then the next step is to subtract the postage costs associated with distributing CDs all over the country. Let's say it's 1 billion.
"Citizens who peacefully obey unjust laws make the job of the tyrant easier." - Cicero
As for legality, yes I know that downloading is illegal however I am not going to lay down $50 for a television show prior to seeing it & discovering if it is good. If it's bad, then I've saved myself a big chunk of change (to date I've saved about $1000 by Not buying junk shows like Buck Rogers, Galactica 1980, or Femme Nikita). If it's good, then I will buy it to support the artists, writers, and staff.
Which unjust law am I protesting? The one that says I can spent $50 on a DVD set, discover I just bought trash, and not be able to get a refund. On any other product you can get a refund if the product is inferior... except media. That's not right.
>>>the RIAA individual lawsuits really, really suck. Extortionate demands, no real ability to defend yourself(if your day in court costs you more than you can afford, it isn't your day in court), etc.
Guns are cheap. "What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party
500 million albums 844 million singles ================== 1344 million sales in 2007 >>> 656 million in 2003. Someone at RIAA needs help with math. Yes more singles sold mean less money, but it also means more happy customers which builds long-term income over the next decade.
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>>>It's living, growing human cells. In my books that counts as a human life
Yes I agree. It's human. But it doesn't have a brain, which means there is no personality. There is no person.
I think it's still possible, even for a double-Y person like Rocky, to fit into society. Yes you get angry or frustrated, but you simply tell yourself: "I will not kill today. Tomorrow I might, but today I will not." If Rocky had a tendency to want to kill things, maybe he would have made an excellent biological scientist, carving-up rats, mice, and other cadavers. Maybe he killed the cat not just for the sake of killing, but because he was curious what made the cat move. You never know.
Final thought:
I wonder if there are any double-Y humans that have integrated into society with no apparent problems? For example maybe I'm a double-Y person and never knew it. Scientists tend to test prisoners and then conclude double-Y == evil person, but maybe if they tested non-prisoners they'd find double-Y persons who are quiet and calm.
>>>"In addition, we must not forget the embryos which were discarded because they did carry the gene."
I have a hard time calling 8 cells a "person". There's not even a brain yet, which means the personality does not exist. There's nobody there.
Just as nature herself has produced nonviable mutant humans through random genetic changes, I'm sure our experiments will do the same. But the species as a whole will continue on. Nonviable mutants die off, and viable ones continue on, thereby slowly but surely evolving up the tree.
Hippy BS.
Nature is the enemy, constantly trying to kill us and all other organisms. Look at the temperature right now. 20 degrees farhenheit (below freezing). If nature had its way, we'd freeze to death and go extinct, replaced with a "better" organism that has some protective covering - like fur.
Fortunately for homo sapiens, even though we lack fur, we do have intelligence. We use that to fight nature's unfriendly environment and postpone death one more day.
Except the "degene-erate" protagonist did not cheat. He earned his way onto that mission just the same as all the other candidates - by doing all the required exercises, solving the required equations on his computer, and so on. The point of the story was that, even though he had inferior genes, he still was able to pass all the tests.
And at its foundational level, it's about prejudice. You should not prejudge someone's ability or disability. Instead you should test each individual on their own merits.
No I had it right the first time. "Science fiction" implies that the science is not real, but the fact that we CAN screen babies for good versus bad genes means it's a story based on actual fact and/or science theorems (like F=ma).
Also "science fiction story" is redundant. "Science story" gives the reader the same information - i.e. it's just a piece of entertainment, not a textbook.
Me neither, but later games (after 1985) included boot programs that acted as fast loaders. For example MicroProse's Red Storm Rising could load in less than a minute - a huge improvement over the standard 5-8 minutes it would normally take.
Due to a hardware engineering mistake, the 1541 drive was a very slow machine - not much faster than a 4.8 kbit/s modem. With software boot programs, it could get upto 56 kbit/s.
The first step is taken on the road to GATTACA.*
*
*A movie about children being screened for superior genes - and also the children who become "rejects" in society because they were naturally born with inferior genes. If you haven't seen this movie, I highly recommend it. A great science story.
Maybe it works similar to Metroid Prime on the Gamecube where the "next" room is preloaded as you approach it, thereby eliminating the need for loading screens.
In the 80s it sometimes took my Commodore 5 minutes to load Activision's Mindshadow. Then you flipped the disk. And it took another 3 minutes of more waiting.* I hope this service works better than that!
*
* This was before the fast-loaders were invented.
>>>"blah blah blah..... game download sites available... blah blah blah....get Rome: Total War for free."
Zzzz... wha? Did somebody say "free"? COOL! Rome Total War looked awesome when I saw it on History Channel. Where do I sign up? ;-)
You know too much. Go quietly with the men in black who will shortly be knocking on your door..... now.
Spelink is for wooses. The great auteur Chaucer not never nor cared aboot spellink! Gaze thine eyes on dis:
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
The mods hate me.
Goodbye cruel world.
(Inserts gun in mouth.)
"Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infra-red
How I hate the night
"Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet dream wishes you can keep
How I hate the night
- Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Do you promise to honor, cherish, and love?" --- Multilingual English since it has influences from Rome (Latin), Norman (French), and Anglo-Saxon (Germanic).
>>>So the only reason you expect it to be English, is that you are arrogant.
I would have labeled your message insightful, informative, and even entertaining. Then you had to go ruin it with this. No I did pick English because of arrogance, but because it is the "lingua franca" of the present time. If this was the year 300, I'd probably say a national European TV network should use LATIN, because that was the common language of the Roman-European provinces. And in the year 500 B.C., some form of Celtic. I'm not biased.
>>>She agreed with me that the networks didn't take the show seriously
That's because it wasn't on a network. It was sold individually to each station, and the station was free to air the show anytime they felt like it. Most stations tend to view these shows as "filler" to air whenever football is not on, rather than provide a faithful schedule.
Both EFC and Andromeda were bad by Tribune Entertainment, and Tribune has a long history of wanting "dumb" entertainment because they believe aiming lower on the IQ results in better ratings. JMS of Babylon 5 was invited to work on EFC, but declined when he discovered Tribune was the backer.
Yeah but are they quoting gross profits, or net profits? If they are quoting gross, then the next step is to subtract the postage costs associated with distributing CDs all over the country. Let's say it's 1 billion.
$6.56 Billion dollars.
-$1 billion shipping costs
========
$5.56 NET profit
$5.844 Billion dollars.
- 1 million in website costs
===============
$5.843 NET profit.
The internet based business is actually more profitable due to the lower costs of distribution.
"Citizens who peacefully obey unjust laws make the job of the tyrant easier." - Cicero
As for legality, yes I know that downloading is illegal however I am not going to lay down $50 for a television show prior to seeing it & discovering if it is good. If it's bad, then I've saved myself a big chunk of change (to date I've saved about $1000 by Not buying junk shows like Buck Rogers, Galactica 1980, or Femme Nikita). If it's good, then I will buy it to support the artists, writers, and staff.
Which unjust law am I protesting? The one that says I can spent $50 on a DVD set, discover I just bought trash, and not be able to get a refund. On any other product you can get a refund if the product is inferior... except media. That's not right.
This is a European television network. Chinese doesn't make sense, but English does since most Europeans are already using it online.
English of course. It's the international language of the internet, and everyone understands it. (Or soon will.)
You are applying logic to RIAA's fanaticism? How amusing. ;-)
>>>the RIAA individual lawsuits really, really suck. Extortionate demands, no real ability to defend yourself(if your day in court costs you more than you can afford, it isn't your day in court), etc.
Guns are cheap. "What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party
500 million albums
844 million singles
==================
1344 million sales in 2007 >>> 656 million in 2003. Someone at RIAA needs help with math. Yes more singles sold mean less money, but it also means more happy customers which builds long-term income over the next decade.