I guess they really want to test their weapon but it seems a little extreme to actually destroy a few of your own cities just to test a theory like this. And what if it doesn't hit the target:
"oops, we hit Germany, but it was only a scientific experiment. sorry."
seems like just seeing an expected change in trajectory that still didn't run into the earth would be a good enough test of theory..
I agree with you that most people do have false perceptions of what is currently possible with cloning, but there are new technologies being developed every day. A movie like the 6th Day just presents some possibilities of what could happen (perhaps very unlikely, but you cannot say impossible). But as a previous poster said it is an Arnold movie so you really shouldn't expect any deep truths or philisophy to come out of it.
don't ever regulate something that isn't being used to hurt someone else.
The only problem with this in our hypersensitive society is identifying what actually hurts someone else or has the potential to hurt someone. And don't think you can really just consider the physical direct hurt aspect either.
I wish they would come out with a new name for it other than Pentium 5, but it just occured to me.. no one ever really complains about a software product just incrementing a version number.. ie. Oh man there just calling the next version of Redhat, "Redhat 6.3"?!?! That is such a boring and overused name! . . So should it really be any different for a hardware product?
I have not really used a PalmPilot or a PalmPC much, but how does 3Com's Graffiti differ any from the WinCE Jot? It seems like MS should also be getting sued for the same thing, if 3Com is.
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I'm not saying they would really try this on purpose, but what if they aren't completely accurate in their calculations/results?
I guess they really want to test their weapon but it seems a little extreme to actually destroy a few of your own cities just to test a theory like this. And what if it doesn't hit the target: "oops, we hit Germany, but it was only a scientific experiment. sorry." seems like just seeing an expected change in trajectory that still didn't run into the earth would be a good enough test of theory..
don't ever regulate something that isn't being used to hurt someone else.
The only problem with this in our hypersensitive society is identifying what actually hurts someone else or has the potential to hurt someone. And don't think you can really just consider the physical direct hurt aspect either.
I wish they would come out with a new name for it other than Pentium 5, but it just occured to me.. no one ever really complains about a software product just incrementing a version number.. ie. Oh man there just calling the next version of Redhat, "Redhat 6.3"?!?! That is such a boring and overused name! . .
So should it really be any different for a hardware product?
I have not really used a PalmPilot or a PalmPC much, but how does 3Com's Graffiti differ any from the WinCE Jot? It seems like MS should also be getting sued for the same thing, if 3Com is.