The united states practices compulsory sterilization from about the 1930s to the 1970s. It ended up being too unpopular because of freedom and that kinda stuff.
On the other hand, designer babies will happen. People will go to another country to get them if they have to. Any country than bans them is going to suffer a loss of competition in the international world.
Well, this fertility clinic in particular can pick out diseases. You might not have any issue reproducing, but by paying this clinic your kids will be less likely to suffer from breast cancer.
The one think I really have against the ESRB: Halo a higher rating than Medal of Honor. Even though MoH has you shooting humans over government pissing and land grabs and Halo has you shooting aliens in self defense because they're trying to wipe you out.
They only rate the fluff, not the context. That and of course, boobies get a higher rating than shooting someone with a gun... WTF?
Um... ALL of the content that gets rated is fluff. It's gore levels and detail of the violence and amount of cleavage and bad words. You put that stuff in to attract mature audiences, why would you hide it with the rating tag?
That and the flood is old testament. The new testament explicitly says they're allowed to throw out pieces of the old testament they don't like (which is why Christians eat bacon), so I don't see any reason they can't reneg the flood promise.
Chickens, parrots, dolphins, elephants and various primates have all been shown to count. I'm probably missing a few, but yeah... You do realize SETI is the Search for Extra-Terrestrial INTELLIGENCE?
I'm sorry you feel the pro-lifers are less violent and gun oriented than the environmentalists. Doesn't mean you're right. I'm sure some environmentalists would get their panties in a twist if they heard me claim that they were more likely to be vandals than pro-lifers. I'm picking on both sides of the aisle if you didn't notice (because both liberals and conservatives have crazy wackjobs).
But first they should read the damn article. The article clearly says there will be new content by the time Monsters Inc 2 is out, so that's not 'the next 3' that's just 'some 3'.
Addition is such a basic fundamental aspect of reality that I'm sure an intelligent being could figure out an addition table pattern. I'm sure I could write that in a format you've never seen and the pattern would stand out. You'd look at it and puzzle at it and eventually you'd realize that it was just addition. With addition you can show someone what your symbol for equality and zero is. Then you can show multiplication to show someone what your symbol for one is. Now you can transmit pictures in black and white.
If the aliens were intelligent, they'd have a member that could figure it out.
I was actually thinking of Al Quaida making a threat like "if you vote for anyone other than Osama Bin Laden we will come to your house and rape your daughters and then shoot you". I'm sure that would convince some people to stay home.
I can see radical pro-life or radical environmentalists doing the same kind of thing though. The pro-lifers are ironically more likely to shoot you while the environmentalists are ironically more likely to turn you house into green house gas...
Code can be mathematically proven. Mathematically proven code has no errors. Hardware executing it will not behave incorrectly due to a software bug. Hardware designs can be mathematically proven. A mathematically proven hardware design will not produce a bug due to design flaws. I'd call anything running on well made hardware with mathematically proven hardware and software "perfect". I'm not sure ATMs get mathematically proven software since every once in a while someone hacks one and gets it's money for free, but they're close to it.
There was a law passed saying you can't discriminate on genetics. That law and the private health care industry are mutually incompatible, one will have to die within the next 5-15 years.
If you know a sense of humor is on your side in an argument, faking a crime to make the other side look childish is a compelling tactic. Do you really think the anti-piracy groups are too stupid to realize the potential?
People can and do frame others for crimes. Scientologists have a long running history of it, I don't doubt that copy-right leachers (the people who make money off of other's copyrights without actually contributing anything) would try this same kind of thing.
Yes, I am sure that secret ballots are essential. Not only can an open ballot leave you open to retaliation (an extremist group says "Anyone who votes for Candidate X is going to be on our hit list") but it also lets them buy votes a la "$50 for anyone who votes for Candidate Y" (by the way, at $50 for each voter takes about $3.5 billion if you want the same popular vote that Obama got last year. Obama spent around $0.6 billion, think any corporations would be willing to fund a candidate?)
Because you can discriminate against homos and minorities. You just have to be subtle when you do (and avoid false appearances of descrimination), doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Deibold makes ATMs. Those things are accurate, reliable, solid, perfect, etc. Why then should their voting machines be so flaky? I think the only answer can possibly be is "They wanted them that way."
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But due to efficiency loss they're actually being less green than if they just bought electricity from the power company. Smooth guys!
Silver on first post, sorry.
Altruism, it fails because of people like you. :-/
The united states practices compulsory sterilization from about the 1930s to the 1970s. It ended up being too unpopular because of freedom and that kinda stuff.
On the other hand, designer babies will happen. People will go to another country to get them if they have to. Any country than bans them is going to suffer a loss of competition in the international world.
Well, this fertility clinic in particular can pick out diseases. You might not have any issue reproducing, but by paying this clinic your kids will be less likely to suffer from breast cancer.
The one think I really have against the ESRB: Halo a higher rating than Medal of Honor. Even though MoH has you shooting humans over government pissing and land grabs and Halo has you shooting aliens in self defense because they're trying to wipe you out.
They only rate the fluff, not the context. That and of course, boobies get a higher rating than shooting someone with a gun... WTF?
Um... ALL of the content that gets rated is fluff. It's gore levels and detail of the violence and amount of cleavage and bad words. You put that stuff in to attract mature audiences, why would you hide it with the rating tag?
As long as Apple has a rating system, I don't really see this being a problem.
That and the flood is old testament. The new testament explicitly says they're allowed to throw out pieces of the old testament they don't like (which is why Christians eat bacon), so I don't see any reason they can't reneg the flood promise.
Now god only flood small parts of the world at a time...
Most mutations that get kept are somehow beneficial. Not all, but most.
Chickens, parrots, dolphins, elephants and various primates have all been shown to count. I'm probably missing a few, but yeah... You do realize SETI is the Search for Extra-Terrestrial INTELLIGENCE?
If it can't add, it's not intelligent.
I'm sorry you feel the pro-lifers are less violent and gun oriented than the environmentalists. Doesn't mean you're right. I'm sure some environmentalists would get their panties in a twist if they heard me claim that they were more likely to be vandals than pro-lifers. I'm picking on both sides of the aisle if you didn't notice (because both liberals and conservatives have crazy wackjobs).
But first they should read the damn article. The article clearly says there will be new content by the time Monsters Inc 2 is out, so that's not 'the next 3' that's just 'some 3'.
Addition is such a basic fundamental aspect of reality that I'm sure an intelligent being could figure out an addition table pattern. I'm sure I could write that in a format you've never seen and the pattern would stand out. You'd look at it and puzzle at it and eventually you'd realize that it was just addition. With addition you can show someone what your symbol for equality and zero is. Then you can show multiplication to show someone what your symbol for one is. Now you can transmit pictures in black and white.
If the aliens were intelligent, they'd have a member that could figure it out.
I was actually thinking of Al Quaida making a threat like "if you vote for anyone other than Osama Bin Laden we will come to your house and rape your daughters and then shoot you". I'm sure that would convince some people to stay home.
I can see radical pro-life or radical environmentalists doing the same kind of thing though. The pro-lifers are ironically more likely to shoot you while the environmentalists are ironically more likely to turn you house into green house gas...
Code can be mathematically proven. Mathematically proven code has no errors. Hardware executing it will not behave incorrectly due to a software bug. Hardware designs can be mathematically proven. A mathematically proven hardware design will not produce a bug due to design flaws. I'd call anything running on well made hardware with mathematically proven hardware and software "perfect". I'm not sure ATMs get mathematically proven software since every once in a while someone hacks one and gets it's money for free, but they're close to it.
There was a law passed saying you can't discriminate on genetics. That law and the private health care industry are mutually incompatible, one will have to die within the next 5-15 years.
If you know a sense of humor is on your side in an argument, faking a crime to make the other side look childish is a compelling tactic. Do you really think the anti-piracy groups are too stupid to realize the potential?
People can and do frame others for crimes. Scientologists have a long running history of it, I don't doubt that copy-right leachers (the people who make money off of other's copyrights without actually contributing anything) would try this same kind of thing.
Math is so universal though, 1+1=2, 2+2=4, 3+3=6, 4+4=8, 5+5=10, 6+6=12... etc.
Make a large enough code book of those and you've got a lot you can say.
Dolphins are the only animal observed to perform nasal sex on each other... No joke.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article1288633.ece
Yes, I am sure that secret ballots are essential. Not only can an open ballot leave you open to retaliation (an extremist group says "Anyone who votes for Candidate X is going to be on our hit list") but it also lets them buy votes a la "$50 for anyone who votes for Candidate Y" (by the way, at $50 for each voter takes about $3.5 billion if you want the same popular vote that Obama got last year. Obama spent around $0.6 billion, think any corporations would be willing to fund a candidate?)
Because you can discriminate against homos and minorities. You just have to be subtle when you do (and avoid false appearances of descrimination), doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Pretty sure vote==1 doesn't do much. In Java it actually gives you an error. In C it just does nothing mysteriously.
Deibold makes ATMs. Those things are accurate, reliable, solid, perfect, etc. Why then should their voting machines be so flaky? I think the only answer can possibly be is "They wanted them that way."