Yes, parents do do this, but thankfully, not perfectly. You're forgetting that non-cloned offspring get mental and physical traits from both sides, providing more uncertainty. With a clone you've only got traits coming from one person.
Yet another of my cloning fears, and I was about to post about it too. Damn you. It was one of the newer episodes of The Outer Limits, wasn't it? Except they didn't labotomize this guy... Just kinda kept him in a room with no human contact. Wonderful, neh?
First of all, your clone/child would never experience life on it's own due to your sheltering. Second, the moment you change a person's environment, especially in the early stages of their life, you change their personality. You'd not get a copy of you unless it had the same conditions of you in life, which you would likely change for the "better". So, say you did something rather stupid that was inevitable due to your personality, but it changed you for the better, taught you some valuable lesson. Well, when you saw your little copy coming close to this, you stopped it to keep it from getting hurt. It never learns from it's mistake and keeps stumbling on in blind ignorance.
In my opinon Cloning of Non-Livestock = <i>A Bad Thing(TM)</i>
Governments will keep trying to stop things from happening online. But they'll never succeed. All their stupid little new laws and such will just sit around and not be obeyed. I how many millions of people download and distribute mp3s? How many mp3 servers are out there? They'll never be able to stop people from distributing illegal information. How stupid does that sound? Illegal information? It really is getting to be draconian... But that really doesn't make too much of a difference, people will do what they want, people have always done what they want, and the internet is and will be no different.
Really! Depressed people (like me) need anymore crap than we already get, or at least think we get for the paranoid ones (also like me). Even if you do take medicine it still sucks, just not as much. And now we're going to have people on our backs because we're depressed? Maybe I would like to rip some of the people at my school's throats out, but it doesn't mean I'm going to act on that impulse! I hate myself more than anyone else, and it doesn't help knowing how many other people share the same feeling about me. Telling the world will make life a lot harder than dealing with depression is, and that's nasty on it's own. What ever happened to rights to privacy, and don't they realize it'll just be an easy way to get at someone you hate? But hey, who cares if a few lives are screwed up, we have to keep everyone the same, right? We can't have weirdos running around and being bad influences on the normal, healthy, popular people. The only way we can be truely equal is if we're all the same down to the most minute detail. It'll make things a lot easier with politics too, we can just do away with the government and have an unlimited monarchy, then the people won't even have to think, we can do that for them too. Life will be so much easier when a single person can decide what the whole world wants. Oh wait, we forgot about sex, oh well, time to kill off either, whichever the monarch isn't. So what if the human race dies out? We still get to live the rest of our lives out, to hell with posterity. This is what will slowly happen if we let W.A.V.E. get it's way. Maybe not so extreme as to let the human race die out but it will go far.
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Do these people actually read articles, or just post randomly? hmm..
Yes, parents do do this, but thankfully, not perfectly. You're forgetting that non-cloned offspring get mental and physical traits from both sides, providing more uncertainty. With a clone you've only got traits coming from one person.
Unless, of course simply set things into motion and either sat back and watched or died.
Yet another of my cloning fears, and I was about to post about it too. Damn you. It was one of the newer episodes of The Outer Limits, wasn't it? Except they didn't labotomize this guy... Just kinda kept him in a room with no human contact. Wonderful, neh?
*flicks the evil tags away*
First of all, your clone/child would never experience life on it's own due to your sheltering. Second, the moment you change a person's environment, especially in the early stages of their life, you change their personality. You'd not get a copy of you unless it had the same conditions of you in life, which you would likely change for the "better". So, say you did something rather stupid that was inevitable due to your personality, but it changed you for the better, taught you some valuable lesson. Well, when you saw your little copy coming close to this, you stopped it to keep it from getting hurt. It never learns from it's mistake and keeps stumbling on in blind ignorance.
In my opinon Cloning of Non-Livestock = <i>A Bad Thing(TM)</i>
You can already kill popups with Javascript, in a short period of time there will be ways to deal with these others as well.
If only that could happen to all spammers...
Is it just me, or does this sound like that whole Mobile Dolls thing from Gundam Wing? I guess life really does imitate art...
Great. Now you get to give yourself whiplash trying to get your game to respond! Whee! Fun fun fun! Idhan
Governments will keep trying to stop things from happening online. But they'll never succeed. All their stupid little new laws and such will just sit around and not be obeyed. I how many millions of people download and distribute mp3s? How many mp3 servers are out there? They'll never be able to stop people from distributing illegal information. How stupid does that sound? Illegal information? It really is getting to be draconian... But that really doesn't make too much of a difference, people will do what they want, people have always done what they want, and the internet is and will be no different.
Ugh, Boston airport is hell to navigate. Especially with all those walls all over the place, and aren't they doing some type of repair there too?
Productive if you want to DESTROY a perfectly good computer.
Hmmm... I'm not sure if the first paragraph is sarcasm or not, but if it's not, what's wrong with masochists?
Really! Depressed people (like me) need anymore crap than we already get, or at least think we get for the paranoid ones (also like me). Even if you do take medicine it still sucks, just not as much. And now we're going to have people on our backs because we're depressed? Maybe I would like to rip some of the people at my school's throats out, but it doesn't mean I'm going to act on that impulse! I hate myself more than anyone else, and it doesn't help knowing how many other people share the same feeling about me. Telling the world will make life a lot harder than dealing with depression is, and that's nasty on it's own. What ever happened to rights to privacy, and don't they realize it'll just be an easy way to get at someone you hate? But hey, who cares if a few lives are screwed up, we have to keep everyone the same, right? We can't have weirdos running around and being bad influences on the normal, healthy, popular people. The only way we can be truely equal is if we're all the same down to the most minute detail. It'll make things a lot easier with politics too, we can just do away with the government and have an unlimited monarchy, then the people won't even have to think, we can do that for them too. Life will be so much easier when a single person can decide what the whole world wants. Oh wait, we forgot about sex, oh well, time to kill off either, whichever the monarch isn't. So what if the human race dies out? We still get to live the rest of our lives out, to hell with posterity. This is what will slowly happen if we let W.A.V.E. get it's way. Maybe not so extreme as to let the human race die out but it will go far.
*scribbles down some names and the number on a napkin* Whee! Free t-shirts!
Erk... I better protect myself or I'll become a sheep. *tries to hide his website thus attracting more visitors on accident* Shhhh! Don't turn me in!
Heh, that makes me think this could actually be turned into a good thing. Torment the tormenters, I love it.