Turn the information issue on its ear and think of it in a new way. Think about the rights of information and communication. Anthropomorphise it and give it desires.
Knowledge wants to be free, it wants to be spread. It wants to move unimpeded throughout your citizenry and live from generation to generation in live documents and not dusty archives restricted by lawyers.
Basic knowledge should be unpatentable. Complex knowledge should have a limited patent so as to promote innovation. Same with any kind of restriction (copyright, etc). After a short period all knowledge should become public domain.
Yeah, I saw the subscription nonsense. There's no way I'll go near this.. I don't care how awesome it is, I'm not getting locked into renting my own computer.
http://www.hyperspace.com/Product-Editions.aspx
Oh, the old "forced upgrade" to make sure the system runs nice and slow compared to the next horrible operating system. It also ensures that some fresh new "bugs" will be found just as the product's end of life is reached.
Need to keep herding your sheep along to the next version..
More evidence is always good, but once you actually start to think about it, "a small population of some dinosaurs survived in remote areas until it eventually petered out" is actually more plausible then...
Science isn't based on opinions like "more plausible then [sic]".
... than "every single last dinosaur died at once in a gigantic catastrophe that nevertheless was not large enough to affect other animals such as mammals to the same extent".
The physical evidence and thereafter the calculated energy of an entry (atmosphere alone) indicate that the global air temperature was raised to the flash point of living wood and that all the forests of the world were set on fire.
The result is the death of the bulk of above-surface land plant life.
Then the earth cooled for various reasons, starting with light reflection off of the smoke.
Dinosaurs died out because they have no internal way to heat themselves up. Mammals do.
Dinosaurs died out because they need to eat big creatures. Mammals don't.
Mammals had an edge because of some sulphur-resistance mutations which survive even today.
Don't think for a second that mammals didn't suffer. As I understand, mammals may have been down to as few as SEVEN SPECIES after that catastrophe.
"The latest grant will enable the three researchers and two programmers on the project to further their research into a making Minix capable of fixing itself when a bug is detected"
1) Minix?! That was a research project that was dead and buried long ago.
2) Minix?! Why reinvent the wheel?
3) "capable of fixing itself"? You mean capable of being mis-configured by an incompetent admin or capable of being tricked into auto-rooting itself. Awesome.
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Turn the information issue on its ear and think of it in a new way. Think about the rights of information and communication. Anthropomorphise it and give it desires. Knowledge wants to be free, it wants to be spread. It wants to move unimpeded throughout your citizenry and live from generation to generation in live documents and not dusty archives restricted by lawyers. Basic knowledge should be unpatentable. Complex knowledge should have a limited patent so as to promote innovation. Same with any kind of restriction (copyright, etc). After a short period all knowledge should become public domain.
I got zero results. In 500 million pages, this should have been answered 500 million and one times.
Yeah, I saw the subscription nonsense. There's no way I'll go near this.. I don't care how awesome it is, I'm not getting locked into renting my own computer. http://www.hyperspace.com/Product-Editions.aspx
Oh, the old "forced upgrade" to make sure the system runs nice and slow compared to the next horrible operating system. It also ensures that some fresh new "bugs" will be found just as the product's end of life is reached.
Need to keep herding your sheep along to the next version..
Who gives a shit about this smokescreen. The real issue is an actual political and voting system that isn't rigged by two parties.
More evidence is always good, but once you actually start to think about it, "a small population of some dinosaurs survived in remote areas until it eventually petered out" is actually more plausible then...
Science isn't based on opinions like "more plausible then [sic]".
... than "every single last dinosaur died at once in a gigantic catastrophe that nevertheless was not large enough to affect other animals such as mammals to the same extent".
The physical evidence and thereafter the calculated energy of an entry (atmosphere alone) indicate that the global air temperature was raised to the flash point of living wood and that all the forests of the world were set on fire.
The result is the death of the bulk of above-surface land plant life.
Then the earth cooled for various reasons, starting with light reflection off of the smoke.
Dinosaurs died out because they have no internal way to heat themselves up. Mammals do.
Dinosaurs died out because they need to eat big creatures. Mammals don't.
Mammals had an edge because of some sulphur-resistance mutations which survive even today.
Don't think for a second that mammals didn't suffer. As I understand, mammals may have been down to as few as SEVEN SPECIES after that catastrophe.
"The latest grant will enable the three researchers and two programmers on the project to further their research into a making Minix capable of fixing itself when a bug is detected" 1) Minix?! That was a research project that was dead and buried long ago. 2) Minix?! Why reinvent the wheel? 3) "capable of fixing itself"? You mean capable of being mis-configured by an incompetent admin or capable of being tricked into auto-rooting itself. Awesome.