We need an international effort to legalize personal production of all personally produceable drugs. Not public consumption, not a blanket for junkies, but just a way for people to use their freedom in NOT helping the cartels.
I'm not taking a stance in the "legalize it" debate. But I would point out that you already have a way to use your freedom to not help the cartels. You could choose not to purchase drugs. I'm not saying that it's necessarily reasonable to ask people that do drugs to stop because of the behind the scenes horrors, but to say they DON'T have that ability is untrue.
This really makes me wonder why the scammers out there aren't signing up for tons of generic name sounding e-mails, hoping to get people's misplaced mail. Of course, for all I know, they already do.
The one breakthrough we need to go even further than that, in my opinion, is effectively using hydrogen+hydrogen nuclear fusion as a fuel source. Then we could just establish our main base around Jupiter and stick a hose into the planet and voila, free fuel for everyone.
As cool as that sounds, if we start colonizing the solar system, chances are people are going to branch out if it's possible. People are going to find ways to live on as many planets as possible. I know that the technological barriers are much greater than that of, say, the Oregon trail, but presumably by the time we have colonized an environment as hostile as the moon or mars, we will be at least a little more nonchalant about space travel at the least. People will expand to the area available to them. People with differing viewpoints and conflicting aspirations will push for colonies elsewhere. Then they will all multiply. By the time we fill up the livable parts of the solar system, I fear we would have enough people using enough energy to have some level of impact on Jupiter. I don't know what exactly, but we should bear that in mind before we go raping planets for their energy. After all, we've seen how well it worked out for Earth.
I'm sure it's somehow different, but at my college, we have a public wifi all over campus and as you walk around, your connection will get dropped and picked up by several different routers, but you continue to be connected. If you go to a totally dead area, yes it will drop and you'll have to reconnect, but not finding it for a short bit doesn't seem to be a problem. Of course this is a private university paying for large wireless routers that cover larger areas, concentrated in a much smaller area than Manhattan.
But he was implying that the majority of gamers are dropping 2-3k on a computer. Which is insane. I've only known a couple of people in my life that spent that much on a computer to improve their gaming experience. I will give you, those 2 people probably did pirate the majority of their video games. But that's like saying I know that the MAJORITY of people jaywalking are running across the street to get away from the cops after committing a crime. Sure, some do, but the majority of people jaywalk so that they are not "inconvenienced".
I thought the constant internet connection requirement was PART of the DRM, not a legitimate requirement to enjoy the game. If that indeed WAS the case, then you post is saying people's reasons for not playing the game were the DRM and the DRM. Which sounds about right to me.
I think the best part is that every time you come back to comment on your taste for puppies, you sig continues to assert that another seven puppies were harmed.
It's cases like these that make me hope I get picked for jury duty and end up in one of these cases. Just so I can be more objective about what actually happened. Of course from what I know about the legal system, the prosecuting attorney will probably kick off any juror that knows what a computer is.
I have to disagree somewhat. I mean the idea is that we will move in the most powerful appealing direction. If prosthetics have more to offer than just having our own limbs again, it will happen. Of course at that point it makes you wonder if people would be hacking off limbs just to get that sweet tech. What I find a lot more likely is that if we gain the ability to regrow limbs, that prosthetics will move in an enhancement direction instead of a replacement direction. Instead of having a robot arm, maybe you'll have a robot sleeve that you wear that makes you stronger.
That's a good point. In that same line, are there off peak data usage times? Surely they have a time that the data network is under a lighter load. Maybe it's just not as much of a time though because people will use the internet later than they would decide not to call people anymore.
How often do you end a sentence with Mr, Prof, or M? I suppose it would happen periodically, but not often enough that you couldn't just set those types of words as exceptions. All that being said, I do my writing in gedit or vim because I think a word processor should allow you to do the typing instead of trying to do the thinking for you.
Maybe they are waiting to make more movies until the 3D technologies improve because of all these complaints we have. Chances are if people are shelling out a couple grand for these things, as well as a bunch of 3D movies to watch on it, and then it fails to impress, and hurts the eyes, and all that, maybe it would sour people to the technology, making it a lot harder to get people to buy when technology improves.
If instead they only release a movie or two, then only the people that are obsessed with having the next new thing will buy it, and they of course won't be dissapointed no matter how much it hurts their eyes because it's the next big thing.
I'm with you that there isn't much of a place for government secrets. But it's a gray area. The reason they're not public to us about things like stealth bombers is because it takes a little bit of the stealth out of it if your enemies know what's coming. I'm from the point of view that there shouldn't be a need for enemies in this age, but at the same time deciding to be completely open about our military ability is just begging for someone that doesn't embrace that point of view to exploit that.
Also, I'm all for trying to tell the government that we are against their current policies, but there might be more elegant approaches. If everyone banded together and protested the governments policies and put up a general stink about it all, things would slowly change. Problem is that most people don't feel a need to be that educated on the inner workings of the government that has a degree of power over us. Of course if I'm wrong that there are many people out there that want things to change, that brings up another point. If the majority of America wants there to be classified secrets of the government, it only takes one person leaking information to infringe on the rights of a nation. I'm not saying that anyone should ditch the country, but the majority supposedly makes the rules. And if that majority decision doesn't sit well with you, I'd like to believe there are other nations with other viewpoints. Just a thought anyway.
Is that so you can try to get someone pregnant... unless they have a fungal infection? I think in general, the people who are worried about their sexual partner having STDs probably isn't trying to get them pregnant.
If I worship an ancient sun god and believe that the way to become closer to that god is to capture and use as much of his loving energy as possible, can I have tax free renewable energy?
There should be a -1 Spam moderation, because I like reading the offtopic comments, and even some comments are marked offtopic when they are at least slightly tangential to the current discussion. But I never want to read spam, and I don't think anyone wants to.
I said communicate with friends, not "friends". I doubt that more than 10% of those 254 "friends" give a shit about your last vacation, and maybe 25% of that 10% give a shit about your BBQ.
If that is your experience, then I suspect your life is sad and lonely. I can tell it's already bitter since you've degenerated into swearing.
Seriously? You're calling a guy sad and lonely because he only has two dozen people to tell about his vacation and 6 good friends to come to a BBQ at his house? That seems a little extreme. I doubt that anyone truly has time to connect deeply with 254 people.
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We need an international effort to legalize personal production of all personally produceable drugs. Not public consumption, not a blanket for junkies, but just a way for people to use their freedom in NOT helping the cartels.
I'm not taking a stance in the "legalize it" debate. But I would point out that you already have a way to use your freedom to not help the cartels. You could choose not to purchase drugs. I'm not saying that it's necessarily reasonable to ask people that do drugs to stop because of the behind the scenes horrors, but to say they DON'T have that ability is untrue.
This really makes me wonder why the scammers out there aren't signing up for tons of generic name sounding e-mails, hoping to get people's misplaced mail. Of course, for all I know, they already do.
The one breakthrough we need to go even further than that, in my opinion, is effectively using hydrogen+hydrogen nuclear fusion as a fuel source. Then we could just establish our main base around Jupiter and stick a hose into the planet and voila, free fuel for everyone.
As cool as that sounds, if we start colonizing the solar system, chances are people are going to branch out if it's possible. People are going to find ways to live on as many planets as possible. I know that the technological barriers are much greater than that of, say, the Oregon trail, but presumably by the time we have colonized an environment as hostile as the moon or mars, we will be at least a little more nonchalant about space travel at the least. People will expand to the area available to them. People with differing viewpoints and conflicting aspirations will push for colonies elsewhere. Then they will all multiply. By the time we fill up the livable parts of the solar system, I fear we would have enough people using enough energy to have some level of impact on Jupiter. I don't know what exactly, but we should bear that in mind before we go raping planets for their energy. After all, we've seen how well it worked out for Earth.
Don't be silly. Mars is no place to raise a kid, and there's no one there to raise 'em if you did...
Now that you mention it, I've heard that it's cold as hell.
I'm sure it's somehow different, but at my college, we have a public wifi all over campus and as you walk around, your connection will get dropped and picked up by several different routers, but you continue to be connected. If you go to a totally dead area, yes it will drop and you'll have to reconnect, but not finding it for a short bit doesn't seem to be a problem. Of course this is a private university paying for large wireless routers that cover larger areas, concentrated in a much smaller area than Manhattan.
But he was implying that the majority of gamers are dropping 2-3k on a computer. Which is insane. I've only known a couple of people in my life that spent that much on a computer to improve their gaming experience. I will give you, those 2 people probably did pirate the majority of their video games. But that's like saying I know that the MAJORITY of people jaywalking are running across the street to get away from the cops after committing a crime. Sure, some do, but the majority of people jaywalk so that they are not "inconvenienced".
I thought the constant internet connection requirement was PART of the DRM, not a legitimate requirement to enjoy the game. If that indeed WAS the case, then you post is saying people's reasons for not playing the game were the DRM and the DRM. Which sounds about right to me.
I thought that was facebook...
As long as I can hit them with a crowbar or use my zero-point energy field manipulator on them, I don't see a problem...
I think the best part is that every time you come back to comment on your taste for puppies, you sig continues to assert that another seven puppies were harmed.
Who would actually do that? That sounds highly unlikely to me.
It's cases like these that make me hope I get picked for jury duty and end up in one of these cases. Just so I can be more objective about what actually happened. Of course from what I know about the legal system, the prosecuting attorney will probably kick off any juror that knows what a computer is.
So what you did to that puppy when you were 7, yeah, we'll always know about it.
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Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I take it you're speaking from personal experience?
I have to disagree somewhat. I mean the idea is that we will move in the most powerful appealing direction. If prosthetics have more to offer than just having our own limbs again, it will happen. Of course at that point it makes you wonder if people would be hacking off limbs just to get that sweet tech. What I find a lot more likely is that if we gain the ability to regrow limbs, that prosthetics will move in an enhancement direction instead of a replacement direction. Instead of having a robot arm, maybe you'll have a robot sleeve that you wear that makes you stronger.
That's a good point. In that same line, are there off peak data usage times? Surely they have a time that the data network is under a lighter load. Maybe it's just not as much of a time though because people will use the internet later than they would decide not to call people anymore.
How often do you end a sentence with Mr, Prof, or M? I suppose it would happen periodically, but not often enough that you couldn't just set those types of words as exceptions. All that being said, I do my writing in gedit or vim because I think a word processor should allow you to do the typing instead of trying to do the thinking for you.
Wow, that woman sounds eerily like my grandmother.... I wonder....
Maybe they are waiting to make more movies until the 3D technologies improve because of all these complaints we have. Chances are if people are shelling out a couple grand for these things, as well as a bunch of 3D movies to watch on it, and then it fails to impress, and hurts the eyes, and all that, maybe it would sour people to the technology, making it a lot harder to get people to buy when technology improves.
If instead they only release a movie or two, then only the people that are obsessed with having the next new thing will buy it, and they of course won't be dissapointed no matter how much it hurts their eyes because it's the next big thing.
I like this phrase "unpolitically correct" as in "You can say that for any purpose except for politics."
Which of course separates itself from "politically incorrect" which seems more to imply "not suitable for at least politics, possibly more."
I'm with you that there isn't much of a place for government secrets. But it's a gray area. The reason they're not public to us about things like stealth bombers is because it takes a little bit of the stealth out of it if your enemies know what's coming. I'm from the point of view that there shouldn't be a need for enemies in this age, but at the same time deciding to be completely open about our military ability is just begging for someone that doesn't embrace that point of view to exploit that.
Also, I'm all for trying to tell the government that we are against their current policies, but there might be more elegant approaches. If everyone banded together and protested the governments policies and put up a general stink about it all, things would slowly change. Problem is that most people don't feel a need to be that educated on the inner workings of the government that has a degree of power over us. Of course if I'm wrong that there are many people out there that want things to change, that brings up another point. If the majority of America wants there to be classified secrets of the government, it only takes one person leaking information to infringe on the rights of a nation. I'm not saying that anyone should ditch the country, but the majority supposedly makes the rules. And if that majority decision doesn't sit well with you, I'd like to believe there are other nations with other viewpoints. Just a thought anyway.
Is that so you can try to get someone pregnant... unless they have a fungal infection? I think in general, the people who are worried about their sexual partner having STDs probably isn't trying to get them pregnant.
If I worship an ancient sun god and believe that the way to become closer to that god is to capture and use as much of his loving energy as possible, can I have tax free renewable energy?
There should be a -1 Spam moderation, because I like reading the offtopic comments, and even some comments are marked offtopic when they are at least slightly tangential to the current discussion. But I never want to read spam, and I don't think anyone wants to.
If that is your experience, then I suspect your life is sad and lonely. I can tell it's already bitter since you've degenerated into swearing.
Seriously? You're calling a guy sad and lonely because he only has two dozen people to tell about his vacation and 6 good friends to come to a BBQ at his house? That seems a little extreme. I doubt that anyone truly has time to connect deeply with 254 people.
This gives me incentive to shake my mouse while browsing.
Is that what they call it nowadays?