Any couple that went through with this likely REALLY wants a baby so lack of feelings is
not going to be an issue.
to the extent that it is expensive, i'd agree. but if it isn't, then many people will go for the convenience and reduced risk to the mother.
which would suggest lower commitment.
if a little bundle of cells counts as human life, then why not one fertilized ovum? then why not the same ovum a few seconds earlier? then why not all the ova in an ovary, whether they ever ripen? then why not all the cells that went into making those ova?
since i was (i'm told) 2.5 years old, i had intended to be a surgeon. when i got to university i learned that the med schools want high marks above all, so one should take physics for poets. i looked at that, shuddered, and took physics for physicists, and other good, interesting courses. the med schools also wanted applicants to be working towards a degree. (i suppose they got tired of all the rejected pre-med students piling up at their doors with nowhere to go.)
so, after my first med-school application was soundly ignored, i moved from undirected general sciences to a computer science specialty, since that was an easy change and computers were fun. and i still took physics and biology and astronomy and whatever else whan fun too.
i am perfectly happy with the result (working as a software designer in various fields). med school is tough going and i am a lazy student. and when i make a fatal mistake with a computer i just push the reset button and try again.
it isn't the browser that is putting the identifying info in your requests, it is the networking software, which is beyond your or your browser's control.
the big difference from caller id on phones is that, by gov't mandate, you can block it. the same is not likely, and probably not possible, for deriving a location from an IP address.
*I* control who I hand my e-mail address to, and thus who can send to me.
if that were true, then spam would not be a problem. but that would require that you be able to control who those you hand your address to pass it on to. how do you propose to do that?
I can make a copy of Enya's new album, I have not taken away someone else's copy.
copies of enya's songs may be made essentially for free. what is not free is enya's creation of those songs. that is what you are paying for. it is the creation, not the recording, that is being freely traded. to pirate her work is to take from her the ability to participate in that free market.
nanotechnology.
robots with artificial intelligence.
genetic engineering.
these will bring about changes at least as profound as agriculture or the industrial revolution. much greater than even public sanitation or electricity.
there will be plenty of uses for more than 640K of ram.
... worry about your door getting kicked down? Nonsense. I'm sure the police use it as an excuse to harass certain populations, but they'd just find a different excuse if this one were takn away.
sure, but an excuse with less political support will get used less often, i.e., fewer doors will get kicked down. and this reduces the attractiveness of police work for those who like to kick down doors, which (over years) further reduces door-kicking.
And also: come on guys! Gold, for crying out loud! Why not just use platinum if you're going to go expensive... I mean, then just do it right, right? What the hell will you have to lay down for one of these? For materials alone you'd have to pay a pretty buck, I suppose.
that gold is measured in number of atoms per cell. there will be a lot more gold coating the connectors on a memory module than in the memory chips themselves.
... corporations obfuscate facts so that consumers CAN NOT make informed decisions. so are you suggesting that people may as well stay ignorant, since the educated can't win anyway? assuming that you want to fight the abuse of corporate power, then you must be advocating government control, but how does that get directed if the people are ignorant? an educated populace is the only hope. though the fight be hard, it must still be fought. ignorance wins only mindless bliss.
such a scheme, network instead of physical distribution, is undoubtedly how things will end up. but the current companies, for the most part, have their vision fixed firmly on the past rather than the future, and will try to preserve the "natural order" that has served them till now. they will make a lot of trouble as they are dragged into the future, and unfortunatly it is the forward-thinking techies that will suffer most of that trouble, eg the recent search and seizure in norway.
look at HSE (adsl) Bell Canada High Speed Edition... yah there's a good service *s*a*r*c*a*s*m* and you are complaining about a 50k out bound cap? try going out at 12k, and on top of that "having" to go through a proxy server, have you ever tried to get something other than windows to work with pppoe?
i use HSE. i'm in toronto, and routinely get just over 100KB/s downloads from cupertino and elsewhere. using PPPoE adds a few second to my boot time, but it runs fine on my mac with no loss of speed.
i have been impressed with the HSE tech support. any time i talk to them they have Macintosh info at their fingertips, and they even told be where to find third-party PPPoE software (MacPoET) when their own would not handle the latest Mac OS.
my only complaint is a high loss rate in binary newsgroups, but for that there is newsguy.com.
They still have this form. Next to the search box , in the upper right hand corner of their main page (www.deja.com) is the Power Search link (http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml). It's the same form, and is the ONLY interface I use to deja.
that form has all the junk that the original poster's form leaves out. that was the whole point of his post.
and i claim first pedantic correction to the first pedantic correction of the first year of the second millennial end-of-millennium debate. (did anyone actually debate this a thousand years ago? they didn't count years then as we do now.) because cxreg was the first and last to spell 'millennium' correctly.
here's a durability issue that i didn't see addressed on their (tech-poor) web site: they say the disks use flourescent dyes. at a guess these will be nice tunable organic dyes. such materials don't tend to live long, especially when illuminated.
are these disks going to last more than a few months?
no, a pinhole camera 'focuses' from nearly zero out to infinity. those disposables foucus from around a meter or two out to infinity. this is because the pinhole is very small, while the camera lens is relatively wide. it gives great depth of field.
and to all those saying that IR cameras can see through walls, you must have awfully thin walls!
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Any couple that went through with this likely REALLY wants a baby so lack of feelings is
not going to be an issue.
to the extent that it is expensive, i'd agree. but if it isn't, then many people will go for the convenience and reduced risk to the mother.
which would suggest lower commitment.
if a little bundle of cells counts as human life, then why not one fertilized ovum? then why not the same ovum a few seconds earlier? then why not all the ova in an ovary, whether they ever ripen? then why not all the cells that went into making those ova?
since i was (i'm told) 2.5 years old, i had intended to be a surgeon. when i got to university i learned that the med schools want high marks above all, so one should take physics for poets. i looked at that, shuddered, and took physics for physicists, and other good, interesting courses. the med schools also wanted applicants to be working towards a degree. (i suppose they got tired of all the rejected pre-med students piling up at their doors with nowhere to go.)
so, after my first med-school application was soundly ignored, i moved from undirected general sciences to a computer science specialty, since that was an easy change and computers were fun. and i still took physics and biology and astronomy and whatever else whan fun too.
i am perfectly happy with the result (working as a software designer in various fields). med school is tough going and i am a lazy student. and when i make a fatal mistake with a computer i just push the reset button and try again.
it isn't the browser that is putting the identifying info in your requests, it is the networking software, which is beyond your or your browser's control.
the big difference from caller id on phones is that, by gov't mandate, you can block it. the same is not likely, and probably not possible, for deriving a location from an IP address.
a computer that's capable of making 20,000,000 mistakes per second, mixed in with 9,980,000,000 right answers
if google gave you 998 good hits and two bad ones, would you go looking for a better search engine?
if quake 17.0 drews 99 billion pixels per second, and got 20 million of them wrong, would you notice?
99.8% is plenty for some applications. i'd be happy if google could find even 50% of all the web pages that match my query.
will this technology be free as in speech, or free as in beer?
There's a huge difference between software innovation and hardware innovation. Software innovation is sequential and complementary
are you perhaps under the impression that every new piece of hardware is desinged from scratch, using stone knives and bear skins?
there may be important differences between hardware and software innovation, but that is not one of them.
*I* control who I hand my e-mail address to, and thus who can send to me.
if that were true, then spam would not be a problem. but that would require that you be able to control who those you hand your address to pass it on to. how do you propose to do that?
BTW...I'm a vegan
and i'm from arcturus.
anyway, do you torture the plants as you kill and eat them?
do you even know how to give them a quick, merciful death?
I can make a copy of Enya's new album, I have not taken away someone else's copy.
copies of enya's songs may be made essentially for free. what is not free is enya's creation of those songs. that is what you are paying for. it is the creation, not the recording, that is being freely traded. to pirate her work is to take from her the ability to participate in that free market.
Technology is approaching its end game.
nanotechnology.
robots with artificial intelligence.
genetic engineering.
these will bring about changes at least as profound as agriculture or the industrial revolution. much greater than even public sanitation or electricity.
there will be plenty of uses for more than 640K of ram.
... worry about your door getting kicked down? Nonsense. I'm sure the police use it as an excuse to harass certain populations, but they'd just find a different excuse if this one were takn away.
sure, but an excuse with less political support will get used less often, i.e., fewer doors will get kicked down. and this reduces the attractiveness of police work for those who like to kick down doors, which (over years) further reduces door-kicking.
And also: come on guys! Gold, for crying out loud! Why not just use platinum if you're going to go expensive... I mean, then just do it right, right?
What the hell will you have to lay down for one of these? For materials alone you'd have to pay a pretty buck, I suppose.
that gold is measured in number of atoms per cell. there will be a lot more gold coating the connectors on a memory module than in the memory chips themselves.
... corporations obfuscate facts so that consumers CAN NOT make informed decisions.
so are you suggesting that people may as well stay ignorant, since the educated can't win anyway? assuming that you want to fight the abuse of corporate power, then you must be advocating government control, but how does that get directed if the people are ignorant?
an educated populace is the only hope. though the fight be hard, it must still be fought. ignorance wins only mindless bliss.
such a scheme, network instead of physical distribution, is undoubtedly how things will end up. but the current companies, for the most part, have their vision fixed firmly on the past rather than the future, and will try to preserve the "natural order" that has served them till now. they will make a lot of trouble as they are dragged into the future, and unfortunatly it is the forward-thinking techies that will suffer most of that trouble, eg the recent search and seizure in norway.
look at HSE (adsl) Bell Canada High Speed Edition ... yah there's a good service *s*a*r*c*a*s*m* and you are
complaining about a 50k out bound cap? try going out at 12k, and on top of that "having" to go through a proxy server, have
you ever tried to get something other than windows to work with pppoe?
i use HSE. i'm in toronto, and routinely get just over 100KB/s downloads from cupertino and elsewhere. using PPPoE adds a few second to my boot time, but it runs fine on my mac with no loss of speed.
i have been impressed with the HSE tech support. any time i talk to them they have Macintosh info at their fingertips, and they even told be where to find third-party PPPoE software (MacPoET) when their own would not handle the latest Mac OS.
my only complaint is a high loss rate in binary newsgroups, but for that there is newsguy.com.
Search link (http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml). It's the same form, and is the ONLY interface I use to deja.
that form has all the junk that the original poster's form leaves out. that was the whole point of his post.
and i claim first pedantic correction to the first pedantic correction of the first year of the second millennial end-of-millennium debate. (did anyone actually debate this a thousand years ago? they didn't count years then as we do now.) because cxreg was the first and last to spell 'millennium' correctly.
a car hit a power poll and took out the suburb's power until a new poll was installed
those pollsters are garnering far too much power!
here's a durability issue that i didn't see addressed on their (tech-poor) web site: they say the disks use flourescent dyes. at a guess these will be nice tunable organic dyes. such materials don't tend to live long, especially when illuminated.
are these disks going to last more than a few months?
or if starting yor own country is too much work, you could join a new 'cyber nation' already in progress CY: http://www.juga.com/.
Whether you draw it on the ground or see it in your mind as long as you belive in the symbolism it has the same effect.
0 == 0
better yet, SEGA@home. a lot of the games involve searching for aliens, after all!
no, a pinhole camera 'focuses' from nearly zero out to infinity. those disposables foucus from around a meter or two out to infinity.
this is because the pinhole is very small, while the camera lens is relatively wide. it gives great depth of field.
and to all those saying that IR cameras can see through walls, you must have awfully thin walls!