From my reading, the message to which you were replying was asking whether "we have voted to live in a world full of beautiful, etc, people" The only way you can vote not to live in such a world, other than restricting someone else's actions, is to commit suicide, really..
A computer is a universal machine that can be used to process information. A gene sequencer is a specialized device for analyzing genes. The analogy to computers is not valid.
Genes are just information. The sequencer will merely be another computer peripheral.
Do you think these future humans with twisted spines, diseases, mental retardation, deformities, etc, etc, will THANK you for not allowing their parents to correct these things? The amount of arrogance shown in your message is astounding.
Technology can never replace the innate spark that makes us human, undesirable genes or not.
..and which spark is that? Please name something about you that sufficient technology (direct atomic manipulation) can't change? Your mind and consciousness are just mental tools with which you abstract the meat your brain is made of.
In the "fansub" version, the girl who gives Ashitaka the crystal pendant in the beginning of the film is his betrothed.. In the Disney version, they turned her into his little sister. I noticed some other little changes, like in the "nice bowl" eating scene, etc.. Nothing drastic like the first poster was saying, though..
I'm curious.. Exactly which point and clicky useless eye candy widgets are you talking about in Windows? I'm not saying that they're not there, I'd just like to hear what you think..
.NRA for those websites that are armed and dangerous?.MS for every website running IIS? Does the FSF really think that free software, as an institution, is as important as "The entire US military", "The entire US government", "All businesses", "All educational facilities?"
I'm very tempted to make a rule where all hours spent on company related trips are charged from the time I leave my home till the time I return home
This is how I operate. An extra hour of pay never hurt anyone.;)
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I'll have to ask my lawyer this question.. What happens when some chick decides to collect enough of my skin cells to get a good sample, then smacks them around with PCR, and uses that DNA to get pregnant and has a child without my knowledge? When the law comes to do a DNA test on me, do I have to start paying child support?
I'm not from the UK, but this strikes me as the most absurd argument I've ever seen. Just because a law is on the books doesn't mean that the goverment will enforce it? True, but then why is it on the books? If they DO choose to enforce it, who's to say that they won't make YOU the first test subject?
"The laws only have a harmful effect on those who chose to break the law." Right.. What defines breaking the law? The law. You seem to put far too much trust in the benevolence of the government.
What happens if (like the interview states) they start using satellite links, such as, say, iSky?
How do you cut their link without:
1. iSky's agreement
2. Physical destruction of iSky's hardware, and associated legal challenges thereof..
Also, cutting land lines to isolated communities is illegal via quite a few national/international laws.
HavenCo isn't saying that they won't be destroyed, just that they promise that customer servers won't be tampered with by outside sources.. HavenCo detonating a nuclear device "divine wind" style would NOT break this agreement. If Britain or the US decides that they don't want your country to exist any more, then no force on Earth will stop them.
He lists a few methods for avoiding this situation.. Just read the interview again.
Also, there will be multiple sites.. If one goes down, the others will continue to process data.
Read the responses again.. He addresses this issue at least three times.. Basically, they don't care what the client does with their machine. Period.. If the client is stupid enough to make an insecure connection to the server and transmit a password, or even a secure connection via a machine that could have a keyboard logger, etc, etc, then that's their problem.
All they will do for you is guarantee that your machine will not be tampered with.
If my CC# is posted somewhere, I will instantly cancel that card. If something REALLY upsetting about me was posted (I don't think this information actually exists, but let's pretend that it does..) I would probably take measures to find out who posted it there in the first place, then go to their house with a fire axe, a basket of mice, and some tough rubber gloves.
Free speech is a good thing.. Part of the package is that you may have to hear speech that you don't agree with.
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I personally won't have a child UNTIL I can engineer the way they turn out.
This is BS.. Even if I have to fly to a hospital in Malaysia, nothing can stop the march of medical progress. If politics and religion stops people from improving themselves beyond their hunter/gatherer genetics, then that will just place them under the feet of those who aren't afraid of a little "re-design."
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A computer that duplicated the exact structure of your brain, down to the atomic level, could do that just as well as your current brain can.
From my reading, the message to which you were replying was asking whether "we have voted to live in a world full of beautiful, etc, people"
The only way you can vote not to live in such a world, other than restricting someone else's actions, is to commit suicide, really..
A computer is a universal machine that can be used to process information. A gene sequencer is a specialized device for analyzing genes. The analogy to computers is not valid.
Genes are just information.
The sequencer will merely be another computer peripheral.
Do you think these future humans with twisted spines, diseases, mental retardation, deformities, etc, etc, will THANK you for not allowing their parents to correct these things? The amount of arrogance shown in your message is astounding.
Technology can never replace the innate spark that makes us human, undesirable genes or not.
..and which spark is that? Please name something about you that sufficient technology (direct atomic manipulation) can't change? Your mind and consciousness are just mental tools with which you abstract the meat your brain is made of.
In the "fansub" version, the girl who gives Ashitaka the crystal pendant in the beginning of the film is his betrothed.. In the Disney version, they turned her into his little sister.
I noticed some other little changes, like in the "nice bowl" eating scene, etc.. Nothing drastic like the first poster was saying, though..
Mine doesn't do this.. ;)
Maybe yours just thinks you're ugly?
I'm curious.. Exactly which point and clicky useless eye candy widgets are you talking about in Windows? I'm not saying that they're not there, I'd just like to hear what you think..
.NRA for those websites that are armed and dangerous? .MS for every website running IIS?
Does the FSF really think that free software, as an institution, is as important as "The entire US military", "The entire US government", "All businesses", "All educational facilities?"
Sounds cocky to me.
I'm very tempted to make a rule where all hours spent on company related trips are charged from the time I leave my home till the time I return home
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This is how I operate. An extra hour of pay never hurt anyone.
I'll have to ask my lawyer this question.. What happens when some chick decides to collect enough of my skin cells to get a good sample, then smacks them around with PCR, and uses that DNA to get pregnant and has a child without my knowledge? When the law comes to do a DNA test on me, do I have to start paying child support?
Actually, the cloth-rub test is for finding explosives, but I agree with the rest of your post.
Actually, it's 79%:
http://www.jatox.com/abstr acts/1996/jul-aug/213-cone.htm
Here as well:
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I'm not from the UK, but this strikes me as the most absurd argument I've ever seen. Just because a law is on the books doesn't mean that the goverment will enforce it? True, but then why is it on the books? If they DO choose to enforce it, who's to say that they won't make YOU the first test subject?
"The laws only have a harmful effect on those who chose to break the law."
Right.. What defines breaking the law? The law. You seem to put far too much trust in the benevolence of the government.
The average consumer can't afford a $3-$4k HDTV, or a $12-$25k plasma screen. It's all about money.
Hehe.. Trolls are funny.
Hahaha!! This made my day. ;)
What happens if (like the interview states) they start using satellite links, such as, say, iSky?
How do you cut their link without:
1. iSky's agreement
2. Physical destruction of iSky's hardware, and associated legal challenges thereof..
Also, cutting land lines to isolated communities is illegal via quite a few national/international laws.
HavenCo isn't saying that they won't be destroyed, just that they promise that customer servers won't be tampered with by outside sources.. HavenCo detonating a nuclear device "divine wind" style would NOT break this agreement. If Britain or the US decides that they don't want your country to exist any more, then no force on Earth will stop them.
He lists a few methods for avoiding this situation.. Just read the interview again.
Also, there will be multiple sites.. If one goes down, the others will continue to process data.
Read the responses again.. He addresses this issue at least three times.. Basically, they don't care what the client does with their machine. Period.. If the client is stupid enough to make an insecure connection to the server and transmit a password, or even a secure connection via a machine that could have a keyboard logger, etc, etc, then that's their problem.
All they will do for you is guarantee that your machine will not be tampered with.
If my CC# is posted somewhere, I will instantly cancel that card. If something REALLY upsetting about me was posted (I don't think this information actually exists, but let's pretend that it does..) I would probably take measures to find out who posted it there in the first place, then go to their house with a fire axe, a basket of mice, and some tough rubber gloves.
Free speech is a good thing.. Part of the package is that you may have to hear speech that you don't agree with.
I personally won't have a child UNTIL I can engineer the way they turn out.
Dell uses PC133? I don't see them offering that anywhere on their site.. As far as I understand, it's RDRAM only for their 133MHz FSB machines..
They'll get my FTP client from me when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Time to start hoarding cans of tuna fish and briefcase nukes.
This is BS.. Even if I have to fly to a hospital in Malaysia, nothing can stop the march of medical progress. If politics and religion stops people from improving themselves beyond their hunter/gatherer genetics, then that will just place them under the feet of those who aren't afraid of a little "re-design."