1.33 billion Chinese that will eat ANY kind of meat plus a huge emerging market in India - now that they can finally eat meat. And who was that the US owed a shitload of money? Ah yes! Them there hungry Chinese.
As long as you socialize online with the people who know you IRL. In most cases it doesn't take a thesis in data mining to figure out your identity based on the chatter from your friends and colleagues.
As for OP's geotagging remark... better start strip searching your friends and family and forbidding any kind of photographing or video recording in your home (No geotagging in this house!). Cameras and phones come with geotagging turned on by default, and now there are SD memory cards with built in wi-fi that automatically post your photos to Flickr or other sites of your choice.
And you thought it was a bother when someone you know tags you in a group photo in his/her Facebook album.
Apple's cycle is well known. But could this mean that it should be amended?
For example, with a new, secondary, starting point such as: "An obscure software developer spots references to what could conceivably be a next version of Apple hardware in one of its logs".
The "I am the center of the Universe and all should conform to my unimaginative desires" approach. Damn! I wish I came up with that philosophy first.
Gee.. Who would ever want a thin flexible display that could be bent or rolled up? Madness! Madness I say! Naah... let's just make displays that are big enough and cheap enough for YOUR needs.
If you want, for a small fee, I will come to your house and rip out the cables out of all of your earphones, speakers, phones and other devices that blare the sound into your ears. I'll break your TVs and monitors for free, but ripping out LEDs and light-bulbs will cost you extra. You know... for that complete passive experience you are obviously aiming for.
Can't do much about the smells, touch and taste without removing your tongue, nose and skin though. But for a price, I know a guy who does that too.
PPS his birth certificate wouldn't have helped him, why'd you say that?
DUH! So they would know WHERE to deport you. I mean him.
Also, so he could prove to US authorities that he is actually born in the USA. I hear some there believe that their actual president is not really an American... one must think ahead.
PS the guy at the link is a moron, you don't make jokes with immigration or customs officers.
See? And he was a guy who often travels outside of US. Plus he is an intellectual capable of living from his sense of humor and his doodles. Ergo, he might be a moron - but he sure is the upper crust of the moron population. or maybe he is just an amateur moron. You know... Maybe it is like a hobby for him.
And just imagine the hijinks had his name been Mohammed? Boy, would that second page look different.
I laughed. Then again, I have a keen sense of humor, irony, logic and I prefer subtle multilayered jokes. That is why I always incorporate a fart at the end of my "deeper" jokes. Alas... farts don't carry over very well in text.
I used to use smiley faces to indicate subtle jokes, still there were people who didn't understand it was a joke and treated it as a serious comment. And there we come to the problem.
See... You don't use "woosh!" to indicate that the joke lacks humor. Some jokes are actually sad or downright disgusting (like the one with a truckload of babies and a truckload of sand). Woosh is there to indicate that it didn't even dawn on the commenter that you were joking. Despite the fact that the Parent Post has a link to a comic and a dark humor comedy.
Your American birth certificate, your proof of owning land/houses/structures in the US or UK, proof of any hotel reservations that you may have made, letters of guaranty from as many British citizens as you can, your proof that you are not Muslim, your proof that you are white, your 27B/6...
according to Wikipedia, roughly half of all famous people are porn stars, if you go by pagecount.
Half is a HUGE number.
Are you really that bored, that you need to keep trolling down this topic trying to make completely and utterly clear things appear "questionable"? Are you practicing for a job interview at FOX News or something?
This story is about laptops. And cigarette smoke can outright kill laptops.
Even the lowest quality desktop PC will have better airflow than the best laptop. Most cases it is a single fan, single air-path solution. Also, in most cases components are jammed as close to one another that any airflow you do get is being pumped through openings that are couple of millimeters wide at best.
And have you ever seen a heavy smoker use a computer? Most of the time there is a lit cigarette in their hands while they type, or it is right next to the keyboard burning away in an ashtray. Naturally, after a month or two there is as much ash inside the keyboard as is in the ashtray.
And on a personal note... I was asked once to "fix up" a laptop from a smoker's home. Mother and son, smoking about 2-3 packs a day. Recently, laptop started turning off by itself or it would slow down to a crawl. Considering it was riddled with spyware I decided to simply format the drive and reinstall windows.
Half way through the installation it just turned off by itself. OK... that is not good. Restart the installation, this time paying very close attention to what is happening. And again, almost at the same spot - it turned itself off. Only this time, it is obvious that it is turning off after its DVD has been working for couple of minutes copying files. I pull out the Windows CD, and that thing is HOT. I check the back, and I see that the single cooler this laptop has is housed behind a metal grating - presumably to keep out the dust. Only there is not a single hole in the grating any more. They are all plugged up by some black substance - that turns out to be tar once I've scraped some of it off with a needle. So, I've unplugged the holes as best as I can and then vacuumed all openings on the laptop for about 10-15 minutes. Now, Windows installation made past that point and there sure is (warm) air coming out of the laptop - but still it turned itself off about 10 minutes later than the first time.
I had to take a large cooling fan, point it directly at that laptop and turn it up to the maximum setting in order to install Windows. The laptop worked just fine - unless you used the optical drive AND hard drive AND processor at the same time for too long.
As it was a mostly Office and Email machine most of the time, turning off was no longer an issue after the cleaning I gave it. Although, I imagine that inside it is probably covered with tar and gunk. I've had CDs and DVDs returned to me that were clearly boxed and unused for months - that had a thin film of cigarette smoke gunk inside. Wherever the air gets in - smoke gets in. Wherever the cigarette smoke gets in - tar gets in.
IMHO... Had that computer been a Mac, with its components crammed in as tight as possible to make it even thinner and elegant and with its slot loaded optical drive (for even more elegance) it would have burned out months ago.
And so are jewels, Confederacy dollars, Reichsmarks and Enron shares and stocks. Jewels can be replicated today - they are pricey because they are artificially kept pricey. Gold will probably be attainable from led or even rocks in the future. Companies and countries cease to exit.
Several things will have (increased) value after a period of time.
One is land. There is a limited amount of it on the planet. Even if you dry out oceans to make more - "old land" will still have premium value due to being closer to human habitats of old. You know, where all the culture is.
The other is exactly that - culture. Works of art of any kind will only increase in value. Hey... Action Comics No.1 from 1938 was originally sold for $0.1 - today they go for half a million.
Statues last longer than paper and canvas - and you can still bury them somewhere on that piece of land you own. "Lost" compositions, songs, books etc. by famous artists can also be stored - but you would have to be either very rich and have a famous artist make something just for you, or stalk him/her, steal the work of art and possibly kill the artist (sooner he/she is dead, sooner the value will start to grow).
Your death is permanent until you are revived - unless there is technology available that would allow reviving you periodically prior to the date when you want to be revived permanently.
The future will disallow existence of trust funds? Cause that is the basic idea behind this. Put your money into a trust fund today, to have it paid to the person who is effectively you in the future.
Once you die, you effectively cease to exist, so you can't inherit yourself. BUT... you can put your money into a trust fund to have it payable to the person that looks like you, has your DNA and memories and knows all the passwords necessary to activate the account.
As for "advantage you do not deserve"... Actually, I think that if anything, future laws will be passed to regulate "thawing" to suit the needs of the future society. Cause that would be A LOT of dead capital, just sitting there in a bank account somewhere, while its owner (in a freezer somewhere) has no real sense of its market value. Thawing corpsicles will be like giving money to small children and letting them out in the street. There would be no such thing as a recession any more - once you have the cure for all those diseases they froze themselves away from.
Just thaw the proper batch of 20-21st century cash cows and let them out in the street. What else can they do in the future but shop?
Naturally, this whole post is based on two preconditions.
1. You need cures for various incurable diseases in existence today. One of them being death of old age. 2. Money and commerce should still be present in the future in such a way that they are a limited but required (and desired) resource.
When we are able to "scan" the entirety of a living human body in any form that would be useful for its complete recreation, we will have 2 things.
Functional teleporters AND eternal life inside a computer/mechanical/cybernetic body.
Scanning it with today's technology would be akin to Thomas Stoltz Harvey photographing Einstein's brain to preserve its appearance before he cut it up into smaller pieces.
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1.33 billion Chinese that will eat ANY kind of meat plus a huge emerging market in India - now that they can finally eat meat.
And who was that the US owed a shitload of money?
Ah yes! Them there hungry Chinese.
As long as you socialize online with the people who know you IRL.
In most cases it doesn't take a thesis in data mining to figure out your identity based on the chatter from your friends and colleagues.
As for OP's geotagging remark... better start strip searching your friends and family and forbidding any kind of photographing or video recording in your home (No geotagging in this house!).
Cameras and phones come with geotagging turned on by default, and now there are SD memory cards with built in wi-fi that automatically post your photos to Flickr or other sites of your choice.
And you thought it was a bother when someone you know tags you in a group photo in his/her Facebook album.
Apple's cycle is well known.
But could this mean that it should be amended?
For example, with a new, secondary, starting point such as: "An obscure software developer spots references to what could conceivably be a next version of Apple hardware in one of its logs".
And on fire.
...you insensitive clod!
The "I am the center of the Universe and all should conform to my unimaginative desires" approach.
Damn! I wish I came up with that philosophy first.
Gee.. Who would ever want a thin flexible display that could be bent or rolled up? Madness! Madness I say!
Naah... let's just make displays that are big enough and cheap enough for YOUR needs.
...Reading and watching video in the dark.
If you want, for a small fee, I will come to your house and rip out the cables out of all of your earphones, speakers, phones and other devices that blare the sound into your ears.
I'll break your TVs and monitors for free, but ripping out LEDs and light-bulbs will cost you extra.
You know... for that complete passive experience you are obviously aiming for.
Can't do much about the smells, touch and taste without removing your tongue, nose and skin though.
But for a price, I know a guy who does that too.
That is Sam RAIMI.
This is that hobbit guy that went with Frodo to Mount Doom to chuck that ring into the lava pits.
... they should call the company/project "Norwegian Blue".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_energy
PPS his birth certificate wouldn't have helped him, why'd you say that?
DUH! So they would know WHERE to deport you. I mean him.
Also, so he could prove to US authorities that he is actually born in the USA.
I hear some there believe that their actual president is not really an American... one must think ahead.
PS the guy at the link is a moron, you don't make jokes with immigration or customs officers.
See? And he was a guy who often travels outside of US.
Plus he is an intellectual capable of living from his sense of humor and his doodles.
Ergo, he might be a moron - but he sure is the upper crust of the moron population. or maybe he is just an amateur moron.
You know... Maybe it is like a hobby for him.
And just imagine the hijinks had his name been Mohammed? Boy, would that second page look different.
I laughed. Then again, I have a keen sense of humor, irony, logic and I prefer subtle multilayered jokes.
That is why I always incorporate a fart at the end of my "deeper" jokes.
Alas... farts don't carry over very well in text.
I used to use smiley faces to indicate subtle jokes, still there were people who didn't understand it was a joke and treated it as a serious comment.
And there we come to the problem.
See... You don't use "woosh!" to indicate that the joke lacks humor.
Some jokes are actually sad or downright disgusting (like the one with a truckload of babies and a truckload of sand).
Woosh is there to indicate that it didn't even dawn on the commenter that you were joking.
Despite the fact that the Parent Post has a link to a comic and a dark humor comedy.
Ah yes!
Woosh!
Bring:
Also:
Your American birth certificate, your proof of owning land/houses/structures in the US or UK, proof of any hotel reservations that you may have made, letters of guaranty from as many British citizens as you can, your proof that you are not Muslim, your proof that you are white, your 27B/6...
according to Wikipedia, roughly half of all famous people are porn stars, if you go by pagecount.
Half is a HUGE number.
Are you really that bored, that you need to keep trolling down this topic trying to make completely and utterly clear things appear "questionable"?
Are you practicing for a job interview at FOX News or something?
Same place I get that water is wet, fire is hot, sky (on Earth) is bluish color and other hard to find information.
It is common sense.
Or, you can look it up.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fame
http://www.yourdictionary.com/fame
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fame
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fame
There is another criteria for fame other than simple recognition by large groups of people?
What definition of fame are you using?
if you go by pagecount.
They somehow never manage to survive the death of the body.
Also, they seem to thrive in a well fed and groomed body, and whither away at the slightest danger to body's existence.
This story is about laptops. And cigarette smoke can outright kill laptops.
Even the lowest quality desktop PC will have better airflow than the best laptop.
Most cases it is a single fan, single air-path solution.
Also, in most cases components are jammed as close to one another that any airflow you do get is being pumped through openings that are couple of millimeters wide at best.
And have you ever seen a heavy smoker use a computer?
Most of the time there is a lit cigarette in their hands while they type, or it is right next to the keyboard burning away in an ashtray.
Naturally, after a month or two there is as much ash inside the keyboard as is in the ashtray.
And on a personal note...
I was asked once to "fix up" a laptop from a smoker's home. Mother and son, smoking about 2-3 packs a day.
Recently, laptop started turning off by itself or it would slow down to a crawl. Considering it was riddled with spyware I decided to simply format the drive and reinstall windows.
Half way through the installation it just turned off by itself. OK... that is not good.
Restart the installation, this time paying very close attention to what is happening. And again, almost at the same spot - it turned itself off.
Only this time, it is obvious that it is turning off after its DVD has been working for couple of minutes copying files.
I pull out the Windows CD, and that thing is HOT.
I check the back, and I see that the single cooler this laptop has is housed behind a metal grating - presumably to keep out the dust.
Only there is not a single hole in the grating any more. They are all plugged up by some black substance - that turns out to be tar once I've scraped some of it off with a needle.
So, I've unplugged the holes as best as I can and then vacuumed all openings on the laptop for about 10-15 minutes.
Now, Windows installation made past that point and there sure is (warm) air coming out of the laptop - but still it turned itself off about 10 minutes later than the first time.
I had to take a large cooling fan, point it directly at that laptop and turn it up to the maximum setting in order to install Windows.
The laptop worked just fine - unless you used the optical drive AND hard drive AND processor at the same time for too long.
As it was a mostly Office and Email machine most of the time, turning off was no longer an issue after the cleaning I gave it.
Although, I imagine that inside it is probably covered with tar and gunk.
I've had CDs and DVDs returned to me that were clearly boxed and unused for months - that had a thin film of cigarette smoke gunk inside.
Wherever the air gets in - smoke gets in. Wherever the cigarette smoke gets in - tar gets in.
IMHO... Had that computer been a Mac, with its components crammed in as tight as possible to make it even thinner and elegant and with its slot loaded optical drive (for even more elegance) it would have burned out months ago.
You simply don't get to drop not one but TWO nukes on civilians and call yourself a peacemaker.
When Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler got nominated.
On a bright side, Hitler's nomination was withdrawn AND it took place before the WWII.
Stalin and Truman got their nominations after the WWII.
And so are jewels, Confederacy dollars, Reichsmarks and Enron shares and stocks.
Jewels can be replicated today - they are pricey because they are artificially kept pricey.
Gold will probably be attainable from led or even rocks in the future.
Companies and countries cease to exit.
Several things will have (increased) value after a period of time.
One is land.
There is a limited amount of it on the planet. Even if you dry out oceans to make more - "old land" will still have premium value due to being closer to human habitats of old. You know, where all the culture is.
The other is exactly that - culture.
Works of art of any kind will only increase in value.
Hey... Action Comics No.1 from 1938 was originally sold for $0.1 - today they go for half a million.
Statues last longer than paper and canvas - and you can still bury them somewhere on that piece of land you own.
"Lost" compositions, songs, books etc. by famous artists can also be stored - but you would have to be either very rich and have a famous artist make something just for you, or stalk him/her, steal the work of art and possibly kill the artist (sooner he/she is dead, sooner the value will start to grow).
Your death is permanent until you are revived - unless there is technology available that would allow reviving you periodically prior to the date when you want to be revived permanently.
And we lack that today.
The future will disallow existence of trust funds?
Cause that is the basic idea behind this. Put your money into a trust fund today, to have it paid to the person who is effectively you in the future.
Once you die, you effectively cease to exist, so you can't inherit yourself.
BUT... you can put your money into a trust fund to have it payable to the person that looks like you, has your DNA and memories and knows all the passwords necessary to activate the account.
As for "advantage you do not deserve"...
Actually, I think that if anything, future laws will be passed to regulate "thawing" to suit the needs of the future society.
Cause that would be A LOT of dead capital, just sitting there in a bank account somewhere, while its owner (in a freezer somewhere) has no real sense of its market value.
Thawing corpsicles will be like giving money to small children and letting them out in the street.
There would be no such thing as a recession any more - once you have the cure for all those diseases they froze themselves away from.
Just thaw the proper batch of 20-21st century cash cows and let them out in the street.
What else can they do in the future but shop?
Naturally, this whole post is based on two preconditions.
1. You need cures for various incurable diseases in existence today. One of them being death of old age.
2. Money and commerce should still be present in the future in such a way that they are a limited but required (and desired) resource.
When we are able to "scan" the entirety of a living human body in any form that would be useful for its complete recreation, we will have 2 things.
Functional teleporters AND eternal life inside a computer/mechanical/cybernetic body.
Scanning it with today's technology would be akin to Thomas Stoltz Harvey photographing Einstein's brain to preserve its appearance before he cut it up into smaller pieces.