Niven had a couple of stories/books that addressed this. There were the Flatlander collection of stories with Gil the ARM agent, tracking down organ leggers. There was also Gift from Earth, where an oligarchy controls the organ bank on a small planet and uses it (and penalties of having parts of body removed) to control small off-planet colony.
What if they just make this medicine really, really expensive so to restrict how many people have access to it? Could also set up some kind of scholarship/Nobel prize type of board for deserving folk. And finally, have some kind of lottery for the teeming masses. Or put it all under the control of Wall St. They're pretty good at handling expensive stuff.
If there was some way to structure a 20-30 hour work week and still provide a comparable wage to current 40 hour stuff, would allow more people in workforce.
Apple's E-World online service in the 90's? And even their ongoing kludge of.Mac that this cloud is supposed to replace/fix hasn't really been up to Apple ease-of-use/slick experience.
Is possible that the magnets weren't affecting the hard drive itself but the data in the unshielded drive cables, causing corruption to be written to disk.
Bummed SMAC/X no longer runs on my Mac after Lion update. Am dusting off an old Mac Mini to set up as game machine now. Wish someone would write a new SMAC/X style game. Other than time killers on phone, don't do any computer gaming anymore.
Yeah, but with an RV, you can carry along a home theater set up, a bbq smoker, a mobile wood fired pizza oven, etc. Think how many times you were out at the mall or at work or something and really wanted a good pice of pizza? As long as you have all your stuff with you, you'll never be without all your stuff! And besides, even if the laptop computers without the screens that are too heavy to hold on your lap are a bit to heavy to hold on your lap, well, if you never leave your mom's basement, you don't have to worry about that because you probably have your stuff set up on an old door propped up on a busted washing machine down there anyways!
Yeah, but if you get one of those laptops that doesn't have the screen attached and is shaped like a big box, you can run 4 monitors, edit video, render 3-D animation and host 200 people at a time as a web server? Why would you want a tablet that does a lot less?
But, but, rich people drive nice cars and wear nice suits. They must know what they're talking about, when they say their too scared to hire people right now because their taxes and business taxes are at the lowest levels since 1926. How can they possible think of expanding business if things might change? They really need the government to lock down things so that nothing ever changes again and then turn over control of everything to them. Then they'll finally feel safe enough to start hiring more people. Mostly for private armies.
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Niven had a couple of stories/books that addressed this. There were the Flatlander collection of stories with Gil the ARM agent, tracking down organ leggers. There was also Gift from Earth, where an oligarchy controls the organ bank on a small planet and uses it (and penalties of having parts of body removed) to control small off-planet colony.
Once the basics of modern life are supplied (housing/food/energy/transportation/communication), do we become an economy of play and entertainment?
What if they just make this medicine really, really expensive so to restrict how many people have access to it? Could also set up some kind of scholarship/Nobel prize type of board for deserving folk. And finally, have some kind of lottery for the teeming masses. Or put it all under the control of Wall St. They're pretty good at handling expensive stuff.
My DVD player ate the disk. Really, we watched it once and on eject, disk was cracked and missing pieces around the edge. Only disk that happened to.
If there was some way to structure a 20-30 hour work week and still provide a comparable wage to current 40 hour stuff, would allow more people in workforce.
With Jack Black as President Lincoln statue that comes alive and fights alien robots?
*golf clap*
Just hope the suicide machines work better than the ones in Bender's time.
Just wait for the remake starting Selina Gomez and Justen Beeber.
What' if Apple decides to spin off their hardware business and cancel their mobile stuff?
Ah, but to build a bridge between the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro...
*golf clap*
Apple's E-World online service in the 90's? And even their ongoing kludge of .Mac that this cloud is supposed to replace/fix hasn't really been up to Apple ease-of-use/slick experience.
Is possible that the magnets weren't affecting the hard drive itself but the data in the unshielded drive cables, causing corruption to be written to disk.
So... the reverse of banking?
*golf clap*
Bummed SMAC/X no longer runs on my Mac after Lion update. Am dusting off an old Mac Mini to set up as game machine now. Wish someone would write a new SMAC/X style game. Other than time killers on phone, don't do any computer gaming anymore.
Don't forget Newton!
(the man, not the cool hand held web browser/reader/mp3 player I have at home)
*golf clap*
Yeah, but with an RV, you can carry along a home theater set up, a bbq smoker, a mobile wood fired pizza oven, etc. Think how many times you were out at the mall or at work or something and really wanted a good pice of pizza? As long as you have all your stuff with you, you'll never be without all your stuff! And besides, even if the laptop computers without the screens that are too heavy to hold on your lap are a bit to heavy to hold on your lap, well, if you never leave your mom's basement, you don't have to worry about that because you probably have your stuff set up on an old door propped up on a busted washing machine down there anyways!
Yeah, but if you get one of those laptops that doesn't have the screen attached and is shaped like a big box, you can run 4 monitors, edit video, render 3-D animation and host 200 people at a time as a web server? Why would you want a tablet that does a lot less?
They had Hot or Not back then?
They're not redistributing Apple software on their computers, they're just... um... demonstrating how 1EEt hack0rz they are. And making a few bucks.
But, but, rich people drive nice cars and wear nice suits. They must know what they're talking about, when they say their too scared to hire people right now because their taxes and business taxes are at the lowest levels since 1926. How can they possible think of expanding business if things might change? They really need the government to lock down things so that nothing ever changes again and then turn over control of everything to them. Then they'll finally feel safe enough to start hiring more people. Mostly for private armies.
*golf clap*