Sir, I couldn't help but notice your sig. I apologize for any mix-up, but it seems to me that you are claiming to be:
* Lord of Everything * Master of All
As you can see, I am Lord and Emperor Phedrick Dobbs, the proper owner of the aforementioned titles. They were transfered to me at my creation. The proof of the matter can be found here.
I apologize in advance for any errors on my part in interpreting your role. However, in order to make sure that the U.S. Government continues to recognize the title of Emperor of the Universe, I must unfortunately defend my rights rather more aggressively than I would have liked.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
I presume that was a troll, but I am replying anyway. I have always been of the opinion that it is much more fun to be a low level character and work your way up. Just like in D&D (roleplaying geek alert!), its actually more fun IMHO to play a low level character most of the time. (Thats the first time I've ever used IMHO! ACK!)
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
You know, there have been several responses to the URL, so in effect, you are doing precisely the same thing. Your message was one removed from the original, so it was a meta-spam. Mine is a meta-meta-spam, so Phttttbt. Looks like the wrong URL was an accidental, but rather successful troll.:)
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
Hmm, apparently Duron processors do more than just overclock to 900 Mhz! To quote the Durex Condom company:
"DURON combines uniquely a very high tensile strength (double the strength of natural latex) with high elasticity and suppleness allowing us to make a very thin condom with much enhanced sensitivity. The DURON material is strong, impermeable yet soft."
As per your sig: "I say those who fear communism lack faith in democracy", I am curious as to why those are mutually exclusive.
I'm not saying that communism is a superior economic system to capitalism. I am simply saying, what makes you think that you can't have a democratic communist republic?
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
Granted, the USSR was a lot more subtle than the US
Come again? Did anyone in this country (the US) know about all the stuff going on with the CIA and such during the cold war? Did anyone in Russia? Nope, not really. Of course, I'm sure everyone in Russia was convinced that AMERICANS were committing international espionage crimes, just as we were convinced that Russians did the same.
Both of us were right. Our governments just didn't admit it to the people who elected them.
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
However, the State Department did assert that, prior to acceptance of the plan, assurance must be forthcoming from the British that they would be flexible in their approach to the govern ment that succeeded Mossadeq as far as the oil question was concerned.
Is anybody fairly sure of what this is talking about? I presume they are talking about keeping oil prices down? or...?
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
To believe that no one has ever held the "source" for humans and other living things is akin to believing that you could find an intricate piece of machinery (a watch, for example) lying on the ground that had somehow assembled itself and was designed by no one.
Well, given a set of physics for a universe in which the larger components of watches tend to assemble themselves, and that these components tend to assemble into different types of watches, which in turn make minor errors in assembling more watches, one might argue that one COULD find a self-assembled watch.
The laws of physics in our universe seem to indicate that the same thing happens with self-replicating carbon based molecules which in turn grow more complex over time.
I'm not saying nobody set up the laws of physics that way. Just that scientific experimentation has indicated a certain proclivity for things in the universe to have gone that way.
-Dobbs
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
No, genetic engineering is likely to turn out to be a disaster in the making - who wants everybody to be the same? When we've turned to world into 6 billion clones, then there truly will be no turning back.
Why would genetic engineering make everyone identical? Thats preposterous! Its like people who think that cloning allows you to put someone in a box and get an exact copy at the exact same age!
The only big problem I personally see with genetic engineering is the possibility of making a serious mistake which spreads to every human being on the planet. Something subtle that would eventually come out, resulting in our extinction. There's a science fiction story (probably several) that mentions something similar to this. Ahh, yes, thats right, one of the Rama books by Arthur C. Clarke mentions a race that made changes to its genome and lost the original copy, so when they noticed the error that was killing them all, they were unable to do anything about it.
I don't see why we SHOULDN'T give our kids more intelligence, durability, as long as we don't manage to find out how to extend our 100 or so year limit before we simply wear out. And even that may be a good thing eventually, if we can manage to get off this planet and have somewhere to send all these people. (If no one died, population would grow at an even more insane rate than it is doing now)
It is unfortunate, however, that ramblings about God or Satan or evil forces which attribute a certain mysticism to cutting edge biology are very characteristic of the populace of America, and likely the developed world. While the religious argument is not necessarily universal, I know for a fact that most people's reactions to things like cloning are not level with the reality of the science. These sciences gain a magical quality, a romantic sense of tampering with something imperturbable and divine. To most people, genetics, and much of today's more advanced science, is something to fear, something that transcends understanding.
And this unfortunate fact is why I fear the true potential of many sciences may never be met.
-Dobbs
-Phredrick Dobbs Emperor of the Universe Grand and High Protector of Everything
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Sir, I couldn't help but notice your sig. I apologize for any mix-up, but it seems to me that you are claiming to be:
* Lord of Everything
* Master of All
As you can see, I am Lord and Emperor Phedrick Dobbs, the proper owner of the aforementioned titles. They were transfered to me at my creation. The proof of the matter can be found here.
I apologize in advance for any errors on my part in interpreting your role. However, in order to make sure that the U.S. Government continues to recognize the title of Emperor of the Universe, I must unfortunately defend my rights rather more aggressively than I would have liked.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
I presume that was a troll, but I am replying anyway. I have always been of the opinion that it is much more fun to be a low level character and work your way up. Just like in D&D (roleplaying geek alert!), its actually more fun IMHO to play a low level character most of the time. (Thats the first time I've ever used IMHO! ACK!)
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
You know, there have been several responses to the URL, so in effect, you are doing precisely the same thing. Your message was one removed from the original, so it was a meta-spam. Mine is a meta-meta-spam, so Phttttbt. Looks like the wrong URL was an accidental, but rather successful troll. :)
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Historical Accident, mmm? What accident was this?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
"DURON combines uniquely a very high tensile strength (double the strength of natural latex) with high elasticity and suppleness allowing us to make a very thin condom with much enhanced sensitivity. The DURON material is strong, impermeable yet soft."
For more info check out this and this.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Oh yeah? Your jocund proclivity towards latitudinarianism is fulgurously ostentatious! (its meant to be PARTIALLY understandable)
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
They won't do that, you know it. Stupid companies. Now it would be awesome to have a sticker with "Sledgehammer inside".
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
I'm not saying that communism is a superior economic system to capitalism. I am simply saying, what makes you think that you can't have a democratic communist republic?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Come again? Did anyone in this country (the US) know about all the stuff going on with the CIA and such during the cold war? Did anyone in Russia? Nope, not really. Of course, I'm sure everyone in Russia was convinced that AMERICANS were committing international espionage crimes, just as we were convinced that Russians did the same.
Both of us were right. Our governments just didn't admit it to the people who elected them.
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
What POSSIBLE reason other than the goodness of our hearts could we have liberated the people in Kuwait from a hostile government?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
However, the State Department did assert that, prior to acceptance of the plan, assurance must be forthcoming from the British that they would be flexible in their approach to the govern ment that succeeded Mossadeq as far as the oil question was concerned.
Is anybody fairly sure of what this is talking about? I presume they are talking about keeping oil prices down? or...?
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Well, given a set of physics for a universe in which the larger components of watches tend to assemble themselves, and that these components tend to assemble into different types of watches, which in turn make minor errors in assembling more watches, one might argue that one COULD find a self-assembled watch.
The laws of physics in our universe seem to indicate that the same thing happens with self-replicating carbon based molecules which in turn grow more complex over time.
I'm not saying nobody set up the laws of physics that way. Just that scientific experimentation has indicated a certain proclivity for things in the universe to have gone that way.
-Dobbs
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything
Why would genetic engineering make everyone identical? Thats preposterous! Its like people who think that cloning allows you to put someone in a box and get an exact copy at the exact same age!
The only big problem I personally see with genetic engineering is the possibility of making a serious mistake which spreads to every human being on the planet. Something subtle that would eventually come out, resulting in our extinction. There's a science fiction story (probably several) that mentions something similar to this. Ahh, yes, thats right, one of the Rama books by Arthur C. Clarke mentions a race that made changes to its genome and lost the original copy, so when they noticed the error that was killing them all, they were unable to do anything about it.
I don't see why we SHOULDN'T give our kids more intelligence, durability, as long as we don't manage to find out how to extend our 100 or so year limit before we simply wear out. And even that may be a good thing eventually, if we can manage to get off this planet and have somewhere to send all these people. (If no one died, population would grow at an even more insane rate than it is doing now)
It is unfortunate, however, that ramblings about God or Satan or evil forces which attribute a certain mysticism to cutting edge biology are very characteristic of the populace of America, and likely the developed world. While the religious argument is not necessarily universal, I know for a fact that most people's reactions to things like cloning are not level with the reality of the science. These sciences gain a magical quality, a romantic sense of tampering with something imperturbable and divine. To most people, genetics, and much of today's more advanced science, is something to fear, something that transcends understanding.
And this unfortunate fact is why I fear the true potential of many sciences may never be met.
-Dobbs
-Phredrick Dobbs
Emperor of the Universe
Grand and High Protector of Everything