Unfortunately both GS3 and DR are pay-to-play. I used to play them ALL THE TIME, till it wasn't free. I personally have kinda wanned(sp?) on MUDding, mostly because a lot of MUDs are a little too heavy on the player killing and lacking on the actual enjoyable rp. Then there's a few MUDs where the implementors like to cheat (Anyone play Waterdeep? Cyric and Talos both cheat, that's the reason why Deneir(sp?) left and there's no waterdeep2). Unfortunately I also went over the a few exetremely elitest MUXes, I found my character sitting in bars for exetremely long periods of time being told to go away. So basically GS3 and DR are about the best M*'s you're going to find in existance, but you have to have cash.
They are a peace keeping force. Look at the cold war, before then we pretty much told everyone to chill out or we're going to turn your major cities into crispy critters. Then the soviets get nukes. This happens before the Korean war I believe, MacArthur wanted to bomb the living crap out of communist china. Truman stopped him because he knew if they did that russia would get into it and then you have WWIII, and no more USA or Russia. For that matter no united kingdom either, always nuke their allies too. So that was a war averted by nuclear weapons.
One thing that's scarry is if someone gets a defenesive system that actually stops nukes. What do you have then? A country that can freely use nukes without worrying about most of the consequences.
Although thankfully wars are going from a large scale stand-point to a smaller scale urban-ish environment. EMP shells would be a must if you have to sneak in somewhere and all their people have some kind of infrared nightscope and their extremely paranoid and trigger happy. Shell 'em once and then move in while you have the tech advantage would be the obvious use. It lowers the american body count which we all know is the best thing in the world. These shells could also bring a few larger countrys to their economic knees, formost of course would be the US. But that's if you can shell most of the major citys/internet hubs. At some point I feel most other countries will become more net dependent for their economy.
not sure if anyone remembers what clinton did with cloning, but as I recall he basically banned human genetic monkey business in the states... Now if good ol' falwell get's his -37 cents in.. the god-fearing majority will get it's panties in a bunch and who ever is president at the time will be forced to say "no playing god, bad science" and slowly they'll figure out some ways to control all this.
Now, Katz seems to have taken the "doom-speaker" position.. which as it seems from other replys some seem to think that this is wrong... but I for one say we NEED these "doom-speakers". Really, there aren't that many of them, I for one am not of this kin. Although personally I believe that playing with genetics is a wee bit wrong... as commonly it'll be used to help those whom I consider mentally unhealthy and incrediably stupid (ok ok ok, your average person) but also it could also put an end to actual evolution as people would want a "normal" child and would of course want to remove any genes that would make them "different". But, on the other hand, this MAY double over on itself and all of a sudden, the stupid population would actually have some common sense! (O no!) and then they'd stop processing these normal children, or even save humanity and not have any children at all!!! (What?!?! Have no children?!?! that really is a good idea!!!)
But really, think about it.. from my knowledge it's incrediably hard to edit DNA in fact currently it's impossible, we can read... just not mess with... Also there's the fact that we currently don't have any way to edit a large amount of cells and we'd have to edit them one at a time which.. the body wouldn't like.. and it would then destroy that cell..
basically... yes we do have the priliminary map.. and no we can't do anything with it, just understand. From what I know it'll be a long time before we can actually get this "perfect baby"
I found debian at a bookstore.. three cds and a copy of the debian users' guide. this was version 2.0, I did a net install of 2.1 over the T1 at work... took over four hours! on a T1! ick.
I paid $27.99 for RH 5.2 at best buy. I prolly coulda found it cheaper if I had looked elsewhere, but I'm lazy.:)
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well, this is just regarding one of your points...
KDE looks like win95. that doesn't mean that *Linux* looks like win95. check out http://www.windowmaker.org or http://www.enlightenment.org. the fact that linux can be configured to look like pretty much anything (including win95) is one of its strengths.:)
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Unfortunately both GS3 and DR are pay-to-play. I used to play them ALL THE TIME, till it wasn't free. I personally have kinda wanned(sp?) on MUDding, mostly because a lot of MUDs are a little too heavy on the player killing and lacking on the actual enjoyable rp. Then there's a few MUDs where the implementors like to cheat (Anyone play Waterdeep? Cyric and Talos both cheat, that's the reason why Deneir(sp?) left and there's no waterdeep2). Unfortunately I also went over the a few exetremely elitest MUXes, I found my character sitting in bars for exetremely long periods of time being told to go away. So basically GS3 and DR are about the best M*'s you're going to find in existance, but you have to have cash.
It sucks not having a job =P
One thing that's scarry is if someone gets a defenesive system that actually stops nukes. What do you have then? A country that can freely use nukes without worrying about most of the consequences.
Although thankfully wars are going from a large scale stand-point to a smaller scale urban-ish environment. EMP shells would be a must if you have to sneak in somewhere and all their people have some kind of infrared nightscope and their extremely paranoid and trigger happy. Shell 'em once and then move in while you have the tech advantage would be the obvious use. It lowers the american body count which we all know is the best thing in the world. These shells could also bring a few larger countrys to their economic knees, formost of course would be the US. But that's if you can shell most of the major citys/internet hubs. At some point I feel most other countries will become more net dependent for their economy.
not sure if anyone remembers what clinton did with cloning, but as I recall he basically banned human genetic monkey business in the states... Now if good ol' falwell get's his -37 cents in.. the god-fearing majority will get it's panties in a bunch and who ever is president at the time will be forced to say "no playing god, bad science" and slowly they'll figure out some ways to control all this.
Now, Katz seems to have taken the "doom-speaker" position.. which as it seems from other replys some seem to think that this is wrong... but I for one say we NEED these "doom-speakers". Really, there aren't that many of them, I for one am not of this kin. Although personally I believe that playing with genetics is a wee bit wrong... as commonly it'll be used to help those whom I consider mentally unhealthy and incrediably stupid (ok ok ok, your average person) but also it could also put an end to actual evolution as people would want a "normal" child and would of course want to remove any genes that would make them "different". But, on the other hand, this MAY double over on itself and all of a sudden, the stupid population would actually have some common sense! (O no!) and then they'd stop processing these normal children, or even save humanity and not have any children at all!!! (What?!?! Have no children?!?! that really is a good idea!!!)
But really, think about it.. from my knowledge it's incrediably hard to edit DNA in fact currently it's impossible, we can read... just not mess with... Also there's the fact that we currently don't have any way to edit a large amount of cells and we'd have to edit them one at a time which.. the body wouldn't like.. and it would then destroy that cell..
basically... yes we do have the priliminary map.. and no we can't do anything with it, just understand. From what I know it'll be a long time before we can actually get this "perfect baby"
-I still want an army of me...
just thought this quote at the bottom of the page was rather apt...
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by
men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis
D. Brandeis
this was in the los angeles area, btw... (saw all those other posts mentioning cities and thought I should do the same)
I found debian at a bookstore.. three cds and a copy of the debian users' guide. this was version 2.0, I did a net install of 2.1 over the T1 at work... took over four hours! on a T1! ick.
to "beg the question" means to assume something is true that hasn't been proven...
I paid $27.99 for RH 5.2 at best buy. I prolly coulda found it cheaper if I had looked elsewhere, but I'm lazy. :)
well, this is just regarding one of your points...
:)
KDE looks like win95. that doesn't mean that *Linux*
looks like win95. check out http://www.windowmaker.org or
http://www.enlightenment.org. the fact that linux
can be configured to look like pretty much anything
(including win95) is one of its strengths.
we await silent tristero's empire? yummy.