In all seriousness, we can no longer deny that we are very much, like it or not, the stewards of this planet, and by extension, all the information which has ever been encoded in any way whatsoever.
While I do not think we can make light of our decisions of what animals to promote, and what animals to drive out of existance, we certainly can not deny that we have that power, and have had it for a long time. Look at cows. What the hell is that *natural selection* ? *darwinism* ? No folks, its time to go read "out of control" and realize that we are no longer the children of this planet, but the parents of a great many life forms which may not even exist yet.
There is a great amount of nostalgia when we think of how things *used* to be. When we were growing up, we lived in a very sheltered universe. The planet was full of biomass, and we consumed and consumed and consumed. Just now as we are on the brink of running out of natural resources, we suddenly start to grasp that we can no longer afford to be frolicing around the planet in childlike bliss. Yet we still have not owned up to our larger role, our greater responsibility.
We have already altered this planet plenty by being "GOD". And we say it with distain, because we have up until this point been a childish selfish god. An infant god. Now as we are just begining to realize the complicated nature of our responsibility there is a very strong tendancy for people to want to walk away from it all, and not be "god" any more.
It is not a choice we can make. We are now the parents of the planet which reared us. To look at in any other way is wishful thinking, and nostalgia.
We should be careful. We should think more often than we act, but we should not hope that "God" knows what to do, and its not out place to mess-a-bout.
Evolution itself evolves. We are just the latest feature of nature. There is a real problem if we start to view ourselves as "other" than nature. We are an interesting evolutionary experiment. We can reincarnate species we accidentally destoyed in our youth. Is there any reason to? Maybe not. Could there be dire consequnces? Perhaps, but I think it is unlikely.
Worse case scenario: the bird has no preditors, they take over the world, and then decide to clone extinct humans.
Would it be cruel and unusual to throw in a few other OSes?
I for one would like to check out how BSD networking compares
Lets do one set of bench marks, using a variety of oses each tuned by some celeb/pit crew? let's see' what OSes run on INTEL? Perhaps it should even be made a annual event. (kind of like the olympics)
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In all seriousness, we can no longer deny that we are very much, like it or not, the stewards of this planet, and by extension, all the information which has ever been encoded in any way whatsoever.
While I do not think we can make light of our decisions of what animals to promote, and what animals to drive out of existance, we certainly can not deny that we have that power, and have had it for a long time. Look at cows. What the hell is that *natural selection* ? *darwinism* ? No folks, its time to go read "out of control" and realize that we are no longer the children of this planet, but the parents of a great many life forms which may not even exist yet.
There is a great amount of nostalgia when we think of how things *used* to be. When we were growing up, we lived in a very sheltered universe. The planet was full of biomass, and we consumed and consumed and consumed. Just now as we are on the brink of running out of natural resources, we suddenly start to grasp that we can no longer afford to be frolicing around the planet in childlike bliss. Yet we still have not owned up to our larger role, our greater responsibility.
We have already altered this planet plenty by being "GOD". And we say it with distain, because we have up until this point been a childish selfish god. An infant god. Now as we are just begining to realize the complicated nature of our responsibility there is a very strong tendancy for people to want to walk away from it all, and not be "god" any more.
It is not a choice we can make. We are now the parents of the planet which reared us. To look at in any other way is wishful thinking, and nostalgia.
We should be careful. We should think more often than we act, but we should not hope that "God" knows what to do, and its not out place to mess-a-bout.
Evolution itself evolves. We are just the latest feature of nature. There is a real problem if we start to view ourselves as "other" than nature. We are an interesting evolutionary experiment. We can reincarnate species we accidentally destoyed in our youth. Is there any reason to? Maybe not. Could there be dire consequnces? Perhaps, but I think it is unlikely.
Worse case scenario: the bird has no preditors, they take over the world, and then decide to clone extinct humans.
Would it be cruel and unusual to throw in a few other OSes?
I for one would like to check out how BSD networking compares
Lets do one set of bench marks, using a variety of oses each tuned by some celeb/pit crew? let's see' what OSes run on INTEL? Perhaps it should even be made a annual event. (kind of like the olympics)