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Agreed: Name calling and inflamatory language are not only unprofessional, they're a surefire way to throw away your credibility. That's too bad, because Nemesis's ideas are worthy of discussion; which will never happen if they start off by insulting the only people in any position to understand their position. I looked past the style and zeal of Nemesis's page, but I don't blame you for deciding it wasn't worth further scrutiny.
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FYI, I'm heading for a pre-med/biochemistry degree. I have a keen interest in the workings of the human body and mind. Complementary to my chosen career, I'm very interested in the politics of personal freedom, economics, and technology. The Internet is a valuable tool, and or entertainment for me; my computer is likewise a tool, and hobby. All of this followed by a passing interest in many esoteric topics involving the workings of the natural world; including today's topic, time travel.
To answer your rhetorical question: Yes, it is sad that there is no money in some of the more intellectually pure career tracks. Fortunately, my chosen career track pays well, and it's personally gratifying for me. Which is lamer, replacing my ignorance with information, or not using your hard earned knowledge at all? Even if posting on Slashdot is the only opportunity you have to apply your knowledge, your achievements aren't diminished.
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Not delivered by me, because I lack the physics background to do do the topic justice. However, I've copied an URL below, to a page that does an excellent job of debunking time travel, multiple universes, and other dubious claims of modern physics. Personally, I found the information contained within the page compelling, and when I take physics as one of my required college courses, it will be interesting to see if it remains so.
I agree 100% with your position on antibiotics; you are correct that their misuse causes an issue that goes from personal to public. However, I stand by my ground on drugs that don't have the public health effects of antibiotics. (I left out many examples that would have supported my views for the sake of brevity.)
You might also opine that hardcore drugs, like cocaine, cause public health issues; but my personal belief is that the real 'drug problem' is criminalizing, thereby multiplying, their negative effects. It isn't a given that drug users will beat their wife and kids, steal, or do any number of other crimes in association with drug use. (Have you ever heard of someone getting high on marijuana and going on a rampage?) Even if your occasional user does go off the deep end, there are more than enough laws against theft, assualt, and child abuse to bring them to justice. If so much of our police's time wasn't spent trying to save people from themselves, they would have plenty of time to do their real job; protecting people from assualt, coercion, and fraud. If an adult harms themselves willfully and voluntarily by taking a plainly labled drug, then it's nobody's business but theirs and their family; and certainly not the government's or society's.
Clinical depression has been very formative in my growing awareness of repression of personal freedom and choice by our heavy-handed society and government. Only lately, after twenty five years, have I discovered accurate information and effective treatments for my illness. Thanks to demonization of effective and safe insomnia treatments like GHB, the FDA ban on Amineptine, and the spread of gross misinformation regarding the cause and treatment of the disease, my easily preventable suffering has been magnified and prolonged. Bloodshed and genocide aren't too strong of words to sum up the results of today's collusion between the FDA, AMA, and Pharmaceutical industries to suppress accurate information, effective vitamin supplements and natural, yet powerfull, drugs. Fortunately, for the time being, the Internet has remedied my lack of quality information, as well as giving me access to quality drugs and supplements in use by Europe's reputable medical establishment. I've made an end-run around the American medical establishment's barriers to self treatment, and my recovery is proceeding apace. However, there are still effective remedies to which I'm denied access, and the ones I can buy are outrageously expensive relative to what they would be in a free and unregulated market. This angers me beyond measure; so much so, that I'm going to do everything in my meager political power to put an end to this repressive madness. Joining the Life Extention Foundation's campaign to reign in the FDA is the first step I'm taking towards that end. (Note that I think drugs and supplements should be regulated so far as quality, purity, and accuracy of labling is concerned.)
I could go on ranting about this all day, but I don't want to abuse your goodwill, or this forum, anymore than I already have;-)
Government repression doesn't bother most people until it smashes THEM under its thumb. --Me
No, they won't charge for air. Instead, they'll just pollute it heavily in the name of the Economy and then charge for the service of providing clean air to those who can afford it. When the poor bitch about not being able to breath, the clean air providers will reply, "You can breath all the air you want for free, but it's a PRIVILEDGE to be provided with our PREMIUM air. Really, everyone just wants a free ride nowadays."
You've touched on my problem with laizes faire capitalism; I believe that taken in its purest form, it always degenerates into feudalism. They who hold capital almost always collude to horde it, and aquire it, for the sole purpose of creating scarcity and eliminating potential competition. The solution I advocate to prevent this degeneration is property stewardship, instead of property ownership. Property taxes are one way that this already happens. Unlike socialism, a steward of property has most of the rights that a property owner has; but with additional responsibilities, restrictions and obligations.
They are:
1.) Based on the principal that capital is power, restrictions, responsibilities, and accountability should increase in direct proportion to how much a given person acquires.
For emample:
If my neighbors use a handgun to protect themselves, they should be versed in when and how to appropriately use it. If my neighbor has a stockpile of nerve gas, nuclear arms, and other weapons of mass destruction, then they have obviously accumulated power and influence well beyond what any entity smaller than a Republic form of government should have. (If you believe that even a government should have that kind of power.)
The same principal applies to excessive accumulation of land and wealth. Just because someone CAN accumulate five million acres of land, doesn't mean that they SHOULD be allowed to do so; at least not without justifying how they are going to take care of it, and compensate the rest of society for their inability to use it themselves. I believe that our current system of first come, first serve, it's all MINE, is the cause of free market capitalism degenerating into feudalism. A comprehensive and fair system of antitrust, is necessary for keeping free markets free.
2.) Property owners have a responsibility to use their property productively, without unaccountable or uncompensated pollution, and for the public good; at least for amounts of property or capital well above and beyond the reasonable use of the owner. (Like I said earlier, proportion is key, though it's easier said than done as to where to draw the lines.)Of course, corporate charters were originally meant to work this way.
3.) One area where we do things halfway right is enforcement of contracts, and rule of law, in the form of preventing coercion, fraud, and unprovoked intiation of force by one citizen against another.
An example of things done the right way:
Mandatory product labling, giving consumers the ability to make informed choices.
An example of things done the wrong way:
FDA regulation of when, and under what circumstances people should take drugs, and what drugs they should be permitted to take. Needing a doctor's prescription adds insult to injury. This flies in the face of allowing consumers to make informed choices, because the power to choose has been taken away from them.
Laws against theft or physical assualt are examples of the government's basic mission.
4.) Intellectual property flies in the face of free market capitalism. It's a freedom killing, artificial scarcity making, opportunity destroying machine. In a society where freedom of information is the rule, freedom is planted and prosperity grows.
5.) The People, need to take back control from the government, before the government becomes too big to reign in. The Constitution needs to be rewritten to strengthen it's protection of us citizens, and limit the government according to sustainable principals. Eternal vigilance is necessary, but we need a government that is not so omnipresent that one human being can't possibly understand it, let alone watch or control it.
"An opinion is like an asshole, everybody has one, and they all stink." --Unknown
Comparing the merits of United Devices and Kazaa is like comparing the merits of fleas and lice; they're both horrible. I've given United Devices 300 work units towards both the cancer, and anthrax projects because I feel those were/are worthy of my resources. My problem with United Devices is that they don't show any appreciation for us users who make their business model possible. When they no longer have a charity to earn our good will, what kind of incentive are they going to offer to make it worth our while to give our spare cycles to for-profit companies? Why should I spend the valueable commondity of my computer's spare cycles, and electricity, to enrich a corporation that isn't in some way compensating me? But that's moot to me now anyway, as I've just switched to the Folding at Home Amyloid research project; which, for personal reasons, is more compelling to me than United Device's & Oxford's cancer project.
Yes, Petswarehouse does have the two things you mention in common with scientology. However, they lack one important commonality; unlike the Scientologists, Petswarehouse doesn't have billions of dollars and fanatical supporters on their side. Novak's barratry is going to blow up in his face, and I can't wait to read all of the gory details when it happens.
I don't know if I'm the only one, but AVP (Aliens vs Predators) was an ecellent game. While it wasn't based directly on either of the movies, it was solidly grounded in the fictional AVP universe. The use of sound, lighting, weapons, and attention to detail gives AVP an authentic and exciting feel. Played on directer's cut, the missions can at times get keyboard-smashing hard. (at least for my keyboard smashing friends) The ability to play as a Predator, Colonial Marine, or Alien gives you three games in one, while the inability to save in the middle of a mission adds an uncommon and challenging flavor to the gameplay. (Though their is a patch that enables saving now; I won't use it.) I'd highly recommend AVP to any FPS enthusiast.
If by 'everybody' you mean the corporations paying Kazaa for the priviledge of using your cycles. Funny how for-profit corporations like United Devices and now Kazaa both seem to forget that, with competition, they'll have to do something for the end user to justify the use of their resources. Granted, unlike United Devices, at least Kazaa is giving its users a handy utility for their trouble. United Devices, on the other hand, is going to be up shit creek when they no longer have a charity to justify their otherwise parasitic existence.
Rant mode on. That tears it! Why don't we just ammend the Constituion so that ideas and concepts are treated just like physical property. That way, the rich and the government can not only own every square inch of land that we walk on, but also our hearts and minds too. Hell, while we're at it, we might as well hold an auction on every word, thought, or idea that is currently public domain now. After all, Big Money Corporate America can surely do a better job of managing the sum of all human knowledge than us mere peasants; we should be gratefull to pay to think THEIR thoughts and use THEIR ideas. Scumbags that seriously consider this kind of shit make Star Trek's Ferrengi look like a bunch of socialists. Rant mode off...
Right or wrong, with the ridiculous length of copyright terms, we're better off with patents; they at least, with a few exceptions, expire after twenty years.
Or my pet cause: lock up unpatentable cures and treatments for depression with a campaign of misinformation, FUD, FDA regulation, and criminalization. Examples of this include Amineptine, GHB, L-tryptophan, and many other supplements that will never see the light of day in America. Now, the FDA has its sights on Kava Kava, (an anti-anxiety herbal remedy) because a few dozen out of fifty million people taking it experienced severe liver damage. Never mind that tobaco and alcohol kill millions of people yearly; while Kava provides safe and effective relief to the vast majority of people who use it. Actually, never mind that what drugs people choose to use is really nobody's business but their own; especially not the government's! In America, the rule of law is a tool to increase profits for the government's corporate masters through patents, and legislate morality for powerful special interests.
Even better yet, give the sims a "little black book" item that allows them to use the phone to call a prostitute for the evening. Then give them a menu of various prices for the quality of "service". The women who came over to entertain your sims would range from skanky crack whores to swanky 5000-Simolean-a-night escorts. With STDs, police stings, the spouse catching her husband with them, sim-porn on the tv, bed with mirror, and hilarious new hooker-sim-speak, the possibities are endless. Now that you've got me thinking about it, I'll have to reinstall it and go take a look at the current mod scene.
Thanks for the info, Alzheimer's is a more personal and important cause to me than cancer. Not that I regret the cycles that I've spent on Cancer so far.
I use my spare cycles for medical purposes. Cancer and AIDS are both clear and present dangers, as well as social issues that urgently need attending to. All the while, protein folding research will help deliver on the promise of the Human Genome Project. That's just my opinion.
Vehement individuals are a bunch of pessimistic, misanthropic, eco-nuts. Of all the reasons to not have children, the planet is at the bottom of the list for me.
So, two robots are strolling down the street and the first robot says to the second robot, "0000-0000-0101-1100." The second robot pauses in thought, and much to the surprise of the first robot, replies, "0001-0000-0101-1111."
Ah hah hah ha ha ha, sigh... It gets funnier with every retelling because it's just so true!
"If there's enough negative publicity, especially if people write their representatives in Congress, the MPAA will back down for sure."
Starfish are not strong enough to force open the shell of a clam, their prey, through brute force. However, the starfish always gets its meal because it applies a steady and unrelenting pressure. The MPAA is both able and willing to apply the same kind of pressure to wear down the resolve of citizens and consumers to fight for their inalienable rights; no matter how long it takes.
I apologize, my intention was to point out some exceptions to the "life finds a way" post. I'm aware of and appalled by the state of misery that leads to tens of thousands of human deaths on a daily basis.
Here's how I think that problem could be solved: http://www.hedweb.com/hedab.htm
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Agreed: Name calling and inflamatory language are not only unprofessional, they're a surefire way to throw away your credibility. That's too bad, because Nemesis's ideas are worthy of discussion; which will never happen if they start off by insulting the only people in any position to understand their position. I looked past the style and zeal of Nemesis's page, but I don't blame you for deciding it wasn't worth further scrutiny.
FYI, I'm heading for a pre-med/biochemistry degree. I have a keen interest in the workings of the human body and mind. Complementary to my chosen career, I'm very interested in the politics of personal freedom, economics, and technology. The Internet is a valuable tool, and or entertainment for me; my computer is likewise a tool, and hobby. All of this followed by a passing interest in many esoteric topics involving the workings of the natural world; including today's topic, time travel.
To answer your rhetorical question: Yes, it is sad that there is no money in some of the more intellectually pure career tracks. Fortunately, my chosen career track pays well, and it's personally gratifying for me. Which is lamer, replacing my ignorance with information, or not using your hard earned knowledge at all? Even if posting on Slashdot is the only opportunity you have to apply your knowledge, your achievements aren't diminished.
Not delivered by me, because I lack the physics background to do do the topic justice. However, I've copied an URL below, to a page that does an excellent job of debunking time travel, multiple universes, and other dubious claims of modern physics. Personally, I found the information contained within the page compelling, and when I take physics as one of my required college courses, it will be interesting to see if it remains so.
. htm
http://home1.gte.net/res02khr/crackpots/notorious
I agree 100% with your position on antibiotics; you are correct that their misuse causes an issue that goes from personal to public. However, I stand by my ground on drugs that don't have the public health effects of antibiotics. (I left out many examples that would have supported my views for the sake of brevity.)
You might also opine that hardcore drugs, like cocaine, cause public health issues; but my personal belief is that the real 'drug problem' is criminalizing, thereby multiplying, their negative effects. It isn't a given that drug users will beat their wife and kids, steal, or do any number of other crimes in association with drug use. (Have you ever heard of someone getting high on marijuana and going on a rampage?) Even if your occasional user does go off the deep end, there are more than enough laws against theft, assualt, and child abuse to bring them to justice. If so much of our police's time wasn't spent trying to save people from themselves, they would have plenty of time to do their real job; protecting people from assualt, coercion, and fraud. If an adult harms themselves willfully and voluntarily by taking a plainly labled drug, then it's nobody's business but theirs and their family; and certainly not the government's or society's.
Clinical depression has been very formative in my growing awareness of repression of personal freedom and choice by our heavy-handed society and government. Only lately, after twenty five years, have I discovered accurate information and effective treatments for my illness. Thanks to demonization of effective and safe insomnia treatments like GHB, the FDA ban on Amineptine, and the spread of gross misinformation regarding the cause and treatment of the disease, my easily preventable suffering has been magnified and prolonged. Bloodshed and genocide aren't too strong of words to sum up the results of today's collusion between the FDA, AMA, and Pharmaceutical industries to suppress accurate information, effective vitamin supplements and natural, yet powerfull, drugs. Fortunately, for the time being, the Internet has remedied my lack of quality information, as well as giving me access to quality drugs and supplements in use by Europe's reputable medical establishment. I've made an end-run around the American medical establishment's barriers to self treatment, and my recovery is proceeding apace. However, there are still effective remedies to which I'm denied access, and the ones I can buy are outrageously expensive relative to what they would be in a free and unregulated market. This angers me beyond measure; so much so, that I'm going to do everything in my meager political power to put an end to this repressive madness. Joining the Life Extention Foundation's campaign to reign in the FDA is the first step I'm taking towards that end. (Note that I think drugs and supplements should be regulated so far as quality, purity, and accuracy of labling is concerned.)
I could go on ranting about this all day, but I don't want to abuse your goodwill, or this forum, anymore than I already have;-)
Government repression doesn't bother most people until it smashes THEM under its thumb. --Me
No, they won't charge for air. Instead, they'll just pollute it heavily in the name of the Economy
and then charge for the service of providing clean air to those who can afford it. When the poor bitch about not being able to breath, the clean air providers will reply, "You can breath all the air you want for free, but it's a PRIVILEDGE to be provided with our PREMIUM air. Really, everyone just wants a free ride nowadays."
You've touched on my problem with laizes faire capitalism; I believe that taken in its purest form, it always degenerates into feudalism. They who hold capital almost always collude to horde it, and aquire it, for the sole purpose of creating scarcity and eliminating potential
competition. The solution I advocate to prevent this degeneration is property stewardship, instead of property ownership. Property taxes are one way that this already happens. Unlike socialism, a steward of property has most of the rights that a property owner has; but with additional responsibilities, restrictions and obligations.
They are:
1.) Based on the principal that capital is power, restrictions, responsibilities, and accountability should increase in direct proportion to how much a given person acquires.
For emample:
If my neighbors use a handgun to protect themselves, they should be versed in when and how to appropriately use it. If my neighbor has a stockpile of nerve gas, nuclear arms, and other weapons of mass destruction, then they have obviously accumulated power and influence well beyond what any entity smaller than a Republic form of government should have. (If you believe that even a government should have that kind of power.)
The same principal applies to excessive accumulation of land and wealth. Just because someone CAN accumulate five million acres of land, doesn't mean that they SHOULD be allowed to do so; at least not without justifying how they are going to take care of it, and compensate the rest of society for their inability to use it themselves. I believe that our current system of first come, first serve, it's all MINE, is the cause of free market capitalism degenerating into feudalism. A comprehensive and fair system of antitrust, is necessary for keeping free markets free.
2.) Property owners have a responsibility to use their property productively, without unaccountable or uncompensated pollution, and for the public good; at least for amounts of property or capital well above and beyond the reasonable use of the owner. (Like I said earlier, proportion is key, though it's easier said than done as to where to draw the lines.)Of course, corporate charters were originally meant to work this way.
3.) One area where we do things halfway right is enforcement of contracts, and rule of law, in the form of preventing coercion, fraud, and unprovoked intiation of force by one citizen against another.
An example of things done the right way:
Mandatory product labling, giving consumers the ability to make informed choices.
An example of things done the wrong way:
FDA regulation of when, and under what circumstances people should take drugs, and what drugs they should be permitted to take. Needing a doctor's prescription adds insult to injury. This flies in the face of allowing consumers to make informed choices, because the power to choose has been taken away from them.
Laws against theft or physical assualt are examples of the government's basic mission.
4.) Intellectual property flies in the face of free market capitalism. It's a freedom killing, artificial scarcity making, opportunity destroying machine. In a society where freedom of information is the rule, freedom is planted and prosperity grows.
5.) The People, need to take back control from the government, before the government becomes too big to reign in. The Constitution needs to be rewritten to strengthen it's protection of us citizens, and limit the government according to sustainable principals. Eternal vigilance is necessary, but we need a government that is not so omnipresent that one human being can't possibly understand it, let alone watch or control it.
"An opinion is like an asshole, everybody has one,
and they all stink." --Unknown
Comparing the merits of United Devices and Kazaa is like comparing the merits of fleas and lice; they're both horrible. I've given United Devices 300 work units towards both the cancer, and anthrax projects because I feel those were/are worthy of my resources. My problem with United Devices is that they don't show any appreciation for us users who make their business model possible. When they no longer have a charity to earn our good will, what kind of incentive are they going to offer to make it worth our while to give our spare cycles to for-profit companies? Why should I spend the valueable commondity of my computer's spare cycles, and electricity, to enrich a corporation that isn't in some way compensating me? But that's moot to me now anyway, as I've just switched to the Folding at Home Amyloid research project; which, for personal reasons, is more compelling to me than United Device's & Oxford's cancer project.
Yes, Petswarehouse does have the two things you mention in common with scientology. However, they lack one important commonality; unlike the Scientologists, Petswarehouse doesn't have billions of dollars and fanatical supporters on their side. Novak's barratry is going to blow up in his face, and I can't wait to read all of the gory details when it happens.
I dunno, probably some pricks from the MPAA or RIAA would come along and vandalize it.
I don't know if I'm the only one, but AVP (Aliens vs Predators) was an ecellent game. While it wasn't based directly on either of the movies, it was solidly grounded in the fictional AVP universe. The use of sound, lighting, weapons, and attention to detail gives AVP an authentic and exciting feel. Played on directer's cut, the missions can at times get keyboard-smashing hard.
(at least for my keyboard smashing friends) The ability to play as a Predator, Colonial Marine, or Alien gives you three games in one, while the inability to save in the middle of a mission adds an uncommon and challenging flavor to the gameplay. (Though their is a patch that enables saving now; I won't use it.) I'd highly recommend AVP to any FPS enthusiast.
If by 'everybody' you mean the corporations paying Kazaa for the priviledge of using your cycles. Funny how for-profit corporations like United Devices and now Kazaa both seem to forget that, with competition, they'll have to do something for the end user to justify the use of their resources. Granted, unlike United Devices, at least Kazaa is giving its users a handy utility for their trouble. United Devices, on the other hand, is going to be up shit creek when they no longer have a charity to justify their otherwise parasitic existence.
Rant mode on.
That tears it! Why don't we just ammend the Constituion so that ideas and concepts are treated just like physical property. That way, the rich and the government can not only own every square inch of land that we walk on, but also our hearts and minds too. Hell, while we're at it, we might as well hold an auction on every word, thought, or idea that is currently public domain now. After all, Big Money Corporate America can surely do a better job of managing the sum of all human knowledge than us mere peasants; we should be gratefull to pay to think THEIR thoughts and use THEIR ideas. Scumbags that seriously consider this kind of shit make Star Trek's Ferrengi look like a bunch of socialists.
Rant mode off...
Yeah, I hadn't thought of the reverse-engineering
aspects of patents vs copyrights.
Right or wrong, with the ridiculous length of copyright terms, we're better off with patents; they at least, with a few exceptions, expire after twenty years.
Or my pet cause: lock up unpatentable cures and treatments for depression with a campaign of misinformation, FUD, FDA regulation, and criminalization. Examples of this include Amineptine, GHB, L-tryptophan, and many other supplements that will never see the light of day in America. Now, the FDA has its sights on Kava Kava, (an anti-anxiety herbal remedy) because a few dozen out of fifty million people taking it experienced severe liver damage. Never mind that tobaco and alcohol kill millions of people yearly; while Kava provides safe and effective relief to the vast majority of people who use it.
Actually, never mind that what drugs people choose to use is really nobody's business but their own; especially not the government's! In America, the rule of law is a tool to increase profits for the government's corporate masters through patents, and legislate morality for powerful special interests.
Even better yet, give the sims a "little black book" item that allows them to use the phone to call a prostitute for the evening. Then give them a menu of various prices for the quality of "service". The women who came over to entertain your sims would range from skanky crack whores to swanky 5000-Simolean-a-night escorts. With STDs, police stings, the spouse catching her husband with them, sim-porn on the tv, bed with mirror, and hilarious new hooker-sim-speak, the possibities are endless. Now that you've got me thinking about it, I'll have to reinstall it and go take a look at the current mod scene.
Thanks for the info, Alzheimer's is a more personal and important cause to me than cancer. Not that I regret the cycles that I've spent on Cancer so far.
I run the United Devices client and I wasn't aware that they had an Alzheimer's related task to run. I'll have to check that out.
(d)None of the above.
I use my spare cycles for medical purposes. Cancer and AIDS are both clear and present dangers, as well as social issues that urgently need attending to. All the while, protein folding research will help deliver on the promise of the Human Genome Project. That's just my opinion.
It's full of stars!
Vehement individuals are a bunch of pessimistic, misanthropic, eco-nuts. Of all the reasons to not have children, the planet is at the bottom of the list for me.
"...you will have to use techniques like RMI, BrightMail, and latest e-mail filters to keep phone spam free."
No, I"ll just hunt down the source of the transmission and smash it; assuming that GPS isn't involved.
So, two robots are strolling down the street and the first robot says to the second robot, "0000-0000-0101-1100." The second robot pauses in thought, and much to the surprise of the first robot, replies, "0001-0000-0101-1111."
Ah hah hah ha ha ha, sigh... It gets funnier with every retelling because it's just so true!
"If there's enough negative publicity, especially if people write their representatives in Congress, the MPAA will back down for sure."
Starfish are not strong enough to force open the shell of a clam, their prey, through brute force.
However, the starfish always gets its meal because it applies a steady and unrelenting pressure. The MPAA is both able and willing to apply the same kind of pressure to wear down the resolve of citizens and consumers to fight for their inalienable rights; no matter how long it takes.
I apologize, my intention was to point out some
exceptions to the "life finds a way" post. I'm
aware of and appalled by the state of misery that
leads to tens of thousands of human deaths on a
daily basis.
Here's how I think that problem could be solved:
http://www.hedweb.com/hedab.htm
"...life finds a way." Yeah, and sometimes it doesn't; like the thousands of species humans are driving to extinction on a daily basis.