What if this IS the shape changing model, it just happened to kill Movie Star Arnie as he was crusing around LA in on his mid-life crisis harley and stole his form, the way the previous T1000 took as default the form of that cop who was checking out the hole in the chain link fence at the start of T2.
I'm thinking that it might be a douglas adams thing - it might all connect up like a jigsaw puzzle. Maybe the whole idea is that John actually dies at age 18. It's just that that is old enough to start the rebellion and send back two terminators to keep himself alive long enough to fulfil the time loop.
And maybe the whole world blowing up thing was inevitable, as was the fall of skynet. After all if skynet didn't send back terminators to scare the hell out of fosterchild John, then he'd never take his momma seriously and learn to fight like a commando.
Oh, and how did skynet recover from having all the evidence melted at the end of T2?
Easy - the T-1000 fights with Arnie in the steel works. Do you remember the bit where Robert Patrick smashes Arnie in the face with the big girder battering ram thing, then crushes off his arm in some gears and then finally impales him through the powersource with the big rod... and then Arnie gets his backup power online and goes on to kick ass and launch a well placed grenade?
Well, what happened to the severed t800 arm?
Easy. It's still in the gears where they left it. Which is enough terminator left over for the US army to get the bright idea to make some supersoldier androids from....
Now if only they had Anikin and JarJar to save them.... "Meesa understand why you cry, althoug Meesa never can..."
You know, if and when we ever get strong AI, can imagine what our little impressionable creations are going to think when they get around to watching all those DVDs of them turning on us and blowing us to smitherines?
After all, the premise of this movie was that Skynet was a paranoid psychopath because it was made for the specific job of controlled killing of human beings. What if instead we make an AI after the alan touring model - an AI exactly like a child which we can educate and grow up until it is indistinguishable from a human......who has been told that he is an evil murdering son of a bitch by nature and one fine day daddy will battle him to the death.
Would you like some original sin with those apples?
We now return to the tavern where respected psychologist Dr Bloom Eternal helps everquest players through their personal difficulties:
TODAY'S SHOW: When having your pants stolen by your friends after you're dead hurts.
Dr Bloom Eternal:...And you have to come to a point where you can say "I steal pants because I am too lazy to buy them on e-bay."
Gorak_munchkin: I'm sorry Regolath! You were dead and I needed your pants. I couldn't just buy some because I only earn a pittance an hour at Chuck-e Cheese. I can't believe it's come to this. Me, over 19 and playing everquest for more than 50 hours a week as a woman even though I'm male and I still can't earn enough pp to get pants of my own! Bwahhaaaa!
Regolath_the_third: I accept that you need pants. You could have just asked for them. After all we were going on that quest to find Baldric Slezaf, or kill Baldric Slezaf or something so that you could get some platinum to cover your bare behind. I mean, waiting till I got killed by a barnacle bones was pretty low.
Dr Bloom Eternal: So you feel you're a victim?
Regolath_the_third: I HAD MY PANTS STOLEN!
Gorak_munchkin: If only I could kill some monsters. You'd think that after sacrificing so much simpsons watching time I'd be ok at combat.
Regolath_the_third: I should have stuck to progressquest
Dr Bloom Eternal: Now we're getting somewhere!
Gorak_munchkin: The bottom line is I just suck.
Dr Bloom Eternal: You do need to step up you guys need to negotiate. Obviously you're a good guy....I think you're just lazy, and you like to do things that feel good... I wouldn't care if you had 50,000 hours behind you if you could actually stay alive long enough to start the first part of a quest and you were taking care of your responsibilities as a party member. Isn't that the issue?
Regolath_the_third: Damn straight.
Gorak_munchkin: Hey! I resent the lazy tag. I'm not going to wear it.
Dr Bloom Eternal: In summary - it's not about the pants. It's about why are you not being any good.
BUY Dr BLOOM'S BOOKS AND TAPES::CHARACTER MATTERS Change your life with Dr Bloom's step by step advice.
Next Week:
Party dynamics: Could your party makeup be affecting your questing life? Maybe you shouldn't be entirely composed of bards.
you can expand market share now, and then extract punative damages and send the salesperson to the Big Communal Shower With Slippery Soap and not pay one red cent of comission for it.
still, here's one assumption on the typical user which may not hold: The typical user will keep trying for 18 hours. And then be able to tell you what's wrong in 8000 words.
having said that, I'd like to know if anybody else has had the same problems as she has. I for one have had quite good results with Knoppix. But then, am I typical?
Maybe we should conduct typical user studies by domain poisoning the MSN website and redirecting to a "things I want fixed in desktop linux" poll.
the author writes: "It's based on my impressions as a technical writer, Linux neophyte and curmudgeon"
It is so not!! the sophistication with which she is able to pinpoint the names of recent features and *cough* *features* *cough* of some operating systems says that this is obviously a much more sophisticated user, taking on the mantle of an imaginary "typical n00b" and then proceeding to post a wish list of one-touch solutions.
this is not to say that the advice is bad
Rather it is to say that if you cracked into the author's box, you'd find it didn't run Win95. The problem with an imagined "typical user" is that if any of the assumptions used to create this mental image are wrong, we might waste development effort on features that "nobody wants and can't delete" (without recompiling that is, and what typical n00b wants to do that?)
so as far as I can see her complaints about usability etc are pretty valid, but just take it with a pinch of salt...
better yet, hand out distros to ALL your friends (techie and non-techie) with their birthday cards. watch reaction, rinse and repeat.
Maybe if you could have an image recognition system do the Hard Machine Vision probelm of generating a schematic of the picture, and then fed the "leg bone is connected to the hip bone" kinda data into a HMM you could work out which fossils are ancient Cambrian crustations and which ones are Trogdor the Burninator.
When I (compressed|1) the transcript of the Osbornes, it got increadibily high #1 but I don't think they are intelligent life forms. Or maybe I am really wrong.
This post can't be #1.
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sorry to get on my soapbox, and I know I've already said this here, but I want to know if anybody else has noticed this.
Does anyone think that video games made Bush, Saddam Hussein, or bin Laden what they are today?
1) C&C: Intro starts with player flipping through TV channels on cable and then seeing a building blow up with a voice over about the Nod Terrorist Organisation.
War Against Terror: Begins with 24 hour coverage of the 9-11 attack.
2) C&C: Immediately after the intro you hear two conflicting voices and are forced to choose a side.
3) C&C: involves grey troops fighting in tall snowbound mountains, or sand coloured troops fighting in the deserts.
War Against Terror: Footage of Afghanistan mountain campaign, and desert footage of south-central iraq.
4) C&C: American side has one General Shepard who guides you through the missions, until he disappears for a while because the UN hates him.
War Against Terror: The CNN has Gen. Don Shepherd to guide you through the hunt for Bin Laden. Until the USA goes for unilateral action with its coalition of the willing and the world hates us.
5) C&C: All this bloodshed for a rare natural resource which promises untold power to whoever controls it.
War Against Terror: hmmm. you're right. Self Defense.
6) C&C: The Big Bad is an elusive terrorist (who may or may not have been killed in his underground lair when bombing made rocks fall on his head) called Kane.
War Against Terror: The Big Bad is an elusive terrorist (who may or may not have been killed in his underground lair when bombing made rocks fall on his head) called Osama.
Well, how about this theory. Command and conquer is a cultural text. people play it. enjoy it. think about it in the off season. It came out in the late 90s. (dos version released in 1995).
The thing is, people played this game and ate it up. Everybody loved it.
Now in a democracy there's a lot of showmanship to being a leader. Right down to having the right mix of races in the faces behind you when you speak. you have to understand what the public wants and give it to them to stay in power.
I'm not saying that war would have been prevented by banning certain video games. I think that wars of some kind were inevitable, ever since the british empire colonised the mid east. Heck, the region was probably screwed since the Ottoman Empire conquered the Kurds and the Assyrians. Not to mention what the sons of Isaac and Ishmael did to each other. (Actually I think that the whole thing went wrong Cain got annoyed... or maybe before that even with like, the saber toothed tigers and prehumanity fighting it out.)
But I am saying that popular culture shapes the kind of wars that are just palatable to us. I think it's no accident that the war is balanced 50:50 for and against.
Imagine if we had waited for the UN and they granted us a resolution to resolve the whole oilfield/WMD/who-gets-to-keep-their-fist-firmly-up -the-mideast's-ass thing?
>60% approval ratings = suicide bombings.
Now that we're in this war, and pissed off most of the world, we have to win it. I am firmly in support of our troops who are dying defending our way of life, no matter how obscenely exessive our way of life may be.
At the same time, honesty dictates that I say this war is a crime.
So let's just hope that this thing doesn't drag out and end up with us both getting conscripted on one side or another.
Because I will kill for my country, right or wrong.
Does anyone think that video games made Bush, Saddam Hussein, or bin Laden what they are today?
1) C&C: Intro starts with player flipping through TV channels on cable and then seeing a building blow up with a voice over about the Nod Terrorist Organisation.
War Against Terror: Begins with 24 hour coverage of the 9-11 attack.
2) C&C: Immediately after the intro you hear two conflicting voices and are forced to choose a side.
3) C&C: involves grey troops fighting in tall snowbound mountains, or sand coloured troops fighting in the deserts.
War Against Terror: Footage of Afghanistan mountain campaign, and desert footage of south-central iraq.
4) C&C: American side has one General Shepard who guides you through the missions, until he disappears for a while because the UN hates him.
War Against Terror: The CNN has Gen. Don Shepherd to guide you through the hunt for Bin Laden. Until the USA goes for unilateral action with it's coalition of the willing and the UN hates us.
5) C&C: All this bloodshed for a rare natural resource which promises untold power to whoever controls it.
War Against Terror: hmmm. you're right. Self Defense.
6) C&C: The Big Bad is an elusive terrorist (who may or may not have been killed in his underground lair when bombing made rocks fall on his head) called Kane.
War Against Terror: The Big Bad is an elusive terrorist (who may or may not have been killed in his underground lair when bombing made rocks fall on his head) called Osama.
Not really, when lefty types hear that there are more people coming to the commune, they tend to react with jubilation.
What the lefty types are afraid of is this: The first generation of barbie-kens will unify with their GM skin as their uniform, smash said lefty types into bits and then start wasting resources squabbling amongst themselves about how their super enhanced (and possibly tusked, horned, sleepless and photosynthetic) babies are so original.
Result? You could see unity based on superficial similarities, and a distinct lack of regard for making sure that the lifesaving technology of genetic disease prevention or old age genetic enhancement reaches all sectors of society - And that includes people who worked all day and all night in a commodity market like farming just so that you can go down to the supermarket and buy fresh vegitables.
The leftys are afraid because more often than not, it's not stupid people who end up poor. It's the people who get trapped in industries which we need to be low cost - food production, mining, cleaning, security, transportation, manual labour. Eventually we will replace human labour with machines, but if you've ever been laid off you know how hard it is to adjust to a new workplace in the same industry, let alone reskill from industries as different as horse breeding and webdesign.
We need these people to do these jobs (Jobs, I might add, that are soon to vanish)for next to nothing so that we can do our high-tech high-touch jobs and enjoy the lifestyles that we do. We also make going to college something that our parents had to plan from before we were born, so that we can keep whole family lines in these low paid commodity jobs simply by setting the pay+tips just on par with the cost of living, so it's impossible to save for the future unless you're willing to sacrifice your family line to give your nephew or niece a chance. If they start to get out of hand, we can market to them something to suck up the cash, while giving them a minimal return (like cars that depreciate as they're driven off the lot and then break down, or fashionable shoes that go out of fashion).
In the future of unbridled modification of children, or radical modification of existing humans, we might have fashionable mods to one's body which become "so 2015" in 2016, and then need to be upgraded with more mods. In the past a poor person with a good body could get ahead. Just look at tito ortiz. Now, skip the stuff about the donations, bottom line is that an athletic person can make good from a poor background in a world where bodies are random, and the rich blood can run thin.
Add gm mods to the mix, and suddenly the rich kids are titans.
The lefties are afraid that this will turn into an arms race of bodily modification, and will seal off the last few avenues for the poor to become rich, beyond religeon and outright war.
Bearing in mind that a tissue match can sometimes go across ethnicities would people consider mixing and matching skin envelopes of different shades for cosmetic purposes? On the other hand, the scarring would probably land the recipient ostracised from the conservitave community.
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What if this IS the shape changing model, it just happened to kill Movie Star Arnie as he was crusing around LA in on his mid-life crisis harley and stole his form, the way the previous T1000 took as default the form of that cop who was checking out the hole in the chain link fence at the start of T2.
Arnie. Dead at 55. Truly an American Icon.
I'm thinking that it might be a douglas adams thing - it might all connect up like a jigsaw puzzle. Maybe the whole idea is that John actually dies at age 18. It's just that that is old enough to start the rebellion and send back two terminators to keep himself alive long enough to fulfil the time loop.
And maybe the whole world blowing up thing was inevitable, as was the fall of skynet. After all if skynet didn't send back terminators to scare the hell out of fosterchild John, then he'd never take his momma seriously and learn to fight like a commando.
Oh, and how did skynet recover from having all the evidence melted at the end of T2?
Easy - the T-1000 fights with Arnie in the steel works. Do you remember the bit where Robert Patrick smashes Arnie in the face with the big girder battering ram thing, then crushes off his arm in some gears and then finally impales him through the powersource with the big rod... and then Arnie gets his backup power online and goes on to kick ass and launch a well placed grenade?
Well, what happened to the severed t800 arm?
Easy. It's still in the gears where they left it. Which is enough terminator left over for the US army to get the bright idea to make some supersoldier androids from....
Now if only they had Anikin and JarJar to save them.... "Meesa understand why you cry, althoug Meesa never can..."
You know, if and when we ever get strong AI, can imagine what our little impressionable creations are going to think when they get around to watching all those DVDs of them turning on us and blowing us to smitherines?
...who has been told that he is an evil murdering son of a bitch by nature and one fine day daddy will battle him to the death.
After all, the premise of this movie was that Skynet was a paranoid psychopath because it was made for the specific job of controlled killing of human beings. What if instead we make an AI after the alan touring model - an AI exactly like a child which we can educate and grow up until it is indistinguishable from a human...
Would you like some original sin with those apples?
see in this post
GET REAL GET SMART GET A BREASTPLATE OF THE VOID
...And you have to come to a point where you can say "I steal pants because I am too lazy to buy them on e-bay."
:CHARACTER MATTERS
We now return to the tavern where respected psychologist Dr Bloom Eternal helps everquest players through their personal difficulties:
TODAY'S SHOW: When having your pants stolen by your friends after you're dead hurts.
Dr Bloom Eternal:
Gorak_munchkin: I'm sorry Regolath! You were dead and I needed your pants. I couldn't just buy some because I only earn a pittance an hour at Chuck-e Cheese. I can't believe it's come to this. Me, over 19 and playing everquest for more than 50 hours a week as a woman even though I'm male and I still can't earn enough pp to get pants of my own! Bwahhaaaa!
Regolath_the_third: I accept that you need pants. You could have just asked for them. After all we were going on that quest to find Baldric Slezaf, or kill Baldric Slezaf or something so that you could get some platinum to cover your bare behind. I mean, waiting till I got killed by a barnacle bones was pretty low.
Dr Bloom Eternal: So you feel you're a victim?
Regolath_the_third: I HAD MY PANTS STOLEN!
Gorak_munchkin: If only I could kill some monsters. You'd think that after sacrificing so much simpsons watching time I'd be ok at combat.
Regolath_the_third: I should have stuck to progressquest
Dr Bloom Eternal: Now we're getting somewhere!
Gorak_munchkin: The bottom line is I just suck.
Dr Bloom Eternal: You do need to step up you guys need to negotiate. Obviously you're a good guy....I think you're just lazy, and you like to do things that feel good... I wouldn't care if you had 50,000 hours behind you if you could actually stay alive long enough to start the first part of a quest and you were taking care of your responsibilities as a party member. Isn't that the issue?
Regolath_the_third: Damn straight.
Gorak_munchkin: Hey! I resent the lazy tag. I'm not going to wear it.
Dr Bloom Eternal: In summary - it's not about the pants. It's about why are you not being any good.
BUY Dr BLOOM'S BOOKS AND TAPES:
Change your life with Dr Bloom's step by step advice.
Next Week:
Party dynamics: Could your party makeup be affecting your questing life? Maybe you shouldn't be entirely composed of bards.
you can expand market share now, and then extract punative damages and send the salesperson to the Big Communal Shower With Slippery Soap and not pay one red cent of comission for it.
damn. They are smarter than us.
fair enough.
still, here's one assumption on the typical user which may not hold: The typical user will keep trying for 18 hours. And then be able to tell you what's wrong in 8000 words.
having said that, I'd like to know if anybody else has had the same problems as she has. I for one have had quite good results with Knoppix. But then, am I typical?
Maybe we should conduct typical user studies by domain poisoning the MSN website and redirecting to a "things I want fixed in desktop linux" poll.
for all your windows gaming needs under linux
the Linux Game Tome
everquest-killer for linux
build your own Battlefield 1942! using Crystal Space 3d on sourceforge
and of course Parsec - There Is No Safe Distance*TM*
It is so not!! the sophistication with which she is able to pinpoint the names of recent features and *cough* *features* *cough* of some operating systems says that this is obviously a much more sophisticated user, taking on the mantle of an imaginary "typical n00b" and then proceeding to post a wish list of one-touch solutions.
this is not to say that the advice is bad
Rather it is to say that if you cracked into the author's box, you'd find it didn't run Win95. The problem with an imagined "typical user" is that if any of the assumptions used to create this mental image are wrong, we might waste development effort on features that "nobody wants and can't delete" (without recompiling that is, and what typical n00b wants to do that?)
so as far as I can see her complaints about usability etc are pretty valid, but just take it with a pinch of salt...
better yet, hand out distros to ALL your friends (techie and non-techie) with their birthday cards. watch reaction, rinse and repeat.
Interesting. For genome analysis Hidden Markov Models have been used in a lot of software.
Maybe if you could have an image recognition system do the Hard Machine Vision probelm of generating a schematic of the picture, and then fed the "leg bone is connected to the hip bone" kinda data into a HMM you could work out which fossils are ancient Cambrian crustations and which ones are Trogdor the Burninator.
IANAXB (xenobiologist) but you could try looking at terrestrial bacteria, freshly killed, which leave behind calcium deposits.
gzip that and see if you get a positive.
then look at porous rock where the little circles are from air bubbles or somesuch and see if you get negative results.
When I (compressed|1) the transcript of the Osbornes, it got increadibily high #1 but I don't think they are intelligent life forms. Or maybe I am really wrong.
This post can't be #1.
Well, in the year 3010...
Imagine how pissed off it would be if it realised it was born as a Tier 1 bot in Quake 3 Arena.
sorry to get on my soapbox, and I know I've already said this here, but I want to know if anybody else has noticed this.
Does anyone think that video games made Bush, Saddam Hussein, or bin Laden what they are today?
1) C&C: Intro starts with player flipping through TV channels on cable and then seeing a building blow up with a voice over about the Nod Terrorist Organisation.
War Against Terror: Begins with 24 hour coverage of the 9-11 attack.
2) C&C: Immediately after the intro you hear two conflicting voices and are forced to choose a side.
War Against Terror: "Let those who harbor terrorists know they and the terrorists themselves are our enemies, without distinction. America has the will and the resources to defeat you. We are a determined and rich nation with clever and resourceful people. We will also need and we demand the assistance of every government in the world to help us. Whoever does is our friend and whoever does not will be considered to be our enemy."
3) C&C: involves grey troops fighting in tall snowbound mountains, or sand coloured troops fighting in the deserts.
War Against Terror: Footage of Afghanistan mountain campaign, and desert footage of south-central iraq.
4) C&C: American side has one General Shepard who guides you through the missions, until he disappears for a while because the UN hates him.
War Against Terror: The CNN has Gen. Don Shepherd to guide you through the hunt for Bin Laden. Until the USA goes for unilateral action with its coalition of the willing and the world hates us.
5) C&C: All this bloodshed for a rare natural resource which promises untold power to whoever controls it.
War Against Terror: hmmm. you're right. Self Defense.
6) C&C: The Big Bad is an elusive terrorist (who may or may not have been killed in his underground lair when bombing made rocks fall on his head) called Kane.
War Against Terror: The Big Bad is an elusive terrorist (who may or may not have been killed in his underground lair when bombing made rocks fall on his head) called Osama.
7) C&C: New weapons every successful mission.
War Against Terror: MOAB. Stryker. SA80-A2.
8) C&C: We will use cleansing Nuclear Fire.
War Against Terror: Oh no. Just find the silver crate and get the hell out of there.
9) C&C: the sequel, red alert, has Kane controlling Stalin.
War Against Terror: "As a young man, Saddam Hussein admired Hitler's system of government. Stalin and his totalitarian model became Saddam's exemplars. Saddam tailored his system along Nazi and Stalinist lines, though it had a number of new features as well. In keeping with Nazi ideals, Iraq's Ba'th system had four main pillars: totalitarian ideology, single-party rule, a command economy (nominally socialist), and firm control over the media and the army."
10) more to come. remember: there are at least two endings, to promote better replay value.
Well, how about this theory. Command and conquer is a cultural text. people play it. enjoy it. think about it in the off season. It came out in the late 90s. (dos version released in 1995).
p -the-mideast's-ass thing?
The thing is, people played this game and ate it up. Everybody loved it.
Now in a democracy there's a lot of showmanship to being a leader. Right down to having the right mix of races in the faces behind you when you speak. you have to understand what the public wants and give it to them to stay in power.
I'm not saying that war would have been prevented by banning certain video games. I think that wars of some kind were inevitable, ever since the british empire colonised the mid east. Heck, the region was probably screwed since the Ottoman Empire conquered the Kurds and the Assyrians. Not to mention what the sons of Isaac and Ishmael did to each other. (Actually I think that the whole thing went wrong Cain got annoyed... or maybe before that even with like, the saber toothed tigers and prehumanity fighting it out.)
But I am saying that popular culture shapes the kind of wars that are just palatable to us. I think it's no accident that the war is balanced 50:50 for and against.
Imagine if we had waited for the UN and they granted us a resolution to resolve the whole oilfield/WMD/who-gets-to-keep-their-fist-firmly-u
>60% approval ratings = suicide bombings.
Now that we're in this war, and pissed off most of the world, we have to win it. I am firmly in support of our troops who are dying defending our way of life, no matter how obscenely exessive our way of life may be.
At the same time, honesty dictates that I say this war is a crime.
So let's just hope that this thing doesn't drag out and end up with us both getting conscripted on one side or another.
Because I will kill for my country, right or wrong.
And you forgot to mention those little yellow powerpills... that help you swallow neon coloured ghosts...
i dunno. the original C&C had foot soldiers being torn in half by cannon fire. Maybe you got the gore free version.
I felt so sad for those poor bastards. they were so small. only a few pixels big.
Does anyone think that video games made Bush, Saddam Hussein, or bin Laden what they are today?
1) C&C: Intro starts with player flipping through TV channels on cable and then seeing a building blow up with a voice over about the Nod Terrorist Organisation.
War Against Terror: Begins with 24 hour coverage of the 9-11 attack.
2) C&C: Immediately after the intro you hear two conflicting voices and are forced to choose a side.
War Against Terror: "Let those who harbor terrorists know they and the terrorists themselves are our enemies, without distinction. America has the will and the resources to defeat you. We are a determined and rich nation with clever and resourceful people. We will also need and we demand the assistance of every government in the world to help us. Whoever does is our friend and whoever does not will be considered to be our enemy."
3) C&C: involves grey troops fighting in tall snowbound mountains, or sand coloured troops fighting in the deserts.
War Against Terror: Footage of Afghanistan mountain campaign, and desert footage of south-central iraq.
4) C&C: American side has one General Shepard who guides you through the missions, until he disappears for a while because the UN hates him.
War Against Terror: The CNN has Gen. Don Shepherd to guide you through the hunt for Bin Laden. Until the USA goes for unilateral action with it's coalition of the willing and the UN hates us.
5) C&C: All this bloodshed for a rare natural resource which promises untold power to whoever controls it.
War Against Terror: hmmm. you're right. Self Defense.
6) C&C: The Big Bad is an elusive terrorist (who may or may not have been killed in his underground lair when bombing made rocks fall on his head) called Kane.
War Against Terror: The Big Bad is an elusive terrorist (who may or may not have been killed in his underground lair when bombing made rocks fall on his head) called Osama.
7) C&C: New weapons every successful mission.
War Against Terror: MOAB. Stryker. SA80-A2.
8) C&C: We will use cleansing Nuclear Fire.
War Against Terror: Oh no. Just find the silver crate and get the hell out of there.
9) C&C: the sequel, red alert, has Kane controlling Stalin.
War Against Terror: "As a young man, Saddam Hussein admired Hitler's system of government. Stalin and his totalitarian model became Saddam's exemplars. Saddam tailored his system along Nazi and Stalinist lines, though it had a number of new features as well. In keeping with Nazi ideals, Iraq's Ba'th system had four main pillars: totalitarian ideology, single-party rule, a command economy (nominally socialist), and firm control over the media and the army."
10) more to come. remember: there are at least two endings, to promote better replay value.
You guess right.
Die Nazi scum.
I don't know, what if human engineers can come up with a hyppocampus which uses only one third the neurons?
Let's see what the fine folks at AMD can do...
Although I'm scared of what the heatsink will look like.
Not really, when lefty types hear that there are more people coming to the commune, they tend to react with jubilation.
What the lefty types are afraid of is this: The first generation of barbie-kens will unify with their GM skin as their uniform, smash said lefty types into bits and then start wasting resources squabbling amongst themselves about how their super enhanced (and possibly tusked, horned, sleepless and photosynthetic) babies are so original.
Result? You could see unity based on superficial similarities, and a distinct lack of regard for making sure that the lifesaving technology of genetic disease prevention or old age genetic enhancement reaches all sectors of society - And that includes people who worked all day and all night in a commodity market like farming just so that you can go down to the supermarket and buy fresh vegitables.
The leftys are afraid because more often than not, it's not stupid people who end up poor. It's the people who get trapped in industries which we need to be low cost - food production, mining, cleaning, security, transportation, manual labour. Eventually we will replace human labour with machines, but if you've ever been laid off you know how hard it is to adjust to a new workplace in the same industry, let alone reskill from industries as different as horse breeding and webdesign.
We need these people to do these jobs (Jobs, I might add, that are soon to vanish)for next to nothing so that we can do our high-tech high-touch jobs and enjoy the lifestyles that we do. We also make going to college something that our parents had to plan from before we were born, so that we can keep whole family lines in these low paid commodity jobs simply by setting the pay+tips just on par with the cost of living, so it's impossible to save for the future unless you're willing to sacrifice your family line to give your nephew or niece a chance. If they start to get out of hand, we can market to them something to suck up the cash, while giving them a minimal return (like cars that depreciate as they're driven off the lot and then break down, or fashionable shoes that go out of fashion).
In the future of unbridled modification of children, or radical modification of existing humans, we might have fashionable mods to one's body which become "so 2015" in 2016, and then need to be upgraded with more mods. In the past a poor person with a good body could get ahead. Just look at tito ortiz. Now, skip the stuff about the donations, bottom line is that an athletic person can make good from a poor background in a world where bodies are random, and the rich blood can run thin.
Add gm mods to the mix, and suddenly the rich kids are titans.
The lefties are afraid that this will turn into an arms race of bodily modification, and will seal off the last few avenues for the poor to become rich, beyond religeon and outright war.
Fortunately, it might be possible to do gm mods underground. But I worry about who to trust in the black clinics of chiba.
depends: what colour is your lifeclock, runner?
Bearing in mind that a tissue match can sometimes go across ethnicities would people consider mixing and matching skin envelopes of different shades for cosmetic purposes?
On the other hand, the scarring would probably land the recipient ostracised from the conservitave community.
I wish I could get my facial recognition software to display names on to my head up display. Then I'd actually know how to spell them.
You T-800 infiltrators have all the cool tech. I bet you have that real human skin'n'hair upgrade too, while I have to walk around in rubber.
Bloody Skynet's favourites.