You mean you'll wake up crying every 90 minutes, demanding to be fed and have your nappy changed?
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> Either control birthrates and educate the starving
> billions or we are going to collapse under the
> mass of our waste and energy and resource
> consumption.
Well, duh...
We're already past that point.
All you sad "the future of humanity is in space" extropians need to get a clue. Forget it!! It's not going to happen. All space is going to be is expensive entertainment for a few thousand scientists and engineers, and something to fill the gap between commercials on TV (and between banner ads on the web.) This planet is FUCKED, folks, WE fucked it, and it's not going to get UNFUCKED by some kind of magical technological solution. That's the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place! --
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An apologist for the patent-meisters was on the radio this a.m. ; he kept referring to it as "patenting artificial molecules that are similar to human genes". He explicitly said (IIRC) that they were NOT patenting chunks of human DNA per se.
Someone with the mad PCR skillz clue me in?
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How about a computer vote which prints out two optically scanable ballots. One for you to submit, and one for you to keep as a receipt. That way, you get the best of both worlds. Instant results, plus a fallback to count against in case of fraud.
How about a kernel-space module which tracks IP connections, polls a server for a consensus opinion on the average political stance of those looking at that site, tied in with the NSA records of the TV, film and other media you consume -- hear me out -- which tallies it all up objectively and blindly, using a purely heuristic algorithm, and derives a probability curve describing your vote? Tally up the numbers acros the country, run the model and voila. You still get the pundit circuit, the drama of election night, networks' projections and so forth, but with a lot less money for the lawyers. And better democracy than we have right now.
Or how about learning to spell?
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The electronic voting machines used here in Nevada (or at least in Clark County; I'm not sure about the rest of the state) since 1996 or so keep this from happening.
Whoooo!!! I'm a-movin' ta Areezony!!
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refraining from straightforward abuse with difficulty...
take ballot paper
go into booth
write ' X ' next to person you vote for
insert folded paper into box
works for every of democracy on the planet, but you lot got to go one better, huh? Anyone would think some sort of deliberate decision had been made to disenfranchise the poorer and less well-educated members of... oh! wait! that would mean... most of the
black population, right?
</sarcasm>
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> The result is that the some nerd at the end of the office takes the opportunity to; create a small empire/get out of a line of work he finds boring/get his particular coding style enforced company wide.
I was just given my first job of the year... "document our procedures!". But I'm not interested in an empire, it's taking me AWAY from work I find interesting,... and getting my code style enforced company-wide would be a Bad Thing;)
Looking on the bright side, we don't actually HAVE any procedures. We just make it up as we go along. Yeah, we do web development, how did you guess?
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You mean you'll wake up crying every 90 minutes, demanding to be fed and have your nappy changed?
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We're already past that point.
All you sad "the future of humanity is in space" extropians need to get a clue. Forget it!! It's not going to happen. All space is going to be is expensive entertainment for a few thousand scientists and engineers, and something to fill the gap between commercials on TV (and between banner ads on the web.) This planet is FUCKED, folks, WE fucked it, and it's not going to get UNFUCKED by some kind of magical technological solution. That's the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place!
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Someone with the mad PCR skillz clue me in?
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Or how about learning to spell?
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yeah? I thought it was a random arse talking out of Jon Katz. Hard to tell the difference I know...
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Hooray!!! for capitalism
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it's your mouth, loser
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I was just given my first job of the year... "document our procedures!". But I'm not interested in an empire, it's taking me AWAY from work I find interesting,... and getting my code style enforced company-wide would be a Bad Thing ;)
Looking on the bright side, we don't actually HAVE any procedures. We just make it up as we go along. Yeah, we do web development, how did you guess?
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