How about we take a human intelligence and replace it bit by bit by a machine? We'd learn an awful lot about how the human brain works and eventually have a machine with a humanlike intelligence.
"Treat others how you want to be treated" is possibly how they are treating you....it's just that they _like_ to be whipped and told what a worthless person they are.
The UBI should be enough to survive, but not enough to really live. So enough for 2000 calories a day, 2 changes of clothes a year, and a bed in a dorm. So no one starves or freezes to death, but everyone would definitely want to do at least _some_ work, and most will want to do more.
The car will refuse to run over anyone, policeman or otherwise. Then once the policeman has the occupants full attention, he can then instruct him to pull over.
Why not just give them as much heroin and weed (and other downers) as they can consume? The police confiscate plenty that would otherwise just be destroyed. Keep the prisoners chilled out to the max.
Really? You think you'd be allowed to destroy a multibillion dollar cancer treatment industry with your cure? Especially if it was a cheap cure? You don't think they'd kidnap/kill you, torture the formula out of you, and then only offer the cure to the very rich/powerful in secret? (Okay, not realistic - cancer has so many forms that a cure for one type isn't going to work for most of the other types, but the sentiment remains.)
The really smart criminals get into politics. Then, even if you are caught, nothing happens to you...unless you've pissed off another higher ranked politician, in which case it doesn't matter if you've actually done what you've been accused of.
My ethical problem would be that in the short-medium term, we don't understand what we're doing and will hurt more than we heal. So need a few more decades with animal testing.
After that? Open the floodgates. Not everyone will want the 6'2" white blonde blueeyed children. I can see a market for catpeople, dogpeople, merpeople (colonise the oceans!); I'm sure there'll be one or two who want to incarnate Cthulu; wings capable of unaided flight might be difficult. Never worry about being the wrong skin colour as everyone will be any colour of the rainbow - or even rainbow coloured! Nightvision - eyeshine a reality! Solar powered - get a lot of your daily calories just by standing naked in the sun. Turn hair-growth on and off. Never have to shave again.
People who worry about eugenics are just lacking in imagination.
Why not treat Greece like a Company or an Individual? Send in the Administrators and the Baliffs. Greece still has lots of assets, sell them off, starting with the museums, some of the islands. Fire the entire civil service and make them reapply for their jobs, supervised by some people who know how to run a government - maybe the Swiss and Austrians?
Or simply let Germany foreclose on the entire country and no more debt! And all the people are then the responsibility of the German govt to house and feed.
Though I have no idea why blended fibers was banned by the Bible.
The way I heard it, due to the way the untreated fibres expanded and shrank when washing, the fabric would be ruined quite quickly (but after the fabric dealer had moved on to the next town).
but where are the SJ crusaders trying to get more men involved in teaching primary education.
Men who want to work in primary education are probably paedophiles, or at least will probably be accused of such, and once accused, will never be able to work again in the field unless conclusively proved innocent, and maybe not even then.
Once we give up our meatbag bodies, a lot of the physics problems go away. Admittedly, the tech to upload our brains into computers is a ways off, but it doesn't require amazing physics breakthroughs to get there (eg. wormholes, antigravity, FTL travel etc.). We can send our computer brains off the planet at much higher Gs, not have to worry too much about flight time to other solar systems, and can grow and download back into meatbags at the final destination if we still desire such things.
Title aside, I hate the movie - dude, why didn't you just make multiple backups of yourself?
Due to the formidable problem of getting meatbags into orbit safely and cost-effectively, I suspect we'd have better luck uploading our brains into hardware that can handle really high G-forces, and roam the galaxy that way. _Much_ more efficient, don't have to muck about with food or disposal, just ensuring that there's enough solar power and what moving parts you have left aren't seized up.
Okay, okay, if you still want to, you could download back into a meatbag at your final destination.
Get back to me when you've managed to codify 'common sense' into law. Or do you want to punish people who break unwritten laws based on what is held only in your head? If you've manage to code 'common sense' into a machine, then I think the Nobel Committee wants to have a word with you.
What, you put your actual address in there? Why? No one I care about would use the Whois to contact me by snail mail. And if actual authorities need to find me, then they can subpoena my billing address (or maybe, y'know, just email me and set up an appointment?) I think mine is currently set to some hotel in Uzbeckistan. Next renewal I think I'll set it to a Yurt in Mongolia.
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The animal that kills the most humans in Australia....is the horse.
Except that the rich would find a way around it, legally or otherwise.
Identity farms would do a booming business.
How about we take a human intelligence and replace it bit by bit by a machine?
We'd learn an awful lot about how the human brain works and eventually have a machine with a humanlike intelligence.
"Treat others how you want to be treated" is possibly how they are treating you. ...it's just that they _like_ to be whipped and told what a worthless person they are.
The UBI should be enough to survive, but not enough to really live.
So enough for 2000 calories a day, 2 changes of clothes a year, and a bed in a dorm.
So no one starves or freezes to death, but everyone would definitely want to do at least _some_ work, and most will want to do more.
I'm thinking closer to $USD7000 a year.
The car will refuse to run over anyone, policeman or otherwise.
Then once the policeman has the occupants full attention, he can then instruct him to pull over.
Why not just give them as much heroin and weed (and other downers) as they can consume? The police confiscate plenty that would otherwise just be destroyed.
Keep the prisoners chilled out to the max.
...and men.
Really? You think you'd be allowed to destroy a multibillion dollar cancer treatment industry with your cure? Especially if it was a cheap cure?
You don't think they'd kidnap/kill you, torture the formula out of you, and then only offer the cure to the very rich/powerful in secret?
(Okay, not realistic - cancer has so many forms that a cure for one type isn't going to work for most of the other types, but the sentiment remains.)
I blame the immortal queens going around decapitating the other immortal queens.
"There can bee only one."
The really smart criminals get into politics. Then, even if you are caught, nothing happens to you...unless you've pissed off another higher ranked politician, in which case it doesn't matter if you've actually done what you've been accused of.
I beat her all the time.
She crap at scrabble.
My ethical problem would be that in the short-medium term, we don't understand what we're doing and will hurt more than we heal.
So need a few more decades with animal testing.
After that? Open the floodgates. Not everyone will want the 6'2" white blonde blueeyed children. I can see a market for catpeople, dogpeople, merpeople (colonise the oceans!); I'm sure there'll be one or two who want to incarnate Cthulu; wings capable of unaided flight might be difficult.
Never worry about being the wrong skin colour as everyone will be any colour of the rainbow - or even rainbow coloured!
Nightvision - eyeshine a reality!
Solar powered - get a lot of your daily calories just by standing naked in the sun.
Turn hair-growth on and off. Never have to shave again.
People who worry about eugenics are just lacking in imagination.
Why not treat Greece like a Company or an Individual?
Send in the Administrators and the Baliffs. Greece still has lots of assets, sell them off, starting with the museums, some of the islands.
Fire the entire civil service and make them reapply for their jobs, supervised by some people who know how to run a government - maybe the Swiss and Austrians?
Or simply let Germany foreclose on the entire country and no more debt! And all the people are then the responsibility of the German govt to house and feed.
Though I have no idea why blended fibers was banned by the Bible.
The way I heard it, due to the way the untreated fibres expanded and shrank when washing, the fabric would be ruined quite quickly (but after the fabric dealer had moved on to the next town).
but where are the SJ crusaders trying to get more men involved in teaching primary education.
Men who want to work in primary education are probably paedophiles, or at least will probably be accused of such, and once accused, will never be able to work again in the field unless conclusively proved innocent, and maybe not even then.
Once we give up our meatbag bodies, a lot of the physics problems go away.
Admittedly, the tech to upload our brains into computers is a ways off, but it doesn't require amazing physics breakthroughs to get there (eg. wormholes, antigravity, FTL travel etc.).
We can send our computer brains off the planet at much higher Gs, not have to worry too much about flight time to other solar systems, and can grow and download back into meatbags at the final destination if we still desire such things.
Title aside, I hate the movie - dude, why didn't you just make multiple backups of yourself?
Certainly, sex education where you figuratively got into the water and taught how to do the various strokes would have been a lot more fun.
...doesn't mean that you _should_.
In this case, what happens when the child has the same genetic defect? Pass the womb on 3rd hand?
Due to the formidable problem of getting meatbags into orbit safely and cost-effectively, I suspect we'd have better luck uploading our brains into hardware that can handle really high G-forces, and roam the galaxy that way. _Much_ more efficient, don't have to muck about with food or disposal, just ensuring that there's enough solar power and what moving parts you have left aren't seized up.
Okay, okay, if you still want to, you could download back into a meatbag at your final destination.
I thought it meant distance traveled whilst submerged, not depth. A nuclear submarine could (and do?) circumnavigate the world without surfacing.
Get back to me when you've managed to codify 'common sense' into law. Or do you want to punish people who break unwritten laws based on what is held only in your head?
If you've manage to code 'common sense' into a machine, then I think the Nobel Committee wants to have a word with you.
Is the NPC rescue a quest?
Is it likely to give significant XP/Gold?
Does the NPC respawn even after I've rescued it once?
What, you put your actual address in there? Why? No one I care about would use the Whois to contact me by snail mail. And if actual authorities need to find me, then they can subpoena my billing address (or maybe, y'know, just email me and set up an appointment?)
I think mine is currently set to some hotel in Uzbeckistan. Next renewal I think I'll set it to a Yurt in Mongolia.
Stick all the company's assets into storage for the length of the sentence.