Yes, you're exactly right. NASA is a bunch of blundering idiots. They're the only ones in the entire world with a space program that is even worth a damn. ARE YOU WORKING AT NASA? These people are smart, and if the program was behind time and off schedule, then it was probably politicians, or better yet, critical piece of technology that they can't overcome yet. Navigating an atmosphere at orbital speeds is not easy, at least the last time I checked. I AM NOT A ROCKET SCIENTIST, you probably aren't either, but I know that NASA doesn't hire idiots. Just because I can dream it up in the 70's does't mean that we can even produce it in 2001. I am tired of/. conspiracy theories. You could be livin' in a country like China, where you get around by bicycle and the bus is considered making it, instead of pining for the X-33.
The exact moment that we apologize for that accident that was in international waters, then we see a fancy trial on Chinese TV with all 23 of our pilots going to jail for life, or worse, dying at the hands of the Chinese. DON'T THINK EVER THAT THE CHINESE WILL NOT KILL OUR SERVICEMEN, keep in mind that they kill their own people. Also keep in mind that China shot missiles over Taiwan the day that they held public elections.
Either way, we have lost the plane. They are definitely keeping that. No doubt. We are playing with our servicemen's lives right now... trust that the government is doing everything to get them back. They know diplomacy better than I do. They also speak Chinese, which I do not.
My father was. I was for a while. I can't look at a cig without tearing my hair out... I smoked for about 3 years. IT NEVER GOES AWAY. If you think this free-will argument really works, look at the scientific data, better yet, look at the 70 year old man that smokes through the tube in his neck and speaks with a voice box. You think they didn't try to quit about a thousand times even after they made them mute and removed their throats? Yes, you're right. They chose to suicide themselves out because of a smoking habit. YEEEEEES, they chose to kill themselves, you're right. Look up the fucking words for chemical addiction.
First of all, smoking is like drinking beer, but smellier. YOU, Mr. Smoker, say to yourself, I'll just have a few, and you like them. The diference between beer and cigarettes is that about the time that you realize that you are in need of backing away from them, YOU LITERALLY CAN'T STOP... BECAUSE OF THE ADDICTIVE PROPERTIES ARE MORE LIKE HEROIN. You have never been there. I have. It is pure evil, and intentional, because there is hard evidence that the cigarette companies actually increased the addicive properties.
So in other words, when someone decides to put one in the neck tube to puff up, please don't laugh at them and say... "you deserve to die." Keep in mind that tobacco has been around for centuries, and NOW they make them so addictive that we have thousands dying per day.
You're a troll.
And when I do stories, I don't respond to young boisterous idiots that can't make a point. I do however respond to people that can make a intelligent, informed statement that is long enough to fit on television. So, chances are, if they looked like idiots, it was probably because they were and weren't coherent (because we LOVE to personalize stories), and I can almost guarantee that the media talked to them, THEY WERE THE USERS FOR GAWD SAKE (honestly, I love the way that many see the news as idiots, by making judgements of stories, based on their own lean on an issue).
In the communication business, the winners are the best communicators... I've seen noble causes crushed because the good side sounded like fools.
Ultimately, there is nothing I can do if the peson they send to me can't communicate well, because I have to be a slave to objectivity, and give both sides a fair shake. So the lesson here: get a person who is a good speaker to front your cause, and don't fear cameras!
C'mon. American stereotypes are so passe. Geez. The civil war. Yeah, a great example of America's violent past. Fighting over slavery abolition and liberties... those bastards. As I recall about that time that the rest of the world was trying to conquer indigenous tribes and make them speak French at gunpoint... Or better yet more recently, put people in ovens or make them work as slaves making weapons to destroy their own people. WE saved both sides from killing others or being killed in WWII, because we are friends to freedom. We do care about the rest of the world, despite whether you call us capitalist pigs or Imperialists. We send our sons to Bosnia to get shot at because it is the right thing to do. We are the only country that actually still believes the ideas of liberty brought up in the French revolution, and follows them the best we can. The USA is the only country keeping NATO and the UN propped up, no matter who the American bashing president is. Don't be jealous that we are happy and proud to be Americans, it requires a lot of effort other countries people aren't willing to give. We make websites that worry about our freedoms, to let foreigners speak their minds against a flawed but good country (although we certainly wouldn't be able to speak our mind somewhere else on a personal level), and agree with their take on our history when they're correct. Its just in this case, whoever posted that stuff bringing up the civil war was not correct. Check the record, because America is trying to be everyone's friend, no matter how bad a friend the rest of the world is back.
To me, a computer is just a tool, unlike the throngs of posts here that report the (surprise!)let-down after they are no longer amazed by technology. Someone telling me that chasing fruitflies around an office or trying to work with genes to make glow-in-the-dark kittens is COOL, well, they need to get a grip. We need to face the idea that all jobs are boring and suck, and that they will be cool for about a year, then it is old news. Even movie stars sit around all day waiting for someone to get the lighting right, and get bored too. I am a newsman, we have slow days, even in a business that changes daily, or even hourly.
BIG SECRET: Make sure you love your coworkers and your job, and you'll be fine.
I understand what everyone is saying, but you are equating open source wourk with charity with that kind of tax credit, and obviously open-source programming work is used a lot for profit based institutions. It isn't right. I don't agree with the clarification. Now, I understand that the subsidy business in government goes all the way from govermnent military contracts to peanut farmers, but the belief in protecting industry in the most prosperous country in the world is ludicrous. NO ONE should get a tax credit on anything that can be used for profit. If you ask for one, then you just became a special interest.
IF you are talking about art stopping alltogehter because of copy issues. GIMME A F'N BREAK. Humans will always express themselves. Please use some historical perspective here. You are talking about a celebs rights to get stinking rich off of the chokehold on a medium and calling it ART. Artists will always be around. Van Gogh was nutty and never got rich, but everyone loved his work. Warhol never made N'SYNC money. Who are we protecting here? Celebs or artists who will become a symbol for their times? Come to think about it, today Warhol's originals would have got slapped with a lawsuit by Campbell's the moment a lawyer set eyes on his work.
It will just go back to the pay system in the 1700s where the medium had nothing to do with the pay scale. Artists exsisted back then, and didn't get seven-figure salaries for it. SOME WOULD ARGUE THAT SOME OF OUR COLLECTIVE HISTORIES BEST WORK WAS DONE THEN. Michelangelo never had a Reebok ad or rode in the back of a Mercedes for a 30 second spot to make money, he just got famous off of being great at art. They will make do if they are artists, but you are talking about a group of whiny celebrities, and that is a different matter.
There is a fine line between art, bullshit, and bulldada. Yoko Ono had an art exhibit recently where one of her pieces was a phone that Ono would call up occasionally and call the people in the museum and talk. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. AND TO THINK THAT SOMEONE GAVE HER MUSEUM SPACE FOR THIS. So in a sense, if Yoko can get herself in museums longer than you and I have probably lived, then I am saying that Spears can get her SWEET, sweet shapely ass in a red leather catsuit and sing her damn "Ooops song" off key until her silicone falls out. Its all good in my books. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS NOT AN ARTLESS TIME. May I present exhibit A: Barbarella.
Your airwaves laws are a joke. Honestly, they own a medium that everyone should use? regs are confusing to us simple folk... we don't trust our government so well down here. PLEEEESE LET THE GOV'T OWN EVERYTHING!!! I WANT DOCTORS WITH THE ENTHUSIASM OF GOVERNMENT WORKERS!!! I WANT HIGHBROW OPERA AND DANCING DICTATED TO ME NEXT TO MY 18 HOURS OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING. Hooray for publicly funded television!
Please don't bash the US, and we won't make fun of You Can't Do That On Television. Canadians, don't think we won't pay you back for Loverboy and Tom Green. REVENGE WILL BE SWIFT!!!! MWAAAHAHHHHAAAAA.
PLEASE USE THESE THINGEES... Y'know like..:P and uhhhh this one:0... oohh, and this one %^. And how about this one.. "}.
You're all commies. Every last one of you/.ers.
I'm getting Heston on the phone.
I understand the code of laws and copnduct, but why do we seem so scared to obviously punish a corporation that lies on the stand and practices anti-competetive behaviors. This is not the NFL, you are not allowed to tackle and spear after the whistle. And by the way... the government is allowed to enforce its economic opinions upon the marketplace... that is what the Sherman Act was designed for OUT OF NECESSITY. Please someone back me up with some math here. C'mon people, you don't make that many billions without getting blood on your hands. I mean, what are the barriers to entry on this BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY? A couple of computers and some smart guys? YES? I'm sure that there were a whole bunch of people thinking, "we can't make our own OS or browser... GOD NO! ITS CODE! WE CAN'T WRITE THAT! I MEAN, WE COULD MAKE BILLIONS WITH ONE OR TWO NEW INNOVATIONS SIMPLY WITH LABOR AND A LITTLE STARTING CAPITAL! QUICK, RUN AWAY!!!"
Sorry, I got a little crazy there. Ignore that.
If you are in public and can't occasionally be anonymous, you will find yourself eventually in the same boat as our founding fathers, who were attacked and kiled door to door when their opinions did not match those in power.
If you are moral and right, and in the minority, you have to be anonymous.
One of my ancestors, Kurt Vallendingham, opposed the Civil War and insited on the peace process to settle the disputes. He was a pacifist. He was also deprted from his home in the United States, and died alone in the Carribean. So being public on all things is not a great idea.
I love Betamax. I enjoy changing tapes when watching Superman III. That Richard Pryor cracks me up every time... ESPECIALLY when he isn't allowed to curse.
You understand of course, that the purpose of a lawyer is to lie and bend all opinions to the point of confusion. Then immediately after he has confused the living heck out of them, he supplies them with a SHINING SOLUTION that removes the muddiness. Using their tactics, there is no way that any objective scientist will ever make any sense through the process. Personally I don't see the point of all of this. Science is the opposite of what an attorney does. There is no way that a scientist will ever be able to explain full something that is exceedingly complex with a lawyer continually stopping and adjusting the lines of questioning. The only solution is a classic, you have to hire a better lawyer on your side.
I like a single player exsistance.. and as a matter of fact, I am playing HL again right now. But I have to agree eith some of the posters that when playing Tribes (the worlds greatest online game *cough*) and yo boys be a bumpin', man, it ain't a gettin' much better. OH, AND I SALUTE THE TRIBESMEN THAT RUN AMMO AND TAKE ORDERS. Don't get me wrong, its all about the interactivity, and multiplayer internet is great. Honestly, would you rather play checkers or be outside with your little cousins playing tag?
Welcome to the HIVE. I personally can't wait for all of my transmissions to be tagged internationally... WHERE CAN I SIGN UP? Please, make it cost pennies to track thousands of people internationally.
Now I know someone is going to say, "then don't buy it." But what happens when say, EVERYTHING TECHNICAL HAS THIS ON IT. THERE IS BUT ONE SINGLE USE FOR THIS TECHNOLOGY. It is an affrontery to personal property... saying "WE STILL OWN THIS. IT AIN'T YERS." Everyone says its no big deal... just an inventory tag. Yeah, well a mattress that says "DO NOT REMOVE" is not a personal communication device. Just wait, cause in an important meeting, or the birth of your first child, or a moment of crisis, the phone WILL ring to sell you a tie-in promotion to the show you watched last night, then you'll understand what they really meant. I can't wait until they really tweak this stuff out.
Just like Tobacco companies, these giant conglomorates keep piles of money and rabid lawyers to sic on a problem for these reasons. Do not think that for a half-second that this will make their lifespan any longer. Let them spend their money, don't buy music ever again, Napster and Gnutella them in to the gound if they are going to be that way. Unite.. and not in the proletariat troll way, just get back at them quitely... speed up their last breath. And please write your congressman. There is a pile of legislation that makes it to the floor and then gets tabled because they say, "Oh, its Sundquist's cronies again trying to pass that mandatory corporate welfare bill, again." MOST CONGRESSMEN PROBABLY HAVE NO IDEA THIS DEAL IS BEING BUILT. Remeber that their secretary runs the computers for them. The DMCA definitely passed out of ignorance.
Let your congressman know that you'll be the steel toe of justice if they pass this. The music industry is going to tax my CD-ROMS? PUUUHHHHLLEEEASSE. The day I start worrying about them is the day they come to my house with a warrant for me and my three million friends who listen to MP3s. It'll never happen. Can you imagine the Britney Spears people coming ot get you? Not likely. Fear the real problems, my friends.
I appreciate that poster's smugness. He/she assumes that intelligence alone is the determining factor in survival. An intellectual cake-eater looking down on all the stupids. How quaint. Surely the weight of the poster's opinions alone will assure suvival. Send this person money and genetically sound mates... and maybe we can ride the coattails to glory.
Unfortunately, because of all technology getting priced at a premium when it arrives, only the wealthy will have access to new life-savig techniues. It could be incorporated into more expensive health care, which we all cannot afford now anyway, so the poor are screwed again.
And of course, those "other" people who live in the "dirty and uncivilized" countries wil face the burden of it all because they can be bullied around easier. Sorry guys, here it comes again.
I understand that you are trying to say that privitazation has its purposes, but obviously you are forgetting one little fact about human nature. Those in power will do anything (and I mean anything, like build doomsday devices like the Soviet Union did) to keep a powerful position. And for abusing others? I will not get angry about it and flame, but it is a disturbing truth of life. You simply cannot trust a corporation, and by that I mean almost every single one. They will work you to death, give you black lung, declare bankruptcy to deny you your benefits... all the while playing golf on the profits. I know because it happened to my mother's little coal town. Everyone was dying and they took all the benefits away from dying people "legally." I also have friends in a county in Indiana that hve the second highest rate of lung cancer in the country. There is one plant in the whole place. It makes GE plastics. Trust me... if they get their hands on the genome, it will be no different, and they should be watched INTIMATELY.. because they will definitely try to lord us with it. We all know this, whether we like to admit it or not.
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I've got one. Why don't we genetically engineer human beings with a conscience?
Here's another good one. Why don't we engineer empathy towards the creatures who will eventually be in constant pain from us placing strain on their bodies? Or better yet, why don't we alter the idea that we don't really need to be making goats that make us superstrong climbing lines?
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Yes, you're exactly right. NASA is a bunch of blundering idiots. They're the only ones in the entire world with a space program that is even worth a damn. ARE YOU WORKING AT NASA? These people are smart, and if the program was behind time and off schedule, then it was probably politicians, or better yet, critical piece of technology that they can't overcome yet. Navigating an atmosphere at orbital speeds is not easy, at least the last time I checked. I AM NOT A ROCKET SCIENTIST, you probably aren't either, but I know that NASA doesn't hire idiots. Just because I can dream it up in the 70's does't mean that we can even produce it in 2001. I am tired of /. conspiracy theories. You could be livin' in a country like China, where you get around by bicycle and the bus is considered making it, instead of pining for the X-33.
The exact moment that we apologize for that accident that was in international waters, then we see a fancy trial on Chinese TV with all 23 of our pilots going to jail for life, or worse, dying at the hands of the Chinese. DON'T THINK EVER THAT THE CHINESE WILL NOT KILL OUR SERVICEMEN, keep in mind that they kill their own people. Also keep in mind that China shot missiles over Taiwan the day that they held public elections. Either way, we have lost the plane. They are definitely keeping that. No doubt. We are playing with our servicemen's lives right now... trust that the government is doing everything to get them back. They know diplomacy better than I do. They also speak Chinese, which I do not.
My father was. I was for a while. I can't look at a cig without tearing my hair out... I smoked for about 3 years. IT NEVER GOES AWAY. If you think this free-will argument really works, look at the scientific data, better yet, look at the 70 year old man that smokes through the tube in his neck and speaks with a voice box. You think they didn't try to quit about a thousand times even after they made them mute and removed their throats? Yes, you're right. They chose to suicide themselves out because of a smoking habit. YEEEEEES, they chose to kill themselves, you're right. Look up the fucking words for chemical addiction.
First of all, smoking is like drinking beer, but smellier. YOU, Mr. Smoker, say to yourself, I'll just have a few, and you like them. The diference between beer and cigarettes is that about the time that you realize that you are in need of backing away from them, YOU LITERALLY CAN'T STOP... BECAUSE OF THE ADDICTIVE PROPERTIES ARE MORE LIKE HEROIN. You have never been there. I have. It is pure evil, and intentional, because there is hard evidence that the cigarette companies actually increased the addicive properties. So in other words, when someone decides to put one in the neck tube to puff up, please don't laugh at them and say... "you deserve to die." Keep in mind that tobacco has been around for centuries, and NOW they make them so addictive that we have thousands dying per day. You're a troll.
And when I do stories, I don't respond to young boisterous idiots that can't make a point. I do however respond to people that can make a intelligent, informed statement that is long enough to fit on television. So, chances are, if they looked like idiots, it was probably because they were and weren't coherent (because we LOVE to personalize stories), and I can almost guarantee that the media talked to them, THEY WERE THE USERS FOR GAWD SAKE (honestly, I love the way that many see the news as idiots, by making judgements of stories, based on their own lean on an issue). In the communication business, the winners are the best communicators... I've seen noble causes crushed because the good side sounded like fools. Ultimately, there is nothing I can do if the peson they send to me can't communicate well, because I have to be a slave to objectivity, and give both sides a fair shake. So the lesson here: get a person who is a good speaker to front your cause, and don't fear cameras!
DAMMIT!! Get Kenny Loggins down here and let them dance already!! WHY?!?! WHY WON'T YOU LET THEM DANCE!!!!
C'mon. American stereotypes are so passe. Geez. The civil war. Yeah, a great example of America's violent past. Fighting over slavery abolition and liberties... those bastards. As I recall about that time that the rest of the world was trying to conquer indigenous tribes and make them speak French at gunpoint... Or better yet more recently, put people in ovens or make them work as slaves making weapons to destroy their own people. WE saved both sides from killing others or being killed in WWII, because we are friends to freedom. We do care about the rest of the world, despite whether you call us capitalist pigs or Imperialists. We send our sons to Bosnia to get shot at because it is the right thing to do. We are the only country that actually still believes the ideas of liberty brought up in the French revolution, and follows them the best we can. The USA is the only country keeping NATO and the UN propped up, no matter who the American bashing president is. Don't be jealous that we are happy and proud to be Americans, it requires a lot of effort other countries people aren't willing to give. We make websites that worry about our freedoms, to let foreigners speak their minds against a flawed but good country (although we certainly wouldn't be able to speak our mind somewhere else on a personal level), and agree with their take on our history when they're correct. Its just in this case, whoever posted that stuff bringing up the civil war was not correct. Check the record, because America is trying to be everyone's friend, no matter how bad a friend the rest of the world is back.
To me, a computer is just a tool, unlike the throngs of posts here that report the (surprise!)let-down after they are no longer amazed by technology. Someone telling me that chasing fruitflies around an office or trying to work with genes to make glow-in-the-dark kittens is COOL, well, they need to get a grip. We need to face the idea that all jobs are boring and suck, and that they will be cool for about a year, then it is old news. Even movie stars sit around all day waiting for someone to get the lighting right, and get bored too. I am a newsman, we have slow days, even in a business that changes daily, or even hourly. BIG SECRET: Make sure you love your coworkers and your job, and you'll be fine.
I understand what everyone is saying, but you are equating open source wourk with charity with that kind of tax credit, and obviously open-source programming work is used a lot for profit based institutions. It isn't right. I don't agree with the clarification. Now, I understand that the subsidy business in government goes all the way from govermnent military contracts to peanut farmers, but the belief in protecting industry in the most prosperous country in the world is ludicrous. NO ONE should get a tax credit on anything that can be used for profit. If you ask for one, then you just became a special interest.
IF you are talking about art stopping alltogehter because of copy issues. GIMME A F'N BREAK. Humans will always express themselves. Please use some historical perspective here. You are talking about a celebs rights to get stinking rich off of the chokehold on a medium and calling it ART. Artists will always be around. Van Gogh was nutty and never got rich, but everyone loved his work. Warhol never made N'SYNC money. Who are we protecting here? Celebs or artists who will become a symbol for their times? Come to think about it, today Warhol's originals would have got slapped with a lawsuit by Campbell's the moment a lawyer set eyes on his work.
It will just go back to the pay system in the 1700s where the medium had nothing to do with the pay scale. Artists exsisted back then, and didn't get seven-figure salaries for it. SOME WOULD ARGUE THAT SOME OF OUR COLLECTIVE HISTORIES BEST WORK WAS DONE THEN. Michelangelo never had a Reebok ad or rode in the back of a Mercedes for a 30 second spot to make money, he just got famous off of being great at art. They will make do if they are artists, but you are talking about a group of whiny celebrities, and that is a different matter.
There is a fine line between art, bullshit, and bulldada. Yoko Ono had an art exhibit recently where one of her pieces was a phone that Ono would call up occasionally and call the people in the museum and talk. I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. AND TO THINK THAT SOMEONE GAVE HER MUSEUM SPACE FOR THIS. So in a sense, if Yoko can get herself in museums longer than you and I have probably lived, then I am saying that Spears can get her SWEET, sweet shapely ass in a red leather catsuit and sing her damn "Ooops song" off key until her silicone falls out. Its all good in my books. PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS NOT AN ARTLESS TIME. May I present exhibit A: Barbarella.
Your airwaves laws are a joke. Honestly, they own a medium that everyone should use? regs are confusing to us simple folk... we don't trust our government so well down here. PLEEEESE LET THE GOV'T OWN EVERYTHING!!! I WANT DOCTORS WITH THE ENTHUSIASM OF GOVERNMENT WORKERS!!! I WANT HIGHBROW OPERA AND DANCING DICTATED TO ME NEXT TO MY 18 HOURS OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING. Hooray for publicly funded television! Please don't bash the US, and we won't make fun of You Can't Do That On Television. Canadians, don't think we won't pay you back for Loverboy and Tom Green. REVENGE WILL BE SWIFT!!!! MWAAAHAHHHHAAAAA.
PLEASE USE THESE THINGEES... Y'know like..:P and uhhhh this one :0 ... oohh, and this one %^. And how about this one.. "}.
You're all commies. Every last one of you /.ers.
I'm getting Heston on the phone.
I understand the code of laws and copnduct, but why do we seem so scared to obviously punish a corporation that lies on the stand and practices anti-competetive behaviors. This is not the NFL, you are not allowed to tackle and spear after the whistle. And by the way... the government is allowed to enforce its economic opinions upon the marketplace... that is what the Sherman Act was designed for OUT OF NECESSITY. Please someone back me up with some math here. C'mon people, you don't make that many billions without getting blood on your hands. I mean, what are the barriers to entry on this BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY? A couple of computers and some smart guys? YES? I'm sure that there were a whole bunch of people thinking, "we can't make our own OS or browser... GOD NO! ITS CODE! WE CAN'T WRITE THAT! I MEAN, WE COULD MAKE BILLIONS WITH ONE OR TWO NEW INNOVATIONS SIMPLY WITH LABOR AND A LITTLE STARTING CAPITAL! QUICK, RUN AWAY!!!" Sorry, I got a little crazy there. Ignore that.
If you are in public and can't occasionally be anonymous, you will find yourself eventually in the same boat as our founding fathers, who were attacked and kiled door to door when their opinions did not match those in power. If you are moral and right, and in the minority, you have to be anonymous. One of my ancestors, Kurt Vallendingham, opposed the Civil War and insited on the peace process to settle the disputes. He was a pacifist. He was also deprted from his home in the United States, and died alone in the Carribean. So being public on all things is not a great idea.
Troll this person... please. This is getting bad the fact that there is even an issue about this.
I love Betamax. I enjoy changing tapes when watching Superman III. That Richard Pryor cracks me up every time... ESPECIALLY when he isn't allowed to curse.
You understand of course, that the purpose of a lawyer is to lie and bend all opinions to the point of confusion. Then immediately after he has confused the living heck out of them, he supplies them with a SHINING SOLUTION that removes the muddiness. Using their tactics, there is no way that any objective scientist will ever make any sense through the process. Personally I don't see the point of all of this. Science is the opposite of what an attorney does. There is no way that a scientist will ever be able to explain full something that is exceedingly complex with a lawyer continually stopping and adjusting the lines of questioning. The only solution is a classic, you have to hire a better lawyer on your side.
I like a single player exsistance.. and as a matter of fact, I am playing HL again right now. But I have to agree eith some of the posters that when playing Tribes (the worlds greatest online game *cough*) and yo boys be a bumpin', man, it ain't a gettin' much better. OH, AND I SALUTE THE TRIBESMEN THAT RUN AMMO AND TAKE ORDERS. Don't get me wrong, its all about the interactivity, and multiplayer internet is great. Honestly, would you rather play checkers or be outside with your little cousins playing tag?
Welcome to the HIVE. I personally can't wait for all of my transmissions to be tagged internationally... WHERE CAN I SIGN UP? Please, make it cost pennies to track thousands of people internationally. Now I know someone is going to say, "then don't buy it." But what happens when say, EVERYTHING TECHNICAL HAS THIS ON IT. THERE IS BUT ONE SINGLE USE FOR THIS TECHNOLOGY. It is an affrontery to personal property... saying "WE STILL OWN THIS. IT AIN'T YERS." Everyone says its no big deal... just an inventory tag. Yeah, well a mattress that says "DO NOT REMOVE" is not a personal communication device. Just wait, cause in an important meeting, or the birth of your first child, or a moment of crisis, the phone WILL ring to sell you a tie-in promotion to the show you watched last night, then you'll understand what they really meant. I can't wait until they really tweak this stuff out.
Just like Tobacco companies, these giant conglomorates keep piles of money and rabid lawyers to sic on a problem for these reasons. Do not think that for a half-second that this will make their lifespan any longer. Let them spend their money, don't buy music ever again, Napster and Gnutella them in to the gound if they are going to be that way. Unite.. and not in the proletariat troll way, just get back at them quitely... speed up their last breath. And please write your congressman. There is a pile of legislation that makes it to the floor and then gets tabled because they say, "Oh, its Sundquist's cronies again trying to pass that mandatory corporate welfare bill, again." MOST CONGRESSMEN PROBABLY HAVE NO IDEA THIS DEAL IS BEING BUILT. Remeber that their secretary runs the computers for them. The DMCA definitely passed out of ignorance. Let your congressman know that you'll be the steel toe of justice if they pass this. The music industry is going to tax my CD-ROMS? PUUUHHHHLLEEEASSE. The day I start worrying about them is the day they come to my house with a warrant for me and my three million friends who listen to MP3s. It'll never happen. Can you imagine the Britney Spears people coming ot get you? Not likely. Fear the real problems, my friends.
I appreciate that poster's smugness. He/she assumes that intelligence alone is the determining factor in survival. An intellectual cake-eater looking down on all the stupids. How quaint. Surely the weight of the poster's opinions alone will assure suvival. Send this person money and genetically sound mates... and maybe we can ride the coattails to glory. Unfortunately, because of all technology getting priced at a premium when it arrives, only the wealthy will have access to new life-savig techniues. It could be incorporated into more expensive health care, which we all cannot afford now anyway, so the poor are screwed again. And of course, those "other" people who live in the "dirty and uncivilized" countries wil face the burden of it all because they can be bullied around easier. Sorry guys, here it comes again.
I understand that you are trying to say that privitazation has its purposes, but obviously you are forgetting one little fact about human nature. Those in power will do anything (and I mean anything, like build doomsday devices like the Soviet Union did) to keep a powerful position. And for abusing others? I will not get angry about it and flame, but it is a disturbing truth of life. You simply cannot trust a corporation, and by that I mean almost every single one. They will work you to death, give you black lung, declare bankruptcy to deny you your benefits... all the while playing golf on the profits. I know because it happened to my mother's little coal town. Everyone was dying and they took all the benefits away from dying people "legally." I also have friends in a county in Indiana that hve the second highest rate of lung cancer in the country. There is one plant in the whole place. It makes GE plastics. Trust me... if they get their hands on the genome, it will be no different, and they should be watched INTIMATELY.. because they will definitely try to lord us with it. We all know this, whether we like to admit it or not.
I've got one. Why don't we genetically engineer human beings with a conscience? Here's another good one. Why don't we engineer empathy towards the creatures who will eventually be in constant pain from us placing strain on their bodies? Or better yet, why don't we alter the idea that we don't really need to be making goats that make us superstrong climbing lines?