> Under a hardcore libertarian system, these
> contract-free teachers would be perfectly free to
> agree with each other not to work. They could
> continue not working until any conditions they
> chose were met.
In that system, the school board could hire permanent replacement workers since it's all supply and demand. The workers would stand outside the gates and scream "scab!" and we would all watch it on TV.
That is, assuming the schools were public and not private, another probability under "hardcore" libertarian systems.
> And anyway larceny is the natural consequence of private ownership
Larceny happens under any "system". Playing semantic games to undefine private property doesn't affect the reality: there exist only people and things, and when a person uses something, they are exercising property rights over it.
Calling it "using it with the permission of the collective" is the height of folly and human arrogance.
That's the real reason warriors can't solo squat at higher levels. A warrior-vs-npc battle is a war of attrition of hit points. If a warrior found something they could beat with 1 bub of health left, they could be fairly certain of always winning, and that would promote bot construction.
The assumption is that anything more complicated than a simple fighter could not be easily played by a bot, so the game was, and is, fairly safe from bot action.
Sadly, NASA and the military abandoned the Entomopter because there was no way something with a 15 centimeter wingspan could lift all 20,000 vacuum tubes and 30 tons of support equipment that made up its control "brain".
>> it just means now the universe will be filled with
>> billions of rouge borg.
>
> Omigod, you mean the Borg assimilated the French ?
> Someone alert Paris!
For recreational or nostalgic trips to the past, future computer-based humans might take a vacation in a real body. Why have a "real" orgasm during "real" sex when you can have a simulated one that is one hundred and ten billion times more powerful, stinky, and dirty, and long, experienced as a mind in a machine?
Of course, we'll probably have the first AI's build the first human-capable brain hardware for brain transfers. Then human and AI will merge.
Of course it's not off topic. It may be flamish, but it certainly is appropriate.
I say, thank God there is a country not ruled by foolish religious notions, fantasies about the sanctity of a human embryo or even of a human. How dare such idiocy make national policy in this country? Not do something because a sizeable portion of the population believes in religious fantasies? That "God" will get mad at you? (If you still insist on believing that, then God made the world this way and knew such a thing would come up eventually.)
Looks like the world-leading advanced bio team just left this country for the first time in fifty years.
I mean, it's not like buying high-end hardware to put a second rate interface with second rate applications on it.
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I had my bike seat stolen while in Europe at the beach. Standing up for the whole ride home was not too cool.
The thing needs a seat, sorry.
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All you need for an internal diabetic pump system is a bladder under the ass skin so that when the person feels weak and sits down, it squirts some glucose into their blood.
> the Daily Show, once again coming forward with
> more insight thatn any of them, said it would be a
> scooter.
Everyone thought it would be a scooter after the first day's hype died down. That it isn't that multi-wheeled stairclimbing scooter from that patent application is rather sad.
Of course, climbing a stairs under ideal conditions if fine. Waiting for the lawsuits as 1/1000 bozos try it at high speed up a slanted, worn, ancient stone stairway right after a rainstorm is something no company wants or can afford.
"Well, it went UP the stairs just fine. I don't see why I couldn't shoot off the edge and down the stairs at high speed, too. It was supposed to stop on a dime, not make me plow though those school kids and nuns."
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> The earth is capable of sustaining only so much
> pollution. What that level is is debatable... lets
> just assume, on a long term, we are
> at/near/close/exceeding that limit. We cannot
> pollute at this level indefinitely.
There are three flaws in the Green Manifesto.
1. That we are anywhere near the limit is laughable. There have been local problems in the past, but suitable regulation fixes those problems.
2. That nearing that limit would cause some sort of catastrophic collapse of the environment.
3. That said collapse would even be a problem. Massive wholescale destruction of local ecologies in favor of farmland or development has been an incalculable boon to humanity, not a hinderance.
> The "market" is a vehicle for death - plain and
> simple, citizens with conscience (greens like
> myself) can not be burdened to live in mud huts
What, pray tell, is it that allows you to not live in a mud hut?
The "market" has been, to overuse this term yet again, an incalculable boon to humanity. Its outrageous forward motion as people simply live and improve their lives is exactly the best thing to happen to humanity. It is nothing more than simple freedom. Freedom...from government.
I am reminded of an ancient MAD Magazine article where everyone in wealthy America buys a scooter. Children don't learn to walk, they learn to scoot.
The article ends generations later with a bunch of "weeble" type people who can't move and are literally pushed over by a very Ghengis looking thug from China.
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Exactly. The famous statement by a scientist was to point out the flaws in physics, not to make a psychotic statement about reality.
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> Under a hardcore libertarian system, these
> contract-free teachers would be perfectly free to
> agree with each other not to work. They could
> continue not working until any conditions they
> chose were met.
In that system, the school board could hire permanent replacement workers since it's all supply and demand. The workers would stand outside the gates and scream "scab!" and we would all watch it on TV.
That is, assuming the schools were public and not private, another probability under "hardcore" libertarian systems.
> experienced teachers
You mean the high seniority teachers. Experience and quality of work have nothing to do with union pay.
Imagine getting your blaster, shooting at a rat at level 1, and it hits but it doesn't die.
...making the famed war tool less powerful than a child's BB gun.
Having powerful unions for teachers in the US isn't some brilliant idea, either though.
Boosting salaries to attract more competent people is in direct competition with unions as protectors of the mediocre worker.
Boosting salaries would only work if school boards had the authority to fire bad workers.
> And anyway larceny is the natural consequence of private ownership
Larceny happens under any "system". Playing semantic games to undefine private property doesn't affect the reality: there exist only people and things, and when a person uses something, they are exercising property rights over it.
Calling it "using it with the permission of the collective" is the height of folly and human arrogance.
That was a ferocious fear when EQ first came out.
That's the real reason warriors can't solo squat at higher levels. A warrior-vs-npc battle is a war of attrition of hit points. If a warrior found something they could beat with 1 bub of health left, they could be fairly certain of always winning, and that would promote bot construction.
The assumption is that anything more complicated than a simple fighter could not be easily played by a bot, so the game was, and is, fairly safe from bot action.
So my PII 266 Win 95 machine with Voodoo 3 and 64MB is SOL on SOL?
> Star Wars Galaxies will be cool
Yeah, I can't wait until I'm a Jedi and get my light sabre, which can cut through steel and rock, and swing it at a "wamp rat" for 3 points of damage.
But you can just go around it and leave it there. That is the point.
Anyway, mortars can take care of it at that point.
Absolutely not.
It's like hitting a tub with a really long stick. That's much easier to do.
> You can walk in a 500kph martian storm, and have no problems except loss of visibility.
Followed quickly by the stripping of flesh from your newly sandblasted bones.
Sadly, NASA and the military abandoned the Entomopter because there was no way something with a 15 centimeter wingspan could lift all 20,000 vacuum tubes and 30 tons of support equipment that made up its control "brain".
Well, they can put 7 of 9 onto the crew of any movie. They brought Worf back abord without any problems, and just long enuf for the movie.
Of course the movies won't stop. It just remains to see if they'll continue the stories, or do some kind of "reboot".
Have any of the movies lost money at the box office? What about after VHS/DVD sales, and overseas?
>> it just means now the universe will be filled with
>> billions of rouge borg.
>
> Omigod, you mean the Borg assimilated the French ?
> Someone alert Paris!
Sure, silly!
< Fractured Fairy Tales ending approacing! Alert!>
Haven't you ever heard of the "Murders In the Rue Borg"?
For recreational or nostalgic trips to the past, future computer-based humans might take a vacation in a real body. Why have a "real" orgasm during "real" sex when you can have a simulated one that is one hundred and ten billion times more powerful, stinky, and dirty, and long, experienced as a mind in a machine?
Of course, we'll probably have the first AI's build the first human-capable brain hardware for brain transfers. Then human and AI will merge.
Of course it's not off topic. It may be flamish, but it certainly is appropriate.
I say, thank God there is a country not ruled by foolish religious notions, fantasies about the sanctity of a human embryo or even of a human. How dare such idiocy make national policy in this country? Not do something because a sizeable portion of the population believes in religious fantasies? That "God" will get mad at you? (If you still insist on believing that, then God made the world this way and knew such a thing would come up eventually.)
Looks like the world-leading advanced bio team just left this country for the first time in fifty years.
I mean, it's not like buying high-end hardware to put a second rate interface with second rate applications on it.
I had my bike seat stolen while in Europe at the beach. Standing up for the whole ride home was not too cool.
The thing needs a seat, sorry.
All you need for an internal diabetic pump system is a bladder under the ass skin so that when the person feels weak and sits down, it squirts some glucose into their blood.
Passes out...falls forward onto the handlebar...zooom!
How did I get into the Netherlands?
> it doesn't seem to have any significant advantages
> over a motorized wheelchair.
Except that you can't sit down while riding slowly which, umm, is an advantage, I guess, when paying $3,000.00 for a transportation device.
> the Daily Show, once again coming forward with
> more insight thatn any of them, said it would be a
> scooter.
Everyone thought it would be a scooter after the first day's hype died down. That it isn't that multi-wheeled stairclimbing scooter from that patent application is rather sad.
Of course, climbing a stairs under ideal conditions if fine. Waiting for the lawsuits as 1/1000 bozos try it at high speed up a slanted, worn, ancient stone stairway right after a rainstorm is something no company wants or can afford.
"Well, it went UP the stairs just fine. I don't see why I couldn't shoot off the edge and down the stairs at high speed, too. It was supposed to stop on a dime, not make me plow though those school kids and nuns."
> The earth is capable of sustaining only so much
> pollution. What that level is is debatable... lets
> just assume, on a long term, we are
> at/near/close/exceeding that limit. We cannot
> pollute at this level indefinitely.
There are three flaws in the Green Manifesto.
1. That we are anywhere near the limit is laughable. There have been local problems in the past, but suitable regulation fixes those problems.
2. That nearing that limit would cause some sort of catastrophic collapse of the environment.
3. That said collapse would even be a problem. Massive wholescale destruction of local ecologies in favor of farmland or development has been an incalculable boon to humanity, not a hinderance.
> The "market" is a vehicle for death - plain and
> simple, citizens with conscience (greens like
> myself) can not be burdened to live in mud huts
What, pray tell, is it that allows you to not live in a mud hut?
The "market" has been, to overuse this term yet again, an incalculable boon to humanity. Its outrageous forward motion as people simply live and improve their lives is exactly the best thing to happen to humanity. It is nothing more than simple freedom. Freedom...from government.
> [scooter that will] Make us fatter?
and
> Chinamen
I am reminded of an ancient MAD Magazine article where everyone in wealthy America buys a scooter. Children don't learn to walk, they learn to scoot.
The article ends generations later with a bunch of "weeble" type people who can't move and are literally pushed over by a very Ghengis looking thug from China.
Exactly. The famous statement by a scientist was to point out the flaws in physics, not to make a psychotic statement about reality.