I've been reading your book, "The Future of Ideas", with great interest. I was especially struck with your outline of how AT&T developed into a government protected monopoly, and found the early part of that history eerily parallel to our experience with Microsoft.
Do you see parallels between Ma Bell and Microsoft in this respect? Could it be possible that, perhaps with MPAA and RIAA support, Bill Gate's enterprise could become an officially protected monopoly, with federal proscriptions on how computers can develop?
There is the Royal DaVinci PDA (http://www.royal.com/content/pda/), a PDA based on the Motorola Dragonball CPU, has 4MB of memory, and costs about $99 retail.
The answer for clones is: if a clone is born, they're a human being with the same rights and potential as anyone else. He or she has the same claims to protection by the law as anyone else.
And you bring up a good point. While, like a twin, a clone would wear the body of another, and perhaps have similar personality quirks as that other person, they are a distinct person with a separate soul.
So, basicly, if we don't fear and discrimate against twins, why treat clones any differently?
Well, after reading this and reviewing the trials of my own scholastic career, I can only conclude that I'm glad I didn't grow up in the post-Columbine era.
I figure from the reports I've been reading that I'd have been expelled or suspended a couple of times for things I did back in the 80s that only got caused teachers to tell me to apologize or at the most got me detention (of the after school kind).
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I've been reading your book, "The Future of Ideas", with great interest. I was especially struck with your outline of how AT&T developed into a government protected monopoly, and found the early part of that history eerily parallel to our experience with Microsoft.
Do you see parallels between Ma Bell and Microsoft in this respect? Could it be possible that, perhaps with MPAA and RIAA support, Bill Gate's enterprise could become an officially protected monopoly, with federal proscriptions on how computers can develop?
There is the Royal DaVinci PDA (http://www.royal.com/content/pda/), a PDA based on the Motorola Dragonball CPU, has 4MB of memory, and costs about $99 retail.
The answer for clones is: if a clone is born, they're a human being with the same rights and potential as anyone else. He or she has the same claims to protection by the law as anyone else. And you bring up a good point. While, like a twin, a clone would wear the body of another, and perhaps have similar personality quirks as that other person, they are a distinct person with a separate soul. So, basicly, if we don't fear and discrimate against twins, why treat clones any differently?
Well, after reading this and reviewing the trials of my own scholastic career, I can only conclude that I'm glad I didn't grow up in the post-Columbine era. I figure from the reports I've been reading that I'd have been expelled or suspended a couple of times for things I did back in the 80s that only got caused teachers to tell me to apologize or at the most got me detention (of the after school kind).