Oh absolutely true. Scientifically designed societies like the old Soviet Union were horrible places to live for many people, so Theocracies have no monopoly on failed societies. But it was the hard cold logic of that society that they had spent themselves into backruptcy on the arms race and were blatantly failing to improve the lot of the people. So their leaders took a logical decision to change what they were doing and the people went along with it.
It never occurs to a Theocracy based on thousand year old interpretations of systems of living to change anything. No Theocracy in the world can offer as good a life for the people in general as the messy West with its Sociologists, Psychologists, Businessmen, Church leaders, Politicians and the Media squabbling over how to run things. Adaptability and the will to change are probably the main reason for the success of the West - hardly surprising if you understand how Darwinian selection has driven Evolution in the natural world. The messy West isn't perfect but the willingness to change and strive to improve goes a long way to explain why it is so much more successful than the Theocracies in providing a decent standard of living for its people.
The defense of the Theocracy of course is that we are mindless consumers with poor human values. I don't know about you but I've tried being poor and there is nothing noble about it at all. Life is brutish and unpleasant, your aspirations to improve the lot of your fellow man disappear and you probably need the threat of eternal damnation to prevent you disobeying the law. No, Noble poverty is just another part of the evil meme of fundamentalist religion.
I would rather have flush toilets, enough food to eat and some semblance of eqality before the law. A world run by religious dictat rather than scientific method would mean disease starvation poverty and arbitary justice. The dark ages were dark because nothing was written down, theres plenty of fancy churches to record their passing, though precious few peasant hovels survived for some reason.
No, I'm not going back to that dead end, I'll go to war with the fundamentalists to resist it first.
Though I'm more concerned that I'm going to end up as collateral damage in the war that the fundamentalists are cooking up between each other at the momment.
I have said it before and I will say it again - the ribbon is a pile of crap
I want hierarchical menus and will not use some dumb ass icon based system.
And if you think I'm just a Luddite - could someone tell me what I am going to have to pay for the next version of office that brings back menus with words in them so that I can use the voice driven interface?
They are going to have to wait for the system to be capable of using more characters.
Its just a fact of life that the encoding scheme implemented has a limited set of characters that is readable by the technically adept people who built the thing.
Its a great idea to enable lookup by character strings using alphabets from other languages but if it takes time to implement a global standard thats just too bad.
If they are desperate to implement lookup in their own character sets then let them get on with it - but don't expect the lookup to work outside their own countries if it causes problems.
Hmm, don't watch much television, but I don't think this one is airing in the UK so I couldn't say.
Blade Runner hits the spot, but it was a long time ago. Solaris gets a vote for the philosophical side of things but is a pretty indigestible experience and it is a re-issue in any case.
No I think we have turned back in on ourselves and no longer believe that we (thats you and me) are ever going to get out there - so the future has become populated with childrens fairy tales (Star Wars) and sit-coms (Babylon5).
Minority report is probably real SF from what I hear but I haven't seen it yet.
One of the last to survive in our celebrity driven society. Well worth a look by any entreprenur with a love of physics from the sound of it. Good luck to the man I say & I look forward to free power for all and an end to global warming. We need more people like him in todays corporate and beurocratic society.
I want one too, can take it on holiday without worrying too much about loosing it. Light weight as well so its good for backpacking expeditions. A longer standby life would be even better but for all the compromises its a brilliant second phone.
It would suit my parents too if the interface is simple. They dont want any more deeply nested menues full of crap they never use, they just want a phone. Its brilliant and the next design will be even better if this one sells the way I think it will. Pushed a little further and you could even market it as an Eco phone because of its low power consumption and capability of working with renewable energy sources. Even if global warming is naff all to do with carbon emissions I'm sick of carrying half a dozen wall warts and pounds of overpriced batteries to run my mobile technology. Bring on the era of low power devices.
I spent a few years working in Sweden recently and enjoyed every minute of it.
However the future is grim I can tell you, I used to look forward to it but bitter experience has taught me that its rubbish.
Here in the UK every year the state demands more of you, especially money. Its not just money they want, they want you to fill in a form for everything you used to be able to do without interference. They want you to eat particular things, they want you to give up your sports, they stop you from smoking, they want you to carry an id card, they charge you for parking outside your house, they give you a criminal record if you put the wrong thing in a recycling bin, They use speed cameras as a source of revenue and don't spend any money on making the roads safer. they have building planning committees that tell you what is tasteful and make you pay for it. All the roads have lower speed limits to reduce the death statistics, none of the hazards that cause the crashes have been fixed. Every road has roundabouts on it, all the roundabouts now have traffic lights. Gasoline taxation is the highest in Europe but theres no tax break for fuel efficient diesel engines. I didn't mind being afraid of my teachers either, at least stealing sweets was the worst thing that the yobs in my school would do, rather than todays arson, gun crime, knifing and happy slapping. The lodger I took on so I could buy food when I was unemployed (and you don't get any state benefits until you have sold all your assets) quit his teaching job because it was too stressful and now lives comfortably on state benefits with apparently no interest in working ever again.
Sweden wasn't much better mind you, I realized that it wasn't for me when my girlfriend explained that you had to get permission from the state for the names you wanted to use if you had children.
I prefer the past myself when I was free to live my own life free of busybodies and people wasting my money - I could have spent the money on something useful like a decent pension for example.
I like a decent society with libraries sports halls etc, but the slobs in power today want to charge extra to collect the rubbish - which I had always thought was the primary reason for their existence. I do hope that the soul sucking irritation and misery they have dealt other people will be their fate to endure in hell.
Theres enough people walking about the place already - crank the power up and fry a few adults, never mind their sperm I say! Why is it that the human race is intent on messing the place up by over breeding and screwing up the planet with waste. Six billion ought to be enough of anything, even Natalie Portmans with hot grits, well maybe six billion of those would be ok. Its just not good enough blaming it on someone else, "God made me do it" is not an excuse and "I did it to get housing benefit" is just insane. And whats with the Eco freaks - their more likely than anybody to be chilling out with a large brood of bearded be-sandled offspring.
Mobil phones use verses sperm count is just so hugely ridiculously unbelievably trivial that I cant believe you haven't all gone and died of diminished brain function in the middle of last night. What is spectacularly obvious is that the odds of being killed in an automobile accident before you can fire off those sperm and add to the mountains of flesh tramping over the planet are magnitudes higher.
And whilst your at it take up smoking and help clear a bit more space for the coming generations.
Agreed, the issue in the UK at the moment is the sudden realization that we are being taxed to death by stealth taxes.
37% of our income is taken in taxes on average, which may be acceptable to pay for free health care and a decent society. What is not acceptable is that new ways of collecting revenue are being dreamed up every day. If you want to regulate hate speech then put the perpetrators in jail, don't impose yet another tax collection scheme and jail those who don't get the paperwork right.
I'm heartily sick of state sponsored scrounging that this represents which is entirely different to tax breaks for families on minimum wage with children to bring up. The state is growing fat and lazy.
Well considered post that would get my mod points.
I agree, despite the seeming undesirability of censorship in a free society we are letting children down by treating them as adults. It is time that society recognized that children have a right not to be mentally screwed up by our carelessness. Where you draw the line is a great debating topic but a line ought to be drawn.
Talking of yellow submarines I'm 50 pages into 'Sewer gas and electric' by Matt Ruff which has an implausably cute submarine. Would probably amuse RAW who is in recipt of a random paypal email from me. You seem to have kicked off the usual furious debates here, discussion is live and well for sure and has spiraled off in the usual random directions:-) Though even the KLF turn up at some point.
By the way did you know that the planet Eris is named after the discordian Eris and not the Greek one. Strongly influenced by bobs efforts I've no doubt. (actualy I just made that up, but I belive its true... who knows).
I suspect the money only comes from people who value the creativity and ideas that RAW has brought to our times. By definition that probably wouldnt include many dogmatic christians who wouldnt 'get' his ideas. For example its perfectly ok to be mean and self centered about giving because it makes you feel good. After all the recipient doesnt mind that you felt good about giving, they are just happy that they have been helped. Its ok for some Christians to only give to those people that someone has told them are deserving. Its also very fine for other people to give aid to people based on different criteria as in this case. He may well have been naughty and blown his cash on parties and an extravagant lifestyle. Who cares, this is the guy who probably has a planet named in honour of the mindset his works talk to - 'Eris'. Not a bad lifetime achievement award I would say. It would also speak volumes about that mindset if this request for help was ludicrously, unfairly, pointlessly, oversubscribed. Which probably wont happen but would certainly brighten up peoples lives with bit of laughter. Hail Eris:-)
Charity doesn't need to 'count' other than contributing to the overall sum of human happyness - which it invariably does even if it only makes the giver feel good for example. Put the hair shirt in the trash and lighten up, kindness is good for humanity no matter how irrational. In fact the more irrational the better I think. Hail Eris:-)
I bought the Illuminatus trilogy in the UK a couple of weeks ago - I already own the originals but figured that the package would make a good book to re-read on my next holiday. I enjoyed reading the series so much the first time around that I figured that buying it again would put some cash in his account right now as thanks for the pleasure I had from the originals. I get the impression from various posts that this minor effort may not be enough. I will put some dosh directly his way if I can figure out paypal - dont use it much. Hail Eris:-)
We will all be trying it, there is no choice. The automobile market used to be full of cars that rusted out inside ten years. These days the software market is the same, planned obsolescence with incompatible file formats and time limited support.
Actualy I'm looking forward to voice driven interfaces - you know the ones where you memorise the names of thousands of tiny little 'twisty little icons all alike' as they float past on rotating tear off zooming icon bars. Then we can all upgrade to version 98.4 with amazing exploding treeviews full of the brand new unbelievably friendly and useful words that you just... you know !! .
No, I think icon driven interfaces are a trendy dead end.
lab research or not, I do not like using icons and prefer to use treeviews of text to access functions. I also wish I could get rid of all the wasted real estate that clutters up the top and bottom of application windows.
You also mention 'Typical users' as the arbitors of GUI design. That means people who do not use many functions by definition - this being the case why is Microsoft dropping the power users menues? The only reason I can think of is that 'diffferent' is good for marketing. So you can take your typical moron user and sell him the bright sexy icon driven interface. You wont be selling it to me if I can find an alternative.
This is another thing about "learning to use things" that I dont like about the new microsoft icon ribbons - I like menue toolbars because I can memorise the pathway down a tree view to a command - and I can do this because I can read the text in the list at each level. If I am navigating through a treeview of icons then there is no fricking clue as to what the icons do - so I will get lost.
Changing the menue navigation system to ribbons of icons is about as trendy as you can get - but it is a totaly crap way to introduce programs to people. The annoying thing is that it doesnt matter, people use so few options in todays bloatware that it doesnt matter if microsoft annoys its power users who would like to use obscure functionality.
I just asked on her blog site if she can figure out how to dance in zero g - shes got the tunes with the ipod but can you groove in space? This is of exceptional research importance, because no one is going to want to go into space if you cant party - and to me it seems that dancing is an essential party of partying.
What else should a tourist be doing in space to check it out for the rest of us earthbound folks? (And before all you hormone laden slashdotters ask the obvious - remember Anousheh is married and her man isnt with her.)
Let me be the first Discordo-Fascist to declare neverending war on the IAU for downgrading our Godesses Planet to a mere Dwarf Planet - though I might relent if they arrange to have it painted gold.
Though I do give them credit for issuing this on 14 Sept as they no doubt know that Sept 13 does not exist.
Boomtime, Bureaucracy 38, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3172
Just to put the record straight I actually attended Maker Faire (or sunshine festival) two weekends ago here in Plymouth UK. It was an excellent music event with many fine rock bands attended to by three thousand occasionaly sober campers.
I am applying for trademarks for the words "the" "a" and "and" as I am marketing a range of stylish suicide bombs under these tags.
I understand that we live by our laws and that they are important to maintaining societies wellbeing.
However in the case of this particular dispute I would strongly advocate that these game playing lawyers are wasting the planets food resources and would fit more appropriately into the grand scheme of things, if there was some way that their physical beings could be incorporated into the land. In fact I would go so far as to suggest that they would make admirable fertilizer if ground up into very small pieces and diluted with plenty of water. And that this procedure is long overdue.
Even better than freeing up some food, they would contribute no further carbon dioxide burden to our apparantly overloaded biosphere, therebye constituting a positive force for good some would say, rather than being overtly evil and soul suckingly depressing in their influence.
Maybe I'm a little short of sleep at the momment and I'm overeacting a bit, but this dispute does seem to illustrate - just where an arbitary dictator with common sense or a propensity for being bribed would make the world positively shine with joy in comparison to the farce that we suffer as compensation culture; steadily proves that up is down and that if there ever was an omnipitent God it were high time that they were executed for allowing people to exceed the automobile speed limit or allowing them to become obese and thereby burden the hospitals.
Doesnt seem to be too dificult to grow pot in the Uk, I used to detect plenty of resin smoke in the air at various cultural events. But these days the air seems to have gone home grown so it looks like our new overlords will be the tomatoe fertilizer companies.....
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Oh absolutely true. Scientifically designed societies like the old Soviet Union were horrible places to live for many people, so Theocracies have no monopoly on failed societies. But it was the hard cold logic of that society that they had spent themselves into backruptcy on the arms race and were blatantly failing to improve the lot of the people. So their leaders took a logical decision to change what they were doing and the people went along with it.
It never occurs to a Theocracy based on thousand year old interpretations of systems of living to change anything. No Theocracy in the world can offer as good a life for the people in general as the messy West with its Sociologists, Psychologists, Businessmen, Church leaders, Politicians and the Media squabbling over how to run things. Adaptability and the will to change are probably the main reason for the success of the West - hardly surprising if you understand how Darwinian selection has driven Evolution in the natural world. The messy West isn't perfect but the willingness to change and strive to improve goes a long way to explain why it is so much more successful than the Theocracies in providing a decent standard of living for its people.
The defense of the Theocracy of course is that we are mindless consumers with poor human values. I don't know about you but I've tried being poor and there is nothing noble about it at all. Life is brutish and unpleasant, your aspirations to improve the lot of your fellow man disappear and you probably need the threat of eternal damnation to prevent you disobeying the law. No, Noble poverty is just another part of the evil meme of fundamentalist religion.
I would rather have flush toilets, enough food to eat and some semblance of eqality before the law. A world run by religious dictat rather than scientific method would mean disease starvation poverty and arbitary justice. The dark ages were dark because nothing was written down, theres plenty of fancy churches to record their passing, though precious few peasant hovels survived for some reason.
No, I'm not going back to that dead end, I'll go to war with the fundamentalists to resist it first.
Though I'm more concerned that I'm going to end up as collateral damage in the war that the fundamentalists are cooking up between each other at the momment.
I have said it before and I will say it again - the ribbon is a pile of crap
I want hierarchical menus and will not use some dumb ass icon based system.
And if you think I'm just a Luddite - could someone tell me what I am going to have to pay for the next version of office that brings back menus with words in them so that I can use the voice driven interface?
Pah.
They are going to have to wait for the system to be capable of using more characters.
Its just a fact of life that the encoding scheme implemented has a limited set of characters that is readable by the technically adept people who built the thing.
Its a great idea to enable lookup by character strings using alphabets from other languages but if it takes time to implement a global standard thats just too bad.
If they are desperate to implement lookup in their own character sets then let them get on with it - but don't expect the lookup to work outside their own countries if it causes problems.
Hmm, don't watch much television, but I don't think this one is airing in the UK so I couldn't say.
Blade Runner hits the spot, but it was a long time ago. Solaris gets a vote for the philosophical side of things but is a pretty indigestible experience and it is a re-issue in any case.
No I think we have turned back in on ourselves and no longer believe that we (thats you and me) are ever going to get out there - so the future has become populated with childrens fairy tales (Star Wars) and sit-coms (Babylon5).
Minority report is probably real SF from what I hear but I haven't seen it yet.
One of the last to survive in our celebrity driven society. Well worth a look by any entreprenur with a love of physics from the sound of it. Good luck to the man I say & I look forward to free power for all and an end to global warming. We need more people like him in todays corporate and beurocratic society.
Wonderful films for their intended audience - ten year old boys.
Its a shame that something a bit more grown up hasn't been made in the last twenty years
Firefly was pretty good but it didn't last long...
I want one too, can take it on holiday without worrying too much about loosing it. Light weight as well so its good for backpacking expeditions. A longer standby life would be even better but for all the compromises its a brilliant second phone.
It would suit my parents too if the interface is simple. They dont want any more deeply nested menues full of crap they never use, they just want a phone. Its brilliant and the next design will be even better if this one sells the way I think it will. Pushed a little further and you could even market it as an Eco phone because of its low power consumption and capability of working with renewable energy sources. Even if global warming is naff all to do with carbon emissions I'm sick of carrying half a dozen wall warts and pounds of overpriced batteries to run my mobile technology. Bring on the era of low power devices.
I spent a few years working in Sweden recently and enjoyed every minute of it.
However the future is grim I can tell you, I used to look forward to it but bitter experience has taught me that its rubbish.
Here in the UK every year the state demands more of you, especially money. Its not just money they want, they want you to fill in a form for everything you used to be able to do without interference. They want you to eat particular things, they want you to give up your sports, they stop you from smoking, they want you to carry an id card, they charge you for parking outside your house, they give you a criminal record if you put the wrong thing in a recycling bin, They use speed cameras as a source of revenue and don't spend any money on making the roads safer. they have building planning committees that tell you what is tasteful and make you pay for it. All the roads have lower speed limits to reduce the death statistics, none of the hazards that cause the crashes have been fixed. Every road has roundabouts on it, all the roundabouts now have traffic lights. Gasoline taxation is the highest in Europe but theres no tax break for fuel efficient diesel engines. I didn't mind being afraid of my teachers either, at least stealing sweets was the worst thing that the yobs in my school would do, rather than todays arson, gun crime, knifing and happy slapping. The lodger I took on so I could buy food when I was unemployed (and you don't get any state benefits until you have sold all your assets) quit his teaching job because it was too stressful and now lives comfortably on state benefits with apparently no interest in working ever again.
Sweden wasn't much better mind you, I realized that it wasn't for me when my girlfriend explained that you had to get permission from the state for the names you wanted to use if you had children.
I prefer the past myself when I was free to live my own life free of busybodies and people wasting my money - I could have spent the money on something useful like a decent pension for example.
I like a decent society with libraries sports halls etc, but the slobs in power today want to charge extra to collect the rubbish - which I had always thought was the primary reason for their existence. I do hope that the soul sucking irritation and misery they have dealt other people will be their fate to endure in hell.
Theres enough people walking about the place already - crank the power up and fry a few adults, never mind their sperm I say! Why is it that the human race is intent on messing the place up by over breeding and screwing up the planet with waste. Six billion ought to be enough of anything, even Natalie Portmans with hot grits, well maybe six billion of those would be ok. Its just not good enough blaming it on someone else, "God made me do it" is not an excuse and "I did it to get housing benefit" is just insane. And whats with the Eco freaks - their more likely than anybody to be chilling out with a large brood of bearded be-sandled offspring.
Mobil phones use verses sperm count is just so hugely ridiculously unbelievably trivial that I cant believe you haven't all gone and died of diminished brain function in the middle of last night. What is spectacularly obvious is that the odds of being killed in an automobile accident before you can fire off those sperm and add to the mountains of flesh tramping over the planet are magnitudes higher.
And whilst your at it take up smoking and help clear a bit more space for the coming generations.
Agreed, the issue in the UK at the moment is the sudden realization that we are being taxed to death by stealth taxes.
37% of our income is taken in taxes on average, which may be acceptable to pay for free health care and a decent society. What is not acceptable is that new ways of collecting revenue are being dreamed up every day. If you want to regulate hate speech then put the perpetrators in jail, don't impose yet another tax collection scheme and jail those who don't get the paperwork right.
I'm heartily sick of state sponsored scrounging that this represents which is entirely different to tax breaks for families on minimum wage with children to bring up. The state is growing fat and lazy.
Well considered post that would get my mod points.
I agree, despite the seeming undesirability of censorship in a free society we are letting children down by treating them as adults. It is time that society recognized that children have a right not to be mentally screwed up by our carelessness. Where you draw the line is a great debating topic but a line ought to be drawn.
Talking of yellow submarines I'm 50 pages into 'Sewer gas and electric' by Matt Ruff which has an implausably cute submarine. Would probably amuse RAW who is in recipt of a random paypal email from me. You seem to have kicked off the usual furious debates here, discussion is live and well for sure and has spiraled off in the usual random directions :-) Though even the KLF turn up at some point.
By the way did you know that the planet Eris is named after the discordian Eris and not the Greek one. Strongly influenced by bobs efforts I've no doubt. (actualy I just made that up, but I belive its true... who knows).
Hail Eris.
I suspect the money only comes from people who value the creativity and ideas that RAW has brought to our times. By definition that probably wouldnt include many dogmatic christians who wouldnt 'get' his ideas. For example its perfectly ok to be mean and self centered about giving because it makes you feel good. After all the recipient doesnt mind that you felt good about giving, they are just happy that they have been helped. Its ok for some Christians to only give to those people that someone has told them are deserving. Its also very fine for other people to give aid to people based on different criteria as in this case. He may well have been naughty and blown his cash on parties and an extravagant lifestyle. Who cares, this is the guy who probably has a planet named in honour of the mindset his works talk to - 'Eris'. Not a bad lifetime achievement award I would say. It would also speak volumes about that mindset if this request for help was ludicrously, unfairly, pointlessly, oversubscribed. Which probably wont happen but would certainly brighten up peoples lives with bit of laughter. Hail Eris :-)
Charity doesn't need to 'count' other than contributing to the overall sum of human happyness - which it invariably does even if it only makes the giver feel good for example. Put the hair shirt in the trash and lighten up, kindness is good for humanity no matter how irrational. In fact the more irrational the better I think. Hail Eris :-)
I bought the Illuminatus trilogy in the UK a couple of weeks ago - I already own the originals but figured that the package would make a good book to re-read on my next holiday. I enjoyed reading the series so much the first time around that I figured that buying it again would put some cash in his account right now as thanks for the pleasure I had from the originals. I get the impression from various posts that this minor effort may not be enough. I will put some dosh directly his way if I can figure out paypal - dont use it much. Hail Eris :-)
We will all be trying it, there is no choice. The automobile market used to be full of cars that rusted out inside ten years. These days the software market is the same, planned obsolescence with incompatible file formats and time limited support.
Actualy I'm looking forward to voice driven interfaces - you know the ones where you memorise the names of thousands of tiny little 'twisty little icons all alike' as they float past on rotating tear off zooming icon bars. Then we can all upgrade to version 98.4 with amazing exploding treeviews full of the brand new unbelievably friendly and useful words that you just... you know !! .
No, I think icon driven interfaces are a trendy dead end.
lab research or not, I do not like using icons and prefer to use treeviews of text to access functions. I also wish I could get rid of all the wasted real estate that clutters up the top and bottom of application windows.
You also mention 'Typical users' as the arbitors of GUI design. That means people who do not use many functions by definition - this being the case why is Microsoft dropping the power users menues? The only reason I can think of is that 'diffferent' is good for marketing. So you can take your typical moron user and sell him the bright sexy icon driven interface. You wont be selling it to me if I can find an alternative.
This is another thing about "learning to use things" that I dont like about the new microsoft icon ribbons - I like menue toolbars because I can memorise the pathway down a tree view to a command - and I can do this because I can read the text in the list at each level. If I am navigating through a treeview of icons then there is no fricking clue as to what the icons do - so I will get lost.
Changing the menue navigation system to ribbons of icons is about as trendy as you can get - but it is a totaly crap way to introduce programs to people. The annoying thing is that it doesnt matter, people use so few options in todays bloatware that it doesnt matter if microsoft annoys its power users who would like to use obscure functionality.
I just asked on her blog site if she can figure out how to dance in zero g - shes got the tunes with the ipod but can you groove in space? This is of exceptional research importance, because no one is going to want to go into space if you cant party - and to me it seems that dancing is an essential party of partying.
What else should a tourist be doing in space to check it out for the rest of us earthbound folks?
(And before all you hormone laden slashdotters ask the obvious - remember Anousheh is married and her man isnt with her.)
curiously this is exactly what the Catholic pope has to say on the subject.
"Nobody the Spanish Inquisition!"
Let me be the first Discordo-Fascist to declare neverending war on the IAU for downgrading our Godesses Planet to a mere Dwarf Planet - though I might relent if they arrange to have it painted gold.
Though I do give them credit for issuing this on 14 Sept as they no doubt know that Sept 13 does not exist.
Boomtime, Bureaucracy 38, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3172
Just to put the record straight I actually attended Maker Faire (or sunshine festival) two weekends ago here in Plymouth UK. It was an excellent music event with many fine rock bands attended to by three thousand occasionaly sober campers.
I am applying for trademarks for the words "the" "a" and "and" as I am marketing a range of stylish suicide bombs under these tags.
Grrrrrr.
I understand that we live by our laws and that they are important to maintaining societies wellbeing.
However in the case of this particular dispute I would strongly advocate that these game playing lawyers are wasting the planets food resources and would fit more appropriately into the grand scheme of things, if there was some way that their physical beings could be incorporated into the land. In fact I would go so far as to suggest that they would make admirable fertilizer if ground up into very small pieces and diluted with plenty of water. And that this procedure is long overdue.
Even better than freeing up some food, they would contribute no further carbon dioxide burden to our apparantly overloaded biosphere, therebye constituting a positive force for good some would say, rather than being overtly evil and soul suckingly depressing in their influence.
Maybe I'm a little short of sleep at the momment and I'm overeacting a bit, but this dispute does seem to illustrate - just where an arbitary dictator with common sense or a propensity for being bribed would make the world positively shine with joy in comparison to the farce that we suffer as compensation culture; steadily proves that up is down and that if there ever was an omnipitent God it were high time that they were executed for allowing people to exceed the automobile speed limit or allowing them to become obese and thereby burden the hospitals.
bah humbug.
Doesnt seem to be too dificult to grow pot in the Uk, I used to detect plenty of resin smoke in the air at various cultural events. But these days the air seems to have gone home grown so it looks like our new overlords will be the tomatoe fertilizer companies.....