It was decide in the House today by a close 53 to 47 vote that all identical children would be destroyed on the basis that they were indeed "Godless" clones. It was discussed and fnially decided that identical twins, triplets, and so on would be resolved as a single child by the luck of whichever infant was fortunate enough to be that first one to make it out, all subsequent siblings would be destroyed as a public service, in the fervent attempt to prevent the possible birth of the Antichrist inside a souless clone.
When asked about his feelings on this issue President Bush was quoted as saying "It's about time we had good solid Christian laws protecting us against the atrocities of a monstrous technology run amok! If that means we gotta toast an identical twin or two, well dang, constant vigilance is just the price we gotta pay for being a God fearing nation! Ya gotta break eggs to make an omelet! Cloning is a sin against the All Mighty, and I'll gladly smoke the first sucker who tries it on this soil!"
In a related story, 96% of all livestock and 99.9999999% of all vegetable and grain foodstock has been destroyed today, because they were produced from the ungodly technology of cloning. Widespread starvation and panic food buying is expected, however the nation's religious leaders are reported as pleased with the overall outcome. One was even quoted as suggesting this may be the start of the second coming... Halleluiah!!!
I don't know which is dumber, sawing off big pieces of your freedom in the mistaken belief that it will somehow protect you from people who would do you harm at the drop of a hat... or believing for even a moment that you can wish the great mouth-breathing public into acting with a collective IQ higher than say about 40. I mean we are the nation that just elected a Texan meat puppet for it's top political office... yes?
Don't get me wrong. I think there's a great deal of hope for this country. Just not this generation. Once the boob tube evolves into the something that is capable of stimulating brain cells instead anesthetizing them, that generation should be pretty damn interesting. As it is, most folks can't be bothered to rub two brain cells together and spark a thought. I fear the next decade or so is gonna chafe a whole lot of folks who cerebrate as either an occupation or preoccupation. Face it folks, we've raised being clue free to an artform...
So, do we let the government, people with a proven record of dishonesty, corruption, poor judgement, and all around the same mental skills as those who elected them... make critical plans for us, our freedom, and the posterity of the race??? I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to think of the Christian Coalition as a brain trust!
So, the first thing to do in making a difference, is to notice the environment in which you're trying to make a difference. Then speak appropriately to that environment. Looking around, I'm guessing our best shot is to make a strong case for why arabs, communists, satanists, and unfriendly extraterestrials, would want us to destroy our human rights, our need to educate our young, and profoundly limit our own freedom. If we can convince John Q. public, that the enemies of god and all that we hold dear, would have us give more power away to our government, we might have a small chance to stop this stupid trend of letting the government think for us, simply because most folks are convinced that thinking is too much work.
I'd suggest however that we get on the stick, because as we post, idiots are coming up with bigger and better ideas for stripping you of your freedom. If you don't want your hinny sold to the highest bidder, by the best government that money can buy, you might wanna put a rush on speaking from the high places so the masses can get the message. I mean all the people, even the slow witted. Not that it isn't good to start with the bright folk, you just have to make sure the message goes all the way to the grassroots.
Oh, it might just just be worth mentioning, that this whole conversation is just going to get a whole lot more interesting as we head pelmel towards the spike. As the your privacy disappears in a puff of digital optics, and the power to control and change grows, the temptation to do so will exponentially increase, by those witless baboons who think the world should be remade in their own image. The battle to keep the idiots in check will grow ever more fevered. It will be the job of those, who are informed, educated, (and subject to vision greater than the myopic sight of those who lives are dominated either by the next fiscal quarter or election), to choose the careful path that will determine the survivability of our species in the face of exponential change.
Freedom is a little like your soul... it's easy to sell, because you can't feel it, or taste it, or even notice it while you have one... only, it's reaking hell once you've sold it to some evil devil bitch.
Anne Marie Tobias
- In this message I've encrypted the ultimate plan to control our government, starting with the president! and yes it does involve cornering the market in beef jerky and nose hair trimmers! -- Me
The current state of xenobiology and proof of the existence of life in deep space is still "WAY THIN"!!! I won't argue that the possiblity is tantalizing, and that there is good science to point at a solid possibility, it just doesn't mean anything certain, and until you find yourself shaking ET's hand (or whatever psuedolimb it may have.) You've got to keep your head screwed on straight, your skepticisms on full bright, and keep asking the hard questions. That's the only way you keep yourself any kind of honest.
We've proof that heavy organic molecules form in cold molecular clouds in our part of this galaxy. Quinones and amino acids and even structures that
ressemble cellular membranes do in fact just form out of the building blocks of interstallar dust and gas. We have done some truly cool experiments in the lab, and demonstrated, with a level of confidence that the building blocks of life can and do form in the cold clouds found in this neighborhood of the Galaxy. This doesn't mean that life is in any way ubiquitous. Let's look at this by the numbers;
1. Our kind of life is very specific. Virtually all of our proteins have a right handed turn, and and our sugars a left. This is almost certainly do to the fact that the bright young stars we formed near, polarized the cold molecular clouds with their UV radiation. That doesn't happen everywhere, and that in turn, may be essential for the formation of DNA/RNA type life.
2. You need to have a good dust, chemical mix for the right things to happen. A cold molecular cloud without sufficient dust grains to seed gas condensing and forming ice, or the right chemistry to assemble the primitives of life from, preclude the beginning of life as we know it.
These two facts alone cut the odds of life being everywhere way down. In fact the conditions for life may uniquely exist just right here... but that's also a low probability.
3. You then have to gather a bunch of proto-life together... put it on a new forming planet without it ending up crushed and cooked inside the new planet, cooked on entry colliding with the planet, destroyed by hard UV from a young star, fried by hot solar wind, or blasted by young unstable neighbors going nova or supernova. Actually, that's a pretty tall order right there.
4. The proto-life has to hide far enough from the surface of a new planet with a cool crust, so that if/when atomosphere and oceans form, it can get to
the necessary water, but not be abused by the hostile environment at the surface of a world in a forming solar system.
5. You have to have a world that has few enough cataclyms that life isn't totally destroyed, but that the change for real evolution to occur, exists.
This doesn't sound like such a big deal, but think about it... if we didn't have Jupiter blocking for us, and the moon sweeping up the untiddy bits, we'd be a cold desolate rock with no trace of life. On the other hand, add another Jupiter, or a couple more moons, and we'd never have gotten past bacteria. I mean as it is we spent two thirds or the history of life as prokaryotes. We almost missed higher lifeforms altogether.
6. So that's the next part... evolution... sex... eukaryotic cells, multi-cellular organisms... and finally the evolution of a sentient being. None of
these are givens, all of them a rarity (looking at lengthy stretches of our own biotic history suggesting the machinery of life did just fine without the existence of any or all of these things.) The chance of another intelligent
species is astronomical (pun intended). If it wasn't for the shear number of possible places for life to happen it would almost be a dead certainty that we are all there is.
So life is probably a spotty affair happening in little clumps in around third or forth generation star forming regions. It requires pretty exotic conditions to occur, but those conditions exist here and from what we can see elsewhere as well. We only know about life like our own (RNA/DNA organic life). There may well be other forms that we have no idea about, and won't until we see it for ourselves. I would hesitate to call it ubiquitous, but it very well could be in many more places that just here. I'm guessing thinkers are rare, and if they exist, are so far ahead of us that we don't show up in their scale of consciousness... we're just too primative. That's what happens when you have countless tracks of stars and galaxies, and billions of years to fiddle around with. It's a cool conversation though!
Genda Bendte
- In magnificent fit of idiocy, this nation has made the choice of going from
a President who can't tell the truth to one who can't pronounce it.
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It was decide in the House today by a close 53 to 47 vote that all identical children would be destroyed on the basis that they were indeed "Godless" clones. It was discussed and fnially decided that identical twins, triplets, and so on would be resolved as a single child by the luck of whichever infant was fortunate enough to be that first one to make it out, all subsequent siblings would be destroyed as a public service, in the fervent attempt to prevent the possible birth of the Antichrist inside a souless clone.
When asked about his feelings on this issue President Bush was quoted as saying "It's about time we had good solid Christian laws protecting us against the atrocities of a monstrous technology run amok! If that means we gotta toast an identical twin or two, well dang, constant vigilance is just the price we gotta pay for being a God fearing nation! Ya gotta break eggs to make an omelet! Cloning is a sin against the All Mighty, and I'll gladly smoke the first sucker who tries it on this soil!"
In a related story, 96% of all livestock and 99.9999999% of all vegetable and grain foodstock has been destroyed today, because they were produced from the ungodly technology of cloning. Widespread starvation and panic food buying is expected, however the nation's religious leaders are reported as pleased with the overall outcome. One was even quoted as suggesting this may be the start of the second coming... Halleluiah!!!
I don't know which is dumber, sawing off big pieces of your freedom in the mistaken belief that it will somehow protect you from people who would do you harm at the drop of a hat... or believing for even a moment that you can wish the great mouth-breathing public into acting with a collective IQ higher than say about 40. I mean we are the nation that just elected a Texan meat puppet for it's top political office... yes?
Don't get me wrong. I think there's a great deal of hope for this country. Just not this generation. Once the boob tube evolves into the something that is capable of stimulating brain cells instead anesthetizing them, that generation should be pretty damn interesting. As it is, most folks can't be bothered to rub two brain cells together and spark a thought. I fear the next decade or so is gonna chafe a whole lot of folks who cerebrate as either an occupation or preoccupation. Face it folks, we've raised being clue free to an artform...
So, do we let the government, people with a proven record of dishonesty, corruption, poor judgement, and all around the same mental skills as those who elected them... make critical plans for us, our freedom, and the posterity of the race??? I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to think of the Christian Coalition as a brain trust!
So, the first thing to do in making a difference, is to notice the environment in which you're trying to make a difference. Then speak appropriately to that environment. Looking around, I'm guessing our best shot is to make a strong case for why arabs, communists, satanists, and unfriendly extraterestrials, would want us to destroy our human rights, our need to educate our young, and profoundly limit our own freedom. If we can convince John Q. public, that the enemies of god and all that we hold dear, would have us give more power away to our government, we might have a small chance to stop this stupid trend of letting the government think for us, simply because most folks are convinced that thinking is too much work.
I'd suggest however that we get on the stick, because as we post, idiots are coming up with bigger and better ideas for stripping you of your freedom. If you don't want your hinny sold to the highest bidder, by the best government that money can buy, you might wanna put a rush on speaking from the high places so the masses can get the message. I mean all the people, even the slow witted. Not that it isn't good to start with the bright folk, you just have to make sure the message goes all the way to the grassroots.
Oh, it might just just be worth mentioning, that this whole conversation is just going to get a whole lot more interesting as we head pelmel towards the spike. As the your privacy disappears in a puff of digital optics, and the power to control and change grows, the temptation to do so will exponentially increase, by those witless baboons who think the world should be remade in their own image. The battle to keep the idiots in check will grow ever more fevered. It will be the job of those, who are informed, educated, (and subject to vision greater than the myopic sight of those who lives are dominated either by the next fiscal quarter or election), to choose the careful path that will determine the survivability of our species in the face of exponential change.
Freedom is a little like your soul... it's easy to sell, because you can't feel it, or taste it, or even notice it while you have one... only, it's reaking hell once you've sold it to some evil devil bitch.
Anne Marie Tobias
- In this message I've encrypted the ultimate plan to control our government, starting with the president! and yes it does involve cornering the market in beef jerky and nose hair trimmers! -- Me
The current state of xenobiology and proof of the existence of life in deep space is still "WAY THIN"!!! I won't argue that the possiblity is tantalizing, and that there is good science to point at a solid possibility, it just doesn't mean anything certain, and until you find yourself shaking ET's hand (or whatever psuedolimb it may have.) You've got to keep your head screwed on straight, your skepticisms on full bright, and keep asking the hard questions. That's the only way you keep yourself any kind of honest.
We've proof that heavy organic molecules form in cold molecular clouds in our part of this galaxy. Quinones and amino acids and even structures that ressemble cellular membranes do in fact just form out of the building blocks of interstallar dust and gas. We have done some truly cool experiments in the lab, and demonstrated, with a level of confidence that the building blocks of life can and do form in the cold clouds found in this neighborhood of the Galaxy. This doesn't mean that life is in any way ubiquitous. Let's look at this by the numbers;
1. Our kind of life is very specific. Virtually all of our proteins have a right handed turn, and and our sugars a left. This is almost certainly do to the fact that the bright young stars we formed near, polarized the cold molecular clouds with their UV radiation. That doesn't happen everywhere, and that in turn, may be essential for the formation of DNA/RNA type life.
2. You need to have a good dust, chemical mix for the right things to happen. A cold molecular cloud without sufficient dust grains to seed gas condensing and forming ice, or the right chemistry to assemble the primitives of life from, preclude the beginning of life as we know it.
These two facts alone cut the odds of life being everywhere way down. In fact the conditions for life may uniquely exist just right here... but that's also a low probability.
3. You then have to gather a bunch of proto-life together... put it on a new forming planet without it ending up crushed and cooked inside the new planet, cooked on entry colliding with the planet, destroyed by hard UV from a young star, fried by hot solar wind, or blasted by young unstable neighbors going nova or supernova. Actually, that's a pretty tall order right there.
4. The proto-life has to hide far enough from the surface of a new planet with a cool crust, so that if/when atomosphere and oceans form, it can get to the necessary water, but not be abused by the hostile environment at the surface of a world in a forming solar system.
5. You have to have a world that has few enough cataclyms that life isn't totally destroyed, but that the change for real evolution to occur, exists.
This doesn't sound like such a big deal, but think about it... if we didn't have Jupiter blocking for us, and the moon sweeping up the untiddy bits, we'd be a cold desolate rock with no trace of life. On the other hand, add another Jupiter, or a couple more moons, and we'd never have gotten past bacteria. I mean as it is we spent two thirds or the history of life as prokaryotes. We almost missed higher lifeforms altogether.
6. So that's the next part... evolution... sex... eukaryotic cells, multi-cellular organisms... and finally the evolution of a sentient being. None of these are givens, all of them a rarity (looking at lengthy stretches of our own biotic history suggesting the machinery of life did just fine without the existence of any or all of these things.) The chance of another intelligent species is astronomical (pun intended). If it wasn't for the shear number of possible places for life to happen it would almost be a dead certainty that we are all there is.
So life is probably a spotty affair happening in little clumps in around third or forth generation star forming regions. It requires pretty exotic conditions to occur, but those conditions exist here and from what we can see elsewhere as well. We only know about life like our own (RNA/DNA organic life). There may well be other forms that we have no idea about, and won't until we see it for ourselves. I would hesitate to call it ubiquitous, but it very well could be in many more places that just here. I'm guessing thinkers are rare, and if they exist, are so far ahead of us that we don't show up in their scale of consciousness... we're just too primative. That's what happens when you have countless tracks of stars and galaxies, and billions of years to fiddle around with. It's a cool conversation though!
Genda Bendte
- In magnificent fit of idiocy, this nation has made the choice of going from a President who can't tell the truth to one who can't pronounce it.