Genetic selection has been going on for 2000years
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Genetic selection has been going on for 2000years at least. If only in the way you pick a mate. People will pick the things that they like or need in someone else to have sex with, this is a form of selection. If you only like a mate with blue eyes and you have blue eyes, then your children will have blue eyes too. As for breeding for intelligance think about it if you enjoy a good conversation then you will find a mate that can fullfill this need, and quite possibly breed smart childern(though nobody has proven this yet). So all they panic about making super childern is not really a new thing the human race has been doing genetic engineering for at least 2000 years. After all we know the side effects of incest/inbreeding on humans and made laws and a moral code against it. So I feel that when we can start moving the genetic code around to suit us, we will make laws about what we can do.
One of the things that make living in this country great a guarantee of privacy. Europe has learned what we have already forgot in 215 years. That a person home is his castle and you just can't go in and invade it just because they kept their shades shut. If I encrypt something on my computer and the police can't decrypt it well tough what reason should they ever have to look at my files. Ninety percent of the computer users in the world do nothing wrong and will be punished for the ten percent. And the 10% that use their computers for illegal activities would never leave a copy on a harddrive anyhow. So what is the point of this bill?? It is just a few paranoid, power hungry, egomaniac's that are using people's fears to control everybody. Remember that the people that vote this bill in will be the one's who put the judges onto the bench who will sign the warrants. And a final question who will watch the watchers??
It looks like the power players in Washington D.C. are starting to see the net as threat and also as a way to reach people. After the Minnesota governor race when a independent ran and one with a grassroot campaign using the net to reach his voters. The two other party's must see the net as way to reach voters they have never reached before. As for Bush buying the domains that reflect bad on him and point them to his site, that is just like any tactic in war. And this is what JR thinks he is fighting, a information war and by controling the negitive sites he feels this will help him win
Right now StarOffice is Free for personel use. I would d/l it on a T1 line or better, it took me 4 hours on a 48k line. I have used it for 2 months now and love it. The main reason is at work MSoffice rules and StarOffice will save files in Word6.0 format. I can do my work w/o rebooting into Windows.
"Computer: In a sense, Linux is following in this tradition. Any thoughts on this phenomenon?
Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run. I've looked at the source and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole bunch of random people have contributed to this source, and the quality varies drastically.
My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go." Computer MAgizine
He is right in the fact work needs to be done on linux. But is that not what we are doing everyday? Alot of people know there are problems and are trying to fix them. Can everybody say the same about Microsoft.
Thompson may be feeling a little pissed that Linux has a shot at the user market when Unix was never considered for it.
As for the problems he and his freinds had with Linux the comman man would never tweak a system as hard as Ken. On any system if you keep going into the kernal and playing around you should expect problems. I think Linux is in it for the long haul for several reasons. One is the price free as PC,Apple etc.. keep droping in price people will not want to spend $200 of a $400 system just for the OS, and no apps. Also the portablity think about it you can run it on almost any hardware out there, so then your not stuck with just one hardware type you can buy the cheapest and know the interface will be the same. I also know that intel has already complied a 64bit Linux for the Merced chip using Vmware, so Linux is already for the next generation of Hardware. Is Microsoft ready?
After 13 years and in the age of everybody being "PC" you would think that the school system would change. I wonder if the school's realize that in the information age that the geek's will control how the information moves around, or in some cases not move at all. This crackdown on the computer geeks will only serve to piss off the people, who the next 10 years will start running the counrty.
Even though at the time I thought I was in hell,(I have found the real hell since), high school help me make up my mind to be differant. And thanks to the S**t that was given to me for that decision I have learned to control myself and filter out all the BS and find what is important. The people I work with like the fact that what they see is what they get with me no more, no less.
Back to the crackdown in the schools I would like to see them try that in the real world. Any company that tried that s**t would have so many law suits, that there would be more laywers working then other employees. As for why its happening most of the teachers I know were alpha primes' in high school. So they fear what is different and lash out accordingly. My advice to to blow it off, but do not give in. In 10 years the teachers will be telling people that you were their best student,this is after you have made your 1st million.
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Genetic selection has been going on for 2000years at least. If only in the way you pick a mate. People will pick the things that they like or need in someone else to have sex with, this is a form of selection. If you only like a mate with blue eyes
and you have blue eyes, then your children will have blue eyes too. As for breeding for intelligance think about it if you enjoy a good conversation then you will find a mate that can fullfill this need, and quite possibly breed smart childern(though nobody has proven this yet). So all they panic about making super childern is not really a new thing the human race has been doing genetic engineering for at least 2000 years. After all we know the side effects of incest/inbreeding on humans and made laws and a moral code against it. So I feel that when we can start moving the genetic code around to suit us, we will make laws about what we can do.
One of the things that make living in this country great a guarantee of privacy. Europe has learned what we have already forgot in 215 years. That a person home is his castle and you just can't go in and invade it just because they kept their shades shut. If I encrypt something on my computer and the police can't decrypt it well tough what reason should they ever have to look at my files. Ninety percent of the computer users in the world do nothing wrong and will be punished for the ten percent. And the 10% that use their computers for illegal activities would never leave a copy on a harddrive anyhow. So what is the point of this bill?? It is just a few paranoid, power hungry, egomaniac's that are using people's fears to control everybody. Remember that the people that vote this bill in will be the one's who put the judges onto the bench who will sign the warrants. And a final question who will watch the watchers??
It looks like the power players in Washington D.C. are starting to see the net as threat and also as a way to reach people. After the Minnesota governor race when a independent ran and one with a grassroot campaign using the net to reach his voters. The two other party's must see the net as way to reach voters they have never reached before. As for Bush buying the domains that reflect bad on him and point them to his site, that is just like any tactic in war. And this is what JR thinks he is fighting, a information war and by controling the negitive sites he feels this will help him win
Right now StarOffice is Free for personel use. I would d/l it on a T1 line or better, it took me 4 hours on a 48k line. I have used it for 2 months now and love it. The main reason is at work MSoffice rules and StarOffice will save files in Word6.0 format. I can do my work w/o rebooting into Windows.
"Computer: In a sense, Linux is following in this tradition. Any thoughts on this phenomenon?
Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very
successful in the long run. I've looked at the source and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole bunch of random people
have contributed to this source, and the quality varies drastically.
My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a
non-PC environment, it just won't hold up. If you're using it on a single box, that's one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways,
embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go." Computer MAgizine
He is right in the fact work needs to be done on linux. But is that not what we are doing everyday? Alot of people know there are problems and are trying to fix them. Can everybody say the same about Microsoft.
Thompson may be feeling a little pissed that Linux has a shot at the user market when Unix was never considered for it.
As for the problems he and his freinds had with Linux the comman man would never tweak a system as hard as Ken. On any system if you keep going into the kernal and playing around you should expect problems. I think Linux is in it for the long haul for several reasons. One is the price free as PC,Apple etc.. keep droping in price people will not want to spend $200 of a $400 system just for the OS, and no apps. Also the portablity think about it you can run it on almost any hardware out there, so then your not stuck with just one hardware type you can buy the cheapest and know the interface will be the same. I also know that intel has already complied a 64bit Linux for the Merced chip using Vmware, so Linux is already for the next generation of Hardware. Is Microsoft ready?
After 13 years and in the age of everybody being "PC" you would think that the school system would change. I wonder if the school's realize that in the information age that the geek's will control how the information moves around, or in some cases not move at all. This crackdown on the computer geeks will only serve to piss off the people, who the next 10 years will start running the counrty.
Even though at the time I thought I was in hell,(I have found the real hell since), high school help me make up my mind to be differant. And thanks to the S**t that was given to me for that decision I have learned to control myself and filter out all the BS and find what is important. The people I work with like the fact that what they see is what they get with me no more, no less.
Back to the crackdown in the schools I would like to see them try that in the real world. Any company that tried that s**t would have so many law suits, that there would be more laywers working then other employees. As for why its happening most of the teachers I know were alpha primes' in high school. So they fear what is different and lash out accordingly. My advice to to blow it off, but do not give in. In 10 years the teachers will be telling people that you were their best student,this is after you have made your 1st million.