Parents already can avoid bringing children with certain serious diseases into the world through prenatal testing. Do they also, as Singer suggests, have the moral right to withdraw life support, or even approve lethal injections?
Yes. Absolutely. Just as a woman has the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Just as any person should be able to make a decision/carry out the wishes of an individual's euthenasia. eg. cases of terminal illness. These are huge ethical decisions but should be owned by the people whose lives they most directly effect.
Ultimately the world suffers from chronic overpopulation/suffering and it aint going to go away in a hurry. As society becomes increasingly competitive, humans may have virtually thrown the key out the window on natural selection but artificially we still have a ethical responsibility to our race and the planet not to further weaken the gene pool. At least not to experience guilt and blackmail from society for making a life changing decision. Survival of the fittest is still relevant in a synthetic kingdom.
I moot for commercial replication of Arthur C Clarkes rose-tinted virtual jack-in kit, and suggest that he's lost touch with the time continuum. Either that or his LSD is kicking in.
There were no real surprises in the 'futurist visions' -- it's just the timeframe which is a little hard to swallow. Is it spit or swallow? I'd like to believe ACC [he says he's spared us the grisly bits] but it's all too unbelievably Utopian for me. I give us 12 years max until TEOTWAWKI.
Before then it'd be grand to see the Dalai Lama restored to what the Chinese left of Tibet. Oh, and Cold Fusion. I won't hold my breath -- I'll only go blue and clash with my dress.
I beg to differ. Stacks of highly unfashionable evidence exists which offer support to Creationists. Admittedly none which most status quo Creationists are generally to happy to embrace dependant on the specific faith in question. Remember Creationists are not necessarily Christians. There are many religious branches internationally each intrinisically buried into the very grain of various cultures. I say branches because I empathise with Taoists in that they are all ultimately one religion, with a lot of unnecessary despeckle and noise thrown in enroute.
Creationism evidence [the good stuff] -- I'm NOT refering to the Bible which is generally a load of politically modified diddle of what was merely expedient to the purposes of the Jews or Christians at the time, fabricated from a blend of fact and fiction from many sources approx 1500 years after the alleged death of Jesus Christ. I could go on all day but cut to the chase. Yeah?
Alt reference points for research point your electronically enhanced microscopes with built in sceptic ejector seats this way...
1. Sumer. A truckload of those old clay tablets dating around 6000 years contain a shitload of material regarding the creation of homosapien as a genetic experiment at the hands of the Annunaki insert aliens from the 12th planet alias angels here]. Thousands have been faithfully translated and verified and all contain untimely information which much of modern physics/philosophy/astronomy/medicine etc is based/behind on.
2. Various ancient scrolls which were deliberately left out of the bible due to the explicit and unsavoury nature: the Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Enoch are a good starting base.
3. All indigenous cultures have Creationist legends which upon analysis point to intervention with humanity from people/gods who came down from the skies. Imaginative bedtime stories, historical accounts or an imbellishment of the latter/or mix of both as it was retold over the ages? A number of online resources are available. Look at Tihuanco, Atlantis, India, China, Mesopotamia, Egypt. The earliest civilisations on this planet whose developmental acceleration has not been adequately explained through scientific methods have all credited Alien Gods "Nefilim/Annunaki/Elohim". Different cultures have different names.
Science is not an effective method for explaining everything which surrounds us. Ultimately it too is merely theory. I believe in a fusion of thought from all worlds... Neither apes nor Adam but 'aliens'. Evolution and Creationism except different to both mainstream schools of thought.
Look at our unique double helix stranded DNA. Nothing else on the planet has it. We were originally only part of this world.
Repeat! Science can not explain everything. To cling onto science as the harbinger of all knowledge is fallacious, narrow minded and ultimately dangerous as we unnecessarily lock the door to the postulation of other theories based on alternative methods. Science is NOT God. To worship it as such is merely substituting one crutch for another. A common trait in these 'enlightened' times. Science is an infant and those who cling to it desperately are more infantile still. We are children in a gigantic playground and the wisest thing is to admit we know nothing.
Stating the obvious... Many documented facts of our history do not make it to mainstream media merely because like the Jews or Christians of yesteryear it's not politically expedient for certain special interest groups to reveal information to us. We all know this. Conspiracy theory is based on something. Sure it's good to keep a grain of salt handy but is our inate sceptism blinfding us to certain truths? Do you really trust the US government? The US airforce? They certainly don't trust you or I with a great deal of information which they 'protect' us from. Hello! This is a drop in the pan. We know nothing. Use this as a basis premise and then it's easy to embrace enlightenment [whatever that is].
There is a ridiculous amount of material available which document Creationism with alien genetic programming, ancient historical FACTs which are often blurred into the fabric of literatire lie the Bible, but it's all been tarred with a brush to endear itself to people with a background in empirical scienmce to laugh at. It's difficult to seperate the wheat from the chaff, but it's all there.
That shocking movie with Kim Basinger may not be as ludicrous as it appears at face value. Well no, but I needed a punchline...
If you want links try these for size. Netscapes being a bitch and keeps crashing so my bookmarks are a nightmare, Here's a handful and if you want more mail me. No proof per se but makes for interesting reading:
Ancient Sumerian culture have this additional wandering member of our solar system etched into 7000 year old tablets from Eridu -- as were all other recently discovered planetary members up until this century when Pluto? was found.
This is what Zechariah Sitchin introduced into our contemoporary society as Planet X a couple of decades ago. His theory based on ancient Akkadian translations is that the planet orbits the Sun on a different elipse to the remainder of the planets and contrary to current findings passes our earth every 2400 years. Unfortunately we're going to miss out by a couple of hundred years...
These theories and more are fundamental in universal creation myths as humans being the genetic product of a scientific fusion between Nefilim [Planet X locals and hominids].
Prevalent as a theme in science fiction of old through to cyberpunk of the modern day we have been tempted and teased by the virtual world and the fabricated beings who dwell within them. Now especially realtime we flirt within the boundaries of the mediums.
William Gibson captured this beautifully in his sequel-like novel Idoru which shared similar characters as Virtual Light which preceded it. Set in typical Gibson-esque post apocolyptic Tokyo, Idoru focuses on many convuluted complex characters and sub-plots. The central theme however is the cultural shock exhibited through the love/obsession of Rez [pop star] with a software construct [the idoru] who manifests herself as a hologram and on the Net... there are even wedding bells...
How many teen angsty boys fell for Lara as she fell and grunted sexily after the first few addictive moments of manipulating her with mastubatory strokes with the hot Playstation control firmly clasped in hand? I'm figuring a shitload...that breast enlargement "mistake" really paid off for Eidos.
Elite is a natural progression of what we've been spoon-fed for years as technology improved and our visual expectations become more impossible to meet in the physical realm. We're at the threshold of making our science fiction fantasies true. A little fantasy never hurt anyone..
Fashion photographers discovered Photoshop a long time ago and the airbrush has been used to make already impossible looking creatures something even more difficult to aspire towards for prebubescent females.
Yes this does create social illnesses such as anorexia blah de blah, feelings of inadequacy for many women as they try to emulate what they obviously cannot. The fault is not with women. We're not stupid. I'm thinking George Orwell here...some are more equal than others. It's the fucked up attitude of society and the confusion which reigns in the seperations of reality. There's no clarification... too many lost sheep out there [virtually speaking]. We're typically all ants being projected images which will maintain our consumer bent path. Fantasy sells -- some just have a little difficulty disengaging. It is unnecessary to make further social comment on this development.
I say a little appreciation of virtual babes [someone mentioned Vargas before and what about the fantasy pinup work of Hajime Sorayama?] on their own merits is in order -- nothing more nothing less. In the words of The Jam: That's Entertainment.
Ultimately I know that there's no way in hell that pair of Levis is going to look the same on my beanpole legs as they do on those 3D cyber goddesses [sheeeet... I'll have to turn on the filters first].
What an entreprenural recipe for guaranteed success! Rake it in baybee. Watch those domains get sucked up. These guys [CORE] are going to cream it big time.
a small note of clarification...err... that would actually be a trilogy we're looking at here. either two prequels, two sequels, or one of each. not the complete package.
i agree however that three might be a tough call, especially all featuring Keanu [if as rumoured he is signed for both]-- still where Lucas failed we can only hope the W brothers will exercise their infinite wisdom and restraint and polyfiller those holes, and keep the script tight.
i think that there is far more likelihood of this than in any New Hope for Star Warsoutstanding prequels.
The passing of this idiotic bill is one example of the general incompetence and no idea mentality of politics over technology. But it comes as no surprise. Look what we have to work with...
Internet is a good way to get on the Net. -Bob Dole
This is where I start doing my desperate boat-person impersonation...it's a long swim but I figure if I start soon I'll be outta here before D Day hits.
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Netomat is potentially the key that your parents give you at the ripe old age of 21. It is the symbol of the shift into a new paradigm.
There's far too much focus on technology in the industry, an obsession with bandwidth and the browser universe. They are merely tools, we're the drivers. Netomat heralds the enablement of technology -- creating a complete interactive experience. We wield the force Luke. Things are just starting to get a little more interesting.
"What we are talking about now is a communications revolution. That is exciting because communication is the basis of culture. We are amplifying and enhancing the foundations of culture and society with this communications revolution. All the dynamic and revolutionary effects we are going to see will come from these tiny chips being used in a commiunication mode." Kevin Kelly.
Sure beats joinin' the dots which was virtually where we were before. No matter how hard I try I can't see in black and white. Sure it's just a tool but I prefer to use a screwdriver over my fingernail anyday.
Bob Metcalfe's words reek of a delusional paranoid who grasps tightly onto his fast disappearing world. There is absolutely no inherent value in his prophecy -- he has been shown to look ridiculous in the past [which he cited in the article]. Vague generic doomsday prophecy which he still managed to screw...Doh! It's just attention seeking BS.
Besides what's the logic is there in all this ranting and raving about 30 year old technology...he doesn't look like a child of the post 70s himself. If there's anything looking dated in this article it's certainly not Linux. Although with a comment like the Open Sores Movement. we can see clearly how he's trying to temper the aging process. Stick and stones...reliving childhood...get over it...
This is a farce of an article...and it's equally farcical it was posted with a live link. As previous posts have already stated it is designer flamebait and produced for it's rating boosting properties only.
School Net filtering bills are nothing new, but the recent carnage at the nation's high schools has no doubt intensified concern about minors' online habits. The Juvenile Justice Bill is stacked with provisions in reaction to the incident in Littleton, Colorado, which left 14 students and one teacher dead. The incident also brought children's Net use into sharper focus, because the Littleton killers reportedly were heavy online users.
An eye for an eye...The Moral Right want blood and there ain't no commies or fags to blame. Let's get those paedophile touting subversives on the Internet. The last bastion.
The problems with any filtering agent is the blurred boundaries. Will my site with pussy [cat] caption be screened as it sets off the filtering software alarms? Filtering software is a crock..there are just too many grey areas. No-one wants children to be subjected to pornography, but if they're really looking for it they're going to find it on the net, in their parents or siblings bedrooms, on TV... It's easier to regulate these things on a grassroots level...Start closer to home.
Society has a serious problem with sex. Some demystification and letting go of archaic Victorian values and a little dialogue between parent and child would allieviate the need for the government to play GOD.
PENIS ENVY may be a thing of the past. The clitoris, it turns out, is no "little hill" as its derivation from the Greek kleitoris implies. Instead, it extends deep into the body, with a total size at least twice as large as most anatomy texts show, and tens of times larger than the average person realises, according to new studies by Helen O'Connell, a urology surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne.
It has already been validated by the scientific team working on this project that the actual organ area was not larger than other males brains examined. It was mainly attributed to the distribution of mass. and the lack of a particular groove which is found on a 'typical' brain. Thus the total size of the brain is irrelevant.
Your conjecture has no validity base at all in the argument regarding women. It is based on a false premise. Women are historically invisible in our society. The coined phrase 'history' says it all really. History is a man made construction. Tales of men by men.
And for the record there has only been one male Einstein also. How do you account for the Ada Lovelaces of this world?
The concept of measurement of intelligence is strangely askew. But then it favours men as it too was created by men. If Einstein's brilliance had been based on his lateral rather than longitudal skills, ie. language, arts, etc he would have been branded a dunce. Likewise the inverse must hold true for women. Intelligence surely is manifested in disciplines apart from the so called higher sciences per se. Deemed higher because due to a predominance of men in this area in an effort to keep it an elitist domain -- it is labelled so. It's easier to play and win the game when you make up all the rules.
Recently a study on female anatonmy found that the clitoris was a lot larger than originally thought. In fact the internal muscle is larger and more powerful than your average penis. I can't find a related site [time-wasting wading through all that porn in AltaVista..but this was quite recent and is true.]
Dr Harvey, who donated Einstein's brain to Hamilton's McMaster University where the research was undertaken actually came to acquire the brain through underhand methods. Creates visions of Brain Black Markets...Against Einstein and family's wishes prior to cremation he fished out the brain and stole it away. This was decades ago.
And now starts kindly donating severed bits [12 and counting] to various scientific teams. The irony is that the DNA cannot be used as he "inadvertantly preserved the organ in warm formaldehyde rather than cold". Oh dear!
It would seems difficulty to discern exactly who is Brain Dead...Harvey or Einstein.
Vogel has discovered the perfect combination: Teflon and cow brains. Her trains are made from fragments of microtubules, protein filaments one thousandth the diameter of a human hair that crisscross the inside of nerve cells-- including those in cow brains. Slice these filaments into minute segments, drop them onto thin Teflon tracks and the tiny trains race off.
Gee, hope she didn't get any mad cow disease inflicted bovines volunteering for the job.
Othwerwise we'll literally be driven off the nano-rails.
Spokesman for the Catholic Media Office Tom Hallwood said: "There are patron saints of many things, so why not let the Internet have one?
Oh dear god no. I'm happy being a heathen without further indoctrination from a fucking organised religion as Catholicism which has traditionally been responsible for the alientation, persecution of many people advocating doctrines which did not fall with in the Vatican's political agenda.
There is no room for God here. We're a product in spite of the Catholic heritage certainly not as a result of it. If I want to pray it sure as hell will not to be what I am told is permissable by a body which murdered and desicrated scientists, philosophers, astronomers, witches...
But Compaq doesn't intend to market the Itsy at retail. "This research could influence future products, but there are no plans to bring this to market," Frazier said.
but...but...but...apart from being Linux based and running generic PDA functions in savvy style...it plays DOOM!
not sure about the COMPAQ coined "rock and scroll" to describe the navigation through the video game universe by tilting the Itsy forward and back. hello! rock and scroll?
more info on this product tease here. what about a limited edition then eh?
she wore an itsy bitsy teeny weeny...hey i'm rock n' scrolling!
What is most refreshing about Po Bronson is his angle...he digs in and examines real life human issues that everybody can relate to whilst adeptly gutting the organic underbelly of the mutant gold mining beast which is Silicon Valley. A sociologist first and an autoptician second. And a hell of a story writer...
Keep your eyes peeled on his personal site for the full skinny.
Of course, if we're to take Agent Smith seriously, it is humans that are the virus. In 20 years or so when the Operating System is no longer a relevant concept, these government agencies should be limited to "no more than 34% of the same species".
[btw: Did you ever wonder what happened in The Matrix after the credits rolled?]
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Parents already can avoid bringing children with certain serious diseases into the world through prenatal testing. Do they also, as Singer suggests, have the moral right to withdraw life support, or even approve lethal injections?
Yes. Absolutely. Just as a woman has the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Just as any person should be able to make a decision/carry out the wishes of an individual's euthenasia. eg. cases of terminal illness. These are huge ethical decisions but should be owned by the people whose lives they most directly effect.
Ultimately the world suffers from chronic overpopulation/suffering and it aint going to go away in a hurry. As society becomes increasingly competitive, humans may have virtually thrown the key out the window on natural selection but artificially we still have a ethical responsibility to our race and the planet not to further weaken the gene pool. At least not to experience guilt and blackmail from society for making a life changing decision. Survival of the fittest is still relevant in a synthetic kingdom.
I moot for commercial replication of Arthur C Clarkes rose-tinted virtual jack-in kit, and suggest that he's lost touch with the time continuum. Either that or his LSD is kicking in.
There were no real surprises in the 'futurist visions' -- it's just the timeframe which is a little hard to swallow. Is it spit or swallow? I'd like to believe ACC [he says he's spared us the grisly bits] but it's all too unbelievably Utopian for me. I give us 12 years max until TEOTWAWKI.
Before then it'd be grand to see the Dalai Lama restored to what the Chinese left of Tibet. Oh, and Cold Fusion. I won't hold my breath -- I'll only go blue and clash with my dress.
Tempus fugit...especially in a Tardis.
I beg to differ. Stacks of highly unfashionable evidence exists which offer support to Creationists. Admittedly none which most status quo Creationists are generally to happy to embrace dependant on the specific faith in question. Remember Creationists are not necessarily Christians. There are many religious branches internationally each intrinisically buried into the very grain of various cultures. I say branches because I empathise with Taoists in that they are all ultimately one religion, with a lot of unnecessary despeckle and noise thrown in enroute.
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Creationism evidence [the good stuff] -- I'm NOT refering to the Bible which is generally a load of politically modified diddle of what was merely expedient to the purposes of the Jews or Christians at the time, fabricated from a blend of fact and fiction from many sources approx 1500 years after the alleged death of Jesus Christ. I could go on all day but cut to the chase. Yeah?
Alt reference points for research point your electronically enhanced microscopes with built in sceptic ejector seats this way...
1. Sumer. A truckload of those old clay tablets dating around 6000 years contain a shitload of material regarding the creation of homosapien as a genetic experiment at the hands of the Annunaki insert aliens from the 12th planet alias angels here]. Thousands have been faithfully translated and verified and all contain untimely information which much of modern physics/philosophy/astronomy/medicine etc is based/behind on.
2. Various ancient scrolls which were deliberately left out of the bible due to the explicit and unsavoury nature: the Dead Sea Scrolls, Book of Enoch are a good starting base.
3. All indigenous cultures have Creationist legends which upon analysis point to intervention with humanity from people/gods who came down from the skies. Imaginative bedtime stories, historical accounts or an imbellishment of the latter/or mix of both as it was retold over the ages? A number of online resources are available. Look at Tihuanco, Atlantis, India, China, Mesopotamia, Egypt. The earliest civilisations on this planet whose developmental acceleration has not been adequately explained through scientific methods have all credited Alien Gods "Nefilim/Annunaki/Elohim". Different cultures have different names.
Science is not an effective method for explaining everything which surrounds us. Ultimately it too is merely theory. I believe in a fusion of thought from all worlds... Neither apes nor Adam but 'aliens'. Evolution and Creationism except different to both mainstream schools of thought.
Look at our unique double helix stranded DNA. Nothing else on the planet has it. We were originally only part of this world.
Repeat! Science can not explain everything. To cling onto science as the harbinger of all knowledge is fallacious, narrow minded and ultimately dangerous as we unnecessarily lock the door to the postulation of other theories based on alternative methods. Science is NOT God. To worship it as such is merely substituting one crutch for another. A common trait in these 'enlightened' times. Science is an infant and those who cling to it desperately are more infantile still. We are children in a gigantic playground and the wisest thing is to admit we know nothing.
Stating the obvious... Many documented facts of our history do not make it to mainstream media merely because like the Jews or Christians of yesteryear it's not politically expedient for certain special interest groups to reveal information to us. We all know this. Conspiracy theory is based on something. Sure it's good to keep a grain of salt handy but is our inate sceptism blinfding us to certain truths? Do you really trust the US government? The US airforce? They certainly don't trust you or I with a great deal of information which they 'protect' us from. Hello! This is a drop in the pan. We know nothing. Use this as a basis premise and then it's easy to embrace enlightenment [whatever that is].
There is a ridiculous amount of material available which document Creationism with alien genetic programming, ancient historical FACTs which are often blurred into the fabric of literatire lie the Bible, but it's all been tarred with a brush to endear itself to people with a background in empirical scienmce to laugh at. It's difficult to seperate the wheat from the chaff, but it's all there.
That shocking movie with Kim Basinger may not be as ludicrous as it appears at face value. Well no, but I needed a punchline...
If you want links try these for size. Netscapes being a bitch and keeps crashing so my bookmarks are a nightmare, Here's a handful and if you want more mail me. No proof per se but makes for interesting reading:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/2
http://www.xensei.com/users/john9904/hqwest/ind
http://www.in-search-of.com/frames/stonedisk/st
http://www.zetatalk3.com/usenet/use00566.htm
http://www.nor.com.au/users/stingray/nibiru.htm
http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/topic/ancient/
http://bigsun.wbs.net/homepages/m/a/r/margofox/
http://www.disinfo.com
http://www.sitchin.com
http://www.grahamhancock.com/
That is all.
Disclaimer: I am NOT a Christian.
Sorry about the typos and shocking grammer -- I wrote this in a hurry. I want to go to bed *yawn*
To sleep to perchance to dream of immaculate conceptions and aliens...
Ancient Sumerian culture have this additional wandering member of our solar system etched into 7000 year old tablets from Eridu -- as were all other recently discovered planetary members up until this century when Pluto? was found.
This is what Zechariah Sitchin introduced into our contemoporary society as Planet X a couple of decades ago. His theory based on ancient Akkadian translations is that the planet orbits the Sun on a different elipse to the remainder of the planets and contrary to current findings passes our earth every 2400 years. Unfortunately we're going to miss out by a couple of hundred years...
These theories and more are fundamental in universal creation myths as humans being the genetic product of a scientific fusion between Nefilim [Planet X locals and hominids].
It's God Jim but not as we know it.
"can't we bomb the moon?"
"we don't really need it, do we?"
Prevalent as a theme in science fiction of old through to cyberpunk of the modern day we have been tempted and teased by the virtual world and the fabricated beings who dwell within them. Now especially realtime we flirt within the boundaries of the mediums.
William Gibson captured this beautifully in his sequel-like novel Idoru which shared similar characters as Virtual Light which preceded it. Set in typical Gibson-esque post apocolyptic Tokyo, Idoru focuses on many convuluted complex characters and sub-plots. The central theme however is the cultural shock exhibited through the love/obsession of Rez [pop star] with a software construct [the idoru] who manifests herself as a hologram and on the Net... there are even wedding bells...
How many teen angsty boys fell for Lara as she fell and grunted sexily after the first few addictive moments of manipulating her with mastubatory strokes with the hot Playstation control firmly clasped in hand? I'm figuring a shitload...that breast enlargement "mistake" really paid off for Eidos.
Elite is a natural progression of what we've been spoon-fed for years as technology improved and our visual expectations become more impossible to meet in the physical realm. We're at the threshold of making our science fiction fantasies true. A little fantasy never hurt anyone..
Fashion photographers discovered Photoshop a long time ago and the airbrush has been used to make already impossible looking creatures something even more difficult to aspire towards for prebubescent females.
Yes this does create social illnesses such as anorexia blah de blah, feelings of inadequacy for many women as they try to emulate what they obviously cannot. The fault is not with women. We're not stupid. I'm thinking George Orwell here...some are more equal than others. It's the fucked up attitude of society and the confusion which reigns in the seperations of reality. There's no clarification... too many lost sheep out there [virtually speaking]. We're typically all ants being projected images which will maintain our consumer bent path. Fantasy sells -- some just have a little difficulty disengaging. It is unnecessary to make further social comment on this development.
I say a little appreciation of virtual babes [someone mentioned Vargas before and what about the fantasy pinup work of Hajime Sorayama?] on their own merits is in order -- nothing more nothing less. In the words of The Jam: That's Entertainment.
Ultimately I know that there's no way in hell that pair of Levis is going to look the same on my beanpole legs as they do on those 3D cyber goddesses [sheeeet... I'll have to turn on the filters first].
What an entreprenural recipe for guaranteed success! Rake it in baybee. Watch those domains get sucked up. These guys [CORE] are going to cream it big time.
err... you know...it...cream....nothing...
a small note of clarification...err... that would actually be a trilogy we're looking at here. either two prequels, two sequels, or one of each. not the complete package.
i agree however that three might be a tough call, especially all featuring Keanu [if as rumoured he is signed for both]-- still where Lucas failed we can only hope the W brothers will exercise their infinite wisdom and restraint and polyfiller those holes, and keep the script tight.
i think that there is far more likelihood of this than in any New Hope for Star Warsoutstanding prequels.
The passing of this idiotic bill is one example of the general incompetence and no idea mentality of politics over technology. But it comes as no surprise. Look what we have to work with...
Internet is a good way to get on the Net. -Bob Dole
This is where I start doing my desperate boat-person impersonation...it's a long swim but I figure if I start soon I'll be outta here before D Day hits.
Paranoid? There is no conspiracy. Only policy.
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Ok... so I'm the only one laughing...please don't moderate me...noooo!
Netomat is potentially the key that your parents give you at the ripe old age of 21. It is the symbol of the shift into a new paradigm.
There's far too much focus on technology in the industry, an obsession with bandwidth and the browser universe. They are merely tools, we're the drivers. Netomat heralds the enablement of technology -- creating a complete interactive experience. We wield the force Luke. Things are just starting to get a little more interesting.
"What we are talking about now is a communications revolution. That is exciting because communication is the basis of culture. We are amplifying and enhancing the foundations of culture and society with this communications revolution. All the dynamic and revolutionary effects we are going to see will come from these tiny chips being used in a commiunication mode." Kevin Kelly.
Sure beats joinin' the dots which was virtually where we were before. No matter how hard I try I can't see in black and white. Sure it's just a tool but I prefer to use a screwdriver over my fingernail anyday.
Bob Metcalfe's words reek of a delusional paranoid who grasps tightly onto his fast disappearing world. There is absolutely no inherent value in his prophecy -- he has been shown to look ridiculous in the past [which he cited in the article]. Vague generic doomsday prophecy which he still managed to screw...Doh! It's just attention seeking BS.
Besides what's the logic is there in all this ranting and raving about 30 year old technology...he doesn't look like a child of the post 70s himself. If there's anything looking dated in this article it's certainly not Linux. Although with a comment like the Open Sores Movement. we can see clearly how he's trying to temper the aging process. Stick and stones...reliving childhood...get over it...
This is a farce of an article...and it's equally farcical it was posted with a live link. As previous posts have already stated it is designer flamebait and produced for it's rating boosting properties only.
School Net filtering bills are nothing new, but the recent carnage at the nation's high schools has no doubt intensified concern about minors' online
habits. The Juvenile Justice Bill is stacked with provisions in reaction to the incident in Littleton, Colorado, which left 14 students and one teacher dead. The incident also brought children's Net use into sharper focus, because the Littleton killers reportedly were heavy online users.
An eye for an eye...The Moral Right want blood and there ain't no commies or fags to blame. Let's get those paedophile touting subversives on the Internet. The last bastion.
The problems with any filtering agent is the blurred boundaries. Will my site with pussy [cat] caption be screened as it sets off the filtering software alarms? Filtering software is a crock..there are just too many grey areas. No-one wants children to be subjected to pornography, but if they're really looking for it they're going to find it on the net, in their parents or siblings bedrooms, on TV... It's easier to regulate these things on a grassroots level...Start closer to home.
Society has a serious problem with sex. Some demystification and letting go of archaic Victorian values and a little dialogue between parent and child would allieviate the need for the government to play GOD.
PENIS ENVY may be a thing of the past. The clitoris, it turns out, is no "little hill" as its derivation from the Greek kleitoris implies. Instead, it extends deep into the body, with a total size at least twice as large as most anatomy texts show, and tens of times larger than the average person realises, according to new studies by Helen O'Connell, a urology surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne.
Just making a point...
It has already been validated by the scientific team working on this project that the actual organ area was not larger than other males brains examined. It was mainly attributed to the distribution of mass. and the lack of a particular groove which is found on a 'typical' brain. Thus the total size of the brain is irrelevant.
Your conjecture has no validity base at all in the argument regarding women. It is based on a false premise. Women are historically invisible in our society. The coined phrase 'history' says it all really. History is a man made construction. Tales of men by men.
And for the record there has only been one male Einstein also. How do you account for the Ada Lovelaces of this world?
The concept of measurement of intelligence is strangely askew. But then it favours men as it too was created by men. If Einstein's brilliance had been based on his lateral rather than longitudal skills, ie. language, arts, etc he would have been branded a dunce. Likewise the inverse must hold true for women. Intelligence surely is manifested in disciplines apart from the so called higher sciences per se. Deemed higher because due to a predominance of men in this area in an effort to keep it an elitist domain -- it is labelled so. It's easier to play and win the game when you make up all the rules.
Recently a study on female anatonmy found that the clitoris was a lot larger than originally thought. In fact the internal muscle is larger and more powerful than your average penis. I can't find a related site [time-wasting wading through all that porn in AltaVista..but this was quite recent and is true.]
In the end it is relative. Listen to the man.
Dr Harvey, who donated Einstein's brain to Hamilton's McMaster University where the research was undertaken actually came to acquire the brain through underhand methods. Creates visions of Brain Black Markets...Against Einstein and family's wishes prior to cremation he fished out the brain and stole it away. This was decades ago.
And now starts kindly donating severed bits [12 and counting] to various scientific teams. The irony is that the DNA cannot be used as he "inadvertantly preserved the organ in warm formaldehyde rather than cold". Oh dear!
It would seems difficulty to discern exactly who is Brain Dead...Harvey or Einstein.
Vogel has discovered the perfect combination: Teflon and cow brains. Her trains are made from fragments of microtubules, protein filaments one thousandth the diameter of a human hair that crisscross the inside of nerve cells-- including those in cow brains. Slice these filaments into minute segments, drop them onto thin Teflon tracks and the tiny trains race off.
Gee, hope she didn't get any mad cow disease inflicted bovines volunteering for the job.
Othwerwise we'll literally be driven off the nano-rails.
Spokesman for the Catholic Media Office Tom Hallwood said: "There are patron saints of many things, so why not let the Internet have one?
Oh dear god no. I'm happy being a heathen without further indoctrination from a fucking organised religion as Catholicism which has traditionally been responsible for the alientation, persecution of many people advocating doctrines which did not fall with in the Vatican's political agenda.
There is no room for God here. We're a product in spite of the Catholic heritage certainly not as a result of it. If I want to pray it sure as hell will not to be what I am told is permissable by a body which murdered and desicrated scientists, philosophers, astronomers, witches...
I recant!
But Compaq doesn't intend to market the Itsy at retail. "This research could influence future products, but there are no plans to bring this to market," Frazier said.
but...but...but...apart from being Linux based and running generic PDA functions in savvy style...it plays DOOM!
not sure about the COMPAQ coined "rock and scroll" to describe the navigation through the video game universe by tilting the Itsy forward and back. hello! rock and scroll?
more info on this product tease here. what about a limited edition then eh?
she wore an itsy bitsy teeny weeny...hey i'm rock n' scrolling!
What is most refreshing about Po Bronson is his angle...he digs in and examines real life human issues that everybody can relate to whilst adeptly gutting the organic underbelly of the mutant gold mining beast which is Silicon Valley. A sociologist first and an autoptician second. And a hell of a story writer...
Keep your eyes peeled on his personal site for the full skinny.
Now back to working on that first 20 million...
i prefer mine without thanks.
Of course, if we're to take Agent Smith seriously, it is humans that are the virus. In 20 years or so when the Operating System is no longer a relevant concept, these government agencies should be limited to "no more than 34% of the same species".
[btw: Did you ever wonder what happened in The Matrix after the credits rolled?]
Linux is a college student's project gone astray.
So what exactly does that make Microsoft?