It will only temporarily be an expensive thing, if it even is. Mass demand and production will make the price drop rapidly.
Yeah, just like owning Teslas and Learjets and mansions, the price will come down until every bum and ne'er-do-well will be awash in them.
Sorry, but I think the idea of "a cabal of ultra rich hogging it eternally for themselves" is far more likely than every Joe and Jane Sixpack having access to it. Most people can't afford a hip-replacement, what's the chance of them being able to pay for life extension treatments?
Not to further the argument, but you labeled yourself "progressive left" and thus generalized your own ideologies. I only asked those questions to clarify your stance, for my benefit.
That's why I said it's not that simple. Some people I know (most) would consider me "left", while some others (not many) would label me as borderline conservative. It all depends on how well they think I line up with their definitions and ideology and what topic is under discussion.
One man's liberal is another man's socialist, and a third man's conservative. It's often relative depending on where the definer is on that spectrum. Hell, I've been labeled a "fascist" by more than a few people in my life because I didn't march in lockstep with their notions of right and wrong.
Maybe the market would respond to that by making more things that can be fixed, upgraded or refurbished and fewer planned obsolescence items that can't.
"It appears to be a misunderstanding by officers on patrol of a recent, abstruse change in the parking rules."
Really? A "misunderstanding by officers"? You gonna stick with that answer?
Because when *I* break the law I don't get a pass because I "misunderstood" something. I mean, isn't it the police and judges who are the first to exclaim that "ignorance of the law is no excuse"?
I'm sure they'll pay back all of the people they wrongly ticketed, and with interest too. (Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, who am I kidding!)
Call this what is is: naked, blatant revenue enhancement.
I'm pretty sure I could entertain myself for all eternity given a sufficient supply of 4X games, at least, judging from the "played" time on some of them on my steam profile...
I understand this is meant to be humorous, but you're probably not even 50 years old, right? You can't imagine five thousand years of conscious existence (I know I can't). Get back to me after the first 100,000 years of doing whatever and let me know if boredom might just possibly be an issue.
I'm rarely bored, but just thinking of 10,000 years of existing seems like a living hell.
Well you replied yes to the second question and thus are likely a progressive leftist, so that fits neatly into both of our points.
Yeah, well, basically the problem here is that lots of people don't fit neatly into whatever you imagine a "progressive leftist" is, so you're left to try and contort the meaning to match however you currently define it.
It ain't that simple.
You seem to have conveniently overlooked the fact that I answered "no" to your first question. OMG does that mean I'm not a "progressive leftist" after all?
Finally, thinking that there ought to be some sort of support services for mentally ill or distraught people does not equate to being a "progressive" or a "leftist". You're simplifying things to the point of silliness. Lots and LOTS of "conservatives" would be just fine with the idea of support services being available for suicidal people.
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." (Attributed to Susan Ertz)
I imagine that immortality would become quite a bore unless there were things to do in the eternal digital afterlife. Hopefully there would be some cool VR games that would be worth playing for a century or two.
What would be great is to be able to put your consciousness into a drone-body or something where you could go off and do something useful and/or interesting, ala the Iain Banks uber-powerful and capable drone entities.
I'm a conservative (what ever that means in Australia) and I thought the same thing, none of my leftest friends think like that at all.
I hear you. I know lots of people across the social and political spectrum and no one, literally no one I've ever spoken with about this thinks that suicide should be illegal. I'd like to find one so I could ask them, "Why? Why should suicide be illegal? And what should the penalty be?"
You don't believe that suicide is wrong and should be illegal? You don't believe there should have been some sort of support system in place for this woman to get help?
I don't believe that suicide is wrong, depending on your definition of "wrong", and I don't think it should be illegal. I know hundreds, if not thousands of liberals and conservatives and none of them that I'm aware of think that suicide should be illegal.
Should there have been some sort of resources available for this woman to get help if she wanted it? Sure, I see nothing wrong with making something like that available to those who want it (and there are in fact probably some already existing resources she could have used if she wanted to).
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If you answered no to these two questions you probably are not a progressive leftist.
Oh please, not this "no true Scotsman" fallacy bullshit again. Again, I consider myself both "progressive" and "left" and this is not even remotely close to what I believe. It's like you're pointing to something blue and crying "It's not blue enough for me to say it's blue!"
Leftists are the worst at wanting to control others, because they are convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are sincerely doing it for the victim's own benefit.
I'd like some of whatever medication you're taking, but in a smaller dose.
We are supposed to believe that if we follow the rules, and if we accept being controlled, monitored, then we will be SAFE from such things.
This sentence embodies the pathetic nature of the progressive left.
I consider myself both "progressive" and "left" and this is not at all what I believe, nor is it anything even remotely close to what I believe.
Maybe you should stop painting with such a broad brush, because neither I nor any of the left-leaning people I know would agree with this bullshit statement.
To me, "just fine" includes the use case of going online to send mail, going offline to read it and compose replies, and going back online to send the replies.
I sometimes travel between areas where I don't have connectivity. When that happens I just open a text editor and compose my reply, go back online and paste it into the reply window.
Also, unless things have changed, Thunderbird allows toggling online/offline mode.
I think you and I should sign up for our free 7 day trial!
Oh yeah, no way that would get us put on any list. lol
Just knowing it's out there raises all sorts of evil possibilities, though. Think about it...what would it take to trigger some police agency's button and make them respond. It'd be like swatting, more or less.
Lol, they think they've blocked the Feds, but that's like blocking an unpopular opinion or winning the War On Drugs (or Terror, or Knitting, or whatever).
This sounds like a little kid hiding under a blanket and going, "You can't see me!"
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It will only temporarily be an expensive thing, if it even is. Mass demand and production will make the price drop rapidly.
Yeah, just like owning Teslas and Learjets and mansions, the price will come down until every bum and ne'er-do-well will be awash in them.
Sorry, but I think the idea of "a cabal of ultra rich hogging it eternally for themselves" is far more likely than every Joe and Jane Sixpack having access to it. Most people can't afford a hip-replacement, what's the chance of them being able to pay for life extension treatments?
Not to further the argument, but you labeled yourself "progressive left" and thus generalized your own ideologies. I only asked those questions to clarify your stance, for my benefit.
That's why I said it's not that simple. Some people I know (most) would consider me "left", while some others (not many) would label me as borderline conservative. It all depends on how well they think I line up with their definitions and ideology and what topic is under discussion.
One man's liberal is another man's socialist, and a third man's conservative. It's often relative depending on where the definer is on that spectrum. Hell, I've been labeled a "fascist" by more than a few people in my life because I didn't march in lockstep with their notions of right and wrong.
Maybe the market would respond to that by making more things that can be fixed, upgraded or refurbished and fewer planned obsolescence items that can't.
STOP with the crazy talk!!
"It appears to be a misunderstanding by officers on patrol of a recent, abstruse change in the parking rules."
Really? A "misunderstanding by officers"? You gonna stick with that answer?
Because when *I* break the law I don't get a pass because I "misunderstood" something. I mean, isn't it the police and judges who are the first to exclaim that "ignorance of the law is no excuse"?
I'm sure they'll pay back all of the people they wrongly ticketed, and with interest too. (Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, who am I kidding!)
Call this what is is: naked, blatant revenue enhancement.
Are you going to pay your your downloaded great -great-grandmother to exist in the Immortality Net?
I doubt I'd cough up the money for my own mother, frankly.
Also, how many generations back are you going to pay for people who have little to nothing in common with you beside some DNA?
For example, I doubt my great-great-great-great-grandfather and I would have a single common point of reference for anything.
And the same goes for my great-great-great-great-grandchild. I'd be as alien to them as a creature from deep within the Magellanic Cloud.
I'm pretty sure I could entertain myself for all eternity given a sufficient supply of 4X games, at least, judging from the "played" time on some of them on my steam profile...
I understand this is meant to be humorous, but you're probably not even 50 years old, right? You can't imagine five thousand years of conscious existence (I know I can't). Get back to me after the first 100,000 years of doing whatever and let me know if boredom might just possibly be an issue.
I'm rarely bored, but just thinking of 10,000 years of existing seems like a living hell.
Well you replied yes to the second question and thus are likely a progressive leftist, so that fits neatly into both of our points.
Yeah, well, basically the problem here is that lots of people don't fit neatly into whatever you imagine a "progressive leftist" is, so you're left to try and contort the meaning to match however you currently define it.
It ain't that simple.
You seem to have conveniently overlooked the fact that I answered "no" to your first question. OMG does that mean I'm not a "progressive leftist" after all?
Finally, thinking that there ought to be some sort of support services for mentally ill or distraught people does not equate to being a "progressive" or a "leftist". You're simplifying things to the point of silliness. Lots and LOTS of "conservatives" would be just fine with the idea of support services being available for suicidal people.
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
(Attributed to Susan Ertz)
I imagine that immortality would become quite a bore unless there were things to do in the eternal digital afterlife. Hopefully there would be some cool VR games that would be worth playing for a century or two.
What would be great is to be able to put your consciousness into a drone-body or something where you could go off and do something useful and/or interesting, ala the Iain Banks uber-powerful and capable drone entities.
I'm a conservative (what ever that means in Australia) and I thought the same thing, none of my leftest friends think like that at all.
I hear you. I know lots of people across the social and political spectrum and no one, literally no one I've ever spoken with about this thinks that suicide should be illegal. I'd like to find one so I could ask them, "Why? Why should suicide be illegal? And what should the penalty be?"
You don't believe that suicide is wrong and should be illegal? You don't believe there should have been some sort of support system in place for this woman to get help?
I don't believe that suicide is wrong, depending on your definition of "wrong", and I don't think it should be illegal. I know hundreds, if not thousands of liberals and conservatives and none of them that I'm aware of think that suicide should be illegal.
Should there have been some sort of resources available for this woman to get help if she wanted it? Sure, I see nothing wrong with making something like that available to those who want it (and there are in fact probably some already existing resources she could have used if she wanted to).
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If you answered no to these two questions you probably are not a progressive leftist.
Oh please, not this "no true Scotsman" fallacy bullshit again. Again, I consider myself both "progressive" and "left" and this is not even remotely close to what I believe. It's like you're pointing to something blue and crying "It's not blue enough for me to say it's blue!"
Leftists are the worst at wanting to control others, because they are convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are sincerely doing it for the victim's own benefit.
I'd like some of whatever medication you're taking, but in a smaller dose.
And at least order a few unbidden pizzas to the door.
Good, I like pizza. Make sure they put extra pepperoni on it.
Kickstarter will kick you off their site for doing this.
It is about the best course of action there is.
Oh noes!! I'd just have to cry myself to sleep...in my new house.
that I'll sue anyone who prints that I didn't date Jennifer Anniston.
That's nothing....I'll sue anyone who claims they're not suing me.
We are supposed to believe that if we follow the rules, and if we accept being controlled, monitored, then we will be SAFE from such things.
This sentence embodies the pathetic nature of the progressive left.
I consider myself both "progressive" and "left" and this is not at all what I believe, nor is it anything even remotely close to what I believe.
Maybe you should stop painting with such a broad brush, because neither I nor any of the left-leaning people I know would agree with this bullshit statement.
To me, "just fine" includes the use case of going online to send mail, going offline to read it and compose replies, and going back online to send the replies.
I sometimes travel between areas where I don't have connectivity. When that happens I just open a text editor and compose my reply, go back online and paste it into the reply window.
Also, unless things have changed, Thunderbird allows toggling online/offline mode.
What? A guy can't enjoy the feel of satin panties?
They're actually really nice to wear. I mean, that's what I hear.
"... Model X is extremely safe, with crumple zones that are unconcerned with engines that can transfer kinetic energy"
The word "unconcerned" makes no sense here. I'm guessing they may have meant "unaffected" or "unconnected" or "not affected".
ENGRISH MUTHAFUGGAH, dew ewe speech it??
"... Model X is extremely safe, with crumple zones that are unconcerned with engines that can transfer kinetic energy"
The word "unconcerned" makes no sense here. I'm guessing they may have meant "unaffected" or "unconnected" or "not affected".
ENGRISH MUTHAFUGGAH, dew ewe speek it??
You call that low latency? I routinely get 32ms (round trip ping) from google.com.
FWIW, I have Frontier Fiber and I routinely get ~6 or 7ms pings.
I suppose if I was a gamer that would be great, but I'm not. The porn gets here ASAP, though.
I think you and I should sign up for our free 7 day trial!
Oh yeah, no way that would get us put on any list. lol
Just knowing it's out there raises all sorts of evil possibilities, though. Think about it...what would it take to trigger some police agency's button and make them respond. It'd be like swatting, more or less.
Actually quite awesome, so far the best mobile OS I have tried :D
Everyone else says it sucks. This is from a while ago, but it's just as true now as it was then:
I was speaking with my son the other night and he wants to replace his Galaxy S6.
I said, "What about a Windows phone?" and then we both just laughed and laughed. It was like I'd told the funniest dad-joke ever.
So, you're a "twitter shitter", then?
He really needs to get with the times and buy himself an internet-enabled toilet. Manual poo-alerts are so 2006!
"Without BlueJay, we would not have had the situational awareness to effectively act upon such a time-sensitive situation."
TRANSLATION:
"Without BlueJay, we would not have been able to keep tabs on all of these citizens."
And they bill themselves as a "Law Enforcement Crime Scanner". Yippee.
Lol, they think they've blocked the Feds, but that's like blocking an unpopular opinion or winning the War On Drugs (or Terror, or Knitting, or whatever).
This sounds like a little kid hiding under a blanket and going, "You can't see me!"