It's not supposed to stop terrorism. It's supposed to make you feel good. Plus it will be yet another source of revenue. What - you expect this ID card to be "free"? No, 40 pounds please...
What exactly is the difference between a terrorist from the 1970's with multiple ID's and a contemporary terrorist with multiple ID's that makes a national ID card so necessary now?
It's like the whole copy protection thing. Someone sold them the idea that "digital" biometric data can be encrypted, massaged, DRMed and whatnot, and that it's an absolute guaranteed foolproof way of storing someone's personal information. Except that it's not.
If the government machines can read the data, so can anyone else. It's only a matter of time before the code is hacked. But it lulls the sheep (and politicians) into a false sense of security.
when the problem is cold fusion, isn't the solution a scientist?
No the solution is a large grant at regular intervals, for at least YOUR lifetime... But it will happen, I *promise*, and when it does, either we'll blow up the planet or have an inexhaustible supply of cheap energy, cats and dogs will be friends, women will want sex every day, and we'll be stinking rich!!! Yadda yadda yadda...
(doorbell rings) Black suited goon: Hi, I'm Jack from the CDC. We'd like to have a little talk with you about "your" virus, care to accompany me to my office?
Unfortunately the Pfizer receptor activates the Roche second messenger that has to go through the Merck gateway in the nucleus to bind to the Schering site on the DNA molecule. I doubt your drug will work...
So how much has the life expectancy of an HIV+ individual increased since the use of combination antiviral drug therapy?
Life expectancy has increased a great deal, with one catch. You need 98% compliance to the treatment regimen. Be sure not to miss too many doses either now or 20 years from now, or you WILL develop AIDS.
why are governments around the world scrambling to stockpile tamiflu?
Because a drowning man will clutch at a straw, and it's better to be seen doing "something" than doing "nothing". Tamiflu is not particularly effective against H5N1 influenza.
Anti viral drugs like acyclovir, valcyclovir, foscarnet, amantadine, etc at best slow down viral replication and limit the damage done by the virus. They do NOT eliminate the virus, nor do they "cure" a person's viral infection.
Once you've got a digital video stream transmitting to the brain it wouldn't be too hard to manipulate it to produce "hallucinations".
It wouldn't be to hard to copyright the video stream either. You just got a letter from the MPAA asking for $3000 because you took your bionic eye to the movies and illegaly copied one of their films...
I wonder how the brain would handle seeing a near-infinite resolution image coming out of the organic eye, and a VGA/SVGA image from the implant.
Probably in the same way that the brain handles everything else. Horribly to begin with, headaches, vertigo, vomiting. And a couple months later, you'll hardly notice it.
Starflight.... god I spent so many hours playing that game. And Sentinel Worlds - Future Magic. These were GOOD games. If only today's designers would take note.
I agree that EA started to suck when they decided to start buying up the competition instead of looking for fresh content. And I will never forgive them for what they did to Kesmai.
Phooey. Those of us who keep the faith know all along that it's a giant dragon imprisoned beneath the Earth, and you're merely listening to his snore. How do you explain earthquakes and volcanoes with BEES? The dragon makes much more sense. Convert now, unbeliever!
While we might accept the turtles, our wise men actually explain to us that the last turtle is actually standing on a dog that is chasing it's own tail - which explains the rotation.
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the PC Games sections at a major department store recently?
Who buys games at a department store? There are specialty stores and for even more choice - the internet.
640 GB should be enough for everyone.
Surely you meant 640TB...!
"America" is more than the United States, and Canada and Mexico
Not to mention the hundreds of millions of latin americans in Central and South America, all metric.
How will this stop terrorism
It's not supposed to stop terrorism. It's supposed to make you feel good. Plus it will be yet another source of revenue. What - you expect this ID card to be "free"? No, 40 pounds please...
What exactly is the difference between a terrorist from the 1970's with multiple ID's and a contemporary terrorist with multiple ID's that makes a national ID card so necessary now?
It's like the whole copy protection thing. Someone sold them the idea that "digital" biometric data can be encrypted, massaged, DRMed and whatnot, and that it's an absolute guaranteed foolproof way of storing someone's personal information. Except that it's not.
If the government machines can read the data, so can anyone else. It's only a matter of time before the code is hacked. But it lulls the sheep (and politicians) into a false sense of security.
Next they will tax our minds.
;)
Most of the music they publish DOES tax our mind... pun intented
Oh an a decent temperature - it was bloody 40 degrees C last weekend :(
You'll trade that for -40 C? You aussies are nuts, eh?
when the problem is cold fusion, isn't the solution a scientist?
No the solution is a large grant at regular intervals, for at least YOUR lifetime... But it will happen, I *promise*, and when it does, either we'll blow up the planet or have an inexhaustible supply of cheap energy, cats and dogs will be friends, women will want sex every day, and we'll be stinking rich!!! Yadda yadda yadda...
This is just another case of the police force trying to intimidate someone who caught an officer doing something maybe they should not have been doing
;)
There, fixed it for ya. Thanks for the informative post, btw
GM food is no different
Your assertion does not fit in well with the results:
Mice that ate non GM potatoes - no cancer
Mice that ate GM potates - cancer
Please explain.
nothing wrong with gm crops you retards
And amazingly the rats that ate non GM potatoes did NOT get cancer, despite being in the same "cold" lab.
and the rats that died in the experiment were probably too cold in a bloody Russian lab.
So you propose that a new cause of cancer is "COLD"? You amaze me.
There are people who use MSN for searching? Name two.
Lincoln 6 Echo and Jordan 2 Delta in the movie "The Island". Oh, you meant REAL people? Sorry...
Patenting a virus...
(doorbell rings)
Black suited goon: Hi, I'm Jack from the CDC. We'd like to have a little talk with you about "your" virus, care to accompany me to my office?
The Pfizer receptor!!!
Unfortunately the Pfizer receptor activates the Roche second messenger that has to go through the Merck gateway in the nucleus to bind to the Schering site on the DNA molecule. I doubt your drug will work...
So how much has the life expectancy of an HIV+ individual increased since the use of combination antiviral drug therapy?
Life expectancy has increased a great deal, with one catch. You need 98% compliance to the treatment regimen. Be sure not to miss too many doses either now or 20 years from now, or you WILL develop AIDS.
why are governments around the world scrambling to stockpile tamiflu?
Because a drowning man will clutch at a straw, and it's better to be seen doing "something" than doing "nothing". Tamiflu is not particularly effective against H5N1 influenza.
they're called anti-viral drugs.
Anti viral drugs like acyclovir, valcyclovir, foscarnet, amantadine, etc at best slow down viral replication and limit the damage done by the virus. They do NOT eliminate the virus, nor do they "cure" a person's viral infection.
Depends on the virus. Some are DNA viruses, some are RNA. Some are single strand, others double strand. Etc...
A cat who had been raised in a horizontal-only world could hop up on the seat of a chair, but would bump into the legs if he tried to walk under it.
Cool! Next time I have kittens I know what I'm going to do....(evil laugh) heeeere kitty kitty kitty
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who is to say they can't turn you into a damn big d-cell?
;)
Whoa, so the matrix is real?
Once you've got a digital video stream transmitting to the brain it wouldn't be too hard to manipulate it to produce "hallucinations".
It wouldn't be to hard to copyright the video stream either. You just got a letter from the MPAA asking for $3000 because you took your bionic eye to the movies and illegaly copied one of their films...
I wonder how the brain would handle seeing a near-infinite resolution image coming out of the organic eye, and a VGA/SVGA image from the implant.
Probably in the same way that the brain handles everything else. Horribly to begin with, headaches, vertigo, vomiting. And a couple months later, you'll hardly notice it.
And Archon! Can't forget Archon...
Starflight.... god I spent so many hours playing that game. And Sentinel Worlds - Future Magic. These were GOOD games. If only today's designers would take note.
I agree that EA started to suck when they decided to start buying up the competition instead of looking for fresh content. And I will never forgive them for what they did to Kesmai.
Phooey. Those of us who keep the faith know all along that it's a giant dragon imprisoned beneath the Earth, and you're merely listening to his snore. How do you explain earthquakes and volcanoes with BEES? The dragon makes much more sense. Convert now, unbeliever!
While we might accept the turtles, our wise men actually explain to us that the last turtle is actually standing on a dog that is chasing it's own tail - which explains the rotation.
It's much better if you use ants
Then, with a nod to Terry Pratchett, you could claim that your machine has "anthill inside".