Sorry, but there's a rather RIDICULOUSLY HUGE ethical divide between engineering a potential food/energy/natural materials source and engineering people.
Even taking out the racial connotations and stating you're looking at it from a more "humane" angle is STILL going to raise hackles.
Also, genetics has been getting studied for under a century. While YES, we know a LOT about the human genome, there's still a lot we don't know. Such as WHY some of these diseases and behaviors are in our genetic code in the first place. Yet people want to start selecting away from it, or better still, excising it from our genetic code?
They're essentially playing with fire, and the nearest bucket of water is someplace in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri.
The people hearing the *FLUSH* right about now were The SCO Group (aka Caldera Systems, later Caldera International).
Essentially, they bought some of the original SCO UNIX IP when Santa Cruz Operation became Tarantella Inc.
Later, they entered into a licensing agreement with Novell to collect fees based on THEIR copyrights.
Caldera, having delusions of grandeur, decided that they'd *bought* all that UNIX IP, didn't pay Novell a dime, changed their name to The SCO Group, and decided that they'd try to take ownership of ALL *nix by trying to collect royalties on anything *nix derivative (including Linux, which they'd contributed to). They somehow thought that holding huge companies like IBM hostage. Apparently they forgot that IBM's lawyers were INFINITELY nastier predators than ANYONE they could afford to hire.
Not to mention incoming and outgoing lawsuits squaring off against RedHat, AutoZone, SGI, and Daimler Chrysler.
The only thing that kept them afloat that long was intervention by Microsoft, looking to chum the waters further.
In short, the asscreants at The SCO Group (a group of litigation-happy IP trolls who didn't do their homework) have jack and shit to do with the original Santa Cruz Operation (a group of technologists).
These ass clowns could have money shooting from every available orifice, on-demand and in any denomination they desire (Including Berkshire-Hathaway Class A stock), and STILL they'd complain that their revenues were impacted.
Basically they're using the following formula:
100% profit is:
* Not actually having a service to keep running/support/etc. * Having no employees. * Having people give them money for nothing.
Anything beyond that is some horrific imposition on them that fatally impacts their fiscal stability...
The US government could fuck up a wet dream to the point one would long for the sensation of having one's genitals removed with belt sander. And the UN is no different. Just multinational. While both were founded with the right idea, they've both gone GREIVIOUSLY astray, to the point that they're generally more harmful than helpful.
HOWEVER, the US government DOES, occasionally do things "correctly". I really, REALLY wish I could say the same thing about the UN.
At this point, the US stewardship of the Internet isn't the most desirable outcome. But it's a damn sight better than handing it over to an (at best) wildly ineffectual and horrifically subverted organization like the UN.
Handing over control of free speech and open access to information to people who have every intention of demolishing both? Are you fucking nuts?
I hate the bloated panopticon monster my government has become, and I seriously think that it needs to be pared back, by armed conflict if necessary. But I'd have the politicians here where we can get at them and remove them, than some asshat in a bunker in China where we'd have to start a war to remove them.
Yeah. Illinois is corrupt. Look up "Corruption" in a dictionary and the entire entry is in the shape of the state of Illinois.
Note: The federal government didn't "stamp out organized crime" in the 20's and 30's. Organized crime simply stepped into local government because they could get away with more and it was more lucrative.
If they have a bleeding story, no matter how fabricated or skewed it is, they'll run it.
If they don't, they'll simply be trumped by everyone else who WILL.
News agencies today are struggling under the lack of actual news-worthy content and feel the need to exploit ever more dubiously "newsworthy" events to fake the appearance of relevance.
Hope that jaw doesn't ache too much from the jacking that Mr. Aldrin gave it. Oh yeah, here's more proof from one of our lunar orbiters that there are, indeed, flags on the moon where the landings occurred and that all but one are still standing.
Decades ago, company A copied stuff from company B. And even though look and feel can't be patented or copyrighted we're going to whine and snivel about it until the end of time!
WAAAAH!
Just as an FYI, Apple did the same to Xerox. And don't start with the revisionist "Apple paid for that...years and years and years later" crap.
As a consumer, you shouldn't give a shit WHERE a given appearance or feature comes from. So long as it benefits you and other users.
Only stupid fanboys who never leave mom's basement continue to harp about ancient history.
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Sorry, but there's a rather RIDICULOUSLY HUGE ethical divide between engineering a potential food/energy/natural materials source and engineering people.
He's STILL talking eugenics.
Even taking out the racial connotations and stating you're looking at it from a more "humane" angle is STILL going to raise hackles.
Also, genetics has been getting studied for under a century. While YES, we know a LOT about the human genome, there's still a lot we don't know. Such as WHY some of these diseases and behaviors are in our genetic code in the first place. Yet people want to start selecting away from it, or better still, excising it from our genetic code?
They're essentially playing with fire, and the nearest bucket of water is someplace in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri.
Dude! He's a political hack from the Chicago Machine!
Were you expecting Abe Lincoln Jr. here?
The government didn't "stamp out" organized crime in Chicago. Organized crime took over the government because lying to the people is more lucrative.
Well SOMEONE needs to call you people out on your conspicuous consumption of extra digits!
Just checking.
Had a blast at the last one.
Sorry, but IBM is the birthplace of "Here's the first tractor-trailer of paperwork. Where do you want the OTHER hundred and thirty seven?"
It's a commonly known fact that IBM's lawyers eat their own children... =)
Basically they tried to extort unwarranted "license fees" from any and ever avenue they could find.
And anyone who didn't play ball got served.
Agreed. Their initial releases of Caldera OpenLinux were some of the most user-friendly Linux installs EXTANT at the time.
Stupidly easy to navigate. And while it installed, they gave you a game of TETRIS to keep you occupied.
Nonono.
That was Santa Cruz Operation.
COMPLETELY different outfit.
The people hearing the *FLUSH* right about now were The SCO Group (aka Caldera Systems, later Caldera International).
Essentially, they bought some of the original SCO UNIX IP when Santa Cruz Operation became Tarantella Inc.
Later, they entered into a licensing agreement with Novell to collect fees based on THEIR copyrights.
Caldera, having delusions of grandeur, decided that they'd *bought* all that UNIX IP, didn't pay Novell a dime, changed their name to The SCO Group, and decided that they'd try to take ownership of ALL *nix by trying to collect royalties on anything *nix derivative (including Linux, which they'd contributed to). They somehow thought that holding huge companies like IBM hostage. Apparently they forgot that IBM's lawyers were INFINITELY nastier predators than ANYONE they could afford to hire.
Not to mention incoming and outgoing lawsuits squaring off against RedHat, AutoZone, SGI, and Daimler Chrysler.
The only thing that kept them afloat that long was intervention by Microsoft, looking to chum the waters further.
In short, the asscreants at The SCO Group (a group of litigation-happy IP trolls who didn't do their homework) have jack and shit to do with the original Santa Cruz Operation (a group of technologists).
Well fuck me!
*TWITCH!*TWITCH*
I'd like to swim upstream and spawn, but the last time I tried it, I wound up in Lake Erie! Eww! And MAN is the wind cold at supersonic speeds!
It took me almost a week to swim home! It would have happened faster, but I ran out of caffeine two-days from home. Hawaii was nice though.
Now where was I?
Oh yeah.
WE'RE VERY AWAKE DOWN HERE GUYS!
Yes yes.
But how much shareholder value is there in a company that tanks because they've cut their own throat with regards to growth and expansion of assets?
These ass clowns could have money shooting from every available orifice, on-demand and in any denomination they desire (Including Berkshire-Hathaway Class A stock), and STILL they'd complain that their revenues were impacted.
Basically they're using the following formula:
100% profit is:
* Not actually having a service to keep running/support/etc.
* Having no employees.
* Having people give them money for nothing.
Anything beyond that is some horrific imposition on them that fatally impacts their fiscal stability...
Of course there's zero research need.
The findings will be:
Nothing one cannot achieve with a simple thought experiment.
Speaking honestly, as an American here.
The US government could fuck up a wet dream to the point one would long for the sensation of having one's genitals removed with belt sander.
And the UN is no different. Just multinational.
While both were founded with the right idea, they've both gone GREIVIOUSLY astray, to the point that they're generally more harmful than helpful.
HOWEVER, the US government DOES, occasionally do things "correctly".
I really, REALLY wish I could say the same thing about the UN.
At this point, the US stewardship of the Internet isn't the most desirable outcome. But it's a damn sight better than handing it over to an (at best) wildly ineffectual and horrifically subverted organization like the UN.
Handing over control of free speech and open access to information to people who have every intention of demolishing both? Are you fucking nuts?
I hate the bloated panopticon monster my government has become, and I seriously think that it needs to be pared back, by armed conflict if necessary. But I'd have the politicians here where we can get at them and remove them, than some asshat in a bunker in China where we'd have to start a war to remove them.
That's great.
The problem is going to be getting nVidia and AMD onboard for this.
nVidia's OGL support is really no better than it has to be.
The NICEST thing that can be said about AMD's OGL support is that it sucks harder than a fifty megawatt Hoover vacuum.
They're both deeply in bed with Microsoft and most of their driver work goes towards optimizing their DirectX rendering pipeline.
Getting them to shift gears is going to take some doing. And probably a couple truckfulls of money.
That's only because a number of reviewers disappeared and lots of people were paid or threatened to keep their mouths shut.
Yeah. Illinois is corrupt. Look up "Corruption" in a dictionary and the entire entry is in the shape of the state of Illinois.
Note: The federal government didn't "stamp out organized crime" in the 20's and 30's. Organized crime simply stepped into local government because they could get away with more and it was more lucrative.
If they have a bleeding story, no matter how fabricated or skewed it is, they'll run it.
If they don't, they'll simply be trumped by everyone else who WILL.
News agencies today are struggling under the lack of actual news-worthy content and feel the need to exploit ever more dubiously "newsworthy" events to fake the appearance of relevance.
Where'd I put my popcorn?
It's called an "airlock inspection".
Dear Mr. Sibrel,
Hope that jaw doesn't ache too much from the jacking that Mr. Aldrin gave it.
Oh yeah, here's more proof from one of our lunar orbiters that there are, indeed, flags on the moon where the landings occurred and that all but one are still standing.
Hoax theory disproved bitch!
NASA
Like I said. Revisionism.
It's the very soul of hipocrisy.
Sweet flipping Cthulu.
Decades ago, company A copied stuff from company B. And even though look and feel can't be patented or copyrighted we're going to whine and snivel about it until the end of time!
WAAAAH!
Just as an FYI, Apple did the same to Xerox. And don't start with the revisionist "Apple paid for that...years and years and years later" crap.
As a consumer, you shouldn't give a shit WHERE a given appearance or feature comes from. So long as it benefits you and other users.
Only stupid fanboys who never leave mom's basement continue to harp about ancient history.
Pray I don't Altair them any further???