Re:It doesn't take half a brain to see this.
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Nanotech doesn't play by the same rules as currently extant terrestrial biology.
We can't 'eat' air and dirt and use it (and it alone) to grow and reproduce. Nanites could, in theory, do just that, by using raw materials in the air and the earth to reproduce. It all depends on (A) how they are programmed, (B) how they mutate, and (C) how lucky (or unlucky) we are.-
Well, as the other reply below so eloquently put it, humans are imperfect. To create a grey-goo doomsday nanodevice would require perfect engineering, ensuring the device withstands all climates, can consume any material, and can avoid all attempts by people to stop it from growing. While I agree we need to be cautious, raising this cautiousness to absurd heights is just as dangerous as being completely carefree.
It doesn't take half a brain to see this.
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Don't Stymie Nanotech
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The oft-mentioned "grey goo" scenario is fundamentally flawed, because at the base level, this is how all organisms work: we feed and feed as much as our environs let us, and then breed and multiply to fill out our population to as far as our ecosystem supports. Without natural selection, climate changes, predators, or other natural population barriers, any organism (including humans) would become its own "grey goo". The fact that none of God's pantheon of creatures have managed to completely subvert nature and consume the planet should show anyone fearful of nanotech that it's absurd to think a human-created microdevice could do the same.
Chances are the original author is no longer interested in the code, and may not want to hear about it anymore. Either that, or they've lost their Internet connectivity, moved on with their lives, or maybe even died. In all these case, I don't think they'll give a rat's ass if you take over their code and clean it up. And if they do, well, you can ask them to help you maintain your forked version:-) Leaving a project abandoned because somebody might not want you to work on it is wasteful, and goes against the whole Open-Source philosophy.
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It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have allowed themselves to be so swiftly deluded by a fraudulent fabrication of such ridiculous proportions. The very idea that not one, but two jumbo jets would crash themselves into a famous New York skyscraper -- in broad daylight with vigilant air-traffic controllers and tight airport security watching every move of every craft in the air -- is laughable. Furthermore, it is a horrendous affront to the world-renowned intellect and common sense of the American people. The fact that anyone could actually believe this is evidence that the Liberals -- after decades of waging war against intellectual integrity and honesty -- have finally ripped the few remaining, tenuous strands of control of our educational system from full-blooded, hard-working, God-fearing Americans.
As such wonderful documentaries as The Siege have so articulately exposed, the Liberal masterminds in Berkeley and their toadies throughout the nation have been silently waging war against the American people and their God-given rights to protect themselves, their worship, their family values, and their hard work. Much of this has been conducted under the guise of preventing "terrorism", a meaningless word engineered by radical left-wingers specifically to bring fear into the heart of honest Americans. Think about it -- can you remember any reference to so-called "terrorism" that occurred before Liberals invaded our government offices in the last decade? Of course you can't, because despite whatever the revisionist histories may tell you, there is no mention of any "terrorism" in classic literature before 1980. Only then did the neo-Marxists invent such absurd figures as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden in order to legitimize their anti-freedom agenda, drowning the spirit of the American people in a blatantly-engineered machine of fear and mourning for "victims" of these "terrorist attacks".
In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that the concept of a 110-story building even being built, much less two, is a clear and obvious fraud. No documentation of these "twin towers" existed before a "terrorist attack" occured on the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers on September the 11th. Due to this hoax being perpetrated by the Liberal-controlled media, suddenly people all over the world mourned the loss of thousands of people who had not existed before. Innocent men and women, brainwashed by the left-wing education institutions, gave firsthand accounts of losing relatives they never had until the "attack" happened.
But the most outrageous aspect of this hoax is the "Pentagon" -- a government office fabricated especially for this purpose. Liberal media claims this imaginary building to be "the center of America's defense system", although obviously an organization as proud and God-fearing as the United States Military would never think to station themselves in a building of five sides, so obviously close to the pentagram, mark of Lucifer himself. It is insulting to the nation's intelligence that eight hundred members of the world's proudest institution would be made to meet their Lord by something as graceful, efficient, and secure as our country's fine aviation system.
Don't let the devious tricks of the Liberals allow you, a citizen of the greatest nation this Earth has ever or will ever know, to surrender your freedoms. Any lesser nation would have succumbed to their wills long ago, and indeed the socialist states in Europe already have. It is only the superior resilience, pride, and intellect of America that has allowed it to withstand the constant threat of Liberal control.
I'd choose losing a precious symbol over human lives any day of the week
I would have to say the opposite. The Statue is a symbol of freedom, liberty, and hope, the ideas this nation was founded on. A few thousand mindless salaried workers, living vicariously through their material possessions, in a glorified indentured service, living between paychecks -- do the loss of these people really affect anything? Despite the media hoopla, life will go on as normal once the newscast ratings drop and people get tired of seeing the same 15 minutes worth of footage looped repeatedly on TV. As sorry as I am, simply for the sheer number of victims, I can't say I can hold them above the ideal of Liberty.
Well Linux, using the open POSIX APIs, opens up its software to a much wider range of potential platforms than proprietary platforms like Win32, MacOS, or BeOS' system APIs. Most "Linux" software can compile with no (or very few) changes on nearly any reasonable UNIX variant, and can even be coerced to run on Windows using things like Cygwin or Interix. I would much rather see an open system like Linux take over as the "mainstream religion" you claim, because the software written for Linux would at least be far more mobile platform-wise than Microsoft's current smattering of APIs.
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We can't 'eat' air and dirt and use it (and it alone) to grow and reproduce. Nanites could, in theory, do just that, by using raw materials in the air and the earth to reproduce. It all depends on (A) how they are programmed, (B) how they mutate, and (C) how lucky (or unlucky) we are.- Well, as the other reply below so eloquently put it, humans are imperfect. To create a grey-goo doomsday nanodevice would require perfect engineering, ensuring the device withstands all climates, can consume any material, and can avoid all attempts by people to stop it from growing. While I agree we need to be cautious, raising this cautiousness to absurd heights is just as dangerous as being completely carefree.
The oft-mentioned "grey goo" scenario is fundamentally flawed, because at the base level, this is how all organisms work: we feed and feed as much as our environs let us, and then breed and multiply to fill out our population to as far as our ecosystem supports. Without natural selection, climate changes, predators, or other natural population barriers, any organism (including humans) would become its own "grey goo". The fact that none of God's pantheon of creatures have managed to completely subvert nature and consume the planet should show anyone fearful of nanotech that it's absurd to think a human-created microdevice could do the same.
Chances are the original author is no longer interested in the code, and may not want to hear about it anymore. Either that, or they've lost their Internet connectivity, moved on with their lives, or maybe even died. In all these case, I don't think they'll give a rat's ass if you take over their code and clean it up. And if they do, well, you can ask them to help you maintain your forked version :-) Leaving a project abandoned because somebody might not want you to work on it is wasteful, and goes against the whole Open-Source philosophy.
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He was comparing Microsoft to the United States, not the terrorists, you moron.
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As such wonderful documentaries as The Siege have so articulately exposed, the Liberal masterminds in Berkeley and their toadies throughout the nation have been silently waging war against the American people and their God-given rights to protect themselves, their worship, their family values, and their hard work. Much of this has been conducted under the guise of preventing "terrorism", a meaningless word engineered by radical left-wingers specifically to bring fear into the heart of honest Americans. Think about it -- can you remember any reference to so-called "terrorism" that occurred before Liberals invaded our government offices in the last decade? Of course you can't, because despite whatever the revisionist histories may tell you, there is no mention of any "terrorism" in classic literature before 1980. Only then did the neo-Marxists invent such absurd figures as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden in order to legitimize their anti-freedom agenda, drowning the spirit of the American people in a blatantly-engineered machine of fear and mourning for "victims" of these "terrorist attacks".
In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that the concept of a 110-story building even being built, much less two, is a clear and obvious fraud. No documentation of these "twin towers" existed before a "terrorist attack" occured on the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers on September the 11th. Due to this hoax being perpetrated by the Liberal-controlled media, suddenly people all over the world mourned the loss of thousands of people who had not existed before. Innocent men and women, brainwashed by the left-wing education institutions, gave firsthand accounts of losing relatives they never had until the "attack" happened.
But the most outrageous aspect of this hoax is the "Pentagon" -- a government office fabricated especially for this purpose. Liberal media claims this imaginary building to be "the center of America's defense system", although obviously an organization as proud and God-fearing as the United States Military would never think to station themselves in a building of five sides, so obviously close to the pentagram, mark of Lucifer himself. It is insulting to the nation's intelligence that eight hundred members of the world's proudest institution would be made to meet their Lord by something as graceful, efficient, and secure as our country's fine aviation system.
Don't let the devious tricks of the Liberals allow you, a citizen of the greatest nation this Earth has ever or will ever know, to surrender your freedoms. Any lesser nation would have succumbed to their wills long ago, and indeed the socialist states in Europe already have. It is only the superior resilience, pride, and intellect of America that has allowed it to withstand the constant threat of Liberal control.
I would have to say the opposite. The Statue is a symbol of freedom, liberty, and hope, the ideas this nation was founded on. A few thousand mindless salaried workers, living vicariously through their material possessions, in a glorified indentured service, living between paychecks -- do the loss of these people really affect anything? Despite the media hoopla, life will go on as normal once the newscast ratings drop and people get tired of seeing the same 15 minutes worth of footage looped repeatedly on TV. As sorry as I am, simply for the sheer number of victims, I can't say I can hold them above the ideal of Liberty.
Well Linux, using the open POSIX APIs, opens up its software to a much wider range of potential platforms than proprietary platforms like Win32, MacOS, or BeOS' system APIs. Most "Linux" software can compile with no (or very few) changes on nearly any reasonable UNIX variant, and can even be coerced to run on Windows using things like Cygwin or Interix. I would much rather see an open system like Linux take over as the "mainstream religion" you claim, because the software written for Linux would at least be far more mobile platform-wise than Microsoft's current smattering of APIs.