Exactly. If people do actually care about it, non cloned labeled beef will sell well. If only a fringe element cares, it won't and the luddites will have to pay a steep premium for their paranoia, which seems fair.
It also limits Apple to a bit player in the overall market. Besides, these days there aren't the multitude of devices needing drivers that there once was. You have ATI and Nvidia making video cards, otherwise onboard video, which is pretty much ATI or Intel. There are a dozen or so wireless chipsets, otherwise everything else is pretty much standardized.
Yes, there would be less suffering, but there would also be less happiness, because that cow wouldn't have existed in the first place if it wheren't raised for it's meat/milk. If, as you argue, suffering is all we should be concerned with, then eating meat is a mercy, as that particular cow is no longer suffering.
There's no contradiction in eating one sort of animal and not another. Cats, dogs and dolphins are species I have reason to believe are intelligent enough to be considered at least somewhat sapient. Cows are not, and thus they fall in the same basket as carrots and rocks.
I'm always amused at vegans claiming to be thinking of the welfare of cows and calling for an end to their consumption. How many cows do you think would be around if we stopped eating them?
Respect for the law? Fuck that. Bad laws, by and large, only get changed because people start ignoring them. I'll continue to smoke pot and download whatever I please.
Stealing is always illegal, but not everything that is illegal is stealing.
Don't like that we pass around cultural artifacts freely? Tough shit. You're on the wrong side of history, and you can't stop us. Society adapts to new technology, not the other way around.
I hope you don't smoke, drive, drink, have children, live in an area with thunder storms or do any of the other numerous things far more dangerous than terrorism.
Your customers are going to have to be people who don't have gaming capable computers. If they get them, they're not likely to be your customers any more.
You have some very strange and messed up priorities if you're seriously calling for spending research money on canine rather than human cancer research.
You probably could have saved a person with that $10k.
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So, they'll be insisting that all those passengers not use a car to complete their trip, then? Terrorism isn't actually all that dangerous.
Actually, Russia would have had nukes much sooner if they *hadn't* tried to use stolen plans.
Exactly. If people do actually care about it, non cloned labeled beef will sell well. If only a fringe element cares, it won't and the luddites will have to pay a steep premium for their paranoia, which seems fair.
It also limits Apple to a bit player in the overall market. Besides, these days there aren't the multitude of devices needing drivers that there once was. You have ATI and Nvidia making video cards, otherwise onboard video, which is pretty much ATI or Intel. There are a dozen or so wireless chipsets, otherwise everything else is pretty much standardized.
Yes, there would be less suffering, but there would also be less happiness, because that cow wouldn't have existed in the first place if it wheren't raised for it's meat/milk. If, as you argue, suffering is all we should be concerned with, then eating meat is a mercy, as that particular cow is no longer suffering.
There's no contradiction in eating one sort of animal and not another. Cats, dogs and dolphins are species I have reason to believe are intelligent enough to be considered at least somewhat sapient. Cows are not, and thus they fall in the same basket as carrots and rocks.
People can't eat software, either.
Apple could do that *now*, if they'd sell MacOS for commodity systems.
There's a much more rational alternative. Non cloned beef can (optionally) be labled as such, and they marketplace still decides.
But the health issues form the base, the morality is just superstition, like kosher food.
I'm always amused at vegans claiming to be thinking of the welfare of cows and calling for an end to their consumption. How many cows do you think would be around if we stopped eating them?
The main objections to canabalism are health related, not morality.
You can't label every little thing, so unless there is a provable health reason to do so, labels should not be required.
drugs != vaccines
Respect for the law? Fuck that. Bad laws, by and large, only get changed because people start ignoring them. I'll continue to smoke pot and download whatever I please.
Stealing is always illegal, but not everything that is illegal is stealing.
Don't like that we pass around cultural artifacts freely? Tough shit. You're on the wrong side of history, and you can't stop us. Society adapts to new technology, not the other way around.
Music companies have absolutely no say in what rights I do or do not have.
Are the ads my browser drops on the floor worth?
I hope you don't smoke, drive, drink, have children, live in an area with thunder storms or do any of the other numerous things far more dangerous than terrorism.
I imagine its pretty similar to the current practice of flagging anyone who looks too Arabic.
So, rule by those with the most free time. With housing co-ops, it turns into a geritocracy of the attention deprived.
Wireless capability could be pretty nifty if it let you grab stuff off of each others players. Which is perfectly legal in the civilized world.
All console gaming systems are sold at a loss, not just the XBox.
Your customers are going to have to be people who don't have gaming capable computers. If they get them, they're not likely to be your customers any more.
You have some very strange and messed up priorities if you're seriously calling for spending research money on canine rather than human cancer research.
You probably could have saved a person with that $10k.
But words change meaning over time. Also, English is not Latin.