Typical. Them powerful folk always imprison the greatest inventors and artists. The world could use your brains, and yet you are rotting in a jail cell for no good reason.
According to Chapter II, Article 35 of the People's Republic of China constitution -- Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration. -- pornography should be legal. Hmmph.
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Expect support once Opera 7.60 is released. The current beta has partial support, but you need to jump through hoops to get it to work.
Hi, this is Christ. I am back. Could you loan me twenty bucks Canadian? I, like, totally lost that poker game to the Sasquatch. He wants to eat my thumbs. My precious thumbs.
(Interestingly, In Mississippi and South Carolina, slaves outnumbered whites. In Louisiana, whites had only a 1/2% edge, so a few pro-civil-rights whites could have tipped the balance. So yes, a state-by-state full democratic vote on civil rights in the 1860s would have resulted in a better situation.)
A few people of the black persuasion brain-washed into voting against civil rights could have tipped it back the other way. Hmmph.
It's important to note that Christians don't have to be Young Earth Creationists.
Also, why does carbon dating keep getting dragged out in these things? IIRC, it's only useful between 80000 and 8000 BCE. That's useful for anthropologists who track the spread of modern Homo sapiens around the world, but pretty much useless for actual palaeontologists.
Finally, please give Darwin a rest. Yes, he was the first to see the forest that is evolution instead of just peering at trees, but his theories are rather dated and puritanical. Go pick on Dawkins or Gould or whoever.
As far as I know, you should have either written "metres" and "litres" or "meters" and "liters". Mixing British and American spellings mid-sentence is a bit odd.
Finally, the US government has never really tried to legislate the use of SI the way most others have. You do not have a legal requirement to list kilograms anywhere pounds are used, or to post speed limit signs in kilometres, or anything of that sort.
In order to have viable third parties in the presidential race, you'll need viable third parties in Congress.
The best way to make third parties viable in the Congress would be to introduce a nationwide ballot where you select parties from a list. The parties then choose qualified representatives to be congresscritters.
This system can be slightly unstable -- see Israel, Italy -- but it can be tempered by keeping a certain minority of congresscritters elected personally by district. Such tempering is very effective in Germany and New Zealand at producing stable, representative governments (NZ being a country that has recently switched from traditional first-past-the-post to proportional represenation).
Yes, it is obvious. Right now, there is an undemocratic tyranny of rural issues over the vastly more important urban issues in America.
Cities are the backbone of American economy. Cities are the hotbed of American liberty. Cities are the birthing grounds of American art. Cities are the homelands of American science. Rural crap needs to FOAD.
If increased democracy would de-emphasize 19th Century rural bullshit, then so much the better.
2) Predictive science fiction is as alive as ever.Its greatest practitioner, Greg Egan, is still in his prime. His works range from vear human near-future (Quarantine, Teranesia, Distress) with requisite sociopolitical commentary to majestic far-futures (Diaspora and Schild's Ladder) that are unequalled in brilliance and tend to require a degree in physics to fully appreciate.
Other notables, such as Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, are also still plugging along. Kim Stanley Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy rocked the Nineties and it is anything but predictive.
3) Science fiction has seldom emphasized prediction. Many of the great classics -- Asimov's Foundation, Herbert's Dune, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land -- say next to nothing about the things to come. Okay, Heinlein had carpets of genetically engineered grass. That's about it.
4) Mainstream thrillers of the sort written by Crichton and such ilk have plenty of off-the-cuff predictive elements.
The situation is somewhat analogous to the divide between progressives and socialists. Progressives support welfare because it reduces misery and raises the median quality of life. OTOH, the more hard-line Socialists oppose welfare because it merely ameliorates the results of economic coercion into unconscionable contracts.
Similarly, GPL makes copyright livable. Without GPL, the incentive for creating quality software on your own is reduced because someone can steal your code, improve on it, corner the market, and then not share.
OTOH, abolishing copyright means that there is no such thing as code misappropriation. If someone takes your code and improves on it, they have no way of preventing the sharing of the improvements.
So, from that perspective, the GPL is an impediment to actual progress because it makes the current system liveable and reduces the attractiveness of a revolution.:P
No, Fantasy and Science Fiction are both subgenres of Speculative Fiction (and so is Alternate History). For example, it is generally agreed that the sf in rec.arts.sf.written stands for Speculative Fiction.
Your idea doesn't really make sense. There's nothing scientific about fantasy. Doing the opposite and calling science fiction a subgenre of fantasy would also seriously piss off quite a few people.
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Typical. Them powerful folk always imprison the greatest inventors and artists. The world could use your brains, and yet you are rotting in a jail cell for no good reason.
Apparently, I ain't part of everyone.^-^ I maybeed the repeal of drug laws and the ending of corporate welfare. The rest were Agree in Personal and Disagree in Economic.
Of course, I can't vote in American elections,so this hardly matters. Cobb, Nader, or Browne for President!:)
The enemy of your enemy can still be your enemy.;)
Are they long and hard and full of seamen? Is Angelina Jolie commanding them?
Ah, so I'd have to foment mutiny in US navy to gain access to...
Ooops, said too much.^-^
According to Chapter II, Article 35 of the People's Republic of China constitution -- Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration. -- pornography should be legal. Hmmph.
Expect support once Opera 7.60 is released. The current beta has partial support, but you need to jump through hoops to get it to work.
Hi, this is Christ. I am back. Could you loan me twenty bucks Canadian? I, like, totally lost that poker game to the Sasquatch. He wants to eat my thumbs. My precious thumbs.
I wouldn't call your record in the War of 1812 spotless. You could argue that you didn't lose it, but you didn't come close to winning it.
(Interestingly, In Mississippi and South Carolina, slaves outnumbered whites. In Louisiana, whites had only a 1/2% edge, so a few pro-civil-rights whites could have tipped the balance. So yes, a state-by-state full democratic vote on civil rights in the 1860s would have resulted in a better situation.)
A few people of the black persuasion brain-washed into voting against civil rights could have tipped it back the other way. Hmmph.
It's important to note that Christians don't have to be Young Earth Creationists.
Also, why does carbon dating keep getting dragged out in these things? IIRC, it's only useful between 80000 and 8000 BCE. That's useful for anthropologists who track the spread of modern Homo sapiens around the world, but pretty much useless for actual palaeontologists.
Finally, please give Darwin a rest. Yes, he was the first to see the forest that is evolution instead of just peering at trees, but his theories are rather dated and puritanical. Go pick on Dawkins or Gould or whoever.
As far as I know, you should have either written "metres" and "litres" or "meters" and "liters". Mixing British and American spellings mid-sentence is a bit odd.
Also, Centigrade was renamed to Celsius back in 1948.
Finally, the US government has never really tried to legislate the use of SI the way most others have. You do not have a legal requirement to list kilograms anywhere pounds are used, or to post speed limit signs in kilometres, or anything of that sort.
You, the able and willing owe your life to the unable and the unwilling.
Yes, we do. And they owe their lives to us.
'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' should be a fundamental principle of government.
Abolishment would be a good start.
In order to have viable third parties in the presidential race, you'll need viable third parties in Congress.
The best way to make third parties viable in the Congress would be to introduce a nationwide ballot where you select parties from a list. The parties then choose qualified representatives to be congresscritters.
This system can be slightly unstable -- see Israel, Italy -- but it can be tempered by keeping a certain minority of congresscritters elected personally by district. Such tempering is very effective in Germany and New Zealand at producing stable, representative governments (NZ being a country that has recently switched from traditional first-past-the-post to proportional represenation).
Only those that are honest, quick servicing, and cost-efficient get money from people in the private sector.
From what I can see, mediocrity outcompetes quality in the private sector as long as the mediocre can afford a catchy jingle on tv every five minutes.
What is the commercial incentive that would make "encumbered" versions of products the norm ?
Religious fundamentalism. Oh, wait, no one ever does things because of their religious delusions in the world of libertarian economics. My bad.
Yes, it is obvious. Right now, there is an undemocratic tyranny of rural issues over the vastly more important urban issues in America.
Cities are the backbone of American economy. Cities are the hotbed of American liberty. Cities are the birthing grounds of American art. Cities are the homelands of American science. Rural crap needs to FOAD.
If increased democracy would de-emphasize 19th Century rural bullshit, then so much the better.
In other news, id is Latin for it.;)
Could you explain the misspelling in your sig?:)
Ergo, Bush and Gore are identical. Vote Nader.;)
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1) Rob Sawyer is a clueless hack.
2) Predictive science fiction is as alive as ever.Its greatest practitioner, Greg Egan, is still in his prime. His works range from vear human near-future (Quarantine, Teranesia, Distress) with requisite sociopolitical commentary to majestic far-futures (Diaspora and Schild's Ladder) that are unequalled in brilliance and tend to require a degree in physics to fully appreciate.
Other notables, such as Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, are also still plugging along. Kim Stanley Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy rocked the Nineties and it is anything but predictive.
3) Science fiction has seldom emphasized prediction. Many of the great classics -- Asimov's Foundation, Herbert's Dune, Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land -- say next to nothing about the things to come. Okay, Heinlein had carpets of genetically engineered grass. That's about it.
4) Mainstream thrillers of the sort written by Crichton and such ilk have plenty of off-the-cuff predictive elements.
Hmm.
The situation is somewhat analogous to the divide between progressives and socialists. Progressives support welfare because it reduces misery and raises the median quality of life. OTOH, the more hard-line Socialists oppose welfare because it merely ameliorates the results of economic coercion into unconscionable contracts.
Similarly, GPL makes copyright livable. Without GPL, the incentive for creating quality software on your own is reduced because someone can steal your code, improve on it, corner the market, and then not share.
OTOH, abolishing copyright means that there is no such thing as code misappropriation. If someone takes your code and improves on it, they have no way of preventing the sharing of the improvements.
So, from that perspective, the GPL is an impediment to actual progress because it makes the current system liveable and reduces the attractiveness of a revolution.:P
No, Fantasy and Science Fiction are both subgenres of Speculative Fiction (and so is Alternate History). For example, it is generally agreed that the sf in rec.arts.sf.written stands for Speculative Fiction.
Your idea doesn't really make sense. There's nothing scientific about fantasy. Doing the opposite and calling science fiction a subgenre of fantasy would also seriously piss off quite a few people.
The example you chose is a compete sentence.