Well, actually "natural" means "millions if not billions of years of testing in the field, resulting in an unbeatable guaranteed fitness". Of course you could have luck and come up with something better. But it is highly unlikely. And you most likely would forget all kinds of little cycles in nature that are needed to keep things working in the long term.
Wait for the second, third or fourth generation showing all kinds of problems, up to being unable to create the next generation at all.
It's way more complicated than you can imagine. We got the tools, but we do not have the brains to use them properly. That is my standpoint.:)
Hey, I see one problem with this: Where will two women get the Y chromosome from? They do not have one, you know. ^^
No as far as I know, they could only produce other girls.
O, and I now see another problem: The male/female population balance could go way off, leaving practically only one gender. I think that would be very bad.
Well ethical: Everybody can do what he likes, as long as he does not hurt someone outside of his bio-mass. (Which means children are the same bio-mass.) Moral: Wouldn't that be the same thing in this context? Or are you referring to the word being used as a tool to enforce false values (like nudity/sex being somehow bad)?
But the only problem is, that it is not the usual way of reproduction. So of course it will have some differences. Which can be good, but also bad.
So there will be problems. The question is: So what? ^^ Our moral rules (as stated in the first paragraph) already cover that. It hurts nobody, so it is their freedom.
We are way beyond normal biological reproduction anyway. One can even say that there is a whole new level, where mindsets are lifeforms, and they reproduce like normal lifeforms.
I, for one, say: Let's try it, have some fun experimenting, and see what results we get! The worst thing happening can be some children of children of children being unable to survive, or infertile in an unfixable way, making it a bad try. But we will only see what will happen, when we try it!
The only thing I oppose, is fixing genetic things that should make the people lose natural selection. Because that would be unfair and discriminating to everyone else.
What do you think will be a pretty much guaranteed health problem of their children?
Infertility!
In a way you are reversing evolution by doing this.
Again, I'm sorry for that man.
But if I can't get a child because of something (eg not getting a GF), then, well, I am not the best one to reproduce. The same thing is true for everyone.
It's sad, because, give it some generations, and they will not be able to make it to school without massive health support, operations, pills, etc. We already entered that zone.
I wish we had some stronger natural selection going on. Some competition. It would also do wonders for the IQ and body fitness! Even if I'd lose in this selection (but be prepared for a hard fight ^^), I'd find this the best way.
Oh well, give us 20-50 years, and earth will be so incredibly overcrowded, that we end on a level of deaths that is equal to the level of new borns. Which means, natural selection will become strong again. (I hope this then will finally bring us real interstellar space ships and terraforming. ^^ [A man can dream, can he?])
Well, guess how the "pill" works: By partially simulating the same hormonal imbalance of a pregnant women!
So she is constantly "pregnant" somehow, as long as she takes them.
If you think about, how animals, when pregnant, are way more defensive and aggressive, and when the "pill" started to be used, this could somehow explain the feminist movement, which started at the same time. ^^
I wonder what would happen, if we would get our women off the "pill" and used condoms for a year. Maybe it would be worth the lack of feel. ^^
Nope, it doesn't. The human genome is actually compressed. The string of bases can be read in more than one way, resulting in more than one protein. Something that most organisms on this planet do not have. Or else some microorganisms would not have more genes than a human.
And where would those women get the Y chromosome from?
Not from me, because I will not be the idiot that pays for child support, and did not even get any sex for it! (And if it is a women, and she knows that you are the father, she will take every last cent from you! ^^)
And many kids actually later started making their own little games. For FUN. Yes!
I loved my ASCII-art games, until I found out, that my crappy 8088 PC could do graphics on his black/green AGA (CGA+Hercules+Monochrome) graphics system. Then I got really sad that I did not find it out earlier. My father was such a cheap ass. Wanna know what computer I wanted when I got that thing instead? A 386DX with 33 MHz! Yes. That's how old that thing was!
You forgot that it is a fight for limited resources (and tools?). Which makes it impossible to create something like this, and is the point of the game. You have to be the most efficient, get the resources faster than anyone else, and then use the results in the best possible way.
What the... I could implement that in some hours in Linux. Just make a Compiz plugin, read the eye position from standard eye-tracking library, giving it images from the webcam API, and then blur the screen, as soon as the eyes move outside a specific range (with a configurable radius). A bit of tweaking for this perhaps, and we're good.
On the other hand, if you want to read that, you just have to get behind him, or look trough the window, without him noticing. What you would do anyway, when wanting to read secrets. So this thing is worthless anyway too.
It says something about being promoted from what you are actually competent in, to management, which you know nothing about.
Management has so many PHBs, because everybody thinks this is the way to go up in their career. While in reality, management is just as much a skill and just a job as any other, as engineering, graphical design, or being a race driver.
And usually, being good at engineering, makes you a bad manager. Just as being good at management, makes you a bad engineer. You wouldn't want a good manager to actually design the big picture of your software's structure, would you?
The problem is, that nowadays most people somehow value management more. They are always "above" other jobs. And they earn more. But they are just a job. Like engineering. So the top engineer in a company must earn just as much as the top designer or as the top manager, right?
Of course, the manager usually manages, who gets how much money, too. Which should be the job of accounting. So if he is a greedy bastard, he decides that he gets the most. And has tons of excuses for it, like he being "responsible" (while in reality, it will be your job on the line), etc. Usually these greedy types are also those, who have a genius engineer/designer/whatever sitting next to them, but who for the life of themselves won't use that expertise in their decision-making process. (Then why do they work with them in the first place?)
So do whatever you like most. If you are good at it, it will be good. But if you know nothing about it, you have to start way at the bottom and learn to become good at that skill first. Depends on how much you like to do that new thing, if you want to work trough being a total newbie again.
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Well, actually "natural" means "millions if not billions of years of testing in the field, resulting in an unbeatable guaranteed fitness". Of course you could have luck and come up with something better. But it is highly unlikely. And you most likely would forget all kinds of little cycles in nature that are needed to keep things working in the long term.
Wait for the second, third or fourth generation showing all kinds of problems, up to being unable to create the next generation at all.
It's way more complicated than you can imagine. We got the tools, but we do not have the brains to use them properly. That is my standpoint. :)
Hey, I see one problem with this: Where will two women get the Y chromosome from? They do not have one, you know. ^^
No as far as I know, they could only produce other girls.
O, and I now see another problem: The male/female population balance could go way off, leaving practically only one gender. I think that would be very bad.
Well ethical: Everybody can do what he likes, as long as he does not hurt someone outside of his bio-mass. (Which means children are the same bio-mass.)
Moral: Wouldn't that be the same thing in this context? Or are you referring to the word being used as a tool to enforce false values (like nudity/sex being somehow bad)?
But the only problem is, that it is not the usual way of reproduction. So of course it will have some differences.
Which can be good, but also bad.
So there will be problems.
The question is: So what? ^^
Our moral rules (as stated in the first paragraph) already cover that. It hurts nobody, so it is their freedom.
We are way beyond normal biological reproduction anyway.
One can even say that there is a whole new level, where mindsets are lifeforms, and they reproduce like normal lifeforms.
I, for one, say: Let's try it, have some fun experimenting, and see what results we get! The worst thing happening can be some children of children of children being unable to survive, or infertile in an unfixable way, making it a bad try. But we will only see what will happen, when we try it!
The only thing I oppose, is fixing genetic things that should make the people lose natural selection. Because that would be unfair and discriminating to everyone else.
I'm sorry for that man, but:
Think about it a bit further, would you?
What do you think will be a pretty much guaranteed health problem of their children?
Infertility!
In a way you are reversing evolution by doing this.
Again, I'm sorry for that man.
But if I can't get a child because of something (eg not getting a GF), then, well, I am not the best one to reproduce.
The same thing is true for everyone.
It's sad, because, give it some generations, and they will not be able to make it to school without massive health support, operations, pills, etc.
We already entered that zone.
I wish we had some stronger natural selection going on. Some competition. It would also do wonders for the IQ and body fitness!
Even if I'd lose in this selection (but be prepared for a hard fight ^^), I'd find this the best way.
Oh well, give us 20-50 years, and earth will be so incredibly overcrowded, that we end on a level of deaths that is equal to the level of new borns. Which means, natural selection will become strong again. (I hope this then will finally bring us real interstellar space ships and terraforming. ^^ [A man can dream, can he?])
Well, guess how the "pill" works: By partially simulating the same hormonal imbalance of a pregnant women!
So she is constantly "pregnant" somehow, as long as she takes them.
If you think about, how animals, when pregnant, are way more defensive and aggressive,
and when the "pill" started to be used, this could somehow explain the feminist movement, which started at the same time. ^^
I wonder what would happen, if we would get our women off the "pill" and used condoms for a year.
Maybe it would be worth the lack of feel. ^^
Nope, it doesn't. The human genome is actually compressed.
The string of bases can be read in more than one way, resulting in more than one protein.
Something that most organisms on this planet do not have.
Or else some microorganisms would not have more genes than a human.
And where would those women get the Y chromosome from?
Not from me, because I will not be the idiot that pays for child support, and did not even get any sex for it! (And if it is a women, and she knows that you are the father, she will take every last cent from you! ^^)
No need to. We are doing it anyway.
Your NSA.
That is what I would want! ^^
let me remind you that this game is still under strict NDA, so please no specifics in the discussion below.
Yeah. Right. That will work! </sacrasm>
On the other hand: Who cares?
The harder someone tries to push something into me, the more I fight it. (Reminds you of something? Well, that's for a reason. ^^)
Seriously. Let's try if we can get trough with a technology that does not exist, when we just make the summary tl;dr for ScuttleMonkey.
Anyone got any suggestion?
Do you want to have some car analogy in there?
We offer nice Edsel ones today!
Which was only possible if you could do basic!
And many kids actually later started making their own little games. For FUN. Yes!
I loved my ASCII-art games, until I found out, that my crappy 8088 PC could do graphics on his black/green AGA (CGA+Hercules+Monochrome) graphics system. Then I got really sad that I did not find it out earlier.
My father was such a cheap ass. Wanna know what computer I wanted when I got that thing instead?
A 386DX with 33 MHz! Yes. That's how old that thing was!
Why did you steal those games from a freighter? Couldn't you just have copied them from others like normal people?
Or are you just already indoctrinated with **AA newspeak?
Well then urine trouble. Really.
(Just watched Idiocracy again. Man, we're definitely fucked!)
You forgot that it is a fight for limited resources (and tools?). Which makes it impossible to create something like this, and is the point of the game.
You have to be the most efficient, get the resources faster than anyone else, and then use the results in the best possible way.
which kind of implies that the current No.1 OS doesn't deliver in these areas!
No, it does not. You are doing it.
The fact that you are right that it does not deliver in these areas (my p.o.v.) does not change that.
Learn your logic.
Yeah. With their back to the large windows we can spy on him much better.
Sincerely,
your competition.
What the... I could implement that in some hours in Linux. Just make a Compiz plugin, read the eye position from standard eye-tracking library, giving it images from the webcam API, and then blur the screen, as soon as the eyes move outside a specific range (with a configurable radius). A bit of tweaking for this perhaps, and we're good.
On the other hand, if you want to read that, you just have to get behind him, or look trough the window, without him noticing.
What you would do anyway, when wanting to read secrets. So this thing is worthless anyway too.
BT (BitTorrent) operates in ALL countries, and even on space stations. And it has way more "customers" than the British Telecom.
Hell, all those broadband connections would not be needed, were it not for BitTorrent.
So who is beating who here? ^^
Well, I for one, say that BT (BitTorrent) is way more important than the British Telecom, and therefore, I use the abbreviation accordingly. ^^
It says something about being promoted from what you are actually competent in, to management, which you know nothing about.
Management has so many PHBs, because everybody thinks this is the way to go up in their career. While in reality, management is just as much a skill and just a job as any other, as engineering, graphical design, or being a race driver.
And usually, being good at engineering, makes you a bad manager.
Just as being good at management, makes you a bad engineer. You wouldn't want a good manager to actually design the big picture of your software's structure, would you?
The problem is, that nowadays most people somehow value management more. They are always "above" other jobs. And they earn more.
But they are just a job. Like engineering.
So the top engineer in a company must earn just as much as the top designer or as the top manager, right?
Of course, the manager usually manages, who gets how much money, too. Which should be the job of accounting.
So if he is a greedy bastard, he decides that he gets the most. And has tons of excuses for it, like he being "responsible" (while in reality, it will be your job on the line), etc.
Usually these greedy types are also those, who have a genius engineer/designer/whatever sitting next to them, but who for the life of themselves won't use that expertise in their decision-making process. (Then why do they work with them in the first place?)
So do whatever you like most. If you are good at it, it will be good.
But if you know nothing about it, you have to start way at the bottom and learn to become good at that skill first.
Depends on how much you like to do that new thing, if you want to work trough being a total newbie again.
Actually I did it while floating and standing in the water. But now I'm tired, so I really need to get laid.
Good night from the beach! ^^
There are Joe Sixpacks on my Slashdot?
Ewww! Kill 'em with fire!
Yes, it has, indeed!
And that with many Firefox users using AdBlock Plus, which blocks Statcounter pixels (and in fact everything from those domains) by default. I had to disable it, for the site to load any graphics, scripts, etc.
(Oh, and "Other" must be Firefox 3.5, which just came out.)