I can appreciate the funny perspective of this comment, nevertheless, it got me thinking: May be, it is not so far away the time when you can plug a translator in you ear (or at least the headphone of your PDA) and *poof!* suddenly 'human translator' is not a well enough remunerated job...
A programmer may not lose his/her job, but many others will, the thing is, would this be a dangerous condition? Maybe not, but could still be a negative factor in the unification of language, after all you could then even understand klingon.
Of course, the same reason that keeps us from traveling on pilotless planes or accept surgeonless surgery; could very well prevent general reliance on this technology.
I have an explanation for the metamatrix theory.
There are NO machines.
Human race has finally wasted earth maybe in a last war yes, but not necessarily against 'machines' but against themselves, as usual.
So the sky is scorched and all that stuffâ¦
The survivors have the technology to make human race transcend, but donâ(TM)t have enough resources to do it in the âold free fashion wayâ(TM). To preserve the specie to the time when it can be free again, it is necessary to junction it to a simulation program: so we all can have a ânormalâ(TM) life meanwhile the âhabitatâ(TM) is reconstructed.
But there is a problem; minds reject the program, so the matrix evolves just as the âArchitectâ(TM) explains. The solution is given, which creates the anomalies; remember there isnâ(TM)t just the problem of the one. 99% of the minds accept the program, 1% rejects it. So you have to deal with this 1% that endangers the Matrix.
Just a note, I havenâ(TM)t mentioned âmachinesâ(TM) yet.
So the Engineers (let them be the humans that ARE outside any matrix and really in the world) come to the need of creating a metamatrix so they can get out the rebel minds and avoid the dissemination of the problem inside the matrix, just as the âArchitectâ(TM) explained the need for âZionâ(TM).
Now this creates a problem, in the metamatrix the anomaly will evolve and progress just as in the matrix, just as a fractal. And a meta-metamatrix would be needed as the now 100% rebel minds get aware that they are still in a matrix. To solve this problem the âMachinesâ(TM) argument is created.
The Engineers then created the âoemachinesâ as a method of constrain the metamatrix as the matrix runs undisturbed to the day it can be shut down. The machines would fight the metamatrix (Zion) and from time to time (when the maximum amplification of the anomaly is achieved inside the matrix: the one appears) would wipe it out as a sacrifice needed to maintain the Matrix and restrain the metamatrix from creating and endless cycle of metamatrices.
But this time, the one is going also to find this out.
I guess everybody here knows that 'transplanting' the SKIN of a face to another 'face' would never create what we recognize as a face.
A face is the result of the bone configuration the muscle development (depending on the gestures a person does), fat, and less important: skin.
This is why the explanation in 'face off' was not a good one.
Ok I RTFA, and they don't talk about a skin transplant, they include everything, so now let's bite:
In order for the face transplant to work, nerves that control feeling and movement would have to be attached to be successful.
RIGHT! attach nerves? it could be done but not at a detailed level, for that you would need to 'attach' axons that are in fact part of a cell. And to attach each with the one the SHOULD be. Every 'nerve' is a pack of a LOT of axons. If this can be done I see much more important transplantations like, HAND transplants for example. If anyone knows of this kind of transplants please tell me.
Thing is, that you wouldn't get a face, you would be getting an organic MASK. Bye bye proper face movement.
In addition, advances in suppressing the immune system's response to foreign tissue would give the procedure a better chance of success.
Ah! and of course, let's not forget that transplanting you something means giving you an AIDS gift. If you don't figure it out read again the SUPPRESSING IMMUNE SYSTEM again. This is why transplants are life/death case last option.
I don't see this 'technology' coming in the next months as the article said, not at least at a desirable level.
I am medic, and looking forward to be an ophthalmologist, and there are some details this traditional explanation CAN'T cover.
First of all, it is all THEORY; the only way to PROVE that this about the eye size is the reason for myopia is to CAT scan a very large number of persons and make the statistical study. And even if done, it cannot explain some things:
Why does myopia get worst in a non growing group?
This happens to many adults, Is it supposed that their eyeballs deformed more?! Improbable.
Astigmatism is a cylindrical optical deformation, How exactly can it get worst if it isn't related to the crystalline musculature system?
One last thing. An Optometrist is a TECHNICIAN and most of the time knowing very little about worsening eye defects, they'll typically sit you in the chair, measure and clamp on you the more powerful lenses you 'seem' to see better with.
An Ophthalmologist, is a specialized medic, and will know that giving you the 'highest' lens is the worst, it will worsen your eye problem more, and more quickly. So (s)he will try to find a balance and give you a pair of 'good enough' graduated lenses.
This is because recent studies seems to prove the notion that eyes DO accommodate to the lens, so, what is being observed is that, if getting annual screenings you are prescribed with lenses, the bigger the change in the prescription the faster your defect progress.
This may sound as 'the more water you add, the quicker you fill up the can', but the interesting part is that a faster defect progress means that EVERY year your prescription changed. While in individuals that where given a 'not the highest you "need"' lens, had years with no variation in their prescription
To make the WTC towers disappear, with CIVIL planes. To override the security, to 'attack' the most fearsome country, without military means. To do something more ingenious than the Trojan horse. This is a piece of strategic art. Pure art. To do the impossible, maybe a sad but an astonishing achievement.
Kuwait and Iraq had a conflict, there was petroleum, and so the USA came and laid waste to Iraq. Thousands civil suffered or even died.
And the dessert storm troopers where heroes, and USA got its petroleum.
The dictator of Panama, an insignificant central American country, declared war on the USA, so the 'stealths' came to a country without radars, and the lasers, and they left the deaths in common pits, just like Germany did to Jewess.
And the blinded laser testers where heroes.
SOMEONE made possible the 9/11 disaster, and the USA pointed it was some 'Osama' (former CIA agent, what do you know) and laid waste to Afghanistan.
They 'liberated them of their religions' (just like china did to Tibet) and where saviours, and again, got its petroleum-duct.
The USA money bought Chile a dictatorship (Condor Plan), and hundreds civilian died, all in prevention of 'communism agents' and the killers where saviours.
In an almost won war, 2 Nippon cities where nuked to ashes, civil lives sent to hell in a blink, and the creators of the bomb, where heroes.
I don't know who planned and made possible the 9/11 'attack' but I would easily believe it were the Chinese than the Afghanis, the truth is, that it is a piece of art.
A civil attack, not worse than the ones USA has committed, but far difficult, so unimaginable that to this day, we found hard to believe it happened.
I am not saying it was ok, or that it is good that civil died. I just say, that it was Art.
What about the fact that even having downloaded the divx most people will anyway go to see this movie at theatres?
If the movie is good people won't miss the chance to see it at the big screen
And what about the fact that with or without having a pirated copy, the ones that really want to have a copy will buy one just for the pleasure of having 'an original' and the ones that didn't really appreciate it would not buy a copy even if they were not able to get a pirated version?
I am not saying that distribution of a pirated copy is a good thing, or even moral, but really, all that people you mentioned are doubtfully going to be without work or food for this.
And that about 'them' not making more movies: HHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
It is awfully common that users input the same for login and password.
Some years ago, a friend of mine handed out a list of the login/paswords of an internet provider (dial-up accounts) Don't ask me how he get it, but we tried it out and it was a valid list.
I wuould say that something like the 75% of the owners had exactly the same input for both, login and password.
And that about it was a five * passowrd makes me remember that old movie 'Space Balls': "The password is 1 2 3 4 5"
Hey time travel happens all the time, I was sent to kill President Kennedy to prevent some horrible things, but you didn't notice any change do you? No. To you it's been this way always...
Of course I never go back, but someone had to do it you know...
Here in Santiago de Chile, a short time ago, the conapi (in English, something like anti-piracy-national-confederacy) collected huge quantities of video cassettes, tapes, and CD-R; made a pile of it and burned it.
I started to figure out how the inquisition felt.
The INTERESTING thing, was, that among the tapes, where home made tapes, recorded TV shows (I am sure that if you went to a jeopardy like show you have a tape of it) and non commercial songs. (In fact, a news paper had an anti-conapi article for these facts)
This people aren't discriminating, your baby-first-steps video, as it seems, is already an illegal copy of something, just because it is in a video tape and not in a DVD.
I thought only the USA had problems because this RIAA clowns, but incredibly, here things are worst...
Therefore, at least in this case, this wouldn't represent lost revenue, if anyone has a copy of AutoCAD just because the 'thrill' then there is NO WAY they would have BOUGHT it...
So yes, I agree with you about it is illicit, forbidden, etc. BUT your argument is another addition to the argument that most piracy is not really causing loses in revenues.
What's worse, in a no english speaking country such as mine, I still don't understand why parents get their children to see a subtitled movie, when they don't even know how to read yet! Sheesh!!
"What did he said mommy?" And you have a feminine drilling voice translating the whole movie, damn it!
I have never understood why, there are babies at movies at all!
(Baby = under 1 year, I meant)
In fact I do believe there should be a restriction, no babies or pets allowed. Wanna see a movie but you can't let your sibling at home? Get a rental!
Why ban cells? It does affect me and I can't relay in good manners or education as I can't rely on that when it comes to driving cars. The same for crying babies.
The wealth of a country depends pretty much in its exportations, or revenues that it makes for its 'exportations' (things actually manufactured in other country), the catch is that every importation a country makes is money/resources lost to the exporting one.
'Developed' countries exports more (not in quantity, but in revenue). This would be enough to create friction from developing countries to developed ones. But the real problems comes from de developed ones pushing the slavement of developing ones. (The m$ case in Perú is an example, and for more examples read that discussion in/.)
The economic growth of developed countries depends a lot on the money they get from the developing ones around. But the war is not there....
Europe is merging to make front to USA and China, China is trying to rule throughfully their territory and trying to claim more (Taiwan, not yet under total economical control) and USA is trying to consolidate their influence in the rest of America and blocking any non American commercial influence in their 'commercial colonies'; And, as always, ruling Japanese product reach. This can actually create armed conflicts (I fear for Taiwan), but it also will ravage the developing countries as the developed unions scramble to maintain their economies growth.
That is a fundamental problem with our economical system: It is based in constant growth, and as it has evolved, it mean constant implosion of others, this can only lead to world crisis.
Had anyone noticed that around the world passports are becoming digital, with bar codes and that stuff? Why do you think is this happening? I'll give you a clue, terrorism prevention.
Almost the rest of the 'civilization' uses some kind of 'tagging' system and we are, in fact, unificating our passports systems.
The thing is, ID serves for THAT: ID, and no matter how paranoid you united statians are, as someone else pointed out, you are already tagged by your government somehow.
In my country (Panamá) when you are born you are assigned a number, that number has a meaning, the first neumber is your province, the second (3 characters) is the tome book in wich was written that you were born, and the last number (up to 4 characters) is your exact entry in this book. (Of course, actually those books have become digital ones.)
And we use our ID for the same things you use your ss# or your drivers card. Only that we don't have to GET one of those, we have one as a right. The last project in my country was actually to unify this number with the ss# and the driver card #.
I have always thought that it is imposible to regulate any hosted 'material' on internet, exactly because if some country 'forbid' it you just host it in another.
But I also have a more fundamental thought: Why regulate in the first place?
What you see on the internet is your responsability, Don't like what you see? close the page.
What our children look or find is part of our responsability, but that's another issue (why are we 'protecting' them from the real world? many people thinks that is this protection what creates the fascination for thing like pr0n, violence, Cowboyneil).
Why censore something on internet? It is not like any traditional media, you have to SEARCH something to see it. I have never understood this:
If I host an offending image (whatever it is) legal in my country, and many people in YOUR country whatch it, Am I the guilty one?! WHY? is your people the ones searching/looking the damn thing, if it is a 'bad' thing, they SHOULDN'T be looking it, Am I responsable of THEIR irresponsability?
I think that the only way to go is to let every country publish whatever they want, you want to regulate YOUR coutnry? ok, is your damn land, but if your people are looking 'forbiden' material, it is YOUR people fault, not the HOSTING SERVICE in another country.
Disclaimer: This message is not exactly in response to PatientZero's, it is a reply to his/her message just because it, made me thought mine.
I am an American too. But I am not a unitedstatian. I think the main difference is that I know how to count, and that I know that my country is PART of the continent.
what I mean is that, mine is AMERICAN terminology too.
40,000 x 5,000 = 2,000,000,000. This are Two thousand millions. Not 2 billions.
And 260,000,000,000,000,000 dollars are 260 thowsand billions dollars.
Learn some math!
Re:He's either a fruit that's a little nutty...
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Why everybody thinks that a future traveller will be THAT easy to spot?
Do you really think that he/she will come out from a sphere of flashing lights, and will leave a hole in the ground?
And if you want 'proofs' of people getting out of nowere, hey read that stuff that the men in blak used to read...
jesus christ dude! you are all paying attention to the wrong movies!!!!
why a parallel universe?
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If profesor A uses his time machine to travel back in time and 'say' prevents the jfk death, THEN for all of us it never happened and you wouldn't know it... Let's put it this way:
Profesor A travels back in time AND gets JFK SHOOT, with that he CHANGED the history, but for all of us, it always was that way. So, YES we can say that time changes have been happening since always, but we simply can't know, since we cannot remember how the past was before the change.
Now you can stop here.. or you can go on reading if you want to have a new paradox problem...
the relly paradox is in the fact that prof A travelled with an objective... say.. shoot jfk..
in the moment he get it done, then jfk was death and then in the future the prof A doesn't have a motive to go to the past to get jfk killed, so he doesn't travell, since he doesn't travell jfk is not killed, so he has motive and travell... AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
THAT is the paradox...
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I can appreciate the funny perspective of this comment, nevertheless, it got me thinking:
May be, it is not so far away the time when you can plug a translator in you ear (or at least the headphone of your PDA) and *poof!* suddenly 'human translator' is not a well enough remunerated job...
A programmer may not lose his/her job, but many others will, the thing is, would this be a dangerous condition? Maybe not, but could still be a negative factor in the unification of language, after all you could then even understand klingon.
Of course, the same reason that keeps us from traveling on pilotless planes or accept surgeonless surgery; could very well prevent general reliance on this technology.
I can see the announcements now:
Are you going limb?
Get your DVD HARRRRR NOW!!!
The pirates choice...
WOW! I didn't even know that those robots of THOSE assembly lines needed MANUALS in the first place! Truly advanced A.I. I guess.
I have an explanation for the metamatrix theory. There are NO machines. Human race has finally wasted earth maybe in a last war yes, but not necessarily against 'machines' but against themselves, as usual. So the sky is scorched and all that stuff⦠The survivors have the technology to make human race transcend, but donâ(TM)t have enough resources to do it in the âold free fashion wayâ(TM). To preserve the specie to the time when it can be free again, it is necessary to junction it to a simulation program: so we all can have a ânormalâ(TM) life meanwhile the âhabitatâ(TM) is reconstructed. But there is a problem; minds reject the program, so the matrix evolves just as the âArchitectâ(TM) explains. The solution is given, which creates the anomalies; remember there isnâ(TM)t just the problem of the one. 99% of the minds accept the program, 1% rejects it. So you have to deal with this 1% that endangers the Matrix. Just a note, I havenâ(TM)t mentioned âmachinesâ(TM) yet. So the Engineers (let them be the humans that ARE outside any matrix and really in the world) come to the need of creating a metamatrix so they can get out the rebel minds and avoid the dissemination of the problem inside the matrix, just as the âArchitectâ(TM) explained the need for âZionâ(TM). Now this creates a problem, in the metamatrix the anomaly will evolve and progress just as in the matrix, just as a fractal. And a meta-metamatrix would be needed as the now 100% rebel minds get aware that they are still in a matrix. To solve this problem the âMachinesâ(TM) argument is created. The Engineers then created the âoemachinesâ as a method of constrain the metamatrix as the matrix runs undisturbed to the day it can be shut down. The machines would fight the metamatrix (Zion) and from time to time (when the maximum amplification of the anomaly is achieved inside the matrix: the one appears) would wipe it out as a sacrifice needed to maintain the Matrix and restrain the metamatrix from creating and endless cycle of metamatrices. But this time, the one is going also to find this out.
I guess everybody here knows that 'transplanting' the SKIN of a face to another 'face' would never create what we recognize as a face.
A face is the result of the bone configuration the muscle development (depending on the gestures a person does), fat, and less important: skin.
This is why the explanation in 'face off' was not a good one.
Ok I RTFA, and they don't talk about a skin transplant, they include everything, so now let's bite:
In order for the face transplant to work, nerves that control feeling and movement would have to be attached to be successful.
RIGHT! attach nerves? it could be done but not at a detailed level, for that you would need to 'attach' axons that are in fact part of a cell. And to attach each with the one the SHOULD be.
Every 'nerve' is a pack of a LOT of axons. If this can be done I see much more important transplantations like, HAND transplants for example.
If anyone knows of this kind of transplants please tell me.
Thing is, that you wouldn't get a face, you would be getting an organic MASK. Bye bye proper face movement.
In addition, advances in suppressing the immune system's response to foreign tissue would give the procedure a better chance of success. Ah! and of course, let's not forget that transplanting you something means giving you an AIDS gift. If you don't figure it out read again the SUPPRESSING IMMUNE SYSTEM again. This is why transplants are life/death case last option.
I don't see this 'technology' coming in the next months as the article said, not at least at a desirable level.
"...linux gives nothing to Nambia"
And I am wondering what 'Nambia' has to do with all this. Or perhaps you are referring to NamIbia, that super poor and ultra famous African Country...
I am medic, and looking forward to be an ophthalmologist, and there are some details this traditional explanation CAN'T cover.
First of all, it is all THEORY; the only way to PROVE that this about the eye size is the reason for myopia is to CAT scan a very large number of persons and make the statistical study. And even if done, it cannot explain some things:
Why does myopia get worst in a non growing group? This happens to many adults, Is it supposed that their eyeballs deformed more?! Improbable.
Astigmatism is a cylindrical optical deformation, How exactly can it get worst if it isn't related to the crystalline musculature system?
One last thing. An Optometrist is a TECHNICIAN and most of the time knowing very little about worsening eye defects, they'll typically sit you in the chair, measure and clamp on you the more powerful lenses you 'seem' to see better with.
An Ophthalmologist, is a specialized medic, and will know that giving you the 'highest' lens is the worst, it will worsen your eye problem more, and more quickly. So (s)he will try to find a balance and give you a pair of 'good enough' graduated lenses.
This is because recent studies seems to prove the notion that eyes DO accommodate to the lens, so, what is being observed is that, if getting annual screenings you are prescribed with lenses, the bigger the change in the prescription the faster your defect progress.
This may sound as 'the more water you add, the quicker you fill up the can', but the interesting part is that a faster defect progress means that EVERY year your prescription changed. While in individuals that where given a 'not the highest you "need"' lens, had years with no variation in their prescription
To make the WTC towers disappear, with CIVIL planes. To override the security, to 'attack' the most fearsome country, without military means. To do something more ingenious than the Trojan horse. This is a piece of strategic art. Pure art. To do the impossible, maybe a sad but an astonishing achievement.
Kuwait and Iraq had a conflict, there was petroleum, and so the USA came and laid waste to Iraq. Thousands civil suffered or even died. And the dessert storm troopers where heroes, and USA got its petroleum.
The dictator of Panama, an insignificant central American country, declared war on the USA, so the 'stealths' came to a country without radars, and the lasers, and they left the deaths in common pits, just like Germany did to Jewess. And the blinded laser testers where heroes.
SOMEONE made possible the 9/11 disaster, and the USA pointed it was some 'Osama' (former CIA agent, what do you know) and laid waste to Afghanistan. They 'liberated them of their religions' (just like china did to Tibet) and where saviours, and again, got its petroleum-duct.
The USA money bought Chile a dictatorship (Condor Plan), and hundreds civilian died, all in prevention of 'communism agents' and the killers where saviours.
In an almost won war, 2 Nippon cities where nuked to ashes, civil lives sent to hell in a blink, and the creators of the bomb, where heroes.
I don't know who planned and made possible the 9/11 'attack' but I would easily believe it were the Chinese than the Afghanis, the truth is, that it is a piece of art.
A civil attack, not worse than the ones USA has committed, but far difficult, so unimaginable that to this day, we found hard to believe it happened.
I am not saying it was ok, or that it is good that civil died. I just say, that it was Art.
What about the fact that even having downloaded the divx most people will anyway go to see this movie at theatres?
If the movie is good people won't miss the chance to see it at the big screen
And what about the fact that with or without having a pirated copy, the ones that really want to have a copy will buy one just for the pleasure of having 'an original' and the ones that didn't really appreciate it would not buy a copy even if they were not able to get a pirated version?
I am not saying that distribution of a pirated copy is a good thing, or even moral, but really, all that people you mentioned are doubtfully going to be without work or food for this.
And that about 'them' not making more movies: HHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
It is awfully common that users input the same for login and password.
Some years ago, a friend of mine handed out a list of the login/paswords of an internet provider (dial-up accounts) Don't ask me how he get it, but we tried it out and it was a valid list.
I wuould say that something like the 75% of the owners had exactly the same input for both, login and password.
And that about it was a five * passowrd makes me remember that old movie 'Space Balls': "The password is 1 2 3 4 5"
RAID is not that expensive I think. If you REALLY want to back up 200 GB...
Hey time travel happens all the time, I was sent to kill President Kennedy to prevent some horrible things, but you didn't notice any change do you? No. To you it's been this way always...
Of course I never go back, but someone had to do it you know...
I still have my old Neo Geo somewhere in the basment :)
It is interesting how this has become to happen.
Here in Santiago de Chile, a short time ago, the conapi (in English, something like anti-piracy-national-confederacy) collected huge quantities of video cassettes, tapes, and CD-R; made a pile of it and burned it.
I started to figure out how the inquisition felt.
The INTERESTING thing, was, that among the tapes, where home made tapes, recorded TV shows (I am sure that if you went to a jeopardy like show you have a tape of it) and non commercial songs. (In fact, a news paper had an anti-conapi article for these facts)
This people aren't discriminating, your baby-first-steps video, as it seems, is already an illegal copy of something, just because it is in a video tape and not in a DVD.
I thought only the USA had problems because this RIAA clowns, but incredibly, here things are worst...
Therefore, at least in this case, this wouldn't represent lost revenue, if anyone has a copy of AutoCAD just because the 'thrill' then there is NO WAY they would have BOUGHT it...
So yes, I agree with you about it is illicit, forbidden, etc. BUT your argument is another addition to the argument that most piracy is not really causing loses in revenues.
What's worse, in a no english speaking country such as mine, I still don't understand why parents get their children to see a subtitled movie, when they don't even know how to read yet! Sheesh!!
"What did he said mommy?" And you have a feminine drilling voice translating the whole movie, damn it!
I have never understood why, there are babies at movies at all!
(Baby = under 1 year, I meant)
In fact I do believe there should be a restriction, no babies or pets allowed. Wanna see a movie but you can't let your sibling at home? Get a rental!
Why ban cells? It does affect me and I can't relay in good manners or education as I can't rely on that when it comes to driving cars. The same for crying babies.
"I'm not naive enough to believe that this will result in a permanent manned lunar base,"
Oh boy, I can see the headlines now...
USA threathens India for building structures in THEIR territory...
and in another news Indian luna base reports strange red-caped blue-man around USA flag...
I think this is the century of economical war.
/.)
The wealth of a country depends pretty much in its exportations, or revenues that it makes for its 'exportations' (things actually manufactured in other country), the catch is that every importation a country makes is money/resources lost to the exporting one.
'Developed' countries exports more (not in quantity, but in revenue).
This would be enough to create friction from developing countries to developed ones. But the real problems comes from de developed ones pushing the slavement of developing ones. (The m$ case in Perú is an example, and for more examples read that discussion in
The economic growth of developed countries depends a lot on the money they get from the developing ones around. But the war is not there....
Europe is merging to make front to USA and China, China is trying to rule throughfully their territory and trying to claim more (Taiwan, not yet under total economical control) and USA is trying to consolidate their influence in the rest of America and blocking any non American commercial influence in their 'commercial colonies'; And, as always, ruling Japanese product reach. This can actually create armed conflicts (I fear for Taiwan), but it also will ravage the developing countries as the developed unions scramble to maintain their economies growth.
That is a fundamental problem with our economical system: It is based in constant growth, and as it has evolved, it mean constant implosion of others, this can only lead to world crisis.
Had anyone noticed that around the world passports are becoming digital, with bar codes and that stuff? Why do you think is this happening?
I'll give you a clue, terrorism prevention.
Almost the rest of the 'civilization' uses some kind of 'tagging' system and we are, in fact, unificating our passports systems.
The thing is, ID serves for THAT: ID, and no matter how paranoid you united statians are, as someone else pointed out, you are already tagged by your government somehow.
In my country (Panamá) when you are born you are assigned a number, that number has a meaning, the first neumber is your province, the second (3 characters) is the tome book in wich was written that you were born, and the last number (up to 4 characters) is your exact entry in this book. (Of course, actually those books have become digital ones.)
And we use our ID for the same things you use your ss# or your drivers card.
Only that we don't have to GET one of those, we have one as a right.
The last project in my country was actually to unify this number with the ss# and the driver card #.
Just sharing my expirience.
cheers
I have always thought that it is imposible to regulate any hosted 'material' on internet, exactly because if some country 'forbid' it you just host it in another.
But I also have a more fundamental thought: Why regulate in the first place?
What you see on the internet is your responsability, Don't like what you see? close the page.
What our children look or find is part of our responsability, but that's another issue (why are we 'protecting' them from the real world? many people thinks that is this protection what creates the fascination for thing like pr0n, violence, Cowboyneil).
Why censore something on internet? It is not like any traditional media, you have to SEARCH something to see it. I have never understood this:
If I host an offending image (whatever it is) legal in my country, and many people in YOUR country whatch it, Am I the guilty one?! WHY? is your people the ones searching/looking the damn thing, if it is a 'bad' thing, they SHOULDN'T be looking it, Am I responsable of THEIR irresponsability?
I think that the only way to go is to let every country publish whatever they want, you want to regulate YOUR coutnry? ok, is your damn land, but if your people are looking 'forbiden' material, it is YOUR people fault, not the HOSTING SERVICE in another country.
Disclaimer: This message is not exactly in response to PatientZero's, it is a reply to his/her message just because it, made me thought mine.
ten = ten = 10.
ten tens = hundred = 100.
ten hundreds = thousand = 1,000.
ten thousands = ten thousands = 10,000.
ten ten-thousands = hundred thousand = 100,000.
ten hundred-thousands = million = 1,000,000.
ten miillion = ten million = 10,000,000.
ten ten-millions = hundred million = 100,000,000.
ten hundred-millions = thousand million = 1,000,000,000.
ten thousand-millions = ten thousand million = 10,000,000,000.
ten ten-thousand-million = hundred thousand millon = 100,000,000,000.
ten hundred-thousand-million = billion = 1,000,000,000,000.
see the pattern?
the truth is out there.. so do some google and learn some maths.
I am an American too. But I am not a unitedstatian. I think the main difference is that I know how to count, and that I know that my country is PART of the continent. what I mean is that, mine is AMERICAN terminology too.
40,000 x 5,000 = 2,000,000,000. This are Two thousand millions. Not 2 billions. And 260,000,000,000,000,000 dollars are 260 thowsand billions dollars. Learn some math!
Why everybody thinks that a future traveller will be THAT easy to spot? Do you really think that he/she will come out from a sphere of flashing lights, and will leave a hole in the ground? And if you want 'proofs' of people getting out of nowere, hey read that stuff that the men in blak used to read... jesus christ dude! you are all paying attention to the wrong movies!!!!
If profesor A uses his time machine to travel back in time and 'say' prevents the jfk death, THEN for all of us it never happened and you wouldn't know it... Let's put it this way: Profesor A travels back in time AND gets JFK SHOOT, with that he CHANGED the history, but for all of us, it always was that way. So, YES we can say that time changes have been happening since always, but we simply can't know, since we cannot remember how the past was before the change. Now you can stop here.. or you can go on reading if you want to have a new paradox problem... the relly paradox is in the fact that prof A travelled with an objective... say.. shoot jfk.. in the moment he get it done, then jfk was death and then in the future the prof A doesn't have a motive to go to the past to get jfk killed, so he doesn't travell, since he doesn't travell jfk is not killed, so he has motive and travell... AND SO ON AND SO FORTH. THAT is the paradox...