It wouldn't be genocide as much as just the lack of progeny of a specific race or creed.
For the pills question, I figure you just give the United Nations something constructive to do. Get them out there. It'll finally bring their impact to the masses, very interesting concept.
And as far as third world countries go, if a country's government refuses to admit screening teams, or pills to certain people, its easy: dont give them the pills when their time comes around. One of two things will happen. Either the public of that country will revolt, tell the government to piss up a rope. The second option is that the population sits there meekly and doesn't do anything, and as a result don't get the pills at all anyway. That takes care of an unwanted part of society. We shouldn't jive meek people, you don't want another Congress, do you?
And I quote from a Sig "If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church". Interpret THAT as you will, Coward.
As far as democracy, thats almost out the window in the US (Hi, Mr. Hollings).
And my personal opinions are based on the fact that if we wiped out the third-world aspect of Africa, we would not only have a kickass game preserve, but we would also have to worry about 1/5th to 1/4th as many people on this forsaken globe.
So yeah, I'm all for killing off humans in third-world countries, its not as if they're going to ever amount to anything.
This is actually an excellent idea. Create a GE crop that contains a birth control enzyme. Very simple, and if it spreads, no biggie. The trick is, if a woman wants to get pregnant, she goes out and buys a pill, which would counteract that chemical for a set period of time.
But license the pills,and you get a better system for controlling births. With the exception of a giant review process before the granting of the pill, the pill should only cost $1 a pop.
This would be the most amazing thing ever created. Easy, simple, built-in birth control. What you can do is just pass out the pills once every 50 years in third-worlds that can't afford to buy them and go through the UN review process.
There's a lot to iron out here, but its certainly an idea.
Roughly means "guilty mind" in Latin. It describes the basis for our legal systems. It's not supposed to matter if they were ignorant of the law or not, they still committed the act.
Heh, I actually was planning to move to Australia once I get myself situated in the US in whatever career. Go find yourself a plot of desert in the middle of nowhere. Think about it. Every single 6-digit career out there has the capability to be telecommuted to (even medicals).
Not only are you safe from most legal schmucks (as has been proven a number of times- Australia doesn't seem to care all that much as long as you don't break their laws while you're in their country, and you haven't killed anyone), but if you find the right spot and build correctly, you can be impervious from strange wartime occurances like those errant nukes that still land even though our "missile defense" system is up...
I don't think this should be labeled as Flamebait. This guy truly deserves a good score for this. Reason being as follows...
This man has presented a perfectly viable legal solution to this. Sue em. In such a litigious society, it is just as easy to "fight fire with fire" as one would say, due to the borderline legality of this practice.
However, I am a lot happier that they are doing this instead of your generall widespread MPAA/RIAA gangbanging with ISPs usually. But if I get a letter from BellSouth, then I'll say that they don't have the legal rights, and to feel free to tell the MPAA to take a hike. There isn't any evidence truly that I downloaded any movie. Sure, some logs may point to certain servers or P2P networks, but that doesn't mean that I downloaded something other than a backup ninety times over or something.
-Jordan
"Hard drive? What hard drive?"
I'm a high school student who hasn't been reciting the Pledge for years on basis that it infringes on my political and religious rights. I am an Atheist, and one who doesn't particularly believe in the direction in which our government is heading.
I'm happy to see this happening. In my opinion, its bad enough that most school-age children are programmed by organized religion to believe what they say, and not what they want to believe. But to see the government, which is supposed to support the secular nature of the Constitution, instill a religious belief, especially one of a particular branch of religion, is shocking, and always has been to me.
I go to a fairly liberal science and technology magnet school, and I'm sure there will be endless debate over this, but the one majority opinion will certainly be to eliminate that phrase from the , if not the entire, Pledge of Allegiance.
I personally agree with you one hundred percent in regard to your thoughts.
All of these supercomputers dedicated to abstract tasks like climate forecasting, protein folding, and things of that nature are all and good, but they do very little to help the human race as it is, right now.
I propose that you take Blue Gene, and the Earth Simulator, and ASCI White (which is used for war of all things), and port clients for distributed computing applications to them. My proposal is based primarily on the United Devices Cure for Cancer project. Take this computer, let it run for a few days, and you have yourself a perfect list. The same procedure could be applied to AIDS, anything, as long as someone could write a similar program for it.
It's great that Blue Gene is helping scientists learn against their will about protein folding, and that information could very well help us in the future. The problem however lies in the fact that this is a truly massive amount of processing power that could be put towards better use. You could research anything, just get three teams:
-Team One: researches applications for the processing power of a computer that scale, that pertain to the immediate survival and improvement of the human race
-Team Two: builds a distributed computing application to solve the problem that Team One comes up with
-Team Three: applies the regular x86 compilation of the Team Two distributed computing applications to supercomputers
For instance, you could use Blue Gene to solve work units, and something like ASCI White to feed them to it.
But seriously people, we need to rig something that helps us, not just wastes taxpayer or private sector money on another extraneous project.
May I remind you that Kotar-Kotelly is a woman, lol. While its not impossible, I think you just need to know who the heck is on the bench in the first place.
Just for reference...Chemistry is generally taken in the 9th to 10th grades, with some exceptions to the 11th. Very few, if any, middle schools will offer Chemistry in their years.
As much as the fact that theyre old POSes, we use "new" (as in theyve been in the supply chain for 6 months) 1 ghz optiplex desktop units, mini-ATX form factor, nothing impressive. And as much as they don't have a graphics card, a few kids (myself included), have been known to schlep anything they can scrounge from home. Others just use software acceleration, but its all good:-). Only problem is that every Miami-Dade tech person is a bonafide idiot. When they caused us to lose our priveleges gaming, they blamed it on network latency due to the gaming traffic. In reality, Quake 2 doesn't create that much traffic, and if for some reason it does, it means that there's another really obvious problem with the network, even if there are 20 odd people playing.
As a matter of fact, a good friend of mine, whos a freshman too, has come up with a truly genius method of RSA cracking. She's getting closer on a daily basis. This reminds me to ask her just how far she's gotten...
I'd say my experience with all PDAs has been bittersweet.
I had a Palm Vx and an OmniSky modem, which held up wonderfully, schlepped it to and from school from 6th to 8th grade. I truly hated the OS though, and I still do. Graffiti is wretched, a true pain to learn, because it doesnt adapt to you, you adapt to it. Plus it was monochrome, which isn't fun at all. But it kicked ass over everyone else's PDA at the time, which only showed up in 8th grade, all of which were little Handspring Visors, the low-end ones. In essence, a Palm is a very sturdy thing, but you pay a premium for it (an insane amount compared to PocketPC, in terms of what you get).
I now have a CompaqHP iPaq 3650. I've had it since August, got it for my freshman year at my school. Along with a dual-expansion pack and a Toshiba hard drive, I haven't had too many problems. I've dropped it, had other people drop it, and there have been no problems in the way of it falling on the floor, with the exception of a hard drive failure about 3 months ago. The PocketPC OS is much nicer tho.
As far as maintenance goes, the Palm takes the cake, it's pretty much indestructible when left alone. A PocketPC however, falls apart no matter what you do to it.
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It wouldn't be genocide as much as just the lack of progeny of a specific race or creed. For the pills question, I figure you just give the United Nations something constructive to do. Get them out there. It'll finally bring their impact to the masses, very interesting concept. And as far as third world countries go, if a country's government refuses to admit screening teams, or pills to certain people, its easy: dont give them the pills when their time comes around. One of two things will happen. Either the public of that country will revolt, tell the government to piss up a rope. The second option is that the population sits there meekly and doesn't do anything, and as a result don't get the pills at all anyway. That takes care of an unwanted part of society. We shouldn't jive meek people, you don't want another Congress, do you?
And I quote from a Sig "If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church". Interpret THAT as you will, Coward.
As far as democracy, thats almost out the window in the US (Hi, Mr. Hollings).
And my personal opinions are based on the fact that if we wiped out the third-world aspect of Africa, we would not only have a kickass game preserve, but we would also have to worry about 1/5th to 1/4th as many people on this forsaken globe.
So yeah, I'm all for killing off humans in third-world countries, its not as if they're going to ever amount to anything.
If it don't work, nuke it, bomb it, gas it.
This is actually an excellent idea. Create a GE crop that contains a birth control enzyme. Very simple, and if it spreads, no biggie. The trick is, if a woman wants to get pregnant, she goes out and buys a pill, which would counteract that chemical for a set period of time.
But license the pills,and you get a better system for controlling births. With the exception of a giant review process before the granting of the pill, the pill should only cost $1 a pop.
This would be the most amazing thing ever created. Easy, simple, built-in birth control. What you can do is just pass out the pills once every 50 years in third-worlds that can't afford to buy them and go through the UN review process.
There's a lot to iron out here, but its certainly an idea.
Whoa, somebody here works for HP?
Roughly means "guilty mind" in Latin. It describes the basis for our legal systems. It's not supposed to matter if they were ignorant of the law or not, they still committed the act.
Heh, I actually was planning to move to Australia once I get myself situated in the US in whatever career. Go find yourself a plot of desert in the middle of nowhere. Think about it. Every single 6-digit career out there has the capability to be telecommuted to (even medicals).
Not only are you safe from most legal schmucks (as has been proven a number of times- Australia doesn't seem to care all that much as long as you don't break their laws while you're in their country, and you haven't killed anyone), but if you find the right spot and build correctly, you can be impervious from strange wartime occurances like those errant nukes that still land even though our "missile defense" system is up...
I don't think this should be labeled as Flamebait. This guy truly deserves a good score for this. Reason being as follows... This man has presented a perfectly viable legal solution to this. Sue em. In such a litigious society, it is just as easy to "fight fire with fire" as one would say, due to the borderline legality of this practice. However, I am a lot happier that they are doing this instead of your generall widespread MPAA/RIAA gangbanging with ISPs usually. But if I get a letter from BellSouth, then I'll say that they don't have the legal rights, and to feel free to tell the MPAA to take a hike. There isn't any evidence truly that I downloaded any movie. Sure, some logs may point to certain servers or P2P networks, but that doesn't mean that I downloaded something other than a backup ninety times over or something. -Jordan "Hard drive? What hard drive?"
I'm sorry, you must be confused with The New HP!
I'm a high school student who hasn't been reciting the Pledge for years on basis that it infringes on my political and religious rights. I am an Atheist, and one who doesn't particularly believe in the direction in which our government is heading.
I'm happy to see this happening. In my opinion, its bad enough that most school-age children are programmed by organized religion to believe what they say, and not what they want to believe. But to see the government, which is supposed to support the secular nature of the Constitution, instill a religious belief, especially one of a particular branch of religion, is shocking, and always has been to me.
I go to a fairly liberal science and technology magnet school, and I'm sure there will be endless debate over this, but the one majority opinion will certainly be to eliminate that phrase from the , if not the entire, Pledge of Allegiance.
I personally agree with you one hundred percent in regard to your thoughts. All of these supercomputers dedicated to abstract tasks like climate forecasting, protein folding, and things of that nature are all and good, but they do very little to help the human race as it is, right now. I propose that you take Blue Gene, and the Earth Simulator, and ASCI White (which is used for war of all things), and port clients for distributed computing applications to them. My proposal is based primarily on the United Devices Cure for Cancer project. Take this computer, let it run for a few days, and you have yourself a perfect list. The same procedure could be applied to AIDS, anything, as long as someone could write a similar program for it. It's great that Blue Gene is helping scientists learn against their will about protein folding, and that information could very well help us in the future. The problem however lies in the fact that this is a truly massive amount of processing power that could be put towards better use. You could research anything, just get three teams: -Team One: researches applications for the processing power of a computer that scale, that pertain to the immediate survival and improvement of the human race -Team Two: builds a distributed computing application to solve the problem that Team One comes up with -Team Three: applies the regular x86 compilation of the Team Two distributed computing applications to supercomputers For instance, you could use Blue Gene to solve work units, and something like ASCI White to feed them to it. But seriously people, we need to rig something that helps us, not just wastes taxpayer or private sector money on another extraneous project.
By the way, I hate that 20 second rule, its a pain in the azz.
May I remind you that Kotar-Kotelly is a woman, lol. While its not impossible, I think you just need to know who the heck is on the bench in the first place.
I remembered that as soon as they mentioned AR pool actually. As a matter of fact, I just sent Mr. Jabara an email in regard to this, hehe.
Just for reference...Chemistry is generally taken in the 9th to 10th grades, with some exceptions to the 11th. Very few, if any, middle schools will offer Chemistry in their years.
As much as the fact that theyre old POSes, we use "new" (as in theyve been in the supply chain for 6 months) 1 ghz optiplex desktop units, mini-ATX form factor, nothing impressive. And as much as they don't have a graphics card, a few kids (myself included), have been known to schlep anything they can scrounge from home. Others just use software acceleration, but its all good :-). Only problem is that every Miami-Dade tech person is a bonafide idiot. When they caused us to lose our priveleges gaming, they blamed it on network latency due to the gaming traffic. In reality, Quake 2 doesn't create that much traffic, and if for some reason it does, it means that there's another really obvious problem with the network, even if there are 20 odd people playing.
As a matter of fact, a good friend of mine, whos a freshman too, has come up with a truly genius method of RSA cracking. She's getting closer on a daily basis. This reminds me to ask her just how far she's gotten...
BTW: both drops were 5 foot drops onto hard linoleum or concrete.
I'd say my experience with all PDAs has been bittersweet. I had a Palm Vx and an OmniSky modem, which held up wonderfully, schlepped it to and from school from 6th to 8th grade. I truly hated the OS though, and I still do. Graffiti is wretched, a true pain to learn, because it doesnt adapt to you, you adapt to it. Plus it was monochrome, which isn't fun at all. But it kicked ass over everyone else's PDA at the time, which only showed up in 8th grade, all of which were little Handspring Visors, the low-end ones. In essence, a Palm is a very sturdy thing, but you pay a premium for it (an insane amount compared to PocketPC, in terms of what you get). I now have a CompaqHP iPaq 3650. I've had it since August, got it for my freshman year at my school. Along with a dual-expansion pack and a Toshiba hard drive, I haven't had too many problems. I've dropped it, had other people drop it, and there have been no problems in the way of it falling on the floor, with the exception of a hard drive failure about 3 months ago. The PocketPC OS is much nicer tho. As far as maintenance goes, the Palm takes the cake, it's pretty much indestructible when left alone. A PocketPC however, falls apart no matter what you do to it.