Given that "they" have discovered the technique needed to reverse aging (http://resolution.colorado.edu/~nakamut/telomere/ telomere.html), I figure we'll have an anti-aging agent within 20 years or so. It may be prohibitively expensive for many years, but it'll be available. (grey market?) --GAck
The state should keep a database of how many which citizens' salaries were queried, and then every quarter mail them a check for like 15% of the gross. Or at the very least use it as a tax deduction.
I'm curious--how is this any different from me copying a movie off HBO and then selling the tape for 10 bucks? --GAck
I thought it only cost $60 million. Besides Liam Neeson, there aren't any superheroes in it. (Samuel Jackson comes close, though) One of the reasons SW4 was so cheap was he used unknowns for his cast. (Was Alec Guiness anyone back then?) --GAck
I see what Jon is saying--that people may do themselves a disservice by over-insulating themselves from opposing opinions, and thus preventing any possibility of diversification or (if you want to look at it from a fundamentalist--like me--point of view) correction. But I don't begrudge the people who use ShutUp software, even if people use it en masse, because just as people have a right to speak, they also have a right to not listen. What I'm worried about is the possibility of online forums becoming so polarized and protected that we lose easy access to truly free areas, and the flamers and radicals and reactionaries are forever restricted to tiny, remote corners of cyberspace.
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Given that "they" have discovered the technique needed to reverse aging (http://resolution.colorado.edu/~nakamut/telomere/ telomere.html), I figure we'll have an anti-aging agent within 20 years or so. It may be prohibitively expensive for many years, but it'll be available. (grey market?)
--GAck
Sarah is 20.
--GAck
The state should keep a database of how many which citizens' salaries were queried, and then every quarter mail them a check for like 15% of the gross. Or at the very least use it as a tax deduction.
I'm curious--how is this any different from me copying a movie off HBO and then selling the tape for 10 bucks?
--GAck
I thought it only cost $60 million. Besides Liam Neeson, there aren't any superheroes in it. (Samuel Jackson comes close, though) One of the reasons SW4 was so cheap was he used unknowns for his cast. (Was Alec Guiness anyone back then?)
--GAck
I see what Jon is saying--that people may do themselves a disservice by over-insulating themselves from opposing opinions, and thus preventing any possibility of diversification or (if you want to look at it from a fundamentalist--like me--point of view) correction. But I don't begrudge the people who use ShutUp software, even if people use it en masse, because just as people have a right to speak, they also have a right to not listen. What I'm worried about is the possibility of online forums becoming so polarized and protected that we lose easy access to truly free areas, and the flamers and radicals and reactionaries are forever restricted to tiny, remote corners of cyberspace.
I second this!