Several of you have made a mistake of stating that it is a fundamental physical limitation that food cannot be taken in pill form. Granted, for an active adult male, it would take close to a half-pound of pure fat a day to meet energy requirements. Let's not forget, though, that the whole point of eating is to produce energy in form of ATP. Clearly, eating ATP pills ain't gonna do much, since you probably burn your body weight in ATP every day--it's made and used very rapidly. The solution--pills with enzymes that produce larger molecules--sugars, fats, maybe ATP itself--from carbon dioxide and water in the air. Yes, just like plants, a la photosynthesis. After all, skin is the largest organ, why not put it to work? It's perfect--we expell CO2 and H2O in respiration, so if we recycle it, all we need is sunlight, and we even would produce oxygen in the process. It goes further--since you don't need outside oxygen anymore, you can live underwater in bright sunlight. My guess is the pill will be eventually eliminated altogether, and photosynthetic enzymes simply incoroporated into human genome. Green-skinned humans, anyone? If that's too radical for you, consider the other scenario--"overpopulation and famine" . Modification of digestive enzymes will be needed, to allow humans to survive on things like cellulose (i.e. grass and trees). GM foods are already here, and GM humans are around the corner! Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated!
I don't see how they can get anybody who uses multiple source downoad--emule, kazaa, gnutella, etc. If they d/l that song from many people, including you, won't they have to 1)Identify the piece they got from you 2)Verify that it is a part of a copyrighted stuff 3) Prove in court that splitting and then stitching copyrighted work gives you the original copyrighted work (basically they will have to show how kazaa multiple-source d/l works). This might just work under the "I am too dumb to know what I am doing" defense, kinda like some previous posts about using unencrypted WiFi--"I don't know, some neighbor punk hacker kid must've done it." The problem is they are not interested in going to court, they just intimidate and push for settlement to shut you down. Another problem, you need to be able to shred your entire disk very quickly. Since software methods are very slow, I wonder if a small pyro charge might do the trick. Just make sure you don't put your coffee on that red button.
The disabled are a minority, so the economics will never work, since businesses aim at the largest possible audience. Thus the need for laws to protect those minorities, but without devastating effect on the majority. There are examples of how this can be made to work. For example, in the movies, there are no subtitles, since people will consider them distracting for the purpose of the movie and probably wait for the DVD to come out so they can turn them off--big loss for studios and theater owners. Therefore, the disabled have to wait for the DVD or TV premier to watch them with subtitles or CC. In my opinion, the web is a very graphic-heavy medium, not unlike the movies. The best solution to this problem--have a separate domain, like.dis or.ada and have companies make their sites more accessible, without hampering graphic- and audio-intense Internet.
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Several of you have made a mistake of stating that it is a fundamental physical limitation that food cannot be taken in pill form. Granted, for an active adult male, it would take close to a half-pound of pure fat a day to meet energy requirements. Let's not forget, though, that the whole point of eating is to produce energy in form of ATP. Clearly, eating ATP pills ain't gonna do much, since you probably burn your body weight in ATP every day--it's made and used very rapidly. The solution--pills with enzymes that produce larger molecules--sugars, fats, maybe ATP itself--from carbon dioxide and water in the air. Yes, just like plants, a la photosynthesis. After all, skin is the largest organ, why not put it to work? It's perfect--we expell CO2 and H2O in respiration, so if we recycle it, all we need is sunlight, and we even would produce oxygen in the process. It goes further--since you don't need outside oxygen anymore, you can live underwater in bright sunlight. My guess is the pill will be eventually eliminated altogether, and photosynthetic enzymes simply incoroporated into human genome. Green-skinned humans, anyone? If that's too radical for you, consider the other scenario--"overpopulation and famine" . Modification of digestive enzymes will be needed, to allow humans to survive on things like cellulose (i.e. grass and trees). GM foods are already here, and GM humans are around the corner! Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated!
I don't see how they can get anybody who uses multiple source downoad--emule, kazaa, gnutella, etc. If they d/l that song from many people, including you, won't they have to 1)Identify the piece they got from you 2)Verify that it is a part of a copyrighted stuff 3) Prove in court that splitting and then stitching copyrighted work gives you the original copyrighted work (basically they will have to show how kazaa multiple-source d/l works). This might just work under the "I am too dumb to know what I am doing" defense, kinda like some previous posts about using unencrypted WiFi--"I don't know, some neighbor punk hacker kid must've done it." The problem is they are not interested in going to court, they just intimidate and push for settlement to shut you down. Another problem, you need to be able to shred your entire disk very quickly. Since software methods are very slow, I wonder if a small pyro charge might do the trick. Just make sure you don't put your coffee on that red button.
The disabled are a minority, so the economics will never work, since businesses aim at the largest possible audience. Thus the need for laws to protect those minorities, but without devastating effect on the majority. There are examples of how this can be made to work. For example, in the movies, there are no subtitles, since people will consider them distracting for the purpose of the movie and probably wait for the DVD to come out so they can turn them off--big loss for studios and theater owners. Therefore, the disabled have to wait for the DVD or TV premier to watch them with subtitles or CC. In my opinion, the web is a very graphic-heavy medium, not unlike the movies. The best solution to this problem--have a separate domain, like .dis or .ada and have companies make their sites more accessible, without hampering graphic- and audio-intense Internet.