If we have the technology to live a million years we would probably also have technology to augment our brains. Of course when you go down that route, the question becomes whether we are still human?
Do you really think it's illegal because of "right-wing lies"? Why did Obama recently refuse to even entertain the idea of decriminalizing marijuana, despite most of Latin America being in favor of it? Meanwhile Ron Paul wants to decriminalize ALL drugs, so the idea of it being "right-wing lies" is silly. It's POLITICIAN LIES, it has nothing to do with right vs left, Republican vs Democrat.
Don't you think it's more likely that there is a lot of profit to be made from privatizing the prison-industrial-complex and using the cheap prison (slave) labor? Or the CIA getting their cut by facilitating trade from Latin America, Afghanistan, etc?
The whole idea of "hate crime" is pretty ridiculous anyway.
If you assault someone because you hate gays/minorities/etc, why is that worse than assaulting someone because you hate them individually? It just reinforces the idea that we should treat certain groups of people differently. Is that really the best way to address prejudice in society?
Does anyone really think some dumb asshole bigot is going to think "there are hate crime laws I better not commit this crime"?
"Then again, I also think people who have diseases from drug abuse such as kidney/liver failure from drinking, lung cancer from smoking, hep-_ from shooting up, etc should be completely denied medical care. You made your bed, now die in it."
Interesting that you didn't include obesity and lack of exercise. That is arguably causing a lot more illness and costs to the healthcare system than drinking and drug use, and like alcohol/drugs it is down the responsibility of the individual.
The other issue is that it's nearly impossible to prove an illness/disease was caused by 1 specific activity. Lung cancer rates are much higher among smokers, but when you get down to the individual level it's very hard to prove (a certain number of people were going to get lung cancer anyway).
You also have to decide how much is too much (or a zero tolerance policy). If someone smoked a couple cigarettes when they were 16 should they be denied healthcare for the rest of their life? If that's the case there is virtually no one who would be eligible for healthcare.
How about someone who smoked for a couple months? A couple years? How about someone who smoked a couple cigarettes a year for their whole life (at new years or whatever)?
Yeah I don't see how memorizing random numbers signifies "intelligence" in any way. I had memorized some phone numbers when I was about 5 years old, so it doesn't seem to require a tremendous amount of brainpower.
What happens if the person who gets the vaccine develops a very painful condition (like cancer)? All effective painkillers work in exactly the same way heroin does, so I assume if it stops the effects of heroin it'll stop the effects of other opiods/opiates as well.
Sounds like trading one kind of suffering for another.
It's also well-known that the most successful quitters of drugs are people who truly WANT to be clean/sober, and deal with the issues that made them drug users in the first place. I have a feeling this would be effective in the short-term, but it doesn't really address the root causes of most people's addictions.
I'm not really convinced Google has a monopoly on search in the first place either. The last numbers I saw put them at 65% market share. That's certainly a very strong position to be in, but hardly what I'd call a "monopoly".
Are you saying someone's great grandson isn't the most unbiased source in information?;)
Was Thomas Edison even alive to ever meet his great grandson? Even if he was it would have been when he was 5 years old, so I doubt he gained any great insight into his mind at that age.
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I guess you won't mind sending me all of your passwords then?
If we have the technology to live a million years we would probably also have technology to augment our brains. Of course when you go down that route, the question becomes whether we are still human?
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Their ISPs record activity. The NSA records ours.
I'm not sure either one is really better than the other.
So I guess doctors aren't needed then. They aren't producing anything.
Are you saying this will be the year of the Linux desktop?
I thought Microsoft's OS monopoly was forcing everyone to use IE by including it with Windows?
Do you really think it's illegal because of "right-wing lies"? Why did Obama recently refuse to even entertain the idea of decriminalizing marijuana, despite most of Latin America being in favor of it? Meanwhile Ron Paul wants to decriminalize ALL drugs, so the idea of it being "right-wing lies" is silly. It's POLITICIAN LIES, it has nothing to do with right vs left, Republican vs Democrat.
Don't you think it's more likely that there is a lot of profit to be made from privatizing the prison-industrial-complex and using the cheap prison (slave) labor? Or the CIA getting their cut by facilitating trade from Latin America, Afghanistan, etc?
The whole idea of "hate crime" is pretty ridiculous anyway.
If you assault someone because you hate gays/minorities/etc, why is that worse than assaulting someone because you hate them individually? It just reinforces the idea that we should treat certain groups of people differently. Is that really the best way to address prejudice in society?
Does anyone really think some dumb asshole bigot is going to think "there are hate crime laws I better not commit this crime"?
"Then again, I also think people who have diseases from drug abuse such as kidney/liver failure from drinking, lung cancer from smoking, hep-_ from shooting up, etc should be completely denied medical care. You made your bed, now die in it."
Interesting that you didn't include obesity and lack of exercise. That is arguably causing a lot more illness and costs to the healthcare system than drinking and drug use, and like alcohol/drugs it is down the responsibility of the individual.
The other issue is that it's nearly impossible to prove an illness/disease was caused by 1 specific activity. Lung cancer rates are much higher among smokers, but when you get down to the individual level it's very hard to prove (a certain number of people were going to get lung cancer anyway).
You also have to decide how much is too much (or a zero tolerance policy). If someone smoked a couple cigarettes when they were 16 should they be denied healthcare for the rest of their life? If that's the case there is virtually no one who would be eligible for healthcare.
How about someone who smoked for a couple months? A couple years? How about someone who smoked a couple cigarettes a year for their whole life (at new years or whatever)?
"if they had been approved?"
That's a big if. A lot of games wouldn't be approved at all, or would have to make major creative/artistic concessions.
"bad 80's pop modernized". So basically it's like current American pop music, just in Korean?
I see your point. We should get rid of agriculture and farming, and go back to being hunter-gatherers. All technological progress is bad.
Yeah I don't see how memorizing random numbers signifies "intelligence" in any way. I had memorized some phone numbers when I was about 5 years old, so it doesn't seem to require a tremendous amount of brainpower.
Oh they weren't "Nazis"? I guess it was okay that they killed millions of people then..
..and we all know the ISPs would charge reasonable prices on metered internet access, just like cell carriers and texting.
I think it's pretty ridiculous to think DDoSing RIAA/MPAA is going to do anything anyway. Does anyone actually visit those sites?
Keeping Chrome/IE "up to date" is pretty darn easy. If they are installed and connected to the internet, they are always up to date.
What happens if the person who gets the vaccine develops a very painful condition (like cancer)? All effective painkillers work in exactly the same way heroin does, so I assume if it stops the effects of heroin it'll stop the effects of other opiods/opiates as well.
Sounds like trading one kind of suffering for another.
It's also well-known that the most successful quitters of drugs are people who truly WANT to be clean/sober, and deal with the issues that made them drug users in the first place. I have a feeling this would be effective in the short-term, but it doesn't really address the root causes of most people's addictions.
It beats dealing with the TSA
“The United States effectively has a one party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats” Noam Chomsky
With wikipedia it doesn't prevent you from gaining access to the site/information you are looking for, so I don't think they are the same really.
I'm not really convinced Google has a monopoly on search in the first place either. The last numbers I saw put them at 65% market share. That's certainly a very strong position to be in, but hardly what I'd call a "monopoly".
Why so serious?
Are you saying someone's great grandson isn't the most unbiased source in information? ;)
Was Thomas Edison even alive to ever meet his great grandson? Even if he was it would have been when he was 5 years old, so I doubt he gained any great insight into his mind at that age.