I just am not capable of seeing what benefit there is to limiting your community to a certain group of people who happen to live in the same area code. Okay, so you can meet them in "Meatspace" without spending too much money on travel, but that seems like a rather frivolous thing to care about.
As mentioned in the parent post, we do not consider life precious, but human life. But what's human? Simply having twenty-three pairs of human-compatable chromosomes isn't enough, because then if we grew some skin cells in a petrie dish it would be human, but skin cells in a petrie dish are obviously not deserving of any sort of rights. It's brains which matter, and the ability to think. Without thought, what's the point of rights?
Fetuses do not have fully developed brains, and are not conscious, therefore are lacking in humanity. Axe murderers to contrast are quite demonstrably conscious, (in fact, consciousness is a neccesary part of being a murderer, legally speaking) and therefore possess humanity.
Of course, there are other arguments, but this is my basic argument.
Intuitively I have an appreciation of privacy, of the fact that I very much like being able to do things which not everybody knows I'm doing, and that if I suddenly lost my privacy I would feel extraordinarily uncomfortable.
On the other hand, I feel that "information wants to be free," and that by facilitating the spread of information we will be able to learn more things and generally improve life for everyone. Furthermore, stuff like this, the ability to proccess all that data and analyze it, is "really cool" on a technical level, and has so much potential.
I really don't know. Privacy is good, but so is information.
I suppose the theory is that a music video has more stuff than the song (making it worth more) and that round numbers are better than the other kind, so it costs $1.99 instead of $1.53.
When you talk about female nudity, are you talking about vaginas or boobs? I don't watch a whole lot of movies, but I suspect that if there was a movie with a shot of the female genitalia, the MPAA would not be pleased. But women happen to have more naughty bits then men, and the breasts just aren't as naughty as genitals.
I wouldn't say that. Let's say that given a certain population you end up with somebody inventing the telephone. Now if you double the population, what happens? Two people invent the telephone.:)
More to the point, I don't think man power is a huge factor. If you had two teams working on a project completely independently and one was made up of twice the people, I don't think the larger team would be twice as good at it. It would be better, but the growth would be worse than a linear relationship. Partially because of overhead, but I think also because the growth of technology is fueled more by knowledge than by the number of people working on it.
He considered it, but he experienced an unacceptable performance loss when the 1s started getting stuck in the wires. 0s don't have that problem of course. No sharp edges.
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Apple paid NeXT to buy them.
Everquest is serious business.
I just am not capable of seeing what benefit there is to limiting your community to a certain group of people who happen to live in the same area code. Okay, so you can meet them in "Meatspace" without spending too much money on travel, but that seems like a rather frivolous thing to care about.
Good guys appreciate irony.
Do not question Nahor's superior southpaw spelling.
1) Find Al-Qaeda website.
2) Troll with goatse.
3) ???
4) FREEDOM!
More like "Annoyerists," but hey, who knows what sort of weapons of mass destruction they could have?
As mentioned in the parent post, we do not consider life precious, but human life. But what's human? Simply having twenty-three pairs of human-compatable chromosomes isn't enough, because then if we grew some skin cells in a petrie dish it would be human, but skin cells in a petrie dish are obviously not deserving of any sort of rights. It's brains which matter, and the ability to think. Without thought, what's the point of rights?
Fetuses do not have fully developed brains, and are not conscious, therefore are lacking in humanity. Axe murderers to contrast are quite demonstrably conscious, (in fact, consciousness is a neccesary part of being a murderer, legally speaking) and therefore possess humanity.
Of course, there are other arguments, but this is my basic argument.
Because the researchers weren't teaching kids.
Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.
Yeah, I guess that's it. In an idealistic sense I might be willing to give up privacy, but to be more pragmatic... I'd rather you do it instead.
I don't know.
Intuitively I have an appreciation of privacy, of the fact that I very much like being able to do things which not everybody knows I'm doing, and that if I suddenly lost my privacy I would feel extraordinarily uncomfortable.
On the other hand, I feel that "information wants to be free," and that by facilitating the spread of information we will be able to learn more things and generally improve life for everyone. Furthermore, stuff like this, the ability to proccess all that data and analyze it, is "really cool" on a technical level, and has so much potential.
I really don't know. Privacy is good, but so is information.
Well, people who watch porn very often masturbate while doing it, but people rarely watch action movies while torturing hoboes. ^_^
I suppose the theory is that a music video has more stuff than the song (making it worth more) and that round numbers are better than the other kind, so it costs $1.99 instead of $1.53.
To queue means to place something in line, so requeue means to do it again. The power of prefixes.
When you talk about female nudity, are you talking about vaginas or boobs? I don't watch a whole lot of movies, but I suspect that if there was a movie with a shot of the female genitalia, the MPAA would not be pleased. But women happen to have more naughty bits then men, and the breasts just aren't as naughty as genitals.
I wouldn't say that. Let's say that given a certain population you end up with somebody inventing the telephone. Now if you double the population, what happens? Two people invent the telephone. :)
More to the point, I don't think man power is a huge factor. If you had two teams working on a project completely independently and one was made up of twice the people, I don't think the larger team would be twice as good at it. It would be better, but the growth would be worse than a linear relationship. Partially because of overhead, but I think also because the growth of technology is fueled more by knowledge than by the number of people working on it.
Well, the Supreme Court sometimes rules on issues which cover the Internet. Thus, this event will effect our online rights.
He considered it, but he experienced an unacceptable performance loss when the 1s started getting stuck in the wires. 0s don't have that problem of course. No sharp edges.
Because it's funny.
Get out of my nightmares and into my car!
Uh, the submitter was the original author.
If by geek sex, you mean sitting in a restaurant looking at pretty waitresses wearing maid outfits.
And since that's the farthest they're ever gonna go, I suppose that's totally valid.
Nice little webcomic you've got here. It would be a real shame if something were to happen to it.