Then the last poor schlep in line goes without or skips class.
Had this happen to me once - by the time it was clear that the line wasn't moving, and I could shove my way out, the other lines were closed. I paid for my pizza *after* the 'lunch is over' bell rang only because I threatened to take it without paying (they didn't want to serve me after the bell) but they were there to see the line.
Gotta love the law of unintended consequences.
That reminds me though - my lunch diet during high school consisted of pizza, iced tea, and peanut-butter brownies (IIRC, properly called "blondies") until the brownies were banned -- no baked goods could be cooked on-site after my sophomore year.
I still weigh 135 pounds. Why? I stop eating when I'm not hungry. I don't seek out crap when I'm hungry, and when crap was bought, my sister ate it before I got around to wanting crap.
Actually, I'd say that this is a reaction to parents who, in the process of trying to help their children, cause permanent personality damage to the point of causing neurosis.
Encrypted (strong crypto) backups would be encouraged - I don't think this'd find its way onto dirt-cheap phones anytime soon, and card slots are getting common on new phones.
Thank you, OP. I just created a design for such a device which can be operated one-handed and immediately, but without fear of accidental erasure.
Maybe I can get a patent?
You're wrong. There is much more energy in the purposeful application of one's fist - or a knife - than in even the nastiest handgun cartridges (since we're talking about carrying it around, I'll limit myself to high-grade handgun cartridges. Mousegun cartridges can't even hold a candle).
You're aware that for every 300 Americans, the US has 299 guns in private hands?
Ever notice the streets do not run red with blood?
True, but "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Doesn't this mean that the Senate shall enact no such treaty?
On why we may not have that ability - I am not a biologist in the least, but would hypothesise it has to do with the risk of out-of-control tissue growth, what tissue types there is less risk of it with, and highly structured, non-homogenous organs. For example, in re-growing an arm, it is not just one tissue type/organ which needs to be replicated. Bone has to be grown in appropriate ratios to blood vessels, muscle, etc. The kidneys are full of those concentric structures which I would guess need to be done right in order for the organ to work, so it's not just a matter of "make more meat"
Same with the liver, IAABM (I Am A Bio Major)
If you want to start a civil war in America, fuck with their TV.
Anyone notice that the DTV switchover happens in a year and a half or so?
If it gets to the point of more people downloading music than voting for the president, >1/2 of the country as felons (unable to vote), and no TV to distract people, you will have your war. Probably have a coup first, IMHO.
How long before most domestic animals including man are chimeras? Less than fifty years, maybe even less than 20. You'll probably live long enough to see it, and hopefully long enough to recieve the treatment.
If adding a single animal or plant gene you could add fifty years to your life expectancy or leave you immune to cancer would you do it? In a heartbeat.
At what point do you cease being human? When I decided that non-augmented homo sapiens sapiens were inefficient and needed to be wiped out. Work on your wording, please.
It's just one gene but it's not a human gene. So? Within two months, there was some hoopla about "Are humans still evolving?" to which I must answer "F!!!ing DUH!" Did we all start breeding randomly, or am I sorely mistaken? I know most of us here would beg to disagree, and random mating is *required* for evolution to stop. Humanity is still changing, and I'd like to be able to keep up, thank you very much.
What about a hundred years down the line when most people have dozens of extra genes? Are we still human? I'm going to assume you mean biologically, this time. Which species definition are you using? There's about four. Morphological? I'd wager this is the first one to fall, before humanoid subspecies can't interbreed. Think of the furries that'd be the early adopters. The others tend to hinge on genetic relatedness, which ironically will probably be the most ironclad until we go really apeshit and start rewriting genomes from scratch. The other ones hinge on 'potentially interbreeding' which has a lot to do with the racial 'sense of beauty' and what gets you going. This will fall shortly after morphological.
But 'Are we still human' where it counts? The 'soul' if you will, the 'humanity'? Most likely.
Could we wind up multiple species? Yes. (Subspecies would fit better into our current taxonomic system, but for all practical purposes the answer is yes)
Maybe different groups have different added genes and some no longer can interbreed. By definition some or all can't be Homo Sapien. If none could mix with a modern human would we in effect be extinct? Depends on your species definition. Humanity as we know it wouldn't have died off, it'd be considered a transitional form which branched, much like the feline that gase rise to housecats and tigers.
Recently a bill was introduced to require that no money be exchanged for media exposure unless it came from the national treasury. The candidates sponsored by the two leading parties (not specified, but come on...) would be funded; everyone else better get an awful lot of free advertizing or they're stuffed.
Not to mention the "George Orwell set it 20 years too early" surveillance cameras, the talk of steak-knife control (rounded tips), of belt control and the so-called feather law ("if someone's trying to kill you with a feather, you can only fight them with a feather" was how it was summed up to me) and people going to jail for shooting someone who's broken in and heading for the upstairs (and by extension, the bedrooms)
Ooooh! Don't forget Happy Slapping, the fine art of video-recorded brutal beatdowns of random pedestrians for the entertainment of young thugs-in-training.
I've long lost my desire to tour the EU after college. Except maybe Switzerland.
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Orion's Arm, a hard sci-fi setting and global project, has posted a nice analysis of nanoweapons and nanodefenses.
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http://www.orionsarm.com/tech/Limitations_of_Nano
Really a good read - especially considering that none of it is bullshit.
How are these kids going to learn about living?
Then the last poor schlep in line goes without or skips class. Had this happen to me once - by the time it was clear that the line wasn't moving, and I could shove my way out, the other lines were closed. I paid for my pizza *after* the 'lunch is over' bell rang only because I threatened to take it without paying (they didn't want to serve me after the bell) but they were there to see the line. Gotta love the law of unintended consequences. That reminds me though - my lunch diet during high school consisted of pizza, iced tea, and peanut-butter brownies (IIRC, properly called "blondies") until the brownies were banned -- no baked goods could be cooked on-site after my sophomore year. I still weigh 135 pounds. Why? I stop eating when I'm not hungry. I don't seek out crap when I'm hungry, and when crap was bought, my sister ate it before I got around to wanting crap.
Actually, I'd say that this is a reaction to parents who, in the process of trying to help their children, cause permanent personality damage to the point of causing neurosis.
Nobody with good parents is bitching, after all.
But this is going to be a sad day for fans of My Little Pony porn.
Encrypted (strong crypto) backups would be encouraged - I don't think this'd find its way onto dirt-cheap phones anytime soon, and card slots are getting common on new phones.
... Safe from school administrators, certainly. Goddamn suits.
Thank you, OP. I just created a design for such a device which can be operated one-handed and immediately, but without fear of accidental erasure. Maybe I can get a patent?
The one with access to strong cryptography?
You're wrong. There is much more energy in the purposeful application of one's fist - or a knife - than in even the nastiest handgun cartridges (since we're talking about carrying it around, I'll limit myself to high-grade handgun cartridges. Mousegun cartridges can't even hold a candle).
You're aware that for every 300 Americans, the US has 299 guns in private hands?
Ever notice the streets do not run red with blood?
Yeah, neither did I.
I know I'm flirting with trolling here, but...
if it's as bad as you say, then my money's that the last thing some of these guys breathed was a sigh of relief.
Err, don't you mean we won't need any further inventions?
True, but "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Doesn't this mean that the Senate shall enact no such treaty?
In a perfect world.
The world's not perfect.
If you think it's rather 'pet-like' what will your kids think?
I can tell you right now that I'd sooner perform ameteur surgery on my own arm without anaesthesia than leave that ***ker in.
only bacteria and lattes at the moment :)
OTOH, theoretical cryptozoology is a neverending source of amusement.
One hurts, one doesn't. One can get infected, the others can't. One can be cut out of the unfortunate employee's flesh and stashed in a wristwatch...
I very much like the idea of being able to surrender my credit cards to a man with a gun.
On why we may not have that ability - I am not a biologist in the least, but would hypothesise it has to do with the risk of out-of-control tissue growth, what tissue types there is less risk of it with, and highly structured, non-homogenous organs. For example, in re-growing an arm, it is not just one tissue type/organ which needs to be replicated. Bone has to be grown in appropriate ratios to blood vessels, muscle, etc. The kidneys are full of those concentric structures which I would guess need to be done right in order for the organ to work, so it's not just a matter of "make more meat" Same with the liver, IAABM (I Am A Bio Major)
The enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy. No more, no less. Rule 29.
If you want to start a civil war in America, fuck with their TV.
Anyone notice that the DTV switchover happens in a year and a half or so?
If it gets to the point of more people downloading music than voting for the president, >1/2 of the country as felons (unable to vote), and no TV to distract people, you will have your war. Probably have a coup first, IMHO.
How long before most domestic animals including man are chimeras?
Less than fifty years, maybe even less than 20. You'll probably live long enough to see it, and hopefully long enough to recieve the treatment.
If adding a single animal or plant gene you could add fifty years to your life expectancy or leave you immune to cancer would you do it?
In a heartbeat.
At what point do you cease being human?
When I decided that non-augmented homo sapiens sapiens were inefficient and needed to be wiped out. Work on your wording, please.
It's just one gene but it's not a human gene.
So? Within two months, there was some hoopla about "Are humans still evolving?" to which I must answer "F!!!ing DUH!" Did we all start breeding randomly, or am I sorely mistaken? I know most of us here would beg to disagree, and random mating is *required* for evolution to stop. Humanity is still changing, and I'd like to be able to keep up, thank you very much.
What about a hundred years down the line when most people have dozens of extra genes? Are we still human?
I'm going to assume you mean biologically, this time. Which species definition are you using? There's about four. Morphological? I'd wager this is the first one to fall, before humanoid subspecies can't interbreed. Think of the furries that'd be the early adopters. The others tend to hinge on genetic relatedness, which ironically will probably be the most ironclad until we go really apeshit and start rewriting genomes from scratch. The other ones hinge on 'potentially interbreeding' which has a lot to do with the racial 'sense of beauty' and what gets you going. This will fall shortly after morphological.
But 'Are we still human' where it counts? The 'soul' if you will, the 'humanity'? Most likely.
Could we wind up multiple species?
Yes. (Subspecies would fit better into our current taxonomic system, but for all practical purposes the answer is yes)
Maybe different groups have different added genes and some no longer can interbreed. By definition some or all can't be Homo Sapien. If none could mix with a modern human would we in effect be extinct?
Depends on your species definition. Humanity as we know it wouldn't have died off, it'd be considered a transitional form which branched, much like the feline that gase rise to housecats and tigers.
You know what? I look forward to this.
Recently a bill was introduced to require that no money be exchanged for media exposure unless it came from the national treasury. The candidates sponsored by the two leading parties (not specified, but come on...) would be funded; everyone else better get an awful lot of free advertizing or they're stuffed.
Not to mention the "George Orwell set it 20 years too early" surveillance cameras, the talk of steak-knife control (rounded tips), of belt control and the so-called feather law ("if someone's trying to kill you with a feather, you can only fight them with a feather" was how it was summed up to me) and people going to jail for shooting someone who's broken in and heading for the upstairs (and by extension, the bedrooms) Ooooh! Don't forget Happy Slapping, the fine art of video-recorded brutal beatdowns of random pedestrians for the entertainment of young thugs-in-training. I've long lost my desire to tour the EU after college. Except maybe Switzerland.
That won't be a problem. I have a roll of duct tape around here somewhere.
The inferno, huh? Can I bring my shotgun?