No what you are doing is standing up for the morally correct thing, and the freedom of people to not be persecuted for telling the truth about something.
The governments of most civilised countries usually take action to defend the rights and freedom of journalists and other whistle blowers in countries like China and North Korea that are persecuted by that government for exposing the truth about widespread systemic abuse of citizens. Its very arrogant of Americans to expect the US should be treated any differently when they also get caught doing the same thing.
>> Adaptive cruise control will drive at whatever speed it needs to drive at based on the distance to the cars in front and behind.
Not quite at least on my car (2008 Jag). Adaptive cruise has a max speed setting and a min distance setting. If the car in front suddenly speeds up my car will only speed up to the cruise speed you have already set. It helps to think of adaptive cruise more like an automatic slow up/brake than an automatic speed up/keep-up.
>> Until we start designing stuff which is inherently more secure
I agree but I'm afraid that If something was truly secure enough that the NSA cant hack it, the US gov would just find a lame excuse to make it illegal.
What happens to freedom over the common good? What if they didn't want to be "corrected" but still wanted to breed? Also if they got (say) born with a physical deformity, such as without limbs or something, no amount of DNA sequencing on them could put that right (in their lifetime).
>> if you live in a country outside the USA, and your biggest privacy concern is the NSA, you're a moron:
I get your point but it really doesn't work like that. Thanks to most EU governments pandering to the US, the NSA have gotten their hooks into everything there too, even though its not their country.
Interesting. I always thought of Intelligent Design as a fake history to allow people of low IQ to continue to believe in magic, but maybe its time hasn't come yet, is all.
>> As far as the human genome goes we can store it and revert back to unedited DNA any time we like
Lets assume that some therapy that tweaks DNA in a way that gets passed on is later found to be detrimental. By the time we identify and agree the need to revert, the genie would be well and truly out the bottle.
>> It is simply a matter of not allowing people to reproduce who have had unwanted consequences from edited genes.
Nice one Adolf. This is incredibly naive, You really think the victims themselves will go along with that? You really think there won't be a whole bunch of liberal hollywood movie stars having fund raisers for mutants rights to have babies?
No you get. over. it, Your statement is clueless. The compiler is not doing anything creative or original at all so it is definately not WRITING code. It is simply compiling it which most usually includes intermidiate steps such as conversion to lexemes, then to trigraphs, then to assembly, then optimized assembly, then target-specific binary. Each step is simply converting the output of the previuos step to another logically equivalent form. There is no create input so It is not writing (i.e. creating) anything at all itself. That is ONLY the file you wrote that forms the initial input.
All the fans knew it was coming for a while now, but with this news the world suddenly seems a lot more grey. I guess octarine isn't quite as imaginary as we all thought.
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...but if I wanted to go to a store so I could have it the same day, I'm fucked.
No what you are doing is standing up for the morally correct thing, and the freedom of people to not be persecuted for telling the truth about something.
The governments of most civilised countries usually take action to defend the rights and freedom of journalists and other whistle blowers in countries like China and North Korea that are persecuted by that government for exposing the truth about widespread systemic abuse of citizens. Its very arrogant of Americans to expect the US should be treated any differently when they also get caught doing the same thing.
>> Adaptive cruise control will drive at whatever speed it needs to drive at based on the distance to the cars in front and behind.
Not quite at least on my car (2008 Jag). Adaptive cruise has a max speed setting and a min distance setting. If the car in front suddenly speeds up my car will only speed up to the cruise speed you have already set. It helps to think of adaptive cruise more like an automatic slow up/brake than an automatic speed up/keep-up.
>> Until we start designing stuff which is inherently more secure
I agree but I'm afraid that If something was truly secure enough that the NSA cant hack it, the US gov would just find a lame excuse to make it illegal.
Not sure many faith over science types would consider selective cross-breeding the same as intelligent design but I get your point.
What happens to freedom over the common good?
What if they didn't want to be "corrected" but still wanted to breed?
Also if they got (say) born with a physical deformity, such as without limbs or something, no amount of DNA sequencing on them could put that right (in their lifetime).
>> Even letting nature do its thing doesn't guarantee a perfect outcome.
Well It got us from pretty much nothingness to where the whole universe including the earth and us is now.
I agree that its not perfect but it still pretty amazing and definitely seems a lot better than we humans could manage if we were in charge.
Sorry but I dont see telling the US to keep out of another countries affairs as a bad thing.
If I was Merkel, even if I originally had no intention to take Snowden, I would now just to put the US in its place.
>> if you live in a country outside the USA, and your biggest privacy concern is the NSA, you're a moron:
I get your point but it really doesn't work like that. Thanks to most EU governments pandering to the US, the NSA have gotten their hooks into everything there too, even though its not their country.
Amazing that this kind of stuff keeps happening yet many Americans still believe the US is "The Land Of The Free"(tm).
Interesting. I always thought of Intelligent Design as a fake history to allow people of low IQ to continue to believe in magic, but maybe its time hasn't come yet, is all.
Show me just one example where humans have messed with nature and got it completely right.
>> As far as the human genome goes we can store it and revert back to unedited DNA any time we like
Lets assume that some therapy that tweaks DNA in a way that gets passed on is later found to be detrimental. By the time we identify and agree the need to revert, the genie would be well and truly out the bottle.
>> It is simply a matter of not allowing people to reproduce who have had unwanted consequences from edited genes.
Nice one Adolf. This is incredibly naive, You really think the victims themselves will go along with that? You really think there won't be a whole bunch of liberal hollywood movie stars having fund raisers for mutants rights to have babies?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
>> few organizations are capable of moving thousands of people, some of them infected, to different locations on the globe,
Isn't that a good thing? I mean Quarantining is a good idea right?
Slow Down Cowboy!
nVidia requires you to wait between each successful usage of the brakes to allow everyone a fair chance at avoiding accidents.
It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully used your brakes.
>> dude, you're a fucking moron.
"Dude" go fuck yourself.
Generating source code.
No you get. over. it, Your statement is clueless.
The compiler is not doing anything creative or original at all so it is definately not WRITING code. It is simply compiling it which most usually includes intermidiate steps such as conversion to lexemes, then to trigraphs, then to assembly, then optimized assembly, then target-specific binary.
Each step is simply converting the output of the previuos step to another logically equivalent form. There is no create input so It is not writing (i.e. creating) anything at all itself. That is ONLY the file you wrote that forms the initial input.
No it doesn't write code. It compiles the code you wrote. Thats why its called a compiler.
>>>> The United States of America is the nexus of true freedom in this universe.
Bwahahahahahaha. Thanks I needed a laugh.
Dumbidum? Does It have electrolytes?
Thank you for sharing that. It was like the old man wrote it himself. And I don't think there's any higher commendation.
All the fans knew it was coming for a while now, but with this news the world suddenly seems a lot more grey. I guess octarine isn't quite as imaginary as we all thought.
Gods bless, Terry. You will be sorely missed.