The RFID chip isn't the problem. It's the asshats that would take the data without your permission and or use that information for in an unethical manner. If (when) everyone gets an implant, it needs to be read only and make it so access unauthorized by the implantee is a capital offense.
"For $4.99 a month we will track all your significant other's purchases and browsing habits looking at not what they buy, but what they look at the most and DON'T buy. Then at your request we can give you suggestion on what they would most likely want for their birthday, anniversary, etc."
Venture capitalists can form a single line at my front door. I accept cash, cashier's checks and money orders.
I personally believe that the only way to affect change in the goverment would be to elect an entirely new Senate, House, and President. Make campaign accounting public so the public knows where the money came from and where the money went.
This way, there will be no vested interests, not having the idealists undercut by the entrenched powers that be etc. We also need to cap the stay of congressment to a fixed term no Senator-for-life.
Thank you for the link. That article saddened me though. People squawk about supporting diversity and racial pride, but I guess they don't want it qantified. Racially targeted bio-weapons? Are these people for real? Where's that big asteroid when you need one?
That is a belief. Nothing more. I personally believe the inverse is true. That man created god. The transposition also makes the "in his own image" part quite plausible.
Man cannot hope to understand god, so how can we create something equivalent to a thing he made?
That doesn't even make sense. By extension, since we cannot understand man, we also cannot understand anything man makes?
The fact that you are only able to be rude shows that you don't have anything substantial to add to the debate.
I am not aware that having a valid argument depends in any way upon the politeness of the response. I'm not saying the argument is a good one, merely that you reply is more driven by emotion than logic. Empathy is also not a requirement in debate.
So the FACT about how the brain works is, Nobody knows, many don't care, some are dedicating their lives to find out, and others are scorning those peoples life's work as useless and irrelevant.
OK. I'm going to ramble a bit here, but bear with me. There will always exist a level of uncertainty. If, somehow, we could map a complete brain and know where every single neuron is and in what ways it is connected, we may be able to watch the chain of processes for a second or two. Then problems arise. The brain gives preferential treatment to certain pathways for information flow. This is why the brain can remap itself in case of damage. furthermore, since our brains are organic, there is no reason to expect even the brains of twins to be connected in EXACTLY the same manner. Their slightly different viewpoints will diverge from the moment their brains begin to fire (one is inverted relative to the other in the womb for instance). One will emerge before the other, one will suckle before the other, etc. It is my opinion, that free will is indeed a farce, but it's unpredictability stems from both the lack of knowledge of the initial state, and the sheer number of different ways that the brain can change over time in response to outside stimuli.
It corrupted mine. I use Linux AND Bittorrent. That makes me a commie-pirate-thief. I don't think there WERE M-rated games when I grew up I was out of high school in '94 when the ESRB was formed. So it MUST have been the violent movies.
fluorinert is still a good heat transference fluid. (if you don't mind paying upwards of $200 a gallon). I've seen a few hobbyists use a dry ice on the cold side of the heat exchanger. You could always just use a straight liquid nitrogen bath, but the power required to recycle the nitrogen would be prohibitive.
Couldn't bring purses -> tampon hair curlers. What did you do with the other 100 or so misc. knickknacks women carry in their purses? Brushes, makeup, paperbacks, etc?
I agree. I was recently in the market for a new compact car. I am going to go with the Yaris. I checked out all the American cars. The real problem is that the American cars aren't. The Chevy Aveo is a Daewoo. When you get into it, it seems like everything you touch is going to break. The tranny feels like ass, and it has NO snap. The Yaris is in the same price range and just "feels" better.
At the risk of sounding retarded, I don't believe money can be done away with. Here's why:
If money were outmoded, how could anyone be "better" than anyone else? There will be no "have-not"s. The "have"s can't allow that sort of thing to happen.
Your mind would be immortal. It would functionally still be you. However, once the copy is made, The differing experiences would cause the consciences to diverge. So, you could end up with 2 you(s) that may have differing opinions on a subject. This would essentially create a different person for all intents and purposes. This could great for behavioral psychology research. Clone a brain at a particular development stage and solve the behavior v. envrionment debate. It may be necessary to issue a new SSN or whatnot once the copy is made.
bias: I only use Windows at work - XP Pro (Downgraded from XP64 due to Driver issues)
Do you expect the average (Windows) user to know that that printer can use a PCL5 driver? How about to even have ever seen the letters P,C,L, and the Number 5 occur together in thier life?
My HPLaserJet 1018 Just Works(tm) on my Fedora Core 5 machine at home. I am by no means a Linux geek, I just need both low latency and Eve-Online. Linux Does both without needing a huge bank account.
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Not Off-topic. FFVII ferinstance starts out with a main character as an eco-terrorist bombing of a power reactor.
Your post and sig are at odds with each other.
The RFID chip isn't the problem. It's the asshats that would take the data without your permission and or use that information for in an unethical manner. If (when) everyone gets an implant, it needs to be read only and make it so access unauthorized by the implantee is a capital offense.
What were their majors? May affect the job market. If they were going into Law or Marketing, we already have enough of those.
I'd pay for that service!
"For $4.99 a month we will track all your significant other's purchases and browsing habits looking at not what they buy, but what they look at the most and DON'T buy. Then at your request we can give you suggestion on what they would most likely want for their birthday, anniversary, etc."
Venture capitalists can form a single line at my front door. I accept cash, cashier's checks and money orders.
I personally believe that the only way to affect change in the goverment would be to elect an entirely new Senate, House, and President. Make campaign accounting public so the public knows where the money came from and where the money went.
This way, there will be no vested interests, not having the idealists undercut by the entrenched powers that be etc. We also need to cap the stay of congressment to a fixed term no Senator-for-life.
Thank you for the link. That article saddened me though. People squawk about supporting diversity and racial pride, but I guess they don't want it qantified. Racially targeted bio-weapons? Are these people for real?
Where's that big asteroid when you need one?
have we already mapped the differentiation between individuals in our own species?
say, 10 male, 10 female, those with a preponderance of posts on slashdot vs those who do not?
I would imagine that this would be necessary to prevent false impressions.
If your favorite text editor is notepad...
That could be considered a flaw of word as well. It's more complicated than a text editor should be.
That is a belief. Nothing more. I personally believe the inverse is true. That man created god. The transposition also makes the "in his own image" part quite plausible.
That doesn't even make sense. By extension, since we cannot understand man, we also cannot understand anything man makes?
I am not aware that having a valid argument depends in any way upon the politeness of the response. I'm not saying the argument is a good one, merely that you reply is more driven by emotion than logic. Empathy is also not a requirement in debate.
So the FACT about how the brain works is, Nobody knows, many don't care, some are dedicating their lives to find out, and others are scorning those peoples life's work as useless and irrelevant.
OK. I'm going to ramble a bit here, but bear with me.
There will always exist a level of uncertainty. If, somehow, we could map a complete brain and know where every single neuron is and in what ways it is connected, we may be able to watch the chain of processes for a second or two. Then problems arise.
The brain gives preferential treatment to certain pathways for information flow. This is why the brain can remap itself in case of damage. furthermore, since our brains are organic, there is no reason to expect even the brains of twins to be connected in EXACTLY the same manner. Their slightly different viewpoints will diverge from the moment their brains begin to fire (one is inverted relative to the other in the womb for instance). One will emerge before the other, one will suckle before the other, etc.
It is my opinion, that free will is indeed a farce, but it's unpredictability stems from both the lack of knowledge of the initial state, and the sheer number of different ways that the brain can change over time in response to outside stimuli.
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It corrupted mine. I use Linux AND Bittorrent. That makes me a commie-pirate-thief. I don't think there WERE M-rated games when I grew up I was out of high school in '94 when the ESRB was formed. So it MUST have been the violent movies.
fluorinert is still a good heat transference fluid. (if you don't mind paying upwards of $200 a gallon). I've seen a few hobbyists use a dry ice on the cold side of the heat exchanger. You could always just use a straight liquid nitrogen bath, but the power required to recycle the nitrogen would be prohibitive.
Their purpose is much like the president of the universe. It's purpose is to draw the negative attention away from the record companies.
Couldn't bring purses -> tampon hair curlers.
What did you do with the other 100 or so misc. knickknacks women carry in their purses? Brushes, makeup, paperbacks, etc?
"I have a 4G iPod which Apple replaced 5 times. Do all of them count?"
If you paid money for all 5 then yes. Warranty replacements are not sales.
As an aside, I had one glitch with my 4G Nano once. Other than that, flawless.
I agree. I was recently in the market for a new compact car. I am going to go with the Yaris. I checked out all the American cars. The real problem is that the American cars aren't. The Chevy Aveo is a Daewoo. When you get into it, it seems like everything you touch is going to break. The tranny feels like ass, and it has NO snap. The Yaris is in the same price range and just "feels" better.
The one at levenez is a work of art. A thing of beauty.
At the risk of sounding retarded, I don't believe money can be done away with. Here's why:
If money were outmoded, how could anyone be "better" than anyone else? There will be no "have-not"s. The "have"s can't allow that sort of thing to happen.
How much would you pay for peace and quiet?
Your mind would be immortal.
It would functionally still be you.
However, once the copy is made, The differing experiences would cause the consciences to diverge. So, you could end up with 2 you(s) that may have differing opinions on a subject. This would essentially create a different person for all intents and purposes. This could great for behavioral psychology research. Clone a brain at a particular development stage and solve the behavior v. envrionment debate.
It may be necessary to issue a new SSN or whatnot once the copy is made.
bias: I only use Windows at work - XP Pro (Downgraded from XP64 due to Driver issues)
Do you expect the average (Windows) user to know that that printer can use a PCL5 driver? How about to even have ever seen the letters P,C,L, and the Number 5 occur together in thier life?
My HPLaserJet 1018 Just Works(tm) on my Fedora Core 5 machine at home. I am by no means a Linux geek, I just need both low latency and Eve-Online. Linux Does both without needing a huge bank account.