Seriously though, there IS a limit and you have to accept that as long as technology can't give us the ability to scan people's brains and tell if they are trustworthy (and as long as we don't have a good definition on what "trustworthy" means) you have to accept some amount of corruption is going to slip through. In my opinion, there is more that could currently be done to catch corruption, but beyond a certain point you just have to wait for technology and science to catch up with your needs.
I think another good one would be to make public servants wear video/audio recording devices (kind of like whats on a cop car) that continually stream a feed to a secure and redundant storage solution. It is a lot harder to cheat when we can go back and watch everything you've said and done while on the job for the entire time you were doing the job.
And they'll decry this process right up until it produces results that are useful to them, at which point they will eagerly embrace it
They'll continue to decry it even as they use it. See: Television, the Internet, Abortion, Sex Toys, Drugs.
It is just how these people are. All hate they spew at this stuff is motivated by an intense self loathing. Either because they're participating in the behavior they consider "bad" (or want to) or because they hate how the existence of technology they don't understand makes them feel ignorant.
You set up a group who have no job other than to find and punish people who abuse their authority. Prosecutors who are hired specifically to only prosecute other prosecutors, basically.
Well, most likely they'd do it by cheek swab, so not exactly as dramatic as your "take a piece of my living flesh" makes it out to be. And honestly, they could always scrape a few dead skin cells, thus protecting your precious "living flesh."
The powerful want the police state. They use the left and right to control the two largest blocks of the population. They write off everyone else (libertarians, singularitians, whatever) as being too small and unimportant to bother with.
Boron Boride, the nobleman? This discovery is an abomination, like the Boride of Frankenstein. And isn't Boron the cousin of the famous Ukranian trumpet player, Boris Boride? I know, my jokes are so bad you must think I'm a total stupid boron. What happens when you drill the surface of something? You boron it. What happens when the drill goes out of control and starts flopping all over the place and you're stuck on top? Boron bo-ride!
Or order a beer in the lounge once you past the security checkpoint, open the bottle (so it doesn't pop on you when the pressure changes) and drink it, and put the empty in your carry on. You've already passed the security checks so from there on it's good times.
And yeah, they were still selling beer in bottles at the airport the last time I flew a few months ago.
After reading the article and getting some more information from the comments, it has become clear that this whole thing is basically Ralph Wiggum declaring "I dress myself."
If we could put people in suspended animation economically enough to do it on a starship, we'd be doing it here at home. And because of that, we'd lose the population pressure to find somewhere else to live.
Not to mention when you reach that level of technology, you're more likely to use your time and effort to build a free beer machine and a robot girlfriend/boyfriend/futafriend/tentacle monster (depending on preference) who is always in the moood.
They wouldn't invade. It isn't economical (barring the discovery of highly improbable Star Trek technology). There are few attack scenarios that they could try that wouldn't render the planet unlivable. Plus, why would someone with that kind of technology want to waste resources mucking about with a gravity well when there are perfectly good asteroids for the taking all over the place?
Even if many spacecraft escape the destruction of the home civilization, is any group of spacecraft sufficient to restart civilization on any kind of sustainable basis? Call it the "Battlestar Galactica Conundrum.":)
The atheists who latch onto that date like it meant anything other than the maundering of an Anglican Bishop are as pathetic as the Christians who believe it.
Your characterization of athiests as "latching on" to this is either intentionally misleading or hopelessly clueless.
Athiests cite it because many Christians believe it to be a biblical truth and state is as such, and it is one of the more laughable claims made by supernaturalists in their quest to spread ignorance and confusion. The 6k figure was not invented by an athiest, it was invented by a supernaturalist, athiests just heap the much deserved scorn upon those who try to spread it around as fact.
You're probably in the wrong phase. Do some more quests and make sure you finished the Battle for Undercity line if you dropped it. Then you'll find a guy in the trade district who starts you on the "shrinking your head" line. Just be careful, some of them are group quests.
Actually, that server software isn't stolen from Blizzard. In many cases of MMOG private servers they simply reverse engineered the protocol and slapped something together that lets basic functions work. Thats why things like scripted events and certain boss fights don't work, or don't work correctly, on private servers, or why many times quests can't be completed.
Once there's precedent it affects everyone, not just WOW players or gold farmers.
This really depends on what court made the decision. Usually appelate decisions have more weight. If this guy appeals it up to a US district court or (shudder) the US Supreme court, it could have a wide ranging impact. Otherwise, it's just going to put Glider out of buisiness.
I can buy a monthly commuter bus pass and ride the commuter bus with no other charges all month whenever I want. That doesn't mean I can grab the wheel and drive to Tiajuana, other passengers be damned. They're not selling you a single player game, there is no pretense that it is a single player game, and it says clearly on every box that you have to pay to play.
Meh, did you ever use some of the old, old school laptops with text-only screens? The ones that did something like 78x30 characters with this half-size flip up screen?
Though yeah, people are spoiled now, and won't accept things they would have thought was amazing 10 years ago.
First = NATO, 2nd = Warsaw Pact, 3rd = Unaligned countries. These days the term is "developing" but people cling to "3rd world" because it's evocative.
Right, Alaskans are all pure and good, not like those evil people in New Orleans who sit around all day waiting for disasters to destroy their city so they can smash and grab everything in sight. And the shooting at rescue workers thing was a myth perpetuated by people trying to sell commercials.
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Robots. Or maybe sharks with frickin laser beams.
Seriously though, there IS a limit and you have to accept that as long as technology can't give us the ability to scan people's brains and tell if they are trustworthy (and as long as we don't have a good definition on what "trustworthy" means) you have to accept some amount of corruption is going to slip through. In my opinion, there is more that could currently be done to catch corruption, but beyond a certain point you just have to wait for technology and science to catch up with your needs.
I think another good one would be to make public servants wear video/audio recording devices (kind of like whats on a cop car) that continually stream a feed to a secure and redundant storage solution. It is a lot harder to cheat when we can go back and watch everything you've said and done while on the job for the entire time you were doing the job.
Well, you're right except where you said
And they'll decry this process right up until it produces results that are useful to them, at which point they will eagerly embrace it
They'll continue to decry it even as they use it. See: Television, the Internet, Abortion, Sex Toys, Drugs.
It is just how these people are. All hate they spew at this stuff is motivated by an intense self loathing. Either because they're participating in the behavior they consider "bad" (or want to) or because they hate how the existence of technology they don't understand makes them feel ignorant.
Your post definitely wasn't flamebait worthy.
You set up a group who have no job other than to find and punish people who abuse their authority. Prosecutors who are hired specifically to only prosecute other prosecutors, basically.
Well, most likely they'd do it by cheek swab, so not exactly as dramatic as your "take a piece of my living flesh" makes it out to be. And honestly, they could always scrape a few dead skin cells, thus protecting your precious "living flesh."
The powerful want the police state. They use the left and right to control the two largest blocks of the population. They write off everyone else (libertarians, singularitians, whatever) as being too small and unimportant to bother with.
Boron Boride, the nobleman? This discovery is an abomination, like the Boride of Frankenstein. And isn't Boron the cousin of the famous Ukranian trumpet player, Boris Boride? I know, my jokes are so bad you must think I'm a total stupid boron. What happens when you drill the surface of something? You boron it. What happens when the drill goes out of control and starts flopping all over the place and you're stuck on top? Boron bo-ride!
Ok I'll stop.
... how do you disarm people who are trained to kill with bare hands?
With a gun and about 15 feet of distance ;) Duh :P
Or you can do it the American way, by hiring a succession of poor people to do it for you until one of them is sucessful.
Or order a beer in the lounge once you past the security checkpoint, open the bottle (so it doesn't pop on you when the pressure changes) and drink it, and put the empty in your carry on. You've already passed the security checks so from there on it's good times.
And yeah, they were still selling beer in bottles at the airport the last time I flew a few months ago.
After reading the article and getting some more information from the comments, it has become clear that this whole thing is basically Ralph Wiggum declaring "I dress myself."
I host five of those aliens in my home. You should see how hard it was to train them to combine though...
If we could put people in suspended animation economically enough to do it on a starship, we'd be doing it here at home. And because of that, we'd lose the population pressure to find somewhere else to live.
Not to mention when you reach that level of technology, you're more likely to use your time and effort to build a free beer machine and a robot girlfriend/boyfriend/futafriend/tentacle monster (depending on preference) who is always in the moood.
What if they build giant power stations around their star and then vary their orbit to communicate via semaphore? Hot Jupiters anyone?
They wouldn't invade. It isn't economical (barring the discovery of highly improbable Star Trek technology). There are few attack scenarios that they could try that wouldn't render the planet unlivable. Plus, why would someone with that kind of technology want to waste resources mucking about with a gravity well when there are perfectly good asteroids for the taking all over the place?
Even if many spacecraft escape the destruction of the home civilization, is any group of spacecraft sufficient to restart civilization on any kind of sustainable basis? Call it the "Battlestar Galactica Conundrum." :)
The atheists who latch onto that date like it meant anything other than the maundering of an Anglican Bishop are as pathetic as the Christians who believe it.
Your characterization of athiests as "latching on" to this is either intentionally misleading or hopelessly clueless.
Athiests cite it because many Christians believe it to be a biblical truth and state is as such, and it is one of the more laughable claims made by supernaturalists in their quest to spread ignorance and confusion. The 6k figure was not invented by an athiest, it was invented by a supernaturalist, athiests just heap the much deserved scorn upon those who try to spread it around as fact.
Thanks, I literally laughed out loud there. Wish I had mod points for you.
You're probably in the wrong phase. Do some more quests and make sure you finished the Battle for Undercity line if you dropped it. Then you'll find a guy in the trade district who starts you on the "shrinking your head" line. Just be careful, some of them are group quests.
Actually, that server software isn't stolen from Blizzard. In many cases of MMOG private servers they simply reverse engineered the protocol and slapped something together that lets basic functions work. Thats why things like scripted events and certain boss fights don't work, or don't work correctly, on private servers, or why many times quests can't be completed.
Once there's precedent it affects everyone, not just WOW players or gold farmers.
This really depends on what court made the decision. Usually appelate decisions have more weight. If this guy appeals it up to a US district court or (shudder) the US Supreme court, it could have a wide ranging impact. Otherwise, it's just going to put Glider out of buisiness.
I can buy a monthly commuter bus pass and ride the commuter bus with no other charges all month whenever I want. That doesn't mean I can grab the wheel and drive to Tiajuana, other passengers be damned. They're not selling you a single player game, there is no pretense that it is a single player game, and it says clearly on every box that you have to pay to play.
Meh, did you ever use some of the old, old school laptops with text-only screens? The ones that did something like 78x30 characters with this half-size flip up screen?
Though yeah, people are spoiled now, and won't accept things they would have thought was amazing 10 years ago.
First = NATO, 2nd = Warsaw Pact, 3rd = Unaligned countries. These days the term is "developing" but people cling to "3rd world" because it's evocative.
Right, Alaskans are all pure and good, not like those evil people in New Orleans who sit around all day waiting for disasters to destroy their city so they can smash and grab everything in sight. And the shooting at rescue workers thing was a myth perpetuated by people trying to sell commercials.
What color is the sky in your reality?