I'm guessing you're being sarcastic. Otherwise, if it was as bad as you make it sound, we'd all be terminally ill with radiation poisoning (or mutants with superpowers.) We get the leftovers, and it shouldn't take a nuclear bunker to shield against them.
Don't you see, you don't buy the ink, you license it. Once the license runs out, you have to renew, and by ignoring the "out of ink" warning you are no better than the pirates costing the industry $10000000000000000000000000.
Personally I love Windows 98 delete functionality. If there are enough files inside a directory, deleting it will freeze explorer. The workaround is going to MS-DOS prompt and using the 'deltree' command.
So.. you'll need to be patient for quite a few years for the clone to grow up, unless you're into children, you sick pedo.
Apparently you've not watched enough sci-fi movies, so I'll excuse your ignorance. Robots, or 'bots', are machines, not clones, and only the truly advanced android models (i.e. ones I couldn't afford, and wouldn't want to in any case) start out as children and age like humans. The rest are built to the right age and stay that way.
People, people, there's nothing to worry about. Any misguided convictions resulting from this misunderstanding will be quickly overturned by a Presidential pardon. And since the current President is the right hand of God on this Earth, that means all is well.
Assuming this all happens before the 2009 Presidential Inauguration of course. Otherwise we're screwed.
First you'd need an actual piece of DNA, unless the machine can also synthethize genetic material from a digital pattern. Second you'd need to be patient for quite a few years for the clone to grow up, unless you're into children, you sick pedo.
Personally, I'd rather make out with my Jessica Alba-bot.
IANAL, but I'm guessing that they could request your DNA from ancestry.com, and if the site refused to turn over results, they could probably get a subpoena as long as they were able to show reasonable cause. But this would be no different than getting DNA directly from you, which is much cleaner in terms of the chain of evidence.
Or they could just ask RIAA to borrow their pretexting experts.
The Diablo and Fallout movies should be quite different from each other. The first one should be a CGI-filled demon slicing summer action flick. The latter would be the one with the thought out story. At least if they want to stay true to the games:)
I remember reading Stardust a long time ago. It seemed like a rather generic fantasy title to me. I'd rather they made a movie adaptation of Gaiman's much better works like Good Omens, Neverwhere, American Gods, or Anansi Boys. Or maybe BBC could update the Neverwhere miniseries with similar production values to the new Dr. Who. But I guess with the success of LotR and the first Narnia movie, studios are more interested in epic fantasies than the less standard urban ones.
I'll be looking for Interworld with interest though.
If we assume that there has been intelligent life somewhere in the galaxy, not necessarily one continuous civilization or species, for at least half of that time and that at some point one of these species developed a barely practicable interstellar drive, able to travel at say 1/1000 light speed, then the fact that we are not already part of some vast galactic empire tends to suggest, with high probability, that such travel is simply not possible or at best not practicable since there has already been enough time elapsed for this (the colonization of the Milky Way) to have happened at least a couple of times over.
Isn't that similar to saying "if time travel was possible, we'd be taken over by our ancestors by now"? Besides, say there have been a couple thousand civilizations with this ".001c" drive, but they never lasted more than a couple million years each. Could any of them really have colonized a large portion of the galaxy unless they devoted major resources to just flinging millions of seed ships out in every direction (and from every colony as soon as it was capable)?
Difference between the condom and abortion is obvious. In one case life hasn't started. In the other you're taking away what has. Don't you see that?
Sure, but the life in the "abortion" case is just an unthinking lump of cells, at least in the beginning. It may become a person some day, but it doesn't deserve the rights of one until then.
When you abort the baby (er, "tissue") you're removing a person that would one day be in the world. There's simply no getting around it, and us lying to ourselves that since it's not in the shape of a baby, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting.
Guess what, using a condom can also prevent a person from being brought into the world. Lying to ourselves that just because it's in the shape of an egg and a sperm, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not even close to being a person until the first thought or feeling crosses its mind. That should be the cutoff line. Until that point, it's all potential and nothing more.
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I'm guessing you're being sarcastic. Otherwise, if it was as bad as you make it sound, we'd all be terminally ill with radiation poisoning (or mutants with superpowers.) We get the leftovers, and it shouldn't take a nuclear bunker to shield against them.
Don't you see, you don't buy the ink, you license it. Once the license runs out, you have to renew, and by ignoring the "out of ink" warning you are no better than the pirates costing the industry $10000000000000000000000000.
But...but... scrapers are so inelegant!
Personally I love Windows 98 delete functionality. If there are enough files inside a directory, deleting it will freeze explorer. The workaround is going to MS-DOS prompt and using the 'deltree' command.
So.. you'll need to be patient for quite a few years for the clone to grow up, unless you're into children, you sick pedo.
Apparently you've not watched enough sci-fi movies, so I'll excuse your ignorance. Robots, or 'bots', are machines, not clones, and only the truly advanced android models (i.e. ones I couldn't afford, and wouldn't want to in any case) start out as children and age like humans. The rest are built to the right age and stay that way.
I thought that was a standard feature on all packages from all telcos?
But then again, I don't kill kittens for fun in my spare time.
Well, that's your loss. If you do it right, killing kittens can be quite enjoyable.
People, people, there's nothing to worry about. Any misguided convictions resulting from this misunderstanding will be quickly overturned by a Presidential pardon. And since the current President is the right hand of God on this Earth, that means all is well.
Assuming this all happens before the 2009 Presidential Inauguration of course. Otherwise we're screwed.
So kinda like Ultima IX: Ascension?
I think you just might just have different priorities. "Hmm, Lisa needs braces, but I really want to watch the Sopranos ending in HD...."
Now if we could just find Jesus' DNA, everyone with a messiah complex could easily test themselves for godhood!
First you'd need an actual piece of DNA, unless the machine can also synthethize genetic material from a digital pattern. Second you'd need to be patient for quite a few years for the clone to grow up, unless you're into children, you sick pedo.
Personally, I'd rather make out with my Jessica Alba-bot.
IANAL, but I'm guessing that they could request your DNA from ancestry.com, and if the site refused to turn over results, they could probably get a subpoena as long as they were able to show reasonable cause. But this would be no different than getting DNA directly from you, which is much cleaner in terms of the chain of evidence.
Or they could just ask RIAA to borrow their pretexting experts.
The Diablo and Fallout movies should be quite different from each other. The first one should be a CGI-filled demon slicing summer action flick. The latter would be the one with the thought out story. At least if they want to stay true to the games :)
Ah, but this one will be animated. Makes all the difference.
I remember reading Stardust a long time ago. It seemed like a rather generic fantasy title to me. I'd rather they made a movie adaptation of Gaiman's much better works like Good Omens, Neverwhere, American Gods, or Anansi Boys. Or maybe BBC could update the Neverwhere miniseries with similar production values to the new Dr. Who. But I guess with the success of LotR and the first Narnia movie, studios are more interested in epic fantasies than the less standard urban ones.
I'll be looking for Interworld with interest though.
Hell, he'd freak out even if he was from 1996.
If we assume that there has been intelligent life somewhere in the galaxy, not necessarily one continuous civilization or species, for at least half of that time and that at some point one of these species developed a barely practicable interstellar drive, able to travel at say 1/1000 light speed, then the fact that we are not already part of some vast galactic empire tends to suggest, with high probability, that such travel is simply not possible or at best not practicable since there has already been enough time elapsed for this (the colonization of the Milky Way) to have happened at least a couple of times over.
Isn't that similar to saying "if time travel was possible, we'd be taken over by our ancestors by now"? Besides, say there have been a couple thousand civilizations with this ".001c" drive, but they never lasted more than a couple million years each. Could any of them really have colonized a large portion of the galaxy unless they devoted major resources to just flinging millions of seed ships out in every direction (and from every colony as soon as it was capable)?
I don't know, have you seen End of Evangelion?
Difference between the condom and abortion is obvious. In one case life hasn't started. In the other you're taking away what has. Don't you see that?
Sure, but the life in the "abortion" case is just an unthinking lump of cells, at least in the beginning. It may become a person some day, but it doesn't deserve the rights of one until then.
When you abort the baby (er, "tissue") you're removing a person that would one day be in the world. There's simply no getting around it, and us lying to ourselves that since it's not in the shape of a baby, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting.
Guess what, using a condom can also prevent a person from being brought into the world. Lying to ourselves that just because it's in the shape of an egg and a sperm, therefor it's not a person, is disgusting.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not even close to being a person until the first thought or feeling crosses its mind. That should be the cutoff line. Until that point, it's all potential and nothing more.
Just for fun, get average Joes off the street to administer the shocks and see if you can repeat Milgram's results.
They used to do it with faxes, and before that they used the regular mail.
Ok, I can see how regular mail could be used to spread viruses, but faxes? Are we talking about a Snowcrash scenario here?
So, what's your definition of "mental illness"?
You should've sent an anonymous tip to the RIAA about the thief.