Hear, hear. Corporatism depends as much on government intervention as does socialism. It's just a different group with their hands out, and individually they collect a lot more from the system , but it's just as wrong.
Sure, God wanted us to be intelligent, but took 3 billion years of fucking around to get to it.
Right....
ID is an escape hatch for those who cannot deny the obviousness of evolution but don't want to give up their need to belief in God and, ergo, an afterlife.
If cloning a human embryo is equal to cloning a human, why isn't killing a human embryo equal to killing a human?
Some people think it is. A lot of other people sort of think is, but choose to give the mother more rights than the unborn child. Some people have a firm line at which they think an embryo becomes a human being and base their view off of that. A lot of other people don't care one way or another. Right now most western societies have chosen to grant the mother more rights than the unborn child.
The only thing certain about the argument is that regardless of the legality of the act at any point in time, some women will abort their pregnancies, and some other people will be very upset about them doing so.
One need not be intolerant of their sexual proclivities to note that the very idea of men or women marrying amongst themselves is absurd.
One need not be intolerant of their race to note that the very idea of blacks being able to ride in the front of the bus and drink from the same water fountains as whites is absurd.
One need not be intolerant of their sex to note that the very idea of women being able to vote is absurd.
It's sad when the bigots don't even know that they are bigots.
Humans are far beyond nature's ability to keep in check. Our only practical checks now are energy consumption and water, and there's enough of both in the solar system alone to support, at a minimum, hundreds of billions of us.
We grow more food per capita now than we did 30 years ago. There are fewer starving people (both numerically and as a percentage of population) now than there were 30 years ago. People live longer than they ever have.
Now, all this is due to our consumption of hydrocarbon reserves, but if we can transition to fusion or even space-based solar without civilization collapsing, then we should be good for some time.
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Nothing is perfectly safe. Every means of power generation pollutes/kills cute animals and buries large areas of land in waste products / wind mills / solar cells / water.
Nuclear energy is cleaner and more compact that any other power source capable of meeting more than a small fraction of our needs.
At the end of the day, do you want electricity, food and transportation, or not?
The amount of waste is tiny compared to other means of power generation. Sure, it's nasty, but there just isn't enough of it to get really excited about. Hell, most (all?) US plants are still storing all their waste onsite.
Actually, in my experience they love Big Government. Being socialists, they believe everything should be "free". Most of them don't make enough to realize that to a taxpayer, nothing is free.
Even masers would spread out quite a bit from the Moon (not to mention that the Moon isn't in geosync, so figuring out where to beam it would be a problem).
You'd probably want to build them in geosync. Of course, a microwave facility in orbit looks a lot like a weapon of mass destruction, and would thus be highly controversial. It would also be fairly easy to destroy, taking out someone's entire power supply that way, so for stragegic reasons I doubt anyone will go that way.
So if 8% of the population doesn't agree with a law, it should go unenforced much of the time?
I'd be OK with that, actually. It's probably less than 8% of laws that get enforced with any regularity as it is. The problem is far, far too many laws (and the complete disregard for the Constitution that allows them to be passed in the first place).
But if you actually do it, you are spitting in the faces of millions of people who voted for this law.
Nobody votes for "laws", except for the occassional ballot initiative. They vote for politicians, who create laws at the behest of whatever minute proportion of the population is paying them the most money or making the most noise at any given time. I doubt you could get a majority of the population to directly approve more than a tiny fraction of the existing laws at any level of government.
Jury nullification is considered one of the defenses against a bad law, and one of the reasons you are guaranteed a jury trial. Juries can and should return not-guilty verdicts in cases where they feel the law is a bad thing.
More like replacing a car because the one you have is impossible to secure from theft, gets 5 miles to the gallon and drives like a Ford Fiesta. And the replacement car is offered for free.
Migrate to what? The only technology that could replace any significant amount of energy production is fission. And environmentalists hate nuclear power more than anything.
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Hear, hear. Corporatism depends as much on government intervention as does socialism. It's just a different group with their hands out, and individually they collect a lot more from the system , but it's just as wrong.
Sure, God wanted us to be intelligent, but took 3 billion years of fucking around to get to it.
....
Right
ID is an escape hatch for those who cannot deny the obviousness of evolution but don't want to give up their need to belief in God and, ergo, an afterlife.
Yes, it's going to fire its nuclear engine and head towards us anytime now.
If cloning a human embryo is equal to cloning a human, why isn't killing a human embryo equal to killing a human?
Some people think it is. A lot of other people sort of think is, but choose to give the mother more rights than the unborn child. Some people have a firm line at which they think an embryo becomes a human being and base their view off of that. A lot of other people don't care one way or another. Right now most western societies have chosen to grant the mother more rights than the unborn child.
The only thing certain about the argument is that regardless of the legality of the act at any point in time, some women will abort their pregnancies, and some other people will be very upset about them doing so.
Nope, we have creationists and astrologers and all kinds of people to ridicule right now :p
One need not be intolerant of their sexual proclivities to note that the very idea of men or women marrying amongst themselves is absurd.
One need not be intolerant of their race to note that the very idea of blacks being able to ride in the front of the bus and drink from the same water fountains as whites is absurd.
One need not be intolerant of their sex to note that the very idea of women being able to vote is absurd.
It's sad when the bigots don't even know that they are bigots.
Humans are far beyond nature's ability to keep in check. Our only practical checks now are energy consumption and water, and there's enough of both in the solar system alone to support, at a minimum, hundreds of billions of us.
We grow more food per capita now than we did 30 years ago. There are fewer starving people (both numerically and as a percentage of population) now than there were 30 years ago. People live longer than they ever have.
Now, all this is due to our consumption of hydrocarbon reserves, but if we can transition to fusion or even space-based solar without civilization collapsing, then we should be good for some time.
I wouldn't say that to DJB. He'd probably pull out 20 or 30.
Well, the advocacy sites could come down once he won ...
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Nothing is perfectly safe. Every means of power generation pollutes/kills cute animals and buries large areas of land in waste products / wind mills / solar cells / water.
Nuclear energy is cleaner and more compact that any other power source capable of meeting more than a small fraction of our needs.
At the end of the day, do you want electricity, food and transportation, or not?
The amount of waste is tiny compared to other means of power generation. Sure, it's nasty, but there just isn't enough of it to get really excited about. Hell, most (all?) US plants are still storing all their waste onsite.
Actually, in my experience they love Big Government. Being socialists, they believe everything should be "free". Most of them don't make enough to realize that to a taxpayer, nothing is free.
Even masers would spread out quite a bit from the Moon (not to mention that the Moon isn't in geosync, so figuring out where to beam it would be a problem).
You'd probably want to build them in geosync. Of course, a microwave facility in orbit looks a lot like a weapon of mass destruction, and would thus be highly controversial. It would also be fairly easy to destroy, taking out someone's entire power supply that way, so for stragegic reasons I doubt anyone will go that way.
No one wants any power generation facility near them. But they all want electricity. Go figure.
Instal Gaim. Use both. Avoid ads. It's all good.
So if 8% of the population doesn't agree with a law, it should go unenforced much of the time?
I'd be OK with that, actually. It's probably less than 8% of laws that get enforced with any regularity as it is. The problem is far, far too many laws (and the complete disregard for the Constitution that allows them to be passed in the first place).
But if you actually do it, you are spitting in the faces of millions of people who voted for this law.
Nobody votes for "laws", except for the occassional ballot initiative. They vote for politicians, who create laws at the behest of whatever minute proportion of the population is paying them the most money or making the most noise at any given time. I doubt you could get a majority of the population to directly approve more than a tiny fraction of the existing laws at any level of government.
Jury nullification is considered one of the defenses against a bad law, and one of the reasons you are guaranteed a jury trial. Juries can and should return not-guilty verdicts in cases where they feel the law is a bad thing.
More like replacing a car because the one you have is impossible to secure from theft, gets 5 miles to the gallon and drives like a Ford Fiesta. And the replacement car is offered for free.
The saddest thing is that people actually win these suits. The legal system is so messed up it's beyond belief.
Massive government subsidies of food production have absolutely nothing to do with capitalism.
It's common in MMORPG chat channels, that's for sure.
Migrate to what? The only technology that could replace any significant amount of energy production is fission. And environmentalists hate nuclear power more than anything.
Naw, it's worse. We'll all be back to burning coal in 50 years.
Obviously, limits on reproduction would be necessary.
Wants kids? Fine, you can have one, but you have to give up your own immortality treatments. Sounds like a deal to me.