Couldnt agree with you more.. try getting a bottle of Everclear here...
(From Wikipedia) Consumers may legally purchase Everclear in Pennsylvania but must first obtain a permit for it and agree that it shall not be consumed as beverage alcohol and shall not be furnished for any reason to another person
In Britain, people who are that fucking desperate just drink meths or white spirit.
Now, no one at Amazon has even suggested such a thing (as far as I know), but I found it an interesting coincidence that this wine-selling program started to make headlines in a big way immediately on the heels of the election. Even if it isn't intentional, this would be (or rather, WILL be) a massive revenue stream for the first company to offer such a service, and Amazon will have this wine business experience to work out the kinks in state-by-state deliveries.
So you don't think that Amazons' s massive worldwide book delivery service will have given them quite a good idea about loistics and distribution already?
There's nothing magical about shipping pot: if it's only legal in States A and B then you only ship it to states A and B.
Interesting that there aren't the normal number of postings for a bitcoin story. Presumably all the early adopters in this Ponzi scheme have now cashed in and the suckers left trying to buy drugs from the FBI with their worthless digital "currency" are too embarrassed to admit it.
Indeed. The petroleum that 99% of the world still relies on is largely refined in the USA. This creates a lot of CO2 emissions. Demanding that Americans live in caves lit only by the dim light of a single CFL is not going to solve the problem of haughty European still using our petroleum-based products.
It might not solve any problems, but it would be fucking hilarious.
Did you know that nowadays there are some women in senior positions of power like politicians and judges?! I hear they even let chicks become doctors and shit. The world's gone anti-man and I'm going to cry.
If an alternative exists that removes the inconvenience without resulting in the death, it makes sense for both sides to champion it as an acceptable middle ground.
No, because it would concede to the extreme religious nutjobs that a woman's body is not hers, but is just a vessel for the fertilisation of children and the creation of imaginary "souls".
What landmines? It will be the same as it is now, except that the woman have to give the father a chance to keep the aborted fetus alive.
Well, that sounds like a bunch of fucking landmines to me, if you're a woman who gets raped, or is in an incestuous relationship, or is being abused, or simply makes a drunken mistake one night at a party.
I am a futurist, and I'll always believe we should zoom forward with all sorts of technologies, including some I consider immoral (because they often lead to better things).
The idea that things will always get better in the long run is at best naive, and at worst just plain wrong.
If we'd let the Nazis with their cool technology win during WW2, do you really think this would have led to better things despite their immorality?
Shouldn't God know what we will be capable of in the future, and have worded the Bible appropriately?
I mean, it's not like the Bible is just a collection of cobbled together myths by a bunch of goat hearders a few thousand years ago or anything, is it?
The "abortion politics problem" lies with religious fanatics. A simpler solution would be to ban any interference by the religious with secular society.
This makes a whole new twist on Abortion. If it doesn't HAVE to be INSIDE a mother, is it a people?
If you believe that, from the instant of conception, a foetus is a separate human being with individual rights, surely it is irrelevant whether it is inside a woman or a plastic bottle?
Gosh.
"Dune" is 20.000 years after the invention of space travel. The god emperor is around 4.000 yrars after that. Then the Chapterhose is around 1.500 years after the death of Leto II.
Am I the only one around here that read each god damn book at least ten times?
Dune and its spawn are the most over-rated works of science fiction outside the oeuvre of Robert Heinlein. But at least Herbert wasn't a fascist.
As for the original issue: I indeed see serious issues with artificial wombs. When a baby is growing, is causes a lot of violent hormonal changes within its mother. Of course this causes a lot of issues and inconveniences, but it also creates a very strong hormonal bond between mother and child. It's not just something you ordered on a website somewhere with the prime advantage of being able to watch the production process. A baby actually grows inside of you, you feel it as it starts moving around, it takes much effort to 'produce' a baby long before you see the results, which is getting less and less acceptable in modern societies. This experience of long-term effort is important for the future of the baby, because it's something that won't stop for quite some years.
It is the emotional bond that is important, not the hormonal/physical one. Otherwise adopted mothers and all fathers would have no "real" connection with their children.
There ain't jack-shit we could do about a "rogue planet" headed for Earth, other than throw a few awesome end-of-the-world parties.
How dare you besmirch the heroic memory of Bruce Willis by implying that he never saved the Earth from destruction. Goddam it, that man died that we might all be saved!
I'm sorry, but someone needs to say this: All but one of your "it's" should have been "its". Yes, I know this makes me an annoying pedant, but we all have to contribute in some way to fixing the Internet..
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Couldnt agree with you more.. try getting a bottle of Everclear here... (From Wikipedia) Consumers may legally purchase Everclear in Pennsylvania but must first obtain a permit for it and agree that it shall not be consumed as beverage alcohol and shall not be furnished for any reason to another person
In Britain, people who are that fucking desperate just drink meths or white spirit.
Now, no one at Amazon has even suggested such a thing (as far as I know), but I found it an interesting coincidence that this wine-selling program started to make headlines in a big way immediately on the heels of the election. Even if it isn't intentional, this would be (or rather, WILL be) a massive revenue stream for the first company to offer such a service, and Amazon will have this wine business experience to work out the kinks in state-by-state deliveries.
So you don't think that Amazons' s massive worldwide book delivery service will have given them quite a good idea about loistics and distribution already?
There's nothing magical about shipping pot: if it's only legal in States A and B then you only ship it to states A and B.
Interesting that there aren't the normal number of postings for a bitcoin story. Presumably all the early adopters in this Ponzi scheme have now cashed in and the suckers left trying to buy drugs from the FBI with their worthless digital "currency" are too embarrassed to admit it.
Indeed. The petroleum that 99% of the world still relies on is largely refined in the USA. This creates a lot of CO2 emissions. Demanding that Americans live in caves lit only by the dim light of a single CFL is not going to solve the problem of haughty European still using our petroleum-based products.
It might not solve any problems, but it would be fucking hilarious.
Did you know that nowadays there are some women in senior positions of power like politicians and judges?! I hear they even let chicks become doctors and shit. The world's gone anti-man and I'm going to cry.
Can't the rich white folk just buy more of the poor brown babies? Let the free market decide!
Many farm crops are bred specifically so that they can't reproduce sexually on their own. Why would it be any more wrong to do this to humans?
Because some of us would grant human beings more rights than a field of fucking corn?
If an alternative exists that removes the inconvenience without resulting in the death, it makes sense for both sides to champion it as an acceptable middle ground.
No, because it would concede to the extreme religious nutjobs that a woman's body is not hers, but is just a vessel for the fertilisation of children and the creation of imaginary "souls".
What landmines? It will be the same as it is now, except that the woman have to give the father a chance to keep the aborted fetus alive.
Well, that sounds like a bunch of fucking landmines to me, if you're a woman who gets raped, or is in an incestuous relationship, or is being abused, or simply makes a drunken mistake one night at a party.
I am a futurist, and I'll always believe we should zoom forward with all sorts of technologies, including some I consider immoral (because they often lead to better things).
The idea that things will always get better in the long run is at best naive, and at worst just plain wrong.
If we'd let the Nazis with their cool technology win during WW2, do you really think this would have led to better things despite their immorality?
Shouldn't God know what we will be capable of in the future, and have worded the Bible appropriately?
I mean, it's not like the Bible is just a collection of cobbled together myths by a bunch of goat hearders a few thousand years ago or anything, is it?
The "abortion politics problem" lies with religious fanatics. A simpler solution would be to ban any interference by the religious with secular society.
This makes a whole new twist on Abortion. If it doesn't HAVE to be INSIDE a mother, is it a people?
If you believe that, from the instant of conception, a foetus is a separate human being with individual rights, surely it is irrelevant whether it is inside a woman or a plastic bottle?
This may come as a shock if you're 14 or something, but at 40+ you can be perfectly fit and healthy and capable of looking after a child.
Sexconker:
If you are over 45 and tell people you think 16 year old boys are "stunning" that will give a few people the creeps.
Thank goodness this is the Internet and nobody knows or cares how old you are.
Age is irrelevant in this case. Any adult male regardless of their age is creepy making that statement.
How about if he'd said stunning 16 year old girls (in a place where the age of consent is 16 like here in the UK)?
Just curious.
Apparently the only person who can't read here is you. Or maybe your too stupid for Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)
There crap books, so I'm not sure you are doing anyone any favors by talking about them.
They're popular with people who think Ayn Rand and L Ron Hubbard are important philosophers.
One good thing about the Dune books is that they're a fucking brilliant cure for insomnia.
why in the hell does wikipedia have articles about the TV series, movie, and video game but not the damned books?
You mean like this?
Ha, I bet you just wrote and submitted that article to prove a point.
Gosh. "Dune" is 20.000 years after the invention of space travel. The god emperor is around 4.000 yrars after that. Then the Chapterhose is around 1.500 years after the death of Leto II. Am I the only one around here that read each god damn book at least ten times?
Dune and its spawn are the most over-rated works of science fiction outside the oeuvre of Robert Heinlein. But at least Herbert wasn't a fascist.
I so need to read that series, i love the movies.. I know i shouldn't but i do and lots of other 'bad' movies..
The Dune film is bad in a good, guilty pleasure way like an Arnie film. The Dune novels are just bad.
As for the original issue: I indeed see serious issues with artificial wombs. When a baby is growing, is causes a lot of violent hormonal changes within its mother. Of course this causes a lot of issues and inconveniences, but it also creates a very strong hormonal bond between mother and child. It's not just something you ordered on a website somewhere with the prime advantage of being able to watch the production process. A baby actually grows inside of you, you feel it as it starts moving around, it takes much effort to 'produce' a baby long before you see the results, which is getting less and less acceptable in modern societies. This experience of long-term effort is important for the future of the baby, because it's something that won't stop for quite some years.
It is the emotional bond that is important, not the hormonal/physical one. Otherwise adopted mothers and all fathers would have no "real" connection with their children.
Is there seriously a need to come up with new methods other than good old fashioned fucking?
Clearly not, or no one would ever use IVF. Oh, wait.
There ain't jack-shit we could do about a "rogue planet" headed for Earth, other than throw a few awesome end-of-the-world parties.
How dare you besmirch the heroic memory of Bruce Willis by implying that he never saved the Earth from destruction. Goddam it, that man died that we might all be saved!
I'm sorry, but someone needs to say this: All but one of your "it's" should have been "its". Yes, I know this makes me an annoying pedant, but we all have to contribute in some way to fixing the Internet..
I agree: but you shouldn't have capitalised All.
And how do you determine the age of some random rocky mass that you can't even image?
Maybe it wasn't there the last time anyone looked in the same place.
I'm no astronomer, but that seems fairly straightforward.