Original Unreal: Your a prisoner on a crashed prinsoner ship and you go around killing aliens and such on a strange world trying to leave and get back to wherever. That is the basic plot, theres probably more but I only played about 1/4 of the single player, then discovered BotMatch.
Unreal Tournament: Screw plot. Your part of a game where prisoners kill each other, and the big evil corporation gets money for letting others watch it. The entire game basically is a BotMatch.
You do realize that eating shit isn't exactly healthy? Forget disgusting, everybody knows that. But the reason its disgusting is because nobody wants to get sick swallowing their own defecation.
I guess that works, but if you eliminate death, you no longer need reproduction or growth. Some of those attributes are requirements of the others to work.
Anyhoo, that is a good idea, but we shouldn't remain closed minded about the whole thing.
You are not missing any ethical issue. You are right in thinking that microbes are not worth beans, even mexican jumping beans.
Even so, if we ruined a microbe society, would we really care? They are microbes. Do we care about the termites we have sprayed? "Polluting" Europa with terrestrial entities would not be as big of a loss as everyone seems to assume.
My apologies, those numbers should read 1. 2. 3. Calculus has completely removed my arithmetic skills, and I can feel other thought processes slipping away.
I am thinking three things after reading your comment.
1. Who cares? It does not strike me as a big loss if we obliterate some lifeform that does not yet or has just started to exist. Ethics aren't a question here, I just wouldn't care any more than if brushed off a few bacteria from my arm, casting them into the open air to die or whatever.
3. How do we know that what we do will be harmful? Sure, the chances are greater, but that is assuming that the life is life like we are used to. What if we go over there and there are big viruses walking around? A rabbit aint gonna hurt anything. What if we go there, and their are being made of oxygen, and just by breathing we genocide there ass? What if we go there and actually help whatever it is develop? Please do not be so closed minded.
3. On a bigger scale, the whole problem with life not of this planet is that we have NO idea what to expect. We cannot even get life strait on Earth. Im no biologist but that does not prevent me from hypothesising that some sort of completely unimaginable life form exists.
It all boils down to that we only know what we can comprehend. If we don't understand something, we have historically passed it off as something that it isn't, until a later time when we can understand it.
The humans were so sure of what they were doing that questions such as that never came into their minds.
We need a society more like that. Even if we are destroying someone's society, we should be filled with the belief that humans are better to the point where we dont care.
Anyways, how do you even define a lifeform? News websites say they require water, but that lacks imagination and strikes me as a statement to please masses.
The idea is to be open to scientific ideas but have no question in your mind that we are a better species. I mean, we are, aren't we?
You know, sometimes to bug my friends I "prove" something exists by showing that there is no evidence to prove otherwise. As an example, I _know_ that Pluto is only a days travel away due to lensing effects simply becuase nobody has proven that it isn't.
This seems to be the same logic you're using, except I use it in jest.
A similar type of logic is also used in Physics I noticed. For instance, it is impossible to see the isty bits of an proton (becuase they're smaller than than the itsy bits of light) but physicists conclude that they are there because of both interesting results to experiments done and that nobody has come up with a better idea.
I dont quite think that that would happen. This is not an ideal society, and people often screw up (but not as often as in movies).
Terraforming would take some time, Mars is not small. And there is little reason to go inhabit Mars anyways. If we made it into another Earth, than there would be no reason to go, as the conditions are so similar. If we have the capability to terraform, we most likely would also have technology enough to solve the reason why we would be going (food most likely).
A more likely activity for the little engineered buggers would be to create mass amounts of efficient food that live off of carbon monoxide. Not only is it cheaper, but it also reins in with our tendency to go putting technology to use before we understand it fully.
My grandfather had a stroke a few months ago, and he could not _stop_ moving. I don't think I see how this would be helpful. Additionally, he was mentally damaged, but he still had control of his limbs to tell them what to do, but they were also get false signals, which was the problem. Might this technology be more helpful in para/quadrapallegics?
I have a win98 machine that cannot stay up for more than 8 hours. The system just stops working, one peice at a time. Stuff like the modem drivers get exponentially more crashy, which is porportional to my frustration (trying to friggan download mp3s!!! stop disconnecting!!!). Occaisonallly the keyboard decides to stop working as well.
Gnot when Gnapster was just getting goood! Gnow the company had to go and pull this shit... goddam give it a break, its gnot like anyone's stealing money from the company, it has no real future except to helpe me pirate my mp3s...
It is so easy to create a system that stores the data of which rooms you are in, and for how long, based on the info given by your little card, that the big companies could do it just for the heck of doing it.
Think of how easy it is to set a cookie on someones machine when they enter your site and track their progress around your website, just for the heck of it.
Now comes some big people trying to do this on a national scale, and trying to make money at it as well. The information is disturbingly lacking in privacy, but has no individuality. The information is just numbers that relate to a specific person, there is no space or time for little hand-written notes on each person.
They may be taking the privacy, but there are only two main downfalls because of this: The first is that mass amounts of spam this will generate. If anyone can buy a list of an entire country's buying habits, instant junk mail mania. Second is the ethical blow. Why is the government willing to set this up? Are they that desperate for money? Who is the tard who passed this all the way through so that it has gotten this far? This is the start of a bad trend.
I am just trying to fathom what the tards who put this into action were thinking. Could they really be thinking that everybody would be better off if big corporations could by profiles on each person in a country to see what they like? Isn't this just an invitiation for spam anyways? I never read junk mail or spam... if I want something I go out and get it, I don't like being marketed.
The stupidity of people will never cease to amaze me. Not the stupidity of putting back up a nuclear reactor, but the stupidity of the tards trying to stop it for some reason or another.
HELLO!!!! We are running ourselves into the ground with Fossil fuels (no pun intended) and there won't be any left, but NOOOO! We cant have nuclear power because that might reck the environment! Yeah, makes sense to me.
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No, it was unformatted information copied right off the website. That is not informative, but rather quite annoying.
Naughty client-side calculations.
Original Unreal: Your a prisoner on a crashed prinsoner ship and you go around killing aliens and such on a strange world trying to leave and get back to wherever. That is the basic plot, theres probably more but I only played about 1/4 of the single player, then discovered BotMatch.
Unreal Tournament: Screw plot. Your part of a game where prisoners kill each other, and the big evil corporation gets money for letting others watch it. The entire game basically is a BotMatch.
I hope I have proved in some way useful.
You fucking idiot.
You do realize that eating shit isn't exactly healthy? Forget disgusting, everybody knows that. But the reason its disgusting is because nobody wants to get sick swallowing their own defecation.
Do you get off on regurgitation as well?
Please get away from me.
It has a new name now, the name of which seems to evade me currently.
I guess that works, but if you eliminate death, you no longer need reproduction or growth. Some of those attributes are requirements of the others to work.
Anyhoo, that is a good idea, but we shouldn't remain closed minded about the whole thing.
I think bees have a communal mind.
You are not missing any ethical issue. You are right in thinking that microbes are not worth beans, even mexican jumping beans.
Even so, if we ruined a microbe society, would we really care? They are microbes. Do we care about the termites we have sprayed? "Polluting" Europa with terrestrial entities would not be as big of a loss as everyone seems to assume.
My apologies, those numbers should read 1. 2. 3. Calculus has completely removed my arithmetic skills, and I can feel other thought processes slipping away.
I am thinking three things after reading your comment.
1. Who cares? It does not strike me as a big loss if we obliterate some lifeform that does not yet or has just started to exist. Ethics aren't a question here, I just wouldn't care any more than if brushed off a few bacteria from my arm, casting them into the open air to die or whatever.
3. How do we know that what we do will be harmful? Sure, the chances are greater, but that is assuming that the life is life like we are used to. What if we go over there and there are big viruses walking around? A rabbit aint gonna hurt anything. What if we go there, and their are being made of oxygen, and just by breathing we genocide there ass? What if we go there and actually help whatever it is develop? Please do not be so closed minded.
3. On a bigger scale, the whole problem with life not of this planet is that we have NO idea what to expect. We cannot even get life strait on Earth. Im no biologist but that does not prevent me from hypothesising that some sort of completely unimaginable life form exists.
It all boils down to that we only know what we can comprehend. If we don't understand something, we have historically passed it off as something that it isn't, until a later time when we can understand it.
Have you seen Starship Troopers?
The humans were so sure of what they were doing that questions such as that never came into their minds.
We need a society more like that. Even if we are destroying someone's society, we should be filled with the belief that humans are better to the point where we dont care.
Anyways, how do you even define a lifeform? News websites say they require water, but that lacks imagination and strikes me as a statement to please masses.
The idea is to be open to scientific ideas but have no question in your mind that we are a better species. I mean, we are, aren't we?
Last probe to Mars:
- failure (never sent back results)
- benifit to science (we learned what not to do)
- cost $165 million
Titanic movie:
- success (made Leo and Cameron rich)
- benifit to teenage girls, only
- cost $200 million
And you say we spend too much on space programs?
You know, sometimes to bug my friends I "prove" something exists by showing that there is no evidence to prove otherwise. As an example, I _know_ that Pluto is only a days travel away due to lensing effects simply becuase nobody has proven that it isn't.
This seems to be the same logic you're using, except I use it in jest.
A similar type of logic is also used in Physics I noticed. For instance, it is impossible to see the isty bits of an proton (becuase they're smaller than than the itsy bits of light) but physicists conclude that they are there because of both interesting results to experiments done and that nobody has come up with a better idea.
My biggest qualm with the intro movies is that I usually open in new window and forget about it for 10 minutes, rendering useless the animation.
If I wanted to be force fed flashy graphics, I'd watch TV.
I dont quite think that that would happen. This is not an ideal society, and people often screw up (but not as often as in movies).
Terraforming would take some time, Mars is not small. And there is little reason to go inhabit Mars anyways. If we made it into another Earth, than there would be no reason to go, as the conditions are so similar. If we have the capability to terraform, we most likely would also have technology enough to solve the reason why we would be going (food most likely).
A more likely activity for the little engineered buggers would be to create mass amounts of efficient food that live off of carbon monoxide. Not only is it cheaper, but it also reins in with our tendency to go putting technology to use before we understand it fully.
Oreo, I'm not in very lucid today.
My grandfather had a stroke a few months ago, and he could not _stop_ moving. I don't think I see how this would be helpful. Additionally, he was mentally damaged, but he still had control of his limbs to tell them what to do, but they were also get false signals, which was the problem. Might this technology be more helpful in para/quadrapallegics?
Holy shit! User number in the 120,000s!
I have a win98 machine that cannot stay up for more than 8 hours. The system just stops working, one peice at a time. Stuff like the modem drivers get exponentially more crashy, which is porportional to my frustration (trying to friggan download mp3s!!! stop disconnecting!!!). Occaisonallly the keyboard decides to stop working as well.
Wrong. There is no competitor.
He performs all the normal exec activities like making spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations! OOOOO! I want to hire him!
Gnot when Gnapster was just getting goood! Gnow the company had to go and pull this shit... goddam give it a break, its gnot like anyone's stealing money from the company, it has no real future except to helpe me pirate my mp3s...
Your card reader is part of the problem.
It is so easy to create a system that stores the data of which rooms you are in, and for how long, based on the info given by your little card, that the big companies could do it just for the heck of doing it.
Think of how easy it is to set a cookie on someones machine when they enter your site and track their progress around your website, just for the heck of it.
Now comes some big people trying to do this on a national scale, and trying to make money at it as well. The information is disturbingly lacking in privacy, but has no individuality. The information is just numbers that relate to a specific person, there is no space or time for little hand-written notes on each person.
They may be taking the privacy, but there are only two main downfalls because of this:
The first is that mass amounts of spam this will generate. If anyone can buy a list of an entire country's buying habits, instant junk mail mania.
Second is the ethical blow. Why is the government willing to set this up? Are they that desperate for money? Who is the tard who passed this all the way through so that it has gotten this far? This is the start of a bad trend.
Bah.
I am just trying to fathom what the tards who put this into action were thinking. Could they really be thinking that everybody would be better off if big corporations could by profiles on each person in a country to see what they like? Isn't this just an invitiation for spam anyways? I never read junk mail or spam... if I want something I go out and get it, I don't like being marketed.
Could someone be so nice as to explain what Microsoft is trying to ban? What does it mean software tarriffs? Thanks.
The stupidity of people will never cease to amaze me. Not the stupidity of putting back up a nuclear reactor, but the stupidity of the tards trying to stop it for some reason or another.
HELLO!!!! We are running ourselves into the ground with Fossil fuels (no pun intended) and there won't be any left, but NOOOO! We cant have nuclear power because that might reck the environment! Yeah, makes sense to me.
People are idiots. I hate them.