I think we just need different "internets" for different purposes. If I want to do safe email, safe deals, safe chats.. I go to the "authenticated, id verified, encrypted internet". If you want to access this net, you have to get a government issued digital signature, and one bank account or credit card with funds, and work with them. If you decide not to trust some small african country government issued digital signatures, it's up to you. If you want your email server not to accept emails issued with these signatures, you can also do it.
If a spammer sends emails over this net, he will be automatically identified, prosecuted, and his digital signature will be cancelled.
On this safe net, sending one email will cost 1 cent, that will be refunded to you in 1 month. If the person that receives your emails considers that you are a spammer, he will notify the appropiate authorities and this cent plus an additional 1$ or euro fee wont be refunded either.
If you open a website on this internet, you will need to deposit a small amount of money (maybe 200$?), and your true name will be connected with it. When you delete the website, this deposit will be returned to you.
Then you will have the "free" internet, where you can say anything, pretend you are anybody, etc.
And big corporations could even add another TaserBot per consumer, to "suggest" what you should buy and what you should not, adding some taser arguments to their suggestions.
I think these are the cases where these tests will start to get applied.
I think in the near future, you will be able to correct these mistakes by choosing the right sex cells from the parents, and avoiding others that are carrying the genetic diseases.
Once you have deleted all genetic diseases from the human gene pool (that will be done very fast, I think on 2100 nobody on the developed world will be carrying these genes), you might want to start making sure that nobody is fat, or of a short size. Maybe you don't agree to select these genes for your sons and daughters, but then you will have to assume that they will be fat and short in a world where 90% of the people will be tall and slim. Thus, they will be seen as different. Would you want that future for them? Probably not.
And then, why not adding a soft skin, strong muscles, good memory, and resistance to fatigue? That could seem like a nice idea, and if you didn't do this, you know all your neighbours will be doing it, and your son/daughter will have to compete at some point with them.
I think this ends up in a risky situation, where humanity tends to choose the same genes in the following generations, thus diversity and resistance to new diseases and new situations will decrease...
Women not only feel hornier at this time of the month, they also feel in a better mood.
And when you feel better with yourself, you care more for yourself, not only women, also men do.
On Europe we have a common Directive (that means its the same for all countries and it sets common guidelines that must be made into law by each nation) that establishes some measures that must be taken to protect all the personal information.
On my country, companies are not allowed to store customer's personal information on a laptop, for example.
Saying that Spain is socialist is knowing very little about spanish politics. Even if the political party in charge of the government actually is called "socialist" party, it's politics have absolutely nothing to do with what you can find in any book that socialism is.
A big boom, the entire instalation will be wiped out, along with the few houses or factories around it. It would be quite a small effect, with hardly any radiation involved, compared to any fission device (power plant, bomb, nuclear submarine...) blowing out. Even if the plant was only a few miles away from a city, it wouldn't make any damage.
I completely agree with you. Direct democracy is the way to go. And technology will help to make it cheaper.
It is time to consider our citizens as adults.
A lawyer's speech in a trial is by no means a political speech. She is just saying what she thinks is best for his client. If I believe in the death penalty, and even if I believe that my client is guilty, I WILL NOT tell the jury that.
What a judge says, however, is an entirely different thing.
There is an easy fix to this. It is not my idea, I read it somewhere else:
There will be 2 kinds of e-mail accounts: The "free" accounts and the "protected" accounts. The free accounts work exactly as the current e-mail accounts work today.
For the protected accounts, however, you have to pay a small fee for every e-mail that you send through your ISP (like a stamp).
HOWEVER this fee will be fully refundable, in 3 months, if nobody tells your ISP that you are a spammer.
Thus, every e-mail stamp price that you pay will be returned to you as long as nobody tells your ISP that you are sending spam.
There must also be a reasonabe limit to the maximum amount of "protected" e-mails that any computer can send, so that no zombie PCs ruin their owner.
Also, anybody running a "protected" account can choose to only receive e-mails from other "protected" accounts.
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I think we just need different "internets" for different purposes. If I want to do safe email, safe deals, safe chats.. I go to the "authenticated, id verified, encrypted internet". If you want to access this net, you have to get a government issued digital signature, and one bank account or credit card with funds, and work with them. If you decide not to trust some small african country government issued digital signatures, it's up to you. If you want your email server not to accept emails issued with these signatures, you can also do it. If a spammer sends emails over this net, he will be automatically identified, prosecuted, and his digital signature will be cancelled. On this safe net, sending one email will cost 1 cent, that will be refunded to you in 1 month. If the person that receives your emails considers that you are a spammer, he will notify the appropiate authorities and this cent plus an additional 1$ or euro fee wont be refunded either. If you open a website on this internet, you will need to deposit a small amount of money (maybe 200$?), and your true name will be connected with it. When you delete the website, this deposit will be returned to you. Then you will have the "free" internet, where you can say anything, pretend you are anybody, etc.
And big corporations could even add another TaserBot per consumer, to "suggest" what you should buy and what you should not, adding some taser arguments to their suggestions.
So this is how the US empire will end, by its own people in a great period of anarchy.
I think these are the cases where these tests will start to get applied.
I think in the near future, you will be able to correct these mistakes by choosing the right sex cells from the parents, and avoiding others that are carrying the genetic diseases.
Once you have deleted all genetic diseases from the human gene pool (that will be done very fast, I think on 2100 nobody on the developed world will be carrying these genes), you might want to start making sure that nobody is fat, or of a short size. Maybe you don't agree to select these genes for your sons and daughters, but then you will have to assume that they will be fat and short in a world where 90% of the people will be tall and slim. Thus, they will be seen as different. Would you want that future for them? Probably not.
And then, why not adding a soft skin, strong muscles, good memory, and resistance to fatigue? That could seem like a nice idea, and if you didn't do this, you know all your neighbours will be doing it, and your son/daughter will have to compete at some point with them.
I think this ends up in a risky situation, where humanity tends to choose the same genes in the following generations, thus diversity and resistance to new diseases and new situations will decrease...
Women not only feel hornier at this time of the month, they also feel in a better mood. And when you feel better with yourself, you care more for yourself, not only women, also men do.
On Europe we have a common Directive (that means its the same for all countries and it sets common guidelines that must be made into law by each nation) that establishes some measures that must be taken to protect all the personal information. On my country, companies are not allowed to store customer's personal information on a laptop, for example.
Saying that Spain is socialist is knowing very little about spanish politics. Even if the political party in charge of the government actually is called "socialist" party, it's politics have absolutely nothing to do with what you can find in any book that socialism is.
Spain is not third world, by any account or figure.
A big boom, the entire instalation will be wiped out, along with the few houses or factories around it. It would be quite a small effect, with hardly any radiation involved, compared to any fission device (power plant, bomb, nuclear submarine...) blowing out. Even if the plant was only a few miles away from a city, it wouldn't make any damage.
Does this article means I should stop worrying about the incoming peak oil problem?
Also check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrymandering
There are many groups and forums around the world that are trying precisely to do this: direct democracy, e-democracy, ... search for it in google.
I completely agree with you. Direct democracy is the way to go. And technology will help to make it cheaper. It is time to consider our citizens as adults.
Nations and countries are increasingly obsolete terms. Globalization will make this discussion meaningless, quite soon.
A lawyer's speech in a trial is by no means a political speech. She is just saying what she thinks is best for his client. If I believe in the death penalty, and even if I believe that my client is guilty, I WILL NOT tell the jury that. What a judge says, however, is an entirely different thing.
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There is an easy fix to this. It is not my idea, I read it somewhere else: There will be 2 kinds of e-mail accounts: The "free" accounts and the "protected" accounts. The free accounts work exactly as the current e-mail accounts work today. For the protected accounts, however, you have to pay a small fee for every e-mail that you send through your ISP (like a stamp). HOWEVER this fee will be fully refundable, in 3 months, if nobody tells your ISP that you are a spammer. Thus, every e-mail stamp price that you pay will be returned to you as long as nobody tells your ISP that you are sending spam. There must also be a reasonabe limit to the maximum amount of "protected" e-mails that any computer can send, so that no zombie PCs ruin their owner. Also, anybody running a "protected" account can choose to only receive e-mails from other "protected" accounts.
We already have several hydrogen buses in Madrid. The first one started on May 2003. I think we now have between 5 and 10 hydrogen buses.