Spammers aren't sending the emails; computers taken over by malware are. Thus, under your plan, the spammers will be charged nothing, and hundreds of thousands of users will be f'ed over. You may say forget them, the bill will be a wake up call to clean their computers. While it's true, in an ideal world these people would have installed software to prevent malware, this is not an ideal world and there are people out there who are not at all computer savvy. We shouldn't punish them for that.
I Do not have an issue with eating GM vegetables, nor do I have a problem with synthetic body parts, test tube babies, or, even, with artificially grown meat (assuming it tastes as awesome as the real deal). My contention is that you and I are exceptions, rather than the norm, and that, in general, people will find the concept of artificial meat to be disgusting.
I never said all people. However, polls show that genetically modified foods are, to a substantial portion of the population, unappetizing (and considered dangerous by a smaller, but still substantial, portion. but that's another story).
While I applaud the intent here, I gotta say that if people have a problem with genetically modified vegetables, then meat grown in a laboratory will DEFINITELY not appeal to them. This would be a classic case of a concept that people will find instinctively suspicious and disgusting.
Games don't equal real life, but the way you play does say something about you at a fundamental level. The type of people who enjoy fragging in CS and the type of people who play Hello Kitty Island Adventure are not one and the same (for the most part).
I'd like to note that $1 billion is about what the government spends on each of the new modern military aircraft that they purchase. If we just took a little out of the defense budget, the cost of something like this, which is a PROTOTYPE and expected to be expensive, wouldn't be as much of an issue.
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Spammers aren't sending the emails; computers taken over by malware are. Thus, under your plan, the spammers will be charged nothing, and hundreds of thousands of users will be f'ed over. You may say forget them, the bill will be a wake up call to clean their computers. While it's true, in an ideal world these people would have installed software to prevent malware, this is not an ideal world and there are people out there who are not at all computer savvy. We shouldn't punish them for that.
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I Do not have an issue with eating GM vegetables, nor do I have a problem with synthetic body parts, test tube babies, or, even, with artificially grown meat (assuming it tastes as awesome as the real deal). My contention is that you and I are exceptions, rather than the norm, and that, in general, people will find the concept of artificial meat to be disgusting.
I never said all people. However, polls show that genetically modified foods are, to a substantial portion of the population, unappetizing (and considered dangerous by a smaller, but still substantial, portion. but that's another story).
While I applaud the intent here, I gotta say that if people have a problem with genetically modified vegetables, then meat grown in a laboratory will DEFINITELY not appeal to them. This would be a classic case of a concept that people will find instinctively suspicious and disgusting.
Games don't equal real life, but the way you play does say something about you at a fundamental level. The type of people who enjoy fragging in CS and the type of people who play Hello Kitty Island Adventure are not one and the same (for the most part).
You should always ask before you try tasting a bust - last time I got slapped in the face. And probing? Hoo boy.
You're absolutely right. Kurt Vonnegut was funny for all the same reasons.
That's good. Now, if only we can get Reaganomics recognized as the science that it is.
The smart pillbox would most likely be dispensed by the pharmacy, thus rendering it the official bottle. This would be a non-issue.
Couldn't ALL consumers demonstrate financial harm? Stupid patents drive up prices, directly affecting ALL of us.
Let's not fool ourselves. I pirate things all the time, but I've never told myself what I was doing was "good" piracy.
!coincidence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I A sneaking suspicion, eh? You might not be the first person...
I'd like to note that $1 billion is about what the government spends on each of the new modern military aircraft that they purchase. If we just took a little out of the defense budget, the cost of something like this, which is a PROTOTYPE and expected to be expensive, wouldn't be as much of an issue.
Don't you understand? Google is all. The future is now. Join us.
Wait, I can't remember anymore, are we for or against paper ballots, or for or against touch screen?
Try this: www.spamyourenemy.com
AT&T will be replacing them with batteries that explode MORE often. The current frequency of explosion is unacceptable
Well, you could always just RTFA rather than speculating, but I suppose that's just naive of me.
On the other hand, it looks like the missiles really do work.
Between the cell phones being charged by shaking them, by solar power, and by body heat - at what point will they be blowing up in our pockets?
Wrong news story, kid.
I for one won't be wasting their bandwidth. I neither care nor am interested.
Psh, graduate students are basically slaves. Just make them carry it.