What happens when everyone on the planet is selecting their unborn children for intelligence, only to find out that our current established theory of what genetic traits lead to intelligence turn out to be wrong, and the world is filled with a generation of mentally handicapped children?
Once you let a governmental organization have anything to do with it though, it becomes evil and must be stopped at all costs.
What would you class as interfereing? Discouraging people from having defective children? Or subsidising healthcare for preventable, avoidable defects - thus encouraging them to do so?
That being said, I don't really think the government needs to tax more than it already can and does
If everybody paid their fair share, the rate could go down for everybody - including the honest people who already pull their weight.
OK, it's unlikely to work that way (governments can always find a way to spend some more), but your "OMG taxes are teh bad" rant lacked a little analytical depth (though it went down well with the crowd, as all such glib soundbites do round here).
How many cure furry bunnies does it take for me not to die horribly when I put cream on my face? You use face cream?
So, what are you wearing right now?
As a human born on planet Earth, I have a right to a plot of land for sustenance and shelter, in reasonable proximity to where I was born.
As a bigger, stronger and (judging by your post) considerably smarter human than you, I have a right to whatever I goddam want; you have the right to whatever I choose to let you have, and only if I'm in a good mood.
Oh, one other thing: I want a pony, and I want it now.
Religious people believe the Earth is teeming with life because God enjoys playing with DNA. So why wouldn't he just go wild when working with whole galaxies rather than just a single planet?
Sol 3's just a beta, a prototype. As Fred Brooks said, build one to throw away - you will anyway.
And like most other mainstream religions, as time went on Mormonism has tended to shed the most bizarre or "out-there" claims and stick with the basics of preaching their ideas of morality.
Let me know when they drop all that stuff about Xenu and being descended from crabs and I'll give them a fair hearing.
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No worries, they're completely (h)armless.
If it never went away then it can't be making a comeback.
iLl believe it when iSee it.
Nice soundbite, but impractical.
Take one common cause of genetic problems - inbreeding.
Either you use force (making incest illegal) or you use force (tax money) to look after the resulting crop of web-footed 'tards.
Cudda shudda wudda.
OK, it's unlikely to work that way (governments can always find a way to spend some more), but your "OMG taxes are teh bad" rant lacked a little analytical depth (though it went down well with the crowd, as all such glib soundbites do round here).
Bah! Real programmers use cat.
I hear SCO have fallen on hard times, you could always donate to them. YCSTB.
Oh, one other thing: I want a pony, and I want it now.
Not if he went at night.
It proves nothing of the sort. Stick to your fairy tales and leave the science to the grownups.
What if they're like, sort of invisible or something?
You're wrong, because MSN is an absolute pile of leprotic poo.
My cellphone IS my camera, you insensitive clod!!!!
Hasn't he been disbarred (or something) from doing that?