So what's wrong with that? You imply some scary reason that would be bad, but I really fail to see what it is. Why should I care that someone sees what I'm shopping for? So they can market better to me? Who cares?
I'm not trying to be a smartass, I really want to know why this would be the terrible scenario everyone intimates it is but never says why.
Getting rid of work probably means getting rid of physical labor or menial informational tasks. This would free up more of your time to pursue other physical or intellectual enjoyments. Learn to go surfing. Why? Because it's fun, not because you have to. Read more books. Take up painting. Play an instrument. Any number of intellectual, artistic, or creative pursuits.
Look at Star Trek: The Next Generation. They have replicators, androids, powerful computers and holodecks; the need for "work" doesn't seem to be there. But apparently they still find a reason to get up every morning and cruise the galaxy.
It is entirely up to interpretation if allowing prayer in schools constitutes an "establishment of religion" or whether it is "prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
Ask an atheist. I'd say that it infringes upon my right to have a lack of religion and prohibits the free exercise thereof by forcing me to sit through what I consider a complete waste of time (or worse, having a teacher take action against me for not participating in "an official school function".)
How does that prove your point at all? People could certainly use the technology by licensing it, paying an inventor for his/her innovation. Otherwise, they need to come up with their own ideas (read: innovate) if they want to compete. How is this not the very essence of innovation that patents and copyright seek?
Not all patents/copyrights make sense. Your Monsanto example is one of those. But this only makes obvious the need for an overhaul of the patent system, not its abolition.
Would you put it all the work and time and research to create a technology if the next guy can just copy it with no work at all? If so, then get right on that, please.
Probably when they begin having 3rd shift musicians recording knockoff albums in studios after hours and... oh wait, you're comparing a physical manufacturing operation to a company that deals with intellectual property and copyrights, which doesn't make sense at all! You're an idiot.
Sorry for replying to my own message, but I see now that someone below linked to the article that describes how warp drive works. Beat me to it. *grumble*
The way I understood it was the interstellar hydrogen wasn't an issue at warp speeds because of the nature of warp drive. From what I understood, warp drive created "subspace bubbles" or "warp bubbles" that literally warped space in front of and behind the ship by making space smaller in the front and larger in the back, thus propelling the ship forward. Because the ship itself never actually traveled faster than light relative to the space it was in, but that the space around it is what changed, faster than light travel was possible without violating relativity.
If that's the case, then I would assume that as the space around the ship warps, so does any interstellar hydrogen along with it, so the hydrogen is never actually in the ship's way but is pushed out of the way by the warped space, almost as if the ship were tunneling "through" space.
The mods are on crack. I highly disagree with the above post, especially the part about "saying there is no supernatural will not fly in court" (really? really??), but that does not make the above post a troll.
I think Microsoft would have no problem in saying that because the Xbox was modified, there is no way they could continue to be responsible for the code running on the box (hence why that box is banned from the network). Mod your box so that it's out of MS's control, then that's exactly what you get. How is it their problem that you changed your box and ended up with... a changed box?
I don't have a citation either (although I think it was from one of Dawkins' books) but I remember reading that during some of these "power of prayer" studies the people who knew they were being prayed for actually did worse than the people who didn't know. Something about them being under added pressure to get better and live up to the prayers or something like that. Bottom line, prayer has no effect.
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I'm not trying to be a smartass, I really want to know why this would be the terrible scenario everyone intimates it is but never says why.
Getting rid of work probably means getting rid of physical labor or menial informational tasks. This would free up more of your time to pursue other physical or intellectual enjoyments. Learn to go surfing. Why? Because it's fun, not because you have to. Read more books. Take up painting. Play an instrument. Any number of intellectual, artistic, or creative pursuits.
Look at Star Trek: The Next Generation. They have replicators, androids, powerful computers and holodecks; the need for "work" doesn't seem to be there. But apparently they still find a reason to get up every morning and cruise the galaxy.
Ask an atheist. I'd say that it infringes upon my right to have a lack of religion and prohibits the free exercise thereof by forcing me to sit through what I consider a complete waste of time (or worse, having a teacher take action against me for not participating in "an official school function".)
Maybe they could be dependant on lysine...
Are you sure?
Replace "Creationists" in the original parent's post with "people who believe in invisible friends" and ask if you would still mock him.
At least he didn't call it "Squirting"
Not all patents/copyrights make sense. Your Monsanto example is one of those. But this only makes obvious the need for an overhaul of the patent system, not its abolition.
Would you put it all the work and time and research to create a technology if the next guy can just copy it with no work at all? If so, then get right on that, please.
Wow, thank you for that link, that's very useful. Please mod parent up informative.
I'll go along with that. :)
Probably when they begin having 3rd shift musicians recording knockoff albums in studios after hours and... oh wait, you're comparing a physical manufacturing operation to a company that deals with intellectual property and copyrights, which doesn't make sense at all! You're an idiot.
Sorry for replying to my own message, but I see now that someone below linked to the article that describes how warp drive works. Beat me to it. *grumble*
The way I understood it was the interstellar hydrogen wasn't an issue at warp speeds because of the nature of warp drive. From what I understood, warp drive created "subspace bubbles" or "warp bubbles" that literally warped space in front of and behind the ship by making space smaller in the front and larger in the back, thus propelling the ship forward. Because the ship itself never actually traveled faster than light relative to the space it was in, but that the space around it is what changed, faster than light travel was possible without violating relativity.
If that's the case, then I would assume that as the space around the ship warps, so does any interstellar hydrogen along with it, so the hydrogen is never actually in the ship's way but is pushed out of the way by the warped space, almost as if the ship were tunneling "through" space.
In the words of Halo 3 players all over, "BOOM HEADSHOT!"
You also don't have a laptop with this chip in it, so either way you'd be buying a new laptop. :P
Obviously you didn't take your Ginko the morning you posted this.
You don't happen to sell Japanese katana do you?
And what is that reason and why won't nature be reversed?
Or worse: two goats, one (insert receptacle here).
Where the hell were you in the 80's? o.O
"Them".
But what's the red?
The mods are on crack. I highly disagree with the above post, especially the part about "saying there is no supernatural will not fly in court" (really? really??), but that does not make the above post a troll.
I think Microsoft would have no problem in saying that because the Xbox was modified, there is no way they could continue to be responsible for the code running on the box (hence why that box is banned from the network). Mod your box so that it's out of MS's control, then that's exactly what you get. How is it their problem that you changed your box and ended up with... a changed box?
I don't have a citation either (although I think it was from one of Dawkins' books) but I remember reading that during some of these "power of prayer" studies the people who knew they were being prayed for actually did worse than the people who didn't know. Something about them being under added pressure to get better and live up to the prayers or something like that. Bottom line, prayer has no effect.