"We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
Let it be known: I am a proponent of eternal life. It is my unalienable right. Thank you Thomas Jefferson.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato
I can't imagine one good-willed man living to be 1,000 without making long life more accessible to the less fortunate.
"We must become the change we want to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Become an infallibly good-willed man by questioning anything and everything but not necessarily acting in a way that you can for the sole sake that you can. If you are infallibly good-willed any reasonable man should follow in your steps.
The issue of those who would believe (or deceive) that they are of a divine right to rule is a solved problem, really. We have the ideas and working implementations of a democracy. We have a global system of archiving information that would put the Library at Alexandria to shame. Finally, and most importantly, we have the open source(information) iniative and philosophy. Support it, your eternal life depends on it.
Some have raised the issue of excessive population and the resulting need for population control and etc. However, given a much longer lifespan we will have more incentive to get off this rock, and we may more rapidly acheive the ability to do so (1). The universe is likely infinite, and definately big enough to hold the consequences of yours and my sex drive..
"We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
Let it be known: I am a proponent of eternal life. It is my unalienable right. Thank you Plato, thank you Gandhi, thank you Thomas Jefferson.
(1) As an answer to 'should we:' Imagine if Einstein had lived to today (and another 900 or so years.) His work would have been continued in a way only possible by its creator. I'm willing to gamble that much more rapid advances in his theories, and others like his (such as newton, descartes, etc,) would occur.
What happens when life itself is patented? Owned by Microsoft, PicoLife or what have you.
I'd like to file a patent please. Yes, It's: "A mechanism composed of organic matter that hunts its own food, reproduces, responds to stimulus, and adapts to stimulus."
No kidding. This idea has been thrown at the MPAA time and time again. Bollywood listens, Hollywood does not. There is no denying Hollywood as a major contributor of the Economic power the USA has. Everyone goes to the movies, even people in India. Foreigners know who John Wayne was. Perhaps soon everyone will know Indian stars by name. And India shall rise..
I'd like to add, just as a little unrelated scientific query: What are the chances of a bomb so powerful that, if exploded in the middle of an ocean, would cause a giant Tsunami and earthquake that could slightly change the orientation of the Earth? Would one man use it on another if he wanted to protect his wheat farm?
Beautiful post, man. If people don't have the natural desire to understand themselves enough to innovate in this field, to hell with 'em.. If someone discovers a way to cure me, or augment me, or terrorize the living hell out of me I don't want that technique monopolized. Call me communist, call me anarchist, call me when Microsoft wants you to install ActiveX to cure your ailments.
I am absolutely a supporter of innovation, don't get me wrong. Those innovations too will be patented. How about a little freedom of invention? I'd like to be able to use ideas that came before me, I mean, they have to be useful for people to guard them so closely, right?
By the way, a database of inventions is a database of ideas. When you submit all your ideas to your government, that leaves little to their imagination. Y'know, Einstein was a patent clerk..
In other news, FIPFS (Fictitious Initiative for Patent-Free Software) has incredible difficulty writing an operating system due to all practical functionality of operating systems being patented...
Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, a lost Intelsat satellite discovers the true Library at Alexandria (that guy sure got around) in which the histories of life are well-documented. As the roof caves in to the force of the collision, Earth's destiny as utterly clueless is sealed and delivered.
The recording industry is using an algorithm to determine what songs are going to sell best? Checkmate.
Use the algorithm to design a real-time generator of hit-worthy pop music. Congrats, you've just dealt the final blow to an already damaged recording industry. They didn't adapt. They were warned.
This article is a bit lacking. It offers very few facts and one big punch of an oppressive discussion. For example, I don't know his exact statement by reading this article. Did he SUGGEST that females are bad at math? Did he DECLARE females are bad at math?
"The remarks prompted Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist Nancy Hopkins - a Harvard graduate - to walk out on Summers' talk." Well here is an interesting fact displaying the further irrationality of the entire situation. I'd like to see a judge walk out of a courtroom while the court is in session. This woman isn't bad at math, she is just irrational. And let me also declare: There are tons of irrational men just as there are irrational women. For those who are unaware: rationality is the basis of not only mathematical but all sciences; even biology. Think Darwin ever walked away from nature because he was disgusted by what it had to say?
Does this man think this hasn't been discussed before? Does he have any facts to back his claims? And as I mentioned before, were they even claims?
On another note, perhaps this was a task best delegated? Is President of Harvard, who may be considered by some as "King of Academia" because of his position, the best spokesman for such a sensitive topic?
This is a test of the Epic 2014 newscasting system. Beware to those who prefer gossip (such as this story) over real news. When your news is personalized it will be as narrow, shallow, and sensationalized as you are.
"At its best, edited for the savviest readers, EPIC is a summary of the world - deeper, broader and more nuanced than anything ever available before. At its worst, and for too many, epic is merely a collection of trivia, much of it untrue, all of it narrow, shallow and sensational. but epic is what we wanted. epic is what we chose..."
See: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
As a side note: The transcript linked from robinsloan.com is posted on a news site with terrible formatting (possibly due to the excessive amount of ads) and is incomplete. It omits some of the more insightful points of the flash movie. Just a further display of the motives and/or intentions of advertising driven news outlets and the need to be critical of your news sources.
Knowledge does not come miraculously from the sky! Looking up HTML codes takes up precious time. Most coders don't like to stop to tie their shoe laces either. If its functional, leave it alone.
This is an interesting point. With the rise of pay-per-file digital media services such as iTunes, could less CD sales (and eventually, perhaps, DVD sales) subtract from consumer electronics sales? Do services like Steam distort sales and economy totals?
While I was dreaming of my princess, my father interrupted my trance by shouting, "well, we paid 200 fucking dollars for that piece of shit, you going to play it or not?"
A grand don't come for free, and making me laugh out loud is a comparable task. Thank you, my burger-wrapping fry-frying friend. +6 Legendary.
When we truly understand the mind, will we really need an economy? Cognitive science is a field I find myself interested in. As such, I've often pondered what society will do when we've unlocked the secrets of the mind. Now I know...
How can the greedy be phased out? How much does one man need?
I hope their mp3 player isn't as fragile as their web server:D
I'm not sure how in-depth this article is but the joy of do-it-yourself is understanding the technology most take for granted. If everyone understood the ideas behind that TV set they love to glaze their eyes over too, we might not be so bad off. As I stated in a previous comment if people understood the ideas behind the internet they wouldn't get infected with spyware and they wouldn't give up on the internet. Don't be so quick to spend your money on something when there is an opportunity to learn for free.
Hostile purchasing is sort of bewildering. I think back to a time when men made tools for the sake of selling them to other men so the town could prosper(think free software movement). I can't imagine any type of hostile purchase in a market setting (You know, markets, those things they had a long time ago. Think Wal-mart without the flourescent lighting). How did this perversion of economics take place?
I suppose it is a matter of perspective. People drive all business, plain and simple. Of course, I'm sure your comment is result of the infamous livejournal post about EA overworking their employees. For the slashdot coverage see: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/11/ 0031259&tid=98&tid=10
Linux is a free and open operating system. This means the source code is open for all to read and/or compile. This also means when there is an update to the kernel you do not need a proprietary browser plug-in to obtain it. For more information see www.kernel.org or for a list of distributions see http://www.linux.org/dist/
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"We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
Let it be known: I am a proponent of eternal life. It is my unalienable right. Thank you Thomas Jefferson.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato
I can't imagine one good-willed man living to be 1,000 without making long life more accessible to the less fortunate.
"We must become the change we want to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Become an infallibly good-willed man by questioning anything and everything but not necessarily acting in a way that you can for the sole sake that you can. If you are infallibly good-willed any reasonable man should follow in your steps.
The issue of those who would believe (or deceive) that they are of a divine right to rule is a solved problem, really. We have the ideas and working implementations of a democracy. We have a global system of archiving information that would put the Library at Alexandria to shame. Finally, and most importantly, we have the open source(information) iniative and philosophy. Support it, your eternal life depends on it.
Some have raised the issue of excessive population and the resulting need for population control and etc. However, given a much longer lifespan we will have more incentive to get off this rock, and we may more rapidly acheive the ability to do so (1). The universe is likely infinite, and definately big enough to hold the consequences of yours and my sex drive..
"We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- Thomas Jefferson
Let it be known: I am a proponent of eternal life. It is my unalienable right. Thank you Plato, thank you Gandhi, thank you Thomas Jefferson.
(1) As an answer to 'should we:' Imagine if Einstein had lived to today (and another 900 or so years.) His work would have been continued in a way only possible by its creator. I'm willing to gamble that much more rapid advances in his theories, and others like his (such as newton, descartes, etc,) would occur.
The government wants to survive too. It is by the people, for the people. Please consider this. They do.
What happens when life itself is patented? Owned by Microsoft, PicoLife or what have you.
I'd like to file a patent please. Yes, It's: "A mechanism composed of organic matter that hunts its own food, reproduces, responds to stimulus, and adapts to stimulus."
No kidding. This idea has been thrown at the MPAA time and time again. Bollywood listens, Hollywood does not. There is no denying Hollywood as a major contributor of the Economic power the USA has. Everyone goes to the movies, even people in India. Foreigners know who John Wayne was. Perhaps soon everyone will know Indian stars by name. And India shall rise..
I'd like to add, just as a little unrelated scientific query: What are the chances of a bomb so powerful that, if exploded in the middle of an ocean, would cause a giant Tsunami and earthquake that could slightly change the orientation of the Earth? Would one man use it on another if he wanted to protect his wheat farm?
Beautiful post, man. If people don't have the natural desire to understand themselves enough to innovate in this field, to hell with 'em.. If someone discovers a way to cure me, or augment me, or terrorize the living hell out of me I don't want that technique monopolized. Call me communist, call me anarchist, call me when Microsoft wants you to install ActiveX to cure your ailments.
I am absolutely a supporter of innovation, don't get me wrong. Those innovations too will be patented. How about a little freedom of invention? I'd like to be able to use ideas that came before me, I mean, they have to be useful for people to guard them so closely, right?
By the way, a database of inventions is a database of ideas. When you submit all your ideas to your government, that leaves little to their imagination. Y'know, Einstein was a patent clerk..
For my own benefit I'd request someone explain why this would be modded Flamebait? Thanks in advance.
In other news, FIPFS (Fictitious Initiative for Patent-Free Software) has incredible difficulty writing an operating system due to all practical functionality of operating systems being patented...
Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, a lost Intelsat satellite discovers the true Library at Alexandria (that guy sure got around) in which the histories of life are well-documented. As the roof caves in to the force of the collision, Earth's destiny as utterly clueless is sealed and delivered.
The recording industry is using an algorithm to determine what songs are going to sell best? Checkmate. Use the algorithm to design a real-time generator of hit-worthy pop music. Congrats, you've just dealt the final blow to an already damaged recording industry. They didn't adapt. They were warned.
This article is a bit lacking. It offers very few facts and one big punch of an oppressive discussion. For example, I don't know his exact statement by reading this article. Did he SUGGEST that females are bad at math? Did he DECLARE females are bad at math?
"The remarks prompted Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist Nancy Hopkins - a Harvard graduate - to walk out on Summers' talk." Well here is an interesting fact displaying the further irrationality of the entire situation. I'd like to see a judge walk out of a courtroom while the court is in session. This woman isn't bad at math, she is just irrational. And let me also declare: There are tons of irrational men just as there are irrational women. For those who are unaware: rationality is the basis of not only mathematical but all sciences; even biology. Think Darwin ever walked away from nature because he was disgusted by what it had to say?
Does this man think this hasn't been discussed before? Does he have any facts to back his claims? And as I mentioned before, were they even claims?
On another note, perhaps this was a task best delegated? Is President of Harvard, who may be considered by some as "King of Academia" because of his position, the best spokesman for such a sensitive topic?
This is a test of the Epic 2014 newscasting system. Beware to those who prefer gossip (such as this story) over real news. When your news is personalized it will be as narrow, shallow, and sensationalized as you are.
"At its best, edited for the savviest readers, EPIC is a summary of the world - deeper, broader and more nuanced than anything ever available before. At its worst, and for too many, epic is merely a collection of trivia, much of it untrue, all of it narrow, shallow and sensational. but epic is what we wanted. epic is what we chose..."
See: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
As a side note: The transcript linked from robinsloan.com is posted on a news site with terrible formatting (possibly due to the excessive amount of ads) and is incomplete. It omits some of the more insightful points of the flash movie. Just a further display of the motives and/or intentions of advertising driven news outlets and the need to be critical of your news sources.
Do we really want to create a machine that feeds or operates on.. us? Time to revise the food chain.
Knowledge does not come miraculously from the sky! Looking up HTML codes takes up precious time. Most coders don't like to stop to tie their shoe laces either. If its functional, leave it alone.
This is an interesting point. With the rise of pay-per-file digital media services such as iTunes, could less CD sales (and eventually, perhaps, DVD sales) subtract from consumer electronics sales? Do services like Steam distort sales and economy totals?
When we truly understand the mind, will we really need an economy? Cognitive science is a field I find myself interested in. As such, I've often pondered what society will do when we've unlocked the secrets of the mind. Now I know...
How can the greedy be phased out? How much does one man need?
A world where the "frist psot" not only gets ridiculed but also indicted for copyright infringement? This is the best idea in ages, friend.
I hope their mp3 player isn't as fragile as their web server :D
I'm not sure how in-depth this article is but the joy of do-it-yourself is understanding the technology most take for granted. If everyone understood the ideas behind that TV set they love to glaze their eyes over too, we might not be so bad off. As I stated in a previous comment if people understood the ideas behind the internet they wouldn't get infected with spyware and they wouldn't give up on the internet. Don't be so quick to spend your money on something when there is an opportunity to learn for free.
+insightful. thanks.
Hostile purchasing is sort of bewildering. I think back to a time when men made tools for the sake of selling them to other men so the town could prosper(think free software movement). I can't imagine any type of hostile purchase in a market setting (You know, markets, those things they had a long time ago. Think Wal-mart without the flourescent lighting). How did this perversion of economics take place?
I suppose it is a matter of perspective. People drive all business, plain and simple. Of course, I'm sure your comment is result of the infamous livejournal post about EA overworking their employees. For the slashdot coverage see: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/11/ 0031259&tid=98&tid=10
But to those who are interested in trying Linux:
Linux is a free and open operating system. This means the source code is open for all to read and/or compile. This also means when there is an update to the kernel you do not need a proprietary browser plug-in to obtain it. For more information see www.kernel.org or for a list of distributions see http://www.linux.org/dist/
Solve both problems at once:
Linux!