Since obeying evil laws makes you evil, everyone who is a copyright infringer is a hero! Hooray for copyright infringement! Lets all thank the Chinese for leading the piracy effort!
ALL censorship is evil or none of it is. I don't want to hear crap about how only Chinese censorship is bad but American censorship is good, thats just political BS.
There are more healthy foods than their tasteless salads. Maybe if they put as much effort into designing healthy juices and foods as they put into designing fancy burgers they'd have sold out.
People do want healthy food, if it tastes as good as unhealthy food.
The supplement industry has a better track record than stem cells. Yes stem cells like nano technology have a lot of potential for 50 years into the future, right now its just not practical or useful.
I'm all for anti aging, and stem cell research has little if anything to do with the anti aging movement. When you want to mess with genetics it does not actually cure those who are already sick, it might prevent people of the future from getting sick but it could make cancer more popular as well. I'm not really looking forward to the genetic technologies because I don't trust the drug companies.
Instead if we are going to use stemcells we need to open up the technology, make it decentralized, once its open and everyone can access it and do research then I'll care more about it. Why arent there university courses on stem cell technology? Why should the general population support something that doctors don't know enough about to actually teach courses on it?
If stem cells are the next big thing after DNA, we need to actually be teaching it in school like we taught DNA. We need to teach stem cell courses like we teach courses about atoms and photons in highschool.
We should be trying to cheat death. Give me a better reason to go to work than to try and cheat death?
Vitamins like A, B , C and D arent the vitamins which increase lifespan, but theres chromium, alpha lipoic acid, green tea, cinnamon, red wine, and lots of other supplements and foods which are known to increase a persons health.
Ultimately however, unless you are rich you won't have the money to increase your health. You'd be best off buying a lot of land, having a farm, and farming your way to good health.
I think the reason humans live longer is because they have enough money to buy medicine. The only way to actually live healthier is to change your consumption, and Americans are one of the least healthy countries in the developed world. Our quality of life is among the lowest, and we don't even live the longest. Basically we have enough money to buy life extensions.
Diabetes is common now, so is heart disease and cancer. The reason these diseases are so common is because many of the food companies and industries deliberately create products which in tests on mice are known to cause diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. If mice die from high fructose corn syrup, why are humans being given high fructose corn syrup in every product?
Food companies like to blame the problem instead of the cause. They will blame obesity for poor health instead of the quality of their products. If we want better health we need a more advanced food industry which actually designs foods to be as health as possible instead of food that is plain addictive. Otherwise our healthcare costs will continue to rise forever while food companies continue to put junk in foods to give us new diseases of the future.
Grow your own food, or buy organic. Buy supplements. Look out for your own health, be your own doctor, and help fund research for new supplements, help fund organic farmers and shop at the stores which sell quality.
Long sick lives are not as good as long health lives.
While we may be having increased life expectancy, life quality and our level of health is decreasing.
Most food people consume is no longer organic, most people know nothing at all about supplements and how to stay healthy.
We should be focused on life extention and not waiting for government or corporations to come in with the cure for diseases like cancer and diabetes.
If you want a cure, start a business to fund the search for it. The life extension foundation does this. Life extension foundation
Life expectancy is not important. Only quality is important. We are not as healthy as we once were, and every 10 years more of us are dying from heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other illnesses due to the foods we are consuming. It is time for us to take control of our own destiny, become our own doctors, create our own supplements and treatments, and finally start supporting the organic food industry.
We can complain about the results (obesity, diabetes, cancer) of consumption of low quality products, but the only way to improve our health is to stop consuming products designed to ruin our health. This means we need to both fund research for cures while also focus on prevention by offering alternatives to Coke, Pepsi, and high fructose corn syrup which are actually safe. We need to be consuming products like green tea, with natural organic sugar, not high fructose corn syrup and dextrose mixed with acid.
We should thank the Life Extension Foundation and the supplement industry for funding the anti anging initiative.
They offer a membership for anyone who wants to help fund the anti aging movement. We all should get involved with this and get memberships, its our lives we are protecting.
Most of us have the technical expertise to build the next internet, so lets actually build it instead of talk about it. Here are a few sites to help you with your networking, Always OnFast Company AlonovoWorld Changing
Look at the actions of Bush and the actions of Clinton, look at the laws which passed. Neither of them are perfect, but under which president was your salary higher? This is how you decide on who to vote for next. If you have a higher salary, then vote for Republicans, if you were doing better under Clinton, then vote for the Democrats. Each party has its industries and special interest groups to protect and unless you work for big oil or some protected Bush industry, then its pointless to vote for him.
You want to know who to vote for? Learn about the backround of the politicians, learn which companies they work for and sit on the board of, and if you work for the same company then vote for them.
Your statements are ridiculous. The US terrorist groups such as the KKK killed millions. Then we have the mafia and gangs which also killed millions.
Why are you attacking China? I know you hate the Chinese but if you are going to be a racist, don't embarrass the country by making ridiculous statements.
Yes China has terrorism, the USA has terrorism, every country has terrorism. Yes China isnt where the US currently is on every issue, but the US isnt where the rest of the world is on certain issues. So what?
Thirty million people killed in China? the USA killed over 50 million blacks, killed millions of native americans, and certain terrorist groups like the Nazi's are more dangerous than Al Qaeda, have killed more people than Al Qaeda (if you remember the holocaust). China has its problems, they had their holocaust. I'm sure China has learned from it.
However when Americans go around talking about terrorism and crime when we have more prisoners than any country on the planet and more violent crime than anywhere else on earth, it makes us look bad, so please use something else to attack China.
Al Qaeda might want to know what our government is doing, but so do we. Terrorists are going to be attacking our government essentially forever, because our government has been attacking them forever. Aggrression + aggression = aggression. It's simple math.
I'm not saying world peace is easy, I'm just saying that whatever our government is doing to protect corporations from terrorism, it has nothing to do with us ordinary citizens, and its not to make us safer, its to protect economic interests of a few monopoly industries the USA wants to protect.
What is the problem with this? The problem is, even if you use the government to provide corporate welfare and to defend powerful corporations, it does not prevent China from just saving its money and buying them up, or from buying all the land, or from buying cities, states, and eventually our currency itself.
We are losing the economic shadow war. The physical war is just shock and awe, the real war is the war of economics and as citizens we are all losing. China is winning in a landslide, and the only industry we will have left will be the patent industries which China is completely ignoring. Honestly unless the world accepts our patents what exactly will we compete with?
Al Qaeda already has us by the balls, because they have most of the worlds oil. We bombed Iraq to get more oil, but we have already approached peak oil which means oil is running out in the world and soon we will be going to war over something else. We can't go to war with China because China influences our economy. Peace is maintained when people intergrate economics.
Why would Al Qaeda hide behind China? Al Qaeda might have cells in China. There are Chinese muslims.
I do not understand why people seem to think that a super power is the least likely to be hacking America when the most likely group involved is always going to be the group with the most to gain from it. America is super power, China is intending on becoming the next superpower, it makes all the sense in the world to not only buy the American government but to spy on what you have purchased. No one wants to purchased something and not know what they are purchasing.
China knows America will sell out itself. America is loyal to money, so all China has to do is buy our politicians and buy our government. Where do you think all this money comes from to run for office? It's coming from China. Who do you think keeps our economy afloat?
I'm sure theres millions of hackers in China and millions of Chinese spies in America. America wants China to spy on it and hack into it because America is going out of its way to give all its jobs and industries to China.
America cares about profit, it is profitable to allow China to hack and spy on us.
The problem right now is America has lost its soul. America only cares about money at this point, we do not care about morality or citizens. I can post this on slashdot and be sure to get rated as a troll because a lot of slashdotters do not want to accept the fact that their government does not gave a damn about them unless they are a CEO running a big monopoly company.
Let's face the facts, China has a lot of economic influence, they have more control over our government than we here at slashdot have. The Chinese can hack all they want and nothing will happen because they build all the computers they are hacking from, and then we buy them.
We should be asking ourselves why governments need "secret" information in the first place. If we the people own our government, and Chinese people like us are curious and do not trust our government any more than we do, is it terrorism or is it just hacking?
Hackers have been hacking the government since the internet was first invented. Now because the chinese are doing it suddenly its supposed to be terrorism?
I'm sick of every crime being redefined as terrorism when it is commited by any minority group, as if the majority group never commited acts of cyber terrorism before.
Face it, the more people you allow online, the more people you allow to intergrate into society, the more hackers you end up with. Hacking isnt always bad for the people, its bad for the government yes, but the government is not always doing what is in our best interest. So while I will not go as far to endorse hacking the government, I wouldnt call it terrorism either.
I'd consider it terrorism if hackers from China were hacking me, and this is the difference. When they do it to us then its terrorism, when they do it to the government then its business as usual. The government already knows everyone wants to hack them, its the government!
Everyone in America who eats the American diet will get an ulcer if not a heart attack. The people with jobs will have healthcare, everyone else will die.
So once again all that matters is getting as many degrees as you can get. I understand creativity, and it can be expressed through your work. You do not have to read novels to gain creative insight if you naturally have creativity to begin with.
Once again, we are in a global economy now, and those who do not get their masters degres and PHds will die. There simply will not be any jobs for anyone with less than a masters degree. Creativity is good, but creativity is no replacement for a proper education. If we lived in a world where minds were judged fairly and not on how many degrees they have then perhaps we wouldnt have to focus so much on learning "required" knowledge and we could focus more on entertainment and creativity, but if you want a world like this go out and create it. We do not currently live in that world.
You assume everyone cares about their own individual happiness. Some of us work for our families, some of us work for our community, our country and our world. Personal happiness is an afterthought, its not something you work for, its something people give you or not and money, hard work, and focus will not change the nature of it.
So why work hard? Because you want to accomplish alot, and in order to do this you might have to sacrifice alot. Usually in university you learn how to sacrifice your personal happiness for your degree, your education, your career, etc. It's very rare for a working class individual in America to spend their life looking at artwork. Yes it would be great to have as much free time as possible, but lets be real, if you arent born rich you'll never have the money to afford the free time. Time is expensive, and too much free time can cost you your life if you don't invest your time wisely.
Wealthy people may be losers, its not wealth that matters, its why you work and what you do with your wealth that matters.
So to sum up everything I said, I'd rather survive for a long period of time than be happy for a short period of time.
I think reading 500 page books is as old fashioned as printing out websites. Using type writers, and typing papers without a spellchecker. I rarely ever read 500 page books because 99% of the time no book is worthy of 500 pages of my attention. A book might have 100 good pages of information I never knew about, the rest is useless information I already know. It's about reading the important pages not reading a lot of pages.
I read pages not books. This means I'll go from book to book reading important pages from dozens of books at a time, and usually I never read every page of any book, I just read enough to extract the information I need to extract. The unimportant stuff I leave behind. I do not care about the biography of the author, I do not care about all the pointless information, I just want the main idea. Usually you learn in school to get the main idea from the book and move on, there is never enough time to read a book from cover and cover and if I did spend all my time doing that then theres no time for a social life, so either be a book worm and have no friends but your books, or go outside and talk to people.
Not wanting to read 500 pages is just time efficient, pure and simple.
Most information in a 500 page book that is valueable will not require you to read all 500 pages. I usually only have to read the most important pages of the book then I move on.
How many germs would be on the average book that someone took to the crapper and back when compared to the germs on an ebook? In a time when birdflu and other illnesses are being made popular don't you think we should be worried about the safety of book bugs?
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Can anyone see the connection here?
Since obeying evil laws makes you evil, everyone who is a copyright infringer is a hero! Hooray for copyright infringement! Lets all thank the Chinese for leading the piracy effort!
ALL censorship is evil or none of it is. I don't want to hear crap about how only Chinese censorship is bad but American censorship is good, thats just political BS.
There are more healthy foods than their tasteless salads. Maybe if they put as much effort into designing healthy juices and foods as they put into designing fancy burgers they'd have sold out.
People do want healthy food, if it tastes as good as unhealthy food.
The supplement industry has a better track record than stem cells. Yes stem cells like nano technology have a lot of potential for 50 years into the future, right now its just not practical or useful.
I'm all for anti aging, and stem cell research has little if anything to do with the anti aging movement. When you want to mess with genetics it does not actually cure those who are already sick, it might prevent people of the future from getting sick but it could make cancer more popular as well. I'm not really looking forward to the genetic technologies because I don't trust the drug companies.
Instead if we are going to use stemcells we need to open up the technology, make it decentralized, once its open and everyone can access it and do research then I'll care more about it. Why arent there university courses on stem cell technology? Why should the general population support something that doctors don't know enough about to actually teach courses on it?
If stem cells are the next big thing after DNA, we need to actually be teaching it in school like we taught DNA. We need to teach stem cell courses like we teach courses about atoms and photons in highschool.
if we want to raise quality we should just do it. nothing is stopping us from raising the quality of life ourselves.
Just fund the research yourself and then share the results.
We should be trying to cheat death. Give me a better reason to go to work than to try and cheat death?
Vitamins like A, B , C and D arent the vitamins which increase lifespan, but theres chromium, alpha lipoic acid, green tea, cinnamon, red wine, and lots of other supplements and foods which are known to increase a persons health.
Ultimately however, unless you are rich you won't have the money to increase your health. You'd be best off buying a lot of land, having a farm, and farming your way to good health.
I think the reason humans live longer is because they have enough money to buy medicine. The only way to actually live healthier is to change your consumption, and Americans are one of the least healthy countries in the developed world. Our quality of life is among the lowest, and we don't even live the longest. Basically we have enough money to buy life extensions.
Diabetes is common now, so is heart disease and cancer. The reason these diseases are so common is because many of the food companies and industries deliberately create products which in tests on mice are known to cause diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. If mice die from high fructose corn syrup, why are humans being given high fructose corn syrup in every product?
Food companies like to blame the problem instead of the cause. They will blame obesity for poor health instead of the quality of their products. If we want better health we need a more advanced food industry which actually designs foods to be as health as possible instead of food that is plain addictive. Otherwise our healthcare costs will continue to rise forever while food companies continue to put junk in foods to give us new diseases of the future.
Grow your own food, or buy organic. Buy supplements. Look out for your own health, be your own doctor, and help fund research for new supplements, help fund organic farmers and shop at the stores which sell quality.
Long sick lives are not as good as long health lives.
While we may be having increased life expectancy, life quality and our level of health is decreasing.
Most food people consume is no longer organic, most people know nothing at all about supplements and how to stay healthy.
We should be focused on life extention and not waiting for government or corporations to come in with the cure for diseases like cancer and diabetes.
If you want a cure, start a business to fund the search for it. The life extension foundation does this. Life extension foundation
Life expectancy is not important. Only quality is important. We are not as healthy as we once were, and every 10 years more of us are dying from heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other illnesses due to the foods we are consuming. It is time for us to take control of our own destiny, become our own doctors, create our own supplements and treatments, and finally start supporting the organic food industry.
We can complain about the results (obesity, diabetes, cancer) of consumption of low quality products, but the only way to improve our health is to stop consuming products designed to ruin our health. This means we need to both fund research for cures while also focus on prevention by offering alternatives to Coke, Pepsi, and high fructose corn syrup which are actually safe. We need to be consuming products like green tea, with natural organic sugar, not high fructose corn syrup and dextrose mixed with acid.
We should thank the Life Extension Foundation and the supplement industry for funding the anti anging initiative.
They offer a membership for anyone who wants to help fund the anti aging movement. We all should get involved with this and get memberships, its our lives we are protecting.
why not just make a podcast channel and create a new tech tv?
We all have ideas, we just don't have people to send them to.
Most of us have the technical expertise to build the next internet, so lets actually build it instead of talk about it. Here are a few sites to help you with your networking, Always On Fast Company
Alonovo World Changing
in most cases, but its also a motivating factor. Without emotion yes you'd be more lazy.
Emotion has its value when dealing with people, logic has its value when dealing with things. Guys are better with things in most cases.
Look at the actions of Bush and the actions of Clinton, look at the laws which passed. Neither of them are perfect, but under which president was your salary higher? This is how you decide on who to vote for next. If you have a higher salary, then vote for Republicans, if you were doing better under Clinton, then vote for the Democrats. Each party has its industries and special interest groups to protect and unless you work for big oil or some protected Bush industry, then its pointless to vote for him.
You want to know who to vote for? Learn about the backround of the politicians, learn which companies they work for and sit on the board of, and if you work for the same company then vote for them.
Your statements are ridiculous. The US terrorist groups such as the KKK killed millions. Then we have the mafia and gangs which also killed millions.
Why are you attacking China? I know you hate the Chinese but if you are going to be a racist, don't embarrass the country by making ridiculous statements.
Yes China has terrorism, the USA has terrorism, every country has terrorism. Yes China isnt where the US currently is on every issue, but the US isnt where the rest of the world is on certain issues. So what?
Thirty million people killed in China? the USA killed over 50 million blacks, killed millions of native americans, and certain terrorist groups like the Nazi's are more dangerous than Al Qaeda, have killed more people than Al Qaeda (if you remember the holocaust). China has its problems, they had their holocaust. I'm sure China has learned from it.
However when Americans go around talking about terrorism and crime when we have more prisoners than any country on the planet and more violent crime than anywhere else on earth, it makes us look bad, so please use something else to attack China.
Al Qaeda might want to know what our government is doing, but so do we. Terrorists are going to be attacking our government essentially forever, because our government has been attacking them forever. Aggrression + aggression = aggression. It's simple math. I'm not saying world peace is easy, I'm just saying that whatever our government is doing to protect corporations from terrorism, it has nothing to do with us ordinary citizens, and its not to make us safer, its to protect economic interests of a few monopoly industries the USA wants to protect. What is the problem with this? The problem is, even if you use the government to provide corporate welfare and to defend powerful corporations, it does not prevent China from just saving its money and buying them up, or from buying all the land, or from buying cities, states, and eventually our currency itself. We are losing the economic shadow war. The physical war is just shock and awe, the real war is the war of economics and as citizens we are all losing. China is winning in a landslide, and the only industry we will have left will be the patent industries which China is completely ignoring. Honestly unless the world accepts our patents what exactly will we compete with? Al Qaeda already has us by the balls, because they have most of the worlds oil. We bombed Iraq to get more oil, but we have already approached peak oil which means oil is running out in the world and soon we will be going to war over something else. We can't go to war with China because China influences our economy. Peace is maintained when people intergrate economics.
Why would Al Qaeda hide behind China? Al Qaeda might have cells in China. There are Chinese muslims.
I do not understand why people seem to think that a super power is the least likely to be hacking America when the most likely group involved is always going to be the group with the most to gain from it. America is super power, China is intending on becoming the next superpower, it makes all the sense in the world to not only buy the American government but to spy on what you have purchased. No one wants to purchased something and not know what they are purchasing.
China knows America will sell out itself. America is loyal to money, so all China has to do is buy our politicians and buy our government. Where do you think all this money comes from to run for office? It's coming from China. Who do you think keeps our economy afloat?
I'm sure theres millions of hackers in China and millions of Chinese spies in America. America wants China to spy on it and hack into it because America is going out of its way to give all its jobs and industries to China.
America cares about profit, it is profitable to allow China to hack and spy on us.
The problem right now is America has lost its soul. America only cares about money at this point, we do not care about morality or citizens. I can post this on slashdot and be sure to get rated as a troll because a lot of slashdotters do not want to accept the fact that their government does not gave a damn about them unless they are a CEO running a big monopoly company.
Let's face the facts, China has a lot of economic influence, they have more control over our government than we here at slashdot have. The Chinese can hack all they want and nothing will happen because they build all the computers they are hacking from, and then we buy them.
We should be asking ourselves why governments need "secret" information in the first place. If we the people own our government, and Chinese people like us are curious and do not trust our government any more than we do, is it terrorism or is it just hacking?
Hackers have been hacking the government since the internet was first invented. Now because the chinese are doing it suddenly its supposed to be terrorism?
I'm sick of every crime being redefined as terrorism when it is commited by any minority group, as if the majority group never commited acts of cyber terrorism before.
Face it, the more people you allow online, the more people you allow to intergrate into society, the more hackers you end up with. Hacking isnt always bad for the people, its bad for the government yes, but the government is not always doing what is in our best interest. So while I will not go as far to endorse hacking the government, I wouldnt call it terrorism either.
I'd consider it terrorism if hackers from China were hacking me, and this is the difference. When they do it to us then its terrorism, when they do it to the government then its business as usual. The government already knows everyone wants to hack them, its the government!
Everyone in America who eats the American diet will get an ulcer if not a heart attack. The people with jobs will have healthcare, everyone else will die. So once again all that matters is getting as many degrees as you can get. I understand creativity, and it can be expressed through your work. You do not have to read novels to gain creative insight if you naturally have creativity to begin with. Once again, we are in a global economy now, and those who do not get their masters degres and PHds will die. There simply will not be any jobs for anyone with less than a masters degree. Creativity is good, but creativity is no replacement for a proper education. If we lived in a world where minds were judged fairly and not on how many degrees they have then perhaps we wouldnt have to focus so much on learning "required" knowledge and we could focus more on entertainment and creativity, but if you want a world like this go out and create it. We do not currently live in that world.
You assume everyone cares about their own individual happiness. Some of us work for our families, some of us work for our community, our country and our world. Personal happiness is an afterthought, its not something you work for, its something people give you or not and money, hard work, and focus will not change the nature of it.
So why work hard? Because you want to accomplish alot, and in order to do this you might have to sacrifice alot. Usually in university you learn how to sacrifice your personal happiness for your degree, your education, your career, etc. It's very rare for a working class individual in America to spend their life looking at artwork. Yes it would be great to have as much free time as possible, but lets be real, if you arent born rich you'll never have the money to afford the free time. Time is expensive, and too much free time can cost you your life if you don't invest your time wisely.
Wealthy people may be losers, its not wealth that matters, its why you work and what you do with your wealth that matters.
So to sum up everything I said, I'd rather survive for a long period of time than be happy for a short period of time.
I think reading 500 page books is as old fashioned as printing out websites. Using type writers, and typing papers without a spellchecker. I rarely ever read 500 page books because 99% of the time no book is worthy of 500 pages of my attention. A book might have 100 good pages of information I never knew about, the rest is useless information I already know. It's about reading the important pages not reading a lot of pages.
I read pages not books. This means I'll go from book to book reading important pages from dozens of books at a time, and usually I never read every page of any book, I just read enough to extract the information I need to extract. The unimportant stuff I leave behind. I do not care about the biography of the author, I do not care about all the pointless information, I just want the main idea. Usually you learn in school to get the main idea from the book and move on, there is never enough time to read a book from cover and cover and if I did spend all my time doing that then theres no time for a social life, so either be a book worm and have no friends but your books, or go outside and talk to people.
Not wanting to read 500 pages is just time efficient, pure and simple.
Most information in a 500 page book that is valueable will not require you to read all 500 pages. I usually only have to read the most important pages of the book then I move on.
How many germs would be on the average book that someone took to the crapper and back when compared to the germs on an ebook? In a time when birdflu and other illnesses are being made popular don't you think we should be worried about the safety of book bugs?