That's what I was thinking the whole time reading this. What if it turns into some completely deformed child with 3 eyes who grows up in a lab begging us to kill it to put it out of it's misery.. kind of a cliché monster you see in genetic laboratories in the movies... this doesn't seem ethical.
Back in the days of DOS almost every new version was denounced by users of the previous version (except users of 4.0 who couldn't wait to upgrade)
When Windows 2 and 3 came out, they were both denounced as "glorified menu systems that used up half the computers resources, I'll just stick with DOS, thanks"
When Windows 95 came out, many of peoples old DOS programs didn't work in it and it was hard to find drivers.
Windows 98 and active desktop got tons of bad press, I'll never forget the hilarious South park (possible nsfw) that summed it up so nicely.
When Windows XP was still young, many users and especially gamers latched onto Windows 98 with a death grip saying things like "M$ can take Windows 98 away from me when they can pry it from my cold dead hands"
So here we are again with Windows Vista. I doubt M$ or it's employees care if the general public likes Vista right now or not, I'm sure they just assume people are naïve to be afraid of change even in the face of (what they consider to be) innovation, and that we will eventually come around because we always do.
Of course he was a jerk, that is obvious. Unfortunately for him the cops were bigger jerks. I didn't see one bit of physical resistence once they started to put the cuffs on him. Voicing his protest is not resistance, and it is certainly no reason to tazer him. Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Begging is not struggling. He appears to be following instructions to me, of course it's difficult when you have different cops barking different instructions. He wasn't told to go limp, he was actually rolled over by the police. Reminds me of the Elio Carrion incident. Even the eyewitnesses saw that the police were out of line. He didn't do this but if I thought someone was going to taze me I would instinctively try to avoid it. Of course that would make a sadistic bastard like jjohnson probably enjoy pulling the trigger even more. He actually just layed there and took it calmly. jjohnson, why are you trying to spin this anyway? You can't convince people to ignore facts that are in plain view on the video.
It seems the ego's of cops has once again caused them to make fools of themselves causing this to become a media circus. If they simply strong-armed him out the door like bouncers at a club, they would have had the moral high ground and he wouldn't now have national attention.
I don't know why they think they can punish people with tazers, he was already cuffed and on the ground, this is obvious brutality. Its also obvious they will get a free pass and have it found to be justified because they are apparently superhuman and can do no wrong.
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According to http://www.astrophys-assist.com/educate/hubble/hub ble.htm, the thing originally cost $1.5 billion but we've put another 3.5 billion into it so far just to maintain the thing.
Seems expensive for a web cam attached to a big mirror and a wi-fi transmitter. I suppose there is that pesky little guidence system, but still, I bet I could build one for half that;)
I don't see why you guys are jumping to conclusions, then debating them.
This "god worship" is still part of the mystery.
We don't know if they were programmed to believe this way, or if the cylons actually found some sort of proof that -they couldn't logically deny- proving (to them anyway) that god, in fact, does exists and has an agenda for them. We also don't know if perhaps their creator or cpu or whoever is running these robots could have just taken the name of "god"; not to mention many other possibilities that I can't think of right now.
An additional twist is that the president mentioned she thought, by studying scripture, that everyone's entire existence is caught in some sort of infinite loop that they have followed before and will follow again.
The talk of gods is generally part of the fantasy genre, but has been mixed with sci-fi many times in the past. Why now would someone decide that a storyline is no good because of this?
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That's what I was thinking the whole time reading this. What if it turns into some completely deformed child with 3 eyes who grows up in a lab begging us to kill it to put it out of it's misery.. kind of a cliché monster you see in genetic laboratories in the movies... this doesn't seem ethical.
Back in the days of DOS almost every new version was denounced by users of the previous version (except users of 4.0 who couldn't wait to upgrade)
When Windows 2 and 3 came out, they were both denounced as "glorified menu systems that used up half the computers resources, I'll just stick with DOS, thanks"
When Windows 95 came out, many of peoples old DOS programs didn't work in it and it was hard to find drivers.
Windows 98 and active desktop got tons of bad press, I'll never forget the hilarious South park (possible nsfw) that summed it up so nicely.
When Windows XP was still young, many users and especially gamers latched onto Windows 98 with a death grip saying things like "M$ can take Windows 98 away from me when they can pry it from my cold dead hands"
So here we are again with Windows Vista. I doubt M$ or it's employees care if the general public likes Vista right now or not, I'm sure they just assume people are naïve to be afraid of change even in the face of (what they consider to be) innovation, and that we will eventually come around because we always do.
Of course he was a jerk, that is obvious. Unfortunately for him the cops were bigger jerks. I didn't see one bit of physical resistence once they started to put the cuffs on him. Voicing his protest is not resistance, and it is certainly no reason to tazer him. Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Begging is not struggling. He appears to be following instructions to me, of course it's difficult when you have different cops barking different instructions. He wasn't told to go limp, he was actually rolled over by the police. Reminds me of the Elio Carrion incident. Even the eyewitnesses saw that the police were out of line. He didn't do this but if I thought someone was going to taze me I would instinctively try to avoid it. Of course that would make a sadistic bastard like jjohnson probably enjoy pulling the trigger even more. He actually just layed there and took it calmly. jjohnson, why are you trying to spin this anyway? You can't convince people to ignore facts that are in plain view on the video.
He was not struggling when he was saying "Don't tazer me bro". Get your facts straight.
It seems the ego's of cops has once again caused them to make fools of themselves causing this to become a media circus. If they simply strong-armed him out the door like bouncers at a club, they would have had the moral high ground and he wouldn't now have national attention. I don't know why they think they can punish people with tazers, he was already cuffed and on the ground, this is obvious brutality. Its also obvious they will get a free pass and have it found to be justified because they are apparently superhuman and can do no wrong.
This was on CNN yesterday..
According to http://www.astrophys-assist.com/educate/hubble/hub ble.htm, the thing originally cost $1.5 billion but we've put another 3.5 billion into it so far just to maintain the thing.
Seems expensive for a web cam attached to a big mirror and a wi-fi transmitter. I suppose there is that pesky little guidence system, but still, I bet I could build one for half that ;)
I don't see why you guys are jumping to conclusions, then debating them.
This "god worship" is still part of the mystery.
We don't know if they were programmed to believe this way, or if the cylons actually found some sort of proof that -they couldn't logically deny- proving (to them anyway) that god, in fact, does exists and has an agenda for them. We also don't know if perhaps their creator or cpu or whoever is running these robots could have just taken the name of "god"; not to mention many other possibilities that I can't think of right now.
An additional twist is that the president mentioned she thought, by studying scripture, that everyone's entire existence is caught in some sort of infinite loop that they have followed before and will follow again.
The talk of gods is generally part of the fantasy genre, but has been mixed with sci-fi many times in the past. Why now would someone decide that a storyline is no good because of this?