Who's going to go on the starships to find and terraform these planets without some kind of incentive.
You seem to think that money is the only incentive to do anything. That's a sad and foolish belief. You're missing the best things in life in your greedy race for acquisition.
Someone has to get the energy for all those replicators, for one: either by mining tritium somewhere, or maintaining solar collectors, etc.
Robots.
Someone has to build those starships
Stallman, Torvalds, and the army of open source geeks will do it just for the sake of doing it. I would. Same for the red shirts; some prople (especially young people) enjoy danger. Why do some towns have volunteer fire departments? Not everyone goes to college for a job, some go because they love learning. I pity people who think that money is the most important thing in the world.
I got dragged to some of those "non-denominational" megachurches, and that's not what they were like at all: they were all about brainwashing people about how necessary oil wars are, how we need to give up our rights because of "terrorists", how we need to support Prop 8 or other anti-gay-marriage legislation, how horrible gay marriage is, etc.
I wouldn't like that church at all. It's nothing like the one I attend. Several years ago I attended a Methodist church, and the last time I stepped into the place was when the preacher prayed for President Bush to have "continued wisdom". That's like praying for the ocean to have continued dryness.
One of those churches I got dragged to, for only one service, seemed pretty benign in their message, but the fact that they had a Starbucks in the lobby and coffee cup holders built into every seat was extremely disturbing.
Having a Starbucks was a dead giveaway that it was really just a money-making operation. "Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing." They recently built a coffeeshop in my church, but it's not a Starbucks or any other brand, and the proceeds go to feeding hungry people. No cupholders in the pews, either.
The gays and prostitutes are pardoned as well. John 8:3-11 has Jesus forgiving a hooker who'd been caught in the act of adultery. You did notice that gays and hookers were in the above sample of people God loves, didn't you?
Again, any church that says "God hates fags" or "God hates" anybody isn't following Christ's teachings.
So when did god get around to permanently pardoning all the usurers and pork-eaters and contraceptive-users and Sabbath-workers? When an innocent man volunteered to pay the price for your wrongdoings, and was executed in the most painful way possible, for the rotten shit you and I have done..
CRT technology isn't dead until the last CRT goes into a landfill. Since CRTs last a LONG time, it will be a while before they're dead. Obsolete, yes, but not dead.
How is giving up TV supposed to save any money? Giving up cable, sure, but all I spend to watch TV is the electric bill and ISP bill (my computer uses the TV as a monitor).
And a mobile phone? I hate watching tiny screens, my TV is forty two inches and it's still too small. And most people have data caps on their phones.
No, technology isn't an impediment to saving, lack of discipline is the impediment to saving.
Go watch Star Trek TOS. If that isn't "leftist", I don't know what is: a utopian society with a big government where there's no poverty, no real use of money, etc. It basically seemed to show the supposed end-state of Marxism.
No, it's the end-state of matter replictors. If we had such a thing there would be no poverty, because anybody could just replicate anything they needed, including a new replicator. If replicators existed, there would be no more need or use for money or capitalism.
Not any more. Now, the "mainstream" Protestant denominations are a minority and shrinking fast, while fundamentalist churches are growing quickly nationwide
As far as I can tell, it isn't the fundamentalist churches that are growing so fast, it's the nondenominal churches. The one I go to is huge, with a congregation of thousands, most of its members are young to middle aged. And it isn't one of the "the earth is 4000 years old and God hates fags and evolution doesn't exist and you're going to hell if you screw up" churches, it's a "yes, evolution exists and is how God went about creating us and God loves every one of us, even terrorists, gays, hookers, atheists, and even politicians, and you are forgiven your sins as long as you repent because the price for your sins has been paid" kind of church.
On another note: the derogatory "boy" has a racial tone to it
Yes, in the US, but only among blacks. You'll hear one redneck referring to another redneck as a "good ol' boy" but not a black man. The reason is slavery. Slaves were not considered people, they were regarded in the same way as a horse or a dog -- a work animal. How do you call your dog? "Here, boy!" So when you call a black man "boy" you're saying he's subhuman. Of course they're going to take it as an insult, and I, for one, can't blame them for being offended.
humans went from riding horses to walking on the moon in less than a century
Indeed; I have a photo taken in 1917 of the types of non-foot road transport then. My grandfather is on a horse, there's a horse and wagon in the picture, and an automobile.
My grandmother was born in 1903 and was an infant when the Wright Brothers first flew. She'd flown on a commercial airline before I was born, and just like everybody else on July 20, 1969 she watched Niel and Buzz walk on the moon.
I don't understand why SF is so dystopian these days. I would have thought that the fifties before Sputnik, when everyone was terrified of nuclear war, would have been a period of dystopian SF. With the exception of nuclear bombs and power plant accidents, every bit of new science and tech has helped mankind and none of it has ever brought disaster that I can think of.
When I was 12 I got to see and use a real computer! There was a tech fair of some sort that my parents took us kids to. I remember joking "I want one of those!" Of course, it was a giant monstrosity that ran on tubes and was worth millions of dollars. Nobody would have guessed that by today I'd own one the size of a hardback book that was orders of magnitude more powerful than the giant at the tech fair.
My SF (hobby) writing has a utopian future (well, except this one and the latest one has the protagonists in a bit of a mess)
That's how mine is set up. I remarked earlier that having a computer inside the TV is as dumb as built-in VCRs, DVDs and BluRays. Moreso, since a broken DVD doesn't brick the TV part of it.
The "limited time" is what makes it not ownership. Your patent is like a rented house -- you have the rights to the house you rented, but you don't own it. "We the people" own the work, the author is simply the tenant.
For an entity who has essentially "locked their story in a safe" (even if it is a safe that allows a select group of participants access), the act of having someone else access that story without permission would feel very much like theft. At the very least it would feel like a violation of some sort
Like the landlord walking in without permission. You can't do that, either. It isn't theft but you could have him jailed.
Why do people believe shit just because it's and old saying? If everything is fair in love then why would you go to prison for murdering your object of affection's lover? If all's fair in war why are there such things as war crimes?
BTW, there is such a thing as a free lunch and silence isn't golden, too. Don't take stuff for granted, give it some thought.
THEN have a cash for clunkers program so that even the working poor can afford to trade in those 10+ year old gas hogs.
Yould have to give them over $9000 for the clunker to get the working poor to buy a $10,000 car, because they simply don't have that much money and they don't have credit.
You don't spend half a year's income on a car when you're eating at the food bank. Hell, some of America's working poor are homeless.
Copyright law is supposed to protect the artist, not stop people from making a profit.
Ok, say you make a CD and put it up for sale. Someone buys a copy and burns a copy of his copy for his friend, who has never heard of you. You have lost nothing. If his friend likes your CD he's likely to buy a copy of your next one and you earn even more. Now, if your customer sells a copy of his copy to his friend, that's money that should have gone to you, but didn't.
Now, if you sell a copy of your work for five bucks and he turns around and resells his legitimate copy for ten, he's made five bucks but that's perfectly reasonable. You sold him that copy and he now owns it, and if he can sell it at a profit he's free to.
Huh? You're a nerd and you don't like blowing shit up? I almost got expelled in the 7th grade for a science project. When toilets explode for no apparent reason, finding out why is good nerdy fun.
First, copyrights and patents are NOT ownership (especially patents, they only last 20 years). I don't own the stories I write, I merely have a "limited" time monopoly on their publications. They're not my property. For the MAFIAA to call stories and songs their "property" is theft of culture.
Second, it is copyright violation and not unauthorized intrusion. The DMCA stands for digital millineum copyright Act. They violated DMCA by breaking the game's encryption to run it on their own servers. They didn't break into the copyright holder's servers.
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Who's going to go on the starships to find and terraform these planets without some kind of incentive.
You seem to think that money is the only incentive to do anything. That's a sad and foolish belief. You're missing the best things in life in your greedy race for acquisition.
Someone has to get the energy for all those replicators, for one: either by mining tritium somewhere, or maintaining solar collectors, etc.
Robots.
Someone has to build those starships
Stallman, Torvalds, and the army of open source geeks will do it just for the sake of doing it. I would. Same for the red shirts; some prople (especially young people) enjoy danger. Why do some towns have volunteer fire departments? Not everyone goes to college for a job, some go because they love learning. I pity people who think that money is the most important thing in the world.
I got dragged to some of those "non-denominational" megachurches, and that's not what they were like at all: they were all about brainwashing people about how necessary oil wars are, how we need to give up our rights because of "terrorists", how we need to support Prop 8 or other anti-gay-marriage legislation, how horrible gay marriage is, etc.
I wouldn't like that church at all. It's nothing like the one I attend. Several years ago I attended a Methodist church, and the last time I stepped into the place was when the preacher prayed for President Bush to have "continued wisdom". That's like praying for the ocean to have continued dryness.
One of those churches I got dragged to, for only one service, seemed pretty benign in their message, but the fact that they had a Starbucks in the lobby and coffee cup holders built into every seat was extremely disturbing.
Having a Starbucks was a dead giveaway that it was really just a money-making operation. "Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing." They recently built a coffeeshop in my church, but it's not a Starbucks or any other brand, and the proceeds go to feeding hungry people. No cupholders in the pews, either.
The gays and prostitutes are pardoned as well. John 8:3-11 has Jesus forgiving a hooker who'd been caught in the act of adultery. You did notice that gays and hookers were in the above sample of people God loves, didn't you?
Again, any church that says "God hates fags" or "God hates" anybody isn't following Christ's teachings.
So when did god get around to permanently pardoning all the usurers and pork-eaters and contraceptive-users and Sabbath-workers? When an innocent man volunteered to pay the price for your wrongdoings, and was executed in the most painful way possible, for the rotten shit you and I have done..
I'm paying $40 to AT&T for six megabit DSL. No landline, phone, no cable, my cell is with BOOST (another $45).
CRT technology isn't dead until the last CRT goes into a landfill. Since CRTs last a LONG time, it will be a while before they're dead. Obsolete, yes, but not dead.
Like VCRs. Obsolete but still being used.
How is giving up TV supposed to save any money? Giving up cable, sure, but all I spend to watch TV is the electric bill and ISP bill (my computer uses the TV as a monitor).
And a mobile phone? I hate watching tiny screens, my TV is forty two inches and it's still too small. And most people have data caps on their phones.
No, technology isn't an impediment to saving, lack of discipline is the impediment to saving.
The gates of dawn.
Well, hey, then Mac AV will work a lot faster than Windows AV since there's only one virus in the definition database!
Your missing the point.
And you're missing an apostrophe and an e.
Go watch Star Trek TOS. If that isn't "leftist", I don't know what is: a utopian society with a big government where there's no poverty, no real use of money, etc. It basically seemed to show the supposed end-state of Marxism.
No, it's the end-state of matter replictors. If we had such a thing there would be no poverty, because anybody could just replicate anything they needed, including a new replicator. If replicators existed, there would be no more need or use for money or capitalism.
Not any more. Now, the "mainstream" Protestant denominations are a minority and shrinking fast, while fundamentalist churches are growing quickly nationwide
As far as I can tell, it isn't the fundamentalist churches that are growing so fast, it's the nondenominal churches. The one I go to is huge, with a congregation of thousands, most of its members are young to middle aged. And it isn't one of the "the earth is 4000 years old and God hates fags and evolution doesn't exist and you're going to hell if you screw up" churches, it's a "yes, evolution exists and is how God went about creating us and God loves every one of us, even terrorists, gays, hookers, atheists, and even politicians, and you are forgiven your sins as long as you repent because the price for your sins has been paid" kind of church.
And again, most of the congregation is young.
On another note: the derogatory "boy" has a racial tone to it
Yes, in the US, but only among blacks. You'll hear one redneck referring to another redneck as a "good ol' boy" but not a black man. The reason is slavery. Slaves were not considered people, they were regarded in the same way as a horse or a dog -- a work animal. How do you call your dog? "Here, boy!" So when you call a black man "boy" you're saying he's subhuman. Of course they're going to take it as an insult, and I, for one, can't blame them for being offended.
humans went from riding horses to walking on the moon in less than a century
Indeed; I have a photo taken in 1917 of the types of non-foot road transport then. My grandfather is on a horse, there's a horse and wagon in the picture, and an automobile.
My grandmother was born in 1903 and was an infant when the Wright Brothers first flew. She'd flown on a commercial airline before I was born, and just like everybody else on July 20, 1969 she watched Niel and Buzz walk on the moon.
I don't understand why SF is so dystopian these days. I would have thought that the fifties before Sputnik, when everyone was terrified of nuclear war, would have been a period of dystopian SF. With the exception of nuclear bombs and power plant accidents, every bit of new science and tech has helped mankind and none of it has ever brought disaster that I can think of.
When I was 12 I got to see and use a real computer! There was a tech fair of some sort that my parents took us kids to. I remember joking "I want one of those!" Of course, it was a giant monstrosity that ran on tubes and was worth millions of dollars. Nobody would have guessed that by today I'd own one the size of a hardback book that was orders of magnitude more powerful than the giant at the tech fair.
My SF (hobby) writing has a utopian future (well, except this one and the latest one has the protagonists in a bit of a mess)
An organization with two lies in its name! The one you pointed out, and "copyright theft". Tell me, how would one go about stealing a copyright?
When your organizatioon has not only one lie in its name, but two, you know it's an organization made up entirely of dishonest people.
That's how mine is set up. I remarked earlier that having a computer inside the TV is as dumb as built-in VCRs, DVDs and BluRays. Moreso, since a broken DVD doesn't brick the TV part of it.
The "limited time" is what makes it not ownership. Your patent is like a rented house -- you have the rights to the house you rented, but you don't own it. "We the people" own the work, the author is simply the tenant.
For an entity who has essentially "locked their story in a safe" (even if it is a safe that allows a select group of participants access), the act of having someone else access that story without permission would feel very much like theft. At the very least it would feel like a violation of some sort
Like the landlord walking in without permission. You can't do that, either. It isn't theft but you could have him jailed.
On the other hand all's fair in love & war
Why do people believe shit just because it's and old saying? If everything is fair in love then why would you go to prison for murdering your object of affection's lover? If all's fair in war why are there such things as war crimes?
BTW, there is such a thing as a free lunch and silence isn't golden, too. Don't take stuff for granted, give it some thought.
He could also have been referring to Native American's belief that the earth is alive an oil is its blood.
I would imagine that they use the simulatore before they get to cut on cadavers. In any case, I wouldn't want my doctor to be right out of med school.
How do they do this procedure on women?
THEN have a cash for clunkers program so that even the working poor can afford to trade in those 10+ year old gas hogs.
Yould have to give them over $9000 for the clunker to get the working poor to buy a $10,000 car, because they simply don't have that much money and they don't have credit.
You don't spend half a year's income on a car when you're eating at the food bank. Hell, some of America's working poor are homeless.
Copyright law is supposed to protect the artist, not stop people from making a profit.
Ok, say you make a CD and put it up for sale. Someone buys a copy and burns a copy of his copy for his friend, who has never heard of you. You have lost nothing. If his friend likes your CD he's likely to buy a copy of your next one and you earn even more. Now, if your customer sells a copy of his copy to his friend, that's money that should have gone to you, but didn't.
Now, if you sell a copy of your work for five bucks and he turns around and resells his legitimate copy for ten, he's made five bucks but that's perfectly reasonable. You sold him that copy and he now owns it, and if he can sell it at a profit he's free to.
Huh? You're a nerd and you don't like blowing shit up? I almost got expelled in the 7th grade for a science project. When toilets explode for no apparent reason, finding out why is good nerdy fun.
Cyborg rage? Is that a reference to a SF work? Because I'm a cyborg. And you'll probably be assimilated too once your natrual stuff starts failing.
First, copyrights and patents are NOT ownership (especially patents, they only last 20 years). I don't own the stories I write, I merely have a "limited" time monopoly on their publications. They're not my property. For the MAFIAA to call stories and songs their "property" is theft of culture.
Second, it is copyright violation and not unauthorized intrusion. The DMCA stands for digital millineum copyright Act. They violated DMCA by breaking the game's encryption to run it on their own servers. They didn't break into the copyright holder's servers.
It woudn't work, you have to have a brain to have anything implanted in it.