There may be instances where a virus causes obesity, but I see this as becoming a scapegoat for people letting themselves go if it becomes widely accepted. The cure? EAT LESS AND/OR MOVE MORE!
People like you are always demanding more and more proof that global warming is a problem and that pollution and waste is a problem. Prove to me that it isn't! Prove to me that fresh water hasn't needed to be more and more treated and refined to make in potable. Prove to me that toxic air in the cities haven't caused health problems, prove to me that acid rain hasn't had an affect on the ecosystem, prove to me that pesticide use has killed multitudes of wildlife and poisened ground water and rivers, prove to me that it's okay to keep raising acceptable limits for toxins so we don't have to change the way we do things. Even if you discount global warming there are a score of other reasons for people to smarten the fuck up and stop polluting the planet. What level of toxic water and air are we willing to live with today in order to live our McLifestyle? And how does it affect our children?
Regardless of the fact that climate change occurs naturally and that we do have ice ages and what not, we are producing more CO2 and toxic pollution than any other lifeform in the history of the planet and at the same time are deforesting the planet at a level never before possible.
Do you think that will have no effect on the planet?
Here in Canada we have a safety net, many of them, and there are lots of people striving to get rich and people barely able to get by. You sound like you are expounding European society, which are great, but you think there aren't poor and homeless people there? Or rich assholes with SUV's?
Well, just FYI, I am not part of the 'political right', I voted Green Party in the recent Canadian federal election, and NDP in most of the previous elections. I have no doubt that the society that you are dreaming about would be wonderous and springboard us into better and better things, but free wireless internet in SV is a long long ways from what you are describing, centuries away I would predict. There is a one-dimensional spectrum for all intents and purposes and in practise if you look at the examples throughout the world today. I know you can have cooperatives and barter-system societies but these are isolated and rare and on the decline more than on the rise. You are putting words in my mouth by saying I assert we only have one dimensional choices and then insulting me by saying I am philosophically in line with the political right. I merely am asserting that mankind has only made one dimensional choices, and will continue to do so...
Well, I hate to break this to you but video game social networks have very little to do with doing away with capitalism. The communist ideals are similar to what you are speaking about but have been proven to be too idealistic for reality. At best we can achieve a heavily socialist society with a large number of basic neccessities taken care of, but this will be resisted by a large portion of the population as infringing on their rights. If you look at the spectrum of societal market systems, you can basically look at communism being at one end and slavery at the other. Without fundamentally changing mankind's predalictions towards greed, malice, envy and thievery you have to pick a choice in that spectrum.
Because as consumers we have the right/responsibility to tell companies when they are doing things that go against our ethical P.O.V. Just becuase some people don't make all their purchasing decisions based on the ethics, doesn't mean that when they do take a stand it's somehow less valid. I don't think anyone is saying that Google is evil any more than I would say that a person who owns clothes made in sweatshops are evil, but I do call them both ethically and morally irresponsible.
A lot of disussion here seems to assume that Nettwork is in favour of file sharing and not protecting artists revenues. This is far from the truth, they know that file sharing is completely legal in Canada and they are trying to promote buying MP3's from them by saying 'look at us, we're on your side!'
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There may be instances where a virus causes obesity, but I see this as becoming a scapegoat for people letting themselves go if it becomes widely accepted. The cure? EAT LESS AND/OR MOVE MORE!
People like you are always demanding more and more proof that global warming is a problem and that pollution and waste is a problem. Prove to me that it isn't! Prove to me that fresh water hasn't needed to be more and more treated and refined to make in potable. Prove to me that toxic air in the cities haven't caused health problems, prove to me that acid rain hasn't had an affect on the ecosystem, prove to me that pesticide use has killed multitudes of wildlife and poisened ground water and rivers, prove to me that it's okay to keep raising acceptable limits for toxins so we don't have to change the way we do things. Even if you discount global warming there are a score of other reasons for people to smarten the fuck up and stop polluting the planet. What level of toxic water and air are we willing to live with today in order to live our McLifestyle? And how does it affect our children?
Regardless of the fact that climate change occurs naturally and that we do have ice ages and what not, we are producing more CO2 and toxic pollution than any other lifeform in the history of the planet and at the same time are deforesting the planet at a level never before possible. Do you think that will have no effect on the planet?
Here in Canada we have a safety net, many of them, and there are lots of people striving to get rich and people barely able to get by. You sound like you are expounding European society, which are great, but you think there aren't poor and homeless people there? Or rich assholes with SUV's?
Well, just FYI, I am not part of the 'political right', I voted Green Party in the recent Canadian federal election, and NDP in most of the previous elections. I have no doubt that the society that you are dreaming about would be wonderous and springboard us into better and better things, but free wireless internet in SV is a long long ways from what you are describing, centuries away I would predict. There is a one-dimensional spectrum for all intents and purposes and in practise if you look at the examples throughout the world today. I know you can have cooperatives and barter-system societies but these are isolated and rare and on the decline more than on the rise. You are putting words in my mouth by saying I assert we only have one dimensional choices and then insulting me by saying I am philosophically in line with the political right. I merely am asserting that mankind has only made one dimensional choices, and will continue to do so...
Well, I hate to break this to you but video game social networks have very little to do with doing away with capitalism. The communist ideals are similar to what you are speaking about but have been proven to be too idealistic for reality. At best we can achieve a heavily socialist society with a large number of basic neccessities taken care of, but this will be resisted by a large portion of the population as infringing on their rights. If you look at the spectrum of societal market systems, you can basically look at communism being at one end and slavery at the other. Without fundamentally changing mankind's predalictions towards greed, malice, envy and thievery you have to pick a choice in that spectrum.
We have a long way to go before we are anywhere close to a non-monetary society like you see in Star Trek.
Because as consumers we have the right/responsibility to tell companies when they are doing things that go against our ethical P.O.V. Just becuase some people don't make all their purchasing decisions based on the ethics, doesn't mean that when they do take a stand it's somehow less valid. I don't think anyone is saying that Google is evil any more than I would say that a person who owns clothes made in sweatshops are evil, but I do call them both ethically and morally irresponsible.
How is the summary misleading when the headline says '...by 2020'?
I am one who thought it was a live broadcast I saw, but I was 9 at the time so.... I have to say, I was unaware the othe 6 were even myths.
A lot of disussion here seems to assume that Nettwork is in favour of file sharing and not protecting artists revenues. This is far from the truth, they know that file sharing is completely legal in Canada and they are trying to promote buying MP3's from them by saying 'look at us, we're on your side!'
Isn't this all conjecture and wordplay? I mean was the internet bublle called a bubble before or after it burst? Hindsight changes a lot of titles....