No, you're overdesigning. "powerful enough to be 100% deadly in adult healthy people" Causing infertility would be enough, and killing only a fraction of healthy people would cause society to collapse and allow any other disease to help finishing the job. Just remember that you don't need to kill everyone in the first year. "impossible to detect until the patient has less than 24 hours left to live" You don't care how long they last after the detection, what you want is a long period between the start of contagion and the first symptoms. "be impossible to cure" once out of control, it won't make a huge difference. With most doctors dead and more patients each day, anything that resists already widely available basic antibiotics would be basically uncurable. "or gain immunity from" That's the tricky part, unless you reach your first goal and have eliminated the contaminated from the gene pool.
One key element of that method is that fraud is harder to perform than with other method of biometric identification methods. You leave fingerprints and DNA samples all the time and they are easy to copy or displace, and yet they can and are used as strong evidences in criminal cases. At least, with vein patterns, no one can copy yours from an indirect transfer on a regular surface of from a photo of you.
Some time ago, I read about a good experiment (perhaps the only good one) about rat pathfinding learning.
Basically, rat showed pathfinding abilities, so the reserchers tried to determine what information they used, so they gradually modified their maze to remove any external clue they could think of (odors, lighting, even vibrations) and do the experiment over and over, until the rats had no clue left to differentiate the various parts of the maze and couldn't learn the path anymore, demonstrating that they couldn't learn the path without memorizing hints.
I sure wouldn't want to watch any 60 year movies, just like I wouldn't want to see any last year movie (I bet the ratio of gem to crap hasn't changed that much), I just want to be able to see any of the good (and you must assume I can have a totally unique definition of "good", so technically, I would need to BE ABLE to see any movie, no matter how crappy or unappealing to me it could be) ones from any period of history (and it's not just a theorical rant, I own many DVDs of films or TV shows that are older than I am, and it's the same for music).
That kind of thing exists to a certain extend, for example in The Witcher (the non-humans are persecuted by the humans and have opted for guerilla warfare, while guarding crates of weapons, you are faced with a small group of them who pretend your boss is OK with them (but he didn't mention any expeted visit when describing the job), would you let them take a few crates or kill them?) or Fable II (OK, the second example has a too obvious good/evil dichotomy, but it's fun to play according to the moral values you chosed for yourself).
And given that I received legal downlaod offers from Atari for two games I already bought and registered and surprisingly none for any of their other games, I'm kinda expecting these morons to unleash their lawyers on me soon.
From what I understood, the concept is to use the magnetic field to contain some plasma in a layer around the structure to protect and use that plasma as a shield against EM radiations.
A few examples in french: Jean is a masculine name, Claude is unisex, Marie is feminine when used alone, but unisex in counpound names (Jean-Marie is a rather common masculine name, even if tainted since a few decades by a vocal xenophobic populist). Names like Martin or Justin are masculine, but the english way of speaking them sounds almost exactly like the feminine french version of those names (Martine and Justine).
The real question si not to know if you're right, it is to decide if you are ready to spend 10 years of your short life and risk your marriage and home for that.
Yes, engineers are good at solving problems, but on wich ones are you going to bet? 1) a couple of ones who are ordered to block all illegal trafic and may lack motivation due to ethical concerns. 2) hundreds of thousands higly motivated to get their pr0n.
Just last saturday, I was at my dad's house and we were playing Mario Kart on his Wii with my nephews (8 and 10 yo), those two little gremlins were responsible for 99% of the swearing during the races.
Anyway, one of few races I lost to them was caused by ther laughters after that dialogue: 10yo: You're stupid! 8yo: He, you're not stupider than I am (pause) sh*t!
"he got 19 Iraqis and Afghanis and attacked the USA"
I presume you mean that "fifteen of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and one from Lebanon." (source Wikipedia)
"individuals can't do it, because they'll be arrested and/or shot in the process"
You've got that point wrong. A dedicated individual has a real chance of succesfully using deadly force on any one, no matter how important he is, before being incapacited. Booth and Oswald are only two of many examples. One man can bring down a tyrant, but he cannot bring down a tyrany.
That's what made me stop playing Two Worlds. At the beginning of the game, even a couple of wolves are a real danger (but that's OK because you can always resurect not to far away), resources are scarce and every level up is really good news so it is really intense, but a dozen hours later, when I first encountered a dragon, I first panicked, ran away, cast all my strongest power up and invocation spells and took my chance, only to be disapointed after almost oneshoting it. Globaly, all the second half of the game was boring dynasty-warrior-with-cheatcode-like one-side slaughter.
My room is a complete mess with lots of books (mostly CS/languages, SF/fantasy novels and comics/manga), music, DVD, video games and electronic stuff, while my office desk is gatacaesque (clean, cleared, ordered and with no visible personal item or decoration), does that mean I'm schisophrenic?
SCO had a huge warchest too. What killed them is that their targets were also rich, organized and motivated. RIAA targets almost always lack at least two of these qualities.
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No, you're overdesigning.
"powerful enough to be 100% deadly in adult healthy people"
Causing infertility would be enough, and killing only a fraction of healthy people would cause society to collapse and allow any other disease to help finishing the job. Just remember that you don't need to kill everyone in the first year.
"impossible to detect until the patient has less than 24 hours left to live"
You don't care how long they last after the detection, what you want is a long period between the start of contagion and the first symptoms.
"be impossible to cure"
once out of control, it won't make a huge difference. With most doctors dead and more patients each day, anything that resists already widely available basic antibiotics would be basically uncurable.
"or gain immunity from"
That's the tricky part, unless you reach your first goal and have eliminated the contaminated from the gene pool.
One key element of that method is that fraud is harder to perform than with other method of biometric identification methods. You leave fingerprints and DNA samples all the time and they are easy to copy or displace, and yet they can and are used as strong evidences in criminal cases. At least, with vein patterns, no one can copy yours from an indirect transfer on a regular surface of from a photo of you.
Some time ago, I read about a good experiment (perhaps the only good one) about rat pathfinding learning.
Basically, rat showed pathfinding abilities, so the reserchers tried to determine what information they used, so they gradually modified their maze to remove any external clue they could think of (odors, lighting, even vibrations) and do the experiment over and over, until the rats had no clue left to differentiate the various parts of the maze and couldn't learn the path anymore, demonstrating that they couldn't learn the path without memorizing hints.
I sure wouldn't want to watch any 60 year movies, just like I wouldn't want to see any last year movie (I bet the ratio of gem to crap hasn't changed that much), I just want to be able to see any of the good (and you must assume I can have a totally unique definition of "good", so technically, I would need to BE ABLE to see any movie, no matter how crappy or unappealing to me it could be) ones from any period of history (and it's not just a theorical rant, I own many DVDs of films or TV shows that are older than I am, and it's the same for music).
Too bad 99% of the lawyers give the other ones a bad name...
That kind of thing exists to a certain extend, for example in The Witcher (the non-humans are persecuted by the humans and have opted for guerilla warfare, while guarding crates of weapons, you are faced with a small group of them who pretend your boss is OK with them (but he didn't mention any expeted visit when describing the job), would you let them take a few crates or kill them?) or Fable II (OK, the second example has a too obvious good/evil dichotomy, but it's fun to play according to the moral values you chosed for yourself).
Well, my DVD player is cheaper than a DVD and I use my TV and stereo system mostly for gaming so I have difficulties to get your point.
And given that I received legal downlaod offers from Atari for two games I already bought and registered and surprisingly none for any of their other games, I'm kinda expecting these morons to unleash their lawyers on me soon.
From what I understood, the concept is to use the magnetic field to contain some plasma in a layer around the structure to protect and use that plasma as a shield against EM radiations.
If I remember well, that name is a chinese masculine name, so no odd spelling but an obvious opportunity for cheap mispronunciation jokes.
"Is that a table of known names vs gender stats based on public records?"
Yes, IRC:
-Guys are guys
-Girls are lonely guys
-Horny preteen girls are FBI agents
see, it's easy.
A few examples in french:
Jean is a masculine name, Claude is unisex, Marie is feminine when used alone, but unisex in counpound names (Jean-Marie is a rather common masculine name, even if tainted since a few decades by a vocal xenophobic populist).
Names like Martin or Justin are masculine, but the english way of speaking them sounds almost exactly like the feminine french version of those names (Martine and Justine).
The real question si not to know if you're right, it is to decide if you are ready to spend 10 years of your short life and risk your marriage and home for that.
That's by far the best news I read in the sad last couple of mounthes.
In my country's law, all HR personnels are explicitely considered members of the direction staff, not regular one. It makes things clearer.
Yes, engineers are good at solving problems, but on wich ones are you going to bet?
1) a couple of ones who are ordered to block all illegal trafic and may lack motivation due to ethical concerns.
2) hundreds of thousands higly motivated to get their pr0n.
And like artists, people who go into coding with the only goal of becoming immensely rich are usually bellow average (and largely delisional).
Absolutely,
Just last saturday, I was at my dad's house and we were playing Mario Kart on his Wii with my nephews (8 and 10 yo), those two little gremlins were responsible for 99% of the swearing during the races.
Anyway, one of few races I lost to them was caused by ther laughters after that dialogue:
10yo: You're stupid!
8yo: He, you're not stupider than I am (pause) sh*t!
"he got 19 Iraqis and Afghanis and attacked the USA"
I presume you mean that "fifteen of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, two from the United Arab Emirates, one from Egypt, and one from Lebanon." (source Wikipedia)
"individuals can't do it, because they'll be arrested and/or shot in the process"
You've got that point wrong. A dedicated individual has a real chance of succesfully using deadly force on any one, no matter how important he is, before being incapacited. Booth and Oswald are only two of many examples.
One man can bring down a tyrant, but he cannot bring down a tyrany.
The RIAA was DIRECTLY not behind this.
One of their goals is to make people associate any music they don't clearly approve with crime, and they are gradualy making it happen.
That's what made me stop playing Two Worlds. At the beginning of the game, even a couple of wolves are a real danger (but that's OK because you can always resurect not to far away), resources are scarce and every level up is really good news so it is really intense, but a dozen hours later, when I first encountered a dragon, I first panicked, ran away, cast all my strongest power up and invocation spells and took my chance, only to be disapointed after almost oneshoting it. Globaly, all the second half of the game was boring dynasty-warrior-with-cheatcode-like one-side slaughter.
My room is a complete mess with lots of books (mostly CS/languages, SF/fantasy novels and comics/manga), music, DVD, video games and electronic stuff, while my office desk is gatacaesque (clean, cleared, ordered and with no visible personal item or decoration), does that mean I'm schisophrenic?
I thought that the most important quality of S. Palin as a republican candidate was to be a mother.
SCO had a huge warchest too. What killed them is that their targets were also rich, organized and motivated. RIAA targets almost always lack at least two of these qualities.