Moreover, I can't see how it can be economically intersting. -Cloning is feasible, but still far more expensive and less reliable than the classical techniques (get sperm from bulls, insert into cows at the right moment). It is still uncommon for race horses, so how could it be done for millions of cheap cows. -The meat may be potentially better, but I bet that how the cows are fed and taken care of is an order of magnitude more important. -The meat may be potentially better, but people won't pay more for a kind of meat they're afraid of. The only good solution for the producer will be to sell it at the same price without mentionning it was cloned. -Health issues could be identified easier, but any single lucky virus can kill all your cows in a couple of days once it has learned the immune pattern it is fighting against. Remember that the first living creatures were cloning themselves, then came the sexual reproduction that is now standard for multicellular organisms because it was better.
Therefore I really don't expect the end of traditionnal low cost breeding.
Tropico somehow matches this economically driven interface. You can directly interract on some points with your guys (like murder an opposition leader), but your main actions is to create and configure workplaces and homes and let the people manage their career and leisure.
However, the problem in that game is the same as the simcities, it's not much the number of clicks but the long periods in which you just don't have anything too do.
The weather is more than OK in Nice, but everything is overpriced, the water isn't that clean, there is too much concrete on most beaches and it is our little Florida: too many old people who came here to die in a warm place and far too much organized crime. Not the french city I'd like to go on vacation.
Reminds me of that old joke telling that a quick computation on the evolution of this distance placed the moon 4 meters away from the earth 65 million years ago and thus explained why the dinausors died....at least the tallest ones.
Wether a terrorist attacked was tharted or not, the outcome is a massive chaos in airports, huge losses for the compagnies and PITA for travellers and a key member of the british government publically saying it is OK to reduce individual rights (whereas the alleged thwart was performed using regular investigation means). So I would still call it a fair success for the terrorists.
How killing instead of locking him away a molester after he committed his crimes prevents more victims? Moreover, as you said, many molesters are former victims, so although I accept that these people are too dangerous to be left loose, some of these people are ill and society is guilty of not having taken care of them in the first place. I therefore consider than the death penalty in those cases is an acknoledgment of failure.
There is no proof that death penalty helps reducing crimes, most non-US developped countries do not use it anymore and they suffer from less murder, although I think that their lower handgun to people ratio has more to do with that. Crimes happen, period. Depending on their cause, you can reduce their rates, but not that much. Although the likehood of spending years in jail may stop a planned crime base on greed, there is nothing you can do anymore when the crime is commited by a person is situation of extreme hate or mental illness.
And to conclude, it is well known that a fair proportion of the executed people were chosen almost randomly by the police after an extremely short investigation because the crime was so horrible that the families and the opinion wanted too hard someone to be guilty. Justice comes from the truth, not from the hate.
I still wonder how someone can call himself christian and accept death penalty. If you really read the bible, you see that the "eye for an eye" is one of those old barbaric ways that Moise and Jesus were supposed to have whiped out.
There is also the boudist idea that your soul is immortal and is one of the few that managed to slowly evolve from the mineral kind to the vegetal and the animal over hundred of million years.
Maybe, on the other hand, taxes are also what make black market cigarettes interesting. If they can't compete with the criminal organisations, it may not be wise to play on their field.
Of course, but there is a big difference between having a non-null percentage of the items being lucky and making sure one particular document has 99.9% of chances of being readable in X centuries without distributing millions of copies. Among many others, Boeing uses this method to store its planes technical documentation.
You may be right on a technical level, but I doubt that you'll find many compatible home electric devices until a significant proportion of homes are equiped, and since those homes will have to keep the AC for obvious reasons, the high initial cost for initially marginal gain makes me believe very few people will want to go that way. OTH, standardized 3.3, 5 and/or 12V DC outlets could be useful to get rid of all those AC->DC blocks we get with every peripheral and this could be sold as a simple power strip to plug into a standard AC outlet and so be inexpensive.
And you forgot all those fine sidequests, that there are not many generic heal/boost potions but rather charms made out of various animal parts (rats, flies...) and even items made out of your own body parts, that the sidekicks characters also had a very good background (a truly burnt out magician, a cleric who lost his faith, a robot who found a 2 in his world of 0 and 1s...), that you could talk your way out of most quests and that even when you had to fight a boss, he was much more than just a big fighter. Yes, it was dark, poetic and intelligent, but it was also balanced (there was no real need for level up) and entertaining. Truly a couple of leagues better than any beatiful but boring Myst clone/sequel.
ID more or less created the FPS genre 15 years ago and it was good for their business. Now everyone, including ID, is doing crappy FPS because that is what is supposed to sell. Try to innovate from time to time, maybe you'll fail (for major studio, it should not be that a big deal) but it the long run, it's the only way out of slow decay.
Not as a computer, but several major ISP provide ADSL routers that also work as a media center (you can record ADSL TV or transfer files from your PC). It comes free with the ADSL subscription and is much more convinient than an media PC. And yes, mine runs linux.
"I would say that anywhere we find liquid water, we will find life."
No, the only logical conclusion to your post is "anywhere we find life, we are very likely to find abundant liquid water". To be honest, it doesn't help that much...
Ther may be tons of copies of any semi-cultural stuff right now, but almost any of them will be unreadable in a couple of centuries. I'm not talking about DRM (I they have the technology to recreate a device to read it, cracking it won't be too hard), but about CD rot and similar decay of HD and flashs over time.
Now in France, it is illegal to distribute creative-commons music, no matter how. If you do so without passing through the SACEM (french RIAA) or a major, you theorically risk 3 years.
I would say spotting the big 2000A power cable handling in the air (along with the stupid green dog switching it from an outlet to the next one) should be easy.
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Moreover, I can't see how it can be economically intersting.
-Cloning is feasible, but still far more expensive and less reliable than the classical techniques (get sperm from bulls, insert into cows at the right moment). It is still uncommon for race horses, so how could it be done for millions of cheap cows.
-The meat may be potentially better, but I bet that how the cows are fed and taken care of is an order of magnitude more important.
-The meat may be potentially better, but people won't pay more for a kind of meat they're afraid of. The only good solution for the producer will be to sell it at the same price without mentionning it was cloned.
-Health issues could be identified easier, but any single lucky virus can kill all your cows in a couple of days once it has learned the immune pattern it is fighting against. Remember that the first living creatures were cloning themselves, then came the sexual reproduction that is now standard for multicellular organisms because it was better.
Therefore I really don't expect the end of traditionnal low cost breeding.
Tropico somehow matches this economically driven interface. You can directly interract on some points with your guys (like murder an opposition leader), but your main actions is to create and configure workplaces and homes and let the people manage their career and leisure.
However, the problem in that game is the same as the simcities, it's not much the number of clicks but the long periods in which you just don't have anything too do.
But they blocked FTP for security reasons. It's always funny to ask a supplier to send their new library to my webmail.
A beowulf country of happy republican slaves.
Maybe that is enough to make the neocons believe in genetics.
The weather is more than OK in Nice, but everything is overpriced, the water isn't that clean, there is too much concrete on most beaches and it is our little Florida: too many old people who came here to die in a warm place and far too much organized crime.
Not the french city I'd like to go on vacation.
...oh well, forget it, it's still a moon.
...at least the tallest ones.
Reminds me of that old joke telling that a quick computation on the evolution of this distance placed the moon 4 meters away from the earth 65 million years ago and thus explained why the dinausors died.
Wether a terrorist attacked was tharted or not, the outcome is a massive chaos in airports, huge losses for the compagnies and PITA for travellers and a key member of the british government publically saying it is OK to reduce individual rights (whereas the alleged thwart was performed using regular investigation means). So I would still call it a fair success for the terrorists.
I'm not sure I get all your points.
How killing instead of locking him away a molester after he committed his crimes prevents more victims? Moreover, as you said, many molesters are former victims, so although I accept that these people are too dangerous to be left loose, some of these people are ill and society is guilty of not having taken care of them in the first place. I therefore consider than the death penalty in those cases is an acknoledgment of failure.
There is no proof that death penalty helps reducing crimes, most non-US developped countries do not use it anymore and they suffer from less murder, although I think that their lower handgun to people ratio has more to do with that. Crimes happen, period. Depending on their cause, you can reduce their rates, but not that much. Although the likehood of spending years in jail may stop a planned crime base on greed, there is nothing you can do anymore when the crime is commited by a person is situation of extreme hate or mental illness.
And to conclude, it is well known that a fair proportion of the executed people were chosen almost randomly by the police after an extremely short investigation because the crime was so horrible that the families and the opinion wanted too hard someone to be guilty. Justice comes from the truth, not from the hate.
It's not just science.
I still wonder how someone can call himself christian and accept death penalty. If you really read the bible, you see that the "eye for an eye" is one of those old barbaric ways that Moise and Jesus were supposed to have whiped out.
There is also the boudist idea that your soul is immortal and is one of the few that managed to slowly evolve from the mineral kind to the vegetal and the animal over hundred of million years.
Maybe, on the other hand, taxes are also what make black market cigarettes interesting. If they can't compete with the criminal organisations, it may not be wise to play on their field.
Tech isn't the key factor, the money has always been.
Tech is just a way to spend theit unlimited budget and pretend they are useful.
Of course, but there is a big difference between having a non-null percentage of the items being lucky and making sure one particular document has 99.9% of chances of being readable in X centuries without distributing millions of copies.
Among many others, Boeing uses this method to store its planes technical documentation.
as long as they keep some footage of whalers.
Carving text or hexa strings into rock or glass is unfortunately the only reasonably safe way of storing data for over a century.
You may be right on a technical level, but I doubt that you'll find many compatible home electric devices until a significant proportion of homes are equiped, and since those homes will have to keep the AC for obvious reasons, the high initial cost for initially marginal gain makes me believe very few people will want to go that way. OTH, standardized 3.3, 5 and/or 12V DC outlets could be useful to get rid of all those AC->DC blocks we get with every peripheral and this could be sold as a simple power strip to plug into a standard AC outlet and so be inexpensive.
And you forgot all those fine sidequests, that there are not many generic heal/boost potions but rather charms made out of various animal parts (rats, flies...) and even items made out of your own body parts, that the sidekicks characters also had a very good background (a truly burnt out magician, a cleric who lost his faith, a robot who found a 2 in his world of 0 and 1s...), that you could talk your way out of most quests and that even when you had to fight a boss, he was much more than just a big fighter.
Yes, it was dark, poetic and intelligent, but it was also balanced (there was no real need for level up) and entertaining. Truly a couple of leagues better than any beatiful but boring Myst clone/sequel.
ID more or less created the FPS genre 15 years ago and it was good for their business. Now everyone, including ID, is doing crappy FPS because that is what is supposed to sell.
Try to innovate from time to time, maybe you'll fail (for major studio, it should not be that a big deal) but it the long run, it's the only way out of slow decay.
Not as a computer, but several major ISP provide ADSL routers that also work as a media center (you can record ADSL TV or transfer files from your PC). It comes free with the ADSL subscription and is much more convinient than an media PC.
And yes, mine runs linux.
"I would say that anywhere we find liquid water, we will find life."
No, the only logical conclusion to your post is "anywhere we find life, we are very likely to find abundant liquid water". To be honest, it doesn't help that much...
Ther may be tons of copies of any semi-cultural stuff right now, but almost any of them will be unreadable in a couple of centuries. I'm not talking about DRM (I they have the technology to recreate a device to read it, cracking it won't be too hard), but about CD rot and similar decay of HD and flashs over time.
Now in France, it is illegal to distribute creative-commons music, no matter how. If you do so without passing through the SACEM (french RIAA) or a major, you theorically risk 3 years.
I would say spotting the big 2000A power cable handling in the air (along with the stupid green dog switching it from an outlet to the next one) should be easy.
Or by Tornado, as I bet most homes have a vaccum cleaner.
But I know 320*240 on a cellphone camera image was lame 3 years ago.