The congresscritters are owned by lobbyists at this point, without question. Lock, stock, and barrel.
Even if things don't go the way they want, they'll just keep introducing legislation to try and get what their masters want. CISPA is the most blatant example of this.
Really? Have your shoes not been staying tied when you tie them? Have they been constantly catching on anything you walk past since you were able to tie them yourself?
No?
Then maybe everyone should stop praising this talk as the goddamn second coming.
I thought it was because when you hit thirty or so you're going to find that your joints are going to protest all those push-ups in basic in a big way.
I'd be happy to. But the people who are up there making these laws are the people who are trying to force through CISPA for the third or fourth time now.
We can't make any laws like this until we get someone good in there. We can't get someone good in there until we start breaking it open. We can't start breaking it open until we can pass laws like this.
Oh please, Mr. Anonymous, share with us your wisdom as to how we can get someone who is a viable option to remove these lobbying problems from our government. Tell me who we can elect that has the means to run a successful campaign without accepting lobbying money and who will be an incorruptible politician!
That's the point; if you cannot treat them as people then you cannot define them as people and you need to hold accountable the chain of command responsible for the decisions that were made, so that higher level personnel cannot simply insulate themselves from such bad decisions. If you can treat them as people, then do with their property what the government does with the property of inmates. Though I look forward to someone telling me how a corporation can serve a prison sentence for fraud.
Because then any babies that are not designer babies will become second class citizens. For instance, the scenario posited by the movie Gattaca.
The real dangers here is that it could eventually cause the designer part of the species to form a new subspecies of homo sapiens. Or perhaps accidentally engineer out something that could (in theory) allow non-engineered humans to resist a disease or some other sort of thing that would cause them harm, though that is far less likely.
Is it bad that I initially misread this as omni-science, rather than being all-knowing? I could probably do quite a bit with a sufficiently advanced technology...
Anyway, if I am omnipotent I can make myself omniscient. And after I decide to lift the stone I've made that's too heavy for me to lift because omnipotence trumps logic and causality, I'll make a new version of humanity where the components are not quite so prone to unfortunate errors, breakage, and purported design flaws. Still going to leave mortality in there and make allowance for the postmortem existence and transfer of consciousness to another plane of reality. Heck, might even make it so you can shuffle back and forth from time to time, we'll call it reincarnation.
I'll just make sure that there's solid, unquestionable proof of it.
It's what they want. But he doesn't sign an executive order about it for the same reason that Congress doesn't bring up contempt charges for people who lie to them. They WANT to be lied to. They want to turn a blind eye to it all.
Why the hell should they even CARE? What the coders drink is not their business. It's unprofessional to bring a drink in to a meeting unless it was assumed to be that informal, perhaps, but otherwise...
Yes, how dare you make a personal choice about something that does not align to the interests of the people who are paying you to do something totally unrelated to this personal choice.
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You'd get a Nobel prize for medicine.
You really do not understand how complex the human brain is, do you?
The congresscritters are owned by lobbyists at this point, without question. Lock, stock, and barrel.
Even if things don't go the way they want, they'll just keep introducing legislation to try and get what their masters want. CISPA is the most blatant example of this.
Sure, you just need to get the shark to eat someone wearing the man-portable version.
Really? Have your shoes not been staying tied when you tie them? Have they been constantly catching on anything you walk past since you were able to tie them yourself?
No?
Then maybe everyone should stop praising this talk as the goddamn second coming.
I thought it was because when you hit thirty or so you're going to find that your joints are going to protest all those push-ups in basic in a big way.
Because without Superman, Lois Lane's stupidity kills her, duh.
Even Lex Luthor can't fix stupid.
Probably the same sort of people who were making anime music videos of Linkin Park and Hellsing.
...a ripoff.
...and nothing on. The Boss said it well.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
What a coincidence, I've got an apple pie recipe that says the same thing.
I'd be happy to. But the people who are up there making these laws are the people who are trying to force through CISPA for the third or fourth time now.
We can't make any laws like this until we get someone good in there. We can't get someone good in there until we start breaking it open. We can't start breaking it open until we can pass laws like this.
Oh please, Mr. Anonymous, share with us your wisdom as to how we can get someone who is a viable option to remove these lobbying problems from our government. Tell me who we can elect that has the means to run a successful campaign without accepting lobbying money and who will be an incorruptible politician!
If you actually used that sentence in public they'd have you committed.
That's the point; if you cannot treat them as people then you cannot define them as people and you need to hold accountable the chain of command responsible for the decisions that were made, so that higher level personnel cannot simply insulate themselves from such bad decisions. If you can treat them as people, then do with their property what the government does with the property of inmates. Though I look forward to someone telling me how a corporation can serve a prison sentence for fraud.
Then treat them like one.
Oh, X corporation is responsible for the deaths of X people? Looks like a serial killer to me, execute the corporation.
Someone who has mod points today and has been involved with a union saw this and went 'how dare you badmouth unions', probably.
Because then any babies that are not designer babies will become second class citizens. For instance, the scenario posited by the movie Gattaca.
The real dangers here is that it could eventually cause the designer part of the species to form a new subspecies of homo sapiens. Or perhaps accidentally engineer out something that could (in theory) allow non-engineered humans to resist a disease or some other sort of thing that would cause them harm, though that is far less likely.
Who are you?
Who ARE you?
What do you WANT?
How did you get in my HOUSE?!
Is it bad that I initially misread this as omni-science, rather than being all-knowing? I could probably do quite a bit with a sufficiently advanced technology...
Anyway, if I am omnipotent I can make myself omniscient. And after I decide to lift the stone I've made that's too heavy for me to lift because omnipotence trumps logic and causality, I'll make a new version of humanity where the components are not quite so prone to unfortunate errors, breakage, and purported design flaws. Still going to leave mortality in there and make allowance for the postmortem existence and transfer of consciousness to another plane of reality. Heck, might even make it so you can shuffle back and forth from time to time, we'll call it reincarnation.
I'll just make sure that there's solid, unquestionable proof of it.
Give me omnipotence and I'd be happy to take care of that for you.
BRB, deleting everything from my dropbox and discontinuing service.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
It's what they want. But he doesn't sign an executive order about it for the same reason that Congress doesn't bring up contempt charges for people who lie to them. They WANT to be lied to. They want to turn a blind eye to it all.
Why the hell should they even CARE? What the coders drink is not their business. It's unprofessional to bring a drink in to a meeting unless it was assumed to be that informal, perhaps, but otherwise...
Yes, how dare you make a personal choice about something that does not align to the interests of the people who are paying you to do something totally unrelated to this personal choice.