Aspirin can cure my headache, complete and total knowledge of the functioning of the human body and its interactions with the environment gives me all manner of surprising abilities, with clinical immortality being one of the least surprising ones.
How about you spend enough time at a 9 to 5 job to build up enough money for you to start your own business doing what you really love. You run it long enough for that you build up a good team that you can leave it to, and just check in every now and them, rinse, repeat.
Basically, most immortals will live their lives like Richard Branson does now. Do what you want once you have built up enough capital to support yourself.
If the world does become overcroweded, you have a giant workforce of people with hundreds or THOUSANDS of years of experience who can apply that experience to settling space. This will happen organically, without the need for outside intervention because that is how an economy works.
Take money to build infrastructure, lobby for more regulation to prevent competition, lobby to ban Google from becoming an ISP under anti-Trust legislation, stop taking money, do whatever the fuck they want.
This is what will happen, guaranteed. This is why fascism is bad, no matter what they say to try to sell you on it, kiddos.
Foreign deployments are not legitimate. We need the Coast Guard and the army. The nuclear sub fleet and their nuclear deterrent can be transferred to the coast guard, and the army focuses on maintenance of the land based nuclear deterrent, with the air force folded in there as well. Security of shipping lanes can be handled by a renewed merchant marine (ie allow merchant ships to be armed to whatever extent they like).
You don't need a big standing army when you have nukes. With no big armies anywhere, wars of all descriptions become less likely. A small special forces would be enough to deal with non-state threats.
Exactly. I chose to live in an area that doesn't have broadband, and paid $3000 to have a T1 line installed to my house, and pay an ungodly amount for the monthly service fee. It would be nice if one of the local wireless carriers would upgrade one of their towers to cover my house (my neighbors on all sides get signal, but not me), but I don't think my neighbors should be forced to collectively pay MORE than I am paying now to supply me with signal, especially given that it would certainly be lower quality than the service I am getting now. If the cost gets to be too much, I will move. Simple as that.
How many could be helped if the same amount were spent elsewhere? Let's say that people were taxed at the same rate, but got to choose where the tax went. They could give it to any charity, or they could spend it on goods and services to help improve the economy and their own living situation.
They have their own problems they don't want to face, like the fact that their continent is falling apart as their socialist and fascist policies have destroyed their economy such that nothing is left but the facade, and that is starting to break apart.
No, good is good, and bad is bad, and conflation of the two is also bad. That's me. You, on the other hand, are a sniveling little beetle of a man, just the kind that Orwell predicted would thrive in his distopian society.
Yeah, but they can't, and attempts to do so have brought Google into the ISP business, something that has completely and totally doomed their business model.
Whoops.
And all without the need for governments to clamp down on everyone and say "CHANGE IST VERBOTEN!"
The "clean stuff" has very high capital and marginal costs that can't be supported by a non-industrial country, even when the technology already exists elsewhere.
The only way I can see to have a clean industrial revolution is abundant clean energy, and the only method I know of that can deliver that even in theory is LFTR technology. Not coincidentally, China is the nation now leading the charge in developing LFTR tech. Once they get it, they will be far and away the world's greatest superpower, and we will be left in the dust--unless they are kind masters, and let us have a few reactors to provide cheap power for ourselves.
Note that it is over-regulation of anything with the word "nuclear" in it that has prevented us from developing that tech right here, from fear of nuclear meltdown, even when such a thing is physically impossible with the new design.
Comedy aside, firebombing was aimed directly at the civilian population, which is a war crime. The war crimes of the Japanese military do not excuse the US for their war crimes. Some might see it as just deserts, but guess what!? People are separate individuals! Collective punishment is also a war crime!
You don't "let" telcos form monopolies, governments GRANT them monopolies. They invent stupid ideas like the concept of a "utility", and make themselves look important so they can claim to save people money by preventing double or triple redundancy in infrastructure. Something that when you think about it, is really fucking stupid, given that our totally non-redundant infrastructure is so damn vulnerable to single point failure. That is beside the point of stifling of innovation.
Yes, you can have freedom without net neutrality. We've had net freedom since forever, and no-one started talking about net neutrality until a couple of years ago.
You want to see what internet freedom is about? Wait until Google Fiber destroys the business model of existing ISPs, and watch as they clamor to adopt the new one lest they be left in the dust.
But more likely is that they will hop on the net neutrality bandwagon in exchange for protection of their current market share from threats like Google. And the end result of that would most assuredly be status quo for the US, except that everyone else continues to advance. This is one facet of the un-plan that will create third world America.
I was both, and I can say with certainty that you are absolutely right. Rand Paul looks like he is going to fold over just like Dean did after he got his position as chairman.
This is why I am moving my family out of this country. I will be following once I have saved a predetermined amount of money, or when these idiots make it impossible for me to save any more money.
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Because 99% of people are idiots, as shown in the above poll.
Aspirin can cure my headache, complete and total knowledge of the functioning of the human body and its interactions with the environment gives me all manner of surprising abilities, with clinical immortality being one of the least surprising ones.
How about you spend enough time at a 9 to 5 job to build up enough money for you to start your own business doing what you really love. You run it long enough for that you build up a good team that you can leave it to, and just check in every now and them, rinse, repeat.
Basically, most immortals will live their lives like Richard Branson does now. Do what you want once you have built up enough capital to support yourself.
If the world does become overcroweded, you have a giant workforce of people with hundreds or THOUSANDS of years of experience who can apply that experience to settling space. This will happen organically, without the need for outside intervention because that is how an economy works.
"That candy bar should be MINE! It's a human right! Anyone who disagrees wants us all to starve!"
Take money to build infrastructure, lobby for more regulation to prevent competition, lobby to ban Google from becoming an ISP under anti-Trust legislation, stop taking money, do whatever the fuck they want.
This is what will happen, guaranteed. This is why fascism is bad, no matter what they say to try to sell you on it, kiddos.
Foreign deployments are not legitimate. We need the Coast Guard and the army. The nuclear sub fleet and their nuclear deterrent can be transferred to the coast guard, and the army focuses on maintenance of the land based nuclear deterrent, with the air force folded in there as well. Security of shipping lanes can be handled by a renewed merchant marine (ie allow merchant ships to be armed to whatever extent they like).
You don't need a big standing army when you have nukes. With no big armies anywhere, wars of all descriptions become less likely. A small special forces would be enough to deal with non-state threats.
Exactly. I chose to live in an area that doesn't have broadband, and paid $3000 to have a T1 line installed to my house, and pay an ungodly amount for the monthly service fee. It would be nice if one of the local wireless carriers would upgrade one of their towers to cover my house (my neighbors on all sides get signal, but not me), but I don't think my neighbors should be forced to collectively pay MORE than I am paying now to supply me with signal, especially given that it would certainly be lower quality than the service I am getting now. If the cost gets to be too much, I will move. Simple as that.
How many could be helped if the same amount were spent elsewhere? Let's say that people were taxed at the same rate, but got to choose where the tax went. They could give it to any charity, or they could spend it on goods and services to help improve the economy and their own living situation.
They have their own problems they don't want to face, like the fact that their continent is falling apart as their socialist and fascist policies have destroyed their economy such that nothing is left but the facade, and that is starting to break apart.
Half of India's population is now in the middle class.
It's about time to throw out the old preconceptions about the rising powers of China and India. They simply aren't true any more.
You're right, they just gun them down in the streets like dogs from attack helicopters.
Slavery is against the law. But then, governments have a tendency to think themselves above the law in general.
And yes, it is my place to decide on transparency, you fucking neo-Nazi apologist.
No, good is good, and bad is bad, and conflation of the two is also bad. That's me. You, on the other hand, are a sniveling little beetle of a man, just the kind that Orwell predicted would thrive in his distopian society.
May your chains rest lightly upon you.
America is doing evil things. Those who do evil things deserve to die.
Fuck trust. How about transparency?
If that is all you want, then you could easily make your own gun for like $10. You need a pipe, a paperclip and a rubber band.
Yes, grey unto black, you bloody fool. Your kind of thought has brought the US from the land of the free to a police state.
You can have it.
Yeah, but they can't, and attempts to do so have brought Google into the ISP business, something that has completely and totally doomed their business model.
Whoops.
And all without the need for governments to clamp down on everyone and say "CHANGE IST VERBOTEN!"
The "clean stuff" has very high capital and marginal costs that can't be supported by a non-industrial country, even when the technology already exists elsewhere.
The only way I can see to have a clean industrial revolution is abundant clean energy, and the only method I know of that can deliver that even in theory is LFTR technology. Not coincidentally, China is the nation now leading the charge in developing LFTR tech. Once they get it, they will be far and away the world's greatest superpower, and we will be left in the dust--unless they are kind masters, and let us have a few reactors to provide cheap power for ourselves.
Note that it is over-regulation of anything with the word "nuclear" in it that has prevented us from developing that tech right here, from fear of nuclear meltdown, even when such a thing is physically impossible with the new design.
I think Eddie Izzard can explain your error:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_pHZmn5QM
Comedy aside, firebombing was aimed directly at the civilian population, which is a war crime. The war crimes of the Japanese military do not excuse the US for their war crimes. Some might see it as just deserts, but guess what!? People are separate individuals! Collective punishment is also a war crime!
You don't "let" telcos form monopolies, governments GRANT them monopolies. They invent stupid ideas like the concept of a "utility", and make themselves look important so they can claim to save people money by preventing double or triple redundancy in infrastructure. Something that when you think about it, is really fucking stupid, given that our totally non-redundant infrastructure is so damn vulnerable to single point failure. That is beside the point of stifling of innovation.
What, you want rising nations like China to have a say in how the Internet works?
Yes, you can have freedom without net neutrality. We've had net freedom since forever, and no-one started talking about net neutrality until a couple of years ago.
You want to see what internet freedom is about? Wait until Google Fiber destroys the business model of existing ISPs, and watch as they clamor to adopt the new one lest they be left in the dust.
But more likely is that they will hop on the net neutrality bandwagon in exchange for protection of their current market share from threats like Google. And the end result of that would most assuredly be status quo for the US, except that everyone else continues to advance. This is one facet of the un-plan that will create third world America.
Doesn't matter. As commander in chief, he can close it with a penstroke. Dump em all in Somalia if no-one else will take them.
I was both, and I can say with certainty that you are absolutely right. Rand Paul looks like he is going to fold over just like Dean did after he got his position as chairman.
This is why I am moving my family out of this country. I will be following once I have saved a predetermined amount of money, or when these idiots make it impossible for me to save any more money.
Girls, girls, you're both stupid and ugly.