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Which brings up a question to mind:

What about the tea? Does it dwindle down the same road as coffee, or does tea still exist in its natural form?

Ickle Euro Chick hasn't got enough wits to be offended

I had no idea that was a punk song; I was always more into the techno and gothic genres of music.

not necessarily. It might be very productive. it seems that a country can't prior some things without there being another country who priors the same issue but more, and to get someplace faster. Like the moon. Humanity wouldn't have gotten there hadn't it been for the Soviet/USA state of the world at the time.

water on Mars may also be crucial to whether a mars base can be established or not... though the amounts of water, and it's temperature, are surely less and lower than earths.

I'm completely nuts about Chicken Run, for some reason... Sombre, eh?

You wouldn't want to fingerprint everyone like that, because it's a violation of integrity on a person. Also there is the risk of it turning into a question of whether you are rich or poor: the rich people will buy themselves out of the ordeal, whereas poor people can afford no such thing.

Also, what to make of the people who decide to give birth in their homes? Do you take the genesampling facilities there (ok I know you only need a tiny bitta skin for it, but all the same)?

It would be impractical and devastating as many people would find ways to get behind/through the laws, and we'd have a status quo. catch my drift?

*does the "get-to-be-first-reader" dance* ^___^

thanks, i'm indulging in it already.

Oh, you know where to find me if you want something read, however, I'd rather have it in .pdf or .doc, as I find those more comfortable to read than I find the forum view.

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I suppose I'm the only one who considers Star Trek a stereotypical, slightly ridiculous and uninteresting sf series?

TV.: The News, The Late News, The Local News, The Morning News

Movie.: Ghost in the Shell, CYbercity OEDO (because it's cute!), Clockwork Orange and Brazil

Anime: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gasaraki, Infinite Ryvius and Vandread.

The giood thing with a world run byu the market, and only market (ie all politicians <zip> gone), would be that at least there'd be no hypocrisy with who follows human rights and that. because the makret works exclusively for their own profit and everybody knows it so no one could wuestion a decision made for the profit of the market. In simplistic views, that's the easiest way to go.

Saddam still deserves to be alive. He should be forced to read and study a lot. I think he also has a great understanding for things such as how international politics works and could be a great co-writer of an analysis of the worlds current political state, together with Rumsfeldt, Putin and Gerhard Schröder.

aye, but i'm upset about it clicnically, because it is not equivalent with putting inside the body alien technology, but it's just putting in a wobbly mass of presumably something containing Si. To me, that appears as if legal issues should not be directed against the two different things in a bunch, but rather that cybernetical implant should in that case have its own paragraph in the legislation.

I don't know, perhaps I'm ever the only one who's bothered with it.

But sure. sure, you know, I have nothing at all against people doing whatever they want to do, I just don't want them to get along with it while I can still see it, hear it, know about it or in any way be forced to acknowledge it happening.

*treats everyone to a virtual chinese new year dinner*

I only know the Shinnen part of the Japanses New year phrase. I can write it though *demonstrates with a few swift movements of the hand*

Watashi wa usagi no toshi de haerimashita desu kara usagichan no kaku wa. Shinnen omoshiroite desu ne.

with reservationg for bad grammar.

then you, rockwolf, i owe you big-time

That was one of the best things on literature I've read in this forum... Gave me something to think about. I owe you gratitude if nothing else.

Hey, leftist hippie isn't something you accuse others of being! It's a title that you EARN!! *does a hippie influenced war dance around the christmas tree*

According to Swedish law, I am of age, and I still find it revolting. Then again, that may be because of me, rather than the (dis)prudency of others.

No, Chastity, I say, Chastity! *adapts quavering voice and Martin Luther King stance*

I have a great short story that I think you should read... Cyberpunks by Bruce Bethke. It's not a book or anything, but still, it is the first written story to use the term "cyberpunks"  and therefore it counts as something I suppose.

Cyberpunk - Bruce Bethke

COlonialism, as anything else, is ambiguous, and will show different sides depending on from what perspective you view it. It ain't all that bad considering many of the colonialised countries actually recieved much development due to the colonists (in for example Africa, that was the case, and the post-colonial times have been brewing with war and military regimes).

In the Arab states the political effects may have been others.

But what I do believe, is that bombs will never solve any conflict, and that the current bombings of the Middle East can not bring anything good with them regardless of who does them. It only so happens that the majority of the European countries are against the bombings, therefore I am on "their side". US foreign politics is far too much about the gaining of interests for their own companies, too little about the welfare of the population at the site, and also they are negligent and ignorant of international agreements.

The US has not once made an effort to fulfill their part of the deal in the Kyoto thingie, albeit they were with the it was constituted. They also do not pay their fees to the UN, and are one of the few countries in the world that keep a nuclear weapon arsenal, despite the US being the country that has most of all propagated for the removal of nuclear weapons from all countries.

They have a double-sided morale which I find hard to cope with. Simple as that.

AGH! He's got me *beats with a stick* let me go, you <bad word> you!

Good point.

In my case, don't take me wrong. I really don't have anything against Americans: some of the nicest people I've known are from America... It's just that I do not like the way they have too much power over world politics.

And also their idealogy crashes with mine. Which is also a bad thing. And I think they put too much effort in the preservation of their own influential position, rather than using the fact that they DO have power to do something remotely good, such as not supporting the Israeli armed force against Palestinians, or not bombing the Middle East back to the Dark Ages.

In many ways it was better when there was still a counterpool for the US (Soviet Union). At least for world politics. I doubt that the Russians were really feeling any good under the commie regime, but on the other hand, what with the economic collapse they're probably still feeling quiet awkward.

With my bitterness towards the US in mind, I still think the Hague would be the right way to go. To have only US court judge Saddam would be to let a partial instance be wholly responsible for the verdict.

The Hague is at least in some respects a federation, and will therefore be a better place for this dispute to be settled.

Either parts of a war should not be allowed to judge i participant in the war itself.

Non taken. I believe it is rather good to be liberated of all cynical quirks that will assuredly come with age anyway. I want to keep my mind naïve and free of cynism for as long as I can manage. My beautiful youth is already deteriorating.

ew... there are minors visiting this site you know >.<

I think the problem is rather that people get promoted, but have so many bureaucratic new problems to solve that their geniousity no longer gets space to evolve. That's why people in the lower ranks generally have better ideas than the rest of them.

I find no words.

I'm reading the Difference Engine by Gibson/Sterling. Is there anyone other than me who've been struck by the fact, that had it been published about 100 years earlier it would have been the cyberpunk of the time, and that it still poses of some sort of potential cyberpunkial conspiracy from back then?