Explorer Bill Stone: "The traditional approach to space exploration has been to carry all the fuel you need, and to carry everybody back in case of emergency. But to prime the pump that will take us beyond, boldness is required: the first expeditionary team must travel to the Moon without the fuel to come back, and produce it there. It can be done in 7 years, and I intend to lead that expedition. There was a time when people did bold things to open new frontiers. We have collectively forgotten that. Now we are at a time when boldness is required again."
Medievalizing Biotech Regulation
It turns out that the proposed agency is largely just a vehicle for Fukuyama to impose his moral choices on other people. What Fukuyama is proposing is a step backward to the bad old days in which strangers get to vote on what kind of children their fellow citizens will be allowed to bring into the world. A government bureaucracy, rather than parents, would get to make eugenic decisions. As the sorry history of attempts to regulate human reproduction shows, the truly moral thing to do is fiercely resist this proposal.
Left and right defined the 20th century. What's next?
The political systems inherited from the 20th century, whether democratic or totalitarian, are neo-feudal, incompatible with a 21st century when electors vote every so many years, but consumers vote and bloggers blog 24/7.
Piratismi hallitsee online-musiikkimarkkinoita 99.6% markkinaosuudella
-- piratismi hallitsee musiikin verkkolevitystä murskaavan ylivoimaisesti - noin 99.6% markkinaosuudella verrattuna laillisen musiikkikaupan neljän promillen osuuteen. Nämä luvut asettavat musiikkiteollisuuden antipiratismi-propagandan terveeseen perspektiiviin. Piratismi ei ole musiikkikulttuurin kannalta suinkaan mikään marginaalinen ilmiö, joka nakertaa laillisen musiikkikaupan kannattavuutta. Todellisuudessa ns. laillinen musiikkikauppa on itse täysin marginaalinen ilmiö musiikin leviämisen kannalta --
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