Coming from a pure firehose perspective, having a consumer of the firehose comes with a cost. It is not like the hose is pouring info into the ether and people stand under the spray. When someone attaches to the firehose it create a separate hose connection. The data flowing through that hose connection to the consumer has a network bandwidth cost. How much that cost is will depend on the total amount of firehose consumed. IMHO, I would assume that the snoops will have that hose in wide open, 24/7 mode. Depending on the size of the draw (one listening process, 5000 listening processes) the bandwidth cost can get huge.
the problem with removing anti-social gene traits (by removing those with behavior markers) is that you lose the brilliance exhibited by people who have managed to come to terms with them, or at least co-exist with them, most often artists ...
no more alcoholic traits? - goodbye Dlyan Thomas
no more depression traits? - goodbye Van Gogh
no more propensity for deafness? - goodbye Mozart, Beethoven
The mark of a society is more about the ability for it to absorb and develop its differences, not eliminate of them. I see nothing wrong with the recognition that a person is born with a behavioral marker, but the person should not then be saddled with the expectation of marker appearance, let alone be removed from the gene pool on the off chance.
ugh. This AC must be a Monsanto rep/voice/lobbyist. Just because you come up with a way to make money and can fend off people who don't like that way you do it doesn't mean that it is okay to do. The whole point of a society is that it has a notion of social conscience. When a company like Monsanto destroys natural seed gene pools (Corn in South America) while suing out of existence farmers who have had GM seeds wind carried onto their property, then they need to be held accountable. If the rules were as simple as you wish them to be, there would be no law, and no social conscience. And therefore no society. There again the mere fact that you are hiding behind the Anonymous Coward way of posting here leads me to believe you are either under the age of consent, or a lackey for Monsanto.
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Piping Data has a cost
Coming from a pure firehose perspective, having a consumer of the firehose comes with a cost. It is not like the hose is pouring info into the ether and people stand under the spray. When someone attaches to the firehose it create a separate hose connection. The data flowing through that hose connection to the consumer has a network bandwidth cost. How much that cost is will depend on the total amount of firehose consumed. IMHO, I would assume that the snoops will have that hose in wide open, 24/7 mode. Depending on the size of the draw (one listening process, 5000 listening processes) the bandwidth cost can get huge.
goodbye art
the problem with removing anti-social gene traits (by removing those with behavior markers) is that you lose the brilliance exhibited by people who have managed to come to terms with them, or at least co-exist with them, most often artists ...
no more alcoholic traits? - goodbye Dlyan Thomas
no more depression traits? - goodbye Van Gogh
no more propensity for deafness? - goodbye Mozart, Beethoven
The mark of a society is more about the ability for it to absorb and develop its differences, not eliminate of them. I see nothing wrong with the recognition that a person is born with a behavioral marker, but the person should not then be saddled with the expectation of marker appearance, let alone be removed from the gene pool on the off chance.
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ugh. This AC must be a Monsanto rep/voice/lobbyist. Just because you come up with a way to make money and can fend off people who don't like that way you do it doesn't mean that it is okay to do. The whole point of a society is that it has a notion of social conscience. When a company like Monsanto destroys natural seed gene pools (Corn in South America) while suing out of existence farmers who have had GM seeds wind carried onto their property, then they need to be held accountable. If the rules were as simple as you wish them to be, there would be no law, and no social conscience. And therefore no society. There again the mere fact that you are hiding behind the Anonymous Coward way of posting here leads me to believe you are either under the age of consent, or a lackey for Monsanto.