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Comment The solution seems obvious (Score 2, Funny) 272

The Situation:
It is easy to claim copyright over anything you personally produce.
There appears to be no significant penalty for wrongful accusation of copyright infringement.
They are paving the way for copyright infringement accusations (*3) to cause revocation of internet access.


The Solution:
Make some copyright material.
Accuse the children of every European politician, every senior public servant and every corporate executive of copyright infringement, three times.
We have computers. This could be done quite efficiently.
Sit back and watch.

Comment Deliberate human genetic change inevitable... (Score 1) 284

eventually. All of the wonderfully humane things we do like assisting difficult childbirth, lowering child mortality, vaccination, corrective surgery etc etc etc. are great. Great for us in the here-and-now as individuals. I wouldn't have it any other way. Longer term however, these behaviors change the survive-and-breed criteria for humans. Like-it-or-not, this will weaken the gene pool. We will end up with more and more people than can not survive without expensive medical intervention. I don't think anybody fancies eugenics. The only way out that I can see is that we must eventually start introducing germ-line fixes to the gene pool. Fix things permanently rather than just in a single generation. The folks crying out that we're playing god should recognize that we're already doing that by way of the medical interventions we already do. We're just being slightly incompetent gods.

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