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Assuming the concept is viable..why quibble with the paltry military budget?
Paltry? I thought it was 7% of US GDP. Foreign aid is 0.3% or so I thought. But in the rest of the world, we're used to seeing America spend money on weapons and suppressing democracy to ensure raw materials flow to them. The Australian government imitates yours. They let millions starve while they debate Seinfeld and patent life and information.
Non-American extropians and Tekno-anarko-socialists like myself look forward to a world without money. Resource allocation is a different matter. Money, like nation states, will be for romantics.
As far as it goes, currently, I want to vote for my UN representative, one vote one person, and I would recommend to him that America be requested to strip itself of its outrageous offensive capabilities. After all, they break their own rules, they're not democrats, and they have forgotten San Fransisco and 1969.
Luckilly nanotechnology will distribute itself. Judging from the track record, America cannot be trusted to behave ethically. After all, they sanction judicial murder, are quite happy to have one sixth of their population living in absolute poverty and do nothing for blacks except produce more guns. The top 20% of America's population have 80% of their wealth, in fact it is a far smaller percentage at the very top who retain most weatlh, most of which is untaxed. Worldwide the top several hundred billionaires have as much wealth as the bottom half of the world's population. What do they use it for? Not medical research. If extropians are waiting for Bill Gates to invest half his money in lifespan extension, they shouldn't hold their breath. Rupert Murdoch will try to patent it first.
So how much do American extropians think Geron Corp. will charge for telomere therapy? How much is an extra twenty to thirty years worth? Perhaps the American government could manufacture it and distribute it to other countries by population. That's what I would do.
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20 before nanoyear
28 before Escalation
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--------------519AF2CCC04BEB0B4B5B3E44 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Assuming the concept is viable..why quibble with the paltry military budget?Paltry? I thought it was 7% of US GDP. Foreign aid is 0.3% or so I thought. But in the rest of the world, we're used to seeing America spend money on weapons and suppressing democracy to ensure raw materials flow to them. The Australian government imitates yours. They let millions starve while they debate Seinfeld and patent life and information.
Non-American extropians and Tekno-anarko-socialists like myself look forward to a world without money. Resource allocation is a different matter. Money, like nation states, will be for romantics.
As far as it goes, currently, I want to vote for my UN representative, one vote one person, and I would recommend to him that America be requested to strip itself of its outrageous offensive capabilities. After all, they break their own rules, they're not democrats, and they have forgotten San Fransisco and 1969.
Luckilly nanotechnology will distribute itself. Judging from the track record, America cannot be trusted to behave ethically. After all, they sanction judicial murder, are quite happy to have one sixth of their population living in absolute poverty and do nothing for blacks except produce more guns. The top 20% of America's population have 80% of their wealth, in fact it is a far smaller percentage at the very top who retain most weatlh, most of which is untaxed. Worldwide the top several hundred billionaires have as much wealth as the bottom half of the world's population. What do they use it for? Not medical research. If extropians are waiting for Bill Gates to invest half his money in lifespan extension, they shouldn't hold their breath. Rupert Murdoch will try to patent it first.
So how much do American extropians think Geron Corp. will charge for telomere therapy? How much is an extra twenty to thirty years worth? Perhaps the American government could manufacture it and distribute it to other countries by population. That's what I would do.
Avatar Polymorph
20 before nanoyear
28 before Escalation
way@warehouse.net
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