So the oceans are being overfished, oil is being over consumed, and energy demands are higher than ever.
I think it's about time to seriously consider limiting the number of offspring humans make. It is time to rebel against our short-sighted genes or it'll doom us all. All they do is blindly build us at the start and from there they no longer have direct control. Our ability to rationally realize that our gene's best interests are pretty much irrelevent and overcome it is simply a happy misfiring that genes, shortsighted as they are, never could have seen coming. Nothing really physically impossible about "defying" them then.
My point is, I think we are reproducing far too much. Now laws are a tricky business. Who gets to decide which people get to reproduce after all? However, and I've said this before, it need not be legal limits on it, but practical ones. Changing the next generation may be enough to turn the tide. First of all, the taboo-ing of things like condoms needs to stop. That's always been dangerously ridiculous. Secondly, I really think that genetic research into making reproduction an opt-in procedure at the very least should be undertaken. If someone can willingly turn on and off ovulation and/or sperm production, that should cut down on unplanned events by a massive amount.
The last would be a bit of social engineering. I think people in general need to stop considering it their "right" to have children. Before you say anything, keep in mind that we ALREADY think this to a certain extent. If parents are abusive to their kids, we as a modern society have collectively agreed that they don't get to keep them simply by right, that children are not property. Further some people, myself included, think that someone who is clearly not capable of taking care of kids shouldn't be allowed to keep them even if they aren't actively trying to abuse them. Further still, it's finally starting to become clear that abuse can take the form of parents forcing children to take up a vegen diet (in which case some kids where this happened starved to death) and parents who's personal beliefs make them say their kids can't get life saving surgery, or who decide not to vaccinate their kids, are performing abuse (and in the latter case, endangering other kids as there's a needed critical mass of vaccinated people in order to hault the flow of a disease entirely).
Further, as a society we agree that if someone keeps a house full of pets and doesn't get them neutered, to the point where they have a household of 30 or 40 cats, the cats need to be taken away.
The next step is saying that perhaps people should be taught from birth that it's socielly irresponsible to just make kids repeatedly just for the sake of making them.
Just got back from seeing it. It's good. Lots of fun, some great, outlandish action scenes, it's great to see the characters again, lots of references to the old movies while definitely being new, some stuff saying what's happened in the 19 years between the films... it's just a good movie. :)
So they intend on culling the herd. I agree with that. The list is getting long enough now that it's easy to miss out on gems for all the trash.
That said, they shouldn't necessarily cut them off the grid completely. There's still money to be made off of those games for practically no investment from MS (relative to store shelf space and those costs, server space might as well be an infinite free resource, and it's only server space until it's actually downloaded). Further, this can punish people for liking unpopular games, and developers for making games for a small niche (as though poor sales don't already punish them enough).
My suggestion is rather simple. Underperforming games should be moved into their own download section, like a "bargain bin" only labelled something more... marketable I suppose. That way, they stay out of the way until someone decides to browse the list. MS could even sweeten the deal by providing deals on those, like say halving the price of unpopular games to move them a bit more. That way, not only do they stay out of the way, they can still attract buyers who might want to browse a list of cheap games to see what just got their leg up on the pile.
I disappointed with casino Royale, Besides one of the chase scenes in the beginning of the film , I think the rest of the movie stank and Daniel Craig is totally emo.
Quantum of solace sounds like something Scott Bakula should be in.
