A Witty Title.

My job title has been changed

from

Junior Software Engineer

to

Software Engineer.

Yay!

Sorry that this is so dark. You were warned.

So I sit here, with my imaginative mind, contemplating the future. As technology improves, I cant see us being able to stop terrorists in the future. Far from it. I cant even see the world being able to maintain it non-negotiation with terrorists.

Let go into a hyperthetical. Your .. (I was gonna say your George Bush, but I wouldn't wish that on anyone) the president of the U.S.A. You receive a communication from a terrorist, who informs you that they have infected the water supply of Washington DC with nanites, which when activated, will kill the person infected.

So approximately 6 million people are infected, and the terrorists promise to kill 1/3 of the infected people every hour until you free their leader from his prison cell.

This infection includes most of the government of the country as well as yourself. The terrorists demonstrate a willingness to go through with their threat after the first hour.

What do you do?

(That was rhetorical, I'm sure there is some insane solution involving EMP-ing the city, or something similar, but this is only one of many possibilities I can come up with for the future of terrorism)
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So what does this mean for us? Where is the world going to be when we reach this stage?

I don't know. But I'm scared.

Laurel-li linked an interesting article about spoons. When I read it, it just made sense to me. It rung true. But I wanted to take it further. I wanted to apply it to my own life.

I too have a spoon problem. Its not chronic, most day I go through with plenty of spoons to spare, but when I'm particularly run down, particularly busy at work, particularly haven't been sleeping enough, I run out.

I've talked a little about this (in other terms) previously on this blog. Basically at times, I just don't have the energy to do all the things I'm committed to. (Thats a bad way of putting it, but I think you get what I mean)

I'm not trying to say I'm sick, or to downplay the impact of this article. Far from it. I would say that I have at least 3 times as many spoons as the people this article is talking about. But when I'm extravagant in using them, when I abuse this privilege, I start to run out too.

I think this article might just have something to say to everyone. Beyond what it says about how we treat/view others.

I just watched National Treasure, and the following struck me, where ben paraphrases part of the declairation of independance.

Ben: "But when a long train of buses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and provide new guards for their future security."

Riley: "Beautiful... huh. I have no idea what you said."

Ben: "It means if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action."

Why did this strike me? Because it reminded me of the point I was trying to make in one of my laws. If we can act, we have a responsibility to do so, regardless of who is at fault. (Matthews theorums - 2)