Re: Mac users no longer have to be mute!

In article <fukpu8$gkm$1@xxxxxxxx>, nospamatall <nospamatall@xxxxxx>
wrote:

That has all changed now, thanks to MacSpeech.

We will soon be able to talk directly to our Mac, just as if it
were another person. Star Trek is about to arrive, for real.

But thanks to our willingness to be ruled by the testosterone-riddled
village idiots who are obsessed with weapons it will all be
taking place on just the one planet...<snip>...

I would not count on that. China is making lots of noise about
mining the moon and mars, for helium-3.

Helium-3 is the preferred fuel for a fusion reactor, used in
ultra safe (no radio-active by-products) electrical power
plants that are due to come online in 50 years,
according to the so-called experts.

Enough helium-3 on the moon alone to satisfy world
power needs for thousands of years.

So you might be swapping one set of devils (the arabs)
for another set of devils (the chinese) as far as
controlling our "new oil supply" is concerned.



...and will be mostly used for entertainment.

True enough, by us modest users of toy computers, not too
many of us use our toy computers for serious uses.



However, outside of the personal toy computer market...

The largest user of speech technology is the medical
industry, up in the many billions of dollars per year.

The savings resulting from them using speech technology
directly affect the medicare drain on _your_ paycheck.

That drain would be much higher for you, if speech
technology disappeared overnight.



Imagine trying to design spacecraft to go to the other
planets, before that large meteor
obliterates life on earth.

Makes more sense to stop the collision.

The so-called experts claim it would not be possible
in the case of comets, which do not get detected until
their "tail" lights up once they get close to our sun.

Too little time for us to react.

The orbits of the "known" comets are only known because
they did not clobber the earth the first time they were
detected.



Viewed from the cosmic scale, the one thing humans might
have been useful for has been squandered. We won't be
stopping any large meteors.
Maybe the cockroaches will figure it out.

Aw, don't be so pessimistic. Humans must be good
for _something_ . <g>



The other planets aren't very nice.

You got that right. They would be nice for space tourism
though. I might pay a reasonable sum to vacation on mars,
or to fly by merely flapping my wings on one of the
smaller moons.

Mark-
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