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derspatz said:
You've prolly been doing it wrong ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...poly-WRONG-entire-life.html?ito=feeds-newsxml



Sounds like there is no need to ever pay the listed price but rather refuse to immediately buy any property you land on, it is then offered up for auction where you either end up getting it cheaper or drive it up to more than it is worth. Hmmm, yeah prolly would make for a quicker game.

Still play the free parking unofficial rool though ... where all fine/tax money goes into the middle and the person who lands on free parking wins the lottery. :)

regarDS
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Oh my word, I was about 25 before I found out you could play Monopoly to a conclusion, with a winner.
Monopoly - was another word for family fight/massacre in our house.

8 kids, and the eldest just made up the rules, 4 older than me. Age stretch across 8 is quite big.
They were cheating bastards and would rob the bank, steal properties, whatever.
And if you landed on Park Lane you just got beat up, sometimes they would allow you to own one of the prestige properties.

The little buildings - they made up very odd rules that have no resemblance to real rules, rules that fit with a short volatile fight and paper money flying.
 
...on this link... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/31/united_nations_lethal_autonomous_robotics_report/... it reports...


UN report says killer bots could fight WAR WITHOUT END

Moratorium proposed on development and use of lethal autonomous robots

By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor • Get more from this author

Posted in Policy, 31st May 2013 05:58 GMT


The United Nations has called for the establishment of an international body to set guidelines for the development and use of lethal autonomous robotics (LARs), lest such machines go on a never-ending killing spree that plunges humanity into perpetual war.

Judge for yourself if we're being colourful or exaggerating by reading the Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns (PDF), the subject of this story.

Tabled yesterday at a meeting of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the document says “LARs refers to robotic weapon systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator. The important element is that the robot has an autonomous 'choice' regarding selection of a target and the use of lethal force.”

Such weapons aren't yet in operation, the report says - though that would seem to be an odd view to take.

Among those devices are “The Samsung Techwin surveillance and security guard robots, deployed in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, detect targets through infrared sensors” and can be set to “automatic mode”. Now we know where all that hand-and-eyeball-movement-detection software in the Galaxy S 4 came from.

The report worries that it won't be long before LARs become prevalent, as waging war without putting one's own troops in harm's way will be very attractive to strategists and could therefore lead to the following scenario:

“Tireless war machines, ready for deployment at the push of a button, pose the danger of permanent (if low-level) armed conflict, obviating the opportunity for post-war reconstruction.”

The report does also point out that LARs might make war a little less uncivilised, as they “would not act out of revenge, panic, anger, spite, prejudice or fear.” Nor would robots torture, unless programmed to, or rape.

Those observations are among the few upsides identified in the report, which finds that LARs are not compatible with international humanitarian or human rights laws and therefore makes the following recommendation:

“The Human Rights Council should call on all States to declare and implement national moratoria on at least the testing, production, assembly, transfer, acquisition, deployment and use of LARs until such time as an internationally agreed upon framework on the future of LARs has been established.”

That council is meeting from now until June 14th and has discussed the report, but is yet to vote on it or agree to its recommendations at the time of writing. ®
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...hmmmmm... perhaps those Terminator movies were a taste of things to come eh?... cheers.
 
...apparently some Russian scientists have found the remains of a frozen mammoth with flowing blood within the carcass... they are thinking about cloning mammoths from the blood... on this link...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...nd-in-frozen-mammoth/articleshow/20359478.cms

Flowing blood found in frozen mammoth
May 31, 2013, 06.32 AM IST


MOSCOW: In a rare discovery, scientists have found an extraordinarily well-preserved carcass of a 10,000 to 15,000-years-old female woolly mammoth , with blood running freely from the ancient mammal , on an island in the Arctic.


"The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities below the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out," Semyon Grigoriev, the head of the expedition and chairman of the Mammoth Museum, said.

The discovery, Grigoryev said, gives new hope to researchers in their quest to bring the woolly mammoth back to life through cloning.

"Interestingly, the temperature at the time of excavation was -7 to - 10 degrees Celsius. It may be assumed that the blood of mammoths had some cryoprotective properties," researchers said. The cryoprotective properties of the blood in woolly mammoths could explain how the liquid tissue was preserved through thousands of years. A cryoprotectant is a substance that is used to protect biological tissue from freezing damage (due to ice formation).

Arctic and Antarctic insects , fish and amphibians create cryoprotectants (antifreeze compounds and antifreeze proteins) in their bodies to minimize freezing damage during cold winter periods. Paleontological expedition of the Research Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-Eastern Federal University, and the Russian Geographical Society found the carcass of the female mammoth in good preservation on Lyakhovsky Islands of Novosibirsk archipelago.

The mammoth soft tissues are well preserved. The tissues of the animal are almost ideal, only the upper part of the body, head and left hind leg were skeletonised. "The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red colour of fresh meat. The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice, and the upper part was found in the middle of tundra. We found a trunk separately from the body, which is the worst-preserved part, Grigoriev said.

The scientists examined the teeth and established that the mammoth's age was about 50-60 years. Researchers collected the samples of the animal's blood in tubes with a special preservative agent.
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...there's further news on this link too... cheers.

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/473113/20130531/cloning-extinct-mammoth-science.htm#.Uaicb5xmO2P
 
Mr Stickyfingers said:
...apparently some Russian scientists have found the remains of a frozen mammoth with flowing blood within the carcass... they are thinking about cloning mammoths from the blood... on this link...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...nd-in-frozen-mammoth/articleshow/20359478.cms



...there's further news on this link too... cheers.

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/473113/20130531/cloning-extinct-mammoth-science.htm#.Uaicb5xmO2P
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I'm a bit puzzled on the free flowing blood? Was it in some weird suspended animation in the ice now they've gone and hacked it up, and if the blood was that motile why couldn't they try reviving it?
 
Mud Cake said:
I'm a bit puzzled on the free flowing blood? Was it in some weird suspended animation in the ice now they've gone and hacked it up, and if the blood was that motile why couldn't they try reviving it?
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...apparently the mammoth was sort of half buried in ice which helped preserve it and also the their blood has some sort of anti-freeze in it... on one of the sites it says...

The mammoth soft tissues are well preserved. The tissues of the animal are almost ideal, only the upper part of the body, head and left hind leg were skeletonised. "The fragments of muscle tissues, which we've found out of the body, have a natural red colour of fresh meat. The reason for such preservation is that the lower part of the body was underlying in pure ice, and the upper part was found in the middle of tundra. We found a trunk separately from the body, which is the worst-preserved part, Grigoriev said.
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...and also on the other site it said...

The scientists were pleased to find some liquid blood in the remains of the mammoth, according to a report by theprovince.com. The scientists are also seeing the possible studies they can do with the carcass, which happens to be in good shape. Cloning is reportedly being considered by Russian scientists.

"The blood is very dark, it was found in ice cavities below the belly and when we broke these cavities with a poll pick, the blood came running out," said Semyon Grigoryev, the head of the Mammoth Museum.

Grigoryev led the expedition into the Lyakhovsky Islands off the Siberian coast. It was -7 to - 10 degrees Celsius cold at the time. He noted the blood of the mammoth appeared to be freezing-resistant. Perhaps that is how they kept themselves warm, the scientists theorized.
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...interesting stuff indeed... cheers.
 
Mud Cake said:
I'm a bit puzzled on the free flowing blood? Was it in some weird suspended animation in the ice now they've gone and hacked it up, and if the blood was that motile why couldn't they try reviving it?
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You need a little more than free flowing blood to sustain life.
 
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