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It is as you say, political correctness is getting out of hand. I even find myself saying, "Person with a disability" now, instead of disabled person (being disabled myself, I can certainly see the value in putting the 'person' before the 'disability', but to me, that's more about how people treat me, than about what they call me). I've found, however, that many times, people with disabilities (there I go again!) have more of a sense of humour about ourselves than people give us credit for, and are much less politically-correct than those outside this community. For instance, I have a good friend with cerebral palsy who is always joking that he once won a dance competition at a nightclub, simply by walking across the floor to get a drink! Similarly, I was the only one at broadcasting school who would have been allowed to tell the joke on air that went, Why can't you cook vegetables in the microwave? Answer: because you can't get the wheelchair to fit in there. I even once heard my CP friend tell a guy we went to school with who had broken his neck, "Get up out of that chair and walk, you lazy beggar". I ducked for cover, thinking the guy was going to explode at my friend for that. But he just smiled, and told him to sod off. They stayed friends.The point that I'm making is that people can get overly pre-occupied with political correctness, when respect for the person is all that's needed. After all, how can disabled people be treated like everyone else, when people are always having to be so darn careful around them?

Although, think of it this way. Maybe we are looking at the problem the wrong way around. Maybe the fact that nobody has as yet come back from the future is because we haven't yet got the technology to be able to provide a good reference point for someone in the future to come back to! I remember as a child at primary school learning about time capsules, you know, everybody puts something into a sealed canister and it gets buried for future generations to find. My contribution to our class time capsule contained a letter to future time travelers. I was about 7 years old at the time, and I had a watch and a compass with me. I remember standing on a grassy knoll at the end of the play field on a certain day, at a certain time, facing a particular direction, and making a note of it in my letter to go into the time capsule, with a request that any time travelers meet me there. The letter was sealed and added to the other letters of my little classmates and the time capsule was duly buried by the school principal at a special ceremony. For all I know that time capsule is still buried there.My request was never answered from the future though, as no time travelers ever came to meet me on that grassy knoll. Maybe the time capsule was/will be dug up by somebody before time travel in the future was/will be discovered. Maybe it was/will be found by somebody who didn't know about, or was/will be opposed to, the technology required for time travel. Maybe I should have done it around the other way, and given the details of a time in the future, such as the day after the time capsule was buried, when I would be standing on the grassy knoll, at 12:00pm, facing due North. Whatever the reason was/will be for the failure of my first call for aid to a time traveler from the future, imagine my interest and fascination when GPS technology was invented, some 15 years later! With this new technology I could provide a much more reliable set of facts for a future time traveler to triangulate on! But there are so many variables involved. Take, for instance, the Dead Sea Scrolls. They have essentially traveled through time to us over the centuries, just as my letter in a time capsule was meant to be projected forward in time. But the information that they contain is hard to comprehend. Over time languages change. Over time the media that they were written on has degraded. Over time the culture and sense of the words may have changed, such that even if the words could be read and translated, the words might have a different meaning than they did back then. Taking this example into today's world of GPS technology, if such a message to the time travelers of the future were sent using computer technology as a time capsule, would anybody in the future be able to read it still? I hope that the information isn't stored using a Microsoft proprietary document format, as they have major problems with backward compatibility already! Imagine some future infotech archaeologist trying to decrypt a DVD containing a Microsoft Word document from 2008! Apart from the document format, try finding a computer today, in 2008, that can read a 5.25" floppy disk! Will they still be able to read DVD's in the future?!These are the things that intrigue me about time travel. If we can provide a suitable landing strip for a time traveling machine, and then advertise it to the time travelers of the future, would they not be more likely to land on it? It is a very different way of looking at time travel. But I've always been a little different.

I understand that not only will the WRT54G work with Ubuntu, but Linux will also work within the WRT54G as well. Apparently you can upload to the RAM disk of the WRT54G and put a subset of Linux tools on it, then you can telnet into the WRT54G and use the Linux tools on it.... I haven't tried this myself yet (I did a firmware upgrade once to my WRT54G, but haven't played with it much since then, as I need it to be working) but it does sound intriguing. If you have a Linksys WRT54G and are interested in having a go, take a look at this site.

That was an interesting look at different networks. Thanks for that. I personally use a PAN, LAN, WLAN, and WAN from home, and at work we have a SAN as well, but we are doing away with the SAN and replacing it with a NAS. I'm not involved in the IT area at work, and I got this job as an end-user. I'm working for a large multinational, and I wanted to get more experience as a corporate end-user, so that when I do get back into IT I will have a better appreciation for the needs of the corporate end-user. My PAN is very important to me, comprising of my HTC Apache and all of the bluetooth devices that I have connected to it, including the headset, the infra-red keyboard, etc. My LAN at home is a lot smaller than it used to be, as I am migrating more and more of my home network onto the WLAN. The WAN, of course, is my connection to the Internet. I had never heard of a DAN before until you mentioned it, and I would love to see one in action. Maybe this calls for a trip to my local movie effects place, Weta Workshop. You have no doubt heard of them before?

Hi, I have noticed a bit of a problem with the forums here on Xisto. I don't know if this is a problem with the Xisto implementation, or with Invision Power Board in general, or with a mod that is running on the forums here, and I'm sure that someone smarter than me can isolate the source of the problem. What I have noticed firstly is that the link that is generated in the top right corner of a post within a thread, the link to that particular post (I'll call that the linkback link), sometimes links to the post itself, but often just links to the thread. This is rather annoying if you are trying to create a link in a new post that links to another particular post. For instance, I see two different URLs when I hover my mouse over the linkback link at various times. One of them uses the full ?showtopic= &st= &gopid= search method, while the other just uses /forums/page-2-t58399-s10.html# (for example). It really seems to be dependent on how you get to the post in the first place. If you use the "Last Post Info" or "Latest Activity" links, they generate the linkback link differently to just navigating through the menus normally. In a possibly related problem, I have noticed that the links in the "Latest Activity" panel at the bottom of the page only link to the thread, and not to the post. Also the links in the far right column of the forums.html page, the "Last Post Info" column, only seem to link to the thread, and not to the post. This is despite the alt text clearly showing as "Go to the first unread post: %thread_title%". I have tried marking all threads as read and then waiting for somebody to post and using the "Last Post Info" link, but it only ever takes me to the first post in the thread, not to the last, so I end up having to navigate through the thread to find the last post. I have checked my Board Settings under /forums/my-controls.html and there is nothing there. I always have my thread display mode set to Standard. I don't think the problem is with my use of the forums, but is a problem the forum itself, or the mods being used, or something. Any ideas or suggestions?

Erm, actually freeflashclocks, it was minimcmonkey amongst others in this thread who were upholding the negative opinion about Microsoft overtaking Google in the Search Engine wars. If you read through street's post again, you'll see that he/she is agreeing that Microsoft could overtake Google, and I agree with street that "I dont think defeat is in microsoft vocbulary". My advice to you freeflashclocks: read more, post less, and that way when you post it will be more meaningful.

What amuses me about this, and I have seen this happening a lot as I study cyberpsychology, is how people such as Yai64 start playing an online game, enjoy it, get involved in the community of fellow gamers, discuss the game outside of the borders of the game's official site (such as on a forum, fan site, or via instant chat) and then suddenly they think that they have a proprietary interest in the game, almost as if they have rights over the game. This is something that comes from Web2.0 technology, user participation, user contribution, user-generated content. For instance, taking another popular Web2.0 site as an example, there are many people who regularly contribute videos to YouTube who seem to think that they own the site! User-generated content doesn't mean that you have ownership of the site! You may have rights over whatever you personally contribute, but the owners of the site still are the owners of the site. The same goes for this situation with Private Servers. The gaming community seem to think that because they spend all their life playing these games, they somehow have rights over the software and can do whatever they like with it. Reverse engineering, creating patches, custom UI's, and other violations of the TOS are commonplace, and then they think that if everybody else is doing it then it must be okay! What?! Do the rules not apply if you can get enough people to break them with you? Sorry, I agree with DeM0nFiRe on this.

Yai64, you may like to have a look at the Terms of Service for MapleStory. These are the terms that you agreed to when you created your first account in their game. In particular, one of the points under section 2.2 Code of Conduct.... I have never seen MapleStory before, but I gather that it is similar in technical functionality to World of Warcraft, who have a similar restriction in their TOS (see section 4A of the WoW Terms of Use Agreement). Private Servers are prolific for WoW these days, and as with MapleStory they are illegal according to the TOS which you have to agree to before creating an account in their game system. Researching for this reply to your post has been quite an eye-opener, as there are many good intentioned people out there on the Interwebz who have been giving legal advice to people like you, telling you that it is perfectly legal to do what you are doing. Nobody seems to be questioning the credentials of the people giving such legal advice! Do not be fooled! The rules for such things are generally already stipulated, as in the example above, on the main website of the gaming company. You don't need a legal opinion. You have already agreed, by creating an account on their server, that you will abide by their rules and will not create a private server. Case closed.

It seems to me from reading the first post and skimming through the rest of the posts in this thread that there are three separate issues involved here: Should he have said what he said? Should he have said what he said to whom he said it? Should he have said what he said where and when he said it? These three issues are totally separate and should be dealt with as such. Firstly, I understand that the original poster, semeticsister is from the USA, and so no matter that the teacher is a German Canadian Christian, they were in America at the time, where I believe you still have 'Freedom of Speech' and therefore the comment is just as allowable as any other inflammatory utterance. They do still have 'Freedom of Speech' in the USA don't they? You don't have to agree with what he said, but as a good American citizen you should be defending his right to say it anyway. Next is the issue of choosing your audience carefully. Others in this thread have already mentioned how thoughtless and uncaring this teacher was in making the comment in front of people of other faiths. Freedom of Speech is all very nice, but as a white person I wouldn't go exercising my right to Freedom of Speech, for instance, by promoting the KKK or white supremacy if I was alone in Bronx, unless I want to get my head smashed in! No, with rights comes responsibilities. If you choose to exercise your rights then you have to be prepared for the consequences. This leads into the third aspect, that of where and when it was said. While you may have Freedom of Speech, you need to remember who it is that you are representing at the time also. This man was a teacher, and therefore he represented the school and the school district to his students. Personal comments and opinions have no place in such an establishment. He is welcome to exercise his civil liberties outside of class time, but when he's at work he should stick to the curriculum. I may have this all wrong, being that I'm not American myself, but this is my perspective on it and I'm happy to be corrected.

It seems to me, Saint_Michael as if you live in a country where Internet access is fully deregulated, where the free market and full commercial competition is in force. You probably don't know what it is like to deal with a monopoly! Telecom New Zealand have only recently lost their stranglehold on the Internet here, and they are still somewhat in denial about it. It is almost a foreign concept to them that anyone in NZ should get access to the Internet without them being involved somehow, and making a profit from it. No, there was no sweetener, no offer to improve their service levels if I stay. I'm just a number to them. When more people start taking up offers such as Vodafone and Telstra-Clear are making to encourage customers away from Telecom, then they will look around and start noticing that they are no longer New Zealand's preferred ISP (hehe, somewhat like Mr Mugabe was Zimbabwe's preferred president!) and they will start slashing prices and increasing service levels to meet or to beat the newcomers to the market. Then the price wars will begin, and we will eventually have here in New Zealand the free market and full commercial competition that you appear to enjoy now. As for cordless phones, we have been through three of them so far, and they all seem to die. Admittedly our financial situation is such that we don't buy brand new, so that may be part of the problem. The modem cable is now snuggly stapled around the wall skirting, and is no longer a tripping hazard in the home. Having the modem closer to the WiFi router means that I don't need a great long Ethernet cable between them any more either, so my single Ethernet cable is now short and tidy and also cannot be tripped over. I should have done this long ago, but I never got around to it until now. {note=jlhaslip]Merged 2 consecutive postings[/note] Okay, we are now connected to Vodafone, and boy is there a difference! We used to be with Woosh, connecting through the Telecom New Zealand network, and now we are with Vodafone, connecting through the iHug network that Vodafone acquired recently. Have a look at the differences in the speeds! Interestingly, Speedtest shows that the ISP's server that I am now connected to is in Napier, Hawkes Bay, which is about 200 miles away, whereas the server for Woosh was based right here in Auckland, less than 50 miles away.

Some people have shorter memories than others. I recall having similar thoughts to minimcmonkey when I first heard about Google. "No way they will ever compete with Altavista, the biggest and most popular Search Engine around, Altavista is the best!" And at the time they were, everybody that I knew used Altavista as their preferred search engine back then. That was before Google moved in and set up shop. These days you could almost be forgiven for thinking that Google invented the idea of Internet Search Engines. They didn't. It was being done long before they came around. They just found a way of doing it better. It is just as conceivable that somebody else, setting up from a geekshop in their garage could create another new idea that surpasses even Google. Remember their roots. Google started out as a college project operating out of somebody's garage. If they can get to become the megopoly that they are today from such humble beginnings, imagine how a company such as Microsoft, with a huge R&D budget and a whole horde of eggheads in their army, imagine what they could do in the Internet Search Engine market if they put their minds to it. I think it is possible that Microsoft could overshoot Google if they applied themselves, but no more possible than some previously unheard of startup company with a great new idea coming along and overtaking Google as the next big thing.

AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merril Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. Yes, even down here in New Zealand, the ripples of the crisis unfolding on Wall Street and in the financial institutions of the United States are being felt. Like an earthquake, or a series of explosions, we down here, thousands of miles away, are affected by what is happening there. The New Zealand sharemarket NZX suffered a 3.395 percent drop today, and this was attributed mostly to effects of events in the USA. To quote the New Zealand Herald today... ...interesting that they should make that analogy, as it is something that I have been pondering on for a while now. With all these financial problems befalling the United States of late, I wonder if there is a sinister plot behind it all? The World Trade Centre, a bastion of finance and trade, was the target of the last terrorist attack to occur on US soil. Could this, these latest financial problems, be a result of a new bid by Osama Bin Laden and Al Quaeda to inflict a grievous wound on the financial heart of America, to attack the very fabric of capitalism? Notice from jlhaslip: merged consecutive postings I'm just asking the question. Does anybody think this is a possibility? Could this be a form of cyber-terrorism on a grand scale? I have been reading up on this issue a little further, and I see that there is a piece of legislation waiting in the wings to be pulled out on an unsuspecting American public for just such a situation as I have postulated about above. This new Bill is being colloquially termed the "i-Patriot Act" which will do for the Internet what the Patriot Act did for other aspects of the American way of life. Could this, the current financial crisis involving these huge American investment and finance companies be part of this so called "i-9/11 event"? Is this going to become the cyberterrorism attack that will see Americans lose their civil liberties online? I don't know enough about investment banking or international trade relations to make comment on this. I am just asking the question. Is it possible that the current financial crisis is a cyberterrorism attack, and if so is it likely to be the event, predicted by this Lawrence Lessig, to activate the passing of the i-Patriot Act? Remember, I'm not even an American, I'm just an outside observer. Have a look at the article that I found on the InfoWars website and do a Google search for i-Patriot Act if you are interested in reading further.

I have tried several different programs that are supposed to resolve this issue, and now I have been able to get a hack that flips a registry entry, enabling or disabling the new Voice Commands feature, and another hack that enables or disables Bluetooth audio. Unfortunately these two hacks together only provide a temporary solution to my problem. The music plays on the headset as I intended, but after a brief time it automatically reverts back to playing from the built-in tweety speaker of the smartphone device. Grrrr! I have found out more information about the AKU3.3 upgrade and I am getting ready to do this. I note with interest the following comment that was left on the Geekzone entry about the AKU 3.3 upgrade.... So, I will download this AKU 3.3 and try it out. Thanks to jesseruu for the related post entitled Mobile Phone Operating Systems? which reminded me of this little project that I have running.

I can see the positives in both sides of this debate, and I am probably going to find it hard to choose a side, so please forgive me if I wander from one side of the argument to the other like a drunken monkey. One concern that I have is when CCTV technology is matched with facial recognition software, so that not only are you recorded, but you are also possibly identified. This could be an even greater invasion of privacy. In fact, the UK organization Liberty has released a 137 page report in PDF format called Overlooked: Surveillance and personal privacy in modern Britain which was published in 2007. This report looks at To quote from their website.... We have some issues with surveillance and privacy here in New Zealand, but I haven't come across facial recognition being used in public (yet). I work in a situation where we depend on the information obtained by some of these surveillance systems, so I have an appreciation of what can be achieved with them. Big Brother is really watching you!

Hmm, I haven't tried this myself yet, but I have an HTC Apache (which is the same as the Sprint PPC 6700) and I have heard that the default Windows Mobile 5 operating system can be replaced with a version of Linux. I have upgraded the firmware ROM on my smartphone once already, upgrading to AKU2.2, and it wasn't that difficult. It is advisable to back up your existing ROM information first before you try performing an upgrade, and as always, make sure that the upgrade procedure is not interrupted. I'm planning to get the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade at some time, which will probably be my next ROM upgrade on my smartphone.

rvalkass, I understand that in the UK your Internet access is part of your telephone bill, is that right? So I guess you're tied to your national telco just like we were then, huh? No wonder it's slow for you! I hope that your government legislates for local loop unbundling over there, so that other ISPs can put their switch gear directly into the telephone exchanges, as is starting to happen here in New Zealand. Well, things have stalled with our change to our new ISP, as the national carrier Telecom rejected our first application, as the new ISP had copied down our account number incorrectly, and thus the whole application was declined and we had to start again. I have been assured that the changeover will take place next Wednesday (local time) so I'm looking forward to getting that done. In the meantime, as part of the renovations and changes in our place, we have helped a friend to move some of her furniture into our place, and have removed some of our old stuff. As part of this change, she gave me her old computer, which was destined for the dump. It is an HP Pavilion 510a with an Intel 1.2GHz processor and 256MB of RAM. I have added an extra 256MB of RAM and a DVD writer to it, and it will come in quite handy as an extra part of my home network. I'm using it currently to try to resurrect a Dynamic partition on one of my previous hard drives, to get at the stored data there. I shall NOT be using Windows 2000/XP/Vista's Dynamic partition options any more! If I want a RAID array, I have found that it is better to use a hardware solution rather than using the software option offered from within the Operating System. [/rant]

Perhaps you could go back and read my post earlier on in this thread. The Earth was predicted to be a barren wasteland, devoid of any atmosphere and therefore of any life, as a result of the first atomic bomb explosion, the Manhatten Project, back in 1945. People thought that the Trinity test of July 16, 1945 would do exactly what you are predicting here about the LHC experiment, that it would "start a fusion reaction which is for now uncontrollable". Doomsday predictions abound where knowledge is lacking. There is safety in the known, the tried and true. It is only when we try to push the boundaries that we come across the unknown. Even Christopher Columbus was told by many people of his time to not sail too far away, for he would fall off the edge of the Earth!

When I was in school I had a severe speech impediment, so I never considered joining the debating team, which is a shame as I think I have quite a good analytical brain, but giving voice to my opinions was not as easy as it is now through the medium of the text-based Internet. Consequently I can't really give much advice on debating style or improving your debating technique, as I don't know the "rules of the game" in a formal debating setting. I do wonder though, whether there needs to be more citing of sources, such as "the 1990 Annual report of the World Health Organization shows that...", or "Joe Bloggs, the Sanitation Inspector for the Metrowater Company of New Delhi is quoted in the New Delhi Times as saying that..." It just seems to me that you need to back up your arguments more, give them the underpinning of some recognized authority and a way for your listeners to confirm what you have said should they want to. I don't even know if this is necessary in a formal debating situation, but as a Thesis I would have thought that this is essential.

If you are experiencing bad sectors on a modern hard disk drive then you should consider replacing the drive immediately. Drives manufactured since about 1995 have an area in the center rings of the disk platter that is not normally used for regular data storage. These sectors are used to automatically swap out bad sectors. All disk drives get bad sectors, but they are managed by re-addressing the vector to one of these spare sectors. You won't even see a bad sector showing up, because the hard drive electronics automatically compensate in this way. The only time that you will experience bad sectors is when that area of spare sectors is already full, which would indicate that you have a serious problem and should consider getting the disk replaced. Storage is very cheap these days, and replacing a 500GB hard drive is not as financially scary as it used to be. Oh, and I love pedro-kun's reply. I'm a big fan of WinPE, BartPE, and UBCD tools! See my thread about WinPE.

Hmm, I am not sure what you are asking of us. You say that this is a group thesis from last year, so clearly you are not looking for critique before you submit it. The subject matter of your thesis is very controversial and opens some good avenues for further discussion on whether essential utilities should be privatized or should be controlled by the state. But I'm not sure that you are inviting discussion of the subject matter, but of the thesis itself. Could you clarify what exactly it is that you are asking for?

Hi there Yai64, welcome to Xisto. Yes this is a really great community here. I've seen more active communities elsewhere, but most of them are just filled with spam and warez chat. No, this is a pleasant place to be and the mods are clearly keeping the spam under control here. The discussions are interesting, informative, and entertaining. I haven't been here that long myself, and I'm still exploring too. Looking forward to seeing you around the forums.

I found a useful site today, the Web Archive's Wayback Machine, which keeps a history of websites, caching them much like Google does. Here I found an archive of how Xisto used to look back in 2001. This might bring back some memories for some of the older members here and I thought I'd share it with you all. Does anybody remember when Xisto used to look like this.... ... apparently this was when Xisto was being run from "Shop No.31, Ashiana Building, Opp. McDonald's, Behind Abhyudya Bank, Sector 17, Vashi-410703." It seems that the links were just to a collection of other links, and there was no forum as such. Xisto appears, as per The Xisto Story, to be an Internet Café at the time. There is a break of two years where the Wayback Machine doesn't capture any new information on the domain, and then on 29 May 2004 a bright new website is found by the Wayback Machine on the Xisto.com domain, and on this site there is the following announcement.... Just a little history that I thought I'd share with you all. You can see the entry from 29 May 2004, along with its nifty Flash logo, on the Wayback Machine page for that day.

To add to what Lightning73 so rightly said above (which I would have said if Lightning73 had not gotten there first). The two dimensional line that people are talking about also has width, giving it a third dimension also. Everything that we can perceive with our eyes is three dimensional. Even when somebody uses a picture on a page as an example of a two-dimensional image, you can ask yourself how thick the page is. But here is the trick. If you take a three dimensional object, let's say our classic 3D cube for instance and place it within another 3D cube, a room for instance, and you move it from one location to another, then you are said to be moving it in three dimensions right? You can move it up/down, left/right, and in/out. But, consider, that when you move the cube it moves through a fourth dimension at the same time, because it is also moving through time, which travels at a constant velocity. We measure time in seconds, minutes, hours, etc and no matter where in the world you are, the length of one second is the same, the length of time that a minute takes is constantly 60 seconds. While measuring systems for the other three dimensions can vary (how many centimeters are there in an inch, for instance?) time is measured the same all over the world. Going back to our cube within a cube example, when you move the cube positionally in the three dimensions, the time that it takes to travel from one location to another must also be taken into consideration, as the cube exists in a series of 3D coordinates along the path from the original position to the new position, and for each period of time that it spends in every one of those various locations on the way to its final resting place, you can say that it is already at a new location anyway! However if while moving the 3D cube you cause it to cease to exist, and then you create a new 3D cube at the new location within your spatial area of the room, then have you really moved the cube from one location to the other, or have you simply created a new cube? No matter how much the new cube resembles the old one, isn't it just a new cube? What's more, if you don't move the cube at all, if it stays exactly where it is, then it is still moving. Huh? How can it still be moving if it is not moving? It moves through time, which, as I stated before, is moving at a constant velocity. Given enough time, if our 3D cube were made of wood, or iron, or Swiss cheese, it would eventually decompose, and thus the shape, the three-dimensionality of the cube object itself would change as it corrodes with time. This, I believe, is proof that time is the fourth dimension.

Yes, it is definitely the REAL Microsoft that is releasing this, Forbez. Do a Google search for WinPE site:microsoft.com and you will get results similar to my search, which returned about 8,270 occurrences just from the Microsoft website. This is honestly a Microsoft technology, which was originally released to OEM System Builders, IT Professionals, and corporate users, but has recently been released by Microsoft to the general public as part of the Windows AIK. It is designed to allow network administrators to use a "lite" version of the operating system for testing, repair, and system recovery. I used to use WinPE a lot when I was an OEM. It is also handy for doing computer forensic diagnosis. A copy of Norton Ghost on a WinPE boot disk is a great way to start a simple disk image for forensic analysis. Yeah, I guess it really depends on what you are looking for. It might not be your cup of tea, Saint_Michael, as it isn't a hard-core gaming platform that will support all the features of the latest video cards. But as a Windows-based OS that is free and can be used to get someone onto the Internet, even via an ADSL modem (with both Ethernet and USB support) it is quite sufficient for simple stuff.

Your argument seems to presuppose that the only way for a woman to be complete, or to feel that her life is perfect, is for her to have a man at her side. Is it not possible for a woman to be complete without a man? Woman are capable of childbearing, yes that is true. But is that their only function on planet Earth? You seem to be mistaking women in general for some form of domesticated farm animal. Women are just as capable of succeeding in life without being married to a man and having his children as they are in a marriage. Your argument also seems to revolve around humankind's purpose as being to populate the planet. Don't we already have a problem with overcrowding and a lack of resources? If today, right now, every single person of marriageable age were to match up and start having children, (even with the left-over women as you say who could not find a mate), what would be the impact on the planet? What would be the impact on, for instance, global warming? What would be the impact on, say, the world's crude oil reserves? Your idea of utopia is flawed, I'm sorry.