I'm sure the crew can get all their sexual tensions out via the liberal use of the holodeck or occasional encounters with strangely biologically compatible aliens.
Hey, wait... You mean there are risks involved in having someone carve up your perfectly functional face? Why the hell don't they tell us about stuff like that beforehand?
4) Provide a tool to EASILY and automatically move the install CD to a thumb drive and install from there. We are building machines that have neither floppy drives nor CD drives either. Just out of curiosity, what tool would allow you to move the install CD to a thumb drive given your assumption that you don't have a CD drive? How much would this tool weigh?
Nope. That is where every fortune 500 company and every national government that wants to have that functionality on linux needs to look at their yearly exchange costs and kick in 10% to some development group to write such a program that will run on linux.
This just could be businesses showing their blind spot. They need it or they don't. If they do need it, they have the bucks to pay to have it. If they don't, they can stop crying out that they do. Um, I think you miss the point. The fact is, they don't need it because they can just keep using exchange. Linux needs it in order to draw their attention. If you want them to buy your better mousetrap, it better do all the mouse-trapping chores that their current mousetrap does.
Anyone can set up an internet petition and get idiots to sign it. 99.99% of such things should just be ignored as the bleating of ignorant sheep. Most people lack understanding of even the least complex of issues faced by governments today, yet they flock to internet petitions demanding the the government "fix healthcare" or "stop global warming", as if those were check-boxes that the government could just flick on or off.
I'm all in favour of internet discussions/forums/chats that involve an actual exchange of views or at least the transmission of information, but having people simply add their l33t handle to an internet petition is meaningless.
Oh, and I almost forgot, sign my petition to nerf Paladins.
Evidence suggests that the village may have been targetted by the Horde (not further identified). Furthermore, nearby burial plots have been noticeably empty of epic artifacts, suggesting that the attack might have been the result of a large scale ganking of a lower level area.
Um, there have been 2 total crew losses in 117 missions. Thats 1.7% chance of the space shuttle exploding everytime it is launched. Do you really think that is acceptable? Suppose the navy lost a nuclear submarine 1.7% of the time they went under the artic icecap? Would that be okay? Suppose 1.7% of fighter jets exploded when they used their afterburners. Is that acceptable?
... lighting yourself on fire can ensure that you don't ever have to worry about germs again.
Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited by law. Flames may not be as pictured. Self-immolation should not be attempted by children, pets, people with allergies, or others who may be disturbed by screaming (particularly their own). Always consult your family physician before lighting anyone on fire.
Actually, no true geek would ever throw their chair at anyone for fear of disrupting the comfortable, perfect ass-shaped grooves that the chair acquired over countless hours of gaming/coding/surfing pr0n.
Good idea, lets publicize a patent that might have been able to slip past Apple, Microsoft, etc... Yah, because neither of those billion dollar corporations has anyone on staff who keeps track of irrelevant things like patents that might destroy their business models. Good thing they have Slashdot to catch these things/sarcasm.
I don't care how much training you have: crazy arab gets a box cutter, I get a.45 == I win. Except, of course, that if you are allowed to have a gun on the plane, so are the "crazy arabs", and they'll be both ready for trouble and expecting it, while you'll be sitting there wondering what's going on... I love how people in favour of guns on planes never seem to realize that the bad guys will have guns too.
A shoot out among idiot civilians and terrorists in an airplane in flight = massive depressurization and probable aircraft loss. Good job.
I keep hearing about Intelligent Design, but the more I experience of our collosally messed up world, I can't help but wonder if the whole thing wasn't designed by something of a nitwit.
I live in Canada now, which has socialized medicine and claims to have the best health care on earth, and I can tell you that the medical care here is outright third world even compared to the basic health care of one of my uninsured relatives gets in the United States. Health care isn't a commodity... Health Care in the U.S. is expensive, but it is also far superior than socialized systems (at least the socialized systems I have experienced). I'm going to call BS on this. I've lived in Texas and I live in Canada now (I'm Canadian), and it is absolutely true that the US healthcare is the best in the world IF you are so rich that you don't need insurance. You can get anything you want any time you want.
Now, if you are an American who has insurance, the US system works pretty well. Depending upon your insurance, you should get quick access to any treatment and drugs you need. However, one of several things can happen in this situation:
1) you have a co-pay that can be between 5% and 20% (in my experience). Suppose you have a catastrophic injury or sickness - that can cost $1 million really fast, and you're on the hook for up to 200k of it. I have a friend whose parents were wiped out by her father's 2 heart attacks.
2) You may be dropped by your insurance company if you become expensive. Sure, they'll cover the bill for your suddenly-discovered chronic illness. But if they find an excuse to drop you (and in some states they don't need an excuse beyond "we want to"), you can be left without insurance and it will be impossible to find new insurance because of your existing condition.
Finally, there are the working uninsured Americans (I'm unfamiliar with Medicaid so I'll ignore that for poor folks and seniors). Sure, these people can go to the emergency room and get treated for acute problems. They can't get basic healthcare though. Good like getting checkups for your kids, or a prostate test that might save your life.
The Canadian system? Universal - everyone has access to everything. Unfortunately this means everyone actually uses everything. There can be waits depending on what you need. It takes me about a month to get an appointment with my family doctor for something non-urgent. My daughter's broken leg? In and out of the emergency room in a couple of hours. My father's urgently leaded angiogram? Took about a week. Cost him nothing.
A good friend was in a horrific car accident with her 3 kids. She works a low paying job and in the US she would not have had insurance. Here, the 10+ surgeries were free, the 18+ months of therapy were free. Is it perfect? No, but I'll accept a little personal inconvenience in exchange for not leaving my fellow citizens to fend for themselves.
Hypothetical: Let's say you run a business, and people start making what you believe to be baseless accusations about the environmental impact of your business. What do you do? NO, WAIT: You can't fund anyone who tries to scientifically demonstrate the invalidity of the accusations, because that taints the research, right?Ya, like say someone is telling people that crack is bad for them. Its only fair that you should pay teachers to tell kids the other side of the story, and encourage them to try crack, since the science is biased.
When the above isn't possible, science can become political. When you can't make a thousand copies of the earth, causally separate them, randomly vary emissions, wait a hundred years, and run a regression, people have all the room the in world to reject your theories since it can't have the repeated empirical validation science relies on.So your theory is that unless we test a theory involving the earth over the course of thousands of years, that anyone questioning it has a legitimate point? Wow. Interesting theory. On that basis, I'm not convinced that it is possible to send a man to the moon. Oh sure, it happened a couple of times, but that was probably a fluke. Similarly, I'm not buying into the who acid rain thing. And I think that oil spills are GOOD for birds. Until I can see the completed experiments, say in 2150, I won't be convinced because its not good science.
When you can't engineer an entire planet's existence, start a weather system, wait a billion years, and see complex organisms evolve, you again don't have the repeated empirical validation science relies on. BEFORE YOU FLAME ME OR MOD ME DOWN, I'm not trying to dispute global warming or evolution, but rather, just pointing that you can't come up with the plain-as-day prediction and validation you can in other areas.
I have to agree. There can't possibly be enough people in the world who speak this obscure language to make it profitable for MS to do the translation. Clearly they are doing it (with the Ministry of Education's blessing) as a means to help school kids in Chile.
Apparently its true - no good deed goes unpunished.
I scratch my head in wonder as people who would otherwise drive across the city to pick up their widget, now refuse to wait more than 4 seconds for their online shopping experience to load.
I would actually disagree with this because (for the most part) we have a gigantic media circus that works by making sure everyone is too afraid to not watch the news (or read the newspaper) that will make you "famous" if you play into their fears; this strategy has existed for decades with the world being on the "brink of destruction" whether the threat was from Nuclear Weapons or Global Warming. Rational voices are usually silenced in favour of more radical messages to increase ratings and readership.
Because, of course, we all know that there really was never any danger from nuclear weapons. Therefore, global warming must also be a media conspiracy.
Yeah... right.
You can use wikipedia to do research for a 5th grade paper of the constitution. I don't, however, recommend using it to get legal advice or to figure out how to remove your own appendix...
Just so I'm clear on this, even though we can't convince governments and industry to spend the cash needed to retrofit thousands of coal burning plants in order to combat global warming, we're somehow going to be able to convince them to build "trillions" of spaceships to block the sun...
Sounds like a viable plan! If only we could manufacture evidence that the sun has WMDS!
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I've said it before - the only thing uglier than Ron Jeremy's balls, is Ron Jeremy's balls in HD. *brrrrrrr*
I'm sure the crew can get all their sexual tensions out via the liberal use of the holodeck or occasional encounters with strangely biologically compatible aliens.
Hey, wait... You mean there are risks involved in having someone carve up your perfectly functional face? Why the hell don't they tell us about stuff like that beforehand?
I'm not malicious, it was a joke. If anyone should be punished it's you for leaving yourself so open to being kicked in the balls repeatedly.
This just could be businesses showing their blind spot. They need it or they don't. If they do need it, they have the bucks to pay to have it. If they don't, they can stop crying out that they do. Um, I think you miss the point. The fact is, they don't need it because they can just keep using exchange. Linux needs it in order to draw their attention. If you want them to buy your better mousetrap, it better do all the mouse-trapping chores that their current mousetrap does.
Anyone can set up an internet petition and get idiots to sign it. 99.99% of such things should just be ignored as the bleating of ignorant sheep. Most people lack understanding of even the least complex of issues faced by governments today, yet they flock to internet petitions demanding the the government "fix healthcare" or "stop global warming", as if those were check-boxes that the government could just flick on or off. I'm all in favour of internet discussions/forums/chats that involve an actual exchange of views or at least the transmission of information, but having people simply add their l33t handle to an internet petition is meaningless. Oh, and I almost forgot, sign my petition to nerf Paladins.
Evidence suggests that the village may have been targetted by the Horde (not further identified). Furthermore, nearby burial plots have been noticeably empty of epic artifacts, suggesting that the attack might have been the result of a large scale ganking of a lower level area.
Um, there have been 2 total crew losses in 117 missions. Thats 1.7% chance of the space shuttle exploding everytime it is launched. Do you really think that is acceptable? Suppose the navy lost a nuclear submarine 1.7% of the time they went under the artic icecap? Would that be okay? Suppose 1.7% of fighter jets exploded when they used their afterburners. Is that acceptable?
Seems pretty dismal to me but YMMV.
... lighting yourself on fire can ensure that you don't ever have to worry about germs again. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited by law. Flames may not be as pictured. Self-immolation should not be attempted by children, pets, people with allergies, or others who may be disturbed by screaming (particularly their own). Always consult your family physician before lighting anyone on fire.
Actually, no true geek would ever throw their chair at anyone for fear of disrupting the comfortable, perfect ass-shaped grooves that the chair acquired over countless hours of gaming/coding/surfing pr0n.
Yep, and there's a even better chance it will work with your favourite games. Oh wait, no it won't. Never mind.
A shoot out among idiot civilians and terrorists in an airplane in flight = massive depressurization and probable aircraft loss. Good job.
I keep hearing about Intelligent Design, but the more I experience of our collosally messed up world, I can't help but wonder if the whole thing wasn't designed by something of a nitwit.
Now, if you are an American who has insurance, the US system works pretty well. Depending upon your insurance, you should get quick access to any treatment and drugs you need. However, one of several things can happen in this situation:
1) you have a co-pay that can be between 5% and 20% (in my experience). Suppose you have a catastrophic injury or sickness - that can cost $1 million really fast, and you're on the hook for up to 200k of it. I have a friend whose parents were wiped out by her father's 2 heart attacks.
2) You may be dropped by your insurance company if you become expensive. Sure, they'll cover the bill for your suddenly-discovered chronic illness. But if they find an excuse to drop you (and in some states they don't need an excuse beyond "we want to"), you can be left without insurance and it will be impossible to find new insurance because of your existing condition.
Finally, there are the working uninsured Americans (I'm unfamiliar with Medicaid so I'll ignore that for poor folks and seniors). Sure, these people can go to the emergency room and get treated for acute problems. They can't get basic healthcare though. Good like getting checkups for your kids, or a prostate test that might save your life.
The Canadian system? Universal - everyone has access to everything. Unfortunately this means everyone actually uses everything. There can be waits depending on what you need. It takes me about a month to get an appointment with my family doctor for something non-urgent. My daughter's broken leg? In and out of the emergency room in a couple of hours. My father's urgently leaded angiogram? Took about a week. Cost him nothing. A good friend was in a horrific car accident with her 3 kids. She works a low paying job and in the US she would not have had insurance. Here, the 10+ surgeries were free, the 18+ months of therapy were free. Is it perfect? No, but I'll accept a little personal inconvenience in exchange for not leaving my fellow citizens to fend for themselves.
Very true. Pity about the whole dying thing, but hey, having a good chance or losing the mother or child is the natural way.
Oh, I thought this was an article about how some blind guy patented money and was suing the US for not paying license fees. Never mind then...
Hypothetical: Let's say you run a business, and people start making what you believe to be baseless accusations about the environmental impact of your business. What do you do? NO, WAIT: You can't fund anyone who tries to scientifically demonstrate the invalidity of the accusations, because that taints the research, right?Ya, like say someone is telling people that crack is bad for them. Its only fair that you should pay teachers to tell kids the other side of the story, and encourage them to try crack, since the science is biased. When the above isn't possible, science can become political. When you can't make a thousand copies of the earth, causally separate them, randomly vary emissions, wait a hundred years, and run a regression, people have all the room the in world to reject your theories since it can't have the repeated empirical validation science relies on.So your theory is that unless we test a theory involving the earth over the course of thousands of years, that anyone questioning it has a legitimate point? Wow. Interesting theory. On that basis, I'm not convinced that it is possible to send a man to the moon. Oh sure, it happened a couple of times, but that was probably a fluke. Similarly, I'm not buying into the who acid rain thing. And I think that oil spills are GOOD for birds. Until I can see the completed experiments, say in 2150, I won't be convinced because its not good science.
When you can't engineer an entire planet's existence, start a weather system, wait a billion years, and see complex organisms evolve, you again don't have the repeated empirical validation science relies on. BEFORE YOU FLAME ME OR MOD ME DOWN, I'm not trying to dispute global warming or evolution, but rather, just pointing that you can't come up with the plain-as-day prediction and validation you can in other areas.
I have to agree. There can't possibly be enough people in the world who speak this obscure language to make it profitable for MS to do the translation. Clearly they are doing it (with the Ministry of Education's blessing) as a means to help school kids in Chile. Apparently its true - no good deed goes unpunished.
There may be places on earth where the drinking water gets cleaner if you filter it through used rubber tires, but I don't want to live there.
...welcome our new impatient overlords.
I scratch my head in wonder as people who would otherwise drive across the city to pick up their widget, now refuse to wait more than 4 seconds for their online shopping experience to load.
You can use wikipedia to do research for a 5th grade paper of the constitution. I don't, however, recommend using it to get legal advice or to figure out how to remove your own appendix...
Just so I'm clear on this, even though we can't convince governments and industry to spend the cash needed to retrofit thousands of coal burning plants in order to combat global warming, we're somehow going to be able to convince them to build "trillions" of spaceships to block the sun... Sounds like a viable plan! If only we could manufacture evidence that the sun has WMDS!