It will still happen. The day an implant will give a better result than glasses / lenses someone will do it. Need to upgrade an old implant? Replace the eye... Need to upgrade that old, out of date eye replacement and the fried nerve endings? Direct brain interface... Need to replace that worn old body...
In a hundred years time your "There's no place in the human body for an upgrade slot" will be hold in the same regard as we have for the Amish lifestyle.
I assume you're getting at the idea that a job pays something tangible, while a religion's promises are intangible.
The difference is not between tangible and intangible, but the ability of the one making the promise to show his/her ability to make good on the promise.
Your employer shows his/her ability to make good on the promise every month, and you probably would evaluate a new employers ability to pay you before you accept a new job.
An intangible example would be love. You accept a promise of lifelong love when you get married, because your partner has shown his / her ability and willingness to make good on the promise of love. If someone offered you a "love-stone" and promised lifelong love from the stone, you'd be sceptical. There is no way to ascertain the stones capacity for love.
What if I were to say that "promising $100k if you just show up to work, write some software, and make sure that software works is just preying on the fear of poverty"?
If you don't see the difference between your example and a religious promise, it's going to be difficult to continue the discussion.
There are many who prey on peoples fear of poverty, but those who pay programmers $100k a year are not among them.
The purpose of medicine is to cure disease, not cure the fear of disease.
Christianity has traditionally increased the fear of death (fire and brimstone and all that). Your brand of chrisitinity might not be like that, but it's still a strong part of all major brands of christianity.
Do you think it would have been that popular if it didn't promise eternal life?
I still feel that promising eternal life if you just do x-y-z definitely is preying on the fear of death.
Might it not just be that having a kid with ADHD or ADD puts a hell of a strain on a marriage?
If they don't get married BEFORE the kids are born? I think you have it backwards.
Depends on what is actually measured.
If only kids who's been brought up in a single parent household since birth is counted in the statistics you quote my point is irrelevant. If kids who's father has left on some point between birth and diagnosis is also counted as having been brought up in a fatherless household, my point stands (although, I should have not used the word married but relationship).
The one fact that keeps rearing its head is that even after you take out other socioeconomic variables, ADD and ADHD is much more prevalent in fatherless households. There is a very high correlation. And yes, I know correlation!=causation. However, you have to make some pretty big leaps of faith to get around it. Dads have a much different parenting style and discipline style than moms. It stands to reason that this would have an impact on the outcome of the children.
It's a pretty big leap of faith to claim parenting style has that kind of effect on a child's brain.
Might it not just be that having a kid with ADHD or ADD puts a hell of a strain on a marriage?
Having actually used Bing I think the click through rate has more to do with the accuracy of the links given by bing than the stupidity of the users. After the 10th useless link the mind starts to wander, and the adverts start to look like a better source of information compared to returning to bing for yet another try.
I've not yet made a search with Bing that actually returned anything useful, unless you count the adsense adverts on the page you land on.
The experiment was a HUGE success, over 50% of those who downloaded paid. It's a miracle 50% of the downloaders even had access to a valid credit card. Mr Stephen King just had a VERY unrealistic view on the share of internetusers with a valid means of paying for something over the internet in year 2000 (and willingness to give credit card details over the net). Anything above 10% for a tip jar business model is fantastic results.
Not to mention the HUGE ego the man must have to assume 75% would actually like it and be willing to pay him to continue.
If he'd settled on a set sum for each chapter that needed to be reached before the next got published, that would have been a much better business model.
Don't expect this to be the last word on the matter, the politicians just don't want to rock the boat right now.
The Minister of culture has openly supported the vigilante tactics of the "pirate-hunters", but this is probably not the right time of the 4-year election cycle to do anything drastic. During the last election the same man promised to re-legalese file sharing. The statement was retracted only days after a surprising high turnout of young voters won him and his party the election...
Clone reactivation is a real ISK sink, and probably a big one. Implants are also ISK sinks to some extent, they cannot be made by players and they usually require ISK+LP to buy from LP stores (they also drop as loot, and those have no ISK sink function).
I refer to artificial segmentation of the market in order to sell the SAME product for different prices in the different markets. This is NOT an essential part of a free market, it's the exact opposite.
I'm not talking about localization or adoptions to niche markets.
The corporate world needs to make a choice. Do they want globalization or not. They can't have it both ways. We can't accept one global market for labor and segmented consumer goods markets.
It's probably too late to reverse course on the global labor market. That leaves us with making it illegal to segment any market.
They are still probing 99% innocent people. Arguing that the 160 000 people being probed is a too small fraction of the total passenger base for it to matter is just silly. The criteria for being probed are obviously not good enough to pick up anything with any reasonable chance of success.
And I find the whole "let's use the terrorist scare to invade peoples privacy" and arrest them for minor crimes to be totally acceptable. If the system had a 1% successrate for picking up terrorists, it might be worthwhile, but I find it absolutely incredible that seemingly intelligent people (you read slashdot) justify that amounts to illegal searches because it discovers some petty criminals. The exact same argument could be used for ANY search.
So you think performing questionable searches of 160 000 people at the airport is perfectly fine? And arresting people for infractions not related to the search based on the results? I hope not many people share your views. That kind of reasoning ends up with some very depressing scenarios very fast.
If you'd pulled over 160 000 cars and searched them on the highway on "suspicions of terrorism" you'd probably get 1200 arrests for various minor infractions as well. Or if you searched 160 000 houses, or random people on the street....
With a accuracy of less than 1% for any crime it obviously doesn't work. It can't be that much better than a random search.
More or less all of the webshops here have it listed. ETA ranges from tomorrow for the two largest shops to the end of the month for the smaller shops.
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You can expect gas prices between $10 and $15 / gallon by 2020.
I hope it gets considerably higher ($20-$25).
They get to pay dividends and call it an expense? Sounds like a smart tax move.
It will still happen. ...
The day an implant will give a better result than glasses / lenses someone will do it.
Need to upgrade an old implant? Replace the eye...
Need to upgrade that old, out of date eye replacement and the fried nerve endings? Direct brain interface...
Need to replace that worn old body
In a hundred years time your "There's no place in the human body for an upgrade slot" will be hold in the same regard as we have for the Amish lifestyle.
The GTX260 and up are new chips.
GTX250 is a die shrunk 9 series (9800gtx+)
I assume you're getting at the idea that a job pays something tangible, while a religion's promises are intangible.
The difference is not between tangible and intangible, but the ability of the one making the promise to show his/her ability to make good on the promise.
Your employer shows his/her ability to make good on the promise every month, and you probably would evaluate a new employers ability to pay you before you accept a new job.
An intangible example would be love. You accept a promise of lifelong love when you get married, because your partner has shown his / her ability and willingness to make good on the promise of love. If someone offered you a "love-stone" and promised lifelong love from the stone, you'd be sceptical. There is no way to ascertain the stones capacity for love.
What if I were to say that "promising $100k if you just show up to work, write some software, and make sure that software works is just preying on the fear of poverty"?
If you don't see the difference between your example and a religious promise, it's going to be difficult to continue the discussion.
There are many who prey on peoples fear of poverty, but those who pay programmers $100k a year are not among them.
The purpose of medicine is to cure disease, not cure the fear of disease.
Christianity has traditionally increased the fear of death (fire and brimstone and all that). Your brand of chrisitinity might not be like that, but it's still a strong part of all major brands of christianity.
Do you think it would have been that popular if it didn't promise eternal life?
I still feel that promising eternal life if you just do x-y-z definitely is preying on the fear of death.
Swoooosh...
any Christian who believes the New Testament has absolutely no reason to fear death
This is exactly how Christianity preys on the fear of life and death.
Might it not just be that having a kid with ADHD or ADD puts a hell of a strain on a marriage?
If they don't get married BEFORE the kids are born? I think you have it backwards.
Depends on what is actually measured.
If only kids who's been brought up in a single parent household since birth is counted in the statistics you quote my point is irrelevant.
If kids who's father has left on some point between birth and diagnosis is also counted as having been brought up in a fatherless household, my point stands (although, I should have not used the word married but relationship).
The one fact that keeps rearing its head is that even after you take out other socioeconomic variables, ADD and ADHD is much more prevalent in fatherless households. There is a very high correlation. And yes, I know correlation!=causation. However, you have to make some pretty big leaps of faith to get around it. Dads have a much different parenting style and discipline style than moms. It stands to reason that this would have an impact on the outcome of the children.
It's a pretty big leap of faith to claim parenting style has that kind of effect on a child's brain.
Might it not just be that having a kid with ADHD or ADD puts a hell of a strain on a marriage?
Having actually used Bing I think the click through rate has more to do with the accuracy of the links given by bing than the stupidity of the users. After the 10th useless link the mind starts to wander, and the adverts start to look like a better source of information compared to returning to bing for yet another try.
I've not yet made a search with Bing that actually returned anything useful, unless you count the adsense adverts on the page you land on.
The experiment was a HUGE success, over 50% of those who downloaded paid. It's a miracle 50% of the downloaders even had access to a valid credit card. Mr Stephen King just had a VERY unrealistic view on the share of internetusers with a valid means of paying for something over the internet in year 2000 (and willingness to give credit card details over the net). Anything above 10% for a tip jar business model is fantastic results.
Not to mention the HUGE ego the man must have to assume 75% would actually like it and be willing to pay him to continue.
If he'd settled on a set sum for each chapter that needed to be reached before the next got published, that would have been a much better business model.
Don't expect this to be the last word on the matter, the politicians just don't want to rock the boat right now.
The Minister of culture has openly supported the vigilante tactics of the "pirate-hunters", but this is probably not the right time of the 4-year election cycle to do anything drastic.
During the last election the same man promised to re-legalese file sharing. The statement was retracted only days after a surprising high turnout of young voters won him and his party the election...
Clone reactivation is a real ISK sink, and probably a big one.
Implants are also ISK sinks to some extent, they cannot be made by players and they usually require ISK+LP to buy from LP stores (they also drop as loot, and those have no ISK sink function).
Failed sectors are supposed to still be readable. The controller on the disk just sets them as read only when they fail.
I refer to artificial segmentation of the market in order to sell the SAME product for different prices in the different markets. This is NOT an essential part of a free market, it's the exact opposite.
I'm not talking about localization or adoptions to niche markets.
The corporate world needs to make a choice. Do they want globalization or not. They can't have it both ways. We can't accept one global market for labor and segmented consumer goods markets.
It's probably too late to reverse course on the global labor market. That leaves us with making it illegal to segment any market.
Add 15-25% VAT in most of Europe.
You usually have to pay a handling fee to the shipping company to handle the VAT payment.
Your post made sense up until you suggesting putting guns on planes.
It removes the need for the most difficult part of carrying out a terrorist act with / on a plane. Get a weapon on board.
1200 people arrested on unrelated crimes is a failure.
160 000 people harassed is a failure.
Guess where the text is missing the letters UN
They are still probing 99% innocent people. Arguing that the 160 000 people being probed is a too small fraction of the total passenger base for it to matter is just silly. The criteria for being probed are obviously not good enough to pick up anything with any reasonable chance of success.
And I find the whole "let's use the terrorist scare to invade peoples privacy" and arrest them for minor crimes to be totally acceptable. If the system had a 1% successrate for picking up terrorists, it might be worthwhile, but I find it absolutely incredible that seemingly intelligent people (you read slashdot) justify that amounts to illegal searches because it discovers some petty criminals. The exact same argument could be used for ANY search.
Picking out 160.000 people at random, or based on a border guard's hunch would likely have gotten as many hits.
Sounds like a waste of money to me.
Sounds like a serious threat to civil liberties to me. The money involved is of little interest.
So you think performing questionable searches of 160 000 people at the airport is perfectly fine? And arresting people for infractions not related to the search based on the results? I hope not many people share your views. That kind of reasoning ends up with some very depressing scenarios very fast.
If you'd pulled over 160 000 cars and searched them on the highway on "suspicions of terrorism" you'd probably get 1200 arrests for various minor infractions as well. Or if you searched 160 000 houses, or random people on the street....
With a accuracy of less than 1% for any crime it obviously doesn't work. It can't be that much better than a random search.
More or less all of the webshops here have it listed. ETA ranges from tomorrow for the two largest shops to the end of the month for the smaller shops.