Depends on your definition of ideology. Lots of high-level predators will kill other predators or scavengers in their area (Lions kill hyenas, chimps will fight other bands of chimps that encroach on their area). A lot of our indiscriminate killing is an instinctual "us vs them" mentality that most predators share. It comes from evolving in areas with limited resources. We have just invented other ways to designate "us" and "them" by using race and religion rather than just "I don't know that guy."
Straw man. The argument really is that the specifics of Christianity is no more likely to be true than FSM. You just pretended that FSM was a subset of Christianity, but if Jesus isn't the son of god, FSM could still be true but Christianity isn't. FSM isn't a subset of Christianity.
Actually, he'd probably do fine -- US universities generally have great benefits for their employees (good health insurance policies) and tend to be pretty flexible with sick leave for professors. My dad had a brain tumor and took 2 years of sick leave without any discussion of long-term disability, etc. There was another professor who had long-term kidney failure who basically gave a couple of lectures each semester for a decade and wasn't pressured to do more than that.
If you have health insurance, the US system is hard to beat.
The better question would be how would a young blue-collar worker with ALS fare. He would be completely screwed.
My understanding is that at the time of the Constitution being ratified, owning an actual printing press was the only barrier to entry to being a journalist. That's where the phrase "freedom of the press" comes from -- once you have a printing press, you can print. If you think about it, all that's really required to be a journalist is to keep a journal.
The barrier of entry is gone to print to the public -- now you can do it from a public library's computer for free. That doesn't change the intention of the Constitution -- clearly they were saying anyone who can print to the public is allowed to print to the public, and their right to do so will not be abridged by Congress.
Just wanted to reply to your sig -- honestly, do you know how many people died in horse-related accidents when they were the primary means of transportation? They weren't particularly safe. I'm sure far fewer people HAVE been injured by nuclear power (even if you only include people who get most of their power from nuclear) than were injured by horses when everyone rode horses.
Windows is not a description of the OS, it's a description of the UI. The point Apple is making is that it's a description of EVERY modern UI, and it's not one that Microsoft invented. Everyone's heard the story of Xerox's windowed UI, followed closely (in no particular order) by Apple, various Unix/Linux UIs and Microsoft.
The generic description of any modern UI is "a collection of windows." You COULD come up with another term for what those boxes on the UI are called, but the term for them was windows long before Microsoft came out with Windows.
Ignorant shits like you give them a reason to push for DRM.
I'm certainly not going to defend the guy who's pirating books, but I don't think this gives an excuse for DRM. Quite the opposite -- this method will circumvent any DRM they apply. I don't want to pirate books. I just want to buy a book and have permanent ownership of it. I want to back up the file and put it on laptop, or ipad, or phone, or even print a copy out if I feel like it. I'm willing to pay pretty much the cost of a hard-copy book to do it. With or without DRM, the publishers already depend on the customer's goodwill to not steal from them. Why don't they try to maintain that goodwill by letting us buy the product that is already available if we were willing to steal it?
The trip would be at earliest 20 years from now, when even a newborn now would be 20 years old. My dad died when I was 27. It was sad and still makes me sad. I'd love it if he were just somewhere with a few hour delay in communications.
The US actually has more trees than when the first European set foot here. Yes many are farm trees now, but that just means we can plan ahead and replant when we harvest
Actually, the lack of biodiversity in tree farms is a real risk -- instead of having hundreds of different species competing naturally for resources, you have one species spread out over acres. One species-specific fungus can wipe out entire farms very quickly. In the wild, if the fungus can find enough of that one tree species to spread it will still only wipe out a small percentage of trees, allowing the other tree species to spread.
And how exactly did they read those text messages if their phone was in their pocket?
If a student in the first class of the day texts the questions and/or answers to a student in a later class, they could read the messages at their leisure.
Well, that sounds kind of scary when you imply he build a "Federal agent detector." But in fact, he likely got pictures of anyone who walked by his desk with a federal ID, a passport, a gas station card, a metro (subway) card, a company ID used to unlock doors, a very recent car key, or carrying a bag from Walmart.
That isn't actually useful information. All you can tell is that they are carrying an RFID. If you were looking for Federal agents at Defcon, you'd have a much better hit rate if you just took pictures of guys in suits.
But it would work just like regular light, right? When regular light hits the windshield, with our binocular vision we can judge distance, etc. If IR was emanating from an object and a film on the windshield turned it into visible light, the whole binocular vision thing should still work, right? This isn't my field, so I may be missing something.
They don't need to know my name, how old I am, what color I am, what religion I practice, my sexual orientation, etc. The rest is none of the census department's business
To be fair, there isn't any where to tell them what religion you practice or your sexual orientation even if you want to. If they want your name and birthdate, they can get it from your tax forms. The only thing that's really useful is how many people are in your household.
They say that every hour spent watching TV increases your risk of premature death by heart attack by 18%... which means that if you spend 8 hours watching TV, you will likely have died 1.44 times
No, if true it means that your odds of dieing from a heart attack would be 144% higher. If your odds were.001%, now they are.00244%
Another example would be that standing on a golf course holding up a metal stick might double your odds of getting struck by lightning (increase your chances by 100%). That doesn't mean you're guaranteed to get struck by lightning every time you lift a stick in the air, just that you're twice as likely as a guy standing between tall buildings and NOT holding a metal stick up in the air.
this was my source for 40%: http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html
Even if your unmentioned source is correct, they are still paying a higher percentage than average. The poster I replied to implied it was some kind of crime to only pay more than their share. Taxes by wealth are difficult to correlate (because we don't have a wealth tax)(yet).
You know, you could reword that as "The top 1% pays over 40% of the taxes!" Do those top 1% use 40% of the roads, military, medicaid, social security and welfare? I'm not saying they aren't getting the full benefit of access to our society, but clearly they aren't exactly freeloading on the goodwill of the 99% of the people who are paying the other 59% of the taxes.
They also only earn about 22% of the country's income, despite paying 40% of the taxes.
Yes and no. The Media also hyped the y2k issue beyond a reasonable scope. There were people convinced that planes would fall out of the sky and elevators would just stop wherever they were, that grocery stores would be looted because trucks would stop running and delivering food. The (real) problem of y2k was well handled, but it was never going to change the laws of physics so planes wouldn't work any more. THAT is why people felt let down -- if the problem was really as big as it had been hyped to be, there is no chance that we would have come out of it that cleanly.
Sin taxes are stupid. They allow rich people to "sin" more.
We're also talking about taxing the sins of the lower class instead of the upper class. It's fine to eat prime rib and tira misu with some cheese-coated appetizer, but a coke, fries and grilled chicken sandwich from McDonalds is a sin? Unless we're actually going to apply a "calorie density" tax (which would be a horrible idea, by the way), we're really taxing poor people sins and not rich people's sins. It's like if we had much harsher penalties for things like crack than for powdered cocaine, just because poor people tend to go with crack. Oh, wait, never mind.
I'm not on the developer program. I have my phone plugged into my Mac, turned on tethering in settings and a window popped up on my (Mac) screen saying a new network device had been detected. I'm pretty sure it still works on 3.1. This is with AT&T.
Sorry, but how is colonizing another planet going to prevent a catastrophic collision?
Imagine when all of what would become the human race lived in one valley in Africa. One particularly harsh winter or dry summer could wipe out the whole species, right? If that happened today it might still be a catastrophe but humanity would go on. If we had self-sufficient colonies on other planets, an asteroid could destroy the earth without killing off humanity.
I'm all for invalidating software patents, but this one seems logical to me. The Google home page is iconic
That makes it a trademark, not a patent. The difference is important. It's the difference between telling Disney they can keep their mouse silhouette as a symbol of the company and telling them they can sue anyone who creates animated animals.
Seriously, I don't know if I blame Google because someone else would probably patent the "HTML form with one text field" and sue them if they didn't. I'm hoping to patent getting frustrated with politics and politicians. Once that comes through I should be able to quit my day job.
I hope you realize that you took Vikram in Bangalore way off script with that support call.
No, although the guy did have a strong Indian accent, he said his name was Steve. He also referred me to his manager, (also named Steve, incidentally), and HIS manager (Steve, again). They had to be in the US. What are the odds of all three guys being named Steve in India?
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Depends on your definition of ideology. Lots of high-level predators will kill other predators or scavengers in their area (Lions kill hyenas, chimps will fight other bands of chimps that encroach on their area). A lot of our indiscriminate killing is an instinctual "us vs them" mentality that most predators share. It comes from evolving in areas with limited resources. We have just invented other ways to designate "us" and "them" by using race and religion rather than just "I don't know that guy."
Straw man. The argument really is that the specifics of Christianity is no more likely to be true than FSM. You just pretended that FSM was a subset of Christianity, but if Jesus isn't the son of god, FSM could still be true but Christianity isn't. FSM isn't a subset of Christianity.
Actually, he'd probably do fine -- US universities generally have great benefits for their employees (good health insurance policies) and tend to be pretty flexible with sick leave for professors. My dad had a brain tumor and took 2 years of sick leave without any discussion of long-term disability, etc. There was another professor who had long-term kidney failure who basically gave a couple of lectures each semester for a decade and wasn't pressured to do more than that.
If you have health insurance, the US system is hard to beat.
The better question would be how would a young blue-collar worker with ALS fare. He would be completely screwed.
My understanding is that at the time of the Constitution being ratified, owning an actual printing press was the only barrier to entry to being a journalist. That's where the phrase "freedom of the press" comes from -- once you have a printing press, you can print. If you think about it, all that's really required to be a journalist is to keep a journal. The barrier of entry is gone to print to the public -- now you can do it from a public library's computer for free. That doesn't change the intention of the Constitution -- clearly they were saying anyone who can print to the public is allowed to print to the public, and their right to do so will not be abridged by Congress.
nuclear power: it's safer than ponies.
Just wanted to reply to your sig -- honestly, do you know how many people died in horse-related accidents when they were the primary means of transportation? They weren't particularly safe. I'm sure far fewer people HAVE been injured by nuclear power (even if you only include people who get most of their power from nuclear) than were injured by horses when everyone rode horses.
Windows is not a description of the OS, it's a description of the UI. The point Apple is making is that it's a description of EVERY modern UI, and it's not one that Microsoft invented. Everyone's heard the story of Xerox's windowed UI, followed closely (in no particular order) by Apple, various Unix/Linux UIs and Microsoft. The generic description of any modern UI is "a collection of windows." You COULD come up with another term for what those boxes on the UI are called, but the term for them was windows long before Microsoft came out with Windows.
Ignorant shits like you give them a reason to push for DRM.
I'm certainly not going to defend the guy who's pirating books, but I don't think this gives an excuse for DRM. Quite the opposite -- this method will circumvent any DRM they apply. I don't want to pirate books. I just want to buy a book and have permanent ownership of it. I want to back up the file and put it on laptop, or ipad, or phone, or even print a copy out if I feel like it. I'm willing to pay pretty much the cost of a hard-copy book to do it. With or without DRM, the publishers already depend on the customer's goodwill to not steal from them. Why don't they try to maintain that goodwill by letting us buy the product that is already available if we were willing to steal it?
The trip would be at earliest 20 years from now, when even a newborn now would be 20 years old. My dad died when I was 27. It was sad and still makes me sad. I'd love it if he were just somewhere with a few hour delay in communications.
The US actually has more trees than when the first European set foot here. Yes many are farm trees now, but that just means we can plan ahead and replant when we harvest
Actually, the lack of biodiversity in tree farms is a real risk -- instead of having hundreds of different species competing naturally for resources, you have one species spread out over acres. One species-specific fungus can wipe out entire farms very quickly. In the wild, if the fungus can find enough of that one tree species to spread it will still only wipe out a small percentage of trees, allowing the other tree species to spread.
And how exactly did they read those text messages if their phone was in their pocket?
If a student in the first class of the day texts the questions and/or answers to a student in a later class, they could read the messages at their leisure.
Well, that sounds kind of scary when you imply he build a "Federal agent detector." But in fact, he likely got pictures of anyone who walked by his desk with a federal ID, a passport, a gas station card, a metro (subway) card, a company ID used to unlock doors, a very recent car key, or carrying a bag from Walmart. That isn't actually useful information. All you can tell is that they are carrying an RFID. If you were looking for Federal agents at Defcon, you'd have a much better hit rate if you just took pictures of guys in suits.
I'd say "the touch of a woman," but that's probably insurmountable for you, too.
You're right. I tried with your mom, but she was quite insurmountable.
On the contrary, I found his mother quite mountable.
But it would work just like regular light, right? When regular light hits the windshield, with our binocular vision we can judge distance, etc. If IR was emanating from an object and a film on the windshield turned it into visible light, the whole binocular vision thing should still work, right? This isn't my field, so I may be missing something.
I thought the bidding would start at $0.99999574
Well, that would be a higher bid than $1. We need to work up to $0.99999574
They don't need to know my name, how old I am, what color I am, what religion I practice, my sexual orientation, etc. The rest is none of the census department's business
To be fair, there isn't any where to tell them what religion you practice or your sexual orientation even if you want to. If they want your name and birthdate, they can get it from your tax forms. The only thing that's really useful is how many people are in your household.
They say that every hour spent watching TV increases your risk of premature death by heart attack by 18%... which means that if you spend 8 hours watching TV, you will likely have died 1.44 times
No, if true it means that your odds of dieing from a heart attack would be 144% higher. If your odds were .001%, now they are .00244%
Another example would be that standing on a golf course holding up a metal stick might double your odds of getting struck by lightning (increase your chances by 100%). That doesn't mean you're guaranteed to get struck by lightning every time you lift a stick in the air, just that you're twice as likely as a guy standing between tall buildings and NOT holding a metal stick up in the air.
this was my source for 40%: http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html Even if your unmentioned source is correct, they are still paying a higher percentage than average. The poster I replied to implied it was some kind of crime to only pay more than their share. Taxes by wealth are difficult to correlate (because we don't have a wealth tax)(yet).
The top 1% pays less than 42% of the taxes.
You know, you could reword that as "The top 1% pays over 40% of the taxes!" Do those top 1% use 40% of the roads, military, medicaid, social security and welfare? I'm not saying they aren't getting the full benefit of access to our society, but clearly they aren't exactly freeloading on the goodwill of the 99% of the people who are paying the other 59% of the taxes.
They also only earn about 22% of the country's income, despite paying 40% of the taxes.
How can you dismiss something that doesn't exist?
Uh, you made good points until this. How can you NOT dismiss something that doesn't exist?
Yes and no. The Media also hyped the y2k issue beyond a reasonable scope. There were people convinced that planes would fall out of the sky and elevators would just stop wherever they were, that grocery stores would be looted because trucks would stop running and delivering food. The (real) problem of y2k was well handled, but it was never going to change the laws of physics so planes wouldn't work any more. THAT is why people felt let down -- if the problem was really as big as it had been hyped to be, there is no chance that we would have come out of it that cleanly.
Sin taxes are stupid. They allow rich people to "sin" more.
We're also talking about taxing the sins of the lower class instead of the upper class. It's fine to eat prime rib and tira misu with some cheese-coated appetizer, but a coke, fries and grilled chicken sandwich from McDonalds is a sin? Unless we're actually going to apply a "calorie density" tax (which would be a horrible idea, by the way), we're really taxing poor people sins and not rich people's sins. It's like if we had much harsher penalties for things like crack than for powdered cocaine, just because poor people tend to go with crack. Oh, wait, never mind.
I'm not on the developer program. I have my phone plugged into my Mac, turned on tethering in settings and a window popped up on my (Mac) screen saying a new network device had been detected. I'm pretty sure it still works on 3.1. This is with AT&T.
Sorry, but how is colonizing another planet going to prevent a catastrophic collision?
Imagine when all of what would become the human race lived in one valley in Africa. One particularly harsh winter or dry summer could wipe out the whole species, right? If that happened today it might still be a catastrophe but humanity would go on. If we had self-sufficient colonies on other planets, an asteroid could destroy the earth without killing off humanity.
I'm all for invalidating software patents, but this one seems logical to me. The Google home page is iconic
That makes it a trademark, not a patent. The difference is important. It's the difference between telling Disney they can keep their mouse silhouette as a symbol of the company and telling them they can sue anyone who creates animated animals.
Seriously, I don't know if I blame Google because someone else would probably patent the "HTML form with one text field" and sue them if they didn't. I'm hoping to patent getting frustrated with politics and politicians. Once that comes through I should be able to quit my day job.
I hope you realize that you took Vikram in Bangalore way off script with that support call.
No, although the guy did have a strong Indian accent, he said his name was Steve. He also referred me to his manager, (also named Steve, incidentally), and HIS manager (Steve, again). They had to be in the US. What are the odds of all three guys being named Steve in India?