The War on Drugs is the reason there are illegal meth labs. If that shit was legal and could come from OHSA-compliant lab there would be no need for illegal labs in apartments.
Except that some types of people would always be willing to cook their own to avoid paying for the OSHA-compliant stuff.
The nation would also have a sudden increase in its need for dentists/oral surgeons.
At least your car doesn't ring with a robocall telling you your phone warranty is nearly expired... you're in the store and suddenly a voice on the store's intercom system announces your license plate number and says, "your car will be towed if you do not shut off its alarm within five minutes; it's been wreaking havoc in the lot for 20 minutes already!"
That might help channel surfers, especially if they have short-term memory loss due to having the commercials/ads synchronized among all available channels, especially when it's the SAME annoying ad playing on all channels simultaneously, or playing not-quite-synchronously, giving a department-store echoing sound as channels are changed.
I've always thought the GPU manufacturers should have gone with processing cores optimized for voxels instead of polygons. It seemed to me, 13-14 years ago, like that would provide optimal future development potential. What would be different by now if our GPUs had been fast voxel-pushers instead of fast polygon-pushers?
. ..scientists believe they will have a drug within the next 5-10 years that will extend the average human lifespan to 150 years.
This quote from the summary implies that ONLY the people who take that drug will have an extended lifespan, meaning that the average human lifespan will be mostly unchanged from what it is now. Only the subset of humans who use that drug (and, if anything is passed on genetically, their offspring) will be affected.
Female fertility will still end at the same age... Once the eggs gone, its gone, game over.
Not if puberty is delayed until around age 40. Or what if the female reproductive cycle were slowed down accordingly, instead?
Man, if that (late-onset puberty) happens, technology advancement will slow dramatically and poor judgment will reign....
Then again, maybe people will just be kids for 50 years and scientists will have much longer mentally-active lifetimes, thereby accelerating tech advancement!
Right...because if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. That's totally how it works.
There is no "whitelist". There is the "not yet on the blacklist".
Thank you for clarifying what I said. "Out of sight, out of mind" seems somehow applicable.
But I hope your "But I'm innocent!" theory works out for you. Are you a billionaire? Maybe then it will work out.
If anyone has legitimate evidence showing guilt, "But I'm innocent!" will probably not help unless it's the truth from my perspective; I could have no prior knowledge of my guilt.
A billionaire (or anyone with a certain familiar-looking toupee or other "Trump card" in play) might have clout (via unspoken intimidation and effect/unnoticed bias in the minds of others) when everyone involved in the determination of guilt is aware of the defendant's financial reserves or appearance, but if you're implying bribery, well, that sounds illegal. Even if the billionaire is innocent to begin with and although it might help him/her to get an innocent verdict or case dismissal regardless, a bribe might add another infraction to his/her file and/or a bolded entry in the blacklist. *shrug*
I can imagine all the SRO companies opening new HBO (Human Behavior (tracking) Optimization) departments.
As long as the HBT has more benefits than drawbacks, I don't mind. I engage in no illegal social networking behaviors (or illegal behaviors following or preceding said interactions) and if that helps them to whitelist me and others like me, that is a good thing.
Being on a government whitelist (e.g. not being listed on an FBI watchlist or equivalent) is probably far better than the alternative.
U.S. Intelligence has hired social scientists to mine the vast resources of the Internet
Just a point, stop calling them "social scientists", they are not scientists, and it degrades the value of hard science of myself and others here that went to university for.
I understand your complaint and believe it has merit. However, it seems that a "social scientist" is merely someone educated in Social Science, which, by my (or your) definition is not a "hard science." Referring to them as "social scientists" rather than "scientists" seems to be the distinguishing factor. A definition from the Web:
Once, I asked my uncle whether his post-graduate/doctoral degrees meant that he is a "chemical physicist" or a "physical chemist"; he responded, "It depends on who you ask!"
I was left with the impression that someone who is more chemistry-inclined would probably use the latter and a physics-oriented person would use the former, regardless of my uncle's personal preference. Of course, both chemistry and physics qualify as "true sciences," whereas "Social Science" is more often lumped in with Humanities and Arts.
Make sure you mention observations to scientists or people with naturally-inquisitive natures (who are probably scientists of a sort anyway) and not to "common people," though, or you're likely to offend people all the time. I know that from personal experience.
Yeah, it's always annoying when you're trying to be unseen and then you realize your clothes have been washed with soap or fabric softener containing fluorescent whiteners! I hate that, but they seem to be common in fabric-cleaning products in the USA....
What about that cool pinball animation from the 1970s? 1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10, 11 12! Maybe it didn't teach children to use a base-12 number system, but it probably helped some of them to learn that numbers exist in addition to the customary 10 digits on their hands. Atypical kids already had 12 fingers, but that's a subject for another conversation.
The gentleman who wrote this article complains, "why has it taken nearly 50 years for the contents of this material to be made fully public?" He fails to understand the simplest reason: the public doesn't really care enough. That is to say, some members of the public might care enough to read parts of a translation.
IMO, it's taken as long as it has because the scrolls were anciently written on papyrus or some other cloth or paper and stuffed together for storage. Some were preserved better than others, but still, IIRC, these papyrus and/or whatever-substance fragments can be very difficult to separate ("unroll") and in some cases have been reassembled manually. I am NOT an expert on the DSS. Another factor, of course, is the frequent political turmoil in the Middle East.
Also, as technology to analyze ancient stuck-together papyri has improved, reanalysis would seem to be required for much of the analyzed portions for the analyses to be scientifically valid. FWIW.Also.And.Too.For Chemists and ACS Admirers.For gnostics.
Excellent revision to my "meaningless-as-hell".sig!
However, if it's that meaningless, wouldn't it also be as meaningful as hell? I don't want to perpetuate the redundancy of its meaninglessness when it's equally as meaningful. Heh. Oh, ouch. I really need to wake up before I type myself into a lake of logorrhea.
Darn it, I bought this inexpensive prosthetic arm from a bootlegger/bootarmer somewhere in Asia and sometimes it flails uncontrollably for between 0.5 and 2 seconds. I'm truly sorry it spilled your snack and you missed that scene. May I compensate you for the wasted theater popcorn? FWIW, my wife can't sleep in the same bed with me if I've forgotten to remove it, if that's any consolation.
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The War on Drugs is the reason there are illegal meth labs. If that shit was legal and could come from OHSA-compliant lab there would be no need for illegal labs in apartments.
Except that some types of people would always be willing to cook their own to avoid paying for the OSHA-compliant stuff.
The nation would also have a sudden increase in its need for dentists/oral surgeons.
At least your car doesn't ring with a robocall telling you your phone warranty is nearly expired... you're in the store and suddenly a voice on the store's intercom system announces your license plate number and says, "your car will be towed if you do not shut off its alarm within five minutes; it's been wreaking havoc in the lot for 20 minutes already!"
That might help channel surfers, especially if they have short-term memory loss due to having the commercials/ads synchronized among all available channels, especially when it's the SAME annoying ad playing on all channels simultaneously, or playing not-quite-synchronously, giving a department-store echoing sound as channels are changed.
It depends upon how fast you drive and which route you take.
That's why a "dirt pattern visible from the exterior but not as much from the interior" would be beneficial to flying birds (and running animals).
I've always thought the GPU manufacturers should have gone with processing cores optimized for voxels instead of polygons. It seemed to me, 13-14 years ago, like that would provide optimal future development potential. What would be different by now if our GPUs had been fast voxel-pushers instead of fast polygon-pushers?
. . .some kind of concentrated industrial strength chilli.
Industrial-strength chili? Is that the kind that industries have to use to ensure their GI tracts are grime-free?
. . .scientists believe they will have a drug within the next 5-10 years that will extend the average human lifespan to 150 years.
This quote from the summary implies that ONLY the people who take that drug will have an extended lifespan, meaning that the average human lifespan will be mostly unchanged from what it is now. Only the subset of humans who use that drug (and, if anything is passed on genetically, their offspring) will be affected.
I read somewhere that once your teeth start to fall out, you're meant to be dead already.
You read it on the wall of an anciently-inhabited cave, perhaps? :)
Female fertility will still end at the same age... Once the eggs gone, its gone, game over.
Not if puberty is delayed until around age 40. Or what if the female reproductive cycle were slowed down accordingly, instead?
Man, if that (late-onset puberty) happens, technology advancement will slow dramatically and poor judgment will reign....
Then again, maybe people will just be kids for 50 years and scientists will have much longer mentally-active lifetimes, thereby accelerating tech advancement!
Right...because if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. That's totally how it works.
There is no "whitelist". There is the "not yet on the blacklist".
Thank you for clarifying what I said. "Out of sight, out of mind" seems somehow applicable.
But I hope your "But I'm innocent!" theory works out for you. Are you a billionaire? Maybe then it will work out.
If anyone has legitimate evidence showing guilt, "But I'm innocent!" will probably not help unless it's the truth from my perspective; I could have no prior knowledge of my guilt.
A billionaire (or anyone with a certain familiar-looking toupee or other "Trump card" in play) might have clout (via unspoken intimidation and effect/unnoticed bias in the minds of others) when everyone involved in the determination of guilt is aware of the defendant's financial reserves or appearance, but if you're implying bribery, well, that sounds illegal. Even if the billionaire is innocent to begin with and although it might help him/her to get an innocent verdict or case dismissal regardless, a bribe might add another infraction to his/her file and/or a bolded entry in the blacklist. *shrug*
That reminds me of the type of phrasing I used in grade school to ensure my "book report" (or whatever) would meet the required number of words.
I can imagine all the SRO companies opening new HBO (Human Behavior (tracking) Optimization) departments.
As long as the HBT has more benefits than drawbacks, I don't mind. I engage in no illegal social networking behaviors (or illegal behaviors following or preceding said interactions) and if that helps them to whitelist me and others like me, that is a good thing.
Being on a government whitelist (e.g. not being listed on an FBI watchlist or equivalent) is probably far better than the alternative.
U.S. Intelligence has hired social scientists to mine the vast resources of the Internet
Just a point, stop calling them "social scientists", they are not scientists, and it degrades the value of hard science of myself and others here that went to university for.
I understand your complaint and believe it has merit. However, it seems that a "social scientist" is merely someone educated in Social Science, which, by my (or your) definition is not a "hard science." Referring to them as "social scientists" rather than "scientists" seems to be the distinguishing factor. A definition from the Web:
. someone expert in the study of human society and its personal relationships
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Once, I asked my uncle whether his post-graduate/doctoral degrees meant that he is a "chemical physicist" or a "physical chemist"; he responded, "It depends on who you ask!"
I was left with the impression that someone who is more chemistry-inclined would probably use the latter and a physics-oriented person would use the former, regardless of my uncle's personal preference. Of course, both chemistry and physics qualify as "true sciences," whereas "Social Science" is more often lumped in with Humanities and Arts.
Make sure you mention observations to scientists or people with naturally-inquisitive natures (who are probably scientists of a sort anyway) and not to "common people," though, or you're likely to offend people all the time. I know that from personal experience.
Yeah, and time machines, too.
Yeah, it's always annoying when you're trying to be unseen and then you realize your clothes have been washed with soap or fabric softener containing fluorescent whiteners! I hate that, but they seem to be common in fabric-cleaning products in the USA....
Yee-haw. "Pillow Fluffer" in New Reno, if I recall correctly a job you could get in Fallout or Fallout 2.
What about that cool pinball animation from the 1970s? 1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10, 11 12! Maybe it didn't teach children to use a base-12 number system, but it probably helped some of them to learn that numbers exist in addition to the customary 10 digits on their hands. Atypical kids already had 12 fingers, but that's a subject for another conversation.
"Upgrading your desktop PC's video card was once a rite of passage for many Slashdot readers[...]
was once? ahem.... still is?
The gentleman who wrote this article complains, "why has it taken nearly 50 years for the contents of this material to be made fully public?" He fails to understand the simplest reason: the public doesn't really care enough. That is to say, some members of the public might care enough to read parts of a translation.
IMO, it's taken as long as it has because the scrolls were anciently written on papyrus or some other cloth or paper and stuffed together for storage. Some were preserved better than others, but still, IIRC, these papyrus and/or whatever-substance fragments can be very difficult to separate ("unroll") and in some cases have been reassembled manually. I am NOT an expert on the DSS. Another factor, of course, is the frequent political turmoil in the Middle East.
Also, as technology to analyze ancient stuck-together papyri has improved, reanalysis would seem to be required for much of the analyzed portions for the analyses to be scientifically valid. FWIW. Also. And. Too. For Chemists and ACS Admirers. For gnostics.
I'm sure you can find many other points of view.
Excellent revision to my "meaningless-as-hell" .sig!
However, if it's that meaningless, wouldn't it also be as meaningful as hell? I don't want to perpetuate the redundancy of its meaninglessness when it's equally as meaningful. Heh. Oh, ouch. I really need to wake up before I type myself into a lake of logorrhea.
Thanks for the comment :)
Darn it, I bought this inexpensive prosthetic arm from a bootlegger/bootarmer somewhere in Asia and sometimes it flails uncontrollably for between 0.5 and 2 seconds. I'm truly sorry it spilled your snack and you missed that scene. May I compensate you for the wasted theater popcorn? FWIW, my wife can't sleep in the same bed with me if I've forgotten to remove it, if that's any consolation.
[Re: to an extent] this is most assuredly true.
...hence the inherent love a mother typically feels for her [self-built] child(ren).
Mike Tyson former heavyweight boxing champion is a lifelong Pigeon Fancier.