" Hahaha, as a European I find it amusing how your half-baked, badly implemented safety nets are taken as evidence that there shouldn't be any at all. And we always get flak for being wasteful socialist commies.
I had to visit a welfare office, too, at one stage. It was embarrasing but helped me get through that bad period. It's not like our system is perfect but I'm grateful and now happily pay my taxes to help others in the same position. It also helps to know that only the absolute minimum is spent on non-productive stuff like defence. "
- I agree wholeheartedly with this. Although a welfare system can never be perfect, and it can never stop someone trying to abuse it, not having one is detrimental to normal people who should be the ones who have to use it.
If all Obama fixes is the welfare system, then he'll be your greatest president ever, it's a shame you won't realize it until after he is out of office.
they're looking into raytracing ''because'' they're graphic cards are so bad. They can't be bothered to juice up their video graphics department and productivity, so they're trying to make the world change, instead of Intel changing their ways.
- They would be a lot better off if they would just stop making graphics processors altogether and let ATI, Nvidia do the integrated graphics, or better yet, motherboard makers should bloody well realize that intel integrated is crap and stop buying integrated graphics from intel.
The scary thing about that quote is that he's probably not the only one who thinks like this.
why is it scary? Because he's a terrorist and wants to scare people in doing things to his own religious/political ideas, no matter what the facts say about which policies really work and which don't.
You know those freaky right-wing arabs who shout jihad at anything american? Well meet your american counterpart. anyone who wishes obama to fail is no better than a bloody terrorist.
"Did they copy it?" - Don't know, but it works nicely
I recently had to reinstall my OS, and as everyone could download the windows 7 beta, I jumped at the chance.
I must say, I like what they did with the bar, the feel and use of it is intuitive and useful.
Think of it as context sensitive quicklaunch icons, if the program isn't working, when you mouse over the icon you see a small dot of light, left-click it, and you open up the program. If the program is working, when you mouse over the icon you see a glowing hue on the icon, and if you have multiple windows open a second graphical hint is added so you know there are multiple windows open. I also love that you always know exactly where the icon for your program is, if there's perhaps 5-10 programs you always use every day, and like to have in a certain order on the taskbar, they stay in that order no matter what programs you open up first, something I was pleasantly surprised by.
I however have a large monitor, not so sure how well the taskbar behaves on smaller monitors if you have alot of icons.
Only thing I've come across in the UI that I'm uncomfortable with is that when I alt-tab from a fullscreen program to a browser window (as an example), if I alt-tab again, I'd expect to get back into the full-screen program, but that's not what happens, I have to shift-alt-tab to get back into the full-screen program, something I find annoying as I'm used to the other.
Well, let's put your comments into perspective, what you describe is a strategy to combat this new situation that everyone can freely download a song over the internet. It's a new side to the music business, and you've made the basic philosophical decision that this is bad and will kill the business. However, let me make it abundantly clear, nowhere has this been proven. But based on your basic philosophy of "sharing is bad" you then have strategised a plan to "save" it by attacking the very people you want to buy your product. You burn bridges to your market to close off the danger that you lose control of the product.
There is another strategy.. Let them. If you realize that music is inherently memetic, meaning it automatically spreads between people, and if you realize that there is a difference between a person enjoying music and a person being a fan and wants to support it, then you realize that internet downloads only help, and never hinder. It literally creates new music fans who want to make the music they like a part of their life.
The thing with the music industry, the more you give the more you get for what you give, and free downloads is the best way for any artist who is looking to profit from their music, it's free promotion.
Linux right now is for the mildly tech-savvy computer user (before it was for the tech-savvy computer professional).
I look forward to the non-tech users trying to use it, hopefully they can point out what problems are with it, and hopefully the people who can help with fixing that will listen.
2 things which will be obstacles, the arrogance of the people who actually are capable of solving the mundane problems of the non-tech users, and how the solutions will be implemented.
for instance.. for that girl to solve her problems, she would have had to 1) get information from the internet company how to set up her internet connection via linux and when (if?) that was solved 2) know how to search for stuff in google.
I'm guessing that the best way forward would be to have a desktop background saying "in trouble? Search Google.com for an answer. Can't get on the internet? Ask your Internet service provider for assistance". I think that should cover most of the linux problems.
I can just imagine what the desktop background would have been for the tech-pro.. "Are you MAN enough?"
Interesting that it matters where an american was taken and held captive without reason. The fact that this is what they did to an american, and even knowingly used subterfuge so that they didn't have to uphold to the rights and freedom that americans think they deserve.
Which is the more important question "Are there or have there ever been americans in Gitmo", or "Have americans been victims of these terror laws"
I don't give a crap about the first one, it's the second one which is important, and the answer, as seen by your own reply is yes, they have.
As this has segwayed a little into oral hygiene products.. can anyone tell me why there are so many different varieties of toothpaste, even from the same manufacturer? Is there any real science behind some of these, or is it just the same crap with different colours/taste?
Would love to know more, haven't really found anything about it.
I've been thinking about why this kind of thing is a problem, and I think I've come up with a perhaps a reason.
When we see something or become aware of a situation, then instantly we feel affected, it's a very natural way of thinking. Examples are: People watching sports; when the players make a goal/score/do well we enjoy it, it affects us. People watching someone singing, their singing affects us. Watching movies also affects us. There are negative examples as well, when a man rapes a woman because of how she is dressed, when a community bans gays to wed.
What combats this thinking is the idea of "freedom of the individual" - which is a modern, western ideal which goes against this kind of thinking. Freedom of the individual means no matter what the free person does, as long as it has nothing to do with me, they're free to do it.
Thus gay weddings, women breastfeeding in public, people eating smelly foods on certain holidays, people enjoying crap music within listening distance and any other activity which doesn't affect other people directly should be allowed.
- Thing is, "freedom of the individual" is a learned thing.. it's not something people naturally accept, they have to change their thinking to accommodate it, and the only place really which teaches us this are schools, and only certain classes in school, so I'm not surprised when something like this pops up, because "freedom of the individual" needs to be agreed upon by everyone and that's not going to happen with a low-education society.
I don't think alot of people understand the linux/OSS reality. The the rule of OSS is; 1) the tools are out there 2) it's free to use 3) go do it yourself.
Everytime something is added it's either because a) someone payed a programmer to do it and for some reason gave it away b) a programmer needs it and did it himself and for some reason gave it away or c) someone learning or trying to break into the business took it upon himself to do it and gave it away to get attention.
If that is what drives the OSS, then OSS games will follow the same paradigm, and you have to start doing it yourself.
I'd say C) will help the situation the best, but that's only if they have the tools around to make games, so anyone interested in seeing more games on Linux will have to start with something simple, completely open and editable by anyone.. Of course, the big corporations have already captured some of that in littlebigplanet and spore, but any person who can create the tools to create a game, somehow create interchanging programming parts which can themselves be individually worked on when someone bored wants a challenge, that would be a good first step.
I'd say games for linux is already here with flash games, but you'd all snort and whine for more "real" games, and that will happen.. when someone else goes and does it because you're not going to, are you?
AMD is doing alot to make sure that their drivers will be good when the gaming crowd finally hits onto linux, freeware games have and can survive with being ad-supported, and I'm seeing the next REAL step is that some game company who is releasing free ad-based games (or MMORPG games) develop them for linux as well as windows.
It's a sign of security theatre, they wanted people to feel secure about Vista, so they added a lot of "yes" clicks, which people ultimately won't read and thus the critical 1% of warnings which actually matter will get ignored as well.
They do it because in the end they can say that vista did notify you, and you ignored it so it's not their problem. Security theatre at it's best (worst?)
I'm hoping that Microsoft understands that this theatre is not helping security, and actively try to monitor what messages can be removed from the UAC, but it's only a small fleeting snowball of hope which has no basis in reality.
The only game I bought this year was the expansion WOTLK for WoW, and I like it alot, you can really see that warhammer put alot of pressure on them to do better, and they have (before you never got the feeling that they're listening, but that's changed.. a bit), but I always feel sad about the lack of character customization, wish you could one-time enchant the gear you'd like to wear with the stats you like instead of having to wear gear which doesn't fit your idea of your character (I think mages have for a long time complained about the robe limitation for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqO7zEWu0W0&feature=PlayList&p=A818244F3E90415E&index=4 ).
I'd have thought sergeant-at-arms would have been a better title:D
His books have been a delight, guards guards was always a favorite along with interesting times along with a plethora of his other discworld titles (You don't get the chance to say plethora often these days:P) I'm not liking the latest serial ones as well as I'd have liked, "wintersmith" and "making money" I found not to be as good as the books they are sequels to. I guess it's a feeling of he might no longer be writing to please himself and is perhaps wrongly trying to please some market-group as well, I'm guessing his childrens award is having an effect.
He's made me think, smile and even chuckle, and that's the good thing about his books.
You know what the solution to that is? Have ads which aren't goddamn flash-based. Adblock doesn't block simple text-link ads. I used Google chrome for a few days without an adblocker.. I felt violated by all the flashing/motion crap.
if I see a flashing part of the screen in google chrome, I AVOID READING IT, but the fact it's there disturbs me to no end.
Simple contextual text-ads is fine, plus I actually do glance at the text instead of avoiding looking at it like the plague.
People with adblocker are not trying to avoid ads, they're trying to avoid ads which disturb them greatly.
I love the new stuff in WotLK, I'm a casual player and look forward to enjoying the content for a few months at least before I get bored of it and start waiting for a content patch.
I remember when I was 2, and really enjoyed a good cardboard box. It's playing with the 3 dimensional space around you which is fun, of course I couldn't have told you that back then.. I'm intelligent, but not that intelligent.
I'd also heartily recommend snow, snowmen and snowbunkers.
"The oil drillers believe in science as long as it supports their worldview. That is, drilling for more oil. As soon as a scientific finding conflicts with what they want, however, you can bet said belief wavers considerably."
- well, I wouldn't paint it as black as all that. I believe that the best way for oil companies is to share the time when they aren't using it, both it will help us all to understand the ocean better, it'll help them to make better designs for ecological symmetry, and further their image as a green company, and I believe they know this.
Let's say they uncover a oil-rich spot which is also science-rich, it's in their best interest to work closely with scientists to do as little damage as possible, or be seen to do as little damage as possible while getting at the oil. They might not have cared a decade ago, but today things are different.
They wouldn't agree to not drill for oil, but they probably would agree to as little disruption as possible if it won't cost them too much.
Once scientists understand that space and matter is the same thing (something you should be able to test and prove here on earth) they should understand that dark matter is just space.
What they're doing by measuring the anomalies with galaxies, and on the smaller scale by making atoms clash together in large colliders, and looking at the results is basically just measuring an effect, and it's really interesting that they aren't doing it with a clear understanding about what they're measuring or why.
What I mean by that is that they aren't doing this testing/measuring to understand the underlying implications, they're doing it to test current mathematical models, and that's why we've failed to understand so-called dark matter and what it really is.
We're probably at the same point in time with dark matter as when scientists before Isaac Newton were pondering the rotation of planets around the sun. there was extensive research into the behavior of the planets, and mathematical models for them going around the sun (as in measuring an effect), but it took someone like Isaac Newton to show people that there is an underlying force that keeps planets around the sun and the same keeps us rooted to the ground.
When someone finally thinks that space and matter must be the same thing, and starts to test that theory and see where and how the 2 match up, we should finally be able to clear up this dark matter nonsense.
Of course Einstein started this with his e=mc^2 - but no one has really looked at this formula when it comes to space and not matter, he looked solely at matter.
Of course being a couch-scientist (worse than amateur scientist), I might be hugely wrong, but somehow, I don't think I am (surprisingly).
"I personally think that the store doesn't need to posts a warning that the coffee is hot. Coffee is supposed to be hot (iced coffee not included). Its called personal responsibility."
- I also personally don't think that the store should post warnings that the coffee is hot.. I do however think that the corporation shouldn't unethically cut costs by keeping very, very hot coffee in a very, very useless cup.
Remember, the cup / coffee combination and the attitude of McDonalds was the real problem, the cup was cheaply enough made that it buckled under the temperature of the coffee (it was designed for drinks at a lot lower temperatures). They persisted in making the coffee X hot, and they persisted in having it in useless cups which couldn't handle that heat, and they persisted in ignoring the poor woman who got hurt because of their decision to a) boil coffe alot hotter than necessary and b) keeping it in cups which can't handle the heat and buckle under it.
I suggest reading up on this matter, I tell the facts poorly, but the McDonalds hot coffee suit was (to my surprise first I learned the _real_ facts) not a joke lawsuit.
- Oh good, I was worrying that the flying spaghetti monster was going to smite us with his noodly appendage, thank Noodles that it isn't so.
Cloning a neanderthal wouldn't be a problem as long as they're willing to bear the responsibility of caring for the individual ethically and humanely, and probably for the rest of his/her life, unless an individual comes out who is ready and able and willing to join society as a willing member (not likely).
I do declare this as a stupid waste of time. If people can sign up for a service, then they can check-mark which sex they are, and they don't need some idiotic algorithm to assume what sex you are based on your name.
I don't really care whether someone gets offended or not, I just think that the basic paradigm regarding programming is K.I.S.S. and a complex database of names, naming conventions and your geolocation is definitely the stupid part.
The person themselves already know what sex they are, why not just rely on their ability to insert their gender rather than having to confirm it by figuring it out from their name?
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Hahaha, as a European I find it amusing how your half-baked, badly implemented safety nets are taken as evidence that there shouldn't be any at all. And we always get flak for being wasteful socialist commies.
I had to visit a welfare office, too, at one stage. It was embarrasing but helped me get through that bad period. It's not like our system is perfect but I'm grateful and now happily pay my taxes to help others in the same position. It also helps to know that only the absolute minimum is spent on non-productive stuff like defence.
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- I agree wholeheartedly with this. Although a welfare system can never be perfect, and it can never stop someone trying to abuse it, not having one is detrimental to normal people who should be the ones who have to use it.
If all Obama fixes is the welfare system, then he'll be your greatest president ever, it's a shame you won't realize it until after he is out of office.
they're looking into raytracing ''because'' they're graphic cards are so bad. They can't be bothered to juice up their video graphics department and productivity, so they're trying to make the world change, instead of Intel changing their ways.
- They would be a lot better off if they would just stop making graphics processors altogether and let ATI, Nvidia do the integrated graphics, or better yet, motherboard makers should bloody well realize that intel integrated is crap and stop buying integrated graphics from intel.
The scary thing about that quote is that he's probably not the only one who thinks like this.
why is it scary? Because he's a terrorist and wants to scare people in doing things to his own religious/political ideas, no matter what the facts say about which policies really work and which don't.
You know those freaky right-wing arabs who shout jihad at anything american? Well meet your american counterpart. anyone who wishes obama to fail is no better than a bloody terrorist.
Infact Obama is probably the most conservative democrat to ever be president, I even heard he bleeds red if cut.
Am I in the minority by having a phone which still works, and I still enjoy after more than 3,5 years?
Why are you buying new phones every 6 months? you guys high?
"Did they copy it?"
- Don't know, but it works nicely
I recently had to reinstall my OS, and as everyone could download the windows 7 beta, I jumped at the chance.
I must say, I like what they did with the bar, the feel and use of it is intuitive and useful.
Think of it as context sensitive quicklaunch icons, if the program isn't working, when you mouse over the icon you see a small dot of light, left-click it, and you open up the program. If the program is working, when you mouse over the icon you see a glowing hue on the icon, and if you have multiple windows open a second graphical hint is added so you know there are multiple windows open. I also love that you always know exactly where the icon for your program is, if there's perhaps 5-10 programs you always use every day, and like to have in a certain order on the taskbar, they stay in that order no matter what programs you open up first, something I was pleasantly surprised by.
I however have a large monitor, not so sure how well the taskbar behaves on smaller monitors if you have alot of icons.
Only thing I've come across in the UI that I'm uncomfortable with is that when I alt-tab from a fullscreen program to a browser window (as an example), if I alt-tab again, I'd expect to get back into the full-screen program, but that's not what happens, I have to shift-alt-tab to get back into the full-screen program, something I find annoying as I'm used to the other.
Well, let's put your comments into perspective, what you describe is a strategy to combat this new situation that everyone can freely download a song over the internet. It's a new side to the music business, and you've made the basic philosophical decision that this is bad and will kill the business. However, let me make it abundantly clear, nowhere has this been proven. But based on your basic philosophy of "sharing is bad" you then have strategised a plan to "save" it by attacking the very people you want to buy your product. You burn bridges to your market to close off the danger that you lose control of the product.
There is another strategy.. Let them. If you realize that music is inherently memetic, meaning it automatically spreads between people, and if you realize that there is a difference between a person enjoying music and a person being a fan and wants to support it, then you realize that internet downloads only help, and never hinder. It literally creates new music fans who want to make the music they like a part of their life.
The thing with the music industry, the more you give the more you get for what you give, and free downloads is the best way for any artist who is looking to profit from their music, it's free promotion.
I agree with this sentiment.
Linux right now is for the mildly tech-savvy computer user (before it was for the tech-savvy computer professional).
I look forward to the non-tech users trying to use it, hopefully they can point out what problems are with it, and hopefully the people who can help with fixing that will listen.
2 things which will be obstacles, the arrogance of the people who actually are capable of solving the mundane problems of the non-tech users, and how the solutions will be implemented.
for instance.. for that girl to solve her problems, she would have had to 1) get information from the internet company how to set up her internet connection via linux and when (if?) that was solved 2) know how to search for stuff in google.
I'm guessing that the best way forward would be to have a desktop background saying "in trouble? Search Google.com for an answer. Can't get on the internet? Ask your Internet service provider for assistance". I think that should cover most of the linux problems.
I can just imagine what the desktop background would have been for the tech-pro.. "Are you MAN enough?"
Interesting that it matters where an american was taken and held captive without reason. The fact that this is what they did to an american, and even knowingly used subterfuge so that they didn't have to uphold to the rights and freedom that americans think they deserve.
Which is the more important question "Are there or have there ever been americans in Gitmo", or "Have americans been victims of these terror laws"
I don't give a crap about the first one, it's the second one which is important, and the answer, as seen by your own reply is yes, they have.
As this has segwayed a little into oral hygiene products.. can anyone tell me why there are so many different varieties of toothpaste, even from the same manufacturer? Is there any real science behind some of these, or is it just the same crap with different colours/taste?
Would love to know more, haven't really found anything about it.
I've been thinking about why this kind of thing is a problem, and I think I've come up with a perhaps a reason.
When we see something or become aware of a situation, then instantly we feel affected, it's a very natural way of thinking. Examples are: People watching sports; when the players make a goal/score/do well we enjoy it, it affects us. People watching someone singing, their singing affects us. Watching movies also affects us. There are negative examples as well, when a man rapes a woman because of how she is dressed, when a community bans gays to wed.
What combats this thinking is the idea of "freedom of the individual" - which is a modern, western ideal which goes against this kind of thinking. Freedom of the individual means no matter what the free person does, as long as it has nothing to do with me, they're free to do it.
Thus gay weddings, women breastfeeding in public, people eating smelly foods on certain holidays, people enjoying crap music within listening distance and any other activity which doesn't affect other people directly should be allowed.
- Thing is, "freedom of the individual" is a learned thing.. it's not something people naturally accept, they have to change their thinking to accommodate it, and the only place really which teaches us this are schools, and only certain classes in school, so I'm not surprised when something like this pops up, because "freedom of the individual" needs to be agreed upon by everyone and that's not going to happen with a low-education society.
I don't think alot of people understand the linux/OSS reality. The the rule of OSS is; 1) the tools are out there 2) it's free to use 3) go do it yourself.
Everytime something is added it's either because a) someone payed a programmer to do it and for some reason gave it away b) a programmer needs it and did it himself and for some reason gave it away or c) someone learning or trying to break into the business took it upon himself to do it and gave it away to get attention.
If that is what drives the OSS, then OSS games will follow the same paradigm, and you have to start doing it yourself.
I'd say C) will help the situation the best, but that's only if they have the tools around to make games, so anyone interested in seeing more games on Linux will have to start with something simple, completely open and editable by anyone.. Of course, the big corporations have already captured some of that in littlebigplanet and spore, but any person who can create the tools to create a game, somehow create interchanging programming parts which can themselves be individually worked on when someone bored wants a challenge, that would be a good first step.
I'd say games for linux is already here with flash games, but you'd all snort and whine for more "real" games, and that will happen.. when someone else goes and does it because you're not going to, are you?
AMD is doing alot to make sure that their drivers will be good when the gaming crowd finally hits onto linux, freeware games have and can survive with being ad-supported, and I'm seeing the next REAL step is that some game company who is releasing free ad-based games (or MMORPG games) develop them for linux as well as windows.
It's a sign of security theatre, they wanted people to feel secure about Vista, so they added a lot of "yes" clicks, which people ultimately won't read and thus the critical 1% of warnings which actually matter will get ignored as well.
They do it because in the end they can say that vista did notify you, and you ignored it so it's not their problem. Security theatre at it's best (worst?)
I'm hoping that Microsoft understands that this theatre is not helping security, and actively try to monitor what messages can be removed from the UAC, but it's only a small fleeting snowball of hope which has no basis in reality.
The only game I bought this year was the expansion WOTLK for WoW, and I like it alot, you can really see that warhammer put alot of pressure on them to do better, and they have (before you never got the feeling that they're listening, but that's changed.. a bit), but I always feel sad about the lack of character customization, wish you could one-time enchant the gear you'd like to wear with the stats you like instead of having to wear gear which doesn't fit your idea of your character (I think mages have for a long time complained about the robe limitation for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqO7zEWu0W0&feature=PlayList&p=A818244F3E90415E&index=4 ).
I'd have thought sergeant-at-arms would have been a better title :D
His books have been a delight, guards guards was always a favorite along with interesting times along with a plethora of his other discworld titles (You don't get the chance to say plethora often these days :P) I'm not liking the latest serial ones as well as I'd have liked, "wintersmith" and "making money" I found not to be as good as the books they are sequels to. I guess it's a feeling of he might no longer be writing to please himself and is perhaps wrongly trying to please some market-group as well, I'm guessing his childrens award is having an effect.
He's made me think, smile and even chuckle, and that's the good thing about his books.
Seconded, 1 FF7 remake pls.
You know what the solution to that is? Have ads which aren't goddamn flash-based. Adblock doesn't block simple text-link ads. I used Google chrome for a few days without an adblocker.. I felt violated by all the flashing/motion crap.
if I see a flashing part of the screen in google chrome, I AVOID READING IT, but the fact it's there disturbs me to no end.
Simple contextual text-ads is fine, plus I actually do glance at the text instead of avoiding looking at it like the plague.
People with adblocker are not trying to avoid ads, they're trying to avoid ads which disturb them greatly.
"Mrgl mrgl."
- Actually it's King Mrgl-Mrgl to you!
I love the new stuff in WotLK, I'm a casual player and look forward to enjoying the content for a few months at least before I get bored of it and start waiting for a content patch.
Seconded.
I remember when I was 2, and really enjoyed a good cardboard box. It's playing with the 3 dimensional space around you which is fun, of course I couldn't have told you that back then.. I'm intelligent, but not that intelligent.
I'd also heartily recommend snow, snowmen and snowbunkers.
"The oil drillers believe in science as long as it supports their worldview. That is, drilling for more oil. As soon as a scientific finding conflicts with what they want, however, you can bet said belief wavers considerably."
- well, I wouldn't paint it as black as all that. I believe that the best way for oil companies is to share the time when they aren't using it, both it will help us all to understand the ocean better, it'll help them to make better designs for ecological symmetry, and further their image as a green company, and I believe they know this.
Let's say they uncover a oil-rich spot which is also science-rich, it's in their best interest to work closely with scientists to do as little damage as possible, or be seen to do as little damage as possible while getting at the oil. They might not have cared a decade ago, but today things are different.
They wouldn't agree to not drill for oil, but they probably would agree to as little disruption as possible if it won't cost them too much.
Once scientists understand that space and matter is the same thing (something you should be able to test and prove here on earth) they should understand that dark matter is just space.
What they're doing by measuring the anomalies with galaxies, and on the smaller scale by making atoms clash together in large colliders, and looking at the results is basically just measuring an effect, and it's really interesting that they aren't doing it with a clear understanding about what they're measuring or why.
What I mean by that is that they aren't doing this testing/measuring to understand the underlying implications, they're doing it to test current mathematical models, and that's why we've failed to understand so-called dark matter and what it really is.
We're probably at the same point in time with dark matter as when scientists before Isaac Newton were pondering the rotation of planets around the sun. there was extensive research into the behavior of the planets, and mathematical models for them going around the sun (as in measuring an effect), but it took someone like Isaac Newton to show people that there is an underlying force that keeps planets around the sun and the same keeps us rooted to the ground.
When someone finally thinks that space and matter must be the same thing, and starts to test that theory and see where and how the 2 match up, we should finally be able to clear up this dark matter nonsense.
Of course Einstein started this with his e=mc^2 - but no one has really looked at this formula when it comes to space and not matter, he looked solely at matter.
Of course being a couch-scientist (worse than amateur scientist), I might be hugely wrong, but somehow, I don't think I am (surprisingly).
"I personally think that the store doesn't need to posts a warning that the coffee is hot. Coffee is supposed to be hot (iced coffee not included). Its called personal responsibility."
- I also personally don't think that the store should post warnings that the coffee is hot.. I do however think that the corporation shouldn't unethically cut costs by keeping very, very hot coffee in a very, very useless cup.
Remember, the cup / coffee combination and the attitude of McDonalds was the real problem, the cup was cheaply enough made that it buckled under the temperature of the coffee (it was designed for drinks at a lot lower temperatures). They persisted in making the coffee X hot, and they persisted in having it in useless cups which couldn't handle that heat, and they persisted in ignoring the poor woman who got hurt because of their decision to a) boil coffe alot hotter than necessary and b) keeping it in cups which can't handle the heat and buckle under it.
I suggest reading up on this matter, I tell the facts poorly, but the McDonalds hot coffee suit was (to my surprise first I learned the _real_ facts) not a joke lawsuit.
"I'm sure God would be cool with it."
- Oh good, I was worrying that the flying spaghetti monster was going to smite us with his noodly appendage, thank Noodles that it isn't so.
Cloning a neanderthal wouldn't be a problem as long as they're willing to bear the responsibility of caring for the individual ethically and humanely, and probably for the rest of his/her life, unless an individual comes out who is ready and able and willing to join society as a willing member (not likely).
K.
I do declare this as a stupid waste of time. If people can sign up for a service, then they can check-mark which sex they are, and they don't need some idiotic algorithm to assume what sex you are based on your name.
I don't really care whether someone gets offended or not, I just think that the basic paradigm regarding programming is K.I.S.S. and a complex database of names, naming conventions and your geolocation is definitely the stupid part.
The person themselves already know what sex they are, why not just rely on their ability to insert their gender rather than having to confirm it by figuring it out from their name?
tag this under "dumbidea" please.
So stick to what you know, because some other idiot on the net is probably talking out of his ass. Thanks, I'll do that.