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I hear you, I was so bored in school with all the slavering monkeys around me that it was all I could do to keep my sanity some days. For instance when I took the SAT the only reason that I scored in the 90th percentile and not the the 98th percentile was because I was stoned out of my mind on Vicatin from damn near cutting my thumb off in a tablesaw two days before I took it. I did visit one of my teachers from back then (chemistry) and she told me that she has yet to have a class that was as fun as the one my friend and I were in. We loved to explore and blow shit up, we would use silver nitrate to turn all our lab papers silver...all kinds of crazy stuff. The key being is she didn't restrict us, if we wanted to fly ahead of the rest of the class we were welcome to do so.
That's part of the problem though. Teaching abstinence is all well and good if you live in some kind of dream world where people only have sex after they're married. Humans are sexual creatures, we're hard wired to have sex and we're going to do it since the survival of the species relies on it. As my parents did for me I will do for both of my daughters, education about the safer ways to have sex and the joy as well as the dangers of it. I'm a dad so teaching my girls about sex isn't going to be fun for me, but I would much rather they have a healthy attitude about it and not try to hide it from me than for them to learn about it on their own and end up pregnant or worse. Both my wife and I had sex before we were married with others and with eachother and we're much happier as a result, we knew before we were married that we were compatible sexually and emotionally which has lead to a very long and healthy sex life with no urge on either side to seek sexual satisfaction extramaritally. Anyway, abstinence is a great ideal but it really doesn't have much of a place in reality. Back on topic though this is great news and I hope that it can be refined to bring a lot of light and joy to some people that live a very very difficult life.
That was amazing. You were modded up so fast that between the time that I started reading the article when you were a 2 and when I went back to the main article you were up to 5 already.
I don't take my cell phone anywhere. I honestly cannot remember the last time it left the house, my wife even wonders why I have one at all (she forgets that she is the one who put down the rule that I would have one). I found quickly when I received my first one that it was a very irritating device and I only answer it if someone calls at least twice. Now no one has figured this out yet, but the way I see it is that if they call twice then I know that it was something more important and not mundane. I guess that I would be pretty hard to keep track of unless they implant me with something (over my very dead cold body) mostly because I'm somewhat paranoid and I worked for one of the three letter agencies at one time and am pretty aware of what they are and are not capable of doing.
Were in a bit of a time of change here. The legislators of today are the students from they golden age of industrialization and the closed source cold war era types. The people in my generation (I'm 23) have grown up in the beginning of the Information Age and the end of the Industrial. We still have industry and all that, but it isn't as innovative as it used to be now it's all about information. There is unprecedented power at the fingertips of the people and the people in office now never grew up with that and don't understand it. They don't understand the culture, the tech, or the attitude behind it and that's how you get statements such as a series of tubes. If we manage to survive the next twenty years I really think we'll see sweeping changes in how most things regarding government, politics, and information are handled.
So? By the time I was 13 I could build so many different kinds of bombs out of things you can get out of the hardware store that I should have been called a terrorist by today's standards. Here's one for you, know what happens when you mix acetylene with oil? No? Try it sometime pretty fun if you ask me also extremely deadly, there's a reason that acetylene bottles say not to oil the threads of the valve cap. There are so many much worse things that you could do that are well documented on the internet now that I didn't have access to, I actually had to work at stuff like this but these days you don't it's all there for the taking. So really this is pretty small potatoes and you're just having a knee jerk reaction like so many people do. You want to know what was the key instrument of me not hurting myself or others when I started to get really interested in blowing shit up? My father quickly realized that I was going to find a way to do it one way or the other so he taught me the safe way to do it, the same can be applied to lasers. Kids need to be allowed to experiment with stuff that's how you learn and better yourself, keeping kids and teenagers locked up in an iron box and not letting them do dangerous things that are also very educational just churns out the next generation of factory workers. For instance my fascination with explosives led me to make my own brand of rocket fuel, then that led me to want to make a rocket. Since I wanted to make a rocket I learned about CAD and Drafting then made drawings and took them to a machine shop to make said rocket. I launched and guess what? It flew! Amazing! Look at all that I learned along the way! Now take a laser for instance, imagine if a kid saw this and realized that he could do a little engraving with something like this. It may eventually lead him to FAB@home and maybe just maybe he/she would build on of these machines, imagine what they would learn along the way. It's attitudes like yours that stifle the creativity and imagination of future generations. Knee-jerk reactions like ZOMG! teh t'rrists can blind someone serve no one only breed the already stifling culture of fear that we live in now. This could be a great teaching tool, it's fun, cool, and has visible results as well as being inexpensive. I think all physics classes in school should be encouraged to have students build things like this, it leads to interest in the subject and you know what that makes? Wow! You guessed it, a smarted more creative generation of forward thinkers. I could go on for hours but I'm going to quit now before I get all worked up.
Maybe, but sometimes science is about researching things that are fun and fairly mundane. Much of what you take for granted such as a cell phone and computer came from research that many at the time scoffed at saying that it had no practical purpose. So really who are we to say what avenue of research will yield useful results? After all when it comes to fluids there is quite a bit that I'm sure we don't understand and research such as this may provide a little snowball of insight that turns into an avalanche of knowledge. Do I think it will? Not really, but hey they're having fun and who the hell knows where it could lead?
I'll tell you a good story about Symantec service. I had one version of their AV and I uninstalled it for the problems that it was causing so that I could reload it. Long story short not even their tools would get rid of it much less me going through every file and every registry entry to find it all so I couldn't reinstall the program. I turned their disc into a frisbee out my window and found something else. Now I use linux anyway but I still will never use a Symantec product again.
What!? This is America! We don't use the metric system here, what are you thinking?! You mean that it is.07874 inches bigger than the quarter. Sheesh people these days;).
I prefer to think of myself as a dark templar. Anyway, isn't there a way to compile linux apps in Mac? For the most part I think as a desktop OS Mac is better anyway.
It really doesn't take big brass ones to run ntfs on linux. The linux driver ntfs-3g has long been in version 1.0 which is a stable release. I've been using ntfs-3g for a while now and it actually fixed a couple problems on my windows partition that windows couldn't fix.
Yes actually you can. You can also just set the QoS such that it give higher priority to http and voip traffic and crank down the QoS on torrent files. It has a lot of preset QoS selections as well including the ones I listed as well as many many others. Another fun thing that you can do if you have a problem with interference is boost the radio a little bit. I wouldn't recommend doing it too much since you can burn out the radio if you go to far, but a little bit doesn't hurt anything.
Huh, I always used my little surefire as a fist packer. It's just about the right size, has a good heft and is pretty dense. Still doesn't change the fact that when you hit someone it hurts your fist, but it hurts their face a hell of a lot more.
While I would love to see that come to pass as much as anyone, don't count on it just yet. There is still a very long road ahead and it's going to be painful in many respects and it's still not a sure thing. When five or six major OEMs start to offer a linux distro and the demand stays I'll start to hope, but right now it is just too early to tell.
You know what's interesting about that? When I was 16 we received an offer from playboy magazine in the mail to order a years subscription for $12(US). Well I was the one that checked the mail that day and I thought it would be a good idea to check the box and send it back to them saying yes. Well a month later comes the first issue and the bill, I'm not the one to check the mail that day. My parents had "the talk" with me, made me pay the fee and for the next year I had the magazine coming to me. Moral of the story, education trumps ignorance any day of the week. As a result since both my wife and I were taught about sex and not taught "SEX IS BAD, YOU GO TO HELL IF YOU HAVE SEX BEFORE YOU'RE MARRIED!!!111one!" we enjoy a healthy sexlife even after several years of marriage. Like our parents before us my wife and I realize that teenagers with raging hormones are going to find a way, better they know the safe and enjoyable ways to have sex than to not know and end up pregnant or with some nasty diseases so we'll teach that to our kids when the time comes. They won't be banned from looking at porn and any questions that they have will be answered to the best of our ability. It's called parenting and maybe some people should be less absorbed with surrounding themselves in the trappings of riches and wondering why their kid is a complete failure at life when all they have to do is actually listen and interact with them.
Look, I'm not being naive about this. When it comes to your run of the mill diseases such as restles legs, baldness, chronic heartburn, yeah Big Pharma is going to squeeze you for all your worth. However when it comes to the truly life threatening, the stuff that will, not may, but will kill you they aren't so stone hearted as you seem to believe. Case in point, my mother is dying from bone cancer. There is no cure and a very very very small chance that she is going to live long enough for her grandkids to get to know her. The oh so Evil money grubbing Big Pharma of your world gives her the medication that she needs to have a chance at surviving. They don't charger her a penny, and it's not cheap therapy. Each pill is over 50US dollars(we live in the US by the way), they know that there is going to be no return on that investment since she can't afford the medication but they give it anyway. Sure there may be some ulterior motive, but really I doubt it because no matter what angle I look at it I don't see how they are really going to get anything out of it whether she lives or dies other than the fact that if she lives it'll be one more statistic for their success charts which really don't prove that it was that medication that cured her. Why do you think that the medication is so expensive here in the States? They have to make money somehow so for the people that can afford it, even marginally they are going to charge you through the nose. However all that extra money you put in sometimes goes on to help someone that would not have received that kind of aid in the first place. So no, in cases with life threatening diseases they're not always about the money, sometimes it really is about helping someone who needs(not wants) it. If this works and that's a strong if the government is going to really pony up some money for it, because for some things they really don't have any other choice.
That is a rather cynical way to look at things and it is understandable, however I think that you're waaaaay off base with this one. If this vaccine actually works, I don't think that any government anywhere would allow it to die or be smeared. If anything as it has gone for most major diseases before it, they will probably make the vaccine required with government subsidized funding. Really, sometimes it is actually about helping people and not making more money than Mr. Jones.
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I hear you, I was so bored in school with all the slavering monkeys around me that it was all I could do to keep my sanity some days. For instance when I took the SAT the only reason that I scored in the 90th percentile and not the the 98th percentile was because I was stoned out of my mind on Vicatin from damn near cutting my thumb off in a tablesaw two days before I took it. I did visit one of my teachers from back then (chemistry) and she told me that she has yet to have a class that was as fun as the one my friend and I were in. We loved to explore and blow shit up, we would use silver nitrate to turn all our lab papers silver...all kinds of crazy stuff. The key being is she didn't restrict us, if we wanted to fly ahead of the rest of the class we were welcome to do so.
You owe me a new monitor.
That's part of the problem though. Teaching abstinence is all well and good if you live in some kind of dream world where people only have sex after they're married. Humans are sexual creatures, we're hard wired to have sex and we're going to do it since the survival of the species relies on it. As my parents did for me I will do for both of my daughters, education about the safer ways to have sex and the joy as well as the dangers of it. I'm a dad so teaching my girls about sex isn't going to be fun for me, but I would much rather they have a healthy attitude about it and not try to hide it from me than for them to learn about it on their own and end up pregnant or worse. Both my wife and I had sex before we were married with others and with eachother and we're much happier as a result, we knew before we were married that we were compatible sexually and emotionally which has lead to a very long and healthy sex life with no urge on either side to seek sexual satisfaction extramaritally. Anyway, abstinence is a great ideal but it really doesn't have much of a place in reality. Back on topic though this is great news and I hope that it can be refined to bring a lot of light and joy to some people that live a very very difficult life.
That was amazing. You were modded up so fast that between the time that I started reading the article when you were a 2 and when I went back to the main article you were up to 5 already.
I don't take my cell phone anywhere. I honestly cannot remember the last time it left the house, my wife even wonders why I have one at all (she forgets that she is the one who put down the rule that I would have one). I found quickly when I received my first one that it was a very irritating device and I only answer it if someone calls at least twice. Now no one has figured this out yet, but the way I see it is that if they call twice then I know that it was something more important and not mundane. I guess that I would be pretty hard to keep track of unless they implant me with something (over my very dead cold body) mostly because I'm somewhat paranoid and I worked for one of the three letter agencies at one time and am pretty aware of what they are and are not capable of doing.
Were in a bit of a time of change here. The legislators of today are the students from they golden age of industrialization and the closed source cold war era types. The people in my generation (I'm 23) have grown up in the beginning of the Information Age and the end of the Industrial. We still have industry and all that, but it isn't as innovative as it used to be now it's all about information. There is unprecedented power at the fingertips of the people and the people in office now never grew up with that and don't understand it. They don't understand the culture, the tech, or the attitude behind it and that's how you get statements such as a series of tubes. If we manage to survive the next twenty years I really think we'll see sweeping changes in how most things regarding government, politics, and information are handled.
So? By the time I was 13 I could build so many different kinds of bombs out of things you can get out of the hardware store that I should have been called a terrorist by today's standards. Here's one for you, know what happens when you mix acetylene with oil? No? Try it sometime pretty fun if you ask me also extremely deadly, there's a reason that acetylene bottles say not to oil the threads of the valve cap. There are so many much worse things that you could do that are well documented on the internet now that I didn't have access to, I actually had to work at stuff like this but these days you don't it's all there for the taking. So really this is pretty small potatoes and you're just having a knee jerk reaction like so many people do. You want to know what was the key instrument of me not hurting myself or others when I started to get really interested in blowing shit up? My father quickly realized that I was going to find a way to do it one way or the other so he taught me the safe way to do it, the same can be applied to lasers. Kids need to be allowed to experiment with stuff that's how you learn and better yourself, keeping kids and teenagers locked up in an iron box and not letting them do dangerous things that are also very educational just churns out the next generation of factory workers. For instance my fascination with explosives led me to make my own brand of rocket fuel, then that led me to want to make a rocket. Since I wanted to make a rocket I learned about CAD and Drafting then made drawings and took them to a machine shop to make said rocket. I launched and guess what? It flew! Amazing! Look at all that I learned along the way! Now take a laser for instance, imagine if a kid saw this and realized that he could do a little engraving with something like this. It may eventually lead him to FAB@home and maybe just maybe he/she would build on of these machines, imagine what they would learn along the way. It's attitudes like yours that stifle the creativity and imagination of future generations. Knee-jerk reactions like ZOMG! teh t'rrists can blind someone serve no one only breed the already stifling culture of fear that we live in now. This could be a great teaching tool, it's fun, cool, and has visible results as well as being inexpensive. I think all physics classes in school should be encouraged to have students build things like this, it leads to interest in the subject and you know what that makes? Wow! You guessed it, a smarted more creative generation of forward thinkers. I could go on for hours but I'm going to quit now before I get all worked up.
Maybe, but sometimes science is about researching things that are fun and fairly mundane. Much of what you take for granted such as a cell phone and computer came from research that many at the time scoffed at saying that it had no practical purpose. So really who are we to say what avenue of research will yield useful results? After all when it comes to fluids there is quite a bit that I'm sure we don't understand and research such as this may provide a little snowball of insight that turns into an avalanche of knowledge. Do I think it will? Not really, but hey they're having fun and who the hell knows where it could lead?
I'll tell you a good story about Symantec service. I had one version of their AV and I uninstalled it for the problems that it was causing so that I could reload it. Long story short not even their tools would get rid of it much less me going through every file and every registry entry to find it all so I couldn't reinstall the program. I turned their disc into a frisbee out my window and found something else. Now I use linux anyway but I still will never use a Symantec product again.
Could you send me some of that hardware? I'm working on getting computers into schools running edubuntu and can always use "new" hardware for it.
Touche!
What!? This is America! We don't use the metric system here, what are you thinking?! You mean that it is .07874 inches bigger than the quarter. Sheesh people these days ;).
You see it has bits of capitalize, productivity, synergistic, and fiduciary in it. That's how you know it's good.
If Microsoft made cars.... joke...hah...another joke.....laugh.... But does it run Linux?
I prefer to think of myself as a dark templar. Anyway, isn't there a way to compile linux apps in Mac? For the most part I think as a desktop OS Mac is better anyway.
Please don't kill him!!!! He didn't mean anything by it!
It really doesn't take big brass ones to run ntfs on linux. The linux driver ntfs-3g has long been in version 1.0 which is a stable release. I've been using ntfs-3g for a while now and it actually fixed a couple problems on my windows partition that windows couldn't fix.
Yes actually you can. You can also just set the QoS such that it give higher priority to http and voip traffic and crank down the QoS on torrent files. It has a lot of preset QoS selections as well including the ones I listed as well as many many others. Another fun thing that you can do if you have a problem with interference is boost the radio a little bit. I wouldn't recommend doing it too much since you can burn out the radio if you go to far, but a little bit doesn't hurt anything.
Huh, I always used my little surefire as a fist packer. It's just about the right size, has a good heft and is pretty dense. Still doesn't change the fact that when you hit someone it hurts your fist, but it hurts their face a hell of a lot more.
That's why I don't buy any router that I can't run DD-WRT on. It adds so much to the system and takes nothing away.
While I would love to see that come to pass as much as anyone, don't count on it just yet. There is still a very long road ahead and it's going to be painful in many respects and it's still not a sure thing. When five or six major OEMs start to offer a linux distro and the demand stays I'll start to hope, but right now it is just too early to tell.
You know what's interesting about that? When I was 16 we received an offer from playboy magazine in the mail to order a years subscription for $12(US). Well I was the one that checked the mail that day and I thought it would be a good idea to check the box and send it back to them saying yes. Well a month later comes the first issue and the bill, I'm not the one to check the mail that day. My parents had "the talk" with me, made me pay the fee and for the next year I had the magazine coming to me. Moral of the story, education trumps ignorance any day of the week. As a result since both my wife and I were taught about sex and not taught "SEX IS BAD, YOU GO TO HELL IF YOU HAVE SEX BEFORE YOU'RE MARRIED!!!111one!" we enjoy a healthy sexlife even after several years of marriage. Like our parents before us my wife and I realize that teenagers with raging hormones are going to find a way, better they know the safe and enjoyable ways to have sex than to not know and end up pregnant or with some nasty diseases so we'll teach that to our kids when the time comes. They won't be banned from looking at porn and any questions that they have will be answered to the best of our ability. It's called parenting and maybe some people should be less absorbed with surrounding themselves in the trappings of riches and wondering why their kid is a complete failure at life when all they have to do is actually listen and interact with them.
As a loyal Mac user and iPhone user I have to kill you.
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Look, I'm not being naive about this. When it comes to your run of the mill diseases such as restles legs, baldness, chronic heartburn, yeah Big Pharma is going to squeeze you for all your worth. However when it comes to the truly life threatening, the stuff that will, not may, but will kill you they aren't so stone hearted as you seem to believe. Case in point, my mother is dying from bone cancer. There is no cure and a very very very small chance that she is going to live long enough for her grandkids to get to know her. The oh so Evil money grubbing Big Pharma of your world gives her the medication that she needs to have a chance at surviving. They don't charger her a penny, and it's not cheap therapy. Each pill is over 50US dollars(we live in the US by the way), they know that there is going to be no return on that investment since she can't afford the medication but they give it anyway. Sure there may be some ulterior motive, but really I doubt it because no matter what angle I look at it I don't see how they are really going to get anything out of it whether she lives or dies other than the fact that if she lives it'll be one more statistic for their success charts which really don't prove that it was that medication that cured her. Why do you think that the medication is so expensive here in the States? They have to make money somehow so for the people that can afford it, even marginally they are going to charge you through the nose. However all that extra money you put in sometimes goes on to help someone that would not have received that kind of aid in the first place. So no, in cases with life threatening diseases they're not always about the money, sometimes it really is about helping someone who needs(not wants) it. If this works and that's a strong if the government is going to really pony up some money for it, because for some things they really don't have any other choice.
That is a rather cynical way to look at things and it is understandable, however I think that you're waaaaay off base with this one. If this vaccine actually works, I don't think that any government anywhere would allow it to die or be smeared. If anything as it has gone for most major diseases before it, they will probably make the vaccine required with government subsidized funding. Really, sometimes it is actually about helping people and not making more money than Mr. Jones.