Actually no, the pregnancy risk is only if the woman is actually first infected during the pregnancy, at least as far as I understand it. If she's a carrier but was infected more than two months before the pregnancy then there should be no additional risk.
Real ID is required to use the friends list in game.
Incorrect. Real ID is only required to use the Real ID friends list, which uses your real name and allows your Real ID friends to see and talk to you regardless of what Battle.net game you're playing.
The old friends list is still there and you can still add characters to your realm- and character-specific friends list.
That's what I was thinking - the whole REASON that the tickets are non-transferable is to prevent scalpers from buying huge blocks of tickets and then re-selling them for double or triple the price. The 'grandma problem' that they refer to in TFS is fucking retarded anyway, because this is the internet. All 'grandma' would have to do is enter the grandchild's details and the ticket would be sent to them, at which point they can use it as usual.
I'm assuming it's under the parents name for the account which should be a pleasant conversation at work when your boss asks you why you are trolling the warlock forum?
That's a convenient alibi when your boss finds out it was YOU that was ganking his level 49 warrior in Un'goro Crater. "No, sir, it was my kid, really!"
I see this as a practical application of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theorem. As he states, normal person plus audience plus anonymity equals total fuckwad. Given that you can't remove the 'normal person' element or the 'audience' element without it no longer being a forum, the remaining option is to remove anonymity.
Seriously, though, I researched toxoplasmosis a while ago (new kitten plus pregnant wife equals a million people saying OMG KEEP BABBY AWAY FROM KITTAH) and it's a very interesting disease.
From wikipedia:
The study suggests that male carriers have shorter attention spans, a greater likelihood of breaking rules and taking risks, and are more independent, anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose. It also suggests that these men are deemed less attractive to women. Women carriers are suggested to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls. The results are shown to be true when tested on mice, though it is still inconclusive. A few scientists have suggested that, if these effects are genuine, prevalence of toxoplasmosis could be a major determinant of cultural differences.
It makes men more macho (the study does lose major credibility, though, by suggesting that risk-taking rule-breaking antisocial men are LESS attractive to women... what planet are they from?) and it makes women friendlier and sexier. Where's the bad?
The problem is that the idiot-detecting demon at the front door (let's call him Maxwell) will, sadly, become more stupid with each idiot he allows to walk outward, and each idiot he refuses entry. Ultimately, Maxwell will be enough of an idiot that he will fail to function.
...don't you hate it when you take an analogy way too far and still, somehow, it holds?
Aw bugger, I got the first bit the wrong way round. Oh well, it was only a simple sign error... and the second bit, I hope, made it clear what I meant.:P
Parent is a restatement of the second law of Thermodynamics. Idiots flow from areas with fewer idiots to areas with more idiots, but it takes work to reverse the flow and decrease the idiot density of one (low-density) area while increasing the idiot density of another, higher-idiot-density area.
This is starting to sound eerily reminiscent of Heinlein's assertion that "in the end, all forms of death can be attributed to heart failure." Well, that, and The Great Escape's "shot while escaping".
I'm a little surprised he didn't. I'm not an American, but if the cops arrest you with no reason don't you then turn around and sue them for false arrest? A few expensive lawsuits would probably convince whoever is in charge to train their police officers a little better.
When the judge is the guy that spends his Friday evening having beers with the dad of the cop who arrested you? Nah. Maybe things are different in the good ol' US of A but where I come from, cops look after their own.:/
Therefore, writing to one of the files in that page means that the drive has to re-write each file, and if one of the affected files is spread across several pages, then those pages have to get re-written, and so on.
What? Why? Yes, you can only erase an SSD a block at a time, but you don't have to re-write any other blocks. You just read the affected block into memory, erase the block, update the copy in memory with the changed data, and write it back. The only other data you have to change is the block lookup table used for wear leveling, which maps a logical block ID to a physical block of memory.
I wonder if they've done something non-standard but clever to mimic the functionality of TRIM? Like explicitly overwriting any deleted blocks with zeroes at delete time (or soon afterwards, as a low priority job) so that they don't need to be erased when recycled? If that's even possible with current APIs...
Then again, would it be any different if it were wealthy, conservative black men with large stakes in multinational mega-corporations or wealthy, conservative women with large stakes in multinational mega-corporations?
YES! Because that wouldn't be racist or sexist!!!!!!!!!!!
(And yes, Pratchett fans, that was *eleven* exclamation marks...)
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Actually no, the pregnancy risk is only if the woman is actually first infected during the pregnancy, at least as far as I understand it. If she's a carrier but was infected more than two months before the pregnancy then there should be no additional risk.
Yes, but that study was more interesting than the others which merely said it made you irritable and could cause swelling or meningitis. :(
Real ID is required to use the friends list in game.
Incorrect. Real ID is only required to use the Real ID friends list, which uses your real name and allows your Real ID friends to see and talk to you regardless of what Battle.net game you're playing.
The old friends list is still there and you can still add characters to your realm- and character-specific friends list.
That's what I was thinking - the whole REASON that the tickets are non-transferable is to prevent scalpers from buying huge blocks of tickets and then re-selling them for double or triple the price. The 'grandma problem' that they refer to in TFS is fucking retarded anyway, because this is the internet. All 'grandma' would have to do is enter the grandchild's details and the ticket would be sent to them, at which point they can use it as usual.
Oh come on, most of those children and adolescents are the cancer.
Ftfy. :(
What class is Zalazane, again? The level 10 troll warlock who singlehandedly evicted the Darkspear trolls from their home in the Echo Isles.
I'm assuming it's under the parents name for the account which should be a pleasant conversation at work when your boss asks you why you are trolling the warlock forum?
That's a convenient alibi when your boss finds out it was YOU that was ganking his level 49 warrior in Un'goro Crater. "No, sir, it was my kid, really!"
I see this as a practical application of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theorem. As he states, normal person plus audience plus anonymity equals total fuckwad. Given that you can't remove the 'normal person' element or the 'audience' element without it no longer being a forum, the remaining option is to remove anonymity.
From wikipedia:
The study suggests that male carriers have shorter attention spans, a greater likelihood of breaking rules and taking risks, and are more independent, anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose. It also suggests that these men are deemed less attractive to women. Women carriers are suggested to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls. The results are shown to be true when tested on mice, though it is still inconclusive. A few scientists have suggested that, if these effects are genuine, prevalence of toxoplasmosis could be a major determinant of cultural differences.
It makes men more macho (the study does lose major credibility, though, by suggesting that risk-taking rule-breaking antisocial men are LESS attractive to women... what planet are they from?) and it makes women friendlier and sexier. Where's the bad?
Technica- wait what was that whooshing sound? *runs outside to look*
The problem is that the idiot-detecting demon at the front door (let's call him Maxwell) will, sadly, become more stupid with each idiot he allows to walk outward, and each idiot he refuses entry. Ultimately, Maxwell will be enough of an idiot that he will fail to function.
...don't you hate it when you take an analogy way too far and still, somehow, it holds?
"Lisa! In this house we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!" - Homer Simpson
Aw bugger, I got the first bit the wrong way round. Oh well, it was only a simple sign error... and the second bit, I hope, made it clear what I meant. :P
Parent is a restatement of the second law of Thermodynamics. Idiots flow from areas with fewer idiots to areas with more idiots, but it takes work to reverse the flow and decrease the idiot density of one (low-density) area while increasing the idiot density of another, higher-idiot-density area.
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
...it looks and feels and smells like my cock, but it is subtley transformed in some uncanny way, never to be the same again.
That is because it is now mancock.
This is starting to sound eerily reminiscent of Heinlein's assertion that "in the end, all forms of death can be attributed to heart failure." Well, that, and The Great Escape's "shot while escaping".
I'm a little surprised he didn't. I'm not an American, but if the cops arrest you with no reason don't you then turn around and sue them for false arrest? A few expensive lawsuits would probably convince whoever is in charge to train their police officers a little better.
When the judge is the guy that spends his Friday evening having beers with the dad of the cop who arrested you? Nah. Maybe things are different in the good ol' US of A but where I come from, cops look after their own. :/
So a private security firm AND the police have the right to try and sentence people without so much as a trial? NICE!
I bet Miami-Dade PD is going to have to throw up some decent PR on this one...
Of course they do! I've seen CSI: Miami!
Therefore, writing to one of the files in that page means that the drive has to re-write each file, and if one of the affected files is spread across several pages, then those pages have to get re-written, and so on.
What? Why? Yes, you can only erase an SSD a block at a time, but you don't have to re-write any other blocks. You just read the affected block into memory, erase the block, update the copy in memory with the changed data, and write it back. The only other data you have to change is the block lookup table used for wear leveling, which maps a logical block ID to a physical block of memory.
I wonder if they've done something non-standard but clever to mimic the functionality of TRIM? Like explicitly overwriting any deleted blocks with zeroes at delete time (or soon afterwards, as a low priority job) so that they don't need to be erased when recycled? If that's even possible with current APIs...
Now you're just being shelfish.
Sony. :P
I'll give you a tip: in a joke exam, that would only get a faux pass.
Damn, "You've already posted something in this discussion" stops me from giving you a +1 insightful.
Then again, would it be any different if it were wealthy, conservative black men with large stakes in multinational mega-corporations or wealthy, conservative women with large stakes in multinational mega-corporations?
YES! Because that wouldn't be racist or sexist!!!!!!!!!!!
(And yes, Pratchett fans, that was *eleven* exclamation marks...)