Ergo there can be no legitimate objection to the study of stem cells nor can there be objection to birth control
The fact that you can take about 5 minutes (or however long) pondering something, and conclude that you must be right and therefore there is no legitimate objection, is perhaps the plainest example of arrogance I have seen in quite some time. Are you prepared to label a great many people with more qualifications than you as incapable of forming a cogent argument? Or are you declaring that noone more intelligent than you is capable of disagreeing?
Would you define a "ridiculous controversy" as one in which you have made up your mind? Or perhaps one where you think others are wrong? You are aware that a very large portion of the country does not see this as a ridiculous argument, right?
The idea of "we'll just use the left over, we arent creating more" is roughly akin to thinking that killing animals for food is wrong, but its ok to eat this steak cause its already dead. If you create a demand for it, then you cant claim that youre morally disconnected.
Or to be more blunt about it, do you honestly think that there being a scientific demand for embryos has no impact whatsoever on the number available? Do you seriously think that it could never be used as a justification for any process that might result in discarded embryos?
I imagine that if this contraption allows you to go 10% faster than the wind, the same will remain true @ 0 knots. 110% of 0 is 0, if my math serves me, so you would not have a perpetual motion machine.
Why are you thinking that you need a $290 motherboard again? AMD may be better bang for your buck but you have only yourself to blame if you want a budget system and then sink that much into a Mobo.
Not to mention that Intel's top of the line chip really does thrash AMD's...
So basically, if youre on a budget, youd do AMD. And if youre looking to make a decent gaming rig, youd do AMD. And if you were looking to do high end, youd do Intel, except with no PCIe, no, you wouldnt-- youd do AMD.
Who in the hell is gonna buy a core i7 laptop and stick with integrated graphics, again?
When someone says "press X to enter single user mode; thats better than BIOS anyways", then yes, Im going to remark on how awful of a disaster recovery plan it is to rely on your hard drive for fixing hardware errors.
You do understand the difference between "internment camp" and the historically loaded term "concentration camp", right? Im pretty sure that, as bad as the internment camps were, we didnt actually work anyone to death or gas anyone.
I believe just about any computer since the 90s has boot up POST beep codes to alert you to an error. Are you telling me that only a subset of Macs (the Pros) have equivalent functionality?
Most of the stuff you mentioned (at least the first half of your post) are reliant on having a functional OS to begin with. If you have a working OS, you wouldnt be tinkering with the BIOS at all (as tools from the OS tend to be more useful anyways).
All the mac users here claiming that "youd never need that" probably either havent done much serious troubleshooting, or have a lot of disposable cash (and thus can replace the mac when something goes awry).
Pardon me, what happens if there is a controller error with the CD drive? How exactly would you diagnose this?
For that matter, what if the bootable CD runs into an error that it is unable to cope with-- perhaps the hard drive is acting funny, or refusing to read back block X, or whatever...
And if you try to claim that THATS impossible, then im sorry, I agree with GP-- you havent troubleshot many computers.
Not really, unless they actually say "unlimited" and do not give you unlimited. You said it yourself-- what you are paying for isnt generally "all you can eat", but a certain pipe size. They give you that (and Ill note that as slimy as it may be, they DO advertise "UP TO xx mbits"....); your "momentary capacity" is as they advertised.
To use your gas / car analogy, it would be as if a gas station offered a high-speed filling service, "10 gallons of gas at 5 gallons per minute", and you started complaining that it wasnt all you can eat. Guess what, its not monthly throughput youre paying for, but the width of the pipe, so to speak.
Id love to get all you can eat as much as the next guy, but as has been pointed out time and time again by rational minds, thats simply unrealistic. We know that 20% of the users will eat up 80% of the traffic, and no matter what school of economics you subscribe to that ends up hurting the 80%.
This "SRWare Iron is necessary to prevent evil spying" myth has been around for ages, and it seems like every time its mentioned, someone replies with a thorough rebuttal of that ridiculous claim. I would like to know, for example, why you would trust an unknown 3rd party's compiled binary-blob Chrome [ / OS] over Google's-- like your rootkits much? Why not just download and compile Chromium [OS]?
Suffice it to say Chrome with default settings is BARELY if any more intrusive than ANY other browser with its default search engine (suggestions anyone?). Chop off the malware protection, dns prefetch, and translation features, and youre on par with IE8, firefox, and any browser with yahoo or bing or google as default search. Not to mention that about 4 clicks turns off EVERY bit of communication to google that is not explicitly requested....
Perhaps joke is on me replying to an AC, but if it means (perhaps) another nail in the coffin of this stupid, overused, and wrong complaint, then its worth it to me.
Yea, as we know unemployment was just awful for most of those years, and economy in general was doing pretty poorly.
Wait, what? The market was good enough that I, as a fresh-out-of-college, immature, irresponsible 21 year old managed to get about 3 job offers in about 4 weeks following college. REAL terrible economy there.
Then set as one of your bidding requirements that A) no retraining be needed (outlook interfaces with google apps....) or B) retraining be included. Let the vendor find a solution to your problems; dont simply say "there is no solution and we dont want you to get into a bidding war".
If one of my classes in high school was basically 4 solid months of memorizing from a dictionary, I might say you had a point. Parent is making the observation-- rightly so, perhaps?-- that memorizing all of the different ways to integrate trig functions isnt that important until after you've decided to become an engineer.
Ah, but then when would an ubuntu USER ever need the CLI-- arent the things that are usually complained about (fixing sound, fixing flash, fixing X or Y) usually administrative things, things that a user would immediately call IT for?
Why is it the linux users are expected to completely maintain their own machines, but the Windows ones can call IT and never have to deal with command prompt or powershell or vbscript or group policies?
If the motherboard is tampered with, why would a daughterboard plugged into a MoBo bus be any more likely to know? Cant the MoBo simply lie?
There isnt a solution that consists of "plug this device into your [network | motherboard | USB slot]. If this is a real risk, and its really worth spending time on, consider changing manufacturers; but dont forget that, until you make the device from start to finish, you can never know with certainty that its "clean".
Keep in mind that in order to connect, you need to get through a firewall, which means you need an explicit allow entry, and if youre running NAT (which tbqh I dont see why the workstations WOULDNT be natted) you also need an explicit forward rule (all this precludes uPnP, but really who would have THAT enabled;) ).
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Ergo there can be no legitimate objection to the study of stem cells nor can there be objection to birth control
The fact that you can take about 5 minutes (or however long) pondering something, and conclude that you must be right and therefore there is no legitimate objection, is perhaps the plainest example of arrogance I have seen in quite some time. Are you prepared to label a great many people with more qualifications than you as incapable of forming a cogent argument? Or are you declaring that noone more intelligent than you is capable of disagreeing?
ridiculous controversy
Would you define a "ridiculous controversy" as one in which you have made up your mind? Or perhaps one where you think others are wrong? You are aware that a very large portion of the country does not see this as a ridiculous argument, right?
The idea of "we'll just use the left over, we arent creating more" is roughly akin to thinking that killing animals for food is wrong, but its ok to eat this steak cause its already dead. If you create a demand for it, then you cant claim that youre morally disconnected.
Or to be more blunt about it, do you honestly think that there being a scientific demand for embryos has no impact whatsoever on the number available? Do you seriously think that it could never be used as a justification for any process that might result in discarded embryos?
I imagine that if this contraption allows you to go 10% faster than the wind, the same will remain true @ 0 knots. 110% of 0 is 0, if my math serves me, so you would not have a perpetual motion machine.
That doesnt really help when the client gets rootkitted, does it....
Can you clarify what a buffer network is, and why it would help?
Why are you thinking that you need a $290 motherboard again? AMD may be better bang for your buck but you have only yourself to blame if you want a budget system and then sink that much into a Mobo.
Not to mention that Intel's top of the line chip really does thrash AMD's...
Yes, and RAID / SAS / GB NIC cards certainly dont use PCIe, right?
So basically, if youre on a budget, youd do AMD. And if youre looking to make a decent gaming rig, youd do AMD. And if you were looking to do high end, youd do Intel, except with no PCIe, no, you wouldnt-- youd do AMD.
Who in the hell is gonna buy a core i7 laptop and stick with integrated graphics, again?
When someone says "press X to enter single user mode; thats better than BIOS anyways", then yes, Im going to remark on how awful of a disaster recovery plan it is to rely on your hard drive for fixing hardware errors.
...concentration camps...
You do understand the difference between "internment camp" and the historically loaded term "concentration camp", right? Im pretty sure that, as bad as the internment camps were, we didnt actually work anyone to death or gas anyone.
A friend's macbook trackpad died, and I took it to the mac store. Cost to replace? $150.
Thats a hell of a deal, right?
I believe just about any computer since the 90s has boot up POST beep codes to alert you to an error. Are you telling me that only a subset of Macs (the Pros) have equivalent functionality?
Most of the stuff you mentioned (at least the first half of your post) are reliant on having a functional OS to begin with. If you have a working OS, you wouldnt be tinkering with the BIOS at all (as tools from the OS tend to be more useful anyways).
All the mac users here claiming that "youd never need that" probably either havent done much serious troubleshooting, or have a lot of disposable cash (and thus can replace the mac when something goes awry).
Pardon me, what happens if there is a controller error with the CD drive? How exactly would you diagnose this?
For that matter, what if the bootable CD runs into an error that it is unable to cope with-- perhaps the hard drive is acting funny, or refusing to read back block X, or whatever...
And if you try to claim that THATS impossible, then im sorry, I agree with GP-- you havent troubleshot many computers.
Not really, unless they actually say "unlimited" and do not give you unlimited. You said it yourself-- what you are paying for isnt generally "all you can eat", but a certain pipe size. They give you that (and Ill note that as slimy as it may be, they DO advertise "UP TO xx mbits"....); your "momentary capacity" is as they advertised.
To use your gas / car analogy, it would be as if a gas station offered a high-speed filling service, "10 gallons of gas at 5 gallons per minute", and you started complaining that it wasnt all you can eat. Guess what, its not monthly throughput youre paying for, but the width of the pipe, so to speak.
Id love to get all you can eat as much as the next guy, but as has been pointed out time and time again by rational minds, thats simply unrealistic. We know that 20% of the users will eat up 80% of the traffic, and no matter what school of economics you subscribe to that ends up hurting the 80%.
This "SRWare Iron is necessary to prevent evil spying" myth has been around for ages, and it seems like every time its mentioned, someone replies with a thorough rebuttal of that ridiculous claim. I would like to know, for example, why you would trust an unknown 3rd party's compiled binary-blob Chrome [ / OS] over Google's-- like your rootkits much? Why not just download and compile Chromium [OS]?
Suffice it to say Chrome with default settings is BARELY if any more intrusive than ANY other browser with its default search engine (suggestions anyone?). Chop off the malware protection, dns prefetch, and translation features, and youre on par with IE8, firefox, and any browser with yahoo or bing or google as default search. Not to mention that about 4 clicks turns off EVERY bit of communication to google that is not explicitly requested....
Perhaps joke is on me replying to an AC, but if it means (perhaps) another nail in the coffin of this stupid, overused, and wrong complaint, then its worth it to me.
Yea, as we know unemployment was just awful for most of those years, and economy in general was doing pretty poorly.
Wait, what? The market was good enough that I, as a fresh-out-of-college, immature, irresponsible 21 year old managed to get about 3 job offers in about 4 weeks following college. REAL terrible economy there.
Then set as one of your bidding requirements that A) no retraining be needed (outlook interfaces with google apps....) or B) retraining be included. Let the vendor find a solution to your problems; dont simply say "there is no solution and we dont want you to get into a bidding war".
If one of my classes in high school was basically 4 solid months of memorizing from a dictionary, I might say you had a point. Parent is making the observation-- rightly so, perhaps?-- that memorizing all of the different ways to integrate trig functions isnt that important until after you've decided to become an engineer.
I think Mark Twain found your ideas intriguing, and may have subscribed to your news letter.
Ah, but then when would an ubuntu USER ever need the CLI-- arent the things that are usually complained about (fixing sound, fixing flash, fixing X or Y) usually administrative things, things that a user would immediately call IT for?
Why is it the linux users are expected to completely maintain their own machines, but the Windows ones can call IT and never have to deal with command prompt or powershell or vbscript or group policies?
They wouldnt sue you for downloading it, but distributing it.
If the motherboard is tampered with, why would a daughterboard plugged into a MoBo bus be any more likely to know? Cant the MoBo simply lie?
There isnt a solution that consists of "plug this device into your [network | motherboard | USB slot]. If this is a real risk, and its really worth spending time on, consider changing manufacturers; but dont forget that, until you make the device from start to finish, you can never know with certainty that its "clean".
Keep in mind that in order to connect, you need to get through a firewall, which means you need an explicit allow entry, and if youre running NAT (which tbqh I dont see why the workstations WOULDNT be natted) you also need an explicit forward rule (all this precludes uPnP, but really who would have THAT enabled ;) ).