Really? A D list celebrity has personal experience with a human condition that is exhausting and draining, then makes it a her cause to educate base on the teaching of a respected, peer reviewed journal that evenually retracts their claims and eventually silencing herself and she's the dumb bitch?
Partially, as her son had another condition, not autism.
But seriously, kill yourself. That's good advice everyone has been giving you.
Perl is a disaster for many reasons. One of which it's TOO easy to write obfuscated code. Another big reason is that it's great slogan, "There's more than one way to do it" is a big drawback too. That also leads to overly complex code.
The U.S. has an infant mortality rate that dwarfs comparable nations
It's also not that straight-forward a statistic. In some countries if a child dies within a few hours of birth, it is not considered a "live birth" and not counted against the infant mortality rate. Others only require breathing at birth to be a "live birth," others require muscle movement as well. The ones which have the lower requirements (like France and Japan) will have a lower infant mortality rate because of that, but a higher perinatal mortality rate. As well, poorer countries will have the most difficult recording and maintaining accurate statistics, and increasing the quality of the medical services available there will actually increase the infant mortality rate, only because the reporting rate is improved.
And if all the coverage you wanted was for hangnails and scraped knees, then why should you be forced to buy coverage for things you don't want, and in many cases will never need?
Because you usually don't pick and choose what injuries and illnesses you get. We've already decided as a society that we're not just going to let people die in the street and that medical personnel have to treat patients. So you're going to get treatment, the ACA ensures that you have actual coverage for it rather than freeloading.
It's still a totally broken system though; no way should health care have ever been tied to employment. For one thing, doing so masked the actual costs of health care and insurance from the average person.
Yes, because of course things that happened hundreds of years ago are still fucking relevant.
I agree, but just about anyone involved with the politics of Israel, on either side, seem to attach great importance to who had the land in their great-great-(etc)-grandfather's time and get very butt-hurt when others disagree.
No. States do not have the right to succeed. That argument was settle internationally when Lincoln sent Sherman to South Carolina to burn down their houses,kill their livestock, and rape their women. What Crimea is doing is wrong.
States have the "Right" to seceed. And the parent country has the right to invade and bring them back. Who wins? Whomever is able to fight off the other, that's who wins. There's no morality here in either situation.
> Ukraine are a bunch of racist assholes
No, historically the secessionists are the racists. You are siding with slave holders. You, and your Republican kind, are disgusting. Your time has passed. Just give-up already on the right to own other humans.
I think this topic is a little too important for the same old stupid trolling. Save that for the Microsoft story.
How do we prevent a Mt. Gox style collapse in the future? By having auditors come in and making sure that companies are actually following security best practices.
Oh. So.... that sounds like strong regulation?
But most people expect the government to act as the referee, so the government will probably mandate the regular auditing of exchanges.
People expect the government to act as the referee because bad actors cannot be trusted to regulate themselves.
The lifetime investment market is all about gains over the long term, which implies reducing risk the closer you come to retirement. When you're 60, don't invest the same way you did when you were 30.
Actually, as someone who tends towards the conservative side of things, I'm 100% happy to see that Cook said what he did.
That shouldn't be too much of a surprise because...
ROI is not the end-all, be-all of running a company, and worshipping it to the exclusion of all other considerations is a bad thing for any company to do.
.. because it sounds like you're a conservative, not an Objectivist!
. I also like the sustainability movement they're taking... it's not a "surrender" to "government intrusion" as the NCPPR is claiming.
As far as I can tell, the NCPPR argument essentially boils down to: "You think it's the right thing, but it shouldn't be enforced by government fiat. We fear that the government will make it fiat, so doing it yourself is giving in to the government. Therefore, you should oppose what the government wishes." Cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Maybe. I think that might be debatable - some people have raised what I think are valid points about the practicality of any proposed rescue scenario.
Oh, sure, I'm just saying it shouldn't have gotten to that point. I think the real issue was the disconnect between engineers who knew that foam impacts could damage tile, and management who did not.
I don't think the damage to the shuttle was an obvious death sentence, even if they had inspected it (from the ground, likely). Do you call your mom and tell her goodbye every time you get in your car?
If they had -seen- the damage, it would have been obvious that it was a death sentence. This wasn't a minor scrape, it involved a breach of the wing. Given the temperatures the wing sees on reentry, you can easily make the claim that such damage would cause the shuttle to fail 100% of the time. Again though... they didn't have any contingencies in place. No way to get another shuttle up there, and a Soyuz is even not likely.
I'm not saying that they handled these strikes well, I'm saying that the guys in charge were not sociopaths or risking people's lives for the hell of it.
The Challenger and Columbia disasters certainly weren't caused by sociopaths. They are illustrations of the dangers of wishful thinking, and of ignoring the risks of common problems when those problems don't result in disaster.
Challenger exploded because its booster O rings froze, not because if a foam strike
The root cause of the Challenger disaster was complacency, and the belief that because O-ring seal problems in the past hadn't caused a serious flight problem, then they wouldn't do so in the future either. In previous shuttle flights, gasses thousands of degrees in temperature had escaped the SRBs, damaging the O-Rings until the rings shifted out of their grooves and formed a seal. The SRBs were not designed to function this way, but this extrusion hadn't caused a problem before, so management wasn't worried about it. That morning the launch was extremely cold -- 22 degrees F below the launch specifications for the shuttle. Engineers warned that this was an unknown, and it turned out the cold had hardened the O-Rings, causing the above extrusion to take longer, damaging the rings enough that a seal would never occur.
Both NASA and its contractor which designed the rings were excoriated by the investigating committee because the O-Ring problem was not redesigned and fixed, but instead terms an "acceptable flight risk." They broke their own safety regulations in order to downplay the issue with the seals and keep the shuttle fleet operating.
Richard Feynman was a physicist on the commission, he mentioned that NASA managers inflated the reliability of the shuttle, and famously said "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
These are lessons forgotten over time. When foam shedding ended up not causing major problems on shuttle launches, NASA management became accustomed to the issue. Since foam shedding -hadn't- caused catastrophe in the past, the risk of catastrophe was ignored. The same "normalization of deviance" occurred in the lead up to both the Challenger and Columbia disasters. In both cases, there were warnings ahead of time that were ignored. In neither case were the circumstances unforeseen.
Homosexuality is not the same as bondage. You can't choose to be a homosexual, it is genetic and people are either born gay or not. Entering a dom/sub relationship is a lifestyle choice
And here we will get to the root of the matter; these religious groups will strongly disagree that homosexuality is anything but a choice, and that you can choose to be gay or you can choose to be straight. You can go on and on about sociology or genetics but their religion will say that God did not create people gay, and their books will always, always trump yours, by definition.
It means the subject makes no attempt to hide their sexual orientation when the subject comes up, and often actively seeks out LGBT events and organizations that they can contribute to or take part in
I'm openly gay, but I make no attempt to seek out LGBT events and organizations any more than a straight person actively seeks out straight events and organizations. Most gay people don't either.
Oh but they did -- recall how the media initially focused on his 'stripper girlfriend'? Not really perversion, but just trying to associate him with unsavory lifestyles.
In fairness, the media does this with pretty much everyone famous. They know that salacious details attract readers. A glance at the rags at grocery store checkout lines* will tell you that much.
Wrong, people are moving to cities. Good cities that is. And yes there are a lot of boomers moving to phoenix or whatever. Need to built some more boomer pens.
Generally as people grow older, the attractions of the urban life fade. They don't go "clubbing" anymore. They don't need the super-hot urban hipster social experience. What they do need is space and security and lower bills that life outside the city provides. Pretty much the only thing that older folks and younger ones share is the love of good restaurants, something usually easier to find in the cities. Paying $2000/month+ for a tiny flat that you're not in very much is fine when you're single and fresh out of college. When you get married and you're at home in the evening raising the kids, the deficiencies of such an area raise their heads.
Young tech workers in their 20s like living in the city. When they get older and try starting a family is when they find out just how much big cities suck.
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Really? A D list celebrity has personal experience with a human condition that is exhausting and draining, then makes it a her cause to educate base on the teaching of a respected, peer reviewed journal that evenually retracts their claims and eventually silencing herself and she's the dumb bitch?
Partially, as her son had another condition, not autism.
But seriously, kill yourself. That's good advice everyone has been giving you.
Well this escalated quickly.
So, you've not coded in Perl I take it?
Perl is a disaster for many reasons. One of which it's TOO easy to write obfuscated code.
Another big reason is that it's great slogan, "There's more than one way to do it" is a big drawback too. That also leads to overly complex code.
The U.S. has an infant mortality rate that dwarfs comparable nations
It's also not that straight-forward a statistic. In some countries if a child dies within a few hours of birth, it is not considered a "live birth" and not counted against the infant mortality rate. Others only require breathing at birth to be a "live birth," others require muscle movement as well. The ones which have the lower requirements (like France and Japan) will have a lower infant mortality rate because of that, but a higher perinatal mortality rate. As well, poorer countries will have the most difficult recording and maintaining accurate statistics, and increasing the quality of the medical services available there will actually increase the infant mortality rate, only because the reporting rate is improved.
...like the people who think that the solution to most problems is to put the government in charge of it.
Single-payer seems to work for much of the rest of the first world.
And if all the coverage you wanted was for hangnails and scraped knees, then why should you be forced to buy coverage for things you don't want, and in many cases will never need?
Because you usually don't pick and choose what injuries and illnesses you get. We've already decided as a society that we're not just going to let people die in the street and that medical personnel have to treat patients. So you're going to get treatment, the ACA ensures that you have actual coverage for it rather than freeloading.
It's still a totally broken system though; no way should health care have ever been tied to employment. For one thing, doing so masked the actual costs of health care and insurance from the average person.
I think we're just making the point that those sorts of generic advances do not deserve the protection of law.
Yes, because of course things that happened hundreds of years ago are still fucking relevant.
I agree, but just about anyone involved with the politics of Israel, on either side, seem to attach great importance to who had the land in their great-great-(etc)-grandfather's time and get very butt-hurt when others disagree.
No. States do not have the right to succeed. That argument was settle internationally when Lincoln sent Sherman to South Carolina to burn down their houses,kill their livestock, and rape their women. What Crimea is doing is wrong.
States have the "Right" to seceed. And the parent country has the right to invade and bring them back. Who wins? Whomever is able to fight off the other, that's who wins. There's no morality here in either situation.
> Ukraine are a bunch of racist assholes
No, historically the secessionists are the racists. You are siding with slave holders. You, and your Republican kind, are disgusting. Your time has passed. Just give-up already on the right to own other humans.
I think this topic is a little too important for the same old stupid trolling. Save that for the Microsoft story.
Well thinking Selfishness and greed are good traits is one of the definitions of being an asshole, so he is correct.
They're also traits of an Ayn Rand - worshipping Objectivist.
How do we prevent a Mt. Gox style collapse in the future? By having auditors come in and making sure that companies are actually following security best practices.
Oh. So.... that sounds like strong regulation?
But most people expect the government to act as the referee, so the government will probably mandate the regular auditing of exchanges.
People expect the government to act as the referee because bad actors cannot be trusted to regulate themselves.
The lifetime investment market is all about gains over the long term, which implies reducing risk the closer you come to retirement. When you're 60, don't invest the same way you did when you were 30.
Actually, as someone who tends towards the conservative side of things, I'm 100% happy to see that Cook said what he did.
That shouldn't be too much of a surprise because...
ROI is not the end-all, be-all of running a company, and worshipping it to the exclusion of all other considerations is a bad thing for any company to do.
.. because it sounds like you're a conservative, not an Objectivist!
. I also like the sustainability movement they're taking... it's not a "surrender" to "government intrusion" as the NCPPR is claiming.
As far as I can tell, the NCPPR argument essentially boils down to: "You think it's the right thing, but it shouldn't be enforced by government fiat. We fear that the government will make it fiat, so doing it yourself is giving in to the government. Therefore, you should oppose what the government wishes." Cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Maybe. I think that might be debatable - some people have raised what I think are valid points about the practicality of any proposed rescue scenario.
Oh, sure, I'm just saying it shouldn't have gotten to that point. I think the real issue was the disconnect between engineers who knew that foam impacts could damage tile, and management who did not.
That's fine. Sometimes some people really need bullying then, if that's the definition we're going to use.
at least spell muslims right you grammar failure
Typical muzzie reaction. Faced with the facts attack the person stating them ... in this case for spelling
Now now, grammar and spelling lovers wade in on every topic.
I don't think the damage to the shuttle was an obvious death sentence, even if they had inspected it (from the ground, likely). Do you call your mom and tell her goodbye every time you get in your car?
If they had -seen- the damage, it would have been obvious that it was a death sentence. This wasn't a minor scrape, it involved a breach of the wing. Given the temperatures the wing sees on reentry, you can easily make the claim that such damage would cause the shuttle to fail 100% of the time. Again though... they didn't have any contingencies in place. No way to get another shuttle up there, and a Soyuz is even not likely.
I'm not saying that they handled these strikes well, I'm saying that the guys in charge were not sociopaths or risking people's lives for the hell of it.
The Challenger and Columbia disasters certainly weren't caused by sociopaths. They are illustrations of the dangers of wishful thinking, and of ignoring the risks of common problems when those problems don't result in disaster.
Challenger exploded because its booster O rings froze, not because if a foam strike
The root cause of the Challenger disaster was complacency, and the belief that because O-ring seal problems in the past hadn't caused a serious flight problem, then they wouldn't do so in the future either. In previous shuttle flights, gasses thousands of degrees in temperature had escaped the SRBs, damaging the O-Rings until the rings shifted out of their grooves and formed a seal. The SRBs were not designed to function this way, but this extrusion hadn't caused a problem before, so management wasn't worried about it. That morning the launch was extremely cold -- 22 degrees F below the launch specifications for the shuttle. Engineers warned that this was an unknown, and it turned out the cold had hardened the O-Rings, causing the above extrusion to take longer, damaging the rings enough that a seal would never occur.
Both NASA and its contractor which designed the rings were excoriated by the investigating committee because the O-Ring problem was not redesigned and fixed, but instead terms an "acceptable flight risk." They broke their own safety regulations in order to downplay the issue with the seals and keep the shuttle fleet operating.
Richard Feynman was a physicist on the commission, he mentioned that NASA managers inflated the reliability of the shuttle, and famously said "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
These are lessons forgotten over time. When foam shedding ended up not causing major problems on shuttle launches, NASA management became accustomed to the issue. Since foam shedding -hadn't- caused catastrophe in the past, the risk of catastrophe was ignored. The same "normalization of deviance" occurred in the lead up to both the Challenger and Columbia disasters. In both cases, there were warnings ahead of time that were ignored. In neither case were the circumstances unforeseen.
Homosexuality is not the same as bondage. You can't choose to be a homosexual, it is genetic and people are either born gay or not. Entering a dom/sub relationship is a lifestyle choice
And here we will get to the root of the matter; these religious groups will strongly disagree that homosexuality is anything but a choice, and that you can choose to be gay or you can choose to be straight. You can go on and on about sociology or genetics but their religion will say that God did not create people gay, and their books will always, always trump yours, by definition.
So it's an argument that will never go anywhere.
It means the subject makes no attempt to hide their sexual orientation when the subject comes up, and often actively seeks out LGBT events and organizations that they can contribute to or take part in
I'm openly gay, but I make no attempt to seek out LGBT events and organizations any more than a straight person actively seeks out straight events and organizations. Most gay people don't either.
Oh but they did -- recall how the media initially focused on his 'stripper girlfriend'? Not really perversion, but just trying to associate him with unsavory lifestyles.
In fairness, the media does this with pretty much everyone famous. They know that salacious details attract readers. A glance at the rags at grocery store checkout lines* will tell you that much.
(*) I miss World Weekly News.
Our generation will NOT be putting up stupid suburban office warts. Those are for olds.
tl;dr
You don't have kids yet.
Moderators, please mod this up to a thousand. Thank you.
Wrong, people are moving to cities. Good cities that is. And yes there are a lot of boomers moving to phoenix or whatever. Need to built some more boomer pens.
Generally as people grow older, the attractions of the urban life fade. They don't go "clubbing" anymore. They don't need the super-hot urban hipster social experience. What they do need is space and security and lower bills that life outside the city provides. Pretty much the only thing that older folks and younger ones share is the love of good restaurants, something usually easier to find in the cities. Paying $2000/month+ for a tiny flat that you're not in very much is fine when you're single and fresh out of college. When you get married and you're at home in the evening raising the kids, the deficiencies of such an area raise their heads.
Young tech workers in their 20s like living in the city. When they get older and try starting a family is when they find out just how much big cities suck.
Some would argue ED is what really big guns and fast cars are supposed to mitigate.