Yah, because stereotyping was invented and perfected in the U.S.A. Get a clue.
Yea I stand corrected...obviously because people in other countries have ugly racist stereotypes we have to also right? Sure, America's diverse and all that, but it doesn't excuse bullshit like that whole "Ground Zero Mosque" bullshit. Anyone who wasn't ashamed about that in a country that's supposed to be about freedom is dead from the fucking neck up.
Agreed. This is just one of those many threads that bring out all the folks that'll start quoting that Godless piece of bigotry that is www.thereligionofpeace.com, and get modded up by others who insist on believing that all 1.4 BILLION Muslims around the world are terrorists, which makes about as much sense as equating all Protestants with the Klan. I'll probably get modded down just for posting this, but I really don't care...that sort of crap makes me ashamed to be an American.
I posted this link on a related story some time back. This is a must see if you think you know how bad forensic science (or lack of science) really is:
I couldn't agree more. No matter how well you code there are always reasons for comments...especially when the nature of what the code is trying to accomplish is complex. Even if your code is perfectly structured and understandable by any good programmer, making someone else reverse engineer that is inexcusable. Another example is when your code needs to do something in what may appear to be round about or unusual manner for some specific reason...because, for example, a more obvious approach causes some sort of problems...that is, so someone doesn't come along and try to "fix" it.
People have a lot of weird ideas about comments, and I don't get it. It seems pretty clear to me what parts of my code require some sort of explanation...and not just for someone else, but for me as well. I can't tell you how many times I've read my own comments to remember why I took a specific approach to something.
My take on all this sort of stuff, including all the supposed evidence about the evils of sitting down etc, is that it's all just a big unnecessary distraction from the simple fact that life is bad for you if you DON'T EXERCISE...very deliberately and very regularly...BOTH aerobic exercise and weight training. As a programmer I work sitting down for very long stretches with no problems, and I'm almost 59. I attribute that (and the fact that I feel at least as good as I did in my twenties) totally to the fact that I do 20 minutes of intense (but low impact) aerobics three times a week, and significantly heavy weight training twice a week. There just is no replacement.
Yes by all means, the Boomers were the first Americans to "break the rules", like those rules preventing unions from occupying factories as was done early in the 20th century, and hundreds of other examples anyone could name. For fucks sake...civil disobedience is breaking the rules and frankly we could use more of it right now. Where is this fantasy land were everything would be OK if only the Boomers didn't rock the boat??
As others have pointed out here...do you really think that, for example, the scumbags on Wall St fucking things up for all of us are all over 50 or something?? I swear, this Boomer bashing going on here (and the way it's getting modded up) is nothing short of fucking astonishing.
...wish I had mod points. I'm stunned at the Boomer vitriol here, and that fact that "We should take their pensions and health insurance off them, let them die in the gutter and use the pay to pay off the deficit" can get +4 Insightful(???)...for fucks sake...really??
I'd argue that the primary reason for that gap is that the older group came from a time period when people below to top few percent weren't treated like worthless pieces of shit in some huge global job market. Are we going to blame the Boomers for that as well?? There are a lot of people behind all that inequality, and plenty of them sure as fucking hell aren't from my generation, I can tell you that.
This argument reminds me of this current trend to blame the worlds problems on civil servants and unions... that "They weren't treated like shit the way I am, so it must be their fault" sort of crap.
I have no clue what you're even asking. My point is that peoples knee jerk reaction to the idea of ill health in old age should be "maybe I should start taking care of myself", yet I more frequently hear people react "I hope I don't live that long". The very idea that anyone would ever say that sentence completely blows me away.
Did he do any weight training? I'm convinced that's at least as important as aerobic exercise in old age. Aside from strengthening muscle and bone, that strength is precisely what you need to protect your joints.
Exactly. I'm 58 and have managed to get/stay more physically fit than most people I know in their 30s. I do so because I don't want my later years to be unbearable. What completely blows my mind is that most people I know, when the discussion of an elderly person having serious health issues comes up, will say "I hope I don't live that long", rather than "I hope I stay healthy"...I can't tell you how that attitude makes my skin crawl.
I guess that all part of peoples rationalizations for taking abysmal care of themselves (I've never been able to convince any of my friends to start working out for example)...that "you're gonna die anyway" bullshit. People love to delude themselves into the belief that you can take crappy care of your health, and that it just means that "switch" gets pulled a few years earlier. The reality is that it can mean spending decades of your life being in fucking misery.
All those sorts of attitudes kill me. Indeed...sign me up too!...I want to be healthy and live as long as I can.
...and why do cheap plastics have to be used in things that are supposed to last? Hell...I have a couple of cheap plastic garbage cans that were given to us...they were purchased at Walmart...which have all but totally disintegrated in a matter of years. They're not recyclable either. I also have an old Rubbermaid plastic garbage can that's been in the same condition for decades. Given that Rubbermaid was put out of business by Walmart's refusal to agree to a necessary price hike, I've always seen those garbage cans as a good microcosm of everything that's wrong these days...
So from the point of view of every one else outside the US, Obama is a somewhat right-of-center candidate, and Romney is basically Hitler. So yeah, we root for Obama.
As a left of center (at least left of what I consider the center) American, it amazes me that so many Americans don't recognize this shift to the right that's taken place in their own country. The right seems to be almost blind to the fact that someone like Reagan, let alone someone like Eisenhower, would be WAY to far to the left for their party today, yet they continue to pretend that they worship them. I just don't get it. In fact, Obama's record puts him closer to someone like Eisenhower than to any leftist...and these folks are calling him a Socialist...really????. I mean hell...is there even anyone left in U.S. politics at any serious level that's even in the same universe as, say for example, George McGovern???...not from where I stand.
I'll tell you what though...it's not flying with everyone. Almost every one of my family and friends who were hardcore Reagan Republicans in the 80s have ended up to the left of me amazingly. They're just dumbfounded as to what's going on there.
...or as others have suggested in the past, put a miniscule tax on each trade. That alone would be enough to make it go away. Either way, you're totally correct, there's just no place in the market for that BS.
Didn't work on either 32 bit gentoo machines of mine. One with an old card that requires nvidia-drivers-96.43.20:./nvid-root [*] IDT offset at 0xc13fe000 [*] Abusing nVidia... (just ended there)...and one with nvidia-drivers-295.49:./nvid-root [*] IDT offset at 0xc13d4000 [*] Abusing nVidia... [*] CVE-2012-YYYY [*] 32-bits Kernel found at ofs 0 [*] Using IDT entry: 220 (0xc13d46e0) [*] Enhancing gate entry... [*] Triggering payload... [*] Hiding evidence... callsetroot returned fffffffb (-5) [*] Failed to get root.
It's clear that these groups just don't like the nature of the open internet at all, and they won't be happy until it's reduced to the likes of pay TV, where we're all just spectators.
This Frontline was a real eye-opener. The real issue is that, aside from DNA testing most all of the techniques used were developed by law enforcement and not the scientific community. Among other things they discuss the case of Brandon Mayfield, wrongly accused of the Madrid train bombings by "100%" verified fingerprint analysis...scary stuff.
Besides, it looks like 3D forces directors to pay attention to small details - a scratch on a wall has to have depth and you won't get away by simply painting it.
You mean that scratch on the wall you try and look at in "3D" but can't, because the "3D" camera was only focused on the foreground? Let's call this bullshit what it is...stereo vision. What it does do is encourage movie companies to make "Transformer 24" rather than movies with some actual substance. The whole thing is a fucking crock and I don't personally know anyone with any interest in it. In fact most people I know will decide not to go to a move because it's "3D".
The irony is that, if there is in fact much of connection at all between marijuana use and use of any hard drugs, it's surely a direct result of the fact that they're both illegal, and therefore tend to be associated with the same group of people...the dealers for example. Using that as an argument for prohibition is the most astonishingly insane circular logic I can imagine. Then again, it comes from people who have no facts or history on their side, so what more would you expect?
Next we need another study supporting the other obvious conclusion, once and for all, that pot is NOT physically addictive, but rather, potentially mentally addictive...that is to the same degree as chocolate cake...don't even get me started on that one...
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Yah, because stereotyping was invented and perfected in the U.S.A. Get a clue.
Yea I stand corrected...obviously because people in other countries have ugly racist stereotypes we have to also right? Sure, America's diverse and all that, but it doesn't excuse bullshit like that whole "Ground Zero Mosque" bullshit. Anyone who wasn't ashamed about that in a country that's supposed to be about freedom is dead from the fucking neck up.
Agreed. This is just one of those many threads that bring out all the folks that'll start quoting that Godless piece of bigotry that is www.thereligionofpeace.com, and get modded up by others who insist on believing that all 1.4 BILLION Muslims around the world are terrorists, which makes about as much sense as equating all Protestants with the Klan. I'll probably get modded down just for posting this, but I really don't care...that sort of crap makes me ashamed to be an American.
I posted this link on a related story some time back. This is a must see if you think you know how bad forensic science (or lack of science) really is:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/real-csi/
I couldn't agree more. No matter how well you code there are always reasons for comments...especially when the nature of what the code is trying to accomplish is complex. Even if your code is perfectly structured and understandable by any good programmer, making someone else reverse engineer that is inexcusable. Another example is when your code needs to do something in what may appear to be round about or unusual manner for some specific reason...because, for example, a more obvious approach causes some sort of problems...that is, so someone doesn't come along and try to "fix" it.
People have a lot of weird ideas about comments, and I don't get it. It seems pretty clear to me what parts of my code require some sort of explanation...and not just for someone else, but for me as well. I can't tell you how many times I've read my own comments to remember why I took a specific approach to something.
My take on all this sort of stuff, including all the supposed evidence about the evils of sitting down etc, is that it's all just a big unnecessary distraction from the simple fact that life is bad for you if you DON'T EXERCISE...very deliberately and very regularly...BOTH aerobic exercise and weight training. As a programmer I work sitting down for very long stretches with no problems, and I'm almost 59. I attribute that (and the fact that I feel at least as good as I did in my twenties) totally to the fact that I do 20 minutes of intense (but low impact) aerobics three times a week, and significantly heavy weight training twice a week. There just is no replacement.
It makes more sense when you say "$1 million" using a Doctor Evil voice.
Yes by all means, the Boomers were the first Americans to "break the rules", like those rules preventing unions from occupying factories as was done early in the 20th century, and hundreds of other examples anyone could name. For fucks sake...civil disobedience is breaking the rules and frankly we could use more of it right now. Where is this fantasy land were everything would be OK if only the Boomers didn't rock the boat??
As others have pointed out here...do you really think that, for example, the scumbags on Wall St fucking things up for all of us are all over 50 or something?? I swear, this Boomer bashing going on here (and the way it's getting modded up) is nothing short of fucking astonishing.
I no...I didn't mean to imply that you were. The GP sure was however.
...wish I had mod points. I'm stunned at the Boomer vitriol here, and that fact that "We should take their pensions and health insurance off them, let them die in the gutter and use the pay to pay off the deficit" can get +4 Insightful(???)...for fucks sake...really??
I'd argue that the primary reason for that gap is that the older group came from a time period when people below to top few percent weren't treated like worthless pieces of shit in some huge global job market. Are we going to blame the Boomers for that as well?? There are a lot of people behind all that inequality, and plenty of them sure as fucking hell aren't from my generation, I can tell you that.
This argument reminds me of this current trend to blame the worlds problems on civil servants and unions... that "They weren't treated like shit the way I am, so it must be their fault" sort of crap.
http://www.theonion.com/video/hp-on-that-cloud-thing-that-everyone-else-is-talki,28789/
I have no clue what you're even asking. My point is that peoples knee jerk reaction to the idea of ill health in old age should be "maybe I should start taking care of myself", yet I more frequently hear people react "I hope I don't live that long". The very idea that anyone would ever say that sentence completely blows me away.
Did he do any weight training? I'm convinced that's at least as important as aerobic exercise in old age. Aside from strengthening muscle and bone, that strength is precisely what you need to protect your joints.
Exactly. I'm 58 and have managed to get/stay more physically fit than most people I know in their 30s. I do so because I don't want my later years to be unbearable. What completely blows my mind is that most people I know, when the discussion of an elderly person having serious health issues comes up, will say "I hope I don't live that long", rather than "I hope I stay healthy"...I can't tell you how that attitude makes my skin crawl.
I guess that all part of peoples rationalizations for taking abysmal care of themselves (I've never been able to convince any of my friends to start working out for example)...that "you're gonna die anyway" bullshit. People love to delude themselves into the belief that you can take crappy care of your health, and that it just means that "switch" gets pulled a few years earlier. The reality is that it can mean spending decades of your life being in fucking misery.
All those sorts of attitudes kill me. Indeed...sign me up too!...I want to be healthy and live as long as I can.
Amen to that...and will someone tell me again how these agreements don't violate the 7th Amendment???
...and why do cheap plastics have to be used in things that are supposed to last? Hell...I have a couple of cheap plastic garbage cans that were given to us...they were purchased at Walmart...which have all but totally disintegrated in a matter of years. They're not recyclable either. I also have an old Rubbermaid plastic garbage can that's been in the same condition for decades. Given that Rubbermaid was put out of business by Walmart's refusal to agree to a necessary price hike, I've always seen those garbage cans as a good microcosm of everything that's wrong these days...
So from the point of view of every one else outside the US, Obama is a somewhat right-of-center candidate, and Romney is basically Hitler. So yeah, we root for Obama.
As a left of center (at least left of what I consider the center) American, it amazes me that so many Americans don't recognize this shift to the right that's taken place in their own country. The right seems to be almost blind to the fact that someone like Reagan, let alone someone like Eisenhower, would be WAY to far to the left for their party today, yet they continue to pretend that they worship them. I just don't get it. In fact, Obama's record puts him closer to someone like Eisenhower than to any leftist...and these folks are calling him a Socialist...really????. I mean hell...is there even anyone left in U.S. politics at any serious level that's even in the same universe as, say for example, George McGovern???...not from where I stand.
I'll tell you what though...it's not flying with everyone. Almost every one of my family and friends who were hardcore Reagan Republicans in the 80s have ended up to the left of me amazingly. They're just dumbfounded as to what's going on there.
...or as others have suggested in the past, put a miniscule tax on each trade. That alone would be enough to make it go away. Either way, you're totally correct, there's just no place in the market for that BS.
The article did however carefully observe the first rule of usenet.
Didn't work on either 32 bit gentoo machines of mine. One with an old card that requires nvidia-drivers-96.43.20: ./nvid-root ./nvid-root
[*] IDT offset at 0xc13fe000
[*] Abusing nVidia...
(just ended there)...and one with nvidia-drivers-295.49:
[*] IDT offset at 0xc13d4000
[*] Abusing nVidia...
[*] CVE-2012-YYYY
[*] 32-bits Kernel found at ofs 0
[*] Using IDT entry: 220 (0xc13d46e0)
[*] Enhancing gate entry...
[*] Triggering payload...
[*] Hiding evidence...
callsetroot returned fffffffb (-5)
[*] Failed to get root.
It's clear that these groups just don't like the nature of the open internet at all, and they won't be happy until it's reduced to the likes of pay TV, where we're all just spectators.
This Frontline was a real eye-opener. The real issue is that, aside from DNA testing most all of the techniques used were developed by law enforcement and not the scientific community. Among other things they discuss the case of Brandon Mayfield, wrongly accused of the Madrid train bombings by "100%" verified fingerprint analysis...scary stuff.
Besides, it looks like 3D forces directors to pay attention to small details - a scratch on a wall has to have depth and you won't get away by simply painting it.
You mean that scratch on the wall you try and look at in "3D" but can't, because the "3D" camera was only focused on the foreground? Let's call this bullshit what it is...stereo vision. What it does do is encourage movie companies to make "Transformer 24" rather than movies with some actual substance. The whole thing is a fucking crock and I don't personally know anyone with any interest in it. In fact most people I know will decide not to go to a move because it's "3D".
The irony is that, if there is in fact much of connection at all between marijuana use and use of any hard drugs, it's surely a direct result of the fact that they're both illegal, and therefore tend to be associated with the same group of people...the dealers for example. Using that as an argument for prohibition is the most astonishingly insane circular logic I can imagine. Then again, it comes from people who have no facts or history on their side, so what more would you expect?
Next we need another study supporting the other obvious conclusion, once and for all, that pot is NOT physically addictive, but rather, potentially mentally addictive...that is to the same degree as chocolate cake...don't even get me started on that one...