There are plenty of INDIVIDUALS with net worths greater than $15 million. If memory serves, Webvan was still worth more than $50 million the day before they filed for bankrupcy. $15 million for a corporation is nothing.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
There's also plenty of literature about how hormonal treatments such as the pill lead to an increased cancer risk.
Yes, from pills sold prior to 1979, when dosages were orders of magnitude higher (like taking RU-486 every day). Since then, there has been no evidence whatsoever of increased cancer risk.
First, when something that naturally occurs in the body (when things are working NORMALLY) is seen as inconvenient, it really should make one question the adopted framework/society that would MAKE it inconvenient.
Okay bright guy, how do we change society so that painful cramps, bloating, and violent mood swings are not inconvenient?
I don't even know what to say about "messy" - sounds like a hangup.
*scratches head* Um, no. I happily go down on my girlfriend during her period, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. However, the fluids leaking from between her legs during her period are sticky and stain things red. That qualifies as "messy" in my book.
Finally, as for Ms. Christine Northrup, let me leave you with a quote from her website: "Her pioneering work has shown that conditions such as PMS, endometriosis, breast symptoms, and uterine conditions are the language through which women's bodies speak of wounding they have experienced in a culture which has been unsupportive to women and to those values we call 'womanly.'"
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The only thing that worries me about that is potential divorces. If you divorce (and people change, nothing's ever certain), the courts tend to be more sympathetic to the mother. Hence, you may find yourself with greatly reduced access to your children, and if you remarry, you may wish to have more children.
I'd rather stick with currently available birth control, and if anything slips through, get it aborted. If you detest condoms (as I do, it makes me feel like my dick is numb), and your girlfriend doesn't have the organization neccessary for the pill (mine does, but were our positions reversed, I sure as hell wouldn't), there's still spermicides, diaphrams, and cervical caps, if you have no moral problems with killing anything that gets fertilized. But, if you're pro-life, that wouldn't be a viable option I guess...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It's not *bad* to menstruate, but it's not especially great, either. As the article indicates, research is still ongoing. My understanding is, they're fairly certain (as much as they are about anything) that skipping a few periods is fine, and may actually be good (less hormonal fluctuations, less blood and tissue loss, etc.). At some point, women probably do have to have periods, but when is unclear. It may be 3 months, it may be 3 years.
Obviously, IANAMD, so a gynecologist would be your best bet for finding out more.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Why do people regard it as a mere inconvenience? Well, it's messy, it's inconvenient, and it makes life miserable for everyone involved. Why should we regard it as a good thing? See my above post, women are not supposed to be getting 12 periods a year, for years at a time. They're supposed to get maybe a couple, then get pregnant for 9 months, give birth, have a couple more periods, then get pregant again, until menopause or death (the latter probably from childbirth).
Calling menstruation a "normal, cleansing part of a woman's cycle," is utter bullshit, and has only been normal since the advent of modern birth control. The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
In addition to RU-486, the same chemicals are in your run-of-the-mill birth control pills. In fact, you can get the same effect as RU-486 by taking a bunch of birth control pills at once. Don't know the dosages exactly, but I'm sure it's not too tough to find out.
Anyway, my girlfriend already prevents menstruation by just taking the pill month-round. Ordinarily, one week of the pill is just a sugar pill, but if you instead take the full strength pills the whole month, you can prevent menstruation. My guess is, this is more or less the same idea.
A couple notes for those of you who want to try this at home: first, yes, it is considered safe. My girlfriend has discussed it with doctors, and originally read about it in a medical article (her father's an ER doctor). In fact, girls really shouldn't be menstruating all the time. Up until a century ago, women would basically spend half their time pregnant from puberty to menopause (or until they died in child birth), so what's going on now is pretty unnatural.
Second, make sure you have full strength pills. Many pills have stepped dosages, so only one week would actually be full strength, two weeks would be partial strength, and one week is just a placebo. You need the ones with 3 constant dosage weeks, and one placebo week. Just toss out the placebo week and keep taking the regular pills.
Third, 9 weeks seems to be the limit for my girlfriend. After going through 3 sets of pills, even if she continues taking full strength pills, she goes into menstruation. YMMV, but this is probably not something you can do forever.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Has anyone really seen local media coverage of this? I know I really haven't. (But then again, I don't really watch any TV anyway.)
Yup, absolutely. I saw two news broadcasts on Monday covering it here in San Francisco. One around 4 or 5 pm, while I was lifting weights, and another around 11, because after seeing snippets in the weight room, I wanted to see how they were covering it. All in all, I thought it was pretty fair. They did play up the "hacking" aspect of it with their language, but the statements they took from people (mainly protesters and the EFF) were all positive and articulate.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I wonder how much of those AOL chatroom spams were because of being in a chatroom, and how much was just because he's an AOL member. My old AOL address (which only still exists becase it's the master (undeletable) account on the AOL subscription my parents use) gets an ungodly number of spams, even though I stopped using it perhaps 4 years ago, sometime in high school. Most of the spam comes from other AOL addresses.
My Yahoo address, in comparison, gets maybe 1/10th as many spams, nearly all from identifiable sources (e-tailers I've used before, for example). So, making a "chat only" address probably won't help much with AOL spam.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The Internet actually obeys the (descriptive) laws of economics almost perfectly (as do most situations with no intellectual property laws). Marginal revenues = marginal costs. Let me say it again. Marginal revenues = marginal costs. Need me to say it one more time? No? Alright then.
Fundamentally, no one should make an economic profit. That is to say, no one (including CEOs) should end up with a salary any higher than necessary to find someone with the required skillset, and the profits remaining for dividends should be no higher than necessary to secure enough investors to get the business off the ground. The idea of.coms as wildly profitable businesses just because they were on this new thing called the Internet was always ridiculous. It would be like expecting someone listed on Pricewatch to make enourmous profits because they sell high tech equipment. Instead, those companies make just enough money (most of the time) to keep from defaulting on lease payments.
Likewise, most of these pure internet plays will likely end up with just enough money for a small content staff (or whatever staff they need to get their jobs done) and bandwidth. This is how economics WORKS! That's not to say people's lives are crappy under Capitalism, it just means that only monopolies (which usually only form with government support, like the phone companies or those with intellectual property (Disney, for example, has a narrow monopoly on Mickey Mouse products)) can throw the kinds of wild spending sprees that the.coms were famous for. Real capitalism tends to produce many companies, all barely hanging on by the skin of their teeth, as you see in computer assemblers/parts resellers, restaurants, farming, and so forth.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I remember Linux Weekly News mention something about this, but then when I went to O'Reilly's site (for you trekkies out there, unfortunately Tim is no relation to Robert O'Reilly, AKA Gowron, leader of the Klingon High Council) and saw that they had an online for-pay section, and figured that was what they were talking about.
It's quite a relief that they are actually publishing it for free online, since I bought the first edition a little while back, before realizing that, duh, it'll be totally useless because I'll have to figure out how to update a 2.0.x driver to 2.4.x, since 2.0.x probably won't support my computer even if I did want to use it.
Anyway, kudos to Tim, and kudos to the author. I might have to fork over the green for a first to second edition "upgrade" (20% off, I believe) if this really turns out to be a useful book. The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The only libertarian academics are a handful of economists, because by and large academics draw their funding from the government. For most most libertarians that would be an intolerable life. Apparently, economists don't read/. If I knew anything about the scientific journal system, I'm sure I could give you an answer...
Perhaps I begin to realize that "you" are nothing more than a crock of shit.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Doesn't Habeas Corpus just mean that they have to tell him what he's accused of? He's accused of violating the DMCA. I don't see where Habeas Corpus would enter into it then.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
There was originally some discussion of making this a requirement, which is where some people seem to have gotten their misinformation, however in the end it was not made into a requirement. It is, however, a requirement if they expand IM service to do new things (deliver multimedia, for example).
While AOL may or may not have plans to expand the service at the moment, they probably want to keep their options open. By adding interoperability now, they can add new features to their service at any time.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'm of Gen X, the FIRST generation to leave the country less free than when we were born.
Nothing, and I do mean nothing, caused a greater reduction in freedom than the FDR reign. Japanese in internment (read: "concentration") camps, government control of industry, highest tax brackets closing in on 100%, outlawing the ownership of gold (!?!), and of course an old favorite, the draft.
In contrast, today we have long term copyrights and the DMCA. Imprisoning all those of Japanese descent, and depriving them of propery without just compensation, just seems a little worse to me.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
You can't "counter-sue" someone who hasn't sued you. When they call in the FBI and have you thrown in jail, suing them is just suing them, it's not a counter-suit. And, Adobe did not order the arrest, they complained to the government. The government then decided, based on the evidence, that an arrest was warrented. Hence, if anyone could be sued for wrongful imprisonment, it would be the federal government.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Why is it that we haven't seen a mass wave of Linux viruses? Yep, that's right - Microsoft desktop OSes are a much larger target
Okay, a larger target for some types of attacks (email worms, for example), but not for all. In particular, for website defacement, Linux is a plenty big target. Linux runs a percentage of servers nearly equal to NT, and the Unices together are by far the largest block (I might even go as far as claiming a greater than 50% market share, but I'd probably just be shooting my mouth off).
So, calling Linux a small target just because it doesn't run on everyone's desktop seems somewhat disingenious. Really, I think Windows just has a much greater work/reward ratio. You can cobble together a simple VBS worm and make front page headlines for Windows. With Linux, on the other hand, you have to do considerably more work (beyond the amount of work most 1337 h5> The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
There were two stories about it! Try looking in the history for the last few days. Or at all the posters above who for some reason got modded down as "trolls." The parent post is the only troll here.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Go try RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, SuSE then come back and tell me with a straight face that they all provided the same bang for the buck to you, and were all of equal quality, etc.
I'd be happy to, but I'm not going to spend over a hundred bucks ($30-$40 per distro) for boxed sets of each one. Hence, I download and burn RH, Mandrake and Debian, to try them out. I liked Mandrake the best (Debian wouldn't support booting past the 1024th cylinder, and Red Hat has no journaling filesystem) so I donated $30.
If SuSE would likewise let me try their distro free, maybe I'd like it, but I'm not going to go out and waste money when Mandrake's working just fine. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that their FTP version supports PPPoE.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Instead of allowing people like Tito to pay $20 million to do ISS chores for a week, they're spending millions developing a robot to do those chores? No wonder NASA keeps running out of money.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Specifically, their YaST installer is NOT GPLed, it is under a proprietary license, making it illegal to copy cds. I've never used the distro because of this, so I don't know if any of their other software is non-GPLed. It's quite possible that it would be illegal for Mandrake to do what you describe.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
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The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yes, from pills sold prior to 1979, when dosages were orders of magnitude higher (like taking RU-486 every day). Since then, there has been no evidence whatsoever of increased cancer risk.
First, when something that naturally occurs in the body (when things are working NORMALLY) is seen as inconvenient, it really should make one question the adopted framework/society that would MAKE it inconvenient.
Okay bright guy, how do we change society so that painful cramps, bloating, and violent mood swings are not inconvenient?
I don't even know what to say about "messy" - sounds like a hangup.
*scratches head* Um, no. I happily go down on my girlfriend during her period, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. However, the fluids leaking from between her legs during her period are sticky and stain things red. That qualifies as "messy" in my book.
Finally, as for Ms. Christine Northrup, let me leave you with a quote from her website: "Her pioneering work has shown that conditions such as PMS, endometriosis, breast symptoms, and uterine conditions are the language through which women's bodies speak of wounding they have experienced in a culture which has been unsupportive to women and to those values we call 'womanly.'"
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'd rather stick with currently available birth control, and if anything slips through, get it aborted. If you detest condoms (as I do, it makes me feel like my dick is numb), and your girlfriend doesn't have the organization neccessary for the pill (mine does, but were our positions reversed, I sure as hell wouldn't), there's still spermicides, diaphrams, and cervical caps, if you have no moral problems with killing anything that gets fertilized. But, if you're pro-life, that wouldn't be a viable option I guess...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Obviously, IANAMD, so a gynecologist would be your best bet for finding out more.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Calling menstruation a "normal, cleansing part of a woman's cycle," is utter bullshit, and has only been normal since the advent of modern birth control.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Anyway, my girlfriend already prevents menstruation by just taking the pill month-round. Ordinarily, one week of the pill is just a sugar pill, but if you instead take the full strength pills the whole month, you can prevent menstruation. My guess is, this is more or less the same idea.
A couple notes for those of you who want to try this at home: first, yes, it is considered safe. My girlfriend has discussed it with doctors, and originally read about it in a medical article (her father's an ER doctor). In fact, girls really shouldn't be menstruating all the time. Up until a century ago, women would basically spend half their time pregnant from puberty to menopause (or until they died in child birth), so what's going on now is pretty unnatural.
Second, make sure you have full strength pills. Many pills have stepped dosages, so only one week would actually be full strength, two weeks would be partial strength, and one week is just a placebo. You need the ones with 3 constant dosage weeks, and one placebo week. Just toss out the placebo week and keep taking the regular pills.
Third, 9 weeks seems to be the limit for my girlfriend. After going through 3 sets of pills, even if she continues taking full strength pills, she goes into menstruation. YMMV, but this is probably not something you can do forever.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Wow, that's even more buzzword dense than the Reptile description. You write that yourself? "Neoliberal," I love it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
(science,patents)? This is a trademark, not a patent. That could have something to do with it.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Yup, absolutely. I saw two news broadcasts on Monday covering it here in San Francisco. One around 4 or 5 pm, while I was lifting weights, and another around 11, because after seeing snippets in the weight room, I wanted to see how they were covering it. All in all, I thought it was pretty fair. They did play up the "hacking" aspect of it with their language, but the statements they took from people (mainly protesters and the EFF) were all positive and articulate.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No, the DMCA only applies to copy protection, and this encryption scheme is not designed to prevent copies from being made.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
My Yahoo address, in comparison, gets maybe 1/10th as many spams, nearly all from identifiable sources (e-tailers I've used before, for example). So, making a "chat only" address probably won't help much with AOL spam.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Fundamentally, no one should make an economic profit. That is to say, no one (including CEOs) should end up with a salary any higher than necessary to find someone with the required skillset, and the profits remaining for dividends should be no higher than necessary to secure enough investors to get the business off the ground. The idea of .coms as wildly profitable businesses just because they were on this new thing called the Internet was always ridiculous. It would be like expecting someone listed on Pricewatch to make enourmous profits because they sell high tech equipment. Instead, those companies make just enough money (most of the time) to keep from defaulting on lease payments.
Likewise, most of these pure internet plays will likely end up with just enough money for a small content staff (or whatever staff they need to get their jobs done) and bandwidth. This is how economics WORKS! That's not to say people's lives are crappy under Capitalism, it just means that only monopolies (which usually only form with government support, like the phone companies or those with intellectual property (Disney, for example, has a narrow monopoly on Mickey Mouse products)) can throw the kinds of wild spending sprees that the .coms were famous for. Real capitalism tends to produce many companies, all barely hanging on by the skin of their teeth, as you see in computer assemblers/parts resellers, restaurants, farming, and so forth.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
It's quite a relief that they are actually publishing it for free online, since I bought the first edition a little while back, before realizing that, duh, it'll be totally useless because I'll have to figure out how to update a 2.0.x driver to 2.4.x, since 2.0.x probably won't support my computer even if I did want to use it.
Anyway, kudos to Tim, and kudos to the author. I might have to fork over the green for a first to second edition "upgrade" (20% off, I believe) if this really turns out to be a useful book.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Perhaps I begin to realize that "you" are nothing more than a crock of shit.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
That's a damn good idea. All the women of the world will be mine!!!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Doesn't Habeas Corpus just mean that they have to tell him what he's accused of? He's accused of violating the DMCA. I don't see where Habeas Corpus would enter into it then.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
While AOL may or may not have plans to expand the service at the moment, they probably want to keep their options open. By adding interoperability now, they can add new features to their service at any time.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Nothing, and I do mean nothing, caused a greater reduction in freedom than the FDR reign. Japanese in internment (read: "concentration") camps, government control of industry, highest tax brackets closing in on 100%, outlawing the ownership of gold (!?!), and of course an old favorite, the draft.
In contrast, today we have long term copyrights and the DMCA. Imprisoning all those of Japanese descent, and depriving them of propery without just compensation, just seems a little worse to me.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
You can't "counter-sue" someone who hasn't sued you. When they call in the FBI and have you thrown in jail, suing them is just suing them, it's not a counter-suit. And, Adobe did not order the arrest, they complained to the government. The government then decided, based on the evidence, that an arrest was warrented. Hence, if anyone could be sued for wrongful imprisonment, it would be the federal government.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Okay, a larger target for some types of attacks (email worms, for example), but not for all. In particular, for website defacement, Linux is a plenty big target. Linux runs a percentage of servers nearly equal to NT, and the Unices together are by far the largest block (I might even go as far as claiming a greater than 50% market share, but I'd probably just be shooting my mouth off).
So, calling Linux a small target just because it doesn't run on everyone's desktop seems somewhat disingenious. Really, I think Windows just has a much greater work/reward ratio. You can cobble together a simple VBS worm and make front page headlines for Windows. With Linux, on the other hand, you have to do considerably more work (beyond the amount of work most 1337 h5>
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
There were two stories about it! Try looking in the history for the last few days. Or at all the posters above who for some reason got modded down as "trolls." The parent post is the only troll here.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Wing Commander?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I'd be happy to, but I'm not going to spend over a hundred bucks ($30-$40 per distro) for boxed sets of each one. Hence, I download and burn RH, Mandrake and Debian, to try them out. I liked Mandrake the best (Debian wouldn't support booting past the 1024th cylinder, and Red Hat has no journaling filesystem) so I donated $30.
If SuSE would likewise let me try their distro free, maybe I'd like it, but I'm not going to go out and waste money when Mandrake's working just fine. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that their FTP version supports PPPoE.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Instead of allowing people like Tito to pay $20 million to do ISS chores for a week, they're spending millions developing a robot to do those chores? No wonder NASA keeps running out of money.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Specifically, their YaST installer is NOT GPLed, it is under a proprietary license, making it illegal to copy cds. I've never used the distro because of this, so I don't know if any of their other software is non-GPLed. It's quite possible that it would be illegal for Mandrake to do what you describe.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.