mod parent up. I echo what's been said in this thread and add that I think BC as an exchange medium is fine, you can use anything you want as an exchange medium: Bitcoin, sacks of salt, promissory notes, cheques; as long as the value of the exchange unit is agreed, it's good. As a means to make money (in whatever form) in such quantities as to be self-sustaining, it's like kerogen shale: I don't give a fuck what ANYBODY says, it's energy-negative. It will not even pay for itself in extraction/mining, ever. It will ALWAYS be a net energy sink.
DISCOVERING what a gene sequence is for isn't an INVENTION, therefore not patentable - under the OLD RULES. They had to REWRITE THE RULES to allow this shit.
Growing a human ear on the spine of a mouse isn't an invention, it's a crime against Nature, one using a genetic sequence that wasn't INVENTED but DISCOVERED: the sequence that instructs stem cells to grow in the shape of an ear.
Using pigs to produce human insulin isn't an INVENTION, it's the result of a process of DISCOVERY that a sequence we ALL CARRY can be transplanted into a pig embryo to make it produce huge quantities of a hormone that's useless to pigs but essential for the survival of people who wouldn't need it if they ate proper food (I can cite a source: a friend who was on 140mg insulin a day in the UK moved to Spain and went on a prepackaged-free diet. I mean, everything. Her insulin use went to ZERO within six weeks, she still lives in Spain and she is still off the insulin because she is eating PROPERLY).
If 96% of all human DNA is considered "junk" (as was the claim sometime in or around 2004), why the rush to claim it? In the interests of rampant capitalism? And why the reversal of that claim in 2011?
Fuck you, you go play your own games, I'm taking my marbles and going home. When the rivers are dry, the trees are dead and the animals starving, the fields fallow and the supermarkets empty, the skies empty and the oceans sterile; then perhaps you'll realise that YOU CAN'T EAT MONEY. Go do something fucking useful like plant some fucking potatoes. DO SOMETHING USEFUL FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY OR GET THE FUCK OFF MY PLANET.
haven't seen inside of a CHP cruiser, but the Volvos they have here have vast dashboards; plenty room for a ruggedised notebook or tablet on a clamp, a radio, a dash cam and the other bits of crap. No shotguns tho, the armed response units have those and they're kept in the boot (or trunk, to you) next to the MP5 and the stopstix.
oh, snap. I love Slack for its unbelievable leanness. Even today, installing EVERYTHING gives you change out of 8GB. What does Windows 8 need for a base install? I got no idea. Windows 7 64-bit is like 20GB. Fucking obscene. I want my dual core to be working for me, not making the fucking screen look pretty.
I had ZipSlack (based on Slack 8) down to 84MB for a custom install on a 486 laptop. That was with IceWM and a couple apps. I've just come across Slax, which looks VERY interesting; 210MB or so for a "basic" install with KDE4! At that, it'll run on a 486 with 48MB RAM! That's a step up from building DOS appliances!
There was also MuLinux (modular build that I used for absolutely yonks on a P60 laptop, way beyond the Windows-useful life of the laptop in fact!). And Dyne:Bolic (GNU/Linux-based media platform which'll load in its entirety and run in 48MB RAM!). And Zipslack. I also have, for bragging rights, version 0.3 of Kororaa (which I believe is one of the earliest deployments of AIGLXGL desktop enhancements from 2007 - and certainly the best looking)
driving too slowly (335 or 40 in a 50 zone) can actually get you a fail on your driving test, and for good reason.
While you're doing 10mph less than the traffic around you, you're a mobile chicane. On a multi-land highway, if you're occupying lane 1, and you're getting overtaken by trucks, they are moving to avoid a hazard and turning themselves into a hazard. IT ALL COMES BACK ON YOU. All it takes is for one of those trucks to not see you (he's ducking to retrieve a dropped cigarette or whatever) and BAM! You are street pizza.
Dogma be damned, slower != safer on a high speed road.
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mod parent up. I echo what's been said in this thread and add that I think BC as an exchange medium is fine, you can use anything you want as an exchange medium: Bitcoin, sacks of salt, promissory notes, cheques; as long as the value of the exchange unit is agreed, it's good. As a means to make money (in whatever form) in such quantities as to be self-sustaining, it's like kerogen shale: I don't give a fuck what ANYBODY says, it's energy-negative. It will not even pay for itself in extraction/mining, ever. It will ALWAYS be a net energy sink.
oh, you mean like the 65+% slump Bitcoin carried over the weekend? Went from something like $260 to $105 or something daft...
hehe... see comment above, was just saying that Canada supplies a lot of power to Calif. as well...
you tell that to the Canadians, they seem to be doing a rather decent job supplying Northern California...
I am perfectly well aware of this, several members of my family, myself included, are type 1 or type 2 (I am type 2)
...and I should pay any mind to an AC who cannot spell "ANECDOTE" why?
Fuck off.
it would be a pretty fucking suicidal thing to do... that said I've seen this, all I could do from my vantage point is facepalm...
they had to rewrite the admissibility rules to allow this shit, that's what happened.
DISCOVERING what a gene sequence is for isn't an INVENTION, therefore not patentable - under the OLD RULES. They had to REWRITE THE RULES to allow this shit.
Growing a human ear on the spine of a mouse isn't an invention, it's a crime against Nature, one using a genetic sequence that wasn't INVENTED but DISCOVERED: the sequence that instructs stem cells to grow in the shape of an ear.
Using pigs to produce human insulin isn't an INVENTION, it's the result of a process of DISCOVERY that a sequence we ALL CARRY can be transplanted into a pig embryo to make it produce huge quantities of a hormone that's useless to pigs but essential for the survival of people who wouldn't need it if they ate proper food (I can cite a source: a friend who was on 140mg insulin a day in the UK moved to Spain and went on a prepackaged-free diet. I mean, everything. Her insulin use went to ZERO within six weeks, she still lives in Spain and she is still off the insulin because she is eating PROPERLY).
If 96% of all human DNA is considered "junk" (as was the claim sometime in or around 2004), why the rush to claim it? In the interests of rampant capitalism? And why the reversal of that claim in 2011?
Fuck you, you go play your own games, I'm taking my marbles and going home. When the rivers are dry, the trees are dead and the animals starving, the fields fallow and the supermarkets empty, the skies empty and the oceans sterile; then perhaps you'll realise that YOU CAN'T EAT MONEY. Go do something fucking useful like plant some fucking potatoes. DO SOMETHING USEFUL FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY OR GET THE FUCK OFF MY PLANET.
...Tuesday and Wednesday morning I got the .tl, this afternoon it was back to .se
haven't seen inside of a CHP cruiser, but the Volvos they have here have vast dashboards; plenty room for a ruggedised notebook or tablet on a clamp, a radio, a dash cam and the other bits of crap. No shotguns tho, the armed response units have those and they're kept in the boot (or trunk, to you) next to the MP5 and the stopstix.
haha yes, just noticed that... in the UK when you see a sign on a motorway that says "50" it's not a limit, it's a goal.
Because usually by that point you're doing 15 along with everybody else.
screw you, my kernel is so compact it counts with seven rows of beads.
oh, snap. I love Slack for its unbelievable leanness. Even today, installing EVERYTHING gives you change out of 8GB. What does Windows 8 need for a base install? I got no idea. Windows 7 64-bit is like 20GB. Fucking obscene. I want my dual core to be working for me, not making the fucking screen look pretty.
nice... basically busybox on a medium that hardly any fucker uses anymore... :)
I had ZipSlack (based on Slack 8) down to 84MB for a custom install on a 486 laptop. That was with IceWM and a couple apps. I've just come across Slax, which looks VERY interesting; 210MB or so for a "basic" install with KDE4! At that, it'll run on a 486 with 48MB RAM! That's a step up from building DOS appliances!
Slax.
210MB with KDE4. Runs on a 486 and 48MB RAM. UMSDOS-capable.
I just made a goo. What'll this thing do on a dual core Atom and a Gig of RAM??
There was also MuLinux (modular build that I used for absolutely yonks on a P60 laptop, way beyond the Windows-useful life of the laptop in fact!). And Dyne:Bolic (GNU/Linux-based media platform which'll load in its entirety and run in 48MB RAM!). And Zipslack. I also have, for bragging rights, version 0.3 of Kororaa (which I believe is one of the earliest deployments of AIGLXGL desktop enhancements from 2007 - and certainly the best looking)
it's not designed to run on a DX4.
highway cops usually drive with a shotgun passenger who operate both the radio and the computer. At least, in the UK.
haaaa! No, I don't want a soothing voice, I want my GPS to have Brian Blessed's voice.
"No! Turn LEFT, you fool!"
there's a simple answer to the fighting kids thing.
"Stop now or I'm pulling over and you're getting out and walking. This is your only warning."
I wouldn't trust Siri for setting GPS...
"I asked for the Hamptons! What the fuck am I doing in ROCHESTER!?"
driving too slowly (335 or 40 in a 50 zone) can actually get you a fail on your driving test, and for good reason.
While you're doing 10mph less than the traffic around you, you're a mobile chicane. On a multi-land highway, if you're occupying lane 1, and you're getting overtaken by trucks, they are moving to avoid a hazard and turning themselves into a hazard. IT ALL COMES BACK ON YOU. All it takes is for one of those trucks to not see you (he's ducking to retrieve a dropped cigarette or whatever) and BAM! You are street pizza.
Dogma be damned, slower != safer on a high speed road.