You made all these good, rational points, but then sort of fucked your argument up with this part, which exactly illustrates that racism is still a problem. Which I guess just makes your post more insightful.
But seriously - please consider your racial bias here, and then ask if Shaniqua might be right about the system being racist.
Hahahahaha, wait - you got shot, bandaged the wound, went to the ER, gave them a fake address, argued with the nurse, stepped out for a smoke break. Would you say this is a typical day for you?
I had some back pain once, and a friend suggested healing crystals. Suddenly I became aware of a pain in the region just below my back and above my legs.
1) How the hell was it possible for a hospital unit to have Windows on any of their computers in the first place? HIPAA compliance has been mandatory for many years now and there has been more than enough time to phase out Windows. Did you read the dozen EULAs for the Windows box and all its software and server hooks? For all service packs and CALs? Thought not. Neither did the hospital management. The woman is not at fault, the hospital management who signed of on the purchase or deployment of the Windows machines is the sole group to blame (excepting the sender of course).
I have an ugly truth for you - almost every hospital in the US uses Windows (95 through XP) for every single workstation. Every single Healthcare IT software vendor develops solely for windows (save a few web-based packages.) It's a very pure MS monoculture. I know, I know, it's sick. I agree completely with the above, but the emperor is threadless here.
Good job, Belgium! In the US, it's *entirely* windows for hospitals. The only exception is those facilities that are still using mainframes and dumb terminals. Terrifying, really.
Those opposing patents and IP in general often claim that inventions would still be generated in the absence of IP protection, and that might be true for some inventions, while most require hughe amounts of R&D that simply wouldn't happen if the money wasn't there.
I think you might be hitting a 'reverse accident' fallacy here. Just because some inventions occured in the presence of IP protection does not imply that, in the absense of IP protection, nothing would ever be invented. Plenty of fields and markets thrive without IP entering into them.
There are conceivable models other than our own. Don't let the haters convince you otherwise.
If (haha) homosexuality was illegal and the duty of police was to arrest and imprison those 'mos, would they still just be doing their job? Or would they be signing up to do something wrong?
If I get paid to spam people, am I just doing my job when I spam your email? What if I get paid to write anti-Semitic propaganda? Would you say a certain type of person takes those jobs?
There is a moral imperative not to accept a job the duties of which are corrupt. That's pretty easy to understand.
but if I write a book, I want to be in control of where, when, and how it gets presented to the reader, at least initially anyway
See, this here sentiment - this pervasive idea of 'I want to control the data I create' - is just fucking crazy. If you don't think that it is an unnatural, unjustifiable hack to our system of ethics to teach people that they should be allowed to own information, just look at this statement and think of someone applying it to a knock-knock joke, a piece of gossip, a new translation of the bible, or a speech. It's just crazy, though maybe it doesn't seem it because we're used to it.
If only I had mod points! Why is it that minor drug offenders, e.g., humans who fuck up, are stuck providing cheap labor for American firms who would love to insist they are Entirely American Made? I could give a shit if they're American Made. Is my purchase causing suffering??? This is why my shirts have holes.
Yes but, she's bestowing honors on people who contribute to society. Say what you need to about the outdated notion of royalty but I wish America had someone official to hand out awards for generating culture. We have halls of fame and parades but they're reserved for athletes and soldiers, the most useless occupations ever invented.
It's a good point. While I think the study was based on the personality of a given car being 'reliable'(haven't RTFA since the original post of this), I would want to see some brain scans of activity in the fusiform gyrus or something by random car-looker-atters before I trusted the whole thing.
Don't worry. The OLPC computer gives you the tools to overcome your low social class, enabling you to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and find myriad possibilities in today's globalized, technological market.
Yes with the OLPC's help it will only be a matter of time before the wealth from the world's top 1% trickles down to you! Then with the crumbs that drop from their mouths you can feed your family!
Honestly? This is funny to you? Here we have a project operating in the wealthiest nation on Earth which attempts to balance out the logarithmic income discrepancy between the first and third worlds, and you're reframing its ideal outcome - competing in a global information economy - as 'feasting on crumbs'? What the fuck is funny about this?
The best way that most of us can be meaningful to the next generation is to pass on our good genes, assuming we have any. If you decide to forego that part, you may as well never have lived.
Or do you expect to be one of the handful of names that will live forever?
I don't think genetic material is in such short supply - I think we need to pass on our memes, culture, and technology. The future will consider itself lucky to have the advancements of the past, and certainly almost everyone is capable of contributing to that.
Yeah! Why, last week, I came up with this great joke about Sarah Palin, but I told it to someone, and they told someone, and sooner or later everyone was telling it, and I didn't get any money.
Those people are stealing from me! I demand to be recompensed for my creative works. If I hadn't expected to be paid for my joke, I never would have made it up. Duh.
Sell your MS licenses and most of the other tech on ebay. then use that money to buy books and pay for teachers.
It's far more important to teach basics like math, reading, basic science, hygiene, and life skills, than how to move and click a mouse.
What is it with people thinking that what the 3rd world needs are computers? What they need is clean water, learn better agriculture, and to get an education that will allow them to live a better life.
Something else they need is the ability to generate wealth. That's not easy to do from nothing. Getting these people computers, which empowers them to learn, communicate, do business, learn English, and generate wealth in order to provide for themselves, is a very very good idea.
I call shenanigans. The process of evolution has not stopped in the least.
What has happened is that the criteria for fitness in our population has changed. No longer do we select for the strongest, cleverest, fittest individuals.
The criteria for selection is now much less genetically determined. Those who survive to adulthood, elect to have children, and raise their children to grow up to be adults who have children are more likely to pass on their genes.
Those who live in safer areas with better access to healthcare are more likely to survive to have children will experience some benefits to selection, but those who live in areas with pro-breeding cultures (where children are more desired or birth control is not present) will be vastly more selected for.
In short, we're experiencing artificial selection to a much greater degree than that of natural selection. But so long as human beings are reproduce and are born with mutations, we will continue to undergo evolution in some form.
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... little Roshanjam, the 9th son of Shaniqua...
You made all these good, rational points, but then sort of fucked your argument up with this part, which exactly illustrates that racism is still a problem. Which I guess just makes your post more insightful.
But seriously - please consider your racial bias here, and then ask if Shaniqua might be right about the system being racist.
Hahahahaha, wait - you got shot, bandaged the wound, went to the ER, gave them a fake address, argued with the nurse, stepped out for a smoke break. Would you say this is a typical day for you?
When did you become an asshole, then?
(j/k, I completely agree with your point...)
That's just it - your code describes the minimum needed for a "Hello World" level application in Java. Some us us really hate
Japan invaded US territory in the second World War.
I had some back pain once, and a friend suggested healing crystals. Suddenly I became aware of a pain in the region just below my back and above my legs.
Your taint?
*whoosh*
My girlfriend and I were wandering around Seattle in 2005, when he ran up and did his thing:
http://periluna.livejournal.com/35935.html
Haha, awesome. I can totally testify that he really really likes piggy back rides.
1) How the hell was it possible for a hospital unit to have Windows on any of their computers in the first place? HIPAA compliance has been mandatory for many years now and there has been more than enough time to phase out Windows. Did you read the dozen EULAs for the Windows box and all its software and server hooks? For all service packs and CALs? Thought not. Neither did the hospital management. The woman is not at fault, the hospital management who signed of on the purchase or deployment of the Windows machines is the sole group to blame (excepting the sender of course).
I have an ugly truth for you - almost every hospital in the US uses Windows (95 through XP) for every single workstation. Every single Healthcare IT software vendor develops solely for windows (save a few web-based packages.) It's a very pure MS monoculture. I know, I know, it's sick. I agree completely with the above, but the emperor is threadless here.
Good job, Belgium! In the US, it's *entirely* windows for hospitals. The only exception is those facilities that are still using mainframes and dumb terminals. Terrifying, really.
Those opposing patents and IP in general often claim that inventions would still be generated in the absence of IP protection, and that might be true for some inventions, while most require hughe amounts of R&D that simply wouldn't happen if the money wasn't there.
I think you might be hitting a 'reverse accident' fallacy here. Just because some inventions occured in the presence of IP protection does not imply that, in the absense of IP protection, nothing would ever be invented. Plenty of fields and markets thrive without IP entering into them.
There are conceivable models other than our own. Don't let the haters convince you otherwise.
If (haha) homosexuality was illegal and the duty of police was to arrest and imprison those 'mos, would they still just be doing their job? Or would they be signing up to do something wrong?
If I get paid to spam people, am I just doing my job when I spam your email? What if I get paid to write anti-Semitic propaganda? Would you say a certain type of person takes those jobs?
There is a moral imperative not to accept a job the duties of which are corrupt. That's pretty easy to understand.
That was the whole point! Why don't those examples fall under copyright? Aren't they types of new data that we should be able to own? If not, why not?
but if I write a book, I want to be in control of where, when, and how it gets presented to the reader, at least initially anyway
See, this here sentiment - this pervasive idea of 'I want to control the data I create' - is just fucking crazy. If you don't think that it is an unnatural, unjustifiable hack to our system of ethics to teach people that they should be allowed to own information, just look at this statement and think of someone applying it to a knock-knock joke, a piece of gossip, a new translation of the bible, or a speech. It's just crazy, though maybe it doesn't seem it because we're used to it.
These are the truest words on the internet so far.
If only I had mod points! Why is it that minor drug offenders, e.g., humans who fuck up, are stuck providing cheap labor for American firms who would love to insist they are Entirely American Made? I could give a shit if they're American Made. Is my purchase causing suffering??? This is why my shirts have holes.
How about the fact that information isn't property, and cannot be owned? That's a good reason to share.
Yes but, she's bestowing honors on people who contribute to society. Say what you need to about the outdated notion of royalty but I wish America had someone official to hand out awards for generating culture. We have halls of fame and parades but they're reserved for athletes and soldiers, the most useless occupations ever invented.
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It's a good point. While I think the study was based on the personality of a given car being 'reliable'(haven't RTFA since the original post of this), I would want to see some brain scans of activity in the fusiform gyrus or something by random car-looker-atters before I trusted the whole thing.
Don't worry. The OLPC computer gives you the tools to overcome your low social class, enabling you to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and find myriad possibilities in today's globalized, technological market.
Yes with the OLPC's help it will only be a matter of time before the wealth from the world's top 1% trickles down to you! Then with the crumbs that drop from their mouths you can feed your family!
Honestly? This is funny to you? Here we have a project operating in the wealthiest nation on Earth which attempts to balance out the logarithmic income discrepancy between the first and third worlds, and you're reframing its ideal outcome - competing in a global information economy - as 'feasting on crumbs'? What the fuck is funny about this?
You're a sad person.
The best way that most of us can be meaningful to the next generation is to pass on our good genes, assuming we have any. If you decide to forego that part, you may as well never have lived.
Or do you expect to be one of the handful of names that will live forever?
I don't think genetic material is in such short supply - I think we need to pass on our memes, culture, and technology. The future will consider itself lucky to have the advancements of the past, and certainly almost everyone is capable of contributing to that.
Yeah! Why, last week, I came up with this great joke about Sarah Palin, but I told it to someone, and they told someone, and sooner or later everyone was telling it, and I didn't get any money.
Those people are stealing from me! I demand to be recompensed for my creative works. If I hadn't expected to be paid for my joke, I never would have made it up. Duh.
Sell your MS licenses and most of the other tech on ebay. then use that money to buy books and pay for teachers.
It's far more important to teach basics like math, reading, basic science, hygiene, and life skills, than how to move and click a mouse.
What is it with people thinking that what the 3rd world needs are computers? What they need is clean water, learn better agriculture, and to get an education that will allow them to live a better life.
Something else they need is the ability to generate wealth. That's not easy to do from nothing. Getting these people computers, which empowers them to learn, communicate, do business, learn English, and generate wealth in order to provide for themselves, is a very very good idea.
I call shenanigans. The process of evolution has not stopped in the least.
What has happened is that the criteria for fitness in our population has changed. No longer do we select for the strongest, cleverest, fittest individuals.
The criteria for selection is now much less genetically determined. Those who survive to adulthood, elect to have children, and raise their children to grow up to be adults who have children are more likely to pass on their genes.
Those who live in safer areas with better access to healthcare are more likely to survive to have children will experience some benefits to selection, but those who live in areas with pro-breeding cultures (where children are more desired or birth control is not present) will be vastly more selected for.
In short, we're experiencing artificial selection to a much greater degree than that of natural selection. But so long as human beings are reproduce and are born with mutations, we will continue to undergo evolution in some form.
The Irish have achieved what all other white people have been seeking for centuries: to be white, and still be persecuted.