Why does everyone invoke 1984 for things like this, but completely overlook the blatant harm and unregulated power credit of bureaus having every piece of information about you?
Fuck me! We had to deal with Iron Man spam on/. paraded as "news to nerds," now we have to deal with Speedracer? The trailer looked like shit. Nobody I know wants to see it.
Go ahead and mark this as troll, but mark my words: We're going to have at least 3 more stories about Speed Racer in the next two weeks.
...just... wow... just troll this now, I'm feeling feisty.
Add that to the list of things you can't say on Slashdot without riling up the citizenry. Whodathunkit?
Ok, so... cops are bad, RIAA is bad, Microsoft is bad, paying for software or music is bad, Bush is bad, upholding any law is bad, copyrights are bad...
Conversely... Ron Paul is good, Apple is hip, Linux is infallible, pirating is good, Fair Use is misunderstood, and if it doesn't affect you personally it's not important, unless someone is being treated unfairly, especially criminals...then it's bad.
Ok... I think I got it. I'm new here.
Sorry, continue about your cop flaming. Call me the next time someone gets into a high speed chase with them and head-ons a soccer mom, then we can all be angry at the cops for causing the chase in the first place.
Way to be vague on details, personal experience, and facts. Next time you think up facts, don't hesitate to post them.
Try a job where you have to wear a bullet-proof vest every day, not because of regulations, but because some crazy bastard may just up and shoot or knife you for no discernable reason. Try a job where you have to stop a husband from beating his wife and you have to come back the next day. Try a job where you are expected to risk your life because other people won't, and then you're lucky if you don't get sued for that act of vigilance. Try that, then come back and spout your ignorance.
You see? Everyone take note. THAT is the way you downplay the article. That answered everything in a very tidy way. Thank you.
Masaq, in your opinion, how alarming are these numbers and can we expect them to increase? The article was vague on a timeframe for the 3700 cases in one village - so it could have been festering for quite some time - but what's your take on the death toll (percentage-wise) and the general number of cases?
If you were one of them you would have understood the point of the post. So, to hold your hand through the process, I have come up with a simple question in two parts:
Also, I cannot think of a more mainstream medium than a big budget, massively advertised, CG-filled movie, regardless of the subject matter or inspiration of the script.
You have a very valid point, but the only reason it's news is because of the Olympics, plain and simple. As you described, many children are killed everyday in China with little concern for them, so the only reason this makes CNN.com,/., or any other place is because of "concern for the vistors and athletes" - or, to use your words, because of the "PR disaster." The line that worries you is the same one that makes it news-worthy, as you have so aptly proved.
Enterovirus 71 (EV71)infection may be asymptomatic or may cause diarrhea, rashes, and hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). However, EV71 also has the potential to cause severe neurological disease. To date, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of host response to EV71 infection. It is stated in [4] that: "EV71 infection led to increases in the level of mRNAs encoding chemokines, proteins involved in protein degradation, complement proteins, and proapoptotis proteins."
"Enterovirus 71 (EV71), one of the major causative agents for hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), is sometimes associated with severe central nervous system diseases. In 1997, in Malaysia and Japan, and in 1998 in Taiwan, there were HFMD epidemics involving sudden deaths among young children, and EV71 was isolated from the HFMD patients, including the fatal cases. The nucleotide sequences of each EV71 isolate were determined and compared by phylogenetical analysis. EV71 strains from previously reported epidemics belonged to genotype A-1, while those from recent epidemics could be divided into two genotypes, A-2 and B
You're absolutely right! I'm sure the virus won't spread any more, killing more children, or mutate in any way so as to make it resistant to treatment or affect adults. What a tool I was to think that may be possible. Here, hold my tinfoil hat, I'm not worthy to wear it any more.
The sad thing about that comment is that several months ago China allowed US beef back into the country after some debacle early on. Less than a month after the allowed it they turned around and banned it again because of the levels of spinal material (or some such thing) in the beef. They were afraid of BSE (mad cow disease) and their levels that they wanted were way lower than what the US or even Canada accepted, so US beef is banned again (though you can get it fairly easily through other channels).
While I have no example of what you're saying being true or false, it would be very ironic if it was true with the BSE story in mind.
No shit. Get a story about space, engineering, IT, physics or something else and you'll see exactly how many extremely intelligent people frequent this site. How long is it before those people stop coming because of the panderings of the company de jour?
You have changed my mind, but in the opposite way that you intended. I thought your contention was great until you said "you can't copyright fact." That's the weak link in your argument, eventhough the rest of it is very good. Plain and simple, Harry Potter doesn't exist except in the mind of Rowlings.
Try this hypothetical example: An autobiography comes out about Dumbledore that was not written by Rowling. Three days after it is released, Rowling comes out and says that Dumbledore was a gay parakeet and was actually a figment of Snape's imagination. It has to be true because he is whatever Rowling imagined, and can be changed on a whim.
So, while I was completely with you and Card, I've now decided that Rowling does own the realm of Potter, if for no other reason than she could make Dumbledore gay and nobody can say "No he isn't!" Does that mean she should sue? No, of course not, but someone else should not be making money on something from your head. Plain and simple, Harry is hers and only hers. If she really wanted to get back at the encyclopedia, she could make hers have a lot more little facts that it won't, even if she has to make them up out of the ether. Did you know that Harry Potter has three testicles? No? I guess your encyclopedia is not complete.
Your use of the word "fact" in reference to a fictional work is skewed because "fact" is whatever the writer says.
I disagree, I think that this IS the thing that will give Linux and Unix a greater market share. More or less, gaming has been a driving force in computers. You get graphics cards to work for people and the rest will fall into place naturally. Eventually the gamer will want to tweak his system instead of upgrading hardware, and that will force him/her to read about the inner workings of the OS, or maybe he/she wants to learn how to set up his own server to play games. If Vista had working drivers for graphics cards, I submit it to you that there would be less bitching about the OS on the whole.
The two things that hold people back from switching to Linux is problems with it not working "out of the box," and when they do it's so difficult for them to find out how to get things to work once it's actually installed. Couple that with the superior attitude of people in the community ("Me telling you how to get that work will not help, you must LEARN how to get it to work") and you've got a big puddle of fail.
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Why does everyone invoke 1984 for things like this, but completely overlook the blatant harm and unregulated power credit of bureaus having every piece of information about you?
Christina Ricci could go down on Natalie Portman in this movie, all movie long, and I still wouldn't watch it.
Though... it probably would make the plot better. Hmmm...
Fuck me! We had to deal with Iron Man spam on /. paraded as "news to nerds," now we have to deal with Speedracer? The trailer looked like shit. Nobody I know wants to see it.
Go ahead and mark this as troll, but mark my words: We're going to have at least 3 more stories about Speed Racer in the next two weeks.
Screenshot or it didn't happen.
...just... wow... just troll this now, I'm feeling feisty.
Add that to the list of things you can't say on Slashdot without riling up the citizenry. Whodathunkit?
Ok, so... cops are bad, RIAA is bad, Microsoft is bad, paying for software or music is bad, Bush is bad, upholding any law is bad, copyrights are bad...
Conversely... Ron Paul is good, Apple is hip, Linux is infallible, pirating is good, Fair Use is misunderstood, and if it doesn't affect you personally it's not important, unless someone is being treated unfairly, especially criminals...then it's bad.
Ok... I think I got it. I'm new here.
Sorry, continue about your cop flaming. Call me the next time someone gets into a high speed chase with them and head-ons a soccer mom, then we can all be angry at the cops for causing the chase in the first place.
Way to be vague on details, personal experience, and facts. Next time you think up facts, don't hesitate to post them.
Try a job where you have to wear a bullet-proof vest every day, not because of regulations, but because some crazy bastard may just up and shoot or knife you for no discernable reason. Try a job where you have to stop a husband from beating his wife and you have to come back the next day. Try a job where you are expected to risk your life because other people won't, and then you're lucky if you don't get sued for that act of vigilance. Try that, then come back and spout your ignorance.
You see? Everyone take note. THAT is the way you downplay the article. That answered everything in a very tidy way. Thank you.
Masaq, in your opinion, how alarming are these numbers and can we expect them to increase? The article was vague on a timeframe for the 3700 cases in one village - so it could have been festering for quite some time - but what's your take on the death toll (percentage-wise) and the general number of cases?
If you were one of them you would have understood the point of the post. So, to hold your hand through the process, I have come up with a simple question in two parts:
Does the population of Slashdot like being pandered to, and are nerds likely to get upset at such blatant advertising?
Also, I cannot think of a more mainstream medium than a big budget, massively advertised, CG-filled movie, regardless of the subject matter or inspiration of the script.
You have a very valid point, but the only reason it's news is because of the Olympics, plain and simple. As you described, many children are killed everyday in China with little concern for them, so the only reason this makes CNN.com, /., or any other place is because of "concern for the vistors and athletes" - or, to use your words, because of the "PR disaster." The line that worries you is the same one that makes it news-worthy, as you have so aptly proved.
Try harder, read the whole sentence on CNN, and make sure that your source doesn't end up proving you wrong.
Enterovirus 71 (EV71)Enterovirus 71 (EV71)infection may be asymptomatic or may cause diarrhea, rashes, and hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). However, EV71 also has the potential to cause severe neurological disease. To date, little is known about the molecular mechanisms of host response to EV71 infection. It is stated in [4] that: "EV71 infection led to increases in the level of mRNAs encoding chemokines, proteins involved in protein degradation, complement proteins, and proapoptotis proteins."
"Enterovirus 71 (EV71), one of the major causative agents for hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), is sometimes associated with severe central nervous system diseases. In 1997, in Malaysia and Japan, and in 1998 in Taiwan, there were HFMD epidemics involving sudden deaths among young children, and EV71 was isolated from the HFMD patients, including the fatal cases. The nucleotide sequences of each EV71 isolate were determined and compared by phylogenetical analysis. EV71 strains from previously reported epidemics belonged to genotype A-1, while those from recent epidemics could be divided into two genotypes, A-2 and B
You're absolutely right! I'm sure the virus won't spread any more, killing more children, or mutate in any way so as to make it resistant to treatment or affect adults. What a tool I was to think that may be possible. Here, hold my tinfoil hat, I'm not worthy to wear it any more.
Off-topic? Sure. Trolling? Possibly. Overrated? Probably. But fucking flamebait? Are you retarded or have I made an enemy... out of a retard?
The sad thing about that comment is that several months ago China allowed US beef back into the country after some debacle early on. Less than a month after the allowed it they turned around and banned it again because of the levels of spinal material (or some such thing) in the beef. They were afraid of BSE (mad cow disease) and their levels that they wanted were way lower than what the US or even Canada accepted, so US beef is banned again (though you can get it fairly easily through other channels). While I have no example of what you're saying being true or false, it would be very ironic if it was true with the BSE story in mind.
All one of them? That's 100%!
They were hoping to announce it when they bought Yahoo!, but since someone isn't playing ball they just figured they'd put it on two peoples' blogs.
You're absolutely right, I should turn off that category. How do I turn off the spam category for subscribers again?
Nputs to tphat, I jupst broughtp it upp on my computper and ppispsed pon my keyboarpd. Show some pdedicaption.
*looks around at everyone else, then looks back to Harmonious Botch and claps. Simply claps, slowly, methodically, claps*
Best... first post©... evar
No shit. Get a story about space, engineering, IT, physics or something else and you'll see exactly how many extremely intelligent people frequent this site. How long is it before those people stop coming because of the panderings of the company de jour?
Sure, Iron Man is great and all, but can it run Linux?
You have changed my mind, but in the opposite way that you intended. I thought your contention was great until you said "you can't copyright fact." That's the weak link in your argument, eventhough the rest of it is very good. Plain and simple, Harry Potter doesn't exist except in the mind of Rowlings.
Try this hypothetical example: An autobiography comes out about Dumbledore that was not written by Rowling. Three days after it is released, Rowling comes out and says that Dumbledore was a gay parakeet and was actually a figment of Snape's imagination. It has to be true because he is whatever Rowling imagined, and can be changed on a whim.
So, while I was completely with you and Card, I've now decided that Rowling does own the realm of Potter, if for no other reason than she could make Dumbledore gay and nobody can say "No he isn't!" Does that mean she should sue? No, of course not, but someone else should not be making money on something from your head. Plain and simple, Harry is hers and only hers. If she really wanted to get back at the encyclopedia, she could make hers have a lot more little facts that it won't, even if she has to make them up out of the ether. Did you know that Harry Potter has three testicles? No? I guess your encyclopedia is not complete.
Your use of the word "fact" in reference to a fictional work is skewed because "fact" is whatever the writer says.
Why is it that the only thing I can think of when I read about this story is Ballmer doing his version of Dick in a Box?
The sleeper has awakened.
I disagree, I think that this IS the thing that will give Linux and Unix a greater market share. More or less, gaming has been a driving force in computers. You get graphics cards to work for people and the rest will fall into place naturally. Eventually the gamer will want to tweak his system instead of upgrading hardware, and that will force him/her to read about the inner workings of the OS, or maybe he/she wants to learn how to set up his own server to play games. If Vista had working drivers for graphics cards, I submit it to you that there would be less bitching about the OS on the whole.
The two things that hold people back from switching to Linux is problems with it not working "out of the box," and when they do it's so difficult for them to find out how to get things to work once it's actually installed. Couple that with the superior attitude of people in the community ("Me telling you how to get that work will not help, you must LEARN how to get it to work") and you've got a big puddle of fail.
I say this because I know a person of your disposition will become incensed by it:
That really begs the question of what happens when he turns up missing.