Why don't we save ourselves a lot of work, and start labeling the things that DON'T cause cancer, instead? The savings in natural resources alone would be drastic.
Sonic Team created some of the worst censoring filters ever. For the censor on Phantasy Star Online, they somehow managed to miss "fucker" but the word "queue" was absolutely forbidden. Apparently, the ban on talking about your "hoes" extended also to your "sHOES", and God forbid that you might want to mention what you're going to be doing with your HOES on SaTURDay. In Phantasy Star Universe, it actually interferes with legitimate gameplay discussion, because the game's Partner Machines, when spoken of in plural, becomes abbreviated, "PMs", and Sonic Team cannot permit us to discuss a woman's monthly cycle.
Ultimately, the extreme censors caused me to learn more curse words (and periphery offensive terms) than I was aware of prior to engaging in their excessively-censored games. There's a bit of a Streisand Effect involved in censorship, I think.
"All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need."
This passage describes the behavior of the newly baptized, who are devoting themselves to the apostles' teachings following Pentecost. It is not an instruction to Christians on how to live their lives (albeit, it is certainly a variation on the "charity" part of the theme). I don't see any correlation between these two verses and MindlessAutomata's quote.
Really, what I suggest is only the beginning. Once we can remove the necessity for human involvement in food production, we'll have accomplished a huge step in progressing toward an economy that doesn't require money. Completely automate every step between the field and the dinner plate, and the most basic cost of living will be dramatically reduced, thus reducing the need for a large income. The next step is to remove the necessity for humans in the production & delivery of medical supplies, allowing medical costs to be reduced to labor compensation (In the final extreme of this all, doctors must be motivated to ply their trade solely for the sake of doctoring). Almost concurrent with the change in the medical industry, the production of raw materials must be automated. Lumber, concrete, alloys, plastics, etc.
The general idea is to automate all of the absolutely necessary tasks that no one would do for free. I haven't quite worked out how real estate becomes distributed, yet. It seems like a problem to me, as the most obvious conclusion requires that people yield their property to the government, which I just cannot abide.
The first "open source" hardware designs must be for the technology required to remove the necessity for money from our economy. Automated farming equipment & food processing equipment, automated machine maintenance systems, automated construction devices & construction supply manufacture, or, simply enough, replicator technology. Without concerns over the monetary aspects, licensing becomes irrelevant.
The discrepancy was the price of the cable modem, which, for some reason, the rep on the phone assumed would not be returned. As for returning to their service, the alternative was paying more for DSL at a fraction of the bandwidth, at the time. It was well worth straightening out the problem. Simply enough, the customer service isn't very good, but the service you're actually paying for (8Mbps, while the local DSL was only 256k at the time) is rather good. I have no regrets.
No, he still gets sensation. That's actually a technology that's been around for a couple of years, now. The nerves that used to go to the tips of the fingers are surgically relocated to convenient locations where the prosthetic will be mounted, and appropriate sensory devices are built into the fingers, which in turn, relay that sensory data back to the appropriate nerve endings. The net result is that the person wearing the arm gets the distinct tactile sensations from his missing limb, via the artificial limb.
One of the things I find interesting about modern prosthetic limbs, is that the advanced models can actually have the ability to react to nerve impulses faster than the user's real muscles.
If, when this technology has become sufficiently advanced, will a heart that is produced be, in fact, a living organ? Is it enough to put all of the materials in the right place? It's not clear to me that a heart removed from a cadaver will serve to complete a heart transplant surgery. Just how well does this work?
But in brief, he was accused by Comcast in 2007 of "downloading too much data" and they turned-off his connection for a whole year. When he asked Comcast, "How much did I use?" they said they didn't know but he was in the top 10% of downloaders, therefore they have the right to turn off his connection without any warning. And no there's no appeals process.
In my experience, it's always best to find that phantom Comcast office, when you intend to deal with Comcast. The information you'll get from their customer service representatives over the phone will often be quite different from the information you get in person. In my case, I was two months late on my payment, and in talking with them over the phone, they wanted me to pay off the price of the cable modem as well as the service, before they would agree to re-instate my internet service. So, I started paying it off in large chunks at a time, and when I found their office (indeed, that office is difficult to find, in Fresno, all signs being completely obscured when coming from the most likely direction), my attempt to complete my payment was halted. I was informed there that my account was completely paid off. I figured that since I had the money and was already there, I'd just go ahead and credit it to my account, at which point, I was informed that my account was already credited by $170. Shrugging, I just requested that my service be restored (had it upgraded, as well; it turned out to be cheaper to buy both internet and television, than to buy internet alone), and I didn't have a bill from Comcast until February the next year.
tl;dr: Don't call Comcast when you have a problem. Visit their office, instead.
Someone once smugly pointed out to me, that out of all 500 Fortune 500 companies, not one CEO is a genius. I replied to him, "What does that tell you about the intelligence behind being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company?"
I believe that it is worth noting that the vast majority of Windows and OS X users will be completely and totally put out by the entire circumstance. The first apparent malfunction makes them turn immediately to their preferred subset of superstitions, be they gremlins, aliens, bad karma or just plain treacherous corporate programmers. When a large portion of the world's total population of Linux users encounters that sort of problem, however, they see the problem, and either understand that these things happen, or become anxious to engage the challenge of fixing it for themselves. You'll still get the occasional Linux user that whines when something doesn't work, and you'll still get the occasional Windows user that dives in, when something doesn't work-- but there's a significant difference in the inherent natures of the different products' audiences.
The real point, is that if a significant portion of the population will find a feature useful, then it is as well to include that feature. Not including such a feature does not help the people who cannot use it, it only removes the option from people who would otherwise find it useful.
Actually, a great deal of the humor in the Hitchhiker's Guide was rooted in social & quasi-political commentary regarding various levels of Britain's culture. The Vogons, for example, operate as an exaggeration of British bureaucracy, and how unnecessarily difficult it is to get fairly simple things done, in it. The conditions of Zaphod's election, as well as the condition of the office that he ran for, referenced the inevitability that regardless of who's in office, the real power was left in the hands of someone else, who was entirely unseen (Lobbyists, for example). That being the case, I'd say there's adequate reason to include Douglas Adams' work in such a class.
You've gotta bear in mind that these are prototypes, and not finished products. At this stage, they're worried primarily about the mechanics. Ergonomics and aesthetics can come at a later stage of development, when these proof-of-concept models have done their job.
Should we forsake visible interfaces in favor of audible interfaces, for the sake of the blind, who cannot see a monitor? How about forsaking audible interfaces for the sake of the deaf, who cannot hear the speakers? Perhaps it might be best, if interfaces were simply designed for those who can use them?
The only female character I had a problem with was Elayne; at some point, my feelings about her side of the story came down to, "Someone either give her the damned throne, or kill her. I don't care anymore, I just want this part to stop."
Other than that, I'd say the books were mostly good.
I agree. For the overwhelming majority of users out there, Windows will be the best option, anyway. Linux tends to assume a certain savvy, that may be second nature to most of us here, but will completely put off the average tech-illiterate computer user. There's absolutely no need to make your sales people sound like idiots, for the sake of promoting sales of Windows. It's enough to have the salespeople tell customers, "Linux is cheaper, more secure, will run most of the same software (with some tinkering) and have all sorts of new things available to you, but the learning curve is so ridiculously steep that you'll never learn to use it." Append to that statement, that you may learn to use it well enough if you've got an obsessive stalker-love of computer tech, in which case, you'll be fine, and would you like a Kubuntu disc.
It's not clear to me that a research project on why guy's don't like to wear condoms is going to inspire anyone to wear them. This research has already been conducted by condom manufacturers. It's why you can buy a pack of Trojans containing four different varieties, each one designed to improve stimulation in a different way. Condom manufacturers stand to profit directly from this sort of research, and therefore have more at stake. If current technology offered a better solution, then it would have already been found. Simply enough, the people, of which you speak, who should NOT have kids, but nevertheless, still do, will continue to have kids, despite this research program. After all, getting condoms requires some sort of effort, if not money. Skinny-dipping is completely free.
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Attempted Suicide is illegal. Suicide would be illegal, if such a law could be enforced.
Penalties for the crime varies, but generally focuses on treatment for depression.
Why don't we save ourselves a lot of work, and start labeling the things that DON'T cause cancer, instead? The savings in natural resources alone would be drastic.
Am I just not looking hard enough?
Try squinting. It's all so very small scale.
Sonic Team created some of the worst censoring filters ever. For the censor on Phantasy Star Online, they somehow managed to miss "fucker" but the word "queue" was absolutely forbidden. Apparently, the ban on talking about your "hoes" extended also to your "sHOES", and God forbid that you might want to mention what you're going to be doing with your HOES on SaTURDay. In Phantasy Star Universe, it actually interferes with legitimate gameplay discussion, because the game's Partner Machines, when spoken of in plural, becomes abbreviated, "PMs", and Sonic Team cannot permit us to discuss a woman's monthly cycle.
Ultimately, the extreme censors caused me to learn more curse words (and periphery offensive terms) than I was aware of prior to engaging in their excessively-censored games. There's a bit of a Streisand Effect involved in censorship, I think.
"All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need."
This passage describes the behavior of the newly baptized, who are devoting themselves to the apostles' teachings following Pentecost. It is not an instruction to Christians on how to live their lives (albeit, it is certainly a variation on the "charity" part of the theme). I don't see any correlation between these two verses and MindlessAutomata's quote.
Really, what I suggest is only the beginning. Once we can remove the necessity for human involvement in food production, we'll have accomplished a huge step in progressing toward an economy that doesn't require money. Completely automate every step between the field and the dinner plate, and the most basic cost of living will be dramatically reduced, thus reducing the need for a large income. The next step is to remove the necessity for humans in the production & delivery of medical supplies, allowing medical costs to be reduced to labor compensation (In the final extreme of this all, doctors must be motivated to ply their trade solely for the sake of doctoring). Almost concurrent with the change in the medical industry, the production of raw materials must be automated. Lumber, concrete, alloys, plastics, etc.
The general idea is to automate all of the absolutely necessary tasks that no one would do for free. I haven't quite worked out how real estate becomes distributed, yet. It seems like a problem to me, as the most obvious conclusion requires that people yield their property to the government, which I just cannot abide.
The first "open source" hardware designs must be for the technology required to remove the necessity for money from our economy. Automated farming equipment & food processing equipment, automated machine maintenance systems, automated construction devices & construction supply manufacture, or, simply enough, replicator technology. Without concerns over the monetary aspects, licensing becomes irrelevant.
The discrepancy was the price of the cable modem, which, for some reason, the rep on the phone assumed would not be returned. As for returning to their service, the alternative was paying more for DSL at a fraction of the bandwidth, at the time. It was well worth straightening out the problem. Simply enough, the customer service isn't very good, but the service you're actually paying for (8Mbps, while the local DSL was only 256k at the time) is rather good. I have no regrets.
No, he still gets sensation. That's actually a technology that's been around for a couple of years, now. The nerves that used to go to the tips of the fingers are surgically relocated to convenient locations where the prosthetic will be mounted, and appropriate sensory devices are built into the fingers, which in turn, relay that sensory data back to the appropriate nerve endings. The net result is that the person wearing the arm gets the distinct tactile sensations from his missing limb, via the artificial limb.
One of the things I find interesting about modern prosthetic limbs, is that the advanced models can actually have the ability to react to nerve impulses faster than the user's real muscles.
Ah, but is it a break-through in the field of prosthetics?
If, when this technology has become sufficiently advanced, will a heart that is produced be, in fact, a living organ? Is it enough to put all of the materials in the right place? It's not clear to me that a heart removed from a cadaver will serve to complete a heart transplant surgery. Just how well does this work?
But in brief, he was accused by Comcast in 2007 of "downloading too much data" and they turned-off his connection for a whole year. When he asked Comcast, "How much did I use?" they said they didn't know but he was in the top 10% of downloaders, therefore they have the right to turn off his connection without any warning. And no there's no appeals process.
In my experience, it's always best to find that phantom Comcast office, when you intend to deal with Comcast. The information you'll get from their customer service representatives over the phone will often be quite different from the information you get in person. In my case, I was two months late on my payment, and in talking with them over the phone, they wanted me to pay off the price of the cable modem as well as the service, before they would agree to re-instate my internet service. So, I started paying it off in large chunks at a time, and when I found their office (indeed, that office is difficult to find, in Fresno, all signs being completely obscured when coming from the most likely direction), my attempt to complete my payment was halted. I was informed there that my account was completely paid off. I figured that since I had the money and was already there, I'd just go ahead and credit it to my account, at which point, I was informed that my account was already credited by $170. Shrugging, I just requested that my service be restored (had it upgraded, as well; it turned out to be cheaper to buy both internet and television, than to buy internet alone), and I didn't have a bill from Comcast until February the next year.
tl;dr: Don't call Comcast when you have a problem. Visit their office, instead.
Funnier in concept than in execution?
The coils are the actual sound output device. There are no speakers. There are only bolts of fantastic musical lightning.
There are dozens of videos on YouTube featuring this sort of thing, including people using such devices as guitar amplifiers.
So, does the lack of maintenance issues stem from owning a Mac, or being broke?
Someone once smugly pointed out to me, that out of all 500 Fortune 500 companies, not one CEO is a genius. I replied to him, "What does that tell you about the intelligence behind being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company?"
I believe that it is worth noting that the vast majority of Windows and OS X users will be completely and totally put out by the entire circumstance. The first apparent malfunction makes them turn immediately to their preferred subset of superstitions, be they gremlins, aliens, bad karma or just plain treacherous corporate programmers. When a large portion of the world's total population of Linux users encounters that sort of problem, however, they see the problem, and either understand that these things happen, or become anxious to engage the challenge of fixing it for themselves. You'll still get the occasional Linux user that whines when something doesn't work, and you'll still get the occasional Windows user that dives in, when something doesn't work-- but there's a significant difference in the inherent natures of the different products' audiences.
The real point, is that if a significant portion of the population will find a feature useful, then it is as well to include that feature. Not including such a feature does not help the people who cannot use it, it only removes the option from people who would otherwise find it useful.
Actually, a great deal of the humor in the Hitchhiker's Guide was rooted in social & quasi-political commentary regarding various levels of Britain's culture. The Vogons, for example, operate as an exaggeration of British bureaucracy, and how unnecessarily difficult it is to get fairly simple things done, in it. The conditions of Zaphod's election, as well as the condition of the office that he ran for, referenced the inevitability that regardless of who's in office, the real power was left in the hands of someone else, who was entirely unseen (Lobbyists, for example). That being the case, I'd say there's adequate reason to include Douglas Adams' work in such a class.
You've gotta bear in mind that these are prototypes, and not finished products. At this stage, they're worried primarily about the mechanics. Ergonomics and aesthetics can come at a later stage of development, when these proof-of-concept models have done their job.
Should we forsake visible interfaces in favor of audible interfaces, for the sake of the blind, who cannot see a monitor? How about forsaking audible interfaces for the sake of the deaf, who cannot hear the speakers? Perhaps it might be best, if interfaces were simply designed for those who can use them?
The only female character I had a problem with was Elayne; at some point, my feelings about her side of the story came down to, "Someone either give her the damned throne, or kill her. I don't care anymore, I just want this part to stop."
Other than that, I'd say the books were mostly good.
I agree. For the overwhelming majority of users out there, Windows will be the best option, anyway. Linux tends to assume a certain savvy, that may be second nature to most of us here, but will completely put off the average tech-illiterate computer user. There's absolutely no need to make your sales people sound like idiots, for the sake of promoting sales of Windows. It's enough to have the salespeople tell customers, "Linux is cheaper, more secure, will run most of the same software (with some tinkering) and have all sorts of new things available to you, but the learning curve is so ridiculously steep that you'll never learn to use it." Append to that statement, that you may learn to use it well enough if you've got an obsessive stalker-love of computer tech, in which case, you'll be fine, and would you like a Kubuntu disc.
An example would be monitoring glucose levels for diabetics.
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It's not clear to me that a research project on why guy's don't like to wear condoms is going to inspire anyone to wear them. This research has already been conducted by condom manufacturers. It's why you can buy a pack of Trojans containing four different varieties, each one designed to improve stimulation in a different way. Condom manufacturers stand to profit directly from this sort of research, and therefore have more at stake. If current technology offered a better solution, then it would have already been found. Simply enough, the people, of which you speak, who should NOT have kids, but nevertheless, still do, will continue to have kids, despite this research program. After all, getting condoms requires some sort of effort, if not money. Skinny-dipping is completely free.