Hm, sounds a lot like cash-for-clunkers. The gubment gives you a few thousand bucks and keeps a ton of scrap metal and plastic per payout. No reuse there, either.
People have believed the Earth was round for Centuries. Infact, in 330BC Aristotle believed that the Earth was round. The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes.
So stop using 'Everyone thought the Earth was flat' to bolster your arguments
People have been around much longer than "centuries." But let's digress on that point and just exchange the "flat earth" argument bolster-er for the "geo-centeric/helio-centric/ever-expanding universe" one.
Thanks for the facts, but I was just making fun of his baseless, party-line post by reversing it to the other side. It's so easy to shout talking points back and forth, and it provides cover for the fact that even in the face of truth we will find a way to believe what we already think is true.
Yeah, Obama is evil and the Democrats are psychotic control freaks who want to do weird medical experiments on the US people and create an army of mutant zombie liberals that derive pleasure only by paying 80% taxes...
For crying out loud, boy, get a grip. The people at your HMO will do everything that they legally can to kill you rather than pay for your medical treatment. You should fear the people who want everything to be the same.
Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, Rush Limbaugh is evil and the Republicans are psychotic control freaks who want to do weird medical experiments on the US people and create an army of mutant zombie liberals that derive pleasure only by paying 80% taxes...
For crying out loud, boy, get a grip. Your government will do everything that they legally can to kill you rather than pay for your medical treatment. You should fear the people who want change for the sake of change.
Some time ago I was looking for some PHP code help and found a promising-looking forum. Turns out it was mostly buying and selling domain names. These people improve the domains in terms of SEO and page rank, but in reality it is all a load of crap after the domain switches hands a few times, gets a way, way trumped up price, and eventually some fool has paid way too much based on perceived value. Gee, sounds a lot like the real estate market bust...
I don't know if you have seen any movies from the Alien franchise, but they found a way to get Ripley into everything but the "versus" movies. They'll find a way to get her in the prequel. Just look for George Lucas' name to be involved somehow and you'll know they're trying.
The real question is can they make a decent movie without trying way, way too hard to link it to characters in the prior sequels? I'll burn the theater down if "young Ripley" is somehow involved (though it may be worth the speculation as to how much botox it took to get Sigourney Weaver's skin 1979-tight).
I meant random in the sense that a higher being wasn't planning our existence.
Evolution is so slow I doubt we have the patience or longevity to observe it. In addition to "changing out environment to suit us," we also seek to prevent change from happening to our environment. I'm sure there are millions of people out there who would go to great lengths to ensure the survival of all extant species. Ironically, their logic is that man is changing things and endangering those species, yet not allowing them to become extinct is at odds with our changes. Of course, they'll argue that our changes are not natural, which is impossible. We occurred naturally, therefore whatever we do is part of nature, for better or worse.
Perhaps we have reached a dead end for physical evolution, and given no other changes we'll outgrow this planet long before we figure out how and where to move off of it. But I suspect social evolution will intervene before that happens. Logan's Run, Soylent Green, 1984, Brave New World...Pick your future.
In closing, I leave you with the words of the great prophets Fishbone: "Give a monkey a brain and he'll swear he's the center of the universe."
If there exists another race like earth-based humans, it proves our evolution is completely random because no intelligent, higher being would make us on purpose twice. On the other hand, if we are here our of sheer randomness then it is most probable we are, in fact, alone.
I think you are straying off my message. I agree, many "yuppies" practice "anti-Walmart classist buffonery," but that is not what I am talking about. I am referring to the effect artificially low prices have on a person's perceived value of the product which they are purchasing. Chicken, for example, is artificially cheap at Wal-Mart as well as nearly every supermarket. The price is too low, but when someone has been paying it as long as they can remember they then demand to pay that price, causing the stores to find a way to meet that demand, causing undue harm to any or all of the producers, manufacturers, produce, livestock, the environment.
I hate consumers but I love capitalism. Isn't it ironic?
The moment we became a society and allowed lesser-able people to survive we very well may have started a long, slow, irreversible journey to pure socialism. I hate the thought and I will fight it with my dying breath, but I am afraid it is true.
Uneducated consumers ruin everything, but how do you convince someone they aren't paying enough, particularly when they are poor?
For the record, I support local communal/social efforts - very local - with an outward face of capitalism. In other words, a hippie commune which produces a marketable product or service. Like Snapple and Tom's of Maine without the corporate sellout. Ultimately, people have to be willing to settle for just a little less rather than taking the corporate greed money. The most obvious problem with that is when someone else making the same product decides to sell out and the big corporation gets all your sales because the businesses local to you agree to exclusive contracts with them.
Maybe I'll take what is behind door number three: move to Montana and stockpile weapons.
With Wal Mart prices are LOWER. Maybe not for companies, but as a consumer Wal Mart's monopoly is a good thing for me.
That is a dangerously short-sighted view. Wal-Mart under charges, creating a false, diminished sense of monetary value of products. Consequently, either the product quality suffers, or the conditions under which the product is manufactured suffer (e.g., factory farms, slave labor).
Keep in mind that 9 to 5 is relative. I certainly could do my job from home at midnight, but my clients (in HR departments) do their jobs from 9 to 5 in support of the worker bees in their companies doing their jobs 9 to 5. So as long as my boss feels I need to be at their beck and call, I will be working from 9 to 5.
Now, in versus out of the office is a matter of employee control. We are a very merit-based workplace, and we don't even have to dress very well (we put the "casual" in "business casual"), but we do have to be physically present. Makes the boss feel like he's getting his moneys worth. And I don't mind too much because I get a kick out of our office being the worst dressed but best paid in our building.
Yes, what you said, and, for the love of Christ, a way to "talk" without having a one-sided conversation with the freaking air. I hate that. Fifteen years ago you would have been sent to the loony bin for talking to voices in your head. Now, we assume one half of a bluetooth-enabled conversation. Seriously, how many completely, balls-out fucking crazy people are walking the streets who we assume are on the phone?
Was that complaining I heard? Well sir, why don't you go with those nice men for some re-Neducation! First you'll feel a slight pinch, then just a wee tickle, but soon everything will seem right as rain! You see, people all over the country - and even the world! - have different needs and problems. The only way to ensure every last one of them gets a fair shake is to collect all the wealth and power at the top, and then fairly and evenly distribute it amongst all the people. It just wouldn't be fair if your state or town provided you with a service to which a person 3000 miles away had no access. You see that now, right?
The real danger here is Billy D. Williams selling you out to the emperor and his tall, dark lackey with the cape. Only this time they will be water-boarding Chewbacca, and Han Solo will be trapped by a lengthy and expensive Carbonite data protection contract.
Most web sites do not need to be as ridiculously complicated to look so complicated. The web is relatively young, and AJAXification even younger. Give it time and common sense will prevail.
The semantic web, HTML5, and CSS3 will eventually usher in an era of peace and tranquility. Music will be free. Passwords will no longer be necessary. Web sites will design themselves to look different to everyone (like the alien in Contact looking like Jodie Foster's dad, or the talking taco pooping ice cream in South Park), appearing in a form with which the user feels most comfortable. Accessibility and affordance[wikipedia] will be implicit. Fluid design will exist in four dimensions, and tables will only be used for tabular data. JavaScript will be so unobtrusive it may never load, but that will be OK because all web sites will be semantic and thus 100% accessible and functional without it. And Noscript will no longer be needed on the browser because it will be installed at the ISP level...
Whoops. Sorry. I dozed off there but I kept typing while I was dreaming...
Wait a minute...How does a simulation with real doctors, nurses, and patients in real facilities make it cheaper? The patient has to be in a hospital with all those people around, anyway, right?
Personally, I have never been a fan of simulation. The statement:
You can take risks that aren't safe in the real world and teach more complex subjects in three dimensions
doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If we all tried to be like Dr. House on the same-named television show we'd all have many, many dead patients.
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Hm, sounds a lot like cash-for-clunkers. The gubment gives you a few thousand bucks and keeps a ton of scrap metal and plastic per payout. No reuse there, either.
People have believed the Earth was round for Centuries. Infact, in 330BC Aristotle believed that the Earth was round. The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes. So stop using 'Everyone thought the Earth was flat' to bolster your arguments
Flat earth on wikipedia
People have been around much longer than "centuries." But let's digress on that point and just exchange the "flat earth" argument bolster-er for the "geo-centeric/helio-centric/ever-expanding universe" one.
Thanks for the facts, but I was just making fun of his baseless, party-line post by reversing it to the other side. It's so easy to shout talking points back and forth, and it provides cover for the fact that even in the face of truth we will find a way to believe what we already think is true.
Yeah, Obama is evil and the Democrats are psychotic control freaks who want to do weird medical experiments on the US people and create an army of mutant zombie liberals that derive pleasure only by paying 80% taxes...
For crying out loud, boy, get a grip. The people at your HMO will do everything that they legally can to kill you rather than pay for your medical treatment. You should fear the people who want everything to be the same.
Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, Rush Limbaugh is evil and the Republicans are psychotic control freaks who want to do weird medical experiments on the US people and create an army of mutant zombie liberals that derive pleasure only by paying 80% taxes...
For crying out loud, boy, get a grip. Your government will do everything that they legally can to kill you rather than pay for your medical treatment. You should fear the people who want change for the sake of change.
Stop listening to Obama.
Some time ago I was looking for some PHP code help and found a promising-looking forum. Turns out it was mostly buying and selling domain names. These people improve the domains in terms of SEO and page rank, but in reality it is all a load of crap after the domain switches hands a few times, gets a way, way trumped up price, and eventually some fool has paid way too much based on perceived value. Gee, sounds a lot like the real estate market bust...
I don't know if you have seen any movies from the Alien franchise, but they found a way to get Ripley into everything but the "versus" movies. They'll find a way to get her in the prequel. Just look for George Lucas' name to be involved somehow and you'll know they're trying.
The real question is can they make a decent movie without trying way, way too hard to link it to characters in the prior sequels? I'll burn the theater down if "young Ripley" is somehow involved (though it may be worth the speculation as to how much botox it took to get Sigourney Weaver's skin 1979-tight).
And why the hell would you pay $200k for a suborbital flight for a couple minutes?
Why would someone pay $1million for a diamond ring? $1millon for a car? $50k for a sub woofer?
Not because they can, but because you can't.
I meant random in the sense that a higher being wasn't planning our existence.
Evolution is so slow I doubt we have the patience or longevity to observe it. In addition to "changing out environment to suit us," we also seek to prevent change from happening to our environment. I'm sure there are millions of people out there who would go to great lengths to ensure the survival of all extant species. Ironically, their logic is that man is changing things and endangering those species, yet not allowing them to become extinct is at odds with our changes. Of course, they'll argue that our changes are not natural, which is impossible. We occurred naturally, therefore whatever we do is part of nature, for better or worse.
Perhaps we have reached a dead end for physical evolution, and given no other changes we'll outgrow this planet long before we figure out how and where to move off of it. But I suspect social evolution will intervene before that happens. Logan's Run, Soylent Green, 1984, Brave New World...Pick your future.
In closing, I leave you with the words of the great prophets Fishbone: "Give a monkey a brain and he'll swear he's the center of the universe."
Will this mean that the $200k price tag may be dropping?
They have more orders than they can fill with a $200k price tag, so why again would they consider dropping the price?
I propose thedonger Paradox:
If there exists another race like earth-based humans, it proves our evolution is completely random because no intelligent, higher being would make us on purpose twice. On the other hand, if we are here our of sheer randomness then it is most probable we are, in fact, alone.
I think you are straying off my message. I agree, many "yuppies" practice "anti-Walmart classist buffonery," but that is not what I am talking about. I am referring to the effect artificially low prices have on a person's perceived value of the product which they are purchasing. Chicken, for example, is artificially cheap at Wal-Mart as well as nearly every supermarket. The price is too low, but when someone has been paying it as long as they can remember they then demand to pay that price, causing the stores to find a way to meet that demand, causing undue harm to any or all of the producers, manufacturers, produce, livestock, the environment.
I hate consumers but I love capitalism. Isn't it ironic?
The moment we became a society and allowed lesser-able people to survive we very well may have started a long, slow, irreversible journey to pure socialism. I hate the thought and I will fight it with my dying breath, but I am afraid it is true.
Uneducated consumers ruin everything, but how do you convince someone they aren't paying enough, particularly when they are poor?
For the record, I support local communal/social efforts - very local - with an outward face of capitalism. In other words, a hippie commune which produces a marketable product or service. Like Snapple and Tom's of Maine without the corporate sellout. Ultimately, people have to be willing to settle for just a little less rather than taking the corporate greed money. The most obvious problem with that is when someone else making the same product decides to sell out and the big corporation gets all your sales because the businesses local to you agree to exclusive contracts with them.
Maybe I'll take what is behind door number three: move to Montana and stockpile weapons.
With Wal Mart prices are LOWER. Maybe not for companies, but as a consumer Wal Mart's monopoly is a good thing for me.
That is a dangerously short-sighted view. Wal-Mart under charges, creating a false, diminished sense of monetary value of products. Consequently, either the product quality suffers, or the conditions under which the product is manufactured suffer (e.g., factory farms, slave labor).
It really makes me wonder why, if Apple is correct, we are relying on security through obscurity to protect our cell phone towers?
Keep in mind that 9 to 5 is relative. I certainly could do my job from home at midnight, but my clients (in HR departments) do their jobs from 9 to 5 in support of the worker bees in their companies doing their jobs 9 to 5. So as long as my boss feels I need to be at their beck and call, I will be working from 9 to 5.
Now, in versus out of the office is a matter of employee control. We are a very merit-based workplace, and we don't even have to dress very well (we put the "casual" in "business casual"), but we do have to be physically present. Makes the boss feel like he's getting his moneys worth. And I don't mind too much because I get a kick out of our office being the worst dressed but best paid in our building.
Shouldn't that be:
I guess that means she's found out that I'm going to be tapping her sister.
Shouldn't that be:
I guess that means she found out that I'm going to have been tapping her sister.
The US title was "Out of this world."
Toe Jam & Earl for the Sega was the best. I loved the Nerd Herds. My vote goes to "Another World." That game made the single biggest impression on me.
Yes, what you said, and, for the love of Christ, a way to "talk" without having a one-sided conversation with the freaking air. I hate that. Fifteen years ago you would have been sent to the loony bin for talking to voices in your head. Now, we assume one half of a bluetooth-enabled conversation. Seriously, how many completely, balls-out fucking crazy people are walking the streets who we assume are on the phone?
Was that complaining I heard? Well sir, why don't you go with those nice men for some re-Neducation! First you'll feel a slight pinch, then just a wee tickle, but soon everything will seem right as rain! You see, people all over the country - and even the world! - have different needs and problems. The only way to ensure every last one of them gets a fair shake is to collect all the wealth and power at the top, and then fairly and evenly distribute it amongst all the people. It just wouldn't be fair if your state or town provided you with a service to which a person 3000 miles away had no access. You see that now, right?
The real danger here is Billy D. Williams selling you out to the emperor and his tall, dark lackey with the cape. Only this time they will be water-boarding Chewbacca, and Han Solo will be trapped by a lengthy and expensive Carbonite data protection contract.
Most web sites do not need to be as ridiculously complicated to look so complicated. The web is relatively young, and AJAXification even younger. Give it time and common sense will prevail.
The semantic web, HTML5, and CSS3 will eventually usher in an era of peace and tranquility. Music will be free. Passwords will no longer be necessary. Web sites will design themselves to look different to everyone (like the alien in Contact looking like Jodie Foster's dad, or the talking taco pooping ice cream in South Park), appearing in a form with which the user feels most comfortable. Accessibility and affordance[wikipedia] will be implicit. Fluid design will exist in four dimensions, and tables will only be used for tabular data. JavaScript will be so unobtrusive it may never load, but that will be OK because all web sites will be semantic and thus 100% accessible and functional without it. And Noscript will no longer be needed on the browser because it will be installed at the ISP level...
Whoops. Sorry. I dozed off there but I kept typing while I was dreaming...
Since we already have white LED's, I'd guess the real benefit is the ability to give PETA something else about which they can complain..
There. Fixed that for you.
Wait a minute...How does a simulation with real doctors, nurses, and patients in real facilities make it cheaper? The patient has to be in a hospital with all those people around, anyway, right?
Personally, I have never been a fan of simulation. The statement:
You can take risks that aren't safe in the real world and teach more complex subjects in three dimensions
doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If we all tried to be like Dr. House on the same-named television show we'd all have many, many dead patients.