Just stop it with these "other source of stem cells" stories. Pretty soon the whole aborted fetus market bubble will crash and I'm still heavily leveraged!
You worry too much. People will just start aborting fat fetuses for stem cells.
It's either caused by a psychological problem (depression or bipolar disorder) or it's a symptom that you haven't counted your blessings. If a poor, old woman like Mother Theresa can change the world enough that her name is instantly recognizable as a humanitarian from any person in our generation, across all continents; someone who has the education, means, and intelligence to become so introspective, as you, also has the means to alter the course of humanity in a recognizable way. Just grow some balls and kick stagnancy in the face!
"how it works" is I was trying to make a deft parallel between this shortsighted knife policy by one Scouts organisation with a shortsighted sexual orientation policy by another Scouts organisation. partly tongue in cheek, and partly to show that these organisations have done some pretty backwards things before.
Pro tip: Gay people on the internet don't have a sense of humor. They get butthurt over just about everything!
If you can tell me with a straight face that we have one-hundredth the tech gained today from sending a robot to Mars that we would have had from sending a man to Mars, I'll agree with you. We don't need to improve robots or conditions for robots. Who cares about a robot's way of life compared to a human's? It's ridiculous to think that sending one rock into another is comparable to going there. That we've extended our tethers all the way to the moon is an unbelievable achievement.
It's worse than saying "I never need to visit Paris, because there are human beings who have already visited it. I have no need to dive the Great Barrier Reef, because I can watch videos of it on Youtube. In fact, there's no point for ANYONE to go, since we've got footage of it."
Sending humans early on WORKED. It got things done and it has benefited the world, technologically, almost as much as the printing press. Sending probes to crash into the moon was like... the 3rd rung on the ladder. I don't care if you're afraid of the heights, but allowing and supporting those who decide to climb higher than that will be of great importance to your progeny, from an advancement standpoint.
This "Send Robots Instead" nonsense is just that -- Nonsense. Mankind's Manifest Destiny may have nothing but an unmarked grave in your hearts, but for millions, perhaps billions, the reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
If there's anything robots don't do, it is "look to the stars." It is men who comprehend the insignificance of this world in relation to the vast emptiness of space, and the costs it will take to traverse that scape. It is men who want to watch the enormous Earth grow smaller and wax philosophical. It is men who walked upon the lonely face of the moon and felt enormous elation and accomplishment coupled with their nigh-incomprehensible solitude.
If NASA is having its intercelestial driver's license revoked, it should at least be given the directive to help direct traffic of the private industry. Apparently we need half-insane men and women blasting themselves and their employees and friends off to distant space rocks if humankind wants to travel across this galaxy. We do not need them crashing into satellites and ploughing into nearby cities due to lack of launch pads or proper orbital-traffic readouts.
How many lives are an acceptable sacrifice for "cheap" and "clean" power?
Compared to the lives that our current energy production costs? Comparatively, you're protesting the release of someone who committed involuntary manslaughter while you protest the jailing of a mass murderer.
Except, instead one deliberate error that can be commented out, I make several dozen show-stopping errors that fabricate the very backbone of the project.
This attitude is why bipolar disorder is the #1 killer of teenagers.
There's nothing holistic or attitude-related about chemical imbalances in your brain. That's like trying to "attitude" your way into being "not drunk" with a blood-alcohol level of 0.29
Sometimes, a psychologist will tell the patient "try this one, it's done amazing work" and it will end up making the problem worse -- the patient ends up killing themself when they were expecting positive results. Telling them to just smile their way through things leaves millions of teenagers dead, and millions more becoming emo or otherwise burning up what plans they had for their future.
So inviting my friends and neighbors to come over to my house, have some snacks, and watch how Win7 handles disk caching so much better will increase sales eleventy gajillion percent.
Unlikely. Your neighbors will probably ignore the Windows 7 and spend their time on the couch, having an in-depth discussion about birth control options.
The kid is only in school for 6 hours in the day. Use the other 8-10 of their non-sleep hours to do this stuff. School isn't a substitute for parenting, and it shouldn't be their only source of learning.
Incorrect. They didn't arbitrarily tell the men that they should be attracted to their conversation buddies. They had the men report the amount of attraction they had toward the opposing member of each dialogue before the testing began. You had an argument all ready to go before you even bothered yourself with what the study said, didn't you?
Your inability to grasp concepts is apparently making mountains out of molehills. It's people like you who write unreadable wikipedia articles, written in pure jargon because they don't understand the topic well enough to form it in their own words -- so they have to borrow the words that were given to them to define it. In this case, here's the definition of what you think is the "deep pond":
"For A's optimal conditions, use A"
"For B's optimal conditions, use B"
"For any other conditions, use C"
I'm sorry, how is that NOT an if/elseif/else statement?
They're not loading up rockets with those dollars. That money is spent on research, design, engineering, and invention. Historically, the money spent on throttling men through space CANNOT be spent better when it comes to improving technology or your way of life. It's difficult to overestimate the importance that space travel has on your modern conveniences.
Well, that's because the prince of Nigeria just happened to die the day BEFORE the internet was invented. It was in his dying will that he bequeathed his entire fortune $250,000,000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION US DOLLARS) to a man that one of his friends had once encountered in his many travels across the world. Although that man has been contacted hundreds of times, he has yet to respond to the email address that will complete the neccessary correspondance with the late Prince's estate.
There were no bidders. If there were, I would have lowballed the 18,000,000 bid for a 17,000,000 bid and it would have been perfect -- with $16,995,000 left to burn.
People stopped spending money because they had no money to spend. They didn't stop buying cars because of economic panic, they stopped buying cars because no one could afford a new car. They reduced their spending because 30% of people have lost their jobs when companies suddenly had their flow of imaginary revenue disappear. Most companies weren't laying off workers "just in case we don't make as much money this month." like the economic numbnuts out there think. They were laying off workers because they couldn't afford to pay them anymore. The US isn't on a saving spree. It's living paycheck to paycheck. Perhaps that misunderstanding is why economic forecasters were telling us that there would only be a threat of recession. Perhaps that's why they didn't expect 10% unemployment. Perhaps that's why they think that increasing unemployment over the next year is still "Recovery" from this mess. We're not in a state of recovery right now. We're just getting used to the acceleration.
The housing issue was just a million-dollar game of hot potato (get stuck with the bad loan and you lose!) but all the trillions that were getting thrown around were trickling down. When that imaginary money stopped, trillions of dollars were suddenly ripped out of the economy, and it put us in what we're afraid to call a depression for the next few years.
Saying that the recession happened because people stopped spending is like saying that a drunk driver crashed his car into a wall at 80mph because the car won't start anymore. It's true that the car won't start, but the cause is the 80mph collision, not the other way around.
Recession means "lack" of spending behavior, not "lack" of money. Often spending on promising technologies has important spin-off applications which bolster the economy / people spend money.
That seems to be the exact opposite problem of what we have in America. We thought we had way more money that we even thought we had. When the magicians disappeared, all the make-believe money that was coursing through the veins of the economy dried up and caused the businesses who were relying on people spending that make-believe money to burn out and fail. It was the lack of money that caused the lack of spending, not the lack of things to buy.
That's a meager $70,000 per home for the initial installation! Why, at $150 a month, the thing will practically pay for itself in only 40 years -- if you don't count maintenance, delivery, or any other possible costs that could end up being associated with it post-construction.
Sooo tired of reading these "new cancer treatment" stories. Been reading about them for years and yet if you get cancer what happens? You're given a cocktail of drugs and blased with radiation. I would like to see one of these things actually turn into a real treatment that means people have cancer cured without all the suffering that Chemo causes.
The problem with "cure for cancer" is that there are a lot of different cancers and a lot of different causes. There are cancers that have very high cure rates and cancers that you get and know that you will die in 5 years unless someone comes up with a life-saving Eureeka!. Much like how the "common cold" is not a single, treatable virus, rather a list of similar symptoms caused by a variety of weak viruses, cancer as we know it tends to be more a list of symptoms than the actual problem. The more ways we come up with combatting the life-threatening symptoms or the cancer itself, the less "only-defense" our chemotherapy needs to be. Instead of "Kill the patient slowly, hoping the cancer dies first" is a very primitive method of treating a disease which overextends its own energies in multiplying, and has been effective in many cases, we can find better ways, and are finding better ways -- but these usually target specific cancers and their symptoms, or specific symptoms, rather than an all-curing panacea.
Too bad they weren't making a hundred dollars on your purchase of GH 5, so they really only need to make more sales than that.
Sorry self-important dude, but Activision knows that they'll offend people, but they think that they'll still make more money.
Dear Activision,
If you're going to include ads in your games, either you need to lower the cost of your games considerably (I just cancelled my $100 Guitar Hero 5 order) or increase the amount you pay for your parking lot security. I hope all the adspace you sold in this game can buy a new set of tires for every employee who came to work today.
In most cases kids quickly lose interest. "I want I want I want" quickly becomes "I'm bored" as the novelty wears off and the phone disappears into a drawer.
It's not just kids, it's everyone. It's the reason why young adults have more videogames than they can play, why women have more shoes and bags than they can possibly wear or use, and why men download porn by the gigabytes when they don't even take the time to go over what they already have. It's the acquiring of these things that matters, not the possessing. Rarely is the state of ownership as glamorous as we imagine it will be when we receive our dopamine injection as we shop. Knowing that, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to how to exploit this (natural?) mechanism for their own purposes.
Slashdot Mirror
Just stop it with these "other source of stem cells" stories. Pretty soon the whole aborted fetus market bubble will crash and I'm still heavily leveraged!
You worry too much. People will just start aborting fat fetuses for stem cells.
This is called "Nihilism"
It's either caused by a psychological problem (depression or bipolar disorder) or it's a symptom that you haven't counted your blessings. If a poor, old woman like Mother Theresa can change the world enough that her name is instantly recognizable as a humanitarian from any person in our generation, across all continents; someone who has the education, means, and intelligence to become so introspective, as you, also has the means to alter the course of humanity in a recognizable way. Just grow some balls and kick stagnancy in the face!
"how it works" is I was trying to make a deft parallel between this shortsighted knife policy by one Scouts organisation with a shortsighted sexual orientation policy by another Scouts organisation. partly tongue in cheek, and partly to show that these organisations have done some pretty backwards things before.
Pro tip: Gay people on the internet don't have a sense of humor. They get butthurt over just about everything!
If you can tell me with a straight face that we have one-hundredth the tech gained today from sending a robot to Mars that we would have had from sending a man to Mars, I'll agree with you. We don't need to improve robots or conditions for robots. Who cares about a robot's way of life compared to a human's? It's ridiculous to think that sending one rock into another is comparable to going there. That we've extended our tethers all the way to the moon is an unbelievable achievement.
It's worse than saying "I never need to visit Paris, because there are human beings who have already visited it. I have no need to dive the Great Barrier Reef, because I can watch videos of it on Youtube. In fact, there's no point for ANYONE to go, since we've got footage of it."
Sending humans early on WORKED. It got things done and it has benefited the world, technologically, almost as much as the printing press. Sending probes to crash into the moon was like... the 3rd rung on the ladder. I don't care if you're afraid of the heights, but allowing and supporting those who decide to climb higher than that will be of great importance to your progeny, from an advancement standpoint.
This "Send Robots Instead" nonsense is just that -- Nonsense. Mankind's Manifest Destiny may have nothing but an unmarked grave in your hearts, but for millions, perhaps billions, the reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.
If there's anything robots don't do, it is "look to the stars." It is men who comprehend the insignificance of this world in relation to the vast emptiness of space, and the costs it will take to traverse that scape. It is men who want to watch the enormous Earth grow smaller and wax philosophical. It is men who walked upon the lonely face of the moon and felt enormous elation and accomplishment coupled with their nigh-incomprehensible solitude.
If NASA is having its intercelestial driver's license revoked, it should at least be given the directive to help direct traffic of the private industry. Apparently we need half-insane men and women blasting themselves and their employees and friends off to distant space rocks if humankind wants to travel across this galaxy. We do not need them crashing into satellites and ploughing into nearby cities due to lack of launch pads or proper orbital-traffic readouts.
How many lives are an acceptable sacrifice for "cheap" and "clean" power?
Compared to the lives that our current energy production costs? Comparatively, you're protesting the release of someone who committed involuntary manslaughter while you protest the jailing of a mass murderer.
I know I do the same thing with my code.
Except, instead one deliberate error that can be commented out, I make several dozen show-stopping errors that fabricate the very backbone of the project.
So I don't fall to pride and hubris, of course.
This attitude is why bipolar disorder is the #1 killer of teenagers.
There's nothing holistic or attitude-related about chemical imbalances in your brain. That's like trying to "attitude" your way into being "not drunk" with a blood-alcohol level of 0.29
Sometimes, a psychologist will tell the patient "try this one, it's done amazing work" and it will end up making the problem worse -- the patient ends up killing themself when they were expecting positive results. Telling them to just smile their way through things leaves millions of teenagers dead, and millions more becoming emo or otherwise burning up what plans they had for their future.
So inviting my friends and neighbors to come over to my house, have some snacks, and watch how Win7 handles disk caching so much better will increase sales eleventy gajillion percent.
Unlikely. Your neighbors will probably ignore the Windows 7 and spend their time on the couch, having an in-depth discussion about birth control options.
The kid is only in school for 6 hours in the day. Use the other 8-10 of their non-sleep hours to do this stuff. School isn't a substitute for parenting, and it shouldn't be their only source of learning.
Incorrect. They didn't arbitrarily tell the men that they should be attracted to their conversation buddies. They had the men report the amount of attraction they had toward the opposing member of each dialogue before the testing began. You had an argument all ready to go before you even bothered yourself with what the study said, didn't you?
If there's one thing I've learned in life, stay away from nasty chemicals like Potassium and Iodine.
Your inability to grasp concepts is apparently making mountains out of molehills. It's people like you who write unreadable wikipedia articles, written in pure jargon because they don't understand the topic well enough to form it in their own words -- so they have to borrow the words that were given to them to define it. In this case, here's the definition of what you think is the "deep pond":
"For A's optimal conditions, use A"
"For B's optimal conditions, use B"
"For any other conditions, use C"
I'm sorry, how is that NOT an if/elseif/else statement?
They're not loading up rockets with those dollars. That money is spent on research, design, engineering, and invention. Historically, the money spent on throttling men through space CANNOT be spent better when it comes to improving technology or your way of life. It's difficult to overestimate the importance that space travel has on your modern conveniences.
Well, that's because the prince of Nigeria just happened to die the day BEFORE the internet was invented. It was in his dying will that he bequeathed his entire fortune $250,000,000 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION US DOLLARS) to a man that one of his friends had once encountered in his many travels across the world. Although that man has been contacted hundreds of times, he has yet to respond to the email address that will complete the neccessary correspondance with the late Prince's estate.
Nanorobots that can cast fusion-style alchemy will cost us more than a thousand times the cost of a Mars trip.
There were no bidders. If there were, I would have lowballed the 18,000,000 bid for a 17,000,000 bid and it would have been perfect -- with $16,995,000 left to burn.
People stopped spending money because they had no money to spend. They didn't stop buying cars because of economic panic, they stopped buying cars because no one could afford a new car. They reduced their spending because 30% of people have lost their jobs when companies suddenly had their flow of imaginary revenue disappear. Most companies weren't laying off workers "just in case we don't make as much money this month." like the economic numbnuts out there think. They were laying off workers because they couldn't afford to pay them anymore. The US isn't on a saving spree. It's living paycheck to paycheck. Perhaps that misunderstanding is why economic forecasters were telling us that there would only be a threat of recession. Perhaps that's why they didn't expect 10% unemployment. Perhaps that's why they think that increasing unemployment over the next year is still "Recovery" from this mess. We're not in a state of recovery right now. We're just getting used to the acceleration.
The housing issue was just a million-dollar game of hot potato (get stuck with the bad loan and you lose!) but all the trillions that were getting thrown around were trickling down. When that imaginary money stopped, trillions of dollars were suddenly ripped out of the economy, and it put us in what we're afraid to call a depression for the next few years.
Saying that the recession happened because people stopped spending is like saying that a drunk driver crashed his car into a wall at 80mph because the car won't start anymore. It's true that the car won't start, but the cause is the 80mph collision, not the other way around.
I think you're looking too deep into the pond on this one. The load bearing can be taken up with a few "if/elseif/else" calculations.
Recession means "lack" of spending behavior, not "lack" of money. Often spending on promising technologies has important spin-off applications which bolster the economy / people spend money.
That seems to be the exact opposite problem of what we have in America. We thought we had way more money that we even thought we had. When the magicians disappeared, all the make-believe money that was coursing through the veins of the economy dried up and caused the businesses who were relying on people spending that make-believe money to burn out and fail. It was the lack of money that caused the lack of spending, not the lack of things to buy.
That's a meager $70,000 per home for the initial installation! Why, at $150 a month, the thing will practically pay for itself in only 40 years -- if you don't count maintenance, delivery, or any other possible costs that could end up being associated with it post-construction.
They already have this but it doesn't get very good reviews.
Sooo tired of reading these "new cancer treatment" stories. Been reading about them for years and yet if you get cancer what happens? You're given a cocktail of drugs and blased with radiation. I would like to see one of these things actually turn into a real treatment that means people have cancer cured without all the suffering that Chemo causes.
The problem with "cure for cancer" is that there are a lot of different cancers and a lot of different causes. There are cancers that have very high cure rates and cancers that you get and know that you will die in 5 years unless someone comes up with a life-saving Eureeka!. Much like how the "common cold" is not a single, treatable virus, rather a list of similar symptoms caused by a variety of weak viruses, cancer as we know it tends to be more a list of symptoms than the actual problem. The more ways we come up with combatting the life-threatening symptoms or the cancer itself, the less "only-defense" our chemotherapy needs to be. Instead of "Kill the patient slowly, hoping the cancer dies first" is a very primitive method of treating a disease which overextends its own energies in multiplying, and has been effective in many cases, we can find better ways, and are finding better ways -- but these usually target specific cancers and their symptoms, or specific symptoms, rather than an all-curing panacea.
Too bad they weren't making a hundred dollars on your purchase of GH 5, so they really only need to make more sales than that.
Sorry self-important dude, but Activision knows that they'll offend people, but they think that they'll still make more money.
Dear Activision,
If you're going to include ads in your games, either you need to lower the cost of your games considerably (I just cancelled my $100 Guitar Hero 5 order) or increase the amount you pay for your parking lot security. I hope all the adspace you sold in this game can buy a new set of tires for every employee who came to work today.
Lovingly yours,
A Concerned Gamer
In most cases kids quickly lose interest. "I want I want I want" quickly becomes "I'm bored" as the novelty wears off and the phone disappears into a drawer.
It's not just kids, it's everyone. It's the reason why young adults have more videogames than they can play, why women have more shoes and bags than they can possibly wear or use, and why men download porn by the gigabytes when they don't even take the time to go over what they already have. It's the acquiring of these things that matters, not the possessing. Rarely is the state of ownership as glamorous as we imagine it will be when we receive our dopamine injection as we shop. Knowing that, I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to how to exploit this (natural?) mechanism for their own purposes.