I could make an argument that obesity is self induced. Auto accidents are mostly due to stupidity, in which one stupid person takes himself and a random number of victims out. Heart disease is often due to self induced obesity.
GP may have a point, in that we should cure those diseases that are not self induced, before worrying about dumbasses who work hard to kill themselves. How much money went into all that penis hardening research, anyway? Every single dollar was a total waste. We don't NEED more old bastards running around trying to impregnate young women with old worn out sperms which are likely to produce retards. (And, in case you weren't aware of my age - I speak as an old bastard whose penis no longer stays rigid 24/7.)
Why don't you get started on that little project in your spare time?
I would suggest that you're looking at the problem incorrectly though. The atoms did not arrange themselves into nerves, etc, all by themselves. You've simply leaped past a couple of very critical things, like viable DNA donors, cooperating to create yet more healthy, viable DNA.
Hell, if all that were required were a bunch of atoms, we could take hydrocarbons almost at random, throw them in a blender, and wait for a child to birth itself from the blender. Geeez, Louise.
Before you ask - I have little idea what is the correct way to approach the problem. I'm no biologist, not a chemist, not a physicist. About all I can say for sure is, things are a good deal more complicated than your post suggests.
Meanwhile, let's invest in nanotechnology. It seems that nano is actually starting to make progress in curing some of our (simpler) ills.
Many of us would agree that it is YOU who is arrogant. You seem to assume that the software should function just as you demand that it should, and that when it does not, someone else is at fault. We can make an argument that you are part of the Great American Instant Gratification generation.
So, you can't program. Or, maybe you can program, but don't have the time or the skill to fix the problem that really bothers you. You have heard of the bounty system?
You do know how to make your own ice cream, right? Buy the whole raw milk, get your vanilla beans and some vodka, the rock salt, fresh strawberries, etc. These days, you don't even have to do the hand cranking thing, just plug in the electric motor to do the cranking for you.
Personally, I ignore that FDA warning at the bottom of the page. You'll note that I mentioned whole raw milk. City dwellers are unlikely to have a source for such milk though.
How does it stick? Fat. Beef fat. Muscle tissue and fat all ground together kind of stick together. Extra lean beef ground into ground beef doesn't stick together especially well. For that reason, the butcher actually ADDS BEEF FAT to the mix. It's still 100% beef. Only when he starts adding other ingredients is it no longer 100% beef. Spices, flour, cornmeal, anything that wasn't a natural part of the cow before it was slaughtered causes his ground beef to be less than 100% pure beef.
The leanest ground beef you will ever buy actually has about ten or fifteen percent fat by volume. Really cheap ground beef might have as much as fifty percent. Visit a butcher shop, watch the butcher making the ground beef. Ask him how much fat is in each grade, and ask him why. You may well get more accurate figures than I'm offering - I've only guessed at the ten or fifteen percent. But, I'm pretty sure of the fifty percent in the really cheap stuff.
Anarchist gun nut? I don't get it. Oh - you're just name calling, because you don't have an argument of any type to offer. I get it now. Cool, I guess, 'cause it means I win.
Let's analyze that name though. Anarchist? Hardly. I'm more of an authoritarian, than I am an anarchist. I'm more of a socialist than an anarchist too, as far as that goes. I LIKE the idea of government. I like the idea of government controlling nutcases, criminals, illegal aliens, and more. What I DO NOT LIKE, is the government infringing on the lives of law abiding citizens.
Gun nut? Maybe we need to define "gun nut". To me, a gun is a tool. Like any other tool, it has limited uses. You don't use a hammer to clean windows, you don't use a gun to clean windows, you don't use a screwdriver to clean windows - all of these tools would cause more destruction than a window cleaner can tolerate. I'm not a gun nut, or a hammer nut, or a screwdriver nut. I use each tool for it's intended purpose.
I guess I could return the favor, and call you an anti-gun-nut. I'll refrain though, and just point out that you are naive and uninformed.
With Open Source, if a bug is a real problem, then you can fix it. If you're unwilling to take the time to fix it, then it must not be really important to you. It's not like you PAID FOR the software.
With closed source, if a bug is a real problem, then you're forced to beg the vendor to fix it. If he doesn't, or if he can't, then you're just screwed out of your money.
Obviously, tens of thousands of KDE users have used the KDE desktop for a decade, and found that tiny little irritant to be unimportant. Maybe some of those users found it irritating enough to switch to another desktop environment. No big deal, I'd say.
I hadn't noticed, actually. Of course, the world-famous Anonymous Coward has been here much longer than I have. With a UID of zero, I guess you would know!
Then OBVIOUSLY, the government shouldn't be in control of the information. This is one of many databases that simply never should have been compiled. It's none of the government's business who owns weapons, how many, or what kind, and it's none of your business either.
Your nick name includes the word "history". If you believe that any government is incorruptible, then you know nothing of history.
This government, our United States government has at various times, -endorsed slavery -invaded foreign nations for profit -used it's own citizens in involuntary and uninformed scientific research -engaged in genocidal campaigns -permitted the use of armed government employees by corporate interests to enforce unjust laws -approved ever more invasive spying programs for use on it's own citizens -engages in spying on British subjects, in accordance with an agreement that permits Britain to spy on US citizens
I insist that government, by it's very nature, is indeed a broken artifact.
You DO make one very good point. We SHOULD all engage in making the government better. However, many of the ills of this nation are NOT repairable "within the current legal and political frameworks". Washington is pretty much owned by corporate interests. That fact is made abundantly clear with each and every election, when the campaign donations are made public. John Q. Public makes so many donations, mostly in amounts under a thousand dollars, while corporations make ever more donations in amounts that are impossible for the average American citizen to match. Now - who has the ears of Washington? A dozen citizens, who cumulatively gave ten thousand dollars, or the corporation which gave ten thousand to each of the party's candidates nationwide?
If/when we rise up, and force corporate interests out of Washington, then fixing the problems with government will become a possibility. The use of the term "democracy", in reference to our current government is an insult to every person's intelligence.
If you're going to tell the story, tell the WHOLE story.... ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God, awaiting the day that God gives him the nod to come BACK to earth as the Avenger.
The Christ you speak of is not a pacifist, per se. He paid the price to win his Father's approval, and to satisfy the Law.
Believe the story or not, believe in God or not, that's your choice, but if you're going to tell the story, tell the entire story. This is the problem with so many "Christian" cults - they cut and paste parts of the story, to suit their own purposes.
If Christ really does descend from Heaven again, that fruitcake Muhammed is going to look like a candy ass child, in comparison with what the Christ does.
Pacifism? Fine - next time you're accosted by a big bastard in a dark alley, tell him that you're a pacifist. Don't go down dark alleys? Well, the next time you meet a big bastard in your basement, tell him you're a pacifist.
The philosophy of a pacifist sounds like this to me: "I'm much to evolved to be out fighting, that's for morons. If some moron bothers me, I'll just call the police." Do you see a flaw in this philosophy? It seems so obvious to me, that there are TWO major flaws. First, you assume that only morons brawl, so you're going to rely on moron B to defend you against Moron A. Second, you ASSume that you'll be able to communicate to Moron B that you need his assistance when Moron A attacks you. Second, again, you're ASSuming that Moron B can get to you in time to defend you, before Moron A has killed/raped/mutilate/relieved_you_of_your_possessions.
There's a Darwin award available for pacifists, every single day.
You will note that most victims of insane shooters are pacifists? Not all, but most.
The old woman lives down the road from me has a spotty past, as well. Nine kids, none of whom shares the same father. In fact, a couple of the kids aren't even sure who their fathers are. Spotty, indeed.
You just can't trust those cows. I mean, cows have people trained in India to starve before they will consider eating a cow. Cows are smarter than we give them credit for.
Geez, Louise, would you just get off the lawn? If you didn't diddle around with Windows 1 point anything, installed on an ancient DOS like 3.1, then you ain't done nothin'. (Oh yeah, Win1 would install onto any DOS - I had it on DRDOS and TRSDOS, both! None of that "Checking, checking, oops, we're not on MSDOS, crash and burn!"
I don't think slashdot deletes posts. I've had it happen a few times, that my posts don't show up. I've always blamed some other thing - my browser, or the internet, or something. Maybe the stars are just improperly aligned, I don't know. But I do know that a lot of worthless shit and shinola appear on slashdot, that would be deleted ANYWHERE ELSE. Slashdot just leaves it up there, to be viewed by people like myself, who don't mask any posts.
Check your settings, and if they are all correct, then blame gremlins. We're so busy concentrating on that stupid rover on Mars, that we didn't even notice when the Martians sent their own ship this way, in retaliation. Latest estimates are that the ship could have carried as many as 16 billion gremlins. Awesome, isn't it? Each person on the planet can have one or two personal gremlins of their own! I'm sure it won't work out that way, though. The 1% will probably take about 15.5 billion of them for their very own.
Albert Einstein explained it already. People are insane. They keep doing the same thing, over and over, expecting new and different results. Pretty simple, isn't it?
LMAO - we've said the same thing, and I'm a troll, while you're insightful. The amusing part of it is, I'm hearing the wife in my mind: "Don't use that tone of voice with me!"
I guess you have a nicer tone than I do!;^)
(Either that, or the Thai government has some paid shills who have mod points? Nahhhh - I'm not believing that for a moment!)
I think maybe you're uninformed. The king doesn't "allow" such crap to happen. The kind is obviously a figurehead, and a tool. I've never heard that the king accused anyone of badmouthing him. It's all the nincompoops who run the government doing it. If Kingy-Poo objects, those more powerful members of the government who enjoy using the king as their tool will set him straight.
I'd rather be a dirt-poor nobody, right here in America, than to be in Bhum-boy's position.
(Who thinks that Thailand will try to have me extradited for calling their king a Bhum-boy?)
Why fuck when you can just have a doctor impregnate your wife with a few tools?
Or, for her, why fuck when you can just donate an egg for a test tube baby?
Why attend classes if you can just send a robot to proxy for you?
Why go on vacation, when plenty of photographers are willing to sell you images and sounds of Cancun?
Why own a home, when you can just sleep in the subway, or under a bridge, and tape up some photos of nice homes instead?
Why do you bother to browse the internet, when you can get some of the internet's information second or third hand from people you meet?
Why do people climb mountains again? Why do people sail? If you seriously have to ask any of these questions, then you're a part of the population that we don't want on the moon anyway.
Most politicians are so full of shit, and so full of themselves, they can't pause a moment to share a joke. They are so busy screwing us over, they can't stop to spend some time with us. It's "Wham, bam!" and not even a "Thank you, Ma'am".
Badmouth Obama, badmouth the people who submit the "nonsense" petitions if you like. But, I saw a little bit of interaction between the administration and the population that wasn't all doom and gloom. A bit of playful nonsense is good now and then.
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I could make an argument that obesity is self induced. Auto accidents are mostly due to stupidity, in which one stupid person takes himself and a random number of victims out. Heart disease is often due to self induced obesity.
GP may have a point, in that we should cure those diseases that are not self induced, before worrying about dumbasses who work hard to kill themselves. How much money went into all that penis hardening research, anyway? Every single dollar was a total waste. We don't NEED more old bastards running around trying to impregnate young women with old worn out sperms which are likely to produce retards. (And, in case you weren't aware of my age - I speak as an old bastard whose penis no longer stays rigid 24/7.)
Why don't you get started on that little project in your spare time?
I would suggest that you're looking at the problem incorrectly though. The atoms did not arrange themselves into nerves, etc, all by themselves. You've simply leaped past a couple of very critical things, like viable DNA donors, cooperating to create yet more healthy, viable DNA.
Hell, if all that were required were a bunch of atoms, we could take hydrocarbons almost at random, throw them in a blender, and wait for a child to birth itself from the blender. Geeez, Louise.
Before you ask - I have little idea what is the correct way to approach the problem. I'm no biologist, not a chemist, not a physicist. About all I can say for sure is, things are a good deal more complicated than your post suggests.
Meanwhile, let's invest in nanotechnology. It seems that nano is actually starting to make progress in curing some of our (simpler) ills.
Arrogant and patronising?
Many of us would agree that it is YOU who is arrogant. You seem to assume that the software should function just as you demand that it should, and that when it does not, someone else is at fault. We can make an argument that you are part of the Great American Instant Gratification generation.
So, you can't program. Or, maybe you can program, but don't have the time or the skill to fix the problem that really bothers you. You have heard of the bounty system?
Here's a blurb on one bounty system: http://www.insanitybit.com/2012/08/14/chrome-beefs-up-its-rewards-program-bigger-bounty/
You do know how to make your own ice cream, right? Buy the whole raw milk, get your vanilla beans and some vodka, the rock salt, fresh strawberries, etc. These days, you don't even have to do the hand cranking thing, just plug in the electric motor to do the cranking for you.
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Desserts/HomemadeIceCream.htm
Personally, I ignore that FDA warning at the bottom of the page. You'll note that I mentioned whole raw milk. City dwellers are unlikely to have a source for such milk though.
How does it stick? Fat. Beef fat. Muscle tissue and fat all ground together kind of stick together. Extra lean beef ground into ground beef doesn't stick together especially well. For that reason, the butcher actually ADDS BEEF FAT to the mix. It's still 100% beef. Only when he starts adding other ingredients is it no longer 100% beef. Spices, flour, cornmeal, anything that wasn't a natural part of the cow before it was slaughtered causes his ground beef to be less than 100% pure beef.
The leanest ground beef you will ever buy actually has about ten or fifteen percent fat by volume. Really cheap ground beef might have as much as fifty percent. Visit a butcher shop, watch the butcher making the ground beef. Ask him how much fat is in each grade, and ask him why. You may well get more accurate figures than I'm offering - I've only guessed at the ten or fifteen percent. But, I'm pretty sure of the fifty percent in the really cheap stuff.
Anarchist gun nut? I don't get it. Oh - you're just name calling, because you don't have an argument of any type to offer. I get it now. Cool, I guess, 'cause it means I win.
Let's analyze that name though. Anarchist? Hardly. I'm more of an authoritarian, than I am an anarchist. I'm more of a socialist than an anarchist too, as far as that goes. I LIKE the idea of government. I like the idea of government controlling nutcases, criminals, illegal aliens, and more. What I DO NOT LIKE, is the government infringing on the lives of law abiding citizens.
Gun nut? Maybe we need to define "gun nut". To me, a gun is a tool. Like any other tool, it has limited uses. You don't use a hammer to clean windows, you don't use a gun to clean windows, you don't use a screwdriver to clean windows - all of these tools would cause more destruction than a window cleaner can tolerate. I'm not a gun nut, or a hammer nut, or a screwdriver nut. I use each tool for it's intended purpose.
I guess I could return the favor, and call you an anti-gun-nut. I'll refrain though, and just point out that you are naive and uninformed.
Did you file a bug report? No? Then you didn't care very damned much.
Maybe I see things in a different way than you.
With Open Source, if a bug is a real problem, then you can fix it. If you're unwilling to take the time to fix it, then it must not be really important to you. It's not like you PAID FOR the software.
With closed source, if a bug is a real problem, then you're forced to beg the vendor to fix it. If he doesn't, or if he can't, then you're just screwed out of your money.
Obviously, tens of thousands of KDE users have used the KDE desktop for a decade, and found that tiny little irritant to be unimportant. Maybe some of those users found it irritating enough to switch to another desktop environment. No big deal, I'd say.
I hadn't noticed, actually. Of course, the world-famous Anonymous Coward has been here much longer than I have. With a UID of zero, I guess you would know!
Then OBVIOUSLY, the government shouldn't be in control of the information. This is one of many databases that simply never should have been compiled. It's none of the government's business who owns weapons, how many, or what kind, and it's none of your business either.
Your nick name includes the word "history". If you believe that any government is incorruptible, then you know nothing of history.
This government, our United States government has at various times,
-endorsed slavery
-invaded foreign nations for profit
-used it's own citizens in involuntary and uninformed scientific research
-engaged in genocidal campaigns
-permitted the use of armed government employees by corporate interests to enforce unjust laws
-approved ever more invasive spying programs for use on it's own citizens
-engages in spying on British subjects, in accordance with an agreement that permits Britain to spy on US citizens
I insist that government, by it's very nature, is indeed a broken artifact.
You DO make one very good point. We SHOULD all engage in making the government better. However, many of the ills of this nation are NOT repairable "within the current legal and political frameworks". Washington is pretty much owned by corporate interests. That fact is made abundantly clear with each and every election, when the campaign donations are made public. John Q. Public makes so many donations, mostly in amounts under a thousand dollars, while corporations make ever more donations in amounts that are impossible for the average American citizen to match. Now - who has the ears of Washington? A dozen citizens, who cumulatively gave ten thousand dollars, or the corporation which gave ten thousand to each of the party's candidates nationwide?
If/when we rise up, and force corporate interests out of Washington, then fixing the problems with government will become a possibility. The use of the term "democracy", in reference to our current government is an insult to every person's intelligence.
FOI pertains to the GOVERNMENT, not to private citizens. This is clearly a case of misuse of data.
If you're going to tell the story, tell the WHOLE story. ... ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God, awaiting the day that God gives him the nod to come BACK to earth as the Avenger.
The Christ you speak of is not a pacifist, per se. He paid the price to win his Father's approval, and to satisfy the Law.
Believe the story or not, believe in God or not, that's your choice, but if you're going to tell the story, tell the entire story. This is the problem with so many "Christian" cults - they cut and paste parts of the story, to suit their own purposes.
If Christ really does descend from Heaven again, that fruitcake Muhammed is going to look like a candy ass child, in comparison with what the Christ does.
Pacifism? Fine - next time you're accosted by a big bastard in a dark alley, tell him that you're a pacifist. Don't go down dark alleys? Well, the next time you meet a big bastard in your basement, tell him you're a pacifist.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dr-william-petit-testifies-trial-familys-alleged-murderer/story?id=11633236
The philosophy of a pacifist sounds like this to me:
"I'm much to evolved to be out fighting, that's for morons. If some moron bothers me, I'll just call the police."
Do you see a flaw in this philosophy? It seems so obvious to me, that there are TWO major flaws. First, you assume that only morons brawl, so you're going to rely on moron B to defend you against Moron A. Second, you ASSume that you'll be able to communicate to Moron B that you need his assistance when Moron A attacks you. Second, again, you're ASSuming that Moron B can get to you in time to defend you, before Moron A has killed/raped/mutilate/relieved_you_of_your_possessions.
There's a Darwin award available for pacifists, every single day.
You will note that most victims of insane shooters are pacifists? Not all, but most.
The old woman lives down the road from me has a spotty past, as well. Nine kids, none of whom shares the same father. In fact, a couple of the kids aren't even sure who their fathers are. Spotty, indeed.
And you are surely a legend in your own mind.
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/056/e/e/space_cows_by_jessicabane501-d4qxz3i.jpg
You just can't trust those cows. I mean, cows have people trained in India to starve before they will consider eating a cow. Cows are smarter than we give them credit for.
"my first windows was 3.11"
Geez, Louise, would you just get off the lawn? If you didn't diddle around with Windows 1 point anything, installed on an ancient DOS like 3.1, then you ain't done nothin'. (Oh yeah, Win1 would install onto any DOS - I had it on DRDOS and TRSDOS, both! None of that "Checking, checking, oops, we're not on MSDOS, crash and burn!"
I don't think slashdot deletes posts. I've had it happen a few times, that my posts don't show up. I've always blamed some other thing - my browser, or the internet, or something. Maybe the stars are just improperly aligned, I don't know. But I do know that a lot of worthless shit and shinola appear on slashdot, that would be deleted ANYWHERE ELSE. Slashdot just leaves it up there, to be viewed by people like myself, who don't mask any posts.
Check your settings, and if they are all correct, then blame gremlins. We're so busy concentrating on that stupid rover on Mars, that we didn't even notice when the Martians sent their own ship this way, in retaliation. Latest estimates are that the ship could have carried as many as 16 billion gremlins. Awesome, isn't it? Each person on the planet can have one or two personal gremlins of their own! I'm sure it won't work out that way, though. The 1% will probably take about 15.5 billion of them for their very own.
It sucks being part of the 99% . . .
Albert Einstein explained it already. People are insane. They keep doing the same thing, over and over, expecting new and different results. Pretty simple, isn't it?
LMAO - we've said the same thing, and I'm a troll, while you're insightful. The amusing part of it is, I'm hearing the wife in my mind: "Don't use that tone of voice with me!"
I guess you have a nicer tone than I do! ;^)
(Either that, or the Thai government has some paid shills who have mod points? Nahhhh - I'm not believing that for a moment!)
I think maybe you're uninformed. The king doesn't "allow" such crap to happen. The kind is obviously a figurehead, and a tool. I've never heard that the king accused anyone of badmouthing him. It's all the nincompoops who run the government doing it. If Kingy-Poo objects, those more powerful members of the government who enjoy using the king as their tool will set him straight.
I'd rather be a dirt-poor nobody, right here in America, than to be in Bhum-boy's position.
(Who thinks that Thailand will try to have me extradited for calling their king a Bhum-boy?)
Why fuck when you can just have a doctor impregnate your wife with a few tools?
Or, for her, why fuck when you can just donate an egg for a test tube baby?
Why attend classes if you can just send a robot to proxy for you?
Why go on vacation, when plenty of photographers are willing to sell you images and sounds of Cancun?
Why own a home, when you can just sleep in the subway, or under a bridge, and tape up some photos of nice homes instead?
Why do you bother to browse the internet, when you can get some of the internet's information second or third hand from people you meet?
Why do people climb mountains again? Why do people sail? If you seriously have to ask any of these questions, then you're a part of the population that we don't want on the moon anyway.
It's alright - he smells bad already!
You call it nonsense. I saw something else.
Most politicians are so full of shit, and so full of themselves, they can't pause a moment to share a joke. They are so busy screwing us over, they can't stop to spend some time with us. It's "Wham, bam!" and not even a "Thank you, Ma'am".
Badmouth Obama, badmouth the people who submit the "nonsense" petitions if you like. But, I saw a little bit of interaction between the administration and the population that wasn't all doom and gloom. A bit of playful nonsense is good now and then.