Ah, TWO fictional stories. Well then it's pretty much a dead certainty.
Wait a minute... terminator and matrix... my god, I need to stop typing and destroy my computer RIGHT NOW!
By unfortunate genetic lottery, we have people suited to manual labor, manufacturing and other undesirable jobs. In addition, we dehumanize people if they're "designed." Think about the problems we have when clothing/electronics/houses go out of style. Now think about your kids. Do you want them to "go out of style?" We'll only further objectify people.
"go out of style?" Exactly how? Because if we start designing our kids to have floral print skin, that would be one thing, but not having cystic fibrosis probably isn't going to go out of style ever, and I think people are going to tend to leave superficial features alone, focusing more on diseases. And maybe height, weight, and intelligence, but those also probably aren't going to go "out of style."
Dehumanizing sounds convincing until you realize people already do that to ugly people.
Uhhhh, you just need to copy a file to your flashcard and run it. That's it. You lose all geek cred if you have to "try" at it. That is unless you're installing Gentoo, in which case you get bonus points.
I obviously have never actually tried to do anything of the sort. I did however spend 14 hours in lab yesterday, so I think I have plenty of geek cred. Maybe not linux geek cred though.
I am sure we had a story like this the other week. I am pretty sure we have it every couple of weeks.
Yeah, but the last article I remember was $500. So this is new news because they're spending $300 more and not promising to run crysis. In the summary anyway. Oh, it's overclocked too.
I mean, scientologists are a bunch of loons, but take a look at the first set of Google search entries when you look up "catholic priests"
This goes both ways, but you do have to be careful when judging a group by only the most extreme cases. For instance, using this method, you might conclude that all/.ers were anti-microsoft linux fanboys who were very fond of pictures of people's anuses.
Haven't people realized by now that ADHD is nothing more than a symptom of our education system and not a syndrome in and of itself?
I can tell you I have ADD. Whether that last D should be "disorder" or something more along the lines of "that may be normal but I still don't like" is up to people who care more about semantics than I do. It may be within normal variation, but I still don't like being able to focus less than my colleagues. I don't care what constitutes a disorder, if taking adderol when I need to focus is corrective or elective, it still helps.
It's also worth pointing out that I'm not talking about sitting through high school lectures, not that high school lectures are unimportant.
Let Japan acknowledge their prejudicial practices, and pass laws similar to our own Affirmative Action. Any company that fails to employ Bakunin pays penalties. A company that employs Bakunin, but prevents them from entering management ranks pays penalties. There is a problem, which is tacitly approved by the government. The government needs to make it clear that the conduct is unacceptable, and will be penalized.
I would guess that the govermnet isn't really serious about the problem, but the society over there is so homogenous, that government holding one minority forth and saying they're equal and need to be treated with respect would only make them stand out more, which would of course be counterproductive. The only way these people are going to be treated as the equals that they are is if either no one cares about it, which is unlikely, or if no one knows about it, which is entirely doable with simple steps.
Affirmative action style laws, I don't know if they work over here, but there's NO way they would work in this situation. Again, these people don't want to stand out. While that might sound wrong, I can't fault someone for wanting to erase past artificial distinctions rather than fighting for their rights.
On a more practical level, a company which complies with the spirit of the law won't investigate whether someone is of burakumin descent or not and that's the only way they'd know. If they didn't employ any burakumin, their logical response would be "we had no idea, we didn't hire any because we have no way of knowing who was a burakumin." And the chances that they would hire one WITHOUT doing the illegal investigations seem pretty low. As of 1999, there were about 2 million of them in a total population of 126 million. And many burakumin are concentrated in specific areas, so the chances of hiring one or promoting one at random are probably less than 1.5%, right? (I'm bad at basic math often.) So that wouldn't work.
Second, you're a fool to conflate discrimination in the US with that of Japan. I've lived in both countries, and the racism in Japan is orders of magnitude more insidious than in the US.
I know! I wanted to date this japanese girl and she said "no, you're creepy and I'm married" but we both knew it was just because I'm a gaijin. That bitch, I'm glad I threw up on her first!
The Japanese have a problem with discrimination, not Google, not the web, and not the United States. Let Japan solve the problem, don't make it a Google problem, a web problem, or a United States problem.
How should Japan solve it? It's already illegal, but the only good that does is that when a company turns you down for employment, they won't say "It's because you're brakumin."
Since it's not anything obvious, the only way this discrimination can continue is if the knowledge of who and who isn't is out there. Google earth is apperantly providing an easy way of figuring that out. It's like if some foreign country were to provide a searcheable index of gay people in the US, and employers were using it to screen homosexuals. Would "It's america's problem, let america fix it" satisfy anyone that was affected by it?
It's worth pointing out though that google earth isn't the only way of figuring that out, the Koseki, the national family registry, is a much more definitive way of figuring that out. The wiki page tells me they've finally started taking some steps to limit access to that but I think it's safe to assume that hasn't completely stopped it.
There are big problems aside from google earth, but saying "not our problem" doesn't mean google should do it. This is the company that tries not to be evil, right?
Just because I buy a Ford at a used car dealership over an indistinguishable GM (because I like then better) doesn't mean the dealership should get blamed.
Not really a similar situation. It's more like if google was providing a searcheable database for whether a person you might be considering employing was gay or not (although if they did that it would clearly be to discriminate against homosexuals, wheras I'm pretty sure google doesn't hate brakumin.)
I wonder if some of the lab students fall into the trap of thinking that they knew enough, and not realizing that their earlier practices were put in place not to protect them as novices, but to protect them at all times.
I don't know if it's overconfidence so much as getting lazy. I worked in a lab that was classified biohazard level 2 (I think) when I was a lab noob. Always wore gloves for one thing. I'm somewhat less of a noob now in a different lab. When I first started in my current lab, I would wear gloves for everything, even, say, when cutting chicken embryos out of their eggs. Clearly nothing in that which is going to hurt me.
Now I've probably swung too far the other direction. I've caught myself doing stupid things like not putting gloves on when carrying a test tube full of toxins because I would have had to walk 10 feet to the gloves and was in a hurry. I guess there was a little "I probably didn't get any outside the test tube" but it was mostly just laziness and bad habits. And I think that's probably where most of the dangers in academic labs come from.
Experienced researchers are often just as cavalier about dangers as anyone else in my experience, I think because a close call with lab safety, in some labs anyway, is much less dramatic than with a pilot. If you almost spill something bad on yourself, you might know it's something you want to avoid, but that's kind of academic. "Oh, a carcinogen almost landed on me, that would have been bad." You might laugh about it with your labmates next week, hopefully tell yourself you won't do that particular mistake again.
If you almost crash a helicopter on the other hand, you probably nearly wet your pants, and the reaction isn't "Oh, that would have been bad," it's more "OHMIGOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M STILL ALIVE!" A much more viceral experience that probably causes you to be more careful with -everything- rather than just that one mistake. At least, I would guess that's the case.
At one time, this thing was the most critical machine in the entire world. Should that alone be cause to save it?
Economic forces are going to decide it's fate, if the government doesn't spend enough money, if the property value is high enough, blah blah blah. Personally I don't think that's the best way to decide what stays and what goes.
What would replace it? If it's something worthwhile or absolutely necessary, then sure. If it's going to be a fucking McDonald's, then it shouldn't, there are enough of those.
If no one wants to donate money to it and it completely crumbles, then sure, build something there. But there are obviously people who want it to stay, and I think something like this will be of more long-term benefit than a strip mall. Tangible history is to me always better than retail.
Fine, change the system. Make it such that we can have more than two parties. I'd really like that. Too hard? Fine, give up on it, but don't act like a 3rd party canidate isn't just splitting the vote, because they do, and wishing it wasn't so isn't going to do anything. And don't act like the 2 party system is what's wrong here anyway, that's just absurd.
But that's beside the point, I said nothing about political options originally. Critique me about my inability to forgive for something that happened almost a decade ago, don't put words in my mouth.
Yeah that works. But the money you are saving on the card(s) will be more than eaten up by the need to a crossfire compatible board (i.e. one with 2+ PCI x16 slots). Mobos with only a single slot are less than half the price.
Also, uh, wouldn't two cheap memory cards for $100 be about the same as one of the "midrange" $200 memory cards in both performance AND cost?
$100 x2 = $200?
I don't know a whole lot about hardware, so maybe multiplication doesn't work the same inside a computer...
As always, it scares me a little when my joke posts get modded "insighful/interesting/informative" and when my insighful/interesting/informative posts get modded "funny."
Ralph Nader will find a way not only to fail at getting DRM out of cars, but it will somehow result in more DRM everywhere else. Florida will be involved in some way.
Yeah, I'm still somewhat bitter at Ralph Nader, why do you ask?
Why not just pass a law against kids being idiots? Solve a lot more problems that way, and has about the same chances of doing anything as these censorship measures do.
We'd complain if the mainstream media had a headline like "New Nuclear Power Plant Will Mutate Your Children?" and the article says "No, no it won't" wouldn't we? How is this any different.
For one thing: this isn't talking about nuclear power plants at all!
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There's also the world of... Brave New World.
Ah, TWO fictional stories. Well then it's pretty much a dead certainty.
Wait a minute... terminator and matrix... my god, I need to stop typing and destroy my computer RIGHT NOW!
By unfortunate genetic lottery, we have people suited to manual labor, manufacturing and other undesirable jobs. In addition, we dehumanize people if they're "designed." Think about the problems we have when clothing/electronics/houses go out of style. Now think about your kids. Do you want them to "go out of style?" We'll only further objectify people.
"go out of style?" Exactly how? Because if we start designing our kids to have floral print skin, that would be one thing, but not having cystic fibrosis probably isn't going to go out of style ever, and I think people are going to tend to leave superficial features alone, focusing more on diseases. And maybe height, weight, and intelligence, but those also probably aren't going to go "out of style."
Dehumanizing sounds convincing until you realize people already do that to ugly people.
With specs like that, I'm curious as to what their target demographic is?
Bill Gates' wife. Although I guess they decided not to make it into a phone... yet...
Uhhhh, you just need to copy a file to your flashcard and run it. That's it. You lose all geek cred if you have to "try" at it. That is unless you're installing Gentoo, in which case you get bonus points.
I obviously have never actually tried to do anything of the sort. I did however spend 14 hours in lab yesterday, so I think I have plenty of geek cred. Maybe not linux geek cred though.
But here on /., fiddling with computers is supposed to be your hobby! And sex life!
Gonna go cry now and comfort myself by trying to install linux on my nintendo DS...
I am sure we had a story like this the other week. I am pretty sure we have it every couple of weeks.
Yeah, but the last article I remember was $500. So this is new news because they're spending $300 more and not promising to run crysis. In the summary anyway. Oh, it's overclocked too.
I mean, scientologists are a bunch of loons, but take a look at the first set of Google search entries when you look up "catholic priests"
This goes both ways, but you do have to be careful when judging a group by only the most extreme cases. For instance, using this method, you might conclude that all /.ers were anti-microsoft linux fanboys who were very fond of pictures of people's anuses.
It's pretty clear that he considered it a joke at the beginning, and then he went bat-shit insane.
Note to self: never make another joke.
There's many things terribly odd about all religion/philosophy.
Fixed that for you.
The world is full of people who don't take their professed religions seriously.
On behalf of agnostics worldwide, I -might- be offended by that statement.
Haven't people realized by now that ADHD is nothing more than a symptom of our education system and not a syndrome in and of itself?
I can tell you I have ADD. Whether that last D should be "disorder" or something more along the lines of "that may be normal but I still don't like" is up to people who care more about semantics than I do. It may be within normal variation, but I still don't like being able to focus less than my colleagues. I don't care what constitutes a disorder, if taking adderol when I need to focus is corrective or elective, it still helps.
It's also worth pointing out that I'm not talking about sitting through high school lectures, not that high school lectures are unimportant.
Send it with my bailout check soon please.
Let Japan acknowledge their prejudicial practices, and pass laws similar to our own Affirmative Action. Any company that fails to employ Bakunin pays penalties. A company that employs Bakunin, but prevents them from entering management ranks pays penalties. There is a problem, which is tacitly approved by the government. The government needs to make it clear that the conduct is unacceptable, and will be penalized.
I would guess that the govermnet isn't really serious about the problem, but the society over there is so homogenous, that government holding one minority forth and saying they're equal and need to be treated with respect would only make them stand out more, which would of course be counterproductive. The only way these people are going to be treated as the equals that they are is if either no one cares about it, which is unlikely, or if no one knows about it, which is entirely doable with simple steps.
Affirmative action style laws, I don't know if they work over here, but there's NO way they would work in this situation. Again, these people don't want to stand out. While that might sound wrong, I can't fault someone for wanting to erase past artificial distinctions rather than fighting for their rights.
On a more practical level, a company which complies with the spirit of the law won't investigate whether someone is of burakumin descent or not and that's the only way they'd know. If they didn't employ any burakumin, their logical response would be "we had no idea, we didn't hire any because we have no way of knowing who was a burakumin." And the chances that they would hire one WITHOUT doing the illegal investigations seem pretty low. As of 1999, there were about 2 million of them in a total population of 126 million. And many burakumin are concentrated in specific areas, so the chances of hiring one or promoting one at random are probably less than 1.5%, right? (I'm bad at basic math often.) So that wouldn't work.
Second, you're a fool to conflate discrimination in the US with that of Japan. I've lived in both countries, and the racism in Japan is orders of magnitude more insidious than in the US.
I know! I wanted to date this japanese girl and she said "no, you're creepy and I'm married" but we both knew it was just because I'm a gaijin. That bitch, I'm glad I threw up on her first!
The Japanese have a problem with discrimination, not Google, not the web, and not the United States. Let Japan solve the problem, don't make it a Google problem, a web problem, or a United States problem.
How should Japan solve it? It's already illegal, but the only good that does is that when a company turns you down for employment, they won't say "It's because you're brakumin."
Since it's not anything obvious, the only way this discrimination can continue is if the knowledge of who and who isn't is out there. Google earth is apperantly providing an easy way of figuring that out. It's like if some foreign country were to provide a searcheable index of gay people in the US, and employers were using it to screen homosexuals. Would "It's america's problem, let america fix it" satisfy anyone that was affected by it?
It's worth pointing out though that google earth isn't the only way of figuring that out, the Koseki, the national family registry, is a much more definitive way of figuring that out. The wiki page tells me they've finally started taking some steps to limit access to that but I think it's safe to assume that hasn't completely stopped it.
There are big problems aside from google earth, but saying "not our problem" doesn't mean google should do it. This is the company that tries not to be evil, right?
Just because I buy a Ford at a used car dealership over an indistinguishable GM (because I like then better) doesn't mean the dealership should get blamed.
Not really a similar situation. It's more like if google was providing a searcheable database for whether a person you might be considering employing was gay or not (although if they did that it would clearly be to discriminate against homosexuals, wheras I'm pretty sure google doesn't hate brakumin.)
Mythbusters!
Example:
Myth: Grad student's don't need to wear gloves when handling aflatoxin because the gloves are worth more than grad students.
Test: We dropped pure aflatoxin on Tory's hands, and figure out how much a grad student is worth compared to a box of gloves.
Outcome: Tory has horrible tumors growing on his hands, but the box of gloves is calculated to be worth more than the grad student.
Myth: confirmed!
I wonder if some of the lab students fall into the trap of thinking that they knew enough, and not realizing that their earlier practices were put in place not to protect them as novices, but to protect them at all times.
I don't know if it's overconfidence so much as getting lazy. I worked in a lab that was classified biohazard level 2 (I think) when I was a lab noob. Always wore gloves for one thing. I'm somewhat less of a noob now in a different lab. When I first started in my current lab, I would wear gloves for everything, even, say, when cutting chicken embryos out of their eggs. Clearly nothing in that which is going to hurt me.
Now I've probably swung too far the other direction. I've caught myself doing stupid things like not putting gloves on when carrying a test tube full of toxins because I would have had to walk 10 feet to the gloves and was in a hurry. I guess there was a little "I probably didn't get any outside the test tube" but it was mostly just laziness and bad habits. And I think that's probably where most of the dangers in academic labs come from.
Experienced researchers are often just as cavalier about dangers as anyone else in my experience, I think because a close call with lab safety, in some labs anyway, is much less dramatic than with a pilot. If you almost spill something bad on yourself, you might know it's something you want to avoid, but that's kind of academic. "Oh, a carcinogen almost landed on me, that would have been bad." You might laugh about it with your labmates next week, hopefully tell yourself you won't do that particular mistake again.
If you almost crash a helicopter on the other hand, you probably nearly wet your pants, and the reaction isn't "Oh, that would have been bad," it's more "OHMIGOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M STILL ALIVE!" A much more viceral experience that probably causes you to be more careful with -everything- rather than just that one mistake. At least, I would guess that's the case.
At one time, this thing was the most critical machine in the entire world. Should that alone be cause to save it?
Economic forces are going to decide it's fate, if the government doesn't spend enough money, if the property value is high enough, blah blah blah. Personally I don't think that's the best way to decide what stays and what goes.
What would replace it? If it's something worthwhile or absolutely necessary, then sure. If it's going to be a fucking McDonald's, then it shouldn't, there are enough of those.
If no one wants to donate money to it and it completely crumbles, then sure, build something there. But there are obviously people who want it to stay, and I think something like this will be of more long-term benefit than a strip mall. Tangible history is to me always better than retail.
Fine, change the system. Make it such that we can have more than two parties. I'd really like that. Too hard? Fine, give up on it, but don't act like a 3rd party canidate isn't just splitting the vote, because they do, and wishing it wasn't so isn't going to do anything. And don't act like the 2 party system is what's wrong here anyway, that's just absurd.
But that's beside the point, I said nothing about political options originally. Critique me about my inability to forgive for something that happened almost a decade ago, don't put words in my mouth.
Yeah that works. But the money you are saving on the card(s) will be more than eaten up by the need to a crossfire compatible board (i.e. one with 2+ PCI x16 slots). Mobos with only a single slot are less than half the price.
Also, uh, wouldn't two cheap memory cards for $100 be about the same as one of the "midrange" $200 memory cards in both performance AND cost?
$100 x2 = $200?
I don't know a whole lot about hardware, so maybe multiplication doesn't work the same inside a computer...
Don't blame Nader, blame your lousy voting system that discourages a third party from forming.
I do, but the guys who came up with that are all dead. Nader isn't. Yet.
As always, it scares me a little when my joke posts get modded "insighful/interesting/informative" and when my insighful/interesting/informative posts get modded "funny."
Ralph Nader will find a way not only to fail at getting DRM out of cars, but it will somehow result in more DRM everywhere else. Florida will be involved in some way.
Yeah, I'm still somewhat bitter at Ralph Nader, why do you ask?
Why not just pass a law against kids being idiots? Solve a lot more problems that way, and has about the same chances of doing anything as these censorship measures do.
We'd complain if the mainstream media had a headline like "New Nuclear Power Plant Will Mutate Your Children?" and the article says "No, no it won't" wouldn't we? How is this any different.
For one thing: this isn't talking about nuclear power plants at all!