Probably for roughly the same reasons that phone support techs think that users are "idiots" and "losers"...
Because phone support techs are the absolute smartest people in the world? What's that got to do with strippers? (I'm not a phone support tech, so I can't see the connection that may be obvious.)
I worked at Babbages in the mid-90s. The policy of employees taking products home to become familiar with them was encouraged. And really, from a standpoint of being able to inform the customer better, it was a great idea.
That's somewhat encouraged at gamestop as well, it's the reason for the employee checkout program. I think it's on paper only for used games, but obviously that's not going to stop hapless gamestop employees from playing it.
That might change though, I suspect gamestop, which is your typical company run by complete idiots, is going to ban all checkouts (new and used) by employees. I guess it can't hurt gamestop much more, more than half the people who work there don't know much of anything about games anyway.
Also, as others have pointed out in this thread, you don't even know the workers did this. They could be framed by the company...
AT&T framing it's own employees while preventing people from dialing 911, because of a union dispute. Sounds like a plot from a James Bond film. I hope that's not the case, it would be extremely depressing already, and would only get worse when they get off with a slap on the wrist.
With the except of a couple of months after 9-11, Bush was pretty much relentlessly attacked by the media, Hollywood elites and blogosphere for all eight years.
And Obama has recieved similar treatment from the conservative equivalents. We are a partisan country, and both sides do pretty much the same thing. I mean, I do think Michael Moore is nowhere near as obnoxious as Ann Coulter, but we're talking subtle shades of gray, not black and white.
First of all, if you think "hardcore conservative" is about noun use, then you're really out in the woods when it comes to politics, that's actually more of a liberal bad habit. Conservatives are the ones who don't care about being politically correct.
Second, that's no justification to be inaccurate and sound like an idiot. Calling someone amoral because they don't agree with your morals, now THAT is a conservative bad habit (one that they don't all do by the way.)
Oh, stop it already. The "they're all the same" meme is both pernicious and false.
And, more to the point, even if they were exactly the same, why would you still not want to fire Bush after his first term?!?
But having two canidates who both agree that the unnecessary war was necessary, there's not a lot of room to show your displeasure with going to a pointless war.
Bacteria are the oldest organisms on the planet", Oh Really? I guess "Archaea" are just called that for fun.
I'm certain she knows all the stuff you just mentioned, maybe she even teaches a "microbiology 101" and covers that.
Sounds like she was talking to a crowd that wouldn't know eubacteria from archaea. Kind of like if an entomologist uses "bugs" to refer to insects and arachnids. She was obviously "dumbing it down" for a specific crowd. So she's not being 100% accurate in the details that the audience won't remember, big deal. Maybe she went too far, it's debatable, but her talk sounds like it went over well with the audience and was a success. I say good job, focusing too much on trivial details is a good way to ensure ineffective communication.
Except when this group twice votes into power people who they know damn well will be shamelessly and relentlessly brutal.
Let's keep things straight, we were talking about this incident, not the elections.
As far as Bush's elections go, yes, there was more responsibility there, but keep in mind that during the first Bush victory, most voters didn't vote for him. The second they did, but Bush vs Kerry wasn't much of a choice. And even if most americans had voted for Bush, and specifically for his warmongering ways, it's still idiotic for someone to condemn us all, including those of us who have been against Bush since before he took office.
The slightly conservative leaning duo, if they had any moral integrity...
I'm very liberal, and find southpark annoying the same way I'd imagine conservatives find Jon Stewart annoying, but saying they have no moral integrity is off. They don't share your morals. That should not be taken as a sign that they have NO morals.
Just look at the average type of egotistical macho jackoff that end up the in army or marines and it explains itself. No offense to anybody that is or was in the military...
Good thing you said that bit about no offense, someone probably would have taken that first part the wrong way. Idiot. No offense though.
Take the high moral ground guys, don't play childish games like this and maybe the rest of the world might respect you.
The ones who give a crap about decorum, dignity, world respect, and well, not being jackasses on the international stage are not the ones who did this. America is just like any other large group of people: there are some idiots, there are a lot of people who know better. It's a mistake to blame the whole group for something a few individuals did. So... quit judging us for the actions of a few immature soldiers and we won't judge you for (insert country-specific national disgrace here).
I'm guessing the problem isn't that sterilizing a place is so expensive. There would be the increased cost of doing buisness in a sterile place (autoclaving absolutely everything, scrubbing and suiting up if you're entering), but the two biggest costs by far I would assume to be verifying the cleanliness and (even bigger) liability and insurance for failure to maintain sterility.
I worked at a large phamecutical plant on a microbiology team ensuring that their clean room facilities were actually clean. Extremely boring work, but the worst part was that if and when you messed up (even in a trivial way like not using fresh batteries on the fans to sample the air for bacterial growth every single time) there was a mountain of paperwork to be filled out, explaining why you failed, how you're going to ensure you don't fail again, and assesing whether or not it was going to compromise anything important. An absurd amount of red tape. The actual monitoring of the sterility was extremely easy.
So that's a gigantic cost right there. I know nothing about the liability side to it other than I'm sure there are thousands of lawyers who would salivate at the thought of a patient dying after a transplant because of an infection during the 2 week sterile cycle.
And keep in mind that hospitals charge you about 10 dollars for an asprin...
I think the breakthrough here is not that the cells themselves fit together but that the individual fields they each sense are coordinated. Like one cell type senses a field that is circle shaped, the one right next to it, if it sensed a circle, would have overlap and would cause imaging problems, instead the cell right next to it senses a crescent shape, fitting with the one next to it to avoid overlap.
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These regions fit together like pieces of a puzzle, preventing "blind spot" and excessive overlap that could blur our perception of the world.
How the cells come together is regulated but it still isn't like pixels, the junctions between the cells are not a perfect grid, there are irregularities. The cells compensate for that. I haven't read in depth but that seems to be the gist.
I'm a massive SotC fan (I've got a tattoo) but the decision to turn this into a movie is daft beyond belife.
The change "SotC" to "Watchmen" and that would have been the consensus view on slashdot a few months ago (or near consensus, as I and a few others were waiting for the actual movie to come out before we declared it terrible, and, by the way, told you so.)
Not that the two are very similar, but we haven't established ourselves as having very good movie crystal balls or knowing exactly what can be turned into a decent movie and what can't. That said, I doubt this will be good at all, considering they hired the guy who did the chun li terrible, terrible movie to do this one.
Yes, but a complete isolation environment is MUCH more expensive than a normal ICU which is MUCH more expensive than a recovery room which is MUCH more expensive than outpatient followup visits.
... but is still preferable in some cases than not getting a transplant and dying. More expensive, yes...
we can stop having unkempt slobs in dark alleys offering us x-ray eyes when in reality they are the two better z-ray eyes. No more will we be be indecisive about replacing our lungs with gills so we can more easily breathe underwater.
A few things wrong with your post
1. Where would they get the x-ray eyes 2. Same thing about human gills 3. If you REPLACE your lungs with gills, you're not going to breathe underwater BETTER, you're ONLY going to breathe underwater.
Sounds like a biological warfare weapon designer's wet dream.
It does? How is this going to allow us to make superflu easier? It sounds more like a dying patient's family's wet dream. Or maybe an alchoholic's wet dream.
I really hope this doesn't work out too soon. Shocked? Let me explain: if the prevention of transplant rejection becomes possible before organ regeneration from stem cells becomes possible then every individual becomes a potential organ donor. Think war zones and third-world children with poor families.
Potential for abuse is a really stupid reason to hope that millions of people won't get the cure they need. This is still an intense procedure, requiring you to be immunosupressed for 2-3 weeks, you're not going to fly to a shady back alley Thai doctor to do this from the black market, since you would die of an infection.
You would think after so many complications from transplants, they would stop pursuing that direction... Adult stem cell research seems to be the best approach to me... Not that doctors understand any of this process, but why they continue to invest so much money in transplant research is baffling.
What's baffling to me is that people advocate abandoning everything other than adult stem cells when no technology currently is capable of delivering what we want. Until adult stem cells actually do all the things we want them to and reveal themselves to be completely perfect, it would be foolish to give up on everything else. From my perspective, adult stem cells are less impressive than induced pluripotent stem cells. Adult stem cells produce fewer tumors, but getting them to make the cell type you want is also tougher.
All stem cell technologies still face some of the same barriers, as far as I know we still have yet to be able to generate a pure culture of one cell type. You don't want to be using a stem cell, adult, embryonic, or IPS, to repair your damaged spinal cord unless you can be sure you're going to get only neurons and glial cells from it. As such, we can enrich for certain types, but you'll still get, say, fat cells, or muscle cells in the mix. And undifferentiated cells, which make tumors.
I'm -fairly- certain that goes for adult stem cells as well as embryonic stem cells, not 100% sure.
Once we figure out how to make all the cells in a dish turn from proliferating cells into a single type, then we can begin using stem cells for what we want, but at the same time, that will solve the problems you mentioned with embryonic stem cells.
So the reason we're still researching things other than adult stem cells is that they aren't the panacea we need yet. On top of that, most people are doubtful that adult stem cells will completely pan out as able to generate all cell types, as ESC and IPS can.
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he actually explains his point quite well in the second sentence of his post (:
I'm not a phone tech support staffer so I can't read that far you insensitive clod!
Actually I did notice that, but there was a joke which wouldn't have worked if I didn't ignore the second part. It was clear I was joking, right?
Probably for roughly the same reasons that phone support techs think that users are "idiots" and "losers"...
Because phone support techs are the absolute smartest people in the world? What's that got to do with strippers? (I'm not a phone support tech, so I can't see the connection that may be obvious.)
I worked at Babbages in the mid-90s. The policy of employees taking products home to become familiar with them was encouraged. And really, from a standpoint of being able to inform the customer better, it was a great idea.
That's somewhat encouraged at gamestop as well, it's the reason for the employee checkout program. I think it's on paper only for used games, but obviously that's not going to stop hapless gamestop employees from playing it.
That might change though, I suspect gamestop, which is your typical company run by complete idiots, is going to ban all checkouts (new and used) by employees. I guess it can't hurt gamestop much more, more than half the people who work there don't know much of anything about games anyway.
Hey man, I read the whole one line post I was responding to. If that's not enough to comment on something, I don't even know where /. is headed.
Seriously: I do feel dumb about that now, sorry to all of you who were confused there.
Also, as others have pointed out in this thread, you don't even know the workers did this. They could be framed by the company...
AT&T framing it's own employees while preventing people from dialing 911, because of a union dispute. Sounds like a plot from a James Bond film. I hope that's not the case, it would be extremely depressing already, and would only get worse when they get off with a slap on the wrist.
Could be someone trying to steal the fiber cables so they could sell the copper.
No no no! They're trying to steal the glass for recycling!
It's obvious that suction wouldn't work in space, but why would magnetic stickers fail?
Who said they would fail? An additional way to stick one thing to another is still going to be useful.
With the except of a couple of months after 9-11, Bush was pretty much relentlessly attacked by the media, Hollywood elites and blogosphere for all eight years.
And Obama has recieved similar treatment from the conservative equivalents. We are a partisan country, and both sides do pretty much the same thing. I mean, I do think Michael Moore is nowhere near as obnoxious as Ann Coulter, but we're talking subtle shades of gray, not black and white.
First of all, if you think "hardcore conservative" is about noun use, then you're really out in the woods when it comes to politics, that's actually more of a liberal bad habit. Conservatives are the ones who don't care about being politically correct.
Second, that's no justification to be inaccurate and sound like an idiot. Calling someone amoral because they don't agree with your morals, now THAT is a conservative bad habit (one that they don't all do by the way.)
Oh, stop it already. The "they're all the same" meme is both pernicious and false.
And, more to the point, even if they were exactly the same, why would you still not want to fire Bush after his first term?!?
But having two canidates who both agree that the unnecessary war was necessary, there's not a lot of room to show your displeasure with going to a pointless war.
Bacteria are the oldest organisms on the planet", Oh Really? I guess "Archaea" are just called that for fun.
I'm certain she knows all the stuff you just mentioned, maybe she even teaches a "microbiology 101" and covers that.
Sounds like she was talking to a crowd that wouldn't know eubacteria from archaea. Kind of like if an entomologist uses "bugs" to refer to insects and arachnids. She was obviously "dumbing it down" for a specific crowd. So she's not being 100% accurate in the details that the audience won't remember, big deal. Maybe she went too far, it's debatable, but her talk sounds like it went over well with the audience and was a success. I say good job, focusing too much on trivial details is a good way to ensure ineffective communication.
Except when this group twice votes into power people who they know damn well will be shamelessly and relentlessly brutal.
Let's keep things straight, we were talking about this incident, not the elections.
As far as Bush's elections go, yes, there was more responsibility there, but keep in mind that during the first Bush victory, most voters didn't vote for him. The second they did, but Bush vs Kerry wasn't much of a choice. And even if most americans had voted for Bush, and specifically for his warmongering ways, it's still idiotic for someone to condemn us all, including those of us who have been against Bush since before he took office.
Or "Baseketball," which was a much worse, though less Saddam-relevant, movie.
I think most people don't know just how bad Saddam was...
He also tried to invade Canada. And not only was he in a relationship with the DEVIL, but he was abusive to the devil as well.
The slightly conservative leaning duo, if they had any moral integrity...
I'm very liberal, and find southpark annoying the same way I'd imagine conservatives find Jon Stewart annoying, but saying they have no moral integrity is off. They don't share your morals. That should not be taken as a sign that they have NO morals.
Just look at the average type of egotistical macho jackoff that end up the in army or marines and it explains itself.
No offense to anybody that is or was in the military...
Good thing you said that bit about no offense, someone probably would have taken that first part the wrong way. Idiot. No offense though.
Take the high moral ground guys, don't play childish games like this and maybe the rest of the world might respect you.
The ones who give a crap about decorum, dignity, world respect, and well, not being jackasses on the international stage are not the ones who did this. America is just like any other large group of people: there are some idiots, there are a lot of people who know better. It's a mistake to blame the whole group for something a few individuals did. So... quit judging us for the actions of a few immature soldiers and we won't judge you for (insert country-specific national disgrace here).
I'm guessing the problem isn't that sterilizing a place is so expensive. There would be the increased cost of doing buisness in a sterile place (autoclaving absolutely everything, scrubbing and suiting up if you're entering), but the two biggest costs by far I would assume to be verifying the cleanliness and (even bigger) liability and insurance for failure to maintain sterility.
I worked at a large phamecutical plant on a microbiology team ensuring that their clean room facilities were actually clean. Extremely boring work, but the worst part was that if and when you messed up (even in a trivial way like not using fresh batteries on the fans to sample the air for bacterial growth every single time) there was a mountain of paperwork to be filled out, explaining why you failed, how you're going to ensure you don't fail again, and assesing whether or not it was going to compromise anything important. An absurd amount of red tape. The actual monitoring of the sterility was extremely easy.
So that's a gigantic cost right there. I know nothing about the liability side to it other than I'm sure there are thousands of lawyers who would salivate at the thought of a patient dying after a transplant because of an infection during the 2 week sterile cycle.
And keep in mind that hospitals charge you about 10 dollars for an asprin...
I think the breakthrough here is not that the cells themselves fit together but that the individual fields they each sense are coordinated. Like one cell type senses a field that is circle shaped, the one right next to it, if it sensed a circle, would have overlap and would cause imaging problems, instead the cell right next to it senses a crescent shape, fitting with the one next to it to avoid overlap.
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These regions fit together like pieces of a puzzle, preventing "blind spot" and excessive overlap that could blur our perception of the world.
How the cells come together is regulated but it still isn't like pixels, the junctions between the cells are not a perfect grid, there are irregularities. The cells compensate for that. I haven't read in depth but that seems to be the gist.
I'm a massive SotC fan (I've got a tattoo) but the decision to turn this into a movie is daft beyond belife.
The change "SotC" to "Watchmen" and that would have been the consensus view on slashdot a few months ago (or near consensus, as I and a few others were waiting for the actual movie to come out before we declared it terrible, and, by the way, told you so.)
Not that the two are very similar, but we haven't established ourselves as having very good movie crystal balls or knowing exactly what can be turned into a decent movie and what can't. That said, I doubt this will be good at all, considering they hired the guy who did the chun li terrible, terrible movie to do this one.
Yes, but a complete isolation environment is MUCH more expensive than a normal ICU which is MUCH more expensive than a recovery room which is MUCH more expensive than outpatient followup visits.
... but is still preferable in some cases than not getting a transplant and dying. More expensive, yes...
we can stop having unkempt slobs in dark alleys offering us x-ray eyes when in reality they are the two better z-ray eyes. No more will we be be indecisive about replacing our lungs with gills so we can more easily breathe underwater.
A few things wrong with your post
1. Where would they get the x-ray eyes
2. Same thing about human gills
3. If you REPLACE your lungs with gills, you're not going to breathe underwater BETTER, you're ONLY going to breathe underwater.
Sounds like a biological warfare weapon designer's wet dream.
It does? How is this going to allow us to make superflu easier? It sounds more like a dying patient's family's wet dream. Or maybe an alchoholic's wet dream.
I really hope this doesn't work out too soon. Shocked? Let me explain: if the prevention of transplant rejection becomes possible before organ regeneration from stem cells becomes possible then every individual becomes a potential organ donor. Think war zones and third-world children with poor families.
Potential for abuse is a really stupid reason to hope that millions of people won't get the cure they need. This is still an intense procedure, requiring you to be immunosupressed for 2-3 weeks, you're not going to fly to a shady back alley Thai doctor to do this from the black market, since you would die of an infection.
You would think after so many complications from transplants, they would stop pursuing that direction... Adult stem cell research seems to be the best approach to me... Not that doctors understand any of this process, but why they continue to invest so much money in transplant research is baffling.
What's baffling to me is that people advocate abandoning everything other than adult stem cells when no technology currently is capable of delivering what we want. Until adult stem cells actually do all the things we want them to and reveal themselves to be completely perfect, it would be foolish to give up on everything else. From my perspective, adult stem cells are less impressive than induced pluripotent stem cells. Adult stem cells produce fewer tumors, but getting them to make the cell type you want is also tougher.
All stem cell technologies still face some of the same barriers, as far as I know we still have yet to be able to generate a pure culture of one cell type. You don't want to be using a stem cell, adult, embryonic, or IPS, to repair your damaged spinal cord unless you can be sure you're going to get only neurons and glial cells from it. As such, we can enrich for certain types, but you'll still get, say, fat cells, or muscle cells in the mix. And undifferentiated cells, which make tumors.
I'm -fairly- certain that goes for adult stem cells as well as embryonic stem cells, not 100% sure.
Once we figure out how to make all the cells in a dish turn from proliferating cells into a single type, then we can begin using stem cells for what we want, but at the same time, that will solve the problems you mentioned with embryonic stem cells.
So the reason we're still researching things other than adult stem cells is that they aren't the panacea we need yet. On top of that, most people are doubtful that adult stem cells will completely pan out as able to generate all cell types, as ESC and IPS can.