No, that would simulate negative Gs. In zero G, blood pressure would be equal at your head and feet, as if you were lying down. Obviously people can have sex lying down.
Given that country A has low crime and few guns, and country B has high crime and lots of guns, you come to the conclusion that guns cause crime. I assume that crime causes people to want guns, and that crime is caused by other factors.
"The problem isn't that the Government is taking away any rights you have, the problem is believing you have rights that you don't."
Our rights are derived from nature, not a document. They are standards of permissible conduct between people and the government (or each other) which create the kind of society we want to live in. They change with nature and technology.
Look at email. We have a right to secure email communication (by way of encryption, of course, where necessary). Secure communication creates the kind of society we want to live in. That right didn't exist before email existed, but I say it exists now. Judges try to apply the fourth amendment to email, but it's not the same. Email isn't a paper or effect; it's email. It's close enough, and we're lucky to have had an analogous existing right to serve as a model when email was invented. There are times when we have to identify and describe a right with no model to guide us.
If we ever evolve or invent telepathy, it may come to pass that people have a right not to have their minds read or influenced. Right now, there's no reason to evaluate how society would be effected, if we even could. Similarly, two hundred years ago nobody considered the societal implications of cameras in space. It doesn't mean that we now lack a right not to be photographed from space.
And yes, of course it's different. We wouldn't invest billions in surveillance technology if it was the same as just looking out the window. Pull up Google Earth. It is COMPLETELY different.
Technology changes the world, and it changes our rights. We can identify these changes and change our laws to respect them. We can do this because we are enlightened, free men. We govern ourselves, at least theoretically.
As an aside, I encourage anyone -- American or not -- who isn't watching the HBO series Johns Adams to do so. It shows people changing the world. Not marching with picket signs or throwing a concert for charity, but actually changing it.
Are you suggesting that the license or the licensing process is what got those people into the field of ham radio? What's so great about the license that people cherish it? If you just like getting a certificate for overcoming a challenge, I'm sure I can print something up for you. I fail to see how the FCC helped the ham radio industry flourish.
Scandinavian countries are tiny and ethnically homogeneous. The success of semi-socialism there suggests that it might also work for, say, the state of Wisconsin. And honestly, I think it might. But that carries no weight in a discussion of US national politics.
I don't really know how to get this across to non-Americans properly. We are like 50 countries, with all the implied diversity of race, religion, industry, and thought. We speak the same language, mostly, and that's about it. A Californian easily is as dissimilar from a Louisianian as a German is from a Frenchman.
When you can make the Nordic model work for the EU, you can use it as an example to show the US how to run its business. My guess is that the EU will be the same cesspool of corruption as the US federal government.
Our desire to watch movies is based on our species' longstanding use of stories to relay and maintain knowledge. Like when you run into a friend you rarely see, you have an impulse to tell stories to each other. When someone is old and likely to die and take important history and wisdom to their grave, you want them to tell you stories. If you know it's written down somewhere, there's less of an urge.
Good idea, I'll put that to use right away. See, I work for a defense contractor and we're actually building a bioweapons lab. We weren't sure how to construct the door though, so my boss told me to go check Slashdot for ideas.
That overpressure thing, pure genius. Never would have thought of that.
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Tycho has affected an entire subculture's sense of humor and manner of speaking.
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There is some serious bullshitting going on with all the numbers here. How did he collect 900,000 songs in 10 months while working 16 hour days at his law firm? Why and how does he use external firewire hard drives to store 4+ terabytes? How does he back that up to DVD every couple of days?
And, of course, if you're in a Wal-Mart home office - ISD building - distribution center - et al... and dial 911 - BOOM - you get Wal-Mart's private security? Niiice, hope it's not a real emergency, you first have to explain it to them - then if they deem it neccessary THEY will call the REAL 911!
When you use a phrase from a foreign language in order to sound cool, be sure that you know what it means. The Latin phrase "et al" means "and other people" and doesn't belong outside of a bibliography. You want "et cetera," which means "and other things."
It still won't open messages in a new window. Is it so unnatural to want to view the message index in one window and open the messages in new windows while retaining my view of the index? I mean, some of us can chew gum and walk at the same time.
A human being can't read two things at once. What's the point of opening it in a new window? With another web mail service, I open messages in a new tab because the server is so slow. Not necessary with Gmail. I use lots of tabs and windows when I browse the web, because that fits my process. Reading email is different; I read each new message one at a time. How do you do it?
No option to show full headers by default.
How many people need this crap, and how often? One less pointless option no one would use.
5% of the time, gmail says it is unavail when I try and login. A retry gets me in.
Does this mean that the next time you get banned, your friend (with the same EEPROM number) gets banned too? And wouldn't Microsoft ban you both just for having non-unique numbers?
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4. This is just ignorant. Keyboards send a message for keyup and keydown. Text editors don't handle keyboard input the same way games do.
Actually, you're just ignorant. The number of keys that can be pressed simultaneously is dependent on the design of the individual keyboard. Doesn't matter if you're in a game or Notepad.
Although Congress would have to approve new legislation to create a Skills Draft or reinstate the combat draft, Family Circle reported in its July 13 issue that Karl Rove had polled GOP members of Congress in September 2002 to see if they would support the President if he requests reinstatement. The Republicans said they would vote for the draft. They would likely support the new legislation needed to create the Skills Draft. While Bush and the Republicans are of course keeping the return of the draft and the new skills draft as quiet as possible, many anti-draft organizations have recently begun warning of a "Coming New Draft."
Note that there is a Republican majority in both houses. Also note that the draft is less distasteful than Patriot and more necessary.
No, it is realistic. Human life is not priceless. What if there was a treatment that could cure cancer, but it cost $10 billion? I suppose your non-barbaric society would make sure every cancer patient received this treatment. But that's impossible, you say; it's not economically feasible. True, such a public policy would never work.
What if someone had the $10 billion and wanted to purchase the treatment himself? Would you let him? Of course.
What if it only cost $10 million? $10,000? 50 cents? Eventually, you will find a price where you say yes, society could afford to keep that person alive. Above that price, you would let a person die simply because he didn't have enough money.
You see, it is not a question of morals or rhetoric. It is a fact of life.
Troll? No, that wasn't a troll. I actually have 3 good friends that own consoles. (They are all "cool".) One owns a PS2. One owns a PS2 and an X-box. One owns a Gamecube. The latter is gay, and I assert that this fact may not be a coincidence.
Stupid fucking mods. Read the article. They took the Nazis out of Wolfenstein 3D. Wolfenstein 3D was ABOUT Nazis. That is retarded.
Gore and sex don't make a bad game good, but taking them out can make a good game bad. The Wolfenstein example stands out, to me. If I bought that game expecting to be Blake Blastowitz (or whatever his name was) raiding Nazi castles on my quest to destroy Hitler, I would be very insulted to find he'd been transformed to some generic guy in a brown coat.
It absolutely has an effect on the public's perception of the system and the company. When I think of the X-box, I think of Halo, sports games, and generally games with an adult theme. The PS2 I associate with RPGs, sports games, and generally games with an adult theme. The Gamecube is all about Mario, Link, Pikmin... kiddy stuff. Everyone tells me how fun the games are, but my cool friends have PS2s and X-boxes. My gay friend has a Gamecube.
At least we have a civilized attitude to public health (see previous slashdot article) as opposed to the positively barbaric american system.
To say our system is wasteful is one thing. (We have a great healthcare system, it just costs way the hell too much.) But to call it barbaric is ridiculous and offensive. It is anything BUT barbaric.
I don't judge. Let the private schools turn away whoever they want. Again, NO STANDARDIZED TESTING. And who cares if they discriminate? If there are enough kids with these "special needs", somebody will create a school to serve them. If not... tough cookies.
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No, that would simulate negative Gs. In zero G, blood pressure would be equal at your head and feet, as if you were lying down. Obviously people can have sex lying down.
Given that country A has low crime and few guns, and country B has high crime and lots of guns, you come to the conclusion that guns cause crime. I assume that crime causes people to want guns, and that crime is caused by other factors.
It's not artificial. Higher code density leads to better code. They've done studies. Really.
Oh, and get a better editor. There are plenty that have language-specific settings for formatting.
Consistency is one of the primary factors in the maintainability of software. Maybe the biggest factor.
I don't know how creating software has anything to do with healing bodies or building bridges.
"The problem isn't that the Government is taking away any rights you have, the problem is believing you have rights that you don't."
Our rights are derived from nature, not a document. They are standards of permissible conduct between people and the government (or each other) which create the kind of society we want to live in. They change with nature and technology.
Look at email. We have a right to secure email communication (by way of encryption, of course, where necessary). Secure communication creates the kind of society we want to live in. That right didn't exist before email existed, but I say it exists now. Judges try to apply the fourth amendment to email, but it's not the same. Email isn't a paper or effect; it's email. It's close enough, and we're lucky to have had an analogous existing right to serve as a model when email was invented. There are times when we have to identify and describe a right with no model to guide us.
If we ever evolve or invent telepathy, it may come to pass that people have a right not to have their minds read or influenced. Right now, there's no reason to evaluate how society would be effected, if we even could. Similarly, two hundred years ago nobody considered the societal implications of cameras in space. It doesn't mean that we now lack a right not to be photographed from space.
And yes, of course it's different. We wouldn't invest billions in surveillance technology if it was the same as just looking out the window. Pull up Google Earth. It is COMPLETELY different.
Technology changes the world, and it changes our rights. We can identify these changes and change our laws to respect them. We can do this because we are enlightened, free men. We govern ourselves, at least theoretically.
As an aside, I encourage anyone -- American or not -- who isn't watching the HBO series Johns Adams to do so. It shows people changing the world. Not marching with picket signs or throwing a concert for charity, but actually changing it.
Are you suggesting that the license or the licensing process is what got those people into the field of ham radio? What's so great about the license that people cherish it? If you just like getting a certificate for overcoming a challenge, I'm sure I can print something up for you. I fail to see how the FCC helped the ham radio industry flourish.
Scandinavian countries are tiny and ethnically homogeneous. The success of semi-socialism there suggests that it might also work for, say, the state of Wisconsin. And honestly, I think it might. But that carries no weight in a discussion of US national politics.
I don't really know how to get this across to non-Americans properly. We are like 50 countries, with all the implied diversity of race, religion, industry, and thought. We speak the same language, mostly, and that's about it. A Californian easily is as dissimilar from a Louisianian as a German is from a Frenchman.
When you can make the Nordic model work for the EU, you can use it as an example to show the US how to run its business. My guess is that the EU will be the same cesspool of corruption as the US federal government.
Oh come on, no need to invoke capitalism. Does the word "kickback" have a positive or negative connotation to you? I like my advice unbiased.
Our desire to watch movies is based on our species' longstanding use of stories to relay and maintain knowledge. Like when you run into a friend you rarely see, you have an impulse to tell stories to each other. When someone is old and likely to die and take important history and wisdom to their grave, you want them to tell you stories. If you know it's written down somewhere, there's less of an urge.
Good idea, I'll put that to use right away. See, I work for a defense contractor and we're actually building a bioweapons lab. We weren't sure how to construct the door though, so my boss told me to go check Slashdot for ideas.
That overpressure thing, pure genius. Never would have thought of that.
Tycho has affected an entire subculture's sense of humor and manner of speaking.
There is some serious bullshitting going on with all the numbers here. How did he collect 900,000 songs in 10 months while working 16 hour days at his law firm? Why and how does he use external firewire hard drives to store 4+ terabytes? How does he back that up to DVD every couple of days?
What the fuck ever.
When was the last time you saw a new automobile manufacturer in the US?
Earlier this year, actually.
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And, of course, if you're in a Wal-Mart home office - ISD building - distribution center - et al... and dial 911 - BOOM - you get Wal-Mart's private security? Niiice, hope it's not a real emergency, you first have to explain it to them - then if they deem it neccessary THEY will call the REAL 911!
When you use a phrase from a foreign language in order to sound cool, be sure that you know what it means. The Latin phrase "et al" means "and other people" and doesn't belong outside of a bibliography. You want "et cetera," which means "and other things."
It still won't open messages in a new window. Is it so unnatural to want to view the message index in one window and open the messages in new windows while retaining my view of the index? I mean, some of us can chew gum and walk at the same time.
A human being can't read two things at once. What's the point of opening it in a new window? With another web mail service, I open messages in a new tab because the server is so slow. Not necessary with Gmail. I use lots of tabs and windows when I browse the web, because that fits my process. Reading email is different; I read each new message one at a time. How do you do it?
No option to show full headers by default.
How many people need this crap, and how often? One less pointless option no one would use.
5% of the time, gmail says it is unavail when I try and login. A retry gets me in.
First I've heard of that.
Does this mean that the next time you get banned, your friend (with the same EEPROM number) gets banned too? And wouldn't Microsoft ban you both just for having non-unique numbers?
Or... forward everything to Gmail.
4. This is just ignorant. Keyboards send a message for keyup and keydown. Text editors don't handle keyboard input the same way games do.
Actually, you're just ignorant. The number of keys that can be pressed simultaneously is dependent on the design of the individual keyboard. Doesn't matter if you're in a game or Notepad.
Wrong.
Although Congress would have to approve new legislation to create a Skills Draft or reinstate the combat draft, Family Circle reported in its July 13 issue that Karl Rove had polled GOP members of Congress in September 2002 to see if they would support the President if he requests reinstatement. The Republicans said they would vote for the draft. They would likely support the new legislation needed to create the Skills Draft. While Bush and the Republicans are of course keeping the return of the draft and the new skills draft as quiet as possible, many anti-draft organizations have recently begun warning of a "Coming New Draft."
Note that there is a Republican majority in both houses. Also note that the draft is less distasteful than Patriot and more necessary.
I was really hoping it was a mod involving motorcycles. Maybe I'm the only geek who rides.
No, it is realistic. Human life is not priceless. What if there was a treatment that could cure cancer, but it cost $10 billion? I suppose your non-barbaric society would make sure every cancer patient received this treatment. But that's impossible, you say; it's not economically feasible. True, such a public policy would never work.
What if someone had the $10 billion and wanted to purchase the treatment himself? Would you let him? Of course.
What if it only cost $10 million? $10,000? 50 cents? Eventually, you will find a price where you say yes, society could afford to keep that person alive. Above that price, you would let a person die simply because he didn't have enough money.
You see, it is not a question of morals or rhetoric. It is a fact of life.
Troll? No, that wasn't a troll. I actually have 3 good friends that own consoles. (They are all "cool".) One owns a PS2. One owns a PS2 and an X-box. One owns a Gamecube. The latter is gay, and I assert that this fact may not be a coincidence.
Stupid fucking mods. Read the article. They took the Nazis out of Wolfenstein 3D. Wolfenstein 3D was ABOUT Nazis. That is retarded.
Gore and sex don't make a bad game good, but taking them out can make a good game bad. The Wolfenstein example stands out, to me. If I bought that game expecting to be Blake Blastowitz (or whatever his name was) raiding Nazi castles on my quest to destroy Hitler, I would be very insulted to find he'd been transformed to some generic guy in a brown coat.
It absolutely has an effect on the public's perception of the system and the company. When I think of the X-box, I think of Halo, sports games, and generally games with an adult theme. The PS2 I associate with RPGs, sports games, and generally games with an adult theme. The Gamecube is all about Mario, Link, Pikmin... kiddy stuff. Everyone tells me how fun the games are, but my cool friends have PS2s and X-boxes. My gay friend has a Gamecube.
At least we have a civilized attitude to public health (see previous slashdot article) as opposed to the positively barbaric american system.
To say our system is wasteful is one thing. (We have a great healthcare system, it just costs way the hell too much.) But to call it barbaric is ridiculous and offensive. It is anything BUT barbaric.
I don't judge. Let the private schools turn away whoever they want. Again, NO STANDARDIZED TESTING. And who cares if they discriminate? If there are enough kids with these "special needs", somebody will create a school to serve them. If not... tough cookies.