Warning labels... Funny how those don't have to rely on science or even basic intelligence. For example, there is a bicycle manufacturer that has added the warning to their bikes of "Not to be consumed" all because some F-N moron apparently decided to try and eat one of their bikes, and then sued the company because they didn't tell him not to. If you want to base whether or not something is safe based on the contents of a warning label, you might as well kill yourself now, you'll be a lot less freaked out.
You do realize don't you, that even the non-gmo stuff Monsanto sells is almost exclusively their own hybrids for which they already have Intellectual Property Rights. No genetic engineering needed for IP. I have no problems with genetic engineering, though I may have issues with specific uses. Monsanto on the other hand, is just as bad and self serving as any other huge multinational corporation. They all suck.
War has pretty much always been a tradeoff and tech development to kill the other guy while not getting killed myself. That's why they started using armor, and ranged weapons, and landmines, and war elephants, and oh so many other things. This is really just a new twist on an old concept, but at least this time, it's controversial before it's been developed.
Because attempts to undo that damage has to go through the government and lawyers. It's kind of like asking the guy that just ran over your cat to UN-runover your cat. They really don't want to do that.
What about Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the electronic television? No, wait, RCA employed an entire department to find ways around his patents to screw him, and the most money he got out of that invention was the $80 and a carton of cigarettes he won for stumping the panel on "I've got a secret". Yes, it's apparently true that they gave cigarettes as prizes back in the 50s.
I always figured that result had pretty much been established by the efforts of thousands of college students with their own unfunded studies over more than the last fifty years. I guess this guy just found a way to get someone else to pay for his pot.
Guys (or Girls, it doesn't matter), this isn't the thread for an Apple Fan vs Hater "discussion". Besides, to properly list the various activities involved, it would take way more space than anyone else cares to scroll through. On top of that, the Haters aren't going to become fans no matter how much you disagree, and the Fans aren't going to see past their apple colored glasses and agree with the haters. Thanks, now please get back to the task at hand of declaring microsoft evil for doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, or whatever flavor of corp bashing is in this week.
I don't know about them but I learned machine language on an HP Tester with 256 bytes (yes, I said bytes) of memory back in 1983. For those of you that don't get it, 256 bytes of memory is 2048 bits, or 0.25 k. Yes, we really did write entire programs that would fit into a pair of tweets, or less.
Anyone who passed high school science (or grade school if you're a bit older), or is literate and has access to the internet can figure out how to make bombs. Sure the more powerful ones are either unstable, or more difficult to make, but often you can make up for a weaker explosive with a greater quantity. This ain't rocket science, though it did lead to it eventually.:P
Trust us. It's real, but we can't show you. Yeah, just like the harem of gorgeous women that wait on me hand and foot. I'd love to show you, but you know how shy they can be, so you'll just have to take my word for it...
Maybe because the US, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only 3 countries in the ENTIRE WORLD that have not officially converted to metric. Oh, and if you're curious, I'm an American who's completed all my schooling exclusively in the USA, and I was only taught metric. I had to learn to use that old imperial system to interact with you stubborn old fossils clinging to an incomprehensible hodgepodge. Perhaps I should add that I graduated in 1984.
Ok, there are a lot of synthetic or constructed languages. Many people here have already pointed out Esperanto. Too bad there are significantly more people that speak Klingon than Esperanto. Esperanto is a failure.
What would it take other than being popular? Making it common, useful, or even important. Require it to be taught for school children and free classes available for adults. Then make things people want or need only available in that language. Some options include government services, others might be 2/3s of a media stations programming, get creative. Preferably, do it in many countries, especially 1st world nations, at the same time. Would people rebel against that? Oh hell yes! Just look at metrics in the US. Most people still have no freaking clue how many centimeters are in a meter (here's a hint, the metric system is based on 10s, with decimeter being between centimeter and meter) and they were teaching that thing to school kids since the 60s that I know of! Most of the world, and all of the other 1st world nations, have already officially switched to metrics, even the UK. In fact most sources are only listing 3 countries that haven't officially switched yet. To put some perspective on that, the metric system is reported to have been created in 1799... That's around TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN YEARS! And that's only a measuring system, not something even vaguely as significant and large as a language.
So yes, the only way to get a new language adopted is either find some way to make it so totally popular everyone wants to know it so bad they'd skip their own birthdays and sex to take even one class. Or to force everyone to learn and use it while giving it some modicum of popularity and usefulness.
Lol, I'm pretty sure everyone in my military career field is automatically on watch lists, so I don't worry about it happening anymore, I just assume it's already happened.:P
And of course nobody in the history of the world has ever thought about a type of deadman switch (possibly software based on a smartphone) where if it doesn't receive a "keep alive" signal at specific intervals or communications are interrupted for more than a very short period, it automatically triggers.
They have a requirement to get those papers to the target, and I'm guessing a restriction on making those papers public. So there are two really big problems with this: Posting it to facebook may make it visible to lots of people it shouldn't. Facebook is a piece of crap that often doesn't show things it should, so there is absolutely no guarantee the target will ever even see it. I guess next those morons will broadcast it on tv.
Confident or not, Apple always acts as though they can do anything they want to, up until they are actually dragged into a court. Then they "may" make some concessions, if they can't avoid it.
So you're saying that it's impossible that something this obscure wasn't a prominent part of the politicians campaign and of course all the voters had already considered such unlikely minutia, as well as that having the few choices of candidates wouldn't include rich bastards that can be bought off....
So what planet are you from? On this one it happens all the time.
I'm not saying these guys didn't goof up in some way, or if they were right, it's just that sometimes the old paradigm of how everyone believes things work is just plain wrong. I'll give one example from when I was in high school. As any programmers among the readers know, the slowest form of sort is the bubble sort. We figured out how to make it faster than all other types of sorts. We kind of freaked when our trick not only worked, but it made it the fastest. We then tested it and worked out an algorithm to keep it at it's fastest. The old paradigm that bubble sorts are the slowest sorts got destroyed, so it's always going to be possible that old accepted assumptions about how things work can be overturned, even if it requires certain specific parameters. (Of course crap code will F anything, so that's not what we're talking about.)
I wouldn't mind a return of the series, either a reboot or an effective sequel. I just don't think it'll work with the old cast. Their stories were pretty much run into the ground about 2 decades ago. Have some new blood pick up the threads and what happens when they give them a tug.
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Warning labels... Funny how those don't have to rely on science or even basic intelligence. For example, there is a bicycle manufacturer that has added the warning to their bikes of "Not to be consumed" all because some F-N moron apparently decided to try and eat one of their bikes, and then sued the company because they didn't tell him not to.
If you want to base whether or not something is safe based on the contents of a warning label, you might as well kill yourself now, you'll be a lot less freaked out.
You do realize don't you, that even the non-gmo stuff Monsanto sells is almost exclusively their own hybrids for which they already have Intellectual Property Rights. No genetic engineering needed for IP.
I have no problems with genetic engineering, though I may have issues with specific uses. Monsanto on the other hand, is just as bad and self serving as any other huge multinational corporation. They all suck.
War has pretty much always been a tradeoff and tech development to kill the other guy while not getting killed myself. That's why they started using armor, and ranged weapons, and landmines, and war elephants, and oh so many other things. This is really just a new twist on an old concept, but at least this time, it's controversial before it's been developed.
That would be great, but until there is nobody left that wants to hurt, dominate, exploit, or kill someone else, then it won't happen.
Oh, wait... NON-AMERICANS... you idiots.
or do you prefer:
Oh, wait... HUMANS... you idiots.
or
Oh, wait... MEN... you idiots.
or
Oh, wait... WOMEN... you idiots.
Try to avoid those blanket statements that insult the vast majority for transgressions done by the few.
Because attempts to undo that damage has to go through the government and lawyers.
It's kind of like asking the guy that just ran over your cat to UN-runover your cat. They really don't want to do that.
What about Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of the electronic television?
No, wait, RCA employed an entire department to find ways around his patents to screw him, and the most money he got out of that invention was the $80 and a carton of cigarettes he won for stumping the panel on "I've got a secret". Yes, it's apparently true that they gave cigarettes as prizes back in the 50s.
I always figured that result had pretty much been established by the efforts of thousands of college students with their own unfunded studies over more than the last fifty years.
I guess this guy just found a way to get someone else to pay for his pot.
Guys (or Girls, it doesn't matter), this isn't the thread for an Apple Fan vs Hater "discussion".
Besides, to properly list the various activities involved, it would take way more space than anyone else cares to scroll through.
On top of that, the Haters aren't going to become fans no matter how much you disagree, and the Fans aren't going to see past their apple colored glasses and agree with the haters.
Thanks, now please get back to the task at hand of declaring microsoft evil for doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, or whatever flavor of corp bashing is in this week.
I don't know about them but I learned machine language on an HP Tester with 256 bytes (yes, I said bytes) of memory back in 1983.
For those of you that don't get it, 256 bytes of memory is 2048 bits, or 0.25 k.
Yes, we really did write entire programs that would fit into a pair of tweets, or less.
Anyone who passed high school science (or grade school if you're a bit older), or is literate and has access to the internet can figure out how to make bombs. :P
Sure the more powerful ones are either unstable, or more difficult to make, but often you can make up for a weaker explosive with a greater quantity.
This ain't rocket science, though it did lead to it eventually.
Trust us. It's real, but we can't show you.
Yeah, just like the harem of gorgeous women that wait on me hand and foot. I'd love to show you, but you know how shy they can be, so you'll just have to take my word for it...
Maybe because the US, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only 3 countries in the ENTIRE WORLD that have not officially converted to metric.
Oh, and if you're curious, I'm an American who's completed all my schooling exclusively in the USA, and I was only taught metric.
I had to learn to use that old imperial system to interact with you stubborn old fossils clinging to an incomprehensible hodgepodge.
Perhaps I should add that I graduated in 1984.
That wasn't so much a new language, as a dialect based on massive simplification of a language.
Popular.
Ok, there are a lot of synthetic or constructed languages. Many people here have already pointed out Esperanto.
Too bad there are significantly more people that speak Klingon than Esperanto. Esperanto is a failure.
What would it take other than being popular? Making it common, useful, or even important. Require it to be taught for school children and free classes available for adults. Then make things people want or need only available in that language. Some options include government services, others might be 2/3s of a media stations programming, get creative. Preferably, do it in many countries, especially 1st world nations, at the same time.
Would people rebel against that? Oh hell yes! Just look at metrics in the US. Most people still have no freaking clue how many centimeters are in a meter (here's a hint, the metric system is based on 10s, with decimeter being between centimeter and meter) and they were teaching that thing to school kids since the 60s that I know of! Most of the world, and all of the other 1st world nations, have already officially switched to metrics, even the UK. In fact most sources are only listing 3 countries that haven't officially switched yet.
To put some perspective on that, the metric system is reported to have been created in 1799... That's around TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN YEARS! And that's only a measuring system, not something even vaguely as significant and large as a language.
So yes, the only way to get a new language adopted is either find some way to make it so totally popular everyone wants to know it so bad they'd skip their own birthdays and sex to take even one class. Or to force everyone to learn and use it while giving it some modicum of popularity and usefulness.
So anyhow, good bloody luck with that.
So I guess you'd mod everyone that has an IQ higher than 80 that actually passed high school science. :(
Lol, I'm pretty sure everyone in my military career field is automatically on watch lists, so I don't worry about it happening anymore, I just assume it's already happened. :P
And of course nobody in the history of the world has ever thought about a type of deadman switch (possibly software based on a smartphone) where if it doesn't receive a "keep alive" signal at specific intervals or communications are interrupted for more than a very short period, it automatically triggers.
They have a requirement to get those papers to the target, and I'm guessing a restriction on making those papers public.
So there are two really big problems with this:
Posting it to facebook may make it visible to lots of people it shouldn't.
Facebook is a piece of crap that often doesn't show things it should, so there is absolutely no guarantee the target will ever even see it.
I guess next those morons will broadcast it on tv.
Confident or not, Apple always acts as though they can do anything they want to, up until they are actually dragged into a court. Then they "may" make some concessions, if they can't avoid it.
So you're saying that it's impossible that something this obscure wasn't a prominent part of the politicians campaign and of course all the voters had already considered such unlikely minutia, as well as that having the few choices of candidates wouldn't include rich bastards that can be bought off....
So what planet are you from? On this one it happens all the time.
And still the #1 nutcase politician running a country that isn't North Korea is still the shirtless russian by an entire furlong.
They're smart enough to have morals and not sabotage society for their own benefit, otherwise they'd probably already be politicians.
I'm not saying these guys didn't goof up in some way, or if they were right, it's just that sometimes the old paradigm of how everyone believes things work is just plain wrong.
I'll give one example from when I was in high school. As any programmers among the readers know, the slowest form of sort is the bubble sort. We figured out how to make it faster than all other types of sorts. We kind of freaked when our trick not only worked, but it made it the fastest. We then tested it and worked out an algorithm to keep it at it's fastest.
The old paradigm that bubble sorts are the slowest sorts got destroyed, so it's always going to be possible that old accepted assumptions about how things work can be overturned, even if it requires certain specific parameters. (Of course crap code will F anything, so that's not what we're talking about.)
I wouldn't mind a return of the series, either a reboot or an effective sequel. I just don't think it'll work with the old cast. Their stories were pretty much run into the ground about 2 decades ago. Have some new blood pick up the threads and what happens when they give them a tug.