Yeah, after close to 20 years, they really should have their replacements take up the x-files. As it is, I have my doubts about Sculley being able to still be so dismissive of Mulders weirdo theories, and let's face it, at his age, Mulder just can't jump to conclusions the way he used to.
So you are an advocate for reverting society to a non-technological subsistence living then? Innovations in efficiency do cause issues for individuals on the short term scales, but do wonders for society over the long term. After all, that's why we aren't just scattered tribes of hunters & gatherers and can now use increasing amounts of our capability for other endeavors. You know, like this internet thingie that allows us to communicate like this over vast differences in location and time.:P
A lot of people were predicting this type of problem back when certs were being pushed out and proclaimed to be the solution to security. (There have been numerous other issues of fraudulent certs, but I don't think they were as large as Google.)
Or due to the lack of participation of women in programming any expectation of them to have an equal representation in projects by that field is just plain stupid. The real issue is the lack of women that are programmers, not that they don't have an equal influence on the results despite only being a small percentage. Face it, if one group is only 10% of the workforce, you can't expect them to have 50% of the credit.
As have the socio-economic pressures to excel at sports, crime, or whatever, when other opportunities for self betterment are primarily excluded by cultural and economic restrictions. You grow up poor and black in the ghetto, you are a lot more likely to go into pro-sports than get an engineering degree at Harvard simply due to expenses you can't pay and education quality that wasn't available to you.
Do you know why historically the Jews were so into banking? It's because stupid discriminatory laws of many countries in Europe used to ban them from almost all other professions. You earn a living in whatever way society will let you.
Discrimination is discrimination, though trying to apply that gender test to software is blatantly stupid. As was pointed out, there tends to be a huge gender gap between the representation of the sexes in software programming. Before you can start worrying about silly things like this, maybe people should concentrate on finding out why, and resolving the issues, as to why there are so few females in programming before you start whining about how little they impact the projects they're on.
I'd bet those countries are better off with how their poor are treated than ours are. You know, I don't even have to speculate, there have been numerous studies and statistics calculated on this subject, and the USA totally sucks ass in the rankings of 1st world nations.
If you are retired, you aren't having a good year financially in the first place. This isn't based on your highest income year on record, it's based on current income, so don't get your panties in knot.
And at a huge cost. There's no way they did that without planning on using them for something, and that something wouldn't be a vague might happen kind of thing either, but a concrete we "need" this from the higher ups.
The mitochondria doesn't come from the host of gestation, it comes from the donor of the egg, unless you do a 3 way thing, or until they find a way to cause a single cell to convert to a zygote.
Did somebody forget to test their new defs before posting?:P
To those who think it's strange that an antivirus can be detected as a virus or other malware. They have definitions of the what they seek, and yes, those look like the same thing they look for, so yes, they can easily flag on those if the programmers aren't careful. Also, to be effective, they have to use certain techniques that are done by almost no software other than various malwares and antivirus programs, so again, a false positive is easy and the programmers must take special care to avoid that. I guess somebody at Panda forgot all that and neglected to test.
Well, actually it is worse than useless, it causes harm since it deprives it's users of resources and opportunity that could otherwise be used for actual medical assistance that would help.
Homeopathy can not be shown to have a positive effect beyond that create by belief, aka the placebo effect. This has been extensively tested numerous times. Medicine that has no effect, is in fact, useless. Just like that cure for cancer in a small capsule current in orbit about Barnards Star that will self destruct in 3 minutes. It will never help anyone, thus it has no real value, and so it is utterly useless, though you are free to curse whatever bastards out there decided to tease us like that.
I've never seen any statement of what political affiliation Randi claims, so I don't know why you are saying he's a republican. The termination date of his challenges are public knowledge, so if nobody can claim it in the decades they are up, that sure as hell isn't his fault. Of the various cases of people backing out of his challenge, Randi was never the one to back down. As to things known about for centuries being true, I take you are including the sun going around the earth as it's attached to a giant crystal sphere, as well as the heart being the source of intelligence in humans, and that any illness can be cured with bleeding and prayer? Yeah.... Just because it's an old superstition or scam doesn't mean it works, even if it's clung around among the desperate and ignorant for centuries. Besides, Homeopathy was invented in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. Yes, it's been around for centuries, barely, but it still hasn't been proven to work any more than telling someone you have magic pills that will cure them. Come to think of it, that's pretty much all homeopathy does.
Yes, even The Amazing Randi lets debunking challenges expire. After all, he only has so much money he can tie up for these things at one time, and there are so many charlatans that need their teeth kicked in.
Vitamins are in food, but are drugs, look up the definition of drug, and not in the urban dictionary. FDA definitely SHOULD be allowed to regulate "nutritional supplements" but are currently prevented from doing so. All they can do right now is nail people, with great difficulty, for false advertisement, and because of that, the purveyors of such products avoid doing the necessary tests to prove their efficacy, since it might provide the proof needed to prosecute them, and the FDA is unable to require them to do so due to the red tape preventing them from regulating "nutritional supplements". That kind of stuff makes me really wonder who got paid off, and how much it was.
Placebos do NOT work on my migraines. Hell, over the counter pharmaceuticals don't either. For that matter, the other types only half assed work, except for some I'm rather scared of so my doctor won't prescribe them in the first place. (Yes, I have been asked, and said, I'd rather not, even if it was only to avoid getting mugged for my meds.)
I thought the multitude of studies done in various countries around the world, including the USA, pretty much closed the case on the homeopathy scam decades ago. I guess Australia didn't get the back issues of the scientific and medical journals or something.
Please also look up the Nocebo Effect. It's where you get sick because you think you should. It's the opposite of the placebo effect, though placebos seem to be the best cure for it, imagine that... The mind doesn't magically cure someone, but it can make you think you aren't as sick, or as healthy, as you actually are.
Actually they are. Not only are they depriving people of monetary funds that could be used for actual medical help that could improve or save their lives, but they are also being given false hope that often will prevent them or delay them from seeking actual effective medical care until it's too late. In short, they promote misery, ill health, and death to make money by basing it all on lies.
I've seen a number of people hospitalized because they O.D.ed on meds solely because they were also taking herbs in addition to real medicine. They just couldn't understand that a Large percentage of our medicines are refined versions of the active component that's in the herbs they are using, and the medicines are without the other components in herbs that have other effects, including negative ones. Additionally, the medicines are of specific quantities, while the herbs are variable dosage, so you don't even have stable doses with herbs. End result, they eventually take too much. There may have been some that died because of it, but the cause of death isn't exactly news that reaches the pharmacy.
First rule, don't take multiple treatments for anything! Doing so just undermines the them both and can result in death. Second rule, modern medicine is based on folk medicine and herbology after it's been filtered through testing and refinement. It's the difference between cutting a precise line in a board with a laser, and pounding on the board with a river stone. If you aren't clear on this yet, modern medicine is the laser, and the other stuff is the caveman method.
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Dude, I think your meds are off.
Yeah, after close to 20 years, they really should have their replacements take up the x-files. As it is, I have my doubts about Sculley being able to still be so dismissive of Mulders weirdo theories, and let's face it, at his age, Mulder just can't jump to conclusions the way he used to.
So you are an advocate for reverting society to a non-technological subsistence living then? :P
Innovations in efficiency do cause issues for individuals on the short term scales, but do wonders for society over the long term.
After all, that's why we aren't just scattered tribes of hunters & gatherers and can now use increasing amounts of our capability for other endeavors. You know, like this internet thingie that allows us to communicate like this over vast differences in location and time.
A lot of people were predicting this type of problem back when certs were being pushed out and proclaimed to be the solution to security.
(There have been numerous other issues of fraudulent certs, but I don't think they were as large as Google.)
Or due to the lack of participation of women in programming any expectation of them to have an equal representation in projects by that field is just plain stupid.
The real issue is the lack of women that are programmers, not that they don't have an equal influence on the results despite only being a small percentage.
Face it, if one group is only 10% of the workforce, you can't expect them to have 50% of the credit.
Agreed. After all, the computer doesn't care if you're an zenomorph with 5 of the 13 genders and sporting a bright plaid tan.
As have the socio-economic pressures to excel at sports, crime, or whatever, when other opportunities for self betterment are primarily excluded by cultural and economic restrictions. You grow up poor and black in the ghetto, you are a lot more likely to go into pro-sports than get an engineering degree at Harvard simply due to expenses you can't pay and education quality that wasn't available to you.
Do you know why historically the Jews were so into banking? It's because stupid discriminatory laws of many countries in Europe used to ban them from almost all other professions. You earn a living in whatever way society will let you.
Discrimination is discrimination, though trying to apply that gender test to software is blatantly stupid.
As was pointed out, there tends to be a huge gender gap between the representation of the sexes in software programming.
Before you can start worrying about silly things like this, maybe people should concentrate on finding out why, and resolving the issues, as to why there are so few females in programming before you start whining about how little they impact the projects they're on.
Is it still running?
Has the program been covered by the media until the public is utterly sick of it?
Well then, it's current news.
I'd bet those countries are better off with how their poor are treated than ours are.
You know, I don't even have to speculate, there have been numerous studies and statistics calculated on this subject, and the USA totally sucks ass in the rankings of 1st world nations.
If you are retired, you aren't having a good year financially in the first place.
This isn't based on your highest income year on record, it's based on current income, so don't get your panties in knot.
And at a huge cost. There's no way they did that without planning on using them for something, and that something wouldn't be a vague might happen kind of thing either, but a concrete we "need" this from the higher ups.
The mitochondria doesn't come from the host of gestation, it comes from the donor of the egg, unless you do a 3 way thing, or until they find a way to cause a single cell to convert to a zygote.
Did somebody forget to test their new defs before posting? :P
To those who think it's strange that an antivirus can be detected as a virus or other malware. They have definitions of the what they seek, and yes, those look like the same thing they look for, so yes, they can easily flag on those if the programmers aren't careful.
Also, to be effective, they have to use certain techniques that are done by almost no software other than various malwares and antivirus programs, so again, a false positive is easy and the programmers must take special care to avoid that.
I guess somebody at Panda forgot all that and neglected to test.
Well, actually it is worse than useless, it causes harm since it deprives it's users of resources and opportunity that could otherwise be used for actual medical assistance that would help.
Homeopathy can not be shown to have a positive effect beyond that create by belief, aka the placebo effect.
This has been extensively tested numerous times.
Medicine that has no effect, is in fact, useless. Just like that cure for cancer in a small capsule current in orbit about Barnards Star that will self destruct in 3 minutes. It will never help anyone, thus it has no real value, and so it is utterly useless, though you are free to curse whatever bastards out there decided to tease us like that.
I've never seen any statement of what political affiliation Randi claims, so I don't know why you are saying he's a republican.
The termination date of his challenges are public knowledge, so if nobody can claim it in the decades they are up, that sure as hell isn't his fault.
Of the various cases of people backing out of his challenge, Randi was never the one to back down.
As to things known about for centuries being true, I take you are including the sun going around the earth as it's attached to a giant crystal sphere, as well as the heart being the source of intelligence in humans, and that any illness can be cured with bleeding and prayer? Yeah.... Just because it's an old superstition or scam doesn't mean it works, even if it's clung around among the desperate and ignorant for centuries.
Besides, Homeopathy was invented in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann. Yes, it's been around for centuries, barely, but it still hasn't been proven to work any more than telling someone you have magic pills that will cure them. Come to think of it, that's pretty much all homeopathy does.
Yes, even The Amazing Randi lets debunking challenges expire. After all, he only has so much money he can tie up for these things at one time, and there are so many charlatans that need their teeth kicked in.
Vitamins are in food, but are drugs, look up the definition of drug, and not in the urban dictionary.
FDA definitely SHOULD be allowed to regulate "nutritional supplements" but are currently prevented from doing so. All they can do right now is nail people, with great difficulty, for false advertisement, and because of that, the purveyors of such products avoid doing the necessary tests to prove their efficacy, since it might provide the proof needed to prosecute them, and the FDA is unable to require them to do so due to the red tape preventing them from regulating "nutritional supplements".
That kind of stuff makes me really wonder who got paid off, and how much it was.
Does EM Sensitivity come to mind for anyone? :P
Placebos do NOT work on my migraines. Hell, over the counter pharmaceuticals don't either. For that matter, the other types only half assed work, except for some I'm rather scared of so my doctor won't prescribe them in the first place. (Yes, I have been asked, and said, I'd rather not, even if it was only to avoid getting mugged for my meds.)
I thought the multitude of studies done in various countries around the world, including the USA, pretty much closed the case on the homeopathy scam decades ago. I guess Australia didn't get the back issues of the scientific and medical journals or something.
Please also look up the Nocebo Effect. It's where you get sick because you think you should. It's the opposite of the placebo effect, though placebos seem to be the best cure for it, imagine that...
The mind doesn't magically cure someone, but it can make you think you aren't as sick, or as healthy, as you actually are.
Actually they are. Not only are they depriving people of monetary funds that could be used for actual medical help that could improve or save their lives, but they are also being given false hope that often will prevent them or delay them from seeking actual effective medical care until it's too late.
In short, they promote misery, ill health, and death to make money by basing it all on lies.
I've seen a number of people hospitalized because they O.D.ed on meds solely because they were also taking herbs in addition to real medicine.
They just couldn't understand that a Large percentage of our medicines are refined versions of the active component that's in the herbs they are using, and the medicines are without the other components in herbs that have other effects, including negative ones. Additionally, the medicines are of specific quantities, while the herbs are variable dosage, so you don't even have stable doses with herbs. End result, they eventually take too much. There may have been some that died because of it, but the cause of death isn't exactly news that reaches the pharmacy.
First rule, don't take multiple treatments for anything! Doing so just undermines the them both and can result in death.
Second rule, modern medicine is based on folk medicine and herbology after it's been filtered through testing and refinement. It's the difference between cutting a precise line in a board with a laser, and pounding on the board with a river stone. If you aren't clear on this yet, modern medicine is the laser, and the other stuff is the caveman method.