...the world can produce a lot more food than we do, and with minimal changes, it could be greatly increased.
Patently absurd, unless your definition if minimal change mean "whatever change is needed bar the consequences." The US, Europe, and Middle East were practically deforested over the last 2000 years. Thousand of species have forced to extinction. The Great Plains of the US are now a great desert. Stalin did pretty much the same thing in Russia. The great reefs of the world are on a decline and probably unrecoverable. And, what, climate change/global warming doesn't exist either? Our footprint is on the planet in a big way, and it will only get worse.
Last time I heard VMS had never been hacked. Is that still the case?
It was the best OS I ever worked with. It'd be nice if they open sourced it.
When I was at Argonne Labs in the 80's, there was a rumor of someone sending out fake update/patch tapes made to look like they shipped from DEC. I'm not sure if anyone fell for it, or even if they did, what the "hackers" could get. Only universities were on the DECNET at that time.
OS X has THE worst multi-monitor support in the industry. Without question. I actually broke down and sold my secondary display because it is next to worthless on a Mac. I like to run XCode in full-screen mode (more real estate for dual pane mode). The second monitor is literally just a gray colored paper weight in this mode. Do I really need to use my air-play compatible device as a second display? Not at all. It will still be useless to me.
This comment is a joke, right? I've had dual monitors on Macs since before OSX even existed, and support has always been above par, including now. The only problem I have is that sometimes an application does not understand that there is a second monitor, which is what you are experiencing. Some games do that for me. So how is that the OSs fault, exactly?
Please stop talking like your desktop defines IT. 10 Gb ethernet has been around for years for Sun/Oracle servers, IBM servers, Cisco switches, storage arrays, etc. Hell, I could even get 10Gb for my Mac. It hadn't made it into the PC world yet due to office wiring to the desk still being Cat 5. It's hard enough to get 1 Gb connections for the general user.
Stop the luddite love. Of course voting machines can be made more efficient and more secure with modern technology. It's just that the people implementing them are criminals and the politicians buying them are corrupt. Take away the profit angle, add accountability with real consequences, with a oversight board with integrity, and we could have that great new system. As long as it is a money grab, we will continue to get crap.
Just because they name drop does mean they are great coders, only that they are great at self promotion. Who's to say that some silent but really competent coder wasn't responsible for the code they take credit for? I think what you saw was not "great coders can't work together," but instead, "great projects have many unsung heroes."
Do you understand that banker are creditors, who benefit from a strong currency? So if their unenlightened self interest is the opposite of what they are doing, why are they doing it? Maybe because they (along with 99% of all economists) believe that we all benefit from expansionary monetary policy during recessions?
Banks are international. They play one country's currency against another, and there is no reason to keep the US dollar level with the other currencies. One day they may decide to "cash in" the US, and you will see run away inflation, like they have done to many other countries in the past. The dollar is not the world.
Science is a method not an outcome and as such is amoral. "We must reduce carbon emissions in order to reverse global warming", is not a scientific statement.
Yeah, just like "I have to eat to stay alive" is not science.
Then maybe, just maybe, we ought to be working on helping the irrational rather than banning inanimate objects that can do nothing at all on their own.
But you know what? It will never happen, because the gun banners DON"T CARE about addressing the base cause of violent crime, they just want to ban guns. Period.
The solution is simple. Make guns illegal for all men, and legal for all women. Then you can have your protection, and keep the guns out of the hands of the vast majority of violent criminals. As long as you always have an armed girlfriend/wife with you, that is. Touch that gun though, and an electric shock ends your life!
Emulate whatever the fuck you want, as long as you're giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to solve fundamental problems in the world and try to build a structure with which your money will provide the most long-term benefits continued far into the future.
Start by giving it back to all the people who lost their jobs because of Bill's illegal slash and burn tactics. How about all the money extorted from governments for Microsoft systems that cost them more in the long run, that could have been used to solve their internal problems. How about paying all the taxes on his wealth that he criminally hides in things like, oh, foundations. Now he gives away a few dollars to appease his ego, and people forgive him? Fuck that.
What folks don't seem to understand is that money has no value in and of itself, but is based on a population's ability to produce goods and services.
That's the theory, but that is no longer the case. The value of currency is whatever currency traders are willing to pay for it. I worked for traders when the markets took the Mexican peso down to nothing. What a feeding frenzy. It's only a matter of time before the world markets "cash in" the US dollar the same way.
I guess the car analogy is that if you buy a stolen car, you are in possession of a stolen vehicle , but the real wrong doer is the guy selling 50 stolen cars on his used car lot.
But in that case you do have to forfeit the stolen vehicle, so you are out the money that you paid for it. I guess the thinking is that he has to pay back any profits he made? I don't agree with the decision or the lawsuit, but the car analogy is not that different.
When will people realize that every time we increase the food supply in a region, the population increases in the same proportion. There will always be starvation until people slow their breeding down to zero population growth, or dare I even suggest it, negative growth. And I'm not saying don't feed people that are already here.
Bill has cashed out enough stock he could live like a God if MSFT burned to the ground. More likely he'll quietly cash out and walk away,he doesn't care about his old company anymore, its nothing like Jobs and Apple.
The thing to remember about these crazed sociopaths is that they NEVER have enough money, prestige, power. Bill is just channelling his ego in a different direction now. He's trying to get his own legacy, the guy who cured malaria, to one-up Jobs. Who knows what he'll decide tomorrow. Maybe we need criminal profilers to figure these guys out.
I can think of several people that I would like to volunteer for a one-way ticket to Mars. Were these volunteers self-nominated, or did Mars One accept third-party nominations?
More importantly, how many responders are serious? Would they really climb into a craft to go to mars? I'd wager around, let's see, none.
Is it just me or this guy totally batshit crazy? Among other things, how many times do you have to be assaulted before you get rid of your crazy girlfriend(s)?
And if he is batshit crazy, how much of what he said is true, and how much is PR to keep him out of jail and to sell (sensationalize) his new book? I'd trust his responses rat spitting distances.
Armed citizenry is kind of how we broke free and ultimately formed the nation. Just because it wasn't specifically against the US government, it isn't any less valid.
No, no, and no. Getting France to side with us is how we broke free of Britain. Their Navy directly intervened, and opened up the potential for more wars with Britain. Some militia with their own guns helped, but really it was back door deals with France, with an equivalent military to Britain, that won the war.
Here's the skinny for those who think that anxiety and depression are just something that weak people complain about. These issues are a result of a physical condition. Think of it like have having diabetes, or having your legs blown off. People who succumb to extreme anxiety are some of the strongest willed people out there. They have to live with this condition day in and day out, and try to appear normal at the same time. The mechanism is easy to understand. When someone points a loaded gun at you, or in more primitive time, a tiger jumps out of the bush, your neurochemicals change. You freeze, time slows, you are ready to jump and run at a moment's notice, you are prepared to die. The same is true for harsh conditions, wartime, famine, etc. People who are naturally in a state of high stress have a better chance of survival. Life is pretty awful, but you can bear the next tragedy pretty well. Now imagine a society where we never have to deal with these things. Those that are predisposed to deal with the worst through genetics, upbringing, life events, etc., that is, who have a physically different neurochemicals, have no reason to be that way. There is no tiger, although it feels like there is. There is no war, although your brain is telling you that there is. You can't simply "suck it up" or "just get over it." It's the way that you are forced to think, and you spend your life fighting these feelings.
Most people don't have these feelings. Lucky them. The problem is that they can't conceive of what it's like when you are constantly on alert, because any lapse means that you will die. Now therapy does help to some extent. It helps you identify triggers, and to identify when your body is telling you something that's not true. But it's tiring, and painful to deal with. Having some kind of medication to help alleviate that, and get you back to a stable level of neurochemicals is a god send. The problem with meds is that every one has side effects, so it is imperative that you find a doctor to help you find the best dosage and mix with the least side effects. And do therapy at the same time to learn to see those effects on your moods and thinking.
So, yes, it is wonderful to have another option for anxiety when your brain is telling you to run and hide and there is nothing there. We're not talking about suppressing minor ennui or occasional blues. We're not saying to get rid of all emotions. But if taking a couple of over the counter pills with minor side effects can get a truly anxious person through a touch situation, then I'm all for that.
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...the world can produce a lot more food than we do, and with minimal changes, it could be greatly increased.
Patently absurd, unless your definition if minimal change mean "whatever change is needed bar the consequences." The US, Europe, and Middle East were practically deforested over the last 2000 years. Thousand of species have forced to extinction. The Great Plains of the US are now a great desert. Stalin did pretty much the same thing in Russia. The great reefs of the world are on a decline and probably unrecoverable. And, what, climate change/global warming doesn't exist either? Our footprint is on the planet in a big way, and it will only get worse.
Last time I heard VMS had never been hacked. Is that still the case?
It was the best OS I ever worked with. It'd be nice if they open sourced it.
When I was at Argonne Labs in the 80's, there was a rumor of someone sending out fake update/patch tapes made to look like they shipped from DEC. I'm not sure if anyone fell for it, or even if they did, what the "hackers" could get. Only universities were on the DECNET at that time.
The IT Crowd is probably the best show around that express Geek type culture out there without being overly negative about it.
FTFY
OS X has THE worst multi-monitor support in the industry. Without question. I actually broke down and sold my secondary display because it is next to worthless on a Mac. I like to run XCode in full-screen mode (more real estate for dual pane mode). The second monitor is literally just a gray colored paper weight in this mode. Do I really need to use my air-play compatible device as a second display? Not at all. It will still be useless to me.
This comment is a joke, right? I've had dual monitors on Macs since before OSX even existed, and support has always been above par, including now. The only problem I have is that sometimes an application does not understand that there is a second monitor, which is what you are experiencing. Some games do that for me. So how is that the OSs fault, exactly?
Please stop talking like your desktop defines IT. 10 Gb ethernet has been around for years for Sun/Oracle servers, IBM servers, Cisco switches, storage arrays, etc. Hell, I could even get 10Gb for my Mac. It hadn't made it into the PC world yet due to office wiring to the desk still being Cat 5. It's hard enough to get 1 Gb connections for the general user.
And do not need to be replaced.
OK we're all done here.
Stop the luddite love. Of course voting machines can be made more efficient and more secure with modern technology. It's just that the people implementing them are criminals and the politicians buying them are corrupt. Take away the profit angle, add accountability with real consequences, with a oversight board with integrity, and we could have that great new system. As long as it is a money grab, we will continue to get crap.
Just because they name drop does mean they are great coders, only that they are great at self promotion. Who's to say that some silent but really competent coder wasn't responsible for the code they take credit for? I think what you saw was not "great coders can't work together," but instead, "great projects have many unsung heroes."
Sorry, that's not a vampire then. A superficial emo-goth archetype maybe, but not a vampire.
Do you understand that banker are creditors, who benefit from a strong currency? So if their unenlightened self interest is the opposite of what they are doing, why are they doing it? Maybe because they (along with 99% of all economists) believe that we all benefit from expansionary monetary policy during recessions?
Banks are international. They play one country's currency against another, and there is no reason to keep the US dollar level with the other currencies. One day they may decide to "cash in" the US, and you will see run away inflation, like they have done to many other countries in the past. The dollar is not the world.
Is there any tax breaks for hiring people with autism? I am too cynical.
Don't know, but they will definitely be paying them less.
Science is a method not an outcome and as such is amoral. "We must reduce carbon emissions in order to reverse global warming", is not a scientific statement.
Yeah, just like "I have to eat to stay alive" is not science.
I'm at a hackathon to generally improve the state of things that the people around me are passionate about and to be exposed to new things.
That's called a convention. I think you are at the wrong event.
Then maybe, just maybe, we ought to be working on helping the irrational rather than banning inanimate objects that can do nothing at all on their own.
But you know what? It will never happen, because the gun banners DON"T CARE about addressing the base cause of violent crime, they just want to ban guns. Period.
The solution is simple. Make guns illegal for all men, and legal for all women. Then you can have your protection, and keep the guns out of the hands of the vast majority of violent criminals. As long as you always have an armed girlfriend/wife with you, that is. Touch that gun though, and an electric shock ends your life!
Emulate whatever the fuck you want, as long as you're giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to solve fundamental problems in the world and try to build a structure with which your money will provide the most long-term benefits continued far into the future.
Start by giving it back to all the people who lost their jobs because of Bill's illegal slash and burn tactics. How about all the money extorted from governments for Microsoft systems that cost them more in the long run, that could have been used to solve their internal problems. How about paying all the taxes on his wealth that he criminally hides in things like, oh, foundations. Now he gives away a few dollars to appease his ego, and people forgive him? Fuck that.
50 years ago this would have been a major scandal. Now it's "ho hum business as usual." This country is fucked.
What folks don't seem to understand is that money has no value in and of itself, but is based on a population's ability to produce goods and services.
That's the theory, but that is no longer the case. The value of currency is whatever currency traders are willing to pay for it. I worked for traders when the markets took the Mexican peso down to nothing. What a feeding frenzy. It's only a matter of time before the world markets "cash in" the US dollar the same way.
I guess the car analogy is that if you buy a stolen car, you are in possession of a stolen vehicle , but the real wrong doer is the guy selling 50 stolen cars on his used car lot.
But in that case you do have to forfeit the stolen vehicle, so you are out the money that you paid for it. I guess the thinking is that he has to pay back any profits he made? I don't agree with the decision or the lawsuit, but the car analogy is not that different.
When will people realize that every time we increase the food supply in a region, the population increases in the same proportion. There will always be starvation until people slow their breeding down to zero population growth, or dare I even suggest it, negative growth. And I'm not saying don't feed people that are already here.
Flame away breeders. I'm getting used to it.
Bill has cashed out enough stock he could live like a God if MSFT burned to the ground. More likely he'll quietly cash out and walk away,he doesn't care about his old company anymore, its nothing like Jobs and Apple.
The thing to remember about these crazed sociopaths is that they NEVER have enough money, prestige, power. Bill is just channelling his ego in a different direction now. He's trying to get his own legacy, the guy who cured malaria, to one-up Jobs. Who knows what he'll decide tomorrow. Maybe we need criminal profilers to figure these guys out.
I can think of several people that I would like to volunteer for a one-way ticket to Mars. Were these volunteers self-nominated, or did Mars One accept third-party nominations?
More importantly, how many responders are serious? Would they really climb into a craft to go to mars? I'd wager around, let's see, none.
Is it just me or this guy totally batshit crazy? Among other things, how many times do you have to be assaulted before you get rid of your crazy girlfriend(s)?
And if he is batshit crazy, how much of what he said is true, and how much is PR to keep him out of jail and to sell (sensationalize) his new book? I'd trust his responses rat spitting distances.
I'm actually surprised this didn't get flagged as it looks like a bomb.
That's US and UK you are thinking about. A lot of the rest of the world is still sane.
Armed citizenry is kind of how we broke free and ultimately formed the nation. Just because it wasn't specifically against the US government, it isn't any less valid.
No, no, and no. Getting France to side with us is how we broke free of Britain. Their Navy directly intervened, and opened up the potential for more wars with Britain. Some militia with their own guns helped, but really it was back door deals with France, with an equivalent military to Britain, that won the war.
Why would we want to numb existential distress?
Here's the skinny for those who think that anxiety and depression are just something that weak people complain about. These issues are a result of a physical condition. Think of it like have having diabetes, or having your legs blown off. People who succumb to extreme anxiety are some of the strongest willed people out there. They have to live with this condition day in and day out, and try to appear normal at the same time. The mechanism is easy to understand. When someone points a loaded gun at you, or in more primitive time, a tiger jumps out of the bush, your neurochemicals change. You freeze, time slows, you are ready to jump and run at a moment's notice, you are prepared to die. The same is true for harsh conditions, wartime, famine, etc. People who are naturally in a state of high stress have a better chance of survival. Life is pretty awful, but you can bear the next tragedy pretty well. Now imagine a society where we never have to deal with these things. Those that are predisposed to deal with the worst through genetics, upbringing, life events, etc., that is, who have a physically different neurochemicals, have no reason to be that way. There is no tiger, although it feels like there is. There is no war, although your brain is telling you that there is. You can't simply "suck it up" or "just get over it." It's the way that you are forced to think, and you spend your life fighting these feelings.
Most people don't have these feelings. Lucky them. The problem is that they can't conceive of what it's like when you are constantly on alert, because any lapse means that you will die. Now therapy does help to some extent. It helps you identify triggers, and to identify when your body is telling you something that's not true. But it's tiring, and painful to deal with. Having some kind of medication to help alleviate that, and get you back to a stable level of neurochemicals is a god send. The problem with meds is that every one has side effects, so it is imperative that you find a doctor to help you find the best dosage and mix with the least side effects. And do therapy at the same time to learn to see those effects on your moods and thinking.
So, yes, it is wonderful to have another option for anxiety when your brain is telling you to run and hide and there is nothing there. We're not talking about suppressing minor ennui or occasional blues. We're not saying to get rid of all emotions. But if taking a couple of over the counter pills with minor side effects can get a truly anxious person through a touch situation, then I'm all for that.
Wrong. It was added simply to control abuse.
Which is why there are no other options. From Wiki:
Hydrocodone/ibuprofen (Vicoprofen)
Oxycodone/paracetamol (Percocet)
Oxycodone/aspirin (Percodan)
Oxycodone/naloxone (Targin)
Morphine/naltrexone (Embeda)
Fentanyl/fluanisone (Hypnorm)
Paranoid much?