... last year, after my wife had thankfully survived breast cancer, my wife's oncologist told us rather plainly that barring of some kind of unprecedented breakthrough, which he apparently did not consider to be likely anytime soon, it was not going to be possible. He suggested that the best anyone can realistically hope for is earlier detection, to the point that it may be more easily treatable, even potentially entirely noninvasively, but basically he suggested that hoping for any kind of actual cure in the future, or "turning off" cancer somehow was not being realistic.
I am saying that people shouldn't think that a staff pick or the lack thereof can somehow magically make or break a project. The staff pick happens as a result of the exact same things that are likely to make people back the project in the first place. If you make a good enough product in the first place with high enough demand, as long as you have an effective enough marketing strategy to get the word out about the product, then it will get the support that it needs. If a sudden influx of backers happens rapidly enough, effectively giving cause to draw some attention to it, then you probably have a better than average chance of becoming a staff pick as long as your funding goals are not unrealistic given the size of your target demographic. But blaming the lack of a staff pick on a given kickstarter project's failure is really just so much whining, IMO.
To my understanding, the only treatment that currently exists for a psychosomatic condition is ignorance for the person who has the condition (that is, they are oblivious to the presence of what will trigger the physiological responses associated with the condition), or else to somehow convince them that their suffering is psychosomatic. Generally, the former is easier to achieve than the latter. Belief is a surprisingly powerful thing, it can affect a person's immune response, their hormone levels, their metabolism, and all kinds of other things that are easily externally measurable. Psychosomatic symptoms can be just as bad as symptoms caused by any actual external influence, and are no less real for the sufferer. The differentiating factor between a psychosomatic condition and a "real" one is what the person actually knows about, or what they (even subconsciously) believe to be true Simply being told that a condition is psychosomatic is sometimes, but usually not sufficient to negate the symptoms of a serious psychosomatic condition, typically because the pervasiveness of the suffering that may be endured by the condition overpowers what a person might otherwise be able to know to be true, and they can't be easily convinced that it's actually just all in their mind. Sometimes a person with such a condition might even try to admit that their condition is psychosomatic, but their suffering continues because of a discrepancy between what they can intellectually know in their head as opposed to what they genuinely believe.
So maybe the psychosomatic symptoms of EHS are caused by something in the brain that we don't fully understand. Again, I'm fully aware that these symptoms are entirely the result of delusion, but even knowing that something is psychosomatic is not always enough to offset the physiological symptoms your body might endure from it. You can intellectually know something to be true, but that doesn't mean that the part of your brain that is producing the physiological reactions akin to real physical symptoms is actually listening. You can fully know that you are schizophrenic, even to the point of realizing that something is a delusion, but that doesn't help the delusions go away, or make the experience of it any less real for the person suffering from it.
Does the fact that something may only be in a person's mind mean that it is not real?
Is Schizophrenia not real? Is Autism not real?
My point is not to marginalize groups with such conditions, but to point out that issues that comprise a person's psychology, are anything *BUT* unreal to the person who must live with it and endure it daily.
While all the available evidence based on the numerous double blind studies suggests that EHS is clearly psychosomatic... I would suggest that does not mean it is not real. A person's body can react just as badly to psychosomatic symptoms as it may to external physiological influences. I would suggest, however, that such a condition should not be the school board's problem until we can find some way to treat the fundamental psychological condition that causes such things.
Everything about the studies that have been done points to the condition being psychosomatic. While psychosomatic symptoms can still be extremely debilitating for the sufferer, even going so far as to produce objectively measurable effects on the person's body and metabolism, should psychosomatic conditions be the school board's problem?
So your grievance is with Ubuntu, not Linux, per se.... except perhaps to the extent that Ubuntu's influence has affected other distro's. Even then, your beef would be with the distros that had been so affected.
... albeit not a sure thing, but probably the most that a project creator can do on their end to become a staff pick is to create a project that looks like it has a good chance of meeting its funding goals. That means that you generally either have to have a pretty solid marketing plan, or else it has to be something that is either so outstandingly useful or simply so strongly desired by its target demographic, that the first thing they will think of after seeing what it will be is "I want that", and they will click the button that indicates their intent to back the project much like an impulse purchase. It also means that your plan has to appeal to a large enough audience that your funding goal is not unrealistic.
After all, Kickstarter doesn't make take a cut of the donations to a project when it fails to meet its funding goal, so it stands to reason that the staff would tend to favour projects that look like they have a reasonable chance of succeeding.
Of course, such prognostication is inherently a highly subjective evaluation, and IMO anyone who complains that the idea of being a Kickstarter staff pick doesn't have enough transparency to it is probably just whining because they weren't able to come up with a marketing angle that generate sufficient interest in their own project to get it funded.
I don't dispute that automation keeps prices from being even higher than they are... what I take issue with is when people espouse things like "Robots will exponentially decrease the costs of goods and services until they they cost nothing", without having the slightest clue what they are talking about.
There is absolutely *NO* reason to believe that when robots start replacing jobs, that those who have been displaced by the technology will continue to have access to goods and services because of some pie in the sky notion that when robots are making everything, everything will be virtually free. All that will happen is that a whole lot more people will slide down in standing from being moderately well off to being poor, while those that have early access to those technologies will only grow in economic influence and power.
The rest of us, whose jobs will have been replaced by automation, and are otherwise no longer employable in a society where robots can do almost anything human beings can, like it or not, will starve to death unless we steal to survive.
And what do I do with my mind during that hour? I have no problem with exercise... I have a problem with exercise that gets in the way of doing things that are mentally productive. Getting out and exercising doesn't really work well for people like myself who would rather take every waking minute that they have for themselves and spend it either learning something new or at least reading a good book... which one cannot really do while they are out for a run if they don't want to get into or cause an accident.
You *CAN* do these things fairly readily on a treadmill, but of course, as I said... that requires floor space. And is it really so bad that I just want to be at home when I'm not at work instead of spending it outside, where it amounts to the same thing adding an hour every day to my daily commute... and one where I can't even read a book, which I can easily do on the bus?
But you'll probably simply be dismissive of my preference to want to always keep my mind busy.... so hey, what else is new? Jocks vs nerds has always been a classic trope.
386BSD, the BSD for PC's from which almost all, if not all modern PC variants of BSD are descended from, first appeared in spring of 1992, after Linux had already been around for some number of months, albeit still in a very alpha state. Even though 386BSD was vastly technically superior to Linux when it first came out, at the time, Linux had simply far too many minor features that made it more amenable to the prevalent existing PC's at the time. Linux had floating point emulation, where BSD required a coprocessor (which at the time was still considered relatively luxurious), and Linux could co-exist with DOS on a hard disk with multiple partitions, while BSD initially had no such capability. By the time BSD had added these features, Linux had largely caught up with it in terms of being far less alpha-state.
Linux isn't popular because it is faddish, Linux is popular because back in the beginning, it did what people actually needed it to do, while the alternatives did not... and by the time others could also do so, Linux simply had too much of a head start. Linux maintained the lead ever since.
But does having a head start make something a fad?
Robots will exponentially decrease the costs of goods and services until they they cost nothing,
They will decrease the costs, but the net cost to the consumer will not drop correspondingly because it will have already been shown that people are willing to pay that much for the product.
In other words, any potential for savings that might otherwise be seen by such scales of automated production is liable to be far outweighed by the tendency for human beings to be greedy.
please tell us all what indispensible apps run on windows that have no equivalents on any other operating system
I somehow suspect you asking just so you can be dismissive of responses, but on the off chance you are not, the biggest ones for me are Genetica, Campaign Cartographer, and the Unity 3d editor. (The last one runs on macs, but that's not helpful when other software still requires a Windows PC). To be fair, the first two perform acceptably in VirtualBox on Linux, but Unity 3d will not.
... to notice general trends. Over multiple ATM's in my city, I have concluded that the number 5 is the most frequently used digit on a pin pad. Whether that is enough information to make it easier to crack someone's pin is debatable, but I thought it was interesting.
When you work a desk job that is very mentally demanding, when you come home you are usally just too damn exhausted to go out and exercise.
A home gym is somewhat viable, but that generally requires a place to put it... not everyone has the floor space to spare for something like that without sacricing more fundamental things like a bed, or else a kitchen table.
No.... for almost the same reasons that they didn't revert DST back to the way it was, or better yet, drop the darn thing entirely, when they discovered a few years back that adding a few weeks to the period that DST is utilized didn't actually save a darn cent.
Apparently, you seem to feel that honesty is too much to expect in some relationships, which may very well be true, but such a relationship cannot possibly be worth trying to maintain.
You are putting words in my mouth..... I never suggested it was about sex at all. The fundamental issue at stake is being honest with your partner. That's where integrity comes into play.
I have no issue with people who don't want to be monogamous.... I have an issue with people who don't want to be monogamous, but want to put on a superficial appearance that they are being so by remaining married to someone who isn't going to be comfortable with an "open relationship". I have an issue with people who don't have the goddamn balls to simply be honest with someone that they supposedly made a vow to love and cherish to.
From your description, it seems that your ex was an emotionally abusive bitch. In all frankness, however, the fact that you admit to choosing option 1 really makes you sound like a total pussy.
Putting things more objectively, you were probably actually falling for the sunk costs fallacy, where the reasonable course of action would have been to leave her yourself when you confronted her and she wasn't going to change, and you should have confronted her as soon as the pattern of emotional abuse started.
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... last year, after my wife had thankfully survived breast cancer, my wife's oncologist told us rather plainly that barring of some kind of unprecedented breakthrough, which he apparently did not consider to be likely anytime soon, it was not going to be possible. He suggested that the best anyone can realistically hope for is earlier detection, to the point that it may be more easily treatable, even potentially entirely noninvasively, but basically he suggested that hoping for any kind of actual cure in the future, or "turning off" cancer somehow was not being realistic.
What precedent are you suggesting exists that robots can decrease costs of physical goods to the point that they will cost nothing?
Slowing down inflation is not remotely the same thing as making things virtually free.
I am saying that people shouldn't think that a staff pick or the lack thereof can somehow magically make or break a project. The staff pick happens as a result of the exact same things that are likely to make people back the project in the first place. If you make a good enough product in the first place with high enough demand, as long as you have an effective enough marketing strategy to get the word out about the product, then it will get the support that it needs. If a sudden influx of backers happens rapidly enough, effectively giving cause to draw some attention to it, then you probably have a better than average chance of becoming a staff pick as long as your funding goals are not unrealistic given the size of your target demographic. But blaming the lack of a staff pick on a given kickstarter project's failure is really just so much whining, IMO.
To my understanding, the only treatment that currently exists for a psychosomatic condition is ignorance for the person who has the condition (that is, they are oblivious to the presence of what will trigger the physiological responses associated with the condition), or else to somehow convince them that their suffering is psychosomatic. Generally, the former is easier to achieve than the latter. Belief is a surprisingly powerful thing, it can affect a person's immune response, their hormone levels, their metabolism, and all kinds of other things that are easily externally measurable. Psychosomatic symptoms can be just as bad as symptoms caused by any actual external influence, and are no less real for the sufferer. The differentiating factor between a psychosomatic condition and a "real" one is what the person actually knows about, or what they (even subconsciously) believe to be true Simply being told that a condition is psychosomatic is sometimes, but usually not sufficient to negate the symptoms of a serious psychosomatic condition, typically because the pervasiveness of the suffering that may be endured by the condition overpowers what a person might otherwise be able to know to be true, and they can't be easily convinced that it's actually just all in their mind. Sometimes a person with such a condition might even try to admit that their condition is psychosomatic, but their suffering continues because of a discrepancy between what they can intellectually know in their head as opposed to what they genuinely believe.
So maybe the psychosomatic symptoms of EHS are caused by something in the brain that we don't fully understand. Again, I'm fully aware that these symptoms are entirely the result of delusion, but even knowing that something is psychosomatic is not always enough to offset the physiological symptoms your body might endure from it. You can intellectually know something to be true, but that doesn't mean that the part of your brain that is producing the physiological reactions akin to real physical symptoms is actually listening. You can fully know that you are schizophrenic, even to the point of realizing that something is a delusion, but that doesn't help the delusions go away, or make the experience of it any less real for the person suffering from it.
Does the fact that something may only be in a person's mind mean that it is not real?
Is Schizophrenia not real? Is Autism not real?
My point is not to marginalize groups with such conditions, but to point out that issues that comprise a person's psychology, are anything *BUT* unreal to the person who must live with it and endure it daily.
While all the available evidence based on the numerous double blind studies suggests that EHS is clearly psychosomatic... I would suggest that does not mean it is not real. A person's body can react just as badly to psychosomatic symptoms as it may to external physiological influences. I would suggest, however, that such a condition should not be the school board's problem until we can find some way to treat the fundamental psychological condition that causes such things.
Everything about the studies that have been done points to the condition being psychosomatic. While psychosomatic symptoms can still be extremely debilitating for the sufferer, even going so far as to produce objectively measurable effects on the person's body and metabolism, should psychosomatic conditions be the school board's problem?
So your grievance is with Ubuntu, not Linux, per se.... except perhaps to the extent that Ubuntu's influence has affected other distro's. Even then, your beef would be with the distros that had been so affected.
I understand that Slackware is still pretty pure
Not when... but if.
So, basically, not in anyone's lifetime that is alive right now.
After all, Kickstarter doesn't make take a cut of the donations to a project when it fails to meet its funding goal, so it stands to reason that the staff would tend to favour projects that look like they have a reasonable chance of succeeding.
Of course, such prognostication is inherently a highly subjective evaluation, and IMO anyone who complains that the idea of being a Kickstarter staff pick doesn't have enough transparency to it is probably just whining because they weren't able to come up with a marketing angle that generate sufficient interest in their own project to get it funded.
At what point did Pepper's Ghost come to mean the same thing as hologram?
I don't dispute that automation keeps prices from being even higher than they are... what I take issue with is when people espouse things like "Robots will exponentially decrease the costs of goods and services until they they cost nothing", without having the slightest clue what they are talking about.
There is absolutely *NO* reason to believe that when robots start replacing jobs, that those who have been displaced by the technology will continue to have access to goods and services because of some pie in the sky notion that when robots are making everything, everything will be virtually free. All that will happen is that a whole lot more people will slide down in standing from being moderately well off to being poor, while those that have early access to those technologies will only grow in economic influence and power.
The rest of us, whose jobs will have been replaced by automation, and are otherwise no longer employable in a society where robots can do almost anything human beings can, like it or not, will starve to death unless we steal to survive.
And what do I do with my mind during that hour? I have no problem with exercise... I have a problem with exercise that gets in the way of doing things that are mentally productive. Getting out and exercising doesn't really work well for people like myself who would rather take every waking minute that they have for themselves and spend it either learning something new or at least reading a good book... which one cannot really do while they are out for a run if they don't want to get into or cause an accident.
You *CAN* do these things fairly readily on a treadmill, but of course, as I said... that requires floor space. And is it really so bad that I just want to be at home when I'm not at work instead of spending it outside, where it amounts to the same thing adding an hour every day to my daily commute... and one where I can't even read a book, which I can easily do on the bus?
But you'll probably simply be dismissive of my preference to want to always keep my mind busy.... so hey, what else is new? Jocks vs nerds has always been a classic trope.
Decreasing inflation is not remotely the same thing as price *reduction*.
386BSD, the BSD for PC's from which almost all, if not all modern PC variants of BSD are descended from, first appeared in spring of 1992, after Linux had already been around for some number of months, albeit still in a very alpha state. Even though 386BSD was vastly technically superior to Linux when it first came out, at the time, Linux had simply far too many minor features that made it more amenable to the prevalent existing PC's at the time. Linux had floating point emulation, where BSD required a coprocessor (which at the time was still considered relatively luxurious), and Linux could co-exist with DOS on a hard disk with multiple partitions, while BSD initially had no such capability. By the time BSD had added these features, Linux had largely caught up with it in terms of being far less alpha-state.
Linux isn't popular because it is faddish, Linux is popular because back in the beginning, it did what people actually needed it to do, while the alternatives did not... and by the time others could also do so, Linux simply had too much of a head start. Linux maintained the lead ever since.
But does having a head start make something a fad?
They will decrease the costs, but the net cost to the consumer will not drop correspondingly because it will have already been shown that people are willing to pay that much for the product.
In other words, any potential for savings that might otherwise be seen by such scales of automated production is liable to be far outweighed by the tendency for human beings to be greedy.
I somehow suspect you asking just so you can be dismissive of responses, but on the off chance you are not, the biggest ones for me are Genetica, Campaign Cartographer, and the Unity 3d editor. (The last one runs on macs, but that's not helpful when other software still requires a Windows PC). To be fair, the first two perform acceptably in VirtualBox on Linux, but Unity 3d will not.
... to notice general trends. Over multiple ATM's in my city, I have concluded that the number 5 is the most frequently used digit on a pin pad. Whether that is enough information to make it easier to crack someone's pin is debatable, but I thought it was interesting.
The responses lead me to think that I have highly overestimated how many people place any value on a virtue like honest y.
When you work a desk job that is very mentally demanding, when you come home you are usally just too damn exhausted to go out and exercise.
A home gym is somewhat viable, but that generally requires a place to put it... not everyone has the floor space to spare for something like that without sacricing more fundamental things like a bed, or else a kitchen table.
No.... for almost the same reasons that they didn't revert DST back to the way it was, or better yet, drop the darn thing entirely, when they discovered a few years back that adding a few weeks to the period that DST is utilized didn't actually save a darn cent.
Apparently, you seem to feel that honesty is too much to expect in some relationships, which may very well be true, but such a relationship cannot possibly be worth trying to maintain.
You are putting words in my mouth..... I never suggested it was about sex at all. The fundamental issue at stake is being honest with your partner. That's where integrity comes into play.
I have no issue with people who don't want to be monogamous.... I have an issue with people who don't want to be monogamous, but want to put on a superficial appearance that they are being so by remaining married to someone who isn't going to be comfortable with an "open relationship". I have an issue with people who don't have the goddamn balls to simply be honest with someone that they supposedly made a vow to love and cherish to.
Nice implied ad-hominem there.
Having integrity is never a dick move.
From your description, it seems that your ex was an emotionally abusive bitch. In all frankness, however, the fact that you admit to choosing option 1 really makes you sound like a total pussy.
Putting things more objectively, you were probably actually falling for the sunk costs fallacy, where the reasonable course of action would have been to leave her yourself when you confronted her and she wasn't going to change, and you should have confronted her as soon as the pattern of emotional abuse started.