So no one is left scratching their head, it's the Swank diet. My dad swore by it, but MS is a disease that sometimes remits on its own, so I can't actually attribute his recovery to the diet with any sort of confidence. There's also a lack of good peer reviewed data on the diet. But it's easy to try and can't hurt, so I recommend everyone with MS at least look into it.
It's true. I'd love to use Arch more, but not until they make 'pacman -Syu' work every time without manual intervention. I can't remember the last time updating Debian Sid required any sort of activity outside of the package manager.
I certainly believe in science, but I'd suggest that my fathers medical history is a lot more relevant to my future health than reasearch done on the population level.
Eating well is no guarantee. My dad ate almost nothing but vegetables, chicken, and fish for his entire adult life, and still died of a heart attack at age 53. He didn't do it for heart disease though, he did it for MS which remained in remission for the rest of his life.(whether the diet actually had anything to do with that, who knows?) But I think the point stands. If you can avoid saturated fats for 30 years and keel over from a heart attack, what's the point of avoiding saturated fats?
It doesn't matter that it's unconstitutional unless you can demonstrate how it directly harms someone protected by the constitution. I, as a citizen, have no standing to object to the lawless practices of my government unless I am a direct victim of those practicse.
What I am suggesting is that a justice system where lawlessness is tolerated directly affects everyone subject to that justice system. Every citizen should have a right to a government that obeys the law. That is not the case in America today.
courts rule that foreign companies do not have standing to sue
Standing seems to get in the way of justice quite often. We need to strongly consider removing these loopholes in our justice system that allow the government to commit crimes with impunity.
The harm would be that if Apple knew it might get copied and never bother releasing the phone in the first place.
In what universe is that likely to happen? You have a good idea, and you're going to let someone else use it first because someone might copy you if you went first? No, no one is that stupid.
and work on myself to make myself interesting enough to be worth someone's time
This is the hard part. I have no idea why someone would be interested in a person. People aren't interesting, ideas are interesting. Having ideas doesn't seem to make one interesting to other people though, except for rare exceptions. I'm lucky enough to have found one, but in general it seems that being an interesting person has more to do with being able to talk big without actually saying anything.
In fact I found the difference so substantial that I came to suspect the "women are choosers, men are beggars, because evolution" hypothesis was more a just-so story to describe a stable cultural pattern than a real scientific theory.
If you're interacting with them enough for them to form an opinion, then you're not doing the same experiment I described. It's literally walking up to someone saying hi, and propositioning them.
It's much closer to true than you want to admit. If you send a group of average looking college students onto campus to randomly proposition people of the opposite sex, the majority of females will get affirmative responses, and the majority of males will get negative responses. Women have a much easier time than men getting laid. That's scientific fact.
Fuck you, racist. Ethnicity did not help Bernie Madoff, and it didn't hurt John Corzine. The justice system is biased in favor of wealth and power, not ethnicity.
If they didn't produce anything of value, nobody would pay them those rates.
Only if you assume our economy is based on rational behavior and there are no perverse incentives whatsoever. That is, if you ignore reality.
And as other people have pointed out, "working hard" is not limited to physical labor.
Yeah, I'm sure those wet lunches and long hours on the golf course really take it out of someone. I bet they dont' even have the energy to thank their staff for dinner when they get home.
Who do you jail when a company does something wrong?
That's the problem isn't it. The mistake these kids made wasn't committing crimes. It was commiting crimes without a corporation to hide behind.
Personally, I'd be in favor of jailing both the CEO who gets the credit for success and should bear responsibility for criminal failures, and the lowly tech who didn't go to the police when asked to do something illegal for his job. That would be far more just than letting the rich and powerful get away with crimes.
1) Almost nobody on/. knows about or will ever see this technique practiced
Almost nobody who knows about patch clamping practices it. It's that hard. "The masses" in this case refers to the 90% of neuroscience labs who don't have a patch clamp apparatus because it's an incredibly difficult technique. Putting an automatic patch clamp machine on every lab bench would be a huge boon to neuroscience.
The difference with cars is that you need a license to drive a car. Comparing that to what the USSR did is just not accurate.
The problem is that the authorities can always come up with some bullshit legalistic explanation like that. Excuse, after excuse, after excuse, carving out holes in our rights until the constiution looks like swiss cheese.
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So no one is left scratching their head, it's the Swank diet. My dad swore by it, but MS is a disease that sometimes remits on its own, so I can't actually attribute his recovery to the diet with any sort of confidence. There's also a lack of good peer reviewed data on the diet. But it's easy to try and can't hurt, so I recommend everyone with MS at least look into it.
Well, no being an "interesting person" (socially attractive) is about being witty, socially fluent, attentive, confident, etc.
Right, it's about how good you can bullshit. That appears to be the only skill that matters in any area of life.
It's true. I'd love to use Arch more, but not until they make 'pacman -Syu' work every time without manual intervention. I can't remember the last time updating Debian Sid required any sort of activity outside of the package manager.
I certainly believe in science, but I'd suggest that my fathers medical history is a lot more relevant to my future health than reasearch done on the population level.
I'd say that the most abused word in business is "earn", when applied to executive salaries and bonuses.
Eating well is no guarantee. My dad ate almost nothing but vegetables, chicken, and fish for his entire adult life, and still died of a heart attack at age 53. He didn't do it for heart disease though, he did it for MS which remained in remission for the rest of his life.(whether the diet actually had anything to do with that, who knows?) But I think the point stands. If you can avoid saturated fats for 30 years and keel over from a heart attack, what's the point of avoiding saturated fats?
It doesn't matter that it's unconstitutional unless you can demonstrate how it directly harms someone protected by the constitution. I, as a citizen, have no standing to object to the lawless practices of my government unless I am a direct victim of those practicse.
What I am suggesting is that a justice system where lawlessness is tolerated directly affects everyone subject to that justice system. Every citizen should have a right to a government that obeys the law. That is not the case in America today.
If you can do it to a banana, why not a loaf of bread?
What terrorists? You're more likely to die at the hands of a police officer than to die by a terrorist attack.
courts rule that foreign companies do not have standing to sue
Standing seems to get in the way of justice quite often. We need to strongly consider removing these loopholes in our justice system that allow the government to commit crimes with impunity.
There are only two versions of Arch. Up to date and out of date.
Surely they need plasma from Soylent Red and Blue too.
The harm would be that if Apple knew it might get copied and never bother releasing the phone in the first place.
In what universe is that likely to happen? You have a good idea, and you're going to let someone else use it first because someone might copy you if you went first? No, no one is that stupid.
and work on myself to make myself interesting enough to be worth someone's time
This is the hard part. I have no idea why someone would be interested in a person. People aren't interesting, ideas are interesting. Having ideas doesn't seem to make one interesting to other people though, except for rare exceptions. I'm lucky enough to have found one, but in general it seems that being an interesting person has more to do with being able to talk big without actually saying anything.
In fact I found the difference so substantial that I came to suspect the "women are choosers, men are beggars, because evolution" hypothesis was more a just-so story to describe a stable cultural pattern than a real scientific theory.
If you're interacting with them enough for them to form an opinion, then you're not doing the same experiment I described. It's literally walking up to someone saying hi, and propositioning them.
Fair enough. Women have an easier time getting laid than men, with the exception of rape.
What the hell is it with Malasians? Have you ever been to an IRC network with a #kampung? WTF?
That's not true and you know it.
It's much closer to true than you want to admit. If you send a group of average looking college students onto campus to randomly proposition people of the opposite sex, the majority of females will get affirmative responses, and the majority of males will get negative responses. Women have a much easier time than men getting laid. That's scientific fact.
Since DADT was repealed there's been a lot more packing of meat into cans in the military.
This blatant copying should not be allowed.
Why not? What harm will come to society if we allow Samsung to copy the iPhone?
Fuck you, racist. Ethnicity did not help Bernie Madoff, and it didn't hurt John Corzine. The justice system is biased in favor of wealth and power, not ethnicity.
If they didn't produce anything of value, nobody would pay them those rates.
Only if you assume our economy is based on rational behavior and there are no perverse incentives whatsoever. That is, if you ignore reality.
And as other people have pointed out, "working hard" is not limited to physical labor.
Yeah, I'm sure those wet lunches and long hours on the golf course really take it out of someone. I bet they dont' even have the energy to thank their staff for dinner when they get home.
Who do you jail when a company does something wrong?
That's the problem isn't it. The mistake these kids made wasn't committing crimes. It was commiting crimes without a corporation to hide behind.
Personally, I'd be in favor of jailing both the CEO who gets the credit for success and should bear responsibility for criminal failures, and the lowly tech who didn't go to the police when asked to do something illegal for his job. That would be far more just than letting the rich and powerful get away with crimes.
1) Almost nobody on /. knows about or will ever see this technique practiced
Almost nobody who knows about patch clamping practices it. It's that hard. "The masses" in this case refers to the 90% of neuroscience labs who don't have a patch clamp apparatus because it's an incredibly difficult technique. Putting an automatic patch clamp machine on every lab bench would be a huge boon to neuroscience.
The difference with cars is that you need a license to drive a car. Comparing that to what the USSR did is just not accurate.
The problem is that the authorities can always come up with some bullshit legalistic explanation like that. Excuse, after excuse, after excuse, carving out holes in our rights until the constiution looks like swiss cheese.
So because he smiled and shook your hand, he's a nice guy? Judge people based on their actions, not their personality.