So...evolutionary forces should have made some sort of mechanism to turn off the sex drive while the woman is pregnant in order to prove to you that the sex evolved for the purpose of procreation? Evolution would only do that if the sex drive was sufficiently detrimental during pregnancy. That said, a secondary evolutionary benefit of sex is the strengthening of the pair bonds between parents, which could have been selected for and explain the generally horny nature of humans compared to other animals.
The Stainless Steel Rat introduced me to the concept of hacking complicated systems, long before I learned how to program computers. He was one of my inspirations to learn about technology. One of the best and influential series in science fiction.
Moving from cars to computers, I do miss tinkering with autoexec.bat and config.sys. In those days you knew exactly what was happening in the computer.
How many people do you know in the American military? Those I know tend to be more more intelligent and more ethically minded than the average person. You can be sure that the majority of them will defend the constitution with their lives, which many civilians are not willing to do.
If you saw this guy in the men's room stall next to you, it wouldn't be immediately obvious that it wasn't recording anything permanent. (Not that I personally would mind, I'm not shy, but then again it might be cold and there might be shrinkage involved. You don't want shrinkage on the internet.)
This particular device didn't record things permanently, but I'm sure there will be those that will, as well as those that will stream live feeds to the internet, post on Facebook and Twitter, etc.
The most significant issues here are the implications of wearing a camera on your head and recording your life all the time. Here we have one problem in doing so, French McDonald's employees. Another problem is that Steve Mann probably wears his device in in the men's room and may incidentally record people doing things they might not want recorded. As such devices become less conspicuous we are going to get more incidents with wearable live cams, and we all will be recorded more often than we may wish.
And why the heck is everyone talking about race? Race is completely off topic.
It depends. Some grammar rules are quite complex and few people actually know them.
For instance; which.. of...these... ellipsis.... is...used... correctly?
They're all correct if the speaker is Captain Kirk.
You're just angry because this is something the government did right. BTW, the best way to maintain individual liberty is if corporate power and government power are about equal, allowing us little people to play them off each other. If either one gets too much of the upper hand we are screwed.
Once again we have government spending being instrumental to helping the capitalist free market. Add this to the internet and the highway system as government funded projects that are crucial to technological advancement.
In order to understand what this bias means, people have to understand the scientific process, and many people don't. Such people would be more convinced by scientists pontificating on high that they are always right, the way religious leaders do.
The United States Foreign policy is easy to understand. It can be summed up in one sentence: Prevent any regional power from becoming a global power. That's it. The way it does this is by supporting small countries that are under the threat of being sucked into the spheres of influence of regional powers. Hence Pakistan vs India, Iraq vs Iran, Japan and Taiwan and the Philippines vs China, the former Soviet Republics and Central Europe vs Russia.
This system went a little fubar in the Middle East because in the 1990s Iraq decided that instead of fighting Iran it would pick on smaller countries, so that it could be the big regional power. Since no one in the region could fight both Iraq and Iran, the United States had to go in itself and try to fix things directly. It didn't work as smoothly as planned, but things seldom do when you resort to war.
There would be absolutely no strategic value to a Russian missile defense system in Cuba and Venezuela, not unless the United States wanted to launch a couple primitive SCUD-like missiles at those countries. What the Russians don't want is an American military presence in Central Europe. They want Poland to be in their sphere of influence like in the good old days, and they see this as a move into their territory. They themselves know that a missile defense system will be no threat to their defensive or offensive capabilities.
When you're given a month to finish a project you calculated at three months, it's kinda hard to compensate for every possibility. But then, I don't program for aircraft, I hope their schedules allow for programming proper error recovery. As it does so happens, I'm designing an error handling system right now. This article reminds me I've got to put in the "fried by radiation" routine.
Is it just me, or is it the responsibility of all software engineers to find the hardware problem in order to prove to people that the cause isn't software?
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Pregnant women still seek sex.
So...evolutionary forces should have made some sort of mechanism to turn off the sex drive while the woman is pregnant in order to prove to you that the sex evolved for the purpose of procreation? Evolution would only do that if the sex drive was sufficiently detrimental during pregnancy. That said, a secondary evolutionary benefit of sex is the strengthening of the pair bonds between parents, which could have been selected for and explain the generally horny nature of humans compared to other animals.
By the time we have the technology to build our own planets, planets will be obsolete.
The Stainless Steel Rat introduced me to the concept of hacking complicated systems, long before I learned how to program computers. He was one of my inspirations to learn about technology. One of the best and influential series in science fiction.
The only personal use I put my company computer to is commenting on Slashdot.
Moving from cars to computers, I do miss tinkering with autoexec.bat and config.sys. In those days you knew exactly what was happening in the computer.
Lawn! Kid! Off!
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How many people do you know in the American military? Those I know tend to be more more intelligent and more ethically minded than the average person. You can be sure that the majority of them will defend the constitution with their lives, which many civilians are not willing to do.
If you saw this guy in the men's room stall next to you, it wouldn't be immediately obvious that it wasn't recording anything permanent. (Not that I personally would mind, I'm not shy, but then again it might be cold and there might be shrinkage involved. You don't want shrinkage on the internet.)
This particular device didn't record things permanently, but I'm sure there will be those that will, as well as those that will stream live feeds to the internet, post on Facebook and Twitter, etc.
The most significant issues here are the implications of wearing a camera on your head and recording your life all the time. Here we have one problem in doing so, French McDonald's employees. Another problem is that Steve Mann probably wears his device in in the men's room and may incidentally record people doing things they might not want recorded. As such devices become less conspicuous we are going to get more incidents with wearable live cams, and we all will be recorded more often than we may wish.
And why the heck is everyone talking about race? Race is completely off topic.
It depends. Some grammar rules are quite complex and few people actually know them. For instance; which.. of ...these ... ellipsis.... is...used... correctly?
They're all correct if the speaker is Captain Kirk.
Um, Chloe is 15 years old, Ksenia is 25.
Nuff said.
He did predict the cell phone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderer
Ray Bradbury is one of the reasons I look back fondly on my childhood.
You're just angry because this is something the government did right. BTW, the best way to maintain individual liberty is if corporate power and government power are about equal, allowing us little people to play them off each other. If either one gets too much of the upper hand we are screwed.
Once again we have government spending being instrumental to helping the capitalist free market. Add this to the internet and the highway system as government funded projects that are crucial to technological advancement.
In order to understand what this bias means, people have to understand the scientific process, and many people don't. Such people would be more convinced by scientists pontificating on high that they are always right, the way religious leaders do.
The United States Foreign policy is easy to understand. It can be summed up in one sentence: Prevent any regional power from becoming a global power. That's it. The way it does this is by supporting small countries that are under the threat of being sucked into the spheres of influence of regional powers. Hence Pakistan vs India, Iraq vs Iran, Japan and Taiwan and the Philippines vs China, the former Soviet Republics and Central Europe vs Russia.
This system went a little fubar in the Middle East because in the 1990s Iraq decided that instead of fighting Iran it would pick on smaller countries, so that it could be the big regional power. Since no one in the region could fight both Iraq and Iran, the United States had to go in itself and try to fix things directly. It didn't work as smoothly as planned, but things seldom do when you resort to war.
There would be absolutely no strategic value to a Russian missile defense system in Cuba and Venezuela, not unless the United States wanted to launch a couple primitive SCUD-like missiles at those countries. What the Russians don't want is an American military presence in Central Europe. They want Poland to be in their sphere of influence like in the good old days, and they see this as a move into their territory. They themselves know that a missile defense system will be no threat to their defensive or offensive capabilities.
The Sun is a sun named Sol,
Luna is a moon named Moon.
Don't name something by its role,
Or you'll sound like a complete buffoon.
When you're given a month to finish a project you calculated at three months, it's kinda hard to compensate for every possibility. But then, I don't program for aircraft, I hope their schedules allow for programming proper error recovery. As it does so happens, I'm designing an error handling system right now. This article reminds me I've got to put in the "fried by radiation" routine.
The turbines in a nuclear power plant are run by steam, sonny.
Is it just me, or is it the responsibility of all software engineers to find the hardware problem in order to prove to people that the cause isn't software?
It is poor tradecraft to reveal an adversary's weakness if you plan to continue to exploit it.