I'm not from the US but i recently watched the Penn&Teller Bullshit show about vaccines. Still wondering why Jenny McCarthy and that doctor of hers aren't in prison for child endangerment yet?
Maby vaccinating kids looks redundant to some people "because there haven't been any cases in decades"... well yes, but only because the critical mass of people is vaccinated, if the # of people vaccinated drops under the critical mass there WILL be an epidemic and people WILL die.
PS: If there have already been cases where kids not vaccinated got sick as a result (or possibly died or maimed) the people pushing this shit should be held responsible. Freedom of speech gives you the freedom to say what you wish, but your still responsible for your words.
Whales are not the problem. I meet my current girlfriend on okcupid, the thing i didn't expect was THE CRAZY. I should have seen the "crazy eyes". The problem is i cant even dump her cuz the crazy is so bad she mite kill herselfe:| So you see, I'm a bit stuck.
I work in a small Accounting company with it's own accounting web (php, javascript) based accounting app. It's used by 30 client companies but most of them are big names in Slovenia.
As a php programmer working for them i could sum up the development and maintainenc of the application like this:
No version management (no git, svn etc), no testing, no coding guidelines, 8 year old code with totaly new code, No OPP, mostly just copy/paste (i've seen basic functions on 30+ places in the code), HTML&CSS not even HTML4 (invoice for printing is wrapped with a ), works only in Firefox 2.0, the code loads all the objects (thousands lines of code, php and javascript) into $Session ($_SESSION['something'] -> new Something();), half of the code is in Slovenian, half in english... etc etc etc.
It's basically just a pile of ~300k lines of code nobody understands how it works, when it works.. sometimes.
O and all the programers are students from the local collage and are payed 4,5€/h (about the same as a maid, waitresses are paid more, lot more). (One beer = 2,5€)
So ye, i feel your pain, i tried to implement GIT but our boss couldn't understand it so we're not using it:)... i suggested selenimum(testing) and he didn't what to hear it.
On one hand let's take my parents: They never told me i cant do anything, just warned me of the concicuances, like alcohol, when i was 16 my parents sat me down and told me how to drink, and whant no to mix and how to party. THey ASKED me not do do drugs and explaind why. My mom smokes and she said "You know what cigarettes are doing to me, smoke if you whant". --> I have never even tried to smoke or any drug what so ever. I only drink on parties and i only get buzzed.
On the other hand maney of my female frend's parents: They were 18 and they still had to be home by 10pm on Fridays (legal drinking age here is 18). So sinc the time they were 13 they would go out at 6pm, get Drunk, smoke and do drugs, than throw up and clean themselves up by 10pm to go home.
So if you think you can force a kid to do something your MORONIC and just plain dumme. The only way to make a child do something you whant for certain is convincing them it's the right thing to do and let them decide for themselves.
So parents: Warn your kids, then let them do what ever they whant and than help them pick up the peaces. After a while they'll lurn that your just looking out for them and they'll actually listen to you. Respect must be urned, not forced.
I dont know about other countries but here in Slovenia if you just cut 50% of money that goes into private pockets because of corruption the goverment would have more money that they would know what to do with.
Basicly if the rich and the powerfull stole 50% less from goverments we would have no problem what so ever.
Don't belive me? In Slovenia a kilomiter of highway costs ~8times as much as in england (i'm not shure about the number, but it's A LOT more), killometer and kilometers of roads are constantly "under repair" with no1 doing anything. The Pediatric hospital took like a decade to build and cost A LOT... etc etc etc. But this is just the usualy way of stealing. I've been in studant politics where 10 milion € are stolen every year.
This is why I'm starting up The Pirate Party in Slovenia. We can start with the internets... than maby.. just maby we can get into parliment and if we dont steal from the goverment there will be adlist some money left to fix stuff for the people. Not just the rich and the powerfull.
Say i was one of these terrorists everybody is so worried about.
All you need is a Van(or a car, van is better), a Fertilizer bomb (easy to manufacture) you could add bags of nails around the bomb to encrease fragmentation and a nice, public place with a lot of people.
Detonate from afar, or preferably use a suacide bomber that will drive in the middle of the crowd and detonate.
Places: Parade, speaches, concerts etc
And presto, few hundred dead.
Remember, terrorists do not care about consicuances or are happy to face them in order to achive their goals.
DISCLAMER: I am NOT or have i ever been a terrorist or a criminal. I have never planed or intended to plan a terrorist act.
If one whanted to kill people there is nothing stoping him/her.
A:... Do you know how easy it is to make a bomb? Google it if you dont belive me. Or just buyin a gun in america and going to a stadion and start shooting...
There were no more terrorists atacks because the funders behind them aren not interested in them atm. Who these people are, is a whole other disscusion.
This is a joke right?
Cuz It's hard to belive people could be that retarded in this day and age.
This is almost as absurd as teaching Creationizem alongside Evolution.
allowing power users running hundreds of tabs to quickly
Quickly? Hundreds of tabs? Are you SERIOUS?
Runing 20 tabs makes firefox run at snails pase and freeze everytime you click a button/tab. Just opening 5 links from google search will compleatly freeze firefox for ~20seconds
(I use firefox for it's live bookmarks function) (and yes 20 tabs run without problems in opera)
This mite be usefull in the developing world...
The problem I see is... where would you find a salad spinner in the developing world, on second thought why would anyone in the developing world even need a salad spinner, wait, why would ANYONE need a salad spinner?
Since there are probably a lot of people like me that have no idea what a salad spinner is, here's a link i found http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-salad-spinner.htm
I was a teenager just a few years ago. We started school at 7.30. I can tell you from personal experiance that i didn't learn anything until the main break at 10am. I basilcy slept until than. After 10am i was wide awake. Ask any teenager and they will agree.
There have been a lot of studys and everybodys personal experianca that your clock changes when your a teenager, now it's time to start making adjustments to fit them, not force them into something just because the adults this it sould be like that.
How twisted have you Americans become that you even ask yourselfe this question! When a mans(or womans) life is at stake, money has no value! That's why we have Universal helth care, so that you dont have to care! (I'm pissed but I'm going to stop now.)
For such basic use, the distro is not that important.
I moved my parents from XP to debian with 1 ten minute tutorial. They are both over 55 and with minimal computer experiance.
Then i moved them again to Ubuntu with even less problems.
Since everything works the same it dosent really matter if it's at the top or at the bottom, the left or the right corner. Besides you can move the toolbars around.
PS: Both my parents agree that Ubuntu is easyer to use than XP, they say it's easyer to lurn because it functions are more logicaly placed.
My 2 cents.
There's a third possibility which the article fails to consider: rather than one causing the other, perhaps both are caused by something else. For example, the person who has difficulty forming satisfying sexual relationships is perhaps likely to get depressed about that and to spend "proportionately more time browsing sexually gratifying websites". The whole thing gets muddy, because that can then form a feedback loop.
Are you talking about me? No seriously how do you know that about me?
I've been suffering from depression for a while now and I'm on antidepressants, and i have to agree that Internet addiction (or as in my case, adiction to chain watching movies/tv shows) is defenetly a side efect not the couse.
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I'm not from the US but i recently watched the Penn&Teller Bullshit show about vaccines. Still wondering why Jenny McCarthy and that doctor of hers aren't in prison for child endangerment yet?
Maby vaccinating kids looks redundant to some people "because there haven't been any cases in decades" ... well yes, but only because the critical mass of people is vaccinated, if the # of people vaccinated drops under the critical mass there WILL be an epidemic and people WILL die.
PS: If there have already been cases where kids not vaccinated got sick as a result (or possibly died or maimed) the people pushing this shit should be held responsible. Freedom of speech gives you the freedom to say what you wish, but your still responsible for your words.
Median != Most people
You forget your basic statistics. If you have 10*10k/year and 1*100k/year ... the median(18k) is no where what most of the people make.
Whales are not the problem. I meet my current girlfriend on okcupid, the thing i didn't expect was THE CRAZY. I should have seen the "crazy eyes". The problem is i cant even dump her cuz the crazy is so bad she mite kill herselfe :| So you see, I'm a bit stuck.
She's hot tho.
I work in a small Accounting company with it's own accounting web (php, javascript) based accounting app. It's used by 30 client companies but most of them are big names in Slovenia.
As a php programmer working for them i could sum up the development and maintainenc of the application like this:
No version management (no git, svn etc), no testing, no coding guidelines, 8 year old code with totaly new code, No OPP, mostly just copy/paste (i've seen basic functions on 30+ places in the code), HTML&CSS not even HTML4 (invoice for printing is wrapped with a ), works only in Firefox 2.0, the code loads all the objects (thousands lines of code, php and javascript) into $Session ($_SESSION['something'] -> new Something();), half of the code is in Slovenian, half in english ... etc etc etc.
It's basically just a pile of ~300k lines of code nobody understands how it works, when it works.. sometimes.
O and all the programers are students from the local collage and are payed 4,5€/h (about the same as a maid, waitresses are paid more, lot more). (One beer = 2,5€)
So ye, i feel your pain, i tried to implement GIT but our boss couldn't understand it so we're not using it :) ... i suggested selenimum(testing) and he didn't what to hear it.
What i want to know is... where the domains owned by Americans or were adlist the registrars American? In other words.. did they have jurisdiction?
I find this the first, and most important question.
So... as i understand it now I'm gonna have to work to see an ad? I don't want to see an ad. Isn't that contradictory to the ads original purpose?
WAIT... i still cant wrap my head around it.. I'm gonna have to WORK to see an ad? What are these ads gonna be?!?!
When you can speak Slovenian half as good as i speak English, than you can bug me about it.
On one hand let's take my parents: They never told me i cant do anything, just warned me of the concicuances, like alcohol, when i was 16 my parents sat me down and told me how to drink, and whant no to mix and how to party. THey ASKED me not do do drugs and explaind why. My mom smokes and she said "You know what cigarettes are doing to me, smoke if you whant". --> I have never even tried to smoke or any drug what so ever. I only drink on parties and i only get buzzed.
On the other hand maney of my female frend's parents: They were 18 and they still had to be home by 10pm on Fridays (legal drinking age here is 18). So sinc the time they were 13 they would go out at 6pm, get Drunk, smoke and do drugs, than throw up and clean themselves up by 10pm to go home.
So if you think you can force a kid to do something your MORONIC and just plain dumme. The only way to make a child do something you whant for certain is convincing them it's the right thing to do and let them decide for themselves.
So parents: Warn your kids, then let them do what ever they whant and than help them pick up the peaces. After a while they'll lurn that your just looking out for them and they'll actually listen to you. Respect must be urned, not forced.
I dont know about other countries but here in Slovenia if you just cut 50% of money that goes into private pockets because of corruption the goverment would have more money that they would know what to do with.
Basicly if the rich and the powerfull stole 50% less from goverments we would have no problem what so ever.
Don't belive me? In Slovenia a kilomiter of highway costs ~8times as much as in england (i'm not shure about the number, but it's A LOT more), killometer and kilometers of roads are constantly "under repair" with no1 doing anything. The Pediatric hospital took like a decade to build and cost A LOT ... etc etc etc. But this is just the usualy way of stealing. I've been in studant politics where 10 milion € are stolen every year.
This is why I'm starting up The Pirate Party in Slovenia. We can start with the internets... than maby.. just maby we can get into parliment and if we dont steal from the goverment there will be adlist some money left to fix stuff for the people. Not just the rich and the powerfull.
Say i was one of these terrorists everybody is so worried about.
All you need is a Van(or a car, van is better), a Fertilizer bomb (easy to manufacture) you could add bags of nails around the bomb to encrease fragmentation and a nice, public place with a lot of people.
Detonate from afar, or preferably use a suacide bomber that will drive in the middle of the crowd and detonate.
Places: Parade, speaches, concerts etc
And presto, few hundred dead. Remember, terrorists do not care about consicuances or are happy to face them in order to achive their goals.
DISCLAMER: I am NOT or have i ever been a terrorist or a criminal. I have never planed or intended to plan a terrorist act.
If one whanted to kill people there is nothing stoping him/her.
I agree with B and C but...
... Do you know how easy it is to make a bomb? Google it if you dont belive me. Or just buyin a gun in america and going to a stadion and start shooting...
A:
There were no more terrorists atacks because the funders behind them aren not interested in them atm. Who these people are, is a whole other disscusion.
Not should it ever cease to exist, but when. Since capitalism is by designe a system with an end. And the end is near.
For a long time I couldent belive people could be so dumb, so branwashed.
Untill I was fowarded this site: http://www.landoverbaptist.net/
Go through it, read a few posts, your gonna shit bricks. (It's so stupid I'm not 100% it's even real even tho the amaunt of posts sugest it is)
Just to get you started:
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?p=508591 -> 5 Reasons why WOMEN should NEVER be on the Internet!, also read the first reply by Rev. Jim Osborne
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?p=505253 -> The "For NOOBS" section, Not shure if this is a White supremecy site or a church....
etc, etc.
Basicly internet isn't all good.
PS: Freedom of speach should have a "IF ($spaker_dumenss_level > $max) { mute($speaker); }" clause.
This is a joke right?
Cuz It's hard to belive people could be that retarded in this day and age.
This is almost as absurd as teaching Creationizem alongside Evolution.
Quickly? Hundreds of tabs? Are you SERIOUS?
Runing 20 tabs makes firefox run at snails pase and freeze everytime you click a button/tab. Just opening 5 links from google search will compleatly freeze firefox for ~20seconds
(I use firefox for it's live bookmarks function) (and yes 20 tabs run without problems in opera)
This mite be usefull in the developing world... The problem I see is... where would you find a salad spinner in the developing world, on second thought why would anyone in the developing world even need a salad spinner, wait, why would ANYONE need a salad spinner? Since there are probably a lot of people like me that have no idea what a salad spinner is, here's a link i found http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-salad-spinner.htm
I was a teenager just a few years ago. We started school at 7.30. I can tell you from personal experiance that i didn't learn anything until the main break at 10am. I basilcy slept until than. After 10am i was wide awake. Ask any teenager and they will agree. There have been a lot of studys and everybodys personal experianca that your clock changes when your a teenager, now it's time to start making adjustments to fit them, not force them into something just because the adults this it sould be like that.
How twisted have you Americans become that you even ask yourselfe this question! When a mans(or womans) life is at stake, money has no value! That's why we have Universal helth care, so that you dont have to care! (I'm pissed but I'm going to stop now.)
For such basic use, the distro is not that important. I moved my parents from XP to debian with 1 ten minute tutorial. They are both over 55 and with minimal computer experiance. Then i moved them again to Ubuntu with even less problems. Since everything works the same it dosent really matter if it's at the top or at the bottom, the left or the right corner. Besides you can move the toolbars around. PS: Both my parents agree that Ubuntu is easyer to use than XP, they say it's easyer to lurn because it functions are more logicaly placed. My 2 cents.
There's a third possibility which the article fails to consider: rather than one causing the other, perhaps both are caused by something else. For example, the person who has difficulty forming satisfying sexual relationships is perhaps likely to get depressed about that and to spend "proportionately more time browsing sexually gratifying websites". The whole thing gets muddy, because that can then form a feedback loop.
Are you talking about me? No seriously how do you know that about me?
I've been suffering from depression for a while now and I'm on antidepressants, and i have to agree that Internet addiction (or as in my case, adiction to chain watching movies/tv shows) is defenetly a side efect not the couse.