"literally never, ever been a single case of a man raping a woman who dressed as woman"
Just noting that you probably meant "case of a man raping a woman while dressed as a woman" or "a man, dressed as a woman, raping a woman." Can't think of a better way to parse it, but as you have it now I thought it meant "a woman dressed as a woman."
I'm in NYC. Owning a car here is far more expensive than public transportation. Cheaper train or bus fare doesn't address the reasons why I don't take mass transit.
It's not going anywhere I need to be. NYC's trains and buses service mainly Manhattan and Brooklyn, with some extension into Queens. A lot of places only see the occasional meandering and infrequent bus. I live in an area with very few direct public transit options; my driving commute is nearly an hour but Google Maps says that if I were to take two trains and two buses, I can reach work in just three hours. Six hour round trip, anyone? It's free!
This is besides the issues of rubbing shoulders and sharing airspace with tandoori chicken and that guy who thinks everyone should enjoy his taste in music. I've never felt like that stuff would be OK except that three bucks is too much for the experience; the difference between cheap and free is irrelevant. Ultimately it comes down to trains and buses don't actually get me where I need to be.
Heck, inside Manhattan the situation reverses and I'll be the first one down to the subway.
The experiments were made simpler with 3D printing, it allowed different shapes to be produced easily. But making pills in different shapes is quite doable without a 3D printer, and surface area to volume has been known to affect dissolution rate since... I don't know, the sixteenth century? Maybe earlier.
Just look at the pill all the way to the right. It's shaped like a Life Saver candy. That candy got its distinctive shape from limitations on the equipment which produced it - a pharmaceutical pill-making machine.
And pills come in only a few basic rounded shapes because it's rather difficult to get patients to swallow a large spiky pyramid. Plus dissolution rates have been manipulated for a very long time by altering the binding agents and coatings, so this "new" tech is not adding new capabilities either, except maybe individually printing pills for each patient.
There's no news here, it's just a retread of "on a computer" patents.
Sure, nearly anything complex can be mostly "fluff" if pared down to a nominal "core." May as well have written that an automobile is 99% fluff, since you only need one cylinder, a crank, and two wheels to make a vehicle...
"Hipster hate" makes a great deal of sense compared to disliking other subcultures, because those other subcultures may not appeal to you but they're marked by their own clothing, behavior, and ritual. Hipsters however don't embrace a particular ethos beyond mocking other cultures. They appropriate symbols and cruft from different eras and movements and display them in a mocking 'irony' to underscore how 'uncool' is item X or garment Y. Of course their Ray-Ban sunglasses and Smurf lunchboxes are stripped of context but there isn't much cogitation involved, just peacocking.
Put simply, hipsters are reviled across cultures because those hipsters are already hating you.
I actually came across the 2600 people at a recent Maker Faire, they're there every year in an old NYNEX telephone van. It's kind of fun browsing issues they lay out on the table, reminds me of high school. But in general they're not very good conversationalists considering they're exhibiting at a festival, more of the "scowl until you go away" sort of carnies.
I'm chiming in with some more agreement here. I speak and read in a couple of languages, although I think even seventh graders would be unimpressed. But I'm learning Mandarin now and holy crap. Pitch, inflection, and intonation matter so very much; it's like learning a language and an instrument at the same time.
Yes, some hyperbole and of course the OP could have qualified it with "westerners" or some such. But assuming that someone is not a pedant, the statement makes sense. Mandarin is difficult for an English speaker to learn.
Of course, assuming someone on/. is not a pedant is kind of stupid.
We have not eradicated polio; in fact, there's an outbreak now in Syria because of poor conditions and missed vaccinations. The vaccine is manufactured from the virus, hence why a drug company had a supply of active virus.
That is epic; I love Scott Adams. Not sure if I was just lucky to have the same idea as a master of cynicism, or if I'd read that and forgotten. (I was still trying to find my assigned locker when that strip was published.)
Just an addendum to your point about overcoming barriers to entry vis a vis webhosting etc: I've seen KS help with material products, too. (I've backed a few). All of them had a physical prototype, whether it was 3D-printed or handmade, but needed to order X thousand units before a professional company would print the game at a reasonable rate, or they needed Y thousands of dollars to order custom tooling for manufacture. And as part of the funding drive, the developers solicited input from an interested audience and tweaked the project before finalizing the design. KS is great for bridging the gap between a developed idea and production.
Yes, the devs could have gone to a bank - maybe - to secure a loan. But it's probably hard to sell such an idea to a loan officer. "See, it's a 4X game but it riffs off a swords and sorcery theme instead of a space opera." Mhm. GTFO, find a different bank.
Kickstarter serves wonderfully as a combination of advertising, market research, and startup money. In one shot the devs can gauge interest, receive input, improve the product, collect preorders, and tap into economies of scale when hiring suppliers or manufacturers.
I agree with you re monkeys. But I would have to point out that a platypus wearing a hat is completely different from a platypus sans hat. The former may be a secret agent while the latter is just an odd pet.
I'd be so tempted to write a positive review that damns them with faint praise. "I was delighted to discover that the toilets on the first floor do flush adequately, and that the water stops rising eventually and goes back down!" Or "the cheap fake strawberry air freshener reminds me of my best year in college."
Actually, they did not target the school, they do admit they hit it, and they say that their single round which hit it did not result in casualties. They also provided footage. At times they have also provided radar tracks showing Hamas rockets landing in Gaza.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...
No. The terrorists might deserve it but the innocents do not. And there are innocents in Gaza, lots of them. The civilian casualties so far have been terrible despite Israel's attempts to limit them*. There is not much that can be done to protect civilians beyond what Israel has already done.
But to nuke them is reprehensible even if it were feasible. The current option is bad but possibly the only method to secure innocent Israelis. That option would be murder.
*And despite Hamas inflating numbers and adding their own dead combatants to the list. And of course adding at least twenty-five people who they executed for suspected collusion with Israel, whom they then listed as martyrs.
No, a war crime is intentionally targeting a civilian population, such as launching explosives at population centers. It is not a war crime to strike at a launch site or munitions depot. I'm not sure if it's a war crime to establish that site or depot inside a school (twice so far according to the UN, who is not exactly motivated to care), or inside a mosque (once, to my knowledge) or inside a home (dozens of them.)
But when you need to stop the war crimes and destroy a launch site, what do you do to limit civilian casualties? Warn them every way possible and then limit fire, which is precisely what Israel has done. What Hamas has done in turn is herd civilians into the line of fire. Should Israel hold their fire? Are they obligated to shelter Hamas' civilians in addition to their own?
You're welcome to dispute this. There is ample footage of Israeli warnings followed by civilians crowding the rooftops. Just as there is footage of gunmen turning fleeing civilians back into targeted areas, and two UN reports prior to this war of Hamas using child labor (160 dead) to dig their tunnels.
This is not Dresden. Realize that this is what war looks like when when side uses restraint but must proceed, and the other side caulks the gaps with bodies.
Unfortunately, this isn't even ignoring history. This is ignoring current events. Israel gave that land to the Palestinians in return for a cessation in attacks. If their goal was to increase their territory, they wouldn't have given it away. Instead, Israel is rather unhappy because the attacks have continued.
That the attacks have continued is firmly at Hamas' feet. When they were voted into power in the last election which they permitted, they also repudiated all accords with Israel which were signed by their predecessors. That's not a way to take office and certainly not a way forward to a viable peace. It was in response to that - a takeover by a group which will not acknowledge Israel nor honor treaties - it was in response to that which led Israel to tighten the borders. Wouldn't you?
Poor analogy. Hamas has been trying very, very hard to kill lots and lots of civilians. They're just not very good at it but something will get through eventually.
A better analogy is if that schoolyard bully keeps shooting at your house with a 22, but so far you've stayed away from the windows and your dog has kept him out of the yard. It's still not a way to live and you are under no obligation to endure it for more than... I don't know, five years?
And then yes, you are completely welcome to go burn the guy's house down. Knock on the door, politely ask his parents to leave, text them, call them, leave a note, and then fire a warning shot. But yes, you can burn his house down and kill him. Because he has been trying extremely hard to kill you.
This. I'm (90%) a scientist and I model some pretty nifty stuff. Our lab desktops have consumer GPUs. We write our code, run it for a bit, and if it looks good we send it over to the supercomputing center where it's run on Tesla systems. Beats the hell out of the days (before my time) when you'd have to stick a Post-It on your monitor that says" Do Not Turn Off - Working" and then come back three weeks later to find that it's crashed.
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"literally never, ever been a single case of a man raping a woman who dressed as woman" Just noting that you probably meant "case of a man raping a woman while dressed as a woman" or "a man, dressed as a woman, raping a woman." Can't think of a better way to parse it, but as you have it now I thought it meant "a woman dressed as a woman."
I'm in NYC. Owning a car here is far more expensive than public transportation. Cheaper train or bus fare doesn't address the reasons why I don't take mass transit. It's not going anywhere I need to be. NYC's trains and buses service mainly Manhattan and Brooklyn, with some extension into Queens. A lot of places only see the occasional meandering and infrequent bus. I live in an area with very few direct public transit options; my driving commute is nearly an hour but Google Maps says that if I were to take two trains and two buses, I can reach work in just three hours. Six hour round trip, anyone? It's free! This is besides the issues of rubbing shoulders and sharing airspace with tandoori chicken and that guy who thinks everyone should enjoy his taste in music. I've never felt like that stuff would be OK except that three bucks is too much for the experience; the difference between cheap and free is irrelevant. Ultimately it comes down to trains and buses don't actually get me where I need to be. Heck, inside Manhattan the situation reverses and I'll be the first one down to the subway.
The experiments were made simpler with 3D printing, it allowed different shapes to be produced easily. But making pills in different shapes is quite doable without a 3D printer, and surface area to volume has been known to affect dissolution rate since... I don't know, the sixteenth century? Maybe earlier. Just look at the pill all the way to the right. It's shaped like a Life Saver candy. That candy got its distinctive shape from limitations on the equipment which produced it - a pharmaceutical pill-making machine. And pills come in only a few basic rounded shapes because it's rather difficult to get patients to swallow a large spiky pyramid. Plus dissolution rates have been manipulated for a very long time by altering the binding agents and coatings, so this "new" tech is not adding new capabilities either, except maybe individually printing pills for each patient. There's no news here, it's just a retread of "on a computer" patents.
Except it's not a funny punchline now that it's reality.
I guess unless you like having tumors.
At first I didn't like the idea of having tumors, but it's growing on me.
Sure, nearly anything complex can be mostly "fluff" if pared down to a nominal "core." May as well have written that an automobile is 99% fluff, since you only need one cylinder, a crank, and two wheels to make a vehicle...
"Hipster hate" makes a great deal of sense compared to disliking other subcultures, because those other subcultures may not appeal to you but they're marked by their own clothing, behavior, and ritual. Hipsters however don't embrace a particular ethos beyond mocking other cultures. They appropriate symbols and cruft from different eras and movements and display them in a mocking 'irony' to underscore how 'uncool' is item X or garment Y. Of course their Ray-Ban sunglasses and Smurf lunchboxes are stripped of context but there isn't much cogitation involved, just peacocking. Put simply, hipsters are reviled across cultures because those hipsters are already hating you.
I actually came across the 2600 people at a recent Maker Faire, they're there every year in an old NYNEX telephone van. It's kind of fun browsing issues they lay out on the table, reminds me of high school. But in general they're not very good conversationalists considering they're exhibiting at a festival, more of the "scowl until you go away" sort of carnies.
I'm sure that you'll have your name in the news if you keep speaking to grade schoolers.
I'm chiming in with some more agreement here. I speak and read in a couple of languages, although I think even seventh graders would be unimpressed. But I'm learning Mandarin now and holy crap. Pitch, inflection, and intonation matter so very much; it's like learning a language and an instrument at the same time. Yes, some hyperbole and of course the OP could have qualified it with "westerners" or some such. But assuming that someone is not a pedant, the statement makes sense. Mandarin is difficult for an English speaker to learn. Of course, assuming someone on /. is not a pedant is kind of stupid.
We have not eradicated polio; in fact, there's an outbreak now in Syria because of poor conditions and missed vaccinations. The vaccine is manufactured from the virus, hence why a drug company had a supply of active virus.
That was a SUMMARY?!
That is epic; I love Scott Adams. Not sure if I was just lucky to have the same idea as a master of cynicism, or if I'd read that and forgotten. (I was still trying to find my assigned locker when that strip was published.)
No malware is written for it, it is impervious to network attacks, and it can be restored to the original system image just by shaking.
Yet Another Responsible Gun Owner Shoots His Own Penis
The problem for the "responsible gun owner" is that they have to be responsible every. single. time. Why not use technology to help with that?
Exactly! That's why I'm designing an armored penis device.
Ah, Christ. Goodbye linebreaks. Hello unreadable block o' text.
Just an addendum to your point about overcoming barriers to entry vis a vis webhosting etc: I've seen KS help with material products, too. (I've backed a few). All of them had a physical prototype, whether it was 3D-printed or handmade, but needed to order X thousand units before a professional company would print the game at a reasonable rate, or they needed Y thousands of dollars to order custom tooling for manufacture. And as part of the funding drive, the developers solicited input from an interested audience and tweaked the project before finalizing the design. KS is great for bridging the gap between a developed idea and production. Yes, the devs could have gone to a bank - maybe - to secure a loan. But it's probably hard to sell such an idea to a loan officer. "See, it's a 4X game but it riffs off a swords and sorcery theme instead of a space opera." Mhm. GTFO, find a different bank. Kickstarter serves wonderfully as a combination of advertising, market research, and startup money. In one shot the devs can gauge interest, receive input, improve the product, collect preorders, and tap into economies of scale when hiring suppliers or manufacturers.
I agree with you re monkeys. But I would have to point out that a platypus wearing a hat is completely different from a platypus sans hat. The former may be a secret agent while the latter is just an odd pet.
I'd be so tempted to write a positive review that damns them with faint praise. "I was delighted to discover that the toilets on the first floor do flush adequately, and that the water stops rising eventually and goes back down!" Or "the cheap fake strawberry air freshener reminds me of my best year in college."
Actually, they did not target the school, they do admit they hit it, and they say that their single round which hit it did not result in casualties. They also provided footage. At times they have also provided radar tracks showing Hamas rockets landing in Gaza. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07...
No. The terrorists might deserve it but the innocents do not. And there are innocents in Gaza, lots of them. The civilian casualties so far have been terrible despite Israel's attempts to limit them*. There is not much that can be done to protect civilians beyond what Israel has already done. But to nuke them is reprehensible even if it were feasible. The current option is bad but possibly the only method to secure innocent Israelis. That option would be murder. *And despite Hamas inflating numbers and adding their own dead combatants to the list. And of course adding at least twenty-five people who they executed for suspected collusion with Israel, whom they then listed as martyrs.
No, a war crime is intentionally targeting a civilian population, such as launching explosives at population centers. It is not a war crime to strike at a launch site or munitions depot. I'm not sure if it's a war crime to establish that site or depot inside a school (twice so far according to the UN, who is not exactly motivated to care), or inside a mosque (once, to my knowledge) or inside a home (dozens of them.) But when you need to stop the war crimes and destroy a launch site, what do you do to limit civilian casualties? Warn them every way possible and then limit fire, which is precisely what Israel has done. What Hamas has done in turn is herd civilians into the line of fire. Should Israel hold their fire? Are they obligated to shelter Hamas' civilians in addition to their own? You're welcome to dispute this. There is ample footage of Israeli warnings followed by civilians crowding the rooftops. Just as there is footage of gunmen turning fleeing civilians back into targeted areas, and two UN reports prior to this war of Hamas using child labor (160 dead) to dig their tunnels. This is not Dresden. Realize that this is what war looks like when when side uses restraint but must proceed, and the other side caulks the gaps with bodies.
Unfortunately, this isn't even ignoring history. This is ignoring current events. Israel gave that land to the Palestinians in return for a cessation in attacks. If their goal was to increase their territory, they wouldn't have given it away. Instead, Israel is rather unhappy because the attacks have continued. That the attacks have continued is firmly at Hamas' feet. When they were voted into power in the last election which they permitted, they also repudiated all accords with Israel which were signed by their predecessors. That's not a way to take office and certainly not a way forward to a viable peace. It was in response to that - a takeover by a group which will not acknowledge Israel nor honor treaties - it was in response to that which led Israel to tighten the borders. Wouldn't you?
Poor analogy. Hamas has been trying very, very hard to kill lots and lots of civilians. They're just not very good at it but something will get through eventually. A better analogy is if that schoolyard bully keeps shooting at your house with a 22, but so far you've stayed away from the windows and your dog has kept him out of the yard. It's still not a way to live and you are under no obligation to endure it for more than... I don't know, five years? And then yes, you are completely welcome to go burn the guy's house down. Knock on the door, politely ask his parents to leave, text them, call them, leave a note, and then fire a warning shot. But yes, you can burn his house down and kill him. Because he has been trying extremely hard to kill you.
This. I'm (90%) a scientist and I model some pretty nifty stuff. Our lab desktops have consumer GPUs. We write our code, run it for a bit, and if it looks good we send it over to the supercomputing center where it's run on Tesla systems. Beats the hell out of the days (before my time) when you'd have to stick a Post-It on your monitor that says" Do Not Turn Off - Working" and then come back three weeks later to find that it's crashed.