This is what I was hoping someone would say. If you look at each of the "revolutions" that displaced a large portion of our workforce with some sort of automation, the automation was done & handled by what amounts to engineers today.
of the 621 people known to have come down with whooping cough in San Diego county, the vast majority (85 percent) were up to date on their immunizations.
Here's the problem with that statistic: If 90% of the people in San Diego county are up to date on their vaccinations, and the per capita of individuals was equal, then you'd end up with about 63 of the 621(or 90%) of whooping cough individuals as having their vaccinations. To truly see how well the whooping cough vaccination is working, you need to compare it to the percentage of total vaccinations. If the % is higher than the vaccinations total, you've got a problem, otherwise we can continue to blame un-vaccinated individuals as the problem.
In addition to what spire3661 said, I've not increased the amount of water I'm using because there aren't new ways to use it as there were when the pipes were installed. Even if I added a hot tub or a pool, that would only significantly increase my water usage 1x, then it would go back to levels near what I was at before.
The same cannot be said about our internet usage. New applications have continuously come out that have increased our appetite for data. When I 1st got on the internet, 56k dial up was more than adequate for anything available. Later when I started college, 1.5Mbps was far faster than anything available at the time, and so provided speeds that were generally unnecessary for all but pirating movies. Now, anything less than about 15Mbps won't cut it. And to get that, even in a large city, you are going to pay almost $100/month.
I'll take you up on that. How's a simple Google search as a citation? The ads are all for "organic pesticides". Followed by several articles & websites either offering advice in what can be used(one of which is to use tobacco water, which generally has the same effect as how this pesticide is used) or explaining how these methods are just as bad or worse than regular pesticides.
The thing I learned by going over several of the articles turned up by this search is that the difference between an "organic" farm & a non-organic one isn't that there are no pesticides or that they aren't a factory farm, but that they only use naturally occurring and often unregulated pesticides, frequently at much higher application levels. Even worse, is that some of the pesticides & pesticide methods have much the same effect as synthetic ones, mainly because the base compounds are related(like using tobacco water versus neonicotinoids, as both are based on nicotine-like chemicals). What I see is no different than homeopathic remedies vs traditional medicine.
But that's just it. For an organization to have to report that something is broken means it's not worth the cost, even if that cost is free. In addition, bug reporting is fine when you are a technical person. But think about those who actually make the decisions, they usually aren't technical and will be unwilling to report that something is broken beyond the guy who convinced them to use a broken product. And that phone call/meeting will end up with the decision maker demanding that they spend the money so at least he can have something that works, if not the entire organization.
You sir are as others have pointed out a troll. 1st, what the hell does the GOP have to do with this ruling? I get that there are 5 conservative justices vs 4 liberal ones, but that has bitten the GOP in the ass as much as it has helped. So that can't be it. 2nd, this helps a small inventor as much as it hurts him. Like others will point out, if an inventor's claim is strong & not just adding to an old idea then the inventor will be able to file a lawsuit and get not only the infringement payment, but also the law suit fees. On the other hand, if a big IP troll comes after a mom & pop hotel b/c they use wireless routers, then they can make sure that they are able to fight the suit w/out having to worry about losing their business to paying for the lawsuit.
But I would argue that criminals don't sit back and have a leisurely debate about the pros and cons of committing a crime that would engender capital punishment, prior to carrying it out. If anything such crimes are committed on a more emotional/spontaneous basis.
Yet criminals do factor in criminal punishments when they commit their crimes. If this were not the case, the murderers wouldn't try so hard to cover up what they did & wouldn't go to lengthy measures to make sure either their deed goes undiscovered or that they cannot be tied to it. We wouldn't have drug dealers running to non-extradition countries to avoid the penalties of their crimes. Gangs & other criminal organizations would enforce a code of silence on their members and those around them if they weren't worried about being caught.
I would argue that very little crime is spontaneous or emotional. Criminal spontaneity does not exist, as the crimes one is caught doing is usually only the tip of the iceberg of one's behavior. Look at it this way, how many speeding tickets are given out to people whose only time speeding was at that exact instant in which they were observed by a policeman? Isn't more likely that they had a habit of speeding & just happened to be caught that one time?
As for crimes being emotional, that's rarely the case either. The emotion most closely associated with crime would be anger, and yet how often are people angry but don't go out on an unplanned murderous rampage? Other crimes often happen with a lack of emotion. Or did you think Bernie Madoff felt anything besides greed when he ripped off all those people? Did Edwin Ramos of MS-13 have any feelings when he murdered a father & his 2 sons b/c they cut him off? And do you think this guy actually cared about the infant he raped & murdered?
Open source software is often made freely available at no costs to downloaders and embedders. There is little incentive for these users to pay anything for it, including for support, since the main reason to adopt this software is to not pay at all.
Well, one could hope that issues like this will prompt those selfish companies to begin either developing their own software & quit relying on the freely given work of others or give them an incentive to support those who are building the critical software components. My personal opinion is that if a company is going to utilize a FOSS project and do self support, that they would provide some sort of resource back to the project.
Further aggravating the issue is the claim by activists that the software code is reviewed by millions of people as it is freely available to anyone. The fallacy of this claim resides in the lack of interest of anyone to do this. Indeed, who would review other people's code for free or for fun?
I happen to know several people who like reviewing & examining other people's code, especially complex code like what one would find in OpenSSL. These are the same type of people who just so happen to be the ones fixing a lot of the bugs you run into in OSS projects. It is people like that who make OSS projects succeed. I mean Linus Torvalds wrote Linux as a hobby project, and continued to review people's additions as a part of that hobby(now he gets paid to do what he was doing for fun). I personally don't do it because my free time interests lie elsewhere, but I enjoy software development enough that I would without those other distractions. So I'd say your argument is invalid.
So how does this compare to the rights that the owners of Hobby Lobby have asserted as a means for not paying for health care plans that provide certain forms of birth control? Is asking for this guy to step down as head of Mozilla not the same as asserting that the personal beliefs of the heads of a corporation or organization set them for the organization as a whole? I ask because I don't see how you can ask Brendan Eich to step down because of his beliefs without at the same time allowing the Greens to have religious exception to Obamacare.
But here's where you are better than any anti-vacc'r. You actually did vaccinate your child, but found it introduced other problems. And I'm willing to guess that had that not happened, you would have continued to do so. Most anti-vacc'rs won't even try. They think that their inaction has less of a risk than actually taking an action.
It's not just feminist who are this way, but all special interest groups. Everybody claims they want equal treatment, but in reality what they want is preferential treatment. And the ones who get screwed over are those who belong to the formerly dominate class, but never leveraged this dominance for themselves, who now find themselves at a disadvantage because of the "equalization" that has taken place. As a straight white male in the United States, I can't compete equally with my minority peers, I have to be better than them. Otherwise, with all other quantifiable characteristics being equal, they will get the jobs & services I want.
I think that's why it would be an associate's(2 year) degree as apposed to a bachelor's(4 year). And in general, while specific technologies change quickly, the overall theory behind them really hasn't.
The other leads to mass psychosis, deluded beliefs of cosmic justice after death (so pass the money now!), and suicide bombings.
1st question: How do you know what happens after death? Last time I checked it was a one way trip & everybody who's taken it has forgotten to write. That is unless you believe in religion, then there are figures within most religions who have come back after death & told us what's awaiting. So it's not necessarily misleading or deluded to think that ultimate justice is waiting after death, since we really don't know what is going to happen.
2nd question: What's your proof that all religion leads to suicide bombings & the like? There are literally billions of religious followers, yet maybe only a few million actually support, in any shape or form, religious violence. Even those who are faced with religious persecution are likely to try to leave than "fight back". Or did you forget that is the reason for the pilgrims & several US pioneer groups? Today most religious people condemn acts of violence for all reasons. As a Mormon, I am more likely to face violence & persecution from non-religious people because of my church's stance on LBGT issues than any religious group.
There are numerous cheat methods being employed in MWO. The one that truly ruins the game for me is the Aim Bots. And they aren't hard to spot. It's especially telling when one side dominates the drop in the 1st 2 min & the damage done is exceptionally low. To top it off, when you have 1 or 2 players who get 90% of the kills for their side, you know that they were employing an Aim Bot.
There are other cheat methods, but to me that's the one that's game breaking. I've not dug into how to do it, other than doing a quick search for "MWO Cheats" & seeing all of the results that pop up.
so diluted that, statistically speaking, they may not contain a single molecule
Actually according to the Wikipedia article on homeopathy medicine that's almost exactly what it is. Yeah, there's a bit more to it about basing the medicine on what symptoms it causes & some spiritual psuedoscience, but basically the actual medicine given is "...so diluted that, statistically speaking, they may not contain a single molecule...".
But comparing it to the Creation Museum is completely ridiculous and has no place in serious discourse.
You can't relate the entire store & it's patrons to the bogus claims of the homeopathic medicines any more than you can claim that the Westboro Baptist Church is the mouth piece of the entire Christian faith or that Al Qaeda speaks for every Muslim. But you can question why unscientific claims from 1 place are any different than from another. Why does Whole Foods get a pass on selling things of dubious nature, but a religious museum does not? If you are going to impose a high standard of scientific proof on what people are allowed to believe, then shouldn't it be imposed on everything?
I think the difference between most of these health idiots and the Creation Museum is that if a doctor or other health professional sat down with most of these people to explain to them the issues, that they'd be receptive to the facts and consensus opinions.
That my friend is where you are VERY VERY wrong. These are the same kinds of people who believe that immunizations cause autism because some Playboy Bunny said so. It's the same people who will tell you that all "processed foods" are going to kill you. These people are just as much idiots as those who think God is just going to magically help them. People will cling to their beliefs no matter what & no matter how "stupid" others think they are.
You shouldn't suspect anything. The fact is we have no idea what he is really like, except that it almost certainly isn't what the media have portrayed.
The fact that Slashdot posts this shit is a sad sign of the slow decline. You wouldn't get this over at SoylentNews.
How do you know that that he isn't the prick that the media has made him out to be? Here we are talking about a guy who was willing to sacrifice confidential informants & journalists just to reveal the truth of how bad the US is. Anyone willing to push their agenda at the costs of innocents is not someone to be admired.
If SoylentNews is going to filter out news it finds distasteful, then I'll stick with Slashdot. I don't need a nerdy version of FoxNews/MSNBC.
I'm with you here. MWO is a lot of fun when the game doesn't crash & cheaters aren't rampant. I still get on my MWO company's TS3 server(House Kurita, 1st Ghost Legion) just to chat while keeping up with the latest developments in StarCitizen. Once in a while I'll spend an evening doing drops. But the rumors coming out of MWO's dev team are really distressing to those of us who aren't hardcore & dumped $1Ks on the game or are willing to start from nothing after supporting the game for well over a year.
I'm hoping that StarCitizen holds up to what it's promising. If so, it seems like it'll be a better version of Eve.
Those of us who do have guns dont get offended very easily.
While this is mostly a true statement that I support, it isn't 100%. Just ask the widow whose husband got shot by that ex-cop because he wouldn't quit texting during the previews of a movie. It wasn't in Texas, but it still applies.
To add what others say, when product placement isn't paid for you'll notice the logos are always blanked out. You can usually see this with cars, the heroes are always driving the sponsored cars & the villains will be driving their competitor's cars with the logos painted over. Another example is drinks & restaurants, the names will be parodies of real places, McWaldos for McDonalds.
I had a CS professor do something similar to this for his assignments. For each assignment he gave us a URL to submit our code to. Then he used some automated scripts to compile & run the code against his test sets & we would either get a pass or fail, based on a diff of his results to ours(any difference & it was a fail). We could submit our code as many times as we wanted up until the due date. At that point we lost 15%, but could repeat the process up until a 2nd due date at which we lost another 15%. After the 3rd due date, it was a zero, no matter what. Considering we would have multiple outstanding assignments at once, it was not hard to become swamped & miss several deadlines if one or more assignments got kicked back.
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This is what I was hoping someone would say. If you look at each of the "revolutions" that displaced a large portion of our workforce with some sort of automation, the automation was done & handled by what amounts to engineers today.
of the 621 people known to have come down with whooping cough in San Diego county, the vast majority (85 percent) were up to date on their immunizations.
Here's the problem with that statistic: If 90% of the people in San Diego county are up to date on their vaccinations, and the per capita of individuals was equal, then you'd end up with about 63 of the 621(or 90%) of whooping cough individuals as having their vaccinations. To truly see how well the whooping cough vaccination is working, you need to compare it to the percentage of total vaccinations. If the % is higher than the vaccinations total, you've got a problem, otherwise we can continue to blame un-vaccinated individuals as the problem.
I still have my copy of "The Joy of C" & have lent it out to several people trying to learn C/C++. Great book.
In addition to what spire3661 said, I've not increased the amount of water I'm using because there aren't new ways to use it as there were when the pipes were installed. Even if I added a hot tub or a pool, that would only significantly increase my water usage 1x, then it would go back to levels near what I was at before.
The same cannot be said about our internet usage. New applications have continuously come out that have increased our appetite for data. When I 1st got on the internet, 56k dial up was more than adequate for anything available. Later when I started college, 1.5Mbps was far faster than anything available at the time, and so provided speeds that were generally unnecessary for all but pirating movies. Now, anything less than about 15Mbps won't cut it. And to get that, even in a large city, you are going to pay almost $100/month.
Source or your're a shill.
I'll take you up on that. How's a simple Google search as a citation? The ads are all for "organic pesticides". Followed by several articles & websites either offering advice in what can be used(one of which is to use tobacco water, which generally has the same effect as how this pesticide is used) or explaining how these methods are just as bad or worse than regular pesticides.
The thing I learned by going over several of the articles turned up by this search is that the difference between an "organic" farm & a non-organic one isn't that there are no pesticides or that they aren't a factory farm, but that they only use naturally occurring and often unregulated pesticides, frequently at much higher application levels. Even worse, is that some of the pesticides & pesticide methods have much the same effect as synthetic ones, mainly because the base compounds are related(like using tobacco water versus neonicotinoids, as both are based on nicotine-like chemicals). What I see is no different than homeopathic remedies vs traditional medicine.
But that's just it. For an organization to have to report that something is broken means it's not worth the cost, even if that cost is free. In addition, bug reporting is fine when you are a technical person. But think about those who actually make the decisions, they usually aren't technical and will be unwilling to report that something is broken beyond the guy who convinced them to use a broken product. And that phone call/meeting will end up with the decision maker demanding that they spend the money so at least he can have something that works, if not the entire organization.
You sir are as others have pointed out a troll. 1st, what the hell does the GOP have to do with this ruling? I get that there are 5 conservative justices vs 4 liberal ones, but that has bitten the GOP in the ass as much as it has helped. So that can't be it. 2nd, this helps a small inventor as much as it hurts him. Like others will point out, if an inventor's claim is strong & not just adding to an old idea then the inventor will be able to file a lawsuit and get not only the infringement payment, but also the law suit fees. On the other hand, if a big IP troll comes after a mom & pop hotel b/c they use wireless routers, then they can make sure that they are able to fight the suit w/out having to worry about losing their business to paying for the lawsuit.
But I would argue that criminals don't sit back and have a leisurely debate about the pros and cons of committing a crime that would engender capital punishment, prior to carrying it out. If anything such crimes are committed on a more emotional/spontaneous basis.
Yet criminals do factor in criminal punishments when they commit their crimes. If this were not the case, the murderers wouldn't try so hard to cover up what they did & wouldn't go to lengthy measures to make sure either their deed goes undiscovered or that they cannot be tied to it. We wouldn't have drug dealers running to non-extradition countries to avoid the penalties of their crimes. Gangs & other criminal organizations would enforce a code of silence on their members and those around them if they weren't worried about being caught.
I would argue that very little crime is spontaneous or emotional. Criminal spontaneity does not exist, as the crimes one is caught doing is usually only the tip of the iceberg of one's behavior. Look at it this way, how many speeding tickets are given out to people whose only time speeding was at that exact instant in which they were observed by a policeman? Isn't more likely that they had a habit of speeding & just happened to be caught that one time?
As for crimes being emotional, that's rarely the case either. The emotion most closely associated with crime would be anger, and yet how often are people angry but don't go out on an unplanned murderous rampage? Other crimes often happen with a lack of emotion. Or did you think Bernie Madoff felt anything besides greed when he ripped off all those people? Did Edwin Ramos of MS-13 have any feelings when he murdered a father & his 2 sons b/c they cut him off? And do you think this guy actually cared about the infant he raped & murdered?
Well, considering what deSade was accused of & what this guy was convicted of, I'd say deSade is probably this guy's saint.
Open source software is often made freely available at no costs to downloaders and embedders. There is little incentive for these users to pay anything for it, including for support, since the main reason to adopt this software is to not pay at all.
Well, one could hope that issues like this will prompt those selfish companies to begin either developing their own software & quit relying on the freely given work of others or give them an incentive to support those who are building the critical software components. My personal opinion is that if a company is going to utilize a FOSS project and do self support, that they would provide some sort of resource back to the project.
Further aggravating the issue is the claim by activists that the software code is reviewed by millions of people as it is freely available to anyone. The fallacy of this claim resides in the lack of interest of anyone to do this. Indeed, who would review other people's code for free or for fun?
I happen to know several people who like reviewing & examining other people's code, especially complex code like what one would find in OpenSSL. These are the same type of people who just so happen to be the ones fixing a lot of the bugs you run into in OSS projects. It is people like that who make OSS projects succeed. I mean Linus Torvalds wrote Linux as a hobby project, and continued to review people's additions as a part of that hobby(now he gets paid to do what he was doing for fun). I personally don't do it because my free time interests lie elsewhere, but I enjoy software development enough that I would without those other distractions. So I'd say your argument is invalid.
So how does this compare to the rights that the owners of Hobby Lobby have asserted as a means for not paying for health care plans that provide certain forms of birth control? Is asking for this guy to step down as head of Mozilla not the same as asserting that the personal beliefs of the heads of a corporation or organization set them for the organization as a whole? I ask because I don't see how you can ask Brendan Eich to step down because of his beliefs without at the same time allowing the Greens to have religious exception to Obamacare.
But here's where you are better than any anti-vacc'r. You actually did vaccinate your child, but found it introduced other problems. And I'm willing to guess that had that not happened, you would have continued to do so. Most anti-vacc'rs won't even try. They think that their inaction has less of a risk than actually taking an action.
It's not just feminist who are this way, but all special interest groups. Everybody claims they want equal treatment, but in reality what they want is preferential treatment. And the ones who get screwed over are those who belong to the formerly dominate class, but never leveraged this dominance for themselves, who now find themselves at a disadvantage because of the "equalization" that has taken place. As a straight white male in the United States, I can't compete equally with my minority peers, I have to be better than them. Otherwise, with all other quantifiable characteristics being equal, they will get the jobs & services I want.
I think that's why it would be an associate's(2 year) degree as apposed to a bachelor's(4 year). And in general, while specific technologies change quickly, the overall theory behind them really hasn't.
The other leads to mass psychosis, deluded beliefs of cosmic justice after death (so pass the money now!), and suicide bombings.
1st question: How do you know what happens after death? Last time I checked it was a one way trip & everybody who's taken it has forgotten to write. That is unless you believe in religion, then there are figures within most religions who have come back after death & told us what's awaiting. So it's not necessarily misleading or deluded to think that ultimate justice is waiting after death, since we really don't know what is going to happen.
2nd question: What's your proof that all religion leads to suicide bombings & the like? There are literally billions of religious followers, yet maybe only a few million actually support, in any shape or form, religious violence. Even those who are faced with religious persecution are likely to try to leave than "fight back". Or did you forget that is the reason for the pilgrims & several US pioneer groups? Today most religious people condemn acts of violence for all reasons. As a Mormon, I am more likely to face violence & persecution from non-religious people because of my church's stance on LBGT issues than any religious group.
There are numerous cheat methods being employed in MWO. The one that truly ruins the game for me is the Aim Bots. And they aren't hard to spot. It's especially telling when one side dominates the drop in the 1st 2 min & the damage done is exceptionally low. To top it off, when you have 1 or 2 players who get 90% of the kills for their side, you know that they were employing an Aim Bot.
There are other cheat methods, but to me that's the one that's game breaking. I've not dug into how to do it, other than doing a quick search for "MWO Cheats" & seeing all of the results that pop up.
so diluted that, statistically speaking, they may not contain a single molecule
Actually according to the Wikipedia article on homeopathy medicine that's almost exactly what it is. Yeah, there's a bit more to it about basing the medicine on what symptoms it causes & some spiritual psuedoscience, but basically the actual medicine given is "...so diluted that, statistically speaking, they may not contain a single molecule...".
But comparing it to the Creation Museum is completely ridiculous and has no place in serious discourse.
You can't relate the entire store & it's patrons to the bogus claims of the homeopathic medicines any more than you can claim that the Westboro Baptist Church is the mouth piece of the entire Christian faith or that Al Qaeda speaks for every Muslim. But you can question why unscientific claims from 1 place are any different than from another. Why does Whole Foods get a pass on selling things of dubious nature, but a religious museum does not? If you are going to impose a high standard of scientific proof on what people are allowed to believe, then shouldn't it be imposed on everything?
I think the difference between most of these health idiots and the Creation Museum is that if a doctor or other health professional sat down with most of these people to explain to them the issues, that they'd be receptive to the facts and consensus opinions.
That my friend is where you are VERY VERY wrong. These are the same kinds of people who believe that immunizations cause autism because some Playboy Bunny said so. It's the same people who will tell you that all "processed foods" are going to kill you. These people are just as much idiots as those who think God is just going to magically help them. People will cling to their beliefs no matter what & no matter how "stupid" others think they are.
Actually, RTFA. It's redacted there, so the summary has it as it was copied from TFA. If you don't like it here, leave, nobody will miss you.
You shouldn't suspect anything. The fact is we have no idea what he is really like, except that it almost certainly isn't what the media have portrayed.
The fact that Slashdot posts this shit is a sad sign of the slow decline. You wouldn't get this over at SoylentNews.
How do you know that that he isn't the prick that the media has made him out to be? Here we are talking about a guy who was willing to sacrifice confidential informants & journalists just to reveal the truth of how bad the US is. Anyone willing to push their agenda at the costs of innocents is not someone to be admired.
If SoylentNews is going to filter out news it finds distasteful, then I'll stick with Slashdot. I don't need a nerdy version of FoxNews/MSNBC.
I'm with you here. MWO is a lot of fun when the game doesn't crash & cheaters aren't rampant. I still get on my MWO company's TS3 server(House Kurita, 1st Ghost Legion) just to chat while keeping up with the latest developments in StarCitizen. Once in a while I'll spend an evening doing drops. But the rumors coming out of MWO's dev team are really distressing to those of us who aren't hardcore & dumped $1Ks on the game or are willing to start from nothing after supporting the game for well over a year.
I'm hoping that StarCitizen holds up to what it's promising. If so, it seems like it'll be a better version of Eve.
For the Dragon!
Those of us who do have guns dont get offended very easily.
While this is mostly a true statement that I support, it isn't 100%. Just ask the widow whose husband got shot by that ex-cop because he wouldn't quit texting during the previews of a movie. It wasn't in Texas, but it still applies.
To add what others say, when product placement isn't paid for you'll notice the logos are always blanked out. You can usually see this with cars, the heroes are always driving the sponsored cars & the villains will be driving their competitor's cars with the logos painted over. Another example is drinks & restaurants, the names will be parodies of real places, McWaldos for McDonalds.
I had a CS professor do something similar to this for his assignments. For each assignment he gave us a URL to submit our code to. Then he used some automated scripts to compile & run the code against his test sets & we would either get a pass or fail, based on a diff of his results to ours(any difference & it was a fail). We could submit our code as many times as we wanted up until the due date. At that point we lost 15%, but could repeat the process up until a 2nd due date at which we lost another 15%. After the 3rd due date, it was a zero, no matter what. Considering we would have multiple outstanding assignments at once, it was not hard to become swamped & miss several deadlines if one or more assignments got kicked back.