I think it was Frederic Bastiat who said that if a person doesn't have food his primary goal won't be learning to read; ah, you miserable creatures indeed.
especially when whoever she is works in a profession where perception is everything.
Isn't that the case with most professions? As long as you can preserve the perception that YOU aren't the screw-up | problem | at fault, you can lever that perception into a series of promotions over you co-workers dead bodies.
But the difference is that in this particular case you are the screw-up | problem | at fault if you're nearing 40, perception over and out.
According to imdb Maggie Q was born in 1979; happens to be the year I was born in and my age is no where near 40. Calling withholding her age a lie is a bit harsh, especially when whoever she is works in a profession where perception is everything.
For me it's the fact that it keeps transmitting a "Hello World!" for no practical reason, guess I'm just old fashioned; I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling of safety because it's disabled, for that I have a ridiculously long and complicated password.
Doh, centered screens are the most efficient use of space when you're minimizing the device's total size; I've quite possibly seen this in effect in all sorts of things framed and hanging on a wall, but here's me thinking no one else has ever had this idea before so I'll go and patent it.
They didn't look sorta like the iPad until the very last design version before they were dumped. And even then they didn't have the centred screen Apple claims (which can clearly be seen in the design patents). But it had that whacky wedge shape. Maybe Samsung should use that.
With patent laws as they are I'd probably be allowed today to patent a centered screen or one with golden rule aspect ratio, being able to patent something is different from being allowed to enforce it.
But I'll allow that the Crunchpad had a simpler design than other tablets even in its clunky prototype form. But that's also because it wasn't really a tablet - it was a web-based e-reader. It's easier to make a clean design when your gadget has only one function.
I'd argue that it's easier to make a clean design when you have touchscreens and the ability to embed proper components in a thin flat pad. If Apple really invented something it's how to make people buy pricier quality items, but they still shouldn't be able to utilize a patent for as-seen-on star trek.
There's a word for this article and it isn't news and I, as a nerd, am not interested. The article and ensuing samsung vs ipad back and forth is debate for hillbillies; we've even got the chap from Missouri who couldn't spell moron taking part.
They're not really measuring Obama supporters, they're measuring Obama supporters who are stupid enough to enter the security scorpion pit that is Facebook apps. This has to be a smaller, less technically minded subset of Obama's actual supporters.
I guess we now know what the millions of monkeys are doing after Shakespeare.
Implicit support of fascist dictators by giving them military aid, as compared to implicit support of them on the Left by being against their forced removal. Such hypocrisy from you.
Okay, I guess military aid to dictators is good use of your tax dollars. Most people on the Left are more interested in stopping genocides etc. and not so much running up the costs of the military industrial complex rackets.
And as for DDT, what are you arguing here? "there's no point in using anti-biotics because microbes evolve to tolerate them"? Is that your idea of a useful debating point?
You throw a number for death toll, I respond. I'm against blanket use of anti-biotics for sure, it's counterproductive exactly because it creates resistant strains of bacteria. That's what's happened to DDT with it's prolific use in agriculture because that's where the money and the problems were (malaria is just a soft target right wingers keep hitting on since they read about it in an Ann Coulter -book). Oh, and did you hear; DDT causes health and environmental issues too.
Spare me the rhetorical propaganda why don't you, Implicit support of fascist dictators?!? when many of them have been put in power by the West and receive military aid? It also just warms the cockles of my hart when some well off Libyan associate parrots stuff most likely learned in a western university, will make a good public official worth bribing to get the ever important permanent temporary troops installed.
I think the idea that DDT in constant use would have worked indefinitely against malaria is a false premise, it's why we keep having to invent new pesticides in the first place. But otoh law of unintended consequences is not something that the people producing mass quantities of pesticides shine in either, well, just look at DDT.
Well obviously this is cause enough to destroy the environment. I really find it disgusting how much human suffering is ok to secure oil production and rights, but if you can link how ever strenuously an incident to environmental protection it's suddenly a policy changer. Surely it's not like the people in 3rd world countries don't get fucked ever which way by corporations legislated to be sociopaths?
[Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
[Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
Maybe we could ask the Russians for their medical data on their extended duration trips. They put people on Mir for far more than 6 months at a time specifically to gather data on the medical effects of a trip-to-Mars length stay in space.
Or we could sit and pout about not having run the same experiments.
Maybe the Russian cosmonauts are predominantly gay, hence no vision issues.
I'm sure it's only a question of time before the suitable sharks are genetically engineered (couldn't resist). Seriously though, the first step is to establish laser communication with mars; after that start to worry about building a laser beam of gigantic energy and not having it wipe out civilization as we know it if it's misaligned by a micrometer.
Real casinos are not required to keep cash on hand for the full value of the chips they give players, and the reason is quite simple - the games are designed such that the casino will always make money! This is even more true in a virtual casino! Every once in a while, someone wins a lot of money, but it's usually at the expense of other players or nothing that can't be recovered in a day or two. However, now that the cat is out of the bag, a lot of players may end up trying to cash out at once.
I guess the point is that they should've called it a bank, everything would have been quite alright then:)
My point was that the patient carries the MRSA on their skin to the hospital where it gains entrance to the blood stream or the soft tissue when the skin is punctured for any reason. Hospitals are like the toilet seat since you'd expect them to be just full of all sorts of issues, but similarly they're not really a good growing ground for bacteria by design; especially if you compare them to other things like schools, daycare, a regular office space etc.
I think hospital infections are a misnomer since the patients in many cases have contracted them elsewhere and as seagull dung tells us that the resistent bacteria are spreading; they contagions are just more likely to cause problems for the carrier at a hospital because of open wounds and compromised immune systems.
As a side note, my farther once had a small surgical operation on his scalp postponed for winter just to ward off infections. So I guess better move to Norway or the north pole if this really becomes an issue:)
Requires government oversight so that kills it for the US and the "free" world. The problem with these shortsighted practices is that there are fucktards in high places who hide behind assinine arguments where micro and macro swap places; surely giving porky antibiotics can't cause a global epidemic or a person driving any distance longer then their driveway can't cause global warming etc. Unless there is a working system of electroshock therapy (fines) and incentives (subsidies if doing the right thing) the issue won't solve itself.
I wonder how we ever managed to get rid of CFCs, but what doesn't surprise me is the fact that people conveniently forget how that would've been a global catastrophe unless everyone did their utmost to stop using them.
...And despite popularizing the unitary "var++" (eg. in for() loops), rather than the semantically more consistent "++var"...
You do realise that ++var and var++ are both valid C and do different things, right?
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I think it was Frederic Bastiat who said that if a person doesn't have food his primary goal won't be learning to read; ah, you miserable creatures indeed.
Isn't that the case with most professions? As long as you can preserve the perception that YOU aren't the screw-up | problem | at fault, you can lever that perception into a series of promotions over you co-workers dead bodies.
But the difference is that in this particular case you are the screw-up | problem | at fault if you're nearing 40, perception over and out.
Maggie Q?
According to imdb Maggie Q was born in 1979; happens to be the year I was born in and my age is no where near 40. Calling withholding her age a lie is a bit harsh, especially when whoever she is works in a profession where perception is everything.
Why would you disable SSID advertising?
For me it's the fact that it keeps transmitting a "Hello World!" for no practical reason, guess I'm just old fashioned; I don't get a warm fuzzy feeling of safety because it's disabled, for that I have a ridiculously long and complicated password.
Doh, centered screens are the most efficient use of space when you're minimizing the device's total size; I've quite possibly seen this in effect in all sorts of things framed and hanging on a wall, but here's me thinking no one else has ever had this idea before so I'll go and patent it.
They didn't look sorta like the iPad until the very last design version before they were dumped. And even then they didn't have the centred screen Apple claims (which can clearly be seen in the design patents). But it had that whacky wedge shape. Maybe Samsung should use that.
With patent laws as they are I'd probably be allowed today to patent a centered screen or one with golden rule aspect ratio, being able to patent something is different from being allowed to enforce it.
But I'll allow that the Crunchpad had a simpler design than other tablets even in its clunky prototype form. But that's also because it wasn't really a tablet - it was a web-based e-reader. It's easier to make a clean design when your gadget has only one function.
I'd argue that it's easier to make a clean design when you have touchscreens and the ability to embed proper components in a thin flat pad. If Apple really invented something it's how to make people buy pricier quality items, but they still shouldn't be able to utilize a patent for as-seen-on star trek.
There's a word for this article and it isn't news and I, as a nerd, am not interested. The article and ensuing samsung vs ipad back and forth is debate for hillbillies; we've even got the chap from Missouri who couldn't spell moron taking part.
They're not really measuring Obama supporters, they're measuring Obama supporters who are stupid enough to enter the security scorpion pit that is Facebook apps. This has to be a smaller, less technically minded subset of Obama's actual supporters.
I guess we now know what the millions of monkeys are doing after Shakespeare.
Implicit support of fascist dictators by giving them military aid, as compared to implicit support of them on the Left by being against their forced removal. Such hypocrisy from you.
Okay, I guess military aid to dictators is good use of your tax dollars. Most people on the Left are more interested in stopping genocides etc. and not so much running up the costs of the military industrial complex rackets.
And as for DDT, what are you arguing here? "there's no point in using anti-biotics because microbes evolve to tolerate them"? Is that your idea of a useful debating point?
You throw a number for death toll, I respond. I'm against blanket use of anti-biotics for sure, it's counterproductive exactly because it creates resistant strains of bacteria. That's what's happened to DDT with it's prolific use in agriculture because that's where the money and the problems were (malaria is just a soft target right wingers keep hitting on since they read about it in an Ann Coulter -book). Oh, and did you hear; DDT causes health and environmental issues too.
Spare me the rhetorical propaganda why don't you, Implicit support of fascist dictators?!? when many of them have been put in power by the West and receive military aid? It also just warms the cockles of my hart when some well off Libyan associate parrots stuff most likely learned in a western university, will make a good public official worth bribing to get the ever important permanent temporary troops installed.
I think the idea that DDT in constant use would have worked indefinitely against malaria is a false premise, it's why we keep having to invent new pesticides in the first place. But otoh law of unintended consequences is not something that the people producing mass quantities of pesticides shine in either, well, just look at DDT.
Well obviously this is cause enough to destroy the environment. I really find it disgusting how much human suffering is ok to secure oil production and rights, but if you can link how ever strenuously an incident to environmental protection it's suddenly a policy changer. Surely it's not like the people in 3rd world countries don't get fucked ever which way by corporations legislated to be sociopaths?
[Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]
Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
[Everyone freezes right in their tracks]
Trinity: What did you just say?
Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.
Trinity: What did you see?
Cypher: What happened?
Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
Neo: What is it?
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
Wow I understood almost none of that - I'm assuming I should mod this up...
You must be new here
Maybe we could ask the Russians for their medical data on their extended duration trips. They put people on Mir for far more than 6 months at a time specifically to gather data on the medical effects of a trip-to-Mars length stay in space.
Or we could sit and pout about not having run the same experiments.
Maybe the Russian cosmonauts are predominantly gay, hence no vision issues.
I got the "Blue Oyster Bar" song in my head when reading, oddly fitting.
I'm sure it's only a question of time before the suitable sharks are genetically engineered (couldn't resist). Seriously though, the first step is to establish laser communication with mars; after that start to worry about building a laser beam of gigantic energy and not having it wipe out civilization as we know it if it's misaligned by a micrometer.
Wouldn't be surprised if this was a sweetheart deal somehow reimbursed, all to make headlines of how Casio fears Microsoft patents when using Linux.
Real casinos are not required to keep cash on hand for the full value of the chips they give players, and the reason is quite simple - the games are designed such that the casino will always make money! This is even more true in a virtual casino! Every once in a while, someone wins a lot of money, but it's usually at the expense of other players or nothing that can't be recovered in a day or two. However, now that the cat is out of the bag, a lot of players may end up trying to cash out at once.
I guess the point is that they should've called it a bank, everything would have been quite alright then :)
My point was that the patient carries the MRSA on their skin to the hospital where it gains entrance to the blood stream or the soft tissue when the skin is punctured for any reason. Hospitals are like the toilet seat since you'd expect them to be just full of all sorts of issues, but similarly they're not really a good growing ground for bacteria by design; especially if you compare them to other things like schools, daycare, a regular office space etc.
I think hospital infections are a misnomer since the patients in many cases have contracted them elsewhere and as seagull dung tells us that the resistent bacteria are spreading; they contagions are just more likely to cause problems for the carrier at a hospital because of open wounds and compromised immune systems.
As a side note, my farther once had a small surgical operation on his scalp postponed for winter just to ward off infections. So I guess better move to Norway or the north pole if this really becomes an issue :)
Requires government oversight so that kills it for the US and the "free" world. The problem with these shortsighted practices is that there are fucktards in high places who hide behind assinine arguments where micro and macro swap places; surely giving porky antibiotics can't cause a global epidemic or a person driving any distance longer then their driveway can't cause global warming etc. Unless there is a working system of electroshock therapy (fines) and incentives (subsidies if doing the right thing) the issue won't solve itself.
I wonder how we ever managed to get rid of CFCs, but what doesn't surprise me is the fact that people conveniently forget how that would've been a global catastrophe unless everyone did their utmost to stop using them.
Fancy modern crap has the upper hand with missiles that follow maps of surface features without any outside guidance.
I for one welcome /.'s new corporate sponsors; now if we could only make sure everyone tuning in can read.
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You do realise that ++var and var++ are both valid C and do different things, right?
Q.E.D.