As a left wing pro-lifer who has been against the death penalty, euthanasia, abortion and poverty for 20 years I can tell you that I believe is is a wholly unnecessary and selfish medical procedure given the amount of children in foster care and orphanages in the world. It is only about 50% likely to work for a procedure that can cost 10's of thousands of dollars that would be far better spent giving people life-saving and preventive medical care. The fact that 100's of individual human beings have to be created and destroyed for one human life to be implanted is monstrous. The fact that some people can elect to have plastic surgery, fertility treatments and other unnecessary procedures while other people including children die of easily preventable diseases is shameful.
Adult stem cell research is only at a nascent stage though, primarily because you had biomedical researchers acting like children in the US and elsewhere that banned embryonic stem cell research. Some went abroad but many railed against the "substitute" stem cells claiming for purposes of research or therapy they were inferior or even worthless and refused to work on adult stem cell research out of "principle". Adult stem cells can in fact be manipulated to acting like embryonic stem cells and in fact offer a far more likely therapeutic target since they can be derived from the person receiving treatment. There are now some emerging theories that tie the malfunction of adult (somatic) stem cells to things like cancer, type II diabetes and even some muscular degenerative diseases. These are the sort of things that we can realistically solve with stem cell research and it does not matter which kind, so why would they use embryonic stem cells? To us pro-lifers out there on the left this is a further dehumanization of human life and is inexcusable on both scientific and moral grounds. No embryonic stem cell research has ever produced a viable therapy but adult stem cells have.
Shame on Barack Obama for being morally indifferent to human life and scientifically illiterate on this issue.
Americans importing half of the solar systems foodstuffs have grown so large that the average city block in the 20th century barely contains the girth of one 5000 ton Homo Americanus Gigantus. This displacement of mass has caused a localized gravitational disturbance in the curvature of spacetime large enough that places like the former state of Texas are now 200 feet below the 2000 BCE sea level. If it wasn't for the mile high tall walls with lasers on them surrounding the US to keep out aliens it would be completely underwater except for parts of Colorado.
Well if you own the book look for a copy on piratebay because honestly it took me 8 hours to roughly do 2 rare out of print 400 page books. Don't reinvent the wheel. I shared the two books for a day or so and had at one point people in a dozen different countries downloading just those two books. Who knows, depending on your library, if you take the time to scan something in and share it you could make a real difference to a lot of people who would have no ability to get that information otherwise. I am still trying to get these for instance and would really appreciate someone sharing them, I don't think Oppenheimer would mind.
Doctors have been over-prescribing drugs for commission, doing unnecessary surgery for profit and killing people through brazen ineptitude for too long. The party is over and doctors are going to be treated like naughty children because they are acting like it.
The point is not how many I read, the point is that I often use engineering handbooks which stand at 400 meg plus. I still model things on paper when I am away from my workstation or just want to take a rest from staring at an LCD screen, which I read on as well. With the Kindle at some point in the day I would have to delete a locally stored book and than download it again. With any other e-book reader with an SD card slot that is not needed. I don't think it is stupid to not want to download books over and over again on a daily or even weekly basis.
For leisure reading sure, get a kindle if you like the DRM. But it is just a toy to me.
If 2 gigs is enough for your "library" than I would guess you are not using handbooks which can encroach 400 megs a piece. If I had to wait for a handbook of that size to download over and over again with no way of offloading it unto media I would throw the fucking thing against the wall. My Sony PRS-700 has 16 gigs of memory at all times and I carry 6 8 gig SDHC cards with me when needs be. My library spans over 20,000 volumes of public, pirated and paid for e-books and the Amazon Kindle 2 is simple inadequate for anything beyond a few hundred books, imho.
As a grad student I agree in part with your portrayal of us but I would contend that the majority of those who install that crap are not CS or engineering folk. The worse I personally have heard of is an Anthropology grad student's lab machine which was purchased under the pretense it would be used for some seemingly beneficent purpose on campus but was instead taken home and used through a VPN as a personal computer. My friend works IT at the university and explained how bad it got; three zombies, a multitude of Trojan horses, and a plethora of viruses. The anthro grad student had bitched that it was getting slower and brought it back to campus when it tried to infect the entire department, red flags went up everywhere and the IT guys were running across campus with Axes to on a search and destroy mission for that machine. Well that is how my friend describes it after aa few porters. Needless to say, the guy got a locked down computer after that.
If your manufacturing company hasn't at least experimented with some web applications, I am sorry. It makes things a lot easier in regards to manufacturing engineering design when you do not have to worry about a moving or proprietary platform, or worse proprietary hardware interfaces and magic black boxes. A web application can run on the intranet you know, and web programmers are far cheaper and plentiful than C and Java folk. Easier to outsource, in other words. I hope to god you are not a programmer.
Um, who said anything about entertainment?
You have one IT guy, lol. If you are not going to invest in infrastructure be prepared to deal with a "standard" substandard interface for years to come.
I have not had a virus on any computer I have maintained let alone needed to nuke and reinstall everything except due to botched drivers or Windows upgrades.
I still think you should find a new job but from the sounds of it you are where you belong. Enjoy the locked computers I hope they are spill proof for your drool, you dolt.
Yeah, but I have never had the need to combine the device I read textbooks, research papers and novels on with the one I surf the web with. When I am using a set of textbooks on an engineering problem I have needed to go outside my Sony Ebook reader's 8000 volume library maybe a handful of times. It may be different for programmers who like to code in one window and search for algorithms in another but as a mechanical and electrical engineering student I personally have no need for web access.
So we will have people who are 99% South Park and Family Guy DNA. Maybe when they dream they will be playing some MMORPG or something.
We live at the advent of the era that will see space colonization, the grand unified theory and nanobots and some people who have access to millions of volumes of books, textbooks and research papers choose instead to download porn, cartoons and video games. It is pathetic the amount of space utilized to host all the crap people use to entertain themselves. Are people addicted to entertainment nowadays? Isn't it more satisfying to go to sleep knowing that you enriched yourself and humanity through your work?
Maybe you should find a new job or career. Seriously, the idea that companies should control every installed application is so 1990's and impossible with the advent of web applications.
You obviously have not hung around a lot of scientists or engineers in academia lately with the economic downturn. This guy sounds sane compared to some of the people I run into every day. There are more and more desperate people out there trying to show that they deserve their jobs.
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Why would you think that the would not be proud of the places they work. There are of course egregious human rights abuses but the same could of been said of American plants before the unions stepped in and a nascent labor movement is arising in mainland China to speak up for the working class and if it is like every other movement we have seen worldwide it will be unstoppable. China deserves the reward of their hard work and the rest of the world needs to realize that exporting virtual slavery for imports might have reached an end. Each nation will be expected to produce more and more of its own goods and services as globalization is not imperialism, although some countries esp the western ones have been treating it as such. Globalization has produced economies, industries and new classes of industrial workers, capitalist entrepreneurs and liberal middle class folk in countries like China which had 90% of its population farming the land 50 years ago. These new class dynamics will lend themselves to the gradual liberalization of the countries they are arising till they may reach the tipping point where the reigning kleptocracies, dictatorships and theocracies will be threatened with revolution if they ignore the rising cause and practice of liberty these classes are growing accustomed to.
A company I worked for looked at the record of the Texas justice department in dealing with intellectual property rights in regards to technology we were developing and almost instantly got, "You would be better served to expand your operations elsewhere"
Seriously, some of those southern states should try to succeed from the union because this time we might be better off without them.
Agreed, the scrolling news channels are only on in my house if the world sounds like it is going to end to sane people. The scrolling news started after 9/11 didn't they? Why are they still scrolling, hasn't the crisis passed?
The kindle is far less robust than the Sony Reader 5xx series in terms of being able to be tossed around, scratch resistance and options for memory. With A SDHC and a Sony Mem Slot you can carry around 16 gigs of books, try that with a kindle. The only thing I would ever use a Kindle for is the Wikipedia anywhere feature.
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As a left wing pro-lifer who has been against the death penalty, euthanasia, abortion and poverty for 20 years I can tell you that I believe is is a wholly unnecessary and selfish medical procedure given the amount of children in foster care and orphanages in the world. It is only about 50% likely to work for a procedure that can cost 10's of thousands of dollars that would be far better spent giving people life-saving and preventive medical care. The fact that 100's of individual human beings have to be created and destroyed for one human life to be implanted is monstrous. The fact that some people can elect to have plastic surgery, fertility treatments and other unnecessary procedures while other people including children die of easily preventable diseases is shameful.
Adult stem cell research is only at a nascent stage though, primarily because you had biomedical researchers acting like children in the US and elsewhere that banned embryonic stem cell research. Some went abroad but many railed against the "substitute" stem cells claiming for purposes of research or therapy they were inferior or even worthless and refused to work on adult stem cell research out of "principle". Adult stem cells can in fact be manipulated to acting like embryonic stem cells and in fact offer a far more likely therapeutic target since they can be derived from the person receiving treatment. There are now some emerging theories that tie the malfunction of adult (somatic) stem cells to things like cancer, type II diabetes and even some muscular degenerative diseases. These are the sort of things that we can realistically solve with stem cell research and it does not matter which kind, so why would they use embryonic stem cells? To us pro-lifers out there on the left this is a further dehumanization of human life and is inexcusable on both scientific and moral grounds. No embryonic stem cell research has ever produced a viable therapy but adult stem cells have.
Shame on Barack Obama for being morally indifferent to human life and scientifically illiterate on this issue.
Americans importing half of the solar systems foodstuffs have grown so large that the average city block in the 20th century barely contains the girth of one 5000 ton Homo Americanus Gigantus. This displacement of mass has caused a localized gravitational disturbance in the curvature of spacetime large enough that places like the former state of Texas are now 200 feet below the 2000 BCE sea level. If it wasn't for the mile high tall walls with lasers on them surrounding the US to keep out aliens it would be completely underwater except for parts of Colorado.
What are you going to use to power the methane tankers to get out there and back?
Well if you own the book look for a copy on piratebay because honestly it took me 8 hours to roughly do 2 rare out of print 400 page books. Don't reinvent the wheel. I shared the two books for a day or so and had at one point people in a dozen different countries downloading just those two books. Who knows, depending on your library, if you take the time to scan something in and share it you could make a real difference to a lot of people who would have no ability to get that information otherwise. I am still trying to get these for instance and would really appreciate someone sharing them, I don't think Oppenheimer would mind.
Ditto on my parent's account, just tried it out. They would cancel if they did not have the Netflix streaming box thingamajig.
Doctors have been over-prescribing drugs for commission, doing unnecessary surgery for profit and killing people through brazen ineptitude for too long. The party is over and doctors are going to be treated like naughty children because they are acting like it.
The point is not how many I read, the point is that I often use engineering handbooks which stand at 400 meg plus. I still model things on paper when I am away from my workstation or just want to take a rest from staring at an LCD screen, which I read on as well. With the Kindle at some point in the day I would have to delete a locally stored book and than download it again. With any other e-book reader with an SD card slot that is not needed. I don't think it is stupid to not want to download books over and over again on a daily or even weekly basis.
For leisure reading sure, get a kindle if you like the DRM. But it is just a toy to me.
If 2 gigs is enough for your "library" than I would guess you are not using handbooks which can encroach 400 megs a piece. If I had to wait for a handbook of that size to download over and over again with no way of offloading it unto media I would throw the fucking thing against the wall. My Sony PRS-700 has 16 gigs of memory at all times and I carry 6 8 gig SDHC cards with me when needs be. My library spans over 20,000 volumes of public, pirated and paid for e-books and the Amazon Kindle 2 is simple inadequate for anything beyond a few hundred books, imho.
As a grad student I agree in part with your portrayal of us but I would contend that the majority of those who install that crap are not CS or engineering folk. The worse I personally have heard of is an Anthropology grad student's lab machine which was purchased under the pretense it would be used for some seemingly beneficent purpose on campus but was instead taken home and used through a VPN as a personal computer. My friend works IT at the university and explained how bad it got; three zombies, a multitude of Trojan horses, and a plethora of viruses. The anthro grad student had bitched that it was getting slower and brought it back to campus when it tried to infect the entire department, red flags went up everywhere and the IT guys were running across campus with Axes to on a search and destroy mission for that machine. Well that is how my friend describes it after aa few porters. Needless to say, the guy got a locked down computer after that.
If your manufacturing company hasn't at least experimented with some web applications, I am sorry. It makes things a lot easier in regards to manufacturing engineering design when you do not have to worry about a moving or proprietary platform, or worse proprietary hardware interfaces and magic black boxes. A web application can run on the intranet you know, and web programmers are far cheaper and plentiful than C and Java folk. Easier to outsource, in other words. I hope to god you are not a programmer.
Um, who said anything about entertainment?
You have one IT guy, lol. If you are not going to invest in infrastructure be prepared to deal with a "standard" substandard interface for years to come.
I have not had a virus on any computer I have maintained let alone needed to nuke and reinstall everything except due to botched drivers or Windows upgrades.
I still think you should find a new job but from the sounds of it you are where you belong. Enjoy the locked computers I hope they are spill proof for your drool, you dolt.
Or just buy another E-book reader with an SD card slot and pirate everything.
The money was sent in from around the world. He saved his town, there are going to be a lot of losers in the economic wars.
Yeah, but I have never had the need to combine the device I read textbooks, research papers and novels on with the one I surf the web with. When I am using a set of textbooks on an engineering problem I have needed to go outside my Sony Ebook reader's 8000 volume library maybe a handful of times. It may be different for programmers who like to code in one window and search for algorithms in another but as a mechanical and electrical engineering student I personally have no need for web access.
It is not that hard to scan a book into PDF format with OCR software and Adobe Acrobat. It is even cheaper to use Piratebay for your books.
So we will have people who are 99% South Park and Family Guy DNA. Maybe when they dream they will be playing some MMORPG or something.
We live at the advent of the era that will see space colonization, the grand unified theory and nanobots and some people who have access to millions of volumes of books, textbooks and research papers choose instead to download porn, cartoons and video games. It is pathetic the amount of space utilized to host all the crap people use to entertain themselves. Are people addicted to entertainment nowadays? Isn't it more satisfying to go to sleep knowing that you enriched yourself and humanity through your work?
Maybe you should find a new job or career. Seriously, the idea that companies should control every installed application is so 1990's and impossible with the advent of web applications.
You obviously have not hung around a lot of scientists or engineers in academia lately with the economic downturn. This guy sounds sane compared to some of the people I run into every day. There are more and more desperate people out there trying to show that they deserve their jobs.
Why would you think that the would not be proud of the places they work. There are of course egregious human rights abuses but the same could of been said of American plants before the unions stepped in and a nascent labor movement is arising in mainland China to speak up for the working class and if it is like every other movement we have seen worldwide it will be unstoppable. China deserves the reward of their hard work and the rest of the world needs to realize that exporting virtual slavery for imports might have reached an end. Each nation will be expected to produce more and more of its own goods and services as globalization is not imperialism, although some countries esp the western ones have been treating it as such. Globalization has produced economies, industries and new classes of industrial workers, capitalist entrepreneurs and liberal middle class folk in countries like China which had 90% of its population farming the land 50 years ago. These new class dynamics will lend themselves to the gradual liberalization of the countries they are arising till they may reach the tipping point where the reigning kleptocracies, dictatorships and theocracies will be threatened with revolution if they ignore the rising cause and practice of liberty these classes are growing accustomed to.
Its leaders get paid to spout off their crap, they need to be held accountable when children are not vaccinated by their followers.
I doubt many Al Queda folks know what QED is, let alone at an advanced level to be anything but dangerous to themselves.
A company I worked for looked at the record of the Texas justice department in dealing with intellectual property rights in regards to technology we were developing and almost instantly got, "You would be better served to expand your operations elsewhere"
Seriously, some of those southern states should try to succeed from the union because this time we might be better off without them.
Agreed, the scrolling news channels are only on in my house if the world sounds like it is going to end to sane people. The scrolling news started after 9/11 didn't they? Why are they still scrolling, hasn't the crisis passed?
The kindle is far less robust than the Sony Reader 5xx series in terms of being able to be tossed around, scratch resistance and options for memory. With A SDHC and a Sony Mem Slot you can carry around 16 gigs of books, try that with a kindle. The only thing I would ever use a Kindle for is the Wikipedia anywhere feature.
Yeah, you know all those tech worker unions.