you're forgetting drunken dads who beat their loved ones. bar fights. the hazy following-mornings where you make the mental list of people to call up and apologize to for last night's behavior. and what it costs to replace the shit you broke, if a restraining order will be requested, who's gonna give you a ride to AA meetings, etc....
don't recall this being a problem with pot, but there's probably a reason for that too... =)
if you did read it, i couldn't tell. but then again maybe i thought a little more about what i read.
these things are designed to travel through arteries. by default they would have to be small enough to pass through the smallest of arteries. you're assuming Poon overlooked that minor detail? really? i didn't think so, so i gave you the benefit of the doubt and still couldn't see your viewpoint. occam's razor indicated you probably had not read it.
from TFA, emphasis mine...
Poon's research could finally enable the development of medical implants capable of traveling through the bloodstream to deliver drugs to a specific area, perform analyses, and maybe even zap blood clots or remove plaque from arteries.
sorta like the reason why nobody ever got stuck in the Lazy River at Wet'N'Wild (the only good thing the Vegas strip ever had, imho). they weren't just pieces of detritus. they could control their movement, they could remove obstacles in the way (zap blood clots, remove plaque). like this implant. and if someone ever did get stuck in the Lazy River, there were always plenty of other people (other implants) to free the stuck person.
worst case scenario - nothing prevents it from being stuck, and no other implants are around to free it - it could be designed with a self-destruct mechanism to break it up into smaller pieces (like ultrasound to break up kidney stones). maybe the ultrasound method itself could work if it's improved. maybe the researchers should be given more benefit of the doubt after having gone this far with it. you didn't just swoop down from your armchair and out-think an engineer's entire career in 5 seconds.
"There is considerable room for improvement and much work remains before these devices are ready for medical applications," said Poon. "But for the first time in decades the possibility seems closer than ever."
arteries and veins are the largest blood vessels. you must be thinking of arterioles, venules or capillaries, which obviously are not what these devices will be programmed to travel in. thanks for not RTFA!
at what point do stream rippers start giving a fuck about this? i can record audio or video of anything happening on my screen. i could even use tutorial-building software to do it, and that's legit software. slingcatcher (of slingbox fame) already blocks relaying of video sources it errantly deems protected and we don't even have this crazy shit in effect yet. cut off your nose to spite your face, who cares? there is always a way around. does anyone else think this sounds a lot like the retarded war on drugs?
well they missed the mark. the first thing i did when i got my netbook was install ubuntu, and very soon after it upgraded to the unity desktop. total garbage. if i wanted a mac desktop i'd use a macbook. which is why i don't.
the problem with that mentality is that it doesn't convey that what you did was wrong -- there's no social cost. it teaches you instead that all bad behavior can be bought (like roman catholic indulgences). so if students stop at all, it's because they care more about the $5 here and there then actually behaving correctly. what's really scary is it will become a Rite of Cool to simply pay for all the bad behavior, and anyone who can't afford to buy it off will be ridiculed for actually having to follow the rules.
the same goes for fines. corporations don't stop polluting because of fines, they just chalk the fines up as the cost of polluting. it's operating costs, not a punishment. revoke the corporate charter, or setup a federal agency that puts out smear ads on companies who violate. that'll teach em. for schools, that's the equivalent of staying after school in detention, suspension from school, or being sent to the principal's office. go ahead and fine the rich kids for chewing gum. it'll teach them to perpetuate the problems they inherit in the large corporations they will someday lead.
i'll go with option D: you're making up hypothetical scenarios, based on assumptions, which inevitably leads you to exclude what's really going on as an option. thanks for trying to limit my choices to just what you perceive, though! let's all make unqualified conjectures and then argue about them as if they were true! yay!
so a large program takes a long time to load and you'd rather look at nothing and wonder whether your program is opening at all? look at the morons responding on that blog... "if microsoft can find a way to make windows 8 run faster then WTF!!! why did i have to wait so long all this time?"... stfu you pathetic mouthbreathers. think for 2 seconds or gtfo.
so you think we would have raised our nuclear stockpile and developed advanced spying technology without either governments or the Cold War? and you contradicted yourself on the SOPA point. as for your last point on outright banned technology: http://blogs.mobihungama.com/index.php/10-technologies-that-were-banned/
the problem with #1 is pretty much what Dishevel said.
the problem with #2 is that it's already defeated by inflation. the prime rate will continue to change in order to eliminate the middle class. the fleecing will continue.
the problem with #3 is that you can't force other countries to do the same, so people will just do their banking overseas. we have the internet, ya know.
the problem with #4 is that it doesn't address the root problems of banks -- their corporate charters aka "personhood" and their ability to charge interest on the same amount of money it is being given to hold, many times over to many different people. it makes no sense that a currency that represents trust decreases that trust the more it is multiplied. banks have never ever served the public interest over their own. ever. doesn't happen. you'll end up crucified next to two thieves if you try to change it. the game of money is rigged by those who have the most of it, to enslave you. end of line.
the problem with #5 is that you're saying, go ahead and play mafia and everything will work itself out. they call it "skimming." you also failed to explain where that < 1% goes and who spends it on what, and when.
the problem with #6 is that there can be no ethical speculative trading of diminishing resources like oil. it's a rigged game. it's not a question of will oil go up or down, it's a question of how much will oil go up? you could argue that any time we have a war or open up reserves that oil will go down, but that's really more akin to finding $20 in your pants pocket and spending it on going to the movies, and then claiming that you got a raise. and then claiming that you can determine what your next raise will be based on how much money you may or may not find in your pants pockets. (actually, i'm being nice. it's really less like finding money in your pants pocket and more like robbing a liquor store or spending your savings to get that extra.)
the problem with #7 is that those kinds of things should be left up to the states, and not the feds. i'm going to avoid a discussion on the IRS vs the 16th amendment and move on to
the problem with #8: despite our best efforts at limiting monopoly, the market and technology combined did this to our media. there used to be hundreds of independent newspapers and radio/tv stations. now there are about 6. if we split them all up, entropy will just take over and the media universe will again approach absolute zero. #8 reads like this: step 1: break up media conglomerates. step 2: ???? step 3: media diversity!
the problem with #9 is that it's blinded by revenge. the solution is not to stoop to the level of our competitors, but to raise the bar instead. how do we do that, instead of coddle our own sense of powerlessness and strike out in frustration?
the problem with #10 is once again it fails to address the real problem. it can be quite valuable to have someone in a government office with commercial experience in that field. it's a problem when that person is corrupt(ed). remove corporate personhood, abolish the job title of lobbyist by making it a 25-life offense for giving any amount of money to any politician or party or law advocacy group or any kind of political advertisement on behalf of a corporation. ceos and stakeholders would also be forbidden from personally donating more than an insignificant amount over a given period of time, to get around the potential loophole of ceos siphoning company money to a private account from which to make bribes.
all of my ideas have serious flaws too. we could talk about it until we go extinct and we probably will.
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you're forgetting drunken dads who beat their loved ones. bar fights. the hazy following-mornings where you make the mental list of people to call up and apologize to for last night's behavior. and what it costs to replace the shit you broke, if a restraining order will be requested, who's gonna give you a ride to AA meetings, etc....
don't recall this being a problem with pot, but there's probably a reason for that too... =)
you mean i'm not the only sober driver on the road? what the...
the laws against meth have fueled a lot of violent crime. you don't see ritalin-junkie kids making headlines with violent crimes.
it would on slashdot, so why not?
and a patent.
obviously this proves that mayans has such significantly advanced technology that their vehicles were biodegradable but not the fuel that ran them.
these things are designed to travel through arteries. by default they would have to be small enough to pass through the smallest of arteries. you're assuming Poon overlooked that minor detail? really? i didn't think so, so i gave you the benefit of the doubt and still couldn't see your viewpoint. occam's razor indicated you probably had not read it.
from TFA, emphasis mine...
Poon's research could finally enable the development of medical implant s capable of traveling through the bloodstream to deliver drugs to a specific area, perform analyses, and maybe even zap blood clots or remove plaque from arteries .
sorta like the reason why nobody ever got stuck in the Lazy River at Wet'N'Wild (the only good thing the Vegas strip ever had, imho). they weren't just pieces of detritus. they could control their movement, they could remove obstacles in the way (zap blood clots, remove plaque). like this implant. and if someone ever did get stuck in the Lazy River, there were always plenty of other people (other implants) to free the stuck person.
worst case scenario - nothing prevents it from being stuck, and no other implants are around to free it - it could be designed with a self-destruct mechanism to break it up into smaller pieces (like ultrasound to break up kidney stones). maybe the ultrasound method itself could work if it's improved. maybe the researchers should be given more benefit of the doubt after having gone this far with it. you didn't just swoop down from your armchair and out-think an engineer's entire career in 5 seconds.
"There is considerable room for improvement and much work remains before these devices are ready for medical applications ," said Poon. "But for the first time in decades the possibility seems closer than ever."
found this link on the same page as TFA: http://www.gizmag.com/biological-fuel-cells-use-blood-sugar/19261/
the most important fact that everyone seems to be missing is the engineer's name is Poon.
arteries and veins are the largest blood vessels. you must be thinking of arterioles, venules or capillaries, which obviously are not what these devices will be programmed to travel in. thanks for not RTFA!
at what point do stream rippers start giving a fuck about this? i can record audio or video of anything happening on my screen. i could even use tutorial-building software to do it, and that's legit software. slingcatcher (of slingbox fame) already blocks relaying of video sources it errantly deems protected and we don't even have this crazy shit in effect yet. cut off your nose to spite your face, who cares? there is always a way around. does anyone else think this sounds a lot like the retarded war on drugs?
right. it's pretty obvious the grenade design is an artistic statement. my first clue was that it was created by an artist. RTFA, AC
well they missed the mark. the first thing i did when i got my netbook was install ubuntu, and very soon after it upgraded to the unity desktop. total garbage. if i wanted a mac desktop i'd use a macbook. which is why i don't.
the last time we made a structure that tall it collapsed and everyone ended up speaking different languages. i mean...what?
hey Anonymous Moron Grammar Nazi, it's WHOSE, not WHO'S. next time just shut the fuck up.
typo: 6. i can count, but i have fat fingers. girls prefer men with fat fingers too.
proof that a 5-digit id means nothing
the problem with that mentality is that it doesn't convey that what you did was wrong -- there's no social cost. it teaches you instead that all bad behavior can be bought (like roman catholic indulgences). so if students stop at all, it's because they care more about the $5 here and there then actually behaving correctly. what's really scary is it will become a Rite of Cool to simply pay for all the bad behavior, and anyone who can't afford to buy it off will be ridiculed for actually having to follow the rules.
the same goes for fines. corporations don't stop polluting because of fines, they just chalk the fines up as the cost of polluting. it's operating costs, not a punishment. revoke the corporate charter, or setup a federal agency that puts out smear ads on companies who violate. that'll teach em. for schools, that's the equivalent of staying after school in detention, suspension from school, or being sent to the principal's office. go ahead and fine the rich kids for chewing gum. it'll teach them to perpetuate the problems they inherit in the large corporations they will someday lead.
i'll go with option D: you're making up hypothetical scenarios, based on assumptions, which inevitably leads you to exclude what's really going on as an option. thanks for trying to limit my choices to just what you perceive, though! let's all make unqualified conjectures and then argue about them as if they were true! yay!
in that case, the glorified "drone" was simply peppered, not shot down.
please. Cupertino bathhouse is less redundant. we get it.
so a large program takes a long time to load and you'd rather look at nothing and wonder whether your program is opening at all? look at the morons responding on that blog ... "if microsoft can find a way to make windows 8 run faster then WTF!!! why did i have to wait so long all this time?" ... stfu you pathetic mouthbreathers. think for 2 seconds or gtfo.
so you think we would have raised our nuclear stockpile and developed advanced spying technology without either governments or the Cold War? and you contradicted yourself on the SOPA point. as for your last point on outright banned technology: http://blogs.mobihungama.com/index.php/10-technologies-that-were-banned/
the problem with #1 is pretty much what Dishevel said.
the problem with #2 is that it's already defeated by inflation. the prime rate will continue to change in order to eliminate the middle class. the fleecing will continue.
the problem with #3 is that you can't force other countries to do the same, so people will just do their banking overseas. we have the internet, ya know.
the problem with #4 is that it doesn't address the root problems of banks -- their corporate charters aka "personhood" and their ability to charge interest on the same amount of money it is being given to hold, many times over to many different people. it makes no sense that a currency that represents trust decreases that trust the more it is multiplied. banks have never ever served the public interest over their own. ever. doesn't happen. you'll end up crucified next to two thieves if you try to change it. the game of money is rigged by those who have the most of it, to enslave you. end of line.
the problem with #5 is that you're saying, go ahead and play mafia and everything will work itself out. they call it "skimming." you also failed to explain where that < 1% goes and who spends it on what, and when.
the problem with #6 is that there can be no ethical speculative trading of diminishing resources like oil. it's a rigged game. it's not a question of will oil go up or down, it's a question of how much will oil go up? you could argue that any time we have a war or open up reserves that oil will go down, but that's really more akin to finding $20 in your pants pocket and spending it on going to the movies, and then claiming that you got a raise. and then claiming that you can determine what your next raise will be based on how much money you may or may not find in your pants pockets. (actually, i'm being nice. it's really less like finding money in your pants pocket and more like robbing a liquor store or spending your savings to get that extra.)
the problem with #7 is that those kinds of things should be left up to the states, and not the feds. i'm going to avoid a discussion on the IRS vs the 16th amendment and move on to
the problem with #8: despite our best efforts at limiting monopoly, the market and technology combined did this to our media. there used to be hundreds of independent newspapers and radio/tv stations. now there are about 6. if we split them all up, entropy will just take over and the media universe will again approach absolute zero. #8 reads like this: step 1: break up media conglomerates. step 2: ???? step 3: media diversity!
the problem with #9 is that it's blinded by revenge. the solution is not to stoop to the level of our competitors, but to raise the bar instead. how do we do that, instead of coddle our own sense of powerlessness and strike out in frustration?
the problem with #10 is once again it fails to address the real problem. it can be quite valuable to have someone in a government office with commercial experience in that field. it's a problem when that person is corrupt(ed). remove corporate personhood, abolish the job title of lobbyist by making it a 25-life offense for giving any amount of money to any politician or party or law advocacy group or any kind of political advertisement on behalf of a corporation. ceos and stakeholders would also be forbidden from personally donating more than an insignificant amount over a given period of time, to get around the potential loophole of ceos siphoning company money to a private account from which to make bribes.
all of my ideas have serious flaws too. we could talk about it until we go extinct and we probably will.