Even if it could be secure (which I doubt), this would take away the ability for political parties to bully voters as they come to the polling places. It would be voted down by all existing politicians, since it would change the voting demographic too much.
Same story as Gerrymandering. Everyone is against it... except enfranchised politicians that are being protected by it... which also happen to be the only people that can do something about it.
The general "treatment" for kidney stones to to fill the patient full of pain killers and/or smooth muscle relaxants and wait. Later an ultrasound would be done to see if other measures need to be taken. Kidney stones are rarely if ever life threatening; They are just very painful.
Yep, also FlowMax also works wonders on stones once they hit the bladder.
Wasn't it? Brooding over existential issues is a pastime largely confined to the better off (it's hard to worry about the meaning of life when you're more worried about getting enough food to eat). It could be argued that by increasing affluence enough that large segments of the population are secure enough to be having these sorts of issues, automation did cause the malaise.
I would have gone with disenfranchisement and economic woes that the rich are insulated from, and the expanding gap between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else.
As I understand when I brought this concern to my optomitrist, even most sighted people would need reading glasses when they get older. However you can operate mostly fine without them, you would just need them for reading (duh) or using the computer.
Lasik is worth every penny (assuming your prescription allows for it). i don't know why people would want to pay google glass at all, when they could could be completed glasses free for less money.
Oh, but wait... these admissions don't count. Please, please, tell me why.
Easy, they all occurred after the person in question left office.
Perhaps there is the hindsight 20/20 thing that allows them to only realize they were wrong well after the fact... but I think in some cases people had to know they were wrong while the thing was happening, yet they did it anyhow. Perhaps most of the people at the NSA are just so deluded that they actually believe they are right to trample on any person's rights they want.
Clinton probably thought he was doing the right thing at the time, so hindsight applies there. I am willing to bet Greenspan knew he had allowed the banks to fuck the economy, and thus resigned pre-emptively. (thus all his recession predictions)
But i will give you that it is big of Greenspan and Clinton to admit they are wrong, anyhow.
Rumsfield is a fucking liar, though. He wasn't "wrong", he lied and got called out on it. The backup story was "sorry, my bad".
". . . Half of Earthforce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician, you learn how to compromise...which by all rights means I should give you the medal of honor then have you shot." – Acting President Susanna Luchenko to Captain John Sheridan, 2261
I agree with Snowden that the NSA can serve a useful purpose. We do need a way to protect the country's lines of communications. We don't need them snooping on people without just cause.
And the person that determines just what is "just cause" cannot be the person doing the snooping.
how truly pointless this stuff is? Sure, there are a few astronomy geeks who are able to make a living (from grants, rather than productive economic activity) studying this stuff, but it has ZERO potential to actually produce any benefit and therefore generate value in the economy...
You bitching on the internet has ZERO potential to actually produce any benefit and therefore generate value int eh economy... so you you are pointless.
Most relevant is the image tip text. Ran into this last night, with no ability to get to the link I had found via search engine. I had to give up on the site and go elsewhere. Is there a way to set Chrome Mobile to pretend to be a regular browser? (hey anyone remember the browser agent dropdown selection in old versions of opera)
Taboos against inbreeding are hardly the result of intolerance since inbreeding drastically increases the probability of recessive genes becoming expressed.
This is an urban myth, happily kept alive by those on higher moral grounds (sarcasm intended). The chance of the offspring of 2 full cousins having diseases from recessive genes is between 2 and 3 percent higher than the chance for 2 random people. Although 2-3 percent may still seem like a lot today, back in the times we are talking about here, it was a fart in the wind and would have gone entirely unnoticed unless the Neanderthals managed to master advanced statistics.
This is compounded across generations. It is 2 or 3 percent per generation as the bad genes stick around.
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Even if it could be secure (which I doubt), this would take away the ability for political parties to bully voters as they come to the polling places. It would be voted down by all existing politicians, since it would change the voting demographic too much.
Same story as Gerrymandering. Everyone is against it... except enfranchised politicians that are being protected by it... which also happen to be the only people that can do something about it.
The general "treatment" for kidney stones to to fill the patient full of pain killers and/or smooth muscle relaxants and wait. Later an ultrasound would be done to see if other measures need to be taken. Kidney stones are rarely if ever life threatening; They are just very painful.
Yep, also FlowMax also works wonders on stones once they hit the bladder.
Obviously he can afford the Doc Wagon evacuation plan.
And you are a jackass for not using the onecall service to see if it is ok to dig.
Wasn't it? Brooding over existential issues is a pastime largely confined to the better off (it's hard to worry about the meaning of life when you're more worried about getting enough food to eat). It could be argued that by increasing affluence enough that large segments of the population are secure enough to be having these sorts of issues, automation did cause the malaise.
I would have gone with disenfranchisement and economic woes that the rich are insulated from, and the expanding gap between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else.
Most divergent of all, he believed that increasing automatization of labor would spawn not inequality or joblessness, but spiritual malaise.
How is this different from what we have now, I insist and ask ?
It wasn't caused by automation.
As I understand when I brought this concern to my optomitrist, even most sighted people would need reading glasses when they get older. However you can operate mostly fine without them, you would just need them for reading (duh) or using the computer.
You'll get a great Youtube video, "Goon punching me in face." Maybe a lot of them.
It'll be a meme, with all the other Youtube videos of people with Google glasses getting punched in the face.
"Here's one from when we went to France."
And makes for an easy police report. This is why dashcams are so popular. This could be a logical extension of it.
Lasik is worth every penny (assuming your prescription allows for it). i don't know why people would want to pay google glass at all, when they could could be completed glasses free for less money.
Oh, but wait ... these admissions don't count. Please, please, tell me why.
Easy, they all occurred after the person in question left office.
Perhaps there is the hindsight 20/20 thing that allows them to only realize they were wrong well after the fact... but I think in some cases people had to know they were wrong while the thing was happening, yet they did it anyhow. Perhaps most of the people at the NSA are just so deluded that they actually believe they are right to trample on any person's rights they want.
Clinton probably thought he was doing the right thing at the time, so hindsight applies there.
I am willing to bet Greenspan knew he had allowed the banks to fuck the economy, and thus resigned pre-emptively. (thus all his recession predictions)
But i will give you that it is big of Greenspan and Clinton to admit they are wrong, anyhow.
Rumsfield is a fucking liar, though. He wasn't "wrong", he lied and got called out on it. The backup story was "sorry, my bad".
Snowden is not a member of the US Armed Forces, and is therefore inelgible for the Medal of Honor.
The equivalent civilian award is the Medal of Freedom.
Which is doubly ironic in this case.
". . . Half of Earthforce wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half wants you taken out and shot. As a politician, you learn how to compromise...which by all rights means I should give you the medal of honor then have you shot."
– Acting President Susanna Luchenko to Captain John Sheridan, 2261
That is the appropriate response to what he did.
---- Booth was a patriot ---- If you dont agree with me, dont bother replying as i dont care what you have to say ----
So says the guy with "Booth was a patriot" in his sig. Now that is funny.
The NSA admit they were wrong? Hell, when has anyone in government admitted they were wrong?
I enjoy that most of the Wiki article on pressure frying basically is trying to state, "For fuck's sake, don't try this at home."
...has spent a decade interviewing hundreds of teens about their online lives.
So, most of your research is completely worthless now. Well done.
Perhaps next you can give us a research paper about Myspace.
You haven't been here long enough to see two stories in a row posted on the same story, by the same editor.
I am pretty sure AC has seen that many, many times.
I agree with Snowden that the NSA can serve a useful purpose. We do need a way to protect the country's lines of communications. We don't need them snooping on people without just cause.
And the person that determines just what is "just cause" cannot be the person doing the snooping.
I'll give you credit for admitting that only history can decide whether or not Snowden is worthy of the hero label.
As well as the villain label.
how truly pointless this stuff is? Sure, there are a few astronomy geeks who are able to make a living (from grants, rather than productive economic activity) studying this stuff, but it has ZERO potential to actually produce any benefit and therefore generate value in the economy...
You bitching on the internet has ZERO potential to actually produce any benefit and therefore generate value int eh economy... so you you are pointless.
xkcd
Most relevant is the image tip text. Ran into this last night, with no ability to get to the link I had found via search engine. I had to give up on the site and go elsewhere. Is there a way to set Chrome Mobile to pretend to be a regular browser? (hey anyone remember the browser agent dropdown selection in old versions of opera)
"I was just doing my job."
Said by every overzealous prosecutor of every trumped up charge ever. Fuck that.
Because string theory isn't science!
A more accurate statement is that string theory is math not physics.
As documented by Mitchell and Webb here.
Taboos against inbreeding are hardly the result of intolerance since inbreeding drastically increases the probability of recessive genes becoming expressed.
This is an urban myth, happily kept alive by those on higher moral grounds (sarcasm intended). The chance of the offspring of 2 full cousins having diseases from recessive genes is between 2 and 3 percent higher than the chance for 2 random people. Although 2-3 percent may still seem like a lot today, back in the times we are talking about here, it was a fart in the wind and would have gone entirely unnoticed unless the Neanderthals managed to master advanced statistics.
This is compounded across generations. It is 2 or 3 percent per generation as the bad genes stick around.