We aren't all robots going through life in the most logical way possible.
Imagine you've been with someone for 5+ years (it sounds like in your case that has never happened), you love her (it sounds like in your case that has never happened) and she suddenly has a car accident, which causes her to lose her job, subsequently losing her house. Are you going to dump her? Or help share some of her financial burden until she gets back on her feet?
Or, imagine you accidentally get her pregnant. Are you going to insist she aborts/leave her/refuse any financial support of the child?
What about end-of-life or other critical medical decisions? Hospital visitations? You generally can't do that without marriage or civil unions (which also tie you together financially), and many states have banned civil unions across the board rather than allow gays those rights.
I'm genuinely curious what you think about those things. I have a friend who used to talk exactly like you when he was in his twenties, then went through some bad situations and realized the real world isn't as black and white as he thought.
I only watched the first episode of that, but it was almost entirely "haha look at how ignorant and poor those brown people are" and zero actual comedy.
It takes about 24 hours to receive your invite via email. Once you finally get the email, it usually isn't an invite but a message that says "The Google+ project is currently working out all the kinks with a small group of testers. If you're not able to access Google+, please check again soon."
Unfortunately, under today's patent system he could quite likely have received a patent as broad as "a system which generates electricity and/or sends it to devices powered by it" without even giving complete technical details (as is supposed to be required for a patent).
Additionally, they used their OS market dominance to force computer distributors not to pre-install other browsers.
They still do the same thing to try to stop vendors from selling computers without Windows pre-installed, which I find far worse. I have no idea why they haven't been stopped from doing that.
Lucky you for living in an area where that's possible. In huge areas of the USA, there is literally only one option for high-speed non-satellite internet. In most other areas, there are only two or three choices... the two or three choices that are now in agreement to do something anti-customer. If they weren't a colluding oligopoly, that wouldn't be possible.
You are repeatedly claiming that, as an audiophile, you listen to horrible recordings and then try to artificially clean them up.
The reason everyone keeps arguing with you is because that makes no sense. Why not just choose recordings that actually sound good to begin with instead of trying to polish turds?
Most businesses in Arizona either don't need a license, or can acquire one for less than $10. For a company that just hires immigrants to do farming, they don't care if they get shut down, because they can just start a new business next week.
The person who's head should roll is the manager in charge of establishing good practices. No single person should be involved in a mistake of this magnitude. If I were at the head of this company, I wouldn't fire the programmer who made a simple mistake, I would fire whoever above him didn't prevent mistakes like that from happening in the first place.
Just because Adobe, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are US companies doesn't mean the US owns the software world.
Skype (clear leader and innovator in video chat) - Sweden Psygnosis Limited (hundreds of groundbreaking video games over the last few decades) - England Ubisoft (several major game titles) - France mIRC - Jordan
Open source: 7-zip - Russia VLC - started as a student project in France
Perhaps less groundbreaking but still VERY popular software: AVG Technologies (antivirus) - Czech Republic Avast Antivirus (antivirus) - Czech Republic irfanView (3d viewer) - Bosnia and Herzegovina Infogrames (game developer) - France
And that's just the tip of the iceburg. There's an insane amount of open-source software work coming from Russia, Estonia, Italy, and everywhere else really. There are thousands of software companies throughout the world, just as there are in the US. In my experience, the best stuff comes from countries that aren't so encumbered by insane patent laws (the former Soviet countries, northern Europe).
She sees it as a (highly dangerous) chance to have a kid naturally, the rest of the world (outside of Slashdot, apparently) sees it as a way to further science. It's pretty much win-win all around. I don't see why everyone here is railing against it so hard, since in most cases science for science's sake is a laudable goal around here. I imagine it is partly due to the fact Slashdot is incredibly skewed towards not only the male demographic, but the single-male-who-hates-children demographic.
If this sort of thing became commonplace, yeah, it's kind of a waste, but save your disdain for later and for now respect the incredible risk this woman is taking.
That's exactly the reason I went into programming. As a developer, it's possible for me to single-handedly create something revolutionary. Not just that, but I can do it with minimal resources, anywhere in the world. I may not ever do it, but at least it's possible.
If I had gone into, for example, some sort of medical research, I would need to spend years working my way up through research positions, assuming it's even possible to find the positions anyway, and I'd be greatly limited by lab equipment supplied by employers, working as a small part of a team, etc. Not that there's anything wrong with that at all. In fact, I'd say it's better, and that's how most things are accomplished. It just wasn't for me.
Slashdot Mirror
When there are a billion Chinese people of retirement age and only half a billion of working age, what do you think is going to happen?
We aren't all robots going through life in the most logical way possible.
Imagine you've been with someone for 5+ years (it sounds like in your case that has never happened), you love her (it sounds like in your case that has never happened) and she suddenly has a car accident, which causes her to lose her job, subsequently losing her house. Are you going to dump her? Or help share some of her financial burden until she gets back on her feet?
Or, imagine you accidentally get her pregnant. Are you going to insist she aborts/leave her/refuse any financial support of the child?
What about end-of-life or other critical medical decisions? Hospital visitations? You generally can't do that without marriage or civil unions (which also tie you together financially), and many states have banned civil unions across the board rather than allow gays those rights.
I'm genuinely curious what you think about those things. I have a friend who used to talk exactly like you when he was in his twenties, then went through some bad situations and realized the real world isn't as black and white as he thought.
So China is now an enemy of the USA?
Or do you mean that giving away a private company's source code equals waging war against the US?
I only watched the first episode of that, but it was almost entirely "haha look at how ignorant and poor those brown people are" and zero actual comedy.
It takes about 24 hours to receive your invite via email. Once you finally get the email, it usually isn't an invite but a message that says "The Google+ project is currently working out all the kinks with a small group of testers. If you're not able to access Google+, please check again soon."
Unfortunately, under today's patent system he could quite likely have received a patent as broad as "a system which generates electricity and/or sends it to devices powered by it" without even giving complete technical details (as is supposed to be required for a patent).
Additionally, they used their OS market dominance to force computer distributors not to pre-install other browsers.
They still do the same thing to try to stop vendors from selling computers without Windows pre-installed, which I find far worse. I have no idea why they haven't been stopped from doing that.
Lucky you for living in an area where that's possible. In huge areas of the USA, there is literally only one option for high-speed non-satellite internet. In most other areas, there are only two or three choices... the two or three choices that are now in agreement to do something anti-customer. If they weren't a colluding oligopoly, that wouldn't be possible.
You are repeatedly claiming that, as an audiophile, you listen to horrible recordings and then try to artificially clean them up.
The reason everyone keeps arguing with you is because that makes no sense. Why not just choose recordings that actually sound good to begin with instead of trying to polish turds?
Most businesses in Arizona either don't need a license, or can acquire one for less than $10. For a company that just hires immigrants to do farming, they don't care if they get shut down, because they can just start a new business next week.
The person who's head should roll is the manager in charge of establishing good practices. No single person should be involved in a mistake of this magnitude. If I were at the head of this company, I wouldn't fire the programmer who made a simple mistake, I would fire whoever above him didn't prevent mistakes like that from happening in the first place.
I know, $3 million per company! How is a corporation stealing only $2/month from millions of customers supposed to find that kind of money?
Sorry, not sure why I listed Skype as Sweden, everyone by now knows it's from Estonia :P
Just because Adobe, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are US companies doesn't mean the US owns the software world.
Skype (clear leader and innovator in video chat) - Sweden
Psygnosis Limited (hundreds of groundbreaking video games over the last few decades) - England
Ubisoft (several major game titles) - France
mIRC - Jordan
Open source:
7-zip - Russia
VLC - started as a student project in France
Perhaps less groundbreaking but still VERY popular software:
AVG Technologies (antivirus) - Czech Republic
Avast Antivirus (antivirus) - Czech Republic
irfanView (3d viewer) - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Infogrames (game developer) - France
And that's just the tip of the iceburg. There's an insane amount of open-source software work coming from Russia, Estonia, Italy, and everywhere else really. There are thousands of software companies throughout the world, just as there are in the US. In my experience, the best stuff comes from countries that aren't so encumbered by insane patent laws (the former Soviet countries, northern Europe).
She sees it as a (highly dangerous) chance to have a kid naturally, the rest of the world (outside of Slashdot, apparently) sees it as a way to further science. It's pretty much win-win all around. I don't see why everyone here is railing against it so hard, since in most cases science for science's sake is a laudable goal around here. I imagine it is partly due to the fact Slashdot is incredibly skewed towards not only the male demographic, but the single-male-who-hates-children demographic. If this sort of thing became commonplace, yeah, it's kind of a waste, but save your disdain for later and for now respect the incredible risk this woman is taking.
That's exactly the reason I went into programming. As a developer, it's possible for me to single-handedly create something revolutionary. Not just that, but I can do it with minimal resources, anywhere in the world. I may not ever do it, but at least it's possible. If I had gone into, for example, some sort of medical research, I would need to spend years working my way up through research positions, assuming it's even possible to find the positions anyway, and I'd be greatly limited by lab equipment supplied by employers, working as a small part of a team, etc. Not that there's anything wrong with that at all. In fact, I'd say it's better, and that's how most things are accomplished. It just wasn't for me.