What happens after a war? The best survivors of the winning side come home and you get a baby boom. That would seem to boost the propagation of the best survival traits in the next generation.
Yeah, I was just about to give him my vote to rule the world -- based upon the comment about slow left-hand lane drivers. Then he comes up with the onions dig.
I also read that bleach could be used to cure the problem. It's caustic, so you'd want to dillute it (which is really what you're getting from a hyperchlorinated pool)... but I did read that it helped some people.
It's fine for the government to warn consumers, but the decision to try a specific remedy should ultimately be up to the individual.
There are plenty of perfectly-good cures out there that aren't "approved" treatments.
I had a fungal nail infection for 2 decades. When I went to a doctor about it, all he did was push Lamosil on me. I wasn't interested in taking a costly pill for 3 months that has been associated with liver damage. One day, I did a little online research and found several home remedies for fungal nail infection. I tried one out (Vicks Vapor Rub and vinegar, applied topically), and it worked!
My point is that the FDA and "the medical establishment" don't have all the answers; and even though they may mean well in trying to protect us, true freedom necessitates that each individual be ultimately responsible for himself.
Why are some people so eager to live in a nanny state?
Then again, perhaps the bear would have lived its life unnoticed by biology researchers and the National Geographic documentarians. Who would ever gotten up close enough to it to really notice the differences? Look at the picture in the article... looks like a polar bear.
Seems like it wouldn't have been discovered if that bonehead hadn't shot it.
If scientists need to study the hybrid bears, they can always examine the specimens in zoos.
If you read my post again, you'll see that the list I gave was of some of the problems we have with people entering this country, not one that would be completely solved by having fingerprints on file.
That said, to respond quickly to each of your subsections: 1. Naturally, this would only apply for people re-entering the country illegally when they had been here legally previously (this is why you want to keep those fingerprints on file). 2. Fingerprinting is an extremely useful tool in fighting crime. I'm not sure what your point is here. I'm fine if people visiting the country are the first ones to be fingerprinted to protect the people already here. I'm not totally against having citizens have their fingerprints and DNA on file either, if you must know. 3. Umm, if you can't see how fingerprinting helps in this case, I'm guessing that you're not even making an effort to see my side of the argument. You've decided that fingerprinting is evil and no amount of logic would change that.
You should lose the religion. Have a nice day anyway.
We've got a real problem here with people who enter illegally, enter legally but stay illegally, or just enter legally to deliberately break our laws. I'd be fine if we just cracked down harder across the board on people entering the country for the reasons cited above.
You can have your privacy while you're here; but if you want complete anonymity, maybe you should just not come at all.
Anonymity is a nice-to-have feature of society in some ways, but I think that the great Internet experiment has shown that anonymity just leads to spams and scams in your mailbox; constant threats from script kiddies, hackers, vandals, viruses, and trojans; and just a great lack of civility and human-deserved respect from destructive cowards who would never do what they're doing if they could easily be identified and have their asses kicked.
I wouldn't mind if we returned to a bit of the old days where everyone in a town knew you by name and if you fucked up, they all knew it was you. Fingerprinting gets us a little of that familiarity and sense of consequence to our actions in a society.
I know that the above sounds harsh and you're thinking that I'm some sheep republican religious dumb-ass rube... but you'd be surprised. I like a strip club as much as the next guy. I think that marijuana and prostitution should be legalized (even though I probably wouldn't partake in either)... I'd love to live in a society where anonymity was one of its guarantees. Unfortunately, there are too many assholes fucking it up for the rest of us to allow that. Hence my willingness to sacrifice some anonymity for some security. Don't quote Ben Franklin on me, since his saying about liberty vs security is provably bullshit as a rule to live by. I don't care who you are -- you sacrifice liberty for security every day in some way... it's just a matter of where we all draw the line.
I'd rather they do it the hard way. Sure, it would make for an easier contest to have the cars communicate with each other; but if the goal here is to one day actually use this technology in the real world, how many kids on bicycles will have communication radios built into their bikes?
Because everyone is entitled to everything for free, didn't ya know?:)
I kind of like the status quo where free software can exist side-by-side with capitalism. Let the two ideas compete in the world and see where the balance between them will settle.
It's kind of amazing to me that people can be so bitter about this turn of events with Azureus. I'd be willing to bet money that 99.9% of the people complaining never donated a dime to help the project.
I got some good use out of Azureus, and I never paid anything either; but they definitely have my gratitude for a job well done. If they want to find other ways to make continued development financially feasible, then more power to them.
Maybe, but I don't think it's common to go back and recheck all of your acquisition's from 5+ years before. Just getting a handle on that quarter's numbers for a $10B company can take a long time and a huge amount of auditing effort.
While the calendar lovers are looking through this thread:
Does anyone know of a free ajaxish calendaring component that I could plug into a web application that I'm developing? I need it to be able to schedule events in a fairly friendly way, but that's about it. So mostly I'm just looking for something that can give me some decent GUI -- display a given time period in month or week format, allow for some click-creating of new events, moving events with drag-n-drop, etc. I'll handle all the back end.
All of the calendars posted in the original article are built into other heavyier web sites. Even the Sourceforge webcalendar is built on top of PHP, which makes it not useful for me.
Pretty much by accident, though. I don't think anyone really saw the return of Jobs back when Apple was on its last gasps. At best, the magazines were hoping that Apple would by Be... which as much as I liked BeOS, wouldn't have done much for Apple. It's turnaround is due to the ingenious products like the iMac and the iPod. The OS, though a necessity, just didn't have the sexy mass-market appeal that those other products did.
Please add "startling data compression" to a list of filters for obviously bullshit articles that have no business even getting attention from Slashdot. The people who submit the articles are either complete suckers or Google AdSense whores. The list should also contain:
Could you post with your user name and at this time next year, I'll put a nice "ha ha" in your journal?
Holographic storage is theoretically possible, but until someone starts distributing prototypes to the press, you're extremely likely to be just another gullible bozo if you believe claims that "we'll be shipping later this year".
Look, there's nothing I'd like more than to be proven wrong about disbelieving in the validity of holographic storage, space elevators, string theory, flying cars, and Jessica Rabbit... but the fact of the matter is that the ratio of real life examples of these things to vapor promises is about 0 to 100,000,000,000.
Please don't feed the venture capitalist funding and AdSense whores. Ignore these types of stories until a company brings something to market.
Can't slashdot automatically send any submissions that contain the words "holographic" and "storage" straight into the trash?
All they're doing is trying to get some funding or increase their AdSense revenue by getting hits to their site. They're probably in league with the reporting site.
How can a Slashdot editor read a submission like that and not just shake his head sadly and hit the delete key?
It's not that I hate seeing these stories posted so much as it boggles my mind that there are people stupid or gullible enough to be taken in by them. Wouldn't you think that Slashdot editors would be chosen for their intelligence and senses of discernment? Seriously, JonKatz hasn't been around in ages as far as I know (I filtered him out way back when, so he may be around and I don't realize it).
It reminds me of seeing that John Edwards(sp?) fraud on the SciFi channel late at night. It's not that his programming was really interrupting my viewing anyway, I don't watch much late-night TV... but the notion that there were people from "my" SciFi-watching-community who were impressed enough with his crappy act to support his show... it just kinda squashes my hopes for humanity.
So, thank you, Slashdot. Thank you for pissing in my Cheerios.
I've been dabbling with Rails and Ruby for a couple of months now, and I don't want to get into a big debate on whether it's more efficient, more popular, or whatever semi-quantifiable metric you want to apply to it...
The bottom line for me right now is that I'm having fun with it. I've been really looking forward to the little extra time I've put aside each day to work with Rails; although I think that a lot of the fun I'm having is just pleasure at using Ruby.
To be honest, I found the article summary to be a bit misleading, confusing, and aiming to be too "clever" for its own good. The topic is interesting, but you were trying too hard to be funny or something. To each his own, I guess; but don't be too surprised if the technically minded at/. didn't get the point or joke or whatever you were trying to accomplish.
I would really have to disagree with your premises:
Expecting employees to perform well for the money that they're being paid is "brutalizing" them? That's just silly.
Americans would need to dramatically increase their working hours to match India's? I worked in India for some months, and the only people consistently in the office late at night and on weekends were the other Americans.
Hire a few people and pay them with your savings to do a job for you. See how far your "gentler" workplace perspective lasts when you realize that you're about to write a $2000 pay-check to some person who hasn't been doing his job; and that $2000 is the last of your money, meaning that you'll be on ramen noodles for the rest of the month and may have to sell something, possibly even your car.
Non-profits get enough benefits as it is through the US tax system. The non-profits that I care about don't email me, call me, or send me voluminous amounts of mail. I reach out to them because they're worthy causes, not because they're the squeakiest wheels. I wish more organizations understood that and stopped trying to fight for extra rights to harrass me. (see the can-spam and national do-not-call list for examples)
There are worse bands out there, but based upon play time, AC/DC's quality to air-time ratio is about as low as it gets.
I recently spent a weekend at a house where the owner played 3 or 4 hours of AC/DC. I wanted to pour hot lead in my ears. Every fucking song sounds the same and that sound sucks.
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What happens after a war? The best survivors of the winning side come home and you get a baby boom. That would seem to boost the propagation of the best survival traits in the next generation.
Yeah, I was just about to give him my vote to rule the world -- based upon the comment about slow left-hand lane drivers. Then he comes up with the onions dig.
I also read that bleach could be used to cure the problem. It's caustic, so you'd want to dillute it (which is really what you're getting from a hyperchlorinated pool)... but I did read that it helped some people.
It's fine for the government to warn consumers, but the decision to try a specific remedy should ultimately be up to the individual.
There are plenty of perfectly-good cures out there that aren't "approved" treatments.
I had a fungal nail infection for 2 decades. When I went to a doctor about it, all he did was push Lamosil on me. I wasn't interested in taking a costly pill for 3 months that has been associated with liver damage. One day, I did a little online research and found several home remedies for fungal nail infection. I tried one out (Vicks Vapor Rub and vinegar, applied topically), and it worked!
My point is that the FDA and "the medical establishment" don't have all the answers; and even though they may mean well in trying to protect us, true freedom necessitates that each individual be ultimately responsible for himself.
Why are some people so eager to live in a nanny state?
Then again, perhaps the bear would have lived its life unnoticed by biology researchers and the National Geographic documentarians. Who would ever gotten up close enough to it to really notice the differences? Look at the picture in the article... looks like a polar bear.
Seems like it wouldn't have been discovered if that bonehead hadn't shot it.
If scientists need to study the hybrid bears, they can always examine the specimens in zoos.
If you read my post again, you'll see that the list I gave was of some of the problems we have with people entering this country, not one that would be completely solved by having fingerprints on file.
That said, to respond quickly to each of your subsections:
1. Naturally, this would only apply for people re-entering the country illegally when they had been here legally previously (this is why you want to keep those fingerprints on file).
2. Fingerprinting is an extremely useful tool in fighting crime. I'm not sure what your point is here. I'm fine if people visiting the country are the first ones to be fingerprinted to protect the people already here. I'm not totally against having citizens have their fingerprints and DNA on file either, if you must know.
3. Umm, if you can't see how fingerprinting helps in this case, I'm guessing that you're not even making an effort to see my side of the argument. You've decided that fingerprinting is evil and no amount of logic would change that.
You should lose the religion. Have a nice day anyway.
We've got a real problem here with people who enter illegally, enter legally but stay illegally, or just enter legally to deliberately break our laws. I'd be fine if we just cracked down harder across the board on people entering the country for the reasons cited above.
You can have your privacy while you're here; but if you want complete anonymity, maybe you should just not come at all.
Anonymity is a nice-to-have feature of society in some ways, but I think that the great Internet experiment has shown that anonymity just leads to spams and scams in your mailbox; constant threats from script kiddies, hackers, vandals, viruses, and trojans; and just a great lack of civility and human-deserved respect from destructive cowards who would never do what they're doing if they could easily be identified and have their asses kicked.
I wouldn't mind if we returned to a bit of the old days where everyone in a town knew you by name and if you fucked up, they all knew it was you. Fingerprinting gets us a little of that familiarity and sense of consequence to our actions in a society.
I know that the above sounds harsh and you're thinking that I'm some sheep republican religious dumb-ass rube... but you'd be surprised. I like a strip club as much as the next guy. I think that marijuana and prostitution should be legalized (even though I probably wouldn't partake in either)... I'd love to live in a society where anonymity was one of its guarantees. Unfortunately, there are too many assholes fucking it up for the rest of us to allow that. Hence my willingness to sacrifice some anonymity for some security. Don't quote Ben Franklin on me, since his saying about liberty vs security is provably bullshit as a rule to live by. I don't care who you are -- you sacrifice liberty for security every day in some way... it's just a matter of where we all draw the line.
I'd rather they do it the hard way. Sure, it would make for an easier contest to have the cars communicate with each other; but if the goal here is to one day actually use this technology in the real world, how many kids on bicycles will have communication radios built into their bikes?
Because everyone is entitled to everything for free, didn't ya know? :)
I kind of like the status quo where free software can exist side-by-side with capitalism. Let the two ideas compete in the world and see where the balance between them will settle.
It's kind of amazing to me that people can be so bitter about this turn of events with Azureus. I'd be willing to bet money that 99.9% of the people complaining never donated a dime to help the project.
I got some good use out of Azureus, and I never paid anything either; but they definitely have my gratitude for a job well done. If they want to find other ways to make continued development financially feasible, then more power to them.
Huh... live and learn. Thanks for the info.
Maybe, but I don't think it's common to go back and recheck all of your acquisition's from 5+ years before. Just getting a handle on that quarter's numbers for a $10B company can take a long time and a huge amount of auditing effort.
IANAA, though...
While the calendar lovers are looking through this thread:
Does anyone know of a free ajaxish calendaring component that I could plug into a web application that I'm developing? I need it to be able to schedule events in a fairly friendly way, but that's about it. So mostly I'm just looking for something that can give me some decent GUI -- display a given time period in month or week format, allow for some click-creating of new events, moving events with drag-n-drop, etc. I'll handle all the back end.
All of the calendars posted in the original article are built into other heavyier web sites. Even the Sourceforge webcalendar is built on top of PHP, which makes it not useful for me.
Thanks for any info
Pretty much by accident, though. I don't think anyone really saw the return of Jobs back when Apple was on its last gasps. At best, the magazines were hoping that Apple would by Be... which as much as I liked BeOS, wouldn't have done much for Apple. It's turnaround is due to the ingenious products like the iMac and the iPod. The OS, though a necessity, just didn't have the sexy mass-market appeal that those other products did.
The effects of gravity don't travel any faster than light can.
And you believe them? Sucker.
Could you post with your user name and at this time next year, I'll put a nice "ha ha" in your journal?
Holographic storage is theoretically possible, but until someone starts distributing prototypes to the press, you're extremely likely to be just another gullible bozo if you believe claims that "we'll be shipping later this year".
Look, there's nothing I'd like more than to be proven wrong about disbelieving in the validity of holographic storage, space elevators, string theory, flying cars, and Jessica Rabbit... but the fact of the matter is that the ratio of real life examples of these things to vapor promises is about 0 to 100,000,000,000.
Please don't feed the venture capitalist funding and AdSense whores. Ignore these types of stories until a company brings something to market.
Can't slashdot automatically send any submissions that contain the words "holographic" and "storage" straight into the trash?
All they're doing is trying to get some funding or increase their AdSense revenue by getting hits to their site. They're probably in league with the reporting site.
How can a Slashdot editor read a submission like that and not just shake his head sadly and hit the delete key?
It's not that I hate seeing these stories posted so much as it boggles my mind that there are people stupid or gullible enough to be taken in by them. Wouldn't you think that Slashdot editors would be chosen for their intelligence and senses of discernment? Seriously, JonKatz hasn't been around in ages as far as I know (I filtered him out way back when, so he may be around and I don't realize it).
It reminds me of seeing that John Edwards(sp?) fraud on the SciFi channel late at night. It's not that his programming was really interrupting my viewing anyway, I don't watch much late-night TV... but the notion that there were people from "my" SciFi-watching-community who were impressed enough with his crappy act to support his show... it just kinda squashes my hopes for humanity.
So, thank you, Slashdot. Thank you for pissing in my Cheerios.
I've been dabbling with Rails and Ruby for a couple of months now, and I don't want to get into a big debate on whether it's more efficient, more popular, or whatever semi-quantifiable metric you want to apply to it...
The bottom line for me right now is that I'm having fun with it. I've been really looking forward to the little extra time I've put aside each day to work with Rails; although I think that a lot of the fun I'm having is just pleasure at using Ruby.
To be honest, I found the article summary to be a bit misleading, confusing, and aiming to be too "clever" for its own good. The topic is interesting, but you were trying too hard to be funny or something. To each his own, I guess; but don't be too surprised if the technically minded at /. didn't get the point or joke or whatever you were trying to accomplish.
People are going to be idiots... you would hope to see better from the editors, though.
That's pretty rich, since King plagiarized a portion of that speech.
Too funny.
Interesting comments, but by far the most fascinating part of your post is in referring to the previous poster as "honey".
/. responses.
Very matronly and it stands out from the usual
Kudos!
Hire a few people and pay them with your savings to do a job for you. See how far your "gentler" workplace perspective lasts when you realize that you're about to write a $2000 pay-check to some person who hasn't been doing his job; and that $2000 is the last of your money, meaning that you'll be on ramen noodles for the rest of the month and may have to sell something, possibly even your car.
Excellent point.
Non-profits get enough benefits as it is through the US tax system. The non-profits that I care about don't email me, call me, or send me voluminous amounts of mail. I reach out to them because they're worthy causes, not because they're the squeakiest wheels. I wish more organizations understood that and stopped trying to fight for extra rights to harrass me. (see the can-spam and national do-not-call list for examples)
There are worse bands out there, but based upon play time, AC/DC's quality to air-time ratio is about as low as it gets.
I recently spent a weekend at a house where the owner played 3 or 4 hours of AC/DC. I wanted to pour hot lead in my ears. Every fucking song sounds the same and that sound sucks.