As a cannabis-using war president, your sense of time would stand still. This gives you extra time to think while everyone else is frozen in time getting shot... or maybe the other way around... who can say? It's all relative, man. Often times I find myself in the middle of a long bitter war and trying to remember why I got up off the couch. Oh yes I wanted to check the cookie bowl for terrorists. Well, looks like no jihadists in the bowl this time... better make some room for them by eating some more cookies! A good war president needs to have the munchies for war or there is just no raw primal desire to win.
What would be even cooler, would be a weed growing robot.
That would be awesome... if the cops catch your robot tending to the weed it can be programmed to say uhh I forgot who I'm growing this hash for man I have only so much RAM to devote to remembering things and I just can't remember who programmed me to grow all this sticky bud and there's nothing the pigs can do because your robot will be programmed to enjoy prison and be willing to spend years there in standby mode to conserve battery life but if the grower is some guy you'd have to promise him that you'll commute his sentence so he can perjure himself all he wants for you knowing you'll eventually bail him out... but under the existing system you can't do that unless you're the president who must have access to a mean supply of weed because you can see how worried he's been looking lately.
You obviously don't work in the medical field and are just reacting. There is a movement afoot in the medical community to stop teaching anatomy to med students. It was more important in the 19th century for a doctor to know anatomy, but now it's mostly hazing and tradition. Some specialties still require extensive knowledge of anatomy, but most don't and if it weren't for the hazing factor most doctors wouldn't need to know it at all. It consumes a huge amount of time to memorize the insertion points of six hundred muscles, it makes them bitter and feel justified in seeking high salaries, and not many doctors need to know anatomy to that extent anymore. That stuff can just be looked up. And you pay for all that unnecessary memorization when you go to an or an ear nose and throat specialist. I'd rather ask for a referral than rely on the anatomical knowledge of an immunologist as memorized years ago at 3 AM in med school ten years ago. My own neurologist uses Google right there in the office. I ask him about a skin rash and he wants to do a referral. Paying for his anatomical knowledge of my elbow strikes me as a little silly.
The AMA set itself up as a gatekeeper to the medical profession and medicine.
The AMA, and doctors in general, are a real part of the problem. We would have more doctors if we didn't do so much hazing of medical students. We don't let anyone into medical school, and then we make them waste hellish years of their lives studying shit like anatomy that most doctors never use, or staying awake for 30 hour days during their residencies. By the time they emerge from the hazing process they are fatigued and bitter and they support further hazing of doctors because they had to do it and now they are going to enjoy the benefits of being in an exclusive club damn it. So doctors become a scarce resource. Really it isn't that hard to be a doctor, and in my experience most of these guys aren't that good anyway. Talk about a self-worshipping profession.
I have a naive feature suggestion for somebody reading this. If midpoint destinations are visible on the map, the add point right click menu might include a "delete nearest midpoint" option for people saddled with poor vision, tremors, or alcohol, that provides a visual cue over the deleted point to provide confirmation. Something about the right click detection for context menus isn't doing it for me. (Yes I know some people shouldn't be driving, but as a pedestrian you need this feature; the default paths from the initial algorithm are drawn to highways like moths to a flame.)
It makes too many points. You have to be really careful with your clicking and dragging behavior because it thinks every place you drag to is a destination and it isn't obvious how to delete the points in the UI once you've created them. I managed to delete one but I forgot how to get to the menu afterwards. You can delete them in the right hand search field but what a pain. It had me making a wrong turn up a street and back down the street to get out, as if I wanted to visit a friend on that street on my way to work. I tried to drag it out of there and it interpreted the drag as another desire to run back up and down this street like an idiot. I tried to drag the points back onto the main route and ended up with a rat's nest of unwanted points that looked like the path of a drunk lost in a bad neighborhood. It was pretty funny actually. I bet if this algorithm is ever used to actually route traffic and drive cars around, we're going to see a lot of people driving up and down the street like stalkers.
Sorry I'm having trouble understanding your triple-and-a-half negative. You seem to be saying that laws against fraud (for example) are "nanny state laws" because they prevent fraud from happening and fraud is bad. OR you're arguing the exact opposite, that laws against fraud are NOT nanny state laws because they can be justified on the basis that they prevent fraud...?
This "nanny state" crap was never more than a propagandistic talking point based on a linguistic mind game anyway, so all this really boils down to the precise definition of a meaningless term.
Why should there be a Linux patch for an Intel hardware problem?
Because otherwise Linux would, oh, I don't know... suck? The hardware has been deliberately designed in anticipation of this type of snafu, to provide a mechanism so that a fix can be implemented in software, because they assumed at Intel that they would make mistakes, and they designed around that to allow a software workaround. That means it is now incumbent on Linux to address the issue like any other modern OS. "Oh well it was Intel's fault originally" would be a very revealing statement coming from a software engineer.
Anyway, since I refuse on principle to let Windows Genuine Advantage creep onto my computer, no patch for me. This is where Linux could really shine.
Well he's saying he can hear it in a record he just released, which I doubt. I assumed he's deaf, doesn't realize it, and is basically just projecting a bad attitude toward CDs that he acquired earlier in life as a hearing person onto his present day experiences where he hallucinates actually hearing his own music.
Actually what I think most people are really objecting to is the way that record companies pump up the volume and saturate the band. Everything sounds like a car commercial the way they use it.
But the past 40 years are irrelevant. The CD audio standard dates back to 1980. I would have just assumed Bob Dylan first heard a CD at about the same time I did sometime in the early 80s, and that he made up his mind back then.
I play my vinyl records all day with no damage using my ELP Laser Turntable. Now that optical players are available, only a Philistine would actually drop a goddamn needle into an analog track these days. Needle turntables are going to go the way of shoe store X-rays, lead paint, filament lightbulbs, and mercury thermometers.
First of all you're starting with a weak argument: "what does Bob Dylan know about what music sounds like" is not the sort of position I would prefer to defend. And also lots of us use drugs and are not deaf. So there is that. If there is a drug that makes you deaf, please let me know what it is because I could really use it at work. But this is just too funny:
furthur more, on a technical level cd's use a lossless uncompressed format which should be a perfect reproduction of what was mixed.
Yes they do not use lossy digital compression, but that's irrelevant. The digitization of the analog signal is what destroys information, resulting in distortion when the analog is reconstructed later.
Just wrap a big fat wire around Mars at the equator and turn it into a giant electromagnet if the sun bothers you. The required current only rises linearly with increasing planet radius. To get a vacuum field of 0.6 Gauss at the center of a ring that size you would need 300 million amp-turns of current. Martian soil looks nice and rusty and probably has a magnetic permeability around 100 times that of a vacuum (?) so you'd need a few million amp-turns. Surely we can afford to set up a million amps of current if we can afford to walk around on Mars. And it's so cold there that you can just refrigerate a superconductor along the line, and maintain the current for free after you finish pumping it into the ring to establish the initial field. Of course if the refrigeration fails at any point along the ring then things get interesting real quick, so we have to extend our terrorist no-fly list to Mars.
Looks like we have some Microsoft moderators today. It is not unreasonable for Google to go over the heads of opposing counsel and address the court directly. The only "political maneuver interesting" here is that the DOJ would choose to represent the plaintiff and the defendant in the same case. It sounds suspiciously like a conflict of interest in the Department of Justice.
This may be "a failure of leadership spanning ~10 years" because the problems were predicted nine years ago, but they didn't fly out of hand until after 2001; probably after Cheney ordered the NSA to start brute forcing its way through more keyspace than the rainfall in the Tennessee Valley can handle.
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Which ones?
Not the kind that forms under the sea...
As a cannabis-using war president, your sense of time would stand still. This gives you extra time to think while everyone else is frozen in time getting shot... or maybe the other way around... who can say? It's all relative, man. Often times I find myself in the middle of a long bitter war and trying to remember why I got up off the couch. Oh yes I wanted to check the cookie bowl for terrorists. Well, looks like no jihadists in the bowl this time... better make some room for them by eating some more cookies! A good war president needs to have the munchies for war or there is just no raw primal desire to win.
What would be even cooler, would be a weed growing robot.
That would be awesome... if the cops catch your robot tending to the weed it can be programmed to say uhh I forgot who I'm growing this hash for man I have only so much RAM to devote to remembering things and I just can't remember who programmed me to grow all this sticky bud and there's nothing the pigs can do because your robot will be programmed to enjoy prison and be willing to spend years there in standby mode to conserve battery life but if the grower is some guy you'd have to promise him that you'll commute his sentence so he can perjure himself all he wants for you knowing you'll eventually bail him out... but under the existing system you can't do that unless you're the president who must have access to a mean supply of weed because you can see how worried he's been looking lately.
You obviously don't work in the medical field and are just reacting. There is a movement afoot in the medical community to stop teaching anatomy to med students. It was more important in the 19th century for a doctor to know anatomy, but now it's mostly hazing and tradition. Some specialties still require extensive knowledge of anatomy, but most don't and if it weren't for the hazing factor most doctors wouldn't need to know it at all. It consumes a huge amount of time to memorize the insertion points of six hundred muscles, it makes them bitter and feel justified in seeking high salaries, and not many doctors need to know anatomy to that extent anymore. That stuff can just be looked up. And you pay for all that unnecessary memorization when you go to an or an ear nose and throat specialist. I'd rather ask for a referral than rely on the anatomical knowledge of an immunologist as memorized years ago at 3 AM in med school ten years ago. My own neurologist uses Google right there in the office. I ask him about a skin rash and he wants to do a referral. Paying for his anatomical knowledge of my elbow strikes me as a little silly.
The AMA set itself up as a gatekeeper to the medical profession and medicine.
The AMA, and doctors in general, are a real part of the problem. We would have more doctors if we didn't do so much hazing of medical students. We don't let anyone into medical school, and then we make them waste hellish years of their lives studying shit like anatomy that most doctors never use, or staying awake for 30 hour days during their residencies. By the time they emerge from the hazing process they are fatigued and bitter and they support further hazing of doctors because they had to do it and now they are going to enjoy the benefits of being in an exclusive club damn it. So doctors become a scarce resource. Really it isn't that hard to be a doctor, and in my experience most of these guys aren't that good anyway. Talk about a self-worshipping profession.
I have a naive feature suggestion for somebody reading this. If midpoint destinations are visible on the map, the add point right click menu might include a "delete nearest midpoint" option for people saddled with poor vision, tremors, or alcohol, that provides a visual cue over the deleted point to provide confirmation. Something about the right click detection for context menus isn't doing it for me. (Yes I know some people shouldn't be driving, but as a pedestrian you need this feature; the default paths from the initial algorithm are drawn to highways like moths to a flame.)
That menu lets you add a new one, not delete one that exists.
It makes too many points. You have to be really careful with your clicking and dragging behavior because it thinks every place you drag to is a destination and it isn't obvious how to delete the points in the UI once you've created them. I managed to delete one but I forgot how to get to the menu afterwards. You can delete them in the right hand search field but what a pain. It had me making a wrong turn up a street and back down the street to get out, as if I wanted to visit a friend on that street on my way to work. I tried to drag it out of there and it interpreted the drag as another desire to run back up and down this street like an idiot. I tried to drag the points back onto the main route and ended up with a rat's nest of unwanted points that looked like the path of a drunk lost in a bad neighborhood. It was pretty funny actually. I bet if this algorithm is ever used to actually route traffic and drive cars around, we're going to see a lot of people driving up and down the street like stalkers.
Sorry I'm having trouble understanding your triple-and-a-half negative. You seem to be saying that laws against fraud (for example) are "nanny state laws" because they prevent fraud from happening and fraud is bad. OR you're arguing the exact opposite, that laws against fraud are NOT nanny state laws because they can be justified on the basis that they prevent fraud...?
This "nanny state" crap was never more than a propagandistic talking point based on a linguistic mind game anyway, so all this really boils down to the precise definition of a meaningless term.
What does any of this stuff have to do with maintenance of laws against wire fraud?
Why should there be a Linux patch for an Intel hardware problem?
Because otherwise Linux would, oh, I don't know... suck? The hardware has been deliberately designed in anticipation of this type of snafu, to provide a mechanism so that a fix can be implemented in software, because they assumed at Intel that they would make mistakes, and they designed around that to allow a software workaround. That means it is now incumbent on Linux to address the issue like any other modern OS. "Oh well it was Intel's fault originally" would be a very revealing statement coming from a software engineer.
Anyway, since I refuse on principle to let Windows Genuine Advantage creep onto my computer, no patch for me. This is where Linux could really shine.
I bet you don't even have bubblewrap around your speaker wires.
Well he's saying he can hear it in a record he just released, which I doubt. I assumed he's deaf, doesn't realize it, and is basically just projecting a bad attitude toward CDs that he acquired earlier in life as a hearing person onto his present day experiences where he hallucinates actually hearing his own music.
Actually what I think most people are really objecting to is the way that record companies pump up the volume and saturate the band. Everything sounds like a car commercial the way they use it.
But the past 40 years are irrelevant. The CD audio standard dates back to 1980. I would have just assumed Bob Dylan first heard a CD at about the same time I did sometime in the early 80s, and that he made up his mind back then.
I play my vinyl records all day with no damage using my ELP Laser Turntable. Now that optical players are available, only a Philistine would actually drop a goddamn needle into an analog track these days. Needle turntables are going to go the way of shoe store X-rays, lead paint, filament lightbulbs, and mercury thermometers.
Inhalants cause hearing loss, just so you know.
I was just noticing the other day, it gets really quiet around here after I blow the dust out of my keyboard with that canned air stuff.
Just wrap a big fat wire around Mars at the equator and turn it into a giant electromagnet if the sun bothers you. The required current only rises linearly with increasing planet radius. To get a vacuum field of 0.6 Gauss at the center of a ring that size you would need 300 million amp-turns of current. Martian soil looks nice and rusty and probably has a magnetic permeability around 100 times that of a vacuum (?) so you'd need a few million amp-turns. Surely we can afford to set up a million amps of current if we can afford to walk around on Mars. And it's so cold there that you can just refrigerate a superconductor along the line, and maintain the current for free after you finish pumping it into the ring to establish the initial field. Of course if the refrigeration fails at any point along the ring then things get interesting real quick, so we have to extend our terrorist no-fly list to Mars.
Looks like we have some Microsoft moderators today. It is not unreasonable for Google to go over the heads of opposing counsel and address the court directly. The only "political maneuver interesting" here is that the DOJ would choose to represent the plaintiff and the defendant in the same case. It sounds suspiciously like a conflict of interest in the Department of Justice.
They weren't holding it up. Those were Ethernet cables although if you were really driving around in a spinner you'd want 802.11.
This may be "a failure of leadership spanning ~10 years" because the problems were predicted nine years ago, but they didn't fly out of hand until after 2001; probably after Cheney ordered the NSA to start brute forcing its way through more keyspace than the rainfall in the Tennessee Valley can handle.
Most purchasers only used the mp3 player.
It is about whether the RIAA is selectively enforcing their copyrights;
Well, when the president's daughters do it that means that it is not illegal.