And part of it was regulatory agencies not doing their job. It's funny how, if you spend eight years working for a boss who doesn't want you to do anything, you get lazy.
I think what the other guy was referring to with IVF is this:
When couples want to get pregnant through in vitro fertilzation, the doctor doesn't just join one sperm, and one egg, and hope it works. The process is too expensive and unreliable for it to (reasonably) work that way. So, they harvest a large number of eggs at once, and fertilize as many as possible, freezing the ones they don't need. Once the woman has been successfully impregnated, they either throw the fertilized eggs away, or send them to a stem cell research lab.
IVF should bring with it all the ethical and moral concerns that come from first-trimester abortion (more so, when you consider how many fertilized eggs are destroyed). But, in the end, a baby pops out of a vagina, so that changes it from "murder" to "miracle from god".
The visualization has several areas labeled "mega paradox". So what should Roswell have been labeled? That would have had Quark and his brother, the Futurama crew, and who knows how many other scifi characters.
You don't need three advanced degrees (And the debt load that comes with it) to each ANY high school class. Period.
Home schooling is becoming more and more popular, and one of the reasons is how completely disconnected from reality Public schools are.
Another one is how disconnected from society the parents wish to be. I'm not saying all homeschooling is bad, but there are a few who wish to carefully control which aspects of society and academia their children are exposed to.
You are assuming that the perfect value of a product is what the local market places upon it. That is not true. We do not value education enough to pay teachers well and fire the untalented ones. Instead, we have a system that's just a few steps above begging; we pay them shit and then assume that the ones who want to be teachers will accept any pay rate. And we wonder why we occasionally see teachers who are untalented, lazy, or who sleep with the students. They obviously aren't there for the pay, and we can't be too choosy about who we hire.
But, just because we say "teachers don't produce anything of value", that doesn't automagically justify our priorities and policies. To add another analogy, Judges, politicians, policemen, firemen, military, IT departments in traditional businesses, and security, do not directly profit any organization, any more than teachers do. Are they entitled to any pay at all?
i don't know about unifying electromagnetism and gravity, but it seems like someone just unified economics and quantum mechanics
just tell us how to avoid the deflaton particle for the next few years
Misused quantum mechanics: the branch of quantum physics that accounts for bullshit at the atomic level; an explanation of nonsensical beliefs based on a poorly understood field.
They could have a massive, scrolling map, with the main character being a 3d rendered image of a guy with a metal detector. You then use the cursors to scroll around, all while obnoxious techno music plays in the background. And you could get crazy achievements, like "blown up on first round".
I'm surprised no one has done it yet. Those are probably the dumbest ideas I've ever had, without drinking. I'm surprised no one has done it yet.
I don't know if I'd consider setting up a good Proxy server as "Slaying a Dictator".
I think that's actually part of a big chain quest so that you can get keyed along with a large group of people to then slay the dictator.
You must first reach exalted with several factions, including "UN" and at least a few of the "U.S. Military" subfactions. Otherwise you can't even zone in.
So that's why we didn't accomplish it before:
The UN general looks at you and says 'I have a quest for you. In my country, horses are illegal. I want a pony'
The word euros seems out of place there. Whenever I read about barbaric penalties for things that shouldn't be illegal, I always imagine that the currency system is based on the trading of severed hog heads, syphilitic hooker toes, or some other currency that is as useless and screwed up as the law itself.
But if I see a price advertised as "less than", or "under", then I mentally substitute "almost exactly". I remember a long time ago, one of the Atari systems was advertised as "under 50 bucks", because the price was $49.99. This was the first time I realized that principal.
I wonder if there is a marketing bullshit translator somewhere.
I also live in a small town and get good speeds from Comcast. I still wish there was an alternative, so that I could get television service elsewhere without being penalized for not being a ComCast tv customer. (How is the $15 surcharge not bundling, again?)
That's awesome, I don't know why fans of one series have to hate on the other. When you become so serious that you can't joke about it, then what value does it still have?
The profit motive matters. If an employer asks me to write code to prove I can, then that is one thing. If that employer then uses the code to make millions of dollars, doesn't give me a penny for it, and won't even hire me, then I would be angry.
I've seen it at a few places, but never worked for large corporations. There was a job secured by a headhunter, where you weren't technically an employee of the company until 90 days had passed (although you did get paid). Then there is my current employer, who didn't provide health insurance for 90 days. I don't think I've ever had a job that gave out Health Insurance without a 90 day period.
Agreed. I consider myself an environmentalist, but this amounts to less than one gallon per person per decade (if I am correct in reading that to mean that it cost 1 billion gallons from 1960 to 2002). That may still add up to 1 billion gallons, but I'm curious how much would have been saved if the average driving speed were reduced by 5mph, or if the MPG average were 2 mpg higher.
He also owns the company that sued Al Franken for "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right". It was laughed out of court because the title was obvious parody. I wonder if they don't have slightly different intentions. For example, I may lose the case, but you still have to pay legal fees, and devote time and resources to dealing both with the court battle and the public relations repercussions...OR...you can pay me to make this go away.
I think you just shifted attention away from the real question:
What area should they focus the most resources on? Should they hire the best developers to start working on the "Y!phone", or should they concentrate on coming up with news content, tweaking and maintain the chat rooms, and to creating contests and gimmicks to sell more ad impressions? It looks like they went mostly in the later direction, so I guess you're right about them being a media company.
More like IKEA "documentation" - best defense against setting up a shelf ever devised.
In all honesty, I have never bought an item from IKEA. It just sounds better than "cheap Chinese crap bought from Target". The documentation that gets my goat is when someone produces text-free instructions. Every step is just a drawing. I usually refer to them a hieroglyphics, and gripe that they couldn't pay one person who speaks the language of whatever country the product is being marketed in, to type up a description.
It wouldn't be too easily abused if it did one or more of the following:
Required at least two people who had been given "declare dead" rights to declare the death
Sent an e-mail to the account holder's registered e-mail address with a link to an "I'm not dead" page, no response in, say, 72 hours and the account goes "dead" (although it should still have the "dead" status be revocable after the 72 hours have expired)
I don't really know why this would be a problem for Twitter, though. It isn't like the dead person is going to be texting Twitter, so there shouldn't be any updates being posted?
I would suggest that, instead of linking to a "I'm not dead" page, they simply ask you to log in. I have seen too many phishing attempts that begin with "log in to this page now or we will close your bank account".
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And part of it was regulatory agencies not doing their job. It's funny how, if you spend eight years working for a boss who doesn't want you to do anything, you get lazy.
I think what the other guy was referring to with IVF is this:
When couples want to get pregnant through in vitro fertilzation, the doctor doesn't just join one sperm, and one egg, and hope it works. The process is too expensive and unreliable for it to (reasonably) work that way. So, they harvest a large number of eggs at once, and fertilize as many as possible, freezing the ones they don't need. Once the woman has been successfully impregnated, they either throw the fertilized eggs away, or send them to a stem cell research lab.
IVF should bring with it all the ethical and moral concerns that come from first-trimester abortion (more so, when you consider how many fertilized eggs are destroyed). But, in the end, a baby pops out of a vagina, so that changes it from "murder" to "miracle from god".
The visualization has several areas labeled "mega paradox". So what should Roswell have been labeled? That would have had Quark and his brother, the Futurama crew, and who knows how many other scifi characters.
You don't need three advanced degrees (And the debt load that comes with it) to each ANY high school class. Period.
Home schooling is becoming more and more popular, and one of the reasons is how completely disconnected from reality Public schools are.
Another one is how disconnected from society the parents wish to be. I'm not saying all homeschooling is bad, but there are a few who wish to carefully control which aspects of society and academia their children are exposed to.
You are assuming that the perfect value of a product is what the local market places upon it. That is not true. We do not value education enough to pay teachers well and fire the untalented ones. Instead, we have a system that's just a few steps above begging; we pay them shit and then assume that the ones who want to be teachers will accept any pay rate. And we wonder why we occasionally see teachers who are untalented, lazy, or who sleep with the students. They obviously aren't there for the pay, and we can't be too choosy about who we hire.
But, just because we say "teachers don't produce anything of value", that doesn't automagically justify our priorities and policies. To add another analogy, Judges, politicians, policemen, firemen, military, IT departments in traditional businesses, and security, do not directly profit any organization, any more than teachers do. Are they entitled to any pay at all?
So do the Swedish court have anything like "house arrest"?
i don't know about unifying electromagnetism and gravity, but it seems like someone just unified economics and quantum mechanics
just tell us how to avoid the deflaton particle for the next few years
Misused quantum mechanics: the branch of quantum physics that accounts for bullshit at the atomic level; an explanation of nonsensical beliefs based on a poorly understood field.
They could have a massive, scrolling map, with the main character being a 3d rendered image of a guy with a metal detector. You then use the cursors to scroll around, all while obnoxious techno music plays in the background. And you could get crazy achievements, like "blown up on first round".
I'm surprised no one has done it yet. Those are probably the dumbest ideas I've ever had, without drinking. I'm surprised no one has done it yet.
It makes you wonder how many American kids are mis-diagnosed as Obese just because they're even fatter than the rest of the kids in class!
put together?
I don't know if I'd consider setting up a good Proxy server as "Slaying a Dictator".
I think that's actually part of a big chain quest so that you can get keyed along with a large group of people to then slay the dictator.
You must first reach exalted with several factions, including "UN" and at least a few of the "U.S. Military" subfactions. Otherwise you can't even zone in.
So that's why we didn't accomplish it before:
The UN general looks at you and says 'I have a quest for you. In my country, horses are illegal. I want a pony'
action: kick general
Ouch!
action: kick general
Ouch!
action: kick general
Ouch!
action: go home
action: clear brush
The word euros seems out of place there. Whenever I read about barbaric penalties for things that shouldn't be illegal, I always imagine that the currency system is based on the trading of severed hog heads, syphilitic hooker toes, or some other currency that is as useless and screwed up as the law itself.
But if I see a price advertised as "less than", or "under", then I mentally substitute "almost exactly". I remember a long time ago, one of the Atari systems was advertised as "under 50 bucks", because the price was $49.99. This was the first time I realized that principal.
I wonder if there is a marketing bullshit translator somewhere.
I also live in a small town and get good speeds from Comcast. I still wish there was an alternative, so that I could get television service elsewhere without being penalized for not being a ComCast tv customer. (How is the $15 surcharge not bundling, again?)
For someone who does not have an interest in such devices, it has little information either.
Yes, it can do any Linux server task, in a way that is slightly more green than repurposing an old pc, and, yes, it is smaller as well.
There's your article. Tack some technical specs on the end.
I have to turn in my geek card. When I first saw this, I thought Qui-gon was one of the Mortal Kombat characters. :)
That's awesome, I don't know why fans of one series have to hate on the other. When you become so serious that you can't joke about it, then what value does it still have?
The profit motive matters. If an employer asks me to write code to prove I can, then that is one thing. If that employer then uses the code to make millions of dollars, doesn't give me a penny for it, and won't even hire me, then I would be angry.
I've seen it at a few places, but never worked for large corporations. There was a job secured by a headhunter, where you weren't technically an employee of the company until 90 days had passed (although you did get paid). Then there is my current employer, who didn't provide health insurance for 90 days. I don't think I've ever had a job that gave out Health Insurance without a 90 day period.
Agreed. I consider myself an environmentalist, but this amounts to less than one gallon per person per decade (if I am correct in reading that to mean that it cost 1 billion gallons from 1960 to 2002). That may still add up to 1 billion gallons, but I'm curious how much would have been saved if the average driving speed were reduced by 5mph, or if the MPG average were 2 mpg higher.
He also owns the company that sued Al Franken for "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right". It was laughed out of court because the title was obvious parody. I wonder if they don't have slightly different intentions. For example, I may lose the case, but you still have to pay legal fees, and devote time and resources to dealing both with the court battle and the public relations repercussions...OR...you can pay me to make this go away.
I think you just shifted attention away from the real question:
What area should they focus the most resources on? Should they hire the best developers to start working on the "Y!phone", or should they concentrate on coming up with news content, tweaking and maintain the chat rooms, and to creating contests and gimmicks to sell more ad impressions? It looks like they went mostly in the later direction, so I guess you're right about them being a media company.
But please don't signify the beginning of the conversation by swiping your finger across their nose. That just makes them angry.
More like IKEA "documentation" - best defense against setting up a shelf ever devised.
In all honesty, I have never bought an item from IKEA. It just sounds better than "cheap Chinese crap bought from Target". The documentation that gets my goat is when someone produces text-free instructions. Every step is just a drawing. I usually refer to them a hieroglyphics, and gripe that they couldn't pay one person who speaks the language of whatever country the product is being marketed in, to type up a description.
It wouldn't be too easily abused if it did one or more of the following:
I don't really know why this would be a problem for Twitter, though. It isn't like the dead person is going to be texting Twitter, so there shouldn't be any updates being posted?
I would suggest that, instead of linking to a "I'm not dead" page, they simply ask you to log in. I have seen too many phishing attempts that begin with "log in to this page now or we will close your bank account".
or just a "final post".
I know what mine's going to be...
LAST POST!