Yeah, me too... and uhm... when did that change for you? I'm in mid-40s and that still happens for me though I wouldn't say without thinking... there's almost always something I'm thinking about at the time.
Is a world without sound a handicap? Absolutely. Is a world without sound dangerous? ABSOLUTELY.
What gets me is the obvious duplicity. They often feel loud sounds which can get their attention (as we all do) and that's good. But is that enough? NO. It's not and it can't be.
And if there were an additional sense which would allow humans to detect against other dangers in life, I would consider the absense of that sense to be a disability as well... or perhaps, the presense as a super-power. The point is having senses are essential. Having them reduced or absent is an impairment. Being about to get through life happily with an impairment is wonderful. But it's still an impairment.
It's when an impairment becomes something which must be agressively defended that things have gone too far.
In so many ways this mirrors black culture and I'm willing to accept down-modding for this. But it's basically true.
1. Self-improvement is viewed as traitorous. 2. Entitled to royal treatment and royal public assistance. 3. Highly exclusive. 4. Views others with suspicion and contempt.
I think point #1 is especially important. EVERYONE, myself included, are perfectly comfortable around people who simply want to join in and be one of the crowd. We've got common interests and what have you and that's okay. We're co-workers and we can get along, work and play well together. But the moment words like "traitor" or "sell-out" get asserted by their other identity groups, things get pretty screwed up.
I don't mean to say being black is a disability. I don't mean to say being deaf is a race. I mean to point out that identity groups can be harmful at times. ID grouping is NATURAL. I'm a man. I'm white. I'm southern. I'm [fill in the blank]. And I like to do and share things with people who are like me. That's natural. But I might also identify with groups which tend to disagree with my other ID groups such as being atheist. Being atheist does not 'require' that I hate anyone else. Being white does not require that I hate anyone else.
But in the case of certain, let's say 'radical' members of these ID groups, they believe it IS license to hate.
This is all to be expected isn't it? It seems like when there is opportunity to scam people out of money, someone will set up an operation to exploit it. Every natural disaster results in hundreds of fake charities being set up to collect donations. And digital currency saw all manner of opportunists attempting to participate at every level from bitcoin mining viruses to setting up exchanges with disappearing money "bugs."
Anyone who didn't expect it was born yesterday under a rock.
While Microsoft has unquestionably slowed XP down over the years, it still runs on machines which compensate for the software's lack of performance.
When there is software which "only runs on Windows 7" then people might give additional pause. But right now, there just isn't that much incentive. And Microsft has clearly painted itself into a corner by supporting legacy code for extremely aged software.
Microsoft should have done what Apple did when moving from OS9 to OSX. Provide some flakey compatibility kludge to encourage people to run OSX native software and then drop support for 9. People were angry at Apple and eventually got over it. Microsoft could have invested its billions and billions into a whole new OS and then assigned a VM to run old Windows apps until things are ported. People would have done it 15 years ago. They would have done it 10 years ago. But the longer they wait, the more other alternatives become valued. And WINE is impressively advanced these days. If forced into it today, business just might adopt Linux and WINE to run their apps and find out they are safer and more stable because of it. Microsoft has hesitated for more than a decade, arguably two decades, before doing what they know they should have done. Now it can be argued that it's too late for that now.
Would it surprise anyone to know that banking still runs LOTS of *NIX based systems? Sure, desktop consoles are running Windows. But that's just the user interface systems.
I don't think you understand how it works. Look at Dwayne Ferguson -- Black, anti-gun activist who helped push the SAFE act onto New Yorkers carried a gun until he was caught carrying into a public school and pretended he didn't know he had it on him.
In the minds of these people are special exceptions for themselves.
I have had more than enough experience in dealing with "this is how I do it!" developers. We're talking about writing code -- a set of instructions to accomplish things usually performed by an electronic machine. Things definitely become complex and even confusing at times, but it's NOT MAGIC. And when people need to work with developers and developers with developers and all that, I have run short on patience where some developers believe they are the thing and not the project or the community affected by the project.
To me, the community which uses the project or is affected by the project is the thing. If you write for results, then you agree. If you write to make yourself proud? You're just a bit too self-absorbed. (I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being happy and proud of your work, but what you want should never be the thing.)
I just wish Linus would go kick some GNOME team ass and share some wisdom with GIMP developers as well.
In order to wake up to sun light, a variety of factors must coincide, but chief among them is sleeping a little later instead of waking up at 5am to get ready for work and sitting in traffic for a long time just so you can sit in an office with unhealthy lighting by sunrise.
No. Not all people act like this. Many people have a sense of it being wrong to do things to other people that which you would not want done to yourself. For example, as much as I might want to punch someone in the face, I don't mostly because I know it would hurt them and also, I wouldn't want them to hit me back. That's a fairly common understanding for most people. Psychopaths don't quite get that. Instead, they tend to feel like everyone else is an object for manipulation and the only real person is himself.
That is a bit of an over-simplification, but perhaps it makes the point more clear.
But once again, typical people understand it's wrong to violate privacy and personal space of other people.
I will open my door to these advertisers if they will give me the keys and alarm codes to their homes and promise not to prosecute me if I misbehave.
Sounds fair to me.
After all, that's what these people are asking from everyone else. It takes a real psychopath to want to do to other people what they would never want done to them.
(P.S. Yes, I know they already do that. I guess what I'm rhetorically getting at is that either someone has been raiding that honey pot or they didn't estimate decom costs well enough... you know, accounting for the devaluation of the US dollar and all that?)
Yes, you would think that was the case. Problem is, these "people" are corporations and the humans behind the corporations rotate in and out of seats regularly. So it's just not as simple as all that is it?
To that end, one thing that is most definitely true: When commissioning a nuclear plant, the cost of decommissioning should be paid for in advance or at the very least, paid for over the first years of its operation to an account set aside specifically for decommissioning. (I'm not a brilliant person so I'm quite sure someone else has thought of this idea too.) Such a plan, which is clearly not in place, would enable the decom of a plant to be funded already and wouldn't be such a concern.
Perhaps it's beyond time for these matters become addressed by the NRC when licensing new plants and also added to the licensing requirements of current plants.
I have three sons and a long career in IT and other creative endeavors. I don't believe in copyright in its current form or the notion that a person can perform a single work and collect money on it for effectively forever. It's a complete violation of the original and intended notion of copyright. I am the sole source of income for my family which includes a wife, an elementary school student and a young adult in college. I also have a son in the service. I am a wartime veteran and was in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
Don't assume I am younger than you because my wisdom and opinions differ from yours. I work for the money I bring home and no one gives me anything for things I have already been paid for. And let's stop having delusions about who is really profiting from the 'works' in the industry. It's not the creator. The laws have been perverted and twisted to support a massive business model that takes without giving back as the original letter and spirit of the agreement had been.
Did you know that presently under current physical media, the material will deteriorate before the works go into the public domain? And that's every single form of media not stored in any particular archived format. And the copyright holders are not obligated in any way to preserve or republish the works prior to entering the public domain and so availability of the works may very well vanish off the face of the earth forever and many, many works have been lost already.
I'm far from priviledged. I work every day. I live clean but I've never owned a car that cost more than $15k in my life. I hope this clarifies just about every misconception you seem to have.
I'm seriously tired of this crap. I no longer care who wins or loses in any of this. The patent system is simply being abused in every which way. Software patents have got to go as do design patents as petty as rounded corners. This idiocy has got to end at some point. I honestly expected it to come to a head before now. This is like walking in mud from New York to California.
We're talking about the children of the USA. We're not talking about a rare condition, but a formerly rare condition which is not just increasing to the point that every person in the US likely knows someone affected, but to the point that there is likely one in every classroom. The numbers were alarming when they were in the 1 in 200 range. They were seriously alarming when the rate was in the 1 in 100 range. 1 in 88... then 1 in 68? And that's just averaging among children -- the boys are most frequently affected so the rate is strikingly higher. And there is NO indication that this rate will decrease.
The problems are immense. They are affecting millions. But you are clearly unimpressed in any of this. Perhaps a different approach?
Consider that not only will your taxes need to be raised to deal with the increasing numbers of illegal aliens and the increasing numbers of those losing work and the decline of the middle class, but now an huge increase in the number of impaired children which are expected to live for at least the next five decades? And with numbers like those in front of you, how glib can you be?
This is a horror not faced since the thalidomide disaster.
Your ridiculous comparisons between a malformed fingernail and a mental impairment just make you look like one of the most psychopathic people around here. You are not a parent and if you are you can't possibly be a good one. Each instance of affliction is an impairment of a child.
Please, go back to your time wasting games. You need a sense of achievement without having to commit any actual meaningful work or effort into it. This is a real world problem dealing with the health of millions. Your attitude has no place in this reality, so go back to your fantasy worlds.
When at ever turn there is complete and utter denial, there can be no study on the matter. And when the government mandates medications on the whole nation which, by their own admission, has not had a study done on it, you know there is something very wrong there. Why is it that the FDA requires so much in the way of studies of things and yet the government isn't required to do the same? It's amazing.
You are trying to equate a work with value. You think it has value simply because great effort was involved. I disagree.
If you should "suffer" it should be because that's what you want to do. And the reward is something you are proud of. If the reward is money, and that is the measure of your pride? Hrm... does anyone need to elaborate more on the folley? Could anyone who measures success in money ever be happy? Is there ever enough money for people who are motivated by it?
Here's a clue: Happiness doesn't come from that. It comes from comfort and peace and an ease from fear and pain... from a lack of suffering. If you SUFFER for happiness, you're doing it wrong.
That's an amazingly horrible set of eyes through which you see the world. I'd consider recommending getting a new set but we aren't there technologically yet. But it is very telling of how you think based on how you see the world.
No, human nature isn't to kill everyone who gets in our way. Only a small subset of people exhibit this nature. Those who seek to force their will onto others have their own mental and emotional issues which do not reflect inner satisfaction.
As for the desire to share? We have a great natural desire to share the things we enjoy. I dislike your M.Cyrus example as I am the opposite of a fan. Some people like to share meals. Others music or books or movies or stories. Sharing is caring and it is one of the brighter sides of human nature. That a selfish person would want to take that part of humanity, put it into boxes and parcel it out in limited quantities is simply inhuman.
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Yeah, me too... and uhm... when did that change for you? I'm in mid-40s and that still happens for me though I wouldn't say without thinking... there's almost always something I'm thinking about at the time.
Is a world without sound a handicap? Absolutely. Is a world without sound dangerous? ABSOLUTELY.
What gets me is the obvious duplicity. They often feel loud sounds which can get their attention (as we all do) and that's good. But is that enough? NO. It's not and it can't be.
And if there were an additional sense which would allow humans to detect against other dangers in life, I would consider the absense of that sense to be a disability as well... or perhaps, the presense as a super-power. The point is having senses are essential. Having them reduced or absent is an impairment. Being about to get through life happily with an impairment is wonderful. But it's still an impairment.
It's when an impairment becomes something which must be agressively defended that things have gone too far.
In so many ways this mirrors black culture and I'm willing to accept down-modding for this. But it's basically true.
1. Self-improvement is viewed as traitorous.
2. Entitled to royal treatment and royal public assistance.
3. Highly exclusive.
4. Views others with suspicion and contempt.
I think point #1 is especially important. EVERYONE, myself included, are perfectly comfortable around people who simply want to join in and be one of the crowd. We've got common interests and what have you and that's okay. We're co-workers and we can get along, work and play well together. But the moment words like "traitor" or "sell-out" get asserted by their other identity groups, things get pretty screwed up.
I don't mean to say being black is a disability. I don't mean to say being deaf is a race. I mean to point out that identity groups can be harmful at times. ID grouping is NATURAL. I'm a man. I'm white. I'm southern. I'm [fill in the blank]. And I like to do and share things with people who are like me. That's natural. But I might also identify with groups which tend to disagree with my other ID groups such as being atheist. Being atheist does not 'require' that I hate anyone else. Being white does not require that I hate anyone else.
But in the case of certain, let's say 'radical' members of these ID groups, they believe it IS license to hate.
This is all to be expected isn't it? It seems like when there is opportunity to scam people out of money, someone will set up an operation to exploit it. Every natural disaster results in hundreds of fake charities being set up to collect donations. And digital currency saw all manner of opportunists attempting to participate at every level from bitcoin mining viruses to setting up exchanges with disappearing money "bugs."
Anyone who didn't expect it was born yesterday under a rock.
And we now have a pretty good idea of who it believes its enemy to be.
While Microsoft has unquestionably slowed XP down over the years, it still runs on machines which compensate for the software's lack of performance.
When there is software which "only runs on Windows 7" then people might give additional pause. But right now, there just isn't that much incentive. And Microsft has clearly painted itself into a corner by supporting legacy code for extremely aged software.
Microsoft should have done what Apple did when moving from OS9 to OSX. Provide some flakey compatibility kludge to encourage people to run OSX native software and then drop support for 9. People were angry at Apple and eventually got over it. Microsoft could have invested its billions and billions into a whole new OS and then assigned a VM to run old Windows apps until things are ported. People would have done it 15 years ago. They would have done it 10 years ago. But the longer they wait, the more other alternatives become valued. And WINE is impressively advanced these days. If forced into it today, business just might adopt Linux and WINE to run their apps and find out they are safer and more stable because of it. Microsoft has hesitated for more than a decade, arguably two decades, before doing what they know they should have done. Now it can be argued that it's too late for that now.
Would it surprise anyone to know that banking still runs LOTS of *NIX based systems? Sure, desktop consoles are running Windows. But that's just the user interface systems.
Wow. And God ALREADY knew it was evil for the people to be naked all that time and just let them do it. Does that make God evil?
I don't think you understand how it works. Look at Dwayne Ferguson -- Black, anti-gun activist who helped push the SAFE act onto New Yorkers carried a gun until he was caught carrying into a public school and pretended he didn't know he had it on him.
In the minds of these people are special exceptions for themselves.
We can only hope... so long as they don't work to get rid of the internet for all on that basis.
The fruit of knowledge. There was a reason the bible described things as it did. Knowledge isn't just the anti-christ, it's the anti-god.
I really and truly respect that.
I have had more than enough experience in dealing with "this is how I do it!" developers. We're talking about writing code -- a set of instructions to accomplish things usually performed by an electronic machine. Things definitely become complex and even confusing at times, but it's NOT MAGIC. And when people need to work with developers and developers with developers and all that, I have run short on patience where some developers believe they are the thing and not the project or the community affected by the project.
To me, the community which uses the project or is affected by the project is the thing. If you write for results, then you agree. If you write to make yourself proud? You're just a bit too self-absorbed. (I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being happy and proud of your work, but what you want should never be the thing.)
I just wish Linus would go kick some GNOME team ass and share some wisdom with GIMP developers as well.
In order to wake up to sun light, a variety of factors must coincide, but chief among them is sleeping a little later instead of waking up at 5am to get ready for work and sitting in traffic for a long time just so you can sit in an office with unhealthy lighting by sunrise.
No. Not all people act like this. Many people have a sense of it being wrong to do things to other people that which you would not want done to yourself. For example, as much as I might want to punch someone in the face, I don't mostly because I know it would hurt them and also, I wouldn't want them to hit me back. That's a fairly common understanding for most people. Psychopaths don't quite get that. Instead, they tend to feel like everyone else is an object for manipulation and the only real person is himself.
That is a bit of an over-simplification, but perhaps it makes the point more clear.
But once again, typical people understand it's wrong to violate privacy and personal space of other people.
I will open my door to these advertisers if they will give me the keys and alarm codes to their homes and promise not to prosecute me if I misbehave.
Sounds fair to me.
After all, that's what these people are asking from everyone else. It takes a real psychopath to want to do to other people what they would never want done to them.
These gadgets seem to fall into two categories:
1. A problem looking for a solution
2. A solution looking for a problem
One has a future and some value while the other does not.
(This comment is best read in the voice of Agent Smith.)
(P.S. Yes, I know they already do that. I guess what I'm rhetorically getting at is that either someone has been raiding that honey pot or they didn't estimate decom costs well enough... you know, accounting for the devaluation of the US dollar and all that?)
Yes, you would think that was the case. Problem is, these "people" are corporations and the humans behind the corporations rotate in and out of seats regularly. So it's just not as simple as all that is it?
To that end, one thing that is most definitely true: When commissioning a nuclear plant, the cost of decommissioning should be paid for in advance or at the very least, paid for over the first years of its operation to an account set aside specifically for decommissioning. (I'm not a brilliant person so I'm quite sure someone else has thought of this idea too.) Such a plan, which is clearly not in place, would enable the decom of a plant to be funded already and wouldn't be such a concern.
Perhaps it's beyond time for these matters become addressed by the NRC when licensing new plants and also added to the licensing requirements of current plants.
I have three sons and a long career in IT and other creative endeavors. I don't believe in copyright in its current form or the notion that a person can perform a single work and collect money on it for effectively forever. It's a complete violation of the original and intended notion of copyright. I am the sole source of income for my family which includes a wife, an elementary school student and a young adult in college. I also have a son in the service. I am a wartime veteran and was in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm.
Don't assume I am younger than you because my wisdom and opinions differ from yours. I work for the money I bring home and no one gives me anything for things I have already been paid for. And let's stop having delusions about who is really profiting from the 'works' in the industry. It's not the creator. The laws have been perverted and twisted to support a massive business model that takes without giving back as the original letter and spirit of the agreement had been.
Did you know that presently under current physical media, the material will deteriorate before the works go into the public domain? And that's every single form of media not stored in any particular archived format. And the copyright holders are not obligated in any way to preserve or republish the works prior to entering the public domain and so availability of the works may very well vanish off the face of the earth forever and many, many works have been lost already.
I'm far from priviledged. I work every day. I live clean but I've never owned a car that cost more than $15k in my life. I hope this clarifies just about every misconception you seem to have.
I'm seriously tired of this crap. I no longer care who wins or loses in any of this. The patent system is simply being abused in every which way. Software patents have got to go as do design patents as petty as rounded corners. This idiocy has got to end at some point. I honestly expected it to come to a head before now. This is like walking in mud from New York to California.
Are you even understanding the trend?
We're talking about the children of the USA. We're not talking about a rare condition, but a formerly rare condition which is not just increasing to the point that every person in the US likely knows someone affected, but to the point that there is likely one in every classroom. The numbers were alarming when they were in the 1 in 200 range. They were seriously alarming when the rate was in the 1 in 100 range. 1 in 88 ... then 1 in 68? And that's just averaging among children -- the boys are most frequently affected so the rate is strikingly higher. And there is NO indication that this rate will decrease.
The problems are immense. They are affecting millions. But you are clearly unimpressed in any of this. Perhaps a different approach?
Consider that not only will your taxes need to be raised to deal with the increasing numbers of illegal aliens and the increasing numbers of those losing work and the decline of the middle class, but now an huge increase in the number of impaired children which are expected to live for at least the next five decades? And with numbers like those in front of you, how glib can you be?
This is a horror not faced since the thalidomide disaster.
Your ridiculous comparisons between a malformed fingernail and a mental impairment just make you look like one of the most psychopathic people around here. You are not a parent and if you are you can't possibly be a good one. Each instance of affliction is an impairment of a child.
Please, go back to your time wasting games. You need a sense of achievement without having to commit any actual meaningful work or effort into it. This is a real world problem dealing with the health of millions. Your attitude has no place in this reality, so go back to your fantasy worlds.
When at ever turn there is complete and utter denial, there can be no study on the matter. And when the government mandates medications on the whole nation which, by their own admission, has not had a study done on it, you know there is something very wrong there. Why is it that the FDA requires so much in the way of studies of things and yet the government isn't required to do the same? It's amazing.
You are trying to equate a work with value. You think it has value simply because great effort was involved. I disagree.
If you should "suffer" it should be because that's what you want to do. And the reward is something you are proud of. If the reward is money, and that is the measure of your pride? Hrm... does anyone need to elaborate more on the folley? Could anyone who measures success in money ever be happy? Is there ever enough money for people who are motivated by it?
Here's a clue: Happiness doesn't come from that. It comes from comfort and peace and an ease from fear and pain... from a lack of suffering. If you SUFFER for happiness, you're doing it wrong.
That's an amazingly horrible set of eyes through which you see the world. I'd consider recommending getting a new set but we aren't there technologically yet. But it is very telling of how you think based on how you see the world.
No, human nature isn't to kill everyone who gets in our way. Only a small subset of people exhibit this nature. Those who seek to force their will onto others have their own mental and emotional issues which do not reflect inner satisfaction.
As for the desire to share? We have a great natural desire to share the things we enjoy. I dislike your M.Cyrus example as I am the opposite of a fan. Some people like to share meals. Others music or books or movies or stories. Sharing is caring and it is one of the brighter sides of human nature. That a selfish person would want to take that part of humanity, put it into boxes and parcel it out in limited quantities is simply inhuman.
You think women represent stability? You must not know many women.
You don't "suffer." That's the first lie. If it's suffering to create, then you're doing it wrong.