And someone who did graduate, and today manages an IT company, I have some sad news for you. All that knowledge you acquired on college ? That is just the BASE of that you need at corporate . When you get hired, you are green. Not only in terms of knowledge, but in terms of company practices, market practices (many) and so on. Think of it as continued education. You went to junior, high school, college and now you are getting educated on the corporate environment.
You don't expect to jump from junior school to high-tech R&D. You know you have other steps before that.
When you finish college you are not ready. You are just closer. Keep that in mind, and make the most of your time when you join a company to LEARN. Learn from your tasks, learn from your co-workers, learn from your manager. As much as we like to joke about managers, they are making more money then you, so they gotta know something you don't (not necessarily technical).
You also need to faction in that, when you join a company, you are an unknown. The company will only invest so much money on you until they know they will have a good return.
This things are only natural. Unfortunately, most schools fail to teach this to their students, and the only source of "knowledge" they have are TV shows and such. This is not a fail of the students, but a fail of the schools.
Regarding "a", so you are against fertilization clinics, or at least the one dealing with in-vitro fertilization. On that scenario, women for whom that is the only option to get pregnant should not be given that choice.
But on "b" you say the already fertilized embryos should be available for adoption. But that I understand you meaning the women I mentioned on "a", thus giving them a time window (until the already fertilized embryos are gone/died/are no longer viable) to get pregnant, after which point they revert to not being able to get pregnant.
Please correct me if I misinterpreted your assertions.
On the scenario you propose, in-vitro fertilization would soon (relative term, I suppose) no longer be available, and thus women for whom that is the only option would no longer be able to fulfill their dream of being pregnant (yes, for "being a mother", there is adoption).
While I don't bother to pirate movies anymore I might start to again just to piss the cocksuckers off.
You raise a valid point there. I also went through that progression: Movie watching (DVD/Theaters) -> Pirate Movies -> Almost no movies
I also know a lot of people who pretty much stopped watching movies these days.
It is really sad. Between all the DRM bullshit (including those warning screens that you "can't" skip), and the overall quality of movies (or lack of), it is simply not worth anymore. I mean, what are the odds a random movie will be good ? 0.1% ?
So, here is one for everyone saying it is abortion.
Lets consider that killing a fertilized embryo that is laying on a dish is abortion. Since those embryos on the clinics are already fertilized, what should be done with them ? You can't keep them frozen forever. Forever is not only an extremely long time (doh!), but the embryo won't survive forever. You can't also implant them all. Both of those scenarios are impossible.
So, what would you do ? If you keep them frozen forever, and they die, is that abortion ? (You knew beforehand that would eventually die). If you put them on a dish and let them die, is that abortion ? Or maybe the idea is to ban fertilization clinics, so the problem doesn't arise ?
What about the fact (also known beforehand) that not all implanted embryos will survive ?
Yesterday I went to the USA Consulate to get a tourist visa for my daughter. She is going to Disney World in June.
Anyway, I was stuck inside an open area, with the temperature almost at 100 degrees, for 2 hours. Without a place to sit. Yes, there were some wooden benches, but way too many people. Some of the other applicants were there for 4+ hours. All the visa officers were behind bullet proof glasses, and talked to us using something that passes for a mic/speaker. And when, because of that, I could not understand what the visa officer was saying, I've got insulted by him.
I mean, c'mon. I was there to give the USA money (tourism is still one of the best sources of income for a country, last I checked). And I've got stuck on an open warehouse-like area, got treated like I was trying to visit someone at the jail, got insulted and, to add insult to injury, had to pay to have the passport mailed back to me by our local equivalent of FEDEX, at DOUBLE the normal rate for that service.
Interesting enough, the local people that works at the consulate (ie: non-visa officers) were all very nice and helpful. However, the USA citizen working there were treating me like crap. But my 13yo daughter wants to visit Disney World. I know I, for one, will take my vacations somewhere else.
There are several theories that Plano actually based his whole Atlantis thing on facts, which were distorted by word-of-mouth before getting to him (and also after). I don't know how many of you have actually read Timaeus and Critias (I did).
For those who haven't had those works, or most of Plato's works, lemme first state that Plato was a wacko. Completely crazy. As in "eating mushrooms for breakfast" crazy. And an attention hog. It is very much like him to get some historical facts and distort them.
If you are talking about self flanking, your analysis is incomplete.
In this case, a company doesn't shift because of "ways to make more money". They shift because if they don't do it, some other company will adopt that business practice, and virtually kill their current business model. Sometimes this shift even carries a lower profit margin. See more on Gillette vs. Bic, regarding the shaving business.
This is a classic example of an important marketing strategy, well illustrated on several book (including the classic Warfare Marketing).
And don't tell me that five or ten years ago Linux was not a real alternative. It wasn't, but excuses like that don't count.
I have been using Linux exclusively for the past 13 years or so. Actually, 13 years ago I was very happy to have Linux, since I could not afford a unix workstation (not even a Sparc, which was the poor cousin of unix stations back then).
I said that trusting Big Pharma is risky, and mocking people for questioning them is even worse.
We don't mock people for questioning them. We mock people for saying stupid things, making baseless claims and spreading ignorance. We mock people for not taking the time to understand what they are talking about, while they go around trying to teach other people what to believe. We mock them for spreading pseudo-science and for taking facts out of context.
Your ignorance is astonishing. None of the 40+yo antibiotics work for most of the current infections. And the new ones are not minor derivatives. There is a lot of new research on completely new antibiotics going on.
Although I'm not in the pharma business myself, I do have a pharma company as a client, and I can witness first hand the kind of research they do. But please, don't let your complete lack of knowledge on the subject stop you from making categorical statements, and spreading non-sense. As some people already said, it helps cleaning the gene pool.
Just because the math works, doesn't mean it is viable to implement.
As TFA say, the theorists just came up with the idea and some of the math, and pretty much left to the practical physicists to find a way to implement it.
Next, how to use your farts, produced while using a computer (wasted right now), to increase its power.
I bet there are better ways to use this than PC computing
Not only that. Since this phononics computing has absolutely no advantage over conventional (electronic) computing, the amount of time and money wasted is... well... a waste.
There are several viable options here, and I bet most, if not all, are already under study and development: - Improving the efficiency (less power waste due to Joule effect ) - Converting this back into electricity (yes, it is not very efficient, but it is better than wasting) - Using the heat generated by a datacenter to heat another part of a building (yes, the whole clean room issue comes into play etc)
and many other ideas. All of them, as far as I can tell from FTA, more efficient.
Several phones have 2 speakers. One for the tanking part, the other for the rest. So yeah, cutting those wires might make the phone stop ringing, but it wouldn't stop you from using it to talk.
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And someone who did graduate, and today manages an IT company, I have some sad news for you. All that knowledge you acquired on college ? That is just the BASE of that you need at corporate . When you get hired, you are green. Not only in terms of knowledge, but in terms of company practices, market practices (many) and so on. Think of it as continued education. You went to junior, high school, college and now you are getting educated on the corporate environment.
You don't expect to jump from junior school to high-tech R&D. You know you have other steps before that.
When you finish college you are not ready. You are just closer. Keep that in mind, and make the most of your time when you join a company to LEARN. Learn from your tasks, learn from your co-workers, learn from your manager. As much as we like to joke about managers, they are making more money then you, so they gotta know something you don't (not necessarily technical).
You also need to faction in that, when you join a company, you are an unknown. The company will only invest so much money on you until they know they will have a good return.
This things are only natural. Unfortunately, most schools fail to teach this to their students, and the only source of "knowledge" they have are TV shows and such. This is not a fail of the students, but a fail of the schools.
Or we could just strap the lawmakers to a nuke, and drop it on the patent office. That could work too.
Some(?) of the things you are suggestions can be done with SELinux (yeah, I know how you feel).
Ok, this might be interesting to pursue.
Regarding "a", so you are against fertilization clinics, or at least the one dealing with in-vitro fertilization. On that scenario, women for whom that is the only option to get pregnant should not be given that choice.
But on "b" you say the already fertilized embryos should be available for adoption. But that I understand you meaning the women I mentioned on "a", thus giving them a time window (until the already fertilized embryos are gone/died/are no longer viable) to get pregnant, after which point they revert to not being able to get pregnant.
Please correct me if I misinterpreted your assertions.
On the scenario you propose, in-vitro fertilization would soon (relative term, I suppose) no longer be available, and thus women for whom that is the only option would no longer be able to fulfill their dream of being pregnant (yes, for "being a mother", there is adoption).
Am I correct in my assumption you are a man ?
You raise a valid point there. I also went through that progression: Movie watching (DVD/Theaters) -> Pirate Movies -> Almost no movies
I also know a lot of people who pretty much stopped watching movies these days.
It is really sad. Between all the DRM bullshit (including those warning screens that you "can't" skip), and the overall quality of movies (or lack of), it is simply not worth anymore. I mean, what are the odds a random movie will be good ? 0.1% ?
So, here is one for everyone saying it is abortion.
Lets consider that killing a fertilized embryo that is laying on a dish is abortion. Since those embryos on the clinics are already fertilized, what should be done with them ? You can't keep them frozen forever. Forever is not only an extremely long time (doh!), but the embryo won't survive forever. You can't also implant them all. Both of those scenarios are impossible.
So, what would you do ? If you keep them frozen forever, and they die, is that abortion ? (You knew beforehand that would eventually die). If you put them on a dish and let them die, is that abortion ? Or maybe the idea is to ban fertilization clinics, so the problem doesn't arise ?
What about the fact (also known beforehand) that not all implanted embryos will survive ?
Yeah because, you know, terrorism is all about finesse.
You are not kidding there.
Yesterday I went to the USA Consulate to get a tourist visa for my daughter. She is going to Disney World in June.
Anyway, I was stuck inside an open area, with the temperature almost at 100 degrees, for 2 hours. Without a place to sit. Yes, there were some wooden benches, but way too many people. Some of the other applicants were there for 4+ hours. All the visa officers were behind bullet proof glasses, and talked to us using something that passes for a mic/speaker. And when, because of that, I could not understand what the visa officer was saying, I've got insulted by him.
I mean, c'mon. I was there to give the USA money (tourism is still one of the best sources of income for a country, last I checked). And I've got stuck on an open warehouse-like area, got treated like I was trying to visit someone at the jail, got insulted and, to add insult to injury, had to pay to have the passport mailed back to me by our local equivalent of FEDEX, at DOUBLE the normal rate for that service.
Interesting enough, the local people that works at the consulate (ie: non-visa officers) were all very nice and helpful. However, the USA citizen working there were treating me like crap. But my 13yo daughter wants to visit Disney World. I know I, for one, will take my vacations somewhere else.
There are several theories that Plano actually based his whole Atlantis thing on facts, which were distorted by word-of-mouth before getting to him (and also after). I don't know how many of you have actually read Timaeus and Critias (I did).
For those who haven't had those works, or most of Plato's works, lemme first state that Plato was a wacko. Completely crazy. As in "eating mushrooms for breakfast" crazy. And an attention hog. It is very much like him to get some historical facts and distort them.
So, what you are saying is just because I can make [ITEM] work, I should be able to operate it ?
Please replace [ITEM] for whatever you want: gun, airplane, explosive, my neighbor's wife, motorcycle etc.
I will give you the car, but not Word. Want it or not, they ARE operating a computer directly when using MS Word.
You are too kind. In fact, most users are not ready to operate computers. At all.
Just because they can afford it doesn't mean that money wouldn't be better used somewhere else. Maybe you can even get a raise ?
Come again ? Is that supposed to make me feel better ?
If you are talking about self flanking, your analysis is incomplete.
In this case, a company doesn't shift because of "ways to make more money". They shift because if they don't do it, some other company will adopt that business practice, and virtually kill their current business model. Sometimes this shift even carries a lower profit margin. See more on Gillette vs. Bic, regarding the shaving business.
This is a classic example of an important marketing strategy, well illustrated on several book (including the classic Warfare Marketing).
Even Brazil uses nautical miles. And we are a country were a good part of the population wouldn't tell the different between a mile and a file.
I have been using Linux exclusively for the past 13 years or so. Actually, 13 years ago I was very happy to have Linux, since I could not afford a unix workstation (not even a Sparc, which was the poor cousin of unix stations back then).
We don't mock people for questioning them. We mock people for saying stupid things, making baseless claims and spreading ignorance. We mock people for not taking the time to understand what they are talking about, while they go around trying to teach other people what to believe. We mock them for spreading pseudo-science and for taking facts out of context.
Your ignorance is astonishing. None of the 40+yo antibiotics work for most of the current infections. And the new ones are not minor derivatives.
There is a lot of new research on completely new antibiotics going on.
Although I'm not in the pharma business myself, I do have a pharma company as a client, and I can witness first hand the kind of research they do. But please, don't let your complete lack of knowledge on the subject stop you from making categorical statements, and spreading non-sense. As some people already said, it helps cleaning the gene pool.
Considering that at least 90% of the time the user is the source of the problem, it will probably kill the user.
Just because the math works, doesn't mean it is viable to implement.
As TFA say, the theorists just came up with the idea and some of the math, and pretty much left to the practical physicists to find a way to implement it.
Next, how to use your farts, produced while using a computer (wasted right now), to increase its power.
Not only that. Since this phononics computing has absolutely no advantage over conventional (electronic) computing, the amount of time and money wasted is ... well ... a waste.
There are several viable options here, and I bet most, if not all, are already under study and development:
- Improving the efficiency (less power waste due to Joule effect )
- Converting this back into electricity (yes, it is not very efficient, but it is better than wasting)
- Using the heat generated by a datacenter to heat another part of a building (yes, the whole clean room issue comes into play etc)
and many other ideas. All of them, as far as I can tell from FTA, more efficient.
Several phones have 2 speakers. One for the tanking part, the other for the rest. So yeah, cutting those wires might make the phone stop ringing, but it wouldn't stop you from using it to talk.
The computer is your friend.
Your point being ?
At least on my dictionary, servant and slave are 2 very different things.