* 4. Why the fuck don't we test GMO crops for 20+ years before we start feeding them to people, and esp. children?
My kingdom for a mod point.
Genetic manipulation of food is, unquestionably, introducing new things into the human diet, and we have no idea what long-term effects there may be. Even if it's all harmless, as we may find out 50 years down the road, we don't know it yet.
So at this point, they are taking a risk with the public health. I find it highly disturbing that so many posters on/. dismiss these concerns so readily as Luddite thinking. Rushing a new technology to the public without adequate safety testing is about the farthest thing from scientific. Unless they think scientists never make mistakes....
Call me crazy, but until the government/Annunaki/Galactic Federation start charging us for sunlight, why does the conversion rate matter?
Maybe I'm not so good at math, but if the energy input is free, the efficiency approaches infinity. Of course I'm not counting the equipment cost there, because to my way of thinking, a one-time cost for a lifetime of juice is just a sound investment.
I've wished for it, but gasoline still isn't springing up from my backyard magically.
Considering that mass shootings seldom involve more than 30-ish rounds, WTF difference does it make if I have 10k rounds? Just what kind of idiot are you, anyway?
What's so great about that? All the global warming threads on/. -- nerds seem to agree that Earth is over-populated... then what, turn around and whine about some gang-bangers getting shot over drug deals here and there?
Guns in inner cities are population control. Heck, let's even give them more!
If I recall correctly, it was Bushy the Younger who signed the papers for the DHS, no?
We, the public, were sold an agency that was supposed to protect us from terists and terism, whatever those are. Somethin' 'bout dang ol' furreners burnin' the flag n shit.
I'm not sure what terism is, but I don't think it has anything to do with the price of pirated software in China.
So, are you okay with this sort of mission creep, as long as it's your black man crush in the White House? It's bizarre, the bad behavior people will overlook on the part of their government, as long as their favorite party's puppet is the one on stage.
If a Crip shoots a Blood over a dope deal, that should not go in crime statistics, but in "more useless vermin exterminated".
As another poster pointed out, most gun homicides (as opposed to accidents, or justifiable defense) in the USA are bad guys shooting bad guys, and in places where nice people don't go. But you hand-wringing whiny gun-grabbers don't mention that. You lament the death of subhuman scum you wouldn't want anywhere near your neighborhood, so long as the numbers correlate loosely to your agenda.
I have yet to hear anyone, regardless of political stance, tell me with a straight face that all human life is of equal value.
I got 5 second boot times with Fedora on a 6-core Athlon and SSD that I built a couple years ago. My ancient single-core (2004-ish) 1-gig laptop (with new SSD) boots Linux Mint in about 15 seconds.
2) Some people don't want them. If you're thinking about the "lightning strikes" scenarios, then it's possible you'd suddenly want to fire that last round halfway through changing mags...
I don't think this is an argument against this "feature" at all. Suppose you're in that bad situation, with a typical 9mm that has a 15 round double-stack mag. Are you counting rounds as you fire them? Will you know for sure that you've fired 14 -- not 15 and you're empty, or 13 and you waste a round when you drop the mag? Guarantee you this will never ever ever happen.
The proper way for an auto pistol (double action anyway) to operate is for the slide to lock back when you're empty, then replace with a fresh mag, and hit the slide release to chamber a round.
There is absolutely fuck-all reason for such a feature to even exist, but to save a few idiots who might think a gun is safe to point at his own head without checking the chamber. And that's not a good reason.
And if Debian just worked with my wireless, sound and touchscreen out of the box, I would use it instead. But it doesn't. Ubuntu does.
I've been running Fedora+KDE happily for several years now. And with the RPM Fusion repos, I've had no unsupported hardware for at least 3 years. I have to turn off compositing on my antique laptop, but that's about it. I've set up dozens of machines with the same.
Turned an Ubuntu-using friend on to KDE couple weeks ago. Buggy as hell. Pretty sure it's the Ubuntu. But it's okay; he's new to our world. Ubuntu is like training wheels for Linux.
On another note, I tried Mint to see what the fuss was about. Nice, but their version of NFS won't play with my Fedora boxes. WTF? How do you break NFS?
What are you trying to say here? That we should quit wasting our breath arguing about AGW, and focus on the simple, easy ways we can clean up our environment? Concentrate on finding ways to use less coal and oil, instead of debating how many centimeters the sea level might or might not rise by 2100?
Yeah, no shit. Humans have consumed milk raw for how long now? And still do in how many parts of the world?
I get my dairy raw. I know my farmer. His cows have names. I trust my farmer because he's my friend, and he does not want to poison me. If anything, he takes FAR greater care to produce a clean product than his competitors that just burn out all the crap in pasteurization. His customers pay a hefty premium for that small "craft" production.
Drinking pasteurized milk is an exercise in futility, as the process kills the beneficial enzymes. But if parent wishes to, go for it, and stay the fuck out of MY fridge.
The ONLY option for broadband for most rural people is satellite internet. and upload is typically isdn speeds AND you have a minimum of 3000ms latency.
Not necessarily. I was in a small town (~500 pop.) in the middle of nowhere not long ago, where the local telco provides 15Mbps synchronous 'fiber-to-the-farm' for cheaper than my metro-area 6/1.5 cable. I'm jealous.
Surely you jest. Tarantino is to film what Pollack is to art, Bieber to music, Libeskind to architecture, and that guy who designed Steve Jobs's yacht to boat design. "Tarantino" is Italian for "twat", isn't it?
But I keep thinking art is supposed to be about beauty, rather than foisting offensive twaddle on an undiscerning public to rave reviews by newspaper columnists who couldn't make it in real journalism. Silly me.
But how else is one to serve ASP.NET pages powered by IIS and SQL Server?
And what, pray tell, could possibly replace those singular technologies?
And don't give me that stuff about Linux! How can an OS be secure when they just let anyone look at the source code whenever they want?! Crazy talk!
/silly
I have to somewhat shamefully admit, my employer sells hosted Windows servers and space to customers (only upon request so customers can't get mad that we sold them crap). They're profitable. But we don't use them.
The difference is that I was present for the entire baking process of the cookies. No human I know was around 4 billion years ago to watch our planet form.
We can posit a 4.5 billion year old Earth, and we can back it up with mountains of evidence and lots of sound science. It may be exactly true. But you and I can't *know* it beyond any shadow of doubt. IMO, an insistence that everyone must *know* how old our planet is -- is almost as much a thing of blind faith as the 6,000-year-old-Earthers have. I mean, what if Earth was just compacted together 20,000 years ago by the Annunaki out of pieces of older planets and brown dwarves blown up by Darth Vader's Death Star? Then launched a capsule of microbes at it, a la "Search for Spock"?
I'll lean much more to the billions of years on the scale, for sure. I believe it. But I can't say I know. That would be intellectually dishonest.
As far as I'm concerned, closed-mindedness is closed-mindedness, whether your gods are priests or scientists. And that's not scientific at all.
This Starck character appears to be the nautical version of the famed "architect" Daniel Libeskind. Libeskind designs art museums without vertical walls upon which to hang art.
Charlatan is the right word, sir. But perhaps a little lacking. Charlatans designed the emperor's new clothes. I think this class of people -- Libeskind, Christo, and a few handfuls of others -- have elevated the art of charlatanry to new heights. I can't help but wonder if their "designs" are tongue-in-cheek commentary on the vulgar tastes of a bourgeoisie who seem only too happy to embrace having their faces spat upon. The working stiffs know it's ugly and awful. Only the upwardly-mobile pretend to like having poo flung at them.
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What does "more organic user interfaces" mean?
Fewer pesticides.
* 4. Why the fuck don't we test GMO crops for 20+ years before we start feeding them to people, and esp. children?
My kingdom for a mod point.
Genetic manipulation of food is, unquestionably, introducing new things into the human diet, and we have no idea what long-term effects there may be. Even if it's all harmless, as we may find out 50 years down the road, we don't know it yet.
So at this point, they are taking a risk with the public health. I find it highly disturbing that so many posters on /. dismiss these concerns so readily as Luddite thinking. Rushing a new technology to the public without adequate safety testing is about the farthest thing from scientific. Unless they think scientists never make mistakes....
Call me crazy, but until the government/Annunaki/Galactic Federation start charging us for sunlight, why does the conversion rate matter?
Maybe I'm not so good at math, but if the energy input is free, the efficiency approaches infinity. Of course I'm not counting the equipment cost there, because to my way of thinking, a one-time cost for a lifetime of juice is just a sound investment.
I've wished for it, but gasoline still isn't springing up from my backyard magically.
Considering that mass shootings seldom involve more than 30-ish rounds, WTF difference does it make if I have 10k rounds? Just what kind of idiot are you, anyway?
As a bonus, we'll kill less people!
What's so great about that? All the global warming threads on /. -- nerds seem to agree that Earth is over-populated... then what, turn around and whine about some gang-bangers getting shot over drug deals here and there?
Guns in inner cities are population control. Heck, let's even give them more!
If I recall correctly, it was Bushy the Younger who signed the papers for the DHS, no?
We, the public, were sold an agency that was supposed to protect us from terists and terism, whatever those are. Somethin' 'bout dang ol' furreners burnin' the flag n shit.
I'm not sure what terism is, but I don't think it has anything to do with the price of pirated software in China.
So, are you okay with this sort of mission creep, as long as it's your black man crush in the White House? It's bizarre, the bad behavior people will overlook on the part of their government, as long as their favorite party's puppet is the one on stage.
Who gives a shit?
If a Crip shoots a Blood over a dope deal, that should not go in crime statistics, but in "more useless vermin exterminated".
As another poster pointed out, most gun homicides (as opposed to accidents, or justifiable defense) in the USA are bad guys shooting bad guys, and in places where nice people don't go. But you hand-wringing whiny gun-grabbers don't mention that. You lament the death of subhuman scum you wouldn't want anywhere near your neighborhood, so long as the numbers correlate loosely to your agenda.
I have yet to hear anyone, regardless of political stance, tell me with a straight face that all human life is of equal value.
I got 5 second boot times with Fedora on a 6-core Athlon and SSD that I built a couple years ago. My ancient single-core (2004-ish) 1-gig laptop (with new SSD) boots Linux Mint in about 15 seconds.
MS has some work to do yet.
8 USB ports, 6 TB of RAID, 8 cores, DVD, 4 gigs of video RAM, dual 28" flatscreens, a mouse, and a keyboard. Now that would be a useful tablet.
2) Some people don't want them. If you're thinking about the "lightning strikes" scenarios, then it's possible you'd suddenly want to fire that last round halfway through changing mags...
I don't think this is an argument against this "feature" at all. Suppose you're in that bad situation, with a typical 9mm that has a 15 round double-stack mag. Are you counting rounds as you fire them? Will you know for sure that you've fired 14 -- not 15 and you're empty, or 13 and you waste a round when you drop the mag? Guarantee you this will never ever ever happen. The proper way for an auto pistol (double action anyway) to operate is for the slide to lock back when you're empty, then replace with a fresh mag, and hit the slide release to chamber a round. There is absolutely fuck-all reason for such a feature to even exist, but to save a few idiots who might think a gun is safe to point at his own head without checking the chamber. And that's not a good reason.
An improvement on the safety of the Glock? I'm pretty sure that just drew a chuckle from every Glock owner.
This is the fundamental problem with guns, they are a significant force multiplier.
This is the fundamental importance of guns. This is how a 90-lb woman can defend herself against a 250-lb burglar/rapist.
"God created man. Sam Colt made them equal."
And if Debian just worked with my wireless, sound and touchscreen out of the box, I would use it instead. But it doesn't. Ubuntu does.
I've been running Fedora+KDE happily for several years now. And with the RPM Fusion repos, I've had no unsupported hardware for at least 3 years. I have to turn off compositing on my antique laptop, but that's about it. I've set up dozens of machines with the same.
Turned an Ubuntu-using friend on to KDE couple weeks ago. Buggy as hell. Pretty sure it's the Ubuntu. But it's okay; he's new to our world. Ubuntu is like training wheels for Linux.
On another note, I tried Mint to see what the fuss was about. Nice, but their version of NFS won't play with my Fedora boxes. WTF? How do you break NFS?
For example, the removal of the multiple desktops setting for the same single desktop paradign
On Fedora: System Settings -> Workspace Behavior -> Virtual Desktops
I'm pretty sure it's been there since 4.0. It was buggy then, but it's always had virtual desktops.
What are you trying to say here? That we should quit wasting our breath arguing about AGW, and focus on the simple, easy ways we can clean up our environment? Concentrate on finding ways to use less coal and oil, instead of debating how many centimeters the sea level might or might not rise by 2100?
Whoa.
The wind farms I've seen in Wyoming are an improvement to the landscape. :-P
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Yeah, no shit. Humans have consumed milk raw for how long now? And still do in how many parts of the world?
I get my dairy raw. I know my farmer. His cows have names. I trust my farmer because he's my friend, and he does not want to poison me. If anything, he takes FAR greater care to produce a clean product than his competitors that just burn out all the crap in pasteurization. His customers pay a hefty premium for that small "craft" production.
Drinking pasteurized milk is an exercise in futility, as the process kills the beneficial enzymes. But if parent wishes to, go for it, and stay the fuck out of MY fridge.
The ONLY option for broadband for most rural people is satellite internet. and upload is typically isdn speeds AND you have a minimum of 3000ms latency.
Not necessarily. I was in a small town (~500 pop.) in the middle of nowhere not long ago, where the local telco provides 15Mbps synchronous 'fiber-to-the-farm' for cheaper than my metro-area 6/1.5 cable. I'm jealous.
Surely you jest. Tarantino is to film what Pollack is to art, Bieber to music, Libeskind to architecture, and that guy who designed Steve Jobs's yacht to boat design. "Tarantino" is Italian for "twat", isn't it? But I keep thinking art is supposed to be about beauty, rather than foisting offensive twaddle on an undiscerning public to rave reviews by newspaper columnists who couldn't make it in real journalism. Silly me.
But how else is one to serve ASP.NET pages powered by IIS and SQL Server?
And what, pray tell, could possibly replace those singular technologies?
And don't give me that stuff about Linux! How can an OS be secure when they just let anyone look at the source code whenever they want?! Crazy talk!
/silly
I have to somewhat shamefully admit, my employer sells hosted Windows servers and space to customers (only upon request so customers can't get mad that we sold them crap). They're profitable. But we don't use them.
The difference is that I was present for the entire baking process of the cookies. No human I know was around 4 billion years ago to watch our planet form.
We can posit a 4.5 billion year old Earth, and we can back it up with mountains of evidence and lots of sound science. It may be exactly true. But you and I can't *know* it beyond any shadow of doubt. IMO, an insistence that everyone must *know* how old our planet is -- is almost as much a thing of blind faith as the 6,000-year-old-Earthers have. I mean, what if Earth was just compacted together 20,000 years ago by the Annunaki out of pieces of older planets and brown dwarves blown up by Darth Vader's Death Star? Then launched a capsule of microbes at it, a la "Search for Spock"?
I'll lean much more to the billions of years on the scale, for sure. I believe it. But I can't say I know. That would be intellectually dishonest.
As far as I'm concerned, closed-mindedness is closed-mindedness, whether your gods are priests or scientists. And that's not scientific at all.
I wish we could mod you up to a +5 Cynical!
It's pretty much true already, except the first two steps are a little more allegory than reality so far.
This Starck character appears to be the nautical version of the famed "architect" Daniel Libeskind. Libeskind designs art museums without vertical walls upon which to hang art.
Charlatan is the right word, sir. But perhaps a little lacking. Charlatans designed the emperor's new clothes. I think this class of people -- Libeskind, Christo, and a few handfuls of others -- have elevated the art of charlatanry to new heights. I can't help but wonder if their "designs" are tongue-in-cheek commentary on the vulgar tastes of a bourgeoisie who seem only too happy to embrace having their faces spat upon. The working stiffs know it's ugly and awful. Only the upwardly-mobile pretend to like having poo flung at them.