Limiting travel into space until we have tested embryo's in a lab would be a huge mistake.
When we send people to space, people are going to need to deal with the realities of space. A child most likely will not develop like a human on earth would. There may be multiple miscarriages for every live birth. Their cardio-vascular system may very well develop differently. Its possible that these space humans may not be able to come to earth. It may be the only way we can travel beyond the planet. Trying to "reign" in any modifications the environment causes, may not be at all good for the species when we are trying to adapt to a new environment. The people that "just go do it," will most likely have an advantage and won't be tied to medical equipment to keep them healthy and surviving in a strange environment.
There is no doubt that there will be some emotional pain as we figure it out the old fashioned way, but its time tested.
As far as new "seeds", just like in the past, on earth, waves of new space travelers will be needed to sustain these environments and eventually make a full, self reproducing population of space humans.
I've been patted down dozens of times. Not once was there anything sexual about it. Someone brushing their hands by my nuts doesn't constitute (#metoo) sexual assault, no matter what I think about it.
It's not that easy. At any given time, decent ideas are spouted by regular people. One wouldn't want policy decided at the local coffee shop, but there are certainly talking points that can sprout from those conversations.
Policy discussion then comes from an in depth conversation, of those few good ideas. The "best" of those ideas float or sink to the top, which is the basis of a government by the people.
Its a good thing, and about time, that Facebook finally makes a clear distinction between entertainment and news. Everyone needs a hand sometimes, and if Facebook can help steer people back to "news", it would be better for everyone. Facebook never should have been in the "news" business to start with, news feeds were dangerous territory to move into. They are right to make the distinction and help people move along.
The lines are so blurred due to the awful news cycles of cable news, that well meaning, smart people are arguing what they believe to be "the truth". Unfortunaly its all true in the sense that sure, someone else opened their mouth today and said something they believe to be right and it got reported by another layer of people trying to do the same.
Bad information ingested by the masses, consumed as the truth can lead well meaning individuals down the wrong path. Without a common set of facts, a healthy discussion of the issues and how to solve them can not be had.
All I hear are people arguing about hearsay and opinion, and which reporter got it right.
Facebook will next offer a product that uses Venn diagrams to best show the similarities and differences between the people and products on their site. Oh the humanity.
"Facebook issued a statement saying it is a "vastly different company" from when it was founded."
Facebook may have new business units today, but it is not fundamentally different than it was yesteryear. It is still a giant forum with some calendars mixed in." They sell ads. That has been the model since at least when their base grew to over a million users.
Most companies won't put their name behind an ad shown during a show they don't agree with. Facebook is monetizing ad space meant to incite. Anyone with money and an agenda can target Facebook's own users, for any purpose. That's like knowing selling you a ticket to com into the club, and then selling it to the hit man right behind you. They should vet the political ads at least as much as they do the sex ads. It's disingenuous for anyone trying to make the argument that Facebook shouldn't pay attention to their customers.
It's not Facebook's place to tell people what they can't post as people. Its not OK for Facebook to tell or sell to anyone, "these are the people you are targeting for your campaign, here is how you put the knife in.
It is amazing that Facebook has the status it does, when it knowingly and admittedly makes money off or people intentionally inciting others on its platform. This isn't WWE....
We live in a society where people have been convinced that they do talk about this stuff. They think yelling at each other about news headlines is equal to putting two and two together. They think holding people to the fire is a tweet-mob. People re-enforce that all of the time, because "They're too tired to think about it right now." How do you convince a group of people that their effort isn't much of one at all, when they are exhausted from trying?
An urgent public safety issue? Talk about first world problems. Even if one person gets through and kills 50 people, Its a sad day, but certainly not the end of the world.
-- We had every right to shoot him. - G. Gordon Liddy
You are right. I didn't enumerate that well enough. I threw all the single users "like us" under "simply don't care." I don't care in the sense that windows update is broken in my world. I watch, then run the patches manually a few days later. They've broken my junk too many times.
*** Attack Vector Here **** -- "Let there be light" - God
I agree. After all the software I've seen, I'd have to think that there was some piece of software that was reporting back to Huawei that they wouldn't or couldn't have gotten rid of.
Want to see something just as weird? Go to China and watch American commercials for Chinese stuff. They have American's with American accents. Some were obviously shot in America.
Parenting isn't setting up a bunch of rules on an OS. Parenting is teaching your kids they shouldn't use the phone after 7pm, showing them how to set the phone to be silent between X and Y, and letting them screw up with the threat of having to learn how to completely lock it down in their parents safe at night if they keep screwing up.
Parenting isn't just setting rules rules about the amount of screen time in a day to use it. Parenting is teaching them how to use the internet responsibly, how to decipher the information they are ingesting, how to know when its click-bait and the like.
It makes it really hard for anyone to ever want to trust MS when their patches break the OS, more than twice in your life, much less (it feels like) once a year.
It is hard for the end users who have 1000's of machines, or just don't understand patching, or simply don't care, to try and remember to patch manually after checking that the patches work. It is hard when you have "It must be patched" rules to follow. I get it, but on the other side, you end up spending weeks rebuilding boxes when you lose all of those cloned machines. On the bright side, all of this does turn into jobs for people on all sides of this.
Of course its all about ad-revenue and attention. While technically they are correct, that it takes more than one person to drive a conversation; in this case it's one person on a bully pulpit shouting to his people.
-- "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period" - Sean Spicer
What you are referring to is called "The government." The government really is by and of the people.
The government is directed to do things by the laws that are created. "Tough on Crime" is just one example of the people demanding the laws be executed to the fullest extent. What many see as the "shadow government," is the mix of laws, and pressure to enforce them, in action. Its called "Weak on Crime" when one mentions re-thinking law's and their unintended consequences.
Congress enacts our laws. The judiciary, and by extension, the investigative branches (FBI, CIA, NSA), obtain information on people breaking these laws, and then forward that information so that they can capture these criminals. What you are referring to in this case, are stings gone wrong. Stings with no end. Unintended consequences. One conspiracy theory that ends up being true, does not make every unintended consequence a conspiracy. Talk to your congressmen and the voters around you about reviewing these laws.
Profits rule. Its not that corporations are bad, and people are bad. Its when this idea infects the people such that profit is always the ultimate goal in our courts and our people, you see that express itself crossed with the sense of what is right and you get things like the "war industrial complex." If they're bad and they need to enforce justice, sell em whatever they need is simply how it works. How many people are really protesting smaller tanks? Inaction is action.
There are certainly people that use these natural rhythm's in life to ingratiate themselves, but they are the fewer. They aren't steering them. The undercurrents of the American culture will be the people X what they've chosen as influences and what they collectively are striving for. What they hear and who they listen to. This is a serious feedback loop.
What you are seeing is an expression of what it is to be American, in this type of government system, crossed with a cultural psyche that is young. It takes may generations to sharpen an arrow.
It would be nice to say that there is a person or people we could blame it on, because that would be easier if it wasn't us.
-- “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” - Flannery O'conner
Slashdot Mirror
NO!
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Adam
Its only distracted when other people are doing it, because I'm watching them be distracted.
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You did what? -- Anonymous
Limiting travel into space until we have tested embryo's in a lab would be a huge mistake.
When we send people to space, people are going to need to deal with the realities of space. A child most likely will not develop like a human on earth would. There may be multiple miscarriages for every live birth. Their cardio-vascular system may very well develop differently. Its possible that these space humans may not be able to come to earth. It may be the only way we can travel beyond the planet. Trying to "reign" in any modifications the environment causes, may not be at all good for the species when we are trying to adapt to a new environment. The people that "just go do it," will most likely have an advantage and won't be tied to medical equipment to keep them healthy and surviving in a strange environment.
There is no doubt that there will be some emotional pain as we figure it out the old fashioned way, but its time tested.
As far as new "seeds", just like in the past, on earth, waves of new space travelers will be needed to sustain these environments and eventually make a full, self reproducing population of space humans.
--
How sweet the sound
Two people make dick jokes. One person assumes I like being searched, or think that its OK?
All I said is that it wasn't sexual harassment.
Sensitive a little bit guys? #metoo
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And then there was one
I've been patted down dozens of times. Not once was there anything sexual about it. Someone brushing their hands by my nuts doesn't constitute (#metoo) sexual assault, no matter what I think about it.
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If only I had more fingers -- Some Guy
Can't steal data from a CPU while its power cycling!
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Round and a round and a round we go
It's not that easy. At any given time, decent ideas are spouted by regular people. One wouldn't want policy decided at the local coffee shop, but there are certainly talking points that can sprout from those conversations.
Policy discussion then comes from an in depth conversation, of those few good ideas. The "best" of those ideas float or sink to the top, which is the basis of a government by the people.
--
It's a bird, It's a plane!
Its a good thing, and about time, that Facebook finally makes a clear distinction between entertainment and news. Everyone needs a hand sometimes, and if Facebook can help steer people back to "news", it would be better for everyone. Facebook never should have been in the "news" business to start with, news feeds were dangerous territory to move into. They are right to make the distinction and help people move along.
The lines are so blurred due to the awful news cycles of cable news, that well meaning, smart people are arguing what they believe to be "the truth". Unfortunaly its all true in the sense that sure, someone else opened their mouth today and said something they believe to be right and it got reported by another layer of people trying to do the same.
Bad information ingested by the masses, consumed as the truth can lead well meaning individuals down the wrong path. Without a common set of facts, a healthy discussion of the issues and how to solve them can not be had.
All I hear are people arguing about hearsay and opinion, and which reporter got it right.
--
It's a bird, It's a plane!
Facebook will next offer a product that uses Venn diagrams to best show the similarities and differences between the people and products on their site. Oh the humanity.
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You said it.
"Facebook issued a statement saying it is a "vastly different company" from when it was founded."
Facebook may have new business units today, but it is not fundamentally different than it was yesteryear. It is still a giant forum with some calendars mixed in." They sell ads. That has been the model since at least when their base grew to over a million users.
Most companies won't put their name behind an ad shown during a show they don't agree with. Facebook is monetizing ad space meant to incite. Anyone with money and an agenda can target Facebook's own users, for any purpose. That's like knowing selling you a ticket to com into the club, and then selling it to the hit man right behind you. They should vet the political ads at least as much as they do the sex ads. It's disingenuous for anyone trying to make the argument that Facebook shouldn't pay attention to their customers.
It's not Facebook's place to tell people what they can't post as people. Its not OK for Facebook to tell or sell to anyone, "these are the people you are targeting for your campaign, here is how you put the knife in.
It is amazing that Facebook has the status it does, when it knowingly and admittedly makes money off or people intentionally inciting others on its platform. This isn't WWE....
--
This little piggy went to market...
Birth Control. And it didn't work back then. We wouldn't have put research into chemicals if this was 100% effective.
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One, Two, Three...Infinity
If all cars were electric, I wouldn't have to turn down my hearing aids due to the road noise from the highway!
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Alexa, add "big hairy balls" to my shopping list. - Cartman
You are right, and its terrible.
We live in a society where people have been convinced that they do talk about this stuff. They think yelling at each other about news headlines is equal to putting two and two together. They think holding people to the fire is a tweet-mob. People re-enforce that all of the time, because "They're too tired to think about it right now." How do you convince a group of people that their effort isn't much of one at all, when they are exhausted from trying?
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It's all in the wrist
I won't be "upgrading" to Windows 10 any time soon. Thanks for the info.
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"I went window shopping today. I bought 4 windows!" - Tommy Cooper
An urgent public safety issue? Talk about first world problems. Even if one person gets through and kills 50 people, Its a sad day, but certainly not the end of the world.
--
We had every right to shoot him. - G. Gordon Liddy
You are right. I didn't enumerate that well enough. I threw all the single users "like us" under "simply don't care." I don't care in the sense that windows update is broken in my world. I watch, then run the patches manually a few days later. They've broken my junk too many times.
*** Attack Vector Here ****
--
"Let there be light" - God
I agree. After all the software I've seen, I'd have to think that there was some piece of software that was reporting back to Huawei that they wouldn't or couldn't have gotten rid of.
--
Ditto - Patrick Swayze
Want to see something just as weird? Go to China and watch American commercials for Chinese stuff. They have American's with American accents. Some were obviously shot in America.
--
Doh' - H. Simpson
Parenting isn't setting up a bunch of rules on an OS. Parenting is teaching your kids they shouldn't use the phone after 7pm, showing them how to set the phone to be silent between X and Y, and letting them screw up with the threat of having to learn how to completely lock it down in their parents safe at night if they keep screwing up.
Parenting isn't just setting rules rules about the amount of screen time in a day to use it. Parenting is teaching them how to use the internet responsibly, how to decipher the information they are ingesting, how to know when its click-bait and the like.
--
Doh! - H. Simpson
It makes it really hard for anyone to ever want to trust MS when their patches break the OS, more than twice in your life, much less (it feels like) once a year.
It is hard for the end users who have 1000's of machines, or just don't understand patching, or simply don't care, to try and remember to patch manually after checking that the patches work. It is hard when you have "It must be patched" rules to follow. I get it, but on the other side, you end up spending weeks rebuilding boxes when you lose all of those cloned machines. On the bright side, all of this does turn into jobs for people on all sides of this.
--
Ribbit
Of course its all about ad-revenue and attention. While technically they are correct, that it takes more than one person to drive a conversation; in this case it's one person on a bully pulpit shouting to his people.
--
"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period" - Sean Spicer
What you are referring to is called "The government." The government really is by and of the people.
The government is directed to do things by the laws that are created. "Tough on Crime" is just one example of the people demanding the laws be executed to the fullest extent. What many see as the "shadow government," is the mix of laws, and pressure to enforce them, in action. Its called "Weak on Crime" when one mentions re-thinking law's and their unintended consequences.
Congress enacts our laws. The judiciary, and by extension, the investigative branches (FBI, CIA, NSA), obtain information on people breaking these laws, and then forward that information so that they can capture these criminals. What you are referring to in this case, are stings gone wrong. Stings with no end. Unintended consequences. One conspiracy theory that ends up being true, does not make every unintended consequence a conspiracy. Talk to your congressmen and the voters around you about reviewing these laws.
Profits rule. Its not that corporations are bad, and people are bad. Its when this idea infects the people such that profit is always the ultimate goal in our courts and our people, you see that express itself crossed with the sense of what is right and you get things like the "war industrial complex." If they're bad and they need to enforce justice, sell em whatever they need is simply how it works. How many people are really protesting smaller tanks? Inaction is action.
There are certainly people that use these natural rhythm's in life to ingratiate themselves, but they are the fewer. They aren't steering them. The undercurrents of the American culture will be the people X what they've chosen as influences and what they collectively are striving for. What they hear and who they listen to. This is a serious feedback loop.
What you are seeing is an expression of what it is to be American, in this type of government system, crossed with a cultural psyche that is young. It takes may generations to sharpen an arrow.
It would be nice to say that there is a person or people we could blame it on, because that would be easier if it wasn't us.
--
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” - Flannery O'conner
Just because you feel harassed, doesn't mean you're actually being harassed.
I've seen people try to say that harassment is someone telling them they don't like to hear. That's called being a friend.
The moment the truth becomes harassment in someones world, is the moment you know they still have serious Mommy and/or Daddy issues.
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What you talkin' 'bout Willis?
So, let me get this straight. Your mom is Jeremy's fathers mitochondrial what? I thought you had his features.
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"Nice Ear's" - Mr. Potato head
Most of the women I know prefer the old fashioned way too. I'm not worried.
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"Well, time to hit the hay... oh I forgot, I ate it!" - Mr. Ed