Now can we get this treatment into the hands of every person that needs it or must the poor die even though a cure exists?
Noble.
There's a town in an oasis surrounded by desert. Two hundred people live there. A hundred of the people work diligently at their farms and reap just enough food to feed themselves; the other hundred are either extremely unlucky, or indolent, or foolish in their labours and do not raise enough food to feed themselves.
Taking food from those who have it can be stretched to a point; perhaps enough to barely feed a hundred and fifty but not enough to feed everyone.
What is the correct course of action? What is justice?
Starve everyone so that everyone feels good and noble?
For those who were unlucky some food should be shared-- there's not so many of them that sharing would bring ruin upon all if these next two categories had done their part...
But did the indolent not have their own farms? Should they not have worked their own farms to feed themselves?
For the fools whose labours were insufficient or wasted: should they not have been more diligent about something so important?
At a certain point diving in to try and save a drowning man will not save him but will also drown a hero.
If possible then a cure should be shared, but just as the cure arrives too late to save the billions who have already died it has also arrived too late to save those who have not the means to purchase as soon as it comes off the assembly line. The mathematics of supply, demand, and value do not care about virtue signalling nor real compassion. Let's not capsize our economic boat from pointless histrionics.
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Who's killing/. the editors who post bullshit clickbait or the users that give them every incentive to do so?
There is no English word pronounced "doss".
There is an English word pronounced "sequel" which means something entirely different from a database.
Therefore I would say "em-ess-doss".
Everyone on the whole planet has problems of their own to deal with. Some problems are more difficult to deal with than others and almost nobody has the same set of problems.
Americans didn't force the Kiribati to settle on the island. Americans are not the direct cause of all problems in the world-- so get off your self-righteous global-warming-hysteria high horse.
It's their island, it's their lives, and it's their problem. Nobody's talking about helping the poor fat Americans overcome their obesity, poor education, violence etc. because everyone, rightly, assumes that the Americans did it to themselves and should have to fix their own problems.
If we want to be neighborly and help out the Kiribati-- by offering them land or money or whatever-- then that's a really nice thing for us to do. But we're not obligated to do anything and it's not our fault if something bad happens to a group of people somewhere in the world today.
I bet there's a group of Yazidis somewhere that wishes they could swap places with some Kiribati right about now.
It's his money. Not yours. Not the governments. I notice that everyone who's complaining has never themselves been in a situation where they were trying to decide how to make the best use of billions of dollars. All the outrage boils down to two things:
1. A small and mis-guided cynicism that he's trying to be smart with the money rather than just dumping wheelbarrows of money into the streets. Those who're in this category also seem to have some misgivings that the money will be abused to push some kind of agenda. Well, money and power are always used to push an agenda. The Federal Government is no different. So whether he gives the money to Gates' charity or to the Fed or tries to manage it himself is really just poh-tay-toh vs. pah-tah-toh vs. toh-may-toh vs. toh-mah-toh.
2. An entitled anger on the part of the speaker that the money isn't going to be funneled back into the redistribution machine called the Federal Government and thus wind up benefiting them. Those who fall into this category are basically saying "How dare he be smart with his money rather than give some of it to me?!"
Throwing my hat into the ring:
Postgresql: post-grey-ess-queue-ell
MySQL: my-ess-queue-ell
It's not a movie or a book and thus it's not "sequel". And I do not have a server which serves sequels therefore it's not "my-sequel-server" either.
There's no 'R' in the acronym and so it's not "squirrel".
Therefore, without any vowels to help guide pronunciation it must be pronounced letter-by-letter just as other such acronyms are: enn-ess-ay, see-eye-ay, yoo-ess-ay.
But really I think both names suck. I honestly would prefer if they named them both after a kind of rock or precious stone. It would kind of match the theme of certain gemstone-named programming languages.
The longer lifetimes we already enjoy have resulted in social changes that have been absorbed over the years.
You seem to be suffering from a misunderstanding of what "average" means.
You're referencing the common knowledge that the average life expectancy in ages past was about forty years. But that's an average of all people. Very large numbers of children died before age five. The vast majority of people who made it through the gauntlet of a childhood surrounded by filth, sewage, and disease actually lived to same ages that we do today.
So they discovered a possible physiological reason for the sexual identity problems that transexuals suffer from.
When someone has a brain tumor do we humor them and play along with any hallucinations they may be having or do we try and cure their brain tumor?
Yes, let's disregard what someone has to say based not upon flaws in the evidence that they bring forward but upon who that person works for or based upon the conclusions that they reach (that we don't like).
So you were screaming at the top of your lungs about this problem forty years ago but nobody listened?
Forty years ago did you put forth a viable solution to the problem?
Have you been living in a carbon-neutral cabin in the woods ever since?
Do you have a car? Do you drive it frequently?
Do you have a computer? (yes, because you're on the internet) Where do you think that computer came from?
Do you have an air conditioner? Do you run it during the summer?
Do you buy food from the super market?
Do you buy clothes from a store?
Basically, unless you're Amish then you're every bit as responsible for "this mess" as the people you're railing against.
So get off your high horse and be reasonable. Your unreasonableness and histrionic screeching is detrimental to your cause.
So, to paraphrase something I read once: Shut up and get out of the way of your own cause.
Gee whiz, you don't suppose that all those crazy right wingers nattering on about "limited government" and other such foolish notions might have something of a point do you?
'The truth is that the Pakistani government wanted the ability to monitor all BlackBerry Enterprise Service traffic in the country, including every BES e-mail and BES BBM message.' He added: 'BlackBerry will not comply with that sort of directive.'
What he really means:
BlackBerry won't comply with the Pakistani's demands because we figured it would damage our reputation way more than it's worth. Let's face it, Pakistan has no money and their government is a joke. This way we get to shout about our integrity from the mountaintops and surf on the wave of backlash against government surveillance. It also gives us a fig leaf against accusations that we might be cooperating with the alphabet soup agencies that are actually serious about spying on their citizens.
Just don't ask any impertinent questions about their relationship with the real powers that be.
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Now can we get this treatment into the hands of every person that needs it or must the poor die even though a cure exists?
Noble.
There's a town in an oasis surrounded by desert. Two hundred people live there. A hundred of the people work diligently at their farms and reap just enough food to feed themselves; the other hundred are either extremely unlucky, or indolent, or foolish in their labours and do not raise enough food to feed themselves.
Taking food from those who have it can be stretched to a point; perhaps enough to barely feed a hundred and fifty but not enough to feed everyone.
What is the correct course of action? What is justice?
Starve everyone so that everyone feels good and noble?
For those who were unlucky some food should be shared-- there's not so many of them that sharing would bring ruin upon all if these next two categories had done their part...
But did the indolent not have their own farms? Should they not have worked their own farms to feed themselves?
For the fools whose labours were insufficient or wasted: should they not have been more diligent about something so important?
At a certain point diving in to try and save a drowning man will not save him but will also drown a hero.
If possible then a cure should be shared, but just as the cure arrives too late to save the billions who have already died it has also arrived too late to save those who have not the means to purchase as soon as it comes off the assembly line. The mathematics of supply, demand, and value do not care about virtue signalling nor real compassion. Let's not capsize our economic boat from pointless histrionics.
Apple's 2 core SoCs typically beat the quad and 4big/4small multi core parts in both performance and efficiency.
You mean that objective-C running on Apple's dual-core chips typically beats Java running on big/LITTLE quad cores.
Let's see what's on /. today...
/. the editors who post bullshit clickbait or the users that give them every incentive to do so?
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Who's killing
Interesting. Check out the above post by Indy1
Now let's see if facts change your opinion.
There is no English word pronounced "doss".
There is an English word pronounced "sequel" which means something entirely different from a database.
Therefore I would say "em-ess-doss".
Stone age -> bronze age -> iron age -> steel age -> information age -> carbon age
Everyone on the whole planet has problems of their own to deal with. Some problems are more difficult to deal with than others and almost nobody has the same set of problems.
Americans didn't force the Kiribati to settle on the island. Americans are not the direct cause of all problems in the world-- so get off your self-righteous global-warming-hysteria high horse.
It's their island, it's their lives, and it's their problem. Nobody's talking about helping the poor fat Americans overcome their obesity, poor education, violence etc. because everyone, rightly, assumes that the Americans did it to themselves and should have to fix their own problems.
If we want to be neighborly and help out the Kiribati-- by offering them land or money or whatever-- then that's a really nice thing for us to do. But we're not obligated to do anything and it's not our fault if something bad happens to a group of people somewhere in the world today.
I bet there's a group of Yazidis somewhere that wishes they could swap places with some Kiribati right about now.
It's his money. Not yours. Not the governments. I notice that everyone who's complaining has never themselves been in a situation where they were trying to decide how to make the best use of billions of dollars. All the outrage boils down to two things:
1. A small and mis-guided cynicism that he's trying to be smart with the money rather than just dumping wheelbarrows of money into the streets. Those who're in this category also seem to have some misgivings that the money will be abused to push some kind of agenda. Well, money and power are always used to push an agenda. The Federal Government is no different. So whether he gives the money to Gates' charity or to the Fed or tries to manage it himself is really just poh-tay-toh vs. pah-tah-toh vs. toh-may-toh vs. toh-mah-toh.
2. An entitled anger on the part of the speaker that the money isn't going to be funneled back into the redistribution machine called the Federal Government and thus wind up benefiting them. Those who fall into this category are basically saying "How dare he be smart with his money rather than give some of it to me?!"
Prove that it's a mismatch of the body and not a mental problem.
Considering that they have either XY or XX it sounds to me like the body isn't wrong.
Throwing my hat into the ring:
Postgresql: post-grey-ess-queue-ell
MySQL: my-ess-queue-ell
It's not a movie or a book and thus it's not "sequel". And I do not have a server which serves sequels therefore it's not "my-sequel-server" either.
There's no 'R' in the acronym and so it's not "squirrel".
Therefore, without any vowels to help guide pronunciation it must be pronounced letter-by-letter just as other such acronyms are: enn-ess-ay, see-eye-ay, yoo-ess-ay.
But really I think both names suck. I honestly would prefer if they named them both after a kind of rock or precious stone. It would kind of match the theme of certain gemstone-named programming languages.
MySQL => Marble || Musgravite
Postgresql => Pumice || Painite
SQL Server => Scoria || Serendibite
Dude, use tags please.
The longer lifetimes we already enjoy have resulted in social changes that have been absorbed over the years.
You seem to be suffering from a misunderstanding of what "average" means.
You're referencing the common knowledge that the average life expectancy in ages past was about forty years. But that's an average of all people. Very large numbers of children died before age five. The vast majority of people who made it through the gauntlet of a childhood surrounded by filth, sewage, and disease actually lived to same ages that we do today.
So they discovered a possible physiological reason for the sexual identity problems that transexuals suffer from.
When someone has a brain tumor do we humor them and play along with any hallucinations they may be having or do we try and cure their brain tumor?
I did read it, but it was between the lines...
The article's writer was cherry-picking from history for editorial slant.
Oh the irony.
Love the signature. Here's my attempt at a haiku:
Some are shut, others open.
A dog always waits at the door.
He's on the wrong side.
Agnosticism is the only logically defensible position, since there is no test that can prove, nor disprove, the existence of a supreme being.
I think you should take it one step further and consider Pascal's wager.
Yes, let's disregard what someone has to say based not upon flaws in the evidence that they bring forward but upon who that person works for or based upon the conclusions that they reach (that we don't like).
So you were screaming at the top of your lungs about this problem forty years ago but nobody listened?
Forty years ago did you put forth a viable solution to the problem?
Have you been living in a carbon-neutral cabin in the woods ever since?
Do you have a car? Do you drive it frequently?
Do you have a computer? (yes, because you're on the internet) Where do you think that computer came from?
Do you have an air conditioner? Do you run it during the summer?
Do you buy food from the super market?
Do you buy clothes from a store?
Basically, unless you're Amish then you're every bit as responsible for "this mess" as the people you're railing against.
So get off your high horse and be reasonable. Your unreasonableness and histrionic screeching is detrimental to your cause.
So, to paraphrase something I read once: Shut up and get out of the way of your own cause.
No problem. The ODROID XU4 has plenty of horsepower in the sub-hundred dollar range.
Gee whiz, you don't suppose that all those crazy right wingers nattering on about "limited government" and other such foolish notions might have something of a point do you?
Considering how asinine his action against Obama is I'm willing to bet on what kind of degree this guy is going to pursue.
Teachers unions claim they are the only profession where it is impossible to judge performance well enough to allow performance to adjust wages.
So that's why they use metrics like what kind of degree one has in order to judge performance and adjust wages?
'The truth is that the Pakistani government wanted the ability to monitor all BlackBerry Enterprise Service traffic in the country, including every BES e-mail and BES BBM message.' He added: 'BlackBerry will not comply with that sort of directive.'
What he really means:
BlackBerry won't comply with the Pakistani's demands because we figured it would damage our reputation way more than it's worth. Let's face it, Pakistan has no money and their government is a joke. This way we get to shout about our integrity from the mountaintops and surf on the wave of backlash against government surveillance. It also gives us a fig leaf against accusations that we might be cooperating with the alphabet soup agencies that are actually serious about spying on their citizens.
Just don't ask any impertinent questions about their relationship with the real powers that be.
My empire of dirt for mod points! Someone mod this AC up.
Why did you post as AC? You should be modded up to the stratosphere for this post.