Just ending the ageing process and preventing death from most diseases. All the other ways of croaking would still be around. Some small number of people may make it to 1000 years or more, but I'd be very surprised if average lifespans got above 300. Even 300 assumes an ideal stable society.
People would still die. Property would still pass on to younger generations. It would probably be much easier to "leave a legacy to the world after their death" than it is now - it's hard to accomplish much long term with our short lifespans.
"Catholics, nor do any other traditional Christians, equate refusal of medical care as suicide."
That may be the opinion of your church, or even some general consensus amongst american catholics, but I personally know several reactionary catholics that would strongly disagree with you on this. Call it the Mel Gibson wing. And all indication are that the next pope will be even more conservative than the current one.
Who is right? Don't ask me, I think they are all loonies.
"1) Wives will just get tired of thier husbands if they have to live together that long and vice versa."
Even with average lifetimes at ~100 I suspect "til death do us part" is doomed. My wife can probably tolerate me for 40-50 years, I can't expect the poor woman to deal with me for 100+ years without going barking mad.
"So, for those of you who think this kind of research is a terrible thing, an affront to God and man -- please go off somewhere to die quietly."
I agree, but I don't think theists see it that way. Catholics and many other mainstream religions would probably consider refusing this type of medical care as suicide. The theory seems to be that God gave you this life and it would be ungrateful of you to throw away that gift. When God wants you to die, he will see to it.
I think many would feel that they had an obligation to continue life long after it had become not worth living. They expect terminal patients in continual pain to suffer on for the glory of God, after all.
'And fill in the blank with any habbit except maybe "flowers buyer"'
Nope, sorry. Once you get to about 100 orchid plants delight turns to the "where do you plan to put that" look. "Oh look honey, I bought a greenhouse" is not considered a good answer either.
PS: I hope a "habbit" isn't some sort of freakish cross between a hobbit and a cabbit.
There *isn't* a Starbucks near the Mojave Airport. At least there wasn't last time I was there. I think I will go open franchise now while land values are cheap!
Seriously though: Mojave and California City have some of the cheapest raw land per acre in SoCal. I wonder if this would create a land boom there long term. Or if, when it became a more mature industry, would spaceports move to the traditional (at least in SF) equatorial areas.
It's "inspired by" to the same extent that West Side Story is "inspired by" Romeo and Juliette or Throne of Blood was "inspired by" Macbeth. That is to say -- a lot. Put it this way - if you showed HF to a random number of people that have seen the original Star Wars I bet a least half would notice that they are very similar without prompting.
BTW, the articles idea to rip off Throne of Blood for Ep III could be brilliant. I can totally see Padme going raving mad, obsessively washing invisible blood from her hands and comitting some particularly gruesome suicide. Somehow tie in her suicide being the direct fault of Yoda and you have the final straw that creates Vader.
Octane booster isn't cheap and doesn't really work that well. It's mostly tolulene, which has less energy per litre than gas as well. Same with ethanol - burns cleaner but contains less energy. People that spend $5k to make their cars 15% faster don't want fuel that takes away power. The $5/gal 100 octane gas is usually used as a top off. The only people that I know that use it straight are either using a dedicated track car or a souped up V8 powered water ski boat/drag boats. Not cars that you need to use to get to wrok every day.
Here in CA, all we see are 87, 89 and 91. A car that really "required" 93 couldn't be sold as is here. Since Ca accounts for a very high percentage of cars sold - that won't happen. Those that mod cars here to where they require higher octance are forced to the airports or the 100 octane "NASCAR gas" that some 76 stations sell for ~$5/gal
Your Mazdaspeed Protege only required 91 octane when it left the factory. If yours needs 93 - then you must have increased the boost beyond factory spec. Aside from gas hassles, I'd worry if that engine can take the additional boost - I know many have blown from having it jacked up.
At the top of the pile is Wal-Mart, with the thinnest inventory on hand and the highest rate of inventory turns. The mom and pop store keeps (relatively) more inventory since 1) they know less about upcoming demand than the big boys and 2) they are less willing to dissapoint customers by not having what the customer needs. Small retailers need their customers more than mega stores do.
If you supply product to the Wal-Marts of the world (from actual stuff on shelves to the guy that contracts to sweep the parking lot) they will put you under intense pressure to minimize your own inventory by constantly grinding for every penny of price. When you have cut out all possible costs for them they will still come back month and grind some more. If you want to continue as a supplier you will be forced to cut wages/benefits to your employees and/or offsouce everything possible to China to cut costs. If you won't - you will be replaced by a supplier that will.
hmmm... it's actually not all that much $$. It's a nice chunk of change, but it isn't millions and milions of $. And it looks like a fairly orderly automatic selling plan. A lot of insiders set up these plans that automatically sell x$ of stock on y day of the month every month or a week after the 10-Q filing or such. If you are automatically selling in good times and bad it doesn't look to the SEC like you are trading on insider info.
By high school in India all the people that don't want to learn have dropped out. US schools are chock full of people that have no interest in learning and no ability to learn. The "average" student in an Indian english language high school is already the geek elite.
Kill them. All of them. By all, I don't mean all Muslims and I don't mean all Arabs either. Just the nutcases.
Can we include this guy?
Near the end of the book, Woodward asks Bush whether, when he was facing the decision about war in Iraq, he'd consulted his father. In the midst of Bush's answer, which goes on for more than a page, he says, "You know, he is the wrong father to appeal to in terms of strength. There is a higher father that I appeal to."
I think every town in coastal california has a local story about a Zero that crashed in cousin Zeke's back yard or in the strawberry patch back in '42. All "friend of a friend" type stories, of course.
"Can anyone tell me the worst case scenereo if global warming got as bad as its gonna get in the next century or so? "
Destruction of costal cities where most of humanity lives. Famine. Global war. Mass extinctions. A shutdown of the northern gulf stream that could actually cause an ice age. I'm sceptical of that last one, but it's possible.
Best case scenario? Venice Italy is certainly toast. It's a really pretty place (I won't speak to the smell) and it will be a sad thing when it disappears under the sea. And I don't think there is any scenario where that doesn't happen.
In the end a much better question that "did humans cause it?" is "what the Hell can we do about it?" when 100 million people starve to death I won't be very comforted if it is ultimitely proven to be a natural phenomenon.
http://www.viridiandesign.org/
There was a report last week or two on experiments seeding the ocean with iron to cause algae blooms that suck up megatons of CO2 and drop it to the bottom of the ocean. It's time to stop playing the blame game and look for some answers - answer that we won't get pretending it isn't happening (the bushies) or sitting around demonstrating, eating granola an whining about big business (the greens).
Probably intended to be amusing, but.... no. While you can get a high school education in Hindi or Punjabi or several other languages - if you have any plans beyond that you had better be on the English track from early on. Post secondary education is basically all in English.
Some people speak crystal clear BBC English, but most don't. Some technically competent people have accents that are almost impenetrable to a US speaker. Technology transfer meetings where everyone has to repeat things 3 times to be understood are a very real problem. Being totally facile at the various english variants being used would be light years more useful than understanding Hindi.
I remember it being mentioned on the mailing list when it still existed. The mailing list is long defunct and if the driver was completed it never made it into any major disro for a detection check and an automated install of the driver.
I was thinking of Tom when I wrote that. Can't help it. The "project management guys" all pretty much all Lundbergs. Very high on my list of the ings I don't like about project management.
Be the guy that translates non technical business logic into a detailed enough functional spec that the Indian IT people can code to it. Learn how the Indian IT people communicate and learn how to translate user requirements in a way that they are understood. Learn project management so your outsourcing project doesn't fail like a high percentage of them do.
Me, I despise project management so you are welcome to those jobs.
"It's the hardware manufacturer that makes the device that does that work."
It is to laugh. I'm trying to remember when that was ever the case. I'm sure it once really was. Actually I remember once hiring someone that had on their resume that they wrote printer drivers for a US company back in the late '80s. That's probably about the last time.
This was one of the first IT chores to be outsourced. It's an easily defined bit of black box code - inputs and outputs and who cares what's in between as long as it works well. In the 90's they seemed to be mainly in N. Europe - I recall talking to a lot of guys in Rotterdam about details of their driver implementations (and why it was conflicting with our stuff).
Probably all been moved in Mumbai by now, though I still hear from BIOS writers doing contract work for the big guys from the flanders area.
"Now it can't go mainstream because one pundit has trouble with one easily-replaced $10 sound card."
Yes and no. Yes, just replace the $10 sound card. On the other hand I've got a sound card that I paid $200 for (a Guillemot home theatre 64 FWTHTM) that is either not supported or only supports the skanky $10 secondary ESS chip that's also on it (depnds on the distro). It's an obsolete card (only really supported =win98 or NT4) but has some features that it still irks me that I can't use.
It's not the death knell of Linux that it doesn't properly support the card. Current MS OSs don't either. But it is damn irritating.
The "use the money to feed the poor" argument is foolisness. Feed the poor and they are just hungy again tomorrow. They are an expense. Arguably a necessary and important expense but an expense.
Space exploration is an investment. A risky investment and a long term investment, but it isn't an expense.
They are not the same thing. In your personal life, if you short change your investments to fund your expenses (like most fools do) you will end up penniless. I don't want to be that 70 year old greeter ar Wal-Mart and I don't want the world to be whatever the equivalent is. Actually that equivalant is probably simple extinction. This planet is not going to support us forever (reminder - forever is a very long time).
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Just ending the ageing process and preventing death from most diseases. All the other ways of croaking would still be around. Some small number of people may make it to 1000 years or more, but I'd be very surprised if average lifespans got above 300. Even 300 assumes an ideal stable society.
People would still die. Property would still pass on to younger generations. It would probably be much easier to "leave a legacy to the world after their death" than it is now - it's hard to accomplish much long term with our short lifespans.
"Catholics, nor do any other traditional Christians, equate refusal of medical care as suicide."
That may be the opinion of your church, or even some general consensus amongst american catholics, but I personally know several reactionary catholics that would strongly disagree with you on this. Call it the Mel Gibson wing. And all indication are that the next pope will be even more conservative than the current one.
Who is right? Don't ask me, I think they are all loonies.
"1) Wives will just get tired of thier husbands if they have to live together that long and vice versa."
Even with average lifetimes at ~100 I suspect "til death do us part" is doomed. My wife can probably tolerate me for 40-50 years, I can't expect the poor woman to deal with me for 100+ years without going barking mad.
"So, for those of you who think this kind of research is a terrible thing, an affront to God and man -- please go off somewhere to die quietly."
I agree, but I don't think theists see it that way. Catholics and many other mainstream religions would probably consider refusing this type of medical care as suicide. The theory seems to be that God gave you this life and it would be ungrateful of you to throw away that gift. When God wants you to die, he will see to it.
I think many would feel that they had an obligation to continue life long after it had become not worth living. They expect terminal patients in continual pain to suffer on for the glory of God, after all.
A freakish cross between a cat and a rabbit. Rumor has it that some of them can magically transform into spaceships, but that's just silly.
'And fill in the blank with any habbit except maybe "flowers buyer"'
Nope, sorry. Once you get to about 100 orchid plants delight turns to the "where do you plan to put that" look. "Oh look honey, I bought a greenhouse" is not considered a good answer either.
PS: I hope a "habbit" isn't some sort of freakish cross between a hobbit and a cabbit.
There *isn't* a Starbucks near the Mojave Airport. At least there wasn't last time I was there. I think I will go open franchise now while land values are cheap!
Seriously though: Mojave and California City have some of the cheapest raw land per acre in SoCal. I wonder if this would create a land boom there long term. Or if, when it became a more mature industry, would spaceports move to the traditional (at least in SF) equatorial areas.
It's "inspired by" to the same extent that West Side Story is "inspired by" Romeo and Juliette or Throne of Blood was "inspired by" Macbeth. That is to say -- a lot. Put it this way - if you showed HF to a random number of people that have seen the original Star Wars I bet a least half would notice that they are very similar without prompting.
BTW, the articles idea to rip off Throne of Blood for Ep III could be brilliant. I can totally see Padme going raving mad, obsessively washing invisible blood from her hands and comitting some particularly gruesome suicide. Somehow tie in her suicide being the direct fault of Yoda and you have the final straw that creates Vader.
topic drift alert.......
Octane booster isn't cheap and doesn't really work that well. It's mostly tolulene, which has less energy per litre than gas as well. Same with ethanol - burns cleaner but contains less energy. People that spend $5k to make their cars 15% faster don't want fuel that takes away power. The $5/gal 100 octane gas is usually used as a top off. The only people that I know that use it straight are either using a dedicated track car or a souped up V8 powered water ski boat/drag boats. Not cars that you need to use to get to wrok every day.
Here in CA, all we see are 87, 89 and 91. A car that really "required" 93 couldn't be sold as is here. Since Ca accounts for a very high percentage of cars sold - that won't happen. Those that mod cars here to where they require higher octance are forced to the airports or the 100 octane "NASCAR gas" that some 76 stations sell for ~$5/gal
Your Mazdaspeed Protege only required 91 octane when it left the factory. If yours needs 93 - then you must have increased the boost beyond factory spec. Aside from gas hassles, I'd worry if that engine can take the additional boost - I know many have blown from having it jacked up.
At the top of the pile is Wal-Mart, with the thinnest inventory on hand and the highest rate of inventory turns. The mom and pop store keeps (relatively) more inventory since 1) they know less about upcoming demand than the big boys and 2) they are less willing to dissapoint customers by not having what the customer needs. Small retailers need their customers more than mega stores do.
If you supply product to the Wal-Marts of the world (from actual stuff on shelves to the guy that contracts to sweep the parking lot) they will put you under intense pressure to minimize your own inventory by constantly grinding for every penny of price. When you have cut out all possible costs for them they will still come back month and grind some more. If you want to continue as a supplier you will be forced to cut wages/benefits to your employees and/or offsouce everything possible to China to cut costs. If you won't - you will be replaced by a supplier that will.
hmmm... it's actually not all that much $$. It's a nice chunk of change, but it isn't millions and milions of $. And it looks like a fairly orderly automatic selling plan. A lot of insiders set up these plans that automatically sell x$ of stock on y day of the month every month or a week after the 10-Q filing or such. If you are automatically selling in good times and bad it doesn't look to the SEC like you are trading on insider info.
"I did my highschool and undergrad in India."
By high school in India all the people that don't want to learn have dropped out. US schools are chock full of people that have no interest in learning and no ability to learn. The "average" student in an Indian english language high school is already the geek elite.
I think every town in coastal california has a local story about a Zero that crashed in cousin Zeke's back yard or in the strawberry patch back in '42. All "friend of a friend" type stories, of course.
"Can anyone tell me the worst case scenereo if global warming got as bad as its gonna get in the next century or so? "
Destruction of costal cities where most of humanity lives. Famine. Global war. Mass extinctions. A shutdown of the northern gulf stream that could actually cause an ice age. I'm sceptical of that last one, but it's possible.
Best case scenario? Venice Italy is certainly toast. It's a really pretty place (I won't speak to the smell) and it will be a sad thing when it disappears under the sea. And I don't think there is any scenario where that doesn't happen.
In the end a much better question that "did humans cause it?" is "what the Hell can we do about it?" when 100 million people starve to death I won't be very comforted if it is ultimitely proven to be a natural phenomenon.
http://www.viridiandesign.org/
There was a report last week or two on experiments seeding the ocean with iron to cause algae blooms that suck up megatons of CO2 and drop it to the bottom of the ocean. It's time to stop playing the blame game and look for some answers - answer that we won't get pretending it isn't happening (the bushies) or sitting around demonstrating, eating granola an whining about big business (the greens).
Probably intended to be amusing, but .... no. While you can get a high school education in Hindi or Punjabi or several other languages - if you have any plans beyond that you had better be on the English track from early on. Post secondary education is basically all in English.
Some people speak crystal clear BBC English, but most don't. Some technically competent people have accents that are almost impenetrable to a US speaker. Technology transfer meetings where everyone has to repeat things 3 times to be understood are a very real problem. Being totally facile at the various english variants being used would be light years more useful than understanding Hindi.
I remember it being mentioned on the mailing list when it still existed. The mailing list is long defunct and if the driver was completed it never made it into any major disro for a detection check and an automated install of the driver.
Because the outsourced contractors are willing to sign NDAs. That really doesn't work for the free software community.
I was thinking of Tom when I wrote that. Can't help it. The "project management guys" all pretty much all Lundbergs. Very high on my list of the ings I don't like about project management.
Be the guy that translates non technical business logic into a detailed enough functional spec that the Indian IT people can code to it. Learn how the Indian IT people communicate and learn how to translate user requirements in a way that they are understood. Learn project management so your outsourcing project doesn't fail like a high percentage of them do.
Me, I despise project management so you are welcome to those jobs.
"It's the hardware manufacturer that makes the device that does that work."
It is to laugh. I'm trying to remember when that was ever the case. I'm sure it once really was. Actually I remember once hiring someone that had on their resume that they wrote printer drivers for a US company back in the late '80s. That's probably about the last time.
This was one of the first IT chores to be outsourced. It's an easily defined bit of black box code - inputs and outputs and who cares what's in between as long as it works well. In the 90's they seemed to be mainly in N. Europe - I recall talking to a lot of guys in Rotterdam about details of their driver implementations (and why it was conflicting with our stuff).
Probably all been moved in Mumbai by now, though I still hear from BIOS writers doing contract work for the big guys from the flanders area.
"Now it can't go mainstream because one pundit has trouble with one easily-replaced $10 sound card."
Yes and no. Yes, just replace the $10 sound card. On the other hand I've got a sound card that I paid $200 for (a Guillemot home theatre 64 FWTHTM) that is either not supported or only supports the skanky $10 secondary ESS chip that's also on it (depnds on the distro). It's an obsolete card (only really supported =win98 or NT4) but has some features that it still irks me that I can't use.
It's not the death knell of Linux that it doesn't properly support the card. Current MS OSs don't either. But it is damn irritating.
The "use the money to feed the poor" argument is foolisness. Feed the poor and they are just hungy again tomorrow. They are an expense. Arguably a necessary and important expense but an expense.
Space exploration is an investment. A risky investment and a long term investment, but it isn't an expense.
They are not the same thing. In your personal life, if you short change your investments to fund your expenses (like most fools do) you will end up penniless. I don't want to be that 70 year old greeter ar Wal-Mart and I don't want the world to be whatever the equivalent is. Actually that equivalant is probably simple extinction. This planet is not going to support us forever (reminder - forever is a very long time).