"Bioethics"? That's like saying you're an historian, but you only deal with the ancient Minoans. Specifically, the ancient Minoans in 3763 BCE. The 2nd week in July, to be precise. Tuesday, actually.
People would rather drive their car to get a loaf of bread when a bike ride would be just as easy.
Oh, purlease. Pick up keys, get in car sitting right outside, drive.
Versus squeeze into lycra bondage gear, pick up keys, haul the bike out of secure storage, check tyre pressures, ZOMG where's my super-safe-helmet, find super-safe-helmet, realise you've dropped the keys, find keys again, undo seven kinds of lock, put on cool looking yellow glasses, finally climb on, wobble off, stop to adjust squealing brakes, get hit by your wife coming home in her car with the loaf of bread.
For context, I cycled to to work today, but all that healthsome fresh and exercise didn't somehow destroy my ability to look at a watch.
My, my, how pragmatical. With that attitude, I wish them all the success that any other commercial business deserves, particularly with regard to eating the costs of defective units returned by their paying customers.
Still putting my stick in the sand saying "Out of business by the end of March."
Straight up? Most of the "scientists" that you'll hear "warning" you that ZOMFG GOLBAL WARMIGN GUNNA GITYA!!!!!11!!! are selling a book, SyFy Original Movie plot, or chasing next year's funding.
Climatology used to have to sit at the kiddie table at Science Camp, now it's all drunk and angry and groping the counsellors.
First, is this really a "vaccine" i.e. a one-off long term treatment? I very much doubt it, there's little money in that. More likely it's just another form of dope that needs regular, lucrative doses that nobody who's already addicted would ever choose to take. Seriously, who's going to volunteer to go no-choice cold-turkey?
But on the slim chance that it is what it claims to be, the real question is: why focus on already addicted junkies? By the time they seek treatment they've generally already ruined their lives.
So, start earlier. Much earlier. Would you have your kids (safely) vaccinated so that they can't get hooked on common drugs?
Of course, the most harmful drugs are alcohol and nicotine, so how about we focus on finding a "vaccine" for them?
Heck, caffeine is a vile, toxic, horrible addicting substance - let's dump the antidote in the town's water supply, right?
USians enjoy a "human right" to liberty. You may have noticed that it has limits though.
Likewise, you usually enjoy the right to refuse medical treatment, but I'm fine with your right to do that ending when you steal my TV to buy your next fix.
And Slashdot hits a new low, somewhere in the slime below the bottom of the scraped out barrel.
Sure, most of the time the summary is just biased, misleading, or inaccurate. But to boldly claim the exact opposite of the clear headline and content of linked article? Jesus wept.
I know there's no real pretence that the "editors" are anything other than Malda's old college drinking buddies - or the very small shell scripts that they wrote a decade ago - but either way, "Soulskill" needs to be sacked or re-written.
You've bungied in and saved academia with the power of Metrics! Now that you've determined the method to use to judge people whose work you can't even begin to comprehend, you can bag your non-performance-related flat fee and sproiiiing off to your next lucrative challenge!
Virgin Media nee Blueyonder nee Telewest nee Cable and Wireless have been doing it since the 90s. I was particularly amused when they cut me off back in 2001 because I was infected with "Code Red". An interesting conversation ensued with a front line techmong about which of my Lunix boxen were likely to have Microsoft IIS running on them.
Straight up: caffeine's LD50 is about half that of cocaine. It's a vile, highly toxic, shockingly physiologically addicting drug that's only considered to be safe because it's generally taken in controlled doses, in known concentration, and you're unlikely to get shot in a Starbucks deal gone bad. Also, addicts are excellent at rationalising that they don't really have a problem and could quit any time they wanted to.
If Coca Cola replaced the caffeine in their brown sludge with cocaine it would have many of the same (subjective) positives, without the worst of the physiological withdrawal effects.
So, snortable caffeine? Let's see how soon it is before the first death, and which way the knee jerks.
No? I still can't, and yet Slashdot still spunks an article every few days?
Kindly please shut up about it forever, or until it's available retail without having to complete some sort of Neckbeard Challenge in order to purchase one, whichever comes first.
Alternatively, we can replace a substantial part of our population with corpses. Both are viable strategies, we just need to decide which one we're going for.
I doubt he's even aware that the "cloud" involves a network. He probably just uses it as shorthand for "smelly neckbeard magic." The prick clearly thinks that marketing is the hard part of the project.
I guess whether it looks like a good idea or not largely depends on whether you're the one choosing the "preferred bidders". And thinking about your post-political career.
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And off camera too. Punishment gassings from the grassy knoll.
Use on the heating and lights, go through 4 years of battery cycles, and you'll be pushing your Volt home quite a bit, I suspect.
Also, you seem to have costed your electricity at zero. Can you sell me a few thousand kWh at those prices?
The law attempted to prevent audio or video recording anyone without their consent, not just police.
Of course - of course - it was abused by Illinois' finest, but that wasn't really who it was intended to protect.
"Bioethics"? That's like saying you're an historian, but you only deal with the ancient Minoans. Specifically, the ancient Minoans in 3763 BCE. The 2nd week in July, to be precise. Tuesday, actually.
We can haz pork?
Oh, purlease. Pick up keys, get in car sitting right outside, drive.
Versus squeeze into lycra bondage gear, pick up keys, haul the bike out of secure storage, check tyre pressures, ZOMG where's my super-safe-helmet, find super-safe-helmet, realise you've dropped the keys, find keys again, undo seven kinds of lock, put on cool looking yellow glasses, finally climb on, wobble off, stop to adjust squealing brakes, get hit by your wife coming home in her car with the loaf of bread.
For context, I cycled to to work today, but all that healthsome fresh and exercise didn't somehow destroy my ability to look at a watch.
Funny, up until there, it almost sounded like you were a rational, sentient being.
My, my, how pragmatical. With that attitude, I wish them all the success that any other commercial business deserves, particularly with regard to eating the costs of defective units returned by their paying customers.
Still putting my stick in the sand saying "Out of business by the end of March."
But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Also, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and do you believe in life after love?
I'd go on, but XKCD has as usual provided appropriate mouseover text.
Criminals are a cowardly, superstitious lot.
Remember, every all concealing shadow could contain a Batman.
Straight up? Most of the "scientists" that you'll hear "warning" you that ZOMFG GOLBAL WARMIGN GUNNA GITYA!!!!!11!!! are selling a book, SyFy Original Movie plot, or chasing next year's funding.
Climatology used to have to sit at the kiddie table at Science Camp, now it's all drunk and angry and groping the counsellors.
Next quarter's profit uber alles.
That's it. That's all there is to it.
First, is this really a "vaccine" i.e. a one-off long term treatment? I very much doubt it, there's little money in that. More likely it's just another form of dope that needs regular, lucrative doses that nobody who's already addicted would ever choose to take. Seriously, who's going to volunteer to go no-choice cold-turkey?
But on the slim chance that it is what it claims to be, the real question is: why focus on already addicted junkies? By the time they seek treatment they've generally already ruined their lives.
So, start earlier. Much earlier. Would you have your kids (safely) vaccinated so that they can't get hooked on common drugs?
Of course, the most harmful drugs are alcohol and nicotine, so how about we focus on finding a "vaccine" for them?
Heck, caffeine is a vile, toxic, horrible addicting substance - let's dump the antidote in the town's water supply, right?
USians enjoy a "human right" to liberty. You may have noticed that it has limits though.
Likewise, you usually enjoy the right to refuse medical treatment, but I'm fine with your right to do that ending when you steal my TV to buy your next fix.
And Slashdot hits a new low, somewhere in the slime below the bottom of the scraped out barrel.
Sure, most of the time the summary is just biased, misleading, or inaccurate. But to boldly claim the exact opposite of the clear headline and content of linked article? Jesus wept.
I know there's no real pretence that the "editors" are anything other than Malda's old college drinking buddies - or the very small shell scripts that they wrote a decade ago - but either way, "Soulskill" needs to be sacked or re-written.
Of course: the sun is made of nothing but rounded corners.
You've bungied in and saved academia with the power of Metrics! Now that you've determined the method to use to judge people whose work you can't even begin to comprehend, you can bag your non-performance-related flat fee and sproiiiing off to your next lucrative challenge!
People who actually own the cars in practice, or some neckbeard who's Read The Fine Manual and determined that it can't happen in theory?
Virgin Media nee Blueyonder nee Telewest nee Cable and Wireless have been doing it since the 90s. I was particularly amused when they cut me off back in 2001 because I was infected with "Code Red". An interesting conversation ensued with a front line techmong about which of my Lunix boxen were likely to have Microsoft IIS running on them.
If Coca Cola replaced the caffeine in their brown sludge with cocaine it would have many of the same (subjective) positives, without the worst of the physiological withdrawal effects.
So, snortable caffeine? Let's see how soon it is before the first death, and which way the knee jerks.
Mention the data collection in the EULA. We don't read those, right?
No? I still can't, and yet Slashdot still spunks an article every few days?
Kindly please shut up about it forever, or until it's available retail without having to complete some sort of Neckbeard Challenge in order to purchase one, whichever comes first.
Alternatively, we can replace a substantial part of our population with corpses. Both are viable strategies, we just need to decide which one we're going for.
I doubt he's even aware that the "cloud" involves a network. He probably just uses it as shorthand for "smelly neckbeard magic." The prick clearly thinks that marketing is the hard part of the project.
When they were in opposition?
I guess whether it looks like a good idea or not largely depends on whether you're the one choosing the "preferred bidders". And thinking about your post-political career.