Maybe you should actually read the judgment It is the individual who makes the determination, not the doctor, though as a safeguard the doctors have to make sure that the person is competent to make that decision.
So there's no "official answer", no "checklist" - it's up to the individual, in consultation with friends, family, and doctors.
Let's see. The motto used to be "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters." This is clearly Stuff that Matters.
It's definitely related to biology, which IS a science. Look at the recent articles about extending the length of telomeres to try to extend life spans. If we succeed in that, we're going to have a lot more people who are going to, at the end, need a dignified exit. The time to have that debate is before we get to that point, rather than doing it ad hoc.
Also, there are the ethical questions. Even Einstein came to recognize this after urging the government to investigate the possibilities of uranium to make bombs, when they were used against civilian populations.
And let us not forget that even geeks and nerds and their families will all have to face the grim reaper at some point. Taxes might not be a certainty if you're in the 1%, but death still is (at least until the singularity).
It's got to be better than forcing people to continue to live an unbearable life. If you were to do that to a dog, you'd be charged with cruelty, but ending a human's suffering in a dignified fashion? "Oh noes!!" The people who are against assisted suicide need to stop trying to impose their religious or other beliefs on others, same as same-sex marriage. When their time comes, they're free to tough it out til the bitter end, but I suspect that some of them will change their minds.
Well, I'd expect them to have a few units around when they make the call, and then ask them if they can come outside - with their hands in plain view.
If they do, all good. If they don't, but are willing to talk to a negotiator, again all good. At least you've got them talking. And if they're not willing to negotiate, again you've started the conversation,so work it.
Seeing how much you made fun of me by calling me mentally ill over the whole sex change thing, I thought you might find it funny that I am, but for events that happened several years after I discovered what I was, and gave rise to PTSD and MDD. As well as panic attacks, hyper vigilance, and a host of other problems that I "kind of" dealt with for decades without actually dealing with them.
Seeing someone beaten to death will do that to you; more so if you know you're next and probably only have a few minutes to live. If that doesn't mess up a kid's mind, then they're probably already on the way to becoming a sociopath.
I have previously dealt with "sockpuppetry", but I will do so again.
For quite a while I was unable to read, much less use a computer, and sometimes I couldn't see much at all. Once I could see well enough to try again, my laptop refused to boot, no matter what. I had written down at least some of my passwords on a business card (including Slashdot), but after I was told that I would eventually go blind, and things weren't looking too good at the time (pun intended) it didn't seem to matter. I've since moved, so I don't know if I even have it any more.
Both eyes have had 4,000 laser scars each to help control bleeding (which from my understanding is twice the norm), and my right eye is now good enough to read, though there is some distortion, which may be gradually increasing. I've tried several times to program, but there was too much "work" for my eye to do to make any sustained attempt, and even reading was a real pain until my brain learned to ignore the signals from my left eye when reading or writing.
Think of it - if those accounts had been used any time recently, there would be records of it. Plus, you don't get any karma points if you don't participate to some extent, so even if they have "excellent" karma, they haven't been used (just look at the last posts. The last ones that I could find date back to May 2012. And the posts you link to are from 2011. So, even if I had the passwords, how would I get mod points without posting for several years? It doesn't work that way.
Also, I never had any paid ads anywhere. Not from google, not from yahoo, not from my own boss. And obviously I've stopped doing web crap. Kind of hard when my color perception is now way off and I can't see straight. And I dumped all my personal sites, since I couldn't see anyway at the time, so what's the point. Ironically, I paid for 10 years of hosting in advance (a really good deal) and I still have a few years left, but... can't use it. And honestly, don't want to. I'm glad to be out of the salt mines.
I still miss programming, but this is my new reality. I may try it again just to scratch an itch, but obviously I'd need to have further improvements in my vision, which isn't going to happen. There's no open space to laser on either retina, so any further lasering to save the center will result in more loss of peripheral vision.
And of course, with all the bad news in the last 4 years, my PTSD and MDD kind of got out of control on several occasions - the worst being 3 years ago and last fall (still recovering from the depression from this last one and have another appointment with my psychiatrist next Thursday to see if adjusting my meds again will result in further improvements).
And of course, there's my journal entry about What it is like to be mentally ill. Laugh if it will make you feel better. Tell the world if you must - I wrote it so that my experience might help someone.
But it's easy enough to verify that I haven't used those accounts in years, and I post way too frequently to get mod points (They used to have that in the FAQ). I HAVE meta-moderated a few times. Big deal:-(
PS: I still think the best approach would be to log in and put it in your.sig. If anyone mod-bombs you, it will be obvious and you can complain. Since only logged-in users get mod points, (unless they changed that), anyone foolish enough to do that kind of deserves a kick in the shins.
I'll say one thing - now that it's working, the original opera starts up faster than any of the other browsers.
I can probably uninstall and reinstall Chrome to get it to work, but honestly, I've always preferred firefox (probably because it had the best developer tools).
Firefox still works, except for some subdomains where it insists I'm not logged in. Turns out that beta-science-beta.slashdot.org loads some scripts that science.slashdot.org doesn't. Sloppy, sloppy. Use beta to view a subdomain once, once, and then classic works fine. Cookie, me want COOKIE!
Sure, we can have decent conversations. The only issue is to try to reduce (note: not eliminate) the number of times you spam your hosts file. It really irritates a lot of people. Why not just use an account and put it in your.sig? Problem solved:-)
It's not like I ever get mod points any more, so no modbombing from me.
1. Get a group of people together to create fake "we're having a party at X's place at YPM", where X is a cop at another precinct.
2. Post videos of the Swatting on YouTube.
3. PROFIT!!!
In recent years, for instance, China’s food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim.
Human hair to make fake soy sauce? Who was crazy enough to think of this in the first place?
Thanks. I downloaded the latest preview, and I'm running into the same issues that, judging by the forums, I see a lot of users having. Startup is slow - almost 5x slower than eclipse. It doesn't peg the cpus - far from it - which leaves me guessing that their locking scheme is too conservative and their inter-process communications kind of suck (it starts up 5 processes, but none of them does very much at any one time). And they still haven't fixed the bug that, if you open the settings window and then quit the browser, it leaves the settings window open. Closing that last means that the next launch, it's the only window that shows (because it restores old windows). Exiting that leaves no windows and 4 processes that have to be killed by hand.
I did manage to get Opera running, and it starts in a couple of seconds, and uses just a fraction of the memory.
Why not put it to the test? Flush her gut out again, then do another transplant with fecal matter from a skinny person. She certainly is incentivized to give it another try, and it would be another data point.
...your digestive system suffers quite a bit, and has no way to recover (those bacterias don't come out of nowhere...if 100% of them are gone, they're not coming back...
Where do babies get them from? Surely there is no interintestinal transfer from mom to womb.
If you've ever changed an infant's diaper you'd have seen that green-yellow mess that comes out for a while.
Kids put everything in their mouth. Put them on the floor, they'll lick the carpets. Unsupervised they'll eat the "poopsicles" in the cat litter, and play with the dogs "turdles." Every time they find something they'll put it in their mouth.
BUT YOU Decide that maybe it is a good idea to shove some sterilized shit into someone gut
The whole point of the exercise is that it's unsterilized.
Also, only the gullible believe in "colon cleansings". You could get the same effect a lot cheaper by taking 2 bottles of Fleet, and you'll be clean as a whistle inside, but it won't improve your health.
half the commercials on TV now are for pills or hospitals. Why do hospitals and health offices need to advertise?
Because you're in the US. Used to never see it in Canada except for OTC (over the counter) "medicines." Recently a few have crept in. They can't be too effective, because they really haven't flourished.
"should be able to keep Jon Stewart, 4chan and the rest of the planet in bad jokes for quite some time."
No sh*t, Sherlock!
(Sorry, it's a sh*tty joke, but someone had to say it:-)
I remember how weird it was when I was visiting someone in the hospital and saw the sign on the door saying the room was for fecal transplants. Must be a real sh*tty job working there... especially as the janitor.
If you don't know C, you have no business whatsoever touching C++. (./me dons asbestos undies:-)
Not everything needs to be an object. Not everything should be an object. Manual memory allocation/deallocation skills are important. Otherwise, what are you going to do the first time you're confronted with a C program (there's plenty of them out there).
Now throw in the gang who needs a pre-written library to do threads because they don't understand it... and can't figure it out from the docs... and synchronize at the wrong places... and can't write their own non-trivial classes if their life depended on it (never mind a simple string class, which EVERYONE who uses C++ should be able to do)... and I give you today's programmers.
In a way, I'm glad my retinas went to the point where I couldn't use a computer for a while - it gave me perspective once I got out of the rat-race. If I ever program again, it will be to scratch my own itch.
Which is my point - the original post claimed that no programmer grew up without computers. I know I did (yes, I'm getting older, now get off my lawn:-)
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Maybe you should actually read the judgment It is the individual who makes the determination, not the doctor, though as a safeguard the doctors have to make sure that the person is competent to make that decision.
So there's no "official answer", no "checklist" - it's up to the individual, in consultation with friends, family, and doctors.
Let's see. The motto used to be "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters." This is clearly Stuff that Matters.
It's definitely related to biology, which IS a science. Look at the recent articles about extending the length of telomeres to try to extend life spans. If we succeed in that, we're going to have a lot more people who are going to, at the end, need a dignified exit. The time to have that debate is before we get to that point, rather than doing it ad hoc.
Also, there are the ethical questions. Even Einstein came to recognize this after urging the government to investigate the possibilities of uranium to make bombs, when they were used against civilian populations.
And let us not forget that even geeks and nerds and their families will all have to face the grim reaper at some point. Taxes might not be a certainty if you're in the 1%, but death still is (at least until the singularity).
It's got to be better than forcing people to continue to live an unbearable life. If you were to do that to a dog, you'd be charged with cruelty, but ending a human's suffering in a dignified fashion? "Oh noes!!" The people who are against assisted suicide need to stop trying to impose their religious or other beliefs on others, same as same-sex marriage. When their time comes, they're free to tough it out til the bitter end, but I suspect that some of them will change their minds.
"You block CP and all you'll do is drive the pornographers further underground"
No need to go to extremes. Just 6 feet underground seems about right to me.
Well, I'd expect them to have a few units around when they make the call, and then ask them if they can come outside - with their hands in plain view.
If they do, all good. If they don't, but are willing to talk to a negotiator, again all good. At least you've got them talking. And if they're not willing to negotiate, again you've started the conversation,so work it.
Seeing how much you made fun of me by calling me mentally ill over the whole sex change thing, I thought you might find it funny that I am, but for events that happened several years after I discovered what I was, and gave rise to PTSD and MDD. As well as panic attacks, hyper vigilance, and a host of other problems that I "kind of" dealt with for decades without actually dealing with them.
Seeing someone beaten to death will do that to you; more so if you know you're next and probably only have a few minutes to live. If that doesn't mess up a kid's mind, then they're probably already on the way to becoming a sociopath.
TTYL
No. Canonical has announced, then failed to deliver, a smartphone before that. IIRC, this is the 3rd or 4th attempt.
The screen has crappy resolution - less than 10% more pixels than those old Windows desktops displayed in 800x600.
I have previously dealt with "sockpuppetry", but I will do so again.
For quite a while I was unable to read, much less use a computer, and sometimes I couldn't see much at all. Once I could see well enough to try again, my laptop refused to boot, no matter what. I had written down at least some of my passwords on a business card (including Slashdot), but after I was told that I would eventually go blind, and things weren't looking too good at the time (pun intended) it didn't seem to matter. I've since moved, so I don't know if I even have it any more.
While I can see with my left eye, I can't read with it - everything is too distorted even after surgery due to macular pucker and to drain debris from retinal bleeding. (gross video)
Both eyes have had 4,000 laser scars each to help control bleeding (which from my understanding is twice the norm), and my right eye is now good enough to read, though there is some distortion, which may be gradually increasing. I've tried several times to program, but there was too much "work" for my eye to do to make any sustained attempt, and even reading was a real pain until my brain learned to ignore the signals from my left eye when reading or writing.
Think of it - if those accounts had been used any time recently, there would be records of it. Plus, you don't get any karma points if you don't participate to some extent, so even if they have "excellent" karma, they haven't been used (just look at the last posts. The last ones that I could find date back to May 2012. And the posts you link to are from 2011. So, even if I had the passwords, how would I get mod points without posting for several years? It doesn't work that way.
Also, I never had any paid ads anywhere. Not from google, not from yahoo, not from my own boss. And obviously I've stopped doing web crap. Kind of hard when my color perception is now way off and I can't see straight. And I dumped all my personal sites, since I couldn't see anyway at the time, so what's the point. Ironically, I paid for 10 years of hosting in advance (a really good deal) and I still have a few years left, but ... can't use it. And honestly, don't want to. I'm glad to be out of the salt mines.
I still miss programming, but this is my new reality. I may try it again just to scratch an itch, but obviously I'd need to have further improvements in my vision, which isn't going to happen. There's no open space to laser on either retina, so any further lasering to save the center will result in more loss of peripheral vision.
And of course, with all the bad news in the last 4 years, my PTSD and MDD kind of got out of control on several occasions - the worst being 3 years ago and last fall (still recovering from the depression from this last one and have another appointment with my psychiatrist next Thursday to see if adjusting my meds again will result in further improvements).
And of course, there's my journal entry about What it is like to be mentally ill. Laugh if it will make you feel better. Tell the world if you must - I wrote it so that my experience might help someone.
But it's easy enough to verify that I haven't used those accounts in years, and I post way too frequently to get mod points (They used to have that in the FAQ). I HAVE meta-moderated a few times. Big deal :-(
PS: I still think the best approach would be to log in and put it in your .sig. If anyone mod-bombs you, it will be obvious and you can complain. Since only logged-in users get mod points, (unless they changed that), anyone foolish enough to do that kind of deserves a kick in the shins.
I'll say one thing - now that it's working, the original opera starts up faster than any of the other browsers.
I can probably uninstall and reinstall Chrome to get it to work, but honestly, I've always preferred firefox (probably because it had the best developer tools).
Firefox still works, except for some subdomains where it insists I'm not logged in. Turns out that beta-science-beta.slashdot.org loads some scripts that science.slashdot.org doesn't. Sloppy, sloppy. Use beta to view a subdomain once, once, and then classic works fine. Cookie, me want COOKIE!
Sure, we can have decent conversations. The only issue is to try to reduce (note: not eliminate) the number of times you spam your hosts file. It really irritates a lot of people. Why not just use an account and put it in your .sig? Problem solved :-)
It's not like I ever get mod points any more, so no modbombing from me.
1. Get a group of people together to create fake "we're having a party at X's place at YPM", where X is a cop at another precinct.
2. Post videos of the Swatting on YouTube.
3. PROFIT!!!
I have a fetish for cops posing as teenage girls. Is there a porn site for that?
Why don't you create one and let us know how it works out in, say 20 years to life?
In recent years, for instance, China’s food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim.
Human hair to make fake soy sauce? Who was crazy enough to think of this in the first place?
Thanks. I downloaded the latest preview, and I'm running into the same issues that, judging by the forums, I see a lot of users having. Startup is slow - almost 5x slower than eclipse. It doesn't peg the cpus - far from it - which leaves me guessing that their locking scheme is too conservative and their inter-process communications kind of suck (it starts up 5 processes, but none of them does very much at any one time). And they still haven't fixed the bug that, if you open the settings window and then quit the browser, it leaves the settings window open. Closing that last means that the next launch, it's the only window that shows (because it restores old windows). Exiting that leaves no windows and 4 processes that have to be killed by hand.
I did manage to get Opera running, and it starts in a couple of seconds, and uses just a fraction of the memory.
It's sad in a way ...
Why not put it to the test? Flush her gut out again, then do another transplant with fecal matter from a skinny person. She certainly is incentivized to give it another try, and it would be another data point.
...your digestive system suffers quite a bit, and has no way to recover (those bacterias don't come out of nowhere...if 100% of them are gone, they're not coming back...
Where do babies get them from? Surely there is no interintestinal transfer from mom to womb.
If you've ever changed an infant's diaper you'd have seen that green-yellow mess that comes out for a while.
Kids put everything in their mouth. Put them on the floor, they'll lick the carpets. Unsupervised they'll eat the "poopsicles" in the cat litter, and play with the dogs "turdles." Every time they find something they'll put it in their mouth.
BUT YOU Decide that maybe it is a good idea to shove some sterilized shit into someone gut
The whole point of the exercise is that it's unsterilized.
Also, only the gullible believe in "colon cleansings". You could get the same effect a lot cheaper by taking 2 bottles of Fleet, and you'll be clean as a whistle inside, but it won't improve your health.
You can always try yogourt. May give you the runs for a while until your body gets the bacterial mix right.
half the commercials on TV now are for pills or hospitals. Why do hospitals and health offices need to advertise?
Because you're in the US. Used to never see it in Canada except for OTC (over the counter) "medicines." Recently a few have crept in. They can't be too effective, because they really haven't flourished.
"should be able to keep Jon Stewart, 4chan and the rest of the planet in bad jokes for quite some time."
No sh*t, Sherlock!
(Sorry, it's a sh*tty joke, but someone had to say it :-)
I remember how weird it was when I was visiting someone in the hospital and saw the sign on the door saying the room was for fecal transplants. Must be a real sh*tty job working there ... especially as the janitor.
Obviously it isn't the whole law: wood has quite a lot of calories and burns nicely in a stove. But try getting fat from eating sawdust.
What, nobody told you what that "filler" is in all those foods imported from China?
I was referring to the crappy screen resolution. And you can get better phones today for less, unlocked.
If you don't know C, you have no business whatsoever touching C++. (./me dons asbestos undies :-)
Not everything needs to be an object. Not everything should be an object. Manual memory allocation/deallocation skills are important. Otherwise, what are you going to do the first time you're confronted with a C program (there's plenty of them out there).
Now throw in the gang who needs a pre-written library to do threads because they don't understand it ... and can't figure it out from the docs ... and synchronize at the wrong places ... and can't write their own non-trivial classes if their life depended on it (never mind a simple string class, which EVERYONE who uses C++ should be able to do) ... and I give you today's programmers.
In a way, I'm glad my retinas went to the point where I couldn't use a computer for a while - it gave me perspective once I got out of the rat-race. If I ever program again, it will be to scratch my own itch.
Which is my point - the original post claimed that no programmer grew up without computers. I know I did (yes, I'm getting older, now get off my lawn :-)
And that's the difference between 30 years of experience, and 1 year of experience repeated 30 times :-) Get burned by too many of the latter ...