Few would object if that were the case. The issue is the "not breathing, not metabolizing" claim is not always true
Would you rather be a dead organ donor or a mostly mindless vegetable in some long term care death ward who can't remember the names of the people around them, can't tell when they've shit themselves? Not all lives are worth preserving. That's why I've signed my advanced medical directives - pull the plug and harvest away in such cases.
How the fuck is it selfish to want to keep all of the parts of your own body? You're just an entitled little whiner who wants what other people have without having to do anything for it.
And if you need a kidney or liver, you'd better hope that someone who's alive is willing to part with their spare kidney or a chunk of liver that they're still using, because fresh is best. Maybe we should make it mandatory that only people who are willing to donate can also be allowed to receive. Cut all the selfish people out of the loop, because after all you're just a waste of oxygen anyway.
Wrong, they are my organs until they are naturally absorbed by the Earth. Until then, only I get to say what happens to them, even after I'm dead.
You're so full of shit from a legal point of view. You don't have any rights after you're dead - that's up to your estate. You know, your next of kin, etc. Unless you have an advanced directive that the medical team is aware of, your wishes are non-existent.
I was able to easily configure firefox, eclipse, and jedit to use monospace fonts with small-caps, and after a few minutes, it really is easier to read - web pages, code, whatever. Anything else is a bitch to set up to do so. Chrome? Good luck with that.
Even p2p traffic requires the net. It's not like cash, which you can just carry around with you and spend as you choose without any infrastructure. I know which I want to have on me during a power failure, or when my battery is dead, or I'm in a dead spot... or even when I want to bargain for a discount for cash payment. Cash is still king.
More internet stupidity. The fact is that they were already under order to be seized. They would have been seized eventually no matter what - even if it meant offering someone a 10% finder's fee. There are plenty of people who can beg, borrow, or steal an electric drill or a hammer, and you'll be begging them to take every last bitcoin. And since it's not easily tracked, good luck getting it back, even if they catch the perps.
The same things that make bitcoin attractive to crooks make you, the owner, a very easy target for a successful robbery. Also, given that 5 Chinese organizations control the computing power to generate the majority of bitcoins, you're a sucker to use them for anything long-term, as their value is very easily manipulated by them, as opposed to a real free market.
Then again, the Internet makes people stupid, so what can I expect nowadays?
Saying that bitcoin is not subject to capital controls and loss of purchasing power is something that the guy running Silk Road would strongly disagree with. He was one of several people who have lost their bitcoin's purchasing power following government controls - in this case seizure. Here's another in Australia.
It's like anything else - if yu can own it, someone else can take it away from you. "New asset class" my arse.
What I find even funnier is the use of font that don't let you tell the difference between a capital "I", the number one, and a lowercase "ell". "John Paul II III" - I actually saw this as the headline on a local newspaper's front page. It's one of the reasons I use small-caps fonts wherever I can. Considering that lowercase letters came along long after the invention of writing, I think we need consider turning back the clock. Otherwise, BankOfAmerica and BankOfArnerica will continue to look the same. (A-m-e as opposed to A-r-n-e, but how do you tell with today's phishing-scam-friendly browser fonts).
Thanks. The Russians must have hacked my reply. Same as they hacked the power station that it turns out they didn't really hack.:-) Finding some malware on a laptop that wasn't even connected to the grid is hardly grounds for screaming "the power grid has been hacked." Otherwise, every single utility, every single business, etc., has been hacked by the Russians because there's malware on laptops everywhere. Russian. Chinese. North Korean. American.
Your "first quotation marks" didn't exist until well after printing got under way. And they didn't exist in the first printed works either. They are, as I said, an affectation. An unnecessary affectation defended by stupid people who don't know the history of writing beyond a few centuries.
You're the one being thick. NO quotes were used in the first written works. Not curly, not straight. They didn't exist. Bringing up shit from centuries after in an attempt to justify that curly quotes were the norm is bullshit, and you know it.
Especially when bringing up "proof" from a few hundred years ago that didn't prove anything.
Your claim that publications always used them was obviously false in the face of the very first printed work, the Gutenberg Bible, not using them, and no quotation marks being in existence for thousands of years in handwritten documents. Quotation marks are recent, same as lowercase letters.
Something written in 1651 is WAY too late to claim any sort of historical precedent compared to "prior art" that goes back thousands of years. Especially since I can't find an image of the original that contains quotes - just transcriptions where they have been inserted, probably "for clarity" where none existed in the original.
Especially since you're not planning on them dying.
Also, only a fool thinks that the current situation can continue for more than another 5-10 years. India and Africa by themselves will have between 45 and 60% of the world's population in 50 years, and everything is going to go down the crapper well before then. African birth rates are now stuck at 4.5 per woman, despite increases in education that were supposed to lower it. Still better than 6 per, but not really expected to drop any more because of social and economic conditions, and there is no way the rest of the world is going to allow 3 to 6 billion to overwhelm their countries.
It's not a question of compassion, but of triage. Africa is a lost cause. So to is India, probably. And large areas of the middle east. Even parts of the US will simply be uninhabitable because they'll be too damn hot and too dry.
The winners are Russia, Greenland, Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska, and in South America, the Andes. Pretty much everyone else is screwed by 2035 or so. Unfortunately, it's going to take time for frozen tundra to become arable land - lots of time - so even if you could move everyone there, there won't be enough food growing capacity to support them.
Good thing Alaska is 17% of the total US area.
This is one problem that we're going to have to be extremely hard-nosed if we want anyone to survive. Large swaths of the population are simply not salvageable under any scenario that isn't a combination of wishful thinking and cheap drugs.
So what - planning to do something that isn't illegal isn't a crime, especially if it's not done in the country.
And good luck getting a conviction if it's the government doing it, same as the EU sh*t its' pants when countries started putting up fences. The Schengen open border deal is dying, and there are provisions in the EU charter to allow individual member states to ignore it.
Those in genuine need won't be the ones showing up at the border - they're the ones with the means to bribe people. By definition, they are the ones who should be immediately turned around. Do it often enough, and then you'll be able to screen the genuine refugees near or in the country of origin with the help of the UN, etc. That's how Canada does it - the Syrian refugees are screened in Syria and Turkey (because there weren't enough refugees pre-screened in Syria to meet the quota) by the UN.
If you can pay $20,000 to crooks to get out of your country and illegally cross other borders, you're not a genuine refugee with no means to change the situation at home. Stay and use your money and influence to try to fix the situation, instead of cowardly leaving the people who genuinely cannot fend for themselves in the lurch. It's your country, you have an obligation to try to improve it.
False. Handwritten documents, which preceded publication, had no curly quotes. In fact, no quotes whatsoever was the original style in older languages. Another affectation which we could do without was lower-case letters. Go look at the original greek texts of the new testament - no lowercase because it didn't exist. Or the original hebrew of the old testament - good luck finding the vowels (and again, no lowercase).
Now let's look at the definitive case for printing - the Gutenberg Bible. No quotes. Of course not, since they weren't in the manuscript versions:-)
Except that you aren't IN the EU any more when you're kicking them out of the airplane - you're over Somalia and they are the ones with jurisdiction - jurisdiction that they are welcome to enforce against their own nationals when they are parachuted in. EU law doesn't apply in other country's sovereign space.
Plus, from an ethical point of view, why shouldn't people who enter illegally be immediately turned around at the border? They are the ones who had the means to escape from their country, so it's more likely that they are less oppressed than those who weren't able to leave. Someone who is able to pay people smugglers $20,000 and more for bribes isn't all that oppressed in comparison to someone who hasn't got anything.
Illegal queue-jumpers need to be put at the back of the queue; doing otherwise just punishes the honest refugees.
Look it up, it's right there in the constitution, asswipe. Treason includes giving aid or comfort to enemies, and trying to delegitimize the incoming administration is exactly that. Obama has committed treason as per the US constitution. Then again, so has Clinton, so nothing new there.
The underwoods and (iirc) remingtons I learned how to type on in typing class in '71-72 didn't. Neither did the Brother portable I used at home. Ditto the Smith-Corona. IBM was the oddball at the time, being expensive, requiring electricity, and weighing a f*cking ton due to the heavy metal chassis required because of the motor, etc., not to mention noisy as all hell in comparison due to that motor resonating against the desktop even when you weren't typing.
The original standard was everything was hand-written. Even copies. There were no "smart quotes" in the originals, or the copies. Curly quotes are an affectation, nothing more. Same as having two different hyphen widths. Same with m-space and n-space and no-break-space (which people have abused to try to make web page elements not reflow to a smaller widths rather than honor the basic premise of html).
No meaning is lost by getting rid of curly quotes, etc.
Again, haven't seen a google recaptcha in years, so I must be doing something right. Also have only seen facebook image captchas two-three times in my life on any site. Maybe they're going out of use? Or maybe I'm just lucky:-)
Dialogue in LibreOffice is a PITA to use with smart quotes, because it doesn't always get it right, especially when editing. Turning it of leaves no ambiguities. Keep it simple, stupid is good advice.
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Few would object if that were the case. The issue is the "not breathing, not metabolizing" claim is not always true
Would you rather be a dead organ donor or a mostly mindless vegetable in some long term care death ward who can't remember the names of the people around them, can't tell when they've shit themselves? Not all lives are worth preserving. That's why I've signed my advanced medical directives - pull the plug and harvest away in such cases.
How the fuck is it selfish to want to keep all of the parts of your own body? You're just an entitled little whiner who wants what other people have without having to do anything for it.
And if you need a kidney or liver, you'd better hope that someone who's alive is willing to part with their spare kidney or a chunk of liver that they're still using, because fresh is best. Maybe we should make it mandatory that only people who are willing to donate can also be allowed to receive. Cut all the selfish people out of the loop, because after all you're just a waste of oxygen anyway.
When it comes to non-donors you just need a small team to grab the organs and pay off the dude doing the autopsy.
Do you really think autopsies are done that soon after brain death? The organs have to be alive when you put them in someone else you know.
Psst - the person you're replying to is probably brain-dead already. :-)
Don't give a shit. What is mine is mine and what is yours is yours. Now kindly keep your nose out of other people's business.
Well, maybe if there were fewer selfish people like you, there'd be a spare colon available so you could give a shit.
Bunch of cowards afraid to donate an organ. You've got a spare kidney, you can donate 70% of your liver and it will grow back, what is your problem?
Flying cars will fix that.
Wrong, they are my organs until they are naturally absorbed by the Earth. Until then, only I get to say what happens to them, even after I'm dead.
You're so full of shit from a legal point of view. You don't have any rights after you're dead - that's up to your estate. You know, your next of kin, etc. Unless you have an advanced directive that the medical team is aware of, your wishes are non-existent.
I was able to easily configure firefox, eclipse, and jedit to use monospace fonts with small-caps, and after a few minutes, it really is easier to read - web pages, code, whatever. Anything else is a bitch to set up to do so. Chrome? Good luck with that.
Even p2p traffic requires the net. It's not like cash, which you can just carry around with you and spend as you choose without any infrastructure. I know which I want to have on me during a power failure, or when my battery is dead, or I'm in a dead spot ... or even when I want to bargain for a discount for cash payment. Cash is still king.
More internet stupidity. The fact is that they were already under order to be seized. They would have been seized eventually no matter what - even if it meant offering someone a 10% finder's fee. There are plenty of people who can beg, borrow, or steal an electric drill or a hammer, and you'll be begging them to take every last bitcoin. And since it's not easily tracked, good luck getting it back, even if they catch the perps.
The same things that make bitcoin attractive to crooks make you, the owner, a very easy target for a successful robbery. Also, given that 5 Chinese organizations control the computing power to generate the majority of bitcoins, you're a sucker to use them for anything long-term, as their value is very easily manipulated by them, as opposed to a real free market.
Then again, the Internet makes people stupid, so what can I expect nowadays?
Saying that bitcoin is not subject to capital controls and loss of purchasing power is something that the guy running Silk Road would strongly disagree with. He was one of several people who have lost their bitcoin's purchasing power following government controls - in this case seizure. Here's another in Australia.
It's like anything else - if yu can own it, someone else can take it away from you. "New asset class" my arse.
What I find even funnier is the use of font that don't let you tell the difference between a capital "I", the number one, and a lowercase "ell". "John Paul II III" - I actually saw this as the headline on a local newspaper's front page. It's one of the reasons I use small-caps fonts wherever I can. Considering that lowercase letters came along long after the invention of writing, I think we need consider turning back the clock. Otherwise, BankOfAmerica and BankOfArnerica will continue to look the same. (A-m-e as opposed to A-r-n-e, but how do you tell with today's phishing-scam-friendly browser fonts).
Thanks. The Russians must have hacked my reply. Same as they hacked the power station that it turns out they didn't really hack. :-) Finding some malware on a laptop that wasn't even connected to the grid is hardly grounds for screaming "the power grid has been hacked." Otherwise, every single utility, every single business, etc., has been hacked by the Russians because there's malware on laptops everywhere. Russian. Chinese. North Korean. American.
This month? You mean they're still catching fire? I thought they deactivated the last of them in 2016.
Did someone set us up the bomb?
Your "first quotation marks" didn't exist until well after printing got under way. And they didn't exist in the first printed works either. They are, as I said, an affectation. An unnecessary affectation defended by stupid people who don't know the history of writing beyond a few centuries.
You're the one being thick. NO quotes were used in the first written works. Not curly, not straight. They didn't exist. Bringing up shit from centuries after in an attempt to justify that curly quotes were the norm is bullshit, and you know it.
Especially when bringing up "proof" from a few hundred years ago that didn't prove anything.
Something written in 1651 is WAY too late to claim any sort of historical precedent compared to "prior art" that goes back thousands of years. Especially since I can't find an image of the original that contains quotes - just transcriptions where they have been inserted, probably "for clarity" where none existed in the original.
Especially since you're not planning on them dying.
Also, only a fool thinks that the current situation can continue for more than another 5-10 years. India and Africa by themselves will have between 45 and 60% of the world's population in 50 years, and everything is going to go down the crapper well before then. African birth rates are now stuck at 4.5 per woman, despite increases in education that were supposed to lower it. Still better than 6 per, but not really expected to drop any more because of social and economic conditions, and there is no way the rest of the world is going to allow 3 to 6 billion to overwhelm their countries.
It's not a question of compassion, but of triage. Africa is a lost cause. So to is India, probably. And large areas of the middle east. Even parts of the US will simply be uninhabitable because they'll be too damn hot and too dry.
The winners are Russia, Greenland, Scandinavia, Canada, and Alaska, and in South America, the Andes. Pretty much everyone else is screwed by 2035 or so. Unfortunately, it's going to take time for frozen tundra to become arable land - lots of time - so even if you could move everyone there, there won't be enough food growing capacity to support them.
Good thing Alaska is 17% of the total US area.
This is one problem that we're going to have to be extremely hard-nosed if we want anyone to survive. Large swaths of the population are simply not salvageable under any scenario that isn't a combination of wishful thinking and cheap drugs.
So what - planning to do something that isn't illegal isn't a crime, especially if it's not done in the country.
And good luck getting a conviction if it's the government doing it, same as the EU sh*t its' pants when countries started putting up fences. The Schengen open border deal is dying, and there are provisions in the EU charter to allow individual member states to ignore it.
Those in genuine need won't be the ones showing up at the border - they're the ones with the means to bribe people. By definition, they are the ones who should be immediately turned around. Do it often enough, and then you'll be able to screen the genuine refugees near or in the country of origin with the help of the UN, etc. That's how Canada does it - the Syrian refugees are screened in Syria and Turkey (because there weren't enough refugees pre-screened in Syria to meet the quota) by the UN.
If you can pay $20,000 to crooks to get out of your country and illegally cross other borders, you're not a genuine refugee with no means to change the situation at home. Stay and use your money and influence to try to fix the situation, instead of cowardly leaving the people who genuinely cannot fend for themselves in the lurch. It's your country, you have an obligation to try to improve it.
False. Handwritten documents, which preceded publication, had no curly quotes. In fact, no quotes whatsoever was the original style in older languages. Another affectation which we could do without was lower-case letters. Go look at the original greek texts of the new testament - no lowercase because it didn't exist. Or the original hebrew of the old testament - good luck finding the vowels (and again, no lowercase).
Now let's look at the definitive case for printing - the Gutenberg Bible. No quotes. Of course not, since they weren't in the manuscript versions :-)
You fail, just like "smart quotes".
Except that you aren't IN the EU any more when you're kicking them out of the airplane - you're over Somalia and they are the ones with jurisdiction - jurisdiction that they are welcome to enforce against their own nationals when they are parachuted in. EU law doesn't apply in other country's sovereign space.
Plus, from an ethical point of view, why shouldn't people who enter illegally be immediately turned around at the border? They are the ones who had the means to escape from their country, so it's more likely that they are less oppressed than those who weren't able to leave. Someone who is able to pay people smugglers $20,000 and more for bribes isn't all that oppressed in comparison to someone who hasn't got anything.
Illegal queue-jumpers need to be put at the back of the queue; doing otherwise just punishes the honest refugees.
Look it up, it's right there in the constitution, asswipe. Treason includes giving aid or comfort to enemies, and trying to delegitimize the incoming administration is exactly that. Obama has committed treason as per the US constitution. Then again, so has Clinton, so nothing new there.
The underwoods and (iirc) remingtons I learned how to type on in typing class in '71-72 didn't. Neither did the Brother portable I used at home. Ditto the Smith-Corona. IBM was the oddball at the time, being expensive, requiring electricity, and weighing a f*cking ton due to the heavy metal chassis required because of the motor, etc., not to mention noisy as all hell in comparison due to that motor resonating against the desktop even when you weren't typing.
The original standard was everything was hand-written. Even copies. There were no "smart quotes" in the originals, or the copies. Curly quotes are an affectation, nothing more. Same as having two different hyphen widths. Same with m-space and n-space and no-break-space (which people have abused to try to make web page elements not reflow to a smaller widths rather than honor the basic premise of html).
No meaning is lost by getting rid of curly quotes, etc.
Again, haven't seen a google recaptcha in years, so I must be doing something right. Also have only seen facebook image captchas two-three times in my life on any site. Maybe they're going out of use? Or maybe I'm just lucky :-)
Dialogue in LibreOffice is a PITA to use with smart quotes, because it doesn't always get it right, especially when editing. Turning it of leaves no ambiguities. Keep it simple, stupid is good advice.