Do we have a problem with people using drugs of their own free will if those drugs have no negative impact on their lives?
"free will"? Ask a smoker if they smoke from their free will. They GOTTA smoke. Maybe, just maybe, the first one was of their free will (more like peer pressure or need for a stimulant or something non-free will); but their choice in the matter dissolved long ago.
Even if there was an antidote to clear the haze, the addiction would still be there and there would still be no free will about it. I think this is an important point. This synthehol might make society more ok with addicts, it might make addicts more ok with being and addict, but those enslaved by it would not be "free-er".
Exactly. Like. XP. With classic window option and all. Just change the stuff under the hood. Instant top seller. Instead they're trying to sell me a cellphone for my desktop. Bloody idiots.
You seem to be under the impression that a version of Windows contains anything but changes to the chrome and trim. If you take Windows 9 and make it look exactly like XP then you'd have, well, XP.
without browser extension or anything: just don't use the blasted thing...
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television," Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own one."
So Watson starts talking to people and "reading" the internet to understand it and becomes truly intelligent and sentient. I was going to go with a Skynet joke at this point, but reconsidered. So now this new intelligent life form is forced to read youtube and facebook "comments", political arguments, tumblr, and porn sites and goes completely insane.
Then what... ? We have to pull the plug, we create a new life form and then cause its extinction? Sounds about par for the course.
If you have a manual, you have P on your handbrake.
The handbrake doesn't light up your reverse lights for the dashcam to capture... it supplies no visual feedback and so cannot help you fight it in court.
On the otherhand, if you drive a standard then your car isn't in drive while waiting for the light and so you are not "defined as driving".(??)
So you are going to make the flight attendants know if someone is reading an ebook and not sending an email? Seems ridiculous, they have a lot to do on take off and landing already.
Are "works for me" comments ever helpful? Just because it works for you doesn't mean the OP's complaints are invalid. All it means is that it works for you, bully for you. Obviously you are not in the demographic w/ the configuration that brings out the bug.... so what? So you have contributed nothing by your comment.... and now neither have I.
Forgot to finish my thought. How does MS recover from all the badwill? Can they?
The MS brand is becoming (or already is) poison. They need to split up all functions into subsidiaries and let them brand themselves w/o the MS moniker (except in the fine legal print). Leave the MS name for the OS only.
Ballmer didn't start the fire (apologies to Billy Joel), he inherited it. For decades there has been no other choice and users sat by and watched MS either buy out or pound the competition to dust. They banked up a LOT of "un-goodwill", they've been in the red as far as goodwill is concerned for ages.
Now that there are valid alternatives, they are reaping what they sowed. Fair enough.
Anybody read Dune and God Emperor of Dune? Put a strangle hold on a population long enough and as soon as the grip starts to slip, BAM! They're gone.
But my heart monitor automatically downloads and installs the latest kernels within minutes of them being posted to kernel.org.
Then you're a fool who deserves what he gets. You should be using a long-term support strategy and update ONLY when you get new HARDWARE and need the software to support the new features. Embedded code not only doesn't need to be bleeding edge, it should NOT be bleeding edge. I doubt your heart monitor needs new filesystem drivers or the latest GNOME or KDE desktops (just guessing here).
Or it could also be the exact opposite, perhaps it will give us the benefits of exercise without the downsides, such as the increased wear and tear in the body that exercise causes.
It is the downsides from exercise that are the benefits though. (normal exercise ending well, not broken bones, torn ligaments, etc...) It is the micro-tears that the body repairs that make muscles and bones stronger. How can the drug simulate that? Will we have stronger people with weak skeletal systems? That would cause a dangerous imbalance and more broken bones than now. Hmmmm.
The Netcraft graphs show "Google" as a platform, last I read (a couple years ago granted) that google ran a customized version of apache. Does google now offer a honest-to-goodness webserver of its own? Or can googles #'s be added into the apache category? And what about Tomcat sites? Are they already included in the apache #'s?
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Well, ... it comes from a museum. So yeah. Can I buy a plush Apple ][ DOS toy from the museum gift shop?
are there FBI ahead? if there are we'll all be dead!
what I wouldn't give for a holocaust cloak
(I just proof-read this and I think I might be getting a visit from our NSA friends sometime soon. :-/)
Do we have a problem with people using drugs of their own free will if those drugs have no negative impact on their lives?
"free will"? Ask a smoker if they smoke from their free will. They GOTTA smoke. Maybe, just maybe, the first one was of their free will (more like peer pressure or need for a stimulant or something non-free will); but their choice in the matter dissolved long ago.
Even if there was an antidote to clear the haze, the addiction would still be there and there would still be no free will about it. I think this is an important point. This synthehol might make society more ok with addicts, it might make addicts more ok with being and addict, but those enslaved by it would not be "free-er".
If it lands on someone's head, would it not be, technically speaking, a homicide?
No, it would not be homicide; it would be ironic. As illustrated by Scott Adams (Dilbert Newsletter 49.0 @ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972846/posts):
I've also learned recently that "ironic" means anything you want it to mean. Example:
Me: "I heard that Bob was killed by a meteor."
Induhvidual: "Wow. That's ironic."
Me: "Why is it ironic? Was he an astronomer?"
Induhvidual: "No, it's ironic because, you know, what are the odds?"
Me: "So anything unlikely is automatically ironic?"
Induhvidual: "No, it also needs to be bad."
Me: "This conversation is ironic."
5:Informative?!? To answer a question you asked .... I wonder if this is exploitable ... :-p
He was infamous for his "infamous"?
I'm confused, you mean information can actually be conveyed via air vibrations?
They're made out of meat. What do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. They can sing by squirting air over the meat.
Exactly. Like. XP. With classic window option and all. Just change the stuff under the hood. Instant top seller. Instead they're trying to sell me a cellphone for my desktop. Bloody idiots.
You seem to be under the impression that a version of Windows contains anything but changes to the chrome and trim. If you take Windows 9 and make it look exactly like XP then you'd have, well, XP.
Time for the reverse CAPTCHA. If you can guess it correctly, you must be a bot.
AHCTPAC ... amiright?
without browser extension or anything: just don't use the blasted thing...
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television," Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own one."
So Watson starts talking to people and "reading" the internet to understand it and becomes truly intelligent and sentient. I was going to go with a Skynet joke at this point, but reconsidered. So now this new intelligent life form is forced to read youtube and facebook "comments", political arguments, tumblr, and porn sites and goes completely insane.
Then what ... ? We have to pull the plug, we create a new life form and then cause its extinction? Sounds about par for the course.
I had a keyboard once with a dedicated start/shutdown key.
After shutting down my system a few times accidentally I threw that keyboard away.
TRS80's had a reset button but it was recessed and took more of a hardpress than normal keys. See upper right here
If you have a manual, you have P on your handbrake.
The handbrake doesn't light up your reverse lights for the dashcam to capture ... it supplies no visual feedback and so cannot help you fight it in court.
On the otherhand, if you drive a standard then your car isn't in drive while waiting for the light and so you are not "defined as driving".(??)
So you are going to make the flight attendants know if someone is reading an ebook and not sending an email? Seems ridiculous, they have a lot to do on take off and landing already.
... I wish someone would OCR it.
Open in adobe reader x and File->Save As->Text ... OCR done. (not so hot in places, but done.)
2 digits for Year is enough, it'll last till 1999 and I'll retired by then anyway.
... but it works reliably for me
Are "works for me" comments ever helpful? Just because it works for you doesn't mean the OP's complaints are invalid. All it means is that it works for you, bully for you. Obviously you are not in the demographic w/ the configuration that brings out the bug .... so what? So you have contributed nothing by your comment .... and now neither have I.
Forgot to finish my thought. How does MS recover from all the badwill? Can they?
The MS brand is becoming (or already is) poison. They need to split up all functions into subsidiaries and let them brand themselves w/o the MS moniker (except in the fine legal print). Leave the MS name for the OS only.
Ballmer didn't start the fire (apologies to Billy Joel), he inherited it. For decades there has been no other choice and users sat by and watched MS either buy out or pound the competition to dust. They banked up a LOT of "un-goodwill", they've been in the red as far as goodwill is concerned for ages.
Now that there are valid alternatives, they are reaping what they sowed. Fair enough.
Anybody read Dune and God Emperor of Dune? Put a strangle hold on a population long enough and as soon as the grip starts to slip, BAM! They're gone.
Have you seen any suspicious operating systems? Nein! I mean... 8!
How many planets are there? Nine! I mean... 8!
But my heart monitor automatically downloads and installs the latest kernels within minutes of them being posted to kernel.org.
Then you're a fool who deserves what he gets. You should be using a long-term support strategy and update ONLY when you get new HARDWARE and need the software to support the new features. Embedded code not only doesn't need to be bleeding edge, it should NOT be bleeding edge. I doubt your heart monitor needs new filesystem drivers or the latest GNOME or KDE desktops (just guessing here).
Or it could also be the exact opposite, perhaps it will give us the benefits of exercise without the downsides, such as the increased wear and tear in the body that exercise causes.
It is the downsides from exercise that are the benefits though. (normal exercise ending well, not broken bones, torn ligaments, etc...) It is the micro-tears that the body repairs that make muscles and bones stronger. How can the drug simulate that? Will we have stronger people with weak skeletal systems? That would cause a dangerous imbalance and more broken bones than now. Hmmmm.
Aliens are fattening us up for the slaughter...
In Soviet America the NSA emails you.
The Netcraft graphs show "Google" as a platform, last I read (a couple years ago granted) that google ran a customized version of apache. Does google now offer a honest-to-goodness webserver of its own? Or can googles #'s be added into the apache category? And what about Tomcat sites? Are they already included in the apache #'s?
Thanks for the link.