> Let's be happy that by it not being us who fall for things like these, we will have an advantage in evolution.
I don't think you understand how evolution works. Two men walk into a casino. One throws money like it's out of style, loses his shirt and then leaves, taking the barmaid upstairs to his hotel room. One calculates the odds carefully, counts cards, places his bets with mathematical precision and ends up making some money. He leaves alone and takes a taxi to his inexpensive motel room several blocks away, and flops onto his bed, falling asleep in seconds.
Which one do you think has the 'advantage in evolution'? The one screwing the barmaid or the one sleeping in his dirty clothes?
HAHAHA That was hilarious! "Gather up your occult paraphernalia like rock music"
Oh noes! The rock music is warping my brain... I feel like having money for nothing and chicks for free! Better switch to Debbie Boone quickly before I turn evil!
Well, I still think your and my ideas about the methods are irrelevant, but consider that a direct 3D laser scan of a finger, a 3 dimensional object, may turn out to be more accurate than converting a 3 dimensional object into 2D by smudging it against a paper with ink.
Your specific points about 3D introducing possible points of failure are irrelevant. Your conjectures on the unreliability of 3D fingerprints are no better than the current blind opinion-based faith on 2D fingerprints.
What needs to be done for 3D fingerprints it the same thing that needs to be done for 2D fingerprints, and still to this day has not been done. Rigorous statistical trials or studies need to be done to quantify the rate of errors in real world labs using these methods. Only then can the reliability of these methods be known.
Do they actually live inside of large hollow 'sticks', or in houses made of 'sticks'? I've never seen people living in sticks here in the city, it must be something you only see out in the STYX.
Yeah, we all have that problem. Since only $250,000 is insured we have to open tons and tons of accounts to hold all of our money. What a pain. It would be even more annoying if I didn't have staff to drive me to the bank, wait on line for me, and fan me while I sit in the limo watching cartoons.
Oh wait, sorry, I don't have any money. Never mind.
An asshole who bombs the asshole who is bombing the Kurds while telling us that the reason he is bombing the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is because that asshole is bombing the Kurds is not such an asshole. OUR asshole, however, was an asshole who was bombing the asshole who was bombing the Kurds while lying out of his ass that the reason he is bombing the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is because the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is getting ready to bomb US, which he wasn't.
So the asshole was thinking if he told the truth he might not get to bomb and so he will lie to get his way. That asshole was supposed to work for us, by the way.
Perhaps English isn't your native language, but I cannot parse what you are trying to say:
> the shingle lines I've seen run coat with asphalt at around 200C What does that mean? When they get hot does asphalt condense out of thin air to coat them?
> They also run around 1200 feet per minute, so you'd have to be laying those cells down pretty damn fast. This one has me really perplexed. Do the shingles get up and chase after you?
> There would have to be a few modifications made, for example, making it invisible to your immune system,
That's just what we need... a human-engineered virus that is completely invisible to your immune system. There is no way THAT could ever cause any problems as it mixed with other viruses in the wild.
Our schools don't teach very well, so let's fix it by making students sit in badly run schools for more hours. That will do it.
My kids are home-schooled. It's the best thing we've ever done. When I think of all the hours of my life I wasted scribbling on meaningless dittos I feel so jealous of the life my kids have. They do school work for 3 hours a day, really do the work. Then they work on their choice of project for a couple of hours, then they have all the rest of the day to play with other home-schooled kids. All three of my kids are approximately 2 years ahead of kids their age in the local public school, which is among the highest ranked in the country.
If anyone in congress or in the whitehouse understood this we'd all be talking about a very different health care plan.
I am self employed and I went from a $1,500/month "traditional" medical insurance plan to a $600/mo high deductible plan. I was paying $1,500 x 12 plus a $100 deductible = $18,100 a year for medical insurance.
Now I am paying $600 x 12 plus a whopping $6,000 deductible = between $7,200 and $13,200 a year depending on how much medical care my family needs. I CAN'T LOSE and I will probably come out way ahead.
I also have taken a much closer look at how I spend my health care money because it is all coming out of my pocket. I always ask if a generic drug is equivalent. I NEVER take antibiotics for a virus (why the hell do doctors prescribe this anyway?! it doesn't help and it creates drug resistant bugs). I don't run to the doctor every time I get the sniffles.
THIS IS THE PROBLEM AND THIS IS THE ANSWER! Medical insurance should be INSURANCE, protection from disaster. It shouldn't be used as a way to get FREE medical care because there ain't no such thing as a free lunch!
> Create an organization for exchange guns for [insert exchange here]
You didn't really think this one through. If people can exchange guns for something of value, a thriving black market will develop in getting guns to exchange. This will ultimately lead to more demand and MORE guns being produced.
It reminds me of a story I heard recently about a journalist who goes undercover to expose human trafficking. Someone asked why he doesn't just BUY some of these kids with the intent to make them free. The answer is he would be rewarding the slavers and building demand for them to kidnap MORE kids.
> Finally, can't believe I had to read this far down before somebody actually used the terminology.
I can't believe you read this far down, thinking all the while that somebody should use the right terminology, terminology which you clearly knew and you didn't bother to post it yourself, but THEN after seeing it you DID bother to post a content-free message.
I was quoting (paraphrasing) the book. I didn't know there was a movie.
I do remember that their wasn't the only family that stayed on Mars after the war broke out, so the boys and girls will have some choices when they mature. As much choice as any prairie settler had.
1. Small crowd around a water cooler talking energetically 2. Later... Man sitting alone in a chair at home 3. Man sitting alone in a chair at home 4. Man sitting alone in a chair at home 5. Man sitting alone in a chair at home 6. Man exclaims, "HA HA! I get it!"
Yes, not only is Fusion power only 30 years away, but personal flying jet-packs are only 10 years away, and true Artificial Intelligence is only 20 years away. The future is looking bright!
> Without marketing and advertising people, I'd be in a house, built as largely as I damn well felt like, wherever I felt like building it, eating as much of whatever I desired, whilst you and your ilk would be huddling in a cave trying to devise a plan to trick me into making you a spear.
What's stopping you now? Ignore the marketing and advertising people and go built that castle by yourself brick by brick. You are standing on the shoulders of giants and like you said you are one of the gifted ones coming back to claim your throne. Archimedes, Socrates, Plato, DaVinci, Edison, and um... Lesrahpem from Slashdot. Sounds like sour grapes to me. You would be like a king if only it weren't for all the idiots in the world.
Seriously, what is stopping you from using your immense talents to build your dream house as large as you feel?
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> Let's be happy that by it not being us who fall for things like these, we will have an advantage in evolution.
I don't think you understand how evolution works.
Two men walk into a casino.
One throws money like it's out of style, loses his shirt and then leaves, taking the barmaid upstairs to his hotel room.
One calculates the odds carefully, counts cards, places his bets with mathematical precision and ends up making some money. He leaves alone and takes a taxi to his inexpensive motel room several blocks away, and flops onto his bed, falling asleep in seconds.
Which one do you think has the 'advantage in evolution'? The one screwing the barmaid or the one sleeping in his dirty clothes?
You can.
See here: http://www.virtusphere.com/
DO WANT.
Just thought I'd point out that
despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
> I'm feeling more compelled to go have another orgy with vampires in Second Life!
Yeah! Let's have an orgy with vampires in Second Life! On second thought, forget the vampires. And forget the Second Life.
HAHAHA That was hilarious!
"Gather up your occult paraphernalia like rock music"
Oh noes! The rock music is warping my brain... I feel like having money for nothing and chicks for free!
Better switch to Debbie Boone quickly before I turn evil!
> I learned about this TWO years ago.
> And I'm FOURTEEN years old!
Well I'm TWELVE years old, and er um what is this?
Well, I still think your and my ideas about the methods are irrelevant, but consider that a direct 3D laser scan of a finger, a 3 dimensional object, may turn out to be more accurate than converting a 3 dimensional object into 2D by smudging it against a paper with ink.
Your specific points about 3D introducing possible points of failure are irrelevant. Your conjectures on the unreliability of 3D fingerprints are no better than the current blind opinion-based faith on 2D fingerprints.
What needs to be done for 3D fingerprints it the same thing that needs to be done for 2D fingerprints, and still to this day has not been done.
Rigorous statistical trials or studies need to be done to quantify the rate of errors in real world labs using these methods. Only then can the reliability of these methods be known.
Do they actually live inside of large hollow 'sticks', or in houses made of 'sticks'?
I've never seen people living in sticks here in the city, it must be something you only see out in the STYX.
She sounds like a very nice person.
I don't think she understands what it is that lawyers do though.
This looks really cool, so I downloaded the binaries. But I am going to try it out INSIDE a VM just in case.
Yeah, we all have that problem. Since only $250,000 is insured we have to open tons and tons of accounts to hold all of our money. What a pain. It would be even more annoying if I didn't have staff to drive me to the bank, wait on line for me, and fan me while I sit in the limo watching cartoons.
Oh wait, sorry, I don't have any money.
Never mind.
An asshole who bombs the asshole who is bombing the Kurds while telling us that the reason he is bombing the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is because that asshole is bombing the Kurds is not such an asshole. OUR asshole, however, was an asshole who was bombing the asshole who was bombing the Kurds while lying out of his ass that the reason he is bombing the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is because the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is getting ready to bomb US, which he wasn't.
So the asshole was thinking if he told the truth he might not get to bomb and so he will lie to get his way. That asshole was supposed to work for us, by the way.
Perhaps English isn't your native language, but I cannot parse what you are trying to say:
> the shingle lines I've seen run coat with asphalt at around 200C
What does that mean? When they get hot does asphalt condense out of thin air to coat them?
> They also run around 1200 feet per minute, so you'd have to be laying those cells down pretty damn fast.
This one has me really perplexed. Do the shingles get up and chase after you?
> There would have to be a few modifications made, for example, making it invisible to your immune system,
That's just what we need... a human-engineered virus that is completely invisible to your immune system. There is no way THAT could ever cause any problems as it mixed with other viruses in the wild.
Our schools don't teach very well, so let's fix it by making students sit in badly run schools for more hours. That will do it.
My kids are home-schooled. It's the best thing we've ever done. When I think of all the hours of my life I wasted scribbling on meaningless dittos I feel so jealous of the life my kids have. They do school work for 3 hours a day, really do the work. Then they work on their choice of project for a couple of hours, then they have all the rest of the day to play with other home-schooled kids. All three of my kids are approximately 2 years ahead of kids their age in the local public school, which is among the highest ranked in the country.
> Tweet: you're broke. :) Thank you for choosing stupidity banking.
And, Its gone...
MOD THIS UP!
If anyone in congress or in the whitehouse understood this we'd all be talking about a very different health care plan.
I am self employed and I went from a $1,500/month "traditional" medical insurance plan to a $600/mo high deductible plan.
I was paying $1,500 x 12 plus a $100 deductible = $18,100 a year for medical insurance.
Now I am paying $600 x 12 plus a whopping $6,000 deductible = between $7,200 and $13,200 a year depending on how much medical care my family needs. I CAN'T LOSE and I will probably come out way ahead.
I also have taken a much closer look at how I spend my health care money because it is all coming out of my pocket. I always ask if a generic drug is equivalent. I NEVER take antibiotics for a virus (why the hell do doctors prescribe this anyway?! it doesn't help and it creates drug resistant bugs). I don't run to the doctor every time I get the sniffles.
THIS IS THE PROBLEM AND THIS IS THE ANSWER! Medical insurance should be INSURANCE, protection from disaster. It shouldn't be used as a way to get FREE medical care because there ain't no such thing as a free lunch!
> Create an organization for exchange guns for [insert exchange here]
You didn't really think this one through. If people can exchange guns for something of value, a thriving black market will develop in getting guns to exchange. This will ultimately lead to more demand and MORE guns being produced.
It reminds me of a story I heard recently about a journalist who goes undercover to expose human trafficking. Someone asked why he doesn't just BUY some of these kids with the intent to make them free. The answer is he would be rewarding the slavers and building demand for them to kidnap MORE kids.
> Finally, can't believe I had to read this far down before somebody actually used the terminology.
I can't believe you read this far down, thinking all the while that somebody should use the right terminology, terminology which you clearly knew and you didn't bother to post it yourself, but THEN after seeing it you DID bother to post a content-free message.
I was quoting (paraphrasing) the book. I didn't know there was a movie.
I do remember that their wasn't the only family that stayed on Mars after the war broke out, so the boys and girls will have some choices when they mature. As much choice as any prairie settler had.
You inspired the following daydream:
1. Small crowd around a water cooler talking energetically
2. Later... Man sitting alone in a chair at home
3. Man sitting alone in a chair at home
4. Man sitting alone in a chair at home
5. Man sitting alone in a chair at home
6. Man exclaims, "HA HA! I get it!"
> How long before martians now?
Soon, soon.
He brought the boys to the edge of the canal and told them to look down into the water. "There are the Martians I promised to show you"
Yes, not only is Fusion power only 30 years away, but personal flying jet-packs are only 10 years away, and true Artificial Intelligence is only 20 years away.
The future is looking bright!
> Without marketing and advertising people, I'd be in a house, built as largely as I damn well felt like, wherever I felt like building it, eating as much of whatever I desired, whilst you and your ilk would be huddling in a cave trying to devise a plan to trick me into making you a spear.
What's stopping you now? Ignore the marketing and advertising people and go built that castle by yourself brick by brick. You are standing on the shoulders of giants and like you said you are one of the gifted ones coming back to claim your throne. Archimedes, Socrates, Plato, DaVinci, Edison, and um... Lesrahpem from Slashdot. Sounds like sour grapes to me. You would be like a king if only it weren't for all the idiots in the world.
Seriously, what is stopping you from using your immense talents to build your dream house as large as you feel?