if you were circumcised and can't feel pleasure from your penis then something went horribly, horribly wrong with the procedure. That's definitely not normal. I'm circumcised so I know what I'm talking about.
You probably don't know that there are two different kinds of pleasures, one from the parts you've got left and one from the part that went missing.
From the ladies' perspective, they can get a different pleasure from men who know the additional techniques available to them. I'm unaware of any who dislike this additional kind of pleasure but in all the world perhaps some exist.
But certainly one kind of pleasure is far superior to zero kinds of pleasure!
What I wonder is whether these Chinese patients will miss the pleasure they've lost or be blissfully [sic] unaware of it.
Depends on the culture. In some cultures slaves received some level of respect. In many of them the duty of the master was to protect the slave.
Consider the current situation of 'citizens' in the US. They have the ability to organize their affairs and living location to some degree (though with heavy restrictions) but their entire economic output is subject to confiscation, at the whim of the virtualized masters. The duty of protection has been summarily dismissed and reaffirmed in several Supreme Court cases (which voids the typical definition of 'citizen').
But, given sufficient bread and circuses, many of them don't care. They exist somewhere on the spectrum between helots and slaves, but with perks of even-insolent expression.
"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted". - Frederick Douglas
I'm glad you have taken a stand, but I'm sorry to hear you have eschewed all consumer electronics. How did you post the above comment?
There are plenty of Made-In-The-USA computers that are available on the second-hand market. Slashdot's CSS will probably work OK on some of them; perhaps a custom build of Firefox will work on a large class of these.
The real trick is trying to get your packets routed anywhere without using Chinese parts.
Stan is the best there is at what he does, and what he does is stand on the sholders of giants.
For every Marvel Comics there are hundreds of would-be authors and artists who never got into distribution.
Marvel and DC were major successes while most of the rest petered out or were acquired. The business is equally as important as the story and artwork if the goal is to get the comics into readers' hands.
the light tends towards the blue end of the spectrum
Last year I made a connection between an engineer at [popular LED company] and a Japanese researcher who has a direct-to-white (non-UV/phosphor) LED technology. Hopefully this means in a few years I can buy more efficient bulbs for less money.
We have a New England chain called Ocean State Job Lot where I get dimmable CFL's for $4.50 or so. My daughter uses one for a bedside reading light which is on an incandescent-era dimmer. The light looks good to my eyes. Since she leaves her light on whenever she leaves the room... I'm glad it's no longer an incandescent.
And 3 years ago CFL's were going for as high as $10+ per bulb.
They still are if you want the fancy dimmable 3-way type. But like today, I was buying 6-packs of decent CFL's for $15. I'll be happy to replace them all with LED's at $10 (2012) per equivalent light output.
Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
War is the health of the State. The State sets broadcast standards. Results are non-surprising.
Just think of how much harder military recruitment would be in the high schools if students weren't raised on a steady appetite of violence.
yeah, I had an ASUS UEFI board and I couldn't get Xen to boot without disabling the 1394 controller, and some other stuff I don't recall at the moment. I replaced it with an MSI which was nice but it had bad caps. I recently switched to ASRock, which is really nice, though Xen does have a UEFI problem with e820 memory maps and dom0 allocation at the moment. Except ASRock just got bought by ASUS. Argh.
That's a good idea. In that case your trust is in the keysigning. I think this is what some folks are missing - a passwordless ssh-key based automatic system is relying on other means of trust. Whether or not that trust is well placed or constructed is a separate matter. An encrypted key-based connection is still a great improvement over older systems.
That is - from a individual's subjective opinion, after reading 1000 books - should form a roughly normal distribution (the worst, the best etc).
The opinions, yes, but people tend to write reviews for stuff they really hate or stuff they really like, so the reviews aren't likely to mirror the opinion distribution. Then again, that could be a useful basis for a model (and Amazon devs no doubt understand these things better than me).
Whether they've made billions from the supposed patent infringement, I can't comment on.
One thing is for sure - CMU never would have made a billion dollars by selling products containing their "invention". Even assuming the patent is worthy and that Imaginary Property deserves to exist, they never would have made anything near that amount by licensing the technology.
If they licensed the patent to Marvell for $1.5M the staff lawyers probably would have thrown a decent party.
Eventually we should have a reputation-based distributed admin function for the Internet. If a dozen high-rated NetOps guys all sign messages that say that a given IP is spewing DDoS traffic, the infrastructure should permit a block without the owning admin having to deal with it proactively.
If a network doesn't participate, that could play into trust levels. If an admin screws up, he loses reputation. If an admin tends to advertise YouTube routes into Pakistan, he never gets a good reputation in the first place.
As usual, it's all trade-offs and we don't yet have an extensible crypto-reputation system, so one thing at a time.
To the original question - it's probably not going to do much good, but it's good to cultivate such expectations.
Unless you think the CIA should just be a web forum where we can all pitch in.
Well, that would be far less dangerous than an unaccountable drug-running quasi-military that runs around the world torturing innocent people and knocking over democratically elected governments.
These lists indicate permit holders, which are required for hand guns.
Legal ownership of handguns in those jurisdictions. Something tells me, if somebody is going to shoot an intruder to kill and ditch the body down a sewer drain, it's not going to be a license holder.
You are blaming governments for the greed of corporations?
Corporations are creations of governments. They don't exist naturally (without a government charter). Monsanto is a just bunch of guys yelling into the wind without the Patent system, the Courts, and the guys with guns from the government who enforce that system.
With the government's backing, they're threatening the species's food supply.
miracles of science would feed the world with an unbelievable array of giant, hearty and delicious foods. We're almost there.
I was just talking about this with my daughter at the grocery store. We picked up some Polaner instead of the Smuckers because of their GMO positions.
The first GMO's were things like rice that grew Vitamin A so rural Asian children wouldn't go blind. That was good.
The logical next steps were to make all sorts of food that was healthy, tasty, vigorous, and efficient (able to grow in poor soils).
But instead, we got crops that are resistant to pesticides that are applied by the tanker load and vegetables that express their own pesticides, which, we're kinda-maybe-sure don't effect humans (but it hasn't really been studied).
Making fast-growing salmon is more like it's supposed to be, but the experience of the past decades shows that the critical vulnerability is the governments' Imaginary-Property system that their corporations are using to seize control of the food supply.
You're right about the science, but the governments have fucked it up (like pretty much everything else people ask them to save us from).
Actually, yes, but toys and remotes are very similar and take the same kinds of batteries. The only device I've ever owned that needed a tool and took more than a few seconds is a car.
All kids toys these days have battery compartments that are locked down by a screw. Usually a phillips, sometimes a Torx. Often recessed in a shaft that requires just the right kind of jeweler's screwdriver to reach.
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if you were circumcised and can't feel pleasure from your penis then something went horribly, horribly wrong with the procedure. That's definitely not normal. I'm circumcised so I know what I'm talking about.
You probably don't know that there are two different kinds of pleasures, one from the parts you've got left and one from the part that went missing.
From the ladies' perspective, they can get a different pleasure from men who know the additional techniques available to them. I'm unaware of any who dislike this additional kind of pleasure but in all the world perhaps some exist.
But certainly one kind of pleasure is far superior to zero kinds of pleasure!
What I wonder is whether these Chinese patients will miss the pleasure they've lost or be blissfully [sic] unaware of it.
There is a big difference between making bad decisions freely
The trick with brain modification is that the person who makes the decision isn't the person who has to live with the decision.
[Begin the quibble between 'person' and 'personality']
Slavery is something far, far worse
Depends on the culture. In some cultures slaves received some level of respect. In many of them the duty of the master was to protect the slave.
Consider the current situation of 'citizens' in the US. They have the ability to organize their affairs and living location to some degree (though with heavy restrictions) but their entire economic output is subject to confiscation, at the whim of the virtualized masters. The duty of protection has been summarily dismissed and reaffirmed in several Supreme Court cases (which voids the typical definition of 'citizen').
But, given sufficient bread and circuses, many of them don't care. They exist somewhere on the spectrum between helots and slaves, but with perks of even-insolent expression.
"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted". - Frederick Douglas
I'm glad you have taken a stand, but I'm sorry to hear you have eschewed all consumer electronics. How did you post the above comment?
There are plenty of Made-In-The-USA computers that are available on the second-hand market. Slashdot's CSS will probably work OK on some of them; perhaps a custom build of Firefox will work on a large class of these.
The real trick is trying to get your packets routed anywhere without using Chinese parts.
Stan is the best there is at what he does, and what he does is stand on the sholders of giants.
For every Marvel Comics there are hundreds of would-be authors and artists who never got into distribution.
Marvel and DC were major successes while most of the rest petered out or were acquired. The business is equally as important as the story and artwork if the goal is to get the comics into readers' hands.
purely ... roots
Only Africans get to make that claim.
the light tends towards the blue end of the spectrum
Last year I made a connection between an engineer at [popular LED company] and a Japanese researcher who has a direct-to-white (non-UV/phosphor) LED technology. Hopefully this means in a few years I can buy more efficient bulbs for less money.
We have a New England chain called Ocean State Job Lot where I get dimmable CFL's for $4.50 or so. My daughter uses one for a bedside reading light which is on an incandescent-era dimmer. The light looks good to my eyes. Since she leaves her light on whenever she leaves the room ... I'm glad it's no longer an incandescent.
And 3 years ago CFL's were going for as high as $10+ per bulb.
They still are if you want the fancy dimmable 3-way type. But like today, I was buying 6-packs of decent CFL's for $15. I'll be happy to replace them all with LED's at $10 (2012) per equivalent light output.
Someone care to do a cultural translation for an european why its okay for kids to play with tanks and guns(both seen in TFA video) yet them seeing naked people is like your kids life is ruined?
War is the health of the State. The State sets broadcast standards. Results are non-surprising.
Just think of how much harder military recruitment would be in the high schools if students weren't raised on a steady appetite of violence.
yeah, I had an ASUS UEFI board and I couldn't get Xen to boot without disabling the 1394 controller, and some other stuff I don't recall at the moment. I replaced it with an MSI which was nice but it had bad caps. I recently switched to ASRock, which is really nice, though Xen does have a UEFI problem with e820 memory maps and dom0 allocation at the moment. Except ASRock just got bought by ASUS. Argh.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869903 [redhat.com]
Weird, missing comments on that thread.
That's a good idea. In that case your trust is in the keysigning. I think this is what some folks are missing - a passwordless ssh-key based automatic system is relying on other means of trust. Whether or not that trust is well placed or constructed is a separate matter. An encrypted key-based connection is still a great improvement over older systems.
The FBI doesn't care about your porn habits unless they involve underage kids.
Maybe he's an Occupier.
That is - from a individual's subjective opinion, after reading 1000 books - should form a roughly normal distribution (the worst, the best etc).
The opinions, yes, but people tend to write reviews for stuff they really hate or stuff they really like, so the reviews aren't likely to mirror the opinion distribution. Then again, that could be a useful basis for a model (and Amazon devs no doubt understand these things better than me).
just run 'chmod -R 777 ~' on your host - somehow this makes everything better!
Whether they've made billions from the supposed patent infringement, I can't comment on.
One thing is for sure - CMU never would have made a billion dollars by selling products containing their "invention". Even assuming the patent is worthy and that Imaginary Property deserves to exist, they never would have made anything near that amount by licensing the technology.
If they licensed the patent to Marvell for $1.5M the staff lawyers probably would have thrown a decent party.
Welcome to The Short Attention Span Era !!
Patience, Grasshopper.
Eventually we should have a reputation-based distributed admin function for the Internet. If a dozen high-rated NetOps guys all sign messages that say that a given IP is spewing DDoS traffic, the infrastructure should permit a block without the owning admin having to deal with it proactively.
If a network doesn't participate, that could play into trust levels. If an admin screws up, he loses reputation. If an admin tends to advertise YouTube routes into Pakistan, he never gets a good reputation in the first place.
As usual, it's all trade-offs and we don't yet have an extensible crypto-reputation system, so one thing at a time.
To the original question - it's probably not going to do much good, but it's good to cultivate such expectations.
Unless you think the CIA should just be a web forum where we can all pitch in.
Well, that would be far less dangerous than an unaccountable drug-running quasi-military that runs around the world torturing innocent people and knocking over democratically elected governments.
These lists indicate permit holders, which are required for hand guns.
Legal ownership of handguns in those jurisdictions. Something tells me, if somebody is going to shoot an intruder to kill and ditch the body down a sewer drain, it's not going to be a license holder.
If they had done an involuntary commit
I read that this is what was in the works, he became aware of it, and what he did was to some degree a reaction to it.
You are blaming governments for the greed of corporations?
Corporations are creations of governments. They don't exist naturally (without a government charter). Monsanto is a just bunch of guys yelling into the wind without the Patent system, the Courts, and the guys with guns from the government who enforce that system.
With the government's backing, they're threatening the species's food supply.
miracles of science would feed the world with an unbelievable array of giant, hearty and delicious foods. We're almost there.
I was just talking about this with my daughter at the grocery store. We picked up some Polaner instead of the Smuckers because of their GMO positions.
The first GMO's were things like rice that grew Vitamin A so rural Asian children wouldn't go blind. That was good.
The logical next steps were to make all sorts of food that was healthy, tasty, vigorous, and efficient (able to grow in poor soils).
But instead, we got crops that are resistant to pesticides that are applied by the tanker load and vegetables that express their own pesticides, which, we're kinda-maybe-sure don't effect humans (but it hasn't really been studied).
Making fast-growing salmon is more like it's supposed to be, but the experience of the past decades shows that the critical vulnerability is the governments' Imaginary-Property system that their corporations are using to seize control of the food supply.
You're right about the science, but the governments have fucked it up (like pretty much everything else people ask them to save us from).
Actually, yes, but toys and remotes are very similar and take the same kinds of batteries. The only device I've ever owned that needed a tool and took more than a few seconds is a car.
All kids toys these days have battery compartments that are locked down by a screw. Usually a phillips, sometimes a Torx. Often recessed in a shaft that requires just the right kind of jeweler's screwdriver to reach.
A car battery is trivial by comparison. :)