All this "the people will rise up against the drugs" sounds extremely naive to me.
People don't have to rise up against them, they can simply choose not to take them.
As for the examples of drug misuse you give, none of the examples really qualifies as having "very negative cognative effects", which is what I was specifically talking about. Generally people will only take a drug that impairs cognition if its very fun to do so. I don't know, but the drug described in the article doesn't sound like alot of fun.
I don't know who 'they' are, but consider this: pharmeceutical companies still need to convince people to take the drugs they produce. This drug, if it has very negative cognative effects, will be a hard sell. We're still pretty far from the point where people can be forced to take drugs against their will. Maybe some day, but they'll probably have far more sinister drugs by the time that day arrives.
"There is actually a treatment for Autism that is a change in diet and increase in nutritional supplements that has been proven to work in a few hundred patients."
There is no scientific evidence backing nutritional treatment of autism. Evidence for it is entirely anecdotal. Usually the person who has improved under a special diet has also been undergoing other treatments such as behavioral therapy so causality is hard to establish. In addition, gaging improvement is pretty subjective.
Personally, I'm very sceptical of claims that diet is the cause or the cure for problems. For virtually any disorder out there, there is someone advancing a diet that can treat it, like depressionangerbad sex or aging. I think people just like to feel they are in control of things, and controlling what they eat gives them that feeling.
And if you'd read the entire article, you'd see that they are not developing this for use on humans, but as an investigative tool to help understand how the reward system works. No one has yet suggested that such a supression system is useful for humans.
Since you seem genuinely interested, here's an article that illustrates the kind of worries people have about Bush and his religion: bush and the rapture
For my part, I think a guy who sees events in the middle east through a biblical filter is very likely to come to some bad conclusions.
The analogy is flawed because the product offered by a news source is unbiased news. There's a reason why Fox news' slogan isn't "We slant the news to the right because thats what we want you to believe". People expect this from a news source - or even a news aggrigator - unless they make it very clear that they have another agenda. This is naive given today's media conglomerates, but your casual acceptance of the situation is just sad.
it basically says its a crime if its done for profit. There are conditions on how much money is involved and how many copies are distributed. If it doesn't meet these criteria, its a torte.
You're right. paid for my everyone else should read yet to be paid for by everyone else. Everybody got a piece of the big debt they're racking up, but the rich got really big pieces. Eventually someones going to have to pay it back though. I have a feeling the distrubution of the debt will be more equitable than the distriution of the tax cuts.
So you are upset that they used the provision of this law so that a local agent could decided to investigate a crime instead of waiting for approval from headquarters and the weeks that use to take before the passing of this law?
Shit yeah since apparently without oversight they end up wasting their investigative resources on crap like this. For copyright violation to be criminal, it has to be done for financial gain - otherwise its a torte. Since he wasn't selling the episodes, its very doubtful that is even a criminal matter.
If you feel that the Patriot Act is a bad thing, write your congressman. Join the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. But don't sit here on Slashdot and bitch, you're not changing anything.
How about joining the ACLU and bitching on Slashdot? The article may not give both sides of the story, but regardless of whether the guy is a 'bad guy', its not ok for the FBI to take legislation specifically drafted to fight terrorism and use it whenever they see fit. And I don't see any problem with bitching about things that are wrong.
Life has evolved into every nitch on this planet, but that doesn't mean that a random chunk of bacteria is going to survive anywhere you put it. Whatever survives the impact which sends it into space, the trip through space, and the impact on mars, then has the difficult job of surviving in an environment likely to be totally unlike where it came from. With time it might evolve into something could survive there but its not likely to get the chance.
"Why is it that every time someone gets recognition for doing something that's not particularly useful, someone like you has to come along and insult his hobby and talk down to him about doing something more productive with his time. "
If he was doing something like building a model of the Louvre out of toothpaste I'd agree with you. But when someone picks something as utterly pointless and dull as visiting every Starbucks, the impulse to yell at them is understandable.
Not really. Microsoft's server section made its first loss last year, and their impact on the enterprise-scale server market (and I'm not including dedicated Exchange servers) has been minimal.
The fact that they haven't made much headway does not mean that they are not competing. Microsoft is most definitely attempting to enter the server market.
Only for development purposes. A huge amount of Java development is done on Windows, but not for deployment on Windows.
With Java thats feasable, but pre-Java it was not so easy. There's a very big difference in the quality of c++ tools available for Windows and Unix. It can lead to using Windows servers to allow development with MS tools. Java changes that, but guess what....NET pushes it back in the other direction.
And still is. That is why it was one of the primary languages for.Net.
Really? I haven't heard of any new projects being developed in COBOL. There's a lot of legacy COBOL out there, and it will probably be around for a long time, but I'd hardly call that doing fine.
Java is currently about attractive to developers as its reasonably possible to be, if you look at the job market.
Again, I have to point out - we are not talking about 'currently'. The future is the issue.
But mysql is competing against Oracle because it can run on the same platforms..Net can't.
The platforms themselves are competing. Development tools are factors in which platform to use. Superior development tools on Windows motivate people to choose to run windows.
Its doing fine so far.
COBOL was doing fine at one time too. This is about the future, not the present.
Java is built by a community. You are just opposing it because its not your community.
The point of opensourcing Java is to increase the size of the community. By giving people more sense of ownership, you'll make improving Java more attractive to developers.
It needs it because it needs to be more flexible to deal with the approaching threat of.NET. The IT world changes quickly. You have to adapt if you want to survive. Sun can try to do it on their own, or they can make it a community effort.
Possibly neither. It may be that he just wants to soften the negative publicity by public back-peddaling. It costs him nothing - he still has his deal with SCO but gets to portray himself as a hapless victim.
You can't steal an idea because the originator of the idea still has it - you just copy it. I think you mean they are stealing credit for the idea. In particular, you are talking about stealing credit for the idea of linking to a particular site. Of course the one who really deserves credit for that idea was the person who built the site in the first place as they probably furnished the original link. And by linking to that site, you are crediting the originator of the idea. So no harm done!;)
I thought the point of blogs was to put together a bunch of interesting links. I take it as a given that the person who puts together a blog gets the links from somewhere else. How should they be coming up with them? Building URLs from random letters until they hit an interesting site?
Moral correctness? They're trying to build a Linux business and they don't want to be seen as one of the bad guys to the community. They found a good legal excuse to get them out of the NDA, weighed the risks vs rewards and decided it was worth the possible law suit. I don't see any evidence of moral courage here.
It would be nice if that seperation were as clean as you suggest. Unfortunately, the exectutive branch appoints the guy who's in charge of deciding which cases to prosecute, as well as the judges who will preside over them. Congress can block the judicial appointments, but thats only of limited effectiveness.
If minimum wage were lowered substantially, and various labor restrictions on corporations were lifted, then small and medium sized business could actually afford to do business here, and the larger ones would realize that the cost of moving offshore is too great for the decrease in labor cost.
Yeah, why move jobs to the third world, when you can move the third world here! Sounds great. Where do I sign up to get wages lowered, health benefits removed, and longer work days under poor working conditions?
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"I personally call out Linus on the table."
You can't personally challenge someone anonymously, dipshit.
All this "the people will rise up against the drugs" sounds extremely naive to me.
People don't have to rise up against them, they can simply choose not to take them.
As for the examples of drug misuse you give, none of the examples really qualifies as having "very negative cognative effects", which is what I was specifically talking about. Generally people will only take a drug that impairs cognition if its very fun to do so. I don't know, but the drug described in the article doesn't sound like alot of fun.
I don't know who 'they' are, but consider this: pharmeceutical companies still need to convince people to take the drugs they produce. This drug, if it has very negative cognative effects, will be a hard sell. We're still pretty far from the point where people can be forced to take drugs against their will. Maybe some day, but they'll probably have far more sinister drugs by the time that day arrives.
"There is actually a treatment for Autism that is a change in diet and increase in nutritional supplements that has been proven to work in a few hundred patients."
There is no scientific evidence backing nutritional treatment of autism. Evidence for it is entirely anecdotal. Usually the person who has improved under a special diet has also been undergoing other treatments such as behavioral therapy so causality is hard to establish. In addition, gaging improvement is pretty subjective.
Personally, I'm very sceptical of claims that diet is the cause or the cure for problems. For virtually any disorder out there, there is someone advancing a diet that can treat it, like depression anger bad sex or aging. I think people just like to feel they are in control of things, and controlling what they eat gives them that feeling.
And if you'd read the entire article, you'd see that they are not developing this for use on humans, but as an investigative tool to help understand how the reward system works. No one has yet suggested that such a supression system is useful for humans.
Since you seem genuinely interested, here's an article that illustrates the kind of worries people have about Bush and his religion:
bush and the rapture
For my part, I think a guy who sees events in the middle east through a biblical filter is very likely to come to some bad conclusions.
And then there are scary things like this
The analogy is flawed because the product offered by a news source is unbiased news. There's a reason why Fox news' slogan isn't "We slant the news to the right because thats what we want you to believe". People expect this from a news source - or even a news aggrigator - unless they make it very clear that they have another agenda. This is naive given today's media conglomerates, but your casual acceptance of the situation is just sad.
"isnt that quite odd: that kind of stuff was enough to go to war; but vice versa it might be to thin to even show up in US media?"
I don't really have anything to add to this, but I wanted to bump this comment by an AC up the karma threshold a bit.
slashdotters love links:
copyright infringement
it basically says its a crime if its done for profit. There are conditions on how much money is involved and how many copies are distributed. If it doesn't meet these criteria, its a torte.
You're right. paid for my everyone else should read yet to be paid for by everyone else. Everybody got a piece of the big debt they're racking up, but the rich got really big pieces. Eventually someones going to have to pay it back though. I have a feeling the distrubution of the debt will be more equitable than the distriution of the tax cuts.
So you are upset that they used the provision of this law so that a local agent could decided to investigate a crime instead of waiting for approval from headquarters and the weeks that use to take before the passing of this law?
Shit yeah since apparently without oversight they end up wasting their investigative resources on crap like this. For copyright violation to be criminal, it has to be done for financial gain - otherwise its a torte. Since he wasn't selling the episodes, its very doubtful that is even a criminal matter.
If you feel that the Patriot Act is a bad thing, write your congressman. Join the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. But don't sit here on Slashdot and bitch, you're not changing anything.
How about joining the ACLU and bitching on Slashdot? The article may not give both sides of the story, but regardless of whether the guy is a 'bad guy', its not ok for the FBI to take legislation specifically drafted to fight terrorism and use it whenever they see fit. And I don't see any problem with bitching about things that are wrong.
Life has evolved into every nitch on this planet, but that doesn't mean that a random chunk of bacteria is going to survive anywhere you put it. Whatever survives the impact which sends it into space, the trip through space, and the impact on mars, then has the difficult job of surviving in an environment likely to be totally unlike where it came from. With time it might evolve into something could survive there but its not likely to get the chance.
"Why is it that every time someone gets recognition for doing something that's not particularly useful, someone like you has to come along and insult his hobby and talk down to him about doing something more productive with his time. "
If he was doing something like building a model of the Louvre out of toothpaste I'd agree with you. But when someone picks something as utterly pointless and dull as visiting every Starbucks, the impulse to yell at them is understandable.
Not really. Microsoft's server section made its first loss last year, and their impact on the enterprise-scale server market (and I'm not including dedicated Exchange servers) has been minimal.
.Net.
The fact that they haven't made much headway does not mean that they are not competing. Microsoft is most definitely attempting to enter the server market.
Only for development purposes. A huge amount of Java development is done on Windows, but not for deployment on Windows.
With Java thats feasable, but pre-Java it was not so easy. There's a very big difference in the quality of c++ tools available for Windows and Unix. It can lead to using Windows servers to allow development with MS tools. Java changes that, but guess what....NET pushes it back in the other direction.
And still is. That is why it was one of the primary languages for
Really? I haven't heard of any new projects being developed in COBOL. There's a lot of legacy COBOL out there, and it will probably be around for a long time, but I'd hardly call that doing fine.
Java is currently about attractive to developers as its reasonably possible to be, if you look at the job market.
Again, I have to point out - we are not talking about 'currently'. The future is the issue.
But mysql is competing against Oracle because it can run on the same platforms. .Net can't.
The platforms themselves are competing. Development tools are factors in which platform to use. Superior development tools on Windows motivate people to choose to run windows.
Its doing fine so far.
COBOL was doing fine at one time too. This is about the future, not the present.
Java is built by a community. You are just opposing it because its not your community.
The point of opensourcing Java is to increase the size of the community. By giving people more sense of ownership, you'll make improving Java more attractive to developers.
It needs it because it needs to be more flexible to deal with the approaching threat of .NET. The IT world changes quickly. You have to adapt if you want to survive. Sun can try to do it on their own, or they can make it a community effort.
Thank you for publicly proclaiming your moral illness.
The fact that you think there's something seriously immoral about nudity strikes me as a form of moral illness itself.
Can you elaborate on this for those of us who don't know the history?
Possibly neither. It may be that he just wants to soften the negative publicity by public back-peddaling. It costs him nothing - he still has his deal with SCO but gets to portray himself as a hapless victim.
You can't steal an idea because the originator of the idea still has it - you just copy it. I think you mean they are stealing credit for the idea. In particular, you are talking about stealing credit for the idea of linking to a particular site. Of course the one who really deserves credit for that idea was the person who built the site in the first place as they probably furnished the original link. And by linking to that site, you are crediting the originator of the idea. So no harm done! ;)
I thought the point of blogs was to put together a bunch of interesting links. I take it as a given that the person who puts together a blog gets the links from somewhere else. How should they be coming up with them? Building URLs from random letters until they hit an interesting site?
Moral correctness? They're trying to build a Linux business and they don't want to be seen as one of the bad guys to the community. They found a good legal excuse to get them out of the NDA, weighed the risks vs rewards and decided it was worth the possible law suit. I don't see any evidence of moral courage here.
It would be nice if that seperation were as clean as you suggest. Unfortunately, the exectutive branch appoints the guy who's in charge of deciding which cases to prosecute, as well as the judges who will preside over them. Congress can block the judicial appointments, but thats only of limited effectiveness.
If minimum wage were lowered substantially, and various labor restrictions on corporations were lifted, then small and medium sized business could actually afford to do business here, and the larger ones would realize that the cost of moving offshore is too great for the decrease in labor cost.
Yeah, why move jobs to the third world, when you can move the third world here! Sounds great. Where do I sign up to get wages lowered, health benefits removed, and longer work days under poor working conditions?