If you want a better system for orphan drugs, then lobby your congressmen to expand NIH funding to include drug trials for orphan drugs. Public dollars would be well worth spending in that area. I agree with everything you said except that. Public money should be spent to promote the greater public good, not the interests of a few. I dont want my tax dollars being used to find drugs for a rare disease that.0000001% of the population has, when it could be used to find a cure for cancer. There is already a system in place for private companies to have incentives to research orphan drugs.
I dont think thats a very good quote for this instance. It seems like choice is alive and well to me. How many brands of dishwashing liquid are there? Looks like house-mom's (and dads) like choices in their cleaning supplies.
Choosing an OS to me is a lot like buying a car. Yes there are many makes and models, but i dont and shouldnt have to know about how the engine works, or be given a choice about the various internal components. I dont *want* that choice (and neither do you, and neither does my mom).
I want an engineering expert to figure out all the details for me about how the car should be built, and i'll just buy the one that looks pretty, in the color i want, and has the driving experience i want.
Why has this been so difficult for you software zealots to comprehend? Dont expect other people to be experts about comptuers. It better install, it better run, it better work, first time, period.
There really ought to be a universal code of ethics for business (written by software developers, because they're smarter:), and any executive found violating it ought to have jail time.
Maybe you did predict this, and congratulations to you. Apparently slasdotters arent very good at predicting in general, though. What I remember reading on/. a few years ago was everyone freaking out over outsourcing and how it would ruin us all. Anyone else remember that general sentiment?
In short, perhaps chimps are more evolved, but so what? Cockroaches are probably far more evolved than either of us. Oh i cant resist..i have to say it.
Well I for one welcome our superior highly-evolved cockroach overlords.
It makes sense to me. For example: I cant see worth a damn without some sort of correction device. In nature i should have been a bigger animals lunch or starved to death a long time ago. Therefore the "bad vision" gene should have been selected out of the gene pool a long time ago as well. Yet here it remains for a lot of us.
We have are a few more 'features' i can think of that probablly should have been selected out of the gene pool:
Teeth that dont last (without brushing) and are prone to rotting Fleshy feet that cant walk along most surfaces without shoes Immune systems that are unable to fight off many common infections without medical treatment
Damn you man-kind for inventing stuff. look what you've done to us!:)
Guns make people safer! That's why America, with the highest guns per capita of any first-world nation, is the safest nation on Earth, right alongside such sterling examples of crime-free zones like Costa Rica and Colombia. Classic confusion with causation and correlation. You have provided no arguement so far. Maybe people in safer nations feel less need to carry a gun and therefore dont? Maybe a nation must be safe first for people to put away their guns - not the other way around. Just tossing out ideas..
Perpetrators of violent crime shouldn't legally be allowed to carry guns. If they are found carrying guns, they get sent away, period. Using a gun in the commission of a crime should carry a life-sentence, period Yeah, because we all know how much tougher laws against criminals have the effect of deterring crime. Quite frankly, someone who intends to kill doesn't give a fucking damn about what laws are on the books, period.
We Americans haven't had to fight for anything or even really compete. Students don't have to learn, and people readily embrace each other when a Wikipedia link makes them think they're experts So what you're saying is that Americans can be stupid, apethatic, and lazy and still somehow enjoy the enourmous standard of living and overall advantage they have over the rest of the world? Where do i sign up?
And lets not forget what it means to be a feature, being something that is externally observable AND devliers a result of value to the customer. Therefore, crashing is not a feature.
I think you're just jealous becuase you didnt think of it first and patent the quick and easy suspended reference directory..uh..folder..uh filing date and initial thinggy. what does it do?
Unless "thou shalt not run linux" in the contract, how is that the consumer's problem how help(less) desk is trained and operated? "We operate this way, and you have to live with it because..uh..that's how we operate." Now who has the sense of entitlement?
It's disguesting when people shove their "life is pointless" views onto me and tell me what i ought to believe. I believe everything happens for a reason, even the bad things. if you cant live with that, too bad.
Right on.. this may be a little offtopic, but i've observed that companies almost always place greater emphasis on "how" you go about your work than "what" you accomplish. In other words, very mediocre people who are good at smiling seem to get ahead, (or are at least able to hide) regardless of their incompetence. It becomes a frenzy of politics and "he said she said" crap.
In the end though, companies must answer to wall-street, which doesnt give a damn how much you smile. I just wish more companies would realize this before* they are forced to downsize.
Sometimes the police have done some really messed up stupid shit..but that's the only stuff that makes the news. The stuff you never hear about is when the police do things right and by the book. I was part of a protest group who were protesting some fundamentalist christians (and their views on homosexuality) in a fairly conservative area. The police showed up, not to stop us (the protesters), but to protect us from the threat of physical violence from the public. It didnt make the news.
I used to tell my boss the same thing all the time. I told her "Jean, you're not going to be on your death bed wishing you put just a few more hours in the office. You wont even remember the office. What you will remember are the faces of your children." A few months later she was diagnosed with cancer. While thankfully it's early, she has a good chance to get through it alive. But this certainly has put a new spin on life that she has never had before. I'm kind of spiritual, so I see it as God's way of saying "Slow down, see your kids, find your purpose. Stop working all the time, that's not why i put you on this earth."
I have to wonder why this issue has been so politically charged, even moreso than evolution. I can understand emotions getting involved when science uncovers something that could potentially end the human race. But what purpose does denying this possibility serve? What objective is denial satisfying? Even if all the scientists are wrong on the issue, what have we lost? Cleaner air?
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If you just raised your sub-space deflector shields you should be able to approach warp 1 with no problem. it works on tv.
I dont think thats a very good quote for this instance. It seems like choice is alive and well to me. How many brands of dishwashing liquid are there? Looks like house-mom's (and dads) like choices in their cleaning supplies.
Choosing an OS to me is a lot like buying a car. Yes there are many makes and models, but i dont and shouldnt have to know about how the engine works, or be given a choice about the various internal components. I dont *want* that choice (and neither do you, and neither does my mom).
I want an engineering expert to figure out all the details for me about how the car should be built, and i'll just buy the one that looks pretty, in the color i want, and has the driving experience i want.
Why has this been so difficult for you software zealots to comprehend? Dont expect other people to be experts about comptuers. It better install, it better run, it better work, first time, period.
Or people wont use it.
There really ought to be a universal code of ethics for business (written by software developers, because they're smarter :), and any executive found violating it ought to have jail time.
Maybe you did predict this, and congratulations to you. Apparently slasdotters arent very good at predicting in general, though. What I remember reading on /. a few years ago was everyone freaking out over outsourcing and how it would ruin us all. Anyone else remember that general sentiment?
So when they outsource Zonk im sure you'll bitch about that too. :)
Hey! WOW is plenty interesting. :P
oh god. such an overreaction. it's just an example. get over it.
Well I for one welcome our superior highly-evolved cockroach overlords.
It makes sense to me. For example: I cant see worth a damn without some sort of correction device. In nature i should have been a bigger animals lunch or starved to death a long time ago. Therefore the "bad vision" gene should have been selected out of the gene pool a long time ago as well. Yet here it remains for a lot of us.
:)
We have are a few more 'features' i can think of that probablly should have been selected out of the gene pool:
Teeth that dont last (without brushing) and are prone to rotting
Fleshy feet that cant walk along most surfaces without shoes
Immune systems that are unable to fight off many common infections without medical treatment
Damn you man-kind for inventing stuff. look what you've done to us!
I dont get it someone clue me in..how come..
:D
Firefox = good
and
IE = bad?
why? oh wait! dont tell me. because
IE is made by microsoft and...
microsoft = bad!
Do i pass?
And lets not forget what it means to be a feature, being something that is externally observable AND devliers a result of value to the customer. Therefore, crashing is not a feature.
I think you're just jealous becuase you didnt think of it first and patent the quick and easy suspended reference directory..uh..folder..uh filing date and initial thinggy. what does it do?
Unless "thou shalt not run linux" in the contract, how is that the consumer's problem how help(less) desk is trained and operated? "We operate this way, and you have to live with it because..uh..that's how we operate." Now who has the sense of entitlement?
..becuase well all know how much better Sony is. They're such angels 0:)
It's disguesting when people shove their "life is pointless" views onto me and tell me what i ought to believe. I believe everything happens for a reason, even the bad things. if you cant live with that, too bad.
Right on.. this may be a little offtopic, but i've observed that companies almost always place greater emphasis on "how" you go about your work than "what" you accomplish. In other words, very mediocre people who are good at smiling seem to get ahead, (or are at least able to hide) regardless of their incompetence. It becomes a frenzy of politics and "he said she said" crap.
In the end though, companies must answer to wall-street, which doesnt give a damn how much you smile. I just wish more companies would realize this before* they are forced to downsize.
How relationship-minded of you. You must be a woman. Are you hot? :)
Sometimes the police have done some really messed up stupid shit..but that's the only stuff that makes the news. The stuff you never hear about is when the police do things right and by the book. I was part of a protest group who were protesting some fundamentalist christians (and their views on homosexuality) in a fairly conservative area. The police showed up, not to stop us (the protesters), but to protect us from the threat of physical violence from the public. It didnt make the news.
I used to tell my boss the same thing all the time. I told her "Jean, you're not going to be on your death bed wishing you put just a few more hours in the office. You wont even remember the office. What you will remember are the faces of your children." A few months later she was diagnosed with cancer. While thankfully it's early, she has a good chance to get through it alive. But this certainly has put a new spin on life that she has never had before. I'm kind of spiritual, so I see it as God's way of saying "Slow down, see your kids, find your purpose. Stop working all the time, that's not why i put you on this earth."
Step 1. Post negative comments about microsoft on slashdot
Step 2. Get rated super insightful!
Step 3. ??
Step 4. Profit!
I have to wonder why this issue has been so politically charged, even moreso than evolution. I can understand emotions getting involved when science uncovers something that could potentially end the human race. But what purpose does denying this possibility serve? What objective is denial satisfying? Even if all the scientists are wrong on the issue, what have we lost? Cleaner air?