I had a laptop with a Celeron 600 and 128 megs of ram. I never used it for much beyond web browsing and light word/excel in a hotel room, but it worked fine.
Yeah no kidding. Even if you fuck someoone bareback who definitely has AIDS, the odds of transmission are still only like 1 in 10,000.
Have they really tested this drug on THAT many accidentally exposed healthcare workers? Isn't it possible that perhaps the people exposed just didn't get the disease?
No, its only bad for humans who live in sterile environments. E.coli infections are practically non-existant in the turd world. Why is that? Because the people who live there are filthy and shit is everywhere.
There is absolutely no evidence that fat has any impact on any disease what so ever. Most pork today is actually from pigs selectively bred to be very much lean, so much so its impossible to cook.
Parasites are also extremely rare, and really no more or less dangerous than any other disease. Non-human cells outnumber human cells in your own body by a factor of 10 to 1. It is pure fantasy to assume that anyone can live free from infectious disease. The number of tapeworm infections from pork in the US were in the single digits in 2005. Trichonosis is practically unheard of today.
Who gives a fuck about religious nut jobs and their bizarre fetishes. Jews love to bite of the foreskin of baby's cocks. Muslims love to ritualy slaughter animals and have a mass blood orgy in the process.
I don't think the opinions of those twisted religions matter to the average, sane individual.
Do you really think this is true? High definition is going to really show the skin imperfections of these porn stars. The scars from drug injections. The cellulite from alternating between meth addiction and cookie addiction. The c section scars.
I dunno about you, but this is why I like to dim the lights a bit before I go at it... I'd rather have my perfect fantasy, than the less than perfect specimen I'm performing on.
Men are idealists... there is a reason we don't paint pictures of less than attractive women or create sculptures with imperfections.
I think porn will become less and less realistic, with even more computer enhancement. In time, I'm sure there will be no porn actresses at all anymore... the whole thing will be virtualized.
For men, sex has always been about the dream, not the realtiy.
No, people reject open office because it is a useless, steaming piece of shit. If you are a student writing 20 page "research" papers then it's quite sufficient.
If you are producing large professional documents with tons of linked fields and complex spreadsheet analyses, Open Office is absolutely useless.
MS Office WORKS and it works well. I personally produce over $500,000 worth of professional documents every year. They could charge $2000 for office and I would still buy it, it is peanuts compared to the value of what I produce annually.
How does population control cheapen life? We selectively breed all sorts of animals, much to their own benefit. We have many animals that are far stronger and healthy than the average human on this planet.
It is technology and unrestricted population growth that cheapens life. Where once only the most fit survived, now the most depraved and monsterous get by due to the genius of higher forms of humans. Billions are alive only due to the generosity of a few.
How are billions of people living in barracks style housing projects not cheapened? When we look at the beauty and vigor of more healthy civilizations of the past, are these people not total contradistinctions of say, Classical Athens? Will we have timeless statues of these creatures? And what of the lowest forms? Are we to imprison 1/4 of our population, when we could have prevented them from ever being born?
Eugenics is the safest, most sane, AND humane way to deal with the desires of human nature, the power of our technology, and the constraints of our world.
Only the best should survive, and the only way to do that is to arbitrarily set standards of physical fitness; both psychological and aesthetic. Only the intelligent and beautiful should be allowed to reproduce. Criminals, the mentally deficient, the insane, and the ugly should all be sterilized.
This is the most interesting post in this entire thread. Very creative interpretation of these events.
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White rich kids from Ivy League universities are still trying to teach the poor Africans not to shit in the same pools from which they draw their drinking water...
I guess there is some part of human nature that wants to scream that humans are bad just for existing. It used to be a ignorant religious puritanical thing but more and more I hear it from the environmental granola crunchie types. Human beings and technology are bad. Anything we do is bad. Raising the standard of living of human beings is a bad goal.
What you fail to understand is that it is not human nature, but enslaving ethics that dominate religious and philosophical debates. The relentless egalitarianism of the worlds major religions, as well as all the major political philosophies that are practiced today, are another problem.
The simple fact of the matter is there are too many people on this planet. Many will have to die before balance can be restored. Whether it is through an organized system of selective breeding such as a eugenics program, or the au naturale method of selection (ie killing your competitors in battle, etc), people will soon be fighting for what is left of this rock.
How many people out there are willing to kill to survive, let alone take the step to kill to preserve human civilization? How many are willing to tell people "No, you are inferior for reason X, you cannot have children and must be sterilized"?
We sit here toiling endlessly to solve the problem of overpopulation. How much human life could be spent creating beautiful art rather than researching in labs, or building prisons/housing projects if we simply had fewer people?
Ahh, the real heart of the matter. In this sea of 640 posts, only one really discusses the true issue that faces us all.
We can have managed population growth, or battle over scarce natural resources. Whatever happens, the unlimited right of reproduction must be rescinded, else many will die in the course of battle.
More interesting is how Germany existed during the National Socialist period. Subways and buses were converted to burn wood, in addition to the examples you give (The autobahn was concrete from the very beginning). Whole battle tactics evolved to minimize oil consumption. Everyone knows about the Blitzkrieg, but few realize how efficient it is in terms of oil consumption. As well, supply lines primarily were maintained via horse and carriage where coal fired steam engines were not available.
In the eastern campaigns, over 1,000,000 horses were used to maintain supply lines.
Surviving with minimal access to oil is one thing, fighting against the whole world and nearly winning is quite another achievement.
You obviously haven't studied statistics. We predict presidential elections by surveying 400 people in a country of 280 million. This is far less complex, and there are far fewer variables.
I worked as a tech at CompUSA in high school, and we charged double the price per hour to fix Gateways because they were such pieces of shit. This was in the 486 days, right about the time you are talking about.
And the 16 megs of ram bit is total BS too. Gateway, like everybody else, didn't ship machines with 16 megs of ram until Windows 95 came out.
Umm, my office is 250 square feet and our rent is approximately $45.00 per square foot for a prime Midtown Manhattan location. That works out to $11,000 a year in rent just for my office. There are also utility reimbursements, garbage collection fees, insurance for the property, etc.
I don't know what sort of office rent statistics you are looking at, but even downtown SF is going to be $35.00 PSF for Class A office space (unless you have a huge company and get some sort of bulk discount).
For example, I recall reading (a year or two ago) that if you remove preventable deaths (ie: from smoking) then on average men live 6 months longer than women.
That is an absolute lie. As with all things in life, women have it far easier than men and live many years more than men on average. Preventable diseases are trivial when you consider how women will never work as garbage collectors, taxi cab drivers, or the host of other dangerous jobs in which men die in large numbers every day. A casual stroll through any hospital will quickly show you that women consume the vast majority of hospital resources.
The statistic you mention, if it were even possible to calculate (which it is not), is just a modern manifestation of Victorianism idealism masquerading as social science. Women are are the purer, fairer sex and if those damn brutish men would just take care of themselves, we'd finally prove to the world that women are oppressed!
Oh, and lastly, there is absolutely no way any study of the type you mention could ever determine anything to a 6 month window of accuracy. The margin of error would undoubtedly be significantly greater than that. Thus, such a study really just concluded that gender is irrelevant in the determination of lifespan.
There are many primates that subsist almost exclusively on fruit that has substantial amounts of sugar. They live for 20 years and their teeth are fine.
The problem of tooth decay is complex, but this oft repeated lie doesn't get to the bottom of it.
He supports the reintroduction of the gold standard for christ sake.
And the financial system based on usury we have today is better?
Most Americans, if they had any clue how the federal reserve works, would be absolutely horrified. That the value of their money is not decided by Congress, even though the constitution explicitly grants them that right, is even more outrageous.
This is an excellent post, the best in this entire discussion. Everyone hates microsoft today of course, but their predatory behavior was far, far worse in the early 1990's.
And this is why Spain is such a worthless country today. Your country had the chance to fullfill its historic role in the fight against Islam. Instead, they chose the cowardly route.
Your country is nothing more than a vacation land for London usurers who get fat off the international financial system. You offer nothing to the world. You have no culture. Your cities are dangerous, and your men rape women like its a sport. You enjoy the lack of security simply because you can do whatever the hell you feel like doing. Once, a woman could walk the streets of every major city in Spain without fear. Now, I can barely meet a woman who has travelled it alone unscathed.
Once, Spain was the last civilized nation in Europe thanks to Franco. Now, it is nothing more than a nihilistic wasteland whose days are numbered as soon as the usurous world economy collapses.
Fortunately, Spain will cease to exist as anything more than a designation for real esate. Your birthrates are dropping faster than any other country in western europe. Arabs and Africans flood your country by the thousands every day.
Enjoy the knowledge that your children will hate you for destroying their heritage and leaving them with nothing but a ruined country and broken people.
You don't need identical drives. Obviously, the smallest size applies to all of them. Yeah, it would sort of suck if you're 320gb drive was only be used as a 250 gb drive... But such is life.
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I had a laptop with a Celeron 600 and 128 megs of ram. I never used it for much beyond web browsing and light word/excel in a hotel room, but it worked fine.
Yeah no kidding. Even if you fuck someoone bareback who definitely has AIDS, the odds of transmission are still only like 1 in 10,000.
Have they really tested this drug on THAT many accidentally exposed healthcare workers? Isn't it possible that perhaps the people exposed just didn't get the disease?
No, its only bad for humans who live in sterile environments. E.coli infections are practically non-existant in the turd world. Why is that? Because the people who live there are filthy and shit is everywhere.
There is absolutely no evidence that fat has any impact on any disease what so ever. Most pork today is actually from pigs selectively bred to be very much lean, so much so its impossible to cook.
Parasites are also extremely rare, and really no more or less dangerous than any other disease. Non-human cells outnumber human cells in your own body by a factor of 10 to 1. It is pure fantasy to assume that anyone can live free from infectious disease. The number of tapeworm infections from pork in the US were in the single digits in 2005. Trichonosis is practically unheard of today.
Who gives a fuck about religious nut jobs and their bizarre fetishes. Jews love to bite of the foreskin of baby's cocks. Muslims love to ritualy slaughter animals and have a mass blood orgy in the process.
I don't think the opinions of those twisted religions matter to the average, sane individual.
Do you really think this is true? High definition is going to really show the skin imperfections of these porn stars. The scars from drug injections. The cellulite from alternating between meth addiction and cookie addiction. The c section scars.
I dunno about you, but this is why I like to dim the lights a bit before I go at it... I'd rather have my perfect fantasy, than the less than perfect specimen I'm performing on.
Men are idealists... there is a reason we don't paint pictures of less than attractive women or create sculptures with imperfections.
I think porn will become less and less realistic, with even more computer enhancement. In time, I'm sure there will be no porn actresses at all anymore... the whole thing will be virtualized.
For men, sex has always been about the dream, not the realtiy.
No, people reject open office because it is a useless, steaming piece of shit. If you are a student writing 20 page "research" papers then it's quite sufficient.
If you are producing large professional documents with tons of linked fields and complex spreadsheet analyses, Open Office is absolutely useless.
MS Office WORKS and it works well. I personally produce over $500,000 worth of professional documents every year. They could charge $2000 for office and I would still buy it, it is peanuts compared to the value of what I produce annually.
You clearly do not live in the real world.
Your argument would make sense if there were restrictions based upon national jurisdictions.
However, as the name implies, regional locks are regional, not national.
How does population control cheapen life? We selectively breed all sorts of animals, much to their own benefit. We have many animals that are far stronger and healthy than the average human on this planet.
It is technology and unrestricted population growth that cheapens life. Where once only the most fit survived, now the most depraved and monsterous get by due to the genius of higher forms of humans. Billions are alive only due to the generosity of a few.
How are billions of people living in barracks style housing projects not cheapened? When we look at the beauty and vigor of more healthy civilizations of the past, are these people not total contradistinctions of say, Classical Athens? Will we have timeless statues of these creatures? And what of the lowest forms? Are we to imprison 1/4 of our population, when we could have prevented them from ever being born?
Eugenics is the safest, most sane, AND humane way to deal with the desires of human nature, the power of our technology, and the constraints of our world.
Only the best should survive, and the only way to do that is to arbitrarily set standards of physical fitness; both psychological and aesthetic. Only the intelligent and beautiful should be allowed to reproduce. Criminals, the mentally deficient, the insane, and the ugly should all be sterilized.
This is the most interesting post in this entire thread. Very creative interpretation of these events.
White rich kids from Ivy League universities are still trying to teach the poor Africans not to shit in the same pools from which they draw their drinking water...
Bring forth civilization!!!
Well, retail stores in general are overpriced compared to the mail order places.
Radio Shack is the convenience store of the technology world.
I guess there is some part of human nature that wants to scream that humans are bad just for existing. It used to be a ignorant religious puritanical thing but more and more I hear it from the environmental granola crunchie types. Human beings and technology are bad. Anything we do is bad. Raising the standard of living of human beings is a bad goal.
What you fail to understand is that it is not human nature, but enslaving ethics that dominate religious and philosophical debates. The relentless egalitarianism of the worlds major religions, as well as all the major political philosophies that are practiced today, are another problem.
The simple fact of the matter is there are too many people on this planet. Many will have to die before balance can be restored. Whether it is through an organized system of selective breeding such as a eugenics program, or the au naturale method of selection (ie killing your competitors in battle, etc), people will soon be fighting for what is left of this rock.
How many people out there are willing to kill to survive, let alone take the step to kill to preserve human civilization? How many are willing to tell people "No, you are inferior for reason X, you cannot have children and must be sterilized"?
We sit here toiling endlessly to solve the problem of overpopulation. How much human life could be spent creating beautiful art rather than researching in labs, or building prisons/housing projects if we simply had fewer people?
Ahh, the real heart of the matter. In this sea of 640 posts, only one really discusses the true issue that faces us all.
We can have managed population growth, or battle over scarce natural resources. Whatever happens, the unlimited right of reproduction must be rescinded, else many will die in the course of battle.
More interesting is how Germany existed during the National Socialist period. Subways and buses were converted to burn wood, in addition to the examples you give (The autobahn was concrete from the very beginning). Whole battle tactics evolved to minimize oil consumption. Everyone knows about the Blitzkrieg, but few realize how efficient it is in terms of oil consumption. As well, supply lines primarily were maintained via horse and carriage where coal fired steam engines were not available.
In the eastern campaigns, over 1,000,000 horses were used to maintain supply lines.
Surviving with minimal access to oil is one thing, fighting against the whole world and nearly winning is quite another achievement.
I have to say the greatest tragedy of your post is the de facto assumption that presidential elections are binomial problems...
You obviously haven't studied statistics. We predict presidential elections by surveying 400 people in a country of 280 million. This is far less complex, and there are far fewer variables.
Bullshit.
I worked as a tech at CompUSA in high school, and we charged double the price per hour to fix Gateways because they were such pieces of shit. This was in the 486 days, right about the time you are talking about.
And the 16 megs of ram bit is total BS too. Gateway, like everybody else, didn't ship machines with 16 megs of ram until Windows 95 came out.
Umm, my office is 250 square feet and our rent is approximately $45.00 per square foot for a prime Midtown Manhattan location. That works out to $11,000 a year in rent just for my office. There are also utility reimbursements, garbage collection fees, insurance for the property, etc.
I don't know what sort of office rent statistics you are looking at, but even downtown SF is going to be $35.00 PSF for Class A office space (unless you have a huge company and get some sort of bulk discount).
For example, I recall reading (a year or two ago) that if you remove preventable deaths (ie: from smoking) then on average men live 6 months longer than women.
That is an absolute lie. As with all things in life, women have it far easier than men and live many years more than men on average. Preventable diseases are trivial when you consider how women will never work as garbage collectors, taxi cab drivers, or the host of other dangerous jobs in which men die in large numbers every day. A casual stroll through any hospital will quickly show you that women consume the vast majority of hospital resources.
The statistic you mention, if it were even possible to calculate (which it is not), is just a modern manifestation of Victorianism idealism masquerading as social science. Women are are the purer, fairer sex and if those damn brutish men would just take care of themselves, we'd finally prove to the world that women are oppressed!
Oh, and lastly, there is absolutely no way any study of the type you mention could ever determine anything to a 6 month window of accuracy. The margin of error would undoubtedly be significantly greater than that. Thus, such a study really just concluded that gender is irrelevant in the determination of lifespan.
There are many primates that subsist almost exclusively on fruit that has substantial amounts of sugar. They live for 20 years and their teeth are fine.
The problem of tooth decay is complex, but this oft repeated lie doesn't get to the bottom of it.
He supports the reintroduction of the gold standard for christ sake.
And the financial system based on usury we have today is better?
Most Americans, if they had any clue how the federal reserve works, would be absolutely horrified. That the value of their money is not decided by Congress, even though the constitution explicitly grants them that right, is even more outrageous.
This is an excellent post, the best in this entire discussion. Everyone hates microsoft today of course, but their predatory behavior was far, far worse in the early 1990's.
And this is why Spain is such a worthless country today. Your country had the chance to fullfill its historic role in the fight against Islam. Instead, they chose the cowardly route.
Your country is nothing more than a vacation land for London usurers who get fat off the international financial system. You offer nothing to the world. You have no culture. Your cities are dangerous, and your men rape women like its a sport. You enjoy the lack of security simply because you can do whatever the hell you feel like doing. Once, a woman could walk the streets of every major city in Spain without fear. Now, I can barely meet a woman who has travelled it alone unscathed.
Once, Spain was the last civilized nation in Europe thanks to Franco. Now, it is nothing more than a nihilistic wasteland whose days are numbered as soon as the usurous world economy collapses.
Fortunately, Spain will cease to exist as anything more than a designation for real esate. Your birthrates are dropping faster than any other country in western europe. Arabs and Africans flood your country by the thousands every day.
Enjoy the knowledge that your children will hate you for destroying their heritage and leaving them with nothing but a ruined country and broken people.
They'd have to setup mini-cell towers at intervals along almost the entire length of the system.
No, only about 60% of the "subway" system actually consists of subterranean trains. The rest is elevated and above ground.
You don't need identical drives. Obviously, the smallest size applies to all of them. Yeah, it would sort of suck if you're 320gb drive was only be used as a 250 gb drive... But such is life.