Bullshit. People like you are the reason we get "misunderstandings" all the time. Do you work in "law enforcement"? It's not illegal to carry a million dollars in cash. It is illegal to enter the country WITHOUT DECLARING IT. If you do not declare over $10,000, you will probably get it confiscated. However if you declare it, there is no law against carrying it.
I may be smug, but it's the smugness of intelligent people everywhere. My degree has nothing to do with it, in fact if anything my chosen field makes me more humble. It happens when you're tying to figure out what to say (if anything) to a mother who will be dead in two weeks from leukemia, while she holds her 3 year old in her arms in your office and asks about her blood test result.
This lets you focus on the core of the game. Strategy and tactics. It's not a flight simulator. Which guns will you fit on your ship, at what range will you engage, which ships do you not bother engaging and run away from, what skills you have, what skills you need to fight more efficiently.....
4000 players. And their missiles/shots/drones/fighters also need to be tracked. At any time you might have up to 20 objects flying around tied to a single player, so you're tracking 80,000 things in real time. You say you can do that on a 286. OK. Pics, or it didn't happen.
Just the affected server. The game is hosted on basically a supercomputer consisting of many blade servers and other hardware. Usually when a battle like this happens everything else on that server gets slowed down too (maybe 10 solar systems or so), and the devs try to move all non-essential stuff off the server, or even try to move the fight to their fastest hardware. It's safe to say, however, that most of the rest of the game was not affected at all by this battle, although its repercussions will be felt in the next few weeks as increased demand for "building blocks" on the EVE in-game market. Everything in the game is built by players from very basic materials that are harvested and then assembled through many intermediate components into final products. Demand will be going up to replace today's losses. Happy days.
4000 in the same battle, out of 36k online in the game. There was a large battle a few weeks ago too, at least until CCP mistakenly crashed the node while trying to reinforce it with more hardware. But this one was pretty epic.
Funny, I have been living with a girl for the past 5 years and just got engaged to be married. Pretty much everyone else I know in game has a girlfriend and a social life. A lot of us are professionals too, myself included (I'm a doctor). I think you've got the wrong demographic.
Because most people are generally honest, law abiding citizens. The heat has to be turned up quite a bit more before your average Joe becomes a homicidal maniac bent on revenge against a tyrannical establishment. Of course once that happens, it's irreversible.
I think you missed the sarcastic tone of OP's post. Still you are also correct. What I find hilarious is the persistent belief by the courts that their jurisdiction covers the entire globe. Thanks to the internet, anyone can publish anything globally within hours. The internet cannot be censored even though it seems that governments are trying really really hard nowadays. I expect to be able to buy t-shirts with the exploit printed on them very soon.
I don't know, Russia and China seem to be doing plenty of standing up to the US. Like abandoning the petro-dollar. Like doing as they please in the Pacific, especially against Japan. Like drawing a clear line on Syria and threatening consequences if the US intervenes like it did in Libya. That's a lot of standing up.
No they won't, because they will never get him. The smartest thing Snowden did was to hide in plain sight and publicly admit to what he did. Now the whole world is watching, versus a small line or two in a local paper about a body being found somewhere.
I still say what I feel - I live outside the US. I am half expecting being stopped at the airport on my next visit there though, to answer some questions about why I'm so against the current political climate in the US. Do you hate America? Are you a terrorist? Whatever happened to "I disagree with what you are saying but I defend to the death your right to say it"? Now it's "you can't say that, and if you do I am going to report you". Damn, in less than a single generation, too.
People don't care, don't want to get involved. It's exactly people's apathy towards government that creates the environment where government can get away with these things. People care about minimum wage, gasoline and food prices. Then they care about whether or not they have access to the circus (cable tv). And they want their shiny bling (smartphone). And they are happy. The worst thing is this next generation, the ones that are teenagers right now, are the most apathetic I have ever seen. Their eyes are glued to their phones and all they care about is texting to their "friends". In terms of their environment they are completely lost - it's just a background to them. I'm glad I'm old and won't be around much longer.
The fun part comes with old people who have calcified veins that resist the needle so much you actually end up pushing the vein around instead of poking it. I wonder how the robot would handle that, heheh.
Arterial blood gases are even more fun, very few people can get that right first go. I happen to be good at it and get it first time, every time. But I am the exception, and it took a lot of practice as an intern!:)
You'd have to pick a very special case - like a mentally impaired, combative patient for example. But then that's why staff with brains exist. You have to know who can get the machine, and who can't.
"If there is a bug". I doubt very much you'll see buggy equipment on hospital wards. Not in the medical profession. There's no shortage of money to buy machines that really work, versus massive company-breaking lawsuits for machines that are "buggy". And to be honest (I was just in the hospital last week), phlebotomy is a skill few people know how to exercise correctly. It took 4 pokes to get a single IV in my arm, and an average of 2 pokes for every blood test. When you're getting blood tests 2/3 times a day, you start to appreciate the guy/gal who knows where to do it. I'd take the machine, if it were proven to be better than a human.
I run the tests I have to run. I explain to the patient why. I explain to the patient the consequences of their obesity (blood pressure, DM, cardiovascular disease, infections, neoplasms, etc). It's up to them to actually do something about it. No amount of yelling, taunting, or "guilting" will increase compliance with treatment. My job is not to make someone feel bad about themselves, it's to help them feel better.
I'm a physician too. I tell my patients the consequences of continuing with their obesity, of not taking their medication, of eating improperly for their disease. That's our job. Whether they do it or not is up to them, I don't consider myself a "failure" if they choose to ignore me. I also know that a lot of colleagues go overboard. I remember a 78 year old man with antecedents of a parietal lobe stroke on his non dominant side, at least 2 previous myocardial infarctions, and prostate cancer. This gentleman was told to completely avoid red meat, alcohol, etc. I told him he could do whatever he wanted. He's 78 for god's sake, I don't expect him to make it another 10 years with his cancer anyway, even if his cardiovascular disease doesn't get him first. I told him "listen, it's true that alcohol and red meat is not good for your disease, but I don't think I should "punish" you for the few years you have left and make you miserable. If you were 30 I would insist a lot more. Enjoying life and not worrying about what you are eating might shorten your time here a bit, but the damage is already done in your case. Relax. Enjoy the life you have left. Spend time with your family.". Well he keeps coming back, anyway, so he didn't suddenly die with his first steak:) Some doctors forget about the patient part of treating patients.
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It's illegal to carry that much cash
Bullshit. People like you are the reason we get "misunderstandings" all the time. Do you work in "law enforcement"? It's not illegal to carry a million dollars in cash. It is illegal to enter the country WITHOUT DECLARING IT. If you do not declare over $10,000, you will probably get it confiscated. However if you declare it, there is no law against carrying it.
I may be smug, but it's the smugness of intelligent people everywhere. My degree has nothing to do with it, in fact if anything my chosen field makes me more humble. It happens when you're tying to figure out what to say (if anything) to a mother who will be dead in two weeks from leukemia, while she holds her 3 year old in her arms in your office and asks about her blood test result.
Oh, the MD vs PhD argument again. Be careful, some medical schools hand out dual doctorates MD-PhD. In my case I'm "just" a doctor of medicine.
This lets you focus on the core of the game. Strategy and tactics. It's not a flight simulator. Which guns will you fit on your ship, at what range will you engage, which ships do you not bother engaging and run away from, what skills you have, what skills you need to fight more efficiently.....
4000 players. And their missiles/shots/drones/fighters also need to be tracked. At any time you might have up to 20 objects flying around tied to a single player, so you're tracking 80,000 things in real time. You say you can do that on a 286. OK. Pics, or it didn't happen.
Just the affected server. The game is hosted on basically a supercomputer consisting of many blade servers and other hardware. Usually when a battle like this happens everything else on that server gets slowed down too (maybe 10 solar systems or so), and the devs try to move all non-essential stuff off the server, or even try to move the fight to their fastest hardware. It's safe to say, however, that most of the rest of the game was not affected at all by this battle, although its repercussions will be felt in the next few weeks as increased demand for "building blocks" on the EVE in-game market. Everything in the game is built by players from very basic materials that are harvested and then assembled through many intermediate components into final products. Demand will be going up to replace today's losses. Happy days.
Still TiDi is better than staring at a blank screen for 30 mins before your client crashes.
4000 in the same battle, out of 36k online in the game. There was a large battle a few weeks ago too, at least until CCP mistakenly crashed the node while trying to reinforce it with more hardware. But this one was pretty epic.
Funny, I have been living with a girl for the past 5 years and just got engaged to be married. Pretty much everyone else I know in game has a girlfriend and a social life. A lot of us are professionals too, myself included (I'm a doctor). I think you've got the wrong demographic.
At least 1?
Because most people are generally honest, law abiding citizens. The heat has to be turned up quite a bit more before your average Joe becomes a homicidal maniac bent on revenge against a tyrannical establishment. Of course once that happens, it's irreversible.
I think you missed the sarcastic tone of OP's post. Still you are also correct. What I find hilarious is the persistent belief by the courts that their jurisdiction covers the entire globe. Thanks to the internet, anyone can publish anything globally within hours. The internet cannot be censored even though it seems that governments are trying really really hard nowadays. I expect to be able to buy t-shirts with the exploit printed on them very soon.
I don't know, Russia and China seem to be doing plenty of standing up to the US. Like abandoning the petro-dollar. Like doing as they please in the Pacific, especially against Japan. Like drawing a clear line on Syria and threatening consequences if the US intervenes like it did in Libya. That's a lot of standing up.
No they won't, because they will never get him. The smartest thing Snowden did was to hide in plain sight and publicly admit to what he did. Now the whole world is watching, versus a small line or two in a local paper about a body being found somewhere.
I still say what I feel - I live outside the US. I am half expecting being stopped at the airport on my next visit there though, to answer some questions about why I'm so against the current political climate in the US. Do you hate America? Are you a terrorist? Whatever happened to "I disagree with what you are saying but I defend to the death your right to say it"? Now it's "you can't say that, and if you do I am going to report you". Damn, in less than a single generation, too.
People don't care, don't want to get involved. It's exactly people's apathy towards government that creates the environment where government can get away with these things. People care about minimum wage, gasoline and food prices. Then they care about whether or not they have access to the circus (cable tv). And they want their shiny bling (smartphone). And they are happy. The worst thing is this next generation, the ones that are teenagers right now, are the most apathetic I have ever seen. Their eyes are glued to their phones and all they care about is texting to their "friends". In terms of their environment they are completely lost - it's just a background to them. I'm glad I'm old and won't be around much longer.
Even if he had lied, it's not the first time, nor the most blatant lie.
The fun part comes with old people who have calcified veins that resist the needle so much you actually end up pushing the vein around instead of poking it. I wonder how the robot would handle that, heheh.
That's why hospitals have generators. No blackouts in hospitals, unless the power is out so long the hospital runs out of fuel.
Arterial blood gases are even more fun, very few people can get that right first go. I happen to be good at it and get it first time, every time. But I am the exception, and it took a lot of practice as an intern! :)
It's even more fun when you're anticoagulated and every poke ends up being a hematoma...
You'd have to pick a very special case - like a mentally impaired, combative patient for example. But then that's why staff with brains exist. You have to know who can get the machine, and who can't.
"If there is a bug". I doubt very much you'll see buggy equipment on hospital wards. Not in the medical profession. There's no shortage of money to buy machines that really work, versus massive company-breaking lawsuits for machines that are "buggy". And to be honest (I was just in the hospital last week), phlebotomy is a skill few people know how to exercise correctly. It took 4 pokes to get a single IV in my arm, and an average of 2 pokes for every blood test. When you're getting blood tests 2/3 times a day, you start to appreciate the guy/gal who knows where to do it. I'd take the machine, if it were proven to be better than a human.
I run the tests I have to run. I explain to the patient why. I explain to the patient the consequences of their obesity (blood pressure, DM, cardiovascular disease, infections, neoplasms, etc). It's up to them to actually do something about it. No amount of yelling, taunting, or "guilting" will increase compliance with treatment. My job is not to make someone feel bad about themselves, it's to help them feel better.
I'm a physician too. I tell my patients the consequences of continuing with their obesity, of not taking their medication, of eating improperly for their disease. That's our job. Whether they do it or not is up to them, I don't consider myself a "failure" if they choose to ignore me. I also know that a lot of colleagues go overboard. I remember a 78 year old man with antecedents of a parietal lobe stroke on his non dominant side, at least 2 previous myocardial infarctions, and prostate cancer. This gentleman was told to completely avoid red meat, alcohol, etc. I told him he could do whatever he wanted. He's 78 for god's sake, I don't expect him to make it another 10 years with his cancer anyway, even if his cardiovascular disease doesn't get him first. I told him "listen, it's true that alcohol and red meat is not good for your disease, but I don't think I should "punish" you for the few years you have left and make you miserable. If you were 30 I would insist a lot more. Enjoying life and not worrying about what you are eating might shorten your time here a bit, but the damage is already done in your case. Relax. Enjoy the life you have left. Spend time with your family.". Well he keeps coming back, anyway, so he didn't suddenly die with his first steak :) Some doctors forget about the patient part of treating patients.