That bit about crazy doctors was an antecdote (though perhaps not an untrue one), nothing more. And men don't have cervixes, which makes getting cervical cancer rather difficult, wouldn't you say?:)
And a few hundred years ago circumcision was not routine; when it first became as such it was in the late 19th/early 20th century to prevent "masturbatory insanity" -- sexual pleasure from masturbation was thought at the time to cause many physical and psychological problems, which is of course completely false, but that was the major reasoning to get circumcision ritualised in U.S. hospitals. The man to thank? The very same that makes your breakfast cereals, J.H. Kellogg.
Also, numerous studies show that circumcision causes infants to sleep poorly, be fussier, and have increased heart rates compared to those that do not undergo the procedure. This is, of course, not surprising, since it is an extremely traumatizing experience. http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/plastibell/ Oh, did I mention that even though these are "supposed" to be conducted with anaesthetic, many times they are not because anaethesia in infants is a very quick way to kill them? And since the infant does not have a developed spinal clamp, they feel more pain than adult in a similar position would? And since the foreskin is still attached to the glans and is not due to detach for several years that it is forcibly ripped away from it? Does that really sound like something you want to allow be done to an innocent child?
I'd wait until you have more than one independently verified study to back up that information. If it is true, great, we've found a highly destructive way to reduce cervical cancer caused by a treatable and largely non-fatal viral infection that often disappears on its own, but trying to support an argument like this with one isolated study is a bad way of making an argument. And like I said, I'm not against circumcision bar none, I'm just against forcing juveniles into it, and the amount of misinformation on the subject is astounding. (Conspiracy theorists have a field day on why this is -- in several antecdotes it's because many of the doctors that perform circumcisions get a high off of it, for whatever demented reason certain serial killers enjoy murdering lots of people slowly and methodically.) Anyway, if I can impress anything upon anyone here, it's that you should not force your kids into such a permenant and largely un-necessary procedure. (Besides, what if they turn out to be gay? Then it makes no difference to women anyway!)
Maybe, maybe not. If you were a woman that did not dress in what is considered and displayed in the media as 'hip' clothes, you would probably be discriminated against. It's different than being forced to be covered head-to-toe, but how much different? Instead of being covered from head to toe to promote the inferiority of women, we have showing off as much skin as is legal to promote the inferiority of women. Polar opposites to the same end.
The 'bacteria' to which you refer is actually 'smegma' which is a naturally occurring lubricant. You lose #1. The 'unecessary' [sic] layer of skin is not only very sensitive sexual tissue, it is also used as a sheathing device to prevent the raw rubbing of skin against the sides of the vagina, making for a very painful experience for the woman. (With the foreskin, the head of the penis is free to move in and out without any extra friction.) You lose #2. It doesn't stop you from feeling good, but it makes it a lot harder and you don't feel as much. Circumcision removes 20-80% of sexually sensitive tissue. You lose #3. NO medical organizations support routine circumcision for any reason. You lose #4.
Hey, it's your skin. Just don't force your children into it. Once they're 18, they can feel free to lop if off if they want, but forcing sexual mutilation on someone who is still young, impressionable, and in the case of infants COMPLETELY UNABLE TO DEFEND ITSELF is disgusting.
You may have been trying to get modded +Funny, but I think that the +Insightful is more accurate. In this country there has been a great sweep from the ultra-conservative parties to box the world into their ideals of what is acceptible and what is not -- homosexuals being married should be illegal, pornography should be illegal, thinking dirty thoughts about other people should be illegal once we create a device that can monitor people's thought waves (because after all, thoughts can be slanderous), mind-altering substances should be illegal (well, only the ones that they don't have to take for their neurosis). What is supposed to be, and would in any other case be, a glorious time in human history (free flow of information, great (dare I say, final?) advances in human rights) is instead a horrible screeching battle to the death between the nay-sayers and the people that are trying to advocate the change. And since the people trying to prevent it are in charge, we are going down their path. Once (if) that changes there will probably be a sharp turn in the road, and then back again, and so on and so on until people can finally shut the fuck up with their "The Bible Says So" crap and let people live their own harmless lives. It's pathetic.
I read over the driver revision updates from nVidia and a lot of tweaks have been done between the last 56.6x and 56.72 specific to issues with Far Cry.
For a CARD that goes into my computer so that I can watch digital CABLE. Now they've stolen the name with a completely different concept. What the fuck?
Q: Why didn't you use GPS? A: We tried track the players using GPS, but ran into two problems: (1) GPS does not work well in "urban canyons", where the signal is reflected off large buildings and (2) we could not find an easy (read: cheap) way to send the geo-coordinate data from the GPS receiver back to the network. (It's hard to connect serial data to cellphones and PCMCIA cellular cards are expensive). Anyone want to donate equipment?
From what I've noticed, Compaq is trying to reduce noise on their latest models, and Dell systems continue to be quite quiet, especially their large clamshell models.
I'd say, "I wonder how they expect to make much from the lawsuit in the short time period" because the damn patent will expire before most of the cases get through the judicial system. What happens then? Are the cases void because it's now non-patented? Or are they continued because the suit was initiated before the patent expired? Oh, the burning questions!
NO. Just... NO. Jeez... as has already been said with only 20 posts and will be said over and over again until this damn article gets archived, PNG, a LOSSLESS FORMAT, is NOT a reasonable substitute for LOSSY JPEG FORMAT.
Well, this isn't exactly an issue of a submarine patent. The implementation has been available for many many years, and they're only now trying to leverage their patent on it, as opposed to a submarine patent which is designed around technology that doesn't exist yet, and once someone actually invents it, is used to leverage patents from them. So, close, but not quite.
I did infer the saboutaging that was probably going on from the article but there were also the comments that were "we told the project managers what didn't work before and what would work and some possibilities to look into and they didn't listen". THAT is arrogance, and regardless of the silos, ignoring advice like this is dooming your project to failure.
I think another good question would be why these "experts" are so arrogant that they refuse to listen to the people that know and understand the system. That seems like the stupidest part of the whole thing to me. Sounds to me like these guys need a good lesson in humility. Maybe I'm just an exception but I know if I was put on a project that was way over my head like that I'd ask people that knew what was going on for help.
I'm not sure, but that might be because Michael Jackson IS an alien. His cosmetics don't seem to be doing much good to hide his true appearance these days, though...
(I've never used this antivirus program so take my words with a grain of salt)
From what I've heard/read, NOD Antivirus uses hieuristics instead of pattern definitions to detect viruses, so it will almost always catch a brand-new in-the-wild virus.
That's a good point. +5 Insightful. However, no, I've never seen those sparks, because the only time I've been in England is when I had a layover when I was really young going from here (the US) to Italy. Like most Americans I enjoy commenting on things I really have very little place commenting on.:)
Excuse me for being so grossly ignorant of the workings of such things, but why don't they either use broadband-over-power and then have wifi routers within the compartments or send the traffic through the rails, rather then try to aim satellites at things? Seems silly to create a new infrastructure when the existing one can be used.
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That bit about crazy doctors was an antecdote (though perhaps not an untrue one), nothing more. And men don't have cervixes, which makes getting cervical cancer rather difficult, wouldn't you say? :)
And a few hundred years ago circumcision was not routine; when it first became as such it was in the late 19th/early 20th century to prevent "masturbatory insanity" -- sexual pleasure from masturbation was thought at the time to cause many physical and psychological problems, which is of course completely false, but that was the major reasoning to get circumcision ritualised in U.S. hospitals. The man to thank? The very same that makes your breakfast cereals, J.H. Kellogg.
Also, numerous studies show that circumcision causes infants to sleep poorly, be fussier, and have increased heart rates compared to those that do not undergo the procedure. This is, of course, not surprising, since it is an extremely traumatizing experience. http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/plastibell/
Oh, did I mention that even though these are "supposed" to be conducted with anaesthetic, many times they are not because anaethesia in infants is a very quick way to kill them? And since the infant does not have a developed spinal clamp, they feel more pain than adult in a similar position would? And since the foreskin is still attached to the glans and is not due to detach for several years that it is forcibly ripped away from it? Does that really sound like something you want to allow be done to an innocent child?
So no, you're wrong, thanks for playing, though.
I'd wait until you have more than one independently verified study to back up that information. If it is true, great, we've found a highly destructive way to reduce cervical cancer caused by a treatable and largely non-fatal viral infection that often disappears on its own, but trying to support an argument like this with one isolated study is a bad way of making an argument.
And like I said, I'm not against circumcision bar none, I'm just against forcing juveniles into it, and the amount of misinformation on the subject is astounding. (Conspiracy theorists have a field day on why this is -- in several antecdotes it's because many of the doctors that perform circumcisions get a high off of it, for whatever demented reason certain serial killers enjoy murdering lots of people slowly and methodically.) Anyway, if I can impress anything upon anyone here, it's that you should not force your kids into such a permenant and largely un-necessary procedure. (Besides, what if they turn out to be gay? Then it makes no difference to women anyway!)
Maybe, maybe not. If you were a woman that did not dress in what is considered and displayed in the media as 'hip' clothes, you would probably be discriminated against. It's different than being forced to be covered head-to-toe, but how much different? Instead of being covered from head to toe to promote the inferiority of women, we have showing off as much skin as is legal to promote the inferiority of women. Polar opposites to the same end.
Poor, poor uninformed, brainwashed man.
The 'bacteria' to which you refer is actually 'smegma' which is a naturally occurring lubricant. You lose #1.
The 'unecessary' [sic] layer of skin is not only very sensitive sexual tissue, it is also used as a sheathing device to prevent the raw rubbing of skin against the sides of the vagina, making for a very painful experience for the woman. (With the foreskin, the head of the penis is free to move in and out without any extra friction.) You lose #2.
It doesn't stop you from feeling good, but it makes it a lot harder and you don't feel as much. Circumcision removes 20-80% of sexually sensitive tissue. You lose #3.
NO medical organizations support routine circumcision for any reason. You lose #4.
Hey, it's your skin. Just don't force your children into it. Once they're 18, they can feel free to lop if off if they want, but forcing sexual mutilation on someone who is still young, impressionable, and in the case of infants COMPLETELY UNABLE TO DEFEND ITSELF is disgusting.
Thanks for listening to reason.
Well, good to see you finally realised it. Now, about that $2000 I need to set up the secret Dutch bank account to transfer this USD$16.5M to...
Haha, wouldn't it be a kicker if someone made a subscription account public so everyone could read the articles from the distant future...
You may have been trying to get modded +Funny, but I think that the +Insightful is more accurate. In this country there has been a great sweep from the ultra-conservative parties to box the world into their ideals of what is acceptible and what is not -- homosexuals being married should be illegal, pornography should be illegal, thinking dirty thoughts about other people should be illegal once we create a device that can monitor people's thought waves (because after all, thoughts can be slanderous), mind-altering substances should be illegal (well, only the ones that they don't have to take for their neurosis). What is supposed to be, and would in any other case be, a glorious time in human history (free flow of information, great (dare I say, final?) advances in human rights) is instead a horrible screeching battle to the death between the nay-sayers and the people that are trying to advocate the change. And since the people trying to prevent it are in charge, we are going down their path. Once (if) that changes there will probably be a sharp turn in the road, and then back again, and so on and so on until people can finally shut the fuck up with their "The Bible Says So" crap and let people live their own harmless lives. It's pathetic.
http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/play.php?reposid=/ multimedia/tds/cord/cord_8121e.html
P.S., It's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Oooh, I dunno, this one is a bit more incriminating...
I read over the driver revision updates from nVidia and a lot of tweaks have been done between the last 56.6x and 56.72 specific to issues with Far Cry.
For a CARD that goes into my computer so that I can watch digital CABLE. Now they've stolen the name with a completely different concept. What the fuck?
Um, from the site:
Q: Why didn't you use GPS?
A: We tried track the players using GPS, but ran into two problems: (1) GPS does not work well in "urban canyons", where the signal is reflected off large buildings and (2) we could not find an easy (read: cheap) way to send the geo-coordinate data from the GPS receiver back to the network. (It's hard to connect serial data to cellphones and PCMCIA cellular cards are expensive). Anyone want to donate equipment?
From what I've noticed, Compaq is trying to reduce noise on their latest models, and Dell systems continue to be quite quiet, especially their large clamshell models.
How is that ironic?
Microsoft is a monopoly and they've just said so. It would probably be MORE ironic if they WEREN'T using Windows.
I'd say, "I wonder how they expect to make much from the lawsuit in the short time period" because the damn patent will expire before most of the cases get through the judicial system. What happens then? Are the cases void because it's now non-patented? Or are they continued because the suit was initiated before the patent expired? Oh, the burning questions!
NO. Just... NO. Jeez... as has already been said with only 20 posts and will be said over and over again until this damn article gets archived, PNG, a LOSSLESS FORMAT, is NOT a reasonable substitute for LOSSY JPEG FORMAT.
Well, this isn't exactly an issue of a submarine patent. The implementation has been available for many many years, and they're only now trying to leverage their patent on it, as opposed to a submarine patent which is designed around technology that doesn't exist yet, and once someone actually invents it, is used to leverage patents from them. So, close, but not quite.
I did infer the saboutaging that was probably going on from the article but there were also the comments that were "we told the project managers what didn't work before and what would work and some possibilities to look into and they didn't listen". THAT is arrogance, and regardless of the silos, ignoring advice like this is dooming your project to failure.
I think another good question would be why these "experts" are so arrogant that they refuse to listen to the people that know and understand the system. That seems like the stupidest part of the whole thing to me. Sounds to me like these guys need a good lesson in humility. Maybe I'm just an exception but I know if I was put on a project that was way over my head like that I'd ask people that knew what was going on for help.
I'm not sure, but that might be because Michael Jackson IS an alien. His cosmetics don't seem to be doing much good to hide his true appearance these days, though...
Oh, I know. The idea behind my post is that that would be the ONLY POSSIBLE REASON this should be a new story.
(I've never used this antivirus program so take my words with a grain of salt)
From what I've heard/read, NOD Antivirus uses hieuristics instead of pattern definitions to detect viruses, so it will almost always catch a brand-new in-the-wild virus.
Except now it's illegal thanks to DMCA. :)
That's a good point. +5 Insightful. However, no, I've never seen those sparks, because the only time I've been in England is when I had a layover when I was really young going from here (the US) to Italy. Like most Americans I enjoy commenting on things I really have very little place commenting on. :)
Excuse me for being so grossly ignorant of the workings of such things, but why don't they either use broadband-over-power and then have wifi routers within the compartments or send the traffic through the rails, rather then try to aim satellites at things? Seems silly to create a new infrastructure when the existing one can be used.