The anti-vaccine people are the most selfishly stupid people on this planet. Citing a discredited report linking vaccines to autism, taking medical advice from a media whore that appeared on Oprah over that of scientists and doctors, quoting conspiracy theory websites, and claiming "special knowledge" that is being "kept hidden", they put the very young who have not been immunized at risk of completely preventable diseases.
They also put those who are on anti-rejection drugs after a transplant at risk. And those who are chemotherapy. And those who are on retroviral drugs.
All they think about is their own paranoid delusions of a grand conspiracy "out to get them."
You have to use the right tool for the job, even if that means learning something new to you. Competent programmers don't make their decisions based on what tools they already know; they make them based on what is the best fit for the requirements of the system or component.
Yes, component. It's not at all uncommon for a well-designed system to be implemented using multiple technologies and languages, each best suited to their piece of the puzzle.
As someone with a low uid, I don't RUN apps nor have a smartphone. I don't need one, I don't want one, and I *refuse* to pay for one just to have the latest tech gadget. I'd rather buy a new PC that I'll actually *use*.
It obviously means that they're still allowed to block illegal sites, which won't be getting a "free pass" from the "any service" aspects of the legislation.
The fact that it's marketing droids making the difference explains why 99% of modern "music" all sounds the same to me. There is no room for creativity and art in the corporate board rooms where the decisions to make or break a musician are made; no, what matters there is the statistics of market share.
That's not to say there weren't a lot of "sound alike" bands in my younger days, but there sure did seem to be more variety of style for those who broke out of the mold of their times.
I disagree with this. It smacks far too much of genetic engineering of humans, which I consider to be fundamentally wrong. It's barely a step above deciding to abort a fetus based solely on their genetic test results. While I realize abortion is a personal choice, that does disturb me on a fundamental level.
Some people just shouldn't have kids together. There have always been issues of blood type compatability and such to suggest people shouldn't have babies. A genetic disorder in one or both parents is just another case of the same situation.
There is no shortage of kids awaiting adoption. Until all of them are adopted, I don't think any of the in vitro techniques that we have in use today should have been allowed. Being a parent isn't about biology; it's about loving your children and taking care of them, regardless of who their genetic contributors were.
And Webster's is flat out wrong if you think there has to be life on it for it to be a "world". It is an area of exploration and experience with or without life.
LOL, that's like saying you're entitled to mug someone unless they have a gun or a bodyguard. Their site is ad-based because that's the only way they can make money -- don't tell them how to run their business.
Then they don't have a "business" -- they're just click-bait leeches.
The sites I visit are mostly presenting the documentation for products, and serving up that information is an expense of doing business, not a revenue generator.
The 2000's crash happened because companies let go their Y2K programmers in *droves*. It wasn't an economic problem; it was a problem of some of the biggest projects companies had tackled all coming to an end at the same time.
It's funny to me how many of you have been brainwashed into believing ads are a "necessary" evil. They're not. Some of the sites I visit on a regular basis have NO advertising at all, because their owners BELIEVE in what they're putting out as content instead of seeing it just as a way to MAKE MONEY.
To a festering hell with spammers and advertisers. If I want a product, I'll *find* it when I can afford it. Until then, piss off.
The whole scheme just smacks of extortion. The vendors have already paid the ad companies. I use such software in the good faith that it's going to block the ads.
If it stops blocking the ads, I'll switch to a different ad-blocker. I'm not interested in seeing ANY ads, regardless of whether the product vendor has been paid off for them or not. *I* wasn't paid for *my* time!
Cases like this just emphasize how important data auditing is. In an ideal situation, the audit/history records allow you to do undo changes like a desktop application, but even if that isn't implemented, they provide the traceability to identify the perpetrators in situations like this.
Such audit/history logging has been a critical feature of many applications I worked on over the years, though by no means all of them. After all, audit tables do get rather large and have to be pruned from time to time.
Can you imagine your bank trying to claim they had no record of who changed your account name to "Asshole"?
The whole concept of "duplicate you" just smacks of new age bullshit "spirituality" which suckers in the weak-minded and ill-educated with baffle gab and fancy words. Of course that's not all that far removed from religion, except that the new agers like to make their bullshit sound scientific when it is based 100% on faith in completely unprovable conclusions drawn from unproven theories in the first place.
I wish people as a whole were more rational, but they're not. They'll believe whatever they choose to believe. But at least I can respect the religious groups for admitting their beliefs are based entirely on faith, whereas they new agers try to claim there is "logic" behind their fantasies and bullshit.
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That's one person's project for a year to write that volume of code.
What else can you expect from a nation that decided they can legislate pizza into being a vegetable?
The anti-vaccine people are the most selfishly stupid people on this planet. Citing a discredited report linking vaccines to autism, taking medical advice from a media whore that appeared on Oprah over that of scientists and doctors, quoting conspiracy theory websites, and claiming "special knowledge" that is being "kept hidden", they put the very young who have not been immunized at risk of completely preventable diseases.
They also put those who are on anti-rejection drugs after a transplant at risk. And those who are chemotherapy. And those who are on retroviral drugs.
All they think about is their own paranoid delusions of a grand conspiracy "out to get them."
John Cleese describes them better than I can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvVPdyYeaQU
I have no sympathy for anyone who allows, encourages, or actually sells hard drugs. None. Never mind my contempt for arms dealers.
You have to use the right tool for the job, even if that means learning something new to you. Competent programmers don't make their decisions based on what tools they already know; they make them based on what is the best fit for the requirements of the system or component.
Yes, component. It's not at all uncommon for a well-designed system to be implemented using multiple technologies and languages, each best suited to their piece of the puzzle.
As someone with a low uid, I don't RUN apps nor have a smartphone. I don't need one, I don't want one, and I *refuse* to pay for one just to have the latest tech gadget. I'd rather buy a new PC that I'll actually *use*.
It's not a surprise with our cuntservative "leadership" kissing American and Israeli asses all the time. :(
I don't know of a single major website I've visted that doesn't have an iPhone app. So STFU and download your crack.
It obviously means that they're still allowed to block illegal sites, which won't be getting a "free pass" from the "any service" aspects of the legislation.
Which is nothing like Sun switch from AWT to JFC, or Oracle switching from JFC to whatever they're calling the GUI framework-de-jour.
The fact that it's marketing droids making the difference explains why 99% of modern "music" all sounds the same to me. There is no room for creativity and art in the corporate board rooms where the decisions to make or break a musician are made; no, what matters there is the statistics of market share.
That's not to say there weren't a lot of "sound alike" bands in my younger days, but there sure did seem to be more variety of style for those who broke out of the mold of their times.
I disagree with this. It smacks far too much of genetic engineering of humans, which I consider to be fundamentally wrong. It's barely a step above deciding to abort a fetus based solely on their genetic test results. While I realize abortion is a personal choice, that does disturb me on a fundamental level.
Some people just shouldn't have kids together. There have always been issues of blood type compatability and such to suggest people shouldn't have babies. A genetic disorder in one or both parents is just another case of the same situation.
There is no shortage of kids awaiting adoption. Until all of them are adopted, I don't think any of the in vitro techniques that we have in use today should have been allowed. Being a parent isn't about biology; it's about loving your children and taking care of them, regardless of who their genetic contributors were.
And Webster's is flat out wrong if you think there has to be life on it for it to be a "world". It is an area of exploration and experience with or without life.
"or other celestial body"
What, precisely, do you think a moon is?
Then they don't have a "business" -- they're just click-bait leeches.
The sites I visit are mostly presenting the documentation for products, and serving up that information is an expense of doing business, not a revenue generator.
The 2000's crash happened because companies let go their Y2K programmers in *droves*. It wasn't an economic problem; it was a problem of some of the biggest projects companies had tackled all coming to an end at the same time.
Did I call it a planet? No.
They think they not only own the world now, but all other worlds. Truly the Ferengi of human society...
It's funny to me how many of you have been brainwashed into believing ads are a "necessary" evil. They're not. Some of the sites I visit on a regular basis have NO advertising at all, because their owners BELIEVE in what they're putting out as content instead of seeing it just as a way to MAKE MONEY.
To a festering hell with spammers and advertisers. If I want a product, I'll *find* it when I can afford it. Until then, piss off.
The whole scheme just smacks of extortion. The vendors have already paid the ad companies. I use such software in the good faith that it's going to block the ads.
If it stops blocking the ads, I'll switch to a different ad-blocker. I'm not interested in seeing ANY ads, regardless of whether the product vendor has been paid off for them or not. *I* wasn't paid for *my* time!
Eat a good meal. Enjoy it. Stop stressing over the details. Stress is worse for you than a few extra pounds.
No matter what you do, you're going to end up dead at the end of the game. It's just a matter of when.
Personally I'd rather enjoy my life and my food now than live a few extra years gumming gruel in the nursing home.
Cases like this just emphasize how important data auditing is. In an ideal situation, the audit/history records allow you to do undo changes like a desktop application, but even if that isn't implemented, they provide the traceability to identify the perpetrators in situations like this.
Such audit/history logging has been a critical feature of many applications I worked on over the years, though by no means all of them. After all, audit tables do get rather large and have to be pruned from time to time.
Can you imagine your bank trying to claim they had no record of who changed your account name to "Asshole"?
An "assumption" is another way of saying "take it on faith". :P
The whole concept of "duplicate you" just smacks of new age bullshit "spirituality" which suckers in the weak-minded and ill-educated with baffle gab and fancy words. Of course that's not all that far removed from religion, except that the new agers like to make their bullshit sound scientific when it is based 100% on faith in completely unprovable conclusions drawn from unproven theories in the first place.
I wish people as a whole were more rational, but they're not. They'll believe whatever they choose to believe. But at least I can respect the religious groups for admitting their beliefs are based entirely on faith, whereas they new agers try to claim there is "logic" behind their fantasies and bullshit.
The focus on ethanol was never about the bio-fuel aspects, but about corn subsidies and pork-barrelling.