Thanks, but it was a while ago. The family has dealt (for the most part, I guess).
As soon as a cure or effective treatment for one disease is created, somehow a bigger badder uglier disease pops up somewhere.
I remember a standup routine, although I can't remember the comic (Eddie Murphy?), that went something along the lines of (although probably pretty far from this recreation),
"So, you had chlamydia and syphilis, which you can clear up with a shot now. Then there's herpes which will keep you sick forever but at least it won't kill you. Now there's this AIDS thing... yeah, death-from-sex. Soon enough there's gonna be some disease where you stick your dick in there and BOOM it's just gonna fucking EXPLODE."
My uncle died of AIDS (or complications thereof) just a few years before the cocktail treatments started showing efficacy in extending HIV+ person's lifespans.
I was a little young, so I didn't realize it until much later, but this was a pretty "in your face" demonstration of how timing, in the sense of where you are in the course of human technological development can have a serious impact on your expected longevity.
There are, of course, the obvious facts that a long, long time ago your life-expectancy would be 30 years, whereas now (depending on where you live) it might be near 80. This is a development over thousands of years, though.
It's a bit shocking to think that if my uncle had developed his complications a few years later he might still be around today. I've always taken solace in the fact that the same could be said of my father's friends who were drafted for Vietnam, or my grandfather's friends who died in Korea, etc.
Illnesses seem a bit "different", though. Wars are arguably preventable, illnesses kinda just happen. I'm hoping and hoping that startling achievements in fighting "natural causes" will reach some sort of threshold where we might be expected to live for a ridiculously long time.:)
Longevity treatments, anyone?
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I assure you that no US political leader would ever get on mass media and announce that the US isn't really a democracy.
But they may perform a completely isomorphic action by suggesting that Bush wasn't "really" elected, or that the system is broken because "the people's will was not realized". I think that the vehemence in the "HUZZAHS" that inevitably follow such an asinine statement only show that there is, in fact, some confusion about the kind of government we have.
... help with doing dimensions of things on the page...
Is this legal?
Misspellings
Fucker.
The "printing industry" is completely unknown to me. I should be finishing my PhD in engineering within the next year. Let's assume that I'm unhappy with this career choice... is it worth my while to investigate whatever might be implied by "the printing industry".
I'm not discounting the validity of your statement, I'm merely employing ""'s to signify that I have little idea what you are talking about.
It's a condition. Typos are fucking EVERYWHERE. I just need a name for it in order for someone to believe me.
My (minor) goal, and I'm way serious, is to find a job where I just proofread. I'm FUCKING SERIOUS! It's a gift/curse, that I have, and I want to capitalize. The biggest problem that I have is my skill in coding which will make my other skill obsolete (spelling problems).
I'm also really good with adding/dividing/multiplying (and, yes, subtracting) numbers in my head, so much that I do it in my free time,... anyone heard of something similar?
Why bother typing what you submitted? People like you always confuse me. It's like an effort/reward calculation with a minimization operation performed with alien mathematics.
You have a point, a very small one,... this tech does NOT solve deafness. But you offer NOTHING.
Fuck off.
And to all you moderators that gave this insightful.... have you ever tried to stick your dick up your own ass? That's a much more illuminating experience than drivel along these lines.
Are you aware of more examples of companies which are getting squeezed in a fashion similar to the progression explicitly described in Atlas Shrugged along the lines of what happened to Southwest(ern) Airlines?
This would be a fascinating writeup which I would be willing to do if I didn't have to do too much research (I'm a grad student and am tired of doing everything myself).:)
I'm asking for a handout (for a fun project, my work is actually in vision).
Libertarians are basically just undeclared Republicans.
I agree with this.
only possibly even more conservative without such a bitter taste of religious fervor.
For the most part, except that conservative is such a loaded term it's almost worthless.
They just want to be left alone with the capitalist system to exploit the classes below them, instead of having the government do it for them.
Basically.
Their "liberties" still basically come down to the "liberty" to burn as much gas and pollute all they want, the "liberty" to pay people 2 cents a day to work for them, and the "liberty" to undoe any checks on capitalism that the labor movement or any other forward thinking, good natured people have worked through the system in our history.
Wow, you're dead on. That's why I'm a Libertarian. I may not have faith in a god, but I do have faith that people will be able to take care of themselves in the long run. I'm all for restricting gas-guzzlers and condemning worker exploitation as long as it's not done by laws punishable by imprisonment. I don't think that that's the right way to go about correcting the actual problem, and I believe that laws to "correct" the situation merely cause more damage.
I'm a Libertarian because I'd pretty much be happiest with an anarchy which is protected from a hostile outside world. Otherwise I have faith that unhindered education can take care of the rest.
Hey, good point. While you're at it, why not gloat over the fact that your accident of birth in the United States (I'm guessing) instead of, say, Thailand means that you have the money and the power to purchase the virginity of a 13-year old in Bangkok?
If you look at the parent of the post I responded to, which was all you had written at the time, it contained only the following words:
Actually, entropy is a thermodynamic concept and really doesn't have any meaning when you apply it to books or lists that are sorted/unsorted. It's really an easy mistake to make, so easy that these sorts of examples are actually used in the classroom.
Believe me, the entropy of your bedroom is the unchanged regardless of how many socks and T-shirts you have lying on the floor vs. folded neatly in the dresser.
I don't see anything about informational vs. thermodynamic entropy. All I see is someone declaring that entropy is a thermodynamic concept and the usage of entropy to talk about the orderliness of books is bunk, albeit a common mistake.
You have since written all kinds of other responses to other responses which were similar to mine. Perhaps you are confused as to who you are responding to?
Actually, entropy is a thermodynamic concept and really doesn't have any meaning when you apply it to books or lists that are sorted/unsorted.
Thermodynamics declares a variable, S, which it calls entropy because the word "entropy" describes exactly what S is dependent on. S increases when the system becomes more disordered, and decreases with less disorder (see the Third Law).
This does not mean that the general use of the word entropy to describe the amount of order (as in information theory, discussing the end of the universe, and a disorganized bookshelf) is incorrect.
You cannot declare that a word which has a specialized meaning in a given realm to be unusable anywhere else. This is akin to my saying that stress is an engineering term and is completely unrelated to the number of demands in a person's life.
Integration is not necessarily mathematical. Have you ever heard of integrated schooling? Can you imagine this valid usage of the word explained in terms of a Riemann sum?
If we want to understand each other, we need to know something about each others roots.
You really need to take your argument elsewhere. You are discussing the merits of rote memorization as a general course of learning in a thread based on a simple formula which shows the utility of the concept of algebra.
It is impossible for you to deny the value of algebra with your current tack. It is also impossible for you to convince anyone that having tips in a general physical reference is more useful than a simple approximation which a child can do.
Your points about learning about "useful" things as opposed to rote formulas sound like comments engendered from a particular issue with the way that you were educated and might be better received if not only prefaced as such, but also taken to a more general discussion of education, not a particular trivial example of a utilitaritian piece of algebra.
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Yeah, he was gay.
Sorry about your uncle. :(
... yeah, death-from-sex. Soon enough there's gonna be some disease where you stick your dick in there and BOOM it's just gonna fucking EXPLODE."
Thanks, but it was a while ago. The family has dealt (for the most part, I guess).
As soon as a cure or effective treatment for one disease is created, somehow a bigger badder uglier disease pops up somewhere.
I remember a standup routine, although I can't remember the comic (Eddie Murphy?), that went something along the lines of (although probably pretty far from this recreation),
"So, you had chlamydia and syphilis, which you can clear up with a shot now. Then there's herpes which will keep you sick forever but at least it won't kill you. Now there's this AIDS thing
My uncle died of AIDS (or complications thereof) just a few years before the cocktail treatments started showing efficacy in extending HIV+ person's lifespans.
:)
I was a little young, so I didn't realize it until much later, but this was a pretty "in your face" demonstration of how timing, in the sense of where you are in the course of human technological development can have a serious impact on your expected longevity.
There are, of course, the obvious facts that a long, long time ago your life-expectancy would be 30 years, whereas now (depending on where you live) it might be near 80. This is a development over thousands of years, though.
It's a bit shocking to think that if my uncle had developed his complications a few years later he might still be around today. I've always taken solace in the fact that the same could be said of my father's friends who were drafted for Vietnam, or my grandfather's friends who died in Korea, etc.
Illnesses seem a bit "different", though. Wars are arguably preventable, illnesses kinda just happen. I'm hoping and hoping that startling achievements in fighting "natural causes" will reach some sort of threshold where we might be expected to live for a ridiculously long time.
Longevity treatments, anyone?
I assure you that no US political leader would ever get on mass media and announce that the US isn't really a democracy.
But they may perform a completely isomorphic action by suggesting that Bush wasn't "really" elected, or that the system is broken because "the people's will was not realized". I think that the vehemence in the "HUZZAHS" that inevitably follow such an asinine statement only show that there is, in fact, some confusion about the kind of government we have.
Maybe you should start working on FreeBSD, I hear it's not dying.
But your comment is offtopic and will probably be modded as such.
Then, when it's low enough no other moderators will notice it.
What a nice system, eh?
Yeah, I'm looking for a 2.8 GHz processor and I would like to be the first to know.
I'd really appreciate it.
LAW = Light Anti-tank Weapon. A little 1-use rocket launcher, again for nailing vehlicles.
I thought these were used to take out criminals on the tops of buildings.
Well, I saw that usage on Sledge Hammer in any case.
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... is it worth my while to investigate whatever might be implied by "the printing industry".
Bastard.
Is this legal?
Misspellings
Fucker.
The "printing industry" is completely unknown to me. I should be finishing my PhD in engineering within the next year. Let's assume that I'm unhappy with this career choice
I'm not discounting the validity of your statement, I'm merely employing ""'s to signify that I have little idea what you are talking about.
I've never heard of an angry, deaf guy. I've heard of an angry, short male, but never an angry, deaf.
Do you have a LINK? As, I'm sure, you well know, links are currency in this realm.
But it DOES hurt me to see a typo.
... anyone heard of something similar?
It's a condition. Typos are fucking EVERYWHERE. I just need a name for it in order for someone to believe me.
My (minor) goal, and I'm way serious, is to find a job where I just proofread. I'm FUCKING SERIOUS! It's a gift/curse, that I have, and I want to capitalize. The biggest problem that I have is my skill in coding which will make my other skill obsolete (spelling problems).
I'm also really good with adding/dividing/multiplying (and, yes, subtracting) numbers in my head, so much that I do it in my free time,
Oh, HEY, good fucking point!
... this tech does NOT solve deafness. But you offer NOTHING.
.... have you ever tried to stick your dick up your own ass? That's a much more illuminating experience than drivel along these lines.
Dickhead.
I guess they shouldn't even bother.
And your contribution is WHERE?
Why bother typing what you submitted? People like you always confuse me. It's like an effort/reward calculation with a minimization operation performed with alien mathematics.
You have a point, a very small one,
Fuck off.
And to all you moderators that gave this insightful
I was thinking the same thing, but I didn't know how to incorporate it into the same joke.
Thankya. Thankyaverymuch.
Are you aware of more examples of companies which are getting squeezed in a fashion similar to the progression explicitly described in Atlas Shrugged along the lines of what happened to Southwest(ern) Airlines?
:)
This would be a fascinating writeup which I would be willing to do if I didn't have to do too much research (I'm a grad student and am tired of doing everything myself).
I'm asking for a handout (for a fun project, my work is actually in vision).
I bet you feel smaller, though.
Libertarians are basically just undeclared Republicans.
I agree with this.
only possibly even more conservative without such a bitter taste of religious fervor.
For the most part, except that conservative is such a loaded term it's almost worthless.
They just want to be left alone with the capitalist system to exploit the classes below them, instead of having the government do it for them.
Basically.
Their "liberties" still basically come down to the "liberty" to burn as much gas and pollute all they want, the "liberty" to pay people 2 cents a day to work for them, and the "liberty" to undoe any checks on capitalism that the labor movement or any other forward thinking, good natured people have worked through the system in our history.
Wow, you're dead on. That's why I'm a Libertarian. I may not have faith in a god, but I do have faith that people will be able to take care of themselves in the long run. I'm all for restricting gas-guzzlers and condemning worker exploitation as long as it's not done by laws punishable by imprisonment. I don't think that that's the right way to go about correcting the actual problem, and I believe that laws to "correct" the situation merely cause more damage.
I'm a Libertarian because I'd pretty much be happiest with an anarchy which is protected from a hostile outside world. Otherwise I have faith that unhindered education can take care of the rest.
Hey, good point. While you're at it, why not gloat over the fact that your accident of birth in the United States (I'm guessing) instead of, say, Thailand means that you have the money and the power to purchase the virginity of a 13-year old in Bangkok?
Sweet, huh?
If you look at the parent of the post I responded to, which was all you had written at the time, it contained only the following words:
Actually, entropy is a thermodynamic concept and really doesn't have any meaning when you apply it to books or lists that are sorted/unsorted. It's really an easy mistake to make, so easy that these sorts of examples are actually used in the classroom.
Believe me, the entropy of your bedroom is the unchanged regardless of how many socks and T-shirts you have lying on the floor vs. folded neatly in the dresser.
I don't see anything about informational vs. thermodynamic entropy. All I see is someone declaring that entropy is a thermodynamic concept and the usage of entropy to talk about the orderliness of books is bunk, albeit a common mistake.
You have since written all kinds of other responses to other responses which were similar to mine. Perhaps you are confused as to who you are responding to?
Actually, entropy is a thermodynamic concept and really doesn't have any meaning when you apply it to books or lists that are sorted/unsorted.
Thermodynamics declares a variable, S, which it calls entropy because the word "entropy" describes exactly what S is dependent on. S increases when the system becomes more disordered, and decreases with less disorder (see the Third Law).
This does not mean that the general use of the word entropy to describe the amount of order (as in information theory, discussing the end of the universe, and a disorganized bookshelf) is incorrect.
You cannot declare that a word which has a specialized meaning in a given realm to be unusable anywhere else. This is akin to my saying that stress is an engineering term and is completely unrelated to the number of demands in a person's life.
Integration is not necessarily mathematical. Have you ever heard of integrated schooling? Can you imagine this valid usage of the word explained in terms of a Riemann sum?
If we want to understand each other, we need to know something about each others roots.
Pot, kettle.
Lighten up.
I'm glad that you post at -1 where you belong.
You are an insurrectionist pigdog and I hope you and your exploding car rot in hell.
Heathen pig.
DO NOT QUESTION THE MODERATORS.
I became very weary of removing the heat sink after a successful mounting .s/weary/wary/
Don't you think?
It can't be that tiring. Maybe you need to drink more water.
For all ESL'ers:
I think he/she was being too cute.
'spelled' is another legal form of the past tense of 'to spell' and 'spelt' can also mean a kind of grain, as in something people use to make flour.
He intended to mispell the past tense of 'to spell'so as to provoke humor, unfortunately he used a valid spelling which negates the joke.
Such is the danger of too much knowledge.
Why the fuck were the two AC's moderated offtopic?
Dickheads.
One was relevant, the other was funny.
FUCK YOU.
HanzoSan,
You really need to take your argument elsewhere. You are discussing the merits of rote memorization as a general course of learning in a thread based on a simple formula which shows the utility of the concept of algebra.
It is impossible for you to deny the value of algebra with your current tack. It is also impossible for you to convince anyone that having tips in a general physical reference is more useful than a simple approximation which a child can do.
Your points about learning about "useful" things as opposed to rote formulas sound like comments engendered from a particular issue with the way that you were educated and might be better received if not only prefaced as such, but also taken to a more general discussion of education, not a particular trivial example of a utilitaritian piece of algebra.