No. It has the exact genetric (sic) material of many humans. That does not make it a human/humans, just as despite the fact that 99% of the DNA is the same, lobster eyes are not humans.
No, because my mother is a human with humanity, while my snot is human but with no humane characteristics.
Your snot is human? Sorry man, but this is ridiculous.
I really don't think it is easy to make one sweeping definition of what is human. Organisms classified as Homo sapiens are human, but last I checked you can't go out to the store and buy a H. sapiens membership test in the drug store.
To assert that your dead skin cells are human since they are made up of the same genetic material as you is just as silly. If I gather piles of skin cells from a million people over a year and build a skin-cell mountain, is that a human? Of course not! It shares genetic material with humans but so do monkeys, bananas and just about every living thing on this planet.
Megahertz sell computers, and megapixels sell cameras; this shouldn't surprise anyone here.
Just so long as these marketing cretins don't forget that some people JUST WANT A FREAKING CELL PHONE and don't need cameras and milk steamers and tazers built into their phones, I couldn't care less about what crap parents buy to appease their children.
They are transparent. Well Diebold is because they publically owned. No, I meant the machines themselves. There has been more than a few posts here about the source code being closed. If this has changed or I am mistaken then I apologize. But if we cannot see how these machines work, we can hardly call them "the most accurate ever in the history of the country".
Somehow you hold this notion that the CEO of a large publically traded company formed a conspiracy to vote rig a battleground state and do so with no smoking gun and very cleverly, knowing that it'd come all down to Ohio, and in the process he accidentally forgot to keep it secret. It was all part of his diabological plan, I tell you. No, I made it clear that I don't think there was any wrong-doing in this election. My problem with this process is that there is NO WAY of knowing whether there was wrong-doing. My comments regarding the CEO were not supporting my claim of a "diabological" (sic) plan, but they were supporting my belief that this probably wasn't the best company for the job.
They make voting machines as 1% of their business. Please explain how this is in any way relevant to the discussion. The assertion that there is no possibility of fraud because Diebold is a large company is laughable.
There isn't a person in the country who does't have a political opinion. I never said there wasn't a conflict of interest, but this one statement made by a lifelong avowed public Republican openly about "delivering Ohio's electroal votes" to the President hardly is evidence of a grand conspiracy that would be the mostly shocking, most widespread, and most sinister that the nation has ever seen. I am suggesting that the CEO of a company that makes voting machines should perhaps show a little more discretion. This only adds fuel to the flame.
That is what you are suggesting. That there was this big conspiracy and that he just forgot to not mention it in his letter. Right. Did you even READ my post? Honestly?
Do what ever you want. But the voting machines used this election are the most accurate ever in the history of the country. That's a fanboy statement if I have ever read one. You have absolutely NO evidence to support that claim. I have no evidence to refute it, and this is exactly the point I have been trying to make to you. But whereas neither of us have evidence, there is enough suspicion of inaccuracy to warrant further investigation. You have nothing but fanboy arguments and a misguided or malicious belief that since Diebold is a huge company they wouldn't bother to screw around with voting machines.
Finally, I urge you to find me one article or study that can prove that electronic voting machines - flawed as they are - are anything short of the most accurate and secure voting system we have.
Perhaps these voting devices are the most accurate machines you have (err, sorry...precise, but not necessarily accurate) today. That doesn't mean that they are as precise as they could/should be. Why are these machines being made by third parties? Why are they not transparent? You accuse Democrats of being shrill and partisan, but you refuse to acknowledge that your assertion that Diebold's CEO's comment about Ohio was nothing more than "a fundraising pitch in a letter" is somewhat ludicrous. They make VOTING MACHINES for Christ's sake.
I am not so naive as to believe that you can find someone who will have no party affiliation to make this equipment, but is a contributer to the Republican party (or Democrat party, for that matter) whose CEO alluded to voter fraud in a "fundraising" letter, no matter what the context, really the best company for the job? If that is what he is willing to say out loud, what is he really thinking?
There is probably nothing amiss here, but the point that you refuse to admit is that these actions have led people to believe there is a serious conflict of interest here. Why are you so against pursuing this?
(I will start this by stating that I am a Canadian citizen who usually votes NDP - a third party of sorts until this year - but who decided to vote Liberal to ensure the PCs didn't win. You can determine how I would vote in the US based on that)
I am sorry that you feel you have to throw away your principles because the race is close. Voting for evil is still evil.
Don't be ridiculous. If one candidate has been shown to be reckless, destructive and absolutely uninterested in his own citizens, voting him out is not "voting for evil". Your vote is a tool that you have decided not to use, kind of like buying a Hummer to drive your kids to school. Sure it works, but you aren't using it to it's full potential.
Just because you want the 3rd party to succeed doesn't mean that you have to ignore the fact that your incumbent president is a destructive nutjob and refuse to do anything about it. It's your vote; you can shoot yourself and your fellow citizens in the foot/feet with it if you like.
Turn the argument around. Is it valid to make the assumption that every kid who enters a store looking to buy a game does so with their parent's blessing? Would you have parents following their children everywhere they go? I sure would have hated my parents watching my every move.
Just because they aren't present doesn't mean they are negligent or that they approve. In fact, if I see 3 or 4 12-year-olds looking to rent The Suffering or some horror flick, I pretty much assume that one of the kids has a parent who doesn't really care what the child watches, while the parents of the other three children would object (this was based on my experience growing up) As much as I have these knee-jerk "protect our children from video games" reactions (and cringe at the one-sidedness of TFA), I don't really see a problem with this idea. Isn't this why we have ratings systems? It would seem to me that if a kid doesn't have valid ID then they probably aren't of age to be renting a game that requires ID.
Sometimes, people need to communicate with each other (and still be in class)
Who the hell needs to communicate in class? You aren't in class to study your incoming calls, you are in class to study. Certainly the rest of the class isn't interested in your oh-so-busy life.
Just because I can buy portable DVD players that indicate that I am part of the "uber-high-tech-life" does that entitle me to watch movies in class? Of course not, because it is distracting and rude.
I have yet to see a single person get up and leave a class because of an emergency, but I have seen plenty of classes get interrupted by some bimbo who forgot to turn off her phone or, worse yet, answers and starts having a conversation.
""Star Wars Special BluRay Edition in 300 channel THX certified blah blah blah"(and Greedo will still shoot first in that release)"
Yes, but good ol' George will use that extra storage space to his advantage to correct that little error, with Jar Jar hilariously causing a catastrophic systems failure on a shuttle that crashes onto Greedo's head just in time to save Han.
All of this will be recorded in 300 channel THX certified Milk-it-for-all-it's-worth-and-somehow-further-sul ly-what's-left-of-the-franchise's-good-name-o-Visi on.
"...but I doubt that it's four times higher, which it would have to be for this to profitable."
I imagine that the indie bands/labels are not charging the same licensing fees as the major labels, and thus a profit can be turned on a smaller per-song fee.
No CD case, no CD "art", just the music. Sounds good to me, but then I AM biased, as I already partake in Warp Records' online offerings at www.warprecords.com/bleep (please pardon my HTML illiteracy)
Personally, it seems to be really stupid to leave a machine (that may or may not be responsible for some critical service) in a crashed state when it can be rebooted automatically.
No man. I believe this is what caused my recent loss of 512MB of RAM and a HD of data.
Motherboard problems + Constant rebooting + Me being at work = Three overlapping partitions.
Up to that point I was happy with the way that WinXP could recover from partition and file system errors...
With 768MB of RAM I never noticed just how much of a disgusting RAM hog XP is. I simply cannot grasp how a few system services and a virus scanner require 60% of my system resources to run in the freaking background.
But with regards to stability, I have to say that barring my recent hardware failure issues the OS has been pretty solid for me. The BSOD stuff is largely in the past, and it is security we have to worry about / ridicule.
I especially liked: "Neither architecture pays a byte-swapping tax due to Sun's patent-pending "adaptive endian-ness" technology"
Adaptive endian-ness? What a stupid thing to include in a press release...there has to be a better way to say that.
Just announced by Sun: "ANMF, our new file system (Ambiguous Nomenclature FS) will be filled with file cataloguing technology stuff that allows faster-ish operations that result in application goodness".
In any case, I would have thought that the North Koreans would make an announcement if they had actually had a successful test. Why wouldn't they?
If you ask me, a mushroom cloud IS an announcement of a successful test. We already know/are supposed to believe that they have the facilities to make nuclear weapons, so perhaps the onus to do the math has been placed on us.
The problem with your analogy is that Lake Ontario doesn't have pain receptors:-)
No, seriously, the amount of energy reaching your hand is equivalent in both cases. To use your lens analogy, just because some kid uses a magnifying glass to greatly increase the rate of evaporation in a 1cm^2 area of Lake Ontario doesn't mean the temperature of the whole lake is going to shoot through the roof.
Keep in mind that water has a tremendous heat capacity, so a given volume of water can effectively cool a much greater volume of air.
Furthermore, we are NOT heating a cold part of the lake. The volume of the lake is large enough that the warmer water deposited near the surface has no effect on the cold water at the bottom.
I hope you check with your Adminstrator first. If they were nice enough to let you have an uncrippled account you should return the courtesy and not install software behind their back. (of course, maybe they are just stupid lazy jackoffs, but I digress...)
Having said that, I would like to think that any admin worth their weight in salt would probably agree that this is not a bad move, unless continuous uptime is really a major concern (and if that is the case then you wouldn't be a Power User, would you?)
He only listed one significant figure, so it will probably be rounded to 1kg so long as you are within 0-100C (that's 32-?212F for those expousing the virtues of the Imperial system:-) )
Many anions we ingest have the ability to chelate ions such as calcium, and most of the food we eat has some pretty eye-raising stuff in it.
Next time you eat some Cheerios, look in the ingredients for trisodium monophosphate. Some of you will recognize that as TSP, a rather potent cleaner. Now I eat Cheerios all the time. Last I checked my stomach is OK, and my bones don't seem too fragile!
Never mind all the sugar that we eat, which leads to diabetes and the myriad medical problems associated with that. You can compile a list of nasty facts for everything we eat; it's just a matter of quantity and degree.
As far as drug production, I say go for it, but note that this approach WILL NOT show you HOW to make the molecule. It's not a matter of figuring out what the compound should look like, it's a matter of testing it and making the damn thing in the first place. That's why pharmaceutical companies need so much money; they need the best chemists to figure out how to make all these exotic drugs without the use of poisonous reagents, and then they need to make sure the drugs work the way you want (they usually do not).
On that note, if you want to make a poison it's not just a matter of tossing molecules at a computer; you gotta know how your prospective poison is going to do the poisoning...never mind the testing and actually making it.
Was that intentional? Did you really mean to spell the word that means "to make unclear" incorrectly in order to make the meaning of your post unclear? Because there is no "i" in obfuscate (unless your version/dialect of the language does...)
There's no freaking "O" sound in jail.
There's no freaking "K" sound in knife. There's no freaking "R" sound in "Chicago/Chicargo". What's your point?
Just because someone spells a word differently than you, they aren't automatically wrong. I spell color, center and behavior as colour, centre and behaviour because that's how it's done here.
Cisco actually has a better track record than some other closed source vendors I could mention.
That's a silly comment. Up until a few hours ago you would have thought Cisco was pretty good. Now they have done a really stupid thing and have been caught red-handed.
The question we should be asking is what else have they done that their customers would object to if they knew about it?
Call me paranoid, but this is exactly the sort of behaviour that I expect from software/hardware manufacturers. Cisco just happened to get caught doing it.
He is Dutch and he drives a CAR? There are no cars in the Netherlands. Now, if he had said his bicycle was stolen I wouldn't have jumped on this quite so quickly...:-)
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No. It has the exact genetric (sic) material of many humans. That does not make it a human/humans, just as despite the fact that 99% of the DNA is the same, lobster eyes are not humans.
Yeah, me too.
shhhh....don't tell
No, because my mother is a human with humanity, while my snot is human but with no humane characteristics.
Your snot is human? Sorry man, but this is ridiculous.
I really don't think it is easy to make one sweeping definition of what is human. Organisms classified as Homo sapiens are human, but last I checked you can't go out to the store and buy a H. sapiens membership test in the drug store.
To assert that your dead skin cells are human since they are made up of the same genetic material as you is just as silly. If I gather piles of skin cells from a million people over a year and build a skin-cell mountain, is that a human? Of course not! It shares genetic material with humans but so do monkeys, bananas and just about every living thing on this planet.
Megahertz sell computers, and megapixels sell cameras; this shouldn't surprise anyone here.
/cranky after just waking up
Just so long as these marketing cretins don't forget that some people JUST WANT A FREAKING CELL PHONE and don't need cameras and milk steamers and tazers built into their phones, I couldn't care less about what crap parents buy to appease their children.
As opposed to the government? :-)
Fair enough
They are transparent. Well Diebold is because they publically owned.
No, I meant the machines themselves. There has been more than a few posts here about the source code being closed. If this has changed or I am mistaken then I apologize. But if we cannot see how these machines work, we can hardly call them "the most accurate ever in the history of the country".
Somehow you hold this notion that the CEO of a large publically traded company formed a conspiracy to vote rig a battleground state and do so with no smoking gun and very cleverly, knowing that it'd come all down to Ohio, and in the process he accidentally forgot to keep it secret. It was all part of his diabological plan, I tell you.
No, I made it clear that I don't think there was any wrong-doing in this election. My problem with this process is that there is NO WAY of knowing whether there was wrong-doing. My comments regarding the CEO were not supporting my claim of a "diabological" (sic) plan, but they were supporting my belief that this probably wasn't the best company for the job.
They make voting machines as 1% of their business.
Please explain how this is in any way relevant to the discussion. The assertion that there is no possibility of fraud because Diebold is a large company is laughable.
There isn't a person in the country who does't have a political opinion. I never said there wasn't a conflict of interest, but this one statement made by a lifelong avowed public Republican openly about "delivering Ohio's electroal votes" to the President hardly is evidence of a grand conspiracy that would be the mostly shocking, most widespread, and most sinister that the nation has ever seen.
I am suggesting that the CEO of a company that makes voting machines should perhaps show a little more discretion. This only adds fuel to the flame.
That is what you are suggesting. That there was this big conspiracy and that he just forgot to not mention it in his letter. Right.
Did you even READ my post? Honestly?
Do what ever you want. But the voting machines used this election are the most accurate ever in the history of the country.
That's a fanboy statement if I have ever read one. You have absolutely NO evidence to support that claim. I have no evidence to refute it, and this is exactly the point I have been trying to make to you. But whereas neither of us have evidence, there is enough suspicion of inaccuracy to warrant further investigation. You have nothing but fanboy arguments and a misguided or malicious belief that since Diebold is a huge company they wouldn't bother to screw around with voting machines.
Really man. Get a grip.
Very good advice.
Finally, I urge you to find me one article or study that can prove that electronic voting machines - flawed as they are - are anything short of the most accurate and secure voting system we have.
Perhaps these voting devices are the most accurate machines you have (err, sorry...precise, but not necessarily accurate) today. That doesn't mean that they are as precise as they could/should be. Why are these machines being made by third parties? Why are they not transparent? You accuse Democrats of being shrill and partisan, but you refuse to acknowledge that your assertion that Diebold's CEO's comment about Ohio was nothing more than "a fundraising pitch in a letter" is somewhat ludicrous. They make VOTING MACHINES for Christ's sake.
I am not so naive as to believe that you can find someone who will have no party affiliation to make this equipment, but is a contributer to the Republican party (or Democrat party, for that matter) whose CEO alluded to voter fraud in a "fundraising" letter, no matter what the context, really the best company for the job? If that is what he is willing to say out loud, what is he really thinking?
There is probably nothing amiss here, but the point that you refuse to admit is that these actions have led people to believe there is a serious conflict of interest here. Why are you so against pursuing this?
(I will start this by stating that I am a Canadian citizen who usually votes NDP - a third party of sorts until this year - but who decided to vote Liberal to ensure the PCs didn't win. You can determine how I would vote in the US based on that)
I am sorry that you feel you have to throw away your principles because the race is close. Voting for evil is still evil.
Don't be ridiculous. If one candidate has been shown to be reckless, destructive and absolutely uninterested in his own citizens, voting him out is not "voting for evil". Your vote is a tool that you have decided not to use, kind of like buying a Hummer to drive your kids to school. Sure it works, but you aren't using it to it's full potential.
Just because you want the 3rd party to succeed doesn't mean that you have to ignore the fact that your incumbent president is a destructive nutjob and refuse to do anything about it. It's your vote; you can shoot yourself and your fellow citizens in the foot/feet with it if you like.
Turn the argument around. Is it valid to make the assumption that every kid who enters a store looking to buy a game does so with their parent's blessing? Would you have parents following their children everywhere they go? I sure would have hated my parents watching my every move.
Just because they aren't present doesn't mean they are negligent or that they approve. In fact, if I see 3 or 4 12-year-olds looking to rent The Suffering or some horror flick, I pretty much assume that one of the kids has a parent who doesn't really care what the child watches, while the parents of the other three children would object (this was based on my experience growing up) As much as I have these knee-jerk "protect our children from video games" reactions (and cringe at the one-sidedness of TFA), I don't really see a problem with this idea. Isn't this why we have ratings systems? It would seem to me that if a kid doesn't have valid ID then they probably aren't of age to be renting a game that requires ID.
Yeah, the total lack of Realplayer support by the movie industry makes me irate.
(There, I said what you wanted me to say. Could you take the gun away from my head now?)
Sometimes, people need to communicate with each other (and still be in class)
Who the hell needs to communicate in class? You aren't in class to study your incoming calls, you are in class to study. Certainly the rest of the class isn't interested in your oh-so-busy life.
Just because I can buy portable DVD players that indicate that I am part of the "uber-high-tech-life" does that entitle me to watch movies in class? Of course not, because it is distracting and rude.
I have yet to see a single person get up and leave a class because of an emergency, but I have seen plenty of classes get interrupted by some bimbo who forgot to turn off her phone or, worse yet, answers and starts having a conversation.
Grrrr.
""Star Wars Special BluRay Edition in 300 channel THX certified blah blah blah"(and Greedo will still shoot first in that release)"
l ly-what's-left-of-the-franchise's-good-name-o-Visi on.
Yes, but good ol' George will use that extra storage space to his advantage to correct that little error, with Jar Jar hilariously causing a catastrophic systems failure on a shuttle that crashes onto Greedo's head just in time to save Han.
All of this will be recorded in 300 channel THX certified Milk-it-for-all-it's-worth-and-somehow-further-su
"...but I doubt that it's four times higher, which it would have to be for this to profitable."
I imagine that the indie bands/labels are not charging the same licensing fees as the major labels, and thus a profit can be turned on a smaller per-song fee.
No CD case, no CD "art", just the music. Sounds good to me, but then I AM biased, as I already partake in Warp Records' online offerings at www.warprecords.com/bleep (please pardon my HTML illiteracy)
Personally, it seems to be really stupid to leave a machine (that may or may not be responsible for some critical service) in a crashed state when it can be rebooted automatically.
No man. I believe this is what caused my recent loss of 512MB of RAM and a HD of data.
Motherboard problems + Constant rebooting + Me being at work = Three overlapping partitions.
Up to that point I was happy with the way that WinXP could recover from partition and file system errors...
With 768MB of RAM I never noticed just how much of a disgusting RAM hog XP is. I simply cannot grasp how a few system services and a virus scanner require 60% of my system resources to run in the freaking background.
But with regards to stability, I have to say that barring my recent hardware failure issues the OS has been pretty solid for me. The BSOD stuff is largely in the past, and it is security we have to worry about / ridicule.
I especially liked:
"Neither architecture pays a byte-swapping tax due to Sun's patent-pending "adaptive endian-ness" technology"
Adaptive endian-ness? What a stupid thing to include in a press release...there has to be a better way to say that.
Just announced by Sun:
"ANMF, our new file system (Ambiguous Nomenclature FS) will be filled with file cataloguing technology stuff that allows faster-ish operations that result in application goodness".
In any case, I would have thought that the North Koreans would make an announcement if they had actually had a successful test. Why wouldn't they?
If you ask me, a mushroom cloud IS an announcement of a successful test. We already know/are supposed to believe that they have the facilities to make nuclear weapons, so perhaps the onus to do the math has been placed on us.
Just move along folks. Please keep all food out of reach of the trolls.
...the pictures in the Side Talking website the poster linked to is bloody hilarious.
The problem with your analogy is that Lake Ontario doesn't have pain receptors :-)
No, seriously, the amount of energy reaching your hand is equivalent in both cases. To use your lens analogy, just because some kid uses a magnifying glass to greatly increase the rate of evaporation in a 1cm^2 area of Lake Ontario doesn't mean the temperature of the whole lake is going to shoot through the roof.
Keep in mind that water has a tremendous heat capacity, so a given volume of water can effectively cool a much greater volume of air.
Furthermore, we are NOT heating a cold part of the lake. The volume of the lake is large enough that the warmer water deposited near the surface has no effect on the cold water at the bottom.
I hope you check with your Adminstrator first. If they were nice enough to let you have an uncrippled account you should return the courtesy and not install software behind their back. (of course, maybe they are just stupid lazy jackoffs, but I digress...)
Having said that, I would like to think that any admin worth their weight in salt would probably agree that this is not a bad move, unless continuous uptime is really a major concern (and if that is the case then you wouldn't be a Power User, would you?)
He only listed one significant figure, so it will probably be rounded to 1kg so long as you are within 0-100C (that's 32-?212F for those expousing the virtues of the Imperial system :-) )
Many anions we ingest have the ability to chelate ions such as calcium, and most of the food we eat has some pretty eye-raising stuff in it.
Next time you eat some Cheerios, look in the ingredients for trisodium monophosphate. Some of you will recognize that as TSP, a rather potent cleaner. Now I eat Cheerios all the time. Last I checked my stomach is OK, and my bones don't seem too fragile!
Never mind all the sugar that we eat, which leads to diabetes and the myriad medical problems associated with that. You can compile a list of nasty facts for everything we eat; it's just a matter of quantity and degree.
As far as drug production, I say go for it, but note that this approach WILL NOT show you HOW to make the molecule. It's not a matter of figuring out what the compound should look like, it's a matter of testing it and making the damn thing in the first place. That's why pharmaceutical companies need so much money; they need the best chemists to figure out how to make all these exotic drugs without the use of poisonous reagents, and then they need to make sure the drugs work the way you want (they usually do not).
On that note, if you want to make a poison it's not just a matter of tossing molecules at a computer; you gotta know how your prospective poison is going to do the poisoning...never mind the testing and actually making it.
(begin rant)
:-)
Was that intentional? Did you really mean to spell the word that means "to make unclear" incorrectly in order to make the meaning of your post unclear? Because there is no "i" in obfuscate (unless your version/dialect of the language does...)
There's no freaking "O" sound in jail.
There's no freaking "K" sound in knife. There's no freaking "R" sound in "Chicago/Chicargo". What's your point?
Just because someone spells a word differently than you, they aren't automatically wrong. I spell color, center and behavior as colour, centre and behaviour because that's how it's done here.
(end rant)
Cisco actually has a better track record than some other closed source vendors I could mention.
That's a silly comment. Up until a few hours ago you would have thought Cisco was pretty good. Now they have done a really stupid thing and have been caught red-handed.
The question we should be asking is what else have they done that their customers would object to if they knew about it?
Call me paranoid, but this is exactly the sort of behaviour that I expect from software/hardware manufacturers. Cisco just happened to get caught doing it.
He is Dutch and he drives a CAR? There are no cars in the Netherlands. Now, if he had said his bicycle was stolen I wouldn't have jumped on this quite so quickly... :-)