I can testify that knee surgery is sometimes a wonderful cure. I suffered terrible pain for years and two new artificial knees are better than the originals in many ways and they never,ever hurt at all.
The knee surgery being referred to is the kind where they don't replace anything, just dinkering around in there - I believe. They aren't arguing that artificial knees don't work.
If an operation neither extends life nor increases quality of life, then what's the point in the operation?
True, but if there is a choice between an operation that extends life and one that increases quality, which does the provider pay for?
It depends on if the extended life years are Quality Life Years or just extended life. For example an operation that would keep the patient alive, but in a coma would have a low Quality, so it would be lower in priority than an operation that would give sight to a blind person - which while not changing the length of their life (ignoring any differences in life expectancy between the sighted and the blind) increases quality significantly.
You could only come to that conclusion if you ignored all the other tenets of Christianity e.g. murder being wrong, life being purposeful because it is commanded by God and provides opportunities to serve him and enjoy him.
Doesn't Christianity promote selflessness, though? What could be more selfless than sacrificing your eternal life to send hundreds(?) of unborn infants straight to eternal bliss in God's arms? Seems like actually having a child is forcing them through a (needless?) test when they could just be plopped right into heaven and eternal joy. Actually, that makes having a child sound very cruel...
Believing that just changing what worked for 2000 years in a random way and expect everything to be just fine is perhaps just a bit arrogant.
Don't you believe in evolution (of memes, in this case) ? The only reason that Christianity is still around (and actually somewhat resembles it's original form, or at least much more so than buddhism or islam) is a sign that it must be an ideology that clearly guarantees survival and kids for it's adherents. This ideology got people through the hardest parts of history.
Have you ever read The Selfish Gene? In short, it's the genes themselves that are "optimized" in genetic evolution. Same thing with "memes" like religion - the survival of a religion doesn't show that it improves survival chances of the holders of the belief, only that the meme itself has evolved to be resistant to fading away.
I.E. say there's a (dominant) gene that has evolved which causes humans to act in a 100% predictable way - they have six children and then kill themselves. Statistically, 50% of them will have the gene - three, so the number of people with the gene always goes up - this is clearly a case of the gene being the part being "optimized" by evolution. It's the same thing with memes - it doesn't matter if overall it hurts the organism, the thing attempting to be replicated is actually the meme and if severely damaging the host is guaranteed to bring about positive returns, it's highly likely that when something stumbles upon this method, it will be taken advantage of.
It could be possible that they'd charge 99 cents for the app, and then have a 99 cents off your first in-app purchase - I don't know if discounts can be applied to in-app purchases or not - but that'd be one way of making the app still "free" (since presumably you only care about in-app purchases if you're actually going to purchase something).
What, you going to rebel against the government? That's called suicide-by-cop. It's always interesting that folks point to guns as protection against tyranny. Guess what? If you're going to try to use a gun against the government, the government will use many more against you. If you truly want to change anything in this country, the political process is the best (very very far from perfect) way to do it. You are far more likely to succeed at changing the way the government works by political processes.
Your chances aren't particularly good, but they ARE non-zero. Your chances of starting a successful revolution against the United States government with privately owned firearms are zero. Folks fetishizing weapons like this is obnoxious. Stop glorifying violence in your own mind and get with the 21st century.
Dude, I was just joking - of course I'm just going to bitch on/. without actually doing anything:P
Only as long as you let them legislate whatever they want. That's the basis of the whole system. Do you hate what the government is doing? Really? Do you hate it enough to do something about it? Or are you just gonna sit at your computer and complain about it on/.?
I'd do something about it sooner, but there's a waiting period on purchasing firearms! A well-armed populace is the best defense against tyranny!
Yahoo is having trouble. Google undercut their price and is using one source of income to allow them to undercut the competition.
Wait, what price did google undercut? The cost of doing a search? No, that's free. My only guess for what they undercut is the cost of ads - and google's primary source of income (as far as I can tell) is selling ads! That's just straight up competition. Or is there some other source of income that I'm just not familiar with?
I'm pretty sure that, no matter what, you can't authorize anything other than another human adult to act on your behalf.
If you can't authorize anything other than a human adult, why not get one of the drinking birds and have it hit the ok button like Homer did in an episode of the Simpsons. Much cheaper and easier than a cat.
Call me crazy, but since you built a device to allow your cat to agree to EULAs, wouldn't that mean you authorized the cat to act on your behalf - regardless of how inept a decision maker it may be?
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I also utilize my UID when countering someone.
Do not misread as "I also utilize my IUD when encountering someone" - changes the meaning dramatically!
I can testify that knee surgery is sometimes a wonderful cure. I suffered terrible pain for years and two new artificial knees are better than the originals in many ways and they never,ever hurt at all.
The knee surgery being referred to is the kind where they don't replace anything, just dinkering around in there - I believe. They aren't arguing that artificial knees don't work.
If an operation neither extends life nor increases quality of life, then what's the point in the operation?
True, but if there is a choice between an operation that extends life and one that increases quality, which does the provider pay for?
It depends on if the extended life years are Quality Life Years or just extended life. For example an operation that would keep the patient alive, but in a coma would have a low Quality, so it would be lower in priority than an operation that would give sight to a blind person - which while not changing the length of their life (ignoring any differences in life expectancy between the sighted and the blind) increases quality significantly.
as a good biology grad, I'm always interested in hearing about holes
I think I speak for all males when I say, you're not the only one!
If that's true, why does $diff -B /faith/scientology /faith/christianity
show no difference between the two?
Cause they're just symlinks to /dev/nonsense
"They're making it up as they go along!"
Really, though - who isn't? I'd like to pretend I have a plan, but I don't.
You could only come to that conclusion if you ignored all the other tenets of Christianity e.g. murder being wrong, life being purposeful because it is commanded by God and provides opportunities to serve him and enjoy him.
Doesn't Christianity promote selflessness, though? What could be more selfless than sacrificing your eternal life to send hundreds(?) of unborn infants straight to eternal bliss in God's arms? Seems like actually having a child is forcing them through a (needless?) test when they could just be plopped right into heaven and eternal joy. Actually, that makes having a child sound very cruel...
Believing that just changing what worked for 2000 years in a random way and expect everything to be just fine is perhaps just a bit arrogant.
Don't you believe in evolution (of memes, in this case) ? The only reason that Christianity is still around (and actually somewhat resembles it's original form, or at least much more so than buddhism or islam) is a sign that it must be an ideology that clearly guarantees survival and kids for it's adherents. This ideology got people through the hardest parts of history.
Have you ever read The Selfish Gene? In short, it's the genes themselves that are "optimized" in genetic evolution. Same thing with "memes" like religion - the survival of a religion doesn't show that it improves survival chances of the holders of the belief, only that the meme itself has evolved to be resistant to fading away. I.E. say there's a (dominant) gene that has evolved which causes humans to act in a 100% predictable way - they have six children and then kill themselves. Statistically, 50% of them will have the gene - three, so the number of people with the gene always goes up - this is clearly a case of the gene being the part being "optimized" by evolution. It's the same thing with memes - it doesn't matter if overall it hurts the organism, the thing attempting to be replicated is actually the meme and if severely damaging the host is guaranteed to bring about positive returns, it's highly likely that when something stumbles upon this method, it will be taken advantage of.
Uhhh....
everything is a pollutant when it is present in concentrations such that the current local environment can not deal with them.
Like Humans!
It could be possible that they'd charge 99 cents for the app, and then have a 99 cents off your first in-app purchase - I don't know if discounts can be applied to in-app purchases or not - but that'd be one way of making the app still "free" (since presumably you only care about in-app purchases if you're actually going to purchase something).
1. Only the inbox will download new messages, all other folders must be synchronized manually 2. Manually syncing a folder fails about 2/3 of the time
Both of these bugs are pretty major on their own, but together it makes iPhone is basically worthless as an Exchange client.
Additionally, IMAP support has the same bugs.
I'll second the IMAP problem - I'd love it if it checked my sub-folders like every other mail client (including mail for OS X!)
I bet you're fun at parties.
He would be if the macheads ever invited him :P
He does keep a list of everyone who has ever wronged him labeled "people to utterly destroy", right? Doesn't everybody?
[billymadison]Of course, and after you cross somebody off the list you put on lipstick. Doesn't everybody?[/billymadison]
If we just blurred all maps, the terrorists couldn't even find their targets!
You're thinking too small - if we blurred out our name whenever we talk to them - they wouldn't even know who to attack, let alone find them!
Heard on Wall Street:
I lost half my money, but I still have my wife.
Scratch that...quarter of my money.
The kid in the basement with a mesh network OLPC and some crypto is going to me more useful than a half drunk, firearm toting, out of shape guy.
I'll have you know that half is well on it's way to seventy-five percent, thank you!
Today is February 20. This is listed as a critical flaw and they are taking 18 days to release a patch. I'm glad they're getting right on this.
Much work remains to be done before we can announce our total failure to make any progress!
What, you going to rebel against the government? That's called suicide-by-cop. It's always interesting that folks point to guns as protection against tyranny. Guess what? If you're going to try to use a gun against the government, the government will use many more against you. If you truly want to change anything in this country, the political process is the best (very very far from perfect) way to do it. You are far more likely to succeed at changing the way the government works by political processes.
Your chances aren't particularly good, but they ARE non-zero. Your chances of starting a successful revolution against the United States government with privately owned firearms are zero. Folks fetishizing weapons like this is obnoxious. Stop glorifying violence in your own mind and get with the 21st century.
Dude, I was just joking - of course I'm just going to bitch on /. without actually doing anything :P
And somewhere in the background, you can hear the Trusted Computing machine starting up...
Thank god it's running windows - we've still got a while before it finishes booting!
Only as long as you let them legislate whatever they want. That's the basis of the whole system. Do you hate what the government is doing? Really? Do you hate it enough to do something about it? Or are you just gonna sit at your computer and complain about it on /.?
I'd do something about it sooner, but there's a waiting period on purchasing firearms! A well-armed populace is the best defense against tyranny!
Seriously, what's the issue with having an anti-trust chief who is aware of and intends to keep an eye on potential future problems?
Cause frankly, we're not used to politicians acknowledging current problems, let alone future...
Yahoo is having trouble. Google undercut their price and is using one source of income to allow them to undercut the competition.
Wait, what price did google undercut? The cost of doing a search? No, that's free. My only guess for what they undercut is the cost of ads - and google's primary source of income (as far as I can tell) is selling ads! That's just straight up competition. Or is there some other source of income that I'm just not familiar with?
I'm pretty sure that, no matter what, you can't authorize anything other than another human adult to act on your behalf.
If you can't authorize anything other than a human adult, why not get one of the drinking birds and have it hit the ok button like Homer did in an episode of the Simpsons. Much cheaper and easier than a cat.
Call me crazy, but since you built a device to allow your cat to agree to EULAs, wouldn't that mean you authorized the cat to act on your behalf - regardless of how inept a decision maker it may be?
nobody wants nuclear waste in their backyard.
Think again!