And we have diseases which were completely unheard of 30,000 years ago. Is there a point?
Yeah, the point is that these recent obesity related disease epidemics have been caused by our *eating habits* and are directly related to what food we actually eat. Did you really need someone to spell it out for you?
And, second, the idea that all food which has been scientifically modified - regardless of what changes were made - is "bad for the environment" is so silly that it shouldn't really warrant a response.
Show me the point in the GP's post where it was argued that "all food which has been scientifically modified is 'bad for the environment'. It wasn't a claim of the paragraph you quoted. But that's a nice straw man for you to attack anyway, I guess, and it got you some nice up-mods.
Also, I'm not against GM food in the slightest, but Monsanto can burn in hell, and even *you* have to admit that there's a world of difference between selective breeding and splicing grasshopper genes into corn, and programming food to have an effective kill-switch that prevents farmers from producing their own seed.
That's your opinion, and you are certainly entitled to it, but saying that some other species should impede on a woman's reproductive rights is rather odd, don't you think?
No, it's got nothing to do with the other species "rights" and everything to do with our own survival.
There are 2 population grown curves. One is when an organism's population grows to the point where it is in equilibrium with its environment, and the other is where it grows to the point that its environment is no longer able to sustain it, so its population crashes.
Guess which curve we're on? I'll give you a hint: it's not the one with the happy ending. And before you assume that I'm some feel-good save-the-planet type, no, I'm really not. I'm just pointing out the fairly obvious fact that we're destroying our life support system a lot faster than it's able to repair itself.
Maybe at the very highest levels, yes, it would make a difference.
But no, you've most likely convinced yourself that it makes a difference, and therefore does make a difference to you. I'd suggest turning off your framerate counter and paying attention to the game instead of using it as a scapegoat for why you might not have won.
I also play on the Internet, and generally do pretty well. I don't care about my framerate as long as it's fairly fluid. (30fps solid is fine) And most online opponents just suck anyway.
Would it make you feel better if Microsoft updated the version string to be 7.0?
You know, the version number is entirely abritrarily assigned. It's not as if they meet some magical threshold of lines of code changed and the compiler suddenly spits out a new major revision number.
Your argument centers around the assumption that people have something to "risk" to begin with. If they've been making $7.50/hour their entire lives, we can be nearly certain that they don't.
You also make the mistaken assumption that an employee assumes no risk. I took the "risk" of training in my field in order to get a better job. I took the risk of signing on with my employer in a right-to-work state. You're right, though, that I didn't take any risk in renting a building, advertising, legal fees, or any of that crap. Does that when my boss says, "the owners decided that, because they're taking all the risks, you should settle for a barely-livable wage," I should respond with, "yes, kind master"?
Way to go on addressing the "create" vs. "invent," while missing the entire point.
Before Gore pushed it forward, there was no public internet. You can spin it however you want, but Gore clearly wasn't trying to take credit for inventing network hardware or protocols or anything of the sort. He was just taking (deserved) credit for opening up the private ARPANet to the public.
Complexity just isn't the issue you make it out to be.
I'm not sure how you can get to this statement from the information in your post that proceeded it.
Within one city, you have 3 different tax rates, varying on at least 3 different types of goods, varying depending on the type of day.
Yeah, it's relatively easy to keep up with when you live in that location. Now you expect companies like Amazon to keep up with every nuance of every tax code on every good on every day of the year in every division in every city in every state? And to keep up on when the rate goes from 7% to 7.25%? And to cut checks to every single one of these tax authorities?
It would be an absolute nightmare to a) have to code every single little exception that makes its way into law and b) staff the legal department to read up on every single tax code every year to make sure that every one of them is correct. And not only would Amazon have to do it, but so would NewEgg and iTunes and every other online retailer.
The *only* way I could see this being feasible is if there were a centrally available method for computing tax rates that online retailers could subscribe to. Sounds like a potential business opportunity, but also sounds like it would come with an incredible amount of liability.
You mean once ten percent of the population no longer has to pay ninety percent of the taxes?
Oh, that poor, exploited upper 10%. Woe is to them. Why should they have to pay 90% (probably an overestimate) of the taxes just because they control 90% (probably an underestimate) of the wealth?
--Jeremy
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but the more the middle class gets bolstered, the more filled bellies with higher ambitions will appear
Yes, because well-fed people in a decent financial situation are, historically, the most likely to revolt.
Sorry that your neighborhood is so shitty. I doubt if cameras would solve anything, though. A bunch of grainy pictures of unidentifiable suspects? Are they too dumb to wear a hood or mask? Are people suddenly going to start fingering them just because there's video evidence?
And even cameras did help, and were justified, I don't think it's a good argument for cameras for the rest of the (sane) world. *Most* places aren't gang warzones.
So Democracy in Iraq, neighbors to Iran, had no influence at all on Iranians *also* wanting real elections?
Yes, clearly the Iranians saw how well democracy is working out for Iraq, what with all the sudden Iraqi prosperity. It's only natural that Iran's citizens would want it for themselves.
In an age when employers are held liable for everything, it's hard to blame them...
Wait... what? The last two states I've worked in are both "Right to Work" states, which essentially means that my employer could fire me at any time for any (or no) reason. In fact, it's better that they have no reason because then I couldn't sue for discrimination, if that were the case. Sure, I get the right to quit at any time... but I already had that right to begin with.
So it's difficult for me to feel much sympathy for the "poor employers" when they already hold all the cards.
This isn't really what the story author was asking, but I feel compelled to respond anyway, because it seems to be a common misconception.
A master's program in computer science should have absolutely nothing to do with web development. Or database admin tasks. Or Cisco hardware. Or Linux security. If I met someone claiming to have a "Master's in Computer Science for web development," I'd probably laugh at them and ask what scam institution they got it from. All of these subjects are just trade skills -- they're the computer equivalents of plumbing or carpentry. (Don't get me wrong though -- they're valuable skills. They just aren't computer science.)
Computer science is designing a new algorithm to more efficiently lay out the box model that web pages use. It is coming up with a new data structure that improves performance of database queries. It is coming up with methods to automatically discover your network's spanning tree. It's proving that the methods used for authentication are, in fact, secure. Computer science is NOT programming.
I have a CS degree, and my current job as a web developer is certainly *not* computer science.
Of course, if the story's submitter hadn't spent so much time getting wasted in college and had taken things more seriously, he'd have known this. But it's nice to know that the value of my degree is diluted by people like this who don't even know what their degree *means*.
They gave me no "higher level understanding." They merely wasted my time and money.
If that's the case, then it was *you* who wasted your time and money, not your courses.
A university education is just that -- an education. If you treat it like a trade school (which, unfortunately, many people do), then you not only waste your time, but you dilute the value of the degrees of people who actually *do* go to school for an education.
I find this developer's whining particularly amusing, as the new Prince of Persia (while a decent game) felt like a watered down version of Sands of Time.
Now, I can understand that managing two sets of resources is probably not worth the effort, given the fact that the PS3 and 360 are so much more powerful. It would essentially be the same as building the same game twice. But the Wii's hardware really does not limit anything that was done in the new PoP except polygon count and texture resolution.
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Yeah, the point is that these recent obesity related disease epidemics have been caused by our *eating habits* and are directly related to what food we actually eat. Did you really need someone to spell it out for you?
Show me the point in the GP's post where it was argued that "all food which has been scientifically modified is 'bad for the environment'. It wasn't a claim of the paragraph you quoted. But that's a nice straw man for you to attack anyway, I guess, and it got you some nice up-mods.
Also, I'm not against GM food in the slightest, but Monsanto can burn in hell, and even *you* have to admit that there's a world of difference between selective breeding and splicing grasshopper genes into corn, and programming food to have an effective kill-switch that prevents farmers from producing their own seed.
--Jeremy
Nice rant, but it didn't have a thing to do with the GP's point.
--Jeremy
No, it's got nothing to do with the other species "rights" and everything to do with our own survival.
There are 2 population grown curves. One is when an organism's population grows to the point where it is in equilibrium with its environment, and the other is where it grows to the point that its environment is no longer able to sustain it, so its population crashes.
Guess which curve we're on? I'll give you a hint: it's not the one with the happy ending. And before you assume that I'm some feel-good save-the-planet type, no, I'm really not. I'm just pointing out the fairly obvious fact that we're destroying our life support system a lot faster than it's able to repair itself.
--Jeremy
Maybe at the very highest levels, yes, it would make a difference.
But no, you've most likely convinced yourself that it makes a difference, and therefore does make a difference to you. I'd suggest turning off your framerate counter and paying attention to the game instead of using it as a scapegoat for why you might not have won.
I also play on the Internet, and generally do pretty well. I don't care about my framerate as long as it's fairly fluid. (30fps solid is fine) And most online opponents just suck anyway.
--Jeremy
Would it make you feel better if Microsoft updated the version string to be 7.0?
You know, the version number is entirely abritrarily assigned. It's not as if they meet some magical threshold of lines of code changed and the compiler suddenly spits out a new major revision number.
--Jeremy
A giant meteor flying at the world isn't the kind of violence that they're trying to protect the children from.
--Jeremy
(b) or (c) followed by several hours of setting up the new PC, reinstalling software and reconfiguring your machine, you mean?
--Jeremy
Your argument centers around the assumption that people have something to "risk" to begin with. If they've been making $7.50/hour their entire lives, we can be nearly certain that they don't.
You also make the mistaken assumption that an employee assumes no risk. I took the "risk" of training in my field in order to get a better job. I took the risk of signing on with my employer in a right-to-work state. You're right, though, that I didn't take any risk in renting a building, advertising, legal fees, or any of that crap. Does that when my boss says, "the owners decided that, because they're taking all the risks, you should settle for a barely-livable wage," I should respond with, "yes, kind master"?
--Jeremy
Way to go on addressing the "create" vs. "invent," while missing the entire point.
Before Gore pushed it forward, there was no public internet. You can spin it however you want, but Gore clearly wasn't trying to take credit for inventing network hardware or protocols or anything of the sort. He was just taking (deserved) credit for opening up the private ARPANet to the public.
--Jeremy
Misquote of the day:
--Jeremy
I'm not sure how you can get to this statement from the information in your post that proceeded it.
Within one city, you have 3 different tax rates, varying on at least 3 different types of goods, varying depending on the type of day.
Yeah, it's relatively easy to keep up with when you live in that location. Now you expect companies like Amazon to keep up with every nuance of every tax code on every good on every day of the year in every division in every city in every state? And to keep up on when the rate goes from 7% to 7.25%? And to cut checks to every single one of these tax authorities?
It would be an absolute nightmare to a) have to code every single little exception that makes its way into law and b) staff the legal department to read up on every single tax code every year to make sure that every one of them is correct. And not only would Amazon have to do it, but so would NewEgg and iTunes and every other online retailer.
The *only* way I could see this being feasible is if there were a centrally available method for computing tax rates that online retailers could subscribe to. Sounds like a potential business opportunity, but also sounds like it would come with an incredible amount of liability.
--Jeremy
Oh, that poor, exploited upper 10%. Woe is to them. Why should they have to pay 90% (probably an overestimate) of the taxes just because they control 90% (probably an underestimate) of the wealth?
--Jeremy
Yes, because well-fed people in a decent financial situation are, historically, the most likely to revolt.
--Jeremy
Which still isn't illegal, btw.
--Jeremy
Well, frequently nature's way of "balancing" involves mass extinction. Do we really want to roll the dice and let nature decide?
--Jeremy
Sorry that your neighborhood is so shitty. I doubt if cameras would solve anything, though. A bunch of grainy pictures of unidentifiable suspects? Are they too dumb to wear a hood or mask? Are people suddenly going to start fingering them just because there's video evidence?
And even cameras did help, and were justified, I don't think it's a good argument for cameras for the rest of the (sane) world. *Most* places aren't gang warzones.
--Jeremy
Yeah, and if only we had CCTVs everywhere we could catch all those damn blackmailers!
--Jeremy
Yes, clearly the Iranians saw how well democracy is working out for Iraq, what with all the sudden Iraqi prosperity. It's only natural that Iran's citizens would want it for themselves.
--Jeremy
Wait ... what? The last two states I've worked in are both "Right to Work" states, which essentially means that my employer could fire me at any time for any (or no) reason. In fact, it's better that they have no reason because then I couldn't sue for discrimination, if that were the case. Sure, I get the right to quit at any time ... but I already had that right to begin with.
So it's difficult for me to feel much sympathy for the "poor employers" when they already hold all the cards.
--Jeremy
This isn't really what the story author was asking, but I feel compelled to respond anyway, because it seems to be a common misconception.
A master's program in computer science should have absolutely nothing to do with web development. Or database admin tasks. Or Cisco hardware. Or Linux security. If I met someone claiming to have a "Master's in Computer Science for web development," I'd probably laugh at them and ask what scam institution they got it from. All of these subjects are just trade skills -- they're the computer equivalents of plumbing or carpentry. (Don't get me wrong though -- they're valuable skills. They just aren't computer science.)
Computer science is designing a new algorithm to more efficiently lay out the box model that web pages use. It is coming up with a new data structure that improves performance of database queries. It is coming up with methods to automatically discover your network's spanning tree. It's proving that the methods used for authentication are, in fact, secure. Computer science is NOT programming.
I have a CS degree, and my current job as a web developer is certainly *not* computer science.
Of course, if the story's submitter hadn't spent so much time getting wasted in college and had taken things more seriously, he'd have known this. But it's nice to know that the value of my degree is diluted by people like this who don't even know what their degree *means*.
--Jeremy
If that's the case, then it was *you* who wasted your time and money, not your courses.
A university education is just that -- an education. If you treat it like a trade school (which, unfortunately, many people do), then you not only waste your time, but you dilute the value of the degrees of people who actually *do* go to school for an education.
--Jeremy
I find this developer's whining particularly amusing, as the new Prince of Persia (while a decent game) felt like a watered down version of Sands of Time.
Now, I can understand that managing two sets of resources is probably not worth the effort, given the fact that the PS3 and 360 are so much more powerful. It would essentially be the same as building the same game twice. But the Wii's hardware really does not limit anything that was done in the new PoP except polygon count and texture resolution.
--Jeremy
Yeah, unlike the PS3 and 360, whose proponents *never* mention their HD resolutions, processing power, or storage capacity.
--Jeremy
Well, when you phrase it that way, to make "rape fantasy" equivalent to "rape", it's not easy at all.
But I think most reasonable people can see that they aren't the same thing, and that rape is bad, and rape fantasy is just a fantasy like any other.
Do you get this up in arms over war games ("murder fantasy") as well?
--Jeremy
You've got that partially right.
Fruit pickers would be getting paid more if orchard owners didn't willingly hire illegal workers to save a buck.
--Jeremy