I imagine the first fusion-powered car will make it as well.
Fusion powered cars give me the weirdest boner. Like a car that could operate for a hundred years without any fuel... is just plain sexy!!! I could program my car to drive nonstop and I would never have to pay for rent as long as I stayed off toll-roads.
Did anyone else get the "Model T" reference? Like Tesla is taking a step back from the harmful environmentally dangerous combustion vehicles and redoing the whole thing. I have to admit this impresses me.
I bet we'll look back in few hundred years from within the confines of our brain jars and enjoy some very fine dream-inspired brandies and smoke about the wonders of the physical world and how foolish we were to think that was a good place to dwell for all eternity.
But until then let's enjoy these new environmentally friendly cars! To go from nowhere to nowhere for no reason other than your boss wants you to, and doing it all in style, without a bad environmental footprint apart from the scrap metal each of these will become one day.
Well a living will executes demands and requirements from the perspective of the person, so the request is being made in advance by the person... not by a family member or anyone else.
For example, if I don't want to be resuscitated, I can put DNR in my living will. They cannot legally resuscitate me.
So it's the same if you put in a living will that if you ever become terminally ill and will die within 6mths, that you are hereby requesting the prescription to be given to you by a proxy.
Hey lawyers, could a "living will" work here? Would I be able to not proxy my dignified death to someone trusted when I was incapable of doing it myself? From my perspective if a person accepts that death happens to all of us, we owe it to society to leave the world sooner rather than leaving a huge bill to eat away at the inheritance of loved ones.
I use Paypal all the time on websites because of the "devil you know" philosophy. I know them. They are pretty evil, but at least I know to what extent they are evil. I'd like to sell stuff through them but well they are just too tough to deal with to make it worthwhile.
They have interfered with commerce on almost every level. Their API is pretty antiquated and full of obfuscated settings. By now I should be able to sign up to a website, give them my info, upload a virtual product, and collect money from whoever buys it.
I should NOT have to pay if someone tries to fuck them over. That's their problem. But Paypal totally ruins businesses that get targeted by chargeback scammers, to the extent that they SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD... because it's pretty likely that at least some employees in Paypal are fraudsters. This recent leak could have been an inside job.
If you ever need to dispute something with them just toss a coin. You'll never know if you'll win unless you have an agreement with them that is tested and works. But even then... who knows?
Don't try to do anything nice for anyone like collect charitable funds because you'll have a bad time.
That won't work, most of them haven't watched it anyway.
This is exactly why religion is bad. You take an invisible dude in a toga and put him in control of morality!!!! Well there's your problem. The premise of religion is immoral because it's based upon a lie.
Intel should not buy Nokia. Nokia has made several missteps and the investment a company like Intel would make could help Nokia survive but in this case it would not be a best case return on investment for Intel. I admit it could be a good return for the public, but when Nokia goes bust their technology will be free for everyone anyway so why should anyone save them?
Wordperfect had their chance. People forget but back then there was a feature war between the two compamies and while Woerperfect was clearly a better product, fewer people used it and the two companies struggled to lock down users by increasing the difficulty for importing files from either competitor into the product of the other competitor.
Wordperfect could have totally supplanted Word if their engineers had abandoned the massive bloat (Word is bloated too), and shifted the company toward minimalism, abandoning 95% of the features with a simple product that does most things you want in a word processor. But they were convinced the public would buy th product with the most features and Word eventually won.
Novell still could make some kinof comeback this way and sell the product for $10 I know millions of peopluld buy it instead of $125 Office student.
This is why we have internet bubbles. If you try and cheat your way to the top, the people will simply shift away from you. If value is non-existent in a service or product, the people will not buy it (even if it's free). If you keep fooling them, eventually there will be nobody left with money to fool, or the ones you fooled will ignore future false promises. Millions of Facebook users don't realize they are working for Facebook but not being paid, because Facebook earns all it's money based on the information those people provide, freely (including private messages).
When the negative behavior is revealed to everyone, we tend to just pull the plug. For example, I deleted my Facebook account because of their shady attitude towards privacy. For a while it looked like Facebook would continue to dominate social. But social has become very anti-social; ads, over-stimulus, email nagging... etc.
THE PROMISE
I will pull the plug on anything that turns out to be false. Invest in false companies at your peril.
What about all the false positives from people who have no clue how to work wifi? Throw away the key! They teased us in school. I'm sorry but it really is a temptation to enjoy this.
If you want free copyright material, there is usually a way to get it with a magic marker, some duck tape and a deep voice. No jail time!
I was not at all impressed with this guy. He has no real plan other than sending people to die while getting the footage of it because he's a greed-monster. This mission might even set back human space exploration by causing generations of people to fear space.
If your friends and you have nothing to talk about but the type of things that are put in status updates on facebook, and you can only have conversations if you don't know what's going on with them, then the problem isn't facebook.
Not sure who your friends are but my friends would post everything going on all the time. It felt like having a conversation a second time when we would talk about things going on. I was the same too -- I'd post everything going on, thinking people were interested. They aren't. In fact someone is more likely to be jealous of your advertised success on Facebook than happy for you. People can still be happy about your little triumphs if it's just a casual conversation, because there is no permanence. But when you have lots of success and they see it there permanently attached to your face, people can start to hate you for your happiness.
This isn't a problem with our friends. It's a problem with over-exposure to permanent social facts about the people we know. I'd rather not know someone's boss is an asshole again. I'd rather not know someone made THE BEST CHILLI... unless we're having a chat. That's not a real important fact -- it's an ice-breaker.
"Hey buddy." "Hey man! What's new?"
"I made the most wicked chilli this weekend!"
"Sounds good! What was so good about it?" "GHOST PEPPERS." "You madman!!!"
Nothing in the conversation really mattered. It was a friendly chat that helps people to have a good moment.
Had I seen the post about his chilli, would I care?
"Hey buddy." "Hey man! What's new?"
"I made the most wicked chilli this weekend!"
"I saw that. Ghost peppers?" "GHOST PEPPERS." "Oh."
Now that I've been off Facebook for a long time, whenever I see friends we actually have something to talk about, because I have no clue as to what's been going on with them. It's brilliant!
This here is the future of education. Eventually we'll formalize this further by enabling a quick download directly to our brains that brings everyone up to speed fast regarding the facts of science, discipline, critical thinking, analysis.
What education will never be able to teach us is morality. Bertrand Russel, the great philosopher once was asked what he would offer the future generations.
Here is what he had to say about it. He said two things, one intellectual and one moral; when you study any matter, ask yourself only what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out; the moral thing is love is wise, hatred is foolish.
With education like the $100 masters degree, we have the first part down fine. The rest of our development needs to focus on the second.
Whenever I see "blaw...blaw AGILE blaw...blaw", I stop reading.
To be fair, in this case the word agile applies. The problem that Linux faces every step of the way is that we have slow positioning in markets overall. We are told by the marketing people that linux is too geeky for the typical Joe Public... That he wants a PC running Windows -- and his wife wants an Apple.
When he gets started on his first web business, he would want something he can deploy easily on his own. Is that Linux?
The next big market is not big corporations -- it's the long tail and that means average computer userd with online business ideas and no skill.
Perhaps one day we'll realize that everything our alien forefathers knew was written in our DNA -- or cats (you know those Egyptians sure loved them). The code said that we had to overcome the religious superstitions and start venturing into space as a species or risk total annihilation.
Take it one step further, if we start breeding some computers, they could evolve to become more and more powerful while we all just relax and play video games. As we all get lazier and lazier, this is the eventual outcome; we will become obsolete when we stop adapting and the key limitation for any computer system is that the system is not able to improve itself. With this kind of DNA replication theory tested and proved, we now can use this to facilitate a computer chip that improves itself.
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Fusion powered cars give me the weirdest boner. Like a car that could operate for a hundred years without any fuel... is just plain sexy!!! I could program my car to drive nonstop and I would never have to pay for rent as long as I stayed off toll-roads.
Did anyone else get the "Model T" reference? Like Tesla is taking a step back from the harmful environmentally dangerous combustion vehicles and redoing the whole thing. I have to admit this impresses me.
I bet we'll look back in few hundred years from within the confines of our brain jars and enjoy some very fine dream-inspired brandies and smoke about the wonders of the physical world and how foolish we were to think that was a good place to dwell for all eternity.
But until then let's enjoy these new environmentally friendly cars! To go from nowhere to nowhere for no reason other than your boss wants you to, and doing it all in style, without a bad environmental footprint apart from the scrap metal each of these will become one day.
Well a living will executes demands and requirements from the perspective of the person, so the request is being made in advance by the person... not by a family member or anyone else.
For example, if I don't want to be resuscitated, I can put DNR in my living will. They cannot legally resuscitate me.
So it's the same if you put in a living will that if you ever become terminally ill and will die within 6mths, that you are hereby requesting the prescription to be given to you by a proxy.
Hey lawyers, could a "living will" work here? Would I be able to not proxy my dignified death to someone trusted when I was incapable of doing it myself? From my perspective if a person accepts that death happens to all of us, we owe it to society to leave the world sooner rather than leaving a huge bill to eat away at the inheritance of loved ones.
I use Paypal all the time on websites because of the "devil you know" philosophy. I know them. They are pretty evil, but at least I know to what extent they are evil. I'd like to sell stuff through them but well they are just too tough to deal with to make it worthwhile.
They have interfered with commerce on almost every level. Their API is pretty antiquated and full of obfuscated settings. By now I should be able to sign up to a website, give them my info, upload a virtual product, and collect money from whoever buys it.
I should NOT have to pay if someone tries to fuck them over. That's their problem. But Paypal totally ruins businesses that get targeted by chargeback scammers, to the extent that they SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED FOR FRAUD... because it's pretty likely that at least some employees in Paypal are fraudsters. This recent leak could have been an inside job.
If you ever need to dispute something with them just toss a coin. You'll never know if you'll win unless you have an agreement with them that is tested and works. But even then... who knows?
Don't try to do anything nice for anyone like collect charitable funds because you'll have a bad time.
Binary art of someone being blatant, methinks...
Yes, hi this is Jonny Law. You can pull over with your hands-free up!
Early adopters get a rare slice of history. Nothing wrong with that.
This is exactly why religion is bad. You take an invisible dude in a toga and put him in control of morality!!!! Well there's your problem. The premise of religion is immoral because it's based upon a lie.
He said, posting as AC. :)
See? I knew it was okay to use electronics during takeoff and landing! The pilots are using them!!! SEE??!?!!
Intel should not buy Nokia. Nokia has made several missteps and the investment a company like Intel would make could help Nokia survive but in this case it would not be a best case return on investment for Intel. I admit it could be a good return for the public, but when Nokia goes bust their technology will be free for everyone anyway so why should anyone save them?
Nokia is a bad investment for ANYONE.
Wordperfect had their chance. People forget but back then there was a feature war between the two compamies and while Woerperfect was clearly a better product, fewer people used it and the two companies struggled to lock down users by increasing the difficulty for importing files from either competitor into the product of the other competitor.
Wordperfect could have totally supplanted Word if their engineers had abandoned the massive bloat (Word is bloated too), and shifted the company toward minimalism, abandoning 95% of the features with a simple product that does most things you want in a word processor. But they were convinced the public would buy th product with the most features and Word eventually won.
Novell still could make some kinof comeback this way and sell the product for $10 I know millions of peopluld buy it instead of $125 Office student.
FTFY
This is why we have internet bubbles. If you try and cheat your way to the top, the people will simply shift away from you. If value is non-existent in a service or product, the people will not buy it (even if it's free). If you keep fooling them, eventually there will be nobody left with money to fool, or the ones you fooled will ignore future false promises. Millions of Facebook users don't realize they are working for Facebook but not being paid, because Facebook earns all it's money based on the information those people provide, freely (including private messages).
When the negative behavior is revealed to everyone, we tend to just pull the plug. For example, I deleted my Facebook account because of their shady attitude towards privacy. For a while it looked like Facebook would continue to dominate social. But social has become very anti-social; ads, over-stimulus, email nagging... etc.
THE PROMISE
I will pull the plug on anything that turns out to be false. Invest in false companies at your peril.
What about all the false positives from people who have no clue how to work wifi? Throw away the key! They teased us in school. I'm sorry but it really is a temptation to enjoy this.
If you want free copyright material, there is usually a way to get it with a magic marker, some duck tape and a deep voice. No jail time!
I was not at all impressed with this guy. He has no real plan other than sending people to die while getting the footage of it because he's a greed-monster. This mission might even set back human space exploration by causing generations of people to fear space.
Statistics were not really designed to help liars... but god damn the liars love statistics, don't they?
Not sure who your friends are but my friends would post everything going on all the time. It felt like having a conversation a second time when we would talk about things going on. I was the same too -- I'd post everything going on, thinking people were interested. They aren't. In fact someone is more likely to be jealous of your advertised success on Facebook than happy for you. People can still be happy about your little triumphs if it's just a casual conversation, because there is no permanence. But when you have lots of success and they see it there permanently attached to your face, people can start to hate you for your happiness.
This isn't a problem with our friends. It's a problem with over-exposure to permanent social facts about the people we know. I'd rather not know someone's boss is an asshole again. I'd rather not know someone made THE BEST CHILLI... unless we're having a chat. That's not a real important fact -- it's an ice-breaker.
"Hey buddy." "Hey man! What's new?"
"I made the most wicked chilli this weekend!"
"Sounds good! What was so good about it?"
"GHOST PEPPERS."
"You madman!!!"
Nothing in the conversation really mattered. It was a friendly chat that helps people to have a good moment.
Had I seen the post about his chilli, would I care?
"Hey buddy." "Hey man! What's new?"
"I made the most wicked chilli this weekend!"
"I saw that. Ghost peppers?"
"GHOST PEPPERS."
"Oh."
Now that I've been off Facebook for a long time, whenever I see friends we actually have something to talk about, because I have no clue as to what's been going on with them. It's brilliant!
Try it! :)
This here is the future of education. Eventually we'll formalize this further by enabling a quick download directly to our brains that brings everyone up to speed fast regarding the facts of science, discipline, critical thinking, analysis.
What education will never be able to teach us is morality. Bertrand Russel, the great philosopher once was asked what he would offer the future generations.
Here is what he had to say about it. He said two things, one intellectual and one moral; when you study any matter, ask yourself only what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out; the moral thing is love is wise, hatred is foolish.
With education like the $100 masters degree, we have the first part down fine. The rest of our development needs to focus on the second.
To be fair, in this case the word agile applies. The problem that Linux faces every step of the way is that we have slow positioning in markets overall. We are told by the marketing people that linux is too geeky for the typical Joe Public... That he wants a PC running Windows -- and his wife wants an Apple.
When he gets started on his first web business, he would want something he can deploy easily on his own. Is that Linux?
The next big market is not big corporations -- it's the long tail and that means average computer userd with online business ideas and no skill.
Perhaps one day we'll realize that everything our alien forefathers knew was written in our DNA -- or cats (you know those Egyptians sure loved them). The code said that we had to overcome the religious superstitions and start venturing into space as a species or risk total annihilation.
Take it one step further, if we start breeding some computers, they could evolve to become more and more powerful while we all just relax and play video games. As we all get lazier and lazier, this is the eventual outcome; we will become obsolete when we stop adapting and the key limitation for any computer system is that the system is not able to improve itself. With this kind of DNA replication theory tested and proved, we now can use this to facilitate a computer chip that improves itself.
And of those that were downloaded illegally, how many can connect to the real WoW universe without paying?
My position on this subject is that if you aren't subscribing to the actual MMO universe, it's not as good as the actual game universe.
Although SWTOR does have an excellent single player market so I could see how a private server would hurt them.