Well, yes. I'm interested in software and computers. So someone running a blog on their toaster will have a lot more that I'm interested in than a housewife with a masters degree in english lit.
Don't forget the other affliction of old guys. Two things that will always be money makers. Helping old guys kill young dudes from other countries, and returning life to those old guys dead boners. The graveyard and the bone zone, you'll never go broke setting up shop there.
Not to mention that with pills it's surprisingly hard to get those which would kill you quickly and painlessly. And with cutting, there's an additional unfortunate in that the privacy one needs often means that people the person cares about will be the one to find them. Most people would much rather their family not be traumatized by having to see their remains right after the deed is done.
The biggest way that slashdot has gone downhill since I started reading it has been the amount of people who ask "why" a person would do some neat bit of coding, or engineering, or hacking, or whatever. Why does someone climb a mountain or paint a painting.
I think the understanding part is really important. I'm not terminally ill, but I am crippled. Fairly newly so. And it changed everything in my outlook to life. The desperation caused by suddenly being less than you were, knowing that'll never change, that NOTHING can be done and that your previously fun life has now been changed to a life sentence in conditions that would be considered torture if inflicted on a person. It fucks with your head pretty badly. Anyone can handle it for a day, a week, a month. But I don't think there's many, if any, people who could maintain their personality and full objectivity in the face of it for long.
I think it's not so much the ethical concerns, as the scientific ones. You'd have to totally remove the blinded nature of a study, for example. Which would make the validity of it fairly suspect for most conditions. The reason these stem cell sham centers are doing ok is that even people with life or death situations are incredibly good at fooling themselves.
For some reason I keep going back to io9 despite it sharing so many gawker family traits. It's a science fiction site with little apparent grasp of what science is, and one which seems to gasp with manic joy at every piece of low budget urban fantasy that pins the word "scifi" on itself. And the worst part is I don't even know why. It might just be the one or two contributers there who one just gets the impression of forced labor from. Like they know the score, know that we know, want to do actual reporting, but keep getting whipped by the gawker taskmasters.
Science, just science with unavoidably flawed methodology. Fine when it's all you've got, but at the same time it should be kept in mind that it's not an ideal situation. Any time when human subjectivity gets mixed in with the evaluation, you've got a huge sign that new tools need to be brought in. The whole reason we have science in the first place is because our species is inherently bad at evaluating a lot of things past a certain point. We're great at fuzzy, but abstractions beyond a certain point will always get messed up when applied to reality.
I think I'd almost take that over hearing that their kid has "an old soul". Or the whole indigo child crap. And we let them get away with their stupidity, because nobody wants to be the dick who shit talks a beaming mom.
I think that's his point though. "I didn't mean to do that action, I meant to do this one! I don't actually owe you as much money now." would be laughed away if any player tried to use it.
Nowadays, a lot of people believe anything they see on the Internet just like if they had seen it on TV.
At the same time, they'll also tend to believe anything told to them. It's just human nature to judge things based first on how close we feel to whatever or whoever told us. It's unfortunate, and it can be overcome to some extent. But for the most part it's simply the default way our brains interpret information. We're more about the "who" than the "why".
Man, my ancestors moved from germany to the US because of racial discrimination. I'm not going to shed any tears for people if under the same pressure they protest that it's too hard to just move from one state to another in the same country and land mass. Hell, I'm disabled and poor and even I managed to move cross country a couple weeks back for no pressing reason other than boredom.
They're not, in my opinion at least. I was a true believer for a while. But the actual progress just isn't matching the hoped for predictions. From a life extension perspective, there's really no chance. I've been following things for about a decade now, and the progress has been pretty much zilch. And it's not that much better from the concept of uploading. Fmri is still king of brain scanning. And as great as it is, it's about as close to what we'd need there as saying that someone is immortal because they've had a painting made of them. While I think it's inevitable that one of those will get there eventually, I don't see it in the lifetime of anyone reading this.
Most people are ugly and put their fat ugly faces too close to the damn camera when they do it. If we lived in some kind of logans run paradise where it was all hot 20 somethings I think videoconferencing would be far more popular.
I think that only works if it's the same people saying it. If there's a "I really like X" thread, if I didn't like it I'm far less interested in posting in it. But if people are generally having a "man, I hate X for this reason" and I hate X for another reason, I'm going to be more interested in posting.
No, it can't become one. If it's become such than what's being practiced isn't science anymore. Science is an active methodology for gathering and analyzing data. Once that's no longer the case it's not science anymore. There's a word for it, pseudoscience.
Copernicus is a great hero in Poland, an example to aspire to.
Why? I just don't understand that. Even if you want to ascribe him polish nationality, it was from the 1400s. It was a culture totally different than that of modern day poland. The culture of most any other country in present day will be more similar than the polish culture of his time in comparison to the one now.
They believe in ghosts and magic. Pretty much begins and ends right there. Just be glad their little games of dress up and rituals are mostly just isolated as spectacle in most places.
It either hits the "math is hard!" crowd, or goes in the other direction of "We're old geeks, new things are scary!" The middle ground of actual nerds/geeks, the people who like being challenged by new things, seems to shrink more and more.
It really is annoying, especially because I don't "want" a voice plan, or sms. I want data, that's it. I use sms instead of an actual call for personal use when out and about 90% of the time anyway. And I do all that through google voice.
IT geeks love this thing because it's optimal for always-on acess to their servers. They can travel now.
We do? For RDP, I guess I can see it. But I'm not a happy camper if I'm forced into using that to begin with. And command line activities on a touchscreen sound about as close to hell as I can imagine.
I travel all the time. Just tether my phone to a netbook, or laptop, and I'm good. But I'm bringing one of those two things along for a reason, the keyboard and real operating system on it.
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Well, yes. I'm interested in software and computers. So someone running a blog on their toaster will have a lot more that I'm interested in than a housewife with a masters degree in english lit.
They tried, but Chuck Norris proceeded to lecture them about the evils of genetics and that they needed to accept god and creation science.
Don't forget the other affliction of old guys. Two things that will always be money makers. Helping old guys kill young dudes from other countries, and returning life to those old guys dead boners. The graveyard and the bone zone, you'll never go broke setting up shop there.
Not to mention that with pills it's surprisingly hard to get those which would kill you quickly and painlessly. And with cutting, there's an additional unfortunate in that the privacy one needs often means that people the person cares about will be the one to find them. Most people would much rather their family not be traumatized by having to see their remains right after the deed is done.
The biggest way that slashdot has gone downhill since I started reading it has been the amount of people who ask "why" a person would do some neat bit of coding, or engineering, or hacking, or whatever. Why does someone climb a mountain or paint a painting.
I think the understanding part is really important. I'm not terminally ill, but I am crippled. Fairly newly so. And it changed everything in my outlook to life. The desperation caused by suddenly being less than you were, knowing that'll never change, that NOTHING can be done and that your previously fun life has now been changed to a life sentence in conditions that would be considered torture if inflicted on a person. It fucks with your head pretty badly. Anyone can handle it for a day, a week, a month. But I don't think there's many, if any, people who could maintain their personality and full objectivity in the face of it for long.
I think it's not so much the ethical concerns, as the scientific ones. You'd have to totally remove the blinded nature of a study, for example. Which would make the validity of it fairly suspect for most conditions. The reason these stem cell sham centers are doing ok is that even people with life or death situations are incredibly good at fooling themselves.
For some reason I keep going back to io9 despite it sharing so many gawker family traits. It's a science fiction site with little apparent grasp of what science is, and one which seems to gasp with manic joy at every piece of low budget urban fantasy that pins the word "scifi" on itself. And the worst part is I don't even know why. It might just be the one or two contributers there who one just gets the impression of forced labor from. Like they know the score, know that we know, want to do actual reporting, but keep getting whipped by the gawker taskmasters.
Science, just science with unavoidably flawed methodology. Fine when it's all you've got, but at the same time it should be kept in mind that it's not an ideal situation. Any time when human subjectivity gets mixed in with the evaluation, you've got a huge sign that new tools need to be brought in. The whole reason we have science in the first place is because our species is inherently bad at evaluating a lot of things past a certain point. We're great at fuzzy, but abstractions beyond a certain point will always get messed up when applied to reality.
I think I'd almost take that over hearing that their kid has "an old soul". Or the whole indigo child crap. And we let them get away with their stupidity, because nobody wants to be the dick who shit talks a beaming mom.
I think that's his point though. "I didn't mean to do that action, I meant to do this one! I don't actually owe you as much money now." would be laughed away if any player tried to use it.
Nowadays, a lot of people believe anything they see on the Internet just like if they had seen it on TV.
At the same time, they'll also tend to believe anything told to them. It's just human nature to judge things based first on how close we feel to whatever or whoever told us. It's unfortunate, and it can be overcome to some extent. But for the most part it's simply the default way our brains interpret information. We're more about the "who" than the "why".
Man, my ancestors moved from germany to the US because of racial discrimination. I'm not going to shed any tears for people if under the same pressure they protest that it's too hard to just move from one state to another in the same country and land mass. Hell, I'm disabled and poor and even I managed to move cross country a couple weeks back for no pressing reason other than boredom.
They're not, in my opinion at least. I was a true believer for a while. But the actual progress just isn't matching the hoped for predictions. From a life extension perspective, there's really no chance. I've been following things for about a decade now, and the progress has been pretty much zilch. And it's not that much better from the concept of uploading. Fmri is still king of brain scanning. And as great as it is, it's about as close to what we'd need there as saying that someone is immortal because they've had a painting made of them. While I think it's inevitable that one of those will get there eventually, I don't see it in the lifetime of anyone reading this.
If you think something is a sin, (alcohol, for instance) why can't Muslims simply choose to not drink alcohol and leave everyone else alone?
You say, while probably writing from a country where people can be locked up in a rape room for growing or using pot.
Most people are ugly and put their fat ugly faces too close to the damn camera when they do it. If we lived in some kind of logans run paradise where it was all hot 20 somethings I think videoconferencing would be far more popular.
It sounds like the way the author went about it was itself unscientific.
I think that only works if it's the same people saying it. If there's a "I really like X" thread, if I didn't like it I'm far less interested in posting in it. But if people are generally having a "man, I hate X for this reason" and I hate X for another reason, I'm going to be more interested in posting.
No, it can't become one. If it's become such than what's being practiced isn't science anymore. Science is an active methodology for gathering and analyzing data. Once that's no longer the case it's not science anymore. There's a word for it, pseudoscience.
You know this ? For a fact ?
Well, now I am. We have his skull out to examine, and yep, no working brain in there. So he's incapable of thinking or caring about anything.
Copernicus is a great hero in Poland, an example to aspire to.
Why? I just don't understand that. Even if you want to ascribe him polish nationality, it was from the 1400s. It was a culture totally different than that of modern day poland. The culture of most any other country in present day will be more similar than the polish culture of his time in comparison to the one now.
They believe in ghosts and magic. Pretty much begins and ends right there. Just be glad their little games of dress up and rituals are mostly just isolated as spectacle in most places.
It either hits the "math is hard!" crowd, or goes in the other direction of "We're old geeks, new things are scary!" The middle ground of actual nerds/geeks, the people who like being challenged by new things, seems to shrink more and more.
It really is annoying, especially because I don't "want" a voice plan, or sms. I want data, that's it. I use sms instead of an actual call for personal use when out and about 90% of the time anyway. And I do all that through google voice.
IT geeks love this thing because it's optimal for always-on acess to their servers. They can travel now.
We do? For RDP, I guess I can see it. But I'm not a happy camper if I'm forced into using that to begin with. And command line activities on a touchscreen sound about as close to hell as I can imagine.
I travel all the time. Just tether my phone to a netbook, or laptop, and I'm good. But I'm bringing one of those two things along for a reason, the keyboard and real operating system on it.