Your parents had no hand in designing the structure and arrangement of your DNA
Oh well, that's coming soon enough. Our grandchildren wouldn't be able to say that their origin follows any of the Darwin's assumptions completely. In the meantime, our own origin doesn't strictly follow "survival of the fittest" theory unless the concept of fittest is defined by human intelligence in general and philosophy of some influential humans in particular.
See, the thing about evolution is, by most scientific standards of today, a good majority of the principles Darwin outlined in The Origin of Species are actually provable.
Oh yeah - you have a prove for origin of every single species on Earth? I bet this one will disagree and so will killer bees. How do you know that there is not a single animal or plant that you consider wild that hasn't been in fact created by ancient humans through artificial selection and breeding that wouldn't happen in nature due to size/habitat/different mating habits? Wouldn't it be in fact an instance of intelligent design?
In fact, my parents gave some thought to the idea of procreating and the factors involved went beyond survival of the fittest. For all I know cro-magnum also thought with their big head once in a while. Doesn't this in fact make me a product of intelligent design? If some of my ancestors were religious and married according to the doctrine, didn't the founder of their religion play some role in my genetic linage, perhaps a bigger one than physical characteristics?
You, me or anyone (of legal age) can go out and buy and drink enough alcohol to bring about (for example) 2003's statistics [wikipedia.org] for drunk-driving related fatalities (17,013) and injuries (over 500,000) are published by the NHTSA [wikipedia.org] are well known.
Oh well, some of these accidents would have happened anyway. After all, people who drink recklessly also tend to drive recklessly, even when not drunk. But fair enough, irresponsible drinking causes lots of accidents, violence and health problems. Does that mean that billions of humans who enjoy a glass or two should be penalized?
What would happen if you took the whole bottle of sleeping pills, ADHD medication or prescription painkiller? I bet your healthcare costs would far exceed that of someone who occasionally has a bottle of wine, and in fact that's what happens frequently in real world. Should we start raising insurance rates for people taking these medicines in doctor-recommended doses?
Relax, a promise means a full effort to stay faceful in most circumstances. Nothing in human society is a 100% mathematic certainty. This doesn't mean that we should never try or promise.
Raising an infant - mine is a month old now - requires being there day and night, in bed, in the morning, at dinner time. I don't know where you will even get time to do swinging or sex clubbing unless you are planning to dump the kid on your partner and run. Wait at least until the school age. 7 years is a long time of "forced" monogamous relationship and is perhaps worth making a promise on it's own.
Do any of these products force the owner to exercise and eat meals appropriate in calories and composition? I bet 90% of obese would achieve healthy weight in a rehab-type environment, provided they later follow the same regimen at home. For the remaining minority, the problem is truly genetic and must be addressed with drugs and possibly surgery. The thing is, there are millions of genetically obese in US and job discrimination against all these people is not the answer.
I personally wish they would add an additional charge for those who drink alcoholic beverages and a discount for those who absolutely don't -- such as myself.
Why, you want us to subsidize care for your heart attack? I think you should start having a glass of red wine after dinner to qualify for your $5 discount.
Who do you think is more likely to have an unhealthy BMI - a 21 year old guy fresh auto college or a 40 year old woman who just gave birth to her 3rd child and has some knee problems that keep her from exercising? While most obese individuals just need to start walking and lay off McDonald, there are just too many cases which are out of one's control and illegal to discriminate against. For example, both depression and some anti-depression drugs can cause weight gain. Once we move on blood pressure, cholesterol level and glucose levels, it's more likely to be genetic or otherwise randomly striking disease than environmental. Are those morons really going to cut back salary for people who were born with type 1 diabetes?
Besides, the whole point of insurance is to charge an average rate for a wide group of individuals. If instead every one is charged exactly the cost of their medical care, healthy individuals will drop out of the plan and pay out of pocket while unhealthy ones will delay treatment until it's an emergency covered by Medicare. In the long run, this will drive the insurance company out of business as nobody will really benefit from their coverage.
You must be talking about Afganistan or something. Because in US at least for the last 20 years the message have been for women to work 12 hour-per-day jobs and don't let husbands and children "slow them down". The message has largely been successful, resulting in spectacular breakdown of modern families.
It's a real world and everyone understands that when someone says "we pledge to fix ALL reported security bugs in 10 days" it really means 99% of bugs, safe for a few extraordinarily difficult ones. Furthermore a temporary fix can be partial - just add some regular expression filter eliminating likely exploits - and it can involve disabling all but the most core functionality until the real solution is found. Imagine an extension turning off all plugins and running in chroot jail as nobody until the user confirms that a particular site is definitely trusted. Given these constraints, why can't Firefox foundation respond to any reproducible threat within 10 days? Unless of course they are run by geeks who care more about passing the latest CSS test than keeping users' credit cards out of russian hacker sites.
Boys tend to need less encouragement to go into fields such as Engineering, Maths or Science, it doesn't mean anybodies discouraging them.
So basically, you are saying that males are more suitable for jobs that require a self-motivated individual? Like say, most programming jobs?
If you disagree, why do you think a particular group of humans should get an extra motivation to go into fields that they wouldn't choose and be good at naturally?
Well, if you don't vote for your city's government, you are paying for far more expensive projects that you didn't choose to support. As for WiFi, the tax is likely to be dramatically less than at least $60/month that Comcast charges for Internet access.
It wouldn't be the same God who tell you to shut up and read the scriptures then? Because otherwise this is the key point in your post and everything else is just a smoke screen. So anyway, if your God encourages you to think, you will recognize that the same lifestyle doesn't suit everyone. If you had a stronger sex drive, you would spend those 30 years under-confident, depressed and frustrated. When that special person finally came along, you wouldn't have much to share with her, as you have spent your young adulthood needlessly trying to fight your own nature rather than living in harmony with your body.
So, while I am glad it worked out for you, I hope you also tell your two children that God gave them brains to think with and figure out how to live a fulfilling life according to their own nature rather than having to copy Dad every step of the way.
You do realize that full fledged editing of your PDFs is impossible and to make even minor changes, one must shell out way more $$$ to Adobe than they would to Microsoft for a copy of Word 2007, right?
You can run baselisk ii on an Intel Mac for your System 6 needs. I am sure MS Word 4 can be located on your favorite abandonware or torrent sites. This way you don't have to worry about a variable rotation speed floppy drive and you are also Ok with copyright laws since you did buy a legal copy once upon a time.
Schizophrenics have many impairments beyond hearing voices - social withdrawal, low performance on most cognitive tests, bizarre reasoning. Drugs that work well to stop hallucinations ("positive symptoms") do not do anything about these "negative symptoms". Many schizophrenics do not have "positive symptoms" and those in fact have worse long-term prognosis.
Most of us will not start throwing our feces at people by applying good logic to whatever real or imaginary input data.
ACLU members are not liberals. They are conservatives and believe that US constitution is a supreme law and must be followed or else amended using proper process that allows wide debate. ACLU has on occasion sided with KKK and neo-Nazi on the grounds that the later are still entitled to freedom of expression.
I wonder if our resources would be better spent on Earth-based research short term (say, for the next 20 years). We need nationwide man-on-moon style efforts to address global warming, world population control, political stability, eradication of nuclear weapons... Yes, it's not a zero sum game. But addressing these things may cost a trillion dollars and we may not have government money left for much else.
Moreover, Earth-based research can create advances that will make our future space exploration dramatically easier. We can not just keep using chemical propellant as we consider manned and/or heavier robotic missions to solar system and beyond. A combination of a fusion reactor (or at least a safer fission one) and an ion drive needs to be developed to the point where it can be used as the main source of thrust. We need new materials that can reliably survive atmospheric reentry unlike current fragile ceramics. We need robotics that can operate autonomously where speed of light rules out direct remote control. Mars is not going anywhere for the next few years, but we can get a huge head start by doing our research.
Of course, the point is moot if instead of the space program our taxes are going to unnecessary wars and incarcerating pot smokers. We all need to become as passionate about politics as we are about tech toys if we want to see either Man on Mars or Earth inhabitable without space suits.
Thanks for the official word. So basically, advantages of IronKey over saving an encrypted dmg on a regular flash drive:
1. Faster. Now qualify this - did you run benchmark against a SSE3-optimized software implementation running on 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo? Does the later really performs AES slower than the speed of USB2 or read/write speed of your flash hardware?
2. Hardware-based self-destruct
Disadvantages of IronKey:
1. No way for the user to supply their own algorithm other than AES - say if they distrust US government standard or want to use public key cryptography.
2. No option to use open source software that the user can examine for backdoors and security holes
3. Malware can kill the drive by getting the user to remove and re-insert the drive 3 times or by automatically power cycling the host computer.
Care to explain just what exactly do you do for a living to make it worthwhile for someone to keep beating you up for two weeks to get to your USB drive?
If you don't trust the host machine, it can log the password, read/alter your data after the valid password is entered and even maliciously destroy your data by simulating 11 wrong authentication attempts. If you do trust the host, there is little point in hardware encryption/authentication. And if your flash drive is physically stolen, it's enough to have plain software file encryption. Sounds like a solution in search of users who misunderstand the problem.
Who forces you to plug in your hybrid? If in your area burning gasoline is more ecologically friendly than making use of a coal electric plant, by all means just ignore the plug until you had a chance to install a solar roof. You may also be able to charge your car during off-peak hours when the power would otherwise go to waste or be stored using inefficient technology.
Of course if would be even better to have a diesel plug in hybrid that can run on whatever is the most economical fuel in your area.
So you are not against multifunctional devices, even though the alarm function on Palm is not as good as a dedicated alarm clock with hands and a snooze button? Maybe a Treo would do you good, for when you forget to bring your camera or your cell phone...
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Your parents had no hand in designing the structure and arrangement of your DNA
Oh well, that's coming soon enough. Our grandchildren wouldn't be able to say that their origin follows any of the Darwin's assumptions completely. In the meantime, our own origin doesn't strictly follow "survival of the fittest" theory unless the concept of fittest is defined by human intelligence in general and philosophy of some influential humans in particular.
See, the thing about evolution is, by most scientific standards of today, a good majority of the principles Darwin outlined in The Origin of Species are actually provable.
Oh yeah - you have a prove for origin of every single species on Earth? I bet this one will disagree and so will killer bees. How do you know that there is not a single animal or plant that you consider wild that hasn't been in fact created by ancient humans through artificial selection and breeding that wouldn't happen in nature due to size/habitat/different mating habits? Wouldn't it be in fact an instance of intelligent design?
In fact, my parents gave some thought to the idea of procreating and the factors involved went beyond survival of the fittest. For all I know cro-magnum also thought with their big head once in a while. Doesn't this in fact make me a product of intelligent design? If some of my ancestors were religious and married according to the doctrine, didn't the founder of their religion play some role in my genetic linage, perhaps a bigger one than physical characteristics?
You, me or anyone (of legal age) can go out and buy and drink enough alcohol to bring about (for example) 2003's statistics [wikipedia.org] for drunk-driving related fatalities (17,013) and injuries (over 500,000) are published by the NHTSA [wikipedia.org] are well known.
Oh well, some of these accidents would have happened anyway. After all, people who drink recklessly also tend to drive recklessly, even when not drunk. But fair enough, irresponsible drinking causes lots of accidents, violence and health problems. Does that mean that billions of humans who enjoy a glass or two should be penalized?
What would happen if you took the whole bottle of sleeping pills, ADHD medication or prescription painkiller? I bet your healthcare costs would far exceed that of someone who occasionally has a bottle of wine, and in fact that's what happens frequently in real world. Should we start raising insurance rates for people taking these medicines in doctor-recommended doses?
Relax, a promise means a full effort to stay faceful in most circumstances. Nothing in human society is a 100% mathematic certainty. This doesn't mean that we should never try or promise.
Raising an infant - mine is a month old now - requires being there day and night, in bed, in the morning, at dinner time. I don't know where you will even get time to do swinging or sex clubbing unless you are planning to dump the kid on your partner and run. Wait at least until the school age. 7 years is a long time of "forced" monogamous relationship and is perhaps worth making a promise on it's own.
Do any of these products force the owner to exercise and eat meals appropriate in calories and composition? I bet 90% of obese would achieve healthy weight in a rehab-type environment, provided they later follow the same regimen at home. For the remaining minority, the problem is truly genetic and must be addressed with drugs and possibly surgery. The thing is, there are millions of genetically obese in US and job discrimination against all these people is not the answer.
I personally wish they would add an additional charge for those who drink alcoholic beverages and a discount for those who absolutely don't -- such as myself.
Why, you want us to subsidize care for your heart attack? I think you should start having a glass of red wine after dinner to qualify for your $5 discount.
Who do you think is more likely to have an unhealthy BMI - a 21 year old guy fresh auto college or a 40 year old woman who just gave birth to her 3rd child and has some knee problems that keep her from exercising? While most obese individuals just need to start walking and lay off McDonald, there are just too many cases which are out of one's control and illegal to discriminate against. For example, both depression and some anti-depression drugs can cause weight gain. Once we move on blood pressure, cholesterol level and glucose levels, it's more likely to be genetic or otherwise randomly striking disease than environmental. Are those morons really going to cut back salary for people who were born with type 1 diabetes?
Besides, the whole point of insurance is to charge an average rate for a wide group of individuals. If instead every one is charged exactly the cost of their medical care, healthy individuals will drop out of the plan and pay out of pocket while unhealthy ones will delay treatment until it's an emergency covered by Medicare. In the long run, this will drive the insurance company out of business as nobody will really benefit from their coverage.
You must be talking about Afganistan or something. Because in US at least for the last 20 years the message have been for women to work 12 hour-per-day jobs and don't let husbands and children "slow them down". The message has largely been successful, resulting in spectacular breakdown of modern families.
It's a real world and everyone understands that when someone says "we pledge to fix ALL reported security bugs in 10 days" it really means 99% of bugs, safe for a few extraordinarily difficult ones. Furthermore a temporary fix can be partial - just add some regular expression filter eliminating likely exploits - and it can involve disabling all but the most core functionality until the real solution is found. Imagine an extension turning off all plugins and running in chroot jail as nobody until the user confirms that a particular site is definitely trusted. Given these constraints, why can't Firefox foundation respond to any reproducible threat within 10 days? Unless of course they are run by geeks who care more about passing the latest CSS test than keeping users' credit cards out of russian hacker sites.
Boys tend to need less encouragement to go into fields such as Engineering, Maths or Science, it doesn't mean anybodies discouraging them.
So basically, you are saying that males are more suitable for jobs that require a self-motivated individual? Like say, most programming jobs?
If you disagree, why do you think a particular group of humans should get an extra motivation to go into fields that they wouldn't choose and be good at naturally?
Well, if you don't vote for your city's government, you are paying for far more expensive projects that you didn't choose to support. As for WiFi, the tax is likely to be dramatically less than at least $60/month that Comcast charges for Internet access.
I believe that God gave me a brain to think with
It wouldn't be the same God who tell you to shut up and read the scriptures then? Because otherwise this is the key point in your post and everything else is just a smoke screen. So anyway, if your God encourages you to think, you will recognize that the same lifestyle doesn't suit everyone. If you had a stronger sex drive, you would spend those 30 years under-confident, depressed and frustrated. When that special person finally came along, you wouldn't have much to share with her, as you have spent your young adulthood needlessly trying to fight your own nature rather than living in harmony with your body.
So, while I am glad it worked out for you, I hope you also tell your two children that God gave them brains to think with and figure out how to live a fulfilling life according to their own nature rather than having to copy Dad every step of the way.
You do realize that full fledged editing of your PDFs is impossible and to make even minor changes, one must shell out way more $$$ to Adobe than they would to Microsoft for a copy of Word 2007, right?
You can run baselisk ii on an Intel Mac for your System 6 needs. I am sure MS Word 4 can be located on your favorite abandonware or torrent sites. This way you don't have to worry about a variable rotation speed floppy drive and you are also Ok with copyright laws since you did buy a legal copy once upon a time.
Schizophrenics have many impairments beyond hearing voices - social withdrawal, low performance on most cognitive tests, bizarre reasoning. Drugs that work well to stop hallucinations ("positive symptoms") do not do anything about these "negative symptoms". Many schizophrenics do not have "positive symptoms" and those in fact have worse long-term prognosis.
Most of us will not start throwing our feces at people by applying good logic to whatever real or imaginary input data.
He is talking about vibrators.
ACLU members are not liberals. They are conservatives and believe that US constitution is a supreme law and must be followed or else amended using proper process that allows wide debate. ACLU has on occasion sided with KKK and neo-Nazi on the grounds that the later are still entitled to freedom of expression.
I wonder if our resources would be better spent on Earth-based research short term (say, for the next 20 years). We need nationwide man-on-moon style efforts to address global warming, world population control, political stability, eradication of nuclear weapons... Yes, it's not a zero sum game. But addressing these things may cost a trillion dollars and we may not have government money left for much else.
Moreover, Earth-based research can create advances that will make our future space exploration dramatically easier. We can not just keep using chemical propellant as we consider manned and/or heavier robotic missions to solar system and beyond. A combination of a fusion reactor (or at least a safer fission one) and an ion drive needs to be developed to the point where it can be used as the main source of thrust. We need new materials that can reliably survive atmospheric reentry unlike current fragile ceramics. We need robotics that can operate autonomously where speed of light rules out direct remote control. Mars is not going anywhere for the next few years, but we can get a huge head start by doing our research.
Of course, the point is moot if instead of the space program our taxes are going to unnecessary wars and incarcerating pot smokers. We all need to become as passionate about politics as we are about tech toys if we want to see either Man on Mars or Earth inhabitable without space suits.
Thanks for the official word. So basically, advantages of IronKey over saving an encrypted dmg on a regular flash drive:
1. Faster. Now qualify this - did you run benchmark against a SSE3-optimized software implementation running on 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo? Does the later really performs AES slower than the speed of USB2 or read/write speed of your flash hardware?
2. Hardware-based self-destruct
Disadvantages of IronKey:
1. No way for the user to supply their own algorithm other than AES - say if they distrust US government standard or want to use public key cryptography.
2. No option to use open source software that the user can examine for backdoors and security holes
3. Malware can kill the drive by getting the user to remove and re-insert the drive 3 times or by automatically power cycling the host computer.
A fingerprint reader would be a welcome addition and would help mitigate attacks from keyloggers.
Yeah, they would just have to dust the same keyboard that had a logger installed for your fingerprints.
Care to explain just what exactly do you do for a living to make it worthwhile for someone to keep beating you up for two weeks to get to your USB drive?
If you don't trust the host machine, it can log the password, read/alter your data after the valid password is entered and even maliciously destroy your data by simulating 11 wrong authentication attempts. If you do trust the host, there is little point in hardware encryption/authentication. And if your flash drive is physically stolen, it's enough to have plain software file encryption. Sounds like a solution in search of users who misunderstand the problem.
Who forces you to plug in your hybrid? If in your area burning gasoline is more ecologically friendly than making use of a coal electric plant, by all means just ignore the plug until you had a chance to install a solar roof. You may also be able to charge your car during off-peak hours when the power would otherwise go to waste or be stored using inefficient technology.
Of course if would be even better to have a diesel plug in hybrid that can run on whatever is the most economical fuel in your area.
So you are not against multifunctional devices, even though the alarm function on Palm is not as good as a dedicated alarm clock with hands and a snooze button? Maybe a Treo would do you good, for when you forget to bring your camera or your cell phone...