The US Military couldn't find that lost nuke because I already salvaged it and will use the components to build something far more dangerous than a conventional nuclear bomb.
Well, if the device in question had a plutonium core, you could use it to power something far more dangerous than any atomic weapon:
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable travelling to a lot of the EU countries, especially Germany. I know it probably wouldn't be an issue, but they have godawful free speech protections. I'm very comfortable in America being able to tap whatever keys I want without fear of police harassment, but you can get in big trouble for saying the wrong thing in europe.. I mean I'd probably enjoy myself but I'd be tiptoeing on eggshells the whole time. Paranoid I know.
Funny... if you poke around Slashdot you'll find Europeans are regularly saying the exact same things about us. Personally, I think we're all just projecting.
I just replaced all the "Microsoft" references with the typical Slashdot "M$". A couple people apparently took offense to that and modded me Troll. Geez.
A non-compete seems to me the perfect way to pay your best employees peanuts.
Up to a point. Smart, motivated types will either break the non-compete (as this guy may be able to do) or find something else worthwhile to do with their time. Can't keep a good man down, I say.
Wow, not only do you not seem to understand evolution, but you thought he was saying something he wasn't at all, and I have no clue whatsoever you thought he said.l
To say evolution "intends" something IS TO COMPLETELY AND ABSOLUTELY MISS THE POINT OF EVOLUTION.
Anonymous Coward, I too join you in shedding tears over this ignorance of evolution.
I mean, how many people that buy iPhones will keep them past the end of the contract anyways? For that matter, how many people that have cellular devices of any kind keep them until they wear out? No, we just throw them away and upgrade, even if they're still working perfectly.
That's a great joke, but I wonder what the chance is that you are replying to yourself?
Nah, too much work. I'd have just done it all in one message under my regular nick. I once used that as a pickup line, "You know, there's a vas deferens between us." "Seriously? What would that be?"
And you're right. She wasn't that bright. But it wasn't her frontal lobes that I was interested in.
They are communist - maybe not true USSR communism
Russia isn't a true Communist state any more than the United States. They're totalitarians, pure and simple. Of course, the United States isn't a democracy either. That's mostly because when implemented on a truly large scale, neither Communism nor Democracy actually work. Both ideals assume that the human animal is something entirely different than what it really is, and both fail because of it.
I'm used to searching on 'microsoft.*' or 'comp.*,' sometimes supplemented with variations like '*microsoft*' or 'comp*.' As an example, try to find a post from the 1996-1998 time period on 'database' in either the comp.* or microsoft.* hierarchies, and if you can do it, please show your search expression.
Here, try this alternate syntax and you may have more luck:
I'm used to searching on 'm$.*' or 'comp.*,' sometimes supplemented with variations like '*m$*' or 'comp*.' As an example, try to find a post from the 1996-1998 time period on 'database' in either the comp.* or m$.* hierarchies, and if you can do it, please show your search expression.
You need to read to the end of the GP's post. In a Sci-Fi plot, HIV might have intentions, or it might be a tool used by some other entity or group that has intentions.
That's true, I hadn't thought of that. HIV could be a self-aware virus (maybe some kind of gestalt mentality that operates through another dimension) having designs upon the human race. I mean, as long as we're in the realm of science-fiction why not go all the way.
Tonight at 8, exclusively on the Fox Movie Channel, "Darwin Thwartifying Deciderers"
Most of those Deciderers seem to think that Darwin is one of Satan's lieutenants, if not the Big Guy himself in human guise. They need some thwartifying.
I've been expecting something like this ever since the discovery of HIV-immune individuals. So yes, the donor can be replicated.
How large of a sample of people do you need to do a genome comparison and locate the gene that provides the immunity? Can gene therapy be utilized here?
Beats me. I'm just a software engineer. Maybe SlashBugs can help you out there.
All we know for certain is that she likes girls, and might just be your garden-variety lesbian. Of course, given that House's character analyses are usually accurate, odds are her door swings both ways but haven't seen that side of her. Not yet... it's pretty obvious the writers aren't through with her.
>Granted, this process would be fatal to the majority of the infected but the survivors would be graced with an extended lifespan, as well as physical and intellectual powers far beyond those of mortal men
Sounds nice unless you are one of those "majority of the infected"...
Well... we are talking an apocalyptic scenario here.
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The US Military couldn't find that lost nuke because I already salvaged it and will use the components to build something far more dangerous than a conventional nuclear bomb.
Well, if the device in question had a plutonium core, you could use it to power something far more dangerous than any atomic weapon:
A DeLorean.
How about Google Ebola, or maybe Google Gangrene? Google Dirty Bomb?
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable travelling to a lot of the EU countries, especially Germany. I know it probably wouldn't be an issue, but they have godawful free speech protections. I'm very comfortable in America being able to tap whatever keys I want without fear of police harassment, but you can get in big trouble for saying the wrong thing in europe.. I mean I'd probably enjoy myself but I'd be tiptoeing on eggshells the whole time. Paranoid I know.
Funny ... if you poke around Slashdot you'll find Europeans are regularly saying the exact same things about us. Personally, I think we're all just projecting.
what?
I just replaced all the "Microsoft" references with the typical Slashdot "M$". A couple people apparently took offense to that and modded me Troll. Geez.
Troll mod? Goddamn Microsoft fanboys. It was JOKE, son!
A non-compete seems to me the perfect way to pay your best employees peanuts.
Up to a point. Smart, motivated types will either break the non-compete (as this guy may be able to do) or find something else worthwhile to do with their time. Can't keep a good man down, I say.
An executive named Papermaster?
Just another nail in the coffin of the Paperless Office.
But...but... but.. What about my freedom to tell people lies and break my word?!
You always have that freedom. You just aren't guaranteed to always get away with it.
Wow, not only do you not seem to understand evolution, but you thought he was saying something he wasn't at all, and I have no clue whatsoever you thought he said.l
To say evolution "intends" something IS TO COMPLETELY AND ABSOLUTELY MISS THE POINT OF EVOLUTION.
Anonymous Coward, I too join you in shedding tears over this ignorance of evolution.
Okay, so you both missed it. Let's move on now.
I mean, how many people that buy iPhones will keep them past the end of the contract anyways? For that matter, how many people that have cellular devices of any kind keep them until they wear out? No, we just throw them away and upgrade, even if they're still working perfectly.
That's a great joke, but I wonder what the chance is that you are replying to yourself?
Nah, too much work. I'd have just done it all in one message under my regular nick. I once used that as a pickup line, "You know, there's a vas deferens between us." "Seriously? What would that be?"
... yeah, maybe it was at that.
And you're right. She wasn't that bright. But it wasn't her frontal lobes that I was interested in.
Then again
They are communist - maybe not true USSR communism
Russia isn't a true Communist state any more than the United States. They're totalitarians, pure and simple. Of course, the United States isn't a democracy either. That's mostly because when implemented on a truly large scale, neither Communism nor Democracy actually work. Both ideals assume that the human animal is something entirely different than what it really is, and both fail because of it.
. I've spent a considerable amount of time in Germany (as an American) and never experienced this.
Yes, and if they're any good at it you wouldn't.
I've seen simple steam boiler engines that are more efficient and more versatile than a stirling engine.
You mean like this one?
with the heat, headlights and windsheild wipers on.
Forget those. I want a car that can do all that with the air conditioning on full.
I can't find the vas deferens, is there another diagram?
Well, there is a vas deferens between a Stirling Cycle engine and a conventional internal combustion engine.
It isn't that usenet has changed its the people. Back in the early 90s and before pretty much only nerds were online.
Prove that.
codeing
Okay, point taken.
I'm used to searching on 'microsoft.*' or 'comp.*,' sometimes supplemented with variations like '*microsoft*' or 'comp*.' As an example, try to find a post from the 1996-1998 time period on 'database' in either the comp.* or microsoft.* hierarchies, and if you can do it, please show your search expression.
Here, try this alternate syntax and you may have more luck:
I'm used to searching on 'm$.*' or 'comp.*,' sometimes supplemented with variations like '*m$*' or 'comp*.' As an example, try to find a post from the 1996-1998 time period on 'database' in either the comp.* or m$.* hierarchies, and if you can do it, please show your search expression.
You need to read to the end of the GP's post. In a Sci-Fi plot, HIV might have intentions, or it might be a tool used by some other entity or group that has intentions.
That's true, I hadn't thought of that. HIV could be a self-aware virus (maybe some kind of gestalt mentality that operates through another dimension) having designs upon the human race. I mean, as long as we're in the realm of science-fiction why not go all the way.
Tonight at 8, exclusively on the Fox Movie Channel, "Darwin Thwartifying Deciderers"
Most of those Deciderers seem to think that Darwin is one of Satan's lieutenants, if not the Big Guy himself in human guise. They need some thwartifying.
A little education wouldn't hurt either.
How large of a sample of people do you need to do a genome comparison and locate the gene that provides the immunity? Can gene therapy be utilized here?
Beats me. I'm just a software engineer. Maybe SlashBugs can help you out there.
You seem confident. Now would you have unprotected sex with an HIV+ person multiple times a week over the course of a year to prove your hypothesis?
I doubt it...
I dunno ... is she really hot?
Yannow, it's pretty out in the open now...
All we know for certain is that she likes girls, and might just be your garden-variety lesbian. Of course, given that House's character analyses are usually accurate, odds are her door swings both ways but haven't seen that side of her. Not yet ... it's pretty obvious the writers aren't through with her.
>Granted, this process would be fatal to the majority of the infected but the survivors would be graced with an extended lifespan, as well as physical and intellectual powers far beyond those of mortal men
Sounds nice unless you are one of those "majority of the infected"...
Well ... we are talking an apocalyptic scenario here.
Can you throw a little House into that? Like, say autoimmune a few times, maybe "at least it isn't lupus" or something? Amyloidosis?
And don't forget a couple of "your people" comments to Foreman, and an oblique reference to 13's presumed bisexuality.