Sorry, but cleaning toilets doesn't involve having pictures/videos of you doing acts you'd rather keep private, with people you'd rather not do them with, around.
There's a huge difference between having sex (or even just appearing naked in front of people) and cleaning a toilet, to a lot of people.
If you've chosen to get into the porn industry how are they acts you'd rather keep private?
Seconded... A friend does porn and thinks it's one of the greatest career choices she's ever made. She would consider these new laws a violation of her civil rights.
Nah I am sure all the money those girls makes really fucks them up psychologically.
What's even worse is that Home and Student is the same price but is only valid for a signle computer, instead of three.
They're really pushing Office 365, and I'm not sure I enjoy the idea.
Interestingly Office 365 is restricted in where you can use it. For some countries they just won't let you buy it. Not 'axis of evil' countries either; some of them are on the State Departments list of 'countries we REALLY want US companies doing business with".
Wouldn't material influx on that level affect the market and depress the cost?
For example, an asteroid made of gold would be worth a lot of money, but the price of gold may fall worldwide if we do catch one.
Thats where the gold cartels come in. And very expensive hit men to take out prospective 'entrepreneurs' before they even try to catch one.
When properly done, spam filtering doesn't make mail unreliable. Sender gets a bounce if his mail doesn't get through, so he will know what's going on, and to retry.
Greylisting is one of THE most effective anti spam techniques.
Allow me to help you with communicating in the 21st century:
1. Send email. 2. If deadline approaches, resend email. 3. If response can no longer wait, use SMS/Chat/Phone Call
I find that I don't have to get to #3 that often, but I waste much less of my time and everyone else's time by not making them stop what they are doing to respond to me THIS SECOND.
SMS can take ten minutes to arrive... So in the case of someone saying he may have to respond to an email IMMEDIATELY, SMS is no good either!!!
I've only had my Pebble for a few days, but I'm finding it pretty convenient when I'm out and about. A lot quicker when I'm walking somewhere, or on the subway, to glance at my wrist to see if I need to respond to an email right away or if it can wait. And the (currently) rudimentary music controls are convenient, too.
It's still in a primitive state, but hopefully the developer community will come up with some killer apps for it. Time will tell if it becomes useful enough to survive past the toy stage and become a regular fixture on my arm.
'Need to respond to an email right away'? Email is an inherently laggy and unreliable messaging system...
in my last job I asked for a Mac Pro because I wanted a *nix workstation that wasn't Linux. Because if it was Linux I'd spend half my time messing around with customising it. OSX is so amazingly uncustomisable I'd have to focus on my work. And its *nix under the hood and a great powerhouse workstation.
Bingo. Where I work lots and lots of people carry their MBPs from meeting to meeting in style but most of them run win7. They've bought into the Apple "style" but still want to get things done. I don't get it personally. I've never thought of my computer as a fashion accessory but I'm not going to judge them. Buy what works and you like.
LOL
in my last job I asked for a Mac Pro because I wanted a *nix workstation that wasn't Linux. Because if it was Linux I'd spend half my time messing around with customising it. OSX is so amazingly uncustomisable I'd have to focus on my work. And its *nix under the hood and a great powerhouse workstation.
I don't think you'll find many libertarians who believe they live in a free country.
You can probably find many who believe this was originally intended to be a free country, and that it could become one by following the original design.
My question about 'free country' would be; 'free' as in 'freedom' or 'free' as in 'beer'? Because from where I'm sitting its not obvious.
Lactase nonpersistence is the ancestral state, and lactase persistence only became advantageous after the invention of agriculture, when milk from domesticated animals became available for adults to drink..... http://x.co/sfIC
Agriculture is absolutely not required for milk to become available for adults to drink.
Animal husbandry is required and you find that in many nomadic, non agricultural, societies.
> the funding for this endeavor is a bit of a question mark
Unless and until they discover an asteroid, in a favorable orbit, that has large deposits of rhodium, or palladium, or platinum, or gold. (Or even copper.)
That will bring in the speculative investors.
Once they demonstrate that they can bring these minerals back to earth at a profit, then they will have screaming investors climbing over one another to put up money for it.
I was arguing years ago that we ought to be doing this. I'm TIRED of the whiny, "only one Earth and we're running out of resources" bullcrap. If they can make this work -- and I give them an even 50/50 chance -- it'll be as revolutionary as the invention of the wheel.
If it was gold the 'speculators' would be paying you a fuckton of cash just to forget you ever saw it and destroy all record of it. Or, failing that, pay very expensive hit men to get rid of the asteroid prospectors.
There could be enough gold come from asteroid mining to completely destroy its value. That would be hilarious and I'd love to see it happen, but the wealth of the gold cartels is, well, astronomical and they'd like to keep it that way.
I don't think volcanos release enough carbon to refresh the biosphere. Carbon is naturally being taken out of circulation all the time and buried. Volcanos are nowhere near effective enough at releasing it. Left to nature eventually there wouldn't be enough carbon in circulation to maintain life. Thats where humans come in.
Dude don't even go there, if you knew anything about relativity or how the universe works, you'd know that you'd be traveling back in time if you did this and would create a black hole and either a paradox would happen or the universe would just tear apart. You can't go faster than light asshole.
One might infer that if it was possible and if it would tear the universe apart some asshole would have done it by now just for the lulz
As a US DoD acquisitions type... we do "cost analysis"... The problem is that we're using cost estimates made by analogy, handcuffed by regulations and instructions that add an order of magnitude to cost and complexity of all projects, working with contractors who are so bad at business that they can only get government contracts.
Does anyone ever do an analysis of the costs of doing a cost analysis?
It is false dichotomy. The choice is not between say, sending a robot or a human to Mars.
It is between spending 20 billions on human spaceflight and having footsteps on Mars and some samples, or spending the same on robots and having Martian samples, plus a geophysical network on Mars, plus a Neptune orbiter, plus in situ studies of Titan and Europa.
Robots are merely an extension of our senses. The use of tools, from the bow and arrow to the Mars rover is what made our species successful. Clinging to the outdated notion that you have to do everything in person never was.
Ok so build a robot to have sex for you. Its not a false dichotomy at all. It could save your life, what if she has HIV? It could save you money (on a paternity suit).
Robots are no WAY an extension of our senses. Its not at all the same as a tool like a bow and arrow, although I'll give you theres a profound difference between the satisfaction of beating someones brains out with a club and a 1km+ headshot with a sniper rifle.
Nah... US will return to the moon in 2015. Just after NASA builds a vehicle to replace the retired space shuttles, in 2014;
The shuttles were never going to be any help in going to the moon. Far too heavy to do anything more than low earth orbit. Thats why the ISS is in such a low orbit and has problems with atmospheric drag; because the Americans couldn't build a reusable vehicle that didn't have wings and a tail plane. Because the military insisted that it could land in the USA in case it was carrying a classified payload. So the shuttle was a cripple. And a deathtrap.
Why go yourself when you can send someone else? Why ride a horse when you can get someone else to ride a horse for you? Why make love to a real pretty girl when you can get someone else to do it for you? Why not just kill yourself now and get your lack of involvement in life over with? We do things ourselves, go places ourselves, because that is part of what makes us human, we participate in life the universe and everything.
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Sorry, but cleaning toilets doesn't involve having pictures/videos of you doing acts you'd rather keep private, with people you'd rather not do them with, around.
There's a huge difference between having sex (or even just appearing naked in front of people) and cleaning a toilet, to a lot of people.
If you've chosen to get into the porn industry how are they acts you'd rather keep private?
Seconded... A friend does porn and thinks it's one of the greatest career choices she's ever made. She would consider these new laws a violation of her civil rights.
Nah I am sure all the money those girls makes really fucks them up psychologically.
What's even worse is that Home and Student is the same price but is only valid for a signle computer, instead of three.
They're really pushing Office 365, and I'm not sure I enjoy the idea.
Interestingly Office 365 is restricted in where you can use it. For some countries they just won't let you buy it. Not 'axis of evil' countries either; some of them are on the State Departments list of 'countries we REALLY want US companies doing business with".
Wouldn't material influx on that level affect the market and depress the cost?
For example, an asteroid made of gold would be worth a lot of money, but the price of gold may fall worldwide if we do catch one.
Thats where the gold cartels come in. And very expensive hit men to take out prospective 'entrepreneurs' before they even try to catch one.
Many software licenses are based on physical CPU. With 8 CPUs that thing could cost a fair bit to legally run certain software...
add in spam filtering and its unreliable.
When properly done, spam filtering doesn't make mail unreliable. Sender gets a bounce if his mail doesn't get through, so he will know what's going on, and to retry.
Greylisting is one of THE most effective anti spam techniques.
Allow me to help you with communicating in the 21st century:
1. Send email.
2. If deadline approaches, resend email.
3. If response can no longer wait, use SMS/Chat/Phone Call
I find that I don't have to get to #3 that often, but I waste much less of my time and everyone else's time by not making them stop what they are doing to respond to me THIS SECOND.
SMS can take ten minutes to arrive... So in the case of someone saying he may have to respond to an email IMMEDIATELY, SMS is no good either!!!
Its an inherent part of the email protocol, add in spam filtering and its unreliable.
I've only had my Pebble for a few days, but I'm finding it pretty convenient when I'm out and about. A lot quicker when I'm walking somewhere, or on the subway, to glance at my wrist to see if I need to respond to an email right away or if it can wait. And the (currently) rudimentary music controls are convenient, too.
It's still in a primitive state, but hopefully the developer community will come up with some killer apps for it. Time will tell if it becomes useful enough to survive past the toy stage and become a regular fixture on my arm.
'Need to respond to an email right away'? Email is an inherently laggy and unreliable messaging system...
How much time do you spend messing around with bullshit caused by not having a real package manager?
Really very little. Its a workstation.
LOL
in my last job I asked for a Mac Pro because I wanted a *nix workstation that wasn't Linux. Because if it was Linux I'd spend half my time messing around with customising it. OSX is so amazingly uncustomisable I'd have to focus on my work. And its *nix under the hood and a great powerhouse workstation.
That's like gluing your Lego together.
So it doesn't fall apart. This is work.
"they just bought a Mac because it looks cool"
Bingo. Where I work lots and lots of people carry their MBPs from meeting to meeting in style but most of them run win7. They've bought into the Apple "style" but still want to get things done. I don't get it personally. I've never thought of my computer as a fashion accessory but I'm not going to judge them. Buy what works and you like.
LOL
in my last job I asked for a Mac Pro because I wanted a *nix workstation that wasn't Linux. Because if it was Linux I'd spend half my time messing around with customising it. OSX is so amazingly uncustomisable I'd have to focus on my work. And its *nix under the hood and a great powerhouse workstation.
http://www.classicshell.net/
Windows 8 is fine, its pretty fast, and with one simple third party UI extension is actually usable.
I don't think you'll find many libertarians who believe they live in a free country.
You can probably find many who believe this was originally intended to be a free country, and that it could become one by following the original design.
My question about 'free country' would be; 'free' as in 'freedom' or 'free' as in 'beer'? Because from where I'm sitting its not obvious.
Lactase nonpersistence is the ancestral state, and lactase persistence only became advantageous after the invention of agriculture, when milk from domesticated animals became available for adults to drink..... http://x.co/sfIC
Agriculture is absolutely not required for milk to become available for adults to drink.
Animal husbandry is required and you find that in many nomadic, non agricultural, societies.
> the funding for this endeavor is a bit of a question mark
Unless and until they discover an asteroid, in a favorable orbit, that has large deposits of rhodium, or palladium, or platinum, or gold. (Or even copper.)
That will bring in the speculative investors.
Once they demonstrate that they can bring these minerals back to earth at a profit, then they will have screaming investors climbing over one another to put up money for it.
I was arguing years ago that we ought to be doing this. I'm TIRED of the whiny, "only one Earth and we're running out of resources" bullcrap. If they can make this work -- and I give them an even 50/50 chance -- it'll be as revolutionary as the invention of the wheel.
If it was gold the 'speculators' would be paying you a fuckton of cash just to forget you ever saw it and destroy all record of it. Or, failing that, pay very expensive hit men to get rid of the asteroid prospectors.
There could be enough gold come from asteroid mining to completely destroy its value. That would be hilarious and I'd love to see it happen, but the wealth of the gold cartels is, well, astronomical and they'd like to keep it that way.
It's OK to be a prick to name calling AC pricks. Sometimes they need to be taught a lesson.
Calling someone a prick is never NEVER going to teach them a 'lesson'.
I don't think volcanos release enough carbon to refresh the biosphere. Carbon is naturally being taken out of circulation all the time and buried. Volcanos are nowhere near effective enough at releasing it. Left to nature eventually there wouldn't be enough carbon in circulation to maintain life. Thats where humans come in.
However, there's also solid evidence that we ate them. So we fucked them and ate them, ...
And that distresses you?!? Go read about the Aztecs. We humans excel in debauchery as a species.
Spirulina and human flesh; the Aztecs practically invented Soylent Green.
Dude don't even go there, if you knew anything about relativity or how the universe works, you'd know that you'd be traveling back in time if you did this and would create a black hole and either a paradox would happen or the universe would just tear apart. You can't go faster than light asshole.
One might infer that if it was possible and if it would tear the universe apart some asshole would have done it by now just for the lulz
Every time I read about these Mars findings I start thinking about the time machine I'll never have.
What a treat it would be to see it as it was.
Well... with faster than light travel, presumably if we fly far enough away and have a powerful enough telescope...
As a US DoD acquisitions type ... we do "cost analysis" ... The problem is that we're using cost estimates made by analogy, handcuffed by regulations and instructions that add an order of magnitude to cost and complexity of all projects, working with contractors who are so bad at business that they can only get government contracts.
Does anyone ever do an analysis of the costs of doing a cost analysis?
It is false dichotomy. The choice is not between say, sending a robot or a human to Mars.
It is between spending 20 billions on human spaceflight and having footsteps on Mars and some samples, or spending the same on robots and having Martian samples, plus a geophysical network on Mars, plus a Neptune orbiter, plus in situ studies of Titan and Europa.
Robots are merely an extension of our senses. The use of tools, from the bow and arrow to the Mars rover is what made our species successful. Clinging to the outdated notion that you have to do everything in person never was.
Ok so build a robot to have sex for you. Its not a false dichotomy at all. It could save your life, what if she has HIV? It could save you money (on a paternity suit).
Robots are no WAY an extension of our senses. Its not at all the same as a tool like a bow and arrow, although I'll give you theres a profound difference between the satisfaction of beating someones brains out with a club and a 1km+ headshot with a sniper rifle.
Nah... US will return to the moon in 2015. Just after NASA builds a vehicle to replace the retired space shuttles, in 2014;
The shuttles were never going to be any help in going to the moon. Far too heavy to do anything more than low earth orbit. Thats why the ISS is in such a low orbit and has problems with atmospheric drag; because the Americans couldn't build a reusable vehicle that didn't have wings and a tail plane. Because the military insisted that it could land in the USA in case it was carrying a classified payload. So the shuttle was a cripple. And a deathtrap.
Why send humans when you can just send robots.
Why go yourself when you can send someone else?
Why ride a horse when you can get someone else to ride a horse for you?
Why make love to a real pretty girl when you can get someone else to do it for you?
Why not just kill yourself now and get your lack of involvement in life over with?
We do things ourselves, go places ourselves, because that is part of what makes us human, we participate in life the universe and everything.