These people seem to be soulless automatons devoid of any compassion and quite willing to destroy a life without good reason just so they can advance their own careers a bit. This behavior is the hallmark of dangerous psychopaths. People like that belong into a closed mental institutions, not into positions of power.
Exactly. But positions of power are natural attractants to dangerous psychopaths. Or it could as well be said that putting people into positions of power tends to MAKE them dangerous psychopaths. Most people with any insight at all realize that and are troubled by it. But how do you prevent it? That is the age old puzzle. The U.S. Constitution was an all-out attempt by very thoughtful and wise people to address the problem (at least and solely at the top), and given the present state of the nation it didn't end up doing jack to govern the human propensity to do evil. The Constitution of the USSR was a pretty damn valiant attempt, too, if you bother to read it. The Catholic Church thought THEY could do it. Dictators and Emperors ALWAYS think they are above it and that ONLY THEY can get it done. None of them have yet.
We are probably going to at some stage make attempts like the Gattaca universe and the Firefly/Serenity universe and the Observer universe in Fringe, and they are probably going to end up as badly as those movies/series show.
This is a case of murder by the state, pure and simple, end of story. May those who had a part in this evil gross persecution go to hell individually, and may the system which serves evil, sinister, corrupt forces before human life rot and fall apart. Free men will never forget Aaron, and never forget what was done to him.
A better man than the total of those serving this rotten system has been brutally taken from the struggle for social justice.
When engineers build truly new stuff, things routinely go wrong as well. See the Boeing Dreamliner or the Airbus A380 for examples.
But this was not always so. The Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 series of all-metal smooth-skin two-engine transport airplanes in the 1930s was extraordinarily successful and trouble free from the get-go. I think it's fair to say they were as much of a breakthrough in their own day as the A-380 and 787 are today. Or if you want to go with the Ford Trimotor all-metal corrugated-skin transport of the 1920s (and the Junkers Ju-52 of the early 1930s, which was really a very similar 1920s-think design), these were similar breakthroughs in their day, and remarkably successful without boo-boos.
These were all designed and developed on an absolute shoestring and in very short time.
Couldn't agree with you more about software. Practically nobody subcontracts software modules or uses off-the-shelf true modules (not toolkits or frameworks). But would anybody build a big bridge or ship or aircraft without subcontracting?
The mercury in thimerosal is not non-reactive, you blithering ignorant idiot. Stop it with the sodium chloride bullshit. Start here. "Thiomersal [alternate spelling] is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin (EC hazard symbol T+), with a danger of cumulative effects... Cases have been reported of severe poisoning by accidental exposure or attempted suicide, with some fatalities... Animal experiments suggest that thiomersal rapidly dissociates to release ethylmercury after injection; that the disposition patterns of mercury are similar to those after exposure to equivalent doses of ethylmercury chloride; and that the central nervous system and the kidneys are targets, with lack of motor coordination being a common sign."
Check out the MSDS here or here. "Highly Toxic (USA) Very Toxic (EU)... Very toxic by inhalation, in contact with skin and if swallowed. Danger of cumulative effects... Calif. Prop. 65 reproductive hazard. Target organ(s): Nerves. Kidneys."
Had you asserted that the exposure to an undoubted toxin via vaccination is so low as to make the risk slight, I would have treated your anonymous cowardly post as rational. As you didn't do that, but instead brought up completely erroneous parallels, and you are not seriously considering pros and cons, you make a pretty good punching bag.
My original post, moderated to virtual invisibility by idiots, still stands:
Since pretty nearly everyone responding has agreed that flu shots are clearly void of any potential whatsoever for adverse health effects, I thought maybe it might make sense to find out what the CDC thinks about this subject [cdc.gov].
"Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative... Since seasonal influenza vaccine is produced in large quantities for annual immunization campaigns, some of the vaccine is produced in multi-dose vials, and contains thimerosal to safeguard against possible contamination of the vial once it is opened... Since 2001, no new vaccine licensed by FDA for use in children has contained thimerosal as a preservative."
So, can we dispense with the idea that ALL objection to vaccination is based on luddism / unreasoning superstition? Hey, it's only a suggestion, but it seems to me that a reasoned evaluation of the pros and possible cons of shooting substances containing mercury compounds into the bloodstream is not out of bounds. For me, I am inclined to the conclusion that the effectiveness of flu vaccines at the present state of the art are in NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES not worth a crap to the host individual, but that they may be worthwhile from a herd immunity perspective. This particular case is very much complicated by the fact that the personnel are working in close proximity to vulnerable patients whom they are sworn to protect. I think the employer in this particular case is in the right, although the science is not as clear-cut as I would like.
Finally, the CDC goes on to say "Data from several studies show the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines do not cause harm, and are only associated with minor local injection site reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site." Sounds to me like they are talking out of both sides of their mouth. They don't recommend the use of any thimerosal-bearing vaccines in children, yet they tell us thimerosal is "safe", as if safety is an all-or-nothing, either-or condition. But we know that harmful effects of mercury on the body are cumulative and are not entirely limited to children.
You can already get into serious trouble in many or most areas carrying an obviously toy gun in school, and there have even been cases of persecuting children for making a sign of a gun with their hand, or drawing a PICTURE of a gun. Coming next: outlawing THOUGHTS of violence.
It is only the logical final step that we end up in the Firefly universe through extending social engineering to actual physical or chemical monkeying with human brains. Oh wait, we are already there, with psychotropic drugs being handed out like candy to children.
This would all have been universally considered crazy by any previous generation. It still is considered crazy by rational people.
You don't know what country or US state AC resides in. In the US, even though the feds wormed their way into the States' business and coerced them all to raising the minimum age for purchasing alcohol and consuming it in public to 21 through legislation passed in 1985, there are still details which vary from state to state. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia ban underage consumption in ANY setting, even residences in family settings. Eighteen states do not ban underage CONSUMPTION at all, and the remaining seventeen states do not ban underage consumption at home.
So ultimately,... mere entertainment still contributes to human learning and knowledge and should be copyrightable if we're to have copyrights.
Uh... why? You left out the why. You said "so", but nothing you said before that led logically to your conclusion. I don't claim it is possible to define "mere entertainment" and treat it differently from other work. I just don't think the above thought has any place in rationalizing the system.
You also lost me with "Copyrights OTOH are sometimes not granted if the work is useful". Copyrights are not "granted" through any process. By the Berne Convention, copyright is AUTOMATIC on creation of the copyrightable work in physical form, and requires no registration or copyright notice.
Let me know when you find that "free country". It's sure as hell none of the countries I know about, including all the western democratic ones, are free.
except the Thinkpad could use a few updates itself
better utilities (Access Point is more cumbersome than Windows' own; Power Manager is dated with windows that need scrolling needlessly, etc. etc.) better trackpad (duh!) better touchpoint (though I love it, it makes my finger hurt after a while) better keyboard (I'll get lots of flame for this, but the springs could be lighter)
These are all nothing but individual preferences, but...
Screw access point and power manager. I don't use a crappy OS. I run linux and all that stuff Just Works. Screw the trackpad. Wish it wasn't even there. I keep mine turned off all the time. I use only the trackpoint. Good luck trying to sell me anything without a trackpoint. You are out of your bloody mind about the keyboard. DON'T SCREW WITH THE ONLY PERFECT KEYBOARD IN NOTEBOOKS. If you don't like it, I'm not even sure why you want a Thinkpad.
Not exactly. I don't care what my Thinkpad looks like AS LONG AS it has squared corners, is black, rubber finished, and has no asinine bright light shining pointlessly out of its ass. And it is all of those things. Long live the X301.
Since pretty nearly everyone responding has agreed that flu shots are clearly void of any potential whatsoever for adverse health effects, I thought maybe it might make sense to find out what the CDC thinks about this subject.
"Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative... Since seasonal influenza vaccine is produced in large quantities for annual immunization campaigns, some of the vaccine is produced in multi-dose vials, and contains thimerosal to safeguard against possible contamination of the vial once it is opened... Since 2001, no new vaccine licensed by FDA for use in children has contained thimerosal as a preservative."
So, can we dispense with the idea that ALL objection to vaccination is based on luddism / unreasoning superstition? Hey, it's only a suggestion, but it seems to me that a reasoned evaluation of the pros and possible cons of shooting substances containing mercury compounds into the bloodstream is not out of bounds. For me, I am inclined to the conclusion that the effectiveness of flu vaccines at the present state of the art are in NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES not worth a crap to the host individual, but that they may be worthwhile from a herd immunity perspective. This particular case is very much complicated by the fact that the personnel are working in close proximity to vulnerable patients whom they are sworn to protect. I think the employer in this particular case is in the right, although the science is not as clear-cut as I would like.
Finally, the CDC goes on to say "Data from several studies show the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines do not cause harm, and are only associated with minor local injection site reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site." Sounds to me like they are talking out of both sides of their mouth. They don't recommend the use of any thimerosal-bearing vaccines in children, yet they tell us thimerosal is "safe", as if safety is an all-or-nothing, either-or condition. But we know that harmful effects of mercury on the body are cumulative and are not entirely limited to children.
Because one human life that happens to be inside the womb of another doesn't matter. We say so, and we are right. Not only do we brook no dissent, we refuse to discuss the subject without using dehumanizing terms.
So what large vertical desktop displays even have touch screens? Sounds like they are talking about hardware that shows absolutely no sign of happening.
BULLSHIT. I don't care what GOVERNMENT source you find to pull the wool over our eyes. Anyone who actually has to meet food expenses knows inflation has been AT LEAST ten times that figure in the last year.
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Bingo. Nail, you've just been hit squarely on the head. I don't believe anyone could put it more succinctly on target and to the point.
These people seem to be soulless automatons devoid of any compassion and quite willing to destroy a life without good reason just so they can advance their own careers a bit. This behavior is the hallmark of dangerous psychopaths. People like that belong into a closed mental institutions, not into positions of power.
Exactly. But positions of power are natural attractants to dangerous psychopaths. Or it could as well be said that putting people into positions of power tends to MAKE them dangerous psychopaths. Most people with any insight at all realize that and are troubled by it. But how do you prevent it? That is the age old puzzle. The U.S. Constitution was an all-out attempt by very thoughtful and wise people to address the problem (at least and solely at the top), and given the present state of the nation it didn't end up doing jack to govern the human propensity to do evil. The Constitution of the USSR was a pretty damn valiant attempt, too, if you bother to read it. The Catholic Church thought THEY could do it. Dictators and Emperors ALWAYS think they are above it and that ONLY THEY can get it done. None of them have yet.
We are probably going to at some stage make attempts like the Gattaca universe and the Firefly/Serenity universe and the Observer universe in Fringe, and they are probably going to end up as badly as those movies/series show.
Don't you fucking look at me!
What are you looking at?
- Nothing.
Don't you look at me, fuck!
This is a case of murder by the state, pure and simple, end of story. May those who had a part in this evil gross persecution go to hell individually, and may the system which serves evil, sinister, corrupt forces before human life rot and fall apart. Free men will never forget Aaron, and never forget what was done to him.
A better man than the total of those serving this rotten system has been brutally taken from the struggle for social justice.
DEMAND PROGRESS, people.
But this was not always so. The Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 series of all-metal smooth-skin two-engine transport airplanes in the 1930s was extraordinarily successful and trouble free from the get-go. I think it's fair to say they were as much of a breakthrough in their own day as the A-380 and 787 are today. Or if you want to go with the Ford Trimotor all-metal corrugated-skin transport of the 1920s (and the Junkers Ju-52 of the early 1930s, which was really a very similar 1920s-think design), these were similar breakthroughs in their day, and remarkably successful without boo-boos.
These were all designed and developed on an absolute shoestring and in very short time.
Couldn't agree with you more about software. Practically nobody subcontracts software modules or uses off-the-shelf true modules (not toolkits or frameworks). But would anybody build a big bridge or ship or aircraft without subcontracting?
The mercury in thimerosal is not non-reactive, you blithering ignorant idiot. Stop it with the sodium chloride bullshit. Start here. "Thiomersal [alternate spelling] is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin (EC hazard symbol T+), with a danger of cumulative effects ... Cases have been reported of severe poisoning by accidental exposure or attempted suicide, with some fatalities ... Animal experiments suggest that thiomersal rapidly dissociates to release ethylmercury after injection; that the disposition patterns of mercury are similar to those after exposure to equivalent doses of ethylmercury chloride; and that the central nervous system and the kidneys are targets, with lack of motor coordination being a common sign."
Check out the MSDS here or here. "Highly Toxic (USA) Very Toxic (EU) ... Very toxic by inhalation, in contact with skin and if swallowed. Danger of cumulative effects ... Calif. Prop. 65 reproductive hazard. Target organ(s): Nerves. Kidneys."
Had you asserted that the exposure to an undoubted toxin via vaccination is so low as to make the risk slight, I would have treated your anonymous cowardly post as rational. As you didn't do that, but instead brought up completely erroneous parallels, and you are not seriously considering pros and cons, you make a pretty good punching bag.
My original post, moderated to virtual invisibility by idiots, still stands:
But it's not a profile on "me". It's a profile based on the IP I happen to be using. An IP does not have a 1:1 relationship with a person.
You can already get into serious trouble in many or most areas carrying an obviously toy gun in school, and there have even been cases of persecuting children for making a sign of a gun with their hand, or drawing a PICTURE of a gun. Coming next: outlawing THOUGHTS of violence.
It is only the logical final step that we end up in the Firefly universe through extending social engineering to actual physical or chemical monkeying with human brains. Oh wait, we are already there, with psychotropic drugs being handed out like candy to children.
This would all have been universally considered crazy by any previous generation. It still is considered crazy by rational people.
You don't know what country or US state AC resides in. In the US, even though the feds wormed their way into the States' business and coerced them all to raising the minimum age for purchasing alcohol and consuming it in public to 21 through legislation passed in 1985, there are still details which vary from state to state. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia ban underage consumption in ANY setting, even residences in family settings. Eighteen states do not ban underage CONSUMPTION at all, and the remaining seventeen states do not ban underage consumption at home.
Uh ... why? You left out the why. You said "so", but nothing you said before that led logically to your conclusion. I don't claim it is possible to define "mere entertainment" and treat it differently from other work. I just don't think the above thought has any place in rationalizing the system.
You also lost me with "Copyrights OTOH are sometimes not granted if the work is useful". Copyrights are not "granted" through any process. By the Berne Convention, copyright is AUTOMATIC on creation of the copyrightable work in physical form, and requires no registration or copyright notice.
I just call them all rats.
Yeah. They've invented the "monitor". Big whoop.
They aren't even close to being paper thin, and never will be (for useful output).
Let me know when you find that "free country". It's sure as hell none of the countries I know about, including all the western democratic ones, are free.
These are all nothing but individual preferences, but ...
Screw access point and power manager. I don't use a crappy OS. I run linux and all that stuff Just Works.
Screw the trackpad. Wish it wasn't even there. I keep mine turned off all the time. I use only the trackpoint. Good luck trying to sell me anything without a trackpoint.
You are out of your bloody mind about the keyboard. DON'T SCREW WITH THE ONLY PERFECT KEYBOARD IN NOTEBOOKS. If you don't like it, I'm not even sure why you want a Thinkpad.
Not exactly. I don't care what my Thinkpad looks like AS LONG AS it has squared corners, is black, rubber finished, and has no asinine bright light shining pointlessly out of its ass. And it is all of those things. Long live the X301.
Ah, the X301. Love mine. It was pretty expensive, but not THAT much more than anything else of comparable quality and specs when they brought it out.
Never had the slightest issue with it.
Since pretty nearly everyone responding has agreed that flu shots are clearly void of any potential whatsoever for adverse health effects, I thought maybe it might make sense to find out what the CDC thinks about this subject.
"Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative ... Since seasonal influenza vaccine is produced in large quantities for annual immunization campaigns, some of the vaccine is produced in multi-dose vials, and contains thimerosal to safeguard against possible contamination of the vial once it is opened ... Since 2001, no new vaccine licensed by FDA for use in children has contained thimerosal as a preservative."
So, can we dispense with the idea that ALL objection to vaccination is based on luddism / unreasoning superstition? Hey, it's only a suggestion, but it seems to me that a reasoned evaluation of the pros and possible cons of shooting substances containing mercury compounds into the bloodstream is not out of bounds. For me, I am inclined to the conclusion that the effectiveness of flu vaccines at the present state of the art are in NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES not worth a crap to the host individual, but that they may be worthwhile from a herd immunity perspective. This particular case is very much complicated by the fact that the personnel are working in close proximity to vulnerable patients whom they are sworn to protect. I think the employer in this particular case is in the right, although the science is not as clear-cut as I would like.
Finally, the CDC goes on to say "Data from several studies show the low doses of thimerosal in vaccines do not cause harm, and are only associated with minor local injection site reactions like redness and swelling at the injection site." Sounds to me like they are talking out of both sides of their mouth. They don't recommend the use of any thimerosal-bearing vaccines in children, yet they tell us thimerosal is "safe", as if safety is an all-or-nothing, either-or condition. But we know that harmful effects of mercury on the body are cumulative and are not entirely limited to children.
Because one human life that happens to be inside the womb of another doesn't matter. We say so, and we are right. Not only do we brook no dissent, we refuse to discuss the subject without using dehumanizing terms.
What the fuck? So the employee CAN'T refuse and go find another job? What are you saying that isn't covered by OP?
Convenience. Who wants to drag around all that kit?
So what large vertical desktop displays even have touch screens? Sounds like they are talking about hardware that shows absolutely no sign of happening.
I guess some ignorance CAN'T be cured. Take a look at the other response to your post.
BULLSHIT. I don't care what GOVERNMENT source you find to pull the wool over our eyes. Anyone who actually has to meet food expenses knows inflation has been AT LEAST ten times that figure in the last year.
I don't have to do research. I have seen the positive results.