"You think you are making your own decision but in fact you're just observing the decision your brain made for you."
What? That's about as new-agey crap as you can get. Your brain is you. It's not some seperate entity. Besides which, it's your brain doing the observing.
Hoo-friggin-rah we don't have socialized medicine. I'll pay and see a doctor instead of getting on a waiting list governed by some governmental schmuck. Exactly when were these halcion days for which you pine?
"What with patented GM crops we see farmers being sued in the US for reusing GM seeds grown from their own crops."
Uh, no. That would be being sued for violating the contract they entered into when they bought said seeds. You're second paragraph ignores the aspect of the neighbor farmer suing the GM crop farmer for polluting his strain. It works both ways.
"The GM companies would of course have the farmers buying their seed annually from the companies."
Uh, yeah. That would be the contract mentioned. Funny how you're on the side of someone who knowingly buys GM seeds to reap the benefits of, say, bh and then knowingly tries to avoid the stipulation and scam -- that is, rip off -- to get the benefits free the next years.
Gee. People and society didn't operate like we do now and we've improved the situation. Nice of you to carp on those who laid the foundation for what you have today. Like the caveman said, "Sorry we couldn't get that to you sooner."
And, of course, you're making all those contributions, rigth?
Nothing you wrote amounts to anything more than your opinion.
I'll give you mine.
There's nothing wrong at all with the concept of 1,2,3... level access to software functionality. Lotus uses it. They don't remove the function from the application altogether, but then, neither did the GP suggest that. They allow the user to define an icon bar with access to the ones preferred or used most.
The GP wasn't trying to mandate software do this, it was just the projection of an idea. Your "This is possibly the worst solution... complex software... normal users", however, seems quite authoritarian.
SO, since a successful software company -- Lotus -- provides the user with the ability to cluster preferred or understood commands into the most visible command structure on the application's face and allow the user to toggle between setups (levels), I submit that his idea is not only not the worst, it's actually profitable.
My, what a derrogatory and incorrect little pulpit exercise.
"Does lactose tolerance reflect a lack of civilized sources of food?"
No, as some primitive peoples with poor food habits are lactose tolerant.
"Northern Europeans and Nilo-Saharans... drank milk from animals."
You are ignorant of European history. Go read, climb down from your particular pedistle, then we can talk.
"Similarly,... all the time."
You mean like Egypt and Syria? Those advanced ancient cultures of beer and wine?
"Lactose intolerance is increasing in Western countries as bacterial diversity in our environment is decreasing from excessive hygiene."
Link to something more data-driven than your presumption.
"Many differences... not to be so."
And many have proven sound.
"African-Americans were long assumed... higher than African-Americans."
Here you purposly omit that the American base is far more genetically diverse than the white Russians in Finland base. You make it sound as if your comparitors are equal, but they're not. A couple of genetically related families migrating to become a community isolated from the surrounding gene pool of a foreign land are far more likely to share a common trait, good or ill, than a population of millions who arrived at a remote country through a variety of routes from a variety of origins.
"Race-based susceptibility to diabetes is also under question -- groups such as Pima Indians with high diabetes rates also eat huge amounts of fry bread and other unhealthy foods."
Yeah, and a village in Italy has a beneficial gene for processing colesteral. Small populations which haven't expanded for some reason having a beneficial gene. Lucky them.
Not at all. The lactose tolerance was of direct benefit. Lighter skin neither produced the only egress north nor provides any protection against the virus. This leaves your little skreed as nothing more than an attempted racist slam. Regionalist as well, as darker skinned individuals are not destined to suffer the same devestation as in Africa.
Thirty years ago? In 1976? Really? Don't think so. Those gains, by the way, are now moot. The increase in processor speeds ate them up long about... 25 years ago. (I can pull numbers too.)
'How would you "fix" it, without losing its efficiency?'
You don't. But you reduce the maintenance portion of the software lifetime which greatly outweighs the developmental time. You also reduce the bug and attack points.
Everyone touts the increase in processor speed (what with our processors sitting, twiddling their thumbs just waiting for something to do) and no one wants to use that for safety purposes. Stupid.
I know many programmers, programming in many languages that are that stupid.
Where in Java does it teach you that strings are loaded into registers? Nowhere? My next question then is how you made the leap that it's Java's fault the guy has a 44 IQ?
"I feel safe to say..."
Why? You have stats to back you up, or just your prejudices?
Bzzt! Sorry, wrong answer. The answer is: Good programming practices and design will yield a stronger application in shorter time... Good practices, design, stronger in shorter time. Thank you for playing, now get off the stage.
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You can't slow down faster than a truck?
Technonerd overladen with communications pacifiers.
That has never meant, nor should it, "retrieve all information".
No, I haven't. Perhaps you could provide some smidgen of evidence?
Detail you forgot to quote from your own link:
"Wagner said that murder could not be ruled out, despite the evidence suggesting that the shooting was a suicide."
Mishandling of a case doth not beget governmental conspiracy murder.
"When you don't judge you can often focus on things that are important rather than your personal opinions of the matter."
When you don't judge, you also let horrible things become mundane. There's nothing wrong with judgment.
"You think you are making your own decision but in fact you're just observing the decision your brain made for you."
What? That's about as new-agey crap as you can get. Your brain is you. It's not some seperate entity. Besides which, it's your brain doing the observing.
So, listening to your own thoughts is not observation? He observed himself.
Hoo-friggin-rah we don't have socialized medicine. I'll pay and see a doctor instead of getting on a waiting list governed by some governmental schmuck. Exactly when were these halcion days for which you pine?
"What with patented GM crops we see farmers being sued in the US for reusing GM seeds grown from their own crops."
Uh, no. That would be being sued for violating the contract they entered into when they bought said seeds. You're second paragraph ignores the aspect of the neighbor farmer suing the GM crop farmer for polluting his strain. It works both ways.
"The GM companies would of course have the farmers buying their seed annually from the companies."
Uh, yeah. That would be the contract mentioned. Funny how you're on the side of someone who knowingly buys GM seeds to reap the benefits of, say, bh and then knowingly tries to avoid the stipulation and scam -- that is, rip off -- to get the benefits free the next years.
Gee. People and society didn't operate like we do now and we've improved the situation. Nice of you to carp on those who laid the foundation for what you have today. Like the caveman said, "Sorry we couldn't get that to you sooner."
And, of course, you're making all those contributions, rigth?
Really? Explain then, the plethora of generic drugs.
Nothing you wrote amounts to anything more than your opinion.
... complex software ... normal users", however, seems quite authoritarian.
I'll give you mine.
There's nothing wrong at all with the concept of 1,2,3... level access to software functionality. Lotus uses it. They don't remove the function from the application altogether, but then, neither did the GP suggest that. They allow the user to define an icon bar with access to the ones preferred or used most.
The GP wasn't trying to mandate software do this, it was just the projection of an idea. Your "This is possibly the worst solution
SO, since a successful software company -- Lotus -- provides the user with the ability to cluster preferred or understood commands into the most visible command structure on the application's face and allow the user to toggle between setups (levels), I submit that his idea is not only not the worst, it's actually profitable.
My, what a derrogatory and incorrect little pulpit exercise.
... drank milk from animals."
... all the time."
... not to be so."
... higher than African-Americans."
"Does lactose tolerance reflect a lack of civilized sources of food?"
No, as some primitive peoples with poor food habits are lactose tolerant.
"Northern Europeans and Nilo-Saharans
You are ignorant of European history. Go read, climb down from your particular pedistle, then we can talk.
"Similarly,
You mean like Egypt and Syria? Those advanced ancient cultures of beer and wine?
"Lactose intolerance is increasing in Western countries as bacterial diversity in our environment is decreasing from excessive hygiene."
Link to something more data-driven than your presumption.
"Many differences
And many have proven sound.
"African-Americans were long assumed
Here you purposly omit that the American base is far more genetically diverse than the white Russians in Finland base. You make it sound as if your comparitors are equal, but they're not. A couple of genetically related families migrating to become a community isolated from the surrounding gene pool of a foreign land are far more likely to share a common trait, good or ill, than a population of millions who arrived at a remote country through a variety of routes from a variety of origins.
"Race-based susceptibility to diabetes is also under question -- groups such as Pima Indians with high diabetes rates also eat huge amounts of fry bread and other unhealthy foods."
Yeah, and a village in Italy has a beneficial gene for processing colesteral. Small populations which haven't expanded for some reason having a beneficial gene. Lucky them.
Not at all. The lactose tolerance was of direct benefit. Lighter skin neither produced the only egress north nor provides any protection against the virus. This leaves your little skreed as nothing more than an attempted racist slam. Regionalist as well, as darker skinned individuals are not destined to suffer the same devestation as in Africa.
Ironic, you could have answered your own question by reading the post immediately in front of yours at this time.
"Verify that the trust is deserved."
Otherwise known as a background check.
"I really doubt they're going to extend the same courtesy to dissidents in a war zone."
Should they? Provide a non-fuzzy reason.
And I hate to break this to you, but angry mobs are just as likely to be a bunch of morons 'celebrating' after winning or losing a sports game.
What would you suggest to control crowds such as those that burnt and destroyed masses of property after football games, then?
Thirty years ago? In 1976? Really? Don't think so. Those gains, by the way, are now moot. The increase in processor speeds ate them up long about... 25 years ago. (I can pull numbers too.)
'How would you "fix" it, without losing its efficiency?'
You don't. But you reduce the maintenance portion of the software lifetime which greatly outweighs the developmental time. You also reduce the bug and attack points.
Everyone touts the increase in processor speed (what with our processors sitting, twiddling their thumbs just waiting for something to do) and no one wants to use that for safety purposes. Stupid.
"how the processor loads strings into registers"
I know many programmers, programming in many languages that are that stupid.
Where in Java does it teach you that strings are loaded into registers? Nowhere? My next question then is how you made the leap that it's Java's fault the guy has a 44 IQ?
"I feel safe to say..."
Why? You have stats to back you up, or just your prejudices?
Bzzt! Sorry, wrong answer. The answer is: Good programming practices and design will yield a stronger application in shorter time... Good practices, design, stronger in shorter time. Thank you for playing, now get off the stage.
Too bad for them it's just been determined that the consensus about cancer implantation has been turned upside down recently.