Yep, I don't get that mentality. Personally, I've become addicted to watching a whole season, or whole show history in a row. It sucks me in more than watching one episode every week, then missing some episode because I was out that night. Or forgetting all the details of the cliffhanger from a year ago.
You know what the GPU has? A hell of a lot of parallel pipes processing. Kinda like multiple multiple CPUs, but specialized for certain kinds of calculations.
I never consented to giving any of my personal data to Facebook. I've never joined. Why is the government using that as an excuse to invade my privacy?
Right! I mean why did everyone in Russia hate the secret police? What's wrong with secretly spying on all your neighbors? Dose that make them bad guys?
You are kind of a moron if you don't understand that the use of german research in WWII is very relevent to the grandparents post. There is a large literature in ethics on the debate if research should be used if it was obtained unethically, and the most prominant example was research by the Natzi's.
"It's just Godwin'ing the thread" is a moron's view.
2) I was unaware that sex with someone other than your spouse was illegal in the USA. I suspect you are actually full of shit when you claim that it is.
Ever grow tissue culture cells? I didn't think so.
Your going to be feeding them regularly with a media composed of a number of things. One of those things is going to be horse/bovine serum. Lots of blood components went into it. One of the reasons that the burger is so expensive.
SSRI's are measured in the blood. Blood levels may or may not reflect the levels in the part of the brain in question for any particular disorder. There's no way to get a 'real' level without a biopsy, which I'm guessing you'd not be real fond of getting.
It's hard enough for physicians to diagnose ailments in other parts of the body when patients present aytpical symptoms, as often happens. When it happens when the brain is involved, where our understanding much less than it is in every other part of the body, misdiagnosis are bound to be common.
Should testing at treatments be better? Yes. Which is why it is good that they are questioning the whole DSMC and rethinking how things should be done in catagorizing and diagnosing issues with the brain.
Not every person who takes up a full contract in the department needs to get tenure and just because you meet the minimum requirements you shouldn't necessarily be able to obtain a tenure position just because you are on the tenure track.
They don't. Tenure track is a path toward a tenured position. If you aren't good with students, don't publish enough, or in promenent enough journals, high enough citation rate, etc, you get told after a few years that you aren't going to be granted tenure, and you go start over somewhere else (either at another university, or in industry, or whatever). Not every starting associated faculty member gets tenure down the road just because they have a full-time appointment.
It doesn't need changing, because it's already that way. You should learn about a system before criticizing it.
They have a monopoly, courtesy of patents, on their respective fields.
Nope. The NIH funds a huge amount on research at it's main campus, and at research universities around the country. To the tune of about $30 Billion/year. People motivated to find cures (become famous, tenure at a major university in their field, pretty much guaranteed funding, tour the world giving lectures at universites as a guest speaker, plus a piece of the patent along with the university).
The drug companies do spend a lot on research, but most of their spending is on clinical trials, the last part of the research process, testing a drug to see if it actually works in humans. The NIH finds a huge part of the basic research looking for new cures.
No, when he has sampled a large enough random pool of the population, then shown a statistically significant difference, or that there wasn't a statistically significant difference, then he'd have a valid point.
Drop boxes for mail have been around since the 1600s. Congratulations, you don't live in an apartment building or condo where you might not have that option, or an area with a home owners association which may make it a hard proposal.
Not everyone can easily install a dropbox. Not everyone has a mom at home to sign for packages so they are there when you get home from junior high like you must.
My mail is kept in a lock box and shipments that won't fit are kept at the post office
And how late is the post office open where you are? It's not very frickin late here. 5 PM weekdays, which makes it pretty much totally useless. Having an option at a store that is open late is attractive to some people.
How many posts is it going to take for you to realize not everyone lives where you do, and is in the same situation as you? I'm tired of continuing to point out your ignorance.
Why the hell do I want to drive across town to a Walmart to pickup my stuff when I can have a guy deliver it to my door?
You might not want to do it, so don't.
Personally, I'm at work all day, and don't want someone stealing something delived off my porch while I'm at work. I'd prefer a locker I can pick up things from that will be secured until I can get at them.
Not everyone works at home, has a stay-at-home spouse, or lives in an are where they trust no one will every steal a delivery left out.
And how are you supposed to keep that thing "almost" secure if you don't install updates ?
You keep it secure by installing patches. Just do it at a time that's convienient for you (turn off auto updates).
It's just not that hard.
I guess I should bitch and moan too because my Ubuntu desktops have a red icon in the upper right sometimes, wanting me to reboot after installing some updates. Geez.
If you allowed it to do auto updates, you consented. Turn them off if you don't. Seriously, I turn them off on all my machines. It's not hard. And it keeps the patches installed on folks too lazy or tech-impared to figure out the couple of clicks necessary to turn them off, so there are less zombies out there.
That's not the lowest salary for the lowest paid doctors. That's a list of specialists. General practicioners don't make much money at all compared to spedialists.
One of the reasons they were more outspoken back then was because there was a draft. When your number might randomly come up, and you might be shipped over to fight that war you disagree with yourself, you are a lot more motivated to protest then when only volunteers are going over.
. But folks paying for the difference may be doing so because a) of awareness/marketing (see those repackaged LibreOffice sales) and b) it's 1% better (the improved part) than the original, yet the seller is entitled to 100% of the revenue.
And if users don't think that 1% is important enough to warrent the money, they'll use the open version instead. And if they are willing to pay extra for that 1%, it must be a critical 1% someone has provided. If no one is willing to at least maintain the original on a ftp site, it just isn't that important.
It's not the end of days or anything like that, but thinking about how to improve our society, you see how this might be a bone of contention.
It's a bone of contention for GPL users. As I said before, BSDers don't usually have any issue with it. The grandparent seemed to claim only GPL was 'really' open source. My point was BSD is opens source too. Even if you disagree with the license. Calling contributions in.NET not open source because they might be under BSD licensing rather than GPL is just crap.
If he wants to claim they are not GPL, fine, I don't care, but don't dare claim they aren't open source like the original poster was.
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Yep, I don't get that mentality. Personally, I've become addicted to watching a whole season, or whole show history in a row. It sucks me in more than watching one episode every week, then missing some episode because I was out that night. Or forgetting all the details of the cliffhanger from a year ago.
You know what the GPU has? A hell of a lot of parallel pipes processing. Kinda like multiple multiple CPUs, but specialized for certain kinds of calculations.
I never consented to giving any of my personal data to Facebook. I've never joined. Why is the government using that as an excuse to invade my privacy?
Right! I mean why did everyone in Russia hate the secret police? What's wrong with secretly spying on all your neighbors? Dose that make them bad guys?
Yes.
You are kind of a moron if you don't understand that the use of german research in WWII is very relevent to the grandparents post. There is a large literature in ethics on the debate if research should be used if it was obtained unethically, and the most prominant example was research by the Natzi's.
"It's just Godwin'ing the thread" is a moron's view.
2) I was unaware that sex with someone other than your spouse was illegal in the USA. I suspect you are actually full of shit when you claim that it is.
It depends entirely on what state you live in.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2012/11/15/illegal-cheat-spouse-massachusetts/
http://www.9news.com/news/article/317914/188/Cheating-on-your-spouse-still-illegal-in-Colorado
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/01/13/cheating-arizona-wife-could-face-jail-time-under-states-anti-adultery-law/
Joining the bad guys, to give your family a better life, does not make you one of the good guys.
The ethical ones will likely still have issues.
Ever grow tissue culture cells? I didn't think so.
Your going to be feeding them regularly with a media composed of a number of things. One of those things is going to be horse/bovine serum. Lots of blood components went into it. One of the reasons that the burger is so expensive.
They didn't have a monthly/yearly contract with you to buy your information. They decided to discontinue buying you. Tough.
Maybe you should try an arrangement with another company where you are the actual customer, rather than their product.
We are talking about a biopsy from the relevent part of the body in discussion. The brain.
You really want to risk a brain impairment for a "routine" diagnostic test?
Maybe it wouldn't matter in your case, but most folks would instantly reject that.
Shhh, don't bring logic into into it! I have a lot of stock in the tin market.
SSRI's are measured in the blood. Blood levels may or may not reflect the levels in the part of the brain in question for any particular disorder. There's no way to get a 'real' level without a biopsy, which I'm guessing you'd not be real fond of getting.
It's hard enough for physicians to diagnose ailments in other parts of the body when patients present aytpical symptoms, as often happens. When it happens when the brain is involved, where our understanding much less than it is in every other part of the body, misdiagnosis are bound to be common.
Should testing at treatments be better? Yes. Which is why it is good that they are questioning the whole DSMC and rethinking how things should be done in catagorizing and diagnosing issues with the brain.
Add the oil companies to your list.
Not every person who takes up a full contract in the department needs to get tenure and just because you meet the minimum requirements you shouldn't necessarily be able to obtain a tenure position just because you are on the tenure track.
They don't. Tenure track is a path toward a tenured position. If you aren't good with students, don't publish enough, or in promenent enough journals, high enough citation rate, etc, you get told after a few years that you aren't going to be granted tenure, and you go start over somewhere else (either at another university, or in industry, or whatever). Not every starting associated faculty member gets tenure down the road just because they have a full-time appointment.
It doesn't need changing, because it's already that way. You should learn about a system before criticizing it.
Especially at HP, where there is a huge amount of infighting among the board.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/08/500-hp-apotheker/
They have a monopoly, courtesy of patents, on their respective fields.
Nope. The NIH funds a huge amount on research at it's main campus, and at research universities around the country. To the tune of about $30 Billion/year. People motivated to find cures (become famous, tenure at a major university in their field, pretty much guaranteed funding, tour the world giving lectures at universites as a guest speaker, plus a piece of the patent along with the university).
The drug companies do spend a lot on research, but most of their spending is on clinical trials, the last part of the research process, testing a drug to see if it actually works in humans. The NIH finds a huge part of the basic research looking for new cures.
No, when he has sampled a large enough random pool of the population, then shown a statistically significant difference, or that there wasn't a statistically significant difference, then he'd have a valid point.
Drop boxes for mail have been around since the 1600s.
Congratulations, you don't live in an apartment building or condo where you might not have that option, or an area with a home owners association which may make it a hard proposal.
Not everyone can easily install a dropbox. Not everyone has a mom at home to sign for packages so they are there when you get home from junior high like you must.
My mail is kept in a lock box and shipments that won't fit are kept at the post office
And how late is the post office open where you are? It's not very frickin late here. 5 PM weekdays, which makes it pretty much totally useless. Having an option at a store that is open late is attractive to some people.
How many posts is it going to take for you to realize not everyone lives where you do, and is in the same situation as you? I'm tired of continuing to point out your ignorance.
The more interesting ones even get national coverage. And this guy doesn't live in the ghetto either:
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/50268815
Why the hell do I want to drive across town to a Walmart to pickup my stuff when I can have a guy deliver it to my door?
You might not want to do it, so don't.
Personally, I'm at work all day, and don't want someone stealing something delived off my porch while I'm at work. I'd prefer a locker I can pick up things from that will be secured until I can get at them.
Not everyone works at home, has a stay-at-home spouse, or lives in an are where they trust no one will every steal a delivery left out.
Please.
And how are you supposed to keep that thing "almost" secure if you don't install updates ?
You keep it secure by installing patches. Just do it at a time that's convienient for you (turn off auto updates).
It's just not that hard.
I guess I should bitch and moan too because my Ubuntu desktops have a red icon in the upper right sometimes, wanting me to reboot after installing some updates. Geez.
If you allowed it to do auto updates, you consented. Turn them off if you don't. Seriously, I turn them off on all my machines. It's not hard. And it keeps the patches installed on folks too lazy or tech-impared to figure out the couple of clicks necessary to turn them off, so there are less zombies out there.
That's not the lowest salary for the lowest paid doctors. That's a list of specialists. General practicioners don't make much money at all compared to spedialists.
One of the reasons they were more outspoken back then was because there was a draft. When your number might randomly come up, and you might be shipped over to fight that war you disagree with yourself, you are a lot more motivated to protest then when only volunteers are going over.
. But folks paying for the difference may be doing so because a) of awareness/marketing (see those repackaged LibreOffice sales) and b) it's 1% better (the improved part) than the original, yet the seller is entitled to 100% of the revenue.
And if users don't think that 1% is important enough to warrent the money, they'll use the open version instead. And if they are willing to pay extra for that 1%, it must be a critical 1% someone has provided. If no one is willing to at least maintain the original on a ftp site, it just isn't that important.
It's not the end of days or anything like that, but thinking about how to improve our society, you see how this might be a bone of contention.
It's a bone of contention for GPL users. As I said before, BSDers don't usually have any issue with it. The grandparent seemed to claim only GPL was 'really' open source. My point was BSD is opens source too. Even if you disagree with the license. Calling contributions in .NET not open source because they might be under BSD licensing rather than GPL is just crap.
If he wants to claim they are not GPL, fine, I don't care, but don't dare claim they aren't open source like the original poster was.