The virus that causes chicken pox can remain dormant for decades (it hides in your nerves) and then come back, which is then called shingles. In some cases it can be extremely painful, last for weeks or months, cause nerve damage, even blindness. Speaking as someone who has had shingles, I say give your boy the shot. I know that Big Pharma sometimes might not have the good of humanity as their foremost concern, but in this case fuck the chickenpox; what you are preventing is shingles when he's 50.
I started out listening to AM radio pop (pap?) back in the 70's drifted thru the usual stuff of the time like Styx and Foreigner and Steve Miller and Frampton. Commercially there was not much Metal on the charts at the time. This was the drought years between Deep Purple's Machine Head and AC-DC's Highway to Hell. I had a friend who's older brother was into "Hard Rock" (I don't know that we called it metal back then) and once I heard some of his records like the early stuff from Sabbath and BOC and Uriah Heep there was no going back. Sad Wings of Destiny got played till the grooves wore out. I just had to get more of THAT SOUND. It was obscure, and you had to go search for it. I ended up listening to a ton of bands, usually about one album before they hit it big. A fucking tidal wave of great metal arrived starting about 1980 (Ace of Spades, Blizard of Oz, British Steel, Virgin Killer, the first Maiden). It was a great time to be a metal fan. I saw Metallica in a 200 seat club, Twisted Sister and Maiden together, Ozzy and Motorhead together, Accept and Saxon and Raven oh my.We had about 10 years of Metal in the charts until alternative and grunge and hip-hop took over. Metal is back underground where it came from.
I will say that while I fit the "geek who's into metal" profile, not a whole lot of the "gifted" people I knew (no lack of them in engineering school) were into metal.
I listen to other music of course, but mostly still Metal. I just don't "get" Hip-Hop. I think? it mostly sucks but I have no real frame of reference to judge this. I hate what passes for "R&B" these days, and I KNOW it sucks.
Some people like soothing music to calm them down.
Some people like perky music to cheer them up.
I happen to like music that makes my adrenaline pump, my heart race, my fists clench, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and my brain boil with the mad urge to kill!!!
PS - Lemmy is God!
PPS - go get the Twisted Sister Christmas Album. It rocks. Seriously.
Some moron keeps tagging every story with a claim that may or may not be true as FUD.
Please stop it.
FUD has a very specific meaning. Pay attention - FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. It is a marketing strategy that spreads, you guessed it, Fear Uncertainty and Doubt about a competitors product. Every statement you disagree with is not FUD. Not every untruth is FUD. Not all FUD is untrue for that matter.
I can definitely prove that hydrogen and oxygen combine in a ratio of two volumes H to 1 volume O. I can definitely prove that the majority of Canada geese fly south for the winter.I can definitely prove that I am not the Queen of England. Random enough for you?
It is not the disease thats impossible, it is the rapid and global spread. Otherwise we would all be dead from ebola by now. Read quixote9's post again. Ebola may be a horrible way to die, but as killer diseases go it is not very successful. Being hit by golf balls probably kills more people each year than Ebola.
A successful disease doesn't kill in 2 days, it lurks. It waits as long as it can infecting many, many hosts before the symptoms appear. AIDS is a good example of this "tactic". Consider that AIDS was virtually unknown 25 years ago, but has now killed 25 million people and infected at least another 40 million.
Back in 1981 my neighbor dropped about $1000 on Commodore 64 and an accounting package. He used it for about a year until one day the copy protection (floppy disk based, probably because of head mis-alignment) which the software vendor never once mentioned, falsely decided that his program was a pirated copy and wrote "PIRATEPIRATEPIRATEPIRATE" over all his business records. My neighbr went absolutely apeshit (yes, no backups), called his lawyer, and in the end an employee of the computer store spent two weeks re-entering the data from paper.
It was a stupid idea then and it is a stupid idea now.
The chickenpox virus doesn't go away after the itching stops. It hides in your nerves, and it can surface many years later in which case the adult version is called "shingles". Shingles is a fucking misery at best, and can cause nerve damage and lasting pain long after the spots are gone. If you get it on your face, it may get into your optic nerve and cause blindness.
Making them write a headline that tells a reader what the story is about. Oh dear Gods Nooo!! How cruel and inhuman.
Who knows what horrors this will lead to. Next they'll be forced into _proofreading_ their stories and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
While they are fixing things maybe they could abolish the "Grim Task" rule. You know the one I mean. The rule that says any time people are hauling bodies out of the scene of some disaster they can only use the phrase "Grim Task" to describe it. - "Today rescue crews began the grim task of recovering bodies from the......."
40 years ago the number of women in both Law School and Engineering School was about 5 - 10 %. Today Law School is 50 % or more women, but Engineering School is still 5 - 10 %. Are Engineers more sexist than Lawyers? Does the vocation of Engineering discriminate against women more than the field of Law. I really don't think so.
I will no doubt be called a Neanderthal male chauvanist by somebody here, but I don't think the low numbers of women in Engineering can be adequately explained by systemic discrimination.
A 10 inch square by 18 inch long block of wood mounted on a sledge hammer handle. Staple a piece of car tire tread to one end of the block. One good swat, and then leave the cat at the end of the driveway.
Our happy little industry prides itself on knowledge and intellectual skills. If I say that the Intelifrotz 4080 CPU came out in 1980 with 123,000 transistors, and I'm wrong, one thousand smugly knowledgable/.ers will write in and say "You witless noobzor, the IF4800 was demo-ed in '79 and it actually had 122,975 transistors". Why is correcting someone's hideous grammar or usage any different?
If you can master C++ or Java or Ruby on Rollerskates, why can't you master English.
Slashdot Mirror
I read on Slashdot today that they're going to set the next Halo in Disneyland. Really.....It's true...Thats right, Slashdot.
The virus that causes chicken pox can remain dormant for decades (it hides in your nerves) and then come back, which is then called shingles. In some cases it can be extremely painful, last for weeks or months, cause nerve damage, even blindness. Speaking as someone who has had shingles, I say give your boy the shot. I know that Big Pharma sometimes might not have the good of humanity as their foremost concern, but in this case fuck the chickenpox; what you are preventing is shingles when he's 50.
I started out listening to AM radio pop (pap?) back in the 70's drifted thru the usual stuff of the time like Styx and Foreigner and Steve Miller and Frampton. Commercially there was not much Metal on the charts at the time. This was the drought years between Deep Purple's Machine Head and AC-DC's Highway to Hell. I had a friend who's older brother was into "Hard Rock" (I don't know that we called it metal back then) and once I heard some of his records like the early stuff from Sabbath and BOC and Uriah Heep there was no going back. Sad Wings of Destiny got played till the grooves wore out. I just had to get more of THAT SOUND. It was obscure, and you had to go search for it. I ended up listening to a ton of bands, usually about one album before they hit it big. A fucking tidal wave of great metal arrived starting about 1980 (Ace of Spades, Blizard of Oz, British Steel, Virgin Killer, the first Maiden). It was a great time to be a metal fan. I saw Metallica in a 200 seat club, Twisted Sister and Maiden together, Ozzy and Motorhead together, Accept and Saxon and Raven oh my.We had about 10 years of Metal in the charts until alternative and grunge and hip-hop took over. Metal is back underground where it came from.
I will say that while I fit the "geek who's into metal" profile, not a whole lot of the "gifted" people I knew (no lack of them in engineering school) were into metal.
I listen to other music of course, but mostly still Metal. I just don't "get" Hip-Hop. I think? it mostly sucks but I have no real frame of reference to judge this. I hate what passes for "R&B" these days, and I KNOW it sucks.
Some people like soothing music to calm them down.
Some people like perky music to cheer them up.
I happen to like music that makes my adrenaline pump, my heart race, my fists clench, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and my brain boil with the mad urge to kill!!!
PS - Lemmy is God!
PPS - go get the Twisted Sister Christmas Album. It rocks. Seriously.
Some moron keeps tagging every story with a claim that may or may not be true as FUD.
/rant
Please stop it.
FUD has a very specific meaning. Pay attention - FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. It is a marketing strategy that spreads, you guessed it, Fear Uncertainty and Doubt about a competitors product. Every statement you disagree with is not FUD. Not every untruth is FUD. Not all FUD is untrue for that matter.
Thank You, that is all.
AutoCAD.
Or is that two words? Anyhow for a lot of engineer/architect/designer folks, Linux would be their first choice too if only it would run AutoCAD.
I can definitely prove that hydrogen and oxygen combine in a ratio of two volumes H to 1 volume O. I can definitely prove that the majority of Canada geese fly south for the winter.I can definitely prove that I am not the Queen of England. Random enough for you?
It is not the disease thats impossible, it is the rapid and global spread. Otherwise we would all be dead from ebola by now. Read quixote9's post again. Ebola may be a horrible way to die, but as killer diseases go it is not very successful. Being hit by golf balls probably kills more people each year than Ebola.
A successful disease doesn't kill in 2 days, it lurks. It waits as long as it can infecting many, many hosts before the symptoms appear. AIDS is a good example of this "tactic". Consider that AIDS was virtually unknown 25 years ago, but has now killed 25 million people and infected at least another 40 million.
Back in 1981 my neighbor dropped about $1000 on Commodore 64 and an accounting package. He used it for about a year until one day the copy protection (floppy disk based, probably because of head mis-alignment) which the software vendor never once mentioned, falsely decided that his program was a pirated copy and wrote "PIRATEPIRATEPIRATEPIRATE" over all his business records. My neighbr went absolutely apeshit (yes, no backups), called his lawyer, and in the end an employee of the computer store spent two weeks re-entering the data from paper.
It was a stupid idea then and it is a stupid idea now.
The chickenpox virus doesn't go away after the itching stops. It hides in your nerves, and it can surface many years later in which case the adult version is called "shingles". Shingles is a fucking misery at best, and can cause nerve damage and lasting pain long after the spots are gone. If you get it on your face, it may get into your optic nerve and cause blindness.
Making them write a headline that tells a reader what the story is about. Oh dear Gods Nooo!! How cruel and inhuman.
Who knows what horrors this will lead to. Next they'll be forced into _proofreading_ their stories and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.
While they are fixing things maybe they could abolish the "Grim Task" rule. You know the one I mean. The rule that says any time people are hauling bodies out of the scene of some disaster they can only use the phrase "Grim Task" to describe it. - "Today rescue crews began the grim task of recovering bodies from the......."
Taggers are on crack. Again. Scifi. WTF?
40 years ago the number of women in both Law School and Engineering School was about 5 - 10 %. Today Law School is 50 % or more women, but Engineering School is still 5 - 10 %. Are Engineers more sexist than Lawyers? Does the vocation of Engineering discriminate against women more than the field of Law. I really don't think so.
I will no doubt be called a Neanderthal male chauvanist by somebody here, but I don't think the low numbers of women in Engineering can be adequately explained by systemic discrimination.
FLK
Funny Looking Kid.
Accurately descriptive, simple to understand, cruel.
It happens in every profession.
"None more black"
At the Elmo factory every Elmo gets tickled as a final test before shipping. Girl Elmos get tickled once and the boy Elmos get two test tickles.
For many years De Beers has been marketing diamonds and saying that the _very_best_ diamonds are flawless.
Here is a quote : "_Flawless_ is the very highest grade of gem stone, where no internal inclusions or surface imperfections are visible."
They are going to have a tough time convincing people that lab made diamonds are "too flawless".
Sure it is - just ask any marketing guy.
All you gotta do is write some code.
The other two are curled up infinitely small.
A 10 inch square by 18 inch long block of wood mounted on a sledge hammer handle. Staple a piece of car tire tread to one end of the block. One good swat, and then leave the cat at the end of the driveway.
"Oh noes! Mr Mittens has been run over by a car!
Pron comes from where?...The web! There's your answer.
So it is correct for me to say "I should of gone to the store" because that's common usage?
"Aliens"
Canadian Football. Mostly like American except som minor rule changes.
Our happy little industry prides itself on knowledge and intellectual skills. If I say that the Intelifrotz 4080 CPU came out in 1980 with 123,000 transistors, and I'm wrong, one thousand smugly knowledgable /.ers will write in and say "You witless noobzor, the IF4800 was demo-ed in '79 and it actually had 122,975 transistors". Why is correcting someone's hideous grammar or usage any different?
If you can master C++ or Java or Ruby on Rollerskates, why can't you master English.
It's like somebodies sig I read, Jedis build their own lightsaber, slashdotters build their own computer.