Erm. China and India aren't continents, nor is the United States of America. Also the US is not one of the most populous, I believe that the EU as a whole has almost double the population of the US.
Utter tripe. You could comfortably fit the population of planet earth into an area the size of Texas. We already have far, far more food than is needed, the only thing that is running out is oil, and thats not going anywhere for another 50 years at least. Then, well, look at Brazil. Neither power nor waste disposal are significant long term issues, and scientific advances are making them less and less significant. When you look at earth, you see a blue marble. When I look at earth, I see a gigantic world of which we have only properly explored less than a third. And thats only of a few miles thick of crust.
This desire to "reduce the population" I see talked about over and over on slashdot is just a stale hand me down from gnosticism, a tribal urge to reduce competition for resources, a silly grab for wealth.
on the other side you have a theocracy who glorifies honorable death, and has publicly stated it's will to distroy the other side.
Theres a big difference between having some kid strap on a suit bomb and having your culture and people completely eradicated. The theocrats in charge of Iran are no more theocratic than Stalin was a communist. Their trick lies in making people think they MIGHT be nutty enough to pull the trigger; thats what gets results. Just like the US and Soviet Union in the cold war.
Justice is retribution. Sorry to break it to you, but the whole of the law is an instrument of revenge, ever since Hammurabi. The difference is that the gangs are chosen and elected by the majority of society.
As I mentioned, all English people take it up the arse. Well known fact. Better to leave them to enjoy their sodomisation for a while yet. Now pick up the soap, Coward.
Yawn. Hows that evolution thing coming along? Accepted 19th century biology yet? And hey, just as a point of interest, this backwards religious hell was voted the best place to live on earth in 2005 by the Economist.
Now sign in like a good lad and take your karma like a man, not a bitch queen of an anonymous coward. But hey, if that suits you, we know all English people take it up the arse. Enjoy!
See the sad thing is they don't need a new operating system. They pretty much hit the nail on the head with 2k. If they adjusted the configuration to give it an "everyman" account, where you can play your games (a lot can't be played without being in an admin account these days), surf the web and check your email without hindrance (but thats all) and a technical account where people like us can get under the hood and fiddle, they would have an all time winner.
Of course thats never going to happen, because M$ needs to keep turning profits, so they add bloat and useless features and eye candy which isn't really sweet at all, which because of their coding practices and beaurocratic structure are full of bugs and in extreme cases just don't work (like vista), in order to sell the same tarted up OS back to corporate customers.
This guy proclaiming the end of OSs like vista is attempting to fix the sociological, organisational, and economic issues of one megacorp with technology.
Trends and graphs my friend, trends and graphs... Ours is slanting upwards towards civilisation, whereas in the US its slanting downwards towards the middle ages. Nobody under 30 gives a flying fack in hard vacuum about the church these days. Too many cases of paedophile priests.
Can the US catch up fast enough using this method?
It was your voters that RE-elected the fundamentalists. Now its time to reap what you sow.
Actually I have been working on a theory. The whole world knows about the legendary corruption of US politicians. So I asked myself, why oh why don't foreign governments just make like a corporation and buy the politicans that would make as much of a mess as possible out of the US?
Then I thought, hey maybe they already have! Massive debt, unneccesary wars, religious wing nuts tearing apart your academic foundations with bread-and-circus debates, erosion of civil liberties... Hell if I was a hostile power or even just a power with nothing to do this decade, I couldn't have done a better job on the US myself!:D
There are no genetic diversity issues since its the same set of genes used over and over; nothing is being bred, its being cloned.
An interesting issue I find about this is that if it is done economically and successfully, there is really no more need for cattle farms or the infrastructure to support them. Or pigs or chickens for that matter, or fishing. It wouldn't be long before farming gets outlawed worldwide as cruel and unusual.
So pigs, cattle, livestock generally would no longer serve a purpose, and would be allowed to become extinct, since they couldn't survive in the wild after so many millenia of domestication. All that land would then be freed up for different purposes, although a stupendous amount of people would become unemployed.
I meant the quackery-free pedestal you are looking down at us from. People in glass houses and all that. So you then claimed I was standing up on my own prideful pedestal, to which I responded, yes, but mine is justified, the height of yours is not.
Its damn hard to have pride in yourself and your people when you have a history like Ireland, beaten, raped, and beaten again by what amounted to a bunch of sodomites, without some dickless wonder coming and running you down over the anonymous internet as well. So why don't you just go away like a good lad.
Heres how it is. While you are employed by the company towards a specific end, during those hours the company is putting money into your pocket, you work to meet those ends. If you need to make a personal phone call, use your own phone, on your own time, unless its an emergency and you have no alternative.
You do not get to use company equipment, company internet access, company phone calls, or company time for your own personal needs. Someone else paid for all of that, and probably paid hard, and they are paying you too. Would you criticise someone for being angry at a neighbour for tapping into their electricity supply? If you don't like it, find another job. And after a while, you will have to find yet another job, because the company you are sponging from will have gone under or fired you.
You have no right to use other peoples stuff without their permission.
I'm not going to follow in your footsteps by making any assumptions about your nationality, twerp, but here, for your edification...
Thats a list of credits that includes Boyles Law, high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram, X-ray crystallography, Boolean algebra, the basis of all modern computer arithmetic, the induction coil and discovering the principle of the dynamo, leading a team that discovered a treatment for leprosy, 'Fitzgerald-Lorenz Contraction', 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations', the hypodermic needle, Kelvin, aaaaand naming the 'electron' and measured its charge.
Just getting a couple people on the surface to walk around a bit is massively expensive... forget about a sustained effort with mining equipment, life support and everything else you'd need.
Just use robots, remote controlled where neccessary. We can already build machines that can traverse the moon, we can build machines that can mine and extract ore with little human intervention, automated refineries are easy, and power the whole thing with lovely naked solar radiation! The first thing they build are ten more plants!
It is right up their with why should I have to live with IE7 not following current standards because a bunch of retards built IE only websites that depend on a broken browser?
Erm I think you mean, a bunch of retards built IE, and a bunch of websites were built to conform to the broken browser that 95% of the marketplace was using. This is a case where you really can blame the tools, not the craftsmen.
Youneedprofessionalhelp,mutilator. I mean what is it with you people and circumcision? Its like the crazed muslims and their hatred for women or something. Go back to the middle ages where you belong please. Irritation aside, you made a good and well informed post besides that, which I found interesting. But I'd thank you to get off the slicing little boys penises bandwagon.
Circumcision has long been protested as "pointless mutilation", which it may well be. However, there's strong evidence that circumcision may save your life if you have sex with an HIV-positive person. I think the figure I heard was that you'd have 60% better chances if circumcised, due to a lower white blood cell count at the tip of your penis (white blood cells which are directly infected by HIV). Someone will correct me, I'm sure. Did ancient people have *anecdotal* evidence that suggested circumcision would prevent certain diseases? I don't know, but for such a large percentage, it seems plausible. They didn't have microscopes, but they weren't blind or stupid. They were simply misidentifying the causes of some very real observations.
What is this free-form bullshit? Someone mod this idiot south of Australia please. Circumcision prevents AIDs indeed. What a fruit. If I even need to explain myself, you should move right along there.
"What we have done is essentially go back in time to when Hox1 did what Hoxa1 and Hoxb1 do today," said Mario Capecchi, professor of human genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
"It gives a real example of how evolution works because we can reverse it."
You, good sir, get forty nubile wives, and no need to even blow yourself up to get them, thats right, our first back to school season baptism-by-sherbet convert, and we'll even throw in as a special bonus, a nubile wife for your lovely wife, sir! Testify!! And whyyy, I hear you say, whyyy 40 wives? Because thats one for every day and night the Good Lord spent in the desert, and Gawwwwwd told me that this one time offer should be laid before the masses, that the masses get laid, and ye shall receive the profits of the prophet!1!
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Well, they should have no problems with Nigerian...
Erm. China and India aren't continents, nor is the United States of America. Also the US is not one of the most populous, I believe that the EU as a whole has almost double the population of the US.
Utter tripe. You could comfortably fit the population of planet earth into an area the size of Texas. We already have far, far more food than is needed, the only thing that is running out is oil, and thats not going anywhere for another 50 years at least. Then, well, look at Brazil. Neither power nor waste disposal are significant long term issues, and scientific advances are making them less and less significant. When you look at earth, you see a blue marble. When I look at earth, I see a gigantic world of which we have only properly explored less than a third. And thats only of a few miles thick of crust.
This desire to "reduce the population" I see talked about over and over on slashdot is just a stale hand me down from gnosticism, a tribal urge to reduce competition for resources, a silly grab for wealth.
on the other side you have a theocracy who glorifies honorable death, and has publicly stated it's will to distroy the other side.
Theres a big difference between having some kid strap on a suit bomb and having your culture and people completely eradicated. The theocrats in charge of Iran are no more theocratic than Stalin was a communist. Their trick lies in making people think they MIGHT be nutty enough to pull the trigger; thats what gets results. Just like the US and Soviet Union in the cold war.
Justice is retribution. Sorry to break it to you, but the whole of the law is an instrument of revenge, ever since Hammurabi. The difference is that the gangs are chosen and elected by the majority of society.
As I mentioned, all English people take it up the arse. Well known fact. Better to leave them to enjoy their sodomisation for a while yet. Now pick up the soap, Coward.
Yawn. Hows that evolution thing coming along? Accepted 19th century biology yet? And hey, just as a point of interest, this backwards religious hell was voted the best place to live on earth in 2005 by the Economist.
Now sign in like a good lad and take your karma like a man, not a bitch queen of an anonymous coward. But hey, if that suits you, we know all English people take it up the arse. Enjoy!
See the sad thing is they don't need a new operating system. They pretty much hit the nail on the head with 2k. If they adjusted the configuration to give it an "everyman" account, where you can play your games (a lot can't be played without being in an admin account these days), surf the web and check your email without hindrance (but thats all) and a technical account where people like us can get under the hood and fiddle, they would have an all time winner.
Of course thats never going to happen, because M$ needs to keep turning profits, so they add bloat and useless features and eye candy which isn't really sweet at all, which because of their coding practices and beaurocratic structure are full of bugs and in extreme cases just don't work (like vista), in order to sell the same tarted up OS back to corporate customers.
This guy proclaiming the end of OSs like vista is attempting to fix the sociological, organisational, and economic issues of one megacorp with technology.
Trends and graphs my friend, trends and graphs... Ours is slanting upwards towards civilisation, whereas in the US its slanting downwards towards the middle ages. Nobody under 30 gives a flying fack in hard vacuum about the church these days. Too many cases of paedophile priests.
Can the US catch up fast enough using this method?
:D
It was your voters that RE-elected the fundamentalists. Now its time to reap what you sow.
Actually I have been working on a theory. The whole world knows about the legendary corruption of US politicians. So I asked myself, why oh why don't foreign governments just make like a corporation and buy the politicans that would make as much of a mess as possible out of the US?
Then I thought, hey maybe they already have! Massive debt, unneccesary wars, religious wing nuts tearing apart your academic foundations with bread-and-circus debates, erosion of civil liberties... Hell if I was a hostile power or even just a power with nothing to do this decade, I couldn't have done a better job on the US myself!
There are no genetic diversity issues since its the same set of genes used over and over; nothing is being bred, its being cloned.
An interesting issue I find about this is that if it is done economically and successfully, there is really no more need for cattle farms or the infrastructure to support them. Or pigs or chickens for that matter, or fishing. It wouldn't be long before farming gets outlawed worldwide as cruel and unusual.
So pigs, cattle, livestock generally would no longer serve a purpose, and would be allowed to become extinct, since they couldn't survive in the wild after so many millenia of domestication. All that land would then be freed up for different purposes, although a stupendous amount of people would become unemployed.
See if you were Irish you would understand :D
I meant the quackery-free pedestal you are looking down at us from. People in glass houses and all that. So you then claimed I was standing up on my own prideful pedestal, to which I responded, yes, but mine is justified, the height of yours is not.
Its damn hard to have pride in yourself and your people when you have a history like Ireland, beaten, raped, and beaten again by what amounted to a bunch of sodomites, without some dickless wonder coming and running you down over the anonymous internet as well. So why don't you just go away like a good lad.
Heres how it is. While you are employed by the company towards a specific end, during those hours the company is putting money into your pocket, you work to meet those ends. If you need to make a personal phone call, use your own phone, on your own time, unless its an emergency and you have no alternative.
You do not get to use company equipment, company internet access, company phone calls, or company time for your own personal needs. Someone else paid for all of that, and probably paid hard, and they are paying you too. Would you criticise someone for being angry at a neighbour for tapping into their electricity supply? If you don't like it, find another job. And after a while, you will have to find yet another job, because the company you are sponging from will have gone under or fired you.
You have no right to use other peoples stuff without their permission.
End of.
And I would respond that mine is justified.
Oh yeah, you never get any of those in the States. Hows that lofty pedestal holding up?
Where are you from? I want to make a funny joke about you.
Well I suppose everyone has to start somewhere. VHDL is as good a place as any.
And its "!=". Why am I even bothering.
I'm not going to follow in your footsteps by making any assumptions about your nationality, twerp, but here, for your edification...
Thats a list of credits that includes Boyles Law, high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram, X-ray crystallography, Boolean algebra, the basis of all modern computer arithmetic, the induction coil and discovering the principle of the dynamo, leading a team that discovered a treatment for leprosy, 'Fitzgerald-Lorenz Contraction', 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations', the hypodermic needle, Kelvin, aaaaand naming the 'electron' and measured its charge.
Here is your ass. You're welcome.
Just getting a couple people on the surface to walk around a bit is massively expensive... forget about a sustained effort with mining equipment, life support and everything else you'd need.
Just use robots, remote controlled where neccessary. We can already build machines that can traverse the moon, we can build machines that can mine and extract ore with little human intervention, automated refineries are easy, and power the whole thing with lovely naked solar radiation! The first thing they build are ten more plants!
It is right up their with why should I have to live with IE7 not following current standards because a bunch of retards built IE only websites that depend on a broken browser?
Erm I think you mean, a bunch of retards built IE, and a bunch of websites were built to conform to the broken browser that 95% of the marketplace was using. This is a case where you really can blame the tools, not the craftsmen.
You need professional help, mutilator. I mean what is it with you people and circumcision? Its like the crazed muslims and their hatred for women or something. Go back to the middle ages where you belong please. Irritation aside, you made a good and well informed post besides that, which I found interesting. But I'd thank you to get off the slicing little boys penises bandwagon.
Circumcision has long been protested as "pointless mutilation", which it may well be. However, there's strong evidence that circumcision may save your life if you have sex with an HIV-positive person. I think the figure I heard was that you'd have 60% better chances if circumcised, due to a lower white blood cell count at the tip of your penis (white blood cells which are directly infected by HIV). Someone will correct me, I'm sure. Did ancient people have *anecdotal* evidence that suggested circumcision would prevent certain diseases? I don't know, but for such a large percentage, it seems plausible. They didn't have microscopes, but they weren't blind or stupid. They were simply misidentifying the causes of some very real observations.
What is this free-form bullshit? Someone mod this idiot south of Australia please. Circumcision prevents AIDs indeed. What a fruit. If I even need to explain myself, you should move right along there.
And, apparently evolution was reversed by some British scientists.
"What we have done is essentially go back in time to when Hox1 did what Hoxa1 and Hoxb1 do today," said Mario Capecchi, professor of human genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
"It gives a real example of how evolution works because we can reverse it."
IDers are teh morans.
You, good sir, get forty nubile wives, and no need to even blow yourself up to get them, thats right, our first back to school season baptism-by-sherbet convert, and we'll even throw in as a special bonus, a nubile wife for your lovely wife, sir! Testify!! And whyyy, I hear you say, whyyy 40 wives? Because thats one for every day and night the Good Lord spent in the desert, and Gawwwwwd told me that this one time offer should be laid before the masses, that the masses get laid, and ye shall receive the profits of the prophet!1!
Ayyyyy-men!