Of course you completely disregard the technical advances during this time which allowed telcos to bundle thousands of phone lines at high quality over fiber, as well as the drastic decrease in required service and per-line cost brought about by digital and semiconducting exchanges (which were brought about by AT&T in the pre-breakup days!).
The earliest digital watches had their functions implemented completely mechanically, later electronically. It was a good two or three decades from the first electronic (not electric) digital watches appeared until they started running on software.
(Of course, the best car to sleep (or fsck) in were the old Ramblers, where you folded down the front couch, and it lined up with the rear seat to become a double bed.) El Camino!!
The front is like a car!
The back is like a truck!
The front is where we sit,
the back is where we...
El Camino!
People don't want to admit it, but it's the feminization of society.
People don't want to admit it, I think, because it simply isn't true. Freedoms have been threatened under the guise of "protection" before, and it will probably happen again.
Ever wonder why most libertarians tend to be men?
Come to think of it, I haven't, because that simply isn't true.
An overly shielded upbringing and inability to relate to people who haven't had one is not something that's limited to men.
The skin gets thicker and loses sensitivity on the glans if it's constantly rubbed against underwear. I don't see how this is possible to deny. If I were to walk around a day with an exposed glans, it'd probably be extremely uncomfortable. So you necessarily have to lose something from it.
I, and most doctors, would consider an impaired sex life as a "deleterious health effect". Since the lack of a foreskin undeniable desensitizes the glans, this is the net effect.
You would probably have gotten more pleasure out of sex if the foreskin had been there to prevent desensitization of the glans penis - aka the penis head.
Yeah, but, to the best of my knowledge this happens nowhere in the world. It's silly.
This might as well have been brought up in an alternate universe with "pinky" and "foreskin" reversed. Removing the foreskin doesn't make a whole lot of sense either.
So are earrings, nose studs, tattoos, and makeup. What's your point?
How would you react if parents gave their baby earrings, a nose stud, a tattoo, and makeup?
Because the male equivalent of female genital mutilation is removing the glans penis. And that's a tad more horrible than something doctors can't even agree on whether is bad or not.
I don't think circumcision makes any sense, but I think it trivializes female genital mutilation to suggest that they're anywhere in the same league of badness.
The VT100 series were only available with a white, P4 phosphor. You may be thinking of the later ones, like a VT220 or something. They were available in green, amber, and white.
They're actually treating a close relative of mine for it. They've pushed back surgery a few days, but he's going under the knife today to have it removed, most likely. Since he has a job with an $180,000 annual income, he could afford private health care, had he preferred it.
No. He (the American) just went the competent doctor of his
choice and got it done right the first time.
Firstly: Unqualified doctors aren't hired. Doctors who screw up, lose licenses.
Anyway, how do you suggest this J. Random Patient assess the competency of the doctor? By a thorough medical exam?
You should not even bother the beaurocracy for the small things.
It's inefficient and just drives up the cost of everything. The
beaurocracy is by it's nature the least efficient thing. So you try
to keep it as small as possible.
Correct. The whole business of keeping multiple independant health insurance organizations, which do not in practice offer competition, is wildly inefficient.
Instead you're just fixating on the free doctors visit that now
costs twice as much to the system as it otherwise would.
Care to quote any statistics on that, or are you just - as I assume you are - dragging this out of your ass?
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Of course you completely disregard the technical advances during this time which allowed telcos to bundle thousands of phone lines at high quality over fiber, as well as the drastic decrease in required service and per-line cost brought about by digital and semiconducting exchanges (which were brought about by AT&T in the pre-breakup days!).
Don't forget Hustvedt... I actually vaguely remember seeing a Tesla, but don't quote me on that...
I have both the Eee and the OLPC; The OLPC is the better-engineered laptop by a mile. Different leagues.
The earliest digital watches had their functions implemented completely mechanically, later electronically. It was a good two or three decades from the first electronic (not electric) digital watches appeared until they started running on software.
The front is like a car!
The back is like a truck!
The front is where we sit,
the back is where we...
El Camino!
I seem to recall a "way into the future" sci-fi movie having monitors with VERY visible SGI logos.
As a Norwegian, I believe that not blaming Norway sounds like a wonderful thing. Look at all those other silly countries! Hah! How silly they are!
People don't want to admit it, but it's the feminization of society.
People don't want to admit it, I think, because it simply isn't true. Freedoms have been threatened under the guise of "protection" before, and it will probably happen again.
Ever wonder why most libertarians tend to be men?
Come to think of it, I haven't, because that simply isn't true.
An overly shielded upbringing and inability to relate to people who haven't had one is not something that's limited to men.
IATWTC? I Ate the World Trade Center?
Removing YouTube and the clitoris comes from the same problem: Religious mania.
The skin gets thicker and loses sensitivity on the glans if it's constantly rubbed against underwear. I don't see how this is possible to deny. If I were to walk around a day with an exposed glans, it'd probably be extremely uncomfortable. So you necessarily have to lose something from it.
Maybe - but it's also possible that your brain compensates. But it's all speculation, isn't it?
It really isn't. You've been pointed in other places in this discussions to documents describing this.
I, and most doctors, would consider an impaired sex life as a "deleterious health effect". Since the lack of a foreskin undeniable desensitizes the glans, this is the net effect.
You would probably have gotten more pleasure out of sex if the foreskin had been there to prevent desensitization of the glans penis - aka the penis head.
Yeah, but, to the best of my knowledge this happens nowhere in the world. It's silly.
This might as well have been brought up in an alternate universe with "pinky" and "foreskin" reversed. Removing the foreskin doesn't make a whole lot of sense either.
So are earrings, nose studs, tattoos, and makeup. What's your point?
How would you react if parents gave their baby earrings, a nose stud, a tattoo, and makeup?
Because the male equivalent of female genital mutilation is removing the glans penis. And that's a tad more horrible than something doctors can't even agree on whether is bad or not.
I don't think circumcision makes any sense, but I think it trivializes female genital mutilation to suggest that they're anywhere in the same league of badness.
I think it's a bug, actually - the graphics view doesn't render - you're trying to construct stuff over stuff, but you can't. The stuff is invisible.
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard, fwiw
The VT100 series were only available with a white, P4 phosphor. You may be thinking of the later ones, like a VT220 or something. They were available in green, amber, and white.
And it isn't news. Just thought I'd point that out.
As I was legally a minor, with an income running papers under the minimum taxation limit at that point in time, I can indeed say that it was free :)
They're actually treating a close relative of mine for it. They've pushed back surgery a few days, but he's going under the knife today to have it removed, most likely. Since he has a job with an $180,000 annual income, he could afford private health care, had he preferred it.
No. He (the American) just went the competent doctor of his choice and got it done right the first time.
Firstly: Unqualified doctors aren't hired. Doctors who screw up, lose licenses. Anyway, how do you suggest this J. Random Patient assess the competency of the doctor? By a thorough medical exam? You should not even bother the beaurocracy for the small things. It's inefficient and just drives up the cost of everything. The beaurocracy is by it's nature the least efficient thing. So you try to keep it as small as possible.
Correct. The whole business of keeping multiple independant health insurance organizations, which do not in practice offer competition, is wildly inefficient. Instead you're just fixating on the free doctors visit that now costs twice as much to the system as it otherwise would.
Care to quote any statistics on that, or are you just - as I assume you are - dragging this out of your ass?
No, the DC-10 sim is run by three PDP-11/45s in a shared-memory cluster configuration. :)
The DC-9 sim is run by a VAX-11/785.
It had 16 MiB of RAM, which was called MB back then. No, I don't read it as "mibibites", I think that's silly.
Yes, it was a pretty damn serious box. It cost several hundred thousand dollars. It also has gigabytes of disk.