There are two kinds of incremental change - small changes in gene expression/abundance/variation that give small outward changes, and small mutations that have big outward effects, e.g. six fingers on one hand, downs syndrome, sickle cell anemia. All those originally came from a single genetic misfire during replication. Who's to say wings didn't start from a physical step change that was a single base pair?
Quit your whining. They have X number of people, and I'd rather they develop software for protein folding than email back individual people who complained about things probably already on a to-do list. For most software projects I'd consider my response a little harsh, but you're advocating an approach where resources used to CURE AIDS are being diverted to "not offending trovingslosh". The least you can do is forgive them, discard your own pettiness, and re-harness your natural ability to spend your gaming time productively. It's a rare skill you have and that project needs people like you.
Hey, nice to see someone open about ASD who isn't a whiny internet shutin - Those guys have negatively stereotyped us to the point where I never talk about it any more. You raise an important point, which is that we are essentially learning how to win friends and influence people, not subconsciously as part of our character, but as a learned discipline. It scares me sometimes. Is this what sociopaths do also? I learn to smile and laugh with someone as they talk because I want to express the inner feelings that normal people can do with laughing and smiling - it doesn't matter if the impression I'm trying to force is an accurate picture of my own mental state, but it's still manipulation. Is this something we're worthy and responsible enough to wield?
Not that it undermines the main thrust of your argument, but I feel that sloppy investigating on your part makes you look weak - Specifically:
Google's the world leader in face recognition technology. It uses this technology to identify faces in streetview and blur them out. The best you can rant about is that Google themselves may have a private database of times when people who've been tagged elsewhere in Google have wandered past a streetview car at a particular time. For the rest of us, there's always "that's blatantly your shirt in streetview!"
The best thing that comes out of all these breaches is the consequences of assuming the worst - Gary McKinnon, looks for UFOs, causes 6-figure damages because any machine he was within 1000 miles of pinging got tossed into a shredder. Likewise, with this, you know there's some hacker out there who's all like "shit, I missed that database, I was only in there for info on the PS4"
I was always under the impression that -Os made sense in a lot of contexts because of the smaller binary size fitting into the CPU cache more easily and speeding up some kind of switching process that apparently happens a lot during execution and not just when you launch the program - but I'm obviously far from an expert on these matters.
It sounds like you think that's a statement about the pi they've calculated here, where the words immediately preceeding your quote, found at the top of this page, are "pi to 40 digits". Any of us could comfortably calculate that on paper in a day, or half an hour with a 10-digit solar powered calculator. I fear you may be guilty of slashdot-itis - an impulse to try and prove yourself smart by demolishing a strawman built from the headline, or the summary if we're lucky. Sometimes, the fail is too epic not to rebuke.
I had a food load for 10 people delivered to the middle of the yorkshire dales on New Years Eve, so I have a new respect for tesco's universal delivery policy. I think some of the scottish isles you'd be out of luck but it's a lifeline for remote people too!
Oh internet, how short your memory. Hans Rosling has already comprehensively debunked fears of a population explosion, all we need to do is elevate the third world out of poverty and the population will stabilise permanently at 9-12 billion.
The problem with earth-arians in politics is the same with openly-religious parties. There's always an unpleasant undertone of connection/endorsement of extremist views. If the party ignores the extremists, everyone continues to whisper. If they openly distance themselves from the extremists, they're adrift and directionless. Lose/lose.
Specifically, enviromentalism/animal rights/veganism all point to the extreme viewpoint that human lives are *not* the pinnacle of importance, and that killing 80% of all humans would do a lot of good for the ecosystem. With that pallor hanging over the Greens, the mere suggestion that a family goes from 3 cars to 2 is seen as a slippery slope to death camps.
Seconded. Methanol, ethanol and IPA all have very distinct smells. I haven't worked with n-pr, but t-butanol and n-butanol are also immediately distinguishable. I can also probably take a stab at ethylene glycol and the c5/6 analogues.
Here's the real test: does methanol-d4 smell different from methanol?
Actually, that brings it in line with the data allowance from most other plans. I do watch the occasional clip on the phone but I've never even gone over half of that. The solution is probably to spend some portion of life not using the internet as fully as possible.
Here in scotland, gun deaths make national news and there are between 0 and 4 fatal shootings a year in a country with 6 million people. Every other week, I read about a school shooting on this site, followed by thousands of people spouting rubbish like you.
Just man up and admit that guns are cool and dangerous. I know
Yeah, but in this specific example, there's more blood because of Assange. The best you can possibly do - and I actually think this myself - is that it teaches future politicians that secrecy is no longer a tool that the corrupt can use to consolidate power. But still. In this specific case, sux2bu.
Hah! The citizens have nothing to do with it. The best we can hope for is that Mugabe mis-exploits this so badly that the UN has an excuse to finally get rid of him - but that's going to take more innocent blood.
You did bring it up out of nowhere - how many people around here even RTFA, and you manage to quote the one line about zealotry.
You also have to admit, the sig is kind of inflammatory as well. Wouldn't you feel... disappointed if you read one that said "Don't thank a doctor, thank God!". Yet I know now that simply putting my personal beliefs on show is taken as a confrontation by some people, so I don't.
There's a story of a man who was at his house when heavy rains poured down, the river crested, and the town flooded. As he stood on his front porch, the neighborhood completely under water, two men came by in a rowboat. "Can we take you to safety?" one called out.
The man shook his head. "No, thank you. I have faith in the Lord and He will save me."
A little later, the waters had risen and the man was on the roof of his porch when several folks happened along in a motorboat. "Say, there, would you like to come with us?" one of them called.
"No, thank you," the man replied. "I have faith in the Lord, and He will save me."
The waters continued to rise with alarming speed, and the man soon found himself on the roof of his house. A helicopter came by and hovered overhead as the pilot broadcasted, "Let me drop a line and get you out of there."
"No, thank you," the man called back. "I have faith in the Lord, and He will save me."
The man perished in the flood and went to Heaven, where he was met at the Pearly Gates by Saint Peter. Extremely saddened and upset, the man requested to talk to God. His request was granted.
"Heavenly Father," the man cried, "I had faith in you to save me from the flood, and you didn't come through for me!"
Astonished, God replied, "What are you talking about? I sent you two boats and a helicopter!"
I'm a medicinal chemist working on a program to cure Alzheimer's disease, and I thank God for my abilities. I think you presume too much of the Doctor when you deny the existence of miracles.
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There are two kinds of incremental change - small changes in gene expression/abundance/variation that give small outward changes, and small mutations that have big outward effects, e.g. six fingers on one hand, downs syndrome, sickle cell anemia. All those originally came from a single genetic misfire during replication. Who's to say wings didn't start from a physical step change that was a single base pair?
So you mean google does care about me?
And this is why courting gamers to do good for humanity is always going to be a flaky prospect.
Quit your whining. They have X number of people, and I'd rather they develop software for protein folding than email back individual people who complained about things probably already on a to-do list. For most software projects I'd consider my response a little harsh, but you're advocating an approach where resources used to CURE AIDS are being diverted to "not offending trovingslosh". The least you can do is forgive them, discard your own pettiness, and re-harness your natural ability to spend your gaming time productively. It's a rare skill you have and that project needs people like you.
Hey, nice to see someone open about ASD who isn't a whiny internet shutin - Those guys have negatively stereotyped us to the point where I never talk about it any more. You raise an important point, which is that we are essentially learning how to win friends and influence people, not subconsciously as part of our character, but as a learned discipline. It scares me sometimes. Is this what sociopaths do also? I learn to smile and laugh with someone as they talk because I want to express the inner feelings that normal people can do with laughing and smiling - it doesn't matter if the impression I'm trying to force is an accurate picture of my own mental state, but it's still manipulation. Is this something we're worthy and responsible enough to wield?
Not that it undermines the main thrust of your argument, but I feel that sloppy investigating on your part makes you look weak - Specifically:
Google's the world leader in face recognition technology. It uses this technology to identify faces in streetview and blur them out. The best you can rant about is that Google themselves may have a private database of times when people who've been tagged elsewhere in Google have wandered past a streetview car at a particular time. For the rest of us, there's always "that's blatantly your shirt in streetview!"
Or, you can calibrate it *on* yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMPtj71xGzY
The best thing that comes out of all these breaches is the consequences of assuming the worst - Gary McKinnon, looks for UFOs, causes 6-figure damages because any machine he was within 1000 miles of pinging got tossed into a shredder. Likewise, with this, you know there's some hacker out there who's all like "shit, I missed that database, I was only in there for info on the PS4"
I was always under the impression that -Os made sense in a lot of contexts because of the smaller binary size fitting into the CPU cache more easily and speeding up some kind of switching process that apparently happens a lot during execution and not just when you launch the program - but I'm obviously far from an expert on these matters.
It sounds like you think that's a statement about the pi they've calculated here, where the words immediately preceeding your quote, found at the top of this page, are "pi to 40 digits". Any of us could comfortably calculate that on paper in a day, or half an hour with a 10-digit solar powered calculator. I fear you may be guilty of slashdot-itis - an impulse to try and prove yourself smart by demolishing a strawman built from the headline, or the summary if we're lucky. Sometimes, the fail is too epic not to rebuke.
I had a food load for 10 people delivered to the middle of the yorkshire dales on New Years Eve, so I have a new respect for tesco's universal delivery policy. I think some of the scottish isles you'd be out of luck but it's a lifeline for remote people too!
So where do you stand on the idea of set-top boxes and cable modems? Would you respect the right of loanership there?
Oh internet, how short your memory. Hans Rosling has already comprehensively debunked fears of a population explosion, all we need to do is elevate the third world out of poverty and the population will stabilise permanently at 9-12 billion.
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/hans-rosling-ted-2006-debunking-myths-about-the-third-world/
The problem with earth-arians in politics is the same with openly-religious parties. There's always an unpleasant undertone of connection/endorsement of extremist views. If the party ignores the extremists, everyone continues to whisper. If they openly distance themselves from the extremists, they're adrift and directionless. Lose/lose.
Specifically, enviromentalism/animal rights/veganism all point to the extreme viewpoint that human lives are *not* the pinnacle of importance, and that killing 80% of all humans would do a lot of good for the ecosystem. With that pallor hanging over the Greens, the mere suggestion that a family goes from 3 cars to 2 is seen as a slippery slope to death camps.
Seconded. Methanol, ethanol and IPA all have very distinct smells. I haven't worked with n-pr, but t-butanol and n-butanol are also immediately distinguishable. I can also probably take a stab at ethylene glycol and the c5/6 analogues.
Here's the real test: does methanol-d4 smell different from methanol?
Actually, that brings it in line with the data allowance from most other plans. I do watch the occasional clip on the phone but I've never even gone over half of that. The solution is probably to spend some portion of life not using the internet as fully as possible.
Here in scotland, gun deaths make national news and there are between 0 and 4 fatal shootings a year in a country with 6 million people. Every other week, I read about a school shooting on this site, followed by thousands of people spouting rubbish like you.
Just man up and admit that guns are cool and dangerous. I know
Yeah, but in this specific example, there's more blood because of Assange. The best you can possibly do - and I actually think this myself - is that it teaches future politicians that secrecy is no longer a tool that the corrupt can use to consolidate power. But still. In this specific case, sux2bu.
Hah! The citizens have nothing to do with it. The best we can hope for is that Mugabe mis-exploits this so badly that the UN has an excuse to finally get rid of him - but that's going to take more innocent blood.
Get back to us on that one after Mugabe has the opposition leader executed for treason.
When some nub is ruining your line, of course you're going to yell anything to make them move, and your fun continue.
You did bring it up out of nowhere - how many people around here even RTFA, and you manage to quote the one line about zealotry.
You also have to admit, the sig is kind of inflammatory as well. Wouldn't you feel ... disappointed if you read one that said "Don't thank a doctor, thank God!". Yet I know now that simply putting my personal beliefs on show is taken as a confrontation by some people, so I don't.
Interesting problem with your theory is I was raised atheist with parents who were also scientists.
There's a story of a man who was at his house when heavy rains poured down, the river crested, and the town flooded. As he stood on his front porch, the neighborhood completely under water, two men came by in a rowboat. "Can we take you to safety?" one called out.
The man shook his head. "No, thank you. I have faith in the Lord and He will save me."
A little later, the waters had risen and the man was on the roof of his porch when several folks happened along in a motorboat. "Say, there, would you like to come with us?" one of them called.
"No, thank you," the man replied. "I have faith in the Lord, and He will save me."
The waters continued to rise with alarming speed, and the man soon found himself on the roof of his house. A helicopter came by and hovered overhead as the pilot broadcasted, "Let me drop a line and get you out of there."
"No, thank you," the man called back. "I have faith in the Lord, and He will save me."
The man perished in the flood and went to Heaven, where he was met at the Pearly Gates by Saint Peter. Extremely saddened and upset, the man requested to talk to God. His request was granted.
"Heavenly Father," the man cried, "I had faith in you to save me from the flood, and you didn't come through for me!"
Astonished, God replied, "What are you talking about? I sent you two boats and a helicopter!"
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
I'm a medicinal chemist working on a program to cure Alzheimer's disease, and I thank God for my abilities. I think you presume too much of the Doctor when you deny the existence of miracles.