I'll add my own answer: the Colosseum was so popular, because swordfight training videos in roman times were sorely lacking. Wouldn't you be much more interested in watching some real medieval violence if your life depended on properly handling your weapon later on the front line?
You think America's cybersecurity is bad? The are even worse at personnel -- for example, they may have let a few people who despise and violate the highest law of the land into important government offices.
If kidneys could be bought, insurance companies would be happy to pay quite the price for them (compared to the cost of regular dialysis and additional health problems).
Part of the problem is the big shortage of organs. I'm not sure what to think about this, in that this sort of thing might decrease any purely voluntary no-strings-attached donations. Maybe we should just allow people to buy kidneys, instead of requiring this sort of complex web of conditional donation.
The goal of the Underhanded C contest is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil.
That sounds just like all code ever written, except some code obviously is not clear and readable. (at least before debugging)
We have to vote against the person that we don't want to be president.
Wrong. We have to vote for members of the electoral college who have promised to vote against the person we don't want to be president. (This matters because districts, gerrymandering, etc)
WTF? Nobody with a clue wants to install "secondary offers". Otherwise we'd seek that crap out and install it ourselves, dumbasses...
Duh. The few people who actually like these "secondary offers" are 1) extremely unlikely to have found out about that program on their own and 2) extremely unlikely to download and install it themselves. Thus, being bundled with legitimate software is the lifeblood of these "secondary offers".
In my experience, recent advances in technology have greatly improved education. You got your paper, made in bulk from fast growing trees, now cheap enough that it's basically free. You got your printing press, now an advanced printing press that can be changed easily enough to keep all your books modern, probably less than 5 dollars per textbook plus the copyright cost. You got your pencils (I prefer the mechanical ones, no more sharpening pencils for me) and erasers. You got your ball point pens (no more inkwells for children to be children near). And you got chalkboards and whiteboards. And calculators, whose invention has made simple arithmetic no longer the ultimate in school mathematics. And you got your vaccines, so no more fear of catching deadly diseases in class.
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I'll add my own answer: the Colosseum was so popular, because swordfight training videos in roman times were sorely lacking. Wouldn't you be much more interested in watching some real medieval violence if your life depended on properly handling your weapon later on the front line?
I dunno, these made in China head transplant mice only come with a one day warranty.
You think America's cybersecurity is bad? The are even worse at personnel -- for example, they may have let a few people who despise and violate the highest law of the land into important government offices.
Some of the mice have lived as long as a day after the operations according to Ren and he hopes to have similar success with primates.
Maybe he should try to have his patients survive more than one day, before moving up to primates.
As opposed to donate a kidney only if someone else is willing to donate a compatible kidney for their benefit?
If kidneys could be bought, insurance companies would be happy to pay quite the price for them (compared to the cost of regular dialysis and additional health problems).
Part of the problem is the big shortage of organs. I'm not sure what to think about this, in that this sort of thing might decrease any purely voluntary no-strings-attached donations. Maybe we should just allow people to buy kidneys, instead of requiring this sort of complex web of conditional donation.
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The goal of the Underhanded C contest is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil.
That sounds just like all code ever written, except some code obviously is not clear and readable. (at least before debugging)
We have to vote against the person that we don't want to be president.
Wrong. We have to vote for members of the electoral college who have promised to vote against the person we don't want to be president. (This matters because districts, gerrymandering, etc)
It does confirm my suspicions that at least some of the accidents occurred immediately after control was switched to the patsy.
So, if you eat during your commute, it's a balanced diet, neither tedious or pleasurable.
And shares some of the aforementioned eating-related danger with other people (unless you have an autonomous car).
Just wait until their system gets infected with a virus!
What's more, though the quality suffers the videos are even generally intelligible!
Slashdot, now with double the videos!
"Check out our new headquarters, it's da bomb"
Like Jobs, Musk could take a shit on stage and most of your pathetic fanboys would be fighting each other for the privilege to touch it.
Of course I would. I'd sell it on ebay. I know a lot of people who would pay for that sort of shit.
Besides, a Stormtrooper would be more likely to shoot himself than to hit anyone at even 10 paces.
If he's fighting ties then he has my approval 100%.
WTF? Nobody with a clue wants to install "secondary offers". Otherwise we'd seek that crap out and install it ourselves, dumbasses...
Duh. The few people who actually like these "secondary offers" are 1) extremely unlikely to have found out about that program on their own and 2) extremely unlikely to download and install it themselves. Thus, being bundled with legitimate software is the lifeblood of these "secondary offers".
AdBlock permanantly pauses Flash content that isn't "central to the webpage" while keeping central content playing without interruption.
In my experience, recent advances in technology have greatly improved education. You got your paper, made in bulk from fast growing trees, now cheap enough that it's basically free. You got your printing press, now an advanced printing press that can be changed easily enough to keep all your books modern, probably less than 5 dollars per textbook plus the copyright cost. You got your pencils (I prefer the mechanical ones, no more sharpening pencils for me) and erasers. You got your ball point pens (no more inkwells for children to be children near). And you got chalkboards and whiteboards. And calculators, whose invention has made simple arithmetic no longer the ultimate in school mathematics. And you got your vaccines, so no more fear of catching deadly diseases in class.
Well he didn't say he didn't want to be immoral and unethical. Just that he didn't want to be a criminal. Like an investment banker.
What, you think you aren't also a criminal?
Partner with sourceforge, make it part of the EULA. "Not responsible for any damage caused by using this software, including possible loss of data."