It's hard to conclude that this is not malware based off the email when you don't know who the company is or what they wanted to install. There is so much of this crap that requires malware tools to uninstall that comes bundled with other software. Toolbars, download assistants, things that make you an unknowing host in what is basically a torrent network.
You don't need to include a third party exe in your installer just to throw a desktop shortcut to thirdpartycompany.com. I think it is a little naive to assume that the third party must have honest intentions and that this is due to a language barrier.
The thing that is finally starting to bug me is that guns with clips exist for one reason: killing people efficiently. That's what a gun is for. That is the purpose of a gun. Yes, you can take your semi-auto to the range, or to hunt, but that's not what it was created for.
Do I think that responsible people should be allowed to own semi-auto guns? I used to think so. Not so much after this past year. I feel that people who would use guns for violence have spoiled it for the rest of us. I don't think the cost in lives is worth it.
Bolt action, break action, pump action, anything that disallows for wholesale murder is fine with me. If you're really that afraid of your government, I'm not sure how much more semi-auto is going to help you against their fully automatic weapons, IR scopes, and night scopes. If you're really interested in defending your house from intruders, a pistol probably isn't the best choice if you care about your kid in the next room.
I wouldn't be against registration of semi-auto weapons, but I wouldn't care if they took them away so it's a little moot. Registration of non-semi weapons might be a little overboard. I hadn't really considered them to be a problem.
Your human target is 50 feet away and barely moving and yet SOMEHOW all of your crack Stormtroopers miss with a weapon that shoots at the speed of light.
It wasn't until I read Ringworld that I really appreciated that you can't dodge a laser. Can't see it to dodge it, by the time you can see it it is already too late. Even if it takes 8 minutes to get to you from its source, you won't know that it is coming.
I have a coworker who trolls for the sake of trolling. He talks about trolling, he trolls forums for movies just to tell people how bad they will be, and at one point he discussed using the Facebook gay pride filter on a confederate flag for use as a profile picture. He gets his jollies, and seeing something he doesn't actually identify with on a billboard would probably crack him up.
On the other hand, lets say the billboard generates dialog between people. Families, neighbors, coworkers, bar mates. The troll may be exposed -in person- to disdain for his actions, despite remaining anonymous. Seeing people around him criticize his behavior may give him reason to rethink it.
People tried to eradicate mosquitoes decades ago. Fish population suffered. We never know how things we hate are connected to the things we need. That's why it pays to consider long-term consequences before doing anything drastic.
That is why Monsanto is preparing their Roundup Ready antimalarial mosquitoes.
Do you think skilled scientists and engineers work just because you snap your fingers?
No, they work because they want money, and possibly also because they enjoy their profession. So, you make research grants, you pay them to work, and with a little luck you have innovation. You don't need Pfizer to make that work.
No, what it is called is "labor mobility" and "competitiveness". That means, in the end, governments do not get to set the rules and cannot force people to work or invest under conditions that they don't like.
No, it's called "taking advantage of our society for their profit". It's like using H1-B workers to make American profits using foreign labor prices.
If two major powers (the kinds that have satellite constellations) are fighting, we have a lot more to worry about than Kessler Syndrome. Like, say, global thermonuclear annihilation.
Replace Kessler Syndrome with bioweapons. Or firebombs. Whatever. Just because total annihilation is the worst possible outcome doesn't mean we should ignore other terrible outcomes.
That is exactly what is happening. The researchers were monitoring pigs in farms and discovered the resistance to polymyxin/colistin. Colistin is used in pig farms in China, so it is doubtful to be just a coincidence. The researchers found 1 in 5 pigs carried the resistant E coli strain, and 1 in 7 samples of raw meat contained it.
I was never really scared of getting trichinosis since modern medicine can deal with that. This, on the other hand...
Well, they are already fighting an uphill battle against all the GM naysayers. Maybe if they openly labeled GM food *and* then subsidized prices of goods to cut through the FUD and get to consumers, they might get some traction.
As it stands, I should expect to get something from GM food. The appeal for GM food producers includes better quality, easier to handle, and/or cheaper to produce. In turn, I should get better quality/cheaper food.
That said, its possible that there exists a manufacturing source for compounded drugs that doesn't exist for the usual drug distribution model. If Imprimis has the capability to undercut Daraprim and still make a profit, it makes sense to do it as soon as possible. The greater the price disparity, the better Imprimis looks. If they knock Daraprim out of the market, they can establish themselves as the main supplier of the drug.
I guess that does little to assuage fears of some greater conspiracy going on... Maybe Imprimis poisons their patients, and Daraprim comes sweeping to the rescue. Maybe Shkreli has money betting on the failure of his company. Or maybe he just missed this possibility.
Guns can easily harm living beings. More easily than a knife or a hammer. They can be wielded by the most feeble of humans, including toddlers.
Some subset of people simply doesn't care about that. The idea of their toddler killing someone isn't enough motivation for them to behave responsibly and secure their firearm. Why would this person be motivated by the threat of a felony charge?
Some combination of free gun locks and mandatory education might be helpful, though.
I'm not a shill for the fracking industry. However, a question comes to my mind: Is it possible that it is not the fracking itself, but the stress of knowing that you live near the fracking?
I wonder if they could model this with mice just to get a little more info on the effects of fracking pollutants.
I would think that growing and managing marijuana would be similar to at least some other agriculture/horticulture items (or even pharmaceuticals or alcohol). Going on that assumption, I'm a little surprised there isn't already decent software that can handle this. If there really isn't an existing solution, Flowhub is making the wrong software.
(Yes, the CEO says he is thinking of expanding it to other industries. No, I didn't WTFV, but I would have at least glanced at a transcript if there was one.)
When I'm printing rows that I want to easily discern from one another, I shade alternating rows. Copying grey cells on a copy machine is unreliable, usually losing the shading over a few generations. Instead, I prefer to use hatching patterns.
Unfortunately, LibreOffice doesn't offer this feature in Calc. Neither does OpenOffice, though the feature was requested 12 years ago.
It suggests actions/approaches that could be taken towards the collection of data. I'd like the see the unclassified memo, the one that says they're going to proceed without regards to this memo.
Lessons to be learned:
Government: Dire need of whistleblower protections and incentives to use them.
Engineers: You do what you have to do to pay the bills.
Executives: You made your windfall while polluting the world. Keep up the good work.
The rest of the public: Demand whistle blower protections.
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It's hard to conclude that this is not malware based off the email when you don't know who the company is or what they wanted to install.
There is so much of this crap that requires malware tools to uninstall that comes bundled with other software. Toolbars, download assistants, things that make you an unknowing host in what is basically a torrent network.
You don't need to include a third party exe in your installer just to throw a desktop shortcut to thirdpartycompany.com. I think it is a little naive to assume that the third party must have honest intentions and that this is due to a language barrier.
Quick mention of the 1980 PA lottery scandal, in which balls were swapped with counterfeit balls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If your QA people are adding to the problems, you are probably doing it wrong.
The thing that is finally starting to bug me is that guns with clips exist for one reason: killing people efficiently. That's what a gun is for. That is the purpose of a gun. Yes, you can take your semi-auto to the range, or to hunt, but that's not what it was created for.
Do I think that responsible people should be allowed to own semi-auto guns? I used to think so. Not so much after this past year. I feel that people who would use guns for violence have spoiled it for the rest of us. I don't think the cost in lives is worth it.
Bolt action, break action, pump action, anything that disallows for wholesale murder is fine with me. If you're really that afraid of your government, I'm not sure how much more semi-auto is going to help you against their fully automatic weapons, IR scopes, and night scopes.
If you're really interested in defending your house from intruders, a pistol probably isn't the best choice if you care about your kid in the next room.
I wouldn't be against registration of semi-auto weapons, but I wouldn't care if they took them away so it's a little moot. Registration of non-semi weapons might be a little overboard. I hadn't really considered them to be a problem.
Whale isn't really a delicacy. This is more like a safari hunt.
Put on your imagination cap for about 5 seconds and you can probably come up with the answer.
I hate when people go into a conversation and feign lack of insight and intuition.
Your human target is 50 feet away and barely moving and yet SOMEHOW all of your crack Stormtroopers miss with a weapon that shoots at the speed of light.
It wasn't until I read Ringworld that I really appreciated that you can't dodge a laser. Can't see it to dodge it, by the time you can see it it is already too late. Even if it takes 8 minutes to get to you from its source, you won't know that it is coming.
I could see this going either way.
I have a coworker who trolls for the sake of trolling. He talks about trolling, he trolls forums for movies just to tell people how bad they will be, and at one point he discussed using the Facebook gay pride filter on a confederate flag for use as a profile picture. He gets his jollies, and seeing something he doesn't actually identify with on a billboard would probably crack him up.
On the other hand, lets say the billboard generates dialog between people. Families, neighbors, coworkers, bar mates. The troll may be exposed -in person- to disdain for his actions, despite remaining anonymous. Seeing people around him criticize his behavior may give him reason to rethink it.
At 98% air you can crush it by hand. It would probably come off in chunks if you tried to scratch it.
People tried to eradicate mosquitoes decades ago. Fish population suffered. We never know how things we hate are connected to the things we need. That's why it pays to consider long-term consequences before doing anything drastic.
That is why Monsanto is preparing their Roundup Ready antimalarial mosquitoes.
Do you think skilled scientists and engineers work just because you snap your fingers?
No, they work because they want money, and possibly also because they enjoy their profession. So, you make research grants, you pay them to work, and with a little luck you have innovation. You don't need Pfizer to make that work.
No, what it is called is "labor mobility" and "competitiveness". That means, in the end, governments do not get to set the rules and cannot force people to work or invest under conditions that they don't like.
No, it's called "taking advantage of our society for their profit". It's like using H1-B workers to make American profits using foreign labor prices.
Well, if Disney does well enough with 7-9, maybe they will go back and remake eps 1-3. I'd like to see the look on Lucas's face...
If two major powers (the kinds that have satellite constellations) are fighting, we have a lot more to worry about than Kessler Syndrome. Like, say, global thermonuclear annihilation.
Replace Kessler Syndrome with bioweapons. Or firebombs. Whatever. Just because total annihilation is the worst possible outcome doesn't mean we should ignore other terrible outcomes.
That is exactly what is happening. The researchers were monitoring pigs in farms and discovered the resistance to polymyxin/colistin. Colistin is used in pig farms in China, so it is doubtful to be just a coincidence. The researchers found 1 in 5 pigs carried the resistant E coli strain, and 1 in 7 samples of raw meat contained it.
I was never really scared of getting trichinosis since modern medicine can deal with that. This, on the other hand...
Well, they are already fighting an uphill battle against all the GM naysayers. Maybe if they openly labeled GM food *and* then subsidized prices of goods to cut through the FUD and get to consumers, they might get some traction.
As it stands, I should expect to get something from GM food. The appeal for GM food producers includes better quality, easier to handle, and/or cheaper to produce. In turn, I should get better quality/cheaper food.
It's not a gamble for Kickstarter. They get their cut whether it succeeds or fails.
Mini-discs were pretty popular for recording concerts at one point.
Don't worry, god will make more mice.
It's certainly convenient for Imprimis.
That said, its possible that there exists a manufacturing source for compounded drugs that doesn't exist for the usual drug distribution model. If Imprimis has the capability to undercut Daraprim and still make a profit, it makes sense to do it as soon as possible. The greater the price disparity, the better Imprimis looks. If they knock Daraprim out of the market, they can establish themselves as the main supplier of the drug.
I guess that does little to assuage fears of some greater conspiracy going on... Maybe Imprimis poisons their patients, and Daraprim comes sweeping to the rescue. Maybe Shkreli has money betting on the failure of his company. Or maybe he just missed this possibility.
Guns can easily harm living beings. More easily than a knife or a hammer. They can be wielded by the most feeble of humans, including toddlers.
Some subset of people simply doesn't care about that. The idea of their toddler killing someone isn't enough motivation for them to behave responsibly and secure their firearm. Why would this person be motivated by the threat of a felony charge?
Some combination of free gun locks and mandatory education might be helpful, though.
I'm not a shill for the fracking industry. However, a question comes to my mind: Is it possible that it is not the fracking itself, but the stress of knowing that you live near the fracking?
I wonder if they could model this with mice just to get a little more info on the effects of fracking pollutants.
I would think that growing and managing marijuana would be similar to at least some other agriculture/horticulture items (or even pharmaceuticals or alcohol). Going on that assumption, I'm a little surprised there isn't already decent software that can handle this. If there really isn't an existing solution, Flowhub is making the wrong software.
(Yes, the CEO says he is thinking of expanding it to other industries. No, I didn't WTFV, but I would have at least glanced at a transcript if there was one.)
When I'm printing rows that I want to easily discern from one another, I shade alternating rows. Copying grey cells on a copy machine is unreliable, usually losing the shading over a few generations. Instead, I prefer to use hatching patterns.
Unfortunately, LibreOffice doesn't offer this feature in Calc. Neither does OpenOffice, though the feature was requested 12 years ago.
It suggests actions/approaches that could be taken towards the collection of data. I'd like the see the unclassified memo, the one that says they're going to proceed without regards to this memo.
Lessons to be learned:
Government: Dire need of whistleblower protections and incentives to use them.
Engineers: You do what you have to do to pay the bills.
Executives: You made your windfall while polluting the world. Keep up the good work.
The rest of the public: Demand whistle blower protections.