I was hoping for a quiet weekend at home, and now it looks like I'll have to deal with an apocalyptic volcano that's going around breaking plates, wearing an ultra hot mantle.
Hmmm... according to the figures that Google released for its 2009 financial report, that's about how much profit makes every day... before breakfast.
Somehow I doubt that the loss of 0.1% of their yearly profit is going to motivate Google to change their behavior. Making them look like their release process is totally ad-hoc and unreviewed, and like they don't give a flying fig about privacy, seems much more effective.
I'd mod you up if I had some points.
This is the most likely explanation. It's why people many other places in the world throughout history have embraced fermented beverages.
For me, the fact that a treatment that gives a 60% survival rate is considered a major breakthrough only underscores the fact that Ebola is terrifyingly dangerous, and it's just a few mutations from being real trouble.
If you enjoy being frightened, give Richard Preston's The Hot Zone a read.
... don't hire sysadmins who act unprofessionally or criminally under duress, and then treat them like professionals, like everyone else.
I haven't seen any reason to think that IT staff would be more likely to do such harm than anyone else. Sure, maybe they have easier means to effect harm than your average employee, but they have no more motivation nor mind to do so.
Personally, I'm not interested in finding extraterrestrial AIs. I get annoyed enough when I have to deal with automated phone support from Verizon; why would I want to talk to a computer that might be even less human?
I'd rather meet a biological than a logical, thank you.
OK, it's clear that I don't know the difference between dependency and addiction, at least according to the definitions provided by the other posters here.
However, I think that the point is still valid: stopping taking antidepressants may (perhaps depending on the type) require following a careful protocol in order to avoid some notably unpleasant effects.
In the case of my friend, he didn't have a longing for Zoloft, beyond that he knew that it would make the vertigo go away. It would be more accurate to say that he wished that he'd never heard of Zoloft.
The N900 was always marketed as a "Mobile Computer", not a phone. (http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/) This is why those who think it should be a phone are whining.
I don't care whether I can talk to my friends on it. I care whether it has connectivity. The 810 wifi is less than wonderful (it's OK, but no iTouch...) but as soon as I step away from a wifi hotspot, it's an island.
I don't think you can get addicted to anti-depressants.
Oh my, no.
I have a pal who forgot to take his Zoloft with him on vacation. The three days it took to refill his prescription were, according to him, horrible. He didn't suddenly get depressed--he got vertigo and his skin felt itchy and prickly. No fun at all.
When he finally came off the Zoloft, he had to be weaned off it, a little at a time. It look months IIRC.
If that's not physical addiction, I don't know what is.
Yes, I agree. The problem isn't that the folks who created Wave aren't smart (some of them could even be geniuses). The problem is that they weren't even in the batters box with respect to what their customers were pitching, to mangle the metaphor.
Nobody who spent any time using Wave thought that the problems were due to too many geniuses in the mix.
A real genius doesn't just show you a vision. A real genius creates a useful artifact that solves a problem of importance. We're not talking about art.
anyone who thinks that rape charges which surface right 3 days after that person finally found total legal solace in swedish law from u.s. prosecution by becoming a columnist for a paper, can be true, is a witless moron of the first order.
So... what if it was thirty days? A hundred days? A thousand?
Basically, your position is that after someone annoys "established powers", anything bad anyone says about that person is a smear campaign by those powers. Forever.
Just because the US government is pissed off at him doesn't mean we should automatically think that anything negative anyone says about him is automatically a lie, or that everything he says is the truth. The truth will come out.
This person is claiming that zombie outbreaks will fail, but where is the evidence? Has there ever been a zombie outbreak that has actually failed for any of these reasons?
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I was hoping for a quiet weekend at home, and now it looks like I'll have to deal with an apocalyptic volcano that's going around breaking plates, wearing an ultra hot mantle.
Great.
Hmmm... according to the figures that Google released for its 2009 financial report, that's about how much profit makes every day... before breakfast.
Somehow I doubt that the loss of 0.1% of their yearly profit is going to motivate Google to change their behavior. Making them look like their release process is totally ad-hoc and unreviewed, and like they don't give a flying fig about privacy, seems much more effective.
Never had a whole country despise me before.
It's easiest if you start with a relatively small country, and then claim that it doesn't actually exist.
Still waiting for that citation...
Gawker is just mad they didn't get the scoop. Maybe next time they should offer Assange cash. Apparently that's how they get their scoops.
Citation needed.
I'd mod you up if I had some points. This is the most likely explanation. It's why people many other places in the world throughout history have embraced fermented beverages.
Imagine a police officer doing his duty to protect a KKK member from a violent mob, it hardly means that the police officer supports the KKK.
I can imagine that. But that's not what's happening here.
Imagine the law-breaking pirate mob protecting the ideologically-driven law-breaker member from the law enforcer.
I would so much prefer this to happen after I am dead.
No; here's what the article says:
In the case of Ebola, five of eight monkeys infected with the virus lived, and with Marburg, all survived.
There is no mention in the article of a control group, although it is mentioned that the mortality rate for both Ebola and Marburg is 60-90%.
Perhaps the article does not make it sufficiently clear that Ebola and Marburg are different, although similar and perhaps related, diseases.
How do they make money off this?
Is someone going to be softly muttering advertisements in the background during my conversations?
Will the advertisements change to track the subject of the conversation?
Is this going to get really creepy, really quickly?
For me, the fact that a treatment that gives a 60% survival rate is considered a major breakthrough only underscores the fact that Ebola is terrifyingly dangerous, and it's just a few mutations from being real trouble.
If you enjoy being frightened, give Richard Preston's The Hot Zone a read.
One pizza, with everything on it...
I haven't seen any reason to think that IT staff would be more likely to do such harm than anyone else. Sure, maybe they have easier means to effect harm than your average employee, but they have no more motivation nor mind to do so.
Personally, I'm not interested in finding extraterrestrial AIs. I get annoyed enough when I have to deal with automated phone support from Verizon; why would I want to talk to a computer that might be even less human?
I'd rather meet a biological than a logical, thank you.
OK, it's clear that I don't know the difference between dependency and addiction, at least according to the definitions provided by the other posters here.
However, I think that the point is still valid: stopping taking antidepressants may (perhaps depending on the type) require following a careful protocol in order to avoid some notably unpleasant effects.
In the case of my friend, he didn't have a longing for Zoloft, beyond that he knew that it would make the vertigo go away. It would be more accurate to say that he wished that he'd never heard of Zoloft.
The N900 was always marketed as a "Mobile Computer", not a phone. (http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/) This is why those who think it should be a phone are whining.
I don't care whether I can talk to my friends on it. I care whether it has connectivity. The 810 wifi is less than wonderful (it's OK, but no iTouch...) but as soon as I step away from a wifi hotspot, it's an island.
Adding cell connectivity is a big win for me.
I don't think you can get addicted to anti-depressants.
Oh my, no.
I have a pal who forgot to take his Zoloft with him on vacation. The three days it took to refill his prescription were, according to him, horrible. He didn't suddenly get depressed--he got vertigo and his skin felt itchy and prickly. No fun at all.
When he finally came off the Zoloft, he had to be weaned off it, a little at a time. It look months IIRC.
If that's not physical addiction, I don't know what is.
Sometimes projects swing and miss, ...
Yes, I agree. The problem isn't that the folks who created Wave aren't smart (some of them could even be geniuses). The problem is that they weren't even in the batters box with respect to what their customers were pitching, to mangle the metaphor.
Nobody who spent any time using Wave thought that the problems were due to too many geniuses in the mix.
A real genius doesn't just show you a vision. A real genius creates a useful artifact that solves a problem of importance. We're not talking about art.
anyone who thinks that rape charges which surface right 3 days after that person finally found total legal solace in swedish law from u.s. prosecution by becoming a columnist for a paper, can be true, is a witless moron of the first order.
So... what if it was thirty days? A hundred days? A thousand?
Basically, your position is that after someone annoys "established powers", anything bad anyone says about that person is a smear campaign by those powers. Forever.
Just because the US government is pissed off at him doesn't mean we should automatically think that anything negative anyone says about him is automatically a lie, or that everything he says is the truth. The truth will come out.
This person is claiming that zombie outbreaks will fail, but where is the evidence? Has there ever been a zombie outbreak that has actually failed for any of these reasons?
It all seems like blind optimism to me.
I thought we already knew that.
Well, maybe.
I might prefer to be known for my own blunders than his.