... albeit a pretty sick way of wanting to advance the agenda of population control.
Here's a question. What if a virus came about that randomly sterilized 50% of the population? How would you feel about that?
Clearly you paid attention in Neurology 101.
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Yes, but if you RTFA, the 34.5% risk of becoming a zombie, cursed for the rest of the patient's days to walk the earth as an undead ravenous corpse hungry for sweet, sweet brains, was deemed acceptable by the FDA.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a simply delicious batch of cervelles in the oven to attend to.
this Russian Kliper design is excellent. If NASA were smart they would jump on the Russian project and ask to co-develop it with them, it appears they've already done a lot of the research legwork.
Sadly, however, NASA's culture is far too arrogant to do something that smart.
Jabber is an open standard too, but the only people I know who use Jabber are die-hard geeks. NO ONE is on Jabber, compared to the numbers of people who use AIM, YIM, and MSNIM.
The reason why SMS and IRC are standards is because they were the first, and for a long time, the ONLY, product in their space.
this is the case in the United States, too. I'm 25 and I only use email for formal communications or some large, organized "packet" of information that I need to send to someone. Just about all of my friends are the same way.
I realize you can't generalize based on your own anecdotal experience... but does anyone really send one or two-line emails anymore when IM is a hundred percent easier and instantaneous?
... she's (the engineer, that is) hot, too. Or at least seems that way from this picture.
Mod me offtopic if you must, but the fact is that should give hope to nerds everywhere who bemoan the fact that there are no female geeks out there who are actually attractive.
Of course, Ms. Ellsworth has probably had a boyfriend (or girlfriend, as the case may be) since she was about 14. People who are that smart who look like that are single for about 5 seconds (unless they choose to remain so, which takes them out of the running anyway).
I heard somewhere that they use Suprnova and other BT sites as a kind of ratings source to tell them what shows they should be pumping up product placement in.
Or someone does that and sells it to the ??AAs. Personally, I think that's a pretty ingenious idea. They'd get their advertising dollars and the more people download their placement-infused content, the more they can charge for them.
Doesn't everyone win there? Doesn't work for music, of course...
I'm talking about places like the Korean War Veteran's Parkway in Staten Island, which is a well-maintained straightaway with a 50mph speed limit for *absolutely no reason whatsoever other than to give cops an excuse to write tickets*. I know several officers in the 120th Precinct and they have flat-out told me that that is the reason.
Where else... there's that stretch of the Belt Parkway which has its limit set at *40mph* because of "limited sight distance." There's a fucking hill. That's it. 40mph is a *crawl* compared to the speeds people travel at realistically (Jesus, almost *RELATIVISTICALLY*) on the Belt.
Then you've got the BQE, which has a 45mph speed limit in places and 50 mph elsewhere, again, for no good reason. Huge swaths of it are recently repaved and pose no traction hazard whatsoever. There is a cop who sits with a laser gun about a mile before Exit 32 (Metropolitan Ave.) because the speed limit drops to 45 there (in a three-lane section with wide lanes).
Who the hell is talking about driving at top speed on *5th Ave.*? Buddy, if you can get above 35mph anywhere in Manhattan other than the West Side Highway and the FDR, my hat's off to you, because it's next to impossible even at 3 o'clock at night.
Stop trolling about something which you don't understand.
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I've often wondered how people would feel about a virus that could not kill, but instead sterilize approximately 50-70% of the population randomly.
I feel like this would solve a whole lot of our long-term problems.
But you seem more cogent than the other guy.
What if a virus came around that didn't kill but instead sterilized half the population of the planet randomly?
... albeit a pretty sick way of wanting to advance the agenda of population control.
Here's a question. What if a virus came about that randomly sterilized 50% of the population? How would you feel about that?
Yes, but if you RTFA, the 34.5% risk of becoming a zombie, cursed for the rest of the patient's days to walk the earth as an undead ravenous corpse hungry for sweet, sweet brains, was deemed acceptable by the FDA.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a simply delicious batch of cervelles in the oven to attend to.
this Russian Kliper design is excellent. If NASA were smart they would jump on the Russian project and ask to co-develop it with them, it appears they've already done a lot of the research legwork.
Sadly, however, NASA's culture is far too arrogant to do something that smart.
Let's abolish copyright!
Problem solved.
No, seriously. Let's suppose copyright was abolished tomorrow.
What do you suppose would happen to the various entertainment industries?
I can't help it - I'm a sucker for thought experiments.
Jabber is an open standard too, but the only people I know who use Jabber are die-hard geeks. NO ONE is on Jabber, compared to the numbers of people who use AIM, YIM, and MSNIM.
The reason why SMS and IRC are standards is because they were the first, and for a long time, the ONLY, product in their space.
this is the case in the United States, too. I'm 25 and I only use email for formal communications or some large, organized "packet" of information that I need to send to someone. Just about all of my friends are the same way.
I realize you can't generalize based on your own anecdotal experience... but does anyone really send one or two-line emails anymore when IM is a hundred percent easier and instantaneous?
I have an iDEN internet connection via work and it is terribly, horribly slow at 19.2kbps max.
FYI.
also except for Staten Island, large swaths of Queens and Brooklyn, and almost all of the Bronx.
How do we know this?
How silly of me.
What's the capitol of Africa again?
Yeah, she's quite the cutie. Too bad she's 30 and, it appears, probably married.
What's wrong with her? She's slender, has long brown hair and big green eyes and a pretty smile.
(The grandparent's link is not the only picture of her available, incidentally.)
What was that? GeoShitties has choked off the site.
... she's (the engineer, that is) hot, too. Or at least seems that way from this picture.
Mod me offtopic if you must, but the fact is that should give hope to nerds everywhere who bemoan the fact that there are no female geeks out there who are actually attractive.
Of course, Ms. Ellsworth has probably had a boyfriend (or girlfriend, as the case may be) since she was about 14. People who are that smart who look like that are single for about 5 seconds (unless they choose to remain so, which takes them out of the running anyway).
I heard somewhere that they use Suprnova and other BT sites as a kind of ratings source to tell them what shows they should be pumping up product placement in.
Or someone does that and sells it to the ??AAs. Personally, I think that's a pretty ingenious idea. They'd get their advertising dollars and the more people download their placement-infused content, the more they can charge for them.
Doesn't everyone win there? Doesn't work for music, of course...
Give it to me if you don't want it. Comment this and I'll give you my address.
every time I read your sig I start laughing. It rules.
Yeah, well, as far as we're concerned if you live anywhere within a mile of a cow, something's wrong :D
I'm talking about places like the Korean War Veteran's Parkway in Staten Island, which is a well-maintained straightaway with a 50mph speed limit for *absolutely no reason whatsoever other than to give cops an excuse to write tickets*. I know several officers in the 120th Precinct and they have flat-out told me that that is the reason.
Where else... there's that stretch of the Belt Parkway which has its limit set at *40mph* because of "limited sight distance." There's a fucking hill. That's it. 40mph is a *crawl* compared to the speeds people travel at realistically (Jesus, almost *RELATIVISTICALLY*) on the Belt.
Then you've got the BQE, which has a 45mph speed limit in places and 50 mph elsewhere, again, for no good reason. Huge swaths of it are recently repaved and pose no traction hazard whatsoever. There is a cop who sits with a laser gun about a mile before Exit 32 (Metropolitan Ave.) because the speed limit drops to 45 there (in a three-lane section with wide lanes).
Who the hell is talking about driving at top speed on *5th Ave.*? Buddy, if you can get above 35mph anywhere in Manhattan other than the West Side Highway and the FDR, my hat's off to you, because it's next to impossible even at 3 o'clock at night.
Stop trolling about something which you don't understand.
which is that laws are not necessarily guided by *logically determinable* ethical reasoning. This isn't about personal moral ideals.
Wasn't there research somewhere a while back that supported the idea that working in fluorescent-only light promoted mental instability?
What is an HID?
I love people who think the law makes what's right, rather than what's right making the law.
I also can't believe how many times I've gotten into precisely that argument on Slashdot.