Medical schools are selective not because they will weed out the bad doctor, but to keep the supply of doctors down to prevent the institution from getting over saturated and lowering the paycheck amount.
No, medical schools are still very selective here in the UK where no one but an idiot would go into medicine for the money.
When you're cranking one off in the company toilets watching Adult Entertainment on your phone, you really don't need high definition. Headphones are a good idea though. So I've been told.
Just like crying for the buggy whip manufacturers when buggies got petrol-powered engines.
Yep, came here for the buggy whip comment. It's amazing what a high proportion of employment in the US was apparently based on the buggy whip industry. Truly a lesson for the ages.
Whatever we are seeing today happened 1300 years ago, you know, when Charlamagne was in power, Japan was in the Nara period [wikipedia.org] and Buddhism was first beginning.
"And the proper term for "alien life enthusiasts" is "mentally ill person". These are people who for whatever reason WANT it to be an alien whatever and who see aliens and conspiracy theories everywhere with no regard to actual evidence."
Similar to Space Nutters who constantly harp about the end of the Species and invoke dozens of sci-fi "solutions"?
We've got to get off this rock and settle on, like, the Moon, because when the next asteroid wipes out all life on Earth, the two men and a dog left on the Moon will be able to regenerate the human species. Even better, on Mars there's water, somewhere, plus you can grow potatoes in your own shit like in that film, and there's an atmosphere. Sort of.
Lets say there is somebody listening. We won't have any common language. Hell they may not even have anything we would recognize as our primary senses for communication (hearing and sight). There are many other senses (even humans have about 20 of them, we tend to forget that 'sense of ballance' is a sense).
So we need to be on the generous level in how long it takes them to translate the language, even with advanced science they are starting at a major disadvantage. It took about a century to fully translate the Rosetta stone - and that was from earlier languages by members of our own species ! So lets double that. 200 years to figure out the question.
You just send a tape with someone speaking English. VERY. SLOWLY. AND. QUITE. LOUD.
Always works for me on holiday. That and the ability to mime drinking a pint of beer.
We have absolute PROOF that intelligent life can exist in the universe. We have absolute proof that SPACEFARING life can exist in the universe. We have absolute physical proof that spacefaring life can CONSTRUCT things in space in the universe.
The absolute proof is that we're here and we've done ALL THOSE THINGS.
This does not lead logically to the conclusion that the construction of a Dyson Sphere is possible, since we have not constructed a Dyson Sphere.
Did you mean "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair, Jr? Or some other book by Nobel laureate, Sinclair Lewis?
The first does make a strong argument for regulation and monitoring, in the case of meat packing on industrial scales as practiced in turn of the 20th century United States.
Applicable to current topic... how?
It's a counter-argument to the libertarian "any government regulation is always bad" position being espoused by several posts here.
if the option is nothing or commercial grade, wouldnt commercial grade be the better option???
| know slashdotters love binary choices, but it's just possible that there is a slightly more nuanced risk assessment going on, and that delaying an operation rather than risking infection is the better clinical decision.
I don't think many people just stumble into a Musk company. For the most part, you know what you're getting into, you believe that what you're doing is the future as much as Musk does, and you put in the hours to make it happen. I don't think someone who didn't actually believe in the goals would last long in any of his companies.
Anyone who went to work on a production line in a factory thinking they were part of some mission to change the world would be deluded. In reality, the only people who believe or say things like that are the owners. It's good business to get workers to put in extra unpaid hours.
I'm sure Elon Musk is now sitting on a pile of money in his mansion crying over your insult.
Elon Musk is not an idiot. Maybe the people that bought his cars are; maybe the people overvaluing his company are... but you will have to do a lot better than that to convince me that he is.
Idiot is not the right word, self evidently Musk is of above average IQ and can tie his own shoelaces.
The point is that intelligence is orthogonal to morality - you can be stupid and good, or clever and evil, or anywhere in between.
Also, having a lot of money is entirely unrelated to either morality or intelligence, despite the worship of billionaires here on slashdot.
IT Pros such as myself actually suffer PTSD. I've almost admittedly lost my shit working on a project that took well over 60s in a week, and hundreds of people depended on it. Wasn't my fault. It was a fucked up situation that I walked into as was tasked to deal with it. But yeah, now with this ransomworm going around, how would you like to deal with people literally dying on you as it ravages the medical industry?
As for the PTSD, it's grown worse. I can't tell you how many times I'm interrupted when trying to perform deep analytical troubleshooting in a complex environment. I love the work. Can't fucking stand the interruptions! I want to be placed in a box with just my computer, coffee, and NO FUCKING PHONE!!! I'll get the work done faster, and with less stress. But nooo, us IT Pros are getting constantly hounded. As for my boss, yeah, he has it worse. Somehow drinking helps him cope....
Having to work to strict deadlines, on intellectually demanding tasks, with frequent interruptions and conflicting tasks to prioritise is not unique to the IT industry.
It's basically the definition of a professional job.
Hey Beau, just because something has electronics in it doesn't mean that it's smart. Can it reason? Can it have a conversation with you?
Have you completed grammar school yet, little boy?
Yes, because "Smartphones" contain genuine AIs, right?
Smart is just a marketing word, not a philosophically rigorous definition.
And even for scientists, what good does it make being published in a journal that restricts access.
Well, there must be some advantage, or they wouldn't bother. Again, why is this Elsevier's fault? If sufficient researchers simply transferred to some sort of open source publishing, Elsevier's business would evaporate.
It's the researchers keeping Elsevier in business, not The Evil Government/Publishing cartel.
Are you retarded? If taxpayer fund the research, even in a small way, then taxpayers are entitled to the results. Don't like it? Don't take taxpayer money. It's pretty straightforward isn't it douchebag?
You are right, but that is an entirely different argument from the general one about copyright.
In the UK we have something called Crown Copyright for works created by government and paid for by the taxpayer. These are generally available for free (as in beer) although I believe that in practice there is a charge for printed documents. For example, you can view the Highway Code online without paying, but if you buy it in the shops it's a couple of quid, to cover costs of printing, distribution etc. What you can't do is copy the Highway Code and sell your own version or whatever as it is protected by the Crown Copyright.
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Medical schools are selective not because they will weed out the bad doctor, but to keep the supply of doctors down to prevent the institution from getting over saturated and lowering the paycheck amount.
No, medical schools are still very selective here in the UK where no one but an idiot would go into medicine for the money.
Christ, you watch porn in 360p? Is this 1994?
When you're cranking one off in the company toilets watching Adult Entertainment on your phone, you really don't need high definition. Headphones are a good idea though. So I've been told.
Just like crying for the buggy whip manufacturers when buggies got petrol-powered engines.
Yep, came here for the buggy whip comment. It's amazing what a high proportion of employment in the US was apparently based on the buggy whip industry. Truly a lesson for the ages.
No it didn't.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
You're full of shit again, and not just from ingesting Krispy Kreme through a firehose, you fat fuck.
I love the literalism on slashdot. "Ha, you said X, and I found a couple of counter-examples, so you're just a big fat liar!"
I don't remember it. But if the acting was as bad as in the game, it would at least be memorable.
The movie was "really-not-very-good" bad rather than "so-bad-its-brilliant" bad.
Like which one?
Civilization II
Whatever we are seeing today happened 1300 years ago, you know, when Charlamagne was in power, Japan was in the Nara period [wikipedia.org] and Buddhism was first beginning.
Buddha was born in the 6th century BC
"And the proper term for "alien life enthusiasts" is "mentally ill person". These are people who for whatever reason WANT it to be an alien whatever and who see aliens and conspiracy theories everywhere with no regard to actual evidence."
Similar to Space Nutters who constantly harp about the end of the Species and invoke dozens of sci-fi "solutions"?
We've got to get off this rock and settle on, like, the Moon, because when the next asteroid wipes out all life on Earth, the two men and a dog left on the Moon will be able to regenerate the human species. Even better, on Mars there's water, somewhere, plus you can grow potatoes in your own shit like in that film, and there's an atmosphere. Sort of.
In a small population, they can just up and leave, since your population of enforcers is also small, and the land is large.
Never underestimate the value of fear.
Fear, surprise and near fanatical devotion to the Pope
Lets say there is somebody listening. We won't have any common language. Hell they may not even have anything we would recognize as our primary senses for communication (hearing and sight). There are many other senses (even humans have about 20 of them, we tend to forget that 'sense of ballance' is a sense).
So we need to be on the generous level in how long it takes them to translate the language, even with advanced science they are starting at a major disadvantage. It took about a century to fully translate the Rosetta stone - and that was from earlier languages by members of our own species ! So lets double that. 200 years to figure out the question.
You just send a tape with someone speaking English. VERY. SLOWLY. AND. QUITE. LOUD.
Always works for me on holiday. That and the ability to mime drinking a pint of beer.
Postman put a letter in the mail box. My first guess is that I hit a mega jackpot and they wrote a letter to tell me.
And if you never look in the mail box again, you will always be able to say that your guess is not impossible, and might be true.
[Genesis 2:7]
You can't argue with facts like that.
We have absolute PROOF that intelligent life can exist in the universe. We have absolute proof that SPACEFARING life can exist in the universe. We have absolute physical proof that spacefaring life can CONSTRUCT things in space in the universe.
The absolute proof is that we're here and we've done ALL THOSE THINGS.
This does not lead logically to the conclusion that the construction of a Dyson Sphere is possible, since we have not constructed a Dyson Sphere.
It's not a law, it's an observation
Well he should have called it the Betteridge Observation of Headlines then, shouldn't he?
Did you mean "The Jungle," by Upton Sinclair, Jr? Or some other book by Nobel laureate, Sinclair Lewis?
The first does make a strong argument for regulation and monitoring, in the case of meat packing on industrial scales as practiced in turn of the 20th century United States.
Applicable to current topic... how?
It's a counter-argument to the libertarian "any government regulation is always bad" position being espoused by several posts here.
if the option is nothing or commercial grade, wouldnt commercial grade be the better option???
| know slashdotters love binary choices, but it's just possible that there is a slightly more nuanced risk assessment going on, and that delaying an operation rather than risking infection is the better clinical decision.
No, it has to be a liberal conspiracy of Big Pharma/Teh Evil Government/Alien Lizard Overlords.
I don't think many people just stumble into a Musk company. For the most part, you know what you're getting into, you believe that what you're doing is the future as much as Musk does, and you put in the hours to make it happen. I don't think someone who didn't actually believe in the goals would last long in any of his companies.
Anyone who went to work on a production line in a factory thinking they were part of some mission to change the world would be deluded. In reality, the only people who believe or say things like that are the owners. It's good business to get workers to put in extra unpaid hours.
The stock is still climbing, so who exactly is he conning? If you bought 5 years ago at 30 bucks a share you'd be selling at 313 a share.
Some of you are fucking morons, you just say things that sound good but don't make any sense when compared to easily obtainable facts.
So it's a medium term rather than a short term Ponzi scheme? Big deal.
I'm sure Elon Musk is now sitting on a pile of money in his mansion crying over your insult.
Elon Musk is not an idiot. Maybe the people that bought his cars are; maybe the people overvaluing his company are... but you will have to do a lot better than that to convince me that he is.
Idiot is not the right word, self evidently Musk is of above average IQ and can tie his own shoelaces.
The point is that intelligence is orthogonal to morality - you can be stupid and good, or clever and evil, or anywhere in between.
Also, having a lot of money is entirely unrelated to either morality or intelligence, despite the worship of billionaires here on slashdot.
IT Pros such as myself actually suffer PTSD. I've almost admittedly lost my shit working on a project that took well over 60s in a week, and hundreds of people depended on it. Wasn't my fault. It was a fucked up situation that I walked into as was tasked to deal with it. But yeah, now with this ransomworm going around, how would you like to deal with people literally dying on you as it ravages the medical industry?
As for the PTSD, it's grown worse. I can't tell you how many times I'm interrupted when trying to perform deep analytical troubleshooting in a complex environment. I love the work. Can't fucking stand the interruptions! I want to be placed in a box with just my computer, coffee, and NO FUCKING PHONE!!! I'll get the work done faster, and with less stress. But nooo, us IT Pros are getting constantly hounded. As for my boss, yeah, he has it worse. Somehow drinking helps him cope....
Having to work to strict deadlines, on intellectually demanding tasks, with frequent interruptions and conflicting tasks to prioritise is not unique to the IT industry.
It's basically the definition of a professional job.
That's just physical stress. Some people do that to relax.
They don't do it for ten hours a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks of the year.
Hey Beau, just because something has electronics in it doesn't mean that it's smart. Can it reason? Can it have a conversation with you? Have you completed grammar school yet, little boy?
Yes, because "Smartphones" contain genuine AIs, right?
Smart is just a marketing word, not a philosophically rigorous definition.
And even for scientists, what good does it make being published in a journal that restricts access.
Well, there must be some advantage, or they wouldn't bother. Again, why is this Elsevier's fault? If sufficient researchers simply transferred to some sort of open source publishing, Elsevier's business would evaporate.
It's the researchers keeping Elsevier in business, not The Evil Government/Publishing cartel.
Are you retarded? If taxpayer fund the research, even in a small way, then taxpayers are entitled to the results. Don't like it? Don't take taxpayer money. It's pretty straightforward isn't it douchebag?
You are right, but that is an entirely different argument from the general one about copyright.
In the UK we have something called Crown Copyright for works created by government and paid for by the taxpayer. These are generally available for free (as in beer) although I believe that in practice there is a charge for printed documents. For example, you can view the Highway Code online without paying, but if you buy it in the shops it's a couple of quid, to cover costs of printing, distribution etc. What you can't do is copy the Highway Code and sell your own version or whatever as it is protected by the Crown Copyright.