It's not that far-fetched to wonder if maybe we didn't steal, buy or reverse engineer some of that technology from the Russians, helicopters are in their DNA after all, and the Black Hawks are made by a company named Sikorsky...
Yea, because people with different morals than the population at large are such a risk to National Security that the Department of Homeland Security should be involved....
'Department of Homeland Security' was much easier to ram rod through Congress than "Department of Pretty Much Everything and the Kitchen Sink that isn't Covered by the Other Big Departments'. It has nothing to do with security (that should be obvious). Gotta have a catchy title these days or it just doesn't fly.
Really, if Microsoft could just pay Novell (or somebody) to put that in Word, it would do more to normalize the blood pressure of countless office drones than getting rid of the Mountain Dew.
One thing that I wonder about is how medical technology will affect the human genome. For example, in earlier centuries, women with narrow birth canals, and their babies, frequently died in childbirth. Now, the lives of such women (and their babies) are saved via Cesarian section, and the selection pressure against genetic variations (mutations) that produce narrow birth canals has been reduced. In future generations, how much effect will this have on the anatomy of the average woman? After ten, or fifty, or five hundred generations, might we be in a situation in which childbirth without Cesarian section is no longer possible?
No, that will be decided by the lawyers.....
Back on topic - you making a few assumptions that don't necessarily hold. Narrow birth canal outlets can happen, but aren't especially common and more importantly are not the major reason for C-sections. Maternal deaths were typically due to 1) hemorrhage and 2) infection - neither one due much to genetics.
The broader question of what modern medicine is doing to change human genetics is harder to answer. Yes, we are keeping people alive that would not have reached sexual maturity in the 'olden days', but we're also preventing many deaths of otherwise healthy individuals that do become sexually (and in the case of humans, perhaps more importantly), socially active. Finally one has to be very careful ascribing evolutionary fitness to any given trait. It's common in the lay literature to suggest that some random trait (brain size, penis size, nostril size) improves evolutionary fitness and therefore was selected. Humans are fairly slow growing and haven't been around for all that long (in the geological time frame sense) - a lot of traits are carried along and not necessarily 'selected'. Anyway.
"Funny" doesn't give karma. In fact, getting "funny" mods can indirectly hurt your karma, since people who didn't find your post funny might decide to mod it down on the grounds that it doesn't deserve such a high score.
That's why if I have mod points and see a great joke post, I stick to Interesting/Insightful/Informative, to avoid inadvertently punishing the poster.
Don't do that. Please. Posters who are pushing 'funny' stuff want to be modded funny. We understand the risks. We're brave boys and girls and can handle it.
But it just looks bad when some humorous bit of nonsense is modded +5 Insightful. What happens if somebody just drops in from another board? They're gonna think we're complete idiots.
The iPhone 3G has this bug, but is not being fixed...
That's because Apple wants to know where all the cheapskates live. If you're still using a 3G, you are not worthy. The data will be pooled and you will never, never see an Apple store there.
If the document purports to communicate with a layperson, it should be written in a language understood by a layperson.
If the document is intended for consumption by another legal-professional, let's do-away with the pretence that it's addressed to the layperson.
So how low do you go? US average reading age is something like 8th grade level. Is it reasonable to write a legal contract at that level of comprehension? Should we have reading and comprehension tests before you are allowed to use a cell phone, get a credit card, get the basement door unlocked? Likely the only way really to ensure that any given individual understands a EULA, a contract or anything remotely complex would be to test them. That's a bit clumsy.
Really, there is no perfect answer to this and it gets worse as the civilization gets more complex and interrelated.
Then TURN THE PHONE OFF when doing something that you don't want to broadcast. Treat it like email - it's essentially public.
It's a cell phone. It tracks cells and the cells track you. That's how it works.
I don't think "old stuff works" is going to be much of a selling point.
For Enterprise work? Sure it is. Nobody wants to throw out thousands of perfectly good printers just because you upgraded the OS. Well, except for printer manufacturers that it is.
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Somebody please mod Mr. Time Cube up. Best use of an hallucinogenic substance today!
it is possible that the Chinnoks were also stealth versions.
Yeah, from F5 tornado volume to F2 tornado volume. A "Stealth Chinook" would be the ultimate oxymoron. Those suckers are LOUD.
It's not that far-fetched to wonder if maybe we didn't steal, buy or reverse engineer some of that technology from the Russians, helicopters are in their DNA after all, and the Black Hawks are made by a company named Sikorsky...
Igor left Russia in 1917
Sikorsky, who fled from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917
. Sikorsky aircraft is no more Russian than McDonald's.
Those are obviously photoshopped.
So, Jimmy Hoffa killed John F. Kennedy?
Yea, because people with different morals than the population at large are such a risk to National Security that the Department of Homeland Security should be involved. ...
'Department of Homeland Security' was much easier to ram rod through Congress than "Department of Pretty Much Everything and the Kitchen Sink that isn't Covered by the Other Big Departments'. It has nothing to do with security (that should be obvious). Gotta have a catchy title these days or it just doesn't fly.
And I have something like 12 passwords for WORK alone. That have to be changed. On different schedules.
There is more in my life than memorizing passwords. Not much (it seems, at times), but more.
This is closing the barn door after the barn has burnt down. And been rebuilt.
But Justice (and lawyer's fees) will have their day!
F7...reveal codes, a godsend lost....
Really, if Microsoft could just pay Novell (or somebody) to put that in Word, it would do more to normalize the blood pressure of countless office drones than getting rid of the Mountain Dew.
One thing that I wonder about is how medical technology will affect the human genome. For example, in earlier centuries, women with narrow birth canals, and their babies, frequently died in childbirth. Now, the lives of such women (and their babies) are saved via Cesarian section, and the selection pressure against genetic variations (mutations) that produce narrow birth canals has been reduced. In future generations, how much effect will this have on the anatomy of the average woman? After ten, or fifty, or five hundred generations, might we be in a situation in which childbirth without Cesarian section is no longer possible?
No, that will be decided by the lawyers.....
Back on topic - you making a few assumptions that don't necessarily hold. Narrow birth canal outlets can happen, but aren't especially common and more importantly are not the major reason for C-sections. Maternal deaths were typically due to 1) hemorrhage and 2) infection - neither one due much to genetics.
The broader question of what modern medicine is doing to change human genetics is harder to answer. Yes, we are keeping people alive that would not have reached sexual maturity in the 'olden days', but we're also preventing many deaths of otherwise healthy individuals that do become sexually (and in the case of humans, perhaps more importantly), socially active. Finally one has to be very careful ascribing evolutionary fitness to any given trait. It's common in the lay literature to suggest that some random trait (brain size, penis size, nostril size) improves evolutionary fitness and therefore was selected. Humans are fairly slow growing and haven't been around for all that long (in the geological time frame sense) - a lot of traits are carried along and not necessarily 'selected'. Anyway.
It's complicated.
All that's really required is some basic standard that companies have to meet to avoid punitive lawsuits when someone does die.
Yeah. Something like regulations. Or maybe rules. Or a framework. By a governmental agency with appropriate jurisdiction.
Great idea!
"Funny" doesn't give karma. In fact, getting "funny" mods can indirectly hurt your karma, since people who didn't find your post funny might decide to mod it down on the grounds that it doesn't deserve such a high score.
That's why if I have mod points and see a great joke post, I stick to Interesting/Insightful/Informative, to avoid inadvertently punishing the poster.
Don't do that. Please. Posters who are pushing 'funny' stuff want to be modded funny. We understand the risks. We're brave boys and girls and can handle it.
But it just looks bad when some humorous bit of nonsense is modded +5 Insightful. What happens if somebody just drops in from another board? They're gonna think we're complete idiots.
The iPhone 3G has this bug, but is not being fixed...
That's because Apple wants to know where all the cheapskates live. If you're still using a 3G, you are not worthy. The data will be pooled and you will never, never see an Apple store there.
It's the truth....
wow! 666MB to delete a file? not that bad at all!!
Must be some HP printer drivers in there somewhere.
I'm just gonna download the entire Baen Library, reformat it and send it to DARPA.
Profit!
The big question is: why use a bitmask to add black to the image, instead of just rendering the image with black? The answer is: I hate PDF documents.
Confirmation bias is a wonderful thing.
The only thing I see there is some compression artifact. There are a dozen '1's - I can't see anything that looked abnormal.
Talking about seeing things that you want to see....
If the document purports to communicate with a layperson, it should be written in a language understood by a layperson.
If the document is intended for consumption by another legal-professional, let's do-away with the pretence that it's addressed to the layperson.
So how low do you go? US average reading age is something like 8th grade level. Is it reasonable to write a legal contract at that level of comprehension? Should we have reading and comprehension tests before you are allowed to use a cell phone, get a credit card, get the basement door unlocked? Likely the only way really to ensure that any given individual understands a EULA, a contract or anything remotely complex would be to test them. That's a bit clumsy.
Really, there is no perfect answer to this and it gets worse as the civilization gets more complex and interrelated.
Then TURN THE PHONE OFF when doing something that you don't want to broadcast. Treat it like email - it's essentially public. It's a cell phone. It tracks cells and the cells track you. That's how it works.
Holy shit, that's a real model name? Jesus Christ.
How else do you differentiate it from an EEE TM101MT-EU38-BK ?
If you met a developer of [the browser you like least] would you rant and rave at him, or just have a friendly chat? :-)
I'm still pretty upset about IE 6. Probably not a good idea to let me in the same room with any of it's developers.
Note: I'm using a 700megahertz/256meg laptop, so smaller is better for me.
Running Windows 3.11 no doubt. Or was that CP/M?
Must. Not. Make. Size. Joke.
I'm ugly, I'm wierd, and I post crap
+1 informative.
This has got to be the definition of a slow news day.
I don't think "old stuff works" is going to be much of a selling point.
For Enterprise work? Sure it is. Nobody wants to throw out thousands of perfectly good printers just because you upgraded the OS. Well, except for printer manufacturers that it is.
I was trying for a funny (although I didn't know that about BeOs).
Oh well, it wasn't all that funny after all.