So, you think anyone should be able to make any information about any person public, simply by filing a lawsuit?
And can you explain the connection between civil lawsuits and democracy, please?
-Peter
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Okay, I'm not gay. I don't have any direct experience with gay (by gay I mean male homosexuals, in this context) sexual behavior. I do, however, think I have a general idea what goes on. (And I happen to think that anal sex is less common/frequent than popularly believed.)
But I think you have missed an important distinction here.
You really seem to have this fixed idea that homosexual sex is somehow inherently different and that transmission through "normal" sex is nearly impossible.
When a man penetrates a person, the person being penetrated is at a substantially higher risk of transmission of infection than the man penetrating that person. If the person who is being penetrated is a man, anyone he subsequently penetrates is at significantly higher risk of infection. If the person is a woman, there can't be any such future partners.
Ergo, while there is no strict limitation on transmission on any given incident of sexual contact, all else (such as degree of promiscuity) held equal, the homosexual male population would have greater over all risk of transmission than the heterosexual population.
We could also state a corollary that homosexual women would experience a very low rate of transmission.
Is there some flaw in my thinking here?
-Peter
Re:Welcome to capitalism
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You seem to have swallowed the ideas of socialism whole.
Consider reading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Don't skip the prefaces or introduction.
It is worth considering that governments murdered billions during the 20th century when considering any grant of power to government. See democide.
In case you don't see how this relates, consider how the German National Socialists would have likely approached AIDS treatment. Also recall that they did do groundbreaking medical research.
I didn't really like the book. I got the idea of the old commedia re-interpreted in a modern setting, but the attraction of that style is in the performance. Gaiman saying that Harlequin is capering doesn't have the impact of watching an actor caper.
It is in my nature to take pride in my work. To be emotionally invested. I have to tell you that, to a degree, this is a personality flaw.
I worked for Dell tech support for about two and a half years. It was extremely stressful for the first several months. At some point I realized that I was a cog in a corporate machine, and that no matter how heroic I was on this call, there would always be another, and another, and another.
Now, I still took pride in my uncanny technical abilities, but I emotionally de-coupled from the work.
I can't tell you how much better I felt. I also think I performed better.
I eventually quit due to, uh, management issues, but that's a tale of woe for another Ask Slashdot.
It's libertarian. I often describe myself as a "small 'l' libertarian." I'm not a member of the Libertarian party. I did vote for their presidential candidates in the last two elections.
Nothing sets a person free as mauch as the right to make personal decisions based on what they believe to be right or wrong.
I agree wholeheartedly. It is a legitimate purpose of government to establish and enforce rules relating to what is right and wrong to the extent that the behaviors involved directly impact other citizens.
So, assault is the government's business. Narcotics are not.
Then again, the US is a christian based country so.... I guess we all do the best we can and hope GWB and Jesus don't catch us jerking off and smite us.
There is some irony in the degree to which certain Christians seem to think their God is impotent to enforce His own rules.
If anyone can draw I'd love to see the idea that AC presented above illustrated. Specifically, a young man in his room (facing away from the POV for the sake of good taste), and Jesus and GWB standing in the doorway. Maybe the caption could read "I was just checking something."
You're irony isn't lost on me. He is clearly not socially liberal. (I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine what the opposite of socially liberal is.)
One can actually make a fairly strong case that Bill Clinton was a much more fiscally conservative president than G.W. Bush.
Who ran a surplus? Who cut welfare?
It doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, though. Who raised taxes? Who ran a surplus primarily by cutting military ("defense?") spending?
From where I sit they all look the same. G.W. Bush ran on a platform of "smaller government" and an end to Bosnia-style nation building in 2000. His first budget was larger than Clinton's last, and we're up to our eyeballs in Iraq.
Liberal (adj.) - open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
I consider myself a liberal in the historical sense that I think people deserve, and function more effectively, under nearly total freedom. I'm much less enthusiastic about the meaning it has taken on of late:
Liberal (adj.) slang A person or policy that is generous, particularly with other people's money.
Governemnt is a nessecary evil. no cou.ld never get a private compnay to build higways or any other public infastructure without the price being prohibitve for most people.
The facts are at odds with your perceptions here. We have a couple of private highways here in Denver. They were quite popular at one time ont he East Coast as well.
Politicians and the media have convinced you that you need lots of government to make your life better. I respectfully suggest that you re-evaluate your assumptions about the role of government in light of the fact that your ideas about highways are proveably false.
-Peter
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Damn right. If it's local, it should be a block device.
My dad's Sony even remembers where you stopped across multiple discs. So if you're in the middle of movie X, then get an over-night rental of Y you can watch Y, then pop X back in and pick up where you left off.
OTOH, if you walk away from a VCR and it gets to the end and rewinds it is a ROYAL pain in the ass to get back where you left off. With DVD it's cake.
I use Mplayer to watch movies on my GNU/Linux system. It has three levels of "skip," page up/down, up/down arrow, and left/right arrow. Within about 10 seconds I can get to exactly where I want to be on the disc. Both faster and more accurate than chapters (unless you know the chapter number you want).
U.S. households, lagging far behind countries that include South Korea
You said:
Americans tend to be more fix cost centric vs. Total Cost or Value centric.
I have lived in both the USA and the ROK. While the ideas you have about Americans may be quite defensible, I can categorically state that the implication that South Koreans have a more far sighted, value oriented outlook is not the case, and, therefore, not the reason they are beating our pants off when it comes to broadband deployment.
I don't know what the reason is, but I am certain this isn't it.
It works for me for gmail and (of all things) Merriam-Webster online, but it doesn't work for Slashdot or Google. The page just "loads" instantly, but no change appears on screen (i.e. If I put slashdot.org in my address bar and press enter while I'm at m-w.com the page says there, even though Firefox acts as if it has loaded Slashdot.)
The rest of this post shows that you spent very little time actually in a real job. If you were in the military you probably had one of the 4 week AIT's and didn't bother to try and manage your career.
If I was in the military? I was a 74C (which is 8 weeks, as it happens), Airborne, and did a hitch in support of Joint Hope/Joint Guard. So you can stick your skepticism in your fourth point of contact.
With know-it-all jerkoff NCOs, like you, it's a real wonder I didn't re-enlist. Considering the number of times a "butt hunter" like me had to refuse to re-enlist, I can only imagine the kind of hounding a squared away troop has to endure to ETS.
Now, my MOS, contrary to the descriptions given by the recruiter, was basically non-technical.
I'm not exactly sure what a butt hunter is, but I was selected to cross-train on the technical side of my facility in Korea, and I'm fairly sure that this is not an honor traditionally bestowed on "butt hunters."
I'm glad you are enjoying your experience in the Army. I didn't enjoy mine. I'm perfectly willing to live with it if that earns me the appellation "butt hunter" in your book.
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The sun is not part of the sundial.
Uh-huh.
-Peter
And a deflector array capable of emitting an inverse tachyon pulse.
-Peter
So, you think anyone should be able to make any information about any person public, simply by filing a lawsuit?
And can you explain the connection between civil lawsuits and democracy, please?
-Peter
But I think you have missed an important distinction here.
When a man penetrates a person, the person being penetrated is at a substantially higher risk of transmission of infection than the man penetrating that person. If the person who is being penetrated is a man, anyone he subsequently penetrates is at significantly higher risk of infection. If the person is a woman, there can't be any such future partners.
Ergo, while there is no strict limitation on transmission on any given incident of sexual contact, all else (such as degree of promiscuity) held equal, the homosexual male population would have greater over all risk of transmission than the heterosexual population.
We could also state a corollary that homosexual women would experience a very low rate of transmission.
Is there some flaw in my thinking here?
-Peter
You seem to have swallowed the ideas of socialism whole.
Consider reading Hayek's The Road to Serfdom . Don't skip the prefaces or introduction.
It is worth considering that governments murdered billions during the 20th century when considering any grant of power to government. See democide.
In case you don't see how this relates, consider how the German National Socialists would have likely approached AIDS treatment. Also recall that they did do groundbreaking medical research.
-Peter
I thought this thing was supposed to be the pinnacle of elegant design and intuitive operation. We need three books for it?
-Peter
Whew! It's a good thing you didn't respond!
-Peter
Well, it's gratifying that I'm not the only one.
I didn't really like the book. I got the idea of the old commedia re-interpreted in a modern setting, but the attraction of that style is in the performance. Gaiman saying that Harlequin is capering doesn't have the impact of watching an actor caper.
But the art was cool!
-Peter
Care less.
No, I'm serious.
It is in my nature to take pride in my work. To be emotionally invested. I have to tell you that, to a degree, this is a personality flaw.
I worked for Dell tech support for about two and a half years. It was extremely stressful for the first several months. At some point I realized that I was a cog in a corporate machine, and that no matter how heroic I was on this call, there would always be another, and another, and another.
Now, I still took pride in my uncanny technical abilities, but I emotionally de-coupled from the work.
I can't tell you how much better I felt. I also think I performed better.
I eventually quit due to, uh, management issues, but that's a tale of woe for another Ask Slashdot.
-Peter
This effect reminds me of John Bolton's artwork in Niel Gaiman's Harlequin Valentine.
-Peter
Okay. Interred works too, because they are entombed in the power plants.
But I contend that wasn't what was said. See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/quotes.
-Peter
It's inured, not inert.
It's a pretty good word.
-Peter
It's libertarian. I often describe myself as a "small 'l' libertarian." I'm not a member of the Libertarian party. I did vote for their presidential candidates in the last two elections.
I agree wholeheartedly. It is a legitimate purpose of government to establish and enforce rules relating to what is right and wrong to the extent that the behaviors involved directly impact other citizens.
So, assault is the government's business. Narcotics are not.
There is some irony in the degree to which certain Christians seem to think their God is impotent to enforce His own rules.
If anyone can draw I'd love to see the idea that AC presented above illustrated. Specifically, a young man in his room (facing away from the POV for the sake of good taste), and Jesus and GWB standing in the doorway. Maybe the caption could read "I was just checking something."
-Peter
You're irony isn't lost on me. He is clearly not socially liberal. (I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine what the opposite of socially liberal is.)
One can actually make a fairly strong case that Bill Clinton was a much more fiscally conservative president than G.W. Bush.
Who ran a surplus?
Who cut welfare?
It doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, though. Who raised taxes? Who ran a surplus primarily by cutting military ("defense?") spending?
From where I sit they all look the same. G.W. Bush ran on a platform of "smaller government" and an end to Bosnia-style nation building in 2000. His first budget was larger than Clinton's last, and we're up to our eyeballs in Iraq.
-Peter
I consider myself a liberal in the historical sense that I think people deserve, and function more effectively, under nearly total freedom. I'm much less enthusiastic about the meaning it has taken on of late:
Liberal (adj.) slang A person or policy that is generous, particularly with other people's money.
-Peter
Wall Street, that bastion of cool, level headed, dispassionate, scientific thought.
Oh, or were you talking about the one on Earth?
-Peter
The facts are at odds with your perceptions here. We have a couple of private highways here in Denver. They were quite popular at one time ont he East Coast as well.
Politicians and the media have convinced you that you need lots of government to make your life better. I respectfully suggest that you re-evaluate your assumptions about the role of government in light of the fact that your ideas about highways are proveably false.
-Peter
Damn right. If it's local, it should be a block device.
-Peter
My dad's Sony even remembers where you stopped across multiple discs. So if you're in the middle of movie X, then get an over-night rental of Y you can watch Y, then pop X back in and pick up where you left off.
OTOH, if you walk away from a VCR and it gets to the end and rewinds it is a ROYAL pain in the ass to get back where you left off. With DVD it's cake.
I use Mplayer to watch movies on my GNU/Linux system. It has three levels of "skip," page up/down, up/down arrow, and left/right arrow. Within about 10 seconds I can get to exactly where I want to be on the disc. Both faster and more accurate than chapters (unless you know the chapter number you want).
-Peter
Did you just invoke The Matrix and Fargo in the same sentence?
Just when I think I've seen it all.
-Peter
You said:
I have lived in both the USA and the ROK. While the ideas you have about Americans may be quite defensible, I can categorically state that the implication that South Koreans have a more far sighted, value oriented outlook is not the case, and, therefore, not the reason they are beating our pants off when it comes to broadband deployment.
I don't know what the reason is, but I am certain this isn't it.
-Peter
Hmm. Same thing with SOCKS 4 and 5. And with OpenSSH (Cygwin) using the -D switch. :-(
-Peter
Sweet.
It works for me for gmail and (of all things) Merriam-Webster online, but it doesn't work for Slashdot or Google. The page just "loads" instantly, but no change appears on screen (i.e. If I put slashdot.org in my address bar and press enter while I'm at m-w.com the page says there, even though Firefox acts as if it has loaded Slashdot.)
Any ideas?
-Peter
Can you explain how to set up the remote end of this? Preferably using OpenSSH on the remote side?
Or a link would be great.
-Peter
If I was in the military? I was a 74C (which is 8 weeks, as it happens), Airborne, and did a hitch in support of Joint Hope/Joint Guard. So you can stick your skepticism in your fourth point of contact.
With know-it-all jerkoff NCOs, like you, it's a real wonder I didn't re-enlist. Considering the number of times a "butt hunter" like me had to refuse to re-enlist, I can only imagine the kind of hounding a squared away troop has to endure to ETS.
Now, my MOS, contrary to the descriptions given by the recruiter, was basically non-technical.
I'm not exactly sure what a butt hunter is, but I was selected to cross-train on the technical side of my facility in Korea, and I'm fairly sure that this is not an honor traditionally bestowed on "butt hunters."
I'm glad you are enjoying your experience in the Army. I didn't enjoy mine. I'm perfectly willing to live with it if that earns me the appellation "butt hunter" in your book.
-Peter