It's almost as if the disease evolved itself to adapt to collapsing health care systems in impoverished nations.
It's almost as if the disease [was designed] to adapt to collapsing health care systems in impoverished nations.
Just think of all those resources in newly unpopulated areas. I'm sure you won't be the first to do so. I'm not at all sure anyone has acted on it, but we've seen similar things done for no reason we would consider worthy. I saw some lowlife run over a kitten on purpose last Wednesday. Never under-estimate the human potential for scumfuckery.
There are only 3,572 known comets, but there are many millions of asteroids.
Thus you are orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by an asteroid than a comet.
Does this mean you should go about cowering and worrying and fulminating about the possibility of your own "death by asteroid"?
Guns... same thing. If you're at high risk for a firearms injury, you probably not only know that, but you probably know why, and you probably know what you could do to reduce that risk. While "probably" is the modifier at hand, I'll tell you what's probably going to actually kill you:
Deaths per 100,000 by firearms (total averages out to well under 20. Location where the odds are worst? Alaska. Yes, Alaska.:)
So... 600 out of 100,000 die by disease or accident (and more than 50% of them from heart disease or cancer), and I bet it wouldn't take me more than a few seconds to find some smoker and/or over-eater in a crowd who spends a goodly amount of their time online pearl-clutching about firearms, when that's ~3.2% likely as compared to the other 96.8%, and where that 98.6% is LARGELY UP TO YOU, as is a GOOD BIT of your odds of dying by firearm.
Ah, but you just can't fix stupidity. Such is life.:)
I think it seems like a good sign. I took it to imply that there may be more (considerably more) than one way to get a particular result. Blue eyes, strength, intelligence, height, etc.
Just a thought. And I'm fairly cynical, too.:)
Looking forward to the day parents can definitively select for intelligent children.
So which would you rather, keep the fast but broken function and make a new correct one, or change the behaviour of the existing function, making it correct and slowing it down?
Keep it and make a new one, and switch which one operates when a multicore environment is extant, or not. That works the best it possibly can for everyone, causing no harm at all to legacy systems, and imposing the performance hit on those who have actively changed the environment. Why would you NOT do that?
You know, for a regrettably short time, one of the dish network (or DirecTV, I forget) channels was all martial arts movies, all the time, seeming to specialize in the no doubt less expensive B&W productions from China, Japan and Korea. That was a blast. Of course it didn't last long. Esoteric in the first place, and the quality was, to be kind... highly variable. But still.:)
R.I.P., Saturday morning cartoons. I guess it's all real news for the kids of today...
You found real news on broadcast or cable television? When is it on, and what network or channel? I must view this beast, formally thought to be utterly extinct!
I don't think the Internet killed Saturday morning cartoons. I think corporate-inspired churn in pursuit of ever more income pushed out some very lovely and entertaining cartoons in favor of what was, quite frankly, awful junk. Poorly drawn, badly scored, badly scripted, and almost uniformly missing the hilarious innuendo and subtleties that were present in your typical 'toon from the nineteen-fifites and -sixties.
I would *still* be willing to sit down for a morning of road runner, bugs bunny and crew, daffy duck, foghorn leghorn, jetsons, flintstones, pepe le pew, and so on. I would have encouraged my kids to watch. But it all went away, I "encouraged" my kids to ignore the television entirely (with a lock and key), and that's part of the story of how broadcast television completely lost one family. Toons were definitely part of the problem. Between that, and the evolution of news from at least somewhat "this is what's happening" to almost entirely "this is what you should think", broadcast television became exceedingly unwelcome in my home. Cable went soon after.
I'm truly sorry you chose to make that post anonymously. Spot on, and amusing at the same time. I would have enjoyed making sure I took special note of future postings if I knew who you were. Well, kudos anyway.:)
The rush to "do" underlies a great deal of our problems from incompatible OS upgrades, bugs left behind to fester, the rug being yanked out from under previously working applications, and functionality going missing -- or crazy -- or sideways -- in existing user applications. There are methodologies that can resolve all of these things the vast majority of the time, but very few software developers at any level use them. Much harm results.
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Primary among them, NEVER remove or change the stated design behavior of an existing function. If you have a better idea, add a new function with a new stated design behavior. Leave the previously existing one alone; if necessary, point out that it won't work with "new stuff", if indeed that is the case. Then stop. If an already existing function is not behaving as the stated design behavior says it should, change it until it does.
Pro tip: If "upgrading", if whatever "enhancements" you created make something stop working or degrades how it works in an existing application that used the function according to its stated design intent, it's about 1000000:1 that it's your fault AND that you shouldn't have done whatever you did.
It doesn't matter if you're an OS programmer, an application programmer, a PD library maintainer, or what. If and when you screw up existing stated design behavior, you have not created an "upgrade", you have created a "fuckyougrade" and somewhere, someone, or more likely many someones, are contemplating dragging you through a fire ant hill after dousing you with some other ant hill's characteristic pheromones.
Confident? I'm just stating the obvious. There can be life on planets. It can be intelligent. It can go to space.
I don't need confidence to make those observations; even a vague awareness of the world around me suffices.
And I fail to see what my intelligence has to do with any of it. These very simple facts wouldn't change any regardless if I was Einstein or a drooling idiot.
We're already aware of life on a planet. That's what we are. Us, and cats, and dogs, and everything else living here. As humans, we're already aware of the great diversity of life even sourced from just the one planet. Likewise, the range of intelligence. Life, intelligence, on some planet? Spacecraft? Interest in exploring? Nothing groundbreaking there. Not a thing. Already known facts. It happens; we've watched it happen.
So, another case? Ok. Interesting? Sure. Absolutely. But already a 100% fit with what we know. The whole shebang is going to be about things to learn in the areas of culture and technology. Just specifics. The rest, we already knew.
Ask the aliens what their views on hacking their own bodies reproductive reward system, in order to avoid the reproduction part but still get the reward.
Hacking? Honey, I'm not hacking, I'm practicing. No, no, don't take them off. I like the way the line of the stocking goes up the back of your leg.
What makes you think this hasn't already happened?"
The uniform lack of any good advice indicating a technology in any way advanced from those the insights were supposedly given to. Nothing so advanced as "wash your hands before touching any wound", or a reasonable tip about cooking to eliminate parasites (instead of, for instance, forbidding shellfish and so on... just dumb, straight up primitive stuff.)
All religions fail this simple test: Their all-knowing patron (of whatever type) manifests as utterly clueless. So whatever else might have been going on -- and that certainly leaves a very wide field -- visiting aliens can be very cleanly ruled out.
the current administration has done more than any previous administration to expand it's[sic] intrusive power
No, sorry. Nothing's been done during Obama's terms that even remotely compare with the instantiation of the PATRIOT act and the TSA as far as harmful changes to the previously existing state of affairs by the government.
And then during Obama's terms, we've seen the drug war lighten up on marijuana, we've seen expansions of gay rights, we've seen increased rights and capabilities for consumers and less for credit card companies, access to Cuba has opened up, private sector spaceflight has been encouraged...
Obama's got his warts, all right -- constitutionally speaking, the man seems to be insane -- but on the scale of making life worse for all of us, he's done nothing even close, singly or in aggregate, to measuring up to the Bush/Cheney administration's insults to the body politic.
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It's almost as if the disease [was designed] to adapt to collapsing health care systems in impoverished nations.
Just think of all those resources in newly unpopulated areas. I'm sure you won't be the first to do so. I'm not at all sure anyone has acted on it, but we've seen similar things done for no reason we would consider worthy. I saw some lowlife run over a kitten on purpose last Wednesday. Never under-estimate the human potential for scumfuckery.
A says: "This thing could already be air borne" in apparent (textual) tones of abject terror.
B responds: "Take a deep breath" in an attempt to reassure.
Oh, yeah. THAT's the way to go about it. :)
There are only 3,572 known comets, but there are many millions of asteroids.
Thus you are orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by an asteroid than a comet.
Does this mean you should go about cowering and worrying and fulminating about the possibility of your own "death by asteroid"?
Guns... same thing. If you're at high risk for a firearms injury, you probably not only know that, but you probably know why, and you probably know what you could do to reduce that risk. While "probably" is the modifier at hand, I'll tell you what's probably going to actually kill you:
Deaths per 100,000 by disease/accident (total is about 600 a year right now)
Note no comets, no asteroids, and no ebola.
Deaths per 100,000 by firearms (total averages out to well under 20. Location where the odds are worst? Alaska. Yes, Alaska. :)
So... 600 out of 100,000 die by disease or accident (and more than 50% of them from heart disease or cancer), and I bet it wouldn't take me more than a few seconds to find some smoker and/or over-eater in a crowd who spends a goodly amount of their time online pearl-clutching about firearms, when that's ~3.2% likely as compared to the other 96.8%, and where that 98.6% is LARGELY UP TO YOU, as is a GOOD BIT of your odds of dying by firearm.
Ah, but you just can't fix stupidity. Such is life. :)
Only if they can get past the dead skin. [rimshot]
No, no. I said "intelligent."
Blonde jokes to follow. I'll be here all night. Try the veal.
...just don't let her find out you're calling her a vegetable.
I think it seems like a good sign. I took it to imply that there may be more (considerably more) than one way to get a particular result. Blue eyes, strength, intelligence, height, etc.
Just a thought. And I'm fairly cynical, too. :)
Looking forward to the day parents can definitively select for intelligent children.
I'm talking about software. Nothing to do with you. Take a breath.
Keep it and make a new one, and switch which one operates when a multicore environment is extant, or not. That works the best it possibly can for everyone, causing no harm at all to legacy systems, and imposing the performance hit on those who have actively changed the environment. Why would you NOT do that?
mea culpa, I meant "formerly", and I can spell it just fine. Pure brain fart. Far worse than a spelling error, actually. :/
The preceding should be modded up to about 600. And tears shed.
amen, brother.
You know, for a regrettably short time, one of the dish network (or DirecTV, I forget) channels was all martial arts movies, all the time, seeming to specialize in the no doubt less expensive B&W productions from China, Japan and Korea. That was a blast. Of course it didn't last long. Esoteric in the first place, and the quality was, to be kind... highly variable. But still. :)
You found real news on broadcast or cable television? When is it on, and what network or channel? I must view this beast, formally thought to be utterly extinct!
I don't think the Internet killed Saturday morning cartoons. I think corporate-inspired churn in pursuit of ever more income pushed out some very lovely and entertaining cartoons in favor of what was, quite frankly, awful junk. Poorly drawn, badly scored, badly scripted, and almost uniformly missing the hilarious innuendo and subtleties that were present in your typical 'toon from the nineteen-fifites and -sixties.
I would *still* be willing to sit down for a morning of road runner, bugs bunny and crew, daffy duck, foghorn leghorn, jetsons, flintstones, pepe le pew, and so on. I would have encouraged my kids to watch. But it all went away, I "encouraged" my kids to ignore the television entirely (with a lock and key), and that's part of the story of how broadcast television completely lost one family. Toons were definitely part of the problem. Between that, and the evolution of news from at least somewhat "this is what's happening" to almost entirely "this is what you should think", broadcast television became exceedingly unwelcome in my home. Cable went soon after.
I'm truly sorry you chose to make that post anonymously. Spot on, and amusing at the same time. I would have enjoyed making sure I took special note of future postings if I knew who you were. Well, kudos anyway. :)
The rush to "do" underlies a great deal of our problems from incompatible OS upgrades, bugs left behind to fester, the rug being yanked out from under previously working applications, and functionality going missing -- or crazy -- or sideways -- in existing user applications. There are methodologies that can resolve all of these things the vast majority of the time, but very few software developers at any level use them. Much harm results.
<RANT>
Primary among them, NEVER remove or change the stated design behavior of an existing function. If you have a better idea, add a new function with a new stated design behavior. Leave the previously existing one alone; if necessary, point out that it won't work with "new stuff", if indeed that is the case. Then stop. If an already existing function is not behaving as the stated design behavior says it should, change it until it does.
Pro tip: If "upgrading", if whatever "enhancements" you created make something stop working or degrades how it works in an existing application that used the function according to its stated design intent, it's about 1000000:1 that it's your fault AND that you shouldn't have done whatever you did.
It doesn't matter if you're an OS programmer, an application programmer, a PD library maintainer, or what. If and when you screw up existing stated design behavior, you have not created an "upgrade", you have created a "fuckyougrade" and somewhere, someone, or more likely many someones, are contemplating dragging you through a fire ant hill after dousing you with some other ant hill's characteristic pheromones.
</RANT>
You're doing it wrong.
Not wrong as in "that's wrong to do", but wrong as in "you'll do better with people you interact with in the real world."
If, of course, you can put the cellphone/iPad/keyboard down for enough minutes to interact with the people around you.
Online profiles are far more "crafted" than real-world interactions, and real-world interactions provide far more clues when someone is gaming you.
There's no dark side of the moon. It's all dark, really...
Confident? I'm just stating the obvious. There can be life on planets. It can be intelligent. It can go to space.
I don't need confidence to make those observations; even a vague awareness of the world around me suffices.
And I fail to see what my intelligence has to do with any of it. These very simple facts wouldn't change any regardless if I was Einstein or a drooling idiot.
Your comment is downright strange.
My worldview wouldn't change a whit.
We're already aware of life on a planet. That's what we are. Us, and cats, and dogs, and everything else living here. As humans, we're already aware of the great diversity of life even sourced from just the one planet. Likewise, the range of intelligence. Life, intelligence, on some planet? Spacecraft? Interest in exploring? Nothing groundbreaking there. Not a thing. Already known facts. It happens; we've watched it happen.
So, another case? Ok. Interesting? Sure. Absolutely. But already a 100% fit with what we know. The whole shebang is going to be about things to learn in the areas of culture and technology. Just specifics. The rest, we already knew.
Both Tin and Lead are represented in Gold Key's "Metal Men"
Hacking? Honey, I'm not hacking, I'm practicing. No, no, don't take them off. I like the way the line of the stocking goes up the back of your leg.
The uniform lack of any good advice indicating a technology in any way advanced from those the insights were supposedly given to. Nothing so advanced as "wash your hands before touching any wound", or a reasonable tip about cooking to eliminate parasites (instead of, for instance, forbidding shellfish and so on... just dumb, straight up primitive stuff.)
All religions fail this simple test: Their all-knowing patron (of whatever type) manifests as utterly clueless. So whatever else might have been going on -- and that certainly leaves a very wide field -- visiting aliens can be very cleanly ruled out.
No, sorry. Nothing's been done during Obama's terms that even remotely compare with the instantiation of the PATRIOT act and the TSA as far as harmful changes to the previously existing state of affairs by the government.
And then during Obama's terms, we've seen the drug war lighten up on marijuana, we've seen expansions of gay rights, we've seen increased rights and capabilities for consumers and less for credit card companies, access to Cuba has opened up, private sector spaceflight has been encouraged...
Obama's got his warts, all right -- constitutionally speaking, the man seems to be insane -- but on the scale of making life worse for all of us, he's done nothing even close, singly or in aggregate, to measuring up to the Bush/Cheney administration's insults to the body politic.
That's kind of funny, actually. Wonder what genius thought there was a usable market segment for a tablet without a touchscreen?