What kills me is how often I see medical staff wearing their scrubs out in public. I'm a long ways from a germophobe but a very significant part of their job is working with people with all sorts of infections and diseases, there could be anything on those things. It's great they can just walk out of work without changing but I'd rather not get a staff infection because a nurse brushed up against me while I was waiting in line for a sandwich at lunch time.
A little off topic I know but if scrubs were able to "prevent bugs being passed around" I'd feel a little better standing by these people.
"I mean, I wasn't around when the first came out. Maybe I missed the cult-train on that, but it was never anything more than a poor sci-fi movie to me. Not even "comparing the technology", it still had tons more CGI etc. in it than anything else for years afterwards, but I never found anything about the movie compelling. The "classic" sequels were just more of the same dross. People in teddy-bear costumes. It was like a very bad episode of Star Trek, after the budget had run out, but then tacked on with expensive CGI."
Your wording is a little awkward here. Are you talking about CGI in the original trilogy?
I'm calling bullshit. The odds are incredibly against you having that kind of insider information and if you did you could find much better things to do with it then waiting for a slashdot article about a Musk business so you could bring it up in an internet forum.
The odds are vastly more likely that, like a child, you are making this up because you either want it to be true or for attention.
I'm a little baffled by that question. I literally address this after making that statement. Go back and reread my last post if you are seriously wondering about this.
"I'm sorry, what scare tactics did I refer to? I have not referred to any well publicized and likely misleading sources used by the war on drugs - I have not referenced the usual claims of lowering IQ or as a gateway drug even though it is reported in a peer reviewed journal [nih.gov]. I specfically avoided such sources because I knew someone would attempt to discredit them."
So because you avoid those specific scare tactics you didn't use scare tactics at all? One thing does not follow the other there,
"And, please, a little more evidence than "snopes" here - one discredited mass media report is hardly adequate evidence."
That means you didn't read the link. There was something like a half dozen refuted cases in that link of the media or law enforcement claiming problems with laced weed and then later retracting their statements. Laced weed is a media manufactured problem, right up there with parents and teachers lecturing me as a child warning me of the dangers of "drug dealers handing out LSD to children" (What the hell kind of nonsense is that?). I am pointing to the complete lack of supporting data to refute the claim that laced weed is a real life danger here. If there is a real problem with this then there should be evidence of such,
"Trust me I know about people doing stupid things. I am a trauma surgeon and nearly half of my patients arrive with drug and or alcohol on their toxicology screen."
And this gets to the core of one of my main problems in this conversation. I'm getting anecdotal evidence from a person here who is regularly confabulating "drugs" and "marijuana". Marijuana is not alcohol and it is not all "drugs".
In regards to your links
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... This was nice and contributes to an informed conversation on the subject. While there is certainly still wide debate on the subject a number of other studies have found similar links to the problems detailed here. What I always wonder about the issues brought up in such studies, if marijuana is seeing such widespread use that 12% of Americans admit to having used it in the last year (from this link) why is there no health crisis in regards to the symptoms described here? People dying from liver disease and diabetes due to drinking is something that I run into in my own life and there is very clear data detailing the problem. With pot, not so much.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com... Despite the headline all this article does is bring up that weed is more potent now and that there is no reliable source for metrics on CBD content in pot (which is what most medical users really care about). None of these things make pot bad.
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/st... This is more scare tactics. As I didn't want to meticulously read through the whole thing I did a text search for marijuana. There is no mention of the substance here. This link is completely irrelevant.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc... Irrelevant. Ecstasy is not marijuana. It isn't even put together by a chemist. This is more of what I have been talking about in terms of scare tactics. "Other drugs are laced with crazy stuff which means marijuana could be laced which means it is laced!" seems to be the thought process with this.
While you are certainly correct that pot is incredibly unlikely to be helpful here you veer into some pretty heavy scare tactics that dont have a lot of truth to them.
"". In addition, buying drug on the street is very dangerous because you do not know exactly what you are buying (a pharmacology professor of mine proved this in the 80s) - even marijuana can be laced with even more dangerous substances [americanad...enters.org]"
For starters, medical pot is legal in more states than not so why are we assuming the purchase would be illegal? After that, a small amount of critical thinking quickly brings up the question, why would some one selling weed spend money lacing their product and not tell the person buying? Your own link even states there's no data on the subject.
"And stop claiming that marijuana is harmless. I see too many people land in our ED as a result of this type of self-medication."
While, much like drinking, there are those who will do truely stupid things while high pot is far safer than every day activities like sober driving or manual labor professions.
The economy saw continuous and substancial growth under Obama ( https://www.statista.com/stati... ). The massive economic crash prior to him getting elected is the source of his poor numbers on things such as unemployment. Our current situation where the economy is finally showing some strength is due to all the growth under Obama.
It's the collector's mind set in action. While this person is the only / one of the few people to have these ROMs, their collection is special and unique. Once everyone has access to the ROM there's nothing special about their collection any more.
I get the mindset a bit as this person likely went through a bit of trouble to get these ROMs but ultimately I agree with you that it's pretty petty.
I'm not sure where you're getting this stuff about the Jedi from.
"...but they were actually pretty awful all round"
They were? They seem to be universally loved by "good characters" in the universe. Let's see why you say the are "pretty awful"
"They considered themselves superior and claimed ownership of the Force, used it to manipulate people without a second thought"
Sure seems like they would have been running the Republic's government if they thought they were both superior and were happy to "manipulate people without a second though". But no, instead of pursuing power in the Republic they acted as servants of it.
"...and didn't seem to care at all about injustices like slavery."
Slavery was illegal in the Republic ( http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki... ) so while it did exist in a few backwaters like Tatooine, this does not mean that the Jedi didn't care about it any more than the Republic didn't. They were a relatively small order patrolling the bulk of the galaxy and by their own admission, couldnt get to everything. In fact, "When the Old Republic outlawed slavery, the Jedi set about to free those held..." (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_Order).
"Luke tried to emulate them but made the same mistakes, resulting in Kylo Ren."
Specifically, what mistakes were made? The only one I know of was pulling his light saber out for a moment when he sensed the Dark side's influence on Ren.
Don't get me wrong, what you're throwing out here is certainly an interesting narrative, it just doesn't fit the facts.
Hahahaha. Yeah, this is a well written post that is perfectly clear to someone who isnt you
"Let me put it in a different way. A way inspired by cayenne8, c6gunner and roman_mir:
*froth* *froth* Venezuela *froth* *froth*"
For starters, you rattle off three names I'm sure are slashdot handles. Are slashdot users so famous now that everyone just knows their name? Do you really think that everyone should be so invested in slashdot that they should know the names of users you deem to be important enough to know?
After that your last sentence isnt even a coherent thought.
But yeah, the problem isnt that you write like a child at all. It's clearly me.
"Grow up. If you post something that stupid and easily disproved be prepared to take some heat for it. Honestly I still don't know if you are an idiot or a troll so I'm not going to respond after this."
Hahaha. I love being trolled by some one who feels so righteous in regards to what they are doing. "Address some one civilly!? It's my God given right to be a rude asshole!".
"Grow up", man that makes me laugh. When has childish name calling ever been a virtue of adulthood?
The rest of your posts seem to engage in some bizarre denial of reality. The physics of a flying car are impossible when we've had working VTOL for half a century? "Roads already exist" Oh, thanks for that. I suppose we never have to widen roads? Repair roads and bridges? Way to ignore the costs of traffic I mention. Way to ignore that the vast majority of your 11 point list is mostly made up of redundant points and things I covered in my original post when they aren't directly contradicting each other.
Sorry but the only major hurdle to a flying car that I didn't mention in my original post is a power source
I'm not sure if I'm following you here but bringing up Venezuela to point out how wealth redistribution has failed does nothing to contradict its success story in every first world nation.
"Sigh... I don't know if you are trolling or stupid."
That's nice, after reading your post I know for certain that you're an asshole.
"1) No power source with adequate power to weight ratio nor any prospect of one"
This is your only valid point. I absently didn't think about fuel when I made my post.
See above for what I think of people who resort to childish name calling because some one made a mistake.
"2) No adequately robust navigation/piloting system for aerial transit by non-pilots"
I covered this here "and figuring out a way to make mass aerial transit not the massive hazard it potentially is."
"3) Very few people are adequately trained pilots"
Redundant, Same as above.
"4) No infrastructure for takeoff/landing anywhere except existing airports"
I used the Harrier as an example as it can take off and land vertically.
"5) It's cheaper to have a plane and a car than one that does both"
I covered that here. "The only obstacles we have are scaling prices down to reasonable levels for civilian ownership of such vehicles"
"6) A purpose built plane or car will outperform a vehicle that does both"
So? A car that flies doesn't need to outperform a regular car or plane to be massively useful.
"7) No obvious economic problem solved by a flying car"
Roads cost money. Traffic costs money.
"8) Any vehicle light enough to get off the ground is too fragile to endure traveling on the ground"
I don't think you are aware of how much planes weigh. A fully loaded Cessna weighs 2,550 lb which is the weight of a small car and that's not a heavy plane by any standards.
"9) Enormous and unresolved liability issues in the event of accidents"
"10) Cost of fuel will be prohibitive for anyone but the richest of individuals"
So there's "no power source" (your point 1) but the power source is too expensive?
"Such things do not exist. We have had helicopters for a few decades now, some ridiculous contraptions with folding wings, and jetpacks. But, not flying cars."
From TFS, "The future of transportation may not be on the roads but the skies. That might not be a reality quite yet but Airbus is taking it seriously."
That's been covered already.
"We do not have the technology for that, and we are not likely to have it any time soon. So please stop pushing this flying cars nonsense."
The Harrier Jump Jet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) has been around for over half a century. The technology for flying cars is well within reach. The only obstacles we have are scaling prices down to reasonable levels for civilian ownership of such vehicles and figuring out a way to make mass aerial transit not the massive hazard it potentially is.
Why does their modding down have to be from gamergaters? I was going to mod the above post down despite having absolutly no love for those trolls as the post is just blatant flamebait or perhaps off topic. While there is still more to be done towards gender equality in the US, we're not that bad, especially when compared to the vast majority of Asian nations.
More importantly though, it just makes sense to compare the US and China on such things. China is the emerging super power and the US is the established one. It makes for a compelling comparison. Comparing China to Iceland (top ranked by the UN for gender equality) isn't going to generate the interest that a comparison to the US will.
The article is a comparison between super powers on gender equality
I don't think there's anythong idiotic or demeaning about this at all. In fact, I feel like this is the opposite. The author recognized that coding is not some mystical art as much of the public perceives it and from there sought to understand it better and in the process help others do so.
The only negative I see to that is that it risks de-mystifying my profession and some times I like being made to feel like a wizard:)
I seem to recall asking a lot of what you might call "wrong questions" when I first took an interest in coding.
Asking what is the best way to learn how to program is a perfectly sensible question for some one completely unfamiliar with any kind of programing. Hopefully some one then comes a long and gives the newb some proper guidance.
Tell me about it. "Unless you've been living under a rock" gets used in horrible contexts similarily to "common sense". "My political view, which half the population disagrees with, is just common sense"
In this case, hearing about an odd audio file is something society is near universally aware of (which is what "unless you've been living under a rock..." is supposed to imply)? Some how I really doubt that.
Slashdot Mirror
What kills me is how often I see medical staff wearing their scrubs out in public. I'm a long ways from a germophobe but a very significant part of their job is working with people with all sorts of infections and diseases, there could be anything on those things. It's great they can just walk out of work without changing but I'd rather not get a staff infection because a nurse brushed up against me while I was waiting in line for a sandwich at lunch time.
A little off topic I know but if scrubs were able to "prevent bugs being passed around" I'd feel a little better standing by these people.
"I mean, I wasn't around when the first came out. Maybe I missed the cult-train on that, but it was never anything more than a poor sci-fi movie to me. Not even "comparing the technology", it still had tons more CGI etc. in it than anything else for years afterwards, but I never found anything about the movie compelling. The "classic" sequels were just more of the same dross. People in teddy-bear costumes. It was like a very bad episode of Star Trek, after the budget had run out, but then tacked on with expensive CGI."
Your wording is a little awkward here. Are you talking about CGI in the original trilogy?
So what, is this whistler blower your mother?
I'm calling bullshit. The odds are incredibly against you having that kind of insider information and if you did you could find much better things to do with it then waiting for a slashdot article about a Musk business so you could bring it up in an internet forum.
The odds are vastly more likely that, like a child, you are making this up because you either want it to be true or for attention.
"I'm sorry, what scare tactics did I refer to?"
I'm a little baffled by that question. I literally address this after making that statement. Go back and reread my last post if you are seriously wondering about this.
"I'm sorry, what scare tactics did I refer to? I have not referred to any well publicized and likely misleading sources used by the war on drugs - I have not referenced the usual claims of lowering IQ or as a gateway drug even though it is reported in a peer reviewed journal [nih.gov]. I specfically avoided such sources because I knew someone would attempt to discredit them."
So because you avoid those specific scare tactics you didn't use scare tactics at all? One thing does not follow the other there,
"And, please, a little more evidence than "snopes" here - one discredited mass media report is hardly adequate evidence."
That means you didn't read the link. There was something like a half dozen refuted cases in that link of the media or law enforcement claiming problems with laced weed and then later retracting their statements. Laced weed is a media manufactured problem, right up there with parents and teachers lecturing me as a child warning me of the dangers of "drug dealers handing out LSD to children" (What the hell kind of nonsense is that?). I am pointing to the complete lack of supporting data to refute the claim that laced weed is a real life danger here. If there is a real problem with this then there should be evidence of such,
"Trust me I know about people doing stupid things. I am a trauma surgeon and nearly half of my patients arrive with drug and or alcohol on their toxicology screen."
And this gets to the core of one of my main problems in this conversation. I'm getting anecdotal evidence from a person here who is regularly confabulating "drugs" and "marijuana". Marijuana is not alcohol and it is not all "drugs".
In regards to your links
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
This was nice and contributes to an informed conversation on the subject. While there is certainly still wide debate on the subject a number of other studies have found similar links to the problems detailed here. What I always wonder about the issues brought up in such studies, if marijuana is seeing such widespread use that 12% of Americans admit to having used it in the last year (from this link) why is there no health crisis in regards to the symptoms described here? People dying from liver disease and diabetes due to drinking is something that I run into in my own life and there is very clear data detailing the problem. With pot, not so much.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
Despite the headline all this article does is bring up that weed is more potent now and that there is no reliable source for metrics on CBD content in pot (which is what most medical users really care about). None of these things make pot bad.
http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/st...
This is more scare tactics. As I didn't want to meticulously read through the whole thing I did a text search for marijuana. There is no mention of the substance here. This link is completely irrelevant.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
Irrelevant. Ecstasy is not marijuana. It isn't even put together by a chemist. This is more of what I have been talking about in terms of scare tactics. "Other drugs are laced with crazy stuff which means marijuana could be laced which means it is laced!" seems to be the thought process with this.
https://www.journalacs.org/art...
This is just a craz
While you are certainly correct that pot is incredibly unlikely to be helpful here you veer into some pretty heavy scare tactics that dont have a lot of truth to them.
"". In addition, buying drug on the street is very dangerous because you do not know exactly what you are buying (a pharmacology professor of mine proved this in the 80s) - even marijuana can be laced with even more dangerous substances [americanad...enters.org]"
For starters, medical pot is legal in more states than not so why are we assuming the purchase would be illegal? After that, a small amount of critical thinking quickly brings up the question, why would some one selling weed spend money lacing their product and not tell the person buying? Your own link even states there's no data on the subject.
Here's a nice snopes link debunking the latest panic of fentynal laced weed: https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...
"And stop claiming that marijuana is harmless. I see too many people land in our ED as a result of this type of self-medication."
While, much like drinking, there are those who will do truely stupid things while high pot is far safer than every day activities like sober driving or manual labor professions.
Right, the government just hands out unemployment and food stamps infinitly.
Your understanding of such programs seems rather limited.
What blinders you wear.
The economy saw continuous and substancial growth under Obama ( https://www.statista.com/stati... ). The massive economic crash prior to him getting elected is the source of his poor numbers on things such as unemployment. Our current situation where the economy is finally showing some strength is due to all the growth under Obama.
It's the collector's mind set in action. While this person is the only / one of the few people to have these ROMs, their collection is special and unique. Once everyone has access to the ROM there's nothing special about their collection any more.
I get the mindset a bit as this person likely went through a bit of trouble to get these ROMs but ultimately I agree with you that it's pretty petty.
I'm not sure where you're getting this stuff about the Jedi from.
"...but they were actually pretty awful all round"
They were? They seem to be universally loved by "good characters" in the universe. Let's see why you say the are "pretty awful"
"They considered themselves superior and claimed ownership of the Force, used it to manipulate people without a second thought"
Sure seems like they would have been running the Republic's government if they thought they were both superior and were happy to "manipulate people without a second though". But no, instead of pursuing power in the Republic they acted as servants of it.
"...and didn't seem to care at all about injustices like slavery."
Slavery was illegal in the Republic ( http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki... ) so while it did exist in a few backwaters like Tatooine, this does not mean that the Jedi didn't care about it any more than the Republic didn't. They were a relatively small order patrolling the bulk of the galaxy and by their own admission, couldnt get to everything. In fact, "When the Old Republic outlawed slavery, the Jedi set about to free those held..." (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_Order).
"Luke tried to emulate them but made the same mistakes, resulting in Kylo Ren."
Specifically, what mistakes were made? The only one I know of was pulling his light saber out for a moment when he sensed the Dark side's influence on Ren.
Don't get me wrong, what you're throwing out here is certainly an interesting narrative, it just doesn't fit the facts.
Hahahaha. Yeah, this is a well written post that is perfectly clear to someone who isnt you
"Let me put it in a different way. A way inspired by cayenne8, c6gunner and roman_mir:
*froth* *froth* Venezuela *froth* *froth*"
For starters, you rattle off three names I'm sure are slashdot handles. Are slashdot users so famous now that everyone just knows their name? Do you really think that everyone should be so invested in slashdot that they should know the names of users you deem to be important enough to know?
After that your last sentence isnt even a coherent thought.
But yeah, the problem isnt that you write like a child at all. It's clearly me.
"In the early days of PC gaming, there was 3 major titles. Doom, Duke Nukem, and Descent."
And then there was Myst, which was of the same era and sold more than all three of those games put together
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
"Grow up. If you post something that stupid and easily disproved be prepared to take some heat for it. Honestly I still don't know if you are an idiot or a troll so I'm not going to respond after this."
Hahaha. I love being trolled by some one who feels so righteous in regards to what they are doing. "Address some one civilly!? It's my God given right to be a rude asshole!".
"Grow up", man that makes me laugh. When has childish name calling ever been a virtue of adulthood?
The rest of your posts seem to engage in some bizarre denial of reality. The physics of a flying car are impossible when we've had working VTOL for half a century? "Roads already exist" Oh, thanks for that. I suppose we never have to widen roads? Repair roads and bridges? Way to ignore the costs of traffic I mention. Way to ignore that the vast majority of your 11 point list is mostly made up of redundant points and things I covered in my original post when they aren't directly contradicting each other.
Sorry but the only major hurdle to a flying car that I didn't mention in my original post is a power source
"How do you know you are better than Asia?"
Because I looked it up rather than make an assumption as you're doing here.
https://www.undispatch.com/her...
I'm not sure if I'm following you here but bringing up Venezuela to point out how wealth redistribution has failed does nothing to contradict its success story in every first world nation.
"And when well meaning people want to use force to redistribute wealth by denying individuals their rights."
I'm curious what you mean by this given that all successful and current world governments that I know of practice some form of wealth redistribution.
"Sigh... I don't know if you are trolling or stupid."
That's nice, after reading your post I know for certain that you're an asshole.
"1) No power source with adequate power to weight ratio nor any prospect of one"
This is your only valid point. I absently didn't think about fuel when I made my post.
See above for what I think of people who resort to childish name calling because some one made a mistake.
"2) No adequately robust navigation/piloting system for aerial transit by non-pilots"
I covered this here "and figuring out a way to make mass aerial transit not the massive hazard it potentially is."
"3) Very few people are adequately trained pilots"
Redundant, Same as above.
"4) No infrastructure for takeoff/landing anywhere except existing airports"
I used the Harrier as an example as it can take off and land vertically.
"5) It's cheaper to have a plane and a car than one that does both"
I covered that here. "The only obstacles we have are scaling prices down to reasonable levels for civilian ownership of such vehicles"
"6) A purpose built plane or car will outperform a vehicle that does both"
So? A car that flies doesn't need to outperform a regular car or plane to be massively useful.
"7) No obvious economic problem solved by a flying car"
Roads cost money. Traffic costs money.
"8) Any vehicle light enough to get off the ground is too fragile to endure traveling on the ground"
I don't think you are aware of how much planes weigh. A fully loaded Cessna weighs 2,550 lb which is the weight of a small car and that's not a heavy plane by any standards.
"9) Enormous and unresolved liability issues in the event of accidents"
"10) Cost of fuel will be prohibitive for anyone but the richest of individuals"
So there's "no power source" (your point 1) but the power source is too expensive?
"11) Cost of maintenance will be prohibitive"
Maintenance isn't that high on small planes.
Both Empire and the Christmas special came out before the special editions.
"Such things do not exist. We have had helicopters for a few decades now, some ridiculous contraptions with folding wings, and jetpacks. But, not flying cars."
From TFS, "The future of transportation may not be on the roads but the skies. That might not be a reality quite yet but Airbus is taking it seriously."
That's been covered already.
"We do not have the technology for that, and we are not likely to have it any time soon. So please stop pushing this flying cars nonsense."
The Harrier Jump Jet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) has been around for over half a century. The technology for flying cars is well within reach. The only obstacles we have are scaling prices down to reasonable levels for civilian ownership of such vehicles and figuring out a way to make mass aerial transit not the massive hazard it potentially is.
Why does their modding down have to be from gamergaters? I was going to mod the above post down despite having absolutly no love for those trolls as the post is just blatant flamebait or perhaps off topic. While there is still more to be done towards gender equality in the US, we're not that bad, especially when compared to the vast majority of Asian nations.
More importantly though, it just makes sense to compare the US and China on such things. China is the emerging super power and the US is the established one. It makes for a compelling comparison. Comparing China to Iceland (top ranked by the UN for gender equality) isn't going to generate the interest that a comparison to the US will.
The article is a comparison between super powers on gender equality
Maybe think outside the PC box sometimes.
I don't think there's anythong idiotic or demeaning about this at all. In fact, I feel like this is the opposite. The author recognized that coding is not some mystical art as much of the public perceives it and from there sought to understand it better and in the process help others do so.
The only negative I see to that is that it risks de-mystifying my profession and some times I like being made to feel like a wizard :)
I seem to recall asking a lot of what you might call "wrong questions" when I first took an interest in coding.
Asking what is the best way to learn how to program is a perfectly sensible question for some one completely unfamiliar with any kind of programing. Hopefully some one then comes a long and gives the newb some proper guidance.
Oops, first appearance was at a county fair as stated by my first link. Second was the terrbile Chrietmas special in my second.
Fortunatly I posted this mistake to the internet where no one would ever completely freak out over a small, corrected mistake.
Sorry but Fett did not debut in Empire.
https://www.starwars.com/news/...
Here's the actual premier if you want to watch it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
It's part of a larger Christmas special and is pretty terrible for those not familiar
Tell me about it. "Unless you've been living under a rock" gets used in horrible contexts similarily to "common sense". "My political view, which half the population disagrees with, is just common sense"
In this case, hearing about an odd audio file is something society is near universally aware of (which is what "unless you've been living under a rock..." is supposed to imply)? Some how I really doubt that.
It's funny, I dont think you see the contradiction in what you just said.