Tasker, On{X}, Locale... There are at least 2 or 3 other ones that I can't remember the name of. This is not only an application that has been done before, it is an entire genre of applications.
Really? You really can't understand why nerds would want to know what kind of processor a major technology provider uses? You don't consider it newsworthy unless there is a scandal? I find this new very interesting. If one want to know about blow jobs, there are much better sites than Slashdot.
You forgot about genetics. People easily accept that human genetic variance can make people have completely different colored skin, different heights, that it can lead to different shaped blood cells, but the idea that it could lead to different efficiencies in the digestion of sugars and fats is taboo.
I am in the same boat. I actually gain weight if I don't have enough fat in my diet. I can lose weight on a 2000 calorie a day diet of burgers. Then turn around and gain it back on a 1300 calorie a day diet of fruit, vegetables and whole grain bread.
When it comes to weight management, our medical industry is completely full of crap.
Male circumcision and "female circumcision" have nothing to do with each other, so I don't see how you can say "I'm not sure that FGM and male circumcision are comparable."
First, parents make all sorts of health decisions for their children that will effect those children for the rest of their lives. Immunizations are a very good example of this. It is silly to suggest that parents not do this.
If you want to get offended about cutting into children's flesh, maybe you should look at ear piercing first. While circumcision has medical benefits, childhood ear piercing is poking holes in children strictly for cosmetic reasons.
Comparing "Female circumcision" with "Male circumcision" is ridiculous. The male equivalent of "female circumcision" would be to cut the entire head off of a male's penis. No one is suggesting this. Performing a "Male circumcision" on a female would be to cut off the clitoral hood. If that were what was being done, people would not be so disgusted by "female circumcision". Add to it the fact that your link specifically says:
all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
"male circumcision" has medical reasons so even if you don't take into account the fact that you are talking about different body parts, what is being done to boys would not meet that criteria.
Whether you are for or against male circumcision, it is invalid to compare it to female circumcision.
http://www.frys.com/product/6992727?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
$90 for 16GB is hardly "too high to be practical". I also question many peoples claims on memory usage. My kid will load half a dozen tabs and leave them running for days at a time with no problems. Pages loaded with Flash no less, and he doesn't have the problems. My suspicion is that there is some specific, semi-common use case that leaks memory. Something like running some plugin that leaks memory.
I could conceive of pathway along the lines of an addiction to sugar causing a person to offset their protein and fat intake in favor of sugar intake. This could lead to the brain having less raw materials for actual construction even though it has plenty energy to work at the full capability of what is there.
That kind of rationalization and twisting of the use of the word "addiction" is both deceptive, and counter productive to any discussion on marijuana use. By using that definition, you must acknowledge that "addiction" is not a bad thing, and is often a really good thing. (e.g. I am addicted to living a healthy lifestyle, I am addicted to being happy, I am addicted to being a good parent.)
When discussing marijuana "addiction", there is a clear attempt to imply an addiction to chemicals a drug which is bad, while, when being called out on the myth, declaring it to mean an addiction to chemicals that your body produces when you are happy which is not bad.
As someone else pointed out, it is entirely possible that sitting around doing nothing all day will lower IQ, and so marijuana's role may just be in discouraging teenagers from participating in activities that maintain or increase their IQ.
I have always heavily suspected that this is the single biggest issue with "marijuana making you dumb". We see the same kinds of effects with people who have other, non-intellectual hobbies that they over indulge in. (sleeping, reading romance novels, playing sports, etc..., etc..., etc...) I'm pretty sure that we have some strong evidence that mental stimulation makes people smarter than they would be without it.
Not a great example. Anti-tobacco "warnings" are a perfect example of propaganda. Every one of these is classic propaganda in the "Think of the Children!!!" format. The first two are even factually incorrect, while all three lie through omission by not mentioning that cigarette smoke is a minute fraction of the pollution this children will inhale, and that the people who made that commercial pumped more pollution into the air driving to the shoot via their cars than a smoker puts in the air from smoking a cigarette.
Or you could pay $0.50 and get a pair of earplugs so that you can have your quite and they can have their conversations instead of you trying to demand that every other person in society bend their behavior to your whim.
The worst this could be called is a pork barrel project by those that are skeptical of the AGW claims. I would be one of those that is skeptical, given the amount of money to be made on both sides, and the politics involved with that. That being said, if CO2 is causing AGW, this sounds like a sensible plan. If it isn't causing AGW, then certainly sequestering as much as has been released in the last 200 years isn't going to do any harm. If it turns out that CO2 is causing AGW and we sequester too much and overshoot into too cold of temperatures, then the effects could be reversed by simply melting the solid CO2.
Your example shows how the management was at least partially to blame. The memo that said not to use apostrophes in patient names shows that they were completely aware that there was a problem. Even someone who does not code would know that trimming out the apostrophes would not be a major undertaking. If they asked for this, and were willing to pay for it, it most certainly could have been fixed. The customer WANTED the cost/quality that they were buying. Negligence would be at least as much with the customer for using software that they fully knew was buggy.
In the door example, there are no doors that are adequate for keeping a determined thief out. The vast majority would not hold up to a firm kick. Even security doors are useless. The last home I had with a steel security door I got locked out of. All it took was grabbing the bar at the middle of the door and pulling hard to get the door to flex enough let the door pop open.
In the end, no engineering project on the planet is held to the standards that are being suggested. Not building. Not bridges. Not doors.
Even worse is that software is held to a standard that no other engineering field gets held to. That bridge need only function well enough not to completely collapse. Software gets racked over the coals if it has the smallest crack that gets exploited by teams of highly skilled criminals working full time to break the code.
Calling the stick shift (which is 100% unnecessary as a control) part of the controls of the car to give it a free pass is not a valid argument. Putting the shifter into an app on the phone would make the phone part of the cars controls also, but it would increase the danger, not reduce it. The same is true for the stick shift. Being "part of the controls" doesn't remove it as a distraction.
You also seem to be confused about what an ad hominem attack is. I didn't say you were wrong because your argument was stupid. I repeated your argument, and you considered that attack on your person. You could accuse me of exaggerating your claim, but it is your claim none the less.
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Tasker, On{X}, Locale... There are at least 2 or 3 other ones that I can't remember the name of. This is not only an application that has been done before, it is an entire genre of applications.
You are attributing far to much logic to the general public. Most people actually believe that they get a free phone every years.
Since the event reported on happening on Aug. 29, you are simply wrong.
Comparing the two is not better than going full Godwin.
Really? You really can't understand why nerds would want to know what kind of processor a major technology provider uses? You don't consider it newsworthy unless there is a scandal? I find this new very interesting. If one want to know about blow jobs, there are much better sites than Slashdot.
You forgot about genetics. People easily accept that human genetic variance can make people have completely different colored skin, different heights, that it can lead to different shaped blood cells, but the idea that it could lead to different efficiencies in the digestion of sugars and fats is taboo.
I am in the same boat. I actually gain weight if I don't have enough fat in my diet. I can lose weight on a 2000 calorie a day diet of burgers. Then turn around and gain it back on a 1300 calorie a day diet of fruit, vegetables and whole grain bread.
When it comes to weight management, our medical industry is completely full of crap.
Thinking that it is a race issue is in your head. Most people do not identify Samsung as being from a different race.
Male circumcision and "female circumcision" have nothing to do with each other, so I don't see how you can say "I'm not sure that FGM and male circumcision are comparable."
First, parents make all sorts of health decisions for their children that will effect those children for the rest of their lives. Immunizations are a very good example of this. It is silly to suggest that parents not do this.
If you want to get offended about cutting into children's flesh, maybe you should look at ear piercing first. While circumcision has medical benefits, childhood ear piercing is poking holes in children strictly for cosmetic reasons.
all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
"male circumcision" has medical reasons so even if you don't take into account the fact that you are talking about different body parts, what is being done to boys would not meet that criteria.
Whether you are for or against male circumcision, it is invalid to compare it to female circumcision.
http://www.frys.com/product/6992727?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG $90 for 16GB is hardly "too high to be practical". I also question many peoples claims on memory usage. My kid will load half a dozen tabs and leave them running for days at a time with no problems. Pages loaded with Flash no less, and he doesn't have the problems. My suspicion is that there is some specific, semi-common use case that leaks memory. Something like running some plugin that leaks memory.
You mean like the ever growing list of items you get carded for when you go to the hardware store?
Disclaimer: I am pulling this out of my ass.
I could conceive of pathway along the lines of an addiction to sugar causing a person to offset their protein and fat intake in favor of sugar intake. This could lead to the brain having less raw materials for actual construction even though it has plenty energy to work at the full capability of what is there.
Or football.
That kind of rationalization and twisting of the use of the word "addiction" is both deceptive, and counter productive to any discussion on marijuana use. By using that definition, you must acknowledge that "addiction" is not a bad thing, and is often a really good thing. (e.g. I am addicted to living a healthy lifestyle, I am addicted to being happy, I am addicted to being a good parent.)
When discussing marijuana "addiction", there is a clear attempt to imply an addiction to chemicals a drug which is bad, while, when being called out on the myth, declaring it to mean an addiction to chemicals that your body produces when you are happy which is not bad.
As someone else pointed out, it is entirely possible that sitting around doing nothing all day will lower IQ, and so marijuana's role may just be in discouraging teenagers from participating in activities that maintain or increase their IQ.
I have always heavily suspected that this is the single biggest issue with "marijuana making you dumb". We see the same kinds of effects with people who have other, non-intellectual hobbies that they over indulge in. (sleeping, reading romance novels, playing sports, etc..., etc..., etc...) I'm pretty sure that we have some strong evidence that mental stimulation makes people smarter than they would be without it.
Not a great example. Anti-tobacco "warnings" are a perfect example of propaganda. Every one of these is classic propaganda in the "Think of the Children!!!" format. The first two are even factually incorrect, while all three lie through omission by not mentioning that cigarette smoke is a minute fraction of the pollution this children will inhale, and that the people who made that commercial pumped more pollution into the air driving to the shoot via their cars than a smoker puts in the air from smoking a cigarette.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtgqy-iEpl4&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtgqy-iEpl4&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HCguD6xQNQ&feature=relmfu
Or you could pay $0.50 and get a pair of earplugs so that you can have your quite and they can have their conversations instead of you trying to demand that every other person in society bend their behavior to your whim.
A good deal of people don't even understand that turning off the screen and turning off the device are not the same thing.
That is what Sean Connery in a flying head is for.
The worst this could be called is a pork barrel project by those that are skeptical of the AGW claims. I would be one of those that is skeptical, given the amount of money to be made on both sides, and the politics involved with that. That being said, if CO2 is causing AGW, this sounds like a sensible plan. If it isn't causing AGW, then certainly sequestering as much as has been released in the last 200 years isn't going to do any harm. If it turns out that CO2 is causing AGW and we sequester too much and overshoot into too cold of temperatures, then the effects could be reversed by simply melting the solid CO2.
Your example shows how the management was at least partially to blame. The memo that said not to use apostrophes in patient names shows that they were completely aware that there was a problem. Even someone who does not code would know that trimming out the apostrophes would not be a major undertaking. If they asked for this, and were willing to pay for it, it most certainly could have been fixed. The customer WANTED the cost/quality that they were buying. Negligence would be at least as much with the customer for using software that they fully knew was buggy.
In the door example, there are no doors that are adequate for keeping a determined thief out. The vast majority would not hold up to a firm kick. Even security doors are useless. The last home I had with a steel security door I got locked out of. All it took was grabbing the bar at the middle of the door and pulling hard to get the door to flex enough let the door pop open.
In the end, no engineering project on the planet is held to the standards that are being suggested. Not building. Not bridges. Not doors.
Even worse is that software is held to a standard that no other engineering field gets held to. That bridge need only function well enough not to completely collapse. Software gets racked over the coals if it has the smallest crack that gets exploited by teams of highly skilled criminals working full time to break the code.
Calling the stick shift (which is 100% unnecessary as a control) part of the controls of the car to give it a free pass is not a valid argument. Putting the shifter into an app on the phone would make the phone part of the cars controls also, but it would increase the danger, not reduce it. The same is true for the stick shift. Being "part of the controls" doesn't remove it as a distraction.
You also seem to be confused about what an ad hominem attack is. I didn't say you were wrong because your argument was stupid. I repeated your argument, and you considered that attack on your person. You could accuse me of exaggerating your claim, but it is your claim none the less.