sofar>"Medical procedures are insanely expensive and the equipment and medicine costs are through the roof."
For whom? For every patient, privately? Or to society as a whole, through taxes?
Because, (and I admit being influenced by the movie "Sicko" by Michael Moore here), I think you are talking about USA, a country I'm not familiar with and that is not where I live.
In other countries, there is public health, free for everyone. It is not perfect, (it is not pretty either, sometimes), but for some ailments the system works acceptably. For more severe diseases, I don't know, luckily I've never been there. There is also the option to improve medical coverage with pre-paid medical plans, but in no case you are left naked without any type of medicine service available.
But being that the most important medicine research labs are in the USA, (and europe, I guess), and they are swimming in riches, yes, in that case I agree with you, they should give back some of what they took.
no, for the rest of the world, 1,229,868,692,000,000 would be: one thousand and two hundred twenty nine billion, eight hundred sixty eight thousand and six hundred ninety two million fields.
First of all, there are some intermediate stages of "underdevelopment", it's not black-or-white, it has shades of gray: there are other options other than "big megalopolis where a population with obesity epidemics consume more gadgets than they need" and "living in a grass hut without electricity".
There are lots of children in Uruguay in a economic state you would call "lower middle class".
"My computer has never taught me anything just because it is on and running Linux or Window. It is the power to connect to the internet, download compilers and execute programs and do research online that has taught me"
well, try to imagine a much more motivated child that in lack of internet connection, starts to trade software in removable media with other children and adults. That is a whole wide world of learning, including new social contacts and interaction. It was that way before the internet, in the BBS era. A lot of people that are programmers today, started without internet, you know.
"redesign the town so crops can grow better".
Why do you think that crops solve anything? Do you even know if these kids are in a rural area? Why not in a hacinated "favela" like those in Brazil? You know, the millions of poor people that congregates around big cities? And why would they do with crops if they were in a rural area? I'm not saying that having good crops would'nt be good to a starving nation, but what about desertic nations? And why the most developed countries import their grain instead of "redesigning cities" to have better crops? Is it that they are better off if they industrialize or trade other values in this, the information era? crops? Why don't you suggest that poor people in New York are helped by giving them the chance to raise crops? please!
"If someone handed me the controls to a Nuclear Reactor I would not know how to use it"
You are underestimating the intelligence and desire to learn of any child. Give a child the controls to a Nuclear Reactor, they will have the desire to learn how they work, a powerful need that recedes when we become adults.
You are right, it was only an example, maybe poorly chosen. The kind of trait the mistaken documentaries and magazines discuss, is generally the sensations that come with love and infatuation.
Not long ago, in Discovery Channel, it was common to catch a bunch of programs stating things like "Why do we feel love?" and the answer was in the line of: "Because that way "nature" ensures the continuing of the species".
To wich I always think: first comes the misterious love, cause unknown, and then comes the consequence, the spreading of that trait through generations, causing more individuals of the species to have the same trait. randomly and entirely by chance.
this is one of the best short explanations of evolution I have bumped into so far.
RANDOM mutations. So, the way we are? we are that way just because. No explanation. We are how we are by chance.
That's why I get so upset when I read in popular magazines articles that state questions like "Why do men prefer larger breasts on their female partners?" followed by the erroneus answer: "because larger-breasted women were able to take care better of their children in the stone-age".
Wrong.
The correct answer would be: "I'ts a mystery, men that like large-breasted women like that by chance, because of random mutations in their ancestors that made them prefer big boobs instead of small. And that particular preference caused that .
Most nerd girls just want to be one of the guys (figuratively) and not have to worry about akward advances.
This is the most true thing said in the entire discussion. We just want to be treated like one more of the guys, we don't want to them to feel tense when we are around, or for them to change the way they are talking when a woman is present. That's nonsense.
But we don't want either to be treated seductively, nor sexually, nor romantically. To get involved in that kind of situations in a workplace, and what's worse, with what probably is a psychopathic man, is the kind of experience none of us want to live (again). When faced with men that permanently "hit" on us, or act seductively, even touching our hair, that's the kind of situation that could be stopped cold with an "I'm going to start to take measures about your harassment", and yes, maybe we are over sensitized by previous horrible experiences, so don't even try it.
You men, just don't know how is it to be a woman and endure whistles and shit when we are just walking down the street, starting at the age of 13.
So please, PLEASE, at work: treat us like you would treat a sister, or another guy, and there should be no problem. We don't want to be harassed, we want male friends.
uhhh, I will write FIGHT 10.000 times in a piece of paper so i have the HONOR of you speaking to me.
porque no me hablas en castellano vos si sos tan pija? a ver como es tu ortografia.
In DOOM and DOOM II you didn't need to aim to shoot at somone/something. You could make a level where only shotguns were available as weapons, and when playing deathmatch, long ineresting figths would develop.
I never really played a lot of more recent games like conter-strike, etc. But the few times I played, I was quickly bored by: "I'm walking in a big empty place. Oh, there's somone there... Oh, I must aim with a lot of precision to hit him. Oh, I died/killed him. Now I'm walking in a big empty place..." repeat to infinity.
give me a fast-paced, no-aim-necessary, long-and-lasting-figths doom II any day, no matter what the graphics look like.
- personalized emoticons. I like emoticons, that is the reason why i chose MSN and left ICQ.
- "see text as you type" like in of icq.
- "buddy pounces" like in gaim.
- A GOOD SEARCH ENGINE, to find new people to chat to, and to be found, by interests, location, user picture... (As I used IM to arrange dates lots of times.)
- default options that do not block a link in the text message, like icq had. You had to explaine to dumb users "please, change that preference in options so I can send you a link to my page..."
- to send a message that the user will get the next time he/she connects.
- multiprotocol.
- multiplatform.
Oh but we are still evolving.
Evolving does not mean "getting better" you know...
The results of our ethics of letting the weak survive, will show perhaps in, what? 100000 years? if we are still around? If we are, I think we will be very different phisically than what we are today...
This sounds like fidonet. There is no good equivalent in the internet of what it was. To have the same funcionalities, one should subscribe to various mailing lists, each one a topic, and every subscriber should be subscribed to all the other mailing lists too...
Slashdot Mirror
What's the rush? Getting a degree is a time/speed competition? The quicker the better? Don't think so.
sofar>"Medical procedures are insanely expensive and the equipment and medicine costs are through the roof."
For whom? For every patient, privately? Or to society as a whole, through taxes?
Because, (and I admit being influenced by the movie "Sicko" by Michael Moore here), I think you are talking about USA, a country I'm not familiar with and that is not where I live.
In other countries, there is public health, free for everyone. It is not perfect, (it is not pretty either, sometimes), but for some ailments the system works acceptably. For more severe diseases, I don't know, luckily I've never been there. There is also the option to improve medical coverage with pre-paid medical plans, but in no case you are left naked without any type of medicine service available.
But being that the most important medicine research labs are in the USA, (and europe, I guess), and they are swimming in riches, yes, in that case I agree with you, they should give back some of what they took.
jesus, i think you meant "sexist", right?
Like Sun with the Niagara Processor. That would be cool.
I told mi boyfriend to not post in my behalf on slashdot but he is a hacker, man, and did it anyway lol.
no, for the rest of the world, 1,229,868,692,000,000 would be:
one thousand and two hundred twenty nine billion, eight hundred sixty eight thousand and six hundred ninety two million fields.
He should go to Rio de Janeiro, just in case. Like Ronald Biggs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Biggs
First of all, there are some intermediate stages of "underdevelopment", it's not black-or-white, it has shades of gray: there are other options other than "big megalopolis where a population with obesity epidemics consume more gadgets than they need" and "living in a grass hut without electricity".
There are lots of children in Uruguay in a economic state you would call "lower middle class".
"My computer has never taught me anything just because it is on and running Linux or Window. It is the power to connect to the internet, download compilers and execute programs and do research online that has taught me"
well, try to imagine a much more motivated child that in lack of internet connection, starts to trade software in removable media with other children and adults. That is a whole wide world of learning, including new social contacts and interaction. It was that way before the internet, in the BBS era. A lot of people that are programmers today, started without internet, you know.
"redesign the town so crops can grow better".
Why do you think that crops solve anything? Do you even know if these kids are in a rural area? Why not in a hacinated "favela" like those in Brazil? You know, the millions of poor people that congregates around big cities? And why would they do with crops if they were in a rural area? I'm not saying that having good crops would'nt be good to a starving nation, but what about desertic nations? And why the most developed countries import their grain instead of "redesigning cities" to have better crops? Is it that they are better off if they industrialize or trade other values in this, the information era? crops? Why don't you suggest that poor people in New York are helped by giving them the chance to raise crops? please!
"If someone handed me the controls to a Nuclear Reactor I would not know how to use it"
You are underestimating the intelligence and desire to learn of any child. Give a child the controls to a Nuclear Reactor, they will have the desire to learn how they work, a powerful need that recedes when we become adults.
Netbus and Back-Oriffice also come to my mind...
You are right, it was only an example, maybe poorly chosen. The kind of trait the mistaken documentaries and magazines discuss, is generally the sensations that come with love and infatuation.
Not long ago, in Discovery Channel, it was common to catch a bunch of programs stating things like "Why do we feel love?" and the answer was in the line of: "Because that way "nature" ensures the continuing of the species".
To wich I always think: first comes the misterious love, cause unknown, and then comes the consequence, the spreading of that trait through generations, causing more individuals of the species to have the same trait. randomly and entirely by chance.
you mean... that in Soviet Russia superpowers gain you?
oops... AND I did hit preview...
the last sentence goes: "And that particular preference caused that -whatever evolutionary consequence it may had-".
mod parent up!
this is one of the best short explanations of evolution I have bumped into so far.
RANDOM mutations. So, the way we are? we are that way just because. No explanation. We are how we are by chance.
That's why I get so upset when I read in popular magazines articles that state questions like "Why do men prefer larger breasts on their female partners?" followed by the erroneus answer: "because larger-breasted women were able to take care better of their children in the stone-age".
Wrong.
The correct answer would be: "I'ts a mystery, men that like large-breasted women like that by chance, because of random mutations in their ancestors that made them prefer big boobs instead of small. And that particular preference caused that .
Yeah!
heh nope, we don't have it easy, when we want to build a relationship with a guy who also wants 3 or 4 other woman... ;)
Most nerd girls just want to be one of the guys (figuratively) and not have to worry about akward advances.
This is the most true thing said in the entire discussion. We just want to be treated like one more of the guys, we don't want to them to feel tense when we are around, or for them to change the way they are talking when a woman is present. That's nonsense.
But we don't want either to be treated seductively, nor sexually, nor romantically. To get involved in that kind of situations in a workplace, and what's worse, with what probably is a psychopathic man, is the kind of experience none of us want to live (again). When faced with men that permanently "hit" on us, or act seductively, even touching our hair, that's the kind of situation that could be stopped cold with an "I'm going to start to take measures about your harassment", and yes, maybe we are over sensitized by previous horrible experiences, so don't even try it.
You men, just don't know how is it to be a woman and endure whistles and shit when we are just walking down the street, starting at the age of 13.
So please, PLEASE, at work: treat us like you would treat a sister, or another guy, and there should be no problem. We don't want to be harassed, we want male friends.
And did it take any pictures of the place where humans landed in 1968? I would like to see that.
sharks on a plane!
uhhh, I will write FIGHT 10.000 times in a piece of paper so i have the HONOR of you speaking to me. porque no me hablas en castellano vos si sos tan pija? a ver como es tu ortografia.
In DOOM and DOOM II you didn't need to aim to shoot at somone/something. You could make a level where only shotguns were available as weapons, and when playing deathmatch, long ineresting figths would develop.
I never really played a lot of more recent games like conter-strike, etc. But the few times I played, I was quickly bored by: "I'm walking in a big empty place. Oh, there's somone there... Oh, I must aim with a lot of precision to hit him. Oh, I died/killed him. Now I'm walking in a big empty place..." repeat to infinity.
give me a fast-paced, no-aim-necessary, long-and-lasting-figths doom II any day, no matter what the graphics look like.
- personalized emoticons. I like emoticons, that is the reason why i chose MSN and left ICQ. - "see text as you type" like in of icq. - "buddy pounces" like in gaim. - A GOOD SEARCH ENGINE, to find new people to chat to, and to be found, by interests, location, user picture... (As I used IM to arrange dates lots of times.) - default options that do not block a link in the text message, like icq had. You had to explaine to dumb users "please, change that preference in options so I can send you a link to my page..." - to send a message that the user will get the next time he/she connects. - multiprotocol. - multiplatform.
Oh but we are still evolving. Evolving does not mean "getting better" you know... The results of our ethics of letting the weak survive, will show perhaps in, what? 100000 years? if we are still around? If we are, I think we will be very different phisically than what we are today...
This sounds like fidonet. There is no good equivalent in the internet of what it was. To have the same funcionalities, one should subscribe to various mailing lists, each one a topic, and every subscriber should be subscribed to all the other mailing lists too...
there was GoldED and timED too =)
glow throws a celery at AC for 15 points!