The concepts that corporations are people, that corporations need not serve the public good, and that software patents are a good thing are all really bad ideas.
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because they have problems regulating their blood sugars, get improper responses from their intake of food indicating they're not full yet, and think that reducing caloric intake in one area means you can gorge in another.
But, studies show that the main contributing factor to overweight school children is whether or not they drink sodas in the first place. Those who drink non-carbonated beverages (fruit juices or water) frequently have fewer problems.
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- incorrect restatement of my reply to someone who asked:...can I eat fat people... - reworded so it appears I said: Yeah, but you'll develop... Mad Cow Disease... - to which someone said: What the hell, Mr. Insensitive? What are you trying to say?
Someone asked what would happen if they ate obese people.
I replied that eating people - could result in prions (protein-like substances) in your brain eating away at it, the human form of Mad Cow Disease.
To quote Willy Wonka:
Everything in this room is edible, children. Except the people, of course. Eating people is what we call cannibalism, children, and society frowns upon that.
I'd be far more concerned with the prions getting into your brain from eating people than I would be from any virii surviving your intestinal process and causing you to become fat, although a good scientific study would have to be done to see if this virus would actually survive such a process.
Personally, I think a few White House staffers could volunteer for the study, to help us prove whether or not this is a risk. We would have to exclude the President of course - there may be some question as to whether or not he already has eaten prion-infected meat given his behavior.
The new LCD laptop screens use way less energy than the old ones did, and the monitor is about half the power draw of the box.
And my new laptop, 2.6GHz AMD 2600, uses way less power than my old 333 MHz Intel chip computer ever did, and since I run it off green electricity made from wind farms (yes, I pay for that, it's cheaper than oil or gas power), I create FEWER emissions.
Some of our old biochem labs used to get toasty warm from our racks of PCs, but since we swapped out the monitors and got more RAM in machines, we find we have to lower the cooling requirements, cause we don't generate half as much heat.
My son (now 14) and I just find ourselves playing those every so often.
Looking forward to the new console versions of Sims 2 which appear to be a good blend of Sims 2 (console) and Sims: The Urbz. Must have tats! Must unlock areas! Must surf waves and save the downtrodden geeks being bullied!
And Animal Crossing - must have about 10 memory cards filled with characters for that - there's just something that draws you back in.
If you were a capitalist, like me, you'd have read the news in the Wall Street Journal of a major shareholder forcing GM to kill off the Hummer line.
until Ford, GM, et al grok that the world has changed, and the market realities of $80 and $90 bbl oil (as Davos was discussing), they'll keep bleeding red ink and overpaying their execs.
The main problem is that people fail to grok that Global Warming, while it indeed implies the increase in global mean temperatures, the melting of the ice caps (see Canada's new PM sending Canadian ice breakers to protect their new summer trade route thru the formerly impassable Arctic Ice Cap that Canada owns, giving Bush an abrupt change from Yea-They-Won to Uh-What-Happened), and indeed the expansion of Malaria (which kills about 2.5 million kids every year worldwide and infects many more) to North America - does not just mean warming.
When the balance is shifted, it can lead to sudden massive temperature and climate shifts on the order of 10 degrees Celsius (that's 22 degrees F, for Yanks) within a period of LESS than 10 years.
And while it heats up, if it turns off certain ocean escalator currents, that could mean Europe freezing while North Africa turns into verdant grasslands with monsoons.
But, hey, stick your heads in the sands, that sure worked well. Meanwhile, the South Polar region and North Polar region are melting so fast we have songbirds from Washington State showing up in Alaska and Northern Canadian territories.
If I fully cook it, can I eat fat people without getting fat?
Yeah, but you'll develop the human version of Mad Cow Disease, from all the nice prions eating away your brain.
So I wouldn't risk it.
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If people would just get more exercise - moderate exercise, equal to taking the stairs instead of the elevator (if less than 8 floors) whenever possible, they'd lose a lot more weight.
Diets, to be frank, don't really work, statistically. They just reset your body clock to try to regain the fat and you're grumpy. Drinking more water, getting more exercise - and most important, getting enough sleep - will do more to help you lose weight (or change it into more pleasing more compact muscle) than anything else.
I think the problem here isn't more women in tech - it is a liberal hatred of men and women. They try to make men act more feminine, and try to make women act more masculine rather than just accepting that men and women are different, should be different, and complement each other rather than compete with each other.
Last time I checked most of the obviously non-masculine men were anti-liberal politicos. Or haven't you been paying attention?
And the stereotypes of liberal hatred of people being who they are are just that: stereotypes.
I've met a lot of young women scientists (with PhDs or on their way to getting them) who first decided to become scientists because of an anime program which depicted scientists (many from Japan, China, or S. Korea), a sci-fi film (yes, Godzilla), or a woman scientist on a Mexican soap opera.
Whatever works.
But standard soap operas seem mostly a waste of time. They'd be better off providing free scientific advisors and female scientist mentors to whatever happens to be popular - especially to programming for kids.
1) pls. define "force of good" then. Obviously I must be misinterpreting. Jobs is good at convincing people that turtlenecks are fashionable. That man has charisma which could be put to better use.
Well, as I was saying, having met all three, complaining about Jobs lack of charisma usage is particularly ironic, considering both Allen and Gates aren't exactly champions at that either.
2) If Paul Allen's charitable contributions to medical research is of effect, greater significance, then I'd assume *you* would've stated them instead of his sports and film contributions (which imo, has far less significance) in the parent post. So it seemed to me that *you value* Allen's contribution to film and sports to be greater than Gate's monetary contribution to medical research.
I said relative level to their wealth. And on a personal (not societal) level, I think Gates would win in where he's focussed his wealth - but again, all the other taxpayers in America get to pay for the fact his charitable donation to his foundation exempted it from being taxed - if that money had been collected as taxes, maybe we would have used it for good and fully funded those areas... oh, wait, Bush... never mind.
It is unfortunate and sad that at the end of the day we measure a man's worth by his wealth, but that is the sad pragmatic reality. I still think Andrew Carnegie is a big ass, but look at CMU - that university is making great contributions to the academic world in the long run.
You may choose to do so. Since I posted it, I choose not to. I've known a number of millionaires and billionaires in my time, and most of them are fairly messed up as people. If you want to say popular choice rules - fine, but we were talking moral absolutes of goodness, so that means you've already conceded defeat on this issue.
And Hitler? C'mon, you know better than invoke Hitler in online arguments;). As for films/ intellectual stimulation...maybe I live in a hole but when was the last time [independent] films changed public perception of things or start a movement towards a common cause? I wish it could but the majority of people dismiss it as niche novelty entertainment.
Oh, I don't know. Let's see: The Corporation, March of the Penguins (suddenly global warming was meaningful), The Matrix (globalist control by faceless greed that masks evil), the list goes on, especially in the last two years. And there's always 9-11.
1) jesus is also a force for good. Very intangible quality, imo.
Answer: A. He's dead. B. Most people using his name cause more harm than good. C. Those people who follow his actual teachings are not normally going to get rich in the first place. D. If you don't get A thru C then you don't know Jesus.
2) While helping out money-hungry industry like independent film and [shitty] actors like Adam Sandler may seem commendable, saving lives by researching/curing diseases is far more important.
Answer: Actually, Paul Allen does finance research on a number of diseases, he just doesn't do as many press releases about it. Now, if you want to argue that forcing sports stadii on taxpayers for his own personal gratification makes him more evil than Bill G, you might have a point there, but I'm trying to judge the man on a relative scale, not an absolute scale (which measures the quantity of money spent, not the proportion of money spent).
Saving life > entertainment or "intellectual" stimulation.
So, if I were to save Hitler or not save GWB's father, would that be good and bad in your scale? I'm not so sure. As to intellectual stimulation, who's to say which has more impact - providing the push that gets someone who's probably shy to do something might create more good than rewarding individuals who were already going to do things. I can't judge that - is a teacher worth more in your view than a CEO? I think the teacher is, and in general most CEOs are not on the side of good, but the media portrays more images of the CEO in a good light.
Which is right? Can't tell you.
So Gates > Paul > Jobs.
Nope. I still say Jobs > Allen > Gates. But if you add Bill Gates Sr (his dad), I'd rerank it as Jobs > Gates Sr > Allen > Gates Jr.
Your mileage may vary (especially if you're driving a hybrid truck that gets 9 mpg instead of 7 mpg, you wonderful person you...)
The head of Bill Gates Charity is Mr. Gates ie Billy's father.
Now, Bill Gates Sr. - he is definitely a hero.
Look at the work he's done in Responsible Wealth, a group I joined, which points out the effective tax rate for most millionaires is aroud 10 to 12 percent whereas billionaires tend to pay 8 to 10 percent, and corporations mostly (two-thirds) pay no tax at all or get federal "refunds" so that we pay them.
But we were talking Bill Gates, Microsoft Visionary. He's a different person.
No, my personal opinion is it should be Jobs, then Allen, then Gates.
One's charitable impact does not correlate with one's level of being a hero.
One of my heros is my old commander, Colonel (Ret.) Lois E. Hadden, who when she retired was the highest ranking female Army officer who had risen through the ranks in the Canadian Armed Forces. She's probably never had much of an impact outside of the military. Another one is the guy who taught me everything I know about administration, one of the most highly decorated Nissei soldiers, MWO (Ret.) D. Yamani, who had more medals for combat bravery than anyone I've ever met but is a really unassuming guy with a great sense of humor who had seen it all but unless you saw him in full dress S3 uniform you'd never realize was that kind of guy. His family were in the concentration camps in Canada while he fought the Japanese - and they didn't tend to give medals if you were Japanese ancestry in the Canadian Army during that war.
But, hey, you can pay attention to the shiny baubles and overflowing press releases if you want to. I pay attention to what I know of them personally and how they acted when other people weren't watching or making a public spectacle of it.
So Bill Gates donates $20m to some charity, that's approx.6% of his total net worth (as in less than 1%) I donate $100 which at any given time is about 2.1% of my total net worth. Who has sacrificed more for the good of humanity??
Good point. For example, let's say someone like me takes a job for half the pay working on Alzheimers research instead of at Microsoft - the hours are similar, but you're doing good for the world. Now, techically, is the fact I'm working in scientific research of greater good?
On the other hand, Bill G has donated more than 60 percent of his stock holdings in MSFT to the Gates Foundation, which is spending it on funding research and actual solutions that are ten times what the federal government spends on foreign aid (which is about 0.1 percent of our federal spending, not the 10 percent many people mistakenly believe).
But, and this is important to remember, he gets a tax writeoff as a charitable donation for doing this, so effectively everyone else is paying for his donations (we pay the taxes, rich people in general pay less than 10 percent of income, while poor people pay 30-40 percent and middle class is something like 30-50 percent, when you add up fed/state/county/local taxes actually paid).
I've met them all, and Steve is more of a force for good, Paul is into sports (the SF stuff is fine) and helps out with the local Seattle International Film Festival by donating the use of his fantastic film theater Cinerama for a couple of weeks each year and bringing in some neat directors and actors like Adam Sandler, and Bill is spending ten times what the feds are on actual research and solutions for real problems impacting the world like malaria etc.
More than 60 percent of Nintendo DS and Gameboy users are female, many are women in the 25-65 range, and many are kids. Having a smaller form version is a good idea.
So long as it plays Nintendogs (we just got the Chihuhua edition (ok, i can't spel gud)), it's fine by me.
My question is, when will Nintendodogpound come out for the Nintendo Revolution, so we can have a bunch of Nintendogs owners in the same house take all their Nintendogs to the dog park or go to a dog show with four or more Nintendog owners?
Just remember to turn the sound level down if you do that...
The interesting thing is that you can have medical research studies where we have a federal mandate (not George/Dick action, this means we have to do it) to use paper forms.
So, when we have a requirement to keep the data on such forms, we could courier it, but then confidentiality and other issues come into play. It's easier to have a hand off of the physical forms from one person (the clinician or someone on the clinical staff) to another (the researcher or someone on the research staff).
Now, a lot of times, the data has been masked in such a way that you shouldn't be able to figure out who it is: e.g. PatientID is in a table we make, VisitID is the same, we only record Month and Year instead of a full birthdate, there's no name on it, we do record gender, but if the research project or medical form includes certain data (patient U5036 (fake ID) reports he was born FEB 1935, spouse U5036A reports she was born MAR 1935, married DEC 1955, reports accident JAN 1998 (details)) - well, if you were patient and good at searching, you could probably reconstruct who it was, with access to public records).
So, just because it's patient records is not the problem - the problem is it included credit card, medical insurance policy/carrier, birthdate, SSN data that makes it useful for fraud.
Of course, because it is medical data on patients, there are blackmail risks, in that patients in confidence may report things they definitely do NOT want public information, such as say same-gender relationships of a sexual nature or some such.
The claims appear to cover the literary elements of a story involving an ambitious high school student who applies for entrance to MIT and prays to remain sleeping until the acceptance letter comes, which doesn't happen for another 30 years."
I claim prior art. I wrote a story, published in The GOT magazine at Simon Fraser University, about an ambitious high school student who applied for entrance to Grad School who prays to remain sleeping until the acceptance letter comes, as he lies in a cairn in the Quad.
So it sounds like this patent violates my prior copyright, since I sent in the requisite copyright registration to both the US Library of Congress and Canada's depository as well.
I'll be expecting a license fee of half of all the profits for none of the work, as always.
And, don't forget my codicil in my license, which states the publisher has to use the phrase "All Your Words Are Belong To Us." in the text of the story.
I had problems where the 1.1 patch still froze and left the Giant Creature on the mountain unable to interact, while I was still on the first island. Right before the evil god sets him on fire!
Which was annoying, in that there is then no way to get to the next level without that animation sequence.
Who is going to pay to set up a tower to give 20 people internet?
Good point, but then why is the world's largest wireless cloud in rural Oregon?
Seems to me that we should pay less attention to trying to tell people what they want and how they should all wear the latest fashion and use the latest $2000 laptop and more time in noticing that they are buying hybrid cars instead of SUVs, buying $500 laptops with Linux or BSD instead of $2000 laptops, and maybe they want to install high-speed wireless in rural areas because when you're driving the truck, combine, baler, or other farm machine around your giant farm you find it kind of hard to get near a land line and short-range wireless.
If people ignored the elitist cruft we get from the supposed Elites more often, the world would be a better place, and we wouldn't be wasting all that money in foreign wars for no reason.
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No, but that would be a good thing, IMHO.
The concepts that corporations are people, that corporations need not serve the public good, and that software patents are a good thing are all really bad ideas.
We should ditch them and start over.
make it so it works on Linux.
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I so miss Abort Retry Ignore
because they have problems regulating their blood sugars, get improper responses from their intake of food indicating they're not full yet, and think that reducing caloric intake in one area means you can gorge in another.
But, studies show that the main contributing factor to overweight school children is whether or not they drink sodas in the first place. Those who drink non-carbonated beverages (fruit juices or water) frequently have fewer problems.
- incorrect restatement of my reply to someone who asked: ...can I eat fat people... ... Mad Cow Disease...
- reworded so it appears I said:
Yeah, but you'll develop
- to which someone said:
What the hell, Mr. Insensitive? What are you trying to say?
Someone asked what would happen if they ate obese people.
I replied that eating people - could result in prions (protein-like substances) in your brain eating away at it, the human form of Mad Cow Disease.
To quote Willy Wonka:
Everything in this room is edible, children. Except the people, of course. Eating people is what we call cannibalism, children, and society frowns upon that.
I'd be far more concerned with the prions getting into your brain from eating people than I would be from any virii surviving your intestinal process and causing you to become fat, although a good scientific study would have to be done to see if this virus would actually survive such a process.
Personally, I think a few White House staffers could volunteer for the study, to help us prove whether or not this is a risk. We would have to exclude the President of course - there may be some question as to whether or not he already has eaten prion-infected meat given his behavior.
I agree, I still have active Diablo II characters - which means I must play them at least once a month - haven't played WOW though.
The new LCD laptop screens use way less energy than the old ones did, and the monitor is about half the power draw of the box.
And my new laptop, 2.6GHz AMD 2600, uses way less power than my old 333 MHz Intel chip computer ever did, and since I run it off green electricity made from wind farms (yes, I pay for that, it's cheaper than oil or gas power), I create FEWER emissions.
Some of our old biochem labs used to get toasty warm from our racks of PCs, but since we swapped out the monitors and got more RAM in machines, we find we have to lower the cooling requirements, cause we don't generate half as much heat.
seriously.
My son (now 14) and I just find ourselves playing those every so often.
Looking forward to the new console versions of Sims 2 which appear to be a good blend of Sims 2 (console) and Sims: The Urbz. Must have tats! Must unlock areas! Must surf waves and save the downtrodden geeks being bullied!
And Animal Crossing - must have about 10 memory cards filled with characters for that - there's just something that draws you back in.
If you were a capitalist, like me, you'd have read the news in the Wall Street Journal of a major shareholder forcing GM to kill off the Hummer line.
until Ford, GM, et al grok that the world has changed, and the market realities of $80 and $90 bbl oil (as Davos was discussing), they'll keep bleeding red ink and overpaying their execs.
The main problem is that people fail to grok that Global Warming, while it indeed implies the increase in global mean temperatures, the melting of the ice caps (see Canada's new PM sending Canadian ice breakers to protect their new summer trade route thru the formerly impassable Arctic Ice Cap that Canada owns, giving Bush an abrupt change from Yea-They-Won to Uh-What-Happened), and indeed the expansion of Malaria (which kills about 2.5 million kids every year worldwide and infects many more) to North America - does not just mean warming.
When the balance is shifted, it can lead to sudden massive temperature and climate shifts on the order of 10 degrees Celsius (that's 22 degrees F, for Yanks) within a period of LESS than 10 years.
And while it heats up, if it turns off certain ocean escalator currents, that could mean Europe freezing while North Africa turns into verdant grasslands with monsoons.
But, hey, stick your heads in the sands, that sure worked well. Meanwhile, the South Polar region and North Polar region are melting so fast we have songbirds from Washington State showing up in Alaska and Northern Canadian territories.
If I fully cook it, can I eat fat people without getting fat?
Yeah, but you'll develop the human version of Mad Cow Disease, from all the nice prions eating away your brain.
So I wouldn't risk it.
If people would just get more exercise - moderate exercise, equal to taking the stairs instead of the elevator (if less than 8 floors) whenever possible, they'd lose a lot more weight.
Diets, to be frank, don't really work, statistically. They just reset your body clock to try to regain the fat and you're grumpy. Drinking more water, getting more exercise - and most important, getting enough sleep - will do more to help you lose weight (or change it into more pleasing more compact muscle) than anything else.
I think the problem here isn't more women in tech - it is a liberal hatred of men and women. They try to make men act more feminine, and try to make women act more masculine rather than just accepting that men and women are different, should be different, and complement each other rather than compete with each other.
Last time I checked most of the obviously non-masculine men were anti-liberal politicos. Or haven't you been paying attention?
And the stereotypes of liberal hatred of people being who they are are just that: stereotypes.
or a Japanese Anime.
I've met a lot of young women scientists (with PhDs or on their way to getting them) who first decided to become scientists because of an anime program which depicted scientists (many from Japan, China, or S. Korea), a sci-fi film (yes, Godzilla), or a woman scientist on a Mexican soap opera.
Whatever works.
But standard soap operas seem mostly a waste of time. They'd be better off providing free scientific advisors and female scientist mentors to whatever happens to be popular - especially to programming for kids.
1) pls. define "force of good" then. Obviously I must be misinterpreting. Jobs is good at convincing people that turtlenecks are fashionable. That man has charisma which could be put to better use.
... oh, wait, Bush ... never mind.
;). As for films/ intellectual stimulation...maybe I live in a hole but when was the last time [independent] films changed public perception of things or start a movement towards a common cause? I wish it could but the majority of people dismiss it as niche novelty entertainment.
Well, as I was saying, having met all three, complaining about Jobs lack of charisma usage is particularly ironic, considering both Allen and Gates aren't exactly champions at that either.
2) If Paul Allen's charitable contributions to medical research is of effect, greater significance, then I'd assume *you* would've stated them instead of his sports and film contributions (which imo, has far less significance) in the parent post. So it seemed to me that *you value* Allen's contribution to film and sports to be greater than Gate's monetary contribution to medical research.
I said relative level to their wealth. And on a personal (not societal) level, I think Gates would win in where he's focussed his wealth - but again, all the other taxpayers in America get to pay for the fact his charitable donation to his foundation exempted it from being taxed - if that money had been collected as taxes, maybe we would have used it for good and fully funded those areas
It is unfortunate and sad that at the end of the day we measure a man's worth by his wealth, but that is the sad pragmatic reality. I still think Andrew Carnegie is a big ass, but look at CMU - that university is making great contributions to the academic world in the long run.
You may choose to do so. Since I posted it, I choose not to. I've known a number of millionaires and billionaires in my time, and most of them are fairly messed up as people. If you want to say popular choice rules - fine, but we were talking moral absolutes of goodness, so that means you've already conceded defeat on this issue.
And Hitler? C'mon, you know better than invoke Hitler in online arguments
Oh, I don't know. Let's see: The Corporation, March of the Penguins (suddenly global warming was meaningful), The Matrix (globalist control by faceless greed that masks evil), the list goes on, especially in the last two years. And there's always 9-11.
1) jesus is also a force for good. Very intangible quality, imo.
...)
Answer: A. He's dead. B. Most people using his name cause more harm than good. C. Those people who follow his actual teachings are not normally going to get rich in the first place. D. If you don't get A thru C then you don't know Jesus.
2) While helping out money-hungry industry like independent film and [shitty] actors like Adam Sandler may seem commendable, saving lives by researching/curing diseases is far more important.
Answer: Actually, Paul Allen does finance research on a number of diseases, he just doesn't do as many press releases about it. Now, if you want to argue that forcing sports stadii on taxpayers for his own personal gratification makes him more evil than Bill G, you might have a point there, but I'm trying to judge the man on a relative scale, not an absolute scale (which measures the quantity of money spent, not the proportion of money spent).
Saving life > entertainment or "intellectual" stimulation.
So, if I were to save Hitler or not save GWB's father, would that be good and bad in your scale? I'm not so sure. As to intellectual stimulation, who's to say which has more impact - providing the push that gets someone who's probably shy to do something might create more good than rewarding individuals who were already going to do things. I can't judge that - is a teacher worth more in your view than a CEO? I think the teacher is, and in general most CEOs are not on the side of good, but the media portrays more images of the CEO in a good light.
Which is right? Can't tell you.
So Gates > Paul > Jobs.
Nope. I still say Jobs > Allen > Gates. But if you add Bill Gates Sr (his dad), I'd rerank it as Jobs > Gates Sr > Allen > Gates Jr.
Your mileage may vary (especially if you're driving a hybrid truck that gets 9 mpg instead of 7 mpg, you wonderful person you
The head of Bill Gates Charity is Mr. Gates ie Billy's father.
Now, Bill Gates Sr. - he is definitely a hero.
Look at the work he's done in Responsible Wealth, a group I joined, which points out the effective tax rate for most millionaires is aroud 10 to 12 percent whereas billionaires tend to pay 8 to 10 percent, and corporations mostly (two-thirds) pay no tax at all or get federal "refunds" so that we pay them.
But we were talking Bill Gates, Microsoft Visionary. He's a different person.
No, my personal opinion is it should be Jobs, then Allen, then Gates.
One's charitable impact does not correlate with one's level of being a hero.
One of my heros is my old commander, Colonel (Ret.) Lois E. Hadden, who when she retired was the highest ranking female Army officer who had risen through the ranks in the Canadian Armed Forces. She's probably never had much of an impact outside of the military. Another one is the guy who taught me everything I know about administration, one of the most highly decorated Nissei soldiers, MWO (Ret.) D. Yamani, who had more medals for combat bravery than anyone I've ever met but is a really unassuming guy with a great sense of humor who had seen it all but unless you saw him in full dress S3 uniform you'd never realize was that kind of guy. His family were in the concentration camps in Canada while he fought the Japanese - and they didn't tend to give medals if you were Japanese ancestry in the Canadian Army during that war.
But, hey, you can pay attention to the shiny baubles and overflowing press releases if you want to. I pay attention to what I know of them personally and how they acted when other people weren't watching or making a public spectacle of it.
So Bill Gates donates $20m to some charity, that's approx .6% of his total net worth (as in less than 1%) I donate $100 which at any given time is about 2.1% of my total net worth. Who has sacrificed more for the good of humanity??
Good point. For example, let's say someone like me takes a job for half the pay working on Alzheimers research instead of at Microsoft - the hours are similar, but you're doing good for the world. Now, techically, is the fact I'm working in scientific research of greater good?
On the other hand, Bill G has donated more than 60 percent of his stock holdings in MSFT to the Gates Foundation, which is spending it on funding research and actual solutions that are ten times what the federal government spends on foreign aid (which is about 0.1 percent of our federal spending, not the 10 percent many people mistakenly believe).
But, and this is important to remember, he gets a tax writeoff as a charitable donation for doing this, so effectively everyone else is paying for his donations (we pay the taxes, rich people in general pay less than 10 percent of income, while poor people pay 30-40 percent and middle class is something like 30-50 percent, when you add up fed/state/county/local taxes actually paid).
I've met them all, and Steve is more of a force for good, Paul is into sports (the SF stuff is fine) and helps out with the local Seattle International Film Festival by donating the use of his fantastic film theater Cinerama for a couple of weeks each year and bringing in some neat directors and actors like Adam Sandler, and Bill is spending ten times what the feds are on actual research and solutions for real problems impacting the world like malaria etc.
But that's my personal opinion.
More than 60 percent of Nintendo DS and Gameboy users are female, many are women in the 25-65 range, and many are kids. Having a smaller form version is a good idea.
...
So long as it plays Nintendogs (we just got the Chihuhua edition (ok, i can't spel gud)), it's fine by me.
My question is, when will Nintendodogpound come out for the Nintendo Revolution, so we can have a bunch of Nintendogs owners in the same house take all their Nintendogs to the dog park or go to a dog show with four or more Nintendog owners?
Just remember to turn the sound level down if you do that
The interesting thing is that you can have medical research studies where we have a federal mandate (not George/Dick action, this means we have to do it) to use paper forms.
So, when we have a requirement to keep the data on such forms, we could courier it, but then confidentiality and other issues come into play. It's easier to have a hand off of the physical forms from one person (the clinician or someone on the clinical staff) to another (the researcher or someone on the research staff).
Now, a lot of times, the data has been masked in such a way that you shouldn't be able to figure out who it is: e.g. PatientID is in a table we make, VisitID is the same, we only record Month and Year instead of a full birthdate, there's no name on it, we do record gender, but if the research project or medical form includes certain data (patient U5036 (fake ID) reports he was born FEB 1935, spouse U5036A reports she was born MAR 1935, married DEC 1955, reports accident JAN 1998 (details)) - well, if you were patient and good at searching, you could probably reconstruct who it was, with access to public records).
So, just because it's patient records is not the problem - the problem is it included credit card, medical insurance policy/carrier, birthdate, SSN data that makes it useful for fraud.
Of course, because it is medical data on patients, there are blackmail risks, in that patients in confidence may report things they definitely do NOT want public information, such as say same-gender relationships of a sexual nature or some such.
the new SEQUEL to Katamari Damacy.
My 14yo just bought it for his best friend (who has a PS2) - we have a GameCube and an xBox, so we can't use it.
The claims appear to cover the literary elements of a story involving an ambitious high school student who applies for entrance to MIT and prays to remain sleeping until the acceptance letter comes, which doesn't happen for another 30 years."
I claim prior art. I wrote a story, published in The GOT magazine at Simon Fraser University, about an ambitious high school student who applied for entrance to Grad School who prays to remain sleeping until the acceptance letter comes, as he lies in a cairn in the Quad.
So it sounds like this patent violates my prior copyright, since I sent in the requisite copyright registration to both the US Library of Congress and Canada's depository as well.
I'll be expecting a license fee of half of all the profits for none of the work, as always.
And, don't forget my codicil in my license, which states the publisher has to use the phrase "All Your Words Are Belong To Us." in the text of the story.
I had problems where the 1.1 patch still froze and left the Giant Creature on the mountain unable to interact, while I was still on the first island. Right before the evil god sets him on fire!
Which was annoying, in that there is then no way to get to the next level without that animation sequence.
Who is going to pay to set up a tower to give 20 people internet?
Good point, but then why is the world's largest wireless cloud in rural Oregon?
Seems to me that we should pay less attention to trying to tell people what they want and how they should all wear the latest fashion and use the latest $2000 laptop and more time in noticing that they are buying hybrid cars instead of SUVs, buying $500 laptops with Linux or BSD instead of $2000 laptops, and maybe they want to install high-speed wireless in rural areas because when you're driving the truck, combine, baler, or other farm machine around your giant farm you find it kind of hard to get near a land line and short-range wireless.
If people ignored the elitist cruft we get from the supposed Elites more often, the world would be a better place, and we wouldn't be wasting all that money in foreign wars for no reason.