I only wish I had the mod points to give you for this one. However, there are is still a fairly wide variety of viruses that we aren't equiped to handle without vaccinations and the like, but all in all HIV is definitely a hell of a bastard. It stuns me to see the level of ignorance displayed regarding HIV at times. The treatment Ryan White recieved before his death was reprehensible due to ignorant shits. Testing of blood transfusions before that were basically unheard of. To this day I don't know if I am more disgusted by the homophobic bullshit or the mind boggling scientific ignorance that lead to the treatment he recieved.
Evidence suggests that there is no significant reduction in sensation. Then we also have things like this.
American Cancer Society Article as one of many medical related articles. None of the dissenting medical opinions even float the insane notion that it is genital mutilation and child abuse as many slashdotters seem to indicate. At most they say it shouldn't be done unless medically necessary. You know...for those times when that forskin causes erections to be painful and pretty much reduces sexual pleasure to a painful experience...
Funny...most doctors call circumcision a health related choice not genital mutilation or religious freedom. But hey, don't let the piles of medical evidince cloud your reality. The pain and risk of complications arising from circumcision go up with age as well. Circumcision is not even remotely in the same ballpark of cutting off the clitoris or sewing the vagina shut and regardless of your choice for or against it you should feel ashamed for even putting the two in the same category of things.
Some pain as a baby that you don't remember in exchange for a lifetime of reduced risk of infection and reduced chance of losing the whole damned thing to cancer later in life? Seems a pretty fair trade to me.
American English is 1.0. That nonsense the British use is a prerelease. We have just been removing bugs like not spelling color with a u. As Eddie Izzard pointed out "you spell through THRU, and I'm with you on that, 'cause we spell it "THRUFF," and that's trying to cheat at Scrabble."
Yeah! In fact, I actually enjoy paying full price for new purchases that are defective so I can take them home and fix them before being able to use them.
I would like to point out that even "ugh" sounds more intelligent than things like photog, blog, sexting, and much of the English 2.0 bullshit the Web 2.0 has brought us.
So...I guess you work for Cox?
Does working for Cox pay well?
Do you enjoy working for Cox?
Is it hard when you work for Cox?
Do you pull a lot of cables working for Cox?
Do you bury a lot of cables working for Cox?
AAAHAHAHAHA....Ok...to be fair here... I think Symantec's consumer offerings are total garbage, but I have not had anywhere near the same level of nightmare in dealing with their corporate products. But seriously...saying Microsoft became bloated in an effort to maintain compatability?! That is laughable at best. Hell, half of their 'backwards compatability' issues wouldn't even exist if they weren't constantly trying to make sure their newest software is incompatable with everything else.
Because I know all of these things already. I shudder and convulse every time some die hard right wingnut supporter echos the revisionist history of Fox news (amuzingly enough 'revisionist history' is a right wing pet term for blathering about them dirty liberals). Because every time I hear some idiot spout off their rhetoric about the situations that we have gotten ourselves into because we can't be bothered to do ANY research it makes me sick. The fact that the far right media can tell the most insane and unbelievable lies and then convince all their loyal followers that THEY are "fair and balanced" and telling the truth and that everyone else is part of the liberal media I want to cut their eyelids off and force them to read the entire contents of the history section of their local library.
Because I have accepted that the vast majority of people don't fucking get it and I would really like to stop living on the verge of a mental breakdown listening to these monkeys flapping gums. The only thing we can hope for is a leader that actually does have our best interests in mind to come along and use these same tactics to bring all of the little mindless masses into line behind them. Rational discourse does not work against fanatics of any bent and our nation is reaching the epitome of intellectual laziness on both sides and are becoming nothing more than fanatics of a different color.
Remembering that the engines are on fire and you are going to die in a horrible crash in the next few seconds won't bring the engines back...might as well spend your last moments before the big fireball forgetting it all and pretending you are partying with some supermodels or something.
And they have sued exactly how many companies for the use of all these patents? This is the same problem that came about because of nuclear weapons. You are forced to build more in case your enemies happen to build more than you, then everyone has to keep building until everyone has enough to destroy the world many times over. You say patenting other companies products, but if they really were other companies products wouldn't those companies have the patents first? Unless of course those other companies just cross licensed stuff for the use of those patents and Apple deemed their patents on those technologies more valuable as trading leverage rather than for building deliverable technology. Not that I defend this approach, I think it is a pretty horrid abuse of the system, but that is the way it is.
Now, I haven't read the actual patent on this, but it seems to be fairly legit. Apple is the first one to deliver the whole multitouch thing. The point of a patent is to reward the person who gets it done first with exclusive rights to it for a limited time. It makes innovation a race and encourages it. The only other thing even remotely similar I have seen is that godforsaken Microsoft Table video. When Microsoft actually manages to deliver a product that does what they claim it can do, let alone fancy vapor products that aren't even built yet...call me. No really...I would like to see it. When Apple announces their new fancy shmancy dodad they generally have on ready and waiting...when MS announces their fancy shmancy dodad you still generally have to wait 5 years until it is on the market in a usable state.
Seriously...is anyone upset that all traces of the George W. Bush Whitehouse vanished? I think most people can agree, American or not, that we would all like to forget that as much as possible.
It is also strangely appropriate given so much other information regarding George W. Bush and his activities have vanished as well...
Whoa whoa whoa now. You are right, they are like politics and religion, but what is this live with the difference nonsense? I demand beheadings, feeding to lions, torture, persecution, and inquisitions! Like politics and religion, the only REAL way to work out the differences is by killing the other side, after all God wouldn't let the wrong side win!
If you have a Monster account cancel it and leave a note in the "why are you canceling?" box. Don't make it some rant, but make sure you explain that you will not tolerate their incompetence, their unwillingness to take security of their users personal information seriously, and their total lack of integrity by trying to hide the breech from their users. Then explain that you will try to get everyone you know to cancel their account for their own security. Finding jobs is all about networking...so is taking down misbehaving companies.
Linus choosing to switch from KDE to Gnome is like Hitler changing his plan from deporting all the Jews to executing them. Both are horrible ideas, and only one of them is rationally implemented.
Welcome to reality... In this reality we have e-commerce, where more and more shopping/purchasing is done online. MANY companies are going to models where you download the software you purchased rather than buying the box. So...you are absolutely right...having a shopping mall application for free software like Synaptic could never possibly catch on. You can browse tons and tons of all your little software options, and try anything you want, all with no purchase! Yeah...there is no possible way that would catch on.
Its a slow moving dynamic, and I'm actually a little surprised they haven't pushed the whole GUI package manager thing a bit more in that regard, but it is indeed coming. There is a huge segment of the market that doesn't actually do anything Windows specific like games and whatnot with their PC. There are only a few things left that are trapped strictly in Windows land.
We already have those sites. Have you not watched MTV lately? Or pretty much any of those "tween" shows or magazines.
Aside from that, why the hell should we make it easy for the little brats? Everyone else had to sneak around when they were kids for this stuff, no sense in changing that now!
Actually it isn't hard to define. "wackaloon right winger" is pretty easy. They are the loud mouthed hypocritical arrogant assholes that spout of right wing propoganda lines like they are the damned Gospel. For comparison, the wackaloon left wingers do the same thing except with left wing propoganda crap.
Now...for evil right wing megacorps. Pretty simple again...The champions of doing business in areas where they can dump toxins or make use of nearly slave labor to lower business costs have been the Republican party. Now...go watch a few hours of TV and tell me how many of the products that you see were made in places like China in shitty conditions out of materials that were produced in India our South America by plants that can spew tremendous amounts of toxins in the air and water without anyone to stop them.
Not that the left wing is any better with their moronic carbon credit purchase program or shipping tons of food into starving countries under the guise of humanitarian aid. (Hint: Economics at play. Stupid farm subsidies cause overproduction of foodstuffs, these foodstuffs get dumped off for pennies on 3rd world nations as "aid" so that our economy doesn't suffer from the overproduction. In the mean time it undermines the local economy where the food goes because local farmers can never compete with cheap dumped food so the local warlord gets to control the land because the farmers are stuck living in squalor, everyone starts starving, and then increases the amount of excess foodstuff we can dump on them.)
So in a nutshell *winger isn't about people I disagree with. It is about the highly partisan politics and rhetoric rather than actually seeking REAL discussion and debate of existing problems. I will point out that an Eagle has two wings and the brain is in the center.
Speaking of drinking the koolaid. Why is it that wackaloon right wingers always insist on using "MSM"? I know enough of them to know that they are talking about the main stream media like it is some vast liberal conspiracy...but seriously...it isn't clever...it is actually pretty stupid. But hey, you go ahead and call me when that "MSM" stops running advertisements 24/7 for some of the most evil right wing run megacorps around and then we can talk about how much of an evil liberal conspiracy it is.
The thing that really drives me nuts is that for all of the complaints about personal information being readily available...Why the hell is that even a problem?! Now, the medical piece I understand is a different game, but just personal information in general. The REAL problem here is that I can gather up a few bits of your personal information and then other companies will start letting me open accounts in your name. The real solution would be to fix the problem of it being so simple to use trivial amounts of information to get away with this shit rather than try to protect the ocean of information being exposed.
Now, I do agree that on the IT end of things hospitals need to tighten up big time. Unfortunately, I think that is a trial by fire process. The various government institutions started locking down once the powers that be lost their asses or were otherwise shamed into finally listening to the IT security guys screaming bloody murder.
I'm guessing noone understood the rant, or noone is actually reading the whole thing, neither would surprise me.
If you played with yourself while you were under 18 you were molesting a child(yourself) and should be put in prison. You know...the same way the girls taking pictures of themselves were producing child pornography. Since most people HAVE played with themselves, especially while under the age of 18...that makes most people child molestors...
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I only wish I had the mod points to give you for this one. However, there are is still a fairly wide variety of viruses that we aren't equiped to handle without vaccinations and the like, but all in all HIV is definitely a hell of a bastard. It stuns me to see the level of ignorance displayed regarding HIV at times. The treatment Ryan White recieved before his death was reprehensible due to ignorant shits. Testing of blood transfusions before that were basically unheard of. To this day I don't know if I am more disgusted by the homophobic bullshit or the mind boggling scientific ignorance that lead to the treatment he recieved.
You do? May I inquire why?
You should also check your hompage/siglink, unless my DNS is fuckered again it is a parking page.
Evidence suggests that there is no significant reduction in sensation. Then we also have things like this. American Cancer Society Article as one of many medical related articles. None of the dissenting medical opinions even float the insane notion that it is genital mutilation and child abuse as many slashdotters seem to indicate. At most they say it shouldn't be done unless medically necessary. You know...for those times when that forskin causes erections to be painful and pretty much reduces sexual pleasure to a painful experience...
Sorry, just had to take the shot. This is /. afterall.
You have an good point, but you also have an bad grammar problem.
Funny...most doctors call circumcision a health related choice not genital mutilation or religious freedom. But hey, don't let the piles of medical evidince cloud your reality. The pain and risk of complications arising from circumcision go up with age as well. Circumcision is not even remotely in the same ballpark of cutting off the clitoris or sewing the vagina shut and regardless of your choice for or against it you should feel ashamed for even putting the two in the same category of things.
Some pain as a baby that you don't remember in exchange for a lifetime of reduced risk of infection and reduced chance of losing the whole damned thing to cancer later in life? Seems a pretty fair trade to me.
Wouldn't that actually be Dick in Jane?
American English is 1.0. That nonsense the British use is a prerelease. We have just been removing bugs like not spelling color with a u. As Eddie Izzard pointed out "you spell through THRU, and I'm with you on that, 'cause we spell it "THRUFF," and that's trying to cheat at Scrabble."
Yeah! In fact, I actually enjoy paying full price for new purchases that are defective so I can take them home and fix them before being able to use them.
I would like to point out that even "ugh" sounds more intelligent than things like photog, blog, sexting, and much of the English 2.0 bullshit the Web 2.0 has brought us.
My favorite lines...
So...I guess you work for Cox?
Does working for Cox pay well?
Do you enjoy working for Cox?
Is it hard when you work for Cox?
Do you pull a lot of cables working for Cox?
Do you bury a lot of cables working for Cox?
maintain compatibility
AAAHAHAHAHA....Ok...to be fair here... I think Symantec's consumer offerings are total garbage, but I have not had anywhere near the same level of nightmare in dealing with their corporate products. But seriously...saying Microsoft became bloated in an effort to maintain compatability?! That is laughable at best. Hell, half of their 'backwards compatability' issues wouldn't even exist if they weren't constantly trying to make sure their newest software is incompatable with everything else.
Oh really? George W. Bush - Born 1946
George Santayana - Dead 1952
Seems to me it only took 6 years of Bush before Santayana died and ol Dubya wasn't even in charge of anything yet!
Because I know all of these things already. I shudder and convulse every time some die hard right wingnut supporter echos the revisionist history of Fox news (amuzingly enough 'revisionist history' is a right wing pet term for blathering about them dirty liberals). Because every time I hear some idiot spout off their rhetoric about the situations that we have gotten ourselves into because we can't be bothered to do ANY research it makes me sick. The fact that the far right media can tell the most insane and unbelievable lies and then convince all their loyal followers that THEY are "fair and balanced" and telling the truth and that everyone else is part of the liberal media I want to cut their eyelids off and force them to read the entire contents of the history section of their local library.
Because I have accepted that the vast majority of people don't fucking get it and I would really like to stop living on the verge of a mental breakdown listening to these monkeys flapping gums. The only thing we can hope for is a leader that actually does have our best interests in mind to come along and use these same tactics to bring all of the little mindless masses into line behind them. Rational discourse does not work against fanatics of any bent and our nation is reaching the epitome of intellectual laziness on both sides and are becoming nothing more than fanatics of a different color.
Remembering that the engines are on fire and you are going to die in a horrible crash in the next few seconds won't bring the engines back...might as well spend your last moments before the big fireball forgetting it all and pretending you are partying with some supermodels or something.
And they have sued exactly how many companies for the use of all these patents? This is the same problem that came about because of nuclear weapons. You are forced to build more in case your enemies happen to build more than you, then everyone has to keep building until everyone has enough to destroy the world many times over. You say patenting other companies products, but if they really were other companies products wouldn't those companies have the patents first? Unless of course those other companies just cross licensed stuff for the use of those patents and Apple deemed their patents on those technologies more valuable as trading leverage rather than for building deliverable technology. Not that I defend this approach, I think it is a pretty horrid abuse of the system, but that is the way it is.
Now, I haven't read the actual patent on this, but it seems to be fairly legit. Apple is the first one to deliver the whole multitouch thing. The point of a patent is to reward the person who gets it done first with exclusive rights to it for a limited time. It makes innovation a race and encourages it. The only other thing even remotely similar I have seen is that godforsaken Microsoft Table video. When Microsoft actually manages to deliver a product that does what they claim it can do, let alone fancy vapor products that aren't even built yet...call me. No really...I would like to see it. When Apple announces their new fancy shmancy dodad they generally have on ready and waiting...when MS announces their fancy shmancy dodad you still generally have to wait 5 years until it is on the market in a usable state.
Seriously...is anyone upset that all traces of the George W. Bush Whitehouse vanished? I think most people can agree, American or not, that we would all like to forget that as much as possible.
It is also strangely appropriate given so much other information regarding George W. Bush and his activities have vanished as well...
Whoa whoa whoa now. You are right, they are like politics and religion, but what is this live with the difference nonsense? I demand beheadings, feeding to lions, torture, persecution, and inquisitions! Like politics and religion, the only REAL way to work out the differences is by killing the other side, after all God wouldn't let the wrong side win!
If you have a Monster account cancel it and leave a note in the "why are you canceling?" box. Don't make it some rant, but make sure you explain that you will not tolerate their incompetence, their unwillingness to take security of their users personal information seriously, and their total lack of integrity by trying to hide the breech from their users. Then explain that you will try to get everyone you know to cancel their account for their own security. Finding jobs is all about networking...so is taking down misbehaving companies.
Well then...
Linus choosing to switch from KDE to Gnome is like Hitler changing his plan from deporting all the Jews to executing them. Both are horrible ideas, and only one of them is rationally implemented.
Welcome to reality... In this reality we have e-commerce, where more and more shopping/purchasing is done online. MANY companies are going to models where you download the software you purchased rather than buying the box. So...you are absolutely right...having a shopping mall application for free software like Synaptic could never possibly catch on. You can browse tons and tons of all your little software options, and try anything you want, all with no purchase! Yeah...there is no possible way that would catch on.
Its a slow moving dynamic, and I'm actually a little surprised they haven't pushed the whole GUI package manager thing a bit more in that regard, but it is indeed coming. There is a huge segment of the market that doesn't actually do anything Windows specific like games and whatnot with their PC. There are only a few things left that are trapped strictly in Windows land.
We already have those sites. Have you not watched MTV lately? Or pretty much any of those "tween" shows or magazines.
Aside from that, why the hell should we make it easy for the little brats? Everyone else had to sneak around when they were kids for this stuff, no sense in changing that now!
Actually it isn't hard to define. "wackaloon right winger" is pretty easy. They are the loud mouthed hypocritical arrogant assholes that spout of right wing propoganda lines like they are the damned Gospel. For comparison, the wackaloon left wingers do the same thing except with left wing propoganda crap.
Now...for evil right wing megacorps. Pretty simple again...The champions of doing business in areas where they can dump toxins or make use of nearly slave labor to lower business costs have been the Republican party. Now...go watch a few hours of TV and tell me how many of the products that you see were made in places like China in shitty conditions out of materials that were produced in India our South America by plants that can spew tremendous amounts of toxins in the air and water without anyone to stop them.
Not that the left wing is any better with their moronic carbon credit purchase program or shipping tons of food into starving countries under the guise of humanitarian aid. (Hint: Economics at play. Stupid farm subsidies cause overproduction of foodstuffs, these foodstuffs get dumped off for pennies on 3rd world nations as "aid" so that our economy doesn't suffer from the overproduction. In the mean time it undermines the local economy where the food goes because local farmers can never compete with cheap dumped food so the local warlord gets to control the land because the farmers are stuck living in squalor, everyone starts starving, and then increases the amount of excess foodstuff we can dump on them.)
So in a nutshell *winger isn't about people I disagree with. It is about the highly partisan politics and rhetoric rather than actually seeking REAL discussion and debate of existing problems. I will point out that an Eagle has two wings and the brain is in the center.
Speaking of drinking the koolaid. Why is it that wackaloon right wingers always insist on using "MSM"? I know enough of them to know that they are talking about the main stream media like it is some vast liberal conspiracy...but seriously...it isn't clever...it is actually pretty stupid. But hey, you go ahead and call me when that "MSM" stops running advertisements 24/7 for some of the most evil right wing run megacorps around and then we can talk about how much of an evil liberal conspiracy it is.
The thing that really drives me nuts is that for all of the complaints about personal information being readily available...Why the hell is that even a problem?! Now, the medical piece I understand is a different game, but just personal information in general. The REAL problem here is that I can gather up a few bits of your personal information and then other companies will start letting me open accounts in your name. The real solution would be to fix the problem of it being so simple to use trivial amounts of information to get away with this shit rather than try to protect the ocean of information being exposed.
Now, I do agree that on the IT end of things hospitals need to tighten up big time. Unfortunately, I think that is a trial by fire process. The various government institutions started locking down once the powers that be lost their asses or were otherwise shamed into finally listening to the IT security guys screaming bloody murder.
I'm guessing noone understood the rant, or noone is actually reading the whole thing, neither would surprise me.
If you played with yourself while you were under 18 you were molesting a child(yourself) and should be put in prison. You know...the same way the girls taking pictures of themselves were producing child pornography. Since most people HAVE played with themselves, especially while under the age of 18...that makes most people child molestors...