You're right. Our >60% cancer survival rate is worth nothing. If we all go to NHS, we can have a 40% chance of surviving. (Data is available straight from NHS website).
You do realize that if you get cancer of here and are paying for health insurance, you are 50% more likely to survive compared to if you were on NHS?
It feels just as slow. It's not just Gnome, it's slow in KDE and XFCE, too. It is currently faster to run Firefox.exe under Wine than it is to run it native in Linux. (Yes I have tried this, the difference is night and day; it's just as fast in Wine as it is in windows).
Not really, I'd encourage you to check them out again; since AMD bought them their drivers have been steadily improving. Used to be performance with games on ATI was hit or miss, but since the 3xxx generation it's been good across the board. This 4xxx generation of ATI/AMD cards has been beating Nvidia's offerings at each price point, no questions asked.
Next card purchase of mine will likely be ATI. 4850 for $85 after rebate ($15)? Heck yeah.
We are in a financial crisis, and the government wants to see if there is ice on the moon? There's plenty on this planet. I can make some for you in my freezer and you can save 20 billion dollars.
Making ice on earth wastes energy and causes global warming, you insensitive clod!!! We need to put some weight behind sustainability in ice creation. We can't afford to keep spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to fuel our frivolous, wasteful American consumption! Better to get it from somewhere else! I have gone without ice for as long as I can remember, and you should, too, in fact I'm going to pass a law that says you have to live like me and give up your wasteful ice consuming habits!!
How does that have anything to do with the GP's post? He wasn't arguing one way or another on the basis of sexuality, he was giving a hypothetical. Last I checked, homosexuals are not asking for government handouts, at least, not more than the complement population.
His comment about homosexuality being genetic reminded me...Just bringing it up, yeesh. If sexuality is genetic, then we could say so is intelligence.
Any cubs of less than 2 years old are killed by the male to stop any future rivals challenging him for the pride, and also to encourage the lionesses to go into heat, allowing him to begin his own dynasty. The lionesses allow this to happen -- a cruel edge to their mothering nature.
Black Bears:
Black bears like to have litters of two or three cubs, as it takes a similar amount of effort to raise one cub as it does three. Because of this, it has been documented that if a black bear gives birth to just one cub, she will sometimes simply abandon it and will hope for a larger litter the following year. Unlike many animals that may abandon young which are sick or weak, the bear will abandon the youngster simply for being on its own.
African Black Eagle:
The African Black Eagle usually lays two eggs, although one is generally no more than an insurance policy. The idea of an insurance policy is quite common in the animal kingdom, but it is the manner in which the unwanted young is disposed of which is particularly shocking. The mother will feed only one chick, and as it grows stronger it will peck its weaker sibling to death. What is especially gruesome about this is that the mother will look on impassively as her youngster is dispatched.
In hindsight, aborting a potential human in the womb seems a lot less brutal.
So you're agreeing that they're the same thing? If so we might as well make laws that make it legal to abandon your children at any age. Oh wait...
I think you may be surprised to see the religious folk more concerned with the latter than with the former...
Ideal: if we could understand the full genetic sequence then we could simulate which traits the child would have based on which combination of egg+sperm we do.
I'd go even further and say any medical procedure, drug, etc. could be considered playing god. Sorry Timmy you got TB and are going to die, yes we could give you some pills to save you but that is playing god.
Personally I don't want some religion to tell me what medical procedures I can/cannot have because they think their holy book would approve/disapprove.
Yawn, bringing up medical procedures and drugs is a straw man here. The issue the crazy religious folk have with this is one of life. When you administer the TB drug, you are not stopping life. When you fail to implant a fertilized egg, that is a life that was created that will never become a human being.
It's a slippery slope. If it's ok to determine whether the life lives or dies when it doesn't have a brain, then maybe it's ok to determine whether it lives or dies when it has a brain but isn't on the same level of consciousness as us (partial birth abortion, AKA murdering the baby before it's halfway out of the mother in the birthing process [-1 flamebait/troll/overrated for saying that right there!]), and so then maybe it's ok to determine whether a life lives or it dies if the majority say its future is not worth keeping it alive (forced euthanasia); and finally then it's ok for me to determine whether something lives or it dies simply because that is how I prefer it and after all I know what is better for it.
If you don't value life from the start, then you cannot somehow place more value on that life as it matures without being either inconsistent, or elitist, or both. The societal implications of not valuing the full life are drastic, and it is for our own conscience's good (and the future of our world) if we choose to value life through and through.
Problem with saying sexual preference is genetic is then I can say being stupid is genetic, and therefor it's not my fault I can't test well, it's just my genetic code. Please send me a government check paid by the people who with genetic code to be smart. I can't help myself.
While we are not all the same, we all have a choice, and our society seems eager to shirk that consequences of that responsibility while retaining the benefits.
You're right. It clearly has nothing to do with their repeatedextremistrhetoric about nuking Israel. You know it's REALLY bad when they refer to their enemy as "the Zionist regime".
My post took a rather hostile approach, this was not so much directed at you I apologize (your post was simply making a point, not seeking to start an argument), more against the average European citizen that condemns the US's involvement in Iraq.
This is ignoring the history of Iran since the 1950s. Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Dr Mossadegh in 1951. He nationalised the oil field. As a result, he was overthrown during a West-supported coup. The western-friendly Shah came to power, installed an autocratic dictatorship, which was overthrown by the theocrats in 1979, who were the most vocal opponents of the Shah. Ayatollah Khomeny came to power, installed an even more brutal and repressive, West-unfriendly theocracy. The West tried to overthrow it by staging a war by cutting a deal with Saddam Hussein in Iraq (remember him?), who lusted after Iran's oil fields. After many years of war and nearly a million deaths, a stalemate was reached in 1988. Since then there is an election system in Iran but it is closely controlled by the theocrats. Even though reforms were made, the most progressist of elected leader, Mohamed Katami, did not succeed in freeing the press and installing a real democracy.
Given all the above I would not say the problems of the Iranians are purely their own fault. The West including the US have been meddling in Iranian policies for a long time.
Does that mean we can go in and fix it then? Please say yes, we could stop by on our way back from Iraq. I'm tired of tolerance. "Lawful good" alignment is suicide for the rest of the world. We need to be actively involved in the affairs of the world. WW1 and WW2 just called and want us to promote democracy across the world. Look at how nice Germany and Japan are now, they are 1st world nations. This is where Iraq will be in 70 years, too.
Lets go ahead and seal the deal on the rest of the radical Islamic middle east.
The truth is we had to meddle to prevent WW3 with the Soviets. Using the middle east to wear down Russia was necessary. Yes, it created problems. But we do what we must and which we deem best, and are forced to worry about the consequences later. Given this country brought an end to both World Wars and prevented the 3rd, don't you think it's a little time we were cut some slack? We're not malicious about it. If we were we would taken all the oil fields for ourselves. Which we could have done. You forget history, my friend; among all the "dictators" of history, the USA is a teddy bear. Stop fussing, you have no idea how horrible life can be under a REAL superpower that isn't afraid to rampantly abuse their authority.
Some of the best CTF maps for Unreal Tournament were and still are community made.
That said, you can't rely on community content to pick up your game. Epic, I'm speaking to you. They released UT3 for the PC as a console port, complete with giant text that covers your screen when you hit DOMINATING etc. But worst of all they butchered the UI (you have to disconnect and click 3 times now before you get back to the server browser-- no more server browsing and loading up the data files for a map you don't have while you keep playing in the current game. This is not complicated stuff, in fact it's so easy they got it right 10 years ago with UT99) and refused to fix the list of 100 or so bugs that were game breaking issues for the pros. Simple stuff like making team communication easier.
It's quite clear what went wrong, they left the bugs in there and didn't bother with correctly porting the game to the PC. The PC gaming crowd is a no-BS sort of group. It's awfully hard to get lots of great content from your userbase for your console players to game on when the only people that can actually make maps are the PC gamers who are underwhelmed by the craptastic game you pushed out. It's pretty sad when the game you made 10 years ago is STILL better than what you came out with (many liked ut2k4, just talking about UT3 here).
Never mind that the leasing cost for the electric vehicles was $5-700 a month, back when $300 would get a lease for the top of the line luxury sedan. Nonsense! It's a conspiracy!
I'd like to throw in a huge sum of the money goes to rapid prototyping and deployment of new systems to save American lives. There's usually an engineer that tags along with any group of soldiers-- he reports back sometimes and says "hey if we had something that did xyz, it would reduce our risk factor going into a building 50%". This is how we get things like bomb finding or remote scouting robots 2 months after someone comes up with the idea. That's not cheap.
Because it's pretty easy to get people to agree to spend the necessary money, if it might save their, or their children's, lives.
Depends on perceived immediacy and plenty of legislation gets pushed through on public innumeracy. We'll all die of heart disease, stroke or cancer before we find Saddam Hussein's WMDs but lots of luck getting universal health care much less a _return_ to common intellectual property coming out of universities. The Manhattan Project and Apollo were before Saint Ronald Reagan proclaimed that research should be private and universities themselves should be run as a business.
No one will invest the money to develop something based on "common intellectual property". Great things come out of universities but you have to be able to take it to market and make money off it for us all to benefit. If you return to "common IP" then we'll get cries for more government funding, and projects that should never be researched because of the small market for use will get funding they don't deserve.
That's the real solution here, in my opinion. This way you can vote with your dollars whether or not the athletic program gets funding. We never had a football team, never needed it.
Individuals don't pay tax. Not really. We pass that tax to our employers by charging higher salaries.
This is exactly the point, It simply makes everything about doing business more expensive-- if the salaries were lower, the business could employ more people, or have higher profits, so that they don't have to lay off as many people come recession time.
Meanwhile the government takes more and more money and produces more and more paperwork (a lot of the time. At least when they're spending it on the military, billions are spent on R&D for rapid prototyping and the likes).
If they go out of US, to who M$ will complain to prevent unlicensed use of Windows?
It's SO unfair that people pirate our products! We made those products and we deserve our cut damn it!
It's SO unfair that we have to like obey our nations tax laws!
Yeah lets go after those that break the laws we like and lets use all our lawyers and accountants to avoid the laws we don't like.
Economics is a-moral. If it's cheaper to move production elsewhere, it will be moved elsewhere. If the result of forcing Microsoft to pay these taxes is an increase in the opportunity cost to them employing US workers past the point where it is worthwhile to move production overseas, they will do it, plain and simple.
You can parrot morality and fairness all you want but at the end of the day if it's cheaper to do it over there, they will do it over there, end of discussion.
Yay,/., where if you're not PC, you're 'flamebait'...
What if OP had said "how many asian mathematicians are there"? That would probably not be tagged flamebait. Both would be interesting statistics to see.
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You're right. Our >60% cancer survival rate is worth nothing. If we all go to NHS, we can have a 40% chance of surviving. (Data is available straight from NHS website).
You do realize that if you get cancer of here and are paying for health insurance, you are 50% more likely to survive compared to if you were on NHS?
I emailed Malda about this a year ago; we exchanged several emails; here is where it ended (I do not know how to check for this; I'm more EE than CS):
Is it possible that your ISP is transparently proxying your requests? A lot of providers do this, and very few people ever notice.
FYI.
Can anyone look into this?
It feels just as slow. It's not just Gnome, it's slow in KDE and XFCE, too.
It is currently faster to run Firefox.exe under Wine than it is to run it native in Linux. (Yes I have tried this, the difference is night and day; it's just as fast in Wine as it is in windows).
Not really, I'd encourage you to check them out again; since AMD bought them their drivers have been steadily improving. Used to be performance with games on ATI was hit or miss, but since the 3xxx generation it's been good across the board. This 4xxx generation of ATI/AMD cards has been beating Nvidia's offerings at each price point, no questions asked.
Next card purchase of mine will likely be ATI. 4850 for $85 after rebate ($15)? Heck yeah.
There are actually two major articles on SSDs, both amazing and completely worth reading.
We are in a financial crisis, and the government wants to see if there is ice on the moon? There's plenty on this planet. I can make some for you in my freezer and you can save 20 billion dollars.
Making ice on earth wastes energy and causes global warming, you insensitive clod!!! We need to put some weight behind sustainability in ice creation. We can't afford to keep spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to fuel our frivolous, wasteful American consumption! Better to get it from somewhere else! I have gone without ice for as long as I can remember, and you should, too, in fact I'm going to pass a law that says you have to live like me and give up your wasteful ice consuming habits!!
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried. - Winston Churchill
How does that have anything to do with the GP's post? He wasn't arguing one way or another on the basis of sexuality, he was giving a hypothetical. Last I checked, homosexuals are not asking for government handouts, at least, not more than the complement population.
His comment about homosexuality being genetic reminded me...Just bringing it up, yeesh. If sexuality is genetic, then we could say so is intelligence.
Are there any records of (other) animals in nature, namely mothers, culling off her weaker children? Here are three examples.
Askmen Top 10 Bad Animal Kingdom Mothers
Lioness:
Any cubs of less than 2 years old are killed by the male to stop any future rivals challenging him for the pride, and also to encourage the lionesses to go into heat, allowing him to begin his own dynasty. The lionesses allow this to happen -- a cruel edge to their mothering nature.
Black Bears:
Black bears like to have litters of two or three cubs, as it takes a similar amount of effort to raise one cub as it does three. Because of this, it has been documented that if a black bear gives birth to just one cub, she will sometimes simply abandon it and will hope for a larger litter the following year. Unlike many animals that may abandon young which are sick or weak, the bear will abandon the youngster simply for being on its own.
African Black Eagle:
The African Black Eagle usually lays two eggs, although one is generally no more than an insurance policy. The idea of an insurance policy is quite common in the animal kingdom, but it is the manner in which the unwanted young is disposed of which is particularly shocking. The mother will feed only one chick, and as it grows stronger it will peck its weaker sibling to death. What is especially gruesome about this is that the mother will look on impassively as her youngster is dispatched.
In hindsight, aborting a potential human in the womb seems a lot less brutal.
So you're agreeing that they're the same thing? If so we might as well make laws that make it legal to abandon your children at any age. Oh wait...
Does this mean there will be different brands of designer babies? So you could get a D&G Designer Baby, or a Versace baby, or perhaps a Gucci Baby?
Gucci Gucci coo?
I think you may be surprised to see the religious folk more concerned with the latter than with the former...
Ideal: if we could understand the full genetic sequence then we could simulate which traits the child would have based on which combination of egg+sperm we do.
I'd go even further and say any medical procedure, drug, etc. could be considered playing god. Sorry Timmy you got TB and are going to die, yes we could give you some pills to save you but that is playing god.
Personally I don't want some religion to tell me what medical procedures I can/cannot have because they think their holy book would approve/disapprove.
Yawn, bringing up medical procedures and drugs is a straw man here. The issue the crazy religious folk have with this is one of life. When you administer the TB drug, you are not stopping life. When you fail to implant a fertilized egg, that is a life that was created that will never become a human being.
It's a slippery slope. If it's ok to determine whether the life lives or dies when it doesn't have a brain, then maybe it's ok to determine whether it lives or dies when it has a brain but isn't on the same level of consciousness as us (partial birth abortion, AKA murdering the baby before it's halfway out of the mother in the birthing process [-1 flamebait/troll/overrated for saying that right there!]), and so then maybe it's ok to determine whether a life lives or it dies if the majority say its future is not worth keeping it alive (forced euthanasia); and finally then it's ok for me to determine whether something lives or it dies simply because that is how I prefer it and after all I know what is better for it.
If you don't value life from the start, then you cannot somehow place more value on that life as it matures without being either inconsistent, or elitist, or both. The societal implications of not valuing the full life are drastic, and it is for our own conscience's good (and the future of our world) if we choose to value life through and through.
Problem with saying sexual preference is genetic is then I can say being stupid is genetic, and therefor it's not my fault I can't test well, it's just my genetic code. Please send me a government check paid by the people who with genetic code to be smart. I can't help myself.
While we are not all the same, we all have a choice, and our society seems eager to shirk that consequences of that responsibility while retaining the benefits.
You're right. It clearly has nothing to do with their repeated extremist rhetoric about nuking Israel. You know it's REALLY bad when they refer to their enemy as "the Zionist regime".
My post took a rather hostile approach, this was not so much directed at you I apologize (your post was simply making a point, not seeking to start an argument), more against the average European citizen that condemns the US's involvement in Iraq.
This is ignoring the history of Iran since the 1950s. Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Dr Mossadegh in 1951. He nationalised the oil field. As a result, he was overthrown during a West-supported coup. The western-friendly Shah came to power, installed an autocratic dictatorship, which was overthrown by the theocrats in 1979, who were the most vocal opponents of the Shah. Ayatollah Khomeny came to power, installed an even more brutal and repressive, West-unfriendly theocracy. The West tried to overthrow it by staging a war by cutting a deal with Saddam Hussein in Iraq (remember him?), who lusted after Iran's oil fields. After many years of war and nearly a million deaths, a stalemate was reached in 1988. Since then there is an election system in Iran but it is closely controlled by the theocrats. Even though reforms were made, the most progressist of elected leader, Mohamed Katami, did not succeed in freeing the press and installing a real democracy.
Given all the above I would not say the problems of the Iranians are purely their own fault. The West including the US have been meddling in Iranian policies for a long time.
Does that mean we can go in and fix it then? Please say yes, we could stop by on our way back from Iraq. I'm tired of tolerance. "Lawful good" alignment is suicide for the rest of the world. We need to be actively involved in the affairs of the world. WW1 and WW2 just called and want us to promote democracy across the world. Look at how nice Germany and Japan are now, they are 1st world nations. This is where Iraq will be in 70 years, too.
Lets go ahead and seal the deal on the rest of the radical Islamic middle east.
The truth is we had to meddle to prevent WW3 with the Soviets. Using the middle east to wear down Russia was necessary. Yes, it created problems. But we do what we must and which we deem best, and are forced to worry about the consequences later. Given this country brought an end to both World Wars and prevented the 3rd, don't you think it's a little time we were cut some slack? We're not malicious about it. If we were we would taken all the oil fields for ourselves. Which we could have done. You forget history, my friend; among all the "dictators" of history, the USA is a teddy bear. Stop fussing, you have no idea how horrible life can be under a REAL superpower that isn't afraid to rampantly abuse their authority.
Some of the best CTF maps for Unreal Tournament were and still are community made.
That said, you can't rely on community content to pick up your game. Epic, I'm speaking to you.
They released UT3 for the PC as a console port, complete with giant text that covers your screen when you hit DOMINATING etc.
But worst of all they butchered the UI (you have to disconnect and click 3 times now before you get back to the server browser-- no more server browsing and loading up the data files for a map you don't have while you keep playing in the current game. This is not complicated stuff, in fact it's so easy they got it right 10 years ago with UT99) and refused to fix the list of 100 or so bugs that were game breaking issues for the pros. Simple stuff like making team communication easier.
It's quite clear what went wrong, they left the bugs in there and didn't bother with correctly porting the game to the PC. The PC gaming crowd is a no-BS sort of group. It's awfully hard to get lots of great content from your userbase for your console players to game on when the only people that can actually make maps are the PC gamers who are underwhelmed by the craptastic game you pushed out. It's pretty sad when the game you made 10 years ago is STILL better than what you came out with (many liked ut2k4, just talking about UT3 here).
Never mind that the leasing cost for the electric vehicles was $5-700 a month, back when $300 would get a lease for the top of the line luxury sedan. Nonsense! It's a conspiracy!
I'd like to throw in a huge sum of the money goes to rapid prototyping and deployment of new systems to save American lives. There's usually an engineer that tags along with any group of soldiers-- he reports back sometimes and says "hey if we had something that did xyz, it would reduce our risk factor going into a building 50%". This is how we get things like bomb finding or remote scouting robots 2 months after someone comes up with the idea. That's not cheap.
Because it's pretty easy to get people to agree to spend the necessary money, if it might save their, or their children's, lives.
Depends on perceived immediacy and plenty of legislation gets pushed through on public innumeracy. We'll all die of heart disease, stroke or cancer before we find Saddam Hussein's WMDs but lots of luck getting universal health care much less a _return_ to common intellectual property coming out of universities. The Manhattan Project and Apollo were before Saint Ronald Reagan proclaimed that research should be private and universities themselves should be run as a business.
No one will invest the money to develop something based on "common intellectual property". Great things come out of universities but you have to be able to take it to market and make money off it for us all to benefit. If you return to "common IP" then we'll get cries for more government funding, and projects that should never be researched because of the small market for use will get funding they don't deserve.
Or, they go to private schools.
That's the real solution here, in my opinion. This way you can vote with your dollars whether or not the athletic program gets funding. We never had a football team, never needed it.
Individuals don't pay tax. Not really. We pass that tax to our employers by charging higher salaries.
This is exactly the point, It simply makes everything about doing business more expensive-- if the salaries were lower, the business could employ more people, or have higher profits, so that they don't have to lay off as many people come recession time.
Meanwhile the government takes more and more money and produces more and more paperwork (a lot of the time. At least when they're spending it on the military, billions are spent on R&D for rapid prototyping and the likes).
If they go out of US, to who M$ will complain to prevent unlicensed use of Windows?
It's SO unfair that people pirate our products! We made those products and we deserve our cut damn it!
It's SO unfair that we have to like obey our nations tax laws!
Yeah lets go after those that break the laws we like and lets use all our lawyers and accountants to avoid the laws we don't like.
Economics is a-moral. If it's cheaper to move production elsewhere, it will be moved elsewhere. If the result of forcing Microsoft to pay these taxes is an increase in the opportunity cost to them employing US workers past the point where it is worthwhile to move production overseas, they will do it, plain and simple.
You can parrot morality and fairness all you want but at the end of the day if it's cheaper to do it over there, they will do it over there, end of discussion.
And this is why taxes are bad.
Their drivers are fine. That's the first thing AMD fixed after acquiring ATI.
On the contrary,
When has Nvidia had solid anything drivers. Even the Windows drivers cause BSoDs for no apparent reason.
See how easy that was?
Yay, /., where if you're not PC, you're 'flamebait'...
What if OP had said "how many asian mathematicians are there"? That would probably not be tagged flamebait.
Both would be interesting statistics to see.