Perhaps more people would breastfeed their children then?
Of all the people I've known with adverse allergies, not one was breastfed.
But for some reason people think a scientist can come up with a better solution than either God or evolution (doesn't matter which, seems clear to me that either is better than our formula). People see the formula and think "my, that looks thick and much more nutricous for the baby." But only in the last ~15 years did we learn that folic acid was paramount to the developement of a baby's neurological connections. Whats to say we aren't missing five other things? We sure can't replicate a mechinism that detects when the baby is sick and creates antibodies that get passed through the milk to the baby to help fight the sickness. And apparently we can't replicate whatever process it is that passes information from mother to child on what proteins/foods will harm the body. What we then have is an organism trying to discover which of all these foods might kill it. With nowhere to start from (mom's code passed on I believe), it's bound to slip up and freak over one thing or another.
Besides, I'm tired of not being able to enjoy my PB&J because ONE person in my school of 1000 has crazy allergies. "MY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT a;slfasfd" blah blah blah, whatever happened to decency to the other 1000 kids? I don't mean this to turn rant/troll, but truly, if my kid has allergies like that (which I'm sure he won't) I'm not going to curse the rest of his school from having any product or delicacy that contains peanuts.
Aside from all that, there are interesting studies that point to families with pets have children with fewer allergies. PopSci did that study, it was something like the kid was 41% less likely to have allergies if the family had a dog, 36% less likely if they owned a cat (cats are cleaner). I don't think those IONIC BREEZE things do much good either. We used to be much closer to nature...I can only imagine its better if we don't -completely- remove ourselves from it. SO: get a pet, breastfeed your kids, let them play outside, and you really shouldn't have many problems.
Why else would Cingular have sent us two pre-paid padded envelopes along with our new phones for our old cell phones? They didn't even try to hide it ("We recycle them").
I continue to read these comments about choosing which channels you pay for...and this weekend it hit me: nobody would have any channels that they liked if people only payed for the ones they wanted. There are far more people interested in ESPN than there are techies who like SciFi.
VMWare has a business to protect. XenSource does not. Clearly we need to go with XenSource's design, as their primary focus (like all open source programmers) is in producing perfect software. VMWare has a business to protect, so why should we listen to what they want? Business will come if the design is thorough. No need to have people upgrade eight times for "features" that should have been there in the first place. So in short, nobody cares what VMWare wants.
All it would take is a 20% drop in population to kill the housing market. We know there are major bugs/flus out there...and we know one of them is bound to mutate one day. Eventually there will come a bacteria that we cannot kill, even with the strongs antibiotics. We'll be able to wash it off our hands, but once it is inside us it'll be between our immune system and the bacteria.
Lots of older folk and young kids will die. Suddenly that house investment will crash on you as the market will have dried up. As long as people insist that their doctor prescribe antibiotics for their virus, and as long as cattle disease is prevented and not cured, then this is not a question of if, but when.
we've had 50 years to become more efficient. We shouldn't be working anywhere near the same amount. If everybody gave their job a solid 6 hours of work, 5 days a week, and everyone pulled their weight, we'd only have to work 3 hours.
Finally! Georgia Tech has listened to our begging and is finally going to improve the Tech Ratio(TM). Not by admitting more girls (after all, the problem isn't the number of girls at Tech, it is the _quality_), but by making them! How much better can you get?! Discussions were under way to implement a send-your-picture-with-application requirement for the female applicants. After a girl met the academic requirements, a comittee of 15 or so guys would determine if she met the "attractiveness" standards. This was all fine and good until we realized we could never get away with it. Womens rights activists would nuke our school.
So this solution is much better. Not only will the fembots improve the ratio, they will help ensure every student learns all the information in their books through certain...erm..*persuasive* means.
Even the ones you think lead to a gaping abyss. You never know when there'll be an ore field on the way.
I'm tired of hearing people tell my friend from Georgia Tech that he can't develope a free energy device. The quantum model is far from perfect. It is entirely possible we could extract the [theories, now] ZPE (our gravitational like-force experienced in the casimir-effect) from empty space. Who are these people to comdemn him? How many of them went to Georgia Tech? Do they have the schematics and plans for a device for free energy? No. How would they know anything about it? Are they willing to fund him so he can build his? Even though that might prove them right, they're too busy running after their quantum smoke. They're no better than the Catholic Church railing on Galileo.
I would bet that if this happens, the teclos selling us our internets pipes will say that since we're getting a product cheaper through their service, they should get a chunk of that savings. Behold, the bittorrent tax.
I think most people seem to equate America surviving with the rest of the world surviving. In the end I think the not-so-democratic nations like England and Britain will outlast us. The insanity of our nation will be omnipotent and omnipresent. At least you can assassinate the queen (or other ruling figure).
Big company...expensive vacations/lobbying to be had...consolidation of power for those with too much of it...What more could Congress ask for get to involved?
I can say I don't do much Seti work because my computer is in the room I sleep in (dorm). Why should I leave it on? So I can watch a number count up?
If someone made a plugin to some starmap software (like that one FOSS program) where, after a packet was completed, I could check out which part of the sky this packet referred to...then I could go "hey, my computer just determined that for the last year, there have been no signs of life in that solar system." Something to personalize it, make it more real, and make it worthwhile to listen to the fans running inside my computer.
My problem with these things are that they immediately begin putting me on my guard to prove my innocence. Think about it. This machine is trying to discern truth from chemical processes and electrical pulses on my skin. There are too many stupid people who don't understand how it works, and therefore think it is failsafe (sort of like the person that doesn't understand a digital lock and therefore thinks it is somehow more secure. Nevermind that pressing buttons 4 and 8 together while pressing "Enter" always unlocks the door). I know I would fail one of these the moment they put me on it. I get incredibly nervous whenever I'm questioned about things, mainly because I often got in trouble for the smallest offences as a child (rolling a pebble across the room after a kid threw it at me in 4th grade...stupid stuff like that...private school garbage). Taking notes home to mom had to be the most inhumane punishment ever. Talk to ME about it, don't leave me in the dark for hours on end worrying if I'm gonna get spanked when I get home.
I can see it happening right now, I get interrogated because I'm a suspect who was near a crime scene I don't know about. They hook me up to a lie detector/FMRI, then the big question comes along, "did you murder [person]?" I would freak regardless of whether or not I'd done it, simply because of the weight of the situation. Possibility of prison for life, even if I hadn't done a thing. I have a feeling people are too interested in their own agenda (which in this case would be convicting _someone_ like me, even if I didn't do it and they don't think I did) to worry about looking at all the evidence. They can't even fight for their own rights, why should they give a hoot about mine? Lie detector says I broke out in sweat and my pulse quicked when they asked me if I was the murderer. There's no way that thing could ever know my history and interpret the results objectively in light of the evidence. I'd be the 20% that lie detectors incorrectly fail.
When will it end? The obvious use will be to somehow keep me from firing my gun. I guess in this situation, civilian safety is the "think of the children" excuse.
If they keep swelling and failing, then perhaps they need some supplements. More information readily available in your mail account. But act fast, this offer ends soon!
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Perhaps more people would breastfeed their children then?
Of all the people I've known with adverse allergies, not one was breastfed.
But for some reason people think a scientist can come up with a better solution than either God or evolution (doesn't matter which, seems clear to me that either is better than our formula). People see the formula and think "my, that looks thick and much more nutricous for the baby." But only in the last ~15 years did we learn that folic acid was paramount to the developement of a baby's neurological connections. Whats to say we aren't missing five other things? We sure can't replicate a mechinism that detects when the baby is sick and creates antibodies that get passed through the milk to the baby to help fight the sickness. And apparently we can't replicate whatever process it is that passes information from mother to child on what proteins/foods will harm the body. What we then have is an organism trying to discover which of all these foods might kill it. With nowhere to start from (mom's code passed on I believe), it's bound to slip up and freak over one thing or another.
Besides, I'm tired of not being able to enjoy my PB&J because ONE person in my school of 1000 has crazy allergies. "MY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT a;slfasfd" blah blah blah, whatever happened to decency to the other 1000 kids? I don't mean this to turn rant/troll, but truly, if my kid has allergies like that (which I'm sure he won't) I'm not going to curse the rest of his school from having any product or delicacy that contains peanuts.
Aside from all that, there are interesting studies that point to families with pets have children with fewer allergies. PopSci did that study, it was something like the kid was 41% less likely to have allergies if the family had a dog, 36% less likely if they owned a cat (cats are cleaner). I don't think those IONIC BREEZE things do much good either. We used to be much closer to nature...I can only imagine its better if we don't -completely- remove ourselves from it. SO: get a pet, breastfeed your kids, let them play outside, and you really shouldn't have many problems.
So for once I'll actually benefit from seeding a torrent? Perhaps if we all just upload all the time we'll have infinite natural gas.
Why else would Cingular have sent us two pre-paid padded envelopes along with our new phones for our old cell phones? They didn't even try to hide it ("We recycle them").
It also gives us a reason to have a TPM chip in our computers.
My CPU load never goes above 5% with my integrated etherwebs running full on @100Mbps. We don't _need_ this.
I continue to read these comments about choosing which channels you pay for...and this weekend it hit me: nobody would have any channels that they liked if people only payed for the ones they wanted. There are far more people interested in ESPN than there are techies who like SciFi.
VMWare has a business to protect. XenSource does not. Clearly we need to go with XenSource's design, as their primary focus (like all open source programmers) is in producing perfect software. VMWare has a business to protect, so why should we listen to what they want? Business will come if the design is thorough. No need to have people upgrade eight times for "features" that should have been there in the first place. So in short, nobody cares what VMWare wants.
Puts a whole new spin on the "secret password" term. Why bother typing in a password when you can tap out a rhythm?
All it would take is a 20% drop in population to kill the housing market. We know there are major bugs/flus out there...and we know one of them is bound to mutate one day. Eventually there will come a bacteria that we cannot kill, even with the strongs antibiotics. We'll be able to wash it off our hands, but once it is inside us it'll be between our immune system and the bacteria.
Lots of older folk and young kids will die. Suddenly that house investment will crash on you as the market will have dried up. As long as people insist that their doctor prescribe antibiotics for their virus, and as long as cattle disease is prevented and not cured, then this is not a question of if, but when.
That I think we'll start seeing a new 1337 term popping up from our fellow French gamers..."LE GPONed!1!1!!!!"
we've had 50 years to become more efficient. We shouldn't be working anywhere near the same amount. If everybody gave their job a solid 6 hours of work, 5 days a week, and everyone pulled their weight, we'd only have to work 3 hours.
He's going to fill the role great. He's a perfect wheezing, coughing Raistlan.
But nonetheless this movie would be a billion times better with real people.
Finally! Georgia Tech has listened to our begging and is finally going to improve the Tech Ratio(TM). Not by admitting more girls (after all, the problem isn't the number of girls at Tech, it is the _quality_), but by making them! How much better can you get?! Discussions were under way to implement a send-your-picture-with-application requirement for the female applicants. After a girl met the academic requirements, a comittee of 15 or so guys would determine if she met the "attractiveness" standards. This was all fine and good until we realized we could never get away with it. Womens rights activists would nuke our school.
So this solution is much better. Not only will the fembots improve the ratio, they will help ensure every student learns all the information in their books through certain...erm..*persuasive* means.
Even the ones you think lead to a gaping abyss. You never know when there'll be an ore field on the way.
I'm tired of hearing people tell my friend from Georgia Tech that he can't develope a free energy device. The quantum model is far from perfect. It is entirely possible we could extract the [theories, now] ZPE (our gravitational like-force experienced in the casimir-effect) from empty space. Who are these people to comdemn him? How many of them went to Georgia Tech? Do they have the schematics and plans for a device for free energy? No. How would they know anything about it? Are they willing to fund him so he can build his? Even though that might prove them right, they're too busy running after their quantum smoke. They're no better than the Catholic Church railing on Galileo.
I would bet that if this happens, the teclos selling us our internets pipes will say that since we're getting a product cheaper through their service, they should get a chunk of that savings. Behold, the bittorrent tax.
I think most people seem to equate America surviving with the rest of the world surviving. In the end I think the not-so-democratic nations like England and Britain will outlast us. The insanity of our nation will be omnipotent and omnipresent. At least you can assassinate the queen (or other ruling figure).
Big company...expensive vacations/lobbying to be had...consolidation of power for those with too much of it...What more could Congress ask for get to involved?
"Unfortunately, a database dump or source code for freedb2.org is yet nowhere to be found."
So _that_ is why I got the "Nothing to see here" message.
They'd correct your terminology/spelling and inform you the correct one is "interweb."
I can say I don't do much Seti work because my computer is in the room I sleep in (dorm). Why should I leave it on? So I can watch a number count up?
If someone made a plugin to some starmap software (like that one FOSS program) where, after a packet was completed, I could check out which part of the sky this packet referred to...then I could go "hey, my computer just determined that for the last year, there have been no signs of life in that solar system." Something to personalize it, make it more real, and make it worthwhile to listen to the fans running inside my computer.
My problem with these things are that they immediately begin putting me on my guard to prove my innocence. Think about it. This machine is trying to discern truth from chemical processes and electrical pulses on my skin. There are too many stupid people who don't understand how it works, and therefore think it is failsafe (sort of like the person that doesn't understand a digital lock and therefore thinks it is somehow more secure. Nevermind that pressing buttons 4 and 8 together while pressing "Enter" always unlocks the door). I know I would fail one of these the moment they put me on it. I get incredibly nervous whenever I'm questioned about things, mainly because I often got in trouble for the smallest offences as a child (rolling a pebble across the room after a kid threw it at me in 4th grade...stupid stuff like that...private school garbage). Taking notes home to mom had to be the most inhumane punishment ever. Talk to ME about it, don't leave me in the dark for hours on end worrying if I'm gonna get spanked when I get home.
I can see it happening right now, I get interrogated because I'm a suspect who was near a crime scene I don't know about. They hook me up to a lie detector/FMRI, then the big question comes along, "did you murder [person]?" I would freak regardless of whether or not I'd done it, simply because of the weight of the situation. Possibility of prison for life, even if I hadn't done a thing. I have a feeling people are too interested in their own agenda (which in this case would be convicting _someone_ like me, even if I didn't do it and they don't think I did) to worry about looking at all the evidence. They can't even fight for their own rights, why should they give a hoot about mine? Lie detector says I broke out in sweat and my pulse quicked when they asked me if I was the murderer. There's no way that thing could ever know my history and interpret the results objectively in light of the evidence. I'd be the 20% that lie detectors incorrectly fail.
It can run Linux. :)
When will it end? The obvious use will be to somehow keep me from firing my gun. I guess in this situation, civilian safety is the "think of the children" excuse.
I'm tired of it. Just let me shoot my gun.
Supercomputer Models, Mass Ejections......I think these videos are off topic.
I don't attempt to pass the buck. Most people bore me.
If they keep swelling and failing, then perhaps they need some supplements. More information readily available in your mail account. But act fast, this offer ends soon!