I honestly don't see why anyone would ask this question in the first place, frankly. Either you want vengeance and will be satisfied to see them explode in a shower of guts, or your conscience is going to speak up for the first time in years and tell you that what you're doing is wrong. You shouldn't be complaining about wanting to have your cake and eat it too. Killing a dude is serious business. The people complaining need to face that or not do it.
Oh yeah, a doctor could kill someone quite easily if it weren't for that inconvenient oath they took to do know harm with the knowledge they've been given. They won't even look at it as a very very very late term abortion. Stupid ethics, always screwing up our fun...
Just get a New York City cop to choke them. That seems very effective. Problem solved. You're welcome!
I mean, you could just not execute people. You know, seeing as how so many innocent people have been sent to death by racist juries or prosecutors extracting confessions from them with unethical measures. And how it costs a lot more to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for the rest of their life. But that's just crazy talk! We can't have a vengeance-based legal system with thinking like that!
There are a few products on the market that offer eye tracking mouse control. I don't know much about them or how well they work, but it might be worth a try. I'm pretty sure I've seen one or two brainwave-sensing ones, but those probably require goop or no hair, or both.
Nipple. Funny bit of trivia, some guy in IBM patented that thing and they sat on the patent for years thinking no one would like it. Every so often you'd think they don't really have their finger firmly on the nipple of the marketplace.
Those guys have already proven that they're willing to compromise the security of their hardware for anyone who waves a few bucks at them. Is anyone actually considering buying one of their machines after all that? Or maybe they just think that we have the attention span of a three year old?
I read that as "Wireless Charging Bastard" for a moment. I could totally see Apple adopting some kid (Regardless of parentage!) and making him charge all their devices!
Aww. Don't be depressed. The NSA isn't interested in your collection of penis photos. Their file on you says "Mostly harmless." Also, you should be using heavy duty foil. The lighter stuff just lets their mind control rays right through.
Man, go read some of the shit that went down at the start of the industrial revolution, then come back here and say that. There have always been quacks and frauds around the fringes, and plenty of gullible people for them to prey on. If anything we're unmasking them more quickly in this day of instantaneous communication. Money clearly can subvert the process if someone has an agenda and a lot of money, but again, nothing new there. Money's been subverting the best of human intentions for thousands of years. If anyone has any suggestions on how to prevent that, I'm all ears.
Right right. One tends to think of the education system as "uniform." This despite the fact that I am keenly aware that my educational experience was highly unusual. Moving every 5 years shakes things up a bit. And I had books around the house that sent me down a scientifically inquisitive path as well. They need to add a class in not believing everything someone tells you to the common core.
Really? I've been replacing bulbs with LEDs for the last 3 years. I have 5 now that are 3 years old and one that's been on constantly for 2 years and have not had any fail yet.
I'm gearing up for phase 2, which involves replacing 4 or 5 of the big CFL tube bulbs with LED replacements. The current tube bulbs are at least that old, too. I'm going to have to rewire a bunch of ballasts to put the new LED lights in. The LED tubes in the store put out easily as much light as the CFLs they're replacing. So, um, maybe you just have shitty power or something.
I like to think of stuff like homeopathy as the chlorine in our gene pool. We've made the world so safe for stupid people that if they didn't have outlets like this, we'd be devolving into lawyers and politicians faster than we already are. You know the saying that's popular around here, "You can't cure stupid"? If there's one thing homeopathy might be able to cure, it's that. It'd just take a couple generations to do it.
From what I've seen, web apps and virtualization programs like Citrix deliver 1990s-level-performance on today's processors. All I can think is that at some point someone asked their computer for something, got an instantaneous response back and was terrified. I can imagine that person saying "My God! If my computer responds instantly, how will I take a 20 minute smoke break every 2 hours?" While there's nothing more nostalgia-inducing than watching your UI update with all the speed of a 2400 baud modem, I have to think that companies that don't adopt these solutions will have a huge productivity advantage.
Always true no matter who you are. I saw a wingsuit video in 2012 and had a "What the hell am I doing with my life moment." Not coincidentally I started skydiving in 2012. Funny thing about this sport, people you talk to about it always say "Ooh, that's on my bucket list!" Two co-workers who'd said that to me died in 2013, both to accidents in their household. You never know when you're going to go. They tell you that in this sport you can do everything right and still die, but if that's how I go, that's how I go. That's a much better option that ass cancer having never touched the sky. That year I took my bonus from that company and bought a few of my friends 10 minutes of time each in a nearby indoor skydiving facility. One of those friends was someone who'd heard about such facilities years earlier, always wanted to go and never quite found the time. She recently told me that experience changed her life and that since then she's spent more on herself and her body than she ever had before, and that doing so felt good.
So go on and live the dream. You never know what you're likely to find when you go exploring. Maybe you'll find a completely different life than the one you thought you were destined to live.
Mr Pratchett, he touched a lot of people during his life and I think knew better than most that death comes for us all. Hopefully he had very few regrets when his time came.
True, it would be difficult to drop a 25 ton shipping container to Earth, but you could probably wrap a single customer's order in bubble wrap, fire it out of the Amazon.com Customer Order Mass Accelerator(tm) at just the right moment and have it whang into the guy's head shortly after reentry! Bwahahaha!
It's not so much what we can get in larger quantities down here. It's getting larger quantities into space for other projects. One you bootstrap some manufacturing in space, you can just start building there. At that point, why build anything that's going to end up in space down at the bottom of the gravity well? Just pull resources from the moon and passing asteroids. Once you have a solid established presence outside the gravity well, getting around the rest of the solar system is pretty easy.
In the near term if you're making unique things that zero gravity allows, it's a lot easier to get stuff back into the gravity well than it is to go the other way. So you make your zero-g-manufactured gizmos and drop 'em back into the gravity well to sell them. At some point you should also have a decent economy in space as well.
Hillary's handling of this could very easily sink her bid, depending on how she plays it. Weiner is a non-starter. I'm saying that mainly because I don't want to spend the campaign season looking at his penis, which the Republicans would be waving around more than he did. And he waved it around a LOT. I believe Warren has said she's not interested in running. That doesn't really leave a whole lot. I mean, Biden could jump in... *shudder*
I want to say it's actually good this is happening now, gives the party some time to scrounge around.
It seems like Steam is enjoying some success where Loki failed. I'd guess PC gamers are subsidizing Linux development at the moment, an advantage Loki lacked. Has anyone put an Xtrek client up on steam yet?
But this is sort of thing that was the reason behind all the early mathematicians being batshit crazy. Math is man's model of the universe and it's always been a good enough model that you start discovering all sorts of stuff in math that exactly mirrors the world around us. You start to think maybe there's some hidden power there, that maybe math can predict everything. Then you form a cult and start attracting followers and have to be put down by the government of the time. Er, or something. And that's just some one-trick hack with a lever or a screw or something. Imagine what would have happened if one of those guys had stumbled across hyperbolic geometry. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it was a very nice lever, but it didn't even go into the 4th dimension! I mean... er... what were we talking about again?
A lot of early programmers did treat it like C with objects, which really is a mistake when you're dealing with C++. You didn't hear much about RAII, relying on the optimizer to figure out when to move or copy objects, or magic stuff like boost shared pointers much before the middle of the last decade. I'm pretty sure the first time I looked at the language in the early 90's, it didn't have templates or a standard template library. I'm pretty sure I remember the discussion about adding templates to the language and how they were going to change everything.
You can write some damned ugly C++, it's true. You can write some very nice C++ as well, especially if the guy who writes your libraries puts some effort into making sure your code doesn't have to be hideous. The boost guys do a pretty good job of it. Sure occasionally there's some overengineered fuckery (Looking at YOU, boost::program_options) but once you wrap your head around it, it really isn't that hard to read. I wrote a similar library to bind environment variables to C++ variables with type conversion and without the lisp style syntax, and it really isn't that different.
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I honestly don't see why anyone would ask this question in the first place, frankly. Either you want vengeance and will be satisfied to see them explode in a shower of guts, or your conscience is going to speak up for the first time in years and tell you that what you're doing is wrong. You shouldn't be complaining about wanting to have your cake and eat it too. Killing a dude is serious business. The people complaining need to face that or not do it.
Oh yeah, a doctor could kill someone quite easily if it weren't for that inconvenient oath they took to do know harm with the knowledge they've been given. They won't even look at it as a very very very late term abortion. Stupid ethics, always screwing up our fun...
I mean, you could just not execute people. You know, seeing as how so many innocent people have been sent to death by racist juries or prosecutors extracting confessions from them with unethical measures. And how it costs a lot more to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for the rest of their life. But that's just crazy talk! We can't have a vengeance-based legal system with thinking like that!
There are a few products on the market that offer eye tracking mouse control. I don't know much about them or how well they work, but it might be worth a try. I'm pretty sure I've seen one or two brainwave-sensing ones, but those probably require goop or no hair, or both.
Nipple. Funny bit of trivia, some guy in IBM patented that thing and they sat on the patent for years thinking no one would like it. Every so often you'd think they don't really have their finger firmly on the nipple of the marketplace.
Those guys have already proven that they're willing to compromise the security of their hardware for anyone who waves a few bucks at them. Is anyone actually considering buying one of their machines after all that? Or maybe they just think that we have the attention span of a three year old?
I read that as "Wireless Charging Bastard" for a moment. I could totally see Apple adopting some kid (Regardless of parentage!) and making him charge all their devices!
Apparently the FAA isn't browisng with the right browser plugins.
Aww. Don't be depressed. The NSA isn't interested in your collection of penis photos. Their file on you says "Mostly harmless." Also, you should be using heavy duty foil. The lighter stuff just lets their mind control rays right through.
Man, go read some of the shit that went down at the start of the industrial revolution, then come back here and say that. There have always been quacks and frauds around the fringes, and plenty of gullible people for them to prey on. If anything we're unmasking them more quickly in this day of instantaneous communication. Money clearly can subvert the process if someone has an agenda and a lot of money, but again, nothing new there. Money's been subverting the best of human intentions for thousands of years. If anyone has any suggestions on how to prevent that, I'm all ears.
Right right. One tends to think of the education system as "uniform." This despite the fact that I am keenly aware that my educational experience was highly unusual. Moving every 5 years shakes things up a bit. And I had books around the house that sent me down a scientifically inquisitive path as well. They need to add a class in not believing everything someone tells you to the common core.
I'm gearing up for phase 2, which involves replacing 4 or 5 of the big CFL tube bulbs with LED replacements. The current tube bulbs are at least that old, too. I'm going to have to rewire a bunch of ballasts to put the new LED lights in. The LED tubes in the store put out easily as much light as the CFLs they're replacing. So, um, maybe you just have shitty power or something.
I like to think of stuff like homeopathy as the chlorine in our gene pool. We've made the world so safe for stupid people that if they didn't have outlets like this, we'd be devolving into lawyers and politicians faster than we already are. You know the saying that's popular around here, "You can't cure stupid"? If there's one thing homeopathy might be able to cure, it's that. It'd just take a couple generations to do it.
From what I hear, you can install Ubuntu on the last generation of surface pro. I haven't looked into whether the current one allows it.
From what I've seen, web apps and virtualization programs like Citrix deliver 1990s-level-performance on today's processors. All I can think is that at some point someone asked their computer for something, got an instantaneous response back and was terrified. I can imagine that person saying "My God! If my computer responds instantly, how will I take a 20 minute smoke break every 2 hours?" While there's nothing more nostalgia-inducing than watching your UI update with all the speed of a 2400 baud modem, I have to think that companies that don't adopt these solutions will have a huge productivity advantage.
So go on and live the dream. You never know what you're likely to find when you go exploring. Maybe you'll find a completely different life than the one you thought you were destined to live.
Mr Pratchett, he touched a lot of people during his life and I think knew better than most that death comes for us all. Hopefully he had very few regrets when his time came.
Watches! Because wearing a bracelet would be a little bit gay!
That's silly! No one's talking about making them breathe fire! Hm. Unless... Um... BRB...
True, it would be difficult to drop a 25 ton shipping container to Earth, but you could probably wrap a single customer's order in bubble wrap, fire it out of the Amazon.com Customer Order Mass Accelerator(tm) at just the right moment and have it whang into the guy's head shortly after reentry! Bwahahaha!
In the near term if you're making unique things that zero gravity allows, it's a lot easier to get stuff back into the gravity well than it is to go the other way. So you make your zero-g-manufactured gizmos and drop 'em back into the gravity well to sell them. At some point you should also have a decent economy in space as well.
I want to say it's actually good this is happening now, gives the party some time to scrounge around.
It seems like Steam is enjoying some success where Loki failed. I'd guess PC gamers are subsidizing Linux development at the moment, an advantage Loki lacked. Has anyone put an Xtrek client up on steam yet?
But this is sort of thing that was the reason behind all the early mathematicians being batshit crazy. Math is man's model of the universe and it's always been a good enough model that you start discovering all sorts of stuff in math that exactly mirrors the world around us. You start to think maybe there's some hidden power there, that maybe math can predict everything. Then you form a cult and start attracting followers and have to be put down by the government of the time. Er, or something. And that's just some one-trick hack with a lever or a screw or something. Imagine what would have happened if one of those guys had stumbled across hyperbolic geometry. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it was a very nice lever, but it didn't even go into the 4th dimension! I mean... er... what were we talking about again?
You can write some damned ugly C++, it's true. You can write some very nice C++ as well, especially if the guy who writes your libraries puts some effort into making sure your code doesn't have to be hideous. The boost guys do a pretty good job of it. Sure occasionally there's some overengineered fuckery (Looking at YOU, boost::program_options) but once you wrap your head around it, it really isn't that hard to read. I wrote a similar library to bind environment variables to C++ variables with type conversion and without the lisp style syntax, and it really isn't that different.
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