I've had a similar experience too and the result, although somewhat debatable, made a profound impact on my life. My wife and I struggled with infertility for years. She has a host of medical conditions that each could play a part in this infertility. One condition involved hyperthyroidism. After some research on the web, people with similar conditions claimed that using a medication to reduce thyroid levels to a certain range helped with infertility. The doctor we brought this up to disregarded our research and cited the acceptable range of thyroid hormone he learned about in medical school So we went back home and did some additional research. We found out that what is considered an acceptable range is debatable and recently that range was changed from a broad range to a much smaller one but this new range was not university accepted in the medical community. Back to the doctor we went (we live in a small town with only one endocrinologist available) and we discussed our findings again and demanded that he medicate my wife. He did and three months later she was pregnant.
In my doctor's defense, he was trying to avoid having my wife need this thyroid medication for the rest of her life. However, to us (her especially) it was worth the chance. Obviously, I'm all for people having access to information. It is our health, our body, our insurance money after all. If this is an inconvenience to doctors too bad, like it or not this is part of your job.
I imagine something like this transpired way back when the good people of Iceland were naming that volcano.
"What shall we call volcano number 7 sir?"
"What is wrong with volcano number 7?"
"You felt it needed a better name."
"Right, right. Of course. Double-o-seven has a nice ring to it."
"It does sir. Would that be two of the letter 'o' or two zeros?"
"There is a difference?"
"There is."
"Can we do away with that?"
"I think that may be outside the scope of this problem, sir."
"Fine, fine. What about... Eyjafjallajökull!"
"Is that a name sir?"
"No that was a sneeze."
I stopped using Wikipedia as a source for determining if something was real right after I used it to convince the world that WarioWare actually existed.
No wonder the dude on the left is g oing stag. He clearly has his hand in the wrong pocket. After all that work to get matching shirts, jeans and haircuts the little turd goes and forgets his training.
Don't be fooled by dictionaries either. Dictionaries record how words are USED (rightly or wrongly), not just what they mean. If people used 'bagel' to mean "stuff a cabbage in your ear on Tuesday", Webster would create an entry for it. Fucking descriptivists.
Let me get this straight... We should not believe a dictionary because their definitions are derived from the commonly believed meaning of the word. However we should believe you, some random/. clod who carries around a soapbox and an affinity for standing on it with no more credibility than your typical AC.
I'll assume the answer is yes.
So then, wouldn't it be safe to assume that the same idiots you are trying to win over to your side are the same idiots who got you up on the soapbox in the first place? If so, it is probably also safe to assume that those same idiots will follow the next wild-eyed slashdotter with a soapbox and a point who comes along.
Again, I'll assume the answer is yes.
In conclusion, I think you should just shut the hell up and go back to looking for porn. No one cares unless you have boobies, and even then, no one cares unless you are showing off those boobies. When you do finally show off those boobies, no one will be actually listening.
The fact that M$ is contributing half of the money for the project and considering the number of jobs building this road will create, I would think this is mostly a win for the taxpayers. Sure a big business is getting a road built, sure that big business happens to be next in line for the throne of satan but it is a public road and infrastructure is usually the job of government. Right?
I don't believe anything else Ballmer says. The guy is the poster child for M$ fuckups these days. Why would anyone believe what he has to say about his companies competition? His statement about Linux actually makes me think Apple is more of a competitor than any of us think.
Imagine how much XXX port package could charge for their collective content... Also imagine how much google could charge for their suite of offerings. Sure it violates the "do no evil" thingy, but that has never really applied to money.
Net neutrality champs or not, would any of us pay for an ISP without the 'five boner porn package' and the 'google suite'?
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They should be tossing hamsters or other small rodents into their server rooms. That'll show em.
Sure, but it's awfully hard to do that from your mom's basement.
You haven't been in my mom's basement.
It's a fine balancing act. Err too far one way, and you get the bugfest that is Fallout New Vegas. Too far the other way, and you get Diablo III.
There, fixed that for you.
I've had a similar experience too and the result, although somewhat debatable, made a profound impact on my life. My wife and I struggled with infertility for years. She has a host of medical conditions that each could play a part in this infertility. One condition involved hyperthyroidism. After some research on the web, people with similar conditions claimed that using a medication to reduce thyroid levels to a certain range helped with infertility. The doctor we brought this up to disregarded our research and cited the acceptable range of thyroid hormone he learned about in medical school So we went back home and did some additional research. We found out that what is considered an acceptable range is debatable and recently that range was changed from a broad range to a much smaller one but this new range was not university accepted in the medical community. Back to the doctor we went (we live in a small town with only one endocrinologist available) and we discussed our findings again and demanded that he medicate my wife. He did and three months later she was pregnant.
In my doctor's defense, he was trying to avoid having my wife need this thyroid medication for the rest of her life. However, to us (her especially) it was worth the chance. Obviously, I'm all for people having access to information. It is our health, our body, our insurance money after all. If this is an inconvenience to doctors too bad, like it or not this is part of your job.
I imagine something like this transpired way back when the good people of Iceland were naming that volcano.
"What shall we call volcano number 7 sir?"
"What is wrong with volcano number 7?"
"You felt it needed a better name."
"Right, right. Of course. Double-o-seven has a nice ring to it."
"It does sir. Would that be two of the letter 'o' or two zeros?"
"There is a difference?"
"There is."
"Can we do away with that?"
"I think that may be outside the scope of this problem, sir."
"Fine, fine. What about... Eyjafjallajökull!"
"Is that a name sir?"
"No that was a sneeze."
The rest was just a big misunderstanding.
yes. check out http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/
you guys are hilarious.
Ubuntu is that nerdy chick who bought YOU a drink.
But only other nerds really have a chance with her.
Give here enough attention and anything is possible. And I mean anything.
I stopped using Wikipedia as a source for determining if something was real right after I used it to convince the world that WarioWare actually existed.
This is real, right?
No wonder the dude on the left is g oing stag. He clearly has his hand in the wrong pocket. After all that work to get matching shirts, jeans and haircuts the little turd goes and forgets his training.
Did anyone think this would not happen at some point? People are so easy to make and grow. A successful show, on the other hand, is not so easy.
Don't be fooled by dictionaries either. Dictionaries record how words are USED (rightly or wrongly), not just what they mean. If people used 'bagel' to mean "stuff a cabbage in your ear on Tuesday", Webster would create an entry for it. Fucking descriptivists.
Let me get this straight... We should not believe a dictionary because their definitions are derived from the commonly believed meaning of the word. However we should believe you, some random /. clod who carries around a soapbox and an affinity for standing on it with no more credibility than your typical AC.
I'll assume the answer is yes.
So then, wouldn't it be safe to assume that the same idiots you are trying to win over to your side are the same idiots who got you up on the soapbox in the first place? If so, it is probably also safe to assume that those same idiots will follow the next wild-eyed slashdotter with a soapbox and a point who comes along.
Again, I'll assume the answer is yes.
In conclusion, I think you should just shut the hell up and go back to looking for porn. No one cares unless you have boobies, and even then, no one cares unless you are showing off those boobies. When you do finally show off those boobies, no one will be actually listening.
It is sad how much time I just spent looking for pictures of full body scans. P0rn is so much easier to find but why is it so much less fun?
Holy crap, the people at Bethesda are working on a Monday? You guys must be behind on your dialogue quota for the month.
what actually is happening in the ??? part of that statement?
can i get a link to the torrent plz?
Are the bowels of hell still available or is Ballmer still farting around down there?
I, for one, would welcome our pollution-filled overlords. Anything that bankrupts the middle east can't be that bad in my opinion.
Interesting, but all the tracks on what.cd are still free.
for serious
/agree
The fact that M$ is contributing half of the money for the project and considering the number of jobs building this road will create, I would think this is mostly a win for the taxpayers. Sure a big business is getting a road built, sure that big business happens to be next in line for the throne of satan but it is a public road and infrastructure is usually the job of government. Right?
I don't believe anything else Ballmer says. The guy is the poster child for M$ fuckups these days. Why would anyone believe what he has to say about his companies competition? His statement about Linux actually makes me think Apple is more of a competitor than any of us think.
Funny, but that was exactly what I though before I even read the summary. Too much /.?
i just take a picture of one of the server admins sleeping nude next to one of the server stacks and scribble in crayon: find this guy
Imagine how much XXX port package could charge for their collective content... Also imagine how much google could charge for their suite of offerings. Sure it violates the "do no evil" thingy, but that has never really applied to money.
Net neutrality champs or not, would any of us pay for an ISP without the 'five boner porn package' and the 'google suite'?