Why, exactly? Who would you rather hear it from, a plumber? Remember, business people are geeks, that's why they're in business. What better place for a business geek than in business?
And aside from that, anyone can see their business model is shit. Or flawed, if you like.
They government also uses tools that are build by, among others, IBM, Dell, and Apple. Their buildings use wires and pipes made by companies. The paper is made by companies. The clothes they make are made by companies.
What do you expect, the government to make/everything/ they use in-house?
I'm not sure you understand what you're trying to imply.
Nice sentiment, but we have the internet now, and yet still, right this very second, the genocide in Sudan and Zimbabwe is very active. Not to mention the fact that the internet existed in the 90's, yet the 90's saw the worst genocide since the Holocaust and Pol Pot, with the (very preventable) genocide in Rwanda.
So, yeah. It's a nice fuzzy sentiment, but the recent and current active acts of genocide in the world are pretty clear evidence that it's just not true.
"practical applications are still questionable at best."
Funny, I heard the same thing about Livejournal, Facebook, and later, Twitter.
Now each of those are worth hundreds of millions, and are used by hundreds of millions of people. "Practical" isn't a neccessary prerequisite for success.
Spoken like a true middle-class wealthy white kid who's never worked a day in his life. Do you seriously think that only rich college kids have to eat crap food just to survive sometimes? Something else you gotta realize, QuantumG, is that just because someone's poor, doesn't mean they always have to be poor. Anyone can work harder, better, smarter, and get better in life.
You really hate women, don't you? Listen, just because you might have been brought up to believe than women are inferior to men, that's just not true. Women aren't only ever acknowledged out of 'pity or some emotive source', and I'm sorry you feel that way, but women are important and capable in their own right, just as much as men, and there's no need to put down an entire gender like that.
If you don't feel any need to find and honor the contributions of women, that's fine, but just because they're women, doesn't mean they haven't accomplished important things, and contributed great things that deserve to be honored, just as much as the great things and contributions of men.
In short, stop being a mysoginist, girlintraining, especially here on slashdot we don't need any more of that than is already here - as you say, sexism does deeply pervade our society, and I'd appreciate it if people like you made an effort to realize that men aren't always superior.
I don't have the time nor energy to start and maintain it, but - we need something like http://www.greenpeacelies.com/ , to fight this deceptive sort of propaganda.
Anyone willing? It'd embarass the hell out of them, and heck, the thing could probably include a section on PETA, Scientology - all those immoral, deceitful sorts of people and groups.
I'm honestly scared of the day that they do figure out how to cure aging (basic diseases like mumps, rubella, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, etc etc), because it will lead to an even greater stratification of social status and class. Most of the wealth in this country (and indeed most of the world) is concentrated with men who are over the age of 50-60 years. When they die, that wealth is then redistributed. Those people will be amongst the first to benefit from any such medical process; And if history has been any judge, that medical process will be expensive and there'll be little incentive to make it cheaper (medical processes are initially expensive, but rapidly become cheaper to the point of ubiqity, and there is great incentive to make it cheaper (mass production = more purchasers = greater profit). The end result will be people who are born and work their entire lives, then die, never having had the opportunity to aquire wealth, (due to greater health and longer lives, having many more opportunities to aquire wealth) because those who still have it aren't dying anymore (and therefore live longer, spend more, and via spending more, enriching others).
This won't be something for humanity to celebrate (because you prefer people to die young and poor?). If and when the day comes, then we'll have to answer the question of what happens when numbers increase but resources decrease? (Very simple - because people don't rely on subsistence farming, they don't need huge families of which most die before age five; therefore, smaller families, lower population. lower enviromental impact, and greater percentage of resources and wealth available for the population as a whole). And the answer will be in what kind of life is possible in that world. It won't be as good as the one you have now, I assure you. (You think the discovery and invention of vaccines, bandages, surgery, hospitals, CPR, and every other medical advance of the past several thousand years has made life *worse*?)...
Honestly, the above poster knows very little of medicine, history, or human nature.
Because most people block and ignore Idle, and not Science.
Seriously, Idle is like a virus or something, and it's infecting the rest of/. somehow. If we're going to have such a spam section on here to begin with, let's use it and keep stuff like this where it belongs.
Um, I dunno if you noticed, but... squid float, and swim in the water. Unless they stay suidicially still while one of the drilling beams is slowly lowered onto them, there's nothing to worry about.
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No, it's an article that escaped from Idle.
Seriously, why?
I'm seriously trying to figure out if there's any reason I keep coming here other than habit.
Game download thing is neat I guess, but why the red? Seems an attempt at audience manipulation to me, and I don't like feeling manipulated.
IDLE.
Copy-pasting my previous comment about a story like this, that happened to get me a "+5 Insightful+"
Seriously, keep this shit in Idle, or get rid of Idle entirely.
Please.
Seriously, keep this shit in Idle, or get rid of Idle entirely.
Please.
Why, exactly? Who would you rather hear it from, a plumber? Remember, business people are geeks, that's why they're in business. What better place for a business geek than in business?
And aside from that, anyone can see their business model is shit. Or flawed, if you like.
Why?
Why shouldn't the government use tools that work?
They government also uses tools that are build by, among others, IBM, Dell, and Apple. Their buildings use wires and pipes made by companies. The paper is made by companies. The clothes they make are made by companies.
What do you expect, the government to make /everything/ they use in-house?
I'm not sure you understand what you're trying to imply.
Thoughts are easy to censor out of existance, trivially easy - it's called a 'bullet'.
Why does it scare you? Because it isn't easy? Just because it's difficult, doesn't mean you should be scared.
Nice sentiment, but we have the internet now, and yet still, right this very second, the genocide in Sudan and Zimbabwe is very active. Not to mention the fact that the internet existed in the 90's, yet the 90's saw the worst genocide since the Holocaust and Pol Pot, with the (very preventable) genocide in Rwanda.
So, yeah. It's a nice fuzzy sentiment, but the recent and current active acts of genocide in the world are pretty clear evidence that it's just not true.
"practical applications are still questionable at best."
Funny, I heard the same thing about Livejournal, Facebook, and later, Twitter.
Now each of those are worth hundreds of millions, and are used by hundreds of millions of people. "Practical" isn't a neccessary prerequisite for success.
Spoken like a true middle-class wealthy white kid who's never worked a day in his life. Do you seriously think that only rich college kids have to eat crap food just to survive sometimes? Something else you gotta realize, QuantumG, is that just because someone's poor, doesn't mean they always have to be poor. Anyone can work harder, better, smarter, and get better in life.
Not to mention fainty pedophilic. Which kids are good at picking up on.
I don't have an XBOX, 360 or otherwise. I travel too much to make it worth it.
But this... damn yes this.
I'd by this tommorrow if they had it.
You really hate women, don't you? Listen, just because you might have been brought up to believe than women are inferior to men, that's just not true. Women aren't only ever acknowledged out of 'pity or some emotive source', and I'm sorry you feel that way, but women are important and capable in their own right, just as much as men, and there's no need to put down an entire gender like that.
If you don't feel any need to find and honor the contributions of women, that's fine, but just because they're women, doesn't mean they haven't accomplished important things, and contributed great things that deserve to be honored, just as much as the great things and contributions of men.
In short, stop being a mysoginist, girlintraining, especially here on slashdot we don't need any more of that than is already here - as you say, sexism does deeply pervade our society, and I'd appreciate it if people like you made an effort to realize that men aren't always superior.
http://www.greenpeacelies.com/
I don't have the time nor energy to start and maintain it, but - we need something like http://www.greenpeacelies.com/ , to fight this deceptive sort of propaganda.
Anyone willing? It'd embarass the hell out of them, and heck, the thing could probably include a section on PETA, Scientology - all those immoral, deceitful sorts of people and groups.
Okay, so... your answer to improved health care is to... kill the people who receieve it? ...
You're one twisted little person, do you know that?0
I'm honestly scared of the day that they do figure out how to cure aging (basic diseases like mumps, rubella, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, etc etc), because it will lead to an even greater stratification of social status and class. Most of the wealth in this country (and indeed most of the world) is concentrated with men who are over the age of 50-60 years. When they die, that wealth is then redistributed. Those people will be amongst the first to benefit from any such medical process; And if history has been any judge, that medical process will be expensive and there'll be little incentive to make it cheaper (medical processes are initially expensive, but rapidly become cheaper to the point of ubiqity, and there is great incentive to make it cheaper (mass production = more purchasers = greater profit). The end result will be people who are born and work their entire lives, then die, never having had the opportunity to aquire wealth, (due to greater health and longer lives, having many more opportunities to aquire wealth) because those who still have it aren't dying anymore (and therefore live longer, spend more, and via spending more, enriching others).
This won't be something for humanity to celebrate (because you prefer people to die young and poor?). If and when the day comes, then we'll have to answer the question of what happens when numbers increase but resources decrease? (Very simple - because people don't rely on subsistence farming, they don't need huge families of which most die before age five; therefore, smaller families, lower population. lower enviromental impact, and greater percentage of resources and wealth available for the population as a whole). And the answer will be in what kind of life is possible in that world. It won't be as good as the one you have now, I assure you. (You think the discovery and invention of vaccines, bandages, surgery, hospitals, CPR, and every other medical advance of the past several thousand years has made life *worse*?) ...
Honestly, the above poster knows very little of medicine, history, or human nature.
Yeah, but when was Idle ever fun?
Because most people block and ignore Idle, and not Science.
Seriously, Idle is like a virus or something, and it's infecting the rest of /. somehow. If we're going to have such a spam section on here to begin with, let's use it and keep stuff like this where it belongs.
There are people in the world who are healthier, fitter, and smarter than you. Compared to them, you're disabled.
Should you therefore, according to your logic, be executed?
Yeah... but, uh, Stephen Hawking isn't *quite* exactly a 'student leaving overseas for a higher paying job', per se.
Um, I dunno if you noticed, but... squid float, and swim in the water. Unless they stay suidicially still while one of the drilling beams is slowly lowered onto them, there's nothing to worry about.
Heh, I think you're underestimating how *tiny* lazor beams can get. With this, there should be *zero* evidence of scarring, once the skin grows over.
Heh, I take it you work for McDonalds, huh? You're stretching pretty hard here to defend this.