Just because the masses caused a stir about a product and now it's baned isn't neccisarily something to be proud of. Since, as you mentioned, the US has been using these foods for quite a while and there's no problem, I'd say that We (The US) were right on this one, and didn't give in to panic.
"Why not? I mean, who would buy it in the first place? Can you see the advertising campaign? Try our new foo paint, now with extra lead! Guaranteed to cause cancer or double your money back! "
Lots of people would buy it. Including you. It wouldn't be labeled "LEAD PAINT!" It'd be labeled "PAINT". And it'd be cheaper then the other stuff. You wouldn't know. They'd give it some fancy brand name and we'd all think it was something new.
I agree do that I still don't understand why people get upset about irradiated foods though.
With an impending nova of the Sun on the horizon (20 or 30 billion years from now), I figured it would be a good idea to go live inside my furnance for 5 days and write about my experi-
No, The pilots will be fine. The problem is that the wings will cease to generate lift. It seems that modern planes are designed by computers. And these plane-designing-computers aren't Y2K compatable. So if you're going to be in the air at Y2K, make sure you're in a DC3 or something.
How 'bout this : Instead of a treadmill, have a platform made of ball-bearings that are free to rotate in any direction. At the same time the user would have to be wearing a harnes that keeps him upright and in the same place.
Ok, assuming for the sake of argument that there is a God and he does listen to prayers even automated ones, doesn't this constitute a form of spam?
I mean God's going to check his mental in-box, and he's going to start going through the prayers he's getting and he's going to come acrouse 536,000 identical prayers from the same guy. What's worse it didn't cost the guy anything in terms of time or thought! If I were a god I'd much rather have a single heartfelt prayer then thousands you just cranked out. So if I was a God, I'd be prety anoyed. Even if I didn't smite you right there (Come on, how many of you with you could smite spamers?) I'd probably stop listening to anything you said in the future.(Perhaps He can kill-file people's prayers) And it'll probably be counted against you when you get to the pearly gates. (St.P. : Oh, You're the one who's been bogging down our incoming prayer server...We've got a special fate picked out for you.)
So basicaly if there is a God this is a sure-fire way of geting yourself on His bad side. And if there isn't you'd have been better off runing SETI@home. It's a lose-lose situation.
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Am I the only one who doesn't actualy beleve there's donating going on? Fr'instance the page says it won't let you donate twice, but there doesn't seem to be a mechinism to stop you...
Exactly, For 10 days out of every other month we've been odd. Some of us have been outright strange. But now because of the impending even month And the curse of an 1111 even years to come, we must stop being strange. No more may we enjoy a day of oddities. In short oddness has been banished from this land for the next 1111 years.
To assume that someone's life == SouthPark is silly. Lots of people have jobs worse then this. Personaly I'd say that working on a project that was known around the world would beat (in my mind) the majority of jobs available. (Managment, telemarketer, programer for worthless projects, IT department for big badly managed company, whatever.) But to say that millions of people's lives are failures because they're not in some fantastic world-moving job is silly. There are other ways to make your life worth-while.
So basically, You're upset because people view Christians as close minded and intolerant of ideas that they don't 100% agree with. I can understand this. Stereotypes are a serious problem, not just on/. but in America (and the world) at large.
On a completely unrelated note you assert that this woman couldn't possibly be a Christian because her views on a particular TV show aren't the same as yours. I think this is also reasonable.
But, the "whole point" is essentialy a scientific experiment. When you do a scientific experiment you have to controll all the variables. When the experiment is over they have to be able to say "We looked Here,Here, and Here. On These Frequencies using Exactly these algorythms and we did[n't] find an alien signal" It's wouldn't do to conclude the experiment by saying "We looked Here, Here, and Here. On These Frequencies useing some algotythms. Some data was check with this algorythem, Most of it with this one, and packets xxx through yyy we're not sure how they were checked but we're still prety sure we did[n't] recieve a signal. But we can't reproduce anything because we're not sure exactly what was going on"
"and if they get a report of a hit, they can verify it themselves using a reference implementation, or quietly submit it to someone else and see if they get the same results. "
That's not the problem. They're not worried that people will submit false positives because, as you said, it's easy to check. They're much more worried about false negatives. Imagine this. I'm a Freaked out advocate of Some machine or OS. I'm sure my suped up computer will blow everyone out of the water! So I'll sign up for SETI@Home to prove it to the world! Yea! The only problem is that my machine sucks. It performs below average. I'm still convinvced that it's the best (Because I'm a freeked out advocate) but I can't spare the cash to actualy make it perform. So how to convice the rest of the world how cool my system realy is? I Fake it! I modify my client so every half hour it requests a new packet from SETI@home and sends it straight to the great hard drive in the sky. Then half an hour later it tells the SETI program "Nope no aliens here" and requests the next packet. The point is a large number of the people using SETI@home realy don't care about the science. They're doing it as sort of a 'My Box is Better then Yours' contest. And at least some of them would fake it if they could. Meanwhile the aliens are saying 'hello' and we're missing it. So what they've got to do is come up with a way to ensure the packets are actualy being checked that doesn't involve the client. I don't see why they don't send the occasional fake-possitive to suspect clients.
What about the idiots who for whatever reason feel the need to explain everything to their dates? I sat right in front of one of these during 'The X-Files' and every thirty seconds he'd explain something painfully obviouse to his date ("Thats an Alien." "Oh! The Bee!" "He's gotta find scully") This would be dificult to simulate because the information would need to be unique to each movie.
If the drinks were being chilled in a diferent fridge, and the Motherboard/cpu was giving off a lot of heat it's belevable that they'd be colder then the surrounding air for a short while. (If they're to be beleved this would explain why the they couldn't run it for long.) Especialy since they seemed to keep the door open.
I'm more suspicios that, A) They didn't mention the temprature sensors on thier equipment list. B) They say everything was destroyed. Unless the whole rig caught on fire why would, say, the Voodoo card be destroyed? (Water condensation?) If it did catch on fire why don't we have pictures? C) Did they boot to a slower speed to install HAlf-life and then reboot to the super-dooper speed? If so why not mention it? Also how did they install half-life? They didn't mention a CD-drive. In fact from the photos they didn't even have a floppy drive. Although it's possible that the computer they took the HD from already had halflife on it. So I guesse my whole point "C" is worlthless. Oh well.
Yea, but it'll be 10 times more powerfull then any fusion reactors made by Intel.
Actualy, I'm hoping they're making wearables. But I'm not holding my breath.
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Easy. Judge tells Joe Shmoe not to post. Joe posts. The people who applied for the original order will complain that Joe is violating the order. Police show up at Joe's door and arrest him.
Wouldn't we first have to check to see how prevelant life is in the Universe before taking this as conclusive? What if we explored a large portion of the Universe and found that only this star system and a few near-by ones had life. And all of those life forms had DNA? Then we'd have to be suspicious of cross contamination.
If only the supreme being had left us some sort of message. Like that (rather dumb) episode of ST:TNG.
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Just because the masses caused a stir about a product and now it's baned isn't neccisarily something to be proud of. Since, as you mentioned, the US has been using these foods for quite a while and there's no problem, I'd say that We (The US) were right on this one, and didn't give in to panic.
"Why not? I mean, who would buy it in the first place? Can you see the advertising campaign? Try our new foo paint, now with extra lead! Guaranteed to cause cancer or double your money back! "
Lots of people would buy it. Including you. It wouldn't be labeled "LEAD PAINT!" It'd be labeled "PAINT". And it'd be cheaper then the other stuff. You wouldn't know. They'd give it some fancy brand name and we'd all think it was something new.
I agree do that I still don't understand why people get upset about irradiated foods though.
Puhleeze.. no one has ever proved that.
Well, isn't that why the EU investigating it? That's what investigation is for.
With an impending nova of the Sun on the horizon (20 or 30 billion years from now), I figured it would be a good idea to go live inside my furnance for 5 days and write about my experi-
Nevermind. It was a stupid premise.
Any one here remember the /. article about the HERF gun?
No, The pilots will be fine. The problem is that the wings will cease to generate lift. It seems that modern planes are designed by computers. And these plane-designing-computers aren't Y2K compatable. So if you're going to be in the air at Y2K, make sure you're in a DC3 or something.
By January 15, 2000 I predict that computers will be the only sane things still around. Oh, and myself of course.
I get dizzy watching someone else play, But it's never bothered me when I'm the one playing.
How 'bout this : Instead of a treadmill, have a platform made of ball-bearings that are free to rotate in any direction. At the same time the user would have to be wearing a harnes that keeps him upright and in the same place.
Ok, assuming for the sake of argument that there is a God and he does listen to prayers even automated ones, doesn't this constitute a form of spam?
I mean God's going to check his mental in-box, and he's going to start going through the prayers he's getting and he's going to come acrouse 536,000 identical prayers from the same guy. What's worse it didn't cost the guy anything in terms of time or thought! If I were a god I'd much rather have a single heartfelt prayer then thousands you just cranked out. So if I was a God, I'd be prety anoyed. Even if I didn't smite you right there (Come on, how many of you with you could smite spamers?) I'd probably stop listening to anything you said in the future.(Perhaps He can kill-file people's prayers) And it'll probably be counted against you when you get to the pearly gates. (St.P. : Oh, You're the one who's been bogging down our incoming prayer server...We've got a special fate picked out for you.)
So basicaly if there is a God this is a sure-fire way of geting yourself on His bad side. And if there isn't you'd have been better off runing SETI@home. It's a lose-lose situation.
Am I the only one who doesn't actualy beleve there's donating going on? Fr'instance the page says it won't let you donate twice, but there doesn't seem to be a mechinism to stop you...
Also, Don't worry about keeping quiet. All guards, solders and undead will remain at thier post until shot-at.
I'm actualy growing an overmind in a fishtank in my basement.
Prety soon it'll be ready to build my first hive.
Exactly, For 10 days out of every other month we've been odd. Some of us have been outright strange. But now because of the impending even month And the curse of an 1111 even years to come, we must stop being strange. No more may we enjoy a day of oddities. In short oddness has been banished from this land for the next 1111 years.
To assume that someone's life == SouthPark is silly. Lots of people have jobs worse then this. Personaly I'd say that working on a project that was known around the world would beat (in my mind) the majority of jobs available. (Managment, telemarketer, programer for worthless projects, IT department for big badly managed company, whatever.) But to say that millions of people's lives are failures because they're not in some fantastic world-moving job is silly. There are other ways to make your life worth-while.
So basically, You're upset because people view Christians as close minded and intolerant of ideas that they don't 100% agree with. I can understand this. Stereotypes are a serious problem, not just on /. but in America (and the world) at large.
On a completely unrelated note you assert that this woman couldn't possibly be a Christian because her views on a particular TV show aren't the same as yours. I think this is also reasonable.
But, the "whole point" is essentialy a scientific experiment. When you do a scientific experiment you have to controll all the variables. When the experiment is over they have to be able to say "We looked Here,Here, and Here. On These Frequencies using Exactly these algorythms and we did[n't] find an alien signal"
It's wouldn't do to conclude the experiment by saying "We looked Here, Here, and Here. On These Frequencies useing some algotythms. Some data was check with this algorythem, Most of it with this one, and packets xxx through yyy we're not sure how they were checked but we're still prety sure we did[n't] recieve a signal. But we can't reproduce anything because we're not sure exactly what was going on"
"and if they get a report of a hit, they can verify it themselves using a reference implementation, or quietly submit it to someone else and see if they get the same results. "
That's not the problem. They're not worried that people will submit false positives because, as you said, it's easy to check. They're much more worried about false negatives. Imagine this. I'm a Freaked out advocate of Some machine or OS. I'm sure my suped up computer will blow everyone out of the water! So I'll sign up for SETI@Home to prove it to the world! Yea! The only problem is that my machine sucks. It performs below average. I'm still convinvced that it's the best (Because I'm a freeked out advocate) but I can't spare the cash to actualy make it perform. So how to convice the rest of the world how cool my system realy is? I Fake it! I modify my client so every half hour it requests a new packet from SETI@home and sends it straight to the great hard drive in the sky. Then half an hour later it tells the SETI program "Nope no aliens here" and requests the next packet.
The point is a large number of the people using SETI@home realy don't care about the science. They're doing it as sort of a 'My Box is Better then Yours' contest. And at least some of them would fake it if they could. Meanwhile the aliens are saying 'hello' and we're missing it.
So what they've got to do is come up with a way to ensure the packets are actualy being checked that doesn't involve the client. I don't see why they don't send the occasional fake-possitive to suspect clients.
If the moderator is from World-(USA+GB) and he hasn't seen South Park then he shouldn't be moderating this thread, right?
What about the idiots who for whatever reason feel the need to explain everything to their dates? I sat right in front of one of these during 'The X-Files' and every thirty seconds he'd explain something painfully obviouse to his date ("Thats an Alien." "Oh! The Bee!" "He's gotta find scully")
This would be dificult to simulate because the information would need to be unique to each movie.
Hmm... I suppose articles like this are out of the scope of Godwin's Law, right?
If the drinks were being chilled in a diferent fridge, and the Motherboard/cpu was giving off a lot of heat it's belevable that they'd be colder then the surrounding air for a short while. (If they're to be beleved this would explain why the they couldn't run it for long.) Especialy since they seemed to keep the door open.
I'm more suspicios that,
A) They didn't mention the temprature sensors on thier equipment list.
B) They say everything was destroyed. Unless the whole rig caught on fire why would, say, the Voodoo card be destroyed? (Water condensation?) If it did catch on fire why don't we have pictures?
C) Did they boot to a slower speed to install HAlf-life and then reboot to the super-dooper speed? If so why not mention it? Also how did they install half-life? They didn't mention a CD-drive. In fact from the photos they didn't even have a floppy drive. Although it's possible that the computer they took the HD from already had halflife on it. So I guesse my whole point "C" is worlthless. Oh well.
Yea, but it'll be 10 times more powerfull then any fusion reactors made by Intel.
Actualy, I'm hoping they're making wearables. But I'm not holding my breath.
Easy. Judge tells Joe Shmoe not to post. Joe posts. The people who applied for the original order will complain that Joe is violating the order. Police show up at Joe's door and arrest him.
Where do you see a problem?
Wouldn't we first have to check to see how prevelant life is in the Universe before taking this as conclusive? What if we explored a large portion of the Universe and found that only this star system and a few near-by ones had life. And all of those life forms had DNA? Then we'd have to be suspicious of cross contamination.
If only the supreme being had left us some sort of message. Like that (rather dumb) episode of ST:TNG.