Take the most annoying, derided aspect out of every piece of software they've ever made, turn it into a stand-alone app, and make it apply to your whole computer.
"it looks like a virus has infected me, your helpful system-fix program! would you like some help with that?--Or WoUlD YoU LiKe To Go To HeLl"
Of course baldness is a disease. A minor one at first sight, but it can lower people's self-esteem and cause severe psychological diseases, such as depression.
Depression is not caused by baldness.
Especially in this day and age in which baldness (embraced baldness, not spooge-combover) is becoming associated in popular culture with power.
As someone with depression, i'll tell you that minor physical imperfections do not cause or contribute to this problem.
Depression is an emotional reaction to sweeping, systemic problems in our society.
Andromeda had it right: depression is a signal to a person to abandon a futile task. If, however, society as a whole represents futility, there's no alternative course of action, and you have to get your SOMA to make it go away.
US on the other hand may experience a sharp increase in cost of capital, immediately followed by a devalued dollar reversing the effect (somewhat). It will make labor more expensive, exports competitive and possibly lose the economic superpower status for US. But as long as anyone in US still knows how to run an industry, they should be able to rebuild their lifes.
Sorry to say but it won't happen that way. The only way the US will prevent a slide into third-world status in such a scenario is if other superpowers consider the consumer market there worth investment to keep it afloat.
The problem is our politicians have been running the company on a dot-com business plan:
They pitched out the "buy raw materials, add value through manufacturing, sell to the rest of the world" model the entire industrialized world used to build and maintain their wealth by selling out the manufacturing sectors with FTA's.
Their rationale?: In the "digital age" we're going to sell bits!
The reality: the only way to enforce intellectual property is with force. Force you are: a - not willing to commit because IP is not worth a war and b - cannot feasibly maintain in perpetuity at the levels necessary for worldwide domination.
Even that assertion is bearing doubts as P2P continues to thrive and gain further traction with each successively stricter enforcement effort.
We are past the age when politicians are willing to admit they are wrong. They'll keep us in the nose dive until we smash into the ground, and, when the crash does happen, we will be left in a very VERY weak position, essentially the new third world.. i suppose you could term it the "fourth" world.
This effect is called the "money multiplier", and it's been around LONG before anyone went off the gold standard.
Without the money multiplier, the industrial revolution would not have gotten very far.
The reason we're facing massive economic collapse is not because of debt defaults per say, but because the markets are so skittish that nobody is lending, thus the money multiplier is being squished into nothing.
This is exactly what happened during the depression, though for slightly different and more severe reasons.
Back then, the banks themselves went bust. The money multiplier was gone, and the money supply evaporated. This meant businesses could not get loans to weather the economic storm, so they went belly-up.. and unemployment skyrocketed.
The blessing here is most assets are covered by the FDIC now, when they weren't in the late 20's. This should help cushion the worst case scenario.
I can't wait to see what happens when the machine finds silicone, pops it like a zit, finds a false positive (or a real positive near the implant), then sets the poor woman's chest on fire (or makes it explode)
Look if interference can cause this sort of issue they have a much bigger problem on their hands. What is stopping some terrorist from grabbing a magnatron out of a microwave oven, attaching it to a wireless parabolic grid and death raying airplanes out of the sky? Stray signals causing loss of altitude control is some serious crapola.
"next on fox news 'reliable sources' on the blogosphere report terrorists are making home grown 'death rays' with plans to shoot down american flights. Bush administration officials urge the passage of patriot act 2, electric boogaloo, to combat this new threat. Next up: sources tie obama to airplane death rays"
not quite true. Airbus USED to subscribe to this philosophy, until about a dozen post mortem cases and near misses convinced them to install an override switch.
I think the loss of one of their prototypes to this computer vs pilot struggle at an air show gave them a very public, convincing argument in that regard.
did you think radio waves were something other than light?
well.. i suppose youre right.
I make frequent calls to the police telling them to shut down WRAS because their FM signal is keeping me awake at night. I mean.. even with my eyes closed it's like staring into the sun : P
True, but the idea a person's gadget would cause even a fraction of the EMI of a nearby thunderstorm is ridiculous. (FAA requires these things test against DIRECT lighting strikes to the plane)
From a pure evolutionary survival of the fittest world view - that hope makes no sense.
why doesn't it?
We are in a very stable period of our climate, geology, etc. We have created our own environments, but those can be obliterated in the push of a few buttons, or instantly when a rock falls from the sky.
If a group of people have little chance of contributing anything significant to the species NOW
qualified that for you, it's a very important qualification. 300 years ago people like you would have put bill gates, edison, and stephen hawking to death because they were too weak for the manual labor which predominated the day.
then why should it not be allowed to die off while the fittest remain?
Because "fittest" obviously means what produces financial and social success under our current, specific social, political, geological, and climactic structure.
change one thing and suddenly it's better to be stupidly fat than thin, to be more decisive and avoid overanalysis, to be less decisive and more cautious, to be smaller, or taller, etc.
Assuring every mutation survives in a period of stability provides greater odds we survive the next shock as a species.
I view this point of view as *unmitigated evil*. Parasites should not be tolerated. Parasites weaken the organism and lead to its demise.
and who are you to declare what a "parasite" is to our gene pool?
If you asked a spartan to implement this strategy, we woudln't have the computers you're using to advocate genetic cleansing.
JFK had adison's disease. I mean, that horrible parasite! His diplomatic and geopolitical acumen arguably saved our whole species from nuclear annihilation!
How many potential JFK's are removed from this world because of people who think like you.
"The slightest imperfections of our pure, human race must be removed!" Right?
The "liquids" to be used are less dense than water, and being placed on the lunar surface, which is covered in dust several times finer than baking powder.
I'd give it about 3-5 days (depending on the size) before the "revolving liquid mirrors" become revolving lunar mud pies.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry.. accidentally clicked submit... have to love optical mice on patterned surfaces.
Systemic problems with society have nothing to do with existentialism or philosophy for that matter.
a majority of people will not experience this disgusting, sleazy underbelly.
A significant fraction of the population do though.
one example which comes immediately to mind in this regard is one-size-fits-all culture.
existential crisis?
no sir. systemic problems with society do not amount to existential crisis. They relate to existentialism about as much as an empty coke can.
Not in the hydroponics industry.
I'm a bit too sentient to be a potted plant, and I don't respond well when fed nitrate based fertilizer pellets : P
(seriously though, if you know a good field to aim for 2-3 years down the road, I am NOT an american anymore.. i just live here)
Just what i'd expect from microsoft.
Take the most annoying, derided aspect out of every piece of software they've ever made, turn it into a stand-alone app, and make it apply to your whole computer.
"it looks like a virus has infected me, your helpful system-fix program! would you like some help with that?--Or WoUlD YoU LiKe To Go To HeLl"
ah, an excellent example of the systemic problems in our society.. this guy.
Baldness might not contribute to depression but it sure feels like shit.
chronic pain feels like shit, baldness feels a bit drafty : P
I hope you applied a logarithmic curve to that to account for moore's law.
You are probably trolling, but I'll bite.
Of course baldness is a disease. A minor one at first sight, but it can lower people's self-esteem and cause severe psychological diseases, such as depression.
Depression is not caused by baldness.
Especially in this day and age in which baldness (embraced baldness, not spooge-combover) is becoming associated in popular culture with power.
As someone with depression, i'll tell you that minor physical imperfections do not cause or contribute to this problem.
Depression is an emotional reaction to sweeping, systemic problems in our society.
Andromeda had it right: depression is a signal to a person to abandon a futile task. If, however, society as a whole represents futility, there's no alternative course of action, and you have to get your SOMA to make it go away.
In 2000, 2004...
www.cic.gc.ca
Go on, I dare you.
i've been looking at it.
I'm fresh off the podium though, they want people more advanced in their careers with proven economic self-sufficiency.
US on the other hand may experience a sharp increase in cost of capital, immediately followed by a devalued dollar reversing the effect (somewhat). It will make labor more expensive, exports competitive and possibly lose the economic superpower status for US. But as long as anyone in US still knows how to run an industry, they should be able to rebuild their lifes.
Sorry to say but it won't happen that way. The only way the US will prevent a slide into third-world status in such a scenario is if other superpowers consider the consumer market there worth investment to keep it afloat.
The problem is our politicians have been running the company on a dot-com business plan:
They pitched out the "buy raw materials, add value through manufacturing, sell to the rest of the world" model the entire industrialized world used to build and maintain their wealth by selling out the manufacturing sectors with FTA's.
Their rationale?:
In the "digital age" we're going to sell bits!
The reality:
the only way to enforce intellectual property is with force.
Force you are:
a - not willing to commit because IP is not worth a war
and
b - cannot feasibly maintain in perpetuity at the levels necessary for worldwide domination.
Even that assertion is bearing doubts as P2P continues to thrive and gain further traction with each successively stricter enforcement effort.
We are past the age when politicians are willing to admit they are wrong.
They'll keep us in the nose dive until we smash into the ground, and, when the crash does happen, we will be left in a very VERY weak position, essentially the new third world.. i suppose you could term it the "fourth" world.
This effect is called the "money multiplier", and it's been around LONG before anyone went off the gold standard.
Without the money multiplier, the industrial revolution would not have gotten very far.
The reason we're facing massive economic collapse is not because of debt defaults per say, but because the markets are so skittish that nobody is lending, thus the money multiplier is being squished into nothing.
This is exactly what happened during the depression, though for slightly different and more severe reasons.
Back then, the banks themselves went bust. The money multiplier was gone, and the money supply evaporated. This meant businesses could not get loans to weather the economic storm, so they went belly-up.. and unemployment skyrocketed.
The blessing here is most assets are covered by the FDIC now, when they weren't in the late 20's. This should help cushion the worst case scenario.
. Only one wing of the building fell off that time. If we had exercised any prudence whatsoever we would have taken the hint.
It's the job of business to make money, and damn morals, prudence, or anything else which might get in the way.
This is what we call "moral hazard". This is the REASON why we have regulation, and why reaganomics was declared a failure decades ago.
Still, these moronic, bull-headed politicians and their faux-news commentators (i'm looking at you bill) keep pushing it.
Self-regulation is no regulation.
I can't wait to see what happens when the machine finds silicone, pops it like a zit, finds a false positive (or a real positive near the implant), then sets the poor woman's chest on fire (or makes it explode)
watch the discovery channel more often.
I remember one specific documentary called the making of the 777.
They took a fully finished 777 wing into a hangar, and hit it with a lightning strike from a tesla coil.
It left a singe mark on the paint, nothing more.
they actually DO this kind of testing.
not sure on quicktime pro, but you can completely turn off the store in the "parental control" options in itunes.
I have no annoying links in itunes.
You are trying to tell us that every airplane in the air today has been deliberately run through a thunderstorm so it will be hit by lightning
actually, yes, so to speak.
Scale models and in some case full mockups of various materials and construction are subjected to simulated lightning from tesla coils.
Lightning strikes are quite a common occurrence in flight, and if the machine is too fragile to survive one it will be considered unsafe.
Look if interference can cause this sort of issue they have a much bigger problem on their hands. What is stopping some
terrorist from grabbing a magnatron out of a microwave oven, attaching it to a wireless parabolic grid and death raying
airplanes out of the sky? Stray signals causing loss of altitude control is some serious crapola.
"next on fox news 'reliable sources' on the blogosphere report terrorists are making home grown 'death rays' with plans to shoot down american flights. Bush administration officials urge the passage of patriot act 2, electric boogaloo, to combat this new threat. Next up: sources tie obama to airplane death rays"
*holds up mouse*
NOBODY MOVE!
I'm taking this plane to... 4 miles away from it's intended destination.
in conclusion..
jihad jihad... thank you.
weren't the lawsuits because firestone tires were defective and had a greater propensity to burst?
It was a bad production method or material which caused the treads to peel off under stress iirc. Granted, it was a while ago.
not quite true. Airbus USED to subscribe to this philosophy, until about a dozen post mortem cases and near misses convinced them to install an override switch.
I think the loss of one of their prototypes to this computer vs pilot struggle at an air show gave them a very public, convincing argument in that regard.
did you think radio waves were something other than light?
well.. i suppose youre right.
I make frequent calls to the police telling them to shut down WRAS because their FM signal is keeping me awake at night. I mean.. even with my eyes closed it's like staring into the sun : P
True, but the idea a person's gadget would cause even a fraction of the EMI of a nearby thunderstorm is ridiculous. (FAA requires these things test against DIRECT lighting strikes to the plane)
From a pure evolutionary survival of the fittest world view - that hope makes no sense.
why doesn't it?
We are in a very stable period of our climate, geology, etc. We have created our own environments, but those can be obliterated in the push of a few buttons, or instantly when a rock falls from the sky.
If a group of people have little chance of contributing anything significant to the species NOW
qualified that for you, it's a very important qualification. 300 years ago people like you would have put bill gates, edison, and stephen hawking to death because they were too weak for the manual labor which predominated the day.
then why should it not be allowed to die off while the fittest remain?
Because "fittest" obviously means what produces financial and social success under our current, specific social, political, geological, and climactic structure.
change one thing and suddenly it's better to be stupidly fat than thin, to be more decisive and avoid overanalysis, to be less decisive and more cautious, to be smaller, or taller, etc.
Assuring every mutation survives in a period of stability provides greater odds we survive the next shock as a species.
I view this point of view as *unmitigated evil*. Parasites should not be tolerated. Parasites weaken the organism and lead to its demise.
and who are you to declare what a "parasite" is to our gene pool?
If you asked a spartan to implement this strategy, we woudln't have the computers you're using to advocate genetic cleansing.
JFK had adison's disease. I mean, that horrible parasite! His diplomatic and geopolitical acumen arguably saved our whole species from nuclear annihilation!
How many potential JFK's are removed from this world because of people who think like you.
"The slightest imperfections of our pure, human race must be removed!" Right?
The "liquids" to be used are less dense than water, and being placed on the lunar surface, which is covered in dust several times finer than baking powder.
I'd give it about 3-5 days (depending on the size) before the "revolving liquid mirrors" become revolving lunar mud pies.