you'd better have a long and serious talk with your parents. you may want to be sitting down.
really, adoption is always left out of these arguments. back in the day it was the only option - the girl "goes on holiday", or "goes to boarding school" and returns a few months later.
running with scissors will always have a greater impact than genetic blindness. there'll always be disabled communities because most of that stuff is not genetic.
RTFA. the FBI had no permission from anybody concerned, much less the actual owner of the hard drives! the man doesn't forfeit property rights by being arrested.
aaah, i totally whooshed on the GP post. thank you for reminding me that this was a pop culture reference and not just a weird misconception (well, it's both i suppose, but the latter is on mr lucas).
take 1 astronomical unit as the opposite side length on a right-angled-triangle, one arc-second as the angle, and the length of the adjacent side will be 1 parsec.
the rub is that there's not much that can be done about it.
here's some assumptions we can make:
1. regulatory roles don't pay as much as industry roles of equal skill level 2. in general, regulators don't actually perform the tasks they regulate 3. it's widely accepted that on the job skills are just as important, if not more important than the schooling received in order to get the job
given the above, how on earth can you regulate a complex industry without people who have worked and continue to work in that industry? you don't want out-of-touch regulators. look at the NRC for example - half of slashdot is screaming that they should allow new designs for safety and waste reduction, etc, but that's not going to happen if the NRC aren't keeping abreast of the state of the art.
now, the only solution i can offer is that regulators should have a transparent hiring policy and try not to hire arseholes. this is difficult to implement, as all problems in society boil down to whether or not you're dealing with arseholes.
there's a flip side that's even worse though, and is currently happening. the whole "truthiness" thing, as much as i loathe the word. people choosing intuition, and preferring the purity of ignorance and confusing it with objectivity.
perhaps Google just temporarily amended "Don't Be Evil" to "The End Justifies The Means" and bribed the everloving fuck out of this particular judge?
i do wonder how the system works, but in this case i think the judge just rightly saw that Oracle's case was ridiculous and dangerous (including to themselves) and would likely be turned over on appeal anyway.
i'm not sure where the Editor got the idea that Technicolor are unprofitable. they're doing just fine making movies. they made the transition to digital beautifully, and you'll still see their name buried in the credits of almost any movie you happen to see.
of course, that doesn't give the patent trolling rights.
except blue is relatively desaturated and red through yellow are eye burning.
much fanfare has been made about these screens, and they are indeed beautiful.
i'm saying they're not at all accurate. that's okay with me - i wouldn't use a consumer gadget and expect a broadcast monitor. it just occurs to me that people are likely to start taking blue-shifted photos now.
yes, but the sources of the original cells are also not automated. presumably the originator of the egg cell that was modified would also have some form of womb.
otherwise we're creating cells molecule-by-molecule, which though cool and sci-fi, is a little out of reach at the moment.
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never heard of adoption?
you'd better have a long and serious talk with your parents. you may want to be sitting down.
really, adoption is always left out of these arguments. back in the day it was the only option - the girl "goes on holiday", or "goes to boarding school" and returns a few months later.
running with scissors will always have a greater impact than genetic blindness. there'll always be disabled communities because most of that stuff is not genetic.
when this sort of thing comes up, it's good to remember that practically every kind of screening is voluntary.
hell, people still opt out of finding out the sex of the baby (though in my case it was a surprise anyway - expected a daughter, got a son).
when things like this start becoming mandatory, we'll have already been too far gone as a society for a long time.
same here. fear factory need to start submitting to slashdot.
the problem is the average when you were a teenager was a 15" monitor, at a distance of about 3 foot.
now the average is a goddamn ginormous monitor at the same distance.
maybe stainless will use a wider field-of-view for the final version to compensate?
RTFA. the FBI had no permission from anybody concerned, much less the actual owner of the hard drives! the man doesn't forfeit property rights by being arrested.
more like a brief merging of heavenly bodies followed by a massive ejection of.. um. stars.
sorry, i was trying to make it filthy but failed to find a plausible way to refer to stars as fluids. i guess they can be modelled as such...
that difficulty is the only thing stopping THEM from coming...
black holes don't suck.
people who turn ANY topic into "bleh bleh debt blah blah obama" suck.
SW expanded universe writers are like die-hard Apple fans - they'll find a way to justify even the most ridiculous goofs.
in addition to that, they rarely get sufficient funds to actually commercialise the things they invent.
i'm kinda with the environmentalists here. if texas really is as big as they say it is, could they not have found a chunk of it in the desert?
of course, i'd love the place to be built, but it does seem to be a shitty place to build it.
aaah, i totally whooshed on the GP post. thank you for reminding me that this was a pop culture reference and not just a weird misconception (well, it's both i suppose, but the latter is on mr lucas).
parsec is space.
take 1 astronomical unit as the opposite side length on a right-angled-triangle, one arc-second as the angle, and the length of the adjacent side will be 1 parsec.
the rub is that there's not much that can be done about it.
here's some assumptions we can make:
1. regulatory roles don't pay as much as industry roles of equal skill level
2. in general, regulators don't actually perform the tasks they regulate
3. it's widely accepted that on the job skills are just as important, if not more important than the schooling received in order to get the job
given the above, how on earth can you regulate a complex industry without people who have worked and continue to work in that industry? you don't want out-of-touch regulators. look at the NRC for example - half of slashdot is screaming that they should allow new designs for safety and waste reduction, etc, but that's not going to happen if the NRC aren't keeping abreast of the state of the art.
now, the only solution i can offer is that regulators should have a transparent hiring policy and try not to hire arseholes. this is difficult to implement, as all problems in society boil down to whether or not you're dealing with arseholes.
there's a flip side that's even worse though, and is currently happening. the whole "truthiness" thing, as much as i loathe the word. people choosing intuition, and preferring the purity of ignorance and confusing it with objectivity.
wtf troll?
i like the implication that presidents are omnipresent though. kinda like an omnipresident.
perhaps Google just temporarily amended "Don't Be Evil" to "The End Justifies The Means" and bribed the everloving fuck out of this particular judge?
i do wonder how the system works, but in this case i think the judge just rightly saw that Oracle's case was ridiculous and dangerous (including to themselves) and would likely be turned over on appeal anyway.
how is this +5 interesting and not -1 offtopic?
i'm not sure where the Editor got the idea that Technicolor are unprofitable. they're doing just fine making movies. they made the transition to digital beautifully, and you'll still see their name buried in the credits of almost any movie you happen to see.
of course, that doesn't give the patent trolling rights.
i was going to say Digital Intermediate, but that was kodak.
they... have good post-production facilities. very good ones. they didn't invent them, but they're good.
the also replicate discs.
except blue is relatively desaturated and red through yellow are eye burning.
much fanfare has been made about these screens, and they are indeed beautiful.
i'm saying they're not at all accurate. that's okay with me - i wouldn't use a consumer gadget and expect a broadcast monitor. it just occurs to me that people are likely to start taking blue-shifted photos now.
yes, but the sources of the original cells are also not automated. presumably the originator of the egg cell that was modified would also have some form of womb.
otherwise we're creating cells molecule-by-molecule, which though cool and sci-fi, is a little out of reach at the moment.
i honestly can't tell if you're serious or not.
on a PDA i'd prefer golden mean to be honest.
i don't understand Apple's fear of black bars on a movie - the audience is very much used to them by now. we've only had them 50+ years.