I learnt my metric height and weight because it was so easy... 2 metres (exactly), 100kg (exactly). It made calculating BMI easy too... 100 / 2^2... 25. Unfortunately, I'm heavier now (not _all_ fat, honest), and I'm not that fond of round numbers to go on a diet.
in Britain it's only been 40-odd years since they started changing things in schools.
Yes, but there are things which there is no intention of changing too... for example miles vs km, and pints. There are things that have gone metric, but actually aren't - I've got a 3.408 litre container of milk in the fridge, and a 454 gramme jar of jam in my cupboard. Nice round numbers there, thank god we went metric.
One thing you've got to account for is that there are so many myths and legends within cultures that at least some of the time they're going to coincide with current scientific thinking. The great flood theory has always perplexed me a little. Every single place in the world has had major floods, at different times. Is it suprising that every single culture has a flood myth?
I'm not dismissing the theory out of hand, but claiming a flood myth applies to an actual single event needs extraordinary evidence.
I love the fact that asking about a book with crocodile people in the Persian Gulf at slashdot nets you HP Lovecraft, Dan Simmons, Orson Scott Card, Shakespeare, and Homer.
I'm not OP, but I've always thought Michael Jackson was overated.
I'm pondering whether or not to use my other account mod points to mod you funny, or just sit right here and bitch you out for being such an ignorant piece of shit musically
Look, Michael Jackson did some decently catchy songs... but seriously, you've got to be deluded to claim he did anything revolutionary. I was but a kid when Thriller came out, and I already saw it was cliched and populist. Seriously, listen to a bit of Banarama... your mind will be expanded.
Yes, Sickle Cell Anemia has a higher occurrence among black people, but you're not more likely to have it just because you're black.
Yes you are. Seriously? If you are black, you are more likely to have sickle cell anemia than if you are white. You _are_ more likely to have it than average, if you're living in a mixed race society.
I'm pretty tall (6'6"), and have a higher risk of prostate cancer as a result. That's exactly the same thing.
And how you respond to these environments is purely genetic.
The genetic influences will be almost irrelevant by the time you hit puberty. Sociological influences will be _far_ more a determining factor in your behaviour.
What people are like sexually is nearly all as a result of where they are brought up. There may be slight genetic tendencies, in terms of sexuality, but these are completely outweighed by cultural issues.
even though I have had lots of sex with lots of partners, I am probably at less risk than you and your wife.
No, you're not. Condoms don't protect anywhere _near_ 100% from things like herpes or genital warts. Note that although there are two popular brands of herpes, it is _not_ oral or genital specific, it jumps easily. Note also genital warts are often not easily visible.
Herpes is incurable, genital warts are incurable.
The _only_ way to decrease your risk substantially from picking up herpes or genital warts is to have sex with less people. Sorry to have to tell you that, but it's true.
I'm not advocating not having sex with people here, or not using condoms (which substantially protect against other diseases), but there are at least a few that condoms don't help much against.
Think about it... both sexes do it _equally_. The average partner count for heterosexual men and women has to exactly identical. When asked, however, men inflate their number, and women deflate their number generally, due to sociological issues.
Ok... you're posting to slashdot. You are making statements like "Most sexual problems have something to do with the kidney meridian". Do you really not expect to be shot down in flames?
Seriously, it's pseudo-science at best, outright quackery and fraud at worst.
When I told my friend the next morning that my ex-wife was the only other woman I'd ever been with, she was amazed.
Really? I mean really? This is the kind of bilge put at the end of spam emails that don't know any better. I'm sure you could have done better than that, and seemed a little more convincing.
The number one best relationship I know out of all my friends involves one of the partners cheating twice.
I don't think personally I'd be able to cope very well with someone cheating on me (though my mileage may vary, depending on how much I love this person). No one ever has cheated on me, AFAIK, though I've had one open relationship (but that's a different issue).
Basically, the way I feel is that if someone I'm going out with cheats on me, it's an instant dump unless I both really like them, and really believe they're not disrespecting me. I'm not talking gangsta respect here, I'm just talking about standard respect. If either of those conditions aren't met, it'd be game over.
I've personally only cheated on someone once. The relationship was in meltdown, and I ended it, but not early enough.
You've got to be careful not to be a doormat - if you really want to believe your partner loves you, you can blinker yourself to their dodgy behaviour. This can lead to abuse, both psychological and physical, as the person who is getting away with crap behaviour takes more and more liberties.
There's a difference between secrecy of a person or organisation that I have not paid for, and the secrecy of the government which I have paid for.
There's a difference between secrecy of an organisation which has deliberately witheld information about civilian casualties they have inflicted, and an organisation seeking to expose those casualties.
I'm a truck driver, so I'm very used to just relying upon my side mirrors only (I may be biased here). In my opinion, the rear view mirror in the car is a little bit of a crutch to help out people who don't know what the hell is behind them. The side mirrors are _the_ things you look at when reversing - the centre mirror is essentially useless.
You can't eliminate blind spots... there will always be places you can't see. Basically, my advise is double check everything. Look at your mirror, then look over your shoulder. Look twice at everything.
One thing that does piss me off is people walking directly behind my truck or van when I'm reversing somewhere. Seriously.... I know there's a person there, but I've got zero idea where the fuck they are. I'm not going to carry on reversing and hope that the person behind my truck knows to get out the way... 99.9% of the time they will understand the reversing, but there's that 0.1% where someone doesn't get it. So I have to get out and tell them...
As an aside, I hate those signs saying stuff like "If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you". They imply that if you can see the mirrors, then the driver can see you, which is absolutely not the case. Passenger side, turning in hard, trucks can't see anything in the mirrors. That's why cyclists should _never_ undertake trucks... I'm not talking about who is in the right or wrong, just about potential outcomes.
Weirdly, I've just got loaned a BMW 120i, and have had it for 3 months or so, which I can't park for crap. I can't even reverse straight consistently, because of the crap mirrors... yup, honestly, I find reversing a 50 foot articulated truck more intuitive than this damn car. I look like a complete driving n00b:P
I'm a truck driver, and one of the biggest perks of my current job is that I deliver tyres. They're unbreakable, and they won't fuck up the back of your truck if they fall over. Occasionally I deliver car and truck batteries though... I drive a bit slower with them on board. Nothing like tonnes of acid a few feet behind your head to keep you honest on the road.
The biggest problem with any mass transit system is that you've got to get the infrastructure there. Then you've got to load into trucks at either end to actually get the goods where they're meant to be going. It sucks, but it's difficult to do logistically. The versatility of a fleet of trucks is incomparible...
I'm not quite sure how one would educate a child on how the various parts of a computer works, even in the most basic sense.
At least 90% of adults do not know how the various parts of a computer work. The concepts are not that difficult - I mean, the differentiation between RAM and HD storage is horrendously simple, yet loads of people still fuck it up. Children don't need an analogy necessarily, they just need to know how it works. RAM is quick, and loses everything all the time, including power off - HD is slow and retains (almost) everything. As long as you teach them how it works, they can grow up with knowing the basic things, and be well ahead of most.
Goatse, Tubgirl, and especially 2 girls 1 cup cannot be found easily.... you've got to actively search for them. Either that, or you're pranked with a link from _any_ website. Seriously, _any_ website, nowhere is "safe".
I grew up in the early days of the web, when just about every ISP had unrestricted access to the alt.sex.* newsgroups. During my formative adolescent years (12-16 or so, I guess), I bypassed the simple restrictions my parents had placed, and got unrestricted access. Anyone who knows the alt.sex.* newsgroups knows how vile they can be - I uudecoded everything I could, and enjoyed some, and not others.
BSDM, insertions, bestiality and coprophilia you have to actively look for to get. Kids won't actively look for those things...
I'm not fucked up now, at least I think so. I've got a penchant for _late_ teens and early 20's girls, but I'm not sure that's that unhealthy. I've got an ok (and relatively conventionally normal) sex life and know what reality is.
Basically, my point is that really bad shit one has to go looking for. It's rare for it to drop in your lap - the exception to this is trolls to shock sites, which can happen on the most innocuous of websites, _which you cannot control_. Also, seeing really bad shit does not necessarily warp minds.
The only reason I run Windows is because I play games on my PC. It's just vendor lock-in, and I realise I'm rewarding them for it by buying their product, but I'm a little short-sighted. The first thing I'd do if I was in power would be to mandate open standards.... The software market is _completely_ fucked at the moment. DirectX is the major problem for games.
I would dual boot Linux (that was my original intention when I got this computer), but at the time the fakeraid implementation on Linux was tenuous at best - my first attempt at a linux installation on this system helpfully told me that the best thing to do would be to format my primary drives seperately before continuing. I have bought another HD to stick Linux on, but I haven't got around to it yet... I haven't checked to see if their fakeraid implementation is working better, either.
The quote you provided _gives_ that grain of salt, by explicitly saying that those tests are synthetic, rather than real-world. I don't see the problem here...
Mods.... wtf? This is a valid point - this card is _not_ next generation, all it does is _exactly_ the same as the 480, only a little bit faster. It is in essence an overclocked 480 with better cooling and power characteristics. It's basically what the 480 should have been.
Parent is not a troll, as GP is not - replying to yourself always works wonders though.
Do you not see how your point 1 is completely contradicted by point 2 and 3? In point 2 and 3 you advocate _more_ government intervention. Or how else would they come about?
Slashdot Mirror
I learnt my metric height and weight because it was so easy... 2 metres (exactly), 100kg (exactly). It made calculating BMI easy too... 100 / 2^2... 25. Unfortunately, I'm heavier now (not _all_ fat, honest), and I'm not that fond of round numbers to go on a diet.
in Britain it's only been 40-odd years since they started changing things in schools.
Yes, but there are things which there is no intention of changing too... for example miles vs km, and pints. There are things that have gone metric, but actually aren't - I've got a 3.408 litre container of milk in the fridge, and a 454 gramme jar of jam in my cupboard. Nice round numbers there, thank god we went metric.
One thing you've got to account for is that there are so many myths and legends within cultures that at least some of the time they're going to coincide with current scientific thinking. The great flood theory has always perplexed me a little. Every single place in the world has had major floods, at different times. Is it suprising that every single culture has a flood myth?
I'm not dismissing the theory out of hand, but claiming a flood myth applies to an actual single event needs extraordinary evidence.
I love the fact that asking about a book with crocodile people in the Persian Gulf at slashdot nets you HP Lovecraft, Dan Simmons, Orson Scott Card, Shakespeare, and Homer.
I'm not OP, but I've always thought Michael Jackson was overated.
I'm pondering whether or not to use my other account mod points to mod you funny, or just sit right here and bitch you out for being such an ignorant piece of shit musically
Look, Michael Jackson did some decently catchy songs... but seriously, you've got to be deluded to claim he did anything revolutionary. I was but a kid when Thriller came out, and I already saw it was cliched and populist. Seriously, listen to a bit of Banarama... your mind will be expanded.
Yes, Sickle Cell Anemia has a higher occurrence among black people, but you're not more likely to have it just because you're black.
Yes you are. Seriously? If you are black, you are more likely to have sickle cell anemia than if you are white. You _are_ more likely to have it than average, if you're living in a mixed race society.
I'm pretty tall (6'6"), and have a higher risk of prostate cancer as a result. That's exactly the same thing.
And how you respond to these environments is purely genetic.
The genetic influences will be almost irrelevant by the time you hit puberty. Sociological influences will be _far_ more a determining factor in your behaviour.
What people are like sexually is nearly all as a result of where they are brought up. There may be slight genetic tendencies, in terms of sexuality, but these are completely outweighed by cultural issues.
even though I have had lots of sex with lots of partners, I am probably at less risk than you and your wife.
No, you're not. Condoms don't protect anywhere _near_ 100% from things like herpes or genital warts. Note that although there are two popular brands of herpes, it is _not_ oral or genital specific, it jumps easily. Note also genital warts are often not easily visible.
Herpes is incurable, genital warts are incurable.
The _only_ way to decrease your risk substantially from picking up herpes or genital warts is to have sex with less people. Sorry to have to tell you that, but it's true.
I'm not advocating not having sex with people here, or not using condoms (which substantially protect against other diseases), but there are at least a few that condoms don't help much against.
both sexes do it plenty.
Think about it... both sexes do it _equally_. The average partner count for heterosexual men and women has to exactly identical. When asked, however, men inflate their number, and women deflate their number generally, due to sociological issues.
Ok... you're posting to slashdot. You are making statements like "Most sexual problems have something to do with the kidney meridian". Do you really not expect to be shot down in flames?
Seriously, it's pseudo-science at best, outright quackery and fraud at worst.
When I told my friend the next morning that my ex-wife was the only other woman I'd ever been with, she was amazed.
Really? I mean really? This is the kind of bilge put at the end of spam emails that don't know any better. I'm sure you could have done better than that, and seemed a little more convincing.
The number one best relationship I know out of all my friends involves one of the partners cheating twice.
I don't think personally I'd be able to cope very well with someone cheating on me (though my mileage may vary, depending on how much I love this person). No one ever has cheated on me, AFAIK, though I've had one open relationship (but that's a different issue).
Basically, the way I feel is that if someone I'm going out with cheats on me, it's an instant dump unless I both really like them, and really believe they're not disrespecting me. I'm not talking gangsta respect here, I'm just talking about standard respect. If either of those conditions aren't met, it'd be game over.
I've personally only cheated on someone once. The relationship was in meltdown, and I ended it, but not early enough.
You've got to be careful not to be a doormat - if you really want to believe your partner loves you, you can blinker yourself to their dodgy behaviour. This can lead to abuse, both psychological and physical, as the person who is getting away with crap behaviour takes more and more liberties.
There's a difference between secrecy of a person or organisation that I have not paid for, and the secrecy of the government which I have paid for.
There's a difference between secrecy of an organisation which has deliberately witheld information about civilian casualties they have inflicted, and an organisation seeking to expose those casualties.
Are you not seeing the difference?
I'm a truck driver, so I'm very used to just relying upon my side mirrors only (I may be biased here). In my opinion, the rear view mirror in the car is a little bit of a crutch to help out people who don't know what the hell is behind them. The side mirrors are _the_ things you look at when reversing - the centre mirror is essentially useless.
You can't eliminate blind spots... there will always be places you can't see. Basically, my advise is double check everything. Look at your mirror, then look over your shoulder. Look twice at everything.
One thing that does piss me off is people walking directly behind my truck or van when I'm reversing somewhere. Seriously.... I know there's a person there, but I've got zero idea where the fuck they are. I'm not going to carry on reversing and hope that the person behind my truck knows to get out the way... 99.9% of the time they will understand the reversing, but there's that 0.1% where someone doesn't get it. So I have to get out and tell them...
As an aside, I hate those signs saying stuff like "If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you". They imply that if you can see the mirrors, then the driver can see you, which is absolutely not the case. Passenger side, turning in hard, trucks can't see anything in the mirrors. That's why cyclists should _never_ undertake trucks... I'm not talking about who is in the right or wrong, just about potential outcomes.
Weirdly, I've just got loaned a BMW 120i, and have had it for 3 months or so, which I can't park for crap. I can't even reverse straight consistently, because of the crap mirrors... yup, honestly, I find reversing a 50 foot articulated truck more intuitive than this damn car. I look like a complete driving n00b :P
what the market will bare
I wasn't going go all grammar Nazi, but since this was repeated, I figured I would. The word is "bear", as in I can't bear any more naked markets
I'm a truck driver, and one of the biggest perks of my current job is that I deliver tyres. They're unbreakable, and they won't fuck up the back of your truck if they fall over. Occasionally I deliver car and truck batteries though... I drive a bit slower with them on board. Nothing like tonnes of acid a few feet behind your head to keep you honest on the road.
The biggest problem with any mass transit system is that you've got to get the infrastructure there. Then you've got to load into trucks at either end to actually get the goods where they're meant to be going. It sucks, but it's difficult to do logistically. The versatility of a fleet of trucks is incomparible...
I'm not quite sure how one would educate a child on how the various parts of a computer works, even in the most basic sense.
At least 90% of adults do not know how the various parts of a computer work. The concepts are not that difficult - I mean, the differentiation between RAM and HD storage is horrendously simple, yet loads of people still fuck it up. Children don't need an analogy necessarily, they just need to know how it works. RAM is quick, and loses everything all the time, including power off - HD is slow and retains (almost) everything. As long as you teach them how it works, they can grow up with knowing the basic things, and be well ahead of most.
Married women are even easier to bed as they typically are married to a idiot that does not pay attention to them anymore.
Guess what shithead... you're fucking up families just for the sake of a quick fuck. Make you feel good?
I only fuck people I respect... quit treating women like objects, dimlow.
Goatse, Tubgirl, and especially 2 girls 1 cup cannot be found easily.... you've got to actively search for them. Either that, or you're pranked with a link from _any_ website. Seriously, _any_ website, nowhere is "safe".
I grew up in the early days of the web, when just about every ISP had unrestricted access to the alt.sex.* newsgroups. During my formative adolescent years (12-16 or so, I guess), I bypassed the simple restrictions my parents had placed, and got unrestricted access. Anyone who knows the alt.sex.* newsgroups knows how vile they can be - I uudecoded everything I could, and enjoyed some, and not others.
BSDM, insertions, bestiality and coprophilia you have to actively look for to get. Kids won't actively look for those things...
I'm not fucked up now, at least I think so. I've got a penchant for _late_ teens and early 20's girls, but I'm not sure that's that unhealthy. I've got an ok (and relatively conventionally normal) sex life and know what reality is.
Basically, my point is that really bad shit one has to go looking for. It's rare for it to drop in your lap - the exception to this is trolls to shock sites, which can happen on the most innocuous of websites, _which you cannot control_. Also, seeing really bad shit does not necessarily warp minds.
Their shipping rates undermine UPS and FedEx every single time, sometimes by 50-100% of the rate.
So sometimes they deliver for free then?
So why is the computing market so different ?
The only reason I run Windows is because I play games on my PC. It's just vendor lock-in, and I realise I'm rewarding them for it by buying their product, but I'm a little short-sighted. The first thing I'd do if I was in power would be to mandate open standards.... The software market is _completely_ fucked at the moment. DirectX is the major problem for games.
I would dual boot Linux (that was my original intention when I got this computer), but at the time the fakeraid implementation on Linux was tenuous at best - my first attempt at a linux installation on this system helpfully told me that the best thing to do would be to format my primary drives seperately before continuing. I have bought another HD to stick Linux on, but I haven't got around to it yet... I haven't checked to see if their fakeraid implementation is working better, either.
And it's worth noting that if I go to Google.com, type in "cancer" and click "I'm Feeling Lucky,"
I heard some bogus cure claims, but this one really is out there. Wait...
The quote you provided _gives_ that grain of salt, by explicitly saying that those tests are synthetic, rather than real-world. I don't see the problem here...
Mods.... wtf? This is a valid point - this card is _not_ next generation, all it does is _exactly_ the same as the 480, only a little bit faster. It is in essence an overclocked 480 with better cooling and power characteristics. It's basically what the 480 should have been.
Parent is not a troll, as GP is not - replying to yourself always works wonders though.
Do you not see how your point 1 is completely contradicted by point 2 and 3? In point 2 and 3 you advocate _more_ government intervention. Or how else would they come about?