In this case it's probably not bribes (common as that is), but politicians putting their corn-growing state before the country. Corn is not a good source of ethanol but it's great for the economies of states like Iowa and Illinois.
As to causing people to suffer, the pumps are labeled. Put E-15 in your '69 Mustang and you're just stupid.
I got back from Iraq to find my school district didn't have to save my job for me.
That's just plain wrong and should be illegal.
Are YOU still mopey over your rejections all these years later?
No, I'm simply pointing out that some of us suck at sales. When you're looking for work you have to sell yourself.
There REALLY are people out there, receiving "free money" and just shifting their priorities to accommodate it.
I know a few like that. They're all disabled, though. I guess you'd Darwin them and let them die?? You might not have gotten the memo back in 1996, AFDC was repealed. You can only get federal dollars for two years with a five year lifetime limit. And it's not "free money", those folks paid taxes before and will do so again. There is no more generational welfare, you're fighting a battle that's been over for a quarter of a century. Any "free money" is coming from your state or local government, not the feds.
And we've got you guys, spearheading the socialist revolution, arguing that "rich people" are the problem.
No, people without feelings for their fellow man are the problem. Warren Buffet isn't the problem, rich as he is. Mitt Romney is, despite his bleating that he's a "Christian." I'm sure many Mormons are, but he worships money, not God.
As far as the homeless are concerned, they REALLY are more likely to stab you for money.
Actually they're more likely to stab you because they're mentally ill; most homeless are. But you raise a valid point -- I'd much rather pay taxes (and federal taxes are lower than they've been since Truman) than have my house broken into again.
If your brain is a computer it's not only non-electric, it's analog. Analog computers don't have rounding errors (electronic ones do suffer from noise).
We're not "made of" DNA, DNA is just a blueprint. Your car's computer doesn't figure out what is wrong any more than your stereo figures out what station to tune to when you press the button.
A digital computer is nothing more than a glorified abacus, an analog electronic computer is a glorified slide rule. How many beads do I have to put on an abacus before it becomes sentient?
Actually, yes, but toys and remotes are very similar and take the same kinds of batteries. The only device I've ever owned that needed a tool and took more than a few seconds is a car.
See I wonder about that question a fair bit as well, especially being someone who'd jump at the chance to assimilate.
I've already been assimilated; the lens in my left eye is artificial, unhuman, nonbiological. It sits on stuts inside the lens capsule so it can focus, so rather than being both severely nearsighted plus with age-related farsightedness as before the surgery, I now have better than normal vison at all distances.
But, you know, I wouldn't have done it on a whim, and to replace part of my brain, well, I'd have to be in pretty bad shape to let them do that.
trash is something that doesn't work...windows works for folks that dont have the money to buy a 1200 macbook or the wherewithal to figure out how ubuntu works
Kubuntu (KDE Ubntu) is more like any version of Windows from the user's perspective than any other version of Windows.
switching between interfaces is a no brainer
Making your users switch between interfaces shows no brains.
ive run and compiled with the best of linux distros for the latter of 15+ years
You're full of shit, boy. Get back under your bridge.
I only wish it had been documented a little bit better. On balance, though, I would argue that that's a perfect example of a very good reason NOT to strictly enforce coding style.
I would argue the opposite. Of course, that assumes the coding style fits the language; if the language prohibits spaces after a comma, the coding style should insist on it.
Good or bad, you can thank the government for limiting new players entry into this market.
Be clear about "government" here. It isn't the US government and it isn't the state government. It's your crooked local government, either city or county. Personally, I'd like to see a federal law that forces removal of these insane, crooked contracts between city and ISP.
So, what you end up with is breaking your fingers and similar damage. If you really must hit somebody in the face, you do that with the heal of your hand which is much sturdier than your knuckles anyways.
I discovered at a young age that punching someone in the nose as hard as you can usually ends the fight right there, and from that point on it's a simple ass kicking. Noses are easy to break.
No? Then how can they use the commerce clause to defend the marijuana laws? How can a "commerce clause" apply to something in which there is no legal commerce?
You states rights boosters ought to work on getting federal pot laws repealed, seeing as how pot is now legal in two states.
Other than the new iPod nano and the iPad, you can replace all of the batteries in Apple products. Sure there's no battery door, but it's as easy as popping the back off with a screwdriver and swapping out the battery. I've done it in about 10 minutes on a couple of iPhones, a MBP, etc.
Nothing I own that has batteries in it takes more than ten seconds to change and none need any tools whatever to do it.
You mindless fanboys (shills?) amuse the hell out of me! You make excuses for a goddamned faceless corporation! WTF? It's a bad design and there's no rational argument to the contrary.
it's not (entirely) about the cells, but mostly about what's stored in them. in other words, it's about the software and data, not the hardware.
In the brain, "software" and "hardware" and "data" are the same things. The brain constantly connects, disconnects, and reconnects, and crossconnects, synapses. The brain is chemical and thought is a chemical reaction. There is no hardware, there is no software, there is no data, there is only chemical reaction that constitutes "thought."
The brain is just a complex electrochemical machine with a hard disk.
The brain has no hard disk. If your computer's disk "forgets" that "memory" is gone forever. OTOH your brain can forget something for decades, and yet you can still get the memory back with the right stimulous. No "pink unicorns" needed, brains sre simply nothing like computers, and to analogize them is foolhardy and, from someone who knows both computers and brains, disingenuous.
I don't think people who have brain surgeries and have had parts of their brains removed or disabled due to a stroke, feel like they are not their real selves.
I see you've never met someone with a catastrophic brain injury. They're a different person than before the injury. Read (or watch) King's The Green Mile, what happens to the warden's wife when she gets a brain tumor is actually common as hell (getting the tumor, not having Coffey cure it).
AND, your brain can be compromised without you even knowing it! When I had eye surgery, in the recovery room I was warned not to drive, sign documents, or make important decisions for 24 hours and would get a DUI if I drove -- but I felt completely sane and sober.
I think it will be possible through a md5 or sha1 check of both minds after the copying transfer.
Again, brains and computers are nothing whatever alike.
It's like reading slashdot. You come across someone who can barely spell, has trouble with homophones, puts extraneous apostrophes in, and it makes it much harder to read for someone who is used to reading. The same goes for coding. If the reviewer sees a bracket where he expects a curly brace, even though the two are interchangable, it's going to slow him down.
Plus, if you used three spaces instead of a tab, what other errors are in your code?
Look! A shark! With a friggin' laser! And... oh shit... it looks like Facebook is about to jump over it, considering first the Instagram fiasco and now this.
Zuckenberg sold Facebook at just the right time. Smart kid, he.
Um... I'm no fan of all the lawsuits, patents, etc, but honestly, does anybody actually remember what cell phones were like before the iPhone came out?
I wish I had my old Motorola Razr from what, 2003? I miss having a phone small enough to fit in my pocket and still leave room for my wallet as well. The size of an iPhone or Droid is the deal killer for me.
In my opinion, being a clone or a person who is cloned, is an honour. It is a proof that you are so special person that there are people want to clone you and not some disgusting person that nobody likes.
If you need someone else to validify your existance, you really have a bad case of low self-esteem.
Now we're talking about no "real" alternatives, whereas before it was "there are NO alternatives".
If there are no real alternatives, there are no alternatives. The fact is there is no Opera browser on an iPhone, only an Opera wrapper around Safari. If you're still running Safari, you're hardly using an alternative.
No goalposts were moved, you're simply splitting hairs and being disingenuous. How much Apple stock do you own, fellow? None? Then you're as much a fool for defending them than the ones defending Windows Metro.
That the medium is artificial is not important in terms of intelligence. I think "Artificial Intelligence" is a racist term used by chauvinists that think human intellect is far more special than it really is.
Racist? Chauvinist? Huh? Computers are neither a race nor a sex. And it isn't the intellect, it's the sense of BEING and it's not just humans, it's all animals. I sincerely doubt you guys will come up with that. Yes, you'll be able to fake it and make it look like the machine is self-aware (as you should know, that's dirt-simple), but you're not going to get the real thing. Thought is a chemical process, and you're going to have to invent Blade Runner replicants before you invent a sentient being.
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In this case it's probably not bribes (common as that is), but politicians putting their corn-growing state before the country. Corn is not a good source of ethanol but it's great for the economies of states like Iowa and Illinois.
As to causing people to suffer, the pumps are labeled. Put E-15 in your '69 Mustang and you're just stupid.
Things change, I guess; my youngest is 25. They're probably worried the kids will choke on the batteries. But harder to change than a car battery?
Obviously, I am referring to illegal drugs. Think meth, not coffee or prescription drugs.
Oxycodone is a prescription drug that's every bit as dangerous as heroin. Whether or not you have a prescription for it doesn't change its effects.
God blesses the faithful, so if you are not blessed, you must be a dirty heathen and deserve to suffer.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
We all suffer. Christianity doesn't offer heaven on Earth.
What the hell is wrong with you?
I suffer from the terrible disease of compassion.
I got back from Iraq to find my school district didn't have to save my job for me.
That's just plain wrong and should be illegal.
Are YOU still mopey over your rejections all these years later?
No, I'm simply pointing out that some of us suck at sales. When you're looking for work you have to sell yourself.
There REALLY are people out there, receiving "free money" and just shifting their priorities to accommodate it.
I know a few like that. They're all disabled, though. I guess you'd Darwin them and let them die?? You might not have gotten the memo back in 1996, AFDC was repealed. You can only get federal dollars for two years with a five year lifetime limit. And it's not "free money", those folks paid taxes before and will do so again. There is no more generational welfare, you're fighting a battle that's been over for a quarter of a century. Any "free money" is coming from your state or local government, not the feds.
And we've got you guys, spearheading the socialist revolution, arguing that "rich people" are the problem.
No, people without feelings for their fellow man are the problem. Warren Buffet isn't the problem, rich as he is. Mitt Romney is, despite his bleating that he's a "Christian." I'm sure many Mormons are, but he worships money, not God.
As far as the homeless are concerned, they REALLY are more likely to stab you for money.
Actually they're more likely to stab you because they're mentally ill; most homeless are. But you raise a valid point -- I'd much rather pay taxes (and federal taxes are lower than they've been since Truman) than have my house broken into again.
If your brain is a computer it's not only non-electric, it's analog. Analog computers don't have rounding errors (electronic ones do suffer from noise).
We're not "made of" DNA, DNA is just a blueprint. Your car's computer doesn't figure out what is wrong any more than your stereo figures out what station to tune to when you press the button.
A digital computer is nothing more than a glorified abacus, an analog electronic computer is a glorified slide rule. How many beads do I have to put on an abacus before it becomes sentient?
LOL, someone who points out that a device's "feature" or design is a poor one is a hater? You fanbois are hilarious!
Actually, yes, but toys and remotes are very similar and take the same kinds of batteries. The only device I've ever owned that needed a tool and took more than a few seconds is a car.
See I wonder about that question a fair bit as well, especially being someone who'd jump at the chance to assimilate.
I've already been assimilated; the lens in my left eye is artificial, unhuman, nonbiological. It sits on stuts inside the lens capsule so it can focus, so rather than being both severely nearsighted plus with age-related farsightedness as before the surgery, I now have better than normal vison at all distances.
But, you know, I wouldn't have done it on a whim, and to replace part of my brain, well, I'd have to be in pretty bad shape to let them do that.
Yes, it says he's intelligent enough not to put up with really REALLY poorly designed interfaces when there are much better ones out there.
I guess the main worry for me is that the cells are all being copied at once, whereas it takes years to replace every cell through ageing.
I am not the same man I was twenty years ago.
You're flat out lying.
trash is something that doesn't work...windows works for folks that dont have the money to buy a 1200 macbook or the wherewithal to figure out how ubuntu works
Kubuntu (KDE Ubntu) is more like any version of Windows from the user's perspective than any other version of Windows.
switching between interfaces is a no brainer
Making your users switch between interfaces shows no brains.
ive run and compiled with the best of linux distros for the latter of 15+ years
You're full of shit, boy. Get back under your bridge.
I only wish it had been documented a little bit better. On balance, though, I would argue that that's a perfect example of a very good reason NOT to strictly enforce coding style.
I would argue the opposite. Of course, that assumes the coding style fits the language; if the language prohibits spaces after a comma, the coding style should insist on it.
Good or bad, you can thank the government for limiting new players entry into this market.
Be clear about "government" here. It isn't the US government and it isn't the state government. It's your crooked local government, either city or county. Personally, I'd like to see a federal law that forces removal of these insane, crooked contracts between city and ISP.
So, what you end up with is breaking your fingers and similar damage. If you really must hit somebody in the face, you do that with the heal of your hand which is much sturdier than your knuckles anyways.
I discovered at a young age that punching someone in the nose as hard as you can usually ends the fight right there, and from that point on it's a simple ass kicking. Noses are easy to break.
The Commerce Clause does not apply.
No? Then how can they use the commerce clause to defend the marijuana laws? How can a "commerce clause" apply to something in which there is no legal commerce?
You states rights boosters ought to work on getting federal pot laws repealed, seeing as how pot is now legal in two states.
Other than the new iPod nano and the iPad, you can replace all of the batteries in Apple products. Sure there's no battery door, but it's as easy as popping the back off with a screwdriver and swapping out the battery. I've done it in about 10 minutes on a couple of iPhones, a MBP, etc.
Nothing I own that has batteries in it takes more than ten seconds to change and none need any tools whatever to do it.
You mindless fanboys (shills?) amuse the hell out of me! You make excuses for a goddamned faceless corporation! WTF? It's a bad design and there's no rational argument to the contrary.
it's not (entirely) about the cells, but mostly about what's stored in them. in other words, it's about the software and data, not the hardware.
In the brain, "software" and "hardware" and "data" are the same things. The brain constantly connects, disconnects, and reconnects, and crossconnects, synapses. The brain is chemical and thought is a chemical reaction. There is no hardware, there is no software, there is no data, there is only chemical reaction that constitutes "thought."
The brain is just a complex electrochemical machine with a hard disk.
The brain has no hard disk. If your computer's disk "forgets" that "memory" is gone forever. OTOH your brain can forget something for decades, and yet you can still get the memory back with the right stimulous. No "pink unicorns" needed, brains sre simply nothing like computers, and to analogize them is foolhardy and, from someone who knows both computers and brains, disingenuous.
I don't think people who have brain surgeries and have had parts of their brains removed or disabled due to a stroke, feel like they are not their real selves.
I see you've never met someone with a catastrophic brain injury. They're a different person than before the injury. Read (or watch) King's The Green Mile, what happens to the warden's wife when she gets a brain tumor is actually common as hell (getting the tumor, not having Coffey cure it).
AND, your brain can be compromised without you even knowing it! When I had eye surgery, in the recovery room I was warned not to drive, sign documents, or make important decisions for 24 hours and would get a DUI if I drove -- but I felt completely sane and sober.
I think it will be possible through a md5 or sha1 check of both minds after the copying transfer.
Again, brains and computers are nothing whatever alike.
It's like reading slashdot. You come across someone who can barely spell, has trouble with homophones, puts extraneous apostrophes in, and it makes it much harder to read for someone who is used to reading. The same goes for coding. If the reviewer sees a bracket where he expects a curly brace, even though the two are interchangable, it's going to slow him down.
Plus, if you used three spaces instead of a tab, what other errors are in your code?
I would rather here about this from Fox News than most anyone else.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Fox gets away with it: an uneducated audience.
Look! A shark! With a friggin' laser! And... oh shit... it looks like Facebook is about to jump over it, considering first the Instagram fiasco and now this.
Zuckenberg sold Facebook at just the right time. Smart kid, he.
Um... I'm no fan of all the lawsuits, patents, etc, but honestly, does anybody actually remember what cell phones were like before the iPhone came out?
I wish I had my old Motorola Razr from what, 2003? I miss having a phone small enough to fit in my pocket and still leave room for my wallet as well. The size of an iPhone or Droid is the deal killer for me.
In my opinion, being a clone or a person who is cloned, is an honour. It is a proof that you are so special person that there are people want to clone you and not some disgusting person that nobody likes.
If you need someone else to validify your existance, you really have a bad case of low self-esteem.
Now we're talking about no "real" alternatives, whereas before it was "there are NO alternatives".
If there are no real alternatives, there are no alternatives. The fact is there is no Opera browser on an iPhone, only an Opera wrapper around Safari. If you're still running Safari, you're hardly using an alternative.
No goalposts were moved, you're simply splitting hairs and being disingenuous. How much Apple stock do you own, fellow? None? Then you're as much a fool for defending them than the ones defending Windows Metro.
You people are insane and irrational.
That the medium is artificial is not important in terms of intelligence. I think "Artificial Intelligence" is a racist term used by chauvinists that think human intellect is far more special than it really is.
Racist? Chauvinist? Huh? Computers are neither a race nor a sex. And it isn't the intellect, it's the sense of BEING and it's not just humans, it's all animals. I sincerely doubt you guys will come up with that. Yes, you'll be able to fake it and make it look like the machine is self-aware (as you should know, that's dirt-simple), but you're not going to get the real thing. Thought is a chemical process, and you're going to have to invent Blade Runner replicants before you invent a sentient being.