I'm thinking of attacking you and your family. I'm probably on drugs, and won't stop until you beat me down. How long is acceptable? Or do you just let do horrible things to them?
Let me set fire to your straw man. My family is made up of fourteen ex Army rangers and they all have mace and tazers and plenty of plastic ties to bind you. Go ahead, punk, make my day.
What kind of "enthusiast" are they talking about? I've been building my own PCs for 25 years and only changed one CPU, and that's because the fan went out and fried it. And guess what? The only CPU to fit in its socket was the same type of CPU that fried.
I agree, this story is BS. It doesn't matter to me if the CPU is socketed or soldered, and in fact I'd prefer soldered (as long as it had a good fan), since besides heat, the enemy of electronics is corrosion and bad connections.
If one space probe we've sent out is even the merest flap of a butterfly's wing in the galaxy, then the galaxy as a complex system is concerned with humans. I'm pretty sure we've done more than that.
No, we haven't. Of the two Pioneers, one is just outside the solar system, light years away from any other system. And it's not a butterfly on Earth type thing, more like a microbe's effect on Earth's weather. You obviously have no idea how big a galaxy is.
Actually the budget needs to be cut by 0%. Austerity has failed horribly in Europe
Indeed, right when a recessed economy is getting back on its feet is no time for government cutbacks. As you say, generating jobs is the answer. Nor should we raise taxes on anyone whose tax rates will have an effect on their spending; i.e., tax the top 2% as much as you want, but leave the rest of us alone. If my taxes go up, I can't afford to spend as much, but if Warren Buffet's taxes go up it won't affect his spending or investment in the least. He has an insightful quote in a NY Times piece:
SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. âoeThis is a good one,â he says enthusiastically. âoeIâ(TM)m in it, and I think you should be, too.â
Would your reply possibly be this? âoeWell, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain youâ(TM)re saying weâ(TM)re going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent.â Only in Grover Norquistâ(TM)s imagination does such a response exist.
Between 1951 and 1954, when the capital gains rate was 25 percent and marginal rates on dividends reached 91 percent in extreme cases, I sold securities and did pretty well. In the years from 1956 to 1969, the top marginal rate fell modestly, but was still a lofty 70 percent â" and the tax rate on capital gains inched up to 27.5 percent. I was managing funds for investors then. Never did anyone mention taxes as a reason to forgo an investment opportunity that I offered.
Under those burdensome rates, moreover, both employment and the gross domestic product (a measure of the nationâ(TM)s economic output) increased at a rapid clip. The middle class and the rich alike gained ground.
I think most cop shops are afraid of something happening like occurred with the video of Rodney King's beatdown, in which the news snipped off crucial sections in which King repeatedly lunged at police. In addition, they tended not to mention his 100+mph evasion attempt, his prior criminal record or his extensive drug use.
His 100 mph chase, drug use, priors, and lunging don't give the cops an excuse to beat a suspect. Ever. Punishment is supposed to come from the courts, not the police. Punishment isn't a cop's job, solving crimes and arresting people are.
Have you been paying attention to what is happening in Europe over the last two years? Countries in Europe are one by one reaching the point where the cost of government services (including and mostly involving, that "social security safety net") are exceeding tax revenues to the point where no one wants to loan them money.
Have you been paying attention to what is happening in the whole world over the last four years? We've been in a bad worldwide recession. Greece has a 25% unemployment rate. Ireland is 15%. Spain is 25%. When one in four workers is out of a job, your government is going to have to borrow money or you're going to have riots.
I am so fickin pissed about this kind of sentiment. As if all old people are poor.
Most of the geezers I know are either poor or middle class, only a few are rich. Much like the general population.
But any time you bring up the fact that we're paying for Warren Buffet's health care and have been writing him a monthly Social Security check for a few decades
His SS check (if he's actually getting one) would be the same size as someone who earned $75k per year before retirement. What I'd like to see is to have Buffett pay the same percentage as I do while working, but have a cap on the monthly amount that could be collected after retirement.
As to paying for his health care, if we adopted a Canadian/European health care system, the Medicare/Medicaid problem would go away completely. The only ones who would lose would be insurance companies.
I doubt "a" book will help much, although a few dozen might. Me, I'm in the middle of writing one (right here on slashdot) and even though I know how computers work (the GP might start with the TTL Cookbook if it's still in print), there's AI in the story. However, the AI in mine isn't sentient.
It depends on the cancer. Caught early, most breast cancers are survivable. Most forms of skin cancer are easily remedied. It also depends on how long the cancer grows before it's diagnosed. I had a close friend who had been in pain for quite some time and only went to the ER when the pain was unbearable, and she'd had a cancer on her gall bladder that was bigger than the gall bladder. had she sought treatment far earlier, she might still be alive today rather than dying horribly four months later.
OTOH, if you get lung cancer, you're dead. Period.
Not as a user, the guy has been writing software for 20 years and complains about poor design and bugs? Nerval's Lobster should clean up his own house.
I finally found a system log from the installation. There were a whole bunch of exception errors, but no explanation of the exception, what caused it, whether the installer took care of the problem, and if there was anything I should do to fix it. Yet the installer claimed everything had installed correctly.
I wonder how the UNIX SAP software fared; Windows is not a robust OS. Flaky hardware will make Windows and its software crash every time, while apps running Linux on the same flaky machine work fine, as I've seen on two different occasions.
Part of the problem is the tools. A poor workman always blames his tools, but a good workman doesn't use faulty tools. The tools I'm talking about are compilers, 3rd party installers, and OSes.
There really is no excuse for today's shoddy software. Why should an automobile last longer than an OS?
Given that the poor people weren't the ones offering the loans how does the offering of them make it "the poor ones who did it all"?
The truth is, the poor were scammed by the rich. The banks had a win-win situation before the housing bubble burst. Talk poor Joe Sixpack who doesn't have an MBA into believing he can afford the house, and when gas prices quadruple as they did betwen 2000 and 2008 and he misses a single mortgage payment, the bank makes it nearly impossible for him to ever recover and finally forecloses, then sells the house at a tidy profit after collecting mortgage payments for a few years. And if the unthinkable happens and home prices sink, the bank has insurance to cover it. There's no possible way for the bank to lose money on a home loan under those conditions.
It was legalized theft, with the rich legally robbing the poor.
Even if we have nuclear weapons nuclear war doesnt exist
It did in 1945 and it's a much bigger threat than AI. I don't see how AI could ever be a threat. Rather than Terminator, we should be looking at Dune, where intelligent machines controlled by people controlled masses of people, leading to revolt which outlawed intelligent machines.
Look, guys, Terminator was a damned good movie, but it's just that -- a movie.
Odd, then, that there's been so much positive change in my six decades on this rock. You wouldn't believe how primitive medicine was 50 years ago, or how incredibly toxic the environment was. The fact is, humans do NOT suck at change or nobody would marry and no one would invent things. We are far better at change than any other species on the planet.
Indeed. Is it rational to put so much thought into people you never met, never would want to meet, who live thousands of miles away? How does Casey Anthony affect me in any way, except for my being constantly bombarded by it in the media?
Indeed, we are not rational. I don't want to fucking hear about Casey Anthony. I'd rather hear about there being fewer violent crimes than before, a fact that the sensationalist media don't seem to want you to know about.
Speaking of math, does anyone have a better link? The following kind of poked me in the eye:
But even if it is finite, researchersâ(TM) best guess is that it is no smaller than 10250 atoms of space and time. (Thatâ(TM)s the digit 1 followed by 250 zeros.) For comparison, the number of water molecules in all the oceans in the world has been estimated to be 4.4 x 1046
What? 10250 is not a one followed by 250 zeros, and there are a hell of a lot more than 4602.4 water molecules on Earth. Perhaps it's an HTML or CSS fuckup, but this tells me that the site cited isn't the best quality. I'd like to see a better one.
There are those who posit (without any logic or proof) that complexity leads to sentience. That's illogical unless you believe the Earth itself is sentient.
It sounds like that pot study a couple of years ago that's extremely hard to find now, the one that showed that cigarette smokers who smoked pot had half the cancers of those who smoked only cigarettes, while non-smokers had more yet statistically insignificant cancers than pot smokers.
What this study actually showed was that megaupload had no affect on ticket sales at all; that's what every comment I've seen has sorely missed.
If Megaupload did hurt box office sales, then they obviously hosted lots of pirated material.
You seem to have trouble with reading comprehension, as do the moderators (your sock puppets? I can't believe you're not -1 overrated since you obviously don't read well).
The study said exactly the OPPOSITE. Megaupload didn't hurt box office receipts, it helped them. Shutting the site down hurt receipts.
Maybe you and the mods need a remedial reading class? Well, maybe the mods thought your lack of reading comprehension was interesting... but you have no excuse.
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I'll bet the people who own these domains hate it worse than I do, though.
True, and not only that, but it's carbon-neutral and renewable.
I'm thinking of attacking you and your family. I'm probably on drugs, and won't stop until you beat me down. How long is acceptable? Or do you just let do horrible things to them?
Let me set fire to your straw man. My family is made up of fourteen ex Army rangers and they all have mace and tazers and plenty of plastic ties to bind you. Go ahead, punk, make my day.
What kind of "enthusiast" are they talking about? I've been building my own PCs for 25 years and only changed one CPU, and that's because the fan went out and fried it. And guess what? The only CPU to fit in its socket was the same type of CPU that fried.
I agree, this story is BS. It doesn't matter to me if the CPU is socketed or soldered, and in fact I'd prefer soldered (as long as it had a good fan), since besides heat, the enemy of electronics is corrosion and bad connections.
Please don't link to paywalled sites, especially when so many others aren't yet have the same content.
He's probably not a native speaker.
If one space probe we've sent out is even the merest flap of a butterfly's wing in the galaxy, then the galaxy as a complex system is concerned with humans. I'm pretty sure we've done more than that.
No, we haven't. Of the two Pioneers, one is just outside the solar system, light years away from any other system. And it's not a butterfly on Earth type thing, more like a microbe's effect on Earth's weather. You obviously have no idea how big a galaxy is.
Actually the budget needs to be cut by 0%. Austerity has failed horribly in Europe
Indeed, right when a recessed economy is getting back on its feet is no time for government cutbacks. As you say, generating jobs is the answer. Nor should we raise taxes on anyone whose tax rates will have an effect on their spending; i.e., tax the top 2% as much as you want, but leave the rest of us alone. If my taxes go up, I can't afford to spend as much, but if Warren Buffet's taxes go up it won't affect his spending or investment in the least. He has an insightful quote in a NY Times piece:
Oh yeah, we've done such a great job cleaning up war, poverty and ignorance
Actually, despite your sarcasm, there is less war, poverty, and ignorance than in the past.
I think most cop shops are afraid of something happening like occurred with the video of Rodney King's beatdown, in which the news snipped off crucial sections in which King repeatedly lunged at police. In addition, they tended not to mention his 100+mph evasion attempt, his prior criminal record or his extensive drug use.
His 100 mph chase, drug use, priors, and lunging don't give the cops an excuse to beat a suspect. Ever. Punishment is supposed to come from the courts, not the police. Punishment isn't a cop's job, solving crimes and arresting people are.
In Illinois, you can now secretly record the police."
This is a US Supreme court ruling. Anywhere in the US you can now secretly record the police, even if your state is dumb enough to outlaw it.
Have you been paying attention to what is happening in Europe over the last two years? Countries in Europe are one by one reaching the point where the cost of government services (including and mostly involving, that "social security safety net") are exceeding tax revenues to the point where no one wants to loan them money.
Have you been paying attention to what is happening in the whole world over the last four years? We've been in a bad worldwide recession. Greece has a 25% unemployment rate. Ireland is 15%. Spain is 25%. When one in four workers is out of a job, your government is going to have to borrow money or you're going to have riots.
I am so fickin pissed about this kind of sentiment. As if all old people are poor.
Most of the geezers I know are either poor or middle class, only a few are rich. Much like the general population.
But any time you bring up the fact that we're paying for Warren Buffet's health care and have been writing him a monthly Social Security check for a few decades
His SS check (if he's actually getting one) would be the same size as someone who earned $75k per year before retirement. What I'd like to see is to have Buffett pay the same percentage as I do while working, but have a cap on the monthly amount that could be collected after retirement.
As to paying for his health care, if we adopted a Canadian/European health care system, the Medicare/Medicaid problem would go away completely. The only ones who would lose would be insurance companies.
Go read a book.
I doubt "a" book will help much, although a few dozen might. Me, I'm in the middle of writing one (right here on slashdot) and even though I know how computers work (the GP might start with the TTL Cookbook if it's still in print), there's AI in the story. However, the AI in mine isn't sentient.
It depends on the cancer. Caught early, most breast cancers are survivable. Most forms of skin cancer are easily remedied. It also depends on how long the cancer grows before it's diagnosed. I had a close friend who had been in pain for quite some time and only went to the ER when the pain was unbearable, and she'd had a cancer on her gall bladder that was bigger than the gall bladder. had she sought treatment far earlier, she might still be alive today rather than dying horribly four months later.
OTOH, if you get lung cancer, you're dead. Period.
Probably, but TFA is firewalled off here. There are few computing or robotic devices that can't run Linux.
Not as a user, the guy has been writing software for 20 years and complains about poor design and bugs? Nerval's Lobster should clean up his own house.
I wonder how the UNIX SAP software fared; Windows is not a robust OS. Flaky hardware will make Windows and its software crash every time, while apps running Linux on the same flaky machine work fine, as I've seen on two different occasions.
Part of the problem is the tools. A poor workman always blames his tools, but a good workman doesn't use faulty tools. The tools I'm talking about are compilers, 3rd party installers, and OSes.
There really is no excuse for today's shoddy software. Why should an automobile last longer than an OS?
Given that the poor people weren't the ones offering the loans how does the offering of them make it "the poor ones who did it all"?
The truth is, the poor were scammed by the rich. The banks had a win-win situation before the housing bubble burst. Talk poor Joe Sixpack who doesn't have an MBA into believing he can afford the house, and when gas prices quadruple as they did betwen 2000 and 2008 and he misses a single mortgage payment, the bank makes it nearly impossible for him to ever recover and finally forecloses, then sells the house at a tidy profit after collecting mortgage payments for a few years. And if the unthinkable happens and home prices sink, the bank has insurance to cover it. There's no possible way for the bank to lose money on a home loan under those conditions.
It was legalized theft, with the rich legally robbing the poor.
Even if we have nuclear weapons nuclear war doesnt exist
It did in 1945 and it's a much bigger threat than AI. I don't see how AI could ever be a threat. Rather than Terminator, we should be looking at Dune, where intelligent machines controlled by people controlled masses of people, leading to revolt which outlawed intelligent machines.
Look, guys, Terminator was a damned good movie, but it's just that -- a movie.
Humans sucks at change.
Odd, then, that there's been so much positive change in my six decades on this rock. You wouldn't believe how primitive medicine was 50 years ago, or how incredibly toxic the environment was. The fact is, humans do NOT suck at change or nobody would marry and no one would invent things. We are far better at change than any other species on the planet.
People are not rational.
Indeed. Is it rational to put so much thought into people you never met, never would want to meet, who live thousands of miles away? How does Casey Anthony affect me in any way, except for my being constantly bombarded by it in the media?
A kid died, that's tragic to the people involved. Meanwhile, children are being killed by their government bombing them, war in the Congo, war between the Palestineans and Israelis, auto accidents... yet we fixate on one kid?
Indeed, we are not rational. I don't want to fucking hear about Casey Anthony. I'd rather hear about there being fewer violent crimes than before, a fact that the sensationalist media don't seem to want you to know about.
Speaking of math, does anyone have a better link? The following kind of poked me in the eye:
What? 10250 is not a one followed by 250 zeros, and there are a hell of a lot more than 4602.4 water molecules on Earth. Perhaps it's an HTML or CSS fuckup, but this tells me that the site cited isn't the best quality. I'd like to see a better one.
There are those who posit (without any logic or proof) that complexity leads to sentience. That's illogical unless you believe the Earth itself is sentient.
It sounds like that pot study a couple of years ago that's extremely hard to find now, the one that showed that cigarette smokers who smoked pot had half the cancers of those who smoked only cigarettes, while non-smokers had more yet statistically insignificant cancers than pot smokers.
What this study actually showed was that megaupload had no affect on ticket sales at all; that's what every comment I've seen has sorely missed.
Sales dropped 70%? Looks to me like the boycott worked.
If Megaupload did hurt box office sales, then they obviously hosted lots of pirated material.
You seem to have trouble with reading comprehension, as do the moderators (your sock puppets? I can't believe you're not -1 overrated since you obviously don't read well).
The study said exactly the OPPOSITE. Megaupload didn't hurt box office receipts, it helped them. Shutting the site down hurt receipts.
Maybe you and the mods need a remedial reading class? Well, maybe the mods thought your lack of reading comprehension was interesting... but you have no excuse.