I don't want pot to be illegal, but it needs to be regulated like alcohol.
Of course it should; kids shouldn't be smoking pot or ingesting any psychoactive substance.
If you go to the store drunk as hell it is as rude as going there completely baked
Some people are like that when they're stone cold sober.
I just wish the stupid republicans would stop being turd sandwiches and just make it legal and wrap it into the Tobacco and Alcohol rules.
The Democrats are as much anti-reffer as the Republicans. If you want pot legalized (you can't regulate or control an illegal product), either vote Libertarian or Green; both those parties are for legalization, although I'd assume the Libbies would be less inclined to regulate it.
Learn some physiology of vision. As we age, our lenses lose adaptation, so we cannot change the distance of focus easily.
That's because the eye's lens hardens with age. The muscles that focus still work, but they can't contract that hard lens like they could when it was still young and soft. Get your original lens replaced with a CrystaLens, which sits on struts and is focused by the eye's natural muscles and you'll have 20/25 or better at all distances; I have one and my vision is now better than 20/20 (about 20/16, compared to the previously nearsighted 20/400).
The wind speed wasn't bad, barely a hurricane at all. But the sheer size of the thing was what made it a "super storm" along with where it landed, where hurricanes only hit every several decades and nobody is use to them.
all of us who are getting older (happens to everyone, just you wait!)
I'm 60, but I'm not 100% human; I'm a cyborg. The lens in my left eye was replaced by a CrystaLens implant that cured both my severe myopia and my age-related presbyopia. After wearing glasses all my life, I no longer need them.
the kids, today are writing. and they don't get it, it seems, since the gui toolkits are not showing any signs of being usable by those who are over middle age.
Today's designers are, IMO, brain-dead stupid. Even Google went downhill with their gray on black links at the top of their page. What's worse is some of these dumb kids doing gray on gray.
I know the young eyes out there will just write this off; but designing for HUMAN factors includes those whose eyes are not as sharp as yours. ignore us and you'll be ignoring yourself soon enough. like I said, we all will be there at some point or another; stop assuming everyone has great vision and great finger motor control over millimeter distances on flat glass.
Agreed. Like I said, the kids designing this shit today seem to all have below average intelligence.
My eyes are by nature near useless, I fix this with contacts.
When you reach middle age you're going to need reading glasses along with those contacts -- I did, until I had a bionic implant in my left eye tha replaced the natural lens.
I'm sure that in populations where neonates spend substantial amount of times cuddling up and sucking daddy's nipples, similar effects of paternal love might well be noticed
Can you spot the difference between an adult who was breast fed and one who was bottle fed as an infant? I can't. As the GP noted, this is not just sexist but factually incorrect -- nipples have nothinhg to do with it, or people would have started getting stupid around the beginning of the 20th century when most babies were bottle-fed.
If daddy cuddles the baby, especially while holding a bottle, the two will bond unless the adult has something wrong with his gray matter.
Hmm, how about a future display which you can put away when not in use, leaving a bare wall?
Why would you want a bare wall? A bare wall is an ugly wall.
Held up by magnets behind the painted surface
They'd have to be some damned strong magnets to hold a 55 inch TV. And do you want to move that TV out of the closet every time you want to watch a movie?
A phone that won't fit in my pants pocket is useless. It might as well be a 1972 landline. My old original Razr had a tiny screen, and it worked fine for texting and internet. The one I have now is bigger, almost too big, and I don't see a lot of difference in the screens.
If you're old and not a cyborg just buy some strong reading glasses.
Columbus Ohio had a trash burning power plant but it got shut down in the mid 1980's because of the costs of environmental regulations.
There was one in the St Louis area, too -- my uncle worked there. He smoked four packs of Kools per day through the one lung he hadn't lost to TB and died from COPD at age 60. But I'd wager he might have had another five or ten years had he worked somewhere else.
There is a Monsanto plant in Sauget, across the river from St Louis. Before environmental regs you had to roll the windows up driving past, even in 95 degree weather and there was no car AC back then, because the air burned your lungs and made it painful to breathe. Not now, you don't smell anything driving past.
Those expensive environmental regulations are worth every penny -- not to the polluter, but to those of us who breathe. If you can't afford to clean up the messes you make, don't make the messes in the first place.
You poor wretch, you must have a terrible time in the grocery store. Folgers or maxwell House or house brand? With each brand having its own several different blends to choose from?
You're going to be in real trouble if you decide to buy a car.
Hint for the dumbasses: If you're too stupid to choose between available things, you're far too stupid to come near a computer, let alone drive a car.
The more freedom you provide, the more work must be done.
No, but there is at least one in every Linux distribution. As to the AC GP, I feel sorry for the guy, standing in the grocery store trying to figure out whether he wants Maxwell House, Folgers, or the store brand coffee. God help him if he ever decides to buy a car!
This "there's too much choice in Linux" is just brain-dead stupid.
The original HMS Bounty didn't have the benefit of knowing a week in advance when a hurricane was coming. This one did. WTF were they even at sea for?
As the captain said and every single news article about it quotes him, in a hurricane a ship is safer at sea than in port. They were trying to get the ship out of harm's way, but this hurricane was WAY bigger than most, 2000 miles wide.
Roughly 100,000 years of human history in which it was done one way and worked, compared with 50 years of sexual liberation where youth descended into ramapnt suicide, depression, crime and delinquency.
Your "facts" are wrong. Rather than descending into depression and suicide, depression and suicide peaked almost 40 years ago, before the "gay liberation". What about crime and delinquency?
Juvenile arrest rates were flat until 1987, peaked in 1995, and have been dropping since.
You may not realize it, but before 1900 maternal death rates were horrendous. Many, many children were motherless because their mothers died birthing their sibling. Then there were horriffic wars that caused fatherless children... and diseases that made children motherless, fatherless, and often orphaned.
Your logic is as wrong as your facts. Your ignorance of juvinile depression and crime rates is as bad as your ignorance of history.
You are wrong, sir - Only a lactating woman can breast-feed. By "bonding," they not only mean the emotional bond from the titty-suckin', but the chemical benefits that only real breast milk (and not formula) can provide.
'fraid no, son. My oldest daughter got breast milk, as often from a bottle as a tit because she'd pump it out and I took care of the daughter when she was at work. The youngest had colic and couldn't properly digest breast milk and had to have formula. The youngest bonded more than the oldest, and both kids bonded far more with me than with their mother. Yes, sample of one, I know.
I surmise that the Slashdot males are social retards because of the lack of cerebral development caused by being too timid to latch on to the breast
I was breast-fed and was socially inept well into adulthood.
Breast milk doesn't matter to bonding, but it does matter to the baby's physical health.
...when I see them getting into places of power and manipulating education to their favour, it bothers me highly
It bothers me as well, and I'm a Christian. Remember that one, especially a Christian, should always doubt those with power and riches, because that's in direct conflict with Christianity.
I hold the opinion that Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than Dawkins ever dreamed of converting.
Also, as someone else already pointed out, hurricanes are rare there. Imagine what it would be like if you got two feet of snow in La. Up here in Illinois that's not rare at all and we get through it without too much trouble, but if you got that down there it would be pretty damned bad.
It turned out to be worse than they thought it would be, NYC is flooded, whole neighborhoods are on fire, a million people are without power. Most people where it gets cold before winter and stays cold until spring don't use kerosine heaters, but have gas or electric heat. Gas furnaces won't work without power; there's nothing to run the thermostat or blower and no way to light the gas.
Yes, I realize that only 1% of people have an IQ of 150, but that's there are three million people in the US alone. I'm pretty sure that a couple of guys I've worked with are 160 or higher, especially Dave and Charlie (who I worked with for ten years without knowing they held doctorates; Dave held two and Charlie had a doctorate and two Masters in different fields. But I do realize it doesn't take a genius to hold a PhD, one of the stupidest people I know has one).
If I'm in a group of 200 people, chances are at least one is smarter than me.
I have seen the overall intelligence drop at slashdot as the non-nerds started comeing here.
Seriously, I've been using Linux for a long time, and you know what? It really does still suck. I just upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu 12.10 and the VMware networking has flown apart again. Unity is a chain of terrible design decisions and I still need to use package management software in order to install applications on my desktop.
Are you trolling, or going for "funny"? If you think Linux sucks why did you upgrade rather than wiping the drive and installing Windows?
Maybe it's because I'm using KDE and you're using Unity, but I have no problems with the package manager. I find the app I want, one click and it's installed. How could you improve on that? It's head and shoulders above the Microsoft way, which always includes a reboot.
But hey, if you think Linux sucks, install Windows or BSD or buy a mac. Me, I'll stick to kubuntu.
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I don't want pot to be illegal, but it needs to be regulated like alcohol.
Of course it should; kids shouldn't be smoking pot or ingesting any psychoactive substance.
If you go to the store drunk as hell it is as rude as going there completely baked
Some people are like that when they're stone cold sober.
I just wish the stupid republicans would stop being turd sandwiches and just make it legal and wrap it into the Tobacco and Alcohol rules.
The Democrats are as much anti-reffer as the Republicans. If you want pot legalized (you can't regulate or control an illegal product), either vote Libertarian or Green; both those parties are for legalization, although I'd assume the Libbies would be less inclined to regulate it.
Honestly, Disney can't do any worse than Lucas has with the Star Wars franchise
Geezer tip: when you think things can't possibly get any worse, they almost always do.
Mickey is sitting in a bar, morosely nursing a Bourbon. Donald comes and sits next to him and orders a beer. "What's wrong, Mickey?"
"I'm divorcing Minnie."
"Why?"
"Aww, she's fuckin' GOOFY."
May the farce be with you...
It would be neither cost-effective nor environmentally friendly, so yes, the answer is no. But it's no for good reason.
Learn some physiology of vision. As we age, our lenses lose adaptation, so we cannot change the distance of focus easily.
That's because the eye's lens hardens with age. The muscles that focus still work, but they can't contract that hard lens like they could when it was still young and soft. Get your original lens replaced with a CrystaLens, which sits on struts and is focused by the eye's natural muscles and you'll have 20/25 or better at all distances; I have one and my vision is now better than 20/20 (about 20/16, compared to the previously nearsighted 20/400).
The wind speed wasn't bad, barely a hurricane at all. But the sheer size of the thing was what made it a "super storm" along with where it landed, where hurricanes only hit every several decades and nobody is use to them.
all of us who are getting older (happens to everyone, just you wait!)
I'm 60, but I'm not 100% human; I'm a cyborg. The lens in my left eye was replaced by a CrystaLens implant that cured both my severe myopia and my age-related presbyopia. After wearing glasses all my life, I no longer need them.
the kids, today are writing. and they don't get it, it seems, since the gui toolkits are not showing any signs of being usable by those who are over middle age.
Today's designers are, IMO, brain-dead stupid. Even Google went downhill with their gray on black links at the top of their page. What's worse is some of these dumb kids doing gray on gray.
I know the young eyes out there will just write this off; but designing for HUMAN factors includes those whose eyes are not as sharp as yours. ignore us and you'll be ignoring yourself soon enough. like I said, we all will be there at some point or another; stop assuming everyone has great vision and great finger motor control over millimeter distances on flat glass.
Agreed. Like I said, the kids designing this shit today seem to all have below average intelligence.
My eyes are by nature near useless, I fix this with contacts.
When you reach middle age you're going to need reading glasses along with those contacts -- I did, until I had a bionic implant in my left eye tha replaced the natural lens.
I'm sure that in populations where neonates spend substantial amount of times cuddling up and sucking daddy's nipples, similar effects of paternal love might well be noticed
Can you spot the difference between an adult who was breast fed and one who was bottle fed as an infant? I can't. As the GP noted, this is not just sexist but factually incorrect -- nipples have nothinhg to do with it, or people would have started getting stupid around the beginning of the 20th century when most babies were bottle-fed.
If daddy cuddles the baby, especially while holding a bottle, the two will bond unless the adult has something wrong with his gray matter.
Hmm, how about a future display which you can put away when not in use, leaving a bare wall?
Why would you want a bare wall? A bare wall is an ugly wall.
Held up by magnets behind the painted surface
They'd have to be some damned strong magnets to hold a 55 inch TV. And do you want to move that TV out of the closet every time you want to watch a movie?
Legitimate news reports don't "create" anything. You can't "create" facts
You also can't copyright facts, only the way they are presented. The presentation of the facts is the content, not the facts themselves.
Seriously Tiny screens are awful they always were
A phone that won't fit in my pants pocket is useless. It might as well be a 1972 landline. My old original Razr had a tiny screen, and it worked fine for texting and internet. The one I have now is bigger, almost too big, and I don't see a lot of difference in the screens.
If you're old and not a cyborg just buy some strong reading glasses.
Columbus Ohio had a trash burning power plant but it got shut down in the mid 1980's because of the costs of environmental regulations.
There was one in the St Louis area, too -- my uncle worked there. He smoked four packs of Kools per day through the one lung he hadn't lost to TB and died from COPD at age 60. But I'd wager he might have had another five or ten years had he worked somewhere else.
There is a Monsanto plant in Sauget, across the river from St Louis. Before environmental regs you had to roll the windows up driving past, even in 95 degree weather and there was no car AC back then, because the air burned your lungs and made it painful to breathe. Not now, you don't smell anything driving past.
Those expensive environmental regulations are worth every penny -- not to the polluter, but to those of us who breathe. If you can't afford to clean up the messes you make, don't make the messes in the first place.
"Freedom of choice" is actually a bad thing.
You poor wretch, you must have a terrible time in the grocery store. Folgers or maxwell House or house brand? With each brand having its own several different blends to choose from?
You're going to be in real trouble if you decide to buy a car.
Hint for the dumbasses: If you're too stupid to choose between available things, you're far too stupid to come near a computer, let alone drive a car.
The more freedom you provide, the more work must be done.
Oh, sorry, you're not stupid, you're just lazy.
There are no UIs in Linux.
No, but there is at least one in every Linux distribution. As to the AC GP, I feel sorry for the guy, standing in the grocery store trying to figure out whether he wants Maxwell House, Folgers, or the store brand coffee. God help him if he ever decides to buy a car!
This "there's too much choice in Linux" is just brain-dead stupid.
The original HMS Bounty didn't have the benefit of knowing a week in advance when a hurricane was coming. This one did. WTF were they even at sea for?
As the captain said and every single news article about it quotes him, in a hurricane a ship is safer at sea than in port. They were trying to get the ship out of harm's way, but this hurricane was WAY bigger than most, 2000 miles wide.
Roughly 100,000 years of human history in which it was done one way and worked, compared with 50 years of sexual liberation where youth descended into ramapnt suicide, depression, crime and delinquency.
Hmmm... self-destructive deaths among teens rose from the 1950s to the 1970s, then generally declined.Teen-age suicides peaked in 1977 with 13.3 deaths per 100,000.
Your "facts" are wrong. Rather than descending into depression and suicide, depression and suicide peaked almost 40 years ago, before the "gay liberation". What about crime and delinquency?
Juvenile arrest rates were flat until 1987, peaked in 1995, and have been dropping since.
You may not realize it, but before 1900 maternal death rates were horrendous. Many, many children were motherless because their mothers died birthing their sibling. Then there were horriffic wars that caused fatherless children... and diseases that made children motherless, fatherless, and often orphaned.
Your logic is as wrong as your facts. Your ignorance of juvinile depression and crime rates is as bad as your ignorance of history.
Considering the lack of ethics and morals in almost every organization, I'd say this didproves Betteridge's "law" of headlines.
You are wrong, sir - Only a lactating woman can breast-feed. By "bonding," they not only mean the emotional bond from the titty-suckin', but the chemical benefits that only real breast milk (and not formula) can provide.
'fraid no, son. My oldest daughter got breast milk, as often from a bottle as a tit because she'd pump it out and I took care of the daughter when she was at work. The youngest had colic and couldn't properly digest breast milk and had to have formula. The youngest bonded more than the oldest, and both kids bonded far more with me than with their mother. Yes, sample of one, I know.
I surmise that the Slashdot males are social retards because of the lack of cerebral development caused by being too timid to latch on to the breast
I was breast-fed and was socially inept well into adulthood.
Breast milk doesn't matter to bonding, but it does matter to the baby's physical health.
But that's the beauty of language, it is alive.
Aw, man, you missed the opportunity for a joke. Tomorrow's Halloween. It's.... aliiiiIIIIIVE!!!!
...when I see them getting into places of power and manipulating education to their favour, it bothers me highly
It bothers me as well, and I'm a Christian. Remember that one, especially a Christian, should always doubt those with power and riches, because that's in direct conflict with Christianity.
I hold the opinion that Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than Dawkins ever dreamed of converting.
Also, as someone else already pointed out, hurricanes are rare there. Imagine what it would be like if you got two feet of snow in La. Up here in Illinois that's not rare at all and we get through it without too much trouble, but if you got that down there it would be pretty damned bad.
It turned out to be worse than they thought it would be, NYC is flooded, whole neighborhoods are on fire, a million people are without power. Most people where it gets cold before winter and stays cold until spring don't use kerosine heaters, but have gas or electric heat. Gas furnaces won't work without power; there's nothing to run the thermostat or blower and no way to light the gas.
Yes, I realize that only 1% of people have an IQ of 150, but that's there are three million people in the US alone. I'm pretty sure that a couple of guys I've worked with are 160 or higher, especially Dave and Charlie (who I worked with for ten years without knowing they held doctorates; Dave held two and Charlie had a doctorate and two Masters in different fields. But I do realize it doesn't take a genius to hold a PhD, one of the stupidest people I know has one).
If I'm in a group of 200 people, chances are at least one is smarter than me.
I have seen the overall intelligence drop at slashdot as the non-nerds started comeing here.
Autocorrect wouldn't have let "thru" through. My guess is either he's not a native English speaker, or he's on crack.
Seriously, I've been using Linux for a long time, and you know what? It really does still suck. I just upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu 12.10 and the VMware networking has flown apart again. Unity is a chain of terrible design decisions and I still need to use package management software in order to install applications on my desktop.
Are you trolling, or going for "funny"? If you think Linux sucks why did you upgrade rather than wiping the drive and installing Windows?
Maybe it's because I'm using KDE and you're using Unity, but I have no problems with the package manager. I find the app I want, one click and it's installed. How could you improve on that? It's head and shoulders above the Microsoft way, which always includes a reboot.
But hey, if you think Linux sucks, install Windows or BSD or buy a mac. Me, I'll stick to kubuntu.