How long ago did you get the implants? I have a CrystaLens in my left eye, and need no corrective lenses at all. I don't even need reading glasses and I'll be 60 in a couple of months. I was severely nearsighted with thick glasses all my life before the surgery. The CrystaLens was FDA-approved in 2003, mine was implanted in 2006.
The GP and his fellow Borg-fearing youngsters will (probably) be assimilated. There will be no resistance, they will beg us to assimilate them!
I know lots of cyborgs besides just myself. Folks with artificial hips, knees, shoulders. When it's a choice between blindness and becoming a cyborg, or a wheelchair and becoming a cyborg, you're going under the knife (or the needle if it's your eye).
He was half joking. If you plant a tree, then burn or eat it after it's grown, it's carbon-neutral. If you build a house with that tree, you've sequestered the carbon with a loss of atmospheric CO2. Eating it produces methane, which is worse than CO2.
Burying that paper in a landfill sequesters the carbon as well. The joke is that making paper, whether from trees or recycling, produces dioxins (which are the subject of TFA) and plastics do not -- but manufacturing plastics has its own environmental problems, and burying plastic (which is mostly made of oil) re-sequesters carbon that was once sequestered until it was piped out of the ground.
This is the kind of thing that copyright and patent laws were SUPPOSED to protect against.
I'm not so sure about that. You can't copyright an idea. For instance, you could write a novel about a detective in a futuristic domed city who's investigating a murder, who hates robots and has a robot partner, without infringing on The Caves of Steel. The novel is copyrighted, the idea is not and cannot be.
Ok, I'm not normally one of the guy's who says this... but
Guy's what? Guy's sockpuppet? And which guy?
Slashdot isn't a tech site, it's a nerd site. The environmental and bioligical sciences are as interesting to us nerds as astronomy, physics, chemistry, any of the other sciences, OR technology.
What is there to discuss here?
If you hadn't tried so hard to make first post you would have been able to see for yourself.
I mean, it doesn't bother you that most voters oppose legalized marijuana?
But they don't. The percentage of Americans who want it legalized has risen from 12% in 1968 to 50% in 2011.
They oppose it because they believe the lies spewed buy government, like this:
Marijuana smoke contains some of the same cancer-causing compounds as tobacco, sometimes in higher concentrations. Studies show that someone who smokes five joints per week may be taking in as many cancer-causing chemicals as someone who smokes a full pack of cigarettes every day.
They use to flat-out say that marijuana causes cancer until a study of long term users was done. Pot smokers had fewer (the difference was statistically insignifigant) cancers than non-smokers, and those who smoked both pot and tobacco had half the cancers of those who smoked only tobacco! So they weasel around with language to make it sound like pot causes cancer, when it may actually prevent cancer.
I think the creepies thing about Romney is the things that he says, like "I like to fire people" and "I don't care about the very poor" (they were showing the jab at the poor on the TV news this morning). The rest of them also say very creepy things.
Hmm... corn production is pretty much automated (they grow tons of it here in central Illinois). About the only non-skilled labor is detassling, and they hire high school kids for that.
There are a lot of illegals here, though -- the Excel meat packing plant in Jacksonville is repeatedly busted for hiring illegals, but the fines must be pretty puny if there are any at all, because they keep hiring the illegals.
I never could understand the Baptists' stance on alcohol, especially considering passages like Matthew 11:18-19 (18 For John [the Baptist] came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.)
Then there's that party where Jesus turned water into wine! Maybe the Baptists consider John the Baptist as the messiah? At any rate, you're right.
Unfortunately, Paul's stand on the environment and corpratism make him an unpalatable candate for me. However, I usually do as you suggest and vote third party. Both the Greeniess and Libbies want to end the drug war.
He's not any good either -- I like being able to breathe. I can't vote for someone who wants to disband the EPA. Pollution doesn't respect state lines. The LPs are for "hands off the corporations" in other ways, all of them bad for me.
I'll probablt vote Green unless they run a crazy like McKinney again. They don't want to jail your loved ones, either.
Who is responsible for the kill, the guy pulling the trigger or the guy pressing the button on the laser?
Who's responsible for the touchdown, the quarterback or the wide reciever? It's a meaningless question. I once told a combat veteran that I alwasy felt bad because I was behind the lines servicing aircraft while he was getting shot at. He informed me that we support guys kept him and his combat buddies alive, and I should feel proud.
It's teamwork. Like the cliche says, there's no "I" in team.
The average user would have to invest like 10% more time learning linux to be able to do his/her job
That was true ten years ago, not today. Kubuntu is more like XP than Win 7 is. And if all PCs came naked, and Linux cost as much as Windows, Linux would be the default. Windows is a complete pain in the ass to install (see someon else's comment earlier about installing Win 7).
I think I'll upgrade my old HP's (1.7 hz chip, 750 megs of memory) OS tonight. I'm running kubuntu 10.04, 11.10 is out. It should take five clicks or less, and a half hour of watching TV while it does its thing. Then a single reboot, as opposed to Windows needing at least one reboot for every single driver and every single piece of software.
It takes a bullet a while to travel a mile. By the time the bullet reaches the target, the target may have moved. With this, after you pull the trigger you keep the laser on the target, and the round will hit the target. This would make a sharpshooter even more accurate.
I'm a Windows hater (if I ever stop getting 503s when trying to post a JE you'll see a vitriolic rant about Windows), but
Tried tweaking Windows 7 start menu so she could find the handful of apps she'll actually end up using... near impossible
That's easy. Open the app once and it's there. Then just right clik the start menu icon it just put there and select "pin to start menu." It's almost like you do it in kde.
Be glad it's not an Acer with the stupid "tap to click" bug that they call a "feature". I thought I'd never find the setting to disable it, turns out it's where you'd least expect it. Three clicks in kde.
Then many hours poking at the bluetooth a2dp support
I don't think Windows supports bluetooth at all. I bought a bluetooth dongle to get photos from the phone to the computer, had to run an install CD (which meant I had to copy it to a thumb drive on the Linux computer) and it was still flaky as hell. I was a bit concerned when I opened it, because it had software and drivers for Mac and Windows but not Linux, but when I plugged the dongle into the Linux box it just worked. No driver install, no extra software, it's part of the distro. It is what Windows claims to be.
"The ability to buy almost any software title and have it work on Windows...", I totally agree that's a huge selling point. The ability to use the software you have as long as you like an however you want... well, that seems like a pretty damn good thing too.
Maybe, but it isn't true. When I got XP several years ago, half my software no longer worked. When I got 98 before that, few DOS games worked. And try running Amarok or XMMS on Windows!
There's a reason they have so much market share
Yeah -- it comes preinstalled on every non-apple computer sold. If it were illegal to sell a PC with an OS, Microsoft would have very few customers. It is plainly inferior in almost every respect to both Linux and Macs. There isn't a single thing I can do on my Windows box I can't in Linux,but quite a bit I can do in Linux that's impossible to do in Windows. Like, say, keep it running for more than a month without rebooting. Like not needing AV. Like having my computer come up after a boot in the same condition it was before, all programs and data still open, even after a kernel update.
the experience cemented my belief that, even though Ubuntu is jacking the shit out of what I want, it's still far more appropriate for my usage than Windows, and I can always distro hop again.
Christianity has one standard text. A Spanish bible says the same thing as the NIV or the King James, it just says it in different languages. All Christian sects are the same, save a few minor differences, like how often to do communion and how baptism is performed.
But you'll not find a Christian preacher who says "it's ok to divorce your wife who has alzheimers"... oops... You have the "wolf in sheep's clothing" who puts things in the bible that aren't. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than Richard Dawkins ever dreamed of converting. Never trust anyone who wears a tie, especially a preacher.
Nobody's prostrating themselves because those guys lived a long time ago, they're respected for their obvious wisdom.
And if you find you must follow the teachings of some old dead guy instead of analyzing situations for yourself, then why Jefferson? Why not Gandhi, or Jesus? They might tell you to do something very different.
Actually, they didn't. And Ghandi and Jesus were likewise wise. You'll understand when you get older, I used to think the same way you do.
I've certainly been the sort of geek who hasn't done well in communicating with others when it comes to technical matters.
That's because they don't understand the terminology. Every time I try to talk tech with a non-nerd, their eyes glaze over. Anything else I have no problem discussing.
I've gotten to the point I just tell them "Windows sucks." They can understand that. The third time someone brings me an infected machine, I just format the drive and throw kubuntu on it. I never have many problems after that.
If someone punches you, turn the other cheek? Weird. Love those who hate you and do good to those who wrong you? Weird. Give freely to anyone who asks anything of you? Weird. If someone sues you for your cloak, give him your coat as well? Weird.
Yes, we Christians are weird. And proud of it. No, scratch that -- we're not supposed to be prideful. Not being proud of one's accomplishments is pretty weird, too.
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How long ago did you get the implants? I have a CrystaLens in my left eye, and need no corrective lenses at all. I don't even need reading glasses and I'll be 60 in a couple of months. I was severely nearsighted with thick glasses all my life before the surgery. The CrystaLens was FDA-approved in 2003, mine was implanted in 2006.
The GP and his fellow Borg-fearing youngsters will (probably) be assimilated. There will be no resistance, they will beg us to assimilate them!
I know lots of cyborgs besides just myself. Folks with artificial hips, knees, shoulders. When it's a choice between blindness and becoming a cyborg, or a wheelchair and becoming a cyborg, you're going under the knife (or the needle if it's your eye).
He was half joking. If you plant a tree, then burn or eat it after it's grown, it's carbon-neutral. If you build a house with that tree, you've sequestered the carbon with a loss of atmospheric CO2. Eating it produces methane, which is worse than CO2.
Burying that paper in a landfill sequesters the carbon as well. The joke is that making paper, whether from trees or recycling, produces dioxins (which are the subject of TFA) and plastics do not -- but manufacturing plastics has its own environmental problems, and burying plastic (which is mostly made of oil) re-sequesters carbon that was once sequestered until it was piped out of the ground.
This is the kind of thing that copyright and patent laws were SUPPOSED to protect against.
I'm not so sure about that. You can't copyright an idea. For instance, you could write a novel about a detective in a futuristic domed city who's investigating a murder, who hates robots and has a robot partner, without infringing on The Caves of Steel. The novel is copyrighted, the idea is not and cannot be.
What happens if you're wearing a prescription contact and it falls out?
You're blind in that eye, unlike if the screw on your glasses' earpiece falls out, in which case you're blind in both eyes.
Ok, I'm not normally one of the guy's who says this... but
Guy's what? Guy's sockpuppet? And which guy?
Slashdot isn't a tech site, it's a nerd site. The environmental and bioligical sciences are as interesting to us nerds as astronomy, physics, chemistry, any of the other sciences, OR technology.
What is there to discuss here?
If you hadn't tried so hard to make first post you would have been able to see for yourself.
Will you have a serious discussion of chemistry, metalurgy, and physics in response to a joke! And maybe even learn something.
Well, I've found that there are no boring stories, only boring writers. How well did that old tree write, anyway?
Never ascribe to stupidity what can adequately be explained by greedy self-interest.
-mcgrew's razor
I mean, it doesn't bother you that most voters oppose legalized marijuana?
But they don't. The percentage of Americans who want it legalized has risen from 12% in 1968 to 50% in 2011.
They oppose it because they believe the lies spewed buy government, like this:
They use to flat-out say that marijuana causes cancer until a study of long term users was done. Pot smokers had fewer (the difference was statistically insignifigant) cancers than non-smokers, and those who smoked both pot and tobacco had half the cancers of those who smoked only tobacco! So they weasel around with language to make it sound like pot causes cancer, when it may actually prevent cancer.
I think the creepies thing about Romney is the things that he says, like "I like to fire people" and "I don't care about the very poor" (they were showing the jab at the poor on the TV news this morning). The rest of them also say very creepy things.
The majority of voters (not people, but people who actually go vote) still disfavor legalization
I googled, and could find no evidence that your assertion is correct. On the contrary, Gallup says half of Americans favor legalization.
I believe your numbers are simply out of date. When Gallup started asking in 1968, only 12% thought it should be legal.
Hmm... corn production is pretty much automated (they grow tons of it here in central Illinois). About the only non-skilled labor is detassling, and they hire high school kids for that.
There are a lot of illegals here, though -- the Excel meat packing plant in Jacksonville is repeatedly busted for hiring illegals, but the fines must be pretty puny if there are any at all, because they keep hiring the illegals.
I never could understand the Baptists' stance on alcohol, especially considering passages like Matthew 11:18-19 (18 For John [the Baptist] came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. 19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.)
Then there's that party where Jesus turned water into wine! Maybe the Baptists consider John the Baptist as the messiah? At any rate, you're right.
Unfortunately, Paul's stand on the environment and corpratism make him an unpalatable candate for me. However, I usually do as you suggest and vote third party. Both the Greeniess and Libbies want to end the drug war.
He's not any good either -- I like being able to breathe. I can't vote for someone who wants to disband the EPA. Pollution doesn't respect state lines. The LPs are for "hands off the corporations" in other ways, all of them bad for me.
I'll probablt vote Green unless they run a crazy like McKinney again. They don't want to jail your loved ones, either.
Who is responsible for the kill, the guy pulling the trigger or the guy pressing the button on the laser?
Who's responsible for the touchdown, the quarterback or the wide reciever? It's a meaningless question. I once told a combat veteran that I alwasy felt bad because I was behind the lines servicing aircraft while he was getting shot at. He informed me that we support guys kept him and his combat buddies alive, and I should feel proud.
It's teamwork. Like the cliche says, there's no "I" in team.
The average user would have to invest like 10% more time learning linux to be able to do his/her job
That was true ten years ago, not today. Kubuntu is more like XP than Win 7 is. And if all PCs came naked, and Linux cost as much as Windows, Linux would be the default. Windows is a complete pain in the ass to install (see someon else's comment earlier about installing Win 7).
I think I'll upgrade my old HP's (1.7 hz chip, 750 megs of memory) OS tonight. I'm running kubuntu 10.04, 11.10 is out. It should take five clicks or less, and a half hour of watching TV while it does its thing. Then a single reboot, as opposed to Windows needing at least one reboot for every single driver and every single piece of software.
Linux just works.
It takes a bullet a while to travel a mile. By the time the bullet reaches the target, the target may have moved. With this, after you pull the trigger you keep the laser on the target, and the round will hit the target. This would make a sharpshooter even more accurate.
I find political correctness offensive. Political correctness is intolerance.
I'm a Windows hater (if I ever stop getting 503s when trying to post a JE you'll see a vitriolic rant about Windows), but
Tried tweaking Windows 7 start menu so she could find the handful of apps she'll actually end up using... near impossible
That's easy. Open the app once and it's there. Then just right clik the start menu icon it just put there and select "pin to start menu." It's almost like you do it in kde.
Be glad it's not an Acer with the stupid "tap to click" bug that they call a "feature". I thought I'd never find the setting to disable it, turns out it's where you'd least expect it. Three clicks in kde.
Then many hours poking at the bluetooth a2dp support
I don't think Windows supports bluetooth at all. I bought a bluetooth dongle to get photos from the phone to the computer, had to run an install CD (which meant I had to copy it to a thumb drive on the Linux computer) and it was still flaky as hell. I was a bit concerned when I opened it, because it had software and drivers for Mac and Windows but not Linux, but when I plugged the dongle into the Linux box it just worked. No driver install, no extra software, it's part of the distro. It is what Windows claims to be.
"The ability to buy almost any software title and have it work on Windows...", I totally agree that's a huge selling point. The ability to use the software you have as long as you like an however you want... well, that seems like a pretty damn good thing too.
Maybe, but it isn't true. When I got XP several years ago, half my software no longer worked. When I got 98 before that, few DOS games worked. And try running Amarok or XMMS on Windows!
There's a reason they have so much market share
Yeah -- it comes preinstalled on every non-apple computer sold. If it were illegal to sell a PC with an OS, Microsoft would have very few customers. It is plainly inferior in almost every respect to both Linux and Macs. There isn't a single thing I can do on my Windows box I can't in Linux,but quite a bit I can do in Linux that's impossible to do in Windows. Like, say, keep it running for more than a month without rebooting. Like not needing AV. Like having my computer come up after a boot in the same condition it was before, all programs and data still open, even after a kernel update.
the experience cemented my belief that, even though Ubuntu is jacking the shit out of what I want, it's still far more appropriate for my usage than Windows, and I can always distro hop again.
I may go back to mandriva. But probably not.
Christianity has one standard text. A Spanish bible says the same thing as the NIV or the King James, it just says it in different languages. All Christian sects are the same, save a few minor differences, like how often to do communion and how baptism is performed.
But you'll not find a Christian preacher who says "it's ok to divorce your wife who has alzheimers"... oops... You have the "wolf in sheep's clothing" who puts things in the bible that aren't. Pat Robertson has converted more Christians to athiesm than Richard Dawkins ever dreamed of converting. Never trust anyone who wears a tie, especially a preacher.
Nobody's prostrating themselves because those guys lived a long time ago, they're respected for their obvious wisdom.
And if you find you must follow the teachings of some old dead guy instead of analyzing situations for yourself, then why Jefferson? Why not Gandhi, or Jesus? They might tell you to do something very different.
Actually, they didn't. And Ghandi and Jesus were likewise wise. You'll understand when you get older, I used to think the same way you do.
I've certainly been the sort of geek who hasn't done well in communicating with others when it comes to technical matters.
That's because they don't understand the terminology. Every time I try to talk tech with a non-nerd, their eyes glaze over. Anything else I have no problem discussing.
I've gotten to the point I just tell them "Windows sucks." They can understand that. The third time someone brings me an infected machine, I just format the drive and throw kubuntu on it. I never have many problems after that.
No, standard Christianity is every bit as weird as Mormonism.
Actually, my preacher agrees with you! In fact, he was suggesting a book called Weird -- Beceuse Normal Isn't Working. I bought and read a copy.
If someone punches you, turn the other cheek? Weird. Love those who hate you and do good to those who wrong you? Weird. Give freely to anyone who asks anything of you? Weird. If someone sues you for your cloak, give him your coat as well? Weird.
Yes, we Christians are weird. And proud of it. No, scratch that -- we're not supposed to be prideful. Not being proud of one's accomplishments is pretty weird, too.
It isn't easy being Christian. It's really weird.
Sorry, I only got halfway through that mess. Mind using some capitalization? And some punctuation besides periods?
Reading "or are simply still have not broken out from the brainwashing they got sense" -- huh? Brainwashing gave them sense?
well, that's as far as I could go. I think you meant "sinse" but jesus H Christ, man, I I see why you hate school -- your teachers were abysmal.
I suggest checking a few books out from your local library.