Nuclear has not, short of accidents caused by huge natural disasters and ancient primitive soviet technology.
Construction of the plant and the nearby city of Pripyat to house workers and their families began in 1970. So I'm not only old, but I'm older than ancient? Fuck you, kid, get off my lawn.
Viruses and bacteria were called "bugs" long before that moth landed in Dr. Hopper's computer. Note that "bug" is not a proper biological term; most people would consider both insects and arachnids to be "bugs". From wikipedia:
Informally, most arthropods, except marine crustaceans, including individuals or species of insect scorpion[citation needed] mite tick spider centipede millipede woodlouse Bacterium or any microorganism that causes illness and has a superficial resemblance to an insect, or bug, when viewed through a microscope Bug, a hybrid dog that is a cross between a pug and a Boston terrier One of several species of slipper lobster, such as Moreton Bay bug Balmain bug
Most of the forms of Christianity in the entire world have no qualms with the theory of evolution, even in the US. There are, unfortunately, a lot of morons here.
I think he's talking about idiots like my ex-wife, whose cat (my daughter's cat, actually) came down with a serious bacterial infection. The vet prescribed antibiotics, and the stupid Evil-X didn't bother refilling the prescription because he seemed to be better. The poor cat's in the hospital now, fighting for its life.
If your doctor says take (n) pills for (n) days, take the damned things as he prescribes! Just because the symptoms are gone doesn't mean all the bacteria are gone, and the remaining bacteria will be less suceptable to the antibiotic than the ones that died. Don't give them a chance to reproduce, take the damned medicine!
The traditional/. method of dealing with basic errors like substituting 'virus' for 'bacteria'
Man, spelling "bacteria" v-i-r-u-s is one hell of a misspelling! If I made such a dumb mistake I'd fully expect to be raked over the coals for it, and have my mother insulted for raising an idiot as well.
Face it, dude, it was an incredibly ignorant comment. Don't feel bad, we've all done it. Nobody knows everything (but a lot of people think they do), and everybody knows something nobody else knows.
Then we eat the meat, laced with antibiotics, and the viruses in our bloodstream mutate to brush off this rather mild onslaught.
*sigh* Antibiotics do not kill viruses! Antibiotics only work for bacterial infections, which is why pennicillin won't cure the flu but will cure ghonnorea. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM, going to your doctor and demanding antibiotics for a virus. Worse is the doctor who capitulates and actually prescribes the antibiotics that won't do anything except breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
And how does corn promote illness in an herbivore? It's not like the corn is laced with bacteria! If corn caused infections, you'ld get infected when you ate corn.
The corn has nothing to do with it. The farmers are shooting the cattle with antibiotics as a (very stupid) preventative measure because they're raised in filthy conditions.
Whoever modded you insightful shouldn't get mod points, because your comment showed an incredible lack of insight. Interesting perhaps, but incorrect and certainly not insightful.
Those "antibiotic" soaps don't have pennicillin or ethromycin in them, the "antibiotic" is plain old alcohol, which won't promote drug resistance. However, as another poster noted, shooting up our food animals with antibiotics is stupidly reckless.
I'm going to poop on your party here... yes, I got the joke, but
From The Rime of the Acient Mariner The moving Moon went up the sky. And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside-
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
TO THE MOON Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a Joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. -A nursery rhyme from the 1700's
Is the moon tired? she looks so pale Within her misty veil: She scales the sky from east to west, And takes no rest. Before the coming of the night The moon shows papery white; Before the dawning of the day She fades away.
From Sing-Song by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Also, my dad was born in 1932, my mom in 1928, my grandmother in 1903. I think if there had been no moon before 1950 I would have heard about it.
It would have been a good joke if I wasn't so damned old.
No, it was from somewhere around 1999 that I read it, don't remember where, but I do remember thinking how cool it was. IIRC, its calandar didn't have to be adjusted, which was one of the things that impressed me so much.
Harold Camping is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He should stop worrying about the sins of gays and worry about his own sins.
Fire and brimstone preachers piss me off. Chriatianity is about love and forgiveness, not hate and pain. Real Christians don't act hatefully, like that Camping asshole. What's worse, wtf have gays done to him? He should remove the two by four from his own eye before he tries to remove the speck from his brother's eye.
Focusing on producers of goods instead of the needs of consumers is a trick of interventionist "planned economies".
That's true, but it's beside the point I was making.
Workers can be exploited only by their own consent.
Being driven by hunger is far from "consent". When one out of ten people are looking for work, it isn't hard to exploit them, and it's impossible for them to prevent being exploited. IMO if you hire a person full-time, you owe them a living. If your workers are on food stamps, you're the parasite, not your worker.
One can get rich honestly, but it's damned hard to do. It takes a shitload of all kinds of luck. That's more the case now that it was 30 or even 20 years ago.
My Uncle Dan was a rich man, and his riches came from pure luck. His first lucky stroke was being born with intelligence, creativity, and good eye-hand coordination, all fairly rare traits. The second stroke of luck (which surely seemed bad luck at the time) was having his ship torpedoed in WWII and sent to a hospital, where he met his future partner, a man who'd lost his leg in that war (another stroke of luck) who was a good salesman (more luck).
The fellow showed Uncle Dan the prosthesis, amd my uncle said "that's crap, I can make a better leg than that!" and produced one. The two of them went into business together. Dan's partner (whose name I can't remember) would walk into a ward full of maimed soldiers with his sales tools, and the legless veteran would invariably say "what the fuck do YOU know about it?"
Dan's partner would just smile and roll up his pants leg -- instant sale. They made millions. But if any one of those coincidences hadn't happened, he likely would not have become rich.
Most likely you're right when you say things have changed, and it's "pull" now, but I suspect that has always been the way.
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I never read Marx, but logic says that the car the autmaker produces is the wealth. The salesmen are necessary, but they don't create wealth, they help transfer wealth between the customer (his cash) and the automaker (his car). The engineers and designers and factory workers produce the wealth. But wealth needs more than simply its creation, it needs to be sold (changed from product to cash), the cash needs to be managed, etc.
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I agree, but accumulated wealth is a lot easier to google for.
There were some cool things centuries ago. There's a 17th century clock in France that displays the time, day of week, and date -- and it was Y2K compliant!
On the other hand, I can't figure out why anybody would carry a cell phone, unless for fashion.
Dad? Is that you? When did you get a computer? I can't figure out why anyone would want a landline phone, all you can do with one is make and recieve calls, and it doesn't even work unless you're home. I don't have a landline. But my phone makes and recieves calls, texts, emails, accesses the internet, is a calandar, a calculator, a camera, a movie camera... it's a damned handy device to have.
If you're not my 80 year old dad you must be trolling.
That's odd, my $100 Motorola is the best phone I've owned, and I've had phones since the rotary days. Not only that, I can send and recieve emails and texts, surf the web, even watch YouTube on it.
It's also the cheapest phone plan I've had. The AT&T monopoly was a PITA; extra charges for long distance (metered by the minute), you had to RENT the phone, it was terrible. The science fiction 21st century we live in is far less primitive than it used to be.
I've noticed that all the comments from apparently anti-OWS T-partier types have terrible problems with homophones. I don't know if it has to do with lack of intelligence or lack of education, but there's no point in arguing with someone so uneducated and so foreign to books that they don't know the difference between There, Their, and They're.
You might as well argue with your dog. Your dog's probably smarter.
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For years people have been held hostages to deadend jobs
Please take this in the way it's presented; most folks here like being informed, I know I do and appreciate when someone enlightens me about something (happened to me here today already).
Sometimes it's not good to squash two words into one. "Sometimes" is a good one. But when squashing those words together changes the meaning, that's not conducive to good communication. "Deadend" looks like "deadened", only one timy letter difference, but a world of difference in meaning, and in fact looks like a misspelling of "deadened".
Leaving the space between "dead" and "end" (or using a hyphen) greatly enhances communication.
BTW, that was a good comment, you should be modded up. I've advocated for quite a while that after the legistature passes a bill and the President signs it, it shouldn't become law until it's put to a popular vote. And laws should have expiration dates; why are some obsolete WWII era laws that were meant for the war effort still on the books?
To institution [sic] a communist system like the Soviets had, where you get paid even if you don't show up to work, can't get fired, but also no one (except elitist tyrants) can afford anything, and there is nothing in the stores to buy anyhow?
Where in the hell do you guys hear this bullshit, Rush Limbaugh? Maybe you should read once in a while rather than listening to AM radio, you might discover that "institution" is a noun and "institute" is the verb you're vainly looking for. BTW, no, that's not what OWS is about. Read a single newspaper ONCE and you might get a clue of how incredibly ignorant you are.
Yes, the 1% are to blame for everything. Clearly Obama's descision to...
...do anything at all (no different from his predecessor) comes from his corporate masters -- the 1%. If you think anyone but the 1% have any power at all, you're deluded. Our government is of, by, and for the 1% and the 1% only. Any action whatever Bush, Obama, or Bernake take is at the direction of and for the benefit of the 1%.
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Nuclear has not, short of accidents caused by huge natural disasters and ancient primitive soviet technology.
Construction of the plant and the nearby city of Pripyat to house workers and their families began in 1970. So I'm not only old, but I'm older than ancient? Fuck you, kid, get off my lawn.
Viruses and bacteria were called "bugs" long before that moth landed in Dr. Hopper's computer. Note that "bug" is not a proper biological term; most people would consider both insects and arachnids to be "bugs". From wikipedia:
Most of the forms of Christianity in the entire world have no qualms with the theory of evolution, even in the US. There are, unfortunately, a lot of morons here.
I think he's talking about idiots like my ex-wife, whose cat (my daughter's cat, actually) came down with a serious bacterial infection. The vet prescribed antibiotics, and the stupid Evil-X didn't bother refilling the prescription because he seemed to be better. The poor cat's in the hospital now, fighting for its life.
If your doctor says take (n) pills for (n) days, take the damned things as he prescribes! Just because the symptoms are gone doesn't mean all the bacteria are gone, and the remaining bacteria will be less suceptable to the antibiotic than the ones that died. Don't give them a chance to reproduce, take the damned medicine!
The traditional /. method of dealing with basic errors like substituting 'virus' for 'bacteria'
Man, spelling "bacteria" v-i-r-u-s is one hell of a misspelling! If I made such a dumb mistake I'd fully expect to be raked over the coals for it, and have my mother insulted for raising an idiot as well.
Face it, dude, it was an incredibly ignorant comment. Don't feel bad, we've all done it. Nobody knows everything (but a lot of people think they do), and everybody knows something nobody else knows.
Then we eat the meat, laced with antibiotics, and the viruses in our bloodstream mutate to brush off this rather mild onslaught.
*sigh* Antibiotics do not kill viruses! Antibiotics only work for bacterial infections, which is why pennicillin won't cure the flu but will cure ghonnorea. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM, going to your doctor and demanding antibiotics for a virus. Worse is the doctor who capitulates and actually prescribes the antibiotics that won't do anything except breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
And how does corn promote illness in an herbivore? It's not like the corn is laced with bacteria! If corn caused infections, you'ld get infected when you ate corn.
The corn has nothing to do with it. The farmers are shooting the cattle with antibiotics as a (very stupid) preventative measure because they're raised in filthy conditions.
Whoever modded you insightful shouldn't get mod points, because your comment showed an incredible lack of insight. Interesting perhaps, but incorrect and certainly not insightful.
Those "antibiotic" soaps don't have pennicillin or ethromycin in them, the "antibiotic" is plain old alcohol, which won't promote drug resistance. However, as another poster noted, shooting up our food animals with antibiotics is stupidly reckless.
I'm going to poop on your party here... yes, I got the joke, but
From The Rime of the Acient Mariner
The moving Moon went up the sky.
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside-
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
TO THE MOON
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a Joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
-A nursery rhyme from the 1700's
Is the moon tired? she looks so pale
Within her misty veil:
She scales the sky from east to west,
And takes no rest.
Before the coming of the night
The moon shows papery white;
Before the dawning of the day
She fades away.
From Sing-Song by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Also, my dad was born in 1932, my mom in 1928, my grandmother in 1903. I think if there had been no moon before 1950 I would have heard about it.
It would have been a good joke if I wasn't so damned old.
No, it was from somewhere around 1999 that I read it, don't remember where, but I do remember thinking how cool it was. IIRC, its calandar didn't have to be adjusted, which was one of the things that impressed me so much.
It is a chicken and an egg
The egg came first. I mean, who eats chicken for breakfast?
Many love IE because all websites work with it
I see you've never used IE6 or IE7. Half the sites on the net won't work with 6, and man, you should see the "hit the moving link" in slashdot on IE7.
Harold Camping is a wolf in sheep's clothing. He should stop worrying about the sins of gays and worry about his own sins.
Fire and brimstone preachers piss me off. Chriatianity is about love and forgiveness, not hate and pain. Real Christians don't act hatefully, like that Camping asshole. What's worse, wtf have gays done to him? He should remove the two by four from his own eye before he tries to remove the speck from his brother's eye.
Focusing on producers of goods instead of the needs of consumers is a trick of interventionist "planned economies".
That's true, but it's beside the point I was making.
Workers can be exploited only by their own consent.
Being driven by hunger is far from "consent". When one out of ten people are looking for work, it isn't hard to exploit them, and it's impossible for them to prevent being exploited. IMO if you hire a person full-time, you owe them a living. If your workers are on food stamps, you're the parasite, not your worker.
One can get rich honestly, but it's damned hard to do. It takes a shitload of all kinds of luck. That's more the case now that it was 30 or even 20 years ago.
My Uncle Dan was a rich man, and his riches came from pure luck. His first lucky stroke was being born with intelligence, creativity, and good eye-hand coordination, all fairly rare traits. The second stroke of luck (which surely seemed bad luck at the time) was having his ship torpedoed in WWII and sent to a hospital, where he met his future partner, a man who'd lost his leg in that war (another stroke of luck) who was a good salesman (more luck).
The fellow showed Uncle Dan the prosthesis, amd my uncle said "that's crap, I can make a better leg than that!" and produced one. The two of them went into business together. Dan's partner (whose name I can't remember) would walk into a ward full of maimed soldiers with his sales tools, and the legless veteran would invariably say "what the fuck do YOU know about it?"
Dan's partner would just smile and roll up his pants leg -- instant sale. They made millions. But if any one of those coincidences hadn't happened, he likely would not have become rich.
Most likely you're right when you say things have changed, and it's "pull" now, but I suspect that has always been the way.
I never read Marx, but logic says that the car the autmaker produces is the wealth. The salesmen are necessary, but they don't create wealth, they help transfer wealth between the customer (his cash) and the automaker (his car). The engineers and designers and factory workers produce the wealth. But wealth needs more than simply its creation, it needs to be sold (changed from product to cash), the cash needs to be managed, etc.
I agree, but accumulated wealth is a lot easier to google for.
It sill has enough wait to make a pig disgruntled if you throw it at one.
Yep, 2100 years is a pretty heavy wait.
There were some cool things centuries ago. There's a 17th century clock in France that displays the time, day of week, and date -- and it was Y2K compliant!
And since time flies, his sentence makes perfect sense.
You know, I always had trouble with the phrase "time flies when you're having fun". If I'm having fun, why would I want to time flies?
If he's anything like I was when I was a kid, he'd take it apart to try to see how it worked... and completely ruin it in the process.
Not even the posters can be bothered to read the article anymore.
Hey, at least some of us read the articles we submit. It appears Soulskill read it as well, as he added to TFS in a meaningful way.
On the other hand, I can't figure out why anybody would carry a cell phone, unless for fashion.
Dad? Is that you? When did you get a computer? I can't figure out why anyone would want a landline phone, all you can do with one is make and recieve calls, and it doesn't even work unless you're home. I don't have a landline. But my phone makes and recieves calls, texts, emails, accesses the internet, is a calandar, a calculator, a camera, a movie camera... it's a damned handy device to have.
If you're not my 80 year old dad you must be trolling.
That's odd, my $100 Motorola is the best phone I've owned, and I've had phones since the rotary days. Not only that, I can send and recieve emails and texts, surf the web, even watch YouTube on it.
It's also the cheapest phone plan I've had. The AT&T monopoly was a PITA; extra charges for long distance (metered by the minute), you had to RENT the phone, it was terrible. The science fiction 21st century we live in is far less primitive than it used to be.
I've noticed that all the comments from apparently anti-OWS T-partier types have terrible problems with homophones. I don't know if it has to do with lack of intelligence or lack of education, but there's no point in arguing with someone so uneducated and so foreign to books that they don't know the difference between There, Their, and They're.
You might as well argue with your dog. Your dog's probably smarter.
For years people have been held hostages to deadend jobs
Please take this in the way it's presented; most folks here like being informed, I know I do and appreciate when someone enlightens me about something (happened to me here today already).
Sometimes it's not good to squash two words into one. "Sometimes" is a good one. But when squashing those words together changes the meaning, that's not conducive to good communication. "Deadend" looks like "deadened", only one timy letter difference, but a world of difference in meaning, and in fact looks like a misspelling of "deadened".
Leaving the space between "dead" and "end" (or using a hyphen) greatly enhances communication.
BTW, that was a good comment, you should be modded up. I've advocated for quite a while that after the legistature passes a bill and the President signs it, it shouldn't become law until it's put to a popular vote. And laws should have expiration dates; why are some obsolete WWII era laws that were meant for the war effort still on the books?
To institution [sic] a communist system like the Soviets had, where you get paid even if you don't show up to work, can't get fired, but also no one (except elitist tyrants) can afford anything, and there is nothing in the stores to buy anyhow?
Where in the hell do you guys hear this bullshit, Rush Limbaugh? Maybe you should read once in a while rather than listening to AM radio, you might discover that "institution" is a noun and "institute" is the verb you're vainly looking for. BTW, no, that's not what OWS is about. Read a single newspaper ONCE and you might get a clue of how incredibly ignorant you are.
YOU are part of the problem. Wake up.
Yes, the 1% are to blame for everything. Clearly Obama's descision to...
...do anything at all (no different from his predecessor) comes from his corporate masters -- the 1%. If you think anyone but the 1% have any power at all, you're deluded. Our government is of, by, and for the 1% and the 1% only. Any action whatever Bush, Obama, or Bernake take is at the direction of and for the benefit of the 1%.