Yes, it is. Kurtzweil and that other guy, the hippie-looking one with a beard are nuts, if you ask me. It's a fantasy, wishful thinking. Dying is as much a part of life as birth and old age. That's why I don't worry about my diet, or drinking, or exercise. I'm not wasting my time and money at the gym, I'll waste it in a bar or restaurant. You have to die from something, it might as well be from eating and drinking and rocking and rolling.
When my grandmother was 95 after outliving 3 of her 4 sons, two husbands, and several doctors who told her if she didn't get her cholesterol down she'd die, she told me "I don't know why anybody wants to live to be a hundred, it ain't no fun bein' old."
Age brings wisdom. Usually, although I know quite a few old fools.
Lets face it McGrew this is one area where OSes frankly haven't gotten any better in ages
Agreed, but pulling it off (and I'm sure it will happen sooner or later) would be one hell of a programming feat. And would probably need a lot more powerful hardware than today's PCs.
If MS did this (and I don't believe they're capable, I'm not the least impressed by MS programs; hell, Windows search in W7 isn't as good as XP's), computer makers would sell a lot of more powerful computers.
Come to think of it, if a Linux dev did it we'd see a LOT of folks clamoring for Linux computers.
How about that, a semi-literate with mod points! If you not only can't spell a four letter word without a spell checker and, what's more, don't notice that it completely changes the meaning of what you were trying to say, you need to get your GED.
Too damned many alliterates here these days (and no, that wasn't misspelled, look it up).
Why anyone would attribute booze or dogs, or imagine that somehow we were fucking cattle before we started to drink
Poor choice of words, I don't think bestiality has anything to do with it. But the fact is, we STILL follow the herd. We ARE Cattle.
When you said "dogs" was that an iPhone autocorrect and you meant "drugs"? Dogs were the first domestic animals and we've had them for over 100,000 years. Domestication of animals played a huge part in our becoming civilized.
You're right that we certainly were drinking before agriculture; fruit juice ferments naturally and there were certainly drunken cave men, and probably used other intoxicants as well (hemp, for example).
I'm not sure where the author is really coming from, but he seems to claim that modern individuals are (a) less herd-like
You're right, the herding instinct is so strong most don't even notice it. Take a drive down the interstate with your cruise set at 5 mph below the speed limit sometime and you'll see how strong the herding instinct is. No traffic for miles, then a herd comes up behind you and follow you for a while, one guy will pass you and everyone else will follow him. The solitary car is rare.
Politicians understand the herding instinct.
Or look at iFans at a product launch, or a Star Trek convention, or any high school. The fact that we are perhaps the most highly social species on the planet is what led to modern society; "shoulders of giants" and all.
Now, if you can claim that a lot of innovation/changes was created under the influence (Windows 8 design?;)
Not sure of that was alcohol, they had to be on crack for that clusterfuck.
Yeah? Then why were so many great writers drinkers? Although I've found that pot oils creativity more... if you can remember your idea by the time you find a pencil.
Part of Nobots (not finished, it's in my journal) was written in a bar. Of course, it has to be cleaned up a bit when I get sober.
I don't feel handsomer when I'm drinking, but the women certainly look better.
Yes, I agree, age does have its benefits... my 81 year old dad doesn't agree, though.
I had a drinking buddy a few years back, a WWII vet. He often asked "how in the hell did I get to be so old?" I'd tell hum "You didn't die!" He was 86 when his appendix burst and the ornery old fool didn't go to the hospital for two days, when his whores talked him into it. By then it was too late, he lived another two months.
Usually, yeah. However, I have a photo of my grandpa in 1917 on a horse, and there's another horse pulling a wagon (the two most used forms of transportation then), and a 1915 automobile. It's an interesting photo even if you didn't know him.
The looser should be forced to pay the winner's entire court costs.
I don't think you said what you thought you said. You said "the one that is less tight should be forced to pay the winner's entire court costs" which makes absolutely no sense at all. Educationally handicapped?
TFS says "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." That goes along with an old Irish saying: "God invented alcohol to keep the Irish from conquering the world."
If you are old right now and do this thing, you might be one of the few out of your generation who has made these records available. That should set you apart from the other 127 not so tech savvy grandpas and grandmas.
My grandmother was born in 1903, and I found her baby pictures on the internet. The difference today is we take a lot more pictures and movies because now we all have movie cameras all the time.
Microsoft has already invented this (sort of), no-one really used it because it was slow, buggy, and made your entire computer run like shit.
That's certainly not uncommon for MS wares. Actually, most commercial software, not just MS.
But that didn't stop them from patenting it. So rest assure, Bill Gates will get the money anyways.
You can't patent a concept, just its implementation. Viagra's patent didn't stop their competition from patenting Cialis. Plus, MS's patent runs out 20 years after they filed it.
Blocking ads is like throwing a soda can out a car window in that if one person does it, it's not a problem and it appears to benefit them modestly. But if everyone does it, it ruins the very thing you're enjoying.
It's the ads themselves that ruin the very thing I'm trying to enjoy. If ads weren't so intrusive and resource-intensive, nobody would block ads. The web sites that need ads for revenue are their own worst enemies.
I suspect that the only "virus" you have is Windows. I noticed that the last Windows "update" REALLY slowed my notebook down (the one I'm typing on now), my daughters have been complaining about theirs, too.
I suspect Microsoft is trying to make everyone buy new computers, that the "update" was a timing loop. I've put off installing Linux on this box out of laziness but MS is forcing my hand. Either this is malicious MS coding, or incompetent MS coding. Since MS gains by your buying a new computer, I rule "incompetent" out.
Hanging up on someone was as rude as telling them to go fuck themselves. Anyone who misses hanging up on someone has something wrong with them.
We've traded hanging up on someone with the even ruder talking on the phone when you're conversing with someone face to face. When the phone rang, the polite thing to do was answer it, say you had company and offer to call back. Now assholes just ignore you and gab on their phone. Didn't you kids have parents that taught you how to act like a human being?
Don't get me started on musical ring tones, sometimes I feel like walking into next cube over and smashing their goddamned cell phone. Whoever came up with the idea should be tied to a chair and made to listen to the first fifteen notes of the song they hate worst, over and over.
I suspect life is rare outside this world, but I'd love to be wrong about that. We've found evidence that our closest neighbor was once hospitable to life, but yet have not found evidence of any life ever being there (we may still, most of it is unexplored). It may be that life itself is a fluke. It's also possible that we're first, or that it only happens once in a billion years in any given galaxy. Or we may find life and not recognize that it is, in fact, alive.
Also, LG could claim in a suit that their screens are not defective...
I've owned only one LG product, a cell phone. After a month the screen started doing weird things like displaying upside down, backwards, mirrored, all black, all white. I had to boot the damned thing at least once a day. I sent it back under warrantee and the replacement was even worse.
By my experience I doubt it was Apple's fault, but the fact that Apple is using LG screens is one more reason for me to not get an iPhone (the others being price, size (too big), walled garden)
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Refusing to accept the inevitable is also insane.
Yes, it is. Kurtzweil and that other guy, the hippie-looking one with a beard are nuts, if you ask me. It's a fantasy, wishful thinking. Dying is as much a part of life as birth and old age. That's why I don't worry about my diet, or drinking, or exercise. I'm not wasting my time and money at the gym, I'll waste it in a bar or restaurant. You have to die from something, it might as well be from eating and drinking and rocking and rolling.
When my grandmother was 95 after outliving 3 of her 4 sons, two husbands, and several doctors who told her if she didn't get her cholesterol down she'd die, she told me "I don't know why anybody wants to live to be a hundred, it ain't no fun bein' old."
Age brings wisdom. Usually, although I know quite a few old fools.
Lets face it McGrew this is one area where OSes frankly haven't gotten any better in ages
Agreed, but pulling it off (and I'm sure it will happen sooner or later) would be one hell of a programming feat. And would probably need a lot more powerful hardware than today's PCs.
If MS did this (and I don't believe they're capable, I'm not the least impressed by MS programs; hell, Windows search in W7 isn't as good as XP's), computer makers would sell a lot of more powerful computers.
Come to think of it, if a Linux dev did it we'd see a LOT of folks clamoring for Linux computers.
How about that, a semi-literate with mod points! If you not only can't spell a four letter word without a spell checker and, what's more, don't notice that it completely changes the meaning of what you were trying to say, you need to get your GED.
Too damned many alliterates here these days (and no, that wasn't misspelled, look it up).
Neither does it rule it out. Possibilities:
Ask Mr. Occam if you can use his razor. Or do a real study.
SHIT, slashdot fucked up ordered lists. Sigh.
Parties? He sounds like a Mormon, he's probably never been to a party.
Why anyone would attribute booze or dogs, or imagine that somehow we were fucking cattle before we started to drink
Poor choice of words, I don't think bestiality has anything to do with it. But the fact is, we STILL follow the herd. We ARE Cattle.
When you said "dogs" was that an iPhone autocorrect and you meant "drugs"? Dogs were the first domestic animals and we've had them for over 100,000 years. Domestication of animals played a huge part in our becoming civilized.
You're right that we certainly were drinking before agriculture; fruit juice ferments naturally and there were certainly drunken cave men, and probably used other intoxicants as well (hemp, for example).
I'm not sure where the author is really coming from, but he seems to claim that modern individuals are (a) less herd-like
You're right, the herding instinct is so strong most don't even notice it. Take a drive down the interstate with your cruise set at 5 mph below the speed limit sometime and you'll see how strong the herding instinct is. No traffic for miles, then a herd comes up behind you and follow you for a while, one guy will pass you and everyone else will follow him. The solitary car is rare.
Politicians understand the herding instinct.
Or look at iFans at a product launch, or a Star Trek convention, or any high school. The fact that we are perhaps the most highly social species on the planet is what led to modern society; "shoulders of giants" and all.
Now, if you can claim that a lot of innovation/changes was created under the influence (Windows 8 design? ;)
Not sure of that was alcohol, they had to be on crack for that clusterfuck.
Yeah? Then why were so many great writers drinkers? Although I've found that pot oils creativity more... if you can remember your idea by the time you find a pencil.
Part of Nobots (not finished, it's in my journal) was written in a bar. Of course, it has to be cleaned up a bit when I get sober.
I don't feel handsomer when I'm drinking, but the women certainly look better.
It isn't the alcohol in the beer that kills germs, it's the brewing process itself. If your tappers (or mugs) are dirty you'll get sick.
Yes, I agree, age does have its benefits... my 81 year old dad doesn't agree, though.
I had a drinking buddy a few years back, a WWII vet. He often asked "how in the hell did I get to be so old?" I'd tell hum "You didn't die!" He was 86 when his appendix burst and the ornery old fool didn't go to the hospital for two days, when his whores talked him into it. By then it was too late, he lived another two months.
I miss Ralph and his war stories.
Well, I see by your UID you're not that young and were used to landlines and phone manners. I don't know why things changed with cell phones.
Usually, yeah. However, I have a photo of my grandpa in 1917 on a horse, and there's another horse pulling a wagon (the two most used forms of transportation then), and a 1915 automobile. It's an interesting photo even if you didn't know him.
Congratulations on the very worst "in soviet Russia" joke I've ever seen.
The looser should be forced to pay the winner's entire court costs.
I don't think you said what you thought you said. You said "the one that is less tight should be forced to pay the winner's entire court costs" which makes absolutely no sense at all. Educationally handicapped?
TFS says "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." That goes along with an old Irish saying: "God invented alcohol to keep the Irish from conquering the world."
If you are old right now and do this thing, you might be one of the few out of your generation who has made these records available.
That should set you apart from the other 127 not so tech savvy grandpas and grandmas.
My grandmother was born in 1903, and I found her baby pictures on the internet. The difference today is we take a lot more pictures and movies because now we all have movie cameras all the time.
This will appeal most to the boomers who refuse to get old or die.
Anyone wanting to get old and/or die is insane.
Microsoft has already invented this (sort of), no-one really used it because it was slow, buggy, and made your entire computer run like shit.
That's certainly not uncommon for MS wares. Actually, most commercial software, not just MS.
But that didn't stop them from patenting it. So rest assure, Bill Gates will get the money anyways.
You can't patent a concept, just its implementation. Viagra's patent didn't stop their competition from patenting Cialis. Plus, MS's patent runs out 20 years after they filed it.
Blocking ads is like throwing a soda can out a car window in that if one person does it, it's not a problem and it appears to benefit them modestly. But if everyone does it, it ruins the very thing you're enjoying.
It's the ads themselves that ruin the very thing I'm trying to enjoy. If ads weren't so intrusive and resource-intensive, nobody would block ads. The web sites that need ads for revenue are their own worst enemies.
I suspect that the only "virus" you have is Windows. I noticed that the last Windows "update" REALLY slowed my notebook down (the one I'm typing on now), my daughters have been complaining about theirs, too.
I suspect Microsoft is trying to make everyone buy new computers, that the "update" was a timing loop. I've put off installing Linux on this box out of laziness but MS is forcing my hand. Either this is malicious MS coding, or incompetent MS coding. Since MS gains by your buying a new computer, I rule "incompetent" out.
Please stop feeding the trolls, they're too fat already. Ignore them and they'll go away.
Hanging up on someone was as rude as telling them to go fuck themselves. Anyone who misses hanging up on someone has something wrong with them.
We've traded hanging up on someone with the even ruder talking on the phone when you're conversing with someone face to face. When the phone rang, the polite thing to do was answer it, say you had company and offer to call back. Now assholes just ignore you and gab on their phone. Didn't you kids have parents that taught you how to act like a human being?
Don't get me started on musical ring tones, sometimes I feel like walking into next cube over and smashing their goddamned cell phone. Whoever came up with the idea should be tied to a chair and made to listen to the first fifteen notes of the song they hate worst, over and over.
I suspect life is rare outside this world, but I'd love to be wrong about that. We've found evidence that our closest neighbor was once hospitable to life, but yet have not found evidence of any life ever being there (we may still, most of it is unexplored). It may be that life itself is a fluke. It's also possible that we're first, or that it only happens once in a billion years in any given galaxy. Or we may find life and not recognize that it is, in fact, alive.
We don't know a lot more than we do know.
It's a telcom, not a human. More like an unarmed Goliath vs a bigger, armed Goliath.
Also, LG could claim in a suit that their screens are not defective...
I've owned only one LG product, a cell phone. After a month the screen started doing weird things like displaying upside down, backwards, mirrored, all black, all white. I had to boot the damned thing at least once a day. I sent it back under warrantee and the replacement was even worse.
By my experience I doubt it was Apple's fault, but the fact that Apple is using LG screens is one more reason for me to not get an iPhone (the others being price, size (too big), walled garden)