When the older guys have kids and a family, spending all their energy on work can be hard. Older people should have experience, younger people should have drive. Working together, you can get amazing things done.
like firing all the old people with prejudice and then spending the resultant pension savings on hookers and blow
"We have discovered you have been using default password 'welkom01'. This represents a grave security risk. Therefore, we have changed your password to 'welkom02'."
If the military was running out of money, it wouldn't mean having a military is a bad idea, it would mean we're not funding it enough. It's the same with Medicare.
The fact that Program X is running out of money certainly does not mean that Program X ipso facto ought to receive more funding.
1 in 100 seems an improbably high number of beneficiaries. Consider that this technology would only benefit victims of the subset of accidents more severe than those in which the individual remains capable himself of contacting emergency services, but less severe than those in which the individual is beyond help even of services immediately dispatched. One must also remove from this subset all accidents in which other people are available to call for immediate help. In densely populated areas, this number might be vanishingly small. On the other hand, $500 seems rather high as a per-vehicle cost estimate.
Ultimately, appeals to emotion, such as "what if it were one of your friends?" aren't helpful, because at some point additional protection becomes cost prohibitive, regardless of who is being protected. Further, It is quite possible that the same amount of money used to fund this service could save more lives were it used instead to redesign the top X most dangerous intersections in Europe.
you wonder why Optical Express gave you such a good deal on laser surgery, and next you're going to start seeing advertisements on your walls, in your shower, in the blue sky, whenever you close your eyes....
"Good news! I have just sold one of our islands for half the proceeds from Oracle's upcoming multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Google! Even if they get only half what they're asking, we will make a killing. I promise a hula hoop around every midriff!"
This is one of the burdens pioneering women have placed on them: people are always second-guessing them, wondering whether they got their position on the merits or if are being given special treatment because they are women.
Doubting their capabilities because they are women is one thing, insofar as being a woman is not relevant to one's ability to perform a given job. Doubting the capabilities of someone who was awarded a job as the result of affirmative action is another thing, insofar as the criterion used for the award is likewise not relevant to performing the job, which fact potentially reduces the likelihood of awarding the job to the optimal candidate.
In addition, affirmative action increases the quality of the average candidate who receives a job despite being ineligible for affirmative action, because the number of spots available to these people is reduced.
"Ok Vito, we're going to need you to ice Ricky Peanuts tonight. Shoot him full of holes, then chop up the body and feed it to your pet alligator. Then grind up the alligator, dissolve him in acid, and turn it into smoothies at your ice cream parlor. Then burn down the ice cream parlor with everyone inside. And don't forget to file the code off your gun."
The screen real-estate on a mobile device is too tight for an add to be non-intrusive and simply piss people off. Annoyed customers are not paying customers.
they should take advantage of the speaker phone, so when your GPS detects you're walking by CVS, your phone announces "TIRED OF DEALING WITH THAT EMBARRASSING INCONTINENCE PROBLEM YOU GOOGLED ABOUT? WHY NOT PICK UP SOME DEPENDS AT 5% OFF WHEN BUNDLED WITH YOUR HERCEPTIN PRESCRIPTION?"
so would you consider it likely that drug discovery would not suffer were drugs no longer patentable? Assuming that the purpose of patenting is to entice people to disclose the nature of their discovery, it is possible to argue that such patents serve no function, because such enticement is not needed when all that is required to determine a drug's structure is a sample.
Patents don't exist to help inventors profit from their invention. They exist to encourage inventors to reveal the technical brilliance behind their inventions to the rest of society
Then why do we allow drug patents? You don't need the inventor to reveal the structure of the drug, or even how to make it.
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Comparing a man-made nuclear bomb to a gamma-ray burst seems kind of like comparing one pixel on your monitor to the Sun.
mostly because I'd notice if a pixel on my monitor burnt out.
great. who am I going to get to exorcise the virus from my power supply unit now?
When the older guys have kids and a family, spending all their energy on work can be hard. Older people should have experience, younger people should have drive. Working together, you can get amazing things done.
like firing all the old people with prejudice and then spending the resultant pension savings on hookers and blow
"We have discovered you have been using default password 'welkom01'. This represents a grave security risk. Therefore, we have changed your password to 'welkom02'."
If the military was running out of money, it wouldn't mean having a military is a bad idea, it would mean we're not funding it enough. It's the same with Medicare.
The fact that Program X is running out of money certainly does not mean that Program X ipso facto ought to receive more funding.
1 in 100 seems an improbably high number of beneficiaries. Consider that this technology would only benefit victims of the subset of accidents more severe than those in which the individual remains capable himself of contacting emergency services, but less severe than those in which the individual is beyond help even of services immediately dispatched. One must also remove from this subset all accidents in which other people are available to call for immediate help. In densely populated areas, this number might be vanishingly small. On the other hand, $500 seems rather high as a per-vehicle cost estimate.
Ultimately, appeals to emotion, such as "what if it were one of your friends?" aren't helpful, because at some point additional protection becomes cost prohibitive, regardless of who is being protected. Further, It is quite possible that the same amount of money used to fund this service could save more lives were it used instead to redesign the top X most dangerous intersections in Europe.
RIM is in MUCH better shape than Apple was at their low.
Apple had no Apple to contend with. What are they going to do? "Behold! The most secure version of Angry Birds ever!"
Would Nietzsche have been an Apple user?
Man and iMan
And yes, the lead author's name really is Geiger.
that's nothing. the guy who originally invented the sandwich was actually named Sandwich.
It's sort of like saying that Ford cars are generally unaffected by Toyota's engineering flaws.
Then someone's Ford gets rear-ended by a runaway Toyota, and you end up with a class action suit against Ford for making such an outlandish claim.
"Our nuclear program has come to ruin, as the triggering mechanism was unobtainable. Operation Angriest Bird has failed!"
you wonder why Optical Express gave you such a good deal on laser surgery, and next you're going to start seeing advertisements on your walls, in your shower, in the blue sky, whenever you close your eyes....
"Good news! I have just sold one of our islands for half the proceeds from Oracle's upcoming multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Google! Even if they get only half what they're asking, we will make a killing. I promise a hula hoop around every midriff!"
There have been several cases where victims have disappeared without a trace.
if I had just been given $100M cash by a Nigerian prince, I would probably disappear without a trace too.
This is one of the burdens pioneering women have placed on them: people are always second-guessing them, wondering whether they got their position on the merits or if are being given special treatment because they are women.
Doubting their capabilities because they are women is one thing, insofar as being a woman is not relevant to one's ability to perform a given job. Doubting the capabilities of someone who was awarded a job as the result of affirmative action is another thing, insofar as the criterion used for the award is likewise not relevant to performing the job, which fact potentially reduces the likelihood of awarding the job to the optimal candidate.
In addition, affirmative action increases the quality of the average candidate who receives a job despite being ineligible for affirmative action, because the number of spots available to these people is reduced.
When I tell my dog not to behave like a little wolf, he can reasonably argue that he is one, just one adapted for a specific ecological niche.
vulpus quibbilificus
looks like it's back to IE6 for me
Decent western factory jobs seem to be going the way of the Dodo bird.
all this time I thought those things were extinct, but it turns out they just moved to Shanghai.
a reason to fire them or a reason not to?
"Ok Vito, we're going to need you to ice Ricky Peanuts tonight. Shoot him full of holes, then chop up the body and feed it to your pet alligator. Then grind up the alligator, dissolve him in acid, and turn it into smoothies at your ice cream parlor. Then burn down the ice cream parlor with everyone inside. And don't forget to file the code off your gun."
"File off the code? Madone! That's illegal!"
if they still choose to go with Apple let them be bitten by the consequences of that decision.
in capitalist america, apple bites you!
The screen real-estate on a mobile device is too tight for an add to be non-intrusive and simply piss people off. Annoyed customers are not paying customers.
they should take advantage of the speaker phone, so when your GPS detects you're walking by CVS, your phone announces "TIRED OF DEALING WITH THAT EMBARRASSING INCONTINENCE PROBLEM YOU GOOGLED ABOUT? WHY NOT PICK UP SOME DEPENDS AT 5% OFF WHEN BUNDLED WITH YOUR HERCEPTIN PRESCRIPTION?"
developers, Developers, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS
or vagina
so would you consider it likely that drug discovery would not suffer were drugs no longer patentable? Assuming that the purpose of patenting is to entice people to disclose the nature of their discovery, it is possible to argue that such patents serve no function, because such enticement is not needed when all that is required to determine a drug's structure is a sample.
Patents don't exist to help inventors profit from their invention. They exist to encourage inventors to reveal the technical brilliance behind their inventions to the rest of society
Then why do we allow drug patents? You don't need the inventor to reveal the structure of the drug, or even how to make it.