Agree. Rape has been shown to be a viable evolutionary strategy in other primates - after all the only chance a beta male gets to mate is to kill the alpha male or to sneak behind his back and I guess in that situation it's secondary if the female agrees or not. It is thought that women's "hidden estrus" evolved as a defense against rape. So, bottom line, if you have many desperate males around in a society it will have consequences. Everybody knows they do stupid things when they're full of testosterone.
OTOH, I can believe the article's premise. How many men slow down significantly and get slow, fat and sick after the kids are through the worst? How many die soon after retirement? Having to support women and kids keeps you healthy and on your toes; that's a given from an evolutionary standpoint.
Amen. I'm close to the IT folks, and they say there's no way in hell that they'll touch Vista in the foreseeable future. That seems pretty pervasive, which means that Dell & Co will have XP available for quite some time, at least for the business systems.
Yeah, but you can argue that FORTRAN's DO and COBOL's PERFORM THRU are variants of COME FROM. Add computed GOTO and an ordinary GOTO doesn't look so evil any more. And if you compare that with the contorted OO code you sometimes see I wonder what the lesser evil is.
Because everybody uses desktop quality SATA drives in enterprise RAIDs. And every vendor pushes density in desktop drives as hard as possible even though it's been getting more and more difficult. The market for high end "enterprise" drives is almost dead. When was the last time you saw a SCSI (FC,SAS) drive? There's nothing wrong with the basic approach but you have to do the math and use the correct AFR and TTR numbers. We just went from RAID 5 to RAID 6 because the observed drive failure rates were higher (by a factor of 3) than what the vendors promised and the system failure rates were just too high. For example, in one drive, it turned out that SATA error recovery (timeout control) didn't work as advertised, so the "enterprise ready" SATA drivers weren't all that enterprise-ish. And, OBTW, FW upgrades in the field turned out to be totally unreliable and turned drives into bricks. FW upgrade was only tested on Intel ICH SATA ports and the RAID controller just didn't have the right timing:(
I have to disagree here. Standing on your feet all day, and traversing the length of a convention multiple times (he said spanning a quarter to two miles) will really wear you out.
Yup, the problem isn't the walking, it's the standing for hours. Blood isn't pumped back from your feet and legs because the veins are mostly actuated by muscle movements. Which means a Segway type transport is only going to make things worse.
A girlfriend of my sister once asked somebody for a light in Spain on vacation. Not knowing the Spanish word, she used the German "Feuer?" which pronounces almost exactly like "follar", which means "to fuck." Hilarity ensued.
The Netherlands (like most of Europe) used to be part of a Christian theocracy. But they got over it. As usual the US are a couple of centuries behind the times.
In Germany, federal law automatically overrides state law. In the US, states have a lot more autonomy. Which is a problem IMHO - just think of differences in traffic law for example - but unavoidable given the inhomogeneity of the US states compared to other countries.
Yeah, they should all be made illegal. Like alcohol, caffeine and aspirin for example. The only one I'd agree upon that's in wide use is nicotine. I've been addicted to it and it took a long time to get off of it and even longer to get the long term effects out of my system. I love that quote from Ozzy Osbourne: "I've been addicted to every substance known to mankind, and getting rid of smoking was the hardest of all. Nicotine is the most addictive substance of all." (not verbatim, this is from memory.) Corollary: As long as tobacco is legal, many others ought to be too. It is well known that the main reason why pot is illegal is that it doesn't have a lobby like tobacco.
What I want to know is how in the hell did we get to the point of allowing any governmental body to declare a plant that grows normally in nature to be illegal on the grounds that it is bad for us?
It's one of those "morality" laws. Like many about other areas of personal drug use, (in)decency, sexual behavior, limits on free speech etc. Basically, it's viewed as "bad", for some definition of "bad", by some majority, based on some "morals", which are basically those of a Christian theocracy centuries ago and have been overcome by many more enlightened societies all over the world.
Yeah, replacing a perfectly nice set of small breasts with a pair of ridiculous balls (2nd pair of photos) must obviously be a cosmetic improvement. This is an ad, including the phone number for referral to a surgeon.
The problem is, the advertisers are making the ads more annoying. The people who don't hate ads now will start hating them when the advertisers make them jump around the screen playing bad music.
I don't have a problem with ads that are static, but *anything* that jumps around or flashes on any page immediately gets adblocked. No exceptions. Yes, there will be collateral damage if the path also contains other images.
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Agree.
Rape has been shown to be a viable evolutionary strategy in other primates - after all the only chance a beta male gets to mate is to kill the alpha male or to sneak behind his back and I guess in that situation it's secondary if the female agrees or not. It is thought that women's "hidden estrus" evolved as a defense against rape.
So, bottom line, if you have many desperate males around in a society it will have consequences. Everybody knows they do stupid things when they're full of testosterone.
OTOH, I can believe the article's premise. How many men slow down significantly and get slow, fat and sick after the kids are through the worst? How many die soon after retirement? Having to support women and kids keeps you healthy and on your toes; that's a given from an evolutionary standpoint.
Amen. I'm close to the IT folks, and they say there's no way in hell that they'll touch Vista in the foreseeable future. That seems pretty pervasive, which means that Dell & Co will have XP available for quite some time, at least for the business systems.
Windows 98 was slower than Windows 95, running on the same hardware
Windows XP was slower than Windows 98, running on the same hardware
Windows Vista is slower than Windows XP, running on the same hardware.
You should see DOS 3.3 on a 2.6 GHz Xeon.
I think I need to try 2.15 too. Now if I could only find that floppy...
Yeah, but you can argue that FORTRAN's DO and COBOL's PERFORM THRU are variants of COME FROM. Add computed GOTO and an ordinary GOTO doesn't look so evil any more.
And if you compare that with the contorted OO code you sometimes see I wonder what the lesser evil is.
So if you're coding in assembly and have to branch, what do you do?
You can always push a constant and do a RET.
Conspicuous Consumption
Which is a honest handicap.
I'll start working on the "I have a big dick" app right away.
It can be yours too, for only $999.89 (much cheaper then the abovementioned app)!
Better than COME FROM or PERFORM A THRU B.
The Russians have oil and WMDs!!!
Dear Russia, please get in line behind Iran.
is now producing "leaders" who not only can not think and speak so articulately
Paris was pretty articulate in her campaign ad.
Surprisingly so I might add.
I'd sure rather have a hat or a sticker than ride in the same vehicle as some old guy. Have you smelled an old person?
You mean a wrinkly white haired dude?
Because everybody uses desktop quality SATA drives in enterprise RAIDs. And every vendor pushes density in desktop drives as hard as possible even though it's been getting more and more difficult. :(
The market for high end "enterprise" drives is almost dead. When was the last time you saw a SCSI (FC,SAS) drive?
There's nothing wrong with the basic approach but you have to do the math and use the correct AFR and TTR numbers. We just went from RAID 5 to RAID 6 because the observed drive failure rates were higher (by a factor of 3) than what the vendors promised and the system failure rates were just too high.
For example, in one drive, it turned out that SATA error recovery (timeout control) didn't work as advertised, so the "enterprise ready" SATA drivers weren't all that enterprise-ish. And, OBTW, FW upgrades in the field turned out to be totally unreliable and turned drives into bricks.
FW upgrade was only tested on Intel ICH SATA ports and the RAID controller just didn't have the right timing
I have to disagree here. Standing on your feet all day, and traversing the length of a convention multiple times (he said spanning a quarter to two miles) will really wear you out.
Yup, the problem isn't the walking, it's the standing for hours. Blood isn't pumped back from your feet and legs because the veins are mostly actuated by muscle movements.
Which means a Segway type transport is only going to make things worse.
Bad argument. French pr0n is much better than anything Spanish.
A girlfriend of my sister once asked somebody for a light in Spain on vacation. Not knowing the Spanish word, she used the German "Feuer?" which pronounces almost exactly like "follar", which means "to fuck." Hilarity ensued.
But only about transmitting, no?
I'd be ok with radio and TV reception.
The Netherlands (like most of Europe) used to be part of a Christian theocracy. But they got over it. As usual the US are a couple of centuries behind the times.
Does anybody know the HW capabilities of the Atheros chipset?
Thinking of Software Radio...
Amen!
Problem is, the larger the governing body, the more momentum it has and the longer it takes to change centuries-old viewpoints hence laws.
Your not-any-more-pot-smoking neighbor from the west coast (California, not Holland.)
In Germany, federal law automatically overrides state law. In the US, states have a lot more autonomy. Which is a problem IMHO - just think of differences in traffic law for example - but unavoidable given the inhomogeneity of the US states compared to other countries.
Drugs are social nuisances and cause problems.
Yeah, they should all be made illegal. Like alcohol, caffeine and aspirin for example.
The only one I'd agree upon that's in wide use is nicotine. I've been addicted to it and it took a long time to get off of it and even longer to get the long term effects out of my system.
I love that quote from Ozzy Osbourne: "I've been addicted to every substance known to mankind, and getting rid of smoking was the hardest of all. Nicotine is the most addictive substance of all." (not verbatim, this is from memory.)
Corollary: As long as tobacco is legal, many others ought to be too. It is well known that the main reason why pot is illegal is that it doesn't have a lobby like tobacco.
What I want to know is how in the hell did we get to the point of allowing any governmental body to declare a plant that grows normally in nature to be illegal on the grounds that it is bad for us?
It's one of those "morality" laws. Like many about other areas of personal drug use, (in)decency, sexual behavior, limits on free speech etc.
Basically, it's viewed as "bad", for some definition of "bad", by some majority, based on some "morals", which are basically those of a Christian theocracy centuries ago and have been overcome by many more enlightened societies all over the world.
Don't worry, I'm sure he'll win the Republican nomination for President in 2012, if recent events are anything to go by.
Yay, with Bobby Jindal as VP!
Yeah, replacing a perfectly nice set of small breasts with a pair of ridiculous balls (2nd pair of photos) must obviously be a cosmetic improvement. This is an ad, including the phone number for referral to a surgeon.
The problem is, the advertisers are making the ads more annoying. The people who don't hate ads now will start hating them when the advertisers make them jump around the screen playing bad music.
I don't have a problem with ads that are static, but *anything* that jumps around or flashes on any page immediately gets adblocked. No exceptions. Yes, there will be collateral damage if the path also contains other images.