Must have been hippie cows. The ones I knew were all totally into body modification. Piercings, tattoos, you name it. I'm thinking if we ever got my cows into a mosh pit with your cows, yours would be dead meat.
Well his words are kinda shit, too. I mean, this is the guy who basically said "it doesn't matter if you do good or evil since you're all evil anyway; the only way to get to the magical happy place and avoid the evil burning place is to reject your families and follow me".
If he existed at all he was the L Ron Hubbard of his age; a cult leader who said a lot of crazy shit and managed to build up a large, delusional following.
No, their basic idea was flawed. While you can do many tests with a very small quality of blood, there are also many which you cannot. Additionally, the number of tests they wanted to run from a tiny sample was impossible even if they were just running the tests which individually didn't require large samples.
There was a reason why experts were skeptical from the get-go. Most of them suggested that even a major improvement in current technology wouldn't be enough to make these problems go away.
Of course, you could argue that it was still worth pursuing on the off chance that everyone else was wrong. That would have been fine. Where Theranos moved from "misguided" to "scam" is when they confirmed that their technology could not actually do what they wanted and then willfully lied and continued to sell blood tests to the public knowing full well that the results were largely meaningless.
I wasn't discounting inflation; I didn't even bother doing the math or considering his grandfather because it didn't make any difference to my point. If you are making north of $170,000 in today's dollars and complaining about being broke, you have serious money management issues. Inflation is irrelevant to that.
Now that you mention it, though, his "factory worker" grandfather making 30k plus in the 60s does seem unlikely. Median income for a white family back then would have been around $8,000 per year. Half of that if they weren't white.
Ignoring for a minute the difference between incompetence and fraud, it's worth pointing out that a big selling point for this venture was the gender and youthfulness of the CEO. Nearly every article and interview I saw when the "technology" was first being revealed spent as much time fawning over how wonderful it was to have a young woman "researcher and CEO" as they did actually discussing her supposed invention.
Had she been an old white dude, Theranos would never have gotten the publicity it did. It's fair to point out that her gender played a role in the continuing success of her scam.
I don't make even half of what you do, but I have a larger house which is almost paid off, and a 2 year old car which I bought last year just because I was getting tired of the old one. Whatever your problem is, it does not appear to be related to your paycheque, except tangentially. If you were making $400,000 a year I suspect you would somehow still manage to be broke.
Nah. I've known fighter pilots; some of them believe crazy shit and are prone to flights of fancy, juts like anyone else. You're making gross generalisations based on stereotypes.
i think the mathematical probability of their being sentient alien race out there, somewhere, is 100%.
Sure, but the question in this case isn't what the odds are of them being "out there"; the question is what are the odds of them being HERE. And that's a far, far smaller number.
I don't think you understood that article. The quoted expert suggests that it IS illegal on Canada, but that the crown would be "unlikely" to pursue charges.
It means that pretty much every time anyone had ever said to me "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual", or "I don't believe in god but I'm spiritual", I have asked them "what do you mean by spiritual?"
And every time the only response has been either a blank stare, or the same kind of dancing around that you're doing now. Not a single person has ever given any kind of meaningful answer to that question. Which is why I said, multiple comments back, that if you did so you would be the first.
Now, this conversation is getting rather pointless, so I think I'm done with it. Unless your next response actually answers the question of what you think spirituality is and how it differs from religion, in which case I would be more than happy to discuss it with you.
The "general expectation" is that unless you're way off in the boonies, you are going to get decent internet speeds. I'm far enough out from the closest small city that fast internet isn't universal out here; if I were another 10km further north I would not have access to cable or ADSL. People out in that area can still get decent wireless speeds, but those have monthly data limits so it's not ideal.
Sure, there are definitely people in Canada who do not enjoy the same level of service that I do... but he was suggesting that you can only get decent internet access if you're close to a huge city, and that's just blatant nonsense. Pretty much every mid-size city has access to cable/ADSL speeds over 20 Mbps, as do many small towns close to them.
The US has been a fully operational police state since end of 2001.
The best part about idiots who say shit like this is that, generally speaking, 5 minutes later they'll turn around and fawn over how wonderful Cuba is.
"Well regulated militia" meant a bunch of citizens who have weapons and get together on a semi-regular basis to train in the art of war under a clearly defined chain of command.
That's precisely what the National Guard is.
Granted, the guard has full time personnel and maintains its own weapons and ammo stockpiles. That was not part of the original intent. However, it's probably a lot better than having rich landowners bringing their own tanks out for the weekly exercises, to complement the farmers who show up with their personal machine guns and rocket launchers.
I came across it plenty of times, but nobody can tell me what it means. Just like you, here, are going on about how "spiritual but not religious" is this magical unicorn thing which is like all kinds of wow, but you can't actually explain what it is.
The fact that you can string some words together and act all superior about it doesn't mean that those words are meaningful in any way. I, too, can make up a bunch of words and then rant about how you just don't understand them. It's all meaningless if you can't explain them.
Or how many are still functional? (answer: their output is a lot lower than it used to be.)
I would expect it to be. The ISS is now almost 20 years old, which is approaching the end-of-life for your typical terrestrial solar cells. I would be shocked if they were still getting anything close to the original output of those cells.
It's true. And the goddamn Russians are already trying to cover up the truth by modding my last comment "flamebait". Just wait, they'll come after you, too!
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Must have been hippie cows. The ones I knew were all totally into body modification. Piercings, tattoos, you name it. I'm thinking if we ever got my cows into a mosh pit with your cows, yours would be dead meat.
His words are more important than his existence.
Well his words are kinda shit, too. I mean, this is the guy who basically said "it doesn't matter if you do good or evil since you're all evil anyway; the only way to get to the magical happy place and avoid the evil burning place is to reject your families and follow me".
If he existed at all he was the L Ron Hubbard of his age; a cult leader who said a lot of crazy shit and managed to build up a large, delusional following.
Honey garlic venison sausages. Absolutely divine.
I'm fluent in Mooiese. The cows say they're perfectly fine with it, and they wish that the concern trolls would just piss off.
No, their basic idea was flawed. While you can do many tests with a very small quality of blood, there are also many which you cannot. Additionally, the number of tests they wanted to run from a tiny sample was impossible even if they were just running the tests which individually didn't require large samples.
There was a reason why experts were skeptical from the get-go. Most of them suggested that even a major improvement in current technology wouldn't be enough to make these problems go away.
Of course, you could argue that it was still worth pursuing on the off chance that everyone else was wrong. That would have been fine. Where Theranos moved from "misguided" to "scam" is when they confirmed that their technology could not actually do what they wanted and then willfully lied and continued to sell blood tests to the public knowing full well that the results were largely meaningless.
Didn't mix it up; median is the more relevant figure in this case. Thanks for your concern though.
I wasn't discounting inflation; I didn't even bother doing the math or considering his grandfather because it didn't make any difference to my point. If you are making north of $170,000 in today's dollars and complaining about being broke, you have serious money management issues. Inflation is irrelevant to that.
Now that you mention it, though, his "factory worker" grandfather making 30k plus in the 60s does seem unlikely. Median income for a white family back then would have been around $8,000 per year. Half of that if they weren't white.
Ignoring for a minute the difference between incompetence and fraud, it's worth pointing out that a big selling point for this venture was the gender and youthfulness of the CEO. Nearly every article and interview I saw when the "technology" was first being revealed spent as much time fawning over how wonderful it was to have a young woman "researcher and CEO" as they did actually discussing her supposed invention.
Had she been an old white dude, Theranos would never have gotten the publicity it did. It's fair to point out that her gender played a role in the continuing success of her scam.
Yeah, you're totally full of shit. That bill has absolutely zero to do with net neutrality.
What did my generation do differently?
Get really shit at managing money?
I don't make even half of what you do, but I have a larger house which is almost paid off, and a 2 year old car which I bought last year just because I was getting tired of the old one. Whatever your problem is, it does not appear to be related to your paycheque, except tangentially. If you were making $400,000 a year I suspect you would somehow still manage to be broke.
Nah. I've known fighter pilots; some of them believe crazy shit and are prone to flights of fancy, juts like anyone else. You're making gross generalisations based on stereotypes.
i think the mathematical probability of their being sentient alien race out there, somewhere, is 100%.
Sure, but the question in this case isn't what the odds are of them being "out there"; the question is what are the odds of them being HERE. And that's a far, far smaller number.
I don't think you understood that article. The quoted expert suggests that it IS illegal on Canada, but that the crown would be "unlikely" to pursue charges.
It means that pretty much every time anyone had ever said to me "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual", or "I don't believe in god but I'm spiritual", I have asked them "what do you mean by spiritual?"
And every time the only response has been either a blank stare, or the same kind of dancing around that you're doing now. Not a single person has ever given any kind of meaningful answer to that question. Which is why I said, multiple comments back, that if you did so you would be the first.
Now, this conversation is getting rather pointless, so I think I'm done with it. Unless your next response actually answers the question of what you think spirituality is and how it differs from religion, in which case I would be more than happy to discuss it with you.
Your call.
The "general expectation" is that unless you're way off in the boonies, you are going to get decent internet speeds. I'm far enough out from the closest small city that fast internet isn't universal out here; if I were another 10km further north I would not have access to cable or ADSL. People out in that area can still get decent wireless speeds, but those have monthly data limits so it's not ideal.
Sure, there are definitely people in Canada who do not enjoy the same level of service that I do ... but he was suggesting that you can only get decent internet access if you're close to a huge city, and that's just blatant nonsense. Pretty much every mid-size city has access to cable/ADSL speeds over 20 Mbps, as do many small towns close to them.
This is nonsense. I'm a good 2 hour drive away from Toronto and I get 40 Mbps. Higher speeds are available but I don't want to pay more.
I have relatives just as far from Toronto but in a completely different direction who also get 30 Mbps+.
Also have relatives in a different province, nowhere near any major city, who get similar speeds.
The US has been a fully operational police state since end of 2001.
The best part about idiots who say shit like this is that, generally speaking, 5 minutes later they'll turn around and fawn over how wonderful Cuba is.
Cognitive dissonance at it's best.
"Well regulated militia" meant a bunch of citizens who have weapons and get together on a semi-regular basis to train in the art of war under a clearly defined chain of command.
That's precisely what the National Guard is.
Granted, the guard has full time personnel and maintains its own weapons and ammo stockpiles. That was not part of the original intent. However, it's probably a lot better than having rich landowners bringing their own tanks out for the weekly exercises, to complement the farmers who show up with their personal machine guns and rocket launchers.
500 contractors watching 47 accounts?
You do realize that we have these fancy doohickeys called "computers" these days, right?
I came across it plenty of times, but nobody can tell me what it means. Just like you, here, are going on about how "spiritual but not religious" is this magical unicorn thing which is like all kinds of wow, but you can't actually explain what it is.
The fact that you can string some words together and act all superior about it doesn't mean that those words are meaningful in any way. I, too, can make up a bunch of words and then rant about how you just don't understand them. It's all meaningless if you can't explain them.
Or how many are still functional? (answer: their output is a lot lower than it used to be.)
I would expect it to be. The ISS is now almost 20 years old, which is approaching the end-of-life for your typical terrestrial solar cells. I would be shocked if they were still getting anything close to the original output of those cells.
Yeah, I use lineage myself.
I used to run all kinds of AOSP based ROMs (and yes, AOSP is also open source) but I found Lineage to be the most reliable overall.
It's true. And the goddamn Russians are already trying to cover up the truth by modding my last comment "flamebait". Just wait, they'll come after you, too!
Probably the most viable phone OS is Legacy OS
Legacy OS is a lightweight linux distro for very old computers. I think you mean LineageOS.
which is just an open source version of Android.
Android is also an open source version of android.
I've wanted to try Sailfish just for the BTRFS support, but it's not supported on any phone that I actually want to use.