Hospitals are the *last* place that we want this. Right now the best place to find a resistant germ because of all the antibiotics used there. Why would we want to add to this mess?
2nd, the point about trash in the street, etc. is a strawman. It has no bearing on what I'm discussing. The discussion is about introduction of antibiotics, not taking out garbage.
Don't need germs? Try an experiment. Take a newborn baby, and isolate it from a harmful germ, perhaps salmonella. Raise the child.
Now, give that person an old hamburger. Watch them get deathly ill from that because their immune systems have never seen salmonella before. Compare that to the comparitively mild but non-life threatening reaction of vomiting that a person with a better immune system would have.
What's with all the hyper protection from germs that is built into every product? This is harmful in my opinion, for two reasons.
-germs develop resistances. This includes bacteria, and probably chemical agents like this one. Evolution is slow, but persistent. If a resistance is possible, it will probably be developed. The result is tougher germs.
-people need germs. Our immune systems are kept in shape by fighting germs. Even babies need to have some exposure to germs to develop a resistance to them. We should be exposing ourselves to appropriate levels of germs in order to allow our immune systems to recogize them as harmful agents.
Oh well. If it appeases the anxieties of germ-phobiacs, then it will make money. Who cares about anything else.
A friend of mine told a customer at an oil change place that her blinkers didn't work, and that she needed to go to KMart and get some more blinkerfluid.
If Ru is just $30 a gram, and there really is only 1000 gallons of the stuff in the world, it shouldn't be too hard to get all your friends together and buy all of it. Voila! You've cornered the market. Sell it back to them at $100,000 a gram.
So, something doesn't make sense. If Ru was really that rare, wouldn't someone have played that trick on us already?
The antennas are smaller because the frequencies have gone up, that's it. Your 2 meter antenna is going to be the same as it was in the 1970's. Now wavelengths are just a few centimeters, making the most efficient antenna much smaller.
At Michigan State University we have "The Rock" which is a very large boulder with a flat face, sitting next to a road in a busy part of campus. Every night the rock is spray painted with a different message, sometimes several times in a night. I thought it was a wonderful thing, and if I still lived in E. Lansing Michigan I'd have a website going with photos of the rock updated daily.
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Ironically, as he rails against the evils of environmentalism, he's been smoking "mother nature". Strange world.
Once you gargle with that, cancer is the least of your worries!
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We're not talking about running Windows, we're talking about seeing the source code. As far as I know, somebody who is unemployed and perhaps hasn't taken a bath in 2 weeks can probably figure out a way to get ahold of the Linux source code. That same person would have a very tough time seeing the source code to Windows.
Congresscritters do this because it is a win/win situation for them. If they pass a bill that is supposed to fix a morality problem, then they get to declare it from the podium during the next election. If little Billy still goes out and shoots someone, nobody will blame the congress critter for the failure of his bill.
This is an excellent substitute for doing real work. If the congresscritter tackles a real issue, he could certainly claim credit if he is successful, but there would be the risk of blame if he screws it up.
We (citizens collectively) fall for this old gag every single time.
1) Helping customers and partners to be successful through source access programs.
Their philosophy is exclusive, and therefore limited in how effective it can be. Students and other poor people are NOT allowed to participate in their philosophy.
2)Building the development community and offering the tools to produce great software.
A community is a spiderweb network arrangement of people, with free associations. Shared Source is a star topology network, with Microsoft strictly arbitrating all associations between clients. They don't fit my definition of "community" very well.
3) Improving feedback processes in order to create better products for Microsoft's customers and partners.
This is an unequal flow of information, which makes me wonder how Microsoft thinks of their partners. Imagine what would happen if our relationships with wives and girlfriends (ideally a partnership) worked like this. The Man (Microsoft) would do what he wanted. The woman would give everything she earned to the Man. The Man would provide everything that the Woman needed. Occaisionally, he would sit down and listen to the various ways he could improve the quality of what he provided to her, to make her happy. If he decided not to implement suggestions, that would be touch luck for the Woman. How long would it take for the Woman to tell the Man to screw himself and his "partnership"?
4) Maintaining the integrity of our customers' environments.
Integrity simply means that words and actions are aligned. Microsoft doesn't seem to understand what partnership and community actually mean, so how can we expect them to have integrity? Integrity is easy if you are the author of the dictionary.
5)Increasing educational access to get technology into the hands of universities worldwide, and to seed the future of a strong technology industry.
This is called indoctrination. It's not a philosophy, it's a strategy.
6)Protecting software intellectual property rights based on the firm belief that software offers value as the basis of a successful business.
Software is the basis of Microsoft's business, but other businesses base themselves on things like financial services, building houses, making industrial machinery, etc. Reminds me of a guy at American Express that I used to work with. He actually told me "if Amex were to adopt open source, how could we make money if we gave all our software away?" I had to remind him that Amex made money off charge cards (not software), and they weren't required to distribute source if they didn't distribute the binary.
You wouldn't need a mod to do this. After all, you probably don't know what Noah Adams looks like. For all you know, Noah Adams looks just like one of the regular monsters.
So, when they simulate the network hacking attack crisis, just run down the hall to the data center. Hit the big red switch on the wall.
You will see that the network hacking attack exercise will be successfully ended, and everyone will begin the simulation of what to do when the data center loses power.
The fact that the random events unfolded in an unlikely sequence that led to homo sapiens does not imply divine intervention. If we weren't here, something else would be here, probably marveling at how unlikely their existence was.
After all, it's pretty unlikely that an individual person will win the lottery, but somehow, it happens quite frequently. Did god guide the numbers? After all, just one number different and the winner wouldn't have won at all.
How about this one? I'm logged in. I have the karma. I can do what I want. If I post at +2, there's just as many levels above me as there are below me, so set your damn threshhold appropriately.
That's not a definition, that's a guideline. Different people will process that differently. For example, I don't consider most porn capable of harming anyone. On the other hand, what's in the Bible is very offensive to me. Other people have exactly the opposite opinion that I do.
So how exactly will you write that obscenity filter?
They certainly must honor the GPL for their software that is already under it, but I don't think they have an obligation to release every little thing they make under the GPL. It's not right to consider them leeches if they have some proprietary things. If it was wrong to do this, then don't you think the GPL would have addressed it? If there's some kind of unwritten code at work here, then we've either got to codify it in the license, or we've got to simply drop the issue. How can we expect companies not to offend us unless we specifically outline exactly what we find acceptable as a community?
Must be a snow cow from Michigan that modded me down...
Why can't you admit that it's boring up there! Come on, you know it is! All they talk about is how many feet of snow will be left on the ground when June comes around.
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The PP2000i would be the urinal version. The regular version is a slight anagram of the name:
2P00P0i
Hospitals are the *last* place that we want this. Right now the best place to find a resistant germ because of all the antibiotics used there. Why would we want to add to this mess?
2nd, the point about trash in the street, etc. is a strawman. It has no bearing on what I'm discussing. The discussion is about introduction of antibiotics, not taking out garbage.
Don't need germs? Try an experiment. Take a newborn baby, and isolate it from a harmful germ, perhaps salmonella. Raise the child.
Now, give that person an old hamburger. Watch them get deathly ill from that because their immune systems have never seen salmonella before. Compare that to the comparitively mild but non-life threatening reaction of vomiting that a person with a better immune system would have.
What's with all the hyper protection from germs that is built into every product? This is harmful in my opinion, for two reasons.
-germs develop resistances. This includes bacteria, and probably chemical agents like this one. Evolution is slow, but persistent. If a resistance is possible, it will probably be developed. The result is tougher germs.
-people need germs. Our immune systems are kept in shape by fighting germs. Even babies need to have some exposure to germs to develop a resistance to them. We should be exposing ourselves to appropriate levels of germs in order to allow our immune systems to recogize them as harmful agents.
Oh well. If it appeases the anxieties of germ-phobiacs, then it will make money. Who cares about anything else.
A friend of mine told a customer at an oil change place that her blinkers didn't work, and that she needed to go to KMart and get some more blinkerfluid.
If Ru is just $30 a gram, and there really is only 1000 gallons of the stuff in the world, it shouldn't be too hard to get all your friends together and buy all of it. Voila! You've cornered the market. Sell it back to them at $100,000 a gram.
So, something doesn't make sense. If Ru was really that rare, wouldn't someone have played that trick on us already?
The antennas are smaller because the frequencies have gone up, that's it. Your 2 meter antenna is going to be the same as it was in the 1970's. Now wavelengths are just a few centimeters, making the most efficient antenna much smaller.
At Michigan State University we have "The Rock" which is a very large boulder with a flat face, sitting next to a road in a busy part of campus. Every night the rock is spray painted with a different message, sometimes several times in a night. I thought it was a wonderful thing, and if I still lived in E. Lansing Michigan I'd have a website going with photos of the rock updated daily.
Ironically, as he rails against the evils of environmentalism, he's been smoking "mother nature". Strange world.
Once you gargle with that, cancer is the least of your worries!
We're not talking about running Windows, we're talking about seeing the source code. As far as I know, somebody who is unemployed and perhaps hasn't taken a bath in 2 weeks can probably figure out a way to get ahold of the Linux source code. That same person would have a very tough time seeing the source code to Windows.
gave all their employees orange yo-yo's that said
We're in the TORRID ZONE!
Congresscritters do this because it is a win/win situation for them. If they pass a bill that is supposed to fix a morality problem, then they get to declare it from the podium during the next election. If little Billy still goes out and shoots someone, nobody will blame the congress critter for the failure of his bill.
This is an excellent substitute for doing real work. If the congresscritter tackles a real issue, he could certainly claim credit if he is successful, but there would be the risk of blame if he screws it up.
We (citizens collectively) fall for this old gag every single time.
Summarized and dissected:
1) Helping customers and partners to be successful through source access programs.
Their philosophy is exclusive, and therefore limited in how effective it can be. Students and other poor people are NOT allowed to participate in their philosophy.
2)Building the development community and offering the tools to produce great software.
A community is a spiderweb network arrangement of people, with free associations. Shared Source is a star topology network, with Microsoft strictly arbitrating all associations between clients. They don't fit my definition of "community" very well.
3) Improving feedback processes in order to create better products for Microsoft's customers and partners.
This is an unequal flow of information, which makes me wonder how Microsoft thinks of their partners. Imagine what would happen if our relationships with wives and girlfriends (ideally a partnership) worked like this. The Man (Microsoft) would do what he wanted. The woman would give everything she earned to the Man. The Man would provide everything that the Woman needed. Occaisionally, he would sit down and listen to the various ways he could improve the quality of what he provided to her, to make her happy. If he decided not to implement suggestions, that would be touch luck for the Woman. How long would it take for the Woman to tell the Man to screw himself and his "partnership"?
4) Maintaining the integrity of our customers' environments.
Integrity simply means that words and actions are aligned. Microsoft doesn't seem to understand what partnership and community actually mean, so how can we expect them to have integrity? Integrity is easy if you are the author of the dictionary.
5)Increasing educational access to get technology into the hands of universities worldwide, and to seed the future of a strong technology industry.
This is called indoctrination. It's not a philosophy, it's a strategy.
6)Protecting software intellectual property rights based on the firm belief that software offers value as the basis of a successful business.
Software is the basis of Microsoft's business, but other businesses base themselves on things like financial services, building houses, making industrial machinery, etc. Reminds me of a guy at American Express that I used to work with. He actually told me "if Amex were to adopt open source, how could we make money if we gave all our software away?" I had to remind him that Amex made money off charge cards (not software), and they weren't required to distribute source if they didn't distribute the binary.
You wouldn't need a mod to do this. After all, you probably don't know what Noah Adams looks like. For all you know, Noah Adams looks just like one of the regular monsters.
So, when they simulate the network hacking attack crisis, just run down the hall to the data center. Hit the big red switch on the wall.
You will see that the network hacking attack exercise will be successfully ended, and everyone will begin the simulation of what to do when the data center loses power.
Sounds like the /. moderation system. Is Taco a statistician?
The fact that the random events unfolded in an unlikely sequence that led to homo sapiens does not imply divine intervention. If we weren't here, something else would be here, probably marveling at how unlikely their existence was.
After all, it's pretty unlikely that an individual person will win the lottery, but somehow, it happens quite frequently. Did god guide the numbers? After all, just one number different and the winner wouldn't have won at all.
How about this one? I'm logged in. I have the karma. I can do what I want. If I post at +2, there's just as many levels above me as there are below me, so set your damn threshhold appropriately.
That's not a definition, that's a guideline. Different people will process that differently. For example, I don't consider most porn capable of harming anyone. On the other hand, what's in the Bible is very offensive to me. Other people have exactly the opposite opinion that I do.
So how exactly will you write that obscenity filter?
Because I can.
They certainly must honor the GPL for their software that is already under it, but I don't think they have an obligation to release every little thing they make under the GPL. It's not right to consider them leeches if they have some proprietary things. If it was wrong to do this, then don't you think the GPL would have addressed it? If there's some kind of unwritten code at work here, then we've either got to codify it in the license, or we've got to simply drop the issue. How can we expect companies not to offend us unless we specifically outline exactly what we find acceptable as a community?
Nothing beats when caribu mate.
Except YOU maybe. heh heh.
Must be a snow cow from Michigan that modded me down...
Why can't you admit that it's boring up there! Come on, you know it is! All they talk about is how many feet of snow will be left on the ground when June comes around.
That's a lot of work just to print out a negative number on your screen...