I decided to wait until I get home from work..... which, I am not sure how I ended up saying I would come into the office for the first time in 2 months today. I meant to take today off, how that turned into "sure, I can come in next tuesday.....)
Anyway, woke up this morning to find my wife already on and playing. I haven't even heard the "War never changes" speech yet.
she has been way more excited about this than I have, but also way more pissed. The whole "protagonist has a voice" thing is some serious frosty piss in her cheerios.
Nobody who has written shell script where > is already -gt as far as the test command is concerned.
Ever since I started doing a lot of shell, "greater than" has become gt in my head. When i type > I think "gt", unless I am using "less" where its actually a command, and then I am thinking "end"
So really, I am unsurprised by this question, but at the same time > never stopped being "gt" or "greater than", its a symbol for that. When I see $ I think "dollar" as well, but one does not mean it more than the other, they are the same thing.
I don't see how this is supposed to make a difference to consumers, who are voting with their dollars against the regulations made by corrupt politicians at the behest of, and often written by, the very industries they regulate.
Ahahah as if they are just available for anyone who wants them. You know the numbers are usually limited, and generally all taken.
Maybe if licensing mattered so much, people wouldn't vote with their dollars for Uber. Maybe if the cab companies with the legitimate licneses that they lobbied and paid for should provide even comparable service?
I could have sworn the "secret recipe for Uber" was that all those wonderfully regulated cab services actually suck and many have poor customer service: http://www.wbur.org/2011/02/15...
It has nothing to do with OSS.... its that a "software license" is not a fucking support contract. There is no expected level of service other than "it might get fixed if you are lucky". You paid nothing, you get to expect....nothing. Be greatful you do get any support at all.... because even "hey, glad to hear its working for you" is more than you contributed if all you did was download it.
OTOH, "Its OSS" is no excuse to not provide support if they did buy a support contract. Releasing software is also not all there is to living up to that.
However, in short.... "Free" doesn't mean "Free support and I work weekends too"
I play a gnome and love showers. I honestly look at people who are like "I shower every other day" and am like....you mean you have an abundant supply of hot water and don't shower every single day? Life is too short to not experience such delight as often as possible.
other than that.... um yah pretty much; except, I am married too....cept my wife is also a geek/gamer who plays D&D with me.
As for escapism? Lol, compared to who? You mean fantasy football fanatics are not engaged in escapism? Lol we call it "D&D for Mundanes".
So then release the bombs if you want it to stop, because nothing short of eliminating intelligent life on this planet will ever eliminate rudeness.
People get emotional and have outbursts, it happens to the best of us. I always felt the old programmer's axiom "be conservative in your output and liberal in what inputs you accept" was really the best. Try not to have outbursts, and when someone else slips....move the fuck on.
We don't need to talk about it, we don't need to make sure it never happens again. We need to move past whatever problems are causing the stress.
Or as I personally like to put it.... it may be rude to put your elbows on the table, but its many times more rude to point out to someone, at the table in front of everyone, that they shouldn't have their elbows on the table. A polite person doesn't need to pick or dwell on the faux pas of others.
It is, but based on the summary it seems pretty clear they are talking about using the bees to spread fungi, microorganisms or even smaller bugs.
These "natural pesticides" are not really pesticides at all but natural parasites of pests. Various forms of them are already available and in wide use. For example, you can go buy ladybugs, along with several speices of predatory bug to deal with various kinds of pests. There are fungi that you can put in your soil to kill beetle larvae, there are predatory mites you can release that feed on insects that damage crops.
Many natural killers are known to hitch rides on species that they are not harmful to. Seems like this is like a pathogenic ride sharing program.
yes but, as long as some number of people are willing and interested enough, which for something as widely used as a car, you can expect will be the case (even if it wasn't open, people would be hacking on it), then it works anyway.
Though, in no way are you really protected, its not like "bugs" can't be engineered and well obfuscated.
Oh gee look, some odd data corruption when this register overflows and.....oh quite odd there.
Blech I hate the idea of needing to show ID and be put on a list; in order to enforce a failed policy that has been eating itself for years.
It was the law that created the market that caused idiots with a little chemistry knowledge to decide they could make good money risking blowing up houses. 50% of the people in burn units were not there for trying to make meth in apartment buildings before the laws made it profitable.
Hell, before that, meth was just one of several stimulents some people abused, it was only the law causing meth to get selected on the basis of being "easiest to make in a bathtub lab" that really made it king.
Drug laws have done many things, but the one thing they have utterly failed to do is even touch addiction rates....the one thing they were intended to do! And now, every time I get the sniffles, I have to be reminded of this abject failure?
> As directed, I use it for only three or four days during the peak of symptoms.
Well...as directed, that is why its directed as such.
MY first experience with it was at my doctor's recomendation. They gave me a script for a nasal steroid, and told me to use the OTC spray for the first 2 days, because it would take a few before the steroid started to help. Worked like a charm that way.
Ever since I keep it around, needed it maybe twice a year, and never for more than the 2 days.
I think what we really need is an immediate and complete cessation of any and all funding, and public attention paid to any organizations and all persons who are known to use the prefix "cyber" unironically in any context other than particular role playing games and genres of fantasy novel.
Which bet? If you mean some combination of the bets that we are in the first/early evolutions of life on one of the first/early potentially life bearing plants? Nope, still wouldn't.
However, I would bet, were it possible to verify, that the first people living on the first potentially life bearing planet to bear life that they would not take that bet either.
I have only one..... make it open source so people who are not looking to commit murder for a paycheck written by politicians beholden to industrial profit.
> But someone HAS to be on those tails. And this new study seems to indicate we most likely are on the front tail.
Exactly. For every million times that a one in a million event happens, it actually does happen.
We should fully expect that the very first intelligent civilization in the universe to make it to a level of technology where they are looking at the stars and applying statistical math.... should make the exact same assumptions, because....they make perfect sense.... absent data to the contrary.
They would be wrong of course, but, the majority of the others who make that assumption later will all be right.
True, though, to be honest, I care a lot less about the health concerns than the liberty ones. Id the operators get cancer.... its a life they chose and if they didn't choose it with knowledge, that is between them and their management; not my problem.
What is my problem is how this can be abused. Because any power in the hands of people gets abused, so creating these things and putting them on the streets guarantees abuse.
All I need to do is go back to my mothers own examples of when famous people came to the hospital and employees would gratuitously look up their records and gossip about them. That is why today, the single most common reason for the hospital to fire people (I later worked in their IT): Inappropriate records access.
Police are never subject to even firing for this sort of thing. Our government has proven itself over and over to NOT be responsible enough with our liberty to be allowed such powers to peep.
My mother was an X-Ray Tech growing up. On the day she started (back well before digital filmless x-rays) she was told "by choosing this profession, you are choosing to take 3 years off your life"
The key is the inverse square law. The exposure is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
Mom occasionally still chuckles at people's reactions with portable units. She would roll one into the ER, set it up on a patient, and walk outside the little room with her remote button.... and people would clear out 5 feet behind her. She always laughed "at the distance I was standing, it was perfectly safe"
Though, for mom to operate x-ray equipment, she had special training and had to have a masters degree (well she had to work towards it since it was a new regulation) and had to be recertified on a regular basis.... you think they have similar requirements? I doubt it.
Basic high school level biology is all I need to know a fetus is not an independent being capable of understanding anything. I could not reconcile it having a right to life with eating meat, because even a cow is closer to deserving of rights than a fetus. Spoiler alert: I eat meat.
> "Mostly Libertarian" camp. The exception I believe is his stance on abortion, which like most progressives fails to recognize that two people are required to make a baby.
How is that any exception? "A woman's body is her own" sounds pretty libertarian to me. In fact, I fail to see how claiming dominion over someone else's medical choices in any way qualifies as libertarian. It is absolute anathema to the core. If libertarianism means ANYTHING at all other than just another label....then it means the primacy of personal choice.
If anything, I see a libertarian as more pro-choice than the pro-choice people. Because when most people say "I am pro choice" they literally mean "I am ok with abortion being legal". When I say I am "pro-choice", oh I mean that....and MUCH MUCH more. I am pro....choice....in all personal choices; in all medical choices; everything.
Nobody at all has a right to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term. Nobody has the right to tell her she can't arm herself and bear those arms, nor to tell her what flowers she can grow or dry or smoke. Nobody has the any of those rights; because if they did, then we don't have liberty.
I guess if your perfect customer is an idiot who doesn't understand what "upsell" means and thinks that these guys sound smart. You know, maybe you have a point there...I guess if you actually want idiot customers...maybe this is the perfect ad.
It sure is but, as long as it was only a few devices, how would you get caught? You would have to do something moronic like post about it on a forum or something.
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I decided to wait until I get home from work..... which, I am not sure how I ended up saying I would come into the office for the first time in 2 months today. I meant to take today off, how that turned into "sure, I can come in next tuesday.....)
Anyway, woke up this morning to find my wife already on and playing. I haven't even heard the "War never changes" speech yet.
she has been way more excited about this than I have, but also way more pissed. The whole "protagonist has a voice" thing is some serious frosty piss in her cheerios.
Nobody who has written shell script where > is already -gt as far as the test command is concerned.
Ever since I started doing a lot of shell, "greater than" has become gt in my head. When i type > I think "gt", unless I am using "less" where its actually a command, and then I am thinking "end"
So really, I am unsurprised by this question, but at the same time > never stopped being "gt" or "greater than", its a symbol for that. When I see $ I think "dollar" as well, but one does not mean it more than the other, they are the same thing.
I don't see how this is supposed to make a difference to consumers, who are voting with their dollars against the regulations made by corrupt politicians at the behest of, and often written by, the very industries they regulate.
Ahahah as if they are just available for anyone who wants them. You know the numbers are usually limited, and generally all taken.
Maybe if licensing mattered so much, people wouldn't vote with their dollars for Uber. Maybe if the cab companies with the legitimate licneses that they lobbied and paid for should provide even comparable service?
I could have sworn the "secret recipe for Uber" was that all those wonderfully regulated cab services actually suck and many have poor customer service: http://www.wbur.org/2011/02/15...
This.
It has nothing to do with OSS.... its that a "software license" is not a fucking support contract. There is no expected level of service other than "it might get fixed if you are lucky". You paid nothing, you get to expect....nothing. Be greatful you do get any support at all.... because even "hey, glad to hear its working for you" is more than you contributed if all you did was download it.
OTOH, "Its OSS" is no excuse to not provide support if they did buy a support contract. Releasing software is also not all there is to living up to that.
However, in short.... "Free" doesn't mean "Free support and I work weekends too"
I play a gnome and love showers. I honestly look at people who are like "I shower every other day" and am like....you mean you have an abundant supply of hot water and don't shower every single day? Life is too short to not experience such delight as often as possible.
other than that.... um yah pretty much; except, I am married too....cept my wife is also a geek/gamer who plays D&D with me.
As for escapism? Lol, compared to who? You mean fantasy football fanatics are not engaged in escapism? Lol we call it "D&D for Mundanes".
http://www.chick.com/reading/t...
"Intense occult training through D&D prepared Debbie to accept the invitation to enter a witches' coven"
If only I understood the dangers before I started playing! Pretty sure my DM isn't nearly this cool.
So then release the bombs if you want it to stop, because nothing short of eliminating intelligent life on this planet will ever eliminate rudeness.
People get emotional and have outbursts, it happens to the best of us. I always felt the old programmer's axiom "be conservative in your output and liberal in what inputs you accept" was really the best. Try not to have outbursts, and when someone else slips....move the fuck on.
We don't need to talk about it, we don't need to make sure it never happens again. We need to move past whatever problems are causing the stress.
Or as I personally like to put it.... it may be rude to put your elbows on the table, but its many times more rude to point out to someone, at the table in front of everyone, that they shouldn't have their elbows on the table. A polite person doesn't need to pick or dwell on the faux pas of others.
It is, but based on the summary it seems pretty clear they are talking about using the bees to spread fungi, microorganisms or even smaller bugs.
These "natural pesticides" are not really pesticides at all but natural parasites of pests. Various forms of them are already available and in wide use. For example, you can go buy ladybugs, along with several speices of predatory bug to deal with various kinds of pests. There are fungi that you can put in your soil to kill beetle larvae, there are predatory mites you can release that feed on insects that damage crops.
Many natural killers are known to hitch rides on species that they are not harmful to. Seems like this is like a pathogenic ride sharing program.
For all war industry projects.
We don't need a next gen bomber, we have murdering human beings down pat. There is no need for improvement on that front anymore.
yes but, as long as some number of people are willing and interested enough, which for something as widely used as a car, you can expect will be the case (even if it wasn't open, people would be hacking on it), then it works anyway.
Though, in no way are you really protected, its not like "bugs" can't be engineered and well obfuscated.
Oh gee look, some odd data corruption when this register overflows and.....oh quite odd there.
Blech I hate the idea of needing to show ID and be put on a list; in order to enforce a failed policy that has been eating itself for years.
It was the law that created the market that caused idiots with a little chemistry knowledge to decide they could make good money risking blowing up houses. 50% of the people in burn units were not there for trying to make meth in apartment buildings before the laws made it profitable.
Hell, before that, meth was just one of several stimulents some people abused, it was only the law causing meth to get selected on the basis of being "easiest to make in a bathtub lab" that really made it king.
Drug laws have done many things, but the one thing they have utterly failed to do is even touch addiction rates....the one thing they were intended to do! And now, every time I get the sniffles, I have to be reminded of this abject failure?
> As directed, I use it for only three or four days during the peak of symptoms.
Well...as directed, that is why its directed as such.
MY first experience with it was at my doctor's recomendation. They gave me a script for a nasal steroid, and told me to use the OTC spray for the first 2 days, because it would take a few before the steroid started to help. Worked like a charm that way.
Ever since I keep it around, needed it maybe twice a year, and never for more than the 2 days.
I think what we really need is an immediate and complete cessation of any and all funding, and public attention paid to any organizations and all persons who are known to use the prefix "cyber" unironically in any context other than particular role playing games and genres of fantasy novel.
Which bet? If you mean some combination of the bets that we are in the first/early evolutions of life on one of the first/early potentially life bearing plants? Nope, still wouldn't.
However, I would bet, were it possible to verify, that the first people living on the first potentially life bearing planet to bear life that they would not take that bet either.
I have only one..... make it open source so people who are not looking to commit murder for a paycheck written by politicians beholden to industrial profit.
> But someone HAS to be on those tails. And this new study seems to indicate we most likely are on the front tail.
Exactly. For every million times that a one in a million event happens, it actually does happen.
We should fully expect that the very first intelligent civilization in the universe to make it to a level of technology where they are looking at the stars and applying statistical math.... should make the exact same assumptions, because....they make perfect sense.... absent data to the contrary.
They would be wrong of course, but, the majority of the others who make that assumption later will all be right.
True, though, to be honest, I care a lot less about the health concerns than the liberty ones. Id the operators get cancer.... its a life they chose and if they didn't choose it with knowledge, that is between them and their management; not my problem.
What is my problem is how this can be abused. Because any power in the hands of people gets abused, so creating these things and putting them on the streets guarantees abuse.
All I need to do is go back to my mothers own examples of when famous people came to the hospital and employees would gratuitously look up their records and gossip about them. That is why today, the single most common reason for the hospital to fire people (I later worked in their IT): Inappropriate records access.
Police are never subject to even firing for this sort of thing. Our government has proven itself over and over to NOT be responsible enough with our liberty to be allowed such powers to peep.
> I understand that one root cause is fractional reserve banking and the tribe behind it
Your trolling is really trying too hard.
My mother was an X-Ray Tech growing up. On the day she started (back well before digital filmless x-rays) she was told "by choosing this profession, you are choosing to take 3 years off your life"
The key is the inverse square law. The exposure is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
Mom occasionally still chuckles at people's reactions with portable units. She would roll one into the ER, set it up on a patient, and walk outside the little room with her remote button.... and people would clear out 5 feet behind her. She always laughed "at the distance I was standing, it was perfectly safe"
Though, for mom to operate x-ray equipment, she had special training and had to have a masters degree (well she had to work towards it since it was a new regulation) and had to be recertified on a regular basis.... you think they have similar requirements? I doubt it.
Basic high school level biology is all I need to know a fetus is not an independent being capable of understanding anything. I could not reconcile it having a right to life with eating meat, because even a cow is closer to deserving of rights than a fetus. Spoiler alert: I eat meat.
> "Mostly Libertarian" camp. The exception I believe is his stance on abortion, which like most progressives fails to recognize that two people are required to make a baby.
How is that any exception? "A woman's body is her own" sounds pretty libertarian to me. In fact, I fail to see how claiming dominion over someone else's medical choices in any way qualifies as libertarian. It is absolute anathema to the core. If libertarianism means ANYTHING at all other than just another label....then it means the primacy of personal choice.
If anything, I see a libertarian as more pro-choice than the pro-choice people. Because when most people say "I am pro choice" they literally mean "I am ok with abortion being legal". When I say I am "pro-choice", oh I mean that....and MUCH MUCH more. I am pro....choice....in all personal choices; in all medical choices; everything.
Nobody at all has a right to force a woman to carry a pregnancy to term. Nobody has the right to tell her she can't arm herself and bear those arms, nor to tell her what flowers she can grow or dry or smoke. Nobody has the any of those rights; because if they did, then we don't have liberty.
I guess if your perfect customer is an idiot who doesn't understand what "upsell" means and thinks that these guys sound smart. You know, maybe you have a point there...I guess if you actually want idiot customers...maybe this is the perfect ad.
It sure is but, as long as it was only a few devices, how would you get caught? You would have to do something moronic like post about it on a forum or something.