It's offensive.

Kind of sad that he's been given the power to direct the efforts of a large number of respected medical professionals to address something that is extremely rare and neither crippling nor life threatening. What sort of work are they being taken away from to deal with his insignificant little problem, I wonder.

Wish I had mod points for you.

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Product placement would be an easy way to fund free porn. And really, how much more Pavlovian can you get than to have someone masturbate while looking at your product?

People like to say things like this as if it is literally nothing, but I do not really believe them. The entire entertainment sector would be completely gutted if they could make no money from their work put into their respective projects. Everything from movies to games to books and more.

Good. I hate em. I think they SHOULD starve.

Sure, people would still make these kind of things, but it would be personal projects just for the sake of doing them and nothing more. The variety and quality would be extremely variable if these paths weren't tied to their livelihoods anymore and they needed employment in other areas.

That's the goal. If you're not creating solely because you have something to say, great. You shouldn't be creating things for the purpose of manipulating us into feeding and clothing and housing you. I'd rather see them die.

It's the need to concentrate that makes it relaxing.

It's like rock climbing. You have to focus on the immediacy of the moment. It relieves my overactive mind from cycling over emotionally charged thoughts and leaves me unable to return to them because I'll die if I do.

I find driving incredibly relaxing. It requires just enough focus to get me into a zen like state, but not enough that it ever gets taxing except under unusual circumstances. Sometimes if I'm really stressed, I'll hop behind the wheel and drive for an hour or two in some random direction, then come back and feel totally relaxed.

But, right now my car is in the shop, and I'm taking the bus, and it's stressful as hell. Buying groceries is either an expensive taxi or a painful ordeal, sleeping in 10 minutes means I'm half an hour late for work, and visiting my friends has to be weighed against the boredom of an hour each way bus trip.

I don't know how anyone could possibly think of driving as boring and stressful. It's right up there with sex, tobacco and whiskey as far as I'm concerned.

Hi John,

I understand that you set up a drug lab in your home and spent your time experimenting with the way that Bath Salts increased the enjoyment you got sleeping with young girls.

What did you learn from your experience?

The MVC pattern doesn't really fit into this realm at all. It has its place in developing standalone applications, but when you're dealing with multi-tiered web applications, it's a poor fit.

The stuff you send to the client is your view. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, the whole shebang. The code that runs on the server is your controller. The database is your model.

Modern MVC implementations on the web are like writing an emulator of a bygone age because the abstractions are comfortable even though they don't fit.

Goodbye! Thanks for all the fish! Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

If you visit http://www.bittorrent.com/ it will become quickly apparent what they mean, I think.

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I imagine they're seeding it.

Merchandising?

If that leads to a series of entertaining films coming out that don't contain any members of the Screen Actors Guild, they're really going to be up shit creek.

I don't really believe democracy is going to survive unless those who are not able bodied members of the work force are forcibly disenfranchised. The elderly dramatically outnumber the young, and they hold most of the wealth. There have been multiple generations of less than replacement level reproduction, and all the politicians and business leaders recognize that the situation is desperate, that we aren't capable of surviving on our own, but if we brought in the number of immigrants necessary to make up for all the babies we didn't have, we couldn't force them to support our aged population once they got here. The nations we would like to poach people from are a) suffering the same problem b) recent converts to our culture who have no reason to flee here c) able to recognize what we're about and actively hostile towards us. When we as a culture decided it was acceptable to entice women to exchange the children a woman would bear for the service she could provide us in the hear and now, we really fucked ourselves. Unless a lot of old people vote to throw themselves on their sword, what's going to happen is we're going to fritter away resources making their end days as comfortable as possible, when they should be used to set the ship aright and ensure a future. We're also going to make enemies of those destined to inherit the world from us, trying to use economic and military force to compel them to serve us.

I think the sensible thing for an able bodied person to do is to attempt to migrate to a young and vibrant culture... I've been considering Brazil.

Oooh, I want to play.

Perhaps there are intelligent entities out there who will interact with 'us' after we assemble ourselves into a higher form of life, just as we have been assembled from lower forms of life.

Flying around the planet for a business meeting would seem pretty outrageous to a single celled organism. On interstellar scales, we are the single celled organisms.

We're going to have to successfully grow our population to levels that boggle the mind before we become significant, and even then, we're going to have as much chance to interact with aliens in their own environment as a human white blood cell has of chatting up a cell from a dogs liver. We're going to be structural components in such a scenario, so most of us will exist our whole lives "inside" the "body", except those that are born to be "skin".

Going further, the intelligences involved would have concerns as far removed from our own that we wouldn't have any chance of recognizing them. Their lifespans would be vastly beyond our own, the way our own lifespan is vastly greater than a skin cell.

When you get right down to it, it's entirely possible this is already going on. How the hell would we recognize such a thing?