if your are of my generation, the one of the ones that has not been vaccinated for smallpox, then i would hope you are scared of smallpox. Else feel free to be ignorant.

You do realize how viruses work right? and how your body fights them right?

For small pox:
Of all those infected, 20–60%—and over 80% of infected children—died from the disease

You do realize how freaking scary that is right? Sure it's not a 100% death rate, but 80% in children is damn close, and 20-60% in adults is really damn scary.

Just think, at a 50% death rate, you would need each living person to bury another living person. Sure Evolution "somehow" favored our ancestors, but that doesn't mean any of us are immune to it by any means.

There is a reason why the ENTIRE world worked together to completely eradicate small pox from the face of the planet. The first (and only to my knowledge) time the Human Race as a whole set out to completely destroy another species from our little rock in the universe.

If your not vaccinated and your not scared of smallpox, then you need to pick something you are scared of go look up it's death rate then compare it to smallpox, maybe then you will have an understanding of the magnitude.

you do realize that "somehow survived" with the current generation was via a global effort to eradicate it via vaccination. Not from any type of evolution or genetic traits. for the current generations that have never been vaccinated it will be just as bad as it was for the native americans.

There is no cure for an active small pox infection, only prevention through vaccination. and once there is an outbreak and people are infected it will be too late to vaccinate, sure you will still do it and you will mobilize to do it and get as many as you can for herd immunity but the reality is a lot of people will die before it is contained.

I'm just waiting for there to be an accidental release of smallpox. I know that nearly no one from my generation on has been vaccinated. A single out break of that in a major metro area and international airport would be one of the most devastating things our generation could witness.

Well they might have tired to say what it was for when they tweeted it:

"We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale."

But they were only had 4 chars left and figured people would find "CA$H" tacky

I got in on the Alpha of that, but didn't have time to fully review it. I will have to go back and look at it.

Thanks,

I'd like to chime in on ownCloud. It works but it also doesn't

Owncloud fails in a large multi user environment over low speed connections, and with office files if the users are working in the same folder that syncs. We tried it, and for single in a folder it worked great, once we added others (especially with low speed or low quality connections, aka traveling users) it failed miserably. We had many many many conflicts for no reason. many many 0 byte files do to cross sync issues.

We ended up canning it because managing it and cleanup became too much of an issue. We now use DropBox (i know not open source and you pay) but the reality is it just works. And it has the selective sync they are looking for.

Great show, until they went the Alien route, completely killed it.. (like most shows that attempt it)...

But in reality, i'd love to see people start moving under the ocean to both live and work, i think it would be awesome.

While i like with life imitates art, it should NEVER imitate The Onion. If and when it does, someone fucked up somewhere.

The one thing i see you are are missing i the X factor, of bloodline.. it can skew that metric all over the place.

That was back when if you could kill the driver they couldn't sue. Now we let the relatives sue on the dead's behalf so that strategy doesn't work any more.

don't have a citation for you, but yes it is,, in the mid 90's it was designed to go into the passenger seat, now they are mostly designed to go down (FE-RWD), to separate (FE-AWS), or laydown (FE-FWD). i have no clue what the strategy is for rear wheel drive.

Fixed that for you :)

Because rather than adding to the conversation, maybe by stating your statement and giving an example of how to fine tune it, you just come in here and try to crap on something someone did without giving any constructive feedback.

Example being i could have just responded "because you're being an ass" but rather i'm giving you feedback that instead of just "being an ass" you could give some insight on not just what you think is wrong but what could be done to improve it.

(yes i know this is an AC, but obviously this one likes to read his words, maybe he can take some constructive criticism and change for the better, well lets hope)

That is actually quite simple today. If you think about it the seal only has to prevent leakage for a Differential Pressure of ~13psi. Everyone thinks of the vacuum of space being this harsh constant sucking force, but the reality is it is jsut a void and your own mass is trying to equalize pressure with it. In industrial processes it's normal to have rotating seals that can't leak (think explosive gases) at more than 600+psi differential pressure between internal and external.