Sayonara

Errr... that's what reservoirs are for.

There's nothing new about worms spreading themselves. One would imagine that Nimda might have provoked some kind of learning response, seeing as it did pretty much the same thing and was all over the news.

Why did you have to tell him it's ok to go for the face? Guess who has to practice with him.

Yeah, because the USER didn't keep updated and didn't have a correctly configured firewall. Those are attributes of users, not the software. I have never had a trojan, virus or worm because I use simple techniques and reliable, proven software. I don't see how that makes me an idiot when there are people who lose their whole installation due to a lack of protection and don't learn from it. I doubt he's that proud of searching for files and replacing configurations tbh. He has a point about stupid users getting things like sasser because of their own ignorance and expecting to be helped out by the people they probably laugh at for knowing about "that stuff", but lumping all AV users together is going too far.

There's no bug, it just wasn't thought out very well by vB.

That can't 'just happen' - someone with dB access must have edited your reputation points.

I was going to put "that proves nothing" but it would have been mean. It's a good point.

If you're using the Drake Equation at all, I'm guessing you already accept the assumptions.

The good thing about it though is that you can be as conservative as you like with the variables and still end up with good result, due to the size of the cosmos.

If you take the Drake Equation as being a reasonable assessment of the involved probabilities, it doesn't matter if communication is needed or not.

lol

But was it? The population has increased quite a bit so it depends what you mean by 'commonplace' - gross numbers, or 'poor per capita'? The opportunity may exist to rise above it, as you say, but the biggest root cause for there being poor people is that only a few can hold onto the majority of funds in an economy, and they'll generally be in a good enough social position to protect that. Money heads upwards. The specific pressures haven't really changed significantly (well, the form has slightly due to changes in culture and technology) but if anything the barriers against people trying to get out of poverty have multiplied. Even a lot of people on benefits have a TV in every room, telling them which consumer products mean more to them than a good diet. Even a mere century ago, there wasn't very much the average poor family spent money on that wasn't food, clothing, shelter or necessities like doctors' services.

The biggest mistake he can make is committing himself to explanations of things

http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,987998,00.html One of the shorter, better classics for anyone who is curious.

I don't think cotton shrinks, which is why you can wash cotton whites at 90c. Iirc it's synthetics you have to be careful with. And wool too, as you say, which is easy to pulverise out of shape.

Filled with all the evils of the world?

Have you measured the clothes? You could be getting fatter Seriously though; if in doubt, wash at 40c

Ooooh catty.

I don't recall saying it wasn't. Don't call me 'kid'.

Published by the "John Titor Foundation Inc", lol.

No, it isn't. You don't make something into something else just by claiming that subjectivity makes its definition mutable. Just because we use words in ways like "it was real to Lucy", doesn't mean that the thing Lucy is perceiving has a basis in any reality. 'It' exists only as a representation of something she is perceiving.

That's what I'm saying too. But I think calling perception of reality "a" reality is inviting unnecessary confusion That's what I mean.

You're still substituting the words "my reality" for "my perception of reality", which doesn't magically make the two things the same.

Chill YT, I think he was talking to me.