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The_Pherocity··on IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)
Oh, I just assumed that it was multiple submits concatenated to make the log readable for a news article.
The_Pherocity··on Study participants typically did not enjoy spending 15 minutes by themselves
I absolutely would prefer pain to boredom. I'm not afraid of being alone with my thoughts, but I am terrified of boredom.

With the shock, I can totally see myself locked in a room with the device and trying to see if I could condition myself to not react to the shock. As long as I had some sense of safety (they have a doctor and some paddles on hand) I would take days seeing how far I could push myself.

And to be clear, I hate pain. But I love to conquer that which would make me weak.

The_Pherocity··on Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.?
I'm certain I didn't. The article asks the question about spreading, and that includes all vectors and scenarios. Spreading, is all about reaching and establishing an infected base.

As far as if ebola can get TO the western world, that is a 100% chance that it can. Primarily, because there is always an underground movement of goods and people, often women and children into and out of countries, regardless of official lockdowns. Think of it like drugs in prisons. There should be no place more free of drugs and alcohol, and yet it's easier to get drugs in prison than in my town. The conversation then is about the remaining requirements to 'spread'.

When we take a look at spreading of other lifeforms, say for instance seeds in Darwin's Origin of Species, dispersal is only a tiny part of the equation with spread being about not just buoyancy, but rather length of sustainability once the seed arrives at a barren landmass.

This is again consistent with man and Mars. We've gone there with robots, and will one day go there with people, but until we establish a foothold, we have not yet spread to Mars.

Regardless of whether the article addresses the point and only the question, all examples of life (and disputed forms of life in the form of virus), do not spread unless they take root.

The_Pherocity··on Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.?
I do, I hate when I do it. It also doesn't add to the conversation. Especially when I do so on items that are questionable, as this one is. What bothers me most is that the level of snark I use is dependant not on the level of offence, rather the number of times I've encountered this varian of low quality comment during the day. This example, although I stand by it, clearly is not one of the greater offences, and yet has maximum snark. The greater problem is these conversations actually often surpass the quality conversations being had in the thread.
The_Pherocity··on IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)
Explain please?
The_Pherocity··on Sleipnir: BDD-style framework for Swift
Maybe somewhere in the middle, but fair point. I have my bias for the style change, though that was a distraction from my point. It's premature, and in it's current form, doesn't add much value.
The_Pherocity··on Sleipnir: BDD-style framework for Swift
I wouldn't call this a BDD framework yet. It's speckled with both standard assertions and semantic assertions, and an "It" function that simply takes a block and a string. I can replicate this with using underscores in my test function names and avoid the complexity. Not trying to be a jerk, but what we should be driving for is something closer to:

    func Describe("The system I want to Test"){
        When("I click the red button")
        Then("I should see the light turn on")
        And("I should see 4 lights")
    }

    func Step("I click the red button"){
       buttons["red"].click
    }

    func Step("I should see the light turn on"){
       lights.on.should().be_true
    }

    func Step("I should see (\d+) lights"){
        lights.count.should().be(4)
    }
The_Pherocity··on Could The Ebola Outbreak Spread To Europe Or The U.S.?
Yea, that's how conversation works. Someone posts an article, then clever people talk about it. Some agree, some give experiences, some add additional facts and resources, and other people offer counter arguments. This is a counter argument to the article. What you posted, besides being blatantly obvious, is simply noise and does not add to the conversation.
The_Pherocity··on EU's right to be forgotten: Guardian articles have been hidden by Google
I once thought that I could tell my children that I was born in a world without the internet. But if governments and corporations keep on this path, my children won't have one either.
The_Pherocity··on Six Months After Legalizing Marijuana, Two Big Things Have Happened in Colorado
I suspect the 0 is in err.
The_Pherocity··on A Way to Reverse Coronary Artery Disease? [pdf]
That's a fantastic question, and one that I really like to know the answer to, but not the question I replied to. It is indeed what they removed, which caused the problem. And the diet they ate was also "plant based". Now we just need more studies to nail down which of that large list is actually the culprit. Like yourself, I highly doubt that it's all of them.
The_Pherocity··on When you click on a link, our server will send you the corresponding page.
Oh, they should have more. User assumes all risks, and the content is not guaranteed to be non-pornographic in nature, we absolve ourselves should your head explode, yadda, yadda. Okay, maybe a little out there, but a lot of the term are there for the business' protection. There are a lot of ways to be sued that still fall within legal bounds; especially when user generated content is involved.
The_Pherocity··on When you click on a link, our server will send you the corresponding page.
I don't understand.
The_Pherocity··on A Way to Reverse Coronary Artery Disease? [pdf]
Considering it states exactly that in the article in two places, I's say it's a safe assumption.