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You are a poster child for this. The rest of us are moving away from overpriced flagships.

... after Obama wiretapped the German leader's 'phone.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... - yes she has been wiretapped. Him, not so much.

My wife has been cranking the thermostat up anyway. She'll be happy to hear this.

Know what I did? I went trying to find a case which matches what you described...

Dude admits to undercover cop that selling his home made gun is not legal, and even tells cop how to claim to police that the cop made it himself. That's some nice mens rea for you right there:
https://www.fredericknewspost....

Building SBRs & supressors without first aquiring tax stamps is a big no no: http://gunsandrifles.com/2018/...

Dude sells multiple undercover agents, sure doesn't sound like soly building them for personal use, then sometime later opting to sell them: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2...

Manufacturing machineguns at home is generally illegal, especially when the person involved doesn't have the right FFL: https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Not US based, but advertizing ones manufacturered guns for sale, not smart: https://www.illawarramercury.c...

From the UK, making bullets at home and supplying them and illegal firearms to gangs isn't exactly a way to appear innocent: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

The one case which I do recall, is this one: https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

In many jurisdictions, rolled tobacco is taxed at a different rate as loose tobacco, similarrly, ground cofee when compared to whole beans. To skirt these taxes, some places will sell you the raw products, let you put it into a machine and out comes your less taxed result.

It's a clever and legal loophole, until the politicans close it: https://lacrossetribune.com/ne...

This last case is similar, in that it's in a gray area. Technically it's the 'buyer' who is actually manufacturing the firearm, however it seems pretty clear what the guy's game was, and depending on the degree of assistance he provided (setup for instance), he could be said to be part of the manufacturing process. Of course, he plead guilty (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/dr-death-pleads-guilty-to-making-selling-ar-15-rifle-components/) and reading some of how he was doing it, it's pretty clear he had little case.

Care to cite a single case which matches the description you made of a jury not believing them, that they built something for personal use and then later transferred it?

I remember another funny story from Texas, also a couple years ago, about a guy who witnessed a car-jacking at a gas station, and drew his gun and popped off a few rounds, but he accidentally hit the victim in the head. Then he gathered up the spent rounds, and fled the scene.

Of course, most of the media never even ran the story, and they're certainly not going to remember it when people say stupid stuff like you just did.

https://www.rawstory.com/2015/...

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As long as people like this can even get their foot in the door, the project is in serious trouble. P.S. Homer Hickam rules.
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As a real actual scuba diver, rather than someone who clearly pretends to be like yourself, I've seen the impact of plastic on our oceans and it is frankly tragic.

If a local public park had even a fraction of the litter that turns up on almost every reef in the world then the local residents would be in uproar about the littering of their park.

There are also plenty of pictures of the problem that trivially disprove your lies. Most beaches have local residents or local governments cleaning them regularly, this is what things look like when they don't:

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

And this is just one example of a real actual scuba diver diving in a real actual plastic island that you're downplaying as not existing:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

In terms of micro-plastics though specifically, I'm not sure I understand why the summary is pretending the reasons for plastics moving up the food chain are unknown. They're well known and well understood, there's even a common word for the effect, it's called bioamplification, where smaller creatures consume something (in this case, micro-plastics) and then larger predators eat many of these smaller things, and in turn ingest the microplastics in the smaller prey they've consumed, carry on ad-nauseum until you reach the top of the food chain. At this point there is a significant amount of evidence suggesting this is a leading cause of infertility and still births in, for example, a number of whale populations.

So kindly fuck off with your anti-science bullshit, this is a tech site and you're in the wrong place if you think this is somewhere where people want to be fed that crap.

Because yoga makes white supremacy - obviously: https://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/yo...

I'm going to go have a white privilege shame spiral and maybe overeat some Hagen-Das... Or should I have Ben and Jerry's - oops, never mind: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs... -> What the hell is wrong with her ass?

In Scotland. Yeah, right.

They die from competitive saunaing.

4 out of 5 Oklahoma kids can't read an analog clock
One in seven Britons can't read the time unless it's digital
80% of kids can't read an analog clock
I personally know 'youngins' who believe that analog electronics are completely obsolete and that you can't do anything useful unless you have at least a microcontroller to work with. Imagine their faces when I show them a crystal radio receiver, doesn't even use a battery, how does it even work??? xD
Also realize that anyone born in the 90's or later can't imagine a world without the Internet and smartphones. They've likely never been to a public library and think that books only come from Amazon. They wonder how people communicated before 'social media'. If they had to call someone on a rotary-dial phone they'd be totally lost, and hearing the clicking in the receiver, they might be convinced it's broken. For that matter they might try to unplug it from the wall, certain that's just to 'charge' it, then maybe think the battery is bad when it doesn't work.
They don't think that anyone listens to broadcast radio anymore, and has no idea that that metal thing on someone's roof is a TV antenna, or that you can actually watch TV for free in the first place.
It's not a matter of 'stupid' so much as it is a matter of 'no experience with these things'. Some of them are stupid, however, because they were raised with so many modern conveniences that they didn't have to learn to take care of themselves as much with their own two hands and their own brain. Why learn things when you have the Internet on your smartphone? Why learn to drive a car when you can just call a ridesharing service to pick you up? Why bother to learn to cook when you can just pick something up somewhere? Why learn how things actually work, or learn how to build things from raw materials when you can buy just about anything you could imagine (and you've been convinced that if you can't buy it, you don't need it anyway)?
I don't know if you're young or old, but (You) are not talking like you're very smart at all, friend AC.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration the US currently generates 1.4 percent of it's energy from solar, Egypt is about to cover 4% of it's energy needs from solar in one fell swoop.

TFA says the Egyptian solar farm is the world's largest, producing 1,8 Gigawatts of power.

On the other hand, this solar farm in Tibet produces 3,450 megawatts of power

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Vote Hillary in 2016.

You know, most European countries calculate their fines based on your wealth rather than a "flat" fee. The idea is that you don't just get to flaunt your contempt for the law if you're rich because a fine of 500 bucks that would be crippling for someone who makes 1000 a month is pennies for someone who makes millions in bonus payments alone.

So you might want to be careful where you speed, thinking that you can easily pay any fine since you're rich...

found!

.Analysis at Imperial College London finds there were 15,396 more deaths than expected at the trusts in the period between 2011 and 2016. It goes on to say deaths were caused by shortage of doctors and overcrowding.

NHS death rates four times higher than US. From research at University College London and Columbia University, in New York. The most seriously ill NHS patients were seven times more likely to die than their American counterparts.

Maybe they are closer to parity than you think.

The ironic thing about this entire incident to me is that what Price experienced, fair or not, is basically the employment world that men have lived in for the last couple decades. Stepping on eggshells for fear of doing something that might offend some woman, who could file a sexual harassment claim against them and get them fired.

I'm a firm believer that offense has to be intended by the person making the comment for it to be discrimination (be it misogyny or misandry). If you set the benchmark as whether the person hearing the comment was offended, you create a logically inconsistent process. As your program to stamp out discrimination succeeds, more people grow up never learning certain slurs and stereotypes. But because your system is based on whether someone was offended, someone who does remember those slurs gets offended. When they report their offense, an innocent person is punished for violating some rule they never knew existed. That's already happened with racism. And you end up punishing people whose only crime was that your program to stamp out discrimination was successful . The only rule which is logically consistent is to punish behavior intended to be offensive. A much more difficult standard to prove, but the only one which makes logical sense.

Unfortunately, we live in a world (or at least a media) that's decided that offense should measured based on how listeners interpret what you say. And by that standard, Price was hung with the same rope used to hang many a man before her (someone interpreted her statements as sexist and were offended).

Those huge fields of dead rusting wind turbines in California, and the south of Hawaii don't exist

I have been to them personally, both in Hawaii (drive to the southernmost point of the U.S.on the Big Island and they are all around you) and in California (though as that article notes, there are probably less than a 100 derelict windmills left, there used to be many more).

  Even the article you linked to just argues about the NUMBER of them, not the existence.

But who should I believe, citation-free climate denier rants or my own lyin' eyes?

I would ask you the same question since I have travelled the world, past many more windmill fields in multiple countries than you have. California may be finally removing a fixing a lot of what they have but just like most Californians who think CA is representative of the world, what you see in CA is not the same as what the rest of the world sees. In did, your CA based eyes are indeed lyin'.

Please cite your sources for the political affiliation of school shooters.

I guess you relative newcomers don't know enough not to challenge me, yet.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Difference is, the muslims will kill you. The christians will bring round coffee and donuts.

The ones that raised me might beat the shit out of you in god's name, or the men of gawd, who deliver his holy word might butt fuck you or want you to help Father O'Malley in the special sacrament of helping him make white wee-wee. Though perhaps they hand out donuts afterward.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://www.amazon.com/Train-U... The official beat your child to death or you hate them guidebook

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Religion is a cancer, and much evil is performed in the name of gawd. So don't get all uppity about how good the Christians are. Muslims are worse, but The people of jeebuz have their own list of fun times they deliver in the name of the gawd that commands them.

The thing is, in a very hot climate, wearing insulating clothes will make you feel hot. You would need to undress a bit, which might not be practical in every situation.

The Israeli army have got that sorted.

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What did you do with the weights they add so that the headphones appear to be a quality product?

Might have been the only valuable part left...

So these are self-drining. And while I agree they won't take my job any time soon - after all, I'm a computer experts of sorts - I know for a fact that the ones shown already have taken ~300 jobs.

As soon as it is economically 10x more feasible to do automated driving - be it little bots or human-transporting "car-like" things it will happen. Even if that requires standardizing street signs and perhaps some guidance system for automated cars. Transport is 70 million jobs globally. At least. The incentive to cut those costs is presuring and it will happen once self-driving cars are feasible. And they are about to become.

I recommend this video for a different take on this issue.

A link follows to a map of the ten rivers. Trigger alert! Daily Mail ahead, Do Not Soil Yourselves: link

I suspect we're going to see a lot fewer of these plastic patch, oceans are full of plastic stories now that the bulk (90%+) of the problem has been credibly traced to Asia. Doubtless they'll try to attribute it all to "western consumption herp derp," but it's still a speed bump and will reduce coverage dramatically.

So... problem solved! We now return you to your regularly scheduled Carbon anxiety stories.

Yeah, and in a lot of "civilized" countries you're not allowed to buy a spoon without showing ID.

Freedom means the worst assholes are going to be a lot more dangerous, which in turn means the people whose job it is to deal with those assholes are going to be a lot more skittish around people who are being shifty or aggressive.

I assume you are one of those American gun nuts who says things like "pillows can suffocate people, so if you ban guns, you should also ban pillows".

I assume you're one of those useful idiots that have lost the plot. Guns were supposed to be the problem with US cities. Then London overtook New York City in homicides per capita.

It's almost as if the problem wasn't the guns, but the people -- like when East London became dominated by migrant ghettos. But here you are rattling on about "gun nuts".

If you RTFA, you find it's just one judge who said that in his retirement speech.

Judges are supposed to be learned and wise men. That he's even saying this is a sign of the times.

Economy is in good shape and getting better. We're finally addressing the failures of NAFTA, killed the TPP, and getting China (and the EU, to a lesser extent) to have real talks about protectionism and free trade. Not to mention getting a little sit-down with North and South Korea. And pulling us out of insane agreements with Iran (who never signed in the first place) that exclude inspections of all military sites. Great jobs report. Positive trends among public opinion that we're on the right track. Actual progress on prison reform. Unleashed the dogs of war against ISIS and effectively ended them (via elimination of 99% of all ISIS-held territory).

But other than those, and many more, yeah - what's he ever done for us?

First, all pilots are trained to fly the airplane manually, with all air surfaces controlled by hydraulics on most aircraft. Electric motors are also connected to these hydraulics to allow the autopilot to fly the airplane, but as a convenience. Pilots are supposed to know how to fly the airplane without the use of the autopilot and by using radio signals received by VORs (radio-directional beacons) in order to navigate using a paper chart (or an iPad with a chart on it).

That Air France Flight 447 went down was not due to "poor training" or because of a lack of ability to detect a cyber-attack, but because the copilot in that airplane panicked and pulled when he should have pushed. (Frankly his mistake was a rookie mistake that student pilots are supposed to unlearn within the first 20 hours of training.)

Now are there attack vectors which can be used to sabotage an airplane? Absolutely--but they're not the "I plugged the laptop into the network and hacked the airplane's firewall" variety, since most aircraft (certainly the 737) run parallel networks--with the avionics physically disconnected from the entertainment and WiFi systems used by the passengers.

Attack vectors would be for a passenger or someone on the ground to jam and spoof GPS signals, and to jam and spoof directional VOR and ILS transmissions, to fool the navigation equipment on the aircraft to think it's somewhere it's not. Another attack vector is jamming and overriding the air traffic voice and text communications by someone spoofing air traffic control.

The problem is exacerbated by NextGen, where aircraft broadcast their GPS location (rather than their location being detected by ground-based radar), so it makes it harder for Air Traffic Control (who watches all commercial aircraft like a hawk, alerting pilots if they deviate from their flight plan) to determine if someone has gone off course. And of course the problem is made worse by inattentive pilots who often sit around the cockpit bored when they are supposed to be monitoring the navigational equipment to make sure it looks correct. (Remember when two pilots flew off course because both of them fell asleep at the wheel?)

But onboard cyber-attacks? Puh-lease...

The solution to all of this is the solution first taught to student pilots flying their first Cessna 172: fly the damned plane. Left hand on the yoke, right hand on the throttles, both feet on the rudders, and do that stick-and-yoke thing so many of them have forgotten because they think the computer is the best pilot in the cockpit.

If I had my way, the first thing I'd mandate is that all commercial pilots--including those flying the largest A-380 airplanes--spend at least a few hours a month flying the same Cessna 172 they learned in. That way they remain viscerally connected to flying by stick and yoke--and when the computer acts up, as it always seems to do at the worst moment in the cockpit, you can still look out the window, see that piece of cement in the distance, and put the airplane down where it's supposed to go.

Democrats have been slowing down the confirmation process, so that Trump has many fewer people in place than other presidents at this point in their term.

Nope, actually, it's Trump's lack of nominees.

Good little lemming on blaming Democrats. Like for the embassy. You know, for the country that disinvited him.

Admittedly, it's within the rules and an aspect of Democratic resistance that is actually succeeding.

Kinda your own practice really.

Not exactly a success though.

That kind of ruling is what causes Civil Wars.

It's hurts the country but it does slow down Trump's agenda, and that's what matters most.

Actually, Trump's agenda of trying to put crazy shits in office is what's going to hurt the country.

Fortunately for him, his base is more concerned that heattacks the people who don't stand for the national anthem.

It's ok, he doesn't actually have any need to govern. He can just demand apologies.

This is yet another negotiation tactic

Walking away from a negotiation where the other party has already capitulated before it's begun?

I'm beginning to see the "art" part in "The art of the deal."

Some more art: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...

More than you'd think

"How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world"

A signature not on the signature page? It's on the front cover. The John Kerry State Department confirmed that Iran never signed the deal, two months after the meeting.

Perhaps you're not aware of US politics and our Constitution (which trumps UN law, by the way, at least in the US) which requires any foreign treaty of agreement must be submitted to and approved by the Senate to be legal. Anything else is simply the statement/position of a singular man, with no force of law behind it.

I'm confused... is being a pedophile a bad thing again? Because for a while it seemed like the left was trying to normalize it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Apple had a choice between slowing down phones with a marginal battery or having them randomly crash at times of high workload.

That's what they claim. Odd, then, that they always timed these "fixes" for when a new version of the iPhone came out?

"The U.S. study analysed worldwide searches for 'iPhone slow' and found that the search term spiked significantly around the time of new iPhone launch."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

Yes. And it did so years before any throttling actually took place.

Proof.

Explain this you dirty Apple apologist!!!

Apple had a choice between slowing down phones with a marginal battery or having them randomly crash at times of high workload.

That's what they claim. Odd, then, that they always timed these "fixes" for when a new version of the iPhone came out?

"The U.S. study analysed worldwide searches for 'iPhone slow' and found that the search term spiked significantly around the time of new iPhone launch."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...

That s correct. One of the oddest things about this whole matter though is that in all of the stories about the falling birth rate, the focus is very gynocentric.

Which is a little odd - if you don't consider the other half of the equation, you don't get the whole picture.

That's because the women are the ones who actually give birth. They're also the ones who decide whether or not to have a child the vast majority of the time. It's not like women actually need to be in a long-term relationship to get pregnant. Heck, sperm donors mean she doesn't even have to have sex.

And yet - here we are. Seems like there is absolutely no problem at all, men have not one thing to do with the issue, and women can take care of all of this with no issues whatsoever. http://www.bbc.com/news/health... . Seems some places are having trouble getting donors. Perhaps this low birth rate is fake news.

And as passive avoidance, it is becoming a problem.

Citation required.

Okay, let us start. You can get an inkling of the problem just by DDG'ing "Where have all the good men gone?" one of the best links is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...

https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

And here is where things start getting weird. Men are avoiding relationships with beautiful desireable women, and it is the men's fault. So you start blaming people who are avoiding you for avoiding you. Men her age are too fat, and as she calles them "delusional" There is a certain lack of logic in utilizing shaming tactics on people who largely base their lack of interaction on shaming tactics of the past. THese women are whining about how they can't find a good man, then whining about how awful men are. There is a face slapping clue in there, unless one goes through life with the firm conviction that any and all problems are distinctly the fault of males. these women? I woudn't put up with their whiny misandric ways for a minute.

Next up, we get the red-pill movements. This one is a bit worrying. There are a few different types. One is Men's right's activists, or MRA's. These are sort of like feminists. They are more understandable to feminists, because of similar tactics.

The part of red-pilling that has recently become more concerning to feminists and women in general is MGTOW, or men going their own way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... This is because instead of marching to provoke people or agitating for laws, these men simply use passive avoidance. It is a largely online community with no political aims, even when there are people or groups that try to frame it as such. I was listening to an NPR "On the Media" presentation and interview when the woman host was trying to frame MGTOW as an alt-right movement, who was mystified by a felliow who did an analysis that shoed that overall, except for the passive avoidance, these men could largely be called centrist Democrats.

The large concern is because of this passive avoidance. And almost all are completely immune to shaming tactics. https://www.mgtow.com/ Anyhow, I've provided a few cites - there are thousands out there, and a lot of data that indicates that not all problems are the fault of men.

the traditional nerds and otherwise males unattractive to women come to mind.

What, are you 16?

How cute. Something I have written that angers you? Very strange, when I write some non-insulting post, where all you have to do is go down point by point and show me the error of my ways, yet you post this

It takes two to tango: the father is just as culpable here. They chose to have kids as well. But when they skip out, they leave the baby with the mom, since we have the expectation, often enforced by the court system, that the mother raises a child, not the father.

I have to disagree. In poor societies in the US, it is a badge of honor to spread your seed as far and wide as possible. Also, as a side benefit of spreading your seed, you will be exposed to more women with whom you can procreate. Unfortunately for us, the act of procreation requires little in the way of thought. Also unfortunately, it's enjoyable. And finally - thanks to the fairy tale stories told by Hollywood - women get an incorrect belief that once they have sex with the man, he'll be unable to look at anyone else the same way. Or that they can 'change' him for the better (stop selling drugs, stop hitting, stop cutting classes, stop flirting, or whatever). Best advice I can give to women is don't enter into verbal contracts where you might be screwed.

From the man's point of view ... he just wants what the other person has, and he's willing to engage in whatever verbal contract needed to get it. Promises mean nothing because he has to have that . In his mind, is it really stealing when it is being given away for free? Of course not! This is how you have individuals that have fathered many children. Four in one year in this other case. It appears the guy that made world headlines as a deadbeat dad is not a nice manany more.

Too bad there's not a license for procreation.

Provided. Note this article is about 5 months AFTER the supposed signing happened, and it was the Kerry State Department which confirmed it was never signed by the Iranians.

I am not-married (we married others in the past and figured out how stupid marriage really is, so we don't do it) to a quite excellent woman. She won't take shit from people but she won't fight over petty things like many women tend to do. She works for women but many of the customers and decision-makers she deals with are men. She strongly prefers dealing with men because men cut the bullshit and appreciate it when someone else is also willing to cut the bullshit. Women are the reason we have dumb shit like "compliment sandwiches"...yes, that's a real thing, go look it up and be as amazed at the level of intelligence insulting required to do it as I am. Women are biologically closer to the center of the intelligence bell curve. Women are genetically hard-wired (no opt-out) with nesting instincts and competitive instincts that target other women. Damore was fired for pointing out such realities, but no amount of Google HR panty-twisting changes the hard facts encoded in your fucking DNA.

Women that "live in the world of men" are the absolute best women. No walking on eggshells, no wondering where things stand, no wondering about her opinion of that thing you just said, no letting you slide when you falter and act like an idiot. She jumps your shit in your moments of stupidity because she cares.

And then there's most women, who would destroy the entirety of a business with their cunty catty horseshit behavior. Gee, which one would you pick to work beside? Hmm...things that make you go "hmmmm....."

No. We already have these sensors in passenger seats of every vehicle so that they can warn the passenger to buckle their seat belt.

Well idiot sensor comment aside the requirement for a person in the driver seat detector is still stupid. In the world of measurement (my primary field) it is important to as far as reasonably possible measure the primary variable of interest. Guess what, no car is interested in if anyone is in any seat. It's not a primary variable for any kind of control. What people were interested in is if people are wearing their seatbelt, and in order to ensure that false alarms aren't given a detector is used to see if the seat is occupied.

Where am I getting with this? The primary variable of interest here is not if something heavy is in the driver seat, but rather if a driver is driving the car.

It is predictable that people would try to use their Tesla this way, and it could obviously cost lives

Yes that is the idiot principle. It is predictable that some idiot will always do something like this. Now what will a sensor achieve?

Maybe we could use a steering wheel sensor like these:
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201...

We should also ensure that the driver doesn't unbuckle his seatbelt:
https://thetikit.com/

And while I don't have a silly link for the person in seat detector, my own anecdote is that I actually have one of those seatbelt alarm stopper thingies in the passenger seat of my car because my backpack routinely sets off the detector and my car starts beeping at me.

Oh and by the way, here's a video of someone doing the exact same drive from the passenger seat trick in an S Class Mercedes 3 years ago, but using a system that completely disengages everytime the hands come off the wheel, and using a system that doesn't have autonomouse or autopilot in the name: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

So where does that leave us? I let's try to beat the idiot. Lets try and protect the idiot from themselves. Propose an idiot proof sensor that will protect us from the idiotic 0.0001% of the population. I have a better proposal. ... Or rather Darwin had a better proposal.

Wrong question, you're making an appeal to authority, an assumption that some *person* should be doing the deciding. That's a bad approach. Of course you're not really asking the question, you know it's a bad approach and you know that anyone reading it will know it's a bad approach, so you're asking the question rhetorically in an effort to discredit the notion that any decision is right. That's underhanded argumentation. Say what you mean.

Okay I'll make it simple. I won't cherish cultures that brutalize women as an integral part of that culture. Howbow dat? Clear enough?

The right question is what *principles* should be used to decide. Obviously, not everyone will agree on the principles, which is why we fall back on democratic ideals. To avoid tyrannies of the majority, we use democratic processes to decide broad, high-level principles rather than to answer specific questions. Then we apply reason and debate to those principles.

I don't support or cherish cultures that brutlize women as an integral part of that culture. At it's simplest, the golden rule. Bill and Ted "Be excellent to each other."

In this case, the core principle is that of freedom. Cultures are free to do what they want, but that freedom ends where it begins infringing on the freedom of individuals (of course, we make exceptions where to allow too much individual freedom causes bad outcomes for society as a whole -- there's a balance to be found. Yes, this is hard.). The notion that women are morally equal to men (which isn't saying they're the same as men) means that they should have the same opportunities to compete for the jobs based on their ability to do the job.

Now since I simplified what I wrote - howbow you do it?

I'll try to write this at the lowest level I can:

I do not support or cherish Chinese culture having male only jobs.

I do not support or cherish Saudi Arabia culture burying women up to their neck and killing them for adultery. Especially when the man in the tryst isn't punished. Or preventing them from exercising the same rights as males.

I do not support or cherish the fact that in many African cultures young girls are mutilated by cutting off their clitorises.

I do not support the cultural practice in places like Yemen where prepubescent girls are forced into marriage to old man. Here id part of a culture we are supposed to Cherish http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... Seriously - 8 freaking years old. And not as a crime, but a part of the culture. People can argue about the age of consent being at puberty, but 8 year old girls are not mechanically ready for sex. At all.

And I don't support the Chinses Men only jobs

Now back to the way I normally write.

I believe that men and women are equal. And the dversity people who want me to cherish all of the above cultures, but are having shitting hemmorage over China and their male only jobs are suffering from some severe magnitude issues. "It's okay to be in an outrage about who can fill out a job application, but let's go on the downlow about clitorectomies. Don't want to offend the culture." Fuck that - it's wrong and it will always be wrong. Damn - I gotta question the moral compass of people like that.

Back to simple: Come back and lose y'all's shit over Job Applicatinos after you save some women's lives.

I'll give up on my equality is superior to diversity and my right to point out the hypocrisy of Diversity supporters when they excute me - perhaps by the cultural tradition of public beheading as practiced in Saudi Arabia. That would be somehow fitting.

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I argue that this freedom for women trumps the freedom of Chinese culture to restrict their role in society. Do you actually disagree? On what basis?

Case in point below. The founder eventually concluded that it was a bad idea from the standpoint of productivity, but it never seems to have occurred to her that her policy was deeply sexist.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/fem...

Would you all please just look this way for a sec?

Because stuff like this never happens:

http://www.kidspot.com.au/heal...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Kids are smart, ingenious, flexible and tenacious.

I hope you don't place too much trust your pool fence or you may lose your kids.

Galileo's Square-Cube Law appears to work for all land-walking animals alive today, but the scientific community seems to ignore its problematic application to the dinosaurs. Is it because there would seem to be a number of dinosaurs which could not seemingly exist in today's gravity?

"How could dinosaurs get so big despite Galileo's square cube law?

The law - Square-cube law
From wikipedia

'The giant monsters seen in horror movies (e.g., Godzilla or King Kong) are also unrealistic, as their sheer size would force them to collapse.'

Wouldn't the law also affect dinosaurs like the Giraffatitan?

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Apala Chaturvedi

Galileo's Dialogue Concerning Two New Sciences contained what he considered to be one of his most profound insights: the square-cube law. If two cubes are made of the same material then they will have the same density. Yet since the two cubes have different area to volume ratios they will likewise have different stress at the base of each cube. If too much stress is placed on an object then it will fail, or in this case a large cube has a much greater possibility of collapsing. This is why sandcastles can only be a few feet high.

Galileo applied this to animals, what we now call allometry, and noted that a this implies the diameter of bones should be proportional to their length. It explains why ants can walk around on spindly little legs while lifting 50 times their body weight, compared to elephants with their tree-trunk sized feet who would strain to lift a quarter of their mass.

Also because of the Square-Cube Law, larger animals have less relative muscle strength than smaller animals. Both the muscle strength and bone strength are functions of the cross sectional area, while the weight of the animal is a function of volume.

It is because of relative muscle strength that an ant can lift fifty times its weight while a human can lift an amount equal to its own weight, and an Asian elephant can only lift 25% of its own weight. The greater muscle to weight ratio of smaller animals is what allows them to jump higher than several times their own height, while at the other extreme an elephant can not even jump.

While Galileo was successful in convincing the Church and the conservative science community that the world is not flat, the conservative science community has yet to embrace Galileo's Square-Cube Law even though it is clearly correct and fundamental to understanding every major science discipline.

Something additional to note is the common occurrence of serious bone diseases such as osteoporosis and arthritis observed in mammoth remains, for this could be called a vindication for the idea that mammoths existed at the very edge of the Square-Cube Law, or that a change in gravity is part of what destroyed them. There's additional discussion of the situation here

Got a citation for that? Or is it just more racist bullshit from the likes of Breitbart, Fox News, etc.?

Disney did that on a large scale. That they forced the employees they were firing to train their replacements was particularly galling. The same thing likely happens frequently on a smaller scale that does not make the headlines.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

This was a story last year,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5182577/How-Google-Amazon-SPYING-you.html