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The primary innovation in content creation in China is arguably their skill at copying the work of others without having to contribute anything back in return.

If that is true, then it seems to work pretty good.

I'm unclear on what his edge is here, other than maybe he enjoys the idea of digging stuff? Tunnel boring is an existing market with a number of players. Will the borer also install the road? Seems more likely he's trying to cover up the installation of a secret underground lab.

Up in Ottawa we've been digging tunnel for several years for our new light rail. The machines doing the digging are probably the least complicated part of the project. The real issue is varying soil and rock conditions and trying not to cause things like this.

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The current model of raising children, fucks up children.

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The current model of raising children, fucks up children.

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It's pretty much his favorite one.

Oh come on, someone had to make this about Trump :p

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger iPad fire

So to show us "Apple battery fires", you link us to stories about "(chargers (supposedly) from Apple fire (or in one case more of a smolder)"

"iPad Fire" (read the post)

iPad charger fire - understand the post. There was no fire damage on he iPad, only a cracked screen from the idiot dropping it on the floor. The only other damage was a molten connector/cable (quote: " It's almost on FIRE!") How the hell was that an "iPad" fire? Heck, how was that a fire at all? Like I said, a smolder

Anyway, even if either actually were an iPad fire, both fires required a charger to be used - can you show any mention of a charger being onboard flight MS804? Yeah, thought so.

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger
iPad fire

So to show us "Apple battery fires", you link us to stories about "(chargers (supposedly) from Apple fire (or in one case more of a smolder)"

"iPad Fire" (read the post)

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger iPad fire

So to show us "Apple battery fires", you link us to stories about "(chargers (supposedly) from Apple fire (or in one case more of a smolder)"

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger
iPad fire

Wow, Apple censor team is active today.

Happy Valentines

Too soon?

Unfortunately, I can't google "ipad fire" as it collides with "kindle fire".

Here you go.

Couple of choice ones:

Fire that killed four dogs in rescue home started by an iPad charger
iPad fire

WTF have you been smoking?

Reality. What have you been snorting where you don't realize this has been happening? You can be fined for it. That environmentalists push for it. That the favorite blame game is "Monsanto". That the brainchild was the environmentalism of the 70's and 80's, and is such a bad problem that provinces and states now actively encourage planting it. Want to bury your head in the sand? Feel free. The reality is far different, and is probably one of the best examples of environmentalism running amok to the point where it actively damages the environment. Hell if you dig hard through provincial records for example here in Ontario from the 1980's you can find environmental groups actively pushing for the use of broad-spectrum herbicides in order to control particular plant species and stating that the destruction and loss of native species outweighs the bad in controlling others.

A few reports of particular cities banning weeds over a certain height does NOT support your claim that not more than a year or two ago in most North America you could be fined for growing milkweed. And no support for "environmentalists pushing" for such weed laws.

WTF have you been smoking?

Reality. What have you been snorting where you don't realize this has been happening? You can be fined for it. That environmentalists push for it. That the favorite blame game is "Monsanto". That the brainchild was the environmentalism of the 70's and 80's, and is such a bad problem that provinces and states now actively encourage planting it. Want to bury your head in the sand? Feel free. The reality is far different, and is probably one of the best examples of environmentalism running amok to the point where it actively damages the environment. Hell if you dig hard through provincial records for example here in Ontario from the 1980's you can find environmental groups actively pushing for the use of broad-spectrum herbicides in order to control particular plant species and stating that the destruction and loss of native species outweighs the bad in controlling others.

Since you said most of NA, please list a few examples.

This isn't new news. Neither are the fines.

Christ, gas prices are only $1.115 compared to the Canadian average of $1.1375 or the $1.35+ that we're paying here on the west coast where we have to depend on Canadian oil refined by the Americans.
Electricity prices don't look bad either if you ignore the peak price from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, only 8.7 cents a kW/hr during off-peak, it's 8.29 cents for the first 1350 kW/hrs here and then 12.43 cents compared to 13.5 cents mid peak there. Off course BC Hydro has gone $5 billion (soon to be $10 billion) in debt to keep our prices so low without any alternative energy sources coming on-line, most of the cost increases has been to subsidize the natural gas industry so I guess that is a good reason to have high prices.
Of course most other stuff is also cheaper in Ontario, I understand you can buy a small house for less then $2 million and the minimum wage is also higher.
At least you're not as much as cry babies as the Albertans, who almost have to pay slightly over $1.10 a litre for gas while they pass on costs to us. (too lazy to look at their electricity prices on my dial-up internet connection)

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Christ, gas prices are only $1.115 compared to the Canadian average of $1.1375 or the $1.35+ that we're paying here on the west coast where we have to depend on Canadian oil refined by the Americans.
Electricity prices don't look bad either if you ignore the peak price from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, only 8.7 cents a kW/hr during off-peak, it's 8.29 cents for the first 1350 kW/hrs here and then 12.43 cents compared to 13.5 cents mid peak there. Off course BC Hydro has gone $5 billion (soon to be $10 billion) in debt to keep our prices so low without any alternative energy sources coming on-line, most of the cost increases has been to subsidize the natural gas industry so I guess that is a good reason to have high prices.
Of course most other stuff is also cheaper in Ontario, I understand you can buy a small house for less then $2 million and the minimum wage is also higher.
At least you're not as much as cry babies as the Albertans, who almost have to pay slightly over $1.10 a litre for gas while they pass on costs to us. (too lazy to look at their electricity prices on my dial-up internet connection)

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Christ, gas prices are only $1.115 compared to the Canadian average of $1.1375 or the $1.35+ that we're paying here on the west coast where we have to depend on Canadian oil refined by the Americans.
Electricity prices don't look bad either if you ignore the peak price from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, only 8.7 cents a kW/hr during off-peak, it's 8.29 cents for the first 1350 kW/hrs here and then 12.43 cents compared to 13.5 cents mid peak there. Off course BC Hydro has gone $5 billion (soon to be $10 billion) in debt to keep our prices so low without any alternative energy sources coming on-line, most of the cost increases has been to subsidize the natural gas industry so I guess that is a good reason to have high prices.
Of course most other stuff is also cheaper in Ontario, I understand you can buy a small house for less then $2 million and the minimum wage is also higher.
At least you're not as much as cry babies as the Albertans, who almost have to pay slightly over $1.10 a litre for gas while they pass on costs to us. (too lazy to look at their electricity prices on my dial-up internet connection)

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The google query libreoffice "smart quotes" leads to a page that says To turn off smart quotes in Libre Office Writer, so that the double quote character is shown in the document as ” — exactly as you typed it — and doesn’t get converted into something curly with the " converted into a right curly quote. And google chooses that for the "snippet" result. Confirmed that my quotes are 0x22, just as I typed them.

Which one? There are dozens. They all find the same thing. There is a strong consensus. Regardless of the method. Some look at the literature. Some survey scientists. All find a strong consensus This result is not surprising in the least for anyone who has reviewed the literature.

Water vapor amplifies warming

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Time to break out the popcorn, sit back, and watch the fun on Lombard Street

Well, according to Environmental Change in Siberia: Earth Observation, Field Studies and Modelling, parts of Siberia were already seeing temperature increases in the 3 - 10 degree C range in Winter by the year 2000 (page 68, I think), that's higher than the thermal maximum indicated by your link and, of course, global temperature have continued to rise since then.

So, the answer to your question might be that the methane could be released now because the areas where the methane is stored could already be warmer and they are likely to continue to warm.

They've been beating this dead horse for YEARS. Where is the end product? Why isn't it available?

Have you even tried looking? It sounds like you spent those years complaining on the internet instead of actually learning about the topic or progress.

Hillary absolutely did not lose because of WikiLeaks. Only right-leaning news sites covered WikiLeaks-leaks.

Complete rubbish as any fool can see

Isn't the network. https://www.google.ca/amp/www....

This imperial measurement system really ties me in knots

Google to the rescue

Yeah, and you're the type of person who'd say that there are no connections when 10+ outlets suddenly all come out yesterday with exactly the same talking points about Pence and his non-2020 campaign. Or that 90% of beltway reporters either vote democrat or are registered democrats, or that 80% or so of reporters in general are democrats. Even when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. There might be right-wing talking points, but there sure is a democrat echo chamber.

E-waste is not landfilled in China. They salvage all the metals by molten salt immersive extraction. The copper and aluminium are too valuable to throw away.

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Here is a google search for "car fires". Thousands of pictures of gasoline cars on fire. Here is another search for "Lamborghini Fires". There are many. How many recent Tesla fires can you mention? I'll bet is is approximately two. And yet they are reported ad nauseum. And filthy trolls like you act as if they happen all the time. They don't.

Here is a google search for "car fires". Thousands of pictures of gasoline cars on fire. Here is another search for "Lamborghini Fires". There are many. How many recent Tesla fires can you mention? I'll bet is is approximately two. And yet they are reported ad nauseum. And filthy trolls like you act as if they happen all the time. They don't.

The point of the "vans" isn't to catch people but to intimidate people into getting a license.

This is the right answer.

The Beeb has had "TV detector vans" for generations, now, and they haven't had a single conviction of license evading solely through detector van evidence.

products: https://www.google.ca/#q=rfid+...

QED.

According to the statistics available here, https://www.google.ca/intl/en/... IPv6 is well on it's way.

Eleven percent adoption hardly constitutes "well on its way", it's more like "finally getting some traction". In the sense of resource wastage and slow adoption, there is no question at this point that IPv6 is one of the great failures of technology history. While IPv6 did not die, what it has failed to do is replace IPv4, and at this point, it quite possibly never will. If IPv6 had been well designed it would be handling 90% of internet traffic long ago and IPv4 would be well on its way to being as dead as DOS.

I would not discount the possibility of a properly backward compatible variant of IPv4 emerging, to address the very real needs of popular web servers that have no economically viable choice other than maintaining compatibility with IPv4 far into the future.

You should post this one more time. Maybe the third-time's-the-charm. According to the statistics available here, https://www.google.ca/intl/en/... IPv6 is well on it's way.

These are cars: https://www.google.ca/search?q...
These are aircraft: https://www.google.ca/search?q...
These are flying car: https://www.google.ca/search?q...

If you are still confused, here's some definitions.
Car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.oxforddictionaries.... http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.oxforddictionaries.... http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Flying car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I fail to see where the term 'car' is being used to refer to something that flies.

These are cars: https://www.google.ca/search?q...
These are aircraft: https://www.google.ca/search?q...
These are flying car: https://www.google.ca/search?q...

If you are still confused, here's some definitions.
Car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.oxforddictionaries.... http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.oxforddictionaries.... http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Flying car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I fail to see where the term 'car' is being used to refer to something that flies.

These are cars: https://www.google.ca/search?q...
These are aircraft: https://www.google.ca/search?q...
These are flying car: https://www.google.ca/search?q...

If you are still confused, here's some definitions.
Car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.oxforddictionaries.... http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... http://www.oxforddictionaries.... http://www.merriam-webster.com...
Flying car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I fail to see where the term 'car' is being used to refer to something that flies.

Electric cars are cheaper to produce? Why do they cost more then?

See "inherently" above, because of vastly fewer moving parts. Current pricing is mostly about the battery pack, cost of which is falling rapidly. The other big component is the current boutique nature of the market, a chicken/egg thing, but we are already past the tipping point of that.

I'm wondering why I don't see any electric F250s either?

Several factors: price, power density, conservative demographic, lack of charging stations in the woods for those vehicles that actually get out there. This segment will lag but will eventually yield when electric trucks start outperforming gas ones at similar price points. Obviously, truck owners tend not to care much about the clean air argument, but they do care about watching taillights. Electric dragsters are already a thing.

I see Chrysler Fiat has a new minivan coming that will go 30 miles on an electric charge. NOT 300 but 30. It's a hybrid for obvious reasons so it'll have a high carbon footprint. I too think electric vehicles will one day rule but not in a decade.

I think your next car will be at least a hybrid, am I right? I'm pretty sure I will never buy another gas-only vehicle new.

No way, probably not even two decades. Battery improvements are small and incremental and costs are still way high.

Battery cost improvements are dramatic. Energy density improvements are indeed incremental, but it is a safe bet that lithium-air technology will reach commercial production well within ten years. The commercial incentives for it are huge.

When I can buy a car for 30 grand that will travel 300 miles on a charge and recharge in 20 minutes I'll damn sure get it. One caveat, it has to be big enough for my 6 foot frame.

You will see that within five years, not ten. Currently, Tesla talks about 270km charge in 30 minutes.

My understanding is that corporate balance sheets include anything that isn't a business-related asset in "cash".

That is not quite correct. Here is a quick way to get at Google's balance sheet. As of April 31, Google has about $75 million in cash, cash equivalents, and short term investments (US GAAP - will expire, mature, or be sold within one year). Bean counters commonly refer to those three together as "cash". This article has used that shorthand, but reported the cash from December 31 of last year.

One counter-example to a non-business asset outside the "cash" umbrella is long term investments.

What are you taking about? The technical impossibility of having a master key for all encrypted data aside, where is this paranoia coming from? I can only assume from the hyperbole surrounding the recently proposed Compliance with Court Orders Act. I've linked it so you can actually read it. It's not long. You'll quickly notice there's nothing in there explicitly defining the type of thing you're talking about. Some people are concerned with some of the language being used and what it may imply, but this is why bills have drafts.

I really fear for a generation that reads highly opinionated editorials (the only type of "news" that exists anymore) and takes it as fact without verifying anything.

Please show me where methane is much less of an effect than CO2.

Methane has about 28 times the global warming potential. The rest of what you've said is conspiracy nuttery though. "Once in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide can continue to affect climate for thousands of years. Methane, by contrast, is mostly removed from the atmosphere by chemical reaction, persisting for about 12 years. Thus although methane is a potent greenhouse gas, its effect is relatively short-lived." Even still, CH4 is hardly ignored.

By the way, guess which one of us this scientist is backing on our global warming bet. You may be surprised!

Really?

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I'll assume it's the user data encryption you have a problem with. Here's Apple's own law enforcement guidelines. Pay specific attention to section I where they talk about how they can easily provide user data (sms, photos, videos, et al.) to law enforcement on request and other unencrypted data for any phone running ios 7 or older. Nobody knows exactly what Apple is doing but it's clear from their own documentation that they were easily able to access user data from locked phones up until 2015. This means it was either unencrypted, or encrypted in a way that is compromised, which is effectively unencrypted.

So I'd encourage you to challenge your pre-formed opinions more and read on, you'll certainly learn more. Or remain gleefully ignorant if you wish. I find Apple customers are typically extraordinarily obtuse due to the price of their products causing a very high level of post purchase rationalisation.

I assumed this was a joke, but apparently it's a pretty common thing for kids to do.

Yep, did it myself. Didn't get the white field of vision, just the smell of ozone, a clenched jaw, and a bit embarrassed. But I used to intentionally shock myself with 110 volt AC when I was a kid so maybe I built up a little bit of tolerance (like Gomez Adams). Parents had a console TV that had enough room for my foot to fit under it, and it had a wire mesh to protect its electronics that had a hole in it about the size of a kids big toe. Evidently the screen was grounded and my toe just reached a hot wire. First time was quite the shock, but after that it was kind of a Russian roulette thing I would do when I was bored.

It really is amazing that I made it to adulthood.

I assumed this was a joke, but apparently it's a pretty common thing for kids to do.

While atmosphere isn't the most accurate way of describing the outer layers of a star, it seems reasonable to use it when describing the phenomena of a stars outer layers to laymen. I can't remember how deeply we went into the proper names for the various layers of stars in school, but I think it mostly consisted of descriptions of eclipses, coronas and such.
Perhaps your education didn't teach you that oxygen comes after helium and before neon in the layers of a large star, which of course leads to the possibility of the outer layers getting blown off, leaving a star with an oxygen outer layer?
A quick Google does show that most all sites describe it as an oxygen atmosphere so it's not just slashdot.
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If you're talking about a coffee machine that can smile, engage in light pleasantries and bring the coffee to your table, it's gonna cost plenty.

- I don't think it will cost that much, there are already restaurants using robots today, not a big deal.

But they fail to show why this is desirable

- you are telling me you read Hayek (this for example?) and it did not click why it is desirable to avoid fascism or any other form of collectivism by ensuring free market capitalism?

To me individual freedom is intrinsically valuable in its own right, YMMV.

If your goals require the means that reduce my individual freedom then by their very definition those are not my goals. I do not buy that all of the goals you mentioned require reduction of my individual freedom, maybe you should question why is that you believe that it is necessary to reduce individual freedom to achieve your goals?

a) Maximization of local exchange so as to empower communities and their unique cultural characteristics, including architectural traditions;

- why is that desirable? I don't see it as a goal that is worth losing individual freedom over but also I don't see why this goal requires reduction of individual freedom.

b) Maximization of work security so that the vast majority of individuals can comfortably keep living in the same region for their entire lives

- Same exact question and point. Beyond that, I don't see why we need to ensure that majority of individuals can comfortably keep living in the same region for their entire lives.

Is the Universe going to help you to live within one spot your entire life comfortably? Why do you think that? I think the Universe will kill you and not worry about this minutia. I think that it is undesirable for the species to get comfortable for their entire lives and live in the same place their entire life comfortably. But I would not put my goals over somebody's freedom.

, so as to also maximally preserve face-to-face interactions between long time friends, family members and acquaintances;

- why does this matter at all? I don't think there is any reason why should anybody's freedom be impeded to achieve this very questionable goal.

c) Maximization of the physiological and safety levels of Maslow's hierarchy, while still providing for the effectuation of higher levels;

- this is something that is done by creating a wealthy society in the first place. USA used to be a wealthy society, today China is basically that society, not USA because in China individual freedoms related to running a business increased and in the USA they decreased.

d) Maximization of psychological comfort by means of reducing the distance between the higher level and lower levels of individual wealth to a maximum difference of 30 times (the poorest individual earns at a minimum 1/30 of what the wealthiest earns), which fits withing our tribal, hunter-gatherer evolutionary framework.

- WTF? WTF? What is this strange arbitrary goal of yours that most definitely requires destruction of individual freedom? Yeah, let's make everybody equal and equally poor, because that's the only thing you can achieve by setting a standard on maximum and minimum earnings. Let's not let individual people pool capital to the best of their ability, because somehow the capital will be pooled without individuals doing it?

Governments do not create wealth, they take it from some to redistribute to others. By setting goals like the above, putting some strange cap on what an individual can pool as his own capital you are setting amazing barriers to the actual ability of the human species to survive in this Universe by using pooled capital to engage in risky enterprises - trying to make more money by trying the previously unknown. Whether survival of the species this is a goal worth working towards is also questionable, but at least it's not self destructing.

That is on paper. In practice government are dissolve and formed with accord of the Lt. governor which is a surrogate for the Queen.

We, subject of her Majesty, do not have the right to life unlike free citizens. We are prohibited from using even the most basic tools to protect our life. The reason being that a thug life has the same value as your, therefore it do not matter to her Majesty which one of you die during the confrontation. All subjects are equally disposable under the law.

Also ownership of firearms, might allow the peasants to revolt. And we can't have that.