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I have heard of job applications being initially selected in a similar manner. This page from a book claims that such a thing is true. https://books.google.co.nz/boo...

Fat people are ugly: For Example.

She is fat. Her height makes it more apparent.

Yeah -- Verity Stob talks about Microsoft API du jour , a turn of phrase that I think describes it well.

Or the March 2003 issue of Dr Dobb's Journal, (parodying MSDN journal), in her article, "We Don't Guarantee That Using The Latest .NET XML Windows API Feature Can Metaphorical Speaking Put Bounce In Your Boobs And/Or Hairs On Your Chest (Delete As Applicable) But By Golly We Find It Extremely Hard To Imagine Circumstance Under Which This Will Not Follow As Naturally As Night Follows Day", she wrote:

Isn't it amazing to think that, from our current vantage point of <note to editor:insert publication date here>, it was just five years ago, we were using obsolete technology. The technology of five years ago, though warm glowing [...] it nonetheless suffered from one or two disadvantages, letting a little hint of doubt creep in.

(If you haven't read her work, you are missing out. Big time. Easily the most amusing software-development columnist - bar absolutely none.)

In other words, Microsoft never commit to anything. They never, ever, have. And that's why none of their products is ever quite finished - the number of times I've seen Microsoft go 90% of the way for some great idea, do all the hard part, and then miss off the final 5% that renders the whole lot totally worthless (or at least, incredibly difficult to use) never ceases to amaze me. (Transactional NTFS? AzMan authorization manager? The list goes on.) And when they do produce something, it's stupidly overengineered to handle every possible conceivable thing that could be seen anywhere in "The Enterprise" in an extremely abstraction fashion, (e.g., WCF) which means it's incredibly difficult to get anything actually working. Except, for some reason, your not-trivial-but-not-especially-arcane real-world scenario somehow didn't quite make it in (what, disconnected objects in the first versions of the entity framework?)..

Yeeep.

Nobody is saying we should impose equality on everybody, (straw-man anyone?) But there is a spectrum here, ranging from everybody is equal, no matter how skilled or lazy they are, right through to the rich get to set the laws, put their money in tax havens, get all the resources, and the poor are just left to die.

I am personally for a system, of fairness, where there is a reasonable chance if you work hard, you have a chance to succeed. Of course it can't be totally fair because that would be impossible to enforce, but it can be fairer than it is now.

I see the system, that is currently in the US as far to much side of, if you are rich you get what you want. Political influence can openly be bought. The wealthy do move their money around to pay less tax as a portion of their wealth.

Slaves are not free or equal.

As for health their have been studies that show the more equal a society is (probably to a point) the healthier, happier they are, even the rich are sightly better off.

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The Wikipedia article references this book as a source for the claim that the copyrights were not renewed.

But if you really want to prove it, you'd have to find the original copyright filings by Paramount, point to the expiry date, and then challenge the other party to produce a renewal application.

https://www.google.co.nz/searc... And as I mentioned elsewhere, a warm day can warp and bend steel to the point it "collapses" so "melt" is not required for structural failure. Anyone who claims that is lying.

I thought the reason railway tracks can buckle on hot weather is thermal expansion of the rail means it gets longer; but since it's held at both ends eventually by plates or welding, the internal expansion forces are then re-directed in a lateral direction causing it to bend outwards, hence the movement of the rails in an S motion.

Surely the temperature increase is too low for the steel to lose its strength ?

There was no need for high temperatures. The steel members are insulated because low temperatures (temperatures humans live at, even if a "hot day" for us) can "melt" steel. https://www.google.co.nz/searc... Warm days can bend thick and heavy steel. The airplane crash damaged the insulation on some steel members. And the length of the fire would have exceeded the insulation time for others. Insulation isn't a cooling system. Heat it long enough, and it will be as hot inside insulation as outside. A rise in temperature on one side more than another would have caused uneven expansion through heating that would have caused structural damage. And softening some, but not all, would have caused structural failure. The exact failure mode isn't known, because the exact conditions inside the fire isn't known. But the results of both are the same. Structural failure. All at "low temperatures", well below the supposedly cool temperatures jet fuel burns at in an open flame.

The heat from the fire is insufficient to make the molten piles of metal found. It's physically impossible. Idiots would take that as "proof" the fire was man-made. Non-idiots would mention that the potential energy stored by the building being tall would have had to be dissipated in some way, or it would have fallen to the core of the earth. Turns out the PE of the building was converted to KE as it fell, and that KE was converted to heat with the sudden stop at the end. It was the act of the falling of the building that melted the puddles of metal, not the fire. Human brains don't work well at extremes. We interpolate well, but extrapolate poorly. One of the tallest buildings on the planet falling is outside "common sense". So anyone who appeals to it as a reason for why or how has proven (to me) that they are wrong.

https://www.google.co.nz/searc... And as I mentioned elsewhere, a warm day can warp and bend steel to the point it "collapses" so "melt" is not required for structural failure. Anyone who claims that is lying.

It didn't and nobody ever said it did. https://www.google.co.nz/searc... A warm day can bend and warp steel, and you are claiming that a burning office building filled with jet fuel can't bend or warp steel? "melt" isn't necessary to structurally compromise something.

Those comments are wrong, https://www.google.co.nz/searc... The US has no control over most of the World's oceans, so it's policies on finning are irrelevant. Shark's Fin soup has not become less popular in China, but more, it's a status symbol, and as the Chinese middle class grows, so does the demand.

This is unfortunately a very widespread misunderstanding, but placebos are not harmless, even if they "work". They are positively harmful in cases where better-than-placebo interventions exist for life-threatening conditions.

So the placebo is harmless in all cases, and the only "harm" that may occur is someone not selecting the optimal treatment, but that's true of all treatments, not just placebos, and placebos cause no harm themselves, but delays in treatments may cause harm.

Your linguistic inaccuracy makes you 100% wrong.

.... they also want their internet money too?? Internet Money

And to counter the Fed's stupidity, here is a link to a book that basically contains all the physics you need to know to get started on building your very own hydrogen bomb (written by a former Soviet hydrogen bomb designer, no less - I have no idea how the Soviets let him publish this stuff): http://books.google.co.nz/book...

(And if you're not sure about my claim, just ask, I'll gladly explain.)

Because the real answer is 6.697231e+152

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Others offset it by mining user data and charging companies to target ads to their users

Just because you pay doesn't guarantee anything:

Samsung:http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/11/8017771/samsung-smart-tvs-inserting-unwanted-ads, http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa...

My paid for virus checker, bitdefender pops up adds for me to buy the latest version (before my subscription is up), interrupting games.

By a dvd, go to the movies, have to watch advertisements.

People will try to extract as much money out of you as they can, that is what capitalism is all about, just because you have paid doesn't stop or even encourage them to stop making money out of you in as many ways as they possibly can. I fact I feel it is sometimes the opposite, the more you pay the more they want.

I had a condo in Dallas, 5100 Verde Valley Ln. They were sold as condos. Marketed as condos. It was a 2-storey unit with nobody below or above, and only one shared wall. I had a patch or dirt in the back that was mine, all mine. Doing a quick search, I see them listed even today, years later, as condos, not townhouses. http://www.neighborhoodlink.co...

Even searching on townhomes https://www.google.co.nz/searc... comes up with them listed as condos multiple times, but never as townhomes.

In Washington D.C. a "townhome" is a 3-story house that shares 1-2 side walls with neighbors. I haven't tried to buy one, but looking at the real estate listings, they aren't part of HOAs and such, but I imagine they are restricted or historical or something, and you can't just go ripping down your place, as it would take the walls off your neighbors. So I recognize that the definitions may be regional. I'm just sharing how it was used where I grew up.

can't use a protective case.

lots of cases

can't be held on both sides

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even easier to crack the screen on than a regular smartphone

A lie to go with the other lies you gave.

Why are you bashing something for being different? None of your complaints are even valid, 2/3 disprovable with simple searches.

Here's a citation for you...

So, if you don't like the current definition of a word, then it's everyone else that's using it wrong? That's not how language works. https://www.google.co.nz/searc...

Pick your favorite definition, and let me know which it is. Most I saw implied a frivolity.

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They're the first hit for me (their Yelp page is anyway...)

Don't forget about these

ISIS is killing a CPR DOLL!

Santa Claus does not exist any more.
The SWAT team shot him in the head

It's common practise and it works

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Or does a Microsoft and discriminates based on the colour of your skin.

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The worst thing that can happen to an infotainment system is it can mess with the CAN bus...
If it's a malfunction, all that's going to happen is the car goes in to 'limp home' mode because the other systems can't communicate on the bus.

If it's malicious, that's another story...

The cycle lane next to the road is as wide as a lane on the road. Almost as wide as two lanes in some places.
https://www.google.co.nz/maps/...

The big concrete lane on the south side of the road is a cycle lane.
There the road goes under that rail bridge, there is almost no shoulder for cyclist to ride on. A little bit further south is a set of traffic lights, just after the lights there is no shoulder. That's where Lycra pants cyclists love to pass all the cars at the red light and stop them from passing when the light turns green.

Up until around a year or so ago, this was a 100kph road.

Maybe diagrams of simple machines as well - screws, levers, gears, pulleys, water filters, treadle pumps, magnifying lenses, rocket stoves, etc. The sort of devices that are mostly easy to build and obviously useful, and will free up leisure time for a person just barely scraping by who can then focus more energy on further development.

Yes, because being "set back' 200 years will make us forget things first documented by the Greeks (yes, in writing, not hard drives). https://www.google.co.nz/url?s... There are print outs of the workings of Lever, Wheel and axle, Pulley, Inclined plane, Wedge, and the Screw around, most of those simple machines documented since the Greeks, with them formally described as the "basic" machines since about 500 years ago (and currently taught in schools starting at age 6, so make sure your "reset" wipes out the adults, or at least their minds). So I'm not sure how your magical 200 year reset would eliminate those. Not to mention the millions of people that know the list, and could teach them to the children.

Mechanical engines have been around for thousands of years. They just looked different when it was a water wheel or ox providing the force, as opposed to fire (whether IC or steam-powered).

At best a 2000 year reset would land us in steampunk land. Where we know what the future "should" look like, but lack some of the metallurgy and machinework skills to build it yet, and have to settle for ballloons instead of airplanes, and steam-powered everything.

Even computers are only ~50 years old. Tell us what your "reset" is. Terrorists getting a hold of 100+ nukes (all with ICBM launchers), and they detonate enough nukes in low orbit to EMP everything on the ground and in space? We'd be back to the 1960s or so. And we'd get to keep everything we know about everything, so long as someone knows it and passes it along. There is no conceivable way to "set us back 200 years" Cartridged firearms and DNA are orthoginal, and there's no way to forget one in a manner that requires forgetting the other. Your "event" would have to wipe the minds of everyone. If that happened, what would we care how the result would look, The person we are today would be dead, even if the body continued breathing. Even something that killed adults wouldn't work. My children have drawn DNA and know about genetics and evolution, and they know it before school age, but if you killed off everyone over 4 to prevent the transmission of that knowledge, the remaining children would have trouble surviving to adulthood.

So your premise is so absurd that any conclusion drawn from it must necessarily be no less absurd.

so uh, get this you get the the light as it changes to red. it stays red for 3-4min. absolutely no one goes through the intersection. your only option is to make a left hand turn (new zealand here, we drive on the left) the oncoming road is oneway. multiple lanes of non existent traffic to your left and right. the windows are down and all you can hear is your engine and the chirping of cicadas https://www.google.co.nz/maps/preview#!q=242+Moorhouse+Ave%2C+Waltham+8011&data=!1m4!1m3!1d1023!2d172.6338703!3d-43.5401286!2m1!1e3!4m15!2m14!1m13!1s0x6d318a113bcffa37%3A0xaf1fe118d9cae3d1!3m8!1m3!1d372!2d172.6335436!3d-43.5403895!3m2!1i1680!2i950!4f35!4m2!3d-43.5401286!4d172.6338703&fid=7 this intersection when traveling north

My reference is sitting in a parking building right now.

Try this https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=ej20+piston+slap&oq=ej20+piston+slap

http://nz.bing.com/search?q=update+java&go=&qs=n&form=QBLH&filt=all&pq=update+java&sc=8-11&sp=-1&sk= vs https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=update+java&oq=update+java now which one would you send your parents to?

In New Zealand the game is known as Brain Fade.

Perhaps because shuttered is the correct word

Here's a recent real world example: http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=novopay
Over budget, riddled with bugs, costing millions to fix, costing millions to run...

Dali, sure. And that's some pretty epic wallpaper. If I had that behind all my windows I'd probably be angry most of the time :)

Check this guy out. And keep in mind that these are oil paintings usually about two meters across. Unfortunately none of his most dramatic paintings are in the US, as far as I know, so you'd have to head on over to the Tate Britain to see them. They are pretty epic though.

Mobile phone networks typically use ALOHA, which fails utterly under heavy loads. It ain't a long queue, it's three stooges syndrome.

Sorry, wrong link, this is the one I meant...

Slightly south there are similar "roads", this one has various aircraft clearly placed all over it. So I'd assume bombing or aerial/satellite photography practice targets to simulate an airfield as you suggest.

If you refuse, they can hold you as you are on their property,

Really? They can hold you? Wouldn't that be unlawful imprisonment, or something equally illegal. I'm pretty sure they can't even take your camera off you, or compel you to delete the photos. They can certainly chuck you out, but I'm almost certain that's all

Of course for most works of art, photos are available online. So all you have to do is a web search.

For instance

By the way, as an aside, I was in the Chicago Art Institute last year and everyone was taking photos. In my opinion this harmed the quality of the experience of looking at the art (which was to the photos as a man is to his shadow).

They're way over that. Their yearly downtime would have to be 5 minutes or less according to Google

We certainly had dealerships in the Arctic circle as we were the effective equivalent of the local car dealership up there (and Canada).

Odd, a search for Polaris dealerships didn't show any above the arctic circle.

https://maps.google.co.nz/maps?hl=en&client=opera&channel=suggest&ie=UTF-8&q=polaris++dealers+alaska&fb=1&gl=nz&hq=polaris+dealers&hnear=0x5400df9cc0aec01b:0xbcdb5e27a98adb35,Alaska,+USA&ei=lmwgUNruK4iIrAfB_oGgCw&ved=0CLcBELYD

But then, places like AC sell ATVs without being "dealers", as far as I can tell. Though I looked them up and didn't see any Polaris there. Many would buy them in the cities (Anchorage) and have them shipped out on the annual barge.

Facebook isn't doing the oilfield type of conditions, they are shipping equipment down a highway to a heated data center which is very different from the conditions you describe.

Yeah, Facebook is doing the equivalent of wrapping their servers in a batttery-powered electric blanket for the trip from the car to the 5-star hotel. Oh woe is them.

Pocketed by the greedy corporation that made a loss of $1,700,000,000 in just 3 months. source

Disclaimer: I have no experience in this situation this is just my take on this so take with lots of salt (well.. try and keep it under 1500ml if you are watching your sodium.. )

Metric fail, 1500mL is 1.5 Liters and almost certainly toxic if only as a descicant: http://www.google.co.nz/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&site=&q=1500mL+in+liters&pbx=1&oq=1500mL+in+liters

The best take on this was from Verity Stobb; characterising this as the 'API du jour'.

You can't /. Google, and it looks like you can't Google /. either. :)

Question to the knowledgeable: Is there any chance at all of seeing anything from here in New Zealand?

I spent some time in NZ on the first LOTRs movie and I think you have a fair chance of seeing Peter jackson walking around bare foot. Other than that I wouldn't hold my breath. Also full moons tend to occur down there each Saturday night. Just hang outside the local pub and I'm sure you'll see one or even two or more.

Question to the knowledgeable: Is there any chance at all of seeing anything from here in New Zealand?

My wife has been accepted to Vet School in Ireland. Not only does that not allow me to live in Ireland with her, I'm also unable to work without 'sponsorship'. While I've had plenty of interest, as soon as I mention my inability to work without sponsorship, they drop me like a bad habit. (...) My citizenship status makes it very difficult to find a job in Dublin.

Karma is a bitch. :)

The Manapouri station is built in a National Park, there was initially talk of raising the water level, flooding several tiny islands, but "those damn greenies" as you might exclaim stopped the artificial "raising of the lake", thank goodness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manapouri_Hydroelectric_Power_Station

Tourism company offering popular tours of the underground plant, you take the boat ride over the lake, disembark at the tourist centre outside the power station, board the bus and drive down "inside the mountain" to the machine hall, carved from the rock, surrounded by lime deposits and the lovely dripping of water. Its like being in a cave... and then you go through a door and see the giant turbines providing efficient, "free" power to modern industry.

http://www.realjourneys.co.nz/Main/Powerstation/

Google Images

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=manapouri+power+station&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=teY&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&prmd=ivnsm&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=j_ujTfq6MpLcvQPDvJmLCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CA0Q_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=594

It really is a wonder to behold, I've been through the plant at least...four times? I've stood inside the second tunnel, before it was flooded for operation. I love it.

Coal is indeed the primary source for electricity worldwide, and its a bloody disgrace. I would personally not want to live in a nation reliant on coal, it would be abhorrent to me, perhaps to all who have lived in efficient countries without its disgrace.

As someone who respects all animal life, I too would advise against killing other animals for our pleasure, and not just because "eating their flesh gives you cancer!", or scares of mercury.

I'm all for a diversity of power sources, I'd stand behind my nations renewable sources anyday, hydro, windpower, perhaps offshore wave generators, we're getting out there and MAKING it happen.

The thought of using coal or Nuclear would be absolutely terrible to most NZers, it would be like "would you like a tiny dick or a big dick", it would be something to be ashamed of. We see our national image as "clean and green", its how our country is promoted, its in our national image and self esteem.

I eagerly look forward to future developments along a clean, renewable, efficient path.