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Because you're reminding me of this. And Honey, I just want to give everybody health care.

As for Small Donations and Membership fees, does this count as a "small donation"? Because I think we're using different terms.

Furthermore, this is an area with an average of 1.25 miles between marked crosswalks. Are you saying you would have made the half-mile hike to the next crossing?

If you bothered to check, you would have seen that the place where it happened was about 300 feet from a crosswalk.

and everybody who runs as a Justice Democrat. They've all refused to accept corporate and PAC money. Why anyone would vote for a politician that won't pledge against corporate & PAC money is beyond me. I mean, in the General when it's too late, ok, but in your _primary_ and you're voting for politicians who openly admit to being bought? Why? Just Why?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...

Hey, porky/red tide. You are fucking LOADED with Virus. A large chunk of our DNA is nothing BUT VIRUS. The only reason that we know a number of the other virus is that they produce symptoms, such as sneezing, or death, so then we look for these virus.
Chances are good that you have Herpes and simply do not show it. Just like Genital warts. Heck, the vast majority of STI were asymptomatic (Im sure new ones have been discovered but they are likely asymptomatic, otherwise, you would hear about it in the press).

If Tesla is using these, they are in good company. Intel uses them too at their D1X fab.

Weird scenarios are very uncommon.

Here's a good start...

https://news.google.com/storie...

you mean the children of the politicians they bribed to get this approved I can't argue.

Seriously, we need to get people to stop voting for any politician who accepts money from corporations and/or PACs. It should be a litmus test. Why the hell would you vote for somebody who admits to bribes?

Assuming an average cost/revenue of $700, $6.7M USD is just above 9,500 iPhones.

Per Google search, they sell about 590 per MINUTE (4th quarter last year on average).

So that's about 16 minutes of sales:
https://www.google.com/search?...

They were probably laughing while lounging on their yachts that cost more than the settlement.

There was a number of open SMS gateways, completely free, unauthenticated and anonymous.

I just sent a text from https://voice.google.com/ and it worked fine. Not anonymous, but free SMS. I'm certain I'm missing something here.

https://translate.google.com/t...

https://translate.google.com/t...

about China. It's his usual shtick, but it dovetails into this nicely. China's expanding their reach economically. That's not necessarily a good thing. Towards the end of that video they make the point that European governments have stopped talking about the Chinese government's human rights abuses. Not that my government are saint's either. But at least they're getting called out on it without reprisal threats (that I know of to be fair).

Yes, most people don't have the ability to have their cellphone number be their GV number (I think Sprint is the only US operator that offers this.) So while you may receive text messages (and now MMS messages, that's been working for a while) via Hangouts for your GV number, texts sent to your regular cellphone number go to the Messages app and can't (until now?) be accessed via the web, unless your service provider offers the option.

That's what this fixes. It means you can text using your regular cellphone number via the web.

(Or supposedly can. I have the very latest version of Messages, launched it from the Play Store just to doubly make sure I'm using the right app, but don't see the menu option. The Play Store lists it as being updated two days ago, and doesn't list this feature, so I'm wondering if they just haven't pushed the update out yet.)

But for other systems with the feature Including Windows and Some Linux file managers, Do they handle it differently?

I was also wondering so looked into how Windows approaches working with thumbnails...

Basically, what it does is puts a thumbs.db database into EVERY directory it's creating thumbnails for. How does it work for a CD? Well it assumes that whoever created the CD will also generate the thumbs.db file there, if not and you have a lot of images be prepared to wait a while for thumb generation to seek all over the disc.

What this means to the end user is that every directory ends up with this thumbs.db file that potentially confuses them and takes up space, even long after they may be interested in viewing contents of that directory (unlike a cache directory that can be cleaned by the system).

Don't think it's confusing? Take a look at the results of this Google search...

^ THIS. OpenstreetMap does not provide the same quality of experience that Google does, so naturally it won't be used as much. Build something as good as what Google delivers, and the users will naturally come.

That's what seems to be doing. None of the Google competitors has real time traffic information however and I'll grant you that for people living in large cities this is a big issue (but not so much in the countryside).

If you want people to contribute their data (and time) en masse, you have to give them a high-quality mobile experience.

A lot of people seem to like the Maps.me interface. In fact I was telling a friend about how OpenStreetMap allowed people to have a GPS abroad even without a data connection and he told me he did not see the point since he just used Maps.me. Well, Maps.me uses OpenStreetMap. Duh!

And if you don't like Maps.me there's Osmand+ (also available in the Google Store), and plenty of others, including a lot for specialized uses such as hiking or cycling.

If you want people to contribute their data (and time) en masse, you have to give them a high-quality mobile experience.

A lot of people seem to like the Maps.me interface. In fact I was telling a friend about how OpenStreetMap allowed people to have a GPS abroad even without a data connection and he told me he did not see the point since he just used Maps.me. Well, Maps.me uses OpenStreetMap. Duh!

And if you don't like Maps.me there's Osmand+ (also available in the Google Store), and plenty of others, including a lot for specialized uses such as hiking or cycling.

If you want people to contribute their data (and time) en masse, you have to give them a high-quality mobile experience.

A lot of people seem to like the Maps.me interface. In fact I was telling a friend about how OpenStreetMap allowed people to have a GPS abroad even without a data connection and he told me he did not see the point since he just used Maps.me. Well, Maps.me uses OpenStreetMap. Duh!

And if you don't like Maps.me there's Osmand+ (also available in the Google Store), and plenty of others, including a lot for specialized uses such as hiking or cycling.

For example consider the problem of detecting bus stops. One user getting onto a bus, riding it to a stop, and getting off tells you nothing. You could tell that they transitioned from walking to riding at a point and back to walking at another point. But they could be getting into a car.

Or they could be using Jungle Bus and provide the name of the bus stop, the bus lines that stop there, whether there's a bench to sit, etc.

CROFLOL! See creimer mental abilities here:
https://groups.google.com/foru...

Read what Chris Reimer (cdreimer) wrote here:
https://groups.google.com/foru...

You are such a perfect miracle imbecile Chris!

I can't believe that you are actually imbecile enough to post this thread here. It makes you look like an even more imbecile fucktard yet.

As some have stated on that thread "dot is NOT an operator", you fucktard! Apperently, you did not read the thread yourself or more likely, your ameba brain reading comprehension doesn't allow you to understand its content.

It's like asking: What is the dot operator precedence in Linux Slackware 1.2.3? You can't daisy chain dot operators in Windows versions (e.g. 3.1, 3.11, etc.)

What is the precedence in the 2.5 IQ that you possess?

And if you ever asked about real operators the word is "Precedence" you fucktard!

Dots are not operators in ANY OOP language you silly fuck!

See java:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase...

For python, you could have googled it but no, you needed to grab the attention on that google group and didn't care that it made you look like a total fool.
http://reeborg.ca/docs/oop_py_...

See example in above link:
Fido.head.mouth.teeth.canine.hurts();
Other example:
Criemer.head.brain.isHurting(); This is always false because your head is empty you dumb fuck!

But Criemer.head.isEmpty() always returns true...

CROFLOL! See creimer mental abilities here:
https://groups.google.com/foru...

Read what Chris Reimer (cdreimer) wrote here:
https://groups.google.com/foru...

You are such a perfect miracle imbecile Chris!

I can't believe that you are actually imbecile enough to post this thread here. It makes you look like an even more imbecile fucktard yet.

As some have stated on that thread "dot is NOT an operator", you fucktard! Apperently, you did not read the thread yourself or more likely, your ameba brain reading comprehension doesn't allow you to understand its content.

It's like asking: What is the dot operator precedence in Linux Slackware 1.2.3? You can't daisy chain dot operators in Windows versions (e.g. 3.1, 3.11, etc.)

What is the precedence in the 2.5 IQ that you possess?

And if you ever asked about real operators the word is "Precedence" you fucktard!

Dots are not operators in ANY OOP language you silly fuck!

See java:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase...

For python, you could have googled it but no, you needed to grab the attention on that google group and didn't care that it made you look like a total fool.
http://reeborg.ca/docs/oop_py_...

See example in above link:
Fido.head.mouth.teeth.canine.hurts();
Other example:
Criemer.head.brain.isHurting(); This is always false because your head is empty you dumb fuck!

But Criemer.head.isEmpty() always returns true...

Ah, so slashdot breaks HTML links now too?
Let's try this again:


Why isn't it "Uk", then?

Why? Because you're American? The Guardian is a UK source, and they only capitalize (or capitalise) the first letter of the acronym, such as Nasa.

Why isn't it "Uk", then?

That was not the point, or was it?
Anyway, if your API is C, it is obviously not object oriented. So it is pointless most of the time anyway.
If you really need to call C++ from Java, there are old IBM projects, that generate the glue code for you (You can even subclass Java from C++ and other way around)
In modern times you probably would use https://code.google.com/archiv... or other JNA based approaches.

The iFont app in Google Play offers a font named "Armani."

I was able to use iFont to create an APK file of this font, which I pulled onto a Red Hat desktop. After running unzip on the APK, I found an "Armani.ttf" True Type font file.

The font viewer reports this to be Bauhaus ITC regular.

This is my favorite font, and I copied it over the Android default /system/fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf.

Supposedly, this typeface was obtained legally. I have had trouble with iFont in the past, so I don't install it anymore, but I have kept the exported typeface.

Who the hell _cares_?

Can we maybe talk about how Trump's administration is moving to end protections for pre-existing conditions? That's kinda big news if you're a human being with a body.

"Collusion isn't even illegal, so what if he colluded?" - Vlad Giuliani

"We'll stop it" - Vlad Strzok

And unlike your fantasy, that actually happened.

So GO FUCK YOURSELF, you shit-for-brains Russian oligarch->Uranium One->Clinton Foundation->paid-for-internet-troll.

Yea, you were seriously considering moving to Google Fiber huh?

I was when they were still expanding it.

How'd that work out?

For those that still have it, seemingly really well. After they canned expansion I decided it wasn't worth the effort to move over what seemed to be someone's 20% project they lost interest in.

But like I said, it is still working for the people that have it, and if I did have to move for some other reason I'd be taking a pretty strong look at this map to see if one of those areas was somewhere I could go...

Remember, it's not so much going TO Google/Alphabet as it is fleeing Comcast/AT&T.

Think it'd work out any better if Google had no competition whatsoever? You're a fool

If you DON'T think Google alone with no competition would still be better than Comcast or AT&T you are the fool, or are simply ignorant as to the many horrors that await the Comcast customer.

But we are not even talking about that, we are talking about Google buying just ONE of the major ISPs...

Whatcha smoking? California is losing households as more people move out every year than move in. You may be thinking that people being born and/or importing illegal immigrants are signs of a State being desirable compared to other States, but they aren't.

Utility is what you can use it for.

Value is what you can trade it for.

Money has no utility beyond it's value. People trade it for shit.

the dollar is tied to the utility of the full faith and credit of the United States

Ahhhh, the utility of "faith". Uh huh. ok, I can roll with that: Bitcoin is tied to the utility of the full faith of hard encryption and math. So far all the servers in the NSA, FBI, CIA, Amazon, and Google combined would still take millennia to crack hard encryption and thwart about $5 of electricity on commodity hardware. Maybe you can call that "Real Power", but I'd lean more towards REAL ULTIMATE POWER with ninjas and shit.

I've got a significant amount of faith that 1+1=2 and factoring large numbers is a bitch and a half.

to the supermarket

Not that Curiosity, their bigger nuclear-powered older bother, isn't doing well for itself either. It touched down in August 2012 and it's too still going despite an originally planned two year mission length. I'm interested to see if it'll last even longer or if the decay of it's Pu238-dioxide power source will be what keeps it from extending it's mission beyond the original goal by as much as Opportunity has.

The decay of Pu-238 will not be what limits the Curiosity mission. It has a half-life of 87.7 years. The RTG that uses that decay to produce electricity (and, perhaps more importantly at the moment, heat to keep the electronics happy) decays more quickly than that. But the Voyager probes still have enough electricity to communicate with earth forty years after launch.

The limiting factor for Curiosity will probably be its moving parts. Specifically, its drive motors and wheels. The wheels have taken quite a beating, and may eventually be so damaged that they can no longer provide adequate traction. The JPL guys are really clever, and can probably drive Curiosity even with the complete loss of one wheel.

But even if Curiosity stopped moving tomorrow, it would almost certainly still be useful for stationary science. It can continue to gather weather data (including measuring atmospheric methane, which hit the news recently), take pictures, shoot lasers, and sample rocks, probably for years. One of the Viking landers lasted 6 years on the surface, and that mission ended only after a bad software update.

https://cloud.google.com/text-...

I just played with it a bit and I agree, very impressive.

if you live in a cancer village.

Your freedom ends when it starts to hurt someone else. At that point regulation begins; with all it's complex trade offs. The GP was being provocative, but everything he said is reasonable. The goods Amazon is destroying were likely made by factories in China that pollute heavily and the destroyed goods will likely wind up in a landfill somewhere in Asia (probably Vietnam or India, China's cut the US off). People are going to die from that pollution. That's not idle speculation or me being a libtard jerk, it's just a fact.

Europe seems to be the only one trying to do anything about it. The Libertarians like you say you want to help but your polices never do. For all the effectiveness of the free market you'd might as well pray.

If you read the second of the links on the German language website (which you have to click through to get to-- should have been linked here but it wasn't), it makes exactly these points: the "Scandal" is mostly invented; Amazon doesn't destroy stuff it doesn't have to, and they go to some amount of effort to sell at lower cost, or donate, stuff that is returned but can't be resold "as new". https://www.wortfilter.de/wp/h... (translate: https://translate.google.com/t... )

I was trying to make a reference to https://www.google.com/search?...

I don't know how "U.S.ians" handle money. I knew they used to use checks a lot, but I half assumed they'd use "plastic" (credit/debit cards like VISA etc.) now.

Pictures: Glymur, Morsárfossar.

Glymur falls down into a slot canyon. Most people go along the top route, along a trail called Leggjabrjótur (literally "Broken Leg" - let's just say that you don't want to fall ;) ). The bottom route is spectacular but not really recommended. You have to wade through a freezing cold river, and there's a serious risk of falling rocks, which would be pretty much instant death given how far they're falling. Lots of dead birds usually floating around down there (they nest in the cliffs around the falls).

The story behind how it's created also relates to why so many things in the area begin with "Hval-" ("whale"). According to legend, a man met an elf woman, and ended up sleeping with her, with the promise that if a child resulted, he'd raise the child in the world of humans and have it baptized. Nine months later, he was at church, and a child was abandoned at the doorstep, with a note stating that the father of the child will have it baptized. The priest three times asked if anyone knew whose child it was, but he refused to speak up, despite knowing the truth. Enraged, the elf woman cast a curse on him, causing him to go mad and run off into the fjörd where he changed into a monstrous-sized red-headed whale (Rauðhöfði, "Redhead"), where he lived, destroying ships in his fury.

One day he destroyed a boat containing a sorcerer's son. To get revenge, the sorcerer himself sat out, and when the whale emerged, he enchanged him into going a mindless blind rage. The sorceror sailed to the bottom of the fjörd, pursued by the whale, and ran inland; the enraged whale chased after him, flopping across the surface and digging out what would become the river channel of Botnsá. The sorceror climbed up the nearby mountain (Hvalfell, Whale Mountain), and the whale slowly thrashed its way up the side, gouging out the canyon in which Glymur flows; Glymur means clanging, due to the noise of the whale's thrashing, and the ridge there is Skjálfandahæðir or the Shaking Heights. Exhausted and bashed up, the whale managed only to reach the lake Hvalvatn (Whale Lake) before dying in its centre.

This is of course a totally true story supported by modern science.

Pictures: Glymur, Morsárfossar.

Glymur falls down into a slot canyon. Most people go along the top route, along a trail called Leggjabrjótur (literally "Broken Leg" - let's just say that you don't want to fall ;) ). The bottom route is spectacular but not really recommended. You have to wade through a freezing cold river, and there's a serious risk of falling rocks, which would be pretty much instant death given how far they're falling. Lots of dead birds usually floating around down there (they nest in the cliffs around the falls).

The story behind how it's created also relates to why so many things in the area begin with "Hval-" ("whale"). According to legend, a man met an elf woman, and ended up sleeping with her, with the promise that if a child resulted, he'd raise the child in the world of humans and have it baptized. Nine months later, he was at church, and a child was abandoned at the doorstep, with a note stating that the father of the child will have it baptized. The priest three times asked if anyone knew whose child it was, but he refused to speak up, despite knowing the truth. Enraged, the elf woman cast a curse on him, causing him to go mad and run off into the fjörd where he changed into a monstrous-sized red-headed whale (Rauðhöfði, "Redhead"), where he lived, destroying ships in his fury.

One day he destroyed a boat containing a sorcerer's son. To get revenge, the sorcerer himself sat out, and when the whale emerged, he enchanged him into going a mindless blind rage. The sorceror sailed to the bottom of the fjörd, pursued by the whale, and ran inland; the enraged whale chased after him, flopping across the surface and digging out what would become the river channel of Botnsá. The sorceror climbed up the nearby mountain (Hvalfell, Whale Mountain), and the whale slowly thrashed its way up the side, gouging out the canyon in which Glymur flows; Glymur means clanging, due to the noise of the whale's thrashing, and the ridge there is Skjálfandahæðir or the Shaking Heights. Exhausted and bashed up, the whale managed only to reach the lake Hvalvatn (Whale Lake) before dying in its centre.

This is of course a totally true story supported by modern science.

in the stock market. And that includes retirement programs. The gig economy, outsourcing & offshoring eliminating middle class jobs and the constant assault on Unions means they have no opportunity and with most living paycheck to paycheck they have no opportunity to save.

And nobody's going to convince me that half Americans are just irresponsible spend thrifts or lazy bums; especially since Europe is having none of these problems. Even if they are, what the hell is wrong with our civilization if that's the case? I thought America was the greatest country on earth. God's country and all that rot. Bullshit. Something's wrong. Something outside our control. And let's face it, we know damn well what it is

in the stock market. And that includes retirement programs. The gig economy, outsourcing & offshoring eliminating middle class jobs and the constant assault on Unions means they have no opportunity and with most living paycheck to paycheck they have no opportunity to save.

And nobody's going to convince me that half Americans are just irresponsible spend thrifts or lazy bums; especially since Europe is having none of these problems. Even if they are, what the hell is wrong with our civilization if that's the case? I thought America was the greatest country on earth. God's country and all that rot. Bullshit. Something's wrong. Something outside our control. And let's face it, we know damn well what it is

in the stock market. And that includes retirement programs. The gig economy, outsourcing & offshoring eliminating middle class jobs and the constant assault on Unions means they have no opportunity and with most living paycheck to paycheck they have no opportunity to save.

And nobody's going to convince me that half Americans are just irresponsible spend thrifts or lazy bums; especially since Europe is having none of these problems. Even if they are, what the hell is wrong with our civilization if that's the case? I thought America was the greatest country on earth. God's country and all that rot. Bullshit. Something's wrong. Something outside our control. And let's face it, we know damn well what it is

Sure. This leads right to a bunch of links
Here is one that is not sensationalist about it.
Wiki
Basically, CHina COULD decide to clean up the oil that they burn in those ships, but, that would mean major cost increases for exports.
Instead, they use the cheapest, which means almost straight oil.

Not saying it definitely wasn't and can't say it definitely was, since none of us have all the information about the situation. I'm just saying that from my view, the gov't would have to be incredibly negligent with their most important secrets for this stuff to just be taken like this, and that really seems incredibly unlikely. After all, anyone who knows a little about security knows they should keep highly sensitive stuff like this heavily encrypted, offline, & with physical access very very limited. I'm sure the gov't & their contractors have good security experts working for them, considering the value of the secrets they're holding.

https://www.google.com/shoppin...

What greenies want coal converted to oil?
Oil has much heavier use than the rest so of course it is at top. However, coal can not be cleaned up and oil can be. Adding to the pollution, Coal produces the most CO2 even under the best of conditions.
This says checkmate
Top of the list shows why your nation burning 80% coal for electricity, looks so bad but the west does not. Even nations like Saudi Arabia that burn large amounts of oil for electricity, does not look like your nation.

You'd have fast food places offering $20/hr to flip burgers

Would you settle for chicken?

Skilled people can't find good enough jobs to have a place to live and still pay off student loans. Unskilled people don't just not learn, they also don't always try very hard. There is still a lot of underemployment, though.

And why are there (more than ever) unhoused people living in the streets which society has decided to take a giant dump on? Seattle which has a hot tech job market is befuddled with a growing number of unhoused jobless people living in tents on the sidewalks. Amazing.

The unemployed usually go where the jobs are, ridiculously increasing the unemployment and homeless numbers for that particular area. Some come hoping to find a toehold to a career, others come for any sort of employment, even in the secondary job market. But even the qualified might not get hired for whatever reason (gender, race, HR rules and regulations, history, etc.) Not to mention, some homeless have jobs, but just can't afford Seattle's high rent.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of the homeless are anarchic Utopians wanting to create a practical social/economic/ecological alternative to 'authoritarian' representative democracy. Like Europe's Autonomism movement or France's Collectif la vieille Valette.

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

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And why are there (more than ever) unhoused people living in the streets which society has decided to take a giant dump on? Seattle which has a hot tech job market is befuddled with a growing number of unhoused jobless people living in tents on the sidewalks. Amazing.

The unemployed usually go where the jobs are, ridiculously increasing the unemployment and homeless numbers for that particular area. Some come hoping to find a toehold to a career, others come for any sort of employment, even in the secondary job market. But even the qualified might not get hired for whatever reason (gender, race, HR rules and regulations, history, etc.) Not to mention, some homeless have jobs, but just can't afford Seattle's high rent.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of the homeless are anarchic Utopians wanting to create a practical social/economic/ecological alternative to 'authoritarian' representative democracy. Like Europe's Autonomism movement or France's Collectif la vieille Valette.

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

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