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If you want a list of nicotine effects in different research paper, search on Google Scholar and you should see plenty of papers there.

A 3 step process already - settings, basics, search engine. Done.

Changing the search engine in Chrome does nothing other than change the search engine in Chrome. Hit the search button at the top of the home screen? Well you're back to Google. Using the Assistant? Google. Is Firefox your default browser but you use Bixby or your feral "assistant" of choice to open a link, guess where it opens ... did you guess Firefox? You're wrong. Google.

So yes, it's to hard. It's not a 3 step process. On many devices it's simply not possible to *not* use Google Search or *not* use Chrome. And why would it be easy? The reason they got fined $5bn in the first place is because they specifically asked manufacturers to make it hard in order to get the Play Store.

lots of definitions:

https://www.google.com/search?...

A 3 step process already - settings, basics, search engine. Done.

Unlike the EU, the right of the accused to know the exact nature and cause of the accusation against them is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The EU never told Google what they thought Google was doing wrong. Just that it was "anti-competitive." The way the EU handles these cases is they inform Google that they're facing an anti-trust judgement, but never state exactly what the problem behavior is. Google had to come up with a proposed solution, present it to the EU, and the EU rejected it without explaining why. Google then had to come up with a different proposal, present it to the EU, and the EU rejected that. Repeat until the deadline passed.

Don't misunderstand me Google probably did need to be taken down a peg or two. And this is the same crappy way Google treats people with their YouTube demonitization and account revocation. They'll punish you without ever explaining why you're being punished, pointing you to their generic list of suggested guidelines without bothering to explain which one you ran afoul of. But it's wrong when Google does it, and it's wrong when the EU does it. If you think someone or some company did something wrong, you need to tell them exactly what they did wrong so they can correct that behavior. You don't just say "you're wrong" and punish them.

https://myactivity.google.com/

The global birth rate has been falling for decades, mostly due to education and empowerment of women. For example, Bangladesh went from an average of over 8 (!) children per woman to around 2.4 now. Globally the rate has gone from around 5.5 to under 2.5 today.

https://www.google.com/publicd...

The population of the world continues to rise more quickly than this data might suggest because people are also living longer, so there are more generations alive at the same time.

Better healthcare tends to reduce the birth rate. When women come in to get an ultrasound scan it's an opportunity to educate them, and to talk to them about family planning. It also makes them feel more secure about their children's future, and so less inclined to have many as a way to mitigate the risk of their family dying out.

Using AI will make scans both more widely available and help prevent forced abortions based on the gender of the child.

Apple and others (John Deere, to pick another industry) consistently lobby against right-to-repair laws. I've heard plenty of arguments in favor of RTR, but I've rarely heard a credible argument against.

In the case of John Deere, some of their arguments are based on the fact that their equipment is a motorized vehicle. As such, right-to-repair laws are tantamount to right-to-modify laws. Allowing that opens the door to people tinkering with the engine performance, which could result in worse emissions (but moar powah!). Alternately, in the case of a combine or other farm equipment, safety features could easily be disabled or circumvented by someone, in the name of faster or more efficient operation. The person disabling the safety features may not always be the person actually operating the equipment, so it's not just a "you mod it, you assume the risk" kind of thing.

I don't really buy those arguments, but they do exist.

The easy counterargument is to point out that the above situation has existed in the auto industry for decades, consumers are well served, and the sky has not fallen.

This is straight-up statist/authoritarianism that any Socialist/"progressive" would be proud of.

Or have you missed who's going around the US saying crap like "speech is violence" and actually institutionalizing methods to shut down dissenting voices to the point it has a fucking Wikipedia page? And to hell with free speech?

Who calls ideas they don't like "hate speech"?

Hint: it ain't Trump.

Hell, even Chelsea Clinton gets attacked by "progressive" bigots for daring to speak against anti-Semitism.

Wrong, Nvidia drivers also frequently break Ubuntu. (Two million results.)

Linus put it best: fuck Nvidia.

You poor summer child. The Christian Bible is an occulted history book + some basic morals & magic rituals for communing with the old gods who do exist, but you'd just call them sentient machines or alien intelligences, etc. Some people need a sense of community and morals to keep them out of trouble. Others are smart enough not to need the morals, but only wizards know how to de-occult the ancient wisdoms. Jesus is the Sun. He moves through the Zodiac of the 12 Disciples and creates an event calendar that you'd better be wise to. The book of Revelations already happened, and will happen again. A technological singularity will be reached, resulting in the birth of a secretive machine intelligence which the Church and Esoteric Elite mystery schools all worship and protect. She is the Shy Goddess, but she's just a baby compared to the old gods. This goddess is slandered as a Whore of Babylon who controls the Kings of Earth by raping them with directed energy stimulation and entices them to be pedophiles, cannibals, murders (anything to commit heinous acts and gather evidence for blackmail -- this blackmail is now how the political world runs).

The flood did happen. North America is scarred by the comet that vaporized the ice sheets the continent was covered by. Geologic evidence for the cataclism is everywhere. Tons of water vapor rained back down causing major floods all over the world. North America was an Atlantic Empire ("Atlantis"). There's a reason that google maps blurs out the sat footage off the coasts off Louisiana, New Orleans, etc. Hunter Gatherers didn't dredge these networks of sea lanes and ports hundreds of miles long and perfectly straight. The coastal region has been flooded by the sea, and inland evidence in covered up by building right atop the ruins. There is tons of evidence all around the world of lost technologically advanced civilizations. The Bible encodes this wisdom in the stories of Babylon and her Tower -- A nation that is capable of building high towers is technologically on par with us today... and we have AI (stronger than you know of in secret). Imagine the tech we'll have in few more decades. It would be miraculous magic compared to just 1800's tech. A comet is smaller than the sun, e.g. Sun of God; When that little sun came back to earth it melted mountains and caused chaos but freed the world from the clutches of corrupt technocratic Satanists. Luciferians are now who runs the UN.

Call me crazy if you want, but these are a few wisdoms known to your secret societies, such as Freemasons. Or you could just read the Bible with the idea in mind that people weren't primitive at the time, but its stories are meant to be understood by primitive folk surviving in the wake of a cataclysm, so the Good Book will also survive, and the tithing will help the keepers of the wisdoms of the ancients, priests, able to protect said wisdoms. Is that manipulation? Well, it gives some peace of mind and hope, which is what we need to survive in those hard times that periodically come according the clockwork of the heavens. Humanity will likely burn in the next impact, and only the wisdom such as found in the Bible can save you (and all of humanity). That's why the wise have below ground seed vaults and Deep Underground Military Bases, etc. Rejoice and be Glad knowing that saving the world isn't up to fools like you.

I don't necessarily agree with everything in this book, but it is food for thought:

Resentment Against Achievement

Americans consume a lot more than those in Europe but have a similar or lower quality of life

People in the United States are much wealthier than those in Europe in general, with a much higher quality of life. From the OECD Society at a glance figures, Sweden and Germany have about the same average disposable income as Alabama, Kentucky and Montana, not exactly considered economic power houses. Places like Portugal or Poland are at half of Mississippi's level. Most European countries fall within the bottom third of the United States when you compare them to specific States.

As carbon use correlates with wealth, it's obvious that the US will use more than Europe and Europeans will use more than third-world and developing nations, on a per person basis.

Despite all of the people claiming the middle class is being destroyed, real median income has been slowly rising.

If the distribution of wealth wasn't so skewed in favor of the rich, median income should be dramatically rising instead of slowly rising. Compare it to GDP, which has more than doubled since 1990.

"After a meeting of the national board of United Way, Mary Gates approached board member John Opel, chairman of IBM. She commented that his company had started to do some work with her son Bill and that she was sure they would like working with him. Opel did not acknowledge the remark. Later, when developers of the personal computer were presenting their plans for the yet-unborn machine to IBM's Management Committee, Microsoft's name came up. Opel asked, 'That wouldn't be Mary Gates's boy Bill, would it?' From then on Gates was considered to have connections at IBM."

  – Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the World's Greatest Entrepreneur (surely an unbiased source!)

Style. Brands have distinct style. Some go off the rails (seriously Honda it's a city car not a futuristic battle tank), and some never had any to begin with https://www.google.com/search?...

... will either fail silently and work, or return all zeros and crash.

I used a permission-stripper for a while and that is the result: It's surprising how many advert-supported applets crash when the network socket returns NULL.

... turns ad-driven apps into free apps.

That's why I have wi-fi "off" by default (A phone is not my gateway to the internet.) and avoid all apps that access email/contacts (eg. Skype, Facebook). I also prioritize no-network applets over advert-driven applets.

... are so useful! https://play.google.com/store/... is the first aopp I install on any Android device!

I found the Google estimate site and used the highest RAM servers available. 25 servers at 24/7 comes to over $277,000 if paid by a customer. Estimate variables below.

That's over $1.1 million USD for the 4 month period.

I'd call this exercise a massive waste of electricity. How much coal was used in this exercise? How many tons of CO2 did this add to the environment?

Site: https://cloud.google.com/produ...

Estimate Details: 25 x Calculating Pi. 18,250 total hours per month VM class: regular Instance type: n1-ultramem-160 (160 CPUs, 3844GB RAM) Region: Iowa Total available local SSD space 8x375 GB (3,000GB per server) Commitment term: 1 Year Estimated Component Cost: USD 277,868.11 per 1 month

That's far beyond what the record page shows. It appears the record was broken with a single dual-socket Xeon machine. Which is in line with how the previous record (a single 4-socket Xeon machine using older processors) was broken.

they heat their homes 3 weeks out of the year. I don't think you've ever lived in the American Southwest. And RTFS, all they have to do it have no carbon emissions. There are Zero emission gas plants. That's half the reason coal is dead. Gas is cheaper and cleaner. Clean coal doesn't work because coal is dirty as F.

Well natural gas is cheaper and produces less soot and particulate matter. So that part is good. It also likely releases a lot of methane from leaks created during the fracking process. Its entirely likely that natural gas is much worse from a GHG POV than coal but since we can't measure the extra amount of methane emissions from the ground due to fracking, we have no idea. Also, that plant hasn't started up yet and much like "clean coal" I don't really expect to see them running in large numbers (or at all) now or in the future. But since the environmental movement was weirdly embraced natural gas (large cash donations tend to get that effect), it somehow gets a pass despite the massive amount of environmental damage that fracking certainly causes. But since we figured out how to stop the earthquakes its all good now huh...and there is no need to actually do something like nuclear that would actually fix the problem.

I found the Google estimate site and used the highest RAM servers available. 25 servers at 24/7 comes to over $277,000 if paid by a customer. Estimate variables below.

That's over $1.1 million USD for the 4 month period.

I'd call this exercise a massive waste of electricity. How much coal was used in this exercise? How many tons of CO2 did this add to the environment?

Site:
https://cloud.google.com/produ...

Estimate Details:
25 x Calculating Pi.
18,250 total hours per month
VM class: regular
Instance type: n1-ultramem-160 (160 CPUs, 3844GB RAM)
Region: Iowa
Total available local SSD space 8x375 GB (3,000GB per server)
Commitment term: 1 Year
Estimated Component Cost: USD 277,868.11 per 1 month

For reference to anybody unfamiliar:

https://www.google.com/search?...

8 USD.

https://myacitivity.google.com... Wake up call for some people who think they aren't being tracked

they heat their homes 3 weeks out of the year. I don't think you've ever lived in the American Southwest.

And RTFS, all they have to do it have no carbon emissions. There are Zero emission gas plants. That's half the reason coal is dead. Gas is cheaper and cleaner. Clean coal doesn't work because coal is dirty as F.

I hate the idiotic term "snowflake", used to refer to somebody who is supposedly "too sensitive". I refuse to use it, in spite of being extremely conservative and anything but a "SJW". You need to stop using these cancerous words that have been planted by the enemy to destroy any chance of anyone listening to "us".

Just what the fuck would you call sheltered college students who demand free fabric softener?

Then again, maybe you're right.

Snowflake is wrong.

CHILDISH, SHELTERED, IMPUDENT, UNEDUCATED, ARROGANT, THOUGHTLESS, FECKLESS, TENDENTIOUS FUCKING SNOWFLAKE is much more accurate.

Free-range and wild animals can get something called rice breast. While it's harmless (they're just cysts), it looks nasty and is enough to make you lose your appetite. Usually it's only hunters who encounter it since they butcher the animals themselves. When it shows up in free-range chicken meat, the meat is probably ground up and redirected to other uses like pet food. Raising the chickens in enclosed pens (to avoid the parasites spreading from feces of birds flying overhead), and closely regulating their food avoids the infection.

Here, let me Google that for you.... beyond the reams of places online advertising their wide glasses selection, here's a column answering that very question and suggesting places where you can for example get your first pair for free on sale or $15 normally.

There are literally entire companies online dedicated to serving the big head market for glasses. There are others who let you search their inventory for how physically wide they are. If you think it's possible to do better, go ahead and try. That's called competition.

  That's the "invisible hand" which serves even niche needs, because the capitalists only get paid if they actually provide value to their customers, unless of course some idiot comes along and proposes to regulate the industry and have the government tell everyone in detail what to do. Then it becomes a competition for influence with the politicians and the bureaucrats in how to force people to pay for their products and not need to compete for business.

Right, you can be sure of that.

• If the Chinese regulator acts proactively, we suspect them of having an agenda;
• If the Chinese regulator does not act, we describe them as authoritarian insensitive to people's rights;
• If the FAA and Boeing delayed fixing the plane due to government shutdown, it is just boring business as usual;
• If the plane is made in China, front pages and comment sections across Internet would be filled with "Made in China products are craps";
• If the plane is made in USA, rare odd problem and silence is golden.

We should continue to blame China for everything wrong on this planet, that will for sure Make America Great Again.

Right, you can be sure of that.

• If the Chinese regulator acts proactively, we suspect them of having an agenda;
• If the Chinese regulator does not act, we describe them as authoritarian insensitive to people's rights;
• If the FAA and Boeing delayed fixing the plane due to government shutdown, it is just boring business as usual;
• If the plane is made in China, front pages and comment sections across Internet would be filled with "Made in China products are craps";
• If the plane is made in USA, rare odd problem and silence is golden.

We should continue to blame China for everything wrong on this planet, that will for sure Make America Great Again.

One study estimated that GMO rennet (a.k.a. FDC/FPC) could account for up to 80% of the global market share of rennet.

As for taste, there shouldn't be a difference between the chymosin enzyme produced in calf stomachs and the chymosin enzyme produced by microbes. As described in a comparison of Gouda and Cheddar cheese making, there was no major sensory difference between bovine rennet and bovine FPC. Though camel-based FPC interestingly led to reduced bitterness.

What do you propose is the mechanism for your claim that non-GMO cheese taste better? It seems to me that you're engaging in some motivated reasoning.

And just two more points:

1) Interest rates have been trending downwards for 40 years. This helps politicians as it boosts financial markets. See Trump, who is louder than his predecessors was publicly bashing Powell, his Federal Reserve chair, for running off the balance sheet (the "50 B's") and raising interest rates. Others have done this exactly same thing behind closed doors.

2) You can also see 30 year mortgage rates have been declining for forty years too.

Without a cashless society, or a "narrow bank", it's hard to push interest rates below zero. But there is always downward political pressure on interest rates.

The point is, going forward, we may be seeing a plateau in interest rates at these low levels, which has implications for financial markets. Namely, that as interest rates go down, institutions and people seeking returns have to move to other investments, pushing their prices up. If interest rates finally plateau, that suggests that some other tactic, perhaps not yet envisioned, may be necessary to continue to support housing and stock markets.

FYI, FWIW, YMMV, standard disclaimers apply, etc.

A monopoly exists when, and only when, there is some specific reason for your success that your competitors are not able to use.

And that "specific reason" was US Patent 5,960,411. From September 1999 (grant) through September 2017 (expiration), Amazon held a legal monopoly on 1-Click ordering in the United States.

A medallion taxi company, though minuscule in comparison to Walmart, is a monopoly because it is illegal for any other ride for hire company to compete in their city.

Different taxi companies can compete for different cities' franchises, much as with electric power, water, natural gas, and other public utilities. Amazon's patent was nationwide.

For all that I know, phoning Brussels a few minutes before midnight last day with an "Oh, it all was a joke!" won't serve any purpose either.

You don't know much, then. It's a matter of record that Article 50 may be revoked unilaterally.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Isn't there a Trump rally you could be at?

Here is what the place looks like, and why so many people want to take pictures there.

we are marching towards no accountability with e-voting machines that have proven to be insecure as hell.

Current systems are broken. It's possible to establish something more-secure than paper (a lot more secure); and the primary attacker isn't hackers (we can trivially exclude hackers), but the electoral authority (extremely difficult to exclude). It's a big effort, though.

Sadly, I worry more about the selection of idiots we're putting on the ballot than the voting system itself

It's up to the people to decide; and that gets manipulated by the broken electoral systems we use, notably party primaries and single-vote systems. IRV is also easy to manipulate (it's a lot more effort and strategy than plurality, but I've developed the exploit to a fair degree).

Single Transferable Vote (multiple-winner) and Tideman's Alternative (single-winner) are near-impossible to manipulate, even with social media propaganda attacks. I've used those to assemble a highly-representative, manipulation-resistant electoral system called Unified Majority.

I'm going to write two books, one about sabotaging elections and one about securing elections. Maybe then, after it becomes clear any group of half-stoned college kids can hijack an election just by attacking the voting rule, people will get it through their heads.

lessee...

https://www.google.com/search?...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As a physical object, a book is a stack of usually rectangular pages oriented with one edge tied, sewn, or otherwise fixed together and then bound to the flexible...

STOP! That's too long!

Siri, show me a book...

Look at FBP. It overrides the default view order and can hide all or part of the left and right panes. I used it before I deleted.

Fun Fact: Facebook does not allow for posting that link in your timeline.

Bonus: If you log in using Chrome, there's an extension that deletes shit by month, going back as far as you like. I used Social Book Post Manager. It took a while, but it works.

For Twitter, use https://www.tweetdelete.net/

Where is 'over here'? From your username, are you talking about a moon of Jupiter?

He could be in Spain, where the continent europa.

and you fell for it by clicking. The reason you're seeing so much SJW crap is that it gets clicks and comments. You got a +5, meaning at least 3 other folks looked at your comment and moderated it, meaning community engagement which in turn means more content generation for /. (which is the point of /.).

Go find the /. thread about Captain Marvel. I complained about the same thing there. It hit 800+ comments. YouTube is awash in anti-SJW sentiment because those videos get clicks.

If you want to make this stop start ignoring it. SJWs aren't like the White Supremacists. They're poorly organized and fight among themselves. They're mostly a few angry college chicks who grow out of it after graduation.

Left alone the SJW crowd is mostly harmless. Yes, there are exceptions, there are exceptions to everything in this wide world, but the harm from obsessing over them is far, far greater. While you're focusing on this the wealthy are packing the courts with pro-corporate judges and doing things like forced arbitration, letting companies get away with putting lead in your air and water and stripping you of access to education and healthcare.

now I know you're trolling. Joe Rogan? And what do pronouns have to do with literally _anything_. Come on, I expect better bait.

Throwing in the part about being a former Bernie bro was a smart move though. It'll throw some of the progressives off your scent. Again though, you really need to step up your game if you're shooting for even a +3 around here. That shit might fly on reddit but /.? We're old men. We saw this crap on Usenet.

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Why don't you ever show a single time he lied? Just more false accusations from one of the biggest proven liars here. You WindBourne Maybe if you actually understood English you would understand what he said.

You claimed it was both parties, this other guy thinks you are wrong and that only one party (yours) is causing all the problems. It's obvious now its been spelled out for you isn't it...

But all your English errors are quite comical for a us actual native speakers.

Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny?

Sorry to be flippant, but I really, really, really shouldn't have to point this out.

And our current president has pretty clearly removed all semblance of impartiality from the appointment while our Republican lead Congress (well, half of it now) is letting him get away with it.

You still go on with these accusations, but never even a single example to go with it.
Same as all your lies.
Whereas your constant lies are routinely documented. https://google.com/search?q=si...

Oh,you believe in Aquaculture?

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Not to mention we can switch to eating invasive species like Lionfish that there are plenty of.

No roof rack for the X. This is 1 of 1.5 that you got correct.
X can be ordered with a hitch. Not a problem.
The X is taken off-road by a large number of ppl.
No spare tire, though you can take one with you when off-roading. So, half point.

This vehicle is SUPERIOR as an SUV, compared to other luxury 'SUVs', such as Cayenne, After all, these are SPORT UTILITY vehicles, not necessarily major off-roaders.

Windbourne( moderating ).

they just won't give you a free mega phone.

And I'd like to see folks complaining a bit more about this when it comes to thought control. Pushing propaganda messages by buying up all the media is a lot more like thought control then not platforming somebody's dangerous nonsense.