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I wasn't aware of anything like that. Story?

There's this amazing invention called Google. Perhaps you have heard of it? It's very easy to use. Using it and getting a solid answer even takes less time than posting stupid questions! Have you tried it? Give it a try, it really works! Why, the very first search result answers your question -- how 'bout that?

Take your blinders off.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=defensive...

And the NRA is not exactly quiet about this. They have a radio news program and every episode includes news stories from around the country about defensive gun uses. (They also cover insane plea deals that repeat criminals get.)

Suicide remains a non issue. Suicide rates by country do not support the gun ownership hypothesis, and even if they did, misbehavior by group A does not justify violence against group B.

in a big company

Promise me something... that your big company gives back to open source.

Yes? Awesome!

Now here is your free advice.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=isomo...

Their job, you lazy fuck.

Also, note that their mission is to "protect the United States", not to protect the citizens of the United States.

There's nothing there that says gamergate was involved at all. Here's a question, why would gamergate want it's own panel shutdown? It's not any different than the tinfoilers who claimed that gamergate tried to shut down their own gathering at Local16(which is an on-going investigation still), or claiming that they shutdown the SPJ Airplay event with multiple bomb threats(also an on-going investigation), where the SPJ actually gave them a voice, instead of what the media was claiming it was.

In my book it falls into one of two camps, either exceptionally devout SJW's did it because they believed they're doing the right thing(there is an extremely long list of SJW's who have faked things to get attention or try to stop something--from fake racism to claiming non-existent rape while claiming it was "to create a dialog) or for the lulz, or trolls doing it for the lulz. You know, people like Joshua Goldberg who was a prolific writer for a pile of left-wing sites like The Guardian, Daily Kos, Feministing, and had dozens of articles published by them. But, he uses the gamergate hashtag(which anyone can use) 35 times, when there are 3.5m+ tweets in it, but that automatically makes him a member of gamergate says the SJW crowd.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chickens+...

Here, now you know how to fish.

Australia's robbery rate is about half (55%) that of the US, overall murder rate is about 1/4.

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And I'll just throw this out there, last night in my town, someone not only managed to shoot himself in the foot, but the same bullet seriously injured a 9 year old neighbor:

        http://abc7news.com/news/san-j...

Isn't it fortunate that we have alarm clocks that wake you up by recreating a natural sunrise in your bedroom at the time of your choosing then.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sunrise+a...

if you know how to look up amateur radio license callsigns

You mean something like typing KG6IIM into Google, Ian?

What an extra-ordinary person then Assange person is, above laws and able through divine right to dictate to nations the terms under blah blah blah blah

Assange was offered asylum for a reason, and that's the penchant for Sweden to hand people - innocent people - over to the United States to be tortured. That happened. Then there was the two years of torture - and yes, solitary confinement is torture - inflicted on Bradley Manning.

We must all abandon all notions of democracy and justice and bend the knee to his holiness...

All the pompous asshattery in the world doesn't deflect from the elephant in the room: the refusal of Swedish authorities to make this about rape, if it is in fact about rape.

Hell, take Assange and the CIA out of it and switch the subject to the police standoff of your choice. Suspect offers to give himself up if the cops promise not to shoot him in the back or beat him to death after he's handcuffed - things other cops have done to other suspects. What police lieutenant isn't going to roll his eyes and say:

"Fine. We wont beat or shoot you to death. Now go ahead and turn yourself in."

BTW, SRB's don't leak (they use solid propellent). I believe you guys are thinking of the o-rings that connected the hydrogen tank to the main engines; they'd become misshapen at colder temperatures thus causing liquid hydrogen to leak.

BTW - when they're burning, SRB's produce very hot gas which damn well can leak .

Read the Wikpedia article on the loss of the Challenger or just search Google for "space shuttle challenger accident"

Economics is very amenable to scientific inquiry. Don't know where you got the idea that it isn't. Economics is studied using the scientific method very effectively. It is a difficult field of study because of its complexity but that is no different from any number of other scientific fields such as meteorology, ecology, geology and others.

No, it's really not. Microeconomics can be studied in a more-or-less scientific way. As for macroeconomics, the day that economists start making meaningful and accurate predictions is when I'll start taking them seriously. I'm far from alone in this.

Science frequently informs and underpins laws and morals. It also can study their effects.

We don't run experiments to determine whether homicide is good. Courtrooms are not scientific trials. The "test of truth" for morality is not something decided on the basis of repeated observation. Empiricism is not a one-size-fits-all tool.

Mathematics is really a language used by scientists to describe the world. It describes the world around us with uncanny precision. It's not a science but virtually every scientific inquiry utilizes math.

You're really failing at the core concept here. Mathematics is a formal system, probably best described by rationalism. Mathematical truth is the product of logic, not observation. The real world can frequently be modeled with mathematics, and with the right chosen axioms so can many other fictional worlds.

Religion is by definition NOT rational. It is faith in an unfalsifiable concept. What rationality it does have is largely argued from false or unprovable premises. Furthermore religions do not restrict themselves to purely logical conclusions from their premises. They frequently cherry pick arguments to support whatever view they wish to hold at the time. No, I disagree that religion is a form of rationalism.

I did not say religion was a form of rationalism. However, having absurd or unprovable axioms does not mean logic can no longer be applied. But when your system of logic is not based on "objective" observation, petitio principii is hard to avoid. Wait, are we talking about religion or economics here?

Where religion makes statements about the observable world, it can and often does conflict with empirical truth. Sometimes these things are called miracles.

Those of us who are not beholden to religions call them fictional stories or sometimes unexplained phenomena instead of miracles.

And those of us who are from Alpha Centauri call them "kkrgch'n". I'm pretty sure that, assuming you understood it, you agree with the point I was making there. I guess sometimes you're just so argumentative, even a semantic argument will do.

You need a Philosophy of Science 101 course. Religion, mathematics, and empiricism are all ways to determine truth, and empiricism (practiced as science) is not without its flaws. Namely, you can only verify what you can observe repeatedly, there is no absolute truth, and given that all observations have an error factor, all observations and theories are at least a tiny bit wrong. This is why science deals with levels of certainty, not proven facts.

Proof is the realm of mathematics. Not being dependent on this reality gives it the ability to express universally true statements. It can be used to model the world very accurately, but per Gödel it can either be complete or consistent but not both. And again, with any non-empirical system you cannot be sure that your truth applies

Economics is very amenable to scientific inquiry. Don't know where you got the idea that it isn't. Economics is studied using the scientific method very effectively. It is a difficult field of study because of its complexity but that is no different from any number of other scientific fields such as meteorology, ecology, geology and others.

No, it's really not. Microeconomics can be studied in a more-or-less scientific way. As for macroeconomics, the day that economists start making meaningful and accurate predictions is when I'll start taking them seriously. I'm far from alone in this.

Science frequently informs and underpins laws and morals. It also can study their effects.

We don't run experiments to determine whether homicide is good. Courtrooms are not scientific trials. The "test of truth" for morality is not something decided on the basis of repeated observation. Empiricism is not a one-size-fits-all tool.

Mathematics is really a language used by scientists to describe the world. It describes the world around us with uncanny precision. It's not a science but virtually every scientific inquiry utilizes math.

You're really failing at the core concept here. Mathematics is a formal system, probably best described by rationalism. Mathematical truth is the product of logic, not observation. The real world can frequently be modeled with mathematics, and with the right chosen axioms so can many other fictional worlds.

Religion is by definition NOT rational. It is faith in an unfalsifiable concept. What rationality it does have is largely argued from false or unprovable premises. Furthermore religions do not restrict themselves to purely logical conclusions from their premises. They frequently cherry pick arguments to support whatever view they wish to hold at the time. No, I disagree that religion is a form of rationalism.

I did not say religion was a form of rationalism. However, having absurd or unprovable axioms does not mean logic can no longer be applied. But when your system of logic is not based on "objective" observation, petitio principii is hard to avoid. Wait, are we talking about religion or economics here?

Where religion makes statements about the observable world, it can and often does conflict with empirical truth. Sometimes these things are called miracles.

Those of us who are not beholden to religions call them fictional stories or sometimes unexplained phenomena instead of miracles.

And those of us who are from Alpha Centauri call them "kkrgch'n". I'm pretty sure that, assuming you understood it, you agree with the point I was making there. I guess sometimes you're just so argumentative, even a semantic argument will do.

You need a Philosophy of Science 101 course. Religion, mathematics, and empiricism are all ways to determine truth, and empiricism (practiced as science) is not without its flaws. Namely, you can only verify what you can observe repeatedly, there is no absolute truth, and given that all observations have an error factor, all observations and theories are at least a tiny bit wrong. This is why science deals with levels of certainty, not proven facts.

Proof is the realm of mathematics. Not being dependent on this reality gives it the ability to express universally true statements. It can be used to model the world very accurately, but per Gödel it can either be complete or consistent but not both. And again, with any non-empirical system you cannot be sure that your truth applies

For those like me who don't automatically know what some random acronym means.

http://lmgtfy.com

FTFY.

The same thing happened when Independence Day came out. Some people have no concept of reality. Nothing to see here, move along.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ID4%20bas...

First you have to know about it. Most people they are collecting data on don't know. Then you have ot find out how to turn it off.

Most people who don't know don't care; conversely, most who do care do know. As for finding out how to turn it off... Google it? It ain't hard.

Even before checkboxes you have to find the fucking page, moron.

Fucking Google it, moron.

They don't and you just DID attack them by lying.

Have you ever read an Apple license agreement? They do, they just don't let you see it like Google does. And why would I attack Apple? I have 2 MacBook Pros and an iPad Air, and my wife has a MacBook Pro, iPhone 6+ and iPad Air 2. Why does everyone think I'm anti-Apple? I'm not, I'm just a realist who knows how to actually read what is presented to him (e.g. Apple EULAs) and research what is not (e.g. how to disable Google features).

Do you? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3A...


decimate

verb

1. kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of.

"the project would decimate the fragile wetland wilderness"

2. historical - kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group.

Phrasing is a window into a person's thought process though.

Every post from you is either insulting or denying other people's claims. Had you attempted to perform a simple Google search you would have found that Monsanto has sued numerous farmers in numerous countries for a variety of claims, including but not limited to violating IP.

One such case shows up in the top 2 results.

In 1998, Monsanto learned that Schmeiser was growing a Roundup-resistant crop and approached him to sign a license agreement to their patents and to pay a license fee. Schmeiser refused, maintaining that the 1997 contamination was accidental and that he owned the seed he harvested, and he could use the harvested seed as he wished because it was his physical property. Monsanto then sued Schmeiser for patent infringement, filing its case in Canadian federal court on August 6, 1998.[4] Negotiations to settle the matter collapsed on August 10, 1999, leading Schmeiser to file a countersuit against Monsanto for $10 million for libel, trespass, and contaminating his fields.[6][7]

Go back and read some of your other insulting posts from this thread and take some of your own advice.

Gee, if only there were some way to find out!

So, show how I am wrong.

Here ya go!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=6.49+mill...

I'm not clear on how knowing it in square furlongs will help you. I'm not even sure if anyone has ever used square furlongs as a unit of measure. But people who post messages like this don't actually want to know the answer, they just want to be snarky.

TL;DR 14.9 square furlongs, 0.6 km^2

As far as I know, nowhere in the US has yearly emissions testing like the UK.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=states+wi...

Many of these are regional and/or no longer used that way.

Jacuzzi isn't just any hot tub, it's one with those annoying jets that blow water up your ass. Only Jacuzzi makes these anymore. Other hot tub manufacturers have figured out that most people aren't too happy about a bidet that first heats the water to 150F, scalds your colon, and then allows you to soak in your own superheated filth.

Crock pots (as others have pointed out) are not pressure cookers. They're slow cookers.

Rollerblades (again, others have noted this) are inline roller skates, not just roller skates. And since they were patented for far longer than they were popular, I don't really know of any other inline rollerskate brands. All of them that I've ever seen seem to have the trademarked Rollerblade logo.

Scotch tape isn't just adhesive tape. It's clear acrylic tape that won't leave sticky goo on the surface after being peeled. Pretty much only 3M has achieved this. Imitators tend to be thicker plastic and either leave behind adhesive or turn hard and yellow in a short time and permanently bond to the surface.

Sharpie is a permanent marker, but it's not a Magic Marker. Magic Marker is another permanent marker, with a wide tip (not a pointy one, like a Sharpie). It too gets used as a brand-name punching bag.

Realtor is not a brand name. It's trademarked, but by a trade association. It's very existence means that it's a synonym of what that trade association represents, which is real estate agents.

Xerox isn't used much this way anymore. People copy things or make copies of things. Nobody xeroxes anything anymore, mostly because Xerox doesn't make that many copiers anymore, at least not ones that most people use. Heck, people don't even know how to pronounce "Xerox" anymore. I know of a person that pronounced it "eckseerocks" and was totally serious.

Plexiglass isn't acrylic glass. It's merely clear acrylic sheeting, which isn't glass under either definition of the word. (1: silica sand melted into a clear substance and cooled to harden or 2: any substance melted to a liquid state, then blast-cooled to a solid to retain the molecular structure of a liquid in solid form. This second definition allows for steel to be described as the "glass form" of refined high-carbon iron alloy.)

And, of course, you forgot Google.

There's even a website that will do it for you!

How hard was that?

What? A farm had eats two eggs? Maybe for one of those farms with little plastic animals :P

I work in IT and eat as much a two / three / four farm hands by your definition and am stuck at 12st4 for a 6'0" male. Have you heard of 'starvation mode' ? The idea is that the traditional 'eat less to lose weight' makes sense only in a situation where the body plods on in exactly the same manner despite conditions; which isn't the case - when it experiences lower dietary energy, it responds by slowing metabolism thus negating the effect of eating less - so you eat less, possibly feeling hard done by and sluggish at the same time /o\ low five! :-(

I'm a firm believer in eating regularly in response to your body's demands - that way it will not need to take matters into its own hands and store fat whenever you eat something because it will always have a ready supply of energy.

Anyway, works for me, your mileage may vary :D

Let me Google that for you

"Indian" is not a race, is it? I thought it was a nationality. India encompasses multiple races, multiple religions, multiple cultures, multiple tribes and sects. India. Let me check - I could be wrong . . .

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=India+dem...

Try this link first, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No division in the driver, so no division by zero?

There is no dichotomy between "social justice" and individual justice, because "social justice" doesn't exist.

I think I've come to the root of the problem: you're an idiot.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=social+ju...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Is+Hillar...

Does everybody see NOW why ACs are worthless? they are apparently too fucking stupid to read headlines and certainly are too retarded to actually use a search engine because if they could do more than pick their own noses they would have seen that you can't turn off Windows 10 spying as the "privacy settings" are the equivalent of the button on a street light, something designed to make the user think he has control when its just bullshit.

>> in South America? Say it ain't so!

I'll say it ain't so. Panama's in CENTRAL America.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+ma...

sorry, that only turns up a bunch of bloggers whining about the proposed hyperspace bypass. I don't see a link to the actual plans in the first five pages of the search results.
Maybe I have some spoiled cookies messing up my results.

There's no way a Russian missile could get hot enough to melt an airliner.

What does that even mean???

Here you go!.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ubuntu+wo...

Seems a lot of people have had stuff break. I had a toshiba laptop become unusable after a kubuntu upgrade myself. Just froze up on boot.

Winblows on the other hand, driver hell making a 1 year old scanner unusable after updating from 98 to XP.

QQ.

Some 3rd party software not made by MS broke during one of the biggest os upgrades in Windows history, and the 3rd party didn't step up with new drivers. And this is 'winblows' fault, somehow, not yours, that you selected a bottom feeding windows 98 only piece of crap scanner that likely didn't even have a windows 2000 driver.

They concluded that IN THOSE STATES Planned Parenthood was donating fetal tissue. There are still 48 other states. Not to mention I find it really hard to believe that a liberal hell-hole like Massachusetts really investigated, it sounds more like this AG (a woman) just said "they're fine" and ignored the issue.

As for the videos, there's no way you missed them.

Yes, and it'd be nice if it wasn't so hidden.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=does+freebsd+have+a+package+manager

Yes, the first link returned by a Google search is an absolutely brilliant place to hide information!

[Looks at first link]

Man, who would have ever thought of looking in the FreeBSD documentation for information about FreeBSD?

[head explodes]

By raising & lowering the balloons between opposing jetstreams.

Been a while since I needed this, but: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=project+loon&l=1.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Gallium+N...

>The OS emerged with a zero-day bug so egregious it has its own front-page post on imgur and reddit (how exactly did that pass QC?)

What QC? Nearly all of the Windows testers were part of the 2014 layoffs. Google it.

the action or process of investing money for profit or material result.

The Kickstarter backer rewards or eventual product is the material reward in this case.

Also, have you ever heard the phrase "Improving education is investing in the future of our country." or something similar to that effect? Clearly no one is talking about owning some part of future generations or anything along those lines.

>> if security and privacy are a concern, maybe iPhone isn't really such a bad option

Dude, is Google down today? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iphone+ma...

Then look up WireLurker. Then MASQUE-D. And if you jailbreak a phone, pretty much all bets are off.

WireLurker looks to be pretty nasty, that's for sure. But it's also only on a GreyWare "App Store", NOT available through legit channels.

And MASQUE-D is such a threat (NOT!) that I had to try two different search terms to even FIND a reference on Google. Plus, it again is a Trojan, that has to entice the user to install it from a non-legitimate "App" site.

And as far as JailBreaking your iOS device, you get what you deserve, period.

So, thanks for proving the point that the "Walled Garden" actually WORKS. If you want to spend the extra effort to step outside into the Methane-Gas atmosphere, then don't complain when you start choking...

Next!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=does+goog...

It looks like Google comments pretty badly against themselves in fact.
Maybe the Journalist should have tried harder.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=aca+3+tim...

>> if security and privacy are a concern, maybe iPhone isn't really such a bad option

Dude, is Google down today? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=iphone+ma...

Then look up WireLurker. Then MASQUE-D. And if you jailbreak a phone, pretty much all bets are off.

Some of my essential audio tools have already been reported not to work properly on Windows 10, so I'll be damned sure not to upgrade anytime soon. I have already removed the upgrade notification.