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US exports weapons to Saudi Arabia. What could be worse, a few routers?

Wow, the very first post is whataboutism. Way to go, /.

Onus probandi or Burden of Proof - is a principle in philosophy, science, and law.

https://en.oxforddictionaries....
https://www.merriam-webster.co...
https://www.collinsdictionary....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Robusrifying is a dictionary word

No it isn't

No, it's "en route". The original article had it written incorrectly as "enroute" and the idiot who posted it here corrected it and added "[sic]" when they should have only done one or the other.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/en_route

See 1.3. https://en.oxforddictionaries....

Regarding "noun" vs "adjective", see your own citation.
"NOUN
A teacher or scholar in a university or other institute of higher education."

Telecom's classic definition is phone service.

Really? Neither the dictionary nor the Telecommunications Act have such a narrow defintion:

SEC. 1. [47 U.S.C. 151] PURPOSES OF ACT, CREATION OF FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION.
For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in Communication by wire and radio [emphasis added] so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property through the use of wire and radio communication, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the ''Federal Communications Commission,'' which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this Act.

Love the comment, but Lucrative =/= valuable to society... the word comes from Lucre and has a less than noble connotation.

Ok language nerd. You are literally the stupidest person I have heard from today (take whichever meaning for the word you want there).

Language exists only to transfer information and ideas between people (or animals, ...). Words can take on completely opposite meanings over time (see origin of word stakeholder).

Also Oxford dictionary seems to think it is acceptable:
https://blog.oxforddictionarie...

https://en.oxforddictionaries....

Ok language nerd. You are literally the stupidest person I have heard from today (take whichever meaning for the word you want there).

Language exists only to transfer information and ideas between people (or animals, ...). Words can take on completely opposite meanings over time (see origin of word stakeholder).

Also Oxford dictionary seems to think it is acceptable:
https://blog.oxforddictionarie...

https://en.oxforddictionaries....

Clover and field peas are not weeds, though.

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

If when I say "weed" you think, "any plant I didn't want in my field," then you won't understand it.

https://en.oxforddictionaries....

Well, quickly DDGing, 2 out of 3 dictionaries basically have this as the first definition, from https://www.dictionary.com/bro...

confidence or trust in a person or thing:

Or from https://en.oxforddictionaries....

Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

And the free dictionary has similar as its second definition.
A lot of it is probably cultural, Americans are religious, as you can tell by their pious, devout leader whereas I'm Canadian. I just don't think about faith as religious as to me. To me faith needs some proof or at least agreement, so trust. Religion fails on both those points so is more of a hallucination then faith whereas my faith in the Sun coming up is based on prior behaviour and believe in the model of the solar system.

No, I don't think you understood.

Check your reading comprehension skills, carefully reread my post and go educate yourself on the definition of what atheist means.

It is a belief. No atheist ever presented it as fact, but we are god damned cocky.

The definition of a parasite is that it provides no benefit to the host.

Oxford: An organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.

Cambridge: an animal or plant that lives on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeds from it

Merriam-Webster: an organism living in, with, or on another organism in parasitism (an intimate association between organisms of two or more kinds especially: one in which a parasite obtains benefits from a host which it usually injures)

Dictionary definitions don't seem to agree with you.

(Notably, the alternate definition in each of those, when applied to non-biological parasites, implies a derogatory "without benefiting the host", but the biological definition never includes it.)

At-will is fine, but that means you can tell your employer "I won't be in tomorrow, I'm quitting." as you leave. It doesn't mean you don't give them any indication you're quitting. At-will is not the same as ghosting.

No it fucking doesn't. You're trying to redefine things to fit your argument. The very definition of "at-will" means you can do whatever the fuck you want.

at will
PHRASE
At whatever time or in whatever way one pleases.

Precisely. It is american companies we should fear instead

That is a false dichotomy. You can fear China and also fear American companies. It's a "whataboutery" argument: saying we should fear American companies in no way cancels out the fact that we might want to avoid Chinese products with built-in back.

But second, these are two completely different fears. Basically, American companies want to know everything about you so they can sell you advertisements. That's fundamentally different from China, in which the government to control everything.

Really. The Chinese government is not the good guys here.

Well, Merriam-Webster has an entry for moonquake. Oxford lists marsquake. The Free Dictionary has sunquake. Dictionary.com lists starquake.

While the 14th century usage may have meant something else, it's certainly well known that the entire planet Earth does in fact quake during an earthquake. Why do you think remote sensors can detect earthquakes half way around the planet? Definitions of words change over a couple of years, let alone several centuries. In this case, I'd say the term "earthquake" as in the planet is more accurate than the original definition. But it becomes problematic when you're talking about a quake on another celestial body.

I also believe the "earth", as in dirt, that was referred to in the 14th century was generally referring to cultivable topsoil. You're not going to find much of that on the moon, mars, or a star.

Skyjacking is a specific term that came into use in the 1960s to describe the rash of airplane hijackings that occurred in the late 60s and 70s. I count 20 skyjackings that involved the United States in just the decade of 1970. It is a specific type of hijacking that involves airplanes, and which typically takes place while the plane is in the sky during flight. Thus the plane is redirected to some other destination because the risk of the threat being real must be taken seriously.

I presume you are in your 20s to have not encountered this word, which is defined in pretty much every English dictionary there is. If you prefer "A hijacking that occurs on an airplane while the plane is in flight" over "skyjacking" then feel free to use the longer phrase in your writings and conversation. However your lack of exposure to this word hardly makes it "tabloid-headline made-up".

To totally beat this point to death, here are some various dictionary entries.
https://www.merriam-webster.co...
https://dictionary.cambridge.o...
https://en.oxforddictionaries....
https://www.dictionary.com/bro...
https://www.thefreedictionary....
https://www.macmillandictionar...

I also note that the Chome spellchecker knows this word by default as well.

If you're going to come across so strong and authoritative it would help if you were actually right. Have some knowledge:

GMT is a reference timezone linked to mean solar time.
GMT does not have any daylight savings time.
The UK does not use GMT, they use British Standard Time (BST) which includes Daylight savings (UTC+0 and UTC+1) depending on the time of the year.
Despite the UK's standard time not being linked to GMT directly, some countries legally do reference GMT as their reference timezones.
In the English language generally when not speaking scientifically then GMT and UTC are synonymous. https://en.oxforddictionaries....

What's your definition source? I ask because here are six that don't require direct conquest.

https://www.merriam-webster.co...
https://dictionary.cambridge.o...
https://www.google.com/search?... (no idea where google gets its definitions but there it is)
https://www.collinsdictionary....
https://www.britannica.com/top...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.oxforddictionaries....

"treat some of today's most intractable medical problems: "

'Intractable' literally means 'untreatable'.

No it does not. Intractable means "hard to deal with".

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Didn't realize that this was a former discussion

Also, 2nd grade doesn't have classes. Just one class.
Spelling is also not a learning topic. English is.
Seems like you need the schooling a bit me than me AC.

The United States of America refers to a collection of states within the whole north-south continent as well.
So, a subset of all states in the continent. Yet people in that collection of states use the name of the whole continent to refer to a part of it. Also Oxford:

Synecdoche:
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.

Oh, they didn't? They call themselves Americans? They say that they live in America? Do tell...
Well yes, they do. Just like people in Europe call ourselves Europeans. Maybe it's you who don't know Spanish or Portuguese?

That may be because those other countries don't speak in English.

Or because they, like you, do not understand English.

Of:

"Expressing the relationship between a part and a whole."
"Expressing the relationship between a general category or type and the thing being specified which belongs to such a category."

"America" refers to the whole north-south continent in Spanish and Portuguese.

The United States of America refers to a collection of states within the whole north-south continent as well.

The rest of the world didn't "cede the name", they simply weren't using it in your language, but theirs.

Oh, they didn't? They call themselves Americans? They say that they live in America? Do tell...

You seem to be using a different definition than I am for "slippery slope".

The Oxford Dictionary defines "slippery" as "difficult to hold on to" (not impossible), and "slippery slope" as "one action likely to lead to another" (not guaranteed).
https://en.oxforddictionaries....

It would be error to assume that something WILL happen because it is MORE LIKELY to happen.

It would also be error to ignore something that increases the probability of a bad outcome, only because it doesn't GUARANTEE a bad outcome.

Still, various institutions adopted the word cyber in reference to "digital wrongdoings". Oxford dictionary made a post about it.

Double the final consonant of the verb stem only when the final syllable is short and stressed. (Exception: verbs ending in -l in British English) src </peeve>

If you change something so much that it appears to be an entirely new thing, it IS an entirely new thing.

Again, you do not determine what words mean. The community determines what words mean. What has been done fits within the commonly accepted meaning of the term "reinvented," ergo you cannot properly say that "the antenna could not have been 'reinvented.'"

The invention of the LCD panel didn't reinvent the display tube

But it did reinvent the electronic display.

It replaced it with an entirely different method, which just happened to provide the same function.

Which is pretty much how the term "reinvent" is used by far, far more people than yourself, hence the common definition. Ever notice how a "brake" can be mechanical or magnetic? A computer can be human, mechanical, semiconductor, or quantum? Human beings tend to name useful things by function. Very popular non-functional names even tend to become functional. Google it yourself.

Same thing here. Using cesium atoms in a container, excited by two lasers, they were able to detect radio waves by the change in frequency of the atoms in that gas. That, by the way, was where I was getting the phased array analogy from.

What analogy? Antennas are made up of multiple atoms, but that does not transform all antennas into phased array antennas.

An antenna is (2) a rod, wire, or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals.

Funny thing that your definition uses "or" rather than "and."

This may qualify as an 'other device', but in reality it's an entirely new device.

It's as if you've paraphrased the definition of the term "reinvent."

You may or may not call an antenna, but it does not replace the standard, passive, antenna invented by Hertz.

Sure it does. Substitute this antenna for the "standard, passive antenna invented by Hert" in an FM radio receiver. Replaced.

I don't even think this can be used for transmitting

Not a requirement under your definition of antenna - you used "or" and not "and." Want to bet that it's not a requirement under the common meaning of the term antenna as well?,

and certainly won't be replacing the antenna any time soon

It already did. Except that now you're redefining "replacing" to mean "technologically superseding." We've been down this road. You're wrong again ("Fill the role of (someone or something) with a substitute.")

IMHO reinvent is a made up word used to either fool people you are marketing to (be it you or your product you are marketing), help inflate one's ego, or both.

All words are made up, and in commonly accepted opinion you're wrong.

To repeat what I stated above

Rando thinks repetition suffices to make himself right... respected dictionary disagrees.

One probe, one detector, no scanning,

Each atom could be considered a detector because the final signal is determined by how much light is absorbed by the gas (again, thus the loose array analogy).

No, it cannot because the signal is collected by a single, non-scanning photodetector so that the phase of the light absorbed by each atom is lost in the aggregation of photons striking the photodetector. There is no such thing as a "loose phased array" -- you must know or detect the position of each antenna in order translate the temporal signal information of each antenna into spatial signal information in order to determine (or control) the direc

reinvent: "Change (something) so much that it appears to be entirely new."

If you change something so much that it appears to be an entirely new thing, it IS an entirely new thing.

FTFS: "Their new device works in an entirely different way from conventional antennas, using a laser to measure the way radio signals interact with certain types of atoms."

The invention of the LCD panel didn't reinvent the display tube, it replaced it with an entirely different method, which just happened to provide the same function. Same thing here. Using cesium atoms in a container, excited by two lasers, they were able to detect radio waves by the change in frequency of the atoms in that gas. That, by the way, was where I was getting the phased array analogy from. An antenna is (2) a rod, wire, or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals. This may qualify as an 'other device', but in reality it's an entirely new device. You may or may not call an antenna, but it does not replace the standard, passive, antenna invented by Hertz. I don't even think this can be used for transmitting, and certainly won't be replacing the antenna any time soon.

One probe, one detector, no scanning,

Each atom could be considered a detector because the final signal is determined by how much light is absorbed by the gas (again, thus the loose array analogy).

IMHO reinvent is a made up word used to either fool people you are marketing to (be it you or your product you are marketing), help inflate one's ego, or both. To repeat what I stated above, if you change something so much it appears to be something entirely new, it is something entirely new. To say otherwise is just trying to inflate the importance unnecessarily and end up making it seem less important. If you invent something new, take credit for that. If you improve on an existing technology, don't try to make it sound more important by saying you "reinvented" it.

And for the record, I do believe this is a significant development, but also believe the space shuttle program was significant, but didn't reinvent air travel.

reinvent: "Change (something) so much that it appears to be entirely new."

If you change something so much that it appears to be an entirely new thing, it IS an entirely new thing.

FTFS: "Their new device works in an entirely different way from conventional antennas, using a laser to measure the way radio signals interact with certain types of atoms."

The invention of the LCD panel didn't reinvent the display tube, it replaced it with an entirely different method, which just happened to provide the same function. Same thing here. Using cesium atoms in a container, excited by two lasers, they were able to detect radio waves by the change in frequency of the atoms in that gas. That, by the way, was where I was getting the phased array analogy from. An antenna is (2) a rod, wire, or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals. This may qualify as an 'other device', but in reality it's an entirely new device. You may or may not call an antenna, but it does not replace the standard, passive, antenna invented by Hertz. I don't even think this can be used for transmitting, and certainly won't be replacing the antenna any time soon.

One probe, one detector, no scanning,

Each atom could be considered a detector because the final signal is determined by how much light is absorbed by the gas (again, thus the loose array analogy).

IMHO reinvent is a made up word used to either fool people you are marketing to (be it you or your product you are marketing), help inflate one's ego, or both. To repeat what I stated above, if you change something so much it appears to be something entirely new, it is something entirely new. To say otherwise is just trying to inflate the importance unnecessarily and end up making it seem less important. If you invent something new, take credit for that. If you improve on an existing technology, don't try to make it sound more important by saying you "reinvented" it.

And for the record, I do believe this is a significant development, but also believe the space shuttle program was significant, but didn't reinvent air travel.

The antenna, however, has not been forgotten so could not have been "reinvented". Redesigned, perhaps, or a new type of antenna may have been invented, but the antenna on my roof is still there, and is still a variation of the first dipole antenna invented by Heinrich Hertz.

reinvent: "Change (something) so much that it appears to be entirely new."

The antenna could very well have been reinvented, so long as one's ego is small enough to realize that they are not the sole arbiter of the meaning of common words.

This seems to be a variation of the phased array, just on a molecular scale, who's development has been filtered through the marketing department.

Pray tell, how is this a variation of the phased array? Where are the multiple antennas and, more importantly, the differential processing based upon a scanning of signal phase that imparts directionality?

"Finally, they shine a second laser through the gas and measure how much light is absorbed, to see how the transparency varies with ambient radio waves. The signal from a simple light-sensitive photodiode then reveals the way the radio signals are frequency modulated or amplitude modulated."

One probe, one detector, no scanning, and no greater thought by you than you attribute to that "marketing department."

Use of the term Adult Language for phrases like #@&%#!! should be considered incorrect.
It would be better to use the term Adult Language for phrases that on occasion send hearers to Oxfors's dictionary.

English has a very large portfolio of words (most with several meanings) to confound AI's.

The problem is that the word is more commonly used now as a synonym for "information". You would never say "informations". At this point, it is mostly treated as plural in scientific contexts, and even there, it has often been superseded by the compound word "data point", which is obviously and trivially pluralizable.

BTW, Oxford weighed in a while back.

It's ok, I don't mind you looking like an idiot.

https://www.collinsdictionary....
https://en.oxforddictionaries....
https://www.dictionary.com/bro...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
https://dictionary.cambridge.o...
https://www.thefreedictionary....

Me, I speak English.

https://en.oxforddictionaries....

1 : to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.co...

1 Actively break the terms of (a law, agreement, etc.)
2 Act so as to limit or undermine (something); encroach on.

Source: https://en.oxforddictionaries....

According to these definitions: theft, as an act of violating the (terms of) law or rights of another, it certainly is a form of infringement - all crime would be a form of infringement in one or another way. However the point is that not every infringement is also theft.
Think of cows for example. They're mammals or even more abstract vertebrates. But is every mammal or vertebrate a cow? Of thing of fingers and thumbs. Every thumb is a finger, but is every finger also a thumb?
Similar to thumbs or cows in the above analogy, theft is a very special case of infringement. Certain criteria must be fulfilled to call it theft. Therefore, at least sometimes, we express what kind of right is infringed - like in "copyright infringement", which signifies that ... the exclusive right of making copies, which is reserved by the right holder, is violated.

here's a source from those filthy americans at oxford: https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/09/10/does-decimate-mean-destroy-one-tenth/

I would argue the modern trend of "language mashing" actually started with Joss Whedon's style of writing dialog, starting with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pm...

https://blog.oxforddictionarie...

Nobody heard Bush talk and thought "I want to sound like that guy". But "Whedonesque" dialog was quirky and cool.

Wrong dictionary, wrong definition.

"BBC's Dougal Shaw... demonstrates that it's cheaper to make your own sandwich each day than it is to buy a pre-packaged sandwich from the supermarket."

Surely, this is a near-perfect example of a hack.

According to Oxford dictionary, a billion is now a thousand million in both British and real English.

Indeed UK used to have so called 'long scale' but now sticks with short.
More on names of large numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Another link with some historical details: https://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/u...

To me the long scale seems more logical 'ards' as thousands (10^3) and 'lions' as millions (10^6), but unification is more important in this case, and we all know which one will win.

According to Oxford dictionary, a billion is now a thousand million in both British and real English.

Jealous has several meanings, one of which is a synonym of envious.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

https://en.oxforddictionaries....

This is silly. You're silly. The term "corporate" isn't necessary to make Nazis right-wing. The term "fascist" is sufficient.

This comes up a lot, the problem seems to be that no one really knows what fascist means. Fascism is at the extreme right of the left-right political spectrum. No really, it is. Yes I'm serious.

The rest of what you said is also silly, but I'll let someone else answer that.

America, home of the stupid. We deserve to fade in to irrelevance.

What kind of fade-in? Did you mean a regular fade-in or a cross-fading?

Or do you not know the difference between "in to" and "into"?

It's been known for a long time that Apple customers are a load of benders.

My understanding is that there was one app with one script containing the problematic issue.

While the whole repo thing seems to be another in a long line of Canonical great ideas, this one instance doesn't seem to fit "riddled with".

Example usage: Canonical is riddled with unqualified people making unjustified promises and changes to things they don't really seem to understand in the first place. Similar to Mars One or SystemD.

https://en.oxforddictionaries....

Ah, you are still here.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.... : 3, 3.2
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THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)

Accepting mussolini's propaganda as an accurate description of fascism is like taking The Democratic Republic of North Korea's word that they are a democracy.

Instead, lets take the word of more neutral sources:

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.
Encyclopedia Britannica

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Oxford English Dictionary

> Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?

These players:
The people who absolutely lose their shit at the thought of black people kneeling that they walk out of a football game.
The television network that fired a reporter who would not toe the line on climate change reporting
Colorado Republican lawmakers want to punish striking teachers with jail time.
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Before you get too focused on ranting about the usage of Republic in the GP post, here's the Oxford dictionary definition:

A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.

versus the definition of democracy:

A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

A Republic is partially a Democracy due to its elected nature, where as a Democracy is not necessarily a Republic because everyone is elected by the entire popular vote. Calling the US a Republic, at the federal level, is therefore accurate. It would be more accurate to call it a "Democratic Republic" because that covers both the Legislative branch and Executive branch. Pretending that you don't vote in a pure Republic is illogical, as well as the word-twisting to pretend that people only vote in a pure Democracy.

More to the point, there is some sway in the Electoral College -- depending on the state -- that allows some Electoral College voters to vote separately from how they were effectively told to vote. That's far from being Democratic. Nonetheless, ignoring those extremely rare exceptions, it is a Democracy, but the results are not based solely on the national popular vote, which is clearly the essence of the meaning of "we are not a democracy". Arguing otherwise is arguing semantics at best.

So man is natural, but the things man makes are not natural. Birds, monkeys, beavers, etc. are natural, and things they make are natural too. In other words - we're screwed, we can never do anything that is "natural".

And what exactly are we screwed about? It's a fucking word. Words have meaning. What the fuck did you think the word "artificial" meant?

"Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural."
https://en.oxforddictionaries....

"Artificial objects, materials, or processes do not occur naturally and are created by human beings, for example using science or technology."
https://www.collinsdictionary....

"humanly contrived (see contrive 1b) often on a natural model : man-made - an artificial limb -
  artificial diamonds"
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

"made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers."
http://www.dictionary.com/brow...

In the year 2135, two scientists turned astronauts travel to a black hole to capture radiation. Their mission is a success, and they return to earth with expectations of fame and profit. They begin selling their radiation to various scientists around the world, but they are eventually arrested. What were they accused of?

They were charged with hawking radiation.