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doesn't mean their logo has remained the same.

It doesn't, but still their logo is pretty much the same:

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Hmmm, I wonder what the children will look like?

More seriously, though, I'm torn on whether I support this or not (like my opinion on the subject matters, haha). If they're going to turn Unicode into AOL Instant Messaging or w/e, I guess they may as well strive to be politically correct about it?

Meh.

Hey there, illiterate/disingenuous one! Read this.

What he's calling ridiculous is indeed the concept of any profitable space-based manufacture any time soon. Any colonists are going to be spending most of their time doing their best to, quite simply, not die. Nextmost they'll be spending their time collecting scientific data, which is by far the most "valuable" thing they could produce, given that interplanetary missions to collect such data run from the upper tens of millions to the lower billions. Lastly, from a risk-reward benefit you present an absurdity. The possible reward of (immensely dubious) space-based manufacturing for the negative consequences of life in prison for engaging in slave trafficking? I mean, really?

Anyway, Musk's statement has been heard before. And it's the right call. Here's the apocryphal ad for one of Shackleton's Antarctic missions:

Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.

While it's been questioned whether the ad ever actually was real, it's been lauded as one of the most brilliant pieces of advertising of all time - both attracting risk-takers while weeding out those who would be unlikely to manage the journey.

Explain how you interpret "as part of a well regulated militia" that way. Provide some references.

Here you go you illiterate fool.

I'd be pissed as hell to see a bunch of crazed drivers tearing up the road that my neighborhood had to pay for.

Crazed drivers? Really? Do they have miniguns mounted on a Ford XB?

Dude, people are trying to get home from work, that's about it. You're an asshat.

Great, now we're really going to need a school for ants.

Are you new? You forgot, "you insensitive clod! "

Nah, I thought it and I take it for granted.

Just draw some runes on the touchscreen. .. or why not complete images? =P
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... not only because they did it "on budget and in time", which can only mean they didn't go for the cheapest bidder, but also because it's trains going through the tunnel, only!

Had this been done in proper US-style, that tunnel would have no place for trains, but one lane reserved to military vehicles and the cars of VIP ticket holders, then another lane for ordinary cars, on which a permanent traffic jam would take you 2 hours mininum to pass the tunnel, if only because of the mandatory TSA strip searching before entering.

This is why you never accept a vape from Bugs Bunny.

Or else

Many of the +sized model are really ++++++++++++++++sized.
They managed to fuck up the pirelli calendar with that. :D

But it works great for Michelin.

This on all cars http://www.thesneeze.com/art/l... or this for really busy areas https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

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You're a meme and don't know it.

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Pornhub is launching a bug bounty program for security researchers and pornography enthusiasts who are able to identify flaws on its platform.

Experienced with variable-load, multi-pronged penetration testing for detection (and plugging) of open ports with multiple penetration vectors. How would that sound? Because I don't know how I could keep a straight face if someone asks me about participation in such a program in an interview. Call me childish, but I would just smile like this at the interviewer : https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

they don't look anything like Gundam...

Indeed, wrong font, for one.

I am very much a libertarian sort of person, but I don't agree with Uber and Lyft on this one. That they should spend so much money to avoid conducting the most basic level of a serious background check makes me wonder if the are trying for willful blindness. A bogus background check just asks you to say who you are, and then they check your name. By requiring fingerprinting, Austin is helping to insure that individuals aren't side-stepping a criminal past.

It is fairly easy to get fake credentials such as name and SS#, and pass yourself off as someone else. Admittedly, someone could fake or alter their fingerprints, but it is more durable. It is also less intrusive than a DNA check, which I would oppose, even though it might catch a few more people than fingerprints alone.

I don't believe there should be unlimited "liberty" for those who are going to have another person alone in their vehicle, for hire.

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1500 hundred people to run a file server.

Reminds me of this picture from the 1990s:

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Does he look like a bitch?

I thought it was "press button, receive bacon"?

Unfortunately, there IS a reason some people may not want to upgrade OS X: some older Macbook Pros have a hardware flaw in their GPUs, and later versions of OS X panic (i.e., crash) with these machines where the older versions don't. Then there are the poor souls who just can't bring themselves to retire their PPC-based models. I mean, c'mon - the Luxor Lamp iMacs still look pretty damn cool. Generally, OS X upgrades are very worthwhile, but some people with hardware that's 5+ years old but otherwise working fine are getting the pinch.

I call bullshit.

I can't speak for France. On the other hand, I can for The Netherlands.

Gender is a biological fact, not a matter of personal opinion.

OK, pop quiz: If this woman rubs your leg, will your "biological fact" pop a boner, or what?

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You think she should be forced to use the men's bathroom at the Wilco-Hess #315 Truck Stop outside of Asheboro, North Carolina? It might cause a riot.

Citation Needed.

I found this one in your high school yearbook.

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That is why now is a great time to for the USA to get involved with Cuba. Raul and Fidel will be dead within the decade and their Cuba will die with them. Same goes to Russia.

The average obese american idiot tries to amuse the audience "predicting" the future, confusing it with his dreams and the propaganda he has been subjected to. In the meantime:

- Russia has just easily won two wars in two years (Ukraine and Syria), in both cases against US-backed gangsters and terrorists

- Miguel Diaz Canel - a hardline Marxist in his 50s, and very popular in Cuba - has been appointed by Fidel and Raul Castro as their successor

- In the european continent, far-left and far-right parties are skyrocketing in the polls, both have anti-americanism and anti-capitalism in common

Please, keep your trashy oligarchy-run, bilderberg-style "democracy", your brainwashing TV shows and your junk food all within your borders. Nobody wants them anymore, they smell bad, just like these two monsters here:
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Never heard of behavioral economics have you?

If the US had government owned companies that must mean they are socialists, right?

Except that they represent a tiny fraction of the american economy, while the biggest ones (Exxon, Apple, GE...) are all owned by the private sector. In Norway it's exactly the opposite. It's like saying that you can make coffee using 1 coffee bean and 10 litres of water. Never heard of ratios, have you? At school you probably spent too much time with your monster friends:
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free trade? check. private ownership? check. free markets? check.

Uncheck them all. Markets aren't "free" at all, they are heavily regulated, tariffs are widely used, and the biggest companies of the country are state-owned. See next link in the post.

Going to quote wikipedia on this one because I think it articulates well how retarded you sound. "According to sociologist Lane Kenworthy

You quote a sociologist (!) in an economics discussion, and even from a wikipedia entry, and you think you're in the position of labeling somebody else as a retard?

Speaking of hilarious sources like wikipedia, this is the massive list of Norwegian government-owned companies. Besides the biggest industries of the country (Statoil, Telenor, etc), they even own companies active in theater management, opera, marketing research, and even an alcoholic drinks producer:
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Even the average american cretin should realize that this has nothing to do with "capitalism", no matter what the protestant pastor or the obese teacher taught you. Were these two classmates of yours?
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Acid rain didn't just "go away" either spontaneously, it slowed significantly because humans, back then, actually listened to scientists and were less aggressively selfish and stupid than regarding global warming.

Specifically, we stopped doing stuff like this. Even more specifically, we limited the amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide going into the air.

See also this (2013) story about transforming into weapons items commonly found in the purportedly secure area of U.S. airports.

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I for one am really excited about this new feature:

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Actually, I was thinking of Roger Daltry.

In case you're wondering:

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The painting is a very realistic depiction of a squirrel sitting in a woman's lap.

Anyone remember that wireframe rolling ball demo for GWBASIC (?) that looked tron-esque? It used the 4 graphics pages to give the illusion of rolling.

IIRC the land showed lines getting closer together to simulate distance.

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The ball wasn't transparent -- it used hidden line removal IIRC.
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Now-a-days we would use a wireframe like this:
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I don't believe the Great Flood was a myth. The "world" at that time was centered around the Euphrates river. Going by the description in some of the clay tablets, it would seem that someone upstream may have decided to destroy a natural dam out of revenge right when the mountain snow was melting in Spring (The Epic of Gilgamesh). That would have unleased a torrent of water 40x that of normal, and led to up to 11 feet of mud being deposited on the lower plains.

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The layout of some of these clay tablets looks like someone invented the spreadsheet before the computer:
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They even invented a tablet with round corners before Apple:

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Looks like those UK socialists beat Musk to it a long time ago ;)

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Jerry Springer for President

You may get your wish.

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The thing is that you say that you are ok with ads. You say 10%, Others say only text. I say no ads at all. That should be the goal.

No ads on tv, on the radio, on my underwear.

'But they make it possible to pay for ...'
I do not care. If you ask me if I want ads, the answer is no. If I were able to use something IRL to block ads on the street, in magazines and what not, you bet I would use it.

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That's from the ground up, not 400ft AGL, not 500ftAGL, not some small amount unless you lease them your airspace right of way...

Honest question here. Does a UAS like this one now require registration?

Princess Leia married Han Solo, got divorced and now cooks meth in a trailer on Alderaan. Here's a photo:

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On the other hand I would want to talk to Archimedes

You speak ancient Greek and can communicate with the dead? Okay, I'm impressed. ;)

Thanksgiving trivia for the day: the word for "turkey" comes from extensive and long-running confusion about where the bird came from. For example, in English it's called Turkey. In Turkey it's called "hindi", referring to India. In India it's called Peru. In Peru it's called "pavo", referring to peacocks, which are native to south and southeast asia, such as India (cyclic there), Cambodia, Malaysia, etc. In Cambodia (Khmer) it's called "moan barang", meaning "French chicken", while in Malaysia it's referred to as "ayam belanda", meaning "Dutch chicken". Both of those in turn think it comes from India: in French it's called "dinde" (from "poulet d’Inde", aka "chicken of India"), while in Dutch it's "kalkoen", referring to a place in India. Greek has a number of local dialectal names, such as misírka, meaning "egyptian bird", while in Egypt it's called dk rm, meaning the Greek bird (even though the latter part of the name derives from Rome - the Italians, by the way, thinking it comes from India). One variant of Arabic even credits it to Ethiopia.

A couple languages deserve special credit for their words:

Best accuracy: Miami indian - nalaaohki pileewa, meaning "native fowl"
Worst accuracy: A tie between Albanian (gjel deti, "sea rooster"); Tamil (vaan kozhi, "sky chicken"); and Swahili (bata mzinga, "the great duck")
Most creative: Mandarin - many names with meanings such as "cough up a ribbon chicken" and "seven-faced bird"
Least creative: Blackfoot: ómahksipi'kssíí, meaning "big bird". Hmm...

to pay for basic income, everyone has to earn less

I don't think that's accurate. Productivity since the 70s has doubled, but real-terms wages have been stagnant. In the last 3 decades, the top 0.1% of Americans have doubled their wealth. It's obvious that improved technology can maintain the same lifestyle for the same number of people but with the labour of fewer people - the maintenance of employment levels has mostly been due to the improvement of that basic lifestyle (smartphones, better medical technology, etc) providing jobs for displaced farm workers etc. The system we have encourages spending the extra productivity of technology and economic growth on an expanded lifestyle, but it could be diverted instead to providing a basic lifestyle without requiring extra labour.

But as I understand it the critique of your position is that "the extra productivity of technology" came from the inventor/entrepreneur class specifically because of the profit motive -- that is, the motive to earn more profit than the other guy. And therefore when you say "it could be diverted instead to providing a basic lifestyle", you are falsifying the equation by doing an operation on one side that you're not doing to the other. You are assuming that you wipe the profit motive out of existence while still keeping the innovation and economic activity which arose from the profit motive. That innovation and economic activity doesn't exist on its own absolute terms.

So the critique of your position is that sure, you could take the results of increased capital/production/capacity and divert it to people who didn't invent or bring to market the innovation which made it possible... one time, and maybe for a full generation if there was a previous extraordinary growth to draw from. But rather quickly human nature adapts to the new reality. Once you have removed that more-profit-than-the-other-guy motive, there is zero incentive for the remaining inventors/producers/entrepreneurs to continue to invent and produce and bring new things to market. So what happens over time is that the previous increase in productivity is spent by the redistributionists, and then the rate of increase slows dramatically without motive to drive it drives it, and then the market re-normalizes at a new level where yes everyone is closer to equal but at a lower equilibrium point.

to pay for basic income, everyone has to earn less

I don't think that's accurate. Productivity since the 70s has doubled, but real-terms wages have been stagnant. In the last 3 decades, the top 0.1% of Americans have doubled their wealth. It's obvious that improved technology can maintain the same lifestyle for the same number of people but with the labour of fewer people - the maintenance of employment levels has mostly been due to the improvement of that basic lifestyle (smartphones, better medical technology, etc) providing jobs for displaced farm workers etc. The system we have encourages spending the extra productivity of technology and economic growth on an expanded lifestyle, but it could be diverted instead to providing a basic lifestyle without requiring extra labour.

I like the idea of everyone earning a set amount and then working for more, but then the system breaks down, because nobody wants to contribute back.

In the trials of Basic Income that have been done so far, the total amount of work drops about 4%, mostly accounted for by teenage students studying instead of working to support their family, and mothers looking after their kids. The local economy grows.

The truth is that the majority of people want to keep their own success

Is it entirely their own?

"forget all that rhetoric about how America is great because of people like you and me and Steve Jobs. You know the truth even if you won’t admit it: If any of us had been born in Somalia or the Congo, all we’d be is some guy standing barefoot next to a dirt road selling fruit"

- Nick Hanauer (self-described billionaire plutocrat)

The wealth that a few accumulate is based on the labour, and custom, of the many. It depends on a working society. If your society collapses because people can't afford to eat, then you're just a guy with a nice house fending off the starving hordes with a shotgun. And your delivery of fresh organic produce isn't coming this week.

Basic Income isn't about redistributing wealth evenly ; it's about making sure that no-one starves, and yes, it's also about making sure that the businesses of today have customers tomorrow. The Citigroup Plutonomy Report aside, not everyone can make a living making gold-plated iPhones and giant yachts.

I usually body board and where I am unless you were wearing goggles you can't see that far under water due to the sand and stuff being thrown up by the waves. Max 5 meters.

The closest I have ever come is sitting with a group when a decent sized fin has passed right through the middle of us. Don't know how big it was, but it wasn't a little one. We were out of there straight away.

As for them coming in to shore I have only ever seen the big ones come in chasing schools of fish. It looked very similar to this - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

I live near the Sunshine Coast in Australia.

How the ad industry got from the results of those surveys to disaster they are doing on web pages is a mystery to me.

Easy. The conversation probably went like this:

Underling: "Sir, this study says that people want to see advertisements if.."
Ad Exec: "That's what I thought, let's put every ad everywhere."

The IAB author actually seems to have a fairly decent grasp on the situation though, which I'm sure is partly due to the fact that he helped create it as the head of the advertising "tech labs" (imagine the shit that goes on there). This paragraph contains some pretty hefty market-speak, and was partially quoted in the summary, but he seems to have a grasp on the problem:

Through our pursuit of further automation and maximization of margins during the industrial age of media technology, we built advertising technology to optimize publishers’ yield of marketing budgets that had eroded after the last recession. Looking back now, our scraping of dimes may have cost us dollars in consumer loyalty. The fast, scalable systems of targeting users with ever-heftier advertisements have slowed down the public internet and drained more than a few batteries. We were so clever and so good at it that we over-engineered the capabilities of the plumbing laid down by, well, ourselves. This steamrolled the users, depleted their devices, and tried their patience.

Basically, they weaponized online advertising and then got surprised when people complained about being shot at. They thought, oh, there's a couple cents there, we could put an ad there. We can do some interstitial ads (a few more cents), a few auto-play videos on the sidebars (cents!), some in the header and footer (cents, cents), let's do this one on an overlay over the page (cent), and after you close that another overlay opens (another cent), and let's serve all of these from the same organization so that we can track which users visit which sites and see which ads, so we can show them a different 10 ads on every site (or the same 10 ads on every site!), figure out what they're searching for, what they're shopping for, what they're watching, what they drive, who their friends are, what their friends like, their income level, gender, age, race, profession, pre-existing medical conditions, sexual fantasies, and they'll just love these targeted ads. Then let's take all that data and sell it to everyone else. Cents cents cents!

Now that everything we do is tracked online and ads are available on any platform imaginable, they're stopping to notice that no one ever asked for or wanted this, and now we're actively blocking it. Notice also (especially when people talk about ditching cable for online viewing) how many people express a willingness to pay real dollars (not just cents) in order to consume content the way the want, which includes no advertising. Like he said, the advertisers were so worried about scraping up all the cents that it cost them dollars in loyalty.

This calls for that one Jurassic Park quote.

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