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Samsung {...} Sony, and everyone else have their stuff made by Foxconn too.

Not every single company manufactures its stuff exclusively in China.
For example, Sony still manufactures in Japan.
(And Samsung obviously manufactures a lot in South Korea)

Those non-China-made products include their smartphones (and other high-tech, hi-priced gadgets), they'll prefer outsourcing less sensitive accessories (wall wart charger).

disclaimer: both of my latest two smartphones are Japan-made Sony Xperias. Though I still flashed an entirely different OS (not Android) on them.
So it's not *China*'s spyware you're going to find installed in there.

You're one of those idiots who thinks Alaska spends half of the year in darkness, aren't you?

Read and be educated.

Why does Bayer simply go into defense-mode and try to dismiss the study all together? At the least, for PR, they should be a bit more receptive and let people know that, you know, bees are good, that they would like to make sure their product doesn't kill them off en mass, that they may throw even just a *tiny* bit of cash toward research, and maybe, just maybe, adjust their product(s) to maybe counter these possible negative impacts of using Roundup.

Ask Napoleon.

Speaking as a citizen of Arizona, scorpions clear out roaches better than any chemical solution, but there are a few side effects. Of course YMMV.

https://www.reference.com/pets...

And an unborn fetus has fewer neurons, less brain power, is less 'aware' than a mouse for many, many months after conception.

Being generous,

months = 2 or more
many months = 3 or more
many, many months = 4 or more

http://www.babies.sutterhealth...
"Baby is developing reflexes, such as sucking and swallowing, and may begin sucking thumb"

I think your claim is bullshit.

Q:
What is the average weight of a mouse?
A:
Quick Answer

An average adult house mouse weighs between 17 and 25 grams, or .03 to .05 pounds. They are about 169 millimeters or a little over 6.5 inches in length. Continue Reading

https://www.reference.com/pets...

Month 4

Your baby's heartbeat may now be audible through an instrument called a doppler. The fingers and toes are well-defined. Eyelids, eyebrows, eyelashes, nails, and hair are formed. Teeth and bones become denser. Your baby can even suck his or her thumb, yawn, stretch, and make faces.

The nervous system is starting to function. The reproductive organs and genitalia are now fully developed, and your doctor can see on ultrasound if you are having a boy or a girl.

By the end of the fourth month, your baby is about 6 inches long and weighs about 4 ounces.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org...

4 oz Fetus = 0.25 lbs Fetus which is about 6x bigger than a mouse at ".03 to .05 pounds".

Six times bigger, reflexes, thumbsucking. Seriously, your claim is full of shit.

So at best, you cancel your neighbor's vote for you.

No, at best your vote still counts exactly as it would in every other situation. And your neighbors kid rats out his dad. Under federal law, perpetrators face up to five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. Plus, as a bonus, another $250,000 fine and 5 more years in federal prison for stealing your mail. As an extra cherry on top bonus as a felon he may even miss out on voting next time. giving the other side one less vote next election.

At worst - you don't vote and their vote - against your wishes - is cast.

You don't vote and get everything you deserve.

Doesn't it feel great to be disenfranchised?

At no time was he disenfranchised.
Doesn't it feel great to now finally understand the post you were replying to? You should try it more often.

one person eats about 2000 pounds or about a metric ton of food a year. Water can presumably be largely recycled and some can be found on Mars, so we can ignore this. So you are right, this is probably adequate for a while.

"Sidewalks are owned by the property owner..."

It's better to check when you don't know what you're talking about.

https://www.reference.com/gove...

Probably not - no ingredient we've been told about is exceptionally dense.
From Wikipedia Li-ion batteries have 100-265 W.h/kg and 250-676 W.h/L, which implies density of about 2.5kg/L.

This page gives typical density of glass as 2.4 to 2.8 kg/L. Sodium metal has density 0.97 kg/L. So the new cell should have similar or better mass density than the Li-ion cells.

Indians are Asian.

https://www.reference.com/geog...

Actually, not so much. https://www.reference.com/scie...

However, if "metal"ness was entirely a matter of which element is present, then hydrogen would either be a metal or not, and metallic hydrogen would be either impossible or uninteresting.

U.S. News in September of 2014, Maryland, New York, Colorado, Connecticut, California, Philadelphia, Missouri and Kentucky offer free tuition to residents. There are 11 total schools for applicants to choose from. .... Alice Lloyd College, Berea College, College of the Ozarks, Curtis Institute of Music, Deep Springs College, Webb Institute, the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Coast Guard Academy, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy. Which states offer free tuition to residents?

If we get more Muslims in over time, we'll also be getting some of the US-born ones to adopt US culture, which doesn't include pushing Sharia law

A noble, but unsubstantiated hope. Tsarnayev brothers grew up in America. And not in some "hateful" fly-over country, but in Boston, of all places. Omar Mateen — the Orlando-shooter — was born in New York.

And what did we, the US, get in exchange for the scores killed by these people? Are there numerous American-born Muslim scientists, inventors, engineers offsetting the carnage the listed assholes have caused? Not especially — should have been accepting more immigrants from Eastern Europe instead (like Asimov, Sikorsky, Brin, and Torvalds to name a few).

In Europe — so often used as an example for the unwashed Yanks to follow — the situation is, apparently, even worse.

You're confusing having a state church with the possibility of giving it a lot of influence in lawmaking.

I'm not — merlinokos is. The survey he referred to asked the question: "Would you like Christianity to become an official religion of the US". There was nothing in there about "giving it a lot of influence".

We're not talking about a general Christian movement in politics, but one generally rooted in fundamentalism, like Iran and Saudi Arabia to some extent

As I wrote, 300 years ago Christian White men thought up our nation. Most of them would've been considered "fundamentalists" by today's standards — their stance on women voting, or same-sex marriage would be most appalling. And yet, they've created the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which neither Iran, nor Saudi Arabia, nor any other Islam-dominated society can come close to replicating. Because the Prophet made the mistake of officially bundling secular law into religious dogma.

Even if we do, somehow, go back to the opinions of those "fundamentalists" prevailing nation-wide again, we'd still be a much healthier and freer society, than what our Muslim immigrants are used to. That a large number of them, foolishly, wish to replicate theirs here — while we nod understandingly and purr about the "wonderful tapestry of diversity" — should worry you much more, than any Christian thought.

The reason I do not care about Muslims wanting Sharia law in the US is that there are too few of them to effectively push it.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the US and the world. Though it is an Individual's right to choose any faith (or none at all), it is also the State's right (duty!) to keep track of people choosing, what's likely to make them hostile to and oppressive of the rest of the country.

If Brendan Eich could be fired from Mozilla for privately opposing homosexual marriage, how could supporters of the firing be welcoming towards people, whose preferred legal system calls for killing of homosexuals, married or not?

I'm guessing the female participation in this study was also at 40%.

According to the article, the total number of adults surveyed was 2000 out of a total population of 320 million of which about 76% are adults. I am not a mathematician although I have done and passed University level statistics but isn't that number a little on the small size to get a reasonable statistical result? I wonder what the surveys demographics and uncertainties were?

Sounds like clickbait to me.

The labor force participation rate factors in demographics. It is a measure of the percentage of eligible workers versus the population as a whole. So as the population goes up and down, with "full employment" the labor force participation rate would hold steady. It drops when unemployment goes up.

You are talking about workers in the labor force which WILL fluctuate with population - but that's not the measure to look at, nor the measure that I linked. Labor force participation RATE climbed from the 70s to the 90s, leveled off for most of the 2000s, then started falling. Jobs disappeared, they did not come back - and after a certain amount of time, those still unemployed were "dropped" from the lists of unemployed so the unemployment rate could be cooked. The labor force participation rate doesn't lie...

We could give everyone a UBI of at least $5k today, possibly even $10k, without costing anyone an extra dollar. There may or may not be moral hazards, although recent surveys from Sweden suggest that these are not as bad a people initially think. And this might sound harsh, but the sort of people that would stop working after receiving a $5k or $10k UBI are probably not really contributing that much to society anyway, so it might not be that big of a loss to the rest of us if they drop out of the economy.

But anyway, here's how the math would work:

The population of the US is 319 million.

Of those, 122 million pay federal income tax (source: https://www.reference.com/gove...)
Suppose that for those 122 million people, we gave them a tax hike of exactly $5k
Under a UBI, they could get an extra $5k, which exactly offsets this tax hike

So there are 192 million people left
Keep in mind that UBI replaces existing welfare payments, like social security and food stamps
Social security taxes bring in $920 billion (source: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS...)
Food stamps cost us $74.1 billion (source: http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/sup...)
That's enough to pay just over $5k to each of those remaining 192 million people

I haven't bothered to look into how much we're spending in admin costs to apply means testing to these welfare systems, and I haven't looked into how much money the various state governments are spending on various welfare schemes - all of this would become unnecessary under a UBI.

However the Cato Institute has looked into this, and they think we're spending $1 trillion per year on "welfare" (source: http://www.cato.org/publicatio...). I'm not sure I fully trust their analysis, but I'll take this as an estimate of the upper bound of what we could afford. So this, combined with social security revenue, would add up to $2 trillion per year to share amongst the 192 million non-taxpayers, which would give a UBI of just over $10k.

No need to tap into our Medicare funds, or cut any of our other expenses. We could continue to pay medical expenses, pensions, fund NASA and wage unnecessary and expensive wars around the world.

So that's where we're at today. In the future, there could be technological advances that make us more productive, and mean that we can lower our labor participation rate. The OP asks us whether UBI is the way to go in the future, and I'd say it's a plausible option.

2 years to build a new Soyuz capsule after it's ordered? It takes Boeing and Airbus about 80 days to build a 777 or A380.

Wow, 80 days to make a 777? It takes Toyota only 17 hours to make a car! Wow, 17 hours to make a car? It takes my corner deli three minutes to make a sandwhich!

False comparisons anyone?

This source says nearly 400 billion estimated Big Macs https://www.reference.com/busi...

One guy has eaten more than 25,000 (lets see iPhone beat that)

As far as I know they didn't. They didn't correct for creepy fellow male students mobbing them nor for creepy professors hitting on them or for creepy co workers mobbing them and hitting on them once they graduate either.

Yeah, the same guys that can't get a date to save their lives. They come across as creepy because they don't know how to talk to women, but I guess it is more fun to make fun of the kids with handicaps than to understand that very likely you are talking about people with autism.

A scary finding of the questionnaire was that women reported their high school guidance counselors were very non-supportive of their decision to study engineering. Non-supportive is a nice word, because I got long letters that talked about how they were actually discouraged by people in their high schools. There seem to be many high schools in our country which discourage women from taking advanced math and physics courses, and, in fact, there seem to be very few women who were physics teachers in high school.

When I was in Calc and Physics (ap and regular), the class was half women. My Calc teacher was a woman, my physics teacher was a man, so what? Women far outnumber men in teaching positions, should we start correcting for that next? I'll bet that those same guidance councilors would discourage men from teaching or going into nursing, where is all the outrage? Considering my office (systems engineering) is half women, I don't see an issue, if you personally run against sexism, you should move around it or deal with it, not complain on an internet forum where there will be no effect on the problem.

They were expected to take care of household duties any way.

That is an issue in the household, it sounds like she chose the wrong husband. There are guys that would love to stay home and take care of the house and kids, those guys are considered creepy by woman like you because they are more sensitive instead of being alpha males.

And having a child is a challenge - especially since men don't get maternity leave.

It depends. When men work in white collar employment, many companies offer paternity leave, but I would be seriously surprised if anyone offered maternity leave to a man, as that would be the wrong type of leave.

http://dictionary.reference.co...

http://dictionary.reference.co...
do i know about it know?

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/i...
or, if you prefer a different source
http://dictionary.reference.co...

terrorism
[ter-uh-riz-uh m]
noun
1. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
2. the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
3. a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

So, what terrorism has the FBI engaged in, please cite sources. Since I am such a naive little child, you should be able to find many cases of the FBI engaging in terrorism.

To a lot of Christians, all virtue comes from God, so if you do something good, it's an indication you must be Christian. They literally can't conceive of good in the absence of God.

It's even turned into an adjective used to mean decent or respectable as in "that's a very Christian thing you did."

There was a quote from Ricky Gervais's show Derek to the effect that "I've met good people who don't believe in God, and bad people who do believe in God. Seems to me it doesn't matter which way you believe; just be good."

No, you invoked it.
He made the comparison which you feel satisfies the law, but you were the one who invoked the law.

http://dictionary.reference.co...

bray
noun
1.
the loud, harsh cry of a donkey.

Sounds about right....

According to Wikipedia - "Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, ethics, and social organisation that relate humanity to an order of existence"

That doesn't seem to make the beliefs that don't hold up particularly well from a scientific perspective, religion.

Dictionary also doesn't seem to agree with you : http://dictionary.reference.co.... Some definitions can be stretched to kinda-sorta mean what you want it to mean, especially if the "belief" is practiced in communes. But you don't seem to be pointing out especially the beliefs that are practiced in communes, so dictionary also seems to be disagreeing with you.

Why don't you accept that those people are simply wrong. All wrong things need not be religion.

Hahha. You spelled 'great' wrong! What a looser. I'll bet you could care less too.

I think that was an intentional pun. Because the increasing abundance of ignorant (and immature) comments on Slashdot are helping to make Slashdot grate on my nerves too.

Hint: try rereading the comment and then explain how a demonstration of ignorance would make Slashdot great.

Or seriplane, hyperplane, or delaplane!

Or seriplane, hyperplane, or delaplane!

Your "special snowflakes" are anecdotes

er huh?

http://dictionary.reference.co...

5 or 6 anecdotes in a slashdot story hardly qualifies.

Did you even read what I wrote? The part about it NOT being limited to these few Slashdot comments? Go ahead, read it again, come back once you're done.

It it applies well to 99.7% of the population or even 95% it's still a really good measure.

[citation needed]

You claim that it is good for that portion of the population. Back it up with data.

Not so obvious to the young 'uns, I suspect. So here's a clue for them.

Care to rethink that position?

No, I meant 'ironic'. Apparently yesterday was my day to feed trolls. (sigh). Ironic: adjective. 3. coincidental; unexpected: While I correctly used the phrase in the manner in which I learned it, it was ironic or unexpected and coincidental that the phraseology was incorrect as spoken in other dialects and regions.

The definition of medical does not make that differentiation.

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Numbers matter less than the meaning they are intended to convey. Mathematics is a language first and foremost.

Numbers absolutely do matter.
So now you claiming it was hyperbole? That you were exaggerating for effect and made up the number dozens.
OK, I'll buy that you now claim it was a false statement of exaggeration for effect.
Leave off the numbers next time and just say " lots" or " many times"; because then it would be a true statement.

And yeah, numbers do matter. This is a tech site, not a safe space for the math-impaired.

http://dictionary.reference.co...

Numbers matter less than the meaning they are intended to convey. Mathematics is a language first and foremost.

Performance is a noun. Performant is an adjective. I guess he could have said "faster"

performant
noun

a performer

Word Origin
based on informant, etc.

Please, read up on Apartheid before throwing around words you don't understand.

http://dictionary.reference.co...

Apartheid was the practice of segregation in South Africa. What race is being segregated in Israel? It isn't Muslims, as Muslims are equal citizens, and the Palestinians were all offered equal citizenship and instead decided to stay the way they are so they can attack Israel instead of being equals in the country.

Nationalism and Fascism while incendiary words to throw around, are nothing like Apartheid. You are bringing totally different concepts together, and showing nothing of how they apply to Israel.

try to shovel mountains of oppressive behavior the Israel government and many far right Jews engage in against minorities in an effort to clear them out of Israel. You can't even get married to a non-Jew in Israel and have the marriage recognized.

Prove it. There is a large Muslim and Christian population in Israel, I am sure if this was the case, they wouldn't be citizens.

That's fucking hilarious. You try to come off as so intelligent and informed, it is almost ironic that your Slashdot alias is sumdumass. I wish I could be there to see your face when you figure out that Alanis understands irony far better than you.

> Politician means somebody who makes public policy decisions.

Hey dictionary pedant! Check the fucking dictionary before 'correcting' someone.

http://dictionary.reference.co...
politician:
2: a seeker or holder of public office, who is more concerned about winning favor or retaining power than about maintaining principles.

It's not about conformity. It's about wearing an article of clothing whose very name is now used to describe the action to hide; conceal. Maybe he was just trying to figure out what was being cloaked.

So, you seem to think that you get to define what weight it. SI doesn't define weight, physics does. In physics, weight is defined as:

http://dictionary.reference.co...

Physics. the force that gravitation exerts upon a body, equal to the mass of the body times the local acceleration of gravity: commonly taken, in a region of constant gravitational acceleration, as a measure of mass.

The force being exerted on a boat or sub by gravity is not zero. The same amount of force is exerted on it if it is submerged, floating, or just sitting on the ground. However, the forces are in equilibrium, just as you standing on the ground are at equilibrium, and not sinking into the ground or floating away.

A Sub weighs an enormous amount, it doesn't matter if it is floating, sinking, or sitting on the ground, it weighs the same on Earth to a certain percent. It however will weigh differently on Mars, Jupiter, or floating in space. Therefore, SI defined mass, which does not equal weight. Weight changes based on the local gravity field, but mass does not. This is why mass is measured with a scale comparing two items, while weight is measured versus a deformation. Weight can be measured in water just as in air, you just measure the amount of water displaced.

I am glad you feel you can speak for the international scientific community, however, it seems that they don't agree with you. Weight is not equal to mass, it is defined based in Earth gravity for conversion, but that doesn't make them equal. Do you honestly expect things to weigh the same on the moon as Earth?

Maybe this will help you out.

whether the original inventor is alive or dead

Yes, my little hypothetical dialogue was meant to address exactly this part of Anonymous Brave Guy's argument. Just how long — 20 or 75 years — I am not sure.

But I would not object to it being perpetual, actually — tangible property has no expiration date, why should intellectual property be different?

There is no natural right to intellectual property

There is no natural right to physical property either. It is an abstraction some societies maintain in some shape or form. In properly Socialist countries, for example — such as USSR — an individual could not possibly own means of production. (Which, BTW, follows immediately from the very definition of "Socialism".)

This word surprised me too. I thought it was another 'conversate' come to make people who use language properly twitch.

Correlation != causation

How trite.

Care to tell us how causation is ever determined if it's not connected to some correlation?

You're about as deep as an August parking lot puddle in a dilapidated Florida strip mall.

Regime, I think you meant.

Editors? We don't need no stinking editors!

I believe what you mean is regimen.

fyi... incite

Alleged...

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I'm sorry. It was boldfaced otherwise I would have kept my trap shut.

I otherwise agree strongly with your point.

Assertions of violation should come with a cost when they are wrong.

this is probably one of the least benign cases of self promotion.

http://dictionary.reference.co...

So lets reverse what you just said. This is the most harmful case of self promotion. Is that what you meant to put there?