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My joke could had been fun if I had made it correctly, one article had a lot of cables but I didn't knew whatever all was standard USB ports or not so I googled it and just took one but that one didn't even have the type C port so .. that was pretty stupid. 03:35 local time so I blame that. Also there was the SuperSpeed cables as-well.

So you've got A, B in normal and mini and micro versions:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
And then you've got SuperSpeed A, B and micro-B:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.usb.org/press/cespr...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/i...
And USB type C:
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-...

For at-least 10 different connectors for USB cables =P

The problem with 4K is that, unless you strap the screen to your face, you do not have 4k-worthy eyes.

It is more than just resolution, it is color space. Compare and contrast

HD
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

UHD
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

The problem with 4K is that, unless you strap the screen to your face, you do not have 4k-worthy eyes.

It is more than just resolution, it is color space. Compare and contrast

HD
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

UHD
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

They could start those internship programs in highschool for students that showed interest. Getting hands on experience while taking courses at the local union^H^Hversity. And once they're done with their appren^H^H^H^H^H^H "internship" they can join together with each other and present a single front to the corporation to fight for rights. Maybe even pool their money for when they don't have a job. Brilliant idea.

Low to midlevel IT work doesn't need a college degree. It's a 21st century trade at this point and needs hands on training along with some course work (done at the local union hall). This is what high school students are learning these days. It's a 2 year career and technical education program designed for HS juniors and seniors who intend to pursue a career in IT.

As for all of the people that were laid off, after a decade or so in industry I have a pretty clear idea who these guys are. They're the ones content with doing things the 'old' way and refuse to learn something new. I am constantly writing scripts and tools to shave 5 or 10 minutes off of my day here or there. After a decade I've automated what used to take me half a day. My peers refuse to learn how to use them (Despite putting in extra time to document them to an 8th grade reading level). They're content spending a half of a day doing things the way we did them in 2005.

Given the opportunity I could replace most of them with a visa holder that I trained on my scripts that spent the rest of day doing new things. It's easy to look back 30 or 40 years and laugh at how everyone was doing it the 'hard way' without understanding that how we do things now is going to look the same way in 30 or 40 years. I'm already 10 years into

I wish I got a bonus for every time I heard "Nah, I already know VBA. Sure it takes me 5x longer than you to do something in Python, but I don't want to learn something new". If you aren't going into work every single day trying to replace or automate yourself, someone else is. Eventually that is going to catch up to you. It's also something that is not unique to IT. Engineering, medicine, farming, are all progressing with society. If you're someone that insists on doing something the 'old' way, society is ready to leave you behind.

When I was a fresh faced grad I was sympathetic to everyone being replaced. I was terrified that I was going to be replaced by a H1B a year or two into my job. Now a decade out I'm sympathetic to all of those being replaced's coworkers. The ones that have had to work with these guys for the last decade while trying to do more with less dealing with co-workers that refused to learn anything new. Most of these guys are the 21st century equivalent of switch board operators, punch card operators, and human computers

They could start those internship programs in highschool for students that showed interest. Getting hands on experience while taking courses at the local union^H^Hversity. And once they're done with their appren^H^H^H^H^H^H "internship" they can join together with each other and present a single front to the corporation to fight for rights. Maybe even pool their money for when they don't have a job. Brilliant idea.

Low to midlevel IT work doesn't need a college degree. It's a 21st century trade at this point and needs hands on training along with some course work (done at the local union hall). This is what high school students are learning these days. It's a 2 year career and technical education program designed for HS juniors and seniors who intend to pursue a career in IT.

As for all of the people that were laid off, after a decade or so in industry I have a pretty clear idea who these guys are. They're the ones content with doing things the 'old' way and refuse to learn something new. I am constantly writing scripts and tools to shave 5 or 10 minutes off of my day here or there. After a decade I've automated what used to take me half a day. My peers refuse to learn how to use them (Despite putting in extra time to document them to an 8th grade reading level). They're content spending a half of a day doing things the way we did them in 2005.

Given the opportunity I could replace most of them with a visa holder that I trained on my scripts that spent the rest of day doing new things. It's easy to look back 30 or 40 years and laugh at how everyone was doing it the 'hard way' without understanding that how we do things now is going to look the same way in 30 or 40 years. I'm already 10 years into

I wish I got a bonus for every time I heard "Nah, I already know VBA. Sure it takes me 5x longer than you to do something in Python, but I don't want to learn something new". If you aren't going into work every single day trying to replace or automate yourself, someone else is. Eventually that is going to catch up to you. It's also something that is not unique to IT. Engineering, medicine, farming, are all progressing with society. If you're someone that insists on doing something the 'old' way, society is ready to leave you behind.

When I was a fresh faced grad I was sympathetic to everyone being replaced. I was terrified that I was going to be replaced by a H1B a year or two into my job. Now a decade out I'm sympathetic to all of those being replaced's coworkers. The ones that have had to work with these guys for the last decade while trying to do more with less dealing with co-workers that refused to learn anything new. Most of these guys are the 21st century equivalent of switch board operators, punch card operators, and human computers

First the easy part of the answer. Qasam 3 has a range of 16 kilometers. According to this article (enhanced map) the missiles beyond that range are not Qassam (in particular, the M75 you mention is also called Fajr-5, and is produced in Iran).

As for everything else: While I participated in enough discussions here to be appreciative of the fact that this discussion has not deteriorated to name calling and ad hominem attacks, and for that I really do feel I should commend you, I still feel we are failing to communicate on some really fundamental level. It feels to me like you are set in your opinion that the sides are morally equivalent, and are searching everything I say for evidence to support that conclusion, rather than examine the evidence set in order to reach the most likely conclusion. In particular, I am failing to impress the concept that choosing to target civilians is different than having to target civilians due to them being in the way to military objective.

For example, when you say:

There is evidence that, in the absence of military targets, they aim mortars at civilian targets, but that's not the claim you appear to be making here.

I can only shake my head in disbelief. I feel like nothing I have tried to say made any impact. That thing you say I was not trying to say is precisely what I actually was trying to say. Hamas fires whether there is a military target in range or not. As such, claiming that when there happens to be a military target somewhere in range, then it was targeting that, is simply apologetic. The very fact that they will fire whether there is a military target in range or not is proof positive that targeting military isn't what they're after.

I'd be very much interested in seeing any sort of study of this alleged phenomenon.

I don't have such a study to offer you. The statement this relates to is based on my personal conclusion based on listening, as events happened, to the news. Accept it or don't. My word is all I can offer.

This is an entirely baseless assumption.

No, it is not. It is based on exactly what I offered you. When the fire level goes down, Gaza's siege lightens up. I really don't want to open the west bank debate up, because I think you are mischaracterizing both how the West bank is behaving and their situation, and considering we're failing to make points that convince the other, I don't want to prolong this discussion needlessly. I will offer this. I think even you will agree that standard of living in the west bank is miles ahead of Gaza, and if that's not because of the relative low intensity of violence emanating from there, I'm hard pressed to think what you think the cause is.

But what I really find I am failing to impress upon you is that intent matters. If you could tell me what evidence, if presented, would convince you that the sides are not morally equal, maybe we can advance this discussion to somewhere where meaningful exchange of can take place. If not, I'll settle for "I had a discussion on Slashdot with someone who wholly disagrees with me, and managed to keep it civilized", and call it a small win.

Shachar

I've always found this tells me almost everything I need to know about Windows 10.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/US_Employment_Statistics_-_March_2015.png - Looks like as of March 2015, 40.7 percent of humans in the United States were not bringing home the bacon.

More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_the_United_States

Actually, the first stage is costed at 2.5 million, of which the Knight Foundation is only covering $250,000. The rest is coming out of donations. The other three stages will each cost more than the first.

From this write-up, linked in the article (the link is on the word "costed"):

"Page 10 of this text specifically says that the cost of the first stage of "Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia" is $2.5 million, and that the grant is for 1 year starting in September 2015. Page 2 says that the whole project is in 4 stages, each lasting approximately 18 months = 6 years. This grant of $250,000 therefore only covers 10% of the cost, of the first stage, of the total project."

No half measures : https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Note that you're assuming that you are from a country where numbered roads are a thing. In Germany, for example, it's extremely uncommon to use this kind of scheme and even in places where it is used it's often used differently - for example, in Mannheim they enumerate blocks instead of roads and due to the need for the scale to be able to expand in three directions they set it up so that A1 and L1 are adjacent. However, in Europe roads are commonly not straight, which can help with navigation (if you have a map, that is).

Likewise, the nearest mountain could well be a few hundes miles away. Of course any set of landmarks will do but coming from a completely flat area I'm familiar with towns where no landmarks are visible from most places in town.

In such situations I just take out my smartphone and do a map search for whatever is on the road signs. Even just knowing how the current road is laid out can help you get your bearings and if that's not enough you can match the names of crossing roads with what you see on the map to get your exact location. Yes, that's using Google Maps as a road map with a search function. It works fairly well for that and doesn't bulk up your pockets when you're on foot.

That's the strange part, it was an aviation engine.

What was it? Just out of curiosity.
Anyway, all I can say is I've never seen a warmup requirement in the operating manual of any turbine engine-powered aircraft, but maybe it's because the operational procedures were designed such that it's averted. Warmup is definitely required in piston aircraft (e.g. DA-40; after startup 2 mins idle, then 1200 rpm until oil in green; no takeoff before that). However, in-flight restart procedures don't mention warmup either. You can shut down an engine in flight, leave it off for as long as you like, restart it again and immediately apply full power. One would think if component temps were an issue that the designers of the procedure would warn about it, but apparently they don't. I don't know about industrial applications. I've seen an engine overhaul tech once mention that when they test out industrial engines they do run them up slowly, but that it's not really required.

Still not a good idea to run up to full power before ensuring that every surface is lubricated.

Curiously enough, since in turbine engines there's no sliding of surfaces going on (everything is on ball and roller bearings), oil is primarily used as coolant, not as lubrication. That's why it's okay to let a turbine engine freewheel in the wind on the ground. You won't see that happening with turboprops or helicopter rotors because these guys are using a gearbox between the engine and the prop/rotor (and a pretty aggressive one at that, usually in about a 10:1 ratio). In fact, first thing after parking you'll often see ground crew running up to tie the props and rotor down.

But it *was* the early '80s. And they didn't do much in the way of "curvy", "aerodynamic", or "low coefficient of drag" back then.

Which is really sad considering that in previous decades cars didn't look like fucking boxes on tires. 80 cars sucked, especially if they were American cars.

But it *was* the early '80s. And they didn't do much in the way of "curvy", "aerodynamic", or "low coefficient of drag" back then.

Which is really sad considering that in previous decades cars didn't look like fucking boxes on tires. 80 cars sucked, especially if they were American cars.

But it *was* the early '80s. And they didn't do much in the way of "curvy", "aerodynamic", or "low coefficient of drag" back then.

Which is really sad considering that in previous decades cars didn't look like fucking boxes on tires. 80 cars sucked, especially if they were American cars.

But it *was* the early '80s. And they didn't do much in the way of "curvy", "aerodynamic", or "low coefficient of drag" back then.

Which is really sad considering that in previous decades cars didn't look like fucking boxes on tires. 80 cars sucked, especially if they were American cars.

But it *was* the early '80s. And they didn't do much in the way of "curvy", "aerodynamic", or "low coefficient of drag" back then.

Which is really sad considering that in previous decades cars didn't look like fucking boxes on tires. 80 cars sucked, especially if they were American cars.

But it *was* the early '80s. And they didn't do much in the way of "curvy", "aerodynamic", or "low coefficient of drag" back then.

Which is really sad considering that in previous decades cars didn't look like fucking boxes on tires. 80 cars sucked, especially if they were American cars.

But it *was* the early '80s. And they didn't do much in the way of "curvy", "aerodynamic", or "low coefficient of drag" back then.

Which is really sad considering that in previous decades cars didn't look like fucking boxes on tires. 80 cars sucked, especially if they were American cars.

And if their problem is that they are "swimming in money" why the aggressive year-after-year fundraising goals of 10-20% growth every single year? That is the growth plan of an aggressive for-profit start-up, not a non-profit.

Have you actually read their financials? [PDF link] (What you link to is their annual plan, which isn't a financial document.) They've millions of dollars in cash and short term investments on hand - far in excess of their annual costs of operation.

Blue box. Been started in many rooms, no problem.

What's the problem?

The Prophet Mohamed was a dick, by the way. And Muslims, Scientologists and Mormons are all idiots for following "religions" founded by cruel scam artists.

You left a few out:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/stati...

https://desertpeace.files.word...

Granted, this happened while it was being built, but the damage was fixed before launch.

Don't know about biofuels, but there are proposals and some development work going on along these lines which actually do help the fleet. The reason for that is simple: you know which is the most valuable and important ship in the fleet? The aircraft carrier? The guided missile cruisers? The landing craft? Nope, it's the ugly, lowly oiler. Unless these ships are successful in their mission, the entire fancy multi-billion dollar fleet grinds to a halt within a week. You don't see spots on them being promoted in military advertising, but the oiler is really the centerpiece. When the fleet is out, all the oiler does is continuously hop around the carrier battle group while everybody sucks on its pipe like a total addict. And once the oiler is out, it's in a mad dash to the nearest middle eastern port for a refill and a mad dash back to the fleet. Without a continuous supply of fuel (and the fleet goes through *lots* of it), all your carrier escort ships stop and all flight activity stops. Essentially, at that point the fleet is useless, a victory to the enemy without a single shot fired.
So the new idea is at least partially solving this problem by synthesizing fuels directly in deployment. The carrier has plenty of nuclear power. At the very least, in theory, this can be used to synthesize jet fuel and keep the air superiority. This could help significantly lower the burden on the supply line to the fleet and thus increase the fleet's combat effectiveness. Current problems involve cost, buying fossil fuels is just too cheap. But it will not remain so forever.

The reactor are not really close to Germany. Well, they are close in absolute distance, but if you look at Belgium scale, not that close. And if wind push radioactive material to Germany, it will pass over Liège (Lüttich/Luik) If they had to chose a place with the less impact in Belgium with dominant winds coming from SW, still on the Meuse, they should have gone on the other side of Liège, like somewhere in Herstal or Visé, close to the Holland border. (they probably had good reasons not to go there, I don't know)

It's difficult to build anything far away from a border in Belgium. But when I look at the map of nuclear reactor in Germany, it's quite similar (at least according to this map https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... ), a lot close to the borders, less in the middle. France also has a similar pattern. (special prize for the Chooz plant)

You are delusional... have you even looked at spending levels? Currently medicaid spending is greater than military spending alone- Social Security and Medicaid make up half of the budget. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Try a cigar, it won't kill you. Bring a few back for your friends, they're dirt cheap in Cuba.

As an automobile aficionado, I'm in love with the newer models and innovations. I don't understand those who deem themselves some type of purist or anything. I've what can only be called a "stable" full of varied vehicles - most of which would be scoffed at by a serious collector. I've spent absurd amounts of money acquiring and repairing them. One of my favorites is a 1982 Volvo 245. I sent it out to the West Coast to have it torn apart and rebuilt. It's like a tank and it has rear wheel drive - it's fantastic in a foot of snow and more fun than most people would imagine.

The 245's are trmendous vehicles. at 30 plus years, it should be just about broken in at this time! When I bought my son and his fiance a wedding present, it was between a BMW M3 or a Volvo of I forget the model. Hard to go wrong with either, but he went with the M3. German engineering, or Swedish toughness and safety are hard to beat. If I didn't love me my Jeeps, I think I'd buy one or the other. And speaking of Volvos, here's one of my favorites https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... A friend who is sadly no longer with us had one of these. I called it the cartoon car, because it looked exatly like the cars I would draw when I was a little kid. That being said, it was a tremendous vehicle.

So, don't dawdle. Go, go with great speed and before they change! It's a great place and the people are awesome.

You sold me! Now I gotta go and sell the wife on it.

China today asserted its “indisputable sovereignty” over the landing site surrounding its Chang'e 3 moon probe.

The area under Chinese claim - approximately one lunar hemisphere - has been renamed the 'North China Ocean'. As justification, China noted its long cultural and historical ties to the moon, recently underscored by the arrival of Chang'e 3. China also angrily objected to a US lunar satellite currently orbiting the moon. "It is intolerable", said a Chinese Defense Ministry spokeswoman. "Our national sovereignty is violated during half of each orbit of the US craft". She demanded the United States immediately restrict its satellite to orbit the hemisphere outside of the Chinese claim.

Plans were also announced for a new Chinese heavy-lift spaceship. The first launch - planned for 2018 - will send 240 Chinese astronauts (or 'taikonauts') to the moon, accompanied by several hundred tons of construction equipment. Once on the moon, the taikonauts will launch a massive lunar rock-mining operation designed to provide raw material for new Chinese lunar city. The city (tentatively called "New Kangbashi") will eventually house 202 shopping malls, 2002 security personnel, and 20200 visiting tycoons. It will also serve as operating base for hundreds of Yutu Guàiwù (or 'Moon Rabbit') vehicles. A uniquely Chinese design, the Moon Rabbit is large 2-legged, hopping spacetank. The design takes advantage of the weak lunar gravity to use two 'legs' to propel itself long distances over the lunar surface. This allows the comparatively small Chinese security presence to patrol the large Chinese claim. Equipped with large footpads, each hop of the Moon Rabbit also flattens the lunar surface underfoot. Over time, it is hoped this action will create extensive flattened surfaces, jumpstarting further property development, especially in the highly coveted lunar maria areas.

Treaties prohibiting the weaponization of space also mean that each 'Moon Rabbit' patrol vehicle is unarmed. Instead, it enforces security by simply stomping security threats (or recalcitrant residents) underfoot. The Moon Rabbit is designed to detect the presence of cameras and other digital recording devices nearby. If detected, it can simply hop over protesters blocking its path without loss of face (A design feature developed in response to the Tank Man incident).

But a child (anyone under 18 now) coming in with even unwashed clothes, or hunger? That's an issue that gets referred to social services pretty damn quick. I'm not saying they can act immediately, but we have a range of neglect laws and getting taken into care can happen pretty damn quick if the parents obviously aren't around, can't cope or don't give a shit.

The home for children that I grew up in was closed out of funding a few years ago having been blocked by the state for the home not having employed a full time on-site doctor and all the costs that go with it.

I spent eight years living in that home and with a full-time nurse and two hospitals about ten minutes away by car there was never a need for a full time doctor so I can only assume this was a thinly veiled trick to cut the state budget.

With a poverty level of 24.4% in 2013 (about the same as Jennings, MO), New Haven CT certainly has no fewer kids in need than it did in my time so I don't see the need for such homes decreasing - and if anything the opposite.
http://www.city-data.com/pover...

With antisocial policies being espoused by those who feel that their hard earned money shouldn't be used for 'socialist' programs like getting the dirt poor out of the cycle that they are stuck in I am not surprised that the number of homeless children in the US is increasing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...

So yes, you're right that this is not a problem for schools. The failure is in the people of the US who want to cut social services, and in those social services themselves who are incapable, for whatever reasons, of fixing what is an endemic problem in the US.

So hats off to the woman who has found a way to make it work in her part of this mess.

Where words fail, you need an Euler Diagram. Now we would just need to add ESA there somehow... ;-)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Your suggested solution involves changing education. This is a favorite tuning knob of many would-be social engineers: diagnose a problem without a study (or with a study made to find exactly that problem, run by people with a vested interest in finding that thing). Specifically, you imply that there's something that schools can do with groups of friends, trying to define the self organizing social groups. This will require a level of policing that is absolutely ludicrous and impractical, and likely very harmful if schoolchildren are denied the ability to choose their friends. School is a tyrannical experience for many, and this plan of yours will just create even more loners, and make them more alone.

Hey, let's be honest here, by doing it through education, you're basically engaging in violation of the human rights of children, engaging in unethical experimentation upon humans (though arguably that'd require you test to see if it actually helps first and thus be an improvement), and are engaging in unlicensed engineering.

That said: I can tell you exactly how well the idea of this will work, because my teachers in middle school decided to do exactly this. I'd been finally managing to work my way into a social group and having friends, and was doing quite well, when my teachers had a flash of 'inspiration' and decided to start regulating who we could sit with at lunch, our primary socialization time.

I found out that my teachers did not know the differences between East Asia and Southeast Asia. (If you don't understand why this is a problem: It's kind of like confusing Mexico with New Mexico, or France and Germany.)

By the time they finally admitted that the experiment was failing to prevent cliques from forming, I was pretty much stuck on the outside: All my efforts to make friends was absolutely undone, and given it was several year's work to finally get in... They also had rather quaint ideas like how bullying was not something that happened, or at least for very long, and how the only thing we were interested in during 6th grade was socializing.

It's also amazing to see how thoroughly socially awkward people are chased down and vilified. Finding one of the few places that socially awkward or autism spectrum people are able to spend their time helping society (in some cases for free, and in most cases for less compensation than they WOULD get, outside of it) and trying to find the correct combinations of matches to set their house on fire, all sacrifices for whatever Diversity-God is currently venerated in social engineering circles.

As the pressure increases, they'll eventually figure out what's going on. Within 10 years, I fear you'll be seeing forks of projects along political lines.

That will be the end result of diagnosing a problem where none exists, prescribing solutions where the term is meaningless, and ultimately vilifying and excluding contributors who don't toe the politically correct line. More divisiveness for no gain.

Honestly the better solution is calling the combatants on both sides overgrown brats and perhaps also encouraging some humor to responses to things like "Tits or GTFO." (SFW honest. And for another type of request: also SFW.) Remember, getting your feathers ruffled is what trolls want, why give them the satisfaction?

Your suggested solution involves changing education. This is a favorite tuning knob of many would-be social engineers: diagnose a problem without a study (or with a study made to find exactly that problem, run by people with a vested interest in finding that thing). Specifically, you imply that there's something that schools can do with groups of friends, trying to define the self organizing social groups. This will require a level of policing that is absolutely ludicrous and impractical, and likely very harmful if schoolchildren are denied the ability to choose their friends. School is a tyrannical experience for many, and this plan of yours will just create even more loners, and make them more alone.

Hey, let's be honest here, by doing it through education, you're basically engaging in violation of the human rights of children, engaging in unethical experimentation upon humans (though arguably that'd require you test to see if it actually helps first and thus be an improvement), and are engaging in unlicensed engineering.

That said: I can tell you exactly how well the idea of this will work, because my teachers in middle school decided to do exactly this. I'd been finally managing to work my way into a social group and having friends, and was doing quite well, when my teachers had a flash of 'inspiration' and decided to start regulating who we could sit with at lunch, our primary socialization time.

I found out that my teachers did not know the differences between East Asia and Southeast Asia. (If you don't understand why this is a problem: It's kind of like confusing Mexico with New Mexico, or France and Germany.)

By the time they finally admitted that the experiment was failing to prevent cliques from forming, I was pretty much stuck on the outside: All my efforts to make friends was absolutely undone, and given it was several year's work to finally get in... They also had rather quaint ideas like how bullying was not something that happened, or at least for very long, and how the only thing we were interested in during 6th grade was socializing.

It's also amazing to see how thoroughly socially awkward people are chased down and vilified. Finding one of the few places that socially awkward or autism spectrum people are able to spend their time helping society (in some cases for free, and in most cases for less compensation than they WOULD get, outside of it) and trying to find the correct combinations of matches to set their house on fire, all sacrifices for whatever Diversity-God is currently venerated in social engineering circles.

As the pressure increases, they'll eventually figure out what's going on. Within 10 years, I fear you'll be seeing forks of projects along political lines.

That will be the end result of diagnosing a problem where none exists, prescribing solutions where the term is meaningless, and ultimately vilifying and excluding contributors who don't toe the politically correct line. More divisiveness for no gain.

Honestly the better solution is calling the combatants on both sides overgrown brats and perhaps also encouraging some humor to responses to things like "Tits or GTFO." (SFW honest. And for another type of request: also SFW.) Remember, getting your feathers ruffled is what trolls want, why give them the satisfaction?

And in 1890, van Gogh might not have qualified for inclusion in a general-interest encyclopedia such as Britannica. But decades later, he eventually came to qualify, as other sources began to report more on his works.

Asshole editors, inability to allow a mediocre edit be improved by others, rules that only apply to casual editors and not "the elite wikipedians" (read as crazy nut jobs with no lives on power trips), inability to make changes to articles where the thing has changed over time (like standards), on and on and on... and at the end of it all you cannot delete your account/disassociate yourself from Wikimedia because assholes.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

The Wikimedia foundation spent $52.5 Million in fiscal year 2015 (an increase of $7 Million over the previous year). None of that money was spent on content creation and editing -- that's all done by unpaid volunteers.

Until Wikipedia starts running itself like a real business, the decline will continue. That includes a full time staff of employees who are paid to oversee content creation, weed out the asshole editors that eventually drive away anyone interested in contributing, and who are held responsible if they don't do their job.

Don't worry about Miami. They'll get their product, come hell or high water

They do: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Assuming that is accurate. There is also a reason why asians are considered for affirmative action: their average income is larger than whites (as well as average years of education if I recall correctly).Meh. Ghettos in the US I'd say probably does the correlation, old Chris Rock joke something like "Blacks are only in like 4 places, NY, Atlanta, Chicago (forget the other))". Not quite true but close enough to effect the trend I think. if inner city is poorer and where black people are and prejudice determines/d where the funding for schools or even where the good teachers choose to teach ...

Yeah, scientist, self experimentation, what could possibly go wrong ...

Of course you can store power, like this.

[It would be a problem if sea level were rising...]

but it's not.

to the contrary, it is.

http://www.tribune242.com/news...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...
http://gizmodo.com/miamis-alre...
https://www.skepticalscience.c...

The fact that sea level is rising is not even controversial; and it's not particularly new information. The harder, and more controversial question is, is that rise going to accelerate due to melting ice?

You said it's completely useless in the root post without saying why

I said the climate agreement is completely useless. I could have been more clear and said, "this particular climate agreement is completely useless." It especially annoys me because all the politicians are going to return home and pretend that they've done something. Nothing particular about this set of politicians, most politicians would do similar things.

so what is your better idea?

Rather than agreeing to nothing and pretending it was something, I would try to find something that could be done. Practically speaking, the only way to stop emitting greenhouse gases is to improve technology (another alternative is to drastically reduce energy usage, but realistically people aren't going to sacrifice that much). My personal preferred idea is to increase funding for fusion research, but there are other good ideas, like increasing funding for safe fission, and funding for improved battery technology (ie: make electric cars common. This might be a more practical start because there's too much hysteria over nuclear).

If I were one of the leaders, and I couldn't convince the others to sign on to that, I would not try to make a fake agreement. I would clearly state that we tried to do something productive, but other leaders couldn't agree to it. Generally I think the problem is that the agreement they wanted to make (everyone cut emmissions!) is too vague. There's no clear plan on how it should be reached, and politicians start imagining they will have to hurt their economies to reach it. If they had said, "everyone spend an extra $5million on fusion research!" it would have been much simpler goal to reach through diplomacy.

$5million is not a huge commitment, but will make a difference in the research if enough people contribute, and it can be increased over time.

Don't type like my brother

And for god sake's, don't type like my brother on his Brother.

Constant effort is made to raise the use of dental floss in UK:

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-Winston Churchill

Stalin had been trying to get an alliance with Britain and France in 1939

Citations?

Britain and France started WWII by forcing Stalin into a position where he thought he had to make a treaty with Germany

He made it not because he was forced, but because he was planning an attack himself. USSR's entire military posture was offensive — materiel dumps, artillery, bombers were located on the edge of the borders. Which is why they were overtaken by Germans so quickly leaving USSR nearly naked in 1941, when Hitler outplayed his pal. Whether Hitler actually knew of Stalin's designs or not remains subject of debate among historians, but it is quite common knowledge, that Stalin was preparing an attack.

By the time Soviet troops entered Poland, the war was well and truly on (and Poland had lost).

That's not true. Polish troops were retreating to reorganize, when they were attacked from the other direction by the Red Army — to this day Poland refers to the events as "Stab in the Back".

Instead of killing the Poles, Stalin could have helped them — but he and Hitler were allies and thus both share culpability for starting the WW2.

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Your intuition is incorrect - as mentioned in a few other posts, wild bananas look more like this inside...

The main reason the bananas are vulnerable to this is that all commercially grown bananas are sterile clones, reproducing asexually: http://www.damninteresting.com...

Wild non-cultivated bananas are pretty much all seed and wouldn't make a very desirable alternative: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

Since the commercial bananas are all identical, they are all equally susceptible to the same disease, which leaves three options:
1) Identify and switch to a different strain of banana that's not susceptible, which takes a lot of time, money, and likely has other drawbacks
2) Forget about bananas -- hard to do in parts of the world where they are a staple food
3) Use genetic engineering to try to create a disease resistant version before it's too late

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Here is an image of the impact site.

Since most of the replies to you so far are smarmy, I'll try to answer your question.

An antenna is not just a piece of metal. It's a resonance chamber. When you were a kid, you probably sloshed water back and forth in the bathtub. If you did it at the right frequency, the waves would get bigger and bigger, and eventually slosh over the sides getting your mom and dad all wet.

That's exactly what an antenna does. The EM waves passing through the antenna sloshes electrons back and forth. If it's just the right frequency (called a resonance frequency), the sloshing gets bigger and bigger, creating a stronger signal for the electronics in the phone to pick up. Other frequencies don't create as big a sloshing (or any sloshing), so the amplifies amplifies signals close to the resonance frequency relative to other frequencies. The effect is very pronounced if designed correctly, and allows you to easily pull out exactly the signal you want from a sea of EM noise. What determines the resonance frequency? The size of the bathtub, or the length of the antenna.

You can't use a metal case as an antenna because it's too broad. The resonance frequency along a diagonal would be different than along the edge, and your "antenna" wouldn't tune out a lot of the other frequencies you consider to be noise. You can get around this by using just the edge of the case (Apple tried this). But then anything conductive which touches the antenna (like your hand) can alter its resonance frequency, causing it to not work anymore as an antenna.

So the best antenna design is still a metal wire of just the right length so its resonance frequency matches your cell phone carrier's frequency, mounted internally so as to isolate it from contact with other conductive items. Wrapping that wire inside a metal body creates a Faraday cage which blocks out EM signals, making reception (and transmission) worse. That's what's been so frustrating about all these bloggers and reviewers who failed high school physics who think metal makes a phone "premium". No it doesn't, it makes it a Faraday cage which is pretty much an anti-radio, the worst possible thing you could do to a phone. Save the metal cases for jewelry boxes. Plastic or carbon fiber is the best material for a phone (or radio) case.