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The Preseli Quarry is only 5 miles from the coast of the Irish Sea (all downhill). From there, they could be moved by barge up the Bristol Channel. Then across 40 miles of flat ground to the Salisbury Plain.

Disclaimer: I use miles instead of kilometers because Britain wasn't metric yet in 3000 BC.

If you are going to assume the use of barges, ship it around to Christchurch, and up River Avon. It's a much longer distance, but the route almost completely eliminates moving the stones over land.

Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about UK geography, I just looked at a map.

The Preseli Quarry is only 5 miles from the coast of the Irish Sea (all downhill). From there, they could be moved by barge up the Bristol Channel. Then across 40 miles of flat ground to the Salisbury Plain.

Disclaimer: I use miles instead of kilometers because Britain wasn't metric yet in 3000 BC.

If you are going to assume the use of barges, ship it around to Christchurch, and up River Avon. It's a much longer distance, but the route almost completely eliminates moving the stones over land.

Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about UK geography, I just looked at a map.

Actually, multiple investigations found that ACORN didn't break the law or do anything substantially wrong, and that the videos were heavily edited to give a false and misleading impression.

It's all well documented with many citations and links to the actual investigations here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Because the research I've seen says it's worthless. And like just about everywhere else Toronto's crime rate is going down. 2005 seemed to be the peak.

Stop and Frisk in the States is mostly used to keep undesirables (read: the poor) out of your neighborhood. It's also used as a segregation technique in large parts of the South. That's why we shot it down. Not sure about Canada though.

Because the research I've seen says it's worthless. And like just about everywhere else Toronto's crime rate is going down. 2005 seemed to be the peak.

Stop and Frisk in the States is mostly used to keep undesirables (read: the poor) out of your neighborhood. It's also used as a segregation technique in large parts of the South. That's why we shot it down. Not sure about Canada though.

Wow, I didn't even know I live in a socialist hellhole. Despite the country having been ruled by socialists (with a 4 year interruption in the late 60s) from 1950 to about 1999. And looking back, only afterwards it started to come down quite a bit. The capital is still ruled by the socialist party (until about a decade just by themselves, now in a coalition with the Green Party) and has been on the top spot of the Mercer Quality of Living Survey for quite a while now (IIRC about a decade).

I guess we have very different experiences with Socialism.

Crab Keys is in America, actually.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Britain didn't use the imperial system in 3000 BC either, the clue is in the the name. To top it off the metric system was invented by James Watt, the Scottish Physicist in 1790s and promoted world wide by a British Science academy. The Imperial system wasn't adopted until well into the 1800s.

You realize that most vaccine-choice advocates are not actually "anti-vax", a term of disparagement coined by Big Pharma PR flacks, don't you? Rather vaccine-choicers are concerned about _unnecessary and excessive_ vaccination. Very few indeed are against vaccination for truly dangerous diseases like polio. However very many people do think it is unwise to get injected with little-understood Pharma products just to avoid potential minor inconveniences like flu or measles.

Keyword: iatrogenic
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Stop and Frisk in Toronto was one of the main drivers of crime downwards.

Your supporting argument for this claim is that the crime rate has increased after the practice was stopped. That's... something. I don't know whether or not crime has actually gone up in Toronto, but given that the man assigned to evaluate the effectiveness of carding (Stop and Frisk) called it, "a practice that has not definitively been shown to widely reduce or solve crime," it seems as though you're jumping to conclusions. Even if it's true that crime has in fact increased since then, there doesn't seem to be any reason to believe that it's not a coincidence.

You might also consider New York's Stop and Frisk program, which had few positive results.

What you describe in your second paragraph is racial profiling, what the article is describing seems to be broader than that. Though the "negative neighborhood" comment might be interpreted as having a racial component.

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

Hypothetically, if 20% of the deaths are from vaccinated kids and only 1% of the kids are vaccinated then don't take the vaccination because it is increasing the risk of death from the flu. In terms of fruit, if 20 apples are rotten and 80 bananas are rotten, you might assume that bananas are more likely to be rotten. But if I started with 20 apples and 10000 bananas you'd be wrong. The apples are 100% rotten/dead while the bananas are 0.8% rotten. This is probably based on Bayes Rule.

Whenever I hear the word Segue or Segway I always Segue to this...

James William "Jimi" Heselden[2][3] OBE (27 March 1948 â" 26 September 2010)[4][5] was a British entrepreneur. A former coal miner, Heselden became wealthy by manufacturing the Hesco bastion barrier system. In 2010, he bought Segway Inc., maker of the Segway personal transport system.[6] Heselden died in 2010 from injuries apparently sustained falling from a cliff while riding his own product.

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

Look, you can try the "but look...people funding" it's EEEEVVVVVVIIIIILLLLL.

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

In the U.S. one of our two major political parties represents a minority of voters

Assuming you are referring to the Republican party and the last presidential election:

No, the Republican party represents a majority of Electoral College voters. These are the people who vote the president in. This is the vote that counts.

The Republican party received less votes when counting the totally unofficial and not used for anything popular vote. The competition wasn't run on the popular vote.

If the game were to get the most votes (with no EC in between) then you can be sure that both parties would have played the game very differently. For this reason you cannot project the popular vote count of the last election onto this hypothetical election and say Democrats would have won.

The rules were laid out and the Democrats didn't play the game as well. It's time to move on from that. If you want to change the way votes are counted then a preferential voting system is far superior to a simple "majority rules" system.

My country uses this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We have almost 100% voter turn out (compulsory voting). We don't have Gerrymandering. We have an independent electoral commission.
These are mainly good things (I don't agree with compulsory voting, I do see it's benefits).

The truth is, no one reads the bills anymore.

Most tech businesses have read the bill (now act), and they know just how vague it is and have no idea how it will be interpreted.

It's not true that it doesn't change anything. As you said yourself, these requests and notices no longer need to go through an impartial judge. The test as to whether or not they are "reasonable" lies with politicians and bureaucrats, with essentially no opportunity to challenge them.

The wording is so open that it could require companies to build tools like targeted malware which, it is fair to say, the vast majority of companies do not know how to build safely. If a company does that in good faith, and accidentally installs a backdoor on your device even though you're not the target, you have no recourse.

None of the purported privacy and civil rights safeguards were written into the Act itself.

Most disturbingly of all, you can be asked (though not forced) to spy for reasons unrelated to crimes, such as anything "the interests of Australia’s national economic wellbeing". That's vague enough that there's nothing stopping someone asking you to install target malware on the phone of an official of a foreign government just so an Australian company can get a better deal.

Actually it was simple :D
Hence the misunderstandings in the thread.

The software in the Apollo systems had not even 1000 lines of code ... the space shuttle had a bit more than a million. No idea why you post about software when the only thing you do is trying to explain us why embedded is so complicated and can only done if you know how to xor a register with itself to set it to zero 1 cycle faster.

But thanks to the internet many things are easy to look up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Have a nice day.

So you have a botany degree? I would think the guy that spends all this time in the fucking high CO2 greenhouse might know more than you.

I have a citation. (That's the second one, actually.) That's better than a degree, because plenty of people have degrees and still don't know shit. But also, a botany degree refers to plant biology, we're talking about mammalian biology. At least try to keep up.

You must be new to the internet. Back in my day, ...

Not really... I used Mosaic (and compiled it from scratch) when I worked at the NASA Langley Research Center as a sysadmin for their supercomputer network - many Sun workstations, a Cray-2, Cray YMP, and 3 Convex systems. I was actually at work there the day the Morris Worm hit.

Product placement is the only "adverts" I typically see in any of the movies I buy. I can't recall a purchased movie I have stopping in the middle to show me an ad. Also, what is a "logo screen"? The movie title? Again, I don't see these and I purchase a lot of content.

I didn't say middle. I've never seen a purchased bluray that allowed you to get to the menu screen without showing you a trailer or an advert.
Likewise you get to endure a nice title card for the publisher / studio before you get to the menu. Which is a frigging waste since you get to see it again when you hit play. In general if I open up a downloaded file it starts playing. If I throw in a bluray or a DVD it can be a good minute or two before you have the privilege to actually watch what you bought.

You claim that you've never had this? I call bullshit. The studios even specifically put a requirement into players to make these unskippable for your viewing pleasure. It even has it's own name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Oh. You want to purchase content in a way that you don't actually own it or control how it is delivered.

You missed the point. The point is not always to own something. The point is to get what you want when you pay. Sometimes that means owning a disc, sometimes that means wanting to stream something from a service that is being subscribed to. The problem is the same. Paying a rental fee only to have inaccessible content because of profit margins by publishers is just as bad as DRM at driving people towards piracy.

The closest I come to being "nickle and dimed" for streaming content is for Amazon Prime

Not talking about movies here. So not sure why you are talking about a streaming service. You want nickle and diming? Bethesda charges you $15 to turn your main character blue in Fallout 76, ... on a $25 game. And this is not some isolated case about one game or even one publisher. The DLC shit has gotten way out of hand, especially when DLC is contained on the frigging disc itself. This is why so many pirated games come with DLC content pirated too ... on the first frigging day of release.

If you buy the DVD, you can play it using many different players, and typically rip it to disk, all without seeing "adverts" or "logo screens".

ahem ... bullshit.

It sounds a lot like Third Voice

I seem to recall some browser add-on from 10-15 years ago which promised the ability to comment on any website.

Third Voice.

I don't recall VPlaces but this latest proposal sounds like a re-invention of Third Voice

A previous idea.

WHAT IT IS USED FOR is the key

Yeah, like these usages are entirely acceptable, since they are done by the GREATEST NATION on earth.

ONE MILLION UIGHURS IN CHINESE PRISONS.

Wow, what a change of heart for Americans! We are suddenly having real empathy about Muslims, as long as they are not being locked up in Guantanamo.

The Chief of INTERPOL for chrissake was arrested and secretly detained for MONTHS without being charged.

Wow, another change of heart for a top Chinese security official who supposedly have done, well because he was the top police chief, all the political crimes such as "disappear dissidents, undesirable ethnicities, journalists, etc."

Believe it or not you have guaranteed rights in China too.

True, but the rights are different. China's judiciary is not independent. A judge can be ordered by party leaders to find someone guilty. A prosecution like that of Bo Xilai would not happen in America.

It's just that like the US, in practice they are abused anyway.

Indeed.

America's system is better for rich people, powerful people, and guilty people.

China's system is better for innocent people.

In America, expensive lawyers can get you off, and you can exclude evidence on technicalities.

For innocent people, America is one of the worst countries. We have one of the world's highest false conviction rates, largely because of the plea bargain system and the high cost of an effective defense. The Innocence Project estimates that 20% of American prison inmates didn't commit the crimes.

Since America has 4 times China's per capital prison population, China would need an 80% false conviction rate for a Chinese citizen to be as likely as an American to be wrongly imprisoned.

The whole point of rights is to protect the innocent from oppression. By that measure, America's system is worse than China's.

... the stars will all start going out.

...why?

This is why.

Oh, and his 1788 paper on the Cuckoo is now widely regarded as being the first study of the remarkable life cycle of the bird.

try: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

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

This looks to be based on on the iBot wheelchair, which is capable of climbing stairs.

Do these machines actually do anything useful?

Just quantum annealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing

Useful to the science guys that spend their days mathing such problems out I would assume.

On one hand, sure it's a pretty specific specialty in its own right.

On the other hand, we have other very specific hardware for specialty math for sale right now, and are both quite popular products as well as arguably an even sillier result to spend time and money on - the 3d video card :P

It's just the segment of the population that finds 3d model rendered games fun is a tiny bit larger than that which find combinatorial optimization functions fun.

Mars rovers have special rad-hard technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Very expensive and rather slow compared to off-the-shelf computer stuff.

True, but it's more than at home.

There are room-sized irradiation machines used to sterilize food.

It should not be too hard to set up a test rig here on earth.

Do SSDs use depleted boron-11 as a dopant? That is a cheap and obvious first step to making them rad-hard.

That was partly because vinyl was still king, so if they kept the vinyl song order, inevitably the song in the middle of both sides was right over the splice. A smarter recording engineer might try to shuffle them around to avoid the splice, but there was still no guarantee that it was even possible.

They were mechanically crap too. Not only would the friction tape loop eventually break (I'm sure they also used thinner tape toward the end of its days, making it more likely to break), but basically any old 8-track tape you find at a thrift store, even sealed in the original box, is useless because the pinch roller and tensioner foam were in the tape cartridge, and have all long since melted/gone to dust. At least you can still play a 30-year old cassette.

For the millennials who still haven't read all the gory details yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape

I didn't think anyone has seen 5,000 Q*Bert in one place.

Explain why the only illegal immigrants that Republicans seem to care about are Hispanics and we'll stop calling it racist.

Zero tolerance means we won't tolerate illegal entry by ANYONE.

The majority of illegal immigrants are Mexicans (52% in 2014), though those numbers have been declining in recent years; others come from Asia, Central America, and sub-Saharan Africa. In 2005, according to a Pew Hispanic Center report, there were about 6,840,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico making 56% of immigrants present in the United States illegally. 24% were from other Latin American countries; 9% were from Asia, 6% from Europe and Canada, and the remaining 4% from the rest of the world. In 2014, the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that the illegal immigrant population from Mexico had reduced to 5.6 million or 49% of the illegal immigrant population.

The number of Mexican legal and illegal immigrants in the United States grew quite rapidly over the 35 years between 1970 and 2004; increasing almost 15-fold from about 760,000 in the 1970 Census to more than 11 million in 2004—an average annual growth rate of more than 8 percent, maintained over more than three decades.[citation needed] On average the net Mexican population, both documented and illegal, living in the United States has grown by about 500,000 per year from 1995 to 2005 with 80 to 85 percent of the growth attributed to unauthorized immigration. There was a net gain of 2,270,000 Mexican immigrants to the US between 1995 and 2000; a net loss of about 20,000 between 2005 and 2010; and a net loss of 140,000 between 2009 and 2014.

The total number of Mexicans residing in the US, with and without authorization, was 11.7 million in 2014, down from the peak of 12.8 million in 2007. The drop is primarily the result of the decrease in the number of unauthorized migrants—which make up 48% of the Mexican population in the US in 2014, down from 54% in 2007.

Illegal immigrant population of the United States

52 + 24 = 78% of illegal immigrants are from Mexico or other Latin-American countries. With a vast majority of people illegally entering the US being Hispanic or Latino, it's little wonder that being anti-illegal-immigrant has an appearance of being anti-Latino. My wife is Brazilian. One brother married a Mexican who was born in the us. My sister married a US-born Latino. My foreign-born sisters-in-law are both from Asia. Again, this is about how someone enters the country, an not their race or ethnicity.

Actually smoking is a really good comparison because failure to vaccinate harms not just the individual who doesn't have a vaccine but people around them. Here immunity is important https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity.

You meant "herd" immunity

Actually smoking is a really good comparison because failure to vaccinate harms not just the individual who doesn't have a vaccine but people around them. Here immunity is important https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity.

They do suffer from confirmation bias, however. If my model says there will be no warming, and everyone else's model says there is warming, I "fix" my model until it agrees with everyone else.

Less than you think.

What you are ignoring is that scientists get famous by proving the existing theories wrong.

A group that found a flaw in the current understanding of the greenhouse effect would instantly become the most famous atmospheric scientists in history... and every single one of them knows it.

The trick, however, is you have to find a flaw, and prove it's real. Asserting "oh, I think it's wrong, I can't say why" doesn't work. Finding the flaw turns out not to be easy-- a thousand people have been looking for one for fifty years now, and so far the understanding has withstood all attacks.

See this issue in action while Millikan et al calculates the electron's charge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

Feynmann likes amusing anecdotes. The actual history of electron charge measurements maybe sort of shows a progression like that, but not nearly the neat progression like Feynmann suggests, in fact, the very next measurement published, Backlin 1929, was within the error bars of the correct measurement. Graph here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WtmU...

Couldn't have a better name for it. This one is utterly ridiculous. I mean, you had tapes originally so that you could record off your friend's record player, or maybe later to put in your car. That was an end to it, and they were never really loved as such.

On the other hand, get past the 80sness and listen to C30, C60, C90, Go! as a perfect description of when the writing was on the wall for physical record shops.

They do suffer from confirmation bias, however. If my model says there will be no warming, and everyone else's model says there is warming, I "fix" my model until it agrees with everyone else.

See this issue in action while Millikan et al calculates the electron's charge:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

What? First, it's only some scenes. Second, even if it was all the scenes, it still wouldn't double the cost.

Only all the scenes of people talking. And all the cover scenes. And all the scenes to recut the movie so it makes sense to non-Indians.

If no one wants to watch it, you wouldn't bother. And you don't have to pay Americans. You just need English speakers. In fact, it would be weirder if you used Americans.

That's a catch-22.
If you want to show it, just to see if anyone wants to watch it - you must already have filmed it.

Also... Indians speak English. With an accent.
You're not dubbing it so lazy Americans don't have to read. You're dubbing it cause it sounds weird and confusing for those Americans.
It's like American... but it's like how Mexicans talk. Only not exactly. More like how Apu talks. Only that's funny and this isn't.

And dubbing it in non-American you're just asking for trouble.
There's a reason British actors are THE go-to for villains, with their weird, non-American, "English".

People watch a lot of weird shit full of cheap melodrama here.

Not like this.

India only got electrified last year. For certain values of "electrified".
Needless to say... their movies are made for a different kind of an audience.
And... Indian stories are... different.
So are their family comedies.
Can you even tell the genre of this one?

All three movies are recent commercial and critical successes. All ranging around $3-4.5 million to make, and raking in around $15-30 million.
Just releasing them in US theaters would cost more. Cause they would be competing for theater screens with Hollywood movies.
While their entire take is less than a budget of a black and white indie. As in independent.

Best they could hope for would be some kind of a digital Netflix-like distribution, hoping for their audience to stumble onto them or be pushed by algorithms.
But that would have happened already, had there been a market for those movies.
Maybe if more Indians migrate to US and they grow to be 1 or 2 percent of the population?

According to the rumor mill it was Intel who persuaded the USB committee to rename USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 gen 1 since Intel added support for USB 3.0 SuperSpeed+ (10Gbps) relatively late, just a year ago, and Intel partners and Intel itself needed to flog their old technologically inferior products (chipsets, motherboards, PCs, laptops, etc).

Wikipedia gives these years for millennials:

United States PIRG - 1983-2000
United States Census Bureau - 1982-2000
Demographers William Straus and Neil Howe - 1982-2004
Ernst and Young - 1981-1996
Pew Research Center - 1981-1996
SYZYGY - 1981-1998
Asia Business Unit of Corporate Directions - 1981-2000
Goldman Sachs - 1980-2000
Resolution Foundation - 1980-2000
Australia's McCrindle Research - 1980-1994
PricewaterhouseCoopers - 1980-1995
MSW Research - 1980-1996
United States Chamber of Commerce - 1980-1999
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - 1980-1999
MetLife - 1977-1994
Nielsen Media Research - 1977-1994

I think we can all agree that those using 1980 are wrong! Certainty, somebody born in January 1980 is most definitely not a millennial!!!

That reminds me of this video where Mahk finds out he's a millennial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15iLHlJPp_0

True, but not really relevant when discussing a couple of hundred million years.

FOAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Naked Objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

don't worry.
not even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... gets it right.
go use a hammer ... tech.

. . . and then the customer says: That's what I asked for . . . but not what I need!"

This is why you should not write code based on rigid BDUF specs. Instead, the customer needs to be involved in the process, providing regular feedback.

If you use Agile, you should have a customer rep at the bi-weekly sprint meetings. Both to review what was accomplished in the last sprint, and to set the priorities for the next sprint.

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You do realize that the vast majority of Facebook is fake-as-hell information

This is an example of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.

But that doesn't much diminish the value of the remaining 10%. Knowing everyone's friend graph is valuable information. Knowing everyone's interests is also valuable. Knowing who is easily influenced by the false information is very valuable.