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It depends how you slice it. In the West white guys are the biggest source of terrorism at the moment, always have been. This is especially true in the US. If you designate Islamic State as terrorists and consider everything they do as terrorism, you can make them the worst.

Who are these Marxists committing all these terrorist acts? Are we talking historically, before the internet existed?

Citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://fullfact.org/crime/eth...
https://ourworldindata.org/ter...

They were switching between both slogans, from what I remember. In any case, "Jews will not replace us" is a direct reference to the (clearly ridiculous) white genocide conspiracy theory which is sometimes referred to as the jewish replacement theory. It basically asserts that the supposed jewish rulers of all world institutions have a master plan of breeding, advancing and manipulating subhuman/inferior black and brown races to use as slave labor. Meanwhile, the theory goes that this necessitates the marginalization of the "superior" white/aryan races. White supremacists use this abhorrently racist and intellectually baseless theory to justify their actions of violence and hate as a necessary self-defense against a future where white people are the victims of genocide.

Yes, it's almost like a paradox.

Tort law, lawyers make most of the money from class action lawsuits. The Bonfire of the Vanities was a book, later a movie. Basically the lawyers make the bulk of the money, any litigants who join in get milli-pennies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cronyism isn't a thing.

Sure it isn't The word crony has only been around 300 years or so, don't let that bother you.

In Cuba? Surely you jest

FYI, most of the deaths in the Cuban Revolution were the Batista death squad members who had killed thousands of Cubans in the prior decade.

Helvetica is everywhere for a reason. So is Times Roman. Classic typefaces, what type is supposed to look like.

The last time I did serious font research was designing maps for a GPS-based asset-tracking system. I wanted a font that was distinctive, but not too distinctive. After some looking through Adobe's font catalog I settled on Myriad. It worked fine until word came from On High that we must emulate the visual appearance of Google Maps. So be it.

I use Souvenir for my resume, BTW.

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"Intelligence", "learning", "smart" and "memory", have been redefined for electronic devices that store and process data via instructions from software or hardware. The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956. It has a distinct definition separate and only metaphorically related to animal "intelligence" (see below). In 2014, Eugene Goostman said his Chatbot passed the 'Turning Test', i.e., it fooled the judges into believing it was human. The validity of this claim has been met with skepticism. Apparently, Artificial Intelligence can only imitate human intelligence, poorly. If only he had used LISP...

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Learning: noun, The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught.

Machine learning: A subset of AI, Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to effectively perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

Intelligence: noun, The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

Artificial intelligence (or AI): Both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it, through "the study and design of intelligent agents" or "rational agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Artificial_intelligence

Smart: adjective, Having or showing a quick-witted intelligence. (Obviously, not applicable to moi.)

Smart Device: an electronic device, usually connected to other devices, networks, or both, via Bluetooth, WiFi, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_device

"Intelligence", "learning", "smart" and "memory", have been redefined for electronic devices that store and process data via instructions from software or hardware. The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956. It has a distinct definition separate and only metaphorically related to animal "intelligence" (see below). In 2014, Eugene Goostman said his Chatbot passed the 'Turning Test', i.e., it fooled the judges into believing it was human. The validity of this claim has been met with skepticism. Apparently, Artificial Intelligence can only imitate human intelligence, poorly. If only he had used LISP...

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Learning: noun, The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught.

Machine learning: A subset of AI, Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to effectively perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

Intelligence: noun, The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

Artificial intelligence (or AI): Both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it, through "the study and design of intelligent agents" or "rational agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Artificial_intelligence

Smart: adjective, Having or showing a quick-witted intelligence. (Obviously, not applicable to moi.)

Smart Device: an electronic device, usually connected to other devices, networks, or both, via Bluetooth, WiFi, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_device

"Intelligence", "learning", "smart" and "memory", have been redefined for electronic devices that store and process data via instructions from software or hardware. The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956. It has a distinct definition separate and only metaphorically related to animal "intelligence" (see below). In 2014, Eugene Goostman said his Chatbot passed the 'Turning Test', i.e., it fooled the judges into believing it was human. The validity of this claim has been met with skepticism. Apparently, Artificial Intelligence can only imitate human intelligence, poorly. If only he had used LISP...

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Learning: noun, The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught.

Machine learning: A subset of AI, Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to effectively perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

Intelligence: noun, The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

Artificial intelligence (or AI): Both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it, through "the study and design of intelligent agents" or "rational agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Artificial_intelligence

Smart: adjective, Having or showing a quick-witted intelligence. (Obviously, not applicable to moi.)

Smart Device: an electronic device, usually connected to other devices, networks, or both, via Bluetooth, WiFi, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_device

"Intelligence", "learning", "smart" and "memory", have been redefined for electronic devices that store and process data via instructions from software or hardware. The term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956. It has a distinct definition separate and only metaphorically related to animal "intelligence" (see below). In 2014, Eugene Goostman said his Chatbot passed the 'Turning Test', i.e., it fooled the judges into believing it was human. The validity of this claim has been met with skepticism. Apparently, Artificial Intelligence can only imitate human intelligence, poorly. If only he had used LISP...

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Learning: noun, The acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or being taught.

Machine learning: A subset of AI, Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to effectively perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

Intelligence: noun, The ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

Artificial intelligence (or AI): Both the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it, through "the study and design of intelligent agents" or "rational agents", where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence#Artificial_intelligence

Smart: adjective, Having or showing a quick-witted intelligence. (Obviously, not applicable to moi.)

Smart Device: an electronic device, usually connected to other devices, networks, or both, via Bluetooth, WiFi, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_device

People can do their own research. Here's Wikipedia to get you started:

Fascism was a major influence on Nazism. The seizure of power by Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in the March on Rome in 1922 drew admiration by Hitler, who less than a month later had begun to model himself and the Nazi Party upon Mussolini and the Fascists.[122] Hitler presented the Nazis as a form of German fascism.[123][124] In November 1923, the Nazis attempted a "March on Berlin" modelled after the March on Rome, which resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich.[125]

Hitler spoke of Nazism being indebted to the success of Fascism's rise to power in Italy.[126] In a private conversation in 1941, Hitler said that "the brown shirt would probably not have existed without the black shirt", the "brown shirt" referring to the Nazi militia and the "black shirt" referring to the Fascist militia.[126] He also said in regards to the 1920s: "If Mussolini had been outdistanced by Marxism, I don't know whether we could have succeeded in holding out. At that period National Socialism was a very fragile growth".[126]

Now, as is well known, and is as noted there, Hitler viewed "Marxists" as the enemy of Fascists, but of course he did! Fascists were nationalist, while Marxists were transnationalist; they were 2 sects of the same deranged religion, killing each other in the same that the various Christian sects of yore hacked through each other, or in the same way that Sunnis and Shiites murder each other today.

I think it's a bit deeper than that. Largely it's a kind of abuse of free speech (and anonymity) to attack certain kinds of speech. A kind of jujitsu, where the tolerance of a relatively open society is being used to subvert that society. Popper's Parsdox of Tolerance is highly relevant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

My theory is that the extremism against any study of white nationalism is part of a larger effort to divide and conquer America, and it seems to be working rather well. That's not how Stephen Miller sees it, but I think he's quite sincere. About his own infinite superiority. As in white superiority.

When you talk about "gangs", I think you may be onto something, even though I think their organization structure is different. And worthy of investigation, even congressional investigation. That's "worthy" in the negative sense of having large negative value and the potential for large harm.

My other comment about the new Department of White Homeland Security is also relevant. Too bad #DWHS is unlikely to trend as a tag?

Cue the trolls: "Stop calling all of Trump's supporters racists!" Of course that is not what I'm saying. Some of them are passively mindless, active fools, religious fanatics, exploitable suckers, or worse. Also ineducable, and if there are enough of them, then America is finished.

"If you can" being the critical question: can you float _over_ the surge when your "island" is chained to the sea floor?

Seems like you'd be praying to float _through_ the surge(s)

While that is a problem that needs consideration (e.g. ships tied to fixed docks do indeed sink if surge/tide gets bad enough), it's one we've had answers to for several millennia (e.g. leave slack in the anchor chain, pull the anchor up, use floating docks, sail around the storm, etc.), so I'm not too worried about it. They'd likely just leave some slack in the chain so that it can account for any surge. Plus, there's nothing saying they can't let out some more chain in the case that a storm is coming through and then pull it back in afterwards. The anchor chain can grow and shrink with the weather. Alternatively, if they're rigidly anchored to the ocean floor, they'd simply do what oil rigs (and other platforms, e.g. Sealand) do and build the platform high enough to be above any surge.

especially when it is a 4 acre surface: what's the waveform length of a typical hurricane ocean surge?

That's an interesting question. Bad storm surges can span hundreds or thousands of square miles with "waves" that are 100-200 miles wide and 0-50 feet above normal sea level at their peak (the worst recorded storm surge in history is from 1899 and was 50 feet high, but in practice they're rarely more than 25 ft). Assuming the worst case, we're dealing with an incline of 1 foot per mile (i.e. 50 feet/50 miles, since we're talking about a 50 foot surge at the center point of a 100 mile "wave"). Meanwhile, a 4-acre square is 417.5 ft long on each side (and, just for scale, covers only 1/160th of a square mile). If that square, 4-acre settlement was straddling a rigid peak with that incline, it wouldn't even need to flex 0.5 inches from its edges to its center (i.e. 0.5 inches per 208.75 ft). In reality, storm surge isn't rigid (or peaked like that), so it'd be a far easier task for the settlement to deal with, even in the worst case scenarios, and because normal waves rise and fall orders of magnitude faster than that, it's doubtful they'd even notice a half inch difference from the edge of the platform to its center.

Should I ask what "semi-official news sources" you read? No, I'm probably better off not knowing.

Anyway, just compare the lists of per-capita social spending to per-capita GDP. They're remarkably similar, aren't they? Seven of the top ten countries are the same on both lists. Of course it's hard to be sure what causes what. Maybe it's just that wealthy countries can afford to spend more. But that social spending at least doesn't seem to be hurting them. Besides, you can compensate by measuring social spending as a fraction of GDP. Five of the top ten are still in the top ten wealthiest countries in Europe.

Should I ask what "semi-official news sources" you read? No, I'm probably better off not knowing.

Anyway, just compare the lists of per-capita social spending to per-capita GDP. They're remarkably similar, aren't they? Seven of the top ten countries are the same on both lists. Of course it's hard to be sure what causes what. Maybe it's just that wealthy countries can afford to spend more. But that social spending at least doesn't seem to be hurting them. Besides, you can compensate by measuring social spending as a fraction of GDP. Five of the top ten are still in the top ten wealthiest countries in Europe.

Should I ask what "semi-official news sources" you read? No, I'm probably better off not knowing.

Anyway, just compare the lists of per-capita social spending to per-capita GDP. They're remarkably similar, aren't they? Seven of the top ten countries are the same on both lists. Of course it's hard to be sure what causes what. Maybe it's just that wealthy countries can afford to spend more. But that social spending at least doesn't seem to be hurting them. Besides, you can compensate by measuring social spending as a fraction of GDP. Five of the top ten are still in the top ten wealthiest countries in Europe.

It uses a drop-in replacement look-alike, Nimbus Sans, which was donated to the GhostScript project by the foundry URW++. The foundry donated a full drop-in replacement font package covering the basic 35 PostScript standard fonts.

More info:
http://www.tug.org/fonts/deuts...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The host systems I know have large NAS attached to them where all the data resides. Thus for instance, a second host can take over if the first one fails.

That's a SAN dipshit.

A NAS, by definition, is a consumer appliance. Intentionally limited control. Limited security. Limited in every way. Meant to be easy to use by people who do not understand technology enough to even make a shared folder on a windows desktop system let alone manage an under powered stand-alone FTP system, which is what NAS systems are under the hood of forced non-control.

A larger fuselage cross-section and other modifications resulted in the initial-production 707-120, powered by Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojet engines,
For domestic use, powered by 13,500 lb (60.5 kN) Pratt & Whitney JT3C-6 turbojets with water injection
DC made heavy use of turbojets early on.

Many customers were afraid of jets so foreign airliners actually stayed much longer with props.
Funny enough, jets were far safer due to being able to get around weather.
But yes, 707, though not the first passenger jet, really was the one that issued in jet age.

A larger fuselage cross-section and other modifications resulted in the initial-production 707-120, powered by Pratt & Whitney JT3C turbojet engines,
For domestic use, powered by 13,500 lb (60.5 kN) Pratt & Whitney JT3C-6 turbojets with water injection
DC made heavy use of turbojets early on.

Many customers were afraid of jets so foreign airliners actually stayed much longer with props.
Funny enough, jets were far safer due to being able to get around weather.
But yes, 707, though not the first passenger jet, really was the one that issued in jet age.

The estimated lifespans for modern EV batteries can be as high as 1 million miles. See the second table under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Most EV batteries will outlast the cars they're in. And where are you getting that $1000 figure from? The average sales price of a used car is about $20,000.

Nope, the warming from the last ice age peaked about 8000 years ago, and turned into (very slow) cooling, until last century when global warming accelerated.

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

Did you link the wrong page? That only goes a thousand years back, not eight thousand..

or evolves into something virulent there

I wouldn't be surprised if that's the most likely scenario. You're exposed to a lot more radiation up there, and given the short life-cycle of fungi and bacteria, that's a good environment to create a very diverse ecosystem.

Some representative estimates of just the two ice sheets:
- 26,500,000 gigatons in Antarctica
- 2,900,000 gigatons in Greenland

So, conservatively ignoring that TFS includes "snow loss" (wut?) and says most of the ice loss was from glaciers in Alaska: 390 / 29,400,000 = (whips out slide rule) 0.0013%.

But that wouldn't make for nearly as scary of a headline.

Nope, the warming from the last ice age peaked about 8000 years ago, and turned into (very slow) cooling, until last century when global warming accelerated.

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

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

You would have to remove things from it, not just keep adding every paradigm from every other language.

You're addressing inherent simplicity: simplicity that inheres in the object itself. Inherent simplicity is overrated.

Not so simple: maintaining your own fork of a major development language, because a recent major release— in pursuit of round-fingered, bent-legged enlightenment—gored your ox on a multi-million-line code base.

Our quest for simplicity is quite primal. It's often just a power move to demonstrate that you occupy the summit of the power hierarchy. Because your vaunted simplicity usually amounts to making something ugly (but very, very real) into somebody else's ugly (and very, very soul-destroying) daily slogathon.

The C++ culture is what you get when there's an iron-clad social contract that Peter does not rob Paul.

The direct consequence of this is that nobody can stand on the summit and gloat about their immensely refined slickitude (to hell with the peons working the actual trenches).

As has been remarked once or twice in the history of Slashdot, C++ lacks any semblance of pointy summit of slickitude; no—father forgive me, for I have sinned—C++ lacks any possibility of a semblance of so much as a stubby, manicured outcropping of soapbox sainthood.

The only other language I know with a similar value system is Perl 6.

Evan Miller: A Review of Perl 6 — 13 August 2017

It doesn't help that the purveyors of Perl 6 provide few hints as to what you should actually do with the language, besides the facile answer of whatever you want. Perl 6 is multi-paradigm, maybe omni-paradigm; it claims to support object-oriented programming, functional programming, aspect-oriented programming, array programming, and (good old) procedural programming.

It's a new language, and not just a cleaned-up version of Perl 5, any more than English is German minus the umlauts.

Knowledge of previous versions, alas, won't get you very far. By the same token, prejudices regarding the preceding incarnations don't necessarily hold today's water.

The difference between C++98 and C++11 is roughly the same thirteen years that the Perl 6 development effort went almost entirely offline. Perl 6 probably shaved off no end of warts to achieve its grand synthesis of becoming all things to all people (forsaking mainly performance, though this is prudently localized—in many cases—to quality of implementation). Meanwhile, C++ dragged its crufty ass through tens of millions of battle-hardened hours in the deep trenches. Will Perl 6 ever achieve the quality of implementation required to obtain a community of critical mass, to justify the immense implementation burden? This remains hard to judge.

I've long taken a Band of Brothers attitude toward C++.

Yes, you can shoot yourself in the foot, if your team is some random unit of random grunts.

But if your team is elite, and cares about being elite, you just don't shoot yourself in the foot on a daily basis, and you don't shoot your teammates in the foot hardly ever, and you go into the worst battles with the best people, and mostly you come back out alive. With C++, there's no such thing as bad weather, there's only bad clothing. The clothing is your job. Other languages do have bad weather—tasks for which the language is fundamentally unsuited—and then there's no clothing at all that will save you, and then you're fucked.

If the guy you're sitting beside has recently graduated from a puppy mill, and has no respect for the game, you probably want to steer clear of C++ with a vengeance of extreme scorn.

If the guy you're sitting beside has recently graduated from an ivory tower—with a raging case of L

After 15 years Mir had 140 known micro-organisms. It also stank.
The ISS has been up for 20 years with another 11 to go. It's going to get pretty foul up there!

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

After 15 years Mir had 140 known micro-organisms. It also stank.
The ISS has been up for 20 years with another 11 to go. It's going to get pretty foul up there!

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

When the "jet set" was flying the tech worked to get people around the USA.
Make flying much more expensive again.
That will cover the fuel costs.
Put profits into better tech again. The "jet set" will get even better flight times.

No longer will US jets be held back by EU factory, fuel cost and design limitations.
To finally escape decades of EU thinking like the Dassault Mercure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If in the US we wanted to enact mandatory voting (which we don't, because not voting is casting your vote to abstain, and mandatory voting is less freedom), first we'd have to count everybody and by doing that we'd be forced to figure out which people get to vote and which don't. We can't do that because then we'd be witch-hunting the illegal aliens.

In the current partisan climate anyone who tried that would be absolutely shredded in the stooge court of public opinion.

So, how are you guys able to get this done in Belgium? Well I think one big difference is you guys pretty much ignore race (it's illegal to collect data on race in France as an example). You collect ethnicity stats, but that's not the same. Take for example the wikipedia entries for demographics for the US versus Belgium:

US Demographics
Belgium Demographics

Since you don't have stats on race, you can't really use it as a partisan crutch when influencing opinion and votes. Must be nice! Over here in the US, we're too busy making sure that all of the races are treated "with the justice", so everything that happens to an individual for whom race might be a consideration pretty much always has race being the obvious factor for whatever happened.

Don't get me wrong. There's still some racist assholes in the US. There's racist assholes in Belgium too. Here is a really interesting article describing a bit of the elevator racism going on in the EU today. But, since you don't track it, it's obviously not one of the problems that exist in that society, right? At least, when anyone has difficulty obtaining something from the government or a business, it can't be something silly like race, can it? That's crazy talk. There's no way that would make the papers. At least your government has the capability of tracking down all these people who should have voted but didn't and fining them or putting them in jail, or to arbitrarily just do whatever because laws are really just there to start a discussion with a judge.

If in the US we wanted to enact mandatory voting (which we don't, because not voting is casting your vote to abstain, and mandatory voting is less freedom), first we'd have to count everybody and by doing that we'd be forced to figure out which people get to vote and which don't. We can't do that because then we'd be witch-hunting the illegal aliens.

In the current partisan climate anyone who tried that would be absolutely shredded in the stooge court of public opinion.

So, how are you guys able to get this done in Belgium? Well I think one big difference is you guys pretty much ignore race (it's illegal to collect data on race in France as an example). You collect ethnicity stats, but that's not the same. Take for example the wikipedia entries for demographics for the US versus Belgium:

US Demographics
Belgium Demographics

Since you don't have stats on race, you can't really use it as a partisan crutch when influencing opinion and votes. Must be nice! Over here in the US, we're too busy making sure that all of the races are treated "with the justice", so everything that happens to an individual for whom race might be a consideration pretty much always has race being the obvious factor for whatever happened.

Don't get me wrong. There's still some racist assholes in the US. There's racist assholes in Belgium too. Here is a really interesting article describing a bit of the elevator racism going on in the EU today. But, since you don't track it, it's obviously not one of the problems that exist in that society, right? At least, when anyone has difficulty obtaining something from the government or a business, it can't be something silly like race, can it? That's crazy talk. There's no way that would make the papers. At least your government has the capability of tracking down all these people who should have voted but didn't and fining them or putting them in jail, or to arbitrarily just do whatever because laws are really just there to start a discussion with a judge.

Needs to be charged for two hours a day? They cheaped out on equipment. Using non-local GPS computation* and Lithium batteries would power it orders of magnitude longer.

*A non-local GPS system like Skybitz GLS relays the dozen or so GPS signal data to servers in the cloud, thus saving battery usage.

The US has more retail space, and more retailers, both in absolute terms, and on a per-capita basis, than any other country. There were many more POS terminals to replace/upgrade than there were in the EU as individual countries made the switch piece-meal.

Wrong metrics. You need to compare number of POS terminals to something like GDP or retail sales to measure how affordable the transition was. Because affordability is the metric you're claiming, not total number.

The US had large-scale cell service deployments several years earlier than any other country

Japan would like to remind you they exist, and beat the US by 4 years.

The first US cellular network started in 1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first European cellular network started in 1981, in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. It was a 1G network called NMT.
The first Japanese cellular network started in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

GSM (a digital, 2G technology) was the first cell phone system deployed in the EU.

Nope. GSM was developed in part to unify the various 1G systems that were already present in Europe.

The US has more retail space, and more retailers, both in absolute terms, and on a per-capita basis, than any other country. There were many more POS terminals to replace/upgrade than there were in the EU as individual countries made the switch piece-meal.

Wrong metrics. You need to compare number of POS terminals to something like GDP or retail sales to measure how affordable the transition was. Because affordability is the metric you're claiming, not total number.

The US had large-scale cell service deployments several years earlier than any other country

Japan would like to remind you they exist, and beat the US by 4 years.

The first US cellular network started in 1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The first European cellular network started in 1981, in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. It was a 1G network called NMT.
The first Japanese cellular network started in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

GSM (a digital, 2G technology) was the first cell phone system deployed in the EU.

Nope. GSM was developed in part to unify the various 1G systems that were already present in Europe.

Finally, a third stage typically uses the Dirty COW exploit (CVE20165195) to obtain root privileges on a targeted device

What does that have to do with iOS? That's a Linux kernel vulnerability. The summary is totally mashing up the iOS and Android aspects into one glob.

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

C++'s days are numbered.

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

"The designers were primarily motivated by their shared dislike of C++."

References:
"Dr. Dobb's: Interview with Ken Thompson": http://www.drdobbs.com/open-so...

"Less is exponentially more": http://commandcenter.blogspot....

""The Evolution of Go": https://talks.golang.org/2015/...

And I'm not the only one who agrees.

"Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C"
https://slashdot.org/story/334...

Maybe something like EC, or fork/continue to develop Objective-C? Maybe D, Nim, or Rust?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Opening a bank account, obtaining a license and using public transportation are not constitutionally enumerated rights. The constitution is very very sparse on the specifics of many different things .. but unencumbered access to the ballot box _is_

Actually, the right to vote is nowhere in the original constitution. There's only amendments that say you can't discriminate on race (15th), sex (19th), age >18 (26th) and taxes to vote in federal elections (24th). Many other forms of discrimination is prohibited in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that MLK fought for but that's just regular law. So if you want to say take away the voting rights of felons they're neither protected nor exempted in the constitution. All it takes is a regular law to say felons can't vote and then they can't vote. On the same basis voter ID laws have generally been upheld.

Opening a bank account, obtaining a license and using public transportation are not constitutionally enumerated rights. The constitution is very very sparse on the specifics of many different things .. but unencumbered access to the ballot box _is_

Actually, the right to vote is nowhere in the original constitution. There's only amendments that say you can't discriminate on race (15th), sex (19th), age >18 (26th) and taxes to vote in federal elections (24th). Many other forms of discrimination is prohibited in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that MLK fought for but that's just regular law. So if you want to say take away the voting rights of felons they're neither protected nor exempted in the constitution. All it takes is a regular law to say felons can't vote and then they can't vote. On the same basis voter ID laws have generally been upheld.

Don't cry sweet child, the shoddy video chat, voice chat and money transfer services are all making money for the shareholders, as intended.

Don't worry your sweet little head about it, now off to prison with you (in a decade or so) so that our shareholders may profit more.

Oh, just to quote Milton Friedman, "a company should have no "social responsibility" to the public or society because its only concern is to increase profits for itself and for its shareholders"

Most privacy laws are based around a "Reasonable Expectation of Privacy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It doesn't matter if people care. It matters if they expect privacy.

> Most people eat to much sodium ... and it is a main cause for high blood pressure.

Last year I was diagnosed with chronic hypertension, and put on a low-sodium diet.

Once I started paying attention to how much salt is in everything, it blew me away! My limit is supposed to be 1500mg per day; one of my favorite restaurants had dishes with over 3000mg in a single meal! It's extraordinarily difficult to avoid sodium if you eat out a lot.

My doctor recommended the DASH diet - "dietary approaches to stop hypertension." But it's a very good diet for anyone, even if you have normal blood pressure. :)

Four. The Zero'th Law: A robot must not harm humanity .

That's what they're going for here, but they should read the rest of the extract:

Trevize frowned. "How do you decide what is injurious, or not injurious, to humanity as a whole?"

"Precisely, sir," said Daneel. "In theory, the Zeroth Law was the answer to our problems. In practice, we could never decide. A human being is a concrete object. Injury to a person can be estimated and judged. Humanity is an abstraction."

In many places like here in Texas it is already the law that anyone over 18 carry ID.

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

You are only required to provide an accurate name, date of birth and address to police if you are arrested. If you are not under arrest, you don't have to identify yourself. It is illegal to give a false identity though, so just refuse to identify yourself.

Read about Lysander Spooner

The agreements that allow Netflix to carry programming produced by entities other than Netflix include a requirement for Netflix to behave as a standards body with respect to compliance and robustness.

Long term unsustainable? You do realize those countries have some of the strongest economies in Europe?

This is AMD's tribute to Phi, the Golden Ratio.