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The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough.

Yeah, I tried putting a giant rubber sheath over my monitor too, but apparently that doesn't stop you from getting an infection when you cyber. I feel his pain.

Ignoring the obvious "that word doesn't mean what you think it does" regarding "decimate"

It is you who ignores the obvious: languages change. See decimate "properly" vs "generally". What does the word really mean? Not so obvious. If you want to come across as anal then by all means uphold the "proper" (or ancient) meaning. But if you wish to be understood, consider accepting the generally understood meaning.

To determine can also mean to ascertain, figure out by measurement, so there is no "subtle difference".

diet: "way of living, mode of life". A temporary regime can be useful to recover from an illness; it doesn't permanently change the size or contents of your gut if it doesn't persist. But of course we've always known that.

It's not your comments, it's your handle.

Er, what ?

I can only assume that you're not familiar with established use of the term as a somewhat (intentionally) infantile and facetious reference to an alcoholic drink and nothing more?

See Wiktionary, Oxford Reference, etc.

(Perhaps you were imagining something less pleasant? Or maybe people *do* get it, but they're just opposed to alcohol consumption in general...?!)

Possibly: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

"Discrete" means something like "in separate parts", so "indiscrete" means "not in separate parts". I can only remember coming across the word in mathematics a long time ago.

Let me ask you. Who is a greater threat? A mob of spoiled brat, dragging people out of cars, ganging up on little girls, bashing pregnant women's car windows in ....

Or a someone chanting "Build a wall" ?

This is what is known as the False Dilemma.

I am not denying there are people that "hate" out there, and bigots and such, but they are pretty much feckless cowards mostly hiding behind anonymity.

Except there you are denying them. Ok, ok, I'll qualify it, you're downplaying them. Here.

Elsewhere, you made a denial about the 1950s.

On the other hand, there seems to be hundreds of thousands of people willing to cause mayhem protesting our democratic republic after an election, where people actually get to register their voice, and what is supposed to be a "peaceful" transition of power.

And here was have Exaggeration.

Or that is what Hillary and the Left were claiming just 4 months ago.

Sorry, the REAL danger are the precious snowflakes throwing temper tantrums like spoiled three year olds who don't get the toy they wanted, who are literally kicking and screaming because someone (over half of Americans who voted) said "no".

Yes, this is belittlement, and discrediting. After all, if you can portray them as unworthy, you can dismiss them. And hey, remember all the complaints about Agent provocateurs?

Bet you can't acknowledge that instigators may be operating under a False Flag.

Oh so which is it? They're asian or pakistani?

In the UK, Asian = South Asian; people from the Indian subcontinent. Brown people.

In the US, Asian = East Asian; China, Korea etc. Yellow people.

Wiktionary, "Asian", senses 3 and 4

Yes we should save all our outrage and news of it until the day before it's due to be a problem

False dichotomy. No, it does not have to be "day before". A year or two before would do.

As things stand, though, we aren't at all certain, this particular one will ever be a problem — the stuff may remain buried in ice for eons. "Climate Science" and related alarmism (Peak Oil, anyone?) is rather notorious for unsuccessful predictions, while successful ones are rather hard to come by — people have tried...

To worry about what even the "proponents" say is decades ahead, one must really have dispensed with contemporary issues — such as, indeed, whether bogus accusations of sexual misconduct — and attempts to redefine unapproved kissing as assault — will allow a deceitful and crooked person become president this year.

Or #herrgate for the other half of the population

What??? They are the same (Herr)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

Not really a phrase I would use for it, but he bared his rear end for the Thanksgiving attendees.

Something which controls heading and speed but which does not take complete responsibility for the vehicle. And do you know what we call a device like that? We call it an autopilot. [...] Buy a fucking dictionary, and spend some time with it.

I will if you will. Let's try Merriam-Webster:

a device that steers a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft in place of a person

Or, we could look at Wiktionary:

A mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system used to guide a vehicle without assistance from a human being.

Ford might not have been at fault: "he walked on to the set not believing it to be live." Film production actually has very specific procedures (signs, human "minders") for keeping people safe, and ensuring continuity, i.e. a hot set: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

When you incite it's an imperative.

No it isn't. An "imperative" comes from a third Latin root word, impero, meaning to command or give an order. (That's also where we get the word "emperor," via "imperator" meaning "one who gives orders".)

There's already a perfectly good word: "incited". You don't need to make up "incentivized".

Fun fact: they are different words with slightly different meanings! (isn't English fun?!)

They both come from Latin.

• incite comes from incitare, a transitive verb meaning "to incite, urge, spur, egg on"
• incentive comes from incantare, a transitive verb meaning "to charm, enchant, bewitch, beguile, spellbind"

When you incite it's an imperative.
When you incentivize it's a temptation.

There's already a perfectly good word: "incited". You don't need to make up "incentivized".

Fun fact: they are different words with slightly different meanings! (isn't English fun?!)

They both come from Latin.

• incite comes from incitare, a transitive verb meaning "to incite, urge, spur, egg on"
• incentive comes from incantare, a transitive verb meaning "to charm, enchant, bewitch, beguile, spellbind"

When you incite it's an imperative.
When you incentivize it's a temptation.

as a Gartner analyst wrote, there is no equivalent concept of "privacy" in the Chinese language.

Then what does yinsi mean?

Huh?

The chip in question is shen1-wei1, which is more like "superior-power" as in lots of MIPS (not wrath of god?).

The spaceship is slightly different shen2-zhou1, which is more like "divine-ship" rather than god's personal ship.

Firstly, although they have the same root (shen1), they are not the same character. Secondly, although they are pronounced similar (belying their shared root), they are pronounced with a different tone (one is 1st tone, one is 2nd tone). Saying god's ship would imply that it is the ship-of-god, where a divine ship is simply a ship that travels in the heavens (which is basically a spaceship, right?). In chinese, you might say God's boat like shen-de-zhou (God's own boat) which is not at all what people mean when they say spaceship.

Of course you can make up a literal translation that has completely bombastic implication, but you have to remember nouns in chinese are basically mostly compound connections of a limited set of "words" whose compound meaning does not translate directly from the translation of its components. If you want, you can do the same thing in english by twisting etymological root words (e.g., google "mortgage etymology" which yields "death pledge"), but nobody really means that shit even though it might be a legit translation.

FWIW, the historical name china gave itself was shen-zhou (divine state), which is probably why you see so much shen-this, shen-that... Although today calls itself more modestly and less heavenly/divinely zhong-guo (middle nation or perhaps central kingdom), "middle" or "central" doesn't really work as many places as divine...

Huh?

The chip in question is shen1-wei1, which is more like "superior-power" as in lots of MIPS (not wrath of god?).

The spaceship is slightly different shen2-zhou1, which is more like "divine-ship" rather than god's personal ship.

Firstly, although they have the same root (shen1), they are not the same character. Secondly, although they are pronounced similar (belying their shared root), they are pronounced with a different tone (one is 1st tone, one is 2nd tone). Saying god's ship would imply that it is the ship-of-god, where a divine ship is simply a ship that travels in the heavens (which is basically a spaceship, right?). In chinese, you might say God's boat like shen-de-zhou (God's own boat) which is not at all what people mean when they say spaceship.

Of course you can make up a literal translation that has completely bombastic implication, but you have to remember nouns in chinese are basically mostly compound connections of a limited set of "words" whose compound meaning does not translate directly from the translation of its components. If you want, you can do the same thing in english by twisting etymological root words (e.g., google "mortgage etymology" which yields "death pledge"), but nobody really means that shit even though it might be a legit translation.

FWIW, the historical name china gave itself was shen-zhou (divine state), which is probably why you see so much shen-this, shen-that... Although today calls itself more modestly and less heavenly/divinely zhong-guo (middle nation or perhaps central kingdom), "middle" or "central" doesn't really work as many places as divine...

Consider 'the world.' Or 'the sky.' There's only one of each (synecdoche and other planets notwithstanding) but we don't really regard them as proper nouns. In fact, you have to go back pretty far to find a language where one of these vast media are encoded in a way that's even ambiguously a true proper noun in what is still decidedly poetic writing. I confess I initially resisted the idea of this too, but... it's not really a bad thing, in the end. The dream of the ARPANET, NSFnet, and other early nets was always to create a network medium that was invisible and omnipresent. This is just another step on that journey.

You don't understand anything. Educate yourself by starting here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

actually, you're wrong too.
The trans prefix CAN mean change, as in transition, but it also can mean "the other", "across", or "beyond", as in transnational.
We are raised to believe that there are exactly 2 genders, and that boys function exactly one spcific way, girls function exactly another. Anything else is a minority abhorration. The reality is, some 70% of us are transgender. i.e. We live outside of that rigid and unrealistic definition. "the other". We are not stereotype girls and boys. There is no stereotype. Boys and girls dress and behave a certain way because that's what they are told and raised to do, not because they are that way naturally.
Simply recognizing the reality of gender is enough to make the "trans" label appropriate. No need to make your outsides look how your insides feel.

As for the OP, assuming 2 restrooms are necessary to prevent even the temptation of hetero rape, is a separate dysfunction, known as "rape culture". Everyone should feel safe in a restroom, regardless of gender, regardless of age, regardless of whether they are even wearing clothing at all. To suggest that they can't be, is to reveal that there is HUGE problems going unsolved, and just swept under the rug.

Duckthink?

Ba-dum ching.

Yes, we must.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

Not necessarily. England was arguably a christian theocracy after Henry VIII, and the Vatican is a current example. There's nothing inherently wrong with the idea, except if the religion in power doesn't happen to be your own. Personally, I don't think anyone's religious beliefs should be involved in any political decision-making.

Your use of the word "cretin" is particularly ironic, btw.

We start out fairly professional...

"Over 1,900 Free Staters already are there and we've reported here at Reason on some of what they're already accomplished, from getting 15 of their brethren in the state House, challenging anti-ridehail laws, fighting in court for outre religious liberty...

Wait, is that a typo? Is it French for "to go to excess"? I'm not sure religious liberty counts a being particularly "unconventional" in this country

...winning legal battles over taping cops, being mocked by Colbert for heroically...

Well, that's rather subjective.

paying off people's parking meters, hosting cool anything goes festivals for libertarians, nullifying pot juries, and inducing occasional pants-wetting absurd paranoia in local statists."

Ah, yes, well... I'm sure when their pants dry, they'll be quite happy to accept your views as the well-reasoned path toward an ideal civilization.

Aussie word?

Would like to know the meaning & etomology, especially if it's perjorative, please.

Bloody hell. Can't you do even a little research yourself?

cobber from the free dictionary.

cobber from wiktionary.

Both have the etymology of the word.

Except "at all" doesn't mean "in any situation". You can always, if you're aspie enough, invent a corner case where a dumb thing would make sense.

It's a form of emphasis.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

Corporations rule the world. The TPP showed us that. Governments have been reduced to middle men which lick some of the cream off the top as they pass them your milkshake.

The financial term for what Google and its big business buddies are doing is called a double irish sandwich, a dutch sandwich, or a shit sandwich. http://www.abc.net.au/insidebu... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

It's your own fault for electing the same party politicians who let them do this again, and again, and again. So eat that shit sandwich, taxpayer. You deserve it. Too bad the rest of us have to keep eating what you keep ordering too, you asshole.

Nice.

For what it's worth, wubao might mean this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki..., the second meaning of which looks like "secret". Someone, perhaps you, might have asked this question before, https://ewedaa.wordpress.com/2...

I haven't used the Win10 install much, but just to nitpick:

bloated

...

1. 2. Excessively or extremely large (...)

2. 3. (computing, of software) Excessively overloaded with features (...)

3. ...

In my book, both apply :-P

Without the rollback and backup stuff you mention, the frickin thing is still huge.

Don't get me wrong, but just the other day I was reminiscing with a friend about the times when our PCs ran at 4,77 MHz and how we dreamt of what those machines could do if they ran at 40 or even 400 MHz. Today, those things run at >2 GHz speeds on several cores (!), and most of the times we still wait and wait and wait ... which is the "bloat" I'm talking about. The waiting is in large parts due to -- but not exclusively and not only on Win machines -- modern OS architecture and feature bloat. Why MS is still pushing every last feature to every last machine instead of giving users a way of opting in and out of certain aspects of the OS only a small part of the user base will ever use is beyond me (as are most of their decisions lately). Yet, you have to click through several pages of privacy settings when installing Win10, unless you click "MS knows best, don't bother me with what it collects and phones home". What's wrong with a "Chose the components you wish to install now and add others later" option, so that for example desktop users can skip all the shiny new touch and tablet kinda stuff?!

End rant.

Holy crap! Yahoo released something actually useful and arguably innovative? I'm genuinely surprised.

This could be an interesting direction for Yahoo.

ML is the bee's knees.

PS-I just looked up the etymology on 'the bee's knees' and it's moderately interesting:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

Maybe they are monitoring for grease payments .

Never seen the word "performant" until today. Must be an obscure five-dollar word that scientists love to toss around. Meanwhile, I'll stick with cheap performance as my word of choice.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/performant

Performance is a noun. Performant is an adjective, meaning "having (high) performance" (or performing well). If you stick with performance, be sure to reword your sentence so that it makes sense.

You're right, performance is a noun while performant an adjective. Most of the time, though, you can just say fast.

Never seen the word "performant" until today. Must be an obscure five-dollar word that scientists love to toss around. Meanwhile, I'll stick with cheap performance as my word of choice.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/performant

Performance is a noun. Performant is an adjective, meaning "having (high) performance" (or performing well). If you stick with performance, be sure to reword your sentence so that it makes sense.

Never seen the word "performant" until today. Must be an obscure five-dollar word that scientists love to toss around. Meanwhile, I'll stick with cheap performance as my word of choice.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/performant

why the hell would you resort to a picture of text? has the internet gotten so dumbed-down with apps for this and that and facebooks and twitters and instagrams that nobody knows what a fucking hyperlink to a different website is anymore? i mean that is the main navigation tool of the hypertext transfer protocol that is the very foundation of the world wide web, aka the internet as defined by most casual users.

why the hell would you resort to a picture of text? has the internet gotten so dumbed-down with apps for this and that and facebooks and twitters and instagrams that nobody knows what a fucking hyperlink to a different website is anymore? i mean that is the main navigation tool of the hypertext transfer protocol that is the very foundation of the world wide web, aka the internet as defined by most casual users.

I'm not much of a grammar Nazi, but I'm seeing this error everywhere now and I'm afraid it'll become the norm. The saying is, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," which makes a lot more sense when you think about it.

Too late. It originated in the 20's and became common in the 50's.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

?cajones?

If you have a point, make it. I'm not going to read a giant article about "leadership". Here's a link for you:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

From that link:
"Any person that leads or directs."
"One having authority to direct."
"One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles."

The first two apply to leaders like Saddam Hussein, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong *, etc. The last one applied additionally to Saddam Hussein, who was leader of the Ba'ath party, as well as Stalin who was leader of the Communist Party of the USSR, as well as Hitler who was leader of the NSDAP Party.

Can we please stop using the "uhhhhh" sound to replace the word "you"?

Sure, if you can get nearly 17 million Dutch to agree to it.

Trans is Latin for "other side of; beyond"; cis is "this side of; within". E.g. cislunar.

"Cisgender" is a neologism, but I see nothing wrong with that, given that "transgender" has only been around since the 1980s.

And what's with the veiled hate/disgust thing? Remind me never to invite you to a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

of a fucked up name (albeit one that is often rather descriptive of the program) that has kept it from being a serious contender to commercial products in all markets, but especially for business and enterprise.

Here, now you know how to fish.

Australia's robbery rate is about half (55%) that of the US, overall murder rate is about 1/4.

        http://www.nationmaster.com/co...

And I'll just throw this out there, last night in my town, someone not only managed to shoot himself in the foot, but the same bullet seriously injured a 9 year old neighbor:

        http://abc7news.com/news/san-j...

> What does stem have to do with coding ?

engineering, n. The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.

Zip is offensive too:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
http://www.urbandictionary.com...

The OED lists its definitions in historical order. The Oxford Online Dictionary, by comparison, lists "kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage"as the first definition, and only has "kill one in ten" as the second definition. Which is marked as "historical". It also includes a usage note that says, "This sense has been superseded by the later, more general sense."

http://www.oxforddictionaries....

Collins Dictionary also has the one-in-ten meaning listed second: http://www.collinsdictionary.c...

As does dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.co...

Wiktionary lists the historical meaning first, but also presents evidence suggesting that this sense is basically never used any more, except when complaining about the change in meaning (at least in the British National Corpus): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

do you think that wealth is like some sort of ginormous lottery

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
Look at number 2: Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain

There are a lot of people that are educated and work hard that don't become wealthy. Success comes to those that work hard, persist but also get some luck. By luck I mean being born in the right place, with the right parents and along the way meeting the right people and making the right decisions (which aren't always obvious at the time they were made).

I'm in my 30s and I have a net worth of 600k. I consider myself fortunate to be in this position as most in my age group have a negative net worth. I met the right people at the right time in my life and combined with my efforts was able to turn it into what I have today.