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The term "nation" is commonly used to refer to a legally defined nation-state but this is not its first or only meaning.

From Wiktionary:

nation (plural nations)

A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

The Roma are a nation without a country.

The Kurdish people constitute a nation in the Middle East

Skadefryd.

It gets worse: that PR team you mentioned? They're exactly the sort of imbeciles you're talking about who anthropomorphize everything. It's like an Idiocracy version of the insane running the asylum. Or perhaps more a propos: it's the inane running the asylum.

sequal
English, Noun
Misspelling of sequel

Psssh. Dihydrogen monoxide is for amateurs. I double dog dare you to drink a glass of Hydric Acid.

I do that as a party trick in the chemistry lab.
The secret is to first neutralise it with an equal volume of hydrogen hydroxide.

Psssh. Dihydrogen monoxide is for amateurs. I double dog dare you to drink a glass of Hydric Acid.

Secondly, throwing it away would mean that those who died during this died for nothing. At least this way their sacrifice led to something meaningful.

While it's true that the word "sacrifice" has several definitions, the word is most often used to imply that the person who is giving something up is doing so voluntarily.

If someone chooses to participate in an experiment, and ends up being harmed as a result, then it's appropriate to talk about honoring their sacrifice (respecting their wishes, expressed via their willing participation, that the results of the experiment be used to better our common understanding.)

But we can't say what, for example, Mengele's victims would have wished for. Some would have wished for their information to be used; others would have wanted it destroyed. We can't know, because the choice was taken away from them.

You may argue that the possible benefit to humanity is more important than the ethical principles. In some cases you might even be right. But remember that you're not honoring the wishes of the victims by doing so, but the wishes of the torturers.

half a gallon

You're right that the class members could have looked for a firm to handle this for free or much less than it actually cost in legal fees.

End result: everyone gets nothing, and Yahoo faces no consequences at all.

Which is the better outcome?

1. False dichotomy

2. Class members are usually opted in into a class action without their knowledge or consent.

Interestingly Washington DC has free public transport for all residents under 21 and has for years. They don't have a school bus system.

I do not think that word means what you may think it means.

Then you think wrong. The phrase "free public transport for all residents under 21" means people under 21 do not pay for transportation.
If you think it means something else, you're wrong.

The statements the libertarian ideologues have been repeating over and over, "it's not free, somebody pays for it!!" is really a statement with no content. When a restaurant gives out free samples to people passing by, that doesn't mean they don't pay for it. If the bar I go to says "free beer when the Browns win a game"-- yes, of course the bar pays for the beer. "Free" means you don't pay for it. Even "free comic book day" doesn't mean that comic books appear by a magic spell, somebody still prints them, and the printers and distributors and even the employees of the comic shop all get paid for "selling" the book for free.

Yes, the word "free" has multiple meanings. Anybody posting on /. ought to already know that. If you don't, try: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

I think you misspelled "coproration", which refers to pieces of excrement handed out to the poor unsuspecting masses. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

See buttcoin isn't the only way to lose money.

A good proctologist can help you find that ...

BeauHD, a different A/C here. Not sure what you're on about, but it would at least seem that there is at least some truth in what was said about the etymology of the term "cretin". See here and here (note the caveat)

And despite what you think about Jesus, he did not bring unity to the world. The messiah is supposed to lead us into the kingdom of g0d. Why does this seem no different than the world prior to that time, just with more technology and more people? He didn't do that part of the messiah deal either.

The Peace Prize has certainly had its controversies and questionable moments (Obama being a notable example). I would argue that there is sometimes a legitimate paradoxical element to peace, which is this: it is frequently the case that the leader of a violent faction is the only individual capable of brokering an effective peace. This was the case with Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, etc.

The political metaphor for this situation (which extends beyond peace negotiations) is "only Nixon could go to China". Back during the red scare, only hardcore anti-communist Richard Nixon could visit China, recognize the communist government, and normalize trading relations with them. If a liberal president had tried to do the same, they would have been roasted for being "soft on communism".

Interestingly, the word Slav derives from greek Sklabos, which according to the good Wiki "may derive from the Greek verb (skulá), a variant of (skuleú, “to get the spoils of war”)[1] because Slavs were often enslaved." - so it could still be that Slav derived from slavery/loot, and in turn slavery was derived from Slav...

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The back catalogue https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki... and the ability to scan film has lots of 8K content.

They were just following orders...

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I think it's clear I was not talking about the use of the hate term "cis-" in the context of biology, chemistry, or geography. It's use in reference to human sexuality is quite recent. This more relevant Wiktionary link states: "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994."

Moreover, a term's origin or technical use in other contexts does not preclude its use as hate speech. "Cis-" is clearly used as hate speech in most contemporary texts.

That's a latin prefix and it's been in use in biology, chemistry, and geography for a very long time. If you're going to get angry at something, pick something else. It's a technical term.

It's ok, I don't mind you looking like an idiot.

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Me, I speak English.

That will be the day I use DaaS, if you go for this replace the second 'a' with a 's' in my subject because that is what you are.

They're a German subordinating conjunction?

Well, I've always thought the International Fixed Calendar was a decent attempt at sanity, but if there's people in the world that can't adopt the metric system, there's no way in hell the calendar could change.

Why did they reuse the Gregorian names and add a month to the summer! The Gregorian calendar already did this and now the names are all messed up. e.g. October, literally translates to "eighth month" in Latin, but is the tenth. When corrections were made to the calendar in the past, these months were made to no longer match their numerical position. It annoys the crap out of me!

If your going to create a new calendar at least name the months sanely:
Unumber
Duober
Triaber
Quattuorber
Quinqueber (or Quintilis)
Sexber (or Sextilis)
September
October
November
December
Undecimber
Duodecimber
Tredecimber

That's my fault, I think.

The eds corrected it in the summary, but used my submitted title verbatim.

Sorry about that. I sometimes get word confusion from studying various languages. And yes, I did study *that* language for awhile.

(For comparison, is it Brazil or Brasil?)

Stone claims that Guccifer is Romanian. Romanian alphabet uses Latin letters plus a few diacritics which are present in extended ASCII. However, I don't know if they the ASCII encoding is the most commonly used one in Romania. It maybe. But given that Romania was part of the Soviet block, it could be something else.

Wikia says that Windows-1250 is the recommended encoding for Romanian. It doesn't have Cyrillic, but it is not ASCII (Cyrillic is in Windows-1251).

I am not arguing, btw. I don't know quite know how meaningful it is. Just thinking "out loud" I guess. If you can point to the document on a more-or-less safe site, maybe I could make more sense of it.

RIP Tata Nano, the World's Cheapest Car

Or in other words: tata, Tata.

Because no piece of software has ever had a bug.

ISO 26262. *

Trying to argue why "software may theoretically have bugs" is a bad argument will take too much time. It is a lot easier for both of us if you just read the standard. (Or IEC 61508 if you want to, the safety related parts should be fairly equivalent.)

Just to get an idea of the scope, a system developed according to the standard will be able to manage a situation where a transistor in the CPU stops working, for example if the ALU no longer can set the zero-flag and conditional branches no longer is possible. Yep, you so called "safe" high level languages means jack shit when it comes to designing safe systems. Your built in super-automatic buffer overrun check isn't guaranteed to work.

The software should be bug-free, but even if it isn't then it shouldn't cause a safety issue.

Completely agree

However, my snark was more to do with the way certain internet commenters have this incredibly high standard placed upon Tesla, yet if an existing car manufacturer for example has a tech flaw, there isn't nearly the same level of outrage/concern/whatever

Could it be that "electric cars" and "autonomous driving" are a threat to people who's ePeen is attached to their ability to own and operate a big V8?

Note: I'm not saying that Tesla should get a pass for whatever may be wrong in their cars. I'm saying that the level of wrath directed towards Tesla seems to be people getting defensive over their toys being slowly taken away. I suspect that most of these people have never even heard of Lidar until it became a talking point for Tesla

* I do not assume that Tesla actually follows the standard even if they are legally required to.

I just hope that they're doing a better job of it than Toyota

and I say all of this while I tend to avoid American cars due to hardware reliability concerns (hoping Tesla will be the exception here)

Town gas

... wasn't invented until the late 20th century? Are you sure about that?

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Come out from the shadows, Anonymous Coward. Show yourself.

Take a peak at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .. except for the top 5, there are dozens that fall in the $200m's. And these are considered very expensive films.

The other $139m number I cited came from "[A] list [of] the top 20 highest movie budgets of all time according to the best information gleaned from studios, and the top 20 movies with the lowest budgets that earned at least $1 Million at the US box office."

And finally from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
peanuts :
2. (informal, figuratively) A very small or insufficient amount (especially of a salary). Synonyms: pittance, trifle

I'm not sure what sort of Trump-era math you use when $140m is very small versus say $380m for the most expensive film of all time (that number is likely $410m minus rebates). I can totally understand your position if films were $1B and we were only talking $100m. 10% is easier to argue as small than 50%. But on top of all this, typical films in Hollywood are not huge $380m films.

Basically you're being an ass about this. You don't have to concede, you could stop replying, but squawking bullshit does nobody any good.

Does that means it uses ad nominem attacks when he runs out of good points?

How's he going to win a debate if he attacks the nominators?

The companies opposed to privacy rights are mostly parastatal corporations. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wi...

the ganja language

Hindi?

Rasta

the ganja language

Hindi?

It sounds something like:
Dammph.. P->Louder-ER

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Jealous has several meanings, one of which is a synonym of envious.

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Pentane is used for lava targets. Heptane and Septane are already spoken for. Enneatane don't fire nobody's rocket, not nobody, not nohow. Hentriacontadictakitane is available.

Nothing exempts advertising from the iron law of consumers voting with their feet (and fetii).

The expressed preference (for now) of 90% of the consuming public is to have to their purchasing biases shaped implicitly without lifting a finger (over and above the next clickbait bikini), rather than deliberately apply their faculty of reason to a cornucopia of quantitative information that's only ever another finger-click away (at least in outline; some assembly required for a fully-resolved view).

Evolution probably scores this as a loss, sort of: Mr Clickbait Bikini probably fathers a large brood of downwardly mobile future Fox and Friends fanatics, none of whom will qualify for a berth on Noah's ark if global geopolitical shit someday hits the fan.

r/K selection theory

90% of consumers are presently piling onto the high-r, low-K bandwagon. They could yet win. Only time will tell.

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Father, I have sinned.

The plural form *fetii is doubly incorrect. Firstly, fetus derives from Latin's fourth declension, meaning that its etymologically consistent plural form would be fetus; the -us goes to -i rule is a pattern of the second declension.

Secondly, even if fetus were a second-declension noun, the plural form would be *feti; in the correct plurals radii and gladii, with which *fetii is analogous, the first 'i's are part of the words' stems (radi- and gladi-), and not their case endings. (src)

free (selected definitions):
Generous; liberal.
Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.
Obtainable without any payment.
Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.

Unless the Gizmodo article was updated since its publication without notice, they note that in the article.

The updated version of Google’s code of conduct still retains one reference to the company’s unofficial motto—the final line of the document is still: “And remember don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”

It's called "burying the lede," and quite common in the news business. So, business as usual---also, I guess you are right, literal fake news.

If I build a brand of graphics cards based on Nvidia chips... let's call it BlazeX... and I spend years building brand loyalty to BlazeX as
the fastest cards available, Nvidia is hidden behind that brand.

So? That's generally how it works. When Ford came out with the SHO (super-high-output) version of the Taurus, how many people do you think knew (or cared) that the engines in those vehicles were made by Yamaha? How many Fords have you seen with Yamaha plastered all over them?

Exactly.

They'd like for people to associate BlazeX only with Nvidia chips, so when the BlazeX Value comes out, it has an Nvidia chipset and not an AMD or Intel chipset.

Yep, so the brand equity that BlazeX has built gets transeferred to Nvidia, for free. I'm sure they'd like that a whole lot.

In that scenario, the Nvidia-built reputation is selling AMD and Intel chips.

Horseshit. The BlazeX-built reputation for high performance and high quality video cards is selling BlazeX video cards, and they're free to use whatever chipset allows them to keep that reputation. Nvidia tried to to steal the brand equity in those situations for themselves, but they were called on it. Tough nuts.

BlazeX would still have the cache of being the fastest...

The word is cachet. When you're telling someone they're wrong, you probably shouldn't commit simple vocabulary errors while doing it. Kinda undermines the whole "I know better than you" thing.

Indians are not zealots, can adopt quickly and see the logic

Of course aside from religion, where the word "zealot" actually comes from.

What does a greek word about a particular Jewish sect have to do with India? Or is this some really vague Starcraft reference?

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It's a combination of factors. Trump and his hardline stance giving Kim no room for belligerent talk. South Korea recently electing a very liberal President (some even call him communist). And Kim still being relatively new to the reins of power in North Korea (2011).

The combination of the three has produced a unique situation where the political stances which had been the status quo for over 50 years can be thrown out without anyone losing face. The long-term North Korean stance has been that South Korea is a puppet state of the U.S., and until now they've refused to negotiate solely with South Korea, always insisting on negotiating with the U.S. instead. The U.S. in turn has insisted that all major belligerents in the war be involved in any peace treaty talks (North and South Korea, U.S., China, and Russia). And South Korea's leadership has with a couple short exceptions been fairly conservative, and unwilling to yield almost anything to North Korea.

Trump broke with the 5-country peace treaty stance the U.S. has held for decades, and agreed to meet with Kim one-on-one. It's a Nixon-goes-to-China situation, where only a hard-line opponent could give ground on a long-held position without losing face. Kim broke with North Korea's insistence that South Korea was a puppet state and that any peace treaty be negotiated between it and the U.S., and agreed to meet Moon directly as representatives of two nations. And Moon agreed to meet Kim, which former Korean Presidents from conservative parties probably wouldn't have been able to do without being kicked out of power by their own party.

Kim also happens to be a k-pop fan. And one of the best ways I've found for reconciling two people with an acrimonious history is to start with something they both like. It sounds cheesy, but it forces you to think of the other side as being comprised of real people just like yourself, not nameless faces onto which you can project decades of ingrained stereotypes and prejudices.

Let's cut to the chase, they are probably eyeing the Australian immigration system https://www.australia.gov.au/i..., like it and want to, hmmmm, crossgrade https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki... to it (not going to make an up or down, distinction to that, no way, now how, not that I could give a fuck about the corporate funded SJWs doing their idiotic divide and weaken bullshit, the fake left, not the far left, the make the rest of the left look bad, fake left, fuck em, but it should be a democratic decision made by the majority of citizens). Of course the US will tweak it their way (making it less functional), rather than just copy some other countries system.

Now the presents a new question, should it be free or should there be a resource pool providing rewards for that kind of voluntary work. It is a good idea that it happens, should not an effort be made to promote it and provide some sort of reward for those who do it 'on spec' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki..., for a job well done and the service it provides.

Kodi is a word at least in Karelian, Veps, Ludian, Latvian, Swahili and Chichewa! So members of some linguistic minorities in Russia have to press enter when searching for home.

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You do yourself a disservice with your insults/snarkiness/anger.

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Oh contraire https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki..., that they have to censor social media, is proof they are changing from an autocracy to a democracy. That public approval was sought for the change and that the change was challenge, are both signs that democracy is definitely making a move in China.

However the current political climate vis a vie threats and shenanigans via the US deep state threatened by growing China economic power, means that those behind the current leader of China feel more secure with that leader because of how well the leader is handling the US problem. So they want to keep them going whilst that crisis is on and the US governmnet by it's stupid and ignorant actions is blocking the development of democracy in China.

Consider that the government of China sought public approval and was threatened when they did no get it, as signs of growing Chinese democracy, make a mistake now and it could blow right up in your face, if you get my meaning.

hyperbole, n.:

Noun

hyperbole (countable and uncountable, plural hyperboles)

        (uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement. quotations
        (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement. quotations
        (countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.

Synonyms

        (rhetoric): overstatement, exaggeration, auxesis

And WTF is a dead name?

Two seconds on Google... Dead Name

The birth name of a person who has since changed their name (especially a transgender person).