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And I'm telling you, the summary is wrong. I hang out on the Model 3 Owners Club and Tesla Motors Club daily and have seen all of the videos from all of the owners. There is a rain sensor for the wipers. It may be inactive at this point in time due to the software not being mature, but it exists.

People need to be cautioned that, although Tesla would never publicly admit it, everyone knows that the early adopters are driving a beta. Everyone including the owners themselves (who jumped at the opportunity to do so). There's a number of features in the software stack that are clearly lacking / need refinement.

No one is replacing old nuclear power plants with coal.

Germany has done just that.
https://carboncounter.wordpres...

France too.
http://instituteforenergyresea...

Sadly, so is the USA.
https://instituteforenergyrese...
https://www.vox.com/energy-and...

Or maybe the USA is replacing nuclear with natural gas.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

Japan is almost famous for replacing nuclear with coal
https://www.equaltimes.org/jap...

In the UK natural gas is replacing coal and nuclear.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

I just realized I covered 5 of the "Group of Seven" so let's finish this out and see what Canada and Italy are doing.

Turns out Italy shut down their nuclear a long time ago and relies largely on natural gas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Looks like Canada is neither closing or building new nuclear, demand growth has been met with natural gas and hydro.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/art...

Also in the above article is mention of Russia, China, and South Korea. More about that here:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...

So, let's review. France, Germany, Japan, and USA have all built significant numbers of coal plants in the past few years to meet growing demand and to make up for retired nuclear. Canada, UK, USA, and Italy rely heavily on natural gas and are building more capacity, while this might not be replacing nuclear it is another fossil fuel being used instead of wind and solar. China, Russia, and South Korea are actually making significant investments in nuclear to replace fossil fuels, which is still consistent with my claim that one must choose nuclear, fossil fuels, or lights going out.

Why do you write such nonsense? Fukushima Daishi had ordinary emergency power generators, like every plant. They did not rely on external power. However, perhaps that escaped you, the emergency power generators got flooded. And for some dumb reason no one came to the idea to helicopter a few military units in.

That's just so much nonsense in one paragraph it's hard to even come up with a reply. Do you really think that no one thought to helicopter in some generators?

In your country? All other countries that introduced wind and solar show that they are very reliabel and cost effective.

Oh, you mean like how last year the German government paid wind energy producers to sit idle to prevent damage to the electrical grid?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/04...

That doesn't sound very reliable or cost effective. Seriously, do some research before you post. You are looking like a fool.

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CRIMES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

United States war crimes

The Untold History of US War Crimes

U.S. Crimes Against Humanity: a history

Fellow blogger Marc Immanuel has written an extensive history of the United States and its ongoing imperial crimes against humanity from beginning to present, from its earliest days as a settler colonial enterprise to its numerous massacres of civilians in Iraq in the 21st century. The article gives a detailed account of each of the most well-known massacres committed against the Indigenous peoples by bloodthirsty white colonists who conducted what can only be described as a campaign of extermination against the original inhabitants of this land. These include

        The Gnadenhutten Massacre
        The Bad Axe Massacre
        Bloody Island Massacre
        Bear River Massacre
        Sand Creek Massacre
        Skeleton Cave Massacre
        The Wounded Knee Massacre

Immanuelâ(TM)s research leads him to conclude that by the year 1900, the combined Indigenous population from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific stood at around 250,000, or âoeless than 5% of the original population prior to the beginning of the European invasion by Spanish colonialist forces in the early 16th century.â From there other forms of genocide against the Native peoples that were used are detailed and discussed, such as biological genocide and cultural genocide.
February 28, 1991 image from the Gulf War taken by Ken Jarecke showing the corpse of an Iraqi soldier who was burned alive in the U.S. blitzkrieg known as the âoeHighway of Death.â

Aside from the multitude of genocides committed against the Indigenous populations, thereâ(TM)s the horrific U.S. Army genocide against the people of the Philippine Islands, torture of Haitians during the 1915-1934 invasion and occupation, the CIAâ(TM)s barbaric and sadistic MKUltra mind control program, Abu-Ghraib and GITMO warehouses of torture, state-sponsored and state-sanctioned brutality against people of color in the U.S., involvement in the âOpium Warsâ(TM) in China, the forced opening of Japan, financial and military support of brutal military dictator regimes all across the globe, crimes of aggression and massacres of civilians in North and South Vietnam, crimes of aggression against Cuba, invasion of Grenada, predator drone attacks on innocent families in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, and much, much more. This is an essential read and good reference point to be returned to again and again to combat the oft-repeated myth of supposed higher moral authority the U.S. claims to be in possession of.

The list of US war crimes is 1000 times longer than yours.

What you psyop shill don't get is people don't give a shit about Putin, smearing Putin doesn't change the fact that the US is the biggest terrorist state on earth.

Putin isn't going around pretending to be some "Freedom" fighter, you Americans are, you fucks talk the biggest bullshit and do the biggest damages.

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CRIMES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

United States war crimes

The Untold History of US War Crimes

U.S. Crimes Against Humanity: a history

Fellow blogger Marc Immanuel has written an extensive history of the United States and its ongoing imperial crimes against humanity from beginning to present, from its earliest days as a settler colonial enterprise to its numerous massacres of civilians in Iraq in the 21st century. The article gives a detailed account of each of the most well-known massacres committed against the Indigenous peoples by bloodthirsty white colonists who conducted what can only be described as a campaign of extermination against the original inhabitants of this land. These include

The Gnadenhutten Massacre
The Bad Axe Massacre
Bloody Island Massacre
Bear River Massacre
Sand Creek Massacre
Skeleton Cave Massacre
The Wounded Knee Massacre

Immanuelâ(TM)s research leads him to conclude that by the year 1900, the combined Indigenous population from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific stood at around 250,000, or âoeless than 5% of the original population prior to the beginning of the European invasion by Spanish colonialist forces in the early 16th century.â From there other forms of genocide against the Native peoples that were used are detailed and discussed, such as biological genocide and cultural genocide.
February 28, 1991 image from the Gulf War taken by Ken Jarecke showing the corpse of an Iraqi soldier who was burned alive in the U.S. blitzkrieg known as the âoeHighway of Death.â

Aside from the multitude of genocides committed against the Indigenous populations, thereâ(TM)s the horrific U.S. Army genocide against the people of the Philippine Islands, torture of Haitians during the 1915-1934 invasion and occupation, the CIAâ(TM)s barbaric and sadistic MKUltra mind control program, Abu-Ghraib and GITMO warehouses of torture, state-sponsored and state-sanctioned brutality against people of color in the U.S., involvement in the âOpium Warsâ(TM) in China, the forced opening of Japan, financial and military support of brutal military dictator regimes all across the globe, crimes of aggression and massacres of civilians in North and South Vietnam, crimes of aggression against Cuba, invasion of Grenada, predator drone attacks on innocent families in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, and much, much more. This is an essential read and good reference point to be returned to again and again to combat the oft-repeated myth of supposed

Yeah, it's the same with refugees:
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OMG ponies!!!1

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Are you in my office? Then I am not in your presence. Phew!

Does being fat make you unable to buy pants that fit, Chris?

Why don't you update your author blog?

So, how's the video production business coming along? I see you have an amazing three subscribers to your youtube channel. Are you planning on expanding your home office?

Are you in my office? Then I am not in your presence. Phew!

Does being fat make you unable to buy pants that fit, Chris?

Why don't you update your author blog?

So, how's the video production business coming along? I see you have an amazing three subscribers to your youtube channel. Are you planning on expanding your home office?

"These same changes, to reiterate, have been associated with all previous mass extinctions on Earth"

Really?

Timeline of (major) Mass Extinction Events:
http://www.worldatlas.com/arti...
1 Holocene extinction - Present
2 Cretaceousâ"Paleogene extinction event 65 million years ago
3 Triassicâ"Jurassic extinction event 199 million to 214 million years ago
4 Permianâ"Triassic extinction event 251 million years ago
5 Late Devonian extinction 364 million years ago
6 Ordovicianâ"Silurian extinction events 439 million years ago

So the 'extinction events' are approx 65mya, 200mya, 250 mya, 360mya, and 440 mya?

Then we look in https://wattsupwiththat.com/20... for this: (CO2 vs time chart) https://wattsupwiththat.files.... ...which shows us (purple line)
65 mya- no CO2 spike (it had been falling steadily 60+ million years)
200 mya- yes CO2 spike
250 mya- no CO2 spike (it had been steady for about 60+ million years)
360 mya- no CO2 spike (a spike about 20my before this, though)
440 mya- CO2 rise over previous 20 my ...no clear correlation at all. CERTAINLY not that CO2 changes have been associated with "ALL PREVIOUS MASS EXTINCTIONS". That's bullshit.

In fact, that chart shows that current CO2 levels are much lower than the bulk of the last 500 million years.

Further, this chart would serve as pretty serious disputation of ANY correlation between CO2 and warming, frankly. CO2 spikes seem to result in no impact to temperature or plummeting temperatures.

Theft is now terrorism?

Trade secrets aside, manufacturing relocation and trade deficits don't work the way most people think.

There's this thing but I think the numbers are slightly-off. 18% is a lowball figure for payroll costs (usually taxes and benefits are more like 40%-60% of payroll; wages make up the rest).

The tl;dr is that cutting off Chinese manufacture and producing (in this example) trousers in the United States would create few net jobs if wages were very low in the factories; loses more jobs as wages go up (quickly causes a net-loss of American jobs); and, in any case, permanently makes Americans poorer.

That's because Americans will have to buy the locally-manufactured good at a price representing more of their working-hours. It's the same proportional difference at any income level for the consumer; higher-income consumers are looking at a smaller absolute increase in hours worked to purchase thing. Because this exchanges for labor-hours at the factory and the number of factory workers at maximum would represent some 0.1% of the employed labor force (178k / 158,000k), most consumers get poorer, which is why you so-quickly go from a small net-gain of jobs to a net-loss.

Further, the labor force expands in abundance and stagnates or contracts in scarcity. You can see the response in the civilian labor force on the BLS, although that's a result of many factors and not a strong argument. During the height of the recession, there was news of people retiring earlier and of college students going to grad school to avoid entering a bad employment market; during recovery, more college students dropped out early to get jobs, and more people worked later into retirement (bigger Social Security pension). The rate of immigrant labor also changes.

That means that a gain or loss of jobs is a temporary thing, and quickly buffed out; while a gain or loss of poverty is just ... there. It's a matter of how much things cost, which has nothing to do with the unemployed population.

The United States's biggest threat from China is that China will stop exporting to us, thus forcing us to make stuff here, destroying our buying power and decimating the retail and shipping industries by making the average American far too poor to afford all the things we used to buy (meaning jobs go away).

China's biggest threat from the US is that we'll learn to build great big automated factories with very few humans before they can offer us lower prices using the same technology paired with greater manufacture expertise and lower wages. In such a situation, China's economy would lose the capacity to sell its labor, and would collapse under the pressure of extreme poverty. In theory, Chinese wages will rise with technology, e.g. the tech makes stuff for half as much and they pay workers just under twice as much and so the price still goes down. Even if so, losing a big chunk of their export market will collapse their economy.

Both sides benefit from trade. Exports are great for the economy; so are imports. It's not a balance, where one hurts us and the other helps us.

The Right Thing!(tm) differs from person to person, and may even change for a single person as circumstances change.

Agree, most complex tools have lots of paths and it's entirely unclear where to begin but then again the application has no clue what you're trying to accomplish. I'm thinking of applications like Photoshop, Visual Studio, Excel, Notepad++, Resolve and a whole lot of others. Many, many layers of menus, toolbars, dialogs, tabs, window areas, settings, options and so on. I think that past a certain complexity there's no such thing as a particularly great one-fits-all design. So my pet wishes:

1. Let me easily move things around. Like if I want to re-dock the windows, resize them etc. I can do that.
2. Let me easily collapse/remove things I don't need. Or better yet, hide the less used options with an expander/under an advanced button.
3. Give me a usable way to search for functionality instead of digging through menus and reading tooltips
4. Offer some kind of preview/sample functionality where relevant. I'm not always sure exactly what to do.
5. Proper undo/redo history or at least be explicitly clear on what can't be undone.
6. Auto-complete/suggestions from past entry where possible/relevant, but please no assistants.
7. Control over what changes/defaults are saved, like do I want the file dialog to start in the most recently used directory or the one configured.
8. Try being consistent about how things work, avoid unexpected side effects, be clear in naming.
9. If it's in the nature to be scripted, I love GUIs that build a command line I can copy and save.
10. Don't make change for change's sake. At the very least offer a "classic" interface, don't force people.

That would be a good start.

The Right Thing!(tm) differs from person to person, and may even change for a single person as circumstances change.

Agree, most complex tools have lots of paths and it's entirely unclear where to begin but then again the application has no clue what you're trying to accomplish. I'm thinking of applications like Photoshop, Visual Studio, Excel, Notepad++, Resolve and a whole lot of others. Many, many layers of menus, toolbars, dialogs, tabs, window areas, settings, options and so on. I think that past a certain complexity there's no such thing as a particularly great one-fits-all design. So my pet wishes:

1. Let me easily move things around. Like if I want to re-dock the windows, resize them etc. I can do that.
2. Let me easily collapse/remove things I don't need. Or better yet, hide the less used options with an expander/under an advanced button.
3. Give me a usable way to search for functionality instead of digging through menus and reading tooltips
4. Offer some kind of preview/sample functionality where relevant. I'm not always sure exactly what to do.
5. Proper undo/redo history or at least be explicitly clear on what can't be undone.
6. Auto-complete/suggestions from past entry where possible/relevant, but please no assistants.
7. Control over what changes/defaults are saved, like do I want the file dialog to start in the most recently used directory or the one configured.
8. Try being consistent about how things work, avoid unexpected side effects, be clear in naming.
9. If it's in the nature to be scripted, I love GUIs that build a command line I can copy and save.
10. Don't make change for change's sake. At the very least offer a "classic" interface, don't force people.

That would be a good start.

1) Ads where never about just informing people. They where about selling things. Be it a sign that there is a bakery or a fishmonger on a market, it is not about informing, it is about selling. If information would do that, then that is what they would do. But the goal was always selling.
2) If you have one fishmonger yelling, the other needs to be louder than the first one. As the target is sales and not information, the result will be that it becomes visible all over the place.
3) That is how it will be and if not stopped, it will get worse.

I do not want ads. I never asked for ads. If I want information, I will look for it. There is no reason I start screaming in somebodies face that I am bald. It is information nobody wants or asked for.

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I don't think I could summarize it better than this: GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes

So I can't buy one now.

Seriously? Because you can't put your hands on it a second after you say "yes" that means it's not for sale? Is "any product that has a waiting list isn't really for sale" actually your argument here?

How many have they actually delivered to customers?

Around a hundred, as per the production ramp.

I have no idea. It were taxis.

Taxis? Right. So probably pre-facelift / first generation base interior / no PUP.

Only by redefining luxury in such a way that the Tesla Model S fits in it.

No, the segment is defined by the form factor and price class. It's not defined by "How AC On Slashdot Wants To Group Things".

Moreover, have you ever been to the US?

Amusing ;)

Of course you would.

What sort of idiot would take the word of someone who's never seen the car over the word of literally a dozen professional reviewers who have?

That is, until you encounter a reviewer who hasn't drunk the Tesla Kool-Aid, of course.

Right, got it. Every major auto reviewer is secretly on Tesla's dole.

human powered vehicles? for marijuana? that'll be fun.

I'm sure they'll get rid of them soon.

Nope and nope. Don't panic. Be happy.

Tried that but people show up at my desk, which is even worse

Here's the American solution.

Education has been taking back seat to commercial enterprise for many years. If you haven't heard the term, Educational Industrial Complex and learned about Pearson, Common Core, Charter Schools etc... check it out.

The big difference is that new players are trying to wriggle in and get a piece of the pie vs. the current monopoly players.

No, I mean programmers. Most programmers were women, in many parts of the industry.

Source?

This indicates otherwise, but I'm open to new info.

How do I say this nicely. The ISS is in orbit, coasting. It doesn't need to be moved around much and the ground really isn't THAT important for daily stuff. The people onboard have control and it isn't like the ISS will fall from the sky in 6 months if the ground isn't there.
They have gone 3 months between boosts before, perhaps longer. I looked at some annual data and it appears the normally boost every 3-5 weeks. https://jarphys.wordpress.com/...

When I worked there, no remote access into the production MCC LAN was possible. NONE. In fact, access from outside the production LAN (only in Bldg 30S) wasn't possible. I was called in at 3am more than a few times to deal with a server issue during the initial deployment times until we traced it back to a bad libc problem. If there was a remote method, even from my normal JSC office into the MCC LAN, I would have used it.

I did have remote access into my normal workstation in bldg 12. At the time, it was accessible from anywhere on the internet with ssh. This was pre-NAT and really pre-firewalls.

When I worked there part of my job was bringing new software and data into the MCC LAN. This was done with tapes.

Outbound data went to other POCs around the world and certain data is streamed onto the relatively non-secure NASA LAN with a specific TTL that prevents it from leaving JSC. Mainly things like the current location would be in that data, but definitely some other non-sensitive stuff too.

OTOH, I haven't worked there since the 1990s, so things may have changed. Plus I was a relative noob at networking back then and didn't understand to the same level I do today after working in telecom for a decade.

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I was watching the "Zoo" TV series the other day and the guy had a hard drive in is head. Then I asked myself; creimer is such a miracle worker, he is really above all expectations an employer could have. How does he do it? Maybe creimer has a hard drive in his head too?

Then I saw a picture of creimer's supervisor talking to creimer posted by another user and I realized it wasn't the case, what a bummer!
See picture here:
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But would it work on creimer?

Here is a picture of his supervisor talking to him in his office.
https://noplaceforsheep.files....

creimer wouldn't know how to lie. Proof? Here is a picture of his supervisor talking to him in his office.
https://noplaceforsheep.files....

I know that supervisor very well. He told me that he was just mad because you were trying to plug a ps/2 keyboard into the USB port.

Here is a picture of that supervisor talking to you in your office:
https://noplaceforsheep.files....

Of course you need a supersized office otherwise, how would you fit in?

Picture of you in your office:
https://noplaceforsheep.files....

Try climbing the ladder and yell "hello", you will understand:
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you are not wrong https://thenypost.files.wordpr...

In your head, do you hear echo sometimes?

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Then, with your empty head, he sure ain't afraid of you.

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There were literally never any pictures of a swap occurring. There is exactly as much evidence that they simply hooked up a remote coolant source and did a super fast charge as there is that they actually did battery swaps. No customer was ever permitted to observe the process.

Bullshit. Why do you come into these threads and spout easily disprovable points? Here is a site with a first-person account of a Tesla owner having their battery swapped with a picture of the swap occurring, so your statement is false. It's fine that you don't like Tesla, but please stop telling lies.

Were you silent when they came for private sector Pensions?
Did you speak up when they came for Union pensions?
Where you concerned when they attacked teachers pensions?
Did you raise the alarm when they undermined public sector pensions?


Make no mistake, they'll get to you soon.

Quite a few happily look up to a midget standing on his wallet

Short, funny little Mickey Rooney scored some of the hottest babage in the world, and it wasn't because of his wallet, since the women he banged were all much more successful than him. Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, even Ava fucking Gardner, who on a scale of 1 to 10 was like an 18.

Here is a photo of Ava Gardner while she was married to Mickey Rooney:

https://www.oldtimeradiodownlo...

and Lana Turner:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ssV...

And this is what Elizabeth Taylor looked like when Mickey Rooney was tapping that ass:

https://vickielester.files.wor...

Mickey Rooney was 5' 2" tall. For all the AAA poontang he had, his dick should be enshrined in the Smithsonian.

This is, however, a clear warning of how unpopular views are readily suppressed. It's not clear to me what the best answer is.

There is no clear answer. But as a metric, We can compare The activities of the White Supremacists and Neo Nazis to other groups.

Bastille day celebration with a terrorist driving a truck through it. 84 people killed. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0...

Man drives into crow of people in Israel, killing one http://www.timesofisrael.com/d...

Man tries to drive a car through a crowd in Belgium https://themuslimissue.wordpre...

How ramming cars into crowds became a major terror tactic (London attack) https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Another attack in Stockholm https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Attack in Heidelberg http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo... Isreal again. http://www.westernjournalism.c...

London again: http://www.dw.com/en/terrorist...

And that is just some of them.

So what we have here is a tactic used by terrorists. Pick a crowd, and play Bowling for Humans. Looks like the Bastille Day guy has the highest score so far. This is pretty obviously Terrorism, and the only people who support it is likewise terrorists and their supporters.

So we have a group of people who support supremacy of one race over another - That would be the Klan. They have a history of violence and murder.

We have Neo-Nazis. Another group of people that support the National Socialist movement and all that entails. These two groups dovetail rather nicely together.

Then we have a member of the second group who runs his car through a crowd of people in Virginia.

It all fits. I don't negotiate with terrorists, nor do I wish to appease them. Appeasement doesn't work with Nazis, if we recall our history. And Blut und Boden puts the Neo's directly into Nazi ideology.

Which is why I put support for these people into the support of terrorism, support that it's practicioners desire to become mainstream. And if that happens, what are the odds that they extend anything remotely resembling free speech to others. Historically it has been exactly opposite.

Perhaps my detractors will mod this up to 5 to show their support for free speech that offends them.

"That policy, like that of other tech platforms, has long stood by strict neutrality and freedom of expression."

I call BS. There are plenty of platforms which like to spout that platitude, but have special rules when it comes to naked people. Other platforms disallow "adult content" altogether. Yet point out that a platform is supporting white supremacists, and the "free speech" card gets played.

Nudity is treated as more offensive than racism. Think about how messed up that is. We're only seeing this reaction from GoDaddy / WordPress now because there were full-on Nazis in Charlottesville.

Women have every right to be pissed that they don't make the same money as men for the same jobs

Interestingly, the idea that Jews had too much unearned money was one of the driving forces behind Nazi antisemitism, too. With feminists supporting putting men in camps, or advocating to #killallmen, the resemblance is becoming uncanny.

Bayonetta was designed by a woman. https://josephevanssite.wordpr...

The main article appears to overlook the fact that a true artificial intelligence, just like a true natural intelligence, will be able to write new software for itself. We humans call one type of such new software "habits", and their existence (plus their malleability) is all the proof we need that a true intelligence can successfully modify its programming without crashing. That means it could still be possible for a true artificial intelligence to write conquer-the-world software for itself.

In another vein, here is a short science fiction story that speculates about a possible pitfall on the road to developing a true artificial intelligence. (Of course, now that that problem has been pointed out, it might never become an actual problem.)

In this case it happens when "Object Oriented" is taken too literally. People think of data as inert. People think of "Objects" as inert. So they figure translating between data and objects is just transforming one inert thing into another.

But "objects" are not inert in almost any dynamic language. They are quite active, with instantiation methods, etc., and some are quite dangerous. One has to adjust one's paradigm when learning OO programming from a procedural background.

On the contrary, it makes me think that every time something is working fine, somebody comes along to change it. Typewriter apostrophe has been around, well, since typewriters!

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

MS-WORD doesn't even use the same quotation marks for English and French because of those printing inspired people that say that a symbol looks nicer than another depending on the language, establish trends etc. when the used symbol adds no value at all and everybody understands what the symbol means anyway.

MS-Word had problems implementing that functionality first and many people still have problems, it goes from language analyzer to syntax validation software. Here are a few examples after a very quick search:

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http://www.fileformat.info/inf...

https://www.quora.com/Punctuat...

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The modern anti-vaccination movement is one manifestation of public loss of trust in institutions and credentialed "professionals". The thing is.. most anti-vaccination types do not doubt the existence of infectious diseases or that some vaccines are very useful and effective. It comes down to other issues such as their inability to trust obviously greedy "professionals" who recommend vaccines against 15-20 diseases (some of which are uncommon). At that stage, more than a few people start wondering if it is more about profit and domination of others than helping people. Also, a lot of the popular ideas pushed by medical profession for decades such as "fat makes you fat", "jogging is good exercise- regardless of age" etc plus promising to treat diseases with newer and expensive drugs which have little to no effect on most disease endpoints (mild to moderate Depression, Type 2 Diabetes etc) do not help their cause- to put it mildly. https://dissention.wordpress.c...

Sorry use this one.

I'm not sure if you're being sincere or sarcastic. But yes, I can provide a link to forensicator's analysis, which was the other source that was used for the article. He deals mostly with the issue of transfer speeds and why it's doesn't appear to be possible to transmit as fast as the DNC did.

This image of the new drives loaded in a rack makes me think of this scene from 2001.

You lost the battle with the loo.

A peek into creimer's mental functions.

Yeah, like this.

creimer is sick in the head. He thinks he looks like a cyclist with "a bony ass". He really thinks cyclists have bony asses. His "toned legs" look like ostrich legs. I'm half his weight and my thighs rub together from actual muscle.

Then again, I'm not a barrel-chested heart attack in the waiting.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel
who enabled this ones? why are they not discussed?

Simple, the western world is controlled by Jews and Israel.

Seven Jewish Americans Control Most US Media

CNN is completely overrun by Jews

The Times of Israel: Jews DO control the media

They own you.

This is James Damore:

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I'm not sure bringing up in utero testosterone exposure as a measure of the ability to be a software "engineer" is going to help his case.

It's funny when you get a response that's like the person didn't even read your post or just skimmed over it.

While there is some lithium produced from hard rock mining, as I distinctly pointed out to you, most lithium is produced from salars, which is probably the most environmentally-nondestructive means of "mining" imaginable. I showed you pictures, but it appears you never clicked the link. By contrast, while you write that you "can" dig pits for steel, that's not accurate - you must dig pits to get at iron ore. They look like this. Perhaps worse is the effect of smelting.

Recycling batteries is not a "joke" - I literally just gave you research showing that in mass production, precisely the opposite is true. Asserting that it's wrong doesn't make it so. In mass production, battery prices are limited by raw materials costs; producers are raw materials constrained. Recycling becomes an important part of the supply chain. And in case you're curious how recycling works: batteries are crushed in controlled conditions. The electrolyte is extracted with supercritical CO2 and distilled. The crushed batteries are ground, then gravimetrically separated. The recovered material can then be recycled directly, or more commonly, sent off for re-smelting (the cathodes are quite similar to natural nickel-cobalt ores). The quantity to be smelted is vastly less than the quantity of steel smelted for a car.

While we are on the subject of end of life of batteries lets consider the environmental effects of disposing carbon fiber.

I'm not sure why we should because not many EVs use carbon fiber - but if you want to. Carbon fibre is disposed of like plastic - either landfills or incineration. All cars make extensive use of plastic parts, so this shouldn't be particularly shocking. Additionally, CF is sometimes ground up and used as fill in new plastics - it only slightly increases their mechanical properties, but some manufacturers like using it because it increases their sales value to say that they have carbon fibre in their part (for example, laptops with "carbon fibre" moulding).

Concerning fire, you don't need to resort to hyperbole - here's what happens if you try to burn one of Tesla's battery packs (that's a powerwall, but it's the same basic technology). They're quite resistant to fire - certainly much more than gasoline. There have only been two Tesla battery packs to catch fire by "puncture", and it wasn't so much "puncture" as being deeply gashed down their length by metal road debris. Since Tesla responded by installing a debris shield, there have been no more such incidents.

Far more of the (few) fires that have occured in Teslas have been from other areas of the vehicle, not the battery pack. And they often don't even manage to burn the battery pack - even if the rest of the vehicle is gutted. As of 2014, there had been well over a billion electric miles driven. For gasoline cars, there is an average of 90 fires per billion miles driven. For the EVs, passing their first billion? Six fires. Zero deaths. Zero injuries.