Unlike ethnicity, disability, or age, religion is something the individual chose him/herself, and should be completely open to ridicule and mocking. It's an ideology, there is nothing sacred about it.
My absolute worst travel experiences have also been with British Air.
Fundamentally, what I don't like about them is that if you're rich and don't deviate even slightly from proper British behavior (drinking your tea with the proper pinkie elevation, etc) then they'll try to treat you pretty well. But if you need any kind of accommodation at all or, even worse, if you're not rich, they will go out of their way to make your life as miserable as absolutely possible.
If possible, I fly Japan Air. But these days they're in high demand to their general reputation for good customer service (even to people who aren't rich or need a little extra help). So it's hard to find available flights.
And British Air is the one airline that I go far out of my way to avoid.
Indeed, Japan Airlines is excellent! A few more I feel comfortable to recommend, are Finnair, THAI, and... the machmachine itself, Lufthansa. Lufthansa specifically does everything better where BA fails miserably, and yet they are a similar type of airline. Even Lufthansa's hubs (Frankfurt and Munich) function flawlessly and aren't a total hell, like Heathrow.
Stockholm syndrome, irrationality... or plain stupidity. If you have constant problems with an airline, yet you only fly with them, the problem is your decision making.
They pissed me off more than a decade ago, and I swore never to use their services again. Since then I flew all across the world, for scientific conferences, cooperation, or just fun. This includes even many flights to the US.
I'm not surprised BA sucks this bad, with a CEO like Alex Cruz.
Looks like no researcher has answered your question, so here goes: the great majority of journals (at least in the natural sciences) have a word document template which you must use to submit the article. Some accept LaTeX, but they're the minority.
Replying to own post in spite of poor form (or so they say?): Firefox works!! Maybe I can find a version of SolidWorks that runs in ReactoOS, and I'm set.
Holy cow, I am more than happy with Office 2007, for my scientific publishing! If Firefox (for Zotero) works, too, I would be 70% there to ditch Windows.
The problem then becomes one of how conference attendees from the US bring their laptops with them to overseas venues
Is this a trick question? They check the laptop in with the rest of the luggage.
Am I missing something? I am planning on going to a scientific conference to the US this year, and the issue seems trivially "solved", but maybe you had something other in mind?
Telegram is the only popular messaging app, and it's pretty awesome. I highly recommend it. It's similar to Whatsapp, except it doesn't belong to Fuckerberg.
Who cares? The volume of Apple products in landfills is totally negligible. More disposable baby diapers go to landfills everyday than all the iPhones ever made.
You need to get some perspective.
Anyone with some basic common sense should care, because baby diapers are indeed a much lesser issue, than iPhones. First of all, diapers are made from cotton and a very tiny amount of sodium polyacrylate (which then absorbs the baby pee and expands to about three orders of magnitude of its original volume). Neither cotton, nor the tiny amount of sodium polyacrylate, are a serious concern to the environment, unlike the inert polymers and metallic alloys in a smartphone, not to mention the horrible shit that is added to Lithium-ion batteries to increase their capacity (includes cobalt salts).
a clusterfuck of DontWant. From the locked-down hardware, the Microsoft appstore, the reboot-when-Microsoft-says, ads in the taskbar (and elsewhere), locked-down browser and search... it is indeed a big pile of shit.
Then why even have a website visible on the internet, if you don't want it searchable and archivable? Those two effectively mean "invisible" - because as long as it is visible, it is also archivable - if nothing else, manually.
The use of robots.txt only makes the internet somewhat harder to search. I fucking hate it when some scientific publisher haplessly uses robots.txt, only to make search of their published content nearly impossible to find. Fuck that, fuck robots.txt and the train it came with.
In principle this could prevent me from writing my scientific manuscripts with Word. On the other hand, nobody forces me to use the newest version of Word. Kind of to probe a point (but mostly because I like it more), I use Word 2007 to author all the manuscripts we publish. There really aren't any compelling reasons for me to upgrade to the new versions of Office.
This one, however, is of particular interest to me personally: an 8-bit system capable of running (some kind of) Unix, in multi-user mode. Fucking amazing. And all done by just one guy. Holy shitballs, I am thoroughly impressed.
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A fuckton of assumptions, kid. For one thing, I don't celebrate Christmas.
I don't disagree, but it is indeed a shame. As humankind, we're better than this.
That religion is used to brainwash children does NOT change the fact that religion is indeed an ideology.
Unlike ethnicity, disability, or age, religion is something the individual chose him/herself, and should be completely open to ridicule and mocking. It's an ideology, there is nothing sacred about it.
My absolute worst travel experiences have also been with British Air.
Fundamentally, what I don't like about them is that if you're rich and don't deviate even slightly from proper British behavior (drinking your tea with the proper pinkie elevation, etc) then they'll try to treat you pretty well. But if you need any kind of accommodation at all or, even worse, if you're not rich, they will go out of their way to make your life as miserable as absolutely possible.
If possible, I fly Japan Air. But these days they're in high demand to their general reputation for good customer service (even to people who aren't rich or need a little extra help). So it's hard to find available flights.
And British Air is the one airline that I go far out of my way to avoid.
Indeed, Japan Airlines is excellent! A few more I feel comfortable to recommend, are Finnair, THAI, and... the machmachine itself, Lufthansa. Lufthansa specifically does everything better where BA fails miserably, and yet they are a similar type of airline. Even Lufthansa's hubs (Frankfurt and Munich) function flawlessly and aren't a total hell, like Heathrow.
Stockholm syndrome, irrationality... or plain stupidity. If you have constant problems with an airline, yet you only fly with them, the problem is your decision making.
They pissed me off more than a decade ago, and I swore never to use their services again. Since then I flew all across the world, for scientific conferences, cooperation, or just fun. This includes even many flights to the US.
I'm not surprised BA sucks this bad, with a CEO like Alex Cruz.
Looks like no researcher has answered your question, so here goes: the great majority of journals (at least in the natural sciences) have a word document template which you must use to submit the article. Some accept LaTeX, but they're the minority.
Replying to own post in spite of poor form (or so they say?): Firefox works!! Maybe I can find a version of SolidWorks that runs in ReactoOS, and I'm set.
Holy cow, I am more than happy with Office 2007, for my scientific publishing! If Firefox (for Zotero) works, too, I would be 70% there to ditch Windows.
People in the cybersecurity community have expressed skepticism about Russia's involvement in the e-mail hacking of the DNC. The media, by and large, decided to ignore them and go with the narrative that Russia was involved, This article in Rolling Stones articulates very nicely both the lack of evidence and the media's reaction.
The problem then becomes one of how conference attendees from the US bring their laptops with them to overseas venues
Is this a trick question? They check the laptop in with the rest of the luggage.
Am I missing something? I am planning on going to a scientific conference to the US this year, and the issue seems trivially "solved", but maybe you had something other in mind?
Telegram is the only popular messaging app, and it's pretty awesome. I highly recommend it. It's similar to Whatsapp, except it doesn't belong to Fuckerberg.
Who cares? The volume of Apple products in landfills is totally negligible. More disposable baby diapers go to landfills everyday than all the iPhones ever made.
You need to get some perspective.
Anyone with some basic common sense should care, because baby diapers are indeed a much lesser issue, than iPhones. First of all, diapers are made from cotton and a very tiny amount of sodium polyacrylate (which then absorbs the baby pee and expands to about three orders of magnitude of its original volume). Neither cotton, nor the tiny amount of sodium polyacrylate, are a serious concern to the environment, unlike the inert polymers and metallic alloys in a smartphone, not to mention the horrible shit that is added to Lithium-ion batteries to increase their capacity (includes cobalt salts).
a clusterfuck of DontWant. From the locked-down hardware, the Microsoft appstore, the reboot-when-Microsoft-says, ads in the taskbar (and elsewhere), locked-down browser and search... it is indeed a big pile of shit.
That must be a thing in the US, but it definitely isn't in Finland: here whole milk is indeed whole.
I failed to ever see any reason to upgrade beyond Office 97. In fact TeX is the way to go.
TeX is not the way to go when the journal provides a Word document template.
I'm afraid your reading comprehension, or effort, is sorely lacking.
Then why even have a website visible on the internet, if you don't want it searchable and archivable? Those two effectively mean "invisible" - because as long as it is visible, it is also archivable - if nothing else, manually.
The use of robots.txt only makes the internet somewhat harder to search. I fucking hate it when some scientific publisher haplessly uses robots.txt, only to make search of their published content nearly impossible to find. Fuck that, fuck robots.txt and the train it came with.
In principle this could prevent me from writing my scientific manuscripts with Word. On the other hand, nobody forces me to use the newest version of Word. Kind of to probe a point (but mostly because I like it more), I use Word 2007 to author all the manuscripts we publish. There really aren't any compelling reasons for me to upgrade to the new versions of Office.
This one, however, is of particular interest to me personally: an 8-bit system capable of running (some kind of) Unix, in multi-user mode. Fucking amazing.
And all done by just one guy. Holy shitballs, I am thoroughly impressed.
Just... amazing.
A wire-wrapped homemade 6809 system, bought from a friend when he got his first IBM PC
The thing had 168K of RAM, two floppies and managed to run Unix with 3 users
Wow, that sounds like a massively cool project! Did your friend document his wonderful adventure?
and a pleasure to program, as it had an advanced BASIC interpreter.
It is not at all clear from the thread context whether you're talking about Buytaert or Farfield?