The fact that my comment was modded as "Offtopic" should prove that there is too much emotion for this debate to be rational in the least. The word "apartheid" has been used a lot when discussing Israel and her Arab citizens, but it is, again, an appeal to emotion. Until people start looking at the facts, there will not be a chance for a rational dialogue on the topic. Sadly, that means a lot of lies will be accepted as facts.
There is no apartheid in Israel. Arabs have all the rights that Jews have - including education, in which they excel - there is a higher percentage of Arabs in Israeli universities, than there are Arabs in Israel. Arabs have the right to vote just like any other Israeli citizen. The state of israel goes of of their way to accommodate their sensibilities by making army duty non-compulsory for Arabs (they are the only ones exempt from draft).
I am not saying this to hurt your feelings, but saying there is "apartheid" in Israel is not true.
HGST drives have been the most reliable ones for at least 3 years now. I only buy HGST drives and across all my computers, not a single one has failed, not even a bad block.
...I abandoned G+ never to go back. I used G+ until it allowed me to use the old interface. G+ would revert back to the new, flat version every once in a while in spite of me going back to the classic version. One day I could not go back to the classic version, and that's when G+ lost a user.
I don't mind doing the same with the Gmail web interface. It's harder to abandon the e-mail system, but it is not difficult to abandon the WEB UI.
Most low-skill immigrants work physically demanding jobs that natives won't take like meat processing and agriculture.
This is a logical fallacy repeated everywhere around the world, no doubt helped by those with money and power: physically demanding jobs would be gladly taken by "natives" if the pay were attractive. The main reason the pay hasn't been attractive, though, is because of low-skilled immigrant workers accepting lower pay for those jobs.
Logically, there is no actual reason for such jobs not to be paid well, especially if it's hard to find people willing to do them. Simple supply and demand. This is now changing because those jobs will be automatized/robotized, but up until very recently and in many cases still today, the only reason the jobs are paid poorly is because of a large supply of people willing to do them for less money.
OK, you are right, but think of this: what would be Trump's motivation to go head-on with the one of the most powerful industries in the USA? We all know the mainstream media would either not cover it, or would find a way to discredit him. Whatever good Trump has done so far, has ALL been treated this way: decrease of illegal immigration, (a small but discernible) economic improvement, not letting Bashir Assad cross red lines, getting North Korea to the negotiate nuke and rocket development - all of these have been either ignored or painted in a negative light.
If I were a self-interested POTUS, I sure as hell wouldn't risk my political career by going against big pharma and similar corporate psychopaths, if I knew it would get me little recognition.
The rule of thumb I was taught was that you write your papers with the assumption that your reader's got only a basic background in the field.
That is entirely incorrect. Absolutely no researcher writes papers that way, and they never have. When writing a scientific article (not a pop sci piece) the reader is assumed to be familiar with the specific field in which the journal deals.
This goes so far as to compel a referee/reviewer from recusing him/herself from reviewing an article they feel insufficiently competent for. And if, at rare occasions, some junior researcher (usually from China) decides to referee a manuscript they aren't qualified for, they soon enough receive a reply from the authors along the lines of "this is basic material in the field XYZ, and as such should be placed in a textbook and not in a journal article."
Big pharma has been peddling antidepressants that largely don't work or are actually counter-productive, but have a host of side-effects, including suicide and addictiveness.
Some hallucinogenic drugs such as psilocybin and LSD, on the other hand, have shown remarkable, disease-changing curative properties, but are schedule 1 drugs.
We didn't need Goldman Sachs to reveal that curing patients is not the best model for big pharma. Everybody with half a brain must have known this by now. Enjoy your destructive and never-curing antidepressants.
It will be an additional $500 more expensive and the case will be sealed shut to absolutely prevent anyone from even attempting to see if any part can be pried off the motherboard to be replaced.
If something goes bad, oh well. You'll have to buy another one. That's the fiscal reasoning behind the delay.
YouTube decided that her content was worthless . . . why should they continue to give her any more money for it? She could have taken her content to anyone who thought that it was worth any money.
Based on the number of views her channels were getting, it is obvious her content wasn't "worthless". And her content wasn't the only one that YouTube decided to demonetize and/or hide for unknown and capricious reasons: there is a LOT of content creators, some with millions of subscribers, who have been targeted. Is their content "worthless" too?
Seeing as though AMD CPUs are not susceptible to Meltdown, I would say they have an enormous advantage over intel's. The fact is that Meltdown, unlike Spectre, is very easily exploitable in practical terms, and is the one people should be actually worried about.
This is why I dedicated my life to science, and why I received my PhD. After that, my career has been quite hard and at times quite painful. At the moment I am at a turning point in my life, and am unsure if it was all worth it. I had lots of fun doing research, but now the sacrifices are getting too much.
I still haven't figured out which way to turn. I have to say, I am quite bitter and disappointed with at least a part of academia. But I did spend several years working in the industry before returning to academia, and that wasn't fun, either. At my age I expect a lot of ageism, there, so there's that.
I removed kb4056897 and for now, won't accept any Microsoft patches for the time being. I'll take care of Meltdown by keeping Javascript disabled on all non-essential websites.
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The fact that my comment was modded as "Offtopic" should prove that there is too much emotion for this debate to be rational in the least. The word "apartheid" has been used a lot when discussing Israel and her Arab citizens, but it is, again, an appeal to emotion. Until people start looking at the facts, there will not be a chance for a rational dialogue on the topic. Sadly, that means a lot of lies will be accepted as facts.
supporting and approving apartheid
There is no apartheid in Israel. Arabs have all the rights that Jews have - including education, in which they excel - there is a higher percentage of Arabs in Israeli universities, than there are Arabs in Israel. Arabs have the right to vote just like any other Israeli citizen. The state of israel goes of of their way to accommodate their sensibilities by making army duty non-compulsory for Arabs (they are the only ones exempt from draft).
I am not saying this to hurt your feelings, but saying there is "apartheid" in Israel is not true.
Whether it is Trump or Obama, but either way, currently jobless rates in the US are very low.
By "too many versions of Windows 10", surely you mean n>0.
HGST drives have been the most reliable ones for at least 3 years now. I only buy HGST drives and across all my computers, not a single one has failed, not even a bad block.
The Russian project is much more powerful, employing a pair of nuclear icebreaker reactors to generate a total of 140 MW,
Can you link me to any source about this data?
...I abandoned G+ never to go back. I used G+ until it allowed me to use the old interface. G+ would revert back to the new, flat version every once in a while in spite of me going back to the classic version. One day I could not go back to the classic version, and that's when G+ lost a user.
I don't mind doing the same with the Gmail web interface. It's harder to abandon the e-mail system, but it is not difficult to abandon the WEB UI.
Excellent post - these are the EXACT reasons I reverted to the old version.
Most low-skill immigrants work physically demanding jobs that natives won't take like meat processing and agriculture.
This is a logical fallacy repeated everywhere around the world, no doubt helped by those with money and power: physically demanding jobs would be gladly taken by "natives" if the pay were attractive. The main reason the pay hasn't been attractive, though, is because of low-skilled immigrant workers accepting lower pay for those jobs.
Logically, there is no actual reason for such jobs not to be paid well, especially if it's hard to find people willing to do them. Simple supply and demand. This is now changing because those jobs will be automatized/robotized, but up until very recently and in many cases still today, the only reason the jobs are paid poorly is because of a large supply of people willing to do them for less money.
OK, you are right, but think of this: what would be Trump's motivation to go head-on with the one of the most powerful industries in the USA? We all know the mainstream media would either not cover it, or would find a way to discredit him. Whatever good Trump has done so far, has ALL been treated this way: decrease of illegal immigration, (a small but discernible) economic improvement, not letting Bashir Assad cross red lines, getting North Korea to the negotiate nuke and rocket development - all of these have been either ignored or painted in a negative light.
If I were a self-interested POTUS, I sure as hell wouldn't risk my political career by going against big pharma and similar corporate psychopaths, if I knew it would get me little recognition.
The rule of thumb I was taught was that you write your papers with the assumption that your reader's got only a basic background in the field.
That is entirely incorrect. Absolutely no researcher writes papers that way, and they never have. When writing a scientific article (not a pop sci piece) the reader is assumed to be familiar with the specific field in which the journal deals.
This goes so far as to compel a referee/reviewer from recusing him/herself from reviewing an article they feel insufficiently competent for. And if, at rare occasions, some junior researcher (usually from China) decides to referee a manuscript they aren't qualified for, they soon enough receive a reply from the authors along the lines of "this is basic material in the field XYZ, and as such should be placed in a textbook and not in a journal article."
Big pharma has been peddling antidepressants that largely don't work or are actually counter-productive, but have a host of side-effects, including suicide and addictiveness.
Some hallucinogenic drugs such as psilocybin and LSD, on the other hand, have shown remarkable, disease-changing curative properties, but are schedule 1 drugs.
We didn't need Goldman Sachs to reveal that curing patients is not the best model for big pharma. Everybody with half a brain must have known this by now. Enjoy your destructive and never-curing antidepressants.
or better say, there is a marked advantage in the business world to being willing to lie, cheat, and manipulate. It's a godsend for psychopaths.
That said, I would much rather deal with a honest businessman.
Every time popular music is involved there is always that guy who has to make a comment like that.
And everytime there is someone pooping on pop music, there is that guy who is karmawhoring with exactly these words.
Several songs from DJ Snake, Drake, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Shakira, and Taylor Swift have also been either deleted
Part of me is not exactly outraged. I'm thinking humanity might get ahead for a moment if the flux of stupid is interrupted.
there's also a larger fiscal reasoning behind it.
It will be an additional $500 more expensive and the case will be sealed shut to absolutely prevent anyone from even attempting to see if any part can be pried off the motherboard to be replaced.
If something goes bad, oh well. You'll have to buy another one. That's the fiscal reasoning behind the delay.
Joking aside, this is exactly what Apple will do.
Still one of the most re-watcheable movies of all time.
Even one of the most watchable movie, today. [and I envy those who didn't watch it yet]
Good point. I fully intend to show the movie to my son, once he is old enough to understand at least half of it.
YouTube decided that her content was worthless . . . why should they continue to give her any more money for it? She could have taken her content to anyone who thought that it was worth any money.
Based on the number of views her channels were getting, it is obvious her content wasn't "worthless". And her content wasn't the only one that YouTube decided to demonetize and/or hide for unknown and capricious reasons: there is a LOT of content creators, some with millions of subscribers, who have been targeted. Is their content "worthless" too?
AMD may or may not be drastically better,
Seeing as though AMD CPUs are not susceptible to Meltdown, I would say they have an enormous advantage over intel's. The fact is that Meltdown, unlike Spectre, is very easily exploitable in practical terms, and is the one people should be actually worried about.
I beg to differ. To me, 2001 is an example of movie that aged awesomely well. Still one of the most re-watcheable movies of all time.
really really love what they're doing
This is why I dedicated my life to science, and why I received my PhD. After that, my career has been quite hard and at times quite painful. At the moment I am at a turning point in my life, and am unsure if it was all worth it. I had lots of fun doing research, but now the sacrifices are getting too much.
I still haven't figured out which way to turn. I have to say, I am quite bitter and disappointed with at least a part of academia. But I did spend several years working in the industry before returning to academia, and that wasn't fun, either. At my age I expect a lot of ageism, there, so there's that.
You're more vulnerable to Microsoft with newer versions with no way to secure against that threat.
There is truth in this, and as time goes by, the more I find it truthful.
I removed kb4056897 and for now, won't accept any Microsoft patches for the time being. I'll take care of Meltdown by keeping Javascript disabled on all non-essential websites.
Thank you good sir, for the information.
You are absolutely right.