Just look at a PG B-movie from the 80s - Beastmaster - Full Frontal Nudity (bathing scene, at a distance). Although there was an another accidental 1 second shot of the actress' bum that had to be cut to avoid an R rating. R-ratings would get full frontal (closer) and/or sex.
That's because there was no PG-13 rating. Unless it was a hard R, everything defaulted to PG. "Outrage" over intense PG-rated films like Poltergeist (a guy graphically rips off all the skin and flesh from his face), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Gremlins resulted in a reigning in of these movie types and the creation of the PG-13 rating (all three of them were Spielberg movies too..)
Of course, the ratings agencies are subject to political manipulation as well. I remember Roger Ebert's annoyance with the MPAA when Whale Rider was given a PG-13 rating for "drug paraphernalia " because in one shot you could see a bong in the background in a bookshelf. I'm trying to think of a film that was rated PG-13 where the content really SHOULD have been rated R, but the producer had political clout and was able to lobby for a lower rating. I know this has happened often (with Spielberg in particular), but this sort of thing is hard to search for in Google.
Only completely retarded shops ever used Java for anything client side. It's always been obsolete there - was a non-starter from the beginning
In the early-mid 90s, Java had a LOT of promise in the client-side market, but it was Flash that won that battle thanks to its ubiquity and it took over almost all the use cases for Java at the time.
The Java SDK is GNU, but Oracle claims a copyright on the API required to make a Java virtual machine. IE, no one is going to get into trouble with Oracle creating programs that run using Java, but if you want to create an API-compatible Java VM yourself rather than using Oracle's, then it seems like you could get into trouble. This stupid case has gone back and forth over whether an API is copyrightable and whether using an API is fair use. The judge in the 2012 case ruled they were not copyrightable, a Court of Appeals overturned that decision in 2014, and a district court in 2016 ruled in favor of Google that the use of the Java API was "fair use." And now in 2018 a court case reverses everything once again. Will APIs be ruled non-copyrightable again in 2020? Will this trial eventually be appealed to the highest levels? It's been going on for eight years now.
This means that IcedTea is certainly vulnerable to lawsuits from Oracle, should they care enough to pursue them (probably unlikely). But OpenJDK is fine, as it's the reference implementation supported by Oracle itself.
Better check your own pipes, because apparently (and to my surprise as well), the US is the number 1 producer of oil, pumping nearly 15 MM barrels per day.
Yes, thanks to expensive and environmentally questionable fracking techniques used on shale oil deposits, with a lousy energy balance and oodles of extra CO2. Not something to be proud of...
Maybe not, but it undercuts the constant narrative that every meddling in the Middle East is because we're there for oil. That hasn't been true in a long long time if it ever was.
Every generation of engineers has said "no, those were old technology, the new generation of reactors could never do that".
But they always run into the law of economics, which says that if you deploy nuclear power as a commercial venture, it will be pushed to the absolute limits of safety, whatever those are. The safer the reactor, the harder it will be pushed. How much of your country are you willing to bet on the proposition that this reactor design just can't leak, no matter how much it's abused?
Because sooner or later, it will be abused to exactly that level. That is the lesson of TMI and Chernobyl and Fukushima.
The history of nuclear in the US is pretty good. I'm willing to bet a lot of my country on it. No other usable energy source has been as safe.
They do nothing of the sort. The safety systems in GenIII reactors are effectively off the shelf. Chemical plants install them by the dozen all the time. What becomes expensive is the regulatory overhead imposed on the project.
I hear this a lot, but I rarely hear actual specifics. I'm curious the sort of regulatory overhead that is added. Is it study time? Form-filling time? Work that starts and then a court order pauses it (and then you still have to pay people while they stand idle)? I've always wondered what offices actually end up driving the cost.
Eating less meat, or at least fewer cows, would absolutely be a step in the right direction. The amount of land, water, feed, and of course, energy used to raise a cow for meat is pound-for-pound an order of magnitude more costly than almost anything else.
If our population keeps growing and getting more dense, the traditional way of raising cows is going to be extremely expensive.
Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives. Since he was acquitted of a crime by the Senate, he was not required to leave office. Impeachment does not necessarily mean "thrown out of office." The House impeaches, the Senate conducts a trial. Andrew Johnson, the only other President to be impeached, likewise passed a Senate trial, served the rest of his presidential term, and was later elected Senator.
All of those people you mentioned are dead, and Bill Clinton was impeached. I'm NOT saying that any of these are impeachable offenses. But it disgraces and degrades the office when it occurs.
"Cultural Marxism" is a conspiracy theory revolving around the very real "Frankfurt School" of social philosophy. Wikipedia has a decent list of resources about the philosophy. It was founded by Marxists who were critical of Soviet Socialism and tried to bring in other schools of thought like sociology and psychoanalysis to try to "fill in the gaps" of classical Marxism. Much of their work came between 1920 and 1960.
Your Mileage May Vary as to whether you want to accept the Southern Poverty Law Center at face value (they're a bit of a biased source), but they have a decent enough definition:
In a nutshell, the theory posits that a tiny group of Jewish philosophers who fled Germany in the 1930s and set up shop at Columbia University in New York City devised an unorthodox form of "Marxism" that took aim at American society's culture, rather than its economic system.
The theory holds that these self-interested Jews the so-called "Frankfurt School" of philosophers -- planned to try to convince mainstream Americans that white ethnic pride is bad, that sexual liberation is good, and that supposedly traditional American values -- Christianity, "family values," and so on are reactionary and bigoted. With their core values thus subverted, the theory goes, Americans would be quick to sign on to the ideas of the far left.
The conspiracy theory posits that "political correctness" is meant to lead into "cultural marxism." Unfortunately, a number of those pushing the Cultural Marxism theory identified it as a conspiracy theory run by "The Jews."
The fingerprint thing was [for me] always finicky & unreliable. It created a perceptible sense of dread each time I was about to use it in non-optimal conditions. By comparison FaceID is unobtrusive and accurate.
The fingerprint scanner on my Galaxy S5 was highly unreliable, enough that I just turned it off and used my swipe pattern instead. But the scanner on the back of my Pixel 2 is pretty good, and a feature I had no idea that I would like and use as much as I am. Worst case, it doesn't work and I enter my passcode like I would have without a fingerprint scanner.
Yeah, let's get Scott Pruitt on the phone and see if he objects to skipping his department's reviews! He'd have to hate the department he's in charge of to allow that..
There are plenty of places especially in densely built up areas where backhaul capacity is not at all an issue where cell congestion is a very real limiting factor
Pretty much any "event" location. A concert, a stadium, a convention, a hotel, anyplace where lots of people gather. The Cell network in the area is usually pretty slow, however, it's almost always an order of magnitude faster than any supplied Wi-Fi network.
Who cares about bandwidth? You should talk about latency as it's much more important for a mobile network.
Anyone who cares about video streaming! You can have a 5ms ping, and it won't do you much good if your bandwidth is so low that you still can't push through many bits at once. Now for gamers like me, latency is king. But I can't think of many (any?) cell phone games off the top of my head that need it, probably since they were designed assuming high-latency connections.
5G supports real broadband speeds. Build a few new towers and make a great new connection to the internet. With useful upload and download speeds. Internet speed beyond speed on paper insulated wireline.
Yeah, and cell phone contracts with far more ridiculous restrictions over bandwidth and use than even Comcast and AT&T put on their landlines! Woohoo!
The jealousy and envy are strong with this one! -Yoda teaching Econ 1
Maybe, but it's true. All the benefits of industry -- offshoring, productivity gains, mergers, they all go to the top. The lower and middle class just sees stagnant wages and job losses. Maybe they have reason to blame those issues on the people who are getting all the money. It didn't just come from nowhere.
The lower and middle classes struggle and get screwed. Meanwhile, the wealth gap is the highest that it's been since the 1920s. Don't think they have reason to be a little pissed? But sure, it's just jealousy of their 'betters' who benefit the most from the system they set up.
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Just look at a PG B-movie from the 80s - Beastmaster - Full Frontal Nudity (bathing scene, at a distance). Although there was an another accidental 1 second shot of the actress' bum that had to be cut to avoid an R rating. R-ratings would get full frontal (closer) and/or sex.
That's because there was no PG-13 rating. Unless it was a hard R, everything defaulted to PG. "Outrage" over intense PG-rated films like Poltergeist (a guy graphically rips off all the skin and flesh from his face), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Gremlins resulted in a reigning in of these movie types and the creation of the PG-13 rating (all three of them were Spielberg movies too..)
Of course, the ratings agencies are subject to political manipulation as well. I remember Roger Ebert's annoyance with the MPAA when Whale Rider was given a PG-13 rating for "drug paraphernalia " because in one shot you could see a bong in the background in a bookshelf. I'm trying to think of a film that was rated PG-13 where the content really SHOULD have been rated R, but the producer had political clout and was able to lobby for a lower rating. I know this has happened often (with Spielberg in particular), but this sort of thing is hard to search for in Google.
Thank you Mrs Slocombe!
Ballmer, who oversaw the great decline of Microsoft? Those were halcyon days?
Gates, maybe, but Ballmer?
Russian Troll spotted. Nobody uses that word.
Microsoft?
What part of this sounds perfectly legal to you? "McDonald's had known the risk of serious burns for 10 years and ignored it.
Because that's the temperature that to-go coffee should be served at. Coffee cools quickly.
Now you can only get tepid, lukewarm coffee.
Only completely retarded shops ever used Java for anything client side. It's always been obsolete there - was a non-starter from the beginning
In the early-mid 90s, Java had a LOT of promise in the client-side market, but it was Flash that won that battle thanks to its ubiquity and it took over almost all the use cases for Java at the time.
The Java SDK is GNU, but Oracle claims a copyright on the API required to make a Java virtual machine. IE, no one is going to get into trouble with Oracle creating programs that run using Java, but if you want to create an API-compatible Java VM yourself rather than using Oracle's, then it seems like you could get into trouble. This stupid case has gone back and forth over whether an API is copyrightable and whether using an API is fair use. The judge in the 2012 case ruled they were not copyrightable, a Court of Appeals overturned that decision in 2014, and a district court in 2016 ruled in favor of Google that the use of the Java API was "fair use." And now in 2018 a court case reverses everything once again. Will APIs be ruled non-copyrightable again in 2020? Will this trial eventually be appealed to the highest levels? It's been going on for eight years now.
This means that IcedTea is certainly vulnerable to lawsuits from Oracle, should they care enough to pursue them (probably unlikely). But OpenJDK is fine, as it's the reference implementation supported by Oracle itself.
Better check your own pipes, because apparently (and to my surprise as well), the US is the number 1 producer of oil, pumping nearly 15 MM barrels per day.
Yes, thanks to expensive and environmentally questionable fracking techniques used on shale oil deposits, with a lousy energy balance and oodles of extra CO2. Not something to be proud of...
Maybe not, but it undercuts the constant narrative that every meddling in the Middle East is because we're there for oil. That hasn't been true in a long long time if it ever was.
Why not just ban single family homes?
Because plenty of people strongly dislike the idea of being packed in a small box like rats along with all the other rats.
Every generation of engineers has said "no, those were old technology, the new generation of reactors could never do that".
But they always run into the law of economics, which says that if you deploy nuclear power as a commercial venture, it will be pushed to the absolute limits of safety, whatever those are. The safer the reactor, the harder it will be pushed. How much of your country are you willing to bet on the proposition that this reactor design just can't leak, no matter how much it's abused?
Because sooner or later, it will be abused to exactly that level. That is the lesson of TMI and Chernobyl and Fukushima.
The history of nuclear in the US is pretty good. I'm willing to bet a lot of my country on it. No other usable energy source has been as safe.
They do nothing of the sort. The safety systems in GenIII reactors are effectively off the shelf. Chemical plants install them by the dozen all the time. What becomes expensive is the regulatory overhead imposed on the project.
I hear this a lot, but I rarely hear actual specifics. I'm curious the sort of regulatory overhead that is added. Is it study time? Form-filling time? Work that starts and then a court order pauses it (and then you still have to pay people while they stand idle)? I've always wondered what offices actually end up driving the cost.
Eating less meat, or at least fewer cows, would absolutely be a step in the right direction. The amount of land, water, feed, and of course, energy used to raise a cow for meat is pound-for-pound an order of magnitude more costly than almost anything else.
If our population keeps growing and getting more dense, the traditional way of raising cows is going to be extremely expensive.
Hipsters didn't think of that first. They just made it popular.
They made it popular, but hipsters are ironing their clothes again. "Being popular" is the antithesis of being a hipster.
Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives. Since he was acquitted of a crime by the Senate, he was not required to leave office.
Impeachment does not necessarily mean "thrown out of office." The House impeaches, the Senate conducts a trial.
Andrew Johnson, the only other President to be impeached, likewise passed a Senate trial, served the rest of his presidential term, and was later elected Senator.
All of those people you mentioned are dead, and Bill Clinton was impeached.
I'm NOT saying that any of these are impeachable offenses. But it disgraces and degrades the office when it occurs.
Oh no Trump called fat women and fat and banged sluts. Who the hell cares?
Anyone who cares about the Office of the President and thinks it should be held to a higher standard.
"Cultural Marxism" is a conspiracy theory revolving around the very real "Frankfurt School" of social philosophy. Wikipedia has a decent list of resources about the philosophy. It was founded by Marxists who were critical of Soviet Socialism and tried to bring in other schools of thought like sociology and psychoanalysis to try to "fill in the gaps" of classical Marxism. Much of their work came between 1920 and 1960.
Your Mileage May Vary as to whether you want to accept the Southern Poverty Law Center at face value (they're a bit of a biased source), but they have a decent enough definition:
The conspiracy theory posits that "political correctness" is meant to lead into "cultural marxism." Unfortunately, a number of those pushing the Cultural Marxism theory identified it as a conspiracy theory run by "The Jews."
The fingerprint thing was [for me] always finicky & unreliable. It created a perceptible sense of dread each time I was about to use it in non-optimal conditions. By comparison FaceID is unobtrusive and accurate.
The fingerprint scanner on my Galaxy S5 was highly unreliable, enough that I just turned it off and used my swipe pattern instead.
But the scanner on the back of my Pixel 2 is pretty good, and a feature I had no idea that I would like and use as much as I am. Worst case, it doesn't work and I enter my passcode like I would have without a fingerprint scanner.
Then where else am I going to find the best 100% heterosexual, no gay stuff, Manhood Camping where guys get around a fire to J/O?
Yeah, let's get Scott Pruitt on the phone and see if he objects to skipping his department's reviews! He'd have to hate the department he's in charge of to allow that..
There are plenty of places especially in densely built up areas where backhaul capacity is not at all an issue where cell congestion is a very real limiting factor
Pretty much any "event" location. A concert, a stadium, a convention, a hotel, anyplace where lots of people gather. The Cell network in the area is usually pretty slow, however, it's almost always an order of magnitude faster than any supplied Wi-Fi network.
Who cares about bandwidth? You should talk about latency as it's much more important for a mobile network.
Anyone who cares about video streaming! You can have a 5ms ping, and it won't do you much good if your bandwidth is so low that you still can't push through many bits at once. Now for gamers like me, latency is king. But I can't think of many (any?) cell phone games off the top of my head that need it, probably since they were designed assuming high-latency connections.
5G supports real broadband speeds.
Build a few new towers and make a great new connection to the internet.
With useful upload and download speeds.
Internet speed beyond speed on paper insulated wireline.
Yeah, and cell phone contracts with far more ridiculous restrictions over bandwidth and use than even Comcast and AT&T put on their landlines! Woohoo!
The jealousy and envy are strong with this one! -Yoda teaching Econ 1
Maybe, but it's true. All the benefits of industry -- offshoring, productivity gains, mergers, they all go to the top. The lower and middle class just sees stagnant wages and job losses. Maybe they have reason to blame those issues on the people who are getting all the money. It didn't just come from nowhere.
The lower and middle classes struggle and get screwed. Meanwhile, the wealth gap is the highest that it's been since the 1920s. Don't think they have reason to be a little pissed? But sure, it's just jealousy of their 'betters' who benefit the most from the system they set up.
Just put tinfoil through your neck too.
You just need neck protection on the outside, so a tinfoil mullet might be enough.