It was meant more to be humorously informative than as a serious suggestion. Many English-speakers are unaware that these differences exist at all, and while it might not be practical for most non-native people to learn to read either Japanese or Chinese, they can at least learn as an abstract that there is a difference.
Too often Westerners, and Americans especially, view all of East Asia through a Japanese lens. Probably because Japan was the first East Asian country to wholly industrialize, but also because Japanese entertainment in the form of anime and video games acts as a cultural bridge to the West. Westerners should aspire to a higher level of basic abstract knowledge of other cultures and their differences.
Yes I'm aware it's a racial slur, and I'm 100% white from an ethnic Norse-German family myself. I just like racial slurs for other white people. Especially 'cracker'. No go find something serious to whine about.
In case you weren't paying attention, "Communist China" has been a misnomer for several decades. (And in case you've forgotten, communism and dictatorships both are "Western ideas".) China is still heavily autocratic, but ever since Deng Xiaoping's reforms it has been increasingly market driven, which is the primary cause of China's economic growth. And far from a hellhole, life expectancy is now higher in Shanghai than New York City. You really should do more research on life in modern China. I have a feeling your world view is stuck in the 60s.
You're disappointed it couldn't translate "random gibberish"? I mean, really? And it would figure that something that is sold through Apple for an Apple product would censor 'teh swears' to protect all its poor stupid sheep from anything sharp with which they might hurt themselves. That's not a technical failing of the App, hell, it was probably deliberate to mesh with Apple policy.
Julian Assange is the first true dissident, prisoners of conscience of the English civilization.
This just demonstrates your ignorance of Western history and its figures. What about Bertrand Russel? Marie Equi? Eugene Debs? All them were imprisoned for their views which they none the less advocated their whole lives. Every civilization has its dissidents in all eras. Quite frankly imprisonment is about the best treatment a hardline dissident is likely to receive, given how many were historically executed.
Arson is a completely different class of act, it destroys physical property (in a very dangerous way). A DDOS is like a sit-in in that it is a denial of use. Yes, the business loses potential revenues because customers can't access the means to perform a transaction, but it does not destroy physical property. It is no different than if hordes of people who, for the purpose of whatever cause, decide to fill all the standing room in a store but don't buy anything. The store loses money because legitimate customers can't purchase (or must do so with great difficulty), but no physical thing is necessarily damaged nor any "violence" perpetrated. (However this would still be illegal trespass, but it would also be non-violent protest.)
Lies. Go study some history. Law enforcement in the first century of the United States was extremely limited. FBI? Didn't exist. Municipal police forces? New York City didn't even have one until 50 years after the close of the Revolution. The only real federal law enforcement before the Civil War was the US Marshalls, and they did more to quash freedom than to support it. They violated their oaths to the Constitution and enforced the Sedition Act, arresting people for merely speaking against government policy. They also worked to round up fugitive slaves, but at least that was Constitutional if not moral.
The whole pattern of law enforcement in the first American century was one of integration and cooperation with the public. Full time sworn officers were few in number, and when they needed to execute warrants or search for suspects they deputized upstanding members of the community (who of course employed their own firearms). Law enforcement officers acted more to organize the public to police itself than they did or even could police it themselves.
If you really think that's abnormal, you probably haven't worked that many MFPs. A fair number are modular and the modules have to be powered. Usually it's done with a power cable that plugs into the core MFP, but sometimes the separately powered modules have wholly separate cables that go into the wall. Two power cables is completely normal for several MFPs.
I hate any useless person in the public eye who makes their living peddling bullshit.
He made his living helping the disabled gain access to information and live better lives, you ignorant ass. Most of his patents and the products his companies have produced relate to technology that helps the blind or the deaf. That sure makes him useless and despicable.
I suppose I could be jealous, though I'm not exactly sure what I would be jealous of.
Maybe his dozen+ awards for science and engineering in helping the disabled? Maybe his dozen+ honorary doctorates? And you have the gall to call him unscrupulous just because he has a different point of view. You're scum.
I know what soap does and how, the point is that the GP said it killed bacteria, which it doesn't, and as for removing some of them, do you know what happens to "less bacteria" over time? It becomes more bacteria! It's a stupid losing battle. The whole reason there are pathogens on your hands is because they're in the environment. If I go wash my hands *right now*, after a few minutes of more typing I'll have the same amount of pathogens on my fingertips as before I washed them, because they'll come right back from my keyboard. Disinfect the keyboard you say? What about the several doorknobs between there and my desk? My phone? My clothes from the different places I've been sitting? The elevator buttons? Do you need to wash your hands every five minutes and spray every surface with Lysol?! Fuck no. At every level it's stupid. Unless you've just been doing something out of the ordinary in the environment such as handling raw meat or wiping your ass, there isn't any point. That's what you have an immune system for, to handle the constant level of background pathogens that are on every surface at all times.
(And sebum is there for a reason! Your body doesn't produce it for shits and giggles! People dump tons of money into moisturizers made by the same companies that tell you to use soap constantly because the soap makes you need the moisturizers. Bunch of fucking paranoid sheep.)
It's informative because you are mistaken, as you could have seen in my reply above. Your hands and animal tissue in general are completely different in structure at a cellular level from a bacterium. Soap does destroy cell walls, *animal* cell walls, not bacterial ones. The lipid content in animal cell walls is magnitudes higher than in bacteria.
Another topic that's an excuse to hate on Kurzweil. I'm really looking forward to a bunch of depressing, bitter pessimists babbling about how the future is impossible and if men were meant to fly God would have given them wings. So the man's a little nutty, is that really why so many hate him? I think it's jealousy.
Detergents actually have very low impact on bacterial cell walls. Gram-positive bacteria are basically unaffected (as they have an outer layer of amino acid/sugar lattice), gram-negatives can be weakened (because their outer layer contains lipids) but probably will not lose integrity. So, no, plain soap still does not kill bacteria in significant numbers.
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It was meant more to be humorously informative than as a serious suggestion. Many English-speakers are unaware that these differences exist at all, and while it might not be practical for most non-native people to learn to read either Japanese or Chinese, they can at least learn as an abstract that there is a difference.
Too often Westerners, and Americans especially, view all of East Asia through a Japanese lens. Probably because Japan was the first East Asian country to wholly industrialize, but also because Japanese entertainment in the form of anime and video games acts as a cultural bridge to the West. Westerners should aspire to a higher level of basic abstract knowledge of other cultures and their differences.
Fewer than there are speakers of Putonghua who realize there isn't a language called "Yingwen". It's all about perpective there, dawg.
India does not have a single official language, it has sixteen. English is one of them.
Yes I'm aware it's a racial slur, and I'm 100% white from an ethnic Norse-German family myself. I just like racial slurs for other white people. Especially 'cracker'. No go find something serious to whine about.
In case you weren't paying attention, "Communist China" has been a misnomer for several decades. (And in case you've forgotten, communism and dictatorships both are "Western ideas".) China is still heavily autocratic, but ever since Deng Xiaoping's reforms it has been increasingly market driven, which is the primary cause of China's economic growth. And far from a hellhole, life expectancy is now higher in Shanghai than New York City. You really should do more research on life in modern China. I have a feeling your world view is stuck in the 60s.
You might start by learning the difference between Kanji and Hanzi.
Lesson two is how not to be a stupid gwailo and tattoo yourself with it.
I think they were staring at a bottle of Heinz 57 and decided that was the perfect number.
WHOOOOOSSSH!
And their byproducts are methane, urea and turds, and they are illegal to keep in many dense urban areas. I'll take the robots thanks.
What you don't understand.
You're disappointed it couldn't translate "random gibberish"? I mean, really? And it would figure that something that is sold through Apple for an Apple product would censor 'teh swears' to protect all its poor stupid sheep from anything sharp with which they might hurt themselves. That's not a technical failing of the App, hell, it was probably deliberate to mesh with Apple policy.
Julian Assange is the first true dissident, prisoners of conscience of the English civilization.
This just demonstrates your ignorance of Western history and its figures. What about Bertrand Russel? Marie Equi? Eugene Debs? All them were imprisoned for their views which they none the less advocated their whole lives. Every civilization has its dissidents in all eras. Quite frankly imprisonment is about the best treatment a hardline dissident is likely to receive, given how many were historically executed.
Consequences will never be the same.
Arson is a completely different class of act, it destroys physical property (in a very dangerous way). A DDOS is like a sit-in in that it is a denial of use. Yes, the business loses potential revenues because customers can't access the means to perform a transaction, but it does not destroy physical property. It is no different than if hordes of people who, for the purpose of whatever cause, decide to fill all the standing room in a store but don't buy anything. The store loses money because legitimate customers can't purchase (or must do so with great difficulty), but no physical thing is necessarily damaged nor any "violence" perpetrated. (However this would still be illegal trespass, but it would also be non-violent protest.)
Lies. Go study some history. Law enforcement in the first century of the United States was extremely limited. FBI? Didn't exist. Municipal police forces? New York City didn't even have one until 50 years after the close of the Revolution. The only real federal law enforcement before the Civil War was the US Marshalls, and they did more to quash freedom than to support it. They violated their oaths to the Constitution and enforced the Sedition Act, arresting people for merely speaking against government policy. They also worked to round up fugitive slaves, but at least that was Constitutional if not moral.
The whole pattern of law enforcement in the first American century was one of integration and cooperation with the public. Full time sworn officers were few in number, and when they needed to execute warrants or search for suspects they deputized upstanding members of the community (who of course employed their own firearms). Law enforcement officers acted more to organize the public to police itself than they did or even could police it themselves.
State and Federal courts are completely different things.
In Red Dwarf they used lager, but I think that only works on mutated curries.
If you really think that's abnormal, you probably haven't worked that many MFPs. A fair number are modular and the modules have to be powered. Usually it's done with a power cable that plugs into the core MFP, but sometimes the separately powered modules have wholly separate cables that go into the wall. Two power cables is completely normal for several MFPs.
I think I would much rather have tactile feedback.
Well I suppose I could deal with the imminent apocalypse if it included getting down with Taarna.
I hate any useless person in the public eye who makes their living peddling bullshit.
He made his living helping the disabled gain access to information and live better lives, you ignorant ass. Most of his patents and the products his companies have produced relate to technology that helps the blind or the deaf. That sure makes him useless and despicable.
I suppose I could be jealous, though I'm not exactly sure what I would be jealous of.
Maybe his dozen+ awards for science and engineering in helping the disabled? Maybe his dozen+ honorary doctorates? And you have the gall to call him unscrupulous just because he has a different point of view. You're scum.
I know what soap does and how, the point is that the GP said it killed bacteria, which it doesn't, and as for removing some of them, do you know what happens to "less bacteria" over time? It becomes more bacteria! It's a stupid losing battle. The whole reason there are pathogens on your hands is because they're in the environment. If I go wash my hands *right now*, after a few minutes of more typing I'll have the same amount of pathogens on my fingertips as before I washed them, because they'll come right back from my keyboard. Disinfect the keyboard you say? What about the several doorknobs between there and my desk? My phone? My clothes from the different places I've been sitting? The elevator buttons? Do you need to wash your hands every five minutes and spray every surface with Lysol?! Fuck no. At every level it's stupid. Unless you've just been doing something out of the ordinary in the environment such as handling raw meat or wiping your ass, there isn't any point. That's what you have an immune system for, to handle the constant level of background pathogens that are on every surface at all times.
(And sebum is there for a reason! Your body doesn't produce it for shits and giggles! People dump tons of money into moisturizers made by the same companies that tell you to use soap constantly because the soap makes you need the moisturizers. Bunch of fucking paranoid sheep.)
It's informative because you are mistaken, as you could have seen in my reply above. Your hands and animal tissue in general are completely different in structure at a cellular level from a bacterium. Soap does destroy cell walls, *animal* cell walls, not bacterial ones. The lipid content in animal cell walls is magnitudes higher than in bacteria.
Another topic that's an excuse to hate on Kurzweil. I'm really looking forward to a bunch of depressing, bitter pessimists babbling about how the future is impossible and if men were meant to fly God would have given them wings. So the man's a little nutty, is that really why so many hate him? I think it's jealousy.
Detergents actually have very low impact on bacterial cell walls. Gram-positive bacteria are basically unaffected (as they have an outer layer of amino acid/sugar lattice), gram-negatives can be weakened (because their outer layer contains lipids) but probably will not lose integrity. So, no, plain soap still does not kill bacteria in significant numbers.