Because the Democratic party will field a candidate, whether it be Hillary or somebody else. And the way the system is rigged it's really "in a [Democratic party candidate] vs Trump election, [Democratic party candidate] would win". The incompetencies of Trump have no bearing on the fact that a first-past-the-post + electoral college system very strongly favors the effective existence of only two parties, with any 3rd party likely to only have a spoiler effect at best.
How about you do your target shooting still, but with guns owned and maintained by strictly licensed shooting ranges? No? Well then it's not about target shooting is it.
It would be equivalent to racing, but only with cars owned and maintained by the racetrack, or playing golf, but only with clubs owned and maintained by the golf course. A very large part of the allure of participating in a sport that requires equipment is in owning your own personal instance of the equipment in question.
Sure, because there is no such thing as on-site training for procedures specific to a particular event but not yet standard in the industry as a whole, that security might possibly receive after being hired...
For many use cases, streaming is preferred to downloads. Whether you agree with it or not, the reality of popular music is that it is largely disposable. There is just so much of it out there, and its staying power is limited, yet it can be enjoyable while it is fresh. Download only availability can be impractical somewhat from a storage standpoint, but even more so from an economical standpoint where someone would be less likely to pay a full dollar for every track they might only listen two once or twice. Same goes for movies. Most movies that I watch, I rarely feel the need to watch a second time, even if I do enjoy watching them the first time. So it is difficult to justify the upfront purchase price for them when they are available to watch on Netflix or Hulu.
Ideally, all purchasable media should be available simultaneously in an affordable streaming format for general consumption and a downloadable format for when offline access and preservation needs arise. The streaming format should be as high quality as the downloadable format, and the downloadable format should be completely unencumbered. I can dream, right?
A slightly less obtuse definition would be that a rifle's purpose is to accurately put a hole in something from a significant distance. The trick is figuring out how to keep them out of the hands of people who want to use them to put holes in other people, while preserving the rights of those who just want to put holes in pieces of paper or game animals.
Most mature intelligent people are perfectly willing to pay for content as long as that content is high quality and convenient. It is only when content is degraded, restricted, or encumbered (or simply not even available) that most people turn to file sharing. Once content is made available in an unencumbered, reasonably priced digital download or streaming format, only political zealots and immature entitled jerks like the anonymous parent will insist on stealing it.
Trash pickup is not a natural monopoly. There is no physical barrier preventing an arbitrary number of companies from offering to haul your garbage from the curb to a municipal landfill. In my city, there are six licensed garbage haulers to choose from, which is plenty of players for a competitive marketplace.
Have you actually ever tried an XKCD style password? I have used randomly generated ones and have found them far easier to remember than pure random character passwords. The trick, as shown in the last panel of the comic itself, is to come up with a mnemonic story describing the random sequence of words. Rather than just trying to remember the sequence "correct", "horse", "battery", "staple", you imagine a scenario where the horse is correct about staples used on batteries. The scenario itself is easy to remember, and results in the word sequence. A horse being correct about something is a "correct horse", and a staple used on batteries would be a "battery staple". Combine them all, and you get "correct horse battery staple".
How many times have the rather large lithium batteries in the smartphones currently in millions of peoples' pockets right now exploded? It is not a matter of chemistry, but a matter of quality control. If e-cigs were regulated at the same level as smartphones (or at all, really), we would not be having this conversation.
Most people who aren't chip architects don't really care one way or another about transistor density, other than that it was a convenient proxy for performance, the frequent doubling of which ordinary people do care about. Now that transistor density has largely hit a physics wall, perhaps we need a new term for the projected trajectory of performance that would have continued had physics allowed transistors to be infinitely small, which engineers are attempting to satisfy by coming up with novel architectures instead.
The LA Times attacks on Tesla and Musk are nothing but a poorly researched hatchet job, probably funded by the fossil fuel industry in an attempt to discredit Tesla and distract the media from their own failings (such as the fact that the fossil fuel industry receives $5 trillion in subsidies a year).
We'll see what comes of the Vulcan, the promised replacement for the Atlas V, which will have american made BE-4 engines. Maybe the Vulcan will be in production once the Starliner is finally ready to fly.
Lactase, the enzyme allowing for milk digestion, is produced endogenously by mammals. Its production is downregulated after weaning, except for in approximately half of the human population who have a mutation in the lactase production genes resulting in production continuing into adulthood. Though I suppose it might be possible for the consumption of yogurt with live lactobacillus to allow lactose intolerant individuals to digest more milk than they otherwise would be able to.
No, the live cultures in yogurt are bacteria. Perhaps the confusion is in that yogurt production is referred to as fermentation, and we usually associate that word with the action of yeast in alcoholic beverages. But fermentation just means anaerobic metabolism, and it occurs in yeast, some species of bacteria, and even animals when muscles work faster than they can pull in oxygen from the blood. The byproduct of yeast fermentation is ethanol, and the byproduct of bacteria and muscle fermentation is lactic acid, which is what makes yogurt sour, and makes muscles ache after sprinting without a cool down.
You are probably right that the yogurt bacteria are not those usually found in the gut. But the presence of those bacteria may be beneficial in the gut flora due to being non harmful, while being competitive against other bacteria which are.
Maybe it's a regional thing. Most Sanders supporters I know consider themselves progressives, so Trump is kind of seen as almost as evil as Cruz. Trump would have to shift quite a bit to the left of Hillary (who is actually center-right) for them to even think of considering him. But then I live in a pretty strong blue state, so maybe Sanders supporters in swing states would be more likely to jump to Trump in a Trump - Hillary matchup.
Like how under Jobs, Apple was the first company to make a personal computer (the first with a graphical UI no less!), the first to make an mp3 player, the first to make a smartphone, and the first to make a tablet computer.
It is funny how while Jobs was alive, he was apparently nothing more than a marketing charlatan, but once he was gone, Apple was doomed without his innovative genius.
Maybe the recent quarter's results are due to Apple intentionally reducing their profits in order to depress the stock for the purpose of buying it back? </tinfoil_hat>
The fact that since the beginning, the iPhone home screen consisted of nothing but a grid of icons for built in apps with obvious blank spots for more apps shows that the app concept was always the plan. And regardless of what the phone's actual functionality was, everything that the phone could do was accessible through a specific app for that functionality. Even making phone calls on the phone wasn't a special function, but rather done through the phone app which had no more of a special place than the email app, the browser app, or the notes app.
Also, the first iPhone did have user installable 3rd party apps since the beginning. But they were only HTML+CSS+JS web apps.
This is a fundamental misconception as to what a disruption really is. A disruptive technology doesn't necessary mean a fundamental change in how the world works like your examples of refrigeration and electricity. Disruption simply means a shift in the status quo that the market responds to. For all its faults in 2007, the original iPhone showed that the future of smartphones was a touchscreen device running apps, rather than a keyboard device running built in email and messaging functionality. Blackberry was foolish for not pivoting soon enough to address that reality, and the popularity of the iPhone and Android which did adopt the new reality wiped them out.
You are right, it doesn't matter whether peoples' lives are changed by having an iPhone or Android phone versus a Blackberry or Palm phone (though the recent story about Germany embedding traffic lights in the sidewalk suggests that for better or worse a fundamental behavior change has occurred). But it does matter a great deal to those companies that were depending on Blackberry and Palm style phones remaining the status quo.
Just like ULA hating on SpaceX's rocket landing plans or Blackberry hating on the original iPhone, whenever a newcomer comes to market with a disruptive technology, the entrenched players do all they can to trash the newcomer in the media to cast doubt on the viability of the disruptive ideas, rather than pivoting to actually address the market shift that the disruption heralds.
There's a town in Minnesota with an umlaut in its name as well. They recently had to convince the Department of Transportation to expand their allowed character set in order to correctly spell their name on the highway signs.
It is funny how laying out a rational argument with valid counterpoints to several talking points is somehow being a "troll". It used to be that the fastest way to get yourself modded troll here was to be pro-Apple, or pro-Microsoft. Now I guess it's being pro-science.
I wonder why climate change in particular gets people so worked up around here. You don't get insta-modded troll by calling out creationists or anti-vaxxers, and the willful lack of science literacy required to maintain a particular worldview is quite similar among all three.
Not posting anonymously as I am proud of being pro-science and I have karma to burn if the anti-science brigade is still out there.
Only if the captain was also a nerd (in which case nobody would have had to try to convince the captain to slow down in the first place). Remember the nerd who tried to tell NASA to slow down but wasn't listened to, resulting in the Challenger disaster. The hubris of non-nerds who command nerds but don't feel the need to listen to those nerds is immense, and often with tragic consequences.
Same. When I need to write notes that are just text, typing is much faster. But as a software developer, notes often include diagrams of one sort or another and sketching them on paper is infinitely faster as well as more flexible than attempting to draw them up in visio. And the various sketching programs available might as well be drawing in crayon.
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Because the Democratic party will field a candidate, whether it be Hillary or somebody else. And the way the system is rigged it's really "in a [Democratic party candidate] vs Trump election, [Democratic party candidate] would win". The incompetencies of Trump have no bearing on the fact that a first-past-the-post + electoral college system very strongly favors the effective existence of only two parties, with any 3rd party likely to only have a spoiler effect at best.
Assuming the downloader actually watched the movie, even just sentencing to 'time served' might amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
How about you do your target shooting still, but with guns owned and maintained by strictly licensed shooting ranges? No? Well then it's not about target shooting is it.
It would be equivalent to racing, but only with cars owned and maintained by the racetrack, or playing golf, but only with clubs owned and maintained by the golf course. A very large part of the allure of participating in a sport that requires equipment is in owning your own personal instance of the equipment in question.
Sure, because there is no such thing as on-site training for procedures specific to a particular event but not yet standard in the industry as a whole, that security might possibly receive after being hired...
For many use cases, streaming is preferred to downloads. Whether you agree with it or not, the reality of popular music is that it is largely disposable. There is just so much of it out there, and its staying power is limited, yet it can be enjoyable while it is fresh. Download only availability can be impractical somewhat from a storage standpoint, but even more so from an economical standpoint where someone would be less likely to pay a full dollar for every track they might only listen two once or twice. Same goes for movies. Most movies that I watch, I rarely feel the need to watch a second time, even if I do enjoy watching them the first time. So it is difficult to justify the upfront purchase price for them when they are available to watch on Netflix or Hulu.
Ideally, all purchasable media should be available simultaneously in an affordable streaming format for general consumption and a downloadable format for when offline access and preservation needs arise. The streaming format should be as high quality as the downloadable format, and the downloadable format should be completely unencumbered. I can dream, right?
A slightly less obtuse definition would be that a rifle's purpose is to accurately put a hole in something from a significant distance. The trick is figuring out how to keep them out of the hands of people who want to use them to put holes in other people, while preserving the rights of those who just want to put holes in pieces of paper or game animals.
Most mature intelligent people are perfectly willing to pay for content as long as that content is high quality and convenient. It is only when content is degraded, restricted, or encumbered (or simply not even available) that most people turn to file sharing. Once content is made available in an unencumbered, reasonably priced digital download or streaming format, only political zealots and immature entitled jerks like the anonymous parent will insist on stealing it.
Trash pickup is not a natural monopoly. There is no physical barrier preventing an arbitrary number of companies from offering to haul your garbage from the curb to a municipal landfill. In my city, there are six licensed garbage haulers to choose from, which is plenty of players for a competitive marketplace.
Have you actually ever tried an XKCD style password? I have used randomly generated ones and have found them far easier to remember than pure random character passwords. The trick, as shown in the last panel of the comic itself, is to come up with a mnemonic story describing the random sequence of words. Rather than just trying to remember the sequence "correct", "horse", "battery", "staple", you imagine a scenario where the horse is correct about staples used on batteries. The scenario itself is easy to remember, and results in the word sequence. A horse being correct about something is a "correct horse", and a staple used on batteries would be a "battery staple". Combine them all, and you get "correct horse battery staple".
How many times have the rather large lithium batteries in the smartphones currently in millions of peoples' pockets right now exploded? It is not a matter of chemistry, but a matter of quality control. If e-cigs were regulated at the same level as smartphones (or at all, really), we would not be having this conversation.
Most people who aren't chip architects don't really care one way or another about transistor density, other than that it was a convenient proxy for performance, the frequent doubling of which ordinary people do care about. Now that transistor density has largely hit a physics wall, perhaps we need a new term for the projected trajectory of performance that would have continued had physics allowed transistors to be infinitely small, which engineers are attempting to satisfy by coming up with novel architectures instead.
The LA Times attacks on Tesla and Musk are nothing but a poorly researched hatchet job, probably funded by the fossil fuel industry in an attempt to discredit Tesla and distract the media from their own failings (such as the fact that the fossil fuel industry receives $5 trillion in subsidies a year).
http://electrek.co/2016/05/12/...
We'll see what comes of the Vulcan, the promised replacement for the Atlas V, which will have american made BE-4 engines. Maybe the Vulcan will be in production once the Starliner is finally ready to fly.
Lactase, the enzyme allowing for milk digestion, is produced endogenously by mammals. Its production is downregulated after weaning, except for in approximately half of the human population who have a mutation in the lactase production genes resulting in production continuing into adulthood. Though I suppose it might be possible for the consumption of yogurt with live lactobacillus to allow lactose intolerant individuals to digest more milk than they otherwise would be able to.
No, the live cultures in yogurt are bacteria. Perhaps the confusion is in that yogurt production is referred to as fermentation, and we usually associate that word with the action of yeast in alcoholic beverages. But fermentation just means anaerobic metabolism, and it occurs in yeast, some species of bacteria, and even animals when muscles work faster than they can pull in oxygen from the blood. The byproduct of yeast fermentation is ethanol, and the byproduct of bacteria and muscle fermentation is lactic acid, which is what makes yogurt sour, and makes muscles ache after sprinting without a cool down.
You are probably right that the yogurt bacteria are not those usually found in the gut. But the presence of those bacteria may be beneficial in the gut flora due to being non harmful, while being competitive against other bacteria which are.
Maybe it's a regional thing. Most Sanders supporters I know consider themselves progressives, so Trump is kind of seen as almost as evil as Cruz. Trump would have to shift quite a bit to the left of Hillary (who is actually center-right) for them to even think of considering him. But then I live in a pretty strong blue state, so maybe Sanders supporters in swing states would be more likely to jump to Trump in a Trump - Hillary matchup.
Like how under Jobs, Apple was the first company to make a personal computer (the first with a graphical UI no less!), the first to make an mp3 player, the first to make a smartphone, and the first to make a tablet computer.
It is funny how while Jobs was alive, he was apparently nothing more than a marketing charlatan, but once he was gone, Apple was doomed without his innovative genius.
Maybe the recent quarter's results are due to Apple intentionally reducing their profits in order to depress the stock for the purpose of buying it back?
</tinfoil_hat>
The fact that since the beginning, the iPhone home screen consisted of nothing but a grid of icons for built in apps with obvious blank spots for more apps shows that the app concept was always the plan. And regardless of what the phone's actual functionality was, everything that the phone could do was accessible through a specific app for that functionality. Even making phone calls on the phone wasn't a special function, but rather done through the phone app which had no more of a special place than the email app, the browser app, or the notes app.
Also, the first iPhone did have user installable 3rd party apps since the beginning. But they were only HTML+CSS+JS web apps.
This is a fundamental misconception as to what a disruption really is. A disruptive technology doesn't necessary mean a fundamental change in how the world works like your examples of refrigeration and electricity. Disruption simply means a shift in the status quo that the market responds to. For all its faults in 2007, the original iPhone showed that the future of smartphones was a touchscreen device running apps, rather than a keyboard device running built in email and messaging functionality. Blackberry was foolish for not pivoting soon enough to address that reality, and the popularity of the iPhone and Android which did adopt the new reality wiped them out.
You are right, it doesn't matter whether peoples' lives are changed by having an iPhone or Android phone versus a Blackberry or Palm phone (though the recent story about Germany embedding traffic lights in the sidewalk suggests that for better or worse a fundamental behavior change has occurred). But it does matter a great deal to those companies that were depending on Blackberry and Palm style phones remaining the status quo.
Just like ULA hating on SpaceX's rocket landing plans or Blackberry hating on the original iPhone, whenever a newcomer comes to market with a disruptive technology, the entrenched players do all they can to trash the newcomer in the media to cast doubt on the viability of the disruptive ideas, rather than pivoting to actually address the market shift that the disruption heralds.
There's a town in Minnesota with an umlaut in its name as well. They recently had to convince the Department of Transportation to expand their allowed character set in order to correctly spell their name on the highway signs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04...
It is funny how laying out a rational argument with valid counterpoints to several talking points is somehow being a "troll". It used to be that the fastest way to get yourself modded troll here was to be pro-Apple, or pro-Microsoft. Now I guess it's being pro-science.
I wonder why climate change in particular gets people so worked up around here. You don't get insta-modded troll by calling out creationists or anti-vaxxers, and the willful lack of science literacy required to maintain a particular worldview is quite similar among all three.
Not posting anonymously as I am proud of being pro-science and I have karma to burn if the anti-science brigade is still out there.
Only if the captain was also a nerd (in which case nobody would have had to try to convince the captain to slow down in the first place). Remember the nerd who tried to tell NASA to slow down but wasn't listened to, resulting in the Challenger disaster. The hubris of non-nerds who command nerds but don't feel the need to listen to those nerds is immense, and often with tragic consequences.
Same. When I need to write notes that are just text, typing is much faster. But as a software developer, notes often include diagrams of one sort or another and sketching them on paper is infinitely faster as well as more flexible than attempting to draw them up in visio. And the various sketching programs available might as well be drawing in crayon.