Considering that we will never know for sure how universe really started, I think that the point is not explaining the origin of the universe per se, but to create a model of that that fits with the present state of the universe, isn't it?
Isn't that called "consensus"? Isn't that what's being pushed by the "Global Climate Change" (new name this week!) crowd as impetus for ending discussion and declaring the science "done"?
It should be named anthropogenically accelerated global climate change, as there is no question whether the climate is changing---one cannot expect that the actual climate will last forever, it has changed before and will change again. The question is whether climate change is (a) global, (b) faster than it would be natural, and therefore (c) caused by the man.
What is funny is that in my country there are such labels on food informing whether there are GMO components, and the products get off the shelves anyway. Most people seem ignore, or not to care about, a T (for transgenic) on a yellow triangle, except for the occasional alarmist that "discovers" that we have been "fooled" into eat "frankenfood", and rush to tell everyone on social media. And people keep eating GMOs anyway because its usually cheaper.
Well, this is Brazil, where any vegetable is soaked with toxic chemicals, so never mind the GMOs. People who care are willing to afford higher prices for "organic".
The problem is not the it is islamophobic to define the enemy. Out of more than 6 million Moslems only three committed attacks, which is less than 0.000 5 %o of the Moslem population. Moreover, such shooters where in association with a foreign militant group; AFAIK there is no militant group of French Moslems nor are such attacks condoned by any representative of Moslem groups in France. Therefore, it would be too immature to identify Moslems as the enemy.
As I see it, Android's big problem is privacy, we're just waiting for the time when politicians and journos realize that every App on their Android phone is tracking them, their kids, their families, and their personal and private lives.
When that happens, the public will get a rude wake up call, and so a fork of Android will likely be the next Android. A fork that is privacy focused.
The proposal of voting with Bitcoins has a flaw of trying to solve a problem that has not been posited. People who do not vote often choose not to.
Most people vote for peer pressure, or by a sense of civic duty, which washes away if one doesn't need to get out of one's basement and meet the neighborhood, family and friends, to cast a vote.
Voting online has already been tried in Switzerland and it did cause the turnout to decrease(http://www.nytimes.com/...).
If you want to see big companies taking linux seriously vendors need to start matching Windows support timelines. People like to joke about XP, but it was supported just a year ago and what was the latest version of your favorite Linux distro when XP first came out? Being secure without having to do major updates is a big selling point.
AFAIK, there's no point in "buying" Linux, however, you may buy a support subscription, which can be renewed indefinitely. Upgrading the system is free.
I don't know how they do things in the UK, but in the US many people in the film industry went to jail for being a member of the Communist Party, or for refusing to testify about it, or refusing to testify about the political activities of their friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Shh! Don't get this kind of information beyond the sphere of well informed people. Some people may think that risky sex behavior becoming less dangerous is a thing.
So when Torvalds goes off calling highly proficient engineers morons on public mailing lists, he's defended as doing what's necessary to run a large project. But as he gets older he might find that at some point that behavior isn't going to be tolerated, and all of these earlier incidents are going to be recalled.
While you forecast might turn out to be true, there are big differences between blacks, women and engineers.
Blacks have been historically held as inferior, and that was a justification for the slave trade (perhaps such justification came after the fact, I don't know). Therefore since the times of slave trade, they have been denied power to decide for themselves, which is why the boundaries between African countries are as troublesome as the boundaries between East and Central European countries were till the Great War.
Women have been historically held as inferior as well, and used to be considered a commodity in the Ancient Ages. There are still some things women must fight for until they may not need to be better than men to be held as equal in some areas.
About bias against engineers, do someone know of some?
[_] easy access to weapons (that can be used in murders)
[_] difficult access to weapons (that could be used to *deter* murders)
[_] people who make themselves potential targets
[_] too revealing clothes
[X] murderers
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Considering that we will never know for sure how universe really started, I think that the point is not explaining the origin of the universe per se, but to create a model of that that fits with the present state of the universe, isn't it?
The turtle doesn't stands on nothing, it swims.
I've never had to buy any hardware only to use Opera. I just installed on the hardware that I already had. Who don't have any computer these days?
These new Office apps will be pre-installed (they will be free) on smartphones and small tablets running Windows 10.
It's not free if you have to buy something else to get it. Just my 2 cents.
Isn't that called "consensus"? Isn't that what's being pushed by the "Global Climate Change" (new name this week!) crowd as impetus for ending discussion and declaring the science "done"?
It should be named anthropogenically accelerated global climate change, as there is no question whether the climate is changing---one cannot expect that the actual climate will last forever, it has changed before and will change again. The question is whether climate change is (a) global, (b) faster than it would be natural, and therefore (c) caused by the man.
What is funny is that in my country there are such labels on food informing whether there are GMO components, and the products get off the shelves anyway. Most people seem ignore, or not to care about, a T (for transgenic) on a yellow triangle, except for the occasional alarmist that "discovers" that we have been "fooled" into eat "frankenfood", and rush to tell everyone on social media. And people keep eating GMOs anyway because its usually cheaper.
Well, this is Brazil, where any vegetable is soaked with toxic chemicals, so never mind the GMOs. People who care are willing to afford higher prices for "organic".
The real enemy of France is the government
It is the government of France which has allowed unabated invasion of the Moslems into the country
Most of those Moslem that immigrated to France are from former French colonies, what is to say that they are from countries that France invaded first.
The problem is not the it is islamophobic to define the enemy. Out of more than 6 million Moslems only three committed attacks, which is less than 0.000 5 %o of the Moslem population. Moreover, such shooters where in association with a foreign militant group; AFAIK there is no militant group of French Moslems nor are such attacks condoned by any representative of Moslem groups in France. Therefore, it would be too immature to identify Moslems as the enemy.
Mr. Stallman, is that you?
*not available on all models
** hardware may not function correctly
Yeah, I had to choose a phone on which Cyanogen-mod was available to get it, but the hardware is working correctly.
What market gap does it fill?
As I see it, Android's big problem is privacy, we're just waiting for the time when politicians and journos realize that every App on their Android phone is tracking them, their kids, their families, and their personal and private lives.
When that happens, the public will get a rude wake up call, and so a fork of Android will likely be the next Android. A fork that is privacy focused.
Isn't that Cyanogen-mod?
Like they assume that if there isn't a Facebook app they can't use Facebook.
AFAIK, without a Facebook app one will not receive Facebook notifications every time it's algorithms say it should, and this matters for many people.
...considering the kind of crap they sell on Amazon, it's more like they will release 12 flops a year.
Yikes! I was feeling like home* until I saw your comment.
/.-ish content.
Thank you. Now I will look for more
*That means Brazil, where the pope's opinion on any subject get headlines, no matter what.
It may not have been a radical mutation or even a series of minor ones, but rather the long-term weeding out of less successful genetic combinations.
And where such genetic combinations would have come from without mutations? Enlighten me.
The proposal of voting with Bitcoins has a flaw of trying to solve a problem that has not been posited. People who do not vote often choose not to. Most people vote for peer pressure, or by a sense of civic duty, which washes away if one doesn't need to get out of one's basement and meet the neighborhood, family and friends, to cast a vote. Voting online has already been tried in Switzerland and it did cause the turnout to decrease(http://www.nytimes.com/...).
If you want to see big companies taking linux seriously vendors need to start matching Windows support timelines. People like to joke about XP, but it was supported just a year ago and what was the latest version of your favorite Linux distro when XP first came out? Being secure without having to do major updates is a big selling point.
AFAIK, there's no point in "buying" Linux, however, you may buy a support subscription, which can be renewed indefinitely. Upgrading the system is free.
I don't know how they do things in the UK, but in the US many people in the film industry went to jail for being a member of the Communist Party, or for refusing to testify about it, or refusing to testify about the political activities of their friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wasn't that, like, more than 50 years ago?
Shh! Don't get this kind of information beyond the sphere of well informed people. Some people may think that risky sex behavior becoming less dangerous is a thing.
If you ever become famous, this sentence will most certainly get remembered and misinterpreted.
You scare me.
So when Torvalds goes off calling highly proficient engineers morons on public mailing lists, he's defended as doing what's necessary to run a large project. But as he gets older he might find that at some point that behavior isn't going to be tolerated, and all of these earlier incidents are going to be recalled.
While you forecast might turn out to be true, there are big differences between blacks, women and engineers.
Blacks have been historically held as inferior, and that was a justification for the slave trade (perhaps such justification came after the fact, I don't know). Therefore since the times of slave trade, they have been denied power to decide for themselves, which is why the boundaries between African countries are as troublesome as the boundaries between East and Central European countries were till the Great War.
Women have been historically held as inferior as well, and used to be considered a commodity in the Ancient Ages. There are still some things women must fight for until they may not need to be better than men to be held as equal in some areas.
About bias against engineers, do someone know of some?
Collectors with spare money, the kind of people who would buy a Bugatti, a Ferrari and a Porsche.
I wish I still had some mod point to mod you up...
And now I wonder what will one do when their phone, which will be their only means of payment, bricks.
[_] easy access to weapons (that can be used in murders)
[_] difficult access to weapons (that could be used to *deter* murders)
[_] people who make themselves potential targets
[_] too revealing clothes
[X] murderers