Remember when Google primarily had text ads? Not even pepperidge farms remembers, their products are pure garbage now. They cheaped them out so much in content without lowering the price, in pursuit of profit, that they're no longer worth buying.
Sadly, many people still make purchases without any consideration for whether they're getting anything for their money. The ad on heavy rotation right now on YouTube is for some shitty horror movie sequel. I see this ad because we use a fire tv stick, obviously I block such things on my PC. Some ads still sneak through occasionally, so if I actually want to watch something without interruption I YouTube-dl it first. But back to the ad. How much have they spent to ensure that I see their unskippable ad 20 times a day? That kind of entrainment might work on toddlers, but it's alienating to everyone else. Even horror movie devotees must get tired of it after the tenth time or so. I, for one, don't want to hear a woman screaming in terror right before I watch a comedy clip, or some daily show. That puts me off right quick.
A couple of days ago, I was participating happily in a group on Facebook related to one of my interests - not going to say which for reasons which should be obvious - when someone made a post which I'm still not sure was or wasn't a troll (admittedly, that's the best kind of troll) in which the poster claimed his wife had told him it was "time" to move to a state which was "pro-life" and anti-vax. I found it in its nascent stages, and was able to get a couple of good jabs in before it asploded, like "state of being single", before the anti-vaxxers showed up in larger numbers with their abject lack of logic. I soldiered on good-naturedly with muh facts for some time (skipping the pro-choice debate, letting the women have that one) and remaining on my best (expletive-light) behavior before the conversation was nuked, probably by admin for political content.
Thankfully, the antis were severely in the minority. They'd whine about live virus vaccine vax shedding, then refuse to comprehend herd immunity and that the very reason that we need widespread immunization is to protect their immunocompromised snowflakes. They'd then cry about thimerosal and adjuvants, ignoring that even if these substances remain in the body, the quantities are miniscule (and thimerosal is scarce to begin with.) Hell, they even tried to go with "measles isn't serious", easily countered with the recent report about how getting measles makes one susceptible to several other diseases. They'd finally fall back on the "personal choice" argument, as if any harm to others could be justified on that basis. And I'm proud to say that the community skewered their arguments each and every time. We came together to reject them as a group.
What's amusingly ironic is that they don't understand that their willful anti-vaxxer ignorance behaves just like a disease. It hides in communities that reject the vaccine (information) and then attempts to infect others. And if those others don't have a strong immune system, then they can easily be infected as well. We got done with them in a couple of hours total, including the repeat outbreak in which one of them posted a poll with only a bunch of insulting options which tried to make the antis out to be victims.
Did we convince any of those people that they were wrong? I assure you, we did not. But we denied them unchallenged floor space, and shared our immunities with others, making them more resistant to unscientific propaganda spread by the McCarthys of the world. And that's more important than anything that Facebook can or will do about the problem. Facebook shouldn't do one single thing to these communities directly. If it has any role in combating anti-vaxxers, it is to continue to exist. Those people will go anywhere they can have a voice. If they're on Facebook, then they're easily contained. It's a platform they don't control. If they infect one group you care about, you can start two more where you're in control. And since they are sharply in the minority, both there and everywhere else, they are easily countered. If we were still using Usenet, they'd be able to crap up a much higher percentage of sub-communities, but on Facebook, moderated groups are overwhelmingly the norm and not the exception. The immune system is much stronger. And this level of moderation is feasible because the groups tend to be smaller, and the moderation system more nuanced. Groups can be moderated in the same fashion (posts require pre-approval) and/or after the fact, users can be banned entirely, etc. For once, Facebook's method of operation is a boon, not a bane.
I remember growing up, our washing machine occasionally wandered around the utility room. It also didn't stop if you opened the lid. Somehow, I never even got a bruise from it, but I did get a good laugh once when my Mom tried and failed to stop it from wandering.
How, by sitting on it? Bet she got a good laugh, too.
That's bullshit, either OEM didn't implement proper BIOS settings or user/idiot error.
You talk a lot of shit for a coward.
Either way neither one is AMD's fault
Intel commits code to support their processors and chipsets. AMD didn't bother to do that for this chip, so it had to be guessed and bodged from other chips.
AND you trying to segue into that from "intel has a history of linux support" = laughable trolling, you're a putz.
I use AMD processors pretty much exclusively. I am typing this from a system with FX-8350 right now. If facts frighten you, perhaps you should fuck right off.
for being nerdy or just plain weird & ugly. Growing up a nerd I hung out with nerds but I was relatively normal. I hadn't noticed it but a lot of the extreme nerds (or worse, the LGBTQ kids had it rough) were being actively shit on by their teachers... up to and including the school principal.
My first notably negative experience in school was in third grade. We had a teacher there for literally only one year (so I got to experience him) who was a lazy asshole. I'd regularly finish my work before everyone else (and got great marks, mind you) and then I'd be expected literally to lay my head on my desk and wait quietly for the other children to catch up. He didn't have any more work to give me, because that would be work for him. Problem is, I was already growing to be larger than the other kids, and it literally caused me physical pain to do that. As a result, I got in trouble for looking at the other children. Not an exaggeration.
I could no longer go to school in the town I grew up in when we moved in sixth grade, but I couldn't just not go to school (or so I thought) so I just showed up for abuse. What's worse, it was a middle school, so I went from K-6 to being lumped in with jr. high students two weeks into the start of the year, which separated me even further from everyone else. I was physically attacked on literally a daily basis, and my complaints fell on deaf ears. I got kicked out of that school when I finally was attacked by a kid who couldn't beat me up, and I blackened both of his eyes and beat his head into the ground for good measure. I felt sick and cried about it even while I did it. The next day when I came to school, the other kids were literally congratulating me and slapping me on the back... on my way to the principal's office to be expelled, and sent across town to a jr. high, where the abuse continued because I was still a nerd, and those kids hadn't seen me beat anyone up.
I got OK to good grades from there up to my first semester of high school, but high school was where the bullying got especially bad (it was a total jock school) and I couldn't get any help from educators, administration, etc. And the teachers would openly deride me in class for my lack of involvement. If I'd had access to a gun, I might well have brought it in and employed it. Instead, I just dropped participating, got straight Fs, and then got sent to an alternative school which was dramatically less abusive. But there was bullying even there, so I took the CHSPE and got the hell out of there, too.
The students take their cues from the instructors as to who it's okay to abuse, the insightful little lord of the flies fucks, so when teachers treat students with disrespect it encourages bullying. And that's exactly what happened to me, time and again. And that's why I have very limited respect for teachers in the pre-college system. I know there are good ones out there, I even studied with a couple in my day, but as far as I'm concerned most of them (at least in the public school system) are bullies themselves. They don't actually care about students, they only want to make themselves feel good, and exert control over others. And the administration is even worse. It's literally their job to stop such things, but they don't seem to have much interest, or at least they didn't when I was in school.
I got along with pretty much everyone just great by the time I hit college. Suddenly, my willingness to be helpful was an asset, not something that set me up for abuse. I had only one asshole of an instructor, who was on his last year, and just killing time before retirement. He didn't want to be there, he didn't like me for whatever reason, and I learned fuck-all in his welding classes. I learned more about welding in auto body than I did in welding.
My hat's off to the instructors who actually take the time and effort to care about students, and make sure they're learning. You know, those who do their jobs. Their job is hard, and I wouldn't want it. The rest, those who make excuses instead of a difference, are letting the side down hard. If children are the future, they're the ones making sure it sucks.
Here is some wisdom for you...if you see a dust cloud from a falling structure, don't walk into it and breath. The risk of breathing demolition dust anywhere far outweighs the tremendously tiny risk of anything radiation related.
And yet, it's even worse if it's got radioactives in it.
(As an aside, why is it always "gamers"? I have deliberately excluded myself from that subculture for over a decade, but the stuff I see coming out of those pits today, indicate seriously damaged minds)
Over 50% of the American public plays video games...
Aside from the usual habit of the news mentioning the maximum possible sentence allowed by the statute as if it were likely, calling in fake bomb threats is a physical assault.
No, no it is not. It is arguably assault, since it threatens physical harm and there is clear intent, but it is not actually physical. It's more like a combination of assault and denial of service. Whatever you call it, though, it can have the result of costing lives. I'm not arguing against taking it seriously.
Being kidnapped by slave traders and then sold into a lifetime of slavery, or being born to those who have been, is NOT the same as choosing to commit a long series of crimes and having to suffer the consequences. Why are you pretending you don't get that?
Slavery is wrong no matter how you excuse it. It's wrong when convicts only get paid $2/day for working on fire crews, too. (used to be $1/day, they got a 100% raise! woo fucking hoo!)
Don't get me wrong, we have to stop people from committing crimes. But punishing people with slavery is a violation of their human rights. Either we believe in those and give them to everyone, or we don't, and we don't. Punishment only makes assholes feel better. What's needed is rehabilitation. Sometimes some punishment is part of that, but if punishment is the whole goal, then the system is only being a shitlord.
You obviously had not known many English speaking teachers in other countries.
True.
English speaking expats (including teachers and professors) are most notorious for never ever learning the local language even after working in another country for one or two decades.
Well, that's sad, but I'm talking about being understandable. I'd not only want to learn the local language, but also use my best TV news accent (i.e. deaccented) when speaking English so as to be as understandable as possible, and also to teach students to be as understandable as possible. Anything else is irresponsible.
He's clearly a psychopath and a danger to society, and should be locked up in a psychiatric institution until he is no longer poses a danger.
Alas, instead of fixing those, we closed most of them. Now he'll go to prison for a while, get trained in more crime and incentivized to commit lots of it by how much harder it's going to be for him to find employment in the future, and then get released on parole long before his sentence is up.
Who doesn't like the Android security modelâ"raise your hand.
You mean the model where they actually use the "capabilities" capabilities;) of the operating system, and apps aren't allowed to write into one another's directories? How terrible!
It's iOS that doesn't have a file system and doesn't allow for any kind of abstract file management. it's incomprehensible why anyone would try to use that you for any kind of work. I mean you can't even plug the device into a desktop and manage files over USB. iOS is a total joke.
If your android phone is a computer, why do you need a 2nd computer and a USB cable to manage files?
Reading comprehension? You fail it!
You can install a file manager on Android and manage files directly, and some Android devices even come with one. But you can also connect your Android device to your PC as a mass storage device, and manipulate files directly. Android apps can store resources in databases or files, it's called choice.
My iPad is great for sitting in a coffee shop reading something, surfing the web, reading E-mail, or even SSHing to a host or two. But if I have to do any sort of real work, the frustration level spikes quickly. iOS would need a substantial redesign to be a real desktop operating system, including ditching the walled garden. But then what do you have? MacOS. Why not just use the best tool for the job?
It's funny you bring up MacOS, at least to me, because I was just thinking about it in this context. When it was new, it would only run one program at a time, even though literally all other graphic operating systems would run more. The machine only had enough RAM to run one program at a time, so this was not a serious impediment. But as the average system's capabilities grew (i.e. as the RAM increased) the demand to run multiple applications grew. So Apple introduced first desk accessories, which were limited applications which could run over the top of other applications, and then multitasking.
If iOS becomes a desktop OS (probably an arm-based laptop OS first), will Apple go through the same cycle? And will their initial attempts at multiapp be as hamhanded as multifinder?
There's also lots of old buildings that could fall down and conceivably raise a cloud. You don't want to live next to something like that. It could be safe today, and unsafe tomorrow.
taking a required class with 500 of your closest friends and than trying to talk to one of the two TAs who are apparently failing English as a second or third language.
Bah, you think that's bad? When I went to college the first time (at 17) my Algebra instructor himself had an impenetrable Chinese accent, at least to me and several others in the class who would all look at one another in puzzlement when he dropped a particularly mush-mouthed gem. I couldn't understand a goddamn thing he was saying, and eventually had to drop out. I'm still crap at math.
Another person I know took [teaching] "Engrish as second ranguage" with "Doctor Kah" who would say "Ok, this be on test, this very importan" and then would ramble through several sentences of apparent gibberish.
If I were going to teach in another country, I'd expect to have to be comprehensible in their language. Why don't people have to do that here? I don't give half of one shit where someone comes from, what their genetic background is, what gender they are, or what color their skin is, I just want to get the information I need to succeed.
This to you is news? It would be news if they did delete them, it definitely isn't that they keep them forever. Of course they keep them, the only things of value they have are messages, whether public or private.
Whatever. You're a troublemaker, that's why I did that.
You're a troll, that's why you did that. And I interrupted your trolling with a fact, and it made you upset. So you ran away. But you didn't run far enough, because you're still plaguing us with your willful ignorance.
Also changes nothing. I will continue to advocate for better, safer, less expensive to build and operate, nuclear power plants,
Because you're willfully ignorant. They're non-starters in every way. They're economically infeasible, they produce waste which we cannot safely or economically manage, and when they go wrong, they go very very wrong. Advocate for fusion if you must, but fission plants are as dumb as coal. Advocate for fission if you must, but if you run away from an argument when you encounter a fact, such advocacy will have you run forever.
If you find my arguments troubling, perhaps you should reconsider yours. But running away is a coward's game.
I have paid cash for gasoline my entire life, I have never been offered a discount. Do you have to beg for it or something?
No, but pretty much everywhere I go for fuel has a cash price, and a credit price... both listed on the sign. Try google images for "gas station sign cash credit".
"All we need to reduce population is education. When you educate people, you rapidly head towards zero or even negative pop growth."
Stopped reading right there. Your basic premise is so completely and utterly out of touch with reality and human nature that I almost can't believe someone would say that.
Stopped because you have an aversion to facts, you mean. This is actually what happens. It's actually what's happening, in fact. All the best-educated nations are now concerned about population replacement.
But we will have to build those ponds somewhere. Lots of subsistence farmers aren't doing much with their land besides eating everything they grow. We could move them to favelas and build the ponds on that land.
You put them in the desert, because that's where the insolation is, and the cheap land. And you pump seawater in from the coast using solar thermal (heat pipes) because there are algaes which grow just fine in salt water.
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Remember when Google primarily had text ads? Not even pepperidge farms remembers, their products are pure garbage now. They cheaped them out so much in content without lowering the price, in pursuit of profit, that they're no longer worth buying.
Sadly, many people still make purchases without any consideration for whether they're getting anything for their money. The ad on heavy rotation right now on YouTube is for some shitty horror movie sequel. I see this ad because we use a fire tv stick, obviously I block such things on my PC. Some ads still sneak through occasionally, so if I actually want to watch something without interruption I YouTube-dl it first. But back to the ad. How much have they spent to ensure that I see their unskippable ad 20 times a day? That kind of entrainment might work on toddlers, but it's alienating to everyone else. Even horror movie devotees must get tired of it after the tenth time or so. I, for one, don't want to hear a woman screaming in terror right before I watch a comedy clip, or some daily show. That puts me off right quick.
Did an unskippable ad ever increase revenue?
A couple of days ago, I was participating happily in a group on Facebook related to one of my interests - not going to say which for reasons which should be obvious - when someone made a post which I'm still not sure was or wasn't a troll (admittedly, that's the best kind of troll) in which the poster claimed his wife had told him it was "time" to move to a state which was "pro-life" and anti-vax. I found it in its nascent stages, and was able to get a couple of good jabs in before it asploded, like "state of being single", before the anti-vaxxers showed up in larger numbers with their abject lack of logic. I soldiered on good-naturedly with muh facts for some time (skipping the pro-choice debate, letting the women have that one) and remaining on my best (expletive-light) behavior before the conversation was nuked, probably by admin for political content.
Thankfully, the antis were severely in the minority. They'd whine about live virus vaccine vax shedding, then refuse to comprehend herd immunity and that the very reason that we need widespread immunization is to protect their immunocompromised snowflakes. They'd then cry about thimerosal and adjuvants, ignoring that even if these substances remain in the body, the quantities are miniscule (and thimerosal is scarce to begin with.) Hell, they even tried to go with "measles isn't serious", easily countered with the recent report about how getting measles makes one susceptible to several other diseases. They'd finally fall back on the "personal choice" argument, as if any harm to others could be justified on that basis. And I'm proud to say that the community skewered their arguments each and every time. We came together to reject them as a group.
What's amusingly ironic is that they don't understand that their willful anti-vaxxer ignorance behaves just like a disease. It hides in communities that reject the vaccine (information) and then attempts to infect others. And if those others don't have a strong immune system, then they can easily be infected as well. We got done with them in a couple of hours total, including the repeat outbreak in which one of them posted a poll with only a bunch of insulting options which tried to make the antis out to be victims.
Did we convince any of those people that they were wrong? I assure you, we did not. But we denied them unchallenged floor space, and shared our immunities with others, making them more resistant to unscientific propaganda spread by the McCarthys of the world. And that's more important than anything that Facebook can or will do about the problem. Facebook shouldn't do one single thing to these communities directly. If it has any role in combating anti-vaxxers, it is to continue to exist. Those people will go anywhere they can have a voice. If they're on Facebook, then they're easily contained. It's a platform they don't control. If they infect one group you care about, you can start two more where you're in control. And since they are sharply in the minority, both there and everywhere else, they are easily countered. If we were still using Usenet, they'd be able to crap up a much higher percentage of sub-communities, but on Facebook, moderated groups are overwhelmingly the norm and not the exception. The immune system is much stronger. And this level of moderation is feasible because the groups tend to be smaller, and the moderation system more nuanced. Groups can be moderated in the same fashion (posts require pre-approval) and/or after the fact, users can be banned entirely, etc. For once, Facebook's method of operation is a boon, not a bane.
I remember growing up, our washing machine occasionally wandered around the utility room. It also didn't stop if you opened the lid. Somehow, I never even got a bruise from it, but I did get a good laugh once when my Mom tried and failed to stop it from wandering.
How, by sitting on it? Bet she got a good laugh, too.
That's bullshit, either OEM didn't implement proper BIOS settings or user/idiot error.
You talk a lot of shit for a coward.
Either way neither one is AMD's fault
Intel commits code to support their processors and chipsets. AMD didn't bother to do that for this chip, so it had to be guessed and bodged from other chips.
AND you trying to segue into that from "intel has a history of linux support" = laughable trolling, you're a putz.
I use AMD processors pretty much exclusively. I am typing this from a system with FX-8350 right now. If facts frighten you, perhaps you should fuck right off.
for being nerdy or just plain weird & ugly. Growing up a nerd I hung out with nerds but I was relatively normal. I hadn't noticed it but a lot of the extreme nerds (or worse, the LGBTQ kids had it rough) were being actively shit on by their teachers... up to and including the school principal.
My first notably negative experience in school was in third grade. We had a teacher there for literally only one year (so I got to experience him) who was a lazy asshole. I'd regularly finish my work before everyone else (and got great marks, mind you) and then I'd be expected literally to lay my head on my desk and wait quietly for the other children to catch up. He didn't have any more work to give me, because that would be work for him. Problem is, I was already growing to be larger than the other kids, and it literally caused me physical pain to do that. As a result, I got in trouble for looking at the other children. Not an exaggeration.
I could no longer go to school in the town I grew up in when we moved in sixth grade, but I couldn't just not go to school (or so I thought) so I just showed up for abuse. What's worse, it was a middle school, so I went from K-6 to being lumped in with jr. high students two weeks into the start of the year, which separated me even further from everyone else. I was physically attacked on literally a daily basis, and my complaints fell on deaf ears. I got kicked out of that school when I finally was attacked by a kid who couldn't beat me up, and I blackened both of his eyes and beat his head into the ground for good measure. I felt sick and cried about it even while I did it. The next day when I came to school, the other kids were literally congratulating me and slapping me on the back... on my way to the principal's office to be expelled, and sent across town to a jr. high, where the abuse continued because I was still a nerd, and those kids hadn't seen me beat anyone up.
I got OK to good grades from there up to my first semester of high school, but high school was where the bullying got especially bad (it was a total jock school) and I couldn't get any help from educators, administration, etc. And the teachers would openly deride me in class for my lack of involvement. If I'd had access to a gun, I might well have brought it in and employed it. Instead, I just dropped participating, got straight Fs, and then got sent to an alternative school which was dramatically less abusive. But there was bullying even there, so I took the CHSPE and got the hell out of there, too.
The students take their cues from the instructors as to who it's okay to abuse, the insightful little lord of the flies fucks, so when teachers treat students with disrespect it encourages bullying. And that's exactly what happened to me, time and again. And that's why I have very limited respect for teachers in the pre-college system. I know there are good ones out there, I even studied with a couple in my day, but as far as I'm concerned most of them (at least in the public school system) are bullies themselves. They don't actually care about students, they only want to make themselves feel good, and exert control over others. And the administration is even worse. It's literally their job to stop such things, but they don't seem to have much interest, or at least they didn't when I was in school.
I got along with pretty much everyone just great by the time I hit college. Suddenly, my willingness to be helpful was an asset, not something that set me up for abuse. I had only one asshole of an instructor, who was on his last year, and just killing time before retirement. He didn't want to be there, he didn't like me for whatever reason, and I learned fuck-all in his welding classes. I learned more about welding in auto body than I did in welding.
My hat's off to the instructors who actually take the time and effort to care about students, and make sure they're learning. You know, those who do their jobs. Their job is hard, and I wouldn't want it. The rest, those who make excuses instead of a difference, are letting the side down hard. If children are the future, they're the ones making sure it sucks.
Here is some wisdom for you...if you see a dust cloud from a falling structure, don't walk into it and breath. The risk of breathing demolition dust anywhere far outweighs the tremendously tiny risk of anything radiation related.
And yet, it's even worse if it's got radioactives in it.
(As an aside, why is it always "gamers"? I have deliberately excluded myself from that subculture for over a decade, but the stuff I see coming out of those pits today, indicate seriously damaged minds)
Over 50% of the American public plays video games...
Aside from the usual habit of the news mentioning the maximum possible sentence allowed by the statute as if it were likely, calling in fake bomb threats is a physical assault.
No, no it is not. It is arguably assault, since it threatens physical harm and there is clear intent, but it is not actually physical. It's more like a combination of assault and denial of service. Whatever you call it, though, it can have the result of costing lives. I'm not arguing against taking it seriously.
Being kidnapped by slave traders and then sold into a lifetime of slavery, or being born to those who have been, is NOT the same as choosing to commit a long series of crimes and having to suffer the consequences. Why are you pretending you don't get that?
Slavery is wrong no matter how you excuse it. It's wrong when convicts only get paid $2/day for working on fire crews, too. (used to be $1/day, they got a 100% raise! woo fucking hoo!)
Don't get me wrong, we have to stop people from committing crimes. But punishing people with slavery is a violation of their human rights. Either we believe in those and give them to everyone, or we don't, and we don't. Punishment only makes assholes feel better. What's needed is rehabilitation. Sometimes some punishment is part of that, but if punishment is the whole goal, then the system is only being a shitlord.
For example, superior support for power-saving as compared to AMD. AMD never bothered to properly support power-saving on e.g. my Athlon Mobile L110.
You obviously had not known many English speaking teachers in other countries.
True.
English speaking expats (including teachers and professors) are most notorious for never ever learning the local language even after working in another country for one or two decades.
Well, that's sad, but I'm talking about being understandable. I'd not only want to learn the local language, but also use my best TV news accent (i.e. deaccented) when speaking English so as to be as understandable as possible, and also to teach students to be as understandable as possible. Anything else is irresponsible.
He's clearly a psychopath and a danger to society, and should be locked up in a psychiatric institution until he is no longer poses a danger.
Alas, instead of fixing those, we closed most of them. Now he'll go to prison for a while, get trained in more crime and incentivized to commit lots of it by how much harder it's going to be for him to find employment in the future, and then get released on parole long before his sentence is up.
Who doesn't like the Android security modelâ"raise your hand.
You mean the model where they actually use the "capabilities" capabilities ;) of the operating system, and apps aren't allowed to write into one another's directories? How terrible!
It's iOS that doesn't have a file system and doesn't allow for any kind of abstract file management. it's incomprehensible why anyone would try to use that you for any kind of work. I mean you can't even plug the device into a desktop and manage files over USB. iOS is a total joke.
If your android phone is a computer, why do you need a 2nd computer and a USB cable to manage files?
Reading comprehension? You fail it!
You can install a file manager on Android and manage files directly, and some Android devices even come with one. But you can also connect your Android device to your PC as a mass storage device, and manipulate files directly. Android apps can store resources in databases or files, it's called choice.
My iPad is great for sitting in a coffee shop reading something, surfing the web, reading E-mail, or even SSHing to a host or two. But if I have to do any sort of real work, the frustration level spikes quickly. iOS would need a substantial redesign to be a real desktop operating system, including ditching the walled garden. But then what do you have? MacOS. Why not just use the best tool for the job?
It's funny you bring up MacOS, at least to me, because I was just thinking about it in this context. When it was new, it would only run one program at a time, even though literally all other graphic operating systems would run more. The machine only had enough RAM to run one program at a time, so this was not a serious impediment. But as the average system's capabilities grew (i.e. as the RAM increased) the demand to run multiple applications grew. So Apple introduced first desk accessories, which were limited applications which could run over the top of other applications, and then multitasking.
If iOS becomes a desktop OS (probably an arm-based laptop OS first), will Apple go through the same cycle? And will their initial attempts at multiapp be as hamhanded as multifinder?
There's also lots of old buildings that could fall down and conceivably raise a cloud. You don't want to live next to something like that. It could be safe today, and unsafe tomorrow.
Don't you just love the smell of cybernetic totalitarianism I'm in the morning?
I'm jeering, not cheering. We should all know that this is how they work. Now what are we going to do about it? Just sit around acting surprised?
Remember how Arkady worked out?
taking a required class with 500 of your closest friends and than trying to talk to one of the two TAs who are apparently failing English as a second or third language.
Bah, you think that's bad? When I went to college the first time (at 17) my Algebra instructor himself had an impenetrable Chinese accent, at least to me and several others in the class who would all look at one another in puzzlement when he dropped a particularly mush-mouthed gem. I couldn't understand a goddamn thing he was saying, and eventually had to drop out. I'm still crap at math.
Another person I know took [teaching] "Engrish as second ranguage" with "Doctor Kah" who would say "Ok, this be on test, this very importan" and then would ramble through several sentences of apparent gibberish.
If I were going to teach in another country, I'd expect to have to be comprehensible in their language. Why don't people have to do that here? I don't give half of one shit where someone comes from, what their genetic background is, what gender they are, or what color their skin is, I just want to get the information I need to succeed.
This to you is news? It would be news if they did delete them, it definitely isn't that they keep them forever. Of course they keep them, the only things of value they have are messages, whether public or private.
TL;DR: zzzzz
Whatever. You're a troublemaker, that's why I did that.
You're a troll, that's why you did that. And I interrupted your trolling with a fact, and it made you upset. So you ran away. But you didn't run far enough, because you're still plaguing us with your willful ignorance.
Also changes nothing. I will continue to advocate for better, safer, less expensive to build and operate, nuclear power plants,
Because you're willfully ignorant. They're non-starters in every way. They're economically infeasible, they produce waste which we cannot safely or economically manage, and when they go wrong, they go very very wrong. Advocate for fusion if you must, but fission plants are as dumb as coal. Advocate for fission if you must, but if you run away from an argument when you encounter a fact, such advocacy will have you run forever.
If you find my arguments troubling, perhaps you should reconsider yours. But running away is a coward's game.
The truth made you foe me? Run away, run away... and cry.
I have paid cash for gasoline my entire life, I have never been offered a discount. Do you have to beg for it or something?
No, but pretty much everywhere I go for fuel has a cash price, and a credit price... both listed on the sign. Try google images for "gas station sign cash credit".
"All we need to reduce population is education. When you educate people, you rapidly head towards zero or even negative pop growth."
Stopped reading right there. Your basic premise is so completely and utterly out of touch with reality and human nature that I almost can't believe someone would say that.
Stopped because you have an aversion to facts, you mean. This is actually what happens. It's actually what's happening, in fact. All the best-educated nations are now concerned about population replacement.
But we will have to build those ponds somewhere. Lots of subsistence farmers aren't doing much with their land besides eating everything they grow. We could move them to favelas and build the ponds on that land.
You put them in the desert, because that's where the insolation is, and the cheap land. And you pump seawater in from the coast using solar thermal (heat pipes) because there are algaes which grow just fine in salt water.