(pipe used to separate the decimal from an elipse representing an arbitrary number of 0s)
"ellipsis", surely? Or in some typology whose conventions I'm unfamiliar with, possibly an ellipse? But surely not an "eclipse"? Or maybe you're trying to indicate that it should be pronounced by any screen reader application with a bit of spittle, an "e-lisp"?
(Sorry, that one often makes me laugh when people select the correct spelling of the wrong word from the spelling checker. So an incorrect spelling is even funnier!)
Agreed and undisputed. (well, not disputed by me, nor anyone I know of who is sane ; but there's always a nutter to dispute anything.
A lot of people (even children) drank small beer (non-alcoholic beer), since it was relatively safe and still hydrated you.
"Small" beer is (was) not non-alcoholic ; it is low-alcohol, but not zero-alcohol, and that's not how the product was defined.
"Small" beer was the beer produced from the third, possibly even fourth, washing of the grain to extract the sugars. Sunce most of the sugars had already been extracted from the grain by the first several washings, little was left for the wort for the "small" beer, but that was still enough to let the yeast do their stuff and produce a "small" amount of alcohol, with it's attendant anti-septic qualities. Of course, many of the health benefits would have come from the use of boiled water to make the beer (also the reason for tea to be relatively popular, I suspect), but the small amount of alcohol would perhaps have given enough antiseptic effect to stop or slow growth of pathogens in the cool drink too.
I wonder what "Old Granny Smith" would have made of our modern penchant for cool, un-fermented fruit juice etc? Probably "don't drink that - you'll die!", or words to that effect.
(This customer uses IE6, and it's screwing up the quote/reply formatting. And I can't update.)
On the one hand it'd be useful. But on the other hand, you'd have more fingernails to trim. And on the gripping hand you could use one hand to hold the finger to trim, and the gripping hand to grip the scissors.
You missed step (1) : drive to the middle of a cluster of government buildings and park (legally) crunching the tyres against the kerb a bit. Get out (on the assumption that you're on camera at this point), get your parking ticket, return to the car to put it on the windshield, notice the crunched tyre, inspect (you're being a cautious driver - is this tyre still safe to drive on?), and THEN notice the wires. Grovel around at the side of the car a bit, then back away slowly reaching for your cell phone...
Some 10 years ago, this idea was the theme of a Star Trek Voyager episode
25 or so years before that in "The Moat in God's Eye" by Niven and Pournelle. But FTFS, the promoter is not actually claiming a patent on the idea, so prior art (literally) is unlikely to be relevant.
True. Unsexy, but true. Oh, sorry, this is Slashdot, where only Chiefs, not Indians, can post, and unglamorous tedious boring legwork is outsourced to India. But that's an un-Slashdot thought. Where's that "delete post" button? I guess that's what "Submit" means, because "Submit" has at least one letter in common with "delete", and the tedium of checking things is obviously below Slashdot's staff.
Showing up to contribute to open source and then being told to write the documentation is rather like volunteering for a wildlife rescue only to be told to clean rocks with paper towels instead.
Is the poster an adult or an adolescent? (Note : the information about being a recent graduate only answers that question in the uninformative legalistic and chronological senses). A couple of months ago, I spent a week volunteering on an archaeological dig. You know - early iron age spears, gold rings, that sort of thing. As a first-time volunteer, I expected to get assigned to tedious, repetitive back-breaking work. And that is exactly what I got. After a couple of days the site manager invited me to work on the more interesting bits of the site (including where he'd just found the bronze ring, and later found the iron spear-head) but I declined because I knew that I needed to learn a lot more about the humble art of trowelling.
By "contribute", I automatically assume "write code" rather than the unwanted task of "go into that foreclosed house and clean out the toilet that exploded."
If you don't clean out the exploded toilet, then it's not going to clean itself out, and it's cleaning is likely to take up the time of someone who could be more productively employed elsewhere in the project. Pass the shovel ; I know where the long gloves are and my tetanus, typhoid and cholera jabs are up to date. (Actually, I need to get the cholera updated in the next few months.)
I take it that you want the job as Virgin Quality Control operator on the next OS project you work on?
Maybe you loose track of time and forget to put some extra quarters in the meter.
Since you're writing in English and talking about a French situation, I'll make a guess that you don't actually know what the bye laws in Nice are. So I'll apply the bye laws of Aberdeen, as being logically equivalent. Your contract with the parking authorities (in Aberdeen) includes a reasonable amount of time (less than ten minutes) for getting change and getting back to the meter to get your replacement ticket. You've broken the contract that you entered into and the penalty clauses apply. Tough on you if you didn't read the contract before you entered into it.
Maybe you don't have change but go to a store and get some for the meter (during that time you are illegally parked).
See previous comment ; that is explicitly covered in my local parking bye laws, and so it's a reasonable guess that the same rules apply in Dundee, Perth, Edinburgh... and all the distinct municipal authorities down to Nice and beyond. Though you'd be well to read the terms and conditions posted on each and every meter before you assume that the rules of one municipal authorities apply to another municipal authorities. (It's also not obvious if you're not local, which municipal authority you're in when you're in conurbations).
Maybe you cant find a parking spot for what fells like miles and you get tired of circling the area 10 times to find one.
You should have taken the bus. If there isn't a bus, you should have been petitioning your local authorities to raise taxes to fund a bus service for the common good. You might have found that it's actually cheaper than building yet another road. But that's communism (not a swear word) and it wouldn't provide for kick-back income from the construction industry.
Its illegal to park next to a fire hydrant or in bus stop even.
Your city ; your rules. Possibly not applicable outside your city or country ; certainly not the thing about fire hydrants. Having said that, the fire service reserve the right to put a hose through a vehicle that's getting in the way and report you for inconsiderate parking (which is a general offence - check your driving education about consideration for other road users).
But living in a big city has shown that this is in many cases the only alternative.
Apart from walking, using a bicycle, using a bus, etc. But you chose your city and you allow it to be maintained this way, so it's fundamentally your fault. Quit whining and if you don't like it, change it.
Near my bank there is little metered parking and the surrounding neighborhood is already clogged.
Then if the bank won't fund bus service from a better-served area, change banks and tell them why. Let them deal with the stress of going bankrupt.
People forget the awful parking situations cities sometimes present people.
I don't forget it - that's why I resisted getting a driving license and a car for as long as possible. My wife, as a learner in her mid-40s, still hasn't learned that, though she's getting the message. Within town, pretty much any journey that takes less than 15 minutes to drive can be walked quicker. So, I leave the car at home and walk, not drive.
Sorry if you cant understand that.
Speak for yourself about not understanding it. I just come to different conclusions about where the blame lies, compared to you. I remember that driving is a privilege, not a right.
FOSS programmers will all receive 72 virgins after they ascent to heaven.
FOSS programmers who learn to check they're spelling the correct word correctly, get 73 virgins, and you get to choose which gender (or genders) they are, because you so obviously pay attention to small details.
here's about 15 million references to check through. There are probably a few duplicates in there. Enjoy.
I googled for "teacher arrested beer facebook photograph" and gave up after a couple of pages of teachers being arrested for possession of kiddy porn, of people being arrested for providing beer to minors after Facebook photographs and that sort of thing. But a teacher being arrested for having a beer themselves... not found, so I'll assume until proven otherwise that it's another of those unfounded internet memes. Not implausible, but unproven. (I don't get paid enough to be serious here either, but I'd need to be paid much more to be frivolous.) Of course, I suppose that it is possible that in some states (... provinces, countries, or regions) it is possible to be a qualified teacher (PGCE or equivalent) and still be under age to drink. But not anywhere I've worked, outside the Gulf States.
I wish databases warned you when you were close to overflowing an index but, as far as I know, they don't.
And how long until some of them do? Well, at least the ones that care about their users, not the commercial ones? Quite how you'd implement it though... you'd have to still be fulfilling requests for new records while you've still got indices to work with. So you'd have to rely on the database back-end including some sort of management console, to which someone is paying attention. Of course, if no-one is paying attention, then you're screwed anyway.
So anyone who sees a strange (unidentified) flying object is on drugs, insane or seeing a weather balloon? Better tell that to the people who saw that failed rocket test in Norway last year.
Nope. If you insert the phrase "and then seriously describe it as an alien spacecraft " between the "object" and the "is", then you're not far from the truth. Anyone can see an aerial object and fail to identify it, or identify it incorrectly. As an amateur astronomer, I've often seen things in the sky which I fail to identify, and some which I mis-identify. But I also know that my failure to identify them does not make them unidentifiable. I used to work with a guy who was a member of the UK Observer Corps ; as such, he was much better trained than I am in identifying planes at funny angles and in weird lighting (that is what the Observer Corps are meant to do). So, when he saw a peculiar flying object that he couldn't identify, then I was mildly interested. So were various UFO whack jobs, and also people into watching 'black projects' planes. A few years later, come GW1 (Gulf War 1) and the public appearance of the "wobbly goblins", my colleague reckoned that that was probably what he saw. Which leaves a mild mystery as to what "wobbly goblins" were doing flying off the UK coast while they were still "black". But that doesn't stop the UFO whack jobs from citing his report as still being a genuine, cow-mutilating, redneck-abducting, anal-probing (why do they never stick their catheters up their victim's urethras, I wonder?) UFO sighting. Given the quality of the company they keep, anyone who I meet who asserts that he's seen unidentified flying objects and that they're evidence of Little Green Men, I suspect of being on drugs, insane, or unable to identify a weather balloon, and probably all three simultaneously.
We've all seen stories where someone got in legal trouble for pictures they posted. Like, a school teacher drinking beer,or a suspect in a case
Wow, what sort of horrible country do you live in? Saudi Arabia? Or Kuwait? Most countries I know, thankfully, don't consider it illegal for a schoolteacher - or anyone else - to drink beer. Please, let us know where you are, so that we can avoid the place.
RTFS. The fire department "didn't respond". That's not "they turned up, parked and stood there laughing" ; it's "they did not respond".
But this is history, not news : many countries had fire departments like that - in the 16th and 17th centuries CE. It led to, amongst other things, the concept of insewerants, where you make a bet on whether or not your house sets on fire in the next year, you put your cash on the table, and then if your home does burn, the FD loses, and comes out to put the fire out ; but if your house doesn't burn, you lose your stake money to the FD.
I know it's a difficult concept ; but the statistics of gambling are well publicised, and this is obviously who lost his $75 bet with the friends, family, pets & kids. Big Fucking Deal.
I did. I think it's been the thick end of a decade since I brought a display that wasn't part of a laptop. It may have been 15 years - and what I brought was about a 1200x1024 CRT. Nope, I can't think of having brought a display since then. I have won a about 1280x1024 display around 4 years ago, and I routinely hook up something similar to a laptop at work to give a second screen when I have to go to the office. But to buy a display? "How quaint", says Scotty.
This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
* Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
[SHAKES HEAD] That has the sound of someone who has copied and pasted from a similar part of the language manual - describing a general purpose arithmetic variable, perhaps - then edited to describe pi. Or someone was being funny on a Friday afternoon. Or someone had just spent a heavy evening with a text book on General Relativity and non-Euclidian geometry, and wasn't willing to bet that space would always remain the shape it was when pi() was last calculated.
Now, wouldn't it be interesting if you were to correctly calculate, for example, the 2^100'th digit of one morning, and repeat the calculation in the evening and find that it had changed... and that it continued to change as time went on. Would that detect the changing geometry of space-time?
They could set up an infrared camera to monitor where the hot spot is,
Thermochromic paint on the pavement.
and have a monitor displaying it, so people could avoid it.
^W^W play "chicken" by walking through the hot spot increasingly slowly, covered in black paint, etc, etc.
I know this is SlashDot, so not understanding basic human nature is to be expected and applauded to a degree, but you're maybe just a little more ignorant of human nature than is good for you.
One of the beautiful things about parabolic reflectors is that regardless of what angle of light you shine at them, the light ALWAYS comes out parallel to the axis of the parabola. Always.
What is this I see in your future? Is it possibly a re-sit of your 16+geometry exam? Or Optics 1.0.2?
Parabolas have some interesting properties, but that's not one of them.
So - where does the Congress assign cryptographic software? Free trade or restricted export? That's the question that matters.
To jump back by several threads, IF and ONLY IF you give a fuck about what laws operate in America. For those of us fortunate enough to not live in America, your question is of academic interest only.
And as the PGP shenanigans amply demonstrated, even if some cryptographic algorithm were developed solely in the USA, and then converted into compilable code there, then there is still nothing to prevent the code being printed out and exported in book form, then converted (by fat-fingers or OCR ; whatever) into back into compilable code out in the free world. That's without any hint of steganography to conceal the fact that you're exporting the algorithm. (Of course, the situation may have been changed since Zimmerman et al took the piss out of the law by exporting PGP, so that legal loophole may no longer exist. But I suspect that it is mathematically impossible to allow any type of communications and to successfully ban the communication of a certain type of idea. A sort of legalistic equivalent of the impossibility of successful DRM.
But rather than owning the whole smartphone market (as they already own the mp3 player market all the way down to the Shuffle), they've decided to focus entirely on the high end.
Apple own the MP3 market? That's interesting news ; did it happen in the couple of weeks while I've been on holiday? Does that mean that if I considered replacing the 4-year-old MP3 player that I haven't quite worn the ink off from, then I've no option but to buy an Apple, or that I must at least consider an Apple MP3 player? Will it have a UI that requires more than 6 microswitches, a couple of LEDs and a small amount of ink?
The predictions used to involve everything bigger than rats keeling over and nothing but the most hardy stuff surviving in the contaminated areas.
Whose predictions, published where and when? I've watched this case with passing interest for most of the last 2 and a half decades, and with more interest in the last half decade since marrying someone who was working on a farm about 100km downwind from the site when the fallout plume started going up (and coming down). I've not seen any credible predictions of everything bigger than a rat keeling over. I have seen doom-mongering that the sky was going to fall and such like shit, but you get that every second new moon anyway, and it's as true next time as it is now. Learn to discriminate between your sources.
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I'm intrigued by where they're going to find the record players. And the stylii.
"ellipsis", surely? Or in some typology whose conventions I'm unfamiliar with, possibly an ellipse? But surely not an "eclipse"? Or maybe you're trying to indicate that it should be pronounced by any screen reader application with a bit of spittle, an "e-lisp"?
(Sorry, that one often makes me laugh when people select the correct spelling of the wrong word from the spelling checker. So an incorrect spelling is even funnier!)
Agreed and undisputed. (well, not disputed by me, nor anyone I know of who is sane ; but there's always a nutter to dispute anything.
"Small" beer is (was) not non-alcoholic ; it is low-alcohol, but not zero-alcohol, and that's not how the product was defined.
"Small" beer was the beer produced from the third, possibly even fourth, washing of the grain to extract the sugars. Sunce most of the sugars had already been extracted from the grain by the first several washings, little was left for the wort for the "small" beer, but that was still enough to let the yeast do their stuff and produce a "small" amount of alcohol, with it's attendant anti-septic qualities. Of course, many of the health benefits would have come from the use of boiled water to make the beer (also the reason for tea to be relatively popular, I suspect), but the small amount of alcohol would perhaps have given enough antiseptic effect to stop or slow growth of pathogens in the cool drink too.
I wonder what "Old Granny Smith" would have made of our modern penchant for cool, un-fermented fruit juice etc? Probably "don't drink that - you'll die!", or words to that effect.
(This customer uses IE6, and it's screwing up the quote/reply formatting. And I can't update.)
On the one hand it'd be useful. But on the other hand, you'd have more fingernails to trim. And on the gripping hand you could use one hand to hold the finger to trim, and the gripping hand to grip the scissors.
You missed step (1) : drive to the middle of a cluster of government buildings and park (legally) crunching the tyres against the kerb a bit. Get out (on the assumption that you're on camera at this point), get your parking ticket, return to the car to put it on the windshield, notice the crunched tyre, inspect (you're being a cautious driver - is this tyre still safe to drive on?), and THEN notice the wires. Grovel around at the side of the car a bit, then back away slowly reaching for your cell phone ...
25 or so years before that in "The Moat in God's Eye" by Niven and Pournelle.
But FTFS, the promoter is not actually claiming a patent on the idea, so prior art (literally) is unlikely to be relevant.
True. Unsexy, but true.
Oh, sorry, this is Slashdot, where only Chiefs, not Indians, can post, and unglamorous tedious boring legwork is outsourced to India. But that's an un-Slashdot thought. Where's that "delete post" button? I guess that's what "Submit" means, because "Submit" has at least one letter in common with "delete", and the tedium of checking things is obviously below Slashdot's staff.
Is the poster an adult or an adolescent? (Note : the information about being a recent graduate only answers that question in the uninformative legalistic and chronological senses).
A couple of months ago, I spent a week volunteering on an archaeological dig. You know - early iron age spears, gold rings, that sort of thing. As a first-time volunteer, I expected to get assigned to tedious, repetitive back-breaking work. And that is exactly what I got. After a couple of days the site manager invited me to work on the more interesting bits of the site (including where he'd just found the bronze ring, and later found the iron spear-head) but I declined because I knew that I needed to learn a lot more about the humble art of trowelling.
If you don't clean out the exploded toilet, then it's not going to clean itself out, and it's cleaning is likely to take up the time of someone who could be more productively employed elsewhere in the project.
Pass the shovel ; I know where the long gloves are and my tetanus, typhoid and cholera jabs are up to date. (Actually, I need to get the cholera updated in the next few months.)
I take it that you want the job as Virgin Quality Control operator on the next OS project you work on?
Since you're writing in English and talking about a French situation, I'll make a guess that you don't actually know what the bye laws in Nice are. So I'll apply the bye laws of Aberdeen, as being logically equivalent. Your contract with the parking authorities (in Aberdeen) includes a reasonable amount of time (less than ten minutes) for getting change and getting back to the meter to get your replacement ticket. You've broken the contract that you entered into and the penalty clauses apply. Tough on you if you didn't read the contract before you entered into it.
See previous comment ; that is explicitly covered in my local parking bye laws, and so it's a reasonable guess that the same rules apply in Dundee, Perth, Edinburgh ... and all the distinct municipal authorities down to Nice and beyond. Though you'd be well to read the terms and conditions posted on each and every meter before you assume that the rules of one municipal authorities apply to another municipal authorities. (It's also not obvious if you're not local, which municipal authority you're in when you're in conurbations).
You should have taken the bus. If there isn't a bus, you should have been petitioning your local authorities to raise taxes to fund a bus service for the common good. You might have found that it's actually cheaper than building yet another road. But that's communism (not a swear word) and it wouldn't provide for kick-back income from the construction industry.
Your city ; your rules. Possibly not applicable outside your city or country ; certainly not the thing about fire hydrants. Having said that, the fire service reserve the right to put a hose through a vehicle that's getting in the way and report you for inconsiderate parking (which is a general offence - check your driving education about consideration for other road users).
Apart from walking, using a bicycle, using a bus, etc. But you chose your city and you allow it to be maintained this way, so it's fundamentally your fault. Quit whining and if you don't like it, change it.
Then if the bank won't fund bus service from a better-served area, change banks and tell them why. Let them deal with the stress of going bankrupt.
I don't forget it - that's why I resisted getting a driving license and a car for as long as possible. My wife, as a learner in her mid-40s, still hasn't learned that, though she's getting the message. Within town, pretty much any journey that takes less than 15 minutes to drive can be walked quicker. So, I leave the car at home and walk, not drive.
Speak for yourself about not understanding it. I just come to different conclusions about where the blame lies, compared to you. I remember that driving is a privilege, not a right.
FOSS programmers who learn to check they're spelling the correct word correctly, get 73 virgins, and you get to choose which gender (or genders) they are, because you so obviously pay attention to small details.
I googled for "teacher arrested beer facebook photograph" and gave up after a couple of pages of teachers being arrested for possession of kiddy porn, of people being arrested for providing beer to minors after Facebook photographs and that sort of thing. But a teacher being arrested for having a beer themselves ... not found, so I'll assume until proven otherwise that it's another of those unfounded internet memes. Not implausible, but unproven. (I don't get paid enough to be serious here either, but I'd need to be paid much more to be frivolous.)
Of course, I suppose that it is possible that in some states (... provinces, countries, or regions) it is possible to be a qualified teacher (PGCE or equivalent) and still be under age to drink. But not anywhere I've worked, outside the Gulf States.
Nope. If you insert the phrase "and then seriously describe it as an alien spacecraft " between the "object" and the "is", then you're not far from the truth.
Anyone can see an aerial object and fail to identify it, or identify it incorrectly. As an amateur astronomer, I've often seen things in the sky which I fail to identify, and some which I mis-identify. But I also know that my failure to identify them does not make them unidentifiable.
I used to work with a guy who was a member of the UK Observer Corps ; as such, he was much better trained than I am in identifying planes at funny angles and in weird lighting (that is what the Observer Corps are meant to do). So, when he saw a peculiar flying object that he couldn't identify, then I was mildly interested. So were various UFO whack jobs, and also people into watching 'black projects' planes. A few years later, come GW1 (Gulf War 1) and the public appearance of the "wobbly goblins", my colleague reckoned that that was probably what he saw. Which leaves a mild mystery as to what "wobbly goblins" were doing flying off the UK coast while they were still "black". But that doesn't stop the UFO whack jobs from citing his report as still being a genuine, cow-mutilating, redneck-abducting, anal-probing (why do they never stick their catheters up their victim's urethras, I wonder?) UFO sighting.
Given the quality of the company they keep, anyone who I meet who asserts that he's seen unidentified flying objects and that they're evidence of Little Green Men, I suspect of being on drugs, insane, or unable to identify a weather balloon, and probably all three simultaneously.
Wow, what sort of horrible country do you live in? Saudi Arabia? Or Kuwait? Most countries I know, thankfully, don't consider it illegal for a schoolteacher - or anyone else - to drink beer. Please, let us know where you are, so that we can avoid the place.
RTFS.
The fire department "didn't respond".
That's not "they turned up, parked and stood there laughing" ; it's "they did not respond".
But this is history, not news : many countries had fire departments like that - in the 16th and 17th centuries CE. It led to, amongst other things, the concept of insewerants, where you make a bet on whether or not your house sets on fire in the next year, you put your cash on the table, and then if your home does burn, the FD loses, and comes out to put the fire out ; but if your house doesn't burn, you lose your stake money to the FD.
I know it's a difficult concept ; but the statistics of gambling are well publicised, and this is obviously who lost his $75 bet with the friends, family, pets & kids.
Big Fucking Deal.
I did. I think it's been the thick end of a decade since I brought a display that wasn't part of a laptop. It may have been 15 years - and what I brought was about a 1200x1024 CRT.
Nope, I can't think of having brought a display since then. I have won a about 1280x1024 display around 4 years ago, and I routinely hook up something similar to a laptop at work to give a second screen when I have to go to the office. But to buy a display? "How quaint", says Scotty.
Don't forget to use fake plates on the car.
[SHAKES HEAD]
That has the sound of someone who has copied and pasted from a similar part of the language manual - describing a general purpose arithmetic variable, perhaps - then edited to describe pi. Or someone was being funny on a Friday afternoon. Or someone had just spent a heavy evening with a text book on General Relativity and non-Euclidian geometry, and wasn't willing to bet that space would always remain the shape it was when pi() was last calculated.
Now, wouldn't it be interesting if you were to correctly calculate, for example, the 2^100'th digit of one morning, and repeat the calculation in the evening and find that it had changed ... and that it continued to change as time went on. Would that detect the changing geometry of space-time?
I'm not sure whether to mod you "Insightful", "Funny", "Clueless" or some mix of the lot with a garnish of Troll.
Ah, the litmus test - where was Fortran designed, and what did they want to change the value of pi() to?
Thermochromic paint on the pavement.
^W^W play "chicken" by walking through the hot spot increasingly slowly, covered in black paint, etc, etc.
I know this is SlashDot, so not understanding basic human nature is to be expected and applauded to a degree, but you're maybe just a little more ignorant of human nature than is good for you.
What is this I see in your future? Is it possibly a re-sit of your 16+geometry exam? Or Optics 1.0.2?
Parabolas have some interesting properties, but that's not one of them.
To jump back by several threads, IF and ONLY IF you give a fuck about what laws operate in America.
For those of us fortunate enough to not live in America, your question is of academic interest only.
And as the PGP shenanigans amply demonstrated, even if some cryptographic algorithm were developed solely in the USA, and then converted into compilable code there, then there is still nothing to prevent the code being printed out and exported in book form, then converted (by fat-fingers or OCR ; whatever) into back into compilable code out in the free world. That's without any hint of steganography to conceal the fact that you're exporting the algorithm. (Of course, the situation may have been changed since Zimmerman et al took the piss out of the law by exporting PGP, so that legal loophole may no longer exist. But I suspect that it is mathematically impossible to allow any type of communications and to successfully ban the communication of a certain type of idea. A sort of legalistic equivalent of the impossibility of successful DRM.
Apple own the MP3 market? That's interesting news ; did it happen in the couple of weeks while I've been on holiday? Does that mean that if I considered replacing the 4-year-old MP3 player that I haven't quite worn the ink off from, then I've no option but to buy an Apple, or that I must at least consider an Apple MP3 player? Will it have a UI that requires more than 6 microswitches, a couple of LEDs and a small amount of ink?
Whose predictions, published where and when? I've watched this case with passing interest for most of the last 2 and a half decades, and with more interest in the last half decade since marrying someone who was working on a farm about 100km downwind from the site when the fallout plume started going up (and coming down). I've not seen any credible predictions of everything bigger than a rat keeling over. I have seen doom-mongering that the sky was going to fall and such like shit, but you get that every second new moon anyway, and it's as true next time as it is now.
Learn to discriminate between your sources.
The willingness to be used for snu-snu marks you as being genetically unfit for being used for snu-snu.
"That's some catch, Doc."
"Catch-23. It's the best we've got."
(or words to that effect)