Would a nearby supernova that happened to sterilize Earth be evil?
Depends on whether your definition of "evil" requires malicious intent or is just anything that turns out really badly for you. A natural supernova would be extremely unfortunate. Aliens causing the supernova to wipe out competition would be evil.
What good is it to be director of the agency if he couldn't streamline their processes? Don't like frivilous reports? Give bad performance reviews to people who write them. Don't like meetings? Remove all the chairs from meeting rooms. Etc.
..because despite catering to psuedoscientists, Whole Foods tends to stock quality (if overpriced) food.
Overpriced, I'll agree with, but quality? Almost all the fresh produce has "conventially grown in Mexico" in very small print under the high price. The majority of the organic food there is in the packaged and preserved sections.
This is a common misconception; reporters are free to report anything, but must face consequences if they choose to report state secrets and that includes who gave the reporter state secrets. Lately the whole question of what makes up a legit state secret comes into play and that's become a rather serious issue. But the reporters and their sources are not like Catholic confessional.
Wait a minute, they're complaining that press freedom has dropped because of Manning and Snowden? Who exactly doesn't know about that because as far as I can tell the press ran wild with it. Seems press freedom worked rather well to uncover quite a lot.
Because modern society isn't Balkanized enough along racial lines, we desperately need these gender classifications to further assign people into labelled groups.
If you can convert energy to matter and have a near limitless source of energy, where's your limitation?
Creating the energy in the first place is the limitation. Where do they get all that anti-matter? And while exploding anit-matter against matter releases a lot of energy,even if the energy to matter conversion process were lossless it would take whopping piles of it to make any noticable amount of matter.Create 5 pounds anti-matter by unknown process, convert it to heck a lot of energy, converted to 5 pounds normal matter seems like a lot of hoops to jump through.
Because the military finds out some company is launching a satelite that can take pictures at a certain resolution and simply contracts to exclusively access that. It's a great money maker for Google or anyone else who can launch one.
It's incorrect all right, but not for the reasons you mentioned. If a software developer sees the problem with the proverbial bricks at the bottom and wants to fix them, the manager will say there is no time for that right now and get to on with the project plan.
My in-laws from China are always wanting to pick mushrooms out of the yard to eat. It's amazing what living through the Cultural Revolution will do to make you save every penny and eat anything you can find not nailed down.
Are they deleting facts they don't like or opinions they don't like? Editorializing can be subtle, for people who know what to look for. Or it can be in your face if you aren't so clueless as to be able to see it.
There's no arbitrage involved at all. Arbitrage involves different prices for the same thing. In the summary's own example, a cross-city trip is the same price whether from east to west or west to east. This story is about cheating the system into thinking you are only travelling a few stops instead how far you really went. That's completely different from arbitrage.
It's not that hard: 0 degrees C = water freezes 100 degrees C = water boils We "encounter" these temperatures all the time, and they can be reproduced easily in your own kitchen with very good accuracy compared to the subjective "really cold" or "really hot" of the F scale.
Not in my kitchen, they can't. Water here boils at 94C. So much for your sea level bias. What boiling water has to do with the weather report, I'll never figure out but Celcius fans trot that out every time..
You just have to drop the phone from higher than 3 feet
Huh? When the mugger confronts you, scream in panic and throw up your hands, "accidentally" tossing your cell into the air? That's likely to get you shot by said mugger, whom you've just startled.
Terrorists use phones as detonators -- therefore since we have classified security intelligence (that we can't share with you) detailing the possibility of "phone-bomb related program activities" in your area, we are killing all cell phones in the greater San Francisco area...
The clever terrorist then wires the detonation to receipt of the kill signal.
No, those said miscellaneous items made by HP when they were started in 1939 did not acually include a line of 16 bit microcomputers. World War II code breaking would have been radically different.
A better comparison is the beginning HP with the PC maker HP. Like a prior comment about IBM; they're still in business, just not making PCs any more. HP made audio oscillators, thermometers, and other miscellaney items for a long time before they made PCs. So perhaps it isn't a good comparison to say they were a computer company founded at the beginning of the PC era along with Apple.
Why exactly do you need to use google search to look for gmail when you're already logged in? Hundreds of people are doing that per hour, wtf? Hello? Address bar?
The Starbuck's app requirement list clearly indicates all kinds of terrible behavio including it needs to be able to make calls and read your contacts list. There may be more, but after those two I stopped reading and declined to install. A vendor's app has no need to do these things. I figured if they're already that bad, there's no telling what mischief their app might get up to.
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Would a nearby supernova that happened to sterilize Earth be evil?
Depends on whether your definition of "evil" requires malicious intent or is just anything that turns out really badly for you. A natural supernova would be extremely unfortunate. Aliens causing the supernova to wipe out competition would be evil.
What good is it to be director of the agency if he couldn't streamline their processes? Don't like frivilous reports? Give bad performance reviews to people who write them. Don't like meetings? Remove all the chairs from meeting rooms. Etc.
..because despite catering to psuedoscientists, Whole Foods tends to stock quality (if overpriced) food.
Overpriced, I'll agree with, but quality? Almost all the fresh produce has "conventially grown in Mexico" in very small print under the high price. The majority of the organic food there is in the packaged and preserved sections.
This is a common misconception; reporters are free to report anything, but must face consequences if they choose to report state secrets and that includes who gave the reporter state secrets. Lately the whole question of what makes up a legit state secret comes into play and that's become a rather serious issue. But the reporters and their sources are not like Catholic confessional.
Wait a minute, they're complaining that press freedom has dropped because of Manning and Snowden? Who exactly doesn't know about that because as far as I can tell the press ran wild with it. Seems press freedom worked rather well to uncover quite a lot.
Because modern society isn't Balkanized enough along racial lines, we desperately need these gender classifications to further assign people into labelled groups.
Not much room for lots of admirals and diplomats at the top.
Are you kidding? It seems every episode that needs an admiral has a different one. Star Fleet always seemed remarkably top heavy.
If you can convert energy to matter and have a near limitless source of energy, where's your limitation?
Creating the energy in the first place is the limitation. Where do they get all that anti-matter? And while exploding anit-matter against matter releases a lot of energy,even if the energy to matter conversion process were lossless it would take whopping piles of it to make any noticable amount of matter.Create 5 pounds anti-matter by unknown process, convert it to heck a lot of energy, converted to 5 pounds normal matter seems like a lot of hoops to jump through.
You misconverted centimeters?
Because the military finds out some company is launching a satelite that can take pictures at a certain resolution and simply contracts to exclusively access that. It's a great money maker for Google or anyone else who can launch one.
The analogy is incorrect.
It's incorrect all right, but not for the reasons you mentioned. If a software developer sees the problem with the proverbial bricks at the bottom and wants to fix them, the manager will say there is no time for that right now and get to on with the project plan.
My in-laws from China are always wanting to pick mushrooms out of the yard to eat. It's amazing what living through the Cultural Revolution will do to make you save every penny and eat anything you can find not nailed down.
Are they deleting facts they don't like or opinions they don't like? Editorializing can be subtle, for people who know what to look for. Or it can be in your face if you aren't so clueless as to be able to see it.
There's no arbitrage involved at all. Arbitrage involves different prices for the same thing. In the summary's own example, a cross-city trip is the same price whether from east to west or west to east. This story is about cheating the system into thinking you are only travelling a few stops instead how far you really went. That's completely different from arbitrage.
It's not that hard:
0 degrees C = water freezes
100 degrees C = water boils
We "encounter" these temperatures all the time, and they can be reproduced easily in your own kitchen with very good accuracy compared to the subjective "really cold" or "really hot" of the F scale.
Not in my kitchen, they can't. Water here boils at 94C. So much for your sea level bias.
What boiling water has to do with the weather report, I'll never figure out but Celcius fans trot that out every time..
You just have to drop the phone from higher than 3 feet
Huh? When the mugger confronts you, scream in panic and throw up your hands, "accidentally" tossing your cell into the air? That's likely to get you shot by said mugger, whom you've just startled.
Terrorists use phones as detonators -- therefore since we have classified security intelligence (that we can't share with you) detailing the possibility of "phone-bomb related program activities" in your area, we are killing all cell phones in the greater San Francisco area...
The clever terrorist then wires the detonation to receipt of the kill signal.
Gitmo is not in Canada. Canadian laws mean jack squat their.
Isn't the whole point of the Gitmo prison that it isn't in the US either? It's in Cuba - the US just leases it.
So don't use your high-beams, just quickly turn the low beams on and off.
Everyone whose car has daytime running lights is out of luck.
A lot of big trucks run on gasoline instead of diesel.
No, those said miscellaneous items made by HP when they were started in 1939 did not acually include a line of 16 bit microcomputers. World War II code breaking would have been radically different.
A better comparison is the beginning HP with the PC maker HP. Like a prior comment about IBM; they're still in business, just not making PCs any more. HP made audio oscillators, thermometers, and other miscellaney items for a long time before they made PCs. So perhaps it isn't a good comparison to say they were a computer company founded at the beginning of the PC era along with Apple.
Why exactly do you need to use google search to look for gmail when you're already logged in? Hundreds of people are doing that per hour, wtf? Hello? Address bar?
Jesus didn't kill anybody, so stop commenting on religious matters when your religion is atheism.
Apparently the gp accepts the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Would you care to issue a retraction?
The Starbuck's app requirement list clearly indicates all kinds of terrible behavio including it needs to be able to make calls and read your contacts list. There may be more, but after those two I stopped reading and declined to install. A vendor's app has no need to do these things. I figured if they're already that bad, there's no telling what mischief their app might get up to.