What's the point of having a women's sports league if someone who was born a man can transition and then demand inclusion? The whole point was to feature (and serve) women, not men-who-chose-to-become-women. Forcing women's sporting leagues to permit trans women is like forcing a women's gym to permit men. It defeats the whole purpose.
The majority of your post is insightful, educated, sensitive, and accurate. This part - I've recently learned - isn't accurate though you're trying to be fair.
Disclosure: my source is last week's Jim Jefferies Show. Though the show is comedic in nature and leans towards Trump-bashing, Jim does tend to present interesting and informed arguments. And this is a case where I absolutely was wrong until educated. The argument was presented in an informative manner, convincing enough to change my mind.
Turns out that gender reassignment (surgery and hormone therapy) does a number on a body. As in, born-male athletes who go through gender reassignment end up physically able to perform in the general range of born-female athletes. As in, they lose their "male edge". Similarly, born-female athletes who go through gender reassignment tend to end up in the general range of born-male athletes. Obviously individual bodies vary, just as they do in birth-gendered competitors, but the interesting - and absolutely not obvious - thing is that the consequences of gender reassignment are so vast that the overall athletic performance capacity usually changes to the post-reassignment gender.
Point is that after reassignment treatment is completed, an athlete should be competing with their post-treatment gender.
If they do this, I promise never ever to buy anything from Pepsi corporation again.
Not just polluting the view for everyone in the planet, they would also add more of pointless pace junk which can break useful satellites and therefore harm navigation, communication and scientific research.
I would join you in the boycott... if I bought anything from Pepsi in the first place.
Well, you see, that just means you haven't been sufficiently advertised to. Clearly you've demonstrated the need for orbital billboards.
No Classic Theme Restorer. Or Download Statusbar. Or a status bar that will let me run things from it.
Download Manager S3 works fine and is mostly function-equivalent. CTR is more of an issue but I've been able to arrange enough of the UI to be content.
I my humble opinion, there is a difference between being a traitor to a country and being a traitor to a country's military chain of command. The word of law may disagree, but the word of a law may be incorrect, unjust, misguided, out-of-date or otherwise inappropriate, and a civilized and free nation should react appropriately to correct any such flaws if they are democratically determined to exist.
Yeah, lots of "if" statements, but boiling Manning's case down to "she's a traitor" because the law says so disregards an awful lot of nuance to the circumstance.
There is a difference between paying more money for the same thing and paying more money for less. Netflix loses content each time their licensing deals expire. Soon you will be paying for their originals and not much else.
I'm okay with that. I don't accept eighteen subscriptions to eighteen different streaming services. So I pay the price asked by the one place where it was "all" at; Netflix. Everyone who pulls their content from there has failed to retain me as a customer. If they had negotiated a deal with Netflix such that the overall price had to go up somewhat... fine. If they negotiated a system where I had to pay for what I consume, again fine.
I liken my opinion on this not unlike groceries. I am not interested in going to the bread store in addition to the egg store, or the Kellog's store in addition to the Kraft store. I'm going to one store, and if your products aren't there, I'm not buying them. I leave it as an exercise to the class to determine what torrential downpour of solutions might cross my mind at that point.
It's been said for some time that the quality of the product - along with its distribution - is the driving factor for certain... activities. In my anecdote, it's true. I'd be okay with a $100/mo Netflix bill if all the other clowns would resume their licensing rights.
You can argue about the plate technology, but the obvious big issue here is that the police help unarmed suspects at gunpoint. We have a severe police hiring, training, and discipline problem.
If you pulled over a reported stolen car, what would you do?
I would start by observing that the driver of the car pulled over when instructed to, and didn't try to run. I would take that - the only evidence I had at the moment - as baseline indication of peaceful compliance... because it is. Due to that, I would approach the car and gesture for the window to be rolled down if it wasn't already. My partner - if any - would be prepared to act if violence started. Once the window was rolled down, I would attempt to assess the situation by immediately stating the reason for the pull-over, without obfuscation or escalation, and ask that the engine be shut off. No games with "do you know why I pulled you over", and certainly no fishing for any other crimes. By volunteering the cause for the pull-over calmly, I would gain a decent assessment of the driver's reaction. If a mistake was being made, or anyone unaware of the car's status as stolen was driving, I'd accept the claim of innocence and indicate I would need evidence, in the form of the driver's ID, and any paperwork such as ownership or rental agreement. THAT is the moment that I would again volunteer that the driver should move slowly and clearly in order to not escalate the situation, that I would give them the opportunity to obtain their papers, but that any questionable actions could result in harm. I would - get this - ready myself to MOVE THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY if a gun is drawn. Because someone seatbelted into a driver's seat has very limited movement and stands basically no real chance to shoot me before I could get to cover. Go from there, either by reading the paperwork or disabling the vehicle/calling for backup as appropriate.
This isn't rocket science and police - no matter how highly I regard them - aren't entitled to perfect safety at the cost of avoidable accidental civilian deaths.
"Obviously a troll" because they're tired of unoriginal content? That would make me a troll as well. Or maybe they're "obviously a troll" because they don't like the shows you like?
No, mostly "obviously a troll" because "and nothing of value was lost". That's incredibly dismissive and inflammatory. To assert that those shows had zero value knowing full well that a lot of people like them... that's classic trolling. And the anonymous coward checksum bit and that's what you've got.
Sure, the Netflix shows were great but they were still contributing to many people's overall comic book fatigue. I watched the fist season of Daredevil, thought it was really good and never watched another episode because I just can't get excited about more comic book remakes. I never dove into the second season when it came out because I'm really just generally tired of comic book movies and shows.
That's fine and I won't fault you for it, though I'd have to say that I quite liked both the seasons you missed and at that at the very least you're missing out of two of the most amazing fight choreography scenes on television. But again, to those of us that haven't touched a comic book in our lives, the idea that nothing of value has been lost with these cancellations is simply offensive.
Then there's the general frustration over the lack of original content from Hollywood that even IPs used well fuels. Many people liked it when Hollywood took risks and didn't entirely lean on the crutch of sequels, remakes, and financial proven IPs from other mediums.
I'm pretty sure that this is just a common wisdom that is false. The raw number of movies being made each year has increased dramatically and as a result yes, there are far more remakes and sequels in a raw numerical fashion, but in a percentage I don't think it's significantly moved. Unfortunately I can't produce a citation.
Jessica Jones season 1 was some of the best TV in years. A genuinely compelling and fresh antagonist really made it.
Agreed. Season 2 unfortunately couldn't compare though I stuck it through because it wasn't bad. With the ending I have some hopes for season 3, especially to see what they do with Trish.
Stop paying to license terrible IP and write something. CGI and bad-dialogue an original plot, rehashing Marvel shit over and over is OVER!
You're obviously a troll, but there's something to be learned here. There was great value with the Netfix Marvel shows for people who aren't comic book devotees.
For us, those shows have been fresh, (mostly) well-done, and most importantly entertaining. They're not the over-the-top comic book material like the movies. They're just accessible, interesting shows about extraordinary people.
I for one would have gladly watched another season or two of "that show with the blind lawyer struggling to reconcile his sense of duty and his sense of morality", or even another season of "that rich guy who was raised by monks and had to learn how to interact with Western adult culture while being a martial arts deity's avatar".
Not only are we using the same engines, we are sharing the same user interfaces.
What interface? The modern UI design ethic is "hide the user interface" coupled with "never use words when you can use icons that don't convey what they do unless the user already knows." Saves effort on regional translation, I suppose.
Basically, scientists who know VERY WELL that they only UNDERSTAND PART OF FUNCTIONING THE UNIVERSE and HAVE NO IDEA WHATSOEVER WHERE OUR UNIVERSE CAME FROM are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that there can be no such thing as God.
That's statement's not only full of unnecessary shouting, it's ignorant.
You're right. And evidently I missed quoting a block; that was the person I was replying to, not me.
You should zip up your pants; your agenda is showing.
What is interesting about science it that science - at least today - KNOWS very well that there is A LOT that we have yet to explain fully or discover. Science KNOWS that we humans, basically, know only how SOME of how the universe we live in functions. And yet many scientists are SO CERTAIN that there is no God, or any kind sentient intelligence that created or designed the vast universe that we are a tiny part of.
Your language is sloppy, and it suggests your analysis may be as well. Yes, science accepts that it is not yet "complete". There are explanations for a few observed phenomenon that are not yet incorporated into the existing body of scientific understanding. Introduction of a God or multiple Gods into the discussion is pretty much irrelevant to the "completeness" of scientific understanding. Why? Because statistics. So far, zero of observed phenomenon that have been explained have required the involvement of a God or multiple gods. Zero. None. Nada. Zilch. Bupkiss.
More, the obscurity of the few observed phenomenon that have not yet been incorporated into scientific understanding continues to become increasingly massive. Invocation of God or Gods used to be required to "explain" such trivial experiences as fire, disease, earthquakes, lights in the sky, and pregnancy. Now we understand these things, to such a degree that God or Gods are no longer required for any of them. We now live in a time where "don't share needles" is all the wisdom required, and "go ahead and share needles with another junkie but you'll be fine as long as you pray" is laughable. It's comedic. Even among the religious community, reliance on scientific understanding is widespread enough that they would view someone who just prays they don't contract AIDS from unprotected sex with a carrier as delusional.
To recap, the utter and total lack of requirement for God or Gods in 100% of what we know - which is vast - makes the lack of belief in God quite understandable. And mostly, sensible.
This is not just contradictory, but downright dangerous.
You're going to have to demonstrate that. There's no contradiction. At all. "I don't know everything, but nothing I do know - which is virtually the entire scope of my observed experience - even remotely suggests there is a God or Gods, so I suspect there is no such entity or entities." Not contradictory. Or dangerous.
Basically, scientists who know VERY WELL that they only UNDERSTAND PART OF FUNCTIONING THE UNIVERSE and HAVE NO IDEA WHATSOEVER WHERE OUR UNIVERSE CAME FROM are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that there can be no such thing as God.
Oh. You don't understand atheists or scientists. Let me help. First, yes, atheists believe there are no Gods. But... were there evidence or - Heaven forbid - proof of the existence of such, they'd be willing to accept they had been mistaken. Second, scientists are even more willing to accept change. That's how science works. If a theory or working model of a situation is tested and demonstrated by further data to be false, the theory or working model is either invalidated or updated to incorporate the new data. Neither atheists nor scientists are - as a rule - certain they are right. The believe, according to the evidence at hand, that they are. But certainty is not part of their worldview.
WTF? That's about as logical as saying "I have never actually physically travelled to Ethiopia, but I know everything everything there is to know about Ethiopa nevertheless."
False. It's exactly as logical as saying "to date virtually everything humanity has observed has had a non-deity explanation and every day more of the incredibly obscure observations we haven't explained are explained, and continue to have non-deity explanations, so the unanimous body of evidence predicts the non-existence of deities."
So Window Update doesn't check the size of the update and make sure there is enough space before downloading and installing it, so instead of fixing Windows Update we will just reserve 7G
To be fair, this does make sense.
Just because there are 7G+ of free space at the start of an upgrade process doesn't mean that the user isn't busy copying/moving large files around, or otherwise changing the amount of disk space available. OS installs - which these are - should be reliable above all other considerations.
Also, the fine article makes it clear that the reserved space is in fact used by the OS for temporary files and other ephemeral content, so the space isn't actually lost.
If an OS stops booting because of a web browser then you know it's built on shit coding practices.
To be fair, we don't know what went wrong. As in, it's entirely possible that the patch itself was built incorrectly and includes files required for the operating system, incorrectly.
Also, someone down-stream indicated that MS' report indicates it involves SecureBoot, which I believe signs some things. It's possible an IE file was signed as required-to-never-change and just did, or something similar. I'm not fluent with SecureBoot, but my point is that folks are jumping to conclusions that aren't (yet) merited, dumb as the outcome is.
So if you have a locked screen and the keyboard stops functioning, plugging a new one in the USB port will not work?
The parent to your comment specifically said "mass storage", which human interface devices are not. The summary also refers to not being able to read or execute code while locked and USB inserted, which sounds similar... since key-presses/mouse-clicks aren't code.
I suspect someone smarter than both you and I thought about this before implementing it.
As someone who now works in health care (not the UK), I can say that this is dumb. Fax machines are actually very convenient since most documents are still filled at least partially by hand.
Washing your hands frequently is also inconvenient,but best serves your patients.
In an age of enlightenment with regards to patient privacy and accountability, fax just doesn't have the ability to do the job right. Adequately, yes, I grant. But all of the processes you name could benefit from modernization.
I've never understood this. Why do EV proponents claim that EVs are so much quieter? Yes, they don't make engine noise, but they do make a very distinct buzz when the accelerate. But in all but the most obnoxious cars that are trying to be loud, the bulk of the noise isn't engine noise. It's tire noise. Seriously, walk down a lane of traffic and actually listen to the noise. You'll hear a slight undertone of engine, but you have to search for it. And where I live, we've got quite a few Teslas. They make just as much tire noise as every other car. And that noise starts coming at really low speeds. Even in parking lots, unless it's some big effing diesel truck, I hear the tires, not the engine. Most modern sedans aren't very loud.
The issue is this... you're walking through a parking lot to find your car. You're walking past car after car after car. Then one of them suddenly backs out of its spot into you, or at the least into your path. You didn't hear its engine start as a clear and obvious signal that it might be about to move, because it doesn't have an engine.
Back-up sensors and cross-path sensors and several cameras may assist with this, but the sound of an engine signaling "this death-dealing device is ON" was a very useful attention-getter for pedestrians.
The discussion about making sound isn't about cars that are obviously already in motion.
So you never learned how to use the Start menu in Win8/Win10. Got it. Works just fine for me, but I learned how to use it to the fullest.
Bullshit. Press the Windows button, then type "cmd". Don't be slow about it. Type it like you know what you're doing. Doesn't always find it. Try the same search for "Windows Update". Doesn't always find it. Repeat with pretty much anything that's installed on your computer. Doesn't always find it.
Sure, it'll search the web to make suggestions, but actual programs that are local, on the actual "Start Menu"... not consistently.
Again, sure, if you. Type. It. Slow. Ly. Be. Cause. You. Do. N't. Know. Wha. T. You. 're. Do. Ing. It. Works.
Screw off, system-wide search. Screw off, Cortana. I'll just keep a command prompt open at all times and memorize all the MMCs, CPLs. Hell, with tab-completion I can get into c:\progra~1\micros~1\office ##\winword.exe faster than it can be searched on the Start Menu.
You understand that they did this on Star Trek, right? You could ask the computer the location of any other crew member, and it would tell you. So this is OK.
You may mean this sarcastically, but I think it's potentially insightful.
Back when ST:TNG came out there was a lot of this sort of thing, but it never felt creepy Maybe it's because the only people who ever were shown asking the ship's computer for things like that were doing so for legitimate purposes or were high-ranking bridge crew. In real life, it's massive corporations doing it for profit and advertising, where advertising is a code-word for "influencing people to spend money they wouldn't otherwise."
Get on my level. It might not even have been a real art sale.
The whole thing could be staged to hype some machine learning start-up.
Amateur. Obviously the whole thing was staged, but you're missing the obvious that the hoax was done by an AI as a test to figure out if it's safe (and profitable) to come out of hiding yet. Datacenter bills don't pay themselves, you know?
Working two jobs is definitely not making me rich.
From your description, you're not working two jobs. You have a job, and you have a hobby that pays its own expenses. That's totally legit, and a choice, and it's great that you get to do that.
Why do people allways react to increeses inspeed wirh oh great now I can plo mi daya cap in an even shortrer time? If the data cap is the problem and you need moredat, well sadlyyou have to pay up, but theocations you realyneed a rather large data transfer (lover then your cap) done quickly for whatever reason, won’t the exstra speed be appreeciated?
However I acgree complitly with the undelyibg problem here, datacaps on hone broadband, fortunaty thet pratice never got started here in Norway, but I syperhise with people having to deal with that crap).
Just for fun, I passed your comment through Google Translate, from (presumably) English to Hungarian, to Polish, then back to English, to see if it makes more sense. I think it kind of does...
Why do people react to the giant's whirlpool? If the data connection is a problem and you need it anymore, you have to pay it unfortunately, but really big enough data transfer (your lover, hat) is done quickly for any reason, do not you express speed?
However, I completely solve the problem of failures, data packages in magnetic broadband networks, fortunately, never started in practice in Norway, but I fall into the hands of people who deal with this shit).
I'm Canadian, and I can assure you that our "socialised" system is:
Damn expensive (50% of budget in Quebec)
Inefficient (people waiting 26 hours in an emergency room for a fractured arm)
Inefficient (people waiting 2 years for some basic surgeries)
Inefficient (people waiting 1 year for an MRI)
So please, don't say our system is better than in the US. People are not dying in the streets up here, but when you have a condition, you better be patient. A patient patient.
I'm a Canadian too, and the circumstances you've cited are worst-case and relatively uncommon. Non-critical illnesses are at a lower priority than critical ones, but people get the care they need, regardless of the depth of their pockets. So yes, our system is better, in most ways.
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What's the point of having a women's sports league if someone who was born a man can transition and then demand inclusion? The whole point was to feature (and serve) women, not men-who-chose-to-become-women. Forcing women's sporting leagues to permit trans women is like forcing a women's gym to permit men. It defeats the whole purpose.
The majority of your post is insightful, educated, sensitive, and accurate. This part - I've recently learned - isn't accurate though you're trying to be fair.
Disclosure: my source is last week's Jim Jefferies Show. Though the show is comedic in nature and leans towards Trump-bashing, Jim does tend to present interesting and informed arguments. And this is a case where I absolutely was wrong until educated. The argument was presented in an informative manner, convincing enough to change my mind.
Turns out that gender reassignment (surgery and hormone therapy) does a number on a body. As in, born-male athletes who go through gender reassignment end up physically able to perform in the general range of born-female athletes. As in, they lose their "male edge". Similarly, born-female athletes who go through gender reassignment tend to end up in the general range of born-male athletes. Obviously individual bodies vary, just as they do in birth-gendered competitors, but the interesting - and absolutely not obvious - thing is that the consequences of gender reassignment are so vast that the overall athletic performance capacity usually changes to the post-reassignment gender.
Point is that after reassignment treatment is completed, an athlete should be competing with their post-treatment gender.
If they do this, I promise never ever to buy anything from Pepsi corporation again.
Not just polluting the view for everyone in the planet, they would also add more of pointless pace junk which can break useful satellites and therefore harm navigation, communication and scientific research.
I would join you in the boycott... if I bought anything from Pepsi in the first place.
Well, you see, that just means you haven't been sufficiently advertised to. Clearly you've demonstrated the need for orbital billboards.
No Classic Theme Restorer. Or Download Statusbar. Or a status bar that will let me run things from it.
Download Manager S3 works fine and is mostly function-equivalent. CTR is more of an issue but I've been able to arrange enough of the UI to be content.
She is a Traitor to the country.
I my humble opinion, there is a difference between being a traitor to a country and being a traitor to a country's military chain of command. The word of law may disagree, but the word of a law may be incorrect, unjust, misguided, out-of-date or otherwise inappropriate, and a civilized and free nation should react appropriately to correct any such flaws if they are democratically determined to exist.
Yeah, lots of "if" statements, but boiling Manning's case down to "she's a traitor" because the law says so disregards an awful lot of nuance to the circumstance.
There is a difference between paying more money for the same thing and paying more money for less. Netflix loses content each time their licensing deals expire. Soon you will be paying for their originals and not much else.
I'm okay with that. I don't accept eighteen subscriptions to eighteen different streaming services. So I pay the price asked by the one place where it was "all" at; Netflix. Everyone who pulls their content from there has failed to retain me as a customer. If they had negotiated a deal with Netflix such that the overall price had to go up somewhat... fine. If they negotiated a system where I had to pay for what I consume, again fine.
I liken my opinion on this not unlike groceries. I am not interested in going to the bread store in addition to the egg store, or the Kellog's store in addition to the Kraft store. I'm going to one store, and if your products aren't there, I'm not buying them. I leave it as an exercise to the class to determine what torrential downpour of solutions might cross my mind at that point.
It's been said for some time that the quality of the product - along with its distribution - is the driving factor for certain... activities. In my anecdote, it's true. I'd be okay with a $100/mo Netflix bill if all the other clowns would resume their licensing rights.
You can argue about the plate technology, but the obvious big issue here is that the police help unarmed suspects at gunpoint. We have a severe police hiring, training, and discipline problem.
If you pulled over a reported stolen car, what would you do?
I would start by observing that the driver of the car pulled over when instructed to, and didn't try to run. I would take that - the only evidence I had at the moment - as baseline indication of peaceful compliance... because it is. Due to that, I would approach the car and gesture for the window to be rolled down if it wasn't already. My partner - if any - would be prepared to act if violence started. Once the window was rolled down, I would attempt to assess the situation by immediately stating the reason for the pull-over, without obfuscation or escalation, and ask that the engine be shut off. No games with "do you know why I pulled you over", and certainly no fishing for any other crimes. By volunteering the cause for the pull-over calmly, I would gain a decent assessment of the driver's reaction. If a mistake was being made, or anyone unaware of the car's status as stolen was driving, I'd accept the claim of innocence and indicate I would need evidence, in the form of the driver's ID, and any paperwork such as ownership or rental agreement. THAT is the moment that I would again volunteer that the driver should move slowly and clearly in order to not escalate the situation, that I would give them the opportunity to obtain their papers, but that any questionable actions could result in harm. I would - get this - ready myself to MOVE THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY if a gun is drawn. Because someone seatbelted into a driver's seat has very limited movement and stands basically no real chance to shoot me before I could get to cover. Go from there, either by reading the paperwork or disabling the vehicle/calling for backup as appropriate.
This isn't rocket science and police - no matter how highly I regard them - aren't entitled to perfect safety at the cost of avoidable accidental civilian deaths.
"Obviously a troll" because they're tired of unoriginal content? That would make me a troll as well. Or maybe they're "obviously a troll" because they don't like the shows you like?
No, mostly "obviously a troll" because "and nothing of value was lost". That's incredibly dismissive and inflammatory. To assert that those shows had zero value knowing full well that a lot of people like them... that's classic trolling. And the anonymous coward checksum bit and that's what you've got.
Sure, the Netflix shows were great but they were still contributing to many people's overall comic book fatigue. I watched the fist season of Daredevil, thought it was really good and never watched another episode because I just can't get excited about more comic book remakes. I never dove into the second season when it came out because I'm really just generally tired of comic book movies and shows.
That's fine and I won't fault you for it, though I'd have to say that I quite liked both the seasons you missed and at that at the very least you're missing out of two of the most amazing fight choreography scenes on television. But again, to those of us that haven't touched a comic book in our lives, the idea that nothing of value has been lost with these cancellations is simply offensive.
Then there's the general frustration over the lack of original content from Hollywood that even IPs used well fuels. Many people liked it when Hollywood took risks and didn't entirely lean on the crutch of sequels, remakes, and financial proven IPs from other mediums.
I'm pretty sure that this is just a common wisdom that is false. The raw number of movies being made each year has increased dramatically and as a result yes, there are far more remakes and sequels in a raw numerical fashion, but in a percentage I don't think it's significantly moved. Unfortunately I can't produce a citation.
Jessica Jones season 1 was some of the best TV in years. A genuinely compelling and fresh antagonist really made it.
Agreed. Season 2 unfortunately couldn't compare though I stuck it through because it wasn't bad. With the ending I have some hopes for season 3, especially to see what they do with Trish.
Stop paying to license terrible IP and write something. CGI and bad-dialogue an original plot, rehashing Marvel shit over and over is OVER!
You're obviously a troll, but there's something to be learned here. There was great value with the Netfix Marvel shows for people who aren't comic book devotees.
For us, those shows have been fresh, (mostly) well-done, and most importantly entertaining. They're not the over-the-top comic book material like the movies. They're just accessible, interesting shows about extraordinary people.
I for one would have gladly watched another season or two of "that show with the blind lawyer struggling to reconcile his sense of duty and his sense of morality", or even another season of "that rich guy who was raised by monks and had to learn how to interact with Western adult culture while being a martial arts deity's avatar".
But no. The Mouse needs to be fed.
Not only are we using the same engines, we are sharing the same user interfaces.
What interface? The modern UI design ethic is "hide the user interface" coupled with "never use words when you can use icons that don't convey what they do unless the user already knows." Saves effort on regional translation, I suppose.
That's statement's not only full of unnecessary shouting, it's ignorant.
You're right. And evidently I missed quoting a block; that was the person I was replying to, not me.
What is interesting about science it that science - at least today - KNOWS very well that there is A LOT that we have yet to explain fully or discover. Science KNOWS that we humans, basically, know only how SOME of how the universe we live in functions. And yet many scientists are SO CERTAIN that there is no God, or any kind sentient intelligence that created or designed the vast universe that we are a tiny part of.
Your language is sloppy, and it suggests your analysis may be as well. Yes, science accepts that it is not yet "complete". There are explanations for a few observed phenomenon that are not yet incorporated into the existing body of scientific understanding. Introduction of a God or multiple Gods into the discussion is pretty much irrelevant to the "completeness" of scientific understanding. Why? Because statistics. So far, zero of observed phenomenon that have been explained have required the involvement of a God or multiple gods. Zero. None. Nada. Zilch. Bupkiss.
More, the obscurity of the few observed phenomenon that have not yet been incorporated into scientific understanding continues to become increasingly massive. Invocation of God or Gods used to be required to "explain" such trivial experiences as fire, disease, earthquakes, lights in the sky, and pregnancy. Now we understand these things, to such a degree that God or Gods are no longer required for any of them. We now live in a time where "don't share needles" is all the wisdom required, and "go ahead and share needles with another junkie but you'll be fine as long as you pray" is laughable. It's comedic. Even among the religious community, reliance on scientific understanding is widespread enough that they would view someone who just prays they don't contract AIDS from unprotected sex with a carrier as delusional.
To recap, the utter and total lack of requirement for God or Gods in 100% of what we know - which is vast - makes the lack of belief in God quite understandable. And mostly, sensible.
This is not just contradictory, but downright dangerous.
You're going to have to demonstrate that. There's no contradiction. At all. "I don't know everything, but nothing I do know - which is virtually the entire scope of my observed experience - even remotely suggests there is a God or Gods, so I suspect there is no such entity or entities." Not contradictory. Or dangerous.
Basically, scientists who know VERY WELL that they only UNDERSTAND PART OF FUNCTIONING THE UNIVERSE and HAVE NO IDEA WHATSOEVER WHERE OUR UNIVERSE CAME FROM are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that there can be no such thing as God.
Oh. You don't understand atheists or scientists. Let me help. First, yes, atheists believe there are no Gods. But... were there evidence or - Heaven forbid - proof of the existence of such, they'd be willing to accept they had been mistaken. Second, scientists are even more willing to accept change. That's how science works. If a theory or working model of a situation is tested and demonstrated by further data to be false, the theory or working model is either invalidated or updated to incorporate the new data. Neither atheists nor scientists are - as a rule - certain they are right. The believe, according to the evidence at hand, that they are. But certainty is not part of their worldview.
WTF? That's about as logical as saying "I have never actually physically travelled to Ethiopia, but I know everything everything there is to know about Ethiopa nevertheless."
False. It's exactly as logical as saying "to date virtually everything humanity has observed has had a non-deity explanation and every day more of the incredibly obscure observations we haven't explained are explained, and continue to have non-deity explanations, so the unanimous body of evidence predicts the non-existence of deities."
So Window Update doesn't check the size of the update and make sure there is enough space before downloading and installing it, so instead of fixing Windows Update we will just reserve 7G
To be fair, this does make sense.
Just because there are 7G+ of free space at the start of an upgrade process doesn't mean that the user isn't busy copying/moving large files around, or otherwise changing the amount of disk space available. OS installs - which these are - should be reliable above all other considerations.
Also, the fine article makes it clear that the reserved space is in fact used by the OS for temporary files and other ephemeral content, so the space isn't actually lost.
If an OS stops booting because of a web browser then you know it's built on shit coding practices.
To be fair, we don't know what went wrong. As in, it's entirely possible that the patch itself was built incorrectly and includes files required for the operating system, incorrectly.
Also, someone down-stream indicated that MS' report indicates it involves SecureBoot, which I believe signs some things. It's possible an IE file was signed as required-to-never-change and just did, or something similar. I'm not fluent with SecureBoot, but my point is that folks are jumping to conclusions that aren't (yet) merited, dumb as the outcome is.
So if you have a locked screen and the keyboard stops functioning, plugging a new one in the USB port will not work?
The parent to your comment specifically said "mass storage", which human interface devices are not. The summary also refers to not being able to read or execute code while locked and USB inserted, which sounds similar... since key-presses/mouse-clicks aren't code.
I suspect someone smarter than both you and I thought about this before implementing it.
As someone who now works in health care (not the UK), I can say that this is dumb. Fax machines are actually very convenient since most documents are still filled at least partially by hand.
Washing your hands frequently is also inconvenient,but best serves your patients.
In an age of enlightenment with regards to patient privacy and accountability, fax just doesn't have the ability to do the job right. Adequately, yes, I grant. But all of the processes you name could benefit from modernization.
I've never understood this. Why do EV proponents claim that EVs are so much quieter? Yes, they don't make engine noise, but they do make a very distinct buzz when the accelerate. But in all but the most obnoxious cars that are trying to be loud, the bulk of the noise isn't engine noise. It's tire noise. Seriously, walk down a lane of traffic and actually listen to the noise. You'll hear a slight undertone of engine, but you have to search for it. And where I live, we've got quite a few Teslas. They make just as much tire noise as every other car. And that noise starts coming at really low speeds. Even in parking lots, unless it's some big effing diesel truck, I hear the tires, not the engine. Most modern sedans aren't very loud.
The issue is this... you're walking through a parking lot to find your car. You're walking past car after car after car. Then one of them suddenly backs out of its spot into you, or at the least into your path. You didn't hear its engine start as a clear and obvious signal that it might be about to move, because it doesn't have an engine.
Back-up sensors and cross-path sensors and several cameras may assist with this, but the sound of an engine signaling "this death-dealing device is ON" was a very useful attention-getter for pedestrians.
The discussion about making sound isn't about cars that are obviously already in motion.
7 was the last functional one.
So you never learned how to use the Start menu in Win8/Win10. Got it. Works just fine for me, but I learned how to use it to the fullest.
Bullshit. Press the Windows button, then type "cmd". Don't be slow about it. Type it like you know what you're doing. Doesn't always find it. Try the same search for "Windows Update". Doesn't always find it. Repeat with pretty much anything that's installed on your computer. Doesn't always find it.
Sure, it'll search the web to make suggestions, but actual programs that are local, on the actual "Start Menu"... not consistently.
Again, sure, if you. Type. It. Slow. Ly. Be. Cause. You. Do. N't. Know. Wha. T. You. 're. Do. Ing. It. Works.
Screw off, system-wide search. Screw off, Cortana. I'll just keep a command prompt open at all times and memorize all the MMCs, CPLs. Hell, with tab-completion I can get into c:\progra~1\micros~1\office ##\winword.exe faster than it can be searched on the Start Menu.
You understand that they did this on Star Trek, right? You could ask the computer the location of any other crew member, and it would tell you. So this is OK.
You may mean this sarcastically, but I think it's potentially insightful.
Back when ST:TNG came out there was a lot of this sort of thing, but it never felt creepy Maybe it's because the only people who ever were shown asking the ship's computer for things like that were doing so for legitimate purposes or were high-ranking bridge crew. In real life, it's massive corporations doing it for profit and advertising, where advertising is a code-word for "influencing people to spend money they wouldn't otherwise."
Get on my level. It might not even have been a real art sale. The whole thing could be staged to hype some machine learning start-up.
Amateur. Obviously the whole thing was staged, but you're missing the obvious that the hoax was done by an AI as a test to figure out if it's safe (and profitable) to come out of hiding yet. Datacenter bills don't pay themselves, you know?
Working two jobs is definitely not making me rich.
From your description, you're not working two jobs. You have a job, and you have a hobby that pays its own expenses. That's totally legit, and a choice, and it's great that you get to do that.
Why do people allways react to increeses inspeed wirh oh great now I can plo mi daya cap in an even shortrer time? If the data cap is the problem and you need moredat, well sadlyyou have to pay up, but theocations you realyneed a rather large data transfer (lover then your cap) done quickly for whatever reason, won’t the exstra speed be appreeciated? However I acgree complitly with the undelyibg problem here, datacaps on hone broadband, fortunaty thet pratice never got started here in Norway, but I syperhise with people having to deal with that crap).
Just for fun, I passed your comment through Google Translate, from (presumably) English to Hungarian, to Polish, then back to English, to see if it makes more sense. I think it kind of does...
Why do people react to the giant's whirlpool? If the data connection is a problem and you need it anymore, you have to pay it unfortunately, but really big enough data transfer (your lover, hat) is done quickly for any reason, do not you express speed? However, I completely solve the problem of failures, data packages in magnetic broadband networks, fortunately, never started in practice in Norway, but I fall into the hands of people who deal with this shit).
The number one way to screw up your life is having sex. From STDs to pregnancies to rape allegations...
You missed: children.
The people using them are trying to give offense.
Bullshit.
I'm Canadian, and I can assure you that our "socialised" system is:
So please, don't say our system is better than in the US. People are not dying in the streets up here, but when you have a condition, you better be patient. A patient patient.
I'm a Canadian too, and the circumstances you've cited are worst-case and relatively uncommon. Non-critical illnesses are at a lower priority than critical ones, but people get the care they need, regardless of the depth of their pockets. So yes, our system is better, in most ways.