was the reason for climbing Everest and is a good enough reason for going to Mars.
We also need to get off this planet before we are wiped out by an asteroid or something. Doing that in large numbers and creating a self sufficient colony on some other rock (preferably circling another star) will be very hard, a toe hold on Mars would be a great start.
But it is a bit far out to be gravitationally locked to the sun.
It can't be covered by an ocean as it is not perfectly round, so there would be islands/continents that would have a different albedo. What would be liquid that far out (ie cold) ?
does not, somehow, 'phone home to Google or otherwise enable tracking of what I am looking at then all that I am worried about is Google implementing its own web standards.
Google is not entirely bad - but sufficiently so that I do not trust them.
Eating real beef, pork, etc, is not climate friendly - producing such meat releases a lot of greenhouse gasses. If lab grown meat releases fewer greenhouse gasses then this could be one small way of not exceeding the 1.5 degree rise. This also depends on lab grown meat getting cheap enough - which it is not today.
Would I eat lab grown meat ? Maybe: I have not tasted any - yet.
is someone now going to waste their time checking for variable names, words in comments,... that just happen to be a swear word in French, German,... and by transliteration Hindi, Chinese,... ?
Google Fiber will be doing exactly the same thing -- recording where its subscribers visit. I do not have any evidence, but would be very surprised if it did not.
So with a 10% tariff on the cost of bringing this into the US... assuming they're passing 100% of the cost of this to customers
Assuming a typical 100% mark-up then the cost of components is 50% the retail/end-user cost of product. So if a 10% increase in a component results in a 10% increase in sale price they are making extra profit as a result of the increase in import tariff/duty.
in last year's broadcast (at least in Europe), so hopefully his reputation is such that people might listen to him on this more general point. The trouble is that there is no one so blind as the man who looks the other way (at his bank account)
A friend is someone who: will be there for you when you have problems; you can have fun with; take part in all sorts of activities with you;... A friend is not there to learn about you so that it can better get you to buy things.
It is an act of war, just as killing people in other countries is war. But: we just don't talk much about it if it is done by countries that we like, or do a lot of business with; or even if done by our own country.
eg a plane will leave France and timetabled to arrive at a certain (local Moroccan) time
Morocco was different from France before, and will be different from France after the change. And very few people in Morocco have any regard for time anyway - I am pretty sure it runs on "African Time" ie an hour late for everything. I think you chose the wrong example here.
The reason that I chose an airplane is because its published timetable depends, in part, on it leaving, say, Paris at a certain time according to French time, then arrives in Marrakech 2 hours 30 minutes later and published according to Moroccan time. The return flight, leaving 45/whatever minutes later will be published in Moroccan time. The published Moroccan times for next week will now need to be changed. This will cause confusion as to when collect friends from the airport and more importantly when to arrive for the return flight to Paris.
Rail entirely within Morocco is not so much a problem - they can just stick to Moroccan time.
With this little warning just consider the confusion that this will cause. Computer systems with time changes programmed in; transport crossing international boundaries, eg a plane will leave France and timetabled to arrive at a certain (local Moroccan) time; diaries printed months ago and already on sale, etc. Did the political muppets think about this ? For anything like this 18 months is needed.
They would hinge on interactive video layers that use emotional analysis based on your phone's front-facing camera to adjust what you're watching in real time.
by a bit of obscure tape over the front-facing camera.
"it is quite safe" we will be told "just to tailor it for you". The next thing that we will know is that that amourous moment with your partner is spaffed across social media or someone is trying to blackmail you...
What do we do about the person who takes even the mildest criticism as an insufferable personal insult?
In the same ball-park that I came here to say. I absolutely agree that people should not set out to make offence, ie deliberately be rude about someone else. Likewise we should not too lightly take offence, ie interpret what someone else has said through your own prism and decide that it is rude.
We need to remember that many others who we interact with:
* do not have good English (or whatever language) and may not understand nuances that make a phrase offensive to some
* are unaware of (or have forgotten or just got wrong) your: sex, race, colour, age, etc. Thus they may say he about a woman, etc. If it is an error: forgive them
* Knowing the difference between an error and an insult is hard. Where there is ambiguity assume error rather than insult
* might not have seen/understood all of a conversation and thus not be aware of things said previously. Gently remind/inform them; but be aware that they might not see/understand what you say, even if you say it more than once
* Might not be as socially aware as you are and so not realise that something that they say could be seen as rude
* May be young... we all make mistakes when we are young. Just because you have learned from youthful mistakes does not mean that others have (yet)
* May be from a different culture where the norms of what is polite and what is rude are different
The above is not to say that we must ignore all rudeness, but please be aware that not everything that you perceive as rude was meant to be rude.
I remember, the the poll booth 2 years ago, trying sum up what I had learned
from what the politicians has said over the preceding weeks. I remembered a
huge amount of emotional froth but little by way of solid detail or summary of
what would happen. I had listened to debates between politicians who could not
even agree on basic contemporary facts - that should have not been hard to
ascertain. The misinformation was more than political spin: it was outright
lies. I am not the only one of that opinion.
The only agreement between the sides was 'the other side is lying'.
Now, two years later, things are not much better. We have been told of all
sorts of horrible things that will happen after 29 March 2019 (Brexit day) but
are well aware that these are being played up. Both sides have too much to lose
if the hard lines being talked about come to be. Exaggeration of consequences
and declarations of impossibility seem to be the way that political negotiations
are done. The bright sunny post Brexit uplands, that we are assured (by the
Brexiteers) will come to be, are equally nebulous.
What passes as debate between politicians would bring discredit to a bunch of squabbling 4 year olds at infant school.
I remember two years ago, in the poll booth, about to vote for/against Brexit; I was trying to sum up what the campaigns had told me. I came to the conclusion: a mass of emotional froth, little of hard reality upon which to make a decision. All sorts of contradictory predictions; few agreed facts. I remember listening to opposing politicians who could not even agree on, what should have been, basic facts. I came to the conclusion that both sides were lying (or at least greatly playing up their arguments), many others did also. The main agreement was that 'the other side are not being truthful' -- both sides said that!
Two years later: it is not hugely better. The problems that Brexit may bring have now been revealed & are being shouted loud but no one can say what will happen on 29 March 2019 (Brexit day), partly because exaggeration of dire consequence is a tool of political negotiation. The promised sunny uplands of EU-restriction free international trade are also being promised, but are nebulous.
Debate amongst politicians is at a level that would bring discredit to a bunch of squabbling 4 year olds at infant school.
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was the reason for climbing Everest and is a good enough reason for going to Mars.
We also need to get off this planet before we are wiped out by an asteroid or something. Doing that in large numbers and creating a self sufficient colony on some other rock (preferably circling another star) will be very hard, a toe hold on Mars would be a great start.
But it is a bit far out to be gravitationally locked to the sun.
It can't be covered by an ocean as it is not perfectly round, so there would be islands/continents that would have a different albedo. What would be liquid that far out (ie cold) ?
that is powerful enough so we can send all our politicians there and thus the rest of us get on with peaceful & productive lives ?
does not, somehow, 'phone home to Google or otherwise enable tracking of what I am looking at then all that I am worried about is Google implementing its own web standards.
Google is not entirely bad - but sufficiently so that I do not trust them.
Eating real beef, pork, etc, is not climate friendly - producing such meat releases a lot of greenhouse gasses. If lab grown meat releases fewer greenhouse gasses then this could be one small way of not exceeding the 1.5 degree rise. This also depends on lab grown meat getting cheap enough - which it is not today.
Would I eat lab grown meat ? Maybe: I have not tasted any - yet.
is someone now going to waste their time checking for variable names, words in comments, ... that just happen to be a swear word in French, German, ... and by transliteration Hindi, Chinese, ... ?
Google Fiber will be doing exactly the same thing -- recording where its subscribers visit. I do not have any evidence, but would be very surprised if it did not.
What a waste of electricity and the consequential effects on global warming.
Hopefully this will lead to increased adoption of cleaner power production - that is not so bad for the environment.
I am not saying that all clean power is cheaper but the more of it that gets used the cheaper that it will become.
that might be about right for the amount of tax that it pays. Interesting how that might happen!
So with a 10% tariff on the cost of bringing this into the US... assuming they're passing 100% of the cost of this to customers
Assuming a typical 100% mark-up then the cost of components is 50% the retail/end-user cost of product. So if a 10% increase in a component results in a 10% increase in sale price they are making extra profit as a result of the increase in import tariff/duty.
showing Pacman next to a top chess story is insulting.
in last year's broadcast (at least in Europe), so hopefully his reputation is such that people might listen to him on this more general point. The trouble is that there is no one so blind as the man who looks the other way (at his bank account)
A friend is someone who: will be there for you when you have problems; you can have fun with; take part in all sorts of activities with you; ... A friend is not there to learn about you so that it can better get you to buy things.
How is this not an act of war?
It is an act of war, just as killing people in other countries is war. But: we just don't talk much about it if it is done by countries that we like, or do a lot of business with; or even if done by our own country.
Quoting volume for a rope is not very helpful. The cross sectional area would be much more interesting for saying how much it can carry.
eg a plane will leave France and timetabled to arrive at a certain (local Moroccan) time
Morocco was different from France before, and will be different from France after the change. And very few people in Morocco have any regard for time anyway - I am pretty sure it runs on "African Time" ie an hour late for everything. I think you chose the wrong example here.
The reason that I chose an airplane is because its published timetable depends, in part, on it leaving, say, Paris at a certain time according to French time, then arrives in Marrakech 2 hours 30 minutes later and published according to Moroccan time. The return flight, leaving 45/whatever minutes later will be published in Moroccan time. The published Moroccan times for next week will now need to be changed. This will cause confusion as to when collect friends from the airport and more importantly when to arrive for the return flight to Paris.
Rail entirely within Morocco is not so much a problem - they can just stick to Moroccan time.
With this little warning just consider the confusion that this will cause. Computer systems with time changes programmed in; transport crossing international boundaries, eg a plane will leave France and timetabled to arrive at a certain (local Moroccan) time; diaries printed months ago and already on sale, etc. Did the political muppets think about this ? For anything like this 18 months is needed.
by a bit of obscure tape over the front-facing camera.
"it is quite safe" we will be told "just to tailor it for you". The next thing that we will know is that that amourous moment with your partner is spaffed across social media or someone is trying to blackmail you ...
What do we do about the person who takes even the mildest criticism as an insufferable personal insult?
In the same ball-park that I came here to say. I absolutely agree that people should not set out to make offence, ie deliberately be rude about someone else. Likewise we should not too lightly take offence, ie interpret what someone else has said through your own prism and decide that it is rude.
We need to remember that many others who we interact with:
* do not have good English (or whatever language) and may not understand nuances that make a phrase offensive to some
* are unaware of (or have forgotten or just got wrong) your: sex, race, colour, age, etc. Thus they may say he about a woman, etc. If it is an error: forgive them
* Knowing the difference between an error and an insult is hard. Where there is ambiguity assume error rather than insult
* might not have seen/understood all of a conversation and thus not be aware of things said previously. Gently remind/inform them; but be aware that they might not see/understand what you say, even if you say it more than once
* Might not be as socially aware as you are and so not realise that something that they say could be seen as rude
* May be young ... we all make mistakes when we are young. Just because you have learned from youthful mistakes does not mean that others have (yet)
* May be from a different culture where the norms of what is polite and what is rude are different
The above is not to say that we must ignore all rudeness, but please be aware that not everything that you perceive as rude was meant to be rude.
Ironically, you just helped illustrate the sort of lies you were trying to argue against the existence of.
Thank you
Linux vendors had patches out in March!
I remember, the the poll booth 2 years ago, trying sum up what I had learned from what the politicians has said over the preceding weeks. I remembered a huge amount of emotional froth but little by way of solid detail or summary of what would happen. I had listened to debates between politicians who could not even agree on basic contemporary facts - that should have not been hard to ascertain. The misinformation was more than political spin: it was outright lies. I am not the only one of that opinion.
The only agreement between the sides was 'the other side is lying'.
Now, two years later, things are not much better. We have been told of all sorts of horrible things that will happen after 29 March 2019 (Brexit day) but are well aware that these are being played up. Both sides have too much to lose if the hard lines being talked about come to be. Exaggeration of consequences and declarations of impossibility seem to be the way that political negotiations are done. The bright sunny post Brexit uplands, that we are assured (by the Brexiteers) will come to be, are equally nebulous.
What passes as debate between politicians would bring discredit to a bunch of squabbling 4 year olds at infant school.
I remember two years ago, in the poll booth, about to vote for/against Brexit; I was trying to sum up what the campaigns had told me. I came to the conclusion: a mass of emotional froth, little of hard reality upon which to make a decision. All sorts of contradictory predictions; few agreed facts. I remember listening to opposing politicians who could not even agree on, what should have been, basic facts. I came to the conclusion that both sides were lying (or at least greatly playing up their arguments), many others did also. The main agreement was that 'the other side are not being truthful' -- both sides said that!
Two years later: it is not hugely better. The problems that Brexit may bring have now been revealed & are being shouted loud but no one can say what will happen on 29 March 2019 (Brexit day), partly because exaggeration of dire consequence is a tool of political negotiation. The promised sunny uplands of EU-restriction free international trade are also being promised, but are nebulous.
Debate amongst politicians is at a level that would bring discredit to a bunch of squabbling 4 year olds at infant school.
RHEL/CentOS 6 ships PHP 5.3.3. But one of the things that you get by using something like RedHat is that they back-port bug fixes. Sure a newer version of PHP might be nice, but if the applications work with (a bug-fixed) 5.3.3 then what is the business case for upgrading ? If a later version really is wanted then it is available via Software Collections.