The public web is an open medium. That is why I get to access web sites, not because of some 10-page list in size 8 font linked to at the bottom of a page, which I can't even have read unless I visit the site in the first place, and which I may not even have to read in order to continue using the site.
"Use of this web site indicates your acceptance of these T&C" is as silly as "reading this comment indicates that you promise to send me a cupcake". No it doesn't, and no it doesn't.
"Notability not truth" and "volunteer democracy" (i.e. truth by consensus of people with the most time to waste) are what undermines Wikipedia as a reliable source of information.
EVERYONE is biased. If someone pays to express their bias on Wikipedia, all they're doing is paying for the time to compete. This may make things worse, better, or change nothing much at all, depending on whether the paid-for bias is more or less truthy than other bias.
As with any business, you have to make the most of exploiting the useful things it does, and try your best to ignore the shit it tries to feed you, no matter how convenient it seems.
A USB port should react gracefully to a defective USB device - either limiting current or cutting power if draw is too high. It should not give the malfunctioning device the opportunity to catch fire by delivering it as much current as possible.
Liberal in what you accept; conservative in what you send.
In what way is it "good and practical" to ignore a standard, possibly damaging electronics which assume the standard by providing a variable non-guaranteed maximum current? At worst this is a fire hazard, as you'd end up delivering an unreasonably high current. If the device isn't intelligent enough to ask for the right current, it should be delivered a safe trickle - as the USB standard asks.
I think that French adds English words like that deliberately to sound as hideous as possible, so they can wave their fist angrily across the Channel for uglifying their language.
Every time I hear "LE blah-ING" I want to punch a Frenchman.
That's very erudite of you to have read a book or two. You surely stand head and shoulders above the hoi polloi.
You're arguing against what you think I "think", buddy. Stoppit... and tidyup.
And spying isn't intervention in the same way any illegal, damaging action by one state against another isn't intervention: when you're wrong. Let's see how the US defines espionage:
The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
...until I actually got to know it. While the political rhetoric is more even-handed and they do have a proper health service, the country is all about big business, just like the US.
1) How non-interventionalistic do you think I think you were? Don't strawman me, bro - I come from England, which has invaded pretty much every country. Before the US became the world's horny young man, sticking its dick in everything, it was us.
2) Let's be 100% clear: the US spying regime is on Americans. It's just done via foreign spying agencies, while the foreign agencies use the NSA to spy on foreign citizens. To pretend otherwise is intellectual dishonesty.
Look at it forwards: what was practically envisaged in each decade? That's a fairly good way of deciding whether something is evolutionary or revolutionary.
I once wrote Psion Pong for the first half of a plane trip to Germany, then the second half passing it around between my schoolmates. The turboprop for leg #2 got hit by lightning, and one of the "hard kids" (I was obv. a geek) vomited. I lol'd. But then I let him play with my Psion for the rest of the journey, and he was grateful.
Spying is done without representation (through clandestine reciprocal agreements with foreign services) and definitely contributes toward onerous taxation.
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Post flagged for being so hilarious I wet myself. In future, only use your powers for good, AC.
Bingo.
All you're doing is paying for time, in order to compete with people who have copious free time.
Wikipedia is a war of attrition.
A judge may not be happy with a contract which only one party had the chance to write and which contains deliberately misleading phrases.
"You agree to send me $10. [...] In this contract, references to $10 should be read as $1000."
And that right there is fucking retarded.
The public web is an open medium. That is why I get to access web sites, not because of some 10-page list in size 8 font linked to at the bottom of a page, which I can't even have read unless I visit the site in the first place, and which I may not even have to read in order to continue using the site.
"Use of this web site indicates your acceptance of these T&C" is as silly as "reading this comment indicates that you promise to send me a cupcake". No it doesn't, and no it doesn't.
"Notability not truth" and "volunteer democracy" (i.e. truth by consensus of people with the most time to waste) are what undermines Wikipedia as a reliable source of information.
EVERYONE is biased. If someone pays to express their bias on Wikipedia, all they're doing is paying for the time to compete. This may make things worse, better, or change nothing much at all, depending on whether the paid-for bias is more or less truthy than other bias.
This merely means that your edits were inconsequential to anyone with more free time than you.
> juv(e)nile cock joke
fat chance
Hue.
As with any business, you have to make the most of exploiting the useful things it does, and try your best to ignore the shit it tries to feed you, no matter how convenient it seems.
A USB port should react gracefully to a defective USB device - either limiting current or cutting power if draw is too high. It should not give the malfunctioning device the opportunity to catch fire by delivering it as much current as possible.
Liberal in what you accept; conservative in what you send.
Perhaps AC has a spare voltmeter and was planning to add a shunt resistance in parallel?
Your threshold for what counts as stress + your tense overuse of italics suggest you may wish to consult your physician before you have a coronary.
Smartass fast - run-on fast.
In what way is it "good and practical" to ignore a standard, possibly damaging electronics which assume the standard by providing a variable non-guaranteed maximum current? At worst this is a fire hazard, as you'd end up delivering an unreasonably high current. If the device isn't intelligent enough to ask for the right current, it should be delivered a safe trickle - as the USB standard asks.
word with -ing slapped to it
I think that French adds English words like that deliberately to sound as hideous as possible, so they can wave their fist angrily across the Channel for uglifying their language.
Every time I hear "LE blah-ING" I want to punch a Frenchman.
That's very erudite of you to have read a book or two. You surely stand head and shoulders above the hoi polloi.
You're arguing against what you think I "think", buddy. Stoppit... and tidyup.
And spying isn't intervention in the same way any illegal, damaging action by one state against another isn't intervention: when you're wrong. Let's see how the US defines espionage:
The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
You may be confusing spying with something else.
...until I actually got to know it. While the political rhetoric is more even-handed and they do have a proper health service, the country is all about big business, just like the US.
1) How non-interventionalistic do you think I think you were? Don't strawman me, bro - I come from England, which has invaded pretty much every country. Before the US became the world's horny young man, sticking its dick in everything, it was us.
2) Let's be 100% clear: the US spying regime is on Americans. It's just done via foreign spying agencies, while the foreign agencies use the NSA to spy on foreign citizens. To pretend otherwise is intellectual dishonesty.
Spying is intervention.
3) Nope nope nope.
Look at it forwards: what was practically envisaged in each decade? That's a fairly good way of deciding whether something is evolutionary or revolutionary.
I once wrote Psion Pong for the first half of a plane trip to Germany, then the second half passing it around between my schoolmates. The turboprop for leg #2 got hit by lightning, and one of the "hard kids" (I was obv. a geek) vomited. I lol'd. But then I let him play with my Psion for the rest of the journey, and he was grateful.
Except that the context there was miniaturisation, and the more general statement was about lack of progress in the last 10 years.
Yes, but those are bigger steps than 10um to 22nm, which has been main evolutionary delivery between 1971 and last year..
No pls pay attn to last year of Cameron threatening to make laws if they don't act "voluntarily".
This is as "doing it on your own" as "give me all your money or i'll shoot".
Spying is done without representation (through clandestine reciprocal agreements with foreign services) and definitely contributes toward onerous taxation.
in b4 half of 4chan infecting people with this malware "for lulz"
It is an executive issue if the police are picking+choosing which laws to enforce and when.
The legislative matter needs to be addressed additionally, not instead.
You understand the difference between "visualising" and "raping", yes? Watching porn did not making you a rapist?