Except that logged-in trolls are easy to spot, and down-modding them reduces the number of posts they can make to 2 per account per day - and if suddenly the same IP address is used to crap-flood, it's easy enough to ban.
Now if you REALLY want to clean up things, have validated accounts with a real identity behind them. Sure this won't stop crap (it doesn't on sites like facebook or twitter), but eventually the shit will hit the fan, because the Internet never forgets. Enough people lose job opportunities for being assholes, it will sink in.
There is no reason to allow someone to moderate in a discussion and then post anonymously. That's a bug - one that can be easily fixed. It's also dishonest. Then again, most logged-in users hide behind nyms anyway, so they're more like "semi-anonymous cowards."
Now back on topic. The bitcoin chain holds a record of every transaction. The IRS shouldn't have too hard a time now going back over years of transaction records. There's the flaw of bitcoin - if anonymity is broken, every transaction is on record, not just the most recent activity. And for bitcoin to work, every transaction needs to be recorded. And if history has taught us anything, it's that any encryption can be broken given enough resources and motivation. Just more proof that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, I guess.
The government just takes more and more of your money, but they don't go after the large corporations who have their money stashed away overseas. They just want more and more of your hard earned money. It's so Jewish.
I don't get dick for the half of my paycheck that is stolen by government.
You want dick? Congratulations for coming out of the closet. But supplying dick is not part of the government's mandate. Obtaining it is left to your own initiative. You can start by posting a f*ck-ton of posts about why you love Apple, link to the Village People video in your sig, and take those assless leather cowboy chaps out of storage.
Fire services are often provided by volunteers where there isn't a sufficient tax base. But it's kind of useless without a working water system - the 500 gallon on-board water tank in a fire engine sometimes just isn't enough. And if they can't afford to pay for staffing, they can't afford to buy a tanker truck.
Venezuela is getting there pretty damn fast. And the shit-hole known as India*, where tax evasion was so bad that they had to change the currency. 60% of households are without a toilet, no proper sewer system, people shitting in the open on sidewalks, that's what tax avoidance gets you. It's now even grounds for divorce because an Indian court has finally ruled that making women hold it in until after sunset so they can take a dump outside (hopefully unseen) is cruelty.
They keep saying "taxation is theft," but ignore the fact that if you don't pay your fair share, you're stealing from everyone else who has to make up the difference. Not paying tax is theft.
Don't bother. This has been tried before, and failed. Over and over. It's one thing to get linux running on it after a fashion, quite another to get the telecommunications parts working. And no, being able to connect only via usb is not a viable alternative.
As the article points out, these are just artist's renderings. Also, they claim to have an arrangement with a manufacturer, but since they won't say who, my guess is it's just an informal "okay, if you can actually get it working, we'll talk." Certainly not a formal commitment to manufacture anything at this point, since it's only vaporware..
Re: #57 - I viewed it last week when I downloaded the latest Eclipse updates. Oh, you mean the solar eclipse? Nah, if you've seen one eclipse, you've seen them all. Literally nothing new to see there.
Look it up, stupid. First e without, second e with accent is listed as an accepted spelling. It's also the only valid one since the word "resume" in any spelling is slang in French - it's franglais. There are more than 3 accents in French. Or did you not learn to count yet? Obviously you don't know how to write it (or at least write it properly), or you would have known that.
Now, WTF am I doing having to teach this "genius" how to use an iPad??? Simple - it's my good deed for the day. And you can't really expect too much from Apple fanbois.
It's a self-administered test - you do NOT need to go through google. The link to the US National Library of Medicine paper with the test and how to score it is here. The relevant section:
Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?
0=Not at all,1=Several days,2=More than half the days,3=Nearly every day
1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things 0 1 2 3
2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless 0 1 2 3
3. Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much 0 1 2 3
4. Feeling tired or having little energy 0 1 2 3
5. Poor appetite or overeating 0 1 2 3
6. Feeling bad about yourself—or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down 0 1 2 3
7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television 0 1 2 3
8. Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite—being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual 0 1 2 3
9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way 0 1 2 3
The total is your score.
Interpreting the score:
The vast majority of patients (93%) with no depressive disorder had a PHQ-9 score less than 10, while most patients (88%) with major depression had scores of 10 or greater. Scores less than 5 almost always signified the absence of a depressive disorder; scores of 5 to 9 predominantly represented patients with either no depression or subthreshold (i.e., other) depression; scores of 10 to 14 represented a spectrum of patients; and scores of 15 or greater usually indicated major depression.
In other words, this is something that any web monkey could bang out in a really short time, so don't be too impressed with the Googles. With the ready availability of web-based tests based on the PHQ-9, there is absolutely NO need for yet another one, so it looks like this is just to start getting people used to the idea of handing over their medical info directly to Google.
The gender of objects in some languages makes perfect sense in this case. You can't even spell properly in a genderless language, and yet children in other countries get it right or they don't graduate.
As for resumé, the common form in English is stupid to anyone who speaks French. The first accent is wrong, because it's not pronounced in English as if it were a French é. Those of us who speak, read, and write French can tell the difference - those who just learn it in high school can't, so they copy stupid mistakes by non-native speakers when transliterating. Like you do.
Your defense of not even being sufficiently fluent to recognize the difference between "dam" and "damn" because you depend on a spell checker is a joke. Same as native English speakers who don't know the difference between brake and break, their, they're, and there, etc.
And shadowing variables by accident also happens in strongly typed languages, especially with multiple header files. Being able to spot typos is a necessary skill, and one you admit you simply don't have. Good programmers also make good proof readers because mistakes just jump out at them, since part of the job is a necessary ability to spot such mistakes in code. So go continue to make mistakes, just like the one where you said that French is a language where spelling isn't important - I already proved you.were so full of shit on that one.
The difference between the French grave, acute, cirumflex, etc. accents are taught here in the earliest grades in English schools. No need for me to figure it out - I already know it, and obviously I can hear the difference between an accented and unaccented character, whereas you can't (same as most native English speakers, which is why they put one on the first e in resumé, even though the first e is NOT pronounced as if it has an accent - certainly not in an English transliteration.
In short, you are not as fluent in French as you claim to be, which leaves plenty of doubt about your other claims, especially considering how provably wrong you are on many of them. Also, you need to learn what an archaism is. We have archaisms in pretty much all languages, including British and American English and the various dialects of French.
When writing principally to Americans, I spell it "color". When writing to non-Americans, I spell it "colour". In code I just #define one as being equivalent to the other, so it doesn't matter which spelling is used (a trick I first came across decades ago in the Clipper header files, and which I appreciate for the sake of simplicity and avoiding errors, and for accommodating people's differences). That doesn't mean I'm going to use obsolete terms. That you take pride in it makes my point that it's just an affectation or trying to cover up your admitted inability to spell consistently.
And FYI, it's "her". My birth certificate states "Female". So does all my other ID, government and otherwise, my voter registration, my universal health card, my pension plan, my bank account, my lease, etc. And unlike you, I don't hide behind a nym - that's my real, legal name I post under (just missing the space between first and last names, and my middle name). It's also the same name on my marriage and divorce papers, and my kid's birth certificates. Try posting under your real name for a change if you want to be seen as standing behind what you say. Anything else is pretty lame, just one step above posting anonymously. It's like James Damore lying about having a PhD from Harvard, working for google, and not realizing how the Internet works, and that lies like that are just a quick search away from being exposed. He wants to sue google for firing them? He lied on his job application - that's as good a reason as any to fire him. That's both the beauty and the risk of posting under your real name - accountability. Might as well get used to it - nothing on the Internet is truly anonymous any more.
It's still BS. You're still going to have to store it in the fridge after opening, and probably before first use, so why pay a premium for it (oh wait - that marketing bs convinces you to pay more). Also, it doesn't taste the same - as your link admits:
UHT milk has seen large success in much of Europe, where across the continent as a whole 7 out of 10 Europeans drink it regularly.[12] In fact, in a hot country such as Spain, UHT milk is preferred due to high costs of refrigerated transportation and "inefficient cool cabinets".[13] UHT is less popular in Northern Europe and Scandinavia, particularly in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is also less popular in Greece, where fresh pasteurized milk is the most popular type of milk. This may be largely due to the differential rates of lactose intolerance within Europe; populations with high tolerance can drink milk in large amounts, making the lower palatability of UHT milk more noticeable.
The article also points out that it is otherwise degraded:
Folate: UHT milk contains 1 g of folate per 100 g, while pasteurized milk contains 9 g
Vitamin B12, vitamin C and thiamin:
Some nutritional loss can occur in UHT milk
So I stand by my claim that marketing is selling you an inferior product. Your link proves it, and personal experience shows that it tastes like watered-down crap. If you can't tell the difference, that's not my problem, because the article says it doesn't taste as good. Or maybe you're just lactose intolerant, so taste doesn't matter to you.
So, you claim the French aren't fussy, to someone who lives in Québec. You have multiple spelling mistakes, and claim that English is a hard language, and yet it's simple compared to French, where objects have a gender associated with them (unlike English). And accents. If kids in grade school can learn to speak, read and write both, what's your excuse for not being proficient in either?
"But my brain doesn't work that way." Lame excuse-making, from someone who, as I pointed out before, is commenting in a post about computer coding, who obviously CANNOT CODE, because compilers and runtimes are even more fussy than the French when it comes to both spelling and punctuation.
You didn't even know what I was talking about when I mentioned spelling errors wrt auto-vivified variables in scripting languages, so I'll give you an example:
$color = "red";
# a bunch of intervening code, then later:
$colour = "blue"; #ERROR, creates a new variable named "colour" and assigns "blue" to it. "color" was not changed.
# more intervening code, then later:
printf("%s\n", "The color of the light is $color\n"
Output: The color of the light is red.
If you can't see erroneous spellings, you can't code. But we already know you can't. So why are you even bothering to continue commenting in a post about teaching coding when you can't? Especially after telling me that if I can't teach spelling, I have no right to comment about spelling, where it's pretty damn obvious that you can't teach spelling (and you don't know if I can or not)? I am far better qualified to teach spelling than you, because I can see the mistakes without a spell checker, and point them out. You can't even see them with a spell checker - as your using "dam" in place of "damn" made obvious.
As for the spelling of superior, spelling it with a "u" is obsolete, an archaism. Use of archaisms is an affectation, and a pretty stupid one, because trying to look more intelligent by using archaisms just shows how you just don't get it. The French version has a "u", but no "o". Example: La Cour Supérieure du Québec. It's as stupid as people who pronounce schedule as "shed-ul" and not "sked-ul". Or "fil-um" for "film", or "nukular" for "nuclear."
And no, the most retarded thing you can do is to debate spelling when you admit you can't spell, in a thread about coding, where it's obvious you don't understand jack shit about the need for accurate spelling in code.
Let me emphasize again, this article is about coding. If you can't see mistakes and inconsistencies in variable names, you can't code. There is simply no way to get around that. Plus, your spelling and grammar are a huge barrier to advanced employment, or even something as simple as a receptionist. Now I've worked as a coder, and for a short time (after transitioning) as a receptionist and office manager, so I have seen first-hand that those students will be judged by their spelling and grammar. I've gone through enough resumés when we were looking for more coders to know that bad spelling gets your application shit-canned. Receptionists don't forward job applications full of typos for any but the most menial of jobs; programmers just throw them in the reject pile because we know you can't code if you can't spell consistently, and you sure as hell can't debug.
And for those wondering about the English spelling of resumé, the first "e" is soft, so no accent, the second one is pronounced "aye", same as an "e" with an accent in French. Think "Mel Tormé" ("tor-may"). FYI: In French it's called a Curriculum Vitae, not a resumé (which is why we also refer to it as a CV).
And this ends another episode of "stupid reasons why we spell things the way we do". Sorry, I'm just subbing for Sheldon Cooper. He'll be back whenever he decides to return to planet Earth.:-)...
Obviously the eggs would crack if someone tried to freeze them, from the expansion of the contents when they freeze, since ice is less dense than water (which is why there's life on earth - if ice sank when it froze, the oceans would be solid ice to the bottom, and without the moderating influence of the water, we'd be an ice ball), same as a glass bottle or can of soda pop will expand. If you don't believe it, put a can of your favorite drink in the freezer and freeze it solid.
I for my part are what I would call 'a superiour reader'. (which btw has no grammar error, I could place a comma though...)
Of course it has a grammar error. In this sentence, "You" is singular, "are" is plural. It should have been "I for my part am what I would call "a superiour (sic) reader", or preferably "For my part, I am a superior reader" (agreement in quantity and no spelling mistakes). Don't try to tell me that your spell check passed "superiour" yet again. That is NOT superior spelling.
Your excuse:
I simply don't see spelling mistakes. That is all. My brain makes the required corrections to parse other people and my spelling mistakes automatically.
And your brain always stops and some background process yells to your consciousness: 'what an idiot, can you beliefe that mistake?'
My brain does not stop, it just reads it as it is meant to be read, until I end at the sentence and realize: oooops, that did not made any sense. Then I have literally to parse the sentence again letter by letter.
My point is: some eyes/brains work like this and some like that.
So you admit you're not able to do, with your "superiour (sic)" reading skills, what the majority of the population can, even though half the population is below average IQ, even with the help of a spell checker? And you want me to accept that excuse? I'm not nearly as stupid as you think, nor am nearly as stupid as you've already demonstrated repeatedly by trying to defend the indefensible.
Also, you obviously are incapable of debugging code because you admit your brain won't see typos, which means you aren't capable of writing proper code, so what the fuck are you doing commenting on coding? You. Are. Not. Qualified. Period.
As long as you have not found a way how to teach spelling, and writing, in a way that actually helps people to spell correctly, you simply do't qualify to rant about that topic!
Bold by intention, could not double-bold the word "teach" in the middle.
It is always easy to find other peoples mistakes. Sometimes it is even easy to impress other people by showing them you can do it better. But teaching other people to avoid those mistakes is hard.
As long as you cant: shut the fuck up.
What a load of sorry excuse-making bullshit. I'll turn your stupid logic fail right back at you - as long as you have not found a way to properly use a spell checker, you simply don't qualify to rant about that topic. Also, your original argument also holds against you - as long as you haven't found a way to teach spelling and writing in a way that actually helps people to spell correctly (which you obviously have not), you simply don't qualify to rant about that topic. By your own words, you have not found such a way, and by your own words you are not qualified to comment on the subject.
It is always easy to find other peoples mistakes. Sometimes it is even easy to impress other people by showing them you can do it better. But teaching other people to avoid those mistakes is hard.
You stated one method yourself - the spell checker - but you can't even use that properly. You're, at best, a joke. At worst, an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Click on the linky, you probably can't spell it properly.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein persons of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.
Just because something is already fermented doesn't mean it can't go bad. Ever had a beer that had gone skunky? No amount of stirring will fix that. It's gross.
Courts have ruled that police can compel you to touch the fingerprint scanner, because that's not "testifying against yourself", whereas they can't compel you to give them the passcode.
Which doesn't make sense, because in both cases you're giving evidence against yourself, but, as Charles Dickens wrote in Oliver Twist:
"The law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass - a idiot"
Who'd have thought that Mr. Bumble was a feminist?:-)
Billions of instructions per second. Face recognition in millionths of a second. So they're going to accurately recognize a face running only a few thousand CPU instructions? Baloney.
It's worse than that. I seriously doubt the phone will be refreshing its' camera image thousands, never mind millions, of times a second. Or continuously storing the camera feed so that they always have an image ready to use (flash memory doesn't like constant re-writes, and then there's the increased power consumption, which is at odds with the "we have made the most anorexic iPhone EVAH!" crap.
Instead of bragging how you can now make it even thinner, double the thickness - that can give a week of normal use because most of the current phone isn't battery. Heck, even 3 days would be a game-changer.
Antibiotics, for one. And the aforementioned growth hormones. Also, "ultra-pasteurized" and "ultra-filtered" don't mean anything wrt whether the milk is adulterated or not. It's not somehow "purer" - it's just marketing BS that is obviously effective at getting people to pay extra. Same as people are paying almost the same price for skim milk as for whole milk thinking it will help them get thin. Works just as well as those shopping carts with diet soft drinks and tons of junk food, because it "gives them permission" to eat more.
We really need a way to test if snow is not too yellow!
Speaking of yellow snow, Donald Trump was pissed off that someone had written "Donald Trump sucks" in the snow using piss. He demanded a full report. "Sir, the urine is Obama's. But the handwriting is Ivanka's."
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Isn't that what alcohol is for? Sure, it's a depressant, but misery loves company, so might as well form your own support group at the local bar ... :-)
plain site or plain sight?
learn english!
He meant "plane site." He's investing in a web site devoted to powered flight. :-)
Except that logged-in trolls are easy to spot, and down-modding them reduces the number of posts they can make to 2 per account per day - and if suddenly the same IP address is used to crap-flood, it's easy enough to ban.
Now if you REALLY want to clean up things, have validated accounts with a real identity behind them. Sure this won't stop crap (it doesn't on sites like facebook or twitter), but eventually the shit will hit the fan, because the Internet never forgets. Enough people lose job opportunities for being assholes, it will sink in.
There is no reason to allow someone to moderate in a discussion and then post anonymously. That's a bug - one that can be easily fixed. It's also dishonest. Then again, most logged-in users hide behind nyms anyway, so they're more like "semi-anonymous cowards."
Now back on topic. The bitcoin chain holds a record of every transaction. The IRS shouldn't have too hard a time now going back over years of transaction records. There's the flaw of bitcoin - if anonymity is broken, every transaction is on record, not just the most recent activity. And for bitcoin to work, every transaction needs to be recorded. And if history has taught us anything, it's that any encryption can be broken given enough resources and motivation. Just more proof that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, I guess.
The government just takes more and more of your money, but they don't go after the large corporations who have their money stashed away overseas. They just want more and more of your hard earned money. It's so Jewish.
You mis-spelled "It's so Trump/Republican."
I don't get dick for the half of my paycheck that is stolen by government.
You want dick? Congratulations for coming out of the closet. But supplying dick is not part of the government's mandate. Obtaining it is left to your own initiative. You can start by posting a f*ck-ton of posts about why you love Apple, link to the Village People video in your sig, and take those assless leather cowboy chaps out of storage.
Fire services are often provided by volunteers where there isn't a sufficient tax base. But it's kind of useless without a working water system - the 500 gallon on-board water tank in a fire engine sometimes just isn't enough. And if they can't afford to pay for staffing, they can't afford to buy a tanker truck.
Venezuela is getting there pretty damn fast. And the shit-hole known as India*, where tax evasion was so bad that they had to change the currency. 60% of households are without a toilet, no proper sewer system, people shitting in the open on sidewalks, that's what tax avoidance gets you. It's now even grounds for divorce because an Indian court has finally ruled that making women hold it in until after sunset so they can take a dump outside (hopefully unseen) is cruelty.
They keep saying "taxation is theft," but ignore the fact that if you don't pay your fair share, you're stealing from everyone else who has to make up the difference. Not paying tax is theft.
Sticking it in a metal box, like an old 3x5 index card holder, takes care of everything.
Don't bother. This has been tried before, and failed. Over and over. It's one thing to get linux running on it after a fashion, quite another to get the telecommunications parts working. And no, being able to connect only via usb is not a viable alternative.
As the article points out, these are just artist's renderings. Also, they claim to have an arrangement with a manufacturer, but since they won't say who, my guess is it's just an informal "okay, if you can actually get it working, we'll talk." Certainly not a formal commitment to manufacture anything at this point, since it's only vaporware..
Re: #57 - I viewed it last week when I downloaded the latest Eclipse updates. Oh, you mean the solar eclipse? Nah, if you've seen one eclipse, you've seen them all. Literally nothing new to see there.
I'll never understand, why can't people just pull up their socks and stop being mental?
I wasn't depressed - at least not until I read the article and your comment.
Look it up, stupid. First e without, second e with accent is listed as an accepted spelling. It's also the only valid one since the word "resume" in any spelling is slang in French - it's franglais. There are more than 3 accents in French. Or did you not learn to count yet? Obviously you don't know how to write it (or at least write it properly), or you would have known that.
As for entering accents on an iPad, it's just a bit more complicated than entering them on an Android device. After the welcome screen, it will load the appropriate results - #1 is the one you want.
Now, WTF am I doing having to teach this "genius" how to use an iPad??? Simple - it's my good deed for the day. And you can't really expect too much from Apple fanbois.
Of course it did. You can't lie on the Internet!
This sentence is a lie. :-)
It's a self-administered test - you do NOT need to go through google. The link to the US National Library of Medicine paper with the test and how to score it is here. The relevant section:
Over the last 2 weeks, how often have you been bothered by any of the following problems?
0=Not at all,1=Several days,2=More than half the days,3=Nearly every day
1. Little interest or pleasure in doing things 0 1 2 3
2. Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless 0 1 2 3
3. Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much 0 1 2 3
4. Feeling tired or having little energy 0 1 2 3
5. Poor appetite or overeating 0 1 2 3
6. Feeling bad about yourself—or that you are a failure or have let yourself or your family down 0 1 2 3
7. Trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching television 0 1 2 3
8. Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed? Or the opposite—being so fidgety or restless that you have been moving around a lot more than usual 0 1 2 3
9. Thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way 0 1 2 3 The total is your score.
Interpreting the score:
The vast majority of patients (93%) with no depressive disorder had a PHQ-9 score less than 10, while most patients (88%) with major depression had scores of 10 or greater. Scores less than 5 almost always signified the absence of a depressive disorder; scores of 5 to 9 predominantly represented patients with either no depression or subthreshold (i.e., other) depression; scores of 10 to 14 represented a spectrum of patients; and scores of 15 or greater usually indicated major depression.
In other words, this is something that any web monkey could bang out in a really short time, so don't be too impressed with the Googles. With the ready availability of web-based tests based on the PHQ-9, there is absolutely NO need for yet another one, so it looks like this is just to start getting people used to the idea of handing over their medical info directly to Google.
The gender of objects in some languages makes perfect sense in this case. You can't even spell properly in a genderless language, and yet children in other countries get it right or they don't graduate.
As for resumé, the common form in English is stupid to anyone who speaks French. The first accent is wrong, because it's not pronounced in English as if it were a French é. Those of us who speak, read, and write French can tell the difference - those who just learn it in high school can't, so they copy stupid mistakes by non-native speakers when transliterating. Like you do.
Your defense of not even being sufficiently fluent to recognize the difference between "dam" and "damn" because you depend on a spell checker is a joke. Same as native English speakers who don't know the difference between brake and break, their, they're, and there, etc.
And shadowing variables by accident also happens in strongly typed languages, especially with multiple header files. Being able to spot typos is a necessary skill, and one you admit you simply don't have. Good programmers also make good proof readers because mistakes just jump out at them, since part of the job is a necessary ability to spot such mistakes in code. So go continue to make mistakes, just like the one where you said that French is a language where spelling isn't important - I already proved you.were so full of shit on that one.
The difference between the French grave, acute, cirumflex, etc. accents are taught here in the earliest grades in English schools. No need for me to figure it out - I already know it, and obviously I can hear the difference between an accented and unaccented character, whereas you can't (same as most native English speakers, which is why they put one on the first e in resumé, even though the first e is NOT pronounced as if it has an accent - certainly not in an English transliteration.
In short, you are not as fluent in French as you claim to be, which leaves plenty of doubt about your other claims, especially considering how provably wrong you are on many of them. Also, you need to learn what an archaism is. We have archaisms in pretty much all languages, including British and American English and the various dialects of French.
When writing principally to Americans, I spell it "color". When writing to non-Americans, I spell it "colour". In code I just #define one as being equivalent to the other, so it doesn't matter which spelling is used (a trick I first came across decades ago in the Clipper header files, and which I appreciate for the sake of simplicity and avoiding errors, and for accommodating people's differences). That doesn't mean I'm going to use obsolete terms. That you take pride in it makes my point that it's just an affectation or trying to cover up your admitted inability to spell consistently.
And FYI, it's "her". My birth certificate states "Female". So does all my other ID, government and otherwise, my voter registration, my universal health card, my pension plan, my bank account, my lease, etc. And unlike you, I don't hide behind a nym - that's my real, legal name I post under (just missing the space between first and last names, and my middle name). It's also the same name on my marriage and divorce papers, and my kid's birth certificates. Try posting under your real name for a change if you want to be seen as standing behind what you say. Anything else is pretty lame, just one step above posting anonymously. It's like James Damore lying about having a PhD from Harvard, working for google, and not realizing how the Internet works, and that lies like that are just a quick search away from being exposed. He wants to sue google for firing them? He lied on his job application - that's as good a reason as any to fire him. That's both the beauty and the risk of posting under your real name - accountability. Might as well get used to it - nothing on the Internet is truly anonymous any more.
It's still BS. You're still going to have to store it in the fridge after opening, and probably before first use, so why pay a premium for it (oh wait - that marketing bs convinces you to pay more). Also, it doesn't taste the same - as your link admits:
UHT milk has seen large success in much of Europe, where across the continent as a whole 7 out of 10 Europeans drink it regularly.[12] In fact, in a hot country such as Spain, UHT milk is preferred due to high costs of refrigerated transportation and "inefficient cool cabinets".[13] UHT is less popular in Northern Europe and Scandinavia, particularly in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is also less popular in Greece, where fresh pasteurized milk is the most popular type of milk. This may be largely due to the differential rates of lactose intolerance within Europe; populations with high tolerance can drink milk in large amounts, making the lower palatability of UHT milk more noticeable.
The article also points out that it is otherwise degraded:
Folate: UHT milk contains 1 g of folate per 100 g, while pasteurized milk contains 9 g
Vitamin B12, vitamin C and thiamin: Some nutritional loss can occur in UHT milk
So I stand by my claim that marketing is selling you an inferior product. Your link proves it, and personal experience shows that it tastes like watered-down crap. If you can't tell the difference, that's not my problem, because the article says it doesn't taste as good. Or maybe you're just lactose intolerant, so taste doesn't matter to you.
So, you claim the French aren't fussy, to someone who lives in Québec. You have multiple spelling mistakes, and claim that English is a hard language, and yet it's simple compared to French, where objects have a gender associated with them (unlike English). And accents. If kids in grade school can learn to speak, read and write both, what's your excuse for not being proficient in either?
"But my brain doesn't work that way." Lame excuse-making, from someone who, as I pointed out before, is commenting in a post about computer coding, who obviously CANNOT CODE, because compilers and runtimes are even more fussy than the French when it comes to both spelling and punctuation.
You didn't even know what I was talking about when I mentioned spelling errors wrt auto-vivified variables in scripting languages, so I'll give you an example:
$color = "red";
# a bunch of intervening code, then later:
$colour = "blue"; #ERROR, creates a new variable named "colour" and assigns "blue" to it. "color" was not changed.
# more intervening code, then later:
printf("%s\n", "The color of the light is $color\n"
Output: The color of the light is red.
If you can't see erroneous spellings, you can't code. But we already know you can't. So why are you even bothering to continue commenting in a post about teaching coding when you can't? Especially after telling me that if I can't teach spelling, I have no right to comment about spelling, where it's pretty damn obvious that you can't teach spelling (and you don't know if I can or not)? I am far better qualified to teach spelling than you, because I can see the mistakes without a spell checker, and point them out. You can't even see them with a spell checker - as your using "dam" in place of "damn" made obvious.
As for the spelling of superior, spelling it with a "u" is obsolete, an archaism. Use of archaisms is an affectation, and a pretty stupid one, because trying to look more intelligent by using archaisms just shows how you just don't get it. The French version has a "u", but no "o". Example: La Cour Supérieure du Québec. It's as stupid as people who pronounce schedule as "shed-ul" and not "sked-ul". Or "fil-um" for "film", or "nukular" for "nuclear."
And no, the most retarded thing you can do is to debate spelling when you admit you can't spell, in a thread about coding, where it's obvious you don't understand jack shit about the need for accurate spelling in code.
Let me emphasize again, this article is about coding. If you can't see mistakes and inconsistencies in variable names, you can't code. There is simply no way to get around that. Plus, your spelling and grammar are a huge barrier to advanced employment, or even something as simple as a receptionist. Now I've worked as a coder, and for a short time (after transitioning) as a receptionist and office manager, so I have seen first-hand that those students will be judged by their spelling and grammar. I've gone through enough resumés when we were looking for more coders to know that bad spelling gets your application shit-canned. Receptionists don't forward job applications full of typos for any but the most menial of jobs; programmers just throw them in the reject pile because we know you can't code if you can't spell consistently, and you sure as hell can't debug.
And for those wondering about the English spelling of resumé, the first "e" is soft, so no accent, the second one is pronounced "aye", same as an "e" with an accent in French. Think "Mel Tormé" ("tor-may"). FYI: In French it's called a Curriculum Vitae, not a resumé (which is why we also refer to it as a CV).
And this ends another episode of "stupid reasons why we spell things the way we do". Sorry, I'm just subbing for Sheldon Cooper. He'll be back whenever he decides to return to planet Earth. :-)...
Obviously the eggs would crack if someone tried to freeze them, from the expansion of the contents when they freeze, since ice is less dense than water (which is why there's life on earth - if ice sank when it froze, the oceans would be solid ice to the bottom, and without the moderating influence of the water, we'd be an ice ball), same as a glass bottle or can of soda pop will expand. If you don't believe it, put a can of your favorite drink in the freezer and freeze it solid.
You seem not to get it, so I repeat it:
I for my part are what I would call 'a superiour reader'. (which btw has no grammar error, I could place a comma though ...)
Of course it has a grammar error. In this sentence, "You" is singular, "are" is plural. It should have been "I for my part am what I would call "a superiour (sic) reader", or preferably "For my part, I am a superior reader" (agreement in quantity and no spelling mistakes). Don't try to tell me that your spell check passed "superiour" yet again. That is NOT superior spelling.
Your excuse:
I simply don't see spelling mistakes. That is all. My brain makes the required corrections to parse other people and my spelling mistakes automatically.
And your brain always stops and some background process yells to your consciousness: 'what an idiot, can you beliefe that mistake?'
My brain does not stop, it just reads it as it is meant to be read, until I end at the sentence and realize: oooops, that did not made any sense. Then I have literally to parse the sentence again letter by letter.
My point is: some eyes/brains work like this and some like that.
So you admit you're not able to do, with your "superiour (sic)" reading skills, what the majority of the population can, even though half the population is below average IQ, even with the help of a spell checker? And you want me to accept that excuse? I'm not nearly as stupid as you think, nor am nearly as stupid as you've already demonstrated repeatedly by trying to defend the indefensible.
Also, you obviously are incapable of debugging code because you admit your brain won't see typos, which means you aren't capable of writing proper code, so what the fuck are you doing commenting on coding? You. Are. Not. Qualified. Period.
As long as you have not found a way how to teach spelling, and writing, in a way that actually helps people to spell correctly, you simply do't qualify to rant about that topic! Bold by intention, could not double-bold the word "teach" in the middle.
It is always easy to find other peoples mistakes. Sometimes it is even easy to impress other people by showing them you can do it better. But teaching other people to avoid those mistakes is hard.
As long as you cant: shut the fuck up.
What a load of sorry excuse-making bullshit. I'll turn your stupid logic fail right back at you - as long as you have not found a way to properly use a spell checker, you simply don't qualify to rant about that topic. Also, your original argument also holds against you - as long as you haven't found a way to teach spelling and writing in a way that actually helps people to spell correctly (which you obviously have not), you simply don't qualify to rant about that topic. By your own words, you have not found such a way, and by your own words you are not qualified to comment on the subject.
It is always easy to find other peoples mistakes. Sometimes it is even easy to impress other people by showing them you can do it better. But teaching other people to avoid those mistakes is hard.
You stated one method yourself - the spell checker - but you can't even use that properly. You're, at best, a joke. At worst, an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Click on the linky, you probably can't spell it properly.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein persons of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.
And when you write:
As long as you cant: shut the fuck up.
I say "Right back at you, foolish hypocrite."
Just because something is already fermented doesn't mean it can't go bad. Ever had a beer that had gone skunky? No amount of stirring will fix that. It's gross.
Courts have ruled that police can compel you to touch the fingerprint scanner, because that's not "testifying against yourself", whereas they can't compel you to give them the passcode.
Which doesn't make sense, because in both cases you're giving evidence against yourself, but, as Charles Dickens wrote in Oliver Twist:
"The law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass - a idiot"
Who'd have thought that Mr. Bumble was a feminist? :-)
Billions of instructions per second. Face recognition in millionths of a second. So they're going to accurately recognize a face running only a few thousand CPU instructions? Baloney.
It's worse than that. I seriously doubt the phone will be refreshing its' camera image thousands, never mind millions, of times a second. Or continuously storing the camera feed so that they always have an image ready to use (flash memory doesn't like constant re-writes, and then there's the increased power consumption, which is at odds with the "we have made the most anorexic iPhone EVAH!" crap.
Instead of bragging how you can now make it even thinner, double the thickness - that can give a week of normal use because most of the current phone isn't battery. Heck, even 3 days would be a game-changer.
Antibiotics, for one. And the aforementioned growth hormones. Also, "ultra-pasteurized" and "ultra-filtered" don't mean anything wrt whether the milk is adulterated or not. It's not somehow "purer" - it's just marketing BS that is obviously effective at getting people to pay extra. Same as people are paying almost the same price for skim milk as for whole milk thinking it will help them get thin. Works just as well as those shopping carts with diet soft drinks and tons of junk food, because it "gives them permission" to eat more.
We really need a way to test if snow is not too yellow!
Speaking of yellow snow, Donald Trump was pissed off that someone had written "Donald Trump sucks" in the snow using piss. He demanded a full report. "Sir, the urine is Obama's. But the handwriting is Ivanka's."