Well, except "patriarchy" is a word specifically denoting a male-led societal structure.
I get your point, though, a matriarchy can be just as bad if the pendulum swings too far the other way.
Oh, man - haven't thought about Killdozer in years!
Who doesn't like construction equipment bent on destruction of all life around it? The '70s were sooooo weird.
It's staggering to me how many people don't realize just how much comes out of oil. We do to oil what the native Americans used to do with the Buffalo.
We take the oil and put it in a big pipe, heat the crap out of it, and then pull out different things based on how high up in the pipe it condenses (a crude simplification, but close enough for government work).
At the top is the gasses such as LPG and butanes. Sulfur too, from H2S. Heavy Naphtha.
Then a ton of products, some of which get reblended into Gasoline: jet fuel, kerosine, diesel oil, fuel oil, stuff like butanes and pentanes.
Lower down, we get the heavy fuel oils, waxes, lubricating oils (don't underestimate the need for that stuff).
And finally, at the bottom, Asphalt.
Most of that stuff we'll need, even if every car today was electrically powered.
The prime factor in this decision, the bankruptcy of Westinghouse, isn't mentioned in the article until you get halfway through. I guess factors such as these don't really fit the narrative of "nuclear bad".
This type of response is why education in the US is off the rails. You extrapolate your response to learning via YouTube to the entire student population.
Students learn differently. Some respond to visual learning methods. Some to auditory methods. Some respond best to experiment. The point being, instructor input is vital. During a lecture, the instructor can see the "deer in the headlights" look, and adjust the instruction style and content appropriately.
Videos can't do that. Self-study only works with brilliant, entirely self-motivated individuals, and those are rare indeed.
Why wouldn't Amazon market this internationally? It's not like no one outside of Japan likes manga...
I've had to banish my manga collection from my Kindle Voyage because one relatively short manga can take up the space of 100 other books. I'd love to be able to fit them all on my Kindle.
My wife's pacemaker certainly doesn't call 9-1-1 in the event of heart failure. The only "phone home" functionality is via a base station next to her bed where it sends log data to the doctor nightly.
I can't imagine them building cell functionality in a pacemaker - they want them to be as small as possible, since they're devices implanted in the body.
Sea landings play merry hell with the equipment, requiring lots of expensive refurbishment (ala the shuttle booster rocket segments).
The SpaceX approach is to bring the boosters to a soft touchdown on land, minimizing turnaround costs.
This is *never* done. Operators are well aware that every drill is a drill. The only times keys are turned are in the missile procedures trainer or in carefully planned follow-on test launches from Vandenburg AFB, or simulated electronic launches.
So, we have: a single-sourced story from a news source that has in the past been an advocate of the removal of the U.S. base from Okinawa, an anonymous verification source (and thus unable to be contacted for independent verification), and a reprinting of the story by the BoAS, which has long changed its tune to keep itself as being seen as relevant.
I'm surprised that this story was even allowed to be printed, as single-sourced stories are usually laughed out of the editors' offices. Even in this case, if you allow 2 sources, usually you'd need hard evidence, not just hearsay.
How does the expression go? "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"? I don't see anything extraordinary here.
So Apple should revoke the certificate. Why is this a problem? What makes this newsworthy? What am I missing?
That even though this is still just someone running an untrusted binary, let's put that it affects unjailbroken iphones so people who just read the title will be scared and move to android?
Actually, I signed up for unlimited 3G, but when I got my iPhone 5, AT&T changed it to an unlimited LTE contract. They still use the 'unlimited' term, even today: when I go into my AT&T application, my plan is listed as 'unlimited'...and then they give a 5.3GB/5GB designation. And if they throttled my data due to network congestion, that'd be one thing, but my data stays throttled to 0.5MBit/sec from the time I go over 5GB until my next billing cycle starts, no matter what time of day or night I try to use it. Congestion my ass.
Obviously, this is anecdotal, but when my wife upgraded, she had the greyed-out WiFi setting.
I restored her phone from scratch, and it didn't fix it.
We then took her phone to the Apple store, and the tech (I refuse to call them geniuses) said the hardware had failed. Thankfully, she was 8 days (?!!) away from warranty expiration, so she got a shiny new 4S.
I understand that iOS7 did a firmware upgrade, and that can stress the hardware - but no errors appeared during the upgrade process. You'd think an incomplete flash would at least kick out something.
Some scriptwriter probably thought a revolver that used varied ammo just wouldn't look as cool as a gun that spat green fire.
I would've liked to see a tangler round, though...
Oh, certainly. However, a collective noun still has a singular and a plural. You shouldn't write that a pride of lions was anything but singular, unless you were talking about multiple prides of lions.
In the same vein, a company name is always singular. You wouldn't make the possessive of Google Googles'.
As for notional agreement, that doesn't apply in this case, as the sentence was referring to the singular corporation, not the multiple people forming them.
Well, if grammar matters, then I'd say the question is more properly, "Given that Microsoft has had desktop applications with built-in grammar check since around 1997, why doesn't Google have one?"
Wow....just....I don't even know how to respond to the sheer number of fallacies in that paragraph.
Instead, I'll focus on the biggest whopper:
Russia became paranoid and autocratic as a defensive measure,
WTF?!? Are you seriously saying that Russia *wasn't* paranoid and autocratic until *after* WWII? Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 on, and used that position to consolidate power. His centralized planning of the economy resulted in the famine that caused mass uprisings, which led Stalin to command the "Great Purge" in 1937-38.
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Well, except "patriarchy" is a word specifically denoting a male-led societal structure. I get your point, though, a matriarchy can be just as bad if the pendulum swings too far the other way.
How does this prove "the patriarchy"? Doesn't it really prove that media organizations don't practice what they preach?
Oh, man - haven't thought about Killdozer in years! Who doesn't like construction equipment bent on destruction of all life around it? The '70s were sooooo weird.
SpaceX has been using densified LOX since December 2015. Not exactly yesterday.
It's staggering to me how many people don't realize just how much comes out of oil. We do to oil what the native Americans used to do with the Buffalo.
We take the oil and put it in a big pipe, heat the crap out of it, and then pull out different things based on how high up in the pipe it condenses (a crude simplification, but close enough for government work).
Most of that stuff we'll need, even if every car today was electrically powered.
The prime factor in this decision, the bankruptcy of Westinghouse, isn't mentioned in the article until you get halfway through. I guess factors such as these don't really fit the narrative of "nuclear bad".
This type of response is why education in the US is off the rails. You extrapolate your response to learning via YouTube to the entire student population. Students learn differently. Some respond to visual learning methods. Some to auditory methods. Some respond best to experiment. The point being, instructor input is vital. During a lecture, the instructor can see the "deer in the headlights" look, and adjust the instruction style and content appropriately. Videos can't do that. Self-study only works with brilliant, entirely self-motivated individuals, and those are rare indeed.
Why wouldn't Amazon market this internationally? It's not like no one outside of Japan likes manga...
I've had to banish my manga collection from my Kindle Voyage because one relatively short manga can take up the space of 100 other books. I'd love to be able to fit them all on my Kindle.
With a 7-digit slashdot id? Yeah.
My wife's pacemaker certainly doesn't call 9-1-1 in the event of heart failure. The only "phone home" functionality is via a base station next to her bed where it sends log data to the doctor nightly.
I can't imagine them building cell functionality in a pacemaker - they want them to be as small as possible, since they're devices implanted in the body.
Sea landings play merry hell with the equipment, requiring lots of expensive refurbishment (ala the shuttle booster rocket segments). The SpaceX approach is to bring the boosters to a soft touchdown on land, minimizing turnaround costs.
This is *never* done. Operators are well aware that every drill is a drill. The only times keys are turned are in the missile procedures trainer or in carefully planned follow-on test launches from Vandenburg AFB, or simulated electronic launches.
Search for Hamzy's "Despecialized" editions - he used HD sources, and got them as close to the theatrical editions as he could.
It's the only version I keep on my shelf.
So, we have: a single-sourced story from a news source that has in the past been an advocate of the removal of the U.S. base from Okinawa, an anonymous verification source (and thus unable to be contacted for independent verification), and a reprinting of the story by the BoAS, which has long changed its tune to keep itself as being seen as relevant.
I'm surprised that this story was even allowed to be printed, as single-sourced stories are usually laughed out of the editors' offices. Even in this case, if you allow 2 sources, usually you'd need hard evidence, not just hearsay.
How does the expression go? "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"? I don't see anything extraordinary here.
That even though this is still just someone running an untrusted binary, let's put that it affects unjailbroken iphones so people who just read the title will be scared and move to android?
Actually, I signed up for unlimited 3G, but when I got my iPhone 5, AT&T changed it to an unlimited LTE contract. They still use the 'unlimited' term, even today: when I go into my AT&T application, my plan is listed as 'unlimited'...and then they give a 5.3GB/5GB designation. And if they throttled my data due to network congestion, that'd be one thing, but my data stays throttled to 0.5MBit/sec from the time I go over 5GB until my next billing cycle starts, no matter what time of day or night I try to use it. Congestion my ass.
It says right in the description that the follow-up information was the fine that was levied.
Obviously, this is anecdotal, but when my wife upgraded, she had the greyed-out WiFi setting.
I restored her phone from scratch, and it didn't fix it.
We then took her phone to the Apple store, and the tech (I refuse to call them geniuses) said the hardware had failed. Thankfully, she was 8 days (?!!) away from warranty expiration, so she got a shiny new 4S.
I understand that iOS7 did a firmware upgrade, and that can stress the hardware - but no errors appeared during the upgrade process. You'd think an incomplete flash would at least kick out something.
I just put my Calibre library on Dropbox - problem solved.
Some scriptwriter probably thought a revolver that used varied ammo just wouldn't look as cool as a gun that spat green fire. I would've liked to see a tangler round, though...
I disable all sigs, so I didn't see it. You are right, of course, UK English is often different than US English.
Oh, certainly. However, a collective noun still has a singular and a plural. You shouldn't write that a pride of lions was anything but singular, unless you were talking about multiple prides of lions. In the same vein, a company name is always singular. You wouldn't make the possessive of Google Googles'. As for notional agreement, that doesn't apply in this case, as the sentence was referring to the singular corporation, not the multiple people forming them.
Well, if grammar matters, then I'd say the question is more properly, "Given that Microsoft has had desktop applications with built-in grammar check since around 1997, why doesn't Google have one?"
It's not old - most OTA HD signals are over UHF, at least in the US.
Wow....just....I don't even know how to respond to the sheer number of fallacies in that paragraph.
Instead, I'll focus on the biggest whopper:
WTF?!? Are you seriously saying that Russia *wasn't* paranoid and autocratic until *after* WWII? Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 on, and used that position to consolidate power. His centralized planning of the economy resulted in the famine that caused mass uprisings, which led Stalin to command the "Great Purge" in 1937-38.