Dear Gods, not again. Can we please just kill this thing once and for all?
*"Vegetable" is not a botanical category.*
"Vegetable" is a culinary term. All vegetables are some part of a plant. Botany always has a specific name for that part, but that does not exclude them from vegetables, Salad does not cease to be vegetable for being botanically leaves or buds. Celery does not cease to be a vegetable for being botanically a leaf stalk. Artichoke does not cease to be a vegetable for being botanically a flower. Carrot does not cease to be a vegetable for being botanically a root. Tomato does not cease to be a vegetable for being botanically a fruit. Nor do squash, peppers, eggplant, cucumber, okra, avocado, or any number of others.
"Vegetable" refers to basically any part of a plant used for food, except those commonly placed firmly in more specific categories. One of those more specific categories is "fruit" (in the culinary sense), which usually requires it to be sweet and/or tart and used substantially for those qualities. Some of the others are grain (usually botanically fruit before threshing), nuts (always botanically fruit), spices (includes a number of fruits botanically speaking), and herbs.
Culinary terms are made for utility in cooking, not for classification of plants - for that we have botany. Thus the distinctions are inherently vague:
How big or mild-flavored does a leaf have to be to move from herb to vegetable? At what size, mildness, or degree of dessication does a chili move from vegetable to spice? How sweet would a plantain have to be to leave the vegtable section and move in with the banana? Is it not fair to look for sugar cane and rhubarb in the fruit section, even though botanically they are not? Is the sweet potato with the vegetables bacause it is a root or because of its usage? Or maybe in your shop it is not?
Look: * We used to like visiting America * The reasons for wanting to go are still there * You changed some things that made the process of actually getting there a lot less appealing * This has consequences for businesses that want to attract foreign visitors * Someone had the gall to point this out to you
I am from an allied country i Europe, and would definitely get a visa, but all else being equal I would actively choose conferences not in the US. And I know my hesitance is widespread, and lately increasing. It comes down to a lot of compounding factors, many of them predating Trump, but his words and actions sure haven't helped.
The major peeve is the sheer hassle of the TSA and of getting a visa. Both have been ludicrous since 9/11, but the visa process has gotten even worse lately.
Then there is the fear of running into undeserved trouble when crossing. There are lots of stories circulating about crazy delays, returns, confiscations, computer/phone searches, and even holding cells.
All this generates a general distaste to the whole hostile image that the US border projects in later years. The travel bans and the way Trump talks about other countries have sharply heightened that impression, even to us who are not directly affected, to the point where, if you have a free choice, the natural reaction for many is simply: "These guys are nuts. Fine, if they don' want me there, fuck them, I'll go somewhere nice in stead".
Your analogy is broken in so many ways I don't know where to start. Here's a better one:
You display a public anoncement by scribbling it on the top sheet of a flipover pad you have lying around. You nail the whole thing to your wall, and don't even try to secure the bottom corners. A passer-by peeks at the next sheet. No crime. Move along.
Whatever. Point is, people who think they get a signal untainted by digitial steps whenever they buy vinyl are clueless. Data compression aside, the difference they hear is either a difference i production, or more commonly a distortion introduced by the medium which that happen to enjoy. Nothing wrong with that, but any kind of 'purity' innate to the technology itself has nothing to do with it.
So instead of all that cumbersome fact-checking, we can just measure the truth of a story on Twitter! And automate it! Then trolls would have to design purpousefully even slow-moving news to be believed. And we should trust only the medium-speed news. And then...
It's all lies and besides it's not our fault, and besides it's worth it, and besides it's not that bad, and besides I hate you guys so I must be right even when I make no sense. So there, that'll teach ya lefties.
You could, but for most of the phone market, half the point of choosing android is the google integration, and if you use that then securing your device is a moot point because the feeds can just show up at google with a warrant (or possibly without one) without even locating your device. So no point in investing much in it. Your hardened android phone would be a reeeeeally niche product.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I have lots of other issues with Apple, both technical and businesswise.
It still remains a fact that their core business model revolves around the sale of their own hardware and software. The other biggies are either all or largely about monetizing data about their users. This difference has real consequences.
I don't buy for a second that Apple care more about privacy out of the purity of their hearts. But their business model allows them to deliver on that front should they wish to, and lately their market (the users) gives them reason to wish so.
The others can only really go so far on privacy, no matter what users shout for, bacause their markets (not the users) have very different requirements with regard to personal information.
Computers are pretty good at that sort of thing. It is still early days, but as the car fleet goes electric you can imagine people keeping only charging a couple of commutes worth as a minimum, and topping up only when rates are low. If house batteries take off, they would also enable market-driven demand smoothing. Every household would be a power trading bot.
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No. But I do maintain humans are still mammals.
Dear Gods, not again. Can we please just kill this thing once and for all?
*"Vegetable" is not a botanical category.*
"Vegetable" is a culinary term.
All vegetables are some part of a plant.
Botany always has a specific name for that part, but that does not exclude them from vegetables,
Salad does not cease to be vegetable for being botanically leaves or buds.
Celery does not cease to be a vegetable for being botanically a leaf stalk.
Artichoke does not cease to be a vegetable for being botanically a flower.
Carrot does not cease to be a vegetable for being botanically a root.
Tomato does not cease to be a vegetable for being botanically a fruit. Nor do squash, peppers, eggplant, cucumber, okra, avocado, or any number of others.
"Vegetable" refers to basically any part of a plant used for food, except those commonly placed firmly in more specific categories. One of those more specific categories is "fruit" (in the culinary sense), which usually requires it to be sweet and/or tart and used substantially for those qualities.
Some of the others are grain (usually botanically fruit before threshing), nuts (always botanically fruit), spices (includes a number of fruits botanically speaking), and herbs.
Culinary terms are made for utility in cooking, not for classification of plants - for that we have botany.
Thus the distinctions are inherently vague:
How big or mild-flavored does a leaf have to be to move from herb to vegetable?
At what size, mildness, or degree of dessication does a chili move from vegetable to spice?
How sweet would a plantain have to be to leave the vegtable section and move in with the banana?
Is it not fair to look for sugar cane and rhubarb in the fruit section, even though botanically they are not?
Is the sweet potato with the vegetables bacause it is a root or because of its usage? Or maybe in your shop it is not?
You misspelled Trump.
Look:
* We used to like visiting America
* The reasons for wanting to go are still there
* You changed some things that made the process of actually getting there a lot less appealing
* This has consequences for businesses that want to attract foreign visitors
* Someone had the gall to point this out to you
Deal with it.
"we will be saying "fuck Europe" and be withdrawing our free troops"
Because we attend your conferences less frequently?
Wow. That's pretty sore.
That is not how it looks from the outside, dude.
I am from an allied country i Europe, and would definitely get a visa, but all else being equal I would actively choose conferences not in the US. And I know my hesitance is widespread, and lately increasing.
It comes down to a lot of compounding factors, many of them predating Trump, but his words and actions sure haven't helped.
The major peeve is the sheer hassle of the TSA and of getting a visa. Both have been ludicrous since 9/11, but the visa process has gotten even worse lately.
Then there is the fear of running into undeserved trouble when crossing. There are lots of stories circulating about crazy delays, returns, confiscations, computer/phone searches, and even holding cells.
All this generates a general distaste to the whole hostile image that the US border projects in later years. The travel bans and the way Trump talks about other countries have sharply heightened that impression, even to us who are not directly affected, to the point where, if you have a free choice, the natural reaction for many is simply:
"These guys are nuts. Fine, if they don' want me there, fuck them, I'll go somewhere nice in stead".
Your analogy is broken in so many ways I don't know where to start.
Here's a better one:
You display a public anoncement by scribbling it on the top sheet of a flipover pad you have lying around.
You nail the whole thing to your wall, and don't even try to secure the bottom corners.
A passer-by peeks at the next sheet.
No crime.
Move along.
Whatever. Point is, people who think they get a signal untainted by digitial steps whenever they buy vinyl are clueless. Data compression aside, the difference they hear is either a difference i production, or more commonly a distortion introduced by the medium which that happen to enjoy. Nothing wrong with that, but any kind of 'purity' innate to the technology itself has nothing to do with it.
Agile is not scrum. What you describe is neither.
There is already a digital step in all vinyl cut after the mid-70s.
So instead of all that cumbersome fact-checking, we can just measure the truth of a story on Twitter! And automate it! Then trolls would have to design purpousefully even slow-moving news to be believed. And we should trust only the medium-speed news. And then...
Eliminate the NWs entirely
Why stop there?
Let's lock up all those treasonous big-weather commies an let Saint Trump just *decide* the weather?
...but what does "the most powerful" atomic clock do as opposed to just a "powerful" one?
I goes faster, of course!
Duh.
It's all lies
and besides it's not our fault,
and besides it's worth it,
and besides it's not that bad,
and besides I hate you guys so I must be right even when I make no sense.
So there, that'll teach ya lefties.
You could, but for most of the phone market, half the point of choosing android is the google integration, and if you use that then securing your device is a moot point because the feeds can just show up at google with a warrant (or possibly without one) without even locating your device. So no point in investing much in it.
Your hardened android phone would be a reeeeeally niche product.
They could, but it would be a hell of a struggle. Where are they going to display ads? Directly on your phone?
Yup. If the IRS threaten to lock you up, just ignore them.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I have lots of other issues with Apple, both technical and businesswise.
It still remains a fact that their core business model revolves around the sale of their own hardware and software.
The other biggies are either all or largely about monetizing data about their users.
This difference has real consequences.
I don't buy for a second that Apple care more about privacy out of the purity of their hearts. But their business model allows them to deliver on that front should they wish to, and lately their market (the users) gives them reason to wish so.
The others can only really go so far on privacy, no matter what users shout for, bacause their markets (not the users) have very different requirements with regard to personal information.
Or maybe that is what they want you to believe...
If you consider environmentalism categorically leftist, maybe you should reconsider your own bias.
-and the room would have an elephant in it.
What would a quarter pounder with cheese be called?
Computers are pretty good at that sort of thing.
It is still early days, but as the car fleet goes electric you can imagine people keeping only charging a couple of commutes worth as a minimum, and topping up only when rates are low. If house batteries take off, they would also enable market-driven demand smoothing. Every household would be a power trading bot.
If you could get all countries to drop it it would save big in software development over time.
You mean some are more equal than others?