Not really my assertion, is it? He told us. That doesn't mean I believe everything he said 100%. But the principle was there. I certainly don't hesitate when I'm taking antihistamines at home that have been expired for 6 months thinking I will die from it, for example.
I remember from my pharmacology course my teacher told us that the ONLY compound you should never take once it has expired is acetaminophen/paracetamol since it breaks down to NAPQI all by itself over time. Everything else, however, is not toxic. It just simply loses potency over time.
Of course as a physician prescribing medication you would never recommend taking expired medication since, as mentioned in TFA, the manufacturer does not guarantee potency. Therefore you cannot know if the therapeutic dose can be reached in your patient. Since there's a risk of patients not being treated with expired meds, you always recommend they take non expired medication.
Windows 10 is arguably successful from a market share perspective
Arguably successful - 26% market share after 2 years of being given away FREE, sneakily ninja-installed on many people's computers without their consent or through ethically dubious tricks like requiring people to agree NOT to install it, and shipped as the standard OEM OS for all new PC's for at least the past year. No, Windows 10 is a MASSIVE failure in terms of market share.
Did his house in Thailand say "AlphaBay Founder". They found HIM then they figured out where to get him. No one issued a warrant for "the person or persons living at IP XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX". So if they know who to arrest, it's not hard to put the flag to stop him at the border of any cooperating country.
I'm an atheist, but not gay. So you can suck your own dick. I agree with the rest of your sentiments though, in principle. I wouldn't say I actually hate Christians - I just avoid them. I've learned not to waste my time:)
It's a good thing I'm not a criminal, because if they look at my search history over the years they will find all sorts of queries that any reasonably intelligent and therefore curious person could make. I guess this is just the prosecutor trick of finding every single scrap of dirt on the guy being prosecuted and building a case, but I'm pretty sure that not everyone who hypothetically looks up how to make explosives actually makes explosives... otherwise this planet is in deep trouble.
Lend Lease was enacted in March 1941. Britain had already survived the threat of invasion and the Battle of Britain and was turning the tide against the u-boats in the N. Atlantic. Britain had already passed through the worst of the storm. Lend lease helped the UK switch to and stay on the offensive both in N. Africa and the Med. It did not "save" Britain by any means. Britain was mostly saved by geography and the Royal Navy/Air Force.
It's doubtful if the capture of Moscow would have been anything more than a propaganda victory for the Germans. After all, Napoleon was still defeated even though he actually took the city (or at least what was left of it after the Russians intentionally burned it). While yes the bogging down of troops outside Moscow signaled the doom of Barbarossa - complete disaster actually happened when Paulus' 6th army was encircled, cut off, and well over 200K battle-hardened troops were forced to surrender with all their equipment. After that the whole momentum of the Eastern front changed. From then on any counterattacks and gains by the Germans would be temporary at best, and usually were quickly blunted or absorbed by the Red Army as it ground its way towards Berlin.
So while I agree that the failure to take Moscow can be seen as the first major indicator that Barbarossa would not succeed (along with failing to take Lenningrad), Stalingrad is where Germany lost sufficient men and material to ensure it could never take the offensive again. From that point on its hands were tied and no amount of tactical or strategic brilliance could change the fact that the Russians now controlled the entire front and could push whenever and wherever they wanted.
McDonald's sells billions of burgers every year. That doesn't qualify them for a Michelin star. You are seriously trying to imply something because a company that sells cheap crap gets away with selling cheap crap to a lot of people? I'm sure if the average Brit could afford a nicer car, they wouldn't buy a Ford Fiesta.
The US was absolutely critical to winning ww2. If the US hadn't supplied England and invaded the mainland, Hitler would have prevailed over Russia and Africa,
Absolute rubbish. The Battle of Britain was won in 1940, over a year before the US even entered the war. Germany's failure to destroy the RAF and Royal Navy made an invasion of Britain impossible.
The first official military action of the United States in WW2 was Operation Torch in November 1942 - one month AFTER the second battle of El Alamein which is considered the turning point of the entire North African campaign. Once El Alamein was fought again, the Afrika Korps had no chance - it was under-supplied and out of fuel. All Rommel could do was slow down the Allied advance as much as he could with what he had left. What the US managed to do was trap the Afrika Korps from the other side, ensuring they had no escape route left to them. It was in no way a decisive action since Hitler had already written off the Afrika Korps - both men and equipment. A plan to evacuate the troops of the Afrika Korps by air at night from Tunisia was put forward and even approved by OKH however Hitler never signed off on it - that's how important he thought those experienced troops were.
The battle of Stalingrad began in August 1942, again before Operation Torch and USA's "official" entry into the war. Stalingrad is considered by all historians to be the major turning point of the war on the Eastern front.
The "Happy Time" of the battle of the Atlantic was over by 1941, long before the US entered the war. ASDIC (a British invention) as well as cracking the German Enigma codes (also by the British) played a major role in defeating Germany's interdiction efforts. The further invention (by the British) of the Leigh Light as well as airborne radar sealed the fate of German u-boats since they were now vulnerable to bombers while on the surface even at night.
While America loves to remind the world of its invaluable help in "winning WW2", Americans tend to forget that the course of the war was mostly decided by the time they finally made up their minds to enter the fray. Also it can be noted that lend lease was an exceedingly good deal for AMERICA, where they traded some obsolete equipment for permanent military bases all around the world. In fact it can be said that the gaining of bases in territories of the former British Empire is what helped put America on the map as a global instead of a regional power. Certainly that was worth a few WW1 destroyers and ancient trucks that had a doubtful outcome on the course of the war.
Oh let's not forget America's performance on D-Day, where they landed most of their troops in the wrong place and would have been driven back in the sea and possibly caused the entire invasion to fail if it weren't for valiant efforts on the part of outnumbered British and Commonwealth troops (as well as Free French and Poles) to mount an immediate attack to prevent the encirclement of the American beaches. That was the first time America nearly lost the Western front for everyone.
The second time was in the Ardennes during the battle of the bulge, where complacent Americans underestimated the Germans and very nearly got encircled the ONLY time the Wehrmacht decided to push for real. Once again Montgomery and the XXX corps saved America's butts by redeploying and counterattacking "just in time".
WW2 was a team effort. While America was an important participant it was in no way the only participant and some would say it wasn't even the most important participant - that honor belonging to the Soviet Union which managed to absorb a significant portion of both the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe so that they were never seen again. America was very good at daylight bombing which resulted in permanent fuel shortages for Germany. And America managed to keep Japan away from most of the British colonies and commonwealth members in the Pacific and southern Asia. However this "you would be speaking German if not for us" nonsense is just as valid for America - America would be surrounded by a German/Japanese empire if it weren't for the UK and it's commonwealth members, the Free French, the free Poles, and the Soviet Union.
Which is still a metric scale. American scales are based on 1/3, 1/4, 1/12, 1/16, etc.
Not my problem if America refuses to catch up with the rest of the world. Sure, you might not need to know the metric system to put a few gallons of gasoline into your car or buy a pound of beef. Serious science and tech stuff is all done in metric, nowadays. Even in the US. Call me when you run into a 5.51181 x 10^-7 inch scale CPU.
Agreed. I have Amazon prime since I live in Latin America and Amazon is pretty much the only way I can buy many US products not available here overseas. The free 2nd day shipping for $99/yr means I can usually get my stuff within a week after mail forwarding and customs and with the amount of stuff I buy it gets paid for very quickly. I've looked at their tv shows/movies and frankly the selection is a lot worse than Netflix - PLUS they do region locking for many titles so I simply can't view most of their content overseas even if I want to pay.
It doesn't work that way. Windows is designed as a message based operating system. Any change in position of the mouse cursor is posted as messages to the queue. Whoever gets to read those queued messages is whichever program currently owning screen real estate. When the ownership of the window/screen changes, the change is instantaneous as far as the message queue is concerned (although the actual screen drawing process you see might have a noticeable delay due to hardware/buffer constraints).
As far as "context sensitive" help/popups, etc - the way that works is a program checks how long it has been since the mouse last moved and if it's above a specified time limit, the program then checks last mouse position against locations of possible pop-up triggers. This takes very few CPU cycles - you can have a function literally firing once every 2 seconds on a timer and doing 10 lines of code or so to determine if a popup is necessary or not. 10 lines of code every 2 seconds is next to nonexistent on a modern CPU.
Microseconds. u is typically used by non unicode internet types to represent the Greek letter Mu which is the internationally recognized symbol for "micro" or 1 millionth. Nerd card revoked, btw.
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my teacher told us
Not really my assertion, is it? He told us. That doesn't mean I believe everything he said 100%. But the principle was there. I certainly don't hesitate when I'm taking antihistamines at home that have been expired for 6 months thinking I will die from it, for example.
Like people who equate metaphor with false equivalency?
I remember from my pharmacology course my teacher told us that the ONLY compound you should never take once it has expired is acetaminophen/paracetamol since it breaks down to NAPQI all by itself over time. Everything else, however, is not toxic. It just simply loses potency over time.
Of course as a physician prescribing medication you would never recommend taking expired medication since, as mentioned in TFA, the manufacturer does not guarantee potency. Therefore you cannot know if the therapeutic dose can be reached in your patient. Since there's a risk of patients not being treated with expired meds, you always recommend they take non expired medication.
And why should I care if you care? :)
Windows 10 is arguably successful from a market share perspective
Arguably successful - 26% market share after 2 years of being given away FREE, sneakily ninja-installed on many people's computers without their consent or through ethically dubious tricks like requiring people to agree NOT to install it, and shipped as the standard OEM OS for all new PC's for at least the past year. No, Windows 10 is a MASSIVE failure in terms of market share.
Centralization works in favor of the plutocrats - only one person to bribe instead of 50.
Or someone took the $5 wrench technique seriously when obtaining his passwords and hit him once too many times.
Did his house in Thailand say "AlphaBay Founder". They found HIM then they figured out where to get him. No one issued a warrant for "the person or persons living at IP XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX". So if they know who to arrest, it's not hard to put the flag to stop him at the border of any cooperating country.
Confirming they never check your identity at any border.
I'm an atheist, but not gay. So you can suck your own dick. I agree with the rest of your sentiments though, in principle. I wouldn't say I actually hate Christians - I just avoid them. I've learned not to waste my time :)
It's a good thing I'm not a criminal, because if they look at my search history over the years they will find all sorts of queries that any reasonably intelligent and therefore curious person could make. I guess this is just the prosecutor trick of finding every single scrap of dirt on the guy being prosecuted and building a case, but I'm pretty sure that not everyone who hypothetically looks up how to make explosives actually makes explosives... otherwise this planet is in deep trouble.
Why don't you tell us how you really feel?
That's the NSA's job. No need to duplicate the effort...
Lend Lease was enacted in March 1941. Britain had already survived the threat of invasion and the Battle of Britain and was turning the tide against the u-boats in the N. Atlantic. Britain had already passed through the worst of the storm. Lend lease helped the UK switch to and stay on the offensive both in N. Africa and the Med. It did not "save" Britain by any means. Britain was mostly saved by geography and the Royal Navy/Air Force.
It's doubtful if the capture of Moscow would have been anything more than a propaganda victory for the Germans. After all, Napoleon was still defeated even though he actually took the city (or at least what was left of it after the Russians intentionally burned it). While yes the bogging down of troops outside Moscow signaled the doom of Barbarossa - complete disaster actually happened when Paulus' 6th army was encircled, cut off, and well over 200K battle-hardened troops were forced to surrender with all their equipment. After that the whole momentum of the Eastern front changed. From then on any counterattacks and gains by the Germans would be temporary at best, and usually were quickly blunted or absorbed by the Red Army as it ground its way towards Berlin.
So while I agree that the failure to take Moscow can be seen as the first major indicator that Barbarossa would not succeed (along with failing to take Lenningrad), Stalingrad is where Germany lost sufficient men and material to ensure it could never take the offensive again. From that point on its hands were tied and no amount of tactical or strategic brilliance could change the fact that the Russians now controlled the entire front and could push whenever and wherever they wanted.
I would add the qualifier "a YOUNG" real driver". At my age I kind of like my automatic transmission, even though I drove manual for 30+ years.
McDonald's sells billions of burgers every year. That doesn't qualify them for a Michelin star. You are seriously trying to imply something because a company that sells cheap crap gets away with selling cheap crap to a lot of people? I'm sure if the average Brit could afford a nicer car, they wouldn't buy a Ford Fiesta.
The US was absolutely critical to winning ww2. If the US hadn't supplied England and invaded the mainland, Hitler would have prevailed over Russia and Africa,
Absolute rubbish. The Battle of Britain was won in 1940, over a year before the US even entered the war. Germany's failure to destroy the RAF and Royal Navy made an invasion of Britain impossible.
The first official military action of the United States in WW2 was Operation Torch in November 1942 - one month AFTER the second battle of El Alamein which is considered the turning point of the entire North African campaign. Once El Alamein was fought again, the Afrika Korps had no chance - it was under-supplied and out of fuel. All Rommel could do was slow down the Allied advance as much as he could with what he had left. What the US managed to do was trap the Afrika Korps from the other side, ensuring they had no escape route left to them. It was in no way a decisive action since Hitler had already written off the Afrika Korps - both men and equipment. A plan to evacuate the troops of the Afrika Korps by air at night from Tunisia was put forward and even approved by OKH however Hitler never signed off on it - that's how important he thought those experienced troops were.
The battle of Stalingrad began in August 1942, again before Operation Torch and USA's "official" entry into the war. Stalingrad is considered by all historians to be the major turning point of the war on the Eastern front.
The "Happy Time" of the battle of the Atlantic was over by 1941, long before the US entered the war. ASDIC (a British invention) as well as cracking the German Enigma codes (also by the British) played a major role in defeating Germany's interdiction efforts. The further invention (by the British) of the Leigh Light as well as airborne radar sealed the fate of German u-boats since they were now vulnerable to bombers while on the surface even at night.
While America loves to remind the world of its invaluable help in "winning WW2", Americans tend to forget that the course of the war was mostly decided by the time they finally made up their minds to enter the fray. Also it can be noted that lend lease was an exceedingly good deal for AMERICA, where they traded some obsolete equipment for permanent military bases all around the world. In fact it can be said that the gaining of bases in territories of the former British Empire is what helped put America on the map as a global instead of a regional power. Certainly that was worth a few WW1 destroyers and ancient trucks that had a doubtful outcome on the course of the war.
Oh let's not forget America's performance on D-Day, where they landed most of their troops in the wrong place and would have been driven back in the sea and possibly caused the entire invasion to fail if it weren't for valiant efforts on the part of outnumbered British and Commonwealth troops (as well as Free French and Poles) to mount an immediate attack to prevent the encirclement of the American beaches. That was the first time America nearly lost the Western front for everyone.
The second time was in the Ardennes during the battle of the bulge, where complacent Americans underestimated the Germans and very nearly got encircled the ONLY time the Wehrmacht decided to push for real. Once again Montgomery and the XXX corps saved America's butts by redeploying and counterattacking "just in time".
WW2 was a team effort. While America was an important participant it was in no way the only participant and some would say it wasn't even the most important participant - that honor belonging to the Soviet Union which managed to absorb a significant portion of both the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe so that they were never seen again. America was very good at daylight bombing which resulted in permanent fuel shortages for Germany. And America managed to keep Japan away from most of the British colonies and commonwealth members in the Pacific and southern Asia. However this "you would be speaking German if not for us" nonsense is just as valid for America - America would be surrounded by a German/Japanese empire if it weren't for the UK and it's commonwealth members, the Free French, the free Poles, and the Soviet Union.
Which is still a metric scale. American scales are based on 1/3, 1/4, 1/12, 1/16, etc.
Not my problem if America refuses to catch up with the rest of the world. Sure, you might not need to know the metric system to put a few gallons of gasoline into your car or buy a pound of beef. Serious science and tech stuff is all done in metric, nowadays. Even in the US. Call me when you run into a 5.51181 x 10^-7 inch scale CPU.
Agreed. I have Amazon prime since I live in Latin America and Amazon is pretty much the only way I can buy many US products not available here overseas. The free 2nd day shipping for $99/yr means I can usually get my stuff within a week after mail forwarding and customs and with the amount of stuff I buy it gets paid for very quickly. I've looked at their tv shows/movies and frankly the selection is a lot worse than Netflix - PLUS they do region locking for many titles so I simply can't view most of their content overseas even if I want to pay.
It doesn't work that way. Windows is designed as a message based operating system. Any change in position of the mouse cursor is posted as messages to the queue. Whoever gets to read those queued messages is whichever program currently owning screen real estate. When the ownership of the window/screen changes, the change is instantaneous as far as the message queue is concerned (although the actual screen drawing process you see might have a noticeable delay due to hardware/buffer constraints).
As far as "context sensitive" help/popups, etc - the way that works is a program checks how long it has been since the mouse last moved and if it's above a specified time limit, the program then checks last mouse position against locations of possible pop-up triggers. This takes very few CPU cycles - you can have a function literally firing once every 2 seconds on a timer and doing 10 lines of code or so to determine if a popup is necessary or not. 10 lines of code every 2 seconds is next to nonexistent on a modern CPU.
Microseconds. u is typically used by non unicode internet types to represent the Greek letter Mu which is the internationally recognized symbol for "micro" or 1 millionth. Nerd card revoked, btw.
I already know. You need to find the other user.
Which is kind of ironic since the physics in that movie made no sense at all.
On the bright side when everyone has one or more umbrellas, no one will need an umbrella anymore and he'll stop losing money...