Man decides to commit suicide in elaborate and interesting fashion; wants audience to see him die.
"I don't believe in science" says person who has either severe cognitive deficits, or difficulties with English.
I believe someone should sit down with this man and explain what science is and isn't. What it isn't: men in lab coats with egg-shaped heads, speaking in a cryptic and arcane fashion, lording secret knowledge above everyone else. What it is: an algorithm for applying common sense to observations, and a means to test ideas. A natural offshoot of this is experimentation, where reason (common sense,) is applied to create a scenario in which observations can be made that will tend either to confirm, or disprove, specific things.
I believe when someone claims not to believe in science, what he really means is that he doesn't trust the lab-coated, egg-headed, cryptically-speaking, often socially awkward, neurotic individuals shown to us on television and movies, (media that only exist thanks to scientists, ironically,) which lend people naturally to distrust them, given the survival tactic of fearing the unknown that has mostly stood humanity in excellent stead to survive from prehistory to today, though it is sometimes, (as is the case when a polluted environment slowly and inexorably dooms all mammal-kind to give way to the next dominant form of life after we, as a species, snuff ourselves out,) disadvantageous after all.
1. Set up imaginary thing with alleged value.
2. Find greedy dolts with more money than sense.
3....
4. Profit!
I guess 3 was "Shut down all your social media stuff, go dark, disappear with money citing legal problems with a contract," the modern equivalent of 'the dog ate my homework' in today's phony world.
I'm sure glad I had no money invested in this crypto-pyramid-scheme.
[ ] Don't pay for every website you access, that's what ads are for. Let advertisers be unable target you and unable to track you specifically, etc., which means sellers of ads won't make as much money, and certain companies won't have billions or trillions of dollars that they only have because people tolerated this behavior.
I typed a bunch of stuff after this, but no one is going to read it anyway.
...said the people all using internet connections to read and post stuff, somehow blissfully unaware of how many people are spying on them every second of their online time, as well as most of their offline time.
The only meaningful protection your privacy has in this modern world is that most of you are not interesting enough to warrant the attention.
Not to be that guy, but 'typo in headline.' "GNU/Linux" is misspelled. (Sorry, I guess it turns out that I AM that guy.) Second... it's Micro$oft, and therefore, the fact that it's a trap kind of goes without saying.
"We can't wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple's breakthrough wireless speaker for the home, but we need a little more time before it's ready for our customers,"
Yeah. They can't wait for people to put even more money into their pockets in exchange for the device, more like. Tired of Apple executives and shills pretending to be breathlessly excited about something besides what they obviously only care about.
I, similarly, can't wait for Apple to stop hiding assets offshore and start paying their fare share of taxes like everyone else is SUPPOSED to be.
Also, wouldn't it be nice if Apple would instead focus on loyal customers who are the reason the company still exists, and, oh, I dunno, maybe update the Mac Mini finally?!?
There are places on Earth, I suspect, or near it, where one can experience the same atmospheric pressure, lack of breathable oxygen, sub-sub-SUB-zero temperatures, as one would encounter on Mars' surface!
Just get into a REALLY BIG hot air balloon, and fly to the upper reaches of the atmosphere. DO NOT bring any protective equipment. As you get really high up, a tiny fraction of the way to that altitude, and become light-headed, pass out, and also freeze to death, (all the while accumulating chest-x-ray after chest-x-ray's worth of hard radiation from space, that would cause you massive cancerous tumors you won't live long enough to die from,) you can reflect on how much trying to live on Mars outside of a pressurized, protected, fully-self-contained, heated, etc.etc.etc. life-supporting enclosure, (much like a moon-base or space station would require,) would SUCK, and how only a moron would let romantic science fiction fantasies from decades, or centuries passed, when we didn't yet know how utterly inhospitable to humans, (or probably very nearly any multicellular life,) Mars actually is, convince him to try something so ruinous, wasteful, idiotic, and pointless.
The only way you get to where "Martian" humans can live, and walk about and do stuff on the surface of Mars without spacesuits, is to blanket the entire PLANET in an envelop of gas DENSE enough to maintain roughly one standard atmosphere's pressure under Mars' puny gravity. Such an atmosphere would squeeze any diatomic oxygen molecules UP away from the surface, to boil away into space, or maybe form a layer of the atmosphere which MIGHT be breathable, if not for the fact that it's dozens of miles away from the surface, or hundreds of miles perhaps... (as the oxygen would be less dense, the same reason you don't find much hydrogen gas, either as single atoms or diatomic gas molecules, nor helium gas, for that matter, floating freely near the ground on Earth, as THOSE gases are less dense than the prevailing oxygen and nitrogen, etc. which they're more buoyant than, and hence, not readily found at or near the surface, (the hard ground, or the wet, watery parts) of the planet).
You'd need to find a substance capable of carrying O2 in the air, or oxygen by itself, bonded to something else, that human lungs would be capable of stripping out. Like water, for example, except our ancestors lost the ability to extract oxygen from water eons ago. Also, liquid water wouldn't stay liquid there long, either freezing, or boiling away into space due to low pressure. So again, yeah.
Mars is not massive enough to hold an atmosphere we could breathe and live in without external support. You may as well colonize the moon. Also, it's closer, conveniently. Mars is an uninteresting and uninhabitable ball of rock.
THAT SAID, if you MUST go, why not just give every member of the crew a medically induced coma, a catheter, external electronic stimulation to keep muscles from atrophy, IV nutrition and hydration, etc.
The crew and colonists would launch to space, be hooked up to machines and knocked out, to be awakened just before arrival, (or if you're confident nothing would go wrong with all the vibration of a rocket-launch, they could sleep all the way from before launch to after landing). This is how launch-day could go.
7AM, wake up to last day on earth. Have coffee, clear out of hotel room.
8AM, remember NOT TO EAT breakfast.
9AM, report for lift-off.
10AM, LIFTOFF, orbit, verify all systems are go.
11AM, all passengers load into transit pods.
12PM, passengers are all rendered comatose.
1PM, crew oversees initiation of long, slow burn to change to Mars orbit and catch planet.
2PM, crew all load each other/selves into pods, and are rendered comatose.
--months later--
zero hour (h=0): first of crew reawakened by onboard computer.
h+1, first crew member checks over craft and crew, begins waking rest of crew; verification of location & velocity, plus trajectory. Supply craft sent to land on Mars. Reports sent to Earth.
h+2, crew now awake and undergo health checks; crew gets ready to wake passengers, perform health checks on them, etc.
h+3, passengers all awake, undergoing checks of status, health, etc. All supply craft are verified as having landed safely on Mars.
h+4, passengers board landing craft.
h+5, passenger landing craft, sent from interplanetary transit module, lands on Mars
From the point of view of the passenger, the duration between 12 PM on take-off day, and h+3 several months later, are seemingly only about an hour apart. For most of the crew, that day is only a few hours longer, despite it having a months-long "..." in the middle.
If you ARE going to be stupid enough to try to colonize a rock that will never be able to see your descendants walking around on the surface, without the aid of life-preserving space-suits, THIS is the way to do it. No advanced engine required.
To be clear, we have ALL the technology needed to put humans on Mars now, and it wouldn't be at all even difficult to do. There's just no reason to do so. Ever.
Hmm... they want to go zuruck to Mikro-Gesoftenwerk Fensteren... vieleicht they didn't fully go F/L-OSS in die ersten Platz, und daß war der Problem.
Es sounds wie they halb-treft GNU/Linux und ofnen-gesourctig Gesoftenwerk, wie LibreBüro, in der zuerst Platz, rather than going ein voll-Schwein.
Heheh lol Germish... wie spaßig!
(Für Männer wer brauchen eine Englischübersetzung... Hmm... they want to go back to M$ Windows... perhaps they didn't fully go F/L-OSS in the first place, and THAT was the problem. It sounds like they half-tried GNU/Linux and open source software, like LibreOffice, in the FIRST place, rather than going whole-hog. Heheh lol, Englman, how fun!).
PS, yes, I know that even the German parts of my Germish were probably iffy. That's what made it so fun to write! I never claimed to be fluent. In fact, after all this while, I'm surprised I remember any of it at all!
Deliberately weakening encryption will mean that anyone with anything to hide, whether for legitimate reasons or not, will simply not use the technology, which just means they'll use something from somewhere where they don't have such rules deliberately weakening encryption.
ALSO, there is such a thing as unbreakable encryption. A properly used one-time-pad cypher is unbreakable per the rules of algebra. This begs the question, are they going to outlaw algebra? I'm sure there are kids who would be happy, but... yeah, they can't really do that.
For anyone who doesn't understand, look up one-time-pads.
It's also pretty unreasonable that criminals can't just be forced to admit guilt. Think of all the wasted time giving criminals due process of law.
In addition, it's unreasonable that cops have to resort to breaking down doors, or smashing windows, none of which can be done silently so as to prevent you harming someone you may have hostage, or destroying evidence, etc., therefore, deadbolts shall be deemed illegal, and all locks on all doors must be able to be opened with a Police Master Key, in case you're doing something illegal inside your own home. Don't worry, only police will have access to this key, and there's no way anyone could reverse engineer the master key using their own lock, then opening yours and breaking silently into your home, because they made that illegal too, so obviously it can't happen, on account of it's illegal.
You haven't seen a virus in years... luck, maybe, or you have one and don't know it and your computer is one of millions ensnared in a spam-producing bot-net or your computer is quietly converting electricity you paid for using computer power you paid for into someone else's cryptocurrency, or... or the hackers have simply grown bored hacking into that which is so trivial to hack into, and moved on to more interesting challenges.
The best game of all is the one where you learn *Nix; how to use how to administer it, how to program, compile, debug, etc. If you get him a non-apple computer, best put one together with him, or buy a system, and put a Unix or GNU/Linux on it, and teach him something useful. If you're planning to get him a toy, why not just get a toy computer, like a PlayCube or GameBox or whatever?
AppleAR, or, the iHeadset as everyone will call it, will perhaps be popular, but... before long they'll come out with a new version that won't have lenses. You'll have to buy iLenses separately, and the lenses will, for some reason, require charging, and the charger will be separate and require charging itself, and the charger for THAT will only work with a proprietary Apple connector...
So glad I've decided to jump off the iApple iTrain now, and not be sucked into buying even more overpriced stuff I don't need.
Honestly it sounds more like a pilot study. fMRIs are fantastic for trying to narrow down what parts of the brain seem to be involved in what, but they're seriously expensive things to run.
Since I expect most people here are more in the engineering side of things--pilot studies are a form of providing proof of concept. It's the cheap(er) version you slapped together in order to demonstrate that your idea actually has a snowball's chance in hell of working. They are not always going to be terribly open about being a pilot study--it's probably safe to expect that anybody who admits it's a pilot study when publishing the results has already secured funding for the actual study itself--so you have to look for tells such as the combo of small sample size and expensive/difficult/finicky processes. It's a toss-up when you're looking at a study that involves, say, effects of brain damage on humans, because the sample size is limited by the unfortunate fact that you must use volunteers & cannot induce the condition yourself.
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Interesting. Wish I had mod-points to throw at you.:)
In that case, the 3rd-party seller is supposed to collect sales tax for customers any state where Amazon is warehousing their inventory (which could be over 20 states, each usually requiring separate registration and quarterly filing).
I can imagine that the number of sellers actually 100% compliant with this crazy system is pretty small.
This is just the sort of scandal you'd read about in the Washington Post... if, that is, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos didn't OWN that paper and have a rule against their "journalists" writing a single word that harms their businesses, including any associates, affiliates, etc.
Didn't we used to have RULES against this kind of bullshit?
Oh, wait... that's right, the people with MOST of the money BOUGHT the politicians in charge of making rules that were preventing them getting the REST of the money, and now they're well on their way to having it ALL.
Yep. Great little system. Gonna crash soon, too. It's going to be UGLY, btw. Stock up on ammo, food, water, and oh, POPCORN!:-)
Sure, but this time it's Amazon doing it to Wal-Mart. All the little fish were eaten long ago. Now the big fish only have each other to feed off of.
Sure. And there will be absolutely NO collateral damage, because since YOU don't shop anywhere but Amazon or Walmart, that means no one does. No other businesses exist now.
Or... do they?
As it happens, there ARE, here and there, other shops, competing with the likes of the megastores, besides other megastores--such as you often seen eeking out an existence in malls and downtown historical districts.
They're going to get hit in the crossfire. BUT what's worse, is how the customer ultimately gets fucked. They buy things at artificially depressed prices, then when the incentive to depress said prices go away, the prices shoot back up, not just to where they WOULD have been, but due to other factors, often BEYOND where they were. Then people start to get the idea they're being taken advantage of. The manipulation is unhealthy, and is another shining example of the fundamental un-sustainability of not only their business models, but indeed, of the economic and legal frameworks that allow this sort of nonsense.
The only retards are the alt right, who hate the truth so they yell fake news when triggered by it, just like you snowflake.
Getting all your news from one source, whatever it is, is probably not a good idea. Watching the likes of CNN is important, and beneficial. Just remember to leave your bullshit-detector ENABLED. The wise man wants to know both the truth, and the lies someone is trying to spoon-feed him, because which things the establishment-biased media, (anything corporate-owned or oligarch-funded,) want you to know or think is VERY INFORMATIVE. It reveals their motivations, and you can completely ignore those at your peril, because what they do, and what they want isn't always going to be so obvious.
I never hear of these so-called "Trump rants". I don't watch CNN or any TV news outlets. (All the stories are virtually the same. It's just the characters, the places, or the causes/issues that are different. That's all. I ignored the Media for 6 months once, on purpose, and then listened again. Every story was the same just different characters, places, and clauses/issues. Just the same bovine scat. Like in the "Casablanca" film, at the end, when the Vichy French officer instructs his junior police officers to round up the "usual suspects". American Politics is exactly the same -- just a drama to keep the uninformed from living their lives. These sycophants want all the attention focused on theirselves but they don't desire it. But you have fallen into the Trap!)
It's exactly the same... except for the part that "Casablanca" is a film, and the thing you're ignoring is real life, with real, actual consequences for you and everyone around you. Otherwise, you're right. It's exactly the same thing.
No, the real question is why they restored it so quickly. I would have loved having a week or two without having to hear about the latest Trump rant on CNN.
Some scientists are now suggesting that there are other news organizations that will tell you the same corporate-friendly, pro-war, anti-American (America the theory, the ideal of individual freedom, not America the ESTABLISHMENT, they're pro-establishment,) such as MSNBC, for example.
Of course, if you want real, actual news, news that ISN'T slanted (or completely missing when not reporting on something is) in favor of the interests of their corporate MASTERS, you might consider news that is VIEWER-SUPPORTED instead?
You might consider Democracy Now, for instance, or The Young Turks Network, as just a couple examples. Actually, they also do sometimes go on about Trump and his nonsense, but at least you'll have the full context when you get your news from these and similar sources, and in the case of the Young Turks, they do manage to make the nightmare that is having Trump be "president" (hahaha) more bearable by pointing out what a miserable, petulant, stupid, incompetent CHILD he is.
Visit democracynow.org, tytnetwork.com if you're interested, and care to know what is actually going on.
"Gee, we only misused and abused our subscribers for decades, forced people to subsidize programming they have no interest whatsoever in, and exploited our illegal monopolies to suck trillions and trillions of dollars out of people who had no choice if they wanted decent and convenient entertainment options, and proved over and over again why situations without competition between service providers produce RECORD bad service and horrible customer value, WHY ARE THEY ALL CUTTING THE CORD NOW THAT THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES?!?"
I cut the cord YEARS ago, and never looked back. Screw the cable monopolies, they can suck my COAX CABLE.
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Man decides to commit suicide in elaborate and interesting fashion; wants audience to see him die.
"I don't believe in science" says person who has either severe cognitive deficits, or difficulties with English.
I believe someone should sit down with this man and explain what science is and isn't. What it isn't: men in lab coats with egg-shaped heads, speaking in a cryptic and arcane fashion, lording secret knowledge above everyone else. What it is: an algorithm for applying common sense to observations, and a means to test ideas. A natural offshoot of this is experimentation, where reason (common sense,) is applied to create a scenario in which observations can be made that will tend either to confirm, or disprove, specific things.
I believe when someone claims not to believe in science, what he really means is that he doesn't trust the lab-coated, egg-headed, cryptically-speaking, often socially awkward, neurotic individuals shown to us on television and movies, (media that only exist thanks to scientists, ironically,) which lend people naturally to distrust them, given the survival tactic of fearing the unknown that has mostly stood humanity in excellent stead to survive from prehistory to today, though it is sometimes, (as is the case when a polluted environment slowly and inexorably dooms all mammal-kind to give way to the next dominant form of life after we, as a species, snuff ourselves out,) disadvantageous after all.
How to make $374,000 without really trying!
1. Set up imaginary thing with alleged value. ...
2. Find greedy dolts with more money than sense.
3.
4. Profit!
I guess 3 was "Shut down all your social media stuff, go dark, disappear with money citing legal problems with a contract," the modern equivalent of 'the dog ate my homework' in today's phony world.
I'm sure glad I had no money invested in this crypto-pyramid-scheme.
[ ] Don't pay for every website you access, that's what ads are for. Let advertisers be unable target you and unable to track you specifically, etc., which means sellers of ads won't make as much money, and certain companies won't have billions or trillions of dollars that they only have because people tolerated this behavior. I typed a bunch of stuff after this, but no one is going to read it anyway.
âoeI donâ(TM)t wanna be spied-on...â
...said the people all using internet connections to read and post stuff, somehow blissfully unaware of how many people are spying on them every second of their online time, as well as most of their offline time. The only meaningful protection your privacy has in this modern world is that most of you are not interesting enough to warrant the attention.
Not to be that guy, but 'typo in headline.' "GNU/Linux" is misspelled. (Sorry, I guess it turns out that I AM that guy.) Second... it's Micro$oft, and therefore, the fact that it's a trap kind of goes without saying.
"We can't wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple's breakthrough wireless speaker for the home, but we need a little more time before it's ready for our customers,"
Yeah. They can't wait for people to put even more money into their pockets in exchange for the device, more like. Tired of Apple executives and shills pretending to be breathlessly excited about something besides what they obviously only care about.
I, similarly, can't wait for Apple to stop hiding assets offshore and start paying their fare share of taxes like everyone else is SUPPOSED to be.
Also, wouldn't it be nice if Apple would instead focus on loyal customers who are the reason the company still exists, and, oh, I dunno, maybe update the Mac Mini finally?!?
I studied German in high school in the 1970's, and I understood your Germish perfectly! :-)
Danke!
There are places on Earth, I suspect, or near it, where one can experience the same atmospheric pressure, lack of breathable oxygen, sub-sub-SUB-zero temperatures, as one would encounter on Mars' surface!
Just get into a REALLY BIG hot air balloon, and fly to the upper reaches of the atmosphere. DO NOT bring any protective equipment. As you get really high up, a tiny fraction of the way to that altitude, and become light-headed, pass out, and also freeze to death, (all the while accumulating chest-x-ray after chest-x-ray's worth of hard radiation from space, that would cause you massive cancerous tumors you won't live long enough to die from,) you can reflect on how much trying to live on Mars outside of a pressurized, protected, fully-self-contained, heated, etc.etc.etc. life-supporting enclosure, (much like a moon-base or space station would require,) would SUCK, and how only a moron would let romantic science fiction fantasies from decades, or centuries passed, when we didn't yet know how utterly inhospitable to humans, (or probably very nearly any multicellular life,) Mars actually is, convince him to try something so ruinous, wasteful, idiotic, and pointless.
That said, ENJOY Mars, folks!
The only way you get to where "Martian" humans can live, and walk about and do stuff on the surface of Mars without spacesuits, is to blanket the entire PLANET in an envelop of gas DENSE enough to maintain roughly one standard atmosphere's pressure under Mars' puny gravity. Such an atmosphere would squeeze any diatomic oxygen molecules UP away from the surface, to boil away into space, or maybe form a layer of the atmosphere which MIGHT be breathable, if not for the fact that it's dozens of miles away from the surface, or hundreds of miles perhaps... (as the oxygen would be less dense, the same reason you don't find much hydrogen gas, either as single atoms or diatomic gas molecules, nor helium gas, for that matter, floating freely near the ground on Earth, as THOSE gases are less dense than the prevailing oxygen and nitrogen, etc. which they're more buoyant than, and hence, not readily found at or near the surface, (the hard ground, or the wet, watery parts) of the planet).
You'd need to find a substance capable of carrying O2 in the air, or oxygen by itself, bonded to something else, that human lungs would be capable of stripping out. Like water, for example, except our ancestors lost the ability to extract oxygen from water eons ago. Also, liquid water wouldn't stay liquid there long, either freezing, or boiling away into space due to low pressure. So again, yeah.
Mars is not massive enough to hold an atmosphere we could breathe and live in without external support. You may as well colonize the moon. Also, it's closer, conveniently. Mars is an uninteresting and uninhabitable ball of rock.
THAT SAID, if you MUST go, why not just give every member of the crew a medically induced coma, a catheter, external electronic stimulation to keep muscles from atrophy, IV nutrition and hydration, etc.
The crew and colonists would launch to space, be hooked up to machines and knocked out, to be awakened just before arrival, (or if you're confident nothing would go wrong with all the vibration of a rocket-launch, they could sleep all the way from before launch to after landing). This is how launch-day could go.
7AM, wake up to last day on earth. Have coffee, clear out of hotel room.
8AM, remember NOT TO EAT breakfast.
9AM, report for lift-off.
10AM, LIFTOFF, orbit, verify all systems are go.
11AM, all passengers load into transit pods.
12PM, passengers are all rendered comatose.
1PM, crew oversees initiation of long, slow burn to change to Mars orbit and catch planet.
2PM, crew all load each other/selves into pods, and are rendered comatose.
--months later--
zero hour (h=0): first of crew reawakened by onboard computer.
h+1, first crew member checks over craft and crew, begins waking rest of crew; verification of location & velocity, plus trajectory. Supply craft sent to land on Mars. Reports sent to Earth.
h+2, crew now awake and undergo health checks; crew gets ready to wake passengers, perform health checks on them, etc.
h+3, passengers all awake, undergoing checks of status, health, etc. All supply craft are verified as having landed safely on Mars.
h+4, passengers board landing craft.
h+5, passenger landing craft, sent from interplanetary transit module, lands on Mars
From the point of view of the passenger, the duration between 12 PM on take-off day, and h+3 several months later, are seemingly only about an hour apart. For most of the crew, that day is only a few hours longer, despite it having a months-long "..." in the middle.
If you ARE going to be stupid enough to try to colonize a rock that will never be able to see your descendants walking around on the surface, without the aid of life-preserving space-suits, THIS is the way to do it. No advanced engine required.
To be clear, we have ALL the technology needed to put humans on Mars now, and it wouldn't be at all even difficult to do. There's just no reason to do so. Ever.
Hmm... they want to go zuruck to Mikro-Gesoftenwerk Fensteren... vieleicht they didn't fully go F/L-OSS in die ersten Platz, und daß war der Problem.
Es sounds wie they halb-treft GNU/Linux und ofnen-gesourctig Gesoftenwerk, wie LibreBüro, in der zuerst Platz, rather than going ein voll-Schwein.
Heheh lol Germish... wie spaßig!
(Für Männer wer brauchen eine Englischübersetzung... Hmm... they want to go back to M$ Windows... perhaps they didn't fully go F/L-OSS in the first place, and THAT was the problem. It sounds like they half-tried GNU/Linux and open source software, like LibreOffice, in the FIRST place, rather than going whole-hog. Heheh lol, Englman, how fun!).
PS, yes, I know that even the German parts of my Germish were probably iffy. That's what made it so fun to write! I never claimed to be fluent. In fact, after all this while, I'm surprised I remember any of it at all!
Deliberately weakening encryption will mean that anyone with anything to hide, whether for legitimate reasons or not, will simply not use the technology, which just means they'll use something from somewhere where they don't have such rules deliberately weakening encryption.
ALSO, there is such a thing as unbreakable encryption. A properly used one-time-pad cypher is unbreakable per the rules of algebra. This begs the question, are they going to outlaw algebra? I'm sure there are kids who would be happy, but... yeah, they can't really do that.
For anyone who doesn't understand, look up one-time-pads.
It's also pretty unreasonable that criminals can't just be forced to admit guilt. Think of all the wasted time giving criminals due process of law.
In addition, it's unreasonable that cops have to resort to breaking down doors, or smashing windows, none of which can be done silently so as to prevent you harming someone you may have hostage, or destroying evidence, etc., therefore, deadbolts shall be deemed illegal, and all locks on all doors must be able to be opened with a Police Master Key, in case you're doing something illegal inside your own home. Don't worry, only police will have access to this key, and there's no way anyone could reverse engineer the master key using their own lock, then opening yours and breaking silently into your home, because they made that illegal too, so obviously it can't happen, on account of it's illegal.
You haven't seen a virus in years... luck, maybe, or you have one and don't know it and your computer is one of millions ensnared in a spam-producing bot-net or your computer is quietly converting electricity you paid for using computer power you paid for into someone else's cryptocurrency, or... or the hackers have simply grown bored hacking into that which is so trivial to hack into, and moved on to more interesting challenges.
The best game of all is the one where you learn *Nix; how to use how to administer it, how to program, compile, debug, etc. If you get him a non-apple computer, best put one together with him, or buy a system, and put a Unix or GNU/Linux on it, and teach him something useful. If you're planning to get him a toy, why not just get a toy computer, like a PlayCube or GameBox or whatever?
AppleAR, or, the iHeadset as everyone will call it, will perhaps be popular, but... before long they'll come out with a new version that won't have lenses. You'll have to buy iLenses separately, and the lenses will, for some reason, require charging, and the charger will be separate and require charging itself, and the charger for THAT will only work with a proprietary Apple connector...
So glad I've decided to jump off the iApple iTrain now, and not be sucked into buying even more overpriced stuff I don't need.
Honestly it sounds more like a pilot study. fMRIs are fantastic for trying to narrow down what parts of the brain seem to be involved in what, but they're seriously expensive things to run.
Since I expect most people here are more in the engineering side of things--pilot studies are a form of providing proof of concept. It's the cheap(er) version you slapped together in order to demonstrate that your idea actually has a snowball's chance in hell of working. They are not always going to be terribly open about being a pilot study--it's probably safe to expect that anybody who admits it's a pilot study when publishing the results has already secured funding for the actual study itself--so you have to look for tells such as the combo of small sample size and expensive/difficult/finicky processes. It's a toss-up when you're looking at a study that involves, say, effects of brain damage on humans, because the sample size is limited by the unfortunate fact that you must use volunteers & cannot induce the condition yourself.
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Interesting. Wish I had mod-points to throw at you. :)
In that case, the 3rd-party seller is supposed to collect sales tax for customers any state where Amazon is warehousing their inventory (which could be over 20 states, each usually requiring separate registration and quarterly filing).
I can imagine that the number of sellers actually 100% compliant with this crazy system is pretty small.
This is just the sort of scandal you'd read about in the Washington Post... if, that is, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos didn't OWN that paper and have a rule against their "journalists" writing a single word that harms their businesses, including any associates, affiliates, etc.
Didn't we used to have RULES against this kind of bullshit?
Oh, wait... that's right, the people with MOST of the money BOUGHT the politicians in charge of making rules that were preventing them getting the REST of the money, and now they're well on their way to having it ALL.
Yep. Great little system. Gonna crash soon, too. It's going to be UGLY, btw. Stock up on ammo, food, water, and oh, POPCORN! :-)
Sure, but this time it's Amazon doing it to Wal-Mart. All the little fish were eaten long ago. Now the big fish only have each other to feed off of.
Sure. And there will be absolutely NO collateral damage, because since YOU don't shop anywhere but Amazon or Walmart, that means no one does. No other businesses exist now.
Or... do they?
As it happens, there ARE, here and there, other shops, competing with the likes of the megastores, besides other megastores--such as you often seen eeking out an existence in malls and downtown historical districts.
They're going to get hit in the crossfire. BUT what's worse, is how the customer ultimately gets fucked. They buy things at artificially depressed prices, then when the incentive to depress said prices go away, the prices shoot back up, not just to where they WOULD have been, but due to other factors, often BEYOND where they were. Then people start to get the idea they're being taken advantage of. The manipulation is unhealthy, and is another shining example of the fundamental un-sustainability of not only their business models, but indeed, of the economic and legal frameworks that allow this sort of nonsense.
The only retards are the alt right, who hate the truth so they yell fake news when triggered by it, just like you snowflake.
Getting all your news from one source, whatever it is, is probably not a good idea. Watching the likes of CNN is important, and beneficial. Just remember to leave your bullshit-detector ENABLED. The wise man wants to know both the truth, and the lies someone is trying to spoon-feed him, because which things the establishment-biased media, (anything corporate-owned or oligarch-funded,) want you to know or think is VERY INFORMATIVE. It reveals their motivations, and you can completely ignore those at your peril, because what they do, and what they want isn't always going to be so obvious.
I never hear of these so-called "Trump rants". I don't watch CNN or any TV news outlets. (All the stories are virtually the same. It's just the characters, the places, or the causes/issues that are different. That's all. I ignored the Media for 6 months once, on purpose, and then listened again. Every story was the same just different characters, places, and clauses/issues. Just the same bovine scat. Like in the "Casablanca" film, at the end, when the Vichy French officer instructs his junior police officers to round up the "usual suspects". American Politics is exactly the same -- just a drama to keep the uninformed from living their lives. These sycophants want all the attention focused on theirselves but they don't desire it. But you have fallen into the Trap!)
It's exactly the same... except for the part that "Casablanca" is a film, and the thing you're ignoring is real life, with real, actual consequences for you and everyone around you. Otherwise, you're right. It's exactly the same thing.
No, the real question is why they restored it so quickly. I would have loved having a week or two without having to hear about the latest Trump rant on CNN.
Some scientists are now suggesting that there are other news organizations that will tell you the same corporate-friendly, pro-war, anti-American (America the theory, the ideal of individual freedom, not America the ESTABLISHMENT, they're pro-establishment,) such as MSNBC, for example.
Of course, if you want real, actual news, news that ISN'T slanted (or completely missing when not reporting on something is) in favor of the interests of their corporate MASTERS, you might consider news that is VIEWER-SUPPORTED instead?
You might consider Democracy Now, for instance, or The Young Turks Network, as just a couple examples. Actually, they also do sometimes go on about Trump and his nonsense, but at least you'll have the full context when you get your news from these and similar sources, and in the case of the Young Turks, they do manage to make the nightmare that is having Trump be "president" (hahaha) more bearable by pointing out what a miserable, petulant, stupid, incompetent CHILD he is.
Visit democracynow.org, tytnetwork.com if you're interested, and care to know what is actually going on.
Actually, not to be argumentative, but birds DO use their waste as a weapon--a sick, nasty, disgusting weapon. You're right on the other point though.
I keep piling on blankets, putting on MORE thermal underwear, and throwing more and more logs on the fire, and I just keep getting hotter and hotter!
"Gee, we only misused and abused our subscribers for decades, forced people to subsidize programming they have no interest whatsoever in, and exploited our illegal monopolies to suck trillions and trillions of dollars out of people who had no choice if they wanted decent and convenient entertainment options, and proved over and over again why situations without competition between service providers produce RECORD bad service and horrible customer value, WHY ARE THEY ALL CUTTING THE CORD NOW THAT THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES?!?"
I cut the cord YEARS ago, and never looked back. Screw the cable monopolies, they can suck my COAX CABLE.