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  1. Re:Theyâ(TM)ve always been thieves on Australia Considers Making It Illegal For ISPs To Advertise Inflated Speeds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Had this problem with an ISP here, a website I was trying to access went down for a while and because the ISP served only the cached version it kept saying it was down. I eventually figured out that if I changed the address to https (from http) I would get a secure link to the website which bypassed the cache. Not always possible if there is no secure version of the site.

    Funny I would have thought that false advertising was already illegal but apparently they need to make a new special law for ISPs in Australia? Are we to assume that it will only be ISPs in Australia that will not be able to make false advertising claims?

  2. Re:Life as we know it needs one thing on Microbes Found in Earth's Deep Ocean Might Grow on Saturn's Moon Enceladus (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So when someone does not agree with your seeming indisputable theory then it is time to move to personal insults? Thank you for your permission to be a stupid as I want to be, consider it reciprocated. This is the kind of science we seem to be presented with now days, agree or you are an idiot. Actually the funny thing is most actual discoveries went through the phase of total non belief. Such as the flat earth thing etc. But most of the scientists did not consider it their job to bully those who did not accept their findings into believing them.

    Most people who actually push evolution (not really the discussion here since we were talking about non life to life which is part of the whole picture but not evolution) talk about abundant proof without understanding that first there is no proof, not actually understanding what evidence is (evidence is not proof) and being exasperated and bullying to anyone who does not believe their rarely sighted proof. I think I will make up a name for it, Lets say thought diversity hate. However megion I accept that your hate did not including anything more than abusive language at this stage. No actual violence.

    Lets say here there are two types of science. type 1 is observational science. This is where you experiment and observe such as things that can be reproduced in a lab. type 2 is non observational science. This is where you have clues (evidence) and you try and tie them together with a theory. or more commonly I think you have a theory and you try and tie the evidence into the theory. Now if people don't accept type 1 science that is denial, possibly willful denial. but if they don't accept type 2 science then perhaps they are just working on a different theory and for all you know it may tie much better to the clues (evidence.)

    A neat thing for either theory believers is to find holes (great gaping massive holes if possible) where their theory has an abundance of anti-evidence. However most people don't actually know where the holes are, do you know why? because on type 2 science people are working on a theory and fitting the evidence to it so they are true believers not ready to toss away the theory and a hopeless case even if it is and when they teach it in school (for evolution) they don't actually want to teach you that it is a theory with no proof but some evidence (clues) so they skip all the holes. The biggest hole in evolution (there are many this is the biggest) is the starting point, as in even any true believes has to literally suspend disbelief to come up with a starting point without a creator, also I don't just mean for life. I mean also for the whole universe. Basically there is nothing except a creator, I have heard what Stephen Hawking says about it and Richard Dawkins and the case they present is basically nonsense (nonsense is nonsense even if you have a PHD.) A little better but not much at the starting point for life that is possibly it takes a little more knowledge to understand that what is presented is nonsense. Funny thing is that nonsense seems to have a lot of adherents who not knowing even what it is will talk about the overwhelming evidence for evolution but getting them to name one piece of evidence will have them coming up with crap that is discredited even by evolutionists or more probably nothing at all because they just are second hand believers not really knowing the case for what they believe but still being fully convinced by it.

  3. Re:Life as we know it needs one thing on Microbes Found in Earth's Deep Ocean Might Grow on Saturn's Moon Enceladus (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems like a very Boolean argument however if you take that option. (one of the booleans) then you are making a conclusion that excludes God. Why?
    Because you don't believe in God? So to be fair you can say it is one of three, otherwise it is not science since options are excluded due to pre-bias. This kind of bias is exactly what stops science IMO, however then the accusation is made that Creationist scientists are biased. Fine but lets say everyone is biased.

  4. Re:Life as we know it needs one thing on Microbes Found in Earth's Deep Ocean Might Grow on Saturn's Moon Enceladus (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I am a creationist, funny great videos no significant content IMO seen this stuff before. It is a theory that you have no proof of to counter what you will say is my theory that I have no proof of. So to be reasonable you will admit that we are even (however I see this theory as so weak and to be a joke.)

    The youtube link by the way then leads in to Darwin and natural selection as evolution. This is not evolution, let me make a little plain description of natural selection.
    In the existing gene there is a long hair variety that survives better (due to a cold climate say) so through natural selection babies born with long hair reproduce and the ones without long hair do not. Therefore the other genes are lost and the only genes left are the long hair gene. This is the opposite of evolution because the gene was already available. For evolution we have to have a genetic mutation, this adds information that was not previously there. This is obviously required for evolution. The youtube video is so weak they don't even know what evolution is and you think they can make a good case for abiogenesis? I guess if they had learned their stuff they may be able to make a better case. Unless their purpose is just evolution propaganda.

    It is not that the theory is totally crap just that it does not happen it is not proven and cannot be repeated even with external help. Just the same position as me then from the other side. That is the side of I believe in science at the exclusion of God. Here is a breakthrough thought for you if you are going to trust science you have no need to exclude God because the science should find answer. I am reasonable and a creationist, however most who discuss evolution or origins of life seem to sound unreasonable (to me.)

    I could post some videos too you have dismissed the basic arguments which is minimum viable complexity. As stated previously. Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    We both don't need to know anything just post links.

  5. Re:Life as we know it needs one thing on Microbes Found in Earth's Deep Ocean Might Grow on Saturn's Moon Enceladus (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So you are basically saying that due to the lack of evidence we will just make the assumption that the evidence is there?

    I hope you are not currently on a Jury and that you are not a judge.

    shouting "missing link" is the right approach (I was not shouting) if there is one. Back at parent I think this is the clear statement which is disagreed on semantics, such as the possibility that aliens brought life to earth perhaps. But the concept of aliens either in the solar system or outside of it remains speculation, meaning there is no basis for the assumption other than according to an understanding of life the assumption being life just develops from non life.

    Which brings us back to the point I made which remains valid, the whole reason that people thought up the idea that life on earth may have been seeded by aliens is we don't actually have a life from non life process. Plenty of concepts or at least a few, but they kind of break down in so many ways that make the whole thing wild speculation (to put it mildly.)

    These steps are non repeatable (we cannot reproduce) where the "life form" needs to have self assembled, perhaps by random process but no one believes that. A few concepts exist how the dna comes together but remember that dna is not life without a living cell so these don't actually work. Then the undefined magic happens which takes matter that is dead and makes it alive. Then this first life form is able to eat, excrete, breath and reproduce, maybe not grow since it is just matter that has come to life. This is a single cell creature reproducing by mitosis, but how complex is a single cell. If the AC biologist in thread is really a biologist they will be able to tell you the complexity of a single cell is similar to that of a city (on a microscopic scale) so what we are saying is a city came together on it's own started working with power flowing at random. Now I believe I am justified in saying this is wild speculation. Last time I came to a city with lights on etc I did not think oh I don't know what random process brought this about but thought/assumed people built it.

  6. Re:Life as we know it needs one thing on Microbes Found in Earth's Deep Ocean Might Grow on Saturn's Moon Enceladus (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think thrillseeker is pointing to an origin. The concept that Life comes from Non-life is speculation which I would call wild.
    Just like the concept that the universe came from nothing (this is the point of origin to true Atheists.) By definition nothing cannot produce something nor can nothing have a greater definition than nothing otherwise it is more than nothing.
    Even though there is speculation that life can come from non life there is no experimental proof and even if we could create life from non life it is then not come from non-life without intervention. Since we have no idea how to make the intervention all we can do is play with life by changing DNA.
    I think an AC claiming to be a biologist has a very weak argument, in fact so weak that it cannot be or isn't stated.

  7. Re:EVs will change that on After Rising For 100 Years, Electricity Demand is Flat (vox.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    supercapacitors at present are more sci-fi than fact if they are thought of as competing (in capacity) to batteries.
    The formula for a capacitor has in its formula A/d
    A is the area (of the plates)
    d is the distance (between the plates)

    so a small distance and big area is how to make super capacitors. The problem comes when you want to charge the capacitor because the d distance sets the limit of the voltage (due to the breakdown the the diametric, which is whatever material is between the plates) the charge stored on a capacitor is

    0.5 (CV^2) so the charge is proportional to the square of the voltage meaning you need lots of voltage to get a big charge (or amount of stored energy) so what makes the capacitor value large makes the amount of charge you can store small. This is the issue currently with super capacitors just because of the basic physics of capacitors. So unless an amazing dielectric is found that has super incredibly high breakdown voltage and is easy to form onto the plates we probably will have to keep looking to batteries.

  8. Re: I wish they'd back off the Russia stuff on House Democrats' Counter-Memo Released, Alleging Major Factual Inaccuracies (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    So a Supreme court Justice and a tax break. You must be happy. Trump is awesome, if he takes credit for stuff that happens while he is President that had momentum before hand then this is just SOP. However I can choose to give him some of the credit from where I sit. Given the fact that he is kind of under siege by the progressives and their screams of xxxxxx (Russian and obstruction are the main ones.) Even not screwing all that List up is good. I would add to that list Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital. I know most are in a mess to trying and understand the whole Palestinian situation (and just follow the lead of the Jew haters) but this is a major step which just takes someone with balls. Every president promised it and only Trump delivered.

    Will he build a wall? Of course. Will he deal with NK? Of course. Will he keep all his promises, I would guess that he will be keeping more than most Presidents but perhaps I am reading things from a fairly jaded point of view.

    From the whole Russia point of view, you know Trump could have (and did) taken out his own face book ads. It would make zero, less than zero sense for Trump to get the Russians to take out face book ads for him for any sort of deal. Trump is a deal maker but he will not get on the losing side of a deal where he is giving more than he is getting. There is no motive to getting the Russians to help him and Trump would never admit to himself that he needed their help. He is just too arrogant, self assured etc. Apart from the fact that there is zero evidence.

  9. Did I hear someone say FISA?
    Funny thing is all the lefties seem to hate the govt spying on them especially without any good reason but if it happens to someone else *cough* Trump *cough* they pretend the whole thing is just a well oiled machine doing its job.

    Old saying, which is why you should stand up for the rights of your enemies.

    "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Socialist.

    Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
    Martin Niemöller

  10. Re:Did you write that or are you a bot? on 'Memtransistor' Brings World Closer To Brain-Like Computing · · Score: 1

    Comment was obviously written by a bot using AI running on a memristors platform, as a demonstration of the technology.

  11. Re:it accuses Nunes of having never read the FISA on House Democrats' Counter-Memo Released, Alleging Major Factual Inaccuracies (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you mean here that Trey Gowdy does not think that the memo invalidates the Muller probe. I personally think Gowdy is one of the people who will do and say what is right without considering politics. Gowdy does agree with the memo just not implications that it invalidates the Muller investigation. Gowdy would tell you not to make conclusions but wait until all testimony has been heard. Trey Gowdy believes that the FISA warrants were not done correctly or legally (he would say there are some serious questions that need to be answered and it should be investigated.)

    Nunes relying on Gowdy is actually better than Nunes reading he material himself. So back to my point Nunes not reading the source document is just fud being thrown at the memo. However this is the democratic game it seems ignore facts and try and make up FUD.

    Comey tells Trump that the document is salacious and unverified and then signs off that it is factual and verified to the court, does anyone see a problem?

    If I present to the market a report on your product saying it is crap and at the bottom there is a "*source from market data." But the actual source is your direct competitor who is trying to discredit you with lies and false information do you see a difference.

    Lets go further they did not verify anything except the guy (forgot his name) flew to Russia, is this enough to produce as court evidence? Remember Steele produced this dossier with a personal motivation that he hates Trump and would do anything to make sure he is not elected, as well as getting paid indirectly by the DNC, he was sending it to the papers etc. is this foreign election tampering?

    Nunes, Gowdy and most of the world know that this was not correct method to get a warrant, lets move on it will either be investigated as a crime or not.

    Remember when Trump said they had tapped his phones and everyone laughed well no one is laughing about that now.

  12. Re:I wish they'd back off the Russia stuff on House Democrats' Counter-Memo Released, Alleging Major Factual Inaccuracies (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    My opinion (as a republican, I know just saying that means I will get troll down voted.) is that if the Dems did forget Russia they may actually win the Mid terms.

    I am sick of Russia crap, I think most people are sick of it. Also if the Dems win and get 60 seats they would impeach Trump, they just need to get the numbers they would decide what to impeach him for after the vote.

    They seem to have lost having any identity that is not just Anti Trump.

    Trump is Arrogant, rude, speaks his mind, and wrong on plenty of stuff but he is also awesome and gets stuff done. He is non political and part of that is he just says and does what he thinks. Not to keep some political lobbyists happy.

    Also the market will probably crash but I am hoping after the midterms, just because of the fact that it needs a bit of a reset. The recent pull back was just normal market mechanics which went 1/2 way down to from the 50 to the 200 day moving average. Crashes are hard to predict when but I would rather have Trump steering the ship when it crashes than anyone else, he has had plenty of experience in dealing with companies that go bankrupt. He wont panic like G W Bush did.

  13. Re:it accuses Nunes of having never read the FISA on House Democrats' Counter-Memo Released, Alleging Major Factual Inaccuracies (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    That is just misdirection Nunes was part of a committee, they could only pick one guy to read it and the committee decided the best guy to read it, he then analysed it for the committee.

    Just bringing this up shows that you are not caring about facts just in winning an argument. Nunes did and is doing a great job. The democrats seem to not know what their job is.

  14. Anyone suspect this was funded by Drug Co on Major New Study Confirms Antidepressants Really Do Work (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It might seem like the one that is out of patent is the most useless (and least profitable) but don't worry, no actually worry and then we will medicate you to stop.

  15. Man this was Obama I or Bush I am sure they both personally oversaw every detail of the implementation here. Also I am absolutely sure it was up to their technical competence and understanding to get this stuff implemented correctly. There is 36 countries involved here and it is all up to one guy, probably the US president don't have anything else to do.

  16. CNN got caught writing the script for a town hall setup with school shooting survivors
    http://insider.foxnews.com/201...
    LA Times running scripts on their readers. All makes no sense but happening anyway.

  17. Re:Everybody wants someone already trained on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    So you were there were you?
    I have seen Junior engineers who were very good. I think I can tell the difference. If they need their hand held 20% of the time they are noobs. Some people get good faster than others. Some slower.

  18. Research paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC? on Researchers Develop Online Game That Teaches Players How To Spread Misinformation · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seems like what is happening for real on all the mainstream media channels.

  19. Re:Everybody wants someone already trained on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    No actually they were noobs. Problem was the new employer did not know that, so they went to a new position where they were over paid. Funny thing is I met with the new manager of one of those guys. He told me he was basically useless due to over inflated ego.
    I was glad to be rid of them even if it did mean less team members to get everything done.

    Most people are not getting paid what they are worth, but you just need to make sure you are not getting paid too much less than you are worth, I did that for years then when I resigned my company offered me almost anything to stay including a 30% pay hike.

  20. No this is all but over. There is no Obstruction, and lets just say obstruction of what? There is no real basis for the investigation as in no evidence at all. The whole thing boils down to few Russians wasting their own time and money. The only success they had was organizing an anti-Trump rally after the election. (Oh must have been collusion after all Trump loves those rallys.)

    Only thing left is for Muller to close the thing and say we came up with nothing. Michael Flynn will be let off by the look of things, he confessed to something he did not do (going by what Comey said.)

    Basically a big wind bag of a production to try and do what? Make Trump look bad, which you could say is as bad as what they are "investigating" as he is The President Elect. So it is the haters of democracy that support this whole Muller probe and all the Russian crap.

  21. Sorry you can rule it out, poorly targeted at the wrong time and just too small a budget.
    When Rob Goldman says it had no effect, lets just say he is in a better position to know than you (or me.)
    Problem is that the media want to claim that there is something there but as we know from Peter Strzok there is no big there there. (quote was for slightly different thing but still.)

    Given the amount of meddling the US do in other peoples elections this is nothing and even bothering the Russians about it is a waste of time, they don't care, they wont care. We need to learn from them on that.

    There are plenty of people who will painstakingly nit pick over the past and then there are those that get on with the present. Time for the media to wake up and get on with the present.

    Last thing is so what, it can never be proven (even if you can accept it is not disproven) so all that can happen is hypothetical discussion to no end.

  22. Re:Those numbers are all the same up there on Man, Seeking New Copy of Windows 7 After Forced Windows 10 Upgrade, Sues Microsoft (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How about Picaso, How about Tesla (not the company the actual guy, he invented AC, transformers, electric motors. How about Edison.

    If you make a 10 million people $5000 richer with your invention do you deserve something? How about a billion people $10 richer.

    Sorry if you are confused but not all work is of equal value, what you get paid for is

    1. Labour.
    2. Responsibility.
    3. Risk
    4. Results

  23. Re:Everybody wants someone already trained on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually employees do want to get paid more than they are worth. So if they cannot get it by performance they go for a new job and say I have been at x for 2 years and now am amazing give me more money than x. They get more money and the Job but in the end they are getting overpaid.
    However some environments are less demanding than others so they may actually be good at the monkey work at the new job. The work we do is varied but not demanding if they get to a new job where it is repetitive maybe they will do well.
    I have never had H1B's but have had a few immigrants from India, one was fantastic and one was hopeless, neither was my hire choice.

    The workers blaming the companies for making them disloyal I can understand but actually no one is making you disloyal it is your choice. I choose how to treat employees and if I want to pay them more I go to my boss and say we need a bigger budget and here is why and what benefit we get. I am not forced to do it, I choose it.
    I personally don't believe in 401k's or other benefits I want to put as much power as possible on the individual so they can succeeded or fail, and I want the same for myself. Having a crappy 401k is fine you figure out how to make your money work for you. Try gambling, bitcoin, stock market, managed funds. If we choose the best option for people we dis-empower them. That is my personal belief (and somewhat off topic) but makes for the best working conditions. I also love stock options myself as it helps to have employees with skin in the game, but I believe the best would be if they could choose an extra $3k in pay packet or stock options IMO.

  24. Re:let student loans be dishcahnged in bankruptcy! on Give Workers 10,000 Pound To Survive Automation, British Top Think Tank Suggests (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Banks have a low bar for lending. Basically they make money though lending money and if they lose 1 in 100 it is still worth flowing the money out and gaining the interest.

    A friend of mine asked the bank not to lend any more money to his son who already has $12k borrowed, no assets, only a part time job and no drivers license (he lost his license.) Even with him not making payments on the existing loan they were going to lend him more, not sure if they did or not.

  25. Re:Everybody wants someone already trained on Who Killed The Junior Developer? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of the issue is that people don't have company loyalty anymore. You employ a junior then they say I want to have a pay rise, I want to develop my own projects, I want to be a senior developer. But when you talk to those they work with they are only good in their own eyes. Then they leave and expect a great reference.

    So you pay them for two years to be mentored and suck resources only to have them leave. Since I was put in charge of the software development for a previous company this was the exact experience. However we did not have any senior developers quit and they turned out good work, I simply decided not to replace the junior as it was a waste of money and time, employed one more at a mid level and solved a lot of problems and complaints from the developers.

    I can not see myself ever employing a junior developer if I have the option not to, it was like pouring money down the drain.