1. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin 2. You do realize that the courts have ruled a citizen has the right to travel, right?
So, you're against knowledge and skills-based testing to be allowed to operate a motorcycle or car?
Your Red Herring is the "...essential Liberty..." bit. You are begging the question.
It is not "essential" to drive a motorcycle, for example.
See my post about the layman's-terms video, above (or below).
The "original" thiomersal paper was not a randomized study, and used a mere 12 subjects.
It has been retracted by all 12 authors except for the primary author (well, one was MIA).
An investigative reporter located most of the 12 participants—The reporter found that much of the data had been falsified by the primary author, including even dates of visits!
The primary author no longer possesses a license to practice medicine.
More detail in the video.
My Own Points: Chelated metals can pass through the body without losing their 'isolating' layer. Ever had an MRI with contrast? They used iodine, or gadolinium, or possibly others. Immunogold is used, at least in in vivo medical studies. I've had thorium injected for a circulatory imaging test—Yes, it was chelated, and only used as a radioactive tracer. That is, the extrapolation from methylated mercury to ethylated was probably not a thermodynamically sound one.
Piston-driven propeller planes that fly over my head all day long still use tetra-ethyl lead as an additive to their aviation fuel. I live in a densely populated area.
The issue with stopping parents rights the second a child's health is put at risk, is that it invites over officious idiocy from child services, like "oh my god, I saw some snot dribbling from their nose once, therefore you're not cleaning them regularly enough, and their health is at risk!"
As with all politics, it's about scale. In this case, it's pretty clear that depriving children of vaccines is a pretty ridiculous risk to expose a child to without very good reason, and a ridiculous risk to expose other people who can't be vaccinated to as well, but blanket statements about "if it affects the child's health it should be done forcefully" are not helpful.
Good point. Both of them.
And speaking of "dribbling noses", there is the oft-cited legal axiom: "Your freedom ends where my nose begins."
The tone of any government action should be one of preventing their un-vaccinated kids from infecting your children (that may not have reached the age for their next MMR or other shot).
This 8-minute video uses layman's terms, especially in the second half. Just tell your anti-vaxxer friends that the "scientific journals" the guy mentions are basically the top four in medicine (meaning most influential).
Save your explanation of how scientific journals and study-replication actually work for some other conversation. Remember, you will be talking to an anti-vaxxer. Keep it simple.
It kills too much software – including the $2700 Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection (basically everything Adobe). I have way too much expensive deisgn, scientific, and creative software to waste two days determining which ones will break. And at any rate, Adobe's asshole move to push people to CC (renting software you use to make a living) alone is a deal-breaker.
BTW, I have several pieces of software that I purchased a very long time ago – back in the days of Carbon – that still work just fine. That is, they ran OS X 10.1, and still do on OS X 10.10 with no updates of the programs. Examples are Audion, Mineteur, and many others.
If the OP does indeed have the chops to be a good programmer, but lacks any inspiration for any type if 'new thing' to create, the answer is simple.
Get a job.
Get a job where someone with an idea or inspiration has defined what they want, and has out-sourced the actual coding to make the thing a reality.
Inspirational genius is rare. Uber-skills in programming are rare. A single person having both is ultra-rare––when it happens, it is always the product of a great deal of hard work and incremental education in the two areas. It is only then that one can even think that they might be capable of creating a master-work.
Vapor, at least partially. But also a suspension of liquid particles in a gaseous medium---That is why one sees "vape clouds" coming out of e-cigs and their users' mouths.
What the fuck do you think vapor is? It is not partially a suspension of liquid particles, it is entirely a suspension of liquid particles. How about you go find yourself a dictionary before you decide that it is a smart idea to post comments on/.
Hello to my first foe!
It took me 10 years to earn a foe on/.—But, alas, it is a stupid one.
You state that vapor is "... not partially a suspension of liquid particles, it is entirely a suspension of liquid particles." YOU ARE ENTIRELY AND STUPIDLY WRONG.
The three basic phases of matter are solid, liquid, and gas. "Vapor" is a synonym for "gas". In 'vaping', some of the solvent is evaporated, while other bits of the solvent, containing the solute, are also nebulized (made into tiny liquid droplets that are suspended in the carrier gas). The carrier gas (vapor) carries the tiny droplets of nicotine-containing PEG + who-knows-what. (CITATION: A/. article two months ago, referencing a paper in the journal Science.)
Almost any gas (== vapor) is colorless and transparent, as it comprises free molecules of the chemical – UN-AGGLOMERATED and UN-NUCLEATED. A few gases do have color (chlorine, bromine, H2NO4), but most are colorless and transparent.
I ask you, what is this suspension of liquid droplets suspended within? The luminiferous aether? Vacuum? Your magic brain farts?
I will provide you with no citation, as any High School Chemistry Textbook will explain it clearly for you.
NOTE: Your history of inflammatory but misinformed posts has been duly noted. You are one of those willfully-ignorant people that cannot be reasoned with. Nor taught. You are a lost cause.
But on my high-end sports car, which requires ceramic brake pads,
*rolls eyes* Uh huh.
I put that in to get you to read the whole paragraph.:-P
It's actually only a luxury sports car. And it is my girl's, not mine. I do get to 'give it the exercise it needs' when she is out of town.
Factory spec for brake rotors is indeed ceramic. She couldn't wait for delivery of them, got some regular old steel ones, and they squeal like hell unless I spray that aluminum-containing anti-squeal stuff on them every week or so.
A more proper statement would be - A company that is licensing Trump's name and using his design firm uses slave labor.
Well, according to an anonymous source it's slave labor.
Hell, truthy enough for politics, right?//Not a Trump supporter
Yes, he usually licenses his name to projects. But my recollection is that he owns this one, and that the construction that is being contracted out. I could be wrong – and probably am. You cited sources, so I'll trust that you are correct. But, that difference does not mitigate the circumstances that are known.
I would not license my name to a third party that is known to use slave labor. Donald gets licensing fees, so in the end (w/you right & me wrong), then Donald Trump is still profiting from the product of slave labor, as it might not have been built without the franchise name-usage.
Why is The Daily Mail, a lowest-rung tabloid, being linked on the/. main page?
The paper itself is so full of faults that I would have to write more than the paper's authors in order to describe them all. Others in this thread are doing that. I will take the time to make two counter-points, though:
(1) Heavier cars, eh? You mean, like SUVs? The logical conclusion here is to promote sub-compact cars, public transport, and cargo transport by rail, rather than big-rig transport, of goods around the country. I don't think Rupert Murdoch would be in favor any of this, considering his investments in the fossil fuel industry.
(2) Electric cars rely primarily on regenerative braking. Essentially, the motors work in reverse to produce electricity when reducing speed (momentum, but ultimately kinetic energy) of the car – transforming that back into potential energy that is stored in the car's batteries. These motors are brush-less, meaning that there is no frictional contact, and thus no particulates produced. Compare this to regular car brakes, which are entirely frictional and heat-dissipating. Do we still use asbestos in car brake drums? Regardless, 'regular' brakes are two surfaces grinding against each other, creating micro-particulates. Drum brakes are going away, so it's all 4-wheel disk brakes. Usually made of metal.
But on my high-end sports car, which requires ceramic brake pads, braking creates micro-particulates of ceramic materials that are not soluble in the human lung, which is the kind of thing that causes mesothelioma (blacklung, asbestosis, silicosis, and the many others yet to be named... until enough people exhibit direct signs of a specific material causing the mesothelioma). It's not hard to know which materials will be in this class, but my managers tended to 'shush' me when I brought up the topic years ago – but it has since-then become a major area of research. It is not hard to create a definitive list, but NSF only likes to fund incremental research, rather than fundamentals-based studies. Thus, I will simply keep my mouth (and my windows) shut.
The Navy did this first. They just strap together a few 10 kW industrial welding lasers.
The problem is that heat dissipation is a major issue, even on a Navy ship where weight doesn't really matter. The business end can be mounted on a standard gunnery mount of a ship – yes. But below-deck is a gigantic transformer to power the laser, and those things get HOT. Cooling at that scale requires liquids, not heat-pipes, making the whole systems extremely heavy.
The won't be in fighter jets for another 20 years, at least in any useful capacity.
CITATION: Navy's "Future Combat Needs", a public document.:-P
Alexa has the same problem, since voice recognition happens on the Internet.
Is it possible to do full untrained voice recognition on a platform as limited as a smartphone? Google supports offline voice recognition, but only for a very limited set of commands. http://www.zdnet.com/article/g...
You can use Mac OS X VR-to-text in an offline mode. It downloads a big database (50 MB, big deal), and you have to adapt to its language: That is, "comma", "line break, line break", "close parentheses", and so on.
The help webpage gives the full list of commands for punctuating as you speak. And, in the usual Apple style, the specific words chosen are the most reasonable 'average intuitive' choice that people might make.
I wrote a 3-page essay, just to test it out. My wife read it, and asked if I had been the one who had written it, because it was in a dramatically different style than my normal (technical) writing. Well, I was speaking conversationally, so yes, the tone of my writing was completely different. Actually very cool.
I've used Opera since it first came out – when you had to PAY for web browsers. It has always been speedy, and has given the user as much control as desired.
But, a Chinese conglomerate is buying Opera. The offer was made a month ago. And, from the NYT article: "Opera’s board has unanimously decided to recommend that shareholders accept the offer."
Yikes! A Chinese-owned browser with built-in VPN, for free. Uh-huh, I believe THAT one... No back doors? Pinky-swear?
And, of course, NSA will target Opera users for their "full-take" of internet activity.
I'm sorry Opera, but your board had made a terrible decision, and I can no longer trust any of your products. Goodbye.
Interesting; is it really true that the publishers can forbid professors to use older editions or do the professors just cave because they want their free professional copies of the publisher's books?
Publishers can't forbid Professors from using an older Edition of a book for, say, Calculus, which hasn't changed for a few centuries. But, what they can do is stop printing the older Editions, making them effectively unavailable for an entire class. A Professor cannot choose an old Edition, and hope that each student is able to search the web to find a copy.
The only Edition available in the University Book Store will be the current one. A Professor requiring something outside this system could be seen as bias, depriving some students of the Edition of the textbook from which the course is taught.
DO NOT blame Professors for this merry-go-round of 27th+ Editions on standard subjects. Their hands are tied.
That said, many great books on fundamental topics are out-of-Copyright. If I taught a course that required a textbook (I usually don't), I would probably go to Project Gutenberg, download the PDF, and print the required number of copies at the local copy-shop. Sell them at-cost. Totally legal, and it helps to break the legs of the usurious behaviours of the academic publishers.
It's a safe bet that it is due to low demand. You need a lot of readers who read a lot of books in order to get economies of scale in a book import and distribution business.
It probably doesn't help that Uganda is a landlocked country with poor freight infrastructure. Imagine how expensive books would be in rural inland USA if there were no highways, railways or airports.
No you don't.
Libraries around the world are "donating" books to charities. Books that are not checked-out often—That is a poor metric. I have been to book fairs and bought "$3 grocery bag of random books", and been happily surprised to discover works that I'd never been aware of.
Cost is only the flight of a cargo airplane full of these otherwise soon-to-be-incinerated books. Library bindings. Just fly a full payload of discarded books in. The people desperate to read anything will discover the gems among the chaff.
I don't know if the Donald is being genuine or just opportunistic, but his messages about loss of American jobs, unfair trade agreements, and corporate behavior is why so many people will put up with his other flaws.
Donald Trump uses slave labor.
Trump is building a giant condo–hotel–golf courses development in Dubai. They, like all Dubai developments, use what is effectively indentured servitude – turned into slavery by not upholding the agreement.
When asked by reporters, Trump said that he does not engage in such employment practices. Well, technically, he doesn't. There are a couple of shell companies that Donald Trump contracts-out the work to, and those companies import the (usually Bangladeshi) laborers using false agreements.
Their Passports are confiscated upon arrival.
They end up owing twice what they had agreed to.
They earn half of what they were promised.
A Vice documentary piece exposed this three years ago—They re-visited, and just released an update – Season 4, Episode 10.
> Things like the 8 hour day, workplace safety, better pay.
Unions didn't bring us any of those things, but they did bring huge cuts from our paychecks in states were we don't have the right to work without being forced to be a member of a union.
Don't forget, at one time unions forced massive reforms that were taken for granted decades later and to some extent still are. Things like the 8 hour day, workplace safety, better pay.
People DIED so that we could have a 40-hour work-week. Why, every country but the US just celebrated these protests that gave workers' rights – "May Day." This movement occurred about 120 years ago. The US chose instead to create "Labor Day", which takes place in the Fall, partly to obscure references to the bloody genesis of workers' rights. People DIED for your rights.
For those in the US, start by reading Wikipedia's entry on the Haymarket Affair. Educate yourself further from there.
[The] Battlefield 1 [is] set in the trenches of WWI, and people seem to be loving it. I can see why, it's definitely something new and interesting.
There is an excellent multiplayer FPS available on Steam. It's called Verdun, and aims for realism of the actual weapons used. It is foot-soldier, trench-warfare only.
The game is HARD – due to the realism – and that is a "Good Thing". Bomb-pocked and denuded moonscapes lie between trenches, with almost nowhere to hide when your team attempts an advance. And clearing out a trench without dying is terrifyingly tough. It feels like what fighting in WW-I was quite probably like.
The Battlefield series has always had the "use vehicles and planes," in addition to being a foot-soldier. Well, it's a AAA franchise, and well-funded, so they can do that. The game looks quite awesome.
To tide you over until Battlefield 1 – or if you have a Mac – Get on Steam and try out Verdun!
NOTE: I am just a fan. No association with whoever makes the game.
Um, sorry to be critical, but is your email really an @geocities.com address?
I'm embarrassed to admit that I used AOL until 1993.
Just two months ago, all Verizon FiOS customers were switched to @aol.com email. Or was it @yahoo.com? I forget, because I don't use it.
My email is not tied to any one host, provider or employer. I've had the same core address (with a plethora of aliases) for 15+ years, and plan to keep it that way. If that changes, I will simply switch to my own VPS, hosting my own email server in perpetuity – portable from provider to provider.
Actually, in the beginning, they will probably have real taxi drivers behind the wheel . . . just in case the system goes entirely tits up, and they need to get the passenger to the destination.
But, gee Wally, won't this be like IT workers training their H1B and offshore replacements? The soon-to-be-unemployed taxi drivers babysit their replacements . . . ?
No. If the AI fucks up and kills some people, the "not-driving driver" will be the patsy, and get blamed for everything.
This is a giant FUCK YOU to every person who has used their own vehicle for Lyft (or Uber). I know people who have bought new cars simply because of the 'car-newness' requirements of Uber."
Wow, what a way to piss-off the people who got you where you were, by letting you externalize your costs onto them. Now, as a thanks — You're all fired. (Not 'fired', as they are all 'contractors', not 'employees'.) No Unemployment Insurance benefits for you ex-Lyft and ex-Uber drivers!
Enjoy scraping the cheese off of the inside of discarded pizza boxes for nutrition. Buh-bye!
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1. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin
2. You do realize that the courts have ruled a citizen has the right to travel, right?
So, you're against knowledge and skills-based testing to be allowed to operate a motorcycle or car?
Your Red Herring is the "...essential Liberty..." bit. You are begging the question.
It is not "essential" to drive a motorcycle, for example.
To wrap up your points:
See my post about the layman's-terms video, above (or below).
The "original" thiomersal paper was not a randomized study, and used a mere 12 subjects.
It has been retracted by all 12 authors except for the primary author (well, one was MIA).
An investigative reporter located most of the 12 participants—The reporter found that much of the data had been falsified by the primary author, including even dates of visits!
The primary author no longer possesses a license to practice medicine.
More detail in the video.
My Own Points:
Chelated metals can pass through the body without losing their 'isolating' layer. Ever had an MRI with contrast? They used iodine, or gadolinium, or possibly others. Immunogold is used, at least in in vivo medical studies. I've had thorium injected for a circulatory imaging test—Yes, it was chelated, and only used as a radioactive tracer. That is, the extrapolation from methylated mercury to ethylated was probably not a thermodynamically sound one.
Piston-driven propeller planes that fly over my head all day long still use tetra-ethyl lead as an additive to their aviation fuel. I live in a densely populated area.
The issue with stopping parents rights the second a child's health is put at risk, is that it invites over officious idiocy from child services, like "oh my god, I saw some snot dribbling from their nose once, therefore you're not cleaning them regularly enough, and their health is at risk!"
As with all politics, it's about scale. In this case, it's pretty clear that depriving children of vaccines is a pretty ridiculous risk to expose a child to without very good reason, and a ridiculous risk to expose other people who can't be vaccinated to as well, but blanket statements about "if it affects the child's health it should be done forcefully" are not helpful.
Good point. Both of them.
And speaking of "dribbling noses", there is the oft-cited legal axiom: "Your freedom ends where my nose begins."
The tone of any government action should be one of preventing their un-vaccinated kids from infecting your children (that may not have reached the age for their next MMR or other shot).
IQ != knowledge
You would be surprised how high people are tested in IQ tests that have completely bollocks attitudes to certain things.
Yes. Because IQ is a test of mental potential. Some people choose not to make use of it.
This 8-minute video uses layman's terms, especially in the second half. Just tell your anti-vaxxer friends that the "scientific journals" the guy mentions are basically the top four in medicine (meaning most influential).
Save your explanation of how scientific journals and study-replication actually work for some other conversation. Remember, you will be talking to an anti-vaxxer. Keep it simple.
I will never move to El Capitan.
It kills too much software – including the $2700 Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection (basically everything Adobe). I have way too much expensive deisgn, scientific, and creative software to waste two days determining which ones will break. And at any rate, Adobe's asshole move to push people to CC (renting software you use to make a living) alone is a deal-breaker.
BTW, I have several pieces of software that I purchased a very long time ago – back in the days of Carbon – that still work just fine. That is, they ran OS X 10.1, and still do on OS X 10.10 with no updates of the programs. Examples are Audion, Mineteur, and many others.
If the OP does indeed have the chops to be a good programmer, but lacks any inspiration for any type if 'new thing' to create, the answer is simple.
Get a job.
Get a job where someone with an idea or inspiration has defined what they want, and has out-sourced the actual coding to make the thing a reality.
Inspirational genius is rare. Uber-skills in programming are rare. A single person having both is ultra-rare––when it happens, it is always the product of a great deal of hard work and incremental education in the two areas. It is only then that one can even think that they might be capable of creating a master-work.
How is this not obvious to everyone?
What the fuck do you think vapor is? It is not partially a suspension of liquid particles, it is entirely a suspension of liquid particles. How about you go find yourself a dictionary before you decide that it is a smart idea to post comments on /.
Hello to my first foe!
It took me 10 years to earn a foe on /.—But, alas, it is a stupid one.
You state that vapor is "... not partially a suspension of liquid particles, it is entirely a suspension of liquid particles." YOU ARE ENTIRELY AND STUPIDLY WRONG.
The three basic phases of matter are solid, liquid, and gas. "Vapor" is a synonym for "gas". In 'vaping', some of the solvent is evaporated, while other bits of the solvent, containing the solute, are also nebulized (made into tiny liquid droplets that are suspended in the carrier gas). The carrier gas (vapor) carries the tiny droplets of nicotine-containing PEG + who-knows-what. (CITATION: A /. article two months ago, referencing a paper in the journal Science.)
Almost any gas (== vapor) is colorless and transparent, as it comprises free molecules of the chemical – UN-AGGLOMERATED and UN-NUCLEATED. A few gases do have color (chlorine, bromine, H2NO4), but most are colorless and transparent.
I ask you, what is this suspension of liquid droplets suspended within? The luminiferous aether? Vacuum? Your magic brain farts?
I will provide you with no citation, as any High School Chemistry Textbook will explain it clearly for you.
NOTE: Your history of inflammatory but misinformed posts has been duly noted. You are one of those willfully-ignorant people that cannot be reasoned with. Nor taught. You are a lost cause.
But on my high-end sports car, which requires ceramic brake pads,
*rolls eyes* Uh huh.
I put that in to get you to read the whole paragraph. :-P
It's actually only a luxury sports car. And it is my girl's, not mine. I do get to 'give it the exercise it needs' when she is out of town.
Factory spec for brake rotors is indeed ceramic. She couldn't wait for delivery of them, got some regular old steel ones, and they squeal like hell unless I spray that aluminum-containing anti-squeal stuff on them every week or so.
It's being built by DAMAC properties, Trump's company designed the golf course and put it's name on the project.
https://www.damacproperties.co...
A more proper statement would be - A company that is licensing Trump's name and using his design firm uses slave labor.
Well, according to an anonymous source it's slave labor.
Hell, truthy enough for politics, right? //Not a Trump supporter
Yes, he usually licenses his name to projects. But my recollection is that he owns this one, and that the construction that is being contracted out. I could be wrong – and probably am. You cited sources, so I'll trust that you are correct. But, that difference does not mitigate the circumstances that are known.
I would not license my name to a third party that is known to use slave labor. Donald gets licensing fees, so in the end (w/you right & me wrong), then Donald Trump is still profiting from the product of slave labor, as it might not have been built without the franchise name-usage.
Why is The Daily Mail, a lowest-rung tabloid, being linked on the /. main page?
The paper itself is so full of faults that I would have to write more than the paper's authors in order to describe them all. Others in this thread are doing that. I will take the time to make two counter-points, though:
(1) Heavier cars, eh? You mean, like SUVs? The logical conclusion here is to promote sub-compact cars, public transport, and cargo transport by rail, rather than big-rig transport, of goods around the country. I don't think Rupert Murdoch would be in favor any of this, considering his investments in the fossil fuel industry.
(2) Electric cars rely primarily on regenerative braking. Essentially, the motors work in reverse to produce electricity when reducing speed (momentum, but ultimately kinetic energy) of the car – transforming that back into potential energy that is stored in the car's batteries. These motors are brush-less, meaning that there is no frictional contact, and thus no particulates produced. Compare this to regular car brakes, which are entirely frictional and heat-dissipating. Do we still use asbestos in car brake drums? Regardless, 'regular' brakes are two surfaces grinding against each other, creating micro-particulates. Drum brakes are going away, so it's all 4-wheel disk brakes. Usually made of metal.
But on my high-end sports car, which requires ceramic brake pads, braking creates micro-particulates of ceramic materials that are not soluble in the human lung, which is the kind of thing that causes mesothelioma (blacklung, asbestosis, silicosis, and the many others yet to be named... until enough people exhibit direct signs of a specific material causing the mesothelioma). It's not hard to know which materials will be in this class, but my managers tended to 'shush' me when I brought up the topic years ago – but it has since-then become a major area of research. It is not hard to create a definitive list, but NSF only likes to fund incremental research, rather than fundamentals-based studies. Thus, I will simply keep my mouth (and my windows) shut.
The Navy did this first. They just strap together a few 10 kW industrial welding lasers.
The problem is that heat dissipation is a major issue, even on a Navy ship where weight doesn't really matter. The business end can be mounted on a standard gunnery mount of a ship – yes. But below-deck is a gigantic transformer to power the laser, and those things get HOT. Cooling at that scale requires liquids, not heat-pipes, making the whole systems extremely heavy.
The won't be in fighter jets for another 20 years, at least in any useful capacity.
CITATION: Navy's "Future Combat Needs", a public document. :-P
CORP MEMO: "We do not have evidence that any employee's personal and sensitive information was leaked to outside parties."
TRANSLATION: "We didn't look for it. Just shut up and keep working."
Alexa has the same problem, since voice recognition happens on the Internet.
Is it possible to do full untrained voice recognition on a platform as limited as a smartphone?
Google supports offline voice recognition, but only for a very limited set of commands.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/g...
You can use Mac OS X VR-to-text in an offline mode. It downloads a big database (50 MB, big deal), and you have to adapt to its language: That is, "comma", "line break, line break", "close parentheses", and so on.
The help webpage gives the full list of commands for punctuating as you speak. And, in the usual Apple style, the specific words chosen are the most reasonable 'average intuitive' choice that people might make.
I wrote a 3-page essay, just to test it out. My wife read it, and asked if I had been the one who had written it, because it was in a dramatically different style than my normal (technical) writing. Well, I was speaking conversationally, so yes, the tone of my writing was completely different. Actually very cool.
I've used Opera since it first came out – when you had to PAY for web browsers. It has always been speedy, and has given the user as much control as desired.
But, a Chinese conglomerate is buying Opera. The offer was made a month ago. And, from the NYT article: "Opera’s board has unanimously decided to recommend that shareholders accept the offer."
Yikes! A Chinese-owned browser with built-in VPN, for free. Uh-huh, I believe THAT one... No back doors? Pinky-swear?
And, of course, NSA will target Opera users for their "full-take" of internet activity.
I'm sorry Opera, but your board had made a terrible decision, and I can no longer trust any of your products. Goodbye.
Tell them to go to Project Gutenberg!
Then, either read on-screen, or print 4-up, double-sided, to take home.
Interesting; is it really true that the publishers can forbid professors to use older editions or do the professors just cave because they want their free professional copies of the publisher's books?
Publishers can't forbid Professors from using an older Edition of a book for, say, Calculus, which hasn't changed for a few centuries. But, what they can do is stop printing the older Editions, making them effectively unavailable for an entire class. A Professor cannot choose an old Edition, and hope that each student is able to search the web to find a copy.
The only Edition available in the University Book Store will be the current one. A Professor requiring something outside this system could be seen as bias, depriving some students of the Edition of the textbook from which the course is taught.
DO NOT blame Professors for this merry-go-round of 27th+ Editions on standard subjects. Their hands are tied.
That said, many great books on fundamental topics are out-of-Copyright. If I taught a course that required a textbook (I usually don't), I would probably go to Project Gutenberg, download the PDF, and print the required number of copies at the local copy-shop. Sell them at-cost. Totally legal, and it helps to break the legs of the usurious behaviours of the academic publishers.
It's a safe bet that it is due to low demand. You need a lot of readers who read a lot of books in order to get economies of scale in a book import and distribution business.
It probably doesn't help that Uganda is a landlocked country with poor freight infrastructure. Imagine how expensive books would be in rural inland USA if there were no highways, railways or airports.
No you don't.
Libraries around the world are "donating" books to charities. Books that are not checked-out often—That is a poor metric. I have been to book fairs and bought "$3 grocery bag of random books", and been happily surprised to discover works that I'd never been aware of.
Cost is only the flight of a cargo airplane full of these otherwise soon-to-be-incinerated books. Library bindings. Just fly a full payload of discarded books in. The people desperate to read anything will discover the gems among the chaff.
I don't know if the Donald is being genuine or just opportunistic, but his messages about loss of American jobs, unfair trade agreements, and corporate behavior is why so many people will put up with his other flaws.
Donald Trump uses slave labor.
Trump is building a giant condo–hotel–golf courses development in Dubai. They, like all Dubai developments, use what is effectively indentured servitude – turned into slavery by not upholding the agreement.
When asked by reporters, Trump said that he does not engage in such employment practices. Well, technically, he doesn't. There are a couple of shell companies that Donald Trump contracts-out the work to, and those companies import the (usually Bangladeshi) laborers using false agreements.
Their Passports are confiscated upon arrival.
They end up owing twice what they had agreed to.
They earn half of what they were promised.
A Vice documentary piece exposed this three years ago—They re-visited, and just released an update – Season 4, Episode 10.
The original expose on slaves in Dubai.
The recent update, but you have to have HBO GO, as its so new.
Donald Trump uses slave labor.
> Things like the 8 hour day, workplace safety, better pay.
Unions didn't bring us any of those things, but they did bring huge cuts from our paychecks in states were we don't have the right to work without being forced to be a member of a union.
See my post, just above yours.
Don't forget, at one time unions forced massive reforms that were taken for granted decades later and to some extent still are. Things like the 8 hour day, workplace safety, better pay.
People DIED so that we could have a 40-hour work-week. Why, every country but the US just celebrated these protests that gave workers' rights – "May Day." This movement occurred about 120 years ago. The US chose instead to create "Labor Day", which takes place in the Fall, partly to obscure references to the bloody genesis of workers' rights. People DIED for your rights.
For those in the US, start by reading Wikipedia's entry on the Haymarket Affair. Educate yourself further from there.
[The] Battlefield 1 [is] set in the trenches of WWI, and people seem to be loving it. I can see why, it's definitely something new and interesting.
There is an excellent multiplayer FPS available on Steam. It's called Verdun , and aims for realism of the actual weapons used. It is foot-soldier, trench-warfare only.
The game is HARD – due to the realism – and that is a "Good Thing". Bomb-pocked and denuded moonscapes lie between trenches, with almost nowhere to hide when your team attempts an advance. And clearing out a trench without dying is terrifyingly tough. It feels like what fighting in WW-I was quite probably like.
The Battlefield series has always had the "use vehicles and planes," in addition to being a foot-soldier. Well, it's a AAA franchise, and well-funded, so they can do that. The game looks quite awesome.
To tide you over until Battlefield 1 – or if you have a Mac – Get on Steam and try out Verdun !
NOTE: I am just a fan. No association with whoever makes the game.
Except for Girl Scouts, which have cookies.
I was in Boy Scouts for a while. But they kicked me out for eating a Brownie.
Um, sorry to be critical, but is your email really an @geocities.com address?
I'm embarrassed to admit that I used AOL until 1993.
Just two months ago, all Verizon FiOS customers were switched to @aol.com email. Or was it @yahoo.com? I forget, because I don't use it.
My email is not tied to any one host, provider or employer. I've had the same core address (with a plethora of aliases) for 15+ years, and plan to keep it that way. If that changes, I will simply switch to my own VPS, hosting my own email server in perpetuity – portable from provider to provider.
Actually, in the beginning, they will probably have real taxi drivers behind the wheel . . . just in case the system goes entirely tits up, and they need to get the passenger to the destination.
But, gee Wally, won't this be like IT workers training their H1B and offshore replacements? The soon-to-be-unemployed taxi drivers babysit their replacements . . . ?
No. If the AI fucks up and kills some people, the "not-driving driver" will be the patsy, and get blamed for everything.
This is a giant FUCK YOU to every person who has used their own vehicle for Lyft (or Uber). I know people who have bought new cars simply because of the 'car-newness' requirements of Uber."
Wow, what a way to piss-off the people who got you where you were, by letting you externalize your costs onto them. Now, as a thanks — You're all fired. (Not 'fired', as they are all 'contractors', not 'employees'.) No Unemployment Insurance benefits for you ex-Lyft and ex-Uber drivers!
Enjoy scraping the cheese off of the inside of discarded pizza boxes for nutrition. Buh-bye!