I can't hardly remember last week, much less which of the many THOUSANDS of programs and movies I have watched
What an empty life you must live, mindlessly consuming so much content that you can't even remember what it is you've spent so much of your life (not) paying attention to.
he problem with that is that we, right now, have better tech than the TOS Enterprise
No kidding. I've been watching through TNG and one aspect of the show that jumps out as being unbelievably primitive is that the away teams have to describe what they're seeing to the bridge crew.
You know, instead of just streaming video from their iPho-errr... tricorders...
You are free to leave this nation and its citizens that you hate with such a passion and relocate to somewhere else far more forward thinking. I hear that Nicaragua has just emerged as being in the forefront of progressivism, perhaps you will be more comfortable among your peers there?
Of course, I don't think that you will actually leave, because deep down you know that you have it good in this country - and you don't want to give up your way of life.
So basically, people are able to bring up numerous examples showing your assertion to be either misguided or flat out wrong, and your defense is simply: "well obviously I meant opinions other than those, you know, the ones that prove my own opinion right".
But well done on getting so many people to respond, coward.
It's all just opinion, you just agree with them so you don't see it.
the global security landscape darkened
darkened is opinionated, non-factual language.
the international community failed to come effectively to grips with humanity's most pressing existential threats
Also opinion - what threats specifically? How did they fail to effectively "grip" the threats? Why are they humanity's most pressing threats?
This already-threatening world situation
How was it threatening? To whom?
a rise in strident nationalism
Implicating that nationalism is a negative political motivation, with no basis in fact whatsoever.
Donald Trump, made disturbing comments
More colored and decidedly non-factual language. No rationale as to how his actually rather insightful comments merit both being described in negative terms and how they advance "the world" towards war, nuclear or otherwise.
There are a finite number of CEO positions currently in existence. Jobs of any sort don't just spring into being because you want to have people filling those roles; it follows that trying to put more people into these positions will necessarily mean that either you're replacing people currently employed, or you accept that fewer people as an overall fraction of the population will not end up with a job.
So it isn't necessarily true that more non-white CEOs does not mean less white CEOs.
Well as all of the supporters of this move will say about that sort of thing happening, the internet at large will "treat that as damage and route around it".
So what's the problem, wasn't that easily remedied because it got "routed around"?
Not sure if you're trolling or just displaying average ignorance from not reading the article, but if autopilot disengages the car will slow to a crawl and not go "careening out of control".
If you think that the people not thinking enough are a problem, then you're the poster child of the kinds of issues that arise from someone overthinking things.
The primary reason why we use ceiling fans is because air movement across skin helps increase evaporation
Nope, the primary reason is exactly what you said in the next sentence:
it distributes the air so the overall temperature becomes more uniform
Pretty much any ventilation system, forced air, even open windows, does a poor job of distributing the cooler air throughout a room, especially in houses. So in a very real way it does make parts of a room cooler than they would otherwise be without the fan.
You also seem to be laboring under the assumption that every house in the world is some kind of ideal, perfectly insulating chamber. This is where your overthinking comes in, I assure you that they are not. The miniscule amount of power consumed by ceiling fans (about 50 watts for the average home's ceiling fan at full speed) is dwarfed by the amount of power from solar irradiation and leakage of heat from the outside.
You're correct in the technical sense, which is only the best kind of correct in cartoons.
Here's a fun fact: Brock Turner wasn't actually convicted of rape. That's why his sentence sounds to "shockingly" low - because it wasn't actually for rape.
So yes, you're offended because you're wrong and you know it.
It's almost funny that this is happening because people are moving in from California and are used to paying insane prices for housing, and are in more than a few cases even paying over asking prices for housing! Developers have been building up new apartments and neighborhoods like mad and it still hasn't been able to keep up with the demand.
Have you tried buying a gift card with a credit card?... if you try it at a grocery store, they'll deny the purchase.
Yes, I do it all the time, and no it doesn't get denied. The only catch is that if I buy one and put enough money onto it, the POS terminal asks for my DL# for verification.
So I don't know where you got your information from, but it's flat out wrong.
Meanwhile my VW is only at 63k miles, bought new, and has had to have the intake plenum essentially replaced twice due to excessive carbon buildup, has had the gas cap "door" get stuck shut twice requiring a replacement of the spring loaded part that pops it open both times (this is especially annoying because by the time you notice it, guess what - your gas tank is nearly empty), and had the water pump fail just last week.
Not to mention other annoyances like being unable to replace the rear brake pads on your own without the $300 VW computer tool or without bringing it into a garage or - worse - the dealership.
My Fiat has been trouble-free by comparison, and that is particularly embarrassing when the Italians managed to build a more reliable car than the Germans.
They just haven't been paying attention to their history lessons.
Outlook used to do the same sort of thing, with similar results: it would automatically display emails and certain attachments, and it turns out that some types of media or emails could have had malware embedded in them...
But hey, that was over ten years ago so surely this sort of problem could never come up again, right?
Unfortunately I think you'll find that your example won't change any minds because:
1. Creationists won't accept this as an example of evolution. What they're looking to "disprove" is the idea that man evolved from apes, or rather that given time, one kind of animal species will transform into a completely new and distinct species. But in your example the moths are still moths, just in a different color.
2. More seriously you can't fight illogic with logic.
You jest but my mp3 player actually has a setting built in that makes the output lo-fi, though it's meant to imitate listening to AM radio rather than vinyl.
It rolls off a lot of the high frequency and some of the low end, and it also adds noise and random clicks and pops.
With 3 bits per cell, how long before the data fades?
This is the reliability issue that nobody wants to talk about. I am sure that many others are like myself, with a closet full of old PCs. I like the idea that if I were to pull one out and power it on after having sat unplugged for a span of years, it would still boot (CMOS battery BIOS issues not withstanding) and would still have all of the data I left it with.
SSDs on the other hand won't even guarantee that your data will still be there after *only one year* of being powered off, and as we've dipped below the 34nm process, sometimes SSDs are warranted for even less.
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What an empty life you must live, mindlessly consuming so much content that you can't even remember what it is you've spent so much of your life (not) paying attention to.
you can't glorify his achievements from that era without glorifying that shithead behaviour
Martin Luther King Jr. also engaged in some rather "free" sexual practices. Therefore, the civil rights movement must be discarded from history.
The laws are supposed to reflect the ideals of the society.
Consider that the ideals of society have changed.
Don't like it? Fight to change the ideals back to where they were.
No kidding. I've been watching through TNG and one aspect of the show that jumps out as being unbelievably primitive is that the away teams have to describe what they're seeing to the bridge crew.
You know, instead of just streaming video from their iPho-errr... tricorders...
the locals that are smart enough will miss the foreigners
What a shame. They might have to resort to reaching out to the vast numbers of American citizens that live between the coasts.
If the SF store owners can get over the cultural barriers, that is...
If a man negotiates poorly with respect to his peers and consequently gets paid less than them, is he being discriminated against?
If it's not discrimination for him, why is it discrimination when this scenario plays out with a woman in the role?
You are free to leave this nation and its citizens that you hate with such a passion and relocate to somewhere else far more forward thinking. I hear that Nicaragua has just emerged as being in the forefront of progressivism, perhaps you will be more comfortable among your peers there?
Of course, I don't think that you will actually leave, because deep down you know that you have it good in this country - and you don't want to give up your way of life.
Cars obviously cannot function without wheels. They arguably can't even be cars.
Tracks, air cushions, rails, any variation on legs and feet...
they're all terrible solutions for the problem of course, but then again, so are wireless headphones for a portable media player device.
Ah yes, the destitute's equivalent of: "I've got mine, so screw yours". Is it really too much to ask that people take some pride in their home?
So basically, people are able to bring up numerous examples showing your assertion to be either misguided or flat out wrong, and your defense is simply: "well obviously I meant opinions other than those, you know, the ones that prove my own opinion right".
But well done on getting so many people to respond, coward.
It's all just opinion, you just agree with them so you don't see it.
darkened is opinionated, non-factual language.
Also opinion - what threats specifically? How did they fail to effectively "grip" the threats? Why are they humanity's most pressing threats?
How was it threatening? To whom?
Implicating that nationalism is a negative political motivation, with no basis in fact whatsoever.
More colored and decidedly non-factual language. No rationale as to how his actually rather insightful comments merit both being described in negative terms and how they advance "the world" towards war, nuclear or otherwise.
Perhaps they are indeed, and you don't have enough of the aforementioned traits to truly understand their position?
There are a finite number of CEO positions currently in existence. Jobs of any sort don't just spring into being because you want to have people filling those roles; it follows that trying to put more people into these positions will necessarily mean that either you're replacing people currently employed, or you accept that fewer people as an overall fraction of the population will not end up with a job.
So it isn't necessarily true that more non-white CEOs does not mean less white CEOs.
Well as all of the supporters of this move will say about that sort of thing happening, the internet at large will "treat that as damage and route around it".
So what's the problem, wasn't that easily remedied because it got "routed around"?
downvote
Because this is not Reddit, and Slashdot has never worked that way.
If you want an echo chamber, go back to Reddit.
Not sure if you're trolling or just displaying average ignorance from not reading the article, but if autopilot disengages the car will slow to a crawl and not go "careening out of control".
If you think that the people not thinking enough are a problem, then you're the poster child of the kinds of issues that arise from someone overthinking things.
The primary reason why we use ceiling fans is because air movement across skin helps increase evaporation
Nope, the primary reason is exactly what you said in the next sentence:
it distributes the air so the overall temperature becomes more uniform
Pretty much any ventilation system, forced air, even open windows, does a poor job of distributing the cooler air throughout a room, especially in houses. So in a very real way it does make parts of a room cooler than they would otherwise be without the fan.
You also seem to be laboring under the assumption that every house in the world is some kind of ideal, perfectly insulating chamber. This is where your overthinking comes in, I assure you that they are not. The miniscule amount of power consumed by ceiling fans (about 50 watts for the average home's ceiling fan at full speed) is dwarfed by the amount of power from solar irradiation and leakage of heat from the outside.
You're correct in the technical sense, which is only the best kind of correct in cartoons.
Here's a fun fact: Brock Turner wasn't actually convicted of rape. That's why his sentence sounds to "shockingly" low - because it wasn't actually for rape.
So yes, you're offended because you're wrong and you know it.
It's starting to get unaffordable in Texas as well: http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews....
It's almost funny that this is happening because people are moving in from California and are used to paying insane prices for housing, and are in more than a few cases even paying over asking prices for housing! Developers have been building up new apartments and neighborhoods like mad and it still hasn't been able to keep up with the demand.
Have you tried buying a gift card with a credit card? ... if you try it at a grocery store, they'll deny the purchase.
Yes, I do it all the time, and no it doesn't get denied. The only catch is that if I buy one and put enough money onto it, the POS terminal asks for my DL# for verification.
So I don't know where you got your information from, but it's flat out wrong.
Meanwhile my VW is only at 63k miles, bought new, and has had to have the intake plenum essentially replaced twice due to excessive carbon buildup, has had the gas cap "door" get stuck shut twice requiring a replacement of the spring loaded part that pops it open both times (this is especially annoying because by the time you notice it, guess what - your gas tank is nearly empty), and had the water pump fail just last week.
Not to mention other annoyances like being unable to replace the rear brake pads on your own without the $300 VW computer tool or without bringing it into a garage or - worse - the dealership.
My Fiat has been trouble-free by comparison, and that is particularly embarrassing when the Italians managed to build a more reliable car than the Germans.
They just haven't been paying attention to their history lessons.
Outlook used to do the same sort of thing, with similar results: it would automatically display emails and certain attachments, and it turns out that some types of media or emails could have had malware embedded in them...
But hey, that was over ten years ago so surely this sort of problem could never come up again, right?
Unfortunately I think you'll find that your example won't change any minds because:
1. Creationists won't accept this as an example of evolution. What they're looking to "disprove" is the idea that man evolved from apes, or rather that given time, one kind of animal species will transform into a completely new and distinct species. But in your example the moths are still moths, just in a different color.
2. More seriously you can't fight illogic with logic.
You jest but my mp3 player actually has a setting built in that makes the output lo-fi, though it's meant to imitate listening to AM radio rather than vinyl.
It rolls off a lot of the high frequency and some of the low end, and it also adds noise and random clicks and pops.
With 3 bits per cell, how long before the data fades?
This is the reliability issue that nobody wants to talk about. I am sure that many others are like myself, with a closet full of old PCs. I like the idea that if I were to pull one out and power it on after having sat unplugged for a span of years, it would still boot (CMOS battery BIOS issues not withstanding) and would still have all of the data I left it with.
SSDs on the other hand won't even guarantee that your data will still be there after *only one year* of being powered off, and as we've dipped below the 34nm process, sometimes SSDs are warranted for even less.