Then again, Assange also said that Sweden was a great place where he felt totally safe,
right up until the whole rape thing happened, at which point Sweden was suddenly declared
a notorious US lackey...
Is that a thinly veiled insinuation that he is mentally deficient? To quote Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
Except that if you don't do the hand-wringing over 0.001%, then why should you bother doing it over 1% or even 30%? If one believes that 40% of voters have factually incorrect views, how much does an error of 30% really matter to one anyway?
There's nothing wrong with getting the best possible measurement error in a scientific experiment. It means you've removed one additional source of error, and that's always a good thing even if sometimes it is not enough.
It's important that EVERYBODY votes, even if they don't know what they're voting for. Why? Because if we let a small elite (^H^H^H informed people only) have the privilege of voting, then these people will control the world. However, in that direction lies empire and slavery.
It's much better if anyone who wants to push an agenda has to convince millions of other people, of which most aren't listening or don't care. It makes it less certain that they'll be able to push through everything or anything that they want.
Aww crap! And I've already booked the cruise... The travel agent said I could walk on the island first in the morning, and then the ship's crew would turn it over and I could walk on the other side in the evening.
Whoever moderated this -1 Overrated is clearly violating the moderation
rules. It is clear -1 Overrated is for posts that have been already
moderated. At the time, it had not. These is clearly done to prevent metamod,
and to shut down clearly an ontopic opinion which the moderator did not
agree, another violation. I see this quite often with opinions that do not
jibe with the groupthink on this site.
That's the problem with policing the internet. You get parties who believe there should be rules that they invent, that may have nothing to do with the rules that are already in place on a particular forum. And these parties decide to police their new rules everywhere they think that those rules should be applied.
Wayland's reason for existing is to improve X11, optimize the performance of graphics on (mostly) Linux machines. Why? Because X11 is too slow and bloated. Wayland gains speed by doing not much at all, it just calls.... X11 to do the work.
Doesn't that make the Wayland + X11 combination doubly slow?
And why do we need Wayland again?
Let's face a hard truth. The most successful apps past
and present are games.
The hard truth is that games aren't the most successful apps. Email, browsing and office apps have been much more successful for a long time. It's easy to miss because browsers and email are usually free, so the simplest comparison is games vs office software, and even there office/word processing wins.
Games *are* important, but they're nowhere near the top.
it argues that there were heatwaves in the past decade, which is easy to
argue for. then it argues those heatwaves wouldn't have happened without
human made greenhouse gases which is a bit harder to argue for as it's a
"why" question and not just showing data from weather stations in excel.
That's not what the argument is. The argument is that there have always been heatwaves. In the last 10 years, they have been bigger. It's like if you look at a calm lake. The waves are very flat for a long time. Then in the last 10 minutes, you see rippling big waves. That's when you know something has changed. Its obvious.
We know something has changed in climate since the 1980s. It's obvious.
what I'm asking, where the fuck is this summers heatwaves?
Follow the news, then you know where they are, and you can take your holidays there.
Actually, that's nonsense. There is nothing wrong (and a lot right) with the GPL. The crappiness you're talking about is caused by greed.
When a company doesn't want to pay some other company a license fee for the right to use their code, what do they do? They go looking for a free alternative. Then they complain that the free code can't be linked with their own code, because they were too cheap to go buy a commercial license from a commercial vendor.
There's no reason why the GPL should make it easy for cheapskate "software companies" to make products to sell.
The
gradual thinning of human skull from 200000 years ago to 75000 years ago
shows the reduction in violence. (The older skulls were "robust" and the
modern skulls were "gracile"). Basically skulls less able to withstand
thumping blows from clubs and stones actually survived and thrived.
That sounds wrong. Evolutionary changes aren't easily attributable to a change of behaviour. The idea that ancient humans did more thumping on each others' heads and therefore needed to have thicker skulls can't be verified.
If I had to wager, I'd suspect that lighter skulls are more advantageous for walking and keeping one's equilibrium when upright, but if I actually claimed that I'd be committing the same mistake you are. Changes could just as well be triggered by environmental factors or random combinations of genes due to mating.
Unlikely. The majority of people are platonists, and believe that all ideas "exist" already out there in some universe of the mind, and that people merely discover (or "stumble" upon, if the discovery is incidental) them.
Of course it is literally impossible to stumble upon radar technology, or upon the fact that someone else stumbled upon it, figuratively.
Why should they be fired? Their job is public relations, not honesty.
You're part of the problem. Lies and fraud should not be tolerated, regardless of whether it's someone's "job". It's wrong, and causes damage to society by misleading people and ultimately tricking them into parting with their money.
Bah, I can't seem to care. It's just a dispute among ruthless businesses on how to share the spoils from exploiting their users. I mean, ads inside an app, really? Whatever, I'll continue to use Debian and leave the proprietary OSes with their crazy "business models" to the fanbois.
Makes perfect sense. It's like when people say "can I crash at your place?" and what they mean is "my wallet is broken and I don't want to walk home"...
LOL. Think about it. There are no perfect OCR tools. Since all OCR tools make mistakes, now the accountant has to go through both the paper copies *and* the computer versions just to check that all the numbers have been properly "read".
Talk about doubling the amount of work involved...
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Is that a thinly veiled insinuation that he is mentally deficient? To quote Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
Quite right. If the stupid mob didn't waste their time ruling, they could get on with invading the whole Mediterranean!
That's very courageous of you. Me, I'm waiting for Surface 3.11!
There's nothing wrong with getting the best possible measurement error in a scientific experiment. It means you've removed one additional source of error, and that's always a good thing even if sometimes it is not enough.
It's much better if anyone who wants to push an agenda has to convince millions of other people, of which most aren't listening or don't care. It makes it less certain that they'll be able to push through everything or anything that they want.
"Clean up your room"
"Sure mom, I'll do it right away"
*one hour later*
"Hey! You didn't clean up your room. What's happened?"
"I lied to you. Do you like my twisted sense of humour?"
"Ow, Ouch! Not the ears! I was doing God's work, honest! It was explained on slashdot! Ouch!"
Especially Bambi. 'Cause he's the smartest!
Aww crap! And I've already booked the cruise... The travel agent said I could walk on the island first in the morning, and then the ship's crew would turn it over and I could walk on the other side in the evening.
That's the problem with policing the internet. You get parties who believe there should be rules that they invent, that may have nothing to do with the rules that are already in place on a particular forum. And these parties decide to police their new rules everywhere they think that those rules should be applied.
Wayland's reason for existing is to improve X11, optimize the performance of graphics on (mostly) Linux machines. Why? Because X11 is too slow and bloated. Wayland gains speed by doing not much at all, it just calls.... X11 to do the work.
Doesn't that make the Wayland + X11 combination doubly slow? And why do we need Wayland again?
The hard truth is that games aren't the most successful apps. Email, browsing and office apps have been much more successful for a long time. It's easy to miss because browsers and email are usually free, so the simplest comparison is games vs office software, and even there office/word processing wins.
Games *are* important, but they're nowhere near the top.
That's not what the argument is. The argument is that there have always been heatwaves. In the last 10 years, they have been bigger. It's like if you look at a calm lake. The waves are very flat for a long time. Then in the last 10 minutes, you see rippling big waves. That's when you know something has changed. Its obvious.
We know something has changed in climate since the 1980s. It's obvious.
Follow the news, then you know where they are, and you can take your holidays there.
Except that mathematical physics is still a kind of science, whereas finance and risk is, well... pseudo.
When a company doesn't want to pay some other company a license fee for the right to use their code, what do they do? They go looking for a free alternative. Then they complain that the free code can't be linked with their own code, because they were too cheap to go buy a commercial license from a commercial vendor.
There's no reason why the GPL should make it easy for cheapskate "software companies" to make products to sell.
That sounds wrong. Evolutionary changes aren't easily attributable to a change of behaviour. The idea that ancient humans did more thumping on each others' heads and therefore needed to have thicker skulls can't be verified.
If I had to wager, I'd suspect that lighter skulls are more advantageous for walking and keeping one's equilibrium when upright, but if I actually claimed that I'd be committing the same mistake you are. Changes could just as well be triggered by environmental factors or random combinations of genes due to mating.
Of course it is literally impossible to stumble upon the idea of radar technology...
Of course it is literally impossible to stumble upon radar technology, or upon the fact that someone else stumbled upon it, figuratively.
You're part of the problem. Lies and fraud should not be tolerated, regardless of whether it's someone's "job". It's wrong, and causes damage to society by misleading people and ultimately tricking them into parting with their money.
Is that you, Perry? I've heard enough. Let's call it and go to lunch.
Bah, I can't seem to care. It's just a dispute among ruthless businesses on how to share the spoils from exploiting their users. I mean, ads inside an app, really? Whatever, I'll continue to use Debian and leave the proprietary OSes with their crazy "business models" to the fanbois.
Agreed. Now Cthulhu, on the other hand...
I'm waiting for the prequel to come out, and I'm preordering then.
Of course! It's designed for mowing down the scoff-lawns!
Makes perfect sense. It's like when people say "can I crash at your place?" and what they mean is "my wallet is broken and I don't want to walk home"...
LOL. Think about it. There are no perfect OCR tools. Since all OCR tools make mistakes, now the accountant has to go through both the paper copies *and* the computer versions just to check that all the numbers have been properly "read". Talk about doubling the amount of work involved...