This "shared report" is 100% advertising. Why is it published as a story?
An anonymous luser shares a report:
If you often find yourself needing a refreshing beverage on a hot day, but don't which one to choose, you might want to try Acme Cola. It's a delicious carbonated beverage that drowns your thirst in delicious taste in just 5 seconds.
Simply unscrew the cap and let your mouth be filled with delicious, refreshing nectar. It will leave you feeling ecstactic and refreshed. Try Acme Cola today!
"The largest share of participants came from one country -- Germany -- where the time switch has been a somewhat odd front-page topic for years. But any E.U. decision would also impact the 27 other member states.")
So what if a majority comes from the largest country? Looking at the results by country reveals that abolishing the switch is the more popular choice in all but two countries: Greece and Cyprus. In the rest of the EU, the preference was to ditch the switch, mostly by overwheling majorities, up to 95%.
Here I was thinking that there are twelve distinct personality types! Then along came the sixteen Meyers-Briggs Personality Types.... And I was all like "whaa..." And now this... I thought there'd be more, not less!
Twelve was wrong. Sixteen was wrong...
But hang on a sec... What do Twelve and Sixteen have in common? THE FACTOR FOUR!!! Yes!!! It all makes sense now! Yes!!! I've been so blind all my life!
And looking around, thinking about my family, friends, colleagues, relatives... Indeed, they are essentially four personalities. Yup, this explains EVERYTHING!
Coming from a relatively small country that produces only boring dramas and cheap, cheesy wannabe-hollywoodesque crap, this would be the end of all decent programming. Since my country is so small, there isn't enough titles to form the 30%, so Netflix and HBO would have to make up for it by removing existing titles and replacing it with utter shite.
Gold has a much longer history as a store of value, so it may have a much longer future as well.
AND gold is actually usable for stuff other than as a currency. People like and buy gold jewelry. Gold also has industrial applications, so there will be a market for it. You will always find a buyer. The usability of bitcoin other than as a currency? Hmm... I just can't think of anything.
Historically, gold has been a poor investment. A century ago, gold was worth $20 per ounce, which was enough to buy a nice tailored suit. Today, gold is worth $1200 per ounce, which is enough to buy a nice tailored suit. Correcting for inflation, the ROI has been roughly 0%.
I would not call that a poor investment. I call that a stable saving strategy. Will it make you rich quick? No, but it won't make you poor either.
Shame because a lot of British people looking to retain EU citizenship would have jumped at that. Maybe that's why they limited it, they don't want waves of British e-refugees flooding them like the Irish have seen.
Close, but no cigar. Estonia's e-residency has been around for quite some time before the Brits took leave of their senses.
No matter what anyone says, when power goes out and communications infrastructure goes to shit or gets attacked, regular hard currency will still work until the human race forgets how to add and subtract.
...or until the human race wakes up to realise that those pieces of paper are just pieces of paper.
This is really a protectionism measure. Finland has no domestic coal production. What they're doing is blocking energy imports to protect their domestic energy sector, what there is of it. Not a bad idea, but that is the truth.
Yup, let's do this to protect our domestic (fill in the blank)-based energy production! We really need to use our vast, domestic supplies of (fill in the blank)!!!
So, you are saying that the environment is better off if smaller nations go 100% coal?
(No, of course you ain't... I'm just being facetious.)
Population size doesn't mean jack shit unless you account for the total consumption: energy consumption per capita in Finland is 20 times that of DR Congo, or 13 Times Pakistan, or 12 times Ethiopia, or 8 times Nigeria, or 7 times Indonesia, or 4 times Mexico (or somewhat less than the US).
Yup, 5.5 million Finns consume energy more than 80 million Congolese. AND they will continue to do so, being a first-world nation, in a location that requires heating for 3/4 of the year and more saunas per capita than any other country in the world. Possibly more saunas period than any other country in the world.
Don't forget, the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs essentially torched most of the plant life on earth dumping quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere + heat far greater than we could ever manage short of nuclear war. Yet the earth still recovered.
...ahem... And the dinosaurs recovered quite well, did they?
Eutrophication actually being reported is being caused by fertilizer runoff, not additional rain. Early predictions of climate change forecast drought everywhere. Now we're worrying about excess rain. Are liberals incapable of reporting good news?
Where do you get the "drought everywhere"? Droughts, yes, but not everywhere. Droughts will be an increasing problem in areas that already suffer from them. Other areas are likely to see more clouds and more rain.
Just stick to the truth (avoiding straw men) and you'll understand that it really isn't a liberal/conservative issue, it's reality.
Assange broke his promise and proves he can't be trusted.
BS! The US never took him up on that offer! If Obama decides to commute Manning's sentence unconditionally, Assange has no obligation to honour an agreement that was never reached.
Assange said (check his tweet!) he would "agree to extradition". To agree, you need another party who agrees with you. The US never agreed with Assange on this.
Great. Has the US asked for extradition? Is there a warrant for his arrest? I have not seen that.
Even more specifically, have Obama and Assange (or the US and Assange) agreed on a deal? Did Obama say "quid pro quo"? Did he state that he expects Assange to turn himself in after Manning being released?
No? Then please excuse Assange for not turning himself in for no particular reason except things happening to go his way. No deal was made. Hence, no deal was broken.
"it's been 40 years" and I need the money, so to get people to buy the book I am dragging out all my dirty laundry.
Yep, she was only paid a measly couple of millions for The Force Awakens and has just wrapped up the filming of Episode VIII, so she must be desparate for the money.
Given exactly the same problem exists in the UK, do you mind explaining how Ronald Reagan achieved that?
Ever heard of Mrs Margaret Thatcher, a.k.a. Ronnie's BFF? Different countries, different leaders but definitely same ideals and policies, only with l10n.
Who cares what the Splunk CEO has to say? Splunk is a tool that is supposed to make it easy to search and aggregate logs, but it sucks at searching and aggregating logs. It's so slow and clunky that most people at the office ignore it and use awk or vi.
You forgot: grep, sed, perl, crontab and bunch of other tools. I'm sorry, but you have no comprehension of scale. The normal *nix tools are good enough at what they do for individual files, but once your infrastructure grows beyond a handful of hosts, the management becomes a major pain in the ass. I guess you've never even contemplated having to solve the issues like "Something weird happened in one of 20 application servers some time last week when user X logged in."
Just because you don't like a certain technology and are ignorant about it doesn't mean that the technology sucks.
There is one element of socialism in here. Not all elements, though, so you Americans can start breathing again.
I'm actually all for the democratic control of companies. If nothing else, stupid voters/employees might end up learning that voting for incompetent or corrupt leaders will actually make you end up without a place to work.
... I hate being late to the party... almost as much as I hated downloading slack floppy sets of 56k ISDN
56k? Luxury! I had to download the download the entire distribution (source code included) on a 2400bps modem, write a utility to split the files into 720k chunks, because my family couldn't afford HD floppies and write everything to the floppies by hand.
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This "shared report" is 100% advertising. Why is it published as a story?
An anonymous luser shares a report:
If you often find yourself needing a refreshing beverage on a hot day, but don't which one to choose, you might want to try Acme Cola. It's a delicious carbonated beverage that drowns your thirst in delicious taste in just 5 seconds.
Simply unscrew the cap and let your mouth be filled with delicious, refreshing nectar. It will leave you feeling ecstactic and refreshed. Try Acme Cola today!
"The largest share of participants came from one country -- Germany -- where the time switch has been a somewhat odd front-page topic for years. But any E.U. decision would also impact the 27 other member states.")
So what if a majority comes from the largest country? Looking at the results by country reveals that abolishing the switch is the more popular choice in all but two countries: Greece and Cyprus. In the rest of the EU, the preference was to ditch the switch, mostly by overwheling majorities, up to 95%.
Credit where credit is due: This wasn't Germany's idea, but Finland's.
Here I was thinking that there are twelve distinct personality types! Then along came the sixteen Meyers-Briggs Personality Types.... And I was all like "whaa..." And now this... I thought there'd be more, not less!
Twelve was wrong. Sixteen was wrong...
But hang on a sec... What do Twelve and Sixteen have in common?
THE FACTOR FOUR!!! Yes!!! It all makes sense now! Yes!!! I've been so blind all my life!
And looking around, thinking about my family, friends, colleagues, relatives... Indeed, they are essentially four personalities. Yup, this explains EVERYTHING!
Please stop this now!
Coming from a relatively small country that produces only boring dramas and cheap, cheesy wannabe-hollywoodesque crap, this would be the end of all decent programming. Since my country is so small, there isn't enough titles to form the 30%, so Netflix and HBO would have to make up for it by removing existing titles and replacing it with utter shite.
NOOO!!!!
Don't believe short sellers FUD.
And global warming is hoax because it's colder today than yesterday. Don't believe the alarmists.
How is bitcoin different to gold?
Gold has a much longer history as a store of value, so it may have a much longer future as well.
AND gold is actually usable for stuff other than as a currency. People like and buy gold jewelry. Gold also has industrial applications, so there will be a market for it. You will always find a buyer. The usability of bitcoin other than as a currency? Hmm... I just can't think of anything.
Historically, gold has been a poor investment. A century ago, gold was worth $20 per ounce, which was enough to buy a nice tailored suit. Today, gold is worth $1200 per ounce, which is enough to buy a nice tailored suit. Correcting for inflation, the ROI has been roughly 0%.
I would not call that a poor investment. I call that a stable saving strategy. Will it make you rich quick? No, but it won't make you poor either.
When they say Uranus smells like that, who's exactly?
Well, I am exactly. Aren't you?
...except that baking chocolate is pretty tasty if you like dark chocolate.
Shame because a lot of British people looking to retain EU citizenship would have jumped at that. Maybe that's why they limited it, they don't want waves of British e-refugees flooding them like the Irish have seen.
Close, but no cigar. Estonia's e-residency has been around for quite some time before the Brits took leave of their senses.
No matter what anyone says, when power goes out and communications infrastructure goes to shit or gets attacked, regular hard currency will still work until the human race forgets how to add and subtract.
...or until the human race wakes up to realise that those pieces of paper are just pieces of paper.
I can just wave my phone? Do I have to flip it open, or can I leave it shut?
Flip open? You know, there hasn't been a phone you can (or need to) "flip open" on the Swedish market for ten years.
And how do I pay to refill the phone with the phone?
You don't need to refill your phone. The money does not reside in your phone, it's on your bank account.
This is really a protectionism measure. Finland has no domestic coal production. What they're doing is blocking energy imports to protect their domestic energy sector, what there is of it. Not a bad idea, but that is the truth.
Yup, let's do this to protect our domestic (fill in the blank)-based energy production! We really need to use our vast, domestic supplies of (fill in the blank)!!!
Any idea for the blank?!
So, you are saying that the environment is better off if smaller nations go 100% coal?
(No, of course you ain't... I'm just being facetious.)
Population size doesn't mean jack shit unless you account for the total consumption: energy consumption per capita in Finland is 20 times that of DR Congo, or 13 Times Pakistan, or 12 times Ethiopia, or 8 times Nigeria, or 7 times Indonesia, or 4 times Mexico (or somewhat less than the US).
Yup, 5.5 million Finns consume energy more than 80 million Congolese. AND they will continue to do so, being a first-world nation, in a location that requires heating for 3/4 of the year and more saunas per capita than any other country in the world. Possibly more saunas period than any other country in the world.
Don't forget, the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs essentially torched most of the plant life on earth dumping quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere + heat far greater than we could ever manage short of nuclear war. Yet the earth still recovered.
...ahem... And the dinosaurs recovered quite well, did they?
Their really cute. Does that count ?
Their really cute what? Come on! Don't keep us in suspense. WHAT DO THE CATS POSSESS THAT'S REALLY CUTE???!!!
Eutrophication actually being reported is being caused by fertilizer runoff, not additional rain. Early predictions of climate change forecast drought everywhere. Now we're worrying about excess rain. Are liberals incapable of reporting good news?
Where do you get the "drought everywhere"? Droughts, yes, but not everywhere. Droughts will be an increasing problem in areas that already suffer from them. Other areas are likely to see more clouds and more rain.
Just stick to the truth (avoiding straw men) and you'll understand that it really isn't a liberal/conservative issue, it's reality.
Finland is part of "rest of the world" too, you insensitive clod! (And a good place to see the Northern Lights, darkness permitting.)
Assange broke his promise and proves he can't be trusted.
BS! The US never took him up on that offer! If Obama decides to commute Manning's sentence unconditionally, Assange has no obligation to honour an agreement that was never reached.
Assange said (check his tweet!) he would "agree to extradition". To agree, you need another party who agrees with you. The US never agreed with Assange on this.
Great. Has the US asked for extradition? Is there a warrant for his arrest? I have not seen that.
Even more specifically, have Obama and Assange (or the US and Assange) agreed on a deal? Did Obama say "quid pro quo"? Did he state that he expects Assange to turn himself in after Manning being released?
No? Then please excuse Assange for not turning himself in for no particular reason except things happening to go his way. No deal was made. Hence, no deal was broken.
"it's been 40 years" and I need the money, so to get people to buy the book I am dragging out all my dirty laundry.
Yep, she was only paid a measly couple of millions for The Force Awakens and has just wrapped up the filming of Episode VIII, so she must be desparate for the money.
Given exactly the same problem exists in the UK, do you mind explaining how Ronald Reagan achieved that?
Ever heard of Mrs Margaret Thatcher, a.k.a. Ronnie's BFF? Different countries, different leaders but definitely same ideals and policies, only with l10n.
Who cares what the Splunk CEO has to say? Splunk is a tool that is supposed to make it easy to search and aggregate logs, but it sucks at searching and aggregating logs. It's so slow and clunky that most people at the office ignore it and use awk or vi.
You forgot: grep, sed, perl, crontab and bunch of other tools. I'm sorry, but you have no comprehension of scale. The normal *nix tools are good enough at what they do for individual files, but once your infrastructure grows beyond a handful of hosts, the management becomes a major pain in the ass. I guess you've never even contemplated having to solve the issues like "Something weird happened in one of 20 application servers some time last week when user X logged in."
Just because you don't like a certain technology and are ignorant about it doesn't mean that the technology sucks.
There is one element of socialism in here. Not all elements, though, so you Americans can start breathing again.
I'm actually all for the democratic control of companies. If nothing else, stupid voters/employees might end up learning that voting for incompetent or corrupt leaders will actually make you end up without a place to work.
... I hate being late to the party... almost as much as I hated downloading slack floppy sets of 56k ISDN
56k? Luxury! I had to download the download the entire distribution (source code included) on a 2400bps modem, write a utility to split the files into 720k chunks, because my family couldn't afford HD floppies and write everything to the floppies by hand.