So, there's a FAQ that has no questions, but some fairly arcane "rumors" or "myths" that they're debunking. And the "why you should support ACTA" links to an impossibly brief pamphlet that pretty much tells you that ACTA only does good things.
I suspect the site is aimed at people who already support it and want to find legal opinions to justify themselves.
"It appears that the Agreement per se does not impose any obligation on the Union that is manifestly incompatible with fundamental rights.“
That's a positively ringing endorsement of ACTA, especially with the "per se" and "manifestly" qualifiers.
And the Euro notion of "fundamental rights" always makes me chuckle, there are something like 50 of them in their freedom charter.
I'd have to wear Dragonskin to make any judgement. I've heard it was even heavier... heavier armor means you carry less bullets and water. For convoys, Dragonskin probably would have been great since you are in a vehicle. Not so sure about foot patrols.
The biggest problem the Army had wasn't favoritism towards this contractor or that. The biggest problem was entrenched bureaucracy, the CIF structure (central issuance facility) could not get gear to soldiers. Incredibly, CIF wasn't simply fired for not doing their job, instead someone with stars set up RFI (rapid field issue) to get gear out.
If you've worked around government, the whole thing of people not doing their jobs and not being held to account is incredibly common. Barney Frank explained it best, to paraphrase from memory, "talking about fraud waste and abuse, people talk about cutting the fat, but they fail to see the implicit premise: they think that there are layers of fat in government that we can cut out, but that analogy is simply wrong. The fat isn't in layers, there are no layers of government that are uniformly useless. The better analogy would be that the fat is marbled throughout government."
Can you give me a legitimate reason why any intelligent, law-abiding person would constantly wear his or her jeans several sizes too large, so that the waist sits on his or her thighs?
Can you give me a legitimate reason why any intelligent, law-abiding person would constantly wear a baseball cap with the price tag or other stickers still on it solely to make it look like it was stolen?
Freedom of expression. Personal preference. Thanks to the Constitution, "because I want to" is a legitimate reason to do these things if I so choose to do so.
Just to outline what the standard gear can do as of fairly recently; I'm out, but I wore it in 2010.
The kevlar lining in the vest, by itself, is rated to stop 9mm pistol rounds.
The main chest and back ESAPI plates are rated to stop a NATO 7.62x51 round. (The AK commonly fires the lighter 7.62x39 round.)
The armor is bulky as hell. The full assemblage, helmet, shoulder protectors, front and back plates, side plates, etc., is heavy and greatly restricts movement. I found it very difficult, with everything on, to man a gun and drop down to check radios. (I've also never found a decent pair of gloves.) I stopped wearing the neck protection and shoulder protection while driving because I couldn't easily turn my head.
The problem of being trapped is partially addressed through the quick-release mechanism; there is a strap you pull that will simply make your armor fall off. Of course, there's a fairly elaborate system of cables wound throughout the armor, and the armor itself is more annoying to put on.
My feelings are that we're well past the point where the increased likelihood of getting shot while stumbling around is worse than the benefits of not getting hurt by shrapnel. I'm considering a common combined IED and small arms attack in which the convoy is successfully stopped, and they have to kick out dismounts to respond. In that scenario, getting in and out of vehicles is very dangerous (especially some MRAPs where you have to basically go out ass-first) and performing tricky tasks like hooking up tow bars and tow cables.
The next biggest problem is it's hard to allow air flow. The armor tries, and they recently came out (thank god) with a lighter shirt to wear underneath it instead of the regular ACU top. That was a huge improvement, but it's fundamentally hard to put yourself inside a ceramic box and not cook.
Except for shoulders (and no one wants to wear the damned shoulder armor) it doesn't protect joints. The neck protection further restricts mobility.
Wearing it, overall, I felt like a damned turtle. Other people I saw didn't seem to be doing much better.
A woman should never be regarded as simply an object.
Make sure you don't ever study nutrition, wherein a woman will be regarded as little more than a digestive tract with appendages, or really any book on anatomy or physiology.
And forget about following women in sports, where they are all reduced to a set of statistics.
And don't ever try to hire a woman or do business with her, because she'll be reduced to a set of qualifications, risks, etc.
And don't read gender feminist theory where women are reduced to a political bloc.
Somewhere in the depths of poorly-researched comments will be some guy who thinks that NoSQL is a tool that really just might be useful for particular use cases, and should be used where appropriate, and nowhere else.
Yes, those "appropriate uses for NoSQL" are like unicorns... often rumored, only apparently seen in huge companies like Amazon and Google where they have dozens of PhDs working on them. They're very similar, unfortunately, to the "seemingly appropriate uses for NoSQL" but you can't really tell until you've wasted months of development effort...
Give me a break, I wanted to write that comment that was as short, as quick, and as simple as possible.
You didn't even take relativistic affects into account. What if the horse and mouse are being dropped near a large mountain? And what about the possibility of quantum tunneling?
Nothing, absolutely nothing, matters more at winning wars than logistics. The lethal fighting force is but the edge of a vast engineering and distribution network. Or, if it is not the edge of such a network, it is soon a defeated lethal fighting force.
I spent six years in the U.S. Air Force flying a desk. To this day people are shocked that the only time I flew on a plane was a civilian airliner, and I never saw combat.
When I was in, the USAF was around 300,000 Airmen. Around 10% was aircrew, which includes: pilots, navigators, crew chiefs, AWACS computer guys, etc. It took the rest of the USAF to handle the rest: feed the troops, get them to where they need to go, ensure their computers were working correctly, tracking millions of bullets, bombs and missiles, tending to medical needs, paychecks, etc.
Hey now, don't forget the hordes of masseuses, pedicurists, HVAC and cable TV technicians.
Maybe it got lost in translation. Thing is, where I come from saying something like that won't start a fight. No different from telling him to pull his head in, that he is a dickhead, or stop acting like a gallah.
As in "Ahh, you're a fucking idiot mate. You could tell I was in the middle of something but you had to go and disturb me..."
I could put it that way, and he'd think he was my best buddy and want to come around and bother me more. I know that other people have flat out told him with varying degrees of exasperation and the guy does not get it.
Maybe it is an Aussie trait. A literal people. Tell it like it is.
The Aussie trait (I was born there) is more the listening than the telling, in particular, not taking offense too quickly or deflecting it with humor. The US is a big country and parts of it are like that, but a handful of easily offended people make candor impossible, and that happened a while ago in many professional settings.
I have to tell you the reason any of our "socialism"
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
No. What he is acknowledging is that uninformed people think that he lives in a socialist country. A more accurate description if somewhere with universal healthcare is civilised
What he's trying to do is have it both ways, and I wouldn't let him.
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
You Sir, are obviously a clueless Republican / American. Stop thinking that everything that is against you is Commie Russia.
Look at the Scandinavian countries and how well they rank in education, wealth, health, happiness, etc. All due to a socialistic system.
Clueless? You claim that I'm seeing socialism everywhere, and then go on to claim that everything in your life is due to socialism. Make up your mind. You probably don't even know what socialism is, do you? I'll wait while you look it up on wikipedia.
You're like my Christian friends. Every time something good happens, "praise Jesus!" and every time something bad happens, "Damn you Satan!" Socialism and "capitalism" are your god and devil, and you have no clue what either of the words mean.
It isn't perfect, but it is far from a catastrophic failure as you believe and a lot better than the Money Hungry Corporation Capitalism USA is living with.
There is no such thing as capitalism, that's a term Marx popularized to mean the antithesis of socialism. And our hybrid economy is, by the numbers, pretty much as socialist as yours. The only reason our countries are still livable is that there are enough people with common sense to allow a free market to limp along dragging the socialist burden with it.
Socialism has consistently been a catastrophe when really practiced. From the USSR to the PRC to the DPRK, the only innovation in socialist societies has been in new ways to butcher their people.
What if every US citizen had a 9-digit identifier, which could be used to look up their medical information online?
Doesn't work if you're temporarily offline. And it doesn't tell you what it is you're looking up, one key into twenty different databases is useless.
We already have any number of systems with any number of identifiers, they need to be able to talk to each other, and I don't see why the government needs to impose a blanket standard. Let the various systems compete on their technical merits, and simply work out some rules to ensure that each service publishes an access API. How you define the health of the human body is an incredibly complex problem that requires constant innovation, and we should encourage anyone with a better idea to try it and actually do it, rather than having some agency dictate how it is to be done.
And governments have generally been terrible in managing the identity aspect of healthcare; in the US, for example, we have terrible trouble with Medicare fraud, but healthcare fraud, waste and abuse is a fairly universal issue. Most places don't have any real healthcare debate, so those problems are quietly swept under the rug. In the US, it *sounds* like it's worse, but only because we're actually working through these problems in a relatively transparent process.
I have only ever heard of that happening once, with Jack Thompson, and that was after repeated lawsuits where he was warned he was out of line, but still kept it up.
It is extremely rare for anything to happen to a lawyer over a case that is filed, even if it is frivolous.
It's rare for anything procedural to happen unless the attorney, as in your case, is repeatedly abusing the courts. The reason is it's a waste of time to make a legal case over wasting time. But judges frequently scold attorneys who are idiots, and this one didn't.
Best cure for an open office plan is a white noise generator. The first time I heard one in an office I was amazed at how quite it was.
I've found part of what makes it hard is the overall volume of the background noise, air conditioning, machines, etc. This, in turn, causes people to speak more loudly.
Regular headphones with white / pink noise are very loud, and the more noise you add, the more strain it is to listen to.
Noise cancelling headphones by themselves are very effective against the AC, but then voices are even louder. And, to my experience, pink noise doesn't work well with noise cancelling algos. (Noise cancelling headphones by themselves are outstanding on an airplane, you can sleep like a baby.)
So I prefer noise cancelling headphones and a CD of natural noise. That gets rid of the hum of the AC, and baffles conversations with the lowest volume setting.
And all I need is for them to fire the fucking idiot who, in spite of the fact that I'm clearly working and have a huge pair of headphones on, will tap me on my shoulder to talk about absolutely fucking nothing.
I'll bet you that any 6 year old can solve the problem of where a ballistic projectile will be, even accounting for air resistance, in real time without a computer.
Don't believe me? Toss them a ball. The rest is just notation.
They don't have a general solution. Most small kids will have trouble catching a pop fly.
But by your measure, they also have such a solid understanding of linguistics that they can parse a sentence and compose a grammatical sentence in response, on the fly.
The human neuroskeletal system has some heuristics that are a substantial partial solution to that class of problems. In particular, how to recognize a parabolic arc. Training allows one to develop a technique to "cover" a projectile coming in from further away such that the parabolic arc can't be determined.
The rest isn't "just notation", it's application to other domains.
And you can see that, even without getting into notation, they can't apply the solution more generally. Most 6 year olds would have trouble, for instance, even teaching another person how to speak or catch a ball, beyond their built-in instincts to play and socialize. And it's only years of study before someone can become an effective baseball coach. And if you want to beat other teams, you probably need specialists who have really studied ballistics and medicine so that they can develop better techniques for catching projectiles.
It seems pointless to you because you are totally ignorant of math. A lot of these "hundreds of pages of mind-numbingly dense mathematics" proofs are long but tedious derivations which a computer can grind through in seconds.
If you're doing a half page proof that square root of 2 is irrational, then a computer would be pointless, but clearly you don't know that math is more complicated than that.
And to head off potential flames, I completely respect people who want to and are able to work through those derivations by hand, but to think doing it with a computer is pointless just shows your ignorance.
Most importantly, if there are hundreds of pages of dense computation to prove X, if I'm writing a function and I have some invariant, I can just write a comment,
"And invariant Y remains satisfied because of X, see the fun proof at..."
I don't really give a damn about the details, It Just Works.
The article itself is mathless. It doesn't tell you what the solution was, or even present the exact problem that was solved.
And running a search for the kid's name turns up the same article fifty fucking times over. Google did some work on link farms... they need to do some work deduping / despamming press releases.
Bacon is a fairly broad term, here in Ireland boiled bacon and cabbage is common and quite tasty actually. We're not boiling rashers, it's a large cut of meat and boiling is a perfectly valid way to cook it.
Ah, Ireland, always there to remind the world that English cooking isn't *quite* the worst.
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So, there's a FAQ that has no questions, but some fairly arcane "rumors" or "myths" that they're debunking. And the "why you should support ACTA" links to an impossibly brief pamphlet that pretty much tells you that ACTA only does good things.
I suspect the site is aimed at people who already support it and want to find legal opinions to justify themselves.
"It appears that the Agreement per se does not impose any obligation on the Union that is manifestly incompatible with fundamental rights.“
That's a positively ringing endorsement of ACTA, especially with the "per se" and "manifestly" qualifiers.
And the Euro notion of "fundamental rights" always makes me chuckle, there are something like 50 of them in their freedom charter.
Well, we simply should invade Canada and stop bothering with the pesky, hot, dangerous places.
Mosquito repellent and you're golden!
No, fuck no. Too goddamned cold.
Why not invade Italy? Or take over a few more tropical islands?
I'd have to wear Dragonskin to make any judgement. I've heard it was even heavier... heavier armor means you carry less bullets and water. For convoys, Dragonskin probably would have been great since you are in a vehicle. Not so sure about foot patrols.
The biggest problem the Army had wasn't favoritism towards this contractor or that. The biggest problem was entrenched bureaucracy, the CIF structure (central issuance facility) could not get gear to soldiers. Incredibly, CIF wasn't simply fired for not doing their job, instead someone with stars set up RFI (rapid field issue) to get gear out.
If you've worked around government, the whole thing of people not doing their jobs and not being held to account is incredibly common. Barney Frank explained it best, to paraphrase from memory, "talking about fraud waste and abuse, people talk about cutting the fat, but they fail to see the implicit premise: they think that there are layers of fat in government that we can cut out, but that analogy is simply wrong. The fat isn't in layers, there are no layers of government that are uniformly useless. The better analogy would be that the fat is marbled throughout government."
Freedom of expression. Personal preference. Thanks to the Constitution, "because I want to" is a legitimate reason to do these things if I so choose to do so.
FTFY.
Just to outline what the standard gear can do as of fairly recently; I'm out, but I wore it in 2010.
The kevlar lining in the vest, by itself, is rated to stop 9mm pistol rounds.
The main chest and back ESAPI plates are rated to stop a NATO 7.62x51 round. (The AK commonly fires the lighter 7.62x39 round.)
The armor is bulky as hell. The full assemblage, helmet, shoulder protectors, front and back plates, side plates, etc., is heavy and greatly restricts movement. I found it very difficult, with everything on, to man a gun and drop down to check radios. (I've also never found a decent pair of gloves.) I stopped wearing the neck protection and shoulder protection while driving because I couldn't easily turn my head.
The problem of being trapped is partially addressed through the quick-release mechanism; there is a strap you pull that will simply make your armor fall off. Of course, there's a fairly elaborate system of cables wound throughout the armor, and the armor itself is more annoying to put on.
My feelings are that we're well past the point where the increased likelihood of getting shot while stumbling around is worse than the benefits of not getting hurt by shrapnel. I'm considering a common combined IED and small arms attack in which the convoy is successfully stopped, and they have to kick out dismounts to respond. In that scenario, getting in and out of vehicles is very dangerous (especially some MRAPs where you have to basically go out ass-first) and performing tricky tasks like hooking up tow bars and tow cables.
The next biggest problem is it's hard to allow air flow. The armor tries, and they recently came out (thank god) with a lighter shirt to wear underneath it instead of the regular ACU top. That was a huge improvement, but it's fundamentally hard to put yourself inside a ceramic box and not cook.
Except for shoulders (and no one wants to wear the damned shoulder armor) it doesn't protect joints. The neck protection further restricts mobility.
Wearing it, overall, I felt like a damned turtle. Other people I saw didn't seem to be doing much better.
A woman should never be regarded as simply an object.
Make sure you don't ever study nutrition, wherein a woman will be regarded as little more than a digestive tract with appendages, or really any book on anatomy or physiology.
And forget about following women in sports, where they are all reduced to a set of statistics.
And don't ever try to hire a woman or do business with her, because she'll be reduced to a set of qualifications, risks, etc.
And don't read gender feminist theory where women are reduced to a political bloc.
Okay, maybe that last one really is dehumanizing.
Gah... 'effects', not 'affects'.
Somewhere in the depths of poorly-researched comments will be some guy who thinks that NoSQL is a tool that really just might be useful for particular use cases, and should be used where appropriate, and nowhere else.
Yes, those "appropriate uses for NoSQL" are like unicorns... often rumored, only apparently seen in huge companies like Amazon and Google where they have dozens of PhDs working on them. They're very similar, unfortunately, to the "seemingly appropriate uses for NoSQL" but you can't really tell until you've wasted months of development effort...
Give me a break, I wanted to write that comment that was as short, as quick, and as simple as possible.
You didn't even take relativistic affects into account. What if the horse and mouse are being dropped near a large mountain? And what about the possibility of quantum tunneling?
You're just lazy and sloppy, that's all.
I spent six years in the U.S. Air Force flying a desk. To this day people are shocked that the only time I flew on a plane was a civilian airliner, and I never saw combat.
When I was in, the USAF was around 300,000 Airmen. Around 10% was aircrew, which includes: pilots, navigators, crew chiefs, AWACS computer guys, etc. It took the rest of the USAF to handle the rest: feed the troops, get them to where they need to go, ensure their computers were working correctly, tracking millions of bullets, bombs and missiles, tending to medical needs, paychecks, etc.
Hey now, don't forget the hordes of masseuses, pedicurists, HVAC and cable TV technicians.
Maybe it got lost in translation. Thing is, where I come from saying something like that won't start a fight. No different from telling him to pull his head in, that he is a dickhead, or stop acting like a gallah.
As in "Ahh, you're a fucking idiot mate. You could tell I was in the middle of something but you had to go and disturb me..."
I could put it that way, and he'd think he was my best buddy and want to come around and bother me more. I know that other people have flat out told him with varying degrees of exasperation and the guy does not get it.
Maybe it is an Aussie trait. A literal people. Tell it like it is.
The Aussie trait (I was born there) is more the listening than the telling, in particular, not taking offense too quickly or deflecting it with humor. The US is a big country and parts of it are like that, but a handful of easily offended people make candor impossible, and that happened a while ago in many professional settings.
I have to tell you the reason any of our "socialism"
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
No. What he is acknowledging is that uninformed people think that he lives in a socialist country. A more accurate description if somewhere with universal healthcare is civilised
What he's trying to do is have it both ways, and I wouldn't let him.
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
You Sir, are obviously a clueless Republican / American. Stop thinking that everything that is against you is Commie Russia.
Look at the Scandinavian countries and how well they rank in education, wealth, health, happiness, etc. All due to a socialistic system.
Clueless? You claim that I'm seeing socialism everywhere, and then go on to claim that everything in your life is due to socialism. Make up your mind. You probably don't even know what socialism is, do you? I'll wait while you look it up on wikipedia.
You're like my Christian friends. Every time something good happens, "praise Jesus!" and every time something bad happens, "Damn you Satan!" Socialism and "capitalism" are your god and devil, and you have no clue what either of the words mean.
It isn't perfect, but it is far from a catastrophic failure as you believe and a lot better than the Money Hungry Corporation Capitalism USA is living with.
There is no such thing as capitalism, that's a term Marx popularized to mean the antithesis of socialism. And our hybrid economy is, by the numbers, pretty much as socialist as yours. The only reason our countries are still livable is that there are enough people with common sense to allow a free market to limp along dragging the socialist burden with it.
Socialism has consistently been a catastrophe when really practiced. From the USSR to the PRC to the DPRK, the only innovation in socialist societies has been in new ways to butcher their people.
I have a feeling this wouldn't work in America. The basis for government isn't trust, but fear. As someone who's lived in Finland all his life
So you base your evaluation of the basis of American governance on your life experience of not living in America?
I have to tell you the reason any of our "socialism"
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
This is probably the reason why we come #1 in corruption rankings as the least corrupt country.
Or because you lie on the rankings...
What if every US citizen had a 9-digit identifier, which could be used to look up their medical information online?
Doesn't work if you're temporarily offline. And it doesn't tell you what it is you're looking up, one key into twenty different databases is useless.
We already have any number of systems with any number of identifiers, they need to be able to talk to each other, and I don't see why the government needs to impose a blanket standard. Let the various systems compete on their technical merits, and simply work out some rules to ensure that each service publishes an access API. How you define the health of the human body is an incredibly complex problem that requires constant innovation, and we should encourage anyone with a better idea to try it and actually do it, rather than having some agency dictate how it is to be done.
And governments have generally been terrible in managing the identity aspect of healthcare; in the US, for example, we have terrible trouble with Medicare fraud, but healthcare fraud, waste and abuse is a fairly universal issue. Most places don't have any real healthcare debate, so those problems are quietly swept under the rug. In the US, it *sounds* like it's worse, but only because we're actually working through these problems in a relatively transparent process.
There's no article here. It's just a bunch of marketing crap.
What about that graph at the top? It's in 3D! With reflections and everything!
And it clearly shows how all your devices can be connected to one of those screw and nail organizers you can buy at Home Depot.
If you tell him he is a fucking idiot there is a good chance he won't do it more than once.
Being known as someone who starts a fight over nothing isn't exactly a desirable reputation.
I have only ever heard of that happening once, with Jack Thompson, and that was after repeated lawsuits where he was warned he was out of line, but still kept it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)
It is extremely rare for anything to happen to a lawyer over a case that is filed, even if it is frivolous.
It's rare for anything procedural to happen unless the attorney, as in your case, is repeatedly abusing the courts. The reason is it's a waste of time to make a legal case over wasting time. But judges frequently scold attorneys who are idiots, and this one didn't.
Best cure for an open office plan is a white noise generator. The first time I heard one in an office I was amazed at how quite it was.
I've found part of what makes it hard is the overall volume of the background noise, air conditioning, machines, etc. This, in turn, causes people to speak more loudly.
Regular headphones with white / pink noise are very loud, and the more noise you add, the more strain it is to listen to.
Noise cancelling headphones by themselves are very effective against the AC, but then voices are even louder. And, to my experience, pink noise doesn't work well with noise cancelling algos. (Noise cancelling headphones by themselves are outstanding on an airplane, you can sleep like a baby.)
So I prefer noise cancelling headphones and a CD of natural noise. That gets rid of the hum of the AC, and baffles conversations with the lowest volume setting.
And all I need is for them to fire the fucking idiot who, in spite of the fact that I'm clearly working and have a huge pair of headphones on, will tap me on my shoulder to talk about absolutely fucking nothing.
Absolutely, the method *is* the math. You're also required to show your work to prevent cheating, which is what most ranters are probably doing.
I'll bet you that any 6 year old can solve the problem of where a ballistic projectile will be, even accounting for air resistance, in real time without a computer.
Don't believe me? Toss them a ball. The rest is just notation.
They don't have a general solution. Most small kids will have trouble catching a pop fly.
But by your measure, they also have such a solid understanding of linguistics that they can parse a sentence and compose a grammatical sentence in response, on the fly.
The human neuroskeletal system has some heuristics that are a substantial partial solution to that class of problems. In particular, how to recognize a parabolic arc. Training allows one to develop a technique to "cover" a projectile coming in from further away such that the parabolic arc can't be determined.
The rest isn't "just notation", it's application to other domains.
And you can see that, even without getting into notation, they can't apply the solution more generally. Most 6 year olds would have trouble, for instance, even teaching another person how to speak or catch a ball, beyond their built-in instincts to play and socialize. And it's only years of study before someone can become an effective baseball coach. And if you want to beat other teams, you probably need specialists who have really studied ballistics and medicine so that they can develop better techniques for catching projectiles.
It seems pointless to you because you are totally ignorant of math. A lot of these "hundreds of pages of mind-numbingly dense mathematics" proofs are long but tedious derivations which a computer can grind through in seconds.
If you're doing a half page proof that square root of 2 is irrational, then a computer would be pointless, but clearly you don't know that math is more complicated than that.
And to head off potential flames, I completely respect people who want to and are able to work through those derivations by hand, but to think doing it with a computer is pointless just shows your ignorance.
Most importantly, if there are hundreds of pages of dense computation to prove X, if I'm writing a function and I have some invariant, I can just write a comment,
"And invariant Y remains satisfied because of X, see the fun proof at..."
I don't really give a damn about the details, It Just Works.
Yeh Im sorry about the article, thats why i submitted to /. wanted other people to weigh in on the discussion, and maybe find some better links.
I think it was a fair submission. I'm just annoyed at the copy-pasta policies of many news outlets.
The article itself is mathless. It doesn't tell you what the solution was, or even present the exact problem that was solved.
And running a search for the kid's name turns up the same article fifty fucking times over. Google did some work on link farms... they need to do some work deduping / despamming press releases.
Bacon is a fairly broad term, here in Ireland boiled bacon and cabbage is common and quite tasty actually. We're not boiling rashers, it's a large cut of meat and boiling is a perfectly valid way to cook it.
Ah, Ireland, always there to remind the world that English cooking isn't *quite* the worst.