Do carriers give you a substantial discount on service for having a unlocked phone?
I'm paying $30/month for 5GB of 4G data with T-Mobile* on a bring-your-own-device plan (whereas even just 4GB on a Verizon plan with a subsidized phone would cost $110/month)... so yes, that's a pretty damn big discount!
(*The plans are not entirely comparable since T-Mobile's does not include unlimited voice minutes -- but having to use VoIP is worth saving eighty bucks a month, don't you think?)
Warmer more humid air makes for more powerful storms, and warmer, drier air makes for record drought conditions.
That's still not quite right. "Global warming" means you're increasing the total energy of the system. As a consequence, all the extremes become more so. For example, warmer-than-usual temperatures in the southwest might push the jetstream northward, causing it to catch arctic air and then meander back southward, causing a record-cold blizzard in the northeast (or something like that).
As an analogy, if you imagine the climate as a glass of water (with the surface level representing temperature), global warming is more like shaking it than it is pouring more water in.
The important part of what he said was the assertion that climate change believers cite individual weather events to (incorrectly) bolster their argument just like climate change deniers do.
I had a hard time figuring out the right word to use. What I was trying to convey is that even (or especially) if you're a recent immigrant you should consider Thanskgiving to be "your" holiday too. You should not be thinking "oh, I'm going to skip Thanksgiving because it's just for 'Americans'" -- if you're here long enough to rent an apartment rather than a hotel, you're American enough.
Not wanting to celebrate Thanksgiving because you have nobody to celebrate it with is a separate issue, and applies equally (albeit perhaps not as commonly) to native-born folks.
And if you do happen to be, for example, an Indian tech worker on an H1-B visa, consider Thanksgiving to be your chance to go do something fun. Be thankful that you're enjoying a paid holiday in America instead of slaving away for half the wages back home (which is not intended as a disparagement, but instead a recognition that if home were better, you wouldn't have chosen to leave).
Some people came from other countries and don't celebrate the same holidays.
Everyone residing in the US (or Canada, for that matter) should be entitled to celebrate Thanksgiving. I would argue that this goes double for immigrants, considering that that's what the Pilgrims were too.
a nineties-era car stereo (with EEPROM for remembering the stations and a tiny CR2032 for keeping the clock running)
I would want AM/FM (analog and digital "HD"), bluetooth, line-in, and maybe USB, in a single-DIN slot and -- crucially -- not hooked to anything else except the power, antenna and speakers. In particular, it should be absolutely not attached to the CAN-bus in any way whatsoever.
Also, I would want a diesel-electric hybrid with a Honda IMA-style drivetrain and a 6-speed manual transmission, with three pedals as $DEITY intended. (I realize Chevy Volt-style drivetrains are more efficient, but they're less fun.)
Creationism is nonsense. But so is a lot of social science and history that you currently do find in text books.
So if you insist on teaching it, put it in the social science textbooks (or rather, in the literature textbooks, right next to the Greek mythology) where it belongs.
You're about halfway to the correct idea, in that you call out creationists for failing to use methodological thinking, but your statement doesn't go far enough: creationism/intelligent design cannot ever be methodological, because if it were then it would stop being itself.
If you want creationism in science, Then give us something we can test and verify to prove it
The thesis of creationism (and intelligent design) is that it is untestable and unprovable. It is unscientific by definition.
If it is wrong, then we are wrong, however there isn't evidence to show that yet.
"Yet" is irrelevant; it is impossible by definition for there ever to be evidence for creationism or intelligent design.
Creationism is system of scientific thought that presupposes a specific world view that can not be proven or disproved.
No, it's not. Creationism is a system of anti-scientific thought (which is what concerning itself with something that cannot be proven or disproven means). It is not science, and therefore has no place in a science textbook.
Now if there were a minor war, say between India and Afghanistan, and they refrained from using nuclear weapons on cities, we might only get several degrees of cooling for a decade or so. (This is based on weaponry estimates over a decade old, however, and they were ESTIMATES.) In that scenario the countries north of the equator would be spared most of the cataclysmic results. (Note: most, not all.) If, however, cities were burned, then the projections are several times worse, and widespread recovery of the glaciers is likely in the south within two years, and in the north within the decade.
Am I misreading something, or do you think India is in the Southern Hemisphere and is pissed off at Afghanistan (rather than Pakistan)?
providing the police are not allowed to ask your details or anything else unless you fail it
And this is exactly where it fails. Police officers are trained to observe as much as possible, ask tricky prying questions, and intimidate the detainee into consenting to otherwise-illegal searches. That absolutely will not change except to get even worse if your idea were to be implemented.
Plus, there's still the fundamental fact that allowing people to be detained without probable cause at all evokes images of NAZI Germany or Stalinist Russia.
As importantly, if you only encrypt things that you want keep secret, then you might as well not keep them secret at all. Not only are you waving a flag and essentially waving a red flag attracting Their* attention that you are now doing something covert ("I am done surfing Amazon.com and now intending to visit a forbidden website!"), it also makes it easier for Them to correlate your obfuscated traffic with traffic with the traffic that hits a forbidden site ("Hmmm, Bob went on Tor at 08:24:42.342 and at 08:24:42.359 traffic from a TOR exit node hit TheNSASucks.Com...").
I've always assumed it would be a bad idea for anything where you logged in. For example, wouldn't "They" be able to see "Joe Blow logged into Amazon.com from Tor exit node Foo at time A, then 'someone' visited TheNSASucks.com from the same exit node at time A + 1 second?"
Or worse yet, maybe your non-covert browsing would directly betray you: "Joe Blow logged into Amazon.com using the Tor Browser, then somebody with Joe Blow's Amazon cookie logged into TheNSASucks.com." Now obviously, you would try to keep your browser from getting infected with trackers... but how confident are you that you'd be 100% successful?
driving is a privilege that requires a licence, not a right
It's not that simple. Yes, driving is inherently dangerous to the public and therefore it's legitimate to require a license. However, freedom of movement is a right, and to the extent that driving is the only practical form of travel, there's a limit to how many restrictions can be imposed before there is a civil rights violation anyway.
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Damn, I wish I'd known about the Moto G (and how soon it was going to be available) before I bought the Nexus.
I'm paying $30/month for 5GB of 4G data with T-Mobile* on a bring-your-own-device plan (whereas even just 4GB on a Verizon plan with a subsidized phone would cost $110/month)... so yes, that's a pretty damn big discount!
(*The plans are not entirely comparable since T-Mobile's does not include unlimited voice minutes -- but having to use VoIP is worth saving eighty bucks a month, don't you think?)
Holy shit! For that much money I want at least two hells of laptops!
MacBook Pros are not ultrabooks either; soldered in RAM is only reasonable for the MacBook Air.
As a Nexus 5 owner, I think 1920x1080 on a 5" screen is gratuitous and unnecessary. IMO, you need at least 7" (or maybe even larger) to "need" it.
That's still not quite right. "Global warming" means you're increasing the total energy of the system. As a consequence, all the extremes become more so. For example, warmer-than-usual temperatures in the southwest might push the jetstream northward, causing it to catch arctic air and then meander back southward, causing a record-cold blizzard in the northeast (or something like that).
As an analogy, if you imagine the climate as a glass of water (with the surface level representing temperature), global warming is more like shaking it than it is pouring more water in.
The important part of what he said was the assertion that climate change believers cite individual weather events to (incorrectly) bolster their argument just like climate change deniers do.
I had a hard time figuring out the right word to use. What I was trying to convey is that even (or especially) if you're a recent immigrant you should consider Thanskgiving to be "your" holiday too. You should not be thinking "oh, I'm going to skip Thanksgiving because it's just for 'Americans'" -- if you're here long enough to rent an apartment rather than a hotel, you're American enough.
Not wanting to celebrate Thanksgiving because you have nobody to celebrate it with is a separate issue, and applies equally (albeit perhaps not as commonly) to native-born folks.
And if you do happen to be, for example, an Indian tech worker on an H1-B visa, consider Thanksgiving to be your chance to go do something fun. Be thankful that you're enjoying a paid holiday in America instead of slaving away for half the wages back home (which is not intended as a disparagement, but instead a recognition that if home were better, you wouldn't have chosen to leave).
Everyone residing in the US (or Canada, for that matter) should be entitled to celebrate Thanksgiving. I would argue that this goes double for immigrants, considering that that's what the Pilgrims were too.
Weasel-stomping day?
I would want AM/FM (analog and digital "HD"), bluetooth, line-in, and maybe USB, in a single-DIN slot and -- crucially -- not hooked to anything else except the power, antenna and speakers. In particular, it should be absolutely not attached to the CAN-bus in any way whatsoever.
Also, I would want a diesel-electric hybrid with a Honda IMA-style drivetrain and a 6-speed manual transmission, with three pedals as $DEITY intended. (I realize Chevy Volt-style drivetrains are more efficient, but they're less fun.)
I meant "you" in the general sense (i.e., "you, whoever might be reading this"), not you, stenvar in particular.
So if you insist on teaching it, put it in the social science textbooks (or rather, in the literature textbooks, right next to the Greek mythology) where it belongs.
First of all, you are creating a false dichotomy between "macroevolution" and "microevolution." They are not different.
Second, we actually have directly observed macroevolution, so it's pointless to pretend it's not a fact.
You're about halfway to the correct idea, in that you call out creationists for failing to use methodological thinking, but your statement doesn't go far enough: creationism/intelligent design cannot ever be methodological, because if it were then it would stop being itself.
The thesis of creationism (and intelligent design) is that it is untestable and unprovable. It is unscientific by definition.
"Yet" is irrelevant; it is impossible by definition for there ever to be evidence for creationism or intelligent design.
No, it's not. Creationism is a system of anti-scientific thought (which is what concerning itself with something that cannot be proven or disproven means). It is not science, and therefore has no place in a science textbook.
China hasn't been a second-world country for a while now (since about 1960, apparently).
It's still way cheaper than the alternative (i.e., coal) -- in terms of human suffering and dollars.
Am I misreading something, or do you think India is in the Southern Hemisphere and is pissed off at Afghanistan (rather than Pakistan)?
What we really need is a distributed and anonymous (TOR or i2p based?) search engine.
It's "principled," damnit! With a P!
Like Biff in Back to the Future, you sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
And this is exactly where it fails. Police officers are trained to observe as much as possible, ask tricky prying questions, and intimidate the detainee into consenting to otherwise-illegal searches. That absolutely will not change except to get even worse if your idea were to be implemented.
Plus, there's still the fundamental fact that allowing people to be detained without probable cause at all evokes images of NAZI Germany or Stalinist Russia.
You do realize you've just summoned an earthquake, right?
I've always assumed it would be a bad idea for anything where you logged in. For example, wouldn't "They" be able to see "Joe Blow logged into Amazon.com from Tor exit node Foo at time A, then 'someone' visited TheNSASucks.com from the same exit node at time A + 1 second?"
Or worse yet, maybe your non-covert browsing would directly betray you: "Joe Blow logged into Amazon.com using the Tor Browser, then somebody with Joe Blow's Amazon cookie logged into TheNSASucks.com." Now obviously, you would try to keep your browser from getting infected with trackers... but how confident are you that you'd be 100% successful?
It's not that simple. Yes, driving is inherently dangerous to the public and therefore it's legitimate to require a license. However, freedom of movement is a right, and to the extent that driving is the only practical form of travel, there's a limit to how many restrictions can be imposed before there is a civil rights violation anyway.