"pure evil" doesn't represent the magnitude of evil but rather how much it is diluted by other factors.
By that measure, the evilness of NPEs (patent trolls) is not very "pure". NPEs help small independent inventors by enforcing many legitimate patents for real innovation. On balance, I think NPEs are harmful and need to be reined in, but they (occasionally) do some good.
Yes, it is an exaggeration. I once met a Rwandan woman who, as a child, hid in a crawlspace while her mother was raped and then hacked to death with a machete. Her mother was one of 800,000 Rwandans who died that way. Dealing with an annoying patent lawsuit is not worse than genocidal mass murder.
It isn't. The problem is that the GPP gets his nutritional information from tabloid headlines, which do indeed contradict each other regularly, and assumes that the tabloids accurately reflect the scientific consensus.
The truth is that the benefits of eating vegetables, fruit, and mono-unsaturated fats (such as olive oil) have been known for 40 years, without any significant "contradicting results".
If the "gaslighter" has been around for decades, and is considered a "superstar engineer", then he is probably right, and the submitter is just an incompetent whiner, and management will be glad to be rid of him. If someone with decades more experience than you points out problems with your code, you should shutup, listen, and learn.
Premise one: People lose/break headphones at a rate of 1 set every two years. Premise two: they see how expensive replacements or a a dongle is and go "fuck that shit".
The audio jack was removed from the iPhone, which doesn't run MacOS.
Are you saying that you suspect that the African crew of this plane landed it, and then collided with a movable passenger loading/unloading staircase while on the ground? And then they came up with this drone/bird/whatever strike story to deflect blame away from themselves?
That is plausible. It is also plausible that some bean counter made up the story because the insurance covers in-air collisions differently. Or some PR person made it up for publicity. Or maybe the ground crew tweeted the picture, and the rumor spread from there. TFA contains almost zero information, and does not say that the drone story came from the pilots. The Facebook post by the airline doesn't even mention the drone, although I may have misunderstood since I can read Spanish way better than Portuguese.
Isn't that exactly what they were counting and found declined?
They are claiming that Mac use fell from 9.6% in April 2016 to 6.1% in December. Do you actually believe that 36% of Mac users abandoned the platform in 8 months? I don't know what methodology they used to come up with these numbers, but they are total baloney.
It is a tracking study that starts with their location, then sees who later gets diagnosed with diseases
Getting dementia isn't like catching a cold, where one day you are fine, and the next day you got it. Retrospective research has found differences even 30 or 40 years earlier, between people that would later get full Alzheimers and those who never did. It is possible that people who would later be diagnosed with dementia had lower household incomes decades earlier.
The Catholics and Protestants aren't fighting now because they were allowed to kick the fight out of each other.
That is simplistic nonsense. For instance, during the 17th century wars of the Counter-Reformation, Catholic France fought on the side of the Protestants, while simultaneously waging a war of extermination against the Protestant Huguenots inside France.
In the long run, it's the only thing that will fix their culture. They can make peace anytime they grow up.
There is (or was) a strong movement toward secularism in the Arab world, modeled on Ataturk's reform of Turkey after WWI. It is called "Ba'athism", and it is precisely the movement that America attacked and destroyed in Iraq, and is currently trying (ineptly) to destroy in Syria. The spillover from those conflicts is helping to radicalize Turkey. So your assertion that war is the solution to religious extremism is exactly the opposite of what is actually happening.
Is it still able to be broken easily in an accident to get out?
Yes. If you make it thin enough, you can make it as weak as you want. The point is that for any desired degree of strength, Gorilla Glass will be lighter.
Or maybe the causation is reversed. Dealing with dementia puts enormous financial strain on families. So they don't have much money for rent, and have to live next to the freeway.
We want a decades long, bloody stalemate between Sunni/Shia. Keep them busy and out of trouble.
Wars don't reduce trouble. They create radicalized and desperate people. Syrian refugees are destabilizing the EU, and many of the recent terrorist attacks in France, Germany, and Turkey can be traced back to Syria.
Would be Obama/Clinton, given the number of "red lines" enacted and withdrawn.
Assad crossed the "red line" when Hillary was no longer SOS. So it was Obama/Kerry not Obama/Clinton. Hillary has said she would have been more aggressive in Syria.
Personal opinion: Obama made the right choice. Bombing would have accomplished nothing. So instead we demanded that Assad destroy his entire stockpile of chemical weapons, and then we verified that he did it. That was an accomplishment.
More personal opinion: We are backing the wrong side in Syria. Assad is preferable to the opposition in almost every way. We don't need to oppose him just because the Russians support him.
Well, maybe not some of the "jocks", but how many of those types would you expect to attend a high-school science fair? Get real!
My local school district makes participation in the science fair mandatory. Everyone has to submit a project. However, this is in San Jose, California, where even the jocks are nerds. There is a "No volcano" rule, since otherwise all the stupid kids will just do that as a pointless cop-out project of no scientific value whatsoever.
I have been in the microbial biotech world for a decade now and I didn't know this.
I am actually a software guy myself, but my daughter is a biotech major in college and we frequently talk about this stuff over dinner... and speaking of dinner and lignin-consuming fungus, my Chinese wife is stir-frying some mu-er ("wood ear"), right now. If you are used to "normal" mushrooms (which cannot digest lignin), mu-er can taste funny, and some people complain that it is too "slimey", but I love the stuff. If you have never tried mu-er, please give it a try the next time you are in a Chinese restaurant, but take a moment to consider that these little black fungus are the reason the earth escaped becoming a permanent frozen wasteland, devoid of higher lifeforms.
Many denialists believe that climatologists are faking climate change as part of a conspiracy to increase their research funding. Of course, that makes no sense. Their funding would be maximized if they published data that sowed uncertainty, and required "further study" rather than overwhelming evidence for warming. It also ignores the difficulty of maintaining a secret conspiracy against the interests of humanity, involving thousands of otherwise honest people.
Why? Because we oppose growing food (corn) and then mandating that we use it as a motor fuel (alcohol)?
Ethanol subsidies are pushed by Red State Republicans. Most environmentalist think the subsidies are a waste of money, and may even be energy negative.
Which state grows the most corn? Which state holds the first presidential primary? If you answer these two questions, you will understand why we have ethanol subsidies.
Some other interesting trivia for fellow fungiphiles: As the plants sucked CO2 out of the atmosphere, and failed to rot because of the lignin, CO2 levels dropped below 300ppm and oxygen levels soared to over 35%. This is believed to be a major cause of the Karoo Ice Age, which lasted for about 100 million years.
Whenever I hear the canard that "life finds a way", I like to point out the 60 million years when life failed to "find a way" to digest lignin, despite ample piles of energy rich food available. When the first fungus finally "found a way", it was not an elegant enzyme that carefully dismantled lignin. Instead, it just blasted the lignin with oxygenated free radicals, and then slurped up the resulting hydrocarbon soup. It have heard biochemists describe it as "untieing a knot with a flamethrower". Today, 300 million years later, all known lignin digesting organisms can be traced to that single breakthrough, and they all still use the same method.
Coal IS a renewable fuel...given a couple million years or so.:)
Actually, it is NOT renewable. About 360 million years ago, plants figured out how to make lignin. But it wasn't until about 300 million years ago that fungi figured out how to digest it. The intervening 60 million years was when most coal formed, as undigested plant matter piled up. Unless we wipe out all the fungi, large scale coal formation is unlikely to recur. It was a one-time thing.
When I use my laptop while on-the-road, there is usually a wall outlet available. Hotel rooms, client offices, coffee shops, and even many airline seats have outlets. I rarely use my laptop for more than an hour or two on the battery.
I would be more concerned with fragility. I would be easy someone to bump the wing-mounted monitors, and knock it off a table or desk. It doesn't look like it could survive a fall.
For Tic Tac Toe and Global Thermonuclear War, that is the correct approach.
Years ago, in NYC's Chinatown, there was a chicken that could play tic-tac-toe. You pay $2, and you can play against the chicken. I watched it pay a dozen times, it would always win or draw. When my turn came, I played, and it was a draw. They my cousin played, and lost. As we were walking away, I say "Dude, you just lost to chicken." He was quiet for a bit, and then said, "Yeah, but the chicken got to go first." Me: "Yeah, but still, it was a chicken." Him: "Well, yeah, but the chicken plays everyday. I was rusty." Me: "Yeah, but it was A CHICKEN. You are a HUMAN. Shouldn't that count for something?" Years later, I still rib him about it every time we meet. He definitely wishes he had chosen not to play.
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"pure evil" doesn't represent the magnitude of evil but rather how much it is diluted by other factors.
By that measure, the evilness of NPEs (patent trolls) is not very "pure". NPEs help small independent inventors by enforcing many legitimate patents for real innovation. On balance, I think NPEs are harmful and need to be reined in, but they (occasionally) do some good.
Not an exaggeraion, IMHO.
Yes, it is an exaggeration. I once met a Rwandan woman who, as a child, hid in a crawlspace while her mother was raped and then hacked to death with a machete. Her mother was one of 800,000 Rwandans who died that way. Dealing with an annoying patent lawsuit is not worse than genocidal mass murder.
How, exactly, is milk harmful?
It isn't. The problem is that the GPP gets his nutritional information from tabloid headlines, which do indeed contradict each other regularly, and assumes that the tabloids accurately reflect the scientific consensus.
The truth is that the benefits of eating vegetables, fruit, and mono-unsaturated fats (such as olive oil) have been known for 40 years, without any significant "contradicting results".
If the "gaslighter" has been around for decades, and is considered a "superstar engineer", then he is probably right, and the submitter is just an incompetent whiner, and management will be glad to be rid of him. If someone with decades more experience than you points out problems with your code, you should shutup, listen, and learn.
Some countries have a decent middle class, albeit small by our standards.
True. But Mozambique isn't one of them. It is one of the poorest countries in the world.
Premise one: People lose/break headphones at a rate of 1 set every two years.
Premise two: they see how expensive replacements or a a dongle is and go "fuck that shit".
The audio jack was removed from the iPhone, which doesn't run MacOS.
Are you saying that you suspect that the African crew of this plane landed it, and then collided with a movable passenger loading/unloading staircase while on the ground? And then they came up with this drone/bird/whatever strike story to deflect blame away from themselves?
That is plausible. It is also plausible that some bean counter made up the story because the insurance covers in-air collisions differently. Or some PR person made it up for publicity. Or maybe the ground crew tweeted the picture, and the rumor spread from there. TFA contains almost zero information, and does not say that the drone story came from the pilots. The Facebook post by the airline doesn't even mention the drone, although I may have misunderstood since I can read Spanish way better than Portuguese.
Isn't that exactly what they were counting and found declined?
They are claiming that Mac use fell from 9.6% in April 2016 to 6.1% in December. Do you actually believe that 36% of Mac users abandoned the platform in 8 months? I don't know what methodology they used to come up with these numbers, but they are total baloney.
It is a tracking study that starts with their location, then sees who later gets diagnosed with diseases
Getting dementia isn't like catching a cold, where one day you are fine, and the next day you got it. Retrospective research has found differences even 30 or 40 years earlier, between people that would later get full Alzheimers and those who never did. It is possible that people who would later be diagnosed with dementia had lower household incomes decades earlier.
The Catholics and Protestants aren't fighting now because they were allowed to kick the fight out of each other.
That is simplistic nonsense. For instance, during the 17th century wars of the Counter-Reformation, Catholic France fought on the side of the Protestants, while simultaneously waging a war of extermination against the Protestant Huguenots inside France.
In the long run, it's the only thing that will fix their culture. They can make peace anytime they grow up.
There is (or was) a strong movement toward secularism in the Arab world, modeled on Ataturk's reform of Turkey after WWI. It is called "Ba'athism", and it is precisely the movement that America attacked and destroyed in Iraq, and is currently trying (ineptly) to destroy in Syria. The spillover from those conflicts is helping to radicalize Turkey. So your assertion that war is the solution to religious extremism is exactly the opposite of what is actually happening.
Is it still able to be broken easily in an accident to get out?
Yes. If you make it thin enough, you can make it as weak as you want. The point is that for any desired degree of strength, Gorilla Glass will be lighter.
Or maybe the causation is reversed. Dealing with dementia puts enormous financial strain on families. So they don't have much money for rent, and have to live next to the freeway.
We want a decades long, bloody stalemate between Sunni/Shia. Keep them busy and out of trouble.
Wars don't reduce trouble. They create radicalized and desperate people. Syrian refugees are destabilizing the EU, and many of the recent terrorist attacks in France, Germany, and Turkey can be traced back to Syria.
Would be Obama/Clinton, given the number of "red lines" enacted and withdrawn.
Assad crossed the "red line" when Hillary was no longer SOS. So it was Obama/Kerry not Obama/Clinton. Hillary has said she would have been more aggressive in Syria.
Personal opinion: Obama made the right choice. Bombing would have accomplished nothing. So instead we demanded that Assad destroy his entire stockpile of chemical weapons, and then we verified that he did it. That was an accomplishment.
More personal opinion: We are backing the wrong side in Syria. Assad is preferable to the opposition in almost every way. We don't need to oppose him just because the Russians support him.
Well, maybe not some of the "jocks", but how many of those types would you expect to attend a high-school science fair? Get real!
My local school district makes participation in the science fair mandatory. Everyone has to submit a project. However, this is in San Jose, California, where even the jocks are nerds. There is a "No volcano" rule, since otherwise all the stupid kids will just do that as a pointless cop-out project of no scientific value whatsoever.
I have been in the microbial biotech world for a decade now and I didn't know this.
I am actually a software guy myself, but my daughter is a biotech major in college and we frequently talk about this stuff over dinner ... and speaking of dinner and lignin-consuming fungus, my Chinese wife is stir-frying some mu-er ("wood ear"), right now. If you are used to "normal" mushrooms (which cannot digest lignin), mu-er can taste funny, and some people complain that it is too "slimey", but I love the stuff. If you have never tried mu-er, please give it a try the next time you are in a Chinese restaurant, but take a moment to consider that these little black fungus are the reason the earth escaped becoming a permanent frozen wasteland, devoid of higher lifeforms.
Do you have any idea how many billions of your money and mine Gore Inc gave to green companies who never released a product?
How does any of that money benefit the climatologists that are "faking" AGW?
... what is the profit motive here?
Many denialists believe that climatologists are faking climate change as part of a conspiracy to increase their research funding. Of course, that makes no sense. Their funding would be maximized if they published data that sowed uncertainty, and required "further study" rather than overwhelming evidence for warming. It also ignores the difficulty of maintaining a secret conspiracy against the interests of humanity, involving thousands of otherwise honest people.
Why? Because we oppose growing food (corn) and then mandating that we use it as a motor fuel (alcohol)?
Ethanol subsidies are pushed by Red State Republicans. Most environmentalist think the subsidies are a waste of money, and may even be energy negative.
Which state grows the most corn?
Which state holds the first presidential primary?
If you answer these two questions, you will understand why we have ethanol subsidies.
+1 Very interesting... I had no clue.
Some other interesting trivia for fellow fungiphiles: As the plants sucked CO2 out of the atmosphere, and failed to rot because of the lignin, CO2 levels dropped below 300ppm and oxygen levels soared to over 35%. This is believed to be a major cause of the Karoo Ice Age, which lasted for about 100 million years.
Whenever I hear the canard that "life finds a way", I like to point out the 60 million years when life failed to "find a way" to digest lignin, despite ample piles of energy rich food available. When the first fungus finally "found a way", it was not an elegant enzyme that carefully dismantled lignin. Instead, it just blasted the lignin with oxygenated free radicals, and then slurped up the resulting hydrocarbon soup. It have heard biochemists describe it as "untieing a knot with a flamethrower". Today, 300 million years later, all known lignin digesting organisms can be traced to that single breakthrough, and they all still use the same method.
Coal IS a renewable fuel...given a couple million years or so. :)
Actually, it is NOT renewable. About 360 million years ago, plants figured out how to make lignin. But it wasn't until about 300 million years ago that fungi figured out how to digest it. The intervening 60 million years was when most coal formed, as undigested plant matter piled up. Unless we wipe out all the fungi, large scale coal formation is unlikely to recur. It was a one-time thing.
3 minute battery life.
When I use my laptop while on-the-road, there is usually a wall outlet available. Hotel rooms, client offices, coffee shops, and even many airline seats have outlets. I rarely use my laptop for more than an hour or two on the battery.
I would be more concerned with fragility. I would be easy someone to bump the wing-mounted monitors, and knock it off a table or desk. It doesn't look like it could survive a fall.
For Tic Tac Toe and Global Thermonuclear War, that is the correct approach.
Years ago, in NYC's Chinatown, there was a chicken that could play tic-tac-toe. You pay $2, and you can play against the chicken. I watched it pay a dozen times, it would always win or draw. When my turn came, I played, and it was a draw. They my cousin played, and lost. As we were walking away, I say "Dude, you just lost to chicken." He was quiet for a bit, and then said, "Yeah, but the chicken got to go first." Me: "Yeah, but still, it was a chicken." Him: "Well, yeah, but the chicken plays everyday. I was rusty." Me: "Yeah, but it was A CHICKEN. You are a HUMAN. Shouldn't that count for something?" Years later, I still rib him about it every time we meet. He definitely wishes he had chosen not to play.
... asking for 0.2 Bitcoin ($200) ransom
That seems like a modest ransom. At least he isn't greedy.
NG is cheap in America.
In much of the rest of the world, it is not so cheap.