It's all well and good until a lifeform develops that can metabolize plastics. Then watch how fast all of modern civilization crumbles to the ground. Literally in some cases.
Win10 LTSB tracks the same as Windows Server. Not coincidentally, the Windows Server lines are based on LTSB Win10 codebases. Windows Server 2016 under the hood is Windows 10 1607 which had an LTSB version and Windows Server 2019 is basically the server version of Windows 10 1809. The Win10 LTSB versions are supported for 5 years of "mainstream" support (performance fixes and enhancements) and 10 years of "extended" support (security and bug fixes only).
I'm fairly sure though that you can only access the LTSB version with a volume licensing agreement. It's meant for slow-moving businesses, not home users.
You are both the product and the customer. They need to keep you happy or you will leave, and then they can't sell your data to advertisers. Unlike cattle you have free will and a choice of social networks, or simply not using Facebook at all.
I always get a kick out of it when someone gets pissed off and tells me they're leaving Facebook because it sucks and Zuck is evil and from now on they're only going to use Instagram!
Yeah the illegals swarming the border are causing HUGE tuberculosis problems for the US. A bit worse than fucking measles bro. Ask John Keats how bad dying of tuberculosis sucks.
Or we could, I don't know, treat them for tuberculosis since that's a thing now that wasn't available in John Keats' day.
And also, it was three cases of tuberculosis and 4 of HIV from a group of thousands of migrants. Hardly a huge problem as you claim.
Both of these were top results in a 2 second Google search. Maybe just the tiniest bit of fact checking next time?
He said unnecessarily sick people. As in, there's no reason you should have gotten sick because you should have been vaccinated against measles or whatever. We have no reasonable way to prevent the common cold, but if you are experiencing symptoms your sick ass should be holed up at home as a courtesy to others.
This latest outbreak is going to jump start more laws to stop this stupid crap.
Nope. Because this is America and someone's believe in some sky daddy anti gubbmint rubbish trumps laws and for some arse stupid reason this is frequently upheld in courts.
It's not that so much (there are some with actual religious objections to any medical care, but they're super rare). The ones opposed to it for stupid reasons (autism! big pharma! kills people! conspiracy!) are just using the religious angle a wedge to get their way. And in any case, there's plenty of left wing zealots who got duped by FaceBook into thinking they know better than their doctor, many of whom have no strong religious inclinations.
What he specifically said was there was insufficient evidence to bring a charge of conspiracy against the folks involved in the Trump campaign. Which just means it would be a waste of time to try and prosecute, not that there was no evidence at all. Plenty of cases have some evidence implicating someone but that evidence is insufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt is a fairly highly legal bar to get over.
But the major problem was the Weimar Constitution that was shoved down Germany's throat to end WWI. It had a huge flaw in that any stupid fringe party could get representation in the Reichstag (and thus political legitimacy) which is literally what allowed the Nazi party to get a foothold from which to launch into control via a charismatic populist leader (Hitler). So yes, there was definitely an air of anger over the way Germany was forced to surrender which help plant the seeds for the populist takeover later. It's never just one thing of course. And the reparations definitely played a part in pushing the massive inflation of the German mark and essential collapse of Germany's economy which was definitely fertilizer for the populist message as well, but the framework that allowed all of this to fall into place and be taken advantage of by a small group with a charismatic leader was the Weimar Constitution itself.
Regarding your edit, you do mean precision. And the measure I prefer is computing the volume in cubes with Planck-length edges of a sphere with the diameter of the observable universe. But even that only takes you out to 200 or so digits.
Here's some data on the size of the observable universe in Planck-lengths. 200 digits of pi should be sufficient to precisely compute the number of Planck-length cubed units in our observable universe. From a strictly physical perspective, more than this level of precision in meaningless.
So they did genotyping on the measles cases from Disneyland. There's a pretty detailed report here if you care to spend 2 seconds doing a Google search. There were 31 people who had recently been vaccinated who showed up with febrile rashes which were caused by the vaccine for measles, but that's actually a known side effect of the vaccine (in ~5% of cases) and wouldn't have been full blown measles in any case. The actual outbreak strain was genotype B3 which account for 73 cases that were tested, and those folks actually did get measles.
So...maybe spend a few seconds researching before spewing garbage on a discussion board?
No, GP literally means that the specific car ride to take your child to the doctor to get vaccinated (or on any one given day to take them to school) is more likely to be dangerous to them than the vaccine is. This is because the odds of getting in an injurious car crash are relatively high compared to the incidence of serious injury from a vaccine.
Some basic googling shows that the approximate odds of getting in a car crash on a 10-mile drive for someone 30-39 years old is approximately 1:111,000. The odds of a measles vaccine causing serious complications (encephalopathy) is somewhere between 1:87,000 and 1:365,000 (from a 1981 and 2007 study respectively). So, his statement is actually quite reasonable. And if it's much more than 10 miles to the doctor, then it's almost certain there's a higher risk from the drive.
Rape is a strictly human concept. Animals lack capacity to form intent and therefore cannot realistically commit any "crime" in the sense that we define it in society. A wild animal may be euthanized if it is a danger to life and/or property (or relocated, or otherwise made not a threat), but it's not because it committed a crime. Similarly there's no "due process" for animals because they have no capacity to participate in their own defense.
Bottom line, stop anthropomorphizing livestock. Their behaviors can not and should not be viewed through the lens of how we would expect humans to behave in similar situations.
The USPS does encode the entire address in the barcode. Every piece of mail is either already tagged at sending (bulk mail for large senders getting a pre-sort discount) or gets tagged by the post office (in the case of individual, hand written, or smaller batch mailings) with an Intelligent Mail Barcode that, among other things, includes an 11-digit code that covers every possible address in the United States of America. This code consists of ZIP (5 digits) plus 4 (obviously, 4 more digits) and delivery point code (2 digits). This uniquely identifies every possible delivery point that the USPS will send mail to.
Socialism can most certainly work, as long as no one acts like a greedy, self-centered, free-loading asshole. In other words, it can never work for humanity.
You have the backwards. A male tiger crossed with a female lioness is a tigon. A liger is a male lion and a female tigress. The male usually goes first if you're making a portmanteau of the parents to call a crossbreed a new name. Zorse = male zebra + female horse, hebra = male horse + female zebra, etc.
Notable exceptions are the mule/hinny (horse/donkey hybrids) and wog - which is any cross between wolf and dog.
Worth noting that it is easier to crossbreed a hybrid when the male is the one with the lower chromosome count. Hence, it is easier to produce mules than hinnies, and easier to produce tigons than ligers. Wogs are an odd case because wolves and dogs are very much genetically compatible and so there is no issue either way mating wolves with dogs, the offspring and just stronger, bigger, less domesticated dogs (or more domesticated wolves).
Further errata: mules and hinnies are ALWAYS sterile. But as you mentions other hybrids can sometimes still be fertile. Ti-tigons and Li-ligers are possible, but rare.
Colorado River laws are an interesting mess. But it's not like AZ got to siphon water away from CA and just told CA to suck it. A lot of water rights on the river are determined by or at least mediated by the US government. Generally speaking, everyone along the river has an allotment they are allowed to draw, which allotment is usually held in trust by a water district drawing it within the state. Interestingly, by international treaty, Mexico get 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year (+200,000/-150,000 depending on surplus/drought conditions), with the rest of the roughly 15 million acre-feet of water annually being divided in half between the upper and lower basin states.
In any case, AZ is allotted 2.85 million acre-feet and CA is allotted 4.40 million acre-feet. Much of this allocation ends up going to agriculture in both states.
So, yes, CA does get a lot of its residential water in state from various aqueducts, snow-melts, and aquifers, but there remains a HUGE chunk from the Colorado River coming in to CA each year. It is the single largest recipient of Colorado River water.
About the criminal intent, this happened in the US. In the United States almost every jurisdiction has 'strict liability' on their age of consent laws. This means that you are strictly liable for any lewd activity with a person below the age of consent, REGARDLESS OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THAT PERSON'S AGE.
These folks are military. The UCMJ actually allows for the "I thought she was 18" defense (actually, technically, 16, but damn that's creepy) under Article 120. But you are right, most civilian jurisdictions have strict liability.
Actually, since we're talking about U.S. military service members here, the UCMJ governs. And weirdly, under the UCMJ Article 120 it is an affirmative defense to show that a) the person in question was at a minimum over 12 years of age AND b) the service member reasonably believed that the person in question was over the age of 16.
So if a service member was subject to a court martial for having sex with an underage girl who was, say, 15 years old but in a bar with a fake ID. He could present evidence to the effect that a) she was in a bar drinking so he reasonably believed she was over 21, AND b) she is in reality 15 years old so he can use this defense.
MOST states do not allow this, but I bring it up because it is a quirk in the UCMJ which applies to folks in the military.
That...would cost nearly as much if not more than the original cost of the Kepler itself. Firstly, you would have to design a one of a kind refueling probe, capable of interfacing with Kepler in zero-G and in hard vaccuum (if THAT is even possible, it's not like Kepler has a gas cap or something). Secondly, you'd have to launch the darn thing, cozying up to Kepler at exactly the right speed and orientation so as not to cause a crash and destroy both crafts. Then, what do you do with the fuel probe? Would the exhaust from it occlude Kepler in some way? Or pose a risk to other craft? Way too many variables. It would be better served to just build a new Kepler instead. Plus you could take advantage of any advanced in lens making, telemetry, computing, and suchlike to get better readings out of the new model.
Ultimately Kepler is going to be of interest primarily to future explorers and engineers who go out to examine near pristine examples of 21st century technology in the void of space.
Or it will be cleared out like a piece of junk by some kind of space tug to make room for a brand new deep space Hilton-Taco Bell hotel franchise.
So lets assume a bushel basket as that is fairly easily hand-held and a Torah scroll as a standard (still in use!) scroll. Well in that case your bushel (2150-2219 cu. in.) can hold right at two Torah scrolls (roughly 1100 cu. in. per scroll). Now the Torah scroll contains exactly 304,805 characters. If we use a standard 7-bit ASCII character set that's ((304805 * 7) / 8)/1024 = 260.453 KB per scroll, or 520.91 KB per basket.
Now 100GB is 104,857,600 KB so you would need 104,857,600 / (520.91) = 201,299 baskets of scroll for 100GB of data. Admittedly the 201,299th basket would only have one scroll in it, partially completed, but it would still be part of your basket count.
TLDR: 100 gigabytes is 201,299 baskets of scrolls.
> Affordable Care Act-- which was largely a Republican bill,
This was a product of MASSACHUSETS. That is hardly a Republican bastion. You can't even lay off the obvious bullshit for a single minute.
It was signed into law in Massachusetts when Mitt Romney was governor. You know, the REPUBLICAN presidential candidate in 2012. To call it a largely Republican bill is not far off the mark. Just the Republicans from the state house and executive of Massachusetts as opposed to the Republicans in the federal level congress.
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It's all well and good until a lifeform develops that can metabolize plastics. Then watch how fast all of modern civilization crumbles to the ground. Literally in some cases.
Win10 LTSB tracks the same as Windows Server. Not coincidentally, the Windows Server lines are based on LTSB Win10 codebases. Windows Server 2016 under the hood is Windows 10 1607 which had an LTSB version and Windows Server 2019 is basically the server version of Windows 10 1809. The Win10 LTSB versions are supported for 5 years of "mainstream" support (performance fixes and enhancements) and 10 years of "extended" support (security and bug fixes only).
I'm fairly sure though that you can only access the LTSB version with a volume licensing agreement. It's meant for slow-moving businesses, not home users.
You are both the product and the customer. They need to keep you happy or you will leave, and then they can't sell your data to advertisers. Unlike cattle you have free will and a choice of social networks, or simply not using Facebook at all.
I always get a kick out of it when someone gets pissed off and tells me they're leaving Facebook because it sucks and Zuck is evil and from now on they're only going to use Instagram!
Yeah the illegals swarming the border are causing HUGE tuberculosis problems for the US. A bit worse than fucking measles bro. Ask John Keats how bad dying of tuberculosis sucks.
Or we could, I don't know, treat them for tuberculosis since that's a thing now that wasn't available in John Keats' day.
And also, it was three cases of tuberculosis and 4 of HIV from a group of thousands of migrants. Hardly a huge problem as you claim.
Both of these were top results in a 2 second Google search. Maybe just the tiniest bit of fact checking next time?
He said unnecessarily sick people. As in, there's no reason you should have gotten sick because you should have been vaccinated against measles or whatever. We have no reasonable way to prevent the common cold, but if you are experiencing symptoms your sick ass should be holed up at home as a courtesy to others.
This latest outbreak is going to jump start more laws to stop this stupid crap.
Nope. Because this is America and someone's believe in some sky daddy anti gubbmint rubbish trumps laws and for some arse stupid reason this is frequently upheld in courts.
It's not that so much (there are some with actual religious objections to any medical care, but they're super rare). The ones opposed to it for stupid reasons (autism! big pharma! kills people! conspiracy!) are just using the religious angle a wedge to get their way. And in any case, there's plenty of left wing zealots who got duped by FaceBook into thinking they know better than their doctor, many of whom have no strong religious inclinations.
You do know that basically every person over the age of 60 has had the measles, right? Where exactly are their horror stories?
In your local graveyard.
This is the best mic drop end of comment I've seen in months. If I only had mod points good sir!
What he specifically said was there was insufficient evidence to bring a charge of conspiracy against the folks involved in the Trump campaign. Which just means it would be a waste of time to try and prosecute, not that there was no evidence at all. Plenty of cases have some evidence implicating someone but that evidence is insufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Reasonable doubt is a fairly highly legal bar to get over.
But the major problem was the Weimar Constitution that was shoved down Germany's throat to end WWI. It had a huge flaw in that any stupid fringe party could get representation in the Reichstag (and thus political legitimacy) which is literally what allowed the Nazi party to get a foothold from which to launch into control via a charismatic populist leader (Hitler). So yes, there was definitely an air of anger over the way Germany was forced to surrender which help plant the seeds for the populist takeover later. It's never just one thing of course. And the reparations definitely played a part in pushing the massive inflation of the German mark and essential collapse of Germany's economy which was definitely fertilizer for the populist message as well, but the framework that allowed all of this to fall into place and be taken advantage of by a small group with a charismatic leader was the Weimar Constitution itself.
Regarding your edit, you do mean precision. And the measure I prefer is computing the volume in cubes with Planck-length edges of a sphere with the diameter of the observable universe. But even that only takes you out to 200 or so digits.
Here's some data on the size of the observable universe in Planck-lengths. 200 digits of pi should be sufficient to precisely compute the number of Planck-length cubed units in our observable universe. From a strictly physical perspective, more than this level of precision in meaningless.
So they did genotyping on the measles cases from Disneyland. There's a pretty detailed report here if you care to spend 2 seconds doing a Google search. There were 31 people who had recently been vaccinated who showed up with febrile rashes which were caused by the vaccine for measles, but that's actually a known side effect of the vaccine (in ~5% of cases) and wouldn't have been full blown measles in any case. The actual outbreak strain was genotype B3 which account for 73 cases that were tested, and those folks actually did get measles.
So...maybe spend a few seconds researching before spewing garbage on a discussion board?
No, GP literally means that the specific car ride to take your child to the doctor to get vaccinated (or on any one given day to take them to school) is more likely to be dangerous to them than the vaccine is. This is because the odds of getting in an injurious car crash are relatively high compared to the incidence of serious injury from a vaccine.
Some basic googling shows that the approximate odds of getting in a car crash on a 10-mile drive for someone 30-39 years old is approximately 1:111,000. The odds of a measles vaccine causing serious complications (encephalopathy) is somewhere between 1:87,000 and 1:365,000 (from a 1981 and 2007 study respectively). So, his statement is actually quite reasonable. And if it's much more than 10 miles to the doctor, then it's almost certain there's a higher risk from the drive.
Your links don't show what you claim. Is this a troll or a deliberate misinformation campaign?
Rape is a strictly human concept. Animals lack capacity to form intent and therefore cannot realistically commit any "crime" in the sense that we define it in society. A wild animal may be euthanized if it is a danger to life and/or property (or relocated, or otherwise made not a threat), but it's not because it committed a crime. Similarly there's no "due process" for animals because they have no capacity to participate in their own defense.
Bottom line, stop anthropomorphizing livestock. Their behaviors can not and should not be viewed through the lens of how we would expect humans to behave in similar situations.
I can't recall any movies with a Dyson Sphere in them, but Star Trek: the Next Generation did an episode ("Relics", Season 6, Episode 4) that had one.
The USPS does encode the entire address in the barcode. Every piece of mail is either already tagged at sending (bulk mail for large senders getting a pre-sort discount) or gets tagged by the post office (in the case of individual, hand written, or smaller batch mailings) with an Intelligent Mail Barcode that, among other things, includes an 11-digit code that covers every possible address in the United States of America. This code consists of ZIP (5 digits) plus 4 (obviously, 4 more digits) and delivery point code (2 digits). This uniquely identifies every possible delivery point that the USPS will send mail to.
Socialism can most certainly work, as long as no one acts like a greedy, self-centered, free-loading asshole. In other words, it can never work for humanity.
Well, to be fair, it's only POSITIVE_INFINITY% for (x = 1998 sales) lim (x-->0+) (1999 sales)/x.
As stated (1999 sales)/(1998 sales) = NaN% (for 1998 sales = 0) because directionality cannot be assumed in the problem presented.
You have the backwards. A male tiger crossed with a female lioness is a tigon. A liger is a male lion and a female tigress. The male usually goes first if you're making a portmanteau of the parents to call a crossbreed a new name. Zorse = male zebra + female horse, hebra = male horse + female zebra, etc.
Notable exceptions are the mule/hinny (horse/donkey hybrids) and wog - which is any cross between wolf and dog.
Worth noting that it is easier to crossbreed a hybrid when the male is the one with the lower chromosome count. Hence, it is easier to produce mules than hinnies, and easier to produce tigons than ligers. Wogs are an odd case because wolves and dogs are very much genetically compatible and so there is no issue either way mating wolves with dogs, the offspring and just stronger, bigger, less domesticated dogs (or more domesticated wolves).
Further errata: mules and hinnies are ALWAYS sterile. But as you mentions other hybrids can sometimes still be fertile. Ti-tigons and Li-ligers are possible, but rare.
Colorado River laws are an interesting mess. But it's not like AZ got to siphon water away from CA and just told CA to suck it. A lot of water rights on the river are determined by or at least mediated by the US government. Generally speaking, everyone along the river has an allotment they are allowed to draw, which allotment is usually held in trust by a water district drawing it within the state. Interestingly, by international treaty, Mexico get 1.5 million acre-feet of water per year (+200,000/-150,000 depending on surplus/drought conditions), with the rest of the roughly 15 million acre-feet of water annually being divided in half between the upper and lower basin states.
In any case, AZ is allotted 2.85 million acre-feet and CA is allotted 4.40 million acre-feet. Much of this allocation ends up going to agriculture in both states.
So, yes, CA does get a lot of its residential water in state from various aqueducts, snow-melts, and aquifers, but there remains a HUGE chunk from the Colorado River coming in to CA each year. It is the single largest recipient of Colorado River water.
About the criminal intent, this happened in the US. In the United States almost every jurisdiction has 'strict liability' on their age of consent laws. This means that you are strictly liable for any lewd activity with a person below the age of consent, REGARDLESS OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THAT PERSON'S AGE.
These folks are military. The UCMJ actually allows for the "I thought she was 18" defense (actually, technically, 16, but damn that's creepy) under Article 120. But you are right, most civilian jurisdictions have strict liability.
Actually, since we're talking about U.S. military service members here, the UCMJ governs. And weirdly, under the UCMJ Article 120 it is an affirmative defense to show that a) the person in question was at a minimum over 12 years of age AND b) the service member reasonably believed that the person in question was over the age of 16.
So if a service member was subject to a court martial for having sex with an underage girl who was, say, 15 years old but in a bar with a fake ID. He could present evidence to the effect that a) she was in a bar drinking so he reasonably believed she was over 21, AND b) she is in reality 15 years old so he can use this defense.
MOST states do not allow this, but I bring it up because it is a quirk in the UCMJ which applies to folks in the military.
That...would cost nearly as much if not more than the original cost of the Kepler itself. Firstly, you would have to design a one of a kind refueling probe, capable of interfacing with Kepler in zero-G and in hard vaccuum (if THAT is even possible, it's not like Kepler has a gas cap or something). Secondly, you'd have to launch the darn thing, cozying up to Kepler at exactly the right speed and orientation so as not to cause a crash and destroy both crafts. Then, what do you do with the fuel probe? Would the exhaust from it occlude Kepler in some way? Or pose a risk to other craft? Way too many variables. It would be better served to just build a new Kepler instead. Plus you could take advantage of any advanced in lens making, telemetry, computing, and suchlike to get better readings out of the new model.
Ultimately Kepler is going to be of interest primarily to future explorers and engineers who go out to examine near pristine examples of 21st century technology in the void of space.
Or it will be cleared out like a piece of junk by some kind of space tug to make room for a brand new deep space Hilton-Taco Bell hotel franchise.
*deep breath in*
So lets assume a bushel basket as that is fairly easily hand-held and a Torah scroll as a standard (still in use!) scroll. Well in that case your bushel (2150-2219 cu. in.) can hold right at two Torah scrolls (roughly 1100 cu. in. per scroll). Now the Torah scroll contains exactly 304,805 characters. If we use a standard 7-bit ASCII character set that's ((304805 * 7) / 8)/1024 = 260.453 KB per scroll, or 520.91 KB per basket.
Now 100GB is 104,857,600 KB so you would need 104,857,600 / (520.91) = 201,299 baskets of scroll for 100GB of data. Admittedly the 201,299th basket would only have one scroll in it, partially completed, but it would still be part of your basket count.
TLDR: 100 gigabytes is 201,299 baskets of scrolls.
> Affordable Care Act-- which was largely a Republican bill,
This was a product of MASSACHUSETS. That is hardly a Republican bastion. You can't even lay off the obvious bullshit for a single minute.
It was signed into law in Massachusetts when Mitt Romney was governor. You know, the REPUBLICAN presidential candidate in 2012. To call it a largely Republican bill is not far off the mark. Just the Republicans from the state house and executive of Massachusetts as opposed to the Republicans in the federal level congress.