Yeah, solid logic. The guy with a 4 digit UID just got on the internet yesterday. Couldn't possibly be that I understand the difference between "network neutrality" and "Network Neutrality(TM) Inc, A Google Enterprise".
30+ years without "net neutrality" regulations, 2 years with. Who here really thinks that the internet is more free today than it was just a few years ago, before Facebook, Google and Twitter flexed the muscle that their de facto monopolies gave them?
Sorry Woz, you need to get back to your real talents - building hardware. Outside of your realm, you can't resist the temptation to speak as if your personal politics are universal truths.
The real guidelines can be found here. The core (for adults):
All adults should avoid inactivity. Some physical activity is better than none, and adults who participate in any amount of physical activity gain some health benefits.
For substantial health benefits, adults should do at least 150 minutes (2 hours and 30 minutes) a week of moderate-intensity, or 75 minutes (1 hour and 15 minutes) a week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity aerobic activity. Aerobic activity should be performed in episodes of at least 10 minutes, and preferably, it should be spread throughout the week.
For additional and more extensive health benefits, adults should increase their aerobic physical activity to 300 minutes (5 hours) a week of moderate-intensity, or 150 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity. Additional health benefits are gained by engaging in physical activity beyond this amount.
Adults should also do muscle-strengthening activities that are moderate or high intensity and involve all major muscle groups on 2 or more days a week, as these activities provide additional health benefits.
TL;DR -
If you are completely inactive, change that ASAP. If you can only take 5 steps at a brisk pace, take 5 steps today, then tomorrow try for 6 and keep increasing until you are walking 10 minutes twice each day.
If you are somewhat active, keep track of your time each week and increase it until you reach a minimum of 150 minutes. Then seriously consider increasing it to 300 minutes.
Also, everyone, everyone should lift weights. Do compound lifts (squat, deadlift, bench press, upright press, barbell row, power cleans, etc) using free weights (not machines). If you are an absolute beginner, get a copy of Starting Strength (highly recommended by just about everyone) or google StrongLifts which is possibly a knock-off, and possibly inferior in some trivial way. Go to ExRx right now and bookmark it, you'll refer back to it often, I promise.
Alternative to daily walking (you might need to walk a little once a week to fill in the minutes) - The hacker diet exercise plan (based on 5BX).
I seem to be a bit unusual in that I didn't learn about him from reading his science fiction books, and I didn't learn about him from reading his magazine columns. A search for some computer problem led me to an entry in his day book where he had dealt with a similar problem.
Nowadays, we'd call it a blog, making it possibly one of the oldest such on the internet, but the format at the time was one page per week, with new topics added at the bottom as the week went on. There was a second one, for his correspondence. For many years, every Monday, I would load up the pages from the previous week and read bits and pieces as free time presented itself.
I didn't always agree with him, but the wisdom available (from him and his incredible readership via email) was unmatched.
In addition to current events and computers, he also included pieces on his family, his dogs, his health, opera, TV, etc. Reading it for a while, it felt like you knew him. So, one day when I was in LA, I took a wrong turn and ended up, I suspect within a few blocks from his house. I mused that if I had known I was going to be that close, I should have made arrangements to stop in to meet him and shake his hand.
When I got home a few days later, I emailed him to ask if he accepted drop-ins, should I ever find myself out that way again. He said that he'd be delighted, assuming that he was home and didn't have other plans, of course.
Sadly, I haven't been out west since then, and now I've missed the chance.
I would like to add one thing - it would be nice if people remembered his small, but meaningful, contribution to the space program, and also his role in helping win the Cold War.
I can see through #14 lenses. Inside, I can see incandescent and LED bulbs. Outside, I can see the sky (on a sunny day). Which is odd, because many years ago when I did arc welding in high school, I couldn't see a damn thing through the #10 lenses until I got the arc going. My theory is that I always did that back in a dimly lit shop.
Just to be safe, I asked a guy who welds every day if he could identify a #10 lens by looking through it. As soon as he got them on he said "Wow, these are dark!" And then I told him that they were #14s for solar viewing.
The girlfriend and I had talked about it, but didn't make a decision until Friday afternoon. We both asked for Monday off and got it. On Sunday, around noon, we hopped in the car and drove towards southern Illinois because the forecasts in that direction were best. I had been considering west too, and had planned for rough areas in either direction that would give us enough time to get back home so that we could make it to work on Tuesday.
I didn't have an exact spot in mind, so I told my GPS to take me towards Mount Vernon, IL, which is close to, but north of, the totality band. The idea was to keep my options open so that I could head towards Missouri or Kentucky if things didn't look good on Monday morning.
Things got a bit hairy on Sunday night. We didn't have reservations anywhere, of course. Also, it was getting late, but we were still much farther away than we wanted to be. We ended up getting a room in Springfield by pure luck - we apparently called just minutes after someone else cancelled.
Everyone in Springfield warned us to get on the road by 7:00 if we wanted to be anywhere in the band by noon. We were close, maybe 7:30.
We still didn't have any specific place in mind, so I was looking for towns away from the interstate, but still connected to state or county highways, in case weather made us move. We changed GPS destinations many times, using it as "travel towards" instead of "going to".
We did a lot of rural driving, but ended up on I-57. The interstates were funny. It would be nearly stopped for a while, then clear sailing for miles at 70+ MPH. I thought many times about getting off earlier than I did, and I'm glad I decided to stick it out.
We were near the center of the band when the girlfriend had to pee (again) so I took the next exit and headed towards town. Within a mile or so, I saw a gravel parking lot with a "Private Parking" sign that looked 50 years old. One car was in it, and they were setting up chairs and a cooler. It looked like the perfect spot.
On the way towards town, which turned out to be Herrin, we kept our eyes open looking for other spots, and saw some good ones, but none better.
At the gas station, I was surprised that they weren't selling eclipse glasses. In general, I was surprised that there weren't roadside stands selling them anywhere along my route. I had a set of brazing goggles that I had swapped #14 lenses into, but there were two of us, so I was looking for another pair. The guy at the gas station said that a hair salon and the local banks had been handing them out before, but wasn't sure if they still had any.
The salon was closed, and the bank we tried was out. But, one of the tellers had an extra pair and she dug them out from the depths of her purse. We tried giving her money for them, but she wouldn't take any.
We went back to the parking lot that we had seen on the way in, and this time there were 3 cars. The car we parked next to had a couple of guys from Argonne National Labs in Chicago that had also come out on short notice. This was shortly after noon. A few more cars wandered in, maybe a dozen total. Mostly Illinois plates, one Indiana, one Wisconsin and two Minnesota.
My girlfriend thinks I'm nuts because I talk to strangers, and I didn't want to disappoint her, so I wandered around meeting the neighbors, comparing equipment, etc. My projection box was well liked even though it was very small. Hole quality is the most important factor, and then length. My box was short, only about 15 inches long, but I had poked my hole in a sheet of aluminum foil with a fine needle that I had deburred and polished. I also had a piece of bright white office paper on the inside of the box for viewing. The image was tiny, but very clear, and bright. The Argonne guys had a stack of used welding filters they were using. None of them were #14, but they had researched it and got pretty good results by combining lesser filters.
The eclipse itself was really cool. I'm very glad I
Heh. You are asking a lot from 4000 year old literature. How many ancient stories do you think are out there concerning 1) a tall building, 2) in Babylon, and 3) the cause of language divergence?
Think of them as cousins, descendants from a common ancestor-story, passed down from mouth to ear for thousands of years before the invention of writing.
134-155. "Chant to him the holy song, the incantation sung in its chambers -- the incantation of Nudimmud: "On that day when there is no snake, when there is no scorpion, when there is no hyena, when there is no lion, when there is neither dog nor wolf, when there is thus neither fear nor trembling, man has no rival! At such a time, may the lands of Shubur and Hamazi, the many-tongued, and Sumer, the great mountain of the me of magnificence, and Akkad, the land possessing all that is befitting, and the Martu land, resting in security -- the whole universe, the well-guarded people -- may they all address Enlil together in a single language! For at that time, for the ambitious lords, for the ambitious princes, for the ambitious kings, Enki, for the ambitious lords, for the ambitious princes, for the ambitious kings, for the ambitious lords, for the ambitious princes, for the ambitious kings -- Enki, the lord of abundance and of steadfast decisions, the wise and knowing lord of the Land, the expert of the gods, chosen for wisdom, the lord of Eridug, shall change the speech in their mouths, as many as he had placed there, and so the speech of mankind is truly one.""
Enmerkar is building a tower/temple to the goddess Inana at Eridu. He asks her for permission to collect a tribute from Aratta. The messenger is told to threaten to destroy Aratta and disperse the people if they don't pay up, and to chant a song asking Enki to fix the languages - "change the speech in their mouths, as many as he had placed there".
Sumerian translations aren't perfect, so we aren't positive if Enki is to fix the languages that he had broken earlier, or break the single language now.
Oh, and towards the end, writing gets invented. The messages back and forth get longer and longer until the poor messenger can't remember it all - "The messenger, whose mouth was heavy, was not able to repeat it." - so the king invents writing, which makes the messenger positively giddy. That is in lines 500-514.
If you wanted to be honest though, you'd mention that AA was just one of many groups that came and went in that era, which most people today would have a hard time telling apart from one another if not for the different names. They all had the same goals - preventing non-Communists from organizing politically, and the same tactics - violence.
The SA was organized to prevent those disruptions in general, regardless of the banner the disruptors flew that week - be it SPD, KPD, RFB, AA or any of the others.
Nuclear plants are incredibly cheap. What is expensive is allowing the watermelons to abuse the regulatory process to multiply the time by a factor of 2x to 3x and the cost by a factor of 5x to 10x.
The current fad, by the way, is BDB - "beyond design basis". Not a bad idea, exactly, if done as a mental exercise or deep contingency planning. But I don't want my power bill to go up another 10% so that the local plant can actually be modified to withstand a flood twice as deep as design basis (the site's 500-year flood level + 20%) without triggering an Alert. I'd much rather that a small part of the safety fund go to figuring out how many sandbags, pumps and generators will be needed in a biblical-flood-based Alert and caching them in regional and national response centers.
Oh, and BDB can get out of hand pretty easily if the safety committee isn't heavy in pragmatic types. If the design basis of the secondary containment is to eat a fully loaded 747 for breakfast, where do you go from there? Two jumbo jets? A North Korean nuke?
The genetic component of attraction seems to be small.
Are you dumb enough that this is your main argument? I only ask because you are squaring up to do battle with an obvious strawman. Oh, shit, who am I talking to? Of courseyou are dumb enough for this.
Let me clue you in. We are a sexual species. We have a dimorphic genome and dimorphic bodies. That means that we see signals of mating suitability in others. Those signals, and the reception of those signals, is one of the very highest callings of our genes and our bodies. This isn't a moral thing, or a cultural thing, it is simply because whenever a specific person or group of our species showed up that didn't prioritize breeding, well, let's just say that we aren't their offspring.
On top of that, what is considered attractive turns out to be heavily influenced by make-up, hair styling and nowadays photoshopping.
Don't confuse the preferences of non-breeding homosexuals (who have near total domination of the fashion "industry") with the preferences of men. Anyhow, thank you for agreeing with me on the core premise that the appearance of women is important.
In any case, I think most guys eventually realize that they want someone they can form a deep relationship with, that they can talk to and build a life with, rather than someone who just looks hot.
Now this is a cultural thing if ever there was one. Wanting to settle down with someone as a couple is not a human universal, it is something that a few cultures invented. It is a wildly successful idea, which is why it has been incorporated into so many cultures beyond the ones that invented it. But you don't need to look beyond the black-supermajority sections of the nearest American city to find a culture that doesn't have any such notion.
As for babies, that's probably because until the invention of formula milk they were reliant on women to survive.
If that was the case, why would babies prefer the faces of attractive women? Wouldn't all babies be, according to your theory, boob men? Baby brains grow into adult brains under the guidance of the same DNA that created the baby brain in the first place.
A woman's suitability for mating is easy to assess visually, mostly. A man's is not, mostly.
This is wired into us, all of us, at a very deep level. Even when mating isn't on the table, so to speak, we still recognize and respond to women visually - and women do it too! Even little babies do it before they've had a chance to be corrupted by evil white heteronormative cismail white evil bad culture. That means that good looking men get very little of the benefits of good looks that attractive women get, but conversely, unattractive men don't lose as much as unattractive women either.
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." (Meme related)
This seems to be related to the Streisand Effect. And/pol/ has memes about how nearly everyone there now first went there to see for themselves what was so terrible that everyone condemned it.
My guess is that Google and GoDaddy have just delivered publicity and an endorsement the likes of which those guys couldn't in a hundred years have been able to purchase.
I would add that they don't get anything "paid out" ever. This is money that the government declines to collect.
I'm doing some napkin math here - 3 billion divided by 20 years is 150 million per year. If we figure that an idle body costs the state of Wisconsin $30,000 per year in programs, benefits and lost taxes, which is probably a low estimate, how many jobs to break even? 5000.
Your first "rebuttal" was better, you should have let it ride. It was short, simple, and offered your allies hope that you had something in reserve backing it up. Now even your closest friends are groaning because you've dashed their hopes.
Wikileaks defies the narrative and must be destroyed. Like a good comrade, you are trying to do your part, but the best you can do is "according to them". In other words, you've got nothing and you know it.
If, or more likely, when, Wikileaks releases something false, everyone on the planet will know about it within 5 minutes. It will cross the SJW hivemind in about 2 seconds and then you lot will be going door to door telling people. And then you'll pretend that the one error discredits the terabytes of verified leaks until the heat death of the Universe.
"Billy, let you tell you about old Earth, where our ancestors came from. Way, way back at the dawn of the third millennium, Wikileaks once published something that turned out to be fake, and that is why you must always swallow everything I tell you without question. There are more genders than there are stars in the sky, and people are evil, which is why we must make a few of them very powerful so they can rule over us and control every aspect of our lives."
So no, it isn't reliable "according to them". It is reliable according to you.
Oh, and also according to all those people explicitly or implicitly confirm the authenticity of the leaked documents. Have you seen the press conferences where someone is claiming that they are fake one second and wondering how someone could have stolen all of their documents the next? I always look for the lawyer that coached them for an hour before the interview to deny, deny, deny but now has to sit and watch them confirm, confirm, confirm.
Not (necessarily) a big deal. CPUs have bugs. The kernel, the compilers and the standard libraries are all stuffed full of workarounds for various CPU errors. They are called "errata" and pretty much every CPU has them. (One could argue that corrigendum would be a more appropriate word for them.) Intel has had some big ones, the most memorable (off the top of my head) were FOOF and FDIV. The 286 was so riddled with bugs that everyone gave up trying to write a protected mode kernel and just waited for the 386.
Basically, they'll figure out what is causing the error and how to avoid it. If the workaround is easy, like "have the compiler reorder some instructions", a few patches will go out and life goes on, no big deal.
If the workaround is less easy, like "don't utilize all cores", or "bump the clock multiplier down to overcome a thermal or electrical issue", that is a much bigger deal. If you don't meet marketing numbers, your choices are refund or replace. Intel spent a half billion dollars replacing CPUs because of the FDIV bug, even though they calculated that most people would never encounter it and it was relatively easy to patch around (but the patch would have been a drag on FPU performance - and marketing again had made promises).
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Yeah, solid logic. The guy with a 4 digit UID just got on the internet yesterday. Couldn't possibly be that I understand the difference between "network neutrality" and "Network Neutrality(TM) Inc, A Google Enterprise".
30+ years without "net neutrality" regulations, 2 years with. Who here really thinks that the internet is more free today than it was just a few years ago, before Facebook, Google and Twitter flexed the muscle that their de facto monopolies gave them?
Sorry Woz, you need to get back to your real talents - building hardware. Outside of your realm, you can't resist the temptation to speak as if your personal politics are universal truths.
The lawyers are going to clear a quarter billion, and each of the employees is going to get a coupon for 25% off their next database.
The real guidelines can be found here. The core (for adults):
TL;DR -
If you are completely inactive, change that ASAP. If you can only take 5 steps at a brisk pace, take 5 steps today, then tomorrow try for 6 and keep increasing until you are walking 10 minutes twice each day.
If you are somewhat active, keep track of your time each week and increase it until you reach a minimum of 150 minutes. Then seriously consider increasing it to 300 minutes.
Also, everyone, everyone should lift weights. Do compound lifts (squat, deadlift, bench press, upright press, barbell row, power cleans, etc) using free weights (not machines). If you are an absolute beginner, get a copy of Starting Strength (highly recommended by just about everyone) or google StrongLifts which is possibly a knock-off, and possibly inferior in some trivial way. Go to ExRx right now and bookmark it, you'll refer back to it often, I promise.
Alternative to daily walking (you might need to walk a little once a week to fill in the minutes) - The hacker diet exercise plan (based on 5BX).
I seem to be a bit unusual in that I didn't learn about him from reading his science fiction books, and I didn't learn about him from reading his magazine columns. A search for some computer problem led me to an entry in his day book where he had dealt with a similar problem.
Nowadays, we'd call it a blog, making it possibly one of the oldest such on the internet, but the format at the time was one page per week, with new topics added at the bottom as the week went on. There was a second one, for his correspondence. For many years, every Monday, I would load up the pages from the previous week and read bits and pieces as free time presented itself.
I didn't always agree with him, but the wisdom available (from him and his incredible readership via email) was unmatched.
In addition to current events and computers, he also included pieces on his family, his dogs, his health, opera, TV, etc. Reading it for a while, it felt like you knew him. So, one day when I was in LA, I took a wrong turn and ended up, I suspect within a few blocks from his house. I mused that if I had known I was going to be that close, I should have made arrangements to stop in to meet him and shake his hand.
When I got home a few days later, I emailed him to ask if he accepted drop-ins, should I ever find myself out that way again. He said that he'd be delighted, assuming that he was home and didn't have other plans, of course.
Sadly, I haven't been out west since then, and now I've missed the chance.
I would like to add one thing - it would be nice if people remembered his small, but meaningful, contribution to the space program, and also his role in helping win the Cold War.
Organizers don't organize for the benefit of the organized. They organize for the benefit of the organizer.
(Alinsky is said to have uttered something along these lines when asked why he never joined any of the groups created according to his teachings.)
I can see through #14 lenses. Inside, I can see incandescent and LED bulbs. Outside, I can see the sky (on a sunny day). Which is odd, because many years ago when I did arc welding in high school, I couldn't see a damn thing through the #10 lenses until I got the arc going. My theory is that I always did that back in a dimly lit shop.
Just to be safe, I asked a guy who welds every day if he could identify a #10 lens by looking through it. As soon as he got them on he said "Wow, these are dark!" And then I told him that they were #14s for solar viewing.
The girlfriend and I had talked about it, but didn't make a decision until Friday afternoon. We both asked for Monday off and got it. On Sunday, around noon, we hopped in the car and drove towards southern Illinois because the forecasts in that direction were best. I had been considering west too, and had planned for rough areas in either direction that would give us enough time to get back home so that we could make it to work on Tuesday.
I didn't have an exact spot in mind, so I told my GPS to take me towards Mount Vernon, IL, which is close to, but north of, the totality band. The idea was to keep my options open so that I could head towards Missouri or Kentucky if things didn't look good on Monday morning.
Things got a bit hairy on Sunday night. We didn't have reservations anywhere, of course. Also, it was getting late, but we were still much farther away than we wanted to be. We ended up getting a room in Springfield by pure luck - we apparently called just minutes after someone else cancelled.
Everyone in Springfield warned us to get on the road by 7:00 if we wanted to be anywhere in the band by noon. We were close, maybe 7:30.
We still didn't have any specific place in mind, so I was looking for towns away from the interstate, but still connected to state or county highways, in case weather made us move. We changed GPS destinations many times, using it as "travel towards" instead of "going to".
We did a lot of rural driving, but ended up on I-57. The interstates were funny. It would be nearly stopped for a while, then clear sailing for miles at 70+ MPH. I thought many times about getting off earlier than I did, and I'm glad I decided to stick it out.
We were near the center of the band when the girlfriend had to pee (again) so I took the next exit and headed towards town. Within a mile or so, I saw a gravel parking lot with a "Private Parking" sign that looked 50 years old. One car was in it, and they were setting up chairs and a cooler. It looked like the perfect spot.
On the way towards town, which turned out to be Herrin, we kept our eyes open looking for other spots, and saw some good ones, but none better.
At the gas station, I was surprised that they weren't selling eclipse glasses. In general, I was surprised that there weren't roadside stands selling them anywhere along my route. I had a set of brazing goggles that I had swapped #14 lenses into, but there were two of us, so I was looking for another pair. The guy at the gas station said that a hair salon and the local banks had been handing them out before, but wasn't sure if they still had any.
The salon was closed, and the bank we tried was out. But, one of the tellers had an extra pair and she dug them out from the depths of her purse. We tried giving her money for them, but she wouldn't take any.
We went back to the parking lot that we had seen on the way in, and this time there were 3 cars. The car we parked next to had a couple of guys from Argonne National Labs in Chicago that had also come out on short notice. This was shortly after noon. A few more cars wandered in, maybe a dozen total. Mostly Illinois plates, one Indiana, one Wisconsin and two Minnesota.
My girlfriend thinks I'm nuts because I talk to strangers, and I didn't want to disappoint her, so I wandered around meeting the neighbors, comparing equipment, etc. My projection box was well liked even though it was very small. Hole quality is the most important factor, and then length. My box was short, only about 15 inches long, but I had poked my hole in a sheet of aluminum foil with a fine needle that I had deburred and polished. I also had a piece of bright white office paper on the inside of the box for viewing. The image was tiny, but very clear, and bright. The Argonne guys had a stack of used welding filters they were using. None of them were #14, but they had researched it and got pretty good results by combining lesser filters.
The eclipse itself was really cool. I'm very glad I
Heh. You are asking a lot from 4000 year old literature. How many ancient stories do you think are out there concerning 1) a tall building, 2) in Babylon, and 3) the cause of language divergence?
Think of them as cousins, descendants from a common ancestor-story, passed down from mouth to ear for thousands of years before the invention of writing.
Enmerkar is building a tower/temple to the goddess Inana at Eridu. He asks her for permission to collect a tribute from Aratta. The messenger is told to threaten to destroy Aratta and disperse the people if they don't pay up, and to chant a song asking Enki to fix the languages - "change the speech in their mouths, as many as he had placed there".
Sumerian translations aren't perfect, so we aren't positive if Enki is to fix the languages that he had broken earlier, or break the single language now.
Oh, and towards the end, writing gets invented. The messages back and forth get longer and longer until the poor messenger can't remember it all - "The messenger, whose mouth was heavy, was not able to repeat it." - so the king invents writing, which makes the messenger positively giddy. That is in lines 500-514.
There is a version of that story in the Sumerian literature too. Here is the Electronic Text Corpus of the Sumerian Language (ETCSL) link:
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.8.2.3#
On the other hand, if they were capable of looking before they leapt, they wouldn't be leftists.
If you wanted to be honest though, you'd mention that AA was just one of many groups that came and went in that era, which most people today would have a hard time telling apart from one another if not for the different names. They all had the same goals - preventing non-Communists from organizing politically, and the same tactics - violence.
The SA was organized to prevent those disruptions in general, regardless of the banner the disruptors flew that week - be it SPD, KPD, RFB, AA or any of the others.
I'm just going to leave this here...
Nuclear plants are incredibly cheap. What is expensive is allowing the watermelons to abuse the regulatory process to multiply the time by a factor of 2x to 3x and the cost by a factor of 5x to 10x.
The current fad, by the way, is BDB - "beyond design basis". Not a bad idea, exactly, if done as a mental exercise or deep contingency planning. But I don't want my power bill to go up another 10% so that the local plant can actually be modified to withstand a flood twice as deep as design basis (the site's 500-year flood level + 20%) without triggering an Alert. I'd much rather that a small part of the safety fund go to figuring out how many sandbags, pumps and generators will be needed in a biblical-flood-based Alert and caching them in regional and national response centers.
Oh, and BDB can get out of hand pretty easily if the safety committee isn't heavy in pragmatic types. If the design basis of the secondary containment is to eat a fully loaded 747 for breakfast, where do you go from there? Two jumbo jets? A North Korean nuke?
Are you dumb enough that this is your main argument? I only ask because you are squaring up to do battle with an obvious strawman. Oh, shit, who am I talking to? Of course you are dumb enough for this.
Let me clue you in. We are a sexual species. We have a dimorphic genome and dimorphic bodies. That means that we see signals of mating suitability in others. Those signals, and the reception of those signals, is one of the very highest callings of our genes and our bodies. This isn't a moral thing, or a cultural thing, it is simply because whenever a specific person or group of our species showed up that didn't prioritize breeding, well, let's just say that we aren't their offspring.
Don't confuse the preferences of non-breeding homosexuals (who have near total domination of the fashion "industry") with the preferences of men. Anyhow, thank you for agreeing with me on the core premise that the appearance of women is important.
Now this is a cultural thing if ever there was one. Wanting to settle down with someone as a couple is not a human universal, it is something that a few cultures invented. It is a wildly successful idea, which is why it has been incorporated into so many cultures beyond the ones that invented it. But you don't need to look beyond the black-supermajority sections of the nearest American city to find a culture that doesn't have any such notion.
If that was the case, why would babies prefer the faces of attractive women? Wouldn't all babies be, according to your theory, boob men? Baby brains grow into adult brains under the guidance of the same DNA that created the baby brain in the first place.
The imbalance is in the human genome.
A woman's suitability for mating is easy to assess visually, mostly. A man's is not, mostly.
This is wired into us, all of us, at a very deep level. Even when mating isn't on the table, so to speak, we still recognize and respond to women visually - and women do it too! Even little babies do it before they've had a chance to be corrupted by evil white heteronormative cismail white evil bad culture. That means that good looking men get very little of the benefits of good looks that attractive women get, but conversely, unattractive men don't lose as much as unattractive women either.
You aren't going to get very far with this argument, too many people know what happens when you stop.
I hate to quote Game of Thrones, but...
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say." (Meme related)
This seems to be related to the Streisand Effect. And /pol/ has memes about how nearly everyone there now first went there to see for themselves what was so terrible that everyone condemned it.
My guess is that Google and GoDaddy have just delivered publicity and an endorsement the likes of which those guys couldn't in a hundred years have been able to purchase.
I would add that they don't get anything "paid out" ever. This is money that the government declines to collect.
I'm doing some napkin math here - 3 billion divided by 20 years is 150 million per year. If we figure that an idle body costs the state of Wisconsin $30,000 per year in programs, benefits and lost taxes, which is probably a low estimate, how many jobs to break even? 5000.
Your first "rebuttal" was better, you should have let it ride. It was short, simple, and offered your allies hope that you had something in reserve backing it up. Now even your closest friends are groaning because you've dashed their hopes.
Climate research got hijacked decades ago by the watermelons. (green on the outside, red on the inside. get it?)
It is about control. If it was about carbon dioxide, they'd be demanding more nuclear power plants.
Wikileaks defies the narrative and must be destroyed. Like a good comrade, you are trying to do your part, but the best you can do is "according to them". In other words, you've got nothing and you know it.
If, or more likely, when, Wikileaks releases something false, everyone on the planet will know about it within 5 minutes. It will cross the SJW hivemind in about 2 seconds and then you lot will be going door to door telling people. And then you'll pretend that the one error discredits the terabytes of verified leaks until the heat death of the Universe.
"Billy, let you tell you about old Earth, where our ancestors came from. Way, way back at the dawn of the third millennium, Wikileaks once published something that turned out to be fake, and that is why you must always swallow everything I tell you without question. There are more genders than there are stars in the sky, and people are evil, which is why we must make a few of them very powerful so they can rule over us and control every aspect of our lives."
So no, it isn't reliable "according to them". It is reliable according to you.
Oh, and also according to all those people explicitly or implicitly confirm the authenticity of the leaked documents. Have you seen the press conferences where someone is claiming that they are fake one second and wondering how someone could have stolen all of their documents the next? I always look for the lawyer that coached them for an hour before the interview to deny, deny, deny but now has to sit and watch them confirm, confirm, confirm.
It will never get to court. Google's lawyers will tell them to give the guy Youtube as a settlement rather than have to face discovery.
Of course, Wikileaks has been hinting that they may have some "discovery" of their own coming soon...
Not (necessarily) a big deal. CPUs have bugs. The kernel, the compilers and the standard libraries are all stuffed full of workarounds for various CPU errors. They are called "errata" and pretty much every CPU has them. (One could argue that corrigendum would be a more appropriate word for them.) Intel has had some big ones, the most memorable (off the top of my head) were FOOF and FDIV. The 286 was so riddled with bugs that everyone gave up trying to write a protected mode kernel and just waited for the 386.
Basically, they'll figure out what is causing the error and how to avoid it. If the workaround is easy, like "have the compiler reorder some instructions", a few patches will go out and life goes on, no big deal.
If the workaround is less easy, like "don't utilize all cores", or "bump the clock multiplier down to overcome a thermal or electrical issue", that is a much bigger deal. If you don't meet marketing numbers, your choices are refund or replace. Intel spent a half billion dollars replacing CPUs because of the FDIV bug, even though they calculated that most people would never encounter it and it was relatively easy to patch around (but the patch would have been a drag on FPU performance - and marketing again had made promises).