If you need to swerve to avoid hitting the car in front of you, you are too close. Leave a larger stopping distance for your own safety.
In the world of theory, this is exactly it. The real world is not so clean cut. Sometimes, you have to assume that because there is no reason to stop, then the person ahead is unlikely to stop. That can leave you in a situation where you need to use the brakes fairly aggressively, but to drive otherwise is to impede the overall flow of traffic, which marks you as a very likely candidate for some hot and erotic vehicle on vehicle action.
So yeah, in theory, you always leave enough room to stop, even in unexpected circumstances. In reality... there are numerous concerns that need to be balanced carefully. There is no point in avoiding hitting someone's rear end if you are essentially inviting others to rear end you.
I'm waiting for the ability to apply a style to a sentence, and not have that style applied to the entire paragraph.
Make all your paragraphs only one sentence long -- problem solved.:-)
But but but... I was told that part of the definition of 'paragraph' was that it was comprised of at least 3 sentences.:(
Honestly though, the bug being described seems like an odd bug. A structural definition is not as black and white as it needs to be, or else it is a simple programming error that just isn't being fixed... but the second option seems unlikely.
in part, out of a need for agency and control over their own body. Perhaps I am being unfair, but every time I hear a parent complain about 'my kids learned cutting from XYZ and then kill themselves', I wonder just how abusive the parent was
That still doesn't justify voting FOR a Democrat.
Which is an implication considering the words that were used.
(I am not democrat or republican, so don't waste your time going down the route of me being a republican and bringing this up as an excuse to vote republican.)
in part, out of a need for agency and control over their own body. Perhaps I am being unfair, but every time I hear a parent complain about 'my kids learned cutting from XYZ and then kill themselves', I wonder just how abusive the parent was
Just guessing here, but yeah, I think you hit a huge part of what is going on here. It is weird that very few people seem to acknowledge how hellish a child's experience can be under "modern parenting methods". Jesus fuck, people are advocating for hell on Earth constantly! Kids need to be allowed some control over their lives; otherwise, they can't learn how to control things. Can't give a kid control. They will hurt themselves! But um... how do kids become adults then? No problem. Once they turn 18, we just hold them responsible for learning things that they were explicitly prohibited and prevented from learning at an age where the consequences can be managed. Problem solved. Problem staying solved. Isn't life grand?
Changing the injection profile of a ICE car has a very circumcised impact and does not have the same security risks as mucking around the same computers that control the steering acceleration and braking on a Tesla.
No. This is EXACTLY the same thing in all/most modern cars.
You would think that the various electronic subsystems would be segregated, but no. That is not natural to how people think. Even modern airplanes don't have true separation between the entertainment systems and the bus that routes the signals to various elements that control the plane in the air.
So yeah, if you modified the injection profile on my car, built all the way back in 2004, you also have the ability to crash any safety features present in the vehicle. I don't have lane assist, but modifying injectors would exist in the same "place" as the code for lane assist. Or, to put it more technically, since this is Slashdot, the same RAM chips that hold the injector data also hold the data that lane assist needs to operate.
Would it be safe to assume that you would think it would be smart to limit modifications to any car newer than about 2004? Think about it.;)
If men weren't such irresponsible assholes, this wouldn't occur.
Every school year, every school that my children went to (past tense) asked for proof of immunization and were quite militant about it. It was quite... disconcerting. Made me feel like fighting back.
Maybe that is where some of this anti-vaxx movement is coming from?
Myself, I just ignored the militant attitudes because I wanted my kids to NOT get polio or other infectious diseases. Others might just choose that to be the hill they die on. Is it stupid? Yes. Could it have been prevented? Again, yes.
I honestly don't think a full-on assault against the anti-vaxx people will yield good results. Better to take sense of urgency out of the whole thing so everyone has the space to think clearly. There will still be a few die-hard anti-vaxxers left, but like a disease, without the appropriate number of hosts, it too will mostly die off.
I really wanted to get my daughter the HPV vaccine. My wife prevented it. Apparently, the HPV vaccine encourages or authorizes sexual activity. Who knew? *shrug*
80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes â"14 times the average. (Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26)
If men weren't such irresponsible assholes, this wouldn't occur.
Vast majority of serial murderers are also created by single mothers abusing their kids. https://www.independent.co.uk/...
Again: If men weren't such irresponsible assholes, this wouldn't occur. The man would be around to ensure that the kids were brought up correctly.
Women have no responsibility or culpability in any of this.
If that statement is true, what does it say about women? That women are powerless and helpless. They are entirely victims of their environment.
These are just ephemeral thoughts floating through a bizarre mind. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.:)
P.S. and certainly don't interpret this as attack on women, saying that they are responsible. This is literally just random musing on thoughts put forward by others at one time or another.
Hm. That doesn't seem like communism to me. There are echoes of communistic ideas there, but no. This ensures equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.
I am not saying I am "for" this idea. I am merely discussing whether or not it has communistic qualities.
Consider using Adblockers No script U Block and U Block matrix. Ghostery.
Did you ever notice that finding "no script", when searching for extensions for Firefox, is not as simple or easy as it could be. If you know what you are looking for, you can force "no script" to show up, but if you don't know, it never surfaces, despite being the most downloaded "security" extension that is available.
Did you also notice semi-recent changes to the Firefox engine that prevents "no script" from being as effective as it used to be? Now, requests are made to servers and "no script" can't block them, previously, it could block those requests before they ever went out.
Mozilla is in bed with the advertisers and other control freaks on the Internet. Mozilla is evil, just as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are objectively evil. They clearly have the idea that you should have no control, but should be on display for others to examine and manipulate. This is not a SJW evil, this is a real evil. You have the fundamental right to defend yourselves and they are working HARD to take any semblance of defense away from you. Mother fucking assholes.
I friend of mine got her wisdom teeth out and she was prescribed 50 opioid pills? When I got mine out in Europe, I was given ibuprofen.
You would think there would be a happy medium. Pulling wisdom teeth is a traumatic event for your mouth/body. The first few hours, pain should be mediated through opiates (until we find something more effective). After that, ibuprofen is fine for reducing swelling, which is where a majority of the pain will be coming from after those first few hours.
But no. We get ibuprofen or addictive amounts of opiates. What the fuck is going on here? Why is NOBODY rational about this? Why does it have to be one extreme or the other? (I have theories, but Church control and social manipulation are likely paranoid fantasies)
It seems like if we had a *better* drug that was legal we'd solve a lot of problems and perhaps keep a lot of people from bothering with more dangerous, expensive black market drugs.
See? That is the thing. Pleasure is verboten. Absolutely 100% off limits. We are supposed to open ourselves to the suffering, gladly accept it and welcome it into our lives. Pleasure is merely avoiding this suffering which is required to make sure that we are as pure as can be.
No. Your pleasure seeking is morally wrong.
(do you understand why there are no legal methods for non-negotiable pleasure?)
Well duh. The Jewish (work with me here) bankers insist that controlling payroll costs is the path to great wealth.
This idea is, evidently, true. The issue is that it is a path to great wealth at the expense of "everyone" else. It is not true wealth.
So yeah, there is a LOT of wealth here in America, but very very few get to taste any of it. Imagine knowing that the people around you can run off to Tahiti whenever things get too stressful but you can't even afford to go out to eat and NEVER get respite from your stresses. Opiates, here we come!
Oh, you chose to be poor. You are lazy and lack morals. Anyone who was smart would choose to NOT be poor. ROFLMAO. If only those were true, we could all sleep better.
TL;DR, the average American is forced to live at a wage that has been calculated to be "just enough"... but it really isn't "just enough" and we see society unraveling before us right this minute because of it.
The exact percentage is unknown, but there is some percentage of doctors who don't care at all. They fill out checklists and do the bare minimum of what those checklists prescribe in order to keep themselves from being declared incompetent... but they just don't care. They were told if they do certain things in a certain order, they get money. So they do, but they don't care. Your suffering is immaterial. Your survival has no bearing on whether or not they sleep well at night. They just don't care.
You factor that in with hospitals being a concentrated warehouse storage of some of the nastiest bacteriums on this planet and... this result is expected. I would go so far as to say that it gives an upper bound on the amount of medical professionals who just don't care. If that is the case, the numbers are better than I had hoped. Maybe it is possible to find a medical professional who does more than checklists and shoulder shrugs.
Or, maybe, this result is indicative of how good those checklists are... (now I am depressed again)
Honestly I applaud the Russians for undertaking the exercises. I'd *almost* say it would be a good thing for us to do here in the good old USA to do but I am not sure I want the government this administration or any other to have a working tested kill switch because I kinda be it would be misused ultimately.
Gold.
If a network is wholly owned and controlled by an entity, then that entity absolutely should do tests like this.
That is the neat thing about America; the Federal government, nor any conglomeration of governments, own or are in control of, the various networks that participate in this glorious thing we call The Internet.
If you hear a politician calling for a "Kill Switch", what you are really hearing is a call for centralized government typically known as a dictatorship. That is fine to create that type of government... just not in America. We are NOT going backwards no matter how much we are pulled backwards by the Old Guard.
Personally, I figure, even Russia doesn't have enough control over it's internet connectivity to actually isolate themselves fully.
This is the quote I was looking for.
I have had to do communications isolation before. It is easy to prevent all useful traffic from flowing. It is easy to block the majority of communications...
but you can't block all communications.
Somewhere within Russia, there is someone using a satellite to get out of the country and back onto the planet somewhere other than Russia.
Somewhere within Russia, there is someone using radio waves with an end point across the border.
Somewhere within Russia, there is someone creating links to the internet through non-traditional means that the default block will miss.
Each one of those "leaks" is minor in the scheme of things, but once information finds those paths, the pressure will be intense. Lots of information will flow.
And Russia is about to find this out. I call it a leak test. They may not be intending this to be a leak test, but it is a good leak test.:)
Vaping by minors was declared an epidemic by the US Surgeon General.
Ok.
Juul is being investigated for this by the FDA & has already found multiple violations.
Ok.
I'm guessing from your offensive language & incoherent speculation that these facts have hit a nerve & you've lost control of your feelings. Is that correct?
I could see how it would appear that way. I am guessing that the subtleties of pointing out that the "offensive language" was used to demonstrate the incoherence of the public is beyond what you will admit to in this "conversation".
You have no interest in having a honest discussion about this. You are convinced that everything that is being put forward by the Surgeon General is objectively true. You have never witnessed or understood manufactured moral panic and you seem quite invested in avoiding the concept that your opinion might have been handed to you rather than arriving at it through independent thought.
Fine dude. You win this "argument". I will roll over and die. Enjoy your victory in making sure the public is outraged and that FINALLY, this time, that Moral Panic has a legitimate basis and the incipient horrors are too terrible for a society to bear.
This is not my first rodeo. You will not think. You will not even begin to attempt to try to understand what I am saying. It's ok. You be you. I do have to wonder why you would state an opinion and then not try to understand even the basic aspects of what is being said back to you, but it appears to be VERY common "recently". I am guessing you are under 30? Have a nice life. lol
Summary of my position: This whole thing is a manufactured Moral Panic. There is close to zero danger as no dangers have been enumerated and validated.
And you have not even addressed a single portion of that. You accuse me of working for Juul, of being incoherent, etc rather than address anything of note. That is how I know this is not a real discussion. You are a bot (mentally, not an actual robot). You speak like the (mostly) silent majority. You only pop out to throw spears when you think you see some sociallly unacceptable thing but when directly questioned, can't even answer the most basic questions about the elements of the discussion nor back up the basis of the assertions.
TL;DR, You suck as a human and people like you are boring and stupid.
I was sitting here laughing and enjoying your words when a creepy thought overcame me:
There are millions of "newer" people in this world who have never experienced soda or milk in glass bottles. Two entire generations don't have any idea about why the joke of the milkman might be their father has any validity.
In other words, it has occurred to me that the group of people who can understand WHY your words are sublime and humorous is getting more exclusive every year. *sigh*
TL;DR, soda and milk used to come in glass bottles. Those glass bottles could be recycled, and with milk, they usually were. Since broken soda bottles caused so many issues, everything just went to disposable and now we don't have broken glass everywhere. I guess plastic being strewn about is better than glass being strewn about in that you usually don't get cut from plastic. I feel like glass affects the environment in less subtle and concerning ways. An occasional cut it worth it.
Americans as a whole do not live in fear. Certain politicians and agencies are just beating the "fear" drums. As always, a certain percentage of the population will always respond...
Meh. I am already bored of this conversation. Your insightful witticism, isn't.
Microsoft had (still has?) some of the best programmers on the planet. That is not a problem. What is a problem is that management won't let anything high quality and well engineered leave the walls of that place. It is where technology goes to die.
It is awesome that you get good work out of a Microsoft "thing". Asking others to take that risk is just downright antisocial, possibly bordering on malevolent.
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If you need to swerve to avoid hitting the car in front of you, you are too close. Leave a larger stopping distance for your own safety.
In the world of theory, this is exactly it. The real world is not so clean cut. Sometimes, you have to assume that because there is no reason to stop, then the person ahead is unlikely to stop. That can leave you in a situation where you need to use the brakes fairly aggressively, but to drive otherwise is to impede the overall flow of traffic, which marks you as a very likely candidate for some hot and erotic vehicle on vehicle action.
So yeah, in theory, you always leave enough room to stop, even in unexpected circumstances. In reality... there are numerous concerns that need to be balanced carefully. There is no point in avoiding hitting someone's rear end if you are essentially inviting others to rear end you.
LOL. So it is a bug in understanding, not a bug in programming. I kind of figured it had be something like what you described. Nicely done. :)
I'm waiting for the ability to apply a style to a sentence, and not have that style applied to the entire paragraph.
Make all your paragraphs only one sentence long -- problem solved. :-)
But but but... I was told that part of the definition of 'paragraph' was that it was comprised of at least 3 sentences. :(
Honestly though, the bug being described seems like an odd bug. A structural definition is not as black and white as it needs to be, or else it is a simple programming error that just isn't being fixed... but the second option seems unlikely.
in part, out of a need for agency and control over their own body. Perhaps I am being unfair, but every time I hear a parent complain about 'my kids learned cutting from XYZ and then kill themselves', I wonder just how abusive the parent was
That still doesn't justify voting FOR a Democrat.
Which is an implication considering the words that were used.
(I am not democrat or republican, so don't waste your time going down the route of me being a republican and bringing this up as an excuse to vote republican.)
in part, out of a need for agency and control over their own body. Perhaps I am being unfair, but every time I hear a parent complain about 'my kids learned cutting from XYZ and then kill themselves', I wonder just how abusive the parent was
Just guessing here, but yeah, I think you hit a huge part of what is going on here. It is weird that very few people seem to acknowledge how hellish a child's experience can be under "modern parenting methods". Jesus fuck, people are advocating for hell on Earth constantly! Kids need to be allowed some control over their lives; otherwise, they can't learn how to control things. Can't give a kid control. They will hurt themselves! But um... how do kids become adults then? No problem. Once they turn 18, we just hold them responsible for learning things that they were explicitly prohibited and prevented from learning at an age where the consequences can be managed. Problem solved. Problem staying solved. Isn't life grand?
Changing the injection profile of a ICE car has a very circumcised impact and does not have the same security risks as mucking around the same computers that control the steering acceleration and braking on a Tesla.
No. This is EXACTLY the same thing in all/most modern cars.
You would think that the various electronic subsystems would be segregated, but no. That is not natural to how people think. Even modern airplanes don't have true separation between the entertainment systems and the bus that routes the signals to various elements that control the plane in the air.
So yeah, if you modified the injection profile on my car, built all the way back in 2004, you also have the ability to crash any safety features present in the vehicle. I don't have lane assist, but modifying injectors would exist in the same "place" as the code for lane assist. Or, to put it more technically, since this is Slashdot, the same RAM chips that hold the injector data also hold the data that lane assist needs to operate.
Would it be safe to assume that you would think it would be smart to limit modifications to any car newer than about 2004? Think about it. ;)
If men weren't such irresponsible assholes, this wouldn't occur.
Every school year, every school that my children went to (past tense) asked for proof of immunization and were quite militant about it. It was quite ... disconcerting. Made me feel like fighting back.
Maybe that is where some of this anti-vaxx movement is coming from?
Myself, I just ignored the militant attitudes because I wanted my kids to NOT get polio or other infectious diseases. Others might just choose that to be the hill they die on. Is it stupid? Yes. Could it have been prevented? Again, yes.
I honestly don't think a full-on assault against the anti-vaxx people will yield good results. Better to take sense of urgency out of the whole thing so everyone has the space to think clearly. There will still be a few die-hard anti-vaxxers left, but like a disease, without the appropriate number of hosts, it too will mostly die off.
I really wanted to get my daughter the HPV vaccine. My wife prevented it. Apparently, the HPV vaccine encourages or authorizes sexual activity. Who knew? *shrug*
80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes â"14 times the average. (Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26)
If men weren't such irresponsible assholes, this wouldn't occur.
Vast majority of serial murderers are also created by single mothers abusing their kids.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
Again: If men weren't such irresponsible assholes, this wouldn't occur. The man would be around to ensure that the kids were brought up correctly.
Women have no responsibility or culpability in any of this.
If that statement is true, what does it say about women? That women are powerless and helpless. They are entirely victims of their environment.
These are just ephemeral thoughts floating through a bizarre mind. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. :)
P.S. and certainly don't interpret this as attack on women, saying that they are responsible. This is literally just random musing on thoughts put forward by others at one time or another.
Hm. That doesn't seem like communism to me. There are echoes of communistic ideas there, but no. This ensures equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.
I am not saying I am "for" this idea. I am merely discussing whether or not it has communistic qualities.
Calling this site '90's style' is like calling a bacon falafel burger with cheese 'authentic Jewish food'.
This is awesome! Do you mind if I use it a bit? (with changes of course, I doubt I will ever discuss this particular website with anyone)
Consider using
Adblockers
No script
U Block and U Block matrix.
Ghostery.
Did you ever notice that finding "no script", when searching for extensions for Firefox, is not as simple or easy as it could be. If you know what you are looking for, you can force "no script" to show up, but if you don't know, it never surfaces, despite being the most downloaded "security" extension that is available.
Did you also notice semi-recent changes to the Firefox engine that prevents "no script" from being as effective as it used to be? Now, requests are made to servers and "no script" can't block them, previously, it could block those requests before they ever went out.
Mozilla is in bed with the advertisers and other control freaks on the Internet. Mozilla is evil, just as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are objectively evil. They clearly have the idea that you should have no control, but should be on display for others to examine and manipulate. This is not a SJW evil, this is a real evil. You have the fundamental right to defend yourselves and they are working HARD to take any semblance of defense away from you. Mother fucking assholes.
I friend of mine got her wisdom teeth out and she was prescribed 50 opioid pills?
When I got mine out in Europe, I was given ibuprofen.
You would think there would be a happy medium. Pulling wisdom teeth is a traumatic event for your mouth/body. The first few hours, pain should be mediated through opiates (until we find something more effective). After that, ibuprofen is fine for reducing swelling, which is where a majority of the pain will be coming from after those first few hours.
But no. We get ibuprofen or addictive amounts of opiates. What the fuck is going on here? Why is NOBODY rational about this? Why does it have to be one extreme or the other? (I have theories, but Church control and social manipulation are likely paranoid fantasies)
It seems like if we had a *better* drug that was legal we'd solve a lot of problems and perhaps keep a lot of people from bothering with more dangerous, expensive black market drugs.
See? That is the thing. Pleasure is verboten. Absolutely 100% off limits. We are supposed to open ourselves to the suffering, gladly accept it and welcome it into our lives. Pleasure is merely avoiding this suffering which is required to make sure that we are as pure as can be.
No. Your pleasure seeking is morally wrong.
(do you understand why there are no legal methods for non-negotiable pleasure?)
Well duh. The Jewish (work with me here) bankers insist that controlling payroll costs is the path to great wealth.
This idea is, evidently, true. The issue is that it is a path to great wealth at the expense of "everyone" else. It is not true wealth.
So yeah, there is a LOT of wealth here in America, but very very few get to taste any of it. Imagine knowing that the people around you can run off to Tahiti whenever things get too stressful but you can't even afford to go out to eat and NEVER get respite from your stresses. Opiates, here we come!
Oh, you chose to be poor. You are lazy and lack morals. Anyone who was smart would choose to NOT be poor. ROFLMAO. If only those were true, we could all sleep better.
TL;DR, the average American is forced to live at a wage that has been calculated to be "just enough"... but it really isn't "just enough" and we see society unraveling before us right this minute because of it.
Which makes me wonder what kind of weird history you were taught...
I don't know about other places, but in Anytown USA, we are/were(?) taught that at one point, people thought the Earth was flat.
Ridicule people all you want, it was taught. Deal with it.
The exact percentage is unknown, but there is some percentage of doctors who don't care at all. They fill out checklists and do the bare minimum of what those checklists prescribe in order to keep themselves from being declared incompetent... but they just don't care. They were told if they do certain things in a certain order, they get money. So they do, but they don't care. Your suffering is immaterial. Your survival has no bearing on whether or not they sleep well at night. They just don't care.
You factor that in with hospitals being a concentrated warehouse storage of some of the nastiest bacteriums on this planet and... this result is expected. I would go so far as to say that it gives an upper bound on the amount of medical professionals who just don't care. If that is the case, the numbers are better than I had hoped. Maybe it is possible to find a medical professional who does more than checklists and shoulder shrugs.
Or, maybe, this result is indicative of how good those checklists are... (now I am depressed again)
Honestly I applaud the Russians for undertaking the exercises. I'd *almost* say it would be a good thing for us to do here in the good old USA to do but I am not sure I want the government this administration or any other to have a working tested kill switch because I kinda be it would be misused ultimately.
Gold.
If a network is wholly owned and controlled by an entity, then that entity absolutely should do tests like this.
That is the neat thing about America; the Federal government, nor any conglomeration of governments, own or are in control of, the various networks that participate in this glorious thing we call The Internet.
If you hear a politician calling for a "Kill Switch", what you are really hearing is a call for centralized government typically known as a dictatorship. That is fine to create that type of government... just not in America. We are NOT going backwards no matter how much we are pulled backwards by the Old Guard.
Personally, I figure, even Russia doesn't have enough control over it's internet connectivity to actually isolate themselves fully.
This is the quote I was looking for.
I have had to do communications isolation before. It is easy to prevent all useful traffic from flowing. It is easy to block the majority of communications...
but you can't block all communications.
Somewhere within Russia, there is someone using a satellite to get out of the country and back onto the planet somewhere other than Russia.
Somewhere within Russia, there is someone using radio waves with an end point across the border.
Somewhere within Russia, there is someone creating links to the internet through non-traditional means that the default block will miss.
Each one of those "leaks" is minor in the scheme of things, but once information finds those paths, the pressure will be intense. Lots of information will flow.
And Russia is about to find this out. I call it a leak test. They may not be intending this to be a leak test, but it is a good leak test. :)
I am with you except for one minor detail. Once we leave a planet, why would we plunge ourselves back into a gravity well?
I foresee "Death Star" type habitats roving near nebulas and other sources of raw materials and/or energy.
Oooooo. The Death Star analogy brings to mind weaponized habitats. War would mean complete extinction of an entire habitat.
Interesting ramifications here. Lots of material for novelists.
Anyways, sorry for rambling. I don't think dropping back into a gravity well will be a primary choice once we leave this one.
Vaping by minors was declared an epidemic by the US Surgeon General.
Ok.
Juul is being investigated for this by the FDA & has already found multiple violations.
Ok.
I'm guessing from your offensive language & incoherent speculation that these facts have hit a nerve & you've lost control of your feelings. Is that correct?
I could see how it would appear that way. I am guessing that the subtleties of pointing out that the "offensive language" was used to demonstrate the incoherence of the public is beyond what you will admit to in this "conversation".
You have no interest in having a honest discussion about this. You are convinced that everything that is being put forward by the Surgeon General is objectively true. You have never witnessed or understood manufactured moral panic and you seem quite invested in avoiding the concept that your opinion might have been handed to you rather than arriving at it through independent thought.
Fine dude. You win this "argument". I will roll over and die. Enjoy your victory in making sure the public is outraged and that FINALLY, this time, that Moral Panic has a legitimate basis and the incipient horrors are too terrible for a society to bear.
This is not my first rodeo. You will not think. You will not even begin to attempt to try to understand what I am saying. It's ok. You be you. I do have to wonder why you would state an opinion and then not try to understand even the basic aspects of what is being said back to you, but it appears to be VERY common "recently". I am guessing you are under 30? Have a nice life. lol
Summary of my position: This whole thing is a manufactured Moral Panic. There is close to zero danger as no dangers have been enumerated and validated.
And you have not even addressed a single portion of that. You accuse me of working for Juul, of being incoherent, etc rather than address anything of note. That is how I know this is not a real discussion. You are a bot (mentally, not an actual robot). You speak like the (mostly) silent majority. You only pop out to throw spears when you think you see some sociallly unacceptable thing but when directly questioned, can't even answer the most basic questions about the elements of the discussion nor back up the basis of the assertions.
TL;DR, You suck as a human and people like you are boring and stupid.
Neutron stars are made up of neutron degenerate matter which is a press of multiple neutrons into an incredibly dense material.
What happened to all the protons and electrons? Did they "convert" into neutrons? If so, what does that tell us about "fundamental" particles?
The neutrons are still separate and do not merge into one.
What allows the neutrons to keep their "identity" under such extreme stresses?
I was sitting here laughing and enjoying your words when a creepy thought overcame me:
There are millions of "newer" people in this world who have never experienced soda or milk in glass bottles. Two entire generations don't have any idea about why the joke of the milkman might be their father has any validity.
In other words, it has occurred to me that the group of people who can understand WHY your words are sublime and humorous is getting more exclusive every year. *sigh*
TL;DR, soda and milk used to come in glass bottles. Those glass bottles could be recycled, and with milk, they usually were. Since broken soda bottles caused so many issues, everything just went to disposable and now we don't have broken glass everywhere. I guess plastic being strewn about is better than glass being strewn about in that you usually don't get cut from plastic. I feel like glass affects the environment in less subtle and concerning ways. An occasional cut it worth it.
Americans as a whole do not live in fear. Certain politicians and agencies are just beating the "fear" drums. As always, a certain percentage of the population will always respond...
Meh. I am already bored of this conversation. Your insightful witticism, isn't.
I'm sorry, are you unaware of .Net Core?
Available on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Available on x86 and ARM.
Free to use.
Free to change.
Microsoft had (still has?) some of the best programmers on the planet. That is not a problem. What is a problem is that management won't let anything high quality and well engineered leave the walls of that place. It is where technology goes to die.
It is awesome that you get good work out of a Microsoft "thing". Asking others to take that risk is just downright antisocial, possibly bordering on malevolent.