The jury seems to be still out on yawning, all medical theories fail due to the fact that yawning is clearly contagious. Also I doubt it's anything to do with getting enough air, I'm very fit and am pretty sure I'm getting enough air through normal breathing. Yawning is pretty obviously correlated with being tired.
And when did we get a referendum on whether we wanted 'fundamental rights'? Honestly the Poles and the Brits (I am one) are stupid enough to vote against having rights. Kind of like stabbing yourself in the face just in case you're a terrorist.
Here in the UK we just hold our ('contactless') card next to the reader for two seconds max, machine beeps, payment complete. Initially I didn't want one of these cards but it's so effing fast/ convenient especially when I use my card a couple of times a day.
It's saddening to see people not giving a **** about anyone's health including their own, they'd rather save a few cents per week and poison people to death.
The fact is you're avoiding the point, the point is that to some people privacy invasion is a harm like verbal harassment is a harm. Google are worse in reading peoples personal communications of course but there is better competition in email providers, if you're a PC gamer then there is nothing on a par with windows for the number of games available and at far better prices via seasonal sales etc.
The situation is still the same. What is the collected data? last time MS responded, the data collected was no more than what you search engine collects. It was definitively less harmful than the data your GPS or cell phone carrier collects. Christ, your credit card, your bank and your air miles card have far more important data and they use it in whatever way they see fit (within the confine of the law).
I have yet to hear a case where this collection of data was detrimental to an individual
So, you wouldn't mind if we put webcams in every room of your house and streamed live 24/7 because hey, it wouldn't harm you, would it.
I've looked at the patent, Amazon have been smart and gone for every possible variation, solar panels, fossil-fuel refueling, cctv systems. So know if anyone does anything fancy with a lamppost they will have to pay Amazon for the pleasure. I personally think solar panels on lampposts is a pretty obvious idea to the point that I checked to see if they had patented it, they have.
Do you not believe it gets hot in green houses? Do you not believe that CO2 is a green house gas? Do you not believe mankind has released roughly 14,000,000,000 tonnes of CO2 in to the atmosphere - enough to blanket the entire world with several inches of extra CO2.
These things are very provable. History also shows very strong correlation between CO2 rises and temperature and sea rises.
Fair enough with FLACs because they are losslessly encoded so you're not going from lossyA to LossyB, I should have made it clearer that lossy to lossy is not nice and risks introducing ugly audio artifacts into the music.
Norway too! I missed that one. Also Ireland had to vote twice, France and Netherlands voted against the EU constitution, they got it anyway. Switzerland just decided recently that it's not interested in joining the EU, it tore up it's membership application.
Turkey is a member of the "EU Customs Union" which sounds like a far better deal, single market free trade without all of the EU Commission running every last detail of everything.
Richard Dawkins is a moron because he presumes we all have to vote for/against the EU for economic reasons, I did not vote for economic reasons, I voted primarily to restore democracy and avoid the formation of a EU army run by bureaucrats.
Agree with Anon, re-encoding music is a very nasty thing to do, every different encoder adds different artifacts, encoding sound with more than one lossy encoder will hugely decrease the quality of the sound.
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Did I say anything about that?
Are you replying to me or someone else?
Bit touchy aren't you, it didn't look like 'Tesla-hate' to me, just reasoned thoughts.
The jury seems to be still out on yawning, all medical theories fail due to the fact that yawning is clearly contagious. Also I doubt it's anything to do with getting enough air, I'm very fit and am pretty sure I'm getting enough air through normal breathing. Yawning is pretty obviously correlated with being tired.
Yawn
And when did we get a referendum on whether we wanted 'fundamental rights'? Honestly the Poles and the Brits (I am one) are stupid enough to vote against having rights. Kind of like stabbing yourself in the face just in case you're a terrorist.
Here in the UK we just hold our ('contactless') card next to the reader for two seconds max, machine beeps, payment complete. Initially I didn't want one of these cards but it's so effing fast/ convenient especially when I use my card a couple of times a day.
My battery lasts fine, it's bandwidth that bothers me, reduce that instead.
AFAIK the poor people of Venezuela are far better off, better schools, hospitals etc thanks to Chavez, unfortunately he didn't know when to stop.
It's saddening to see people not giving a **** about anyone's health including their own, they'd rather save a few cents per week and poison people to death.
The fact is you're avoiding the point, the point is that to some people privacy invasion is a harm like verbal harassment is a harm. Google are worse in reading peoples personal communications of course but there is better competition in email providers, if you're a PC gamer then there is nothing on a par with windows for the number of games available and at far better prices via seasonal sales etc.
So, you wouldn't mind if we put webcams in every room of your house and streamed live 24/7 because hey, it wouldn't harm you, would it.
I've looked at the patent, Amazon have been smart and gone for every possible variation, solar panels, fossil-fuel refueling, cctv systems. So know if anyone does anything fancy with a lamppost they will have to pay Amazon for the pleasure. I personally think solar panels on lampposts is a pretty obvious idea to the point that I checked to see if they had patented it, they have.
Good grief, how much evidence do you need?
Do you not believe it gets hot in green houses?
Do you not believe that CO2 is a green house gas?
Do you not believe mankind has released roughly 14,000,000,000 tonnes of CO2 in to the atmosphere - enough to blanket the entire world with several inches of extra CO2.
These things are very provable. History also shows very strong correlation between CO2 rises and temperature and sea rises.
It's economic enough for us in the UK to put lines to Norway and Europe, studies have even shown lines to Iceland from Scotland would be viable.
I don't think the loses are as big as you think they are. Quote "âoefor every 1,000km a DC line will lose less than 3%."
^ mod up, spot on.
It was a lot quicker at dealing with videos than Firefox native video payer.
"TTIP is seen in Europe as purely an economic issue"
Eh? By who, not by the people of the EU.
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Over 3 million signatures against, US has got some catching up to do!
Not inflation adjusted.
UK GDP since 1955 | Business | theguardian.com
Fair enough with FLACs because they are losslessly encoded so you're not going from lossyA to LossyB, I should have made it clearer that lossy to lossy is not nice and risks introducing ugly audio artifacts into the music.
Inflation was high in the seventies afaik, need to know if the chart is adjusted accordingly.
see:
https://www.google.co.uk/imgre...
(and holy crap, look at that negative inflation in the 20's)
Norway too! I missed that one. Also Ireland had to vote twice, France and Netherlands voted against the EU constitution, they got it anyway. Switzerland just decided recently that it's not interested in joining the EU, it tore up it's membership application.
Turkey is a member of the "EU Customs Union" which sounds like a far better deal, single market free trade without all of the EU Commission running every last detail of everything.
Richard Dawkins is a moron because he presumes we all have to vote for/against the EU for economic reasons, I did not vote for economic reasons, I voted primarily to restore democracy and avoid the formation of a EU army run by bureaucrats.
Really, what were we before? In the fifties for instance?
Not a problem so long as the ransomware notifies you quickly before you back up.
A good reason to use backups which check file signatures for differences rather than just rely on time/date, unfortunately this is a lot slower.
Agree with Anon, re-encoding music is a very nasty thing to do, every different encoder adds different artifacts, encoding sound with more than one lossy encoder will hugely decrease the quality of the sound.
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2) suing neighbours.
Nice fallacy there, finding a case that was not what I was referring too and using it to dismiss my argument.
Oh and add:
6) Loss of organic certification due to contamination.
http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/12...
A very real cost there.