Words means whatever the people using them mean them to mean if there are enough people using them that way. A dictionary does not control what a word means, it simply documents the meaning of the word as it used.
In the UK when many people say socialism they mean having a social security system, a national health service, public pensions, public roads, public emergency services etc. Since that is how they are using the word - that is what it means.
Oxford dictionary: "The term 'socialism' has been used to describe positions as far apart as anarchism, Soviet state Communism, and social democracy; however, it necessarily implies an opposition to the untrammelled workings of the economic market."
Stupid article, complete FUD, batteries don't make a showing in the top ten causes of fires. Do battery fires make the news?, sure - and so do people getting attacked by sharks, that doesn't mean either are common events or something to worry about.
The TWO Tesla cars that caught fire were in extreme vehicle accidents. Are you expecting your house to suddenly get skewered by massive shards of metal?
Having a quality home battery storage system will not push up your fire insurance premiums, in fact it'd likely reduce the likeliness of a fire because the wiring would get looked at when it's installed and old sub-standard wiring can cause fires.
Syndrome is a word used to describe a disease, I object to Greenpeace referred to in this manner.
Greenpeace may not be perfect but they have a hell of a lot more morals that the money grabbing politicians who they are up against while trying to keep our global ecology from being destroyed - That hasn't changed from day 1.
And: "It should be a civil matter not a criminal matter, imprisonment for at the minimum 'insulting' some group is insane."
The link backs up several of my assertions, if you want evidence of Germany locking people up for speech issues, they've most certainly done that before - google it.
Whilst I can appreciate Germany wants to stamp out the neo-nazi rhetoric, at the same time they go way too far, For example if you say that actually only 5.5 million Jews were gassed rather than 6 million then they will throw the book at you and it's a minimum sentence of 3 months and up to 5 years. It should be a civil matter not a criminal matter, imprisonment for at the minimum 'insulting' some group is insane.
Windows 10 gives up all pretence of having any privacy.
Sending every keystroke to MS HQ!!!! We used to call software that does that a virus, key-logger, malware, now Microsoft are doing it, hoping the general population doesn't notice.
You really have to advise anyone you know not to install windows 10, it is out and out spyware, and you can't turn it all off in the privacy settings.
I sincerely hope this gets banned instantly, HUDs should be regulated, text messages should not be allowed because they take concentration off of the road, even on a HUD. People who have lost concentration can look straight at you and still not see you, cyclists know this full well.
A human programmer cannot possibly think of every possible situation a car might encounter on the street and pre-program an appropriate response into the car.
And they don't have too, all they have to do is make sure cars are substantially better than humans at not driving into things. What to drive into and what not to drive into in the event of an unavoidable accident will be determined by a simple scoring system that determines each possible route and picks the one with the best score. The scoring system doesn't have to be perfect or even great because autonomous cars will very rarely ever drive into things by accident. When you look at the reasons humans drive into things and rule out the reasons that won't apply to autonomous cars, you won't be left with much - crashes due to mechanical failure are about 10-13% of the total.
Ditto, I hate the idea of MS spying on what I'm doing and it's not known what info they still send back even though you've turned off all the privacy destroying options. And now they're refusing to say what the purpose of new updates is.
So, fuck you Microsoft, I'm advising everyone to install Linux from now on, this crap is not worth it, not even for free.
That would mean less wars, less bombing campaigns, less drone attacks and less demonetisation of muslims and arabs.
It'd be nice but I can't see it happening anytime soon whilst so much of the US economy is related to military might. Until Americans wake up and realise that waging war is an extremely cruel and immoral thing to do to against other countries then nothing will change.
The average person will most likely freeze in a crisis, just out of sheer human nature. It takes a lot of training to overcome that,
Elitist rubbish, some people freeze, the majority will cower but a sizable minority will realise that they have a better chance of surviving if they can do something to subdue the shooters.
Sure military training will help in the take-down but don't tell me that people don't naturally have a survival instinct or that they will all cower because history says this isn't true.
And my first though when I read the headline is if this happens much more then the gov'ts will want to pay their crony friends billions to install a few millions worth of metal detectors and xray scanners and we will all end up queuing for half an hour resulting in wasting a total of trillions of man hours because some c**t decided to get on a train and shoot people.
I'd rather take the risk of being shot thank you.
Your idea: armed guards - how many? 2 at the end of each carriage and two in the middle? How much would that cost for a ten carriage train?
Note how they said the company could not run the ads again in their current form. If this was a one-off it'd be ok, but the ASA lets companies break the rules regularly without sanction. The most obvious example of this is telecoms companies, they omit costs or call products unlimited when obviously they aren't. They drag their feet and tell them to take down the ads, but the ad campaign is usually already over. Rinse, repeat.
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How's that ocean acidification going, 30% more acidic, are you going to tell me that's wrong too.
Words means whatever the people using them mean them to mean if there are enough people using them that way. A dictionary does not control what a word means, it simply documents the meaning of the word as it used.
In the UK when many people say socialism they mean having a social security system, a national health service, public pensions, public roads, public emergency services etc. Since that is how they are using the word - that is what it means.
Oxford dictionary:
"The term 'socialism' has been used to describe positions as far apart as anarchism, Soviet state Communism, and social democracy; however, it necessarily implies an opposition to the untrammelled workings of the economic market."
Stupid article, complete FUD, batteries don't make a showing in the top ten causes of fires. Do battery fires make the news?, sure - and so do people getting attacked by sharks, that doesn't mean either are common events or something to worry about.
The TWO Tesla cars that caught fire were in extreme vehicle accidents. Are you expecting your house to suddenly get skewered by massive shards of metal?
Having a quality home battery storage system will not push up your fire insurance premiums, in fact it'd likely reduce the likeliness of a fire because the wiring would get looked at when it's installed and old sub-standard wiring can cause fires.
"Seriously put up or shut up."
I'll let you start with that.
No, I don't. I didn't say that was covered by the link.
If you want to find cases of people being imprisoned in Germany feel free.
Syndrome is a word used to describe a disease, I object to Greenpeace referred to in this manner.
Greenpeace may not be perfect but they have a hell of a lot more morals that the money grabbing politicians who they are up against while trying to keep our global ecology from being destroyed - That hasn't changed from day 1.
"doesn't actually support what you're saying."
I said:
" at the same time they go way too far, "
And:
"It should be a civil matter not a criminal matter, imprisonment for at the minimum 'insulting' some group is insane."
The link backs up several of my assertions, if you want evidence of Germany locking people up for speech issues, they've most certainly done that before - google it.
You really live in a fantasy world if you think the world has stopped polluting and destroying the worlds ancient natural environments.
Whilst I can appreciate Germany wants to stamp out the neo-nazi rhetoric, at the same time they go way too far, For example if you say that actually only 5.5 million Jews were gassed rather than 6 million then they will throw the book at you and it's a minimum sentence of 3 months and up to 5 years. It should be a civil matter not a criminal matter, imprisonment for at the minimum 'insulting' some group is insane.
Windows 10 gives up all pretence of having any privacy.
Sending every keystroke to MS HQ!!!! We used to call software that does that a virus, key-logger, malware, now Microsoft are doing it, hoping the general population doesn't notice.
You really have to advise anyone you know not to install windows 10, it is out and out spyware, and you can't turn it all off in the privacy settings.
I wonder how many of these Wifi hating fools use mobile phones or tablets or have smart TVs, consoles, laptops etc with WiFi built in.
Linux Mint is probably the best, it doesn't worry about patent stuff and so will play back more movies etc.
But if games is your thing then Ubuntu is the one to go for, but AFAIK Mint is based on Ubuntu so maybe steam works with it too.
Note: KDE is more like windows UI-wise.
Linux Distributions Supported by Steam - Linux Issues - Knowledge Base - Steam Support
I sincerely hope this gets banned instantly, HUDs should be regulated, text messages should not be allowed because they take concentration off of the road, even on a HUD. People who have lost concentration can look straight at you and still not see you, cyclists know this full well.
And they don't have too, all they have to do is make sure cars are substantially better than humans at not driving into things. What to drive into and what not to drive into in the event of an unavoidable accident will be determined by a simple scoring system that determines each possible route and picks the one with the best score. The scoring system doesn't have to be perfect or even great because autonomous cars will very rarely ever drive into things by accident. When you look at the reasons humans drive into things and rule out the reasons that won't apply to autonomous cars, you won't be left with much - crashes due to mechanical failure are about 10-13% of the total.
Ditto, I hate the idea of MS spying on what I'm doing and it's not known what info they still send back even though you've turned off all the privacy destroying options. And now they're refusing to say what the purpose of new updates is.
So, fuck you Microsoft, I'm advising everyone to install Linux from now on, this crap is not worth it, not even for free.
Are you not aware of the many orders of magnitude difference between WiFi and Microwave ovens.
Microwave Oven typically 600+ Watts or 600,000mW
Wifi Typically 5mW or 0.005 Watts
Their claim is that sunlight builds up hydrogen peroxide which sounds highly unlikely.
Because this is what really happens:
I'm not great at chemistry but if the hydrogen peroxide bit is a lie then this campaign would be illegal in the UK under advertising standards rules.
And hydrogen peroxide is obviously a chemical which de facto means they are lying one way or the other.
That's what happens when people shun unions.
Do you know any history? Take another look:
Timeline of United States military operations
I very much doubt any other country in the world has had military operations against so many other countries in such a short amount of time.
That would mean less wars, less bombing campaigns, less drone attacks and less demonetisation of muslims and arabs.
It'd be nice but I can't see it happening anytime soon whilst so much of the US economy is related to military might. Until Americans wake up and realise that waging war is an extremely cruel and immoral thing to do to against other countries then nothing will change.
You can't be serious, where does it end? Buses, Coaches? Checking Taxi passengers? Cordons around city centres?
The last thing I want when rushing for a train is to have to stop and queue.
Airports - advice is to arrive 2 hours before your flight.
Trains - No particular advice, I cycle to the station - 10 minutes is plenty spare.
The last time I was at an airport leaving Britain there was a long queue for the scanners and all pockets had to be emptied, the process was slow.
Elitist rubbish, some people freeze, the majority will cower but a sizable minority will realise that they have a better chance of surviving if they can do something to subdue the shooters.
Sure military training will help in the take-down but don't tell me that people don't naturally have a survival instinct or that they will all cower because history says this isn't true.
https://www.google.com/search?...
And my first though when I read the headline is if this happens much more then the gov'ts will want to pay their crony friends billions to install a few millions worth of metal detectors and xray scanners and we will all end up queuing for half an hour resulting in wasting a total of trillions of man hours because some c**t decided to get on a train and shoot people.
I'd rather take the risk of being shot thank you.
Your idea: armed guards - how many? 2 at the end of each carriage and two in the middle? How much would that cost for a ten carriage train?
Like this:
Note how they said the company could not run the ads again in their current form. If this was a one-off it'd be ok, but the ASA lets companies break the rules regularly without sanction. The most obvious example of this is telecoms companies, they omit costs or call products unlimited when obviously they aren't. They drag their feet and tell them to take down the ads, but the ad campaign is usually already over. Rinse, repeat.