" Does Finland have a lot of spy satellites? [...] Finland's Aalto-1 Cusesat-satellite (3U) with solar panels is a funded by student [...] would be the first Finnish satellite."
Aahhh... those cunning Finish!
So they managed to fly all their spy satellites in secrecy!
They are conspirant to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids... Our precious bodily fluids, I say!
That's why the Finish will flight over Russia. So Russia can rest assured that they are not going to be invaded by Finland in the immediate future (with the exception of that very plane, that is).
"It's criminal what these streaming services are trying to pay though."
How is it?
First, as you say, they "are trying to pay", let's see then, what happens.
Then, if they end up paying what they are trying to pay, how couldn't it be anything but "fair market rates"? it is not as if they could have a lock on the streaming makert. Heck, you could even stream your songs out of your home conection if you feel so decieved by current choices.
"When will the news media wake up to the fact that this is a scam"
When will *you* wake up to the fact that the news media are part of the scam?
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"for real web developers who use it properly, it is still a good thing in my opinion."
Well, real web developers basically ignore what HTTP is right now, focusing on HTML, why is this going to change with the new HTTP version?
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"The main problem isn't the size of the stuff that gets loaded [...] the root cause of all this is the sheer amount of unnecessary stuff on pages these days"
So the main problem *is* in fact the size of that stuff, isn't it?
Oh! by the way, not everybody's connection is like yours, specially over mobile networks.
"what would happen if every soldier's gun had a chip that required "command approval" before any member of a squad could start firing? Sure, individual soldiers kill the wrong people, and for the wrong reasons, all the time. Hopefully, though, most of the time it is for the right reasons. "
What would happen if every computerized autonomous weapon system had a chip that required "command approval" before firing?
There's no such a chip on soldiers' weapons for a twofold reason: * There's not enough man/computer power to deal with the vast amount of information process required. * In case of a delay or misundernstandment the good guys die.
That's not the case here: the analysis power is there and nothing of value is lost in case of a minor delay. I don't want the "hopefully, though, most of the time it is for the right reasons" here: it is not only a too low ethical ground but it's not needed either.
"Then the publishing corporations should just sue all the libraries in the world for lost profits from books not being sold."
Well, they do.
Don't know in USA but in Europe there *is* a canon to be paid by libraries because of the "lost sales" which were created by the lobbying pressure of the publishing corporations and at least Spain had to pay a fine because not wanting to abide.
"I would love to see some citations that show your varied meal plan would be 100% nutritionally complete."
You don't need citations for the completly obvious: most people by "just eating", I mean, common sense, nothing fancy supervised by a nutrionist, lack any known avitaminosis illnesses, which proves the point.
You need the "help" of things like alcoholism, food deprivation or isolated environments (i.e. old school sailors) -or, nowadys, obviously unhealthy food decisions, to develop any kind of avitaminosis.
Given 28 main dishes a week (7 days, two main meals, two dishes -a first and a second, a meal, plus 14 desserts), say, 12 mainly of vegetables, 8 of pasta/carbohidrates-related, 5 of fish, 3 of meat, plus fresh fruit as dessert; all most varied in-season products you can easily find in the market. Add some bread, milk and eggs from time to time, water at leisure and forget about pre-cooked/frozen solutions.
Now, follow the above and the old adage: leave the table almost as if you were to start dinning again and I guarantee not only a nutritionally complete but also fully healthy diet.
"I'm a little leery of government making health decisions for my kids"
The point is that vaccination is as much an individual health issue as an epidemiologic one. And government _is_ the entity we citizenship use for that kind of global decisions.
Science's Biggest Failure: marketing, communication and lobbying.
While it's right that we learned a lot about diet in the last decades, all the "problems" cited here are pushed by marketing and food corporations, not science:
"Eating lots of peanuts, avocados, and cheese, for example, probably decreases your appetite and keeps you thin."
It was bullshit and it is bullshit. Eating a lot of basically anyhting gets you fat. My guest: USA population. Of course, snack makers will say otherwise.
"I used to think vitamins had been thoroughly studied for their health trade-offs. They haven't. The reason you take one multivitamin pill a day is marketing, not science. "
Bullshit the former, of course right the later. It has never been the standard that a healthy person needs any kind of vitamin suplement aside of what comes with a varied and healthy diet. Big pharma will say otherwise, of course.
"I used to think the U.S. food pyramid was good science. In the past it was not, and I assume it is not now."
Learn a bit of US food pyramid and the impact of lobbies on its redaction. Oh, and it's not so much that older food pyriamids were utterly wrong (basically relative importance of carbs versus veggies have changed roles), but the way to get your dose (too much prefab) and the dose itself (USA standard portions are about double than needed -remember Paracelsus:...It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.") Again, marketing and communication.
"I used to think drinking one glass of alcohol a day is good for health, but now I think that idea is probably just a correlation found in studies."
Here you have a point but, again, science has gone as far as saying something on the lines of "a glass of wine" (not just alcohol, mind you, never heard that a glass of whisky a day was healthy at all) was probably liminary benefitial, current trend says there's probably not a healthy minimum for alcohol, so a glass of wine a day goes from "minimally benefitial" to "minimally harmful", not a great issue. Of course, wine and beer producers want to make a lot more noise than that.
"the direct problem of science is that it has been collectively steering an entire generation toward obesity, diabetes, and coronary problems."
Bullshit. That's a direct problem of the food industry lobbying and marketing left and right.
"It's mostly the counterweight issue, which you can resolve by using electric motors in the cars and large battery banks."
Cuonterweight is there to avoid the need of hugh power-hungry engines, since they only need to lift the load. Take out the counterweight and you will need to lift the whole load requiring a much bigger engine. Put the engine on the car and then you'll need an even biigger engine (much bigger) to lift its own weight too.
"I disagree. I've watched a Blu Ray played on a 50" HDTV at 1920x1080 resolution, and next to it a 50" 4K (3880xwhatever) television was playing some UHD content. The difference in definition was very easy to see from even ten feet away."
On a mall, I bet.
Maybe you are an expert and I'm wrong, but you probably were fooled to think the UHD was better by gaming the controls of both screens.
"the insurer absolutely will think you committed fraud"
Absolutly yes, of course. Heck! they probably default to think there's a fraud even if lacking any evidence.
A very different thing is for them to *demonstrate* there's a fraud or, at least, being a civil case, that it heavily smells like fraud.
"The police will then report that the skid marks indicate that the car must have been travelling at at least 50mph, not the 20mph indicated by the dongle."
And the insured will claim that his coverage is bound to the dongle as per the contract since his anual bill is also bound to it. So, on one hand, the insured will claim the real-time measures from the dongle are correct and, on the other, that even if they are wrong, his coverage and liabilities are bound to the dongle as per contract.
What excess damage? You (the insurance company) have the data, and here is my car. There's no "excess damage", just "damage".
Do you think (the insurance company) that my accident should render less damage? That's not my problem, I'm neither a materials engineer, nor I designed my car.
Do you think I commited fraud? Why do you think so? Maybe because you know your devices are easily hackable? Maybe I should sue you (the insurance company) for puting me at risk for your lack of due diligence.
"While "nice guys finish last" is often extrapolated (dubiously) to areas like dating"
There's another adage that outdates this one: "all's fair in love and war" and, in Cervantes' words "Love and war are all one . . . It is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to . . . attain the wished end."
"Some bosses - like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, or pre-mellowing Bill Gates were legendary assholes and still got great results out of their employees. There are other people who manage their employees with a gentler hand and play to their strengths, and get good results too."
You see how you had no problem to name some sucessful assholes but still didn't provide any name in the "sucessful but very nice" side?
"just remember that - to fight adage with adage - "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.""
Right. But then, be it either using honey or vinegar, catching all those flies doesn't look like being so nice, once you kill them, don't you think so?
"If you can get an advantage by screwing over someone else, it's not really a fair contest."
Why not? It would unfair if only part of the contenders can screw up the others, but as long as everybody can screw the rest, it's fair. Maybe unethical, but certainly fair.
"A bad deficiency we still are having is that the mail traffic between mail exchange servers is typically unencrypted."
No, it is not a deficiency but a feature as it highlights that anything but end-to-end encryption is pure rubish (and end-to-end encryption is not so perfect considering that at least one of the two ends can be already pwned).
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" Does Finland have a lot of spy satellites?
[...] Finland's Aalto-1 Cusesat-satellite (3U) with solar panels is a funded by student [...] would be the first Finnish satellite."
Aahhh... those cunning Finish!
So they managed to fly all their spy satellites in secrecy!
They are conspirant to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids... Our precious bodily fluids, I say!
"Finland attacking Russia?? That's really funny."
Yessss.
That's why the Finish will flight over Russia. So Russia can rest assured that they are not going to be invaded by Finland in the immediate future (with the exception of that very plane, that is).
"The NSA isn't interested in your collection of penis photos."
Yes it is.
If not today, maybe tomorrow when you become a disturbing sindicalist, or judge or politician or some other kind of public figure.
"It's criminal what these streaming services are trying to pay though."
How is it?
First, as you say, they "are trying to pay", let's see then, what happens.
Then, if they end up paying what they are trying to pay, how couldn't it be anything but "fair market rates"? it is not as if they could have a lock on the streaming makert. Heck, you could even stream your songs out of your home conection if you feel so decieved by current choices.
"When will the news media wake up to the fact that this is a scam"
When will *you* wake up to the fact that the news media are part of the scam?
"for real web developers who use it properly, it is still a good thing in my opinion."
Well, real web developers basically ignore what HTTP is right now, focusing on HTML, why is this going to change with the new HTTP version?
"The main problem isn't the size of the stuff that gets loaded [...] the root cause of all this is the sheer amount of unnecessary stuff on pages these days"
So the main problem *is* in fact the size of that stuff, isn't it?
Oh! by the way, not everybody's connection is like yours, specially over mobile networks.
"what would happen if every soldier's gun had a chip that required "command approval" before any member of a squad could start firing? Sure, individual soldiers kill the wrong people, and for the wrong reasons, all the time. Hopefully, though, most of the time it is for the right reasons. "
What would happen if every computerized autonomous weapon system had a chip that required "command approval" before firing?
There's no such a chip on soldiers' weapons for a twofold reason:
* There's not enough man/computer power to deal with the vast amount of information process required.
* In case of a delay or misundernstandment the good guys die.
That's not the case here: the analysis power is there and nothing of value is lost in case of a minor delay. I don't want the "hopefully, though, most of the time it is for the right reasons" here: it is not only a too low ethical ground but it's not needed either.
"Then the publishing corporations should just sue all the libraries in the world for lost profits from books not being sold."
Well, they do.
Don't know in USA but in Europe there *is* a canon to be paid by libraries because of the "lost sales" which were created by the lobbying pressure of the publishing corporations and at least Spain had to pay a fine because not wanting to abide.
"I would love to see some citations that show your varied meal plan would be 100% nutritionally complete."
You don't need citations for the completly obvious: most people by "just eating", I mean, common sense, nothing fancy supervised by a nutrionist, lack any known avitaminosis illnesses, which proves the point.
You need the "help" of things like alcoholism, food deprivation or isolated environments (i.e. old school sailors) -or, nowadys, obviously unhealthy food decisions, to develop any kind of avitaminosis.
Given 28 main dishes a week (7 days, two main meals, two dishes -a first and a second, a meal, plus 14 desserts), say, 12 mainly of vegetables, 8 of pasta/carbohidrates-related, 5 of fish, 3 of meat, plus fresh fruit as dessert; all most varied in-season products you can easily find in the market. Add some bread, milk and eggs from time to time, water at leisure and forget about pre-cooked/frozen solutions.
Now, follow the above and the old adage: leave the table almost as if you were to start dinning again and I guarantee not only a nutritionally complete but also fully healthy diet.
"I would hope that claim of an allergy would have to be backed by a doctor"
s/doctor/alergologist/
"I'm a little leery of government making health decisions for my kids"
The point is that vaccination is as much an individual health issue as an epidemiologic one. And government _is_ the entity we citizenship use for that kind of global decisions.
Wrong!
Science's Biggest Failure: marketing, communication and lobbying.
While it's right that we learned a lot about diet in the last decades, all the "problems" cited here are pushed by marketing and food corporations, not science:
"Eating lots of peanuts, avocados, and cheese, for example, probably decreases your appetite and keeps you thin."
It was bullshit and it is bullshit. Eating a lot of basically anyhting gets you fat. My guest: USA population. Of course, snack makers will say otherwise.
"I used to think vitamins had been thoroughly studied for their health trade-offs. They haven't. The reason you take one multivitamin pill a day is marketing, not science. "
Bullshit the former, of course right the later. It has never been the standard that a healthy person needs any kind of vitamin suplement aside of what comes with a varied and healthy diet. Big pharma will say otherwise, of course.
"I used to think the U.S. food pyramid was good science. In the past it was not, and I assume it is not now."
Learn a bit of US food pyramid and the impact of lobbies on its redaction. Oh, and it's not so much that older food pyriamids were utterly wrong (basically relative importance of carbs versus veggies have changed roles), but the way to get your dose (too much prefab) and the dose itself (USA standard portions are about double than needed -remember Paracelsus: ...It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.") Again, marketing and communication.
"I used to think drinking one glass of alcohol a day is good for health, but now I think that idea is probably just a correlation found in studies."
Here you have a point but, again, science has gone as far as saying something on the lines of "a glass of wine" (not just alcohol, mind you, never heard that a glass of whisky a day was healthy at all) was probably liminary benefitial, current trend says there's probably not a healthy minimum for alcohol, so a glass of wine a day goes from "minimally benefitial" to "minimally harmful", not a great issue. Of course, wine and beer producers want to make a lot more noise than that.
"the direct problem of science is that it has been collectively steering an entire generation toward obesity, diabetes, and coronary problems."
Bullshit. That's a direct problem of the food industry lobbying and marketing left and right.
"You use batteries and capacitors (or even just other elevators descending at the same time as another is ascending) as your 'counterweight'."
For that to work you need to link them... with a cable. So back to square one.
"It's mostly the counterweight issue, which you can resolve by using electric motors in the cars and large battery banks."
Cuonterweight is there to avoid the need of hugh power-hungry engines, since they only need to lift the load. Take out the counterweight and you will need to lift the whole load requiring a much bigger engine. Put the engine on the car and then you'll need an even biigger engine (much bigger) to lift its own weight too.
"Add in a battery or a flywheel and recover the energy on the way down."
Batteries and engines weight. A lot. You don't want them atop a high building.
"I disagree. I've watched a Blu Ray played on a 50" HDTV at 1920x1080 resolution, and next to it a 50" 4K (3880xwhatever) television was playing some UHD content. The difference in definition was very easy to see from even ten feet away."
On a mall, I bet.
Maybe you are an expert and I'm wrong, but you probably were fooled to think the UHD was better by gaming the controls of both screens.
"the insurer absolutely will think you committed fraud"
Absolutly yes, of course. Heck! they probably default to think there's a fraud even if lacking any evidence.
A very different thing is for them to *demonstrate* there's a fraud or, at least, being a civil case, that it heavily smells like fraud.
"The police will then report that the skid marks indicate that the car must have been travelling at at least 50mph, not the 20mph indicated by the dongle."
And the insured will claim that his coverage is bound to the dongle as per the contract since his anual bill is also bound to it. So, on one hand, the insured will claim the real-time measures from the dongle are correct and, on the other, that even if they are wrong, his coverage and liabilities are bound to the dongle as per contract.
"Sadly diverse fields, but not much diversity in hiring. "
And so, here comes the troll of the week.
"And the excess damage?"
What excess damage? You (the insurance company) have the data, and here is my car. There's no "excess damage", just "damage".
Do you think (the insurance company) that my accident should render less damage? That's not my problem, I'm neither a materials engineer, nor I designed my car.
Do you think I commited fraud? Why do you think so? Maybe because you know your devices are easily hackable? Maybe I should sue you (the insurance company) for puting me at risk for your lack of due diligence.
"So, how can you tell by simply looking whether the catalytic converter is working properly?"
A "mechanic to look" is not just "simply looking". By measuring gases at the exhaust pipe you can know about the catalytic converter's health.
"While "nice guys finish last" is often extrapolated (dubiously) to areas like dating"
There's another adage that outdates this one: "all's fair in love and war" and, in Cervantes' words "Love and war are all one . . . It is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to . . . attain the wished end."
"Some bosses - like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, or pre-mellowing Bill Gates were legendary assholes and still got great results out of their employees. There are other people who manage their employees with a gentler hand and play to their strengths, and get good results too."
You see how you had no problem to name some sucessful assholes but still didn't provide any name in the "sucessful but very nice" side?
"just remember that - to fight adage with adage - "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.""
Right. But then, be it either using honey or vinegar, catching all those flies doesn't look like being so nice, once you kill them, don't you think so?
"If you can get an advantage by screwing over someone else, it's not really a fair contest."
Why not? It would unfair if only part of the contenders can screw up the others, but as long as everybody can screw the rest, it's fair. Maybe unethical, but certainly fair.
"A bad deficiency we still are having is that the mail traffic between mail exchange servers is typically unencrypted."
No, it is not a deficiency but a feature as it highlights that anything but end-to-end encryption is pure rubish (and end-to-end encryption is not so perfect considering that at least one of the two ends can be already pwned).
"The thing that you're forgetting is that you could run for office if you think you're so much better?"
Yes, someone could run for office. But would stand a chance without public visibility and media campaign funded by the powers-that-be?