BS is exactly it. A "physicist" should know better. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the overall entropy of a closed system will always increase. But when you're talking about genetics, you need to include the entropy of the sun because its radiation is what makes life on earth (and therefore genetic changes) possible. External energy sources make possible a localized decrease in entropy, such as with air conditioners and heat pumps. The same is true with information systems that are powered by the electrical grid. This guy either slept through his thermodynamics course or is deliberately being deceiving. This is not really news for nerds (plenty of charlatans out there) and it definitely isn't stuff that matters.

When idiots rely on facial recognition and arrest someone and don't notice that they are 8 months pregnant and the robber/hijacker in the video can't be. Even though the "suspect" point it out to them. It took a month for the prosecutor to dismiss the charges.

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Despite a tendency to run on, at least he had both a subject and a verb in all his sentences and most of his subordinate clauses.

Since the premise of Children of Men is that women globally become infertile, there is nothing in the Net Zero Agenda that would do that. There may be a very slight chance that paleo viruses thawing out of the permafrost from unaddressed Climate Change might cause an infertility plague. However there is a very strong chance that unaddressed climate change will cause hundreds of millions of climate refugees from tropical areas rendered uninhabitable by excess heat or increasingly violent weather.

Really? My impression is that SAP has been pushing large customers to move to using SAP HANA as the back-end database for quite a few years now. Yes, even before this project started.

In fact it sure sounds like Undersherriff Sung solicited a bribe, and it's unfortunate for the Apple security folks that they weren't recording the conversation at the time (although that may have been illegal in California where all parties need to consent to a private conversation being recorded). When it's a he-said-she-said situation with the police, especially the top of the hierarchy, the courts will nearly always side with the police. So Moyer effectively had a choice, pay the solicited bribe or leave his staff unable to properly defend against death threats. Hopefully, if they don't get charged, at least Sung and Smith won't get re-elected.

It's also worth noting that one of the things they mention in corporate anti-phishing training is that fostering a sense of urgency is a common technique in social engineering attacks. That approach would probably trigger spam/phishing flags in modern email-sanitizing software trained for that phishing tactic, no matter who was using it. It would be trivial to take that same email, swap DNC for RNC and white supremacy or police brutality where Republican mail outs use LGBTQ or some other evangelical/Trumpist hot button, and the email likely would still get spam filtered.

Seriously? No wonder they get blackholed/spam-binned. If that was what was triggering it, it's widespread industry best practice for spam control. They may as well have been Nigerian princes looking to transfer millions to the USA.

They probably went to a fly-by-night lowest bidder for their mass e-mail service. No wonder alt-right social networks appear to be security sieves if the RNC can't even get that right.

Yeah, that's not "a bad decision". That's a "how the heck did this completely moronic idea of using peoples' private conversations, potentially containing corporate secrets, to train AIs to regurgitate similar info make it past approval by multiple layers of management?" How did someone not stand up and say "This is going to blow up in our faces and alienate our customer base"? That's the real reason why people should seriously think twice about ever using their product again - lots of people in the Zoom corporate hierarchy thought this was a good money-making idea. Our company was already working to eliminate using Zoom for cost containment, but if there was any pushback from any users about doing so, this will drive the nail in that coffin and accelerate the process.

Yes, well, that's capitalism for you.

Most Americans have no choice in insurer. And their choices are controlled by a powerful cartel that colludes to keep prices high. There is no competition in the health insurance field.

No American gives a rats ass about the "choice" of insurer. They want a choice of doctors and services, but really, and I can not stress this enough, REALLY hate all insurance companies. More than they hate the government even!

And yet, taxes have been cut again and again and again. How do you reconcile that fact with your statement that "Because the people raising taxes will never reach a point when they say "the government has enough money now, let's cut taxes"."

Seems that it's very, very easy for the government to cut taxes, at least for the rich. Why are you afraid of "the people who want to raise taxes" when those people have never actually done so? Seems you are imagining a scenario that is not just unlikely, but counter factual.

No, people want to pay for things with their taxes. The are not, in fact, idiots. They don't want predatory capitalists taking a cut, and figure, correctly, that government is more trustworthy than a man with a profit motive and no morals.

People recognize that certain endeavors are just not well served by a capitalist free market. Health care is a primary one that simply doesn't work unless heavily regulated or run by the government. You do not know what is wrong with you. You do not know how to fix it. You can not shop around for a new liver.

As it is, we are basically running health care like a for profit government, and we are getting the worst of both the public and private worlds. Health insurance amounts to a system of taxation that forces the healthy to pay for the sick, and lets a third party take a huge cut. Replace health insurance with actual government taxation and what have you lost, except for the greedy bastard trying to mark up your heart medications? Nothing.

You showed no proof of anything.

You assholes have no problem with kids reading those same types of sex scenes if it's straight. Just ask Beverly Cleary. Most YA novels have sex scenes. Doesn't make them pornographic or unsuitable for kids.

You aren't American so stop talking as if you know us or our culture, asshole.