Comment Re:State is probably best stated by the comics (Score 1) 106
Interesting that you immediately jumped to censorship. Why is that?
Interesting that you immediately jumped to censorship. Why is that?
The muh freeze peach crowd are about the worst defenders of free speech I've ever met.
Speech is powerful and dangerous, which is why it is important and needs to be free. Pretending otherwise is to diminish it and erase the need for it to be protected.
Yeah that changes the context somewhat. There's a difference between "We should remove the bi-annual time change, it's unhealthy" (which I agree with and would like to happen) and the wishful thinking "WhAt iF iT wAs SuMmEr aLl yEaR rOuNd" crap that seems beloved of legislators and others who sort of agree that the bi-annual time changes need to go, but have the worst idea of how to implement it.
This paper isn't advocating for keeping bi-annual time changes. It's advocating for standard time. And I agree standard time is probably a better approach, even if some people get butt hurt about the idea of it not still being light at 9pm in the middle of August.
It all depends on who you are optimizing for.
There is no one correct answer, because which one fits your circadian rhythms better depends entirely on what time you wake up.
Anything that challenges your assumptions must be a joke. Therefore you never need to change your mind on anything!
Coll story bro. Got a citation for that "fact"?
They have been trained to view language as a tool that can cause real, psychological harm.
It absolutely 100% is.
In modern youth culture, the prevailing ethical rule is that the impact on the listener matters more than the intent of the speaker.
If you run over someone with a car by accident, they're just as dead whether you intended to or not. That's the thing really, harm is independent of intent and intent is not readily apparent.
Probably made by Philips (or Magnavox) given that the Philips name is on the box and then, like you said, branded by Microsoft. Either way I had no idea these even existed. Cool. Microsoft was known to do this occasionally, like with iRiver making the media player for their Portable Media Center OS.
AI is the pinnacle of human made slop that delivers sloppy seconds on command.
I'm one of those people that learned how to type 60+ WPM the wrong way (had a computer in the home since 1980 when I was 12). Those natural keyboards only made my typing much worse and slower, but like you I have heard others (that know how to type properly) rave about them.
Oh yeah, I forgot about those early PC cards.
The only Microsoft hardware I've ever been impressed with was their mouse. Now that Microsoft is a full-on spyware company I can't imagine ever wanting to own one of these laptops.
WTF is a Joule anyway?
A unit of torque, obviously.
Altman is the ultimate dick.
...and is secure because it doesn't rely on a JIT compiler.
I believe you misspelled "slower than molasses in February".
So #1, I don't know...you could be right, but I am neither confident you're wrong or right. #2, even if it's not a deterrent, arrests are. If they drive a stolen car by a flock camera and it helps police find them and take them off the street for a few years, in a way, it has stopped them from stealing...at least until they get out, at bare minimum.
If they break into a car and the police look at the footage on the dashcam and see that they've kept their license plate out of view, but they are able to cross-correlate it with other cameras and figure out the plate number, then figure out where they drove that car, where it ended up parked, who got out, where they went, etc., then it can make arrests possible where it was not possible previously, making it *massively* more likely to be able to solve the crime.
The problem becomes when it turns into "show us all the plates that were near that spot within a few minutes of that time", and thus a fishing expedition.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.