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Funny, because you say he's in luck and yet, that isn't at all what he wrote. At all.

Amusing, but I would prefer something that would be able to automatically know what I was meaning to do and just do it without having to be vulgar.

I seriously need to stop commenting while drunk.

More than poetic, it's very real. It's called PCD, programmed cell death, and it affects most life on earth. But not all life. It is terminal, and it is an affliction which will kill you. So, yes, we're all terminally ill. Make the most of your time. We are all dying.

Life has proved fatal to all but 6-7% of us humans so far. And there isn't any indication that the current remaining will escape it's touch.

As a college educated biologist, I understand what you're saying, even if it's not 100% accurate. However, when discussing with laymen, you need to speak the language of the laymen. A doctor won't tell you to take some methocarbomol when you have a back ache, they'll tell you to take Robaxaset or a muscle relaxant. For colloquial speech, we should be using colloquial terms. Every field of specialization has lingo, but when interdisciplinary conversations occur, it's better to find a common usage and understanding.

I now write software professionally, and if I didn't do this, then the number of misunderstandings would be far far greater. I needn't make the product owners speak using tech terms for them to understand the concepts. Getting too technical confuses someone who has no interest in understanding the underlaying technology.

Also, to a physicist, the statement "I am here" is not a fact. You were there, but between the earths rotation on it's axis, the orbit of the earth around the sun, the movement of the solar system within the galaxy, and spacial expansion puts you in a completely different place from when you started the statement compared to where you ended it.

In Chemistry, we're all taught the Bohr model. It's not what's actually happening, but it's a good model to get a rudimentary understanding of orbits.

Evolution is fact. Natural Selection is fact. To argue against either of these is beyond ignorance, it's delusion. We can observe these daily, so this isn't up for debate. The one plausible scepticism is speciation, which must be inferred from the data as opposed to being directly observed. This is due to the required isolation of gene pools and the time said isolation need to occur for variants to affect the gene pool enough for two groups to diverge sufficiently that their offspring can no longer become viable. But even this middle stage can be observed (like horses and donkeys) where we can create sterile offspring.

Science isn't at odds with religion, science is at odds with ignorance. If all facts lead to a deities existence, then science would have a theory of this deities involvement. We would then try to understand how the deity created the universe and us. Science is simply the utilization of fact to explain the 'how'.

Although I think connections help more than not, I think it's more nuanced than that. You have to have a story, something to convince people that they need your app. It has to capture peoples imagination, and it needs to be simple enough that the average user doesn't need to do anything to consume it. And the market needs to be ready for it. Too early is just as bad as too late.

QED

So potentially non-lethal means of self defence are bad, but a weapon that can slaughter a classroom are A-okay. As a Canadian, American logic is kinda terrifying.

Why exactly? How would this differ from using python?

Well, Canada doesn't have Senseo, but why would I use a Senseo over my Keurig. I really like the reusable cup design of the EZCup, and there isn't any cleanup. I'm guessing the Senseo by looks of the cups are similar to the Tassimo design we have here, but the pucks aren't nearly as clean and neat. I brought one in to the office, and you don't need to be near a sink, so it's really handy. Converted a Starbucks, Tim Hortons, and a French Press user, and now they're all using it. The AeroPress user, she hasn't converted, though she hasn't even tried it.

I find EZ-Cup the best solution, I use a little paper filter that fits in a reusable cup, and I get to use fresh ground coffee. Cost per cup is around a dime or so, and the cleanup is literally just pop the filter into the compost bucket. It may not be as good as an AeroPress, though I can't tell the difference. I find the fresh beans, quality coffee, and a good grinder are far more noticeable to me than press vs. drip.

Hence my last sentence...

I've always wondered if there was a way to monetize uTorrent. The userbase is predominantly people who don't want to pay for digital goods. So they're not going to pay for your software, and it's a pretty hard space to sell to advertisers. You're essentially left with companies whose reputation is so bad, that being associated with illegal downloads doesn't negatively affect their brand.

Yea, I've always gone naked before, but I had to case up for the 6+. The curved glass scratches super easy compared to the iPhone 4 & 5. And it seemed to fly out of my hands a lot.

Hardly.

Why would it? I have a choice of hundreds of languages and frameworks. Objective C didn't make C worse, nor did C++, C# or countless other languages that don't start with a C. In truth, they all keep making each other better with competing features.

What does that bring to the table? (Not trying to be facetious, just not sure what that would buy me)

I'm sorry about that incorrect assumption, I was unaware of how the system worked, and it happened seemingly instantly. And there may have been some beer somewhere in the mix...

Again, sincere apology.

You mean like the shit-show that railways, telephones, and the internet as it stands right now are?

edit: In addition to down voting me zaroth, would you mind including examples of how common carrier doesn't work for the examples I provided? I'm genuinely interested.

I disagree. If you only have 2 viable options for accepting payment world wide, then they need to accept all lawful transactions. Bitcoin isn't a viable option for Grandma.

I just gave some guy shit this morning for playing the old man card, but you do realize we had special effects before photoshop, right? A lot of what you can do in photoshop is actually the digital translation of the analogue process. Photoshop didn't make this possible, it just made it easier and faster.

Just an FYI, The 4 images are links to the galleries they represent. It took me a second at first to realize that.

Try filling an issue with Google or Apple some time. If you think a month is a long time to wait for a response, you're going to have a bad time.

Are you serious, there are developing nations with better internet than America. This isn't about how great 'murica is, it's about how because of a lack of competition, American internet is about to become a liability. My first modem was 600 baud, so cut the old man crap.

Well, considering the issue was created 6 minutes before you posted this comment, this is facetious and disingenuous.

Okay, as a Canadian with no dog in this fight, this seems to be a good thing for America. So I'm having a very hard time understanding the opposition.

The arguments for title II are pretty clear and logical. The arguments against include giving up personal freedoms (You live in America, you've been giving up most of your personal freedoms willing for the pack two decades) and this isn't one of them. There are some comments about the extra rules that no one has seen, but this is standard FCC practice. Lawsuits will bear this out. Then there are a lot of illogical arguments that don't hold up. Does anyone have a clear argument against this. My argument would be that there is no last mile access, so competition won't increase, so this is at best a half measure until we get either some disruption in the space, or they finally open up that last mile.

So what are the actual logical, non-fearmongering arguments?

When I go to a construction site, I only bring a hammer. I feel a screw driver would weigh me down spiritually. Sure, it could be useful, but I sometimes show up at construction sites and all they have is a hammer. Keeping a toolbox of tools, is just more stuff that I have to keep track of.

As a beginner, I can assure you that without someone explaining the point of the arrows, this is most certainly not for beginners.

Publicly shaming Comcast doesn't seem to be working, at all. I think it's good in theory, but doesn't work so well in practice.