stormdennis

Manhattan is derived from a native American phrase or word as far as I know.

Are you sure? You seem to be suggesting the Facebook could instruct whatsapp on my phone to snoop on my messages. Also my backups of Whatsapp are only on google drive as far as I know.

Sorry if this is off topic but as a windows user is there a good one around for that, that people would recommend

I don't think it's a concern any more. The trajectory of cases that should have occurred if CJD was widespread in the community, never happened. One consequence of this is the blood donation ban has been lifted in most countries, I think.

Many countries would not allow people who lived in the UK during the 80s and 90s to give blood. I ate so many burgers back then too. Our kids after they were born weren't allowed beef for years.

And what about the Palestinians?

Just looked it up and find it hard to believe how low firefox's share is, under 4% overall. I moved back to it about a year ago from chrome and I think it's great.

So if it had been made 10 years earlier it might have featured a traffic cone AND a shopping trolley!

Haitch or aitch, zed or zee.

To begin with, I think it's fair to say that it's doing something rather than leaving things as they are that requires evidence.

Secondly it is arrogant in the extreme to believe that you are critical enough to see deniers for what they are but others must be protected from having to form a reasoned opinion.

I don't have specific evidence but banning things, in general, is counter-productive. It drives the activity underground. Examples include prohibition and narcotics in general.

In the case of Holocaust denial it also suggests a lack of confidence by the establishment, that they fear that the deniers have a plausible case. I, like most people have seen mountains of evidence showing that the Holocaust did happen. All bar a few cranks and simpletons having taken the trouble to look at both sides would surely come to the conclusion that the Holocaust did happen and see the promoters of denial for what they are.

Denying people the opportunity to hear the deniers' case promotes the suggestion that there is a conspiracy concealing the truth from the public.

If you remove Holocaust denial content all you achieve is to fuel conspiracy theories. It's completely counter-productive.

So could the DuckDB, Postgresql combination function in a manner analogous to Firebird which has both embedded and server modes. I'd find that really exciting

This sounds great. I wonder if there are plans for an ODBC driver at any point?

TAOCP is nearly ten thousand pages spread over four volumes! That's not one book.

One day many, many years ago when we lived in inland Essex (we're not English) we decided to go to the seaside. Using our road atlas we headed to the blue. We never found the sea just lots of mudflats with no sea in sight. It was my first experience of such a coastline

I never heard of that before, cool idea.

Getting to the top at almost any activity is a massive timesink. Lot to be said for not being too competitive.

What's amazed me down the years is where some random user will reveal they are the developer behind some well known software, or the author of a famous book etc. Then when you look at their profile you'll see that they've been a member for years but only have a small amount of karma.

There are plenty of scummy European car rental agencies trying to fleece the customer at every turn

I get emails occasionally for I think 3 people in America all of whom have the same name as me. One is always to do with tires (tyres) he's bought, another is for a guy who buys a lot of expensive consumer goods in Costco and the third is for a guy who's involved in a charity. I don't get any for the latter for any more but I do for the first two, despite emailing all three repeatedly about it. The last email I got about the charity was a disrespectful one about a wealthy couple who they were expecting to receive a large donation from. He took action after he realized that one had escaped into the wild.

Just tried it out. Was surprised that youtube and google maps both worked. Only thing I missed was tabs.

Scrolling out into the expanse like that showed you have the mind of an explorer. And you were rewarded by discovering code never before seen by civilised man.

Walmart and Apple are not equivalent examples. A better analogy for the iphone would be your house. Apple sells you a house and then takes a cut of everything you buy for it. It's able to do that because you can only buy stuff for your house through their shop. To a very meaningful extent your house is not your own despite the fact that it is your property.

So she was in fact as she doubtless appeared to him on video, a woman 120% his age, not someone aged 65% of his age.

To older people it can be hard distinguishing the ages of people a lot younger. But there's no way a 20 y.o. could confuse a person barely out of primary school with someone of University graduate age.

I think it's preferable not to push fixes as long as people are made aware of the risks they're running. So there should be an automatic opt-in but an option to opt out with suitable warnings issued at the time.

So one way to avoid all data gathering might be to keep your Kindle on airplane mode permanently and load/remove books via USB. Battery would last longer too. It also kills ads on the cheaper version of the Kindle.

Fair enough I guess but America isn't just A.N Other country, not does it behave like it is. It's almost an ism.

How horribly American. Bill may earn 1000 more than you do and can sack you on a whim but unlike in, say, Germany where you have less wage disparity and greater job security you don't have to address him by his title, nor he, you.

They wargamed live during North Atlantic convoy attacks on the floor of a building in Liverpool. Players received instructions through letterboxes around the room perimeter and each could only see a fraction of the the battle. They could not see the u-boats at all as those were same color as filters they looked through. Information was radioed in from convoy escorts and scenarios were played out. Battles could last a couple of days.

If that is true he was very shortsighted because he was far from perfect himself. I wonder is that he hated his daughter's mother and couldn't stand the thought of a daughter who was half her's. The daughter didn't count. Anyway he could hurt her was a way of hurting her mother, all the way to his deathbed.