Is religion so meaningless to you that would extend its definition to include any arbitrary group of people that may or may not have read books by a particular author? If you support education and read Green Eggs and Ham as a kid are you in the Church of Dr. Seuss? Should these "religions" get the same tax breaks we extend to more established religions? I advocate that people read the Bibles they so proudly wave around. That doesn't mean I'm part of any sort of religion myself.

Linux has a lot of good features but I don't know that that it would prevent you from writing bad code...

Does every car have to be general purpose? People don't complain that the Mini Cooper can't hold a family of 6 or haul their 5th wheel. They know it has a purpose and a niche and get over it. Anyone who can afford a Tesla probably has multiple vehicles as does the average middle class family. Now, brace yourself. It's possible to own an electric car and a gas car. wow. Don't give me this soviet russia 'one car for everyone and every purpose' bs. I want choices. A lot of families own at least one car that they never drive more than 300 miles in a single day. Some people will choose a car that never needs to go to the gas station, never needs oil changes, and works great for all their local commuting.

Next time try reading up on it instead. Some people assumed with all the talk of new technology that by the year 2000 we'd all be driving flying cars and we'd have colonies on the moon...

sorry, I gave the definition of apoptosis for senescence

The summary makes this sound like a recent discovery but this has been known for some time. Also, it has more to do with cell aging than human aging. It's very important in cancer research since abnormal telomere activity is one of the factors in making cancer cells immortal (so to speak). They mention this in TFA. BTW, senescence is (naturally) programmed cell death:

pretty sure you meant 'veil'

not to be pedantic or anything

Every electric car, every bus rider, every bicycle, every carpooler means more oil where we really need it - in lorries and trains and ships and in suv's with kids. There's no rule saying we all have to use the same kind of fuel for our vehicles. The more diverse our transit system the less vulnerable we are to problems with any given fuel source.

Subsidies? The oil economy is heavily subsidized. Here in the US everything from our foreign policy to our infrastructure is using public money to support the status quo. Tax breaks? What did you think the tax credit for vehicles weighing over 6000lbs was? It's a tax break encouraging people to drive gas guzzlers. That's quite a rose colored glass house you've built for yourself.

It seems to me that there would have been people in the courtroom (*lawyers*cough*cough*) whose job it was to make sure the jury members had a grasp of the issues by the end of the trial... even if they would be promoting a biased point of view.

I'm genuinely curious to know if the people protesting activist judges would cite this an example of such. Any takers?

Wow, I hope she wasn't planning to go back to school. Her options would be limited with all those colleges that only require a pulse...

I've heard of this magic smoke. It's the stuff in the wires that makes electronics work. We know this is true because a device will stop working if the smoke leaks out.

He went like so many of the electronic devices we cherish. At the end of the device's life, when the smoke clears, all that's left is a non-functioning box to collect the dust and some damn good memories.

Well done. My sentiments to those left in the away team. Live long and prosper :)

I would rather say you go for the most cost effective improvements first. I assume you mean to go after the low hanging fruit first. There's no point wasting time on optimizations that don't give decent returns for your dollar. Even if they're cheap they're still a waste of money. It may well be possible to spend less on one expensive but effective optimization rather than implementing a bunch of cheap but ineffective optimizations - even if they both yield the same net improvement.

That depends entirely on where you live, my friend. Here in Norway, some schoolchildren will happily walk to school in -20C on a daily basis during the winter, where I currently live -10C is pretty cold but yet quite normal and certainly doesn't inhibit daily life. And don't even get me started on these wimpy "snow days" that seem to play such a large part of American children's hopes of getting off school.

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Not sure about Mac/Linux. The more expensive professional ones support them (as well as things like logging and two-factor security), but you can get them for as little as £10 if you just need a basic one.

The problem is not these clueless idiots working in these corporations. It's the braindead HR people that hire these people to fulfill these positions. My beef is clearly and squarely with HR, they're obviously not doing a good enough job of filtering out the clueless from the clued up. If HR *were* doing their job properly then we would be working in a wonderful environment.