How does it matter if an explosive laptop is in the cabin or in the cargo bay? When it explodes, the plane goes down. In both cases, the person who brought the thing on board, dies too. So, how does it matter?

Neonicotinoids (Monsanto's Roundup) are a major cause of bees death. But Mr Trump will not do anything about that. Nor, as it seems, will the EU.

I live in a country where the person with the most votes gets elected. That's democracy. It doesn't matter how they change district borders or whatever, the candidate with the most votes gets elected. We live in the 21st century.

When you buy a helmet, you want a good fit. You go to the store, try all brands and models, until you find the good fit. Then you want safety. A strong shell, good padding, good foam layer. Then you want the right type (full face or other) and a good visor. Skully offered one model only. Statistically, one model only fits a minority of people. They had one choice of materials, type of helmet, visor. That limits the number of potential customers to only a few.
I looked at them, and decided the helmet wasn't safe enough for me, and probably wouldn't fit.

What they could have done instead is produce visors and build-in electronics for a range of well known helmet models. That way, I would have bought a Skully set for my preferred helmet.

They should go for an elderly person (nothing to lose), with an Msc in astrophysics, with great tech skills.

We should abandon patents altogether.

I had 56kbps ages ago, how is that special?

Yes, I know.

I mean, you would report sexual child abuse anyway, wouldn't you?

We should call them Daesh. Out of respect for the millions of girls name Isis. And because they hate it to be called Daesh.

Time was created in the big bang. If there's no time, there's no "before" or "after". So, technically, you cannot ask the question "what was there before inflation". Which means, we can know everything in our universe. What's not part of our universe, does not exist, by definition.

If every student should learn programming, than they should also learn astrophysics, and architecture, and rocket science, and medicine, and every other job there is. Or should they?

Some people have a talent for programming. Others for astrophysics, or architecture. Before making statements about CS and programming, people should acquire a basic knowledge about what CS is. Apparently, Mr Obama doesn't have that knowledge. That's a pity, because I know that at least one of his advisors does.

When I copy code from StackOverflow, if it's more than one or two lines, I include a reference to the source page. If only so the programmers who work on my code after me know where it comes from and why it is the way it is.

Or rather, no we can't. I'm convinced that gravitational waves exist, but at the same time, I'm convinced we can't currently detect them, or detect them at all.

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