Yeah, if you insist on just dragging the slower members of your team, you're going to have to work pretty hard. If you helped them become more like you, then they would do better at pulling their own weight. And it's clear that just dragging them isn't going to make that happen, at least not quickly. Sure, they may eventually become resentful, but who wants to wait? Maybe there's a better way.

I got four model 135s for free and gave them away to another Tivoli employee (at the time) for the same price. I wonder if they ever got used or if they hit the scrap heap. They were cool but they were too big. If they were PS/2 sized I might still have them

The richer countries don't have to do anything, it is a process that happens naturally over time. See Ireland.

What we have now is a specific problem caused by the financial crisis. It's not the normal way the system us supposed to work. I'd also point out that it isn't as bad as some people think it is. Remember when the pundits were saying that the Euro was dead?

Marriage is a standard contract that society has an interest in defining. Rather than each couple writing their own, society has set a standard that includes inheritance rights and so forth, and is supposed to be the ideal. For that reason it carries a certain weight and attraction for people.

Of you don't want to use it, there should be systems in place to facilitate that. Of course if you do want it, you should have access to it regardless of sexual orientation.

That's what being a child is. When you grow up, you realize that if you just do whatever you want, there are eventually consequences. We create the world we live in. Time to grow up, and act like it.

Ahh, rocket launcher. No wonder. Anyway their download link doesn't work, but you led me to the filename, so https://www.quaddicted.com/fil...

Even in academia, did the PC/RT even count? They sold minimal numbers of the things. The only place I've even ever seen them was in Austin... deep IBM-land.

The trouble with that argument is that it relies on the stronger members having enough economic power to actually do that. It's circular arguments all the way down.

And the toxins don't get into some of these organisms without the beads, which is why the beads are a problem. You don't get to pretend the toxins don't exist. Also, the plastics themselves produce toxins when they decompose.

These are the bioaccumulative compounds of primary concern, you are full of shit as there are plenty more.

The sad thing is that publishing the vulnerability anonymously, in 2600 or on one of the disclosure mailing lists, is now the responsible thing to do. Not great for the company involved, but it protects the researcher and it protects the user in some cases.

At this point I'd only even consider warning the company before anonymously publishing the vulnerability if they had a bug bounty programme. Not because I want money, but because it's the only way to be sure they will actually be thankful and not call the cops right away.

A bigger concern would be the loss of freedom of movement. A couple of million skilled and motivated workers would leave the UK, and a million retired or otherwise benefit dependent British people would return. It is likely that the government would try to negotiate some kind of deal where such people can stay where they are, but it will cost us a lot when we have to start contributing more and more to the welfare of those people who retired to sunnier parts of the world etc.

The so-called "maker movement" shows us where the interest comes from: the fringe that wants what isn't already available in the mainstream. If you want something that doesn't already exist, then you can assemble it from other devices. The focus has just moved again. Now it's easy and cost-effective for people to do hardware projects without being EEs by just buying modules off the shelf and hooking them up with jumper wires.

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seriously, your post history makes it clear you exist only to troll.

They only publicize the studies that say what they want to say. Occasionally the media finds eyeballs in another study and slaps it around, but in general you hear the most about what they want you to hear about.

You say that, but I challenge you to point to some EU directives that have actually worked against UK citizens. I bet most if not all of it is either a myth or was actually a benefit to us. Vacuum cleaners perhaps, or the classic "water doesn't cure dehydration" maybe?

As for being a monster, it's about twice the size of Brimingham city council. For 500,000,000 people.