It's a simple matter of terciles and life expectancies. Average life expectancy in the post-industrial world is about 80 years. Dividing that into three equal categories, you get (roughly) 0-26 = young age, 27-53 = middle age, 54-80 = old age. Of course with increases in life expectancy (and to make the math easier), you could use 30-59 as the middle group, and save a bunch of late-20s people the anxiety of already being "middle-aged", but it's still a bit silly how that term has become (in some people's minds) a euphemism for "old".

(And for the record, I'm 49: very accustomed to being "middle-aged".)

What about when it misinforms?

If I go to a local restaurant site that does not take orders and it is not running SSL just how is it insecure?
It is like a warning that a public park is insecure because it doesn't have a burglar alarm.
Also just because a site uses ssl does not mean that it is malware free or that it has not been hacked and all the user data taken.

When is a false sense of security a good thing?
And please do not tell me that I should worry about the NSA knowing that I was looking at restaurants.

"A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once." – W. Shakespeare

Exactly NASA is caught between a rock and a hard space.
They keep having projects started then stopped. The X-33 is a great example.

"Fortunately, most open minded people are willing to accept a vast amount of statistical evidence as proof."
Then get back to me when your sample size is much larger...
Talk about your dumb analogies. BTW you are totally wrong. By the 1980s tobacco smoke had been studied and found to be full of known cancerogenic compounds. They did have mass spectrometers in the 1980s after all.

You like most people are confusing weather with climate. A single drought can not be attributed to climate change it would take a lot more data aka many decades of data.

" but that didn't prevent climate researchers from claiming Katrina-level events will drastically increase in frequency"
I think you are confusing advocates with researchers.
Fear sells after all.

What is so annoying is that most climate change advocates are as clueless about climate as those that deny climate change.
Every hot summer, warm winter, flood, drought or hurricane is proof... No it is weather.
So when you have a slow hurricane season, a drought ends, or an extremely cold winter you have proof that climate change is not happening. No it is just weather people...

The arrogant ignorance of the clueless climate change advocates do more harm than can imagined.

You are correct but the city has to post it and how legal they are is another question.

I'm pretty sure that every printer I've ever owned was three-dimensional.

I used to have an HP LaserJet IIID; that thing was built like a tank!

The problem isn't that people don't understand the difference between linear and area measurement scales (so 8K is four times the number of pixels as 4K), but the fact that anyone lets these marketing drones get away with calling 7680 pixels "8K". 8K is either 8192 in binary terms, or 8000 in decimal terms.

Because my office gave me two 1080p monitors and we are not allowed to bring in our own stuff.

I tired this as well. The issue is that most IDEs are designed to work with wide monitors.
Also 1080 across is just not enough. Now if I had 1920x1400 that would rock.

I hate the over use of drones but RC aircraft do fall out of the sky.
What people don't get is that RC aircraft can be pretty big and dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
People already fly jet RC aircraft that fly at well over 100 mph and mass over 50lbs.
Yes they can kill people which is why they have rules.

You are right that most "drones" are not large or fast but they can be. Maybe a rule of under 5 lbs and under 20 mph for unregulated drones is in order.
 

As someone living in south florida I can tell you that heat is not valuable.

You are sort of right but it is temperature differential that is valuable not just heat. In Alaska or Northern Canada 40c water has some value. In Phoenix it is useless most of the year.
Now if you can get CPUs that are happy at 200c you now have some valuable temperature differential