We just try to discover them.

Anyone can do it if they ask reality the right questions (experiments).

Otherwise they'll be driving down the center of the road!

And in effect surrendered to the Chinese who were supporting the Viet Cong and forcing communism on the entire country.

There were probably times during the war when Chinese soldiers were fighting directly with US troops.

The streets used to be common areas where young and old people met, spoke out, argued, or just passed one another saying "good morning".

Now they're dominated by cars.

There's about 1.53 million more square km of ice than what is usual.

Too many previous slave owners and their descendants still lives and have say in politics. It was serious error by US population not to charge them with crimes and let them keep the wealth acquired by using slave labor.

You don't know what the hell you're talking about.

According to the 1850 census, there were 347,525 slave owners in the United States out of a free population of nearly 20,000,000. Many of those were killed, and those that lived have few descendants relative to the total population today. There are probably 10 times as many descendants of slaves as there are descendants of slave owners.

And much of their wealth wasn't preserved. Much of it was in the form of slaves, which were freed and the rest of their wealth was mostly destroyed during the war. Union troops were ordered to destroy as much as they could. Even collective wealth like the libraries of public universities were burned.

You might want to get out in the real world a bit more. Religion is often what you're born with.

I'm not sure I'm willing to give thoughtless people a pass.

But suppose I grant that you're right. It still doesn't change things much because skin color doesn't matter much at all while a belief system does matter.

The rightness or wrongness of judging has nothing to do with whether or not the object of our judgement is responsible or not. We shouldn't judge based on skin color because skin color is mostly irrelevant. But the religious belief that infidels (like me) should be killed is very relevant to me, and I don't give a damn if one was born into that belief system or chose it. I judge it as wrong and dangerous.

Ah yes, the thinly veiled racism. They're brown people with names you don't know how to pronounce.

Ah, yes, the not so thinly veiled stupidity that confuses race and religion.

Religion is a personal choice, you moron. At least it should be.

...maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's called a Graphics Processing Unit? Why the fuck are we using them as CPUs?

We use them as CPUs because we don't suffer from that cognitive bias known as functional fixedness.

Sounds to me like closing a loophole more than instituting a new tax. I realize that is a matter of interpretation, but the idea that google, apple, etc are "really" in Bermuda etc. is such a hoax in the first place.

The idea that they're ANY place is a "hoax". If anything, these firms exist only as a collection of habits, customs, and rules -- as abstractions in the minds of the owners and employees. Even as owners and employees change, the firm can continue to exist as the firm's culture is transferred from employee to employee or shareholder to shareholder.

Engelbart lived at a time when bureaucracy and inflexible institutions ruled. To get anywhere one had to jump through hoops constantly and appeal to those few authorities that controlled the purse strings.

Today there are many points of accumulated capital that one can appeal to for assistance and funding. Forty years ago there was just the government or a few old giant corporations.

Naive little American, how's your minimum wage that just keeps shrinking and shrinking working out for your economy?

It's falling in lockstep with the shrinking skills of the average high school graduate. Thanks for asking.

Decimals have nothing to do with it.

Base 12 is incredibly convenient for breaking up one thing into several parts in many ways. A dozen divided in half gives six each. Into thirds gives 4 each. Into fourths gives 3 each. Into sixths gives 2 each.

Easy.

But anyway, even duodecimal is somewhat easier than decimal, too.

Base 10

1/2 = 0.5
1/3 = 0.3333...
1/4 = 0.25
1/5 = 0.2
1/6 = 0.1666...
1/7 = 0.142857...
1/8 = 0.125
1/9 = 0.1111...

Base 12 (using A for 10 and B for 11)

1/2 = 0.6
1/3 = 0.4
1/4 = 0.3
1/5 = 0.2497...
1/6 = 0.2
1/7 = 0.186...
1/8 = 0.16
1/9 = 0.14

I heard that the Sea of Tranquility is now the South China Sea of Tranquility.

Is Islam a race now?