To quote the article...

Many astrophysicists believe that supernovas can also undergo a second collapse, generating an additional burst of neutrinos. Thatâ(TM)s why the detectors on Earth spotted two bursts.

Or is this a minority theory? I'm no astrophysicist, so couldn't tell you myself.

HR departments requiring a BA for the most menial of office tasks makes it the point.

This is the problem, but isn't the fault of universities. Why you expect them to change to suit the HR department baffles me.

Requiring a fucking MA to work in a library as a salaried employee and not a volunteer (the US is the only country I know of that does this) makes it the point.

Again, not the university's problem.

But sure, it's /all/ the student's fault for expecting something in return for all that money. /sneer

I have nothing but contempt for you.

Go fuck yourself.

Monopoly is not a problem per se, and there's plenty of entities that have a monopoly. The issue is when they use the power of monopoly in one area to gain an unfair advantage in another area where they have no monopoly.

Would you believe that I honestly wasn't trying to rant or troll? I don't understand what the streaming service has to do with Youtube, and was under the impression that they were two separate business segments. Please correct me if this impression is mistaken.

How is this not an abuse of monopoly regulations? They're using their influence in one sector - online videos - to strong-arm customers in another sector. That's what Microsoft got in trouble for with Windows and IE, right?

Try to find an e-mail address that a live human will read at Google.

That's reserved for paying customers, as it is with many other major businesses. I've twice had technical issues with a Chromebook, and both times have gotten a reasonably prompt email response that helped me fix the problem.

If it's safe for a bike to glide through stopsigns or treat all stoplights as signs, then it's safe for motor vehicles to do the same. In fact, it's recognized that this is sometimes the case - that's why there are blinking red lights. There's no reason to give bikes any special treatment.

You clearly did not RTFA, and the summary's lousy.

Bikes go slower, can stop faster, and have a better view of the road than cars do. A biker's acceleration is significantly lower than that of a car, so one way to get them through the intersection as fast as a car is is to let them retain their speed and roll through a stop. And, to quote the article:

In many cities, the low-traffic routes that are safer for bikes are the kinds of roads with many stop signs. Currently, some cyclists avoid these routes and take faster, higher-traffic streets. If the Idaho stop were legalized, it'd get cyclists off these faster streets and funnel the bikes on to safer, slower roads.

None of these reasons apply to cars.

since by scientific definition life begins at conception, and by genetic definition the fetus is a human being.

By scientific definition life began somewhere 3.5 billion years ago, just once, and we are all just a continuation of that one single starting point. Life replicates by splitting a living part of itself off into a separate entity, not by jump-starting new life in a separate piece of inert matter.

The question is when the mother and child become separate beings, rather than just the one being a growth in the other. That line tends to get drawn at the point of viability, when you could remove the child from the mother's body and still have it survive. That's not at conception, however.

Smart watches are coming, in some variety. In the end, they will be far superior then a standard watch.

Except in battery life. Same problem as with a smartphone vs a dumb phone: you can do more with the former, but the latter's battery will last you a week.

So, if you prioritize reliability above functionality...

Interesting... So you have an interesting environment locally, and easy transport to the city core? Sounds ideal.

Any problems with noise, or feeling crowded?

I wonder if part of what's pushing the price up is that there are so few places like that. If people had multiple minicities to chose from, that might help relieve the price pressure.

Sure, I understand that. I love going to Santa Fe, hiking in the mountains. I enjoy gardening, and growing my own chiles. I don't do that every day, however, whereas I do use the places created by my fellows most days.

Yeah, we have "townhouses" in America too. They're for people still trying to realize the American Dream.

See, I think that's where you're wrong. Quite a few people would be perfectly happy with a nice town house in a decent but not necessarily gentrified part of the city. The shortage of that kind of housing drives people either into apartments or into the suburbs.

But it's not the suburbs per se that are the problem, it's the sprawl: subdivision-style houses with single-use low-density zoning. It means the only thing there is to do in the suburbs is sleep and garden, and everything else is far away. Mixed zoning, and a move away from developers building cookie-cutter subdivisions would be a start in fixing this, and would actually make the suburbs an interesting place to live rather than just a residential wasteland. Build some row houses in the heart of the suburb together with some commercial streets and you've got a micro city, without many of the big city problems.

I'd rather live in my car than in a subdivision house.

Who the hell "likes" sharing walls with people?

I have no problem with it, if it means I get to live in the city. It's a compromise.

I personally was so happy when I could afford to live in stand alone houses. I now, don't have to listen to other peoples noise (stereo, crying babies, fscking, etc)...and I don't have to be terribly cognizant of my own levels of noise production.

You need to insulate your walls better.

I like having a back yard, where I can plant and grow a nice sized vegetable garden, where I can set up my smoker and my grills....where I can set up my homebrewing apparatus, where I can set up and invite friends over for a large crawfish boil, etc.

You can do that in terraced houses as well. Most in Belgium have a yard extending straight back from the rear of the house, the same width. It's not huge, I'll give you that, but plenty large enough for most activities.

Why would I possibly, want to live in a smaller box, share walls, and have to squeeze all my outdoor fun on some small balcony, that in some places has regulations against open flame outdoor cooking?

Because a city is one of the few places that has anything interesting within walking or biking distance. I don't want to have to drive half an hour to get to the nearest restaurant, cinema, museum, or even the supermarket. There's more to cities than just partying, and I want to live in a place where I don't *have* to use my car if I want to do anything besides stay at home.

No, it's because those of us who have bought such homes do not want to follow the Japanese model. It's the only thing I've ever heard a frenchman say that I will quote - "the Japanese? Why would we want to live like the Japanese? They live like ants!".

There is a middle ground, you know?

That Frenchman probably lived in a "row" or "terraced" house: each house shares two walls with two neighbors. Very common in Belgium in all but the rural areas, and a far more efficient use of space. The houses are larger than those in Japan, so you don't feel like an ant.

With regards to making only certain lasers legal, what happens when someone imports one from another country that doesn't ban them? You have to find and prosecute them anyway.

But more importantly, just filtering out a few specific frequencies but leaving the rest of the spectrum unaffected is not something you "just" do, but is a technically challenging problem. You're also filtering out primary colors, so that's gonna affect color vision of the pilots. I'd rather give the pilots an unimpaired view, on the off chance they need it, and just go after the idiots misusing the pointers.