"2)"believe in Angels". The stidues that I saw for for angel belief in the USA vary from 55 to 75%. So, from a half to a fourth don't have this belief."

55-75% of the population of the United States believes in imaginary and invisible fairies who serve an all-powerful invisible mega fairy. The mega fairy supposedly conveyed messages to illiterate ancient people's indicating that you will suffer for all eternity in the afterlife if you don't choose to believe in the mega fairy by proxy his normal human messengers without any evidence whatsoever but must have "faith." The lack of any evidence or sign is to assist you with believing without any basis for belief aka "faith." Oh, and those messengers want to dedicate their lives to spreading his message, so if you have faith you must give them a certain percentage of the annual income you work for so they can avoid doing any work. Oh and they shouldn't pay taxes because they are dedicated to the big fairy. Oh but you get something in exchange! If you confess all your blackmail material to them, they will forgive you for all your wrongdoings on the magical fairie's behalf so you don't have to feel bad about the horrible things you've done that have hurt others.

Seriously? You don't see ANYTHING wrong with that? There is more evidence for alien abduction and crop circles than any organized religion. That isn't a prejudice it's sanity. And while money grabbing is inflammatory phrasing it is an accurate assessment of what is happening. Even if the person asking for the money is legitimately one of the 55-75% who have somehow gotten this odd idea any of that could be rational or sane that only relegates him to the same rank as the crazy bum begging in the subway.

I don't know, there seems to be a pack of corrupt scientists behind every company with a powerful lobby. Lead was believed to be harmless for years because oil companies paid for biased results from scientists to keep lead gasoline flowing. We've seen the same kind of profit related corruption with tobacco, religion, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, anti-drug (pharmaceuticals), addiction (in this industry is the doctors who profit from the rehab pushing it, along with DEA sludge funds AND pharmaceuticals). Not to mention smaller one offs like product safety, studies to support a product's efficacy, etc.

Generally speaking, it isn't the actual data being published that is compromised directly, but the spin on the data being published. A study on e-cig vapor paid for by an anti-smoking lobby (or the tobacco lobby) will highlight everything found in the vapor, will point out how potentially dangerous some of the chemicals can be. The same study paid for by supporters of e-cigs will point out that the chemicals found in e-cig vapors generally aren't undergoing a chemical change, are present in such low levels that there might be more of them in the air you are breathing anyway, and that you are probably breathing and ingesting more of these substances in a trip to starbucks than being immersed in "secondhand" vape for years. Both will have the same data but the money is definitely influencing the message.

Additionally, reports are coming out all the thing about scientists fabricating findings altogether and how it is becoming a large issue where scientists go down an avenue of research based on published papers that are dead ends.

I know you are really talking about climate change and I'm talking about science across the board. I also know that all scientists have ideas of what constitutes a "real" scientist. If they employee the scientific method and publish in journals I'm calling them scientists. We can't get so focused on defending climatologists that we turn a blind eye to real corruption and problems. To suggest that scientists are immune to corruption is both naive and ridiculous. A scientist is exactly 0% less likely to sell out or lie for profit when (s)he feels (s)he can get away with it than any other person.

"On the other hand who owns Alibaba's 120 billion? Americans now. If the congress sicks their dogs on ALibaba it's the same as pilfering 120 billion from investors."

Sorry, no pity toward those investors. They knowingly invested in a criminal venture. They deserve not only to lose their money but to be in prison.

I don't know about universal remote brand but I've heard RTI have a dramatically inferior database and require you to "learn" most functions on remotes. For example, the harmony remote I use in the living room controls an xbox 360, fios cable box with dvr, an onkyo receiver, a samsung blu-ray player, a wd live, and a viewsonic projector. All of this purchased as near gear in the last year with the exception of the xbox. I had to "learn" one button (the DVR button to access the DVR portion of the cable box). Everything else worked with the profiles provided. After searching for each device, running a wizard for each activity (watch tv, watch a movie, play music, play a game) where I set the viewing device and which device to switch inputs on, and a quick once over of a picture of the remote to make sure all the critical buttons were assigned correctly I was good to go.

That is actually pretty simple. My only issue is that it's too simple. For instance, the first time I programmed the remote with this projector it didn't shut the projector off correctly because the projector needs power pressed twice. The old interface let me specify the power off sequence with presses and delays. The "simplified" new interface does not. When I programmed the remote again a month or two ago due to a new blu-ray player suddenly the remote handled the projector correctly.

Also the RTI are missing critical buttons like the back button. Exit and back are two different buttons.

Otherwise it looks like a solid contender.

The only remotes I'm finding searching for "big button remote" are the normal crappy "universal" remotes that support no custom buttons and couldn't even change inputs on a TV, let alone control the DVR functions of a cable box or be smart enough for volume up to be the volume control on your SRS receiver when watching a blu-ray or playing a video game without making you switch between button sets with a device button.

Seriously, this will only help us maintain our current level of behind the rest of the world. 100mbps is a solid minimum link speed.

"So, you want to install a "Wave harnessing device" on a boat who's primary mission is to stay moored in the same place without moving despite wind and waves? You don't see a problem with that?"

I certainly don't. If the boat has generators absorbing the wave motion energy that energy isn't there to move the boat.

With the way logitech has handled this sort of thing in their remote controls before the only communication is when you actually program the device and that is just to let you tie into their database of pre-built profiles.

That's silly. Obviously the one ring to rule them all is the device that controls all of these devices.

That internet connection requirement gets you the largest database of remote control presets out there and more importantly everything added in the future. It also expands the database as YOU program custom buttons and functions.

If you can find another remote that you can buy today and know you'll be able to program it for your next set of not yet on the market devices, and the set after that, etc does IR and RF, and can mix and match device buttons and functions without switching button profiles, and still does let you program custom functions like a 3D button, subtitle button, VIA button, DVR button, TV Input, Setup, Menu, etc, etc, etc. And actually manages to provide a better interface at a reasonable price point. I'd love to know.

But thus far, the logitech harmony series is the only thing I've found that actually gets that job done at all and therefore is the best by default.

Would you want to watch a video of geek trying to play a harp he designed? Would you want to see the result of a liberal arts major trying to design a harp?

Unless they are the same guy. Both answers are no.

If you have a 12mbit connection vs a 20mbit connection how is it you think the traffic magically figures that out so it can send you traffic at the correct rate for your link?<br><br>I won't go into windowing and the technical details but suffice it to say that you can control the OTHER sender by limiting the speed of your responses and dropping packets until that transmission is the rate you want. You can combine that with buffering on the first device on your network so that when there are two packets to send, it sends the packets out in the order you'd specified. So that if you have 4 packets of ftp data and 4 packets of voip data in the buffer your device forwards say 2 voip, 1 data, 2 voip, etc So everything keeps moving but the voip moves a little faster. This might make the ftp connection transfer at a lower rate if there is enough voip data to cause it to miss acknowledgments but in most cases just results in the voip data being lower latency.<br><br>There is nothing your ISP can do to digitally shape traffic that you aren't perfectly capable of doing with that traffic once it's in your network.

It's just yet another way of spinning the same thing. For there to be faster queues of traffic there have to be slower queues of traffic. To be able to guarantee you can put a service in a faster queue, it has to have been in a slower queue in the first place.<br><br>As soon as there is ANY form of allowing ISPs to do anything but fling all traffic as fast as they can (within the bounds of the link speed being paid for) there is the groundwork for the ISP's to hold priority service for ransom, both charging to be put on a list for consumers to choose for a fast lane and to charge consumers again to make that selection. Even though consumers already pay to have all their traffic in the FASTEST LANE.

What this means is that an ISP such as AT&amp;T will build a list of services to throttle (most likely competitors in other areas like voice and video) aka the SLOW LANE. What probably happens next is that AT&amp;T offers pricing to become "FASTLANED" aka makes their ransom demands. If a throttled service pays this fee then they will go on a list for consumers. Consumers will then have the option to pay to enable the "fast lane" for that service.<br><br>This creates the illusion of making a service faster... but if they hadn't slowed it down in the first place they couldn't make it any faster. Their switches, their links, the speed of light, none of these things got any faster so by logically flipping a switch. The only way to make things faster by logically switching a switch (assuming no configuration incompetence) is if you weren't slinging packets as fast as you could in the first place.<br><br>
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There are plenty of distributions sure but they are all built on the linux os. Code written on one runs on the others unless you build in high level dependencies. Being fluent in administrating one means you can administrate the others (unless you bought in to distro specific tool kool-aid).