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Comment Re:Faulty premise (Score 1) 139

Scotty on Star Trek is not casting spells when he beams someone up, he's using a machine. That's very different from Gandalf casting a spell.

The only potential fundamental difference between a plot object like a crystal ball and a plot object like a transporter is whether there's a theoretical physical explanation for their function. If there is, then it's science fiction. If not, it's just fiction, and you may as well call it fantasy. It might not be witches-and-wizards fantasy, but it sure-as-hell ain't science fiction. You don't have to actually spell out the explanation, or even allude to it, but you should have one which works consistently with the idea of physics throughout your story if you want to be all sciency and stuff.

Comment Re:Play no longer appears to require Gmail (Score 1) 139

On one device, when I opened Android Market after the name changed, it triggered an automatic update to Google Play Store. I don't know whether receiving this update requires first entering Gmail credentials because I was logged in at the time. I'm just guessing, but you could try these in order:
  1. Just try logging in. After the transition, it might let you in even without Gmail. If it still gives you the "does not use Gmail" error, try the following steps.
  2. Perhaps you could find one of your friends who has a Gmail account, have him or her log in, wait for the device to download and install the update, remove the Gmail credentials from the phone, and enter your own non-Gmail Google Account credentials.
  3. Buy a new phone. The Google Play transition happened in March 2012, between Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" and Android 4.1 "Jelly Bean 1", and you should be ready for a new contract by now.

Comment Re:Too be fair... (Score 1) 280

when your people are dying and people are coming in, risking their own lives to try and help you, and your response is to attack and kill them, trying to use the injustices of the past to justify the mass deaths of the present won't win you any friends

This isn't about justifying deaths or winning friends. This is about if you want to try to help people, you have to craft your message in a way that they are ready to receive.

Comment Re:Your employer (Score 1) 182

Yes, we do know what kind of conference this is because the OP told us.

What. No, no they have not. They said it was specific to a technology, that's it. You then concluded that it was more along the line of "C# or Java: Haskell to the Rescue!". but it could easily be technology-related, for example automation controls. There's lots of reasons why someone in the public sector might have something to gain by visiting a conference being held in Vegas. It's just a common place to hold them for a broad variety of reasons. You don't know what the subject matter is, but you're sure you do. Why? The provided evidence is insufficient to jump to the conclusion you're now standing upon.

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