I can never tell if you are serious or insane. Ultimately though, that kind of dedication to a troll persona is insane, so I guess you're insane either way.

I wish them well. And I hope they really clean up in the RPG marketplace.

Although the definitions are hazy, the ingredients in question are those that would NOT be found in home cooking or restaurant cooking of freshly prepared foods. Mostly ingredients added to enhance taste and/or increase shelf stability of stored foods.

That said: One solution to the shelf life of food is ... (get ready for left wing screeching) ... irradiation. Use that and you can greatly diminish or even eliminate the addition of preservatives.

And for those of you who pooh-pooh preservation in favor of "organic" food, untreated organic food can sicken or kill you if stuff starts to grow in it before you cook it. Bacteria loves organic food just as much as you do.

... this could come in handy for school kids on their cell phones.

On mystery meat lunch days.

It sounds like Nokia, once a great company, thought they would just pay up? But I read elsewhere that a patent troll called Avanci was behind the shakedowns?

If HP and Dell begin to make this more common and could encourage Lenovo and Apple to follow suit, then the "default H.anything" crowd might start to think seriously about moving to AV1 to drop the revenue of the trolls to zero over time. Hardware support for decode is mostly complete with more CPU's bringing encode online recently. I remember when Steve Jobs went to bat against the trolls for h.264 decode; Apple should do it in his memory.

Separately, Google seriously needs to flex against patent trolls when required. Heck, Lou Rossman is more aggressive than Google on defending the community against patent trolls.

Speaking of which USPTO intends to stop challenges to patent trolls and maybe you, dear reader, should spend five minutes to fire off an email to help EFF try to head this one off at the pass.

Quantum "bandwidth" decays exponentially as a function of distance.

I used to have many magazine subscriptions.

They would each mail me a reminder to renew my subscription.

If I sent them a check my subscription would continue. If I didn't send them a check my subscription would end.

I didn't have auto- anything. I didn't have to call to cancel.

The same went for when I was a paperboy. You pay for your week or you stop getting papers. When you remember to pay you start getting papers again.

I think this is how subscriptions have worked for hundreds of years, with auto-renew on a payment card developing in the past couple decades.

Without a contractual definition the corpus of caselaw would very likely date to throughout the history of the country.

No, because a surgeon can tell you WHY he washes his hands and point to the historical evidence for the practice. He won't say "God tells us to wash our hands".

No. I really do not understand your position. You keep using overly simplistic sentences that do not interact in ways that provide concrete meaning. As I have already said though, what does seem to be clear is that you are not advocating any concrete position, so there is not really anything to discuss or any real reason to continue.

It's not like verifying the age of people who are under 18 is hard or something. Just because they have almost no digital footprint or legal records to check against and can be talked into posing in front of a webcam pretending to be someone else for thirty seconds for in exchange for an ice cream cone should pose no problems whatsoever.

Good point

I wouldn't call it a GOOD solution, more a default if nobody comes up with something better.

It would have reduced it to an extent that it would be as good as stopped.

The fact that surgeons today wouldn't think of operating without washing their hands. I never said it was a quick victory.

It was my example. It came from a photograph of the worksheet posted to Reddit by the child's father, who was wondering why the answer was 'wrong'.

Surely you don't expect the 2nd graders to start on Clifford algebras any time soon. They need to learn to walk before they run. Note that by the time you're multiplying vectors and matrices the process involved is sufficiently different from multiplying real numbers that not being commutative is not going to be an issue. I recall my high school math teacher demonstrating non-commutative multiplication. I was not confused in spite of having figured out the commutative nature of simple multiplication in elementary school.