... environmentally friendly data centers? Move them to Shivering Moose, Alberta. Easier time cooling them.

... was interdicted and the subject hardware was switched with alternate parts.

> from a security, stability or usable prospective

You and me both but most people only score feature count. If they've grown accustomed to some oddball feature for a few months they feel they can never use anything else.

That they went their entire lives without it before isn't relevant.

From a market perspective, rushing more features to market makes more people with money happy than getting a good product to market.

I'm fine with the repeated addition. My objection is the OR in your statement. Apparently not. The question was 5x3 and the kid wrote 5+5+5=15 and got marked wrong with no explanation because the teacher wanted 3+3+3+3+3=15. So I guess that you would have had a 50% chance of being marked wrong on a 2nd grade arithmatic worksheet as well, as absurd as that is. Correct answer notwithstanding.

BTW, that's not at all new. We covered multiplication that way in the 3rd grade back in 1975. Memorizing the table was just to make it quicker. I quickly "discovered" the commutative property while looking at the multiplication table and cut my memorization load in half. The part that confused the father was why is 5x3 = 5+5+5=15 "wrong".

As for 37+55, we decomposed that in the '70s as well, but I soon decided the easier decomposition was 37+55= 87+5 = 90+2=92. So I would say that meme was just someone wanting to complain. Of course the "old way" ends up in 30+50+10+2 anyway.

Shut up and memorize was not in practice during the education of the parents of today's students.

Capitol grounds != inside the Capitol. Like accusing you of armed bank robbery after you (check notes) walk past a bank with a CCP but don't actually step foot inside the bank.

30 dead Ukrainians for each dead Russian as the AFU collapses on all fronts. That's FAFO, McCarthyite sucker of Satan's cock.

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.