Yeah, it should "remind" you of the Cohen fiasco. That is what I was referring to. This is more of the same. He is out to help himself TO America.

Some people enjoy destroying other people's work. They get great pleasure from denigrating and tearing it down. It's one of Wikipedia's oldest trolls.

I think not.

TFA says he donated a bit over 1100 times over 60 years.

For the calendar-challenged among us, there are 3128 weeks in 60 years. And 1100 is NOT almost 3128....

Note that this should not be read to denigrate the phenomenal amount of blood this guy donated over the years. Just the idiots who put "nearly every week" into TFA....

ZTE stock has not traded since April 17th, when the ban was announced.

Also, you should grow up and stop making up stories.

Indeed we don't.

My guess is that diplomacy between North Korea, South Korea, China, the USA, and a few others had already been quietly ongoing for months, if not years. More than likely without the president's knowledge. Not picking on the stable genius in the White House at the moment. This is pretty much how international diplomacy mostly works; long, slow, quiet, and boring and you never hear about it until right near the end when some politician, by sheer serendipity, takes the credit for it. Yes, you can become a Nobel Peace Prize winner just by not being an asshole for one critical moment and the rest has all been done for you long in advance.

I'm pretty critical of wikipedia, but where they win is that even though any given article is likely to be written by hired-guns promoting their masters opinions, the very fact that they have to pretend to sound kind-of sort-of neutral forces them to tone down their act somewhat to the point where what they're saying has to be at least comprehensible.

Compare tech industry advertising copy to wikipedia pages about corporate products... there's something to be said for comprehensible bullshit.

So, from various news sources, the U.S. Commerce Department banned American companies from exporting products to ZTE for seven years because:

Now, after Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, he threatens European countries with sanctions if they continue the nuclear deal with Iran (w/o the US). Is he going to stand by that or fold if/when companies complain? How about if ZTE starts shipping things to Iran again? (Of course ZTE isn't a country or in Europe, but Trump doesn't know that.)

Before you know it, Ubuntu people will be like "What up my GNU/Linux?" And the rest of us will be like, "Hey! That's our word!"

What is the minimum required for a functional system? You need a kennel, init system, support utilities and shell.

Taking a look at this, I see that Racine county is not listed. Per the doc, "Implementing the 2015 Ozone Standards – Designated State Areas", "Areas not listed will be addressed in a separate future action"

"You" may do so, smart people don't.

1. Get an account at a credit union -- no monthly fees.
2. Create a separate account for direct deposits/checks.
3. Transfer money as needed, only keep enough in the account to cover outgoing payments.

If someone tries to suck it dry, joke's on them!

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n...

And if you go back even farther, the Egyptians hit a form of existentialism after the fall of the old kingdom 4000 years ago. What did Buddha learn from Alara Kalama and from Udaka Ramaputta?

There are a hell of a lot of us who gave up on writing for wikipedia for reasons like that.] Working on wikipedia pages is like being locked in a room with madmen who you are supposed to pretend can be reasoned with. If you do get the attention of a moderator, they're guaranteed to do the most shallow reading of the situation possible (e.g. ban the flamer, but the not the flame-baiter). Jimmy Wales used to like to say that working on wikipedia should be fun but you need a phenomenally weird idea of "fun" to think that it is.

But this doesn't even scratch the surface of the real problem with things like wikipedia-- with freely available, unverified accounts you have only two choices (1) be so trivial no one cares about you (2) get gamed by armies of well-funded sock-puppet brigades.

Ubuntu is now the heaviest desktop (maybe tied with Mint Cinnamon). Kubuntu or Ubuntu MATE take half the memory. I've put Lubuntu or Puppy on many a "vintage" XP machine.

the whole "movement" is a giant troll-job

If you kiss goats, you're a goat kisser, even if you're only doing it ironically.

"More intelligent voters may be a solution."

Agreed, and things like better education, social inclusion, and better choices available throughout development, all lead to higher intelligence of voters and may be a part of the solution. Another big part is better politicians, better representation, better electoral systems, and better regulation of party financing.

Absent safe and affordable self-driving cars that can handle senile users (rambling, contradictions, references to old landmarks, etc.), we have to find a way to transition old drivers in every country.

My Dad was stubbornly holding on to driving despite failing vision and increased confusion, the police stopped him driving down the highway the wrong way. Nothing happened, but the next day, they suspended his license.

There should be a better way than waiting for "driving in the wrong lane", for example.

GNU hitched their wagon to Linux instead of building Hurd and that has been markedly poor decision for a couple of reasons:

Firstly it means that the core component of the system used to advance the FSF ideology is one that not only does not share that ideology. Linus is in favour of Tivoization and against the idea of the GPLv3 for example. Also the kernel's license preamble explicitly overrides parts of the GPL that would make applications that use kernel services derived works so it isn't actually GPLv2. In addition, unlike many other GPL free software projects, kernel contributions are not subject to copyright assignment to the FSF.

Secondly the valuable piece in terms of the operating system is the kernel, that is what hardware vendors write drivers for and what ultimately gives Linux operating systems such a wide variety of hardware support making it so versatile. GNU does not provide that fundamental functionality and can be replaced, as we have seen with Android and ChromeOS. So while Linux systems have seen explosive growth in users over recent years GNU has not.

It would be an uphill battle but the FSF should really put all effort behind building Hurd and getting industry support for it before GNU is completely marginalized in the context of Linux.

Did they hack the Pay at Table Tablets?

Give them free mass transit

And why shouldn't they?

Speaking for myself, I'd rather have a page for the series as a whole, and occasional articles for particularly note-worthy episodes-- that way the pages themselves would be more interesting to read than they would be if you let anal-retentive competists add (probably automatically generated) pages for each individual episode.

But on the other-hand, i can't say that I really care, either.

You mean, the US has not demonstrated some alleged, potential might that it once had a lifetime ago. What makes you think that can change?

At the small scale, the US in Iraq was objectively the deadliest fighting force ever seen. Clearing houses, where the defender should have a massive advantage, casualties went 10:1 the other way. When it comes to squad-level action, there are none better.

But that's not the might of a nation. Our Navy can't even steer around civilian ships safely, and it's clear that's a structural issue (overworked crews with inadequate training and failing equipment), not just a bad commander here or there. Our air force can keep its full compliment of planes flying, because it's so underfunded it has to park some to salvage for parts, like the cold-war Russian air force. There are structural issues across the board.

And those top-notch soldiers who fought in Iraq? Those are now ex-military gun owners. I'd bet on them in a fight.

Admittedly Obama did back pedal on on some campaign promises when it became obvious he would not be able to get them done, but other than that, everything else you said is BS. But you will probably not except that truth because you are likely one of those people who still believes Obama was born in Kenya, was a secret Muslim who attended a radical Christian church, Michelle was actually a man and they kidnapped their children.

There really are also modern concave Earthers, too...who no doubt tonight think they are looking up at China...

Hmmm... Looking at the graph, it seems to me people are generally moving towards happy with the direction of the country. Check the graph's trend since 2010 - 8 years ago - it's getting better, slowly. And it's really increased fast since President Trump's election - and it's average for the entire Trump administration is lower than most of the entire Obama administration (and lower than any 1.5 year period of that administration). No lie needed - the data is the data.

Addicts get awfully cranky whenever you try to cure them of their addiction!

"Because of overwhelming evidence. Low IQ is strongly correlated with both poverty"

Yes, but I said how would you support the idea that there's a causal link not a correlation.

Supposing poverty is caused by marginalization and taking economic advantage of individuals with lower IQs for the benefit of individuals with higher IQs then poverty would be caused by individuals with higher IQs while still being correlated with individuals with lower IQs.

Did you not even read the summary? It gives you a lower bound.
"More than 33,000 drivers who took the cognitive test last year"
That means more than 33,000 drivers 75 years or older, because that's how many failed the screening test and were referred to a doctor.

That's also only those who had to take the test, which is only required once every 3 years.

From TFA:
"An additional 460,000 older drivers showed slight impairment of their cognitive functions, based on their performance on the test, but were allowed to keep their licenses if they took a three-hour traffic safety course."

That's half a million drivers who either failed or showed slight impairment in 1 year on a test only required every 3 years for >= 75 years old.

That's 1.5 million dodgy or failed results. There must be many times that who passed the test, so we're not talking 200000 drivers, we're talking millions.
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Because, GNU libc (which all of userspace links against) and GNU *utils/awk/sed ie: 90% of all *NIX standard utilities.

No, it's clear you'll take any possible excuse to take away other people's guns. No need to look further into your motivations.

Every freedom has a cost. Freedom is worth it.

The thing is that Linux-based set top boxes are gaining in popularity, and quite often they advertise "Linux" but they mean Linux kernel only (aka you get no GNU userland), so the distinction between "Linux" and "GNU/Linux" finally makes sense from a practical standpoint, and doesn't serve only to stroke FSF egos. Funny that *flies away*

I tend to call the set of OSes like Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian "desktop linux". Maybe even freedesktop linux, because they're based on freedesktop.org standards and all use same low level libs like xorg/wayland/freetype/fontconfig/etc that are even mostly hosted as projects on freedesktop.org. The same doesn't apply to android.

Unlike the US, most of Japan actually has a functional public transport system. Even absent self-driving cars, this is much less of a burden in Japan than it would be in the US.

The problem with blacklisting is you've blocked somebody in your town, not the scammer in Bangladore.

The other stunt they pull is immediate hangup. They want you to call back and ask why they called.