scanning the hundreds of millions of newspaper and journal articles

So, for example, discussing the news in the UK, where most of the newspapers have a mainstream bias, this poor AI will just parrot the same old rubbish you can read in papers such as the Telegraph, Times and Guardian, or worse the Mail, Express or the Sun. Also it is wrong to associate what is in those papers with facts. All these papers bend and distort, over report or omit in order to fit their agenda. Rubbish in, rubbish out.

I never said that you said this was a misogynistic viewpoint, I said that you cannot say, as in one cannot say.

This is for everyone, please read my posts.

Damore says that women are less able to deal with stress on average. The problem is that while there may be some statistical evidence for that

Why not stop there, he says something that there is some statistical evidence for. He has postulated that the science he cites gives reasons for that. His science may be wrong. But if it is correct are you saying that the facts should not be stated as they are patronising.

The memo stated that instead of giving inducements and easier access to women to become engineers, they should change the engineering workplace to one that is more suited to women. The result according to the memo is that more women will then be attracted to engineering. You can argue against the science, but you cannot say that that is a misogynistic viewpoint.

Ah OK. I have come across thru as an Americanism, but it is not the preferred version, thanks for pointing that out. It would be nice if someone would rethink all the English spellings and change them to phonetic so that you can pronounce the words as written. This is the case for many other languages, Italian for example.

As a Brit I do know a few fellow Brits that really get upset by the use of 'off of' and certain other 'Americanisms' such as using Math instead of Maths. Just like to an American someone saying they were studying Physic instead of Physics would sound strange. I suppose it is just what we are used to. However more annoying to me is the really weird spelling in British English, such as British spelling 'through' for the American 'thru'. That strange spelling is hard for British Children, and also for non English speakers learning the language.

And that is why I am having to use the browser 'Pale Moon' in order to use the extensions I love such as Pentadactyl.

Since firefox have disregarded what was great about their browser, i.e. the extensions, they are effectively killing it.

This news is no surprise. For as long as I have been reading about Theresa May she has been campaigning for more internet regulation. She was instrumental in eventually getting a UK 'Snooping Charter' on the books while she was UK Home Secretary. She is reputed to be a control freak in Government, which figures that she wants to create a new UK internet that she can control.

Her main problem is that she seems to have limited grasp of her brief, and is very exposed when she is asked unprompted questions. For example when a nurse told her that she has been on the same salary as a National Health Service Nurse as she earned in 2009, she looked the nurse in the eye and declared that there is no 'Magic Money Tree'

She has coped with her poor people skills by refusing to turn up for election debates, instead using the tame UK media, papers like the Daily Mail, and the BBC to promote her. However her lack of ability has become so obvious that what looked like a massive majority (which is the reason why she called a early election) is evaporating and it looks like the UK will enter Brexit negotiations with a hung Parliament)

To add to her problems She has refused to liaise with the Scottish Parliament to the result that they have asked for a referendum on Scottish Independence to co-inside with the end of the Brexit negotiations.

Theresa May may go down in UK history as the most incompetent Prime Minister in our long history.

Dolphin works quite well and is highly configurable. Give it a spin.

One of the key configurations, whether single or double click to open files/folders, has been removed from Dolphin and moved instead into KDE own desktop configuration. So not so configurable if using Dolphin from Icewm, and less configurable than windows explorer, for that functionality anyway. This was an intentional change made by devs.

For me it is not so much what language do they speak internally but what is the common language to speak internationally that is interesting.

For example the language of the sea, and of the air is English. For example when a French or Chinese air traffic controller is communicating with an aircraft of their own nationality it must be in English, so that all the traffic which is listening on the same channel knows what is going on.

A similar thing has happened for international trade. I am British but work for a Norwegian International company. The official language including in Oslo head office is English. I was on a course in South Korea with a Norwegian instructor, and Korean, Chinese, Malay and Japanese attending. I was the only native English speaker, but everything was conducted in English.

I asked one of the Chinese students about how many learned English in China (he was from Shanghai). He said everyone, (but not everyone learns well of course).

I suppose another factor amongst those on the course is that they view English as a neutral language, so that it feels more equitable for a Korean to be negotiating with a Chinese person in English than Mandarin

It was interesting in the queue at HMV Aberdeen, I had bought a vinyl record, the person in front had bought one and the person behind also.

I suppose there are a number of people still with a serviceable record player. Recently the store has started stocking vinyl, and so the sale of vinyl there can only go up.

I would not expect that vinyl would improve much from 4 to 5% of sales, but then that is enough.

Why are people like myself still willing to buy vinyl? Well I suspect that there are a lot of different reasons. If you are older and have grown up around vinyl, and have a reasonable sized record collection then there is a reason to maintain the record player, and do all the servicing like cartridge changes etc. Vinyl is a pleasant way to listen to music, there is the simplicity of form and function, basicly scratches on plastic and an amplifier.

If I was starting out now I would never have gone the vinyl route, but I have my old transcription record deck, I refurbished (partly rebuilt) my valve amplifiers (circa 1963 seperate pre- and left / right power amps), redesigned the front end of the valve pre-amp. So as an engineer it is a double pleasure for me to enjoy music on a system which I understand down to the last component.

I also have been a subscriber since the beginning and the Magazine is great. A lot of fun and a lot of useful info/tutorials etc.

And there is still room for a magazine, I travel on Helicopter, onto Offshore Installations with very little network connection available. There are still plenty of places without good network coverage.

So having the paper Magazine is important for me

It's absolutely spectacular. It's quite possibly the best computer I have ever owned.

I have had a Pandora for over a year and I agree with the above. It is a fantastic device for many reasons and I just love it. For the size, for the ready made programs and games available from the repository all neatly packaged for the pandora, for the very usable keyboard and great gaming controls, for the very friendly and productive community, for the exceptional battery life. Also it has an up to date firefox on the unit and I can use the pentadactyl add-on to give me vim style keyboard control of the browser.

There is more information to be found on the forums at openpandor.org The Pandora may be physicaly small, and the case does look a bit ordinary, but with it you get a lot, and there are still lots more that I could explore on the unit.

Especially for someone like myself, I travel a lot and have to travel light. I must take a company laptop filled with company software, I cannot mess to much with the company laptop, I need to produce official certificates and reports on this. There is really not enough room for another laptop in the bag.

The Pandora fits easily as an extra. I can play games, browse the internet, write some code, play some music, watch a film. It comes with me every time I travel.

I agree that it is not for everyone, and that is fine because it is great for a lot of us, there is no one device that fits all.

What are pirates going to do with no access to controls?

There will allways be a manual override, on the fancy automated vessels that I check out (fully equiped with Dynamic Positioning systems or DP) there are automatic control systems (DP), simple backup joystick systems and finally simple manual systems (levers for thrusters). These would very likely remain. A pilot would need access to these when taking the vessel into harbour.

Even though it is possible to have vessels remote controlled while at sea they would still need to be manned when they come into the quayside in a harbour. When I come into harbour after testing vessels for sea trials the captain always completes the delicate berthing procedure using the simple manual levers

As for disabling the remote control systems, plastic buckets over the small satellite domes and if there is a large V-Sat then just pull the plug.

So the hijackers just need to come on board the vessel armed with buckets, and perhaps a wire snip for the V-Sat. Also it would seem like a victimless crime to them. They get a ship load of equipment to sell, nobody is hurt, and the insurer pays

I work as a ship inspector. I test the control systems in ships with Dynamic Positioning systems as my speciality, but I also occasionaly inspect tanks, including ballast tanks I thought I might give a bit of general background to the type of inspections that go on with vessels, and who does them. In addition to the Flag State, there is the Port State, and the Classification Society, so there are actually three sets of inspections that can happen to a ship. The Flag State's job is to interperate the International Maritime Organisation IMO rules for the vessel. These are the rules which have been agreed by all members of the IMO, so this will include SOLAS for basic safety, and IOPP which sets rules designed to limit oil polution as two examples. The Classification Society predates the IMO regulations, it started with Lloyds of London in the 18th century, and soon after it was required to have the stamp from a classification society in order to be able to insure your vessel/cargo. The classification have their own rules and encompass all the major systems and structures that make a vessel sound. In addition there is the port state who can ask for a spot inspection of any vessel that comes into the country's port, and detain any that does not come up to scratch. Detention is the nightmare for any trading ship owner, so this is the stick that they most fear. Port state is informed of any vessel coming into their harbours, and if the flag state, or class society has any oustanding deficiencies related to the vessel, or if the flag state or class society are not top rated, then they will board and inspect the vessel, and likely detain it. Both Flag and Class require wide ranging annual inspections, and larger scopes every 5 years (on what is refered to a 'renewal' survey) Panama by the way is not a bad flag as they go, it is in my humble opinion as good as the MCA or UK flag state. Hope this explains how it all works, must go I have a ship to inspect ...

I have an old GP4 station running debian.

Only used for some text input, word processing and reading the odd pdf.

works very well on debian