I'm hard of hearing, you insensitive clod.

Back in the perfectly prehistoric 60's we would use - wait for it - a real chalkboard. With chalk, even.

So, you're saying that the rules of production are axioms too. Still doesn't change what I said. But, you do arrive at the same endpoint that I arrived at, which is that if you don't accept some of them at some point, you'll wind up back at my original point.

Anything new to add?

Don't mention this to the Aussies.

That's just revisionism (they tried awfully hard not to let go); the correct parallel is Aesop's The Fox and the Grapes.

"A poof is a poof. What kind of a poof? It's a poof. A poof is a poof. And when you have a good poof, it's because it's poofin'." Jean B. Tokin, former Prime Minister of CanIHitThat

Thank you. For the love of FSM, thank you for qualifying your statement about proof.

Proof is absolute, within the confines of the accepted axioms. Within the larger scope of things, we accept proof probabilistically, and this includes the entire works of every mathematician ever to live. Bayesian stats attempts to capture this idea that knowledge is never absolute, but merely held with probabilistic certainty, and all things are based on axioms (inherently unprovable, but assumed to be useful) ultimately. I only gripe (and boy is it a really fine, pedantic gripe), because your comment commits the same error you attack. Math/logic is a model, not reality. Models are based on necessary assumptions (axioms), otherwise you'd be arguing with solipsists over every detail, no matter how blindingly "obvious". This trend toward claiming that a mathematical proof or a scientific theory is "absolute" violates the very premise on which they're based.

If they had put the generators behind (uphill) the main building AND put the generators in a water RESISTANT building, all would have been fine. If they had installed the hydrogen traps most of the problems (the earth shattering kaboom) would have been avoided. If they had followed their engineers advice and dumped sea water on the core, most of the bad problems would have been avoided.

All of those improbable problems would probably have been mitigated if TEPCO had competent upper management. Now, how likely is that?

We're talking about improbable things. Not inevitable things. Remember, this IS Slashdot.

Bistromathics > Improbability, but you won't get it if all you did was see the shitty movie.

Paying $50+ a month for my internet connection, don't you call me a freeloader. Get off your neighbor's or your mom's wifi, freeloader, and join the rest of us paying customers who are demanding service for our money. 10s of billions of dollars are irrelevant, they are making much more than this.

Only if you're polluting more than your fair share, comrade.

Ah, so the police are social workers as well? They'll be glad to know that. Think about that for a moment. Yes, the police should have compassion towards people, but no, they aren't mommy, daddy, the rich uncle and everyone else in the extended family. They're police.

In this case, they did the absolute minimum needed. They arrested her, then let her go. She will probably end up with a small fine and a slap on the wrist - as befits the crime of stealing a VHS tape. Life goes on.

Apparently, however, there is little life left in Slashdot. Is this newsworthy at all? It's basically click bait. Come on guys, there are better articles in this in the Firehose.

As you said, American Law Firm. You keep saying it, but I'm not sure how you keep missing it.

Are you trying to suggest that spying on Americans is okay? And that we should violate the attorney-client privilege of those Americans, which exists both here and in Indonesia?