The index of refraction of sea water is about 1.333. The index of refraction of most glass is between 1.45 and 1.95, or typically about 1.5. That corresponds to the speed of light in each medium being about 0.75 c and 0.66 c respectively.
TL/DR: the speed of light in sea water is faster than in glass.
That would just cause indiscriminate mayhem. You'd take out your own satellites too.
I wasn't thinking of Samba. It can't mount a Google Drive, or anything that doesn't speak SMB/CIFS. And it has been around for more than 20 years: it was created by Andrew Tridgell in 1991/1992.
Nice to know. Also, I suppose one could locally mount a remote drive and use it for/with anything you want.
I have no doubt that LibreOffice keeps MS awake at night, but is it their only competitor?
When I saw TFS, I immediately thought of Google Docs/Sheets/Slides as an alternative with online storage. Not sure LibreOffice has that.
Here's a quote from the 22nd Amendment:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.
Nothing about (non-)consecutive terms.
The Republican party simply does not have another viable candidate besides Trump. It remains to be seen whether he will be in good enough Health to run for a third term. There's also a chance to public maybe unwilling to give him a third term although I think it's safe to say the supreme Court will allow it.
The US Constitution is clear that a President cannot be elected to a third term. If Trump manages to serve a third term, then it would be through some other method than being elected to the office. You're saying the Supreme Court would allow that?
Yes, I have heard of some back-door ways he might get into office a third time, like running on a ticket as the Vice President, and then having the elected President resign in Trump's favor. Or being elected Speaker and then having the President and Vice President resign. I don't think any of them are realistic. Then again, I find it hard to see anything going on right now as being realistic.
Alas, I have to agree with this. However, per TFS, lawyer Zuckerberg appears to be upset about Meta charging him for advertising a page that he cannot use. Surely he has a legitimate beef regarding that.
Hm. Socialism's titular quality is social ownership and democratic control of the means of production. There's another name for a system that specifically advocates state control, through ownership or otherwise, especially of security-related industries.
I'm not an expert, but I think you're confusing socialism with communism. The way I think of it: a socialist system runs everything, whereas a communist system owns everything. I welcome comments and corrections on this.
If you're the one who is claiming there are no Nazis in the EV industry (anywhere!) then the burden is on you to prove it. Go ahead.
Unlike many people commenting on this story, I actually read TFA. I didn't see anything about using AI to change the way elections are run, specifically counting ballots cast by human beings, one each.
What I did see is a government agency exploring ways that AI could help run elections (such as making government documents easier to find) and by examining how malicious AI by third parties could threaten the integrity of an election (such as with disinformation and deep fakes.) Nothing has been decided yet, as they're still in the exploratory stages.
So, it's a bit too early to clutch our pearls.
We need a different metaphor for "mistaking the weather for the climate."
How about:
climate = forest
weather = trees
Does this help?
Despite my attempts, it is obvious that you are incapable of recognizing the difference between what someone says and what someone writes as an utterance for a character they created.
If you're going to quote from Douglas Adams A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy then you attribute it to "Douglas Adams, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
If you're going to quote from plain old Douglas Adams, as in something he said himself as his own opinion, rather than wrote as dialog for a character, then you just attribute it to "Douglas Adams."
That is the way quotations work.
Over and out.
If Douglas Adams wrote the words a character said in one of his novels, then he himself did not say those words, the character did. I can't make it any clearer.
Every word from every character in every work by Douglas Adams is a word written by Douglas Adams.
I can't make that any clearer. Every single word.
Not. Relevant. Adams wrote the words. That doesn't mean he "said" them in the sense of expressing his own opinion.
But I'll try. Shakespeare once wrote dialog for one of his characters (in Henry IV Part Two, I think) who said "The first thing we do, let's kill. all the lawyers." Did Shakespeare say that, or the character in the play? The answer is:
William Shakespeare wrote that.
Dick the Butcher doesn't exist, he's a fictional character.
See above.
If Douglas Adams wrote the words a character said in one of his novels, then he himself did not say those words, the character did. I can't make it any clearer.
But I'll try. Shakespeare once wrote dialog for one of his characters (in Henry IV Part Two, I think) who said "The first thing we do, let's kill. all the lawyers." Did Shakespeare say that, or the character in the play? The answer is: the latter. The character was a terrorist, and he spoke in the context of overthrowing the government. Shakespeare would not have agreed with that opinion, but the character in the play did.
I repeat: authors are not responsible for what their characters say, although they may or may not agree with those characters.
Administration: An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. -- Ambrose Bierce
