Liberals don't hate all other religions, they want them to stop meddling in the business of people who aren't part of their own religion (secularism). Many liberals are religious, and Repubs being the base of the majority of Christians is a distinctly American oddity.

Lefties apologise for Islam for the same reason we apologise for Russians, Syrians, Gaddafi, Mexicans, Blacks and every other oppressed minority in the US. We don't base our views on TV or news, which try to hide the fact we are bullys. We base it on what we see and hear from real relationships and understand that just as the US government is liable to attack some country who personally we quite like, most other countries committing atrocities and hurting people do not have the support of the populace behind them. If a US drone kills 20 Ethiopian reporters in a friendly fire incident, nobody in Africa calls for blood but should the reverse be true there would be an uproar.

We also get that your religion is mostly the fault of your parents and geolocation.

Finally Islam is not some terrorist gang. It has 2 radical dudes at the 5000 guest wedding at most. Then maybe a few others will jump in purely because family, home and heart is being invaded. America needed something other than China and Russia to trouble because they can't afford to bat at the Superbowl for the next few decades.

17 inch laptop, 13 inch circuit board. Some of the PCB's for ULV 13 inch laptops are only 2x5 inches and low power enough to work passively at least for a few minutes needed to convince TSA.

I'm curious as to how they will deal with people taking genuinely broken machines, or full tower units with them on the plane when moving home or traveling to see family that can repair said broken items. This is beyond stupid.

And if there was one, would that really be a reason to cause inconvenience to perhaps 30% of travelers. I just came back from a 3 day camping trip in Yorkshire, UK to see the Tour De France. It was completely unplanned as there was an outage when I got there, but there was no power for the entirety of those 3 days on the grounds. How do I magically charge my phone for my return trip? What about the thousands of occurrences like the Burning Man etc that would cause you phone to run out of power before you get to the airport, are we that disconnected from normality?

Why not just stock a charging unit on the bloody wall by the TSA search station? Is it that hard?

And to be even more honest, just how many times has TSA found a bomb exactly? None. The closest they got was small chunks of C4, which were found as the passenger got off in Yuma, and were checked along with other luggage already at the other end. The guy was actually taking it home as a souvenir.

Isn't the very objective of 'good business' the idea of a trade in which you gain something more valuable than you give?

Isn't life experience of incalculable value to those who do not have?

Then you can logically deduce that a 'scam' is actually a good business deal exchanging your money for some invaluable life experience. Everyone's happy... Except you I guess.

I said life experience was invaluable, not painless. ;)

Yes, but that's easy to excuse with "Well nobody over here knows how to do X skill which we really need workers for and our competitors don't". Whilst they may all be competing, big tech giants have quite different employment structure, paradigms and requirements workforce wise. For example, Google's core business (search) will require much more distributed computing experts than Microsoft's core biz (Office and Windows)

It's not a broad brush really. It is a pretty logical conclusion that has a wealth of good examples, however, one can be an asshole and a nice person at the same time. Remember, being an asshole and being blunt/to the point/ruthless/decisive/uncompromising are often the same thing from two different perspectives, and nobody would argue that the latter is a common trait amongst the majority of the rich.

Lol, because Egypt and Tunisia are as developed as USA is!

Egypt and Tunisia don't have the money, resources, army, media (very important) or any other of the needed tools to force us to carry on doing our daily jobs in spite fo the crap the government throws at us. USA does.

The same thing happened in France and the UK, what did they do? Shot the civilians with rubber bullets and mowed them down with water cannons. When you have rich country, your solution is to just hire more police and National Guard.

USB3 does not use polling. It is asynchronous.

Taken from the PDF standards here: http://www.usb.org/developers/...

USB 2.0 transmits SOF/uSOF at fixed 1 ms/125 s intervals. A device driver may change
the interval with small finite adjustments depending on the implementation of host and
system software. USB 3.0 adds mechanism for devices to send a Bus Interval Adjustment
Message that is used by the host to adjust its 125 s bus interval up to +/-13.333 s.
In addition, the host may send an Isochronous Timestamp Packet (ITP) within a relaxed
timing window from a bus interval boundary.

The reasoning is very simple. Like all things on this earth, we do not know the absolute truth, but if GW is even a possibility it will be the end of earth as we know it. Better to err on the side of caution and be wrong than destroy the planet with our arrogance and insistence that "there's still a chance it's all wrong!"

Last but not least let's remember profit.

Not only is there money in Wyoming's coal, but there is also a hell of a lot of oil under those polar icecaps!

But you see your answer perfectly explains the bias. You see it as a matter of yourself deliberately killing 3 people to save 300, i see it as a matter of letting 300 people die because I lack the testicular fortitude to act to let the 3 go. You see, either way, 3 people minimum are going to die.

Going back the the crux of TFA, there was a scene in 'I, Robot' where Del (Will Smith) is recapping about how he got his robotic arm to the engineer lady, he says that as his car and another containing a young girl were sinking into the water, a robot came and saved him instead of the child. She remarks 'The robot was a difference engine, it worked out that you have a higher percent chance of surviving than she did' and he replies 'I know, but 14% was enough'.

Anyway, my point towards this is, say you take a scenario like that, and the machine does try to save the kids against 14% odds and fails, there would be a lawsuit anyway. There's actually nothing that can be done but to make the machine as logical as possible. That way, the laws of physics and difference are the deciding factors in a car's actions, not whether it has been programmed to pay special attention to X special interest group of people. Save from avoiding obvious mass hazards like explosives and fuel stations, I doubt there is much that can be programmed anyway.

This is the gravamen of the issue.

In court you could certainly lie and claim not to have noticed that the car was coming, but if you stated you did see the car coming, and sat there with your popcorn as the guy hit it, you will be treated much more harshly... not because you did anything illegal, but because you are a twisted individual with a serious lack of social responsibility.

Then again, most people lack that today.

Yeah, but part of that is like trying to justify the purchase of a Lamborghini financially. Driving a Tesla is a fashion statement as well as a car, as are most $80k cars.

So why is the fact the car isn't a convertible factored into your reasoning?

Unless of course that creator is not the one who you pray to... then you'll look pretty stupid too.

I for one don't care what I look like. My beliefs give me the comfort I need without the need to enforce them on others. Should I find myself looking silly on judgement day, my response will be "well you sure as hell made it pretty hard to logically believe in you over all the other options".