As ridiculous as it is, I don't think anyone really cares. People have largely made their decisions long ago and there's little opinion to sway. There was a study pretty much demonstrating this just recently.
However, I'm just a Canadian eating my popcorn, watching the shit show ensue.
You play with political fire you're going to get burned. That applies to Luckey and anyone condemning him from the soap box of their corporation.
You'd almost think all the heavy regulations on cab services and politics behind public transit was a ploy by the auto industry to sell more cars.
EU law was written by the EU. Article 50 is a mess, there was an interview with the guy who wrote it where he said he didn't bother doing it properly because he thought it'd never be used.
It would also work much better if RFID tags were embedded in food packaging.
> powering from the outside with the magnetic field of earth
nah quite certain it's just the presence of the electric field from the magnetron source screwing up all their readings. Once you start messing around with >100W magnetron sources the presence of electric fields will show a voltage reading on just about any voltmeter or any sort of voltage measurement device. You need to spend considerable effort to shield all these potential false signal sources.
If you want a simple example, by pass the interlock on a microwave oven and turn it on while you have someone observe a multimeter set to DC volts from across the room. Quite certain they'll get a non-zero reading, even with no electrical leads connected. Just imagine trying to do this while splitting hairs over milli or micro newtons of thrust with an asymmetric microwave oven.
Years ago while working on my bachelor's degree I was messing around with wireless power transmission experiments with a bunch of employed engineers who had not a fucking clue what they were doing. We wasted countless hours taking measurements of supposed RF-to-DC conversion while all we were observing was the electric field strength increasing around us. It took me on my own reverting to the basics of the entire subject and repeating experiment work from William C. Brown's papers to demonstrate to them how to make it actually work right. The whole experience was extremely frustrating while immensely eye opening - a lot of additional letters after a person's name means almost nothing to me now.
Trying to do real science with a bunch of cargo cult true believers is a fool's errand.
Liquor is sold in "pints" and "half pints" typically 375ml and 200ml in every place I've been to -- in fact it's very difficult to actually purchase the little single shot bottles in many states without purchasing a bunch of them together in a larger package.
My biggest time waster are bored coworkers coming over to my desk to shoot the shit while I'm trying to work.
Hey if it improved my application for a work permit I'd have no problem sharing my professional account profiles, like my LinkedIn account. If I had a personal website that I maintained as my CV and hobbies I'd totally provide that - particularly in the case if I had a very common name (I personally don't) and needed to distinguish myself from the bajillion other Mohammed/Muhammed/Mohamed. I'd especially do it if I knew it would expedite the application process. Nothing to hide, etc etc
"The identical is equal to itself, since it is different." -- Franco Spisani
