> ... called ultra low velocity zones (ULVZs), which are dense patches on the core-mantle boundary. The statement seems to go against the knowledge that, in general, the denser the material, the faster sound will go through it. That sound waves have "ultra low velocity" in those zones would indicate relative non-dense patches, not dense patches.

You are so spot on! It seems slashdot gets inundated with anti-trump propaganda quite a bit. Lies, like the once they write here. Those 60M+ voters that voted for Trump, referred to by Anonymous Coward (#59984962) as idiots, are the ones who view both left and right media, and know CNN, MSNBC, etc., lie and lie and lie. Those who inundate slashdot with the garbage you refer to see only the left media. When I watch a full Trump interview on Fox, then see the incredibly distorted write-up on NBC and the rest, I shudder. To see that happening here in our own country is disheartening.

The DAP did indeed change it's name to National Socialist German Workers' Party (abbreviated NSDAP) at that time. There is a clear reason for it, though.

By the way,a man named Anton Drexler founded the DAP, and Anton was anti-Semitic, nationalist, anti-capitalist, and at the same time anti-Marxist per the source given below.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Hence the DAP was anti-Marxist, yes, but also anti-capitalist. It was the Marxist Socialists the Nazi's (renamed DAP) fought in the streets.

As I learned elsewhere, and as my shown further below states, the DAP turned into Nazi to draw workers away from communism, for one. They were still very socialist.

The Nazi Party emerged from the German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I Germany.[7] The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.[8] Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, although this was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders, and in the 1930s the party's main focus shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.[9]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There were nationalist reasons Hitler invaded Checkoslovakia, Sudatenland, some corridor I forget about, but his Nazi socialism was failing badly after that, and is one of the reasons Hitler invaded the rest of Europe. This was the speculation of the lecturer I learned WWII German ecomomy from.

In any case, the Nazis were socialist, as Hitler stated in his book, and the Nazi brand of socialism was just as bad as the communist brand.

Anyone who says the US can get Socialism right this time is saying we are smarter than Stalin, Hitler, Mao (all absolute geniuses!), Maduro, Kim Jong-il, Pol Pot (murdered 1/4 to 1/3 or all Cambodians) and all the other socialist governments.

Fought the socialists in the 20s and 30s? Really?

Page 381 of Mein Kampf, writing about a follow up to something from February 24, 1920, wrote the paragraph below wherein he clearly calls himself and his party National Socialists. 1920! No one with any honesty can claim he did not identify himself with being a socialist very early on in his career!

"During that period the hall of the Hofbrau Haus in Munich acquired for us, National Socialists, a sort of mystic significance. Every week there was a meeting, almost always in that hall, and each time the hall was better filled than on the former occasion, and our public more attentive."

http://www.greatwar.nl/books/m...

The full name of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Hitler argued against socialists who were further to the left than himself, sometimes calling them Marxists. Even in debates. He knew he would otherwise not be electable. I don't believe he was as extreme as the far left socialist fringe, but the Nazi party enacted socialist policies. Hitler won with only 1/3 of the electorate because of the fractious nature of German politics at the time. 1/3 was enough. If he did not espouse socialist policies he would never have gotten the support of, much less be the head of, the nation's leading socialist party.

Well said. Hitler may have been head of the National Socialist Party but he could not really have been socialist because he was a dictator. Maduro is head of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, but since he is a dictator, he, too, is not a true socialist. Don't believe those capitalist dogs that try to pin Nazi Germany and Venezuela on socialism.

Oh, no, no. I have a sinking feeling you are right. Now that I think of it, I've never heard of inter-state voter checking. Real-ID may be needed after all. Thanks

Indeed. Someone needs to!
"... nearly all of the calls were related to user-error problems ..."
In one or two places I might have bought that. But in so many places? I doubt it.

"... bad cellphone service ..."
In so many places across wide areas, and in the same time frame? With no news reports about Verizon or Comcast having satellite or other problems?

Dead voters is a dead issue, though. Millions die (or move out of state) each year. All states have large numbers of dead or moved away voters still on the rolls. That does not matter as long as there is a check to see if the dead voted or the live ones voted more than once. I can only hope there is.

> This lawsuit is for show only in an election year
Anything good MUST be turned around to look bad. Otherwise the Trump administration might get credit.

You said: Their inkjet printer software alone was horrific 20 years ago. No, it was not. I had two HP inkjet printers. They both lived a long life at my home. You said: AND, you could NOT download the printer software- etc., etc.. Not true at all. When Windows 10 came I downloaded A140509_ENU_2K.exe software for my old, old HP Deskjet K80, which was introduced 10-15 years ago. You can still download drivers for it at https://hpdriverscenter.net/hp.... Talk about sweeping generalizations! Just because you could not download something you needed, you extrapolated it to imply one could not download HP printer software. Just because you had a problem with an inkjet, you imply they were all no good. Indictments of capitalism based on falsehoods is a stock-in-trade of socialists. Since this looked like yet another case of that, I may have jumped to the conclusion you were doing that. You may deserve an apology.

It has been maybe a decade since I purchased my last HP printer, but, 1) I've downloaded HP printer software a number of times in the past as I upgraded my PCs. 2) I myself was happy to part with my money to get a number of their printers. HP's customers are not fleeing because most of them get the right bang for their buck. If we thought we could do better elsewhere we would have gone elsewhere, as Capitalism suggests. 3) As many posts above assert, the guy can just buy a normal ink cartridge at the store to solve his problem. The world has tried Nazi, Communist and other brands of socialism. I'd rather have to think about what printer I buy than have either concentration or re-education camps. You rarely come out alive in either. When you have to lie to support your case, you should get at least an inkling you are on the wrong side.

The government will then be able to dole out the money to only the newsrooms that it wants, thereby ending the madness of contradictory opinions we have now. Think how much happier the people will be with the news and the government being in lock-step.

I do not use Rust but I read enough of the book and saw enough of the tutorials to know that Rust has no garbage collection because it is not needed! The borrowing concept allowed a compiler to be written that prevents the things that cause memory leakage in the first place. No garbage collector is not a negative thing in this case. It is a very, very great plus, Does ESR really not know that?

I've read a third of the Rust nightly book and watched many, many Rust videos on youtube. I like Rust very much. However, I believe Rust was invented by, is sponsored by, and gets it's major funding from the Mozilla foundation. There is essentially no more Mozilla Thunderbird, and the Mozilla Firefox browser is getting significantly less usage. We've had articles on such here on Slashdot. If the Mozilla browser itself falters any more, would Mozilla, and hence rust, stay alive?

Most of the things we are willing to give our money for were once only a thought in someone's mind. Going from mind to finished product is a long and hard road, filled with failures implementing even very good ideas. Do you really think mankind could have progressed as it did in the last 100 years if those insightful people could not profit greatly from their risks and efforts?