"Woke, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC"

Do I grievously misremember, or did this sig once say:

SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC

Google ads don't hog bandwidth or CPU. They're reasonably sized static images or text content.
So, no, there's no exception for Google ads. But it wouldn't change anything if there were

This was true in 2005. It is no longer so.

... if it *were* to be approved.

And I think we're there.

You think we're there? What cringeworthy, random, flailing act on the part of this administration can you possibly point to to make that claim? Contact tracing depends upon one very important datum - knowing exactly where the disease is and is not at any given point in time. Given that the goal thus far has been to block access to testing in order to keep the confirmed case count down, how could you possibly assert that it's even possible to know this?

And even if you managed to get that far, all you'd do is meaningfully establish where the starting blocks are. To characterize anything Trump has done as an effort comparable to the Apollo or Mahatten(sic) projects is an exaggeration on par with Caligula claiming to have conquered England after some legionaries whacked some reeds with their swords.

not great, not terrible.

That's *one* way to keep the count of confirmed cases down.

So you're saying that the time to raise taxes is after the average global temperature goes up by more than 5 degrees? If that happens, there won't be anything to tax.

The ongoing global climate war worsens and civilization collapses.

And this is a big reason why, after 10 some odd years of using Android, I recently switched to an iPhone.

... after having been an Android user for 10+ years, specifically for this kind of thing. Apple is far from perfect, but they're the only big player pretending to give a shit about user privacy. With an Android phone, by the time you get done with the preinstalled crapware from the phone manufacturer, network provider, and Google, your entire damn life is an open book to gods know who.

I'd say about 70% of security measures associated with *any* security policy, whether there has been a breach or not, are busywork at best and/or harmful at worst.

Consider, for example, password rotation. We now know frequent enforced password changes are a bad idea. Yet almost every security policy I've seen still imposes them. Why? Because IT security is still an emotional exercise, not an empirical one.

has anyone proposed landing a nuclear powered SUV sized probe?

You literally just described the Curiosity rover.

That says that any headline that asks a yes/no question can be answered with no?

I'm pretty sure it's Cunningham's Law.

Bolsonaro is the elected head-of-state of a sovereign nation.

So is Trump. What's your point?

No one ever believed smoking was good for you. NO one. EVER.

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