Re: Re. LISA
I know where it came from.
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If you allow 2-D, I think you have to allow "stuff" like this
You may have to incorporate exotic matter if you want your 2D universe to have a chance of being stable, but that doesn't make the presence of exotic matter a given in any conjecturable 2D universe.
I didn't expect that it would be a trap. Usually someone uses a hook like that as an excuse to spout off their ignorant, ill-considered, piss-poor excuse of a hypothesis as The One True Answer The Established Authorities Deny.
I can however respect you simply asking a question. Unfortunately, though, I don't think you've really advanced a discussion by stating your list of observations, since they're fairly self-evident. Would you like to respond to my conjecture instead?
assuming a competent user, of course!
There'd certainly be a risk of following its suggestions without thinking too clearly about the implication of any particular suggestion. No doubt that response would be something a human could learn to cope with, and minimise, but that's still one more load to deal with in an already loaded brain. When I think of the times that I've been writing a document or email and only belatedly spotted that autocomplete/autocorrect has mangled a sentence for me, I can't help but think there's a downside it's going to take some time to get used to and learn to manage.
We're guessing it would also be an excellent way of getting rid of other annoying drones.
The subsequent step in the drone-on-drone arms race will be a drone draped with a fire blanket. The step after that will be a drone armed with a hook capable of lifting the blanket so that the flamethrower can get a clear shot.
Are you the AC who has been talking bollocks all through this or are you a different AC? If you are a different AC then it would help if you'd create an account and make your independence clear.
If you are the AC who has been talking bollocks all along then I'm mildly entertained to see that for whatever reason you are unable to provide evidence for your original bollocks claim, and indeed have moved onto making obscure and unclear subjective comments. A bit like your original bollocks.
The tooth fairy also isn't real.
Well, I'm glad we agree on one thing.
Can we also agree that I had a nice walk and a lovely cup of tea yesterday? You're welcome to ask me for evidence, even for such a mundane claim, if you don't believe me. And I'll wait to see evidence supporting your bollocks hypothesis before I think it's anything other than bollocks. If you had it, it would have been so easy for you to provide that from the off.
One more word of advice: if you wanted to demonstrate maturity rather than expose yourself to ridicule, writing in such an opinionated style by describing the target of your ire as 'stupid' and 'garbage' just makes you sound like Donald Trump.
Ah the left's identitarian politics
You're responding to one individual, so why instead do you choose to use a gross generalisation to demean a very broad group of people by claiming its politics are those of gross generalisation? Mustn't you accordingly despise gross generalisations?
"I had argued for keeping at least one physical domain controller but to no avail."
We were successful in making this argument, fortunately. It seems like such an obvious safety net that it's well worth implementing, and a surprise that it can be an uphill struggle to get agreement for it. It's almost like manglement believe the salesmen when they say, "Our proposal will replace all your estate and save you tens of thousands a year."
I can't see the harm in letting American's try and run NHS services
I think you may not be aware of all the attempts at backdoor privatisation which have failed. Arguably it's happened at scale in the elderly care 'industry', which is shameful. More specifically you could look to the failure of Circle Health. Also try the shortsighted privatisation of specific services such as knee ops and kidneys ops, which resulted in the NHS having to pick up the failures -- there was of course an expected failure rate, but its resolution wasn't covered by the contracts -- and to make things worse the removal of junior surgeons from associated complex tasks meant that fewer surgeons could reach consultant level due to their lack of broader experience!
Any interference in healthcare is going to carry consequences. Look at the 2012 reorganisation, now generally considered a total waste of money at a time when less money was available. Do you really trust politicians to get it right by opening up NHS services to yet more private providers, most of whom will come from a regime where profit is all and shafting the customer is the reason d'etre of the legal department?
He has said UK will leave EU on 31st Oct, "Do or Die".
I think that was a slip of the tongue. He meant 'Do and die'. As some people inevitably will when there's less money for the NHS and he uses that as an excuse to try to sell chunks of it off to the Yank exploit-people's-illnesses industry.
an unprecedented degree of tolerance of roadworks and transport disruption
And the farmers will be the first to complain when they can't get their tractors and trailers -- or the hauliers can't get their lorries -- past a digging crew on Lincolnshire's narrow, ditch-flanked rural roads.
before anybody gets a functioning govt going in London
We haven't had a functioning government in London for the last three years. If you haven't been able to get your act together, liberate Berwickshire and Rebuild That Wall in that time I don't hold out much hope of you achieving anything over the next two months.
Sure. Parliament is more backbench than front bench, but with about 95 ministerial posts up for grabs when the ruling party has 312 MPs, how many of those want to hang on to their positions and how many of the remainder want to gain them? Do you think it would be fair to say that probably less than half don't have such an interest?
we pay a fortune in tax
And what percentage of your income was that? That's the question which really matters, not the size of the bill.
I can live with the fact that some superstar footballer is earning ten million a year, but if his tax bill is only ten percent of that then I'm going to think he's a thieving cunt.
What makes you think MPs argue for their principles? Some backbenchers do, no doubt, but anyone with any ambition spends their day sucking up to the whips and to the ministers. Just look at all the spineless wankers grovelling around Johnson at the moment, giving weak excuses for dropping their previous stances on policy or candidate in the hope of either keeping or getting a cabinet job.
I'm gratified to see that a number of people share my concern for the well-being of Anatidae, existent or non-existent.
Next week: Would you allow Mustelidae to share your child's bedroom?
"Our elections system is perhaps the most critical of all infrastructure to our democracy – and it is constantly under attack from foreign powers who do not share our values."
It's also under attack from domestic powers who do not share your values. Gerrymandering and voter suppression play much more of a role in rigging elections than the Russians likely ever have, while the creation of Super PACS makes it much easier for a faceless funder to influence voters.
I've seen worse, unfortunately. I've seen students walk away with their work saved to a floppy disk (yes, I am going back a year or two here) and expect to be able to carry on working on it at another computer. Any computer, regardless of whether or not it had desktop publishing or CAD software installed on it.
use all those log files generated on the web server itself. After all, unless you have more nefarious aims in mind, that information should be all developers need to keep things humming along.
I did that for ten years, then a dozen years ago Marketing decided they wanted prettier graphs so it was all dropped in favour of Google Analytics. If they came back to me now and said they wanted to go back to log files I'd laugh in their faces.
More likely "Armed police! Hands up else *bang* *bang* *bang**bang**bang**bang**bang**bang* ... *bang**bang* ... [reload] ... *bang**bang* .. *bang* Uh, call an ambulance, someone."
"OK, Sarge. And I'll just kick this chair leg he was carrying into an alleyway."
How many even knew that they'd been "identified"?
Presumably they knew they'd been identified by some means when a copper came up to them and said, "Mr X? I'd like to speak to you about your outstanding fine / latest heist / Great Escape." But for whatever reason they still weren't worth arresting.