RubberbandSoul

Mugabe had seven academic degrees.

In the summer. In the winter the heat from the bulbs would help heating the homes, offices, stores, etc.

Right, so without knowing much about physics I'm guessing that momentum is preserved and IceCube works a little bit like a giant cloud chamber but looks for trails of Cherenkov radiation rather than an ionized particle trail.

While I knew that IceCube existed it didn't occur to me until know that I have no idea how they filter out collisions from particles that comes from above or sideways. Is the resulting flash of light not omnidirectional? Is it polarized differently?

That's almost forty years ago. You are basically playing Where's Waldo with military aviation history.

Being a consumer/customer is different from being a creditor

These places do exist. They are very nice.

For some reason they always seem to be privately owned by one person rather than publicly traded or owned by a corporation. At least in my experience.

It's easy to get bitter about these things. "Experience" seems to be code for: "we've spent fifteen years painting ourself into a corner and now we need a guy who will get us out of it in three months or less". You are however not allowed to give any feedback whatsoever about their processes, priorities, organization, promotion strategies, retention policies, etc.

Having experience usually means that you've acquired a holistic view of software development. Usually the hard way. But they want solutions, not advice or opinions.

I've met a few devs that makes a living like that. Get in, solve problems. Keep quiet. Get out. Wait for them to call back in a couple of years.

They are shown in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDha7nj4s10

Most consumer electronics companies are like this. It's not only a yearly release cycle but a Christmas release cycle. New Shiny Thing has to be in the stores by late November so all development has to be done in August so the factories can start producing the first trial batches.

I never buy products when they are first released. I prefer to wait at least 3-4 months so that production has had time to tweak all the settings and weed out the funky first component deliveries. Also the software devs will have fixed the worst bugs by then.

> can’t make regular calls over cellular

That's extremely serious because the call you're trying to make could be an emergency call. A bug like that would have top priority in the org I used to work in. If I'd had to guess it cancels the call because there's a crash in a process somewhere. Possibly because of audio handover between apps.

or listen to Valley Girl by Franc Zappa

> state puts refugees in the same areas (Rinkeby, Vivalla, Tensta, etc ...).

No it doesn't. Refugees are placed in municipalities all over Sweden but most choose to move to the big cities as soon as they can and end up in these districts because they are the cheapest.

> slightly elevated crime rate.

Citation needed. Compared to what? Casual crime is very high compared to traditional Swedish society. Also a lot of crime goes unreported because the locals don't trust the police to be able to do anything.

> That's where the integration effort stops.

Simply not true. There are oodles of integration efforts all over Sweden at many levels; public projects, local initiatives and on top of that immigration heavy areas gets more public funding than average for schools, after-school activities, park/street cleanings, etc.

> Even professionals who move to Sweden for work have a hard time integrating in Swedish society.

That's because Swedish is a small language and most professionals don't plan on staying. Most Swedish professionals speak English on a native speaker level and most large Swedish companies has English as the official corporate language. In my experience most non-English speakers that comes to Sweden spend their efforts on becoming fully proficient in English while the English speakers are delighted to find that they can use English everywhere in society. Learning Swedish has a very low priority and after a couple of years most expats grows tired of the cold, darkness, taxes, low salaries, etc.

I'm not trolling. Violent crime necessitates armed law enforcement.

While the rise in violent crime isn't caused by unarmed police officers the fact that they are unarmed didn't prohibit the rise in violent crime.

Great.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/288256/violent-crimes-in...

There's a person waving a knife or gun around in public threatening to commit suicide. Now what?

There's a person threatening suicide in public and then pulling out a knife or gun when the authorities show up. Now what?

It's easy to be an armchair law enforcement expert and dream up scenarios where the good guys always wins. But reality doesn't conform to your utopian ideas.

> defunding (i.e. demilitarizing)

Redefining words in order to win arguments. Nice. Defunding means exactly that. I know this because that is what happened to the police forces that were defunded. Not entirely defunded, but they ended up with less money in their budget.

> the typical day-to-day work for a police officer doesn't require violence or the threat of violence

Says who? Are you a cop? Do you have cops in the family? Are you a law enforcement expert? Do you have any source or statistic whatsoever to back that up?

I've heard the opposite. Keeping the shades open is so that the rescue crews can look into the plane in case of a crash/accident.

Depends on the context, I think. She took the limo ride because it's was available. Alcohol is alcohol. What if it was another person sitting in an ordinary cab drinking whiskey straight out of the bottle saying to his/her friends "Thank God we're getting out of THAT, right?"

Billions of dollars worth of R&D and I still can't organize my subscriptions. Sorry, I had to.

I would like to see how this kind of immigration is defined. I once worked for a company that was founded and went through the startup phase outside of the US.

Once it was somewhat mature and had a steady income stream the CEO moved to the US and put the new head office there.

This was because the US was the biggest market and it was vital to be close to the biggest customers.

Would this CEO count as an immigrant who started a profitable business in the US?

The analyses on why movies looks like they do today has been done to death already.

What happened was that piracy and other forms of commodification gutted the entire middle segment of movie making. What remains today is indie movies and Marvel-style blockbusters and very little in between.

It's not just that people would spend less on watching movies or watch pirated content for free. It's that they would rather spend their entertainment money on streaming services, computer games, etc.

You could in fact make the exact opposite creativity argument by looking at computer games. Since the late 90's we have gone from Half Life to Half Life: Alyx.

There's a couple of those.

The "caseless" ammo assult rifle is obviously ejecting spent casing in some scenes.

The rotating light on top of the mecha suit loader is smashed when the queen drags it down into the airlock but is whole again once down in the pit.

The actors started to call the movie "The Abuse" while filming it. James Cameron almost died himself on another occasion. He lost his air while submerged and the guy supposed to check on him didn't do his job correctly.

There's a great documentary on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k43KHV1fDU

I wonder if a society that treats people as individuals is even possible?

To me that sounds like reasoning along the lines of the physics professors answer: "First, let's assume that all cows are spherical..."

Not always a useful assumption.

Generalizations are necessary for a human to function. Something like 90% of all daily activities are repetition and you would become psychotic if you tried to make a conscious effort to evaluate and re-evaluate everything all the time.

This goes for how we view people too, obviously. Especially those that we do not know.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't try, just trying to argue that it would be inhuman to expect us to succeed every time.

I'm guessing it's because the AC voltage will introduce noise on the DC low voltage current.

But like everything else it depends. Is the DC feeding something like a lightbulb or a fan? Then it probably won't matter.

Does the DC feed something that has a good low pass filter or is it an expensive AC cable with good shielding? Then it might also not matter.

None of the above should be considered be professional advice and it's probably a good rule of thumb to never mix wires like that.

I have the habit of "washing" everything with Notepad to get rid of inconsistencies:

Copy text, data, etc from wherever

Paste it into Notepad

Copy it again

Paste it where you want it and then apply any formatting according to the destination app's formatting rules

Not a great workaround but at least it works.

I just checked. The power button is locked out but the volume knob works now.

Now I feel stupid, but it's quite possible that it has been patched during a yearly service.

I sometimes wonder how much of a computer setup is actually legal from a regulatory perspective? I have tinnitus in one ear so I usually set the volume balance on a system to 40-60 to spare it.

However in Windows this is broken for Bluetooth headsets and it's been a known bug since forever. Last time I checked they didn't fix it and it doesn't seem to be a priority.

My Nissan has a center console that cedes ALL controls to the rear camera app when the car is put in reverse. So if you have music playing you can twist the physical volume knob all you like while in reverse and nothing will happen!

If you parallel park daily you'll probably experience this every time: You jump in the car, start it and put it in reverse. The music will start playing after a couple of seconds at the level that you had during your noisy commute. You now have the choice to put your car in neutral, change the volume and then go back to reverse and exit your parking spot OR try to navigate out of your parking spot with music blasting.