ForgotAboutDre @ ForgotAboutDre @lemmy.world

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When your building that many ships each year your ship design and building capabilities are going to rise very fast. China is serious about challenging the US liberal order. This is bad for everyone the world over, China is very authoritarian and current trajectory is more nationalist and authoritarian.

You are right, TOS isn't the law. However businesses will try to trick you with this technique, especially if they don't think you have any legal support. You can't commit a crime just because the victim agreed to it, no amount of contracts negate this. Employers often pull this trick to force employees to accept illegal practices.

The person hosting and publishing the code may have never agreed to the TOS. So can't be bound by it. They also can revoke their agreement, and no longer have to comply with it. However, continued use of the businesses web services likely requires agreeing to the TOS and this plug in may be using the businesses web services to make the plugin work.

There is value in verifying and quantifying opinion, even if your sure this opinion is true.

Soccer was an abbreviation used by posh people. Associate football -> sociate -> soccer. Much like rugby is called ruggers by the same group of people today. It was an informal term.

Association football was popular amongst the working class in the UK, who didn't use the same types of abbreviations. So it wasn't referred to as soccer by the them. When radio/TV became common the presenters wouldn't use abbreviations like soccer and so it was referred to as Association Football or Football.

In the US the posh abbreviation took over, likely because many British travellers to the US would be posh and not working class. At least the ones traveling for leisure and taking part in sports activities. Working class would mostly be immigrants and wouldn't be brushing shoulders with those in sports media.

American call the rugby like sport, American Football because it is played on foot and not horse. It would also share a common ancestry of completely moving a ball from one place to another on foot, like football and rugby.

Or you are 6 feet tall.

I avoid volumetric measurement whenever I can. I've found weight based measurement to be vastly superior, especially when you have a 0.1g digital scale. It's much easier to weight 100g of water than check the line on 100ml.

It's better. Because metric is still an option, but it's not as good as it could be.

If the English speaking world fully committed to metric DIY, maker stuff and cooking online would be much better. But I'd much rather this than a fully imperial system. It much easier to work in metric and convert between than work in imperial. Imperial requires a lot more knowledge of the measurement system your working with than metric does. Because everything scales in metric the same and you can use exponentials or prefixes to express sizes. Though the US imperial system does simplify this system by using pounds for everything rather than stones.

It is surprising that the US still clings to imperial measurement despite being the first Anglosphere country to adopt metric/decimal currency. Along with the metric system being associated with liberty and enlightenment that was a big part of the philosophy behind the start of the US.

When it comes down to, in the UK and the US both imperial systems are quantified by metric standards. So it's purely a mirage, because all reference lead back to metric measurements. Not brass yardsticks installed in the town centre. Imperial is now just a middle man maintained for nostalgia. The cost to switching is every decreasing as all series industry uses metric.

We have higher and higher output signals. Your assuming the WiFi signals in homes now represent all the signals humans output, this isn't the case by far.

An encoded signal still appears as a manmade signal and not the result of a natural phenomenon.

Any alien civilization that travels between planets or solar systems would have multiple high gain networks.

Even if they used lasers, that would make detection easier. Lasers are not a natural phenomenon. If we observed one in nature that would be a new mechanism or evidence of alien life.

Imagine bearing against a stack of papers. It's much more likely to deform than an equivalent size piece of wood.

Thinner parts make deformation and breaking more likely.

If it existed within our observable limits we are likely to have heard of it.

The Fermi paradox doesn't imply sophisticated alien life exists on earth.

Of all observations we have have only found one species able to leave their planet deliberately. That's humans. There no evidence of any species leaving their solar system. Humans have never went beyond the moon, other than robots. Only one of which has reached the end of the solar system, but not entering another.

We also have no evidence of life on another planet to base any calculations on. The best estimate of life existing anywhere else is zero. You need another observation per planet to make any realistic estimate.

People are biased even physicts by the desire for extraterrestrial life. It adults looking for a father figure, we had god but once we went beyond the clouds and developed the ability to explain most phenomenon people look for a replacement. Someone to explain all our problems and give us solutions.

UFOs have always been real, they've never been alien. It's just an unknown object of phenomenon being detected.

An alien civilization sophisticated enough to travel to earth would be emitting radios waves for hundreds if not thousands of years prior. Earth is covered in a wide array of telescopes pointed at space and we haven't heard anything yet. In fact some suspected cases turned out to be microwaves in the break room and oscillating black holes, none aliens.

It's likely we are the first sophisticated civilisation able to travel to another planet, and we are no where near travelling outside our solar system never mind our galaxy.

Or he backs a Taiwan taking back control of mainland China.

This is a solved issue. Use a bit set to have the different heads you need to fit on one driver. You can get ones that store the bits inside the driver.

Any telescopic mechanism is going to have a hollow centre and be weaker and prone to deforming. Larger hex keys are used to deliver more torque, making them hollows defeats the purpose of having a larger key, and small bolt and hex key should have been used to save weight and cost (or the same size to standardised the tooling).

No it's worse, because they use the same names for different volumes and weights.

It's old people. They vote and don't like change.

Everyone in the UK under 40 never used imperial in their education, but everything is still imperial.

Even stuff that's not supposed to be. Milk is sold in pints but labelled in ml. Sometimes it's litres because these are smaller. Timbre is all sold in a metric equivalent, but it isn't consistent. You don't know if the piece you've had delivered is 2.4m or 2.44m. Rulers have both metric and imperial, unless you pay extra for a single system - which makes them harder to use.

The worst thing is recipes, many recipes are imperial online because of the USA. American imperial measurements aren't the same as UK ones.

It is all driven by ignorance. The royal family (TV show) summed this ignorance up best. They complained it took them longer to get to the destination because their sat nav was in kilometres and there's more kilometres than miles so everything is further away.

No one would buy it. That's the reality.

Their are two customers for printers businesses that need high reliability and high volume. They will pay more for this, if it's cost effective in the long term. An open source solution wouldn't be much cheaper, a business supplying servicing and repairs are still needed. The other are consumers that want something that appears cheap and are too ignorant to asses long term cost. They are served by budget printers sold for a loss. That loss is made up for in by selling them ink that is exorbitantly marked up.

An open source solution cant be sold for a loss, if the carriages are also open source. Only people ideologically in favour of open source solutions and those that do the maths to estimate long term value of printers.

Brother laser printers are good value per print. But they cost much more for less features.

Then all cookies will be considered necessary. It's very hard to legislate the edge case.

Afghanistan was fighting an ideological enemy, that won their last war by waiting it out. Waiting out the Soviets worked and the same approached worked on the US coalition forces.

The cartels in Mexico are businesses. They aren't the same type of enemy. You only have to make the business unprofitable for it to stop.

Remove the market in the US for drugs. Legalisation of the okay ones and social support for the harder drugs would reduce the size of the market.

If you improve opportunities for people, these gangs have less recruitment leverage.

The rest is just eroding the financial ability of the gangs. Detailed targeting of their finances would reduce the gangs liquidity and thus ability to operate. Continued military engagement would require them to spend more money of weapons and salaries hurting their bottom line. Capturing more of the members would also limit their ability to operate.

These do require long term commitments of a large amount of resources. If the gangs think they can wait it out 2-20 years it won't work.

In Afghanistan they thought the could win in a few weeks and it would all be sorted. In part they were correct. Afghanistan was defeated before all the troops turned up. It was establishing a long term new order that was the issue. Mexico already has a recognised government that just needs support.

The big issue is this all depends on investing in people and public service. That's the real solution the military action would just be an accelerant. Neoliberals think investing in people isn't necessary. However, the free market sells them drugs and encourages murder in pursuit of selling these drugs. The free markets is in the way here, neoliberalism isn't the answer.

Classic Google, mocks apple for removing the aux port. They then remove the aux port and don't even bother implementing the aux dongle protocol correctly.