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> Homosexual couples do adopt children and given the number of children in the foster care [...]

A commonly cited argument, to be sure. Let's look at the magnitude of its impact in practice. Per federal statistics, roughly five hundred thousand US children are in foster care, which is roughly two-thirds of a percent of children in the US, or six per thousand. Figures on the number of children adopted by homosexual couples are somewhat harder to come by, but the highest number I found cited by a pro- group calls it about 22,000, which works out to about 4.4 percent of children in care, or 26 per hundred thousand of all children in the US.

Does this benefit seem likely to outweigh the cost to the other 99,974 children and their families? Does it justify a federal transfer of wealth from those families - who, given the fashion by which the tax benefits we discuss are distributed, will tend toward the lower end of the income scale - to those homosexual couples already wealthy enough to consider adoption and be likely to gain approval?

There's an argument to be made that these figures aren't representative because homosexual marriage is so new, and will increase over time, and that's fair. Let's look at the best possible case. Roughly 1.5 percent of the US population identifies as homosexual. (We disregard self-identified bisexuals in this analysis; when they make up their minds, they all but unanimously settle on heterosexualism.) Out of call it 240 hundred million Americans, if every two homosexuals equate to one marriage, we have 1.8 million couples. With half a million children in care, to reach full coverage, the overall adoption rate among those couples needs to be a bit more than one in four.

Does this seem likely? That's four orders of magnitude, and roughly a factor of three thousand, over the general adoption rate - and if we disregard intercountry adoptions, as we have throughout this discussion and properly should here, it becomes more like a factor of five thousand.

I do not dispute that homosexual couples, unable themselves to produce children absent extensive scientific and medical intervention, are more likely than others to adopt. But five thousand times more likely?
Another tool that is the de-facto standard on usenet for erasure coding is .par2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
> who cares if you drew some of your controls on a canvas instead of trying to goad some restricted native elements into acting and drawing like you want them to

Because now your app will break in HiDPI, for screen readers, automation tools, the next version of Unicode. Expected behavior like tabbing, keyboard shortcuts, system spell-checking breaks.
I read once in a magazine in an airplane that the 0% humidity in cabin greatly altered the perceptions of food and wine. But of course that could have been an apologetic article to try to justify why everything tastes the same when flying.
I have a manual in London, I don't feel it's a torture. Nothing against automatic, it will definitely make it a bit easier, but it doesn't take too long to put a first gear and move nor is it painful to hold the clutch if necessary.
Cars with multiple gears, how quaint.
On one map the road was straight, on another it was curved. That's why I made http://comparemaps.drona.ro/ to easily compare online maps.

It turns out that the curved road went around the hill, while the straight road was a newer one, over the top of the hill...
>People call things "white" as in insult, they constantly say things like "white people have no culture"

I'm black and I wish folks realized that stuff like that needs to kept behind closed doors. I'm not one of those black folks that tries to twist the definition of racism such that it can never be applied to us. It's ironic that lots of the same folks who talk about "micro-aggressions" are purveyors of them.
It's been 40 days since they were arrested, the delay until the final decision would make it 2 months, that's an awfully long time for such a cloud to be hanging over their head for explicitly protected activity. This and another stunt of this AG suggests California's voters would do well to send her home to spend more time with her family in 2018.
It still has to look C#ish.
A powered-down machine with full disk encryption is reasonably safe against physical access, I still hope?
I wonder of anyone else here does this. I drive manual[1], but rarely use the clutch.

I use it to start moving in 1st gear then can shift between all tho other gears without it. You have to get to know the speed where the engine and drivetrain are matched. It's not that hard after a while. Shifting between 3-4th is easiest, 1st and 2nd the hardest.

I can even downshift too without clutch. You have to rev the engine a bit while in neutral to anticipate the higher RPM speed that the lower gear would require, then it slips in easily.

I never grind gears doing this.

I injured my left leg which made it hard to use the clutch and drove like this for a year.

[1] I prefer manuals because of the onboard computer, especially in Toyotas which are suspect to me due to the 'unintended acceleration'[2] problems from a few years back. Even if the computer pegs the gas due to a bug, I can disengage the transmission. Done. Apparently they reviewed the code as a result of the problems, and it is a horrible mass of spaghetti code with hundreds of global variables.

[2] The problem may not have been software and might have been driver error + statistical clustering. E.g.: the driver puts his foot on the gas thinking it's the brake, and due to the stress of the situation can't switch pedals because the urge to stop the car overrides any other thinking.
> If you do nothing else, own your domain name, and forward mail to a service provider of your choice.

Even this may not be sufficient. I had a domain name registered through my ISP (UKFSN). At some point I had a disagreement about payment with my ISP, who refused to discuss it. Instead of replying to my messages, they disabled all my domain records and my emails started bouncing. I think this was illegal (and eventually I forced an apology and compensation out of them - long story). Anyway, I would recommend only having a domain name registered through a dedicated registrar who you are not using for any other services.
Some things are, some things aren't and yet still get put into EULAs of all sorts.
The comment I linked constitutes the counterargument you request, and also addresses the question of civil unions in detail. It is fairly substantial, which is why I linked it instead of repeating the same arguments in my direct reply to your comment.
> Life is too short, find fun where you can. Don't let the robots win.

Well, the thing is, you've found fun in how ICEs suck. You (like everyone saying the manual is better) have turned a bug into a feature ;). Personally I hope electric cars will win, and there's no manual transmission for electric cars, because electric engines have flat(ter) efficiency curve and don't need gears.
Not all airline food is bad. It is the worst in the States in my experience, but many of the Asian and Middle Eastern airlines serve food I'd gladly pay for at a restaurant.
>lots of erosion compared to GEO - LEO is like being in a mild sandblaster while occasionally being shot at by rifles and howitzers.

At 1100 km the debris population is relatively sparse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spacedebris_upd_2011.jpg
The question I asked was:

"Where has it been shown that 'almost all of these stories are fake'?"

You responded to that with:

"A simple google search will show you how often SJWs lie about harassment to get attention and further their cause"

Still sounds to me like you were defending the claim, but I'll take your word that you didn't mean to and I agree we can end this weird conversation.
They learned to self censor, lest they be shouted down and branded for heresy by the left wing ideologues with an axe to grind.
Max torque, not traction.
That, and being able to do all wheel drive efficiently and with less weight penalty and with less risk to drivetrain parts helps the quick acceleration.

But you still have to make tons of power and not be too heavy of course.
Thai Airways food, even economy class, has been consistently good the from 6 flights I've flown with them in the past two months. Good curries with rice :)
"So what's the deal with airplane food, amirite?"

Wait... is the beeb starting a stand-up career in the 90s?

Also, I've no idea why they bother with full meals. Just keep feeding people chips, cookies, nuts... the occasional scotch... I'm much happier with these than a wet pile of matter that you insist is beef bourguignon.
Yup. Horrible fonts IMO. I would never, ever work with these.
Isn't making "impossibly" hard security questions and storing them where you would store your secondary yubikey basically the same thing? Or can't you pick your own security questions?

Sorry for butting in uninformed.
Why is that every time I see some bunch of programmers publishing a DEB
package, it's atrocious and not built properly?
It will wear out the throwout bearing.
Never having flown on a private jet myself, what do they cook/serve at the high end of the market?
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>I think the legal theory behind this would be that you have agreed that Google can terminate your account for any reason. //

Just because they claim it doesn't mean it's legal nor moral.

We, as you intimate, probably need legislation to protect the data of users, requiring companies to take due care of it and requiring they provide access to users leaving a service, etc..

Moreover I think work needs to be done on enabling products, including software, when a seller/manufacturer withdraws support. Phones could be required to have systems that enable interoperability across service providers. Games could be required to publish servers and/or protocols allowing them to be used when companies EOL them.
Cars can do more than 1G even without downforce. Sports car street tires commonly ~1.2g, race tires commonly ~1.5g+

High school friction is wrong.

Source: various of my cars (in the past, I just have lame hybrids now) and a g meter
Poettering have a bad habit of not looking before coding (or blogging). That said, i think that blog predates Nix, but it sure as hell do not predate Gobolinux. And Gobolinux does its thing using mostly shell script (with the odd Python or binary for performance reasons).
Confirmed; thanks vanderZwan.
I personally feel my choosing macOS over any other OS is almost entirely cosmetic at this point. I might as well just use iOS. Because most of my actual work needs to happen elsewhere anyway. How locked down the platform is is something I'd prefer not to think about when just using the system. If users notice that en masse, it's a problem for Apple. OTOH, Developers are forever a niche.

If they were to attempt to turn macOS into a compelling, competitive UNIX-like OS that could serve in production, then maybe it would matter (note that I'm not saying it couldn't now -- it just seems to occupy such a tiny segment of this market).

But they don't seem to have much intention of going there, seriously. They've gone after the average consumer market agressively for pretty much their entire existence. They stayed that course and it appears to have paid off for them.

So if they do wall off macOS in an iOS manner, who will care?
>Lesson: never ever make a decision for business <b> because you also own business <a>

Shouldn't the lesson be, "don't allow any singular company to become a single point of failure?"
Well, what do you expect from an advertising company?
I don't understand why airlines need to try to serve full meals in the first place. Even on a twelve hour flight why can't people just eat before boarding and after getting there? You certainly don't need to eat two meals on a short eight hour overnight flight. And the drinks service in economy on a 45 minute domestic flight really is a waste of everyone's time.

In first when it's tractable it's a great way to pass the time. In economy I usually turn it down.

The entertainment system is also a waste of time and space. If I wanted to watch some movie or listen to an NPR programme I could download it to my iPad before I boarded.
Umami flavours are enhanced, that's why they serve so much tomato juice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami
That's a great work! Thank you so much for sharing.
We're using:
- Meekan for intelligently scheduling meetings
- GrowBot for acknowledging team members' achievements
- Trello and Drift both have great Slack integrations which we use frequently.
- Yala is a bot we're building for automatically scheduling posts to social media at the perfect time. yalabot.com
It isn't an "odd European preference". In this case, it is the USA that is the outlier, with most of the rest of the world preferring manuals.

Fuel efficiency is not a wife's tale but rather a statistical fact, except perhaps for very new, very expensive high end luxury cars where an automatic can have a slight edge under somewhat dodgy laboratory conditions.

And "being more in control" is also a fact. You cannot be more in control of a mechanical device when your control of that device is mediated by a complicated technology that behaves in ways you can't easily predict. If you want to precisely control torque and engine behaviour yourself, which can be useful in many situations from the mundane to icy or snowy conditions, a manual is superior.

It simply is a non-debate in most of the world. Americans seem to get quite defensive about it for some reason, perhaps because they associate manuals with being "macho" or an elitist gearhead or something. There's nothing weird abotu driving a manual.
faster? yes, I stated that, everybody knows that. more fuel efficient? people asked for you to prove it, so far nothing. have some facts into the discussion? all info I've seen so far in past 10 years (which doesn't mean all of them of course, I may be wrong on this), automats have higher reported consumption compared to manuals. So do 4x, obviously for different reasons, but it's consistent and expected.

All other points I mentioned - you don't care about neither. Just bashing swedish system because you don't like it from you own personal view (if you cannot skip gear and whine about it, you are complete beginner, there ARE good reasons they have it and it happens in real world). My opinion might be biased since I always drove manuals for my own car, and rental automats have been consistently horrible/mkay boring at most (this includes latest Porsche and Ferrari 458 btw)
This is one of my pet peeves. Sometimes I use left foot braking to transfer chassis weight from one side to tve other. Having a throttle cut off sucks. I won't buy a car with it anymore.
Is it, though? The argument I advance against homosexual marriage proceeds from the legitimate interest of the state in supporting marriage and reproduction.

If it helps any, I hardly more often find myself in agreement with conservatives on most issues than with progressives...
Yes, in (1) they describe detailed process that goes into a menu. Also, I get so stressed during all travel it definitely has much more effect.

1.BBC Two - A Very British Airline http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yyh99
This makes me wonder, what is the optimal humidity for food perception?
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It's easy. http://i.imgur.com/NXfxzSh.png
I don't get why you're downvoted, it's exactly the case - the very need for having a gearbox is a problem of ICEs. Electric engines don't have gears because the RPM/efficiency curve is pretty much flat.
> Stop legal abortions at the age of viability as arrived at through scientific consensus.

The age of viability could be arbitrarily early as technology progresses so I don't see how that is a good criterion.

Instead I would argue for several different criteria. One is consciousness. This probably only occurs half a year after the child is born. Another one would be the ability to feel pain.

Regardless of all other concerns, as a practical matter, I would argue that once a baby has some sort of independent existence from it's parents (once it came out as a matter of fact, no matter when) then it ought to be protected.

> In their mind, 8 months was fair game, because choice.

Is this really a practical problem? Abortions after 3 months (sometimes after 6 months) are somewhat controversial, but also very rare. For example, the numbers in Germany seem to be that 97% of abortions occur early.

The late abortions are almost always related to very serious disabilities and this is a completely different topic. For those rare cases I would again argue that sometimes good arguments can be made for the abortion. It is not a clear cut case.

Related: "I wager that the fetus experiences nothing in utero; that it feels the way we do when we are in a deep, dreamless sleep." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-does-conscio...
> If I'm not mistaken (not a car enthousiast) diesel cars with automatic shifters are rare.

Pretty much any European diesel executive car (Mercedes E-class, Audi A6, BMW 5 Series) is equipped with an automatic.
I've had pretty decent food quite many times on airplane. I don't think there are therefore any specific reasons why the food has to be "bad". If the food is bad, then bad choices have been made somewhere. One typical issue seems to be to try too hard. Keep it simple chef. Pasta bolognese, meatballs with rice etc. I'm not expecting culinary experience in coach, I just want to get something to eat.
Curries can use cheaper cuts of meat that are great for long cooking times and rice reheats really well. I often do the same for my work lunches.
The OP mentions that the spark that caused the outrage they faced was an incident involving their pets. I'm not surprised at all.

It's a very incendiary topic because people have very strong opinions about animal wellbeing and animal rights. Discussion forums (and Facebook groups, etc) that concentrate on pets and animals also tends to draw in a crowd of crazy cat ladies and other individuals with very polarized opinions.

I never discuss my pets, especially issues related to their health and wellbeing (or other "incidents") on the internet. You will get mean responses from people and you may get straight up harrassment from SJWs and other "activists". If you are a public figure (even slightly), this may ruin your life or your career.

This gets much worse on international forums, because different cultures have different ideals of animal wellbeing. E.g. some americans consider declawing cats to be alright, a lot of british people think that cats shouldn't be kept indoors at all, some americans breed white tigers because they're "rare" (and even run a "charity" to support them) and the british don't eat horse meat at all. And then there's a bunch of people who think that animals should not be "owned" at all. Mention any of these three things on a public, internationally attended forum on animals and you are going to get a flame war.

Just don't mention your pets (or other activities related to animals) on public internet forums. Nothing good can come out of it.
Emirates prepare 38 million meals per year in one facility

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yex-WMaJTjg
The only process that will be happening is a class action lawsuit. The rest is just bad PR for Google atm because they decided to screw enough customers at once.
I think I have the opposite issue at my current job as the person in charge wants to put every site, every db, every cron job ,every filesystem on one server and then wonder why we have a io problem...

1 instance on aws...sure hope our availability zone stays up next year.
I often take my own food into a plane for the prolonged flights and it tastes ok, didn't notice any difference from eating on the ground.
Would you like to elaborate?
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>I wonder of anyone else here does this.

I never use the clutch to put the car in neutral when coming to a stop. Blip the throttle and it will fall out of gear.
Nobody liked Martin O'Malley even before he said that.
We recently moved to Clubhouse.io as well and while some of our team finds that the UI and marketing don't look very modern, the tool itself works really well for us, and is performant
One trick I learned from a million-miler was to preorder the vegetarian option. It usually arrives first as part of "special meal" handling and usually tastes great. Also much less chance of illness. I haven't had a bad airline meal since 1999 due to that advice...
Yeah, it's awful. They don't really go into anything technical.

Don't forget your Gell-Mann amnesia when you click on the next BBC link [1]

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-gel...
You know Tesla has non-performance models too?
Here we are again, take every top tech article and put the word Snowden in front of it.
Funny, Java, using the default UI widgets, always looks a lot closer to this on my system:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/9UwJK.png
http://mentalfloss.com/article/59044/whats-deal-whats-deal-d...

I like full meals...
I once got the western option on Japan Airlines. It was described as spaghetti with ketchup, a beef burger and a sausage. I assumed it was just a bad translation and it would be some kind of pasta con carne dish in a tomato sauce, but no it was literally as described.
I was going to say something along these lines, but with pretty much every airline I've been on.

Aeroflot, Icelandair, KVM, Lufthansa, Condor, Delta, all of the inflight food was acceptable. It wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible either.

I didn't start flying international flights with meals until very recently (last 4 years), but I've never been dismissive of the meal offerings. If there was some change recently, it seems like it's that the airlines have figured out the best options for foods that are easy to store/move and have acceptable taste. Usually this seems to be rice+meat in sauce or vegetarian pasta with a few side dishes (salad, bread + cheese, etc), and for me this is fine. I don't relish the idea of trying to have a full meal on the tiny seat tray anyways, I'd rather just kill time with a book or sleep
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"aimed at people who would otherwise buy Bugatti Veyrons, Ferraris"

More like Porsche 911 Turbo, Mercedes SLS, Audi R8 buyers.
We do have those formats. Mbox for mail, iCalendar for calendars, vCard for contacts. They're all IETF standards.

Google provide data export from nearly all of their services in standard formats. Where no established open standard exists, they provide clean HTML or JSON.

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
carburetor (American and Canadian spelling), carburator, carburettor, or carburetter (Commonwealth spelling)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carburetor
I primarily think of Nix as being a build tool akin to Make rather than a package manager. It's almost as if the flakiness of Make made us think that building applications or libraries was somehow a different thing to building an OS, so we invented a separate thing called a package manager. Then Nix came along and showed that a single build tool can be used for something as simple as a preprocessor (Nix's string quasiquotation is very nice), through to compiling applications, bundling applications into a coherent OS, and even orchestrating clusters of real & virtual machines.

I wonder if this proposed system would be as amenable to handling such a wide variety of software (e.g. https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-language-support ) on such a wide variety of platforms (e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/os-specifi... ).
A meal before and after a 10 hour flight wouldn't work for me. Not even for an overnight flight. I tend to need to eat frequently otherwise I get light headed. I'm not even a large person - just have a faster metabolism than most I guess.
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