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Makes me wonder where he's from. Maybe with a South African accent or similar. They sound very different with my Ohio accent though.

> In many states even unknowing possession of stolen goods is a crime

I've never heard of this. Source?

Absolutely agree with everything except

> On the other hand, it's probably no more inconvenient than locking yourself out...

It looks like local control (i.e., with physical access) wasn't affected, so the only convenience lost was remote access. Not great when you've bought the product specifically for that feature of course, but still much better than locking yourself out.

Oh man this was the pun of the week. Well done.

FTA:

> Joshua Adam Schulte, who worked for a CIA group that designs computer code to spy on foreign adversaries, is believed to have provided the agency’s top-secret information to WikiLeaks, federal prosecutors acknowledged in a hearing in January.

Wow you've read a lot into that comment (and hyper-literally). My point was that the "little" things we overlook add up to a lot of trash. My question is not "how about his toothpaste?" but rather "how does he live his life?"

Thinking back over the last week, I've bought grass seed, a dehumidifier, paper, toiletries, and some toys for my kids. All of those are easily overlooked but add up to me not being able to go a year without emptying my trash, even if all my food waste and packaging were removed.

You're arguing over proximate vs. ultimate causes, when both are causes.

This was proximately caused by Snowden disclosing what the NSA was doing. It was ultimately caused by NSA monitoring major swaths of the population.

ETA: decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causati...

Also, does he brush his teeth? Or buy anything? There's a lot of trash that isn't food packaging.

The problem with this line of thinking is it assumes a specific purpose, then name-calls based on that premise.

Maybe consumption isn't the goal and you're unaware of it. If I have as much food as a grocery store, I'm a hoarder because consumption is my goal. The grocery store isn't hoarding (or even saving) food because consumption isn't the goal. Retail sales are the goal.

Again, I'm not here to fight about economics. That wasn't my point. My point was ridicule isn't an argument. Calling someone a hoarder may make you feel good, but it isn't an argument.

This kind of debate by selective vocabulary is frustrating.

If a poor or middle class person sits on the cash he has, he's "saving". If a wealthy person sits on the cash he has, he's "hoarding".

Regardless of the topic at hand, let's be consistent enough in our terms to think and discuss the issues fairly and clearly without all the pejorative terms. If we have to resort to name-calling, we might not have a very good point.

One can imagine your disappointment when you discovered "code smell" has no actual odor.

Nice write-up. Strikes me as a little strange to donate to charity as negative reinforcement though.

I've experienced that at a trade show too. That convention center did it as a means of charging crazy money for electricity. Internet was very expensive too.

Trade shows are a racket facilities-wise but worth it as publicity/B2B opportunities.

I had a very similar experience once when I worked for the government. I wanted my small desk pointed a different direction, so I rotated it.

A few hours later my supervisor and a union rep showed up fuming. They have people for moving things, why was I trying to take their jobs?!

This is actually my point. It didn't say "no one" is doing it. Even though his means are very crude, he still needs a furnace, a welder, and a lot of other tooling (receiver jig, etc.) to get to the point where he can use a bucket of pre-fab parts (most notably the barrel).

That guy is building a receiver, then assembling. Most people who are into it are just assembling.

I don't have a printed source off-hand, but a law enforcement friend once described to me how wealthy criminal (narcotics) gangs work. Your average "dumb street thug" is a low-level throwaway in the eyes of the gang. They work through a series of intermediaries, to avoid the low-level guys knowing too much, very much like spies.

The guys at the top are much smarter, and are running in some cases multi-billion dollar operations. You have to be smart to be in charge of something at that scale, whether it's Wal-Mart or MS-13. I'm not saying the gang bosses are good, but many of them are smart. They have "technology teams" of sorts. After all, somebody thought to strap drugs to drones and experimented with payloads before sending them...

You've assembled guns, probably, from parts you purchased. Like Legos. I doubt very much that too many people are hammer-forging 7075 receivers in their garages...

I'm really sorry to hear about your brother. Thanks for sharing what you learned though!

Agreed. Also not accounted for is the UK's huge immigration surge (more than doubling the foreign-born UK populace of the mid-90s). [1]

Different ancestries carry with them different genetic predispositions. It might be that the GBM rise is due to phenotypes not phones.

[1] http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings...

Do you work for the city, a university in Detroit, etc?

I was referring to fipple's correction with "Spelled" instead of "spelled". If he's going to be pedantic, he's got to go all the way.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

The fuel economy situation today is vastly different though. Sticking with the Ford line,

In 2000:

Taurus sedan: 20/28

Taurus wagon: 19/27

F-150: 16/21

In 2018:

Escape SE: 23/30

Edge SE: 21/29

F-150: 20/26

There are (not all, for sure) crossovers and pickups today doing, fuel-wise, what sedans did when gas was $1 a gallon.

Note: I don't work for Ford, never have, no plans to. I don't own one, never have, but I do have plans to.

Maybe. What you're describing would mean prison for anyone involved, though, which makes me skeptical. Not saying it's definitely false (I have no way of knowing), and certainly white-collar crime happens. But that would be a very high-stakes move.

Sunday's probably too early. Monday perhaps. :-D

What does "OP" mean in this context?

> DoD has estimated that all training and operational operations over the 50-year life of the program (assuming a 30-year life for each aircraft) will be $1 trillion, making the cost to buy and operate the F-35 at least $1.4 trillion.

A little bit of clickbait there. $1.4 trillion projected over 50 years. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's a great fighter. But we haven't spent $1.4 trillion on it (yet).

> Whoa, evolution. Just... whoa.

At some point this really starts to sound ridiculous.

So glad to see this article. From time to time, my wife will ask me "how do I get the kids to learn X?" My answer is always the same: "Forget about the 'learning styles'. Drill baby, drill!"

> cheaper over their own long term benefit

You're assuming you know better than millions who believe cheaper IS in their long term benefit. Quite a sweeping statement!