Have you considered that trans people just want to live their lives? As we all know, transitioning, social, hormonal, reduces incidence of suicide. This also applies to under 18 individuals. Should such options and approaches suddenly be revoked and discontinued, it will naturally follow that some will die who otherwise would not have.
How many do consider reasonable to sacrifice in the name of political expedience?
Back in the days when there were gatekeepers, doctors would actually refuse to treat you for gender dysphoria if you were suicidal. Because suicidal people aren't thinking clearly enough to be making such an important choice, and their actions could be seen as abusing the treatment as a means of self-harm. I think people also make that argument because they feel they need to be manipulative so that others will let them do what they want to do. If the world were more enlightened, we wouldn't have such issues.
Unless it reaches escape velocity (ie its never coming back) then it will always comeback to where it started from. The object is under the same gravitaional influences as the Earth
As others have pointed out, there is a rocket motor to put the payload into an orbit.
I think this is unfair; m$ does provide perfectly usable generic printer drivers, as long as you only use basic universal features. The problem is that the printer producers each want to provide a host of features on top of that, each in their own proprietary way, with post print hole-punching, 5 different paper trays, user boxes, 4 different options for duplex printing.
Also, label printers, why the heck does zebra only do EPL or ZPL? Why not pcl6 or PS like the rest of the universe?
The point is that printers are bullshit. Nobody knows how they work, and assuming that microsoft should just figure it out on its own is at least in my opinion, unreasonable.
What Windows was known for in the 1990s, is good quality 1st party drivers. Then after Windows achieved monopoly status they shifted driver responsibility to device manufacturers. I have never had to install a third party driver on a Mac, but on Windows I do. If Apple can do it Microsoft can too.
This entire comment is, i am sorry to say, silly.
ou are arguing that the element bismuth should be called a "semimetal" as opposed to a "metal", and in a sense, you are correct.
in another sense, however, it would also make sense to call it and every other element heavier than helium "metal"; since that is how things are done in astronomy, where the arguably most important elements are the first ones.
But when one reads "metal" without any other context, one generally interprets the term within the context of chemistry, where bismuth is absolutely referred to as a "metal", a "post-transition metal" to be more precise.
That is to say, you are the botanist showing up and calling the tomato a fruit, wheras the rest of the world understandably calls it a vegetable.
One can choose to classify the chemical elements with whatever words one pleases.
Nevertheless, some classifications are much more useful than others.
A classification that no longer uses the traditional distinction between metals and semi-metals is much less useful than a classification that distinguishes these 2 categories. Neglecting this distinction demonstrates a lack of understanding about which are the properties that determine the usefulness for practical applications of the chemical substances and a lack of understanding of how such properties vary with the atomic number.
Moreover, after one chooses some classification rules, those must be followed consistently. For example, anyone who chooses to call bismuth as a "metal" must also call carbon as a "metal", because the most stable state of carbon in normal conditions, i.e. graphite, has exactly as much reasons to be named as a "metal" or as a "post-transition metal" as bismuth has. There are a very large number of chemical compounds that are semi-metals, but among the pure elements carbon, antimony and bismuth are semi-metals (while boron, silicon, germanium, selenium and tellurium are semiconductors).
The reality is that too many authors of manuals just copy and paste automatically texts from other works without stopping to think whether they are correct and consistent.
Making up information? The same can be said for most commonly used modern compressed video formats. Just low bitrate streams of data that gets interpolated and predicted into producing what looks like high resolution video. AV1 even has entire systems for synthesizing film grain.
The way i see it, if the ai generated HDR looks good, why not? It wouldn't be more fake or made up than the rest of the video.
It does not seem to be using a material we would normally consider appropriate for photograpic film. The article mentions: "multiple thin layers of an oil paint pigment called rose madder"
If i understand the principle correctly, the captured light would simply slowly fade exposed portions of the "film" over centures, eventually resulting in a faint negative of the sum total of the scenes witnessed.
Exposing the film to light at that point, one kiloyear from now, would probably do nothing, unless you left it exposed for a couple decades to direct sunlight.
I can't speak for everyone, but in my country the military tries not to create legitimate military targets in the middle of our cities, so it's not really something we've had to deal with.
If you were to carpet bomb, lets say, all the car factories in Detroit, which is a perfect dual-use target, how much of the city would be left?
The more appropriate question would be, imagine a group of American terorists staged a 9/11-equivalent in China. Imagine 4000 people died and that militarily China has an upper hand.
Would carpet bombing Detroit be the right thing to do in responce?
Do these terrorists also happen to be the elected American government (like Hamas is in Gaza)?
Is there a history of America bombing China (like Hamas is doing in Israel)?
Is the US government in fact firing rockets at China at the very moment when China retaliates with the bombing?
Are the Chinese bombs in your scenario actually carpet bombing or are they bombs or missiles directed at specific military targets that America happens to build below hospitals?
> also happen to be the elected American government (like Hamas is in Gaza)?
> military targets that.. happens to [be] below hospitals?
It is tragic that folks in the Anglosphere do not realise how this sounds to someone from a neutral country, say India.
Surely a rational person cannot believe that hamas uses babies as human shields, but at election time they are virtuous and organise free and fair elections?
Unless you also believe that Russian referendum conducted in Crimea, at gunpoint point, was free and fair?
When Russian military would bomb a school, they would also do a press release about a bunker under than school. I think this is copyright infringement
I am not defending Hamas or saying the government is legitimate. Quite the opposite. I am attacking the analogy with China. I wanted to emphasize that China attacking a US city due to the actions of some American terrorist citizens is a flawed
analogy because the terror that is coming from Gaza is not just some citizens but it‘s state sponsored, by the Gaza government and of course also by Iran. A better analogy would be a hypothetically powerful former government of Afghanistan attacking the US in 2002. But it‘s also flawed since the roles as partially reversed. So not good either.
Regarding Russia bombing a school … the Russian government lies whenever they open their mouth. It is far beyond what we see from other governments. Of course they would lie about bombing a school. And their weapons are not great so of course they will hit it by accident. Compare with Israel: They have much more precise weapons, are far less likely to miss and have much more information and intelligence from Gaza. Still they will make mistakes. But those mistakes were also made when fighting ISIS. Many civilians died. Consider this: Nobody protested like they do now.
Regarding the fair elections, well the elections in 2005 were probably fair.
Being German myself, please allow me a comparison to 1933. The Germans elected their dictatorship. Very quickly, within a few months, that government started to dismantle democracy and resistance became very risky very quickly. Certainly that did not absolve the Germans of their responsibility and it does not absolve the Russians of their responsibility right now regarding Ukraine and it does not absolve the people of Gaza of their responsibility in electing Hamas in the first place and supporting them (for those who do, which is not everyone).
That being said - I made a different point. Hope that's clearer now.
that's a big size actually. and let's not pretend they're doing due to lack of space. you don't put your HQ under the biggest hospital due to lack of space. you don't stash your rockets under a school due to lack of space. they know exactly what they're doing and civilian casualities is just another weapon in this conflict. for one side at least.
As we speak Israeli warplanes have just targeted a convoy of ambulances carrying patients too critical for Gaza's hospitals to cope with and who were on their way to the Egyptian border for treatment abroad. The convoy's departure time was announced to the IDF and the world but the IDF added them to the death toll regardless.
But we've already established we're talking about underground facilities. They're largely underground in the city as well. I don't see what the need to farm has to do with anything.
It is their platform. Xbox has no legal or even moral obligation to provide services for people who cannot maintain the basic standards of civilized behaviour.
Have you ever talked to a teenager? Also, if you’ve ever used Xbox, you’d know that their moderation at best is bad. People using literal slurs don’t get punished, while dropping an f bomb at no one in particular can get you banned.
That's the problem. They shouldn't be able to own the platform. There should be no platform for them to own to begin with. They shouldn't have the power to ban anyone nor should there be any place to be banned from.
You're gonna speak of moral obligations while defending DRM'd platforms owned by copyright monopolists? You gotta be kidding me.
How many do consider reasonable to sacrifice in the name of political expedience?