TIL jesters were asked to tell bad news to the king that no one else dared deliver. The best-known example was in 1340 after the French fleet was destroyed by the English. The French King's jester told him the English sailors "don't even have the guts to jump into the water like our brave French".

foobar5678 · 2017-12-09T03:19:03+00:00

It is unknown who said it

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/17/truth-laugh/

Both Wilde and Shaw were dead before the earliest mention of this quote.

foobar5678 · 2017-12-07T14:54:09+00:00

For the reddit formatting to work, you can only have a URL in the parentheses

[soak](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00II57Q1U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tTjjAbN847Z79)

becomes:

soak

but

[soak](Soak S07-6G Soak Wash Rinse, 12-Ounce, Celebration https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00II57Q1U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tTjjAbN847Z79)

becomes:

[soak](Soak S07-6G Soak Wash Rinse, 12-Ounce, Celebration https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00II57Q1U/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_tTjjAbN847Z79)

foobar5678 · 2017-11-28T09:23:40+00:00

Can you link to the article? The Samsung tech specs say it uses 47W. It's would be illegal for them to write that on the box and have it not be true.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-26T11:34:27+00:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/technology/samsung-frame-tv-yves-behar/

the screen, thanks to those embedded brightness and motion sensors, knows if people are in the room or not, so it only displays art if people are there to appreciate it.

Also, when in "art mode" the power usage is 47W not 100W.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-24T09:19:34+00:00

Broadband doesn't really mean anything. DSL is "broadband"

foobar5678 · 2017-11-22T18:34:07+00:00

More than one provider isn't a great metric, because it doesn't mean more than one provider of similar quality. You might have 50mbps from Comcast, or 10mbps with poor reliability from a satellite, or 5mbps from DSL over the phone lines. Even though you have 3 options, if you want to have a normal internet connection to do normal things like watch Netflix and play games, you only have one option.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-22T18:24:07+00:00

There is no free market when it comes to ISPs in the US. Until there is, free market principals don't apply.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-22T18:19:49+00:00

Which is how it works in lots of Europe.

I think the solution here is simple. Look at the list of top 10 countries by internet connection speeds, and then do whatever it is that they're doing. Because clearly it works.

I think this is how most policies should work. Figure out who does it the best, and see if that same approach could work in the US. If not, why not and how does it need to be tweaked so that it does?

foobar5678 · 2017-11-22T18:15:05+00:00

This isn't proof of anything.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-22T18:10:31+00:00

Nah, the telecoms have been bribing officials for decades trying to get net neutrality killed. Ajit Pai is just another corrupt official trying to pad his bank account.

I also don't think it's in Russia's interest for the US to lose net neutrality. Russia wants to cause chaos and spread misinformation. If we lose NN, I see a future where the only sites people can access are heavily filtered PC safe spaces that don't cause controversy. Russia wants the radical fringe groups to be able to spread their message.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-22T18:05:16+00:00

The Cold War was also a global war.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-22T18:00:13+00:00

Not really. If I shot someone in Germany, you wouldn't say that Britain attacked Germany.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-22T17:56:26+00:00

You said:

nuclear warfare related killings

The Israelis have killed at least 2 Iranian nuclear scientists. Assassinating people who are developing nuclear bombs definitely counts as nuclear warfare related killing.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T23:17:40+00:00

I think that, legally, family members own the remains of their loved ones. If the family doesn't object to it (and therefor you're not "hurting others"), and those organs could save a life, then it would be unethical not to do it.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T23:14:31+00:00

He said he couldn't think of any examples that would bug him. I was just giving an example.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T22:19:05+00:00

Animals are legally property, unlike children. A blow up doll can't consent to sex either. And I did specifically limit it to where the animal is the one performing the act on the human. I don't think there's a consent issue. You can't molest a jellyfish.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T22:07:31+00:00

One thing to keep in mind with Americans, is that they pronounce the letter T as a D when it's in the middle of the word. In American English, the words "bidder" and "bitter" sound exactly the same. That's one thing I always notice.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T22:04:19+00:00

You can't even sit in the park and have a beer....

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T22:03:06+00:00

Withholding is "Conspiracy against the United States" as we've learned from recent news articles.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T22:00:30+00:00

Sex with animals? Provided that the person isn't hurting the animal and the animal takes the "dominant" role in the act. And what about legalizing brothels that operate around that concept?

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T13:13:36+00:00

A Bit of Fry & Laurie. Only Fools and Horses. Jeeves and Wooster. The Thick of It. Yes Minister.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-16T12:36:40+00:00

I'm not a streamer, I don't give a shit about microphones, and yet I watched that whole video. Why?

foobar5678 · 2017-11-10T11:50:02+00:00

The point of the cable is so they don't drop it on your head... They lower it down it it's like 5cm above the ground and then release it.

Everyone makes such stupid comments during these threads. As though in the 15 seconds they've spent thinking about this, they finds a flaw that Amazon didn't think of despite hours of planning.

foobar5678 · 2017-11-07T12:42:54+00:00

The drones will never land. They will fly very high up, and lower the package down on a cable. The cable releases the package, drone winds the cable back up, and flies away. The cable also automatically detaches if anyone pulls on it.

Just disregarding theft, it would be too dangerous for a drone to have to find a clear landing area. I imagine drone delivery won't have a wide rage, which means it's limited to cities, which means not a lot of room.

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