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Was your vehicle air conditioned? How many flights of stairs did you have to carry loads up when elevators were invariably broken or being serviced? Did you drive after Black Friday or the days after Amazon Prime Day? Curious to better understand how closely YOUR experience was aligned with the modern median experience today.

I was tempted to just type DYHACFT? again, but I will try to address this further. (yes, some trustworthy polling would be helpful on this matter) You might get fewer DVs if you could better explain what you mean by a preference to be linked to Russia - do people having such preference really want to be part of Russia or part of a puppet state? Zelenski's landslide win suggests the majority do not. And there may be some who would like both better ties to EU and cordial links with Russia. Again, I don't feel you have any reliable source on public opinions in Ukraine. As always, the first casualty in war is...

The search engine, after typing a keyword, only searches a previously created database. A crawler is a special server with scripts/programs installed that periodically visits websites and builds a database. How often it visits (downloads) depends on the website. It can range from once a day, to even thousands of times a day. If it is unable to visit the site, this is noted in the database. If it repeats itself frequently (e.g., because you have blocked its IP addresses, or the server is down), it affects the ranking and the ability of new customers to find you by keywords on the Internet. The IP address ranges of Google's crawlers are well known. https://www.google.com/search?q=google+crawler+ip+addresses They are listed on Google's website. https://developers.google.com/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json Here's the story of what happened to the guys who blocked Google's robot IP addresses https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/134144346/block-google-ip-by-mistake-in-server-and-now-getting-indexing-request-rejected-issue?hl=en And general: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+will+happen+if+you+block+google+crawler For legitimate search engines, you can block them in the robots.txt file on the server. This is often done for some special pages that should not be indexed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt (however, 3rd party search engines, hacker's crawlers, can and will ignore it) You can identify the "bad guys" by putting a line in the robots.txt file that disallows some strange path names, and see that they used them. If somebody scanned your server via "nmap", you can identify their IP and block. If somebody tried to connect to ssh 22 port or so, and brute force tried to login to SSH, you can identify their IP and block.

This is how most ships get their fresh water. They also use seawater for flushing commodes.

Here in Australia I've seen a pattern where increased labour productivity was not matched by increased wages and wage increases persistently remained below inflation, all whilst corporate profits were still high - often exceptionally high - and the salary increases for executives (aided even more by tax cuts) were far above inflation. Other issues contribute, like rising interest rates and supply chain constraints but one standout was outrageous fossil fuel prices - and not for the sake of saving any economy from the impacts would the gas and oil producers cut their war inspired hyper profits down to mere exceptionally good profits. Renewable energy costs would supposedly be economy wrecking but extreme gas and oil prices with high volatility, plus climate impacts isn't? But of course business owners, their associations and lobbies blame wage increases... they always, as a matter of principle, oppose wage increases, a bit like denying and pleading not guilty even when you are guilty when facing criminal charges. Low and declining wages do not sustain a healthy economy or even, ultimately, longer term growth in corporate earnings. The micro impacts - a company is more competitive and makes more profit by reducing their workers' pay (or restricting their rise in the face of inflation) - are accompanied by the macro impacts when every workers' pay is reduced - ie it results in economy wide reduced demand. Yes there is a balance that needs to be kept within bounds but the spending power of ordinary workers is a powerful source of demand for businesses. Increasing profitability and by reducing wages - giving businesses what they want - can be more economically damaging in the long run than not giving it to them. There are examples in the world of nations that sustain livable minimum pay rates, with strong union participation and companies paying taxes too, all without being economy wrecking. Or even preventing capitalist wealth accumulation. I strongly suspect intolerance for corruption - including of excessive corporate influence - is a significant factor in finding a healthier balance.

Yes, he needs to be figuratively louder to be heard. Proper Mafia stuff this is. 'Mafia' is a word that comes up a lot in my mind when thinking about the level of politics in that region of the world.

Likewise here. That’s why I included that point and you received it as I did.

Not in the US, in fact, the pay increases we get here don't even cover the inflation we already have: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbremen/2023/05/17/why-salary-increases-still-do-not-align-with-inflation/?sh=6f97e9535d0d It's like everyone knows they're worth more, but they don't like it when someone else's worth is acknowledged. Or is this part of the bizarre admiration Americans have for ruthless businessmen? Why do we forgive how the wolves of Wall Street destroy people's lives as long as it's just business?

Just like with the UPS driver, I think it's worth a MUCH bigger share than any corporation out there does. The models they're using all focus on spending as little as possible on labor, always claiming that their resources are worth FAR more. I've always been at a loss as to how their resources magically turn into products and services without your labor, and why they don't value you as much as I do. Do you have any idea?

With only the normal devaluing of currencies by governments, pay has to increase to at least try to keep pace. It's honestly weird how we're more understanding of companies raising prices of goods they sell, but not when people go to sell their labor.

I’m shocked!!! … that it took this long to happen

The TASS news agency has just reported that Yevgeny Prigozhin the leader of the Wagner Group was one of 10 people killed when a private jet crashed near the Tver Region in Russia while on a flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-66599774 Presumably it was logistically simpler than trying to position him next to an open window.

You, by suggesting they work more. Try it, see for yourself. Otherwise, you speak from ignorance.

Try designing/repairing/manufacturing/correcting robots assembly errors in microelectronics for a year and then tell me what you think it should be worth.

Try being a UPS driver for a year, and then tell me what you think it should be worth.

..I have not seen Ukrainians with flowers greeting V.V.P. soldiers, either in February 2022 or now..

Oh, sorry. The public aspects of his character are just so damning that I find it hard to believe anything private isn't actually much worse, rather than it being possibly redeeming or show that his intentions are good. Perhaps that's just me.

I lose the content of the edit box if another user wrote a message while I was typing, the forum showed "a new message appeared" and I clicked the button in this pop-up.. Switching to another tab (without scienceforums.net) e.g. Google Translator/Deepl and back is fine. As long as I don't click pop-ups from scienceforums.net, in the middle of edit. I learned to copy and paste long posts "just in case".. ps. @studiot You can always use a keylogger. It will record everything you type anywhere. Then you copy the log from the keylogger and voila. ps2. It does not depend on OS. I am using Linux. It happened on Win7 and Win10 too. ps3. Obviously you used multiple scienceforums.net tabs not back and forward buttons, right? There is only one classical cookie, LocalStorage supercookie and SessionStorage supercookie, with the given name and it is shared by all open tabs. Okay. I clicked F12 in Firefox, then Storage tab, then in Local Storage there is supercookie with name "editorSave.reply-forums/forums-THREAD_NUMBER" and "editorSave.newMessageTo-POST_NUMBER" which are updated in real-time when I type this message. LocalStorage should even survive a computer reset (unless someone has enabled automatic cookie deletion or browser settings).

I think you're too forgiving of the corruption in his past. Did he suddenly turn over a new leaf when he decided to run as a conservative Republican after being a lifelong liberal Democrat? There may be some spillover from his actions that benefit a few, and that's why many of the wealthy supported him (nobody had ever given them such big tax breaks). "May well have good intentions"? I offer up 91 felony charges as evidence against that sentiment. He also ticks all 14 boxes on the test for being a fascist, and when did they ever have good intentions for anyone but themselves? Trump is NOT misunderstood, he's a criminal, plain and simple, and the biggest shame is that criminals can still be elected in the US (he just won't be able to vote for himself).

Search engine crawlers use thousands of computers with foreign IP addresses.. If you block them, your e.g. Google rank will drop and you won't get new real customers who searched for you through Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc. Hackers don't use VPNs. They intercept civilian, corporate and government computers and then use them to transfer data. For VPNs you have to pay, give your name, surname, address, credit card details etc. The intercepted computer is free.

Yes, i mistaken.

Agreed about Earnshaw’s theorem. But the nuclei are “trapped” - though in an admittedly looser, time averaged sense. I’m not sure the OP meant “trapped” in the sense of classically stationary. Trapped can mean in motion but unable to escape, after all.

Very few large ocean going vessels are not steam powered and the vast majority that aren't are military. The reason being that most of the relative advantages of gas turbines (quick start up, size, no steam etc.) are not as relevant to commercial ships as the fact that steam turbines are generally quite a bit more efficient.

Thank you.

Hawking, via Moontanman, his joke in the jokes thread is rather good too.

It's remarkable to describe Hertz' work in 1886 as "recent". Anyway, if relativity only works in far-field but not near field, it's easy to test. Get a VLF radio and a short or medium wave radio and wait for a thunderstorm. Then listen for the crackle produced by lightning. Say I'm 5km from the lightning strike, listening on 5000 metres VLF and on 200 metres medium wave For the first 5 km, the long wave signal is still "near field" so it will (if the OP is correct) reach me immediately. But all but the 1st 200m of the route of the MW signal is far field. So it will be delayed by the time taken for propagation across the remaining 4800 metres at c That's about 17 microseconds. That's just about in the range where you might be able to hear it. "The normal human threshold for detection of an ITD is up to a time difference of 10μs (microseconds)." From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaural_time_difference It's trivial to measure electronically. This is well into the range of "someone would have noticed".

Based on personal experience, the major technical challenge to pumped sea water systems is that it is considerably more nutritious than fresh water. Large channels rapidly attract colonies of mussels and oysters etc, and small channels (eg cistern fill valves, filters) get blocked by salps. Not insurmountable problems, but expensive to solve. Anding nitrogenous waste to the mix will escalate these biological issues even further.

It is called "a wishful thinking."

I’m the guy that taught you what reporting bias is. I hope you get that epic chip off your shoulder some day. Bye. Thanks! Would it still be considered informed consent if they didn’t read it, and it was just buried somewhere in the terms and conditions? Or does it have to be patently obvious?

I was in Tesco's yesterday. I asked and assistant where the canned peaches were. She said, "I'll see" and smiled and walked off. I stood there waiting for ages, but she didn't come back. So I eventually asked another assistant, and HE smiled and said "I'll see" and walked off. Never came back either. That's me finished with Tesco's. I eventually found the peaches, they were in the very next aisle.

On the news, UPS drivers to earn 175,000 US$/year. Soon, DHL, FedEx, all others as the incompetent postal office always in-line will be after the same. That makes my life and yours more expensive as merchandise we buy or receive will have tripled fees on top. UPS employees will be celebrating, partying their triumph; every consumer paying for their happiness and everyone else will join after the same. I did burn my eyelids studying and should had been just a truck driver. Always thought that pay increases are the main cause of inflation : What more money? ---> work more ! has been my religion. Seems am wrong again 😡

Meanwhile the war is not going great. Ukraine's endemic corruption rose to the surface about a week ago, when it turned out that the entire management of conscription to the military had to be sacked for taking bribes from people who don't want to be called up, or helping them escape the country. (which is illegal for fighting age men). Ukraine fires military conscription officials for taking bribes - BBC News I don't blame them, nearly half the country preferred to be linked to Russia, before the war, and it must be galling to have to risk losing your life and shooting at people that you'd rather not be fighting. The much-vaunted spring offensive achieved practically nothing, and Ukraine's allies are looking for ways out. One of NATO's bigwigs said the other day that Ukraine might have to agree to a settlement that ceded territory to Russia. He was quickly forced to take it back, but it shows the kind of thinking that's going on behind the scenes. Nato official apologises over suggestion Ukraine could give up land for membership | Ukraine | The Guardian It's a bit comical anyway, the notion of giving up territory you've already lost. And Zelensky would never do it, it would be humiliation for him, and "face" is everything. It's possible that Ukraine is on it's last legs reserves-wise, and could suffer a quick collapse if nothing changes. But hey, Zelensky's a great guy, a wise and charismatic leader, and I'm sure he did the right thing in losing huge chunks of his country and tens of thousands of his people.