StringJunky

Are notions of size and having a discrete existence, i.e particle-like, meaningful at that level when things are actually excitations in fields?

I've no idea. i just know the idea exists.

Some things, like time, seem to be defined by their effect i.e. time affects clocks, or spacetime affects the passage of freefalling objects, which is known as gravity. There's the graviton mechanism (to be confirmed) and the spacetime curvature mechanism.

It seems to me gravity could be called 'freefall curvature'.

National Insurance contributions.

That reminds me of: You see what you want to see and ignore the rest.

I can't push your sarcasm back into the screen. :D On the subject of beauty, I find myself not aligned with a lot of modern examples of it. Is this me getting old and have now-fossilized ideas of what represents a beautiful looking person.

Generally, I think your activities a lost in the noise of everybody elses noise... as long as it's the same kind of noise.

They don't need one. They have Inking and Typing, which can be disabled. Apart from that, you have to draw the line somewhere otherwise you can't use a computer. Government agencies will generally have access and the OS maker, like MS.

So, 100% of people have got keyloggers. It's not CIA one should be worried about, it's ordinary thieves. You just make it seem hopeless and extraordinary when in fact ordinary security precautions, like vpn's is perfectly effective for ordinary people.

And what's the chances of an ordinary person having a keylogger installed?

I do fine with 4GB but I'm just reading most of the time. W10 is very easy and reliable nowadays. I haven't looked at Linux for years but never felt complete out of the box. Opera browser has vpn built in.

And that one time is going to cost tens of thousands, if not more. The Cons and their supporters are silly because you can't bank on not getting seriously ill. Very few people have an uneventful medical history. It is a lighter load for everybody if they share the burden in a pool and they can use it when they need it.

To kill telemetry: https://blogs.systweak.com/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/

Here''s regedit file to disable cortana: Disable_Cortana.reg

Or even just getting your records where they are needed in good time when it's urgent. Authorised UK medical professionals can get anybody's info anytime anywhere. It's one area of ones life, and societally, where it's important it's all connected for access.

The Earth.

No freedom without responsibility. Dim does live up to his name sometimes.

I was on about you. Your username looks French.

I thought he was French.

I thought Germans didn't have the 'wuh' sound, instead pronouncing it 'vuh' or 'vee' instead of 'wee'

It is and how much energy are we going to send into freefall when we push it over the edge with our geocidal activities

Ancestors are before you and descendents are after you. Your post was in future tense, so I think descendants is correct.

FTFY