StringJunky

Nothing's ever a 100%. Your information exchange with the bank is encrypted but someone eavesdropping or other companies, like google, facebook and other marketing companies will know you are talking to the bank. With a VPN, only the VPN company knows you are talking to the bank. If nobody knows you are talking to your bank, or whatever, within the bounds of the public network you are using, then there is no incentive for a nefarious entity to intercept your traffic and you are not leaking information up to the vpn servers... after that you are back in the open again. You'll be protected in the airport or hotel etc. The real security through to the bank etc depends on the SSL technology that banks use. I am not an expert but I would absolutely use a vpn over any public network. If I used one a lot I would be inclined to research and use a paid one. I have the vpn, I posted before, on my phone in the event I use a public network. For messaging I use Whatsapp which is end-to-end encrypted. Also, I use HTTPS Everywhere which makes sure only a secure version of a website is connected to. I use two browsers, one for everyday browsing, Chrome, and a nailed-down Firefox for my business stuff in which nothing is saved when I shut it down and also keeping my casual browsing off it reduces the risk of the effects of inadvertently clicking a malicious link. Security is a muti-layered thing. On a laptop you could use Opera browser which has vpn built-in; it is enabled in the browser Settings. It only protects your browser traffic though.

Yes. There will always be a cost somewhere.

Right.

I wasn't pursuing an agenda, just sharing an anecdote that I happened to experience.

The simplest form of self-awareness is to have a camera permanently pointing at yourself that you can see from that position as well as your actual position. We do this naturally by extrapolating after enough times in front of the mirror or other reflectors during growing up; that mirror, eventually, is actually our memory. From actual perspective and virtual perspective that a person has, a sense of 'I' can emerge.... it's very likely a bit more more complicated, with more steps involved, but it seems sensible to me. A person with something like Alzheimers will eventually forget who they are and where they are, so, I very much doubt that awareness is a metaphysical thing.

Go to Google PlayStore and try 'Opera VPN'. It's free. There is an iPhone version as well. Your phone needs to be new enough for it to work. It seems to work fine and is supposed protect the phone, not just the browser. Apparently it can still leak your IP address in some circumstances but it can be closed off. This is only important if you are trying get stuff that's not allowed in your country or your primary aim is to pretend you are somewhere else. More info Here From a security perspective, your data is tunneled to the VPN servers in Canada via whatever country you choose in the list. There is a security tester in the app to check the security. You just turn the app on after setup on the phone's homepage then you are covered. This app is for over other wifi connections and not your phone company's normal connection which has its own security.

I say "Funghee". Nice to know I'm in good company.

Yes, it's pretty conclusive to me. This is a government-run smoking cessation scheme held at pharmacists around the country and CO checking was to test for compliance. The advisor, a pharmacist , told me that riding there behind cars can confound the result. They set a maximum limit of 10 units, for compliance purposes, due to that. People should be up in arms. God knows what it's like in a traffic-jammed city centre. The transient smoke from a passer-by will be well below the pervasive pollution noise of road traffic, which you are breathing constantly. A person living in a city or by a busy road is not as much better off than a smoker as they might think.

I would worry about more what's coming out of cars than cigarettes in streets. When I was giving up smoking I was regularly tested on a CO meter and it went down to 2 after a while but if if I rode to my appointment in heavy traffic it went up to 5-7 units. A heavy smoker, like I was, had initial readings of 15. A person walking by/riding in a modestly traffic-laden two-lane road is consuming a third to a half of the carbon monoxide of a heavy smoker.

It's not really because gender wars aren't going to solve anything.

I'm deaf myself up to about 75dB, depending on frequency but it's pretty evenly knackered across the range I can hear, so I'm perhaps rather acute to over-generalisations about deaf people. WRT music, it matters not that one can't hear everything in it but that what you can hear/feel physically is meaningful.

Cool. Come to think of it that's how Evelyn 'hears'; vibrations on/through her body and face, as well as an intimate understanding of musical scores and timing.

Some deaf people can sound juvenile. Evelyn Glennie is totally deaf and a fantastic percussionist... she's nothing short of awesome. Does she sound juvenile? https://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen

Conduction of vibrations through the body which reach the cochlear and vibrate the fluid

Slime moulds seem to be a better illustration of emergence.

That decision may be a cost-benefit exercise when we reach that stage.

Am I right in thinking the wavelengths of satellite transmissions are too long to ionise the molecules in the atmosphere which might make them release heat as photons?

To add to strange's post: That abiogenesis occurred is self-evident, based on what we know about evolutionary processes. It's a bit like reversing universal inflation back to the big bang: science slows comes to a stop but we know there's more physics to find. In the case of reversing evolution to abiogenesis there's more chemistry to find.

My point about these things taking a long time is because you can't change those who are already set in their ways - it's too late - but you can catch the impressionable youngsters at the right time and equip/nurture them with the right attitude. Eventually the old ones naturally waste away and the young ones rule the roost with the new values. You can't change the shape of a fully grown tree but you can a sapling. It's about ensuring those that are yet to come don't adopt undesirable attitudes of the past. That's how you change society... imo, of course.

Grow up.

People aren't in sync sometimes and stuff like this happens. I think it's best if this thing is just dropped.

Indeed; http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/haywood/s2_9519.pdf The first question to myself was "What was the geography like at that time". Chance pointed me to a map with possible migration paths as well. the brown lined area is the Neanderthal range. If the data is correct, then it needs extending. Edited to add: The BBC reports expert scepticism which is an interesting read with photos from the site. This statement from one expert seems to illustrate the problem:

It's the only game in town worth talking about and it fits in as a logical extension of current scientific knowledge. Any area in science is never complete and always a work-in-progress. Students get, and have always got, the prevailing wisdom in scientific knowledge as it stands at the time. There's nothing dishonest about it.

So, now we are getting to your real agenda. I bet at least 10% of women like having, or have had, their bottoms played with too as well as some of the 10% of men who are gay.... and here we are, it's actually 36%:

Cool.