I additionally observed that the improve to Windows 10 Home possibility is displaying up in Updates eventually, however I will not upgrade but as Windows 10 nonetheless seems fairly buggy and unstable, and it collects lots of private data underneath the default Express settings. I had put in a few updates this morning (Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB2976978), Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-primarily based Systems (KB3075853)) and did a system restore to remove these, but it surely did not assist. Boys, like women, deserve the safety and assist of their coaches, their teachers, their parents and their principals. In what seems to be a dismayingly predictable development of Conservative/Right-wing governments, the newly-elected UK authorities is cutting welfare, supposedly to help convey its Budget back into steadiness. At the same time the government is chopping taxes and rising exemptions, which is unnecessary – absolutely it’s preferable to raise taxes in order that they don’t lose income? He blames government in addition to corporations.

It’s my perception that a government’s prime obligation is to look after its residents, and the Conservative governments properly and actually fail on this. This cool image of Earth by the NASA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite was posted yesterday. It’s obvious to me that those in cost – politicians and businesses – care nothing for the planet, despite some token gestures towards acknowledging international warming; they’re fixated on “growth.” Overpopulation is a more instant risk to the atmosphere than local weather change. For example, based on a 33,590-particular person survey across 24 international locations, 89% of Swedes responded that there is nothing improper with premarital sex, whereas only 42% of Irish responded this way. In Panama and Costa Rica, like many other American international locations, the “Baile de graduación” is celebrated after finishing high school, the place grade eleven can also be the final 12 months. This morning was the coldest of the 12 months up to now: simply above 0°C! Walking previous the Exhibition Gardens at sunset on Friday I observed three white-striped freetail bats fluttering through the timber looking for insects. Once we had streets of mature gardens with shrubs for food and cover for smaller birds and one or two larger trees for the bigger ones.

There is romance and flirtiness and actual, loving help for one another. If there may be one factor that irks me about MetaFilter, it is its snobbery in the direction of Reddit (see their posts under that tag). If one lion yawns, grooms itself, or roars, it sets off a wave of yawning, grooming, or roaring! Lions have been living on the San Diego Zoo Safari Park since it opened in 1972. In 2004, the Safari Park’s Lion Camp opened with six adorable six-month-outdated Transvaal lion cubs newly arrived from a facility in Africa. Stephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire, Yuri Milner, have announced a mission to listen for alien radio signals using various radio telescopes (Mr Milner, a Russian Silicon Valley entrepreneur, is funding the project for $135 million for 10 years). Just a few thousand years in the past we might see all kinds of wonderful mammals shifting about in great herds … Plus, this episode gives us one of the all-time great Richard and Emily moments: “Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine at lunch! But a shot cannot kill a couple of man with out knocking him over, and if it touches several without oversetting them, only the first touched is useless and the others will not be incapacitated.

There was a short segment that includes the car on some motor show final week and it looks very futuristic – and expensive; they are over $100,000! The SpaceX firm is run by Elon Musk, who also runs the Tesla electric automobile firm. My views: I’ve a extra benign view of an AI and would regard it as a greatest good friend who would by no means betray or go away me. But it’s merely not the case that the mainstream culture at large within the ’80s had the identical ideas we do today about sexual assault – especially when it’s perpetrated by individuals who know one another, at parties, round alcohol. It’s like we simply missed the get together. In truth, I want to see welfare changed with a universal basic income (beforehand talked about in my 26/6/2014 entry), which would not have the nasty punitive angle that’s at the moment displayed in the direction of welfare recipients (assuming social attitudes could be modified in direction of accepting the idea). There have been more articles this week concerning the sixth mass extinction of many species that has been underway due to human activities and overpopulation (ABC News, Guardian, The Age).