"The beauty of their women and the taste of their food made the British the best sailors in the world."

I believe that restrictions like these: "only for US nationals present" are also to facilitate prosecution if needed

bingo

Pepperidge farm remembers when they banned G4 Macs for export as well

Yes but they wear less than DC brushed motors exactly because it's a slip ring and not a commutator

Because it's the discontinuities in the commutator where the sparks fly (with much help from self-induction of the motor's coils) and erode the ring and brushes.

The funny thing about this is that it's almost realistic

But in fact of course geography plays a big part

That "non-existent" country between France and Spain would actually be the center of Occitan/Langues d'Oc. (Well, it's actually the location of Andorra)

It is also in the middle of the Pyrenees so of course that is going to push population out to the sides

Same thing for where the areas "bleed over" water regions or some rivers

If they added Cardiff and Edinburgh I think the map would be more realistic

Join the Celtic Union, don't be shy!

For now.

It's been more than 20 years since I was hearing "for now", so I guess any time now huh

This is a conversation that has been going on for 20+ years and the OSS community hasn't managed to get that in their heads

I have simply given up

Me too, which is why I mostly use Windows as main OS laptop OS since Windows 7[0], however with current geopolitics, eventually we might have to really chose something else, even if the ergonomics aren't there.

[0] - You will find emails from me with M$ like signatures during the 1990s, in whatever archives

I would be more worried if the blotted area was different (the dark blob) - or if data in a datasheet (something like test specificity, level of detection, etc) was wrong

Now, if while preparing the images they needed to do some editorial choices (or it is well possible a person in the editorial group was told to 'enhance the images' but wasn't aware of the details) because of limitations in doing the experiment then this is probably not a big deal

> I would be more worried if the blotted area was different (the dark blob)

Or if more than one blob is present (i.e. blobs at different molecular weights) for a supposedly selective and specific antibody that should show exactly one blob on the blot.

> Now, if while preparing the images they needed to do some editorial choices

Editorial choices on raw scientific data are a big no-no.

> Editorial choices on raw scientific data are a big no-no.

I don't think you can find a picture in an article that hasn't been photoshopped in one way or another (which is mostly ok as long as it is not misleading)

Edit: TF's reply is interesting https://www.thermofisher.com/es/es/home/life-science/antibod...

Basically they say they are reviewing the images

Usually, journals require raw, unmodified data to be deposited as supplementary information.

Yes, as supplementary information

(Also journals are usually more rigorous than marketing material)

> Yes, as supplementary information

Still part of the article.

Do you work in biology?

> would be more worried if the blotted area was different (the dark blob) - or if data in a datasheet (something like test specificity, level of detection, etc) was wrong

These images are provided on the datasheet and form the basis for the level of detection / specificity claims

It is obvious that they edited the images to make blobs look shorter vertically. And in some cases, simply copy-pasted non-existing blobs.