RIM might not be as big as those US telcos, but they are big enough and surely fought pretty hard. Their most recent annual report showed revenue in the year of over 3 billion USD and their current market cap is well over 45 billion USD... should be enough to hire an expensive lawyer or two.
It's a configurable, vestigial mouse button. For example, I have mine set to "religious" so that I can do a "religious right-click" (that's a bit like an exorcism) on headlines and pictures in my web browser that give me an irrational feeling of faith-based moral outrage.
[T]he cost of making the changes falls on the airlines, who will pass it on to the logical people: the fliers who want to use this service.
Unfortunately, it seems more likely to me that the airlines will pass such a cost on to all their passengers, including those of us who would in reality prefer the relative peace and quiet of a mobile-phone-free flight.
Your information is out of date: the US is the 'world leader' in prison population both in absolute terms and per capita.
The article that you link to is from 2001. Since then, tens of thousands of people in Rwanda who had been detained on suspicion of participation in genocide have been released, bringing Rwanda's per capita rate under that of the US.
Over the same period, the per capita rate of imprisonment in the US has increased.
One could also 'visualise' labels in a tree / directory structure for the purpose of sorting and have the movement of an item into a folder attach all the labels automatically for use in another view, if the directory view turns out to be the user's preference for sorting.
You write this like it's a problem, but it's not. World-wide, we need the birthrate to drop below replacement. If you are correct, France is just doing its part.
We both thought we had accurate information but you just happened to have the short end of the stick on this one. Maybe the company website will turn out to have been a hoax all along!
You claim to have obtained your incorrect information from the same source from which I obtained correct information, but you don't think that you encountered any source of confusion? This sounds like a riddle. Oh! You are claiming that your confusion has no external source.
The Scouting movement offers training in many skills that are of value for military service, but its effectiveness does not depend on each Scout having a right to own a private wilderness with which to practice. Guns can be well used for many purposes (including the pursuit of a hobby) without having handguns widely available in homes. Recall also that my comment is in response to the question 'are you one of those countries we saved/freed in WWII?'... I didn't assert that having guns at home had no impact, but I don't think it was a key deciding factor in the outcome of WWII.
My rhetorical question about the ban in Philly was carefully worded. I realise that a national ban on handguns might not reduce violent crime overall, but it does seem likely that it would make the ban in Philly more effective, since it should provide at least some negative pressure on the supply of handguns.
The wide availability of guns does not turn people into criminals, but it allows some criminals to become more dangerous, more likely to cause more harm. Maybe all gun-toting US criminals would take up knives if guns were wholly unavailable and so they would remain 'armed and dangerous' and commit violent acts... but the ratio of unintended to intended victims of the violent acts seems likely to decrease in that case; i.e., there would be fewer 'innocent bystanders'.
The simple fact that crime rates arise from many factors doesn't mean that guns are irrelevant. Because a 'War on Handguns' is more sensible than a 'War on Drugs', perhaps it would be more successful?
I encountered no source of confusion, finding (i) that the company currently lists Marc as CTO, and even (ii) that Marc added the CTO designation on 2006-09-18 (per a media release).
It is customary—though obviously not required—to know the facts before attempting to correct someone else. The company's own website right nowdescribes Marc Maiffret as "CTO/Founder and Chief Hacking Officer".
A person may have more than one C[a-z]O designation.
Surely the US generally didn't require its troops in WWII to use their own guns from home when serving in the military. So whether or not they had guns at home is largely irrelevant.
And think a bit more about the handgun ban in Philly: do you think it would have been more or less effective if such guns had been banned across the entire country?
English isn't like French; there's no official list of valid English words and their meanings (not even for the American dialect). The OED intends to record the language as it is, not as some people think it should be.
I suggest that most email users are unfamiliar with RFC 2821 and couldn't care less what it says (or even what 'RFC' means!). If those people use the word email in a vague sense that includes instant messaging (as per OED), and other people tend to understand what was meant, then that is what it means.
If you are reading someone's CV and they list IT skills including 'email', perhaps you can read RFC 2821 into that, but in most other contexts it seems unlikely to have such a limited meaning.
Let's assume that you are correct about the quotation and the fact that it was a mistake that Boris Worm sent it to the newspaper.
Look at the quotation again. It doesn't say anything about Worm's belief or disbelief of the study's conclusions. Surely you can understand that the projections can be both (i) true and (ii) a news hook.
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Your points look spot on to me. As a non-USAer, I expect that I look forward to the advent of truly international of private law more than do USAers.
I did but point out that RIM is actually a large company; I'm sure we agree there.
RIM might not be as big as those US telcos, but they are big enough and surely fought pretty hard. Their most recent annual report showed revenue in the year of over 3 billion USD and their current market cap is well over 45 billion USD... should be enough to hire an expensive lawyer or two.
It's a configurable, vestigial mouse button. For example, I have mine set to "religious" so that I can do a "religious right-click" (that's a bit like an exorcism) on headlines and pictures in my web browser that give me an irrational feeling of faith-based moral outrage.
Their Al Gore already did, and no one paid any attention. Look what happened!
Unfortunately, it seems more likely to me that the airlines will pass such a cost on to all their passengers, including those of us who would in reality prefer the relative peace and quiet of a mobile-phone-free flight.
Quite right, ignorance is different from idiocy. I'm sure you noticed that I didn't call anyone an idiot.
Do we need to frequently re-hash debate? Well, if it helps at all to drag the US away from ignorance and toward an enlightened future, I say 'yes'.
I'll laugh harder when (if?) this widespread popular ignorance ceases to be a barrier to progress.
For starters, Star Wars itself predates HHGTTG.
Star Wars film release: 1977
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on BBC Radio 4: 1978
(Book first published: 1979)
Your information is out of date: the US is the 'world leader' in prison population both in absolute terms and per capita.
The article that you link to is from 2001. Since then, tens of thousands of people in Rwanda who had been detained on suspicion of participation in genocide have been released, bringing Rwanda's per capita rate under that of the US.
Over the same period, the per capita rate of imprisonment in the US has increased.
See the leading report on such statistics for further details, sources of data and so on.
Labels that imply other labels sound good, aye.
One could also 'visualise' labels in a tree / directory structure for the purpose of sorting and have the movement of an item into a folder attach all the labels automatically for use in another view, if the directory view turns out to be the user's preference for sorting.
You write this like it's a problem, but it's not. World-wide, we need the birthrate to drop below replacement. If you are correct, France is just doing its part.
Absolutely, yeah, I couldn't resist. :)
We both thought we had accurate information but you just happened to have the short end of the stick on this one. Maybe the company website will turn out to have been a hoax all along!
You claim to have obtained your incorrect information from the same source from which I obtained correct information, but you don't think that you encountered any source of confusion? This sounds like a riddle. Oh! You are claiming that your confusion has no external source.
On the evidence, I have to agree.
The Scouting movement offers training in many skills that are of value for military service, but its effectiveness does not depend on each Scout having a right to own a private wilderness with which to practice. Guns can be well used for many purposes (including the pursuit of a hobby) without having handguns widely available in homes. Recall also that my comment is in response to the question 'are you one of those countries we saved/freed in WWII?'... I didn't assert that having guns at home had no impact, but I don't think it was a key deciding factor in the outcome of WWII.
My rhetorical question about the ban in Philly was carefully worded. I realise that a national ban on handguns might not reduce violent crime overall, but it does seem likely that it would make the ban in Philly more effective, since it should provide at least some negative pressure on the supply of handguns.
The wide availability of guns does not turn people into criminals, but it allows some criminals to become more dangerous, more likely to cause more harm. Maybe all gun-toting US criminals would take up knives if guns were wholly unavailable and so they would remain 'armed and dangerous' and commit violent acts... but the ratio of unintended to intended victims of the violent acts seems likely to decrease in that case; i.e., there would be fewer 'innocent bystanders'.
The simple fact that crime rates arise from many factors doesn't mean that guns are irrelevant. Because a 'War on Handguns' is more sensible than a 'War on Drugs', perhaps it would be more successful?
Where is the inconsistency?
I encountered no source of confusion, finding (i) that the company currently lists Marc as CTO, and even (ii) that Marc added the CTO designation on 2006-09-18 (per a media release).
It is customary—though obviously not required—to know the facts before attempting to correct someone else. The company's own website right nowdescribes Marc Maiffret as "CTO/Founder and Chief Hacking Officer".
A person may have more than one C[a-z]O designation.
Surely the US generally didn't require its troops in WWII to use their own guns from home when serving in the military. So whether or not they had guns at home is largely irrelevant.
And think a bit more about the handgun ban in Philly: do you think it would have been more or less effective if such guns had been banned across the entire country?
My fear is that Keanu effectively kicked a killer William Gibson silver-screen film franchise in the nuts in Johnny Mnemonic.
..is going to need a new handle.
English isn't like French; there's no official list of valid English words and their meanings (not even for the American dialect). The OED intends to record the language as it is, not as some people think it should be.
I suggest that most email users are unfamiliar with RFC 2821 and couldn't care less what it says (or even what 'RFC' means!). If those people use the word email in a vague sense that includes instant messaging (as per OED), and other people tend to understand what was meant, then that is what it means.
If you are reading someone's CV and they list IT skills including 'email', perhaps you can read RFC 2821 into that, but in most other contexts it seems unlikely to have such a limited meaning.
Who said anything about uncontrolled? We are leaving all the other planets in the universe pretty much as-is!
Are you saying that each of the Terminator films was a documentary? 'Cos I thought they were only mockumentaries.
Were you living in a house built of powerful magnets, by any chance?
Let's assume that you are correct about the quotation and the fact that it was a mistake that Boris Worm sent it to the newspaper.
Look at the quotation again. It doesn't say anything about Worm's belief or disbelief of the study's conclusions. Surely you can understand that the projections can be both (i) true and (ii) a news hook.