A mix of 75% duck fat, 25% Welsh (salty - at least 2.5% salt) butter is my preference, and remember to beat up the potatoes before roasting to get that extra crunch.
The butter helps to brown the potatoes, and soaks into the crunchy bits to make them extra tasty.
I'm sure the Treasury isn't the same as the Bank of England - and while the BoE can create money at the flick of a pen, it tends not to flog dead horses if possible.
Mervyn King's no mug - he'd rather see a politician fall on his sword than deliberately create pretend money to save a cowboy bank.
Giraffes seem to get by quite well without the artificial exoskeleton, and they can reach upwards of a ton in weight.
But they are very thin, and also quadrupeds.
They're also unlikely to become as ubiquitous as humans, since most of the world doesn't have acacia trees for them to graze on (acacia trees that not many other creatures can graze on, because the food is too high up - hence the evolution of the giraffe as a specialist acacia feeder).
Love that tag - it immediately brought Hawkwind's Spirit of the Age to mind.
"Your android replica is playing up again it's no joke When she comes she moans another's name"
And that was from 1977 - Quark Strangeness and Charm is still one of my favourite LPs, even though I no longer have a turntable, the whole album's etched in my mind.
Really, though, TFA was complete tosh. Most of the 'predictions' exist now, and those that don't are easily forseeable or too vague to interpret meaningfully.
He's having a shit week, what with Northern Rock potentially costing taxpayers half a billion, and now this fiasco.
How do you lose 15 million sets of personal data in the post?
Don't the government have couriers for this sort of thing?
However, I don't think he'll be doing the honourable thing and resigning - none of these second-rate ministers ever seem to take responsibility for anything done under their 'leadership'.
The only time they resign is when they're caught shagging or with suspect finances, and even then some of them have the brass neck to remain in office (looking at you, Two Jags, and you, Tessa Jowell).
I fail to see how this merits an offtopic mod - the article is about snake oil gadgets, and the FIAT monetary system is as good an example of a financial snake oil gadget as one could wish for.
Or didn't the poor soul who modded the parent down bother to look up FIAT currency before reacting?
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
The legal moves in the GWU case suggest that multiple federal laws are having unexpected interactions and not at all suggesting that copyright infringement isn't illegal.
It's a strange interpretation of John Doe #3's motion that reads 'none of the federal laws being invoked are applicable in the case of sharing' (which is the essence of his final claim) as 'multiple federal laws are having unexpected interactions'.
Copyright infringement for commercial gain is certainly established as illegal, but whether sharing files counts as illegal copyright infringement has not yet been firmly established.
OK - you have just delivered the recipe for legal hell.
Under your system, it would be effectively free for anyone to bring a case against anyone else, no matter how baseless the accusations or how flimsy the evidence.
I don't know about you, but I do know several people who (mostly because of social maladjustment) would happily spend every waking moment suing the ass of anyone who irritated them in any way, shape or form.
I think you're wrong about the 'flat out guilty', for two reasons.
Firstly, it's a civil case, so 'guilty' should really be replaced with 'liable'.
Secondly, if the recent ruling in the George Washington University case that the RIAA have to show probable cause has any merit, then it is debatable whether any real copyright infringement has actually taken place. (read the motion submitted by John Doe #3 in that case for details.)
Yeah, possibly people have been sharing for free what the RIAA members believe they have a right to be remunerated for, but whether such sharing is actually illegal is a moot point at this time.
I think you blind sided the AC a bit there, old chum - very fly!
At least three-quarters of the world would have got the reference - the USians are obviously a bit (self-)centred, believeng themselves to have a lock on the world of sport.
:P
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The article is a very well argued opinion piece, and is correct in that only open-source software should ever be used in a proof.
It is fundamental to mathematics that other mathematicians in the same field can check a proof, and the use of closed source software makes that logically impossible, for without access to the source of the application, it is not possible to guarantee that any particular operation has been implemented correctly.
He's also plugging his own open source project, SAGE - I might have to download it and see if the rusty old brain cells can figure out how to play with it;)
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Since when has tax evasion been the same as fraud?
Fraud = obtaining something by deception.
Tax evasion = not paying money the politicians have decided you should pay.
Apples and oranges, my good man.
The butter helps to brown the potatoes, and soaks into the crunchy bits to make them extra tasty.
No, but I do have a 1929 wind-up gramophone, that I occasionally crank up to listen to Winston Churchill's speeches on 78rpm acetates...
And if I were given a phonograph cylinder, I reckon I'd be able to rig up a suitable phonograph fairly easily, since the patent is now open source.
Stuff like 'dolinebreakslikeWord95' isn't ever going to be open, no matter how much Microsoft claim in their OOXML proposal.
The groklaw article is referring to the comments from the ISO committee members, the ECMA is a different standards body covering Europe.
I'm not supporting Microsoft (I'm a dyed-in-the-wool *nixer), but you're confusing the two bodies.
We had a load of Harvard visiting students at Cambridge when I was there, and some of the guys switched easily from football to rugby.
Mostly they were rowers, though - I especially remember Lisa who coxed my boat (rowing stroke, you get kinda intimate with the cox...)
:P
I must have misinterpreted this or this.
I'm sure the Treasury isn't the same as the Bank of England - and while the BoE can create money at the flick of a pen, it tends not to flog dead horses if possible.
Mervyn King's no mug - he'd rather see a politician fall on his sword than deliberately create pretend money to save a cowboy bank.
Mr Dawkins would mod you +5 - Intelligent Design, I'm sure.
The giraffe ancestor, IIRC, is some sort of camel, or at least that's what I dimly remember from my schooldays.
But they are very thin, and also quadrupeds.
They're also unlikely to become as ubiquitous as humans, since most of the world doesn't have acacia trees for them to graze on (acacia trees that not many other creatures can graze on, because the food is too high up - hence the evolution of the giraffe as a specialist acacia feeder).
If I'd known that I could have bought one of these, I'd have not bought my 2640B :-(
Agreed - here's a little something to brighten up the afternoon - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Unlikely, given the tendency of current humans to become wider rather than taller :P
Seriously, though, with Earth's gravity, a 15ft human would have to either be very thin or wear an artificial exoskeleton to help support the weight.
"Your android replica is playing up again
it's no joke
When she comes she moans another's name"
And that was from 1977 - Quark Strangeness and Charm is still one of my favourite LPs, even though I no longer have a turntable, the whole album's etched in my mind.
Really, though, TFA was complete tosh. Most of the 'predictions' exist now, and those that don't are easily forseeable or too vague to interpret meaningfully.
That's probably due to our binge-drinking culture :0)
As far as I know, about 13 billion of the 24 billion is actually a direct loan from the Treasury, which last time I looked wasn't a central bank.
He's having a shit week, what with Northern Rock potentially costing taxpayers half a billion, and now this fiasco.
How do you lose 15 million sets of personal data in the post?
Don't the government have couriers for this sort of thing?
However, I don't think he'll be doing the honourable thing and resigning - none of these second-rate ministers ever seem to take responsibility for anything done under their 'leadership'.
The only time they resign is when they're caught shagging or with suspect finances, and even then some of them have the brass neck to remain in office (looking at you, Two Jags, and you, Tessa Jowell).
Or didn't the poor soul who modded the parent down bother to look up FIAT currency before reacting?
Personally, I prefer to use the Snake Oil Wizard to generate my promotional literature :P
It's a strange interpretation of John Doe #3's motion that reads 'none of the federal laws being invoked are applicable in the case of sharing' (which is the essence of his final claim) as 'multiple federal laws are having unexpected interactions'.
Copyright infringement for commercial gain is certainly established as illegal, but whether sharing files counts as illegal copyright infringement has not yet been firmly established.
Under your system, it would be effectively free for anyone to bring a case against anyone else, no matter how baseless the accusations or how flimsy the evidence.
I don't know about you, but I do know several people who (mostly because of social maladjustment) would happily spend every waking moment suing the ass of anyone who irritated them in any way, shape or form.
It'll never happen, because it's a bad idea.
Firstly, it's a civil case, so 'guilty' should really be replaced with 'liable'.
Secondly, if the recent ruling in the George Washington University case that the RIAA have to show probable cause has any merit, then it is debatable whether any real copyright infringement has actually taken place. (read the motion submitted by John Doe #3 in that case for details.)
Yeah, possibly people have been sharing for free what the RIAA members believe they have a right to be remunerated for, but whether such sharing is actually illegal is a moot point at this time.
At least three-quarters of the world would have got the reference - the USians are obviously a bit (self-)centred, believeng themselves to have a lock on the world of sport.
:P
It is fundamental to mathematics that other mathematicians in the same field can check a proof, and the use of closed source software makes that logically impossible, for without access to the source of the application, it is not possible to guarantee that any particular operation has been implemented correctly.
He's also plugging his own open source project, SAGE - I might have to download it and see if the rusty old brain cells can figure out how to play with it ;)
Down here in Southern pansy land, there are open access points all over the place.