It's actually a very human trait -- criticizing others for behaviors you engage in yourself. I didn't think it a plot hole, it explained a lot about who Cavil is.
Except that laws still have to pass a standard, that's the whole purpose of a constitution. And human rights derived from natural (i.e. pre-state) law are at the top. It's either directly spelled out (most modern constitutions e.g. Germany's) or implicit in the founding documents of the state (e.g. the US Declaration of Independence which strictly speaking has no power of law).
So, if we assume that sheep are still people, then no, they can't be eaten. Otherwise it would not be a democracy.
That's a very narrow -- and may I say wrong -- definition of a democracy. In today's world, an integral part of a democracy is the rule of law. And if the law says that sheep can't be dinner, then it shouldn't matter how many wolves there are because there's not going to be a vote.
ClickToFlash appears to be Free Software. The source is available on github, but I couldn't find a license. Been using it for 6+ month now without problems.
And neither do the cell phone manufacturers and/or carriers. The underlying OS is open just as with custom Linux devices.
Incidentally, I can't believe that American consumers still have to put up with their crappy cell phone carriers, apparently without a good alternative. I've been reading the same complaints on Slashdot over and over. Meanwhile, I can buy an unlocked and non-branded cell phone on every street corner in Europe and can choose between multiple carriers without committing to a 24-month contract. Also, thanks to EU legislation roaming charges have become reasonable. It seems to me that your "Free Market" is failing you once again.
In my experience, monopolizing ore and/or wheat results in a quicker win, because sheep, wood and stones are only necessary in the beginning stages of the game. Whereas ore and wheat are useful right up to the end.
Backups should be automated, otherwise people will forget or disregard their backup schedule and Murphy will strike at the worst time. A backup provides no immediate benefit, so it is easy to do it tomorrow or next week or whenever. Of course, tomorrow never comes.
Once it is automated, there's no reason not to do a daily backup. What you should do at least once a year is make sure your backup is actually working by trying a full restore.
Technically they do, they always by definition serve the interests of *some* people. In theory this would be the >50% that elected them (note: also never 100%)...
The trick in a democracy is not maximizing the number of people whose interests are met, but maximizing the number of interests that can be met for everybody.
That is, satisfying only 50% of the interests for 100% of the people is better than satisfying 100% of the interests for 50% of the people.
EU citizens are free to choose their residence and work place in any EU country they wish. There were transitional agreements in place after the last round of EU expansion, but I would have thought that these had expired by now.
IHMO the deportation of Roma from France to Rumania is illegal if they haven't broken any laws.
He needs to greatly improve his marketing effort if he plans to increase the sales of his app. After looking at his demo video there is no way I would pay 30 bucks for this. The only feature that intrigued me was the data extraction of phone numbers and street addresses. But I'm beginning to suspect that he's just leveraging some OS X framework for that, like the spell checker.
Seriously, a Mac application with an integrated spell checker. Fucking brilliant! Stop the presses!
If your military-trained skill set has no application in the civilian economy then you should retrain. People do that all the time. My mom had to do that at the end of her 30s when the Berlin wall came done. She lost her engineering job when the East-German economy collapsed and retrained as a nurse. I'm unclear on the details, but she and many other received support from the German government during her training (most likely a direct stipend). I would assume that the US defense budget wastes enough money to do just that.
As far as I can tell, my mom very much liked her new job, so while the change was quite radical at the time, it was not for worse.
His argument may be comprehensive, but it's not on the website you linked to. The abridged version that can be found on the site is, in fact, laughable on its face. Maybe he left out some crucial steps in his argument, but judging from what he did write, I doubt it.
So no, I can't read and learn as you asked originally, because there's nothing to learn from the blurb on the site.
I think his motivation is more like "OMG these guys are fucking hypocrites, I'm not going to let them get away with it."
Seriously a group of people who objected to streetview have had their picture taken in front of their house by a newspaper which published it along with the address. "We don't want a picture of our house on Google, but if it's on the Rheinische Post's website then it's a-ok."
And then they are our top lawmakers who have no problem selling our data to corporations and foreign governments but want their house pixelated. Most of them cite fear of burglars. Think about it. Politicians whose house is watched by the police and private security fear that burglars will case their house with streetview. Get real.
There are restrictions to e.g. making photographs of people and publishing them without permission if that person is the subject of the photograph.
Just to clarify: I can take pictures of whomever I want even if they ask me not to if I do not publish them.
None of this applies to buildings. In fact, there was a court case recently in Germany (details escape me, so no link), where a club wanted to pull pictures of their historical club house from the internet. They cited copyright reasons. The photographer cited Panoramafreiheit. The club lost.
In Berlin we have a bike sharing scheme where you can leave the bike anywhere (within city limits) and consequently pick one up anytime you find one assuming the previous renter has released it.
Rental stations have been introduced only recently.
The system is operated privately. I've never tried it, but it was once hacked by the CCC during the summer of 2003.
There's nothing to learn from your link, it's just a lengthy book ad.
The author claims that bureaucracy is at fault for traffic accidents and if private enterprises were to loose money for every road death, they would take measures to reduce traffic accidents.
The cash-for-clunkers program was not an US-only phenomenon. Wikipedia lists at least 10 countries were a similar scrappage scheme was in place in 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrappage_program
The German equivalent was called Umweltprämie and although it was highly criticized for being wasteful, it was also very, very popular.
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It's actually a very human trait -- criticizing others for behaviors you engage in yourself. I didn't think it a plot hole, it explained a lot about who Cavil is.
A life sentence without the possibility of parole is barbaric as well.
I can't, but since I find the death penalty barbaric and undemocratic, that's not really a contradiction.
Except that laws still have to pass a standard, that's the whole purpose of a constitution. And human rights derived from natural (i.e. pre-state) law are at the top. It's either directly spelled out (most modern constitutions e.g. Germany's) or implicit in the founding documents of the state (e.g. the US Declaration of Independence which strictly speaking has no power of law).
So, if we assume that sheep are still people, then no, they can't be eaten. Otherwise it would not be a democracy.
That's a very narrow -- and may I say wrong -- definition of a democracy. In today's world, an integral part of a democracy is the rule of law. And if the law says that sheep can't be dinner, then it shouldn't matter how many wolves there are because there's not going to be a vote.
ClickToFlash appears to be Free Software. The source is available on github, but I couldn't find a license. Been using it for 6+ month now without problems.
And neither do the cell phone manufacturers and/or carriers. The underlying OS is open just as with custom Linux devices.
Incidentally, I can't believe that American consumers still have to put up with their crappy cell phone carriers, apparently without a good alternative. I've been reading the same complaints on Slashdot over and over. Meanwhile, I can buy an unlocked and non-branded cell phone on every street corner in Europe and can choose between multiple carriers without committing to a 24-month contract. Also, thanks to EU legislation roaming charges have become reasonable. It seems to me that your "Free Market" is failing you once again.
In my experience, monopolizing ore and/or wheat results in a quicker win, because sheep, wood and stones are only necessary in the beginning stages of the game. Whereas ore and wheat are useful right up to the end.
How many Afghanis were among the 9/11 perps?
That's right, none.
Backups should be automated, otherwise people will forget or disregard their backup schedule and Murphy will strike at the worst time. A backup provides no immediate benefit, so it is easy to do it tomorrow or next week or whenever. Of course, tomorrow never comes.
Once it is automated, there's no reason not to do a daily backup. What you should do at least once a year is make sure your backup is actually working by trying a full restore.
The trick in a democracy is not maximizing the number of people whose interests are met, but maximizing the number of interests that can be met for everybody.
That is, satisfying only 50% of the interests for 100% of the people is better than satisfying 100% of the interests for 50% of the people.
You sound like this is inherently bad.
Two words: Micro payments.
EU citizens are free to choose their residence and work place in any EU country they wish. There were transitional agreements in place after the last round of EU expansion, but I would have thought that these had expired by now.
IHMO the deportation of Roma from France to Rumania is illegal if they haven't broken any laws.
He needs to greatly improve his marketing effort if he plans to increase the sales of his app. After looking at his demo video there is no way I would pay 30 bucks for this. The only feature that intrigued me was the data extraction of phone numbers and street addresses. But I'm beginning to suspect that he's just leveraging some OS X framework for that, like the spell checker.
Seriously, a Mac application with an integrated spell checker. Fucking brilliant! Stop the presses!
If your military-trained skill set has no application in the civilian economy then you should retrain. People do that all the time. My mom had to do that at the end of her 30s when the Berlin wall came done. She lost her engineering job when the East-German economy collapsed and retrained as a nurse. I'm unclear on the details, but she and many other received support from the German government during her training (most likely a direct stipend). I would assume that the US defense budget wastes enough money to do just that.
As far as I can tell, my mom very much liked her new job, so while the change was quite radical at the time, it was not for worse.
His argument may be comprehensive, but it's not on the website you linked to. The abridged version that can be found on the site is, in fact, laughable on its face. Maybe he left out some crucial steps in his argument, but judging from what he did write, I doubt it.
So no, I can't read and learn as you asked originally, because there's nothing to learn from the blurb on the site.
And yes, I did judge a book by its cover.
I wish I had mod points...
Wait I have, but I already commented in this discussion. So here's a virtual +1 from me.
I think his motivation is more like "OMG these guys are fucking hypocrites, I'm not going to let them get away with it."
Seriously a group of people who objected to streetview have had their picture taken in front of their house by a newspaper which published it along with the address. "We don't want a picture of our house on Google, but if it's on the Rheinische Post's website then it's a-ok."
And then they are our top lawmakers who have no problem selling our data to corporations and foreign governments but want their house pixelated. Most of them cite fear of burglars. Think about it. Politicians whose house is watched by the police and private security fear that burglars will case their house with streetview. Get real.
Just to clarify: I can take pictures of whomever I want even if they ask me not to if I do not publish them.
None of this applies to buildings. In fact, there was a court case recently in Germany (details escape me, so no link), where a club wanted to pull pictures of their historical club house from the internet. They cited copyright reasons. The photographer cited Panoramafreiheit. The club lost.
The article's author suggests boycotting all Oracle products and moving to alternatives.
Which begs the question: Who here is not already boycotting Oracle b/c of their shittyness and horrible documentation?
In Berlin we have a bike sharing scheme where you can leave the bike anywhere (within city limits) and consequently pick one up anytime you find one assuming the previous renter has released it.
Rental stations have been introduced only recently.
The system is operated privately. I've never tried it, but it was once hacked by the CCC during the summer of 2003.
There's nothing to learn from your link, it's just a lengthy book ad.
The author claims that bureaucracy is at fault for traffic accidents and if private enterprises were to loose money for every road death, they would take measures to reduce traffic accidents.
Laughable.
The cash-for-clunkers program was not an US-only phenomenon. Wikipedia lists at least 10 countries were a similar scrappage scheme was in place in 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrappage_program
The German equivalent was called Umweltprämie and although it was highly criticized for being wasteful, it was also very, very popular.
It's very confusing. Only after continuing reading the "wrong" solution by students, I realized that he used parentheses for variable names.
FWIW, parentheses usually group statements. In the example there's nothing to group, so I would say that this "non-standard" use is simply wrong.
Ketamine, or so I've heard.