I doubt there are many economists who, when being mugged in the street, would see it as an example of the market working effectively. And although I didn't major in economics, I did study it at university, so I'm not *entirely* uninitiated.
Markets only work if everything is already (notionally) somebody's property. If it isn't, you don't get a market, you get anarchy. Whoever has the biggest gun wins. The moon ends up owned by competing warlords. Developed countries have moved on from there on Earth. It would be nice if we could carry those lessons thay we've learned into space with us.
The astronomical calendar is perfectly well in context, as it uses the same origin and still uses AD and BC (or CE and BCE). Check out Dershowitz and Reingold's "Calendrical Calculations".
Which the police will ignore, protesting that they are independent of the legislature, and will continue to follow their own agenda.
If they do, they open themselves to investigations resulting in disciplinary action and/or lawsuits for harassment.
Not if they're operating within the law -- or, at least, the investigations will clear them. There have been plenty of cases lately of the police ignoring what parliament says about the intent of legislation, and continuing to apply the letter of the law when they want to. The judiciary are also pretty much tied by the letter of the law, too. Anyway, the way the politics is going in the UK at the moment, the standoff is between the judiciary and the government, not between the judiciary and the police.
Even if the police are found to be in the wrong, they never seem to get more than a slap on the wrist -- http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358276.html, for example, doesn't indicate any penalty for the police other than court costs (does anybody know if the police did get anything more than a telling off for this?).
1. There is no year 0. The year before year 1 was 1 BC. In historical calendars there is no year 0. In astronomical calendars there is. Why do you assume that the calendar you use is the only one that there is?
6) Hopefully the government will advise the police/CPS not to do this in future Which the police will ignore, protesting that they are independent of the legislature, and will continue to follow their own agenda.
and possibly amend legislation And admit that they were wrong, and appear soft on crime? The press would never allow it!
No it doesn't. It may have copyright to a particular translation, but not to all (the KJV is UK Crown Copyright, for instance) and certainly not to the original documents which are public domain (no matter what the religious may say about the Author not being dead).
If it's something that makes me depressed, working out doesn't seem to help me. Working out is supposed to help with depression -- endorphins and all that -- but the trouble is that when I'm depressed I can't be bothered to work out.
I'm sure some countries see American's as all cowboys or some other equally ridiculous thing... "Burger-eating invasion monkeys" is a memorable phrase that has been heard on British TV.
Even though the French are our traditional enemy here in England, when I was a kid (I'm in my 50s too) the meme was the Italians surrendering. Presumably because they did try to surrender in WWII (admittedly in the direction we liked), which it seems counted more than the simple tactical withdrawal France made over Paris. It seems an interesting reflection on the notion of honour.
Seriously, extreme obesity is a darwin rule in action, usually - nobody wants to breed with us Hey, I do ok, have you thought it might be a personality thing?
Is it a charity? I noticed it was a trust but couldn't see anything about it being charitable. That would make a difference. I note on the website that the entrance is now in Sherwood Drive, so the field with the navaids on would now be near the front, not at the back as I said.
The site is a lot more than the mansion (which isn't very grand by British standards). The mansion has quite extensive grounds, which are covered by ugly, squat WWII brick buildings -- I did my apprenticeship in one of them, D-Block (I don't know whether all the aircraft navigational aids that we were trained on are still on the field at the back of the estate). At that time it was on the edge of a sleepy little market town, but the planners had decreed that it become part of the new city of Milton Keynes, filling in a rural gap in Britain's axial belt, a conurbation running from London up through Birmingham and The Potteries up to Manchester and Liverpool. That means it's now an expanse of private parkland in the middle of a city, a few minutes walk from Bletchley Station. I bet it gets stung badly for rates (local taxes), and the land would be worth a fortune. The museum happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think the smart move would be to move the museum into the mansion and sell off the rest of the land -- maybe keep the lake in front of the mansion and a bit of the green, to justify the name "park". That should raise enough to keep them going for quite a while, and keep some of the historic site.
I doubt whether any kids are completely honest -- nor adults. It's something that relationships have to deal with. And in my experience, the ones that are not so bright are the easy ones to deal with, because they tend not to have unduly exciting ideas.
When on the road there is only one thing that is important and that is safety. If that were true, nobody would go on the road at all, and the roads would be 100% safe. We could get close to that by strictly enforcing a 3 mph speed limit on all roads. Why don't we do that? The reality, which safety campaigners hate to hear, is that we are willing to compromise that 100% safety in order to gain some benefit (getting from place to place, feeling the wind in one's hair, whatever), and that this compromise is just one of many compromises between safety and utility that we all make all the time.
The technology needs to be in place to help parents spy on their children more easily. The technology for everything you mention is easily available, and needs no further action from ISPs or legislation. I've used it, and it was a waste of time and money, because it told me less than talking to my kids did. I guess I needed to learn that technology is no substitute for relationships. A lesson that perhaps not everybody learns.
Why not just outlaw internet use for those under 18? Before you laugh or mod me troll, hear me out:
Youngsters don't need the internet to do research as they could go to a library and do their research the old-fashioned way. Youngsters have cell phones and text messaging, and if they don't have that then they could play sports or participate in a myriad of activities for social bonding. Because growing up is about learning to live in the adult world. If we keep kids wrapped in cotton-wool and safe from the world until their 18th birthday, when you turn them loose they just won't be able to deal with what they encounter. Parenting, education and so on are largely about getting the kids used to the risks of real life, in a controlled way. Yes, that has its own risks -- kids will have to be exposed to the dangers of the real world in order to learn to cope, and sometimes they will fail to cope. So the risks need to be managed and controlled, but we must be aware that if we eliminate risk kids won't learn to deal with it. There will be tragedies, but that's because life is dangerous, not because we've under-legislated.
Stricly, "detained" rather than "arrested" (it makes a difference -- he can still travel from the UK to USA under the visa waiver program, for instance, which I understand he couldn't had he been arrested). But your point stands -- unnecessary legislation does have a cost.
I suspect the $3M includes materials costs as well as salaries. Material costs tend to be rather high in a lot of science research fields (what does the electricity bill look like for a high-energy particle accelerator?)
Same here. I drop a dead-tree book in the bath, I lose a book worth a few pounds. I drop a reader in the bath, I lose a reader worth a few hundred pounds. And I can read the dead-tree book during take-off and landing. And the battery never goes flat on me when I'm away from home.
* Wounded sense of pride - CHECK
* Belief that their race is superior - CHECK
* Propaganda state - CHECK
* Thin skin, prone to sabre rattling - CHECK
* Rapidly industrializing and arming up - CHECK
Except this time, its China and not Germany. Oops, I thought you were going to say "USA", but that would have been "belief that their culture is superior", wouldn't it?
As my philsophical opponents say so often "This is'nt rocket science". It would appear your philosophical opponents were prone to daydreaming in English class. Not necessarily. They say it. It's hard to hear the position of an apostrophe in speech.
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I doubt there are many economists who, when being mugged in the street, would see it as an example of the market working effectively. And although I didn't major in economics, I did study it at university, so I'm not *entirely* uninitiated.
Oh, I'd see most of it actually taking place on Earth, or at least launched from Earth.
Markets only work if everything is already (notionally) somebody's property. If it isn't, you don't get a market, you get anarchy. Whoever has the biggest gun wins. The moon ends up owned by competing warlords. Developed countries have moved on from there on Earth. It would be nice if we could carry those lessons thay we've learned into space with us.
The astronomical calendar is perfectly well in context, as it uses the same origin and still uses AD and BC (or CE and BCE). Check out Dershowitz and Reingold's "Calendrical Calculations".
Not if they're operating within the law -- or, at least, the investigations will clear them. There have been plenty of cases lately of the police ignoring what parliament says about the intent of legislation, and continuing to apply the letter of the law when they want to. The judiciary are also pretty much tied by the letter of the law, too. Anyway, the way the politics is going in the UK at the moment, the standoff is between the judiciary and the government, not between the judiciary and the police.If they do, they open themselves to investigations resulting in disciplinary action and/or lawsuits for harassment.
Even if the police are found to be in the wrong, they never seem to get more than a slap on the wrist -- http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358276.html, for example, doesn't indicate any penalty for the police other than court costs (does anybody know if the police did get anything more than a telling off for this?).
No it doesn't. It may have copyright to a particular translation, but not to all (the KJV is UK Crown Copyright, for instance) and certainly not to the original documents which are public domain (no matter what the religious may say about the Author not being dead).
Headlines usually make extensive use of noun phrases to premodify nouns. In the case of that headline, the only verb is "uncovered".
Even though the French are our traditional enemy here in England, when I was a kid (I'm in my 50s too) the meme was the Italians surrendering. Presumably because they did try to surrender in WWII (admittedly in the direction we liked), which it seems counted more than the simple tactical withdrawal France made over Paris. It seems an interesting reflection on the notion of honour.
Is it a charity? I noticed it was a trust but couldn't see anything about it being charitable. That would make a difference. I note on the website that the entrance is now in Sherwood Drive, so the field with the navaids on would now be near the front, not at the back as I said.
The site is a lot more than the mansion (which isn't very grand by British standards). The mansion has quite extensive grounds, which are covered by ugly, squat WWII brick buildings -- I did my apprenticeship in one of them, D-Block (I don't know whether all the aircraft navigational aids that we were trained on are still on the field at the back of the estate). At that time it was on the edge of a sleepy little market town, but the planners had decreed that it become part of the new city of Milton Keynes, filling in a rural gap in Britain's axial belt, a conurbation running from London up through Birmingham and The Potteries up to Manchester and Liverpool. That means it's now an expanse of private parkland in the middle of a city, a few minutes walk from Bletchley Station. I bet it gets stung badly for rates (local taxes), and the land would be worth a fortune. The museum happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think the smart move would be to move the museum into the mansion and sell off the rest of the land -- maybe keep the lake in front of the mansion and a bit of the green, to justify the name "park". That should raise enough to keep them going for quite a while, and keep some of the historic site.
I doubt whether any kids are completely honest -- nor adults. It's something that relationships have to deal with. And in my experience, the ones that are not so bright are the easy ones to deal with, because they tend not to have unduly exciting ideas.
Quit with the game or quit with the cheese-grater?
Stricly, "detained" rather than "arrested" (it makes a difference -- he can still travel from the UK to USA under the visa waiver program, for instance, which I understand he couldn't had he been arrested). But your point stands -- unnecessary legislation does have a cost.
I suspect the $3M includes materials costs as well as salaries. Material costs tend to be rather high in a lot of science research fields (what does the electricity bill look like for a high-energy particle accelerator?)
Same here. I drop a dead-tree book in the bath, I lose a book worth a few pounds. I drop a reader in the bath, I lose a reader worth a few hundred pounds. And I can read the dead-tree book during take-off and landing. And the battery never goes flat on me when I'm away from home.