Depending on how long you stay there, if it's more than a week, try to find a neighbourhood pub (a real one preferably, not one of those modern things) and meet the locals. Pubs are an important part of the British social life.
True, but declining sharply as people stay in to watch TV:-(
Don't worry about our reputation for being reserved: we can be (when sober), but that just means we don't tend to strike up converations with strangers. We're usually more than happy for strangers to start conversations with us. (One for the psychology geeks.)
And don't ever order US beer. Try the local bitters, see if they have any local breweries, try anything you've never heard of. Beware, they are served warm by US standards (where any drink is served just above solidification temperature). Putting ice in your beer will be considered weird.
True. Warm beer is as much an abomination to the British drinker as it is for the American, but bitter should be cool, not cold. And not all beers are equal. Look for Cask Marque or CaMRA recommendations.
Yes, all great recommendations, especially the Science Museum. The seats in the London Eye have RJ45 connectors under them, but none of us had a laptop when we went -- maybe another reason to bring your laptop?
Because of the way London has grown, with different population centres all growing and merging, it doesn't really have one centre but many, so it's worth planning a bit and doing things that are close together each day, rather than spending too long travelling from place to place. I'd allow an hour to get from The Science Museum to The Tate Modern, so they're probably best for different days. I'd also recommend the free lunchtime jazz and classical concerts at the Royal Festival Hall (close to The London Eye) and I rather like the bohemian Camden Markets (not very close to any of the other places mentioned). None of that is very geeky, though, is it? If you want a day out of London, the Bletchley Park Museum is within easy reach for a day trip and needs support, but I've never been there since it's been a museum so I don't know how good it is (I trained there in the 1970s) and there's not much else to do in Bletchley!
Well, time travel is a sci-fi staple, as are cloaking devices (the Doctor's just happens to be jammed. He regenerates instead of dying, so that can be read as an extreme alien healing process linked to the sci-fi (and fantasy, I grant) staple of polymorphs. But the screwdriver he just points and it does whatever the plot requires. It's a magic wand.
Yes, but in deep space, dust particles are a long way apart so the atmosphere would accrete very slowly. In orbit around a planet with an atmosphere it would have a major tidal effect on the atmosphere but surely it would have to go fairly close in to start sucking particles across the gap.
Yep, they can shift the pollution from somewhere rich people want to go to somewhere where only poor people are. Makes for a sound economic investment, at least.
Likewise, artificial gravity generators being widely used without some means of "insulating" the artificial gravity wells would make starships that employ them "Very attractive" to cosmic dust and gas, and would promptly grow a shroud of atmosphere, and accumulate dirt on the hull.
I'm not sure that people are talking about the "Fantasy" bookshelves, but the fact that plots of SciFi toss out realistic concepts of technology, instead just using science to replace magic in fantasy plots.
You mean like Doctor Who's magic wand^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sonic screwdriver? I always expect him to shout a fake-Latin incantation whenever he uses it!
I think that just shows that you don't know much about current science firction authors. For example, Simon Morden isn't an engineer or an English major -- he has degrees in geology and planetary geophysics, which mean he's probably better at the real science than an engineer would be (and I write as an engineering major currently studying for an English degree).
They're Christian, and we've already established that Christianity makes money in spades. Once again, the original comment was regarding religion, not small subsets within a religion.
Religion is infamously hard to define, and boundaries between religions more so. Even if "Christianity" were a single religion (I don't believe it is), the fact that it makes money in spades would be irrelevant to Taize. The original thread was about the tax status of the Church of Scientology, which has a single administrative structure. Taize doesn't have a shared administrative structure with any other organisation, so it's a meaningful comparison.
Those that feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, provide shelter for the homeless (cf. Matt. 25:35) and that sell their posessions to give to the poor (cf. Luke 18:22).
So you're saying Bill Gates doesn't make money?
Not out of those activities.
Right, can you name a few, then?
You won't have heard of them. Well, maybe try the Taize Community in France, which is fairly well known because of its religious music. Less well known (though no secret) is that all donations they receive are given away to the poor, and they only keep enough of the proceeds of their work to live on.
Hmm. I really don't see why mentioning charitable activities of religion is "offtopic" in a discussion of the tax status of religion. But hey, this is/. so maybe it's just that my post didn't follow the kneejerk "all religion is evil" line.
Whoever heard of a religion that didn't make money?
Those that feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, provide shelter for the homeless (cf. Matt. 25:35) and that sell their posessions to give to the poor (cf. Luke 18:22). They tend to be the ones you've not heard of unless you're in their neighbourhood and in need.
Dude, seriously? You think I should ring up the IRS and tell them that I don't need to pay tax because I help out at the local homeless shelter? [snip] You don't appear to have read any of the posts above your own
You don't seem to have read my post. Where did I say anything about who should be taxed? I only responded to "Whoever heard of a religion that didn't make money?"
Whoever heard of a religion that didn't make money?
Those that feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, provide shelter for the homeless (cf. Matt. 25:35) and that sell their posessions to give to the poor (cf. Luke 18:22). They tend to be the ones you've not heard of unless you're in their neighbourhood and in need.
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Comments are good for many reasons:
1. Showing the next person what you were doing.
2. When you have to explain what you are doing, it helps you to discover possible errors in your code. Particularly logic errors.
3. It helps you if you have to come back and look at it in a few years so you will immediately have an explanation of what you were doing.
4. Cross-referencing the specification, for reverse traceability.
Of course for those of us who code perfectly the first time, they aren't really needed.:-)
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Depending on how long you stay there, if it's more than a week, try to find a neighbourhood pub (a real one preferably, not one of those modern things) and meet the locals. Pubs are an important part of the British social life.
True, but declining sharply as people stay in to watch TV :-(
Don't worry about our reputation for being reserved: we can be (when sober), but that just means we don't tend to strike up converations with strangers. We're usually more than happy for strangers to start conversations with us. (One for the psychology geeks.)
And don't ever order US beer. Try the local bitters, see if they have any local breweries, try anything you've never heard of. Beware, they are served warm by US standards (where any drink is served just above solidification temperature). Putting ice in your beer will be considered weird.
True. Warm beer is as much an abomination to the British drinker as it is for the American, but bitter should be cool, not cold. And not all beers are equal. Look for Cask Marque or CaMRA recommendations.
Yes, all great recommendations, especially the Science Museum. The seats in the London Eye have RJ45 connectors under them, but none of us had a laptop when we went -- maybe another reason to bring your laptop?
Because of the way London has grown, with different population centres all growing and merging, it doesn't really have one centre but many, so it's worth planning a bit and doing things that are close together each day, rather than spending too long travelling from place to place. I'd allow an hour to get from The Science Museum to The Tate Modern, so they're probably best for different days. I'd also recommend the free lunchtime jazz and classical concerts at the Royal Festival Hall (close to The London Eye) and I rather like the bohemian Camden Markets (not very close to any of the other places mentioned). None of that is very geeky, though, is it? If you want a day out of London, the Bletchley Park Museum is within easy reach for a day trip and needs support, but I've never been there since it's been a museum so I don't know how good it is (I trained there in the 1970s) and there's not much else to do in Bletchley!
Well, time travel is a sci-fi staple, as are cloaking devices (the Doctor's just happens to be jammed. He regenerates instead of dying, so that can be read as an extreme alien healing process linked to the sci-fi (and fantasy, I grant) staple of polymorphs. But the screwdriver he just points and it does whatever the plot requires. It's a magic wand.
No problem. I've patented excretion. See how long you can hold it in, suckers! ;-)
England already produces wine -- some decent stuff, too.
Yes, but in deep space, dust particles are a long way apart so the atmosphere would accrete very slowly. In orbit around a planet with an atmosphere it would have a major tidal effect on the atmosphere but surely it would have to go fairly close in to start sucking particles across the gap.
Yep, they can shift the pollution from somewhere rich people want to go to somewhere where only poor people are. Makes for a sound economic investment, at least.
Likewise, artificial gravity generators being widely used without some means of "insulating" the artificial gravity wells would make starships that employ them "Very attractive" to cosmic dust and gas, and would promptly grow a shroud of atmosphere, and accumulate dirt on the hull.
You mean like the Moon has?
I'm not sure that people are talking about the "Fantasy" bookshelves, but the fact that plots of SciFi toss out realistic concepts of technology, instead just using science to replace magic in fantasy plots.
You mean like Doctor Who's magic wand^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H sonic screwdriver? I always expect him to shout a fake-Latin incantation whenever he uses it!
perhaps that hard SciFi traditionally had a predominately male readership; while fantasy has broader appeal?
Yeah, being a fan of sword and sorcery stuff has always been good for pulling babes. Er...
Yes. The authors are doing that. How do you find the good ones amongst the dross? I don't have time to read them all.
I think that just shows that you don't know much about current science firction authors. For example, Simon Morden isn't an engineer or an English major -- he has degrees in geology and planetary geophysics, which mean he's probably better at the real science than an engineer would be (and I write as an engineering major currently studying for an English degree).
in Lewis case in only one book
Which one? "Out of the Silent Planet", "Perelandra", "That Hideous Strength" or "The Dark Tower and Other Stories"?
They're Christian, and we've already established that Christianity makes money in spades. Once again, the original comment was regarding religion, not small subsets within a religion.
Religion is infamously hard to define, and boundaries between religions more so. Even if "Christianity" were a single religion (I don't believe it is), the fact that it makes money in spades would be irrelevant to Taize. The original thread was about the tax status of the Church of Scientology, which has a single administrative structure. Taize doesn't have a shared administrative structure with any other organisation, so it's a meaningful comparison.
Those that feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, provide shelter for the homeless (cf. Matt. 25:35) and that sell their posessions to give to the poor (cf. Luke 18:22).
So you're saying Bill Gates doesn't make money?
Not out of those activities.
Right, can you name a few, then?
You won't have heard of them. Well, maybe try the Taize Community in France, which is fairly well known because of its religious music. Less well known (though no secret) is that all donations they receive are given away to the poor, and they only keep enough of the proceeds of their work to live on.
Hmm. I really don't see why mentioning charitable activities of religion is "offtopic" in a discussion of the tax status of religion. But hey, this is /. so maybe it's just that my post didn't follow the kneejerk "all religion is evil" line.
Whoever heard of a religion that didn't make money?
Those that feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, provide shelter for the homeless (cf. Matt. 25:35) and that sell their posessions to give to the poor (cf. Luke 18:22). They tend to be the ones you've not heard of unless you're in their neighbourhood and in need.
Dude, seriously? You think I should ring up the IRS and tell them that I don't need to pay tax because I help out at the local homeless shelter? [snip] You don't appear to have read any of the posts above your own
You don't seem to have read my post. Where did I say anything about who should be taxed? I only responded to "Whoever heard of a religion that didn't make money?"
Whoever heard of a religion that didn't make money?
Those that feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, provide shelter for the homeless (cf. Matt. 25:35) and that sell their posessions to give to the poor (cf. Luke 18:22). They tend to be the ones you've not heard of unless you're in their neighbourhood and in need.
If you kicked them to death after they're already down and disabled and there's a witness, I think there's a chance of a murder charge.
Without seeing the actual documents it's hard to tell.
And you can't see the actual documents because they're in Chinese and the fonts are copyright?
Thanks for that -- I'm eligible, so I'll have a look at VS2010. The dreamspark licenses do have quite restrictive conditions, though.
The best IDE for .NET development is still Visual Studio by a long shot, and licenses for it aren't cheap.
True -- they're free. Well, not all versions, but you can get a long way with the free versions.
* Throws BadParameterException if list is null.
* Returns a null pointer if list is empty
* Otherwise returns a pointer to the last entry in list.
* Ownership of the memory remains with list.
Comments are good for many reasons: 1. Showing the next person what you were doing. 2. When you have to explain what you are doing, it helps you to discover possible errors in your code. Particularly logic errors. 3. It helps you if you have to come back and look at it in a few years so you will immediately have an explanation of what you were doing.
4. Cross-referencing the specification, for reverse traceability.
Of course for those of us who code perfectly the first time, they aren't really needed. :-)
Requirements never change, do they?
Expect to see heavy lobbying to get the law changed so that they don't have to.