Every single person should have reasonable means of getting a good education. It is so important that many nations consider it a basic human right.
Yes, that's why an English student in England is required to pay up to £9,000 a year to attend each course while a Scottish student in England isn't required to pay a penny (yes, makes fuck all sense but there it is).
That includes progressing all the way to a master degree not being a significant financial investment. Before you ask, no spending decades to get one or a whole bunch of them wouldn't be covered by that.
It's been the same for as long as I can remember. Every English person I know who has gone through an English university has finished up an average £40k in debt. This is not isolated. I'm sure it is a similar story elsewhere.
Its simply one of the easiest ways to allow everyone to move socially upwards - or - downwards based on their own achievements. Limiting the means of your people to aquire education is somewhere between extremely shortsighted, outright evil or in violation of human rights.
...What, the UK is the yardstick in respecting Human Rights? Not in your lifetime.
If you rely on science and creativity you also don't want to artificially limit education. Education is somewhat significant and long term investment but it will always pay off well for society. When a society limits higher education to the wealthy and elite, you'll end up nobility and peasants after a short time.
Oh, like we have now, you mean...
Instead you could have a nation of opportunities for everyone, even those born into poor families. But you chose to turn education into a business plan, to make profits by running schools or at the very least continue to let it happen.
Aha! Now you're getting it!
You, as a society, deserve what you'll get for that decision.
standard zip ties can be broken by overloading. There are zip ties which have non-return metal ratchets against the plastic which are practically impossible to defeat without a purpose-made shim or a pair of sidecutters. As these are designed to hold things like submarine cables they're not really suitable for restraint, in fact can be dangerous, so they're not used.
I would be looking at which way round you're dropping the laptop in; if you're causing the lid to flex then you're putting the laptop in the wrong way round. I tend out of habit to put it in with the base facing my back, with any paperwork I need to carry in a hardback folder like a Leverarch and have that sit against the lid for added protection.
in some courtrooms this shit is actually allowed! Totally against the rules of evidence, mind you, but they tend to ignore the Law when it suits them - by they I mean lawyers, judges, clerks...
Citation: Patent 4,873,662, Informaton for display at a terminal apparatus of a computer is stored in blocks the first part of which contains the information which is actually displayed at the terminal and the second part of which contains information relating to the display and which may be used to influence the display at the time or in response to a keyboard entry signal. For example, the second part of the block could include information for providing the complete address of an another block which would be selected by the operation of a selected key of the keyboard. The second part of the block could alternatively influence the format and/or color of the display at the terminal. When a block is read from the store of the computer the second part is retained in another store which may be located in the terminal or in the computer itself or perhaps both. The invention is particularly useful in reducing the complexity of the operating protocol of the computer.
This was the basis for their 2000 claim on the patent (filed 1976, granted at the USPTO 1989) which they subsequently lost. IBM and Lockheed-Martin also tried to lay claim on hyperlinks, which they both also lost.
or the daughter of Fiona Scott who was "NOT" torn from her mother's arms and flown on a private aircraft from Eire to Coventry by Coventry Social Services with a police escort provided by Warwickshire Constabulary and the Irish Garda. Fiona Scott herself had done nothing wrong except to move to Eire to be with her own mother who had offered to help her look after her child. She was left "NOT" battered in the middle of a cold kitchen in Eire by the police and Gardai after a dawn raid "WHICH DID NOT HAPPEN" by no less than twenty five armed officers.
Please get it right: Manning is not getting a trial, he is currently arraigned for a General Court Martial. The last hearing in the process was his plea hearing where he declined to plea. In a civil or criminal matter this would be significant since the process would *not* be able to continue. This is a Star Chamber hearing where he will not be permitted to call his own witnesses, and where the decision of his fate has already been made.
As for bilateral extradition treaties with the US: George W. Bush, then President, pissed all over those when he enacted the American Service Members Protection Act in 2002, which guarantees protection under US Law (but NOT international Law) for American service members serving abroad from prosecution in war crimes tribunals and matters in the International Criminal Court. Newsflash, George; taking that kind of position in opposition to previously agreed and fully ratified treaties is a bit... scummy, to put it politely. Oh, and International Law trumps local Statute, every single fucking time!
...kidnap their children and sell them for money under colour of Law. Jail those who object for specious allegations, without trial or charge. Deny those same people proper representation before during or after the fact then lie to them saying they're not entitled to have their complaints heard by proper and legitimate authority.
Google: Musa Family (separated from their six children by London Borough of Haringey who accused them of kidnapping the children from Nigeria and bringing them into the UK for trafficking (subsequent DNA tests proved that the children are in fact theirs but the "judge" ignored that information), then jailed for seven years each for something they could not possibly have done since they had no physical access to their own offspring).
Google: Roger Hayes (jailed for publicly calling out a fraudster who called himself a judge, but the official version is that he did not pay Council Tax to the criminals in public authority).
Google: Maureen Spalek (arrested under the Terrorism Act for sending her own son a birthday card after being forced by police to enter a town she was banned from entering by injunction).
Several dozen families a year escape from the UK using an underground network (of which I am part). They are the lucky ones, since we cannot approach them - they have to be aware of us and approach us. This is but the tip of the iceberg, since more than 25,000 children a year are removed from their families by the State and disappeared into the lucrative human flesh peddling racket that masquerades as a legitimate child protection industry, which is worth fully one quarter of the UK's gross domestic product.
I did eight years of support, Vista was without doubt the worst of the bunch - and yes, I had to learn it so I knew the shit of which I spoke. I would say it was even worse than ME; at least you could fall back to 98 drivers for ME if push came to shove, you couldn't use 2k-specific drivers on Vista. If it didn't come with Vista drivers, you were screwed. xp drivers were more miss than hit on Vista, by a very wide margin. As to performance, I insisted on dog's bollocks machines for my support gear, and Vista was a charging slug on a quad with 16GB!
car yard to car to private airstrip with 1200 yards of concrete runway, straight onto a Gulfstream IV (about the smallest plane with the range to make it to Ecuador from pretty much any straightish stretch of road in Britain). The car yard is about the only part of the journey with real lift risk since only the Airboss has the authority to close an airfield and allow the police on site (the police can't just roll on and pull up in front of the plane!). Private charter passengers can pull right up onto the apron and take a dozen steps between car and plane.
This is why most international airports have their own contingents of police on site from local forces, pretty much all of whom nowadays are armed. No so private airfields. The other problem is that most small airfields don't store Jet-A so unless JA is very unlucky he won't run out of fuel halfway across the Atlanntic because the crew will have brimmed the tanks before taking off from [wherever].
I don't really mean that. Wait. Yes, I do. Sort of.
Windows ME was awful. Windows 2000 was pretty much the first version of the platform I would call usable. Cairo was very buggy, then a little more buggy, then a little less buggy a degree at a time through SP3. Vista was the ME of NT (ie, bloody awful). 7 is a fairly decent platform. By that I mean, I haven't had a kernel crash in over a year of using it on a daily basis, and that is saying something - every single other OS I have ever used has had a kernel crash of some description in the time I've used it. If Windows 8 is going to follow the pattern, it's going to be another godawful abortion. I'll stick with 7 and probably wait for 9.
Bad related example. I grow my own vegetables, using Heirloom seeds. These seeds are bred and cultivated, sure, but they don't undergo the sort of selective breeding as you'd find happens with the Triticale family of grains which leaves farmers (mainly in Canada) sowing terminal generations of cereals. Those crops do not spawn successive generations, hence the collective term "terminal". What I grow does spawn successive generations, which are in practically every sense of the word, identical to the previous generation. Absent a local disaster, I can grow the same crops forever and not cause myself diabetes (I do actually have Type 2 DM but that's diet controlled and completely unrelated to the source of what I choose to eat). What I grow and how I choose to grow it is absolutely an economical choice; I do NOT intend to fork over for new terminal seed every growing season. The idea is to SAVE MONEY.
depends on a few factors: among them, the cost of building the plant, the energy input required for the process to work, the amount of water produced, and the unit cost (usually per tonne or cu.m) of the final product which largely depends on the other factors. There's also the problem of obtaining the technology which for some regions may be the subject of US sanctions.
yes, pumping is an integral part of pretty much all desalination methods at some stage or another, and for active processes (pretty much all but solar distillation) a HUMONGOUS amount of energy input is required. If that input can be made from renewable sources or at least partially met by them then the running costs can be reduced drastically.
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Every single person should have reasonable means of getting a good education.
It is so important that many nations consider it a basic human right.
Yes, that's why an English student in England is required to pay up to £9,000 a year to attend each course while a Scottish student in England isn't required to pay a penny (yes, makes fuck all sense but there it is).
That includes progressing all the way to a master degree not being a significant financial investment.
Before you ask, no spending decades to get one or a whole bunch of them wouldn't be covered by that.
It's been the same for as long as I can remember. Every English person I know who has gone through an English university has finished up an average £40k in debt. This is not isolated. I'm sure it is a similar story elsewhere.
Its simply one of the easiest ways to allow everyone to move socially upwards - or - downwards based on their own achievements.
Limiting the means of your people to aquire education is somewhere between extremely shortsighted, outright evil or in violation of human rights.
...What, the UK is the yardstick in respecting Human Rights? Not in your lifetime.
If you rely on science and creativity you also don't want to artificially limit education.
Education is somewhat significant and long term investment but it will always pay off well for society.
When a society limits higher education to the wealthy and elite, you'll end up nobility and peasants after a short time.
Oh, like we have now, you mean...
Instead you could have a nation of opportunities for everyone, even those born into poor families.
But you chose to turn education into a business plan, to make profits by running schools or at the very least continue to let it happen.
Aha! Now you're getting it!
You, as a society, deserve what you'll get for that decision.
standard zip ties can be broken by overloading. There are zip ties which have non-return metal ratchets against the plastic which are practically impossible to defeat without a purpose-made shim or a pair of sidecutters. As these are designed to hold things like submarine cables they're not really suitable for restraint, in fact can be dangerous, so they're not used.
thanks for that Knuckles, I'll have to look into it again.
I would be looking at which way round you're dropping the laptop in; if you're causing the lid to flex then you're putting the laptop in the wrong way round. I tend out of habit to put it in with the base facing my back, with any paperwork I need to carry in a hardback folder like a Leverarch and have that sit against the lid for added protection.
um... Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't. Neither does OpenSuSE 11.4. Nor OSX86. Nor OS/2 Warp 4. Nor Ubuntu 10.04. Nor Windows xp SP3.
Have I missed something?
it's called try being married for twelve years.
in some courtrooms this shit is actually allowed! Totally against the rules of evidence, mind you, but they tend to ignore the Law when it suits them - by they I mean lawyers, judges, clerks...
microwave ovens (TOS)
protein-based food analogs (Pot Noodle? Precursor to food replicators, mayhap?) (TOS "The Trouble With Tribbles": KIRK: "This... is my chicken sandwich and coffee.")
cellphones/PMRs (TOS)
tricorders (TOS)
head-mounted direct-to-retina projection displays (TNG "The Game")
just off the top of my head.
mine's got an off switch on the trackpad... kinda handy, that.
I never got on with Thinkpad keyboards. The "Trackpoint" (I always called it the GHB Clitoris) got in the way.
Citation: Patent 4,873,662, Informaton for display at a terminal apparatus of a computer is stored in blocks the first part of which contains the information which is actually displayed at the terminal and the second part of which contains information relating to the display and which may be used to influence the display at the time or in response to a keyboard entry signal. For example, the second part of the block could include information for providing the complete address of an another block which would be selected by the operation of a selected key of the keyboard. The second part of the block could alternatively influence the format and/or color of the display at the terminal. When a block is read from the store of the computer the second part is retained in another store which may be located in the terminal or in the computer itself or perhaps both. The invention is particularly useful in reducing the complexity of the operating protocol of the computer.
This was the basis for their 2000 claim on the patent (filed 1976, granted at the USPTO 1989) which they subsequently lost. IBM and Lockheed-Martin also tried to lay claim on hyperlinks, which they both also lost.
or the daughter of Fiona Scott who was "NOT" torn from her mother's arms and flown on a private aircraft from Eire to Coventry by Coventry Social Services with a police escort provided by Warwickshire Constabulary and the Irish Garda. Fiona Scott herself had done nothing wrong except to move to Eire to be with her own mother who had offered to help her look after her child. She was left "NOT" battered in the middle of a cold kitchen in Eire by the police and Gardai after a dawn raid "WHICH DID NOT HAPPEN" by no less than twenty five armed officers.
noticeable before, showstopping after.
the DCPA is superfluous at best. Diplomatic immunity can be revoked under two circumstances:
1. formal declaration of war;
2. violation of Common Law.
As far as I know neither has happened. Yet.
Please get it right: Manning is not getting a trial, he is currently arraigned for a General Court Martial. The last hearing in the process was his plea hearing where he declined to plea. In a civil or criminal matter this would be significant since the process would *not* be able to continue. This is a Star Chamber hearing where he will not be permitted to call his own witnesses, and where the decision of his fate has already been made.
As for bilateral extradition treaties with the US: George W. Bush, then President, pissed all over those when he enacted the American Service Members Protection Act in 2002, which guarantees protection under US Law (but NOT international Law) for American service members serving abroad from prosecution in war crimes tribunals and matters in the International Criminal Court. Newsflash, George; taking that kind of position in opposition to previously agreed and fully ratified treaties is a bit... scummy, to put it politely. Oh, and International Law trumps local Statute, every single fucking time!
...kidnap their children and sell them for money under colour of Law. Jail those who object for specious allegations, without trial or charge. Deny those same people proper representation before during or after the fact then lie to them saying they're not entitled to have their complaints heard by proper and legitimate authority.
Google: Musa Family (separated from their six children by London Borough of Haringey who accused them of kidnapping the children from Nigeria and bringing them into the UK for trafficking (subsequent DNA tests proved that the children are in fact theirs but the "judge" ignored that information), then jailed for seven years each for something they could not possibly have done since they had no physical access to their own offspring).
Google: Roger Hayes (jailed for publicly calling out a fraudster who called himself a judge, but the official version is that he did not pay Council Tax to the criminals in public authority).
Google: Maureen Spalek (arrested under the Terrorism Act for sending her own son a birthday card after being forced by police to enter a town she was banned from entering by injunction).
Several dozen families a year escape from the UK using an underground network (of which I am part). They are the lucky ones, since we cannot approach them - they have to be aware of us and approach us. This is but the tip of the iceberg, since more than 25,000 children a year are removed from their families by the State and disappeared into the lucrative human flesh peddling racket that masquerades as a legitimate child protection industry, which is worth fully one quarter of the UK's gross domestic product.
I did eight years of support, Vista was without doubt the worst of the bunch - and yes, I had to learn it so I knew the shit of which I spoke. I would say it was even worse than ME; at least you could fall back to 98 drivers for ME if push came to shove, you couldn't use 2k-specific drivers on Vista. If it didn't come with Vista drivers, you were screwed. xp drivers were more miss than hit on Vista, by a very wide margin. As to performance, I insisted on dog's bollocks machines for my support gear, and Vista was a charging slug on a quad with 16GB!
Awesome.
they're expecting something to kick off - or planning on instigating if people start gathering, which is not unknown.
car yard to car to private airstrip with 1200 yards of concrete runway, straight onto a Gulfstream IV (about the smallest plane with the range to make it to Ecuador from pretty much any straightish stretch of road in Britain). The car yard is about the only part of the journey with real lift risk since only the Airboss has the authority to close an airfield and allow the police on site (the police can't just roll on and pull up in front of the plane!). Private charter passengers can pull right up onto the apron and take a dozen steps between car and plane.
This is why most international airports have their own contingents of police on site from local forces, pretty much all of whom nowadays are armed. No so private airfields. The other problem is that most small airfields don't store Jet-A so unless JA is very unlucky he won't run out of fuel halfway across the Atlanntic because the crew will have brimmed the tanks before taking off from [wherever].
Sounds so familiar... Oh, look, someone finished the quote for me :)
I don't really mean that. Wait. Yes, I do. Sort of.
Windows ME was awful. Windows 2000 was pretty much the first version of the platform I would call usable. Cairo was very buggy, then a little more buggy, then a little less buggy a degree at a time through SP3. Vista was the ME of NT (ie, bloody awful). 7 is a fairly decent platform. By that I mean, I haven't had a kernel crash in over a year of using it on a daily basis, and that is saying something - every single other OS I have ever used has had a kernel crash of some description in the time I've used it. If Windows 8 is going to follow the pattern, it's going to be another godawful abortion. I'll stick with 7 and probably wait for 9.
Bad related example. I grow my own vegetables, using Heirloom seeds. These seeds are bred and cultivated, sure, but they don't undergo the sort of selective breeding as you'd find happens with the Triticale family of grains which leaves farmers (mainly in Canada) sowing terminal generations of cereals. Those crops do not spawn successive generations, hence the collective term "terminal". What I grow does spawn successive generations, which are in practically every sense of the word, identical to the previous generation. Absent a local disaster, I can grow the same crops forever and not cause myself diabetes (I do actually have Type 2 DM but that's diet controlled and completely unrelated to the source of what I choose to eat). What I grow and how I choose to grow it is absolutely an economical choice; I do NOT intend to fork over for new terminal seed every growing season. The idea is to SAVE MONEY.
depends on a few factors: among them, the cost of building the plant, the energy input required for the process to work, the amount of water produced, and the unit cost (usually per tonne or cu.m) of the final product which largely depends on the other factors. There's also the problem of obtaining the technology which for some regions may be the subject of US sanctions.
yes, pumping is an integral part of pretty much all desalination methods at some stage or another, and for active processes (pretty much all but solar distillation) a HUMONGOUS amount of energy input is required. If that input can be made from renewable sources or at least partially met by them then the running costs can be reduced drastically.