Upper class women were often left at home for long periods while their husbands went off to rule the Empire. The result was a culture of affairs with men of similar social standing, and also of sex with the servants. The latter was in some ways a form of prostitution; in exchange for a clean indoor job involving standing around handing out food and drink and shifting luggage, all board, lodging and clothes provided, a footman was expected to service the mistress and perhaps her friends. In a divorce case (which was really considered scandalous) it was not done to cite other parties lower than one's own social status, i.e. bonking servants didn't count.
Not in all cases obviously, perhaps not in a majority, but the rules have been well documented.
A friend of ours who died a few years back was the son of a West Indian jazz musician and an upper-class British woman.
His mother used to tell the story of how his father went to ask for her hand in marriage. This was early 1920s.
Daddy: "So, er, how much exactly do you earn? Will you be able to keep my daughter properly?"
WIJM: "About £65" (roughly an average annual income for a worker of the period)
Daddy: "That isn't very much"
Daughter: "That's a week, Daddy."
Daddy: "Oh. Er...where were we thinking of for the ceremony?
What makes you think modern cruise ships are any different? A hole in the bottom and the thing nearly capsized in shallow water. Many of those cruise ships cannot use the North Atlantic in winter.
Airships have to have light superstructures to be able to have adequate lift, and they have a very large surface area. To the best of my knowledge nobody has come up with a convincing way of safely landing (or taking off) an airship in high winds. Modern materials, good as they are, are still not sufficiently stronger than materials available in the 1930s to make a safe airship.
I wasn't aware that hydrogen was corrosive.It can cause embrittlement of steels, but that is quite a separate issue.
One of the greatest European epics, the Chanson de Roland, is about a lost battle. Then there are the Greek tragedies. The Titanic story is a pure tragedy because the builders and the operators of the ship were brought low by hubris and by tempting Fate. That is why it has cultural resonance.
In one of the ironies of history, the Titanic was equipped with wireless but the operator was too busy sending the important messages of the VIP travellers to make distress calls. It was the early 20th century equivalent of people making Facebook status updates "Ship is sinking, lol" rather than dialling 911.
Given what happened to the R101, travelling by airship could literally be a unique experience for the last lot of passengers. And indeed, their last ever experience.
Face it, balloons either use an irreplaceable resource far too important to waste on vanity projects (helium), or they are insanely dangerous by modern standards.
I have a Blackberry Playbook with exactly the same screen resolution and it is perfectly usable. The simple fact is that on a 7 inch screen anything over about 1000 by 600, for most people over 30, is just marketing boasting. Of course Slashdot is infested with people who have golden eyes, like the "audiophile" golden ears, but really 1000 by 600 on a 7 inch screen is at least as good perceptually as 1280 by 768 on a 10 inch.
The problem for HP, as for RIM, is that being technically right does not help to sell what for many people is a fashion item.
In the manufacture of Diesel engine pistons, which are cast, a soluble ring of high melting point salts has long been used to form the internal oil gallery. And I am sure that this technique did not originate with pistons. The problem is that the patent office now allows inventions to be "something A which already exists + something B which already exists", without any actual inventive step.
As an example, I am a little sorry for Trevor Bayliss who never really made any money out of his wind up radio, but given hand cranked magneto telephones had been around for many years, the idea of a hand cranked magneto radio set really should not be patentable. It is just another communications device with a hand charger.
So the far-Right, conservative, Mafia-riddled Catholic South of Italy is more successful than the Communist-leaning North?
I remember another Ducati owner commenting to me once that "I prefer my bikes to be made by Communists, they want things to work in this world but Catholics don't care if you end up in the next one."
I encourage spiders. They keep the flies under control without pesticides. The most right wing person I ever encountered was terrified even of quite small spiders. It was just as well his wife wouldn't let him keep guns, he'd have tried to take a money spider out with a 12-bore.
And SF is one of the most prosperous places on Earth. (The New England states are more prosperous but they have also had a lot longer to develop.) It seems that being run like a circus and being full of lazy people works. That, or your generalisations weren't worth the bother of writing down because they are just lazy Conservative stigmatising of anything new.
It cost as much as gathering together a sheaf of prior usage examples, preferably original documents or photocopies of dead tree press, details of registration of any companies using the mark, a few letters from organisations already legitimately using the mark, sticking them in a big envelope along with a letter saying which application you are objecting to and why, and sending it to the right place. The last time I did this, it was free. You don't even need a lawyer: IT people can usually figure out forms pretty well.
Yes, why are they not simply filing an objection? That's what you do. Someone applies, you object. You do not write to the EU Council of Ministers, you write to the European Trademarks and Patents Office.
Just like you do in the US. It isn't hard. Someone tries to file a trademark using your established name, you send them a batch of stuff, application gets rejected.
That's what I was thinking. It's so ridiculously luxurious that nobody's ever heard of it. This reminds me of the coffee that comes from beans with have been through the digestive system of a civet. Paying absurd prices for stuff that isn't even better than the cheaper stuff.
I was given some civet coffee. It is better than the cheap stuff. It just isn't 40 times better.
You are missing the whole point of the derivation from mare. The word 'ship' does not necessarily imply sea going - cf airship and spaceship - but the marine bit most certainly does.
Being a complete pedant, I have to observe that the Royal Air Force does not have "air marines". That is because (a) it has the RAF Regiment and (b) the founders of the RAF were literate and so knew that "marine" derives from the Latin mare - the sea. They at one point considered naming ranks after Latin terms associated with flight, but then decided to stick with the words "flight","air" and "wing". Space marines are a category error. Assuming that in the future it is found necessary to have a body on a military space ship under separate command so that in the event of mutiny they can fight the mutineers - one of the original uses of the Marines and why their quarters on a sailing ship are between other ranks quarters and the officers - they would, very obviously, be space soldiers. Heinlein's "Starship troopers" isn't bad, though they weren't strictly cavalry.
Yes I am grumpy and pedantic today, but this whole storm in a teacup is the result of lazy thinking by a number of authors.
Someone who worked in the New Yorker office remembered a stand up row between the editor and James Thurber about the placement of a comma. Because English is not a strictly constructed language, short, of, complete, comma, illiteracy, like, this, there is no wrong or right; only what is aesthetically pleasing to the writer.
Anyway, nobody should ever be criticised for seeking to improve their prose style.
English is my native language and I have a humanities degree from Cambridge. That doesn't mean I know anything, it does mean my literary style has been criticised twice a week over nine academic terms. Although your English has a very slightly Teutonic ring to it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it and, to my mind, the post from PPalmgren is completely out of order.
Comma use in English is greatly disputed; even in lists we have the Oxford comma (one, two, three, and four) versus the Cambridge comma (one, two, three and four). We have the adherents of comma minimalism and the adherents of strict comma use in any short pause, leading to the story of the writer who visited her editor to discover that all the commas had been marked for exclusion in her latest piece, and spent the next hour going through the document putting stet against every single one. She knew there were too many but it was now a matter of principle.
In English (i.e. England and Wales) legalese commas are avoided, because of the fear that a flaw in the paper or a fly mark will be read as a comma and affect the meaning of something. My father, a retired lawyer, often gets through an entire page of a letter without a single comma.
That noise in Highgate Cemetery is Karl Marx shouting "You see? Everything I predicted about capitalism has come true. It's a pity nobody ever tried socialism, but give it time."
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Upper class women were often left at home for long periods while their husbands went off to rule the Empire. The result was a culture of affairs with men of similar social standing, and also of sex with the servants. The latter was in some ways a form of prostitution; in exchange for a clean indoor job involving standing around handing out food and drink and shifting luggage, all board, lodging and clothes provided, a footman was expected to service the mistress and perhaps her friends. In a divorce case (which was really considered scandalous) it was not done to cite other parties lower than one's own social status, i.e. bonking servants didn't count.
Not in all cases obviously, perhaps not in a majority, but the rules have been well documented.
His mother used to tell the story of how his father went to ask for her hand in marriage. This was early 1920s.
Daddy: "So, er, how much exactly do you earn? Will you be able to keep my daughter properly?"
WIJM: "About £65" (roughly an average annual income for a worker of the period)
Daddy: "That isn't very much"
Daughter: "That's a week, Daddy."
Daddy: "Oh. Er...where were we thinking of for the ceremony?
The past is often not how Hollywood imagines it.
What makes you think modern cruise ships are any different? A hole in the bottom and the thing nearly capsized in shallow water. Many of those cruise ships cannot use the North Atlantic in winter.
I wasn't aware that hydrogen was corrosive.It can cause embrittlement of steels, but that is quite a separate issue.
Three inches extra dilation? She seemed to think it was important.
One of the greatest European epics, the Chanson de Roland, is about a lost battle. Then there are the Greek tragedies. The Titanic story is a pure tragedy because the builders and the operators of the ship were brought low by hubris and by tempting Fate. That is why it has cultural resonance.
In one of the ironies of history, the Titanic was equipped with wireless but the operator was too busy sending the important messages of the VIP travellers to make distress calls. It was the early 20th century equivalent of people making Facebook status updates "Ship is sinking, lol" rather than dialling 911.
Face it, balloons either use an irreplaceable resource far too important to waste on vanity projects (helium), or they are insanely dangerous by modern standards.
Here's a hint: there were other ships in the area and none of them sank due to icebergs.
The press release specifically mentions Google Drive.
The problem for HP, as for RIM, is that being technically right does not help to sell what for many people is a fashion item.
As an example, I am a little sorry for Trevor Bayliss who never really made any money out of his wind up radio, but given hand cranked magneto telephones had been around for many years, the idea of a hand cranked magneto radio set really should not be patentable. It is just another communications device with a hand charger.
I remember another Ducati owner commenting to me once that "I prefer my bikes to be made by Communists, they want things to work in this world but Catholics don't care if you end up in the next one."
I encourage spiders. They keep the flies under control without pesticides. The most right wing person I ever encountered was terrified even of quite small spiders. It was just as well his wife wouldn't let him keep guns, he'd have tried to take a money spider out with a 12-bore.
And SF is one of the most prosperous places on Earth. (The New England states are more prosperous but they have also had a lot longer to develop.) It seems that being run like a circus and being full of lazy people works. That, or your generalisations weren't worth the bother of writing down because they are just lazy Conservative stigmatising of anything new.
It cost as much as gathering together a sheaf of prior usage examples, preferably original documents or photocopies of dead tree press, details of registration of any companies using the mark, a few letters from organisations already legitimately using the mark, sticking them in a big envelope along with a letter saying which application you are objecting to and why, and sending it to the right place. The last time I did this, it was free. You don't even need a lawyer: IT people can usually figure out forms pretty well.
Just like you do in the US. It isn't hard. Someone tries to file a trademark using your established name, you send them a batch of stuff, application gets rejected.
You do know 'nubile' means marriageable? You must work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
That's what I was thinking. It's so ridiculously luxurious that nobody's ever heard of it. This reminds me of the coffee that comes from beans with have been through the digestive system of a civet. Paying absurd prices for stuff that isn't even better than the cheaper stuff.
I was given some civet coffee. It is better than the cheap stuff. It just isn't 40 times better.
You are missing the whole point of the derivation from mare. The word 'ship' does not necessarily imply sea going - cf airship and spaceship - but the marine bit most certainly does.
Yes I am grumpy and pedantic today, but this whole storm in a teacup is the result of lazy thinking by a number of authors.
Anyway, nobody should ever be criticised for seeking to improve their prose style.
Developed world economies are as Keynesian as mainland China is Marxist.
Comma use in English is greatly disputed; even in lists we have the Oxford comma (one, two, three, and four) versus the Cambridge comma (one, two, three and four). We have the adherents of comma minimalism and the adherents of strict comma use in any short pause, leading to the story of the writer who visited her editor to discover that all the commas had been marked for exclusion in her latest piece, and spent the next hour going through the document putting stet against every single one. She knew there were too many but it was now a matter of principle.
In English (i.e. England and Wales) legalese commas are avoided, because of the fear that a flaw in the paper or a fly mark will be read as a comma and affect the meaning of something. My father, a retired lawyer, often gets through an entire page of a letter without a single comma.
That noise in Highgate Cemetery is Karl Marx shouting "You see? Everything I predicted about capitalism has come true. It's a pity nobody ever tried socialism, but give it time."