I've heard rumors that similar things are done for movies, books, games, tv shows, and even food.
I believe the idea is to work out how closely you agree with the reviewer in question in order to determine if what they say is useful (and of course when you completely disagree they can be useful - if they love it you'll hate it sort of thing)...
But, yes, if the point was meant to be that there is no one comparison function and hence each persons ordering will may be different, then that's clear enough. Doesn't stop people reporting that X's is better than Y's.
So "you haven't proved you don't" is good enough to invade a sovereign country. I guess that meshes well with "you can't prove you're not" being good enough to send you off to an offshore jail for some "interrogation".
Because the people left. And people, it would seem, have a bigger negative impact on wildlife than the radioactivity from the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history...
Because running a wire up the remaining above knee leg, around the crotch, and back down the other remaining above knee leg would be a PITA. Running it directly would make for tripping over or break the wire every time you stepped over something, though there are some features that might be useful for a marine: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030511.html
special relativity and FTL communication together violate causality. If you ignore special relativity then there's no problem, but throwing out relativity is a rather serious step - it does get a lot of stuff right... using classical physics there's no issue at all with FTL, it's just information/objects moving as normal (well a bit faster than normal).
It will have the rendering engines for 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 embedded in it. Along with the javascript engines for them and so on. Just to support all the people forced to use these tags to access features in the meantime...
Planning, etc is much better done by talking or even by IM, but people manage to come away with different impressions on what was agreed on, so a written note removes that ambiguity. Which seems a good thing.
I like to get things in writing (either an email, or a bug tracking/project tracking database entry) when I'm tasked with something. Both for the lack of ambiguity and for the self interested reasons of it providing a record of why I'm behind on other things (you had me do this first) and for CYA (record X was deleted because you said to do so in Y).
Email makes that such records very easy. I've worked with someone who would tell you to do X, and then a week later disavow all knowledge of ever having done so when it turns out X wasn't actually such a great idea - a cheap, fast written record is a wonderful thing.
We have thousands of years of bridge building (and failing) worth of experience. And they still collapse - which might be some indication that it's not as simple as you imply.
RPGs are about 2 things: story, and building the power level of a character to meet some challenge.
As soon as you add the MMO part the story has to give a bit (there's not just one player (or just one small group) so the player can't be the "chosen one, saviour of the universe" and the game is long term so story is expensive to keep adding to.
The challenge part also suffers, since there is no end. In a traditional CRPG at some point you win the game. The big evil is defeated by your powered up character and the game is over. The MMO part means that never happens, on and on it goes with the power cap getting raised every so often so that there's more grinding to do.
And of course people cheat in single player games, there's even more incentive in a multiplayer game...
There are these things called embassies and consulates. If you are traveling to the UK you ask the British Embassy - probably at same time you check if their are visa requirements. So for what you can't bring, 30 seconds of looking at a UK consular web site gives: http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/downloadFile?contentID=HMCE_CL_001734
For what the laws you'd either ask the consulate or whatever arm of your own government gives advice on travel - both of those will know the differences which is what you really care about.
As for Spain, their website is spectacularly uninformative so I'd call the local consulate/embassy and ask about restricted items. There's no need to ask about whether they can search my laptop - the US can I'd be entering/leaving there anyway. My assumption would be that they can search anything they want to, and throw me in jail for not jumping when asked - unless I was told otherwise when I asked.
I'm not going to call the consulate and waste their time and mine to answer your question though...
""" Liebermann noted that if the bomb had taken down Medco's network, people using a Medco prescription card would not have been able to fill any new prescriptions. "That could be very serious, maybe even life-threatening, depending on the need for that medication," Liebermann said. """
So what happens when they have a network failure for some other reason? Bad hardware, power outage, building fire, comet impact...
Did they deny you entry? Or just hold you up for hours and hours?
Almost every visa application form I've filled out has a question about that, which I suspect answering Yes to would make life hard.
The US visa waiver program, for example has: Have you ever been denied a U.S. visa or entry into the U.S. or had a U.S. visa canceled? If yes; when and where ?
Answering Yes means you need to apply for a visa rather than using the VWP - well you could try but they're way more likely to refuse you entry which will make for an expensive non-holiday... Of course you can lie, though I imagine that has consequences if they actually check. The US one restricts it to the US (for the visa waiver anyway, no idea about an actual visa) a tourist visa to Australia asks "been removed or deported from any country (including Australia)? left any country to avoid being removed or deported? been refused a visa for Australia or another country? been excluded from or asked to leave any country (including Australia)" - I would imagine answering Yes makes things more difficult.
They insist on you clearing customs in the US, so that they can catch people in transit more easily for whatever offense they committed against American sensibilities (running an online casino, etc). Well that's my cynical view anyway.
The article was about a child porn case so clearly it does happen, and so when discussing the article that's the obvious example to use using something else would require trying remember/find something else of a similar nature that's illegal to import/possess - using the thing the article is about means you don't have to spend any effort checking to make sure the thing you think is illegal is in fact illegal. In a land of free speech there shouldn't be many (some would argue any) after all.
It's pretty clear cut fifth amendment (it was a question in that case because the person has already given the pass phrase to the customs agent) , if you don't know that you can claim that then you really shouldn't be traveling to the US (especially with something you know you're not allowed to have).
It's foolish not to find out about the laws and customs before you travel to foreign countries. Of course if you are a tourist I think the agent can just refuse you entry anyway - which might be better if you really do have something to hide. Though a refused entry record is going to make international travel a pain for the rest of your life.
If you're a citizen, then the ka-ching sounds will be making it hard to concentrate as you try to get everything on record for the sue everyone vaguely involved action that's coming...
Of course there's always the chance you get shipped off to the middle east for some torture since you look like you might have once been in the same building as someone who went to school with someone who is a suspected terrorist. It's not something I'd try, but then again I wouldn't be trying to cross the border with child pornography on my laptop...
Your assumption is wrong. It's to search for items which are illegal to bring into the country. That would some plants and animals (quarantine laws), and also certain bit sequences on a hard drive (child pornography), bits of paper (undeclared currency over a magic value), arbitrary objects (that you didn't pay duty on) and a lot of other things. It's customs doing the searching, they don't actually care about bombs - of course if they found one they'd bring in the people who do care about such things...
You might be trying to ferret out the wisdom of crowds. Lots of other people are just gambling, and another entity is interested in collecting transaction fees...
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You mean precisely like people do?
I've heard rumors that similar things are done for movies, books, games, tv shows, and even food.
I believe the idea is to work out how closely you agree with the reviewer in question in order to determine if what they say is useful (and of course when you completely disagree they can be useful - if they love it you'll hate it sort of thing)...
But, yes, if the point was meant to be that there is no one comparison function and hence each persons ordering will may be different, then that's clear enough. Doesn't stop people reporting that X's is better than Y's.
So "you haven't proved you don't" is good enough to invade a sovereign country. I guess that meshes well with "you can't prove you're not" being good enough to send you off to an offshore jail for some "interrogation".
So they'll notify next year sometime. Or maybe they already yelled the cancellations out, not there fault the customer wasn't listening.
Except that the work around wasn't to set the User-Agent to claim to be IE, but to claim to be a different flavour if Firefox.
Yes, hi-rez pictures of camels humping from geosynchronous orbit. Try Engaging brain before keyboard.
If you watch the videos, you'll see that "an actual torch" will set things on fire at a significantly greater range...
Because the people left. And people, it would seem, have a bigger negative impact on wildlife than the radioactivity from the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history...
Because running a wire up the remaining above knee leg, around the crotch, and back down the other remaining above knee leg would be a PITA. Running it directly would make for tripping over or break the wire every time you stepped over something, though there are some features that might be useful for a marine: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030511.html
special relativity and FTL communication together violate causality. If you ignore special relativity then there's no problem, but throwing out relativity is a rather serious step - it does get a lot of stuff right... using classical physics there's no issue at all with FTL, it's just information/objects moving as normal (well a bit faster than normal).
http://www.theculture.org/rich/sharpblue/archives/000089.html is a reasonable example of causality being violated, it won't make any sense if you don't have at least a flimsy grasp on special relativity.
It will have the rendering engines for 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 embedded in it. Along with the javascript engines for them and so on. Just to support all the people forced to use these tags to access features in the meantime...
Sounds wonderful.
And how is that a bad thing?
Planning, etc is much better done by talking or even by IM, but people manage to come away with different impressions on what was agreed on, so a written note removes that ambiguity. Which seems a good thing.
I like to get things in writing (either an email, or a bug tracking/project tracking database entry) when I'm tasked with something. Both for the lack of ambiguity and for the self interested reasons of it providing a record of why I'm behind on other things (you had me do this first) and for CYA (record X was deleted because you said to do so in Y).
Email makes that such records very easy. I've worked with someone who would tell you to do X, and then a week later disavow all knowledge of ever having done so when it turns out X wasn't actually such a great idea - a cheap, fast written record is a wonderful thing.
We have thousands of years of bridge building (and failing) worth of experience. And they still collapse - which might be some indication that it's not as simple as you imply.
Evolution in and of it self means only change or progression so Darwin's theory should probably be called "evolution through natural selection".
Or maybe even "the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection".
An error in a slashdot summary, it's the end of the world!!!
The grind is the game in a MMORPG.
RPGs are about 2 things: story, and building the power level of a character to meet some challenge.
As soon as you add the MMO part the story has to give a bit (there's not just one player (or just one small group) so the player can't be the "chosen one, saviour of the universe" and the game is long term so story is expensive to keep adding to.
The challenge part also suffers, since there is no end. In a traditional CRPG at some point you win the game. The big evil is defeated by your powered up character and the game is over. The MMO part means that never happens, on and on it goes with the power cap getting raised every so often so that there's more grinding to do.
And of course people cheat in single player games, there's even more incentive in a multiplayer game...
This is what happens when the CTO reads Permutation City while drunk.
There are these things called embassies and consulates. If you are traveling to the UK you ask the British Embassy - probably at same time you check if their are visa requirements. So for what you can't bring, 30 seconds of looking at a UK consular web site gives: http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/downloadFile?contentID=HMCE_CL_001734
For what the laws you'd either ask the consulate or whatever arm of your own government gives advice on travel - both of those will know the differences which is what you really care about.
As for Spain, their website is spectacularly uninformative so I'd call the local consulate/embassy and ask about restricted items. There's no need to ask about whether they can search my laptop - the US can I'd be entering/leaving there anyway. My assumption would be that they can search anything they want to, and throw me in jail for not jumping when asked - unless I was told otherwise when I asked.
I'm not going to call the consulate and waste their time and mine to answer your question though...
"""
Liebermann noted that if the bomb had taken down Medco's network, people using a Medco prescription card would not have been able to fill any new prescriptions. "That could be very serious, maybe even life-threatening, depending on the need for that medication," Liebermann said.
"""
So what happens when they have a network failure for some other reason? Bad hardware, power outage, building fire, comet impact...
Did they deny you entry? Or just hold you up for hours and hours?
Almost every visa application form I've filled out has a question about that, which I suspect answering Yes to would make life hard.
The US visa waiver program, for example has: Have you ever been denied a U.S. visa or entry into the U.S. or had a U.S. visa canceled? If yes; when and where ?
Answering Yes means you need to apply for a visa rather than using the VWP - well you could try but they're way more likely to refuse you entry which will make for an expensive non-holiday... Of course you can lie, though I imagine that has consequences if they actually check. The US one restricts it to the US (for the visa waiver anyway, no idea about an actual visa) a tourist visa to Australia asks "been removed or deported from any country (including Australia)? left any country to avoid being removed or deported? been refused a visa for Australia or another country? been excluded from or asked to leave any country (including Australia)" - I would imagine answering Yes makes things more difficult.
They insist on you clearing customs in the US, so that they can catch people in transit more easily for whatever offense they committed against American sensibilities (running an online casino, etc). Well that's my cynical view anyway.
The article was about a child porn case so clearly it does happen, and so when discussing the article that's the obvious example to use using something else would require trying remember/find something else of a similar nature that's illegal to import/possess - using the thing the article is about means you don't have to spend any effort checking to make sure the thing you think is illegal is in fact illegal. In a land of free speech there shouldn't be many (some would argue any) after all.
Pirated movies, maybe?
It's pretty clear cut fifth amendment (it was a question in that case because the person has already given the pass phrase to the customs agent) , if you don't know that you can claim that then you really shouldn't be traveling to the US (especially with something you know you're not allowed to have).
It's foolish not to find out about the laws and customs before you travel to foreign countries. Of course if you are a tourist I think the agent can just refuse you entry anyway - which might be better if you really do have something to hide. Though a refused entry record is going to make international travel a pain for the rest of your life.
If you're a citizen, then the ka-ching sounds will be making it hard to concentrate as you try to get everything on record for the sue everyone vaguely involved action that's coming...
Of course there's always the chance you get shipped off to the middle east for some torture since you look like you might have once been in the same building as someone who went to school with someone who is a suspected terrorist. It's not something I'd try, but then again I wouldn't be trying to cross the border with child pornography on my laptop...
Your assumption is wrong. It's to search for items which are illegal to bring into the country. That would some plants and animals (quarantine laws), and also certain bit sequences on a hard drive (child pornography), bits of paper (undeclared currency over a magic value), arbitrary objects (that you didn't pay duty on) and a lot of other things. It's customs doing the searching, they don't actually care about bombs - of course if they found one they'd bring in the people who do care about such things...
To carry a laptop across the border with child porn on it...
But there's more, how retarded do you have to be to encrypt it and then give the passphrase to decrypt to the customs agent when he asks...
You could try reading the article, you know the one that discusses this very thing...
You might be trying to ferret out the wisdom of crowds. Lots of other people are just gambling, and another entity is interested in collecting transaction fees...