Yeah, those kinds of upsells, as advertising relevant to something else you're about to buy, actually kinda make sense, even if a particular addon isn't always a good fit.
Yeah, a lot of the local bus stops (Rochester, NY) will list what route(s) stop there, but they won't post timetables. Some stops have small glass, metal & bench shelters; the walls of those would be perfect for posting timetables, but I only sometimes actually see that being done. [I can halfway understand the "just a signpost" stops not posting timetables.]
I chose to cycle 20 miles a day in snow just so I didn't have to use their service.
I often choose to ride my bicycle (only ~12 miles) instead of taking the local buses - they're on time according to the printed schedules (pretty much), but the problem is in the setup of those schedules. I can't really ride in snow (because I have a road bike instead of a mountain bike?), but I'll often ride if it's too hot or too cold if the paths are clear.
The one time I used Amtrak (Rochester to Chicago for Lollapalooza weekend), it was indeed an hour or so late in arriving. That cascaded into some transport delays within Chicago; I would have liked to get to the festival grounds earlier.
From TF-eh, you're right: Washington 1% Dem lead with 38% of precincts unreported, Colorado 0.9% Dem lead with 3% of precincts unreported. The other election that TF-eh marks as undecided actually looks like a clear win for Murkowski (Repub writein in Alaska)
Yeah, Libertarians sometimes want government's nose out of places where it *does* belong (as well as where it doesn't), but they often seemed more sane or principled than many social conservatives or foreign policy hawks.
Yeah, I'm no pothead, but Proposition 19 was the 2010 result I was most interested in...would have been about time the Feds got called out in such a visible way about the War On Drug(User)s
To generalize: Voting on local issues is more important to you because it's more relevant to you and you have greater influence on it? Someone wouldn't *have* to vote on state/national things while they're at the polls for local business, but people would be inclined to while they're there, right?
At my university, the Environmental Science department has offices next to the ROTC staff - I commented on this apparent irony to one of the Environmental Science guys, and he pointed out that a side-effect of military' bases secure zones as wildlife preserves. That effect isn't limited to DMZs per se; here's a local example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_White_Deer
Good job on his part fishing for a connection between two apparently-unrelated things, I do that all the time in other fields.
Here's a user-side answer in the form of a Greasemonkey script.../. could thereotically implement a bit of JS like that server-side (this works with a bunch of URL shorteners)
Yes, copyright is indeed a limitation on the creation of future works, as older works are often an input to new ones. How powerful this limitation is depends on strength of copyright as well as length.
The linked paper (http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyright.pdf) reminds me in concept of Landes & Posner’s “Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law”, also an economist taking a refreshingly different look at the structure of IP law without discarding the concept.
I'm not sure if two wrongs would make a right. I'm perfectly OK with adjustments going forward, though that strictly speaking would lead to some newer works hitting the public domain before some older works. So, I'd perhaps say: "X years for new works, no more than X more years for existing works - if an existing work would have hit the public domain before X, at least let it hit like normal."
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I had read it as him saying that the Korean kids were better-behaved than their counterparts
Yeah, those kinds of upsells, as advertising relevant to something else you're about to buy, actually kinda make sense, even if a particular addon isn't always a good fit.
Yeah, a lot of the local bus stops (Rochester, NY) will list what route(s) stop there, but they won't post timetables. Some stops have small glass, metal & bench shelters; the walls of those would be perfect for posting timetables, but I only sometimes actually see that being done. [I can halfway understand the "just a signpost" stops not posting timetables.]
That sounds to me kinda like *German* attention to detail. Okay, maybe the Japanese too, then...
I chose to cycle 20 miles a day in snow just so I didn't have to use their service.
I often choose to ride my bicycle (only ~12 miles) instead of taking the local buses - they're on time according to the printed schedules (pretty much), but the problem is in the setup of those schedules.
I can't really ride in snow (because I have a road bike instead of a mountain bike?), but I'll often ride if it's too hot or too cold if the paths are clear.
The one time I used Amtrak (Rochester to Chicago for Lollapalooza weekend), it was indeed an hour or so late in arriving. That cascaded into some transport delays within Chicago; I would have liked to get to the festival grounds earlier.
From TF-eh, you're right: Washington 1% Dem lead with 38% of precincts unreported, Colorado 0.9% Dem lead with 3% of precincts unreported.
The other election that TF-eh marks as undecided actually looks like a clear win for Murkowski (Repub writein in Alaska)
51-47-2 Dems
Yeah, Libertarians sometimes want government's nose out of places where it *does* belong (as well as where it doesn't), but they often seemed more sane or principled than many social conservatives or foreign policy hawks.
Senate ties are broken by the VP, so 50-50 would still mean a Democrat lead, 51-50.
Yeah, I'm no pothead, but Proposition 19 was the 2010 result I was most interested in...would have been about time the Feds got called out in such a visible way about the War On Drug(User)s
I've often seen interesting angles on US national issues from the BBC, so it wasn't *too* surprising to see something from Canada here
To generalize: Voting on local issues is more important to you because it's more relevant to you and you have greater influence on it?
Someone wouldn't *have* to vote on state/national things while they're at the polls for local business, but people would be inclined to while they're there, right?
The status of third parties does seem to be stuck in a frustrating chicken and egg situation, AFAIK.
why not a write-in vote for Mickey Mouse, make it official? :)
no sense causing even more destruction than is theoretically necessary, eh?
divide and conquer by letting enemy infighting self-control the problem? Interesting.
Maybe they want to interfere with the process/effect of technically-inclined people educating their less-technically-inclined social contacts.
When a KGB agent is the good guy, you know the rest of the situation is f*cked up...
At my university, the Environmental Science department has offices next to the ROTC staff - I commented on this apparent irony to one of the Environmental Science guys, and he pointed out that a side-effect of military' bases secure zones as wildlife preserves. That effect isn't limited to DMZs per se; here's a local example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_White_Deer
Good job on his part fishing for a connection between two apparently-unrelated things, I do that all the time in other fields.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40582
Here's a user-side answer in the form of a Greasemonkey script... /. could thereotically implement a bit of JS like that server-side (this works with a bunch of URL shorteners)
"In war, brutality is good because it makes the war end quickly." or something along those lines?
+1 Interesting
Yes, copyright is indeed a limitation on the creation of future works, as older works are often an input to new ones. How powerful this limitation is depends on strength of copyright as well as length.
I admit I was speaking of 'ex post facto' less literally that you were.
The linked paper (http://www.rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyright.pdf) reminds me in concept of Landes & Posner’s “Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law”, also an economist taking a refreshingly different look at the structure of IP law without discarding the concept.
I'm not sure if two wrongs would make a right.
I'm perfectly OK with adjustments going forward, though that strictly speaking would lead to some newer works hitting the public domain before some older works.
So, I'd perhaps say:
"X years for new works, no more than X more years for existing works - if an existing work would have hit the public domain before X, at least let it hit like normal."