Nobody in America argues against physics or chemistry etc; there is no "war on science".
Have you met the people in America? Time and again I've met fine GED graduates who have told me that they know for a fact that basic cosmology is wrong and whatever they happen to believe is true, not to mention the whole collection of creationist idiots out here. It seems that more than half of everyone who isn't an authority is certain that their opinion is just as good anyways. People want what they want when they want it, and are anti anything that stands in their way. I like what you posted that wasn't in your last paragraph, but the claims you make at the end don't follow from those words. It's just rhetorical chicanery.
I agree with you, but there's one possible other circumstance. Apparently Southwest rewards his type of behavior, so long as one of his kids is under four years old. If he's flown with his kids on Southwest a lot, and his youngest kid recently turned five, he could have been trained to expect something that was no longer the case.
Personally, I think Southwest should train their people encountering this request (if there's children who look to have single digit ages) to say "We only do that for families traveling with children under four, however, if you want to swipe your payment plastic right now, we'll charge you the difference and you can go ahead and board together early." Everyone will hate him for slowing down the boarding process, but I don't think they'd hate Southwest for making an allowance for busy parents who forgot.
With all airlines, or with all airlines that use assigned seating? I have the impression that he could have purchased earlier seating privileges for his kids for not too much money, but chose to gamble on a (failed) sympathy play instead.
That doesn't help if the people who got on ahead of you have bags like that, and many people do. Bag manufacturers know the exact dimensions of those bins and make bags to match. People have so little faith that they'll find an empty bin at their seat, that often the people in the back who board first use an empty bin about halfway to their seat, perpetuating the problem. I've watched this happen more than once.
Personally, I'd check a lot more stuff if the airline gave me the option to have my checked bags flown separately on a UPS or FedEx flight where locked bags are allowed. As it is, I expect I'd better carry with me anything I want to take that might entice theft, or mail that stuff in cardboard boxes in advance.
So, if I use me phone, are you suggesting I should use the magnifying glass app with the camera to better see the iron filings or just use OpenDocument Reader to see the contents of the file?
So, when someone says "human readable," I should correctly understand that "a valid UTF-8-encoded Unicode XML document" is something that fits that description. Yes?
I reckon 43 being killed in a short period of time by a single natural occurrence would make someone's local news. It's just that their local news wouldn't make Slashdot. I also think - not to belittle the ability of those Asians or Africans you mention to keep their people from dying - that when more than twenty people dying in a short period of time from the same cause happens fewer than twenty times a year in their country, then those happenings will be highlighted as catastrophes in their national news media also.
but within that the actual text is in a format that can be figured our from scratch even if the spec is lost.
So I'm guessing that if I compose my document using 128 character ascii, then the entire unzipped ODF file would be my document + XML, all using 128 character ascii - whereas if I compose my document using a different Unicode font (for example, if I want it to display Korean characters), then the unzipped ODF file would consist of my document in Unicode + XML in 128 character ascii. Does that sound correct to you?
I'm probably too old for your definition of quickly. I find that taking a flash drive out of my pocket and plugging it into a USB port takes several seconds. I also find that bringing up a file browser and locating the file I want to look at takes several seconds. If the amount of time it takes to show me the file contents is on par with the amount of time I take from when I decide I want to see a particular file until the time I actually click on its icon, I'm sufficiently happy with that.
What does "human readable" mean for you? I know that if I stare at a flash drive, I can't read the files. I know if I click on the (GUI representation of the) file to open it, some software program has to load in order for me to read the file. If the software loads quickly, why should I care whether it's a terminal program, a notepad, or Writer?
Don't worry. This is too much like municipal wifi for the school's plan not to be sued out of existence. Those kids need to learn the valuable lesson that internet connectivity is not a redistributable commodity. It's a name-brand product, and it will always cost you.
Does France have anything analogous to the Fair Comment defense found in Commonwealth countries? I see it apparently still occasionally works in Canada and the UK.
Ok, I slightly lied below. You can have revokable anonymity in a process where your cooperation is required for it to be reversible, using some form of encryption. For most customers of anonymous electronic currency, I expect they'd pay the trust price in order not to have to keep track of the transactions, especially if they had success with trust in the past.
Sure, just like you have no recourse with any receipt if you walk out of their building having received counterfeit money when they make change. In order to get anonymity, the process has to be non-reversible. If it wasn't, the process could be reversed against you. So, you have to trust somebody in a situation where you have no recourse. The fact is, activating the cards at point of sale is, itself antithetical to the anonymity. If you and they wanted to cooperate in anonymous pre-paid debit cards, you'd want ones that were activated en masse at the start of business and kept with the cash in teller stations. The thing I can think of for verification is for the cards to have a little nfc chip that tells their value to (similarly chipped) cell phones. Then, you'd want an NFC muffling wallet so they don't talk out of turn. But, you kind of do anyways. I bought copper foil from McMaster-Carr to line the pouch in my wallet where I keep my passport and TWIC because they're already capable of talking out of turn.
I think that individual people can do sufficiently alright if the don't consider that they're anonymous or acting in the interest of others. Not always, and for some perhaps, seldom ever, but on the whole, I think, sufficiently alright. When people are acting as part of a group, it seems that they often allow the least common denominator ethics in the group to supersede their own rather than feeling obligated not to fail the group by representing with less than proper behavior. I don't think that organizations need to be non-profit, but I absolutely do believe that they need to be not only profit. I think it needs to be understood that organizations whose highest priority is profit are like individuals who shoplift. It's not behavior that's impossible to fathom, but it can't be rewarded when it's discovered.
I worked on a boat in AK with an old (East) German chief engineer once. He had a slightly more expensive version where the computer would move a magnet under the board to drag the pieces for its move. If a webcam could see the board, it should be easy for any smartphone capable computer to referee play, provided it saw the game from the beginning. I expect modern pattern recognition is up for 64 squares of two alternating colors and whether one has a piece on it or not.
Good point. I think what it comes down to is understanding how to structure a group of people so that the group, acting as a whole, is capable of prioritizing moral behavior over it's own interests. Most large organizations seem to have the same concept of morality as single celled organisms.
Figures. When American Express doesn't keep track, it's money laundering. When the US Government prints up a new bunch of $100's, puts a big pallet of them in the back of a C-130, flies it to another country and leaves the door open at night, it's "oops."
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Nobody in America argues against physics or chemistry etc; there is no "war on science".
Have you met the people in America? Time and again I've met fine GED graduates who have told me that they know for a fact that basic cosmology is wrong and whatever they happen to believe is true, not to mention the whole collection of creationist idiots out here. It seems that more than half of everyone who isn't an authority is certain that their opinion is just as good anyways. People want what they want when they want it, and are anti anything that stands in their way. I like what you posted that wasn't in your last paragraph, but the claims you make at the end don't follow from those words. It's just rhetorical chicanery.
I agree with you, but there's one possible other circumstance. Apparently Southwest rewards his type of behavior, so long as one of his kids is under four years old. If he's flown with his kids on Southwest a lot, and his youngest kid recently turned five, he could have been trained to expect something that was no longer the case.
Personally, I think Southwest should train their people encountering this request (if there's children who look to have single digit ages) to say "We only do that for families traveling with children under four, however, if you want to swipe your payment plastic right now, we'll charge you the difference and you can go ahead and board together early." Everyone will hate him for slowing down the boarding process, but I don't think they'd hate Southwest for making an allowance for busy parents who forgot.
With all airlines, or with all airlines that use assigned seating? I have the impression that he could have purchased earlier seating privileges for his kids for not too much money, but chose to gamble on a (failed) sympathy play instead.
That doesn't help if the people who got on ahead of you have bags like that, and many people do. Bag manufacturers know the exact dimensions of those bins and make bags to match. People have so little faith that they'll find an empty bin at their seat, that often the people in the back who board first use an empty bin about halfway to their seat, perpetuating the problem. I've watched this happen more than once.
Personally, I'd check a lot more stuff if the airline gave me the option to have my checked bags flown separately on a UPS or FedEx flight where locked bags are allowed. As it is, I expect I'd better carry with me anything I want to take that might entice theft, or mail that stuff in cardboard boxes in advance.
So, if I use me phone, are you suggesting I should use the magnifying glass app with the camera to better see the iron filings or just use OpenDocument Reader to see the contents of the file?
So, when someone says "human readable," I should correctly understand that "a valid UTF-8-encoded Unicode XML document" is something that fits that description. Yes?
I reckon 43 being killed in a short period of time by a single natural occurrence would make someone's local news. It's just that their local news wouldn't make Slashdot. I also think - not to belittle the ability of those Asians or Africans you mention to keep their people from dying - that when more than twenty people dying in a short period of time from the same cause happens fewer than twenty times a year in their country, then those happenings will be highlighted as catastrophes in their national news media also.
but within that the actual text is in a format that can be figured our from scratch even if the spec is lost.
So I'm guessing that if I compose my document using 128 character ascii, then the entire unzipped ODF file would be my document + XML, all using 128 character ascii - whereas if I compose my document using a different Unicode font (for example, if I want it to display Korean characters), then the unzipped ODF file would consist of my document in Unicode + XML in 128 character ascii. Does that sound correct to you?
I'm probably too old for your definition of quickly. I find that taking a flash drive out of my pocket and plugging it into a USB port takes several seconds. I also find that bringing up a file browser and locating the file I want to look at takes several seconds. If the amount of time it takes to show me the file contents is on par with the amount of time I take from when I decide I want to see a particular file until the time I actually click on its icon, I'm sufficiently happy with that.
So, 128 character ascii?
What does "human readable" mean for you? I know that if I stare at a flash drive, I can't read the files. I know if I click on the (GUI representation of the) file to open it, some software program has to load in order for me to read the file. If the software loads quickly, why should I care whether it's a terminal program, a notepad, or Writer?
Not enough cube. You want 9 million nanoscale exercycles powered by the souls of the damned. I dare you to open the box.
Don't worry. This is too much like municipal wifi for the school's plan not to be sued out of existence. Those kids need to learn the valuable lesson that internet connectivity is not a redistributable commodity. It's a name-brand product, and it will always cost you.
Slow news day?
I think it becomes advantageous at somewhat under $200k/year, if you can avoid the IRS calling you a "Personal Service Corporation."
probably wrote something like "there was dogshit in the sauce".
I think it would be hard, having written that, to claim afterwards that your words were not malicious.
Does France have anything analogous to the Fair Comment defense found in Commonwealth countries? I see it apparently still occasionally works in Canada and the UK.
Ok, I slightly lied below. You can have revokable anonymity in a process where your cooperation is required for it to be reversible, using some form of encryption. For most customers of anonymous electronic currency, I expect they'd pay the trust price in order not to have to keep track of the transactions, especially if they had success with trust in the past.
Sure, just like you have no recourse with any receipt if you walk out of their building having received counterfeit money when they make change. In order to get anonymity, the process has to be non-reversible. If it wasn't, the process could be reversed against you. So, you have to trust somebody in a situation where you have no recourse. The fact is, activating the cards at point of sale is, itself antithetical to the anonymity. If you and they wanted to cooperate in anonymous pre-paid debit cards, you'd want ones that were activated en masse at the start of business and kept with the cash in teller stations. The thing I can think of for verification is for the cards to have a little nfc chip that tells their value to (similarly chipped) cell phones. Then, you'd want an NFC muffling wallet so they don't talk out of turn. But, you kind of do anyways. I bought copper foil from McMaster-Carr to line the pouch in my wallet where I keep my passport and TWIC because they're already capable of talking out of turn.
I think that individual people can do sufficiently alright if the don't consider that they're anonymous or acting in the interest of others. Not always, and for some perhaps, seldom ever, but on the whole, I think, sufficiently alright. When people are acting as part of a group, it seems that they often allow the least common denominator ethics in the group to supersede their own rather than feeling obligated not to fail the group by representing with less than proper behavior. I don't think that organizations need to be non-profit, but I absolutely do believe that they need to be not only profit. I think it needs to be understood that organizations whose highest priority is profit are like individuals who shoplift. It's not behavior that's impossible to fathom, but it can't be rewarded when it's discovered.
I worked on a boat in AK with an old (East) German chief engineer once. He had a slightly more expensive version where the computer would move a magnet under the board to drag the pieces for its move. If a webcam could see the board, it should be easy for any smartphone capable computer to referee play, provided it saw the game from the beginning. I expect modern pattern recognition is up for 64 squares of two alternating colors and whether one has a piece on it or not.
Good point. I think what it comes down to is understanding how to structure a group of people so that the group, acting as a whole, is capable of prioritizing moral behavior over it's own interests. Most large organizations seem to have the same concept of morality as single celled organisms.
Figures. When American Express doesn't keep track, it's money laundering. When the US Government prints up a new bunch of $100's, puts a big pallet of them in the back of a C-130, flies it to another country and leaves the door open at night, it's "oops."
Well, if the G-string was made of that gecko foot style Van der Walls sticky stuff...
Are you sure those are for stripping? Last I checked, lap dances were $20.