Venus shows no evidence of active plate tectonics. There is debatable evidence of active tectonics in the planet's distant past.
Some of the satellites of Jupiter have features that may be related to plate-tectonic style deformation, although the materials and specific mechanisms may be different from plate-tectonic activity on Earth.
"The upside-down glasses that you describe were first investigated by George Stratton in the 1890s. Since the image that the retina of our eye sees is inverted, he wanted to explore the effect of presenting the retina an upright image. He reported several experiments with a lens system that inverted images both vertically and horizontally. He initially wore the glasses over both eyes but found it too stressful, so he decided to wear a special reversing telescope over one eye and keep the other one covered.
"In his first experiment, he wore the reversing telescope for twenty-one hours. However, his world only occasionally looked normal so he ran another experiment where he wore it for eight days in a row. On the fourth day, things seemed to be upright rather than inverted. On the fifth day, he was able to walk around his house fairly normally but he found that if he looked at objects very carefully, they again seemed to be inverted. On the whole, Stratton reported that his environment never really felt normal especially his body parts, although it was difficult to describe exactly how he felt. He also found that after removing the reversing lenses, it took several hours for his vision to return to normal."
Apple has announced that iTunes will make individual AAC format tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existing downloads, with their DRM removed, at a price of $1.29/1.29/£0.99. iTunes will continue to offer consumers the ability to pay $0.99/0.99/£0.79 for standard sound quality tracks with DRM still applied. Complete albums from EMI Music artists purchased on the iTunes Store will automatically be sold at the higher sound quality and DRM-free, with no change in the price. Consumers who have already purchased standard tracks or albums with DRM will be able to upgrade their digital music for $0.30/0.30/£0.20 per track. All EMI music videos will also be available on the iTunes Store DRM-free with no change in price.
Forgive my ignorance on this, but can the US Congress pass a law that clearly violates the Constitution? Are there any mechanisms in place to censure those who pass any such laws, or can they just immediately pass COPA-II that's word-for-word identical, and will have full force of law until the courts knock that down as well?
If force of numbers is required, I'll back him up as well:-).
The subjunctive mood is commonly used to introduce a hypothetical case (often contrary to fact) which is then considered in the remainder of the sentence, exactly as your example used it, e.g. "Were I to go out, I would need a coat (but I don't intend to, so I'm fine without)".
In this case the writer's intention appears to be to imply that either this wasn't actually intended as an attack, or that it was intended to be an attack, but that he thinks it failed to hit its target. Either way, it's not the subjunctive case as it's a comment on the attack as it was, rather than any consideration of a hypothetical attack.
I suspect that he doesn't think much of the attack, and it should read "The attack, such as it was, came from Microsoft's Associate General Counsel who was giving a speech".
But don't take my word for it:
From grammar: wikipedia gives a good explanation of the uses of the subjunctive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood, and the closest comparable usage is an archaic (biblical) one.
Those of us who cut our teeth on an earlier generation of personal computers will know exactly what typing on one of these will feel like, especially when you read the words "1.2mm stroke sealed rubber-membrane key-switch assembly"...
"If they can get some ebook publishers to donate books for use on these OLPCs that'll be great, but I'm not holding my breath. With the exception of MIT, Gutenberg and Baen.com, I haven't seen a lot of generosity in the form of books. (Physical or electronic.)"
FTFA: According to Bletsas, Latin America is in the best shape, due to Mexico's aggressive initiative to produce an electronic library of all of their text books.
One thing the American revolution changed was the European practice of the time (circa 1776 and back to Gutenberg at least) of Forever Copyrights.
This isn't correct. The Statute of Anne was passed in the UK in 1710. It "created a 21 year term for all works already in print at the time of its enactment and a 14 year term for all works published subsequently."
I still love this potted history posted on the news of Bush's moon announcement:
In 1961, when shit wasn't invented yet and people fought bears for vital food, President Kennedy had the balls to give NASA less than nine years to get to the moon.
In this day and age, when there's metric shitloads of technology all over the place and the internet makes valuable porn as free as air, President Bush gives it twelve years. What a tool.
Now I am reading more, and the deadline is actually 2020. That's seventeen years.
See, Kennedy had the balls to lay a firm deadline down. "You bitches will put a man on the moon before January 1, 1970 or I will come back from the grave and kick your ass," he said. He knew he was going to get shot. That's how hardcore he was. He also got crazy laid by Marilyn Monroe.
President Bush says, "You ought to think about just possibly putting a man on the moon sometime during this five year period."
President Kennedy showed us that you have to slap NASA around a little bit to get them to do anything worthwhile with manned space exploration. You can't be all lovey-dovey and set long gradual timetables.
And Bush mentions "the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods." So we'll have another Skylab ISS, but on the moon. The only differences will be that it won't crash into Australia like Skylab (it will crash into the Moon instead - that might sound hard to acheive since it would already be on the surface of the moon, but they will find a way to do that), it will leak more than ISS, and since it won't even be international we won't be able to bum rides from the Russians.
If Kennedy was alive in this day and age he would have said, "Fucking NASA, I am still alive in this day and age so you assholes better have a self-sufficient Mars base by the year 2013. Also make me a space elevator. And resurrect Marilyn Monroe." Then NASA would complain that it is not their job to resurrect people and Kennedy would punch NASA in the eye.
I bet the "Crew Exploration Vehicle" is going to blow the fuck up about twenty times too. You can probably trace the suckiness of manned space exploration to the decision to switch from cool names like "Mercury" and "Apollo" to crappy names like "Skylab" and "STS." When the Apollo blew up they fucking fixed it and came home, but when the Space Shuttle gets fucked up they make Powerpoints about it and ignore the problem.
So, you are saying:
1. There should be a certain intelligence standard to be eligible to vote.
You're creating a straw man here.
He didn't say that there "should" be anything, he pointed out that the Founding Fathers had an (unexpected?) take on this.
The concerns of the Founding Fathers that he mentioned touched on education, not intelligence. I thought (and joggle also mentions this) that there were concerns in the States that minorities generally have poorer access to higher education than would be expected on a like-for-like basis.
The presence of some of the countries on your list is misleading, in that a few of them want to join, but haven't been allowed in yet.
Croatia and Turkey are official candidate countries and started accession negotiations in October 2005. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia are officially recognized as potential candidate countries.
Portmanteau isn't a fancy French term, it's an English term based on a French word. From Wikipedia: The word was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). In the book, Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice words from Jabberwocky, saying, "Well, slithy means lithe and slimy... You see it's like a portmanteau-- there are two meanings packed up into one word." Carroll often used such words to a humorous effect in his work.
Brunch, netizens, animatronics, Brangelina and Wikipedia are more common examples of portmanteaus.
The concept originated in the study of radioactive decay, but applies to many other fields as well, including phenomena which are described by non-exponential decays.
If you've ever encountered the amount and consistency of shit that a gaggle of geese can produce, the phrase "loose as a goose" will always remind you of the correct spelling!
Perhaps a quote from an authoritative source will help here:
"An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition." Monty Python - The Argument Sketch From "Monty Python's Previous Record" and "Monty Python's Instant Record Collection"
If anyone is still unclear what this means for a user, there's an excellent video of a Google tech talk where Stuart Chesire explains what Bonjour is all about - it's a great example of a technical expert communicating information in a clear and informative manner, and it really explains the vision behind zero-conf -- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-739868010 3951126462&q=Google+techtalks
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"I thought we already believed that all solid planets had plate activity like Earth"
e _tectonics_on_other_planets ...it has been proposed that the mechanisms of plate tectonics may *once*[4BY ago] have been active on [Mars]...
Quite the opposite actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics#Plat
Venus shows no evidence of active plate tectonics. There is debatable evidence of active tectonics in the planet's distant past.
Some of the satellites of Jupiter have features that may be related to plate-tectonic style deformation, although the materials and specific mechanisms may be different from plate-tectonic activity on Earth.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar97/8589845 31.Ns.r.html
"The upside-down glasses that you describe were first investigated by George Stratton in the 1890s. Since the image that the retina of our eye sees is inverted, he wanted to explore the effect of presenting the retina an upright image. He reported several experiments with a lens system that inverted images both vertically and horizontally. He initially wore the glasses over both eyes but found it too stressful, so he decided to wear a special reversing telescope over one eye and keep the other one covered.
"In his first experiment, he wore the reversing telescope for twenty-one hours. However, his world only occasionally looked normal so he ran another experiment where he wore it for eight days in a row. On the fourth day, things seemed to be upright rather than inverted. On the fifth day, he was able to walk around his house fairly normally but he found that if he looked at objects very carefully, they again seemed to be inverted. On the whole, Stratton reported that his environment never really felt normal especially his body parts, although it was difficult to describe exactly how he felt. He also found that after removing the reversing lenses, it took several hours for his vision to return to normal."
The link has references to the source material.
Hot off the EMI website:
http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm
Apple has announced that iTunes will make individual AAC format tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existing downloads, with their DRM removed, at a price of $1.29/1.29/£0.99. iTunes will continue to offer consumers the ability to pay $0.99/0.99/£0.79 for standard sound quality tracks with DRM still applied. Complete albums from EMI Music artists purchased on the iTunes Store will automatically be sold at the higher sound quality and DRM-free, with no change in the price. Consumers who have already purchased standard tracks or albums with DRM will be able to upgrade their digital music for $0.30/0.30/£0.20 per track. All EMI music videos will also be available on the iTunes Store DRM-free with no change in price.
This comment made my day, thanks!
Forgive my ignorance on this, but can the US Congress pass a law that clearly violates the Constitution? Are there any mechanisms in place to censure those who pass any such laws, or can they just immediately pass COPA-II that's word-for-word identical, and will have full force of law until the courts knock that down as well?
They want Smalltalk back.
If force of numbers is required, I'll back him up as well :-).
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The subjunctive mood is commonly used to introduce a hypothetical case (often contrary to fact) which is then considered in the remainder of the sentence, exactly as your example used it, e.g. "Were I to go out, I would need a coat (but I don't intend to, so I'm fine without)".
In this case the writer's intention appears to be to imply that either this wasn't actually intended as an attack, or that it was intended to be an attack, but that he thinks it failed to hit its target. Either way, it's not the subjunctive case as it's a comment on the attack as it was, rather than any consideration of a hypothetical attack.
I suspect that he doesn't think much of the attack, and it should read "The attack, such as it was, came from Microsoft's Associate General Counsel who was giving a speech".
But don't take my word for it:
From grammar: wikipedia gives a good explanation of the uses of the subjunctive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood, and the closest comparable usage is an archaic (biblical) one.
From common usage: Googlefight shows over 500 to 1 in favour of "such as it was" http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&w
No, but all the government departments do need to know your address, and whether you are still alive or not.
I'd be interested to see why all of the following want my address:- Cabinet Office
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Department for Education and Skills
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Department for International Development
- Department of Trade and Industry
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Home Office
- Department for Constitutional Affairs
- Ministry of Defence
- Northern Ireland Office
- Privy Council Office
- UK Resilience
- Regulatory Impact Unit
- The Scottish Parliament
- The Scottish Executive
- The National Assembly for Wales
- The Northern Ireland Assembly
- Northern Ireland Executive
- Info4Local
- The Greater London Authority
- Directgov
- E-Government Unit
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office
- Government Legal Service
- Criminal Justice System
- UK Trade & Investment
(I've excluded DWP, DfT, and DoH from the list, but then I already keep them up to date without too much effort).Those of us who cut our teeth on an earlier generation of personal computers will know exactly what typing on one of these will feel like, especially when you read the words "1.2mm stroke sealed rubber-membrane key-switch assembly"...
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"If they can get some ebook publishers to donate books for use on these OLPCs that'll be great, but I'm not holding my breath. With the exception of MIT, Gutenberg and Baen.com, I haven't seen a lot of generosity in the form of books. (Physical or electronic.)"
FTFA: According to Bletsas, Latin America is in the best shape, due to Mexico's aggressive initiative to produce an electronic library of all of their text books.I have to agree - the language in this is a bit confused. Either the author is just pretending, or they left the US a very long time ago...
Blatant Americanisms:
jerk
ass
fanny
fanny paddle (should be a cane surely)
gotten
senior citizens
Authentic touches:
bugger
chav
-ise endings
One thing the American revolution changed was the European practice of the time (circa 1776 and back to Gutenberg at least) of Forever Copyrights.
This isn't correct. The Statute of Anne was passed in the UK in 1710. It "created a 21 year term for all works already in print at the time of its enactment and a 14 year term for all works published subsequently."
I still love this potted history posted on the news of Bush's moon announcement:
In 1961, when shit wasn't invented yet and people fought bears for vital food, President Kennedy had the balls to give NASA less than nine years to get to the moon. In this day and age, when there's metric shitloads of technology all over the place and the internet makes valuable porn as free as air, President Bush gives it twelve years. What a tool.
Now I am reading more, and the deadline is actually 2020. That's seventeen years.
See, Kennedy had the balls to lay a firm deadline down. "You bitches will put a man on the moon before January 1, 1970 or I will come back from the grave and kick your ass," he said. He knew he was going to get shot. That's how hardcore he was. He also got crazy laid by Marilyn Monroe.
President Bush says, "You ought to think about just possibly putting a man on the moon sometime during this five year period."
President Kennedy showed us that you have to slap NASA around a little bit to get them to do anything worthwhile with manned space exploration. You can't be all lovey-dovey and set long gradual timetables.
And Bush mentions "the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods." So we'll have another Skylab ISS, but on the moon. The only differences will be that it won't crash into Australia like Skylab (it will crash into the Moon instead - that might sound hard to acheive since it would already be on the surface of the moon, but they will find a way to do that), it will leak more than ISS, and since it won't even be international we won't be able to bum rides from the Russians.
If Kennedy was alive in this day and age he would have said, "Fucking NASA, I am still alive in this day and age so you assholes better have a self-sufficient Mars base by the year 2013. Also make me a space elevator. And resurrect Marilyn Monroe." Then NASA would complain that it is not their job to resurrect people and Kennedy would punch NASA in the eye.
I bet the "Crew Exploration Vehicle" is going to blow the fuck up about twenty times too. You can probably trace the suckiness of manned space exploration to the decision to switch from cool names like "Mercury" and "Apollo" to crappy names like "Skylab" and "STS." When the Apollo blew up they fucking fixed it and came home, but when the Space Shuttle gets fucked up they make Powerpoints about it and ignore the problem.
You're creating a straw man here.
He didn't say that there "should" be anything, he pointed out that the Founding Fathers had an (unexpected?) take on this.
The concerns of the Founding Fathers that he mentioned touched on education, not intelligence. I thought (and joggle also mentions this) that there were concerns in the States that minorities generally have poorer access to higher education than would be expected on a like-for-like basis.
The presence of some of the countries on your list is misleading, in that a few of them want to join, but haven't been allowed in yet.
u ropean_Union#Potential_candidate_countries
Croatia and Turkey are official candidate countries and started accession negotiations in October 2005.
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia are officially recognized as potential candidate countries.
Vatican City can't join because it's a theocracy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_E
Very funny indeed! I'll be laughing all day at the thought of this.
Portmanteau isn't a fancy French term, it's an English term based on a French word. From Wikipedia: The word was coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). In the book, Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice words from Jabberwocky, saying, "Well, slithy means lithe and slimy ... You see it's like a portmanteau-- there are two meanings packed up into one word." Carroll often used such words to a humorous effect in his work.
Brunch, netizens, animatronics, Brangelina and Wikipedia are more common examples of portmanteaus.
It's a reference to a line from one of Matt Groening's Life is Hell cartoons:
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"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Matt_Groenin
The concept originated in the study of radioactive decay, but applies to many other fields as well, including phenomena which are described by non-exponential decays.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life
You'd think so wouldn't you? This page has links including COBOL XML parsers as well as CGI- and RPC- interfaces.
There's even funded university research (watch out for popunders) going on into COBOL - check out the research lab!
If you've ever encountered the amount and consistency of shit that a gaggle of geese can produce, the phrase "loose as a goose" will always remind you of the correct spelling!
Perhaps a quote from an authoritative source will help here:
"An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition."
Monty Python - The Argument Sketch
From "Monty Python's Previous Record" and "Monty Python's Instant Record Collection"
Actually I think that the Japanese system is QR-Code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
If anyone is still unclear what this means for a user, there's an excellent video of a Google tech talk where Stuart Chesire explains what Bonjour is all about - it's a great example of a technical expert communicating information in a clear and informative manner, and it really explains the vision behind zero-conf -- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-739868010 3951126462&q=Google+techtalks
spelt (chiefly Brit.) past and past participle of spell(1).