While on the subject of standards, why did TFA not reach the standard of "competent"? And why don't slashdot editors seem to have any quality standards whatsoever? Truly a terrible, content free, vacuous, badly-written article.
Can I have those two minutes of my life back please?
Anyone notice how "A Trading Standards Officer" has mutated into "UK Government...."
Because stories are more interesting when it's "Entire Government Proved to be Incompetent" and less interesting when the story is "Some Guy/Gal screws up".
Now, I don't disagree that that's a badly written sentence, and, interpreted literally, wrong for exactly the reason you say.
But, even though that sentence is rubbish, it's also abundantly clear what is meant. High cereal prices exacerbated the food shortage caused by the drought.
So, there are two responses : i) correct the sentence so that it reflects the intended meaning [needless to say, someone has already done this]. ii) generalise from this mistake into a lengthy diatribe about the inaccuracy of Wikipedia, pretending there exist infallible sources of information elsewhere.
I would suggest, that exactly one of these would not constitute an enormous waste of your time.
So, your example of an indigenous Chinese search engine is Baidu... a company registered in the Cayman Islands and trading in the NASDAQ. They're a Chinese company to the same extent that www.google.cn is.
Google provide a unique service, that cannot easily be replicated. There are other search engines, but Google is uniquely useful. If their roles were easily taken by local alternatives, then the Chinese Govt would almost certainly use those alternatives. Google (and Yahoo, to a lesser extenmt) only get a foot in the Chinese market precisely because their services are not easily replaced.
It's like the way Jack The Ripper didn't violate his "Don't Be Evil" policy, by helping to bring the thorny issue of violence toward prostitutes to the attention of the Metropolitan Police.
The "Muck Number" is the ratio of one length to another. How can it possibly have units? It's completely independent of the units I work in.
If I start working in SI, and say your ruler is 30cm and mine is 210cm, the muck number doesn't change. That's because it's agnostic to the units we use. And that's what "dimensionless" means.
Name one scripture in the Bible that would give an adherent cause to kill a non-believer.
How about Leviticus 24:16
"And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death."
So, anyone who speaks out against God, or in favour of a different God -- stone the bastard.
Islamic Extremists equate devoutness with extremism. The vast majority of muslims do not.
And your idiotic willingness to generalise entire faiths, is as stupid [albeit not as violent] as Muslim extremists equally wrong-headed stereotyping of the West.
The number one reason why millions of innocent people have died and continue to die in lands without freedom, and the number one reason why Liberal thought is inherently dangerous.
No Liberals are oppressing this guy, and unless the senior executive of Yahoo! is a liberal (which I very much doubt), it seems somehow disengenous to pin this on the liberals.
That's basically to protect the identity of the accused, prior to acquittal or conviction. Once they're convicted, they'll cheerfully use the full name.
In this case, there is no doubt that Boris Floricic was Tron, and this injunction is solely to prevent the Floricic family being embarrassed by being associated with their criminal son. Well here's a thing, if they wanted to avoid embarrassment, perhaps they should have raised their child to be law abiding.
This isn't a double standard. There is a clear difference between child porn and freedom of speech and assembly. Firstly, exactly one of those things is explicitly protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the other implicitly outlawed by the anti-exploitation clauses of that same document.
An elderly gentleman was ejected from the Labour Party Conference last year and charged under terrorism(!) legislation for shouting "Nonsense!"
He wasn't charged with anything. And the Labour Conference is a private event taking place on private property, so they have the right to have anybody thrown. I eat meant and if vegetarians decide to protest on the pavement outside my house, that's fine. If they come into my kitchen, I will have them kicked out.
The self-righteousness dripping from your statement makes me ill.
Hey, I was just poking fun at your president. He's the guy who described his addictions thus, and he inherited an oil company, a baseball team, and the presidency. (He drove 2 of the 3 into bankruptcy, and is well on the way to the third.)
I haven't inherited anything except intelligence, shortness and a receding hairline.
Are you kidding? If we start pointing out that 24-year-olds aren't kids any more, we may have to realise that being a drunk and a drug addict until you are forty may not qualify as a "youthful indiscretion".
Dude. If you bought something "as is" on eBay, and it turned out to be broken, that's not actually eBay's fault. There's a reason those things aren't guaranteed, as it allows those of us who aren't complete dumbasses to realise they're probably broken.
Thats why those eBay users who are complete dumbasses can buy them so cheaply. And then whine.
That arguments cuts no ice with the more extreme libertarians, who seem intent on introducing feudalism to America, where the rich get to make and enforce the laws, as selectively as their wealth allows. Everyone else is just a serf.
Well, most of the time, if the police pull you over and want to search the car, they've seen you do something which has given them probable cause to believe a crime has been committed (e.g. DUI, or just suspicious behaviour [a Terry Stop]). You can say no, but there's a good chance you'll get legally searched anyway.
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While on the subject of standards, why did TFA not reach the standard of "competent"? And why don't slashdot editors seem to have any quality standards whatsoever?
Truly a terrible, content free, vacuous, badly-written article.
Can I have those two minutes of my life back please?
Research body funded almost entirely by manufacturers of expensive educational software comes down heavily against free alternatives to expensive educational software.
Anyone notice how "A Trading Standards Officer" has mutated into "UK Government...."
Because stories are more interesting when it's "Entire Government Proved to be Incompetent" and less interesting when the story is "Some Guy/Gal screws up".
Now, I don't disagree that that's a badly written sentence, and, interpreted literally, wrong for exactly the reason you say.
But, even though that sentence is rubbish, it's also abundantly clear what is meant. High cereal prices exacerbated the food shortage caused by the drought.
So, there are two responses :
i) correct the sentence so that it reflects the intended meaning [needless to say, someone has already done this].
ii) generalise from this mistake into a lengthy diatribe about the inaccuracy of Wikipedia, pretending there exist infallible sources of information elsewhere.
I would suggest, that exactly one of these would not constitute an enormous waste of your time.
So, your example of an indigenous Chinese search engine is Baidu ... a company registered in the Cayman Islands and trading in the NASDAQ. They're a Chinese company to the same extent that www.google.cn is.
Err, no.
Google provide a unique service, that cannot easily be replicated. There are other search engines, but Google is uniquely useful. If their roles were easily taken by local alternatives, then the Chinese Govt would almost certainly use those alternatives. Google (and Yahoo, to a lesser extenmt) only get a foot in the Chinese market precisely because their services are not easily replaced.
It's like the way Jack The Ripper didn't violate his "Don't Be Evil" policy, by helping to bring the thorny issue of violence toward prostitutes to the attention of the Metropolitan Police.
The "Muck Number" is the ratio of one length to another. How can it possibly have units? It's completely independent of the units I work in.
If I start working in SI, and say your ruler is 30cm and mine is 210cm, the muck number doesn't change. That's because it's agnostic to the units we use. And that's what "dimensionless" means.
Yes. Correct. Why do you think this is weird?
Islamic Extremists equate devoutness with extremism. The vast majority of muslims do not.
And your idiotic willingness to generalise entire faiths, is as stupid [albeit not as violent] as Muslim extremists equally wrong-headed stereotyping of the West.
An annual fee of $49.95 per year, eh? That's to differentiate it from annual fees levied monthly and weekly, presumably?
Clue : Annual means "per year" idiot.
That's basically to protect the identity of the accused, prior to acquittal or conviction. Once they're convicted, they'll cheerfully use the full name.
In this case, there is no doubt that Boris Floricic was Tron, and this injunction is solely to prevent the Floricic family being embarrassed by being associated with their criminal son. Well here's a thing, if they wanted to avoid embarrassment, perhaps they should have raised their child to be law abiding.
This isn't a double standard. There is a clear difference between child porn and freedom of speech and assembly. Firstly, exactly one of those things is explicitly protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the other implicitly outlawed by the anti-exploitation clauses of that same document.
And so would you.
I haven't inherited anything except intelligence, shortness and a receding hairline.
Are you kidding? If we start pointing out that 24-year-olds aren't kids any more, we may have to realise that being a drunk and a drug addict until you are forty may not qualify as a "youthful indiscretion".
Dude. If you bought something "as is" on eBay, and it turned out to be broken, that's not actually eBay's fault. There's a reason those things aren't guaranteed, as it allows those of us who aren't complete dumbasses to realise they're probably broken.
Thats why those eBay users who are complete dumbasses can buy them so cheaply. And then whine.
Thank God that Congress will never grant China "Most Favoured Nation" trade status...
Yeah, but George was so drunk he though she said Libran. "Groovy baby, our signs are compatible"
Well, most of the time, if the police pull you over and want to search the car, they've seen you do something which has given them probable cause to believe a crime has been committed (e.g. DUI, or just suspicious behaviour [a Terry Stop]). You can say no, but there's a good chance you'll get legally searched anyway.