Ever think that the mortality rate is low because we have the ability to treat it purely because of the funding and attention that it gets?
Besides which, having personally known two people to have suffered from and survived breast cancer (including a girlfriend at the time) I personally have no problem with focussing on it, especially as it in no way precludes others from focussing on other conditions.
Yes it would - not that it would matter of course. However the discussion was about whether or not one section being ruled unenforceable automatically renders the entire contract unenforceable. Obviously if the entire contract is thrown out, a section like that wouldn't apply as there is no part of the contract left enforceable.
A salient fact that the OP omitted to mention is that the policeman in question was walking in to a court to give evidence in a case against two men accused of aiding and abetting the man who blinded him (which he did while on a rampage with a gun, injuring and killing several other people before dying in a stand-off with police). More details on the BBC news website.
In that case, I suspect at least part of the reason behind the sentence was because she (unintentionally) interfered with the case; the penalties for intentionally interfering with a witness are quite steep.
One of the lab experiments in the first year of my physics degree involved using liquid nitrogen. If you're quick you can scoop a little out of the container with your fingers and splash it over the bench; it really isn't that dangerous unless you're a complete idiot (and no, sticking your bare fingers into it to splash it over the bench in this case does not quite constitute complete idiocy).
In my experience in the UK, the really cheap clothes actually aren't as good quality as the "normally priced" ones, which in turn aren't as good quality as the really expensive designer ones.
However, while the increase in quality going from "cheap" to "normal" is generally worth it, the increase in quality going from "normal" to "designer" isn't worth the increase in price. (IMHO of course, it clearly is to some people)
You remind me of non-native English writers who ask forgiveness for their English writing, when their writing is frequently 10x better than the crap that our (America's) younger generation is putting out.
It's the same here in the UK; one of my friends is Italian and moved here maybe 15 years ago. Her English is much better than some native English speakers I know of our age (mid- to late-thirties), and to be honest I tend to mostly know people with a better than average command of written English. (Actually, this suggests it's not so much the younger generation as just people in general unfortunately.)
Everyone makes mistakes from time to time; I only have a problem with the people who not only should know better, but seem to revel in the fact that they don't.
It really depends on how you use your bug tracking system. My company used to use RT for tracking customer support tickets and frankly it wasn't up to the job of tracking defects, at least for us; once it was confirmed that a ticket really did represent a defect that needed to be fixed we (in development) copied the report into our bug tracking software and used that instead.
They intentionally sabotaged Java on Windows for years while they played catchup
I'd be interested in hearing more about this, if you have any info to hand. I know that they added Windows-specific classes into the java.* package hierarchy (which is why Sun sued them), but that was less sabotaging the language on Windows so much as trying to tie apps to Windows. (So sabotaging not Java, but the "run anywhere" goal.)
Personally, I suggest they grow up and not care that someone else has registered a domain and created a site that obviously has nothing to do with their company or brand(s). If the site does infringe on their brand(s) and/or trademark(s), then sue for that as with any other site on any other domain.
and those three have more and better content than Starz, which suddenly thinks its worth 1/3 more than those others
Not 1/3, but 1/2 - they want $100 million more, which is 50% of what Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM are charging. I.e. it's actually *worse* than you said.
Had it been licensed under gpl, all the child implementations of the parent would be open
I see what you're saying, but in this specific instance had the BSD sockets implementation been GPLed Microsoft at least wouldn't have used it, and it's debatable as to whether Apple would have.
I tire of the GPL vs BSD arguments; they serve entirely different purposes and neither is a substitute for the other.
He means that if all encrypted traffic is banned, that includes HTTPS, so you can just sniff usernames and passwords, etc, as they're sent over the wire.
I'm actually not that militant in my atheism; I believe the world would, on the whole, be a better place with less religion and more rationality, but I don't go on about it.
However, religious people do go on about it. It's much more subtle that evangelism; how many times have you seen a character in a film, etc, thank god for something or pray? How many films are there based on the premise of there being a god, heaven, etc (vs how many based on the premise that there is no such thing)? How many religious symbols do you see in day to day life (from a cross around someone's neck to a church you travel past)? How often are religious figures or issues reported on in the news?
It all adds up to an unintentional, background pushing of religion. It's little wonder that some people feel the need to push their atheism (and that's ignoring the theists that do go round actively pushing their views; I've never told anyone they're an idiot for believing, but I have been told *to my face* I'm going to Hell for not believing).
While it's good that the Catholic Church has finally approved the use of condoms to help prevent HIV, even the passage you quote notes that that is (currently) the only acceptable use. That rules out use for family planning or even preventing other communicable diseases.
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Ever think that the mortality rate is low because we have the ability to treat it purely because of the funding and attention that it gets?
Besides which, having personally known two people to have suffered from and survived breast cancer (including a girlfriend at the time) I personally have no problem with focussing on it, especially as it in no way precludes others from focussing on other conditions.
Yes it would - not that it would matter of course. However the discussion was about whether or not one section being ruled unenforceable automatically renders the entire contract unenforceable. Obviously if the entire contract is thrown out, a section like that wouldn't apply as there is no part of the contract left enforceable.
No, you get off my lawn! (But yeah, a 6-digit UID is low? Pah!)
Indeed; when I did my physics degree we referred to them simply as the Sun and the Moon.
Mass, not weight. If you're going to produce an estimate like this at least get the terminology right.
That guy is in the US, while quoting a budget in GBP clearly indicates that the submitter's friend is in the UK; brunch seems unlikely.
Who decides what is 'hate-speech'?
A court; that's why we have trials rather than summary punishment.
A salient fact that the OP omitted to mention is that the policeman in question was walking in to a court to give evidence in a case against two men accused of aiding and abetting the man who blinded him (which he did while on a rampage with a gun, injuring and killing several other people before dying in a stand-off with police). More details on the BBC news website.
In that case, I suspect at least part of the reason behind the sentence was because she (unintentionally) interfered with the case; the penalties for intentionally interfering with a witness are quite steep.
One of the lab experiments in the first year of my physics degree involved using liquid nitrogen. If you're quick you can scoop a little out of the container with your fingers and splash it over the bench; it really isn't that dangerous unless you're a complete idiot (and no, sticking your bare fingers into it to splash it over the bench in this case does not quite constitute complete idiocy).
In my experience in the UK, the really cheap clothes actually aren't as good quality as the "normally priced" ones, which in turn aren't as good quality as the really expensive designer ones.
However, while the increase in quality going from "cheap" to "normal" is generally worth it, the increase in quality going from "normal" to "designer" isn't worth the increase in price. (IMHO of course, it clearly is to some people)
I always considered anonymous more like violent angry protesters and vandals than criminals.
You realise that both violent protesters and vandals are criminals, right?
You remind me of non-native English writers who ask forgiveness for their English writing, when their writing is frequently 10x better than the crap that our (America's) younger generation is putting out.
It's the same here in the UK; one of my friends is Italian and moved here maybe 15 years ago. Her English is much better than some native English speakers I know of our age (mid- to late-thirties), and to be honest I tend to mostly know people with a better than average command of written English. (Actually, this suggests it's not so much the younger generation as just people in general unfortunately.)
Everyone makes mistakes from time to time; I only have a problem with the people who not only should know better, but seem to revel in the fact that they don't.
It really depends on how you use your bug tracking system. My company used to use RT for tracking customer support tickets and frankly it wasn't up to the job of tracking defects, at least for us; once it was confirmed that a ticket really did represent a defect that needed to be fixed we (in development) copied the report into our bug tracking software and used that instead.
If you read his post more closely, you'll see phrases such as "full and explicit understanding that you're helping the mob kill and rob people".
If you can convince a jury that you didn't know what was going on and thought the job was completely legit, you're most likely in the clear.
What's wrong with having enough? Why do you want more than your neighbour?
Exactly his point...
They intentionally sabotaged Java on Windows for years while they played catchup
I'd be interested in hearing more about this, if you have any info to hand. I know that they added Windows-specific classes into the java.* package hierarchy (which is why Sun sued them), but that was less sabotaging the language on Windows so much as trying to tie apps to Windows. (So sabotaging not Java, but the "run anywhere" goal.)
Personally, I suggest they grow up and not care that someone else has registered a domain and created a site that obviously has nothing to do with their company or brand(s). If the site does infringe on their brand(s) and/or trademark(s), then sue for that as with any other site on any other domain.
and those three have more and better content than Starz, which suddenly thinks its worth 1/3 more than those others
Not 1/3, but 1/2 - they want $100 million more, which is 50% of what Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM are charging. I.e. it's actually *worse* than you said.
That's still more humane than what my pet cat does to any mouse it manages to catch.
Had it been licensed under gpl, all the child implementations of the parent would be open
I see what you're saying, but in this specific instance had the BSD sockets implementation been GPLed Microsoft at least wouldn't have used it, and it's debatable as to whether Apple would have.
I tire of the GPL vs BSD arguments; they serve entirely different purposes and neither is a substitute for the other.
He means that if all encrypted traffic is banned, that includes HTTPS, so you can just sniff usernames and passwords, etc, as they're sent over the wire.
I'm actually not that militant in my atheism; I believe the world would, on the whole, be a better place with less religion and more rationality, but I don't go on about it.
However, religious people do go on about it. It's much more subtle that evangelism; how many times have you seen a character in a film, etc, thank god for something or pray? How many films are there based on the premise of there being a god, heaven, etc (vs how many based on the premise that there is no such thing)? How many religious symbols do you see in day to day life (from a cross around someone's neck to a church you travel past)? How often are religious figures or issues reported on in the news?
It all adds up to an unintentional, background pushing of religion. It's little wonder that some people feel the need to push their atheism (and that's ignoring the theists that do go round actively pushing their views; I've never told anyone they're an idiot for believing, but I have been told *to my face* I'm going to Hell for not believing).
While it's good that the Catholic Church has finally approved the use of condoms to help prevent HIV, even the passage you quote notes that that is (currently) the only acceptable use. That rules out use for family planning or even preventing other communicable diseases.
I use condoms with my girlfriend. What of it?