Tell us - why didn't the Germans just SHOOT all the Jews, instead of going to the ludicrous lengths of building elaborate 'gas chambers', which would mean that German soldiers would have to pick up dead bodies which were contamined with Zyklon B... then get them to the 'crematoria' somehow, etc.etc. Why didn't the Germans just frogmarch the Jews to the side of pits, shoot them in the head, and let them all fall in?
Because it was too slow, too hard on the soldiers, and because they had a large number of slaves to dig the graves and move the bodies.
Because it is one thing to flag a massive, scattered chink of your population as potential terrorists, but quite another to say that the entire population of $city are terrorists and you want the local police (who are also apparently mostly terrorists) to arrest them. At that point, the local authorities just say "fuck this shit" and ignore it, making the system completely useless.
These warnings would help if they were actually legible. If the disclaimer is in 5x8 pixel light grey text on a white background, good luck reading that on a television screen.
What does writing in cursive have to do with power outages or blackouts? Do power outages cripple your hands? You can't write using standard hand writing? I find this cursive-worship a lot of people have to be completely arbitrary and silly.
A simple, efficient cursive is faster and just as legible as printing. I was never taught printing as a child, instead the letter forms we were taught something not entirely dissimilar to D'nealian manuscript, and then switched to cursive by the simple expedient of linking the letters together, not switching to a different style of writing altogether.
Do you hunt and kill and butcher all of your own food? Do you make and can all of your own fruits and vegetables and preserves? Do you skin and tan your own leather clothing? Do you use kerosene lamps? Do you own a horse instead of a car for transportation?
OT, but shooting and riding are pretty widely regarded as fun (although I don't do either myself), and bottling fruit is both simple and worthwhile if you have fruit trees.
Just attacking one part of your post which no-one else seems ot have bothered with yet: if I correctly identify you as gay, and call you gay, is that slander? Obviously not (in any reasonable system), because it is true. This is the case you seem to be referring to.
If you are straight, and I call you homosexual, is that slander? Possibly, possibly not, and it would probably depend on how socially conservative the local community is.
If I were to slander you about something else because my machine said you were gay, whether or not you are, well, existing slander laws will allow you to deal with that.
Not me. It is merely the combination of a a few practical factors:
how warm/hot is it?
how big a dent is laundry making in my beer fund? (much less important than when I was young and poor)
is anyone I'm trying to impress going to see me? (my weight is dine, but that doesn't mean I have much to show off, and a shirt makes that less obvious)
I think being rejected by a lady because she is a lesbian would be less hurtful by a long way than being rejected for something to do with me. It might be different for gays, but personally, I think I would count that as the same sort of situation as asking out someone in a steady relationship, since it is rather embarrassing, especially if I should have known at the time, but not hurtful since I know that the next man isn't likely to have any more luck, and that my rejection was nothing personal.
Of course, if the rejection was delivered in a hurtful manner, then that is another matter, but if the person is someone you've added on FB, one would assume that you are already a pretty good friend with them anyway, and so (a) you are likely to know thier sexual orientation, and (b) you aren't likely to be coming out to them and asking them out at the same time, unlike a random in the bar.
Actually, in some places if an item is found, the finder can put up a notice to that effect, and if no-one claims it they become the rightful owner (naturally there would be all sorts of protections against abuse of this).
The content probably wouldn't be transferred though, but IANAL, and there might not be any specific law at all on the matter in your jurisdiction. This might also mean that if you find a laptop and it is unclaimed, you might not be allowed to destroy the data if there is a DMCA-like law in your area, since a password might count as technological protection.
Comparing two different (American) calculus texts can be amusing. I found two which had the same subsection numbering, even where the order was completely irrelevant. One was Stewart, Calculus 5e, and I can't remember the other.
The book one of my lecturers recommended for introductory QM (Eisberg, Modern Physics) has been out of print for decades, but it is a good book[1] (I happened to find a copy). He did also suggest some more modern books, but that one was the one *his* lecturer had used as an undergrad.
Come to think of it, the 20+ year old copies of Horowitz and Hill (The Silver Book) floating around have virtually identical *pages* to the modern edition, in the analogue sections, and/Knuth/ is still the ultimate reference on CS.
[1] well the references to "high speed electronic calculating machines" are moderately amusing, and comments that thing have to be solved manually because they are too complex to do on a machine show their age.
you can't dodge the beam, but you can make it hard for the enemy to point it at you, by moving around randomly. Since one of these would use a lot of power, they're not likely to try to walk the beam into you, so they'll want to try to point it at you, and it is unlikely that the laser will be pointing in your direction to start with, you would just need to be harder to hit in time than you are worth.
Personally, I think you would be better off not being seen, but if that isn't an option, dodging the laser beam wouldn't be much harder than dodging projectiles, since you are relying on the lag in their reaction time, not the travel time of the beam.
WHOOSH! The reference to the camp insignia was supposed to be obvious. Different classes of offender were given different symbols, coded by shape and colour.
"Donut" was most likely used in advertising by a business selling them and probably stuck.
That seems to be the originhere, certainly
And as far as I can tell donuts were invented or at least popularized in the US, so if that's true, all donuts are an American import.
That seems likely, although Berliners might argue the point (since a berliner is an obvious variation on the theme of a doughnut, they probably also had doughnuts at about the same time)
Not really. A general law against causing death by dangerous driving would suffice, and that could be simply a specific case of manslaughter. Killing someone through idiocy or pig-ignorance is equally bad, the precise technique isn't really important. Likewise, driving whilst texting shouldn't be a specific offence, rather, driving without due care and attention is enough, and would cover fixing one's make-up, fiddling with the radio, and so on.
Of course, I'm not actually saying that driving whilst texting should always be legal, merely that it shouldn't be a special case.
Doughnut versus Donut actually does convey an important distinction, at least in my area. A "doughnut" is made from yeast-leavened dough, and is essentially fried sweet bread,whereas a "donut" is made from sponge-cake mixture, and has an entirely different texture and taste.
I'm not sure if there is any regulatory requirement that a doughnut be made from dough, but the name is logical and the distinction is AFAICT always maintained. Furthermore, both the spelling and the recipe of donuts are considered (correctly or not) to be inferior American imports by a lot of people.
This was by design. Everything which could be moved to a plugin was. Of course, some things have slipped back into the browser, but the idea was to cut down the bloat.
@3: what about those who've spent thier share of teh money and can't afford to come up with it later. This could be problematical, if someone asks for thier money years after everyone else has forgotten about it
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Yes, I know I'm feeding the troll, but WTF.
Because it was too slow, too hard on the soldiers, and because they had a large number of slaves to dig the graves and move the bodies.
Because it is one thing to flag a massive, scattered chink of your population as potential terrorists, but quite another to say that the entire population of $city are terrorists and you want the local police (who are also apparently mostly terrorists) to arrest them. At that point, the local authorities just say "fuck this shit" and ignore it, making the system completely useless.
These warnings would help if they were actually legible. If the disclaimer is in 5x8 pixel light grey text on a white background, good luck reading that on a television screen.
A simple, efficient cursive is faster and just as legible as printing. I was never taught printing as a child, instead the letter forms we were taught something not entirely dissimilar to D'nealian manuscript, and then switched to cursive by the simple expedient of linking the letters together, not switching to a different style of writing altogether.
OT, but shooting and riding are pretty widely regarded as fun (although I don't do either myself), and bottling fruit is both simple and worthwhile if you have fruit trees.
Why do people keep bringing this up? I'm watching fullscreen (well, full monitor, not full desktop) flash right now, on Linux.
not likely, they're on /.
Just attacking one part of your post which no-one else seems ot have bothered with yet: if I correctly identify you as gay, and call you gay, is that slander? Obviously not (in any reasonable system), because it is true. This is the case you seem to be referring to.
If you are straight, and I call you homosexual, is that slander? Possibly, possibly not, and it would probably depend on how socially conservative the local community is.
If I were to slander you about something else because my machine said you were gay, whether or not you are, well, existing slander laws will allow you to deal with that.
Not me. It is merely the combination of a a few practical factors:
I think being rejected by a lady because she is a lesbian would be less hurtful by a long way than being rejected for something to do with me. It might be different for gays, but personally, I think I would count that as the same sort of situation as asking out someone in a steady relationship, since it is rather embarrassing, especially if I should have known at the time, but not hurtful since I know that the next man isn't likely to have any more luck, and that my rejection was nothing personal.
Of course, if the rejection was delivered in a hurtful manner, then that is another matter, but if the person is someone you've added on FB, one would assume that you are already a pretty good friend with them anyway, and so (a) you are likely to know thier sexual orientation, and (b) you aren't likely to be coming out to them and asking them out at the same time, unlike a random in the bar.
True, but you are less likely to get punched in the face.
(I'm not saying that people punching gays is good (nor am I saying it is bad), that's just the way things seem to be.)
Or the Romany people, sometimes called Roma, who are the largest of the 3 main groups of gypsies.
Two can play at that game: if you support Conjob you support Scientology
Actually, in some places if an item is found, the finder can put up a notice to that effect, and if no-one claims it they become the rightful owner (naturally there would be all sorts of protections against abuse of this).
The content probably wouldn't be transferred though, but IANAL, and there might not be any specific law at all on the matter in your jurisdiction. This might also mean that if you find a laptop and it is unclaimed, you might not be allowed to destroy the data if there is a DMCA-like law in your area, since a password might count as technological protection.
Comparing two different (American) calculus texts can be amusing. I found two which had the same subsection numbering, even where the order was completely irrelevant. One was Stewart, Calculus 5e, and I can't remember the other.
The book one of my lecturers recommended for introductory QM (Eisberg, Modern Physics) has been out of print for decades, but it is a good book[1] (I happened to find a copy). He did also suggest some more modern books, but that one was the one *his* lecturer had used as an undergrad.
Come to think of it, the 20+ year old copies of Horowitz and Hill (The Silver Book) floating around have virtually identical *pages* to the modern edition, in the analogue sections, and /Knuth/ is still the ultimate reference on CS.
[1] well the references to "high speed electronic calculating machines" are moderately amusing, and comments that thing have to be solved manually because they are too complex to do on a machine show their age.
you can't dodge the beam, but you can make it hard for the enemy to point it at you, by moving around randomly. Since one of these would use a lot of power, they're not likely to try to walk the beam into you, so they'll want to try to point it at you, and it is unlikely that the laser will be pointing in your direction to start with, you would just need to be harder to hit in time than you are worth.
Personally, I think you would be better off not being seen, but if that isn't an option, dodging the laser beam wouldn't be much harder than dodging projectiles, since you are relying on the lag in their reaction time, not the travel time of the beam.
WHOOSH!
The reference to the camp insignia was supposed to be obvious. Different classes of offender were given different symbols, coded by shape and colour.
That seems to be the originhere, certainly
That seems likely, although Berliners might argue the point (since a berliner is an obvious variation on the theme of a doughnut, they probably also had doughnuts at about the same time)
Not really. A general law against causing death by dangerous driving would suffice, and that could be simply a specific case of manslaughter. Killing someone through idiocy or pig-ignorance is equally bad, the precise technique isn't really important. Likewise, driving whilst texting shouldn't be a specific offence, rather, driving without due care and attention is enough, and would cover fixing one's make-up, fiddling with the radio, and so on.
Of course, I'm not actually saying that driving whilst texting should always be legal, merely that it shouldn't be a special case.
Australia. Interestingly, my spell-checker flags "donut" as misspelt.
Doughnut versus Donut actually does convey an important distinction, at least in my area. A "doughnut" is made from yeast-leavened dough, and is essentially fried sweet bread,whereas a "donut" is made from sponge-cake mixture, and has an entirely different texture and taste.
I'm not sure if there is any regulatory requirement that a doughnut be made from dough, but the name is logical and the distinction is AFAICT always maintained. Furthermore, both the spelling and the recipe of donuts are considered (correctly or not) to be inferior American imports by a lot of people.
This is where Runtime.exec() comes in very handy.
This one says "Oh good, the world isn't ending after all"
This was by design. Everything which could be moved to a plugin was. Of course, some things have slipped back into the browser, but the idea was to cut down the bloat.
@3: what about those who've spent thier share of teh money and can't afford to come up with it later. This could be problematical, if someone asks for thier money years after everyone else has forgotten about it