I don't know about you, but I prefer that. If I weren't too old to buy property in Japan, I would have relocated my family and I to Tokyo a long time ago.
Waiting for the "Mericuh, Right or Wrong" branch of the KKK to doxx you to Anonymous now.
... Hmmm, a fair enough point. Darwin was actually sent the later volumes of Lyell's "Principles" while he was out on the beagle (I think he had the first volume when he boarded the Beagle).
however he was very cautious in his application of geological evidence - bearing in mind that he was a Fellow of the GSL (same as Lyell, and me) long before he published OTOOS, and was a student of Sedgwick. Even given the paucity of geological data in his time, he was well aware of the seemingly problematic abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion. (Wasn't Sedgwick the one who named Cambrian, and then participated in the "Devonian dispute" which was resolved by the erection of the Ordovician and Silurian periods. Changes in fossil fauna were a critical part of that debate, though the concept of a "mass extinction" wasn't really in the air at the time.
Does that mean. if you're a foreigner, you cannot bring your phone or laptop with you whenever you travel to UK?
Regardless of whether you're a foreigner or a Briton, the (encrypted) device in question would be contraband if you attempted to import it into the UK. This is exactly the same as if you were to buy something legal in the country you buy it in (a lock-knife; a gun; or an encrypted telephone) and attempt to import it into the UK, then you are committing an offence. As such you'd be liable to arrest and or deportation (at your own cost).
It doesn't matter if you're a Briton, or a foreigner, and whether or not the device belongs to you, your boss, or a "friend", if it is in your possession [*], and it is contraband [**], then it is your responsibility.
Notes : [*] this includes shipping agents for people like DHL I was working with one such last month. this is why they can seem like picky fuckers about the paperwork for shipping something.
[**] The Police, Border Force, and ultimately the courts will determine if something is contraband. It is your responsibility as an importer (personal, or through working for DHL or whoever) to find out what currently is or isn't contraband and to abide by that. (For example (see above) in many mainland Europe countries it is legal to possess a bladed tool or weapon with a folding blade which is held in the open position by a catch - a "lock knife" - which in Britain it is not legal to own or carry. If you don't know this, then you have a problem if you bring one in, either in your baggage or a pocket. Even if you come in by boat or train, or private plane and don't go through the normal security theatre.)
The law is written to be simple to enforce, not simple to comply with or to defend yourself against.
Can they not be pulled[1] manually? Is there enough warning to do an orderly shutdown?
I counted approximately 5 electrical sub-stations in my perambulations around my home town a couple of days ago, and wasn't really paying attention. To the best of my knowledge, there are no premises in the town owned by the power utility, other than the sub-station sites (which are blank concrete boxes, or arrays of transformers, breakers and metering equipment surrounded by a "fuck-off" spiky fence). Driving around to manually isolate each of those would probably take around an hour. Plus a half hour for someone to get here from the nearest larger town (IF there are any staff of the utility company there). That's just one small town.
This is the reason that such systems are automated, with local control from sensors on (or immediately adjacent to) the circuit breaker. There is no point in having a sensor three "hops" away on the grid, if there is a lightning strike (or car crash dropping a transmission line) on your grid segment.
Not that it's normally worth the effort of replying to an AC, but surely it is relevant that the US is, to the best of my knowledge, the ONLY country that has a public election process or judges. Not to put too fine a point on it, if this "bribery through re-election funds" route is a problem, then it's a problem of America's own making.
My experiences with East Texas : we used it's courts to increase the payout for families of 14 people killed in one incident at work from just under $2million to approximately £100 million (total). And all because one of the companies involved had an office somewhere in Texas. So forum shopping has it's benefits, unless you're a corporation trying to reduce your bill for killing foreign workers.
With the tests being dubious, how do you know who got a false conviction (was convicted when actually innocent), who got a correct conviction (guilty when guilty, for the evidence presented), and who got an unfair conviction (guilty when guilty, but not on the evidence presented in court)?
and, don't the lab procedures, supervision and paperwork checking stand some dispute here too?
Or, in the case of battery technologies reported in the technical press (I remember reading the paper in Nature) nearly 20 years ago, then commercial realisation may be just around the corner. Or 30 years away.
It's a salutary lesson for the internet generation, that screaming "Now! Now! Now! Want toy NOW!" does not actually get things invented any faster.
So for years most researchers thought the ancestral ape must have tipped the scales as well.
I assume there's a bit more to the previous reasoning than that.
There is. One of the big things being that (arguably) the best known of the older "apes" is Proconsul, found mostly in localities in East Africa - exactly the region where the later apes (including hominids) have been most often found.
This discovery however, comes from near Barcelona, near the French-Spanish (and Catalan) border(s), and is some considerable time later (we don't really know when Proconsul died out ; we're still collecting data). This strongly suggests that there was a LOT more to primate and "ape" evolution than the story unearthed so far in East Africa.
The more we are looking for fossils, the less simple the story of primate evolution gets. which is exactly what one would expect, and shows that there is nothing in the least bit unusual about the evolution of primates. We're just like brachiopods, insects, plants and amoebae.
Thank you for that, even if you are an AC. I was about to go hunting for exactly that page.
Why don't people actually follow their tiny attention spans to the original sources? I mean, this is a site for "nerds", who you'd expect to be better at technical work than most people.
Would that be the lessons learned from the first decade with major IT failures (say, the 1950s)? Or lessons learned from the second decade of IT failures (the 1960s)? Or lessons learned from the third decade of IT failures (the 1970s), when big failures were getting bigger and more profound as failures)? Or lessons learned from the fourth decade of IT failures (the 1980s)? Or lessons learned from the fifth decade of IT failures (the 1990s - some absolute doozies)? Or lessons learned from the sixth decade of IT failures (the 2000s), which are continuing. And then there are the ones which still haven't been recognised as failures. (And I wouldn't be surprised to find that there were failures in punched-card tabulation projects in the 1920s and 30s.)
People have been making complete fuck-ups of IT projects for as long as there has been IT to make grandiose projects from. And people remain confident that they won't repeat the mistakes of the past in the future. But they do.
Some of my assigned text books were written by staff two universities away (along the road to the foreign capital) ; they assigned textbooks from authors two universities west from their location ; they assigned textbooks written at my home university.
As we get better ways of accurately measuring a day, we just haven't redefined it.
You may not have seen it being redefined. I've lived through at least two redefinitions of how time is measured. In the late 1960s there was a switch from ephemeris (essentially astronomical) time to time defined by atomic clocks, and then in the late 1990s there was a switch from frequency definition to a speed-of-light definition, combining the second and the metre.
Some books (art albums) lose all appeal in digital form, unless you throw in free 48-inch Retina display to view them.
Isn't that what the 4K TV fad is for?
No. That fad is all about selling new product into a saturated market. Now that (almost) everyone has a TV of some sort, the only way to sell new TVs is to create artificial demand for a different type of TV.
Assuming that there's no asshat turning on the power while you are working
This is what lockout-tagout isolators are for. YOU turn off the power on the circuit which YOU are going to be working on, and YOU put a padlock through the isolator locking it isolated ; and that padlock is normally a combination lock which YOU and ONLY you know the number for.
This is not rocket science. It is designing safety into the system from day one. These days it is actually getting hard to find isolators which don't have the relevant holes for locking out.
Procedures weren't being followed. That's what is being fined.
Well considering that for the longest time, fossils were our main source of viewing evolution through time,
Considering that one of the major pieces of evidence used in Darwin's original "extended argument" ("On the Origin of Species", in case you don't get the reference) was the experience of contemporary animal husbandry (farmers not being the most fancy-prone of people, but understanding very well the financial value of breeding better stock animals) as well as the variation of animals bred by "fanciers" (pigeon breeders, dog breeders, etc), then I think you will struggle to support that argument. In fact, if you were to read the book (why go to a summary or a re-presentation, when the original is renowned for being well and clearly written. And out of copyright.), you'd find that Chapter 1, after the Introduction, goes under the title of "Variation under domestication and under nature."
Geological and palaeontological information doesn't get a mention until chapters 6 to 9 (the numbering varies between editions) and isn't a major plank at all. In fact, the peculiarities of the geological record presented more problems for the theory initially than support. However as time continued and our knowledge of the geological record got better (without much corresponding improvement in biological knowledge), the relative amount of palaeontological data had improved, and things like Marsh's phylogeny of horses (from Eohippus to modern Equus) did indeed become icons of evolutionary presentation. But that wasn't until the late 1870s, nearly 20 years (and I think 8 or 9 different editions) after the publication of OTOOS.
So there is nothing that anyone can legally object to. That is what "high seas" means.
If you don't want foreign vessels travelling above your cables, then route them through tour territorial waters. Good luck on achieving international communications.
If he really did this to create an artificial price drop in biotech stocks, that could lead to a nasty SEC investigation.
Ummm, on what grounds?
If he did everything in the open - public trades, public statements - then I can't think that he's actually done that is wrong. What stock exchange regulators generally object to is people making profit by using privileged access to information which the rest of the market doesn't have.
Granted the man is an arsehole of the first water. But that isn't actually illegal.
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Do you see that as a problem? And, if you're not Japanese (or a Japanese tax payer), does your opinion matter?
There is an implicit "but they really should take some action to stop it happening again, instead of just watching."
The SWAT team should be arriving shortly to take you out.
Waiting for the "Mericuh, Right or Wrong" branch of the KKK to doxx you to Anonymous now.
And just how are you going to know when to end your purdah?
Above a certain MIPS rating of "brain", yes.
however he was very cautious in his application of geological evidence - bearing in mind that he was a Fellow of the GSL (same as Lyell, and me) long before he published OTOOS, and was a student of Sedgwick. Even given the paucity of geological data in his time, he was well aware of the seemingly problematic abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion. (Wasn't Sedgwick the one who named Cambrian, and then participated in the "Devonian dispute" which was resolved by the erection of the Ordovician and Silurian periods. Changes in fossil fauna were a critical part of that debate, though the concept of a "mass extinction" wasn't really in the air at the time.
Regardless of whether you're a foreigner or a Briton, the (encrypted) device in question would be contraband if you attempted to import it into the UK. This is exactly the same as if you were to buy something legal in the country you buy it in (a lock-knife; a gun; or an encrypted telephone) and attempt to import it into the UK, then you are committing an offence. As such you'd be liable to arrest and or deportation (at your own cost).
It doesn't matter if you're a Briton, or a foreigner, and whether or not the device belongs to you, your boss, or a "friend", if it is in your possession [*], and it is contraband [**], then it is your responsibility.
Notes : [*] this includes shipping agents for people like DHL I was working with one such last month. this is why they can seem like picky fuckers about the paperwork for shipping something.
[**] The Police, Border Force, and ultimately the courts will determine if something is contraband. It is your responsibility as an importer (personal, or through working for DHL or whoever) to find out what currently is or isn't contraband and to abide by that. (For example (see above) in many mainland Europe countries it is legal to possess a bladed tool or weapon with a folding blade which is held in the open position by a catch - a "lock knife" - which in Britain it is not legal to own or carry. If you don't know this, then you have a problem if you bring one in, either in your baggage or a pocket. Even if you come in by boat or train, or private plane and don't go through the normal security theatre.)
The law is written to be simple to enforce, not simple to comply with or to defend yourself against.
I counted approximately 5 electrical sub-stations in my perambulations around my home town a couple of days ago, and wasn't really paying attention. To the best of my knowledge, there are no premises in the town owned by the power utility, other than the sub-station sites (which are blank concrete boxes, or arrays of transformers, breakers and metering equipment surrounded by a "fuck-off" spiky fence). Driving around to manually isolate each of those would probably take around an hour. Plus a half hour for someone to get here from the nearest larger town (IF there are any staff of the utility company there). That's just one small town.
This is the reason that such systems are automated, with local control from sensors on (or immediately adjacent to) the circuit breaker. There is no point in having a sensor three "hops" away on the grid, if there is a lightning strike (or car crash dropping a transmission line) on your grid segment.
My experiences with East Texas : we used it's courts to increase the payout for families of 14 people killed in one incident at work from just under $2million to approximately £100 million (total). And all because one of the companies involved had an office somewhere in Texas. So forum shopping has it's benefits, unless you're a corporation trying to reduce your bill for killing foreign workers.
and, don't the lab procedures, supervision and paperwork checking stand some dispute here too?
It's a salutary lesson for the internet generation, that screaming "Now! Now! Now! Want toy NOW!" does not actually get things invented any faster.
There is. One of the big things being that (arguably) the best known of the older "apes" is Proconsul, found mostly in localities in East Africa - exactly the region where the later apes (including hominids) have been most often found.
This discovery however, comes from near Barcelona, near the French-Spanish (and Catalan) border(s), and is some considerable time later (we don't really know when Proconsul died out ; we're still collecting data). This strongly suggests that there was a LOT more to primate and "ape" evolution than the story unearthed so far in East Africa.
The more we are looking for fossils, the less simple the story of primate evolution gets. which is exactly what one would expect, and shows that there is nothing in the least bit unusual about the evolution of primates. We're just like brachiopods, insects, plants and amoebae.
Why don't people actually follow their tiny attention spans to the original sources? I mean, this is a site for "nerds", who you'd expect to be better at technical work than most people.
People have been making complete fuck-ups of IT projects for as long as there has been IT to make grandiose projects from. And people remain confident that they won't repeat the mistakes of the past in the future. But they do.
No mutual back-scratching there then.
You may not have seen it being redefined. I've lived through at least two redefinitions of how time is measured. In the late 1960s there was a switch from ephemeris (essentially astronomical) time to time defined by atomic clocks, and then in the late 1990s there was a switch from frequency definition to a speed-of-light definition, combining the second and the metre.
No. That fad is all about selling new product into a saturated market. Now that (almost) everyone has a TV of some sort, the only way to sell new TVs is to create artificial demand for a different type of TV.
This is what lockout-tagout isolators are for. YOU turn off the power on the circuit which YOU are going to be working on, and YOU put a padlock through the isolator locking it isolated ; and that padlock is normally a combination lock which YOU and ONLY you know the number for.
This is not rocket science. It is designing safety into the system from day one. These days it is actually getting hard to find isolators which don't have the relevant holes for locking out.
Procedures weren't being followed. That's what is being fined.
Do you (either) play Go? To what strength?
Considering that one of the major pieces of evidence used in Darwin's original "extended argument" ("On the Origin of Species", in case you don't get the reference) was the experience of contemporary animal husbandry (farmers not being the most fancy-prone of people, but understanding very well the financial value of breeding better stock animals) as well as the variation of animals bred by "fanciers" (pigeon breeders, dog breeders, etc), then I think you will struggle to support that argument. In fact, if you were to read the book (why go to a summary or a re-presentation, when the original is renowned for being well and clearly written. And out of copyright.), you'd find that Chapter 1, after the Introduction, goes under the title of "Variation under domestication and under nature."
Geological and palaeontological information doesn't get a mention until chapters 6 to 9 (the numbering varies between editions) and isn't a major plank at all. In fact, the peculiarities of the geological record presented more problems for the theory initially than support. However as time continued and our knowledge of the geological record got better (without much corresponding improvement in biological knowledge), the relative amount of palaeontological data had improved, and things like Marsh's phylogeny of horses (from Eohippus to modern Equus) did indeed become icons of evolutionary presentation. But that wasn't until the late 1870s, nearly 20 years (and I think 8 or 9 different editions) after the publication of OTOOS.
Is there no depth they will not plumb?
If you don't want foreign vessels travelling above your cables, then route them through tour territorial waters. Good luck on achieving international communications.
Ummm, on what grounds?
If he did everything in the open - public trades, public statements - then I can't think that he's actually done that is wrong. What stock exchange regulators generally object to is people making profit by using privileged access to information which the rest of the market doesn't have.
Granted the man is an arsehole of the first water. But that isn't actually illegal.
Seriously.
And Germany gets large amounts of baseload supply from France.