Many elements of US law are drawn from where our nation originated (as penal colonies of the United Kingdom)
The American colonies were first developed as a place for the UK government to put criminals instead of hanging them, and potentially convert them to tax payers instead of tax-users (it costs money to dig that hole in the ground, or more holes because of infection from the unburied corpse). The big difference with Australia was that it was relatively cheap to cross the Atlantic and establish profitable trading or farming colonies too, for commercial purposes. But many of those farming colonies would have been economically unfeasible if there wasn't a supply of "indentured labour" sent over by the British courts. If you had to pay the workers in your tobacco or cotton plantation, then your profit went down.
So, when the supply of (temporary, white-skinned) slaves from Britain dried up... the British (mostly) traders bringing (permanent, black-skinned) slaves from Africa to the Caribbean found it worthwhile to hop the extra thousand or so miles up to the American Colonies.
It wasn't an instant switch - there were black slaves in America long before the penal servitude supply from Britain dried up - but it was a significant influence.
Remembering that the UK is, currently, in the civilised world and doesn't have the death penalty for murder. Therefore the maximum penalty for non-compliance with RIPA (which I think is just another form of contempt of court) is imprisonment for the rest of your life, which is precisely the same as the maximum punishment for murder.
In practice, since the contempt embodied by non-compliance with RIPA will occur before trial can take place, you'd serve this punishment before trial (and possible acquittal) for murder. So it is actually completely irrational to comply with RIPA if you know that doing so will reveal evidence likely to lead to your conviction for murder. Which would suggest that the accused is acting in his rational self-interest in this matter.
It (the E14) is. It's also something I never saw before my mid-30s. (I worked for a US-based company in my mid-20s, which is why we had to use spare parts - eg light bulbs - which we imported from Head Office in Texas at $25 each instead of getting a lightbulb and mount from the local hardware shop for about $6 (equivalent). The name of the game - painted onto the cover of every copy of the catalogue of part numbers, order codes and item prices - was "Repatriation of Profit". The catalogues also had "Confidential - US tax payer eyes only!" printed onto the front - but since we didn't have any US tax payers working in the company, we just ignored that.
I'm not sure when using and selling E14 and E28 lamps became more common. There was a major change of the electrical wiring codes in the different countries of the country between about 1995 and 2000 which caused no end of uncertainty for me as I was trying to figure out if I had to hire an electrician to install a shower, or if I could (legally) do the job myself. (I finally figured out that if I'd been in England, no, I had to get a sparky to do it; but in Scotland I could do it but had to use heavier cables than in England, for the same power of shower. So I did it.). At the same time I was trying to inventory-down all the various light fittings in the house so I only needed to keep two types of lamp for spare - 1m tube fluorescents, or B28 (bayonet) 150W equivalent CFLs for other rooms than the kitchen. But very annoyingly the desk anglepoise lamp which I really liked had an E28 (screw, otherwise "Large Edison Screw", LES) fitting and try as I might, I couldn't find a fitting to convert that to B28. Real annoyance. Then I got married, and within a year I had about a dozen different sizes of lamp in my "light bulb" box.
All words convey meaning, and offensive words convey offensive meaning.
No. Some people can chose to take offence at one of the many possible interpretations of particular word. to return to the original example, in your mind "sCUNThorpe" may refer to the special handling orifice fitted to women, for use by Presidential candidates ; to me the same sequence of letters parses as "Lincolnshire town with an iron ore extraction industry dating from the development of the "basic slag" process capable of handling the high-P nature of the ores in the 1920s".
Maybe you're not used to needing to check if an unfamiliar word is interpretable in one of the half-dozen languages you speak. I mean, you do speak several of your home country's main languages, don't you?
And the problem is? I'm not Australian, and I don't see a problem. I'm also not an American, and I still don't see a problem. Apart from the (colourless) carbon dioxide.
I only have one dimmer switch in the house, and that's laid at the bottom of the electrical tool box since a couple of months after I got married.
PI never saw he point of the things, and once the wife decided that she didn't see the point of it either, off it came and into the tool box it went. And stayed.
Well, you do learn something some days. I'd never heard of a 3-way bulb until today. Must be an American thing, like lightbulbs with a screw fitting instead of a bayonet fitting - which I'd never seen before my mid-20s.
What is wrong with using two bulbs and two switches, and not having to carry an inventory of spares for these peculiarities?
Then you're not being taught how to program, you're being taught incantations for appeasing that particular deity.
When I started programming, we didn't even know which town the computer we were working on was located, let alone whether it was big-endian, little-endian, or analogue. We sent our coding in on the forms for transcription, and got the results back on rolls of perforated paper tape which we could either run through the printer, or just read directly.
Real quick check against BT in the UK, looks like the best they'll offer is ~67 mbps for 55 GBP. (approx $70). Not sure if BT has tax included or not. I didn't check through their fine print.
If it was an advert for a consumer service, it included all taxes in the price. If it was targeted at businesses, then they might quote either the tax-included price, or the no-tax price, but if you tried to pay the no-tax price, you'd have to provide your business' VAT tax reference at the point of sale, otherwise you;d have to pay the taxes and then negotiate a rebate from the government. But I don't know how that works, since I've never run a business - and trying to figure it out from the manuals gave me a headache and I gave up on the idea of trying to run a business.
What is this habit some people have of quoting the ticker tape codes for companies? I mean, who cares what their ticker tape code is - it's not like it's something you use out in the real world. Wouldn't it be more relevant to write their name in an octal representation of ASCII? Why do people do that?
At some point, the average USian woman passes through a waist size of 32in, if only for a few minutes. They might have to have gone to the children's clothing section to get examples to measure, and such sub-people aren't allowed to use most "smart phone" utilities (email, social media, dating apps, etc), so they've no need for big pockets for pens, notebooks and coin pouches.
But that's treating a crock of shit "study" as "science".
Depressing (but down to Slashdot's usual standards) that the first link to the actual paper is well over half way down the list of comments.
The meat of the objections is also on arxiv at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.029... . It would be nice to see the original data, rather than making inferences from graphs, but I guess that'll come out in due course. I will admit to having made similar mistakes myself by mangling data in Excel - which is why I double-check myself on that sort of thing. So I'm not going to sling around interpretations of how this happened. But the pattern does look pretty suspicious.
Presumably all the original drivers starved to death after driving into their garage.
Only a quarter of the places I've lived have ever had a garage. Not by coincidence, they were also the only places that I've lived which had a ground floor.
You're going to love that the day that they arrest you, machine guns cocked and aimed, and launch a biosecurity lockdown of the airport/ railway station/ city until they've satisfied themselves that you're just an idiot who thinks he's being funny. Then they serve you the invoice for the initial costs as they take you into court to be arraigned for trail under Section 5 (or whatever your jurisdiction use for the same effect).
Having been in a couple of disease outbreaks myself (ebola and drug-resistant TB) and one false alarm (smallpox), I hope the book lands on you with a heavy thump.
Voltage, and correct frequency - most devices are relatively tolerant of sloppy frequency, but high power devices and high precision devices tend to be more sensitive.
How do big waves explain the disappearance of aircraft??
Really big waves?
(Also the atmosphere is full of both "gravity waves" in the material sense and gravity waves in the LIGO sense. So that's 3 types of wave that can synergistically interact to create a new nodal interaction of devastating power.)
So, someone has worked out that they need to build a solenoid on the order of 5000km long, with a field of 10-20 thousand Gauss, would provide sufficient shielding that their new atmosphere would be blown away too fast. That's a field strength between that of a high-strength permanent magnet and an MRI machine's coil. And they want a solenoid to support the coils to generate this field that is 5000km long. We don't have materials stiff enough. That's material we could use to build a space elevator. [Slow had clap.]
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The American colonies were first developed as a place for the UK government to put criminals instead of hanging them, and potentially convert them to tax payers instead of tax-users (it costs money to dig that hole in the ground, or more holes because of infection from the unburied corpse). The big difference with Australia was that it was relatively cheap to cross the Atlantic and establish profitable trading or farming colonies too, for commercial purposes. But many of those farming colonies would have been economically unfeasible if there wasn't a supply of "indentured labour" sent over by the British courts. If you had to pay the workers in your tobacco or cotton plantation, then your profit went down.
So, when the supply of (temporary, white-skinned) slaves from Britain dried up ... the British (mostly) traders bringing (permanent, black-skinned) slaves from Africa to the Caribbean found it worthwhile to hop the extra thousand or so miles up to the American Colonies.
It wasn't an instant switch - there were black slaves in America long before the penal servitude supply from Britain dried up - but it was a significant influence.
In practice, since the contempt embodied by non-compliance with RIPA will occur before trial can take place, you'd serve this punishment before trial (and possible acquittal) for murder. So it is actually completely irrational to comply with RIPA if you know that doing so will reveal evidence likely to lead to your conviction for murder. Which would suggest that the accused is acting in his rational self-interest in this matter.
I'm not sure when using and selling E14 and E28 lamps became more common. There was a major change of the electrical wiring codes in the different countries of the country between about 1995 and 2000 which caused no end of uncertainty for me as I was trying to figure out if I had to hire an electrician to install a shower, or if I could (legally) do the job myself. (I finally figured out that if I'd been in England, no, I had to get a sparky to do it; but in Scotland I could do it but had to use heavier cables than in England, for the same power of shower. So I did it.). At the same time I was trying to inventory-down all the various light fittings in the house so I only needed to keep two types of lamp for spare - 1m tube fluorescents, or B28 (bayonet) 150W equivalent CFLs for other rooms than the kitchen. But very annoyingly the desk anglepoise lamp which I really liked had an E28 (screw, otherwise "Large Edison Screw", LES) fitting and try as I might, I couldn't find a fitting to convert that to B28. Real annoyance. Then I got married, and within a year I had about a dozen different sizes of lamp in my "light bulb" box.
No. Some people can chose to take offence at one of the many possible interpretations of particular word. to return to the original example, in your mind "sCUNThorpe" may refer to the special handling orifice fitted to women, for use by Presidential candidates ; to me the same sequence of letters parses as "Lincolnshire town with an iron ore extraction industry dating from the development of the "basic slag" process capable of handling the high-P nature of the ores in the 1920s".
Maybe you're not used to needing to check if an unfamiliar word is interpretable in one of the half-dozen languages you speak. I mean, you do speak several of your home country's main languages, don't you?
And the problem is? I'm not Australian, and I don't see a problem. I'm also not an American, and I still don't see a problem. Apart from the (colourless) carbon dioxide.
If you need to call an electrician to replace a dimmer switch, then perhaps Slashdot is not the place for you ... ?
I only have one dimmer switch in the house, and that's laid at the bottom of the electrical tool box since a couple of months after I got married. PI never saw he point of the things, and once the wife decided that she didn't see the point of it either, off it came and into the tool box it went. And stayed.
What is wrong with using two bulbs and two switches, and not having to carry an inventory of spares for these peculiarities?
When I started programming, we didn't even know which town the computer we were working on was located, let alone whether it was big-endian, little-endian, or analogue. We sent our coding in on the forms for transcription, and got the results back on rolls of perforated paper tape which we could either run through the printer, or just read directly.
Dean Swift wrote the manual for you. There's good eating on one of them.
If it was an advert for a consumer service, it included all taxes in the price. If it was targeted at businesses, then they might quote either the tax-included price, or the no-tax price, but if you tried to pay the no-tax price, you'd have to provide your business' VAT tax reference at the point of sale, otherwise you;d have to pay the taxes and then negotiate a rebate from the government. But I don't know how that works, since I've never run a business - and trying to figure it out from the manuals gave me a headache and I gave up on the idea of trying to run a business.
And his use of computers goes back well before CP/M.
What is this habit some people have of quoting the ticker tape codes for companies? I mean, who cares what their ticker tape code is - it's not like it's something you use out in the real world. Wouldn't it be more relevant to write their name in an octal representation of ASCII? Why do people do that?
Sounds like you've read Micro$oft's "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" manual. And so have Goggle.
But that's treating a crock of shit "study" as "science".
The meat of the objections is also on arxiv at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.029... . It would be nice to see the original data, rather than making inferences from graphs, but I guess that'll come out in due course. I will admit to having made similar mistakes myself by mangling data in Excel - which is why I double-check myself on that sort of thing. So I'm not going to sling around interpretations of how this happened. But the pattern does look pretty suspicious.
Only a quarter of the places I've lived have ever had a garage. Not by coincidence, they were also the only places that I've lived which had a ground floor.
That's not a problem that 5 or 6 gigadeaths can't cure. We've got the technology for that.
We got a phone when I was about 10. I learned the number when I left home at 18.
You're going to love that the day that they arrest you, machine guns cocked and aimed, and launch a biosecurity lockdown of the airport/ railway station/ city until they've satisfied themselves that you're just an idiot who thinks he's being funny. Then they serve you the invoice for the initial costs as they take you into court to be arraigned for trail under Section 5 (or whatever your jurisdiction use for the same effect). Having been in a couple of disease outbreaks myself (ebola and drug-resistant TB) and one false alarm (smallpox), I hope the book lands on you with a heavy thump.
Voltage, and correct frequency - most devices are relatively tolerant of sloppy frequency, but high power devices and high precision devices tend to be more sensitive.
Really big waves?
(Also the atmosphere is full of both "gravity waves" in the material sense and gravity waves in the LIGO sense. So that's 3 types of wave that can synergistically interact to create a new nodal interaction of devastating power.)
Verily, he is a son of Trump. Ready to be thrown under the bus when needed. Because buses are so un-American.
It's a good book - well worth reading. Better than the movies.
So, someone has worked out that they need to build a solenoid on the order of 5000km long, with a field of 10-20 thousand Gauss, would provide sufficient shielding that their new atmosphere would be blown away too fast. That's a field strength between that of a high-strength permanent magnet and an MRI machine's coil. And they want a solenoid to support the coils to generate this field that is 5000km long. We don't have materials stiff enough. That's material we could use to build a space elevator. [Slow had clap.]