Speaking from a UK perspective, I am not "making shit up".
I have at various times had UK SC and DV checks carried out for my employment. DV requires personal interviews and referee interviews. There are aspects of my past life which are not pristine, but open disclosure ensured that these were not an issue.
I doubt she had any idea that the third group even existed. Not sure what to think, except her response must not have been to their liking.
Sucks to be her.
At the time she filled in the form, she was obviously aware the third group existed as she had written to and visited one of its members in prison.
It is fairly obvious that her relationship with the "terrorist" organisation was very tenuous, but one point of a background check is a test of your willingness to be full and open about your past. In fact if she had given a full open answer, I suspect there would not have been a problem.
Despite conspiracy theories to the contrary, government agencies do not know everything about you. A background check will not necessarily find out everything about your past, but if it detects evasive answers then it is grounds for not employing someone in case there is more the potential employee is not telling or deliberately hiding.
One of the things I find makes the show slightly less believable is that Sheldon seems to be completely asexual. In reality, as far as I can tell, most people as smart as Sheldon are obsessed with sex. (Feynman and Hawking, for example.)
Most people are obsessed with sex whether they are as smart as Sheldon or not. However, Sheldon is represented on the show as an outlier in many respects, so what is the difficulty in believing that he would be different in this respect too?
I am delighted to confirm that we have made plans to resite our Nuclear Deterrent. After much consultation and with the agreement of the Legislative Assembly, I am pleased to announce that in the event of a Referendum "yes" vote, the UK will be breaking ground on a new facility in the Falkland Islands.
This is an immensely popular decision that has the full support of all our inhabitants, stated the Chief Executive of the Legislative Assembly.
On hearing this announcement Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina, wept before exploding into flames.
You forgot to mention that some nations don't have so much land. Palestine, Israel, Taiwan, etc. You'd be insane to promote solar if you lived in any of those countries.
Not much land is needed - everyone has a rooftop and most of the countries you've mentioned are bright and sunny
Its a bit difficult to say because of the complex nature of the car business, but European sourced cars are generally better than US models due to the realisation that corners are something to be enjoyed.
In Jaguar (yes I know its owned by Tata), Rolls Royce, BMW and Mercedes we have cars that everyone aspires to own, and that's before I get into mentioning Porsche, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Bugatti etc.
On the US side, you have one car manufacturer that is widely admired - Tesla.
More importantly, a lot of rules change from country to country e.g. rights of pedestrians (jaywalking in the USA), implicit rules at junctions (no permission to go right on red in Europe) etc
LibreOffice is fine for most so-called power users too. I would suspect the only problems for Power users would be in areas where Libre/Open Office does things differently from MS Office.
I would possibly agree that Excel is ahead on a few issues, but the type of people affected by this would be those generating complex models within Excel
You have to accept some moderation is done by mouth breathers. I put a full technical explanation of why something would not work in a national newspaper comment and got more downvotes than almost every other comment I had submitted combined.
Only a few short years ago (well about 1000), your average Swede would have been giving their children nice shiny longswords, placing them on a boat and encouraging them to tour the world and kill people....
Instead of polluting the oceans with these huge cables, we should attach fricken lasers to sharks.
At this point you might think I am going to do another tired re run of the Dr Evil comment, but if you had the imagination that he did you would realise that by also fitting optical detectors on sharks you could have a point to point internet mesh across all sharks in the ocean. SharkNet would not have a single point of failure as like the internet is supposed to do it could find another route in the event of the loss of any shark node.
I humbly submit that Dr Evil was a visionary who was simply ahead of his time and should be canonised into the pantheon of saints alongside Saint Steve of Jobs
It's been ages since I read Stroustrup or Kernighan & Ritchie, as I have largely moved on from embedded/Unix programming into Web based systems but I seem to recall one of the arguments for using C++ was that it could always do things as efficiently as C and possibly more so.
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Does it tweet photos?
Yes, it saves sitting on the photocopier to take bottom scans.
Thomas Ruecker said he was flushed with the success of his project.
Speaking from a UK perspective, I am not "making shit up".
I have at various times had UK SC and DV checks carried out for my employment.
DV requires personal interviews and referee interviews.
There are aspects of my past life which are not pristine, but open disclosure ensured that these were not an issue.
I doubt she had any idea that the third group even existed. Not sure what to think, except her response must not have been to their liking.
Sucks to be her.
At the time she filled in the form, she was obviously aware the third group existed as she had written to and visited one of its members in prison.
It is fairly obvious that her relationship with the "terrorist" organisation was very tenuous, but one point of a background check is a test of your willingness to be full and open about your past. In fact if she had given a full open answer, I suspect there would not have been a problem.
Despite conspiracy theories to the contrary, government agencies do not know everything about you. A background check will not necessarily find out everything about your past, but if it detects evasive answers then it is grounds for not employing someone in case there is more the potential employee is not telling or deliberately hiding.
The UK would be much better if was sleeping with the fishes.
The whoosh is strong with this one.
Strong the whoosh with this one is, FTFY
Argentina has one of the highest Human Development Index values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It would be even higher, except Cristina Fernández de Kirchner set Human Development in Argentina back 30,000 years.
One of the things I find makes the show slightly less believable is that Sheldon seems to be completely asexual. In reality, as far as I can tell, most people as smart as Sheldon are obsessed with sex. (Feynman and Hawking, for example.)
Most people are obsessed with sex whether they are as smart as Sheldon or not. However, Sheldon is represented on the show as an outlier in many respects, so what is the difficulty in believing that he would be different in this respect too?
I would have thought that claiming a trademark rights on "moot" would fail. A moot is a generic word for a meeting/council of Anglo-Saxon origin.
I am delighted to confirm that we have made plans to resite our Nuclear Deterrent. After much consultation and with the agreement of the Legislative Assembly, I am pleased to announce that in the event of a Referendum "yes" vote, the UK will be breaking ground on a new facility in the Falkland Islands.
This is an immensely popular decision that has the full support of all our inhabitants, stated the Chief Executive of the Legislative Assembly.
On hearing this announcement Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina, wept before exploding into flames.
Physics: Boldly going where no muon has gone before.
Physics: a momentous time for muons.
Physics: do muons follow Standards?
etc
You forgot to mention that some nations don't have so much land. Palestine, Israel, Taiwan, etc. You'd be insane to promote solar if you lived in any of those countries.
Not much land is needed - everyone has a rooftop and most of the countries you've mentioned are bright and sunny
to kill them before the power plant does?
Not at all - the solution is to kill and cook them in one simple process instead of the dual process that we have currently.
Its a bit difficult to say because of the complex nature of the car business, but European sourced cars are generally better than US models due to the realisation that corners are something to be enjoyed.
In Jaguar (yes I know its owned by Tata), Rolls Royce, BMW and Mercedes we have cars that everyone aspires to own, and that's before I get into mentioning Porsche, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Bugatti etc.
On the US side, you have one car manufacturer that is widely admired - Tesla.
More importantly, a lot of rules change from country to country e.g. rights of pedestrians (jaywalking in the USA), implicit rules at junctions (no permission to go right on red in Europe) etc
Supersoaker water pistol (Lonnie G Johnson)
Smoke protection hoods for firefighters & traffic signals (Garrett Morgan)
Electronic components and pacemaker controllers (Otis Boykin)
Carbon filament for lightbulbs (Lewis Latimer)
Various agricultural products - (NOT peanut butter though) (George Washington Carver)
If you're bored, read Wikipedia
I am still missing my Groklaw fix which used to assiduously track and report on such cases with detailed insight.
LibreOffice is fine for most so-called power users too. I would suspect the only problems for Power users would be in areas where Libre/Open Office does things differently from MS Office.
I would possibly agree that Excel is ahead on a few issues, but the type of people affected by this would be those generating complex models within Excel
You have to accept some moderation is done by mouth breathers. I put a full technical explanation of why something would not work in a national newspaper comment and got more downvotes than almost every other comment I had submitted combined.
Only a few short years ago (well about 1000), your average Swede would have been giving their children nice shiny longswords, placing them on a boat and encouraging them to tour the world and kill people....
Instead of polluting the oceans with these huge cables, we should attach fricken lasers to sharks.
At this point you might think I am going to do another tired re run of the Dr Evil comment, but if you had the imagination that he did you would realise that by also fitting optical detectors on sharks you could have a point to point internet mesh across all sharks in the ocean. SharkNet would not have a single point of failure as like the internet is supposed to do it could find another route in the event of the loss of any shark node.
I humbly submit that Dr Evil was a visionary who was simply ahead of his time and should be canonised into the pantheon of saints alongside Saint Steve of Jobs
It's been ages since I read Stroustrup or Kernighan & Ritchie, as I have largely moved on from embedded/Unix programming into Web based systems but I seem to recall one of the arguments for using C++ was that it could always do things as efficiently as C and possibly more so.
C++ is more or less a superset of C (give or take a few minor issues), why has regular C continued to thrive?
It is not how much explosives it takes to blow up a bus, it is how many buses you can take out in one mission. :-)
...carry 8,000lb+ of bombs to target as your typical modern F-16 can. Also I'll take a 20mm Vulcan cannon with LCOS over 8 machine guns any day.
Anyway if you're going to bounce rubble, do it properly with a BUFF and clean up anything left with an A-10!!