There is. For instance Germany has the ARD, which in turn consists of broadcasting entities in each federal state, controlled by the respective state. The broadcasting entities are producing their own magazines and news broadcasts, but all are broadcasted via the same network. Because different states lean differently, you have pretty leftist magazines sharing time slots with pretty conservative magazines, you have rather green magazines running one week and at the same time the next week very pro business magazines, depending on the broadcasting entities which produces them. The system is not perfect, but at least it gets somewhat more balanced than just having one controlling entity for everything.
No, just pointing out that I am (following your definiton) member of several nations, living abroad and having relatives in several countries. According to you I am currently U.S. american, German, Austrian and Brazilian.
They are part of the people, yes. They are not part of the nation. A nation is per definitionem "people born from the same tribe" (from latin natio = birth).
No. A nation is different from people. Take one of the emirates at the persian golf: Large parts of their population are not part of the nation, but they are still people living there.
The president is the president for four or eight years, not for his whole professional career. There is a difference between having everything you say in public or in private for a limited time or for your whole professional life until retirement.
With the exception of Cacau (Claudemir Jeronimo Barreto), who was born and raised in Brazil and came to Germany, when he was 18 and became german citizen only in 2009 (because of his family).
It also relies heavily in FIFA's ranking, which everyone knows to be bullshit since it takes into account games up to 4 years old.
National teams play not very often compared with club teams in Soccer. And they don't play intercontinentally that much between World Championchips. Yes, there is the Confederatons Cup, but only one or two teams per continent are invited. So taking in account the last four years makes sense, because otherwise you would not have enough data to rank anything.
The Altair never sold as "PC". The Apple ][ dit. The Commodore PET sold as... well, as PET.
The name "Personal Computer" entered the market with the Apple ][. And the idea to have a personal computing device where the specification of several identical extension slots was open to everyone to develop new hardware for, is something different than an S/360 slot where IBM could sell you additional components that plugged in there.
The PC was invented by Apple, and the first computer ever sold as "PC" was the Apple ][. What IBM did, was creating the IBM PC based on the ideas incorporated in the Apple ][ like the extensibility with cards that fit in a standardized port. During the whole of the 1980ies it was always the "IBM compatible PC", and only with the advent of the new standards set by Intel (and not IBM) like PCI and AC97 and USB, it became just the "PC".
That age may well be when he had his insight on the speed of light being constant and time being malleable, though the actual work of course only just started.
The insight that the speed of light is constant is somewhat older and goes back to James Clerk Maxwell, whose equations are based on a constant speed of light. The only thing that was not clear was if the speed of light is also constant under cosmic conditions. The series of Michelson's experiments to find variances in the speed of light started in 1881, and in 1892 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz in collaboration with Henri Poincaré published the Lorentz Ether Theory including the basic mathematics of Special Relativity.
Albert Einstein's genius was thus not to postulate the constant speed of light in vacuum, or the time- and distance contractions resulting from there, but the abolishment of the ether as medium for the light.
And yes, your six votes for six candidates count as much as the six votes of anyone else. If you want to spread them among six candidates, that's ok. If you don't want to spread them and pile them on a single candidate -- that's a-ok. too. The candidate with the most votes wins in the end.
For people with names, that can't be reliably subjected to any consistent ordering system:
Umlauts.
How do you sort someone with the name "Schwärzer"?
A naive approach would be to sort 'ä' behind 'a', so Schwarzer comes before Schwärzer, and Schwerzer is last. But then Schwäb would also come after Schwarzer. But Germans would like to have Schwäb before Schwarzer, because 'b' comes before 'r'. So you have to have a special rule for sorting umlauts. They come behind the vowel they are derived from, but are considered equivalent to the original vowel for all other sorting purposes. Try that with a database system that treats umlauts just as another character! But it gets worse. If your system does not support umlauts, then german spelling rules require you to replace 'ä' with 'ae'. Suddenly Schwaerzer comes before Schwarzer. So you have to create another rule: 'ae' as an replacement for 'ä' has to be treated like 'a' for all sorting purposes, except that names with 'ae' have to be sorted behind names with 'a' and the same following letter(s). But then there are people which have 'ae' in their names which aren't derived from 'ä', those have to be sorted differently than those with 'ae' as a replacement for the umlaut.
To make things worse, it's not necessarily the family name you use to address someone politely.
If you have to speak to Paul McCartney (of Beatles' fame), you have to formally address him as "Sir Paul". No, "Sir McCartney" is impolite, you shouldn't use it. If you have to speak to Vladimir Putin, you won't address him as "Mr. Putin". It's "Vladimir Vladimirovich", please!
What is also usually missing from at least the summaries of these articles is that most of these things are based on already implemented existing laws in either Europe, the UK, Canada or the USA
... which are currently on hold at least in Germany because of constitutional issues. The Federal Constitutional Court in Germany has ordered all data currently retained at the ISPs to be erased.
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There is. For instance Germany has the ARD, which in turn consists of broadcasting entities in each federal state, controlled by the respective state.
The broadcasting entities are producing their own magazines and news broadcasts, but all are broadcasted via the same network. Because different states lean differently, you have pretty leftist magazines sharing time slots with pretty conservative magazines, you have rather green magazines running one week and at the same time the next week very pro business magazines, depending on the broadcasting entities which produces them.
The system is not perfect, but at least it gets somewhat more balanced than just having one controlling entity for everything.
Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenzo once said about war?
Just to nitpick: His name is Clemenceau. Georges Clemenceau.
No, just pointing out that I am (following your definiton) member of several nations, living abroad and having relatives in several countries. According to you I am currently U.S. american, German, Austrian and Brazilian.
Ah, that's why COBOL programming examples also use i as counting variable?
They are part of the people, yes. They are not part of the nation. A nation is per definitionem "people born from the same tribe" (from latin natio = birth).
No. A nation is different from people. Take one of the emirates at the persian golf: Large parts of their population are not part of the nation, but they are still people living there.
Because i used to stand for "incremental".
And BitterOak can't be bothered to actually read Yvan256's answer for what it is: an ironic twist citing the summary as a reference for itself.
The president is the president for four or eight years, not for his whole professional career. There is a difference between having everything you say in public or in private for a limited time or for your whole professional life until retirement.
Except that Mann and Jones were cleared from the suspicion of actually lying. Insisting they would have done so is -- tada! -- defaming your opponent.
With the exception of Cacau (Claudemir Jeronimo Barreto), who was born and raised in Brazil and came to Germany, when he was 18 and became german citizen only in 2009 (because of his family).
It also relies heavily in FIFA's ranking, which everyone knows to be bullshit since it takes into account games up to 4 years old.
National teams play not very often compared with club teams in Soccer. And they don't play intercontinentally that much between World Championchips. Yes, there is the Confederatons Cup, but only one or two teams per continent are invited. So taking in account the last four years makes sense, because otherwise you would not have enough data to rank anything.
The Altair never sold as "PC". The Apple ][ dit. The Commodore PET sold as... well, as PET.
The name "Personal Computer" entered the market with the Apple ][. And the idea to have a personal computing device where the specification of several identical extension slots was open to everyone to develop new hardware for, is something different than an S/360 slot where IBM could sell you additional components that plugged in there.
The PC was invented by Apple, and the first computer ever sold as "PC" was the Apple ][. What IBM did, was creating the IBM PC based on the ideas incorporated in the Apple ][ like the extensibility with cards that fit in a standardized port.
During the whole of the 1980ies it was always the "IBM compatible PC", and only with the advent of the new standards set by Intel (and not IBM) like PCI and AC97 and USB, it became just the "PC".
That age may well be when he had his insight on the speed of light being constant and time being malleable, though the actual work of course only just started.
The insight that the speed of light is constant is somewhat older and goes back to James Clerk Maxwell, whose equations are based on a constant speed of light. The only thing that was not clear was if the speed of light is also constant under cosmic conditions. The series of Michelson's experiments to find variances in the speed of light started in 1881, and in 1892 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz in collaboration with Henri Poincaré published the Lorentz Ether Theory including the basic mathematics of Special Relativity.
Albert Einstein's genius was thus not to postulate the constant speed of light in vacuum, or the time- and distance contractions resulting from there, but the abolishment of the ether as medium for the light.
At least Aristotle was banned from Athens and died shortly after the ban in exile in Chalkis (Euboia).
What was that rant about?
And yes, your six votes for six candidates count as much as the six votes of anyone else. If you want to spread them among six candidates, that's ok. If you don't want to spread them and pile them on a single candidate -- that's a-ok. too. The candidate with the most votes wins in the end.
Actually it's "tovarishtsh".
It was "Save the Children".
The main problem is: Your system, to handle german sorting rules correctly, has to know about german umlauts even if it can't store them.
For people with names, that can't be reliably subjected to any consistent ordering system:
Umlauts.
How do you sort someone with the name "Schwärzer"?
A naive approach would be to sort 'ä' behind 'a', so Schwarzer comes before Schwärzer, and Schwerzer is last.
But then Schwäb would also come after Schwarzer. But Germans would like to have Schwäb before Schwarzer, because 'b' comes before 'r'.
So you have to have a special rule for sorting umlauts. They come behind the vowel they are derived from, but are considered equivalent to the original vowel for all other sorting purposes. Try that with a database system that treats umlauts just as another character!
But it gets worse. If your system does not support umlauts, then german spelling rules require you to replace 'ä' with 'ae'. Suddenly Schwaerzer comes before Schwarzer. So you have to create another rule: 'ae' as an replacement for 'ä' has to be treated like 'a' for all sorting purposes, except that names with 'ae' have to be sorted behind names with 'a' and the same following letter(s).
But then there are people which have 'ae' in their names which aren't derived from 'ä', those have to be sorted differently than those with 'ae' as a replacement for the umlaut.
To make things worse, it's not necessarily the family name you use to address someone politely.
If you have to speak to Paul McCartney (of Beatles' fame), you have to formally address him as "Sir Paul". No, "Sir McCartney" is impolite, you shouldn't use it.
If you have to speak to Vladimir Putin, you won't address him as "Mr. Putin". It's "Vladimir Vladimirovich", please!
What is also usually missing from at least the summaries of these articles is that most of these things are based on already implemented existing laws in either Europe, the UK, Canada or the USA
... which are currently on hold at least in Germany because of constitutional issues. The Federal Constitutional Court in Germany has ordered all data currently retained at the ISPs to be erased.
Don't tell the Mozart though.
Novell sold SCO the right to conduct a UNIX business by selling UNIX licenses, provided Novell got 95% of the licence price.