If people using the "frenchs have capitulated without fight" joke actually knew the backgrounds, they would probably be a little more careful.
In the 1930ies, the Left won the election in France, and the military was a staunch rightwing organisation sympathetic to Hitler and on the verge of a coup d'etat (as had happened in Spain a few years later). So the government mistrusted the military, and the military mistrusted the government, and when the Germans attacked in 1939, the french governmental orders for the military to get into war were running late until the french general staff capitulated (and later formed its own little military dictatorship in the South of France).
What I've seen quite often is that people use Wikipedia twice: first to get a cursory overview about the topic, and then to browse the reference list for further reading. So yes, they often don't cite Wikipedia itself, but they make heavily use of the references.
If the U.S. prosecution has its way, then the E.U. will simply forbid any foreign owned company to operate any data in the E.U.. The High Court of the E.U. already invalidated the "Safe Harbour" agreement with the U.S. because of the way the U.S. handles data of foreigners. In the end, Microsoft Ireland will have to become a separate entity, independent of Microsoft U.S., and only a contract between Microsoft U.S. and Microsoft Ireland will allow Microsoft U.S. access to data stored in Ireland, with an arbiter resident in Ireland deciding case by case if the access is to be permitted or not by handing out a digital certificate granting access and being revoked at any time the arbiter sees fit.
In a case like this, the certificate necessary to access said email would long have been revoked, and only with a formal request to the Attorney General and the Data Protection agency of Ireland, the U.S. prosecution would be able to get a new one granting access to the email they want.
To the contrary. It's not a problem of the police. It's a problem of people wanting such a police force. If you elect officials on a "tough on crime" platform, you get police brutality and police actions out of proportions. If you approve sales of armored vehicles and assault rifles to police forces, you get a military force instead of a police. And instead of a friend and helper, you get an occupation force.
In a certain way you are right, but you got it backwards.
It has been shown that COMPASS overestimates the recidivism of black people by a factor of about two, while it underestimates the recidivism of white people at about the same rate -- while at the same time not even including race in the list of variables.
So it will rather deny bail to a black person which never commits a crime again. But it will let a white person go free on bail who later will become a repeat offender. As the exact inner workings of COMPASS are regarded as business secret, there were some experiments to find out why it is so bad at estimating the recidivism rate of people, and it seems that it totally overweighs social factors (stable/unstable family background, unemployment rate, debts etc.pp.), because there are many of them in the list of factors it considers. On the other hand, there are not many variables for the type of crime committed, and thus it does constantly underestimates those in the total. It would thus grant bail to a sexual offender who comes from a stable family background with steady income, though the recidivism rate of those is 70%, but it is only a single factor weighing against the offender. On the other hand it would deny bail to a petty thief, who does not have a stable family life, is indebted, has only short periods of employment and moves often.
Basicly: COMPASS is biased against people in poverty.
60% of all homicides are suicides. Thus I doubt your numbers.
When it comes to homicides, most of them (about 90%) are perpetrated by yourself, your close relatives (spouse, parents, children) or your acquaintances.
That's not what I wrote. I wrote, that there are the small regional providers growing out of utilities. And then there are the local mobile phone providers.
No. In countries, where competition works, there are many small, regional providers, often grown out of a local utility. And then the local mobile phone providers are also in the competition and offer internet access via UMTS or LTE, where you get a small box in your home with an UMTS/LTE antenna and WiFi/Ethernet.
So you have a very fragmentared market, and Netflix will rather decide not to contract any of them for a fast lane because the sheer amount of fast lane contracts, each of them for a different part of the market and very small shares is not easily manageable.
I don't wear wristband watches. And thus I don't buy smartwatches either.
I stopped wearing wristband watches about 15 years ago, because I could always tell the time from my mobile phone or from any of the hundreds and thousands of timepieces everywhere.
So you have three zillion dollars to spend on space exploration. Do you build zilch space probes going everywhere and each doing dozens and hundred different automated measurements wherever they are, or do you spend it on a single mission going to a single place with limited range?
It does not come from a lack of leadership. It really comes down to a big Why we should?
When people went to the Moon, we thought we would need people to set up experiments on other moons and planets. But since the mid-1970ies, automated space probes proved us wrong. They could get to Venus, Mercury and Mars at a fraction of the cost than having space ships going there. They could be smaller as they didn't need to house humans. They didn't need any life sustaining technology. They didn't need to come back. They could sustain accelerations in swing-by maneuvers no human would survive. And they had patience. They can fly three decades without going nuts. They could deliver the same measurements again and again with constant quality. And we could have them fly risky maneuvers because when they got lost, it was just damage to a machine.
There is not much scientific value in having humans flying to other space objects. And there is no business case yet. Thus we don't.
It's not an governmental organisation. It's press agencies. And they really try. The tried in Belgium (Copiepresse), and folded two years later. They tried in Germany, and now all major news outlets gave Google a permanent license free of charge. Now they try the E.U..
The main reason for systemd was and is hotplugging of hardware.
In the UNIX server world, hardware usually doesn't change during runtime (init 3 or init 5). Thus a boot process that starts new processes in a pre-determined, finely tuned sequence until all services are running, makes sense. All dependencies are already solved before the system boots up (and if not, you change your boot sequence until they are). And in this case, shell scripts as glue between the processes make thoroughly sense, as they provide a deterministic, linear approach. For the few cases when hardware changes during runtime (USB drives etc.pp.), you have a wrapper that handles it, but it's not something init is concerned with.
But if you have a system where the hardware changes all the time during runtime, because mice get plugged in and graphic tablets removed, monitors are sometimes on, sometimes not, you have to support projectors for some time, you have to support several different "power down" states (S1, S2, S3...), computers get put into docking stations and removed etc.pp., init is just clumsy. There are so many drivers to be loaded and unloaded, services to be started, to be stopped, to be removed from memory, you have so many dependencies to be solved on the fly, that your shell scripts take ages to tune, and the boot sequence is depending on the hardware currently plugged in. You would need dozens of init states to make sense of it all, each one with the correct set of started and stopped services, and the changes between states happen often.
This is not the usual server environment (yet), but it is the daily life of Linux running on other devices.
Yes, those pesky laws of Thermodynamics, which tell us that there is an upper limit on how much heat you can turn in other types of energy! Curse you, Carnot cycle!
Basicly you complain about car speedometers that they don't give any information about the charging state of your battery. An IQ test gives information about a certain subset of mental skills, those related to problem solving. It does not test your musicality, it does not test your ability to identify details in pictures. It does not test your reaction speed to sudden movements, and it doesn't measure your aiming prowess.
And while a speedometer readout still doesn't tell you anything about your car's battery, it's not a problem of the speedometer. It's a problem that you apparently want it to do things it is not meant for.
Not having a minimum wage is a subsidy to employers. Because maintaining yourself in a state able to work costs a minimum
of dollars, so you can get food and shelter and medical care. If a full-time job doesn't pay enough to pay your rent, your food, your clothing and your medical insurance, the taxpayer will inevitably have to pay the difference. You get food stamps, subsidized housing, access to emergency rooms, access to the soup kitchen, whatever society provides. And because you might be inclined to illegally get what you can't get legally, the cost of policing will rise.
Basicly your employer gets your labor power with a subsidy, because he hasn't to pay full for its upkeep. Everything else is burdened up to the taxpayer.
There are grapes growing in England right now. And the reason that in the Middle Age grapes were grown so far in the north was to have wine for the Eucharist, as transportation of wine from the South was cumbersome, and the wine often became vinegar in the process. It was never enough to be actually used as a regular drink, and it wasn't good enough for that too. When better sealing of kegs and bottles and better roads to transport them were available in the Early Modern times, vineyards so far in the north were rendered obsolete and given up.
This is simply wrong. Measured IQ is the best predictor for scholarly success, better even than any social factors like the education level of the parents parents, personal wealth or stability of the family.
This shoudn't come as a surprise, as the first IQ was invented by Alfred Binet to work as a test for school children to sort them in the right class.
Long answer: The difference between an intelligent thought process and physical laws is about the same as the difference between a game of chess and the chess rules. Physical laws are rules. They are valid everywhere, for everything, and non-discriminatory. Intelligence is about conciousness, problem solving and making a difference.
Basicly, calling physical laws either an alien intelligence or a product of an alien intelligence is nothing else than the question if we are living in the reality, or if we are just a simulation.
ad 1st: 2.36 and 2.56 are better than 0.1. For a simulation of the last 50 years, that's impressive. (And much better thant any denier would give credit to any climate model).
ad 2nd: CO2 did raise far before the warming. The numbers were 270 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere in 1899 (Anatole Leduc, Nouvelles Recherches sur les Gaz, 1899), 330 ppm in the 1970ies, and are 400 ppm now. Warming took of in the 1970ies, when half of the CO2 increase until now had happened already.
ad 3rd: The global temperature level of the Eem Interglacial (the last warm period before the last Ice Age) is already reached.
Maybe because a provision in the SB 05-152 law says that counties are extempt where a majority of the population voted to have municipal broadband? You could for instance read the law and find this section:
PART 2
CONDITIONS FOR PROVIDING SERVICES
29-27-201. Vote - referendum.
(1) Before a local government may engage or offer to engage in providing cable television service, telecommunications service, or advanced service, an election shall be called on wether or not the local government shall provide the proposed cable television service, telecommunications service or advanced service.
This was at times, when data recovery companies had better methods to read data from a disk than the builtin read/write heads, especially before the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance.
But with the ever increasing capacity, the read/write heads of today's hard disks operate in such tight conditions that you don't have that tolerance left once used to recover data from a formatted hard disk. Today's hard disk have basicly nothing left of the previous state of the magnetic surface once you make a single write pass. If there was any chance to read previous states, hard disk manufactures would already have made use of it to further increase the capacity of the platter.
One statement does not contradict the other. If the FBI never served a formal request to investigate the physical server, it won't have had access to it. And still the DNC never had denied the FBI access to the server.
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In the 1930ies, the Left won the election in France, and the military was a staunch rightwing organisation sympathetic to Hitler and on the verge of a coup d'etat (as had happened in Spain a few years later). So the government mistrusted the military, and the military mistrusted the government, and when the Germans attacked in 1939, the french governmental orders for the military to get into war were running late until the french general staff capitulated (and later formed its own little military dictatorship in the South of France).
What I've seen quite often is that people use Wikipedia twice: first to get a cursory overview about the topic, and then to browse the reference list for further reading. So yes, they often don't cite Wikipedia itself, but they make heavily use of the references.
In a case like this, the certificate necessary to access said email would long have been revoked, and only with a formal request to the Attorney General and the Data Protection agency of Ireland, the U.S. prosecution would be able to get a new one granting access to the email they want.
In the end, you get what you deserve.
It has been shown that COMPASS overestimates the recidivism of black people by a factor of about two, while it underestimates the recidivism of white people at about the same rate -- while at the same time not even including race in the list of variables.
So it will rather deny bail to a black person which never commits a crime again. But it will let a white person go free on bail who later will become a repeat offender. As the exact inner workings of COMPASS are regarded as business secret, there were some experiments to find out why it is so bad at estimating the recidivism rate of people, and it seems that it totally overweighs social factors (stable/unstable family background, unemployment rate, debts etc.pp.), because there are many of them in the list of factors it considers. On the other hand, there are not many variables for the type of crime committed, and thus it does constantly underestimates those in the total. It would thus grant bail to a sexual offender who comes from a stable family background with steady income, though the recidivism rate of those is 70%, but it is only a single factor weighing against the offender. On the other hand it would deny bail to a petty thief, who does not have a stable family life, is indebted, has only short periods of employment and moves often.
Basicly: COMPASS is biased against people in poverty.
When it comes to homicides, most of them (about 90%) are perpetrated by yourself, your close relatives (spouse, parents, children) or your acquaintances.
No, the new Wall will be bigger and better, and it works!
That's not what I wrote. I wrote, that there are the small regional providers growing out of utilities. And then there are the local mobile phone providers.
So you have a very fragmentared market, and Netflix will rather decide not to contract any of them for a fast lane because the sheer amount of fast lane contracts, each of them for a different part of the market and very small shares is not easily manageable.
The GDP of Texas (US$ 1.616 billion) is lower than that of Italy (U$ 1.850 billion).
I stopped wearing wristband watches about 15 years ago, because I could always tell the time from my mobile phone or from any of the hundreds and thousands of timepieces everywhere.
So you have three zillion dollars to spend on space exploration. Do you build zilch space probes going everywhere and each doing dozens and hundred different automated measurements wherever they are, or do you spend it on a single mission going to a single place with limited range?
When people went to the Moon, we thought we would need people to set up experiments on other moons and planets. But since the mid-1970ies, automated space probes proved us wrong. They could get to Venus, Mercury and Mars at a fraction of the cost than having space ships going there. They could be smaller as they didn't need to house humans. They didn't need any life sustaining technology. They didn't need to come back. They could sustain accelerations in swing-by maneuvers no human would survive. And they had patience. They can fly three decades without going nuts. They could deliver the same measurements again and again with constant quality. And we could have them fly risky maneuvers because when they got lost, it was just damage to a machine.
There is not much scientific value in having humans flying to other space objects. And there is no business case yet. Thus we don't.
It's not an governmental organisation. It's press agencies. And they really try. The tried in Belgium (Copiepresse), and folded two years later. They tried in Germany, and now all major news outlets gave Google a permanent license free of charge. Now they try the E.U..
In the UNIX server world, hardware usually doesn't change during runtime (init 3 or init 5). Thus a boot process that starts new processes in a pre-determined, finely tuned sequence until all services are running, makes sense. All dependencies are already solved before the system boots up (and if not, you change your boot sequence until they are). And in this case, shell scripts as glue between the processes make thoroughly sense, as they provide a deterministic, linear approach. For the few cases when hardware changes during runtime (USB drives etc.pp.), you have a wrapper that handles it, but it's not something init is concerned with.
But if you have a system where the hardware changes all the time during runtime, because mice get plugged in and graphic tablets removed, monitors are sometimes on, sometimes not, you have to support projectors for some time, you have to support several different "power down" states (S1, S2, S3...), computers get put into docking stations and removed etc.pp., init is just clumsy. There are so many drivers to be loaded and unloaded, services to be started, to be stopped, to be removed from memory, you have so many dependencies to be solved on the fly, that your shell scripts take ages to tune, and the boot sequence is depending on the hardware currently plugged in. You would need dozens of init states to make sense of it all, each one with the correct set of started and stopped services, and the changes between states happen often.
This is not the usual server environment (yet), but it is the daily life of Linux running on other devices.
Yes, those pesky laws of Thermodynamics, which tell us that there is an upper limit on how much heat you can turn in other types of energy! Curse you, Carnot cycle!
And while a speedometer readout still doesn't tell you anything about your car's battery, it's not a problem of the speedometer. It's a problem that you apparently want it to do things it is not meant for.
Basicly your employer gets your labor power with a subsidy, because he hasn't to pay full for its upkeep. Everything else is burdened up to the taxpayer.
There are grapes growing in England right now. And the reason that in the Middle Age grapes were grown so far in the north was to have wine for the Eucharist, as transportation of wine from the South was cumbersome, and the wine often became vinegar in the process. It was never enough to be actually used as a regular drink, and it wasn't good enough for that too. When better sealing of kegs and bottles and better roads to transport them were available in the Early Modern times, vineyards so far in the north were rendered obsolete and given up.
This shoudn't come as a surprise, as the first IQ was invented by Alfred Binet to work as a test for school children to sort them in the right class.
Basicly, calling physical laws either an alien intelligence or a product of an alien intelligence is nothing else than the question if we are living in the reality, or if we are just a simulation.
ad 2nd: CO2 did raise far before the warming. The numbers were 270 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere in 1899 (Anatole Leduc, Nouvelles Recherches sur les Gaz, 1899), 330 ppm in the 1970ies, and are 400 ppm now. Warming took of in the 1970ies, when half of the CO2 increase until now had happened already.
ad 3rd: The global temperature level of the Eem Interglacial (the last warm period before the last Ice Age) is already reached.
PART 2
CONDITIONS FOR PROVIDING SERVICES
29-27-201. Vote - referendum.
(1) Before a local government may engage or offer to engage in providing cable television service, telecommunications service, or advanced service, an election shall be called on wether or not the local government shall provide the proposed cable television service, telecommunications service or advanced service.
But with the ever increasing capacity, the read/write heads of today's hard disks operate in such tight conditions that you don't have that tolerance left once used to recover data from a formatted hard disk. Today's hard disk have basicly nothing left of the previous state of the magnetic surface once you make a single write pass. If there was any chance to read previous states, hard disk manufactures would already have made use of it to further increase the capacity of the platter.
One statement does not contradict the other. If the FBI never served a formal request to investigate the physical server, it won't have had access to it. And still the DNC never had denied the FBI access to the server.