I doubt the truck to my local grocery store would stop running if the computers stopped working. I think the owner knows where the farm is and can probably remember to get the stock on a regular basis without needing his PC to prompt him.
Imagine if the NYSE and the NASDAQ suddenly couldn't work because all their computers won't turn on.
Oh no. What a disaster that would be. People wouldn't be able to spend imaginary money playing with the artificial values of companies.
I doubt many people would be particularly harmed if the NASDAQ wasn't available for a few days. Wouldn't air traffic control or hospital medical records be a better example of something worth worrying about?
But at what point? The average human life is getting longer, and I'd guess that average dog/cat/mouse lives aren't keeping pace (not as much money spent on keeping elderly mice alive normally), so is the 'mouse year' getting longer? And are they shorter in third world countries where people tend to die younger?
On the face of it, this seems absolutely stupid. However, the article is published on register.com's own website, and I get a feeling that we're only getting one side of the story. Nowhere does it explain how he was possibly harmed by this redirecting. A quote on another site seems to point to something else going on -
Michael Zurakov, the lead plaintiff in the suit, which has yet to be certified as a class, claims it took him several months to stop his Web address -- Laborzionist.org -- from redirecting to the "Coming Soon" page.
No more details on why it took that long, but if it was the case that it took several months until he was actually able to use what he'd paid for then it might put a different slant on the story.
Yes the Internet did exist in 1988/89 and you could indeed browse Gopher, but the problem was that you claimed to be "surfing the web", which didn't exist in any form until October 1990. The Internet and the web are two related but different things. And no need to get abusive.
I think (hope) that he was being sarcastic. However, I regulartly read articles in the press claiming that the large percentage of suspects that are found not guilty proves that the court system is loaded too heavily on the side of the defendant, and never seem to consider the option that maybe the police might regularly arrest the wrong people.
But there's nothing to stop you doing that with Windows. We are just in the process of installing very restricted XP desktops to our call-centre for precisely this reason.
Did you know that (according to Bill Bryson) the person that discovered Uranus wanted to call it George?
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try to find a Brit who still says "lorry" instead of "truck" and doesn't remember WW II first hand
I say lorry, and so do most other Brits that I know.
If you check Mr. Shakespeare's manuscripts, you'll find color, not colour,
As Shakespeare supposedly spelled his own name in 27 different ways (Shakespear, shakespere etc), I don't think he's a useful guide.
and the pronounciation and spelling of alumin(i)um (Brits "aluMINIum", Yanks "ALUminum") started out the American way, until those bloody English blokes started going continental on us for a while
It actually started as Alumium, but Sir Humphrey Davy (who first named it) for some reason then changed his mind and called it aluminum. The Brits (and as far as I understand, the rest of the English speaking world outside of the US) decided to use aluminium because it fitted better with everything else that he'd named (magnesium, barium, calcium etc).
And how can you argue that British English is getting more quaint (attractively old-fashioned) and then point out that the the US actually uses the old-fashioned spelling?
On the salary side, it's something that has often puzzled me. There is certainly something around labour laws - this is one of the major reasons why third world countries can undercut most of the west (virtually no health and safety regulations in many countries etc) - but I don't think there's that much difference between the UK and the US in these laws. I do know that in my previous company, my US equivalents were paid pretty much 1.5 - 2x my salary (and I suspect it's pretty similar at my current company).
On the cost of living side, I think it's mostly an economy of scale/scarce resource thing. Houses in Dallas (vast amounts of unused space) were about 50% cheaper than their equivalent in the UK, whereas the ones in Boston (cramped, much like most of Europe) were probably about the same price as the UK.
If that's the case, why are most Americans paid considerably more than their European counterparts? The cost of living is usually much cheeper in the US than the UK.
You even have to take a test to use a car, for Pete's sake!
What is your point?
The reason that you have to take a test to use a car is not because it has good and bad uses, it's because it is difficult to control and therefore much more dangerous in untrained hands. The test doesn't stop people who want to use them for "bad" things. I don't think that someone accidentally misusing RFIDs is likely to mow down innocent bystanders.
and the idea of closing your body and html tags twice is rather sloppy.
So is leaving the title of your own web page as "Untitled Document", or allowing the text box on your contact page to overlap the "design" image on the right (at least on IE6). Oh, and the site that you've created for Otter Creek Adventures fails the w3c check quite badly.
The translation bit is probably a bit of a red herring. I suspect they would take similar action if someone posted the entire English version to the web.
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Proper risk management takes into account both the effect if an incident happens, and the likelihood of it happening. Being hit by an asteriod would probably be close to 100% fatal, but as it doesn't happen very often it's not a major concern. However, if the common cold had a 0.1% fatality rate, then I'd be very concerned, as I, like most people I know, get a cold at least once per year.
A 1 in 10 chance of dying from something that you've got a 1 in many many millions chance of catching in the first place is just does not seem as frightening as the media made out.
That only works for a short time, until the glue starts to give out, the stickers fall off. and you end up with an all black cube (admittedly easier to solve).
I can sync my phone with outlook without taking it out of my pocket. If I had to use cables, I'd either have to have a cable trailing into my trousers, or take my phone out and plug it in, and I know from experience that I'd end up forgetting it was there and leaving it on my desk.
Why would you put eggs or bacon in your cupboards? Is this some kind of US/UK english thing? I have loads of records in a cupboard in my computer room.
someone gets up on stage and plays music from Stockhausen to Madonna, Bach to Kylie, no one asks "is it music",
You've never listened to Diamanda Galas, have you? I've had the debate "Is it music?" several times from people who've borrowed my copy of Schrie X at work (my view is no, it's just a woman shrieking a lot, and possibly being strangled at some points).
Before there was Israel, there was the British Mandate.
That would be the British Mandate of Palestine. Have a look at their coins and ooh look at the name on them. Could it be "Palestine"? Just because somewhere is occupied, it doesn't mean that it does exist. Get a clue.
Any that have been used since the UN weapons inspectors declared them 'fundamentally disarmed' in 1995? Not that I've seen. No one doubts that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons in the past, but there's been no evidence that I've seen that any was still being produced there. If Iraq really did still have any "WMD", why did they fail to use them during the war?
Failure to find any post '95 evidence of "WMD" not only undermine the basic justification for the war but also prove the invalidity of the last 8 years of refusal of the US and UK to allow the lifting of UN sanctions, which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
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I doubt the truck to my local grocery store would stop running if the computers stopped working. I think the owner knows where the farm is and can probably remember to get the stock on a regular basis without needing his PC to prompt him.
Oh no. What a disaster that would be. People wouldn't be able to spend imaginary money playing with the artificial values of companies.
I doubt many people would be particularly harmed if the NASDAQ wasn't available for a few days. Wouldn't air traffic control or hospital medical records be a better example of something worth worrying about?
But at what point? The average human life is getting longer, and I'd guess that average dog/cat/mouse lives aren't keeping pace (not as much money spent on keeping elderly mice alive normally), so is the 'mouse year' getting longer? And are they shorter in third world countries where people tend to die younger?
This is something that's often puzzled me. Who decided how many 'human years' there are in one mouse year (or cat/dog year for that matter)?
It's not done Americans any harm.
However, the article is published on register.com's own website, and I get a feeling that we're only getting one side of the story. Nowhere does it explain how he was possibly harmed by this redirecting. A quote on another site seems to point to something else going on -
Michael Zurakov, the lead plaintiff in the suit, which has yet to be certified as a class, claims it took him several months to stop his Web address -- Laborzionist.org -- from redirecting to the "Coming Soon" page.
No more details on why it took that long, but if it was the case that it took several months until he was actually able to use what he'd paid for then it might put a different slant on the story.
Yes the Internet did exist in 1988/89 and you could indeed browse Gopher, but the problem was that you claimed to be "surfing the web", which didn't exist in any form until October 1990. The Internet and the web are two related but different things. And no need to get abusive.
I think (hope) that he was being sarcastic. However, I regulartly read articles in the press claiming that the large percentage of suspects that are found not guilty proves that the court system is loaded too heavily on the side of the defendant, and never seem to consider the option that maybe the police might regularly arrest the wrong people.
At least partly the call-centre software that we use. Things like the CTI that we use are not available on Unix.
But there's nothing to stop you doing that with Windows. We are just in the process of installing very restricted XP desktops to our call-centre for precisely this reason.
Did you know that (according to Bill Bryson) the person that discovered Uranus wanted to call it George?
I say lorry, and so do most other Brits that I know.
If you check Mr. Shakespeare's manuscripts, you'll find color, not colour,
As Shakespeare supposedly spelled his own name in 27 different ways (Shakespear, shakespere etc), I don't think he's a useful guide.
and the pronounciation and spelling of alumin(i)um (Brits "aluMINIum", Yanks "ALUminum") started out the American way, until those bloody English blokes started going continental on us for a while
It actually started as Alumium, but Sir Humphrey Davy (who first named it) for some reason then changed his mind and called it aluminum. The Brits (and as far as I understand, the rest of the English speaking world outside of the US) decided to use aluminium because it fitted better with everything else that he'd named (magnesium, barium, calcium etc).
And how can you argue that British English is getting more quaint (attractively old-fashioned) and then point out that the the US actually uses the old-fashioned spelling?
On the cost of living side, I think it's mostly an economy of scale/scarce resource thing. Houses in Dallas (vast amounts of unused space) were about 50% cheaper than their equivalent in the UK, whereas the ones in Boston (cramped, much like most of Europe) were probably about the same price as the UK.
If that's the case, why are most Americans paid considerably more than their European counterparts? The cost of living is usually much cheeper in the US than the UK.
What is your point?
The reason that you have to take a test to use a car is not because it has good and bad uses, it's because it is difficult to control and therefore much more dangerous in untrained hands. The test doesn't stop people who want to use them for "bad" things. I don't think that someone accidentally misusing RFIDs is likely to mow down innocent bystanders.
So is leaving the title of your own web page as "Untitled Document", or allowing the text box on your contact page to overlap the "design" image on the right (at least on IE6). Oh, and the site that you've created for Otter Creek Adventures fails the w3c check quite badly.
The translation bit is probably a bit of a red herring. I suspect they would take similar action if someone posted the entire English version to the web.
A 1 in 10 chance of dying from something that you've got a 1 in many many millions chance of catching in the first place is just does not seem as frightening as the media made out.
That only works for a short time, until the glue starts to give out, the stickers fall off. and you end up with an all black cube (admittedly easier to solve).
I can sync my phone with outlook without taking it out of my pocket. If I had to use cables, I'd either have to have a cable trailing into my trousers, or take my phone out and plug it in, and I know from experience that I'd end up forgetting it was there and leaving it on my desk.
I think you'll find it's short for refrigerator. Frigidaire is a brand name of a company that makes refrigerators.
Why would you put eggs or bacon in your cupboards? Is this some kind of US/UK english thing? I have loads of records in a cupboard in my computer room.
You've never listened to Diamanda Galas, have you? I've had the debate "Is it music?" several times from people who've borrowed my copy of Schrie X at work (my view is no, it's just a woman shrieking a lot, and possibly being strangled at some points).
Try here.
Before there was Israel, there was the British Mandate.
That would be the British Mandate of Palestine. Have a look at their coins and ooh look at the name on them. Could it be "Palestine"? Just because somewhere is occupied, it doesn't mean that it does exist. Get a clue.
Failure to find any post '95 evidence of "WMD" not only undermine the basic justification for the war but also prove the invalidity of the last 8 years of refusal of the US and UK to allow the lifting of UN sanctions, which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.