That could be achieved with devolution of tax powers. Decentralized taxes are known to work well in federal countries. Independence can be seen as overkill for that purpose.
Out of curiosity, do we have a plan to take back the "North Sea gold" and did it ever cross our minds whether oil/gas companies really have "nationalities" at all? As a resident of Scotland I often hear oil as an argument for "yes", but I wonder if that flies in the face of trade agreements.
To be fair one could argue the number of "bits" of a CPU is conventionally the width of the data bus. The Z80 also supports, in addition to the 8-bit operations, 16-bit arithmetic operations and 16-bit registers (okay, usually those were pairs of 8-bit registers, but 16-bit register implementations do exist), yet nobody would call that thing a 16-bit CPU. Similarly nobody would call an i7 a 128-bit CPU just because it features 128-bit registers and 128-bit operations.
I guess you can't generalize much. I've never been to Texas myself, but the people I know from Austin are well cultured and their accent does sound educated.
Wasnt the UN having problems actually doing inspections in Iraq?
Not really, no. They did in fact do inspections in Iraq, and found nothing (I worked at UN and met some of the inspectors). American diplomacy bullied the OPCW into not accepting Iraq as a member, which spun into the whole "Iraq won't allow inspections" disinformation, thus creating the perfect pretext to go to war.
Isnt that how we ended up over there to begin with?
Again, not really. Iraq (and Afghanistan) were more about justifying expenditure in the weapon industry and maintaining an active, duty-trained military.
Aerobic exercise (with a little anaerobic thrown in) is definitely great, in moderation. But there is such a thing as too much exercise (especially anaerobic, the kind that body builders do a lot).
Desproxy didn't work for me. The Microsoft proxy they had at my college didn't dance with it.
As for getting around the firewall, what I've done in the past when I needed that was to tether to my phone (through wifi if possible, for discretion).
Ethically, there's nothing reprehensible about your points, but...
Turing should not have been guilty of anything at all because the laws were unfair -- the keywords are "laws were unfair". This implies that the law in question at the time was in fact unlawful or illegal or unjust, so granting pardon is the right thing to do. We could go furher and condemn those who had zealously persecuted him.
The little problem is unfair != unlawful. They were democratic laws, whether we like it or not. Democracy is not perfect but it sucks less than everything else we've tried.
by criminalizing Cocaine users today we are behaving as barbaric (actually we know better now, so we are more barbaric) and quite possibly attracting the same business of pardoning some wonderful person of our times convicted inder unjust laws by a future generation.
Again, there's a little problem and it's that the drug is banned under democratic laws. If I am going to do coke or even pot, I'd better not get caught or do it in a jurisdiction where it's allowed. We know how it works. In the meantime we can protest and send letters to our representatives.
here in the uncivilized USA, if a law is overturned, anyone jailed under it is set free.
Are you sure you mean "law" rather than "sentence"? If so, got any examples? And I mean laws passed in the democratic period. For what is worth, IMHO USA is a democracy since 1964 when the Civil Rights Act was passed and the UK is a democracy since 1928 when men and women got equal voting rights.
I have mentioned the case of the draft dodgers, but that didn't happen automatically; Carter pardoned them. And not without controversy.
On the other hand, retroactive condemnation is not allowed under the Constitution.
Yeah, that's pretty much the same in any democracy in the world.
Pardons are often given to people who suffered flawed trials or were otherwise unfairly treated, on individual basis. But, are they often given due to unfair but democratic laws from the past? The closest case along those lines that I can think of is draft dodgers, and those pardons were pretty controversial in the countries where they were given.
Besides, they would have to pardon not only Turing but also everybody else who was sentenced on the same grounds. The law that condemned Turing was passed (or at least not repealed) by a democratically elected parliament, whether we like it or not. I am scared by the thought of having laws retroactively applied to cancel out previous democratic laws - even if the purpose is to right a wrong. I have to agree with the point in TFS that what we must do is avoid at all costs returning to those times.
The issue is not about history being rewritten. The problem is it would set a bad precedent to retroactively pardon people who were convicted in the past under democratic laws just because the laws were unfair. If we're going to retroactively apply laws, why not retroactively condemn people? For example, that would make it perfectly OK to declare Freud guilty of cocaine possession and consumption (which were legal in his days).
In the UK I haven't looked into fixed connections but with 3store (mobile broadband) you get 7.5/1.5 (speedtest.net) for 25 GBP/month and that's with no data or speed caps. They're open about tethering - it's explicitly allowed (for 15 you get the same thing, but no official tethering support).
I believe there are a few kinds of errors that won't catch (or at least, there used to be). I once got a YSOD in Hotmail (No stack trace though). For realsies.
Psychology is a vast field, and some claimed psychology teachings are indeed bullshit. For good examples of non-bullshit psychology, read Richard Wiseman's Quirkology and other works by Wiseman.
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That could be achieved with devolution of tax powers. Decentralized taxes are known to work well in federal countries. Independence can be seen as overkill for that purpose.
Out of curiosity, do we have a plan to take back the "North Sea gold" and did it ever cross our minds whether oil/gas companies really have "nationalities" at all? As a resident of Scotland I often hear oil as an argument for "yes", but I wonder if that flies in the face of trade agreements.
"This (i.e. this guy/gal... whoever is pushing this law?) indeed did management (whoever management is) to (i.e. in order to) pass"
Nice trick with Geoworks, but the 8088 is a 16-bit processor on an 8-bit bus.
And much slower than the ATmega1284p RISC featured here, regardless of "how many bits".
To be fair one could argue the number of "bits" of a CPU is conventionally the width of the data bus. The Z80 also supports, in addition to the 8-bit operations, 16-bit arithmetic operations and 16-bit registers (okay, usually those were pairs of 8-bit registers, but 16-bit register implementations do exist), yet nobody would call that thing a 16-bit CPU. Similarly nobody would call an i7 a 128-bit CPU just because it features 128-bit registers and 128-bit operations.
Shakespeare's pronunciation was almost certainly post-vowel shift. Country matters.
I guess you can't generalize much. I've never been to Texas myself, but the people I know from Austin are well cultured and their accent does sound educated.
It was particularly peculiar to hear Americans making movies about Russians where they all had English accents.
By contrast, the pathetic attempt at Russian accents in K19 was rather annoying.
Wasnt the UN having problems actually doing inspections in Iraq?
Not really, no. They did in fact do inspections in Iraq, and found nothing (I worked at UN and met some of the inspectors). American diplomacy bullied the OPCW into not accepting Iraq as a member, which spun into the whole "Iraq won't allow inspections" disinformation, thus creating the perfect pretext to go to war.
Isnt that how we ended up over there to begin with?
Again, not really. Iraq (and Afghanistan) were more about justifying expenditure in the weapon industry and maintaining an active, duty-trained military.
Aerobic exercise (with a little anaerobic thrown in) is definitely great, in moderation. But there is such a thing as too much exercise (especially anaerobic, the kind that body builders do a lot).
As for getting around the firewall, what I've done in the past when I needed that was to tether to my phone (through wifi if possible, for discretion).
I am curious as to what makes a Chromebook preferable to a generic netbook with Linux and Chrome. Honest question, I've never used a Chromebook.
... at the latest with Delphi... I meant
That practice originates at the earliest with Delphi, not with anything Microsoft, and was brought to .NET by Anders Hejlsberg.
Turing should not have been guilty of anything at all because the laws were unfair -- the keywords are "laws were unfair". This implies that the law in question at the time was in fact unlawful or illegal or unjust, so granting pardon is the right thing to do. We could go furher and condemn those who had zealously persecuted him.
The little problem is unfair != unlawful. They were democratic laws, whether we like it or not. Democracy is not perfect but it sucks less than everything else we've tried.
by criminalizing Cocaine users today we are behaving as barbaric (actually we know better now, so we are more barbaric) and quite possibly attracting the same business of pardoning some wonderful person of our times convicted inder unjust laws by a future generation.
Again, there's a little problem and it's that the drug is banned under democratic laws. If I am going to do coke or even pot, I'd better not get caught or do it in a jurisdiction where it's allowed. We know how it works. In the meantime we can protest and send letters to our representatives.
here in the uncivilized USA, if a law is overturned, anyone jailed under it is set free.
Are you sure you mean "law" rather than "sentence"? If so, got any examples? And I mean laws passed in the democratic period. For what is worth, IMHO USA is a democracy since 1964 when the Civil Rights Act was passed and the UK is a democracy since 1928 when men and women got equal voting rights. I have mentioned the case of the draft dodgers, but that didn't happen automatically; Carter pardoned them. And not without controversy.
On the other hand, retroactive condemnation is not allowed under the Constitution.
Yeah, that's pretty much the same in any democracy in the world.
OK, the word retroactively is redundant (let alone bolded).
Pardons are often given to people who suffered flawed trials or were otherwise unfairly treated, on individual basis. But, are they often given due to unfair but democratic laws from the past? The closest case along those lines that I can think of is draft dodgers, and those pardons were pretty controversial in the countries where they were given.
Besides, they would have to pardon not only Turing but also everybody else who was sentenced on the same grounds. The law that condemned Turing was passed (or at least not repealed) by a democratically elected parliament, whether we like it or not. I am scared by the thought of having laws retroactively applied to cancel out previous democratic laws - even if the purpose is to right a wrong. I have to agree with the point in TFS that what we must do is avoid at all costs returning to those times.
The issue is not about history being rewritten. The problem is it would set a bad precedent to retroactively pardon people who were convicted in the past under democratic laws just because the laws were unfair. If we're going to retroactively apply laws, why not retroactively condemn people? For example, that would make it perfectly OK to declare Freud guilty of cocaine possession and consumption (which were legal in his days).
In the UK I haven't looked into fixed connections but with 3store (mobile broadband) you get 7.5/1.5 (speedtest.net) for 25 GBP/month and that's with no data or speed caps. They're open about tethering - it's explicitly allowed (for 15 you get the same thing, but no official tethering support).
Edit in a text editor and paste into the web text box, it won't check spelling.
I believe there are a few kinds of errors that won't catch (or at least, there used to be). I once got a YSOD in Hotmail (No stack trace though). For realsies.
Psychology is a vast field, and some claimed psychology teachings are indeed bullshit. For good examples of non-bullshit psychology, read Richard Wiseman's Quirkology and other works by Wiseman.
As opposed to optimists, who blow.
Wow, the Monty Python reference sure took long.