I read a great article a couple years back about seniors moving into retirement communities close to university campuses and since then I've known how I want to retire. It makes perfect sense too - universities get another source of income and a really interesting new dynamic in class and on campus, and the older folks benefit from the non-stop hum of activity a university represents and the huge range of services they provide. I know when I was a student there were multiple university-sponsored events occuring every day, pretty much every hour too, and that's excluding the toga-parties et al. If the elderly are looking to keep their minds active it just seems a really good idea.
Or is it? NPR recently ran a story reporting that "mentally stimulating lifestyles may speed up dementia once it hits in old age." It's not a long read but it's certainly relevent to the discussion. Maybe these 70-year olds are merely enjoying the delay effects described?
So for those who are mentally engaged, it may take many more years for the symptoms of the disease to appear. But once they do, the course of the disease seems to speed up. Researchers say there's a bit of a silver lining here: knowing that the disease will likely progress more quickly.
"We think this is very good news," Wilson says. "It suggests that cognitive activity extends your period of cognitive independence as long as it possibly can."
And it will likely shorten the battle at the end of life. This means Alzheimer's patients may be less of a burden to caregivers and loved ones.
Three things occur to me:
You should never Slashdot after a few pints
Jerking off probably isnt the best example of a fact
My presidential slogan "Capp, He Jacks Off So You Don't Get Fucked" probably needs some revision
I understand what you're saying, but factual is as factual does. It's a fact that I spent the morning having one of my best orgasms in a while. It's also a fact that I was jerking off. It's a fact I was looking at naughty pictures. It's also a fact I was speeding the other day. Every one of those is a fact and can be combined and contorted to create specific versions of what is and was real. The problem with facts is that they're easily picked and attached to dubious endevours - Wiki has been unabashed about holding a specific philosophical view - which is admirable really especially given that they're so honest about it - and that viewpoint has an effect on what they chose to present as the truth. There is a concern therefore that they're filtering to support their own conclusions - just the same way flat-eathers filter, or indeed supporters of string theory.
Its a lot cheaper, easier, and quicker to build homes out of wood, not to mention the ease of internal reconfiguration. It makes sense if you're in a county with rapid population expansion, especially if that country also prefers new and shiny to old and solid.
Huh, this I did not know. Surely you need someone to sit down and create your great list of synonyms and word links specific to each language? I had always assumed Google sold a word and then all those words "adjacent" to it - so looking for "parcel" would also bring up searches for related close terms like "brown paper", "string", "shipping", and so on. I'm guessing thats wrong?
I wondered about the same thing, but then I got thinking about language specific ads - Google pretty much has the English language ads business neatly sorted out. The only real way to expand is to access the smaller western markets where ads can make a decent payout and it's worth the hassle of translation and so on. Wiki claims there are 10 million Swedish speakers and, rather importantly, that Swedish is mutually intelligible with both Norwegian (5mil) and Danish (6mil). That's another 21 million speakers they can access, a tiny market sure but one that's otherwise probably going untapped. I imagine that gives Google some great access to native speakers and therefore the ability to increase the reliability of their translation programs and other beneficial knock-on effects.
Completely opposite to what I expected. Seems the Postal Service is helping Google reach out to businesses to increase their use of keyword searches rather than Google helping a struggling Postal system - at least that's what the end of the article seems to suggest. Perhaps a testbed for a new business model?
Direct mail is a familiar medium to small businesses. Buying the keywords you are less familiar with.
– Many people are interested in an online presence, but there are only a few percent of Sweden's 500 000 small businesses that use keywords in their marketing, says Google's Country Manager Sweden Stina Honkamaa.
When laws are written in America there is an entire body of written material that accompanies them - including the Legislative History which includes the sum of all the discussions, debates, research, transcripts, and so on that represent the process of formulating said piece of legislation. This is a handy secondary authority when you're trying to decide what the law as written means. If you read the Act you'll find that there's some ambiguity as to what is meant, if we had Legislative History to fall back on we could trawl through the arguments that lead to the final writing and thereby follow the logic as it developed. The Judicial Branch often refers back to intent if it's demonstrable in the histories, it's hardly a bleating cry for instruction. Indeed the parlimentary discussion that was linked by DKF helps contextualise the question at hand and would be really useful for anyone seeking to challenge or support the law.
The Act seems to apply to this case exactly. I wish Parliament published comments along with the Acts so we have an easier time judging legislative intent. I would imagine they're trying to facilitate English Heritage becoming more financially independent - 2008 they received 132mil from the government which was 2/3 of their operating budget. I suppose todays announcement that Culture, Media and Sport is taking a 24% cut over the next few years has them rather spooked.
That being said, why doesn't it make sense that they want to control the commercial exploitation of their properties? The British public pays to maintain these sites, and an awful lot of money at that, so why should some company be allowed to step in and enjoy the benefits of the public's investment? As long as they aren't charging then it seems English Heritage doesn't mind - seems fair.
Isn't this already the law? At least, so far as preserving records is concerned. The EU Directive 2006/24/EC pretty much made it a requirement that states retain records of everything being done.
Member States shall adopt measures to ensure that the data specified in Article 5 of this Directive are retained in accordance with the provisions thereof, to the extent that those data are generated or processed by providers of publicly available electronic communications services or of a public communications network within their jurisdiction in the process of supplying the communications services concerned.
Article 5
Categories of data to be retained
(2) concerning Internet access, Internet e-mail and Internet telephony
So I'm just wondering what the difference being proposed is? If the proposal headling is sensational then surely the responce to it is to given the existance of legislation already? Is it the real-time tracking thats at issue? The Telegraph article only included
We will introduce a programme to preserve the ability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communication data and to intercept communications within the appropriate legal framework.
StarCraft 2 has cheat codes in it, their use just disables achievements until you start a new game or load an old one. Part of the issue is that this guy was using a program that let him cheat while still earning achievements and, according to the comments on the Rock Paper Shotgun article, cheat in the multiplayer too - both of which messes with the ranking system and in turn, causes all kinds of weirdness with their online matchmaking.
I think the idea of the piece was more that people mis-remember the Japanese problem and believe that it was solved through the ascention of American industry out-competing once challenged. The author points out that that's not what happened, that there were a lot of legislative and diplomatic stategies that were deployed to out-maneuver Japan on a world stage, and that even using this wide range of techniques the eventually victory itself is largely questionable.
I read an article yesterday which dealt exactly with that point and the author noted
Somehow these successes from America's last great trade war have been forgotten -- blotted out by patriotic sloganeering ("American industry pulled up its socks to meet the Japanese challenge)"
. The writer pretty much argues that the last trade war wasn't really won at all,
Most U.S. producers never recovered what they lost in the 1980s. In fact, the question of just who beat whom in the last great trade war has no easy answer. Consider this: Japanese GDP growth from 1990 to 2000 -- Japan's so-called lost decade -- was just 0.2 percent less than America's when you account for increases in the U.S. population. And Japan comes out ahead on a per capita basis. Even with the battering it took, Japan's productivity growth outpaced that of U.S. workers in the 1990s.
and even that limited success was more a factor of specific global issues and not because of American industry. Give it a read, it makes an interesting argument.
Just a quick correction - all the reports indicate that Assanage was denied a work and residency visa (the summary was notably lacking in that detail), which is why I looked into the work visa requirements. A work visa requires one to also obtain a residency visa. As far as I could tell there is no way to get a residency visa to live in Sweden without getting a work visa at the same time.
I'd be really interested in any info' you found on residency in Sweden though - everything I found explicitly linked it to work unless one was an EU citizen (which he's not) or has a familial connection (which hasn't been made public if it's true). As far as I can tell merely extending his stay in Sweden wouldn't be sufficient to gain the protections of Swedish law, he would have to be a full resident (which implies, as far as I've been able to find, the right to work).
So the best way to neutralise Darth Vader would have been a jolly good dose of antibiotics and instructions to wash his hands thoroughly before every meal?
Not necessarily. If Assanage wanted to release the exact details of his rejection he's more than free too - but, like with pretty much every government out there, it is against the law for official bodies to discuss the private details of individuals' interactions with the state. This is especially true when considering things like passports, residence, and visas.
Anyway it need not be quite as cloak and dagger as suggested - the Swedish work permit requires employers to certify that they
* have advertised the post in Sweden and the EU for at least ten days. (For new recruitment.)
* offer terms of employment that are equal to those of a Swedish collective agreement or what is customary within the profession or sector
* give the relevant union organisations the opportunity to express an opinion on the terms of employment in the job offer.
As far I remember the newspaper that offered him employment didn't advertise the post to anyone else. A purely bureaucratic explanation.
That’s not to say that Sweden isn’t worried about international repercussions but there are other explanations available. Swedish citizenship includes an assessment of good conduct which I would assume applies in the initial residence application as well.
The Migration Board requests information regarding this from other authorities:
The Enforcement Service (if you have debts)
The Swedish National Police Board (if you committed a crime or are suspected of doing so) and
The Security Service (security checks).
They could also be holding out until all the charges against him have been clarified.
Thanks for finding the original there, I had assumed that the definitive tone in the itworld piece was a quotation and that was pretty dumb on reflection.
It's fantastic that Microsoft is expanding the list of included countries and they should be applauded for it - but they shouldn't benefit from the positive PR of claiming to be doing something that they weren't.
Nope. It's an update. Look at the date of the story on NYTimes, it's 2 days ago. More importantly, it adds new info' - specifically
But it is now extending the program to other countries: eight former Soviet republics — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — as well as China, Malaysia and Vietnam. Microsoft executives said they would consider adding more.
If anything we now know that Microsoft was a little deceptive when they previously said they were creating a blanket license, clearly it's based on territory and limited in scope. That's not to say its a bad thing, but certainly not what was originally sold.
standard VAT charge which runs at 5% for domestic energy, the government has introduced several obligations that all energy suppliers are required to deliver. The cost of meeting these obligations is included within your energy prices.
. Ofgem, the electricity and gas market regulators, support that claim in their 2008 report (pdf). There's also an 8% environmental levy which some would lump in with tax. It's interesting to note that the UK has the 3rd highest domestic energy prices before tax out of a selection of EU states but is one of the cheapest in terms of domestic gas.
Slashdot Mirror
TFA claims "15.99 (± 0.13) pc" which is what, like one and a little Kessel Runs in the 'Falcon.
I read a great article a couple years back about seniors moving into retirement communities close to university campuses and since then I've known how I want to retire. It makes perfect sense too - universities get another source of income and a really interesting new dynamic in class and on campus, and the older folks benefit from the non-stop hum of activity a university represents and the huge range of services they provide. I know when I was a student there were multiple university-sponsored events occuring every day, pretty much every hour too, and that's excluding the toga-parties et al. If the elderly are looking to keep their minds active it just seems a really good idea.
Three things occur to me:
You should never Slashdot after a few pints
Jerking off probably isnt the best example of a fact
My presidential slogan "Capp, He Jacks Off So You Don't Get Fucked" probably needs some revision
I understand what you're saying, but factual is as factual does. It's a fact that I spent the morning having one of my best orgasms in a while. It's also a fact that I was jerking off. It's a fact I was looking at naughty pictures. It's also a fact I was speeding the other day. Every one of those is a fact and can be combined and contorted to create specific versions of what is and was real. The problem with facts is that they're easily picked and attached to dubious endevours - Wiki has been unabashed about holding a specific philosophical view - which is admirable really especially given that they're so honest about it - and that viewpoint has an effect on what they chose to present as the truth. There is a concern therefore that they're filtering to support their own conclusions - just the same way flat-eathers filter, or indeed supporters of string theory.
Its a lot cheaper, easier, and quicker to build homes out of wood, not to mention the ease of internal reconfiguration. It makes sense if you're in a county with rapid population expansion, especially if that country also prefers new and shiny to old and solid.
Sucks or blows, whatever, as long as there's swallowing that's all that matters.
Huh, this I did not know. Surely you need someone to sit down and create your great list of synonyms and word links specific to each language? I had always assumed Google sold a word and then all those words "adjacent" to it - so looking for "parcel" would also bring up searches for related close terms like "brown paper", "string", "shipping", and so on. I'm guessing thats wrong?
I wondered about the same thing, but then I got thinking about language specific ads - Google pretty much has the English language ads business neatly sorted out. The only real way to expand is to access the smaller western markets where ads can make a decent payout and it's worth the hassle of translation and so on. Wiki claims there are 10 million Swedish speakers and, rather importantly, that Swedish is mutually intelligible with both Norwegian (5mil) and Danish (6mil). That's another 21 million speakers they can access, a tiny market sure but one that's otherwise probably going untapped. I imagine that gives Google some great access to native speakers and therefore the ability to increase the reliability of their translation programs and other beneficial knock-on effects.
Little more than cunt...literally the "cunt of your mother" which i suppose is a tad harsher
When laws are written in America there is an entire body of written material that accompanies them - including the Legislative History which includes the sum of all the discussions, debates, research, transcripts, and so on that represent the process of formulating said piece of legislation. This is a handy secondary authority when you're trying to decide what the law as written means. If you read the Act you'll find that there's some ambiguity as to what is meant, if we had Legislative History to fall back on we could trawl through the arguments that lead to the final writing and thereby follow the logic as it developed. The Judicial Branch often refers back to intent if it's demonstrable in the histories, it's hardly a bleating cry for instruction. Indeed the parlimentary discussion that was linked by DKF helps contextualise the question at hand and would be really useful for anyone seeking to challenge or support the law.
Thanks, I didn't know about that site - something to mess around with next time a similar topic comes up.
The reference to superior legislation is confusingly phrased but I think it's refering to Article 1 and the right to Protection of Property.
The Act seems to apply to this case exactly. I wish Parliament published comments along with the Acts so we have an easier time judging legislative intent. I would imagine they're trying to facilitate English Heritage becoming more financially independent - 2008 they received 132mil from the government which was 2/3 of their operating budget. I suppose todays announcement that Culture, Media and Sport is taking a 24% cut over the next few years has them rather spooked.
That being said, why doesn't it make sense that they want to control the commercial exploitation of their properties? The British public pays to maintain these sites, and an awful lot of money at that, so why should some company be allowed to step in and enjoy the benefits of the public's investment? As long as they aren't charging then it seems English Heritage doesn't mind - seems fair.
Further, the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 in the UK facilitated the state's power to do just that.
So I'm just wondering what the difference being proposed is? If the proposal headling is sensational then surely the responce to it is to given the existance of legislation already? Is it the real-time tracking thats at issue? The Telegraph article only included
StarCraft 2 has cheat codes in it, their use just disables achievements until you start a new game or load an old one. Part of the issue is that this guy was using a program that let him cheat while still earning achievements and, according to the comments on the Rock Paper Shotgun article, cheat in the multiplayer too - both of which messes with the ranking system and in turn, causes all kinds of weirdness with their online matchmaking.
I think the idea of the piece was more that people mis-remember the Japanese problem and believe that it was solved through the ascention of American industry out-competing once challenged. The author points out that that's not what happened, that there were a lot of legislative and diplomatic stategies that were deployed to out-maneuver Japan on a world stage, and that even using this wide range of techniques the eventually victory itself is largely questionable.
. The writer pretty much argues that the last trade war wasn't really won at all,
and even that limited success was more a factor of specific global issues and not because of American industry. Give it a read, it makes an interesting argument.
Just a quick correction - all the reports indicate that Assanage was denied a work and residency visa (the summary was notably lacking in that detail), which is why I looked into the work visa requirements. A work visa requires one to also obtain a residency visa. As far as I could tell there is no way to get a residency visa to live in Sweden without getting a work visa at the same time.
I'd be really interested in any info' you found on residency in Sweden though - everything I found explicitly linked it to work unless one was an EU citizen (which he's not) or has a familial connection (which hasn't been made public if it's true). As far as I can tell merely extending his stay in Sweden wouldn't be sufficient to gain the protections of Swedish law, he would have to be a full resident (which implies, as far as I've been able to find, the right to work).
So the best way to neutralise Darth Vader would have been a jolly good dose of antibiotics and instructions to wash his hands thoroughly before every meal?
Anyway it need not be quite as cloak and dagger as suggested - the Swedish work permit requires employers to certify that they
As far I remember the newspaper that offered him employment didn't advertise the post to anyone else. A purely bureaucratic explanation.
That’s not to say that Sweden isn’t worried about international repercussions but there are other explanations available. Swedish citizenship includes an assessment of good conduct which I would assume applies in the initial residence application as well.
They could also be holding out until all the charges against him have been clarified.
Thanks for finding the original there, I had assumed that the definitive tone in the itworld piece was a quotation and that was pretty dumb on reflection.
It's fantastic that Microsoft is expanding the list of included countries and they should be applauded for it - but they shouldn't benefit from the positive PR of claiming to be doing something that they weren't.
Now maybe they meant only Russia but it doesn't take much to read that statement as applying globally. An ambiguity I'm sure they didn't mind.
If anything we now know that Microsoft was a little deceptive when they previously said they were creating a blanket license, clearly it's based on territory and limited in scope. That's not to say its a bad thing, but certainly not what was originally sold.
. Ofgem, the electricity and gas market regulators, support that claim in their 2008 report (pdf). There's also an 8% environmental levy which some would lump in with tax. It's interesting to note that the UK has the 3rd highest domestic energy prices before tax out of a selection of EU states but is one of the cheapest in terms of domestic gas.