Formal language specification isn't meant to be perused with a cup of coffee in one hand. It's primary purpose is that you can use it to prove that your implementation of the language does what the language specs say it's supposed to do. Your "informal (but exact) specification" doesn't do "a much better job" at that. It can't do that job at all.
Frankly, it doesn't matter if you think it sounds like fishpaste. It may be reprehensible, it may be criminal, but in the US, treason is defined in the Constitution, and this ain't it.
No, the Pacific Time Zone (Pacific Standard Time, Pacific Daylight Time) is a specific official timezone name that uniquely identifies the timezone that includes LA. Hawaii is in the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone. Guam is in the Chamorro Time Zone, as are the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa is in the Samoa Time Zone (the independent nation of Samoa is in the West Samoa Time Zone).
Since interface designers faced with idiots decided "Pacific Time" was too difficult for people to figure out. They've been doing this for a while, actually.
You wouldn't boil the saltwater in foam, genius. Use properly prepared and recycled water as a heat transfer fluid and use that heat to distill seawater in tanks built for that process.
What I am wondering is: why do they even care whether the pathogens in the vials are actually what is on the labels?
They care because anybody can write a label saying "smallpox virus" and stick it on a vial. But if the vial actually *does* contain smallpox virus, then there were flawed procedures that let that virus be sent out to East Bumfuck with no records kept. And those flawed procedures might still be in place, in which case it is urgent that they get fixed.
It is impossible for there to be any other kind. The sum total of what happens on the earth is far beyond the ability of anyone or anything to track or follow. Most of it is not relevant to you, of course. Any news you read is, and of necessity, must be, filtered. The only question is how it is filtered.
News is news, be it bad, sad, happy or violent.
Your view that occurances can be easily and definitively defined as "news" or "not news" is incredibly naive.
I remember a time when the news was reported and read.
No, you remember a time when the biases in selecting what would be news and what would not be were better hidden.
Not even that. Just a film with a title by Isaac Asimov pasted on it. The screenplay was already written (the name at that point was "Hardwired") when they decided to buy the title. They changed a few of names to match characters in the book and pasted in a nod to the Three Laws of Robotics. Done!
Slashdot Mirror
Or Rollen Stewartux.
I think the key world here is "dial-up". Was UUNET offering modems you could dial into over public telephone network at that time?
The Yamato. Accept no imitations.
Formal language specification isn't meant to be perused with a cup of coffee in one hand. It's primary purpose is that you can use it to prove that your implementation of the language does what the language specs say it's supposed to do. Your "informal (but exact) specification" doesn't do "a much better job" at that. It can't do that job at all.
Frankly, it doesn't matter if you think it sounds like fishpaste. It may be reprehensible, it may be criminal, but in the US, treason is defined in the Constitution, and this ain't it.
It's also a Human Interface Device device?
No, the Pacific Time Zone (Pacific Standard Time, Pacific Daylight Time) is a specific official timezone name that uniquely identifies the timezone that includes LA. Hawaii is in the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone. Guam is in the Chamorro Time Zone, as are the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa is in the Samoa Time Zone (the independent nation of Samoa is in the West Samoa Time Zone).
Since interface designers faced with idiots decided "Pacific Time" was too difficult for people to figure out. They've been doing this for a while, actually.
Of course programming language does not include markup language. They're two entirely different things with entirelly different purposes.
"It's not my fault I shot him! It's his fault because he stood in front of my gun!"
Oh, but "Buss Duct" is so much more entertaining. I wonder who gets kissed?
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What's that you say? Orange Star is the new Black Hole?
My mother's name wasn't Dave.
Sounds more like M-M-M-Max Head-Head-Headroom, to me.
You wouldn't boil the saltwater in foam, genius. Use properly prepared and recycled water as a heat transfer fluid and use that heat to distill seawater in tanks built for that process.
Or you could be like Deadpool and just realize if something costs money to make, you're going to have to pay for it one way or another.
Sure, what with Dells being so popular with the highly technical community.
They care because anybody can write a label saying "smallpox virus" and stick it on a vial. But if the vial actually *does* contain smallpox virus, then there were flawed procedures that let that virus be sent out to East Bumfuck with no records kept. And those flawed procedures might still be in place, in which case it is urgent that they get fixed.
"Quite likely to lose"? In what uninverse? Latest polls show "Yes" trailing by over ten points.
It's even more worth noting that there's a plebicite on Scottish independence coming up very soon.
Do I make the His Dark Materials joke, or the fuligin joke?
It is impossible for there to be any other kind. The sum total of what happens on the earth is far beyond the ability of anyone or anything to track or follow. Most of it is not relevant to you, of course. Any news you read is, and of necessity, must be, filtered. The only question is how it is filtered.
Your view that occurances can be easily and definitively defined as "news" or "not news" is incredibly naive.
No, you remember a time when the biases in selecting what would be news and what would not be were better hidden.
...these guys.
How else are we going to beat the Kaiser?
Not even that. Just a film with a title by Isaac Asimov pasted on it. The screenplay was already written (the name at that point was "Hardwired") when they decided to buy the title. They changed a few of names to match characters in the book and pasted in a nod to the Three Laws of Robotics. Done!