They actually want to use "collision avoidance". Vehicles would be outfitted electronically to "exchange speed, direction and position data, then one of them could make a decision to brake in an emergency situation to avoid an accident". In principle this is a great concept, but given that most vehicles don't have this yet, that's not something you can solely rely on for the time being.
I think they have a case when talking about "sites that sometimes reproduce articles whole" - it's clearly unfair to do that.
However to asking money from sites that merely link to the articles? That seems over the top and counter-productive. After all that brings traffic to the site which hosts the article. Linking itself must be free speech, and using the headline and 1-2 sentences in order to describe the link must be fair use.
One goal of The A.P. and its members, she said, is to make sure that the top search engine results for news are "the original source or the most authoritative source," not a site that copied or paraphrased the work.
That goal is ok, but they have no right to prevent a search engine from giving the user the site they are most likely looking for. If that's a site discussing the news, rather than the site presenting the news, they can address this by making their own sites more attractive. In any case - they get a link out of it.
Other than that: if you really don't want to be indexed (and not just pretend you don't because you want to get money from the search engines) then just use robots.txt.
He didn't make a point, just voiced a controversial claim regarding an unrelated topic, without any supporting arguments. That contributes nothing to the discussion at hand and attracts flames.
Dang, you found us out. Alright global warming deniers: we admit it - it was all just a vast global conspiracy, the rest of the world was jealous of your hummers. Everybody was just out to get you.
As countries move out of the dark ages they first abolish capital punishment (or childish revenge as it really is) and then they give their citizenry free speech.
Historically it has been the other way round in most countries - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_nation
Actually I'm not aware of an example for the sequence which you gave I assume you have one in mind? Regardless, though - it's certainly not uncommon to have free speech long before abolishing capital punishment.
Well the summary talks about "insulting or criticizing". I think the political role of the king in Thai society has a lot to do with the economical and political problems Thailand is currently facing. I don't think voicing that opinion to a democratically-minded Thai would make me a douche bag - however it seems that it would make me a criminal.
Well to be fair - people in Japan do get older than in other places, so they have to draw the line somewhere... The CIA factbook lists life expectancy by nation here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html I think it is interesting that the US with rank 50 scores lower than most of the other wealthy nations. Japan is on rank 3 btw - the average Japanese has a 4 year longer lifespan than the average American. Not that I believe that health care is the only contributing factor there or that quality of life equals length of it, but I'd like to see some supporting information for the claim that universal health care could have dire consequences. Lots of other countries clearly manage just fine with it - that doesn't mean it's the best option, but it's clearly a viable one.
I think he should present at a reputable conference in his field. Not sure if Wikipedia is a good place for publishing original research - I was under the impression that's not the content they want. Also - if he publishes on such a conference the knowledge will be distributed to those able to make use of it, and it will increase his reputation - allowing him to become known, to add the publication to his resume etc.
Could be an interesting device if it's built well, if doesn't make noise and MythTV runs well on it - I would consider it. The specs are one thing - it's easy to build a PC which is reasonably fast, provides good graphics and has enough storage space. It's not so easy (and not so cheap) to get the same machine small and quiet.
Maybe so, but #1 I'm not American, and #2 - before ERII Britain was a constitutional monarchy, but now that's really no longer the case. Yes there is still a monarch, there are funny costumes and cool ceremonies. Still - at some point you have to say if your country's form of government is 99.3% democracy and 0.7% monarchy - calling yourself a monarchy is not the most accurate of statements anymore. Obviously that doesn't mean it's not your prerogative, but I respectfully disagree.
Regardless - the British "crown in parliament" system is vastly superior to presidential systems IMHO - the way it evolved out of an ordinary medieval monarchy is a great historic achievement.
Regarding your comments regarding subject vs citizens: in 1983 the British Nationality Act came into force. There are some technicalities, but if you have a British passport today, you are very likely a British citizen and not a subject of her majesty. Congrats.
How about this, lets all declare global warming a myth
How about: let's not. We have the overwhelming majority of experts in this field on one side - all the world over, and on the other side we have a few lobbyists claiming it's all a vast global conspiracy involving virtually all of the worlds democratic governments, reputable research institutions and even several oil company executives. If we are not willing to act on that basis, then why bother trying to formulate any rational policy at all?
The Brits like to pretend they are a monarchy, but in reality they are not. The prime minister writes the queen's speech and she reads it out loud - it's hard to show more clearly who submits to whom. The queen is quite aware that all power she has in theory would evaporate if she tried to use it in practice. Everything the government does is done with the authority of the people - they put the queen's stamp on it, because it looks nicer.
And be prepared to be called a crybaby, a freeloader, someone who needs to grow up and then be asked to pay a developers salary!?
This is not for the Linux community who are in overwhelming majority professional and friendly people. This is for you, personally: if *you* don't want criticism, then don't ask for it.
In any case, these "gifts" are not really reaching the apparent receiver directly. If Brown gets a gift from a visiting dignitary he does not actually own it - if he wants to personally use it, he needs to pay full price to the treasury in order to take it home.
While the president or prime minister are officially bearing the gift - I would imagine that neither one does the gift choosing himself. So if the president's gift was considered lame, then he has a problem with his organization, rather than his personal taste.
I suspect though that the real problem the British have is one of substance not of form: the relationship of Britain and the US is not so important for the US, anymore. That attracts attention in Britain from two sides: those who are mourning the "special relationship" and those who don't want to be so attached to US policy anyway.
The queen regularly discusses political matters with the prime minister. The prime minister is not required to do anything she says, but by talking to her has access to a person who has talked to his predecessors and has therefore considerable knowledge. So the queen does have some informal power, and tapping into these conversations could in principle be interesting for a foreign power.
The ACLU is suing, the judge is issuing a temporary injunction. Credit for bringing the case and defending these children goes to the ACLU, credit for his ruling goes to the judge. Wouldn't have worked without either party. So far it's all just temporary - lets hope these children will actually have their rights protected in the end.
Of course - children are by themselves pornographic. Any picture of them is pornography, any development of their sexuality is a crime. After all it could titillate a prosecutor and make him feel uncomfortable about himself.
It's a rather curious way to proceed - the ACLU has sued the DA in a federal court in order to prevent him from filing charges. I didn't realize something like that would even be possible. Clearly the kids need protection from this DA though. From another article: Parents were told their teens could avoid prosecution if they agreed to participate in a five-week program Skumanick developed with the county probation office and county's Victims Resource Center. Frankly - sounds to me like this pervert is looking for an excuse to humiliating some pretty young girls. "Give me your kids to torment or I'll add them to the sex offender registry".
Well the thing is - she wasn't even *suspected* of having anything but some standard headache medicine. Now if she'd been suspected of having heroin on her, and if there was some actual good evidence linking her to having it - the school could have called the cops and have them search her. In this case however - do you think the cops would strip search her on suspicion of having headache medicine?
Well you just have to make the assumption that everybody is guilty, when you are running a prison. You can't trust the inmates. Only rule with an iron fist allows you to keep discipline and make the prisoners fit to re-enter society once they have served their time.
It's a bit like being on a wooden ship. Some of the crew have used part of the ship's wood to build themselves nice cabins - be it out of ignorance or carelessness. As they use more and more of the wood it becomes clear that this is not sustainable. Now other members of the crew notice these nice cabins and say - "hey we want that too". It doesn't matter whether that's fair or not - if the rest of the crew builds cabins too, they are going to sink.
Want to sink? Well if you don't then you can't build more cabins. Fairness is a consideration, but it's not as important as not sinking.
Back to the real world: no matter how "fair" the distribution of pollution is - neither China nor India would have been able to advance technologically so rapidly, if they hadn't been able to learn from the west for many decades. So that puts the fairness aspect in context.
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They actually want to use "collision avoidance". Vehicles would be outfitted electronically to "exchange speed, direction and position data, then one of them could make a decision to brake in an emergency situation to avoid an accident". In principle this is a great concept, but given that most vehicles don't have this yet, that's not something you can solely rely on for the time being.
However to asking money from sites that merely link to the articles? That seems over the top and counter-productive. After all that brings traffic to the site which hosts the article. Linking itself must be free speech, and using the headline and 1-2 sentences in order to describe the link must be fair use.
One goal of The A.P. and its members, she said, is to make sure that the top search engine results for news are "the original source or the most authoritative source," not a site that copied or paraphrased the work.
That goal is ok, but they have no right to prevent a search engine from giving the user the site they are most likely looking for. If that's a site discussing the news, rather than the site presenting the news, they can address this by making their own sites more attractive. In any case - they get a link out of it.
Other than that: if you really don't want to be indexed (and not just pretend you don't because you want to get money from the search engines) then just use robots.txt.
No, and neither have you.
They need funding as much as anyone else.
Sure. Scientific method and all that. That stuff never works - scientists are just frauds.
He didn't make a point, just voiced a controversial claim regarding an unrelated topic, without any supporting arguments. That contributes nothing to the discussion at hand and attracts flames.
Dang, you found us out. Alright global warming deniers: we admit it - it was all just a vast global conspiracy, the rest of the world was jealous of your hummers. Everybody was just out to get you.
Historically it has been the other way round in most countries - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_nation Actually I'm not aware of an example for the sequence which you gave I assume you have one in mind? Regardless, though - it's certainly not uncommon to have free speech long before abolishing capital punishment.
Well the summary talks about "insulting or criticizing". I think the political role of the king in Thai society has a lot to do with the economical and political problems Thailand is currently facing. I don't think voicing that opinion to a democratically-minded Thai would make me a douche bag - however it seems that it would make me a criminal.
Why shouldn't banal Fox News be bashed?
Well to be fair - people in Japan do get older than in other places, so they have to draw the line somewhere... The CIA factbook lists life expectancy by nation here: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html I think it is interesting that the US with rank 50 scores lower than most of the other wealthy nations. Japan is on rank 3 btw - the average Japanese has a 4 year longer lifespan than the average American. Not that I believe that health care is the only contributing factor there or that quality of life equals length of it, but I'd like to see some supporting information for the claim that universal health care could have dire consequences. Lots of other countries clearly manage just fine with it - that doesn't mean it's the best option, but it's clearly a viable one.
I think he should present at a reputable conference in his field. Not sure if Wikipedia is a good place for publishing original research - I was under the impression that's not the content they want. Also - if he publishes on such a conference the knowledge will be distributed to those able to make use of it, and it will increase his reputation - allowing him to become known, to add the publication to his resume etc.
Could be an interesting device if it's built well, if doesn't make noise and MythTV runs well on it - I would consider it. The specs are one thing - it's easy to build a PC which is reasonably fast, provides good graphics and has enough storage space. It's not so easy (and not so cheap) to get the same machine small and quiet.
Regardless - the British "crown in parliament" system is vastly superior to presidential systems IMHO - the way it evolved out of an ordinary medieval monarchy is a great historic achievement.
Regarding your comments regarding subject vs citizens: in 1983 the British Nationality Act came into force. There are some technicalities, but if you have a British passport today, you are very likely a British citizen and not a subject of her majesty. Congrats.
How about: let's not. We have the overwhelming majority of experts in this field on one side - all the world over, and on the other side we have a few lobbyists claiming it's all a vast global conspiracy involving virtually all of the worlds democratic governments, reputable research institutions and even several oil company executives. If we are not willing to act on that basis, then why bother trying to formulate any rational policy at all?
The Brits like to pretend they are a monarchy, but in reality they are not. The prime minister writes the queen's speech and she reads it out loud - it's hard to show more clearly who submits to whom. The queen is quite aware that all power she has in theory would evaporate if she tried to use it in practice. Everything the government does is done with the authority of the people - they put the queen's stamp on it, because it looks nicer.
And be prepared to be called a crybaby, a freeloader, someone who needs to grow up and then be asked to pay a developers salary!?
This is not for the Linux community who are in overwhelming majority professional and friendly people. This is for you, personally: if *you* don't want criticism, then don't ask for it.
While the president or prime minister are officially bearing the gift - I would imagine that neither one does the gift choosing himself. So if the president's gift was considered lame, then he has a problem with his organization, rather than his personal taste. I suspect though that the real problem the British have is one of substance not of form: the relationship of Britain and the US is not so important for the US, anymore. That attracts attention in Britain from two sides: those who are mourning the "special relationship" and those who don't want to be so attached to US policy anyway.
The queen regularly discusses political matters with the prime minister. The prime minister is not required to do anything she says, but by talking to her has access to a person who has talked to his predecessors and has therefore considerable knowledge. So the queen does have some informal power, and tapping into these conversations could in principle be interesting for a foreign power.
The ACLU is suing, the judge is issuing a temporary injunction. Credit for bringing the case and defending these children goes to the ACLU, credit for his ruling goes to the judge. Wouldn't have worked without either party. So far it's all just temporary - lets hope these children will actually have their rights protected in the end.
Of course - children are by themselves pornographic. Any picture of them is pornography, any development of their sexuality is a crime. After all it could titillate a prosecutor and make him feel uncomfortable about himself.
It's a rather curious way to proceed - the ACLU has sued the DA in a federal court in order to prevent him from filing charges. I didn't realize something like that would even be possible. Clearly the kids need protection from this DA though. From another article: Parents were told their teens could avoid prosecution if they agreed to participate in a five-week program Skumanick developed with the county probation office and county's Victims Resource Center. Frankly - sounds to me like this pervert is looking for an excuse to humiliating some pretty young girls. "Give me your kids to torment or I'll add them to the sex offender registry".
Well the thing is - she wasn't even *suspected* of having anything but some standard headache medicine. Now if she'd been suspected of having heroin on her, and if there was some actual good evidence linking her to having it - the school could have called the cops and have them search her. In this case however - do you think the cops would strip search her on suspicion of having headache medicine?
Uhm - I mean "school" and "students" of course.
Democracy is to Greek what Republic is to Latin. As for mob rule - the Roman Republic had many problems with that.
Want to sink? Well if you don't then you can't build more cabins. Fairness is a consideration, but it's not as important as not sinking.
Back to the real world: no matter how "fair" the distribution of pollution is - neither China nor India would have been able to advance technologically so rapidly, if they hadn't been able to learn from the west for many decades. So that puts the fairness aspect in context.
It's also quite common to require a password for BIOS-changes - not sure whether that protects the Flash as well or just the BIOS settings.