Insurance companies don't worry themselves about indirct causation. They're just concerned with established correlation. If they find that statistically 5'6" tall people are a better credit risk than 6'2" then they'll ask for your height when you apply.
A curious aspect of this is that by adding my mother to my car insurance, my premium went down, even though my usage of the car isn't going to change and the risk remains the same, because statistically men who have a woman on their insurance are less likely to have an accident.
50 years seems rather a long estimate. Considering Kidney transpants have only been around just over that long and it's been an actual medical procudeure for several decades, I'm surprised this is suffciently complex that it would take so much longer to perfect.
Ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan would presumably put a reasonable dent in those. So who do you want to withold social security from? Or medicaid or medicare? These are programs that are doing real good for individual Americans.
I will agree that it's kina cool to have such a tiny server, but how many companies are so extremely short of space that they can't even find room for an ITX? This doesn't seem to be any more powerful or useful, and it's rare that an office wil be so small that there's no room for one of those.
They don't care about your enjoyment that much. It would be bizarre if they did. All they care about is that you enjoy them sufficiently that they make more money than they lose through putting people off going to the cinema.
That's not too bad. Considering this is in addition to people who purchase the newspaper (not through a subscription). I also imagine that it is more desirable to those people with tablets and ebook readers, which is an increasing market segment.
Do you have a dedicated device to duplicate the functionality of every feature of your phone that you might want to use? I really can't see the objection. It works as an alarm clock for most people 363 days of the year. Okay, so it doesn't work correctly twice a year, but nobody would have expected that so it's not exactly illogical to use it for this function. There's also the advantage - at least if an iphone's alarm clock is at least as good as the default one on my PoS J2ME based phone - is that you can set the alarm to only go off on weekdays.
Why should the notations which we use to express our programs be limited to 'standard keyboards'?
Because they're a standard. And they're easy to get hold of. I can write a C++ program on a netbook over telnet and never have to use the alt key. If I get sick of the pokey little keyboard I can go to any computer shop and buy a better keyboard.
Actually they're not. There's considerable discussion of the simple sentiment, but it actually makes the point that certain things can only be justified if the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, not that that alone will justify an individual sacrifice.
It's a good question. Is there a culture of irony and satire in Korea? Different countries do have different forms of humour after all. Even between very similar cultures such as the US and Britain, there are some types of joke that simply don't translate.
The point of explosives is speed of reaction. Part of the reason for speed is that they don't need the air surrounding them to ignite but contain their own oxidising agent. This adds mass and volume. Add the mass of oxygen needed for combustion of fuel you'll find the mass of both is pretty close.
This is the point where someone who has looked in a Chemistry textbook in the last 15 years tells me I'm wrong.
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't both parties have to agree to a contract to make it binding?
Yes, but areement doesn't need to be written. If I say "Paint my house and I'll give you $50", and you paint my house, I owe you $50. You may have to prove I said it and meant it but a lot of informal contracts are dealt with this way and legaly I believe they are contractual agreements. More applicably, if you park in a car park, you agree to the terms of the contract printed on the sign by parking your car.
Still don't think in this case it's a legally binding contract.
It is also frustrating to have to wait forever when trying to land at Heathrow at 6 AM in the morning just because you don't have enough runways. Do you think you could you do something about that?
Yes, it's a simple matter of convincing everyone is West London that more flights are not going to be distruptive, the people of Sipson that they don't like their houses that much so don't mind if they are forcibly moved to a different location and their houses demolished, and the environmental campaginers that a 50% increase in capacity isn't going to harm the environment.
The whole point of publishing a webpage is for people to view it. And you have to go to some level of effort to make it visible in the first place. That is thw hole point of a web page. If you don't protect your Wi-fi, then perhaps you are allowing other people to connect to it but you're not doing it to show the whole world youe emails. It's what they call the "reasonable man" test. Is it reasonable to assume that the owner of the network expects honest people to be driving past and recording his email? Is it reasonable to assume that the owner of a webpage expects people to visit the site and download?
Seems a bit of a stretch. By the same token I could place microphones absolutely everywhere and record everyone's conversations in parks, restaurants and other public places. Interception of electronic communication appears to be covered under the same laws as bugging private conversation under Title 18 of the US Code.
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Insurance companies don't worry themselves about indirct causation. They're just concerned with established correlation. If they find that statistically 5'6" tall people are a better credit risk than 6'2" then they'll ask for your height when you apply.
A curious aspect of this is that by adding my mother to my car insurance, my premium went down, even though my usage of the car isn't going to change and the risk remains the same, because statistically men who have a woman on their insurance are less likely to have an accident.
50 years seems rather a long estimate. Considering Kidney transpants have only been around just over that long and it's been an actual medical procudeure for several decades, I'm surprised this is suffciently complex that it would take so much longer to perfect.
This is the 21st century. The standard has changed. No sound in space, but there is a muted hollow sound of bullets firing from inside the Vipers.
They do have incidental music though, so you may find it unrealistic:P
US defence is a good trillion or so.
Ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan would presumably put a reasonable dent in those. So who do you want to withold social security from? Or medicaid or medicare? These are programs that are doing real good for individual Americans.
I will agree that it's kina cool to have such a tiny server, but how many companies are so extremely short of space that they can't even find room for an ITX? This doesn't seem to be any more powerful or useful, and it's rare that an office wil be so small that there's no room for one of those.
They don't care about your enjoyment that much. It would be bizarre if they did. All they care about is that you enjoy them sufficiently that they make more money than they lose through putting people off going to the cinema.
Well, they are doing it wrong.
The something is possible to define and explain but is typically different in different cases.
In this case it seems that the problem is changing requirements. That will kill any project no matter what the methodology.
Closer to 0.3%.
That's not too bad. Considering this is in addition to people who purchase the newspaper (not through a subscription). I also imagine that it is more desirable to those people with tablets and ebook readers, which is an increasing market segment.
Presumably if you reset it it will work correctly until the clocks go forward again.
My phone is rechargeable. Aren't iPhones?
Do you have a dedicated device to duplicate the functionality of every feature of your phone that you might want to use? I really can't see the objection. It works as an alarm clock for most people 363 days of the year. Okay, so it doesn't work correctly twice a year, but nobody would have expected that so it's not exactly illogical to use it for this function. There's also the advantage - at least if an iphone's alarm clock is at least as good as the default one on my PoS J2ME based phone - is that you can set the alarm to only go off on weekdays.
You can already sue your Daily Mail or your local super market for slander and demand that they pay and remove the offensive content.
Nitpick: Only if they say nasty things about you rather than print it. Libel is printed. Slander is spoken.
Why should the notations which we use to express our programs be limited to 'standard keyboards'?
Because they're a standard. And they're easy to get hold of. I can write a C++ program on a netbook over telnet and never have to use the alt key. If I get sick of the pokey little keyboard I can go to any computer shop and buy a better keyboard.
It's a debate. They're discussing the nature of internet privacy. Here's why this is a good idea; here's why it's a bad idea.
By talking openly and by being willing to say something stupid, they can avoid putting the stupid stuff in the actual legislation.
Actually they're not. There's considerable discussion of the simple sentiment, but it actually makes the point that certain things can only be justified if the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, not that that alone will justify an individual sacrifice.
It's a good question. Is there a culture of irony and satire in Korea? Different countries do have different forms of humour after all. Even between very similar cultures such as the US and Britain, there are some types of joke that simply don't translate.
Isn't that part simply for context to explain the purpose of the GPL rather than directly legally enforcable though?
The point of explosives is speed of reaction. Part of the reason for speed is that they don't need the air surrounding them to ignite but contain their own oxidising agent. This adds mass and volume. Add the mass of oxygen needed for combustion of fuel you'll find the mass of both is pretty close.
This is the point where someone who has looked in a Chemistry textbook in the last 15 years tells me I'm wrong.
The TARDIS, of course.
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't both parties have to agree to a contract to make it binding?
Yes, but areement doesn't need to be written. If I say "Paint my house and I'll give you $50", and you paint my house, I owe you $50. You may have to prove I said it and meant it but a lot of informal contracts are dealt with this way and legaly I believe they are contractual agreements. More applicably, if you park in a car park, you agree to the terms of the contract printed on the sign by parking your car.
Still don't think in this case it's a legally binding contract.
It is also frustrating to have to wait forever when trying to land at Heathrow at 6 AM in the morning just because you don't have enough runways. Do you think you could you do something about that?
Yes, it's a simple matter of convincing everyone is West London that more flights are not going to be distruptive, the people of Sipson that they don't like their houses that much so don't mind if they are forcibly moved to a different location and their houses demolished, and the environmental campaginers that a 50% increase in capacity isn't going to harm the environment.
If I strap a tape deck to my radio scanner and drive around recording whatever comes across am I violating the privacy of people who I pick up?
Yes.
The system is even set up to be averse to correcting for this. If you alerted them to their failure, you'd find yourself in a whole heap of trouble.
This is somewhat tortuous logic.
The whole point of publishing a webpage is for people to view it. And you have to go to some level of effort to make it visible in the first place. That is thw hole point of a web page. If you don't protect your Wi-fi, then perhaps you are allowing other people to connect to it but you're not doing it to show the whole world youe emails. It's what they call the "reasonable man" test. Is it reasonable to assume that the owner of the network expects honest people to be driving past and recording his email? Is it reasonable to assume that the owner of a webpage expects people to visit the site and download?
Seems a bit of a stretch. By the same token I could place microphones absolutely everywhere and record everyone's conversations in parks, restaurants and other public places. Interception of electronic communication appears to be covered under the same laws as bugging private conversation under Title 18 of the US Code.
Yeah, but they're not in a union.