There were no Tomatoes in Europe, so if people think of pizza as "cheese and tomato with stuff on", which I would argue most people do, then one could see it as having American origins. Although...that is using "American" in its very loosest sense as a continent where tomatoes came from...
Plus of course it is the greasy fast food American style of pizza that has (unfortunately) caught on around the world, so maybe your history teacher had a point really:) I just wouldn't think of it as a compliment to the US...
Yup, a common situation, my Nikon D70 would have been far far cheaper from the US. The only reason I didn't buy it was that they wouldn't support the warranty of a US purchased camera in the UK. That in itself should probably be illegal as another free trade issue.
Try arguing that men are worse drivers with my mother! Only have to go on a short trip with her and hear her mutter "Oh, that had to be a woman" when someone does something stupid.
Using USPTO statistics alone isn't really a valid way to back up your point, is it. I agree that the US does have the most patents issued, but if you move out of the domestic market the rate is much reduced.
http://www.european-patent-office.org/tws/tsr_2003/ch3.pdf contains what appear to be more helpful statistics, putting Japan at the top of the patent table. A slight caveat on that is that the study focuses on Patents of Invention, rather than those of Industrial Design, or copyrights
We had a lecturer teaching the basic maths for the computing degree who decided to teach his own research instead. It was brought up by the student reps, he was sent back to the Maths department from which he came and the head of department was drafted in to teach the content properly. With proper lines of communication throughout a university, the problems you mention can be fixed (though they are common).
I find that foreign languages tend to sound louder, and as far as I'm informed this is due to the brain being able to ignore things it understands. It could also be because foreign people talk louder (and maybe that's true with some languages), but I very much doubt ALL foreigners shout. For that reason I do try to keep my voice down as much as possible when speaking English abroad though, just in case they find the same thing, it's only fair.
Indeed. Similarly listening to people speaking a foreign language tends to be annoying. You hear this meaningless drone and the brain can't background it properly.
Hmm, that's not going to help stop people feeling that way, nor do I think your distinction is terribly relevent, especially when you consider that most atheists would say they believe there is no god, and strong atheists would tend to say that it can be proven that there cannot be. That seems like belief in the nonexistance of God to most people. To say "No" in answer to the question "Do you believe in God" and to also say "No" in answer to "Do you believe there is no God" would surely make you an agnostic?
France's banning of religious items is really not a form of atheism. They also ban all sorts of aggressive clothing, obscene items and so on. These items that break their general uniform rules are now fitting into that catagory and are therefore banned also.
A religious item of clothing is little different from wearing some form of gang emblem afterall really, it's simply something to identify you as being a member of a particular group. What France wants to do is remove that identification so that whilst in school what you are is a student, no more, no less.
I actually think that home user OSs should not be able to connect to the net while logged in as an Admin user, and not allow software installs as a normal user (except for basic user-space only software, clearly, but even that could still be optional).
And make the call in such that someone can call you back? I said calls TO mobiles are expensive, and given that people have them one may want to call them. Calls FROM mobiles are cheap as chips.
No, that is exactly the point. Why supply all of that stuff when most people don't really need it? You can fit all the stuff that most people want on one cd, then add a second (or a download) for the extra stuff, office suites etc etc.
Another way to look at it is "Why can a linux distro not provide a single CD image that does supply exactly the capabilities the XP cd does?".
Ok, except that BT's service is considerably better than Telewest or NTL, and other ISPs (Eclipse, Nildram) etc are used by any techie types, noone technical really uses BT for ADSL afterall, it's for the normal people.
Exceping that BT has already done it with the standard technology. For a fairly small additional monthly fee they offer unmetered calls anywhere in the UK, it did take a while to follow the US model though, but I think this has a lot to do with the higher concentration of people in local areas due to the higher population concentration (the whole of London and the surrounding areas is local to itself, for example, nearly 1/5 of the UK population is local to everyone else in that fifth) so reduced profit from long distance.
The real problem with have here where you have an advantage in the US is that calls to mobiles (or from one mobile net to another) are *very* expensive.
This really does make the US pale in comparison. The question though, is, are Sony Stores/centres actually useful? Do people not really want more choice?
Careful with that, I think you'll find it is a violation of contract to use it anyway but on the phone's screen, that's how the unlimited access is viable. (it's also not true 3G as I recall unless this is separate from the original tariff of that nature that they branded 3G).
Firstly it's an operator defined standard, based on what the operators decided was best, not an arbitrary legal one. Secondly CDMA is no better than GSM except under certain population concentrations, they are no different unless the conditions are right for CDMA, which is unusual (and GSM has always had clear advantages in other ways anyway, battery life, SIM cards etc etc and international agreement has even more advantages). CDMA2000 is a different standard from 2G CDMA, as is WCDMA (UMTS) (to add to that, EDGE isn't a true 3G standard). Comparing UMTS to "CDMA" is a foolish one, because UMTS is true 3G, CDMA (with no qualification) is not.
Irritatingly 3 in the UK hasn't bothered to roll out any data services. Instead they're looking at the cheap calls market (you can put many more people on 3GSM cells than on old GSM cells, but you need a lot of customers for that to make things cheap for you). So Vodafone and Orange come along to grab the business market... I suspect 3 will not do well here as a result of that.
When it comes to national politics, it is an EFFECTIVE two party system, because people are too stupid to realise that if they all vote sensibly, then their votes would count whoever they voted for, as it is people, for example, voted Labour in '97 because they could beat the Tories, not because they were good, people have the impression that it's a two party system, therefore it is.
You're missing the point though. I don't dispute that guns have uses other than killing, merely that that is not what they were originally designed for. Guns are USED for sport. Guns were not designed for that purpose.
I'd say that's the most dangerous way to vote of all, and is the primary cause of the effective two party systems we see in the US and UK today. If people voted for the people who actually matched their views best, rather than who matched their views once, or their parents views, then politics would be much more democratic.
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There were no Tomatoes in Europe, so if people think of pizza as "cheese and tomato with stuff on", which I would argue most people do, then one could see it as having American origins. Although...that is using "American" in its very loosest sense as a continent where tomatoes came from...
:) I just wouldn't think of it as a compliment to the US...
Plus of course it is the greasy fast food American style of pizza that has (unfortunately) caught on around the world, so maybe your history teacher had a point really
Yup, a common situation, my Nikon D70 would have been far far cheaper from the US. The only reason I didn't buy it was that they wouldn't support the warranty of a US purchased camera in the UK. That in itself should probably be illegal as another free trade issue.
Try arguing that men are worse drivers with my mother! Only have to go on a short trip with her and hear her mutter "Oh, that had to be a woman" when someone does something stupid.
Using USPTO statistics alone isn't really a valid way to back up your point, is it. I agree that the US does have the most patents issued, but if you move out of the domestic market the rate is much reduced.
3 /ch3.pdf contains what appear to be more helpful statistics, putting Japan at the top of the patent table. A slight caveat on that is that the study focuses on Patents of Invention, rather than those of Industrial Design, or copyrights
http://www.european-patent-office.org/tws/tsr_200
Not if you helped her across the street so that you could push her in front of a train on the other side.
We had a lecturer teaching the basic maths for the computing degree who decided to teach his own research instead. It was brought up by the student reps, he was sent back to the Maths department from which he came and the head of department was drafted in to teach the content properly. With proper lines of communication throughout a university, the problems you mention can be fixed (though they are common).
I find that foreign languages tend to sound louder, and as far as I'm informed this is due to the brain being able to ignore things it understands. It could also be because foreign people talk louder (and maybe that's true with some languages), but I very much doubt ALL foreigners shout. For that reason I do try to keep my voice down as much as possible when speaking English abroad though, just in case they find the same thing, it's only fair.
Indeed. Similarly listening to people speaking a foreign language tends to be annoying. You hear this meaningless drone and the brain can't background it properly.
Hmm, that's not going to help stop people feeling that way, nor do I think your distinction is terribly relevent, especially when you consider that most atheists would say they believe there is no god, and strong atheists would tend to say that it can be proven that there cannot be. That seems like belief in the nonexistance of God to most people. To say "No" in answer to the question "Do you believe in God" and to also say "No" in answer to "Do you believe there is no God" would surely make you an agnostic?
France's banning of religious items is really not a form of atheism. They also ban all sorts of aggressive clothing, obscene items and so on. These items that break their general uniform rules are now fitting into that catagory and are therefore banned also.
A religious item of clothing is little different from wearing some form of gang emblem afterall really, it's simply something to identify you as being a member of a particular group. What France wants to do is remove that identification so that whilst in school what you are is a student, no more, no less.
That's not to say I agree with it, though.
I actually think that home user OSs should not be able to connect to the net while logged in as an Admin user, and not allow software installs as a normal user (except for basic user-space only software, clearly, but even that could still be optional).
Even that 9.5 to 6.31 is fairly irrelevent when calls to other mobile networks are usually in the region of 30p/min.
And make the call in such that someone can call you back? I said calls TO mobiles are expensive, and given that people have them one may want to call them. Calls FROM mobiles are cheap as chips.
No, that is exactly the point. Why supply all of that stuff when most people don't really need it? You can fit all the stuff that most people want on one cd, then add a second (or a download) for the extra stuff, office suites etc etc.
Another way to look at it is "Why can a linux distro not provide a single CD image that does supply exactly the capabilities the XP cd does?".
Ok, except that BT's service is considerably better than Telewest or NTL, and other ISPs (Eclipse, Nildram) etc are used by any techie types, noone technical really uses BT for ADSL afterall, it's for the normal people.
Exceping that BT has already done it with the standard technology. For a fairly small additional monthly fee they offer unmetered calls anywhere in the UK, it did take a while to follow the US model though, but I think this has a lot to do with the higher concentration of people in local areas due to the higher population concentration (the whole of London and the surrounding areas is local to itself, for example, nearly 1/5 of the UK population is local to everyone else in that fifth) so reduced profit from long distance.
The real problem with have here where you have an advantage in the US is that calls to mobiles (or from one mobile net to another) are *very* expensive.
I think "abiogenesis" would be more accurate there. Biogenesis refers to lifeforms coming from other lifeforms, abiogenesis from non-living matter.
Hmm, according to Yell we have 25 in London (UK)
This really does make the US pale in comparison. The question though, is, are Sony Stores/centres actually useful? Do people not really want more choice?
In otherwords he probably wasn't from North America.
Careful with that, I think you'll find it is a violation of contract to use it anyway but on the phone's screen, that's how the unlimited access is viable. (it's also not true 3G as I recall unless this is separate from the original tariff of that nature that they branded 3G).
Firstly it's an operator defined standard, based on what the operators decided was best, not an arbitrary legal one. Secondly CDMA is no better than GSM except under certain population concentrations, they are no different unless the conditions are right for CDMA, which is unusual (and GSM has always had clear advantages in other ways anyway, battery life, SIM cards etc etc and international agreement has even more advantages). CDMA2000 is a different standard from 2G CDMA, as is WCDMA (UMTS) (to add to that, EDGE isn't a true 3G standard). Comparing UMTS to "CDMA" is a foolish one, because UMTS is true 3G, CDMA (with no qualification) is not.
Irritatingly 3 in the UK hasn't bothered to roll out any data services. Instead they're looking at the cheap calls market (you can put many more people on 3GSM cells than on old GSM cells, but you need a lot of customers for that to make things cheap for you). So Vodafone and Orange come along to grab the business market... I suspect 3 will not do well here as a result of that.
And I voted Lib Dem last time, what's your point?
When it comes to national politics, it is an EFFECTIVE two party system, because people are too stupid to realise that if they all vote sensibly, then their votes would count whoever they voted for, as it is people, for example, voted Labour in '97 because they could beat the Tories, not because they were good, people have the impression that it's a two party system, therefore it is.
You're missing the point though. I don't dispute that guns have uses other than killing, merely that that is not what they were originally designed for. Guns are USED for sport. Guns were not designed for that purpose.
I'd say that's the most dangerous way to vote of all, and is the primary cause of the effective two party systems we see in the US and UK today. If people voted for the people who actually matched their views best, rather than who matched their views once, or their parents views, then politics would be much more democratic.