"Another set of the rules for the prize require that any contestant reside and do business in the United States."
If you can only win it if you live and do business in The United States of America, then calling it "America's Space Price" isn't that misleading - so many people call "USA" "America". Well except if you live elsewhere in the continent of America.
The actual story is that Canute knew full well that he couldn't stop the tide, he did it as an example to all his sycophantic advisors to show them that he wasn't the great all-powerful king.
I always thought that the original treaty mentioned nothing regarding emissions trading (which is what is described above), but that it was added at the insistence of the industrialised nations, essentially so they could say "we're meeting Kyoto" while at the same time polluting more, because they've bought all the emissions credits from non-industrialised sub-saharan African countries, that wouldn't have created emissions in the first place.
Colour LCD? My Nokia 6110 is monochrome, and it's not bottom of the range. Well it's no longer sold I must admit, but it does have tri-band GSM, bluetooth and GPRS.
It's a "business" phone rather than a "lifestyle" phone I suppose. Excellent signal reception / coverage. Perhaps you should try looking at the more business oriented phones.
Joe Public doesn't have to benefit from the theft, oh not at all. Oil Corps get to steal oil (or to be honest, buy it really really cheap) then sell it onto the public at huge markups!
Big Profits! Big Bonuses! Happy Wall Street! Happy Oil Company Directors! Sad car driver, sad environmentalist, sad poor original owner of said oil.
If global warming gets worse, and the USA is seen to be the major culprit, then it's concievable that quite a few countries might gang up on the USA to prevent future abuses...
I insist that my library contains content that is inappropriate for minors, because if it didn't - it would be completely useless for me.
"Sorry sir, we don't have 'Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time' because the under-10's wouldn't be able to understand it, how about 'Thomas the Tank Engine goes to a Black Hole' instead?"
I think you vastly underestimate the passion of librarians. I know a few, and *all* of them are particularly vocal regarding access to all types of material, no matter the subject matter.
A librarian is the custodian of knowledge for the common man. The common man likes things a librarian probably doesn't, but as a professional they will fight for that common man to be able to get the book / cd / information he wants.
Sure the epoch date - or zero date of the Jewish Calendar is 3760BC, but it wasn't actually introduced until the 10th Century AD. So it's only worked for 1000 years, less than the Julian / Gregorian system in fact.
The Julian Calender (Epoch Date - Birth of Christ) was introduced in the 6th Century AD. All dates prior to that (pre 6th century) would have been measured using the Roman calender (Epoch Date - Founding of Rome).
Thus people would have switched from using 1288 Roman straight to 525AD.
I'm afraid you're incorrect. Sure the epoch date - or zero date of the Jewish Calendar is 3760BC, but it wasn't actually introduced until the 10th Century AD.
The Julian Calender (Epoch Date - Birth of Christ) was introduced in the 6th Century AD. All dates prior to that (pre 6th century) would have been measured using the Roman calender (Epoch Date - Founding of Rome).
Thus people would have switched from using 1288 Roman straight to 525AD.
Nit: it's not "England" it's "Britain", please get it right.
A free market economy will not provide essentiual services at a decent cost to everybody. Service providers will provide service that they can make a profit on. If you live somewhere remote - forget about that lovely DSL/ISDN/Cable whatever connection, it's not going to happen.
Note that The Post Office has a (legal) monopoly on delivering letter post. This is in return for guaranteeing to deliver to all addresses in the UK, regardless of location. Do you really think it costs 27p to send a letter from London to the Outer Hebrides?
If you define a broadband connection as essential services and not as a luxury, then the free market won't help. Legislation with perhaps a single state backed provider of broadband connections would.
Why would you want to?
Minidisc's got a 140MB capacity. Add to that the cost of a MD Data writer ($350?) then you'd have been cheaper just using Minidisc rather than MP3.
And the audio quality of ATRAC compressed music is better than MP3 compressed music IMHO.
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It's not as if putting that clause in is going to cause a significant drop in contestants.
"Another set of the rules for the prize require that any contestant reside and do business in the United States."
If you can only win it if you live and do business in The United States of America, then calling it "America's Space Price" isn't that misleading - so many people call "USA" "America". Well except if you live elsewhere in the continent of America.
The actual story is that Canute knew full well that he couldn't stop the tide, he did it as an example to all his sycophantic advisors to show them that he wasn't the great all-powerful king.
I always thought that the original treaty mentioned nothing regarding emissions trading (which is what is described above), but that it was added at the insistence of the industrialised nations, essentially so they could say "we're meeting Kyoto" while at the same time polluting more, because they've bought all the emissions credits from non-industrialised sub-saharan African countries, that wouldn't have created emissions in the first place.
Colour LCD? My Nokia 6110 is monochrome, and it's not bottom of the range. Well it's no longer sold I must admit, but it does have tri-band GSM, bluetooth and GPRS.
It's a "business" phone rather than a "lifestyle" phone I suppose. Excellent signal reception / coverage. Perhaps you should try looking at the more business oriented phones.
Surely the point of a mobile phone is that you can use it wherever you are - therefore there is no "local call"
My mobile gives me (sometimes) free/ cheap calls to people on the same network, which is probably the semantic equivalent of local calls.
Joe Public doesn't have to benefit from the theft, oh not at all. Oil Corps get to steal oil (or to be honest, buy it really really cheap) then sell it onto the public at huge markups!
Big Profits! Big Bonuses! Happy Wall Street! Happy Oil Company Directors! Sad car driver, sad environmentalist, sad poor original owner of said oil.
Is the USA willing to start a war over it?
If global warming gets worse, and the USA is seen to be the major culprit, then it's concievable that quite a few countries might gang up on the USA to prevent future abuses...
I was getting seriously worried regarding your bowel movements, then I read your post again.
And when you plugged a 487 in, I believe it switched off your 486sx completely and did all the work itself.
I insist that my library contains content that is inappropriate for minors, because if it didn't - it would be completely useless for me.
"Sorry sir, we don't have 'Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time' because the under-10's wouldn't be able to understand it, how about 'Thomas the Tank Engine goes to a Black Hole' instead?"
And why shouldn't they? Or is that acceptable censorship because it's you?
I think you vastly underestimate the passion of librarians. I know a few, and *all* of them are particularly vocal regarding access to all types of material, no matter the subject matter.
A librarian is the custodian of knowledge for the common man. The common man likes things a librarian probably doesn't, but as a professional they will fight for that common man to be able to get the book / cd / information he wants.
librarians aren't into censorship
i18n = internationalization
It's shorter
And I always thought that you had to have learned to read and write *before* you got to University - is it different in America?
Sure the epoch date - or zero date of the Jewish Calendar is 3760BC, but it wasn't actually introduced until the 10th Century AD. So it's only worked for 1000 years, less than the Julian / Gregorian system in fact.
The Julian Calender (Epoch Date - Birth of Christ) was introduced in the 6th Century AD. All dates prior to that (pre 6th century) would have been measured using the Roman calender (Epoch Date - Founding of Rome).
Thus people would have switched from using 1288 Roman straight to 525AD.
I'm afraid you're incorrect. Sure the epoch date - or zero date of the Jewish Calendar is 3760BC, but it wasn't actually introduced until the 10th Century AD.
The Julian Calender (Epoch Date - Birth of Christ) was introduced in the 6th Century AD. All dates prior to that (pre 6th century) would have been measured using the Roman calender (Epoch Date - Founding of Rome).
Thus people would have switched from using 1288 Roman straight to 525AD.
A free market economy will not provide essentiual services at a decent cost to everybody. Service providers will provide service that they can make a profit on. If you live somewhere remote - forget about that lovely DSL/ISDN/Cable whatever connection, it's not going to happen.
Note that The Post Office has a (legal) monopoly on delivering letter post. This is in return for guaranteeing to deliver to all addresses in the UK, regardless of location. Do you really think it costs 27p to send a letter from London to the Outer Hebrides?
If you define a broadband connection as essential services and not as a luxury, then the free market won't help. Legislation with perhaps a single state backed provider of broadband connections would.
Why would you want to? Minidisc's got a 140MB capacity. Add to that the cost of a MD Data writer ($350?) then you'd have been cheaper just using Minidisc rather than MP3. And the audio quality of ATRAC compressed music is better than MP3 compressed music IMHO.