Two baby seats (twins) plus one child seat seems to have solved the car theft problem for me. These days the only lock I bother with on the car is the one that stops the little blighters from opening the doors from the inside.
If someone stole the stereo and the collection of children's song CDs from the car, I'd consider that a blessing. Well, apart from Lazytown, which sounds similar enough to Scooter that I might miss it.
String theory? Are you just troling, or hoping nobody notices that the same criteria we use to distinguish ID from science (lack of testable predictions) thus far applies to string theory as well?
The method used to distinguish these things is the word "theory". That is a special word used by scientists to denote ideas which they acknowledge are either yet to be tested, or are untestable in whole or part. Subsections of ideas covered by this word - such as causes or effects - can be, and are, submitted for testing.
As opposed to creationists who insist that particular texts are not merely entirely true, but the word of a supreme being, and use "faith" as an excuse to refuse to submit to testing, even for those parts of their belief which can be tested.
I had a theory that Holland would win the World Cup. However, I wasn't daft enough to have faith and I certainly didn't believe that their victory was assured by a supreme being. And even if I did have faith in a supreme being, I would never have guessed that it would be a German octopus.
The really clever bit being that Professor Brian Cox really is a top-ranking physics professor, who was indeed the keyboardist for the band D:Ream who did have a UK number one hit "Things can only get better" that was used as the election theme tune for the previous government. Which puts the satire way above The Onion. You'd have thought that a CERN scientist wouldn't have penned such an inaccurate song, although "Things will get more and more random" probably wouldn't have achieved the same chart success.
Or use Fring which you can download to the N95 and countless other J2ME phones. I use it all the time abroad, it connects over TCP/IP to my SIP account.
No, the doctor needs to be given something he values. I don't have to have it myself. That can be provided by a third party (or, as you stated, it might be a perk of the job itself).
I live in the UK. I pay taxes to fund the NHS which pays for doctors for every British citizen, regardless of whether those citizens pay tax. When I travel abroad inside the European Union, NHS tax money funds any basic healthcare I might require in those countries, too; the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
Yup. I've got three kids. Got them passports before the age of 1 to visit Auntie in Holland, and the passport agency rang up the "person of standing" two times out of the three applications.
I recently discovered that the answer to this bureaucratic conundrum is a letter written by your solicitor (real estate lawyer) confirming exchange of contracts on possession of your new home.
I had to get exactly that letter in order to apply for a state school place for my daughter. The deadline for applications was 15 Jan 2010, and we were due to move house on 29 Jan.
I've actually used my British passport to gain access to several bars in both Mass. and California.
Whether I was allowed entry on the basis that the doorman understood the passport, or whether he realised that the drinking age in the UK was lower and therefore I was probably more experienced in handling my ale [1], or whether he just figured he'd satisfied his requirement for seeing some form of ID and couldn't be bothered to investigate any further, I couldn't possibly comment upon.
[1] A false assumption, especially since I don't drink booze anyway.
Um... the passport database already includes your previous addresses. You have to fill them out on your passport application.
The card was always a straw man. The idea that the data could only be accessed if you carried your card was always b*ll*cks. If you have good-enough biometrics you don't need the card; your fingerprint, the ratio of distance between your eyes and your nose, your DNA, will all do just as well. The cards were realistically only ever an index key that came with the added inconvenience of being capable of getting lost.
If the data is indexed on biometrics, then the data will be accessible whether you're carrying a card or not. Unless you're suggesting some way that I can walk around without exposing my biometrics? Bubble boy in a burqua?
I've often wondered about the actual adherence rate for countries with supposedly mandatory carry-at-all-times ID schemes. Do they sell special pouches for going swimming or sunbathing on the beach? Some kind of hamster-like cheek pouch? My own personal, erm... "research"... on French beaches strongly suggests that large numbers of French females do not carry their ID with them at all times like the law supposedly states. Quite possibly this is also true for the males, although that wasn't the focus of my research.
Hold yer hallelujahs, people. They're getting rid of the ID *CARDS*, not the database. The biometric database will continue as part of the requirements for passports. These biometric passports are required for travel to a number of countries including the US (the irony has not passed me by; US freedom-nuts, wittering on about how restrictive the UK is, when our passports basically only contain biometric data in order to meet US visa-waiver requirements). The biometric passport database will continue to share data (as it already does) with the relatively new photo driving licences (for example, if you want to get a photo driving licence online, you don't need to submit a photo if you already have a passport, it just connects to the passport database and retrieves your existing passport photo).
The only things being scrapped here are some bits of plastic and a few off-the-shelf smartcard readers. The data is still very much in the cloud, you just won't be able to touch it anymore.
Otherwise, you'd have extradition requests from Thailand and a host of other places with lese majeste laws for things people in other countries wrote on their web pages.
That would be why I wrote "so long as it has an extradition treaty". The UK & US probably don't have an extradition treaty with Thailand for stuff people wrote on their web pages. The UK & US probably do have one with Thailand for murder, with conditions such as no torture, no corporal punishment, and in the UK's case, no death penalty.
The UK has an extradition treaty with the US for hacking NATO computer systems. He hacked a NATO computer system. He's getting extradited. What's the controversy here?
I'm interested in anyone's explanation on why would someone have to face a legal process that's not of his country.
Because he committed the crime abroad. Where he was sitting when he commanded the crime to happen isn't relevant, so long as it has an extradition treaty. If you sat in London and hired an assassin over the phone to kill someone in New York, you'd be accessory to murder in New York, not in London.
Gary's a fully-functioning adult with a girlfriend and common sense. His only mental questionability is that he was overconfident; result: he got caught. He's guilty as sin. Extradite the daft bugger and be done with it. It's not like he's facing the death penalty.
The threat alone is enough because no individual (or group) can afford to spend as much money on a bogus lawsuit as any of these companies
Perhaps, in America. But civilised countries have systems of taxpayer-funded legal aid for those unable to mount their own defence, or have strict rules about misuse of court process. This kind of tomfoolery simply doesn't happen in the UK, for example; the most recent attempt being some chiropractors who tried to sue a British science journalist for proving their profession was bunkum. The chiropractors suffered the judicial equivalent of having flaming oil poured over them.
Remember when ATMs first came out? The data being sent from ATM to the bank's systems had NO encryption.
Dude, it was the 1950s.How were they supposed to encrypt punch cards? Colour them in?
The data was "sent" using the secure process of having a burly security guard open the little door at the back and carry the deposits, punch cards and microfilm (they took a photo of all deposits) over to the back office.
China has a snappy title for its "Great Firewall of China", based on the Great Wall of China.
Australia's censor system needs a snappy title too. They've got the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral system and the largest organism visible from space, how about the "Great Barrier of Australia"? Hmm, maybe that needs more work.
AC wrote: >Can someone explain this to us unfamiliar with British law & politics: >out of all 646 MPs, only 189 + 47 == 236 of them voted Y/N? >That's only 36.5% of them. What about the rest? All abstained from voting?"
Correct. Almost all 193 Conservative MPs abstained (in the UK parliament, didn't turn up == abstained).
Of the Conservatives that did vote, more voted against (5) than for (4).
Not that it would have made any difference, since Labour have a majority (this month).
Lemme get this straight. Bath, a town internationally known for its Rugby Football team, is proposing we use noses for biometric ID?
Rugby being the game for which the phrase "full contact sport" is not so much an understatement as a warning of imminent loss of life? Like American Football only without the pads and helmets? The game where a broken nose is probably the most common injury?
The Bath Rugby team probably have only one intact nose between all 15 players.
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Own up, who has a Microsoft mouse despite running *nix? I do. Best build quality for the price.
Microsoft make great hardware. Just so long as it doesn't need drivers and doesn't have any significant embedded software, it's fine.
Two baby seats (twins) plus one child seat seems to have solved the car theft problem for me. These days the only lock I bother with on the car is the one that stops the little blighters from opening the doors from the inside.
If someone stole the stereo and the collection of children's song CDs from the car, I'd consider that a blessing. Well, apart from Lazytown, which sounds similar enough to Scooter that I might miss it.
String theory? Are you just troling, or hoping nobody notices that the same criteria we use to distinguish ID from science (lack of testable predictions) thus far applies to string theory as well?
The method used to distinguish these things is the word "theory". That is a special word used by scientists to denote ideas which they acknowledge are either yet to be tested, or are untestable in whole or part. Subsections of ideas covered by this word - such as causes or effects - can be, and are, submitted for testing.
As opposed to creationists who insist that particular texts are not merely entirely true, but the word of a supreme being, and use "faith" as an excuse to refuse to submit to testing, even for those parts of their belief which can be tested.
I had a theory that Holland would win the World Cup. However, I wasn't daft enough to have faith and I certainly didn't believe that their victory was assured by a supreme being. And even if I did have faith in a supreme being, I would never have guessed that it would be a German octopus.
Luck? I am wishing you a girlfriend.
Someone too stupid and incompetent to achieve anything of similar complexity or skill lashes out
I can assure you that obtaining and maintaining a girlfriend is orders of magnitude more complicated than wiring up a PCB.
Still, the PCB is cool and will provide enjoyment for years to come. The girlfriend, either or.
Boundary> http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/07/05/nick-clegg-to-repeal-second-law-of-thermodynamics/
The really clever bit being that Professor Brian Cox really is a top-ranking physics professor, who was indeed the keyboardist for the band D:Ream who did have a UK number one hit "Things can only get better" that was used as the election theme tune for the previous government. Which puts the satire way above The Onion. You'd have thought that a CERN scientist wouldn't have penned such an inaccurate song, although "Things will get more and more random" probably wouldn't have achieved the same chart success.
Or use Fring which you can download to the N95 and countless other J2ME phones. I use it all the time abroad, it connects over TCP/IP to my SIP account.
"you need something the doctor values"
No, the doctor needs to be given something he values. I don't have to have it myself. That can be provided by a third party (or, as you stated, it might be a perk of the job itself).
I live in the UK. I pay taxes to fund the NHS which pays for doctors for every British citizen, regardless of whether those citizens pay tax. When I travel abroad inside the European Union, NHS tax money funds any basic healthcare I might require in those countries, too; the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).
>We are an island
Apart from the land border we share with the Irish Republic, for which no passport is required.
Yup. I've got three kids. Got them passports before the age of 1 to visit Auntie in Holland, and the passport agency rang up the "person of standing" two times out of the three applications.
I recently discovered that the answer to this bureaucratic conundrum is a letter written by your solicitor (real estate lawyer) confirming exchange of contracts on possession of your new home.
I had to get exactly that letter in order to apply for a state school place for my daughter. The deadline for applications was 15 Jan 2010, and we were due to move house on 29 Jan.
Laugh a minute, that was.
I've actually used my British passport to gain access to several bars in both Mass. and California.
Whether I was allowed entry on the basis that the doorman understood the passport, or whether he realised that the drinking age in the UK was lower and therefore I was probably more experienced in handling my ale [1], or whether he just figured he'd satisfied his requirement for seeing some form of ID and couldn't be bothered to investigate any further, I couldn't possibly comment upon.
[1] A false assumption, especially since I don't drink booze anyway.
What they're saying, and where they're putting their money, are two quite different things.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/id_card_contracts/
Um... the passport database already includes your previous addresses. You have to fill them out on your passport application.
The card was always a straw man. The idea that the data could only be accessed if you carried your card was always b*ll*cks. If you have good-enough biometrics you don't need the card; your fingerprint, the ratio of distance between your eyes and your nose, your DNA, will all do just as well. The cards were realistically only ever an index key that came with the added inconvenience of being capable of getting lost.
If the data is indexed on biometrics, then the data will be accessible whether you're carrying a card or not. Unless you're suggesting some way that I can walk around without exposing my biometrics? Bubble boy in a burqua?
I've often wondered about the actual adherence rate for countries with supposedly mandatory carry-at-all-times ID schemes. Do they sell special pouches for going swimming or sunbathing on the beach? Some kind of hamster-like cheek pouch? My own personal, erm... "research"... on French beaches strongly suggests that large numbers of French females do not carry their ID with them at all times like the law supposedly states. Quite possibly this is also true for the males, although that wasn't the focus of my research.
Hold yer hallelujahs, people. They're getting rid of the ID *CARDS*, not the database. The biometric database will continue as part of the requirements for passports. These biometric passports are required for travel to a number of countries including the US (the irony has not passed me by; US freedom-nuts, wittering on about how restrictive the UK is, when our passports basically only contain biometric data in order to meet US visa-waiver requirements). The biometric passport database will continue to share data (as it already does) with the relatively new photo driving licences (for example, if you want to get a photo driving licence online, you don't need to submit a photo if you already have a passport, it just connects to the passport database and retrieves your existing passport photo).
The only things being scrapped here are some bits of plastic and a few off-the-shelf smartcard readers. The data is still very much in the cloud, you just won't be able to touch it anymore.
Otherwise, you'd have extradition requests from Thailand and a host of other places with lese majeste laws for things people in other countries wrote on their web pages.
That would be why I wrote "so long as it has an extradition treaty". The UK & US probably don't have an extradition treaty with Thailand for stuff people wrote on their web pages. The UK & US probably do have one with Thailand for murder, with conditions such as no torture, no corporal punishment, and in the UK's case, no death penalty.
The UK has an extradition treaty with the US for hacking NATO computer systems. He hacked a NATO computer system. He's getting extradited. What's the controversy here?
The physical location of the perpetrator at the time he or she commited the criminal act defines the crime scene
Are you seriously telling me that the place where the dead body fell to the ground, isn't the crime scene?
I'm interested in anyone's explanation on why would someone have to face a legal process that's not of his country.
Because he committed the crime abroad. Where he was sitting when he commanded the crime to happen isn't relevant, so long as it has an extradition treaty. If you sat in London and hired an assassin over the phone to kill someone in New York, you'd be accessory to murder in New York, not in London.
Gary's a fully-functioning adult with a girlfriend and common sense. His only mental questionability is that he was overconfident; result: he got caught. He's guilty as sin. Extradite the daft bugger and be done with it. It's not like he's facing the death penalty.
Countries can't own anything. The Queen does all that, don'tchaknow?
Your obedient subject,
The threat alone is enough because no individual (or group) can afford to spend as much money on a bogus lawsuit as any of these companies
Perhaps, in America. But civilised countries have systems of taxpayer-funded legal aid for those unable to mount their own defence, or have strict rules about misuse of court process. This kind of tomfoolery simply doesn't happen in the UK, for example; the most recent attempt being some chiropractors who tried to sue a British science journalist for proving their profession was bunkum. The chiropractors suffered the judicial equivalent of having flaming oil poured over them.
Remember when ATMs first came out? The data being sent from ATM to the bank's systems had NO encryption.
Dude, it was the 1950s.How were they supposed to encrypt punch cards? Colour them in?
The data was "sent" using the secure process of having a burly security guard open the little door at the back and carry the deposits, punch cards and microfilm (they took a photo of all deposits) over to the back office.
China has a snappy title for its "Great Firewall of China", based on the Great Wall of China.
Australia's censor system needs a snappy title too. They've got the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral system and the largest organism visible from space, how about the "Great Barrier of Australia"? Hmm, maybe that needs more work.
AC wrote:
>Can someone explain this to us unfamiliar with British law & politics:
>out of all 646 MPs, only 189 + 47 == 236 of them voted Y/N?
>That's only 36.5% of them. What about the rest? All abstained from voting?"
Correct. Almost all 193 Conservative MPs abstained (in the UK parliament, didn't turn up == abstained).
Of the Conservatives that did vote, more voted against (5) than for (4).
Not that it would have made any difference, since Labour have a majority (this month).
'Caucasian' includes the peoples of the Indian and Arabian subcontinents, as well as the European subcontinent.
"I do not think it means what you think it means."
I didn't realise that the appetite for sushi amongst the Sioux, Cherokee and other North Americans was quite such a concern.
Or did they mean Europeans?
If you're going to discuss genetic differences, you do need to be accurate.
Lemme get this straight. Bath, a town internationally known for its Rugby Football team, is proposing we use noses for biometric ID?
Rugby being the game for which the phrase "full contact sport" is not so much an understatement as a warning of imminent loss of life? Like American Football only without the pads and helmets? The game where a broken nose is probably the most common injury?
The Bath Rugby team probably have only one intact nose between all 15 players.