Impressive to link to Fox and summarize the article even less accurately than they covered the original issue. Some teachers choose (stupidly, in my opinion) to avoid teaching certain things they fear would offend. The article is based on a report written for the Department of Education because they see it as a problem that teachers act that way. That you try to make it seem as if Britain bans teaching the Crusades is at best comical.
Because turning away from a market of about 500 million made up of citizens of many of the wealthiest countries on the planet isn't economically viable and would lead to massive shareholder lawsuits?
Not to mention that if Microsoft turned away from this market, business partners and subsidiaries of European countries would suddenly have a strong incentive to consider alternatives too.
When you get down to it even the best premium chocolate has just as much saturated fat (sometimes more) as the run of the mill stuff. This is what I don't understand, people go crazy about the 'pure chocolate ingredients' when it is all still bad to eat in significant quantities.
Who said it was meant to be eaten in significant quantities? Alcohol is bad for you in significant quantities too - that doesn't mean there isn't a difference between the cheap nasty stuff and high quality wines or spirits.
As for European chocolates being packaged as gourmet foods, there are lots of cheap and good European chocolate brands. Personally I was appalled when I moved to the UK and could find nothing to even remotely match the brands I was used to from Norway where I'm from. Norwegians tends to overestimate the quality of the "local" market leader in cheap/mass market chocolates, Freia (most people not used to their milk chocolates seems to find them too sweet), but compared to Cadbury's or Hershey's it's heavenly... I know there are lots of other decent mass market brands around Europe too, but as I've only had them every now and again when traveling I don't have any good examples.
I've never had decent Cadbury's.... What they sell in the UK certainly doesn't taste like chocolate. And I'm not the type that get off on Green and Black's etc. I want my chocolate sweet and milky (yes, I know, heresy). But I still want it to actually taste of chocolate and have a texture that resembles that of purer chocolates. The only "chocolate" I've tasted that have been as bad as Cadbury's or Hershey's is Galaxy
Capitalism isn't "designed", it's a consequence of free markets.
Funny you should phrase it that way. It is very much a central tenet of Marxism that communism isn't "designed", it's an inevitable consequence of class struggle, and more directly of capitalism.
What Marxism was there ever to speak of in China? I'm not aware of much... Care to enlighten us, combined with references to what part of Marx' works it's related to?
And if you toss your "crashed" hard drive once a case is underway, you can expect the judge to treat it as destruction of evidence. Treating law enforcement and the judiciary as if they're stupid is never a good legal strategy.
For starters, if the timestamps of all of your files (or just "the wrong files") are from after the case started. Realistically faking this is HARD. For starters, you need everything to be consistent - they will subpoena your ISP's records, so if there are no traces of you being online, it will be extremely suspicious. If you do fake traces (browser history, browser cache etc.) it needs to make sense. For instance, if they find browser cache items on your disk and the pages are new but have old timestamps....
It doesn't matter if there was any evidence there in the first place. If there is an investigation and the plaintiff have gotten a subpoena for your hard drive, it is evidence, and you will be in trouble if you destroy it. Your only defense would be to either convince the judge it truly was an accident (not bloody likely if you have an auto destruct mechanism) or that you were completely unaware that there was a chance it would be required as part of an investigation or court case.
If they have subpoena for the contents of your hard drive and you destroy the drive or try to hide the data from them, you are committing a crime. It's that simple. If they find out and go to a judge with it, you'll be in far more trouble than if you just hand over the drive.
The persons you really should be worried about leaving your children with are family/relatives and friends of the family. In the UK, a child protection group released a report a few years back pointing out that in 75% of all child abuse cases the abuse was carried out by parents, siblings, other relatives and friends of the family. The remaining 25% was spread over all other groups of potential abusers, with most of it being people the children had run into offline.
Of course, part of the reason so few get abused by people they meet online is because people are careful. But kids aren't as stupid as many adults think. If a child is old enough to chat and set up profiles online, then explaining to them about how people may try to trick them to do bad things isn't that hard.
I really hate using earplugs, or I'd probably try it... I've yet to find any that doesn't feel extremely uncomfortable to me. With my headphones the only sound remaining is typically the deepest base parts of the engine noise anyway, which I don't notice much.
Noise canceling headphones are great at blocking engine noise (or other constant, mostly low-frequency sound) but can't do anything about voices. If they are reducing the volume of voices it is only because they are isolating your ears.
If you think so, you better try better quality ones. Mine has an "off" switch that turns off the noise canceling. When the noise cancel function is on I can hardly make out voices right next to me. When it's off I can hear them loud and clear with the headphones on.
I fly London to/from San Francisco with United about once every 5-6 weeks, and they've never/ever said anything about "nothing with a battery", though I usually wait until we're in the air to get out my "travel kit". It's not takeoff and landing that bothers me. It's 11 hours of constant noise.
GSM speech encoding uses 9.6kbps, and many speech codecs can work well at lower bitrates than that. I don't know about Skype, but I'd be very surprised if there aren't voip solutions that work fine over GPRS.
Get noise-canceling headphones. I never travel without a pair. The good ones tend to be fairly bulky and heavy, but they're worth it even if the person next to you keeps their mouth shut just for the reduction in plane noise.
If I remember correctly, the FCC and FAA have both banned it for different reasons. FCC banned it because they are concerned about how it will affect cell towers on the ground. FAA banned it because they are concerned about interference with airplane electronics. To my knowledge neither of them are saying it's definitively a problem, just that it could be and that they don't want to take the risk.
From the descriptions on Amazon, it seems like Naked Economics tries to be something completely different than Freakonomics. The entire point of Freakonomics is applying economic theory to areas economists don't usually look at, and describe some of the more interesting results in an entertaining and accessible way, not to be an economy textbook. You say it was "dumbed down" - I say it was written with a specific audience in mind: People who are not interested in economics, i.e. most of us, but who might find a description of some of the results of applying economic theory to everyday situations interesting and entertaining.
It never spends much space on economic theory, even "distilled to plain English", because that isn't the purpose of the book.
Yes, but there's been talk about creating a road connection for decades. Odds are someone will actually finally decide to do that long before someone finally takes a decision on a connection over the Bering strait.
Having recently visited Beijing and seeing the large number of expensive cars, including both European and American manufactured ones, I think you seriously underestimate the Chinese economy. Yes, for most people this would still be expensive. However that still leaves a middle class that is large enough to compete with most countries in the world when it comes to market size for even quite costly products.
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Impressive to link to Fox and summarize the article even less accurately than they covered the original issue. Some teachers choose (stupidly, in my opinion) to avoid teaching certain things they fear would offend. The article is based on a report written for the Department of Education because they see it as a problem that teachers act that way. That you try to make it seem as if Britain bans teaching the Crusades is at best comical.
Not to mention that if Microsoft turned away from this market, business partners and subsidiaries of European countries would suddenly have a strong incentive to consider alternatives too.
Personally I read it as "hopefully we will find a way of proving this that doesn't involve waiting until the next cataclysmic event".
Who said it was meant to be eaten in significant quantities? Alcohol is bad for you in significant quantities too - that doesn't mean there isn't a difference between the cheap nasty stuff and high quality wines or spirits.
As for European chocolates being packaged as gourmet foods, there are lots of cheap and good European chocolate brands. Personally I was appalled when I moved to the UK and could find nothing to even remotely match the brands I was used to from Norway where I'm from. Norwegians tends to overestimate the quality of the "local" market leader in cheap/mass market chocolates, Freia (most people not used to their milk chocolates seems to find them too sweet), but compared to Cadbury's or Hershey's it's heavenly... I know there are lots of other decent mass market brands around Europe too, but as I've only had them every now and again when traveling I don't have any good examples.
I've never had decent Cadbury's.... What they sell in the UK certainly doesn't taste like chocolate. And I'm not the type that get off on Green and Black's etc. I want my chocolate sweet and milky (yes, I know, heresy). But I still want it to actually taste of chocolate and have a texture that resembles that of purer chocolates. The only "chocolate" I've tasted that have been as bad as Cadbury's or Hershey's is Galaxy
Funny how I've bought lots of stuff over the years that says "Made in Taiwan" then...
Funny you should phrase it that way. It is very much a central tenet of Marxism that communism isn't "designed", it's an inevitable consequence of class struggle, and more directly of capitalism.
What Marxism was there ever to speak of in China? I'm not aware of much... Care to enlighten us, combined with references to what part of Marx' works it's related to?
And if you toss your "crashed" hard drive once a case is underway, you can expect the judge to treat it as destruction of evidence. Treating law enforcement and the judiciary as if they're stupid is never a good legal strategy.
For starters, if the timestamps of all of your files (or just "the wrong files") are from after the case started. Realistically faking this is HARD. For starters, you need everything to be consistent - they will subpoena your ISP's records, so if there are no traces of you being online, it will be extremely suspicious. If you do fake traces (browser history, browser cache etc.) it needs to make sense. For instance, if they find browser cache items on your disk and the pages are new but have old timestamps....
If they have subpoena for the contents of your hard drive and you destroy the drive or try to hide the data from them, you are committing a crime. It's that simple. If they find out and go to a judge with it, you'll be in far more trouble than if you just hand over the drive.
Of course, part of the reason so few get abused by people they meet online is because people are careful. But kids aren't as stupid as many adults think. If a child is old enough to chat and set up profiles online, then explaining to them about how people may try to trick them to do bad things isn't that hard.
I really hate using earplugs, or I'd probably try it... I've yet to find any that doesn't feel extremely uncomfortable to me. With my headphones the only sound remaining is typically the deepest base parts of the engine noise anyway, which I don't notice much.
If you think so, you better try better quality ones. Mine has an "off" switch that turns off the noise canceling. When the noise cancel function is on I can hardly make out voices right next to me. When it's off I can hear them loud and clear with the headphones on.
I fly London to/from San Francisco with United about once every 5-6 weeks, and they've never/ever said anything about "nothing with a battery", though I usually wait until we're in the air to get out my "travel kit". It's not takeoff and landing that bothers me. It's 11 hours of constant noise.
GSM speech encoding uses 9.6kbps, and many speech codecs can work well at lower bitrates than that. I don't know about Skype, but I'd be very surprised if there aren't voip solutions that work fine over GPRS.
Get noise-canceling headphones. I never travel without a pair. The good ones tend to be fairly bulky and heavy, but they're worth it even if the person next to you keeps their mouth shut just for the reduction in plane noise.
If I remember correctly, the FCC and FAA have both banned it for different reasons. FCC banned it because they are concerned about how it will affect cell towers on the ground. FAA banned it because they are concerned about interference with airplane electronics. To my knowledge neither of them are saying it's definitively a problem, just that it could be and that they don't want to take the risk.
It never spends much space on economic theory, even "distilled to plain English", because that isn't the purpose of the book.
Yes, but there's been talk about creating a road connection for decades. Odds are someone will actually finally decide to do that long before someone finally takes a decision on a connection over the Bering strait.
Why, they get taken down to the local police station and gets a caution, of course.
RFC's don't set legal precedent. You can pretend all you like - it doesn't make it any more legal.
Theft, for example, is still theft even if you left your window open or door unlocked.
Having recently visited Beijing and seeing the large number of expensive cars, including both European and American manufactured ones, I think you seriously underestimate the Chinese economy. Yes, for most people this would still be expensive. However that still leaves a middle class that is large enough to compete with most countries in the world when it comes to market size for even quite costly products.