I suppose they'll now be sending cease-and-desist letters to Douglas Adams' estate and/or publisher for his trademark dilution of "sellotape" in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The HHGttG.
I wonder how many other books currently in print would have to be revised...
The report certainly does not come to the conclusion that less sleep leads to increased lifespan. If you'd actually read the abstract of the study, they themselves state that causality is unproven.
"Polluter Pays" makes a nice catchphrase, but how can we expect the computer manufacturers to pay for recycling/disposal of their products when the products have a greater lifespan than the companies?
Is the company which assembled the box responsible? The manufacturers of individual cards? Individual chips? No matter what granularity you choose, I can give an example of deceased companies' hardware which is still in use without even having to leave my room.
If code were not speech, how can one explain the existance of languages which clearly have no purpose beyond fun and art? How can any program written in INTERCAL or Brainf*ck be viewed, if not as a work of art (or, at the very least, as a work of comedy)?
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How convenient -- an online database in which someone who wants to commit a sex crime can find a neighborhood where someone else is sure to be blamed
Did the registered offender actually commit the crime? Well, it's a bit hard for the police to question him now that he's been lynched.
The ability to record is precisely why we're somewhat willing to put up with so many commercials -- we don't see them anyway.
I wonder how many other books currently in print would have to be revised...
And here I thought that the pixels were too big on the original
The report certainly does not come to the conclusion that less sleep leads to increased lifespan. If you'd actually read the abstract of the study, they themselves state that causality is unproven.
Is the company which assembled the box responsible? The manufacturers of individual cards? Individual chips? No matter what granularity you choose, I can give an example of deceased companies' hardware which is still in use without even having to leave my room.
If code were not speech, how can one explain the existance of languages which clearly have no purpose beyond fun and art? How can any program written in INTERCAL or Brainf*ck be viewed, if not as a work of art (or, at the very least, as a work of comedy)?