The extra, or "bissextile" day is actually inserted immediately after February 23.
The Romans picked up the Egyptians' idea of treating a common year as 360+5 days, since 360 is a highly composite number and all (the Mayans ended up doing the same). But instead of treating the extra 5 days as "epagomenal" (outside any month), they were treated as the last five days before the first month of spring, i. e. the last five days of February.
Treating the five-day block of Feb 24 through Feb 28 as inviolate meant inserting the extra day (previously an extra month) before it.
This is why the Christian feast of Saint Matthias has historically been observed on February 24 in common years and February 25 in leap years; it's always the fifth ("sixth," if you lack an understanding of zero) day before the calends of March.
Even STEM classes, the darlings of public education, are facing budget cuts. Funding home ec simply isn't going to happen, let alone make it more popular with boys.
This is exactly why we're talking about "US dollars" rather than "US pounds" to begin with. Mercantilism kept British specie notoriously rare in British North America in order to ensure that manufactured goods could only be purchased from the mother country. Those seeking cold hard cash had to turn to "pieces of eight" from the nearby Spanish colonies, which were especially useful on the black market (e. g. buying Dutch-made goods). When the colonies rebelled, Spanish dollars were all they had to pay for things with, at least until they started minting their own (using the same size, shape, silver content, etc.)
The Spanish dollar itself was still legal tender in the US all the way through 1857.
Despite its own propaganda, the People's Republic of China is essentially a modern construct. The Chinese Empire you refer to certainly did not "always" have the same borders the PRC has today, any more than did the Russian Empire "always" have the same borders as the Soviet Union.
The Chinese people are currently bound together more by force of will than any cultural affinity; the country doesn't even share a common spoken language. If the state loses enough power to maintain that for any reason, the resulting breakup would resemble the USSR if they're lucky, Yugoslavia if they're not.
When the UN was proposed and designed most nation states were unfree hellholes and with the Soviet Block and ChiComs on the rise at the time the trend was not our friend.
When the UN was proposed and designed, there were far fewer nation-states than there are today; Africa and much of Asia were represented by their colonial masters in Europe (and/or occupied by the Japanese). And the "ChiComs," as you put it, weren't among them either. Recognition, including a permanent seat on the Security Council, went to the ROC, the government that is now in Taiwan. Transferring that recognition to the PRC is much more recent.
but "without having to tell anybody, let alone ask permission" is an odd choice of words when you're required to have your legal name on your ticket and to show photo ID before boarding the plane.
You have to present a ticket. It might not be your only ticket (e. g. "a Delta flight to Atlanta" or "a United flight to Chicago"), rather it's just the ticket that will get you out of that particular airport. The ticket itself does not state your ultimate destination.
The TSA agent is looking to ensure that the ticket is to fly out of that particular airport at that particular date and that it has your name on it. Even if the agent does note where that particular ticket is going to, it will be one of literally hundreds they will look at during the course of their day, and they have no faculty to note it anywhere else. Neither tickets nor ID are scanned with anything more than a UV light and a loupe.
The ID you present has to have your photo, name, sex, and birth date. It need not contain any other useful and/or sensitive information (e. g. your passport only has your home address if you pencil it in, and on a different page at that). The ID need not give any clue whether you're traveling to or from your home (or neither).
At no point in the process are you required to present proof of authorization to travel, no "internal passport." You do not need to report to a government office to ask for permission to travel from point A to point B, let alone tell them why and for how long. The TSA's only purposes are to verify your identity with respect to the plane ticket and to ensure that you are not carrying weapons or explosives (which are tricky to transport across state lines to begin with).
People who confuse TSA with CBP have had too little experience with either to know what they're talking about. Again, the biggest legal hurdle in traveling from San Juan to Honolulu will be the USDA.
Opt for the pat-down if you don't want to show ID.
The plane ticket you show the TSA agent makes no mention of your final destination (even if the agent made a note of the ticket's endpoint), and the REAL ID-compliant passport you show them does not say where you live.
Comparisons to states that require pre-approval to cross the equivalent of county lines are ridiculous on their face.
The governments you reference required special travel documents to be allowed to change postcodes. Meanwhile, you can cross six time zones from San Juan to Honolulu without having to tell anybody, let alone ask permission. Unless, of course, you're worried about the jackbooted thugs of the Department of Agriculture...
Long story short, the State Department's stance is that the cover needs to be open for the RFID chip to be read.
When a third-party publicized how easy it was to read the RFID chips from a distance, State started mailing out special envelopes for passport cards (think "driver's license") to shield the chip when not in use, but said that passport booklets were unaffected so long as they remained closed.
In most Western countries there are protections on that sort of speech.
All you need to do is find one jurisdiction where there aren't. For the English language, the jurisdiction of choice is England and Wales. It's called "libel tourism."
Merchants are allowed to include sales tax in their posted prices, just as they're allowed to set their prices to an even multiple of 5 cents.
If merchants really didn't like pennies, there'd be no use for them. It's that simple. Apparently the value of psychological pricing is worth the cost of dealing with pennies, regardless of how they complain.
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Er, five days too late.
Fuck my non-life.
The extra, or "bissextile" day is actually inserted immediately after February 23.
The Romans picked up the Egyptians' idea of treating a common year as 360+5 days, since 360 is a highly composite number and all (the Mayans ended up doing the same). But instead of treating the extra 5 days as "epagomenal" (outside any month), they were treated as the last five days before the first month of spring, i. e. the last five days of February.
Treating the five-day block of Feb 24 through Feb 28 as inviolate meant inserting the extra day (previously an extra month) before it.
This is why the Christian feast of Saint Matthias has historically been observed on February 24 in common years and February 25 in leap years; it's always the fifth ("sixth," if you lack an understanding of zero) day before the calends of March.
You misspelled "megagram."
Even STEM classes, the darlings of public education, are facing budget cuts. Funding home ec simply isn't going to happen, let alone make it more popular with boys.
I strongly hope this leads to a new election
Canada's already been having a new election every two weeks or so.
The calls were already illegal, hence the investigation.
This is exactly why we're talking about "US dollars" rather than "US pounds" to begin with. Mercantilism kept British specie notoriously rare in British North America in order to ensure that manufactured goods could only be purchased from the mother country. Those seeking cold hard cash had to turn to "pieces of eight" from the nearby Spanish colonies, which were especially useful on the black market (e. g. buying Dutch-made goods). When the colonies rebelled, Spanish dollars were all they had to pay for things with, at least until they started minting their own (using the same size, shape, silver content, etc.)
The Spanish dollar itself was still legal tender in the US all the way through 1857.
very literally brainwashed
Trepanning combined with soap and water? Man, that's hardcore...
Why don't we just reciprocate and counterfeit NK money?
How does one counterfeit twigs and rocks? Or perhaps counterfeit foreign food aid?
There was something on Slashdot a few years ago about people buying a service,
Cable/DSS television.
then having to pay more to disable advertising
Premium channels.
... but the franchise didn't.
Does that make him "Schrodinger's Archaeologist?"
Yes, it did. And then the Opium Wars happened.
Despite its own propaganda, the People's Republic of China is essentially a modern construct. The Chinese Empire you refer to certainly did not "always" have the same borders the PRC has today, any more than did the Russian Empire "always" have the same borders as the Soviet Union.
The Chinese people are currently bound together more by force of will than any cultural affinity; the country doesn't even share a common spoken language. If the state loses enough power to maintain that for any reason, the resulting breakup would resemble the USSR if they're lucky, Yugoslavia if they're not.
When the UN was proposed and designed most nation states were unfree hellholes and with the Soviet Block and ChiComs on the rise at the time the trend was not our friend.
When the UN was proposed and designed, there were far fewer nation-states than there are today; Africa and much of Asia were represented by their colonial masters in Europe (and/or occupied by the Japanese). And the "ChiComs," as you put it, weren't among them either. Recognition, including a permanent seat on the Security Council, went to the ROC, the government that is now in Taiwan. Transferring that recognition to the PRC is much more recent.
See if they figure out the real owners then.
The folks with eminent domain rights, unless those backbones operate via telepathy.
If they don't hurry, all those Linux gamers will switch to nVidia instead!
Oh, wait...
but "without having to tell anybody, let alone ask permission" is an odd choice of words when you're required to have your legal name on your ticket and to show photo ID before boarding the plane.
You have to present a ticket. It might not be your only ticket (e. g. "a Delta flight to Atlanta" or "a United flight to Chicago"), rather it's just the ticket that will get you out of that particular airport. The ticket itself does not state your ultimate destination.
The TSA agent is looking to ensure that the ticket is to fly out of that particular airport at that particular date and that it has your name on it. Even if the agent does note where that particular ticket is going to, it will be one of literally hundreds they will look at during the course of their day, and they have no faculty to note it anywhere else. Neither tickets nor ID are scanned with anything more than a UV light and a loupe.
The ID you present has to have your photo, name, sex, and birth date. It need not contain any other useful and/or sensitive information (e. g. your passport only has your home address if you pencil it in, and on a different page at that). The ID need not give any clue whether you're traveling to or from your home (or neither).
At no point in the process are you required to present proof of authorization to travel, no "internal passport." You do not need to report to a government office to ask for permission to travel from point A to point B, let alone tell them why and for how long. The TSA's only purposes are to verify your identity with respect to the plane ticket and to ensure that you are not carrying weapons or explosives (which are tricky to transport across state lines to begin with).
People who confuse TSA with CBP have had too little experience with either to know what they're talking about. Again, the biggest legal hurdle in traveling from San Juan to Honolulu will be the USDA.
Opt for the pat-down if you don't want to show ID.
The plane ticket you show the TSA agent makes no mention of your final destination (even if the agent made a note of the ticket's endpoint), and the REAL ID-compliant passport you show them does not say where you live.
Comparisons to states that require pre-approval to cross the equivalent of county lines are ridiculous on their face.
The governments you reference required special travel documents to be allowed to change postcodes. Meanwhile, you can cross six time zones from San Juan to Honolulu without having to tell anybody, let alone ask permission. Unless, of course, you're worried about the jackbooted thugs of the Department of Agriculture...
Long story short, the State Department's stance is that the cover needs to be open for the RFID chip to be read.
When a third-party publicized how easy it was to read the RFID chips from a distance, State started mailing out special envelopes for passport cards (think "driver's license") to shield the chip when not in use, but said that passport booklets were unaffected so long as they remained closed.
You can do whatever you want with it, but Border Patrol isn't obligated to then accept it as proof of identity/citizenship.
There's a wide gulf between "legible" and "demonstrably unmodified." "The checksum is bad/missing, but the executable works just fine, I promise!"
A guy was never taught that the behavior he is engaged in is rape,
The problem is we have conflicting beliefs as to what behavior is okay and what behavior isn't.
Simply saying "Boys will be boys" would have saved you a lot of typing.
In most Western countries there are protections on that sort of speech.
All you need to do is find one jurisdiction where there aren't. For the English language, the jurisdiction of choice is England and Wales. It's called "libel tourism."
Everyone knows the real ones are in China!
Merchants are allowed to include sales tax in their posted prices, just as they're allowed to set their prices to an even multiple of 5 cents.
If merchants really didn't like pennies, there'd be no use for them. It's that simple. Apparently the value of psychological pricing is worth the cost of dealing with pennies, regardless of how they complain.
How about opening up an operating system that actually matters, like HP-UX?