That's because they wouldn't. He's quoting Bad Movie Science (which can be read with equal validity as "(Bad Movie) Science" or "Bad (Movie Science)").
Luckily the core is pretty absurdly massive. It's not going to suddenly lose all of it's kinetic energy without dumping it somewhere, a process which undoubtedly would be pretty impressive and noticeable.
I prefer to think of it with commas, as "pretty, impressive, and noticeable".:)
The only "regulation" involved here (aside from your attempt at it) is to let speakers of each language handle the plural form as they normally would for the name of any other currency.
It's not really a backup/restore because the data was already sitting there on my current SATA system drive, but I had reason recently to dig through a couple layers of emulation/virtualization to get at some old files from my Psion Revo, a 1990s-vintage PDA. I have a backup of the Psion's entire file system as it was when I finally retired it, which I could theoretically restore to the device itself, but it's barely functional (expired battery and damaged hinge). Instead I access the files by running Psion's app development emulator, which runs under Windows XP. But I run mostly OS X these days, so I run Windows under VMWare Fusion on my iMac.
There are two very clear trends visible from watching this at work with the sound off: 1) Life expectancy and wealth have gone up dramatically. 2) Life expectancy and wealth have gone up a lot less dramatically for some than for others.
Looking through Xipwire's terms I don't see anything particularly horrific. It's not a bank either, so if you really want deposit insurance, go find a bank or credit union you can trust, then exercise common sense and don't keep substantial amounts of money in your account with them.
Their terms do include a clause prohibiting account-holders to "use the XIPWIRE Platform to request or make any transfer, for any illegal purpose, or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law, including, without limitation, laws governing taxation, intellectual property, and other proprietary rights". They may not intend to use it, but this legal boilerplate would give them authority to stop people from giving money to an organization that someone somewhere has ruled to be in violation of... a law. It's probably also necessary, for them to take actions to keep themselves from being named as co-defendant in all sorts of criminal and civil cases.
Mistaking Rand Paul for "Ron Paul the Second" would be as large an error as mistaking George W. Bush for his father.
Understand: I don't like G.H.W.Bush at all. I campaigned and voted against him all four times (for VP and P), protested his invasion of Iraq, etc. But he was a much smarter and more responsible president than G.W.Bush. Likewise, Ron Paul (I'm not a fan of him, either) is a far better advocate of libertarianism than his boy Rand is. The elder Paul arrived at his viewpoints personally, and understands why he believes what he does; you can reason with him. Rand just half-understands what his father taught him.
PC World wonders: "In an idyllic future where we make heavy use of the cloud, what happens if a cloud service provider removes content it deems inappropriate, or just doesn't like?"
Welcome to the mid-1990s. At least that's when I started worry about that, after my ISP deleted my web site because of content that offended the owner's moral sensibilities. That's when I sat down, figured out how to install Linux and Apache on an old computer, and began self-hosting.
It's the exact same issue here, but with "cloud" substituted for "web" or "net".
Right, because cheap petroleum reserves have been so effective in stabilizing the Middle East.
Somehow, I don't anticipate that "striking gold" in another poor, un-developed part of the world would turn out any better in the Sahara than it has in the Arabian Peninsula.
I was surprised that Amazon was hosting the site at all. It seems like an unusually mainstream, US-government-complying company for Wikileaks to even approach in the first place.
"You must have been asleep on December 31st at 23:59 in the year 1999..."
I was awake in my local time zone. Due to early-onset middle age, I was not "partying like it was 1999", however.
"the New Year and the fresh start it symbolises is still celebrated strongly to this day."
Don't get me wrong: New Year's Day is pretty much the only annual holiday that I observe personally (i.e. in private, not public motion-goings-thru) in any way, as a fresh-start event. But I know that I'm atypical, and more-observed than Christmas? Not around here it ain't.
What's different about this is that telemarketers who call you already know who you are: they have your phone number. The only way a web site would be able to comply with a Do No Track database is for you to identify yourself unambiguously to them, information they do not have, and which would not be safe to hand over, unsecured, to any web site that asks for it.
"(ok I know advent calendars normally stop at xmas, but most people celebrate New Year more these days anyway)"
I hadn't noticed that. How did I miss all the New Year TV specials, the radio stations playing New Year music 24/7, the throngs of New Year shoppers, etc?
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Hell, how many English-speaking people even realize that there isn't A language called "Chinese"?
Satellite: "Mr Woodpecker, if the election were held today, would you vote for the Democratic candidate..."
That's because they wouldn't. He's quoting Bad Movie Science (which can be read with equal validity as "(Bad Movie) Science" or "Bad (Movie Science)").
I prefer to think of it with commas, as "pretty, impressive, and noticeable". :)
I believe "Satellite-Based Laser Surveys Woodpeckers From Space" would have been a more suitable - albeit less provocative - headline.
The only "regulation" involved here (aside from your attempt at it) is to let speakers of each language handle the plural form as they normally would for the name of any other currency.
It's not really a backup/restore because the data was already sitting there on my current SATA system drive, but I had reason recently to dig through a couple layers of emulation/virtualization to get at some old files from my Psion Revo, a 1990s-vintage PDA. I have a backup of the Psion's entire file system as it was when I finally retired it, which I could theoretically restore to the device itself, but it's barely functional (expired battery and damaged hinge). Instead I access the files by running Psion's app development emulator, which runs under Windows XP. But I run mostly OS X these days, so I run Windows under VMWare Fusion on my iMac.
They aren't taking new entries; the cities that in the running are set.
But you can still show support for a great candidate.
There are two very clear trends visible from watching this at work with the sound off:
1) Life expectancy and wealth have gone up dramatically.
2) Life expectancy and wealth have gone up a lot less dramatically for some than for others.
If Watson is responding via text-to-speech, I hope the programmers remember to inflect its voice upward at the end of each "question".
Looking through Xipwire's terms I don't see anything particularly horrific. It's not a bank either, so if you really want deposit insurance, go find a bank or credit union you can trust, then exercise common sense and don't keep substantial amounts of money in your account with them.
Their terms do include a clause prohibiting account-holders to "use the XIPWIRE Platform to request or make any transfer, for any illegal purpose, or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law, including, without limitation, laws governing taxation, intellectual property, and other proprietary rights". They may not intend to use it, but this legal boilerplate would give them authority to stop people from giving money to an organization that someone somewhere has ruled to be in violation of... a law. It's probably also necessary, for them to take actions to keep themselves from being named as co-defendant in all sorts of criminal and civil cases.
Mistaking Rand Paul for "Ron Paul the Second" would be as large an error as mistaking George W. Bush for his father.
Understand: I don't like G.H.W.Bush at all. I campaigned and voted against him all four times (for VP and P), protested his invasion of Iraq, etc. But he was a much smarter and more responsible president than G.W.Bush. Likewise, Ron Paul (I'm not a fan of him, either) is a far better advocate of libertarianism than his boy Rand is. The elder Paul arrived at his viewpoints personally, and understands why he believes what he does; you can reason with him. Rand just half-understands what his father taught him.
What could go wrong (a tobacco die-off) could be.... very right.
Somehow I don't see escalation of online actions being to anyone's benefit in the long run.
Not according to this blog post, linked from koffice.org: http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2010/12/07#kde_proud
Doesn't anybody want to comment about the rogue satellite?
These "idea people" come in different flavors, and are just as infuriating to the qualified people in those other fields: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fc-crEFDw
PC World wonders: "In an idyllic future where we make heavy use of the cloud, what happens if a cloud service provider removes content it deems inappropriate, or just doesn't like?"
Welcome to the mid-1990s. At least that's when I started worry about that, after my ISP deleted my web site because of content that offended the owner's moral sensibilities. That's when I sat down, figured out how to install Linux and Apache on an old computer, and began self-hosting.
It's the exact same issue here, but with "cloud" substituted for "web" or "net".
Right, because cheap petroleum reserves have been so effective in stabilizing the Middle East.
Somehow, I don't anticipate that "striking gold" in another poor, un-developed part of the world would turn out any better in the Sahara than it has in the Arabian Peninsula.
I was surprised that Amazon was hosting the site at all. It seems like an unusually mainstream, US-government-complying company for Wikileaks to even approach in the first place.
{peers upward}
It looks the same to me.
"You must have been asleep on December 31st at 23:59 in the year 1999..."
I was awake in my local time zone. Due to early-onset middle age, I was not "partying like it was 1999", however.
"the New Year and the fresh start it symbolises is still celebrated strongly to this day."
Don't get me wrong: New Year's Day is pretty much the only annual holiday that I observe personally (i.e. in private, not public motion-goings-thru) in any way, as a fresh-start event. But I know that I'm atypical, and more-observed than Christmas? Not around here it ain't.
What's different about this is that telemarketers who call you already know who you are: they have your phone number. The only way a web site would be able to comply with a Do No Track database is for you to identify yourself unambiguously to them, information they do not have, and which would not be safe to hand over, unsecured, to any web site that asks for it.
"(ok I know advent calendars normally stop at xmas, but most people celebrate New Year more these days anyway)"
I hadn't noticed that. How did I miss all the New Year TV specials, the radio stations playing New Year music 24/7, the throngs of New Year shoppers, etc?
Damn! I wanted 37/8!