VROW is actually a pretty common word in tournament level Scrabble; just Google Scrabble+Vrow for examples.
Though I do find it listed as a "valid Scrabble word", I can't find it in any real English dictionaries. Even Onelook which indexes dozens of dictionaries. Closest is
vrouw (plural vrouws) or vrou (plural vrous)
South Africa woman or wife: a woman or a wife, especially one who is Afrikaner [Late 18th century. Via Afrikaans
1. Jane Doe spends 10 years of her life 80 hours a week and $400,000 in funding from family and friends and loans to successfully build a revolutionary piece of software, which gets promptly stolen and mass distributed outside of her control. Jane and her family lose their livelihood and has to declare bankruptcy.
How tragic. But this guy isn't going to jail for bankrupting Jane Doe. He's going to jail because his site had a Star Wars III pre-release. So now try making us feel sorry for George Lucas. Lucas actually got a load of free publicity from the "pirated release" at the time, and the box office was enormous.
The feds don't give a shit about Jane Doe unless she has a lobbyist in DC.
but AllofMP3 is creating nothing original, there are merely profiting off of these works and giving no compensation to the authors (at least those in the west). As far as I'm concerned AllofMP3 deserves everything is has comming to it.
Weatern record companies don't collect money from AllofMP3 by choice, though it is offered. They are trying to force AllofMP3 out of business by painting them as pirates. True, the royalties wouldn't amount to much, but they're calculated on the same model as payment for play on radio, a compulsory licence, which seems reasonable to me.
Just a point to keep in mind: that could be the case, until someone goes out there and kills a member of one of those minority groups, motivated by racist speech. Then it can't be repaired at all - can't bring them back.
So we should lock up everybody who's not a member of a minority group. It's the only way to be sure.
And has anyone pointed out that Google is not the only place in the world you can host a blog, racist or otherwise? If Google booted them, they'd be up somewhere else in a day. If there's something actually illegal about this blog, the writers should be charged, fined or imprisoned if they continued. Let the Australian courts handle it.
I doubt any company who considers their data center a key component of thier infrastructure to risk their backup solution on an untested refurbished generator.
It's not in the front office. Who cares if it's not shiny and new? And a refurbished generator most certainly would not be "untested". Whether new or refurbished, you'd get a service contract.
The biggest problem with this is the way lazy exec's just reply to all for every comment they make.
And of course, the tail of the message contains nested quotes of every earlier message on that subject. I once got a query from my boss about a project at the head of such an email; in the 20 k message tail was a long correspondence with a client (an old buddy), including several remarks about how they were going to get rid of me....
A friend in the Government once told me that after the Pollard spy scandal the Government rethought the way it handled clearances. So now there is a discreet pool of clearances
You meant discrete. Though the members of the discrete pool should be discreet, of course.
Reading in "intent" makes law more subject to popular whim, which is more democratic: not a good thing.
Not "popular whim". The whim of the government. Which may be populist, or may not. As I said, in Hong Kong this method has been used in decidedly undemocratic, and unpopular with the general public, ways.
The problem there wasn't with following intent, the problem was several parts of the government deliberatly and knowingly conspiring to revise historyP
You'll notice I wrote "intent" in quotemarks for that reason.
Repair manuals is another area where geographic and periodic differences would render anything of this nature very transient.
I'm not an American, but I can see the value of such "transient" information. I have a lot of old hardware, and the manufacturers, if they still exist, have often removed all information about their older models. A few more public spirited ones keep an archive of old manuals available. I've used Archive.org sometimes to find info from dead sites, but am frequently frustrated when the site has been taken over by some link spammer whose robots.txt blocks access to backups of the previous owner's site.
Gutenberg, atlases, ancient literature and history, and just aboiut any material that doesn't impact on our daily lives, with multiple interpretations would be fine for this, but manuals, text books, histories - only if you want to kill Wikpaedia off as an internationally reputable repository of information.
This is the kind of stuff you can alrady find in major public libraries, and online as these institutions can afford it. There's really no need for Wikipedia to duplicate this. The transient information you sneer at is what is being lost forever.
I know, traditions and all, but after all, legal rulings are often called "opinions". Why does there need to be "interpretation"? When you make a law (or write a license), would it be so hard to tag a sentence or two in plain vernacular about the "intent"? Why wouldn't that have any weight, legally?
Because your "plain language" is plain to you but not to everyone else, and especailly not to an determined lawyer.
I live in Hong Kong, where your "intent" idea has sadly been put into effect. When Hong Kong was handed back by Britain to China in 1997 the laws of Hong Kong were determined by the "Basic Law", in effect a constitution, as enacted by the PRC after negotiation with the UK. However, some years later when the governement wanted to enact laws that went against the "obvious" interpretation of the Basic Law (relating to elections mostly), the rulings of Hong Kong's High Court were overridden by the government by appealing to the "intent" of the laws, by asking members of the committee that had drafted them what they had been thinking about. Thus the government is able to retrospectively change the effect of laws without even having to pass legislation.
So as much as we all hate lawyers, having judicial oversight that follows the strict letter of the law, and not its "intent", is a much more democratic system. If governments want to change laws, they can make new ones and let the legislators openly argue and vote on them.
In his first novel World of Ptaavs (now part of the Three Books of Known Space omnibus) Larry Niven suggested that over the next couple of centuries people would evolve to be able to more powerfully focus on relevant conversation and filter out noise.
Maybe I'm totally wrong but this has very little basis in terms of theory of evolution
Well, Larry really screwed with evolution in that novel anyway, in the idea that we're descended from (alien) Pak. But in this case I'd cut some slack and assume the word "evolve" being used in a more general sense, of a behaviour or skill evolving, rather than a strictly Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest sense.
If you were about to suggest "well just use Linux" to format the drive
According to some quotes in TFA, the Windows machines are used to check for compatibility, as iPods can connect to Windows as well as Macs, not for the manufacturing process itself. Perhaps the low number of infections (said to be 5%) means only a few iPods were given that check (normal QC wouldn't require every one to be checked for a consumer item).
Also Linux will need out-of-the-box support for Windows apps. This is critical for it's success
IBM's OS/2 had that. That was one thing that led to its demise. Ability to use MSOffice fles is fairly useful though. And Vista will have a whole new set of APIs and supporting apps that use them will be a huge task.
There's a big difference between saying "no I did not have relations with this woman" while knowing you did, and saying "I swear to uphold the constitution", and then doing something which in your opinion doesn't violate the constitution and then having someone else determine that it does
Yeah. The big difference is that the first is a question a president should never have been asked (except by his wife). The second goes to the heart of his duty to the nation.
ve failed the reading comprehension portion of the exam.
Fuck off asshole. If you interpose yourself in the middle of an argument without introducing yourself expect to take fire for what your predecessor wrote.
Please cite anywhere I condoned or approved banning any web site?
"Throw everyone with a militant opinion (whether it is "save the trees" or "i hate spics") and let the individual network admins sort out what they do and don't like."
IN other words, a black list. And my "save the trees" site would be there right alongside the Nazis under your system and blocked by many admins as a CYA reflex under that justification.
Than you go on to trot out the tree spikers stories. There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people who could be described as conservationists. A handful are extremists, a very few have committed vandalism. I'm not responsible for some wacko in the woods in Oregon. Feel free to hunt him down. DO NOT however paint me with the same brush or use it as an excuse to vilify anyone else. I'm sure there are serial killers who share political, philosophical, sexual or religious outlooks with you. Mentioning that would be just as logical, and as offensive.
Any speech that doesn't advocate violence or cause unjustified panic should be allowed.
If you'd said that in the beginning we'd be fine. But you felt it necessary to single out "Save the trees" sites for special attention as a group likely to indulge in hate speech.
Sorry to reply pecemeal, I'm doing several things at once here.
Anyway, you talk about the ALF. We were talking about TREES. The "A" in ALF stands for Animal. There is a slight difference.
I personally have a site devoted to protecting the countryside near my home. This was motivated by local government plans that would have paved it over for the benefit of only their cronies in the construction trade. By exposing this on my site, sticking up posters and organising a letter-writing campaign, the project was brought into the spotlight and found to be unjustified and cancelled. At no point were any children killed, or harmed. That's the kind of site your blanket ban would catch. That's why I'm annoyed at people who like to use the word "ecoterrorist" to dismiss peaceful protestors.
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Though I do find it listed as a "valid Scrabble word", I can't find it in any real English dictionaries. Even Onelook which indexes dozens of dictionaries. Closest is
vrouw (plural vrouws) or vrou (plural vrous)
South Africa woman or wife: a woman or a wife, especially one who is Afrikaner [Late 18th century. Via Afrikaans
Oh, hilarious. An American making prison colony jokes about Australia. For us, that was 150 years ago. For you, it's Guantanamo Bay.
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How tragic. But this guy isn't going to jail for bankrupting Jane Doe. He's going to jail because his site had a Star Wars III pre-release. So now try making us feel sorry for George Lucas. Lucas actually got a load of free publicity from the "pirated release" at the time, and the box office was enormous.
The feds don't give a shit about Jane Doe unless she has a lobbyist in DC.
Weatern record companies don't collect money from AllofMP3 by choice, though it is offered. They are trying to force AllofMP3 out of business by painting them as pirates. True, the royalties wouldn't amount to much, but they're calculated on the same model as payment for play on radio, a compulsory licence, which seems reasonable to me.
So we should lock up everybody who's not a member of a minority group. It's the only way to be sure.
And has anyone pointed out that Google is not the only place in the world you can host a blog, racist or otherwise? If Google booted them, they'd be up somewhere else in a day. If there's something actually illegal about this blog, the writers should be charged, fined or imprisoned if they continued. Let the Australian courts handle it.
I wasn't really surprised, he didn't like me but he needed me. I'd already been looking and left a few months later.
It's not in the front office. Who cares if it's not shiny and new? And a refurbished generator most certainly would not be "untested". Whether new or refurbished, you'd get a service contract.
And of course, the tail of the message contains nested quotes of every earlier message on that subject. I once got a query from my boss about a project at the head of such an email; in the 20 k message tail was a long correspondence with a client (an old buddy), including several remarks about how they were going to get rid of me....
You meant discrete. Though the members of the discrete pool should be discreet, of course.
That can be a pain. Use http://www.google.com/webhp to stop it redirecting to your "local" version.
So the British version uses the perverted and kinky sites?
Not "popular whim". The whim of the government. Which may be populist, or may not. As I said, in Hong Kong this method has been used in decidedly undemocratic, and unpopular with the general public, ways.
The problem there wasn't with following intent, the problem was several parts of the government deliberatly and knowingly conspiring to revise historyP You'll notice I wrote "intent" in quotemarks for that reason.
I'm not an American, but I can see the value of such "transient" information. I have a lot of old hardware, and the manufacturers, if they still exist, have often removed all information about their older models. A few more public spirited ones keep an archive of old manuals available. I've used Archive.org sometimes to find info from dead sites, but am frequently frustrated when the site has been taken over by some link spammer whose robots.txt blocks access to backups of the previous owner's site.
Gutenberg, atlases, ancient literature and history, and just aboiut any material that doesn't impact on our daily lives, with multiple interpretations would be fine for this, but manuals, text books, histories - only if you want to kill Wikpaedia off as an internationally reputable repository of information.
This is the kind of stuff you can alrady find in major public libraries, and online as these institutions can afford it. There's really no need for Wikipedia to duplicate this. The transient information you sneer at is what is being lost forever.
Because your "plain language" is plain to you but not to everyone else, and especailly not to an determined lawyer.
I live in Hong Kong, where your "intent" idea has sadly been put into effect. When Hong Kong was handed back by Britain to China in 1997 the laws of Hong Kong were determined by the "Basic Law", in effect a constitution, as enacted by the PRC after negotiation with the UK. However, some years later when the governement wanted to enact laws that went against the "obvious" interpretation of the Basic Law (relating to elections mostly), the rulings of Hong Kong's High Court were overridden by the government by appealing to the "intent" of the laws, by asking members of the committee that had drafted them what they had been thinking about. Thus the government is able to retrospectively change the effect of laws without even having to pass legislation.
So as much as we all hate lawyers, having judicial oversight that follows the strict letter of the law, and not its "intent", is a much more democratic system. If governments want to change laws, they can make new ones and let the legislators openly argue and vote on them.
Woops; I mixed up the story from Protector (Pak) with Ptaavs (Thrint). But the main comment still applies.
In his first novel World of Ptaavs (now part of the Three Books of Known Space omnibus) Larry Niven suggested that over the next couple of centuries people would evolve to be able to more powerfully focus on relevant conversation and filter out noise.
Maybe I'm totally wrong but this has very little basis in terms of theory of evolution Well, Larry really screwed with evolution in that novel anyway, in the idea that we're descended from (alien) Pak. But in this case I'd cut some slack and assume the word "evolve" being used in a more general sense, of a behaviour or skill evolving, rather than a strictly Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest sense.
According to some quotes in TFA, the Windows machines are used to check for compatibility, as iPods can connect to Windows as well as Macs, not for the manufacturing process itself. Perhaps the low number of infections (said to be 5%) means only a few iPods were given that check (normal QC wouldn't require every one to be checked for a consumer item).
It happens because Apple doesn't make their products. Subcontracters do. Apple doesn't have any factories.
IBM's OS/2 had that. That was one thing that led to its demise. Ability to use MSOffice fles is fairly useful though. And Vista will have a whole new set of APIs and supporting apps that use them will be a huge task.
Yeah. The big difference is that the first is a question a president should never have been asked (except by his wife). The second goes to the heart of his duty to the nation.
Fuck off asshole. If you interpose yourself in the middle of an argument without introducing yourself expect to take fire for what your predecessor wrote.
"Throw everyone with a militant opinion (whether it is "save the trees" or "i hate spics") and let the individual network admins sort out what they do and don't like."
IN other words, a black list. And my "save the trees" site would be there right alongside the Nazis under your system and blocked by many admins as a CYA reflex under that justification.
Than you go on to trot out the tree spikers stories. There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people who could be described as conservationists. A handful are extremists, a very few have committed vandalism. I'm not responsible for some wacko in the woods in Oregon. Feel free to hunt him down. DO NOT however paint me with the same brush or use it as an excuse to vilify anyone else. I'm sure there are serial killers who share political, philosophical, sexual or religious outlooks with you. Mentioning that would be just as logical, and as offensive.
Any speech that doesn't advocate violence or cause unjustified panic should be allowed.
If you'd said that in the beginning we'd be fine. But you felt it necessary to single out "Save the trees" sites for special attention as a group likely to indulge in hate speech.
Anyway, you talk about the ALF. We were talking about TREES. The "A" in ALF stands for Animal. There is a slight difference.
I personally have a site devoted to protecting the countryside near my home. This was motivated by local government plans that would have paved it over for the benefit of only their cronies in the construction trade. By exposing this on my site, sticking up posters and organising a letter-writing campaign, the project was brought into the spotlight and found to be unjustified and cancelled. At no point were any children killed, or harmed. That's the kind of site your blanket ban would catch. That's why I'm annoyed at people who like to use the word "ecoterrorist" to dismiss peaceful protestors.
Get a clue.