I am pretty sure a majority in the UK wand to get rid of changing the clocks. However none of us were told about this survey.
Now we have a situation where the Brexiteer propaganda machine has won a huge victory because "The EU" is imposing on us what we actually want, so of course we don't want it. (We are totally committed to cutting of our noses to spite our faces as well as shooting our selves in the foot).
Put those numbers together, and restriction to less than ~25 rounds in a magazine means you've restricted use for self defense.
So mass murder is completely impossible? No, its just illegal. Criminals tend not to obey the law. And that includes criminal law enforcement officers and politicians.
You may have 300 million armed citizens on your side, but quite possibly 30 million of them are mad as fuck. American approach to gun control is evidence that America as a whole is unable to make sane political decisions - although there is no shortage of other evidence.
Poodle mentality is rapidly fading. In most of the world, Trump is seen as a dumbed down version of Homer Simpson. We in the UK are put off by the idea of GM food, meat with hormones and chlorinated chicken to the extent that the government might find any kind of siding with the USA difficult. In a lot of other parts of the world, the government has very little influence over what people do (ever heard of Mexico?)
Well, here you have a ring-side seat for free (as in beer), so don't complain or people will expect you to contribute for laughs (you could donate a PHP joke, but I am sure there are more than enough on Github).
Part of the reason for this might be that the UK settled on a manufacturer-independent protocol (POCSAG), so there were multiple sources (in the 1980's when I wrote the software for one of the manufacturers), This meant the market was both large and competitive at the time.
The modem, display drive and the forward error correction were implemented in software in a single 4-bit micro, the radio was the only other chip. Hence low price and power consumption.
The UK is very strong on "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and very averse to capital expenditure. The NHS does not have any money. I suspect the way junior doctors are used in the UK may be a factor in widespread pager use, and mobile phones may be the reason why the rest of the market is gone. Originally, stock price info was the big, profitable, market for my employers.
If the service supplier is too expensive, the answer is to buy them out. However, that would be a political decision, and we have no single politician capable of actually taking a decision.
I do not see the point of locking phones - leaving aside the fact that the guy in the kiosk will unlock them for £5, I have several phones, and even if I took the SIM out of the phone, I would still be under contact and have to pay, regardless of whether I put another company's SIM in or not. Why should I not put their SIM in my tablet and my tablet's SIM in the new phone?
The main effect of locking is to drive me to buy phones cash down instead of on contract. With the likely side effect that I probably buy cheaper phones.
There is no benefit to the carrier from locking (unless I am stupid enough to pay £13 for unlocking instead of £5). There is, however, a considerable loss of "good will" - something that accountants normally value highly!
the market rejected Linux then, because they wanted to run Windows software
Are you sure? I suspect the market never got a look in. A bigger problem was that the staff at PC World were confused by the idea that the customer might want to know what the difference was, and went and hid in the washroom rather than face reality.
In the "olden days" (when NASA was going to the moon) it was common for engineering procurement to require a "second source" - before aerospace would buy anything, there had to be an alternative source.
If you had an invention, you had to licence it to a competitor, or it would not be bought Typically, government procurement would buy from multiple suppliers, quantities in inverse proportion to price, to ensure that multiple suppliers would always be available.
I am not sure when this practice stopped - but it seems that things are no longer done this way - and as a result, we get Microsoft, Oracle, and Intel (or, to use the technical term: "totally shafted").
If that is not the decline and fall of civilization as we know it, I don't know what is.
That implies that the software is simple enough for you to make meaningful changes to it.
I think you missed the point: governments can afford to pay for a team with the necessary skills to maintain the open source software in the manner that most benefits them. However, they only need pay once.
With closed source, they need to pay through the nose possibly repeatedly for different departments, and still don't get what they want.
However, this does require a degree of sanity in government, and I am not holding my breath on that account.
AFAIK vaccines are normally cultivated in extracts of (hens') eggs or in an entirely artificial medium (for reasons of cost and quality control). The genetic origins of the the vaccine may have included blood or stem cells, but then again, that is similar to arguing that most people are descended from Gengis Khan. (And also, probably several kinds of dinosaur).
Unless you have definite information that I am incorrect, you are indirectly supporting anti-vax lies.
But the whole premise of Silicon Valley is that these ventures are basically Ponzi schemes, with a lottery like chance of success - but no penalty for the founder, of first or second round funders, because they get out with the big bucks and Joe public gets scammed - and who ever publicly admitted to being victim of a blatent scam - while investing someone else's money for a percentage of the losses.
Especially when the losers just write it off as tax deductible. Who cares if the business is viable if its filling your wallet? (Scamming people is the American Way - don't like it? you are un-American!)
In short, the real victims are the tax payers - everyone else involved wins enough to pay for at least half a dozen congress-critters.
The risk of meningococcal infection is at its highest during college years, and the consequence of infection can be a very rapid death. Most countries don't require it because people would rather their college kids didn't die. Americans are obviously different.
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Now we have a situation where the Brexiteer propaganda machine has won a huge victory because "The EU" is imposing on us what we actually want, so of course we don't want it. (We are totally committed to cutting of our noses to spite our faces as well as shooting our selves in the foot).
It is the British way!
Maybe not yet, but ...
So mass murder is completely impossible? No, its just illegal. Criminals tend not to obey the law. And that includes criminal law enforcement officers and politicians.
You may have 300 million armed citizens on your side, but quite possibly 30 million of them are mad as fuck. American approach to gun control is evidence that America as a whole is unable to make sane political decisions - although there is no shortage of other evidence.
When all the evidence suggests it is like a particularly stupid football game?
Poodle mentality is rapidly fading. In most of the world, Trump is seen as a dumbed down version of Homer Simpson. We in the UK are put off by the idea of GM food, meat with hormones and chlorinated chicken to the extent that the government might find any kind of siding with the USA difficult. In a lot of other parts of the world, the government has very little influence over what people do (ever heard of Mexico?)
Nothing about this government is cost effective.
Well, here you have a ring-side seat for free (as in beer), so don't complain or people will expect you to contribute for laughs (you could donate a PHP joke, but I am sure there are more than enough on Github).
Shaken? or Stirred?
You would be able to think - and where would that end?
I think the point is that "A repetitive stream of tiresome noise" is not quite the same thing.
Has anyone done any research into the extent to which "Muzak" in supermarkets contributes to mass shootings?
If you are mining availability with Intel, you are doing it wrong - you need FPGAs!
The modem, display drive and the forward error correction were implemented in software in a single 4-bit micro, the radio was the only other chip. Hence low price and power consumption.
The UK is very strong on "if it ain't broke don't fix it" and very averse to capital expenditure. The NHS does not have any money. I suspect the way junior doctors are used in the UK may be a factor in widespread pager use, and mobile phones may be the reason why the rest of the market is gone. Originally, stock price info was the big, profitable, market for my employers.
If the service supplier is too expensive, the answer is to buy them out. However, that would be a political decision, and we have no single politician capable of actually taking a decision.
The main effect of locking is to drive me to buy phones cash down instead of on contract. With the likely side effect that I probably buy cheaper phones.
There is no benefit to the carrier from locking (unless I am stupid enough to pay £13 for unlocking instead of £5). There is, however, a considerable loss of "good will" - something that accountants normally value highly!
However, the evidence here in front of your very eyes is that some are more human than others!
The only thing we should demand of politicians is that they walk the plank.
Are you sure? I suspect the market never got a look in. A bigger problem was that the staff at PC World were confused by the idea that the customer might want to know what the difference was, and went and hid in the washroom rather than face reality.
But when it comes to political correctness, your truck is miles behind a Prius. Go and cry on the naughty step!
And the "Incompatible Timeshare System" (ITS)*?
It is true a PDP8 was useful without an OS, but if you had more than 4k words of core, you could have an OS if you wanted.
On my PDP8, ITS supported 2 users, but some people had bigger machines than me!
FTFY
If you had an invention, you had to licence it to a competitor, or it would not be bought Typically, government procurement would buy from multiple suppliers, quantities in inverse proportion to price, to ensure that multiple suppliers would always be available.
I am not sure when this practice stopped - but it seems that things are no longer done this way - and as a result, we get Microsoft, Oracle, and Intel (or, to use the technical term: "totally shafted").
If that is not the decline and fall of civilization as we know it, I don't know what is.
I think you missed the point: governments can afford to pay for a team with the necessary skills to maintain the open source software in the manner that most benefits them. However, they only need pay once.
With closed source, they need to pay through the nose possibly repeatedly for different departments, and still don't get what they want.
However, this does require a degree of sanity in government, and I am not holding my breath on that account.
Tell me - what is life like in Cloud-Cuckoo land?
Unless you have definite information that I am incorrect, you are indirectly supporting anti-vax lies.
Especially when the losers just write it off as tax deductible. Who cares if the business is viable if its filling your wallet? (Scamming people is the American Way - don't like it? you are un-American!)
In short, the real victims are the tax payers - everyone else involved wins enough to pay for at least half a dozen congress-critters.
The risk of meningococcal infection is at its highest during college years, and the consequence of infection can be a very rapid death. Most countries don't require it because people would rather their college kids didn't die. Americans are obviously different.
That is why God created "a woman's right to shoes".