What part of Europe are you in?
Cos here (UK) the buses come in groups of three, and the trains run (well, sometimes, if you're lucky, and they're not Richard Branson's ones.)
But in some TLDs you can't. Like.uk (Nominet's rules,) for example (with the exception of x.co.uk, who got it before that rule came in, and so are allowed to keep it.)
Under the legal systems (there are separate judicial systems in England and Wales (both share the same judicial system), Scotland, Northen Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
It's quite simple. If a number, or sequence of numbers, is produced by an algorithm, that number/sequence is predictable (from the algorithm) and therefore not random. The best a computer can do is a pseudorandom number generator, which is just an algorithm who's output looks fairly random, but will behave exactly the same if it is seeded (started) with the same number.
England does have a Bill of Rights (originally titled "An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crowne,") passed in 1688.
You think you 'ad it tough, lad?
When I were a lad, we 'ad to carve an ampersand int' block o' wood, mix up our own ink from what we could scavange, 'unt out coke labels int' municipal tip (that were if we were lucky, mind, most days we 'ad to pull old pepsi labels out t'sewer with bare 'ands,) and beg onion skins from the greengrocers. Then we had to mix 'em all op in the one bowl our family 'ad.
And we only got light-speed on't second thursday of t'month. If we was lucky.
And when we got 'home at t'end of t'day, our dad would beat us with 'is belt for dirtying t'bowl, and 'e would make us lick it clean, beat us some more, and send us t'bed.
You 'ad it easy, I tell ya.
Quoteth the article:
"But the researchers do not believe that many other extra-solar planets will have to be scrapped. This is because large sunspots are usually found only on young stars and most planet discoveries have orbited older ones.
"All the other cases are pretty solid," Donahue adds. "In almost every case so far, the star has been old.""
Sounds like it's just the one planet that isn't really a planet, doesn't it?
So where did the "several" in the title come from?
Ordinarily, in the UK, the sender of an SMS cannot reverse the charges. Currently, you can only be charged for receiving an SMS if it's from a service you have requested, and they must stop the messages as soon as you tell them to stop. ICSTIS (regulator of premuim rate phone services) have a set of guidelines for reverse-billed SMS's, and ICSTIS can shut down services if the rules are broken.
As long as BT have decided to upgrade your phone exchange. And if they havn't, then your only broadband option is cable, and I don't think there are many (any?) areas where both NTL and telewest are available.
Democracy is the idea that the people choose the laws of the state by majority.
Democracy doesn't, imho, require that the laws are chosen by majority rule. In principle, there could exist a democratic society that made it's laws by consensus, which would still be rule by the people, i.e. democracy. Of course, in practice, consensus decision-making quite simply doesn't work for large groups, as it is often the case that there will be people with irreconcilable differences of opinion, or who are not willing to comprimise. But, in principle...
In the UK it's only 12 years, and there have been a few fairly well reported cases where the squatter has been successful. In one, only a few weeks ago, a property developer lost 25 hectares of land, potentally worth £10 million ($15.7 million), after they ignored a farmer's requests to use the land for grazing since 1984 (the farmer had been paying the developer for use of the land since 1975) and tried to register ownership of the land in 1997. The developed challenged it, and the case went all the way to the House of Lords, and the developer is, apparently, considering apealing to the European Court of human Rights. There have also been cases where local councils forgot they owned properties and then found themselves losing ownership to squatters - in one case, the squatter then sold the house for £100,000 ($157,000) and moved to Australia. But to lose a property like this does take a level of idiocy - to ignore someone asking to give you money must take some doing:-)
hmmm... According to thetrainline.com, I could walk into Temple Meads station and buy a day return to London for £33 (a "SuperSaver Return") which I can use on any off-peak service. If I were to get out my Young Person's railcard, I could get 1/3 off, i.e. £22.
Perhaps if you had better civic engineers who understood people's desire for cars instead of trying to get everyone to stop driving you'd have a better road system up there now?
So, which are you suggesting? Buldozing London and rebuilding with a more car-friendly layout, or building a time machine to go back and explain about cars and traffic congestion? A lot of central London has the same street patterns as it did 400 years ago, or even earlier. There are places in England where road layouts, and even property boundries, can be traced back to the Romans. One cause of problems for travel in London is that it is really a large number of small towns and villages that all expanded until they became one big urban sprawl 20 miles across with no cooridnated planning. Saying "you should design a city like this if you don't want traffic problems" is no use. The only way to deal with congestion is to reduce the number of people driving into central London, and congestion charging is one way that might work.
50,000 years is the mirror date to a milestone in the evolution of our species: the first traces of Art reveal the human capacity for abstract thought and symbolic expression. 50,000 years is distance in time so compelling that it forces us to shed our worries and daily routine and puts us each on an equal footing, inviting us to bask in our thoughts, intuitions and deepest convictions... However 50,000 years only represent 1% of the evolution of the human species that have appeared on Earth some 5 million years ago. It is also the concept of time and distance that will give our treasures a genuine archeological value because it is very probable that definitive traces of the activities of the Man of today will be in turn recovered by the Man of tomorrow."
There is an argument that sms spam is illegal, by the Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999. Section 22 of those regs bans the use of automated calling systems for direct marketing, and sms spam is direct marketing, it is sent by an automated system (there isn't someone sitting there with a list of mobile phone nos. sending "do u want 2 have horny txt sex with me? txt back 4 fun" to each of the numbers) and is a call. As the spammers use premium rate numbers for the replies (that's how they get their money) they must also abide by the ICSTIS code of practice, which include that they must have clear info about the cost of the 'service', they must give their address, and various other rules. Also, if you register your mobile phone number with the telephone preference service, anyone sending you sms spam is breaking the law, just as anyone cold-calling a number registered with the tps is (section 25 of the same regulations I mentioned above.) So, we should be able to get rid of the sms spam quite easily:-)
"(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed: (i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft; (ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State; (b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft; (c) any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b)." Where a "pirate ship or aircraft" is any ship or aircraft whose commanders intend to use it for act of piracy.
Now, in 1967, Roy Bates (aka Prince Roy of Sealand) landed on an abandoned WW2 British anti-aircraft gun platform, called Roughs Tower, in international waters, and declared it the Principality of Sealand as an independent soverign state.
It doesn't seem to me that he's committed an act of piracy (as defined above.) What do you think? ... matey;-)
I've seen this done on irc, and this is the log. But those ones had been learning from people on irc (and from each other during that 'conversation' they had) so they wouldn't generate the same result again, as they will have learnt more since.
A common misconception. Goods must be priced in metric, but there's nothing to stop retailers also giving prices in imperial. "Traders can give the imperial equivalent unit price, provided the metric unit price is given first and the imperial equivalent is no larger than the metric price." (from Trading Standards' "Price Marking of Goods for Retail Sale" guidance leaflet)
Honestly, who are these people at greenwitch to tell us THEY have central time. Because that's what was agreed to at a conference in Washington in 1884. (this is what they decided.)
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What part of Europe are you in?
Cos here (UK) the buses come in groups of three, and the trains run (well, sometimes, if you're lucky, and they're not Richard Branson's ones.)
But in some TLDs you can't. Like .uk (Nominet's rules,) for example (with the exception of x.co.uk, who got it before that rule came in, and so are allowed to keep it.)
Under the legal systems (there are separate judicial systems in England and Wales (both share the same judicial system), Scotland, Northen Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are not parts of the UK. The States of Jersey, States of Guernsey, States of Alderney, Island of Sark (collectivly the Channel Islands) and The Isle of Man are all independent Crown Dependencies, not parts of the UK.
(This post is going to make you wish there was a "Pedantic" mod option...)
But you were being a grammar Nazi, not a spelling Nazi, so spelling mistakes are (possibly) allowed...
It's quite simple. If a number, or sequence of numbers, is produced by an algorithm, that number/sequence is predictable (from the algorithm) and therefore not random. The best a computer can do is a pseudorandom number generator, which is just an algorithm who's output looks fairly random, but will behave exactly the same if it is seeded (started) with the same number.
England does have a Bill of Rights (originally titled "An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crowne,") passed in 1688.
You think you 'ad it tough, lad?
When I were a lad, we 'ad to carve an ampersand int' block o' wood, mix up our own ink from what we could scavange, 'unt out coke labels int' municipal tip (that were if we were lucky, mind, most days we 'ad to pull old pepsi labels out t'sewer with bare 'ands,) and beg onion skins from the greengrocers. Then we had to mix 'em all op in the one bowl our family 'ad.
And we only got light-speed on't second thursday of t'month. If we was lucky.
And when we got 'home at t'end of t'day, our dad would beat us with 'is belt for dirtying t'bowl, and 'e would make us lick it clean, beat us some more, and send us t'bed.
You 'ad it easy, I tell ya.
Now find a way to define temperature and you're done.
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Simple.
"The kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature, is the fraction 1/273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water." (http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/reference/temperature.h
What!?!
Youe wireless isn't RFC 2549 compliant?
Quoteth the article:
"But the researchers do not believe that many other extra-solar planets will have to be scrapped. This is because large sunspots are usually found only on young stars and most planet discoveries have orbited older ones.
"All the other cases are pretty solid," Donahue adds. "In almost every case so far, the star has been old.""
Sounds like it's just the one planet that isn't really a planet, doesn't it?
So where did the "several" in the title come from?
Ordinarily, in the UK, the sender of an SMS cannot reverse the charges. Currently, you can only be charged for receiving an SMS if it's from a service you have requested, and they must stop the messages as soon as you tell them to stop. ICSTIS (regulator of premuim rate phone services) have a set of guidelines for reverse-billed SMS's, and ICSTIS can shut down services if the rules are broken.
As long as BT have decided to upgrade your phone exchange. And if they havn't, then your only broadband option is cable, and I don't think there are many (any?) areas where both NTL and telewest are available.
Democracy is the idea that the people choose the laws of the state by majority.
Democracy doesn't, imho, require that the laws are chosen by majority rule. In principle, there could exist a democratic society that made it's laws by consensus, which would still be rule by the people, i.e. democracy. Of course, in practice, consensus decision-making quite simply doesn't work for large groups, as it is often the case that there will be people with irreconcilable differences of opinion, or who are not willing to comprimise. But, in principle...
Someone probably has, but it got delayed in the system :-)
In the UK it's only 12 years, and there have been a few fairly well reported cases where the squatter has been successful. :-)
In one, only a few weeks ago, a property developer lost 25 hectares of land, potentally worth £10 million ($15.7 million), after they ignored a farmer's requests to use the land for grazing since 1984 (the farmer had been paying the developer for use of the land since 1975) and tried to register ownership of the land in 1997. The developed challenged it, and the case went all the way to the House of Lords, and the developer is, apparently, considering apealing to the European Court of human Rights.
There have also been cases where local councils forgot they owned properties and then found themselves losing ownership to squatters - in one case, the squatter then sold the house for £100,000 ($157,000) and moved to Australia.
But to lose a property like this does take a level of idiocy - to ignore someone asking to give you money must take some doing
hmmm...
According to thetrainline.com, I could walk into Temple Meads station and buy a day return to London for £33 (a "SuperSaver Return") which I can use on any off-peak service. If I were to get out my Young Person's railcard, I could get 1/3 off, i.e. £22.
Perhaps if you had better civic engineers who understood people's desire for cars instead of trying to get everyone to stop driving you'd have a better road system up there now?
So, which are you suggesting? Buldozing London and rebuilding with a more car-friendly layout, or building a time machine to go back and explain about cars and traffic congestion?
A lot of central London has the same street patterns as it did 400 years ago, or even earlier. There are places in England where road layouts, and even property boundries, can be traced back to the Romans.
One cause of problems for travel in London is that it is really a large number of small towns and villages that all expanded until they became one big urban sprawl 20 miles across with no cooridnated planning. Saying "you should design a city like this if you don't want traffic problems" is no use. The only way to deal with congestion is to reduce the number of people driving into central London, and congestion charging is one way that might work.
I wonder why they picked 50,000 years
From the KEO faq:
"Why 50,000 years?
50,000 years is the mirror date to a milestone in the evolution of our species: the first traces of Art reveal the human capacity for abstract thought and symbolic expression.
50,000 years is distance in time so compelling that it forces us to shed our worries and daily routine and puts us each on an equal footing, inviting us to bask in our thoughts, intuitions and deepest convictions...
However 50,000 years only represent 1% of the evolution of the human species that have appeared on Earth some 5 million years ago.
It is also the concept of time and distance that will give our treasures a genuine archeological value because it is very probable that definitive traces of the activities of the Man of today will be in turn recovered by the Man of tomorrow."
There is an argument that sms spam is illegal, by the Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999. :-)
Section 22 of those regs bans the use of automated calling systems for direct marketing, and sms spam is direct marketing, it is sent by an automated system (there isn't someone sitting there with a list of mobile phone nos. sending "do u want 2 have horny txt sex with me? txt back 4 fun" to each of the numbers) and is a call.
As the spammers use premium rate numbers for the replies (that's how they get their money) they must also abide by the ICSTIS code of practice, which include that they must have clear info about the cost of the 'service', they must give their address, and various other rules.
Also, if you register your mobile phone number with the telephone preference service, anyone sending you sms spam is breaking the law, just as anyone cold-calling a number registered with the tps is (section 25 of the same regulations I mentioned above.)
So, we should be able to get rid of the sms spam quite easily
Article 101 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea defines piracy as any of the following acts:
... ;-)
"(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed:
(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
(b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;
(c) any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b)."
Where a "pirate ship or aircraft" is any ship or aircraft whose commanders intend to use it for act of piracy.
Now, in 1967, Roy Bates (aka Prince Roy of Sealand) landed on an abandoned WW2 British anti-aircraft gun platform, called Roughs Tower, in international waters, and declared it the Principality of Sealand as an independent soverign state.
It doesn't seem to me that he's committed an act of piracy (as defined above.) What do you think?
matey
I've seen this done on irc, and this is the log. But those ones had been learning from people on irc (and from each other during that 'conversation' they had) so they wouldn't generate the same result again, as they will have learnt more since.
Yes they are, as I have said in another post in reply to this article.
A common misconception. Goods must be priced in metric, but there's nothing to stop retailers also giving prices in imperial.
"Traders can give the imperial equivalent unit price, provided the metric unit price is given first and the imperial equivalent is no larger than the metric price." (from Trading Standards' "Price Marking of Goods for Retail Sale" guidance leaflet)
how much would 23 ounces of water weigh roughly?
:-)
23 ounces. Maybe what you meant was, "How much would 23 fluid ounces of water weigh?"
Honestly, who are these people at greenwitch to tell us THEY have central time.
Because that's what was agreed to at a conference in Washington in 1884. (this is what they decided.)