The British established how to determine the longitude at sea, and their observatory was at Greenwich, so naturally the longitude is zero. There's a marked "zero" line going through the courtyard. This is actually a little different from the actual zeroes used by various different mapping systems (GPS will probably tell you you're not quite at zero if you stand in the courtyard of the observatory, for this reason). But the zeroes are all based on the Greenwich meridian.
There used to be quite a few competing meridians. Philadelphia was one, Paris another, and quite a few other places. Greenwich was chosen as the international standard in 1883, but the French held out with Paris until 1911.
Yes, life sucks if you're near to a borderline age. In some countries even thirty-year-olds and older get asked to show id to prove their age just to order a bottle of wine with a meal in a restaurant. This kind of proof-of-age document is usually just a convenience provided for people who are close to a borderline age in countries (like the UK) where there is no standard identity document.
We had a compulsory UK identity card during World War II, supposedly to stop German paratroopers, but it was extremely unpopular because of widespread perceived abuses by the police, and was dropped, unmourned, in the 1950s.
The UK government are introducing student proof-of-age cards.
Elsewhere you said these would be compulsory. I don't see anything on this on the BBC website. Where did you hear about this? It sounds pretty bad, but I'd like to hear more about it. Do you have a reference, URL, newspaper?
The UK government last month proposed a
compulsory-to-own card, which need not be carried. Consultation papers should be released some time in the Spring or Summer. here is the Home Office Press Release.
This looks like a kind of Noah's Ark enterprise, which when you think about how much our understanding of species has changed since the bible was written, is a bit worrying.
A species is broadly a reproductively isolated population. Species come and go all the time, and many are extremely shortlived. So going down the path of classifying all species isn't a good use of resources. Classifying the main genera is much more important. Exercise some kind of discrimination--"this taxon is to be classified, that one isn't much different from the other 2000"--is very important. This species fetishism is just going to involve a lot of wasted effort cataloging almost identical species.
I think I've understood: your company intend to make their own proprietary source for a project, which they will then obfuscate into a form which they will then release under the GPL. Because this is a GPL'd product, it can be freely distributed with source and, more important, can rely on other GPL'd products.
I see three possibilities here:
They don't intend to maintain on support the software--in which case I think it would be difficult to argue that the obfuscated source they release is "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it," simply because the company will not have performed any modifications on the gobbledygook code, but undoubtedly will have done so with the original, discarded, clear source.
They do intend to maintain and support the software by modifying the fair source and producing new gobbledygook. In this case they breache the GPL unless they release the source they worked on.
They intend to maintain and support the gobbledygook without ever modifying the original clear code. I think we can assume that they are not so shortsighted, but you never know!
The real reason the Chinese embassy was bombed was the transmitter on the embassy grounds was being used to relay orders from Serbian HQ to units in the field in Kosovo (NATO had already destroyed all the Serbs' transmitters). NATO neatly bombed only the section of the embassy that housed the transmitter. "Old maps"...pssh, what a lousy explanation.
But I'm sticking with the cockup theory. I'd readily believe that the US military and the CIA would like to have us believe that they're devastatingly clever rather than ploddingly dumb. I'm less sure that I should accept their self-assessment, and wouldn't put it past them to plant deniable stories like this as a face-saver. It's cheaper than getting things right in the first place.
Remember May 7, 1999? Chinese embassy in Belgrade accidentally bombed because it was down on old maps used by US military planners as a Yugoslav government agency.
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The British established how to determine the longitude at sea, and their observatory was at Greenwich, so naturally the longitude is zero. There's a marked "zero" line going through the courtyard. This is actually a little different from the actual zeroes used by various different mapping systems (GPS will probably tell you you're not quite at zero if you stand in the courtyard of the observatory, for this reason). But the zeroes are all based on the Greenwich meridian.
There used to be quite a few competing meridians. Philadelphia was one, Paris another, and quite a few other places. Greenwich was chosen as the international standard in 1883, but the French held out with Paris until 1911.
Well, you're weightless for as long as it lasts.
Hows that any diffrent than being on a rollercoaster?
You can afford a lot of trips on the rollercoaster for $100 000.
We had a compulsory UK identity card during World War II, supposedly to stop German paratroopers, but it was extremely unpopular because of widespread perceived abuses by the police, and was dropped, unmourned, in the 1950s.
Elsewhere you said these would be compulsory. I don't see anything on this on the BBC website. Where did you hear about this? It sounds pretty bad, but I'd like to hear more about it. Do you have a reference, URL, newspaper?
a hurd of beowulf clusters?
The UK government last month proposed a compulsory-to-own card, which need not be carried. Consultation papers should be released some time in the Spring or Summer. here is the Home Office Press Release.
<icke>On the contrary, it just goes to show that the Illuminati will change their own results just to try and make David Icke look stupid.</icke>
A species is broadly a reproductively isolated population. Species come and go all the time, and many are extremely shortlived. So going down the path of classifying all species isn't a good use of resources. Classifying the main genera is much more important. Exercise some kind of discrimination--"this taxon is to be classified, that one isn't much different from the other 2000"--is very important. This species fetishism is just going to involve a lot of wasted effort cataloging almost identical species.
I see three possibilities here:
That's not such a weird idea. Apparently the The Observer, a UK newspaper, agrees with you, and presents some supporting evidence.
But I'm sticking with the cockup theory. I'd readily believe that the US military and the CIA would like to have us believe that they're devastatingly clever rather than ploddingly dumb. I'm less sure that I should accept their self-assessment, and wouldn't put it past them to plant deniable stories like this as a face-saver. It's cheaper than getting things right in the first place.
Remember May 7, 1999? Chinese embassy in Belgrade accidentally bombed because it was down on old maps used by US military planners as a Yugoslav government agency.
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