For proper flamefests, see the forums in www.fijilive.com, if that country's bandwidth can take it. I guess while they are insulting each other they are not shooting...
they (the posters) mostly use english because if you use your language who will understand you, and if you use their language that's conceding a point...
The site itself is fairly moderate and informative. The people in the country are mostly lovely, but the internet doesn't always bring out the best in people.
I hear that in many US high schools they have vending machines that dispense flavoured sugar water. This is to raise money for the school (and large companies). Surely getting rid of some of those would do as much good to improve health as a modest increase of exercise.
one of the few I have seen girls playing in arcades. We need more games that have a broad appeal like that.
Strangely when I was at school I was the only boy in the gymnastics class (an attempt to keep fit). It seems strange that no other boys thought of the benefits of this class!
People are getting fatter all the time (I certainly am) so we need to encourage fitness, but I would be disappointed if this replaced something good with queues for the machine.
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Ask those uppity Euros about their little anti-semitic problem sometime, see if they have a good answer.
Americans seem to that that anyone who doesn't want to burn Yassar Arafat at the stake and bulldoze all Palestians into the sea is anti-semitic.
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And I have no tolerance for bad spelling
And who says slashdot readers think irony is something other people do to their shirts?
But Yakutsk in siberia probably has a few more...
it varies from -71 degrees celcius to toasty warm with mosquitos.
(-84 farenheit to +102 farenheit according to another account)
They were on the news a while ago with kids not having shoes (in winter!) because of the financial situation. When it gets below -60 degrees C, some of the equipment stops working (similar to the situation in the UK when it gets below -1 degrees C).
The USA only has 16fl oz in its pint the UK has 20. An American holidaying in the UK may think he can have two pints of strong beer before his abilities are restricted. If he was to drink two UK pints he would in fact consume two and a half US pints.
Also he may be confused by the beer having alcohol in it:-)
And the fact that sitting next to him in the pub is a fetus in a wonderbra (ID checks are not always strictly enforced).
says that one pound = 0.45359237 kilograms exactly by law, so it is a measure of mass; at least if you are trying to sell someone a pound of bananas. Note that your scales must support metric unless you want the trading standards folks to make an example of you.
In New Zealand and Japan, the staff in restaurants get paid to do their job. So they do it, no bribe required.
Does your calculator say how much is required to tip a congressman/senator?:-)
Also, tax is included in the bill. It is not considered to be optional, so there is little point in breaking it down. What next, itemised billing for the cost of the food, rent overheads, protection money (in certain countries/cities) etc.?
Or can you claim back the tax you pay on food somehow? (Thus rendering my last paragraph facetious).
There are 1000 metres in a kilometre. Why clutter up your calculations and crash your spaceship into Mars when you can just adopt an easier set of units?
Is a pound a unit of force or a unit of mass? In engineering it is generally force, but by law it is mass, and it was created for the law not for physicists.
They would post in their programs on ruled paper, typists would type it in verbatim, the program would be run through the compiler and the error listing would be posted back to the students.
Turnaround time: 2-3 weeks (mostly in the post).
They learned to check their code before submitting it:-)
Alas, recently the department announced that extramural students must have access to a computer now, so those days are gone.
With instant feedback from compilers, people have no pride in their code;-)
on the main southern train line (london-brighton) when we are travelling at ~20 km/h. There are some areas (in the open air) where signal will just cut out and then come back a hundred metres later. Maybe the operators should worry about those ones first.
commit suicide on the tracks. Heck one guy even did that the other week near my office. He was in a wheelchair at the time, proving that the station at least had disabled access:-/ I wonder how the guard who let him through the luggage/pram/disabled gate felt when s/he saw what happened later.
This is very unfortunate, but perhaps it is more common here than in the USA because you can't buy guns/bullets/assault rifles from the local convenience stores here (after the Dunblane massacre, the public and govt. decided shooting people was a Bad Thing) so people seek alternative ways to do that.
And here you would fry even without a train hitting you, because the third rail carries a damn big DC current. (Is that a win for Edison over Tesla wrt short distances?)
I remember being told software I worked on was considered for use by Dutch railways, in a secondary system. I thought, God no, I have to travel on those trains! (on holiday). Fortunately they were persuaded not to use our stuff (which was not at all designed for safety critical systems). But maybe other office-software companies were less scrupulous.
I guess Russian trains benefit from wide-gauge, and very long distances between junctions, hence the low value.
Otherwise capital punishment would surely be unconstitutional.
With abortion you can argue the case about when independant life starts or ends, perhaps also with coma victims, but I don't think you can with capital punishment.
And as a UK subject and a European citizen (Treaty of Maastricht) I do have many rights, which the various European courts are eager to argue about the balance thereof.
For example, a US citizen accused of planning to be a terrorist (by planning to steal radioactive material from an undecided place and detonate it in an undecided location in Washington DC) has been held by the military, it seems as an "enemy combatant". Has congress declared war? Have they recognised al-quaeda as an entity (e.g. government) which they are empowered to declare war against? I would guess that conspiracy laws might require planned acts to be a bit more specific than we have been told.
It is most likely to the best that the individual we just heard about is being detained, but the government should act within the law; for example if they wanted the equivalent of the UK Prevention of Terrorism Acts, they should include at least minimal safeguards, just as timelimits for the law itself and scrutiny of each case by the minister responsible.
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they (the posters) mostly use english because if you use your language who will understand you, and if you use their language that's conceding a point...
The site itself is fairly moderate and informative. The people in the country are mostly lovely, but the internet doesn't always bring out the best in people.
I hear that in many US high schools they have vending machines that dispense flavoured sugar water. This is to raise money for the school (and large companies). Surely getting rid of some of those would do as much good to improve health as a modest increase of exercise.
So you think the world of The Matrix is a good and pleasant future then?
one of the few I have seen girls playing in arcades. We need more games that have a broad appeal like that.
Strangely when I was at school I was the only boy in the gymnastics class (an attempt to keep fit). It seems strange that no other boys thought of the benefits of this class!
People are getting fatter all the time (I certainly am) so we need to encourage fitness, but I would be disappointed if this replaced something good with queues for the machine.
Americans seem to that that anyone who doesn't want to burn Yassar Arafat at the stake and bulldoze all Palestians into the sea is anti-semitic.
And I have no tolerance for bad spelling
And who says slashdot readers think irony is something other people do to their shirts?
by government agencies!
(-84 farenheit to +102 farenheit according to another account)
They were on the news a while ago with kids not having shoes (in winter!) because of the financial situation. When it gets below -60 degrees C, some of the equipment stops working (similar to the situation in the UK when it gets below -1 degrees C).
And they have really nasty floods there too.
I have a large stack of frisbees which gives the impression they may have arrived already. If they were rewritable I wouldn't mind :-)
The USA only has 16fl oz in its pint the UK has 20. An American holidaying in the UK may think he can have two pints of strong beer before his abilities are restricted. If he was to drink two UK pints he would in fact consume two and a half US pints.
Also he may be confused by the beer having alcohol in it :-)
And the fact that sitting next to him in the pub is a fetus in a wonderbra (ID checks are not always strictly enforced).
says that one pound = 0.45359237 kilograms exactly by law, so it is a measure of mass; at least if you are trying to sell someone a pound of bananas. Note that your scales must support metric unless you want the trading standards folks to make an example of you.
Yes, my grandad bought me a circular one for my birthday :-)
And knowing about logarithms turned out to be useful when I was writing some code than needed quick multiplies on a 65816.
Of course nowadays processors even have a built in multiplication instruction, making such techniques less useful.
In New Zealand and Japan, the staff in restaurants get paid to do their job. So they do it, no bribe required.
Does your calculator say how much is required to tip a congressman/senator? :-)
Also, tax is included in the bill. It is not considered to be optional, so there is little point in breaking it down. What next, itemised billing for the cost of the food, rent overheads, protection money (in certain countries/cities) etc.?
Or can you claim back the tax you pay on food somehow? (Thus rendering my last paragraph facetious).
And damn, that's one of the useful ones! When writing a video game you can actually use that (for working out where the ball is going to land).
Trig, geometry and vector/matrices are similarly useful.
I don't think I've ever used calculus for anything much in the real world. Why does it get given so much emphasis at school and university?
Is a pound a unit of force or a unit of mass? In engineering it is generally force, but by law it is mass, and it was created for the law not for physicists.
People can read faster than they can listen. Some material benefits from audio or graphical presentation, other material is fine as text.
Can you imagine slashdot or another web site as accessed via a telephone (press 7 to hear the next comment... press 9 to visit the goats.cx link...)
They would post in their programs on ruled paper, typists would type it in verbatim, the program would be run through the compiler and the error listing would be posted back to the students.
Turnaround time: 2-3 weeks (mostly in the post).
They learned to check their code before submitting it :-)
Alas, recently the department announced that extramural students must have access to a computer now, so those days are gone.
With instant feedback from compilers, people have no pride in their code ;-)
on the main southern train line (london-brighton) when we are travelling at ~20 km/h. There are some areas (in the open air) where signal will just cut out and then come back a hundred metres later. Maybe the operators should worry about those ones first.
This is very unfortunate, but perhaps it is more common here than in the USA because you can't buy guns/bullets/assault rifles from the local convenience stores here (after the Dunblane massacre, the public and govt. decided shooting people was a Bad Thing) so people seek alternative ways to do that.
And here you would fry even without a train hitting you, because the third rail carries a damn big DC current. (Is that a win for Edison over Tesla wrt short distances?)
Almost true! There is/was a US current affairs program called "60 minutes" but it's only 40 minutes long!
That record looks terrible!
I remember being told software I worked on was considered for use by Dutch railways, in a secondary system. I thought, God no, I have to travel on those trains! (on holiday). Fortunately they were persuaded not to use our stuff (which was not at all designed for safety critical systems). But maybe other office-software companies were less scrupulous.
I guess Russian trains benefit from wide-gauge, and very long distances between junctions, hence the low value.
If you don't like what either of the Tory parties are doing and saying.
With abortion you can argue the case about when independant life starts or ends, perhaps also with coma victims, but I don't think you can with capital punishment.
And as a UK subject and a European citizen (Treaty of Maastricht) I do have many rights, which the various European courts are eager to argue about the balance thereof.
It is most likely to the best that the individual we just heard about is being detained, but the government should act within the law; for example if they wanted the equivalent of the UK Prevention of Terrorism Acts, they should include at least minimal safeguards, just as timelimits for the law itself and scrutiny of each case by the minister responsible.
is he still alive then?