I find the requirement of this rather interesting. I mean on one level why wouldn't people report their suspicions to the cops. The only plausible reasons are that they are disinterested in what happens (i.e. it's not my town) or that they don't trust the cops.
First thing: "disinterested" means "unbiased." You meant to say "uninterested," which means "not interested."
Secondly, people are not being asked to report people they think may have committed a crime: they are being asked to report people that they think might one day commit a crime.
Who might that be? Brown people. Muslim people. Young people. Mentally-ill people. Poor people. Spotty people who look like the stereotypical junkie. Muscular men. Women who wear "too much" make-up. People wearing leather jackets. People wearing motorcycle helmets. People with beards. People with long hair. People who live in council houses. People who drive older cars. People who listen to weird music. People who eat weird food (vegetarians). People who vote for political parties other than one of the main two (or main ONE?).
Add to all that that genetic sequences have been patented already... just wait until someone is executed for patent violation...
Can someone please explain to me how a gene sequence can be patented? How can you patent something that exists in nature? Maybe astronomers should patent each star or galaxy?
I think I will patent the tree. You will all owe me $0.01 for each tree you plant or own.
Let those who are willfully ignorant fall by the way side economically leaving us at an advantage.
As for the education part, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Don't tire yourself out or trouble yourself too much with these people.
Except most of it's gone now. It's becoming increasingly uneconomical to extract. Mind you, a few more "diplomatic incidents" in the Middle East might change that, and Aberdeen will once again return to the hay days of the early 1980s.
Where I work nobody cares. The tapes are lying about on a bench (home-made) above our homemade (out of junk) servers which are on a second-hand 100Mb hub.
There is a good old CRT on a KVM on the bench (left on all the time of course) against which all the backup tapes were snugly nesting. I moved them away a couple of inches to the edge of the desk.
No one (PHB-wise) cares. I gave up caring too because I am out of there as soon as a new job comes along.
My old nookular power station was designed in the 1950s. It used natural uranium, and due to some unforseen problems with oxidation and neutron embrittlement, it was de-rated to a measely 246MW in the late 1970's. It was originally designed to do 300-330MW.
It was on an 80+ acre site. 70+ acres of that were empty fields. In the 1990's they were looking for ideas to make more money. I said, "Wind turbines are 330kW each, 3 per acre. Let's build on the 70 acres and make about 60MW extra electricity."
Derisive laughs all round. "We can't do that. ${MANY_STUPID_REASONS_WHY_NOT}"
In 2002 they closed it down and announced plans to build a wind farm...
No, it's API compatible at the source level. I have my own GNUstep build on my Slackware box, and on it, just because it can be done, I have Emacs on Aqua.
I don't actually "do" emacs, but I have my own home-made build system, and I put various things in it for toys to play with, including GNUstep and other interesting bits and pieces.
Well I can. I'm from Scotland. My grandmother was a teacher. My mother is a teacher. My wife is a teacher.
I love Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. I was good a languages as well, getting the school prize for German two years running, moderately good at music, won a school maths prize and went on to study Astrophysics at university. Despite going on a complete fruit break in my late teens, I kept going, and here I am now.... developing Linux.
The Scottish and English education systems are a bit different, but hear me out (Mrs Turgid teaches English in England and has 4 children of her own).
Yes, children are encouraged to take easy subjects. They are also encouraged to stay on at school past the age of 16 with only "D" grade exams. They study Media Studies and Child Psychology. I am 32. In my day, this was not the case. The difference now is "League Tables." Education is a political football.
All of Mrs. Turgid's children "hate" Maths. They don't do A-Level Physics at her school any more. Last year, only 6 people did it.
Many of my peers "hated" Maths too. I hated sport, French, English and Religious Education, but I had to do them and so I did. (Please excuse my spelling, the open-source nvidia drivers are scrambling up my text).
Mrs Turgid teaches many children who have no motivation to learn. They are guaranteed a place at Daddy's side in the family business when they leave school, and daddy is rich. It's just over 3 weeks until GCSE English. She is faced with pupils who have NEVER handed in any homework. They are forecast a grade C. If they don't get a grade C or above, the teachers get disciplined. That's right, the teachers get disciplined, not the pupils. She gave them practice exam questions for homework and received nothing. A week later, she got 3 out of 22. This is English. Imagine how bad it is for Maths.
One guy's coursework is over a year late. Eventually he handed in some poetry. Mrs Turgid suspected it was too good to be true, so she did a bit of googling. Lo and behold, he'd got it straight off some professional rapper's web site. Daddy, who is a hot shot lawyer, threatened to sue the school because jr. got rumbled.
So these idle, spoilt brats have no appreciation for anything other than pure material wealth and porn (and they make their own during school time on their mobile phones).
How is anyone supposed to instill the faintest appreciation of the intrinsic beauty and power of Mathematics in these animals? How about Philosophy? Natural Philosohpy (Physics)?
Maybe I was lucky. I had a very intelligent father who asked me challenging philosophical questions as a child, making me think about things for myself, bought me a computer when I was 8, taught me mathematical concepts and instilled in me a love and fascination for Nature and rational inquiry.
You can't buy that, you can't legislate for that. (And they killed Classical Studies when I was at school....)
This very story was reported and discussed on BBC Radio 4's PM programme yesterday (17th April) and the policeman(?) they had on more or less said, "don't run an insecure wireless access point in your home because anyone could just roll up and use it to download child porn or for terrorism and your computers and routers will be taken away [and you will be taken away for questioning and possibly held responsible for providing an open access point.]"
Terrorists. Think of the Children. [We don't like it because it's too hard for us to monitor].
My wife doesn't understand why all the networking in our house has cables. She did when she heard the news story. I don't do WAP. The police can monitor my traffic for all I care (they probably do at my ISP) - I have nothing to hide. But I will not be held responsible under a broken law under an unfair, guilty-until-proven-innocent legal system of a paranoid fascist regime. If that means I lose freedom, so be it.
It's too late, the damage has been done. We are all suspects. The UK is broken.
It is unlikely that the only copy of sensitive data would be on the USB stick. If it is destroyed, you still have the original copy somewhere more secure than your pocket.
But people are stupid. How many times have you heard of laptops being stolen/lost/broken with the only copy of someone's last entire 6 months of work, or their "disk" getting lost etc.
Most people still haven't cottoned on to the fact that digital computers can make perfect copies of their own data. (Another reason why DRM is pointless, but that's another rant as well).
American gallons are smaller that British ones, hence a car will go farther on a British gallon than an American one. A car that gets 50 miles/gal on British gallons will only get about 41.6 miles/gal on American gallons. Therefore, your 70mpg Skoda when taken to America would get about 58.3mpg.
By the way, the conversion factor is approximately 0.833.
Lawnmower Deth recorded a song that sounds identical when played backwards or forwards. It's called "Can I Cultivate Your Groinal Garden" from the album "Ooh Crikey."
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I find the requirement of this rather interesting. I mean on one level why wouldn't people report their suspicions to the cops. The only plausible reasons are that they are disinterested in what happens (i.e. it's not my town) or that they don't trust the cops.
First thing: "disinterested" means "unbiased." You meant to say "uninterested," which means "not interested."
Secondly, people are not being asked to report people they think may have committed a crime: they are being asked to report people that they think might one day commit a crime.
Who might that be? Brown people. Muslim people. Young people. Mentally-ill people. Poor people. Spotty people who look like the stereotypical junkie. Muscular men. Women who wear "too much" make-up. People wearing leather jackets. People wearing motorcycle helmets. People with beards. People with long hair. People who live in council houses. People who drive older cars. People who listen to weird music. People who eat weird food (vegetarians). People who vote for political parties other than one of the main two (or main ONE?).
Need I go on?
Add to all that that genetic sequences have been patented already... just wait until someone is executed for patent violation...
Can someone please explain to me how a gene sequence can be patented? How can you patent something that exists in nature? Maybe astronomers should patent each star or galaxy?
I think I will patent the tree. You will all owe me $0.01 for each tree you plant or own.
The Old and New Testament are generally accepted as historically accurate in the scientific community.
I'm sure they were, 200 years ago. We've had Geology, Charles Darwin and Cosmology since then.
Now what can we do as a nation to get them to pull their crappy movies from our theaters?
Fill your theatres with quality home-grown content. You might even get a government subsidy.
Technological Darwinism, dear boy.
Let those who are willfully ignorant fall by the way side economically leaving us at an advantage.
As for the education part, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Don't tire yourself out or trouble yourself too much with these people.
I though these were CDs, not guns!
All we are saying, is give peace a chance.
Except most of it's gone now. It's becoming increasingly uneconomical to extract. Mind you, a few more "diplomatic incidents" in the Middle East might change that, and Aberdeen will once again return to the hay days of the early 1980s.
Where I work nobody cares. The tapes are lying about on a bench (home-made) above our homemade (out of junk) servers which are on a second-hand 100Mb hub.
There is a good old CRT on a KVM on the bench (left on all the time of course) against which all the backup tapes were snugly nesting. I moved them away a couple of inches to the edge of the desk.
No one (PHB-wise) cares. I gave up caring too because I am out of there as soon as a new job comes along.
We develop an "enterprise" product.
We usually come with subtitles.
So, they're outlawing ventriloquism? They're criminalising Orville?
I'm really curious as to how this would work with people who spoke less than perfect English
You mean Muslim Terrorists (the ones not wearing The Veil) and Illegal Immigrants?
The Energy Crisis is solved!
My old nookular power station was designed in the 1950s. It used natural uranium, and due to some unforseen problems with oxidation and neutron embrittlement, it was de-rated to a measely 246MW in the late 1970's. It was originally designed to do 300-330MW.
It was on an 80+ acre site. 70+ acres of that were empty fields. In the 1990's they were looking for ideas to make more money. I said, "Wind turbines are 330kW each, 3 per acre. Let's build on the 70 acres and make about 60MW extra electricity."
Derisive laughs all round. "We can't do that. ${MANY_STUPID_REASONS_WHY_NOT}"
In 2002 they closed it down and announced plans to build a wind farm...
I now work in software.
So, basically, people who suck at math are advised not to waste their time and everyone else's money, pursuing something they suck at anyway.
What's the catch?
You, sir, have got to the root of the problem. We, as a society (or maybe the West in general), have forgotten the point of education.
No, it's API compatible at the source level. I have my own GNUstep build on my Slackware box, and on it, just because it can be done, I have Emacs on Aqua.
I don't actually "do" emacs, but I have my own home-made build system, and I put various things in it for toys to play with, including GNUstep and other interesting bits and pieces.
I can't tell you about schools in the UK,
Well I can. I'm from Scotland. My grandmother was a teacher. My mother is a teacher. My wife is a teacher.
I love Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science. I was good a languages as well, getting the school prize for German two years running, moderately good at music, won a school maths prize and went on to study Astrophysics at university. Despite going on a complete fruit break in my late teens, I kept going, and here I am now.... developing Linux.
The Scottish and English education systems are a bit different, but hear me out (Mrs Turgid teaches English in England and has 4 children of her own).
Yes, children are encouraged to take easy subjects. They are also encouraged to stay on at school past the age of 16 with only "D" grade exams. They study Media Studies and Child Psychology. I am 32. In my day, this was not the case. The difference now is "League Tables." Education is a political football.
All of Mrs. Turgid's children "hate" Maths. They don't do A-Level Physics at her school any more. Last year, only 6 people did it.
Many of my peers "hated" Maths too. I hated sport, French, English and Religious Education, but I had to do them and so I did. (Please excuse my spelling, the open-source nvidia drivers are scrambling up my text).
Mrs Turgid teaches many children who have no motivation to learn. They are guaranteed a place at Daddy's side in the family business when they leave school, and daddy is rich. It's just over 3 weeks until GCSE English. She is faced with pupils who have NEVER handed in any homework. They are forecast a grade C. If they don't get a grade C or above, the teachers get disciplined. That's right, the teachers get disciplined, not the pupils. She gave them practice exam questions for homework and received nothing. A week later, she got 3 out of 22. This is English. Imagine how bad it is for Maths.
One guy's coursework is over a year late. Eventually he handed in some poetry. Mrs Turgid suspected it was too good to be true, so she did a bit of googling. Lo and behold, he'd got it straight off some professional rapper's web site. Daddy, who is a hot shot lawyer, threatened to sue the school because jr. got rumbled.
So these idle, spoilt brats have no appreciation for anything other than pure material wealth and porn (and they make their own during school time on their mobile phones).
How is anyone supposed to instill the faintest appreciation of the intrinsic beauty and power of Mathematics in these animals? How about Philosophy? Natural Philosohpy (Physics)?
Maybe I was lucky. I had a very intelligent father who asked me challenging philosophical questions as a child, making me think about things for myself, bought me a computer when I was 8, taught me mathematical concepts and instilled in me a love and fascination for Nature and rational inquiry.
You can't buy that, you can't legislate for that. (And they killed Classical Studies when I was at school....)
You must have a 6 core one. You can get 4 and 8 core ones too.
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Herr Ober! Er gibt eine Fliege in meiner Suppe.
Genau? Was macht Sie?
Gar nichts. Ich glaube dass sie gestorben ist.
I know a bunch of rich kids in the US and most of them have never bought a DVD in their life.
You don't get rich by spending money.
This very story was reported and discussed on BBC Radio 4's PM programme yesterday (17th April) and the policeman(?) they had on more or less said, "don't run an insecure wireless access point in your home because anyone could just roll up and use it to download child porn or for terrorism and your computers and routers will be taken away [and you will be taken away for questioning and possibly held responsible for providing an open access point.]"
Terrorists. Think of the Children. [We don't like it because it's too hard for us to monitor].
My wife doesn't understand why all the networking in our house has cables. She did when she heard the news story. I don't do WAP. The police can monitor my traffic for all I care (they probably do at my ISP) - I have nothing to hide. But I will not be held responsible under a broken law under an unfair, guilty-until-proven-innocent legal system of a paranoid fascist regime. If that means I lose freedom, so be it.
It's too late, the damage has been done. We are all suspects. The UK is broken.
Open Firware has been around a lot longer than intel's EFI, and is used by Sun, IBM and Apple for their RISC boxes.
There is a free-as-in-speech implementation for the PeeCee called OpenBIOS.
It's implemented in FORTH.
It is unlikely that the only copy of sensitive data would be on the USB stick. If it is destroyed, you still have the original copy somewhere more secure than your pocket.
But people are stupid. How many times have you heard of laptops being stolen/lost/broken with the only copy of someone's last entire 6 months of work, or their "disk" getting lost etc.
Most people still haven't cottoned on to the fact that digital computers can make perfect copies of their own data. (Another reason why DRM is pointless, but that's another rant as well).
American gallons are smaller that British ones, hence a car will go farther on a British gallon than an American one. A car that gets 50 miles/gal on British gallons will only get about 41.6 miles/gal on American gallons. Therefore, your 70mpg Skoda when taken to America would get about 58.3mpg.
By the way, the conversion factor is approximately 0.833.
Lawnmower Deth recorded a song that sounds identical when played backwards or forwards. It's called "Can I Cultivate Your Groinal Garden" from the album "Ooh Crikey."