I don't know if you've looked at a Japanese VIN lately, but when I look at a Honda or a Toyota the VINs seem to fit the same pattern as for any American brand.
Something that strikes me about this is how the states are even going to approve the budget for the change in time, let alone implement it?
I can just imagine the mess at the DMV, let alone the lines.
Why do all these insignias use Latin? More people know English. NASA's English-speaking.
And they apparently didn't see Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (or check a dictionary) or they'd know that Latin doesn't have a "J." It should be "Iuvat."
In Project Xanadu, the idea was that documents are presented to the world as a publication, and that publication is permanent (modulo court order or such). There would be an explicit distinction between publishing something and letting the world view a work in progress.
Remember that once you've made a public statement in the real world, it's out there and there's nothing anyone can really do about it. You can issue(*) a later correction, retraction, clarification, or whatever, but the original doesn't go away, despite what politicians and other public figures might wish. Now that we all have access to the world's screens, we need to be careful what we say if we care about later consequences.
(*) There are other aspects of the Web that make this difficult. See the "Related Projects..." section at crit.org for more.
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Something that strikes me about this is how the states are even going to approve the budget for the change in time, let alone implement it?
I can just imagine the mess at the DMV, let alone the lines.
Why do all these insignias use Latin? More people know English. NASA's English-speaking.
And they apparently didn't see Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (or check a dictionary) or they'd know that Latin doesn't have a "J." It should be "Iuvat."
Remember that once you've made a public statement in the real world, it's out there and there's nothing anyone can really do about it. You can issue(*) a later correction, retraction, clarification, or whatever, but the original doesn't go away, despite what politicians and other public figures might wish. Now that we all have access to the world's screens, we need to be careful what we say if we care about later consequences.
(*) There are other aspects of the Web that make this difficult. See the "Related Projects..." section at crit.org for more.
(apologies if I'm fuzzy on any details)