I still do this. It's somewhat more expensive than buying milk at the supermarket (about 65p for a pint opposed to 45p for a pint) but I do it because I like it.
Filings with the court are not subject to copyright. What about exhibits? I think they can be still subject to copyright. Think about it. Suppose exhibits to court cases were not subject to copyright. Suppose I copy your book. You decide to sue me for copyright. The book I copied will necessarily be an exhibit in the case. Exhibits in cases are not subject to copyright, so now by suing for copyright infringement you've put your book in the public domain.
While some people would like copyright law to work this way, I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
Of course I haven't read TFA, so have no idea whether the "letter" that TorrentFreak was hosting is a letter to the court (not subject to copyright) or a letter to someone else which was later submitted to the court (possibly subject to copyright).
Solar might. Progress in wind is perhaps just starting to slow down. Cost of energy modelling trades the unit costs of building a wind turbine (grid connection, land lease, control gear, cooling, lubrication), the scalable costs of building a wind turbine (generation gear, gearbox, blades, hub, support structure, nacelle frame, foundation) and the operational costs (maintenance) against the expected return on electricity generated. For many years this has shown the optimal size to be larger than the turbines being built (showing that the technology is improving faster than the manufacturing market can keep up). But currently it says around 7MW is the optimal size, and that's around the size of new designs currently being built. There are several at that size and several much bigger (at least two 10MW machines I know of). This suggests that the technology is maturing and future progress will be slower.
For offshore wind, the picture is worse. The cost of energy decrease has stopped altogether and in fact it is getting more expensive.
Keep in mind that Fukushima Daichi so far has caused exactly zero human deaths and exactly zero human health impact, with exactly zero forecast human health impact. I'm not saying it'll be cheap to clean up, I'm not saying the environmental damage is unimportant and I'm not saying the disruption to people's lives is unimportant. But keep some perspective.
Grocery delivery has been pretty common in the UK for a while. I used it for a couple of years. It's not same-day. You order what you want online then book a delivery slot and someone comes around within about a 90 minute window with your groceries.
The good thing about it is you can get all your groceries delivered without having to leave your home. Some of the websites are getting pretty good now - you can set up lists of things that you always order and that get added to your list automatically and so on. The main downside is what happens when they don't have what you asked for in stock. They'll substitute something else. It's up to you to check the receipt when the delivery comes and see if they've substituted anything - if you can remember what you ordered in the first place. They make some pretty bizarre substitutions. I remember ordering 5kg of potatoes. They didn't have the specific 5kg bag I asked for so they substituted a tray of four small potatoes. Um.
Well, in theory that's true of *any* Linux distribution. Replacing the kernel is not "fairly easy" though. Sure it can be done: Debian are attempting a port that replaces Linux with BSD, for instance. But they've only got as far as a preview release. Moving a whole operating system from kernel to another is not easy.
Equations are a great way of explaining something to someone who is familiar with equations. Someone who has done first year undergraduate maths and done reasonably well at it will appreciate having an equation to explain something.
Someone who did fairly poorly at high school maths will look at an equation and say, "What???"
Take Newton's second law. You can explain it in two ways. The first:
When a force is applied to a body, it accelerates in proportion to the force and inverse proportion to its mass.
The second:
F = m a
F = force
m = mass
a = acceleration
To someone familiar with mathematical models, the second is intuitive; if you increase the force, the acceleration increases. If you increase the mass but keep the force constant, the acceleration will have to decrease to satisfy the equation. But you have to already have that intuitive grasp of what an equation means, or the first explanation is always going to be easier to handle.
Yep, go find an Italian family pretty much anywhere in the world and you'll find every possible part of the pig turned into something damned tasty.
I suspect that when the OP said "Western" he meant "American." Every other Western country has its own food that is made from some generally gross part of the animal. The Englishman has his black pudding, the Scot his haggis, the Welshman his faggots, the Frenchman his frogs and snails. The Germans have handkase, the Finns rotted shark, the Swedes fermented herring. I could go on.
I suspect the objection to insects is that we think of them as things we find in our drawers or crawling up our walls. You don't just pick something off the wall and eat it. Cows live on farms and we eat them. Beatles live in shit and we don't eat them. Your average insect also smells vile when you squash it - why would you eat something that smells like that?
Well, from TFS, "David Cameron, the British Prime Minister has promised that the UK's ISPs will be required to provide connections with 'porn blocking' filters switched on by default" and this, of course, has everyone terribly upset. So which is it? If he really asked them to lie, then the filter is not default-on - so what is everyone getting so terribly upset about?
Sorry, wrong number for UK gun homicides - actually 0.04, not 0.25 per 100k. So the difference in gun homicide rate is 3.56 per 100k, while the difference in homicide rate is 3.6 per 100k. Excluding gun homicides, the homicide rates are 1.2 vs 1.16 per 100k - so nearly identical it makes no difference.
Other factors? Really? The overall homicide rate in the USA is 4.8 per 100,000, of which 3.6 per 100,000 are perpetrated with guns. In the UK, there are 1.2 homicides per 100,000, of which 0.25 per 100,000 are perpetrated with guns. The difference in gun homicide rate is 3.35, the difference in overall homicide rate is 3.6.
So, basically, take all the homicides committed with guns away, and the USA and the UK have pretty comparable homicide rates (1.2 vs 0.95 per 100,000). Coincidence?
Speaking of apples-to-oranges comparisons, you've quoted the homicide rate for the USA and the overall gun death rate for the UK. Homicide rates are 3.6 per 100,000 in the USA vs 0.04 per 100,000 in the UK (90 times higher) and the overall gun death rate is 10.3 per 100,000 in the USA vs 0.25 per 100,000 in the UK (41.2 times higher).
10.3 people per 100,000 is not almost nothing. That means that over your 75-year life, you have a 1 in 129 chance of death by being shot. It's not likely as such, but not odds I'd be happy living with, either.
That's right. Gun laws in Britain make no difference whatsoever, in fact the gun murder rate there is ten times higher than in the USA.
Oh. Wait. No it's not. Actually the USA is number 11 on that list and the UK is number 60. But hey, never let facts get in the way of your preconceptions.
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I still do this. It's somewhat more expensive than buying milk at the supermarket (about 65p for a pint opposed to 45p for a pint) but I do it because I like it.
Okay, now I've read TFA; the document in question is a court filing and definitely not subject to copyright.
Filings with the court are not subject to copyright. What about exhibits? I think they can be still subject to copyright. Think about it. Suppose exhibits to court cases were not subject to copyright. Suppose I copy your book. You decide to sue me for copyright. The book I copied will necessarily be an exhibit in the case. Exhibits in cases are not subject to copyright, so now by suing for copyright infringement you've put your book in the public domain.
While some people would like copyright law to work this way, I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
Of course I haven't read TFA, so have no idea whether the "letter" that TorrentFreak was hosting is a letter to the court (not subject to copyright) or a letter to someone else which was later submitted to the court (possibly subject to copyright).
Solar might. Progress in wind is perhaps just starting to slow down. Cost of energy modelling trades the unit costs of building a wind turbine (grid connection, land lease, control gear, cooling, lubrication), the scalable costs of building a wind turbine (generation gear, gearbox, blades, hub, support structure, nacelle frame, foundation) and the operational costs (maintenance) against the expected return on electricity generated. For many years this has shown the optimal size to be larger than the turbines being built (showing that the technology is improving faster than the manufacturing market can keep up). But currently it says around 7MW is the optimal size, and that's around the size of new designs currently being built. There are several at that size and several much bigger (at least two 10MW machines I know of). This suggests that the technology is maturing and future progress will be slower.
For offshore wind, the picture is worse. The cost of energy decrease has stopped altogether and in fact it is getting more expensive.
Keep in mind that Fukushima Daichi so far has caused exactly zero human deaths and exactly zero human health impact, with exactly zero forecast human health impact. I'm not saying it'll be cheap to clean up, I'm not saying the environmental damage is unimportant and I'm not saying the disruption to people's lives is unimportant. But keep some perspective.
You seem to be writing an app. Would you like help?
Here's betting this will be just as useful.
Grocery delivery has been pretty common in the UK for a while. I used it for a couple of years. It's not same-day. You order what you want online then book a delivery slot and someone comes around within about a 90 minute window with your groceries.
The good thing about it is you can get all your groceries delivered without having to leave your home. Some of the websites are getting pretty good now - you can set up lists of things that you always order and that get added to your list automatically and so on. The main downside is what happens when they don't have what you asked for in stock. They'll substitute something else. It's up to you to check the receipt when the delivery comes and see if they've substituted anything - if you can remember what you ordered in the first place. They make some pretty bizarre substitutions. I remember ordering 5kg of potatoes. They didn't have the specific 5kg bag I asked for so they substituted a tray of four small potatoes. Um.
Go learn the language, you fucking American.
Well, in theory that's true of *any* Linux distribution. Replacing the kernel is not "fairly easy" though. Sure it can be done: Debian are attempting a port that replaces Linux with BSD, for instance. But they've only got as far as a preview release. Moving a whole operating system from kernel to another is not easy.
Glad you got this one before me. Otherwise it'd be my karma being shot to hell...
Think you've missed some history of the Democrats there...
Equations are a great way of explaining something to someone who is familiar with equations. Someone who has done first year undergraduate maths and done reasonably well at it will appreciate having an equation to explain something.
Someone who did fairly poorly at high school maths will look at an equation and say, "What???"
Take Newton's second law. You can explain it in two ways. The first:
The second:
To someone familiar with mathematical models, the second is intuitive; if you increase the force, the acceleration increases. If you increase the mass but keep the force constant, the acceleration will have to decrease to satisfy the equation. But you have to already have that intuitive grasp of what an equation means, or the first explanation is always going to be easier to handle.
Yep, go find an Italian family pretty much anywhere in the world and you'll find every possible part of the pig turned into something damned tasty.
I suspect that when the OP said "Western" he meant "American." Every other Western country has its own food that is made from some generally gross part of the animal. The Englishman has his black pudding, the Scot his haggis, the Welshman his faggots, the Frenchman his frogs and snails. The Germans have handkase, the Finns rotted shark, the Swedes fermented herring. I could go on.
I suspect the objection to insects is that we think of them as things we find in our drawers or crawling up our walls. You don't just pick something off the wall and eat it. Cows live on farms and we eat them. Beatles live in shit and we don't eat them. Your average insect also smells vile when you squash it - why would you eat something that smells like that?
Six days from the announcement of a new tax to being required to collect it? Really? How many businesses can change their processes that quickly?
Perhaps it did for one - his name was Edward Snowden.
Well, from TFS, "David Cameron, the British Prime Minister has promised that the UK's ISPs will be required to provide connections with 'porn blocking' filters switched on by default" and this, of course, has everyone terribly upset. So which is it? If he really asked them to lie, then the filter is not default-on - so what is everyone getting so terribly upset about?
Since the gun death rate is relatively low the approximation is fairly good.
No. the ISPs are already proposing a system where the filter is on unless you make an active choice to turn it off. Check your facts.
Sorry, wrong number for UK gun homicides - actually 0.04, not 0.25 per 100k. So the difference in gun homicide rate is 3.56 per 100k, while the difference in homicide rate is 3.6 per 100k. Excluding gun homicides, the homicide rates are 1.2 vs 1.16 per 100k - so nearly identical it makes no difference.
Other factors? Really? The overall homicide rate in the USA is 4.8 per 100,000, of which 3.6 per 100,000 are perpetrated with guns. In the UK, there are 1.2 homicides per 100,000, of which 0.25 per 100,000 are perpetrated with guns. The difference in gun homicide rate is 3.35, the difference in overall homicide rate is 3.6.
So, basically, take all the homicides committed with guns away, and the USA and the UK have pretty comparable homicide rates (1.2 vs 0.95 per 100,000). Coincidence?
Speaking of apples-to-oranges comparisons, you've quoted the homicide rate for the USA and the overall gun death rate for the UK. Homicide rates are 3.6 per 100,000 in the USA vs 0.04 per 100,000 in the UK (90 times higher) and the overall gun death rate is 10.3 per 100,000 in the USA vs 0.25 per 100,000 in the UK (41.2 times higher).
10.3 people per 100,000 is not almost nothing. That means that over your 75-year life, you have a 1 in 129 chance of death by being shot. It's not likely as such, but not odds I'd be happy living with, either.
No no no no no no. Can't block good clean violence. No problem with nice, clean violence, as long as there's no sex.
Right. "Government moves to block porn and left-wing political groups." I can see it going really well.
Yeah, the dirty strings in the hashes... I saw a A9 88 7F DF 4E 1C the other day! Dirty sods.
That's right. Gun laws in Britain make no difference whatsoever, in fact the gun murder rate there is ten times higher than in the USA.
Oh. Wait. No it's not. Actually the USA is number 11 on that list and the UK is number 60. But hey, never let facts get in the way of your preconceptions.