Some of the most valuable information you can gets your hands on as a historian is ephemera. Victorian household accounts books are a goldmine. Going further back, commonplace books record a treasure trove of information about what life and culture was like. It's not difficult to imagine a historian in 2200 examining early 21st century attitudes to religion by analysing ceiling cat v. basement cat.
Yes, but *why*? What's the point of putting people on Mars? Spirit did more than any manned mission could, and we don't need to measure penis length against Russia any more.
It's a long time before computers really get there, but Bach is low-hanging fruit, particularly an example like that. Any modern composer could churn out endless reams of material like the Partitia.
On the contrary, we know quite a lot about how musical genius works. Specifically, we know it's not unusual, and anyone given suitable stimuli and sufficient determination will become musically precocious. Mozart was unusual only in that he received the highest possible quality of training from an early age and personally had the will to work on his own talents.
The Rite of Spring is pretty rhythmic. We're just starved of rhythm in Western culture - the human brain is capable of dealing naturally with whole worlds of bizarre schemes, we just don't give it a chance (same for most of our musical skills, but never mind).
I didn't realise the sentence was suspended, so my bad. But a European arrest warrant can be issued where there has already been a conviction for a sentence over four months.
This can happen. English law has a concept called "strict liability", essentially an offence against which there can be no defence. Possession of proscribed firearms is a strict liability offence. Recently, a former soldier found a sawn-off shotgun in his garden, picked it up, took it to his local police station, was arrested and found guilty of possession. The legal profession as a whole hates such offences, as they know there will always be edge cases that require special consideration, but politicans love to enact them "for the children", or whatever the buzz du jour is.
As I understand EU law, they could now be arrested anywhere in Europe if the Italians felt like chasing this down. I suspect they won't - not even Berlusconi can be stupid enough (surely) to miss just what a shitstorm would erupt if these guys did end up in a jail.
I suspect this will ultimately end up being chucked out in a judgement from Strasbourg. Here's hoping.
No. Justice Eady gets these cases because he has always been a specialist in privacy and libel issues, as long as he has been a professional lawyer (just like East Texas gets patent cases because it has become expert in patent law). And while I disagree on principle with many of his ruling, he is invariably ruling narrowly and intelligently within the framework of existing law - and I say that having read through several of his complete judgements. He would also be one of the first to agree that this is an area where creative legislative intervention would be welcome.
Aye, but ye should ken fin it's libel law it's aye much the same. Tak tent o the main difference, though: wir courts dinnae allas gie costs and dinnae award high damages, sae naebody yaises them.
And that's the point. Singh has to prove facts that go well beyond his knowledge, despite overwhelming common-sense evidence on his side. No sort of justice is being served by a legal system in which one cannot call a spade a spade roundly.
Does Twitter really have loads which are more difficult to manage than, say, the BBC, CNN, Google, or Wikipedia? I would have thought serving up a fairly straightforward page, a stylesheet, a background image and the tweets or twits or whatever they're called can't be that difficult compared to, say, Facebook.
I wouldn't disagree, though legal advice and simple incompetence are two obvious possibilities that spring to mind. I just know that very often when I see something apparently outrageous that there turns out to be an explanation behind it.
Dirk Pitt here, stuck in a cave/submarine/aircraft/other contrived and dangerous situation at the start of my latest novel, and I'd just like to take a few moments (checks Doxa dive watch) to disagree with you, I never repeat plot elements. Once I get out of my current contrived situation, I'm going to hook up with Loren and do something that'll really surprise you. So there. Now where that little Italian guy?
One interesting exercise is to use something like R to plot successive psuedorandom numbers from [0,1] against each other. Very quickly, you start to see all sorts of patterns appearing, and you think, "aha! This data is not truly random!" The repeat the exercise with data from random.org, and exactly the same thing happens.
Bear in mind that this is a claim that has been made. It is quite conceivable this is a picture the child took himself, sent to a friend, ended up in school authorities hands, and a smart kid realised he could get some leverage if he was being spied on. Wait and see what the court finds.
They lost 42 laptops at a total cost of $37800 - I'm not counting recoveries, as they were most likely replaced by the time they were recovered. There were 2620 laptops issued under the scheme, not all insured, but potentially a total revenue of just over $144,000. Include several years of tail risk, and that's expensive, but hardly scam territory. I'm not sure I would offer insurance for much less without knowing what teenagers would do with them.
I've often wondered what would happen if you took a standard school intake class, gave them a short all-purpose test, told them they'd all passed with 95%+, and spent the rest of the year treating them like geniuses. To this day, I'm convinced that I am no smarter than my classmates were, but because I read books I was "the smart one" and hence I did end up doing better.
As a part-time music teacher currently doing a maths degree, it is strikingly obvious that most of my lecturers are utterly clueless about basic pedagogy. Some of their lecture techniques are downright harmful. The classic is issuing notes, but with blanks left in "so you have to pay attention". Result: lecturer flies through material and nobody pays him any attention while they try to find and copy down the blanks. Grrr.
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Some of the most valuable information you can gets your hands on as a historian is ephemera. Victorian household accounts books are a goldmine. Going further back, commonplace books record a treasure trove of information about what life and culture was like. It's not difficult to imagine a historian in 2200 examining early 21st century attitudes to religion by analysing ceiling cat v. basement cat.
Yes, but *why*? What's the point of putting people on Mars? Spirit did more than any manned mission could, and we don't need to measure penis length against Russia any more.
It's a long time before computers really get there, but Bach is low-hanging fruit, particularly an example like that. Any modern composer could churn out endless reams of material like the Partitia.
As opposed to, say, opera?
On the contrary, we know quite a lot about how musical genius works. Specifically, we know it's not unusual, and anyone given suitable stimuli and sufficient determination will become musically precocious. Mozart was unusual only in that he received the highest possible quality of training from an early age and personally had the will to work on his own talents.
The Rite of Spring is pretty rhythmic. We're just starved of rhythm in Western culture - the human brain is capable of dealing naturally with whole worlds of bizarre schemes, we just don't give it a chance (same for most of our musical skills, but never mind).
I didn't realise the sentence was suspended, so my bad. But a European arrest warrant can be issued where there has already been a conviction for a sentence over four months.
Wrong. None of the employees are Italian, live in Italy or indeed had direct responsibility for the video.
This can happen. English law has a concept called "strict liability", essentially an offence against which there can be no defence. Possession of proscribed firearms is a strict liability offence. Recently, a former soldier found a sawn-off shotgun in his garden, picked it up, took it to his local police station, was arrested and found guilty of possession. The legal profession as a whole hates such offences, as they know there will always be edge cases that require special consideration, but politicans love to enact them "for the children", or whatever the buzz du jour is.
I suspect this will ultimately end up being chucked out in a judgement from Strasbourg. Here's hoping.
No. Justice Eady gets these cases because he has always been a specialist in privacy and libel issues, as long as he has been a professional lawyer (just like East Texas gets patent cases because it has become expert in patent law). And while I disagree on principle with many of his ruling, he is invariably ruling narrowly and intelligently within the framework of existing law - and I say that having read through several of his complete judgements. He would also be one of the first to agree that this is an area where creative legislative intervention would be welcome.
Aye, but ye should ken fin it's libel law it's aye much the same. Tak tent o the main difference, though: wir courts dinnae allas gie costs and dinnae award high damages, sae naebody yaises them.
And that's the point. Singh has to prove facts that go well beyond his knowledge, despite overwhelming common-sense evidence on his side. No sort of justice is being served by a legal system in which one cannot call a spade a spade roundly.
Thecase is actually legally more interesting than a simple one of libel...
Don't hold your breath, nobody cares about suing slashdotters. Gordon Brown eats babies and homoeopaths are liars, but they never sue me :(
Does Twitter really have loads which are more difficult to manage than, say, the BBC, CNN, Google, or Wikipedia? I would have thought serving up a fairly straightforward page, a stylesheet, a background image and the tweets or twits or whatever they're called can't be that difficult compared to, say, Facebook.
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I wouldn't disagree, though legal advice and simple incompetence are two obvious possibilities that spring to mind. I just know that very often when I see something apparently outrageous that there turns out to be an explanation behind it.
Dirk Pitt here, stuck in a cave/submarine/aircraft/other contrived and dangerous situation at the start of my latest novel, and I'd just like to take a few moments (checks Doxa dive watch) to disagree with you, I never repeat plot elements. Once I get out of my current contrived situation, I'm going to hook up with Loren and do something that'll really surprise you. So there. Now where that little Italian guy?
One interesting exercise is to use something like R to plot successive psuedorandom numbers from [0,1] against each other. Very quickly, you start to see all sorts of patterns appearing, and you think, "aha! This data is not truly random!" The repeat the exercise with data from random.org, and exactly the same thing happens.
Bear in mind that this is a claim that has been made. It is quite conceivable this is a picture the child took himself, sent to a friend, ended up in school authorities hands, and a smart kid realised he could get some leverage if he was being spied on. Wait and see what the court finds.
They lost 42 laptops at a total cost of $37800 - I'm not counting recoveries, as they were most likely replaced by the time they were recovered. There were 2620 laptops issued under the scheme, not all insured, but potentially a total revenue of just over $144,000. Include several years of tail risk, and that's expensive, but hardly scam territory. I'm not sure I would offer insurance for much less without knowing what teenagers would do with them.
I've often wondered what would happen if you took a standard school intake class, gave them a short all-purpose test, told them they'd all passed with 95%+, and spent the rest of the year treating them like geniuses. To this day, I'm convinced that I am no smarter than my classmates were, but because I read books I was "the smart one" and hence I did end up doing better.
As a part-time music teacher currently doing a maths degree, it is strikingly obvious that most of my lecturers are utterly clueless about basic pedagogy. Some of their lecture techniques are downright harmful. The classic is issuing notes, but with blanks left in "so you have to pay attention". Result: lecturer flies through material and nobody pays him any attention while they try to find and copy down the blanks. Grrr.
Try this (firefox only, sorry).