I really don't have a problem with this in principle after all if you're stupid enough to break the law next to a policeman you really deserve what you get, and if he sees you it won't make much difference if he's got a video of it (judges and juries tend to believe police witnesses). On the other hand - if a policeman is wearing a camera he's going to be a lot more careful about exceeding his authority.
My main concern is why they need a 360 degree surveillance system, at a couple of grand a go, when they could get standard headmounted cameras (like nightclub bouncers have been using for years) at a fraction of that price.
This is marginal admittedly but, if you haven't added a lot too much salt a little sugar can mask some of it, it's a tactic of desperation but it can really dig you out of the shit.
Ironically, in a bidding process, UK governmental bodies are specifically not allowed to take into account a contractors performance on previous government contracts. Crazy or what? I guess that's the only way it could be made possible for certain companies to win government contracts. Looking at some contractor's histories and the frequency with which they win contracts you cannot help but be suspicious (not to mention £D5 specifically).
1. I believe global warming is caused by people. 2. I cannot present evidence to support this assertion. 3. I cannot explain why other planets with no people are also experiencing global warming. 4. Since I cannot explain it, it is irrelevant. 5. Therefore I am right.
Not only is it like selling your soul - it's dumb too; Microsoft screw their business partners, they've done it over and over again. In a couple of years time Novell will regret this.
It is limited to some extent but I use it without any great problem. I guess I'm probably fairly typical of a lot of computer users in the programs that I use. OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Mplayer, Xmms, Bittorrent and maybe a few others on a very occasional basis. That's perfectly good enough for my purposes: the only thing I feel is a limitation to me, is the lack of Flash support (more because of some poor website design really).
So, limited? Yes, in some ways - but generally in ways that I don't care about. If I was into gaming or something I might take a different view.
If the masses are allowed to dictate whatever meaning they choose for words or phrases they hear, they will slowly erode the vast variety of meanings that can be conveyed through speech and writing
It's not a matter of choice. Languages change over time - they always have and always will. You can argue that this is a bad thing, and you might even be right - but I guarantee you can't stop it.
If you don't like it - tough! Suck it up and stop whining.
I actually prefer the very basic safety razors that use the seperate blades. They don't get gummed up with bristles like the multi-blade ones do and shave just as well, if not better. The blades last for ages and (as you say) cost pennies when you do need to replace them. I look back at the years I used multi-blades and think what a fool I was to fall for the marketing.
Go out to a night club, have a few drinks, have a few more drinks, meet a girl who's also had a few more drinks, hit it off - dancing, kissing, groping. Go back to her place, good times. Next morning get a call from the police - you've been accused of rape.
She says: she was too drunk to give informed consent.
You say: she seemed compos and didn't object at the time.
doesn't this constitute a blatant violation . . . of the Fairplay DRM?
Indeed and if he'd done it in America he might have gotten into a lot of trouble (still might if he lands there by accident), fortunately he doesn't live in the "land of the free" - so he's allowed to tell other people when he discovers a flaw in a commercial product.
Just looked up the old BBC report - apparently he was intending to use his neutron gun to transmute thorium into uranium, which theoretically looked like it should work. The only reason it didn't happen was he started getting huge geiger readings and his common sense kicked in.
This is only a hoax in as much as the reactor David Hahn built never achieved criticality. It was however a working neutron gun (and quite effective by all accounts), I guess it depends what you mean by a reactor. And incidentally - I've never heard anyone specifically state that he made a breeder reactor.
No copyright isn't about copying it's about distribution. Scanning a book onto a server (or copying it in any other way) is not a copyright violation per se.
Hang on a sec. If I was floating in liquid isn't my apparent weigh zero and so even under 2000g I would be unaffected. Although the pressure would be equivalent to diving 2000m (I think) and that's pretty extreme. Anyway I seem to remember it was the way they handled high g in The Forever War.
My first thought was of the coverplate during one of the underground nuclear test the US did in the 50's. Apparently the video caught it leaving the vertical shaft at some enormous speed exceeding escape velocity.
The scientist running the experiment calculated it would have burnt up in the atmosphere - presumably the satellites launched by this ring would have to be moving at escape velocity as well. Wouldn't it burn up as well?
That was groundbreaking and significant and historically important
Sorry to disagree but this is just another result of American self importance and ignorance. The writers of the US constitution were English and the reason they recognised certain human rights is because they were already used to them under English law. Habeus Corpus for example goes all the way back to the Magna Carta. Whilst the US constitution was probably an incremental improvement over other "constitutions" of the time it was neither groundbreaking nor significant, and it only has historical importance because of the current superpower status of the US.
'Then I went a fishin'... Sounds like a preposition to me.
Depends on it's exact meaning (if it has one in this sentence), I'd be tempted to say it's being used as a particle - although this is a part of speech not normally found in English.
I didn't witness it in person but my father was a bus driver and was once involved in a fatal accident where a man was thrown through the window of a car and in front of his bus. He ran over the top of him and killed him (assuming he wasn't already dead at that point). Had he had more time to react he could easily have swerved in an attempt to avoid the victim - who knows what consequences that might have had.
So in fact people do occasionally get thrown through car windscreens, it may be an extremely rare set of circumstances but weird things happen.
Trouble is you can't organise your legislation on the basis of freak occurences . . . it's illogical Captain.
PS: I feel I must also mention that the police investigation cleared him of any fault.
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I've always fancied building a jet engine but I was thinking of a turbojet made from a truck supercharger (or something similar). I mean really, a PULSEJET! didn't those go out with doodlebugs?
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I really don't have a problem with this in principle after all if you're stupid enough to break the law next to a policeman you really deserve what you get, and if he sees you it won't make much difference if he's got a video of it (judges and juries tend to believe police witnesses). On the other hand - if a policeman is wearing a camera he's going to be a lot more careful about exceeding his authority.
My main concern is why they need a 360 degree surveillance system, at a couple of grand a go, when they could get standard headmounted cameras (like nightclub bouncers have been using for years) at a fraction of that price.
But it's still the same question whether it's SCO or Microsoft:
Which particular lines of code infringe on Microsoft's IP?
This is marginal admittedly but, if you haven't added a lot too much salt a little sugar can mask some of it, it's a tactic of desperation but it can really dig you out of the shit.
Swallowing large amounts of FUD can reduce your IQ.
Ironically, in a bidding process, UK governmental bodies are specifically not allowed to take into account a contractors performance on previous government contracts. Crazy or what? I guess that's the only way it could be made possible for certain companies to win government contracts. Looking at some contractor's histories and the frequency with which they win contracts you cannot help but be suspicious (not to mention £D5 specifically).
Let me try.
1. I believe global warming is caused by people.
2. I cannot present evidence to support this assertion.
3. I cannot explain why other planets with no people are also experiencing global warming.
4. Since I cannot explain it, it is irrelevant.
5. Therefore I am right.
QED, hey this is fun.
in a Unix system it's more complicated, for i in *.jpeg; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/jpeg$/jpg/ - ` ; done or something like that
find -name *.jpeg | rename 's/jpeg/jpg/'
Not that complicated.
Not only is it like selling your soul - it's dumb too; Microsoft screw their business partners, they've done it over and over again. In a couple of years time Novell will regret this.
OpenBSD on the desktop is pretty limited
It is limited to some extent but I use it without any great problem. I guess I'm probably fairly typical of a lot of computer users in the programs that I use. OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Mplayer, Xmms, Bittorrent and maybe a few others on a very occasional basis. That's perfectly good enough for my purposes: the only thing I feel is a limitation to me, is the lack of Flash support (more because of some poor website design really).
So, limited? Yes, in some ways - but generally in ways that I don't care about. If I was into gaming or something I might take a different view.
If the masses are allowed to dictate whatever meaning they choose for words or phrases they hear, they will slowly erode the vast variety of meanings that can be conveyed through speech and writing
It's not a matter of choice. Languages change over time - they always have and always will. You can argue that this is a bad thing, and you might even be right - but I guarantee you can't stop it.
If you don't like it - tough! Suck it up and stop whining.
I actually prefer the very basic safety razors that use the seperate blades. They don't get gummed up with bristles like the multi-blade ones do and shave just as well, if not better. The blades last for ages and (as you say) cost pennies when you do need to replace them. I look back at the years I used multi-blades and think what a fool I was to fall for the marketing.
Go out to a night club, have a few drinks, have a few more drinks, meet a girl who's also had a few more drinks, hit it off - dancing, kissing, groping. Go back to her place, good times. Next morning get a call from the police - you've been accused of rape.
She says: she was too drunk to give informed consent.
You say: she seemed compos and didn't object at the time.
Grey area?
doesn't this constitute a blatant violation . . . of the Fairplay DRM?
Indeed and if he'd done it in America he might have gotten into a lot of trouble (still might if he lands there by accident), fortunately he doesn't live in the "land of the free" - so he's allowed to tell other people when he discovers a flaw in a commercial product.
Just looked up the old BBC report - apparently he was intending to use his neutron gun to transmute thorium into uranium, which theoretically looked like it should work. The only reason it didn't happen was he started getting huge geiger readings and his common sense kicked in.
This is only a hoax in as much as the reactor David Hahn built never achieved criticality. It was however a working neutron gun (and quite effective by all accounts), I guess it depends what you mean by a reactor. And incidentally - I've never heard anyone specifically state that he made a breeder reactor.
No copyright isn't about copying it's about distribution. Scanning a book onto a server (or copying it in any other way) is not a copyright violation per se.
Hang on a sec. If I was floating in liquid isn't my apparent weigh zero and so even under 2000g I would be unaffected. Although the pressure would be equivalent to diving 2000m (I think) and that's pretty extreme. Anyway I seem to remember it was the way they handled high g in The Forever War.
My first thought was of the coverplate during one of the underground nuclear test the US did in the 50's. Apparently the video caught it leaving the vertical shaft at some enormous speed exceeding escape velocity.
The scientist running the experiment calculated it would have burnt up in the atmosphere - presumably the satellites launched by this ring would have to be moving at escape velocity as well. Wouldn't it burn up as well?
That was groundbreaking and significant and historically important
Sorry to disagree but this is just another result of American self importance and ignorance. The writers of the US constitution were English and the reason they recognised certain human rights is because they were already used to them under English law. Habeus Corpus for example goes all the way back to the Magna Carta. Whilst the US constitution was probably an incremental improvement over other "constitutions" of the time it was neither groundbreaking nor significant, and it only has historical importance because of the current superpower status of the US.
'Then I went a fishin'... Sounds like a preposition to me.
Depends on it's exact meaning (if it has one in this sentence), I'd be tempted to say it's being used as a particle - although this is a part of speech not normally found in English.
Weren't the first words spoken on the lunar surface:
"Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
I always prefer it anyway - it doesn't sound like some crap written by a PR wanker.
So make sure there's no money in the account the day you sign the form.
I didn't witness it in person but my father was a bus driver and was once involved in a fatal accident where a man was thrown through the window of a car and in front of his bus. He ran over the top of him and killed him (assuming he wasn't already dead at that point). Had he had more time to react he could easily have swerved in an attempt to avoid the victim - who knows what consequences that might have had.
So in fact people do occasionally get thrown through car windscreens, it may be an extremely rare set of circumstances but weird things happen.
Trouble is you can't organise your legislation on the basis of freak occurences . . . it's illogical Captain.
PS: I feel I must also mention that the police investigation cleared him of any fault.
info on builing mid size engines with scrap type material
I've always fancied building a jet engine but I was thinking of a turbojet made from a truck supercharger (or something similar). I mean really, a PULSEJET! didn't those go out with doodlebugs?
Some of the stuff I've seen produced by professional town planners and architects makes me wonder if the amateurs and the clueless could do any worse.