Consider how the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution have been hashed over, in the last 200+ years. We need to be able to reference the exact version of the language, as used, in any legal script. This will keep lawyers from interpreting version 1.0 laws using version 2.0 rules and definitions.
That would be an unmitigated disaster and wholly alien to the Founders' way of thinking. which explicitly rejected trying to impose an 18th century world-view on the future.
At 340,136 words...the Constitution of Alabama, adopted in 1901... is 12 times longer than the average state constitution, 40 times longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is the longest still-operative constitution anywhere in the world. The English version of the Constitution of India, the longest national constitution, is about 117,369 words long, a third of the length of Alabama's.
Efforts to reform the Alabama Constitution lead nowhere.
The exact meaning of a word or phrase is notoriously elusive --- and never more so when dealing with the words of men who flat-out refused to be pinned down.
As Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, said, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!"
You're joking, of course, but the King James Bible can be read with pleasure after 400 years.
If you have ever tried to slog your way through one of Project Guttenberg's impenetrable nineteeth century translations of classical works, you how extraordinary an achievement that is.
Perhaps by 2016 Slashdot will have replaced its stained glass window with a legit Windows icon--- a courtesy it extends to every other operating system and to projects like GNU Hurd, which hasn't delivered a 1.0 release in twenty-five years.
Historical documents indicate that Prince Konoye was already favoring ending the war in February due the on-going strategic bombing campaigns which were devastating the country and the Emperor was favoring ending the war after the "Meetinghouse" firebombings in March, but the military rejected US requests for unconditional surrender until after the A-bombs were dropped in August.
Fumimaro Konoe was a sheep among wolves, a diplomat who was effortlessly shoved aside whenever he presented the slightest obstacle to the warlords who controlled the Japanese army and navy.
Konoe resigned on 16 October 1941, one day after having recommended Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni to the Emperor as his successor. Two days later, Hirohito chose General Tojo as Prime Minister.
In February 1945, during the first private audience he had been allowed in three years he advised the Emperor to begin negotiations to end World War II. According to Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita, Hirohito, still looking for a tennozan (a great victory), firmly rejected Konoe's recommendation.
YouTube is the simplest and most reliable way of reaching your target audience and establishing the legitimacy of your project, assuming that the medical and not recreational uses of marijuana are your real concern.
The geek will propose setting up a darknet, when the real need is for openness and exposure.
The MS-DOS and Windows PC took sales into the hundreds of millions of units.
The modular design of the PC made rapid advances in sound and graphics possible.
But the geek tends to forget that games like Commander Keen and King's Quest were a revelation --- because you could play them on an home office machine that had. no built-in hardware support for animation.
The obvious solution is more and better information on the Internet. Doctors have a vested interest in keeping patients ignorant, so their "rants" should be discounted.
Even the most reputable health web sites with the most accurate information can cause trouble for the hypochondriac. ''Hypochondriacs tend to latch onto diseases with common or ambiguous symptoms or that are hard to diagnose," says Fallon. For example, illnesses such as HIV or lupus, and neurological disorders including multiple sclerosis can cause vague symptoms like fatigue, swollen glands, and strange physical sensations.
Second-Guessing the Doctor
Barsky and Fallon say hypochondria often breeds suspicion and distrust between a sufferer and his or her physician. Some doctors may be too quick to dismiss the worries of hypochondriacs, and hypochondriacs are likely to ruin relationships with good physicians by second-guessing them from the start.
For instance, Barsky says, a hypochondriac needs to resist the compulsion to self-diagnose and to seek assurance from doctors and friends. The best one can do is to get regular medical treatment from a trustworthy doctor trust and to live a healthy life.
Fallon agrees: ''In a loose sense, a hypochondriac becomes almost addicted to looking up information, examining himself, and getting reassurance from other people,'' he says. ''Checking just makes things worse.''
And what about using the Internet to look up that worrisome symptom? ''If it's just going to make you upset,''says Barsky. ''Don't do it.''
I'll take my stand with the automakers on this one.
The only way to gain popular acceptance of the substantially automated or fully driverless car is to guarantee that the technology is trustworthy and reliable ---
that all hardware and software changes are fully documented, competently performed, meet all statutory requirements and will not leave the owner or manufacturer exposed to civil or criminal action somewhere down the road.
The geek may obsess over his "ownership" of a vehicle. I care more about avoiding a crash and a lawsuit that may cripple me financially.
The geek whines that Hollywood produces nothing but remakes and sequels; but when given the chance to show us what he can do on his own, what do we get?
Amazon is to remove a ''non-compete'' clause from its employment contracts for US workers paid by the hour after criticism that it is unreasonable to prevent such employees from finding other work.
A company spokeswoman confirmed to the Guardian that the clause would be cut.
''That clause hasn't been applied to hourly associates, and we're removing it,' 'she said. The company would not disclose the breakdown of its staff by geography or hourly pay and salary. No UK employment contracts for hourly workers contained such non-compete clauses.
Amazon further required laid-off employees to reaffirm their non-compete contracts in order to receive severance, reported the Verge.
Just let the free market decide what we want self sustaining art to be
Not all of the arts are or ever have been self-sustaining. Historically, what you see is sponsorship by the state, the church, or the merchant prince.
Quebec is an island of francophone culture off a continent that is dominated by the U.S. Either you embrace protectionism or risk losing all that makes you unique.
Using Diceware, you end up with passphrases that look like "cap liz donna demon self", "bang vivo thread duct knob train", and "brig alert rope welsh foss rang orb".
This is easy to remember?
Oh, and by the way, did anyone try this out using the touch keyboard of a smartphone or tablet?
There was a brief moment in time (sorry Stephen) when I thought the internet would break up the gate keepers. That moment has passed.
The gate keeper serves a much needed function.
Searching Google News for the Greenways crash returns 10,846 hits as of 1:45 PM EDT. You can be very, very, good at this sort of thing and still be overwhelmed by the numbers and the difficulty of getting concise, timely, and meaningful results.
If I am, god forbid, reduced to paying cellular rates for data, what I want is a targeted selection of stories in depth and a quick overview from MSN News.
The gatekeeper can negotiate for access to content that would otherwise not be available outside the paywall. He may like Nerflix have the resources needed to underwrite the production of original content.
A new initiative from the European Commission proposes a reformed "single digital market", addressing a number of issues that it sees as obstructions to EU growth, including geoblocking --- where services such as BBC's iPlayer are only available to IP addresses within the host country.
Federalism fails when it ignores cultural distinctions between its member states, igniting controversies that are needlessly provocative and could easily have been avoided.
The iPlayer provides publically funded news and entertainment services targeting a domestic not a European or global audience --- on the face of it, a benign and legitimate purpose.
I open the Exo web page. I see all the pretty pictures.
What I don't see is what I need to know about heating, cooling and ventilation.
The lack of storage for personal belongings, food and water, the space and facilities needed for cooking and sanitation. Not the slightest thought has been given to the comfort, pride or privacy of the refugee.
That idiotic door lock bothers me no end.
These geeks may know tech, but they are utterly blind to the psychological and social forces in play when people are under extreme stress.
These stackable plastic cups seem more appropriately designed for Joe Arpaio's Tent City prison camps.
There is a war on men who are insecure dickless assholes at work when it comes to women --- and it's long overdue I've come to think. "Sell out their gender?" Give me a break.
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Consider how the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution have been hashed over, in the last 200+ years. We need to be able to reference the exact version of the language, as used, in any legal script. This will keep lawyers from interpreting version 1.0 laws using version 2.0 rules and definitions.
That would be an unmitigated disaster and wholly alien to the Founders' way of thinking. which explicitly rejected trying to impose an 18th century world-view on the future.
At 340,136 words ...the Constitution of Alabama, adopted in 1901 ... is 12 times longer than the average state constitution, 40 times longer than the U.S. Constitution, and is the longest still-operative constitution anywhere in the world.
The English version of the Constitution of India, the longest national constitution, is about 117,369 words long, a third of the length of Alabama's.
Constitution of Alabama
Efforts to reform the Alabama Constitution lead nowhere.
The exact meaning of a word or phrase is notoriously elusive --- and never more so when dealing with the words of men who flat-out refused to be pinned down.
As Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, said, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!"
You're joking, of course, but the King James Bible can be read with pleasure after 400 years.
If you have ever tried to slog your way through one of Project Guttenberg's impenetrable nineteeth century translations of classical works, you how extraordinary an achievement that is.
Perhaps by 2016 Slashdot will have replaced its stained glass window with a legit Windows icon---
a courtesy it extends to every other operating system and to projects like GNU Hurd, which hasn't delivered a 1.0 release in twenty-five years.
They can be as stupid as they want without really affecting bitcoins.
Bitcoin remains a very big question mark for many --- the faintest hint of fraud or failure surrounding it is damaging.
Historical documents indicate that Prince Konoye was already favoring ending the war in February due the on-going strategic bombing campaigns which were devastating the country and the Emperor was favoring ending the war after the "Meetinghouse" firebombings in March, but the military rejected US requests for unconditional surrender until after the A-bombs were dropped in August.
Fumimaro Konoe was a sheep among wolves, a diplomat who was effortlessly shoved aside whenever he presented the slightest obstacle to the warlords who controlled the Japanese army and navy.
Konoe resigned on 16 October 1941, one day after having recommended Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni to the Emperor as his successor. Two days later, Hirohito chose General Tojo as Prime Minister.
In February 1945, during the first private audience he had been allowed in three years he advised the Emperor to begin negotiations to end World War II. According to Grand Chamberlain Hisanori Fujita, Hirohito, still looking for a tennozan (a great victory), firmly rejected Konoe's recommendation.
Fumimaro Konoe
But only if you're a white male
/. isn't news for nerds anymore, its "news for misogynists"
I wouldn't call the geek misogynist.
Immature, passive-aggressive and sexually insecure would come closer to the truth.
The population of Maine is 1.33 million.
YouTube is the simplest and most reliable way of reaching your target audience and establishing the legitimacy of your project, assuming that the medical and not recreational uses of marijuana are your real concern.
The geek will propose setting up a darknet, when the real need is for openness and exposure.
The eight-bit micro sold in the millions.
The MS-DOS and Windows PC took sales into the hundreds of millions of units.
The modular design of the PC made rapid advances in sound and graphics possible.
But the geek tends to forget that games like Commander Keen and King's Quest were a revelation --- because you could play them on an home office machine that had. no built-in hardware support for animation.
Microsoft was the big dog in the world of BASIC
Microsoft was the big dog in programming languages for the micro, period. That made it very attractive to the team that was developing the IBM PC.
This is just what we need to wear to taser-proof ourselves
and this accomplishes what, exactly, other than a rapid escalation of force in any confrontation with the police?
The obvious solution is more and better information on the Internet. Doctors have a vested interest in keeping patients ignorant, so their "rants" should be discounted.
The Internet doesn't make you smarter; you only think it does
Even the most reputable health web sites with the most accurate information can cause trouble for the hypochondriac. ''Hypochondriacs tend to latch onto diseases with common or ambiguous symptoms or that are hard to diagnose," says Fallon. For example, illnesses such as HIV or lupus, and neurological disorders including multiple sclerosis can cause vague symptoms like fatigue, swollen glands, and strange physical sensations.
Second-Guessing the Doctor
Barsky and Fallon say hypochondria often breeds suspicion and distrust between a sufferer and his or her physician. Some doctors may be too quick to dismiss the worries of hypochondriacs, and hypochondriacs are likely to ruin relationships with good physicians by second-guessing them from the start.
For instance, Barsky says, a hypochondriac needs to resist the compulsion to self-diagnose and to seek assurance from doctors and friends. The best one can do is to get regular medical treatment from a trustworthy doctor trust and to live a healthy life.
Fallon agrees: ''In a loose sense, a hypochondriac becomes almost addicted to looking up information, examining himself, and getting reassurance from other people,'' he says. ''Checking just makes things worse.''
And what about using the Internet to look up that worrisome symptom? ''If it's just going to make you upset,''says Barsky. ''Don't do it.''
Internet Makes Hypochondria Worse : Cyberchondria
I'll take my stand with the automakers on this one.
The only way to gain popular acceptance of the substantially automated or fully driverless car is to guarantee that the technology is trustworthy and reliable ---
that all hardware and software changes are fully documented, competently performed, meet all statutory requirements and will not leave the owner or manufacturer exposed to civil or criminal action somewhere down the road.
The geek may obsess over his "ownership" of a vehicle. I care more about avoiding a crash and a lawsuit that may cripple me financially.
The geek whines that Hollywood produces nothing but remakes and sequels; but when given the chance to show us what he can do on his own, what do we get?
The men who allegedly attempted to trespass on government property did not shoot back.
Well, duh, Crash the gates of a capital district military base and you won't live long enough to get a chance to shoot back.
The last thing you would have seen on the Germanwings video, would have been a piece of black tape being pasted over the camera lens.
More likely a selfie.
pychologically were a private species.
Except of course when we lie helpless on the operating table, or aboard a jumble jet being flown into the Alps.
Amazon is to remove a ''non-compete'' clause from its employment contracts for US workers paid by the hour after criticism that it is unreasonable to prevent such employees from finding other work.
A company spokeswoman confirmed to the Guardian that the clause would be cut.
''That clause hasn't been applied to hourly associates, and we're removing it,' 'she said.
The company would not disclose the breakdown of its staff by geography or hourly pay and salary. No UK employment contracts for hourly workers contained such non-compete clauses.
Amazon further required laid-off employees to reaffirm their non-compete contracts in order to receive severance, reported the Verge.
Amazon to remove non-compete clause from contracts for hourly workers
Just let the free market decide what we want self sustaining art to be
Not all of the arts are or ever have been self-sustaining. Historically, what you see is sponsorship by the state, the church, or the merchant prince.
Quebec is an island of francophone culture off a continent that is dominated by the U.S. Either you embrace protectionism or risk losing all that makes you unique.
Using Diceware, you end up with passphrases that look like "cap liz donna demon self", "bang vivo thread duct knob train", and "brig alert rope welsh foss rang orb".
This is easy to remember?
Oh, and by the way, did anyone try this out using the touch keyboard of a smartphone or tablet?
There was a brief moment in time (sorry Stephen) when I thought the internet would break up the gate keepers. That moment has passed.
The gate keeper serves a much needed function.
Searching Google News for the Greenways crash returns 10,846 hits as of 1:45 PM EDT.
You can be very, very, good at this sort of thing and still be overwhelmed by the numbers and the difficulty of getting concise, timely, and meaningful results.
If I am, god forbid, reduced to paying cellular rates for data, what I want is a targeted selection of stories in depth and a quick overview from MSN News.
The gatekeeper can negotiate for access to content that would otherwise not be available outside the paywall. He may like Nerflix have the resources needed to underwrite the production of original content.
A new initiative from the European Commission proposes a reformed "single digital market", addressing a number of issues that it sees as obstructions to EU growth, including geoblocking --- where services such as BBC's iPlayer are only available to IP addresses within the host country.
Federalism fails when it ignores cultural distinctions between its member states, igniting controversies that are needlessly provocative and could easily have been avoided.
The iPlayer provides publically funded news and entertainment services targeting a domestic not a European or global audience --- on the face of it, a benign and legitimate purpose.
I open the Exo web page. I see all the pretty pictures.
What I don't see is what I need to know about heating, cooling and ventilation.
The lack of storage for personal belongings, food and water, the space and facilities needed for cooking and sanitation. Not the slightest thought has been given to the comfort, pride or privacy of the refugee.
That idiotic door lock bothers me no end.
These geeks may know tech, but they are utterly blind to the psychological and social forces in play when people are under extreme stress.
These stackable plastic cups seem more appropriately designed for Joe Arpaio's Tent City prison camps.
A broken window is a broken window. What's is exactly your problem?
The problem I have is that it encourages unusually stupid and frivolous posts, even by Slashdot standards.
.... don't you think it's about time to retire the stained glass window in favor of the real Windows logo?
The gag was never particularly original, clever or funny --- and what passes for geek humor isn't known for aging well.
Basically there's a war on men being men.
There is a war on men who are insecure dickless assholes at work when it comes to women --- and it's long overdue I've come to think. "Sell out their gender?" Give me a break.