The Australian government can't shut down in practice, because in a "loss of supply" situation, the Prime Minister must resign or Parliament is dismissed and a fresh election is called for everyone, half term or not. (Or, if the PM chooses to do neither, be sacked as happened in 1975.)
Learn, guys. Politicians aren't so quick to block supply if they are the ones who are going to be stood down.
Poor people generally don't buy a large amount of the crap that Amazon sells.
I read stories on here of people who get deliveries every couple of days and wonder what the hell people need that often. It can't all be fruit and veg which it never has in the correct quantity anyway.
My mother, who has spent a lot of her life on committees of one form or another, taught me something when I was very young that I have never forgotten: The problem is often not what is done, but the way it is done.
Probably over half of all first world disputes can be traced to this.
It sure does. The key difference is that this is Slashdot. Unlike Cartier or Walmart or China National Petroleum, Apple is the biggest urinator in our end of the pool.
Don't shoot the company thats actually over there paying them. IF Apple voluntarily paid them more than it had to though, its management would be guilty of defrauding the shareholders, since they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect and maximize returns by negotiating the best possible deal.
Let me translate that from business-speak into English: "If you're a mere consumer and not a part-owner of Apple, you must not use the only tools available to you (i.e. buying someone else's product and telling the world why) to try to stop them making the world a shittier place."
Of all the players in this game, Apple is both the only one that we can persuade to make things better, and the one with the most power to change things because they have the power to dictate terms. It's not like the Chinese government or the Chinese companies would give a shit what we think.
Apple's hipster cred is the only thing keeping them in business, and on some level they know it.
The courts have ruled that there is no second amendment right to be armed in your own home when the police pound on your door at unusual hours without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant.
You might want to re-read the comment that I was responding to.
If police are just a weapon, then we should get rid of them.
But... second amendment!
Seriously, nobody said the police are just a weapon. Where I live, we had two car attacks last year resulting in seven deaths, but nobody would claim that a car is just a weapon.
It's not a universal law, it's a methodological tool for critical thinking. Like Occam's razor, it encourages you to include no more assumptions than you have evidence for.
It has something fairly close, though: in Esperanto, every root has a natural part of speech. This seems sensible, until you discover that the way they are assigned are completely arbitrary.
For example, "sxoveli" (pronounced "shoh-VEL-ee" means "to shovel". It is naturally a verb. You might think that "sxovelo", the same word with a noun ending, means "a shovel", but it does not. That is the noun-of-the-verb, that is, it refers to the act of shovelling. To refer to a shovel, you have to say that it's the tool of the act of shovelling, that is, "sxovelilo".
Similarly, "humana" (pronounced "hew-MAN-a") means "humane". It is naturally an adjective. So what is "humano", the same word with a noun ending? It is the noun-of-the-adjective, that is "humaneness".
It's logical, but this is something that you have to memorise for every word, and it's just as inconsistent as a grammatical gender.
While we're on the topic, a brief explanation of country names, because this is one of the most absurd things in Esperanto.
Old-world countries tend to be named for the citizen or inhabitant. "Anglo" means an English person (actually, an Englishman, which is even worse these days). To form the name of the country, you use the "container of" suffix. The word "krajon" means "pencil, and "krajonujo" is a pencil case. If "Anglo" is an Englishman, "Anglujo" is a container for Englishmen, i.e. England.
But new-world countries tend to be named as the country. "Auxstralio" is not an Australian, it is Australia. To form the inhabitant or citizen, you use the "person possessing a quality" suffix; in this case, "Auxstraliulo", literally "person with the quality of Australianness".
Here's the weird thing: There are more Indonesian speakers in the world than there are French speakers, but Indonesian isn't a "world" language like French is.
Tell you what... I might look into Esperanto when I get finished learning (Mandarin) Chinese.
I am something of an Esperantist, so I say this with a small amount of experience... the international second language should be Indonesian.
It's a real language spoken by 260 million people, and it has the history and traditions, as well as a very nice cuisine. (Mmm... rendang.)
It has all the ease of learning of a constructed language, because it is a constructed language. Its grammar is even simpler than that of Esperanto.
It's as easy for a native Asian language speaker to learn as it is for a native European language speaker, because it doesn't have Indo-European idiosyncrasies like grammatical cases.
It's as easy for a native European language speaker to learn as it is for a native Asian language speaker. In particular, it uses a Latin alphabet, so you don't have the deciphering problem.
Its vocabulary has enough Dutch loan words in it that a native European language speaker isn't completely lost.
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Ireland triggered its safety valve in the early 80s IIRC. I think it's a feature of the Westminster system.
The Australian government can't shut down in practice, because in a "loss of supply" situation, the Prime Minister must resign or Parliament is dismissed and a fresh election is called for everyone, half term or not. (Or, if the PM chooses to do neither, be sacked as happened in 1975.)
Learn, guys. Politicians aren't so quick to block supply if they are the ones who are going to be stood down.
DOS file extensions don't design themselves.
Poor people generally don't buy a large amount of the crap that Amazon sells.
I read stories on here of people who get deliveries every couple of days and wonder what the hell people need that often. It can't all be fruit and veg which it never has in the correct quantity anyway.
My mother, who has spent a lot of her life on committees of one form or another, taught me something when I was very young that I have never forgotten: The problem is often not what is done, but the way it is done.
Probably over half of all first world disputes can be traced to this.
It sure does. The key difference is that this is Slashdot. Unlike Cartier or Walmart or China National Petroleum, Apple is the biggest urinator in our end of the pool.
Don't shoot the company thats actually over there paying them. IF Apple voluntarily paid them more than it had to though, its management would be guilty of defrauding the shareholders, since they have a fiduciary responsibility to protect and maximize returns by negotiating the best possible deal.
Let me translate that from business-speak into English: "If you're a mere consumer and not a part-owner of Apple, you must not use the only tools available to you (i.e. buying someone else's product and telling the world why) to try to stop them making the world a shittier place."
Of all the players in this game, Apple is both the only one that we can persuade to make things better, and the one with the most power to change things because they have the power to dictate terms. It's not like the Chinese government or the Chinese companies would give a shit what we think.
Apple's hipster cred is the only thing keeping them in business, and on some level they know it.
The courts have ruled that there is no second amendment right to be armed in your own home when the police pound on your door at unusual hours without reasonable suspicion, probable cause, or a warrant.
You might want to re-read the comment that I was responding to.
If police are just a weapon, then we should get rid of them.
But... second amendment!
Seriously, nobody said the police are just a weapon. Where I live, we had two car attacks last year resulting in seven deaths, but nobody would claim that a car is just a weapon.
It's not a universal law, it's a methodological tool for critical thinking. Like Occam's razor, it encourages you to include no more assumptions than you have evidence for.
Hanlon's Razor.
Given the history of the Cold War, it's a little disturbing that they didn't have a "sorry, that was a false alarm" message already formally prepared.
Are you sure, sir? It does mean changing the bulb.
From Monsters vs Aliens.
"humana" (pronounced "hew-MAN-a")
Errr... sorry, no. It's pronounced something like "hoo-MAHN-ah".
There is no grammatical gender in Esperanto.
It has something fairly close, though: in Esperanto, every root has a natural part of speech. This seems sensible, until you discover that the way they are assigned are completely arbitrary.
For example, "sxoveli" (pronounced "shoh-VEL-ee" means "to shovel". It is naturally a verb. You might think that "sxovelo", the same word with a noun ending, means "a shovel", but it does not. That is the noun-of-the-verb, that is, it refers to the act of shovelling. To refer to a shovel, you have to say that it's the tool of the act of shovelling, that is, "sxovelilo".
Similarly, "humana" (pronounced "hew-MAN-a") means "humane". It is naturally an adjective. So what is "humano", the same word with a noun ending? It is the noun-of-the-adjective, that is "humaneness".
It's logical, but this is something that you have to memorise for every word, and it's just as inconsistent as a grammatical gender.
While we're on the topic, a brief explanation of country names, because this is one of the most absurd things in Esperanto.
Old-world countries tend to be named for the citizen or inhabitant. "Anglo" means an English person (actually, an Englishman, which is even worse these days). To form the name of the country, you use the "container of" suffix. The word "krajon" means "pencil, and "krajonujo" is a pencil case. If "Anglo" is an Englishman, "Anglujo" is a container for Englishmen, i.e. England.
But new-world countries tend to be named as the country. "Auxstralio" is not an Australian, it is Australia. To form the inhabitant or citizen, you use the "person possessing a quality" suffix; in this case, "Auxstraliulo", literally "person with the quality of Australianness".
Unlike most phonetic-based text, pictographs are mostly self-explanatory, or at least give more visual cues than text.
Definitely. People on the Internet keep telling me to eat eggplant, and I love eggplant.
Here's the weird thing: There are more Indonesian speakers in the world than there are French speakers, but Indonesian isn't a "world" language like French is.
Doesn't that seem weird?
In Indonesian, a toe is a foot finger.
Tell you what... I might look into Esperanto when I get finished learning (Mandarin) Chinese.
I am something of an Esperantist, so I say this with a small amount of experience... the international second language should be Indonesian.
It's a real language spoken by 260 million people, and it has the history and traditions, as well as a very nice cuisine. (Mmm... rendang.)
It has all the ease of learning of a constructed language, because it is a constructed language. Its grammar is even simpler than that of Esperanto.
It's as easy for a native Asian language speaker to learn as it is for a native European language speaker, because it doesn't have Indo-European idiosyncrasies like grammatical cases.
It's as easy for a native European language speaker to learn as it is for a native Asian language speaker. In particular, it uses a Latin alphabet, so you don't have the deciphering problem.
Its vocabulary has enough Dutch loan words in it that a native European language speaker isn't completely lost.
He left Google six months before the memo, so supporting the memo can't be the specific reason. Do you have a reference for this?
One would hope that a Google employee would be smart enough not to use their work email. Or gmail in general.
People seem to have forgotten that his supporters were also very vocal at Google and none of them have been fired.
(That we know of, of course, but if any of them existed they would have been named in the lawsuit.)
I agree, the person who leaked it should at least be reprimanded. So tell me their name.
Unless you have reason to think that Google knows, you can't conclude "no problem".
We don't know for sure, but it's a fair bet that he was fired because rightly ot wrongly, he was the public face of a PR disaster.