On a similar tack, there's a lot of hype about "downloading music is illegal", which ends up tarring every provider/downloader with the same brush. What they probably mean is "downloading (our) music (without paying for it) is (a breach of copyright)", but that's not as catchy.
I could imagine that the T.S. officer was susceptible to this if-it's-copied-it-must-be-illegal argument, which is probably just how the large software and music companies like it.
The parent doesn't say it's copyright protected; if you bothered to read it you would know exactly what sort of protection it has: specific legal protection which is required of parties to the Geneva Convention. It might well be a trademark, and may also be copyrighted, but that's not what they rely on to counter abuses.
It's more than just copyright protection - the name and symbols of the ICRC are protected under the Geneva Convention. See the ICRC's explanation, and the actual article of the convention is:
Art 45. The High Contracting Parties shall, if their legislation is not already adequate, take the measures necessary for the prevention and repression, at all times, of any abuse of the distinctive signs provided for under Article 43.
Japan doesn't need to be so expensive if you're prepared to forgo things you might take for granted at home (like apples) ; imagine if a Japanese tourist to your part of the world decided they would only ever eat at Japanese restaurants and stay at the Sheraton.
It is probably referring to the delta: of the ~1 second annual decrease in lap time, 0.75s comes from aerodynamic improvements. Rule changes (mainly affecting aerodynamics) tend to make this sort of year-to-year comparison difficult.
Drag goes up as v^2, but the power goes up as v^3, so 315km/h requires almost 4x the power of 200km/h. If they'd wanted to make a special speed-record car they could have gone a lot faster, but not around corners...
A colleague who is about your height, certainly over 6', has one and he loves it. No problems fitting in, so I'm not sure what you're basing this assessment on.
Learning Katakana is useful, as you can pronounce and hopefully recognise foreign (well, English) words in otherwise unintelligible documents. Especially good for computer stuff, but also works in Ramen bars. Merii Kurisumasu everyone
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My British friends and I were amused to see this sign in the Wendover (Utah) Airfield museum: http://www.brough-superior.com/files/cms/news/bild1_2685.jpg
(The museum is worth a visit if you happen to be in the area)
There was a Gemini capsule at MoTaT in Auckland for many years, maybe that went on tour? It's been given back now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_12#Spacecraft_location/
On a similar tack, there's a lot of hype about "downloading music is illegal", which ends up tarring every provider/downloader with the same brush. What they probably mean is "downloading (our) music (without paying for it) is (a breach of copyright)", but that's not as catchy. I could imagine that the T.S. officer was susceptible to this if-it's-copied-it-must-be-illegal argument, which is probably just how the large software and music companies like it.
The parent doesn't say it's copyright protected; if you bothered to read it you would know exactly what sort of protection it has: specific legal protection which is required of parties to the Geneva Convention. It might well be a trademark, and may also be copyrighted, but that's not what they rely on to counter abuses.
Japan doesn't need to be so expensive if you're prepared to forgo things you might take for granted at home (like apples) ; imagine if a Japanese tourist to your part of the world decided they would only ever eat at Japanese restaurants and stay at the Sheraton.
... as claimed here (presumably as viewed from the desktop)?
I can just imagine PHBs cancelling orders for Opteron servers because "Tom says they don't make them any more".
It is probably referring to the delta: of the ~1 second annual decrease in lap time, 0.75s comes from aerodynamic improvements. Rule changes (mainly affecting aerodynamics) tend to make this sort of year-to-year comparison difficult.
Drag goes up as v^2, but the power goes up as v^3, so 315km/h requires almost 4x the power of 200km/h. If they'd wanted to make a special speed-record car they could have gone a lot faster, but not around corners...
A colleague who is about your height, certainly over 6', has one and he loves it. No problems fitting in, so I'm not sure what you're basing this assessment on.
Learning Katakana is useful, as you can pronounce and hopefully recognise foreign (well, English) words in otherwise unintelligible documents. Especially good for computer stuff, but also works in Ramen bars.
Merii Kurisumasu everyone
Way before ... it was the Lohner -Porsche (N.B. The date at the top of this page is a typo).
A parroty error.