My point is that this is precisely the kind of speech that your constitution shouldn't protect. That document was written in an age of slavery, and I'm sure that the fact that racist speech was protected wasn't seen as a problem at the time. Not that I think that racist speech should be a criminal offence on its own, but it should be an aggravating factor when inciting violence.
Nor is it necessary to protect free speech in a constitution when you have a society that values it, and is democratic. Americans seem to be prone to seeing things in black and white, but it's not the case that a lack of de-jure free speech protection is widespread censorship and silencing of dissent. And as I pointed out in my original post, it leads to the unfortunate scenario where people don't seem to give due consideration to what they're actually saying, before they say it.
I agree that that the '50 cal' prediction should not be illegal, although it was badly worded and left the guy open to prosecution. But the "call to 'shoot the [racist slur]'" was clearly unacceptable and should have been illegal. In the UK this would be incitement to violence and incitement of racial hatred.
This is the problem with constitutionally guaranteed free speech - not only that this kind of speech is deemed okay, but the fact that the guy didn't feel the need to stop and think before (metaphorically) opening his mouth.
I think it also depends on the composition of the fuel. There were certainly reports of diesel freezing in people's tanks last winter, and this was when the temperature here was hovering at around -10C (-20C at the absolute worst), which was unusually severe for us. One story I heard was that people who were buying their fuel from the cheaper supermarkets were having trouble, but people who bought from the likes of Esso and Shell were faring better because the fuel from them had anti-freezing additives.
The recovery partition is a really handy thing to have (although I'll be making a DVD backup of the installer anyway).
I'm planning on doing a clean install of Lion, but I wanted to mirror my Snow Leopard installation to an external drive and then copy files over as and when needed. To do this, I installed Lion on the external drive, booted the recovery partition, and used Disk Utility to overwrite the Lion main partition with my Snow Leopard partition. It works as a bootable drive too, which is useful.
What I'd like to know is, if you plug one of these monitors into one of the new MacBook Airs, can you use the FW800 port on the monitor, despite the lack of FW hardware in the Air? I'm still a little bit hazy on how Thunderbolt works in this regard.
I suspect that Apple do this as well. My brother took his iPhone 4 into an Apple Store when the lock button stopped working, and he claims that they replaced it with a 'new' (although probably refurbished) phone.
The relative rigidity of an iPhone 4, while being a disadvantage when landing after a fall, might work in its favour when it comes to being run over by a tyre. And Harleys are pretty close to the ground.
Even though the phone still makes and receives calls, it isn't very practical to do so because the touchscreen is shattered. IPhone users must use the gadget's screen to dial numbers and to answer incoming calls. The only way McKinney can use it is with a Bluetooth connection in his truck.
The device sounds great for travelling with its light weight and long battery life. It's a really good job that trains never go through tunnels or have sucky mobile reception. It's also good that all planes allow mobile phone usage and etc...
Anybody who's serious about writing an app for Chrome OS should be using the offline storage APIs that are part of the HTML 5 family. I suspect the problem is not the deficiency of Chrome OS itself, but the fact that nobody is serious about writing apps for Chrome OS.
When you say "can't even reliably stay connected to a directly attached device", are you talking about a hard drive connected using USB (or FireWire)? Staying connected to the drive should be the job of the OS and shouldn't be an issue with Time Machine itself. Or is the problem due to the fact that Time Machine doesn't recognise the contents of the drive as a valid Time Machine backup?
From your description, I'm inclined to say that it was just a faulty hard drive, rather than having anything to do with Time Machine.
I've had problems with Time Machine before, where it would fill up the drive and then refuse to automatically remove older backups to make way for newer ones. I haven't had that problem recently, though, so I assumed that it had been fixed in a software update.
You're wrong. The Consent Motion is a practicality that allows Westminster to legislate on Scottish issues where it is agreed that this should happen, so that it doesn't become a constitutional controversy. It isn't strictly required, though. Parliamentary sovereignty still resides at Westminster.
A practical example is the disbanding of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972, which would have been impossible had Westminster not had ultimate power over Northern Ireland.
This is the reason the political situation in the UK is referred to as 'devolution'. It would be a form of federalism if the powers were guaranteed.
I thought it was a middle eastern invention. You're possibly thinking of the modern kilt, which I believe was invented by an English businessman who wanted to make the clothes of his highland employees more convenient to wear and work in.
Also, I still want to know what happens when the wind stops blowing,
That's when we turn on the link to Shetland, where the wind never stops blowing!
the sun stops shining,
The what?
or waves stop coming.
We move to option number four, tidal, which is being trialled in the Sound of Islay. Tides are predictable - you know exactly when the energy will peak and trough, and can plan for it. In an ideal world we'd have tidal as our base generation, with the troughs supplemented by other forms of renewable energy buffered by pumped storage.
The video is wrong in one respect - it refers to Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland as "four co-equal and sovereign nations" when in fact none of them is sovereign - only the United Kingdom is. Scotland, Wales and NI have less sovereignty than a US state, in that the British parliament can in theory still legislate in any matter across the whole of the UK. In practice it doesn't do so (or does so only at the request of the devolved legislatures) because it would be political suicide.
I kinda feel sorry for Sony, because they have been doing some things right with their latest batch of e-readers. They got Pearl e-ink devices to market at around the same time as Amazon did, and they came with those infra-red based touchscreens long before the latest Nook.
Ultimately what I think has hurt them is the lack of wireless, and hence a lack of integration between their devices and their store. Kindles and Nooks are sold as an entire package (iPads too to some extent), whereas a Sony Reader is only half of what you need.
I think Waterstones are still pushing Sony readers in the UK, because they have a compatible e-book store. And because the Nook is unavailable here, that puts them second in the market. But it's a distant second behind the Kindle.
I once used that website to demonstrate to my boss why I'd missed a deadline. The low reliability of RIM's signing servers is definitely not a new problem.
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Wikipedia claims that the US had bumper height regulations between 1974 and 1981.
You also have to take into account that a car's front bumper will dip under heavy braking.
My point is that this is precisely the kind of speech that your constitution shouldn't protect. That document was written in an age of slavery, and I'm sure that the fact that racist speech was protected wasn't seen as a problem at the time. Not that I think that racist speech should be a criminal offence on its own, but it should be an aggravating factor when inciting violence.
Nor is it necessary to protect free speech in a constitution when you have a society that values it, and is democratic. Americans seem to be prone to seeing things in black and white, but it's not the case that a lack of de-jure free speech protection is widespread censorship and silencing of dissent. And as I pointed out in my original post, it leads to the unfortunate scenario where people don't seem to give due consideration to what they're actually saying, before they say it.
I agree that that the '50 cal' prediction should not be illegal, although it was badly worded and left the guy open to prosecution. But the "call to 'shoot the [racist slur]'" was clearly unacceptable and should have been illegal. In the UK this would be incitement to violence and incitement of racial hatred.
This is the problem with constitutionally guaranteed free speech - not only that this kind of speech is deemed okay, but the fact that the guy didn't feel the need to stop and think before (metaphorically) opening his mouth.
I think it also depends on the composition of the fuel. There were certainly reports of diesel freezing in people's tanks last winter, and this was when the temperature here was hovering at around -10C (-20C at the absolute worst), which was unusually severe for us. One story I heard was that people who were buying their fuel from the cheaper supermarkets were having trouble, but people who bought from the likes of Esso and Shell were faring better because the fuel from them had anti-freezing additives.
The ones using Windows clearly found it not just hard but impossible.
The recovery partition is a really handy thing to have (although I'll be making a DVD backup of the installer anyway).
I'm planning on doing a clean install of Lion, but I wanted to mirror my Snow Leopard installation to an external drive and then copy files over as and when needed. To do this, I installed Lion on the external drive, booted the recovery partition, and used Disk Utility to overwrite the Lion main partition with my Snow Leopard partition. It works as a bootable drive too, which is useful.
What I'd like to know is, if you plug one of these monitors into one of the new MacBook Airs, can you use the FW800 port on the monitor, despite the lack of FW hardware in the Air? I'm still a little bit hazy on how Thunderbolt works in this regard.
A NASA commentator recently described the ISS as a "million pound space station". As a British listener, I thought this was an absolute bargain.
Sounds like they've got 'app permissions' and 'device requirements' muddled up, if you ask me.
Wrong. Read the original announcement again, and check the date.
Obviously false. Nobody bought a Kin.
I suspect that Apple do this as well. My brother took his iPhone 4 into an Apple Store when the lock button stopped working, and he claims that they replaced it with a 'new' (although probably refurbished) phone.
The relative rigidity of an iPhone 4, while being a disadvantage when landing after a fall, might work in its favour when it comes to being run over by a tyre. And Harleys are pretty close to the ground.
From TFA:
It's as if the universe is in the process of tying up all the loose ends.
Anybody who's serious about writing an app for Chrome OS should be using the offline storage APIs that are part of the HTML 5 family. I suspect the problem is not the deficiency of Chrome OS itself, but the fact that nobody is serious about writing apps for Chrome OS.
When you say "can't even reliably stay connected to a directly attached device", are you talking about a hard drive connected using USB (or FireWire)? Staying connected to the drive should be the job of the OS and shouldn't be an issue with Time Machine itself. Or is the problem due to the fact that Time Machine doesn't recognise the contents of the drive as a valid Time Machine backup?
From your description, I'm inclined to say that it was just a faulty hard drive, rather than having anything to do with Time Machine.
I've had problems with Time Machine before, where it would fill up the drive and then refuse to automatically remove older backups to make way for newer ones. I haven't had that problem recently, though, so I assumed that it had been fixed in a software update.
Why not? There are plenty of word processing apps available.
Unless you're one of those people for whom 'word processing' == 'Microsoft Word', in which case you can't word process on Linux either.
You're wrong. The Consent Motion is a practicality that allows Westminster to legislate on Scottish issues where it is agreed that this should happen, so that it doesn't become a constitutional controversy. It isn't strictly required, though. Parliamentary sovereignty still resides at Westminster.
A practical example is the disbanding of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972, which would have been impossible had Westminster not had ultimate power over Northern Ireland.
This is the reason the political situation in the UK is referred to as 'devolution'. It would be a form of federalism if the powers were guaranteed.
I thought it was a middle eastern invention. You're possibly thinking of the modern kilt, which I believe was invented by an English businessman who wanted to make the clothes of his highland employees more convenient to wear and work in.
That's when we turn on the link to Shetland, where the wind never stops blowing!
The what?
We move to option number four, tidal, which is being trialled in the Sound of Islay. Tides are predictable - you know exactly when the energy will peak and trough, and can plan for it. In an ideal world we'd have tidal as our base generation, with the troughs supplemented by other forms of renewable energy buffered by pumped storage.
The video is wrong in one respect - it refers to Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland as "four co-equal and sovereign nations" when in fact none of them is sovereign - only the United Kingdom is. Scotland, Wales and NI have less sovereignty than a US state, in that the British parliament can in theory still legislate in any matter across the whole of the UK. In practice it doesn't do so (or does so only at the request of the devolved legislatures) because it would be political suicide.
I kinda feel sorry for Sony, because they have been doing some things right with their latest batch of e-readers. They got Pearl e-ink devices to market at around the same time as Amazon did, and they came with those infra-red based touchscreens long before the latest Nook.
Ultimately what I think has hurt them is the lack of wireless, and hence a lack of integration between their devices and their store. Kindles and Nooks are sold as an entire package (iPads too to some extent), whereas a Sony Reader is only half of what you need.
I think Waterstones are still pushing Sony readers in the UK, because they have a compatible e-book store. And because the Nook is unavailable here, that puts them second in the market. But it's a distant second behind the Kindle.
I once used that website to demonstrate to my boss why I'd missed a deadline. The low reliability of RIM's signing servers is definitely not a new problem.
It's a lot easier to persuade for a government to persuade parliament to spend money if it can be sold as an investment rather than a cost.