It is likely that they have considered what is likely to disturb the ecology of the cave and what is not. The area has apparently never been completely isolated, and more recently people have been allowed to visit the main portion of the cave. It is therefore likely that the relatively minor bacterial contamination from the exposed faces and breath of the explorers is not considered dangerous. What is probably more important is not allowing large numbers of people to stomp around, break things, leave trash, and change the temperature, humidity, and gas composition by their body heat and exhalations.
There's supposed to be a Scrabble-like game in Tamil called Thiruthamizh. I've seen press accounts and even a video clip of people playing it, so I'm pretty sure it is for real, but it doesn't seem to be available either in India or overseas.
It even has a web site,
http://www.thiruthamizh.com, but most of the links don't work. Has anybody seen it?
Indeed if you think that China is well stocked with attractive women, you should like Canada. There has been a great deal of Chinese immigration over the past twenty-five years and some cities, especially Vancouver, have large Chinese minorities. There is also a substantial Panjabi minority. Canada is not nearly as whitebread as you might think.
Surely the Master Programmer asks to see the company's coding standards before accepting the job. Otherwise, he might end up in a position where he would be unable to follow the Tao.
Ha, we've got a Diebold fan with mod points, have we? Sorry, but it isn't trolling to provide a nice piece of evidence of a company's reputation in a thread devoted precisely to that company's questionable reputation.
If you were Diebold, you'd want to change your name too. Their reputation is so bad now that
on June 30th on Jeopardy one of the clues was: "This machine electronically changes your vote into a vote for Mitt Romney." The correct question was "What is Diebold?"
If so, why were the reported results of the election so much different from what the polls
showed a week before. The week before they were still liberal democrats running in a republican
state in a big republican year. Did some big scandal come up that affected them?
Precisely. The US helped overthrow the democratic Allende government and set up
the Pinochet dictatorship. Not very consistent with boycotting Cuba because it isn't
democratic.
Exactly. It's not like the US embargoes other countries that are just as undemocratic or worse. How about Saudi Arabia: no religious freedom, no democracy whatever, nothing resembling a real legal system, no freedom of speech, and no rights for women at all, not to mention the massive export of bigotry and funding for terrorism? How about Equatorial Guinea, whose dictatorship would be funny if it weren't so pathetic? Funny how the US didn't boycott Chile under Pinochet, or Greece under the colonels or Haiti under Duvalier. Of all the countries with undemocratic political systems, can anybody seriously believe that Cuba is in the same league as North Korea?
William Patry, one of the leading authorities on copyright law and counsel for Google, has posted a very negative discussion of this decision on his blog. It sounds like there is a good chance of reversal on appeal. Unlike most./-ers, this is someone who really knows what he is talking about.
Yes, the reason that Koreans make such rapid progress in Japanese is that syntax is so familiar to them. Both languages are head-final (verb final in the clause, use postpositions rather than prepositions), form subordinate clauses in the same ways, have very similar topic-comment structures, etc. Both use similar systems of case-marking. A great deal of the stuff that seems weird if you are coming from English is the same in Japanese and Korean. But until those Koreans study Japanese, they can't understand much of anything because the vocabulary is almost completely different, unlike Spanish and Italian, where most of the vocabulary is recognizable.
I actually began Korean this way. A friend who also knew Japanese well and wanted to learn Korean persuaded the Korean instructor, who had grown up in Japan and so was a native bilingual, to offer a special intensive class that was essentially "Korean for Japanese speakers". She assumed that we already knew the syntax and Chinese characters. We learned hangul, spent a little time on pronunciation (the course was fairly heavily oriented toward reading Korean), learned the case-marking and the basics of conjugating verbs, and started reading. For us, most of the work was learning vocabulary. When a question came up, she usually answered by translating into Japanese.
Korean and Japanese are about as similar as Spanish and Italian.
This is not true at all. Korean and Japanese are very similar in general grammatical type but are completely different in detail. Except for words borrowed from Chinese, words sound completely different. The details of conjugation of verbs are totally different. The sound systems are quite different. If you know one, you do have a leg up on the other, but that is because of the similarity in grammatical type. Speakers of Korean and Japanese who know no other language cannot communicate at all.
If you think that Japanese and Korean are very similar because you know
of Koreans who communicate easily with Japanese, it is probably because you
are thinking of older Koreans, who speak Japanese because Korea was part of Japan until 1945 and they were required to use Japanese in school.
Actually, in the US, it is the other way around. A private company can impose all sorts of stupid restrictions because it isn't constrained by the Constitution. A public utility has to abide by the Constitution, including the First Amendment, so it is more limited in the constraints it can impose.
The examples that you provide are not representative. The Supreme Court has struck down laws against sodomy. If Arizona still has a sodomy law on its books, it is probably unconstitutional and unenforced. The Arizona sex toys law is probably in the same category.
True. There is also the fact that Firefox is not self-contained. I can't install Firefox 3 yet because it needs a more recent version of something (pango? - I forget) than I have installed. And I can't update that because various other things are out of date. So I'll install Firefox 3 when I update the whole system soon.
That's quite possible. A long period without an accident doesn't mean that
you are a safe driver. Accidents result from a combination of circumstances
that may occur very rarely. You can be a poor driver and yet go through life
unscathed because you have the luck not to encounter the situations in which
your poor driving will cause an accident. You can also be a good driver and
have a lot of accidents because you are unlucky and encounter a lot of situations
in which even a good driver will have an accident.
Although probably not so relevant to things like texting, another interfering factor is that some kinds of poor driving are more likely to cause OTHER drivers to have accidents than the poor driver himself. This is true, for example, of very aggressive drivers, who are more likely to panic other drivers and cause them to have accidents than to have one themselves.
Here, here. Years ago I was hit and my vehicle totalled by a guy who looked down to adjust his radio. The next thing he knew, he was in my lane. One point that this makes is that people shouldn't adjust their radio if they have to look away from the road to do it. Wait, or ask a passenger to do it. The other is that controls should be better designed. There is a lot of variation in how easy controls are for the driver to use and in particular whether they require the driver to look away from the road. This should be an important design consideration.
Part of the problem is that people are very bad at judging how well they drive and how distracted they are by other activities. You think you are driving safely while texting etc. Maybe, but probably not. You're probably a hazard just waiting to cause an accident.
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While I don't dispute that unions are sometimes a problem, I wonder how much the union is to blame in this case. One hears regular reports of understaffing and impossible work conditions for air traffic controllers, and these seem quite plausible given what an intricate and high-stress job it is together with the antiquated computer systems they have to use, which don't provide very good support. Back in 1980 the main issue in the air traffic controllers' strike was working conditions, not wages and benefits. When Reagan broke the union and fired the air traffic controllers, wasn't that a huge blow to reform?
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I guess nobody else has noticed it so I will be the first to point out that this cave is just outside of Roswell. Need we say more?
It is likely that they have considered what is likely to disturb the ecology of the cave and what is not. The area has apparently never been completely isolated, and more recently people have been allowed to visit the main portion of the cave. It is therefore likely that the relatively minor bacterial contamination from the exposed faces and breath of the explorers is not considered dangerous. What is probably more important is not allowing large numbers of people to stomp around, break things, leave trash, and change the temperature, humidity, and gas composition by their body heat and exhalations.
There's supposed to be a Scrabble-like game in Tamil called Thiruthamizh. I've seen press accounts and even a video clip of people playing it, so I'm pretty sure it is for real, but it doesn't seem to be available either in India or overseas. It even has a web site, http://www.thiruthamizh.com, but most of the links don't work. Has anybody seen it?
It's going to be pretty funny if 10 Downing Street get a call from the hotel saying they've got the Blackberry in their Lost and Found.
Indeed if you think that China is well stocked with attractive women, you should like Canada. There has been a great deal of Chinese immigration over the past twenty-five years and some cities, especially Vancouver, have large Chinese minorities. There is also a substantial Panjabi minority. Canada is not nearly as whitebread as you might think.
Well, anyday now I guess I'm going to move up from RCS.
Surely the Master Programmer asks to see the company's coding standards before accepting the job. Otherwise, he might end up in a position where he would be unable to follow the Tao.
Ha, we've got a Diebold fan with mod points, have we? Sorry, but it isn't trolling to provide a nice piece of evidence of a company's reputation in a thread devoted precisely to that company's questionable reputation.
If you were Diebold, you'd want to change your name too. Their reputation is so bad now that on June 30th on Jeopardy one of the clues was: "This machine electronically changes your vote into a vote for Mitt Romney." The correct question was "What is Diebold?"
If so, why were the reported results of the election so much different from what the polls showed a week before. The week before they were still liberal democrats running in a republican state in a big republican year. Did some big scandal come up that affected them?
There's an even larger species called the Colossal Squid. The largest known specimen weighed 495kg.
Precisely. The US helped overthrow the democratic Allende government and set up the Pinochet dictatorship. Not very consistent with boycotting Cuba because it isn't democratic.
Exactly. It's not like the US embargoes other countries that are just as undemocratic or worse. How about Saudi Arabia: no religious freedom, no democracy whatever, nothing resembling a real legal system, no freedom of speech, and no rights for women at all, not to mention the massive export of bigotry and funding for terrorism? How about Equatorial Guinea, whose dictatorship would be funny if it weren't so pathetic? Funny how the US didn't boycott Chile under Pinochet, or Greece under the colonels or Haiti under Duvalier. Of all the countries with undemocratic political systems, can anybody seriously believe that Cuba is in the same league as North Korea?
This is just what we need: coasters you can only use with drinks licensed by Microsoft.
William Patry, one of the leading authorities on copyright law and counsel for Google, has posted a very negative discussion of this decision on his blog. It sounds like there is a good chance of reversal on appeal. Unlike most ./-ers, this is someone who really knows what he is talking about.
Yes, the reason that Koreans make such rapid progress in Japanese is that syntax is so familiar to them. Both languages are head-final (verb final in the clause, use postpositions rather than prepositions), form subordinate clauses in the same ways, have very similar topic-comment structures, etc. Both use similar systems of case-marking. A great deal of the stuff that seems weird if you are coming from English is the same in Japanese and Korean. But until those Koreans study Japanese, they can't understand much of anything because the vocabulary is almost completely different, unlike Spanish and Italian, where most of the vocabulary is recognizable.
I actually began Korean this way. A friend who also knew Japanese well and wanted to learn Korean persuaded the Korean instructor, who had grown up in Japan and so was a native bilingual, to offer a special intensive class that was essentially "Korean for Japanese speakers". She assumed that we already knew the syntax and Chinese characters. We learned hangul, spent a little time on pronunciation (the course was fairly heavily oriented toward reading Korean), learned the case-marking and the basics of conjugating verbs, and started reading. For us, most of the work was learning vocabulary. When a question came up, she usually answered by translating into Japanese.
This is not true at all. Korean and Japanese are very similar in general grammatical type but are completely different in detail. Except for words borrowed from Chinese, words sound completely different. The details of conjugation of verbs are totally different. The sound systems are quite different. If you know one, you do have a leg up on the other, but that is because of the similarity in grammatical type. Speakers of Korean and Japanese who know no other language cannot communicate at all.
If you think that Japanese and Korean are very similar because you know of Koreans who communicate easily with Japanese, it is probably because you are thinking of older Koreans, who speak Japanese because Korea was part of Japan until 1945 and they were required to use Japanese in school.
Actually, in the US, it is the other way around. A private company can impose all sorts of stupid restrictions because it isn't constrained by the Constitution. A public utility has to abide by the Constitution, including the First Amendment, so it is more limited in the constraints it can impose.
The examples that you provide are not representative. The Supreme Court has struck down laws against sodomy. If Arizona still has a sodomy law on its books, it is probably unconstitutional and unenforced. The Arizona sex toys law is probably in the same category.
True. There is also the fact that Firefox is not self-contained. I can't install Firefox 3 yet because it needs a more recent version of something (pango? - I forget) than I have installed. And I can't update that because various other things are out of date. So I'll install Firefox 3 when I update the whole system soon.
Je ne comprends pas: cette liste ne contient aucun mot difficile a ecrire.
That's quite possible. A long period without an accident doesn't mean that you are a safe driver. Accidents result from a combination of circumstances that may occur very rarely. You can be a poor driver and yet go through life unscathed because you have the luck not to encounter the situations in which your poor driving will cause an accident. You can also be a good driver and have a lot of accidents because you are unlucky and encounter a lot of situations in which even a good driver will have an accident.
Although probably not so relevant to things like texting, another interfering factor is that some kinds of poor driving are more likely to cause OTHER drivers to have accidents than the poor driver himself. This is true, for example, of very aggressive drivers, who are more likely to panic other drivers and cause them to have accidents than to have one themselves.
I assume that this isn't manually built. How is it generated? Is the software available for use with other programs?
Here, here. Years ago I was hit and my vehicle totalled by a guy who looked down to adjust his radio. The next thing he knew, he was in my lane. One point that this makes is that people shouldn't adjust their radio if they have to look away from the road to do it. Wait, or ask a passenger to do it. The other is that controls should be better designed. There is a lot of variation in how easy controls are for the driver to use and in particular whether they require the driver to look away from the road. This should be an important design consideration.
Part of the problem is that people are very bad at judging how well they drive and how distracted they are by other activities. You think you are driving safely while texting etc. Maybe, but probably not. You're probably a hazard just waiting to cause an accident.
While I don't dispute that unions are sometimes a problem, I wonder how much the union is to blame in this case. One hears regular reports of understaffing and impossible work conditions for air traffic controllers, and these seem quite plausible given what an intricate and high-stress job it is together with the antiquated computer systems they have to use, which don't provide very good support. Back in 1980 the main issue in the air traffic controllers' strike was working conditions, not wages and benefits. When Reagan broke the union and fired the air traffic controllers, wasn't that a huge blow to reform?