People who give to a charity for good reasons do not need special identification on their vehicles to let the police know that they deserve special treatment.
We don't have to speculate. California law severely limits the enforcement of non-competes. It seems to work well there, so it probably will in Massachusetts.
According to my physician father, the first proven case of an environmental cause for cancer was that of smoked meat and fish in Iceland causing colon cancer. This is a long established relationship, not a recent fad.
How about a slight modification of a classic: Just change the background color of the display. Even 1 byte RGB gives you 256 messages. (I guess lighting would affect this.)
The other issue is, though, how much would such a system contribute to flight safety. Information about what went wrong may contribute in the long term to flight safety, but in the short term such systems won't prevent crashes. They will just tell us where to look for the bodies.
Actually, as I understand it, the lack of support for Unicode is a deliberate security measure. The fear is that including some "characters" would damage the page, and that, of course, malicious posters would take advantage of this.
While some teachers are just plain incompetent or ignorant, that is not the only factor leading to poor performance. Here are several more: (a) teacher training is poor. Far too much time is devoted to topics like philosophy of education and social issues, too little to things like subject knowledge, normal and abnormal language acquisition, how to teach reading, and so forth. For example, I know of teacher education programs in which teachers, including those destine to be elementary school teachers, are not taught how to teach children to read, which is probably the single most important thing they do. In one case, as part of a seminar, the students read and discussed two papers on approaches to the teaching of reading; that was the entire extent of their training in how to teach reading! (b) excessive diversity of students is very difficult for a teacher to deal with. You only have the time and resources to individualize instruction so much. If the students are at very different levels, even a good teacher can't do a good job. The mainstreaming of students with disabilities has exacerbated this problem. I don't mean to suggest a return to rigid tracking or to dumping all special needs kids in separate classes or schools, but we need some combination of classes that are more homogeneous as to level and ability together with adequate support (in the form of teachers' aides and other resources) for special needs students. (c) school administrations and government departments of education often impose poor curricula and materials. Greater competence and less political interference in the education bureaucracy would be a boon.
Actually, freedom of speech is intended to protect people who, by their speech, upset other people. Otherwise virtually any expression of an unpopular view could be prosecuted since somebody would be upset by it. The Holy Thursday and Good Friday liturgies of the Greek Orthodox Church to this day ascribe to Jews such as myself the guilt for the death of Christ. Naturally, we find this upsetting. Do you think that the Greek Orthodox Church and its priests should be prosecuted?
That is why in countries with strong protection for freedom of expression there are strict limitations on the ability to retaliate for speech, e.g. requiring that defamation be objectively false in order to be actionable.
Sea urchins aren't exotic for Italy. They may be considered an exotic food in North America, but they're indigenous to the Mediterranean and eaten in the region.
Precisely. I write mostly in TeX (real TeX, not LaTeX) but use LibreOffice for some documents. One of the major reasons that I continue to use TeX is that I can edit it as I please, which generally means using GNU Emacs. LibreOffice and its kin are so much inferior as editors that I feel crippled when I have to use them. Indeed, when writing something that is mostly text, even if it is ultimately going to be formatted in LibreOffice, I almost always write it as plain text in Emacs, then import the plain text file into LibreOffice. TeX is also easier to edit using other Unix text tools and to generate programmatically.
Perhaps surprisingly, I have also found it much easier to produce documents with a lot of images in TeX (using the psfig macros and dvips/dvipdf) than in LibreOffice. LibreOffice tends to get sluggish and to give me a hard time getting the images scaled the way I want them.
The project in question is not an exact duplicate. It allows the user to add levels and it runs on current computer hardware, which the original does not.
The article is vague as to what Xerox provides. I gather they're not just the hardware vendor. Do they supply the software? Do they handle clearance, like a credit card company? What exactly is their role?
I suspect that the judge is pretty confident that they are going to lose and that in view of their extensive misconduct he will award costs to the plaintiff.
Exactly. This is a very important point. If they become responsible for content, their liability will be enormous and they will be unable to exert editorial control over so much material. They'd be nuts to accept such exposure. As long as we can ensure that they do not receive an exemption from current law, net neutrality should be safe.
Both have published specifications, so reverse engineering shouldn't be necessary. However, Microsoft's XML includes things that are not defined in the specification. That was one of the objections to giving it status as an open standard.
No, anti-Muslim sentiment is generally not directed at people per se but at the ideology of Islam. For the most part, it consists of resistance to Islamic hegemonism, religious intolerance, terrorism and forced conversion, the oppression of women, shari'a law, an so forth. This is clear from the reasons that people give for disliking Islam and is confirmed by the poor correlation between criticism of Islam an actual racism and xenophobia. Among the groups with the strongest anti-Islamic sentiment are Middle Eastern Jews and Christians, who are just as "brown" as Muslims, and in some cases out and out "black". They don't care about Muslim's race - they are hostile to Islam because of their direct and prolonged experience of oppression.
The circumstance of the Liberty incident remain far from clear. In any case, it was a single incident during wartime many years ago. As for espionage, there have not been any documented cases of Israeli espionage against the United States. All of the small number of cases involve Israel obtaining US intelligence on third parties. It simply isn't true that Israel has acted against US security interests.
There used to be a kind of libel for which truth actually was not a defense, namely seditious libel. That made sense, since a statement that brought discredit on the crown was even more dangerous to the crown if true.
More accurate would be to say that chiropractic works in certain limited situations. Classical chiropractic, however, purports to treat all manner of medical problems, and claims that all are due to "subluxations" of the spine. This is false and has resulted both in serious injury to patients and to a failure to obtain real medical treatment. Chiropractic as founded by Palmer is indeed "bogus". Fortunately, many of those who consider themselves chiropractors are not chiropractors in the original sense and restrict themselves to a kind of physical therapy.
They are prisoners of war, but as "unlawful combatants", they are (so the US government argues), not entitled to the protections provided by the Geneva Convention. International law is not terribly clear on the status of unlawful combatants, but it seems pretty clear that, like lawful combatants, they can be held for the duration of the war without being charged with a crime.
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People who give to a charity for good reasons do not need special identification on their vehicles to let the police know that they deserve special treatment.
We don't have to speculate. California law severely limits the enforcement of non-competes. It seems to work well there, so it probably will in Massachusetts.
According to my physician father, the first proven case of an environmental cause for cancer was that of smoked meat and fish in Iceland causing colon cancer. This is a long established relationship, not a recent fad.
How about a slight modification of a classic: Just change the background color of the display. Even 1 byte RGB gives you 256 messages. (I guess lighting would affect this.)
The other issue is, though, how much would such a system contribute to flight safety. Information about what went wrong may contribute in the long term to flight safety, but in the short term such systems won't prevent crashes. They will just tell us where to look for the bodies.
Actually, as I understand it, the lack of support for Unicode is a deliberate security measure. The fear is that including some "characters" would damage the page, and that, of course, malicious posters would take advantage of this.
While some teachers are just plain incompetent or ignorant, that is not the only factor leading to poor performance. Here are several more: (a) teacher training is poor. Far too much time is devoted to topics like philosophy of education and social issues, too little to things like subject knowledge, normal and abnormal language acquisition, how to teach reading, and so forth. For example, I know of teacher education programs in which teachers, including those destine to be elementary school teachers, are not taught how to teach children to read, which is probably the single most important thing they do. In one case, as part of a seminar, the students read and discussed two papers on approaches to the teaching of reading; that was the entire extent of their training in how to teach reading! (b) excessive diversity of students is very difficult for a teacher to deal with. You only have the time and resources to individualize instruction so much. If the students are at very different levels, even a good teacher can't do a good job. The mainstreaming of students with disabilities has exacerbated this problem. I don't mean to suggest a return to rigid tracking or to dumping all special needs kids in separate classes or schools, but we need some combination of classes that are more homogeneous as to level and ability together with adequate support (in the form of teachers' aides and other resources) for special needs students. (c) school administrations and government departments of education often impose poor curricula and materials. Greater competence and less political interference in the education bureaucracy would be a boon.
Actually, freedom of speech is intended to protect people who, by their speech, upset other people. Otherwise virtually any expression of an unpopular view could be prosecuted since somebody would be upset by it. The Holy Thursday and Good Friday liturgies of the Greek Orthodox Church to this day ascribe to Jews such as myself the guilt for the death of Christ. Naturally, we find this upsetting. Do you think that the Greek Orthodox Church and its priests should be prosecuted? That is why in countries with strong protection for freedom of expression there are strict limitations on the ability to retaliate for speech, e.g. requiring that defamation be objectively false in order to be actionable.
Sea urchins aren't exotic for Italy. They may be considered an exotic food in North America, but they're indigenous to the Mediterranean and eaten in the region.
None of the articles explains the basis for the Indian government's claims. Does anyone know the basis for this dispute?
At first I read that as JSON and wondered what had happened to it.
Mass release of methane from eating all those beans.
Why bother? The National Security Agency already backs everything up for you.
Spending a few years in prison tends to leave an awkward gap in your employment history.
Precisely. I write mostly in TeX (real TeX, not LaTeX) but use LibreOffice for some documents. One of the major reasons that I continue to use TeX is that I can edit it as I please, which generally means using GNU Emacs. LibreOffice and its kin are so much inferior as editors that I feel crippled when I have to use them. Indeed, when writing something that is mostly text, even if it is ultimately going to be formatted in LibreOffice, I almost always write it as plain text in Emacs, then import the plain text file into LibreOffice. TeX is also easier to edit using other Unix text tools and to generate programmatically. Perhaps surprisingly, I have also found it much easier to produce documents with a lot of images in TeX (using the psfig macros and dvips/dvipdf) than in LibreOffice. LibreOffice tends to get sluggish and to give me a hard time getting the images scaled the way I want them.
The project in question is not an exact duplicate. It allows the user to add levels and it runs on current computer hardware, which the original does not.
The article is vague as to what Xerox provides. I gather they're not just the hardware vendor. Do they supply the software? Do they handle clearance, like a credit card company? What exactly is their role?
I suspect that the judge is pretty confident that they are going to lose and that in view of their extensive misconduct he will award costs to the plaintiff.
Exactly. This is a very important point. If they become responsible for content, their liability will be enormous and they will be unable to exert editorial control over so much material. They'd be nuts to accept such exposure. As long as we can ensure that they do not receive an exemption from current law, net neutrality should be safe.
Both have published specifications, so reverse engineering shouldn't be necessary. However, Microsoft's XML includes things that are not defined in the specification. That was one of the objections to giving it status as an open standard.
No, anti-Muslim sentiment is generally not directed at people per se but at the ideology of Islam. For the most part, it consists of resistance to Islamic hegemonism, religious intolerance, terrorism and forced conversion, the oppression of women, shari'a law, an so forth. This is clear from the reasons that people give for disliking Islam and is confirmed by the poor correlation between criticism of Islam an actual racism and xenophobia. Among the groups with the strongest anti-Islamic sentiment are Middle Eastern Jews and Christians, who are just as "brown" as Muslims, and in some cases out and out "black". They don't care about Muslim's race - they are hostile to Islam because of their direct and prolonged experience of oppression.
The circumstance of the Liberty incident remain far from clear. In any case, it was a single incident during wartime many years ago. As for espionage, there have not been any documented cases of Israeli espionage against the United States. All of the small number of cases involve Israel obtaining US intelligence on third parties. It simply isn't true that Israel has acted against US security interests.
There used to be a kind of libel for which truth actually was not a defense, namely seditious libel. That made sense, since a statement that brought discredit on the crown was even more dangerous to the crown if true.
More accurate would be to say that chiropractic works in certain limited situations. Classical chiropractic, however, purports to treat all manner of medical problems, and claims that all are due to "subluxations" of the spine. This is false and has resulted both in serious injury to patients and to a failure to obtain real medical treatment. Chiropractic as founded by Palmer is indeed "bogus". Fortunately, many of those who consider themselves chiropractors are not chiropractors in the original sense and restrict themselves to a kind of physical therapy.
They are prisoners of war, but as "unlawful combatants", they are (so the US government argues), not entitled to the protections provided by the Geneva Convention. International law is not terribly clear on the status of unlawful combatants, but it seems pretty clear that, like lawful combatants, they can be held for the duration of the war without being charged with a crime.