China is no longer a communist country. The ruling party has kept the name, but it renounced communist principles some time ago. China is now a largely capitalist dictatorship, albeit one in which the state, especially the army, owns a significant portion of businesses.
I agree, since there isn't a true "meeting of minds" in such a case. However, the courts don't. An example is with airline tickets, where the ticket contains very little and just refers to voluminous documents that can in theory be inspected at the airline's headquarters. The fact is that no one other than perhaps a few aviation attorneys knows what he is actually agreeing to when buying an airline ticket. The courts are fine with this.
Such rights don't necessarily apply when the government is your employer. Just as private employers can do things to employees that the government cannot do to citizens in general, when the government acts as an employer, it acquires some of the privileges of private employers. For example, when an employee speaks on behalf of a government agency, the government has the right to control what he or she says, in spite of the First Amendment. This isn't to say that constitutional restrictions do not apply to the government as employer, but when they do and when they don't is complicated.
I think it depends on what you mean by "primary". For several languages Tk was the first windowing/graphics library that saw wide use, even now quite a bit later other libraries have become favorites.
Tcl was never really all that popular in the broader community, but I do think that use is underestimated because so much of it is in internal industrial and scientific contexts rather than in open-source or commercial software.
Indeed. Tcl is still actively developed and is, and has been for quite a few years, a much better language than it was when RMS discussed this issue. The associated Tk windowing/graphics library is so good that a number of other languages, including Perl and Python, adopted it as their primary library. There are a large set of libraries and extensions for Tcl, including several that make it object-oriented. The Tcl community is very helpful. Tcl is actually used a good deal more than people realize because it is heavily used in internal industrial work such as automating testing, and in tools such as Expect that people do not always realize are in Tcl.
That said, Lua would also be a good choice. It has a very clean design, a good set of libraries, and a very clear-headed and innovative designer, Roberto Ierusalimschy, who also writes very well.
No, transshipment of goods through other countries is done all the time. The shipment is simply sealed at one end and passed through uninspected to the other end. It only goes through customs inspection at the destination.
The point about the previous system not being broken is that there are a number of known problems with on-line voting that have to be balanced against any putative advantages. In the absence of problems with the current system, the putative advantages of on-line voting appear to be very small and outweighed by the disadvantages. We don't just innovate for the sake of innovation regardless of whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Is it actually an improvement to enable people to vote much more easily? Granted, there are a few small groups (people who live in very remote areas, military, etc.) who may find it difficult to vote, but it isn't that hard for most people. If people can't even take the small amount of trouble it takes to vote now, do they really know enough and care enough to vote intelligently? It's one thing for everyone to have the right to vote, but it seems like an open question whether it is an advantage to society to make it easier than it is now.
I'm not sure that helps. If you get both credentials, you have no way of knowing which is which. The person you extort them from can lie and you will have no way of discovering the lie and retaliating. On average, your votes will cancel each other.
"Jordan hasn't launched invasions of its neighbours"
Jordan attacked Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973, and from 1948-1967 illegally occupied Judea, Samaria, and the eastern portion of Jerusalem. Compared to the leaders of some other Arab countries, King Abdullah does indeed come off as clued-in and moderate, but he cannot afford to allow anything approaching real democracy unless he is willing to give up his crown. Jordan consists of two thirds of the Palestine Mandate and has a population that consists of approximately 30% Bedouin and 70% "Palestinians". His family are Hashemites, transplanted from the Arabian peninsula, and are perceived as alien usurpers by most of the population. His support comes from the Bedouin minority. He has to maintain an oppressive system in order to stay in power.
To be precise, Jordan is almost landlocked. It has a little bit of coastline on the Gulf of Eilat, around Aqaba, which provides access to the Red Sea, which is on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf.
No. The "Gulf States" are the Arab states that border the Persian Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Jordan is landlocked and is therefore not a Gulf State.
The summer after 9/11 I traveled with a professional digital video recorder in an aluminum case that looked almost exactly like the atomic bomb in "Goldfinger". It just screamed "I am a tactical nuke". The screeners were pretty good about it, considering
It isn't just do-it-yourself gear that can arouse suspicion. My Zoom H4N digital recorder has elicited attention from the TSA. The two built-in mikes at the front apparently make it look a lot like a Taser on the scanner.
I find it strange that, if Ceglia forged the version of the contract on which he is relying in court, he kept around old versions or word processor change logs or whatever it is that Facebook has found. He doesn't seem to be the kind of naive non-technical user who wouldn't think of such things.
"states rights", and more generally, the relationship between the states and the federal government, derive entirely from the Constitution. The Constitution makes no distinction between states and commonwealths - as far as it is concerned, they are all states. The fact that a few states call themselves "commonwealths" is therefore of no relevance to states rights or other aspects of federalism.
It's conceivable that he just can't get along with his lawyers, but the odds are that the simultaneous resignations of two law firms mean that they have discovered that there is something seriously wrong with the case. Most likely that means that they now think the documents he has produced are forgeries. If they know that, they can't continue as they would be suborning fraud and perjury.
They are pretty sure that his body was moved by the flow of the ice after his death, which would have disrupted its original orientation and conformation.
You could avoid most of these emails in the first place by changing your email address. There's no law that requires your email to be of the form.. Use something entirely different, or give yourself, for email purposes, an uncommon middle name. John.Smith@gmail.com is going to get a lot of mail; Abdullah.Suzuki.Cohen@gmail.com is not.
We don't have enough information to estimate the infection rate. For one thing, we don't know how good the scanner is. If it misses a lot malware, the infection rate may be much higher.
We also don't know what kind of sample the downloads comprise. If only people who think they have an infection are downloading it, then the sample is biased high and the real infection rate may be much lower. Since it only detected infections in 5% of cases, either the scanner is very bad or people are downloading it as a precaution, not once they think they have an infection. If they're downloading it as a precaution, that probably means they are particularly security conscious, in which case the sample is probably biased toward a low infection rate.
Overall, it looks like without more information the percentage of machines found to be infected by this scanner tells us very little.
Actually, in many ways we have stronger copyright laws in Canada than the US does, according to copyright expert Harold Knopf. The US media companies are just pushing for ever more draconian laws.
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China is no longer a communist country. The ruling party has kept the name, but it renounced communist principles some time ago. China is now a largely capitalist dictatorship, albeit one in which the state, especially the army, owns a significant portion of businesses.
I agree, since there isn't a true "meeting of minds" in such a case. However, the courts don't. An example is with airline tickets, where the ticket contains very little and just refers to voluminous documents that can in theory be inspected at the airline's headquarters. The fact is that no one other than perhaps a few aviation attorneys knows what he is actually agreeing to when buying an airline ticket. The courts are fine with this.
Such rights don't necessarily apply when the government is your employer. Just as private employers can do things to employees that the government cannot do to citizens in general, when the government acts as an employer, it acquires some of the privileges of private employers. For example, when an employee speaks on behalf of a government agency, the government has the right to control what he or she says, in spite of the First Amendment. This isn't to say that constitutional restrictions do not apply to the government as employer, but when they do and when they don't is complicated.
The lawsuit in question is in the United States, where truth IS a complete defense.
I think it depends on what you mean by "primary". For several languages Tk was the first windowing/graphics library that saw wide use, even now quite a bit later other libraries have become favorites. Tcl was never really all that popular in the broader community, but I do think that use is underestimated because so much of it is in internal industrial and scientific contexts rather than in open-source or commercial software.
Indeed. Tcl is still actively developed and is, and has been for quite a few years, a much better language than it was when RMS discussed this issue. The associated Tk windowing/graphics library is so good that a number of other languages, including Perl and Python, adopted it as their primary library. There are a large set of libraries and extensions for Tcl, including several that make it object-oriented. The Tcl community is very helpful. Tcl is actually used a good deal more than people realize because it is heavily used in internal industrial work such as automating testing, and in tools such as Expect that people do not always realize are in Tcl. That said, Lua would also be a good choice. It has a very clean design, a good set of libraries, and a very clear-headed and innovative designer, Roberto Ierusalimschy, who also writes very well.
No, transshipment of goods through other countries is done all the time. The shipment is simply sealed at one end and passed through uninspected to the other end. It only goes through customs inspection at the destination.
The point about the previous system not being broken is that there are a number of known problems with on-line voting that have to be balanced against any putative advantages. In the absence of problems with the current system, the putative advantages of on-line voting appear to be very small and outweighed by the disadvantages. We don't just innovate for the sake of innovation regardless of whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Is it actually an improvement to enable people to vote much more easily? Granted, there are a few small groups (people who live in very remote areas, military, etc.) who may find it difficult to vote, but it isn't that hard for most people. If people can't even take the small amount of trouble it takes to vote now, do they really know enough and care enough to vote intelligently? It's one thing for everyone to have the right to vote, but it seems like an open question whether it is an advantage to society to make it easier than it is now.
I'm not sure that helps. If you get both credentials, you have no way of knowing which is which. The person you extort them from can lie and you will have no way of discovering the lie and retaliating. On average, your votes will cancel each other.
"Jordan hasn't launched invasions of its neighbours" Jordan attacked Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973, and from 1948-1967 illegally occupied Judea, Samaria, and the eastern portion of Jerusalem. Compared to the leaders of some other Arab countries, King Abdullah does indeed come off as clued-in and moderate, but he cannot afford to allow anything approaching real democracy unless he is willing to give up his crown. Jordan consists of two thirds of the Palestine Mandate and has a population that consists of approximately 30% Bedouin and 70% "Palestinians". His family are Hashemites, transplanted from the Arabian peninsula, and are perceived as alien usurpers by most of the population. His support comes from the Bedouin minority. He has to maintain an oppressive system in order to stay in power.
To be precise, Jordan is almost landlocked. It has a little bit of coastline on the Gulf of Eilat, around Aqaba, which provides access to the Red Sea, which is on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf.
No. The "Gulf States" are the Arab states that border the Persian Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Jordan is landlocked and is therefore not a Gulf State.
This is a bipartisan problem. Yes, Feinstein and other Democrats help out the RIAA, but so do Republicans, e.g. Orrin Hatch.
The summer after 9/11 I traveled with a professional digital video recorder in an aluminum case that looked almost exactly like the atomic bomb in "Goldfinger". It just screamed "I am a tactical nuke". The screeners were pretty good about it, considering
It isn't just do-it-yourself gear that can arouse suspicion. My Zoom H4N digital recorder has elicited attention from the TSA. The two built-in mikes at the front apparently make it look a lot like a Taser on the scanner.
I find it strange that, if Ceglia forged the version of the contract on which he is relying in court, he kept around old versions or word processor change logs or whatever it is that Facebook has found. He doesn't seem to be the kind of naive non-technical user who wouldn't think of such things.
How do donkeys compare to pigeons?
"states rights", and more generally, the relationship between the states and the federal government, derive entirely from the Constitution. The Constitution makes no distinction between states and commonwealths - as far as it is concerned, they are all states. The fact that a few states call themselves "commonwealths" is therefore of no relevance to states rights or other aspects of federalism.
It's conceivable that he just can't get along with his lawyers, but the odds are that the simultaneous resignations of two law firms mean that they have discovered that there is something seriously wrong with the case. Most likely that means that they now think the documents he has produced are forgeries. If they know that, they can't continue as they would be suborning fraud and perjury.
They are pretty sure that his body was moved by the flow of the ice after his death, which would have disrupted its original orientation and conformation.
You could avoid most of these emails in the first place by changing your email address. There's no law that requires your email to be of the form .. Use something entirely different, or give yourself, for email purposes, an uncommon middle name. John.Smith@gmail.com is going to get a lot of mail; Abdullah.Suzuki.Cohen@gmail.com is not.
We don't have enough information to estimate the infection rate. For one thing, we don't know how good the scanner is. If it misses a lot malware, the infection rate may be much higher. We also don't know what kind of sample the downloads comprise. If only people who think they have an infection are downloading it, then the sample is biased high and the real infection rate may be much lower. Since it only detected infections in 5% of cases, either the scanner is very bad or people are downloading it as a precaution, not once they think they have an infection. If they're downloading it as a precaution, that probably means they are particularly security conscious, in which case the sample is probably biased toward a low infection rate. Overall, it looks like without more information the percentage of machines found to be infected by this scanner tells us very little.
You may not like the NDP's policies or chances of forming a government, but I've never seen any serious allegations that Jack Layton is corrupt.
Actually, in many ways we have stronger copyright laws in Canada than the US does, according to copyright expert Harold Knopf. The US media companies are just pushing for ever more draconian laws.