You're missing the point. If you don't rewrite your fundamental charters of existence, and the treaty requires a fundamental rewrite of your charters of existence, then you are in breach of the treaty. If you are in breach of the treaty, you will have to make reparations, which either means a rewrite of your fundamental charters of existence or financial compensation.
The USA voluntarily agreed to sign the treaty -- no-one forced it to.
p>You seem to continue to side step the issue of the US having the right to control gambling within its borders.
You seem to continue to side step the issue of the US having agreed to offer equal treatment to overseas trading partners as to its own traders in certain areas.
They had the same period of time to develop guns the spanish did. They did not. Therefore...
...therefore we have evidence that South America did not trade with China, where gunpowder was invented. Spain didn't invent the stuff, it borrowed it.
Not a lot of people invented writing. The various civilisations and languages didn't develop writing independently, but one or two made great leaps that others followed. This all happened after the Siberian land-bridge was gone and the Americas were isolated. I'm from the UK, and we never invented writing -- we learned it from the Germanic peoples and from the Romans, who learnt it from the Greeks and Etruscans, who learnt it from the Babylonians etc etc etc.
Many studies leap to unsupported conclusions, but still contain valuable and important data. But Nelson talks about the "most likely explanation", and fag-packet statistics supports her. The chances of 63% of them having had transplants? Slim to none. 63% of them had vanishing twins? Again, too big a coincidence by Occam's razor.
That leaves us with older brothers (brother hypothesis) and pregnancy (pregnancy hypothesis). Now, let's consider that the likelihood of a woman having a son is roughly the same as the likelihood of her mother having a son, P(son). Now, in the pregnancy hypothesis, birth order is irrelevant, but in the brother hypothesis, the brother must be younger.
What we're left having to weigh up is the likelihood of a woman being childless vs the likelihood of a women having no older brothers. Nelson may have looked at the actual figures for this, or may have just have estimated. Either way, there's nothing wrong with positing a "best guess" -- it's an invitation to other scientists to investigate, and it's how Occam's razor works: assume the most likely explanation for the figures until proven wrong.
I'm talking about a slightly higher level of conversation structure. The features you're describing are certainly significant in how they affect spoken language (modern French is very drastically different from written French, BTW; it's very weird), but are less likely to predominate in written text like Facebook posts. This is especially the case for other samples studied by the researchers, like comments left on CNN articles. Professionally-written text is just generally well-organized; concepts and events are introduced in an efficient manner, using consistent and correct word choice. Even if the sentence structure is more familiar, when people blunder through recounting an event, we have to do more work to reconstruct what they're saying. Professional writing is composed with the benefit of hindsight and more thoughtful analysis.
...however, the researchers believe that people are just natural gossips. With that in mind, it could easily be about the density of opinions and moods in the text that makes the snippets easier to remember; the emotions of the author provide another anchor to build an associative memory around.
I think my choice of an extreme example has diverted the conversation. Personally, I feel that spontaneous written text is something of a "happy medium" between school-taught rules and natural patterns -- a blend of the natural (favouring things like "can I" over school-book "may I") with a few of the simple that make written text clearer in the absence of spoken intonation.
So I'm not saying it's 100% spoken English in written form, just that it's more like spoken English.
Exactly. I see that some cognitive scientist says it's "good research", while the entire linguistics community will be calling it trivial hogwash. It is well known that language is easier to process when it's closest to familiar vernacular speech. This study claims to prove that. This study fails to prove it (as you say, the sentences are incomparable in terms of language content). And yet it's still true.
There's another force working on the opposite direction that favours casual banter written by others: published text is often heavily massaged to use idiomatic language that fits in familiar patterns. The lack of novelty in the writing and the lack of effort required to read it makes it stick out less. As a general rule, you'll remember things better when you spend more effort in understanding them.
Those patterns may be common, but they're not necessarily more "familiar" than unaltered casual language, because unaltered language is what we use on a day-to-day basis. In written form we try to avoid constructions like "John-and-Mary's daughter" where the apostrophe-S denotes possession for both John and Mary, but that's how we speak. Also "There's three things I hate" as opposed to "There are three..." etc.
Casual speech is very familiar indeed, much more so than written speech.
You can remember things written better if it was written in way you write/speak.
Exactly. Linguists proved this ages ago. It's a shame the guys in this study didn't think to ask someone working in the field -- it would have saved them a lot of time and effort.
And His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the ninth incarnation of Lord Rama, the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the Preserver of the Universe, sayeth unto his people: "why have a dog and bark?"
Actually no, scratch that -- it's because they're using OpenDingux, presumably to make it backwards compatible with the A320, which used an Ingenic MIPS CPU.
The Evoluent mice address one problematic ergonomic factor, but the design introduces another rather dangerous one.
Good: The vertical design means less rotation of the forearm, which is more natural and less stressing.
Bad: You fingers are all resting on top of buttons, which means they can't be used to grasp the mouse. Instead, you have to pinch the mouse between the palm of the hand and the bottom half of the thumb. This introduces a lot of tension into the finger flexors, which is increased dramatically when you attempt to click buttons. I found the Evoluent caused far more pain that it resolved.
Bad: As a result of the problematic grip, the wrist is forced to extend -- that is to say that you cannot move it with a straight wrist, or it ends up slipping out of your hand. Look at any photo on-line and you will see that the user's wrist is bent back. This means that the tendons aren't running straight, which can exacerbate most hand problems, and is something best avoided.
Conclusion: The Evoluent is a "sticking-plaster" solution that patches up one problem, giving the user immediate relief from certain salient symptoms, but at the cost of introducing more problems in the long term.
My situation: My problems were caused by nothing more sinister than excess tension in my arms, with various muscle groups fighting against each other rather than working together. This is the simplest type of problem, and therefore the simplest type to treat. Also, because it is the simplest, it is (I'm told) the most common. More serious underlying problems can be the result of excess muscle tension, or they can be exacerbated by excess muscle tension, so anyone suffering pain is going to benefit to some extent from eliminating it, even if they will still need treatment for other problems subsequently.
My recommendation: I use my thumb and pinkie (AKA "little finger") to trap the mouse (NB: not "grasp" -- it's a loose hold). I hold my hand so that my wrist is straight, meaning my palm does not touch the mouse during operation. I use my arm to move the mouse, I do not twist or bend at the wrist. <-- This is standard advice on how to use a mouse, although not a lot of people actually do it. When I want to scroll, I use the cursor keys or Pg Up/Dn, rather than clicking and dragging a scroll bar or contorting my finger around a scroll wheel, and I Alt-Tab and Ctrl-Tab between windows to avoid unnecessary mouse use. <--This too is standard advice, and it is generally quicker than constantly switching between mouse and keyboard. I am right-handed, but I'm now a leftie mouser, because that way the mouse is closer to you when using a standard keyboard.
Sometimes I even use a control pad. I have a controller with dual analogue sticks, 6 normal buttons and 4 shoulder buttons.
The first analogue stick is the mouse pointer, the second has the scroll wheel on one axis. The control pad emulates the cursor keys. I have right and left click on the left shoulder buttons, meaning I have basic mouse control for one-handed use (left hand). The main buttons (on the right) are configured to left-click, right-click, enter, space and tab, giving me the majority of keyboard navigation controls, and the right shoulder buttons are escape (for cancel) and Alt (so that I can Alt-Tab between windows.
Actually, tell a lie... it used to be that, but I decided that the ctrl key was more important to me than a second right-click and I switched the right-click shoulder button for ctrl, so now I can browse without impediment, alt-tabbing to my browser window then control-tabbing between pages.
My chiropractor did the same thing and it helped, but rather than assume it was an unavoidable consequence of mouse-work, I looked on it as a symptom and tried to identify the root cause.
I came to the conclusion that the problem was an "inversion" (for wont of a better word) at the base of the thumb, that is to say that while the second joint was turning inward, the other joint was turning outward, giving it a sort of S-shape. The reason this was happening was that I was using my palm and the base of my thumb to grasp the mouse, rather than holding it in my fingers as you're meant to. In order to fix this, I got a couple of foam pads (intended to stop desk drawers banging shut) and stuck them on my mouse where the base of the thumb usually rests, making it impossible to invert the joint.
I noticed also that this habit extended to the way I held a glass of water -- I was flattening my hand around it, so that I had an arc of continuous contact from the tip of my index finger to the tip of my thumb. I corrected this every time I noticed myself doing it, by shoving one of the fingers (on my other hand) between the glass and the thumb.
The difference in hand posture is dramatic: my old grasp involved the pad on the face of my thumb, whereas now it's the side of the thumb that connects with the glass, and the fingernail faces skyward (when I'm holding the glass vertically -- not when I'm tipping it to drink).
I have various aches and pains still, but the tension is gone from my thumb.
NSD is the manufacturer, Powerball is the product. This is the "Power Fusion", which is just the improved version. If it starts easier, great. I've never understood how anyone can start the original powerballs without a rip cord.
I like my Powerball, but I always advise caution to new users: gripping the ball is difficult, and its too easy to abuse your thumb by trying to grip with the base as well as the tip. This means you're introducing a lot of tension: there's only two muscles controlling the bend of any finger, so if the joints aren't following a rough curve, that means the two muscles are fighting against each other. Gripping with the base of the thumb inverts the bottom joint, and that's not a natural shape -- it's going to cause a lot of wear and ultimately pain....
People who can do outsourcing that well are very rare.
How "well" is that? He pushed a "critical infrastructure" job offshore without a full ISO security audit, putting his employer in the position where they risk losing their ISO certification and get sued into non-existance. The reason his offshoring was cheap and profitable was because he made a very, very bad job of it. He has lost his job, and the only reason he hasn't been sued into bankruptcy is the fact that his employer is sh*t-scared of anyone knowing it was them.
Did the man choose to allow those recordings to be released as singles? (Consider some groups vetoed any moves to break up their albums for sale as tracks.) So we already accept "cutting up" of his recorded words. Did you howl and scream at the remix of "A Little Less Conversation" that he did explicitly approve of? Again, cutting up his works. The videos they used were videos he chose to make under a contract that had provisions that effectively permitted such use.
Is it "sleazy" that they sell his records in MP3 format and his films on DVD? Surely this is just another way of packaging his archive material that's proven to be attractive to his fans?
(Although I'm reminded of an old TV sketch where the Beatles recorded a backing track for and released a previously unheard John Lennon recording... "Hi, this is John and Yoko, we can't get to the phone right now....)
Historical fiction has always played on real people, and some of it has been recent. We've got loads of "inspired by true events" and "real life crime" films that paint certain people as right b*st*rds and whitewash others as really good guys.
Too much control of image would ban whole genres or film -- are we misrepresenting Bonnie and/or Clyde in the film? Did The Untouchables misrepresent Al Capone? etc etc ad nauseum.
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You're missing the point. If you don't rewrite your fundamental charters of existence, and the treaty requires a fundamental rewrite of your charters of existence, then you are in breach of the treaty. If you are in breach of the treaty, you will have to make reparations, which either means a rewrite of your fundamental charters of existence or financial compensation.
The USA voluntarily agreed to sign the treaty -- no-one forced it to.
Fine. But then the US is still in breach of the treaty and owes compensation to the frozen-out treaty partners.
p>You seem to continue to side step the issue of the US having the right to control gambling within its borders.
You seem to continue to side step the issue of the US having agreed to offer equal treatment to overseas trading partners as to its own traders in certain areas.
So then if it's not novel or interesting why the post about it other than to give this person advertising?
Because nobody else at the show wanted to be interviewed by Slashdot. Cheap wannabe journos need cheap wannabe entrepreneurs for their interviews.
Moral of the story: Slashdot: ditch the videos.
Once man's "hack" is another man's Quality Assurance.
Yes. Another man's, not yours. He was not QA for the software company, so he's another man (AKA "third party"), and it's therefore a hack.
They had the same period of time to develop guns the spanish did. They did not. Therefore...
...therefore we have evidence that South America did not trade with China, where gunpowder was invented. Spain didn't invent the stuff, it borrowed it.
Not a lot of people invented writing. The various civilisations and languages didn't develop writing independently, but one or two made great leaps that others followed. This all happened after the Siberian land-bridge was gone and the Americas were isolated. I'm from the UK, and we never invented writing -- we learned it from the Germanic peoples and from the Romans, who learnt it from the Greeks and Etruscans, who learnt it from the Babylonians etc etc etc.
Many studies leap to unsupported conclusions, but still contain valuable and important data. But Nelson talks about the "most likely explanation", and fag-packet statistics supports her. The chances of 63% of them having had transplants? Slim to none. 63% of them had vanishing twins? Again, too big a coincidence by Occam's razor.
That leaves us with older brothers (brother hypothesis) and pregnancy (pregnancy hypothesis). Now, let's consider that the likelihood of a woman having a son is roughly the same as the likelihood of her mother having a son, P(son). Now, in the pregnancy hypothesis, birth order is irrelevant, but in the brother hypothesis, the brother must be younger.
What we're left having to weigh up is the likelihood of a woman being childless vs the likelihood of a women having no older brothers. Nelson may have looked at the actual figures for this, or may have just have estimated. Either way, there's nothing wrong with positing a "best guess" -- it's an invitation to other scientists to investigate, and it's how Occam's razor works: assume the most likely explanation for the figures until proven wrong.
I'm talking about a slightly higher level of conversation structure. The features you're describing are certainly significant in how they affect spoken language (modern French is very drastically different from written French, BTW; it's very weird), but are less likely to predominate in written text like Facebook posts. This is especially the case for other samples studied by the researchers, like comments left on CNN articles. Professionally-written text is just generally well-organized; concepts and events are introduced in an efficient manner, using consistent and correct word choice. Even if the sentence structure is more familiar, when people blunder through recounting an event, we have to do more work to reconstruct what they're saying. Professional writing is composed with the benefit of hindsight and more thoughtful analysis.
...however, the researchers believe that people are just natural gossips. With that in mind, it could easily be about the density of opinions and moods in the text that makes the snippets easier to remember; the emotions of the author provide another anchor to build an associative memory around.
I think my choice of an extreme example has diverted the conversation. Personally, I feel that spontaneous written text is something of a "happy medium" between school-taught rules and natural patterns -- a blend of the natural (favouring things like "can I" over school-book "may I") with a few of the simple that make written text clearer in the absence of spoken intonation.
So I'm not saying it's 100% spoken English in written form, just that it's more like spoken English.
Exactly. I see that some cognitive scientist says it's "good research", while the entire linguistics community will be calling it trivial hogwash. It is well known that language is easier to process when it's closest to familiar vernacular speech. This study claims to prove that. This study fails to prove it (as you say, the sentences are incomparable in terms of language content). And yet it's still true.
There's another force working on the opposite direction that favours casual banter written by others: published text is often heavily massaged to use idiomatic language that fits in familiar patterns. The lack of novelty in the writing and the lack of effort required to read it makes it stick out less. As a general rule, you'll remember things better when you spend more effort in understanding them.
Those patterns may be common, but they're not necessarily more "familiar" than unaltered casual language, because unaltered language is what we use on a day-to-day basis. In written form we try to avoid constructions like "John-and-Mary's daughter" where the apostrophe-S denotes possession for both John and Mary, but that's how we speak. Also "There's three things I hate" as opposed to "There are three..." etc.
Casual speech is very familiar indeed, much more so than written speech.
You can remember things written better if it was written in way you write/speak.
Exactly. Linguists proved this ages ago. It's a shame the guys in this study didn't think to ask someone working in the field -- it would have saved them a lot of time and effort.
And His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the ninth incarnation of Lord Rama, the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the Preserver of the Universe, sayeth unto his people: "why have a dog and bark?"
Actually no, scratch that -- it's because they're using OpenDingux, presumably to make it backwards compatible with the A320, which used an Ingenic MIPS CPU.
I have a dedicated opener -- I don't want it as an app. Besides, most of the canned goods I buy now have a ring-pull.
At a guess, because it's the instructionset the developers used at university.
I know of a way to make a handheld console with much wider software compatibility and access to a larger community.
1. Build a handheld case for the Raspberry Pi.
2. Profit.
So it'll be a little bigger than this -- so what? The wider userbase means that stuff will actually be written that works with it.
Handheld? Ouya...? Perhaps you would be interested in something called a "smartphone", running the same OS as Ouya... Android....
The Evoluent mice address one problematic ergonomic factor, but the design introduces another rather dangerous one.
Good: The vertical design means less rotation of the forearm, which is more natural and less stressing.
Bad: You fingers are all resting on top of buttons, which means they can't be used to grasp the mouse. Instead, you have to pinch the mouse between the palm of the hand and the bottom half of the thumb. This introduces a lot of tension into the finger flexors, which is increased dramatically when you attempt to click buttons. I found the Evoluent caused far more pain that it resolved.
Bad: As a result of the problematic grip, the wrist is forced to extend -- that is to say that you cannot move it with a straight wrist, or it ends up slipping out of your hand. Look at any photo on-line and you will see that the user's wrist is bent back. This means that the tendons aren't running straight, which can exacerbate most hand problems, and is something best avoided.
Conclusion: The Evoluent is a "sticking-plaster" solution that patches up one problem, giving the user immediate relief from certain salient symptoms, but at the cost of introducing more problems in the long term.
My situation: My problems were caused by nothing more sinister than excess tension in my arms, with various muscle groups fighting against each other rather than working together. This is the simplest type of problem, and therefore the simplest type to treat. Also, because it is the simplest, it is (I'm told) the most common. More serious underlying problems can be the result of excess muscle tension, or they can be exacerbated by excess muscle tension, so anyone suffering pain is going to benefit to some extent from eliminating it, even if they will still need treatment for other problems subsequently.
My recommendation: I use my thumb and pinkie (AKA "little finger") to trap the mouse (NB: not "grasp" -- it's a loose hold). I hold my hand so that my wrist is straight, meaning my palm does not touch the mouse during operation. I use my arm to move the mouse, I do not twist or bend at the wrist. <-- This is standard advice on how to use a mouse, although not a lot of people actually do it. When I want to scroll, I use the cursor keys or Pg Up/Dn, rather than clicking and dragging a scroll bar or contorting my finger around a scroll wheel, and I Alt-Tab and Ctrl-Tab between windows to avoid unnecessary mouse use. <--This too is standard advice, and it is generally quicker than constantly switching between mouse and keyboard. I am right-handed, but I'm now a leftie mouser, because that way the mouse is closer to you when using a standard keyboard.
Sometimes I even use a control pad. I have a controller with dual analogue sticks, 6 normal buttons and 4 shoulder buttons.
The first analogue stick is the mouse pointer, the second has the scroll wheel on one axis. The control pad emulates the cursor keys. I have right and left click on the left shoulder buttons, meaning I have basic mouse control for one-handed use (left hand). The main buttons (on the right) are configured to left-click, right-click, enter, space and tab, giving me the majority of keyboard navigation controls, and the right shoulder buttons are escape (for cancel) and Alt (so that I can Alt-Tab between windows.
Actually, tell a lie... it used to be that, but I decided that the ctrl key was more important to me than a second right-click and I switched the right-click shoulder button for ctrl, so now I can browse without impediment, alt-tabbing to my browser window then control-tabbing between pages.
My chiropractor did the same thing and it helped, but rather than assume it was an unavoidable consequence of mouse-work, I looked on it as a symptom and tried to identify the root cause.
I came to the conclusion that the problem was an "inversion" (for wont of a better word) at the base of the thumb, that is to say that while the second joint was turning inward, the other joint was turning outward, giving it a sort of S-shape. The reason this was happening was that I was using my palm and the base of my thumb to grasp the mouse, rather than holding it in my fingers as you're meant to. In order to fix this, I got a couple of foam pads (intended to stop desk drawers banging shut) and stuck them on my mouse where the base of the thumb usually rests, making it impossible to invert the joint.
I noticed also that this habit extended to the way I held a glass of water -- I was flattening my hand around it, so that I had an arc of continuous contact from the tip of my index finger to the tip of my thumb. I corrected this every time I noticed myself doing it, by shoving one of the fingers (on my other hand) between the glass and the thumb.
The difference in hand posture is dramatic: my old grasp involved the pad on the face of my thumb, whereas now it's the side of the thumb that connects with the glass, and the fingernail faces skyward (when I'm holding the glass vertically -- not when I'm tipping it to drink).
I have various aches and pains still, but the tension is gone from my thumb.
NSD is the manufacturer, Powerball is the product. This is the "Power Fusion", which is just the improved version. If it starts easier, great. I've never understood how anyone can start the original powerballs without a rip cord.
I like my Powerball, but I always advise caution to new users: gripping the ball is difficult, and its too easy to abuse your thumb by trying to grip with the base as well as the tip. This means you're introducing a lot of tension: there's only two muscles controlling the bend of any finger, so if the joints aren't following a rough curve, that means the two muscles are fighting against each other. Gripping with the base of the thumb inverts the bottom joint, and that's not a natural shape -- it's going to cause a lot of wear and ultimately pain....
People who can do outsourcing that well are very rare.
How "well" is that? He pushed a "critical infrastructure" job offshore without a full ISO security audit, putting his employer in the position where they risk losing their ISO certification and get sued into non-existance. The reason his offshoring was cheap and profitable was because he made a very, very bad job of it. He has lost his job, and the only reason he hasn't been sued into bankruptcy is the fact that his employer is sh*t-scared of anyone knowing it was them.
Did the man choose to allow those recordings to be released as singles? (Consider some groups vetoed any moves to break up their albums for sale as tracks.) So we already accept "cutting up" of his recorded words. Did you howl and scream at the remix of "A Little Less Conversation" that he did explicitly approve of? Again, cutting up his works. The videos they used were videos he chose to make under a contract that had provisions that effectively permitted such use.
Is it "sleazy" that they sell his records in MP3 format and his films on DVD? Surely this is just another way of packaging his archive material that's proven to be attractive to his fans?
(Although I'm reminded of an old TV sketch where the Beatles recorded a backing track for and released a previously unheard John Lennon recording... "Hi, this is John and Yoko, we can't get to the phone right now....)
Historical fiction has always played on real people, and some of it has been recent. We've got loads of "inspired by true events" and "real life crime" films that paint certain people as right b*st*rds and whitewash others as really good guys.
Too much control of image would ban whole genres or film -- are we misrepresenting Bonnie and/or Clyde in the film? Did The Untouchables misrepresent Al Capone? etc etc ad nauseum.