I think that was grandparent poster's point: if people stop using social media because it's taxed, it clearly isn't as addictive as alcohol and tobacco.
There is, of course, a slight problem with this. Unless you put in a lot of effort to make your own, you'll have to pay for the alcohol and tobacco anyway, so adding taxing increases the cost by a non-infinite proportion.
Different countries have different procedures. In some countries I've been asked to go through again, but in the UK it's straight to the hand-held wand. It wouldn't surprise me that more than 20 years ago they used patdowns instead of hand-held wands.
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I actually use HTML escape codes when I remember, but I have to remember not to just hit the combining accent key, and I forgot more often than I remember. The same is probably true of most of those of us who use keyboards with keys for Latin-1 accents.
Just like Celsius is ease of use for a particular application: boiling and freezing points of water (more useful in science and cooking than in what most people in the world use temperature scales for most of the time; checking air temperature to see if it will be comfortable).
I use the temperature dial on my oven far more than I use weather forecasts. Checking how many layers I need to wear is as simple as sticking my head out the door.
If you think that's impressive, TFS also says that CTSS was built in the "mid-1960s", and Scherr stole the password file "in the early '60s", specifically "in the spring of 1962". Hacking into a system that hasn't been built yet is pretty impressive. I wasn't surprised when I checked the "editor" and saw that it was Timothy.
The advice they give travellers to places where the water needs boiling is to keep it boiling for 20 minutes. I don't know how you make coffee, but my mocha pot doesn't take that long starting from cold.
That's clearly a slip of the mind coupled with bad editing. The intention must have been to say that it's possibly the first constructive dismissal case related to Linked In.
I bought a locked phone from the Carphone Warehouse last week. Samsung Galaxy Ace, locked to 3, with 15 quid PAYG purchase required. OTOH the phone was still 85 quid cheaper than buying it unlocked. If I can figure out how to unlock it for free (the standard technique for the Ace doesn't work) I'll be able to use it as a phone, but if not I'm not too fussed because I really bought it for use as a PDA.
It doesn't need "fixing" so that it "works properly" - this is simply delusional.
But it sure would be nice if they could make it scan the CSS for @media rules appropriate for the actual screen size before telling the browser to assume it's 960px wide, and without requiring me to add non-standard meta tags.
The TSA has some influence outside the US, in the sense that I'll gladly pay more to fly a route which doesn't include the US. (As a side-effect, and given the hub-based nature of airlines, I'm also paying more to not fly with US airlines).
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I think that was grandparent poster's point: if people stop using social media because it's taxed, it clearly isn't as addictive as alcohol and tobacco.
There is, of course, a slight problem with this. Unless you put in a lot of effort to make your own, you'll have to pay for the alcohol and tobacco anyway, so adding taxing increases the cost by a non-infinite proportion.
Different countries have different procedures. In some countries I've been asked to go through again, but in the UK it's straight to the hand-held wand. It wouldn't surprise me that more than 20 years ago they used patdowns instead of hand-held wands.
I actually use HTML escape codes when I remember, but I have to remember not to just hit the combining accent key, and I forgot more often than I remember. The same is probably true of most of those of us who use keyboards with keys for Latin-1 accents.
It's a loan-word from Greek. It follows the basic English rules for borrowing Greek words.
I guess the rationale is that most moderators would not be able to read foreign words without transliteration into Latin characters.
So at least give us Latin-1. There are English words which use accents in high registers.
But you did have to pay more than one would for the stock hard drive that comes bundled with a low-end laptop.
You could remove "the stock hard drive that comes bundled with" from that sentence and it would still be true.
Just like Celsius is ease of use for a particular application: boiling and freezing points of water (more useful in science and cooking than in what most people in the world use temperature scales for most of the time; checking air temperature to see if it will be comfortable).
I use the temperature dial on my oven far more than I use weather forecasts. Checking how many layers I need to wear is as simple as sticking my head out the door.
The European roads are small and dangerous
Absolutely. Some of them have speed limits higher than 50mph! The horror!
They still have a moderate amount of power in the Labour Party - I don't follow Labour closely enough to know the outcome, but in September the party leader was trying to "reduc[e] their voting power at party conference to below 50%".
"Feck" would suggest GP is in fact Irish.
Do you have a floppy drive in that safe too? If not, rush out to the shops now.
If you think that's impressive, TFS also says that CTSS was built in the "mid-1960s", and Scherr stole the password file "in the early '60s", specifically "in the spring of 1962". Hacking into a system that hasn't been built yet is pretty impressive. I wasn't surprised when I checked the "editor" and saw that it was Timothy.
The advice they give travellers to places where the water needs boiling is to keep it boiling for 20 minutes. I don't know how you make coffee, but my mocha pot doesn't take that long starting from cold.
I think 5 curses in a file indicates bad design. If you need more than one library for handling your TUI you're clearing Doing It Wrong.
And Oman, which is actually on the corner.
Since you didn't link them, I assume you missed the previous Slashdot discussions on gene hacking as a nerd occupation.
It does sound exactly like the kind of quirky property which Wetherspoon's likes to turn into pubs.
It's hard not to read certain US laws as saying exactly that. The one which springs to mind is the Helms-Burton Act.
Which part of "UK" in the title didn't you understand? EU legislation on employment contracts is rather different to anything you'll find in the US.
That's clearly a slip of the mind coupled with bad editing. The intention must have been to say that it's possibly the first constructive dismissal case related to Linked In.
I bought a locked phone from the Carphone Warehouse last week. Samsung Galaxy Ace, locked to 3, with 15 quid PAYG purchase required. OTOH the phone was still 85 quid cheaper than buying it unlocked. If I can figure out how to unlock it for free (the standard technique for the Ace doesn't work) I'll be able to use it as a phone, but if not I'm not too fussed because I really bought it for use as a PDA.
The news report I read on this a couple of days ago said that a general release is planned. In other words, Dave just gets to beta-test it.
It doesn't need "fixing" so that it "works properly" - this is simply delusional.
But it sure would be nice if they could make it scan the CSS for @media rules appropriate for the actual screen size before telling the browser to assume it's 960px wide, and without requiring me to add non-standard meta tags.
Ann Widdecombe may have officially retired from politics, but who's to say she's not pulling strings in the background?
The TSA has some influence outside the US, in the sense that I'll gladly pay more to fly a route which doesn't include the US. (As a side-effect, and given the hub-based nature of airlines, I'm also paying more to not fly with US airlines).