It wasn't uncommon in antiquity for people's names to reference the names of gods. For example, a quick Google shows that Matthew, Moxie's original given name, comes from the Hebrew for "gift from Yahweh", so it is understandable that an atheist might not want it for a name.
I haven't worked through this in any detail, but it seems plausible that there could be a net push away from the Sun on the basis that the incoming comet is larger and hence has a lower surface area to mass ratio.
But if, as is quite plausible, their contracts give the record company copyright over all of their musical output until their next N albums are published, the record company does hold the copyright. Anon Coward's point is perfectly valid.
Which part of that is a sorry substitute for prudence, common sense and good decision-making? Given that some people lack common sense (to the point that it's arguable whether "common" is the right adjective), and most people make bad decisions from time to time, law codes have an important role to play in sorting things out. Law isn't just about "Do this; don't do that": it also addresses restitution and retribution.
In anticipation of possible objection: the reason that isn't covered in the section you quoted is that it's part of the introduction to a much longer law code. And as a side-note which may be of interest, there are older law codes, even if you opt for a traditional dating of Mosaic law at ~1500 BC.
For most consumers of bottled water though, they just see their wallet shrink unnecessarily.
That's true in the UK, but I'm not sure how true it is for the rest of the EU. I do know that I've stayed in parts of Brittany where the tap water was bad for you (too much nitrate fertiliser runoff); I know that here in Spain tap water contains so much chlorine that it affects the taste; and I know that at 10 cents per litre I spend scarcely any money on bottled water.
As long as the ToS don't say that I have to buy the goats I'm going to argue that I was quite willing to do it and it's CmdrTaco's responsibility to ensure that the goats he ships me for sacrifice arrive.
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Plus it has all the answers right there, so you've no excuse for not scoring 20.
NB When I tried the print page two hours ago, I got the answers to the first question (but not the question) with radio boxes by three out of four, followed by a button with no text, and some header and footer guff. I think it was quite reasonable to assume that they'd bodged the print page completely, although now it seems that it was merely slashdotted.
You're assuming that the analysis (people are moving to Mint because of Unity) is accurate. I'm not sure it is. In my view Ubuntu's quality started going downhill two years ago when they released a security update which completely borked KDE. The Unity debacle is just another straw on the camel's back, but I wonder whether some of the people switching to Mint in the past year decided to move away from Ubuntu before the Unity affair kicked off.
A one time pad allows you to encrypt one bit of plaintext per bit of key. If you use that plaintext to communicate a new key, you gain precisely nothing.
Have you ever tried using a GUI to edit video? When I tried out every Linux video editing package I could find I ended up wondering why there wasn't a CLI-based one (obviously with a GUI for preview) because it would be so much easier to get consistency and involve far less worrying about whether your clips are snapping to the right place if you could type in which other clip you wanted to link to and with how much overlap.
Composing WYSIWYG documents is another bad example, because what everyone really wants is a WYWIWYG, and the best options for that are hand-coded HTML or LaTeX.
WiFi is even funnier if you're a native English-speaker living in a Spanish-speaking country. The natural pronunciation is somewhat closer to whiffy than wye-fye.
It's not a question of which country is more significant: it's a question of which country is in the scope of a conversation, and making it clear when you change the topic of the conversation.
Maybe, but you're a fool to assume that in a conversation primarily about the EU, and in a reply to a post which names 9 countries, everyone knows that you're talking about the US.
That's the default pronunciation in British English, but when a patent lawyer gave a lecture as part of my CS degree course he said that "pay-tent" is the correct pronounciation for the synonym of "obvious", but the limited-time monopoly is pronounced "pah-tent" by people in the know.
You do realise that other people can't read your mind? If your question was specifically about the US Congress (and here I'm making an intelligent guess, because you still haven't made it explicit), you should have said so in the first place.
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It wasn't uncommon in antiquity for people's names to reference the names of gods. For example, a quick Google shows that Matthew, Moxie's original given name, comes from the Hebrew for "gift from Yahweh", so it is understandable that an atheist might not want it for a name.
I haven't worked through this in any detail, but it seems plausible that there could be a net push away from the Sun on the basis that the incoming comet is larger and hence has a lower surface area to mass ratio.
Wet skin conducts heat better than dry skin, so it's often recommended to firewalk with dry feet rather than wet feet.
But if, as is quite plausible, their contracts give the record company copyright over all of their musical output until their next N albums are published, the record company does hold the copyright. Anon Coward's point is perfectly valid.
Where I come from, doctorates are measured in contributing to the state of the art. The idea that you can get one for time put in is baffling.
How does lack of adornment qualify as an identifying mark?
You do not have to actively defend your property to retain your property rights, the way you do with trademarks.
You do, actually, in common law countries (including the USA), or you can lose them via adverse possession.
That was my initial reaction, but then I realised that the intended interpretation was that the US has never gone to war against a nuclear power.
Which part of that is a sorry substitute for prudence, common sense and good decision-making? Given that some people lack common sense (to the point that it's arguable whether "common" is the right adjective), and most people make bad decisions from time to time, law codes have an important role to play in sorting things out. Law isn't just about "Do this; don't do that": it also addresses restitution and retribution.
In anticipation of possible objection: the reason that isn't covered in the section you quoted is that it's part of the introduction to a much longer law code. And as a side-note which may be of interest, there are older law codes, even if you opt for a traditional dating of Mosaic law at ~1500 BC.
Of course it didn't break the bank. If you wanted to do that you should have thrown it through the window instead of dropping it onto concrete.
Xenophonic or oenophobic?
For most consumers of bottled water though, they just see their wallet shrink unnecessarily.
That's true in the UK, but I'm not sure how true it is for the rest of the EU. I do know that I've stayed in parts of Brittany where the tap water was bad for you (too much nitrate fertiliser runoff); I know that here in Spain tap water contains so much chlorine that it affects the taste; and I know that at 10 cents per litre I spend scarcely any money on bottled water.
As long as the ToS don't say that I have to buy the goats I'm going to argue that I was quite willing to do it and it's CmdrTaco's responsibility to ensure that the goats he ships me for sacrifice arrive.
Plus it has all the answers right there, so you've no excuse for not scoring 20.
NB When I tried the print page two hours ago, I got the answers to the first question (but not the question) with radio boxes by three out of four, followed by a button with no text, and some header and footer guff. I think it was quite reasonable to assume that they'd bodged the print page completely, although now it seems that it was merely slashdotted.
That has some fairly large problems, starting with the fact that "bomba" is Spanish for bomb or for pump, and so firemen are "bomberos".
You're assuming that the analysis (people are moving to Mint because of Unity) is accurate. I'm not sure it is. In my view Ubuntu's quality started going downhill two years ago when they released a security update which completely borked KDE. The Unity debacle is just another straw on the camel's back, but I wonder whether some of the people switching to Mint in the past year decided to move away from Ubuntu before the Unity affair kicked off.
A one time pad allows you to encrypt one bit of plaintext per bit of key. If you use that plaintext to communicate a new key, you gain precisely nothing.
Have you ever tried using a GUI to edit video? When I tried out every Linux video editing package I could find I ended up wondering why there wasn't a CLI-based one (obviously with a GUI for preview) because it would be so much easier to get consistency and involve far less worrying about whether your clips are snapping to the right place if you could type in which other clip you wanted to link to and with how much overlap.
Composing WYSIWYG documents is another bad example, because what everyone really wants is a WYWIWYG, and the best options for that are hand-coded HTML or LaTeX.
WiFi is even funnier if you're a native English-speaker living in a Spanish-speaking country. The natural pronunciation is somewhat closer to whiffy than wye-fye.
It's got to sound better than Richard MacDuff's tax return.
It's not a question of which country is more significant: it's a question of which country is in the scope of a conversation, and making it clear when you change the topic of the conversation.
Maybe, but you're a fool to assume that in a conversation primarily about the EU, and in a reply to a post which names 9 countries, everyone knows that you're talking about the US.
That's the default pronunciation in British English, but when a patent lawyer gave a lecture as part of my CS degree course he said that "pay-tent" is the correct pronounciation for the synonym of "obvious", but the limited-time monopoly is pronounced "pah-tent" by people in the know.
You do realise that other people can't read your mind? If your question was specifically about the US Congress (and here I'm making an intelligent guess, because you still haven't made it explicit), you should have said so in the first place.