My grandad had type 2 diabetes and was on prescribed weight gain supplements because he was underweight. Obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes, but the two are not invariably linked.
in c/cpp you usually just expect the dependency tone handled by a human
Which is the biggest reason that I hate compiling other people's C. In the absence of a standard way to document dependencies, too many projects simply don't.
Through is an American spelling as much as it's British. Merriam-Webster, which is definitely an American dictionary, defines thru as less common spelling of through.
I know it's/. and people don't read the summary, but
Why are we still clinging on to Helvetica?
is a big hint, which is easily confirmed: Helvetica is what IBM currently uses as its primary typeface. Comparing to anything else would therefore make less sense.
Don't forget the first rule of Slashdot editing: don't. Even if the summary doesn't make sense without the context of the article it is ripped from (it makes a nice change here that the submitter actually wrote their own summary), editing it to make sense is verboten.
Can any UK Slashdotters give us a UK perspective on this?
Most PhD students get a grant which gives them enough to eat. But the whole "doing the staff's job for them" business which some Americans complain about does not translate.
But without read-only access to the parent document, the ad code cannot determine the page's topic and therefore cannot select an ad that is relevant to the page's topic.
You may not realise it, but what you're actually saying is "Since the Catalan government was so determined to break the Constitution, the Spanish government should have broken the Constitution too to avoid giving the Catalan one a moral victory". The Spanish government does not have the option of permitting the vote without a process of constitutional reform which includes general elections and a national referendum.
What I still don't understand is the heavy handed response to the referendum. Declare that it has no standing in law and ignore it
That's what they did last time, in 2014, and you can see how well it worked then.
That aside, one of the main functions of a government is to maintain the rule of law. To repeatedly sit back and allow people (and elected officials, at that) to openly defy the highest court in the country when they have pre-notification of the date and method of their defiance would be a tremendous sign of weakness.
And to add to what you say about Spanish law prohibiting a declaration of independence: it also prohibits regional referenda on independence without the authorisation of the national government. On that basis and the experience of 2014 the Catalan Parlament knew that any law it passed to enable the referendum would be struck down by the Constitutional Court, so to reduce the national government's reaction time it deliberately delayed and then "passed" the law by such an abbreviated form of the emergency procedures that the Parlament's own lawyers advised that it was illegal under Catalan law.
The Spanish have given the Catalonians no options.
I think this comment is based on a misconception of the democratic standing of Catalan secessionism. The secessionist parties campaigned in the last regional elections on the platform that they were a plebiscite on independence, and won a very slim majority of seats but on a minority of the popular vote. Independence is not the will of the people. The only option that the principle of democracy really demands as a moral obligation is that Catalan secessionists be allowed to continue to try to persuade people to vote for them in regional and national elections.
Catalonia's S&P rating is currently B+/B and S&P are talking about downgrading it. Spain's is BBB+/A-2, also potentially heading for a downgrade. But Catalonia is more broke than Spain.
Multi-Tasking OS (why would anyone want to do more than one thing on a computer)
Windows 95 had been out for 2 years. Amiga had had multitasking for over a decade.
Email/Online Chats (this is for only Nerds who have no life)
My school set up a BBS in 1995 and taught us all how to use it. E-mail was old hat in 1997: webmail was already popular. In fact, Hotmail was growing so fast that Yahoo preferred to buy a company which already had a webmail product rather than lose 4 months writing its own.
Mobile Devices (Only toys for geeks who want to show themselves as social outcasts)
The early adopters for mobile devices were businessmen, not geeks, and again the timeframe was earlier.
Meanwhile, I have to hand out my Social Security Number to every bank, every employer, every credit card, every phone company, the water company, the doctor, and so on.
That is the problem which needs to be fixed. Why should a phone company need your social security number? They don't have anything to do with social security. An employer might need it to pay their contributions, a doctor might need it if your medical care is paid for by social security, and bureaucrats who deal with social security obviously need it. No-one else ought to.
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Oh, it goes beyond striking into active destruction of imported wine.
My grandad had type 2 diabetes and was on prescribed weight gain supplements because he was underweight. Obesity is a major risk factor for diabetes, but the two are not invariably linked.
I admit I've only read the summary, but I came away with the impression that it doesn't offer much hope for type 2 diabetics who aren't overweight.
Only seven? You optimist. You haven't counted any of the built-in can't-be-disabled crapware that comes bundled with the phone.
But what makes you think that switching to iPhone gives you any benefit in that regard?
Well, there's your problem. You probably count 1, 2, 3, n.
It could be worse. We could be all about to die permanently.
Which is the biggest reason that I hate compiling other people's C. In the absence of a standard way to document dependencies, too many projects simply don't.
Are Kinder eggs going to be banned in Belgium?
A lot of artificial sweeteners are alcohols. However, they have a laxative effect, so they can certainly affect your mood...
Through is an American spelling as much as it's British. Merriam-Webster, which is definitely an American dictionary, defines thru as less common spelling of through.
I know it's /. and people don't read the summary, but
is a big hint, which is easily confirmed: Helvetica is what IBM currently uses as its primary typeface. Comparing to anything else would therefore make less sense.
Don't forget the first rule of Slashdot editing: don't. Even if the summary doesn't make sense without the context of the article it is ripped from (it makes a nice change here that the submitter actually wrote their own summary), editing it to make sense is verboten.
Only if the people running the ad server are too incompetent to cache. Which they may be, but it's nice to dream...
Most PhD students get a grant which gives them enough to eat. But the whole "doing the staff's job for them" business which some Americans complain about does not translate.
What happened to the Referer header?
You may not realise it, but what you're actually saying is "Since the Catalan government was so determined to break the Constitution, the Spanish government should have broken the Constitution too to avoid giving the Catalan one a moral victory". The Spanish government does not have the option of permitting the vote without a process of constitutional reform which includes general elections and a national referendum.
That's what they did last time, in 2014, and you can see how well it worked then.
That aside, one of the main functions of a government is to maintain the rule of law. To repeatedly sit back and allow people (and elected officials, at that) to openly defy the highest court in the country when they have pre-notification of the date and method of their defiance would be a tremendous sign of weakness.
And to add to what you say about Spanish law prohibiting a declaration of independence: it also prohibits regional referenda on independence without the authorisation of the national government. On that basis and the experience of 2014 the Catalan Parlament knew that any law it passed to enable the referendum would be struck down by the Constitutional Court, so to reduce the national government's reaction time it deliberately delayed and then "passed" the law by such an abbreviated form of the emergency procedures that the Parlament's own lawyers advised that it was illegal under Catalan law.
I think this comment is based on a misconception of the democratic standing of Catalan secessionism. The secessionist parties campaigned in the last regional elections on the platform that they were a plebiscite on independence, and won a very slim majority of seats but on a minority of the popular vote. Independence is not the will of the people. The only option that the principle of democracy really demands as a moral obligation is that Catalan secessionists be allowed to continue to try to persuade people to vote for them in regional and national elections.
Catalonia's S&P rating is currently B+/B and S&P are talking about downgrading it. Spain's is BBB+/A-2, also potentially heading for a downgrade. But Catalonia is more broke than Spain.
If it doesn't influence people, is it really an art style? Discuss...
I'm not sure when I last saw a bin that didn't include an ashtray in its design. Do people violently oppose installing them where you live?
It would be simpler to just randomly insert a small amount of some mild (but moderately stable) explosive in 1% of cigarettes.
Because Navy and Air Force recruits are capable of using words of more than two syllables?
20 years ago was 1997.
Windows 95 had been out for 2 years. Amiga had had multitasking for over a decade.
My school set up a BBS in 1995 and taught us all how to use it. E-mail was old hat in 1997: webmail was already popular. In fact, Hotmail was growing so fast that Yahoo preferred to buy a company which already had a webmail product rather than lose 4 months writing its own.
The early adopters for mobile devices were businessmen, not geeks, and again the timeframe was earlier.
That is the problem which needs to be fixed. Why should a phone company need your social security number? They don't have anything to do with social security. An employer might need it to pay their contributions, a doctor might need it if your medical care is paid for by social security, and bureaucrats who deal with social security obviously need it. No-one else ought to.