In the UK? You should switch provider, because I haven't heard of any which do that. Sender pays, caller pays is the standard on this side of the pond.
To do this you need the TrueCrypt bootloader installed
Not necessarily. Have a bootable USB stick with Linux including TrueCrypt. On your way out, you probably won't be searched, but you could always stick it in your hold luggage so they don't find it if they search your hand luggage. Then don't bring it back. USB sticks are cheap enough nowadays.
His actual claim was that the rate of mutations is significantly lower in younger men, and so there will be fewer new mutations for natural selection to favour.
Or you could go to wherever the headline writer went. If they believe that mathematicians have taken up Derrida's agenda then there must be considerable overlap between maths and arts there.
I know that, and some of the work for which this year's was awarded was done back in the 60s. But so was Higg's, and he will be the major recipient of the prize if the LHC finds his boson and he lives long enough. It's at least plausible that the first results demonstrating it will be found in two years, in which case the prize could conceivably be awarded in five or six.
Back in February I watched the first of two pre-election debates between the leaders of the two major parties in Spain. It was a different system: the time was divided among a few major policy areas, each of those slots was divided into a series of short alternating time slots for the two candidates, and the role of the moderator was solely to govern the clock.
The wrangling over the details went into the week before the debate, and covered items such as the style and colour of the decor. In the actual debate itself, both candidates asked direct questions and neither answered them. In the newspapers the next day, the opinions as to the winner of the debate fell entirely along the lines you would have predicted in advance from knowledge of the papers' political leanings.
So it's not just your political process which is a joke. It's just a universal truth: politicians want people to see only their good side and their opponents' bad sides.
It's interesting that they should award a Nobel for particle physics now, when there's a very real possibility that discoveries at the LHC will make an outstanding case for another within just a few years. Normally they won't award two prizes to the same field in a short timeframe. I'm glad that they didn't take that into account and deny these worthy winners, and I hope that it doesn't impact on any decisions in the near future.
Is political stability necessarily good? There's an optimal point somewhere between the instability of, say, Italy, and the stability of, say, Cuba.
As for the two party system: it can work sometimes. I'm not convinced that it's working in the US, and I'm not convinced that in general it's better than a three or four party system.
I'm working on one right now, and I wrote the dimensions framework for it. If you can agree on the unit system then that's great, but when the spec mixes units then the sensible thing to do is to encapsulate it properly so that everyone is forced to be explicit about their units.
I don't believe TV, Radio, or the Internet should be sanitized to fit the morals of a few (or even many) as to what's appropriate for children. Who said these media (note: media = plural of medium) had to be kid friendly. A child might see/here this! So? That is a parent's responsibility. It always has been.
My immediate reaction was that you are completely wrong, but on reflection I think that you're partly wrong. The issue is lumping together an entire medium under one hat. I'll take the simplest one: television.
Television breaks down into two categories: free-to-air and pay-to-view. I think your position is perfectly reasonable for pay-to-view channels: if a parent chooses to purchase a channel with content he doesn't want his children seeing, it's his responsibility to ensure they don't see it.
Free-to-air, on the other hand, is a lot harder to filter. You don't want to have to cover your children's eyes as you walk past shop windows on Saturday afternoon.
In actual fact, from what I read on Wikipedia about the current US regulation, it already seems to recognise this distinction and to have a fairly sensible implementation thereof.
If parents mention "waterboarding" to children the latter will probably roll their eyes and say something about it being called "wakeboarding". And they need more pocket money.
Think of what happened if Linus had waited* for Hurd instead...
[* Is that correct English? It's not my first language... I don't know...)
"Waited" is perfectly correct*, although you're missing an auxiliary verb earlier in the sentence: "Think of what would have happened if Linus had waited for Hurd instead...".
I can certainly understand why you weren't sure though, at least if you use Firefox's en_GB dictionary: that doesn't know that waited is a word (and in fact seems to have very few past participles).
*In English, at least. In American I think it would be "Think of what would have happened if Linus would have waited for Hurd instead..."
You would not ever be able to work on the project? If so, that would be truly excessive.
That was my thought. In fact, it's so excessive that it's probably unenforceable in a lot of jurisdictions.
The absolute maximum that I think anyone could consider reasonable is that you will not work on the project during your employment or for a term after the employment equal to the shorter of the length of the employment or two years. If things don't work out and they drop you in a month, you don't want to have accepted a burdensome restriction which stops you accepting employment with another company, but it's fair enough that they don't want you to jump straight to their biggest competitor.
I saw a slot on the BBC regional news for East Anglia about 2 months ago about a project to make electric cars louder, precisely for the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. They were going with the obvious solution: fit loudspeakers at the front of the car, and play a recording of an internal combustion engine.
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In the UK? You should switch provider, because I haven't heard of any which do that. Sender pays, caller pays is the standard on this side of the pond.
Personal addresses of 1200 legislators, senior generals, and spooks?
To do this you need the TrueCrypt bootloader installed
Not necessarily. Have a bootable USB stick with Linux including TrueCrypt. On your way out, you probably won't be searched, but you could always stick it in your hold luggage so they don't find it if they search your hand luggage. Then don't bring it back. USB sticks are cheap enough nowadays.
His actual claim was that the rate of mutations is significantly lower in younger men, and so there will be fewer new mutations for natural selection to favour.
Or you could go to wherever the headline writer went. If they believe that mathematicians have taken up Derrida's agenda then there must be considerable overlap between maths and arts there.
RuneScape?
Sure, but you don't want to encourage film directors to hire hitmen when authors refuse to sell them the rights to adapt their bestsellers.
I know that, and some of the work for which this year's was awarded was done back in the 60s. But so was Higg's, and he will be the major recipient of the prize if the LHC finds his boson and he lives long enough. It's at least plausible that the first results demonstrating it will be found in two years, in which case the prize could conceivably be awarded in five or six.
Back in February I watched the first of two pre-election debates between the leaders of the two major parties in Spain. It was a different system: the time was divided among a few major policy areas, each of those slots was divided into a series of short alternating time slots for the two candidates, and the role of the moderator was solely to govern the clock.
The wrangling over the details went into the week before the debate, and covered items such as the style and colour of the decor. In the actual debate itself, both candidates asked direct questions and neither answered them. In the newspapers the next day, the opinions as to the winner of the debate fell entirely along the lines you would have predicted in advance from knowledge of the papers' political leanings.
So it's not just your political process which is a joke. It's just a universal truth: politicians want people to see only their good side and their opponents' bad sides.
Or I know how male and female japanese names are differentiated.
You might want to add a "usually" to that sentence. I know a Chihiro whose parents didn't think it was strictly a female name.
It's interesting that they should award a Nobel for particle physics now, when there's a very real possibility that discoveries at the LHC will make an outstanding case for another within just a few years. Normally they won't award two prizes to the same field in a short timeframe. I'm glad that they didn't take that into account and deny these worthy winners, and I hope that it doesn't impact on any decisions in the near future.
Is political stability necessarily good? There's an optimal point somewhere between the instability of, say, Italy, and the stability of, say, Cuba.
As for the two party system: it can work sometimes. I'm not convinced that it's working in the US, and I'm not convinced that in general it's better than a three or four party system.
The numbers actually suggest there are quite significant savings of lives and serious injury.
Maybe they do. However, you can't trust the DFT's figures because they don't take into account regression to the mean.
I'm working on one right now, and I wrote the dimensions framework for it. If you can agree on the unit system then that's great, but when the spec mixes units then the sensible thing to do is to encapsulate it properly so that everyone is forced to be explicit about their units.
It depends. If you're watching it "live" then that is counted as broadcast. If you're watching with a time delay then it isn't.
I don't believe TV, Radio, or the Internet should be sanitized to fit the morals of a few (or even many) as to what's appropriate for children. Who said these media (note: media = plural of medium) had to be kid friendly. A child might see/here this! So? That is a parent's responsibility. It always has been.
My immediate reaction was that you are completely wrong, but on reflection I think that you're partly wrong. The issue is lumping together an entire medium under one hat. I'll take the simplest one: television.
Television breaks down into two categories: free-to-air and pay-to-view. I think your position is perfectly reasonable for pay-to-view channels: if a parent chooses to purchase a channel with content he doesn't want his children seeing, it's his responsibility to ensure they don't see it.
Free-to-air, on the other hand, is a lot harder to filter. You don't want to have to cover your children's eyes as you walk past shop windows on Saturday afternoon.
In actual fact, from what I read on Wikipedia about the current US regulation, it already seems to recognise this distinction and to have a fairly sensible implementation thereof.
More than four hours? I knew US television had a lot of adverts, but that just strikes me as over the top!
If parents mention "waterboarding" to children the latter will probably roll their eyes and say something about it being called "wakeboarding". And they need more pocket money.
Think of what happened if Linus had waited* for Hurd instead... [* Is that correct English? It's not my first language... I don't know...)
"Waited" is perfectly correct*, although you're missing an auxiliary verb earlier in the sentence: "Think of what would have happened if Linus had waited for Hurd instead...".
I can certainly understand why you weren't sure though, at least if you use Firefox's en_GB dictionary: that doesn't know that waited is a word (and in fact seems to have very few past participles).
*In English, at least. In American I think it would be "Think of what would have happened if Linus would have waited for Hurd instead..."
I bet you think you're really hardcore not using a window manager, but let me know when you're hard enough to use GoogleApps/Lynx/GNU/Linux.
There are already a few pirates in the vicinity.
You would not ever be able to work on the project? If so, that would be truly excessive.
That was my thought. In fact, it's so excessive that it's probably unenforceable in a lot of jurisdictions.
The absolute maximum that I think anyone could consider reasonable is that you will not work on the project during your employment or for a term after the employment equal to the shorter of the length of the employment or two years. If things don't work out and they drop you in a month, you don't want to have accepted a burdensome restriction which stops you accepting employment with another company, but it's fair enough that they don't want you to jump straight to their biggest competitor.
I saw a slot on the BBC regional news for East Anglia about 2 months ago about a project to make electric cars louder, precisely for the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. They were going with the obvious solution: fit loudspeakers at the front of the car, and play a recording of an internal combustion engine.
Indeed. There's nothing like being dead for a few years if you want to lose weight.
I'd read it as a subjunctive rather than an imperative in that context.