How much effect did one million Brits protesting in the streets have on Blair's policy towards Iraq?
We didn't elect these people: the Conservative party polled more votes overall than Labour, but Labour won a substantial majority of seats due both to skewed boundaries and the skewed first-past-the-post system.
If we went into the streets to protest against every hair-brained authoritarian scheme they enact, let alone propose, we wouldn't have time to earn a living wage.
allows you to produce 1.3-compatible bytecode. It has the CLDC preverifier attributes in, but if you're worried about class file size you can strip them with an optimiser.
There should be independent agencies devoted to inspecting the machines and certifying them.
Judging by the minimalist description which the DCA gives for the system it will be piloting in Rushmoor, Sheffield, Shrewsbury & Atcham, South Bucks and Swindon, the machines involved will be people's home PCs. Fancy certifying them?
Having a paper-trail only works when the voting takes place in polling stations. Voting by SMS or over the Web cannot be secured - but this government is keener on improved turnout than accurate results, as witness the recent expansion in postal voting and the resulting Council of Europe investigation.
Not to mention that it stops search engines from being able either to index the site or to get you to the information in it, even if they could index it.
As a Brit, I wouldn't. I believe that the U.S. has the longest copyright terms of any country; the Berne convention requires every signatory country to apply its own copyright terms consistently to local and foreign works. Therefore we'd still end up in the situation that, say, Hollywood films were out of copyright everywhere except the U.S. but uncopyable until their copyright expired in the U.S., effectively forcing the long and lengthening U.S. copyright terms on the entire world.
(Practically, I realise, the encryption is unlikely to last unbroken for 50 years, but my position is one of principle).
At least it's confident about the properties of the contents. You can get bags of mixed nuts which warn you "This product may contain nuts" (my emphasis).
In Ecuador I've used light-switches which consists of the bare ends of two pieces of wire, bent so that you can hook them round each other. I can understand why, though: you can buy switches in the local hardware shop, but they don't have the current rating necessary so they only last a few weeks. No-one there seems to understand current rating at all: I regularly came across 30A-rated isolator switches connected to 60A electric showers.
In contrast, you have the Qur'an, which there is exactly one definite version of
It's not quite that simple. Caliph Uthman sponsored an official text and tried to destroy all variants in the 650s (about 20 years after Muhammad died), but in the 10th century some Islamic scholars were imprisoned for refusing to abandon their preferred variants, and even in the mid 20th century there was a variant still being used in North Africa.
Fortunately, since the Bible's already an interpretation
I'm not sure what you mean by "Bible books", because surely if it's not part of the canon it's not a Bible book?
That said, you need to distinguish between "the Apocrypha", which the RCC holds to be a second canon, and various other apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books.
Besides, what is going to hold up your concrete second floor?
Steel-reinforced concrete.
The cost of constructing a house made entirely of mortar, brick, and stone is immense.
Ten to twenty thousand USD in Ecuador. Of course, materials and labour are both more expensive in the US, but I still suspect that the land is the real expense.
You can make the exact same analogy about Beer, and how the problems we have over here compared with the notable LACK of problems they have in Europe around college bingeing, etc.
You may be correct that the European country I live in has a lack of problems around undergraduate students binge-drinking. However, are you taking into account the high rate of 14-17 year old binge drinkers we have?
Depends what they mean by "doesn't pose a danger". I note that 0.1uCi is more than three times the maximum permissible body burden for ingested polonium (source: http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/84.html )
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Why does it matter? You weren't planning on reading it, were you?
BA Lufthansa? Have you travelled back in time to make your prediction of consolidation among European carriers, or did I just miss the memo?
He "gave a few words". Would "seventeen syllables" Be right on the nail?
Having a paper-trail only works when the voting takes place in polling stations. Voting by SMS or over the Web cannot be secured - but this government is keener on improved turnout than accurate results, as witness the recent expansion in postal voting and the resulting Council of Europe investigation.
Not to mention that it stops search engines from being able either to index the site or to get you to the information in it, even if they could index it.
In this case the relevant legislation for you to look at is the Police Act 1997, sections 91 and following.
(Practically, I realise, the encryption is unlikely to last unbroken for 50 years, but my position is one of principle).
At least it's confident about the properties of the contents. You can get bags of mixed nuts which warn you "This product may contain nuts" (my emphasis).
In Ecuador I've used light-switches which consists of the bare ends of two pieces of wire, bent so that you can hook them round each other. I can understand why, though: you can buy switches in the local hardware shop, but they don't have the current rating necessary so they only last a few weeks. No-one there seems to understand current rating at all: I regularly came across 30A-rated isolator switches connected to 60A electric showers.
Indie certainly doesn't mean amateur, and it doesn't mean that the same person has to write the code and music and create the graphics.
That said, you need to distinguish between "the Apocrypha", which the RCC holds to be a second canon, and various other apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books.
Do you mean CO2 or CH4?
No, Java is pass-by-value.
Depends what they mean by "doesn't pose a danger". I note that 0.1uCi is more than three times the maximum permissible body burden for ingested polonium (source: http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/84.html )