In that case why does the EU pay farmers to set aside their fields rather than grow things that contribute to the surplus? Why is surplus food routed to Africa (lowering the price for whatever domestic produced grain there is)?
Perhaps there just needs to be a change in focus, especially if you can ferment the non edible parts of food crops for fuel (such as the stalks on grain crops) and waste vegetable matter it could be a win win.
It also reduces the amount of Sulfur release, reducing acid rain. As acid rain has contributed to the deforestation of Scandinavia quite considerably, a reduction in atmospheric Sulfur may allow these to grow back and over time photosynthesis some of the CO2 back to Oxygen.
You could do. I was actually talking about continents. Outside of the Eurasian plate tectonic boundaries are usually used to define what an island is and what a continent is. Hence, Australia is a continent while Greenland is referred to as an island.
Some people do refer to Eurasia as a continent, giving them 6 major continents: Antarctica, South America, North America, Eurasia, Africa and Australia. Others prefer their 6 to be Antarctica, America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Either definition proves my main point that calling the USA "America" is misleading as it is only a section of one of these continents. It is a bit like them saying they should be referred to as "Earth" because they take up some of it.
Definately agree that the Brit disliking guy is very odd.
Why would someone not be proud of being called an abrieviation of an Empire that the sun never set on and now has the Falkland islands and relies on GW Bush to tell it what to do...oh wait.
I think actually rather than jingoistic it is just plain arrogant.
You are correct you are the only country in that continent that used America in its title (that I know of). However I don't see how you can find the term "United States" abhorrently general and yet prefer America.
Russia is a state on its own; it is a member of the Confederation of Independent States (CIS) there is no mention of them being united. Perhaps this is apt given the events in Chechnya and other breakaway republics. It was formed after the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). A name in which the term "United States" was conspicuous by its absence.
We would if America was a country. It is actually a continent and includes Canada.
Is it any wonder people are suspicious of your foreign policy in the middle east when you can't even accept there is another country in your continent!
The General Strike of 1926 brought the BBC its first serious confrontation with the Government over editorial independence. With no regular newspapers being published, the country turned to the BBC for its news. Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, urged the Government to take over the BBC, but John Reith, the General Manager, persuaded Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that this would be against the national interest.
In 1927, the British Broadcasting Company became the British Broadcasting Corporation when it was granted its first Royal Charter.
Of course the UK government could revoke the Charter or not grant it another one which would mean they would loose the right to collect license fees. That is one of the reasons Birt shat himself over the Hutton enquiry and why most of the reporting is now little more than an outlet for Blairs spin doctors. Or it could as Thatcher nearly did just privatise it and turn it into another commercial network.
I don't see why speeding per se is the problem. Impatience could feasibly be dangerous if it caused someone to act in a dangerous fashion but speed on its own does not necessarily have to be a problem.
What I was actually trying to see was if the original poster was aware of any proof that speed was a problem or if it was just a gut feel as it is with you, based on your personal experience of poor road use in others.
Speeding is a problem, and the current speed cameras can in some areas cause more accidents than they save.
A problem for whom? Do you have any good statistical data to back up the assertion that speeding is a problem? Not trolling just interested if that was opinion / truism or not.
Personally I prefer PRINCE II to the PMBOK. It is more IT orientated and actually is clear methodology of how to manage a project.
The real shame is that it is quite often misused, misquoted or blatantly disregarded by people who claim that they are following it strictly but in actual fact are just churning out paper.
Where did you get that definition of encryption from?
Hash functions are many to 1 and cannot possibly have an inverse.
No, the inverse is computationally unfeasable or unknown. There is no way to prove that it is not possible. Most definitions I can find involve the transformation of plain text into an obscured form cyphertext. The ability to reverse this is not a prerequisit. So it has to satisfy:
P F = C
Where P is plain text, F is an encryption function and C is cyphertext.
The ability to reverse this is not needed, unless the purpose of encryption is to preserve confidentiallity of the plaintext.
A hash is a mapping from a large set of items to a smaller set.
No, it could be the opposite of this, taking a small set of items and mapping them to a larger set. Many hash functions result in a set value of set length and so a hash may be larger that its plaintext.
There are many uses for encrpytion, not just to make sure that what you right can not be read by bad people. As you put it confidenitality.
I would say that a hash is still encryption, but in this case used for integrity as well as for authentication. ROT13 is encryption for confidenitality (just a poor one).
Saw on the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/ on Monday that in the UK BoxOffice365.com has already started. At moment they have nob all content, but it is a start.
Cost of the apollo mission to get to the moon somewhere around $25 billion (wikipedia so not definate figure) Cost of running the shuttle somewhere around $3 billion a year http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/budget/fy96/hsf_3.ht ml.
Even with inflation I think it is a fact the shuttle is a monumental waste of money.
This does not mean that space exploration as a whole is not without merit. Just that the current method of getting into (and out of) orbit is not very efficient. If we are to find new resources that seem to be the justification from many posters we need a new scaleable launch platform.
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In that case why does the EU pay farmers to set aside their fields rather than grow things that contribute to the surplus? Why is surplus food routed to Africa (lowering the price for whatever domestic produced grain there is)?
Perhaps there just needs to be a change in focus, especially if you can ferment the non edible parts of food crops for fuel (such as the stalks on grain crops) and waste vegetable matter it could be a win win.
It also reduces the amount of Sulfur release, reducing acid rain. As acid rain has contributed to the deforestation of Scandinavia quite considerably, a reduction in atmospheric Sulfur may allow these to grow back and over time photosynthesis some of the CO2 back to Oxygen.
Well it does burn considerably cleaner than petrol based hydrocarbons. It will not make it any better, but it may slow the rate it is getting worse.
You could do. I was actually talking about continents. Outside of the Eurasian plate tectonic boundaries are usually used to define what an island is and what a continent is. Hence, Australia is a continent while Greenland is referred to as an island.
Some people do refer to Eurasia as a continent, giving them 6 major continents: Antarctica, South America, North America, Eurasia, Africa and Australia. Others prefer their 6 to be Antarctica, America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Either definition proves my main point that calling the USA "America" is misleading as it is only a section of one of these continents. It is a bit like them saying they should be referred to as "Earth" because they take up some of it.
Definately agree that the Brit disliking guy is very odd.
Why would someone not be proud of being called an abrieviation of an Empire that the sun never set on and now has the Falkland islands and relies on GW Bush to tell it what to do...oh wait.
BTW Got my Union Flag cuff links on again today.
I think actually rather than jingoistic it is just plain arrogant.
You are correct you are the only country in that continent that used America in its title (that I know of). However I don't see how you can find the term "United States" abhorrently general and yet prefer America.
Russia is a state on its own; it is a member of the Confederation of Independent States (CIS) there is no mention of them being united. Perhaps this is apt given the events in Chechnya and other breakaway republics. It was formed after the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). A name in which the term "United States" was conspicuous by its absence.
I think that actually Cuba sits partly on the Caribbean tectonic plate and is generally considered not to be part of America.
I would include Mexico as well, most of that is on the North American plate although some is Cocos plate.
We would if America was a country. It is actually a continent and includes Canada.
Is it any wonder people are suspicious of your foreign policy in the middle east when you can't even accept there is another country in your continent!
bugger it was Greg Dyke not Birt who resigned.
He's right you know.
The General Strike of 1926 brought the BBC its first serious confrontation with the Government over editorial independence. With no regular newspapers being published, the country turned to the BBC for its news. Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, urged the Government to take over the BBC, but John Reith, the General Manager, persuaded Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that this would be against the national interest.
In 1927, the British Broadcasting Company became the British Broadcasting Corporation when it was granted its first Royal Charter.
Of course the UK government could revoke the Charter or not grant it another one which would mean they would loose the right to collect license fees. That is one of the reasons Birt shat himself over the Hutton enquiry and why most of the reporting is now little more than an outlet for Blairs spin doctors. Or it could as Thatcher nearly did just privatise it and turn it into another commercial network.
I don't see why speeding per se is the problem. Impatience could feasibly be dangerous if it caused someone to act in a dangerous fashion but speed on its own does not necessarily have to be a problem.
What I was actually trying to see was if the original poster was aware of any proof that speed was a problem or if it was just a gut feel as it is with you, based on your personal experience of poor road use in others.
Speeding is a problem, and the current speed cameras can in some areas cause more accidents than they save.
A problem for whom? Do you have any good statistical data to back up the assertion that speeding is a problem? Not trolling just interested if that was opinion / truism or not.
No, I am afraid not. It was created by the UK Government and along with ITIL are only written in English. Try running it through babel fish!
Personally I prefer PRINCE II to the PMBOK. It is more IT orientated and actually is clear methodology of how to manage a project.
The real shame is that it is quite often misused, misquoted or blatantly disregarded by people who claim that they are following it strictly but in actual fact are just churning out paper.
Here is an even better option RTFA! The system uses an Opt-in.
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Top explaination. Thanks very much.
so what is meant by a "set" of items? I am trying to get the point honest.
Where did you get that definition of encryption from?
Hash functions are many to 1 and cannot possibly have an inverse.
No, the inverse is computationally unfeasable or unknown. There is no way to prove that it is not possible. Most definitions I can find involve the transformation of plain text into an obscured form cyphertext. The ability to reverse this is not a prerequisit. So it has to satisfy:
P F = C
Where P is plain text, F is an encryption function and C is cyphertext.
The ability to reverse this is not needed, unless the purpose of encryption is to preserve confidentiallity of the plaintext.
A hash is a mapping from a large set of items to a smaller set.
No, it could be the opposite of this, taking a small set of items and mapping them to a larger set. Many hash functions result in a set value of set length and so a hash may be larger that its plaintext.
Why? A hash is a one way encryption function. Or have I missesd the point of your post?
There are many uses for encrpytion, not just to make sure that what you right can not be read by bad people. As you put it confidenitality.
I would say that a hash is still encryption, but in this case used for integrity as well as for authentication. ROT13 is encryption for confidenitality (just a poor one).
If you get over around 200 mph (~350kph) most of the cameras can't pick you up.
The moral. if something is worth doing, do it properly!
Saw on the register http://www.theregister.co.uk/ on Monday that in the UK BoxOffice365.com has already started. At moment they have nob all content, but it is a start.
Cost of the apollo mission to get to the moon somewhere around $25 billion (wikipedia so not definate figure) Cost of running the shuttle somewhere around $3 billion a year http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/budget/fy96/hsf_3.ht ml.
Even with inflation I think it is a fact the shuttle is a monumental waste of money.
This does not mean that space exploration as a whole is not without merit. Just that the current method of getting into (and out of) orbit is not very efficient. If we are to find new resources that seem to be the justification from many posters we need a new scaleable launch platform.
PS Mod down first mention of space elevator!
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How is this flamebait and yet a reply with massive hyperbole about how a shuttle is vital to world survival is not?