Online gambling of anyform is currently illegal in most ( if not all ) states, and most developed countries. ( no islands dont count as developed countries no matter how much money they have)
Online gambling is legal here in the UK, a member of the G8, and the fourth largest economy in the world. Shame about your island test though...
Just one question from that graph link, why do all the arrows point from the various Mac OSX versions to the next Darwin versions? Surely there has been some amount of kernel code going the other way?
same-sex marriage is a myth. It's never been an institution recognized by law
Just because something hasn't been recognised by law in the past, doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the future, in most states homosexual acts themselves were illegal in the first half of the last century, and inter-racial marriage was effectively banned in some.
If computers are in every classroom, and some of the teachers don't know how to use them fully, that should not matter. The job of an e.g. history teacher is to teach history, some will do that through whizzy technology, others will use group exercises or front of class lectures. They can all be excellent teachers, notwithstanding (because of?) their focussed skill sets.
It sounds trite, but different pupils have different learning styles too, so having some computer incompetent teachers may actually be a good thing.
I mean, not only do I have a friend who has gone to an American university complain that the first year courses are more like GCSE standard (UK 15/16 year old) rather than carrying on after A-levels (17/18 year old qualifications, she was expecting that university would start at 19 year old standard, not start 3 years behind where she is!), but now this. The logical conclusion is that instead of/teaching/ you in high school, you are brainwashed to be a good consumer that will never complain and will vote pro-corporatist all the time.
And I have friends in France, Germany and Scotland that point out that they learn much more, and earlier than we do in England. (The A level is an English/Welsh qualification, not a UK one). Baccalaureate systems encourage all academically minded students to develop a full skill set - in England we specialise at 16, in Scotland 17, in France and Germany at 19 and in the US, at graduate school. There is a necessary tension between breadth and depth of study, it is a question of where you drawn the line.
Why do all of these device makers continue to change small things that make all of the previous software libraries not work!
You could also ask:
Who are device makers' principal direct customers?
How do these customers, whether retailers or network providers, afford to sell their phones at below cost price?
Can an industry sustain the sale of loss leaders if it does not lock its customers into buying aftersales upgrades, additional features and ported programs?
My ten pound phone device thingy has been pricier than even the natural sceptic that I am likes to admit.
$10,000 can't buy much in a modern election. By putting up this website, and getting it linked here and probably elsewhere, the PAC will probably get its message across to thousands across the US.
If you're starting from nothing, it's not how much money you've got, or even where you use it, so much as your ideas and ingenuity.
If Howard Dean was running, there'd be a lot more web stunts like this. Don't know if that's a good or a bad thing though!
If you are nice to people, they will help you in return. The theory of co-operation is what open-source is all about. Slashdot mods themselves perhaps deserve an award, can't be easy browsing at 0 or -1 to spot the gems among the AC's.
If there were a need for a back-up system such as paper voting to be implemented for a number but not all voters (specific disabilities, power blackout, etc) then the extra votes could be added to the second vote set.
Presumably the system is also capable of reading the original vote set so comparisons could be made.
Grandparent: Most countries don't have the long distance / local provider thing you Americans do.
Parent: What, you just have one monopolistic corporation that controls both local and long distance calling? Sounds like AT&T before 1984.
The bigger difference in charging in the UK compared to the US is that we don't have the cross-subsidisation of "free local calls".
Given the smallness of the island, most but not all UK providers have reduced their long distance call rates to the same level as their local calls. Many packages offer free national calls. An important source of revenue these days is calls to mobile phones, which are charged at a much steeper rate. (The UK operates a strict calling party pays approach).
BT customers do have the option to go to other providers either for all their services. Many do. Others offer calling cards for international calls, calls to mobiles and local calls.
Very true. In and around the Square Mile (the financial district of London) there is a set-up known as the "ring of steel". In theory, every square inch of public space in that area is under the view of at least one security camera.
FileMaker is coming out with version 7, which is going to require us to tear all our databases to pieces and build them up again from scratch.
While any new features may be a bonus, if a program makes it so difficult to switch, and the current version does the job well (as you seem to suggest) I have to ask, why bother?
If everyone had AIDS, you wouldn't have to be all that concerned about STDs now, would you?
I know, I know, it's a joke, but there are many different strains of HIV and just because two partners (or in your example, all possible partners) are infected, does not mean they should disregard safe sex between themselves.
Further, the secondary infections that HIV infected people/AIDS sufferers are more liable include several STDs, some of which would not be as dangerous in the general population.
Also, are Apple computers really more secure than Windows? Surely the control settings (and firewall installs) that the user sets on a domestic PC are the main defence against exploits.
The original McElroy article (which itself has some interesting onward links) makes it clear that she does not view herself as one of these elitist women; it concludes:
"I still squirm at the thought of how many successful women now seem to view a large percentage of decent single men. Namely, as lesser and lower."
The Spectator may think that "females of whatever species are hot-wired to find the best possible mate" but McElroy clearly disagrees, at least if you reduce the best to a simplistic, status based analysis. It is a clever trick in the article, which makes it look as if that is what she was saying, when the journalist knows it was the opposite.
take a look in the coal mines. They too are very gender biased
Funny example, not many deep mines left in the UK, but this is the one civillian job barred by law to women. If there were more jobs, someone would probably bring a claim.
If you hire a woman and she has a kid, then she will be gone
for several months and you will have to pay her maternity
leave even though she isn't there.
I've heard this anti-equal opportunities argument before, in various guises, and it has always struck me that it is more interesting to reverse the equation. If we had a greater culture of equality, men too would have (and take) parental leave. The "economic" argument against employing women has always been dubious, but equal parental leave would finally scupper it.
GGP: And female dwarves -- I think they're unheard of in any Middle Earth lore.
GP: "So Galadriel never appeared in the books???"
P: Huh...that's funny. I could've sworn that GALADRIEL IS AN ELF!
Geek: In the appendices (not looking up which one), it is made clear that there are female dwarfs, just not many, and they look almost indistinguishable from the male, and also that dwarfs, not dwarves, is the correct pluralisation.
Grandparent: Now that Google is going public, what would prevent Microsoft from buying a massive amount of shares and basically taking over Google?
Parent: The fact that only a small amount of Google stock is available for public trading. Currently you can get about 8,5% of Google by buying all outstanding shares. This is far away from controlling the company.
Well, sort of, but the amount available may be higher than that: the question is how much stock lower-level employees, ex employees, business partners, etc hold (on top of that 8.5%), and would they be entitled to sell? (Also, I suppose, would they or the open market shareholders want to sell to Microsoft).
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed again - look at the lack of bloat in those days!
"32K of ROM - by any standards, a huge quantity of ROM to devote to built-in functions and commands."
Here is the real link
Online gambling of anyform is currently illegal in most ( if not all ) states, and most developed countries. ( no islands dont count as developed countries no matter how much money they have)
Online gambling is legal here in the UK, a member of the G8, and the fourth largest economy in the world. Shame about your island test though...
Leo: http://dict.leo.org/ is your friend!
Just one question from that graph link, why do all the arrows point from the various Mac OSX versions to the next Darwin versions? Surely there has been some amount of kernel code going the other way?
same-sex marriage is a myth. It's never been an institution recognized by law
Just because something hasn't been recognised by law in the past, doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the future, in most states homosexual acts themselves were illegal in the first half of the last century, and inter-racial marriage was effectively banned in some.
If computers are in every classroom, and some of the teachers don't know how to use them fully, that should not matter. The job of an e.g. history teacher is to teach history, some will do that through whizzy technology, others will use group exercises or front of class lectures. They can all be excellent teachers, notwithstanding (because of?) their focussed skill sets.
It sounds trite, but different pupils have different learning styles too, so having some computer incompetent teachers may actually be a good thing.
I mean, not only do I have a friend who has gone to an American university complain that the first year courses are more like GCSE standard (UK 15/16 year old) rather than carrying on after A-levels (17/18 year old qualifications, she was expecting that university would start at 19 year old standard, not start 3 years behind where she is!), but now this. The logical conclusion is that instead of /teaching/ you in high school, you are brainwashed to be a good consumer that will never complain and will vote pro-corporatist all the time.
And I have friends in France, Germany and Scotland that point out that they learn much more, and earlier than we do in England. (The A level is an English/Welsh qualification, not a UK one). Baccalaureate systems encourage all academically minded students to develop a full skill set - in England we specialise at 16, in Scotland 17, in France and Germany at 19 and in the US, at graduate school. There is a necessary tension between breadth and depth of study, it is a question of where you drawn the line.
Why do all of these device makers continue to change small things that make all of the previous software libraries not work!
You could also ask:
Who are device makers' principal direct customers?
How do these customers, whether retailers or network providers, afford to sell their phones at below cost price?
Can an industry sustain the sale of loss leaders if it does not lock its customers into buying aftersales upgrades, additional features and ported programs?
My ten pound phone device thingy has been pricier than even the natural sceptic that I am likes to admit.
$10,000 can't buy much in a modern election. By putting up this website, and getting it linked here and probably elsewhere, the PAC will probably get its message across to thousands across the US.
If you're starting from nothing, it's not how much money you've got, or even where you use it, so much as your ideas and ingenuity.
If Howard Dean was running, there'd be a lot more web stunts like this. Don't know if that's a good or a bad thing though!
If you are nice to people, they will help you in return. The theory of co-operation is what open-source is all about. Slashdot mods themselves perhaps deserve an award, can't be easy browsing at 0 or -1 to spot the gems among the AC's.
p.s. yfi
There is a legitimate use for this feature.
If there were a need for a back-up system such as paper voting to be implemented for a number but not all voters (specific disabilities, power blackout, etc) then the extra votes could be added to the second vote set.
Presumably the system is also capable of reading the original vote set so comparisons could be made.
Grandparent: Most countries don't have the long distance / local provider thing you Americans do.
Parent: What, you just have one monopolistic corporation that controls both local and long distance calling? Sounds like AT&T before 1984.
The bigger difference in charging in the UK compared to the US is that we don't have the cross-subsidisation of "free local calls".
Given the smallness of the island, most but not all UK providers have reduced their long distance call rates to the same level as their local calls. Many packages offer free national calls. An important source of revenue these days is calls to mobile phones, which are charged at a much steeper rate. (The UK operates a strict calling party pays approach).
BT customers do have the option to go to other providers either for all their services. Many do. Others offer calling cards for international calls, calls to mobiles and local calls.
Let's see if it works for me too...
winsupersite.com
so, umm, how'd you get it? ; )
winsupersite.com
Sshhhh!! He said not to ask. Ooooohh, now you're in trouuuuuuble...
winsupersite.com
the vast majority are in London
Very true. In and around the Square Mile (the financial district of London) there is a set-up known as the "ring of steel". In theory, every square inch of public space in that area is under the view of at least one security camera.
FileMaker is coming out with version 7, which is going to require us to tear all our databases to pieces and build them up again from scratch.
While any new features may be a bonus, if a program makes it so difficult to switch, and the current version does the job well (as you seem to suggest) I have to ask, why bother?
Look for the answer that's the least hassle...
And if they don't have 50% of the mp3 player market, they do have the majority.
?
Oh well, just like the majority voted for Bush I suppose (more like 30% of the electorate)
If everyone had AIDS, you wouldn't have to be all that concerned about STDs now, would you?
I know, I know, it's a joke, but there are many different strains of HIV and just because two partners (or in your example, all possible partners) are infected, does not mean they should disregard safe sex between themselves.
Further, the secondary infections that HIV infected people/AIDS sufferers are more liable include several STDs, some of which would not be as dangerous in the general population.
Also, are Apple computers really more secure than Windows? Surely the control settings (and firewall installs) that the user sets on a domestic PC are the main defence against exploits.
Same function, same price, same look.... I'd rather have the original myself.
Do you mean the HPiPOD or Uberhacker?
"gender in the workplace as being a positive thing"
Catbert: how can I eliminate gender from the workplace?
Dogbert Consultancy: Well we have these Elbonian eunuchs...
The original McElroy article (which itself has some interesting onward links) makes it clear that she does not view herself as one of these elitist women; it concludes:
"I still squirm at the thought of how many successful women now seem to view a large percentage of decent single men. Namely, as lesser and lower."
The Spectator may think that "females of whatever species are hot-wired to find the best possible mate" but McElroy clearly disagrees, at least if you reduce the best to a simplistic, status based analysis. It is a clever trick in the article, which makes it look as if that is what she was saying, when the journalist knows it was the opposite.
take a look in the coal mines. They too are very gender biased
Funny example, not many deep mines left in the UK, but this is the one civillian job barred by law to women. If there were more jobs, someone would probably bring a claim.
If you hire a woman and she has a kid, then she will be gone
for several months and you will have to pay her maternity
leave even though she isn't there.
I've heard this anti-equal opportunities argument before, in various guises, and it has always struck me that it is more interesting to reverse the equation. If we had a greater culture of equality, men too would have (and take) parental leave. The "economic" argument against employing women has always been dubious, but equal parental leave would finally scupper it.
Just my 0.03216 euros worth...
GGP: And female dwarves -- I think they're unheard of in any Middle Earth lore.
GP: "So Galadriel never appeared in the books???"
P: Huh...that's funny. I could've sworn that GALADRIEL IS AN ELF!
Geek: In the appendices (not looking up which one), it is made clear that there are female dwarfs, just not many, and they look almost indistinguishable from the male, and also that dwarfs, not dwarves, is the correct pluralisation.
Grandparent: Now that Google is going public, what would prevent Microsoft from buying a massive amount of shares and basically taking over Google?
Parent: The fact that only a small amount of Google stock is available for public trading. Currently you can get about 8,5% of Google by buying all outstanding shares. This is far away from controlling the company.
Well, sort of, but the amount available may be higher than that: the question is how much stock lower-level employees, ex employees, business partners, etc hold (on top of that 8.5%), and would they be entitled to sell? (Also, I suppose, would they or the open market shareholders want to sell to Microsoft).
The topic wasn't what the airlines require. It was what the (US) government requires.
On an offtopic story (your rights to fly on YRO), surely those of us not in your wonderful country can broaden the topic to our lives.