There are a lot of agreements on things that *aren't* verifiable facts, or are easily 'verifiable' either way depending on which side of the fence you're on.
Gay marriage is wrong. (Objective opinion held by lots of people) America is a good/bad place to live. (Again, objective opinion which people pull various facts to prove either way) Sex before the age of consent is bad. (Age of consent varies worldwide with no major issues, so the actual age is just an arbitrary value people agreed on) Speaking ill of the dead is not polite. (Some cultures don't care, others have *any* speaking of the dead as not polite) The atom is the smallest possible particle. (For a time, it looked to be) Slim women are attractive. (Pick a culture, any culture...) Guns are good. (See NRA)
You're quite free to move to live elsewhere if you disagree with the taxation policies. You also seem to lack the basic grasp of how much effort is involved. I'm sure if you can come up with a way to do all the admin and sums involved without making tax returns and the resulting process even more complex and time consuming whilst also not introducing a hefty 'tax on tax' then your local government would love to hear from you.
Sure thing. Ford Prefect (above) got it almost perfect.
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All the voting is subject to pretty intensive anti-rigging techniques and is fully automated, only senior site staff can see the results before they're announced. All the nomination for awards is entirely done by the public.
We think it's the most honest 'public opinion' awards for gaming there is, all a mod needs to be in with a chance of winning is a fanbase and a Mod DB profile (which is free). We usually suspend our indie and mod reviews etc during MotY as well, to limit our influence on the voting by linking profiles (and hence the 'nominate' or 'vote' buttons) from the front page any more than the normal 'most popular' columns (again automatic) would achieve.
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No, because you may make more use of the road systems than people who do have kids. Why should they be paying for your roads? It's much easier if everybody just pays a tax based on their total income on the "it'll all come out in the wash" basis. Plus your tax is contributing to the overall good of the country through improved public education, so it's good for you in the long run anyway.
We actually tried this during PSHCE classes (Sorry, no sources to cite here!) and gave people realistic incomes and tax rates, then asked them to work out how much tax they honestly thought they should pay. Some people reduced the amount they pay on health but increased police spending, some didn't pay as much on education but wanted better maintenance of the water infrastructure. It's a surprisingly small difference which makes it just not worth the extra overhead of you saying what you want to spend your money on and the subsequent calculations of who owes what, and how to make the budgets actually balance against what is in effect a varying tax rate for each civil service.
RMBK reactors (Like Chernobyl) tended to use graphite tipped control rods, but this has since been altered in light of the fact that they do catch fire. The other carbon-based moderator tends to be boron carbide, which is a ceramic with boron as the primary moderator.
No, you're thinking of either a controlled shutdown or a SCRAM (Emergency, probably uncontrolled, but still designed to be safe). A meltdown is what happens when the emergency control systems fail and the core physically melts due to the high temperature, possibly melting its way through the containment (Or worse - see China Syndrome).
Furthermore, you're not understanding the role of the control rods (No plant I can think of uses carbon btw). They are fully lowered into the reactor to slow the reaction rate by absorbing neutrons, hence the retraction of the rods would cause a meltdown.
Clarification here: The 13.3" is diagonal across the screen. This may be what parent is referring to (In which case it would be wrong, it's not the width), but the entire MBA is, in fact, just over 1' wide (12.8" to be exact). It's also 8.94" deep if you're interested.
But the patent is vague enough to cover non-'smartphone's. Removable storage, camera and media player is a pretty common set of features on most phones, even those not designed to run your life. That's your first point gone.
Hang on a second, if the Constitution is not up for negotiation how the hell did the amendments get there in the first place? It's specifically designed to be negotiable, check Article 5 (The latest was the 27th Amendment in 1992).
I'm not arguing your original point, the reason the right hasn't been taken from you before is precisely so that you have something to fight back with should someone try. However, I'm going to be awkward and point out that I do have both the right and the privilege to tell you that you can't own a gun. It's the Government who can't.
Incidentally, on the subject of eliminating people who are trying to alter the Constitution, I've always wondered how you get around the problem that it's illegal. Not trying to be funny here, but if you acknowledge the Constitution don't you also acknowledge the Courts (Article 3) and the Laws of the country (Article 6), which makes the use of those firearms illegal? As soon as you overthrow the government then you're going to have to do some clever legal stuff to tidy up the fact that you should be tried for the crimes committed.
Doubtful, Silverlight is already a recommended updated so I doubt they'd bundle it. It's got some nice tricks up its sleeve, especially compared to Flash when it comes to tying in with AJAX.
Microsoft isn't giving people enough time to catch up with the latest version. IE7 was released 18th October 2006. RC1 was 24th August, and the first pre-build was January 31st. You've had almost two years to catch up with the latest version, it's not like they've suddenly sprung the changes!
Ah, except that in its current incarnation Firefox is a bit sucky too. It's better than IE on many levels, especially security, but it's no longer the snappy and lightweight browser it once was. Memory usage is terrible, I find the UI sluggish, render times are far from ideal and the whole thing just feels... not what it was.
Hopefully 3.0 will fix that, but for the meantime I'll stick with Safari.
All the PCs I've used in the past 5 years, desktop and laptop, have had this kind of functionality in the BIOS. But that's not the main issue here, the problem is how do you make sure PCs in use aren't being powered off? A straight shut down at 7pm, wake up at 7am is perfect for something like a school's IT lab (Depending on the versions used, you may be able to also tell them to not shut down if performing an update), but a floor full of PCs in an office may be used all hours of the day or night.
You should have the option in your System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Trackpad -> "Click". It maps a single tap on the keypad to a click of the mouse button. Can't speak for earlier than OS X 10.4 though.
I'll join the rest of the people replying to this and say: "Really?"
When I find myself on Windows laptops I often catch myself doing the two-finger right click or two-finger scroll motions then cursing when they don't work.
I reckon Time Capsule is one of the better products announced, and the first AirPort based product which I've looked at and gone "Actually, that would be useful" since I'm a laptop user. Perfect complement for the Air as well, as you can leave your printer plugged into it. I expect a software update for them soon as well which will let them share the external SuperDrive wirelessly, so you can keep everything connected to your Time Capsule and just wander around with your Air.
iPhone updates were mostly guessed at, including the location finder in Maps, configurable and multiple home screens and texting multiple people. Chapters in movies and iTunes lyrics were unexpected though. As for the iPod Touch, an update was possibly expected but making people pay for it wasn't (And I reckon it's bad form on the part of Apple as well).
This may just be me having a unique model here, but all recent Apple Mighty Mouses support left and right click. So, this means the only currently shipping Macs with no right click option would be the laptops. But wait! If I put two fingers on my touchpad and click... holy shit!
Older PCs don't have a CD drive. Older TVs don't have a HDMI socket. Older Macs don't ship with a two-button mouse.
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There are a lot of agreements on things that *aren't* verifiable facts, or are easily 'verifiable' either way depending on which side of the fence you're on.
Gay marriage is wrong. (Objective opinion held by lots of people)
America is a good/bad place to live. (Again, objective opinion which people pull various facts to prove either way)
Sex before the age of consent is bad. (Age of consent varies worldwide with no major issues, so the actual age is just an arbitrary value people agreed on)
Speaking ill of the dead is not polite. (Some cultures don't care, others have *any* speaking of the dead as not polite)
The atom is the smallest possible particle. (For a time, it looked to be)
Slim women are attractive. (Pick a culture, any culture...)
Guns are good. (See NRA)
Except it's a GameBoy Advance, not a DS.
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You mean my name isn't Corporal Hand Wash Only? I thought that was a name label!
You're quite free to move to live elsewhere if you disagree with the taxation policies. You also seem to lack the basic grasp of how much effort is involved. I'm sure if you can come up with a way to do all the admin and sums involved without making tax returns and the resulting process even more complex and time consuming whilst also not introducing a hefty 'tax on tax' then your local government would love to hear from you.
Sure thing. Ford Prefect (above) got it almost perfect.
Any mod or independent game (Not commercial titles) which hasn't been archived (Marked as inactive with no signs of life) or deleted (Through simply being a waste of oxygen, no signs of anything more than a vague idea, think the countless CS clones) is eligible to be nominated for MotY by any registered user of the site. Each user has unlimited votes, but may only nominate a mod or game once. At the end of the phase one voting, the top 100 mods and games (by number of nominations) are all collated and made available for voting, again by any registered user with unlimited votes, capped at one per mod/game. End of phase two, we remove those mods which are ineligible (through winning in previous years) and are left with the top 5, who are picked out in the awards article.
All the voting is subject to pretty intensive anti-rigging techniques and is fully automated, only senior site staff can see the results before they're announced. All the nomination for awards is entirely done by the public.
We think it's the most honest 'public opinion' awards for gaming there is, all a mod needs to be in with a chance of winning is a fanbase and a Mod DB profile (which is free). We usually suspend our indie and mod reviews etc during MotY as well, to limit our influence on the voting by linking profiles (and hence the 'nominate' or 'vote' buttons) from the front page any more than the normal 'most popular' columns (again automatic) would achieve.
Player's choice - it's the players who voted for these. Mod DB had no say in who won, only the people who voted did. If you're interested in the Civ IV mods though, feel free to look and you can vote for your favourite next year.
Disclaimer: I am a site manager for Mod DB.
No, because you may make more use of the road systems than people who do have kids. Why should they be paying for your roads? It's much easier if everybody just pays a tax based on their total income on the "it'll all come out in the wash" basis. Plus your tax is contributing to the overall good of the country through improved public education, so it's good for you in the long run anyway.
We actually tried this during PSHCE classes (Sorry, no sources to cite here!) and gave people realistic incomes and tax rates, then asked them to work out how much tax they honestly thought they should pay. Some people reduced the amount they pay on health but increased police spending, some didn't pay as much on education but wanted better maintenance of the water infrastructure. It's a surprisingly small difference which makes it just not worth the extra overhead of you saying what you want to spend your money on and the subsequent calculations of who owes what, and how to make the budgets actually balance against what is in effect a varying tax rate for each civil service.
Now that *is* impressive. I've seen thermite go through some pretty thick reinforced metals, so lord knows what those disk platters were made of.
RMBK reactors (Like Chernobyl) tended to use graphite tipped control rods, but this has since been altered in light of the fact that they do catch fire. The other carbon-based moderator tends to be boron carbide, which is a ceramic with boron as the primary moderator.
No, you're thinking of either a controlled shutdown or a SCRAM (Emergency, probably uncontrolled, but still designed to be safe). A meltdown is what happens when the emergency control systems fail and the core physically melts due to the high temperature, possibly melting its way through the containment (Or worse - see China Syndrome).
Furthermore, you're not understanding the role of the control rods (No plant I can think of uses carbon btw). They are fully lowered into the reactor to slow the reaction rate by absorbing neutrons, hence the retraction of the rods would cause a meltdown.
Clarification here: The 13.3" is diagonal across the screen. This may be what parent is referring to (In which case it would be wrong, it's not the width), but the entire MBA is, in fact, just over 1' wide (12.8" to be exact). It's also 8.94" deep if you're interested.
I'm glad it's not just me who had to double-take that bit.
Why would people bother adding ineffective content filters? I call tyop.
But the patent is vague enough to cover non-'smartphone's. Removable storage, camera and media player is a pretty common set of features on most phones, even those not designed to run your life. That's your first point gone.
Second one, however, sounds good to me.
Hang on a second, if the Constitution is not up for negotiation how the hell did the amendments get there in the first place? It's specifically designed to be negotiable, check Article 5 (The latest was the 27th Amendment in 1992).
I'm not arguing your original point, the reason the right hasn't been taken from you before is precisely so that you have something to fight back with should someone try. However, I'm going to be awkward and point out that I do have both the right and the privilege to tell you that you can't own a gun. It's the Government who can't.
Incidentally, on the subject of eliminating people who are trying to alter the Constitution, I've always wondered how you get around the problem that it's illegal. Not trying to be funny here, but if you acknowledge the Constitution don't you also acknowledge the Courts (Article 3) and the Laws of the country (Article 6), which makes the use of those firearms illegal? As soon as you overthrow the government then you're going to have to do some clever legal stuff to tidy up the fact that you should be tried for the crimes committed.
There's a little part of me which wants to beat you repeatedly for saying that. What's next, framesets?
Doubtful, Silverlight is already a recommended updated so I doubt they'd bundle it. It's got some nice tricks up its sleeve, especially compared to Flash when it comes to tying in with AJAX.
Ah, except that in its current incarnation Firefox is a bit sucky too. It's better than IE on many levels, especially security, but it's no longer the snappy and lightweight browser it once was. Memory usage is terrible, I find the UI sluggish, render times are far from ideal and the whole thing just feels... not what it was.
Hopefully 3.0 will fix that, but for the meantime I'll stick with Safari.
All the PCs I've used in the past 5 years, desktop and laptop, have had this kind of functionality in the BIOS. But that's not the main issue here, the problem is how do you make sure PCs in use aren't being powered off? A straight shut down at 7pm, wake up at 7am is perfect for something like a school's IT lab (Depending on the versions used, you may be able to also tell them to not shut down if performing an update), but a floor full of PCs in an office may be used all hours of the day or night.
You should have the option in your System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Trackpad -> "Click". It maps a single tap on the keypad to a click of the mouse button. Can't speak for earlier than OS X 10.4 though.
I'll join the rest of the people replying to this and say: "Really?"
When I find myself on Windows laptops I often catch myself doing the two-finger right click or two-finger scroll motions then cursing when they don't work.
I'm kinda pro- both. South Park said it right: Maybe evolution is the how and not the why (Go, God. Go!, Ep 12, Season 10).
I reckon Time Capsule is one of the better products announced, and the first AirPort based product which I've looked at and gone "Actually, that would be useful" since I'm a laptop user. Perfect complement for the Air as well, as you can leave your printer plugged into it. I expect a software update for them soon as well which will let them share the external SuperDrive wirelessly, so you can keep everything connected to your Time Capsule and just wander around with your Air.
iPhone updates were mostly guessed at, including the location finder in Maps, configurable and multiple home screens and texting multiple people. Chapters in movies and iTunes lyrics were unexpected though. As for the iPod Touch, an update was possibly expected but making people pay for it wasn't (And I reckon it's bad form on the part of Apple as well).
This may just be me having a unique model here, but all recent Apple Mighty Mouses support left and right click. So, this means the only currently shipping Macs with no right click option would be the laptops. But wait! If I put two fingers on my touchpad and click... holy shit!
Older PCs don't have a CD drive. Older TVs don't have a HDMI socket. Older Macs don't ship with a two-button mouse.