Why are we regulating cabbage? Are they requiring the price to be low to combat anti-competition tactics in cabbage syndicates? This is amazing. It would be decidedly less amazing if our national dish included cabbage like a number of eastern European countries, but... I don't know anyone who actually eats it on a regular basis apart from a monthly (maybe) trip to KFC for some.
This will likely get marked flamebait, but I am actually curious as to the need for regulation here. Is it related to potatoes / corn syrup / sugar?
It strikes me that ending a copyright at the author's death would lead to the RIAA taking more agressive action towards potential goldmine stories... I would suggest a set amount of time regardless of when the author dies. In this way, the artist is protected, the publisher is protected, the public doesn't have to wait two lifetimes for "cultural heritage" material to be legally copyable and though there is a little bit of give required on the part of the "greedy" publisher, everyone wins and creativity is promoted. It seems to me that there is a reason the US and other western countries are experiencing a reverse brain-drain at the moment--creativity is stifled when people demand their rights too much (even if those rights are legitimate).
and not only that, but a number of elements in the histories are fleshed out in the visualization of the movie... it is obvious from watching them that they did not limit themselves to the LOtR only.
This whole mess reminds me strangely of a sad mix of the Merchant of Venice and Hamlet and the biblical book of Deuteronomy--I think people stealing from others when no one is looking too closely is a bit old...
Not to burst your bubble too much, but crime in no-light areas is significantly higher than in areas with significant light. The shadow issue may be appropriate in areas where there is some light but of an insufficient amount. A quick google shows mixed results in terms of shutting off lights (some cities note no difference, while others note significant difference). This would seem to indicate that lighting does impact crime but that it is not the only factor... and other factors can make the impact of lighting non-significant. Now, using low-light pollution focused lighting systems does save money (though installation cost is higher) and should be put into place everywhere. I wonder what it was like in WWII with blackout rules in place.
Be careful--if you demonstrate that it is reasonable to believe that God is the root cause of all existence, the insurance companies will stop paying anyone anything ever. Wait... they are already accused of this all the time anyway--go for it!
The Imperial system of measurement goes from feet (12 inches) to yards (3 feet) to... furlongs (not really used by anyone apparently, except, maybe surveyors if wikipedia is right) to miles (5,280 feet) with a few other obscure ones thrown in that don't immediately come to mind.
Yes, but the point of the gp and the gggp is that once you go past a certain distance away, it becomes too abstract to get a grasp on. An airplane is just a flying car to the ancient man--it is cool that it flies, but it all boils down to the "superman vs. flash" argument. Which one is better? It depends on who you ask and whether they find flying more awesome than being able to run really fast.
I went for six months using firefox 2 (the company I work for would not let us upgrade) with horrible broken page notices for half of slashdot. They recently lifted the ban and/. now works
Yet another reason to share with your neighbor! This works especially well in a duplex, but given your setup, might work in other places too. There's also the sneakernet--500gb of books/whatever whenever needed
...and I thought taxation was out of control here--glad we don't have universal health care even more now in the US - the whole efficiency debate aside--government shouldn't need half your income to survive. If it does, it needs to be trimmed.
!proven guilty != innocent, it merely = not guilty. This is a significant distinction in the laws of many countries. Even in our own, e.g., OJ was found not guilty but because we don't declare "innocent" - he is liable in civil court (yes, yes, presumed innocent until proven guilty, but this is different than proven innocent).
What if he is simply a lazy but knowledgeable guy? I certainly don' t find it appropriate to continue paying a guy who works hard for three years with the company only to take it easy thereafter because he knows too much to be fired.
and... wouldn't you know that it is also directly nice to thousands of people as well and would have an immediate positive impact on medical "tourism" to Australia. Developing a more efficient vehicle only puts Australia on par with the rest of the world... but wait, they pretty much are anyway--developing a better bionic eye than the UK puts them ahead and boosts their economy.
That they are being treated reasonably well for people in their situation is commendable. That there is no where to send them that will accept them is unfortunate, but at least there isn't a 21st century version of the Australian penal colony model up and running at the moment--I am rather glad we don't have a decent space program in this regard--sending people to Mars would be way too convenient for some, and it would certainly be a one-way trip
whoever was in charge of quality control at the various businesses back in the late eighteen hundreds seems to have done a good job--either that or there was just a bubble of really bad work ethic on either side of that part century. I have seen countless museums with period material--very few shortly thereafter or before. I can understand the before part--Civil War left a lot destroyed even where there weren't battles. The after part is a bit harder for me to catch
Um... I hate to burst your bubble, but the vast majority of home schooled students are taught so because their parents don't want them picking up "incorrect ideas" such as "evolution," "all races are equal," and more. It's not just religious whackjobs, it's whackjobs period who do the majority of homeschooling, nowadays. The best way to indoctrinate your kid is to make sure you're the one feeding them all the information.
While this certainly may be true, I and several others I have met spent time "homeschooling" because there weren't any private schools worth beans in the area and the public schools were an order of magnitude worse. I started my tenth grade year because the local school felt that moving was an unexcused absence (keeping in mind that I was moving across the state, not down the block, and they had records from the previous school to prove this). The old school provided resources and I went back to public school ahead of the curve in 12th grade after another move. I graduated 9th out of 450ish after taking the various tests. Home schooling doesn't need to mean that you are of a fringe ideology, it is simply one of the possible reasons for homeschooling. Another, much less negative possibility: Students who have high internal motivation do not need public school and can even find it to be a hindrance. As for the claim that the majority of homeschoolers are racists--where did this come from? Homeschooling is used by people across all demographics - and for some statistics (first google link, so I'm not sure how much it's worth): Home School Legal Defense Association.
Doctorow is significant to most who read this site. He is significant to many who do not. He is not absolutely significant (I doubt many are). Given that some who read slashdot come from cultures where Doctorow's approach is offensive, it would make sense that some would consider him irrelevant and a blowhard. His website is designed along lines pleasing to the North American technophile (Canada or US). While this is a US-centric site, there are many other readers here. Even worse, as a community, we aren't really that big--sure, we comprise a large portion of some parts of the intarwebs but we don't even comprise the plurality of the whole.
I am not quite sure where you are getting your information that ATT was privatized. It has always been a publicly traded non-government company. It had brief status as a natural monopoly but even then there was some competition. Wikipedia on American Telephone and Telegraph is helpful here.
No, but in my area, at least, they have made it more--most of them have dark wood paneling with fake brass and some nice dark green paint for accents. The remodel occurred to several in the area right about the time McD's had its first posted loss in 60 or so years.
If I recall correctly, McDonald's has a deal with Nintendo so that people can play their DS's online at their stores. Since a DS can't get past the whole "captive portal" thing, that would kinda be a deal breaker...
McD's does have a captive portal (they have a deal with ATT which I have used on numerous occasions) at least at some locations. The DS issue is easily remedied by coding for the device accessing the system - not sure what browser base the DS uses, but I would assume that if you mimic the DS system you will suddenly find the McD's wifi is a lot more open.
I do find the discussion interesting--but I also did a quick google search for "lab results skewed radio dating" (without the quotes) and found this: abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/nuclear.pdf which would seem to indicate that there is error possible and even likely if it is not properly addressed in analyzing tests. Furthermore, I have also recently read (can't remember location though) that uranium half-lifes in quartz crystals point to a major volcanic upheaval in North America in the last 10,000 years but this apparently did not match prevailing opinions on the specific location. Sorry I don't have further info (a quick google search netted me a 1962 abstract from the IUCr but what I remembered was in the last ten years).
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Why are we regulating cabbage? Are they requiring the price to be low to combat anti-competition tactics in cabbage syndicates? This is amazing. It would be decidedly less amazing if our national dish included cabbage like a number of eastern European countries, but ... I don't know anyone who actually eats it on a regular basis apart from a monthly (maybe) trip to KFC for some.
This will likely get marked flamebait, but I am actually curious as to the need for regulation here. Is it related to potatoes / corn syrup / sugar?
It strikes me that ending a copyright at the author's death would lead to the RIAA taking more agressive action towards potential goldmine stories... I would suggest a set amount of time regardless of when the author dies. In this way, the artist is protected, the publisher is protected, the public doesn't have to wait two lifetimes for "cultural heritage" material to be legally copyable and though there is a little bit of give required on the part of the "greedy" publisher, everyone wins and creativity is promoted. It seems to me that there is a reason the US and other western countries are experiencing a reverse brain-drain at the moment--creativity is stifled when people demand their rights too much (even if those rights are legitimate).
and not only that, but a number of elements in the histories are fleshed out in the visualization of the movie... it is obvious from watching them that they did not limit themselves to the LOtR only.
This whole mess reminds me strangely of a sad mix of the Merchant of Venice and Hamlet and the biblical book of Deuteronomy--I think people stealing from others when no one is looking too closely is a bit old...
Not to burst your bubble too much, but crime in no-light areas is significantly higher than in areas with significant light. The shadow issue may be appropriate in areas where there is some light but of an insufficient amount. A quick google shows mixed results in terms of shutting off lights (some cities note no difference, while others note significant difference). This would seem to indicate that lighting does impact crime but that it is not the only factor ... and other factors can make the impact of lighting non-significant. Now, using low-light pollution focused lighting systems does save money (though installation cost is higher) and should be put into place everywhere. I wonder what it was like in WWII with blackout rules in place.
I have had no trouble running FF3 but then, it is running without any add-ons (work comp)
Be careful--if you demonstrate that it is reasonable to believe that God is the root cause of all existence, the insurance companies will stop paying anyone anything ever. Wait... they are already accused of this all the time anyway--go for it!
I think you are thinking of 10,000 ft (10Kft?)
The Imperial system of measurement goes from feet (12 inches) to yards (3 feet) to... furlongs (not really used by anyone apparently, except, maybe surveyors if wikipedia is right) to miles (5,280 feet) with a few other obscure ones thrown in that don't immediately come to mind.
Yes, but the point of the gp and the gggp is that once you go past a certain distance away, it becomes too abstract to get a grasp on. An airplane is just a flying car to the ancient man--it is cool that it flies, but it all boils down to the "superman vs. flash" argument. Which one is better? It depends on who you ask and whether they find flying more awesome than being able to run really fast.
I went for six months using firefox 2 (the company I work for would not let us upgrade) with horrible broken page notices for half of slashdot. They recently lifted the ban and /. now works
Yet another reason to share with your neighbor! This works especially well in a duplex, but given your setup, might work in other places too. There's also the sneakernet--500gb of books/whatever whenever needed
...and I thought taxation was out of control here--glad we don't have universal health care even more now in the US - the whole efficiency debate aside--government shouldn't need half your income to survive. If it does, it needs to be trimmed.
Note that I am mentioning he was a hard worker up until he decided he had done enough and wanted to milk the system.
!proven guilty != innocent, it merely = not guilty. This is a significant distinction in the laws of many countries. Even in our own, e.g., OJ was found not guilty but because we don't declare "innocent" - he is liable in civil court (yes, yes, presumed innocent until proven guilty, but this is different than proven innocent).
What if he is simply a lazy but knowledgeable guy? I certainly don' t find it appropriate to continue paying a guy who works hard for three years with the company only to take it easy thereafter because he knows too much to be fired.
and... wouldn't you know that it is also directly nice to thousands of people as well and would have an immediate positive impact on medical "tourism" to Australia. Developing a more efficient vehicle only puts Australia on par with the rest of the world... but wait, they pretty much are anyway--developing a better bionic eye than the UK puts them ahead and boosts their economy.
That they are being treated reasonably well for people in their situation is commendable. That there is no where to send them that will accept them is unfortunate, but at least there isn't a 21st century version of the Australian penal colony model up and running at the moment--I am rather glad we don't have a decent space program in this regard--sending people to Mars would be way too convenient for some, and it would certainly be a one-way trip
whoever was in charge of quality control at the various businesses back in the late eighteen hundreds seems to have done a good job--either that or there was just a bubble of really bad work ethic on either side of that part century. I have seen countless museums with period material--very few shortly thereafter or before. I can understand the before part--Civil War left a lot destroyed even where there weren't battles. The after part is a bit harder for me to catch
Um... I hate to burst your bubble, but the vast majority of home schooled students are taught so because their parents don't want them picking up "incorrect ideas" such as "evolution," "all races are equal," and more. It's not just religious whackjobs, it's whackjobs period who do the majority of homeschooling, nowadays. The best way to indoctrinate your kid is to make sure you're the one feeding them all the information.
While this certainly may be true, I and several others I have met spent time "homeschooling" because there weren't any private schools worth beans in the area and the public schools were an order of magnitude worse. I started my tenth grade year because the local school felt that moving was an unexcused absence (keeping in mind that I was moving across the state, not down the block, and they had records from the previous school to prove this). The old school provided resources and I went back to public school ahead of the curve in 12th grade after another move. I graduated 9th out of 450ish after taking the various tests. Home schooling doesn't need to mean that you are of a fringe ideology, it is simply one of the possible reasons for homeschooling. Another, much less negative possibility: Students who have high internal motivation do not need public school and can even find it to be a hindrance. As for the claim that the majority of homeschoolers are racists--where did this come from? Homeschooling is used by people across all demographics - and for some statistics (first google link, so I'm not sure how much it's worth): Home School Legal Defense Association.
Doctorow is significant to most who read this site. He is significant to many who do not. He is not absolutely significant (I doubt many are). Given that some who read slashdot come from cultures where Doctorow's approach is offensive, it would make sense that some would consider him irrelevant and a blowhard. His website is designed along lines pleasing to the North American technophile (Canada or US). While this is a US-centric site, there are many other readers here. Even worse, as a community, we aren't really that big--sure, we comprise a large portion of some parts of the intarwebs but we don't even comprise the plurality of the whole.
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No, but in my area, at least, they have made it more--most of them have dark wood paneling with fake brass and some nice dark green paint for accents. The remodel occurred to several in the area right about the time McD's had its first posted loss in 60 or so years.
Where do you live that the libraries are so bad off that they resemble McDonald's restaurants and bathrooms?
If I recall correctly, McDonald's has a deal with Nintendo so that people can play their DS's online at their stores. Since a DS can't get past the whole "captive portal" thing, that would kinda be a deal breaker...
McD's does have a captive portal (they have a deal with ATT which I have used on numerous occasions) at least at some locations. The DS issue is easily remedied by coding for the device accessing the system - not sure what browser base the DS uses, but I would assume that if you mimic the DS system you will suddenly find the McD's wifi is a lot more open.
I do find the discussion interesting--but I also did a quick google search for "lab results skewed radio dating" (without the quotes) and found this: abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/nuclear.pdf which would seem to indicate that there is error possible and even likely if it is not properly addressed in analyzing tests. Furthermore, I have also recently read (can't remember location though) that uranium half-lifes in quartz crystals point to a major volcanic upheaval in North America in the last 10,000 years but this apparently did not match prevailing opinions on the specific location. Sorry I don't have further info (a quick google search netted me a 1962 abstract from the IUCr but what I remembered was in the last ten years).