But I don't think the drivers driving while drunk would appreciate that Tomtom feature
What they don't know, won't hurt the rest of us. I'm all for more effective treatment of DUI issues (as long as doctors are a little more clear when prescribing extra strength cough syrup that it isn't just recommended that you don't drive when on it... it's illegal to drive when on it).
They break down doors because they feel that knocking would increase risk of harm to the arresting officers or of flight of the suspect. They do not simply break down doors for fun. If the police came to my house and suspected I had a meth lab or something else dangerous, I would hope they'd come crashing in--but if they had the building surrounded and knew I would come quietly (and I would... why risk harm to home or property while whatever I might be charged with was sorted out and I was shown to be wrongly suspected--as I would be... no sense breaking the law in a country where all the laws I come up against are fairly reasonable), they would likely knock.
Wouldn't it be traceable? Couldn't we determine if a bot put the pics (or whatever) on someone's computer versus the user himself/herself? I had a friend who had the misfortune of being a Muslim around 2001 in the US (they had a great deal of difficulty in the community and still do to a certain extent). His computer was a zombie and the FBI took him in for a fairly lengthy interview... and also looked into his computer. Was he involved in doing "bad things"--no, but they were quickly able to determine that.
Preventing infection is also good--posting cautionary notes to a user's desktop when they've shared read/write access to all for their entire drive, etc.
Surely not in the favor of a free and open internet though--and honestly, back before Google filtered search results (or when their image sorting game first started), some of the results were... disturbing... to say the least. I would be all for increasing penalties on whoever films/photographs such things (death would not be too much I don't think). Should the individual home owner be protected from what other people do with their internet if they leave it open? Yes. We need to focus on the source of the problem, but given how widespread it surely is (or why would there apparently be taskforces breaking down doors), this may be difficult.
Ah, but as the GP notes, it is far better to stick the cost on the supply chain rather than the government--after all, if the government bails the bank out, eventually the investment bank pays (through loans, etc.).
I would think being able to do math in multiple based would he a great way to be prepared to meet any other advanced culture. More importantly, using whatever system your home culture has always used is helpful when you don't have a ruler/scale/etc. around. As an example, I can tell by sight roughly what a foot is--based on previous measurement, I also know that the length of one section of my pinky is one inch exactly. This is helpful when doing around the house projects. My cousin, who grew up in Spain, has exactly the opposite tendency--she thinks in metric. Both systems, as you note, are useful in certain settings, but resistance to change should also be expected simply because both systems can work quite well if you know your home culture's system well.
This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services.
The word "anonymously" is important in affirming the gpp.
when you opt in to their location services
The GPP is right in noting that "any iphone user" could confirm that you have to agree to each app having your location. Only a few apps get around this and are usually removed from the app store as soon as Apple is informed. They are very tight with their user information--consider the ad information and subscriber data issue that has been hacking off publishers of magazines. Yes, Apple is gathering data. Yes, they share it with the world. No, they don't tell everyone exactly where you (individually) are at any given moment without your permission--a little popup comes up and asks if the app in question can have your user data (or... if you keep reading their terms of use, with appropriate requests from government).
I've always wondered what would happen if we were to take sulfur based life and crash it into io or some similar creature and crash it into some other planet it would do well on. mountain top lichen might do well on mars after all.
find a pocket of oxygen in the midst of all the other gases and away you go--seriously, if even a small amount of oxygen were found on any of the gas giants, there would probably be enough for as long as we needed it (64k should be enough for anyone too after all).
I am not quite sure where you are getting this "popular 'little angel flying'..." bit. Are you referring to resurrections other than Christ's? Christians hold that there will be a general resurrection at some point in the future (certain groups feel confident about the order of events related to that while others are more agnostic on this topic). All would agree that the Christian (and non-Christian) is to be resurrected at some God-chosen point in the future--and this is one thing that actually hasn't changed in 2000 years. What happens immediately after death to the soul has been more controversial, but in general, the view has been held that the believing soul is with God (this from even the earliest church as seen in Luke 23:42-43) and the unbelieving soul is not (Luke 16:20ff--also notes the picture of rest for the believing soul). Some have suggested soul sleep (unconscious rest until resurrection) or suspension of being (Moltmann's picture of God holding the believing soul in his mind until resurrection--similar conceptually at least to the computronium star in Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space holding the humans it recreates in its systems). Neither of these last two have been a significant part of Christian thought.
re-birth for Greek / Egyptian / Roman mythologies was typically seen differently than we do now--the "Afterlife," particularly in Egyptian myths was seen as distinct from the current one... a different world. Many of the various ideas of the Greco-Roman systems followed a similar path (though not all). This was, in fact, one of the things the followers of the 'dude in Jerusalem' were criticized for--believing in a physical resurrection to experiences in the current world (or its restoration/re-creation)... not a permanently separate world ("heaven" is the closest you'll get to this and it isn't the end all for Christians... they tend to look towards a more holistic restoration involving all of existence).
Pain releases endorphins too--there's a physical need for them to react appropriately to a situation causing you pain. Makes me wonder about those who cut themselves for the pain / release involved as compared to the above poster who likes peppers for a similar reason.
They are going to free museums. The coasts are also where the majority of the population lives--of course, the people living in the MidWest, South (no, like most people, I don't include Florida here), most of the Southwest, and Northwest kind of suffer... hmmm.
A local high school (albeit a private boarding type of one) used connections they had with college students in a paper folding club to make use of the club's access to MIT buildings (in this case, a really long hallway). This has nothing to do with the college's academic programs but rather with its social programs.
All too literally. No one could buy a plane or train ticket out of France... no one could do banking there (safely). Sounds like a perfect opportunity for businesses outside of France to start making more money from former businesses there... if the law actually ends up sticking.
I dearly hope that if he quoted Justin Bieber, most, if not all Slashdot readers would think he was being original (though likely somewhat... odd). I certainly wouldn't know the difference.
It was worth about 50% of my salary to cut through the red tape and just get work done--I've also had time for studying other work in a way never possible before--I wish it had only been ten, but then my field is teaching, not IT. Has losing ~50% of my salary been painful? decidedly, but we have kept to our budget well and it has worked out--just no extra trips this year and paying off the mortgage early is not something we are working towards at the moment (we were and likely will be again in the future, God willing).
Probably, but given the usual requirements for milk production, the emotional cost would be WAY too high... plus, you'd have to figure in quality control issues that are already solved for the cow milk industry if you were to chemically trigger milk production in humans.
Having spent a great deal of time in Spain (and other European countries too), socialized medicine trends towards the same problems people with HMOs in the US face--one main doctor--if he's bad, too bad for you. Need surgery?... Is it important and life threatening? We can work you in in 6-12 months, perhaps longer if it is something less significant like heart surgery. I will grant you that if you have a history of a specific, dangerous medical problem, the gears seem to work faster (a friend's father recently had an emergency same-day surgery--shocked everyone--a real miracle).
The American model, even apart from HMOs tends towards greed (humans get that way, yes?). There are exceptions to the rule in both cases. I have noted one above in the European system, and in the American system, my father-in-law received excellent end of life care from the WVU hospital just recently (they were very creative in trying to solve multiple organ failures--nothing against them that they weren't able to correct malpractice from another hospital, but they didn't give up until the very end and were willing to try fairly radical treatment options including getting the the insurance to pay for a trip to Ohio State's vet school for extra work--an odd choice but one that would have been helpful... day staff changed and OSU decided against the idea).
Is the US a Christian nation? No, but there are a larger percentage of people who call themselves Christians than in other nations. This is a sad thing for me because the reputation of the Christian should be that of Christ (as you rightly point out) and is (again, sadly) not.
In a sense, yes. However, I was in a hospital this past week helping watch over my father-in-law. Many on the staff had hospital issued cell phones (in yellow cases to distinguish from other varieties) for case-related communication (some still had pagers). This struck me as great--effective communication was still possible for those who needed it BUT it was also clear if someone was violating a policy (none did that I could see). If you are ever in western West Virginia, WVU has a great hospital.
If you are all that concerned about grammar, might I suggest you take into consideration the wonderful invention of the comma. It is a little used device, more common in French and less in Spanish, but it excels in the English language at dividing up clauses within a sentence. I like commas. Commas probably would like me if they liked anything, but either you don't like commas or they don't like you.
More importantly, we aren't in grammar school. I like grammar--my students think I grade them too hard on it, but... we are here to simply discuss things... you understood what the gpp was referring to by using "whom"... just as you understand (I hope) what I am doing by using ellipses...
Getting caught up in grammar that still communicates should not be a problem and distracts us from the purpose of this discussion section (a 12-year old genius getting headlines in sensationalistic media for having 're-written' Einstein's theory of relativity). Is grammar important? Yes. Do we need to be so focused on demanding rigorous adherence to formal grammar that we lose sight of the point of our discussion here? No. Do we need to be so focused on formal grammar that we lose sight of the beauty of linguistic change? No.
In his defense, I haven't turned my television on in two or three weeks. I have watched four shows on the Internet, one of which was cooking. Two of the others I skimmed through... I have this odd desire to at least know how Stargate ends having watched the previous fifteen years of the SGuniverse even if I don't sit through the mindnumbingly awful episodes in full (also did this with the last two seasons of Atlantis)--which boils down to the two most recent episodes watched at double speed with skipping to a grand total of less than forty minutes. The final program, NCIS is also something that I started watching a long while back and simply want to know how it ends.
Television grows boring over time... as do movies (haven't been to the theater and had to pay for it since Inception, though I did catch the latest Narnia flick on a free pre-release showing). Music can be had for free (weekly free downloads from amazon and itunes) and though this means my collection grows slowly and I have to sort through junk... who doesn't sort through junk in a regular album anyway? Life without the opiate of the modern entertainment industry is quite nice--we have a fairly extensive garden and have done a number of house projects this year.
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But I don't think the drivers driving while drunk would appreciate that Tomtom feature
What they don't know, won't hurt the rest of us. I'm all for more effective treatment of DUI issues (as long as doctors are a little more clear when prescribing extra strength cough syrup that it isn't just recommended that you don't drive when on it... it's illegal to drive when on it).
They break down doors because they feel that knocking would increase risk of harm to the arresting officers or of flight of the suspect. They do not simply break down doors for fun. If the police came to my house and suspected I had a meth lab or something else dangerous, I would hope they'd come crashing in--but if they had the building surrounded and knew I would come quietly (and I would... why risk harm to home or property while whatever I might be charged with was sorted out and I was shown to be wrongly suspected--as I would be... no sense breaking the law in a country where all the laws I come up against are fairly reasonable), they would likely knock.
Wouldn't it be traceable? Couldn't we determine if a bot put the pics (or whatever) on someone's computer versus the user himself/herself? I had a friend who had the misfortune of being a Muslim around 2001 in the US (they had a great deal of difficulty in the community and still do to a certain extent). His computer was a zombie and the FBI took him in for a fairly lengthy interview... and also looked into his computer. Was he involved in doing "bad things"--no, but they were quickly able to determine that.
Preventing infection is also good--posting cautionary notes to a user's desktop when they've shared read/write access to all for their entire drive, etc.
Surely not in the favor of a free and open internet though--and honestly, back before Google filtered search results (or when their image sorting game first started), some of the results were... disturbing... to say the least. I would be all for increasing penalties on whoever films/photographs such things (death would not be too much I don't think). Should the individual home owner be protected from what other people do with their internet if they leave it open? Yes. We need to focus on the source of the problem, but given how widespread it surely is (or why would there apparently be taskforces breaking down doors), this may be difficult.
Ah, but as the GP notes, it is far better to stick the cost on the supply chain rather than the government--after all, if the government bails the bank out, eventually the investment bank pays (through loans, etc.).
I would think being able to do math in multiple based would he a great way to be prepared to meet any other advanced culture. More importantly, using whatever system your home culture has always used is helpful when you don't have a ruler/scale/etc. around. As an example, I can tell by sight roughly what a foot is--based on previous measurement, I also know that the length of one section of my pinky is one inch exactly. This is helpful when doing around the house projects. My cousin, who grew up in Spain, has exactly the opposite tendency--she thinks in metric. Both systems, as you note, are useful in certain settings, but resistance to change should also be expected simply because both systems can work quite well if you know your home culture's system well.
This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services.
The word "anonymously" is important in affirming the gpp.
when you opt in to their location services
The GPP is right in noting that "any iphone user" could confirm that you have to agree to each app having your location. Only a few apps get around this and are usually removed from the app store as soon as Apple is informed. They are very tight with their user information--consider the ad information and subscriber data issue that has been hacking off publishers of magazines. Yes, Apple is gathering data. Yes, they share it with the world. No, they don't tell everyone exactly where you (individually) are at any given moment without your permission--a little popup comes up and asks if the app in question can have your user data (or... if you keep reading their terms of use, with appropriate requests from government).
I've always wondered what would happen if we were to take sulfur based life and crash it into io or some similar creature and crash it into some other planet it would do well on. mountain top lichen might do well on mars after all.
find a pocket of oxygen in the midst of all the other gases and away you go--seriously, if even a small amount of oxygen were found on any of the gas giants, there would probably be enough for as long as we needed it (64k should be enough for anyone too after all).
I am not quite sure where you are getting this "popular 'little angel flying'..." bit. Are you referring to resurrections other than Christ's? Christians hold that there will be a general resurrection at some point in the future (certain groups feel confident about the order of events related to that while others are more agnostic on this topic). All would agree that the Christian (and non-Christian) is to be resurrected at some God-chosen point in the future--and this is one thing that actually hasn't changed in 2000 years. What happens immediately after death to the soul has been more controversial, but in general, the view has been held that the believing soul is with God (this from even the earliest church as seen in Luke 23:42-43) and the unbelieving soul is not (Luke 16:20ff--also notes the picture of rest for the believing soul). Some have suggested soul sleep (unconscious rest until resurrection) or suspension of being (Moltmann's picture of God holding the believing soul in his mind until resurrection--similar conceptually at least to the computronium star in Alastair Reynold's Revelation Space holding the humans it recreates in its systems). Neither of these last two have been a significant part of Christian thought.
re-birth for Greek / Egyptian / Roman mythologies was typically seen differently than we do now--the "Afterlife," particularly in Egyptian myths was seen as distinct from the current one... a different world. Many of the various ideas of the Greco-Roman systems followed a similar path (though not all). This was, in fact, one of the things the followers of the 'dude in Jerusalem' were criticized for--believing in a physical resurrection to experiences in the current world (or its restoration/re-creation)... not a permanently separate world ("heaven" is the closest you'll get to this and it isn't the end all for Christians... they tend to look towards a more holistic restoration involving all of existence).
Couldn't snorting it lead to some kind of disastrous / fatal allergic reaction?
Pain releases endorphins too--there's a physical need for them to react appropriately to a situation causing you pain. Makes me wonder about those who cut themselves for the pain / release involved as compared to the above poster who likes peppers for a similar reason.
They are going to free museums. The coasts are also where the majority of the population lives--of course, the people living in the MidWest, South (no, like most people, I don't include Florida here), most of the Southwest, and Northwest kind of suffer ... hmmm.
A local high school (albeit a private boarding type of one) used connections they had with college students in a paper folding club to make use of the club's access to MIT buildings (in this case, a really long hallway). This has nothing to do with the college's academic programs but rather with its social programs.
All too literally. No one could buy a plane or train ticket out of France... no one could do banking there (safely). Sounds like a perfect opportunity for businesses outside of France to start making more money from former businesses there... if the law actually ends up sticking.
I dearly hope that if he quoted Justin Bieber, most, if not all Slashdot readers would think he was being original (though likely somewhat... odd). I certainly wouldn't know the difference.
It was worth about 50% of my salary to cut through the red tape and just get work done--I've also had time for studying other work in a way never possible before--I wish it had only been ten, but then my field is teaching, not IT. Has losing ~50% of my salary been painful? decidedly, but we have kept to our budget well and it has worked out--just no extra trips this year and paying off the mortgage early is not something we are working towards at the moment (we were and likely will be again in the future, God willing).
Probably, but given the usual requirements for milk production, the emotional cost would be WAY too high... plus, you'd have to figure in quality control issues that are already solved for the cow milk industry if you were to chemically trigger milk production in humans.
There is no one, simple solution.
... Is it important and life threatening? We can work you in in 6-12 months, perhaps longer if it is something less significant like heart surgery. I will grant you that if you have a history of a specific, dangerous medical problem, the gears seem to work faster (a friend's father recently had an emergency same-day surgery--shocked everyone--a real miracle).
Having spent a great deal of time in Spain (and other European countries too), socialized medicine trends towards the same problems people with HMOs in the US face--one main doctor--if he's bad, too bad for you. Need surgery?
The American model, even apart from HMOs tends towards greed (humans get that way, yes?). There are exceptions to the rule in both cases. I have noted one above in the European system, and in the American system, my father-in-law received excellent end of life care from the WVU hospital just recently (they were very creative in trying to solve multiple organ failures--nothing against them that they weren't able to correct malpractice from another hospital, but they didn't give up until the very end and were willing to try fairly radical treatment options including getting the the insurance to pay for a trip to Ohio State's vet school for extra work--an odd choice but one that would have been helpful... day staff changed and OSU decided against the idea).
Is the US a Christian nation? No, but there are a larger percentage of people who call themselves Christians than in other nations. This is a sad thing for me because the reputation of the Christian should be that of Christ (as you rightly point out) and is (again, sadly) not.
How do you know they aren't?
In a sense, yes. However, I was in a hospital this past week helping watch over my father-in-law. Many on the staff had hospital issued cell phones (in yellow cases to distinguish from other varieties) for case-related communication (some still had pagers). This struck me as great--effective communication was still possible for those who needed it BUT it was also clear if someone was violating a policy (none did that I could see). If you are ever in western West Virginia, WVU has a great hospital.
If you are all that concerned about grammar, might I suggest you take into consideration the wonderful invention of the comma. It is a little used device, more common in French and less in Spanish, but it excels in the English language at dividing up clauses within a sentence. I like commas. Commas probably would like me if they liked anything, but either you don't like commas or they don't like you.
More importantly, we aren't in grammar school. I like grammar--my students think I grade them too hard on it, but... we are here to simply discuss things... you understood what the gpp was referring to by using "whom"... just as you understand (I hope) what I am doing by using ellipses...
Getting caught up in grammar that still communicates should not be a problem and distracts us from the purpose of this discussion section (a 12-year old genius getting headlines in sensationalistic media for having 're-written' Einstein's theory of relativity). Is grammar important? Yes. Do we need to be so focused on demanding rigorous adherence to formal grammar that we lose sight of the point of our discussion here? No. Do we need to be so focused on formal grammar that we lose sight of the beauty of linguistic change? No.
In his defense, I haven't turned my television on in two or three weeks. I have watched four shows on the Internet, one of which was cooking. Two of the others I skimmed through... I have this odd desire to at least know how Stargate ends having watched the previous fifteen years of the SGuniverse even if I don't sit through the mindnumbingly awful episodes in full (also did this with the last two seasons of Atlantis)--which boils down to the two most recent episodes watched at double speed with skipping to a grand total of less than forty minutes. The final program, NCIS is also something that I started watching a long while back and simply want to know how it ends.
Television grows boring over time... as do movies (haven't been to the theater and had to pay for it since Inception, though I did catch the latest Narnia flick on a free pre-release showing). Music can be had for free (weekly free downloads from amazon and itunes) and though this means my collection grows slowly and I have to sort through junk... who doesn't sort through junk in a regular album anyway? Life without the opiate of the modern entertainment industry is quite nice--we have a fairly extensive garden and have done a number of house projects this year.