Doubtful. Back in the middle ages, the question arose if elves and giants could be baptized. They'd been sending missionaries out to the northern reaches of Europe, where everyone knew giants and elves lived. So the pope considered it, and said, sure. They could be baptized, too, if they wanted it.
Is there a Papal Bull on baptism of (internet) Trolls? I suspect he's cool with that.
Bigger question. This Baptism thing will not take off unless you can train some priests and send them back home. And most of our local religions have a serious anti-female pro-male bias. So what happens if the intelligent, baptized xenofungus wants to become a priest but their species does not have a biological male concept, unlikely as that may be?
Then they'll convert to Indic religions like Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism instead, where the concepts of male and female mater a lot less;p
Depends on the Religion; Hinduism for example would say yes (as do all living beings in that belief system), from TFA it appears Catholics would disagree and place humans (and now intelligent aliens) as special.
No, The Sun & I'm guessing they copied it from his local newspaper; besides the BBC are reporting on it now, so it's probably true. Just not quite in the way that the sun reported it.
His local Newspaper (most likely where the Sun stole the story from) is heavier on facts; there are also links to the BBC's reporting in other threads on this page
So we actually learn more about our own media from this story than the story itself. A responsible media wouldn't publish a story like this until they actually had the FACTS. What did the kid really say? He is obviously lying in the quote. This is a biased one sided story with no fact checking or research. It's an inflammatory headline grab trying to manipulate their audience. They are just looking to grab eyes with headlines that have no meaning.
His local Newspaper is heavier on facts than the Sun; so what we actually learn is that the Sun doesn't report news properly, but we knew that already.
Do you really think this happened? or do you think someone taught to 'teach the controversy' and not facts just found a piece of crap from the Sun and submitted it?
I suppose a country where a 17 year old has a drinking problem is much, much better.
Where'd you get the fat that he has a drinking problem from? Legal drinking age here is 18, so naturally lots of 17 year olds have easy access to alcohol via 18 year old friends and getting drunk occasionally doesn't make him an alcoholic.
I love Jack Thompson. How many other jokes do you know that are not only always good for some fresh laughs when you least expect it, but write their own punchline?
There's always Duke Nukem Forever - I think that the combination of both examples say something profound about the games industry; I have no idea what, though.
people might compare "Champagne from Champagne" with "Champagne from California" and decide that the difference in taste (if any) is not worth the difference in cost.
I can already compare sparkling wine from Champagne with sparkling wine from California, as it happens I generally prefer Californian wine (both in terms of taste & cost) over the French but I don't pretend it's from France.
American wine producers should just let the wine do the talking; they don't need to hang on to the coat tails of a small french village. Why not name your wines after the areas in California where they are made? As even professional wine tasters are grudgingly accepting new world wines to often be better than their old world counterparts, in 100 years time this debate could be reversed; but only if the Americans play their cards right.
You're never going to get a jury of your peers, anyway. Every jury is composed of people too stupid or unwilling to find an excuse to be excused.
Here in the UK we've basically abolished the whole jury selection process - if you answer "yes" to the question "can you give both sides a fair hearing"*, you're in. Besides, IMO Jury service is a civic duty like voting; you *should* be "unwilling to find an excuse to be excused".
*Noth the exact question, which IIRC obviously talks about the crown & the defendant instead of "both sides".
Here in the UK it's the opposite - people I listened to who've sat on a jury have said things along the lines of "if you're guilty take a jury, if you're innocent take a judge" because their experiences have led them to believe that juries are easier to influence and (in general) reluctant to convict.
The basic idea is that time is a dimension. Do you say that before the Big Bang that length always existed? Width or depth? If not, then why time? There is no 'before the Big Bang' because you need time to explain that concept
I can't speak for the GP, but we can still ask the question "what caused the big bang" if we ever get an answer to that question, we will then as what caused that and so on. At the moment, even if it's not Turtles all the way down, they stretch for as far as we can currently see.
It would’ve been easy if I hadn’t tried MM/DD/YY, MM/DD/YYYY, and DD/MM/YYYY before finally giving up.
The helpful suggestion “date” when you type “after” could stand to be a little more specific.
I agree it could be more helpful, after I tried DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY (the two that cover 99% of the world's usage) and found they didn't work I just did a main Google search for "Gmail search date range" (or something similar, I forget).
I couldn't be bothered to work it out myself when I guessed millions of other people had already done so, but research is my sepeciality.
It's called the "Inbox" for a reason. It should only be used for messages that have arrived and need your attention. Everything else should be filed accordingly. GMail makes mail organization stupidly easy. Just create labels and apply as many of them as you need to each message. Put a star or other flags on things that need follow-up. And when you're done with something, archive it.
This is exactly what I do, I've got a gazillion different labels, only very few emails actually make it to my inbox after filters are applied.
All these new GMail features are unnecessary.:(
I wouldn't say that, if they can even sort the few emails in my inbox then I'm all for it.
Finding items around by date (especially when you only know the approximate date)
That's easy, in the search box type: "from:abc@example.com after:YYYY/MM/DD before:YYYY/MM/DD" (quotes not included) you can also use it with a whole bunch of other search options: http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_find_mail.htm - you certainly shouldn't 'lose' an email from gmail's archive if you know anything at all about it - Google is good at search.
So it would be perfectly okay for me to write a suite of novels entitled:-
Angus Pigsnot and the Philosopher's Stone
Angus Pigsnot and the Chamber of Secrets
Angus Pigsnot and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Angus Pigsnot and the Goblet of Fire
Angus Pigsnot and the Order of the Phoenix
Angus Pigsnot and the Half-Blood Prince
Angus Pigsnot and the Deathly Hallows
And J.K.Rowling cannot get even the slightest bit upset ? After all, the "main" trademark is not being abused.
Now perhaps, you see how silly your argument sounds ?
bad example, as long as you wrote your own material (i.e your story wasn't about a teen Wizard - unless it's a parody), you'd be fine; book titles fall into copyright law and usually cannot be copyrighted. Furthermore, the Philosopher's Stone existed long before JK Rowling used it, and "chamber of secrets", "goblet of fire", "Order of the Phoenix" etc. are really quite generic concepts so can't be TMed - about the only one that isn't is the Prisoner of Azkaban, as Azkaban is a fictional place. If you don't believe me, just look at the number of Novels and films called Night Watch, for example.
That aside, I think that this is a classic case of Trademark law being applied correctly.
The fine may have been not the best decision, but shutting them down I can see.
Getting a permit retroactively doesn't do you any good, even if possible because the things required by the permit tend to be pretty specific. For example, just at my little barbecue (and granted, local laws will vary but these are pretty common)...[snip]... because the rules and requirements would have gotten exponentially more complicated had we moved away from simply serving prepackaged and/or precooked foods.
Was this a barbecue at home, or a commercial one? Because none of those rules apply here in the UK for a private barbecue, if it's to raise money for charity or other organisation - keep it invite\ticket only & you don't need that stuff.
Here, rules like that kick in only when you're going to host a public event, even then no where near that much regulation because you'd get the papers shouting "Health and safety gone mad" if you effectively regulated people out of preparing food on site at a fairs and other events. I don't want to sound like a daily mail reader, but what ever happened to common sense?
As far as I understand it, there weren't any threats
The article posted up the thread says she was threatened with a $500 fine - IMO what should have happened was an official should have had a quiet word in mum & dad's ear, telling them to close up after the next batch of lemonade was finished or let them get the permit retroactively, oh and here's the forms needed.
That was kind of my point; I suspect that even rural China has a high population density along major routes, so phone signal shouldn't be a problem.
Off topic, with the regular stories of "unprepared person rescued after texting friend\posting to facebook" and so on, I'm surprised that the Highlands have low signal coverage - it seems like everyone is sending messages from them; on an even more off-topic but related note, I once sent an email from a village halfway up the foothills of the Himalayas, admittedly from an internet cafe, but still, 'net connections are everywhere now (even if it was really slow).
You missed my point - it's not just city\not city for mobile reception, but population density comes into it as well. I suspect that China has a high enough population density so that the drivers would get signal all the way.
Whilst that may be true for your country, and perhaps China, here in SE England I can get a signal almost anywhere, including rural areas. Unfortunately it's sometimes only Basic GSM and unfortunately not full 3G HSDPA (or sometimes not even GPRS!), but I've yet to find somewhere on a major motorway without a mobile signal.
That's because almost invariably, the value of the car goes down. Cars are liabilities. You don't pay taxes unless it's worth more than you paid for it; then it's capital gains.
See my related post. How many people are going to declare £1500 capital gains? Seriously it's only £1500 quid, no one in the UK would go through the hastle of filling in a tax return for £1500 quid (99% of UK tax payers don't need to fill tax returns in).
EDIT:
Seems I was even more wrong than I thought, here in the UK, your car is exempt from capital gains. Still, my point stands, people do all sorts of private deals for over £1500 without declaring it in this country - do you really think that brickie is paying tax for the cash in hand job? No one cares because it would cost far more to recover the tax than it would gain.
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Doubtful. Back in the middle ages, the question arose if elves and giants could be baptized. They'd been sending missionaries out to the northern reaches of Europe, where everyone knew giants and elves lived. So the pope considered it, and said, sure. They could be baptized, too, if they wanted it.
Is there a Papal Bull on baptism of (internet) Trolls? I suspect he's cool with that.
Bigger question. This Baptism thing will not take off unless you can train some priests and send them back home. And most of our local religions have a serious anti-female pro-male bias. So what happens if the intelligent, baptized xenofungus wants to become a priest but their species does not have a biological male concept, unlikely as that may be?
Then they'll convert to Indic religions like Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism instead, where the concepts of male and female mater a lot less ;p
An octopus has tentacles; does it have a soul?
Depends on the Religion; Hinduism for example would say yes (as do all living beings in that belief system), from TFA it appears Catholics would disagree and place humans (and now intelligent aliens) as special.
It was on Crossfire CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
The fucking son?
No, The Sun & I'm guessing they copied it from his local newspaper; besides the BBC are reporting on it now, so it's probably true. Just not quite in the way that the sun reported it.
His local Newspaper (most likely where the Sun stole the story from) is heavier on facts; there are also links to the BBC's reporting in other threads on this page
So we actually learn more about our own media from this story than the story itself. A responsible media wouldn't publish a story like this until they actually had the FACTS. What did the kid really say? He is obviously lying in the quote. This is a biased one sided story with no fact checking or research. It's an inflammatory headline grab trying to manipulate their audience. They are just looking to grab eyes with headlines that have no meaning.
His local Newspaper is heavier on facts than the Sun; so what we actually learn is that the Sun doesn't report news properly, but we knew that already.
Do you really think this happened? or do you think someone taught to 'teach the controversy' and not facts just found a piece of crap from the Sun and submitted it?
Nah, it really happened - the Sun ripped it from his local newspaper: http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Teen-is-banned-from-USA-over-Obama-hate-email.htm
I suppose a country where a 17 year old has a drinking problem is much, much better.
Where'd you get the fat that he has a drinking problem from?
Legal drinking age here is 18, so naturally lots of 17 year olds have easy access to alcohol via 18 year old friends and getting drunk occasionally doesn't make him an alcoholic.
I love Jack Thompson. How many other jokes do you know that are not only always good for some fresh laughs when you least expect it, but write their own punchline?
There's always Duke Nukem Forever - I think that the combination of both examples say something profound about the games industry; I have no idea what, though.
Failed to read the article did you?
Hi, my Slashdot user number is several orders of magnitude lower than yours.
IIRC The UID for all ACs is 666, so he is actually posting from a lower one than you.
people might compare "Champagne from Champagne" with "Champagne from California" and decide that the difference in taste (if any) is not worth the difference in cost.
I can already compare sparkling wine from Champagne with sparkling wine from California, as it happens I generally prefer Californian wine (both in terms of taste & cost) over the French but I don't pretend it's from France.
American wine producers should just let the wine do the talking; they don't need to hang on to the coat tails of a small french village. Why not name your wines after the areas in California where they are made? As even professional wine tasters are grudgingly accepting new world wines to often be better than their old world counterparts, in 100 years time this debate could be reversed; but only if the Americans play their cards right.
You're never going to get a jury of your peers, anyway. Every jury is composed of people too stupid or unwilling to find an excuse to be excused.
Here in the UK we've basically abolished the whole jury selection process - if you answer "yes" to the question "can you give both sides a fair hearing"*, you're in. Besides, IMO Jury service is a civic duty like voting; you *should* be "unwilling to find an excuse to be excused".
*Noth the exact question, which IIRC obviously talks about the crown & the defendant instead of "both sides".
At least that's how it is here in WA, USA, not sure about other parts of the world.
He's right for here in the UK, at least about the principles - I don't know about length of sentence, but it sounds about right.
Here in the UK it's the opposite - people I listened to who've sat on a jury have said things along the lines of "if you're guilty take a jury, if you're innocent take a judge" because their experiences have led them to believe that juries are easier to influence and (in general) reluctant to convict.
The basic idea is that time is a dimension. Do you say that before the Big Bang that length always existed? Width or depth? If not, then why time? There is no 'before the Big Bang' because you need time to explain that concept
I can't speak for the GP, but we can still ask the question "what caused the big bang" if we ever get an answer to that question, we will then as what caused that and so on. At the moment, even if it's not Turtles all the way down, they stretch for as far as we can currently see.
It would’ve been easy if I hadn’t tried MM/DD/YY, MM/DD/YYYY, and DD/MM/YYYY before finally giving up.
The helpful suggestion “date” when you type “after” could stand to be a little more specific.
I agree it could be more helpful, after I tried DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY (the two that cover 99% of the world's usage) and found they didn't work I just did a main Google search for "Gmail search date range" (or something similar, I forget).
I couldn't be bothered to work it out myself when I guessed millions of other people had already done so, but research is my sepeciality.
It's called the "Inbox" for a reason. It should only be used for messages that have arrived and need your attention. Everything else should be filed accordingly. GMail makes mail organization stupidly easy. Just create labels and apply as many of them as you need to each message. Put a star or other flags on things that need follow-up. And when you're done with something, archive it.
This is exactly what I do, I've got a gazillion different labels, only very few emails actually make it to my inbox after filters are applied.
All these new GMail features are unnecessary. :(
I wouldn't say that, if they can even sort the few emails in my inbox then I'm all for it.
Finding items around by date (especially when you only know the approximate date)
That's easy, in the search box type: "from:abc@example.com after:YYYY/MM/DD before:YYYY/MM/DD" (quotes not included) you can also use it with a whole bunch of other search options: http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_find_mail.htm - you certainly shouldn't 'lose' an email from gmail's archive if you know anything at all about it - Google is good at search.
So it would be perfectly okay for me to write a suite of novels entitled :-
Angus Pigsnot and the Philosopher's Stone Angus Pigsnot and the Chamber of Secrets Angus Pigsnot and the Prisoner of Azkaban Angus Pigsnot and the Goblet of Fire Angus Pigsnot and the Order of the Phoenix Angus Pigsnot and the Half-Blood Prince Angus Pigsnot and the Deathly Hallows
And J.K.Rowling cannot get even the slightest bit upset ? After all, the "main" trademark is not being abused.
Now perhaps, you see how silly your argument sounds ?
bad example, as long as you wrote your own material (i.e your story wasn't about a teen Wizard - unless it's a parody), you'd be fine; book titles fall into copyright law and usually cannot be copyrighted. Furthermore, the Philosopher's Stone existed long before JK Rowling used it, and "chamber of secrets", "goblet of fire", "Order of the Phoenix" etc. are really quite generic concepts so can't be TMed - about the only one that isn't is the Prisoner of Azkaban, as Azkaban is a fictional place. If you don't believe me, just look at the number of Novels and films called Night Watch, for example.
That aside, I think that this is a classic case of Trademark law being applied correctly.
The fine may have been not the best decision, but shutting them down I can see. Getting a permit retroactively doesn't do you any good, even if possible because the things required by the permit tend to be pretty specific. For example, just at my little barbecue (and granted, local laws will vary but these are pretty common) ...[snip]... because the rules and requirements would have gotten exponentially more complicated had we moved away from simply serving prepackaged and/or precooked foods.
Was this a barbecue at home, or a commercial one? Because none of those rules apply here in the UK for a private barbecue, if it's to raise money for charity or other organisation - keep it invite\ticket only & you don't need that stuff.
Here, rules like that kick in only when you're going to host a public event, even then no where near that much regulation because you'd get the papers shouting "Health and safety gone mad" if you effectively regulated people out of preparing food on site at a fairs and other events. I don't want to sound like a daily mail reader, but what ever happened to common sense?
As far as I understand it, there weren't any threats
The article posted up the thread says she was threatened with a $500 fine - IMO what should have happened was an official should have had a quiet word in mum & dad's ear, telling them to close up after the next batch of lemonade was finished or let them get the permit retroactively, oh and here's the forms needed.
That was kind of my point; I suspect that even rural China has a high population density along major routes, so phone signal shouldn't be a problem.
Off topic, with the regular stories of "unprepared person rescued after texting friend\posting to facebook" and so on, I'm surprised that the Highlands have low signal coverage - it seems like everyone is sending messages from them; on an even more off-topic but related note, I once sent an email from a village halfway up the foothills of the Himalayas, admittedly from an internet cafe, but still, 'net connections are everywhere now (even if it was really slow).
You missed my point - it's not just city\not city for mobile reception, but population density comes into it as well. I suspect that China has a high enough population density so that the drivers would get signal all the way.
Cell phones tend not to work outside cities,
Whilst that may be true for your country, and perhaps China, here in SE England I can get a signal almost anywhere, including rural areas. Unfortunately it's sometimes only Basic GSM and unfortunately not full 3G HSDPA (or sometimes not even GPRS!), but I've yet to find somewhere on a major motorway without a mobile signal.
That's because almost invariably, the value of the car goes down. Cars are liabilities. You don't pay taxes unless it's worth more than you paid for it; then it's capital gains.
See my related post. How many people are going to declare £1500 capital gains? Seriously it's only £1500 quid, no one in the UK would go through the hastle of filling in a tax return for £1500 quid (99% of UK tax payers don't need to fill tax returns in).
EDIT:
Seems I was even more wrong than I thought, here in the UK, your car is exempt from capital gains. Still, my point stands, people do all sorts of private deals for over £1500 without declaring it in this country - do you really think that brickie is paying tax for the cash in hand job? No one cares because it would cost far more to recover the tax than it would gain.