Why would you want to remove a major part of your operating system? It reminds me of the user who deleted the c:\windows\system32 folder because he didn't use any 32bit apps...
Google Play is a lot more than just the App Store for grown up phones!
No. See my previous comment. Here in the UK lots of different shops sell asprin. It is cheap and generic.I have not heard anyone from our neighbouring countries saying that this is different although Germany seems to have a few limitations on OTC medicines anyway.
The use of "kleenex" must be specifically North America or even just the USA. The remaining 95% of humanity may not use the word this way. I imagine most English speakers would know what you meant and would proceed to pass you the pack of paper handkerchiefs/snot rags/hankies etc.
I would not be so sure that so many would know WTF a "Q-tip" is. Are they the things that fools keep sticking in their ears to the the dismay of doctors and audiologists?
Someone else mentioned "Coke" as a generic term. Again, its not. If I ask for Coke, I may be told "We don't have Coke. Will Pepsi be OK?" Personally, I'd rather have 7-Up anyway...
In the UK, "asprin" is pretty generic. Various pharmacy and supermarket chains sell their own brand. I don;t think anyone thinks there is any difference between any of them but they all come in their own branded boxes.
The Hywind project is nowhere near "North east Scotland". It looks to be near Aberdeen. That's east certainly but it is pretty close to the middle north-south of the mainland. The other Dot, next to that claims to be a place called Kingcardine. That is a hundred miles away. This may not seem much to people in the USA but it does here.
If the map is faulty, how reliable is the article?
... the difference between British English and American English when...
Putting the words "British" and "English" together in that way is redundant. If you just refer to a spelling or grammatical construction as being in the English language, , this implies that it is not "American English". Only if you want to include serial commas, drop the letter U from some words, replace S with Z and so on, do you need to identify it as something other than just plain English.
The attitudes towards alcohol in the USA are quite bizarre to most of the rest of the planet but we didn't have prohibition.
When I went to the USA with the British Army, I found that although I was old enough to be an ally with a rifle, I was not old enough to have a beer at 20! I was old enough to go in harms way but not old enough for Budweiser! Your troop transport aircraft was supposed to be dry. I have heard that your naval vessels are dry.
I have heard that your prohibition was brought about by a, misnamed, temperance movement. Certainly, there are some people who can only be teetotal or drunk. In most cases, this is a matter of education. The best way is to demystify it. I remember at college, you could tell the students who had never been allowed even a glass of shandy. They were the ones who propped up bars every night. They "didn't do morning lectures"! Your country is treating you the same...
Those people are Arab Muslims, and if they have to flee Syria, they should flee to countries in the neighbourhood that are not totally alien to them - Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, maybe even Turkey or Iran. They would find them more culturally compatible, and in Arab countries.
Not all brown people living in hot places are Arab or Muslim. Even if a particular refugee is both, there are types of Arab and types of Muslim.
Iran has always been keen to point out that it not an Arab country. They are not the same sort of Muslim as most of their neighbours to the north or west. Look up the words "Sunni" and "Shia" and think about 16th century European Catholics & Protestants but without always the same level of tolerance.
Instead, ONE EU member country - Germany - decides to take in everyone, and in the process, sours everybody
That depends on what you mean by "everybody". If you mean the right-wing press, which we have so much of, then certainly. If however you mean all the people, or even the vast majority numerically, not so. I have talked to some Germans who were very angry about the lies published as "news" saying what was going on in their country. Basically, it wasn't. We wouldn't know though because of the garbage we hear from our papers. I saw photographs of a male only train unloading but when did we see any of the women and children train another day? I suspect that there will be some on snopes.com but not in the Sun or the Daily Wail.
What Germany did was excellent and an example to us all. They have a little more money that we do at present, but perhaps about the same amount of free space. No we are not "full up" and we weren't broke either. The UK offer to resettle perhaps 8 per week was just silly and embarrassing/shaming.
but once it also started meaning the free flow of Jihadists b/w European countries,
These are people running away from jihadists. We seem to be able to grow our own anyway. I am more worried about those and you should be too.
How about patents not being renewable anyway?
They run for 17 years as they once did. For that period, the inventor has a state sanctioned and enforced monopoly.
In return for this, when the patent expires, it is made free to all. We probably shouldn't call it GPS as that is scary to the uninformable.
They only should be transferrable upon some shortening of the remaining period. 10% sounds like a good figure.
Example
In January 2020 "Bob" invents a new widget and immediately patents it - expiry january 2037
For 2 years, he sells the widget himself. Then sells it to "Peter". New expiry date July 2035. - 10% of the remaining 15 years deducted.
3 years later, Peter sells it to "Holdings Corp". 10% of the remaining 12 years is 14 months meaning expiry date now May 2034
The more changes of hands, the more is deducted. These two changes would fix most problems.
Just watch, Trump's response will either to be to continue to complain about the wind farm near his golf course in Scotland
He can complain as much as he likes. I come from a very rural part of Scotland. My friends and relatives are pleased about the wind turbines and there are plenty. There probably won't be many more large ones for a while but there are plenty smaller ones going up the whole time.
They don't spoil the view and they don't pollute. Bring it on!
But, but because of Freedom we must create and make comprehensive public health system and research with free prenatal guidance and support for mothers!
Thinking historically, they should do the same for some encyclopedias too. Solid information sources, throughout history, have
1. Fact checked with reality
2. Annoyed those in power without necessarily even realising it.
3. Discounted the rose tinted view of history popular with those trying to return us to it.
4. Been attacked, jailed and killed.
5. Had their information banned and destroyed as it did not conform to the official view.
When some group is attacked by the powerful for spreading the "wrong" information, we need to be aware that knowledge outweighs and outvalues ignorance.
"average liberal bias" we here in Canada say "yeah, cause that's what centre would be.."
That is how the US and Earth agree what is "liberal". The difference is that what is derided as Liberal in the land of the Fee is seen as in the middle ground - the meaning of "liberal" for the rest of us.
Orkney, a group of islands of the north coast of the UK is apparently now self sufficient in electricity from wind turbines. Yes we still have a diesel fired power station in case of problems and an undersea link to the UK national grid.
This is the future - solar, wind, whatever, not filthy fossil power pushed by some bad tempered businessman with dodgy hair.
Slashdot Mirror
"Look at all these apps.... That I never use or even have on my devices. I guess I'm not hip with what the kids use these days."
No, you are hipper because obviously you have an iPhone.
Paying the gullibility tax makes him hip?
Why would you want to remove a major part of your operating system? It reminds me of the user who deleted the c:\windows\system32 folder because he didn't use any 32bit apps...
Google Play is a lot more than just the App Store for grown up phones!
No. See my previous comment. Here in the UK lots of different shops sell asprin. It is cheap and generic.I have not heard anyone from our neighbouring countries saying that this is different although Germany seems to have a few limitations on OTC medicines anyway.
It was available in Android 4. The new version is less useful and harder to use.
The use of "kleenex" must be specifically North America or even just the USA. The remaining 95% of humanity may not use the word this way. I imagine most English speakers would know what you meant and would proceed to pass you the pack of paper handkerchiefs/snot rags/hankies etc.
I would not be so sure that so many would know WTF a "Q-tip" is. Are they the things that fools keep sticking in their ears to the the dismay of doctors and audiologists?
Someone else mentioned "Coke" as a generic term. Again, its not. If I ask for Coke, I may be told "We don't have Coke. Will Pepsi be OK?" Personally, I'd rather have 7-Up anyway...
In the UK, "asprin" is pretty generic. Various pharmacy and supermarket chains sell their own brand. I don;t think anyone thinks there is any difference between any of them but they all come in their own branded boxes.
Why would people have stopped developing for iOS first?
Self respect?
or a removable battery?
or a modern interface?
That suggests a future medical study. "How being LGBTQIA can affect sleep patterns."
The map has a couple of problems.
The Hywind project is nowhere near "North east Scotland". It looks to be near Aberdeen. That's east certainly but it is pretty close to the middle north-south of the mainland. The other Dot, next to that claims to be a place called Kingcardine. That is a hundred miles away. This may not seem much to people in the USA but it does here.
If the map is faulty, how reliable is the article?
Are they suggesting that the less capable the operating system, the more virus proof it is?
I think I can dig out a set of WfW floppies...
... the difference between British English and American English when...
Putting the words "British" and "English" together in that way is redundant. If you just refer to a spelling or grammatical construction as being in the English language, , this implies that it is not "American English". Only if you want to include serial commas, drop the letter U from some words, replace S with Z and so on, do you need to identify it as something other than just plain English.
This guy isn't bitching and moaning about people's grammar, he's just quietly going about fixing the signs...
We don't bitch at people. We are British!
The attitudes towards alcohol in the USA are quite bizarre to most of the rest of the planet but we didn't have prohibition.
When I went to the USA with the British Army, I found that although I was old enough to be an ally with a rifle, I was not old enough to have a beer at 20! I was old enough to go in harms way but not old enough for Budweiser! Your troop transport aircraft was supposed to be dry. I have heard that your naval vessels are dry.
I have heard that your prohibition was brought about by a, misnamed, temperance movement. Certainly, there are some people who can only be teetotal or drunk. In most cases, this is a matter of education. The best way is to demystify it. I remember at college, you could tell the students who had never been allowed even a glass of shandy. They were the ones who propped up bars every night. They "didn't do morning lectures"! Your country is treating you the same...
Those people are Arab Muslims, and if they have to flee Syria, they should flee to countries in the neighbourhood that are not totally alien to them - Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, maybe even Turkey or Iran. They would find them more culturally compatible, and in Arab countries.
Not all brown people living in hot places are Arab or Muslim. Even if a particular refugee is both, there are types of Arab and types of Muslim.
Iran has always been keen to point out that it not an Arab country. They are not the same sort of Muslim as most of their neighbours to the north or west. Look up the words "Sunni" and "Shia" and think about 16th century European Catholics & Protestants but without always the same level of tolerance.
Instead, ONE EU member country - Germany - decides to take in everyone, and in the process, sours everybody
That depends on what you mean by "everybody". If you mean the right-wing press, which we have so much of, then certainly. If however you mean all the people, or even the vast majority numerically, not so. I have talked to some Germans who were very angry about the lies published as "news" saying what was going on in their country. Basically, it wasn't. We wouldn't know though because of the garbage we hear from our papers. I saw photographs of a male only train unloading but when did we see any of the women and children train another day? I suspect that there will be some on snopes.com but not in the Sun or the Daily Wail.
What Germany did was excellent and an example to us all. They have a little more money that we do at present, but perhaps about the same amount of free space. No we are not "full up" and we weren't broke either. The UK offer to resettle perhaps 8 per week was just silly and embarrassing/shaming.
but once it also started meaning the free flow of Jihadists b/w European countries,
These are people running away from jihadists. We seem to be able to grow our own anyway. I am more worried about those and you should be too.
"Carefree grasshopper" also has on average more money for retirement (or self-insuring against bad health for that matter)
Except that they are using it to pay mortgages, rent, fuel, food or whatever.
How about patents not being renewable anyway?
They run for 17 years as they once did. For that period, the inventor has a state sanctioned and enforced monopoly.
In return for this, when the patent expires, it is made free to all. We probably shouldn't call it GPS as that is scary to the uninformable.
They only should be transferrable upon some shortening of the remaining period. 10% sounds like a good figure.
Example
In January 2020 "Bob" invents a new widget and immediately patents it - expiry january 2037
For 2 years, he sells the widget himself. Then sells it to "Peter". New expiry date July 2035. - 10% of the remaining 15 years deducted.
3 years later, Peter sells it to "Holdings Corp". 10% of the remaining 12 years is 14 months meaning expiry date now May 2034
The more changes of hands, the more is deducted. These two changes would fix most problems.
Just watch, Trump's response will either to be to continue to complain about the wind farm near his golf course in Scotland
He can complain as much as he likes. I come from a very rural part of Scotland. My friends and relatives are pleased about the wind turbines and there are plenty. There probably won't be many more large ones for a while but there are plenty smaller ones going up the whole time.
They don't spoil the view and they don't pollute. Bring it on!
Moral of the story? High CO2 levels are just fine for life on earth.
Not so good for humans who increasingly want to live in vast concrete, steel and glass deserts.
Not so good for those deserts that will be flooded when the sea rises to levels not seen for millenia (or longer).
Not so good for the vast mega farms needed to support humanity as they are flattened by the stormier and unpredictable weather,
Agreed. It cannot.
But, but because of Freedom we must create and make comprehensive public health system and research with free prenatal guidance and support for mothers!
FTFY
Thinking historically, they should do the same for some encyclopedias too. Solid information sources, throughout history, have
1. Fact checked with reality
2. Annoyed those in power without necessarily even realising it.
3. Discounted the rose tinted view of history popular with those trying to return us to it.
4. Been attacked, jailed and killed.
5. Had their information banned and destroyed as it did not conform to the official view.
When some group is attacked by the powerful for spreading the "wrong" information, we need to be aware that knowledge outweighs and outvalues ignorance.
"average liberal bias" we here in Canada say "yeah, cause that's what centre would be.."
That is how the US and Earth agree what is "liberal". The difference is that what is derided as Liberal in the land of the Fee is seen as in the middle ground - the meaning of "liberal" for the rest of us.
Orkney, a group of islands of the north coast of the UK is apparently now self sufficient in electricity from wind turbines. Yes we still have a diesel fired power station in case of problems and an undersea link to the UK national grid.
This is the future - solar, wind, whatever, not filthy fossil power pushed by some bad tempered businessman with dodgy hair.
Could someone ask him to dump the TTIP as well?
As far as the world is allowed to know, it is pretty much the same thing but across the Atlantic instead.