Authors don't have control over their work now. There are plenty of spoofs, fanfics, and porn versions of content that the authors hate. Do you think we should ban them too?
"Reptile" is such a broad, catch-all classification it's almost worthless. Dimetrodon, for example, has always been classified as a reptile, but is more closely related to humans than it is to any modern reptiles. Crocodiles are much more closely related to birds (and dinosaurs) than they are to other reptiles like lizards and snakes.
Ok, I'm going to stop replying to myself soon. It used to be brewed in north London between 1936 and the mid 2000's. And I agree with AC above about its "real" beer credentials being a little dubious now.
Oops, I'm wrong (about Guinness). All the Guinness consumed in the UK (and the US) is brewed in Dublin, apparently. I wonder where I got the notion it was brewed in England.
Nearly all the lager drunk in the UK is foreign - Carling is the only major exception. Some of the foreign beer like Fosters is brewed in the UK under license though. It is originally Australian, though, obviously.
Nearly all the "real" beer drunk in the UK is English, Guinness being the only major exception, though this is brewed in the UK too (though I assume Guinness drunk in Northern Ireland is brewed in Ireland, but I may be wrong).
For example, a Ferrari 458 with a paying passenger or a Kia Ceed with no paying passengers should not have different insurance premium for insurance covering damage to 3rd parties.
If every Ferrari 458 even previously driven on the road had killed a third party pedestrian, and no Kia Ceed had ever been in an accident, do you really think they should have identical third party insurance rates?
I realise this example is extreme, but there are some makes and models of cars that have higher risk to third parties than others. Charging more for third party insurance with these seems perfectly rational to me.
However, I do agree that the system has got problems. A few years back I asked for a third party quote for a used car I had just bought. It seemed a lot for what I was getting (just third party for me), so I asked if there was anything I could do to reduce it. It turned out that a fully comprehensive policy with my entire family as named drivers was about 200 pound cheaper. Yes, cheaper. I even told them none of my family were ever likely to drive the car, but they didn't care (three times they have driven it now, IIRC).
I agree the text is way too large for viewing on a monitor
Really? It's perhaps a little too large, but not way too large. I sit about 4 foot away from a 22 inch 1920*1200 monitor - the entire web page is only two screens of text or so at this resolution.
Sapphire ***IS*** extremely true scratch resistant (as in the surface atoms resist displacement) because sapphire is BRITTLE.
Well... no. Sapphire is extremely scratch resistant and sapphire is relatively brittle. Just because something is scratch resistant does not mean it has to be brittle. Gorilla glass is, for example, both harder and tougher than normal glass. Diamond is both harder and tougher (iirc) than sapphire.
Third, in case you haven't notice, it is now more than a century we haven't discovered something that revolutionized the physics like relativity and quantum mechanics.
To be fair, quantum field theory was more recent. Also, relativity and quantum mechanics did _not_ revolutionise physics when they were first posited. They revolutionised physics when they became more accepted within the field. There could be a crucial major discovery that somebody made in 1995 that we'll only actually really notice and be able to prove in five years time. A year later, we'll be saying that there hasn't been a significant discovery in physics in the last quarter of a century.
Just because Apple is saying that the OS comes free doesn't make it so.
Try not paying the VAT (or sales tax) when you sell a £20,000 loaf of bread that comes with a free car to carry it in, and see what the tax man will say about that.
A "biological population" is not one person, thus your example of comparing yourself to your parents does not show evolution by the very definition you're using.
If you believe that you are different than your parents then you believe in evolution.
If you believe that all that is required as proof for evolution is being different, you're setting the bar a little low.
Also, evolution existed quite a while before sexual reproduction did... sexual reproduction had to evolve.
I asked some people about that, saying that in the UK the victim would be blamed for making their stuff easy to steal.
What? I live in the UK, and leave my house unlocked all the time. I also leave my car unlocked all the time.
For the former, it helps that I have a 35kg dog (who is a complete wuss, but potential burglars don't know that). For the latter... I'd prefer a thief to open the door than to smash the window to get to something inside. If there's nothing inside, no harm done.
If these celebrities had not taken the pictures of themselves and shared them online they would not now be in the public.
This is not blaming the victim.
If you cross the road without looking carefully (which in most of the world is perfectly legal) and get hit by a speeding drunk driver, it's not blaming the victim to advise people to look carefully before they cross the road.
Is he only allowed to wear clothing that can fit inside of a Tic-Tac box? Is his entire purpose in the story to tell the female protagonist how awesome she is and then get killed at a dramatic moment so that she will have something to be angry about? And are there copies of him in half of the movies, books, video games and TV shows on the market?
"Barbarian" fits two of these.
Besides, I can't remember the last game I played that does portray women like this. Can you think of a game in which a woman fits all three of these?
Which is one thing they'd obviously lose, in terms of work.
The UK has had a long history of subsidising Scotland. I'm not that fussed if they stay or go, save for the fact that the border may be more difficult.
You can't definitively tell the difference between nine and ten. However, nine is generally a little longer and less abrupt. I'd guess that I could get over 90% accuracy lip reading people who are just saying nine and ten. General speech is a different matter.
I can lip read a little (my hearing was awful as a child). I still always look at people's mouths when I'm talking with people to get extra information - my hearing's currently worse than average, but not too bad - I have trouble with background noise.
There have been some times watching quiz shows when I've read the contestant's lips (when they're conferring) to get the answer they're going to say before they've said it, and repeated it to the room. That being said, I agree it's far from an exact science.
I _hate_ (hate hate and hate again) audio and video being out of sync, because it completely throws me. I can't watch video with bad audio syncronisation, I just have to listen to it.
With regards to the Twilight bad lip reading example, I could tell that some words were off, but not too many. Like I said, it's not an exact science, and I agree that 1% false positive would be very optimistic.
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Authors don't have control over their work now. There are plenty of spoofs, fanfics, and porn versions of content that the authors hate. Do you think we should ban them too?
"Reptile" is such a broad, catch-all classification it's almost worthless. Dimetrodon, for example, has always been classified as a reptile, but is more closely related to humans than it is to any modern reptiles. Crocodiles are much more closely related to birds (and dinosaurs) than they are to other reptiles like lizards and snakes.
Ok, I'm going to stop replying to myself soon. It used to be brewed in north London between 1936 and the mid 2000's. And I agree with AC above about its "real" beer credentials being a little dubious now.
Oops, I'm wrong (about Guinness). All the Guinness consumed in the UK (and the US) is brewed in Dublin, apparently. I wonder where I got the notion it was brewed in England.
Nearly all the lager drunk in the UK is foreign - Carling is the only major exception. Some of the foreign beer like Fosters is brewed in the UK under license though. It is originally Australian, though, obviously.
Nearly all the "real" beer drunk in the UK is English, Guinness being the only major exception, though this is brewed in the UK too (though I assume Guinness drunk in Northern Ireland is brewed in Ireland, but I may be wrong).
1920x1280? When was that a standard?
Did you mean 1920x1200?
Why?
How will you using Sony's products without paying for them hurt them?
Really? If you could choose your penis size, what would it be? If everyone could choose their penis size, what would your choice be then?
I'm sure if those living in sub-saharan africa were to design their own intelligence tests, it would favor them instead.
Are there any intelligence tests in which people from sub-saharan Africa do come out on top?
For example, a Ferrari 458 with a paying passenger or a Kia Ceed with no paying passengers should not have different insurance premium for insurance covering damage to 3rd parties.
If every Ferrari 458 even previously driven on the road had killed a third party pedestrian, and no Kia Ceed had ever been in an accident, do you really think they should have identical third party insurance rates?
I realise this example is extreme, but there are some makes and models of cars that have higher risk to third parties than others. Charging more for third party insurance with these seems perfectly rational to me.
However, I do agree that the system has got problems. A few years back I asked for a third party quote for a used car I had just bought. It seemed a lot for what I was getting (just third party for me), so I asked if there was anything I could do to reduce it. It turned out that a fully comprehensive policy with my entire family as named drivers was about 200 pound cheaper. Yes, cheaper. I even told them none of my family were ever likely to drive the car, but they didn't care (three times they have driven it now, IIRC).
I haven't really paid attention the last few years, I don't know where they're plastering the ads these days.
The Internet.
I agree the text is way too large for viewing on a monitor
Really? It's perhaps a little too large, but not way too large. I sit about 4 foot away from a 22 inch 1920*1200 monitor - the entire web page is only two screens of text or so at this resolution.
Sapphire ***IS*** extremely true scratch resistant (as in the surface atoms resist displacement) because sapphire is BRITTLE.
Well... no. Sapphire is extremely scratch resistant and sapphire is relatively brittle. Just because something is scratch resistant does not mean it has to be brittle. Gorilla glass is, for example, both harder and tougher than normal glass. Diamond is both harder and tougher (iirc) than sapphire.
Third, in case you haven't notice, it is now more than a century we haven't discovered something that revolutionized the physics like relativity and quantum mechanics.
To be fair, quantum field theory was more recent. Also, relativity and quantum mechanics did _not_ revolutionise physics when they were first posited. They revolutionised physics when they became more accepted within the field. There could be a crucial major discovery that somebody made in 1995 that we'll only actually really notice and be able to prove in five years time. A year later, we'll be saying that there hasn't been a significant discovery in physics in the last quarter of a century.
But again, FTL is different. We have never once observed an object travel faster than the speed of light.
We have, in some ways. Light was slowed to 17 metres per second in 1998, and below 10 metres per second in 2004. People can run that fast.
I know, the speed of light in a vacuum is what was being referenced.
Just because Apple is saying that the OS comes free doesn't make it so.
Try not paying the VAT (or sales tax) when you sell a £20,000 loaf of bread that comes with a free car to carry it in, and see what the tax man will say about that.
A "biological population" is not one person, thus your example of comparing yourself to your parents does not show evolution by the very definition you're using.
If you believe that you are different than your parents then you believe in evolution.
If you believe that all that is required as proof for evolution is being different, you're setting the bar a little low.
Also, evolution existed quite a while before sexual reproduction did... sexual reproduction had to evolve.
I asked some people about that, saying that in the UK the victim would be blamed for making their stuff easy to steal.
What? I live in the UK, and leave my house unlocked all the time. I also leave my car unlocked all the time.
For the former, it helps that I have a 35kg dog (who is a complete wuss, but potential burglars don't know that). For the latter... I'd prefer a thief to open the door than to smash the window to get to something inside. If there's nothing inside, no harm done.
If these celebrities had not taken the pictures of themselves and shared them online they would not now be in the public.
This is not blaming the victim.
If you cross the road without looking carefully (which in most of the world is perfectly legal) and get hit by a speeding drunk driver, it's not blaming the victim to advise people to look carefully before they cross the road.
Is he only allowed to wear clothing that can fit inside of a Tic-Tac box? Is his entire purpose in the story to tell the female protagonist how awesome she is and then get killed at a dramatic moment so that she will have something to be angry about? And are there copies of him in half of the movies, books, video games and TV shows on the market?
"Barbarian" fits two of these.
Besides, I can't remember the last game I played that does portray women like this. Can you think of a game in which a woman fits all three of these?
Northumbria is a much older kingdom than Scotland (it includes part of Scotland too).
Which is one thing they'd obviously lose, in terms of work.
The UK has had a long history of subsidising Scotland. I'm not that fussed if they stay or go, save for the fact that the border may be more difficult.
Come on. It's simple. "You're"="You are". You can do it. I know you can figure it out.
You can't definitively tell the difference between nine and ten. However, nine is generally a little longer and less abrupt. I'd guess that I could get over 90% accuracy lip reading people who are just saying nine and ten. General speech is a different matter.
I can lip read a little (my hearing was awful as a child). I still always look at people's mouths when I'm talking with people to get extra information - my hearing's currently worse than average, but not too bad - I have trouble with background noise.
There have been some times watching quiz shows when I've read the contestant's lips (when they're conferring) to get the answer they're going to say before they've said it, and repeated it to the room. That being said, I agree it's far from an exact science.
I _hate_ (hate hate and hate again) audio and video being out of sync, because it completely throws me. I can't watch video with bad audio syncronisation, I just have to listen to it.
With regards to the Twilight bad lip reading example, I could tell that some words were off, but not too many. Like I said, it's not an exact science, and I agree that 1% false positive would be very optimistic.