I think you're quoting a fake article - because it's the Manchester Guardian, not the London Guardian. See wikipedia for more: "Until 1959 it was called The Manchester Guardian, reflecting its provincial origins; the paper is still occasionally referred to by this name, especially in North America, although it has been based in London since 1964 (with printing facilities in both Manchester and London)."
Link to your source please?
The trouble with those Russians...
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...they really take this "free market" philosophy way too seriously;-) hehehe it's all kind of ironic that the Russians are the guys who are funding their space program through space tourism, commercial tie-ups, etc, and the Americans are the ones who don't like the idea of private money in space? Who'd have thought it 20 years ago?
... a few small towns in Europe you may have heard of;-)
Or check out a few other European locations on the map. I'm sure google will eventually come up with them, the satellite data is there. But for now, www.multimap.com is the best European option online.
Exactly. Spend a couple of dollars on a cutting board or a piece of ply. Remember your physics primary school lessons and think about which materials insulate. How long before some clever company persuades schmucks that they are selling "custom real wood(TM) insulating laptop boards", i.e. varnished $2 dollar bread boards for $100. Doh!!!!
For those of us in the old world, I reckon the possible Alexander connection is the interesting bit. Maybe a re-titling of the headline to reflect this? 4th century BCE walls and remains? got them all over the place. Maybe the date is more exciting to folks whose archaeological records only stretch back a couple of hundred years;-)
Why do people IM instead of pick up their office phone? because they want to "talk" silently in some cases. I'd be so much happier if people didn't discuss their business/ personal lives at top volume in train carriages. I'm sure there are other functionalities of IM in preference to voice...
Plus price - if it's priced at less than voice calls, it will take off like SMS did. People have quit long "conversations" via SMS.
I'd love to hear an anthropologist or psychologist's view on this. Groups of up to 4 or so people sharing a space sounds great, something primaeval about small groups of people sharing the same rhythyms, having quiet times, having social times, informally worked out. Collaboration indeed prospers in groups.But more than 4 or so is hell in my experience.
I work in an open plan space with up to 20 people and senior bosses offices round the outside; constant distractions, noise, people on different work patterns.
At any one time somebody is trying to get into a deep calm silent work headspace, and somebody else has just finished a major task and really wants to burn off some energy and enagage others in social banter. I don't blame anybody, I just think it's natural that if you put 20 people together then they will be in different headspaces at any one time so conflict will occur. We've tried informal rules (e.g. go to the coffee machine if you want to chat) but they just don't work that well.
But why does a red cross sign mean that to you? Because a lot of very brave people have worked really hard and in many cases put their lives on the line for over a hundred years and argued with governments and military organisations until the sign became a universally recognised symbol for this activity. Two hundred years ago if some guy was wandering around on a battlefield with a red cross you'd probably be wondering why he was wearing a reversed Swiss flag and go ahead and shoot him without a second thought. Look at the mixed opinions right now about the Red Cross adopting a red diamond as a neutral symbol for some Middle East conflicts - but in a hundred years time I don't think people will give it a second thought - after Red Cross folk have died wearing the symbol and argued with politicians and street fighters for another few decades.
So I say: give them some credit for all their work, and if they don't want their symbol used in a particular manner, respect their opinion.
Besides, what have you done to support their work recently?
The 1996 Sensorium project NET SOUND did this, won a 1997 Ars Electronica prize at Linz.
The home web page text:
The most significant aspect of the Internet
Is its being alive
Isn't it?
What would it sound like if we listened to it?
After creating the beta version in 1996, Net Sound members agreed they wanted to listen to a greater variety of Net sounds not only those of Ohno Research Lab. Anybody who wants to make sounds over the Net, please let us know--and increase our links via Net Sound "CENTRAL."
Note: Ars Electronica Center is a media art museum in Linz, Austria, where in addition to 40 staff members working via the Net, visitors (half of whom are children) use Web terminals located throughout the museum. Approximately 300,000 people a month also access AEC's Web server from countries around the world--this is the sound source. By network terms, Austria and Japan are distant (20-25 hops) and packet loss is extensive, which at times prevents the sound from being heard.
Please. You reference a USA law in 1877 and tell us this is the universal rationale / legal basis for marriage. I don't believe you. Can you back up your argument with earlier references? In the USA 1877 might represent a long time ago but for a lot us in other cultures that's recent history. Roman literature talks of marriages ("matrimonium" - legal between Roman citizens and some non-citizen Latins). Ancient Egypt had marriages ("shep en shemet"). I think you're trolling. Of course I'd welcome you correcting me by referencing older legal documents that 1877, e.g. older than the Roman Lex Canuleia (445 B.C.).
cheers mate, you're a diamond geezer (ace bloke). As they say this side of the pond and my end of the Smoke (London). My manor is Hackney so not cockney but similar kind of language used, geezer, I dunno, definitely London, probably pretty general southern UK. As somebody or other famous said, America and Britain are two countries separated by a common language...
where I come from this means "a man" or is used as an informal greeting with positive overtones to a male acquaintance, as in "all right geezer", a bit like "mate" "pal" etc. What does geezer mean where you come from?
"Anyway, when was the last time you saw a car blow up by the roadside, Hollywood-style? It doesn't really happen."
Actually I saw this happen in Hackney in 1997. Me and a few friends were chilling on the roof of our block of flats on a sunny summer Saturday afternoon, just off Graham Road, and suddenly there was an almighty boom and loads of black smoke went up by the road. We went down to take a look and there was a parked up Robin Reliant on fire. Quite a few people standing round looking, everybody well confused and amazed. Some guy's car was parked next to it, he rushed for his car and his girlfriend was screaming because she thought he'd get caught in it all but he moved his car out of the way. It was really weird, kinda surreal, and kinda funny, everybody just stood around chatting and chilling, enjoying this strange little bit of excitement on a sunny lazy afternoon, no owner turned up, maybe he was out. We could only guess maybe an aerosol can got hot on that nice day and exploded? no idea...
One of the funniest things was that it was a 3 wheel Robin Reliant, they are made out of fibre glass so it burnt right down to the axles, no metal frame. Melted the paint on the cars next to it as well. Weird.
I think non-functional fireplaces and electric fires are a different issue - it's down to humans and psychological triggers, including personal ideas of good taste. Humans are well known for doing things which aren't purely rational. Otherwise there wouldn't be a home decorating market, just one colour paint, one type of carpet, one small choice of automobiles, etc.
People want their homes to reflect their personality or what they consider good taste, and probably there is also some deep seated psychological stuff there as well about non-rational choices that never the less satisfy us on some deep animal level....
After all Christmas trees aren't "authentic", they are a socially constructed cultural icon that started in the UK (for example) by the import of such trees from Norway in the late nineteenth century.
kinda crap but makes sense in the UK
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well picked up, oh don't ya love those marketing geniuses:-)... but this kind of makes sense in the UK, where we have to pay for all calls (does the USA still have free local calls?). UK consumers will get the "pay 4.99 and have free calls" because at the moment they pay BT a standing line charge and then pay for each call (time based charging) on top....
bottom line - why passports in the first place? a fundamental discussion of this would help the specific discussion about RFID tags in passports/ biometric data etc. Probably we'd find the same general arguments coming out? - true identity, state monitoring of individuals, notification of individuals convicted of criminal activity passing state borders? might be worth tunnelling down to the basic discussion about the concept and purposes of passports...
You're right to say there are internal disagreements and countries don't always agree. However the existence and continuance of the EU suggests that by and large the countries prefer general cooperation, and secondly, if there are two nav systems I suppose this means they've got twice as many choices. I don't think divisions within the EU tend to be as clear cut as East/West though.
I just want to take pictures, I have a SLR I bought from my friend for 90GBP from a friend in 1995 (he had bought it second hand so I guess it was probably new in about 1990?) and it still takes fine photos, I put it in for the occasional service to get it cleaned and sorted out for another few years. Metal body, nice lens, mature technology, I get fine shots. Why should I need to make a "sacrifice" if I want to just keep taking nice photos?
Small children aren't going to be singing songs about me and laying flowers on my grave a hundred years from now for my sacrifice to the photographic industry, heck I think the people who will be making all the money should be carrying out the noble act of sorting out the problems to give us decent products that last more than half a dozen years. I really hate this idea that everything is disposable these days and can just be chucked away; it all comes round again, give it 50 years and we'll be drowning in our own discarded crap. Why not just make stuff that lasts, or at least has base components that last and minimise the parts that need to be swapped out, and make it easier to swap out a minimum of parts?
yup, a bike seat is comfortable if you spend good money on a decent one and adjust it right. It's part of a piece of sports equipment not a lounge chair. But fit it right and work with it and can feel just fine, like a good pair of running shoes does for an athlete. If you've not cycled for 20 years then don't expect to get on Lance Armstrong's bike and be as comfortable as he is. Probably horse riders say the same thing about saddles.
I guess the alternative is to do no exercise at but I've heard that folk who have medical conditions and sit or lie down all day end up with bed sores from even the most expensive armchairs and mattresses...
It's not just about you. It's about everybody else on or near the roads. You may be the perfect driver but if somebody else misinterprets your actions they are going to be a lot worse off if you are travelling at a higher speed. Basic physics and all that. Less time to react, more impact if a collision happens, etc.
You may be just as safe in a 60mph crash as most other people at 25mph because you've paid money for some super safety gadgets that protect you - but I don't think that gives you the right to do that speed. You are only reducing *your* level of risk, not others. Pedestrians hit by you at 60mph are going to be in a lot more trouble than if they are hit by you at 25mph. Other car drivers may not register you in time when they make lane changes because they are judging safe distances based on average traffic speeds lower than your preference. A good example of the latter is Germany - no speed limit two lane autobahns seem to have a 60mph truck lane and a 160mph Porsche lane, the Porsche drivers know what they are doing but their sudden appearance and tailgating can cause accidents from less confident drivers forced into too-rapid decision making while changing lanes.
People are always going to consider their own selfish personal safety as a purchasing factor when choosing a road vehicle; for many people this is a very significant issue, and is played upon by advertising for autos.
We need to focus on methods of ensuring safety that don't threaten other road users: win-win situations rather than soccer moms driving trucks and declaring "I know I will win in a collision" (vaguely remembered quote from a National Geographic article on SUVs). This can only lead to a sort of arms war where we all end up driving 38 tonne truck rigs....I was particularly scared by the picture of the SUV built on what is effectively a couple of forward facing railroad rails - that's going to hurt if you're hit side on in a little compact by one of those.
The annoying thing is I am sure most of the safety issues can be solved with little cost and by improving social as well as technological aspects of road use, e.g. severely enforcing low speed limits round residential areas. As long as its cool to drive like a bastard people will.
I always like the story about how there were a lot of fatal accidents in early autos because of the bolt protruding in the middle of early steering wheels, head on crashes meant drivers suffering lots of chest damage; while this was then changed to make life safer, it's been pointed out that if there was a big spike compulsorily welded onto the middle of all steering wheels pointing at drivers then everybody would drive a whole lot more carefully and there would be a lot less accidents.....
For a start they are probably testing the waters by releasing a little to start with, and secondly, I think you'll find if/when they release more it will become apparent how much doesn't exist any more. BBC archives of programmes like Dr. Who have been thrown out or wiped and I am sure this is true of many other recordings.
I don't think they will *require* active cooling but I am sure they'll be grateful. There have been armoured vehicles in Iraq/other desert regions before so you don't *need* cooling, but I am sure it makes the ambient temperature less hellish Rolls Royces Armoured cars in Egypt, Persia and the Palestine, the Desert Rats faced the Africa Korps for a few years in North Africa, and the Six Days War to name a few.
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Link to your source please?
...they really take this "free market" philosophy way too seriously ;-) hehehe it's all kind of ironic that the Russians are the guys who are funding their space program through space tourism, commercial tie-ups, etc, and the Americans are the ones who don't like the idea of private money in space? Who'd have thought it 20 years ago?
... a few small towns in Europe you may have heard of ;-)
Or check out a few other European locations on the map. I'm sure google will eventually come up with them, the satellite data is there. But for now, www.multimap.com is the best European option online.
interesting - didn't know this. Have you got a reference / URL to the story?
Exactly. Spend a couple of dollars on a cutting board or a piece of ply. Remember your physics primary school lessons and think about which materials insulate. How long before some clever company persuades schmucks that they are selling "custom real wood(TM) insulating laptop boards", i.e. varnished $2 dollar bread boards for $100. Doh!!!!
For those of us in the old world, I reckon the possible Alexander connection is the interesting bit. Maybe a re-titling of the headline to reflect this? 4th century BCE walls and remains? got them all over the place. Maybe the date is more exciting to folks whose archaeological records only stretch back a couple of hundred years ;-)
Why do people IM instead of pick up their office phone? because they want to "talk" silently in some cases. I'd be so much happier if people didn't discuss their business/ personal lives at top volume in train carriages. I'm sure there are other functionalities of IM in preference to voice...
Plus price - if it's priced at less than voice calls, it will take off like SMS did. People have quit long "conversations" via SMS.
I'd love to hear an anthropologist or psychologist's view on this. Groups of up to 4 or so people sharing a space sounds great, something primaeval about small groups of people sharing the same rhythyms, having quiet times, having social times, informally worked out. Collaboration indeed prospers in groups.But more than 4 or so is hell in my experience.
I work in an open plan space with up to 20 people and senior bosses offices round the outside; constant distractions, noise, people on different work patterns.
At any one time somebody is trying to get into a deep calm silent work headspace, and somebody else has just finished a major task and really wants to burn off some energy and enagage others in social banter. I don't blame anybody, I just think it's natural that if you put 20 people together then they will be in different headspaces at any one time so conflict will occur. We've tried informal rules (e.g. go to the coffee machine if you want to chat) but they just don't work that well.
So I say: give them some credit for all their work, and if they don't want their symbol used in a particular manner, respect their opinion.
Besides, what have you done to support their work recently?
The home web page text:
The most significant aspect of the Internet
Is its being alive
Isn't it?
What would it sound like if we listened to it?
After creating the beta version in 1996, Net Sound members agreed they wanted to listen to a greater variety of Net sounds not only those of Ohno Research Lab. Anybody who wants to make sounds over the Net, please let us know--and increase our links via Net Sound "CENTRAL."
Note: Ars Electronica Center is a media art museum in Linz, Austria, where in addition to 40 staff members working via the Net, visitors (half of whom are children) use Web terminals located throughout the museum. Approximately 300,000 people a month also access AEC's Web server from countries around the world--this is the sound source. By network terms, Austria and Japan are distant (20-25 hops) and packet loss is extensive, which at times prevents the sound from being heard.
Please. You reference a USA law in 1877 and tell us this is the universal rationale / legal basis for marriage. I don't believe you. Can you back up your argument with earlier references? In the USA 1877 might represent a long time ago but for a lot us in other cultures that's recent history. Roman literature talks of marriages ("matrimonium" - legal between Roman citizens and some non-citizen Latins). Ancient Egypt had marriages ("shep en shemet"). I think you're trolling. Of course I'd welcome you correcting me by referencing older legal documents that 1877, e.g. older than the Roman Lex Canuleia (445 B.C.).
cheers mate, you're a diamond geezer (ace bloke). As they say this side of the pond and my end of the Smoke (London). My manor is Hackney so not cockney but similar kind of language used, geezer, I dunno, definitely London, probably pretty general southern UK. As somebody or other famous said, America and Britain are two countries separated by a common language...
where I come from this means "a man" or is used as an informal greeting with positive overtones to a male acquaintance, as in "all right geezer", a bit like "mate" "pal" etc. What does geezer mean where you come from?
Actually I saw this happen in Hackney in 1997. Me and a few friends were chilling on the roof of our block of flats on a sunny summer Saturday afternoon, just off Graham Road, and suddenly there was an almighty boom and loads of black smoke went up by the road. We went down to take a look and there was a parked up Robin Reliant on fire. Quite a few people standing round looking, everybody well confused and amazed. Some guy's car was parked next to it, he rushed for his car and his girlfriend was screaming because she thought he'd get caught in it all but he moved his car out of the way. It was really weird, kinda surreal, and kinda funny, everybody just stood around chatting and chilling, enjoying this strange little bit of excitement on a sunny lazy afternoon, no owner turned up, maybe he was out. We could only guess maybe an aerosol can got hot on that nice day and exploded? no idea...
One of the funniest things was that it was a 3 wheel Robin Reliant, they are made out of fibre glass so it burnt right down to the axles, no metal frame. Melted the paint on the cars next to it as well. Weird.
I think non-functional fireplaces and electric fires are a different issue - it's down to humans and psychological triggers, including personal ideas of good taste. Humans are well known for doing things which aren't purely rational. Otherwise there wouldn't be a home decorating market, just one colour paint, one type of carpet, one small choice of automobiles, etc.
People want their homes to reflect their personality or what they consider good taste, and probably there is also some deep seated psychological stuff there as well about non-rational choices that never the less satisfy us on some deep animal level....
After all Christmas trees aren't "authentic", they are a socially constructed cultural icon that started in the UK (for example) by the import of such trees from Norway in the late nineteenth century.
well picked up, oh don't ya love those marketing geniuses :-) ... but this kind of makes sense in the UK, where we have to pay for all calls (does the USA still have free local calls?). UK consumers will get the "pay 4.99 and have free calls" because at the moment they pay BT a standing line charge and then pay for each call (time based charging) on top....
bottom line - why passports in the first place? a fundamental discussion of this would help the specific discussion about RFID tags in passports/ biometric data etc. Probably we'd find the same general arguments coming out? - true identity, state monitoring of individuals, notification of individuals convicted of criminal activity passing state borders? might be worth tunnelling down to the basic discussion about the concept and purposes of passports...
Remind me to never bother using up any of my life finding out about this game... sounds really exciting
You're right to say there are internal disagreements and countries don't always agree. However the existence and continuance of the EU suggests that by and large the countries prefer general cooperation, and secondly, if there are two nav systems I suppose this means they've got twice as many choices. I don't think divisions within the EU tend to be as clear cut as East/West though.
Small children aren't going to be singing songs about me and laying flowers on my grave a hundred years from now for my sacrifice to the photographic industry, heck I think the people who will be making all the money should be carrying out the noble act of sorting out the problems to give us decent products that last more than half a dozen years. I really hate this idea that everything is disposable these days and can just be chucked away; it all comes round again, give it 50 years and we'll be drowning in our own discarded crap. Why not just make stuff that lasts, or at least has base components that last and minimise the parts that need to be swapped out, and make it easier to swap out a minimum of parts?
yup, a bike seat is comfortable if you spend good money on a decent one and adjust it right. It's part of a piece of sports equipment not a lounge chair. But fit it right and work with it and can feel just fine, like a good pair of running shoes does for an athlete. If you've not cycled for 20 years then don't expect to get on Lance Armstrong's bike and be as comfortable as he is. Probably horse riders say the same thing about saddles.
I guess the alternative is to do no exercise at but I've heard that folk who have medical conditions and sit or lie down all day end up with bed sores from even the most expensive armchairs and mattresses...
It's not just about you. It's about everybody else on or near the roads. You may be the perfect driver but if somebody else misinterprets your actions they are going to be a lot worse off if you are travelling at a higher speed. Basic physics and all that. Less time to react, more impact if a collision happens, etc.
You may be just as safe in a 60mph crash as most other people at 25mph because you've paid money for some super safety gadgets that protect you - but I don't think that gives you the right to do that speed. You are only reducing *your* level of risk, not others. Pedestrians hit by you at 60mph are going to be in a lot more trouble than if they are hit by you at 25mph. Other car drivers may not register you in time when they make lane changes because they are judging safe distances based on average traffic speeds lower than your preference. A good example of the latter is Germany - no speed limit two lane autobahns seem to have a 60mph truck lane and a 160mph Porsche lane, the Porsche drivers know what they are doing but their sudden appearance and tailgating can cause accidents from less confident drivers forced into too-rapid decision making while changing lanes.
People are always going to consider their own selfish personal safety as a purchasing factor when choosing a road vehicle; for many people this is a very significant issue, and is played upon by advertising for autos.
We need to focus on methods of ensuring safety that don't threaten other road users: win-win situations rather than soccer moms driving trucks and declaring "I know I will win in a collision" (vaguely remembered quote from a National Geographic article on SUVs). This can only lead to a sort of arms war where we all end up driving 38 tonne truck rigs....I was particularly scared by the picture of the SUV built on what is effectively a couple of forward facing railroad rails - that's going to hurt if you're hit side on in a little compact by one of those.
The annoying thing is I am sure most of the safety issues can be solved with little cost and by improving social as well as technological aspects of road use, e.g. severely enforcing low speed limits round residential areas. As long as its cool to drive like a bastard people will.
I always like the story about how there were a lot of fatal accidents in early autos because of the bolt protruding in the middle of early steering wheels, head on crashes meant drivers suffering lots of chest damage; while this was then changed to make life safer, it's been pointed out that if there was a big spike compulsorily welded onto the middle of all steering wheels pointing at drivers then everybody would drive a whole lot more carefully and there would be a lot less accidents.....
For a start they are probably testing the waters by releasing a little to start with, and secondly, I think you'll find if/when they release more it will become apparent how much doesn't exist any more. BBC archives of programmes like Dr. Who have been thrown out or wiped and I am sure this is true of many other recordings.
I don't think they will *require* active cooling but I am sure they'll be grateful. There have been armoured vehicles in Iraq /other desert regions before so you don't *need* cooling, but I am sure it makes the ambient temperature less hellish Rolls Royces Armoured cars in Egypt, Persia and the Palestine, the Desert Rats faced the Africa Korps for a few years in North Africa, and the Six Days War to name a few.