which version of Genesis is being used for this contenst? Lexham English Bible? King James? Old Latin? The original Greek? The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church canon?
Uh, I think there may have been a version before the Greek one.
I don't remember the first season of Star Trek: TNG (been waaayyyy too long)
Be glad of that. The acting, especially from Stewart and Spiner, was something you'd see in a bad high school play. I don't know who, if anyone, should get the blame for that, since Stewart and Spiner are both very good actors.
You're correct, a combination of known technologies that results in what one would expect from the combination is generally supposed to be considered obvious. It will be interesting to see what happens with this application.
Since when is cost a factor in the validity of a patent? Does it do the same tasks?
If you come up with a way of doing something, e.g. extracting a metal from ore, that costs 1/10 of what any other known method costs, you can certainly get a patent on that.
Of course, this doesn't appear to apply to the patent discussed in this article, but as a general principle, doing something more cheaply can be patentable.
I would hope that even if someone can be arrested for contempt until the fine is paid, it would have to be someone with the authority to pay the fine. A low-level IT guy, or even a mid-level manager, couldn't pay the fine even if they agreed with the court ruling and wanted to pay.
In theory, the matchmaker should be able to put you against opponents who have spent a similar amount of money as you, so that people who play strictly for free will only go up against people who also haven't bought any new cards.
The question is whether or not practice will match theory.
Now, if they came out with a smart roman arm guard.... After all, it would have enough space for a virtual keyboard.... (grin)
That was my reaction to someone else who posted that Apple's watch would have the same screen size as a smartphone. "Um, that isn't a watch, it's a bracer."
If Apple "announces" a new product coming out in three months, and the following week Samsung and Google announce that they have a competing product coming out in three months, do people really believe that they are all just trying to copy Apple? Product development just doesn't happen that quickly.
Like the parent poster said, the only role of the presiding official is to verify that the people filling out the paperwork really are getting married. For your plan, that official would probably just be the clerk at City Hall that you hand the paperwork to.
To a lot of people here from the United States, this story probably seems a bit weird. As far as I know, most, if not all, states can register you as a Justice of the Peace, which lets you sign marriage certificates on behalf of the state. Your religion, or lack thereof, doesn't matter.
I've been using KDE for about 5 years now, and even in the newest versions, you can make it look pretty much like Windows XP. The reason that I like KDE so much is that it gives you the ability to configure it however you want. If you don't like the new Windows 7/8 style stuff down in the bottom panel, remove whatever you don't like and add whatever you do like. All of the old style widgets are still available.
What I hate how the US has Saturday/Sunday split on the weekend. Who really thinks, Oh its Sunday start of the week!
Monday is really the start of the week, right after the WEEK END, and that's how I like my calendars displayed. Monday thru Sunday.
I had always thought that this was a holdover from the Jewish calendar, where Saturday is the last day of the week. In Hebrew, Sunday is "first day", Monday is "second day", etc.
If you ask doctors if patients NEED access, they should say no. If you ask doctors if patients have a right to access their records you'll get a different answer.
I think there's really three different questions here:
Do patients need access to their medical records? Should patients have access to their medical records?
Should patients be reading their medical records?
I suspect that the answers to these questions are not all the same.
Sure, humans have always been eager to eradicate competing/dangerous animals. But in doing so, they would come upon puppies now and then. And surely, some humans would find them cute. Then as now! It is then likely that someone tried to keep some puppies - if the times were good and there were food enough anyway. They could always kill them later, if they turned hostile.
I've also read some speculation that the humans that found the puppies would most likely be children. A child, with little to no experience with dangerous wild animals, would be more likely to adopt an abandoned puppy. Once a bond had formed between the child and puppy, the child would then strongly object if the parents tried to kill or drive off the animal.
Maybe I live in one of those evil communist states, but in this state vacation time is considered deferred compensation and must be paid if you get fired.
Sadly, I think the Fox News pundits have convinced a lot of people in the United States that the Democrats really are communists. Out here in the real world, though, there are very few members of Congress who are even borderline socialists.
Rural areas don't have undue weight - how many rural states does it take to equal one OH, NY, FL, TX or CA? Electorally those states are monsters that decide who will be President - the rural areas do not have undue weight.
Those states have far more electoral votes because they have far higher populations. Votes in less-populated states have slightly greater weight than votes in states with higher populations. A state with a population of two million that has two representatives (numbers rounded to make the math easier) gets four electoral votes, or one per 500,000 people. A state with a population of 20 million and 20 representatives gets 22 electoral votes, or one per 900,000 people.
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which version of Genesis is being used for this contenst? Lexham English Bible? King James? Old Latin? The original Greek? The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church canon?
Uh, I think there may have been a version before the Greek one.
I don't remember the first season of Star Trek: TNG (been waaayyyy too long)
Be glad of that. The acting, especially from Stewart and Spiner, was something you'd see in a bad high school play. I don't know who, if anyone, should get the blame for that, since Stewart and Spiner are both very good actors.
You're correct, a combination of known technologies that results in what one would expect from the combination is generally supposed to be considered obvious. It will be interesting to see what happens with this application.
Since when is cost a factor in the validity of a patent? Does it do the same tasks?
If you come up with a way of doing something, e.g. extracting a metal from ore, that costs 1/10 of what any other known method costs, you can certainly get a patent on that.
Of course, this doesn't appear to apply to the patent discussed in this article, but as a general principle, doing something more cheaply can be patentable.
If I'm paying you to work for me by coming up with stuff, why can I not also make the arrangement that any patentable ideas are mine as well?
The way it normally works is that the "inventor" is the employee(s) that did the work and the "assignee" is the company that they work for.
I would hope that even if someone can be arrested for contempt until the fine is paid, it would have to be someone with the authority to pay the fine. A low-level IT guy, or even a mid-level manager, couldn't pay the fine even if they agreed with the court ruling and wanted to pay.
In theory, the matchmaker should be able to put you against opponents who have spent a similar amount of money as you, so that people who play strictly for free will only go up against people who also haven't bought any new cards.
The question is whether or not practice will match theory.
Now, if they came out with a smart roman arm guard.... After all, it would have enough space for a virtual keyboard.... (grin)
That was my reaction to someone else who posted that Apple's watch would have the same screen size as a smartphone. "Um, that isn't a watch, it's a bracer."
If Apple "announces" a new product coming out in three months, and the following week Samsung and Google announce that they have a competing product coming out in three months, do people really believe that they are all just trying to copy Apple? Product development just doesn't happen that quickly.
...the rest of the productive population.
Like middle managers, stock brokers, and politicians?
Isn't Gartner the firm that's been wrong about almost everything?
The only difference is that other religions generally started with oral traditions and writing books, rather than going straight to cinema.
And the better characters and dialogue.
Like the parent poster said, the only role of the presiding official is to verify that the people filling out the paperwork really are getting married. For your plan, that official would probably just be the clerk at City Hall that you hand the paperwork to.
To a lot of people here from the United States, this story probably seems a bit weird. As far as I know, most, if not all, states can register you as a Justice of the Peace, which lets you sign marriage certificates on behalf of the state. Your religion, or lack thereof, doesn't matter.
I've been using KDE for about 5 years now, and even in the newest versions, you can make it look pretty much like Windows XP. The reason that I like KDE so much is that it gives you the ability to configure it however you want. If you don't like the new Windows 7/8 style stuff down in the bottom panel, remove whatever you don't like and add whatever you do like. All of the old style widgets are still available.
What I hate how the US has Saturday/Sunday split on the weekend. Who really thinks, Oh its Sunday start of the week! Monday is really the start of the week, right after the WEEK END, and that's how I like my calendars displayed. Monday thru Sunday.
I had always thought that this was a holdover from the Jewish calendar, where Saturday is the last day of the week. In Hebrew, Sunday is "first day", Monday is "second day", etc.
Where is the "crowd" that he referred to? Who wants Linux to be "hard"?
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If you ask doctors if patients NEED access, they should say no. If you ask doctors if patients have a right to access their records you'll get a different answer.
I think there's really three different questions here:
Do patients need access to their medical records?
Should patients have access to their medical records?
Should patients be reading their medical records?
I suspect that the answers to these questions are not all the same.
Sure, humans have always been eager to eradicate competing/dangerous animals. But in doing so, they would come upon puppies now and then. And surely, some humans would find them cute. Then as now! It is then likely that someone tried to keep some puppies - if the times were good and there were food enough anyway. They could always kill them later, if they turned hostile.
I've also read some speculation that the humans that found the puppies would most likely be children. A child, with little to no experience with dangerous wild animals, would be more likely to adopt an abandoned puppy. Once a bond had formed between the child and puppy, the child would then strongly object if the parents tried to kill or drive off the animal.
...not individually conscious, but when together in packs form a single sentient organism.
Isn't that (one of) the current theory(s) about colony insects such as ants and bees?
As I've heard said, if you want the most alien-looking stuff, look no further than right here on Earth.
and besides, private sector career progression is more about talent, than how old you are
Haha, good one!
Talent probably matters more than age in career progression, but it's commonly less important than politicking and nepotism.
Maybe I live in one of those evil communist states, but in this state vacation time is considered deferred compensation and must be paid if you get fired.
Nobody here thinks the Democrats are far left.
Sadly, I think the Fox News pundits have convinced a lot of people in the United States that the Democrats really are communists. Out here in the real world, though, there are very few members of Congress who are even borderline socialists.
Rural areas don't have undue weight - how many rural states does it take to equal one OH, NY, FL, TX or CA? Electorally those states are monsters that decide who will be President - the rural areas do not have undue weight.
Those states have far more electoral votes because they have far higher populations. Votes in less-populated states have slightly greater weight than votes in states with higher populations. A state with a population of two million that has two representatives (numbers rounded to make the math easier) gets four electoral votes, or one per 500,000 people. A state with a population of 20 million and 20 representatives gets 22 electoral votes, or one per 900,000 people.
So what would be a better solution?
=CEIL() maybe?
It's okay, kernel developers and heavy metal bands are easily mistaken for each other.