The problem with being able to allow/deny individual permissions is the app developers now have 2^n configurations to test, instead of just one. Which is either going to lead to a much higher testing cost, or apps which are buggier when run with less than full requested permissions.
As the city gets whiter, it reflects more light, which is bad for cities with long, cold, winters.
But why is it bad for Seattle?
The report they are drawing their findings from found no wrongdoing on Google's part:
"We found that Ames officials accurately reported H211’s relationship with the Center to DLA-Energy but DLA-Energy believed H211 was performing only NASA-related missions and therefore was entitled to fuel at the cost-plus-surcharge rate. We found that a misunderstanding between Ames and DLA-Energy personnel rather than intentional misconduct led to H211 receiving the discounted fuel rate for flights that had no NASA-related mission." (emphasis mine).
So more like buying gas from a gas station which had accidentally listed the wholesale price than siphoning gas from a friend.
Now that we've got that elementary lesson out of the way, on to the Somalian anarchy falsehood. Somalia is currently controlled by thugs and warlords. In other words, Somalia is run by coercive authority, not free association. It may be "illegitimate" or "unofficial" coercive authority, but it certainly is coercive authority, and that means it can't be anarchy, which is a political state defined by the absence of coercive authority, not the presence of it.
Which is all well and good, but a common argument against anarchy is that it's an unstable political system, prone to transforming into a dictatorship or monarchy. This is because (so the argument goes), in the absence of a central government, local thugs would run free taking whatever they want, eventually forming mini-dictatorships were the strongest gangs control their "turf," and the general populace is worse off than under a central governement. It's in this context that the example of Somalia is brought up, because this is (as far as I know) exactly what's happening there.
Neat.
540,000,000 kWh/year is an interesting way to express power though. Especially when it means that a power plant with 240 MW installed capacity is producing 62 MW average power.
This makes sense if 240 MW is the peak power generation, and 62 MW is average, given the cyclic nature of power generation, but still...
I would say at least three. An alternate parsing is as Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork. I.e. if you're looking for a terror network, use this one: it's free!.
As an aside, the Challenger disaster is actually a case of the expert getting it right. The engineerwas recommending scrubbing the launch, but his manager decided to OK it anyway.
If I remember correctly, prisons are punitive (i.e. post-conviction), jail is not (e.g. people who have arrested but not yet processed, pre-trial but not on bail, etc.)
My objection to this feature is that (as far as I know) emacs is the only editor that has it. So if you're in a mixed vi/emacs/whatever shop you quickly get a tab-space soup. Worse, unless you're careful you can easily start introducing whitespace-only changes to portions of a file you're working on, making merging changes between branches unnecessarily difficult.
Really? This has to be something specific to how he had emacs configured, because as a long time emacs user this certainly isn't the default.
On the other hand, emacs has the equally insane default behaviour of assuming tabstops are 8 characters, and if you have more than 8 characters of initial whitespace it will fold it down into the minimum number of characters by replacing spaces with tabs. Fortunately there's a setting which will turn this behaviour off and force emacs to always use spaces.
I'm not holding my breath -- fusion power has been 20-30 years away since the 70s.
I think you need to review your boolean logic. !(a && b) is equivalent to !a || !b
They might be able to negotiate a settlement.
Getting a lawyer to send a nasty letter is cheap. Filing a lawsuit and going through discovery is expensive.
If you can get what you want from a letter, why bother with the lawsuit. On the other hand, if the letter doesn't work, you can always escalate to the lawsuit with little money lost. The letter probably also puts them on notice they need to preserve evidence.
Which section says that? Searching the Outer Space Treaty for the word nuclear, I can only find prohibitions on nuclear weapons, not nuclear power. IIRC the USSR launched several small nuclear reactors into earth orbit.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
