Really? I've never seen a car that didn't have the turn-signal lever on the left. Is that because I'm an ignorant American?
Ignorant? yes. American? Well that I don't know.
My understanding is that it is related to where the car was manufactured. I found this thread that talks about it Why are New Zealand turn signal controls backwards?. (And from my point of view, "backwards" is a contextual adjective
If you watch the video in TFA, when the driver turns right at an intersection, the windscreen wipers come on (even though it is not raining). This is a major indication that the driver did not know on what side of the steering column the control for the indicator lights was. Given that he is turning right I bet that for that car the indicator light controls are on the left of the column.
I know all about this as I have done it so many times myself when changing different brands of cars.
That was my first thought when I read this in TFS:
There were plans in WW2 to drop phony counterfeit currency to disrupt markets, and I wonder why flooding underground markets with phony products isn't widespread. Why don't credit card companies manufacture fake lists of stolen credit card numbers, or phony social security numbers, for illegal trading sites? For that matter, would fake ivory, fake illegal porn, and other "false positives" discourage buyers? Or create alibis?
Oh shit, did I just give him an idea? !?!?!
That person's beliefs, religious or otherwise are in and of itself not criminal.
I don't know, but there may be a few convicted pedophiles who disagree with you as to beliefs not being criminal.
How about you just let these "seasoned programmers" test out of the introduction classes and jump directly into the non-intro classes?
That would certainly work if the sole goal of attending introductory classes was the material at hand.
I'd wager that a significant part of the into level courses is indoctrinating the students to the educational/class framework that they have to work in (this is how you behave in class, this is how you treat fellow students, this is how you layout your coursework etc). Thus by letting them skip class levels, you are potentially pushing non-indoctrinated students into the midst of the indoctrinated ones and hence causing a different set of issues.
Also, by letting all the smart people skip a class level, who do the non-smart people ask for help?
And if you want some real news Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked to Block Competitors
In the last
, there was a comment that pointed out Bennett as the new plaintiff. And that Bennett had become the plaintiff well and truly before that
What is all this Hasselton crap? Is it supposed to be harassment? Funny?
Bennet is the new Beta
If the police aren't going to bother either learning, or following the law
On the other hand, given the previously publicized actions of police departments not hiring people with high IQ scores ( EG Missouri Police Department Drastically Reduces IQ Requirements For New Officers ) is this really the fault of an individual policeman, or really the fault of management?
I don't know
* Actually, no. I have stopped reading any of Bennett's stories and refuse to reward
If you are a US citizen, I don't think you could get out of producing a document the court ordered you to supply by airmailing it to a confederate in another country. Similarly, if the data in question are related to Microsoft's US operations, then MS, being a corporation incorporated in the US, should be required to produce them.
And what do you think of MS's rebuttal of that position?
"Imagine this scenario. Officers of the local Stadtpolizei investigating a suspected leak to the press descend on Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany," Microsoft said. "They serve a warrant to seize a bundle of private letters that a New York Times reporter is storing in a safe deposit box at a Deutsche Bank USA branch in Manhattan. The bank complies by ordering the New York branch manager to open the reporter's box with a master key, rummage through it, and fax the private letters to the Stadtpolizei."
Allowing things like this is going down a similar road to "well if the CIA wants to torture foreign nationals, then they can't complain about foreign s[y agencies torturing US citizens"
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
