That's why you need to include children's books and dictionaries in collection, so that future archaeologists will have an easier time learning the language. The illustrated children's books are for bootstrapping basic competence; the dictionaries are for building more complex meanings.

Granted. And the Middle East has given us phonemic writing (rebus hieroglyphs), alphabetic writing (starting with the Phoenicians), place value numerals, and algebra. Thus we recognize Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East as sources of science and technology. But what comparable contribution has come out of Africa south of the Sahara?

Three slang words in a row referring to sexual contact, excretion of body waste, or body parts primarily associated therewith sounds "potty mouth" to me.

An occasional swear is a valuable rhetorical tool. But overuse of "potty mouth" words distracts from the point of the post and makes the speaker sound so uneducated that he can't express a point without bringing up sex or excretion.

You politely argue your case with one rep while waiting for the other. Then once they're both on the line, you join the calls. (Yes, I'm aware that 3-way on POTS doesn't quite work like this; the third parties can hear each other as soon as the call connects.)

The problem whose solution is storage is the variability of wind and solar, the most prominent renewable energy sources, from one hour to the next.

Does your phone service support three-way calling?

Add compression on top of that. If your data isn't all ZIP, PNG, JPG, MPG, or some other compressed format, the controller turns repetition into even more over-provisioning.

But not so much when it comes to the libraries that underlie games and the marketing of games. Though the free software community has so far failed to developer a business model for producing original games, it has excelled at producing infrastructure. EA's ports of Tetris to Android run on top of free libraries. Tetris Zone was first made for OS X, whose low-level components are based on Mach and FreeBSD. Tetris can be played over the Internet, and many TCP/IP stacks are based on the free TCP/IP implementation released by AT&T in 1989 as free software. Tetris has a Twitter account, and Twitter was originally written in the free language Ruby until it switched to the free language Scala. Tetris.com uses the CloudFlare CDN, which according to Netcraft runs Linux. Yet Mr. Pajitnov thinks all the free software on which his business depends "should never have existed".

I've moved on. Best practice is "prototype your original game on PC first then talk to Sony", contacting is "@tetris_official will tell you what you need to know", and how same-screen Tetris works is "whatever BPS and its partners have put out on the latest console".

Vicarious infringement is defined as profiting from infringements that you have power to stop. A policy of paying users who share infringing copies of popular files is pretty good evidence of profiting from infringement. Safe harbor laws such as OCILLA exist in many countries to protect site operators from having to pay excessive damages due to accidental vicarious infringement, but it appears Megaupload didn't take steps to qualify for these safe harbors.

What do you mean by "isn't a law"? New Zealand and the United States are common-law jurisdictions, which rely heavily on how previous judges have interpreted statutes.

I don't know about Sony, but Disney lets you.

First see if Disney offers a discount on a new copy with the exchange of a broken authentic disc. If not, a workaround is to find a decent adaptation of the same story not distributed by Disney. I can think of a half dozen versions of The Adventures of Pinocchio, and there are probably plenty of "Rapunzel" and "The Snow Queen" adaptations that aren't Tangled or Frozen. Yes, mockbusters exist; read reviews to avoid the worst. And when they get old enough, show them the other Tangled with Rachael Leigh Cook.

I thought BYOD was an excuse to let HR refuse to hire people who aren't in the socioeconomic group likely to already subscribe to smartphone service without appearing racist.

The click-to-play add-on I use reportedly has nearly a million users. And for some plug-ins, Firefox makes click-to-play the default.

One console allows up to four players. PCs theoretically can do the same with four USB gamepads, but in practice, PC games are more likely than (say) Wii or Wii U games to leave out a same-screen multiplayer mode in favor of LAN and online play.

Then why do they trust Google and the other major ad networks on clickview counts reporting?

That's what I was trying to imply. Adblock is a layer, and hosts is a layer.