Comment Re:Not My Rights Online (Score 1) 642
Not quite the first thing you put in your constitution, actually; I think you are probably referring to the first amendment to your constitution, i.e. the first thing you changed in it.
Not quite the first thing you put in your constitution, actually; I think you are probably referring to the first amendment to your constitution, i.e. the first thing you changed in it.
You know what, in the UK for about 20 years the Liberal Democrats were a joke party.
They were a non-joke for a brief period this year during the campaign, from the first television debate until election day. Now that they have gotten into bed with the Tories and abandoned all of their pledges and principles for a taste of power, they are once again a joke.
Everything takes longer and costs more than you think, even when you take into account the fact that it will take longer and cost more than you think.
640k and 32 bits *were* wayyyy overboard. But exponential growth will make fools of us all.
Sorry, I have to disagree. It is NOT good to see that it's not only cops in the US that are douches.
Yeah, but you can usually extend it if you shake the cartridge.
Only a small proportion of market participants (about 2%) are "high-frequency traders" but they account for 60 to 70% of the transactions, according to a very interesting NPR podcast that I just listened to: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/06/08/127563433/the-tuesday-podcast-the-million-dollar-microsecond. Also according to that podcast, real-life long-term institutional investors actually hate the high-frequency traders. The investors say the high-frequency traders don't bring any value to the marketplace, and in fact make life more expensive for investors because when large investors make a series of transactions (they make big trades in several parts, not all at once), the traders see this and make trades between the investors' trades, driving prices further in the unfavourable direction (up or down, depending on the transaction).
"well, I can't give legal advice, so I can't help you find the form you're looking for." That's just ridiculous. Help the customer.
Unfortunately, at some point in the distant past, some customer got helped, received the wrong form, and suffered some delay or inconvenience because of that. Because that customer was a litigious, spiteful, vindictive asshole who likes blaming others, he found a hungry lawyer willing to take the case on contingency, sued the person who gave him the form, and won on the grounds that the form-hander-outer was not qualified to provide legal advice. And for that reason, form-hander-outers cannot comment on the appropriateness of the forms they hand out. Presumably the same thinking is behind the law in the UK that threatens to make criminals out of people who suggest to their friends that putting money into an ISA (like a 401(k) in the USA) is a good idea.
Sane drivers know this, reduce their speed, and then -- making wild hand-waving guesses, here -- wind up with about the same overall level of "dangerousness" as when driving on uncluttered roadways.
No, what these people are arguing is that sane drivers know this, reduce their speed, and then, according to actual statistics* instead of hand-waving gestures, wind up with about half the level overall level of dangerousness.
* "actual statistics" = number of dead Dutch drivers
No, it's only recognised to the extent that enough people wrote in "Jedi" on the last census that the Office for National Statistics assigned a code number for data entry purposes, and calculated a total for them instead of just lumping them in with "other". There are only seven options for religion on the census form: None, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Sikh, and "other, please write in".
The Office for National Statistics is not recognising religions, it's just reporting what people wrote in as their answer to the question, "what is your religion?" Other answers which have equal status include Secularism, Satanism, Heathen, Divine Light Mission, Rationalist, Own Belief System, Free Church of Love, and Church of All Religion.
It's not intended to copy Windows, it just looks like Windows the same way Gnome and KDE both resemble Windows. http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-03-01/north-korea-cyber-weapon.html?fullstory
Same in Norway. And you use your mobile phone to send a text message to state that you confirm/agree that the data sent to you are correct. If you want to make changes to the government's tax assessment, then you have to fill out paperwork of course.
No, I don't mean to suggest that at all. I just meant to say that being a benevolent conqueror and trying to rebuild a country is much more difficult and complicated than mykos suggested it might be.
I think the same thing was said about Iraq: "Surely conquerors showing up with promises of food and infrastructure would be preferred to Saddam Hussein's government..." I would not bet on re-colonizing Haiti working out better than regime change in Iraq.
Although the way this was handled sounds incredibly stupid, I can guess what was going through the VP's mind: seven months ago, a student in another San Diego school successfully detonated five "bombs" that he made using Gatorade bottles.
With that being fairly fresh in authorities' minds, I can easily imagine them worrying that the Millenial Tech student had developed a new and improved version. It still sounds like they overreacted, but at least I can understand why.
I think you've hit the nail on the head
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
