Comment Re:Sheer incompetence (Score 1) 193
The boot times are mostly due to the very high security environment, pre-boot hard drive encryption and extra security software
The boot times are mostly due to the very high security environment, pre-boot hard drive encryption and extra security software
..and ignored the requirement for greater security (iPads have only recently been certified for IL3 and not above) and the fact that a large majority of the software the government uses is Windows only and/or custom and will not run on an iPad at all
90 days is the construction time
Add to that the time to plan and prefabricate and you end up with a time similar to a conventional building
But it is cheaper to build (unless transportation costs are excessive)
Metric is used in most of the world, including China where this is being built
The US uses metric for many things
The BBC Trust upheld the complaint
Strange I am on GMT+1 now and every year I am on GMT
Seems to be very similar to UTC but every system seem to refer to it as GMT
Free? - Normally most people meet in a social setting, Bar, Club, Sports etc
Last Mile - Owned by BT and mostly very low quality copper
BT will not invest because they have to give access to anyone at below rock bottom prices and might on the whims of the government get it taken away from them at any time
No-one else will invest because they can just hive off BT, the only exception is Cable, which is almost all one company...and so they have no reason to invest further either
I have this since I live in a civilised country
Or you could use the system the rest of the civilised world has adopted: Screw the Medical insurance companies, provide universal healthcare and fund it from taxes, result is cheap healthcare that means everyone can work
The problem is that the solution to a website offering illegal material is not to shut down the website, prosecute the owners of the website but get the ISP to block it
If the material is illegal then prosecute them, if it is not then don't block it
Changes like this have happened time and time again
The problem is it might not be habitable by 7billion humans
Originally by right of conquest then by inheritance, just like everyone else
By "Offered the Crown" you mean was selected by parliament as the successor to both the crown and the royal family and inherited all their assets both public and private - and the crown lands were private then as now
In the same way the government and the law decide who in your family will inherit if there is no valid will, but your company will decide who will get your job
My government will always accept the current legal tender for payment of taxes
Any one trading in my country has to by law accept the current legal tender in payment
Some people will accept other currencies in exchange for the legal tender or in payment at whatever exchange rate they deem appropriate, but it is not required
No-one *has* to accept bitcoin anywhere, and the exchange rate is therefore *only* subject to market confidence and nothing else - and could be zero tomorrow
Real world currency - A currency that has a value backed by either :
Physical something of real value - Gold, Silver, etc that actually exists in a vault somewhere
A Large entity who guarantee to pay, and are trusted enough to do so (Government/Bank/etc)
And/Or - Fiat currency that will always (and sometimes will only) be accepted for the purposes of paying taxes and so will always have value
All real world currencies are usually legal tender - It is required that people have to accept legal tender as payment for good and services
Bitcoin - A currency backed only by the assurance that they cannot be faked/cheated but is otherwise free floating
No-one has to accept Bitcoin, if they do they can assign any arbitrary value to it as an exchange rate depending on how much they trust it
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
