Comment Re:The bloody ignorance (Score 1) 262
In the USA you are twice as likely to be killed by being in a traffic accident than by being shot
Your car is a far more dangerous weapon than a gun
In the USA you are twice as likely to be killed by being in a traffic accident than by being shot
Your car is a far more dangerous weapon than a gun
Pilots of large complex aircraft have co-pilots - one is concentrating all the time
Small Aircraft are simple and the radio is hand-free and they crash quite often (they are the only type of aircraft considered to be more dangerous than driving)
The difference is that at a moments notice can the driving get your undivided attention when needed, or are you too busy sending texts and making calls
We hand out driving licences to anyone with a pulse because of the lawsuits if we don't
Doing anything but having your undivided attention on driving will lower your ability to drive and increase the risk of having an accident
You have a driving licence to prove you can drive safely, and can be fined/jailed for the lack of quality of your driving so this is your responsibility
43,000 die as the result of traffic collisions in the USA each year... that's more than 14 9/11's every year
Adding any distraction should be considered dangerous
The real question is can the new young guys learn any of the old tricks
The old guys know all these, and mostly keep up with the new stuff (where they can see a future for it) it's the new guys that need to catch up
the IAU are like taxonomists, they are only noticed when they fail, and there is a dispute or confusion over a name
Depends which Apple you mean :
Apple Corps Ltd
Apple Inc.
Apple Bank for Savings
Apple, British psychedelic rock band
Apple, Oklahoma, USA
or any one of the worlds Apple producers....?
One problem "Monsanto"
They produce most of the GMO that people are aware of, are notorious for suppressing any study that they do not like, for not publishing results, for patenting entire plants, for suing poor farmers who never bought their seed, for poisoning the environment
They may not be typical of GMO companies, but they are the poster child and best known, and are the worst possible advert for GMO
China's works mainly on the principle not that it is hard to get around, but because of the consequences of getting caught doing so
Marie Antoinette was uneducated spoilt and not expected to show any intelligence
David Cameron has a first class honours degree from Oxford, is an ex company Director, and has many highly paid advisers
Unlike Communism FOSS projects and distros can make money, (See e.g. Red Hat, Canonical etc
The USSR had for a large part of it's history a large army standing around with nothing to do, so yes they got them to do jobs that others did not want to do....see also the US army when they are not busy
I live in a country with freedom...So I can unlock and remove this stuff (unlike in the USA)
...and it is still not permanently deleted, and can be undeleted anytime, or is almost certainly backed up, or at worst is stored at Delitionpedia
they do not know how this works do they
If the US government wants to shut Wikipedia down then they would have to shut down a rather large number of replica sites as well, the content is backed up all over the world in many cases outside the control of the USofA
They could fairly quickly kill the master site (to huge protest around the world) but the content would be safe elsewhere
They are a Minority in the US
In the UK saying you are not religious does not make you an outcast so 25% do not believe in any god 50.67% say they do not belong to any particular religion and 37% believe in God
"I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon." -- Howard Chaykin
