The basic problem with driving (and many other aspects of life in the UK) is simply Too Many People. Everyone sees adverts for cars cruising down empty highways in beautiful scenery, and gets frustrated when reality hits at rush-hour in the rain just outside Birmingham.
Trouble is that most cars are built for those lovely empty highways. Until three-quarters of the UK population disappear down some celestial rabbit hole, it just ain't going to happen.
If you've ever driven in rural North America, you'll know the speed of the other traffic is not really relevant. It only happens every half-hour or so, and when you've got 250km to the next town anyway, slowing down for a minute makes zero difference.
And those are the circumstances in which most cars perform best. For England most people would be best off with a sort of electric bicycle with a large carrying capacity, because let's face it, most city cars only ever have to perform at that level. Too many people for it to be otherwise.
If a person is (very) terminally ill and in great pain, it is possible to give that person medication which will relieve that pain, even though one of the side effects maybe the death of the person concerned.
However I must stress that IANAL and do *not* try this at home.
By all means bash Murdoch - he would be doing the same to anyone else in his situation.
But I respectfully disagree with most of the criticisms of the Sun. No,it's not preferred reading for techies or Oxbridge dons. It's tailored for mass market reading, and is very popular on building sites.
I suspect that some who are criticizing the Sun have not actually read the thing to any extent. I've put in my time on building sites and read it regularly. It's a good product, technically speaking. Well produced, with a clear editorial voice and well-above-average proof-reading.
The point is, many - possibly most - people who read the Sun wouldn't switch to the Times or the Philosophical Review if the red-tops were banned. They'd just stop reading newspapers altogether.
Personally I prefer what readers here probably consider the lumpen proletariat to get SOME world and political information rather than none. If it takes a delivery vehicle like the Sun to do it, I can live with that.
I read both the NYT and the Economist. The Economist has a wider perspective and is less parochial than the NYT's occasionally very narrow focus on East Coast US politics.
And the Economist doesn't have a fashion section. (And yes, it is a newspaper, albeit a weekly)
Since business processes are patentable (like almost everything else in the good ol' USA) how about patenting patent trolling?
'The accused in this case has blatantly ripped off my client's technique for extracting money from people who have actually done the marketing and development ...'
I can't see this one working. If it's 'in the public interest' to hack private communications on an editor's say-so, then its open season on the inboxes of every MP, public servant and member of the judiciary.
After all, misdeeds on the part of any of the above affect the public interest, so journos are entitled to root around for what they can find, no?
I look forward to Murdoch explaining that to a judge.
Are we going to accept the principle that what you do on the net - legally in your own country - makes you liable for prosecution anywhere in the world that disagrees with that activity?
Thing is, though the US case is understandable, this is a dangerous idea. Just to use a random example, if someone in the USA makes a joking comment about the King of Thailand on his facebook page, he might now find his next holiday in Thailand longer and less pleasant than expected.
International travel is going to be so much fun if we all have to first compare our (legal) internet activities in the past against the laws of whatever country we might visit in the future.
As an example in Iran at the moment, a Canadian sits in jail awaiting the death sentence because he wrote a program which was used to upload porn onto the internet - though he did not do the uploading. (Ok, visiting Iran is a dodgy proposition at any time, but the guy had a sick father there. )
The US is exercising the same principle. That you are liable in their country for activity on the net which is legal in your own country.
Well, all those toys gave us a fair amount of amusement.
I downloaded just the pictures, and we spent about an hour trying to figure out what each one was and how it worked. If you have no idea of the scale, some of these devices are not immediately intuitive.
And there we were thinking it was all about insert part A in slot B. Oh dear.
PS 'Like an industrial sander, and not in a bad way?' How? ... where? ... what ...?
We obviously need a dinosaur icon for types like me ...
"As if I needed another reason to confirm why I stay off social media."
And what exactly do you think the Reg's comment board is? Or did you come on to a social media platform for the specific purpose of telling us that you stay off it?
"Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?"
is "For precisely that reason."
Until data has been given a hostile scrutiny which is unable to find anything wrong with it, it might not be data at all. It could be wishful thinking.
'Sure it may take a thousand years of solar energy hitting a rainforest of one acre size to capture the energy required to power my motor car for 2 minutes down the road.'
A rain forest gets about 438 kilowatt hours per square foot of sunlight - that's per foot, not per acre - and that's per year - not per millennium. Gasoline packs about 33.5 kilowatt hours per gallon. Whatever are you are driving?
I mean, really. Go on and tell us how to run the ecosystem, please do. Just don't let facts get in your way.
But if a kid is doing this on a school night, the issue is bad parenting, not computer games.
If the kid is doing is business into bottles, the issue is a lousy guild, not a lousy game. A guild that can't organize a bathroom break should not be expected to organize a decent raid or anything else.
Still, this article does give a new meaning to playing computer games until the wee hours of the morning.
A couple of times recently I've had to go back to the store and point out that the DVD they sold me is totally borked. Obviously quality control on the copying process is poor to non-existent - and these are fully legit DVDs I'm talking about.
Not to mention that Windows will simply refuse to play some legitimately-purchased DVDs on our computer. In each case a quick visit to a torrent site has produced a clean copy that ran perfectly.
So when legitimate sources provide an unusable product, I get a quick, free and convenient 'pirate' copy of the same material. But the stupidity of it riles me.
'So, unless you want to spend the rest of the year avoiding lift shafts - '
Whew! I knew there was a reason for moving to a small country town. Nearest lift-shaft is approx 260km away. I reckon it's safe to spend the money on beer ...
Are the people in the USA who are buying the cocaine and indirectly paying the Zetas and similar scumbags to commit atrocities such as this.
Pictures of the murdered victims should be shown in clubs and other 'trendy' places where those who think snorting cocaine is just a bit of naughty fun.
You can get the news almost anywhere these days. I like the Economist for its thoughtful and very well-informed opinions of what the news is going to be. (I still remember reading in 2008 'Three reasons why the euro might fail -'Greece, Greece, and Greece.')
The Economist was hard to find in the Canadian backwoods - now it's literally on tap .
'Without the discipline of the Cold War the US appears to have as much future as the Roman Empire.'
That's pretty optimistic, when you think about it. The Roman state lasted from the foundation c. 750 BC until the fall of Constantinople in AD 1453 - or well over 2000 years. The US gained independence in 1776 and so is 235 years old.
Even if we take the most pessimistic view, ignore the Byzantine empire and assume the Roman empire only started in 146 BC (after the third Punic War, when it was undoubtedly an empire) and finished in AD 470 that's 616 years.
Assuming sanity ever returns to the west, our generation will be known as the turkeys who voted for Christmas.
And to make it worse, the motive has been a mixture of stupidity and cowardice. Don't blame the government for our surveillance society. Blame the people who voted for it, no, who demanded it.
Without getting into the tablet v laptop debate, I'll suggest one reason why the iPad is beating the competition.
I have an iPad. My wife was using it more than 50% of the time (try mounting a laptop on a music stand to show sheet music) so we went to get her one of her own.
She's no Apple fan, so asked to see some Android devices at the shop. The first app she tried on the store demo model crashed. So did the second, though it lasted longer. The iPad apps just worked and were faster and smoother. Add a bigger screen and both devices at the same price point, and guess what we went home with?
Here's a hint for the haters. If you want to criticise Apple's iPad, ignore the device and go for the iTunes interface on the PC. This is a user-hating (forget 'unfriendly') counter-intuitive pile of steaming weasel turds.
Because it was a 'transparent attempt to gain evidence ...which could be used to prove discrimination'.
This is no reason to deny the request.
If such evidence exists and if it does prove discrimination, then it should be revealed. If the evidence proves that there was no discrimination, why not reveal it?
This story gives the impression that someone is very keen to hide incriminating facts.
Googly vehicle develops a software glitch (these things happen, believe it or not) and starts to drive straight down the tailpipe of the car ahead.
Human sees the problem, disconnects auto-driver and slams on the brakes - too late to stop the impact, but enough to turn a full-scale collision into a minor fender-bender.
Google PR does much the same sort of damage reduction by pointing out that a human was driving 'at the time of the collision'.
So a highly relevant question should have been 'For how long before the collision was the human in control?'
If you are teaching a course based on what you know, and you've already put that into a book, using that book as course material saves a lot of repetition.
And the publishers don't take a cut. They take the lot, and give the author a cut.
Looking at the case - flat one side, rounded edges on the other - it is probable that falling a considerable distance actually helped.
A longer fall would give the phone time to stabilize from a tumble, and the shape suggests that it would have completed the fall face up in something between a spin and a spiral. Given the amount of surface area involved I doubt air resistance allowed anything like full terminal velocity to be reached.
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Re: "made a close pass within 1.5 miles of the station"
An American spacecraft - but the *International* space station. And that's where they were watching from.
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
R.L. Stevenson 1850 -1894
RIP Scotty!
TMP - the root of all evil
The basic problem with driving (and many other aspects of life in the UK) is simply Too Many People. Everyone sees adverts for cars cruising down empty highways in beautiful scenery, and gets frustrated when reality hits at rush-hour in the rain just outside Birmingham.
Trouble is that most cars are built for those lovely empty highways. Until three-quarters of the UK population disappear down some celestial rabbit hole, it just ain't going to happen.
If you've ever driven in rural North America, you'll know the speed of the other traffic is not really relevant. It only happens every half-hour or so, and when you've got 250km to the next town anyway, slowing down for a minute makes zero difference.
And those are the circumstances in which most cars perform best. For England most people would be best off with a sort of electric bicycle with a large carrying capacity, because let's face it, most city cars only ever have to perform at that level. Too many people for it to be otherwise.
Re: Manslaughter/murder
If a person is (very) terminally ill and in great pain, it is possible to give that person medication which will relieve that pain, even though one of the side effects maybe the death of the person concerned.
However I must stress that IANAL and do *not* try this at home.
Look ...
By all means bash Murdoch - he would be doing the same to anyone else in his situation.
But I respectfully disagree with most of the criticisms of the Sun. No,it's not preferred reading for techies or Oxbridge dons. It's tailored for mass market reading, and is very popular on building sites.
I suspect that some who are criticizing the Sun have not actually read the thing to any extent. I've put in my time on building sites and read it regularly. It's a good product, technically speaking. Well produced, with a clear editorial voice and well-above-average proof-reading.
The point is, many - possibly most - people who read the Sun wouldn't switch to the Times or the Philosophical Review if the red-tops were banned. They'd just stop reading newspapers altogether.
Personally I prefer what readers here probably consider the lumpen proletariat to get SOME world and political information rather than none. If it takes a delivery vehicle like the Sun to do it, I can live with that.
Re: NYT lost relevancy about 10 years ago
The Economist.
I read both the NYT and the Economist. The Economist has a wider perspective and is less parochial than the NYT's occasionally very narrow focus on East Coast US politics.
And the Economist doesn't have a fashion section. (And yes, it is a newspaper, albeit a weekly)
a modest suggestion
Since business processes are patentable (like almost everything else in the good ol' USA) how about patenting patent trolling?
'The accused in this case has blatantly ripped off my client's technique for extracting money from people who have actually done the marketing and development ...'
Re: I actually still have...
I still have the original disks (5in floppies) of Windows 1.0. Am hanging on to them as I reckon they'll be worth something one day.
I can't see this one working. If it's 'in the public interest' to hack private communications on an editor's say-so, then its open season on the inboxes of every MP, public servant and member of the judiciary.
After all, misdeeds on the part of any of the above affect the public interest, so journos are entitled to root around for what they can find, no?
I look forward to Murdoch explaining that to a judge.
Terrorists and paedophiles don't scare me half as much as the Home Office.
aaah ... Bell Canada
Bell Canada has a certain reputation among Canadian consumers.
Articles like this explain how the company got that reputation.
so let's see ...
Are we going to accept the principle that what you do on the net - legally in your own country - makes you liable for prosecution anywhere in the world that disagrees with that activity?
Thing is, though the US case is understandable, this is a dangerous idea. Just to use a random example, if someone in the USA makes a joking comment about the King of Thailand on his facebook page, he might now find his next holiday in Thailand longer and less pleasant than expected.
International travel is going to be so much fun if we all have to first compare our (legal) internet activities in the past against the laws of whatever country we might visit in the future.
As an example in Iran at the moment, a Canadian sits in jail awaiting the death sentence because he wrote a program which was used to upload porn onto the internet - though he did not do the uploading. (Ok, visiting Iran is a dodgy proposition at any time, but the guy had a sick father there. )
The US is exercising the same principle. That you are liable in their country for activity on the net which is legal in your own country.
Good intentions can set dangerous precedents.
Re: Re: So what the hell happens if I post something sue'able on facebook.com
Canada, it would appear.
Re: internet banking
Internet banking: sometimes it makes sense.
Here in Canada, my bank is a half-kilometer down a twisty ice covered road - that is, the bank is 10km away and 1/2km lower down the mountain.
Driving there every time I want to do some basic banking would be utter madness.
Ut fueris dignior IT quam Latinus - de quo ipso ita tecum contendam. In veritam C++ Greacus novus est.
So there.
Well, all those toys gave us a fair amount of amusement.
I downloaded just the pictures, and we spent about an hour trying to figure out what each one was and how it worked. If you have no idea of the scale, some of these devices are not immediately intuitive.
And there we were thinking it was all about insert part A in slot B. Oh dear.
PS 'Like an industrial sander, and not in a bad way?' How? ... where? ... what ...?
We obviously need a dinosaur icon for types like me ...
"As if I needed another reason to confirm why I stay off social media."
And what exactly do you think the Reg's comment board is? Or did you come on to a social media platform for the specific purpose of telling us that you stay off it?
Just asking.
Agreed. The correct answer to the question
"Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it?"
is "For precisely that reason."
Until data has been given a hostile scrutiny which is unable to find anything wrong with it, it might not be data at all. It could be wishful thinking.
what? no seriously, what?
'Sure it may take a thousand years of solar energy hitting a rainforest of one acre size to capture the energy required to power my motor car for 2 minutes down the road.'
A rain forest gets about 438 kilowatt hours per square foot of sunlight - that's per foot, not per acre - and that's per year - not per millennium. Gasoline packs about 33.5 kilowatt hours per gallon. Whatever are you are driving?
I mean, really. Go on and tell us how to run the ecosystem, please do. Just don't let facts get in your way.
But if a kid is doing this on a school night, the issue is bad parenting, not computer games.
If the kid is doing is business into bottles, the issue is a lousy guild, not a lousy game. A guild that can't organize a bathroom break should not be expected to organize a decent raid or anything else.
Still, this article does give a new meaning to playing computer games until the wee hours of the morning.
Golden arches ....
Arch in Latin is 'fornix'. The habit of prostitutes in Rome of, um, entertaining customers under these arches gave rise to the word 'fornicate' .
So dodgy deeds under arches, golden or otherwise, simply maintains an age-old tradition.
Have that 'radiation research' bunch yet figured out that radio waves from the BBC do not in fact make the milk go sour?
another thing...
A couple of times recently I've had to go back to the store and point out that the DVD they sold me is totally borked. Obviously quality control on the copying process is poor to non-existent - and these are fully legit DVDs I'm talking about.
Not to mention that Windows will simply refuse to play some legitimately-purchased DVDs on our computer. In each case a quick visit to a torrent site has produced a clean copy that ran perfectly.
So when legitimate sources provide an unusable product, I get a quick, free and convenient 'pirate' copy of the same material. But the stupidity of it riles me.
'So, unless you want to spend the rest of the year avoiding lift shafts - '
Whew! I knew there was a reason for moving to a small country town. Nearest lift-shaft is approx 260km away. I reckon it's safe to spend the money on beer ...
The Colossus was not a religious undertaking. It was a victory monument with a religious theme.There's a difference.
'Fewer users' shurely?
Indeed
And once we have worked out how to feed the world population in 2050, it will double again.
The world does not need better agriculture as much as it needs better birth control.
No surprise there. I used to drive a Lada (company car). The engine of that thing frequently failed to start as well.
If world war III had started on a cold winter's morning, I reckon most Russian rockets wouldn't have got out of their silos :/
The real killers ...
Are the people in the USA who are buying the cocaine and indirectly paying the Zetas and similar scumbags to commit atrocities such as this.
Pictures of the murdered victims should be shown in clubs and other 'trendy' places where those who think snorting cocaine is just a bit of naughty fun.
The Economist
You can get the news almost anywhere these days. I like the Economist for its thoughtful and very well-informed opinions of what the news is going to be. (I still remember reading in 2008 'Three reasons why the euro might fail -'Greece, Greece, and Greece.')
The Economist was hard to find in the Canadian backwoods - now it's literally on tap .
Works for me.
What a Moran.
About as fast as the rest of the traffic, if its a normal day on the Gardiner expressway.
Hard to tell. The story was slanted.
Didn't the reg report a case a while back of a mast going up and many local kiddies came down with 'radiation sickness'?
Turned out that the mast hadn't been powered up yet ... .
People with this mentality were burning witches a few generations ago.
... and if its the species you expect, you'll call it a draw?
Omnivore ...?
Given that this is a dating website, some clarification might be needed here.
'Without the discipline of the Cold War the US appears to have as much future as the Roman Empire.'
That's pretty optimistic, when you think about it. The Roman state lasted from the foundation c. 750 BC until the fall of Constantinople in AD 1453 - or well over 2000 years. The US gained independence in 1776 and so is 235 years old.
Even if we take the most pessimistic view, ignore the Byzantine empire and assume the Roman empire only started in 146 BC (after the third Punic War, when it was undoubtedly an empire) and finished in AD 470 that's 616 years.
Which gives the USA another 381 years to go.
And I use a stylus with a triangular tip to make cuneiform characters on clay. It's easier than it used to be because now I've got an app for it ...
Assuming sanity ever returns to the west, our generation will be known as the turkeys who voted for Christmas.
And to make it worse, the motive has been a mixture of stupidity and cowardice. Don't blame the government for our surveillance society. Blame the people who voted for it, no, who demanded it.
>>'Who writes mentor with a capital m?'
Those people who are referring to the original Greek hero Mentor in Homer's epic poem The Iliad.
Obviously.
both are too expensive, but ...
Without getting into the tablet v laptop debate, I'll suggest one reason why the iPad is beating the competition.
I have an iPad. My wife was using it more than 50% of the time (try mounting a laptop on a music stand to show sheet music) so we went to get her one of her own.
She's no Apple fan, so asked to see some Android devices at the shop. The first app she tried on the store demo model crashed. So did the second, though it lasted longer. The iPad apps just worked and were faster and smoother. Add a bigger screen and both devices at the same price point, and guess what we went home with?
Here's a hint for the haters. If you want to criticise Apple's iPad, ignore the device and go for the iTunes interface on the PC. This is a user-hating (forget 'unfriendly') counter-intuitive pile of steaming weasel turds.
The request was denied ...
Because it was a 'transparent attempt to gain evidence ...which could be used to prove discrimination'.
This is no reason to deny the request.
If such evidence exists and if it does prove discrimination, then it should be revealed. If the evidence proves that there was no discrimination, why not reveal it?
This story gives the impression that someone is very keen to hide incriminating facts.
/^v.+b$/iAnd since someone will want to know
Ore stabit fortis arare placet ore stat
Literally
'It will stand away from the mouth, the strong love to plough, it stands away from the mouth.'
/^v.+b$/iI'll go for
if
life=0
wait X
run 'system_reboot.exe'
end
don't forget
Windows (TM)
So ...
Here's a scenario ...
Googly vehicle develops a software glitch (these things happen, believe it or not) and starts to drive straight down the tailpipe of the car ahead.
Human sees the problem, disconnects auto-driver and slams on the brakes - too late to stop the impact, but enough to turn a full-scale collision into a minor fender-bender.
Google PR does much the same sort of damage reduction by pointing out that a human was driving 'at the time of the collision'.
So a highly relevant question should have been 'For how long before the collision was the human in control?'
Not the point ...
If you are teaching a course based on what you know, and you've already put that into a book, using that book as course material saves a lot of repetition.
And the publishers don't take a cut. They take the lot, and give the author a cut.
no, no
Who says just the chair was in the box.
The only way to be sure is to nuke the site from orbit.
Some easy questions ...
Has anyone correlated the heat signatures of Mars and Venus with Earth? Is solar activity warming other planets?
How much has the average global temperature risen in the past two decades?
All the articles I've read on the BBC and elsewhere don't seem to have the answer, yet it is hard to discuss AGW without this basic information.
case?
Looking at the case - flat one side, rounded edges on the other - it is probable that falling a considerable distance actually helped.
A longer fall would give the phone time to stabilize from a tumble, and the shape suggests that it would have completed the fall face up in something between a spin and a spiral. Given the amount of surface area involved I doubt air resistance allowed anything like full terminal velocity to be reached.
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