Worlds in Collision
Velikovsky was right! Right I tell you!!!!!!!!
Thank you nurse, it's the one with the straps that tie up at the back.
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The Universal Credit IT has been working well during the Pathfinder
They may actually believe this. Because each layer of civil servants is polishing up the report from the previous layer before it goes up to the next layer, to make themselves look good.
By the time it gets to the top the report is that everything is working fine, and it's only much later when the problems can't be disguised that the people at the top find out what's really been happening.
Am I really the first with the James Nicoll quote?
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
"We believe that linguists should make more effort to develop German alternatives to new English words, particularly in the scientific and technological arena."
No! Particularly NOT in those areas. There is a reason that science uses Latin and Greek words, and names units after the names of people. It is so that they are the same in all languages, and do not need to be translated. So that science is universally available to everyone regardless of their native language.
Bosch signed up to FRAND and agreed that those patents would be available under those terms.
Bosch took actions which meant that the patents were no longer available under FRAND.
Therefore Bosch must compensate in full all costs including legal costs, loss of sales, administration etc. to the firms which are being sued.
Prison labour is a problem because the prison can undercut other suppliers by paying low or no wages and not bothering to provide decent (or safe?) working conditions.
So it tends to lead to fewer jobs and poorer pay and conditions in the area round the prison.
And that's without adding in the extended hours and forced intensive work described here.
The US talks about upholding the rule of law?
UN Convention Against Torture: Article 2
Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.
No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture.
"You are assuming that they will not charge any of the batteries they have swapped out and will simply stock up until re-collected or sent to another station for collection by their owner."
I'm understanding from the story as written by El Reg that they will charge all of the batteries they have swapped out. But that these will then have to be held in stock or sent to another station because they will have to be returned to the original owner.
If that's wrong, please explain in the context of what the story is stating:
"The batteries that are swapped in are just loaners. Each swapping station will stock about 50 batteries, which drivers are expected eventually to return in exchange for their own, original batteries. Their batteries will be fully charged, but they'll have to pay for a second swap to get them back."
Those swapped out batteries are as I understand the story being held for a re-swap to their original owners. So can't be used for other customers. So they can service a maximum of 50 Tesla owners having swap-out batteries at any one time.
It might work if Tesla owners are extremely rare. As I said in the title, it had better not get too popular. Look at the numbers of cars through a busy filling station, and work out what proportion could be Tesla owners if the maximum is 50.
"The batteries that are swapped in are just loaners. Each swapping station will stock about 50 batteries, which drivers are expected eventually to return in exchange for their own, original batteries."
That implies that once they have swapped out their 50 loaner batteries they have to wait for one of them to come back before they can serve their 51st customer.
At the average supermarket filling station on a reasonably busy day, how long would it take for them to get through 50 customers?
It's standard practice for the US and UK to swap intelligence
The Internet Witch Hunt Foundation have already cost me considerable time trying to find out why I couldn't get through to Wikipedia, when they decided that the entire site should be censored due to a single image they didn't like.
Now they have lots more funding to save us from ourselves.
Still I suppose it cuts down on the spare time they have to peer through their neighbours' windows to try to find something they can complain about having to see.
Anyone want to lay bets on how long before the mission creep starts and we get blocked from anything the government thinks it's better that we don't know?
The CIA and the NSA are indeed forbidden to spy on US citizens.
MI6 and GCHQ are forbidden to spy on UK citizens.
They just happen to share intelligence information with each other