I think it depends on the convention used in each country, so there isn't one global correct answer.
In Britain the convention is Ground, 1st Floor, 2nd Floor.
I think it depends on the convention used in each country, so there isn't one global correct answer.
In Britain the convention is Ground, 1st Floor, 2nd Floor.
'Enterstela' is an anagram of 'Arse Nettle', if that helps.
I know it doesn't help, but Europeans have always been amazed how much you guys were charged for SMS. Even in 1999, over here messages cost a fraction of what you were charged - that you pay for them at all these days is just mind-boggling.
But they're not taken from you - they still happened.
No actual harm has happened. Nothing changes the fact that you had a conversation. You are no poorer for it being hidden.
I know it's said a lot, but if you don't want to play by someone else's rules, you can set up your own instance. Every single thing on here is the result of someone just setting up their own instance. Honestly, it's never been easier than it is now.
This. It's less to do with religion, and everything to do with human nature.
From Ancient Egyptian Priests and Medieval Christianity, to Donald Trump and Boris Johnson - when in times of uncertainty, people will turn to anyone claiming to have all the answers.
"Us Vs Them" is the oldest tactic when it comes to gaining and consolidating power.
Is that actually true? I suspect not.
Most people start "enjoying their own company" years before getting to try for real.
If there was a question of insensitivity, then surely problems would be much more prevalent at ages when people are enjoying themselves more frequently. But it's not the case at all.
There's a couple of things to consider when thinking about this.
Firstly, dividing the total by the number of tax payers and concluding that everyone should pay £569 is misleading. Wealthy people pay far more tax than most people (still not enough IMHO!) and as such the per-person cost is wildly different for everyone too.
Secondly, consider your position - your chances of success, and the possible range of success, depends hugely on your parents' circumstances and those of other close people in your life.
So we have this clear chain of success breeding success - wealthy people can afford to give their children the kind of start in life that us poor spuds can only dream of.
A huge number of wealthy families used slavery to amass and increase their wealth massively. These families are still wealthy, still benefitting from the leg-up they were given on the backs of slaves.
These families are the ones who, ultimately through tax, would end up contributing the most. Us plebs would be paying relatively little.
Even if your family didn't own slaves, or exploit them directly, they'll almost certainly have benefited from their existence. I live in a mill town north of Manchester - the very reason for this town's existence is cotton, ultimately picked by slaves abroad. The money came from businesses and trade that relied on slavery.
Also, at the time, in the west, Al Qaida were a largely unknown terrorist cell operating in far-away third-world countries. It seemed incredible that such a devastating attack could be carried out on US soil by a small group most people had never heard of.
You've have some examples, but in case they are not clear enough:
If [you have AIDS] then [you are unwell]
[You are unwell] if and only if [you have AIDS]
The first one is not the same as the second. Why? There are plenty of ways to be unwell, without necessary developing AIDS.
The first statement only defines one possible path to B, not all of them.
Maybe I am being obtuse - but I really don't see what it is you think you've had taken from you.
The conversation, the exchange of information, is intangible and transient by its very nature. You don't own the conversation. There's nothing about it to own.
If you think there's some obligation on the part of the moderator to preserve the transcripts of conversations that you've taken part in, even against their own better judgement, then I'm sorry but I don't see it.
But anyway, like I said - if you set up your own instance, you can keep those threads open for as long as you like.
I'd imagine history has a huge amount to do with this.
In Britain, the age of consent is 16. The age at which you can get married is also 16.
It's also illegal to sell alcohol to children under 18 (unless alongside a meal, with an adult accompanying them, in which case 16). It's not actually illegal to drink alcohol underage, and it's not uncommon in the slightest for parents to allow their kids to try their drinks at any age.
Britain is an old place though, so I guess things are this way because of centuries, possibly millennia of inertia.
The US is a young country, and as a result the laws are far most maliable - particularly by lobbyists. Puritans push the age limit of 'sinful' things up, capitalists keep the age limit of indulgences low.
As @princessleiascat said, I think you're assuming that most people can relate to this, but the truth is that they can't. I've never had a comment deleted from YouTube - ever.
As a creator, I've deleted the occasional comment someone else has made on my content, though.
This is why most people are defaulting to the position that maybe it's more about what you are writing, rather than a broken system.
I started university in 1999. Pretty much everyone had a mobile phone there. They were fairly new, granted, but they were pretty ubiquitous.
I'm only going to tackle the tech side of this...
How difficult would it be for AI photo apps to filter out words, so someone cannot make anyone naked?
Easy. The most popular apps all filter for keywords, and I know that at least some then check the output against certain blacklisted criteria to make sure it hasn't let something slip through.
But...
Anyone can host their own version and disable these features, allowing them to generate whatever they want, in the exactly same way that anyone can write their own story containing whatever they want. All you need is the determination to do it, and some modicum of ability.
People have been been creating dodgy doctored photos long before computers. When Photoshop came out, it became easier, and with AI it's easier still. The current laws about creating and distributing indecent images still apply to these new images though.
I'm not trying to downplay the reality of serious health concerns sometimes being behind food habits, but I think I need to say...
Picky eating is an absolutely normal part of child development. Anecdotally, both of my kids went through two distinct phases of picky eating, at around 3-5 and 8-11.
They gradually grow out of it. All you can do is try to make sure what they are eating is nutritious enough while they are going through it.
Seems that a lot of people have said something similar, but FWIW...
I've been able to move my left eyebrow by itself for as long as I can remember.
I taught myself to move the right eyebrow in 15 minutes standing in front of a mirror. This was about 20 years ago and I can still do it.
For anyone interested, as people have said, it's about isolating and learning the 'instruction' that does it. In this case, seeing as I could raise both eyebrows together, I just did that repeatedly whilst holding the left one in place with my fingers. Fifteen minutes later, and I could do it without needing the fingers.
Dry cereal always worked (still does!) as a nutritious snack. Granted, the nutrition has all been sprayed on, but it's still there.
A little mixed tub of Cornflakes/Branflakes/Rice Crispies/Coco Pops always goes down well.
Nerf Herder have a song called Courtney about Courtney Love.
I always wanted a Nokia - I know it was a cliche, but I was amazed at how indestructible they were. Even when they did actually break apart, you could just pick up the bits, clip them back together, and it would just work again - with no visible damage.
Also, SNAKE
The romans called the area Judaea....land of the Jews.
Just a quick correction here. Judaea is actually named after Judah, son of Jacob.
The word 'Jew' comes from the place name Judaea, not the other way around.
Yikes - and I thought I overanalyzed my text messages
That isn't how free speech works.
All it means is that the government can't stop you from saying what you want. It doesn't mean that you can say whatever you want with no repercussions.
YouTube is not the government. It has terms and conditions that you agree to when you sign up. They have a right to delete your comments. You do not have the right to post whatever you want.
Sorry, but that's the truth of it. If you circumvent the built in filters, then users can still downvote / report you and creators can still delete your messages.
Brilliant answer,
I'll chip in, just due to how counter-intuitive it is, but trochee is not pronounced how it is spelled.
It's Tro-key (kind of like smokey)
"300 m/s ought to be enough for anybody"
I've literally just bought a Pixel 5 because it was the smallest high-spec phone I could afford.
Although this thread is a month too late for me, I'm glad to have found it - I honestly felt like I was the only person in the world who didn't want a big phone.
*M Night Shyamalan taking notes
Hey, as a former lecturer, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and see this as research.
How would this sudden mass unemployment affect the world? One angle to look at this from is the point of view of the average person.
If people's needs are still met, then they'll be able to live happy and fulfilled lives, with more time for happiness and leisure.
If people's needs are not met, however, they'll suffer.
It's probably worth keeping in mind that history has shown that whenever big advances in technology have taken place (the Industrial Revolution, industrial automation, computers) there are people who always jump to the worst possible conclusion. The reality is always that some people are worse off, but most people are better off.
There's also the risk of identity theft, people contacting your place of work, and other intrusions into your life.
You could find solace in hard determinism.
This was always going to be the way it happened.
Your actions were determined by your biology and life experience up to that point. Likewise, the other person acted how they did according to their biology and experience.
The gears of the universe turned in the only way they were going to turn, and the outcome you got was the only one that was ever going to happen.
It doesn't mean that you can't now act upon it moving forward, but hopefully there's some calm to be had in knowing that what has already happened was always going to happen. It's just a tiny artifact of the vast and intricate clockwork of the universe.
This is what I do too. For double letters draw a tidgy little circle on the key - that should be enough to let the text recognition know what you want. It's a useful movement just to have as part of your swipe-typing technique.
That's it.
People sitting on huge piles of money like selfish old dragons are the reason that the world is in the state it is. Money only helps people when it is spent.
Fact 1 - sexually active people subconsciously look at peoples' crotches when meeting them.
Fact 2 - evolution doesn't fine tune things if they're good enough to get the job done well.
So the fact that pubic hairs are unsightly crazy-looking things might not be because they are fine tuned to be like that - it might just be because they do their job well enough and they just ended up looking like that.
What job could that be?
To confirm visually that you are sexually mature.
That may literally be it - a localised fuzzy indicator of whether or not you're able to make babies.
I guess the USA famously uses rendition flights and offshore detention centres, so maybe the plot twist is the other 'US' is actually the USA?
I kind of agree, but there is an issue with this.
Even within England, the difference in pronunciation from region to region means that there can be no 'true' pronunciation. Add to that the weird a/o vowel, the t/d thing and odd emphasis on 'r's at the ends of words that many Americans use, or the wholesale reassignment of vowel sounds that New Zealand uses, and you'll find that any 'proper' way to spell things is not how the majority of the world says it.
The biggest issue is that English is an exceptionally fluid spoken language, but began solidifying as a written language hundreds of years ago.
Even if we did a do-over of the spellings in written English, it would fall out of sync with the spoken language very quickly.
I'm really lucky in that I learned "what goes around comes around" at a relatively early age.
When I was 16/17, the main bully from my secondary school died. He'd taken a car to go joyriding and lost control when being chased by the police.
As I've gotten older, I've learnt that, while it can sometimes take a long time, people who treat other people badly get what's coming to them more often than not.
I've always viewed the decline in incidences of Morris Dancing within my lifetime as a reassuring sign of progress.
Authenticity.
Totalitarianism is usually easy to identify. A corrupt democracy still has a veneer of legitimacy in a way that an out-and-out totalitarian regime does not.
Maybe people have different reasons. The world is a big place, and the people many and varied.
Primary sources? No, but there are independent secondary sources by people with no skin in the game.
Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus (circa 93–94 CE).
Annals by Tacitus (circa 116 CE)
The earliest Christian writings are also more about the teachings of a disruptive Jewish preacher who was then crucified, than they are about magic.
This. There is evidence that a preacher called Jesus existed, was crucified, and was well-regarded enough to start a following that persisted even after his death.
There isn't, however, strong historical evidence for any of the magical parts of it.