My understanding is that they don't 'suck' as such (like a mosquito), but rather create a wound and lap at the blood which emerges.
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I hate than many providers now consider updates to Twitter/ Other social media sufficient and do not bother to publish to their own website!
The UK is also a FPTP system, but has strong parties outside of the two main, for instance in the last general election over 42% of people voted for a party other than Labour or the Conservatives.
[admittedly that’s an outlier, but looking over the last few elections at least around 20% went to parties outside of the big two]
That sounds like behaviour which should be encouraged.
By which I mean, don't come in guns-blazing because someone does something which comes close to infringing on your copyright/trade-mark and try to shut-them-down. Have an appreciation of the subtleties and try to agree a good solution for everyone.
Or to put it another way -
UK - 2,643,732 codes, 1 code per 25 people,
USA - 41,700 codes, 1 code per 8000 people,
Germany - 8,200 codes, 1 code per 10000 people,
This means that post-codes are often used as a proxy for an exact location - e.g. if I am going to visit a relative, I can enter their postcode into my sat-nav, and be confident that most of the time I'll get to within a hundred meters of their location.
This doesn't work so well in rural area or on large estates where the access point may different from the location, leading to places sometimes advertising a different postcode to put into your sat-nav (e.g. of where the site entrance is) to that of the location itself.
That's a distinction you are making - that books cannot or should not be updated, whilst web pages can/should be. It's no longer intrinsic to the nature of a book as a digital text.
Perhaps a list of heads-of-state is a silly example to use, but a text-book may be a better example - in a digital world it may be a reasonable expectation that a text-book would be 'correct', and so receiving updates would be appropriate. Or a particle physics data-sheet, where an updated value for the mass of a particle could be included.
Of course this should be consensual - "The publisher has provided an update to this text. Please accept, reject or review the changes", and it would be great if e-books and readers had a mechanism to scroll back and forward through editions (but perhaps that is a pipe-dream).
> I have old astronomy books that indicate the visual appearance of Mars changes due to seasonal vegetation! This was obviously updated in later editions; the old edition remains as an important historical record of what we once thought.
That's pretty much what I said in my comment. Sometimes the historical context is important, valuable or interesting.
Admittedly that's actually a more complicated when it comes to electronic texts which may be automatically updated.
If it is a novel, then clearly not. A fact-book, that lists the current heads-of-state of all world nations, then possibly yes.
It's ultimately a decision for the author/publisher for each book. Is this a living text that should be kept up-to-date, or a historical record - after all, a book which lists all of the heads-of-state in 1958 is also valuable for different contexts.
Perhaps more importantly - if a book says something dangerous - like a cook-book saying "add a few flakes of cyanide for flavour" is that grounds for an update, or editors note in an otherwise historical record text?
In fact, to be honest I'd not be convinced that it works even in over-18s.
But it does mean that defeating the bot would only mean creating a custom grid, which sounds very practical virtually, and possible (but harder) in person.
This is the one which annoys me most, and so I have to have a 'staging area' for unpaired socks which are awaiting their unwashed partners.
Seriously though, it’s not a good question since it depends not only on the person, but also on the organisation. Sometimes the right response is to try and fix it, sometimes to report it to office management, and even in some organisations they’ve been so on the ball there would be no reason to even report it because they’d havea repair organised already.
But to be honest, I'd also say it's not that useful for me personally. It's a lot easier to remember your destination and fight-time - (i.e. I'm on the 19:30 to Berlin) than a flight-number, and only once do I think there was ever the potential for confusion).
[You experience may vary, especially if you are are used to flying a busy flight corridor.]
>You don’t see England trying to improve itself, do you?
This felt unnecessary.
> Cook and Wilson (2010b) subsequently trained two university students to a level superior to the chimpanzee.
Sounds like humans do in fact win.
Wikipedia: Oxygen
> Lavoisier renamed 'vital air' to oxygène in 1777 from the Greek roots ὀξύς (oxys) (acid, literally 'sharp', from the taste of acids) and -γενής (-genēs) (producer, literally begetter), because he mistakenly believed that oxygen was a constituent of all acids.
Hydrogen comes from ‘water’, which contains hydrogen and oxygen.
So, since all acids must have Hydrogen, Oxygen is actually a better name for Hydrogen. This then leaves the name Hydrogen free for Oxygen.