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If Bourdieu had been American, he would have put much more emphasis on race and dialect, I think.

It's also the case that the US is much larger than France, so the kind of world where 400 people in New York really mattered stopped existing.

Erm, British management is also famously terrible.

Coal has horrible externalities and its demise is a good thing.

British iron ore is not very rich, and it never was; Britain has imported iron ore since the 19th century. Given how cheap it is to ship iron by sea, it's very hard to justify using low-grade ore that has to be moved by rail.

Because of the large size of the manufacturers, a medium-size country will only have a couple of them, leaving it vulnerable to mismanagement like what happened at British Leyland, AMC, Chrysler, Nissan, ...

It wasn't terribly clear how rights became extinguished by time for Thomas Littleton, who published his "Tenures" in 1481 or 1482. In chapter 38 of the first Statute of Westminster (3 Edw. I, c. 38) of 1275, they put time limits on various writs.

"It is Provided, That in conveying a Descent in a Writ of Right, none shall [presume] to declare of the Seisin of his ancestor further, or beyond the time of King Richard, Uncle to King Henry [III], Father of the King that now is"

Which is to say, 1189, 86 years earlier. Other writs were limited to the voyage of King Henry III in Gascony (1230?), and others still to his coronation in 1216.

Now according to [1], other limitations were put under Henry VIII, until the act of 1832, where they made it clear that its limitations were the ones to use, and not the old standard of the reign of Richard I, from the Statute of Westminster.

[1] https://welpartners.com/blog/2019/07/time-whereof-the-memory...

What was then called the "lower crankcase member", which was also the lower part of the transmission housing, we would refer to as an oilpan. The cranksshaft ran in bearings located between the cylinder blocks and the bearing caps, like on a modern engine. There was no separate crank case and cylinder block like you might find on, say a WWII aero V12.

If by "the high middle ages" you mean "2025", then you are right. Priests in de-facto marriages are still super common.

> From what I understand, if the genetic lineage is particularly elite, you might keep more.

You mean like Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

My reading is that the examiner thought "advanced custom fields" was too generic. WPE had until Oct. 19 to file a response or ask for an extension, and they asked for an extension on Oct. 4.

For "ACF" however, the examiner didn't see a problem and it has been published in the Federal Register. It will be registered if no one files an opposition during the publication period.

You don't need to have a registered trademark to sue for trademark infringement; registration does make it easier to assert your trademark and can increase damage in a court case.

Martine [1] is a series of French-language children's book. They have simple titles like "Martine à la ferme" (Martine at the farm) or "Martine fait du camping" (Martine goes camping).

"Martine écrit en UTF-8" is what you get if you interpret the UTF-8 string "Martine écrit en UTF-8" (Martine writes in UTF-8) as Latin-1. It's not as common as it once was, but that kind of encoding issue used to be encountered fairly often by French speakers on the Web.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_(character)

That's an EMD (division of General Motors) F40PH diesel-electric locomotive, not a gasoline locomotive. Gasoline locomotive did exist, but they were much smaller and usually served in mines or industrial railways.

Even with the engine disabled, the electric components and other parts will still be useful to the many railways still running F40 locomotives (like VIA rail in Canada).

It refers to a button featured on some laptops in the late 2000s, that started up an alternative, lighter OS installed by the manufacturer, to avoid the loading time of Windows Vista on magnetic hard drives.

Cathode Ray Dude has a series about these OSes called Quick Start.

The NTSB found that it was actually that the 11/12 node region was too weak as designed, an error that wasn't caught by the reviewer.

The same problem exists on the granite walls of Laurier Station in the Montreal Metro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurier_station_%28Montreal_Me... (picture)

Texas has expansive clay in much of the state. This type of clay makes basements impractical.

Nah, I think it refers to the fact that popular printing items, like the Bible or popular books that stayed in print more or less indefinitely would be stereotyped, that is an imprint of the pages would be taken, then a used as a mold to cast a plate that could be used while the type slugs could be re-used for something else.

A large part of the printing business was to print fill-in-the-blank business stationary, like orders, invoices, etc.

So a stereotype came to mean a standard form that you could adapt to whatever context by just changing a few details.

In the early days of aviation there were actually rotary engines that were like radials, but where the entire engine rotated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine

The biggest use case of a throat microphone is to do an accurate version of "Ich liebst dich nicht du liebst mich nicht" part of "Da da da" by Trio (you also need a mini casio for the "tut-tut-tut tut-tut-tut-tut" beepy riff)

The 5-foot gauge used in Russia is much narrower than Brunel's 7-foot gauge, and only 85 mm wider than standard gauge. 5-foot gauge was actually used a fair bit in the South until May 30 and June 1, 1886, when they converted to 4'9" gauge.

The Federal government can't agree to compromises on healthcare matters; that's provincial jurisdiction. It can't agree on compromises on border vaccination; that's US jurisdiction.

Normal shotgun rounds are filled with a number of pellets; the smaller the pellet, the more you can fit. Birdshot: small pellets in large number, Buckshot: large-ish pellets in small number. A slug is a massive (18.5 mm diameter for 12 gauge) single projectile used in a shotgun shell.

Sovkhoz? That's what they called them in the soviet union.

Eiffel might be another.

Local agricultural optimums in Northern Europe played a role too. How good was agriculture in the Parisian basin during the late Roman empire? Was it possible for farmers to get the iron implements and draft animals needed to make heavy soils productive?

Separating the Middle East/North Africa and Europe on the "dominant state" chart is an interesting choice, since the Roman Empire controlled most of both for centuries. Controlling a large portion of Europe is difficult unless you're a maritime-ish power with access to the Mediterranean.

Dvorak

That the authors are more concerned with this or that isn't the point. Mr Stallman is being rejected _pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre_ and his behaviour at MIT is entirely sufficient to shun him.

None of that really matters; RMS is a serial harasser, he has no place in any self-respecting organization.

First sentence of the annex: RMS has a history of mistreating women and making them feel uncomfortable, unsafe, and unwelcome. For incidents relating to RMS and MIT, please see 0.

Does that not miss the point of decades of unacceptable behavior by RMS, harassing women in person, etc., and the email thing just being the straw that broke the camel's back?

But then we already knew that.

https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-007-p...

a grad student with an e added to the grad, I think.

In 1912, the recording equipment would have been quite conspicuous.