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This assumes a single linear timestream.
If you're the "being", and you're running a simulation of some system, you can absolutely create many parallel timestreams with different initial conditions. You can even return to some point in the simulation and try several intermediate conditions, resulting in different causal outcomes.
The many worlds interpretation would absolutely allow agency on the part of such a "being".
15% of people believe the US government was responsible for the 9/11 attacks[1]. 42% of Britons believe that the UK sends £350M a week to the EU[2]. If voters make decisions based on such beliefs, I'd expect material damage to democracy.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_con...
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vote-leave-br...
"I read that magazine": do I mean regularly, or that I have done in the past?
"The messenger wrote down Lincoln's address": was that his home, or his speech?
The context would need to be quite explicit to work around problems such as this.
Put another way: If I clearly don't care about their families, then I clearly don't care about their families.
Distribution.
Screen readers apply their transform to source content. By becoming that source (regardless of transform) you are distributing it with control of all the benefits involved, such as community, traffic, and ultimately revenue.
If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
This isn't even close to true. It doesn't cover:
- National security
- Healthcare policy and resourcing
- Welfare and pensions policy
- Education policy
...which, not coincidentally, are the highest budgeted functions of the UK government[1].
I should also include criminal justice and fiscal policy (seeing as the UK is non-Eurozone), and that the UK has competence over non-eu migration and asylum; this is politically important but not a large budget item on its own.
There are cooperation and collaboration elements of the above (particularly in the area of common defence), but that's not to say that the policies are EU competencies. For example, freedom-of-movement rules require that pensions must be paid by the country in which they were insured, even if the individual is paid that pension in a different country. However, one country might have a pensionable age of 60 where another is 67.
[1] http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/government_expenditure.htm...
Only in areas where the EU has competence, and these are explicitly enumerated in various treaties; by default, the EU has no competence, so it only has powers to legislate where those powers are explicitly agreed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_conferral
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3...
Example: In education it's important for students to learn a wide range of things about a subject, even things they didn't know that they needed. This is why self-taught students often have large but important holes in their knowledge; they simply didn't know what they had to study, so they didn't look for it.
If you know that you don't know something, that's a "known unknown", and you can plan to research it. If you don't know that you don't know something, then that's an unknown unknown, and that's a much harder problem to fix without external help or accidental discovery.
If you work as a team leader, manager, or senior programmer, it's absolutely a must-read. I can't recommend it more highly than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Project...
There's some mandala drawings in Revelation Space (Philip Lascaille draws them on the pavement in chalk), and there are huge structures called Mandalas in the second and third parts of the Poseidon's Children series. Is it possible that this is what you refer to?
Way overbroad interpretation. The Civil Rights Act prohibits refusal of some kinds of service based on race, color, religion or national origin, and it's pretty much the only national law (in the US) that's relevant here (I'm not counting the 14th amendment or more specific laws e.g. for disabilities).
Notably, there's no federal law protecting supporters of gay marriage. They're state-specific laws, and not at all universal.
This is missing out the vast midrange of working musicians (or erstwhile working musicians who still play a lot privately).
In the Fender world, collectors might buy old or particularly prestigious models, but your standard MIA Strat is a working guitar that won't necessarily appreciate in value but isn't typically bought by beginners (or collectors, for that matter). Same with many other brands (such as those you'd see played by guitar bands); while Ibanez or Jackson might have a relatively cheap model aimed at beginners, they also make rock-solid working guitars that you see played in your local bar or club, or in studio, or on stadium stages, but not in a collector's vault.
The effect comes from what the government does with that poll, and the high court has ruled that the government cannot act without parliament's consent. To be absolutely clear: The referendum had no legal effect beyond being an opinion poll.