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I'll give you the U.S. version. As John Burgess notes, it's different in every country.I can only speak for the State Department route -- FSOs also can come from Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture, and USAID, and their paths are all different. I can also only speak for FSO Generalists (what most people think of when they think of FSOs). Specialists, such as Diplomatic Security, Foreign Service Couriers, IT, etc. are also FSOs, but each career field there has its own tests and requirements. Things may change in the process since I underwent it -- you can always find the most up-to-date requirements at http://careers.state.gov.It's not easy. It's a grueling series of tests, clearances, and background checks that lasts anywhere from a one and a half to three years -- if you make it through each stage on the first try. Most do not succeed for several attempts, if at all. Less than a few hundred candidates pass each year out of tens of thousands of applicants, and the test can only be taken once per year. And of those that do eventually manage to pass the exams, hiring invitations are only becoming more selective as budgets tighten.However, it's almost purely a merit-based process based largely on you as a candidate. The only realistic necessities are a college degree and life experiences. For instance, my class included members as widely diverse as a 22 year old recent college grad (and not from an Ivy League either, though we did have plenty of those); to former Army Rangers (enlisted); to a full USAF Colonel (E-6); to a life-long Peace Corps Volunteer in his 50's just barely under the maximum age. Of course, we also had the stereotypical "Pale, Male, and Yale" types as well. So it's no joke when they say that really anyone can become an FSO.To start, you have to register and take the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT), which is sort of a general knowledge test on everything from history, to law and politics, to economics and trade. It's also got a written essay section and a biographical component in which you rank and self-assess. In this process you'll select a 'cone' which (theoretically) will guide the assignments for the rest of your career: Political, Consular, Economic, Management, or Public Diplomacy. If you pass the written FSOT, you move on to a series of personal narrative questions, these are basically short answer assignments (limited to like 100 words) in which you describe a bit more about yourself and past experiences. I call it a "resume review". It's a completely opaque process -- nobody knows exactly what the assessors are looking for at this stage, and it is widely assumed that it is used as a 'cut' stage to cut the applicant pool down to a particular size (as in some years it has been particularly brutal while in other years much less so -- even the exact same responses can pass one year and fail another). Those surviving candidates are then invited to take the Foreign Service Oral Assessment (FSOA, or 'OA'). The OA is a full day assessment including an interview, a group negotiation exercise (on which you are judged both individually and as a group) and a written case memo. Everyone who receives an invite to the OA is supposed to be capable of passing; however, passage rates for any given OA session tend to run between 10%-40%. At the conclusion of the OA, those applicants who pass will be given a score, which can be adjusted for veterans preference and bonus points for language fluency in critical or super-critical needs language.They'll move on to begin their medical clearance and security clearance. The medical clearance involves a physical clearing you for worldwide assignment, and the security clearance is for a Top Secret (TS) level clearance, which is another potential place for many candidates can fail out of the process. The clearance process can last from a matter of weeks to several years, depending on backlogs and the complexity of the case. Finally, there is a "final suitability review", which is sort of a catch-all review process for any red flags that may have been raised that aren't under the remit of the medical or security clearances.After all of that, the candidate will get placed on a hiring register for their cone; each cone's register is separate. Your modified score determines your ever-changing rank on the register. Highest score goes first, with length of time on register sorting ties. Each candidacy lasts on the register for 18 months -- since you can take the test once per year this allows you to theoretically be on more than one cone's register at once (though you can only apply for one cone per attempt. So the registers are constantly shifting as names come on and fall off, people add bonus points for demonstrating language fluency, hiring is announced, etc.Every so often, a new FSO class will be announced (specifically, it's hiring for a start date of the junior officer course, called "A-100"). In expansive hiring environments this could be every month or two. In tighter budgets, it can be a few months between courses. State figures out how many FSOs they need for a class which could be anywhere from a couple dozen to nearly a hundred, and sends out hiring invites. Invites go from the top of the register, starting with the highest rank, down until they run out (skipping over individuals on "do-not-call" status, indicating that they know they will not be available for hiring before specific point). You can decline an invitation once; after that you're removed from the register if you are invited again and are not ready to accept the invitation.Upon accepting your invite, you'll then start going through the HR process to begin your new career as a Foreign Service Officer. It may still be another year or two in further training before you begin assignments. Or, you may be like me and have a short training pipeline and be headed off to post within a few months of starting A-100. Either way, you're now part of one of the smallest and most exclusive communities within the U.S. government, having beaten over 95% of other applicants to one of the most prestigious jobs in federal service.I got my invite lying on a hospital bed with a tube up my nose after a bad run of the flu. It was still an incredible feeling. I was fortunate and passed everything on my first try, and had a relatively easy time through clearances. When I was placed on the political register I was in the mid 100's out of 260 something, but with my veteran's preference points and a lot of hiring at the time, I moved up to around 30 within three or four months, and got my invite relatively quickly. Start to finish it took me around a year and a half.On the other hand, if I were applying again, I would not have been hired with the same score, and there are much fewer positions available in today's hiring environment than there were in my A-100 class. Even a few months in either direction, and the hiring patterns would have been different enough that I wouldn't have gotten my invite so quickly, if at all. And I definitely would not have been hired were it not for veteran's preference. Having either veteran's points or bonus points from speaking a language (or both) is so critical that it's almost necessary to be competitive.

That depends on how you define “operating system”.It’s entirely possible (and in fact, fairly easy) to create an application that runs directly on the hardware, without booting a separate operating system. In a *typical* case, programs like this are run inside a virtual machine manager, so you still have an underlying OS, but that’s not actually required for the program to run.On the other hand, you could argue that in doing so, you haven’t actually removed the OS—you’ve just created an OS and application that happen to be bound together into a single executable image.Whether you consider that a monolithic OS/application or an application without an OS depends almost entirely on how you define the term “operating system”. Most accepted definitions of the term would exclude it—most specifically include things like the ability to control multiple applications. By that definition, no an OS clearly isn’t necessary.Other definitions focus primarily (or exclusively) on the OS providing an abstracted view of the machine and peripherals, with control over multiple applications as something that’s usually provided, but not a strict requirement for something to qualify as an OS. If you prefer that definition, then most of the systems that let you create a monolithic application that runs on bare hardware probably qualify as an operating system, and the operating system is much closer to an absolute necessity.Even then you could make a case that it’s possible though. If you write code that deals directly with specific hardware (without any abstractions) you don’t have much that could be considered an operating system by even the most generous definitions of the term. For example, some games from the MS-DOS era took for granted that you’d boot the computer from the game disk, and the game detected and talked directly to the specific hardware in the machine, with little or nothing in the way of abstraction. Quite a few of these would only work with very specific hardware (e.g., IBM VGA graphics) or other hardware that worked precisely the same at the register level (and even if you had hardware capable of much more, they wouldn’t even attempt to use those extra capabilities at all).Those worked well enough (for what they did) to demonstrate that by almost any definition of the term, and OS wasn’t really necessary. On the other hand, they also depended (heavily) upon having full specifications of the hardware they used, and hardware vendors are much more reticent with such information now than they were decades ago. Even when the necessary information is available, modern hardware is often much more complex so writing software to talk directly to the hardware is often much less practical now than it was then.So, at least in theory the computer can function without an OS, but doing so in a meaningful way is increasingly difficult over time, at least with typical computers.

Part 4 of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 allows the local authority to serve notice on dangerous or defective buildings in its area. There is no process for individual owners to forcefully buy derelict houses or land. The Registers for Scotland (who register all land and property in Scotland) does not recognise adverse possession, which is squatting and illegal.In Scotland you cannot acquire a title of ownership by possession alone - regardless of the duration of your possession (it is 10 years plus 2 in England).However, you can acquire title if you register a title to yourself granted to you by someone who was not the owner (which is called an a non domino title) and you then possess the property openly, peaceably and without challenge for the following 10 years.As there is no distinction in Scots law between different classes of title, such titles can sometimes be registered as normal, but they will contain an exclusion or limitation in the warranty provided by the Keeper. This means that while the applicant will appear on the Land Register as the proprietor, the Keeper does not warrant that the title sheet is accurate. The title is therefore susceptible to legal challenge by a party with a "better" claim ie. the actual previous registered owner or someone who acquired a good title from him. They can then sue you for any damage and full commercial rent for the period.Once the requisite period of 10 years possession had been completed, and assuming that there has been no challenge to the possession, the current registered proprietor can apply to remove the exclusion or limitation from the title sheet, thereby resulting in an unchallengeable title to the property!