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And this is what they think of you: http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/media/images/n/nicolassarkozyfingerap.jpg

And this is what they think of you: http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/media/images/n/nicolassarkozyfingerap.jpg

Even better, they can act as a saint, while enjoying all the benefits of dumping, the Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher(MAR) program. From the ThePost.ie article Old computers educate Africa:

Thus, market share is being gained in many places where people can't afford to buy Microsoft products. So they dump in Africa and in American ghettos, but as you astutely pointed out, they suffer none of the penalties that should be applied to this practice. Amazing how many things "charitable" donations can solve for you.

There was this date, right, the 11th of September in 2001, that caused the airline industry in the states to be shut down for some time. 36,000 - 40,000 flights PER DAY. Interestingly, planes cause quite a lot of pollution (and, as it turned out, significantly contribute to cloud formation)[PDF]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the shutdown depressed the overall emissions figures.

I've yet to be convinced that human factors are accounting for the current rise in global temperatures. However, I think it's irrelevant - the massive CO2 production, and the lesser mentioned waste heat production) is clearly unsustainable in the long (or even medium) term. I quite like Ireland the way it is now, and we'd be pretty severely affected by a rise in sea levels or change in the Gulf Stream. At the moment, Nuclear appears the only way to go, and surely there are realistic ways of getting rid of the waste (for instance, disposing of them on fault lines a-la David Brin). Even without that you cannot tell me that there is no way of filtering the output from power plants with the technology available today. There just needs to be the will to do it, and the costs can be shared, surely, between governments and private industry.

Interestingly, China recognise the problem for all that they're mulish in public. They're planning 2,000km of MagLev track instead of laying conventional rail - it's safer and apparently more efficient. They're also cutting down on road building in favour of other transport mechanisms. Centralising power generation means it can be controlled at the source, and if that's not happening now it can happen in the future.

The problem is that the debate is so political now that there will be no consensus on how to fix it, and the EU, US, India, China, Russia and everyone else will just go their own way - or not bother. Another problem is that the Gaia theory is not really taken into account - if it's right (I personally think it is) then the earth is a self regulating system, or at least a balanced system. Without understanding the system, pretty much anything we do is doomed to failure, and much research is focused on a very small section of the overall system (because the overall system is so complex). But it IS a system, and we need to understand all the inputs into that system, and their effects on the system until we can make definitive statements about climate.

I actually ditched my checking account a couple of weeks ago. No more checks, no more ATM/check card. I've been credit card free for a few years, but cutting up the cash card (smells and acts like a credit card, and uses the same transaction network) was kinda cool. Living a cash-only life is fun. You simply can't spend more money than you have -- plus you collect far more pocket change in that jar on your mantle for the rainy-day fund. :) Oh, and The Spooks have no paper trail on me other than the paychecks I cash at the credit union (I have a mortgage with them, so they have my vitals on file anyway). After that, it's under the radar. If I want to buy a bunch of teddy bears and propane cylinders over a period of time, I'm anonymous. (Yes, I know he used cash, be he was a dumb-ass who appears to have purchased everything all at once.)

Sure, no more Netflix, hotel stays, car rentals, or instant online orders (well, I have used Wal Mart gift cards to order a few DVDs), but I've now got a stack of cool catalogs that I can pay with US Postal money order should I decide that I really need/want something.

There's something to be said for slowing down your life's pace a bit. Living cash-only is one way to do it.

I think this link will explain what sort of company we are discussing: -

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/05/21/sto ry14326.asp

Make your battery last long :)

You're wrong

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2004/Jun/97247.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0 DE3D71738F936A35754C0A960948260
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0 DE6DA163FF930A35757C0A960948260
http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2003/07/23/st ory560336209.asp
http://www.americas.org/item_16224

Shut up now.

Who else are they saving? People you would have accidentally hit and killed while flying out the windshield of your car?

Yes, smartass.

If you're a driver, an 80 kilo adult doing even 30 miles per hour (a low guestimate for a passenger in, say a 50mph crash into a static object) hitting the back of your seat might fracture your skull, snap your spine, break ribs, puncture a lung- you name it.

Human bodies travelling quickly in small spaces cause damage. In Ireland, there's a history of highly graphic safer driving commercials- one of which that demonstrates the damage an unrestrained passenger can do in a two-collision accident: Link or search for 'damage seatbelt commerical' on google. I couldn't find the advert anywhere online.

Also, you don't have to be flying out the window to cause injury to another passenger. I found an aussie advert that's a lot less graphic than the one we have.

New South Wales Advert

The bottom line: buckle up, selfish.

the question should be " did they dissapear?"

and the answer is no http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/images/people/pieterdevilli erskieranclancy.jpg/

I just Googled to see what I could come up with:

http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/showStory.cfm?Arti cleID=3028
http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/showStory.cfm?Arti cleID=1050
http://www.wmich.edu/facultysenate/FSminutes2002/a pril.htm
http://www.it.utah.edu/leadership/committees/uWebA dvisory/minutes/uWeb_minutes_2002_05.pdf

Interesting:

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/08/24/sto ry101270136.asp
http://www.aaxnet.com/topics/slicense.html

But:

http://www.wired.com/news/story/0,1240,10654,00.ht ml

Which does not put the problem in a good light.

I also see references to SPA audits, which does not Google well. :) It also looks like the SPA might now be the SIIA (Si-I-A?).

"Lower the pay of US professionals to $50,000, Ballmer suggests, and it won't make sense for employers to put up with the hassle of doing business in theThird World. (Kent Hollenback, a spokesman for Microsoft, declined to say what the company pays employees.) "

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/12/28/sto ry445480235.asp

I'm not sure, but I don't think the US extradites US citizens to other countries.

Extracted from the US to:
Ireland

Hong Kong

Yugoslavia

I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results. zu

I don't question the generosity of spirit behind this kind of effort, but lets focus on the reality here: many of the worst hit areas barely even have telephones, let alone IT infrastructure.

What they really need is: Good government, education, sanitation and medical expertise, communication infrastructure and civil engineers - roughly in that order. Even with early warning systems, Aceh would have still been completely devasted - the water went roughly 9 MILES inland in some places. In any case, Sumatra was hit within minutes of the quake. Granted, Sri Lanka, India and Thialand would have benefited greatly from an early warning system (as illustrated by one family had one of their own - a 10 year old girl who paid attention to her geography lessons - story here)

I'm not sure, but I don't think the US extradites US citizens to other countries.

Extracted from the US to:
Ireland [archives.tcm.ie]

Hong Kong [info.gov.hk]

Yugoslavia [geocities.com]

I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results. wap

I'm not sure, but I don't think the US extradites US citizens to other countries.

Extracted from the US to:
Ireland [archives.tcm.ie]

Hong Kong [info.gov.hk]

Yugoslavia [geocities.com]

I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results. iaq

I'm not sure, but I don't think the US extradites US citizens to other countries.

Extracted from the US to:
Ireland [archives.tcm.ie]

Hong Kong [info.gov.hk]

Yugoslavia [geocities.com]

I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results. zr

It establishes a pattern of Clinton seeking sex with other subordinates.

In the end of course it did not work. Clinton got re-elected.

In the end, of course, the Lewinsky scandal arose in 1998, so clearly you not only don't understand the details of the subject, you're disqualified from discussing the "purpose".

silly impeachment process

So "silly" that the Arkansas Supreme Court recommended that he be disbarred, and which recommendation eventually led to his being disbarred by the US Supreme Court, and to his law license being suspended for five years. Face it: Clinton was guilty of a felony, and paid a professional penalty for it. Now perhaps you don't think that lying under oath in a court of law is a big deal, but happily enough our courts seem to disagree. The only pity is that the gutless, spineless, useless Republicans in the Senate refused to address the problem.

Remember this is the country where a childrens TV character (Dustin the Turkey) managed to do better than a major candidate in a Presedential election!

Since they IR network and transfer data objects, I'm working on an infectious Tamagotchi plague. It's for the children's sake.

I'm not sure, but I don't think the US extradites US citizens to other countries.

Extracted from the US to:
Ireland

Hong Kong

Yugoslavia

I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results.

Don't insurance companies have to have assets to back their policies?

That's what people like these are for... you get them to assume the risk in return for annual premiums...

At first glance this seems evil, but you have to know the reasons why. Ceartin european countries have taken it upon themselves to indict US officals and tried them in absentia for "War crimes" and "Crimes against humanity".

I'm not sure, but I don't think the US extradites US citizens to other countries.

Extracted from the US to:
Ireland

Hong Kong

Yugoslavia

I am by no means an expert on this, these are just some google results.

I'll be sure to mention it on my way to talk to the attack helicopter pilot who shot these missiles or maybe those, or the sharpshooter in this bullseye.

Point is, it's two sides killing the other side. Using suicide bombing is not more horrible than using high-tech weapons and vehicles. It's just harder to have those handy when you're not receiving BILLIONS every year to buy to toys to murder your adversaries.

I haven't checked the tally yet, but last time I checked, Israel had a confortable lead in kills. They'll probably make the playoffs.

The Netherlands still has 5% inflation, and Spain, Greece, Ireland and Portugal have inflation rates in excess of 4%.

So, the question becomes, what do you do when some countries are high and some are low? That's the inherent weakness of the Euro - that one monetary policy cannot account for the fiscal policy of all countries. I did mention Greece, did I not? So obviously one of two things will happen here. Either all these countries in an economic funk will have their economies sink, or the rest of Europe will have to give them handouts. Either way, it's harmful long-term for the Euro.

If Nokia can stay on top of mobile phones, then they can stay on top of wireless technology as a whole (handheld=>phone integration), and compete heavy with the top dogs, then they have a shot at making it past the tech bottleneck coming in 2009. While I'm at it, I should say that this is a suspicious move from Nokia.

"The move is seen as a tactic to fight off Microsoft and dominate the lucrative and growing mobile phone software market."

I see it as a parallel to the problems Palm was having when they tried to get control of Symbian in 2001. This could be a sign Nokia is in trouble.

This is also good news for shareholders in Psion, as a similar event caused a jump in share price back in 2001 when Palm tried to get control of Symbian.

If Nokia can stay on top of mobile phones, then they can stay on top of wireless technology as a whole (handheld=>phone integration), and compete heavy with the top dogs, then they have a shot at making it past the tech bottleneck coming in 2009. While I'm at it, I should say that this is a suspicious move from Nokia.

"The move is seen as a tactic to fight off Microsoft and dominate the lucrative and growing mobile phone software market."

I see it as a parallel to the problems Palm was having when they tried to get control of Symbian in 2001. This could be a sign Nokia is in trouble.

This is also good news for shareholders in Psion, as a similar event caused a jump in share price back in 2001 when Palm tried to get control of Symbian.

Of course voting can change things, for example I'm sure the people of Iraq would have loved to vote a new leader when Saddam Hussein was in power, but couldn't.

Actually, Iraq went to the polls last year. Saddam won with a swing of almost 0.1% of the vote.

It looks like Slash is putting a space in the middle of "story"--like this: "...sto ry...". The clickable URL appears (in the preview) to be correct.

Figures that you losers would be discussing the asthetic appearence of the case rather than the hardware that it's running. I bet you all drive PT Cruisers.

This guy has no idea what he's talking about. Everyone knows that all the hipsters are driving Mini Coopers these days.

duh.

The french don't want peace, they want Saddam's money. Check it out here.