Slashdot Mirror
EU About To Grant US Unlimited Access To Banking Data
An anonymous reader points out a blog post reporting that on Monday The EU Council is set to give US intelligence services full access to SWIFT banking data, despite a unanimous call by the European Parliament not to do so. "The move of SWIFT the data server to Switzerland would be an excellent opportunity to stop the nearly unlimited access of US authorities on EU bank transactions. But EU justice and interior ministers are apparently keen [on agreeing to] a deal as soon as possible, on 30 November. Why 30 November? Because one day later, on 1 December 2009, the EU’s Lisbon Treaty will be in force and would allow the European Parliament to play a major role in the negotiations of the deal with the US. A deal one day before will be a slap in the face to democracy in the EU. ... [W]hile the US will be able to access EU banking data, no access to US banking data by EU [authorities] is being foreseen."
Thank you guys, now I have to go get a pizza.
It was actually the Russians who saved Europe during WW2. And they lost millions of people doing so. If USSR wouldn't had kept Germans from spreading and taking over the east, no one could had done anything to them anymore, and eventually they would had been strong enough to take over American continent too.
Original pizza is the Italian pizza. Of course the American pizzas, pan-pizzas and so on are just would-be pizzas. For a pizza analogy, it's like a salami pizza without any salami on top of it.
From what I'm told, the common implementation of the recipe of 'pizza' is very American and is different in Italy...
My (unscientific) experiments on a visit to Padova suggested that sausage-based pizzas may be more common in America (and here on Air Strip One) than in Italy. Or, it could be that I don't speak Italian. I did order a Pepperoni Pizza but it had (bell) peppers on it, not spicy sausage.
However, I was half expecting that, and it was very nice :-)
For added entertainment, watch a bunch of US Spanish speakers try and get tortillas in Spain. (Closest they got was "Mexican tortilla" which turned out to be Spanish omlette... with chillies).
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.