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Icelandic Pirate Party Wins 3 seats In Parliament
First time accepted submitter Thorhs writes "According to preliminary results (all votes counted, no official word yet) the Icelandic Pirate Party was able to secure 3 members of the national Parliament, the first PP to reach a national Parliament. Things were hairy election night, the PP lost all their MPs when they dropped below the 5% barrier 'needed' in the somewhat complex election system. Thankfully they managed to slip back up above, with 5.1% of the total votes. The old 'crash parties', the ones in charge before our epic financial crash, (Independent and Progressive parties) are the prime candidates to form a new government with just over 51% of the votes, getting 40 of 63 seats. RUV (Icelandic) has good coverage."
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Iceland is too cold, electrons do not move at those temperatures and so piricy is impossible in the Arctic Circle. I tell you, the quality of Slashdort journalism has really been declining lately. I prefer HAM.
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well tell us
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Google translate: slash dot butt pirates
ever sucked your own penis? @(#*&$
ever sucked your own penis? qbert
ever sucked your own penis?
the name of my ship is the lollipop - it's a good ship!
It seems that in America all the losers are on the right, and in Europe they're on the left.
Ever danced with your penis in the pale moonlight?
i ask that of all my hand puppets
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Google translate: slash dot butt pirates
Certainly! You just go straight until the grey brick house, turn left, 100 metres, and it's there on your right by the maple tree.
cheers,
rista punktur rassinn sjóræningjar
Google translate: slash dot butt pirates
Certainly! You just go straight until the grey brick house, turn left, 100 metres, and it's there on your right by the maple tree.
cheers,
His eyes widened as he made the sudden horrific realization, "My, what a cavernous bum you have!" said little brown posting hood...
Is it actually complex, or is this one of those americanizations where anything with more than two possible outcomes is considered complex?
they would steal them!
Now that the German one has turned into a complete waste of time (taken over by all the nutjobs the Greens, Left Party and others were only too happy to get rid of) it's nice to see at least one country make more progress in the original direction.
If you learned your Beowulf well in school, you shouldn't have trouble with modern Icelandic.
Golden Dawn which is basically the Nazi party in Greece once had 21 seats Parliament. With fringe elements like that being elected to power in Europe, it is not surprising if anyone can get in. U.S. politics looks tame by comparison.
The Pirate Times introduces the 3 elected representatives: Iceland Report #4 : History Made by a Hair’s Breadth
Rick Falkvinge, founder of the original (Swedish) Pirate Party, comments: celandic Pirate Party WINS, Enters Parliament
Another article on TorrentFreak: Pirate Party Enters Iceland’s National Parliament After Historic Election Win
I'm glad my vote made a difference...
The BBC: "The two leading parties, which will now enter coalition negotiations, are also seen as
Eurosceptic, and their poll success could slow down Iceland's efforts to become a member of the European Union."
What does the BBC mean by "slow down". Why should anyone *want* to join a farce such as the EU,
and then even worse, the Euro? As if joining the EU was inevitable.
What the BBC could have said,
"The majority of the Icelandic population wants to remain free from the EU, and the Euro."
It's International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Ég er frá Íslandi og eins lunda og spila Warcraft.
(Sorry, blame Google Translate.)
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Iceland has a 63 member parliament and a population of 319,000.
New York City has a population of 8.245 million and a city council of 51 members.
I just read the comments in the FAZ (a major German newspaper) to the article about that election. Overwhelmingly BY FAR the comments were AGAINST the EU and they congratulated Iceland.
It is NOT just Britain! I am most certainly not "backwards", "anti-Europe" (in fact I prefer to see myself as "European", not German) or "right-wing", neither are those comments. Quite the opposite, actually! The point is, the EU is the LEAST democratic thing that Europe has come up with since WWII ended, and it gets worse and worse. Anyone who dares to raise any objection is immediately branded "right-wing" and "anti-Europe". It's like trying to criticize the role (and all the money for) of the military in the US - you just don't want to do that, unless you are a nobody in an Internet forum, because of the (sh..)storm.
You can say that again.. I like the way they called it the "Aling" meaning all-thing ("thing" here has the old connotation of law meeting; it doesn't mean object).
Althing. Est. Anno Domini 930.
That's the essential core of democracy: everybody (well, only men in olden times) can go to the meeting and have their disputes settled and their plans discussed. On a grassy field. Preferably with some partying and quaffing going on afterwards.
Oops! My thorn has fallen off.. Slashdot, how to fix this? = U+00DE or (�xfe;) or þ or what..
To be, or not to be: isn't that quite logical, Slashdot Beta?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html
This guy.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
So, according to your very specific situation all others are wrong. Hmm, great way to form an opinion, I guess, makes your life very simple.
From other people's point of view, for example, me (German), our politicians over the last few decades (not just years) have gotten very good at this kind of game:
Whenever they want to achieve something that their population does not want, they let the EU do [insert whatever], then they explain "we cannot do anything, the EU dictates this", so the blame goes to the EU. This seems to support YOUR point of view - but actually it doesn't. This little "game" is possible only because the EU parliament is very weak (compared to the EU bureaucracy and the EU commission, neither of them accountable to an electorate), and VERY far removed from the population of the EU countries (how often do you even read anything about the parliament in your newspaper?). The EU is designed to achieve things that the people don't want, whether that happened on purpose or by accident I cannot tell (but it does not matter for the result).
It is easy to check that all real-valued functions (with one real-valued argument) that are given by fy(x):= f(x,y) are continuous in x (for any fixed y). Similarly, all fx are continuous as f is symmetric with regards to x and y. However, f itself is not continuous as can be seen by considering the squence f(1/n,1/n) (for natural n) which should converge to f(0,0)=0 if f was continuous. However, lim f(1/n,1/n) = 1.
[edit] Partial differentiation
Main article: Partial derivative
The partial derivative generalizes the notion of the derivative to higher dimensions. A partial derivative of a multivariable function is a derivative with respect to one variable with all other variables held constant.
Partial derivatives may be combined in interesting ways to create more complicated expressions of the derivative. In vector calculus, the del operator () is used to define the concepts of gradient, divergence, and curl in terms of partial derivatives. A matrix of partial derivatives, the Jacobian matrix, may be used to represent the derivative of a function between two spaces of arbitrary dimension. The derivative can thus be understood as a linear transformation which directly varies from point to point in the domain of the function.
Differential equations containing partial derivatives are called partial differential equations or PDEs. These equations are generally more difficult to solve than ordinary differential equations, which contain derivatives with respect to only one variable.
[edit] Multiple integration
Main article: Multiple integral
The multiple integral expands the concept of the integral to functions of any variable. Double and triple integrals may be used to calculate areas and volumes of regions in the plane and in space. Fubini's theorem guarantees that a multiple integral may be evaluated as a repeated integral.
The surface integral and the line integral are used to integrate over curved manifolds such as surfaces and curves.
[edit] Fundamental theorem of calculus in multiple dimensions
In single-variable calculus, the fundamental theorem of calculus establishes a link between the derivative and the integral. The link between the derivative and the integral in multivariable calculus is embodied by the famous integral theorems of vector calculus:
In a more advanced study of multivariable calculus, it is seen that these four theorems are specific incarnations of a more general theorem, the generalized Stokes' theorem, which applies to the integration of differential forms over manifolds.
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If you read what Stallman has written as a note at the very top of the page, that's only relevant for the *SWEDISH* Pirate Party.
In fact when the UK Pirate Party were developing their policy they got approval from RMS...