The whales are not getting extinct because 'nature does not need them anymore' but because some greedy humans earn money with killing them. The same goes for rhinos, elephants, tigers etc. Their place in the ecosystem has not been filled by other species, they are just slaughtered on behalf of a few boneheaded egocentric idiots who think it's cool to have a tigerskin or who don't care about the consequences of eating whale-meat. It's not just about saving a species, it's about the whole ecosystem a species fits in that is destroyed because of the actions of forementioned idiots.
Since when is not being able to sing worth a shit a problem for record labels? I have to listen to 'artists' like that on the radio at work every day, so you might even score a real number one hit. The worse your singing is, the greater your chances are. Oh, and don't forget to throw in a lot of OOOOOOOHOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAHHHH's, that seems to help too.
On the site the company stresses the point they use FSC wood exclusively and have no stock but order pieces of wood when they get an order. So the rainforests are not damaged by these products.
The Canadian one, available only to people in Canada, sells WMAs and the new MP3s. The US one (which everyone else outside Canada gets, because I'm in Spain) sells only WMAs.
Well then, why don't you get out of there and let us outside Canada get some mp3s too?
Now, if you implanted one of these phones in your baby called 911 saying I LOST MY BABY! Then I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate to use the gps on the phone to locate the baby.*
A quick and dirty translation of the first linked article. Enjoy!
----------- Kroes gives Microsoft nine days
(Novum) - EU-commisary Neelie Kroes has given the American softwarecompany Microsoft nine days time to release information about the Windows operating system. She says so in the British newspaper The Guardian. The company has till next week Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.
MS indicated earlier to release the data at last on July 19, but this has still not happened yet. "I don't live forever" was Kroes's reaction. The Dutch lady says not to be impressed if people say that ninety percent of the information already has been released. "We need one hundred percent, and it should have been there a few months ago."
Kroes emphasises that the information has to be available for concurrency in the interest of economic growth and jobs in the EU. "I am the arbiter in the game and I will operate tough but fairly", says Kroes. The European Commissary emphasises not to tolerate 'economic nationalism'.
In July Microsoft was fined more than 280 million Euro for not releasing the data. Two years ago the company had to pay almost 500 million Euro for misuse of its dominant market position. ----------------------
English is not my native language, but Dutch is. Please forgive me my mistakes.....
I work for an organisation where some hot-shot has decided to buy several hundred Dell pc's. When tested, about 25% (!!) was DOA. That was about three months ago. The organisation is still arguing (sp?) with Dell about the repairs and nothing has happened yet. Looks like the next time we need pc's it'll not be Dell. We (the repair-crew of afore-mentioned organisation) have the saying: "If you wish someone to hell, give him a Dell". Every time we have to do Dell's they have the greatest amount of defects in comparison with IBM and HP (of which we have huge quantities too).
You can use nailgloss (?)(the stuff women use to paint their nails with) too. Get a cheap vial in the most disgusting color you can find (prevents the s.o. from using it) and bring it on thick on the offensive coil.
We used this in a tv-shop I have worked in, and it works like a charm (+ it's cheap!)
From TFA: "The EPO would... apply and be bound by a new unitary Community law with respect to Community patents," said the EC in a statement. "The draft Community Patent regulation confirms in its Article 28.1(a) that patents granted for a subject matter (such as computer programs), which is excluded from patentability pursuant to Article 52 EPC [European Patent Convention], may be invalidated in a relevant court proceeding." (emphasis mine)
So patents can still be granted, but you have to go to court to have them invalidated, a step too costly for most of us. Nice way of weaseling out and make everyone happy for the time being....
Problem is that as a EU citizen you hardly get informed about the laws the EU's 'democratic' government pushes through. And even if you get informed, there is nothing you can do. Even though the European Parliament is sort of elected, the European Commision is not. Since the EC is the highest organ and generally just does what it wants despite the EP, as a citizen it is almost impossible to influence the EU's politics. And of course, the sheeple will approve everything als long as it is in the name of preventing 'terrorism'.
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.....they will still find things that will burn CPUs for days, weeks, months, or years.....
Some time ago I heard of a theory that one of the reasons we went from going on all fours to walking upright was the fact that our brain got better cooling that way, which in turn made it possible to grow more and thus develop our intelligence. Or our brain grew and made it neccesary (sp??) to walk upright to cool it. However, it seems there is a connection between our intelligence,the fact we walk upright and the cooling of our brains.
Well, I have worked for an IBM service company where the field-engineers were required by their manager to wear a tie when visiting their customers. They were the guys who had to work on the innard of servers that most of the time had not been opened for years and I guess you know what that looks like. But even in a clean computer a tie is the summit of impractical attire. But those manager-types have the weird mindset of tie == professional, never mind practical considerations. I was glad to work in-house although shorts were a big no-no there, despite the fact we had no contact with customers. Personally, I hate dresscodes.
If you had to compare the ability to survive in difficult circumstances the welfare mother would win. If you manage to raise 12 kids you have to have lots of ingenuity, and the ability to solve lots of real-life problems. The rich, well-studied, working-his-ass-off guy probably never had any material problems and got it all served on a silver plate. (I'm talking material stuff here). And being poor has nothing to do with being not intelligent.
If you would put the rich guy in place of the welfare mother (without his money!) and vice-versa, I think the former-rich guy would not survive very long. So, evolution-wise, the contribution to the gene pool of a person able to solve real-life problems and survive is better then that of a selfish, rich person who never had to solve those and probably wouldn't be able to.
"Hello, I am sending you this request hoping it reaches you by yesterday..."
I almost thought it would continue with "I am a member of the Royal Family of the planet XMorb and I have in my posession(sp?) a large amount of money I have to transfer to another planet..."
In addition, one world language and religion will be necessary.
One language: fine by me, would be a really good thing. But please, please, please NO religion! None at all! Religion has been responsible for most of the greatest evils in this world, so let's stop this primitive thing of praying to fairytale-figures and subscribing all one does not or does not want to understand to them. I have never heard of anything good that has been done in the name of religion that would not have been done by someone with a normally developed conscience and love for fellow mankind, and lots and lots of really bad things only relidiots could come up with. I DO respect religous people, as long as they leave me alone. But religion in itself is, in my eyes, an artefact and should be driven out of this world as soon as possible.
(Translation from a Dutch proverb). 5 Watt is not much, but anyone would agree it would make sense to switch off a 100W appliance for an hour if you don't use it, especially if you do it every day. This 5W standby uses more in 24 hours then this 100W appliance in one hour. Multiply that by the number of appliances and draw your own conclusions. But despite that many consider it not usefull to switch these appliances off. I wonder why.
Alas, here in Europe the European (not elected) Commission will try to get these laws too when the US decides to enact them. All this in the name of Big Money ^W^W harmonisation of laws. At this moment they are still (again) trying to push software patents to law, despite noone here does want that.
Europe, like the US, is changing from a democracy to a Big-Dough-cracy, only we are a few years behind...
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The whales are not getting extinct because 'nature does not need them anymore' but because some greedy humans earn money with killing them. The same goes for rhinos, elephants, tigers etc. Their place in the ecosystem has not been filled by other species, they are just slaughtered on behalf of a few boneheaded egocentric idiots who think it's cool to have a tigerskin or who don't care about the consequences of eating whale-meat.
It's not just about saving a species, it's about the whole ecosystem a species fits in that is destroyed because of the actions of forementioned idiots.
Since when is not being able to sing worth a shit a problem for record labels? I have to listen to 'artists' like that on the radio at work every day, so you might even score a real number one hit. The worse your singing is, the greater your chances are.
Oh, and don't forget to throw in a lot of OOOOOOOHOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAHHHH's, that seems to help too.
On the site the company stresses the point they use FSC wood exclusively and have no stock but order pieces of wood when they get an order. So the rainforests are not damaged by these products.
The Canadian one, available only to people in Canada, sells WMAs and the new MP3s. The US one (which everyone else outside Canada gets, because I'm in Spain) sells only WMAs.
Well then, why don't you get out of there and let us outside Canada get some mp3s too?
Now, if you implanted one of these phones in your baby called 911 saying I LOST MY BABY! Then I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate to use the gps on the phone to locate the baby.*
Some people have weird ideas!
A quick and dirty translation of the first linked article. Enjoy!
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Kroes gives Microsoft nine days
(Novum) - EU-commisary Neelie Kroes has given the American softwarecompany Microsoft nine days time to release information about the Windows operating system.
She says so in the British newspaper The Guardian. The company has till next week Thursday, Thanksgiving Day.
MS indicated earlier to release the data at last on July 19, but this has still not happened yet. "I don't live forever" was Kroes's reaction. The Dutch lady says not to be impressed if people say that ninety percent of the information already has been released. "We need one hundred percent, and it should have been there a few months ago."
Kroes emphasises that the information has to be available for concurrency in the interest of economic growth and jobs in the EU. "I am the arbiter in the game and I will operate tough but fairly", says Kroes. The European Commissary emphasises not to tolerate 'economic nationalism'.
In July Microsoft was fined more than 280 million Euro for not releasing the data. Two years ago the company had to pay almost 500 million Euro for misuse of its dominant market position.
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English is not my native language, but Dutch is. Please forgive me my mistakes.....
I work for an organisation where some hot-shot has decided to buy several hundred Dell pc's. When tested, about 25% (!!) was DOA. That was about three months ago. The organisation is still arguing (sp?) with Dell about the repairs and nothing has happened yet. Looks like the next time we need pc's it'll not be Dell.
We (the repair-crew of afore-mentioned organisation) have the saying: "If you wish someone to hell, give him a Dell". Every time we have to do Dell's they have the greatest amount of defects in comparison with IBM and HP (of which we have huge quantities too).
These are also the same guys who say "Our spying is only for terrorism"
Well....if they mean State terrorism to citizens they don't lie, do they?
You can use nailgloss (?)(the stuff women use to paint their nails with) too. Get a cheap vial in the most disgusting color you can find (prevents the s.o. from using it) and bring it on thick on the offensive coil.
We used this in a tv-shop I have worked in, and it works like a charm (+ it's cheap!)
Oooohhh....Belgium!
..by making a sticker that says: Warning: This CD is DRM-ed and so provokes explicit language!
From TFA: ." (emphasis mine)
"The EPO would... apply and be bound by a new unitary Community law with respect to Community patents," said the EC in a statement. "The draft Community Patent regulation confirms in its Article 28.1(a) that patents granted for a subject matter (such as computer programs), which is excluded from patentability pursuant to Article 52 EPC [European Patent Convention], may be invalidated in a relevant court proceeding
So patents can still be granted, but you have to go to court to have them invalidated, a step too costly for most of us. Nice way of weaseling out and make everyone happy for the time being....
Problem is that as a EU citizen you hardly get informed about the laws the EU's 'democratic' government pushes through. And even if you get informed, there is nothing you can do. Even though the European Parliament is sort of elected, the European Commision is not. Since the EC is the highest organ and generally just does what it wants despite the EP, as a citizen it is almost impossible to influence the EU's politics. And of course, the sheeple will approve everything als long as it is in the name of preventing 'terrorism'.
But we already know what the outcome will be: 42!
A bit off-topic, but in Opera it is a choice to have the close-button either on the tab or on the upper right of the page. No problem there!
Some time ago I heard of a theory that one of the reasons we went from going on all fours to walking upright was the fact that our brain got better cooling that way, which in turn made it possible to grow more and thus develop our intelligence. Or our brain grew and made it neccesary (sp??) to walk upright to cool it.
However, it seems there is a connection between our intelligence,the fact we walk upright and the cooling of our brains.
I would not be bothered. Or does he have 'tools' in his pants too?
Well, I have worked for an IBM service company where the field-engineers were required by their manager to wear a tie when visiting their customers. They were the guys who had to work on the innard of servers that most of the time had not been opened for years and I guess you know what that looks like. But even in a clean computer a tie is the summit of impractical attire.
But those manager-types have the weird mindset of tie == professional, never mind practical considerations.
I was glad to work in-house although shorts were a big no-no there, despite the fact we had no contact with customers.
Personally, I hate dresscodes.
If you had to compare the ability to survive in difficult circumstances the welfare mother would win. If you manage to raise 12 kids you have to have lots of ingenuity, and the ability to solve lots of real-life problems. The rich, well-studied, working-his-ass-off guy probably never had any material problems and got it all served on a silver plate. (I'm talking material stuff here). And being poor has nothing to do with being not intelligent.
If you would put the rich guy in place of the welfare mother (without his money!) and vice-versa, I think the former-rich guy would not survive very long. So, evolution-wise, the contribution to the gene pool of a person able to solve real-life problems and survive is better then that of a selfish, rich person who never had to solve those and probably wouldn't be able to.
"Hello, I am sending you this request hoping it reaches you by yesterday..."
I almost thought it would continue with "I am a member of the Royal Family of the planet XMorb and I have in my posession(sp?) a large amount of money I have to transfer to another planet..."
In addition, one world language and religion will be necessary.
One language: fine by me, would be a really good thing. But please, please, please NO religion! None at all! Religion has been responsible for most of the greatest evils in this world, so let's stop this primitive thing of praying to fairytale-figures and subscribing all one does not or does not want to understand to them.
I have never heard of anything good that has been done in the name of religion that would not have been done by someone with a normally developed conscience and love for fellow mankind, and lots and lots of really bad things only relidiots could come up with.
I DO respect religous people, as long as they leave me alone. But religion in itself is, in my eyes, an artefact and should be driven out of this world as soon as possible.
(Translation from a Dutch proverb). 5 Watt is not much, but anyone would agree it would make sense to switch off a 100W appliance for an hour if you don't use it, especially if you do it every day.
This 5W standby uses more in 24 hours then this 100W appliance in one hour. Multiply that by the number of appliances and draw your own conclusions. But despite that many consider it not usefull to switch these appliances off. I wonder why.
Alas, here in Europe the European (not elected) Commission will try to get these laws too when the US decides to enact them. All this in the name of Big Money ^W^W harmonisation of laws.
At this moment they are still (again) trying to push software patents to law, despite noone here does want that.
Europe, like the US, is changing from a democracy to a Big-Dough-cracy, only we are a few years behind...
I remembered having read somewhere about Rumsfeld being involved as a shareholder of Roche. Did a quick Google and found (amongst others) this: http://www.currentconcerns.ch/archive/2005/06/2005 0602.php . Interesting, isn't it?
Nah...it's Microsoft's answer to FireFox!