They've been occupying more and more of Palestine over the past 50 years while implementing ever more strict apartheid policies towards the Palestinian population but I guess that doesn't count. Neither does the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 or 2006, invasion of Gaza and subsequent blockade of even humanitarian aid, or the current buildup towards an invasion of Iran?
So, just because this "high performance" concrete was developed in Iran, it has dangerous military applications? Dangerous as in able to withstand US bombs? Should we start banning defensive technologies in order to make it easier for the US to invade? If this was developed in any other nation, "military applications" would never have been mentioned.
Please don't fall for the fearmongering, Iran is not going to attack anyone, they know very well they would be instantly overrun. This is Iraq all over again.
As an aside, while I very much object to anyone including the US having nuclear weapons, I can't really see why Iran having them - if they indeed do - is a problem while Israel having them is not, a country that has constantly refused to sign the non-proliferation treaty and employs an Apartheid-like policy towards Palestinians.
IMO, the problem is that it's not specific enough though, you have to choose between allowing access to the Internet or not, it would be nice if it could request access to a few specific domains for instance, that way if the primary purpose of the app is to show me when the next train arrives for instance, I can be sure that it only ever contacts the transit provider and not some obscure server where it can upload any information it gains access to.
Doesn't really change much, there are probably more immature assholes over 18 than below 18 anyways. If they tend to show up in your facebook/google+ stream then that should tell you to either be more restrictive with whom you add or that you're hanging out with an immature crowd IRL.
Once it's passed the European Parliament (and it will pass, give it some time, maybe a symbolic "compromise"), national governments will have to implement it or face heavy fines, generally the national parliaments rubber stamp anything that comes from the EU without any questions.
Here in Sweden, the Social Democratic party leader, Håkan Juholt, who opposed joining the "Euro plus pact" (thus blocking the right-wing minority government from joining the pact since all other opposition parties were also opposed) was just recently disposed of last week and replaced with a more EU-friendly leader yesterday, the Social Democrats are now all of the sudden in favor and the parliamentary EU-committee met just today with the prime minister in preparation for Monday's EU summit... Granted, Juholt had trouble with the media before that, but the conspiratorial part of me refuses to acknowledge that such timing would be a coincidence, especially given all the other coincidences around Europe lately.
Prior to the "free market" reforms of the early 90's, Sweden had an unemployment rate hovering around 1-4%. Of course for those advocating the current "free market" system, that is below the rate of unemployment preferred, workers should be sufficiently desperate to take crap jobs at crap salaries. The current unemployment rate is about 8%.
Do you think unions are going into politics just for the sake of it? Of course not, they're in it to defend workers interests. Think of all the laws that have been passed largely due to union involvement in politics (at least in Europe) - 8 hour work day, minimum paid vacation time (usually 4-6 weeks depending on the country), paid parental leave, regulations against at-will dismissal, pensions, etc. Unions can't do everything by simply negotiating with employers, especially not if there are no protections of involvement in unions by law. You may not consider these good things, but I certainly do and I can assure you that 90% of workers do.
He's just pointing out that it's not a unique proposition to North Korea, it happens everywhere were there is a ruling class. Obama is enjoying a life in luxury while many US citizens can't afford health care. Our prime minister in Sweden is enjoying a life in luxury on the taxpayers dime while at the same time he has forced sick people who were previously on disability onto the "labor market" (i.e. permanent unemployment and eventually social welfare) It's a matter of degree, but the ruling class is always living in luxury, no matter how downtrodden the people is.
Oh there are certainly a ton of insane politicians who want it. Hell, many of our right-wing politicians *still* want Sweden to enter the Euro zone, even after all that's happened and even though a record 80% of the people is against it, including massive majorities in their own parties. Most likely they will get their way, it's not like the people of the constituent countries has any say, and if they do get the privilege to vote on their own future, they're bombarded with propaganda and forced to vote again and again until they vote the "right" way, funny how you never get to vote on leaving the damn thing once the decision has been made to enter though. But if it was up to the people of constituent countries, my bet is they'd much rather leave than turn over any remaining piece of self-determination to the EU.
The multiple choice thing seems a bit weird to me.. Pretty much you're only testing the kids on how well they can guesstimate an answer and choose the one that seems to fit the best. I don't think we had much testing in the 5th grade, but in 8th grade I do remember having to not only work out the problem without any alternatives, but most importantly having to show the work, simply putting down the answer gave partial credit if any. And it's been the same in all levels of education, multiple choice questions are very rare though I have had some exams where they constitute a small part of the exam, none in math though. I'm guessing they do it this way in order to save time when correct the tests?
The questions on both tests were dead easy without a calculator, allowing both calculators and predefined choices, some of which are simply ridiculous, just makes it even easier. How could anyone get the first question wrong for instance, you don't even have to do the math to understand that all answers but 141 are unreasonable.
It's also a lot easier to avoid a collision if you're on a bike by simply going around the pedestrian.. Regarding the topic though, simply requiring electric/hybrid cars to use such devices would not be good, if you're going to have such regulations, mandate that a car has to emit a certain level of noise, regardless of whether the noise comes from an engine or from a speaker. I have been surprised by very quiet ICE cars coming up behind me slowly in for instance parking lots a few times.. Generally if the driver is going that slowly though, he/she should be able to avoid hitting the pedestrian. Maybe a solution could be to require a "gentle" horn in addition to the regular one so the driver can alert pedestrians to the cars' presence without scaring the crap out of them.
Yeah yeah, standard willful American ignorance of anything that can be used to actually improve your working conditions... You know in the rest of the developed world (Japan excluded), regularly working 60-hour weeks is NOT tolerated, and neither is arbitrary termination, two weeks (if that) of combined paid vacation and sick leave, no paid parental leave, etc. Ever consider why? It's because we joined together to fight for laws to protect workers from exploitation, we joined together to STOP poor working conditions. You guys did the same a long time ago, but it was met with violence and propaganda from the establishment, and the movement was essentially crushed.
Every time an article like this is posted on Slashdot, I keep wondering why the hell people don't organize.. It seems to me that American IT-workers are in sore need of a proper union. Behaviour like that would lead to a world of hurt for the company over here, yet Americans just lie down and take it like some kind of slaves.
"A report"? What kind of report? High school? Care to provide a comparative lifecycle environmental impact analysis of these devices compared to their alternatives? Who in their right mind would throw a CFL or a car battery in the household trash? There are special bins for these things, everyone knows not to throw a battery in the trash...
1. Middle-click/right-click->open new window 2. Alt-<key above tab> 3. Sounds very odd, if it's really the case then there are alternatives to gnome-terminal...
I do have to wonder though, given this report is from San Francisco and the type of people drawn to OWS, why hasn't anyone thought to set up a windmill or some sort of solar array (about 4-5 m^2 @ 0.15 capacity factor should generate as much power as people taking turns cycling 24/7). PV solar sucks in comparison to other electricity sources, but it's forte is off-the-grid applications like this.
The bike generator was donated, how much would such a solar panel cost? Plus, with a bike generator, the protesters don't have to leave in order to get an exercise it's a win-win situation.:)
How does the existence Christian crusaders negate the existence of Muslim crusaders, or any other type of crusaders for that matter? History is filled with religiously motivated war, regardless of religion.
Now where that doesn't work is, say, drugs. It costs us like I dunno let's say a million dollars to bring a new IC to market. We can recoup that in six months. It takes more like a billion dollars to get a new drug on the market, so you either need to find something that is going to sell a billion dollars in six months or you need long-term patent protection. Maybe that means we should have variable patent lengths, maybe patents should expire in 5 years unless you reapply for continued protection. I don't know. But patents have some obvious and huge benefits over trade secrets. We have trade secrets we've kept for 30 years, and some of them appear to me to be exactly the sort of stuff that'd really help a lot of other designers. I don't think that's a great idea either.
This is an example where the free market simply doesn't work in a satisfactory manner. It's virtually impossible to develop a drug that at the same time everyone in the world can have cheap access to while at the same time making a profit. I don't care about vanity drugs like Viagra, private companies can have those and patent the hell out of them if they want to. (with the exception that the patent doesn't apply for development of drugs that can actually save peoples lives) But drugs that can actually save or improve the lives of millions should be developed with public funding for the good of all mankind, and the results should be in the public domain where any drug company can manufacture and get the drugs out to market as quickly and cheaply as possible after regulatory approval, no royalties, no concern about having to recoup the development costs.
I have no idea how much a Big Mac costs, but calculating using PPP GDP and nominal GDP, a salary of $15.25 in Sweden is about the equivalent of about $12.20 in the US in terms of purchasing power, and adding 12% for paid vacation (none required in the US to my knowledge), about $13.66.
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They've been occupying more and more of Palestine over the past 50 years while implementing ever more strict apartheid policies towards the Palestinian population but I guess that doesn't count. Neither does the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 or 2006, invasion of Gaza and subsequent blockade of even humanitarian aid, or the current buildup towards an invasion of Iran?
Mod parent up! This really is bullshit meant to incite fear in the American population in order to once again justify invading an oil-rich country.
So, just because this "high performance" concrete was developed in Iran, it has dangerous military applications? Dangerous as in able to withstand US bombs? Should we start banning defensive technologies in order to make it easier for the US to invade?
If this was developed in any other nation, "military applications" would never have been mentioned.
Please don't fall for the fearmongering, Iran is not going to attack anyone, they know very well they would be instantly overrun. This is Iraq all over again.
As an aside, while I very much object to anyone including the US having nuclear weapons, I can't really see why Iran having them - if they indeed do - is a problem while Israel having them is not, a country that has constantly refused to sign the non-proliferation treaty and employs an Apartheid-like policy towards Palestinians.
IMO, the problem is that it's not specific enough though, you have to choose between allowing access to the Internet or not, it would be nice if it could request access to a few specific domains for instance, that way if the primary purpose of the app is to show me when the next train arrives for instance, I can be sure that it only ever contacts the transit provider and not some obscure server where it can upload any information it gains access to.
Doesn't really change much, there are probably more immature assholes over 18 than below 18 anyways. If they tend to show up in your facebook/google+ stream then that should tell you to either be more restrictive with whom you add or that you're hanging out with an immature crowd IRL.
Once it's passed the European Parliament (and it will pass, give it some time, maybe a symbolic "compromise"), national governments will have to implement it or face heavy fines, generally the national parliaments rubber stamp anything that comes from the EU without any questions.
Here in Sweden, the Social Democratic party leader, Håkan Juholt, who opposed joining the "Euro plus pact" (thus blocking the right-wing minority government from joining the pact since all other opposition parties were also opposed) was just recently disposed of last week and replaced with a more EU-friendly leader yesterday, the Social Democrats are now all of the sudden in favor and the parliamentary EU-committee met just today with the prime minister in preparation for Monday's EU summit... Granted, Juholt had trouble with the media before that, but the conspiratorial part of me refuses to acknowledge that such timing would be a coincidence, especially given all the other coincidences around Europe lately.
Prior to the "free market" reforms of the early 90's, Sweden had an unemployment rate hovering around 1-4%. Of course for those advocating the current "free market" system, that is below the rate of unemployment preferred, workers should be sufficiently desperate to take crap jobs at crap salaries. The current unemployment rate is about 8%.
Do you think unions are going into politics just for the sake of it? Of course not, they're in it to defend workers interests. Think of all the laws that have been passed largely due to union involvement in politics (at least in Europe) - 8 hour work day, minimum paid vacation time (usually 4-6 weeks depending on the country), paid parental leave, regulations against at-will dismissal, pensions, etc. Unions can't do everything by simply negotiating with employers, especially not if there are no protections of involvement in unions by law. You may not consider these good things, but I certainly do and I can assure you that 90% of workers do.
He's just pointing out that it's not a unique proposition to North Korea, it happens everywhere were there is a ruling class. Obama is enjoying a life in luxury while many US citizens can't afford health care. Our prime minister in Sweden is enjoying a life in luxury on the taxpayers dime while at the same time he has forced sick people who were previously on disability onto the "labor market" (i.e. permanent unemployment and eventually social welfare)
It's a matter of degree, but the ruling class is always living in luxury, no matter how downtrodden the people is.
Oh there are certainly a ton of insane politicians who want it. Hell, many of our right-wing politicians *still* want Sweden to enter the Euro zone, even after all that's happened and even though a record 80% of the people is against it, including massive majorities in their own parties. Most likely they will get their way, it's not like the people of the constituent countries has any say, and if they do get the privilege to vote on their own future, they're bombarded with propaganda and forced to vote again and again until they vote the "right" way, funny how you never get to vote on leaving the damn thing once the decision has been made to enter though. But if it was up to the people of constituent countries, my bet is they'd much rather leave than turn over any remaining piece of self-determination to the EU.
The multiple choice thing seems a bit weird to me.. Pretty much you're only testing the kids on how well they can guesstimate an answer and choose the one that seems to fit the best. I don't think we had much testing in the 5th grade, but in 8th grade I do remember having to not only work out the problem without any alternatives, but most importantly having to show the work, simply putting down the answer gave partial credit if any. And it's been the same in all levels of education, multiple choice questions are very rare though I have had some exams where they constitute a small part of the exam, none in math though. I'm guessing they do it this way in order to save time when correct the tests?
The questions on both tests were dead easy without a calculator, allowing both calculators and predefined choices, some of which are simply ridiculous, just makes it even easier. How could anyone get the first question wrong for instance, you don't even have to do the math to understand that all answers but 141 are unreasonable.
It's also a lot easier to avoid a collision if you're on a bike by simply going around the pedestrian.. Regarding the topic though, simply requiring electric/hybrid cars to use such devices would not be good, if you're going to have such regulations, mandate that a car has to emit a certain level of noise, regardless of whether the noise comes from an engine or from a speaker. I have been surprised by very quiet ICE cars coming up behind me slowly in for instance parking lots a few times.. Generally if the driver is going that slowly though, he/she should be able to avoid hitting the pedestrian. Maybe a solution could be to require a "gentle" horn in addition to the regular one so the driver can alert pedestrians to the cars' presence without scaring the crap out of them.
Yeah yeah, standard willful American ignorance of anything that can be used to actually improve your working conditions...
You know in the rest of the developed world (Japan excluded), regularly working 60-hour weeks is NOT tolerated, and neither is arbitrary termination, two weeks (if that) of combined paid vacation and sick leave, no paid parental leave, etc. Ever consider why? It's because we joined together to fight for laws to protect workers from exploitation, we joined together to STOP poor working conditions. You guys did the same a long time ago, but it was met with violence and propaganda from the establishment, and the movement was essentially crushed.
I don't know about the others, but Matlab has been available for Linux for years...
Every time an article like this is posted on Slashdot, I keep wondering why the hell people don't organize.. It seems to me that American IT-workers are in sore need of a proper union. Behaviour like that would lead to a world of hurt for the company over here, yet Americans just lie down and take it like some kind of slaves.
"A report"? What kind of report? High school? Care to provide a comparative lifecycle environmental impact analysis of these devices compared to their alternatives?
Who in their right mind would throw a CFL or a car battery in the household trash? There are special bins for these things, everyone knows not to throw a battery in the trash...
1. Middle-click/right-click->open new window
2. Alt-<key above tab>
3. Sounds very odd, if it's really the case then there are alternatives to gnome-terminal...
Then you haven't tried the N9! :)
The Samsung Galaxy (i7500) is still on Android 1.6, Galaxy S is updated though.
I do have to wonder though, given this report is from San Francisco and the type of people drawn to OWS, why hasn't anyone thought to set up a windmill or some sort of solar array (about 4-5 m^2 @ 0.15 capacity factor should generate as much power as people taking turns cycling 24/7). PV solar sucks in comparison to other electricity sources, but it's forte is off-the-grid applications like this.
The bike generator was donated, how much would such a solar panel cost? Plus, with a bike generator, the protesters don't have to leave in order to get an exercise it's a win-win situation. :)
How does the existence Christian crusaders negate the existence of Muslim crusaders, or any other type of crusaders for that matter? History is filled with religiously motivated war, regardless of religion.
So those who can't afford the FDA-approved drugs have to risk their lives by taking drugs that have not passed the regulatory process? :P
Now where that doesn't work is, say, drugs. It costs us like I dunno let's say a million dollars to bring a new IC to market. We can recoup that in six months. It takes more like a billion dollars to get a new drug on the market, so you either need to find something that is going to sell a billion dollars in six months or you need long-term patent protection. Maybe that means we should have variable patent lengths, maybe patents should expire in 5 years unless you reapply for continued protection. I don't know. But patents have some obvious and huge benefits over trade secrets. We have trade secrets we've kept for 30 years, and some of them appear to me to be exactly the sort of stuff that'd really help a lot of other designers. I don't think that's a great idea either.
This is an example where the free market simply doesn't work in a satisfactory manner. It's virtually impossible to develop a drug that at the same time everyone in the world can have cheap access to while at the same time making a profit. I don't care about vanity drugs like Viagra, private companies can have those and patent the hell out of them if they want to. (with the exception that the patent doesn't apply for development of drugs that can actually save peoples lives)
But drugs that can actually save or improve the lives of millions should be developed with public funding for the good of all mankind, and the results should be in the public domain where any drug company can manufacture and get the drugs out to market as quickly and cheaply as possible after regulatory approval, no royalties, no concern about having to recoup the development costs.
I have no idea how much a Big Mac costs, but calculating using PPP GDP and nominal GDP, a salary of $15.25 in Sweden is about the equivalent of about $12.20 in the US in terms of purchasing power, and adding 12% for paid vacation (none required in the US to my knowledge), about $13.66.