Exactly, a higher minimum wage leads to more people being able to spend money on the essentials, a lower minimum wage leads to that same money being amassed at the top where it comes to virtually zero use.
How can people be expected to contribute anything to the economy if they earn $8/hour? It's way below what anyone could reasonably be expected to survive on even if they have full-time employment, especially if they have children. $8/hour is less than what companies are allowed to pay 15 year olds working their first summer job over here, and they're not expected to pay for rent, electricity, food, etc. much less feed their kids.
The minimum wage for working at something like McDonalds here in Sweden (for an adult, special rules apply for teenagers) is about US$15.25/hour for those employed by the hour, or US$2,600/month for those employed full time. (with extra compensation for late nights and weekends, and those employed by the hour usually get about 12% more per hour in lieu of paid vacation and those employed full time get 5 weeks of paid vacation with any unused vacation days compensated for at the end of employment)
If you go in to e-voting expecting it to make elections cheaper, you're coming at it from the wrong perspective. If the goal of e-voting is not to make it more secure and accessible, then there's no point in doing it. Elections are a minimal cost in the scheme of things, and endangering their validity in order to save a few measly thousands-of-percent of the budget is insane.
I agreed up until the last sentence... All votes should be manually counted regardless of how "close" or "non-suspicious" the results are. It's not particularly hard, we usually manage to count 100% of the votes in the precints by early morning after, and 99.9% by late night. The votes are then counted again centrally in each county to officially certify the count and the election.
Regardless, the Old Testament is still *in the bible* no? The contents of books is what is relevant to this discussion, not which parts of the bible Christians choose to selectively follow.
I think you misunderstood the purpose of permits for protesting.. The purpose, at least over here, is to coordinate the protest with the police and other authorities, not to request permission from the authorities. Permission to protest would sort of negate the whole freedom of speech thing as it would be within the rights of the authorities to reject a protest on political grounds. The worst the authorities can do, legally, is to withhold their cooperation..
I think you misunderstood the purpose of permits for protesting.. The purpose, at least over here, is to coordinate the protest with the police and other authorities, not to request permission from the authorities. Permission to protest would sort of negate the whole freedom of speech thing as it would be within the rights of the authorities to reject a protest on political grounds. The worst the authorities can do, legally, is to withhold their cooperation.
Just because only 200 people are staying overnight doesn't mean the protest is limited to 200 people. Do you think all the people protesting in Tahrir square actually slept there? No way, they'd have to all stand up sleeping and few people have that option, only a small fraction of them did.
Well the media certainly isn't there to cover it, and you certainly won't get access to police video showing police brutality, so who else exactly are going to get video from? Did you watch the video? Did you see the police commander reaching across the police line to drag a completely unarmed woman across the ground for no reason other than stating her opinion? Did you see the police officer macing a group of women standing on the other side of the police line minding their business?
Right, cause I've never been to a well-organized, peaceful and leftist protest.. Oh except for pretty much every well-organized protest I've been to. Stop blowing smoke out of your ass.
No I'm not referring to the GPS, I'm referring to the high-fence walls around playgrounds, constant CCTV, double security gates that Richard_at_work referred to, we just don't have that in Sweden and I hope our society will never be so paranoid as to want something like that. From what I understand this is a daycare where the kids are pretty much always out in nature, then I can understand the need for a GPS, but in general it does seem like overkill. The buddy system combined with a sufficient number of attentive teachers worked fine when I was a kid, we didn't even have those ridiculous bright green reflective vests they always seem to use now and we were fine.
If I am in charge of, and responsible for, another persons child - you can bet your fucking arse I am going to use every means possible to ensure that my own arse is not on the line for losing that child.
Children wander off - take your eye off them for a second and they are gone, they are worse than cats in that regard. And if they wander off, they can become vulnerable. Every child care place I know of have bars or very high walls around the play grounds, tightly securable windows, and double security doors on the entrances - not to mention all of the CCTV in place. Why do they have this? Because losing a child in your care is a serious issue, with potentially criminal consequences.
GPSing the kids? What are the actual downsides? Really, what are they? Tracking where the kid goes is an invasion of their privacy? Well you should be doing that anyway, GPS just helps you do that.
I do not want to live where you live... Admittedly it's been more than two decades since I was in daycare, but all we had were low gates that were difficult for small children to open, and I haven't seen any daycare centers that look like prisons yet in Sweden thankfully...
I'm doing my thesis work, all I did was sign a document saying the institution has the right to publish the thesis online and that the university library can keep a copy (which can be checked out if you so wish). As far as I know, nothing more is required and I don't see why I would need anything more. If I want to I should be able to publish it on my website as well without problems, I've certainly seen others do so.
Nope, you outsource to benefit your buddy's private sector company, who then takes the profits and invests them in the Cayman Islands (maybe giving you a small share in the process)..
In any country with unions and actual labor laws working for the employees rather than against them, firing someone for refusing to work more than 40 hours/week is illegal. I don't know of anyone who is expected to work 80 hours/week in Sweden, most people work 8 hours/day and then go home to their families/friends/whatever and you know, live their lives (also minimum 5 weeks vacation which almost everyone takes). It's a matter of working to live or living to work. I'm a student but worked full time over the summer, most people at the office at 7pm were those who came in later (like me, flexible working hours) and by 8pm it was almost always empty.
Dozens of municipalities here in Sweden laid their own fibers and provided open and equal access to ISPs (and IPTV, IPPhone). Building owners/coop-associations generally have to pay to get the last few meters pulled into the building, but the fibers are there already. I think publicly owned infrastructure is the only model that can provide true competition, if one of the ISPs own the fibers they will always have a leg up on the others no matter how many laws regulate their behaviour.
Most likely the problem is on their end, I get the same problem some times, and I'm on 100/100 fiber.. I don't block ads because it takes much longer to load, but because the ads clutter the websites I visit and are an annoying distraction from the content I'm actually after. Since first starting to use the Internet in the mid 90's, the only times I can remember clicking ads was specifically to support the website I was visiting. The ads have never particularly interested me despite all the information Google has gathered about me over the years, they're just annoying.
@SwedishPenguin - I think you have a vested interest in the success of Gnome3/Shell.
Haha, the only vested interest I have is as a user, I do speech recognition and machine learning, not UI design. I haven't had any problems, but then I haven't installed it on my desktop with Nvidia video yet, only on my laptop which has integrated Intel video...
I'm willing to out on a limb and say that most people complaining here have never tried Gnome 3 for any extended period of time. Taking one look and saying "this isn't how I usually do things" is not a valid criticism. Personally I like Gnome 3, but to each their own.
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Exactly, a higher minimum wage leads to more people being able to spend money on the essentials, a lower minimum wage leads to that same money being amassed at the top where it comes to virtually zero use.
How can people be expected to contribute anything to the economy if they earn $8/hour? It's way below what anyone could reasonably be expected to survive on even if they have full-time employment, especially if they have children. $8/hour is less than what companies are allowed to pay 15 year olds working their first summer job over here, and they're not expected to pay for rent, electricity, food, etc. much less feed their kids.
The minimum wage for working at something like McDonalds here in Sweden (for an adult, special rules apply for teenagers) is about US$15.25/hour for those employed by the hour, or US$2,600/month for those employed full time. (with extra compensation for late nights and weekends, and those employed by the hour usually get about 12% more per hour in lieu of paid vacation and those employed full time get 5 weeks of paid vacation with any unused vacation days compensated for at the end of employment)
Mod parent up!
Give Londoners not essential to the Olympics two weeks off during the Olympics, I'm sure they'll appreciate a chance to escape the madness... :)
If you go in to e-voting expecting it to make elections cheaper, you're coming at it from the wrong perspective. If the goal of e-voting is not to make it more secure and accessible, then there's no point in doing it. Elections are a minimal cost in the scheme of things, and endangering their validity in order to save a few measly thousands-of-percent of the budget is insane.
I agreed up until the last sentence... All votes should be manually counted regardless of how "close" or "non-suspicious" the results are. It's not particularly hard, we usually manage to count 100% of the votes in the precints by early morning after, and 99.9% by late night. The votes are then counted again centrally in each county to officially certify the count and the election.
Regardless, the Old Testament is still *in the bible* no? The contents of books is what is relevant to this discussion, not which parts of the bible Christians choose to selectively follow.
Neither can the US, and they have a pretty atrocious record on free speech lately...
I think you misunderstood the purpose of permits for protesting.. The purpose, at least over here, is to coordinate the protest with the police and other authorities, not to request permission from the authorities. Permission to protest would sort of negate the whole freedom of speech thing as it would be within the rights of the authorities to reject a protest on political grounds. The worst the authorities can do, legally, is to withhold their cooperation..
Oops, replied to the wrong parent..
I think you misunderstood the purpose of permits for protesting.. The purpose, at least over here, is to coordinate the protest with the police and other authorities, not to request permission from the authorities. Permission to protest would sort of negate the whole freedom of speech thing as it would be within the rights of the authorities to reject a protest on political grounds. The worst the authorities can do, legally, is to withhold their cooperation.
The only people committing any of those crimes in these videos were cops....
Just because only 200 people are staying overnight doesn't mean the protest is limited to 200 people. Do you think all the people protesting in Tahrir square actually slept there? No way, they'd have to all stand up sleeping and few people have that option, only a small fraction of them did.
Well the media certainly isn't there to cover it, and you certainly won't get access to police video showing police brutality, so who else exactly are going to get video from? Did you watch the video? Did you see the police commander reaching across the police line to drag a completely unarmed woman across the ground for no reason other than stating her opinion? Did you see the police officer macing a group of women standing on the other side of the police line minding their business?
Right, cause I've never been to a well-organized, peaceful and leftist protest.. Oh except for pretty much every well-organized protest I've been to.
Stop blowing smoke out of your ass.
No I'm not referring to the GPS, I'm referring to the high-fence walls around playgrounds, constant CCTV, double security gates that Richard_at_work referred to, we just don't have that in Sweden and I hope our society will never be so paranoid as to want something like that.
From what I understand this is a daycare where the kids are pretty much always out in nature, then I can understand the need for a GPS, but in general it does seem like overkill. The buddy system combined with a sufficient number of attentive teachers worked fine when I was a kid, we didn't even have those ridiculous bright green reflective vests they always seem to use now and we were fine.
If I am in charge of, and responsible for, another persons child - you can bet your fucking arse I am going to use every means possible to ensure that my own arse is not on the line for losing that child.
Children wander off - take your eye off them for a second and they are gone, they are worse than cats in that regard. And if they wander off, they can become vulnerable. Every child care place I know of have bars or very high walls around the play grounds, tightly securable windows, and double security doors on the entrances - not to mention all of the CCTV in place. Why do they have this? Because losing a child in your care is a serious issue, with potentially criminal consequences.
GPSing the kids? What are the actual downsides? Really, what are they? Tracking where the kid goes is an invasion of their privacy? Well you should be doing that anyway, GPS just helps you do that.
I do not want to live where you live... Admittedly it's been more than two decades since I was in daycare, but all we had were low gates that were difficult for small children to open, and I haven't seen any daycare centers that look like prisons yet in Sweden thankfully...
I'm doing my thesis work, all I did was sign a document saying the institution has the right to publish the thesis online and that the university library can keep a copy (which can be checked out if you so wish). As far as I know, nothing more is required and I don't see why I would need anything more. If I want to I should be able to publish it on my website as well without problems, I've certainly seen others do so.
Nope, you outsource to benefit your buddy's private sector company, who then takes the profits and invests them in the Cayman Islands (maybe giving you a small share in the process)..
In any country with unions and actual labor laws working for the employees rather than against them, firing someone for refusing to work more than 40 hours/week is illegal. I don't know of anyone who is expected to work 80 hours/week in Sweden, most people work 8 hours/day and then go home to their families/friends/whatever and you know, live their lives (also minimum 5 weeks vacation which almost everyone takes). It's a matter of working to live or living to work. I'm a student but worked full time over the summer, most people at the office at 7pm were those who came in later (like me, flexible working hours) and by 8pm it was almost always empty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country
303 US prizes since 1940
85 UK
58 Germany
29 France
23 Russia (in spite of the Cold War..)
And a dozen other countries with around 10-20 Nobel laureates since 1940
Dozens of municipalities here in Sweden laid their own fibers and provided open and equal access to ISPs (and IPTV, IPPhone). Building owners/coop-associations generally have to pay to get the last few meters pulled into the building, but the fibers are there already.
I think publicly owned infrastructure is the only model that can provide true competition, if one of the ISPs own the fibers they will always have a leg up on the others no matter how many laws regulate their behaviour.
Most likely the problem is on their end, I get the same problem some times, and I'm on 100/100 fiber.. I don't block ads because it takes much longer to load, but because the ads clutter the websites I visit and are an annoying distraction from the content I'm actually after. Since first starting to use the Internet in the mid 90's, the only times I can remember clicking ads was specifically to support the website I was visiting. The ads have never particularly interested me despite all the information Google has gathered about me over the years, they're just annoying.
Try 40%.. Certainly commendable, but not all that surprising considering the US was the only major wealthy nation left untouched by WWII..
@SwedishPenguin - I think you have a vested interest in the success of Gnome3/Shell.
Haha, the only vested interest I have is as a user, I do speech recognition and machine learning, not UI design. I haven't had any problems, but then I haven't installed it on my desktop with Nvidia video yet, only on my laptop which has integrated Intel video...
I'm willing to out on a limb and say that most people complaining here have never tried Gnome 3 for any extended period of time. Taking one look and saying "this isn't how I usually do things" is not a valid criticism.
Personally I like Gnome 3, but to each their own.