I saw the cheat sheet and tried that before, but ` on the Swedish keyboard is accessed by pressing shift and the button next to backspace, didn't work. Looks like I didn't look hard enough for the configuration option though, I switched it to alt-section character (still no unicode on slashdot, wtf), works great.
Am I the only one who actually likes Gnome 3? I've been using KDE for years, but when I wiped my laptop a few months ago, I decided to give Gnome 3 a shot and I haven't gone back. I'm still using KDE on the desktop, but I will probably try Gnome 3 there too when I have the time. I would like an quick way to switch between windows within an application though, Alt-Tab switches between applications and each application can be expanded for all the windows, but I would like a shortcut for switching between application windows.
To make things even worse, an impromptu experiment some years ago occurred due to a bus strike in London. The average speed of traffic almost doubled.
This wouldn't last though, if a city like London, where probably the majority don't have cars at all, were to loose all bus services, car ownership and thus congenstion would increase drastically. If it's just a temporary strike, those people will either find alternate routes (underground, overground trains, bicycle, walk, taxi) or stay at home, but if its an extended situation those people may be forced to get cars.
Or you could just exercise on your way to work, saves time too.:) (or if its too far to bike, bike to a train/subway station or bus stop and use public transit from there.)
Isn't UK police generally unarmed? Under what circumstances can they arm themselves and where is the weapon stored? In Norway it's apparently stored in a sealed box in the police car and can be taken out when permission is given from higher authority, seems sensible to me. Our cops are always armed, I would much rather they only be armed when they have an explicit need to be, having the weapon too accessible causes more trouble than it prevents, at least in a country where gun violence is not an everyday thing.
But that would essentially be the same as taking a pay cut, definitely something worth striking over. If the employees have to pay for their health-insurance, then surely they should receive an equivalent pay rise? I don't see why you don't just add a payroll tax and get everyone universal health care coverage though, in the end it's the same except employers can't get out of it and it will be way cheaper without all the insurers skimming huge profits and a single large payer to negotiate prices for drugs and care. (and as a plus, everyone is covered and your coverage can't be cancelled when most needed based on some technicality that they've been holding out on as I understand happens quite frequently)
Unfortunately I don't have mod points but you summed up my sentiments on the role of poverty and "race" quite neatly. Something that I have also observed is that more inequality leads to more racism, instead of lashing out on the people actually responsible for their poor standing and low opportunity in society, they choose to lash out on immigrants. I firmly believe increased inequality is a major contributing factor a racist party being voted into parliament for the first time in the last election here in Sweden. Instead of uniting together to fight for a better life and to fight the right-wing policies that are increasing inequality, many choose to lash out on another underprivileged group of people whom they really have much in common with and should unite with to fight for the common cause of fighting the policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
Wouldn't finding a 6 acre lot close to public transportation be a lot harder than finding a small lot close to public transportation *and* a public park? Public transport usually doesn't serve such sparsely populated areas very frequently... Same goes for grocery store, school and jobs, all are much more likely to be within walking distance of a densely populated area with a park nearby than in a sparsely populated area with 6 acre lots.
Considering US "defense" spending has almost doubled over the past ten years and you're currently engaged in two useless wars, where to make the cuts should not be a hard question to answer unless you're completely blinded by nationalistic fervor.
Higher taxes - combined with cheap and effective mass transit - does indeed reduce fuel use. Raising taxes is easy, providing the alternative to driving is the hard part.
Oh absolutely, the media is very gullible and for some reason likes to further the view of terrorism as a solely Islamic thing, hence why they believe the first group of attention seeking crackpots to claim responsibility, especially if they fit into their view of what a terrorist should look like. (it seems now that the group that claimed. responsibility already retracted the statement though) From the moment I heard of the attack on the Social Democrat youth camp (the government is also controlled by the social democrats), I suspected homegrown right-wing extremists, but the media didn't mention that as even a possibility and kept parroting the Islam angle (especially international media, the Norwegian and Swedish media that I've followed has been slightly more restrictive as to the culprit than the New York Times which went all out and announced that an Islamic group had claimed responsibility). And now that the "policeman" has been seen on both scenes and appears to be a blonde Norwegian man, that just further confirms my suspicions of homegrown terrorism.
It looks like the "policeman" who gunned down dozens of youths at the Social Democratic youth camp was also seen in central Oslo moments before the explosions, and witness reports state that he spoke a dialect of Norwegian coming from the eastern part of the country. It sounds to more more like the work of a right-wing extremist than islamist extremists. This could be Norway's "Timothy McVeigh"..
A neural network is not a "tiny brain", it's an idea that was inspired by how the brain works, but it's nowhere near a "tiny brain". I didn't RTFA but this sounds like something like a hopfield network, i.e. a neural network that can retrieve something stored in its "memory" from inputs that share many of the characteristics of that memory, much like the human memory.
Do you think those rockets were fired out of spite? Israel has occupied Palestine for the past 50 years, the movements of Palestinians is restricted within their own country, they often times can't get medical attention because to do so they have to go through IDF checkpoints which won't let them through. What do you think would happen if Mexican troops occupied the US and placed similar restrictions placed similar restrictions on you, and you were far outgunned by means of Chinese funding for the Mexican military? And if this had been going on for decades with no end in sight.. That's the Palestinian situation right now, and that's only the West Bank, one can only imagine the situation in Gaza where humanitarian shipments are regularly seized and blocked by Israel...
I don't condone firing of rockets, by either side. But I understand that they really don't have any other means to fight back anymore, they're desperate.
It doesn't fit into their view of the world, but the absolute best way of reducing crime is to reduce poverty (obviously), and to reduce the massive gaps in wealth and opportunity between the lower classes and the upper classes. Make sure everyone can afford to get a good education even if they happened to be born of poor parents, make sure everyone has equal access to healthcare, make sure everyone can live their day-to-day lives without worrying about having food on the table next week or where to live next month...
I should think it's obvious.. The "free internship" is intended to get you experience with something you wouldn't otherwise get, meaning you'll have a leg up on others, who did not have the possibility to live off their parents dough for a year or however long an internship lasts, when you go looking for a well-payed job. (in addition to the other advantages of coming from a wealthy family, like having access to potential bosses through your parents' country club)
1. I'm not German, if you can't tell by how I referenced Germany and by my nickname, I just don't know how else to make it clear. 2. This black-and-white, nuclear above all else attitude among slashtard trolls such as yourself is getting really fucking annoying, open your eyes for once, this is not some winner-takes-all competition. I have nothing against nuclear in principle, if you prove to me that the lifetime and post-lifetime costs will be *significantly* lower than current renewable technology, this includes costs for shutting the plant down when the end-of-life is reached and storage, which no country in the world currently even has a final solution for, and even the rare but extraordinarily expensive occurrence of accidents. 3. All of Germany's political parties have agreed to replace the nuclear power with renewable energy, and again this is not as hard as you could imagine, only 11% of power is provided by nuclear, whereas 17% is provided by renewable energy, a factor of 2.5 more than 10 years ago.
Germany is not switching to coal, they are switching to renewable energy sources, which already provide about 17% of the country's electricity consumption even before the old nuclear plants were shut down and before the decision to close down the remaining nuclear power plants was made. If the political will is there, replacing the 11% provided by nuclear and more by 2021 shouldn't be a problem, renewable energy has more than doubled in the past 10 years in Germany.
I don't know what experience you have with unions in the US (assumption here, the negative perception of unions is pretty typical of an American), but unions generally have a self-interest in keeping their members employed, and will generally avoid "killing" a company. The union did not kill GM no matter how much anti-union demagogues say they did, the piss-poor cars killed GM. Strike is a relatively rare occurrence, at least here in Sweden, it's always the last resort, when there is simply no way to reason with the employer in question. (though most of the collective bargaining here is done with employer organizations (essentially the employers equivalent of a union) rather than individual employers except in special circumstances) It's also costly for the union to strike, the strike fund is limited to what members have contributed when working, meaning the union will avoid strike if at all possible.
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Looks like it just wasn't configured by default in the arch distribution of Gnome 3, or maybe I unwittingly screwed something up. :P
They should really use a key that is always in the same place regardless of keyboard layout, caps-lock would have been a better choice IMO.
I saw the cheat sheet and tried that before, but ` on the Swedish keyboard is accessed by pressing shift and the button next to backspace, didn't work. Looks like I didn't look hard enough for the configuration option though, I switched it to alt-section character (still no unicode on slashdot, wtf), works great.
Am I the only one who actually likes Gnome 3? I've been using KDE for years, but when I wiped my laptop a few months ago, I decided to give Gnome 3 a shot and I haven't gone back. I'm still using KDE on the desktop, but I will probably try Gnome 3 there too when I have the time.
I would like an quick way to switch between windows within an application though, Alt-Tab switches between applications and each application can be expanded for all the windows, but I would like a shortcut for switching between application windows.
To make things even worse, an impromptu experiment some years ago occurred due to a bus strike in London. The average speed of traffic almost doubled.
This wouldn't last though, if a city like London, where probably the majority don't have cars at all, were to loose all bus services, car ownership and thus congenstion would increase drastically. If it's just a temporary strike, those people will either find alternate routes (underground, overground trains, bicycle, walk, taxi) or stay at home, but if its an extended situation those people may be forced to get cars.
Or you could just exercise on your way to work, saves time too. :) (or if its too far to bike, bike to a train/subway station or bus stop and use public transit from there.)
But service sector jobs will start to gradually disappear as well though, so in the end it doesn't matter.
Isn't UK police generally unarmed? Under what circumstances can they arm themselves and where is the weapon stored? In Norway it's apparently stored in a sealed box in the police car and can be taken out when permission is given from higher authority, seems sensible to me. Our cops are always armed, I would much rather they only be armed when they have an explicit need to be, having the weapon too accessible causes more trouble than it prevents, at least in a country where gun violence is not an everyday thing.
What kind of insane labour laws would allow firing someone over exercising their right to strike?
But that would essentially be the same as taking a pay cut, definitely something worth striking over. If the employees have to pay for their health-insurance, then surely they should receive an equivalent pay rise? I don't see why you don't just add a payroll tax and get everyone universal health care coverage though, in the end it's the same except employers can't get out of it and it will be way cheaper without all the insurers skimming huge profits and a single large payer to negotiate prices for drugs and care. (and as a plus, everyone is covered and your coverage can't be cancelled when most needed based on some technicality that they've been holding out on as I understand happens quite frequently)
Unfortunately I don't have mod points but you summed up my sentiments on the role of poverty and "race" quite neatly. Something that I have also observed is that more inequality leads to more racism, instead of lashing out on the people actually responsible for their poor standing and low opportunity in society, they choose to lash out on immigrants. I firmly believe increased inequality is a major contributing factor a racist party being voted into parliament for the first time in the last election here in Sweden. Instead of uniting together to fight for a better life and to fight the right-wing policies that are increasing inequality, many choose to lash out on another underprivileged group of people whom they really have much in common with and should unite with to fight for the common cause of fighting the policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
Wouldn't finding a 6 acre lot close to public transportation be a lot harder than finding a small lot close to public transportation *and* a public park? Public transport usually doesn't serve such sparsely populated areas very frequently... Same goes for grocery store, school and jobs, all are much more likely to be within walking distance of a densely populated area with a park nearby than in a sparsely populated area with 6 acre lots.
Considering US "defense" spending has almost doubled over the past ten years and you're currently engaged in two useless wars, where to make the cuts should not be a hard question to answer unless you're completely blinded by nationalistic fervor.
Higher taxes - combined with cheap and effective mass transit - does indeed reduce fuel use. Raising taxes is easy, providing the alternative to driving is the hard part.
Oh absolutely, the media is very gullible and for some reason likes to further the view of terrorism as a solely Islamic thing, hence why they believe the first group of attention seeking crackpots to claim responsibility, especially if they fit into their view of what a terrorist should look like. (it seems now that the group that claimed. responsibility already retracted the statement though)
From the moment I heard of the attack on the Social Democrat youth camp (the government is also controlled by the social democrats), I suspected homegrown right-wing extremists, but the media didn't mention that as even a possibility and kept parroting the Islam angle (especially international media, the Norwegian and Swedish media that I've followed has been slightly more restrictive as to the culprit than the New York Times which went all out and announced that an Islamic group had claimed responsibility). And now that the "policeman" has been seen on both scenes and appears to be a blonde Norwegian man, that just further confirms my suspicions of homegrown terrorism.
It looks like the "policeman" who gunned down dozens of youths at the Social Democratic youth camp was also seen in central Oslo moments before the explosions, and witness reports state that he spoke a dialect of Norwegian coming from the eastern part of the country. It sounds to more more like the work of a right-wing extremist than islamist extremists. This could be Norway's "Timothy McVeigh"..
A neural network is not a "tiny brain", it's an idea that was inspired by how the brain works, but it's nowhere near a "tiny brain". I didn't RTFA but this sounds like something like a hopfield network, i.e. a neural network that can retrieve something stored in its "memory" from inputs that share many of the characteristics of that memory, much like the human memory.
Do you think those rockets were fired out of spite? Israel has occupied Palestine for the past 50 years, the movements of Palestinians is restricted within their own country, they often times can't get medical attention because to do so they have to go through IDF checkpoints which won't let them through.
What do you think would happen if Mexican troops occupied the US and placed similar restrictions placed similar restrictions on you, and you were far outgunned by means of Chinese funding for the Mexican military? And if this had been going on for decades with no end in sight.. That's the Palestinian situation right now, and that's only the West Bank, one can only imagine the situation in Gaza where humanitarian shipments are regularly seized and blocked by Israel...
I don't condone firing of rockets, by either side. But I understand that they really don't have any other means to fight back anymore, they're desperate.
It doesn't fit into their view of the world, but the absolute best way of reducing crime is to reduce poverty (obviously), and to reduce the massive gaps in wealth and opportunity between the lower classes and the upper classes. Make sure everyone can afford to get a good education even if they happened to be born of poor parents, make sure everyone has equal access to healthcare, make sure everyone can live their day-to-day lives without worrying about having food on the table next week or where to live next month...
I should think it's obvious.. The "free internship" is intended to get you experience with something you wouldn't otherwise get, meaning you'll have a leg up on others, who did not have the possibility to live off their parents dough for a year or however long an internship lasts, when you go looking for a well-payed job. (in addition to the other advantages of coming from a wealthy family, like having access to potential bosses through your parents' country club)
More like demanding that the politicians fight their own damned wars, not their kids.
The ISS orbit is at about 350 km. If it came that close, chances are high it would collide with the earth as well..
1. I'm not German, if you can't tell by how I referenced Germany and by my nickname, I just don't know how else to make it clear.
2. This black-and-white, nuclear above all else attitude among slashtard trolls such as yourself is getting really fucking annoying, open your eyes for once, this is not some winner-takes-all competition. I have nothing against nuclear in principle, if you prove to me that the lifetime and post-lifetime costs will be *significantly* lower than current renewable technology, this includes costs for shutting the plant down when the end-of-life is reached and storage, which no country in the world currently even has a final solution for, and even the rare but extraordinarily expensive occurrence of accidents.
3. All of Germany's political parties have agreed to replace the nuclear power with renewable energy, and again this is not as hard as you could imagine, only 11% of power is provided by nuclear, whereas 17% is provided by renewable energy, a factor of 2.5 more than 10 years ago.
Germany is not switching to coal, they are switching to renewable energy sources, which already provide about 17% of the country's electricity consumption even before the old nuclear plants were shut down and before the decision to close down the remaining nuclear power plants was made. If the political will is there, replacing the 11% provided by nuclear and more by 2021 shouldn't be a problem, renewable energy has more than doubled in the past 10 years in Germany.
I don't know what experience you have with unions in the US (assumption here, the negative perception of unions is pretty typical of an American), but unions generally have a self-interest in keeping their members employed, and will generally avoid "killing" a company. The union did not kill GM no matter how much anti-union demagogues say they did, the piss-poor cars killed GM.
Strike is a relatively rare occurrence, at least here in Sweden, it's always the last resort, when there is simply no way to reason with the employer in question. (though most of the collective bargaining here is done with employer organizations (essentially the employers equivalent of a union) rather than individual employers except in special circumstances)
It's also costly for the union to strike, the strike fund is limited to what members have contributed when working, meaning the union will avoid strike if at all possible.