The developer tools for chrome has really caught up with firebug in the past year or so, it may even be the equivalent of firebug right now and it's built in.
Norway has tons of oil. Sweden? We've got some wood, and iron... You most certainly can afford to lay down fiber, but it's obviously not something you prioritize, just like you can afford to cover your entire populations healthcare needs if it was something your politicians decided was necessary. I've got 100Mbps fiber in my apartment. My parents house will get fiber this fall, the former state monopoly (which owns pretty much all the phone infrastructure because of an idiotic decision to sell the infrastructure when the company was privatized) is putting fibers in the existing underground tubes for phone lines. (most phone lines were dug into the ground decades ago, along with electricity)
No subway system operates at a profit with the exception of a few in Asia where the company that runs the subway also owns and develops the land around the stations... The NYC Subway, IIRC, is subsidized by about 40-50%.
I've lived in New York, the subway system is not exactly up to speed with the latest in technology, and it's still one of the dirtiest subways I've ridden, as well as quite unreliable compared to the rest of the world. The signalling system is severely outdated, parts dating back almost a hundred years. There's no cellphone coverage in the subway, with a few exceptions there are still no electronic arrival signs (which has been standard across the world for some 20 years by now). It is severely underfunded and outdated, it would probably take billions to get it up to speed with the rest of the world.
There are still some things I like about it, the foremost being the 24/7 service. Sure there's only a train every half-hour at night, but it's better than walking around looking for the right night bus.
That's mostly a result from the NYC subway system having been severely underfunded, and thus maintenance deferred, for decades. The Stockholm subway system probably has more escalators than that (despite having only 100 stations) and the escalators mostly work fine.
In Japan they have a cool solution: the escalator ends up having two lines. The people on the left keep walking, and those on the right stand. I guess for that to become a custom you'd need escalators that are typically crowded, which most in the US are not.
That would be the custom everywhere where escalators are common that I'm aware of. It's certainly the case here in Stockholm. Even in malls, people tend to stand on the right and walk on the left, though not quite to the same extent as in the subway. If someone is in the way, a simple "excuse me" will usually do the trick.
Right now, there's still a demand for things like maids, etc. but what about in a few years, or even more long term, what about in 30 years? Will there still be a demand for cleaners? Even more important short term, what are those maids your sister hires paid? US minimum wage, full time, is about the same amount as I get in government student aid, and I don't have any kids to support... Could your sister still afford to hire maids if they were paid a living wage? Long term, I simply don't think any of the "menial labor" jobs will be left. And the only jobs left will be the creative jobs which computers cannot (yet) replace... I simply don't think there will be enough of such jobs to provide jobs for the entire population.
Which is why I think the current course (both in the US and Europe) will eventually lead to complete economic ruin for a very large part of the population. As more and more work is automated, less people will obviously be employed, even though the same amount of production is maintained. Now the question is what to do with all these unemployed people? This isn't even just manufacturing, automated checkout lines, cleaning, etc. and all the profit will of course (as is happening now) be pocketed by the shareholders and CEO's.
I'm not saying we should stop automation or anything, but we need a system where the long-term unemployed can still survive and lead decent lives, as this is going to become the norm.
That's just unacceptable, how can people accept this? Why don't you fight it? This is the entire point of unions! Stand up and fight!
Over here, sick leave is completely separated from vacation time by law. (available paid vacation time is minimum 5 weeks or 25 working days)
The employer is required to pay full salary for up to 2 weeks of sick leave. (after the first week, medical documentation is required) If you're sick longer than that, you will get 80% of your income from the government for up to 364 days (again, obviously, with medical documentation).
If churches are somehow offended that certain groups can now marry (be they gay couples or interracial couples as was the problem not so long ago in the US), they can, if they wish, rename their "marriage" to something else. Of course, if the couple wants to be recognized as legally married, they would still have to have a regular civil "marriage" license, but they could call it whatever the hell they want to privately.
and the reason many youths voted in a more liberal (as opposed to socialist democrat) government is to shake things up a bit.
Even in the last election, young people voted about split equally right-left, and that was the maximum for the right wing ("liberals", conservatives, homophobic "democrats", and rednecks, a weird bunch that), after that it's been all downhill among young people. http://www.svd.se/nyheter/politik/valet2010/unga-valjer-de-rodgrona-i-valet_4929783.svd
Wait no separate sick leave? Do you guys never get sick, or do you go to work even if you've got the flu? One flu-season and all your vacation days would be used up if you're unlucky...
480 days paid leave shared between the parents over here, with 30 days dedicated to each parent. The leave can be distributed as the parents wish over the first years of the child's life. And fathers do take leave as well, 80% of them, and if I have kids I will too, nothing can replace the months of being away from your newborn.
An hour just to find a torrent? Really? You're doing it wrong. Look for a decent release group, usually the torrent with the most seeds is decent. Downloading a family guy episode takes what? 5 minutes tops?
Well apparently it's just a python script, so it is available for Windows. Though the last time I tried to use python from the CLI (what little there is) in Windows was a really big hassle, and I ended up just going for an unofficial prepackaged installer for that particular application which bundled Cygwin.
I don't see why Gnome must necessarily hide this sort of stuff in an obscure gconf setting. It's almost like Microsoft and the obscure registry settings. In KDE, you right-click the title bar->configure window behavior->windows->buttons, and you can drag all the standard buttons and a few extra (sticky button, on top button, keeb below button, etc.) around the bar.
I've had the same experience, falling asleep like a baby while backpacking with no access to a computer. I figured it was from exhaustion but the screen makes a lot of sense. It's 3:30 in the morning right now btw. I should probably go to bed... I installed the very cool xflux program suggested in an earlier post, but it's already morning this far north, so I had to set it to a lower latitude to get a decent nighttime color temperature.
We've had the same system in Sweden for decades, except we don't affix the tickets to the windows, they're just paper tickets that lay on the dashboard. I've never seen a curb-side parking meter here, seems like a waste of money to me to build one for each spot... But then I don't have a car, subways and buses work fine.
Download the plugin and try it yourself, they screwed something up. But this is not a picture which is appropriate for this. In order to extrapolate a good replacement for the signs, there has to be some area in the picture with similar surroundings. It can't do magic, and neither can Photoshop.
Or do yaourt -Ss resynthesizer;) 3 different PKGBUILDS, 2 of which are 0.16-2, the third is 0.16-1. yaourt -S gimp-resynth installs the one I tried. It works quite well, but obviously it only works very well for relatively uniform pictures that have a wealth of content in similar surroundings to draw from.
Marriage was a social contract between individuals (or rather, between the groom and the wife's family) long before Christianity got involved sometime in the middle ages. Hell, the equivalent of gay marriage was pretty common (and accepted) in Ancient Rome.
The problem with extremist Christians (and other religions) is that they only consider their own beliefs and completely ignore the right of the rest of us to live our lives according to our own beliefs or traditions.
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The developer tools for chrome has really caught up with firebug in the past year or so, it may even be the equivalent of firebug right now and it's built in.
I usually torrent the latest tv-episodes in less than 1 minute. That's why...
Norway has tons of oil. Sweden? We've got some wood, and iron...
You most certainly can afford to lay down fiber, but it's obviously not something you prioritize, just like you can afford to cover your entire populations healthcare needs if it was something your politicians decided was necessary.
I've got 100Mbps fiber in my apartment. My parents house will get fiber this fall, the former state monopoly (which owns pretty much all the phone infrastructure because of an idiotic decision to sell the infrastructure when the company was privatized) is putting fibers in the existing underground tubes for phone lines. (most phone lines were dug into the ground decades ago, along with electricity)
No subway system operates at a profit with the exception of a few in Asia where the company that runs the subway also owns and develops the land around the stations... The NYC Subway, IIRC, is subsidized by about 40-50%.
I've lived in New York, the subway system is not exactly up to speed with the latest in technology, and it's still one of the dirtiest subways I've ridden, as well as quite unreliable compared to the rest of the world.
The signalling system is severely outdated, parts dating back almost a hundred years. There's no cellphone coverage in the subway, with a few exceptions there are still no electronic arrival signs (which has been standard across the world for some 20 years by now). It is severely underfunded and outdated, it would probably take billions to get it up to speed with the rest of the world.
There are still some things I like about it, the foremost being the 24/7 service. Sure there's only a train every half-hour at night, but it's better than walking around looking for the right night bus.
That's mostly a result from the NYC subway system having been severely underfunded, and thus maintenance deferred, for decades. The Stockholm subway system probably has more escalators than that (despite having only 100 stations) and the escalators mostly work fine.
In Japan they have a cool solution: the escalator ends up having two lines. The people on the left keep walking, and those on the right stand. I guess for that to become a custom you'd need escalators that are typically crowded, which most in the US are not.
That would be the custom everywhere where escalators are common that I'm aware of. It's certainly the case here in Stockholm. Even in malls, people tend to stand on the right and walk on the left, though not quite to the same extent as in the subway. If someone is in the way, a simple "excuse me" will usually do the trick.
Right now, there's still a demand for things like maids, etc. but what about in a few years, or even more long term, what about in 30 years? Will there still be a demand for cleaners?
Even more important short term, what are those maids your sister hires paid? US minimum wage, full time, is about the same amount as I get in government student aid, and I don't have any kids to support...
Could your sister still afford to hire maids if they were paid a living wage?
Long term, I simply don't think any of the "menial labor" jobs will be left. And the only jobs left will be the creative jobs which computers cannot (yet) replace... I simply don't think there will be enough of such jobs to provide jobs for the entire population.
Which is why I think the current course (both in the US and Europe) will eventually lead to complete economic ruin for a very large part of the population. As more and more work is automated, less people will obviously be employed, even though the same amount of production is maintained. Now the question is what to do with all these unemployed people? This isn't even just manufacturing, automated checkout lines, cleaning, etc. and all the profit will of course (as is happening now) be pocketed by the shareholders and CEO's.
I'm not saying we should stop automation or anything, but we need a system where the long-term unemployed can still survive and lead decent lives, as this is going to become the norm.
Mod parent up!
And yes, I am a socialist too and I am in no way ashamed to say it.
That's just unacceptable, how can people accept this? Why don't you fight it? This is the entire point of unions! Stand up and fight!
Over here, sick leave is completely separated from vacation time by law. (available paid vacation time is minimum 5 weeks or 25 working days)
The employer is required to pay full salary for up to 2 weeks of sick leave. (after the first week, medical documentation is required)
If you're sick longer than that, you will get 80% of your income from the government for up to 364 days (again, obviously, with medical documentation).
1. ssh -ND 8080 anyserverwithssh
2. Direct Firefox to use localhost:8080 as a socks5 proxy
Confirmed to work in China by a friend who was recently there.
If churches are somehow offended that certain groups can now marry (be they gay couples or interracial couples as was the problem not so long ago in the US), they can, if they wish, rename their "marriage" to something else. Of course, if the couple wants to be recognized as legally married, they would still have to have a regular civil "marriage" license, but they could call it whatever the hell they want to privately.
and the reason many youths voted in a more liberal (as opposed to socialist democrat) government is to shake things up a bit.
Even in the last election, young people voted about split equally right-left, and that was the maximum for the right wing ("liberals", conservatives, homophobic "democrats", and rednecks, a weird bunch that), after that it's been all downhill among young people.
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/politik/valet2010/unga-valjer-de-rodgrona-i-valet_4929783.svd
Wait no separate sick leave? Do you guys never get sick, or do you go to work even if you've got the flu? One flu-season and all your vacation days would be used up if you're unlucky...
480 days paid leave shared between the parents over here, with 30 days dedicated to each parent. The leave can be distributed as the parents wish over the first years of the child's life. And fathers do take leave as well, 80% of them, and if I have kids I will too, nothing can replace the months of being away from your newborn.
An hour just to find a torrent? Really? You're doing it wrong. Look for a decent release group, usually the torrent with the most seeds is decent. Downloading a family guy episode takes what? 5 minutes tops?
Well apparently it's just a python script, so it is available for Windows. Though the last time I tried to use python from the CLI (what little there is) in Windows was a really big hassle, and I ended up just going for an unofficial prepackaged installer for that particular application which bundled Cygwin.
I don't see why Gnome must necessarily hide this sort of stuff in an obscure gconf setting. It's almost like Microsoft and the obscure registry settings.
In KDE, you right-click the title bar->configure window behavior->windows->buttons, and you can drag all the standard buttons and a few extra (sticky button, on top button, keeb below button, etc.) around the bar.
What part of "selected program samples and other modules" don't you understand? They're not releasing the code for the actual product..
I've had the same experience, falling asleep like a baby while backpacking with no access to a computer. I figured it was from exhaustion but the screen makes a lot of sense. It's 3:30 in the morning right now btw. I should probably go to bed...
I installed the very cool xflux program suggested in an earlier post, but it's already morning this far north, so I had to set it to a lower latitude to get a decent nighttime color temperature.
We've had the same system in Sweden for decades, except we don't affix the tickets to the windows, they're just paper tickets that lay on the dashboard. I've never seen a curb-side parking meter here, seems like a waste of money to me to build one for each spot... But then I don't have a car, subways and buses work fine.
Download the plugin and try it yourself, they screwed something up. But this is not a picture which is appropriate for this. In order to extrapolate a good replacement for the signs, there has to be some area in the picture with similar surroundings. It can't do magic, and neither can Photoshop.
Or do yaourt -Ss resynthesizer ;) 3 different PKGBUILDS, 2 of which are 0.16-2, the third is 0.16-1.
yaourt -S gimp-resynth installs the one I tried. It works quite well, but obviously it only works very well for relatively uniform pictures that have a wealth of content in similar surroundings to draw from.
Marriage was a social contract between individuals (or rather, between the groom and the wife's family) long before Christianity got involved sometime in the middle ages. Hell, the equivalent of gay marriage was pretty common (and accepted) in Ancient Rome.
The problem with extremist Christians (and other religions) is that they only consider their own beliefs and completely ignore the right of the rest of us to live our lives according to our own beliefs or traditions.
You Americans sure have a strange notion of what the "extreme left" is.
/A real leftist