The economy there goes fine; but, there are other things in life besides the economy. In France, they just don't sacrifice everything else to that one thing.
We don't have the money (as a society) to hire enough agents or to pay 'em what they're worth. Gubmint jobs have therefore often tended to attract a lower-skilled (or they'd find work elsewhere) and more easily-corrupted (because they need the money) worker.
Actually, that's part of the anglo-saxon mindset. The most prevalent anglo-saxon collective neurosis is not trusting the State/Government.
Anglo-saxon elected officials are generally failed businessmen (because a successfull businessman would rather be skinned and boiled alive with minced onions (hold the anchovies, please) than be seen as part of Government).
Unelected officials are those who are not/would not be successful in private entreprise; working for the government holds so much stigma that people of quality will seldom seek governmental jobs.
So, by that corollary, government is performed haphazardly by people of dubious quality, because nothing else is available.
Contrast this to France, where public service carries a lot of prestige, and the most prestigious schools are those designed to churn-out high-quality public officials. There, people of quality DO seek public jobs, and the results are there: a mixed government/private economic system where State entreprises are extremely competitive and innovative, even when they compete with private entreprises.
Better yet, many civil servants jump into politics, and when they are elected, they come to parliament well-versed in the mechanics of the civil service, thus streamlining the legislative process as it comes better suited to the executive apparatus.
Heck, France had the fastest trains in the world for more than 20 years, and those were designed and built by a goverment-owned entreprise!!!
Be careful what you put in that Google search. The government may now spy on web surfing of innocent Americans, including terms entered into search engines, by merely telling a judge anywhere in the U.S. that the spying could lead to information that is "relevant" to an ongoing criminal investigation.
Oh, neato! Let's write the next Outlook worm, a worm whose only deed is to, once in a while (not more than 10 times an hour, please), randomly ask Google for some juicy Echelon bait... But the worm should'nt do ANYTHING ELSE, so to escape early detection...
There was something satisfying about pounding away on an old typewriter, getting so far into the moment that the guy in the next room would sometimes pound on the wall asking me to keep it down.
Reminds me of a hot midsummer night, about 25 years ago. I used to live above a reporter, and late one night, I was trying to sleep, but he was pounding on his typewriters. The sound was bouncing back on the interior court brick walls into my bedroom.
I used to play trumpet at school then, so I just took the trumpet and started playing loudly through the window. Whenever he'd step out on the balcony, I'd stop. After three times, he got the hint, and I got my beauty sleep...
You know you're an old fart when...
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You know you're an old fart when it took you a *WEEK* to download Linux at 2400 baud from a BBS.
And the sex you get from the Internet isn't like the sex you had from the BBSes...
Fair use doesn't mean "can copy a lower-quality". It means "can copy". Which implies "same-quality".
And, besides, any DRM scheme WILL BE CRACKED eventually. But unlike a house lock-picker set, once the digital tool is out, it will be instantly all over the known universe, sending DRM scheme designers back to their drawing boards...
Stuff the mail in one folder, one to rule them all.
But put multiple indexes (by sender, subject, date, whatever key-classes you want to assign messages) and the possibility to restrict the range displayed. With careful programming, you can manage many users who won't be able to read each other's mail, except as required.
This way, you can arrange your mail as you please.
No more message duplication. Send a memo to 250 people? Just send it once, but tag it as readable by the 250 sendees.
Of course, this calls for an SQL database...:):):)
We've but given up hope in ever seeing a JonKatz review of Star-Wars 2.0...
It's a miracle they were able to catch mafiaboy
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(I'm reposting this, as some nitwit moderated this as a troll. - This came up some years ago on a law-enforcement newsgroup):
The RCMP officers mentionned in the article once busted a scammer operating from Canada; when they seized the computers and server, they brought them to the supplier to "fix them". Thing is, they swapped hard-disks, and the server hard-disk ended-up in a workstation. Needless to say, the tech was really surprised to see a server come up on that workstation...
So, it only shows that the RCMP are royal-class fumblers and it's a miracle that their evidence was able to stand-up in court... (Or the scammers' defense was totally inept - or the court stupid).
Subtitling takes time.
(Not everyone in the world speaks English...)
Dubbing takes even more.
Yet, by law, in Canada, films must come out dubbed in french AT THE SAME TIME as they come out in english.
And, despite that "delaying" factor, movies come out at the same time as they do in the US.
So the argument that it is the subtitling/dubbing that retards the release elsewhere in the world (especially that the delayed releases are often in english) is simply not true.
It's a miracle the RCMP was able to do it...
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(This came up some years ago on a law-enforcement newsgroup):
The RCMP officers mentionned in the article once busted a scammer operating from Canada; when they seized the computers and server, they brought them to the supplier to "fix them". Thing is, they swapped hard-disks, and the server hard-disk ended-up in a workstation. Needless to say, the tech was really surprised to see a server come up on that workstation...
So, it only shows that the RCMP are royal-class fumblers and it's a miracle that their evidence was able to stand-up in court... (Or the scammers' defense was totally inept - or the court stupid).
Movies are bullshit; songs are bullshit, bullshit being the expression of something that does not exists in reality, (originally) done for pure pleasure/entertainment.
"CONTENT" = BULLSHIT
Now that in the USA bullshit is more important than reality, this shows that the USA are decadent and does not contribute anything to the global welfare.
If a $600G/year industry cannot defend itself against a $18G/year industry, it doesn't deserve to exist.
Pronunciation: (ku-närd'; Fr. ka-nar'), [key]
--n.,
--pl. -nardsPronunciation: (-närdz'; Fr. -nar'). [key] 1. a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
2. Cookery.a duck intended or used for food.
3. Aeron.
a. an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing.
b. Also called canard' wing". one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings.
c. an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.
If I understand correctly FreeBSD is widly considered to be by far the most secure system in the world
Bullshit! The most secure system in the world is my old Radio-Shanty Color Computer Model 100 on the top shelf in the closet of my computer room that hasn't been powered for some 20 years now.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. --Thomas Jefferson
"La liberté de presse ne s'use que lorsque l'on ne s'en sert pas" - Jacques Maréchal, Le Canard Enchaîné
("Freedom of press wears off only when you don't use it" - Jacques Maréchal, the founder of "The Chained Canard", a french satirical weekly that has no advertisements; that paper snoops off plenty of scandals).
Marker pens should be included in the list of dual use goods and technologies.
No more exports to Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Burma, China, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), Haiti, Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and Zaire.
... 1) A New Jersey gambler has half a million dollars ... He buys a string of car washes...
That's how the IRS caught a launderer: he washed something like 450 cars during a 3 day blizzard...
Dry-cleaners are a good money laundering method (no pun intended!!!). Some years ago, around here, someone started a chain of $1 dry-cleaners. Within weeks he was firebombed into oblivion.
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Spending 5 months on the project, and finding repeated errors in the "data maps" (it was apparently too bloody difficult for us to be supplied with a schema for the DBs we were supposed to be accessing and updating), I'd finally had enough. ...
This is also the client where, after a few months of an irksomely out of sync clock (off by 12 hours...made figuring out when something happened a bit of a PITA), I finally went in and set the damned clock to the proper time.
Lemme guess. Those clients were civil/mechanical engineers, right?
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The economy there goes fine; but, there are other things in life besides the economy. In France, they just don't sacrifice everything else to that one thing.
Anglo-saxon elected officials are generally failed businessmen (because a successfull businessman would rather be skinned and boiled alive with minced onions (hold the anchovies, please) than be seen as part of Government).
Unelected officials are those who are not/would not be successful in private entreprise; working for the government holds so much stigma that people of quality will seldom seek governmental jobs.
So, by that corollary, government is performed haphazardly by people of dubious quality, because nothing else is available.
Contrast this to France, where public service carries a lot of prestige, and the most prestigious schools are those designed to churn-out high-quality public officials. There, people of quality DO seek public jobs, and the results are there: a mixed government/private economic system where State entreprises are extremely competitive and innovative, even when they compete with private entreprises.
Better yet, many civil servants jump into politics, and when they are elected, they come to parliament well-versed in the mechanics of the civil service, thus streamlining the legislative process as it comes better suited to the executive apparatus.
Heck, France had the fastest trains in the world for more than 20 years, and those were designed and built by a goverment-owned entreprise!!!
I used to play trumpet at school then, so I just took the trumpet and started playing loudly through the window. Whenever he'd step out on the balcony, I'd stop. After three times, he got the hint, and I got my beauty sleep...
And the sex you get from the Internet isn't like the sex you had from the BBSes...
And, besides, any DRM scheme WILL BE CRACKED eventually. But unlike a house lock-picker set, once the digital tool is out, it will be instantly all over the known universe, sending DRM scheme designers back to their drawing boards...
But put multiple indexes (by sender, subject, date, whatever key-classes you want to assign messages) and the possibility to restrict the range displayed. With careful programming, you can manage many users who won't be able to read each other's mail, except as required.
This way, you can arrange your mail as you please.
No more message duplication. Send a memo to 250 people? Just send it once, but tag it as readable by the 250 sendees.
Of course, this calls for an SQL database... :) :) :)
We've but given up hope in ever seeing a JonKatz review of Star-Wars 2.0...
The RCMP officers mentionned in the article once busted a scammer operating from Canada; when they seized the computers and server, they brought them to the supplier to "fix them". Thing is, they swapped hard-disks, and the server hard-disk ended-up in a workstation. Needless to say, the tech was really surprised to see a server come up on that workstation...
So, it only shows that the RCMP are royal-class fumblers and it's a miracle that their evidence was able to stand-up in court... (Or the scammers' defense was totally inept - or the court stupid).
Yet, by law, in Canada, films must come out dubbed in french AT THE SAME TIME as they come out in english.
And, despite that "delaying" factor, movies come out at the same time as they do in the US.
So the argument that it is the subtitling/dubbing that retards the release elsewhere in the world (especially that the delayed releases are often in english) is simply not true.
The RCMP officers mentionned in the article once busted a scammer operating from Canada; when they seized the computers and server, they brought them to the supplier to "fix them". Thing is, they swapped hard-disks, and the server hard-disk ended-up in a workstation. Needless to say, the tech was really surprised to see a server come up on that workstation...
So, it only shows that the RCMP are royal-class fumblers and it's a miracle that their evidence was able to stand-up in court... (Or the scammers' defense was totally inept - or the court stupid).
"CONTENT" = BULLSHIT
Now that in the USA bullshit is more important than reality, this shows that the USA are decadent and does not contribute anything to the global welfare.
If a $600G/year industry cannot defend itself against a $18G/year industry, it doesn't deserve to exist.
Cover the earth!!!
Pronunciation: (ku-närd'; Fr. ka-nar'), [key]
--n.,
--pl. -nardsPronunciation: (-närdz'; Fr. -nar'). [key]
1. a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor.
2. Cookery.a duck intended or used for food.
3. Aeron.
a. an airplane that has its horizontal stabilizer and elevators located forward of the wing.
b. Also called canard' wing". one of two small lifting wings located in front of the main wings.
c. an early airplane having a pusher engine with the rudder and elevator assembly in front of the wings.
I don't get it. They inform investors about the shady past of executives. Who wouldn't want to know that???
( "Freedom of press wears off only when you don't use it" - Jacques Maréchal, the founder of "The Chained Canard", a french satirical weekly that has no advertisements; that paper snoops off plenty of scandals).
Write or phone your friendly neighbourhood four star general!!!
Fashion designers?
Dry-cleaners are a good money laundering method (no pun intended!!!). Some years ago, around here, someone started a chain of $1 dry-cleaners. Within weeks he was firebombed into oblivion.