The only stirling engine I ever saw was precisely that: in the focus of a solar reflector. I stopped it when I walked in front of it and blocked the sun from reaching it...:)
Like everywhere in North America, you have to join the union whenever there is one. The work contract is passed between the employer and the union, not you.
However, in Québec, it's much easier to implement an union than elsewhere in North-America (that's because we're mostly french, and have been thoroughly screwed in the past by english companies so we eventually started to elect governments that would listen to the people rather than rich fuckers).
not the other way around. If enough consumers clamor for web-enabled mobile devices and sites that support them, then companies will create/modify their sites to accomodate the customers. This is Business 101 stuff.
Well, how come that, despite the demand, you just can't buy a decent lightsaber anywhere????
Web designers should have been worrying about 56k speeds all along. Not everybody happens to have broadband yet, and even if they do, why should you bleed it all away with huge flash files, etc. If you have to add splash and flash, perhaps your message isn't as good as it could be.
Some 5 years ago, I was at a company party where some punk comes along with a CD, pops it into the nearby beige toaster and says "hey! watch the website I'have develloped for $MAJOR_UTILITY; it's going online next week!".
So there goes an orgy of flash, animated crap and javascript.
-- Feh! I shout from the back. "Dazzle to hide the absence of content" (there was **NO** content).
He turns around slowly and squints at me, meaning "And I suppose that YOU've got content???"
-- Oh, you want content? I throw him the URL of my website (I won't bother here, because it's all in french so it would be useless for y'all yankees), a website I've been working on since 1993 (and which looks horrible because I never redid the older parts as I change the way I work on it as time goes).
20 minutes later, they were still reading from the website, and he was so impressed that everytime I go to that christmas party, he keeps telling me how much stuff there is on it...
Mostly they are fucking clueless mac-toting artist-assholes who are not aware that some people do not give a flying fuck about flashy flash and only want information.
But, of course, when they don't have any content, they hide their absence of content behind flashy crap.
Continental Europe has a legal code derived from the Napoleonic code.
It is particularly irrational and inflexible, and nowhere near as abstract as English Common Law.
What a bunch of stupid oxdung. Only the most stupid anglo-saxon troll would react like so.
Britshit common law is the best example of a primitive law code where the most powerful entity (the one with the best lawyers) wins.
Civil code, on the other hand is neatly clear-cut. You always know where you stand, and the final outcome is solely derived from the facts, and not some obscure jurisprudence that was often obtained because some poorer party could not afford to appeal some inane decision, making the inane decision become law.
This is not surprising. European technology is waaaay ahead of american technology. That's because the americans are run by the bean-counters (because of the obsession with the bottom-line), who are never on the forefront of technology, while in Europe, people in charge have a more broad education than bean-counters who, there, are mere lackeys instead of the feared rulers they are in the US.
But defacing the website to publish information about private citizens is in my view worse. There's currently several campaigns going on which aims at terrorizing Pontus Pontén (chief asshat of the APB) by sending hate SMS, e-mail, snailmail. His own kids have gotten several death threats for fucks sake. What kind of message does that send?
It sends the message that they are dirty slimeballs and they will rightfully deserve to be against the wall when then people get pissed-off enough at them.
When you act like an ass, however legally, do not expect the people to stand idle and let you be like an ass.
Let those death threats be a warning that the people has the ultimate power, whatever the law may be.
eople also have to stop downloading RIAA/MPAA stuff.
NO! We *** HAVE *** to download it, in order to show them that they are totally unnecessary. We *** HAVE *** to download it to kill them. Those leeches do nothing at all for the development of arts since they have become obsolete, so they should be driven out of the market. Large-scale piracy, so widespread that it will become as unenforcable as anti-jaywalking laws is the solution.
We *** HAVE *** to download it, in order to secure the future of the development of arts by killing out the leeches.
This is not surprising. European technology is waaaay ahead of american technology. That's because the americans are run by the bean-counters (because of the obsession with the bottom-line), who are never on the forefront of technology, while in Europe, people in charge have a more broad education than bean-counters who, there, are mere lackeys instead of the feared rulers they are in the US.
A man in Rodez, France has been cleared (in French, sorry, use the fish) Of piracy charges; the court determined that since he did not mass redistribute the movies he downloaded, he was not guilty of what the movie studio accused him. Furthermore, the court said that given the copy-tax people pay on media and computers, they are entitled to private copy, JUST AS THE LAW ALLOWS.
Spam has definitely increased. Blocklist hits on a server have increased at least 20% during the last six months, and yet more spam makes it through the blocklists, which makes updating the manual blocklist an almost daily chore.
A law is due soon, and given the number of zombies, it should make ISPs liable if they do not disconnect trojaned customers in due time.
There is no excuse for letting a trojaned computer on the Internet, it is a major nuisance. Punitive disconnection ought to be a good way of clueing-in john Q. Bozo in properly running a computer.
Vidéoétron is notoriously clueless when it comes to zombie, making it's networks one of the filthiest cesspools. By contrast, Stupidico blocked port 25 a long time ago, so almost no spam emanates from their network.
As a bonus if the boycott is successful you can cause lasting damage to the US economy which *might* cause them to spend a little less on military misadventures.
Don't worry, it's being done slowly. With a 50 billion trade deficit, multitrillion budget deficit, a googolian debt, and with Saudi Arabia and Iran and Venezuela (why do you think that the US is having a huge destabilization campaign on Venezuela? To prevent it from switching to the Euro) soon switching to Euros when it comes to get paid for their oil, the world confidence in the US dollar will soon come to an end, and with it the most resounding bankrupcy in the history of the known Universe.
Suckers who lent dough to the US will be up the creek (and in arms) and as the US has totally obliterated it's industrial base by shipping it to China, it will not be able to meet it's own basic needs, so there will be widespread famine and unrest in the US.
The most effective (actually the only) way to do this is by a worldwide boycott of all American products and brands. Yes that means not watching American movies, listening to american songs, not drinking coke or pepsi, not wearing nike or addidas even if you favorite soccer player or movie star tells you to.
No. It's not to boycott the stuff, but to pirate it on a large scale.
For example, France may get so pissed-off at the US that it will stop enforcing IP laws when american IP gets infringed upon. The french will still have their Jerry Lewis movies and their Squeez-a-snack but the merry-cans won't get a penny out of it...
That's what I do. I rip CDs I borrow from the library, which is legal here by the way (as well as sharing over the Internet - as decided by the Supreme Court).
Heck, one day, I even saw a guy ripping the CDs on his laptop right inside the library!!! (Which is also legal, and no law would prevent him from sharing the ripped songs on wifi if the library had wifi)...
Actually, if you put some thought into it, the new bankruptcy law will benefit consumers by discouraging them from running up outrageous debt. Nobody has the right to go tens of thousands of dollars in debt and then just walk away from it.
Credit providers are responsible for extending credit to people and should face the risk that the people they extend credit to may default. Bankruptcy isn't fun, one cannot do it regularly.
In France, people cannot declare bankrupcy. HOWEVER when someone lends money to an individual, IF the payment demanded by the loan increases the loanee's total debt payments to more than 25% of his income, the loaner has absolutely no recourse if ever the loanee would ever default on his payments.
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The only stirling engine I ever saw was precisely that: in the focus of a solar reflector. I stopped it when I walked in front of it and blocked the sun from reaching it... :)
I'd like to see a beowulf cluster of those...
Never mind. When you'll grow up, you'll understand.
Companies have no problem about uniting their capital in order to squish the workers, so it's only fair that the workers be able to do the same.
However, in Québec, it's much easier to implement an union than elsewhere in North-America (that's because we're mostly french, and have been thoroughly screwed in the past by english companies so we eventually started to elect governments that would listen to the people rather than rich fuckers).
... given that Ubisoft is based in Québec, where labour laws are progressive enough to have allowed the unionization of several Wall-Marde stores...
So there goes an orgy of flash, animated crap and javascript.
-- Feh! I shout from the back. "Dazzle to hide the absence of content" (there was **NO** content).
He turns around slowly and squints at me, meaning "And I suppose that YOU've got content???"
-- Oh, you want content? I throw him the URL of my website (I won't bother here, because it's all in french so it would be useless for y'all yankees), a website I've been working on since 1993 (and which looks horrible because I never redid the older parts as I change the way I work on it as time goes).
20 minutes later, they were still reading from the website, and he was so impressed that everytime I go to that christmas party, he keeps telling me how much stuff there is on it...
But, of course, when they don't have any content, they hide their absence of content behind flashy crap.
It's only LINKING.
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When you act like an ass, however legally, do not expect the people to stand idle and let you be like an ass.
Let those death threats be a warning that the people has the ultimate power, whatever the law may be.
We *** HAVE *** to download it, in order to secure the future of the development of arts by killing out the leeches.
This is not surprising. European technology is waaaay ahead of american technology. That's because the americans are run by the bean-counters (because of the obsession with the bottom-line), who are never on the forefront of technology, while in Europe, people in charge have a more broad education than bean-counters who, there, are mere lackeys instead of the feared rulers they are in the US.
I don't get it. How can something as trite as Visual Basic can be called "programming"????
It must be hard to write "Phonographic" instead of "Pornographic"...
It must be hard to write "Phonographic" instead of "Pornographic"...
A man in Rodez, France has been cleared (in French, sorry, use the fish) Of piracy charges; the court determined that since he did not mass redistribute the movies he downloaded, he was not guilty of what the movie studio accused him. Furthermore, the court said that given the copy-tax people pay on media and computers, they are entitled to private copy, JUST AS THE LAW ALLOWS.
A law is due soon, and given the number of zombies, it should make ISPs liable if they do not disconnect trojaned customers in due time.
There is no excuse for letting a trojaned computer on the Internet, it is a major nuisance. Punitive disconnection ought to be a good way of clueing-in john Q. Bozo in properly running a computer.
Vidéoétron is notoriously clueless when it comes to zombie, making it's networks one of the filthiest cesspools. By contrast, Stupidico blocked port 25 a long time ago, so almost no spam emanates from their network.
- "NOBODY expects the Spammish Inquisition !"
Suckers who lent dough to the US will be up the creek (and in arms) and as the US has totally obliterated it's industrial base by shipping it to China, it will not be able to meet it's own basic needs, so there will be widespread famine and unrest in the US.
For example, France may get so pissed-off at the US that it will stop enforcing IP laws when american IP gets infringed upon. The french will still have their Jerry Lewis movies and their Squeez-a-snack but the merry-cans won't get a penny out of it...
Heck, one day, I even saw a guy ripping the CDs on his laptop right inside the library!!! (Which is also legal, and no law would prevent him from sharing the ripped songs on wifi if the library had wifi)...