Also, 3rd world countries benefit a lot from their illegal immigrants because a good slice of their salary goes back to their homecountry. As long as they're illegal and cannot bring their families along, that is. The illegals-to-be usually work informally and don't pay any taxes in their homecountries.
The issue with the banking/loan fiasco was more like having regulations on the plugs but at the same time encouraging the production of sub-standard, ungrounded ones for the poor to buy because "everyone has the right to enjoy electricity". Then blaming everyone but the State(TM) for the widespread fires afterwards and using this as a pretext to impose more regulations that will make the plugs even less affordable than before.
I don't use to feed trolls, but Picasso was a spaniard, born in Malaga (Andalucía). Also, most of the third world is not catholic nor christian. Examples: the whole islamic world, India and China.
(just don't buy them at the airport where they'll probably charge you 20€ for a crappy universal travel adapter).
Don't worry. Someone will find the way to make a terrorist threat out of socket adapters and they'll be forbidden to travel with unless bought sealed at the airport.
Yes. I had a choice of buying a U.S.R. modem that cost 4-5 times as much. Same with WiFi cards, if I even get the choice to change the one that will come with the laptop. (And not buying a laptop that costs US$ 300 - 500 more from a more expensive vendor)
Everybody brags about WiFi support for Linux in these days, but it's of no use to me because no Ubuntu will work in my Gateway 7422gx laptop, nor in my Compaq Presario V5000 without ndiswrapper and it took bloddy ages to adapt a working driver for my ASUS PK5-E WiFi mainboard (which was almost wiped in an Ubuntu automated kernel upgrade). Debian just didn't mind there being any WiFi cards on board.
Got to remember, also, that most cheap brands (common stuff @ town stores and mega-buy-your carrots-and-your-LCD-TV-here-malls) don't disclose the innards of their products: not in the envelope nor in the website; so one must guess it by examining the PCB after having opened the package, which is usually clamshell.
The same way mp3 became a standard and "linux" users must install codecs "at their own risk". The same way linux-verboten WinModems became a standard that faded only when they couldn't keep up with ADSL. The same way Realtek and Broadcom WiFi cards have become a standard in most notebooks (and some desktops) and they still perform very poorly under "linux". The same way NVidia and ATI have become the video adapter standards and none has yet got full support (not even mentioning double screens) under Linux.
I'm not blaming linux for any of this, but I do blame those that cry over the fact the rest of the world has accepted and can get along with those de facto "standards".
With the right kexts and a couple of clicks, my Leopard hackintosh install gets a much better grab of my hardware than both my Ubuntu and Debian installs, over which I'm endlessly trying new drivers and recompiling the kernel.
The comic didn't imply the kernel. Purists that wash their hands while saying "Linux is just a kernel, not my fault if it cannot (run x, recognize y or perform z)" are the target of this comic which tries to explain why linux (as a whole OS-and-software alternative) is not ready for the desktop.
In Spain perhaps the most paid for medical service is the ob-gyn for pregnancies. Even though the state covers it even for the uninsured. The added value is that at private clinics you don't get treated like just another head of cattle.
Not so fast. Conservatives mantain that it'll be crappy in the long run, but it will have a decievengly good start that will outcompete private insurance. This is called dumping when it comes to private businesses, but the state can get away with things such as dumping or monopoly.
Freedom of speech, as the right to live, are negative rights. This means no one is allowed to interfere with you in such a way that you can't express yourself or that you die. The law is there to punish such actions. OTOH, no one has to do anything to help you talk or live. The right to education, health, etc. are positive rights. That means somebody has to give them to you. "Somebody" being the state. Because nothing is free, the state gives it to you but in turn it takes a part of your money. If you earn below the mean, part of what it gives to you will be taken from someone else's money. Sometimes these rights cannot be enforced at their fullest because the state would have to take a huge lot from everyone and become unpopular.
You forgot mentioning that about 1/3rd of the firefighter's salary goes to the insurance agency because if he drops even a cheap plastic vase while fighting the fire you can sue him for the value of a Ming plus "moral damage". And even if you don't win, both your and his lawyer will.
The rest of the world is able to provide low cost fire fighting, but in many countries your house may get burned to the ground before they arrive; and because they have made private fire fighting illegal, you may have no other option left but to wait.
An economic crisis such as this one is a wet dream for governments wanting to offer "protection" to all sorts of businesses and have them comply with their ideologies. And games are just another industry in the hands of those who may offer tax cuts or printed money in exchange of new politically correct (and boring) games.
I've been using the Wikipedia on my Palm TX for two or three years now. There's a guy that makes snapshots of the spanish Wikipedia each 6mo or so and uploads them in TomeRaider format. The last version takes about 2/3 of my 2gb card with reduced images.
Countless times I've looked into it for info about places, people, etc. Almost any town of Spain appears there, with touristic references. Also It's solved many a doubt on history, math, physics, biology, etc.
The only drawback is the index, which has problems with hyphens. I wanted to download the english Wikipedia, but it takes more than the 4gb the TX will let me use in an SD card.
As a doctor, I've noticed that the climbing of women ratios has gone along with the decline in pay. Not sure if in the US, but it happens in European and 2.5-world countries I've lived in.
Could it be perhaps because of the popularization of the medical career, which yields a growing number of physicians (and easier opportunities to become one) each year everywhere? Or is it that males are rushing out of this career as it becomes less paid for the sacrifice it demands?
In my experience, though, the females in med school are in average much more studying and dedicated than us their male counterparts. Thus, they tend to set the bar higher for all of us.
It depends a lot on the place you live in. In my particular case, walking to work takes 40 min. The bus takes 30 min + waiting (an average 15 min). Using my car I get there in 7 min because of an alternate route.
My second job is in the big city, some 70km away. There's a train that takes 1:20 to get there, and at rush hours another train that skips stops and gets there in 45'. By car it's about 70'. BUT the train station is 20' away from my home by bus, and the bus comes in every 25', the last one arriving at the station less than 1 minute before the train departs. So I go to the station using my car (arrive in 8') in the morning and take the fast train, thus arriving faster than by car because there's a lot of traffic. To go back there's the slow train only, but I'm not in a rush anymore. I get off the train and take my car home instead of waiting another 15' for the bus and having a 20' ride. The cost? 80 euro for a 1-month rail pass. It would cost me perhaps 8 euro per day by car, which would add up to 180 euro a working month.
The time saved? Between 40 min and an hour each day. I'm paid about 14 euro an hour so it'd add up to 280 euro a month.
OTOH, I bought the car because I have a wife and two children. It's a titanic task to carry them both around with their coaches in the metro, train or even some buses (though most of them are wheel friendly now). We could not go out to the big city and stay later than 9pm because we'd get home by midnight and there would be no buses. And no, there's not a cheap car to rent at all times even though there's more than 5 rent-a-car companies in town. Going to the depot stores in the outskirts of my town or the neighboring towns without a car was terrible, also. Even more in plain summer (38ÂC) or winter.
There's the manteinance costs, taxes and everything, alright, but the liberty we get is priceless.
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America is a country of all heritages.
Which is why polish, german or italian are official languages at the same level as english in the US.
Also, 3rd world countries benefit a lot from their illegal immigrants because a good slice of their salary goes back to their homecountry. As long as they're illegal and cannot bring their families along, that is. The illegals-to-be usually work informally and don't pay any taxes in their homecountries.
The issue with the banking/loan fiasco was more like having regulations on the plugs but at the same time encouraging the production of sub-standard, ungrounded ones for the poor to buy because "everyone has the right to enjoy electricity". Then blaming everyone but the State(TM) for the widespread fires afterwards and using this as a pretext to impose more regulations that will make the plugs even less affordable than before.
I don't use to feed trolls, but Picasso was a spaniard, born in Malaga (Andalucía).
Also, most of the third world is not catholic nor christian. Examples: the whole islamic world, India and China.
(just don't buy them at the airport where they'll probably charge you 20€ for a crappy universal travel adapter).
Don't worry. Someone will find the way to make a terrorist threat out of socket adapters and they'll be forbidden to travel with unless bought sealed at the airport.
That is the question.
Call Tom Dickson.
At least the spiders will taste like pasta. I'd rather not have to swallow british-made robot spiders.
They didn't want to be dragged down by the extra weight.
Yes. I had a choice of buying a U.S.R. modem that cost 4-5 times as much. Same with WiFi cards, if I even get the choice to change the one that will come with the laptop. (And not buying a laptop that costs US$ 300 - 500 more from a more expensive vendor)
Everybody brags about WiFi support for Linux in these days, but it's of no use to me because no Ubuntu will work in my Gateway 7422gx laptop, nor in my Compaq Presario V5000 without ndiswrapper and it took bloddy ages to adapt a working driver for my ASUS PK5-E WiFi mainboard (which was almost wiped in an Ubuntu automated kernel upgrade). Debian just didn't mind there being any WiFi cards on board.
Got to remember, also, that most cheap brands (common stuff @ town stores and mega-buy-your carrots-and-your-LCD-TV-here-malls) don't disclose the innards of their products: not in the envelope nor in the website; so one must guess it by examining the PCB after having opened the package, which is usually clamshell.
The same way mp3 became a standard and "linux" users must install codecs "at their own risk".
The same way linux-verboten WinModems became a standard that faded only when they couldn't keep up with ADSL.
The same way Realtek and Broadcom WiFi cards have become a standard in most notebooks (and some desktops) and they still perform very poorly under "linux".
The same way NVidia and ATI have become the video adapter standards and none has yet got full support (not even mentioning double screens) under Linux.
I'm not blaming linux for any of this, but I do blame those that cry over the fact the rest of the world has accepted and can get along with those de facto "standards".
With the right kexts and a couple of clicks, my Leopard hackintosh install gets a much better grab of my hardware than both my Ubuntu and Debian installs, over which I'm endlessly trying new drivers and recompiling the kernel.
The comic didn't imply the kernel. Purists that wash their hands while saying "Linux is just a kernel, not my fault if it cannot (run x, recognize y or perform z)" are the target of this comic which tries to explain why linux (as a whole OS-and-software alternative) is not ready for the desktop.
Only if the public option allows that:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/16/1661
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/04/040915-7.htm
Should there be suspicion of bias in the last article, here's the NEJM:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/16/1661
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/04/040915-7.htm
And the amount deducted from your earnings put together over your entire life to replenish that public fund is ...?
In Spain perhaps the most paid for medical service is the ob-gyn for pregnancies. Even though the state covers it even for the uninsured. The added value is that at private clinics you don't get treated like just another head of cattle.
Not so fast. Conservatives mantain that it'll be crappy in the long run, but it will have a decievengly good start that will outcompete private insurance. This is called dumping when it comes to private businesses, but the state can get away with things such as dumping or monopoly.
Freedom of speech, as the right to live, are negative rights. This means no one is allowed to interfere with you in such a way that you can't express yourself or that you die. The law is there to punish such actions. OTOH, no one has to do anything to help you talk or live.
The right to education, health, etc. are positive rights. That means somebody has to give them to you. "Somebody" being the state. Because nothing is free, the state gives it to you but in turn it takes a part of your money. If you earn below the mean, part of what it gives to you will be taken from someone else's money. Sometimes these rights cannot be enforced at their fullest because the state would have to take a huge lot from everyone and become unpopular.
You forgot mentioning that about 1/3rd of the firefighter's salary goes to the insurance agency because if he drops even a cheap plastic vase while fighting the fire you can sue him for the value of a Ming plus "moral damage". And even if you don't win, both your and his lawyer will.
The rest of the world is able to provide low cost fire fighting, but in many countries your house may get burned to the ground before they arrive; and because they have made private fire fighting illegal, you may have no other option left but to wait.
You must be new here ...
An economic crisis such as this one is a wet dream for governments wanting to offer "protection" to all sorts of businesses and have them comply with their ideologies. And games are just another industry in the hands of those who may offer tax cuts or printed money in exchange of new politically correct (and boring) games.
I've been using the Wikipedia on my Palm TX for two or three years now. There's a guy that makes snapshots of the spanish Wikipedia each 6mo or so and uploads them in TomeRaider format. The last version takes about 2/3 of my 2gb card with reduced images.
Countless times I've looked into it for info about places, people, etc. Almost any town of Spain appears there, with touristic references. Also It's solved many a doubt on history, math, physics, biology, etc.
The only drawback is the index, which has problems with hyphens. I wanted to download the english Wikipedia, but it takes more than the 4gb the TX will let me use in an SD card.
As a doctor, I've noticed that the climbing of women ratios has gone along with the decline in pay. Not sure if in the US, but it happens in European and 2.5-world countries I've lived in.
Could it be perhaps because of the popularization of the medical career, which yields a growing number of physicians (and easier opportunities to become one) each year everywhere? Or is it that males are rushing out of this career as it becomes less paid for the sacrifice it demands?
In my experience, though, the females in med school are in average much more studying and dedicated than us their male counterparts. Thus, they tend to set the bar higher for all of us.
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There's a part that's un-leftist, though: The items which state that a citizen must WORK for a living.
It depends a lot on the place you live in.
In my particular case, walking to work takes 40 min. The bus takes 30 min + waiting (an average 15 min). Using my car I get there in 7 min because of an alternate route.
My second job is in the big city, some 70km away. There's a train that takes 1:20 to get there, and at rush hours another train that skips stops and gets there in 45'. By car it's about 70'. BUT the train station is 20' away from my home by bus, and the bus comes in every 25', the last one arriving at the station less than 1 minute before the train departs.
So I go to the station using my car (arrive in 8') in the morning and take the fast train, thus arriving faster than by car because there's a lot of traffic. To go back there's the slow train only, but I'm not in a rush anymore. I get off the train and take my car home instead of waiting another 15' for the bus and having a 20' ride.
The cost? 80 euro for a 1-month rail pass. It would cost me perhaps 8 euro per day by car, which would add up to 180 euro a working month.
The time saved? Between 40 min and an hour each day. I'm paid about 14 euro an hour so it'd add up to 280 euro a month.
OTOH, I bought the car because I have a wife and two children. It's a titanic task to carry them both around with their coaches in the metro, train or even some buses (though most of them are wheel friendly now). We could not go out to the big city and stay later than 9pm because we'd get home by midnight and there would be no buses. And no, there's not a cheap car to rent at all times even though there's more than 5 rent-a-car companies in town. Going to the depot stores in the outskirts of my town or the neighboring towns without a car was terrible, also. Even more in plain summer (38ÂC) or winter.
There's the manteinance costs, taxes and everything, alright, but the liberty we get is priceless.