I just recently moved from europe to the states (california). And I must say I was not impressed and thought "wow, I'm in the land of the free".
To buy cigarettes, I have to identify myself.
To buy beer, I have to identify myself.
The goverment enforces 2am curfew on bars.
I can't enjoy a beer in the park with some friends.
I can't smoke in the bar, even if the owner of the bar thinks it's ok.
She's cute, but I have to check her age...
And then theres the housing situation. I find it vaguely amusing that there is almost no rent control (at least that makes sense).
And democracy ? Yeah sure, two parties and the one with the most money for the campaign is better off.
Lets not forget censorship. So you're sitting there at 2:30am watching a movie on cable (you'd rather be at a bar socializing, but thats illegal). You've seen the movie before, you remember theres a scene with a pair of naked breasts because the scene is oddly enough missing from the movie...
And half the music on the radio also seems censored, or the artists are just forgetting a few verbs here and there.
So when you rant against other countries, remember that quite a few people coming over here, have the same opinion of the states as I see expressed about malaysia.
I am just used to more personal freedom and less goverment interference in what I'm doing.
I remember both London and Dublin as being dot-com'ish areas, and I guess you can adapt to british english quite easily.
For the more linguistic esotic areas, I know that the Copenhagen/Malmoe area is rising quickly, but it's harder for find make-money-fast startups there. Copenhagen also has good beer.
Berlin is also up and comming, they've got good beer as well.
Well, eg. DBC where I currently work, and many other danish companies have done the same for... years. I've had free internet (they paid for the isdn installation and all) for almost two years now. I haven't had a PC since I didn't really need one and therefore said no. Others in the company of course said yes, and blam - there it was.
This is quite common actually, I think the only big deal is that Intel have quite a few more employees then DBC. But eg. Nokia here in copenhagen do the same, although I'm not quite sure if this goes for all employees.
funny thing thing is, almost every home in.dk has a pc, yet companies in.dk have done this for a long time, even teachers are getting pc's these days. Must be a socialist thing.
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- To buy cigarettes, I have to identify myself.
- To buy beer, I have to identify myself.
- The goverment enforces 2am curfew on bars.
- I can't enjoy a beer in the park with some friends.
- I can't smoke in the bar, even if the owner of the bar thinks it's ok.
- She's cute, but I have to check her age...
And then theres the housing situation. I find it vaguely amusing that there is almost no rent control (at least that makes sense).And democracy ? Yeah sure, two parties and the one with the most money for the campaign is better off.
Lets not forget censorship. So you're sitting there at 2:30am watching a movie on cable (you'd rather be at a bar socializing, but thats illegal). You've seen the movie before, you remember theres a scene with a pair of naked breasts because the scene is oddly enough missing from the movie...
And half the music on the radio also seems censored, or the artists are just forgetting a few verbs here and there.
So when you rant against other countries, remember that quite a few people coming over here, have the same opinion of the states as I see expressed about malaysia.
I am just used to more personal freedom and less goverment interference in what I'm doing.
Extremely funny!
For the more linguistic esotic areas, I know that the Copenhagen/Malmoe area is rising quickly, but it's harder for find make-money-fast startups there. Copenhagen also has good beer.
Berlin is also up and comming, they've got good beer as well.
What's wrong with the existing gnome-pilot package ? (except that it's ofcourse not updated for evolution yet).
This is quite common actually, I think the only big deal is that Intel have quite a few more employees then DBC. But eg. Nokia here in copenhagen do the same, although I'm not quite sure if this goes for all employees.
funny thing thing is, almost every home in .dk has a pc, yet companies in .dk have done this for a long time, even teachers are getting pc's these days. Must be a socialist thing.
Lets nominate Frankenstein for the ultimate hack.
I nominate Dr. Frankenstein for creating the ultimate hack...
In the midst of the arising "my gnome is bigger then your kde!" wars, I'll just say congratulations to Miguel, good work.
back to code...