What happened to free speech. I don't get jailed if I talk offensive, joking talk with my friends. Evidently guys in the UK gets jailed for speaking, being on the internet or in cafées. Why did you give up your freedom (of speech)?
I'm basically in the same situation (coder, computer science, I never want to work with computers again. They rise my blood-pressure).
I have recently bought a greenhouse, and gardening is fun for the whole family (the kids just love it!).
Suggestion: Buy a semi-large greenhouse an start planting herbs as a business. Gardening is fun and quite easy to learn. After one growing-season you'll be the herb-master (geek). Culinary herbs are also quite easy to grow, and there are sooo many other plants and species to explore... it's fun:)
A greenhouse is not a big investment, and if you fail to sell fresh herbs => dry them up and sell them as spice/herb mixes on the internet (if you can bare to sit in front of your screen for a while:))
"...and study global warming." - Yes, let's study global warming by building a huge building with our precious earthly resources. It's like saying "we're going to fight for peace".
Most science subjects are boring subjects that no one (except for a few with a genuine interest) find it interesting enough to study on your own time. Who would actually sit at home being excited about some economic math problem, except for a few that are genuinely into math. More and more people are studying because of money, since they want well paid jobs in the future (in the year 2000). The 40% that drop out maybe are smart enough to realize that money does not equal happiness, and there are more interesting ways to make money than to study something you do not have a genuine interest in.
The study should check which of the two users have left more things undone. By filing into folders you get a to-do list, and you can clearly see what you need to do. By having all mails in one folder things can get messy, and important mails can be forgotten and thus, never gets that important reply.
Yup, but mainly incursion on freedom. If I want to be friends with someone, god damnit it's up to me to decide, and no one else's business! Does this mean that the teacher cannot be friends IRL?
Example:
I took a math course at the university where my cousin was the teacher. We are friends and facebook friends. Are we criminals now? Better come and get me.
Correct. We are not too many people, we are too many _lazy_ people who demand to have cars, and use the car for everything. Instead of walking 2km most people choose to go by car, instead of developing one-self and meditating most people sit in front of their computers thinking they are saving energy because they don't read _paper_ papers.... gheez
Lazy people sit in their cars eating junk food, getting fatter, buying more food, food gets more expensive as a result, inflation strikes, people get more overweight, people get more lazy and use their car more often => vicious cycle. Start bicycling instead => loose weight, get less lazy, demand less food, smaller ecological footprint.
People fail to see that we live in a huge paradise (earth), but that's really easy to miss if one is surrounded by concrete and trucks blowing by your face.
Here in Finland many children have got narcolepsy (for life!) as a "side effect" from the H1N1 vaccine. If anyone ever will try to give me a "universal vaccine" I'll scream. Imagine what it's like to have a 7 year-old who falls asleep while eating, waiting for the school-bus, in class etc., and can't remember what they were thinking about just 10 seconds ago. All parents have had to quit their jobs and take care of the children. "Thank you modern software medicine".
Why would a healthy person need a flu vaccine anyway? Flu's are normal and should exist, and, if you're healthy you'll manage through a flu just fine. Stop playing with nature.
Hmm, is that why we had an INSANE amount of bees here in Finland this summer? They were literally everywhere, and in large colonies. They were even out at sea and in the archipelago, which is somewhat rare.
You PAY money to go to school? Here in Finland the state pays us to study. We get paid almost 500 euros/month while studying at a university.
Learning on your own, however, requires discipline and interest, which most people does not seem to have. If you are really interested in something you'll do great on your own, as long as you have material of high quality to study (with well formed questions and exercises). If you don't have high quality material (e.g. the internet), then you'll need a - lot - of discipline to make the most out of it.
Oh shit! They have wasted their valuable time to create a... crappy wallet? Get some real money instead, problem solved, and your privacy remains protected (banks cannot follow up on all transactions as they can when paying with cards).
Well, he mentions that Apple wants to have more control over the internet, like when inventing their own App stores etc..., now even their own App store for Mac in the next OS X release. Maybe he is afraid that they will not allow any other Apps for Mac's other than those found in the app store (like they did with their iPhone...)
He is afraid that Apple will choose the contents for the users, as opposed to now when the internet is still free (except for places like China etc.. where they sadly have heavy censorship).
If you compare TV to the internet, we have basically two completely opposite edges. TV chooses the contents for the user, and on the internet, the user chooses the contents (at least up until now). When apple is e.g. going to release their own App store, they are starting to lean more toe behavior of the classic TV set, thus limiting the choices for the user, ultimately limiting his/her freedom.
On the contrary, tying one's career to ideology is the best thing you can do. That way you'll always differ from the others, and you will stay morally happy. Don't be a sell out!
Anyone joining the EU is signing off their freedom... Here in Finland, we're not even allowed to have parks with certain wooden-fabrics due to EU regulations, so 5 parks in my home-town have been demolished! EU is nothing but a dictator.
Yeah, what about e.g. medicinal corporations that trash medicines/drugs that are shipped from India to Africa, just because they infringe on some patent, forcing Africa to buy expensive white-man drugs? Isn't that a crime against humanity? Shouldn't they be fined about 96 beelyun dollars?
Sorry, I can't, because I "mistyped". What I intended to say was that patents are often described in the media as protection for small inventors, but that is clearly not the case at all.
To register and create a patent you'll need lots of money, which no startup certainly has. You'll also need to be ready to cross-license/patent something if a bigger company demands it, which may end up costing you a fortune. The patents are good for big companies, and they can milk lots of money out of it, even though media often displays patents as something good for a small inventor.
Stop fucking with small startups. Patents are founded as a - protection - for small startups against the big corporations. That is not however the case today (as a patent may cost several millions...). Patents today - limits - innovation for the small inventor, and brings big money for the big corporation, which is the opposite of the original intent with the founding patents.
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What happened to free speech. I don't get jailed if I talk offensive, joking talk with my friends. Evidently guys in the UK gets jailed for speaking, being on the internet or in cafées. Why did you give up your freedom (of speech)?
I'm basically in the same situation (coder, computer science, I never want to work with computers again. They rise my blood-pressure). I have recently bought a greenhouse, and gardening is fun for the whole family (the kids just love it!). Suggestion: Buy a semi-large greenhouse an start planting herbs as a business. Gardening is fun and quite easy to learn. After one growing-season you'll be the herb-master (geek). Culinary herbs are also quite easy to grow, and there are sooo many other plants and species to explore... it's fun :)
A greenhouse is not a big investment, and if you fail to sell fresh herbs => dry them up and sell them as spice/herb mixes on the internet (if you can bare to sit in front of your screen for a while :))
"...and study global warming." - Yes, let's study global warming by building a huge building with our precious earthly resources. It's like saying "we're going to fight for peace".
Most science subjects are boring subjects that no one (except for a few with a genuine interest) find it interesting enough to study on your own time. Who would actually sit at home being excited about some economic math problem, except for a few that are genuinely into math. More and more people are studying because of money, since they want well paid jobs in the future (in the year 2000). The 40% that drop out maybe are smart enough to realize that money does not equal happiness, and there are more interesting ways to make money than to study something you do not have a genuine interest in.
The study should check which of the two users have left more things undone. By filing into folders you get a to-do list, and you can clearly see what you need to do. By having all mails in one folder things can get messy, and important mails can be forgotten and thus, never gets that important reply.
Yup, but mainly incursion on freedom. If I want to be friends with someone, god damnit it's up to me to decide, and no one else's business! Does this mean that the teacher cannot be friends IRL? Example: I took a math course at the university where my cousin was the teacher. We are friends and facebook friends. Are we criminals now? Better come and get me.
What we really need is food, water and air, all of which should be clean.
Correct. We are not too many people, we are too many _lazy_ people who demand to have cars, and use the car for everything. Instead of walking 2km most people choose to go by car, instead of developing one-self and meditating most people sit in front of their computers thinking they are saving energy because they don't read _paper_ papers.... gheez Lazy people sit in their cars eating junk food, getting fatter, buying more food, food gets more expensive as a result, inflation strikes, people get more overweight, people get more lazy and use their car more often => vicious cycle. Start bicycling instead => loose weight, get less lazy, demand less food, smaller ecological footprint. People fail to see that we live in a huge paradise (earth), but that's really easy to miss if one is surrounded by concrete and trucks blowing by your face.
Only commercial space flight necessary: Ayahuasca (DMT trip)
I thought people in the USA were living under freedom. I was wrong. Hell, I'll never put my foot there again!
Here in Finland many children have got narcolepsy (for life!) as a "side effect" from the H1N1 vaccine. If anyone ever will try to give me a "universal vaccine" I'll scream. Imagine what it's like to have a 7 year-old who falls asleep while eating, waiting for the school-bus, in class etc., and can't remember what they were thinking about just 10 seconds ago. All parents have had to quit their jobs and take care of the children. "Thank you modern software medicine". Why would a healthy person need a flu vaccine anyway? Flu's are normal and should exist, and, if you're healthy you'll manage through a flu just fine. Stop playing with nature.
Hmm, is that why we had an INSANE amount of bees here in Finland this summer? They were literally everywhere, and in large colonies. They were even out at sea and in the archipelago, which is somewhat rare.
Wohooo!! \o/
You PAY money to go to school? Here in Finland the state pays us to study. We get paid almost 500 euros /month while studying at a university.
Learning on your own, however, requires discipline and interest, which most people does not seem to have. If you are really interested in something you'll do great on your own, as long as you have material of high quality to study (with well formed questions and exercises). If you don't have high quality material (e.g. the internet), then you'll need a - lot - of discipline to make the most out of it.
Oh shit! They have wasted their valuable time to create a... crappy wallet? Get some real money instead, problem solved, and your privacy remains protected (banks cannot follow up on all transactions as they can when paying with cards).
HAHA, Wtf?! (please mod this as insightful)
English is not my mother tongue you insensitive clod :)
Yeah, here we call them waitresses, and they can talk too! (and are pleasant to look at)
Well, he mentions that Apple wants to have more control over the internet, like when inventing their own App stores etc..., now even their own App store for Mac in the next OS X release. Maybe he is afraid that they will not allow any other Apps for Mac's other than those found in the app store (like they did with their iPhone...) He is afraid that Apple will choose the contents for the users, as opposed to now when the internet is still free (except for places like China etc.. where they sadly have heavy censorship). If you compare TV to the internet, we have basically two completely opposite edges. TV chooses the contents for the user, and on the internet, the user chooses the contents (at least up until now). When apple is e.g. going to release their own App store, they are starting to lean more toe behavior of the classic TV set, thus limiting the choices for the user, ultimately limiting his/her freedom.
On the contrary, tying one's career to ideology is the best thing you can do. That way you'll always differ from the others, and you will stay morally happy. Don't be a sell out!
Anyone joining the EU is signing off their freedom... Here in Finland, we're not even allowed to have parks with certain wooden-fabrics due to EU regulations, so 5 parks in my home-town have been demolished! EU is nothing but a dictator.
Yeah, what about e.g. medicinal corporations that trash medicines/drugs that are shipped from India to Africa, just because they infringe on some patent, forcing Africa to buy expensive white-man drugs? Isn't that a crime against humanity? Shouldn't they be fined about 96 beelyun dollars?
Sorry, I can't, because I "mistyped". What I intended to say was that patents are often described in the media as protection for small inventors, but that is clearly not the case at all. To register and create a patent you'll need lots of money, which no startup certainly has. You'll also need to be ready to cross-license/patent something if a bigger company demands it, which may end up costing you a fortune. The patents are good for big companies, and they can milk lots of money out of it, even though media often displays patents as something good for a small inventor.
Stop fucking with small startups. Patents are founded as a - protection - for small startups against the big corporations. That is not however the case today (as a patent may cost several millions...). Patents today - limits - innovation for the small inventor, and brings big money for the big corporation, which is the opposite of the original intent with the founding patents.
Nor harmful to humans? What a bout the environment we depend on? Talk about misleading the public.