>>(All legal, since they were all copied from borrowed CDs). >Dude.... I hope you have a good lawyer!!!
I don't need one. It says so in the law, that I'm allowed to do it. As long as I keep it non-commercial, I'm allowed to copy it. But I'm not allowed to distribute it, only the copyright holder is allowed to do that. It is no different that the 80ies tape-copying in that manner.
And what feature creep? OK, I'll buy the 'minibrowser', so you switch that window off and never have to see it again. Anything else?
Well, it's a long time sinceI used it, but it had a mini browser and a video player + some badly structured features.
I loved the original Winamp, it did a kickass job on my 30 GB MP3 collection (All legal, since they were all copied from borrowed CDs). But the 2.x was sloooooooow to start up and crashed a lot more. The 1.x was snap, snap, snappy and rock stable.
I hope Justin et al does something equally cool now, maybe the next killer app for video-on-demand?
Winamp was one of those Must Have Apps for Windows, and heralded much of the MP3 success. After that half-yearly re-install of Windows, WA was one of the first apps to go back in. So you could play MP3s while reinstalling Office etc.
But after it went to version2, things became less rosy. Version 1.x worked a charm on my old 266/512mb peecee, but the 2.x series was dog slow and ridden with feature creep. I wonder if all the dumbass features in 2.x was something AOL mandated in the app. Rest of story: I went Linux, the Mac and never looked back.
Kudos to the original Nullsoft team, you did a great job!
The example in CNN is actually very, very good. Individual journalists are usually liberal, but don't express their views in the publication. I work in a newspaper and I'm probably the only one under senior management to vote conservative. But our publication is conservative. (The extreme-right kooks think we're liberal, but that's because they only get fired up on selective news)
I'll leave out Fox news, since they are not regarded as a news organisation here in Europe. But CNN is conservative. It has, as most news organisations, a conservative management and present news in a conservative manner. Now, there IS a difference between being conservative and republican in the US. The current republicans are noe very conservative. They are extremely change-oriented in every way except for a couple of flagship causes like gay marriages etc.
I have to say that the document with critique of Farenheit 911 wasn't very convincing. A lot of contradictions, omissions and few new facts. As a journalist, I also get tired of the "well, you just edit it the way you want to spin it" statements.
Of course we edit, but not to spin, to represent the truth as we understand it. Believe me, the quotes of the interviewees are often so self-devestating that we edit to correct the balance in the interview. Moore edits subjectively, and don't keep it a secret. I saw the movie and everything was old news to me, mainly because I work with the topic.
I think the future way of lookin at wich candidate screwed up the most would be an objective look at spine alley. The representatives that stay the longest, has the candidate that fucked up most.
Now, there's an interview with Jessica Lynch on the Franken show. I have never even heard her voice, so it's interesting to listen without the military spin. Maybe another spin, but interesting none the less.
Face it, both sides lie, and to assert that republicans lie more is just a lie propagated by the liberal media.
I have no doubt that both sides lie. I just think the american conservatives are better at setting the lies in system. Lefties lies are more like some half-assed jerk publishing a fake republican flyer to create a story. Cons are more of the "let's say that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction so we can invade them even though we have no evidence, our intelligence says they haven't got em' and international inspectors have found fuck-all".
I do not agree with much of Frankens opinions, but the fact remains. His book (Discreetly called "Lies, and the lying liars who tell them") is fact based, thouroghly researched and documented. This is not something that AM radio show hosts do.
I have read a lot of sites critical to Moore, and watched a bit of Farenhype, but the critique mostly boils down to opinion, while the left says "it's like this and here's the document that proves it". Here in Norway, it's the other way around. The conservatives are the ones that document and research, while the left is passionate and don't care to prove their statements.
Of the things in Farenhype I've seen, it was all "Moore is a kook" (Well, true, but a factbased kook) "Moore hates America", but very little evidence.
Dan Rather and his "news" team is a joke. I'm surprised that noone has been fired for that. The instant I saw that document I though "That looks like a document typed in Word!". Rather is a loser, 60 minutes is crap, Crossfire (or "I'm gonna kick your ass!";) sucks. PBS and NPR is the only decent media in the US, along with Wall st. Journal, The NY Times, Washingon Post...
And the myth that the media is liberal, well......myth. Journalists are liberal. Media is conservative.
Personally, I have great trouble understanding why Bush is doing what he is doing in Iraq. The only thing I do understand of the reasons, is the fact that it has nothing to do with the hunt for the terrorists that endanger America. As for the real motive, I'm leaning towards the "New American century"-building and trying to increase the pressure on China in the next 50 years. Dumbasses. If they'd try to do business with Africa, they'd have a cakewalk into one of the most resouceful continents wihtout all the stubborn chinese bickering.
The whole election system is flawed and needs a major overhaul.
One of the major problems is the differences in voting methods. Mixing digital, punchcard, paper and that flipswitch'n'lever-thingy is begging for errors and a recount dispute. The old system is to blame for this, of course, with the states making rules for themselves on how to to vote. And also who is allowed to vote.
I can only remember one time where there has been a dispute on the election here in Norway. During the last city election, the conservative turnout was a lot larger than excpected and it resulted in long lines outside the Ullern school in a posh district. When the election cloesd, the line was still there with maybe 100 persons waiting to vote. The conservatives wanted the school to stay open, others wanted it to close on time. They consulted the Big Red Book (Our collection of basic laws), and found that the voting area could remain open until the voters in line were gone, but the doors had to close on time.Solution: The entire school was defined as a voting area, and the gate closed so the voters in line could cast their vote. The entire voting dispute lasted a couple of hours, since we have a unified system and a set of standards.
Oh, BTW, we use straight-party paper ballots where people can optionally can mark off any changes they'd like to see with a pencil. These are scanned and stored for a year for verification.
I listened to an Al Franken Podcast the other day, and they asserted a huge problem on the left side of politics. The right-wing nutjobs usually won't back down, even if they have been proven wrong with evidence. I think it was Hannity that had made an innane statement about Kerrys career, a blatant lie that was proven wrong again and again. Yet, after a week, he presented it as a fact in his show as if nothing had happened. This puts lefties in an akward dilemma, as they tend to follow the backed-up-by-evidence high road. While it is the slander-and-lies low road that get the attention and "moral" votes.
(Note, I'm a conservative, but not in the USAian sense.)
Well, what I wrote was a little piece on how important the election was and how they could change the lives of a lot of people with their vote. I used my GF as an example, she's a medic in the military awaiting NATO duty. Bush might make her life a lot more dangerous for very little gain besides another catering contract for Haliburton.
What puzzles me is why the US didn't pick a strong, smart and militarish guy like Clarke. You'd have to be mentally retarded to think that Bush has made a sane military choice. When the number of troops to Iraq (and what's up with his fetish for Iraq?) , was announced the military leaders of the world could agree on one thing; "that's not enough".
The paper that tried to directly influence the United State Presidential election and called for the assassination of the President. I'm sure they're not biased at all.
Yup, Europeans like me. I wrote to three persons in Clark county, Ohio and explained them who this election affects much, much more than themselves and why Bush is a bad republican. There are good republicans and bad ones, you know. I included my adress to them, but no answer. I guess I was ignored. Oh well.
I left the childe book analogies a long time ago so I'll let that pass.
I'm sure that all the initiatives you have come up with and supported are now in effect and reducing enviromental risks as we speak, kudos.
The treaty will, of course, be a significant step on the road to less pollution of CO2 and contribute to a mindset that there need to be effective systems to commit goverments to reduction of pollution. But I guess we can drop that now, since the system you obviously are bursting to tell us about, will dwarf this multi-lateral initiative.
As for my political direction, I'm a conservative capitalist. Are people really that out of touch with the world? Don't they remember what capitalism is all about anymore?
Regarding the realistic monitoring issue, you're right. Oops, my bad, almost didn't see this part 1. Each Party included in Annex I shall have in place, no later than one year prior to the start of the first commitment period, a national system for the estimation of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol. Gee, what about the enforcment? Well, basic human greed will take care of that. You pollute, no money for you. You reduce, cash in!
Or, as a Slashdotite would say: 1. Reduce pollution... 3. Profit!
As for your last paragraph, the US has never. Ever. Been as divided as is now. Just under half of the voters there understand its wrongdoings as plance in the world, 1/3 seems to benefit from the current policy and the rest just feel kinda 'icky' about gays. So youre at fault in that argument.
As for the GAO, they confirm the ballpark figure of 200 - 300 billion USD that could have been used elsewhere. Or, as a real republican would realise, not at all.
No, i did not say that, as you can read in my comment. It is an effort to optimise production / pollution ratio.
You see, if there is money to be saved and profit to be gained, cooperations will do that unless they are told (and threatened by sanctions) to do otherwise.
As stated in Kyoto, and mentioned in my comment (by the way, RTFC), the overall limit is LESS than what it was in 1990. By 10%, quite a lot for a start. The Kyoto treaty is a way to BOTH help developing countries to start their enviromental duties and to help industrialised nations to optimise pollution output to a standard, which by the way, we can measure. This forces the overall pollution DOWN 10%. Do you understand? You get less. Because you encourage cooperations to pollute less. My making it potentially profitable. And they want profit. So they do things to gain profit. Like pollute less. Am I getting through?
I take it by the horribly misunderstood reply that you don't know what BCS is. Well, it is short sighted "capitalism" mainly designed to create gains for a small segment of an economy. This is done in the US by giving unfair subsidies to a select few (cooperations, individuals) and pretending that you are a good capitalist. In fact, the US is one of the countries with MOST government spending from taxes right now because of the war on Iraq^H^H^H^H^H terror. Who gains, not you. Unless you have stock in Halliburton.
BTW, if you're from the US, good luck. You'll need it. We Europeans couldn't be happiers, since we feel more united than ever.
Can someone please explain to me just how the fuck that's gonna help?
It helps, because it maximises efficency. If you are a polluter, you have three choices: One; produce and pollute until you reach your limit and stop. No one does this. Two; Produce and pollute until you reach you limit, then but quotas from others that for some reason pollute less or has spare resources. Three; Find ways to pollute less, if you are really good at it, you get to produce AND sell the rest of your quotas. The Overall limit for the total pollution in the Kyoto agreement is 10% less than the national level in 1990.
This is the same principle that makes REAL globalisation work. Not that Bush-croney shit, but non-subzidised production. Africa has only three things stopping it from becoming a huge economic factor: Rampant family based corruption, toll tariffs form economically developed countries aaaaand having to fight subsidies in forementioned countries. If not for the last two, they'd produce A LOT more food for the world.
May I advise, if you're fed up with your country, either try to help it the right way, or if it bugs you THAT much: LEAVE!
I, for one, welcome sensible and hard-working Americans that want to leave that New American Century and come over here to Old Europe. We have a lot to offer, healthcare on par with Canada, nice nature that we like and try to preserve. Nice people, educated and 99% (sic) speak English.
We have shortage on persons educated in the math, physics and chemical areas so Slashdoties are very, very welcome. There are no problems for Americans to immigrate, we won't even fingerprint yo' ass in the paasport check!
Persons that think Saddam was behind 11/9 (as we say here) need not apply. We have our fair share of ignorants, thank you.
And, oh boy oh boy, the chicks are F'ing GEORGEOUS! And on average slimmer than American women. And more blondes.
To quote the newspaper story: "- Vi har akkurat fått beskjed om at vi ikke får være i valglokalene under valget. Vi får være i valglokalet en halv time før valglokalene åpner i morgen tidlig, og en halv time etter at de stenger klokken 1830 i morgen kveld, men ikke under selve valget, sier Hernæs til VG Nett på telefon fra Raleigh, Nord Carolina. "
"- We have just been told that we are not allowed inside the polling station during the election. We are allowed to be inside the polling station half an hour before the polling station opens tomorrow morning, and half an hour after they close at 1830 (6:30 PM) tomorrow evening, but not during the election, says Hernæs to VG Nett on the phone from Raleigh, North Carolina.
You see, Colin Powell invited representatives from the OSCE (org. for security and cooperation in Europe) to actually monitor the election. Now they are BARRED from the place wherre people cast their ballots, due t local rules. Member of Parliament in Norway, Bjørn Hernæs, said he was stunned but admired the ammount of self-rule the lokal states have.
Personally, I think it is because the lokal election stations are so badly run, the states fear what might happen if someone saw and documented it.
That kind of stuff is just not something the 21st century should put up with.
I agree. So, when are you going to North Korea? Hm? Perhaps some Christmas cleaning in Cuba? How about the dictatorship in Saudi Arab...... no, sorry, they're on the protection list.
Obvious troll, but hey, let's feed it. I volunteer.
Is I know how it works, and on what hardware. I can buy an old PC and know it will be slow - but it will work - and with everything plugged in.
Classic start. "Everything" just works on XP and has a driver. I'll give you an example of something that didn't work on XP even with a driver. The microsoft bluetooth mouse. I got one, tried it on XP. Had to update the system to SP1. Tried to install the driver, it stopped halfway through and said that the system was in Norwegian. The driver only supported English, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Arabic, etc. I gave up the attempt to install it on XP. No go with the BT Mouse. Went to my mom's house, popped in the Microsoft bluetooth dongle, BT was activated automatically on the system without driver install. I paird the mouse with the iBook, worked like a charm without any drivers installed and of course without any official support.
This is just the most ironic story I remember. Daily I use a computer that refuse to recognize most things that is plugged into it, and it is not my powerbook.
After experimenting with OS X i've found that there is a bunch of stuff you have to play the upgrade game on and you have to be smart about which "old" hardware is supported.
Uh, newsflash: progress moves forward. Not that other way. Most old hardware is in fact supported. I have yet to install a single driver on a Mac, it all seems to work just fine out of the box. And for each update, more is supported. You mean that you really don't appreciate to have Rendevouz finding a printer nearby in the wifi-net, installing the driver automatically and then using it within 30 seconds? I guess my feeling when using XP at work is correct. I feel like a masochist.
IE a Pentium 2/3 CPU with enough memory runs XP just fine - i expected an appropriately configed G3 to do the same with OS X - and i was wrong.
Besides comparing apples to snowplowers, this is in stark contrast to what many users say. An G3 ibook works just fine with a lot of RAM, as I see when I use my mom's iBook. The designers at work don't seem to be unhappy about OSX on ther G3 PowerMacs, some have even pointed out that in stark contrast to the other system, this one feels fast er and faster with each upgrade.
I'm also burnt out on the brushed metal look,
A matter of different taste. Blue used to be my favourite colour, not anymore. Guess why. (And no, I can't switch it to something else because the XP machine at work resets all user profiles at login. That also mean: lost passwords, user settings. It's like starting up with a new machine every day. Imagine the fun I must be having. IS thinks I need a new machine. They are right in that, but very wrong in bringing me a new XP-box.)
the costly updates and dodgy performance unless your willing to fork out big $$$
Now I'm just confused. You must be talking about the people that paid extra to get their computer with Windows 98SE, then were told that Windows ME was teh schiznitz, forked out money and found themselves in a world of shit? And then were told that they aren't secure until they fork out even more for Windows 2000?
MacOS is cheap compared to Windows. The upgrades are usually not needed and the previous versions are in good support. If you are a Mac fanatic, there are cool solutions like family licensing etc. but we all know that Apple don't intend to make money on the OS
I depends, of course. USA have the quite excluseive choice of letting NASA be a spearhead of research into outer space with all the cool tech that will follow. Or letting it rot in irrelevance and slowing down the progress of science.
That was so uninformed, badly written and angled, it inspired me to write the author: (Sorry about the bad English. And lameness filter takes most of the chars I gave her...)
From: nordicfrost To: author
Hello! Obviously, the punctiation marks and similar character on your computer is broken. So here's some for you to use by cutting and pasting. Don't spend them all at once (Something I think you won't, but...)....;;;;::::,,,,
Sorry, I have only one one objective angle of view, and I'd like to keep that one to myself.
Well, technically it's not a trojan horse either. A trojan (horse) always hides itself in vessel, usually some stupid program or excecutable app... This is just a rootkit without andy means of becoming root, so the issue is moot...
This is lame. A script! -this is Slashdot, you should know tthe possibilities of bash scripting. Besides, it doesn't even spread itself, don't hide its tracks...
When I was in Estonia during the Soviet Union era (Just before the revolution), they had a lot of western music in the official stores. These were LP records, republished Beatles etc. Being from Norway, I had never, ever, seen a pirated record and thought it was quite cool! A friend of mine bought a LOT of records there and brought them home, as we are allowed to do here. But the most striking thing was the attitude to piracy. I ask if they knew that the creators of the content weren't getting paid when they bought a Beatles album. The girl I hugn out with there said 'Sure! But culture is the property of people. Besides, you can only sit in one Rolls Royce at the time', refering to the fact that all of the Beatles members had gotten paid for their work, in abundance already.
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>>(All legal, since they were all copied from borrowed CDs).
>Dude.... I hope you have a good lawyer!!!
I don't need one. It says so in the law, that I'm allowed to do it. As long as I keep it non-commercial, I'm allowed to copy it. But I'm not allowed to distribute it, only the copyright holder is allowed to do that. It is no different that the 80ies tape-copying in that manner.
And what feature creep? OK, I'll buy the 'minibrowser', so you switch that window off and never have to see it again. Anything else?
Well, it's a long time sinceI used it, but it had a mini browser and a video player + some badly structured features.
I loved the original Winamp, it did a kickass job on my 30 GB MP3 collection (All legal, since they were all copied from borrowed CDs). But the 2.x was sloooooooow to start up and crashed a lot more. The 1.x was snap, snap, snappy and rock stable.
I hope Justin et al does something equally cool now, maybe the next killer app for video-on-demand?
Now, I use iTunes on Mac.
Winamp was one of those Must Have Apps for Windows, and heralded much of the MP3 success. After that half-yearly re-install of Windows, WA was one of the first apps to go back in. So you could play MP3s while reinstalling Office etc.
But after it went to version2, things became less rosy. Version 1.x worked a charm on my old 266/512mb peecee, but the 2.x series was dog slow and ridden with feature creep. I wonder if all the dumbass features in 2.x was something AOL mandated in the app. Rest of story: I went Linux, the Mac and never looked back.
Kudos to the original Nullsoft team, you did a great job!
The example in CNN is actually very, very good. Individual journalists are usually liberal, but don't express their views in the publication. I work in a newspaper and I'm probably the only one under senior management to vote conservative. But our publication is conservative. (The extreme-right kooks think we're liberal, but that's because they only get fired up on selective news)
I'll leave out Fox news, since they are not regarded as a news organisation here in Europe. But CNN is conservative. It has, as most news organisations, a conservative management and present news in a conservative manner. Now, there IS a difference between being conservative and republican in the US. The current republicans are noe very conservative. They are extremely change-oriented in every way except for a couple of flagship causes like gay marriages etc.
I have to say that the document with critique of Farenheit 911 wasn't very convincing. A lot of contradictions, omissions and few new facts. As a journalist, I also get tired of the "well, you just edit it the way you want to spin it" statements.
Of course we edit, but not to spin, to represent the truth as we understand it. Believe me, the quotes of the interviewees are often so self-devestating that we edit to correct the balance in the interview. Moore edits subjectively, and don't keep it a secret. I saw the movie and everything was old news to me, mainly because I work with the topic.
I think the future way of lookin at wich candidate screwed up the most would be an objective look at spine alley. The representatives that stay the longest, has the candidate that fucked up most.
Now, there's an interview with Jessica Lynch on the Franken show. I have never even heard her voice, so it's interesting to listen without the military spin. Maybe another spin, but interesting none the less.
Face it, both sides lie, and to assert that republicans lie more is just a lie propagated by the liberal media.
;) sucks. PBS and NPR is the only decent media in the US, along with Wall st. Journal, The NY Times, Washingon Post...
...myth. Journalists are liberal. Media is conservative.
I have no doubt that both sides lie. I just think the american conservatives are better at setting the lies in system. Lefties lies are more like some half-assed jerk publishing a fake republican flyer to create a story. Cons are more of the "let's say that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction so we can invade them even though we have no evidence, our intelligence says they haven't got em' and international inspectors have found fuck-all".
I do not agree with much of Frankens opinions, but the fact remains. His book (Discreetly called "Lies, and the lying liars who tell them") is fact based, thouroghly researched and documented. This is not something that AM radio show hosts do.
I have read a lot of sites critical to Moore, and watched a bit of Farenhype, but the critique mostly boils down to opinion, while the left says "it's like this and here's the document that proves it". Here in Norway, it's the other way around. The conservatives are the ones that document and research, while the left is passionate and don't care to prove their statements.
Of the things in Farenhype I've seen, it was all "Moore is a kook" (Well, true, but a factbased kook) "Moore hates America", but very little evidence.
Dan Rather and his "news" team is a joke. I'm surprised that noone has been fired for that. The instant I saw that document I though "That looks like a document typed in Word!". Rather is a loser, 60 minutes is crap, Crossfire (or "I'm gonna kick your ass!"
And the myth that the media is liberal, well...
Personally, I have great trouble understanding why Bush is doing what he is doing in Iraq. The only thing I do understand of the reasons, is the fact that it has nothing to do with the hunt for the terrorists that endanger America. As for the real motive, I'm leaning towards the "New American century"-building and trying to increase the pressure on China in the next 50 years. Dumbasses. If they'd try to do business with Africa, they'd have a cakewalk into one of the most resouceful continents wihtout all the stubborn chinese bickering.
The whole election system is flawed and needs a major overhaul.
One of the major problems is the differences in voting methods. Mixing digital, punchcard, paper and that flipswitch'n'lever-thingy is begging for errors and a recount dispute. The old system is to blame for this, of course, with the states making rules for themselves on how to to vote. And also who is allowed to vote.
I can only remember one time where there has been a dispute on the election here in Norway. During the last city election, the conservative turnout was a lot larger than excpected and it resulted in long lines outside the Ullern school in a posh district. When the election cloesd, the line was still there with maybe 100 persons waiting to vote. The conservatives wanted the school to stay open, others wanted it to close on time. They consulted the Big Red Book (Our collection of basic laws), and found that the voting area could remain open until the voters in line were gone, but the doors had to close on time.Solution: The entire school was defined as a voting area, and the gate closed so the voters in line could cast their vote. The entire voting dispute lasted a couple of hours, since we have a unified system and a set of standards.
Oh, BTW, we use straight-party paper ballots where people can optionally can mark off any changes they'd like to see with a pencil. These are scanned and stored for a year for verification.
I listened to an Al Franken Podcast the other day, and they asserted a huge problem on the left side of politics. The right-wing nutjobs usually won't back down, even if they have been proven wrong with evidence. I think it was Hannity that had made an innane statement about Kerrys career, a blatant lie that was proven wrong again and again. Yet, after a week, he presented it as a fact in his show as if nothing had happened. This puts lefties in an akward dilemma, as they tend to follow the backed-up-by-evidence high road. While it is the slander-and-lies low road that get the attention and "moral" votes.
(Note, I'm a conservative, but not in the USAian sense.)
Well, what I wrote was a little piece on how important the election was and how they could change the lives of a lot of people with their vote. I used my GF as an example, she's a medic in the military awaiting NATO duty. Bush might make her life a lot more dangerous for very little gain besides another catering contract for Haliburton.
:D
What puzzles me is why the US didn't pick a strong, smart and militarish guy like Clarke. You'd have to be mentally retarded to think that Bush has made a sane military choice. When the number of troops to Iraq (and what's up with his fetish for Iraq?) , was announced the military leaders of the world could agree on one thing; "that's not enough".
Anyway, glad to help!
I'll remember that to next time. I'll deliver a flaming letter to why they should vote for Jeb Bush...
The paper that tried to directly influence the United State Presidential election and called for the assassination of the President. I'm sure they're not biased at all.
Yup, Europeans like me. I wrote to three persons in Clark county, Ohio and explained them who this election affects much, much more than themselves and why Bush is a bad republican. There are good republicans and bad ones, you know. I included my adress to them, but no answer. I guess I was ignored. Oh well.
China isn't getting into space to study science.
Neither was USA or USSR. So?
I left the childe book analogies a long time ago so I'll let that pass.
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I'm sure that all the initiatives you have come up with and supported are now in effect and reducing enviromental risks as we speak, kudos.
The treaty will, of course, be a significant step on the road to less pollution of CO2 and contribute to a mindset that there need to be effective systems to commit goverments to reduction of pollution. But I guess we can drop that now, since the system you obviously are bursting to tell us about, will dwarf this multi-lateral initiative.
As for my political direction, I'm a conservative capitalist. Are people really that out of touch with the world? Don't they remember what capitalism is all about anymore?
Regarding the realistic monitoring issue, you're right. Oops, my bad, almost didn't see this part 1. Each Party included in Annex I shall have in place, no later than one year prior to the start of the first commitment period, a national system for the estimation of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol. Gee, what about the enforcment? Well, basic human greed will take care of that. You pollute, no money for you. You reduce, cash in!
Or, as a Slashdotite would say:
1. Reduce pollution
3. Profit!
As for your last paragraph, the US has never. Ever. Been as divided as is now. Just under half of the voters there understand its wrongdoings as plance in the world, 1/3 seems to benefit from the current policy and the rest just feel kinda 'icky' about gays. So youre at fault in that argument.
As for the GAO, they confirm the ballpark figure of 200 - 300 billion USD that could have been used elsewhere. Or, as a real republican would realise, not at all.
No, i did not say that, as you can read in my comment. It is an effort to optimise production / pollution ratio.
You see, if there is money to be saved and profit to be gained, cooperations will do that unless they are told (and threatened by sanctions) to do otherwise.
As stated in Kyoto, and mentioned in my comment (by the way, RTFC), the overall limit is LESS than what it was in 1990. By 10%, quite a lot for a start. The Kyoto treaty is a way to BOTH help developing countries to start their enviromental duties and to help industrialised nations to optimise pollution output to a standard, which by the way, we can measure. This forces the overall pollution DOWN 10%. Do you understand? You get less. Because you encourage cooperations to pollute less. My making it potentially profitable. And they want profit. So they do things to gain profit. Like pollute less. Am I getting through?
I take it by the horribly misunderstood reply that you don't know what BCS is. Well, it is short sighted "capitalism" mainly designed to create gains for a small segment of an economy. This is done in the US by giving unfair subsidies to a select few (cooperations, individuals) and pretending that you are a good capitalist. In fact, the US is one of the countries with MOST government spending from taxes right now because of the war on Iraq^H^H^H^H^H terror. Who gains, not you. Unless you have stock in Halliburton.
BTW, if you're from the US, good luck. You'll need it. We Europeans couldn't be happiers, since we feel more united than ever.
It helps, because it maximises efficency. If you are a polluter, you have three choices: One; produce and pollute until you reach your limit and stop. No one does this. Two; Produce and pollute until you reach you limit, then but quotas from others that for some reason pollute less or has spare resources. Three; Find ways to pollute less, if you are really good at it, you get to produce AND sell the rest of your quotas. The Overall limit for the total pollution in the Kyoto agreement is 10% less than the national level in 1990.
This is the same principle that makes REAL globalisation work. Not that Bush-croney shit, but non-subzidised production. Africa has only three things stopping it from becoming a huge economic factor: Rampant family based corruption, toll tariffs form economically developed countries aaaaand having to fight subsidies in forementioned countries. If not for the last two, they'd produce A LOT more food for the world.
I, for one, welcome sensible and hard-working Americans that want to leave that New American Century and come over here to Old Europe. We have a lot to offer, healthcare on par with Canada, nice nature that we like and try to preserve. Nice people, educated and 99% (sic) speak English.
We have shortage on persons educated in the math, physics and chemical areas so Slashdoties are very, very welcome. There are no problems for Americans to immigrate, we won't even fingerprint yo' ass in the paasport check!
Persons that think Saddam was behind 11/9 (as we say here) need not apply. We have our fair share of ignorants, thank you.
And, oh boy oh boy, the chicks are F'ing GEORGEOUS! And on average slimmer than American women. And more blondes.
To quote the newspaper story:
"- Vi har akkurat fått beskjed om at vi ikke får være i valglokalene under valget. Vi får være i valglokalet en halv time før valglokalene åpner i morgen tidlig, og en halv time etter at de stenger klokken 1830 i morgen kveld, men ikke under selve valget, sier Hernæs til VG Nett på telefon fra Raleigh, Nord Carolina. "
"- We have just been told that we are not allowed inside the polling station during the election. We are allowed to be inside the polling station half an hour before the polling station opens tomorrow morning, and half an hour after they close at 1830 (6:30 PM) tomorrow evening, but not during the election, says Hernæs to VG Nett on the phone from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Personally, I think it is because the lokal election stations are so badly run, the states fear what might happen if someone saw and documented it.
That kind of stuff is just not something the 21st century should put up with.
... no, sorry, they're on the protection list.
I agree. So, when are you going to North Korea? Hm? Perhaps some Christmas cleaning in Cuba? How about the dictatorship in Saudi Arab...
Is I know how it works, and on what hardware. I can buy an old PC and know it will be slow - but it will work - and with everything plugged in.
Classic start. "Everything" just works on XP and has a driver. I'll give you an example of something that didn't work on XP even with a driver. The microsoft bluetooth mouse. I got one, tried it on XP. Had to update the system to SP1. Tried to install the driver, it stopped halfway through and said that the system was in Norwegian. The driver only supported English, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Arabic, etc. I gave up the attempt to install it on XP.
No go with the BT Mouse. Went to my mom's house, popped in the Microsoft bluetooth dongle, BT was activated automatically on the system without driver install. I paird the mouse with the iBook, worked like a charm without any drivers installed and of course without any official support.
This is just the most ironic story I remember. Daily I use a computer that refuse to recognize most things that is plugged into it, and it is not my powerbook.
After experimenting with OS X i've found that there is a bunch of stuff you have to play the upgrade game on and you have to be smart about which "old" hardware is supported.
Uh, newsflash: progress moves forward. Not that other way. Most old hardware is in fact supported. I have yet to install a single driver on a Mac, it all seems to work just fine out of the box. And for each update, more is supported. You mean that you really don't appreciate to have Rendevouz finding a printer nearby in the wifi-net, installing the driver automatically and then using it within 30 seconds? I guess my feeling when using XP at work is correct. I feel like a masochist.
IE a Pentium 2/3 CPU with enough memory runs XP just fine - i expected an appropriately configed G3 to do the same with OS X - and i was wrong.
Besides comparing apples to snowplowers, this is in stark contrast to what many users say. An G3 ibook works just fine with a lot of RAM, as I see when I use my mom's iBook. The designers at work don't seem to be unhappy about OSX on ther G3 PowerMacs, some have even pointed out that in stark contrast to the other system, this one feels fast er and faster with each upgrade.
I'm also burnt out on the brushed metal look,
A matter of different taste. Blue used to be my favourite colour, not anymore. Guess why. (And no, I can't switch it to something else because the XP machine at work resets all user profiles at login. That also mean: lost passwords, user settings. It's like starting up with a new machine every day. Imagine the fun I must be having. IS thinks I need a new machine. They are right in that, but very wrong in bringing me a new XP-box.)
the costly updates and dodgy performance unless your willing to fork out big $$$
Now I'm just confused. You must be talking about the people that paid extra to get their computer with Windows 98SE, then were told that Windows ME was teh schiznitz, forked out money and found themselves in a world of shit? And then were told that they aren't secure until they fork out even more for Windows 2000?
MacOS is cheap compared to Windows. The upgrades are usually not needed and the previous versions are in good support. If you are a Mac fanatic, there are cool solutions like family licensing etc. but we all know that Apple don't intend to make money on the OS
I depends, of course. USA have the quite excluseive choice of letting NASA be a spearhead of research into outer space with all the cool tech that will follow. Or letting it rot in irrelevance and slowing down the progress of science.
That was so uninformed, badly written and angled, it inspired me to write the author: (Sorry about the bad English. And lameness filter takes most of the chars I gave her...)
.... ;;;; :::: ,,,,
From: nordicfrost
To: author
Hello! Obviously, the punctiation marks and similar character on your computer is broken. So here's some for you to use by cutting and pasting. Don't spend them all at once (Something I think you won't, but...)
Sorry, I have only one one objective angle of view, and I'd like to keep that one to myself.
Cheers!
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Well, technically it's not a trojan horse either. A trojan (horse) always hides itself in vessel, usually some stupid program or excecutable app... This is just a rootkit without andy means of becoming root, so the issue is moot...
Sheesh! How dumb is youse anyways?!?!?!1 Ita called teh INTERNETS, moran!
This is lame. A script! -this is Slashdot, you should know tthe possibilities of bash scripting. Besides, it doesn't even spread itself, don't hide its tracks...
When I was in Estonia during the Soviet Union era (Just before the revolution), they had a lot of western music in the official stores. These were LP records, republished Beatles etc. Being from Norway, I had never, ever, seen a pirated record and thought it was quite cool! A friend of mine bought a LOT of records there and brought them home, as we are allowed to do here. But the most striking thing was the attitude to piracy. I ask if they knew that the creators of the content weren't getting paid when they bought a Beatles album. The girl I hugn out with there said 'Sure! But culture is the property of people. Besides, you can only sit in one Rolls Royce at the time', refering to the fact that all of the Beatles members had gotten paid for their work, in abundance already.