I'm a Finn, so naturally my surroundings differ largely from yours - but don't apartment buildings have a special storage area just for bikes (and baby strollers)? Now that I have said that aloud, it occurs to me that for those to exist, you would need the architect to consider such things and the inhabitants to have suitable trust for each other to store their bikes in a common room. It may well be that neither of these happen in New York, but what would I know?
I was not sure if you said what you did in jest.. I read it more like "biking is all very well, but it does not have any use other than as a hobby". I bike to work (when it's reasonably warm) few times a week, but on the other hand the bike road is well marked and I only have to stay in the traffic for only few kilometres. What I know of NYC, this would not, of course, be the case for you.
But everything was to be taken in good spirits. I'm sorry if I came across as rude.
That article also mentions that Horse meat oversells lamb and mutton in Sweden and is called hamburger meat, which makes you wonder if McD is going along with the plot..
MacBook Pro costs 1149 in Germany, Finland and France - probably in the whole euro-area, but can't be bothered to check.
MacBook Pro costs 12 495 crowns (1156,94) in Sweden
MacBook Pro costs 1199$ (856,42) in the United States.
At some point, Mac Mini cost hundred euros more in Sweden than in the monetary union, and there it cost hundred euros more than in the States.
The XP-N proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the PEOPLE of the EU, the ones that the courts are supposed to be serving? Yeah, they don't want Windows without WMP.
In case this comes out as a surprise; if the stores don't order XP-N, people will never get it. And why should stores order lesser product, particularly as it was priced the same as "better" version of the same OS? Sure, you can request it to be ordered, but Microsoft never went out of the way to mention that the whole version even existed. So the demand wasn't really there. Please don't draw EU citizens into this. We didn't go around shouting that Americans hate Bush and want him out of power. Please offer us the same courtesy, particularly as the courts here do ok job.
You seem awfully exited of some foreign court order from five years ago. I suggest you go around and check what your local judges are up to, and let us Europeans work with our legal system, all right? After all, you seem to be raging because Microsoft gets fined and asked to do some stuff that ended up not working. You seem to mistake that just because Slashdot only reports EU/Microsoft court news, there are no other news. I can assure you that most of the "milking" comes from local companies.
Yes, apparently it's the same problem as with America != USA.
Few more years, and I can successfully argue that Norwegians, Swiss and Macedonia aren't European!
Actually, I think this entire cocaine scandal is a brilliant marketing campaign by RedBull. I've got a feeling their sales are about to go through the roof.
'What they're trying to do is stop people from going to GameStop to buy $50 games for $35, none of which goes into the publishers' pockets.
Somebody please correct me, but does GameStop even accept PC-games? Their policy is (at least where I live) to only buy console games used. And can those even have additional DRM (on top of the normal "must have CD to play" one)?
You quote me out of context. I meant to say that you can't live a comfortable life with unemployment benefits alone (particularly if you live in a city; I'm sure you can strech the euro farther in small towns where everything is cheaper). Let me rephrase myself; you can't get rich or well-off with welfare benefits alone. You also need hard work to succeed in school; even if it's free, the courses aren't easy.
You pretty much made my point; by (indirectly) investing into your unemployment, housing and whatnot benefits, I got my money back and you got a better life. But keep in mind that you were pretty much a leech for the society since you were born till the day you finally got yourself employed. It takes more than just few years to pay that debt off, you know;)
"Due"? You are not entitled to take money from your neighbors' wallets for your own enrichment. It's theft of property/labor. It's a form of partial enslavement (they work, not for themselves, but to make somebody else richer). Therefore it's a violation of basic individual rights. You have no right to take from others.
I'm European. I have never met a person who has gotten rich, or even well-off thanks to welfare benefits. We pay taxes to uphold a society; roads, police, hospitals. That we also pay other things, like child-, education- or unemployment-benefits seems a good thing for me. After all, even if the children aren't my own, they still grow in the same society as I do. It is my gain that they get a high education and the pay check to go with it... because once they are that far, I'll be drawing my pension and and all sort of state benefits. It is better that my home country is the homeland of engineers, doctors and other highly educated people (with of course plumblers and salesmen and whatever else you need to keep a functioning society; but even they need to be well educated to do their civil duty and vote wisely). Nobody should be in worse position because their father was a drunk or they had no savings for education. And of course, none of this is free. They will pay it back, once they enter the working force. That's the deal. Everybody knows it. And doctor still makes several times more than taxi driver; just a bit less than they do in America. To paraphrase you; if you don't like it, you can move out. Passports are readily available and the world is open at your feet. This is no Soviet Union.
We are in this together. Sure, everybody could just take care of their own life, their own immediate surroundings. I have sometimes thought that part of the reason Americans drive everywhere is because they don't connect with the places between the places important. Why should roads have sidewalks when I have a car? Why have public transport? But that limits alternatives; maybe one day you want to walk to a store only to find out you can't; or take a bus to work only to find out there isn't one. And if you have kids, how are they going to get anywhere without you driving them? Few of us can afford taxi all the time.
Similarly, I pay for many things that I don't need; I pay for schools, daycare and doctors. Even as I am single and have no kids, even if I'm healthy as an ox. But maybe one day I shall have kids, and one day I will be sick. It is good to know that when that day comes, it is not the end of the world. That there's somebody in the bureaucracy who already thought of my kid. That my child can walk to school. That he gets education no matter how I screw my life over. And maybe I make less money (though who knows? American taxes are surprisingly high even before insurances and whatnot), but I can afford to buy everything I need. I don't really feel like I'm worse off than the (incredibly well off) characters in your TV-shows, even if I'm not a secret agent or a doctor or a cop with million-dollar settlement.
I'd like to add to parent by mentioning that by passing the costs to their customers, the Union is making the products of AMD more competitive in comparison to Intel. To avoid that, Intel must suck it up and pay the fine from The Bad Day-fund.
European Union has slightly bigger purchasing power than United States ($14.82 trillion to $14.29 trillion, accoarding to CIA Factbook). It is probably the biggest market Intel has, as China buys cheaper processors and Japan is just smaller.
If it would stop operating in Europe, the local manufacturers would just buy the chips from USA while AMD cranks up its production to meet the demands for a whole continent which despises its competitor.
4: Some folk follow others, and take pictures, and then sell their information to a third party. We call these people "private investigators", and while it's good to get your state's license if there is one, most of what they do is essentially what a private citizen could do.
I'm sorry for asking, but I got the impression that America was the "putting the needs of corporations ahead of the needs of its citizens" system. After all, America isn't particularly high in the health indexes and before are many quite corrupt countries. Are you claiming that you could do worse?
And as some previous poster pointed.. if you are not happy with the public health care (which is much cheaper than the American insurance system), you can always augment it with a private insurance. Which would end up being much cheaper as well, because the worst case scenarios are paid by the government, so the insurance company can offer better rates.
I'm a Finn, I have private health insurance and it costs something along the lines of 100-200 euros a year (of course, I'm healthy 25-year old).
I'm not American, but why not just put the scripts online? I mean, you can have problems without your net being totally unusable. The customers can read themselves, they don't need people in India to do so for them. Heck, Verizon might put the scripts online EVEN FOR PROBLEMS WHEN THEY CAN'T GET ONLINE. That would be great and really Kafka. I love it already.
Tell me no one reading this has given free advice in a RedHat forum.
Not 20 hours a week. And according to the article, Verizon tries to pile responsibilities on the "super-users" by creating their own forums for them, thus making working them a moral chain; people depend on them, they can't just quit. And really, I think that game companies pay money for doing that.
Plus retired people always have need for money; after all, they make less than they did when they worked. And, as someone pointed, their work keeps other from having a paying job.
Volunteer effort is great. I try to give as much as possible for Wikipedia - hey, it's a hobby. I also do other stuff to help and bring enjoyment for my peers. But when people start making money on your free effort - indeed, rely you to do your free effort for the continued success of a company, then you're little better than slave (in that you can at least walk away). I mean, I could still see myself giving advice on a forum if I knew how to help, but this.. these guys are actually connected to the company, right?
And 20 hours per week? Even on poor, minimum wage salary (seven dollars an hour?) thats 140 dollars per week, 560 dollars a month. And if he can really give much better experience than the idiots at Verizon, we're talking at least manager level. What's that, double the wage? Triple?
This thing makes me pretty angry. And those people "helping" are real chumps.
When the copyright law changed in Finland in the early 00s (into really badly formulated lobbyist babble which said that getting around copyprotection was illegal). One guy (Mikko Rauhala, a true hero of the masses) collected seven people, pasted the DeCSS-code for Linux on some messageboards and then walked to police station.
After few rounds in the courts, during which he got lots of press for his case, he was in the end found guilty (didn't get punished though).
That's how you get attention. You find something really stupid and small-time, rat yourself to the police and make sure that the press is there when you do it.
Slashdot Mirror
Any excuse not to hit the gym (or put any effort to stay in shape). "I can't help it, it's in the genes", "I can't help it, I'm sick"!
Maybe so, but eating two large pizzas for lunch isn't actually going to help.
Like they say on the net; if you're fat, don't try to sugarcoat it - because you'll just end up eating that too.
I still say he used a typewriter. Just because he could have done it easier, doesn't mean he didn't do it the manly route, Slashdot-style!
"Sorry love, seems like I snuffed it, lol. Try 2 take care of the kidz!"
I'm a Finn, so naturally my surroundings differ largely from yours - but don't apartment buildings have a special storage area just for bikes (and baby strollers)? Now that I have said that aloud, it occurs to me that for those to exist, you would need the architect to consider such things and the inhabitants to have suitable trust for each other to store their bikes in a common room. It may well be that neither of these happen in New York, but what would I know?
I was not sure if you said what you did in jest.. I read it more like "biking is all very well, but it does not have any use other than as a hobby". I bike to work (when it's reasonably warm) few times a week, but on the other hand the bike road is well marked and I only have to stay in the traffic for only few kilometres. What I know of NYC, this would not, of course, be the case for you.
But everything was to be taken in good spirits. I'm sorry if I came across as rude.
You are apparently not aware of child trailers? Some models have space for two kids and even for one or two shopping bags.
They're surprisingly light, and if you own a mountain bike, you should be able to handle one of these.
Accoarding to wikipedia
Horse meat is the culinary name for meat cut from a horse. It is slightly sweet, tender, low in fat, and high in protein.
Sauce.
That article also mentions that Horse meat oversells lamb and mutton in Sweden and is called hamburger meat, which makes you wonder if McD is going along with the plot..
MacBook Pro costs 1149 in Germany, Finland and France - probably in the whole euro-area, but can't be bothered to check. MacBook Pro costs 12 495 crowns (1156,94) in Sweden MacBook Pro costs 1199$ (856,42) in the United States. At some point, Mac Mini cost hundred euros more in Sweden than in the monetary union, and there it cost hundred euros more than in the States.
The XP-N proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the PEOPLE of the EU, the ones that the courts are supposed to be serving? Yeah, they don't want Windows without WMP.
In case this comes out as a surprise; if the stores don't order XP-N, people will never get it. And why should stores order lesser product, particularly as it was priced the same as "better" version of the same OS? Sure, you can request it to be ordered, but Microsoft never went out of the way to mention that the whole version even existed. So the demand wasn't really there. Please don't draw EU citizens into this. We didn't go around shouting that Americans hate Bush and want him out of power. Please offer us the same courtesy, particularly as the courts here do ok job.
You seem awfully exited of some foreign court order from five years ago. I suggest you go around and check what your local judges are up to, and let us Europeans work with our legal system, all right? After all, you seem to be raging because Microsoft gets fined and asked to do some stuff that ended up not working. You seem to mistake that just because Slashdot only reports EU/Microsoft court news, there are no other news. I can assure you that most of the "milking" comes from local companies.
Nowhere did the summary say EU. European != EU.
Yes, apparently it's the same problem as with America != USA. Few more years, and I can successfully argue that Norwegians, Swiss and Macedonia aren't European!
Oh boy! I can hardly wait!
Actually, I think this entire cocaine scandal is a brilliant marketing campaign by RedBull. I've got a feeling their sales are about to go through the roof.
Not in Germany, they wont.
They're going to resurrect him in the sequel. After all, he's the most popular guy in the franchise.
What is this I don't even
'What they're trying to do is stop people from going to GameStop to buy $50 games for $35, none of which goes into the publishers' pockets.
Somebody please correct me, but does GameStop even accept PC-games? Their policy is (at least where I live) to only buy console games used. And can those even have additional DRM (on top of the normal "must have CD to play" one)?
You quote me out of context. I meant to say that you can't live a comfortable life with unemployment benefits alone (particularly if you live in a city; I'm sure you can strech the euro farther in small towns where everything is cheaper). Let me rephrase myself; you can't get rich or well-off with welfare benefits alone. You also need hard work to succeed in school; even if it's free, the courses aren't easy.
;)
You pretty much made my point; by (indirectly) investing into your unemployment, housing and whatnot benefits, I got my money back and you got a better life. But keep in mind that you were pretty much a leech for the society since you were born till the day you finally got yourself employed. It takes more than just few years to pay that debt off, you know
"Due"? You are not entitled to take money from your neighbors' wallets for your own enrichment. It's theft of property/labor. It's a form of partial enslavement (they work, not for themselves, but to make somebody else richer). Therefore it's a violation of basic individual rights. You have no right to take from others.
I'm European. I have never met a person who has gotten rich, or even well-off thanks to welfare benefits. We pay taxes to uphold a society; roads, police, hospitals. That we also pay other things, like child-, education- or unemployment-benefits seems a good thing for me. After all, even if the children aren't my own, they still grow in the same society as I do. It is my gain that they get a high education and the pay check to go with it... because once they are that far, I'll be drawing my pension and and all sort of state benefits. It is better that my home country is the homeland of engineers, doctors and other highly educated people (with of course plumblers and salesmen and whatever else you need to keep a functioning society; but even they need to be well educated to do their civil duty and vote wisely).
Nobody should be in worse position because their father was a drunk or they had no savings for education. And of course, none of this is free. They will pay it back, once they enter the working force. That's the deal. Everybody knows it. And doctor still makes several times more than taxi driver; just a bit less than they do in America. To paraphrase you; if you don't like it, you can move out. Passports are readily available and the world is open at your feet. This is no Soviet Union.
We are in this together. Sure, everybody could just take care of their own life, their own immediate surroundings. I have sometimes thought that part of the reason Americans drive everywhere is because they don't connect with the places between the places important. Why should roads have sidewalks when I have a car? Why have public transport? But that limits alternatives; maybe one day you want to walk to a store only to find out you can't; or take a bus to work only to find out there isn't one. And if you have kids, how are they going to get anywhere without you driving them? Few of us can afford taxi all the time.
Similarly, I pay for many things that I don't need; I pay for schools, daycare and doctors. Even as I am single and have no kids, even if I'm healthy as an ox. But maybe one day I shall have kids, and one day I will be sick. It is good to know that when that day comes, it is not the end of the world. That there's somebody in the bureaucracy who already thought of my kid. That my child can walk to school. That he gets education no matter how I screw my life over. And maybe I make less money (though who knows? American taxes are surprisingly high even before insurances and whatnot), but I can afford to buy everything I need. I don't really feel like I'm worse off than the (incredibly well off) characters in your TV-shows, even if I'm not a secret agent or a doctor or a cop with million-dollar settlement.
I'd like to add to parent by mentioning that by passing the costs to their customers, the Union is making the products of AMD more competitive in comparison to Intel. To avoid that, Intel must suck it up and pay the fine from The Bad Day-fund.
European Union has slightly bigger purchasing power than United States ($14.82 trillion to $14.29 trillion, accoarding to CIA Factbook). It is probably the biggest market Intel has, as China buys cheaper processors and Japan is just smaller.
If it would stop operating in Europe, the local manufacturers would just buy the chips from USA while AMD cranks up its production to meet the demands for a whole continent which despises its competitor.
Please think before you write.
4: Some folk follow others, and take pictures, and then sell their information to a third party. We call these people "private investigators", and while it's good to get your state's license if there is one, most of what they do is essentially what a private citizen could do.
Or paparazzis.
There's also the matter of Stalin killing most of the generals before WW2 and then marching the men without direction to their deaths.
Here in Finland stories about Soviet soldiers who ran toward well fortified gatling gun hour after hour under threat of execution are well known.
Oh, and apparently there was order that Soviet soldiers that surrender are to be killed when returned. Makes you take foolish risks..
Infinity plus seven is still only infinity.
I'm sorry for asking, but I got the impression that America was the "putting the needs of corporations ahead of the needs of its citizens" system. After all, America isn't particularly high in the health indexes and before are many quite corrupt countries. Are you claiming that you could do worse?
And as some previous poster pointed.. if you are not happy with the public health care (which is much cheaper than the American insurance system), you can always augment it with a private insurance. Which would end up being much cheaper as well, because the worst case scenarios are paid by the government, so the insurance company can offer better rates.
I'm a Finn, I have private health insurance and it costs something along the lines of 100-200 euros a year (of course, I'm healthy 25-year old).
tech support script readers
I'm not American, but why not just put the scripts online? I mean, you can have problems without your net being totally unusable. The customers can read themselves, they don't need people in India to do so for them. Heck, Verizon might put the scripts online EVEN FOR PROBLEMS WHEN THEY CAN'T GET ONLINE. That would be great and really Kafka. I love it already.
Tell me no one reading this has given free advice in a RedHat forum.
Not 20 hours a week. And according to the article, Verizon tries to pile responsibilities on the "super-users" by creating their own forums for them, thus making working them a moral chain; people depend on them, they can't just quit. And really, I think that game companies pay money for doing that.
Plus retired people always have need for money; after all, they make less than they did when they worked. And, as someone pointed, their work keeps other from having a paying job.
Volunteer effort is great. I try to give as much as possible for Wikipedia - hey, it's a hobby. I also do other stuff to help and bring enjoyment for my peers.
But when people start making money on your free effort - indeed, rely you to do your free effort for the continued success of a company, then you're little better than slave (in that you can at least walk away). I mean, I could still see myself giving advice on a forum if I knew how to help, but this.. these guys are actually connected to the company, right?
And 20 hours per week? Even on poor, minimum wage salary (seven dollars an hour?) thats 140 dollars per week, 560 dollars a month. And if he can really give much better experience than the idiots at Verizon, we're talking at least manager level. What's that, double the wage? Triple?
This thing makes me pretty angry. And those people "helping" are real chumps.
When the copyright law changed in Finland in the early 00s (into really badly formulated lobbyist babble which said that getting around copyprotection was illegal). One guy (Mikko Rauhala, a true hero of the masses) collected seven people, pasted the DeCSS-code for Linux on some messageboards and then walked to police station.
After few rounds in the courts, during which he got lots of press for his case, he was in the end found guilty (didn't get punished though).
That's how you get attention. You find something really stupid and small-time, rat yourself to the police and make sure that the press is there when you do it.