And if you've seen the way American teens treat locals in Cancun, the Cuban people themselves are probably better off without us.
You have not seen British teenagers treeting Eastern Europeans. American are very tame civilised and cultured by comparison.
As far as the "status quo", tourism is an industry that tends to stretch to fit any size of demand. As long as the economy is good, rest does not matter. People said the same about Eastern Europe that it will eat from Spain and France and we can clearly see that it did not.
Exactly. The only reason for the Castro brothers to outlive the fall of the iron curtain is the embargo. If the USA lifted the embargo in 1990 Cuba would have been a democracy by now. It would have taken a few million pounds transfers to "opposition" to make that happen like in Eastern Europe, but there would have been a result none the less. The embargo is the main reason why this has never happened and may never happen.
IMO, we have missed the boat there. With people like Chavez waving suitcases of cash placing a few millions here and there is no longer effective. He can simply outbid the "West" and keep the Castro regime alive for a very long time.
And didn't DMCA suddenly make a criminal offence out of something that should have been a civil court matter. The stick has two ends. Criminalising something while bringing the perspective of jail, penalties, etc also brings a different standard of proof in most legal systems.
I remember getting this as a result from a simple discrete model written in Turbo Pascal as far back as early 90-es. No need to make volunteers drive cars. Once the traffic exceeds a certain density waves and fluctuations in it will show up straight away. There is even some math proof of the instabilities in mass service theory. It's been a while so I cannot remember.
Anyway, this is Japanese science. Anyone who has had to suffer from reading a Japanese publication knows what I am talking about. Phenomenal engineering, insane experimental precision and with all due respect lousy science (unless it is done by an imported foreign devil).
That is not surprising if it is consumer equipment. It tends to work for a very long time. I have a sony stereo that is nearly 9 years old now and it still works fine.
The same cannot be said about their computers which are deliberately designed to fail soon after the warranty has expired. I had to deal with a batch of Vaios my old company bought before I joined and all of them developed spurious keyboard problems over the years. Guess why - the keyboard was located right on top of a huge permanently hot heatsink. Once I disassembled the first one it became obvious that the kbd membrane within 2 years was grilled into a crisp.
While your argument is correct, logical and makes sense it is not applicable in most places around the world. At least here the Trade Unions have managed to have the working hours for retail premises legislated. Similar legislation exists for premises selling alcohol, pubs, cafes, etc around the world. Politicians have been busy and it sometimes it is really easier to move the clock and get over with it rather than get two fat volumes of century old legislation off the books.
In that case the university may have to expel most of its MBA school. We now provide special training so that the students can become improved and proficient douchebags.
It is actually noisier than either the new "TurboDiseasel" Honda FRV or the Accord. It also drives worse; much worse.
It has the classic VW transmission with a puke index of 90% (where old Citroen is a 100%). VW idea of a "sports transmission" is hysterical. They think that sports mean to stiffen and to lower, but they forget that they also need to dampen it more. So a VW vehicle on a bad road is a total vomit comet. With a sports transmission it simply shakes more violently instead of shaking less after every bump.
I test drove an example of the new generation of VW vomit on one of the back roads in the rather flat East Anglia in England and just the minimal up-downs and potholes of a British country road were enough to make the entire family green in under 3 miles.
Compared to that a EU spec Honda Accord or FRV and even the EU Toyota Avensis in their European Diesel specs could be driven on the same road past the speed limits with no effects whatsoever. They were also way quieter. None of this "agricultural personality" feeling you get from a German diesel.
Other Latin Americans illegally entering the country and sending money home - lose money.
This is also not just Mexico, but all over the world. In some places it is actually legal. Poland is exporting workforce to the UK and importing from Belorussia and Ukraine. Romania is exporting workforce to Italy and Spain and is importing from Moldova. And so on. And all of them try to restrict influx while very happily consuming money sent home by gastarbeihters.
And that is exactly my point. Living by the standards of 21st century is not that expensive. Living by the standards of 1st century is not that expensive either. Now simulating that you live by the standard of 1st century and simultaneously enjoying the perks of 21st is an expensive affair.
I would not be so sure. It is a native subsistence community.
So you have to build an alternative city somewhere where they can practice their culture and so on. This means building it in the middle of bloody nowhere.
If that place is to be also connected by roads to the civilisation the overall bill may run into much more than 400M. In fact 400M is pretty much a fair price for relocating them to a suitable location.
If he has no other means of doing it... And I have probably slept over this, but does anyone see a thriving market in carbon offsetting out there. 'cause I do not...
That was exactly my point. Actually the limit for the sum of all lawsuits. This sets the market right into where it should be. You cannot sue for more than its declared value. If you want to sue for more, pay tax first.
I have sold one license for my widget to my neigbour in exchange for his widget. Both have now been commercialised. Similarly, two troll shells trade their patent portfolios. They are now commercialised. This simply does not work. Not now, not ever.
Now declaring official value of your IP, being taxed on it, paying the tax in advance and most importantly not being allowed to sue for more than its declared tax value in the sum of all IP lawsuits on a specific IP is a completely different story.
This will take trolls right out. The problem with tax is that you have to have recurring income to support it. If your income is "one offs" from lawsuits it is quite difficult to set a steady and predictable revenue stream to pay taxes. Similarly, the IP will have to be quite real for investors to invest into a company. While this will not eliminate shells and IP holding companies it will balance the market and remove outrageous lawsuits out of it.
The fact that they are overprescribed is very well known. In fact you are taking it even if you do not have it prescribed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm. It hate to be cynical, but it is a healthy economy booster. After all what can be better than not getting depressed from the fact that you just about scrape for a living and balance your books at the end of the month. Joe Average consumer should go on, go out there, consume, enjoy buy and do not worry about bad thing.
On a side note I have found only one reliable method of dealing with depression - work you like. Regardless of what it is. It is the ultimate antidepressant. If you are depressed go and find something to do, change your job if necessary.
You are wrong. Intel has it on the future roadmap for its ultramobile offerings.
As people say - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
You missed one more factor. One of the biggest battery eaters for me in a laptop is the VPN. On via it costs me nothing. On an Intel my battery life is often 20% less as a result (AESing at 256 access to a 4.5G+ IMAP store is expensive).
My son could handle a username and a login since he was 5. OK, his password is relatively simple, but it is his password none the less. And we are talking about a boy here. Most girls can probably handle that up to 6 months earlier - at the age of 4 1/2 to 4 3/4.
Come on. Get real people. Children are not idiots, there is no _NEED_ to dumb everything down for them. Especially if everyone in the house is using usernames and password they consider this as normal.
I have tried and tested it all over the UK. East Anglia, Essex, Sussex, Greater London and all the way to Glasgow.
While Pilkington-K and similar treated doubleglazed windows (not just any doubleglazed) drop the signal a bit, it is not the windows that are a problem. It is the tech in itself and the coverage. You need a non-congested Node-B to get anywhere near HSDPA speeds. As the number of clients on the Node-B grows the speed drops in x2 steps because even idle clients use parts of the code tree.
So as the tech is becoming more and more popular the network becomes worse and worse. As a result you can probably still get HSDPA speeds out there in residential suburbia. Getting HSDPA speeds in downtown lodnon, at railway stations or any other place where there are loads of clients (even non-active ones) is practically impossible.
I did not miss it. I have an HSDPA card. On Vodafone, you see the purple light (HSDPA) only once in a while. It is usually red (3G) or green (GPRS). The coverage is definitely way far from what marketing whalesong are trying to brainwash you into.
1. You are lucky to see speeds like that. I have the same combination and I see speeds under 128Kbit under realistic conditions in the UK. It is very rare for the speed to go above 256K. In fact the only places I have seen it higher are non-UK networks.
2. The question of DSL vs 3G has a very simple answer. The answer is a question in itself - do you have a home server and where does your traffic come from?
If your mail, media, etc is stored on a machine at home, 3G is shooting yourself in the foot. Your traffic ends up going all the way down to the GGSN at the mobile operator and than all the way back up to your kit at home (often through the narrow side of a cable or DSL). If all of your stuff is sitting in a colo somewhere or is on your laptop and you have good 3G coverage, than 3G can compete with DSL for the time being.
This is a definitely "for the time being" case because as more and more devices in the home become networked a device whose traffic has to travel across half of the country to connect to the rest of the kit becomes a white elephant.
Actually if we compare how much was spent on the development of the F16 and the Gripen, the Gripen is fantastic achievement. The swedes have beaten BAE and USA in terms of productivity in R&D by such a large margin that it is not even funny.
In addition to that the running costs of the Gripen are only a small fraction of the costs of the F16 and it has a much better MTBF. That is why it was chosen by at least two Nato countries for recent purchases. It is better value for the money
Bwahahaha... They do not just have their own army, they are also one of the biggest manufacturers of weapons in the world. Ever heard of Bofors? Swedes make their own small arms, artillery, tanks, even fighter aircraft.
All of that considerably cheaper than USA or UK and a lot of that much better quality than the USA or UK. They buy some avionics from BAE, but otherwise their weapons industry is mostly native. In fact, IIRC, USA is importing some small arms from Sweden for their special forces. So does UK.
While the Viggens and Griphens do not look so fancy they can actually stand their own against most NATO or Russian aircraft. Same for other Swedish kit.
This is one "neutral" country I will definitely not f*** with. It is neutrality armed to the teeth.
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You have not seen British teenagers treeting Eastern Europeans. American are very tame civilised and cultured by comparison.
As far as the "status quo", tourism is an industry that tends to stretch to fit any size of demand. As long as the economy is good, rest does not matter. People said the same about Eastern Europe that it will eat from Spain and France and we can clearly see that it did not.
Exactly. The only reason for the Castro brothers to outlive the fall of the iron curtain is the embargo. If the USA lifted the embargo in 1990 Cuba would have been a democracy by now. It would have taken a few million pounds transfers to "opposition" to make that happen like in Eastern Europe, but there would have been a result none the less. The embargo is the main reason why this has never happened and may never happen.
IMO, we have missed the boat there. With people like Chavez waving suitcases of cash placing a few millions here and there is no longer effective. He can simply outbid the "West" and keep the Castro regime alive for a very long time.
And didn't DMCA suddenly make a criminal offence out of something that should have been a civil court matter. The stick has two ends. Criminalising something while bringing the perspective of jail, penalties, etc also brings a different standard of proof in most legal systems.
Yes and no.
I remember getting this as a result from a simple discrete model written in Turbo Pascal as far back as early 90-es. No need to make volunteers drive cars. Once the traffic exceeds a certain density waves and fluctuations in it will show up straight away. There is even some math proof of the instabilities in mass service theory. It's been a while so I cannot remember.
Anyway, this is Japanese science. Anyone who has had to suffer from reading a Japanese publication knows what I am talking about. Phenomenal engineering, insane experimental precision and with all due respect lousy science (unless it is done by an imported foreign devil).
That is not surprising if it is consumer equipment. It tends to work for a very long time. I have a sony stereo that is nearly 9 years old now and it still works fine.
The same cannot be said about their computers which are deliberately designed to fail soon after the warranty has expired. I had to deal with a batch of Vaios my old company bought before I joined and all of them developed spurious keyboard problems over the years. Guess why - the keyboard was located right on top of a huge permanently hot heatsink. Once I disassembled the first one it became obvious that the kbd membrane within 2 years was grilled into a crisp.
While your argument is correct, logical and makes sense it is not applicable in most places around the world. At least here the Trade Unions have managed to have the working hours for retail premises legislated. Similar legislation exists for premises selling alcohol, pubs, cafes, etc around the world. Politicians have been busy and it sometimes it is really easier to move the clock and get over with it rather than get two fat volumes of century old legislation off the books.
In that case the university may have to expel most of its MBA school. We now provide special training so that the students can become improved and proficient douchebags.
I meant to say suspension. Thanks for the correction. This is besides it not being able to score even the top 20 for reliability in the UK.
Yep. You are straight on the mark. And the relationship between USA and Latin America (not just Mexico) has been going on for more than 150 years now.
It is enough to read O'Henry's "Cabbages and Kings" and see how little has changed since.
It is actually noisier than either the new "TurboDiseasel" Honda FRV or the Accord. It also drives worse; much worse.
It has the classic VW transmission with a puke index of 90% (where old Citroen is a 100%). VW idea of a "sports transmission" is hysterical. They think that sports mean to stiffen and to lower, but they forget that they also need to dampen it more. So a VW vehicle on a bad road is a total vomit comet. With a sports transmission it simply shakes more violently instead of shaking less after every bump.
I test drove an example of the new generation of VW vomit on one of the back roads in the rather flat East Anglia in England and just the minimal up-downs and potholes of a British country road were enough to make the entire family green in under 3 miles.
Compared to that a EU spec Honda Accord or FRV and even the EU Toyota Avensis in their European Diesel specs could be driven on the same road past the speed limits with no effects whatsoever. They were also way quieter. None of this "agricultural personality" feeling you get from a German diesel.
It does not amaze me in the slightest.
Mexicans sending money home - surplus money.
Other Latin Americans illegally entering the country and sending money home - lose money.
This is also not just Mexico, but all over the world. In some places it is actually legal. Poland is exporting workforce to the UK and importing from Belorussia and Ukraine. Romania is exporting workforce to Italy and Spain and is importing from Moldova. And so on. And all of them try to restrict influx while very happily consuming money sent home by gastarbeihters.
And that is exactly my point. Living by the standards of 21st century is not that expensive. Living by the standards of 1st century is not that expensive either. Now simulating that you live by the standard of 1st century and simultaneously enjoying the perks of 21st is an expensive affair.
I would not be so sure. It is a native subsistence community.
So you have to build an alternative city somewhere where they can practice their culture and so on. This means building it in the middle of bloody nowhere.
If that place is to be also connected by roads to the civilisation the overall bill may run into much more than 400M. In fact 400M is pretty much a fair price for relocating them to a suitable location.
If he has no other means of doing it... And I have probably slept over this, but does anyone see a thriving market in carbon offsetting out there. 'cause I do not...
That was exactly my point. Actually the limit for the sum of all lawsuits. This sets the market right into where it should be. You cannot sue for more than its declared value. If you want to sue for more, pay tax first.
How do you define "fail to commercialise"?
I have sold one license for my widget to my neigbour in exchange for his widget. Both have now been commercialised. Similarly, two troll shells trade their patent portfolios. They are now commercialised. This simply does not work. Not now, not ever.
Now declaring official value of your IP, being taxed on it, paying the tax in advance and most importantly not being allowed to sue for more than its declared tax value in the sum of all IP lawsuits on a specific IP is a completely different story.
This will take trolls right out. The problem with tax is that you have to have recurring income to support it. If your income is "one offs" from lawsuits it is quite difficult to set a steady and predictable revenue stream to pay taxes. Similarly, the IP will have to be quite real for investors to invest into a company. While this will not eliminate shells and IP holding companies it will balance the market and remove outrageous lawsuits out of it.
The fact that they are overprescribed is very well known. In fact you are taking it even if you do not have it prescribed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3545684.stm. It hate to be cynical, but it is a healthy economy booster. After all what can be better than not getting depressed from the fact that you just about scrape for a living and balance your books at the end of the month. Joe Average consumer should go on, go out there, consume, enjoy buy and do not worry about bad thing.
On a side note I have found only one reliable method of dealing with depression - work you like. Regardless of what it is. It is the ultimate antidepressant. If you are depressed go and find something to do, change your job if necessary.
I do this on a couple of systems that see only "occasional" use so I can spin down the disks. Works quite well actually.
You are wrong. Intel has it on the future roadmap for its ultramobile offerings.
As people say - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
You missed one more factor. One of the biggest battery eaters for me in a laptop is the VPN. On via it costs me nothing. On an Intel my battery life is often 20% less as a result (AESing at 256 access to a 4.5G+ IMAP store is expensive).
The person in question is 7 years old.
My son could handle a username and a login since he was 5. OK, his password is relatively simple, but it is his password none the less. And we are talking about a boy here. Most girls can probably handle that up to 6 months earlier - at the age of 4 1/2 to 4 3/4.
Come on. Get real people. Children are not idiots, there is no _NEED_ to dumb everything down for them. Especially if everyone in the house is using usernames and password they consider this as normal.
I have tried and tested it all over the UK. East Anglia, Essex, Sussex, Greater London and all the way to Glasgow.
While Pilkington-K and similar treated doubleglazed windows (not just any doubleglazed) drop the signal a bit, it is not the windows that are a problem. It is the tech in itself and the coverage. You need a non-congested Node-B to get anywhere near HSDPA speeds. As the number of clients on the Node-B grows the speed drops in x2 steps because even idle clients use parts of the code tree.
So as the tech is becoming more and more popular the network becomes worse and worse. As a result you can probably still get HSDPA speeds out there in residential suburbia. Getting HSDPA speeds in downtown lodnon, at railway stations or any other place where there are loads of clients (even non-active ones) is practically impossible.
I did not miss it. I have an HSDPA card. On Vodafone, you see the purple light (HSDPA) only once in a while. It is usually red (3G) or green (GPRS). The coverage is definitely way far from what marketing whalesong are trying to brainwash you into.
1. You are lucky to see speeds like that. I have the same combination and I see speeds under 128Kbit under realistic conditions in the UK. It is very rare for the speed to go above 256K. In fact the only places I have seen it higher are non-UK networks.
2. The question of DSL vs 3G has a very simple answer. The answer is a question in itself - do you have a home server and where does your traffic come from?
If your mail, media, etc is stored on a machine at home, 3G is shooting yourself in the foot. Your traffic ends up going all the way down to the GGSN at the mobile operator and than all the way back up to your kit at home (often through the narrow side of a cable or DSL). If all of your stuff is sitting in a colo somewhere or is on your laptop and you have good 3G coverage, than 3G can compete with DSL for the time being.
This is a definitely "for the time being" case because as more and more devices in the home become networked a device whose traffic has to travel across half of the country to connect to the rest of the kit becomes a white elephant.
Actually if we compare how much was spent on the development of the F16 and the Gripen, the Gripen is fantastic achievement. The swedes have beaten BAE and USA in terms of productivity in R&D by such a large margin that it is not even funny.
In addition to that the running costs of the Gripen are only a small fraction of the costs of the F16 and it has a much better MTBF. That is why it was chosen by at least two Nato countries for recent purchases. It is better value for the money
No army?
Bwahahaha... They do not just have their own army, they are also one of the biggest manufacturers of weapons in the world. Ever heard of Bofors? Swedes make their own small arms, artillery, tanks, even fighter aircraft.
All of that considerably cheaper than USA or UK and a lot of that much better quality than the USA or UK. They buy some avionics from BAE, but otherwise their weapons industry is mostly native. In fact, IIRC, USA is importing some small arms from Sweden for their special forces. So does UK.
While the Viggens and Griphens do not look so fancy they can actually stand their own against most NATO or Russian aircraft. Same for other Swedish kit.
This is one "neutral" country I will definitely not f*** with. It is neutrality armed to the teeth.