I would say a lot of it comes from the Belgian's relation to alcohol, and their willingness to drive after drinking. My boss had a car accident after some heavy drinking, and the cops didn't even make him take an alcohol test, even though it was QUITE obvious he was drunk. (I should know, I got to drive him home...) Where I'm from (France) he would have spent the night in the drunk tank, and would probably have come very close to losing his license...
Also, the facts that all the roads are in VERY poor conditions doesn't help. When you drive in a huge pothole at 140km/h, you will probably feel like you're flying... Right before you hit the trees.
HADOPI doesn't really compare. It's strictly a 3 strikes law, with a single company monitoring p2p traffic (mostly interrogating torrent trackers), aimed against private file sharer.
It's evil, but definitely not in the same league as SOPA.
I was in that bookstore last saturday, it's a great place. The only downside (for me) is that they obviously mostly have books in Dutch, which I don't read.
Lagarde is also the politician who has been involved in a huge scandal over offering french troops to Tunisia's ousted dictator Ben Ali to suppress demonstrations.
Actually, it was not her, it was Michèle Alliot-Marie who offered French "expertise" to the Tunisian government. Both are french, women, and politicians, but that's all they have in common.
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So it's pretty close to Arthur C. Clarke description?
So they track the control room? In case it starts moving around??
Don't tell him that, he's got a licence to kill!
AFAIK, that's exactly what google is currently doing.
I would say a lot of it comes from the Belgian's relation to alcohol, and their willingness to drive after drinking.
My boss had a car accident after some heavy drinking, and the cops didn't even make him take an alcohol test, even though it was QUITE obvious he was drunk. (I should know, I got to drive him home...)
Where I'm from (France) he would have spent the night in the drunk tank, and would probably have come very close to losing his license...
Also, the facts that all the roads are in VERY poor conditions doesn't help. When you drive in a huge pothole at 140km/h, you will probably feel like you're flying... Right before you hit the trees.
Yeah, but no.
If you've ever driven here in Belgium, you might have noticed that ALL roads are crappy. From highways to small roads, there are holes everywhere.
I was simply asking for Europe(you know, the continent...), not the Czech Republic...
No, actually, us Europeans would find it good enough if you US-Americans could name Europe on a map...
They are offering the mp3's for free... Did someone tell Birsmarck about all the money he's losing?
I'm very much interested in replacement to Group policies in Linux/unix.
At work, I'm pushing for less >indows and more Linux, but as said above, groups policies are still a must for us.
HADOPI doesn't really compare. It's strictly a 3 strikes law, with a single company monitoring p2p traffic (mostly interrogating torrent trackers), aimed against private file sharer.
It's evil, but definitely not in the same league as SOPA.
Which shows that the alleged brainwashing doesn't work as as soon as they get a bit older, they make up the main part of the demonstrators.
And yet students are usually the ones doing most of the protesting.
They are all usually 42 minutes long.
Torrenting my shows means I never ever see a commercial.
Retuers, really?
Tos can be used as a tool to facilitate censorship.
Yeah, she won that class action lawsuit against EA because their treatment of their employees was exemplary!
no, they shouldn't disband themselves, but they should stop pouring money down projects with no future.
Let's see, what happened with the Zune?
What happened the courier tablet? Or the Kin phone?
They are making more money off the android patent trolling than they are of windows phone...
And I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Bing lost around 5 BILLIONS since its creations.
The touchpad only sold well because of the fire sale, when HP sold it at a huge loss...
The same Microsoft and OEM that think there is a market for Windows Phone? Where are they at on the phone market right now? 1%? 2%?
What kind of typo brings you to a porn website?
I was in that bookstore last saturday, it's a great place. The only downside (for me) is that they obviously mostly have books in Dutch, which I don't read.
Lagarde is also the politician who has been involved in a huge scandal over offering french troops to Tunisia's ousted dictator Ben Ali to suppress demonstrations.
Actually, it was not her, it was Michèle Alliot-Marie who offered French "expertise" to the Tunisian government. Both are french, women, and politicians, but that's all they have in common.
You do realize you're talking about Afghanistan, right? Where "formal" education is probably (barely) equivalent to highschool in a western country?
Yeah, I'm sure most afghans have access to US education... I mean, the plane ticket is probably more than what they make in a year, but sure...
I'm sure the people in Afghanistan have access to the same education as the people in California...