Well, at least there are no government bureaucrats standing between the sick people and the doctors who could detect and treat these diseases.
USA, USA, USA!
Or something... it is quite disappointing to see the world's richest country with what is at times the best health care in the world unable to keep simple infections and parasites from affecting a large portion of its population.
Not saying you're wrong, but it is rather fun to see a mix of things that Hitler and the Nazis actually put into concentration camps added as something they are in addition to being a Nazi.
They're paid enough that if they reduced their own personal cost of living to that or a normal working class citizen, they could get fired after one year and easily live off the salary for 10 years without having to worry about getting a job.
Sure, if they do something insanely horrible, they might not be able to get a job as a CEO again, but that doesn't mean they can't work as unskilled labour like everybody else in need of a job.
But that never happens. When's the last time you heard of a CEO being fired for gross incompetence and having to live off of food stamps and government support? So, yeah - what risk exactly?
Hell, if you gave me 100 million dollars, I'd gladly go on national television in the US and say that I was personally responsible for the current economic collapse. Hell, I'd gladly spend 10 years in jail for it, as long as I had that 100 million dollars (well, better make sure it's in euros actually) when I got out of jail.
It's not like "white collar" criminals are given a hard time in jail - look at Bernie Madoff. He caused 13,200 million dollars of losses, and he's still alive in jail. I haven't heard that he's been the victim of any kind of violence there either, yet you'd almost expect someone in jail to know someone on the outside who lost fortunes.
Well, the thing is they are all damned if they do and damned if they don't.
A) "Force" companies to keep jobs in the US; stock prices fall due to lack of increased profits, everybody blames the president B) Allow companies to move jobs to other countries; unemployment rates soar, everybody blames the president
This is true no matter what party the president belongs to.
I would like to see an honest evaluation of what would happen, if laws we changed in such a way that stocks couldn't be sold for say... 28 days after being purchased. That would make it almost impossible to short stocks (i.e. trying your best to make a companies market value fall) and would mean the stockholders would have to look for more than a 30 minute profit. Might have to extend the time period to something longer than that, like a full year.
And make the board of directors, CEO etc. criminally liable when the company does something that's obviously dangerous and illegal. When Chinese milk producers started adding melamine to their milk to cut costs and increase profits, it killed six babies and two adult men. Granted, the adult men were responsible for this scandal, and they are to be executed by the state - but is that really such a bad thing? We throw people in jail for life for a lot less than being responsible for other people's death.
Part of the problem in my less than educated opinion, is that "everybody" are raging on and on about short term profits. If you as much as dare suggest a company go for a long term view rather than "now, now, now, yesterday", you're apparently an anti-patriotic communist.
If you try to make things better for the companies, you're apparently a fascist who'd like to enslave the working class who misses a single payment because they got fired from those same companies.
If you try to make things better for the workers, you're also one of those anti-patriotic liberal communists, who wants to go into your house and shoot your grandmother as soon as she turns sixty five.
The really difficult trick is finding a way to ensure that the work force is treated fairly while ensuring that the companies are able to turn a profit. How do you do that best in a global economy, where someone from say India is just as qualified but would be happy with maybe a third of the salary in India is beyond my guess... I rather doubt it's possible, but what do I know?
So women who have their ovaries removed become men?
He already said that someone who couldn't produce either is a neuter.
So if I chop your nuts off, you become a woman?
He already said that someone who couldn't produce either is a neuter.
I realise you don't buy into that definition, which is fine, but it is a waste of time asking a stupid question that has nothing to do with what he was saying.
And even if you were genuinely curious about his answer to those two questions, you'd still need to clarify - after all, when we cut the nuts off a male dog, we say it's been neutered. And at what point is this surgery done? At birth before any eggs or sperm have been produced? Are they adult? You don't care about the answers (neither do I) - you're just engaging in a really silly argument.
His statement is essentially nine plus nine equals eighteen. And you're arguing that this is incorrect because it's not true if we're using base eight in which neither nine or eighteen exists.
"We broke the rules, didn't adhere to the law, we're too big to fail so now the government has to step in and allow us to break the rules anyway. You know - like all the banks."
Opera 10 beta 3: Shows the player, but doesn't work "You must have an HTML5 capable browser." Firefox 3.5.2: Shows the player, but doesn't work. Doesn't give the error message though Google Chrome 2.0.172: Same as Opera "You must have an HTML5 capable browser." Google Chrome 3.0.195.6 (latest beta): All player controls work except full screen and the thingie on the right hand side, but none of the "more from" or "related videos" links work at all. Internet Explorer 8: Only shows the controls for the player, "Done, but with errors on page" Apple Safari 4.0.3: Can play the video (yay), but nothing else works. Doesn't show the time played or remaining, doesn't move the time indicator, none of the "more from" or "related videos" links work at all.
I've no idea if the issue is with YouTube or with the browsers, but... it's really not impressive. I installed the latest Chrome beta just to see if that made everything work like it should on that page, and it still doesn't.
I've no doubt that it will work eventually, but for now, I wouldn't use that site as an of course it works, just look at this example.
I prefer Opera myself - does that now incriminate me? Or does it merely show that these criminals are security conscientious and knows that using IE on the type of websites they probably frequent would be like throwing stones at bees nests?
They did neglect to mention the most frequently used operating system. If it's equally divided between Linux, OS X and Windows it'd be hard for Internet Explorer to get beyond 33% to begin with.
They could enlist the help of a data recovery company to test the feasibility of recovering data from the drives in question.
Could include SSDs for good measure.
Now obviously they'd try out violence (hammer, grinders), thermite, various weapons and explosives, but it'd be interesting to see their take on it, even if the 'simple' ways (like wiping and electro magnets) hardly make for good TV (let alone fast with wiping).
Even a "here's the quickest way to erase everything securely" bit would be fun.
I mean - it is a myth that you cannot securely erase data with a single wipe.
NYC has more inhabitants than Copenhagen and the NYC metro area probably covers more ground than the greater Copenhagen area. As for the number of lines - I've no idea.
Then Copenhagen bus lines alone are comprised of more than 250 different lines. I for one would not want to try and carry that around with me. Much easier to use a computer. And that's only part of Denmark. I've no clue how many different lines there are if you just cover Denmark.
That's why we have Rejseplanen.dk (journey planner). Free of charge, covers all public transportation in Denmark
There's an old Danish song about that (though I wouldn't be surprised if it's translated from some other language). Gist of the song is as follows:
Jokum: "There's a hole in the bucket, dear Lisbeth." Lisbeth: "So mend it, dear Jokum." J: "Mend it with what?" L: "Use straw." J: "But the straws are too long." L: "So shorten them." J: "Shorten them with what?" L: "Use the knife." J: "But my knife is dull" L: "So sharpen it" J: "With what?" L: "With a whetstone" J: "But the whetstone is dry" L: "So make it wet." J: "How do I do that?" L: "Use the bucket." Jokum: "There's a hole in the bucket, dear Lisbeth." Lisbeth: "So mend it, dear Jokum."
Not sure if it's an allegory for most things in life or just how married people communicate...
Greg Kroah makes a, to me, disparaging comment about how Canonical doesn't contribute to the kernel. I'm sure he's right - they probably do not submit patches to the kernel.
Maybe improving the kernel isn't what Canonical is trying to do? Maybe they're just trying to improve the user experience?
Not everything and everyone needs to be focused on the kernel. I don't use Ubuntu or even Linux outside of experimenting, so I don't even know how much/little Canonical contributes to the software they ship. But does it really matter?
For one thing, I haven't really heard anyone complaining that Pinifarina didn't contribute to engine development. All they do is design good looking cars - who needs that, right?
Well, the main difference between batteries and gasoline is that once you've spent all the energy in the gasoline, it's really not that easy refilling it. After all, you've consumed it. Not so much with the batteries.
No clue what kind of energy you could extract from a fully loaded battery pack if you were allowed to consume the battery itself, but it'd be higher than otherwise.
Only now you have a nuclear reactor on a ship that might get hit by a missile.
This is already the case. And most of those reactors have enough fuel to run for about 30 years before refuelling is needed. Even if you tripled the load on them, that's still a full decade of usage. Sextuple and it's five years.
I've never said that the North Korean leadership does a good job (apart from keeping itself in power). Just that when you look at Iraq as an example, then perhaps getting your hands on some nukes is a good idea.
Or Pakistan. Run (perhaps used to be) by a military style dictatorship with huge tracts of land that are/were used for training ground for terrorists. But there's no point in spreading democracy there. Besides, they have nukes - so it's not like using force would be a good idea either. Who knows where the nukes might end up? Whether they are fired or not.
With regards to "bad" countries trying to get nuclear weapons, look at the following scenario:
Iraq - no nuclear weapons, got invaded and Sadam hung. North Korea - nuclear weapons, didn't get invaded and former president dropped by on a private diplomatic mission.
Now, while it is entirely possible that the reason North Korea hasn't been been merged with South Korea is that they have enough military hardware pointed towards Soul to wipe it entirely off the map, it easily look a bit like this:
Get nuclear weapons and you're safe, if not, you're screwed once the bigger nations wants something you have.
North Korea has nothing that the US or other larger military powers want - so they're safe through those means.
No, the best thing you can do as a terrorist isn't leaving out the visible clock, it's having it go off when the clock either stops working OR when it hits some randomly assigned time instead of 00:00.
marketing this kind of NIC without addressing all of its security potentials/weaknesses would be hastyPotential? All of them?
Care to list a single operating system where all of its potential security issues and weaknesses were addressed before it was released into the marketplace?
It'd be tempting to list OpenBSD, but even that has had (and probably still has) unknown security issues, both potential and realised ones.
Actually, operating systems are highly complex. Let's go for something more tangible and a lot less complex: List all potential security issues with box cutters. If you go back 10 years to 1999, would you at any point have placed "could allow terrorists to high jack four airliners and bring down two of the biggest office buildings in the world" on that list? I wouldn't - you'd have to be completely mental to think that'd even be remotely possible, even if you settle for the high jacking.
What you're suggesting is putting a complete halt to every single piece of technological development in all fields.
Step 1) Withdraw a large amount of money Step 2) Buy the most common car on the roads second hand. Step 3) Find a national park that has wireless internet coverage Step 4) Buy a nice tent and other camping equipment Step 5) Buy a prepaid wireless internet subscription
Not sure if 3 and 5 are possible in the US, but they are in Sweden.
I'm a pretty decent touch typist, about 300 characters per minute. My spelling and grammar are quite good, even in my second language (English).
Putting pen to paper however, does give me the same effect that you're having, but not quite as you describe it. It's not that I suddenly don't know how to write certain words - it's just that I'm used to writing them at 300 characters per minute, but using a pen I can probably only do 60. In other words, I have to slow down my thinking.
This results in badly spelled words which does look like I'm somewhat dyslexic, but when I focus on being slow, I don't have an issue when using a regular pen. Doing this is highly frustrating - it feel like you're an idiot, which only exacerbates the issue.
I've seen the exact same thing happen in people who aren't used to using a keyboard. My parents are very used to writing things by hand and can probably write 100+ characters per minute that way, but give them a keyboard and they are slowed to a crawl and their error rate soars.
As for IRC, IM, SMS etc. lowering your standards? 4 sre. Y wrt fll wrd whn u cn sve tm?
You can't make other people write proper English (or whatever language) if they don't want to. All you can do is write it properly yourself. If you want to be a smart ass, you can always correct their writing for them if they're talking to you. Or pretend (or as the case may be, not) that you haven't the faintest idea what they're trying to say.
Once you make people realise, that they aren't saving time by not writing full words (or the like), they'll either stop bugging you (and thus won't detract from your own abilities) or they'll start writing properly again.
Just hit them over the head a few times when they write stuff like "I should of done", "Its not you're fault" or some of the similar mistakes. But let me hear that you through a thrown threw a window, understood?
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Well, at least there are no government bureaucrats standing between the sick people and the doctors who could detect and treat these diseases.
USA, USA, USA!
Or something ... it is quite disappointing to see the world's richest country with what is at times the best health care in the world unable to keep simple infections and parasites from affecting a large portion of its population.
Not saying you're wrong, but it is rather fun to see a mix of things that Hitler and the Nazis actually put into concentration camps added as something they are in addition to being a Nazi.
I mean communists, socialists and paedophiles. Not sure they threw terrorists and muslims into concentration camps.
Not just that, but what risk exactly?
They're paid enough that if they reduced their own personal cost of living to that or a normal working class citizen, they could get fired after one year and easily live off the salary for 10 years without having to worry about getting a job.
Sure, if they do something insanely horrible, they might not be able to get a job as a CEO again, but that doesn't mean they can't work as unskilled labour like everybody else in need of a job.
But that never happens. When's the last time you heard of a CEO being fired for gross incompetence and having to live off of food stamps and government support? So, yeah - what risk exactly?
Hell, if you gave me 100 million dollars, I'd gladly go on national television in the US and say that I was personally responsible for the current economic collapse. Hell, I'd gladly spend 10 years in jail for it, as long as I had that 100 million dollars (well, better make sure it's in euros actually) when I got out of jail.
It's not like "white collar" criminals are given a hard time in jail - look at Bernie Madoff. He caused 13,200 million dollars of losses, and he's still alive in jail. I haven't heard that he's been the victim of any kind of violence there either, yet you'd almost expect someone in jail to know someone on the outside who lost fortunes.
So yeah - what risk exactly?
Well, the thing is they are all damned if they do and damned if they don't.
A) "Force" companies to keep jobs in the US; stock prices fall due to lack of increased profits, everybody blames the president
B) Allow companies to move jobs to other countries; unemployment rates soar, everybody blames the president
This is true no matter what party the president belongs to.
I would like to see an honest evaluation of what would happen, if laws we changed in such a way that stocks couldn't be sold for say ... 28 days after being purchased. That would make it almost impossible to short stocks (i.e. trying your best to make a companies market value fall) and would mean the stockholders would have to look for more than a 30 minute profit. Might have to extend the time period to something longer than that, like a full year.
And make the board of directors, CEO etc. criminally liable when the company does something that's obviously dangerous and illegal. When Chinese milk producers started adding melamine to their milk to cut costs and increase profits, it killed six babies and two adult men. Granted, the adult men were responsible for this scandal, and they are to be executed by the state - but is that really such a bad thing? We throw people in jail for life for a lot less than being responsible for other people's death.
Part of the problem in my less than educated opinion, is that "everybody" are raging on and on about short term profits. If you as much as dare suggest a company go for a long term view rather than "now, now, now, yesterday", you're apparently an anti-patriotic communist.
If you try to make things better for the companies, you're apparently a fascist who'd like to enslave the working class who misses a single payment because they got fired from those same companies.
If you try to make things better for the workers, you're also one of those anti-patriotic liberal communists, who wants to go into your house and shoot your grandmother as soon as she turns sixty five.
The really difficult trick is finding a way to ensure that the work force is treated fairly while ensuring that the companies are able to turn a profit. How do you do that best in a global economy, where someone from say India is just as qualified but would be happy with maybe a third of the salary in India is beyond my guess ... I rather doubt it's possible, but what do I know?
He already said that someone who couldn't produce either is a neuter.
He already said that someone who couldn't produce either is a neuter.
I realise you don't buy into that definition, which is fine, but it is a waste of time asking a stupid question that has nothing to do with what he was saying.
And even if you were genuinely curious about his answer to those two questions, you'd still need to clarify - after all, when we cut the nuts off a male dog, we say it's been neutered. And at what point is this surgery done? At birth before any eggs or sperm have been produced? Are they adult? You don't care about the answers (neither do I) - you're just engaging in a really silly argument.
His statement is essentially nine plus nine equals eighteen. And you're arguing that this is incorrect because it's not true if we're using base eight in which neither nine or eighteen exists.
Well, Microsoft has apparently threatened to stop selling Microsoft Office entirely, if the patent is allowed to stand.
That'd be an interesting gambit.
"We broke the rules, didn't adhere to the law, we're too big to fail so now the government has to step in and allow us to break the rules anyway. You know - like all the banks."
Well, that was anti climactic.
Opera 10 beta 3: Shows the player, but doesn't work "You must have an HTML5 capable browser."
Firefox 3.5.2: Shows the player, but doesn't work. Doesn't give the error message though
Google Chrome 2.0.172: Same as Opera "You must have an HTML5 capable browser."
Google Chrome 3.0.195.6 (latest beta): All player controls work except full screen and the thingie on the right hand side, but none of the "more from" or "related videos" links work at all.
Internet Explorer 8: Only shows the controls for the player, "Done, but with errors on page"
Apple Safari 4.0.3: Can play the video (yay), but nothing else works. Doesn't show the time played or remaining, doesn't move the time indicator, none of the "more from" or "related videos" links work at all.
I've no idea if the issue is with YouTube or with the browsers, but ... it's really not impressive. I installed the latest Chrome beta just to see if that made everything work like it should on that page, and it still doesn't.
I've no doubt that it will work eventually, but for now, I wouldn't use that site as an of course it works, just look at this example.
I prefer Opera myself - does that now incriminate me? Or does it merely show that these criminals are security conscientious and knows that using IE on the type of websites they probably frequent would be like throwing stones at bees nests?
They did neglect to mention the most frequently used operating system. If it's equally divided between Linux, OS X and Windows it'd be hard for Internet Explorer to get beyond 33% to begin with.
Is she from Texas?
They could enlist the help of a data recovery company to test the feasibility of recovering data from the drives in question.
Could include SSDs for good measure.
Now obviously they'd try out violence (hammer, grinders), thermite, various weapons and explosives, but it'd be interesting to see their take on it, even if the 'simple' ways (like wiping and electro magnets) hardly make for good TV (let alone fast with wiping).
Even a "here's the quickest way to erase everything securely" bit would be fun.
I mean - it is a myth that you cannot securely erase data with a single wipe.
Well, that's not the only reason.
NYC has more inhabitants than Copenhagen and the NYC metro area probably covers more ground than the greater Copenhagen area. As for the number of lines - I've no idea.
Then Copenhagen bus lines alone are comprised of more than 250 different lines. I for one would not want to try and carry that around with me. Much easier to use a computer. And that's only part of Denmark. I've no clue how many different lines there are if you just cover Denmark.
That's why we have Rejseplanen.dk (journey planner). Free of charge, covers all public transportation in Denmark
There's an old Danish song about that (though I wouldn't be surprised if it's translated from some other language). Gist of the song is as follows:
Jokum: "There's a hole in the bucket, dear Lisbeth."
Lisbeth: "So mend it, dear Jokum."
J: "Mend it with what?"
L: "Use straw."
J: "But the straws are too long."
L: "So shorten them."
J: "Shorten them with what?"
L: "Use the knife."
J: "But my knife is dull"
L: "So sharpen it"
J: "With what?"
L: "With a whetstone"
J: "But the whetstone is dry"
L: "So make it wet."
J: "How do I do that?"
L: "Use the bucket."
Jokum: "There's a hole in the bucket, dear Lisbeth."
Lisbeth: "So mend it, dear Jokum."
Not sure if it's an allegory for most things in life or just how married people communicate ...
I agree completely.
Greg Kroah makes a, to me, disparaging comment about how Canonical doesn't contribute to the kernel. I'm sure he's right - they probably do not submit patches to the kernel.
Maybe improving the kernel isn't what Canonical is trying to do? Maybe they're just trying to improve the user experience?
Not everything and everyone needs to be focused on the kernel. I don't use Ubuntu or even Linux outside of experimenting, so I don't even know how much/little Canonical contributes to the software they ship. But does it really matter?
For one thing, I haven't really heard anyone complaining that Pinifarina didn't contribute to engine development. All they do is design good looking cars - who needs that, right?
That's essentially just Andrew Morton. According to this June 8th 2008 Google tech talk he was responsible for signing off on more stuff than Linus
Well, the main difference between batteries and gasoline is that once you've spent all the energy in the gasoline, it's really not that easy refilling it. After all, you've consumed it. Not so much with the batteries.
No clue what kind of energy you could extract from a fully loaded battery pack if you were allowed to consume the battery itself, but it'd be higher than otherwise.
This is already the case. And most of those reactors have enough fuel to run for about 30 years before refuelling is needed. Even if you tripled the load on them, that's still a full decade of usage. Sextuple and it's five years.
I've never said that the North Korean leadership does a good job (apart from keeping itself in power). Just that when you look at Iraq as an example, then perhaps getting your hands on some nukes is a good idea.
Or Pakistan. Run (perhaps used to be) by a military style dictatorship with huge tracts of land that are/were used for training ground for terrorists. But there's no point in spreading democracy there. Besides, they have nukes - so it's not like using force would be a good idea either. Who knows where the nukes might end up? Whether they are fired or not.
With regards to "bad" countries trying to get nuclear weapons, look at the following scenario:
Iraq - no nuclear weapons, got invaded and Sadam hung.
North Korea - nuclear weapons, didn't get invaded and former president dropped by on a private diplomatic mission.
Now, while it is entirely possible that the reason North Korea hasn't been been merged with South Korea is that they have enough military hardware pointed towards Soul to wipe it entirely off the map, it easily look a bit like this:
Get nuclear weapons and you're safe, if not, you're screwed once the bigger nations wants something you have.
North Korea has nothing that the US or other larger military powers want - so they're safe through those means.
No, the best thing you can do as a terrorist isn't leaving out the visible clock, it's having it go off when the clock either stops working OR when it hits some randomly assigned time instead of 00:00.
If you use Opera, you can also add it to your "Block Content" list - works perfectly as well.
Step 1) Withdraw a large amount of money
Step 2) Buy the most common car on the roads second hand.
Step 3) Find a national park that has wireless internet coverage
Step 4) Buy a nice tent and other camping equipment
Step 5) Buy a prepaid wireless internet subscription
Not sure if 3 and 5 are possible in the US, but they are in Sweden.
I'm a pretty decent touch typist, about 300 characters per minute. My spelling and grammar are quite good, even in my second language (English).
Putting pen to paper however, does give me the same effect that you're having, but not quite as you describe it. It's not that I suddenly don't know how to write certain words - it's just that I'm used to writing them at 300 characters per minute, but using a pen I can probably only do 60. In other words, I have to slow down my thinking.
This results in badly spelled words which does look like I'm somewhat dyslexic, but when I focus on being slow, I don't have an issue when using a regular pen. Doing this is highly frustrating - it feel like you're an idiot, which only exacerbates the issue.
I've seen the exact same thing happen in people who aren't used to using a keyboard. My parents are very used to writing things by hand and can probably write 100+ characters per minute that way, but give them a keyboard and they are slowed to a crawl and their error rate soars.
As for IRC, IM, SMS etc. lowering your standards? 4 sre. Y wrt fll wrd whn u cn sve tm?
You can't make other people write proper English (or whatever language) if they don't want to. All you can do is write it properly yourself. If you want to be a smart ass, you can always correct their writing for them if they're talking to you. Or pretend (or as the case may be, not) that you haven't the faintest idea what they're trying to say.
Once you make people realise, that they aren't saving time by not writing full words (or the like), they'll either stop bugging you (and thus won't detract from your own abilities) or they'll start writing properly again.
Just hit them over the head a few times when they write stuff like "I should of done", "Its not you're fault" or some of the similar mistakes. But let me hear that you through a thrown threw a window, understood?
Amazon.co.uk: 169.98 GBP/281.66$
Amazon.com: 319.99$/193.11GBP
Not sure if the huge price difference between Home Premium and Ultimate is worth it though.
Same in Denmark. Expensive and no family licence deals ...
At least Microsoft aren't expecting people to pirate the damn thing ...