Not exactly what I meant. I think this is a case where people should, you know, read the contracts instead of trusting them. Especially since it is quite expensive going to court. But this regulation keeps lots of people from actually reading the contracts. So things like "The first 12 month are for 39,99, then you pay 99,99" are quite common, and lot's of people fall for this trap.
Yes, most phone companies are like that. I think there are two options to deal with that:
1) Don't buy from people trying to rip you off. This suffers, when every phone company tries to do just that.
2) Pay attention when signing a contract. This is usually a good idea anyway.
I don't think that the government needs to regulate everything. We in Germany also have a law/ruling (not sure which), that in your typical contract between a company and a person, it can not contain "unexpected" parts.
Well, we are talking about the default install. So it is already on the dvds or the server you use to install and everything.
Also, I prefer the minimal style, which is probably just my point. Rather add later on than remove.
Well, one could argue that after a year they HAD to find something.
I also wonder how the fact that he was a repeat offender played into the judging of these pictures. It sure did for me, although it should not. Once he has done his time, he should have the same rights as anyone else.
Great... First they remove gimp and replace it with crap, and then they use an inferior search engine. I mean, it is all configurable, but still, do they want to make it as hard to configure Ubuntu as to configure Windows?
Well, if i were to hack google and wanted to distract from myself, I would have done the same. I think having parts of the source code of Google, Symantec, Adobe, Juniper and others is worth so much, it's hard to grasp
I read an article in the German Zeit, in which they described some of the problems newspapers face today, accompanied by some anecdotal evidence which covered most of the bigger German newspapers.
It basically came to a new pressure for increased profit margins, which lead to reduction in team sizes, which, somehow not surprisingly, did nothing good for the numbers.
A lot of owners, some old news families, sold their papers or starting expecting margins that were and are simply not deliverable. Iirc the numbers were around 0-5% with most newspapers in the last few decades, while now they are expecting 10-15%. This simply can not work.
And then there are those that took the opposite strategy like the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which basically thought it would be a good idea to get into speculations. Well, guess what, it went wrong. So now they also have to save the money, but this time because of poor management decisions.
Germany actually has a dedicated federal office just for information security. They gave this recommendation; in German it is called "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik".
They also give out recommendations on how to secure private and corporate networks which are quite useful.
The problem with this kind of thinking is, that the growth of the BIP has to come from somewhere. Where do you think it has come from so far? Money does not just "appear".
I like the way to see how to people are productive regarding the whole society, but often, culture is not measurable.
Cut throat lawyers, on the other hand, I concur:)
At least Greenpeace Germany thinks that EVs are not all that great. They try to push the automobile industry to develop more efficient fuel cars, by more supercharging, downsizing etc.
So... I don't get anything from taking notes. So in classes where there is someone I can copy the notes from, I just stopped attending because they are moving SO DAMN SLOW!
Just because some people need to write things down to remember things, don't make everyone write everything down. Let them do the copying at home
Thanks. What worked for us in case of missing resources for creating complete lecture notes is a wiki that supports latex. This is run by students, as they don't see the point either and just share the burden of taking notes in class. And at our college, one is expected to know most of the proofs, so it makes no sense to just look into books to get something and being able to solve exercises. Won't get you a good grade, at least.
Problem is: In a math class which is quite advanced, and where the content is assembled from 5-10 books, having no lecture notes sucks.
Learning or just looking something up is pretty hard, because hand written notes will never match up to something typed.
So that's why I prefer notes done by the lecturerer, but as there are seldom ones, someone at university has written a wiki which supports tex.
those are a rather rare breed of environmentalists. I consider myself one, but I approve all of the above but the nuclear power. Additionally, I know no one who is opposed to the other technologies either. Concerned maybe about some side effects, which they hope to mitigate, but not opposed.
Hope, i didn't shatter your world view...
Sure, nuclear might be okay, but wind power! It's decentralized, and therefore better! And it appeals to my philosophical sensibilities because it's not a big evil industry!Wind power can't provide baseload power. Plus, it's limited by the number of sites with good winds. You can, on the other hand, build as many nuclear plants as necessary without severe geographic constraints. As for nuclear being centralized, big, and therefore evil: big isn't necessarily bad. Properly regulated, a huge nuclear plant can provide inexpensive power to millions far more efficiently than many small ones, or thousands of turbines, coal-fired power stations, and natural gas generators. Furthermore, there's no particular reason nuclear stations need to be private per se: consider the Tennessee Valley Authority model.
I don't know about the situation in the US, but: When using regenerative energy, nuclear power is about the worst thing you can have. Especially _because_ wind power varies. Nuclear power plants have trouble adjusting their power output. And that is exactly why baseload powers are a model of the past.
1. You overestimate the radioactivity of uranium ore. There are entire towns built on uranium deposits and they don't experience any measurable ill effects.
That is when living on it, not shoveling in it, spilling it in the air, along with radon. Get some information on Niger or the early Navajo indian miners in the US .
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Ok, maybe you are right there. So who do we want to blame? :)
Not exactly what I meant. I think this is a case where people should, you know, read the contracts instead of trusting them.
Especially since it is quite expensive going to court. But this regulation keeps lots of people from actually reading the contracts.
So things like "The first 12 month are for 39,99, then you pay 99,99" are quite common, and lot's of people fall for this trap.
Well, officially, they want to use economic reasons to stop the whaling. Make it more expensive.
On the other hand, they often seem a _bit_ focused on paranoia. Everyone criticizing their actions has to be motivated by money, as seen above :)
Yes, most phone companies are like that. I think there are two options to deal with that:
1) Don't buy from people trying to rip you off.
This suffers, when every phone company tries to do just that.
2) Pay attention when signing a contract. This is usually a good idea anyway.
I don't think that the government needs to regulate everything. We in Germany also have a law/ruling (not sure which), that in your typical contract between a company and a person, it can not contain "unexpected" parts.
Well, we are talking about the default install. So it is already on the dvds or the server you use to install and everything. Also, I prefer the minimal style, which is probably just my point. Rather add later on than remove.
Well, one could argue that after a year they HAD to find something. I also wonder how the fact that he was a repeat offender played into the judging of these pictures. It sure did for me, although it should not. Once he has done his time, he should have the same rights as anyone else.
That's what I meant.
Great... First they remove gimp and replace it with crap, and then they use an inferior search engine. I mean, it is all configurable, but still, do they want to make it as hard to configure Ubuntu as to configure Windows?
Well, if i were to hack google and wanted to distract from myself, I would have done the same. I think having parts of the source code of Google, Symantec, Adobe, Juniper and others is worth so much, it's hard to grasp
If you want to use the google servers, use 4.3.2.1. Or the other suggested ones, like 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8
I read an article in the German Zeit, in which they described some of the problems newspapers face today, accompanied by some anecdotal evidence which covered most of the bigger German newspapers. It basically came to a new pressure for increased profit margins, which lead to reduction in team sizes, which, somehow not surprisingly, did nothing good for the numbers. A lot of owners, some old news families, sold their papers or starting expecting margins that were and are simply not deliverable. Iirc the numbers were around 0-5% with most newspapers in the last few decades, while now they are expecting 10-15%. This simply can not work. And then there are those that took the opposite strategy like the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which basically thought it would be a good idea to get into speculations. Well, guess what, it went wrong. So now they also have to save the money, but this time because of poor management decisions.
Germany actually has a dedicated federal office just for information security. They gave this recommendation; in German it is called "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik". They also give out recommendations on how to secure private and corporate networks which are quite useful.
The problem with this kind of thinking is, that the growth of the BIP has to come from somewhere. Where do you think it has come from so far? Money does not just "appear". I like the way to see how to people are productive regarding the whole society, but often, culture is not measurable. Cut throat lawyers, on the other hand, I concur :)
At least Greenpeace Germany thinks that EVs are not all that great. They try to push the automobile industry to develop more efficient fuel cars, by more supercharging, downsizing etc.
That's why Gentoo has slots... And I am sure, other distributions have similar mechanisms.
So... I don't get anything from taking notes. So in classes where there is someone I can copy the notes from, I just stopped attending because they are moving SO DAMN SLOW! Just because some people need to write things down to remember things, don't make everyone write everything down. Let them do the copying at home
Thanks. What worked for us in case of missing resources for creating complete lecture notes is a wiki that supports latex. This is run by students, as they don't see the point either and just share the burden of taking notes in class. And at our college, one is expected to know most of the proofs, so it makes no sense to just look into books to get something and being able to solve exercises. Won't get you a good grade, at least.
Problem is: In a math class which is quite advanced, and where the content is assembled from 5-10 books, having no lecture notes sucks. Learning or just looking something up is pretty hard, because hand written notes will never match up to something typed. So that's why I prefer notes done by the lecturerer, but as there are seldom ones, someone at university has written a wiki which supports tex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recent_Sea_Level_Rise.png Right, don't let facts distract you... Although one has to admit that most of this rise is, as far as I remember, due to the thermal extension of water. Or studies by institutes like yale, known for their low level of scientific understanding: http://e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=2035 Keep the sarcasm
That's what he said :)
those are a rather rare breed of environmentalists. I consider myself one, but I approve all of the above but the nuclear power. Additionally, I know no one who is opposed to the other technologies either. Concerned maybe about some side effects, which they hope to mitigate, but not opposed. Hope, i didn't shatter your world view...
Sure, nuclear might be okay, but wind power! It's decentralized, and therefore better! And it appeals to my philosophical sensibilities because it's not a big evil industry!Wind power can't provide baseload power. Plus, it's limited by the number of sites with good winds. You can, on the other hand, build as many nuclear plants as necessary without severe geographic constraints. As for nuclear being centralized, big, and therefore evil: big isn't necessarily bad. Properly regulated, a huge nuclear plant can provide inexpensive power to millions far more efficiently than many small ones, or thousands of turbines, coal-fired power stations, and natural gas generators. Furthermore, there's no particular reason nuclear stations need to be private per se: consider the Tennessee Valley Authority model.
I don't know about the situation in the US, but: When using regenerative energy, nuclear power is about the worst thing you can have. Especially _because_ wind power varies. Nuclear power plants have trouble adjusting their power output. And that is exactly why baseload powers are a model of the past.
1. You overestimate the radioactivity of uranium ore. There are entire towns built on uranium deposits and they don't experience any measurable ill effects.
That is when living on it, not shoveling in it, spilling it in the air, along with radon. Get some information on Niger or the early Navajo indian miners in the US .
Yes really. The facts are on the side of the anti-nuclear groups. We can NOT solve the nuclear waste issue... Notice something?