Airbus only surpassed Boeing in terms of aircraft ordered. However, once cancellations, are factored in, Boeing maintains its lead in both profitability, and aircraft deliveries.
In 2002, Airbus has delivered more aircraft than Boeing.
You mean, like when the US pulled steel tariffs on you ? Like when they scrapped the UK-backed landmine treaty ? Like recently when they publicly exposed BAe Systems' bribery practice in the Czek Republic ? Like in Suez, in Granada ? Like when they themselves killed the majority of UK casualties in Iraq that were not in accidents ?
Not only do we have a very storng currency, we have the 4th biggest economy in the world,
Sorry to update you on that, but France is the 4th biggest economy in the world. I got that from the CIA's world fact handbook though, so maybe it is just a reflect of the anti-UK, pro-French bias that is so common in the US government.
We are a strong currency, and a nuclear power at that, we have a seat at the UN security council
It's been a century since the UKP has stopped being an international reference currency. As for being stable... In 1992 it was ejected from the EEC's currency system because of a competitive devaluation. It is today a small local currency, a financial anecdote, with bloomberg TV wondering if it must waste room on the screen to show its rate beside the Euro and the Yen.
The EU does include a much more independent nuclear capability, France, and unlike the UK's Trident delivery system, Washington can not potentially pull the plug on it.
They even do hit and run deadly actions against a foreign military that occupies them under the pretext of bringing them peace through advanced technologies and civilization.
Oh well, in the original Star Wars series, there were already irregular combatants performing a suicide attack on one major fixture of a militarily dominant empire, and then having this empire invade the desert planet where they were hiding and training, but then their leaders manage to escape.
France has a single-digit unemployement currently. If you add the percentage of people in unemployement and in jail, you have about the same figure in the US and Europe. Europe : home of the FREE unemployed.
In Europe TV broadcasted movies and VHS were universally letter-boxed even before 16:9 TVs appeared. Maybe it's because the higher vertical resolution in the PAL and SECAM standards compared to NTSC makes the waste of scanlines less painful for picture quality (which is not an issue now with anamorphic DVDs anyway).
There is also the issue that this music is not re-sellable. I have made several $100s on half.com selling heaps of crap that I have bought years ago and that I grew so embarrassed to own that I was hiding them in a closet. Impossible here.
Perhaps there is a tradeoff to unionized auto workers getting paid 20$ an hour for working basic assembly lines? Or mandatory health benefits for full time workers? Or phony lawsuits? Or any
number of social policies that cost businesses tons of money.
Good idea. Instead of shipping US jobs to Malaysia, why not make the US a place with the living conditions of Malaysia ?
Come up with another business model ? Oh fine with me. They can switch to selling lawnmowers, bumper stickers, whatever. As long as they don't control OSs anymore.
When I say shareholders I don't mean the guy who has a hundred MSFT and can sell them on eTrade I mean the people who control directly or indirectly large chunks of the capital. They can fire management, they can sell the company piece by piece, they can decide to switch the business to the manufacture and sell of baseball caps, they can do what they want.
And the business model of MSFT is extremely dependent on IP legislation and arbitrarily established de facto standards, all of that can change very fast in the IT. Their current business model IS fragile.
This overlooks an important fact: MS's money in the bank belongs to its shareholders. If the business model of MS, for some reasons becomes worthless, then the value of the company will be reduced to its tangible assets, which are essentially this cash and participation in other companies. Shareholders, which will have by then seen most of their investment value disappear, will have all authority to cut their losses and pocket the money, and MS will still be gone.
It is so cute, everytime a cellphone-related piece of news comes up on slashdot, to see Americans plead for their backward cellphone market by boasting how their landlines are so comparatively good that they actually don't need cellphones.
Good for them that we rarely talk about bank cards (no embedded chips in the US), washer/dryers (common US models were designed in the 50s), car radios (no RDS in the US), TVs (widescreen penetration extremely small), trains (less high-speed tracks in the whole US than in Spain)...
The poster of the comment you replied to is Australian, not American. It's funny that perhaps you have such a terribly narrow outlook on the world that you assumed the poster was American.
Australians are much like Americans, with the exception that they don't even have Canada and Mexico to rermind them that they are not alone in the world.
One year ago there was a Tintin expo in Paris' Musée de la Marine. The expo was about "Tintin and the sea". My favorite part of it was a display of objects which some of Haddock's insults actually refer to, such as an authentic moule à gaufres...
How much you have to pay the PRI or any other lobbying bullshit group to produce a paper cautioning the government against regulating your industry. Do you think that for $100K I could obtain from them the proof that pr0n pics should be given away for free to third graders ?
If Indian programming shops are in majority unable to take up Linux-specific programming tasks, this weakness will be an opportunity to slow the leaking of programming jobs outside western countries. The US and European IT pros will, conscienciously or not, move to a configuration more favorable to their job security, and lead an evolution that will increase the value of their more versatile know-how. Hence tend to ditch windows. Already many politicians in Europe are aware that an OSS based infrastructure brings more jobs to their local service industry.
The council of Europe (COE) is NOT a European Union institution. The EU does have a "council" (a legislative body made of government representatives from the 15 member countries), but the COE is a totally different thing : it is a 44 states organization that comprises much more many countries in western and eastern Europe, as well as observers from all over the world, and that has an assembly made of representative from the countries parliement. Its role is mainly to monitor peace and human rights all over Europe.
How does a lousy startup company dreaming of being the next Microsoft of Bullshit software gets to publish such blatant advertising in the NYT, disguised as an "essay". Can the NYT editors be bribed or is it just personnal connections ?
The EU beaurocracy is not exactly known for being speed, and I'm sure MS will manage to get loopholes in any ruling big enough to ram a small country through, at least on the first try.
Actually the EU antitrust procedures are much, much faster than in the US. They are even too fast according to the European Court of Justice, which has recently struck down a couple of its rulings over hasty procedures (the companies where not even informed of why their deals were rejected). And competition commissioner Mario Monti (nicknamed Super Mario after he imposed a $150M fine on Nintendo) has personnaly more power on the EU trade zone than the US DoJ has over the US.
maybe in 10 years the Americans will still boast that the euro "started" at $1.18. It actually had this ridiculously overpriced rate for only a month or so. The euro spent actually two years of its existence at the ridiculously UNDERprices rate of $0.85, and the markets have put it back where it belongs : around $1, oscillating around $.98 to be precise. This is its fair price since you can buy roughly the same with 1000EUR in Europe as you can buy with $1000 in the US. So the long days of the strong dollars are over.
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In 2002, Airbus has delivered more aircraft than Boeing.
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You mean, like when the US pulled steel tariffs on you ? Like when they scrapped the UK-backed landmine treaty ? Like recently when they publicly exposed BAe Systems' bribery practice in the Czek Republic ? Like in Suez, in Granada ? Like when they themselves killed the majority of UK casualties in Iraq that were not in accidents ?
Sorry to update you on that, but France is the 4th biggest economy in the world. I got that from the CIA's world fact handbook though, so maybe it is just a reflect of the anti-UK, pro-French bias that is so common in the US government.
We are a strong currency, and a nuclear power at that, we have a seat at the UN security council It's been a century since the UKP has stopped being an international reference currency. As for being stable... In 1992 it was ejected from the EEC's currency system because of a competitive devaluation. It is today a small local currency, a financial anecdote, with bloomberg TV wondering if it must waste room on the screen to show its rate beside the Euro and the Yen.
The EU does include a much more independent nuclear capability, France, and unlike the UK's Trident delivery system, Washington can not potentially pull the plug on it.
They even do hit and run deadly actions against a foreign military that occupies them under the pretext of bringing them peace through advanced technologies and civilization.
Oh well, in the original Star Wars series, there were already irregular combatants performing a suicide attack on one major fixture of a militarily dominant empire, and then having this empire invade the desert planet where they were hiding and training, but then their leaders manage to escape.
Go figure.
Just as you were typing these lines, the financial markets were pushing the US dollar to its lowest level ever against the euro.
France has a single-digit unemployement currently. If you add the percentage of people in unemployement and in jail, you have about the same figure in the US and Europe. Europe : home of the FREE unemployed.
For most other currencies, the 1-2-5-10 series applies to coins as well. The quarter is a pre-decimalization oddity.
In Europe TV broadcasted movies and VHS were universally letter-boxed even before 16:9 TVs appeared. Maybe it's because the higher vertical resolution in the PAL and SECAM standards compared to NTSC makes the waste of scanlines less painful for picture quality (which is not an issue now with anamorphic DVDs anyway).
There is also the issue that this music is not re-sellable. I have made several $100s on half.com selling heaps of crap that I have bought years ago and that I grew so embarrassed to own that I was hiding them in a closet. Impossible here.
Yes, this typo precisely demonstrates why the metric system IS superior.
Good idea. Instead of shipping US jobs to Malaysia, why not make the US a place with the living conditions of Malaysia ?
Come up with another business model ? Oh fine with me. They can switch to selling lawnmowers, bumper stickers, whatever. As long as they don't control OSs anymore.
When I say shareholders I don't mean the guy who has a hundred MSFT and can sell them on eTrade I mean the people who control directly or indirectly large chunks of the capital. They can fire management, they can sell the company piece by piece, they can decide to switch the business to the manufacture and sell of baseball caps, they can do what they want.
And the business model of MSFT is extremely dependent on IP legislation and arbitrarily established de facto standards, all of that can change very fast in the IT. Their current business model IS fragile.
This overlooks an important fact: MS's money in the bank belongs to its shareholders. If the business model of MS, for some reasons becomes worthless, then the value of the company will be reduced to its tangible assets, which are essentially this cash and participation in other companies. Shareholders, which will have by then seen most of their investment value disappear, will have all authority to cut their losses and pocket the money, and MS will still be gone.
Some company with "Volvo" in its name has recently admitted its responsibility in the failure of the first launch of the new Ariane 5 rocket.
It is so cute, everytime a cellphone-related piece of news comes up on slashdot, to see Americans plead for their backward cellphone market by boasting how their landlines are so comparatively good that they actually don't need cellphones.
Good for them that we rarely talk about bank cards (no embedded chips in the US), washer/dryers (common US models were designed in the 50s), car radios (no RDS in the US), TVs (widescreen penetration extremely small), trains (less high-speed tracks in the whole US than in Spain)...
Australians are much like Americans, with the exception that they don't even have Canada and Mexico to rermind them that they are not alone in the world.
One year ago there was a Tintin expo in Paris' Musée de la Marine. The expo was about "Tintin and the sea". My favorite part of it was a display of objects which some of Haddock's insults actually refer to, such as an authentic moule à gaufres...
How much you have to pay the PRI or any other lobbying bullshit group to produce a paper cautioning the government against regulating your industry. Do you think that for $100K I could obtain from them the proof that pr0n pics should be given away for free to third graders ?
Here is the reasonning:
If Indian programming shops are in majority unable to take up Linux-specific programming tasks, this weakness will be an opportunity to slow the leaking of programming jobs outside western countries. The US and European IT pros will, conscienciously or not, move to a configuration more favorable to their job security, and lead an evolution that will increase the value of their more versatile know-how. Hence tend to ditch windows. Already many politicians in Europe are aware that an OSS based infrastructure brings more jobs to their local service industry.
The council of Europe (COE) is NOT a European Union institution. The EU does have a "council" (a legislative body made of government representatives from the 15 member countries), but the COE is a totally different thing : it is a 44 states organization that comprises much more many countries in western and eastern Europe, as well as observers from all over the world, and that has an assembly made of representative from the countries parliement. Its role is mainly to monitor peace and human rights all over Europe.
Here is the only question that matters to me:
How does a lousy startup company dreaming of being the next Microsoft of Bullshit software gets to publish such blatant advertising in the NYT, disguised as an "essay". Can the NYT editors be bribed or is it just personnal connections ?
Unless they have nukes and use them to vaporize your fat Amercian ass and your miniature American brain, and do the world a favor.
Actually the EU antitrust procedures are much, much faster than in the US. They are even too fast according to the European Court of Justice, which has recently struck down a couple of its rulings over hasty procedures (the companies where not even informed of why their deals were rejected). And competition commissioner Mario Monti (nicknamed Super Mario after he imposed a $150M fine on Nintendo) has personnaly more power on the EU trade zone than the US DoJ has over the US.
maybe in 10 years the Americans will still boast that the euro "started" at $1.18. It actually had this ridiculously overpriced rate for only a month or so. The euro spent actually two years of its existence at the ridiculously UNDERprices rate of $0.85, and the markets have put it back where it belongs : around $1, oscillating around $.98 to be precise. This is its fair price since you can buy roughly the same with 1000EUR in Europe as you can buy with $1000 in the US. So the long days of the strong dollars are over.